skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. iOS 7 is an insignificant blip. Hundreds of other times, Ive showed that he was the best in the entire world at the "design is how it works" concept. Ive was the embodiment of that for his entire time at Apple. Jony Ive is the person who made it possible for Steve Jobs to say that without being laughed at.

Don't diss Jony Ive. He is the man.
Self-powered soft robot in the Mariana Trench
It depends which costs what.

In a case where there are plenty of resources and the thing you are logging is very heavy then even verbose logging is trivial.

If you are beset by failures it is much cheaper than making your developers guess.
Would you agree that it would be wrong for telephone companies to amplify sex slavery conversations? Like they would call you directly and just let you participate in the conversation because that would generate more engagement?
My friends and I are beginning to view social media in general as something that's cancerous (in the slang sense, and in terms of its' social impact) and we try to limit ourselves on it as much as possible. We struggle with getting off reddit (since it deprives smaller forums of oxygen and there are less viable alternatives than there were 10 years ago) but mostly have walked away from it.

In short -I don't recommend any either.
Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about…?") is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy, which attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving the argument.
> a lot of companies have done things in the past that were not illegal at the time of action. However, those actions were later decided to be made illegal because the behavior was deemed to be antithetical to our values.

What you are saying is literally the opposite of hundreds of years of the rule of law.

If FB did break the law as written, then prosecute them for that in a fair trial by a jury of their peers, but yours (or anyone else's) personal feelings about "our values" should never be able to override the plain language of the law, especially retroactively.
Then there is the case of things are illegal, but are not enforced. Leading to the question of what is the law? What is written, or how it is enforced?

How many of you went above the speed limit today?

I suspect that much of what goes on in the stock market is similar.
I think that is what I mean -- when there are fewer steps in the sort, then the visualization completes faster.

So if you visualize two sorts side by side, it's obvious which ones completes faster, and that corresponds to the algorithm's speed, right?
I thought pictochat was great too and a lot of fun. They could have opened it up and made it into a global network, but the beauty is that it operates on local networks so it was more of an in person social network, plus no way for advertisers and commercial companies to break in.
isn't that still over wires?
To be fair, I tried running it recently on a machine that I had artificially limited to one core and 512MB RAM; it was not actually usable, even for static pages. WebKit browsers didn't really do any better, though, which surprised me.
> Walmart is (...)

Whataboutism advances no discussion. Either Facebook's problems are discussed based on Facebook's circumstances and decisions and consequences, or we're better off not posting any message at all.
Everybody gangsta til the porn bots flood your chat
This. We know they lie so have to assume the worst when they say something. The correction only says saw/angle grinder. “No tools were needed” is a little clearer. However I am not sure why it matters if they used a key or a grinder?
Diagnosis of failure?
Show HN: Open-source Chrome extension to stay focused on YouTube
Highly recommend The Dream Machine so far. I'm about half way through and it is a dense wealth of knowledge in early computing history. Incredibly well researched. The book has larger than average dimensions and smaller than average font size which means the 500ish pages is even more than one may expect. The way some topics are introduced is great too. There will be 6 pages leading up and talking about a machine, only to reveal that it was the PDP-1 (I got absolutely giddy when I read that part). Waldrop is a great writer.
Attorney Ben Crump handles many high profile racial justice / civil rights cases

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Crump

What's his success rate?
Disclaimer: I got two shots of Moderna some time ago.

Your source shows just how strongly anti-vax Biden was, making the case that the vaccine can't be trusted because of political influence. Since Biden can't give us any credible assurances that politics aren't involved in FDA approval or CDC recommendations, nor can he address his own concerns about the vaccine's development being politicized, then, by his argument, the American people should not have confidence.

> The following week, Biden restated his concern about politics intervening in vaccine development:

> "Americans have had to endure President Trump’s incompetence and dishonesty, when it comes to testing and personal protective equipment. We can’t afford to repeat those fiascos when it comes to a vaccine. … Let me be clear: I trust vaccines, I trust scientists, but I don’t trust Donald Trump, and at this moment, the American people can’t either. Last week, Senator Harris and I laid out three questions this administration’s going to have to answer to assure the American people that politics will not play a role whatsoever in the vaccine process. If Donald Trump can’t give answers and the administration can’t give answers to these three questions, the American people should not have confidence."

PolitiFact is one of the most biased outlets I've seen.
Support can be effective even if it doesn’t come from a first party. As long as someone is signed up to fix your problems, it’s not an unsupported hack.
Facebook gets to say "its the users being polarizing"; where traditional media gets to enjoy libel and slander laws.

If Facebook's editorial decisions rendered them subject to those laws, would that be equal enough?

