skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have evidence that the redundancy is a direct result of you not taking a pay cut, then it's illegal and you can take them to a tribunal.

It still happens though.
> Japan's xenophobia is so strong that they don't care about doing what they need to to get back on top (embrace immigration).

This old argument gets so tiresome. And then what? After they import 10 million people and then they stagnate again, do they have to import 20 million people?

If the economic system depends on immigration, then there is something terrible wrong with the economic system and it needs to change.

> The USA may be headed in that direction but we are no where near the shitstorm of demographics and xenophobia that Japan is dealing with.

Nonsense. We are all xenophobic. It's human nature. Maybe we are better at hiding it now than japan, but that's probably not a good thing when you think about it. In times of crisis, japan is going to be better off as a homogenous and united population has proven to be far more stable than those with racial/ethnic/religion divisions/tensions.
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OnePlus’s customizations tend to be much lighter and more thoughtful.
IANAL but it's not always illegal. If a company has a choice between going bust and imposing pay cuts on everyone then that is perfectly legal.
What's a 'sparkler'? From the context, it sounds like some sort of supplementary carbonation system.
Or F16 Falcon https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/f-16.html
It’s called a joke
Hardware?
When you claim to be speaking statistically, shouldn't you also cite some statistics?
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Refusing to feed anything more to Google whenever I have the choice, is the reason I will probably always avoid Android.
I know where there is a U.S.-made 18" naval gun projectile.
Thats not true, if you want to run 4 hours, you are allowed:

"one form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle - alone or with members of your household"

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-outbr...
If you're basing this view off of HN, then remember that HN generally has a high percentage of users from US/SV/VC scene.
What did the site show?
I wrote a minimal validator in python that supports a subset of JSON Schema. I needed just a few basic validation features for my project, and didn't want to pull in a full implementation as a dependency.

I like how compact it turned out: https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/blob/master/hc/...

Usage examples in tests: https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/blob/master/hc/...
Berlin is pretty nuts, lots of firing going on.
If you cannot beat them, buy them.
Anyone know a “poor mans” way to detect ones brainwaves for biofeedback?
Impossible colors: our vision's incomplete palette
Well, they do have to ask your permission to do so. And if you say no, then...
> Try getting the cursor after tapping the Safari address bar with a long URL.

I’ve found that if you try to move the cursor with the keyboard it’ll show up.
Why would it be? Europe is getting hit a lot harder and its economy is quickly collapsing. European banks were also weaker and less stress resistant than their US's counterparts so their ability to lend isn't a strong. Same thing for the EU corporations themselves, who are usually more in debt and have less access to non-bank financing (ie public bonds markets). So I'd be really surprised if we saw more lay offs in the US at the end of this
At least in the Netherlands many people, primarily service workers, have been let go: https://nos.nl/artikel/2330625-sterke-stijging-aantal-nieuwe...
I don't know much about CircleCI but my understanding is that they are a Clojure shop but (one of?) their founder(s) moved on to Dark Lang

They're replacing their ClojureScript mishmash of libraries with a React action team because they couldn't onboard effectively

As a customer, I can see I'm being pushed into this new UI that I'm indifferent to but moving between the options is difficult

As a Clojurian & customer, I'm not sure any of this bodes well
>And infinitely better food than a British pub ;)

This is an old trope. Like the English language, British cuisine takes all the good bits from everywhere and if you go to pubs in England you can find some terrific food. Of course, it can very variable, but all in all I'd say London is shoulder to shoulder with Naples as the food capitals of Europe.
Yeah lots of people aren't aware that you can refuse the UK furlough scheme. The company can then fire you but you could then take them to an employment tribunal and sue for unfair dismissal. At certain companies that are using furlough as an excuse to increase profits rather than to prevent job losses then you would probably win your case.

Although obviously you should consult with a proper employment lawyer.
Pandemic robs field scientists of ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ moments
That's not true.

Here's the relevant law: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/contents/made

Here's the relevant section of that law: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/regulation/6/mad...

Here's the relevant text of that section:

> to take exercise either alone or with other members of their household;

There is nothing in that law that restricts either the number of times you can do that or the amount of time you can spend doing that. There _has_ been guidance issued by various people in government and law enforcement agencies, but that is exactly what it is: guidance. According to the law, you are free to take exercise either alone or with other members of their household, and the law doesn't care how often you do that or for how long.

(Caveat: that's the "England" version of the law; Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own versions; see e.g. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id?title=Health+Protection+%28... )
It does not. I used it every day for academic research. Most of my papers converts right away to TeX for publications. Of course your have to collaborate with similarly minded people. But sometimes I just write my part in TeXmacs and then copy and paste in the collaborative LaTeX file. YMMV. And you can use it to do online lecture (not quite like LyX) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyVc6wKE8Oc
One reason that it's could be less bad is due to government measures - e.g. in the Netherlands, employers can apply for the government to pay 90% of your salary for a while while they pay the other 10%, so that they can keep employing you until (hopefully) after things start up again.

