skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a really interesting question.

Some people will die early, some people will live longer because of it.

Often with infrequent outages people will ramp up to fix the issue. So a shorter lunch and physically call people, which is mentally ok because you see it as important (compared to many shorter lunches which will reduce life span)

Lets say Facebook and Co saves 100,000 lives a year, then 4 hour outage = 45 lives. With the increase in short term productivity, maybe you'd halve it. 20 lives lost?

I think 100,00 lives (10,000,000 human years) a year saved by Facebook is reasonable. Maybe you could times that by 10, 100? It could be a very significant factor on the planet. I doubt Facebook would be negative. Does "Woke" and "Fake News" hurt more than Facebook helps, I find it unlikely.

I think the greater question is how many lives are saved by Facebook each year. It's very complex. When a market place (like literally Facebook Marketplace) temporarily goes down how much money/assets are actually lost, lost. A human life is worth around $300,000 to $3 million depending on location, that's somewhat fungible in the location.
They are probably referring to medical gear at the early stages of COVID. China wouldn't export things they thought they would need even if there were contracts for items.

They also took it a step further and asked Chinese in other countries to get medical supplies back to China potentially leaving other countries in difficulty. E.g. https://www.smh.com.au/national/second-developer-flies-82-to...

It should be a wake up call for politicians, though no doubt will be forgotten. International trade is great and but this clearly showed nations should keep some base activity domestically for key/essential industries.
I find phone number systems difficult as I use a classic phone. FB messenger seems to be broken in browser on Android too. So ironically this is hard for me. I had to jump hoops getting signal onto an android. So I am stuck in email. Once xmmp felt usable.
It all ties in perfectly. A.I. is coming for Johnny Weekend's lunch. It will build an evil version of every conceivable widget and market it to your other hobbyist friends better than you could, humiliating your entire existence further. Do you want that? then you had better sign up to my productivity cult blog spam to have a chance at beating it.
When my last on-call rotation ended in 2018, I started forwarding all calls to voicemail and haven't looked back.

I suspect I could have done so earlier considering voice was a fallback for sms which was a fallback for push, but I was paranoid about missed alerts.
This is an interesting concept. I wonder if there is some way of quantifying the toxicity of media just like we quantify that of food. Or something like the “Nutrition Facts” label that we see on foods but on media, list the effects along various parameters that might affect someone’s mental health.
Ironically, I read this and thought "I like this and these people are doing the sort of things I like doing, maybe I should think about working with them if and when I need another job."

Sample size of 1, but I imagine that's more or less the reaction they're hoping for.
Companies diversifying their communication platforms is the disruption.
Its back to square one for all the negativity that Facebook is known for.
I like having a knowledgeable 3rd party report. Keeps the 1st party honest.
I’ve been using PopOS for work and leisure and I’d say it’s closer to (my version of) perfect than mac or windows! Firstly, it’s super fast and snappy compared to windows on the same hardware (or the best Intel MBP available). And secondly, software support is really good these days, at least for my use case! (Web dev + gaming)
These should be ubiquitous. Fresh air is so...refreshing.
Changing my setup might fix it but people watch a LOT of Netflix on stereo setups. Respectfully, this is their problem.
Thats odd. My experience is same on Twitter AND Facebook. Politics and angry screaming.
High school science still (afaik) teaches the Bohr model [1] of the atom, because it works well enough for that level. This also leads to a great moment the next year when the teacher leads off with something along the lines of "Remember the Bohr model? Well, forget it: it's wrong." Fun that this causes some students to be outraged, but it's also a great lesson in the scientific method - or at least my (excellent) science teacher used it for that and it made a lasting impact on me.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_model
> Apple provides them access to

This is in many ways the same argument that ISPs used during the net neutrality debates as to why Netflix should have to pay them extra money. Netflix was using all the bandwidth, and ISPs were keeping that access fast... blah, blah, blah. Many of the objections that I had to ISPs trying to double-dip on bandwidth fees back then also apply to this idea that Apple's product to Netflix is its customers.

The thing is that Apple provides a platform for their customers to access Netflix. Apple benefits heavily from Netflix being on their platform, they would lose a lot of customers if every content provider decided to leave iOS tomorrow. Those customers pay Apple for a phone that they can use to watch their favorite TV shows, they pay Apple for a device that can keep pace in capabilities with other tablets and phone OSes on the market.

So the argument that Apple deserves compensation for maintaining a market that is itself regularly compensating them is the same kind of double dipping that ISPs tried to engage in. I pay my ISP for an Internet connection so that I can access websites. People pay Apple for good hardware with a good app store. That's the arrangement; the deal isn't really happening on Netflix's side of the table.

