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The money might not be in the bank.

For many (even unicornish) startups the funding is released in tranches, usually tied to certain performance metrics. With drastically reduced revenue, new customer flow all dried up, and even marketing result graphs simulating nosedives, there aren't that many milestones you could hit.

If [enough] performance milestones are missed, company's next batch of on-paper funding pot may not be released.
This looks technically very interesting. What would be some use cases outside of telemetry?
Let's add Norway and probably Sweden as well to that list.
I agree. In Spain most people are getting ERTEs, which allow you to keep the job, the state pays 80% of your salary.

Also firing people is now temporaly banned (technically not, but it's much much more difficult to do until we're out of the state of alarm).
If I was clumsy in trying to express my point of view and insulted you or others, then I humbly and truly apologise. It certainly was not my intention. It is frustrating to be shouted down in such an aggressive manner by someone who is unable to understand what I was writing. I suppose that you fear the damage that might occur if someone were to similarly misunderstand as completely as you have done. I think that is a valid complaint. It is unfortunate because there are people who are being harmed by those who feel it is important to punish anyone who sees the world differently than they do. Frequently these people have done nothing wrong other than to be misunderstood. When we condemn people simply by association, we harm everyone. If we assume that someone is guilty of the horrible crimes that were committed in Gamergate simply because they happen to be male or a gamer or view things differently, we harm everyone. When I say that this is part of the problem, that's what I mean. This isn't making things better -- it's making them far worse. Please try to understand what your conversation partner is saying, why they are saying it and what they mean before you jump to conclusions.
It's a php app. All you have to do to run it locally is use the php server:

php -S localhost:8001

Open in your browser:

localhost:8001/index.php

You can also directly access the sqlite database if you want.
Is this really 'open hardware'? The licence has complex and seemingly imprecise restrictions on right-to-sell.

The terms even become more restrictive as the Euro inflates!
So what should we call it when someone loses their job due to their own misconduct rather than budgets or whatever?
Because it was not coded with performance in mind. It updates the position left and top properties forcing the browser to re-render on each frame. What it should be doing is use CSS transforms so that only the GPU would be doing the updates.

Or use canvas and this won't be a matter of DOM manipulation.
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I don’t think you can use raw salary in that comparison, it ignores cost of living differences
Hey ! I'm a very young engineer working with dash oss, it's a great lib (with plotly) !
Keep the good work
I'm an Australian living in Europe.

What's it actually like there? It sounds like you're under strict lockdown but everyone seems to be saying the government is doing a terrible job (even though the test positive rate is low and the relative number of cases, even the absolute number of cases, is low). Here you say the economy is still humming along but other people say there's queues outside of Centrelink and down the street and around the corner.

Are shops like Bunnings and Big W still open? Bike shops? Hobby stores? Gift shops? These are considered non essential here in Germany some of which has caused me difficulty and some of which have not (somewhere may be non essential this week, but over a long enough period of time, everywhere is essential; we just moved a fortnight before the lockdown and fortunately I bought the things I needed for a new home just before they were shut down as non-essential).

Restaurants I gather are closed to in house meals same as here. But same as here they're open for takeaway.

Factories and such businesses were closed in Italy, but I don't think they were shut down here.

Cinemas I take it are closed. Prisons in Victoria at least do not accept inperson visitors which causes prisoners severe isolation but is obviously better then getting them all infected. I understand prisoners are still working - if they're isolated and healthy I guess there's no reason to stop them from working.
It would cost even more trying to do it midlife. You have the cost of feeding/housing your family and other responsibilities.
It's not an easy decision for anyone but the lucky wealthy.
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By that logic, all contracts are violations of consent.

You'll forgive us for not being convinced by your argument.
I do exactly this!
Hurting the company is the point of this kind of protests, but you shouldn't do it alone with your company credentials for sure.

Some employers may want to fire the people who organize the protests, but in France the employees representatives are more protected than others and you can't fire them easily. It has pros and cons.
Those numbers are from 2018. The train-pub in question was from 1949, and at the time ale would have been overwhelmingly the beer of choice - I suspect pilsner/lager wouldn't have been widely available in the UK.

I'm actually surprised cask ale is as high as 13.2% of all beer sold. While "craft beer" (I hate that term) is en vogue and has made people curious to more traditional style beer, the default pint in most pubs will be something lagery like Carling, Tennents or Carlsberg (all three pretty bad, but Tennent's has a nostalgia factor for me).
Buildkite is awesome. Thirded. Love the clear UI, yaml based dynamic pipelines and ease of integration.

