skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more than that. In Germany, you actually have to prove that the firing was really necessary from a business point of view. Given the current government measures (Kurzarbeit etc.) and the fact that it's not clear the role wouldn't come back in a couple of months, it's contested whether covid19 and subsequent lack of funding is a valid reason for termination. But IANAL.

Of course, just because you could doesn't mean you actually should sue. For one thing, as a tech worker you're probably better off just finding a different job; if you're someone from a different profession who has a harder time finding jobs (or you're pregnant or sick or something), it's different of course.

I am just saying this because I was fired (together with my whole team) recently for very dubious reasons and while I did get severance, I am not sure it would have been actually legal (especially after it turned out the reasons they gave us were largely bullshit). But in the end it wouldn't have been worth it going into a legal argument.
Can't remember exactly where it was now (Cambridge-way) but I went to (what looked like) a traditional English pub that happened to serve really good Thai food. Slightly bizarre pairing but very tasty.
If 90% of the work is this repetitive, perhaps you could create methods and tools to make the process quicker?
No-one could have predicted this pandemic and the drastic measures companies have to take. When they paid the bonus they had no idea they would have to cut salaries a few months later. The timing is essential since one event happened before the pandemic and one afterwards. We could argue about bonuses in general but that's a whole different topic.
Yeah I think this is a bit of an artificial recession in that demand hasn't declined for any of the normal reasons, but because people are being forced not to consume.

My guess is that means recovery will be quicker because all of the pent up demand will explode once the restrictions are lifted.

I could be wrong though. I could see a situation where people are skittish and decide to increase their savings long term--less travel, less eating out etc...
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865842 #embed proposal is in the review process http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2499.pdf . This similar (same?) proposal is also presented and in the review at WG21 to be included in C++ standard.

The author puts a lot of work towards making this proposal a reality (as far as I as a casual twitter/slack observer can see) and I'm looking forward to it.
Social distancing halving (or more) the revenue of such businesses?
Short term, that is mostly the theory. However, there are businesses that will have closed permanently, and the number of them grows day by day. Many restaurants survive on razor thin margins, and a few weeks without revenue can shut them down for good. Additionally, people are getting less money right now and so when things reopen you have a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem where restaurants don't get that many people because people need jobs to go there.

However, the stock market largely shares your optimism at this point.
I love my new Lenovo laptop and it has a great keyboard. There is a choice.
I don't see all of the retail jobs coming back. Small stores will go under, maybe even some big chains, and there will be a further shift to online shopping as millions more Americans become accustomed to it.
Initial impressions, I ran:
`docker run -d --name kanboard -p 80:80 -t kanboard/kanboard:v1.2.8`

Then

`docker logs kanboard`

But I can't figure out how to log in. Maybe you should print the default login username and randomized password to std output when starting with docker?

Edit Apparently this is not Show HN, so I'm not sure who am I talking to.
> He said "funding secured", the board knew nothing of what was going on and scrambled to make it retroactively true.

Yeah, that's pretty irresponsible. I don't see how it changes things, though.

IANAL, but I suspect there's a difference between "follow Elon's twitter because he might release material information there" and "everything Elon tweets is material information".

I have no desire to defend Musk or Tesla. The practice of distributing official information via social media posts is pretty sketchy. But that such an arrangement is even possible only continues to highlight how dumb the stock market is. The more I learn about this, the more it sounds like investors playing with fire and whining when they get burned.
Agreed - the majority of drivers will now be making the discrete decision "Is green or amber" not "Is amber or red".

That is to say, that the proportion of drivers having to make the risky decision (i.e. if they were to decide to accelerate through the amber) is significantly reduced... although interestingly I think the principle states that as T(amber) << T(green) the liklihood of indecision for that second case now does increase.
A capture the flag challenge https://ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/
Elixir Processes: Linking and Monitoring
I am still holding out hope for a 4.7" phone that is all screen and supports Face ID. Maybe the next iPhone SE in 4 more years will be that phone.

I imagine they could not produce that phone at this price point .. which is quite good for what you are getting.
Typical HN toxicity
i am curious. do people not google their product name ahead of time before the final name to get a sense of how searchable it will be?
That's a false statement.

My sister is a doctor. She told me that she is getting less patients, as only those are very serious, are coming.

Plus transport system is down, so only ambulance can be used for transporting patients to and from hospital. So this puts a limit to hospital's income source.
Right. I've been noticing on my walks how many Amazon delivery trucks there are, how many Amazon boxes are sitting outside in the trash piles. While people certainly aren't spending money dining out, they're still going HAM with their online shopping.

There's so much doom and gloom in the news, but when I look at the real data I'm not seeing anything that supports the apocalypse predictions.
> And it would be great if we, as a society, had the capital to invest in them. But instead we've got WeWork and Bird.