No idea how that compares to other companies, but if it differs, that's one possible explanation for different results.
Hospitals are having a surprisingly tough time of things. I work for a very famous hospital in a small town in the American midwest, and we've (our IT department, that is) laid off all our contractors and the rest of us have mandatory furloughs coming up too. They're doing everything they can to not let us go, but some of us will probably end up getting sacked. And this is maybe the richest and most well-connected hospital in the entire world! Turns out that when you cancel all elective procedures (not only non-essential surgeries, but things like allergy testing and pediatric audiology work etc.), you can very quickly go from a billion dollars in the black (last year) to an estimated billion dollars in the red (this year). Just brutal.
Skewed neutrino behavior could help explain matter’s dominion over antimatter
> you guys could perhaps put a firewall rule to drop all incoming traffic to the VPN

How could you ever trust an employee who did this with their access privileges?
I'm the same; I use evil-mode in emacs and find the friction of switching between them small.
I seriously doubt whether this will disproportionately effect women and minorities. Certainly not women, as it is pretty hard to change the male/female birth ratio. It might affect them though.
Yep. social gatherings / hospitality industry / gyms etc are banned, and anyone who can work from home is doing so, but you still can leave your house for "essential reasons", e.g. exercise, buying takeaway lunch every day. many retail stores and public transport are still functioning.
I think it's our

- low density

- government actually listening to scientists and reacting quickly and non-ideologically.
Joris van der Hoven, the creator of TeXmacs, write most of his papers (and books) with it: https://www.texmacs.org/joris/main/publs.html
FWIW the iPhone 5s received iOS 12, and has had a patch as recently as March 24th (2020).

It was released Fall 2013.

It was also the first 64-bit smartphone, and remained that way for more than a year from what I can tell. It also has the first Secure Enclave; i.e. a fingerprint authentication system that had any hope of being secure, and a decent FDE system.
If they follow the procedure in the UK, they can do this AFAIK. Though, they might need to make the position redundant and offer another position at a lower wage. Either way, it's a contract change.
> 128MB

Surely you mean 128 GB? ;)
> You're talking about the most popular movies that were transfered to digital or even restored. Most films weren't.

How are you watching a film on DVD if it hasn't been transferred to digital?
Thanks for the great idea!

I have a fairly rare surname, but have {surname} at gmail, so I get a lot of "spam" from companies that sign me up before verifying if the user inputting my email is the person owning the email.

In the most egregious/spammy cases I'm gonna find some higher-up emails and sign them up for their own services in hopes that the practice will stop.

TL;DR: email confirmation or get egged.
Looks nice, but I'd prefer a train where the view out the window isn't blocked by some guy hanging on to the outside of the train ;)
A lot of Americans have a truck or two, and a lot of storage space. I think that these events won’t soon be forgotten, and even if nothing more happens than more frequent group flour buys and a lot more slack in the chain happens (e.g. more people with 10kg of flour in the pantry) we’ll be better off.

An uber or craigslist or sia for staple foods would be cool though.
'Cough chamber' shows six feet not far enough
Here's mine in C++ and SFML. I enjoyed this so much! It's basic, but I recall spending hours playing with various seeds.

https://github.com/manaskarekar/dendron

Demo seeded with an R-Pentonimo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3P-LnrXE3k
The design is fine, if ugly on a phone, but it’s utterly bonkers on an iPad, which you put down on a table to write on and doesn’t even see that much camera usage…
Norway is seeing its share of layoffs. I think it's mostly related to corona affected businesses like bars, restaurants, travel, retail and also oil & gas since the oil price fell like a rock.

Norway went from 65 000 to 290 000 unemployed since beginning of March.

We also have something called "permittering" where you don't loose your job, but you stop working and get aid from the state. It's meant for temporary dips where there is less work for your company but you think it'll pick up within the next 6 months. Pay is usually ~66% of your regular salary.

For "permitteringer" we went from 1 000 - 2 000 per month on average to 345 000 in the last 1 1/2 months.

In Norway we have around 2.67 million people in work. So we have seen a reduction of our workforce by 10% since beginning of March.

Sources:
- https://e24.no/spesial/2020/coronaviruset/permitteringer
- https://www.ssb.no/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/arblonn
There was widespread belief for years that the project was dead. I'm sure that didn't help.

The interface was somewhat clumsy in the early years (around 2005 or so). It wasn't responsive and a lot of things were unintuitive.