Coupled with Terraform for us.
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Decades ago at least it used to crash and eat your data, which I think is a pretty strong barrier to adoption for software that holds important data of yours in its own proprietary format. I just tried the most recent version, and after two decades it still feels pretty alpha quality (Menu -> Quit Texmacs -> no effect; extremely laggy; low-res icons etc.).
I like that the article present two different points. One is that the Internet is a reflection of the socioeconomic reality of the world. Languages with less, or just poorer speakers are less represented. The lack of representation causes a feedback loop that also makes access information harder for poorer communities. Being aware of this reality helps us to understand the challenges that less connected societies have to work with.

The other important point, is to look forward on how the Internet can help to preserve languages for future generations. We are in an unique place were we can save human culture for future generations to study.

I know the feeling from my travels thru China. I was able to access Internet, but the language barrier was always present. It was an interesting experience to see how many non-English speakers experience the Internet.
Seconded. It's a really lovely designed piece of software. it's possibly the only WYSIWYG editor that I prefer to use over the code-based alternative.

edit: the bugs are real though, no denying that.
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Yes, that’s the common argument for it (which of course does not address the violation of consent issue). I was simply replying to WhyNotHugo’s amazement and trying to clarify why many people feel the way that they do.
How could you ever trust an employer who cuts salaries, but awards themselves a bonus?
I'm not very familiar with the topic. But my current and previous US companies both provide decent severance to let go employees. They do it mostly to ensure employees don't talk or try to sue. I assume most good companies in the US follow.

It's also important that people can get unemployment benefits for at least 6 months after losing their job. I'm not sure how that works in the US. I'm guessing it changes per state like everything else in the US.
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Many early dial-up ISPs offered static IPs for hosting FTP/HTTP/SMTP/MUDs etc.
Citation very much needed. I have never seen anything in UK employment rights law that says "unless the employer is in trouble".

If the business is in danger of going bust because it can't afford to keep people on then it may need to make some of them redundant (and redundancy rights will then apply), but that's totally different to unilaterally changing the contractual terms of employment for the worse.
Depends on where you work in Europe. There is definetly a glass cieling for minorities in companies like VW.
It's fine if it's a common decision among active employees.
Here in Argentina (Buenos Aires City in particular, as other cities are slightly more relaxed), you can't even go out to walk the dog more than the minimum essential for it to relieve itself (say, half a block maybe). Going out for walks, run, cycling is forbidden.
Only allowed to go out for essential workers, or buying groceries at proximity stores, walking.

You need to have a permit to use your car or walk more than a few blocks from home (for essential workers, like security, health workers, grocery store workers, transportation, etc). If you are stopped driving without a permit, the car is seized, and you lose it forever. You also end up with a criminal record.

This severity has kept the numbers much lower than originally predicted, flattening the curve, but at the same time, it's draining the economy.

So, as you can see, different countries have different strategies. In some places the lockdown is severe, in others, not so much.
It's spelled Chornobyl.
I already said: It's not because you're male or a gamer. It's because you belittled her.
Is it me or the traditional software vendor like Microsoft or Oracle is going to come out stronger than ever after the pandemic is over? all the layoffs seem to be in the none critical and nice to have category.
Without options for short-term work?
You gave no evidence. You did not respond directly to anything I wrote. You are just name calling with no rationality. Soooo, you are showing that you have no rational support for your position.

How much do climate change propaganda paid down voting trolls on Hacker News get paid, say, in dollars per down vote?

Where does most of the money come from? Trying to get subsidies for solar panels? Wind farms? Battery efforts? Lobbying for regulations to shutdown competition from fossil fuels? Lobbying to force electric utilities to buy unreliable wind/solar energy?
The Netherlands tested for antibodies in blood donor serum last week, preliminary result is that 3% of people have them. And not all of them show full immunity.

If we relax quarantine measures, the virus just comes back immediately. This is going to stay with us for years.
I’m not sure I follow that logic. Written, signed contracts where the agreeing parties are not being coerced is presently our gold standard for opt-in consent.
Claiming someone is redundant and then hiring someone else to do essentially the same job, but on worse terms and probably with a different job title or other deceptions to try to disguise what you're really doing, is a trick as old as the sun. UK employment lawyers and tribunals are likely to laugh you out of the building with an expensive lesson if you try it.
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Kanboard is very easy to run locally as I explained in my other comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22888108

I don't think replacing Trello is a weekend project, but if you want to learn Rust, you can use Kanboard to track your progress.
It's called sarcasm, not trolling. It should not be voted out of the human range of expressions.
Companies that were fucked, as their name documents.

