skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The news of McKinsey’s opioid work apparently did little to dampen the FDA’s enthusiasm for the consultancy. In March 2019, just after the news broke, the agency signed a new contract with McKinsey — extending the firm’s multiyear effort to help the FDA “modernize” the process by which it regulates new drugs.

I agree too. I think the FDA hires them exactly because of their clients. They want to modernize their processes, they need intel from industry. How else does McKinsey get this intel besides working with industry?

It’s very much a meet in the middle process. The FDA doesn’t want to completely disrupt industry and they’d like to know their new regulations are able to be implemented and probably also care to some degree how painful they are for industry. However as regulators, they could never Work side by side with the industry in this effort.

It wasn’t disclosed likely because it was part of the value and McKinsey, through conversation with FDA, thought it was understood. FDA hired them again, so I’m interpreting that as a sign of them not actually thinking a COI occurred, or a material lack of disclosure.
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I like to error on the side of coincidence but holy shit I've gotten like 12 spam phone calls today and almost never get any
Fediverse isn't dead.
But they do though. How else are they going to serve you ads based on your search terms? (which they plainly say on their website that they do)

There isn't a single search engine anywhere that isn't collecting some data. Not even DDG.
I am an addict. I refresh this thread waiting for information: fb is back online.

I need help but this is too hard for me. I uninstall social media once a week but install two days later.

I should probably go to therapy with this, but I am not sure I wouldnt be laughed at
Same.

I was thinking about this when I first saw this announcement and realized that if AOSP was developed in the open it probably wouldn't change anything. Releasing big updates of the open source code like this feels pointless.
Still wouldn't help if your configuration change wipes you clear off the Internet like Facebook's apparently has. The only way to have a completely separate backup is to have a way in that doesn't rely on "your network" at all.
I booted up Windows this weekend, and immediately was forced to login to my MS account, and it attempted to change my default browser. The solution was to reboot, pick Ubuntu from the Grub menu and to then delete the Windows partition and give the space to Ubuntu. I'm tired of fighting with computers I own that don't work for me.
Because France had a treaty with Switzerland, the home country of protonmail, and Switzerland gave Protonmail a legally binding warant to turn over information. Nothing that Protonmail could do unless they themselves wanted to be arrested.
This article predates Livejournal by decades, but it describes the dynamics of LJ Feminist very well.
Yes, it's from "The Social Network". It's a scene where Mark Z. is explaining to Eduardo how important it is that the servers stay up all the time.

Of course it was, as far as I know, ficitonalized in the first place, although it rings true (in context) to some extent. What I wonder is, how much is that true now? That is, how much downtime would FB have to experience for enough users to start leaving, to the point that it might prompt a serious exodus.
I used to do this properly. One vanity got the better of me. Got some work to do. TGF SQL.
‘He was then subsequently attacked by “OverTheCounterIvermectin” for his tweets on transgender bathrooms from several months ago’.
You tend not to think about it…

Most teams that handle incidents have well documented incident plans and playbooks. When something major happens you are mostly executing the plan (which has been designed and tested). There are always gotchas that require additional attention / hands but the general direction is usually clear.
3.1 Isotope effects
3.2 Explaining differences in stereoisomer scents
3.3 The sulfurous smell of boranes

Most of the critiques are debunked in the book from 1982 that I linked.
The Atlantic's "The New Puritans [1] Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse" is a good read (or listen) on the subject: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-pur...
And here we are, looking at the xth top-level comment on HN...
From February this year - Apple App store is home to multi-million dollar scams. The method the guy used to find this is so childish it's a wonder how Apple could have missed. Also Apple employs some dark patterns if you wanna report scams.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/8/22272849/apple-app-store-s...
It certainly wasn't the Messenger.
Neat project! I just finished a daylight basement remodel, the corner of which is my new office, and I learned a lot of the same lessons. GRK screws are super nice. Rock wool is way nicer to work with than fiberglass. Expanding spray foam can go into lots of nooks and crannies to make a space feel less drafty. Chalk lines marking the studs are a great idea.

One lesson that I'll add is that a dry wall lift (https://www.amazon.com/Drywall-Lifter-Rolling-Caster-Constru...) changed my project from "nigh-impossible" to "totally doable". I hung almost a 1000 sqft of drywall on the ceiling solo with that thing. Even if I never use it again, it was worth the money.

