skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guidelines are clear.

Entity type: Pretty much any "business" entity is eligible.

Size: The SBA has very clear size standards (based on employees or if you look at alternative size standards a combination of net assets and historical profitability). These are all objective criteria.

Affiliation: The Treasury & SBA intentionally loosened affiliation rules to INCLUDE the vast majority of VC-backed companies.

Credit elsewhere, collateral, personal guarantees: The Congress eliminated these requirements because they would limit and slow capital access.

The Treasury issued new guidance on Thursday in response to a loophole that allowed large companies (aka those that would not qualify themselves) to access PPP funding through their subsidiaries (which previously DID qualify under the law). This guidance is very clear: it applies to "large companies" (aka not "small businesses") and effectively closes the loophole. As a result many companies have returned their PPP loans, which was the intended result. (Q31 here https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Paycheck-Protecti...)

If you're interested, you can read the Treasury Department guidelines here: https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/cares/assistance-for...
I have to imagine that the US military is the only military in the world that has a history of flying a traitors flag after they defeated them. It makes about as much sense as flying the anarchist's flag while serving in a state military.

I'm wondering as well if the branches use any of the conquered peoples' flags, like various Native American nations. I couldn't find anything on the web about it.
because
- it has a lower barrier to entry to setting up and managing a store themselves - it has a built-in audience they can access without trying to hustle their proprietary domain name into the public consciousness (SEO is hard)

So the same advantages that using the App Store had over going to random websites and installing J2Me apps back in the day....

Again, low-friction payment platforms that aren't "use Apple/Google's in-app payment SDKs" are readily available in 2020. PayPal is one such, Flutterwave is another (in sub-Saharan Africa), etc. In fact, I use those far more in a month than I've ever used Apple or Google Pay.

You realize Apple has had more users payment information on file than any other company since the iTunes heyday than maybe Amazon?
you have the prevalence for NY state but the row is called NY city. The NYC prevalence was 21.2
It is not the exact use case I was thinking about but I suppose it could. All I would say is try it out :)
Of the systems tested. They didn't try AmigaOS. They didn't try freedos. Or haiku. Or netbsd.

But yeah, the point is clear: Current, popular desktop systems are pretty bad at responsiveness.
SCUM and frAgile have sucked all the "fun" out of coding.

Want to try something new? Want to do some exploratory, something that may save us a lot of time in the future? Good luck getting that into the sprint.

It's just a feature factory now. Coding is ble collar. Slam out the next api + angular component. Do it fast enough and you don't have to work nights and weekends.
I honestly think the wiki entry on the French Revolution(s) is shorter or similar length.

But hey, if you’re that brilliant of a writer, have at it and write about a web app to your hearts content. Never edit anything.
A novice learned a language hard for even experts, discovers a strange result, and makes a post about it. On what grounds do you even have to criticize the OP? Your post history doesn't seem to indicate any long term experience or expertise in assembly optimization.

Get over yourself.
Just said made worse, no need to write a PhD :-)
China can steal trade secrets almost as easily from the US and they can from China, but they have significantly more leverage when the company has a physical presence and assets in the country.

China has been buttering up Tesla to make it easier to steal the technology by convincing then to move a huge portion of their manufacturing and process research into China.
Interesting idea but unfortunately this isn’t feasible, unless you also have access to a full suite of diagnostic equipment at home. Even if someone at home could self-diagnose a stroke with any accuracy, around 10% of strokes are actually caused by haemorrhage (bleeding) rather than a clot. A CT scan is almost always carried out to rule this out, before administering thrombolytic drugs or aspirin, as these drugs can significantly worsen existing bleeding.
spacemacs is built with hot key discovery AND modal editing makes it even easier

but, you know, if you don't want to try, then don't
Yahoo Games.
That is one hyperbolic headline. I can understand having privacy concerns with the software, but the idea that this will "kill off democracy" is quite the extreme claim that the author puts zero effort into actually trying to defend. This is an important subject to debate, but I don't think this article really adds anything to that discussion.
We would still be exposed to a wide variety of diseases even if there were no more common cold viruses floating around. The common cold viruses haven’t helped us deal with COVID-19 :(
There's plenty of data indicating that's the case, for instance [1]. That said, the population is also much younger and age has a much bigger impact than comorbidities.

[1] https://issues.org/correctional-health-is-community-health/
Darknet diaries
A nice headline that as usual doesn't reflect the article's content.

The temptation for a democratic government to expand its powers without an effective sunset (cf. Patriot Act) is a nice headline but is also trivially obviated. Since the UK's parliament has currently decided not to hold Divisions (voting) it can only pass legislation that has broad consensus - basically the Speaker or their deputy will ask a question, and if they hear any dissent that means division, they're not holding any Divisions so the motion fails. You might push through some open-ended nonsense with a straight party line vote but that requires a Division. Unless you believe somehow Westminster now lacks even one single decent person to say "No" a sunset clause seems inevitable in any such legislation.