Is it really "instead"? VC makes up a tiny percentage of investment overall. Most traditional businesses should get a bank loan. Amount of money for bank loans >>> money for startups IMO.
U.S. Jobless Claims Top 20 Million Since Start of Shutdowns
Love this software, I am a manager at my job and I missed having a kanban board for my day to day work. With this software I am able to organize my tasks, write notes about them, and move them through a workflow I was comfortable with as a developer. I also can keep related documents and links to issues so I have all the information I need in one place.

Much more robust alternative to Wekan, switched from Wekan to Kanboard almost a year ago.
I don't think right away. There will be segments of the population still wary to go out into public places where you're shoulder to shoulder with others. It'll take time for people to get comfortable with this (or a vaccine is developed).

edit: Sure there will be groups where this will be the case but not enough to cause packed bars.
We will see a sharp uptick in new business failures - all those that opened into this climate with empty showrooms and blank customer lists. They won't be hiring.

Even some big companies will retool around automation I imagine - to survive. Those jobs will never come back.

Anyone looking for a job after this is 'over' will be shoulder to shoulder with 20M other people doing the same thing. Its going to be rough.
UK: Nine in ten Covid-19 patients dying have existing illness
How do you tell the difference? I am not aware of having ever worked with "competitors". My coworkers are my team mates, so naturally I help them when they get stuck.
Mitropia Kickstarter: Multiplayer Go Gone Crazy
This lockdown has also forced a lot of people to dig into their savings just to pay rent, which is going to be savings they are not going to have coming out of this. Consumer demand may take longer to recover due to this alone in order to rebuild their savings as you mentioned.
It was controversial to say that in public, sure. I have sympathy for that.

But the nominally sophisticated investors drank their own cool aid and didn’t take the most basic due diligence steps at multiple points in this journey. They absolutely were in a position to know better, and got greedy.
China’s Historic Slump Lays Bare the Scale of the Task Ahead
For those wondering, the easiest way to do this is with:

xxd -i filename.bin
yeah, that site is cancer...
Ah, that makes sense. You could store latest task status per content in your database and have a JavaScript component that polls and shows a message if cache invalidation is incomplete. But for how often Cloudflare goes down, it's probably not worth it.
I would fire anyone in my organization who saw themselves as a ruthless competitor against their peers.
Now you are showing your age.
There won't be pent-up cash reserves? Because, unemployed for weeks/months. So folks will have to delay purchases. There will be a big bubble following this, which normally is called a recession.
One thing is that people just aren't leaving their jobs in general. Most hiring rates take into account natural attrition, but if your attrition is close to zero, then you just have to scale back your hiring to even hit the rates had planned before the crises.
Yeah I'm very glad I opened it in a new window.
Jeff Goldberg: How The Atlantic is thriving in the pandemic
Ford Officially Begins Saving Lives with New Respirators
Show HN: Powerful Form Builder Just Launched in Product Hunt
This is OK for simple structures, but in a deeply nested structures and larger APIs you'd probably also need some equivalent of json-schema $refs and ability to reuse blocks in your api schema.
Yeah, sorry about that. We'll change it.

Edit: Done.
That's the Wrestlers on Newmarket Road :)
With what cash? The 20M Americans out of a job will have spent any ready money on food and rent.
Think about availability of doctors, not the ICUs. There’s a need to accommodate 2-3 shifts of doctors and nurses. And these are not endlessly mobile unlike containers.
Retail has been dying for a while, but that just opens up opportunities elsewhere. It's kind of like the nail salon boom: retail has been dying, but nail salons have been booming (pre-shutdown)[0]. I've been noticing for a while in NYC there's a huge supply glut of ground level retail. Lots of for lease signs in vacant spaces (pre-shutdown). In my apartment building, the ground floor space has been vacant with a for lease sign for 3 years (and I live on 5th Ave in NoMad, which is prime retail).

[0]: https://fee.org/articles/the-salon-boom-is-actually-good-for...
Can you masturbate too much and, uh, give yourself carpal tunnel syndrome?
The admission process is also very geared towards undergrads coming straight out of premed programs. I thought about going to medical school after finishing a biomedical PhD, where I had picked some relevant skills (large animal physiology) and worked on some translational stuff. We even had a semester of neuroanatomy classes with the med students.

However, when I talked to admissions staff, this counted for essentially nothing. My prerequisites were out of date—-I’d have to go take biology and physics (with lab!), even though I’d spent the last 6 years measuring the electrical activity of living brains in living animals. I’d need to volunteer in a hospital for....whatever reason. None of this would have been insurmountable but it would have added another year or two to the process, while making less than a grad student and pushing a real job even further into the future.