Now to go read all of OP's solar design posts to prep for my next project.
Not sure how you've reached the "religious" conclusion. With the glaring exception of Islam, alcohol plays a central role in most religions.

Obviously drunkenness is another issue altogether, but that's not what such studies examine in the first place, so that's a different discussion.

As for the benefits of wine in moderate drinkers, I remember reading a study which compared consumption of wine vs equal amounts of other types of alcohol, and concluded that the antioxidants and tannins in wine were the main carriers of that benefit, and if anything alcohol still had negative effects but simply the benefit from the other substances in wine overrode the harm caused by the moderate amounts of alcohol in wine.

Obviously since I don't remember the study to cite it, this makes it an anecdotal claim here, but ...
It has some merits, but not worth enough to justify 30% tax. Perhaps 10% would be acceptable. 5% can make a good case for Apple.
It's about extending the agreement despite the rules being different now. It's also not good that they mention the Apple TV app in the same email, because it acknowledges they know they're competing with Netflix and it has bearing on their special treatment with a competitor.
I remember some huge DDOS attacks like a decade ago, and people were speculating who could be behind it. The three top theories were Russian intelligence, the Mossad, and this guy on 4chan who claimed to have a Botnet doing it.

That was the start of living in the future for me.
Here is a handy troubleshooting flowchart for megacorp outages:

> Is it a DNS issue? -> yes

It can be used in reverse as a postmortem too.
In other words, Netflix is harder to cancel directly than through Apple's subscription UI.

As is the case for virtually every dark pattern subscription (most of them) when not through Apple.

This isn't a problem, it's a benefit -- from customer point of view.

Apple makes a customer-friendly rather than seller friendly subscription UI, the reason I won't subscribe to things any more except through Apple.

It's genuinely surprising to me the proportion of customer hostile rhetoric on this topic.
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protonmail used to say this on their website and removed it after some people were arrested because they did provide logs to the french authorities.

the catch is that they didn't log by default but they had to log specific users due to a warrant.

the same will happen any service hosted by legal businesses.
How Gmail came to stop supporting CSS animations
I don't disagree necessarily, but humans seems capable of solving problems even when when they are poorly defined by understanding the some implicit context. Sure if we encode all the context, the computer can solve it too, but isn't that fundamentally what the article is trying to convey? That we haven't really taught computers to read between the lines yet?
Exactly, I'm having deja vues from Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End constantly lately.
If it was actually someone in Facebook, their job is gone by now, too.
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You mean the VOIP phones that could no longer receive incoming calls?
I'm pretty sure a new version of Android comes out every year. If Windows 11 wasn't announced, do you think they'd hold off for a while?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#Over...
This is only tangentially related but... Anyone else cringe / feel and overwhelming desire to turn off any video like the first one in this article (#AndroidDevSummit: tune in October 27-28!) where someone speaks in that excessively excited and optimistic voice? It is as cliché and gag inducing to me as the infomercial voiceover guy explaining how something simple thing is a disaster and how they have now solved it.

I can't turn that shit off fast enough.

Also, I really like Keri Byron from Myth busters, etc. This is not a complaint about a personality or whatever. Just this delivery that seems to be everywhere in tech sales pitches and time shares.
Sorry for not being clear. I meant that radios matter far more to carriers & OEMs, the people who are actually Qualcomm's customers.

For carriers this lets them get out that first 5G phone and all that nonsense. For OEMs this drastically reduces engineering complexity (and therefore improves margins) by avoiding a separate radio chip.
this is article from July 22
Why would you want him to put his drama online?

Most people want to deal with their shit internally.

I guess the wife could have put the picture of the burning car or a snap of an affair sex tape, but then they'd both have more drama to deal with from people contacting them trying to "fix" things.

Intimate moments are private, happy moments are okay for public. Bad moments can be used against you so you keep them private.
I remember watching a talk about that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN6IwNriwHc

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20394088
Devil's advocate: if the link is in a Windows component, then it would somewhat make sense that clicking the link would open it in a first-party application which the OS vendor can control. If the association with http: URLs somehow got messed up (e.g. the default web browser got broken due to something outside Microsoft's control), you'd be in a worse situation than if the Control Panel etc. used a simpler but fully supported first party web browser.
I'll buy it!
Sounds a bit like moving the goal posts to me.

