skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KEY POINTS:

Where employers have concerns regarding the impact of an employee’s health on safety in the workplace, or there is uncertainty regarding adjustments required or the employee’s capacity to fulfil the inherent requirements of the job, employers can request employees to consent to obtaining further information from a treating practitioner – under threat of dismissal if necessary.

Can employers require additional medical information from a treating practitioner?

In certain circumstances, employers can require additional medical information from an employee’s treating practitioner. Employers have a non-delegable duty of care for the safety of anyone affected by their business operations. If the circumstances indicate that an employee’s health may have an impact on their safety at work, or that of third parties (eg co-workers), the employer has the right to clarify whether the employee’s circumstances can safely be accommodated.

Additional information may also be required to ascertain whether adjustments to the workplace can be made without detrimentally affecting the business, or to ascertain whether the employee is able to fulfil the inherent requirements of their position over the long term. In these circumstances, even if an employee is reluctant to provide the information, the employee – under a lawful threat of dismissal – can be directed to consent to provision of the information by their treating practitioner.
I got this one https://www.co2meter.com/collections/desktop/products/co2min... from Amazon, slightly cheaper than the manufacturer's site.

It only measures CO2 and temperature, but it has a usb connection and there's actually several Python libraries

https://github.com/vfilimonov/co2meter

https://github.com/heinemml/CO2Meter

If you want other measurements, e.g. pm25, it looks like they have sensors for that but I don't know if you can grab the data from them
As a french I'm pretty happy about this. France also bought back some important turbines from general electrics

On the other hand, there were announcements of rust in critical parts of a few nuclear plants.
quick unrelated question: do you use a tool to draw the indent levels?
As someone from British English nation, there's no way I'm ever likely to guess FIBER unless I've exhausted FIBRE first. It breaks the brain. The ER phenomenon goes against every fibre of my being.
I am disappointed that in Linux the hibernation process is so dumb.

For example, if you hibernate a Linux machine, then boot it up and immediately re-hibernate, there should be barely any memory to write out (since very little will have changed since the last hibernation). Yet the written data is the whole image with no regards for the fact most of the data is already on disk and doesn't need to be rewritten.
The cool thing about math applications is just how easy it would be to generate synthetic data. That these large language models haven't attempted to supplement their gigabytes+ scale data sets with such is an oversight.
Really? They've made it 2 years now with small outbreaks in the low hundreds of cases. It seems they are adapting and keeping up their quarantine measures just fine.

Look at the Olympics going on in Beijing right now. It's halfway over and hasn't caused a surge in cases. When Tokyo had the olympics this summer there were major outbreaks and rises in cases through the entire city, and Japan was left with a major nationwide surge in the aftermath of the games. It doesn't look like China is going to face nearly as bad of an outcome.
From your link…

”In many cases, employers have the right to seek further health information from their employees (eg for health and safety obligations), and employees can face disciplinary action and even dismissal if they are uncooperative.”

When I worked in a former UK colony in Asia I was kind of amazed I had to get a health exam and provide the results to my employer before starting.

Luckily the same country isn’t great on follow through so nobody bothered me when I didn’t do it.
I suspect quitting leaves settlement money on the table. Not saying that's unreasonable, that's for everyone to decide for themselves and their situation. But the key imo is to lawyer up before taking any drastic action...
The problems women face in male-dominated fields are well documented. Blog posts and articles describing the discrimination are occasionally posted on HN, and if you're a frequent reader you must have seen them.

There are obvious issues like sexual harassment. Almost every woman I know has been a victim of it at some point, but I don't know any man who has been sexually harassed at the workplace. For this reason men typically think that sexual harassment at the workplace is not a big issue.

But there's also more subtle things, that are hard to measure since companies aren't open about them, like women being made lower offers for the same job with the same qualifications, or women being less likely to be promoted, or women straight up being refused the job because "they might leave the job soon to have children".

Getting evidence for these things is hard, because companies rarely give a reason why they are hiring or promoting someone, and even if they give a reason it's very rarely something that can be objectively measured.
The "misguidedness" (is that a word?) of it all reminds me so much of Cory Doctorow's "The Coming War on General Purpose Computation"[0][1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

[1] https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcrip...
That’s a good point. Not asking the authors to clarify confusing parts is considered a dick move in academia.
> There can only be one main node at one time, hence no latency/clock errors/multi leader fail-over/PAXOS/voting/stale keys/exotic application specific conflict resolution logic.

This is not accurate.

You can certainly have clock errors in "single leader distributed systems", simply by virtue of the fact that the primary rotates throughout the cluster.