Got their start in the heyday of the .com crash as domino after domino fell and many companies were exposed for the unviable company’s they were.

The site took great joy in documenting (mocking) companies that were once tall and proud and quickly collapsed.
But it's doubtful how long they can keep that up for. Some months, sure. But not years, and the virus is going to stick around for a while. I think it's just a delay.
Other things equal, if companies need to pay severance, employees get paid less each month, because companies need to take into account expected severance costs in their total labor costs and there's less money left for other benefits.

So all employees effectively pay for layoffs, which goes against you if you're not the one that gets laid off.

(I am very much in favor of mandatory severance and generally other kinds of safety nets.)
It allowed employees to leak when their company was laying off employees. There was a sister site called luckedcompany.com which allowed employees to leak when their company got investment (IIRC)
Thanks. as you clearly see, English is not my native language.
Same thing is happening in Australian hospitals, dentists, etc etc. All elective procedures are banned to keep the hospitals empty so suddenly a lot of income is gone. Everything is closing down.
Checkout this airtable tracker
https://layoffs.fyi/tracker/
Opendoor is cutting 35% of its employees
If you think about our most notorious pub chain - 'spoons - they generally have a decent selection of cask, so I'm not that surprised that it makes up a decent amount.
It depends on what you mean.

Italy is basically under state salary, the only one not using it, are companies with a meaning in this crisis (food producer etc...)
Old news really. Curious, after how many years of working did you realize this?
The bonus was paid in December.
Noone does that.

What large companies do is hold a large minority stake in their group companies. Then they shut down the 'programme' in one company and move it, modulo some cosmetic changes, to another group company.

Bitter experience.
> In a rational world the investment decisions would be trivial.

This is like those poker players complaining their elaborate strategy didn't work because the opponent was too stupid.
It was not at the same time. The bonus was paid in December, before the pandemic.
Density differences are overblown. No-one is catching coronavirus in the uninhabited deserts or cattle stations hours from the nearest town. They catch it in crowded public transport vehicles and in grocery stores.

The government responding quickly and non-ideologically is the number one reason why Australia is doing good and the rest of the west is doing so badly. Whether it's the ideology of freedom of travel or the ideology of the economy before health, it has hurt other nations whereas Australia's ideology of pragmatism (and our neverending experience with many other crises and disasters) has helped.
thanks, i will take a look!
Every year it's something different, it seems. Points towards an impossible translation situation, maybe?
Good point, I often forget about them becuase while they're not rare in Scotland, they're not quite as commonplace as down south.
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>Written, signed contracts where the agreeing parties are not being coerced is presently our gold standard for opt-in consent.

Except that you can't later withdraw your consent. You said that was "a violation of consent".

Which is it?
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>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

Do you have a link about this please? Hadn't heard of it until now
Any you'd suggest in particular? I often find it cheaper to get 10 boards made in China than to get 1-2 made anywhere near remotely local. (And DHL from China isn't a lot slower than DHL from Germany)
Or the now abandoned Twitter client http://getfalcon.pro/
> This is looking 2001-dot-com-crash bad, but much, much faster.

"fail fast; fail often" seems ominously dark for the circumstance.
You will find that easily on the trans-siberian it'll take you to Siberia.
Being a long-time Android user (not a fan, though) This is the first iPhone I'd actually buy. I'm tired of huge phones with no bezels, they're not usable. They are a pain in the ass, they are a literally a pain in your hand to use. I halso ahte the notch with passsion.
Thanks, that makes things different. I should've looked better at this particular case!
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As far as I know lots of TV shows were not shot on film but rather on tape, which naturally limits quality to PAL/NTSC, since that's what gets recorded on tape. Similarly the archives of broadcasters are/used to be tape.
That's happening in all modern countries right now and the correct way to combat this downturn instead of letting companies go bankrupt or do layoffs. Do your research and you will see that this is not controversial at all.
Show HN: Listing live streamed fitness classes during Covid-19
That sounds horrific, I'm so sorry
Didn’t I write this story already? When your fictional pandemic becomes reality
If they take the dismissal they get paid out immediately and they can immediately start getting government unemployment benefits. I think?
It was announced to the rest of the company at the townhall yesterday.
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I made one of these too!