You were able to opt out of phone books and they also didn't contain email and gender.
Google Search no longer supports Internet Explorer 11
I still remember the era when the "in" messenger changed every 2-3 years: ICQ -> AIM -> MSN Messenger -> Google Chat, etc.

Changing messaging apps not the most convenient thing in the world, but it's not some kind of IT cataclysm. Plenty of WhatsApp competitors exist.
lip service.

Trust and security don't mean much when apps have unfettered internet access. You cannot find who the app is contacting, how often and what is sent. You also have no ability to filter or block the contact. *

* there are minor hacks.
iOS 15

Ubuntu 21.04

Opensuse 15.3

FreeBSD 13

Be careful you don't cherry pick your data points
It's not like you can easily update the OS in a smartphone, to begin with...
What are they afraid of? While they are sharing information
that's internal/proprietary to the company, it isn't anything particularly sensitive and having some transparency into the problem is good for everyone.

Who'd want to work for a company that might take disciplinary action because an SRE posted a reddit comment to basically say "BGP's down lol" - If I was in charge I'd give them a modest EOY bonus for being helpful in their outreach to my users in the wider community.
I think the difference between the testing for materials you describe, and the firewalled research OP wants is an intermediate institution.

Here it was the NIH, it should always be an independent organization. The money is committed to the institution before the institution decides who gets the job.
and they appear to be down? (in a survey of two web browsers on very different networks) [ok, duh, I'm up to speed now]
Is this legally perilous to buy? Like will facebook somehow figure out a way to take me to court and owe them millions of dollars if I buy it
Face book Instagram what’s app down
since those are three separate companies they should be on three different clouds. facebooks engineers are better than this. maybe a morale problem?
Looks more like this particular seller relies on DNS to check if a domain is available, instead of ICANN[1].

https://lookup.icann.org/lookup
The majority of drinking is done in a pro-social manner, and you're missing a large part of the picture when you say "Alcohol has enormous negative effects on society and individuals" as if it's a blanket negative impact. I agree that it does have a substantial negative component of course.

There was a (ineffective and violent) prohibition on drinking a century ago. Some religions also have strong views against drinking. To ignore these societal influences on western culture and call it a novel explanation is a bit of a stretch.
A centralized distributed web gateway is truly disruption.
Well, if there was a penultimate supper, why wouldn't be a penultimate frontier ?
Aren't Plex and Kodi family? Plex used to be FOSS too, right?
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They were quoted on multiple news sites including Ars Technica. I would imagine they were not authorized to post that information. I hope they don't lose their job.

Shareholders and other business leaders I'm sure are much happier reporting this as a series of unfortunate technical failures (which I'm sure is part of it) rather than a company-wide organizational failure. The fact they can't physically badge in the people who know the router configuration speaks to an organization that hasn't actually thought through all its failure modes. People aren't going to like that. It's not uncommon to have the datacenter techs with access and the actual software folks restricted, but that being the reason one of the most popular services in the world has been down for nearly 3 hours now will raise a lot of questions.

Edit: I also hope this doesn't damage prospects for more Work From Home. If they couldn't get anyone who knew the configuration in because they all live a plane ride away from the datacenters, I could see managers being reluctant to have a completely remote team for situations where clearly physical access was needed.
Cloudflare also confirmed it:

https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445068309288951820

Also, the Domain name is for sale???

https://whois.domaintools.com/facebook.com
One of the reasons I quit FB was I didn’t recognize my close friends’ online personas. It was too bizarro-world for me. If I asked them about it, they felt attacked. So it turned out I simply preferred not to know what they were up to online.
Even browsing HN?
> those posts sometimes promote hatred towards conservatives or liberals.

Incorrect assertion. Those posts promote hatred and/or violence toward humans for traits those humans did not choose. e.g. race, sexual orientation, etc.

Legacy media aren't actively amplifying the voices and recruiting efforts of white supremacists.

Facebook is. They acknowledge that they are. They chose to actively allow and encourage it for profit.
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hrm, bgp and dns. It's weird when decades old technology somehow fails like this. The main reason distributed systems is hard is because of the time component. Whenever you add timeouts to an algorithm, everything becomes orders of magnitude more difficult to reason about, as the number of states grows without bound. In any case, this is an epic outage and sad.
No idea on the detoxes. Just a lot of self reporting of high aluminum levels in both mother and child.