There are answers to this question that do not easily summarize as "we need more rules about who gets to say what". We gots plenty of rules. Let's apply them fairly and equally for once.
Now it is starting to make some sense: https://www.jbschirtzinger.com/post/stripe/
There are plenty of technical people (or people employed in technical roles) who don't understand how DNS works. For example, I field questions on why "hostname X only works when I'm on VPN" at work.
Makes me think of the Simpsons episode where the US government prints a trillion dollar bill https://youtu.be/_KgHy3Pi5Yw
https://archive.is/Qrdfn
Trillions are so mundane, now. Why not a quadrillion?
That's cool. Some Macs rank near the top in terms of Linux support and openness. E.g., the MacBook 2,1 is one of the very few laptops supported by Libreboot. Others are totally unusable.

I like Apple hardware (and ThinkPads), but I prefer the openness of Linux (and BSD).

Current MacBook Airs are pretty competitive in terms of price, and the fanless CPU is very appealing. Is it much of a gamble to purchase one now expecting to run mainline Linux in a year or so?

Aside from the new architecture, some components Apple has been using are quite unfriendly. Broadcom wireless cards tend to perform really poorly with open source drivers.
That's likely on the output side, which doesn't see overcurrent.
There's a blog post that describes this:

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27872596

previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22679138
He didn't just screw over Apple employees - Pixar employees and founders too.
I think that's their whole business model really, a beautiful skin and api on top of a very boring process that makes developers want to use it. Stripe itself doesn't really handle a lot of the banking work and uses Evolve Bank (like basically every fintech company in America) and Goldman Sachs to actually do that work https://stripe.com/treasury. Not saying that itself doesn't take a long time to develop in terms of relationships, but its obviously much faster than actually going to FINRA and the US Comptroller and making a new bank.
It's solving the problem of "what else haven't we tried to screw up yet by adding a Blockchain?"
> No, but the rest of us are supposed to put up with this bullshit? Bosses and CEOs will literally force workers to Zoom from the office instead of going to therapy.

Hashicorp is fully remote, they're always hiring, and I highly recommend the culture [1] (to name one enormously successful, remote first org). Lots of other orgs to pick from [2].

You can't convince executives, who are dead set on return to office, on remote work anymore than you can convince a southern baptist there is no God. These are strongly held belief systems, not data driven decisions. Don't swim upstream; vote with your feet and don't work for orgs that make arbitrary requirements about where knowledge work is performed.

Another path is legislation/regulation requiring businesses accommodate remote work when able (because, of course, you can't trust that they'll offer it out of the goodness of their hearts), but that takes more time and collective effort to accomplish [3].

[1] https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/remote-culture-at-hashic...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28719320 (Control-F remote)

[3] https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/10/03/which-countries-pla...
If your tool is capable of draining the whole universe

Why did I think of humans, when I read this. :P
Appears to be the emerging consensus at least at hacker news.
Well, to be fair, it wouldn't be bonkers, if it was a headline in The Onion. The problem is that it's in Axios.
Facebook misled investors about shrinking user base, ex-employee alleges
I still think war and oil are dirtier and don't see a way to wean ourselves off that consumption and impact. I do see that cryptocurrencies are moving toward energy reduction through things like proof of stake and L2s.

https://susanfsu.medium.com/think-btc-is-a-dirty-business-co...
Full disclosure: I'm the creator of this. I felt the industry really needed a single place to find, read, research, and learn from software-based incident reports. Hoping to spread the word!
In a cointelpro op the aim is to dissolve and break up movements. Parler etc seem to have had the aim of amplifying and providing cover (a way to coordinate in secret) to the violent jan 6th extremists.

I think that's a difference worth considering.
well, the airwaves (which is where the FCC fairness doctrine was applied to) are a limited resource which, without regulation, become quickly polluted by bad actors.

print and cable are somewhat more immune to that particular issue.
Every time I see some usability flub in Mac software—like the new Safari tabs—I think that Steve is just a little more gone. Despite his flaws, he really understood how people interact with computers in a way not many others do.
> Even a little thing like Safari having the close button on the wrong side in iOS 15 would have gotten someone fired.

In which case, it sounds like a good thing they have a more sustainable culture. But I'm not sure your comment is true anyway.

Of course, Apple made all sorts of mistakes under Steve Jobs. In such a creative company, only a culture of freedom to make mistakes could produce extreme success. But now, because of a nostaglic cult of personality, any mistake meets with howls of "this would never happened under Steve!". That hero worship is a bigger problem for Apple.
Walmart doesn’t stock land mines, rocket launchers, anthrax, or many other items harmful to democracy and society on its shelves, even though I’m sure it could make a lot of money selling such items.
Tiny and terrific entries from the js13kGames competition
Oh, fair enough, my bad. Even so, syncing with which calendars? Likely Google and Outlook, which means you probably still use Gmail or Outlook.