But there are legitimate obstacles far more interesting which the article brings up. What proportion of the UK's population even own a device capable of being deployed this way? If it's 80% of those who actually can go somewhere (it arguably doesn't matter that 95-year old Nana Smith doesn't own a phone when she hasn't left her nursing home since the London Olympics) then you might be on to a winner, if it's 40% that's unworkable.

And there are logistical problems, both in deploying the associated testing and treatment strategy (e.g. where do we put quarantined people? If we send them home that's not very effective especially if other members of the household aren't tested positive) and deploying a hypothetical contact tracing app to millions of citizens.

But one thing test + trace has going for it, which the article hints at, is that we already know it works. The virus is not a mysterious "invisible enemy" it's just a virus, if we can identify everyone (or more realistically almost everyone) who is infected quickly and quarantine them in an effective way we can literally get rid of it.

Guinea Worm is a surprisingly relevant example here. Guinea Worm is literally a worm that can grow inside humans, and so of course we can't give people a vaccine against it, any more than we can vaccinate you against shark bites or being mauled by a bear. And weirdly although it is a worm, the medications known to be effective in killing worms in humans don't work. So eradicating Guinea Worm is mostly about stopping the worm's lifecycle, giving people safe drinking water, keeping people with worms out of the water, that sort of thing. And it works. Chances are no HN readers live anywhere with endemic Guinea Worm, even though we've nothing really resembling a "treatment" for it.

Maybe we will get a vaccine that works. Or a miracle drug which makes it low risk to have COVID-19 in a developed country where they can just have the right drugs at the pharmacy to fix it. But maybe not. Test & trace works even if not.
Happy to oblige.
Is the swedish politician attempting a coup for dictatorship, killing political opponents, gleichschaltung, war of nations and genocite exterminating a whole race? Or is the Nazi comparison maybe overblown?
or STEM has a selection bias that pre filters those who would drop out.
Also The Lighthouse.
Thanks for sharing.

What are some ways people buy foreign currencies as an investment?
>reliably upper-bounded.

Is extremely desirable. Those multi-ms peaks of latency Linux has are the ones that cause audio cuts and perceived hiccups.

Of course it doesn't matter perceptually if the average is 1µs or 5µs. It's all about the peaks, and keeping them bounded enough so that latency does never cross the perceptual threshold.
Scientists Make Mistakes. I Made a Big One
China’s National Blockchain
> a rising world power (China) challenging the overextended existing world power (the US)

This is a pretty bold claim, at least for now. People have been claiming this is the case for decades, but I still don't see it.

Western (US / EU) demand is what drives China's growth.

Technology in China is still by and large imported / copied.

The West can move manufacturing back home (or anywhere else with cheap labor) and China's economic prowess will be severely undermined.

China doesn't have a whole lot of leverage – it's cheap and convenient, but its cheap labor is easily replaceable, while Western demand (mostly US, really) and its technology are not.

EDIT: Additionally, the balance of power used to change much more frequently back when we didn't have nuclear weapons. From the introduction, it seems this analysis is entirely economic when it ought to also factor in politics (domestic and international), strategy and military power.
myvirtualband.com (2005 or so). It was essentially a forum plus an ftp server. The idea was people would record some tracks, upload to the ftp server, and start a thread, then other people would add on to the track and build up a song or several songs. Everything was by default CC-BY-SA licensed. Also everything was very open, you could see all the threads and all the parts, there weren't any private threads. There are other things kind of like it still (it got sold and became kompoz.com, but that's very very different and not at all the same -- it's much more focused on "bands" and not on freewheeling collaboration, or at least was like that last time I looked.)
A question for you: If you're so sure about the severity of the virus, then I'd like you to tell me what you know about the long term rammifcations of the virus on people that exhibit symptoms.

If you can't, then perhaps it might be a good idea to reconsider advocating for reopening the economy. Because for all we know, this could end up being another Chickenpox situation leading to something similar to Shingles. We don't know enough about the virus to make reckless remarks such as yours.
To add another data point, Singapore has been testing foreign workers living in dormitories extensively, uncovering about 10,000 cases (about 80% of the country's total cases). These are relatively fit individuals between the ages of 20 and 40. However, the number of people in the ICU has remained remarkably consistent at about ~20 people in the past 10 days (Fingers crossed it remains that way).

https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/46-more-cases...
Check your bank account for a deposit that starts with "SBAD TREAS"

SBA has been faster at delivering money than they have been at communicating about it. We've heard from tons of businesses that got EIDL money but never received an email about their application.
No. It’s a random sampling of people who are out during lockdown. It can’t being extrapolated to the whole population when large parts are not leaving their homes.
Those are positive tests. They are remaining high because the number of tests has been increasing. The important metric to track is percent positive tests, which has been consistently dropping for weeks.

