skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/no-icu-beds-available-in-t...

Tulsa has run out of ICU beds.

Just because Oklahoma in the aggregate has beds, doesn't necessarily mean that communities have beds anymore (even large ones with comparatively many resources, like Tulsa). And with Thanksgiving around the corner, I'd expect cases to skyrocket right after these celebrations.

> Nobody is being "kept on the job". Nobody is being forced to work. Those nurses are volunteering to stay on the job.

Because they know their patients will die if they don't perform.

> The army demonstrates that anyone can learn these skills in a few days.

Once again with the army comparisons. Its easy to build a training program when you have a $700 Billion/year budget. If you want to make an army-like training program for nurses, then I agree with you. That'd be great for our country.

But I recognize that I have a minority opinion and that most Americans won't accept raising their taxes to pay for such a thing.
Doesn’t it stop you modifying them inside the function?
It was a very tense election. What do you think Democrats would say if Trump had won and you polled them? Do you think they would politely accept four more years of Trump? What do you think would be the odds of violence in the cities? Say in Portland, for example? Or Seattle? Do you see violence from Republicans right now?

You seemed to have had a tough time with conservatives growing up and that is unfortunate, but I think you are being incredibly extreme in your blanket assessment of the motivations of half of your countryman.
Warp is the threads that go lengthwise, weft is the thread that goes side to side. Rayon is a chemical process that makes a satiny fiber (out of some cellulose source, lately bamboo is popular).

Sett is the spacing between the warp threads, and I had a hunch about what makes it 'differential' but that turns out to be wrong and so I have no clue what it means.

Shetland wool is [a] Scottish wool. At one point half of the UK's exports were wool, so that makes it kind of a big deal. That's all I've got from being in social circles with fiber folk.
> given that they don't hold on to anything for very long

Why would they need to?
The trick is to ask for captcha before validation.
Thanks for looking into it. To be honest, it didn't cross my mind that Ripcord would be the reason why, considering I've used it for years successfully. I only use it because the bloated Discord electron client makes my laptop want to kill itself, but I guess I just won't use Discord on my laptop anymore.

I was using the official client when it happened, but Ripcord was open on my laptop (which I wasn't using) at the time, so it makes sense that it might've sent requests the normal client doesn't when a DM is closed or something. Or maybe you flagged it earlier than that.

Either way, I'm glad to be unbanned now, but this customer service was unacceptably bad. I didn't get a real answer on why I was banned (until HN got the attention of a non-CS rep), and when I was told I would be unbanned, I wasn't and was ghosted afterward.

(Also I'll update the page I wrote)
Without m4. You'll likely speak to a gibbering mess though.
Increased confidence in their viability can drive a stock price up, but what changed to increase people's confidence in them?

And "exciting" is rarely something one should look for in their investments.
I mean, how wrong was he? In hindsight we know that he underestimated the slowdown and how the economy will "behave".

But in 2007 March, when he delivered that statement, was he in accordance with best practices, best models about economics, and was he communicating about the data, indicators, possibilities, models and all that in the best way (known at the time to be the most optimal)?

I'm not trying to "whitewash" him, but this whole piece is just about being very truthful, maximally correct with regards to economics. Look at the data and just the data, not your wishes. But then it seems that's not happening when it comes to its first economics related example.
> Do you think this reasoning amplifies or reduces social distancing efforts?

Very likely amplifies the effect of social distancing because that is the original bias of researchers. They sought to show that school closures had an effect based on observational studies. Same with other measures. Their statistical modelling attempted to adjust for variables they thought were important.

There were many models that would constantly predict region A to spiral out of control because it's measures were more relaxed than region B. Other assumptions must be wrong but there was very little challenge to the orthodoxy.
> One cool thing, though, is that these components are open source

Except going to https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlaskit/src/master tells you to go to https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlaskit-mk-2/src/master/ which then tells you:

> Unfortunately, that code no longer resides here as it’s all been moved to a new closed source location.
> The only anti-consumer behavior in your situation came from Epic who knowingly violated the rules as a PR stunt.

Exactly. Never forget, it was Epic who threw their users under the bus, not Apple.

Epic expected you to be a soldier in their fight. They expected you to make a sacrifice you were not willing to make.

That's entirely on Epic.
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> These tools are great for letting someone build something they don't understand

Exactly, how can the same concept re-appear in all sorts of forms in this industry?

Another thing I though of was Mule, which I used a few years ago (it's hopefully better now). A horrid mess of an Eclipse-plugin that drew boxes with arrows between them, where "standard plugins" etc. could be plugged in to transform data and move it from here to there. The problem Mule solved (in our case) was comical, the complexity of the solution was also comical, or tragic; or maybe it was both.
After the Scottish Play, the Argentinian Playboy...?