I'm not saying there's no good argument for an open-source option being available, or that one wouldn't do well, I'm just saying that I don't understand why there should be any expectation that an operating system developer should also be expected to create and update apps like those.
I disagree. We need to bring back personal accountability. "Facebook made me do it" is not an acceptable excuse for violence.

Also, we need to inoculate the mind from these 'meme' viruses with a stronger foundation in basic science. I'm not syaing its an overnight or easy thing to do, but the IMHO I think it would address the core problem.
Shameless self-plug: https://github.com/Mic92/chrome-tab-gc
(I just ported it from chrome to firefox)
Maybe a sufficiently good implementation of history search could replace the need for bookmarks entirely. Instead of just matching on page titles, match on content as well. Rank results according to relevance and time spent on the page.

Or alternately, maybe bookmarks could become an extension of existing tab management features. Something like Chrome's tab groups or the Tree Style Tabs[1] extension for Firefox, but with the ability to "archive" tabs or groups of tabs into a searchable repository for later reference.

Just some ideas...

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
There are places in the world where these services are the only option if you wish to engage in the US equivalent of simple text messaging. I have been "that guy" that doesn't want to use the platform the rest of the social group uses, and it sucks.

Is it so much to ask for honesty from a company these days?
Why is twitter not letting people see and talk about this? What happened to discourse? I'm completely unsurprised that a tweet that shows how extreme our covid discourse/mitigations have become has been removed/deleted.
Also there's the problem of a lack of a control group in this data. If you asked people in an online questionnaire how the Coca-Cola corporation was affecting their mental health what sort of responses would you get?
Pardon but network effect much? In my area, FB is a huge resource for community groups and news. It would probably make local parent life more difficult to unilaterally cut off FB.

It's a good market opportunity actually. Too bad NextDoor is basically known as "racist people alerting their neighbors that a black person is out walking their dog" or some nonsense.
good god. could anything be more crass? let it go.
> What is the target audience of this post?

Separate point to your question.

FB is under no obligation to provide more details than they need to because a small segment of the population (certainly relative to their 'customers') might find it interesting or helpful or entertaining. FB is a business. They can essentially do (and should be able to) do whatever they want. There is no requirement (and there should be no requirement) to provide the general public with more info than they want subject to any legal requirement. If the government wants more (and are entitled to more info) they can ask for it and FB can decide if they are required to comply.

FB is a business. Their customers are not the tech community looking to get educated and avoid issues themselves at their companies or (as mentioned) be entertained. And their customers (advertisers or users) can decide if they want to continue to patronize FB.

I always love on HN seeing 'hey where is the post mortem' as if it's some type of defacto requirement to air dirty laundry to others.

If I go to the store and there is not paper towels there I don't need to know why there are no towels and what the company will do going forward to prevent any errors that caused the lack of that product. I can decide to buy another brand or simply take steps to not have it be an issue.
I think my point was that the whistleblower is telling of the WHY.

If you never have the WB telling of the why, then you cant put any personal context that affects you, and as such, have a ho-hum attitude to the situation, when one should be taking it much more seriously...
Couldn't the browser just dump the current DOM and JS state onto a disk? Treat it like a computer hibernating.
The following has been used for sure in order to commit crimes and fiddle with democracy: Verizon phone conversations, Gmail discussions, Twitter, Snapchat or Tiktok messages etc.

Nobody wakes up and says "let's be unethical today", but rather, it's the reality of life with user generated content platforms, that either you get both outcomes, or you get none.

The discussion is about making people realize that the "technology" to keep only the good parts (without the downsides) wasn't invented yet.

Hence we're in a position to argue whether it would be more ethical to shutdown / censor everything, or have fruitful discussions on how to emphasize the good outcomes over the bad ones with the current tech (by first understanding it, something that politicians seem to be very bad at, or show little interest in it compared to the negative FB sentiment engagement they're generating in their voters -- ironic :) ).
She leaked info to the SEC about Facebook materially misleading shareholders and investors, which is illegal. Reread the full article till the end.
The concept of marginal utility says that taking different amounts from people with different levels of income/wealth is treating them the same.

To a person who earns $10k/yr, $1k is huge (whether it is extra income or owed tax). To a person who earns $1M/yr, $1k is basically pocket change. The utility of that marginal $1k varies for them both. Ergo, to treat them equally, we tax them differently.
Drop a Hellfire R9X on the executives of any foreign carrier that allows their customers to spoof American residential phone numbers.
"If you don't like vaccines..."