It's very difficult to argue that Apple has invested in best-of-class hardware for Netflix's sake. They did it so that people would pay them money to buy phones. Apple is not selling their phones at a loss, and they were clear during the recent trial with Epic that they do not look at the app store as a revenue target. Taking fees for maintenance is one thing, but it's very difficult to seriously argue that Apple had an idea for a 3rd-party platform and then made an attractive phone in order to support that platform. We all know that it's the other way around.

This talk about Apple being the gatekeeper that graciously allows companies access to a market is also a somewhat dangerous road to go down, because it creates a lot of perverse incentives for the company. I have no doubt that some parts of Apple's leadership do think of their customer base as an asset that they offer other companies. And I think that attitude can help explain some of Apple's lock-in behavior and refusal to work with other platforms, because when users are an asset to be horded and leveraged, it becomes more important to force them to be loyal and to make it harder for them to switch platforms based on your future business decisions.

I feel like one of the biggest lessons of the modern Internet is that it's dangerous for consumers when companies start referring to their customer base as a product. Apple is occasionally a breath of fresh air in that regard. But in this case, not so much.
That would be bad, if you need to suspend access effective immediately, either cause the badge is lost or ex-employee is hostile etc.

Any sort of cache would give a window of opportunity to an attacker who has access to the badge.
I use whatsapp for ALL my communication, and I got an incredible number of missed calls from family across the ocean because I wasn't answering.

Nothing important, but my parents sure lost some sleep.
I think I found something else better than being smart: a high need for cognition. Possibly better than curiosity, but read below to find the nuance I find in that.

I think I'm a little smart, but not too much higher-than-average. But because I constantly need to think about everything, I'm always exercising my brain, and working on problems that everyone else ignores half their day. I've known plenty of people way smarter than me that didn't achieve as much, because they just wanted to turn off and tune out. Drink some beer. Watch some mindless movies.

I'm going 24x7. So like the multi-billionaire CEO who's only in that position because he works 80hr/wk and never turns it off... I'm doing well in tech (and my hobbies!) because I just can't stop thinking about algorithms and solving problems. My hobbies and entertainment end up being highly-technical intensive thought-requiring activities.

Curiosity is also a trait I've got, but I suspect it's just a result of the high need for cognition. I find that I'm not that curious about things that don't make me think a lot.
If you don't want to wait for the rollout you can install windows 11 immediately with windows 11 assistant here's the link : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11?...
congrats to author for getting two articles on front page at same time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748374

mad skills
That's fine, I don't think anyone has an issue with that. I think what people object to is that you can't turn that off fully.
That's just brute forcing from both directions
Who Watches the Watchdog?
Some number less than their active user count?

Ask a leading question; get a flippant answer.

I’d find the cries for empathy to the poor affected users more compelling if it weren’t for the fact that anyone of working age can remember a time when these technologies didn’t exist. If it’s a tragedy that you didn’t have access to a novel technology for six hours, then I’d question the health of your relationship to it, and the wisdom of any economic choices you’ve made which depend upon it.
Yes, "Zuck".
Yes they do. I don’t think I was arguing the opposite. On the contrary. I think it’s a relationship. But one where Apple from day 1 have set the expectations on what and how they want that to work. In the end it’s their platform. Developers make the choice to create apps there and they are not happy with the rules. (Ignoring the Apple Watch keyboard and other features stealing issues here as Apple are 110% at fault there).

What my arguments is: Apple want their devices to have a specific feel and UX - so they enforce rules for iAP. But it’s the feel of an Apple product and customers vote with their money they like that feel.

I know you can make the case of let ppl vote when you have alternative forms of payment but we all know that if that is allowed a certain part of the UX will be hurt. Apple simply do not want to compromise their “vision”, “magic” , “feel” or whatever they want to call it so that developers earn more money.
Just today I got two phone calls that showed up as "Unknown". Neither was spam. One was my family doctor, the other a local bicycle shop. If it matters, I'm in Toronto, using an Android phone, with Rogers as my carrier. The first might be due to privacy (of the doctor). The second I can't explain. But in any case, blocking all unknown calls would not be in my interest at present. I can hang up pretty quickly when I hear the boiler-room background and some dude asking me about Air Duct Cleaning.
I think it's more like finding something that deviates from a pattern and then somehow tying it in. Pattern identification is a part of it, but probably so much more.
Chinese takeover of Taiwan would mean war or trade war, in both cases all sides lose, China loses worse.

A lot of countries are building up reasons to not like China, that would be the tipping point.

Manufacturing would flood out of the country, there'd be massive sanctions, other fabs would ramp up and more would be set up over time.

'Belt And Road' would be kaput, and a bunch of nations that supposedly owe China money would probably cancel their debt.