Because aluminum is associated with so many neurological issues and autism comes with consistent gut issues, there’s a thought that some type of gut issues could be causing higher levels of absorption of aluminum from the environment when your body would normally filter most of it out.

The biggest issue is that it’s compelling enough to warrant a study.
> If anything I think people are grappling with the fact that the Internet just makes data scraping and processing possible on a scale previously unimaginable, and that's really what people have an issue with, but I don't think there's a great answer to that. I mean, it's one thing to say the front of my house is public info because anyone can come by and take a picture, but it sure feels different when a high resolution photo (or heck, video feed) can be posted online that is instantly available to billions of people.

From your example, it's another thing to have a high resolution photo or video feed of everyone's houses and to, say, send them ads for painting services if the trim looks out of shape.

I think the important thing to get in the public consciousness is that scale alone is sufficient to make information processing fundamentally different than a human interacting with a single data point. Looking up one person in the phone book and calling them or sending them a letter is different than scanning the entire book, robocalling everyone in it, and sending junk mail to all of them. The fact that the former is accepted and that the later is merely the former repeated a million times does not make the latter permissible. The former was accepted because the way the world worked meant that it was simply intractable - an economic nonstarter, a physical and logical impossibility, humanly infeasible - to abuse it into spamming a million people.

For another example, license plates are public, required to be visible on your vehicle on public roads. Prior to license plate scanning technology, a cop could have tailed a suspect and radioed their vehicle description and license plate to have other detectives and officers disperse to intersections and track a vehicle through a city, and depending on the nature of the problem, they could spend a few hundred dollars to dispatch a helicopter to chase it across the freeway. They could conceivably tail a non-suspect, but that wouldn't make any sense, they were constrained by limited resources to only use this ability for a select few vehicles. That was how the world worked. Later, automated license plate readers were developed. With cameras deployed across every intersection in a city, it would be feasible to track all motions of every vehicle at all times; it would likely be cheaper and easier to do so than one year's expenses of deploying personnel to do so manually.

That information should be considered public, because it obviously is, but what a person is allowed to do with public information should not be limited only by what they're able to do with it.
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Actually, in this situation: Discord.
Better plan? How about we stop letting tech companies reach "monopoly scale"?
Thanks! I did not know HN serves "fresh" pages when logged in.
Also, equally important to note, there was a massive expose on FaceBook yesterday that is reverberating across social media and news networks, and today, when I tried to make a post including the tag #deletefacebook, my post mysteriously could not be published and the page refreshed, mysteriously wiping my post...

This is possibly the equivalent of a corporate watergate if you ask me... Just my personal opinion as a developer though... Not presented as fact... But hrmmm.
It’s amusing that this quote has inflated like most things today. Original quote was (“If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”)
Mentioned in another reply

Shareholders and other business leaders I'm sure are much happier reporting this as a series of unfortunate technical failures (which I'm sure is part of it) rather than a company-wide organizational failure. The fact they can't physically badge in the people who know the router configuration speaks to an organization that hasn't actually thought through all its failure modes. People aren't going to like that. It's not uncommon to have the datacenter techs with access and the actual software folks restricted, but that being the reason one of the most popular services in the world has been down for nearly 3 hours now will raise a lot of questions.
Wow this is a massive breach of trust if true. I am assuming it is some unintentional side effect or bug rather than intentional deception, but still, for a privacy oriented service this is bad.
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Might be too broad. Especially as the scale gets smaller I think that non-quantitative aspects can reasonably affect who you want to do business with. For example, if I'm annoying and rude to my local mechanic and he starts charging me extra to deal with my bullshit I don't really see a problem with that.

There does start to be a problem however if he's the only mechanic in town or if he charges more or less based on race or some other protected class.

I think it's a very hard in general to find the balance on problems like this one, and I don't expect you can come up with a one size fits all rule.
Teenagers are totally aware of sex, and very interested in it. They are also totally aware of gender issues. If parents try to sweep these things under the rug, then teens will get their information from the internet and their peers.
Providing factual and unbiased information is the job of a library. As long as there are reasonable age-related limits in place, it is counterproductive to withhold sexual information from teens. That's how you get unwanted pregnancies, STDs, and other sex-related problems.
This is not a hack, it's web scraping.
And ProtonMail never keeps (er, kept) IP logs.

You can trust them if you want, but really can you trust any company now days?