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en/test
Biased article because Xenophon (the co-author) is paid to shill for the CCP's Huwai.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/12/xenophon-welcomes-h...

Huwai might be cheapest supplier for national comms infrastructure because it's a "loss leader" playing the long game for the more lucrative foreign political influence in the future.

https://theconversation.com/huawei-and-the-nbn-beware-the-lo...

Which makes sense if the CIA's claim is true, stating that the CCP military is funding Huwai

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/04/20/cia-offer...
Ask HN: Favorite Recipe to Cook at Home?
I have been doing a lot of cooking while working from home.

My favorite recipe among the family has been this lasagna recipe

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/23600/worlds-best-lasagna/

I reduce the Parmesan cheese to only a quarter cup as the recipe as is comes out too salty. I also use two or three other sliced cheeses. If your having trouble finding shredded mozzarella, you can get slices in the deli area of a grocery store.

What has been your favorite recipe to make while at home?
Hope they see this comment! Playing George playing Frogger is my dream!
I have a 6s and XS non-Max and use both daily. A claim of 5% difference does not in any way match my experiences, and I say that as someone who prefers the 6S for its size and pre-FaceID UI. My XS consistently and handily outperforms my 6S (which does have a new battery, so it is not affected by battery-related performance downgrades).

The only difference between the devices is that the 6S does not have cellular service. Other than that distinction, all apps and settings on the devices are identical.

The only exception I see whereby the 6S is faster is with the Box.com app when it syncs the files I've marked for offline use. I have no idea if that's because of differences between the phones or something with the app.
Every time I think there isn't another good reason to keep my dumb flip phone instead of getting on the smartphone bandwagon they come up with one.
it is the dance between compilers and chip designs that unmakes hand work.
My email's on my profile. Shoot me an email and I'll let you know if/when I ever get it working well.
The iPhone 5s got six years of OS and security updates.

Since the iPhone 4s, every major iPhone has received at least five years of support.

The sole exception was the first attempt at a budget iPhone, the 2013 iPhone 5c, which only got four years of updates.
>…and not great camera

The camera is best in class. It's a single less system, but a remarkable one.
That was an old favorite of mine, too.
Quite so. And, I forgot, you can use the time commuting for something that requires your complete attention - like reading, studying, or even just deep thinking - that you simply can't do when you're driving.

So not only it's faster, it actually frees up time for other things.
Mandatory lockdown for exposure to one virus can be a slippery slope. It’s not legal to discriminate against someone for a health condition or disability. If you can’t exercise your freedom of travel are you being discriminated against? Or is that acceptable due to the potential impact to the economy via the Commerce Clause? Either way, this is some new territory.
Dalio is kissing up to CCP
the "analogous" physical structure of hearing serves many functions not replicated by cochlear implant. Focusing on one signal during noise is in fact much more difficult with an implant.
Yep, the latter, I'd much rather a deterministic failure. Or if you're using something like Poetry to package your code, you can specify supported versions and then users of your code will be informed if they lack that Python.

But then if you're trying to write portable Python 3 code without any need for the end user to be pyenv-ing stuff, you probably don't want to be writing 3.8 - off the top of my head, Ansible, for example, targets Python 3.5 for this reason.

I'm not defending this btw, modern Python development is painful, and I taught myself to code in Python, so it hurts to see my first love so.

I guess it would be nice if Python came up with something like Java's source/target which errors if you're using incompatible features.
Highly recommend listening to this full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrxYhv2O3wU. It's long but worth it, and it touches on many of the points he brings up in the article. In fact, the interview occurred just a week after this article was published.
SEL4 found the opposite. They could formally verify away run time checks.

Algorithmic invariants: Many optimizations rely on certain properties being always true, so specific checks can be left out or can be replaced by other, more efficient checks. A simple example is that the distinguished idle thread is always in thread state idle and therefore can never be blocked or otherwise waiting for I/O. This can be used to remove checks in the code paths that deal with the idle thread.

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/6/92498-sel4-formal-veri...
> "just not the sorted list we were probably hoping for ...
> "For every item j in a list, ensure that the element j ≤ j+1 ... Yet the list [1, 2] also satisfies the definition since it is a sorted list, just not the sorted list we were probably hoping for.