And, perhaps even more surprisingly, you can certainly have clock errors in "single node non-distributed systems like Postgres", i.e. clock errors are completely orthogonal to distributed consensus protocols (unless you're doing something dangerous like leader leases, which I don't recommend).

The problem is simple: what if the system time strobes or gets stuck in the future? How does this affect things like recording financial transactions? What if NTP stops working? Distributed systems aside, it's pretty tricky.

I've worked on this problem of clock errors specifically for TigerBeetle [1], a financial accounting database that can process a million transactions a second. In our domain, we can't afford to timestamp transactions with the wrong timestamp, because this could mean that financial transactions (e.g. credit card payments) don't rollback if the other party to the transaction times out, so liquidity could get stuck and tied up, for the duration of the clock error.

[1] https://www.tigerbeetle.com/post/three-clocks-are-better-tha...
I would prefer Iceland, let's make Iceland the Sheppard of the Internet-(Core) ;)
That is depressing to read. Wont Covid19 cannibalize on other coronaviruses' "market share"?
It would be even more exciting if we detect industrial processes.
You must be American. One of the few places where a “sweet future settlement” is the most common outcome.

For many other places it’s fines for the employer, potential back pay and a settlement of a few tens of thousands (severance).
That's not true in general, because import prices go up during inflation, and foreign investments go down, which might lead to foreign investors pulling out, and other effects. The US is in a unique position due to them keeping the USD stable internationally by being the world reserve currency, a status the US government abuse by printing an excess of dollars. US inflation is in practice a taxation of the international community who must mostly purchase oil in USD, and are otherwise financially tied to the US.
These are very likely to be actions of a political party.
I typed it out manually in Vim using its built-in digraphs to get the box drawing characters: <C-K>vv for the vertical line, <C-K>vr for the vertical-and-right line, <C-K>ur for the up-and-right line.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30273299 for related discussion yesterday and one popular tool that helps with related things, if not this specific style of illustration.
YSFHQ (YSFlight Headquarters) is international users community.[0]

There is large list of addons created by users, which highly extends YSFlight.[1]

Also, there are a lot of open-source utilities for addons makers.[2]

Read «YSFlight Handbook»[3] and «YSFlight Scientific Research»[4] papers for understand addons formats and some internals of YSFlight.

[0] https://forum.ysfhq.com

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1caVHoWU6g1YSB-G-W5Q-...

[2] https://github.com/YSFlight-opensource

[3] https://forum.ysfhq.com/viewtopic.php?t=8172&p=92286#p92286

[4] https://sites.google.com/prod/site/ysdecaff/ysflight-scienti...
And we can be darn sure the CIA would be screaming from the rooftops of all its propaganda outlets the perceived failings or weaknesses in China's COVID response. The silence there is all you need to hear to know what's up.
> The formulas describe the complex behavior of a liquid when it meets a boundary

Since Reynolds (1842–1912) proposed Reynolds averaging, there have been numerical approximations for turbulent flow. This paper proposes one more, perhaps better, such approximation for turbulent flow near a wall.

SciAm is totally blowing this out of proportion with their title.

If someone proposed yet another heuristic solution algorithm to the Travelling Salesman Problem, you shouldn't write an article "NP-hard problems finally solved after 50 years".
He said they invented the term, not the concept. I don't know if that is accurate either, but your missquote makes for a huge difference.
Modern day search engines still aren't it seems, I tried looking her up yesterday and kept getting results for Bette Davis instead for her until I turned off all safe search features. And what I saw did not at all warrant filtering her out for sexual content IMO.
The requirements state "If you're using C++, a compiler that supports C++ 20" and All I'm thinkin' is it must be nice to be able to choose a modern compiler like that. Some of us are lucky to get C++14.

I'm not saying we should be stuck on old compilers forever, but in C++ land, especially when I have to integrate with other frameworks or game engines, the assumption that I can choose my compiler or will always be on latest kinda irks me. Even Qt has versions for the last few MSVC releases (though thankfully the ABI stopped changing every release after VS2015).

That being said, this still looks pretty new, and by the time it's a mature framework C++20 itself may be more available.
My anecdotal experience doesn’t chime with this. I got myocarditis with a covid infection in Apr 2020. Then again, starting almost exactly 24 hours after my first vaccine dose just as other flu-like symptoms kicked in.

The rates are low, but I’m pretty sure it can have this effect.
I think these vaccines are already held to an incredibly high standard. AZ use was put on hold here in Europe after just couple cases of blood clotting. Same for Moderna when there’s been the cases of heart issues.
Never underestimate the ingenuity and imagination some HN will deploy towards the sacred goal of disagreeing with someone.
it's interesting every time something about the US being the US comes up, someone brings up China or Russia.