Thanks for the link, I had no idea.
You can fit 32 bits inside 4 8 bit chars...
How so ? I'm still using free tier dynos for small tools and workers just because I don't need anything more.
> a lot of their attempts to rollback Obama's policies or enact new ones foundered on the ability to provide this justification

...in the court of law. Someone had to go and sue the administration. When they issued the policies, they simply provided no meaningful justification. You're proving my point.
One particularly egregious misuse of captcha in a
service I use presents one after I enter a correct
username and password.

That's nothing.

eBay will CAPTCHA me after I enter my e-mail address, and then again after I enter my password too. Every time. And I'll be damned if I don't "fail" this CAPTCHA at least once a week, with it telling me to try again.

Come on, there are only so many mountains/hills, taxis, traffic lights, bicycles, and cross-walks I can look at before I go cross-eyed.

They even have the nerve to suggest that I can avoid this by using the latest version of my browser (Firefox), which I already am and always do.
Wait, that's the hCaptcha policy?

Can you link to it on their website?
I recently learned that Tolkien's son did some cleanup on the various writings left around after the passing of JRRT. (the phrase was, nothing was added, only removal of any contradictory passages and order). Any tips for finding more of Tolkien's writings, Middle Earth or otherwise?
Thought this was going to be about the inter-BBS store-and-forward system from the 1980s but that's FidoNet.
The alternative for AWS might be to be able to failover to e.g. Kinesis in another region.
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GoGrid used to do this to Rackspace cloud back in the early cloud days. It always left a bad taste for me seeing a social campaign at customers who are currently down.
Let's add in Mattermost. Have you used both? I remember trying Zulip briefly one evening and it just felt horribly confusing. Mattermost feels more at home but its threading model is weird, it's not really threading (at least like Slack) since all messages are echoed to the channel.

https://mattermost.org/
Neat trick. Possibly a bit brittle, since you have to maintain your knowledge of the distribution somewhere -- i.e. it's "state you have to update or things might break," which is always worrisome.

I wonder what the worst case performance is -- if your guess is completely wrong, will it still converge in no worse than O(log(N))? Do you guess only once, at the beginning, or do you keep guessing where to go based on the distribution?

If you only guess once, at the beginning, then there's probably no risk. But if you keep trying to aim for the wrong target every iteration, I wouldn't be surprised if you get pathological behavior.

It would be kind of fun to try to calculate or simulate how bad it can get if you keep making incorrect guesses.
Its market cap is still so small that a couple of rich people can completely manipulate its price
So what was the fake news? The ISBN for "Covid-19: The great reset"?
A general theme around news about India involves a healthy dose of "Hinduism how regressive"

If yoga, turmeric latte and vegetarianism is not progressive enough.

Perhaps one can add a healthy helping of goddess worships, nature worship and animal worship.
wow, so much to their "leadership principles" , the first one being "customer obsession" and "earning trust", from what I see, this doesn't accomplish either :|
> Updated manually by whom?
> I'm afraid you're shifting the complexity to a manual process.

You're right, that's 100% what I'm doing. Why? Because it shouldn't be that complicated to update an overall health status page during an outage event, and it shouldn't take other tools and services within AWS to do it.

A common pattern in cloud providers (including AWS) is that services have some kind of tiering, whereby you can't pick up a dependency on any service on a lower tier than yourselves. Tier 2 services can't rely on Tier 3 services, etc. Services like, say, IAM, would be right at the very top. It can't rely on EBS, ELB etc. Everything has to be created in-service, because everything ultimately has to rely on authentication working.

If they're going to keep an overall status page going, it needs to be seen as a top tier service, just like identity is. That's where they were headed towards when I left AWS about 5 1/2 years ago. It had been spurred by a previous major incident couldn't be reflected in the status dashboard because of a failure in a dependency.

> I agree that it doesn't have to, and perhaps should not, be fully automated. But automating some parts will help not waste time on last minute arguments.

I go in to a bit more detail in another comment within this discussion, but a status page does not even close to accurately capture the ways that cloud environments fail, which are very, very rarely affecting more than a small percentage of customers, and even then often in some very specific way under specific circumstances. That's why AWS built the personalised status page service. They want to ensure that customers have an accurate way of telling what is going on with services they're consuming, rather than the confusing situation of checking an overall status site that doesn't really reflect their experience and never could.

Situations like today's where it at least (from the outside) seemed like Kinesis was completely down, would be a good example of something that should be reflect in the main overall status page.