It would cause a recession and everything would slow down for a bit, but that would be the tipping point for the 'Next Phase' of China's development and it would be bad news.
Even the big guys are guilty of too-small touch targets sometimes. I've always thought this little back button in iOS when an app links to another app is laughably tiny

https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/13/deep-link-navigation-iphone-x...
> Virtually nobody at a hospital is qualified to second-guess vaccines

...and the people in the hospital are also in a great position to verify that (1) vaccines work.

Let P(H|V) be the probability that had outcome H happens if you are vaccinated, and let P(H|~V) be the probability of that had outcome when you are not vaccinated.

Then P(H|V) / P(H|~V) = P(~V) / P(V) x P(V|H) / P(~V|H)

where P(V|H) is the probability that someone with outcome H was vaccinated, and P(~V|H) is the probability that someone with outcome H was not vaccinated.

All they need to do is look at their patients that have outcome H (such as being hospitalized, or dying) and count how many were vaccinated and how many were not, find out the vaccination rate of the community their patients came from, and they can calculate P(H|V) / P(H|~V) which is how much vaccination reduces your chances of H.

For example, if 70% of the people in your community are vaccinated, and you have 50 people who died from COVID in the last month, 5 vaccinated and 45 not vaccinated, you'd get that P(H|V) / P(H|~V) = 0.048. Vaccination is reducing a person's chances of dying by 95%.

So even if they don't want to just trust the experts they can see for themselves that the experts are telling the truth.
2FA is the norm in here now.
I think it's good.
I had a friend from high school who posted too much political stuff (nothing outrageous, I am just very apathetic) so I unfollowed him because it's not what I want to see. It's like unsubscribing from a channel because they're boring.

I suppose that commenting or arguing with him would have the algorithm look at the words used, see that there is more interaction than normal, and promote posts from strangers that also contain those words? That's certainly how I would have designed the news feed algorithm.

So is a problem then that the algorithm can't distinguish between good interactions and bad interactions? (If it were me and I could parse comments with emotional intent to determine what are bad interactions, then I would try to learn from those bad interactions and minimize them)

If so then the duct tape fix is to just unfollow rather than let the algorithm think you're interested in that type of content. The proper fix would be to minimize bad interactions, but I guess that's where that whistleblower person is going (but that will minimize time spent on FB, minimizing revenue dun dun dun)

It's not rocket science, every user who uses YouTube and hears "comment on this video for the algorithm" knows that commenting = interaction that is perceived by the algorithm as a sign to get this seen by more people. So obviously commenting on stuff you hate will just get it seen by more people & get more stuff recommended.

It's like if I hate comedy clips and I keep clicking on each clip in order to downvote it. Of course I'll get recommended more clips.
Well, if you had some documents showing that some folks in the news industry really didn't think social media was that bad, but they just thought it was bad for the news business, so they conspired to make social media companies look evil, then that would prove your point.

But until having something like that, you're just guessing.
This is a beautiful piece! We need a better design than the 30-box view. How useful is it to see “Appoi…” on a Thursday?
You do!

On a post you don't like, click the triple dots in the top right corner, then "Hide post" (subtitle: "See fewer posts like this").

Do this enough and you may be able to avoid politics on fb.

IME merely avoiding any interaction (including reading) of political posts is enough to gradually hide them from your timeline (I don't see any).
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Using a language suitable for rocket-science level computer science doesn't mean you are forced to do rocket-science level stuff, though. (I sure don't!) The barrier to entry is pretty much typing "OCaml tutorial" into your browser and then finishing the hello world program about 60 seconds later. Although the procrastination power of HN is perhaps a more formidable barrier to entry. ;-)
In what scenario would a large datacenter have individual cages?
You can't get there from here.
I answer all the time. My HMO always calls from unknown or blocked numbers. And because of HIPPA they can’t leave a voicemail detailing the reason for the call (I’m not sure if I should be upset at HHS or the FCC here.)
> Google is a bad player, and windows will check and once in a while ask if she wants to switch it back. Good. Me, a firefox user - I have literally zero issue clicking "no, leave my browser alone" twice a year.

You left out the part where you explain what bad thing would have happened if your wife had kept using Google-Chromium-wrapped-with-Google-proprietary-stuff instead of Google-Chromium-wrapped-Microsoft-proprietary-stuff.

After all, Google-Chromium-wrapped-with-Google-proprietary-stuff uses telemetry to do some similar set of happy things you wrote above about Microsoft apps.
Crimea has no value to anyone, it's a sparsely populated barely industrialized island and 1/2 the population is Russian anyhow.

I don't think there will be war over Taiwan, because if it was an effective Chinese invasion - there is nothing anyone could do about it. If China takes the Island, then they will keep it, not even the US could displace them without incredible force of power.

If the US was involved in the fight and US took casualties i.e. downed fighters/bombers, or worse, a ship sunk, then the US will extract blood for that in other ways, notably, I can see the US and allies pushing China out out of the S. China Sea as a form of retaliation because it's militarily plausible.