It's a knee jerk reaction at this point, but, in all honesty, China and Russia have 3 times the internet users US has (China is also building internet infrastructures in many African countries), that can't be easily discarded.

And for many of them the "american internet" is less free, more invasive and more dangerous than their own.
I agree that the "checks and balances" need to be improved and definitely the follow-up/prosecution on that, for sure!

BUT, as someone who has a 100% yoy stock gain since 2017 ( I started with a small amount to experiment fyi). I would be very reluctant to say "insider trading" instead of "common sense".

I think "the public opinion" would be very suggestive against me concerning "insider trading", if I would be in politics.

I also wouldn't go in politics if someone else decided "picking stocks" for me. There are certain risks I'm easily willing to take, because ( I think) I have some knowledge of that sector ( yes, tech) and that isn't easily transfered to a 3rd party.

I hope we can agree on that too.
The factor for CO2g/kWh in 2017 is lower: between 6.0 and 7.3, depending on what exactly is measured.[1]

However, the absolute numbers for Germany are declining fast as renewable energies are taking hold:[2]

2017: 485
2018: 471
2019: 408 (preliminary)
2020: 366 (estimated)

(In a hurry, could not find newer numbers for France.)

If one looks at the CO2 emissions per capita the gap is not so large. I could not find any new numbers for this either, but in 2018 the values of CO2 emissions in metric tons per capita were as follows:[3]

France 5.0
Germany 9.1
For comparison: United States 16.1

If one looks at the timelines, the gap between France in Germany seems to close more or less fast/slowly everywhere.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136192091...

[2] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/37...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
I swear there was a Retro Encabulator like video for computers on Youtube where the focus wasn't a thing but a productivity software (or something like it).

For the life of me I couldn't ever find it after watching it once.
Ask HN: Books on Maths/Physics/etc. explaining the Original Discoveries?
There is a quote attributed to Gauss (or Abel?) which goes: When asked about how he made his great discoveries, answered; "By Studying the Masters and not their Pupils".

Also Gauss: It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment (understanding). Words in Parenthesis mine.

I am of the firm belief that the original Discoverer/Inventor of an Idea/Concept/etc. is the best person to explain it since by definition they can lead you through the process of intuitively "getting" it. This is understanding from first principles. But since many of the original writings can be difficult to understand due to Complexity/Time Period you need a "Expert" who can explain the main ideas to the Student.

So what Books can HN folks recommend that fall into this category? A few examples from my collection;

1) A Source Book in Mathematics by David Eugene Smith.

2) Newton's Principia for the Common Reader by S. Chandrasekhar.

3) The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper On Computability And The Turing Machine by Charles Petzold.

4) Maxwell on the Electromagnetic Field: A Guided Study (Masterworks of Discovery) by Thomas K. Simpson.

Any and All suggestions welcome.
This is Aussie law. Americans might not be familiar with medical certificates and the like.
But even factories and all these terms are very vacuous and only present because objects are giving bad solutions.
Well I imagine when you're an Arthur Compton or a Richard Feynman or an Oppenheimer, you don't have a whole lot to prove.
I'm working on a replacement for PHP, just for my own use. I don't really care if anyone else besides me will ever find it useful.

Right now it's just a Git repo: https://github.com/ThingamaNet/uce

My project goals:

- minimal but stable FastCGI runtime that recompiles server pages as needed
- minimal dependencies
- web apps written for it should still run in 10+ years without change
- combine the advantages of C++ with those of PHP
- equal-or-better performance in most scenarios
- implement an additional WebSockets broker so I can use the same runtime for live apps

Currently it's very early in development and very clunky still.
Both of these articles are about severe Covid-19, and study patients who were hospitalized.

It is incorrect and irresponsible to extrapolate these two papers to the entire world.
This stands to reason, credit card use in the UK is very high. So high in fact I recall several times before I had a chip card having trouble paying at cashless kiosks.
ok, how do you implement a break of the iteration in map in JavaScript? I believe it cannot be done, you believe it can? Teach me.
Hi, looks really great! Thanks for this great piece of tech!

I have a question regarding the migrations, in the website you say it's safe to run them with automated flow, we know it uses Postgres under the hood and we know that sometimes migrations on large datasets can cause downtime in the database clusters. How do you handle them? I guess since you don't have a backing "users" table for a "User" model adding / removing fields is not actually happening the same way it happens in a normal relational database, thus it's not a blocking or resource consuming operation for you?
You moved the goalposts again.

And it turns out we disagree :)
Its amazing how many rules appear when your boss is trying to exit you from the building, and how relaxed these rules are every other day of the week.

