skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most healthcare workers do not get annual flu shots.

> And 2 articles from a quick Google search coincidentally show the same ~60% skip flu shots for both USA and UK:

You've said "healthcare workers", but your link about the UK (it's about Scotland only) talks about all NHS workers. That's cleaners, accountants, cooks, etc. People who don't necessarily have any patient contact and it's not what we'd normally call a healthcare worker.

For England, for frontline healthcare workers, the number was 78% for sept 2019 to feb 2020.

Some NHS trusts do better than others. One got a rate as high as 94%.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Government wants the information for tax purposes. If I sell a multi million dollar condo in Chicago, taxes have to be paid. If I sell an LLC that owns the same condo, no taxes are paid.
I often wondered if there is an opportunity to build a fully open source stack for handling all of these issues. It isn’t a competitive advantage for anyone and its a pain to get right. It also seems like everyone wants the same thing. I could imagine it being sponsored by mid tier companies that heavily rely on subscriptions and do well (say Tinder for example). Companies like this could donate time or an engineer or two. It would save everyone having to reinvent their subscription and billing infrastructure.
There is a race to the bottom happening with awards: If a community gives more awards at their conferences, their people look more impressive to grant givers and promotion comitties. Then the community grows and can hold more and bigger conferences with more prices.

Prices are alright for identifying interesting talks at a conference, but you shouldn't compare them between fields.
Good thought - but nope, and I've done it. The issue with SSRIs are them being reuptake inhibitors - they actually change how the brain functions vs. MDMA is simply causing serotonin to be released.

I also happen to be taking a dopamine agonist to treat a benign brain tumour I have (prolactinoma) - first line of treatment is adding a dopamine agonist to the system, and not using an SSRI/SNRI/etc that changes the actual function was fine as well for ceremony; a caveat to research or understand/have caution with is that I had done 30+ Ayahuasca ceremonies prior to taking a dopamine agonist - and so my mind/brain was generally already "opened" how it will be. Care/caution may be necessary if a person has never "opened" up their mind/brain yet (after X ceremonies/experiences) and if they are taking dopamine for whatever reason, as maybe once the pathways that get opened from Ayahuasca et al then the impact of the dopamine would shift as well - perhaps then overcompensating for blocks that get cleared by the Aya etc - and the person may then experience undesired levels of effects from the dopamine.

MDMA isn't directly changing the actual function, they're not causing inhibition; the action of how is important, the nuance is important to understand - though like from your comment - there isn't this general understanding that there is a difference, and I imagine most doctors/professionals will jump to the same conclusion without thinking about it - misattributing the different actions instead of critical thinking from foundational principles. It's not the neurotransmitter(s) that are a problem, at least not serotonin and dopamine, it's if the function change of how they're allowed to flow changes that's the problem.

Interview/chat between Dr. K (Healthygamer_gg) and Rick Doblin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e2h-awLC-s - where he mentions taking half-therapeutic dose; more of a casual conversation where you can also hear a bit of Rick's origin story.

I did fairly deep research on this beforehand, looking into actual pharmacological aspect of interactions with things like dopamine, etc - a few people over the last 20 years have been keeping track of all related research. I don't have the link for the most succinct, detailed writeup I read handy.
He remained a denialist for the rest of his life, though. And besides there was plenty of evidence in the early 90s that HIV caused AIDS. It was conclusive.
Isn't that the cumulative rate? It looks near-linear to me, which would mean consistent growth rate since March.

I think it's read as "how many people in (age group) have been hospitalized with C19" - note that the lines for all age groups are strictly increasing. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm curious, I'm a Cloud customer and I can tell you that the service is incredibly slow even for a small scale setup (2 Jira Projects and 3 Confluence Workspaces). There's an insane amount of network requests seemingly for mouse tracking. By telling everyone here, that Atlassian Cloud products are insufferably slow, am I violating the ToS?

I was actually thinking about doing a write up on the issues I've had but this seems to make me think I should do so AFTER I find someplace else to go. Right now GitHub is the likely destination but would love to hear other suggestions.
I understand the frustration, and I'm pretty sure the root cause is straightforward ("number of CVEs generated" is a figure of merit in several places in the security field, especially resumes, even though it is a stupid metric).

But the problem, I think, contains its own solution. The purpose of CVEs is to ensure that we're talking about the same vulnerability when we discuss a vulnerability; to canonicalize well-known vulnerabilities. It's not to create a reliable feed of all vulnerabilities, and certainly not as an awards system for soi-disant vulnerability researchers.