The status page should be manual, and should be something the incident management team can do (and have political ability to force it to happen, rather than being subject to the whims of service directors)
Direct communication would have been easily provable collusion. This way they could use the excuse "Our math guys came up with that offer price based on complex financial calculations. Total coincidence that the last part of the number happens to look like a zipcode."
Link goes to a google docs login page. No wonder they failed^^
WWV Simulator
Wonderful website.
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How does the recaptcha bottom help train AI?
I think plenty of whitespace in general (I don't know the mentioned tools that much), when done well, is a good default, because I reckon the majority of users only handle a small number of things in such tools and whitespace can help readability and look better. But the more information you have to manage, the more it gets in the way up to uselessness. I just wish any tool would have some toggle or slider where one could adjust spacing on the fly
Closed source available for download for Mac. Oh great.
Isn’t this just an example of Conway’s law?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
The GP is correct, and I made some mistake on my estimation.

The idea that password hashes should be slow is indeed relatively new. Also it's contemporary to the idea that algorithms should have salts builtin, so those features usually go together.
I just want to check to see if you read the GP all the way through to the final sentence. You're tearing it apart piece by piece as though the author was making those claims, but you neglected to quote the part of the post that revealed their true opinion.

> The minimum required trust is tiny (basically you yourself), but of course as Schneier points out the amount of trust involved in practise isn't nearly as low, and for many people the failure cases are much worse
You seem to have missed a point upthread. That’s the premise, rewilding 50% of the planet and specifically not allowing humans to enter—not to heal people somewhere but for the sake of the humanity and the ecosystem it’s part of long term.

Considering our growing population, it is achievable through ultra-dense habitats, and this way it is more feasible to implement wilderness entry controls than when living in a decentralised way.

It is obvious that currently there are people who’d just like to live in sparse areas, planet be damned—I bet that'll change.
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FWIW, wasn't trying to harpoon you there. I haven't done much Python dev in a while, but I can see this being an issue.
Bitcoin does not scale as a medium of exchange. It has a hard transaction limit of 7 transactions per second. In contrast, the VISA network alone can process at least 47,000 tps. The entire Bitcoin system would be hard pressed to serve the retail transaction needs of a large shopping mall, much less a city, country, or the world.

The hard cap on the number of Bitcoins also makes Bitcoin a deflationary asset/currency. Deflationary currencies have been known to be actively harmful since at least the great depression.

Overall, Bitcoin is a technological curiosity that is only attractive to people who don't know much of anything about monetary economics and have no desire to learn.
The Incompleteness Theorem is a technical result about formal systems. It says nothing about the provability of mathematical formulae, since math isn't a formal system.

If you accept the a priori/posteriori distinction, you're abusing words to claim that pure mathematics - the classic example of a priori knowledge! - is a posteriori. A priori knowledge isn't knowledge that we come to know is true through an experience (like proving something), it's knowledge that is true regardless of any particular experience.
Care to explain how its not?
Let me preface this by saying that I have not seen the video, but even if they said that only the flying spaghetti monster can save you from ARDS, I'd rather live in a world with free exchange of information (even misinformation).
My 2 cents to add is please use this sparingly unless you're intentionally being humorous. When altering what would normally be reality, less is much, much more.

I've gone to a couple online networking events recently and there's always some people with video modifications that turn them into an unbelievably tacky advert.
The page 404'd for me
This is what's wrong with capitalism. Companies buy other companies to get so big, they are too big to fail, they have money to "optimise" taxes, lobby politicians to introduce barriers to entry for the competition and then gather personal data to be able to manipulate people and extract as much value as possible off of them. I think this is where we need strong regulation. Companies should not be allowed to buy other companies if there is no legitimate need for that.
No, nothing special, its thing was that it ran on off the shelf PC-hardware which made it cheap to deploy.
Either the compression is changing the circles a bit, or they do in fact move - I’ve held a piece of paper covering all but a slight edge of a circle (obscuring everything else) and I can see the edge expanding/moving ever so slightly.

Still not enough to call BS on the illusion, but it might actually help “augment” it a bit.
It would be a pity not to mention here the Simple Dynamic String (SDS) library made by the maker of Redis : https://github.com/antirez/sds

It is also very well documented. And all you need to embed it in your project is :
sds.c
sds.h
sdsalloc.h

The source code is small and every C99 compiler should deal with it without issues.
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I'm getting a 404 on mobile, anybody have a fixed link?
Cool, guess you can take out the data in Json and feed it into a CMS and tada, you have a "deal" site
I didn't use autohide because of all that you mentioned. I would typically put it at the top of the screen, and it mostly stayed out of the way.

Then the OS I loved got progressively worse. Poorly implemented taskbar autohide went from being a prominent issue to hardly a concern compared to other stuff.

I said goodbye to the OS I once loved and left.
Weird that it has 5 votes despite this...
I am afraid that may be impossible, and the infamous “shut up and calculate” may be all we will ever have as a guiding principle. Things “make sense” to us only because they are either hardwired in our brain in the course of human evolution, or if we are used to them since the early childhood, or they can be explained in terms of those. Quantum mechanics affords none of such.
Similarly to how literal literacy enables access to information, Computer Programming literacy could enable people to derive more value from open software, for example. It could enable people to automate some tasks, or make some tasks easier (eg. gathering + summarizing information, which can enable someone to make better predictions/decisions).