This is especially maddening since the NIH is particularly keen on training physician-scientists, but everything seems designed for physician->scientist and not the other way around even though we have a glut of biomedical researchers and not enough doctors!
>a few weeks without revenue can shut them down for good

But what does shut down really mean? They've laid off all their staff, they aren't buying food, so their only major expense is rent.

The hardest thing about opening a restaurant is staying open long enough for people to find out about them, so it's in the landlord's best interest not to evict restaurants that will likely do ok once the restrictions are lifted.
Coronavirus S&P500 VIX (Volatility) Narrative
It's 100% the norm in plenty of areas of Britain.

Here in the Cotswolds we're spoilt for choice - there's at least one good food pub in pretty much every village. The same's true of the Yorkshire Dales, much of Mid-Wales, much of the South-West, and so on.

Generally in the ex-industrial areas it'll be less impressive. Pub food in much of the Midlands, for example, is essentially whatever's offered by the owning chain (often Marstons or Greene King). But it's not necessarily terrible, and there are some smaller chains who are pretty good (e.g. Brunning & Price). It's more a function of the fact that the pub is ubiquitous in British society - you wouldn't expect haute cuisine from a bar in the Midwest either.
The fact that most people aren't claiming to be worried about this recession makes me worry.
Indeed. It's been great to watch. Politicians are letting people die so that they can try again to get Trump out of office.

Meanwhile Trump is running around in circles because instead of being unified, it's turned out to be some sort of passive aggressive treason.
Any database which offers what are called "continuous queries" also solves this problem. I'm glad the ACM Digital Library is open right now, because I can just point to: https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?AllField=continuous+queri...

The work in general purpose streaming grew out of the continuous query work in the early 2000s. Marrying truly general purpose streaming with transactional databases is not a solved problem (as opposed to transactional databases providing streams), but the notion of continuously running database queries has been around for a long time.
Fair enough, my assumption has always been that we'll start opening back up in May. If this drags on much longer than that, then who knows. Things could certainly fall into a depression, and that's the pessimistic view.

I'm still optimistic.
> When you're employing people you're not already thinking about their future exit. You hire based on your growth, so you're usually optimistic about the future and thinking about employees being long term. If not you hire contractors, who you can lay off easily.

+1 for the contractors thing. If there is already an expiration date for these people, then make them a contractor or reach out to a staffing firm.
interesting. How is the go mechanics working on hexes then?
Took me a minute to figure out what the pinning feature does. At first, I thought it might make the Tater element unmovable but that didn't seem to be the case. Realized only after revisiting the page that it keeps the comment open. Obviously up to you, but might want to change the wording on that.

Spudtacular demo by the way.
Also 4.7” (I believe) is a diagonal, the actual dimensions are closer to 4” long because the screen comes nearly to the edge.
There's also Brian Cox, who was in 90s pop band D:Ream and is now professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_%28physicist%29
It even handles regex (and capture groups!)! I think the issue here though is that it's not always available by default depending on repo.
I almost got Pascal working, but ran into a compiler bug.
Agreed. The first step is always to establish what matters most to your company and your team. From there you'll have a clearer picture of what your ideal destination is and then you can draft OKRs accordingly. Here's a simple online guide on How to write great OKRs: https://www.perdoo.com/how-to-write-great-okrs/.

Another good place to start is the Ultimate guide to OKR: https://www.perdoo.com/the-ultimate-okr-guide/.

Hope that helps!
All this talk of beer, could murder a proper pint in a proper pub right now! Still, have to wait I suppose.
Since economic growth tends to go hand in hand with better access to health services and greater social freedom, it does.

I always enjoy Hans Rosling going through the stats, if you’ve time it’s well worth it https://youtu.be/FACK2knC08E
Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: A Comparison
Wouldn’t central air without HEPA filtration be an issue in a hotel setting? I don’t think it’s easy to retrofit (it can be done but not quick and cheap).
Cloudflare has a pretty solid anti-April Fool’s culture. There’s always a serious announcement on April Fool’s.
So the bonus has been returned?
I'd like to be optimistic about the recovery but for those locations that do go under (retail, restaurants, etc) there will be replacements but I have a feeling new tenants will take a long time to fill those empty locations. I think people will be wary to put their money into a new business not knowing what the next year will look like.

edit: spelling
Curiously, I've heard that small-business folks have stopped paying rent! My sister's shop is in a strip mall, and she's the only one who paid the landlord this month. Even the Breugger's Bagel place didn't pay (apparently by corporate decree?!)

It's happening all over my town. Tenants paying 1/2 or nothing.
> They backed a couple hilariously bad bets in a big, public way, and people like feeling smarter than rich strangers.

The two things are related. The public visions for these companies went beyond the standard startup platitudes about 'making the world a better place'. Regular people can see through that, because they don't live in an SV bubble where playing along with this sort of hubris is encouraged.

