skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wouldn't be ethical, but wouldn't be surprised if some companies took advantage of the situation.

I know for the fact that few US, Indian firms with offices in India are just using this as an excuse to trim their workforce, enforce paycuts (upto 50%), hold back increments for the year (and even next) and restructure salaries drastically - by moving almost 60% to vaiable pay(which typically never gets paid).

Such a list is live at https://careervscovid19.com/insights

Traditional BigCo ITeS/outsourcing shops are using this as a great opportunity to trim the flab in the middle (claiming as "a dire measure to sustain shareholder value") while it was always about . These are the same bunch in middle-management whom they would pamper regularly by giving quarterly/monthly awards (quarterly Gem, Spot awards, Player of the month, etc bullshit accolades)

And the markets also work that way. On a regular day, if there's firing, stocks of a BigCo go wonky sensing something is amiss. During a crisis, if they do not fire people by the thousands, markets deem it as lack of financial prudence and stocks go down.

Everything (and anything) in the name of profits and shareholder value. There's a saying dated thousands of years, goes like "vyaparam droha chintanam” meaning "Business is all about profits most often via undue advantages".

Related article - http://www.informaticsjournals.com/index.php/dbijb/article/d...
I find those quite odd. It seems overly ornate compared to the rest of the font, which doesn't even contain the 'fi' ligature.
When was this? I know someone there but haven’t spoken to them recently.
Doesn't seem unreasonable to me. You're asking for a bespoke product, a complex product, a safety critical product and a product with zero resale value and one only we can produce. You want everyone working on it to pass strict security checks and you want it all kept secret. Plus you know we UNDER bid to get the main contract knowing we would make it up on add on like this. Oh, and all our engineers are really busy trying to overcome bigger issues with a major new product.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtuX0jL85Y
Architecture of a real-world Machine Learning system
Somebody needs to order a batch of these printed from China and try it out!
But it's... not? What if I want to use the same trick with 'cp'? Do I go and copy-paste my script, or maybe spend time to make it generic enough to handle both commands? That's not a good use of my time when the shell will do it for me, if only I'd spend a minute to learn.
This is good news, considering they've apparently been also able to reduce the number of new confirmed cases [1].

[1] https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/
BMCP.live – Fireside Chat: Tokenization in Times of the Pandemic
Because it is simpler than Java, in particular when you limit it to the subset of features covered by Java only. Many Scala features that do exist in Java are more complicated in Java. And some do not exist at all, which means you have to emulate them by writing more boilerplate code.
I'd say the article doesn't really mean what it reads. It repeats american democratic party line which tries to appeal to hispanic and black demographic this way to win their votes.
A congenial but mediocre developer may actually be more valuable than a rowdy and talented one because she pisses off less number of other brilliant developers.
Bird, just in case you haven't seen (heard) it: https://youtu.be/wxTYKCOnRe4
In Poland you get fuck all. Government kept promising 40% contribution but doesn't say where you're supposed to find the other 60% from. So companies are letting go of people left and right.
Ask HN: What are the best ways for developers to contribute to society?
I think it would be helpful to start a thread to discuss ways in which the tech community can contribute to society in these times. This could be technical problems to focus on, organizations that need technical support etc.
Ask HN: Recommendations, guidelines for talking to children about online privacy
Hello,
Does anyone know of any good sites or documents that help to talk to children between 4-10 about being online. Focusing on being safe, privacy and maybe about advertising.
Even if it's transient, I think you'll see a lot of companies use this situation as an excuse to clear the decks of what they perceive to be bad hires or underperforming employees that they'd otherwise let limp on in good times.
You're talking about the most popular movies that were transfered to digital or even restored. Most films weren't. Plus, we lost immense amounts (most) of cinema that was produced before ~1950s when better film started being used.
"The Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring (REM) group of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission provides qualified information about the level of environmental radioactivity to the public, Member States, European Commission and European Parliament."

https://remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Advanced.aspx

"We believe in building something that matters. Something that has a positive impact on the lives of many. This is why we have created uRADMonitor, because our bodies are fragile and because pollution is harmful both to us and to the environment. So we have designed a worldwide network of automated monitors, as a first line detection and warning system against the harmful chemical and physical factors around us."

https://www.uradmonitor.com/
Are those not submitted by the people themselves to aid in their job search?
the 5-4 majority that saved Obamacare last time will not survive a few more Republican appointments

You seem unaware that Chief Justice Roberts authored the opinion upholding ACA.
Corporate looting on the cusp of a recession. Classy
Especially since you use external libraries to do the bulk of the work, 6KB is a lot.

It is an order of magnitude bigger than the assembly version.
It would be really nice to have something like this that can run locally but meant for a single user. I don't want to have to log in to my own instance or host a bunch of backend services (or even run it in a docker container).