Once upon a time (not very long ago) all the health insurance claims went through HR. And HR loves to gossip!
>Edit: forgot to fit "globalists" in there

Just need to add Bill Gates and George Soros to the list and you've got it covered.
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Ask HN: The life is already a full time job how to reconcile both of them?
Yeah, I used similar site to booking.com last week, and asked the hotel if they can price match (they had best price guarantee on their site), and they straight face told me they can't ... baffling
>observable facts

>FDA says it needs 75 years to release Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data to the public
One of the documents shared on the page is a letter to the constitutional court of Germany where the plaintiff explains how not taking his case constitutes a mortal sin for which the president of the court will go to hell and lectures him that he cannot visit church services anymore.
It is very hard to take the rest seriously if the same person is claiming the corruption.
> OT: but are there any banks or credit card companies in Germany that actually help you when you're in this situation or need a chargeback?

In my experience the Sparkasse is pretty decent, but since they're regional institutions YMMV.

> it seems like the low card fees in EU means much worse customer service compared to the US, or is it just my wishful thinking?

We just don't have much credit card usage since SEPA-ELV works pretty well. SEPA Direct Debit stuff you can chargeback at almost all institutions via online banking or self-service ATMs, credit card depends on your institution.
hey this is me too. never found a solution to it and for me I require more sleep to maximize my time because otherwise i feel terrible and am unable to function, especially in the first half of my day.

On a whole, I feel like there is another side of this coin which is that being hungry might not be bad for you, but if you're hungry enough it can be very unpleasant.
I didn't say anything about the company being bought being a problem.

The problem is that I have to agree to a brand new TOS, one that is 99% unrelated to minecraft and also very extensive.

They got bought years ago, and there was no problem until now.
How can you not get it? It's completely annoying - stores show a price that is not the real price. So I have to now look up what is the sales tax before I can make an informed decision.

You may be fine with it if you live there and have learned to instinctively add 9% - but to a foreign traveler, one doesn't even know what percent they should add! _Of course_ it's annoying.

P.S. I am not German.

edited to add: It's just like the insane tipping culture in US. If you don't tip, somehow _you_ are the monster. It's not a problem that restaurants don't pay a living wage, it's not a problem that they don't even have to pay the minimum legal wage (!!!) - no, the problem is not with America. It's with the monsters that don't tip, because how else are those poor servers going to survive? Basically, when you look at the price in a US menu, you have to remember that the real price is at least 130% of that. And somehow, americans seem to be fine with it, and consider that it's the foreigners that are the oddballs here.

Do note, I don't have a problem with tipping, and I do tip even in my country, quite generously so sometimes (e.g. 50% at barbershops because I feel their prices are just too low, and also the person providing the service is actually doing most of the work too). But I don't like being forced to do it. It's one thing to tip as a sign of "thank you, good job!"; and it's a completely different feeling to tip as "here, this will give you something to eat this month"
I just added tiptap to our new app last week, it was a great experience compared to all other RTE libraries I've used, would highly recommend it.
Neither. As I said, it's not an expensive car. It's actually quite ordinary.
Generation ships will take some time to get ready. We can railgun tardigrades and aphanizomenon flos-aquae there this year and let evolution do the rest. By the time we (or, more likely, the descendants of cockroaches) get there, it will be teeming with DNA-based life.
This is very cool. It should be possible to scale this up and build artificial hearts.
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> That is, self-similar and there is no difference between the micro and macro scales.

That's quite an interesting way of framing it, I've never considered whether or not software has a "you shouldn't mix your micro- and macroeconomics" problem or not.

Is your conclusion that they are the same at scale based on gut feeling/experience (which I don't mean in a dismissive way, experience is a valuable source of insight) or do you have some concrete examples to elaborate why you think that?
Neither will brand diversification, where they can not only independently implement their own vision of what a data eating binary blob should look like - they can also converge onto a single controller source. Wanna run down that potential failure mode on a dozen different drives, or just one?
Thank you! I started in July of 2020 with just the map and no mechanics, and worked on it intermittently until about 6 months ago when I decided to put some actual work into it.

November is the release date because if I don't set one I'll be more likely to get sidetracked, so I wanted to be concrete about it.

I didn't have that much experience with UE, I'd played around a bit in school and uni but I didn't make anything substantial with it, and I did the same in Unity. Everything is custom-made for the game except for a save game system, since UE's save game stuff works well for smaller-scale projects but kind of breaks down when you've got to save hundreds of cities, armies, etc.

I did the environment and static assets by myself, but I'm no good at illustration or music and I got some great artists to do that instead of me.