If we stopped asking so much from CVEs, stopped paying attention to resume and product claims of CVEs generated (or detected, or scanned for, or whatever), and stopped trying to build services that monitor CVEs, we might see a lot less bogus data. And, either way, the bogus data would probably matter less.

(Don't get me started on CVSS).
And GNOME has GIO which you can not only use with most GNOME apps but also on the command line:

gio help [COMMAND]

gio version

gio cat LOCATION...

gio copy [OPTION...] SOURCE... DESTINATION

gio info [OPTION...] LOCATION...

gio list [OPTION...] [LOCATION...]

gio mime MIMETYPE [HANDLER]

gio mkdir [OPTION...] LOCATION...

gio monitor [OPTION...] [LOCATION...]

gio mount [OPTION...] [LOCATION...]

gio move [OPTION...] SOURCE... DESTINATION

gio open LOCATION...

gio rename LOCATION NAME

gio remove [OPTION...] LOCATION...

gio save [OPTION...] DESTINATION

gio set [OPTION...] LOCATION ATTRIBUTE VALUE...

gio trash [OPTION...] [LOCATION...]

gio tree [OPTION...] [LOCATION...]
Hacker News, and signing up for people's newsletters when they write something good
I didn't include the Z27 because it has an awkward DPI for macOS, which I read about here: https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/

It also doesn't appear to have an upstream USB-B port. How are you dealing with it?
It probably wouldn’t get bipartisan support without the exception though. It’s not perfect legislation and none is, but at least it’s a start.
I think Microsoft gets more shit exactly because people expect more of them. They are the giants. they aren't a scrappy startup that needs to release or go bankrupt.

Microsoft are seen as the safe choice, so their stuff has to "just work".

That's obviously a bad place for innovation within Microsoft, but i don't really think anyone cares about the future of Microsoft.
There are a lot of types of businesses that don't need physical presence, software development should be the most obvious.
As someone who has lived in various parts of the US and knows people across the economic spectrum I only know of one person who has had major issues with medical coverage in the US. Various complaining about doctors and treatments and so on but that's the case in all countries.

edit: And my comment was more to point out that anecdotes make poor facts.
She left the company a week ago.

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1341531644168007680
As was explained to me, Rust has heritage from OCaml. If one squints, they can even see it still beneath the surface. I hear the original compiler was even written in OCaml.
>Recall what happened to Ripple last month when the SEC reached a conclusion on their activities.

Yes, Tether seems to be in all sorts of legal trouble, especially in the US, but it is COMPLETELY different from XRP. Why would you even mention XRP/Ripple here? XRP has always been trying super hard to comply with the rules and cooperate with banks and etcetera, though I think it is probably really a kind of scam, IMHO.

But Tether and Bitfinex are always lurking in some kind of dark international space where the law is not clear, they are not like XRP. I hope you can see that, yes?

Edit: What you're stating as fact is actually only your own opinion, and that has become even clearer when the only evidence you could offer to prove your case against Tether is not even about Tether, but about a totally different organization: XRP/Ripple. So it might be better if you did not comment at this time, because you seem to have no interesting facts to offer us, only your opinions

[I mean that this has little to do with the XRP/Ripple situation]
The thing about ads as a user/product is that it doesn't feel like you're giving away resources at every interaction. You're just reading about grandkids and adrenochrome. It's about the lowest friction transaction there is.
I'll post it a second time and then stop. She already left the company.

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1341531644168007680
I’m enjoying the irony of willful TOS breaking here, but y’all probably shouldn’t be openly declaring yourselves as subject to enforcement actions under accounts with names attached to them, even if Atlassian’s own guidance (see elsethread) suggests they don’t care about your comments.
It misses an important qualifier: 95% among who and for which activity? It is relatively easy to get to 95% for a skill/activity few care about. But try to become 95%ile in like baseball among the Texas 13-17 years old cohort and the music changes. I mean, I agree you can get to the top 5% in your neighborhood, but does it matter to any soul?
Branch brings back serendipity with spatial conversations
Exactly, except that we don't have to imagine anything. If Facebook were to disappear today, there already exist many companies with similar business models willing to take its place. Some more willing to cross the line than Facebook.
In addition to here I also find that going to conferences or spaces with like-minded people is a great way to find interesting things on the internet. I've found the most interesting online communities from people I know in real life. A lot of people are often more likely to talk about cool things than they are to post about them.
The kernel should and can handle unexpected ahutdowns without corruption. Data loss sometimes, but not corruption.
That would be a death sentence for the current administration. It's always the same game. Whoever is in power does EVERYTHING imaginable to make themselves look good and unload all the fallout into the next term(s), which is often held by the opposing party, and if not, the game of deferring will simply continue... Until at some point it simply can't and we get a big bang.

