HackerNews Summary (2023-04-26 06PM)

Source: Google contractors vote to unionize in historic landslide election

Summary
Contracted YouTube workers based in Austin, Texas have voted to ratify a bargaining unit, in a vote that passed 41-0. The employees, who work for subcontractor Cognizant, will retain Google as their joint employer through the Alphabet Workers Union. Google has said it has no objection to the union vote but reiterated its stance that Cognizant is the sole employer.

Fact

🤝 Google argues that Cognizant is the workers’ sole employer

📜 The Alphabet Workers Union has represented only one office of union Google workers, and this will be its second branch

🌮 Workers filed a petition for unionisation and a subsequent “unfair labour practice strike” after Cognizant changed its return-to-office policy and moved work to other Cognizant offices

💸 Workers make as little as $19 an hour

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Source: Video: Beaten Ex-Fire Official Accused of Bear Spray Attacks on Homeless

Summary
A former San Francisco fire commissioner, who was beaten with a metal rod, has been accused of bear-spraying homeless people in his area, prompting authorities to review the case against his accused attacker. The district attorney’s office plans to continue with the trial of Garret Doty, who allegedly assaulted Carmignani, despite earlier announcing it would drop the charges due to “new evidence.”

Fact

🎥 Don Carmignani appears to be the man caught on video bear-spraying a homeless person in November 2021.

🙍‍♂️🐻 Carmignani is accused of bear-spraying eight homeless people near his mother’s house from November 2021 through January 2023.

🕵️‍♀️ The District Attorney’s Office cited “new evidence” while reviewing the case against Doty, which allegedly consisted of Carmignani’s involvement in the earlier bear-spray attacks.

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Source: Numeral Systems of the World

known or endangered languages.Summary
Languages and their numeral systems are a treasure of humanity, but due to globalization, many indigenous and minority languages face extinction, leading to the disappearance of their unique numeral systems. The website aims to document the various numeral systems used by the 7,168 human languages, especially endangered ones.

Facts

💬 Many indigenous languages only distinguish the numbers “one” and “many”.

📚 An indigenous numeral system is even more endangered than the language itself.

🌍 Half of the world’s languages may become extinct during the next century.

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