Might be a fun weekend project to learn Rust, actually. :)
That would be possible, but in case of silent areas (lone corner,..) your overlay would show false information because you have no rotation clues
Or maybe a sufficient supply to cover all demand. I'm not sure it's terribly hard to make.

Novartis has committed to donate up to 130 million doses which should cover a fair bit.
Sweden too, but government "only" pays 60% IIRC. Employer pays the rest but there has also been some ease on how much tax an employer has to pay for each employee.
This cheat use PCIe DMA to read the memory of the target computer which is running CS:GO. No kernel/user space software on the target system is necessary and practically undetectable from the target computer.

My stance on this is it's inevitable and game design shall be changed to make this cheat irrelevant, by revealing everybody the all players location, thereby the player who use this cheat has no advantage over the other. I think it doesn't change the game that much for most of the game.

In case of the game which requires secret, it can be achieved by trusted authority server or by using mental poker algorithm.

My guess is, you can't use this system to modify the target memory without detection. Since it's impossible to change the multiple memory location atomically, it would be pretty easy to detect from the target computer.

Also the guess, but to detect this memory peak attack, you take control of all the memory bandwidth, no code but you can use all of the memory access, then consume all memory bandwidth with cache disabled so you can detect the slight bandwidth change that is either this attack, or it's DMA from the motherboard(Possibly malicious access from evil binary blob firmware such as Intel ME or AMD PSP)
xscreensaver's BSOD module has a DVD logo mode too. :)
That's nice of them. I wonder in whose favour the optimisations will be, them or their customers.
Malleability refers to the ability to make your tool fit your needs. Excel is not as malleable a system as Emacs, but it's indeed one of the most powerful tools out there.
There is something to say for knowing that the device is on. Saves you from accidentally turning the device off when you wanted to turn it on.
Even apart from the advertisement coming from the platform, most creators (podcast/Youtube) that I follow report that their direct ad placements have basically dropped to 0 and the only ones they have running now were negotiated pre-pandemic.
Under UK employment laws, you can't just force your staff to take a 20% pay cut without their consent, even if you're using the furlough scheme. And as others have pointed out, it may have been more than 20% in practice, if it was based on the furlough scheme where a cap applies. A lot of places that are genuinely up against it because of the virus are asking staff to take that hit voluntarily to help protect the business and their jobs, but that's different.

If you make them redundant instead then you must give them a redundancy payment as well. However, this only protects employees after two years and in any case it's capped at a low level relative to typical salaries in fields like tech, so this might not have been worth much to the staff at a startup. Many employers do offer more than this voluntarily, but I wouldn't necessarily assume any startup did.

Maybe the staff who chose to leave were more concerned about the future viability of the business, an extended pause in their career development, or both. Or maybe they really were offered voluntary redundancy on favourable terms.

Curiously, just yesterday the UK government announced some new measures aimed directly at supporting startups, particularly tech startups in their early stages that aren't yet making money. Apparently at least someone in government recognises the business model and feels it will be better to protect that part of our economy during the downturn, which is a remarkably enlightened view given how badly successive governments in the UK have treated small businesses in the past.
Well... That's an overhyped media headline. In reality it is a stock based compensation over the next 5 years, based on performance of the stock price, capped at a maximum of 30 million. So it was already very unlikely he was going to get 30m (= 6 per year) pre-crisis. And given the current stock market he is probably going to get nothing for the coming two years or longer.
Any of these. Or even patched through an actual serial port.
Nikon Nikkor 50mm f1.2 lenses from the 1960s and 70s
> Still I normally end up using the web interface for ProtonMail as it fits my workflow better and only need to have one tab open in my browser. They even have a nicer looking beta which also has an in-built dark theme at https://beta.protonmail.com

Btw, you can have both static beta web client and offline access to the email messages using https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail even being on free account as opposed to Bridge thing. The app also supports "persistent sessions" feature, unlimited full-text search (body content also gets scnned) and other fancy stuff.
In the UK you are only allowed out once a day for 1 hour maximum
It's more than a little misleading to say that the CEO 'just' did this when the article is from 2019 Dec 4, so before the pandemic.
> Other commenters are correct that large randomized trials will be more definitive.

The reason they aren't doing large randomised controlled trials is because the hydroxychloroquine itself is killing people, and it's unethical to continue.

People have said they'd rather have malaria than take it, and that should tell you something. The side-effects for hydroxychloroquine include death, which is not immediately obvious from reading HN.

Doctors aren't just making this up and ignoring evidence, the drug is bad, and not effective for covid-19
linux (*nix) is also a workflow enabler, with a different ISA (Filesystem vs Buffers, processes and pipes vs functions).