If I want to know what happened today, I can read the newspaper. If I want to know what happened on Nov 25, every year, I could write a quick script fetching this information from some source and look at that list showing Nov 25 (although yes, Wikipedia provides some of that info).

Computer Literacy provides tools to interact with information.
OAN is free to spread their nonsense on their website.
That’s somewhat debatable. A site which uses https and requires TLS 1.2 or later, as is common/good practice today, will not work with a 13 year old device. (TLS 1.2 RFC was published Aug 2008.)
TV finance gurus use econ-lingo, but just because it's the magic trick to sounding smart. But most of that makes no sense at all in that context. (Where's the data, what's the natural experiment, in what model, what's the assumptions, etc.)

Okay, sure they throw around basic things, but that's the typical commercialization of every fundamental indicator. They usually tell you nothing, worse they usually show you a graph of some data and tell you a story. Okay, how can you validate it? Okay, maybe you can argue with parts of it. Maybe the idea is to just throw ideas around, so then the viewers can do the same! Great but that's basically a stand up comedy with econ/finance anti-jokes.
You can use https://www.wireshark.org to see HTTP traffic and MITM yourself for HTTPS(https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/wireshark-tutorial-decry...). That will only work for the data that you send to them yourself. You can't possibly see any data that they send to third parties that they send through their servers.
Isn't found on the internet in general - the only thing I find is this HN thread. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
in case you want to view the repo, it's linked in the https://atlaskit.atlassian.com/ (menu -> resources).

The breadcrumb to get to it is a bit crazy, but https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/design-system-mirror/src/mas... is the old mirror, which has a link in the readme to the new mirror: https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-frontend-mirror/sr...
You don't find it just a little dystopian that the biggest player in information exchange has begun to act like the arbiter of truth?
Three really good takeaways from the article: Be passionate, don't oversell and follow up. I've seen each of these trip up other founders and... ahem... me. There's another kind of overselling the article doesn't mention and it kills deals dead: selling after the buyer says, "ok let's go." I see this all the time in founders who are selling, mainly because... well... they are passionate.
This article seems quite neutral to me?

It seems like a discussion of the world and what is happening. There is some reporting on the distribution of incomes. Those facts don't seem like they are meant to embroil us in cultural conflict though.
General Intellect* Unit. I swear I fixed that at least once, Apple’s damn autocorrect.
hydrant
car
airplane
crosswalk
traffic light
nightmare
Why would the egg contract in the first place?

It's more likely that the "applied pressure" is simply negative...
It unfortunately lightyears behind being smooth UI/UX-wise. I'd love to like it but it's just atrocious to use.
Yes and when godaddy and visa pulls their services they are free to become their own domain registrar and credit card company as well!
The hand and the shortcut are a different than the cheat device and the drugs.

One is premeditated. The other it’s not. Just like murders.
library search, probably.

lesser-known gems i like are his translations ( of gawain, pearl, and sir orfeo), his critical essays (monsters and critics), and his short stories (smith of wooton major, farmer giles of ham).
I looked through almost their entire site and halfway through these comments here before I realised this WASN'T a competitor to Zoom/Skype/etc. The website completely and utterly makes it look like video conferencing software, to the point where I was digging through their pages trying to find out if it was encrypted or what their back end was for the streaming.

For a product about presentation, their presentation needs a lot of work.

Also the price is utterly ridiculous. When I thought it was a full video conferencing suite I was on the fence about it "possibly" being worth USD$10/mth, but as a pure virtual-video-editor it's maybe worth $20-40 once-off and definitely not worth any form of subscription.
That's often the first question people asked in the early days. But where does its value come from? And I couldn't help but ramble on about the fact that its value isn't tied to anything but that simply there is a need for it... for some reason.
Working link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-25/danish-nu...
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Also could you care to explain? I elaborated my viewpoint. Kind of lukewarm of you to avoid that.
Trick Soviet hackers into thinking your government lab is doing research on space based weapons.
I imagine a part of the problem with the design of a lot of open source software, especially the more 'casual' or UI heavy kind, is the discrepancy between who makes it, and who uses it. Someone who uses LaTeX is likely to have a STEM background, so they're more likely to to contribute to its ecosystem. On the other hand, a Libre Office user could be pretty much anyone, someone with no CS knowledge, who doesn't approach using it in the same way a Libre Office dev might. Designers are the people who bridge this gap, and I'd love to see it done.

(This isn't meant as a criticism of Libre Office. That's just what first came to mind when I thought of a piece of open source software intended for a general audience.)