I don't think anyone thinks they're smarter than Softbank or Adam Neumann. They may just be enjoying the schadenfreude of this hubris come crashing back to earth once reality entered the picture.
Usually markets bottom at the peak of the previous bubble in a crisis, so around 13-15000 seems right to me.
FCC Still Doesn't Know Where Broadband Is as It Eyes $9B in New Subsidies
There's also Drew Devault's Koio: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/koio

It works pretty well, though I don't believe it works on Windows.
I think if there's another four years of Trump and then a Trump-like figure after him, that will be a very strong signal that the U.S. is in an unreconcilable state. A massive number of Americans nolonger value the fundamentals that democracy works on. And the decline from being on top and what that fall costs will make them very dangerous.

Canada exists for no other reason than the game theory understanding that we all win through cooperation. That imperialism is dead. But we're physcially powerless if the U.S. is in such economic and social dire straits that a zealot convinces them that they need to start annexing parts of Canada. World condemnation will occur but nobody will try anything stop it.
Panic closed the tab when a giant form popup appeared asking for my email. Hate to add noise to the discussion, but I hope the author sees this and understands the market doesn't want this and reduces readership.
If that's the case, and lack of cash is the only thing holding back demand, then it's a perfect situation for government stimulus.

I know several service industry people who are making more on unemployment now thanks to the extra federal money than they were while working.
Not sure why RivieraKid was getting downvoted - there's no "just a message to the stock market". Lying in this context would be illegal, and would open FB up to shareholders suing the company IMO.
> China's case count is still around 80k, where it has been since the virus started taking off elsewhere.

Many of the Chinese economic growth and development stats are fudged or are often unconsidered unreliable. I don't know why people think they'd be any more truthful about a case count.

Wuhan does have a reputation of being the #1 source of Chinese punk bands tho.
What makes you think they aren't? The statewide lockdown was announced a while ago, and as far as I know, has not been lifted.
Highly recommend spacemacs. Solid documentation, fantastic evil-mode integration, well organized key bindings and a config file that makes sense.

If you like trying new programming languages then all you do is add it to the layers list, and it’ll install recommended packages for that language. It’s nice to have that ready for you to use so you don’t waste time researching which packages go with which language. Then you just hit “space-M” and you see everything you need to work with that language. Read the README.md for that layer or even dive into its code if you want to know how it works.

I don’t think I could have moved from Vim to emacs without spacemacs and will be forever grateful for that.
This questions seems a little too ask-redditty imo
What bothers me about this article is that it doesn't really present alternatives or real-world examples of how to do what the author is saying.

> Use real instances of managed dependencies in tests.

Is the author suggesting I should spin up an entire instance of Oracle to run a single 50ms unit test? Because I often want to run my unit tests very frequently as I develop, ensuring I'm still green, etc. And my code may depend on an large, complex database. I could have a continually running instance just for my unit tests, but that's expensive (time, money, hosts, etc) and means I can't run my unit tests if the wifi goes down.

If we're talking about large, complete systems running very large suites of system tests as part of a CI/CD pipeline, then sure, I'm on board. Let's use a real database. But there's lots of other small, simple tests that absolutely don't need anything more than a mock while I work on business logic bugs.

And no, I'd not like to get into a debate of "you shouldn't bother to write small unit tests". I find them very useful.
As a Frenchman he's never missed 3 meals
Another 5 MM people filed jobless claims last week, total at 22 MM in a month
Most of the curl/powershell answers assume you know the URL to download it from, which might not be correct since they are usually long and not easy to memorize.

However, considering the scenario on the question, I would assume that browser vendors would create very easy-to-remember URLs so you could get their browser without having to memorize 100-character-long URL e.g. mozilla.org/firefox.[exe,bin,sh,deb]
That's why I am forced to refactor it. I'll do worse in interview questions but write nicer code.
As a European it's sad to see the decline of US soft power. Even the movie industry is in deep trouble.

It seems to be one of the most polarised countries in the world. The gap between the haves and have nots just gets larger and larger.

I would not choose to live there and I'm glad to get home after I visit.
When your employees file for unemployment, if you didn’t fire them for cause, you can be liable for their unemployment benefit payments.
I don't believe that there are any significant I-131 production mechanisms within the decay chains of the fallout.

Iodine 131 has an eight day half life. The accident was 12,409 days ago. There is <2^{-1500} of the iodine remaining.

For scale, if the Earth were made entirely, by mass, from I-131 on the day of the accident, there would have been ~10^50 nuclei. All of those nuclei would have decayed into daughters within the first four years.

There is certainly plenty of residual radioactivity from Chernobyl, with which one might be concerned regarding forest fires. The specific hazard against which potassium iodide provides protection, however, is no longer present.