https://letter-press.netlify.app/liff/

https://github.com/schwartzworld/letterpress/tree/master/lif...
IT security in hospitals is already lacking in general. Cutting all this staff is going to expose them to even worse situations. Obviously they can't make money they don't have magically appear but these layoffs will end up making things even worse.
This forgets the high likelihood that the amount that would have been paid as severance goes to the pockets of the owners and leadership. The market pays what the employees are worth, not what is left over after costs.
I created Get Fit Live about 5 days ago with an attempt to collect and list all upcoming live streamed fitness classes around the world. I built it in a few days and have spent the last couple days pushing it out to professionals and trying to get feedback. Would love to hear what you think!
Yeah generally not directly anymore. Many come from a software engineer background though and find the sales side of things interesting. The money can be better than a Dev at a company that is doing well too.

Some places call them Solution Architects too which IMO is a better name as they work with customers to help them see how their company solutions can be integrated and made useful.
In form, it was a pretty simple discussion site. But it had a lot of insider info and an enormous amount of snark, and it really captured the spirit of the popping of Bubble 1.0 (and the post 9/11 downturn).

I remember one where a CEO made a big deal about the tech staff working through the holidays to finish vital new products. And then the CEO went on vacation to Hawai'i, leaving the nerds to grind it out. The memo and vacaction leaked to Fucked Company, where comments were spirited, and I think it eventually caused a big to-do.
How do people arrive at this point.

It feels like a religious chant. Invisible hand will self regulate and everything will be great as long as you submit.

In all recorded history there has been no case where due to lack of regulation society 'self regulated' itself into some idyllic dream state.

The less oversight the more rule of the strongest/most selfish prevails.

Looking back at history of European nations, the struggle between classes: Ruling class, aristocracy (wealthy class) and others (people with low on no power), always gives the same outcome when one class out-powers others. In Russia ruling class took all power (to this day really), Poland and Hungary the wealthy took power and gouged kings rights to the point where they ruled. And as they ruled they drained their respective countries of wealth and future.

Then we have Britain with Magna Carta that regulated and prevented each class from winning over others. I don't think I need to explain how that worked out for Britain.

Pure capitalism is actually happening right now, what you point to is nothing but outcome of the wealthy controlling government to do their bidding.

USA where harsh capitalism is for poor, and socialism is for the richest.

Bailouts are nothing less then socialism is for the richest. It was the banks that coined the term 'too big to fail' not some leftwing nutjob.

Gangrene is not bad but because you are trying to heal it your leg will rot.
It also had the memos or emails sent, which were morbidly interesting to read.
The irony of a hacker news post concerning a rolling stone writers concern with how one's actions can affect others.

:)

[HN is very interesting, but it's also a fairly reliable source of some extremely inhumane and self-centered comments.]
In this instance, order of magnitude would mean in a team of 10 people killed producing solar energy 9 of them get to live if we use nuclear.

The data you sourced doesn't consistently support that in link [1]; it suggests more like 1 in 2 so isn't really fair to call that an order of magnitude. It is just much better.

But don't mind me, I remain as confused as ever about why people don't feel these statistics end the argument over nuclear.
Of course, there’s no way they’re going to call it the iPhone SEX.
If you can afford to load an image, you can afford to send a JS file. Compile all your JS in to one file and host it yourself. The original sell for JS CDNs was that the library would already be cached from the user visiting another site, and that it would serve it from a local edge. It's really not that big of a sell, and comes with a bunch of risk.

CDNs are far less reliable than my own site, and if my own site is down it's not much help that the CDN is up. Pull in two libraries from CDNs and suddenly you have three points of failure instead of one. Their traffic spikes become your traffic spikes, their downtime is your downtime. And for what? The possibility that maybe the user had that one tiny js library cached, or that the CDN has a node 100ms closer? Not worth it.
Babylon Health furloughed 140 people. I think they're using this as an excuse to re-structure their organisation. The tagline is that they are furloughing 5% of staff.

They've used it as an opportunity to make 30% of their mobile engineers redundant, as well as push many senior engineers on higher salaries towards the exit
> Argentina and Germany are hardly in rosy positions at the moment.

That's not an argument also, Germany is actually doing very well for everyone ( civilians, business, healthcare, innovation, ...)

They are almost launching their contact-tracing app, while the poor, that need it, in the US get 1200$ in the next 3-6 months, lol.

The rich get 1.700.000 $ though, that's "normal". Good job! /s

Perhaps you were talking about the federal state saying that states have to look for their own medical supplies? That's nice
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