I have yet to grok this mindset.. which is a shame.
Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures
Lightbend WAS a vendor to a lot of companies that were affected by COVID-19 related layoffs. Some of these companies like Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings are part of industries that are virtually nonexistent right now. Some of those companies are also based in Europe like SwissCom and UniCredit. The shutdown of our borders has made it difficult to maintain the same roles they were originally contracted to fill, resulting in cancelled contracts. Not as much fishy as it is obvious to me that lost/cancelled contracts equals less money to pay employees. Less money === less jobs.
Yeah, it's not perfectly smooth for me (MBP 2019, Chrome).

I think adding `will-change: transform` might help a bit, to hint the user agent that you'll be animating transforms...
I once wrote a framework for simulating GoL in Python: https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/seagull

I names it Seagull because “Conway’s Game of Life” => CGoL, lol so playful.

The day before Conway passed, I was playing with some procedural art from cellular automata: https://cellular-sprites.herokuapp.com

Everything felt surreal the morning I read the news
Start working on your new startup idea at home? Can get you out of the gate flying once the crisis passes.
Where to Look in China’s Data Dump for Any Signs of a Rebound
JavaScript these days is incredibly heavy. Most phones this year don’t have any trouble, but you can feel a huge difference between, say, a typical 2018 phone and a 2017 phone in rendering speed. If you’re planning on keeping your phone for a few years, you’ll notice.
Wow, I didn't think any developed country allowed employers to legally cut an employees salary.
I think they’re an ugly hack :(
Can we say that the layoffs are mostly happening in US ? I can't see that trend in Europe, correct me if I'm wrong.
Astek Group* (a french consulting firm) laid off around 5% of its sophia-antipolis office (~15 out of 300), which put them in conflict with the government that has put funds to help people maintain 84% of their salaries if they work part-time (furlough?).
They built ray tracing engines and games and whole financial systems in Excel, it's possible. Probably nobody cares to do it as "org-mode" for Office is called Outlook ;-)
It's apparently a fork, and really actively developed: https://dosemu2.github.io/dosemu2/

PCem and the like do have some advantages, such as emulating specific hardware, or not being limited to running in x86/amd64.
Thank you for this book!

Lisp is great. It's so much fun writing Lisp. Coding Lisp with Emacs/Slime is almost an enlightening experience.

However, I never quite got over the frustration that writing the same thing in C++ gives factor two, three or whatever speedup. There is not much that can be done about this, I'm afraid. It's a tragedy.
This is just grammatical nitpicking. People are not working in company X any more against their will. One can call it "removing", "laying off", "dismissing", "number cutting" or whatever corporate BS speak says is correct these days, but reality is that they're fired.
Model quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread
Surprisingly, severance is also mandatory in Argentina and many other "under development" countries.

I'm absolutely amazed at how people in the US are so against severance being mandatory.
There is this fashion to spell it "legal-protection-insurance-companies".
After reading a bit more about Taleb's definition, I don't really agree or disagree with you. I now think it's actually easy to argue both that COVID-19 is and is not a black swan event, given the (likely intentional) ambiguity of the definition, which is more like a heuristic than a definition.
Sources believe coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab
As a Frenchman I can recommend light protests, from home.

Instead of burning a few wooden pallets and having a BBQ while blocking the company entrance, you guys could perhaps put a firewall rule to drop all incoming traffic to the VPN and having an online video party.
> The general rule for precision electronics is that you want to avoid anything that needs high absolute accuracy (because such things get expensive fast even as discrete components) and instead rely on accurate ratios between parameters, matched pairs of components and inaccurate, but long term stable parameters that can be calibrated out.

The omitted serial comma made that really hard to parse for me. In case it did for anyone else, I think that it's:

> (accurate ratios between parameters) and (matched pairs of components) and (inaccurate, but long-term stable, parameters that can be calibrated out).
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The joy of emacs is that you really can configure it down to a gnat's booty.
That doesn't make it mandatory. :)

Your original phrasing is incorrect hence the confusion by the other persons' comment. It would be more accurate to call it a restriction.
> cut all employee salaries by 10% across the board

How does that work exactly? I imagine you're presented with a contract that says "you salary is now <previous salary 0.9>"* and you're also told (or heavily implied) that if you don't sign, you're fired.