If the input satisfies and happens to be the output in this case, why is article saying this to be a bug? Why "just not the sorted list we were probably hoping for"?
She said this never happens. This happened all the time. It's just that she was the first scientist to take the honest route and do a retraction rather than letting it slip. I'm impressed with her integrity, but surprised by her naivete.
surely there are data. "assumptions" underlie all "data"[1], but i would call "prisoners not having good health care" a pretty decent assumption. if you're so curious, maybe go google it yourself, and then post a study if you find one.

i'm so tired of literally every other HN comment being like this. there is truly nothing more low effort / "i am very smart" than the HN-classic "do you have a source for that? where's the peer-reviewed study?". it adds absolutely nothing to the discussion, and yet i see all sorts of materially less obnoxious things be downvoted to oblivion.

[1] "citation needed"
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It worked for me! Remember that college is a business and writing an appeal letter = "Please take my money."
I'm curious if that's true -- based on that excellent data, it appears that the number of people who test positive has been pretty much steady. Chances are those were always, and remain, positive tests at the point of care/admission to a hospital. The new tests are likely randos. So long as we continue to see the same raw absolute number of positive tests, I'd say it's not a win -- yet. There's been in fact a steady increase since 4/21 in positive tests in real number terms.
That aspect reminds me of previous experiences with fractal art. If you're evaluating generated sets, there's always going to be a part of an original piece that's off, that's for sure. "Hey, it looks like headlights of cars driving around in the fog! But this other part makes zero sense and is distracting."

If you can use a piece as inspiration, browsing around until you find the 5% or whatever % that you like, there's really some benefit to be found. I felt a bit like Simon Cowell, auditioning works and being really picky, last time I did this. But in the end you can discard an item, go with it as-is, adapt it somehow, or use it as reference material. Eventually you build a gallery.
Do those count as a comorbidity though?

If coronavirus goes around again, that could raise the death rate
The 40,000 new cases per day is predominantly a function of the number of tests being run. The number of actual infections has far outpaced the number of tests. Look at test positivity rate across NYC for example.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...

If instead we had done random sampling we could have been very accurately projecting the number of active cases pretty easily, but apparently we’ve mostly decided not to do that until now with the antibody studies.
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This is not "the worst way possible". There's just no reasonable interpretation of "Phase One will be a two year affair" other than that Phase One will last two years.

Maybe he misspoke! I can't rule that out. But every time I discuss the issue on a forum like this, and I mention that we can't stay locked down until the virus goes away, a few people pop up to say that we totally can and must. I think there's reason for concern that it's not just Internet trolls who think this way - concern that officials are not alleviating by their refusal to give any kind of clear timeline.
Ahh I miss froogle. But I also really liked yahoo shopping. It had a similar global search, if I recall, but you could still buy directly from tons of stores.

Same with using pricewatch to get cheap computer parts.

It feels like a lot of the competition is gone now.
There's no evidence to date that people are being re-infected. They may in the future, but to date, no such evidence exists. There are some people who tested negative before who are testing positive now, but that is much more likely to be false negatives and/or false positives.

It would be pretty novel for the human immune system to clear out the disease on it's own, then a few days later forget how to do that, and become re-infected. SARS-COV-1 saw immunity conferred for 2-3 years. [1] I suspect something similar is likely here, probably for a shorter duration due to the more limited severity, but long enough to get us to a vaccine.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851497/
ha, as if that matters. if a law like this passes you will be mandated to carry one with tracking enabled. The gov may even pay for a low end model like that.

I would never voluntarily run an app like this nor would I consent
I've given this a little more thought after reading your comment. And I was wrong. The point of games is drama.

Drama in music comes from an anticipated causality from A->B and either the fulfillment or denial of that causality. Romantic-era music strives for maximum drama by injecting as many fulfillment/denial moments as possible, with denials that are stretched to the limit of the implicit rules of the cultural context / musical system.

Minimalist music does something entirely different, by first breaking the expectation of resolution, and then becoming the flame that we stare into; it begins within a known system and then subverts it through stasis.

Can you imagine saying to any reasonable person, "do you want to skip all the boring parts and get to the final note?" Or, "yeah, ok, I don't want to see or even know what happens in the movie, just tell me what the final shot is."

In games, the drama of the "game part" is in exploring the edges of a system, with the added engagement of partial agency towards "resolution" (in a musical sense).

I still can't imagine any reasonable person thinking the "point" of a game is to win. Winning is the objective, not the point. Whether or not employing agency from outside the system is appropriate for a game is up for negotiation among the players, but without some level of adherence to an agreed system, it ceases to be a multiplayer game and becomes a game of solitaire where the rules are whatever the cheater decides.

I can appreciate that there is drama in that, and perhaps the drama of avoiding being caught is more satisfying than the drama of performing "the perfect game" for some people. In that situation, though, I think I'd still describe games as "a safe place for the mutual exploration of systems."