Some things simply didn't work. There was a concern that if something broke, it might never be fixed.

Keep in mind that my usage ended about 15 years ago. Maybe it's better now, but LyX was a good alternative, and I've never had a reason to move. It can be hard to overcome a slow start.
Does the NY Times license you to "share" their content?
I'm sorry but I (as a minority myself) genuinely feel a little bit insulted by your assumption that minorities score worst in performance test. There's no basis for that belief, a part from your personal biases and they are shockingly regressive even if well intentioned. Are you yourself a minority?
This is not true, the guidance is:
"one form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle - alone or with members of your household"
There is no time limit on how long you can be out exercising for.
sorry, but pointing at a problem is the right way to go. You are basically angry he is not a technologist. but that's more your problem than his problem.

Also: "Oxlaj Kumez is working with other activists to create a version of Wikipedia in Kaqchikel Mayan, as well as a translated version of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser."

So, he tries to do whatever he can. And perhaps he has also a life and a real job.

I didn't know him and i have no axe to grind. i just find you reaction very weird and overly aggressive.
Or if you read "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman".
It's a small plastic attachment which the beer is forced through, causing it to froth up with tiny bubbles. Allows you to form a head on a pint of bitter without having to add any gas and in theory makes it taste a bit thicker. Reference image: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
I've seen nothing about a "1 hour maximum" rule; where are you getting that from?
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As a person walking away from us gradually escapes our senses, a person slipping into dementia gradually escapes the ability of our social apparatus to comprehend them as a person. To the observer, they both disappear, but they continue to exist outside of our ability to perceive them. It's this aspect of the unknowable that gives me a sense of dread and wonder about so many things: physics, psychology, death. A kind of epistemic thalassophobia. How much truth escapes our ability to witness or measure it? How different would the world be if our senses, instruments and minds were better adapted?
Slime running on the Emacs of your choice would be a good start - as a Lisp implementation I would recommend SBCL, which is free and has an amazing compiler compiling to native code.

Alternatively, you could try the free version of Lispworks.
So you dismiss my assertion, then proceed to prove my point

All modern functioning governments have the same 3 basic struture

These are all part of the government. My point says nothing about how the separation of powers between those government branches function, just that they exist and are all "government"

I am not sure how anyone can claim the court system of a nation is not part of "the government" which was the comment I replied to
This is kind of depressing.
Demand side decrease as well
(South Korea) Flattening the curve on Covid-19 [pdf]
While we were making sourdough, the digital world changed
This action is fairly annoying to have to do constantly.
There's no shortage of historical attempts to build societies around your ideals.

They've all failed. Even when the only members are true believers in the idealism.

It's almost as if such goes against human nature :-)
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German zoo draws up coronavirus slaughter list
Yeah that's pretty much my experience as well. Wales seems to follow the north in liking sparklers, although there's fewer darker beers/bitters over here. I grew up in the Cotswolds with nice flat bitters, so I struggled when I first moved over here :D
those countries like Germany, Austria, etc?
Are you able to mention who or what kind of companies? I could guess mobility / scooter sharing off the bat, but have not heard from many being let go.
Found any interesting ones? https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/ms-j-mee-v-... was like reading a novel.
> The animals on the list would be fed to the zoo's lynx, eagles and "Germany's biggest polar bear" Vitus, who is 3.6 meters (over 11 ft) tall.
I guess Apple disagrees with you definition of the SE :(
That is standard in Germany. For a period of upto 12 months during emergencies, employees contracts can be reduced to x% (for x % hours), the govt will cover the remaining money (upto 60% of net salary). Its called shotrt-term work or kurzarbeit.
In France, employees don't earn the trust of the CEO, the CEO earns the trust of the employees.
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Well its a society that lacks some basic societal qualities many others find quite necessary to call the society well developed. Like taking care of those in need, weak, disabled etc. The thing is, the state is setup to prefer overall economic performance over 'being nice and generous', so tons of shortsighted people think along the lines of 'well I am doing fine, I don't want to support others in need, thus I can have more' and so on.

The logic is stupid of course, we all live in society so well-being of your fellow countrymen transform into your well-being too in many direct and indirect ways.

But if you are told from birth your country is the best, has the best system, all others are worse, cash is the king and your job is the most important aspect of your worthiness as a human being, well... it ends up in similar system.