Why are people still thinking that taxing high earners is an option? The world is ruled by rich people, why would they tax themselves? Doesn't make any sense. Democracy is nice, until all the choices you have, exhibit the same underlying core values that you disagree with.

Normally all successful parties will aim for the middle, where there are most voters. The ones that don't, are marginalized and perhaps have some chance at succeeding during times where voters go astray and just vote some extremists out of sheer frustration (like it happened in Germany a couple of times). But that never lasts. This seriously limits democracy, as you can be sure that some values will never change, because there is no party with enough votes to make these changes.

Instead, what we need is Democracy 2.0, where the people vote on individual packages, not parties. Switzerland may be the only country where that works out quite well.
Because corporate only allows their sanctioned images.
I try to avoid filter bubble by doing following things. Not sure of its effectiveness though.

I try to use services w/o sign in when it's possible (reddit, youtube, google). i prefer this kind of services more over services which constantly wants me to sign in.

If some service requires sign in, and seems unavoidable then I try to limit my interactions on those platforms. (linkedin, facebook)

Basically I try to provide least amount my preference or feedback to any platform thinking I would get the generic feed/content. And I prefer using a Browser over apps.
speaking for google, it's a mix of: base salary, annual bonus, and restricted stock units, which are taxed at vesting time.

It blows me away every time I read an article about places other than SF and NYC: I could buy an extremely nice house, in cash, in most parts of the country, for less than a reasonable down payment on a crappy house in the bay area.
Be thankful you only receive automated security reports about an open .git directory. There is some guy/company who goes around running a web spider connected to some shitty antivirus which automatically submits false abuse reports to site ISPs claiming that their customers are hosting viruses. This happened to me twice; I think after the second time my ISP started rejecting these reports outright since I haven’t seen any new ones for a few years now, even though they’re clearly still at it (or, maybe, finally stopped last year after getting DDoSed?)[0].

Automated security scanning by people who don’t know what they are doing has become an enormous hassle in so many ways and really is damaging the ability to find and handle true threats.

[0] https://twitter.com/badlogicgames/status/1267850389942042625
Yes there is a huge downside. Solitary confinement is torture by every definition of the word torture. In fact I think every humanitarian organization has solitary confinement on their list of common torture practices.

Excessive and prolonged solitary confinement will pretty much result in the death of the individual. The psychological damage inflected upon the victim will be so great that they will return another person (and not in the reformed sense).

Humans are social animals, to deprive us of company for a prolonged periods is as dangerous to our health as depriving us of food. We need love to survive just as we need warmth.
Almost always*

*For broad definitions of 'horse'
I thought this conversation was common knowledge by now:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.
Judging from the recent articles about Tesla foisting badly finished cars onto unsuspecting customers, refusing on-delivery inspections and various other shenanigans, I'd go out on a limb and say that the target was counter productive.
Why even bother commenting like that? You're not contributing anything
Well, yes and no.

Eg cloning a string leads to an extra allocation and a memcopy.

If you want to get a similar performance profile to GC languages, you have to stick your types behind a `Rc<T>>/Arc<T>` or `Rc<RefCell<T>> / Arc<Mutex<T>>` if you need mutability.

But modern allocators hold up pretty well to a GC, which amortizes the allocations. The extra memcopying can be less detrimental than one might think.
If you look at the comments you can see people think they did understand and replied in good faith.

Quoting like this is unkind - it’s only done to set a trap so people can roll their eyes and say ‘oh didn’t you get it?’
Happy to see “You are in a comfortable tunnel like hall” is in there! Looks like a great series.
"The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The second best is now." - I have many problems with this often-repeated sentence. The best time was 10 years and maybe right now is a terrible time to do it and the good times passed and it is much better to move on.
This isn't some app store based device, where you install apps.

What's flashed into the device is the whole system image, and it's up to you (that's the whole point!) to decide what this image does.

Anything sample code they provide is to be seen as a sample only.
A little digging looks like they at least go up to 120cm OD (almost 4 feet), 1450 psi

http://www.gpsuk.com/catalogue/

https://www.pe100plus.com/PE-Pipes/Technical-guidance/Trench...
I have scripts that rely on connecting to PostgreSQL via a UNIX socket, I couldn't use these scripts on WSL. A workaround wouldn't be too hard, but ideally WSL should be 100% Linux-compatible in my opinion.
Equating Marvel with Tranformers shows a lack of understanding.