Surely the employer can't just start paying you less than specified in your original contract? And maybe if you don't sign, you're owed some benefits (but who wants to be jobless going into pandemic+recession+inflation)?
Wow, I actually really concidered CCI. It seemed like such a great company to work for. It's good to know this.
I've also seen slow hiring and hiring freezes used by orgs to reduce head count by letting natural attrition take over. IMHO it is better than layoffs.
How is that relevant in the least to someone who applied for a job there?
The New Fault Lines in a Post-Globalized World
The news here in Romania say that there are 1M fired. I don't believe that, smells like fake news. However I don't see how small firms will survive a two month pause. We will surely have lots of people fired but they won't make the news because they did not work at Google ;)
Americans are amazing like that. "Free healthcare? That's communism!!!"
I believe you already found many useful links in this page. If you have reddit account, possibly you can check out "Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread" in https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/ and get inspired every week.
This depends on which is worse for productivity: unemployment or furlough. I think in some cases furlough is worse for productivity as workers that could be working for another employer and have in-demand skills are sitting idle. In a free-market devoid of minimum wages and government packages, wages would be going down massively but fewer people would be doing nothing.
Before the covid19 my plan was to leave and a have summer off. Now it has changed, but I still wouldn't mind to be laid-off. It'd be less exciting break but a break nevertheless.
COBOL isn't going to return, because it never went away.
The archery champion girl from Colombian is getting famous on Internet
Because it's silly and ignorant and possibly xenophobic.

It probably doesn't help that elsewhere in the thread they're making comments that make them sound kind of crazy:

> [open source orgs are] communist organizations living on private money from anticompetitive tech giants.
> So I do suggest before people writing off 4.7" as being large, please try and give it a go first.

I was actually planning on grabbing a larger phone when iPhone SE inevitably lost software support, but then I got an old iPhone 6 to use casually and I just couldn’t use it at all with one hand without invoking Reachability all the time. Plus I can’t wrap my hand around it so it feels a bit less secure…I’m not sure I’d be happy to lose the form factor.
If the alternative is getting laid off, I'm happy to accept the cut as I did last week.
I don't think this is dot-com-crash bad yet, if you mean that tech workers specifically are in dire straits. The major Bay Area employers like Google, FB, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, etc haven't had layoffs; it's mostly small startups. Some of the large companies are even outperforming currently (Amazon and Netflix are at all-time highs).

But if you mean dot-com-crash bad in terms of the economy in general crashing, oh man are you right. This is an economic free-fall for most of America.
The paper points out that this doesn't resolve the problem in the discussion about the crossing gate; all this approach does is move the decision from "do I jump" to "have I met the point of no return yet", which is still a discrete decision over a continuous input.
We’re on the Brink of Cyberpunk
Argentina and Germany are hardly in rosy positions at the moment.

“I like free money” is hardly a good argument to support statements like “it just makes sense”.
> Though in many parts (whole London area for sure) you are now not allowed to drink and it is illegal

Only TfL it seems. I've been on a London-Doncaster train and was served alcohol before we even left King's Cross (complementary - it was only about £2 more for a first class ticket - and the train was barely even moving before they started serving).
Yes they just say take pay cut or we make you redundant because we cannot afford you.
> Json schema does scale down pretty well (indeed as the link above shows the simplest possible Json schema is just "{}")

I've not used JSON Schema so far, but I think showing the simplest possible definition does not tell much about how complex or easy to use a language is.

E.g., it's easy to write C code for a working program that does nothing or just prints "Hello World". The resulting code is very simple and can be written without much experience in C.

However that doesn't make C a simple language - and indeed writing programs in C that perform useful tasks is a lot more complex and requires more knowledge about the language.

In the same way, it's nice that Json Schema has a compact syntax for the "do nothing" schema, but I think a comparison between practically used examples would be better.

(Also the "do nothing" schema would have to compare against not doing schema validation at all - and compared to that, even the two brackets are still pretty costly)
Yes, if you decide not to sign the new contract, and they fire you because of it, you can take them to tribunal for it. It's illegal.
There's this kind of thing https://techstartups.com/2020/03/18/breaking-controlled-clin...

which may have influenced her and the POTUS
It’s a violation of consent. Consent can be withdrawn at any time, with no further obligations or liability. That’s key in a free society.

Employment is a transaction, like any other. Doing some business yesterday is no guarantee of business tomorrow.
Actually, China is often a less-than-ideal option for prototypes, unless you live in or near China.

I can't talk for the US, but in Europe where I live there are some amazingly cheap options for prototype batches. You could probably order a prototype batch (2~3 boards) for around 150 euro with a 7 day delivery. Ordering from China from EU will probably take around a month to arrive.
Is it possible to partner with you to offer a managed service for Cortex? We are looking at your solution to offer our clients for deployment.
Seriously, is this really a (good) thing? I opened the slides, and spent the first 3-5 seconds having my eyes drawn to this ligature, trying to figure out why this word is different than what my brain is used to. I cannot imagine that this is a desirable effect.

Clearly, I'm missing something, happy to be corrected!
It's an extremely uninformed essay too. It's talking about radioactive iodine, which is long since gone due to its short half-life. There's no point worrying about it, or taking iodine supplements to protect against it.
interesting... what if mandatory severance and other (supposedly) nice things are the reason those countries are underdeveloped?
God this brings back memories of fuckedcompany.com

Right after September 11th, that site got very popular among engineers like me -- seeing (on a daily basis) which company bloodbath was next.

It was kind of fun, until it was our company.