But it would take nuclear war for anyone to push China off of Taiwan if they secured it and were well dug in and nobody's going to do that.
Meditation/self-reflection can help. It's hard when society seems always focused on the next thing.
Wrong disease sir.

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I've somewhat joked on other forums that this is exactly what the US should do. Wholesale shift the entire population and industry of Taiwan to Texas/Arizona/New Mexico/Colorado. Green cards for everyone. Like when the Soviets shifted their heavy industry to the Urals during Operation Barbarossa. The Chinese military would walk into Taipei and only find a note with "you wanted this rock...you can have it middle finger" as a tumbleweed rolls by...
It's not the HN readers that the FCC is concerned with. It's people like my aunt, who through decades of pre-2000 household conditioning, immediately stop whatever they are doing and rush to answer a ringing phone even though 98% of the calls are junk and the volume of incoming calls is 5-10x what they were in the 80s or 90s. No matter how many times I suggest not bothering to even look at the phone, she cannot resist.

Further, this cohort is largely unable to use the tools we take for granted. Many seniors don't know how to block or screen calls, let along apply the phone's do not disturb features. She has been phished multiple times via email, and every time I check her Mac I have to uninstall scammy browser bars and search redirects.

Technology platforms and policy makers have failed people like her.

I'm assuming many people on HN are their extended family's de facto IT support team. It's exhausting.
Personally, almost never. My phone is always on do not disturb with work and family contacts added to my favorites to bypass do not disturb. If an unrecognized number is calling from, say, my dentist's office then they usually leave a voicemail and I'll know whether to return the call. Otherwise, I just assume it's spam.
> Apple really believes that their OS and Store are godsend to developers,

Or, at least, their lawyers have decided that is the line of argument likeliest to lead to a victory.
Let me guess: well-insulated vs. losing original heat, radioisotopes, keeping the Silurian hibernation pods warm, ...

OK, I missed friction and SciAm was schtum about the Silurians. As they receive government funding, that's not unexpected. Torchwood probably got to them first.
If I'm understanding the outcome of the Epic case that these documents came to light from, that kind of hardball would probably go pretty poorly. While Apple mostly won the case, between this and a case in South Korea, it's pretty clear they're going to be required to allow some kind of linking for external account management of "reader apps," which they classify Netflix as.

Personally, I suspect if Apple had not gone the ridiculously overreaching "we want a cut of every purchase of digital goods/services when the purchase occurs in any app on iOS" route, and had let Netflix and Amazon and anyone doing "reader apps" at least link out from the very beginning (and more reasonably, allow them to -- gasp! -- load a web view to purchase/manage subscriptions, buy ebooks, etc.), it would have saved an awful lot of heartache.

Well, that and just go with a 15% cut across the board rather than 30%.

Well, all of that and also include at least streaming game services in their quirky definition of "reader apps".
I noticed this while watching the fb outtage. MS troubles seemed to be trending up, right as the fb issue was headed down.
This is not new, 15 % has been possible in the Video Partner Program since 2016.

The power dynamics is different with content providers for Apple. Apple TV needs content from the Big 4/5 Studios and that is a lot of leverage they have to negotiate better rates,

Netflix may not have the same leverage as other content providers, it would have been easier for them to negotiate comparable terms.
>It'd be cool if there was a service that took old clothing, stripped them all down to the threads or whatever (idk anything about fashion - I wear the free t shirts I get at conferences lol), and make really cool clothing from that. When

Be careful, as we saw with plastic, all this effort into recycling can be even more expensive/environmentally damaging than using virgin materials.
I have DND on all day/night for exactly this reason. It's set up to allows calls from people in my contact list to get through - which is fine because none of them are going to call me unless they _really_ need to.

What's frustrating is when dealing with a healthcare provider or contractor or something, where they're going to call within the next couple of days, as then I need to turn off DND and open up the potential for the spam calls to make my phone ring.

Fortunately there are far fewer spam calls this year, but there are still a few.

> I think it's basically rude to expect you can just interrupt someone at any point and demand their direct attention to have a synchronous voice conversation with you

I think that's a huge part of it, along with all the new asynchronous forms of communication we have put together in the last couple decades. 30+ years ago, you could visit, call, page, or send a letter. There was no immediate means of sending a fully thought-out message that the recipient would receive quickly and then be able to answer on their own time in the range of immediately through never.

I definitely prefer it this way. Maybe 14-year-old me who could talk on the phone for hours wouldn't be a huge fan, but adult me very happily keeps overall phone time to a few minutes per month.
I mean yes, that sucked. Why are we going back to that?
Well yeah it’s still a cache, but it buys you the ability to tolerate intermittent directory failures without failing fully closed or open.
They don't claim to; they had useful information to share and shared it in a way that was helpful and informative to the lay engineer.