They’re both “fun entertainment” but while one is a cynical money grab the other has a commitment to quality. Quality fun may seem paradoxical to some snobs but it is definitely possible.
I'm not convinced there's anything you can do about that without losing what makes PDF such a useful format. One of the great things about a PDF is that you can drop a few pieces of paper into a scanner and end up with a PDF in seconds. That wouldn't be possible if you had to care about the underlying markup, as you do when e.g. writing html.

Adobe does have tools for creating PDFs that are accessibility-friendly, but it can take hours of work. As much as it sucks for certain audiences, it just doesn't make sense to do that in the general case.
> Rust makes hard things easy and easy things hard.

I don't agree with this, and, if anything, this reads very biased.

Insofar, Rust has made my life a lot easier, and I have not run into any major issues aside the borrow checker. And this was early on. Two years now playing with the language and I barely run into it anymore.
I like to set tiny goals. Last year, it was to stop throwing my clothes on the floor before bed.

This year, its to stop ordering food. No more uber ears, no more grubhub, no more door dash. I found myself being lazy and ordering from them WAY more than I wanted to, especially if I was in a slump.
Not sure what's so surprising/interesting about this (I don't have a subscription to read the full article). This nugget in the introduction seems to summarize the tech behind this --

> Sensors installed in electric bays can be used to detect the presence of a vehicle and whether it is being used to recharge the car battery.
2020 changed the way we use technology
Firefox container tabs are great for this sort of thing.
I echo the request for a source.
My basic assumption is that most people at the big IT corps either just want to a) make money or b) work on interesting things. I don't think the majority there enjoy torturing colleagues or subordinates (although it certainly can happen). That being said, the story to me sounds entirely or at least partially made up. In this story, everyone at Apple seems to have only the goal of psychologically abusing OP. Especially the passage "the note section of a hidden slide on a deck that she had uploaded and it was an indirect suicide/murder threat" sounds absolutely implausible, why would someone put a death threat in a slide deck which clearly documents said threat?

My serious (and absolutely not mean-spirited) advice to OP: see a psychologist and talk to him about it, especially about all the "hidden signs" you supposedly received from colleagues.
When I was picking out a phone, I pulled down the LineageOS wiki git repo and did some pattern matching on the YAML files that they store device information in. Worked fairly well for me at the time, but was a terrible user exexperience for the average Lineage OS user.
It is certainly not linear.
The comment right next to yours is a link to cloudflare's TOS with the exact same provision. It is not just Atlassian and Oracle.
Lab-grown meat: a new trend coming?
GitHub Director of engineering openly encourages racism
The whole BLM movement is important but racial and gender discrimination flows both ways, and what Erica puts forward is exactly that - Discrimination based on gender and color.

We really need to move past having gender/color/religion/sexual preference matter in how people are accepted and treated in society, and the workplace. These things should not, and truly do not matter.

What she is suggesting does not move us forward. It just encourages an escalation of the tension already present which doesn't end well for anyone.

I hope 2021 we figure out how to stop the hate and move forward to focus on problems that should unite us and not divide us.
Is remote work here to stay?
> it doesn't actually execute code, right? Then what's the power of having a compiler in a PDF? you can output the executable, but can you run it?

Depends what you mean by "run", really. You can write a full-on X86 emulator, and execute a compiled binary there. But given that it's an emulator running in a nested series of sandboxes, it won't be terribly useful -- for example, it still won't have I/O capabilities.
And most importantly, people move out of dorms eventually.

Even if there is a troublemaker people can't get rid of, they'll graduate sooner or later and will be forced to move out.
Sorry to hear it's been a frustrating experience. I'm a PM for Confluence Cloud and we're always trying to make it better. Would you be willing to share more specifics, such as: - Pages with content X are the slowest - Trying to do A/B/C is annoyingly slow - etc ?

(edit: looks like HN is severely limiting my reply rate so apologies for delays)
I just like being able to work in a Windows IDE and compile in a (99%) Linux environment without messing with a VM or mounting shares. Like QMK[1] -- develop in Visual Studio, compile in WSL, flash in QMK Toolbox (Windows). Or in some very specific corner cases, have a Linux-based workflow that suddenly calls into a Win32 utility.

In some cases I need to test something that's Linux-only -- an idea or a GitHub project that just doesn't run on Windows -- and it's easier to jump into a WSL console than boot a VM. But on the other hand, I don't do that frequently enough to just keep a VM running all the time. (Plus there's VM idle RAM usage, and I can't use Hyper-V [which can reduce VM RAM] due to host performance concerns)

[1] https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware
I know, just glad I worked in a molecular biology lab after Taq was discovered. My lab experience was akin to his first hopes — put the reagents in, place it in the thermocycler, and pick it up the next morning.
that works on messenger too.