Don't take me wrong, its fantastic to be super rich and powerful in US (just like anywhere else), its great to start/own company there, but it progressively sucks the more you are poorer, much faster than in any other western society.
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Estonian startup Starship Technologies(robot delivery service) has laid off lot of people. How many is unclear. As I understand they try to stay afloat by using their robots for pizza deliveries now.

https://news.err.ee/1070009/starship-technologies-makes-redu...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U13Ef3EnJnMzuElElAJP...
I'm in neither of those places and we have a dramatic increase in unemployment (4% -> 26%), mostly furloughed employees. The local government is encouraging it probably because they don't need any special new legislation or methods to provide unemployment benefits.
what country is in a rosy position at the moment? and what is that country's worker's rights position?
The same could be said about a CEO who cuts everybody with 10% and gets a huge bonus at the same time. I'm not disagreeing with you, though.
I'm guessing there'll be a lesser need to cope this time around since a lot of people will know a lot of other people who are unemployed. All of a sudden being unemployed might be the new normal and we'll all help each other cope
Just as an FYI, in terms of deaths per terawatt-hour, nuclear is about an order of magnitude safer than the next safest contender, solar, and two orders of magnitude safer than coal. [1, 2]

Also consider that the worst ever accident in the history of nuclear power, Chernobyl of course, is expected to in the full course of time, kill 4,000 people (including those who killed themselves because they thought they were "contaminated"). On the other hand, the worst hydro accident, the Bangqiao dam failure, killed 171,000 people in the span of likely about 10 whole minutes. [3, 4]

It bears calling out separately for emphasis since you mentioned it, if you're going to get any cancer, just pray it's thyroid cancer -- it has a 98% survival rate [5]. The thyroid is removed and you take thyroxin for the rest of your life, but otherwise, you're good to go. If you're in an affected area adding it to your routine screening should be more than sufficient.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

[2] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

[5] https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/thyroid-cancer/statistic...
Android is 1. something completely different and 2. not great when it comes to small phones, either.
So.. not an engineer.
I don't know how other employees could trust an employee abusing their privileges like that, either.
Only cheap/low-end LCDs are 6 bit. Most are 8 bit with no dithering.
This is especially useful as an A500+ replacement, as the A500+ comes with one of those varta barrel batteries that tend to leak and destroy the boards.
As I understand it, most employment lawyers are advising clients to follow the same processes as they would for redundancy in selecting staff to be furloughed etc. This ensures that if an employee does decline then proper records will have been kept and proper processes followed to make them redundant in the normal way. Given that the explicit intent of the furlough scheme is to provide an alternative for employers who would otherwise have to make staff redundant, this doesn't seem unreasonable.

Obviously this means employers who are abusing the system to try to force a pay cut on people or fire them by the back door when they weren't genuinely redundant may be out of luck. I'm not sure anyone is going to have much sympathy for employers doing that, though.
I think they didn't mean tests but reviews, as in subconscious racism and sexism on the part of the reviewer
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Employees are in a much weaker position than companies, they are not in an equal position so consent doesn't come into the equation, as far as I'm concerned.
> No severance?!

I agree that no severance sucks. Although keep in mind that in theory, higher salaries should equal hire savings. The average developer in SF makes more than the average developer in Berlin (how much more... maybe 2X)? If you could make 100% more & forego a severance package, would you?

It's not a real world choice, I'm just trying to offer context that one way to look at higher salaries is that you are getting cash more cash upfront instead in lieu of having a stronger social safety net. And people who work crap jobs just don't have a safety net, which is another conversation.
For anyone on the fence about trusting Apple's sell on privacy, I urge you to check out these pages;

https://apple.com/privacy this isn't the Privacy Policy, just a very high level overview of investments/innovations (ETA 20-60 seconds)

https://apple.com/privacy/features deeper dive, no cute graphics, links to papers (3+ minutes)

They really, really messed up by not being upfront with Siri's contractors, and they are not taking a hard stance on E2E iCloud Photos/Backups.

You can back up yourself using the native encrypted backup format using the CLI on Linux/Windows/macOS using https://libimobiledevive.org idevicebackup2

Using ifuse from them too you can read the SQLite database the Photos app uses, see things like the on-device processed metadata (including recognized faces, tho obviously not the face data from FaceID).

Using this I made a script to only transfer only favourited photos for my girlfriend; https://gist.github.com/aurorabbit/592bbc76df317f86c1a6ef64c... (will work on linux too, surely Windows but idk powershell)

/info dump
Seems unlikely to find a mono-causal relationship in something as complex as a national economy.

It’s interesting though, how would you go about establishing a proof?
You might be interested in what I'm building over at https://boxci.dev

The motivation for this was exactly this problem. With Box CI your local build is your CI build because it runs jobs via agents on your own hardware so you can very easily debug / understand what is going on.
Ahh gotcha. Yeah, that’d be the day they probably also release Seamonkey Mobile for iOS/Android /s
Cool what makes them nicer ? Luxury ? The new TGVs have some seats.
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I wouldn't mind a stance which promotes human welfare over economic growth.