At first I thought that was a bit too facile, they have nothing to do with each other, but ... is that true? Other people using Facebook to spread hate and misinformation (including vaccine misinformation) does affect me. They affect who gets elected (or appointed) and what policies get enacted. We're already seeing real tangible effects at the state level, and with the 2022 elections we might see more at the federal level. (That's just the US. The same is absolutely true elsewhere, but it's harder for me to come up with examples that are both accurate and familiar to most readers.) In the sense that they both affect public health - political/economic/social in one case, physical in another - hate/misinformation and vaccine refusal are similar. And for the same reasons, "if you don't like..." is an unhelpful response.
There's some good data here - that being said, even if the carbon footprint were literally zero, I couldn't personally support cryptocurrency.

Fundamentally it's the antithesis to democracy. Say whatever you will about all forms of government, but ultimately no matter the form, there's some level of accountability. Some governments use elections to facilitate this, others use the threat of rulers being killed. One way or another, there's accountability.

The fundamental political issue with cryptocurrency is now you've created some amorphous group of oligarchs whose power cannot be really removed by traditional means. It's just a regression.

Even if what I'm saying doesn't come to be, at a minimum you've introduced yet another layer to our financial systems for no benefit - our current system isn't here by accident. It's here due to learnings - learnings about human nature, markets, and so forth. Because cryptocurrency doesn't exist in a vacuum, no matter what you're either enriching early adopters, leading to what I described earlier; or you are subject to the same flaws as fiat that it's trying to replace.
The FB PR army is at full force today
AFAIK whether page will be restored or reloaded depends on its cache headers. I remember breaking back button in one of my projects, because users asked for it, as they expected fresh data for some reason. It was not SPA, just old server rendered website, so I disabled caching via response headers and it worked.
> 1. To all the governments that want to tighten more control on communication, this is great kindling to show people "we the government should further control tech for your own good".

I'm genuinely shocked that the popular sentiment on HN leans toward more government intervention and control of internet communications. So many comments here are calling for more laws and regulation, but few people can even begin to elaborate what they want those laws to do.

If laws are passed, they won't be targeted at a specific company, nor will they be limited to specific bad actors on Facebook. There is no magic law that makes all of the bad parts of the internet disappear without also having some chilling effects on the part of the internet that you actually like. If anything, large incumbents like Facebook tend to come out ahead of the smaller companies when onerous regulations are put in place.
bgp.he.net was down (extremely slow/timing out/failed my bot check and told me to turn on JS and cookies, both of which were on) when I checked it while Facebook was down.
India could run out of coal. Why is a country with reserves facing shortages?
Scarcity exists.

You cannot follow the maximum standards, because you only have so many resources. We can sort our 'recycling' and go through 'security theater' at the airport but those involve necessary trade-offs to real care for the environment or security.

I don't mind when wealth and education allows us to voluntarily do better or more. But there's danger in punishing people using hindsight.
I believe you. How do you know this?

I bet many stay because the money is really good.
There's no such thing as "legal fraud". Fraud is always illegal.
This reminds me of a passage in Freud, can't remember which text, where he conjectured that hallucination (e.g. dreams/fantasy) is more primordial than sensory perception for human life.
"my" + "personal preferences" = "best practices"
this is to punish the company, right? 137MM seems like a reasonably sized pain signal that can be felt, remembered, and positively reacted to by an operation the size of Tesla.

but if this fine is for a systemic widespread problem, then there must have been many victims. why does the entire fine go to just one of them?
> "Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. "

and

> "... its root cause was a faulty configuration change on our end."

From https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/out...
I am not a fan of histotical analogies like that. One very likely outcome of a U.S breakup is a global economic depression. Another one is Chinese hegemony. I am not a fan of either. Sure, it might work out alright. But it might not.
GitHub Actions: DRY your GitHub Actions configuration by reusing workflows
I could stand to be more educated, so please give me something to educate me instead of calling me disingenuous.

I am willing to listen to arguments that explain how it is that the Democratic party has been able to shed it's incredibly racist history and instead push all of the accusations of racism onto Republicans. I've read these arguments a few times over the years, and I found them to be very tortured and to raise lots of questions.

Even though, you didn't offer any information to further your arguments, I will try to add one to further mine.

If the parties did switch somehow, how do you explain that Social Security act was passed in 1935 by a Democratic President, a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House.

Should I attribute the Social Security Act to conservatives?
Don't forget exit logging[1], I am a bit ashamed how far into my career I was before understanding this concept.

[1]: https://pinecoder.dev/blog/2020-04-27/node-exit-logging
> without any impact on inflation

This seems like quite the assertion. Anyone want to explain how minting $1 trillion will definitely not have any impact on inflation?