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Way to blow me over with facts and citations.

Apple: Prevents sideloading without a host MacOS computer.

Sideloading is temporary.

Blocks third party app stores.

Blocks any and all browsers using a non-Safari engine.

Not one iPad or iPhone has ever been bootloader unlockable.

They've locked out iMessage people from being able to port their number out of the service for YEARS.

Tell me what part of this screams openness.

Even the most restrictive devices are less restrictive than Apple's. If the "ability to install Linux" is the benchmark here, guess what... that's nearly every single fucking device in the world. Except the majority of Apple devices, of course.

Apple explicitly has gone out of their way to prevent this.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-T2...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/11/06/booti...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-must-be-done-to-bring-lin...

Apple does ZERO to allow people to use an OS outside of their sandboxes. With the Intel based systems, Bootcamp is still restricted and limits hardware access necessary to run Windows properly on their systems.

Yes. Apple is restrictive as fuck. As far as Technology companies go, yes, I'd put them up at the top.

Your turn with sources and citations.
That's a pretty poor analogy. Nails are often the right and often the wrong tool for different circumstances. And there are different kinds of nails. Lots of carpenters have preferences for what types of hardware they use - based on their own experience and that of experience from others. And even if I disagreed with a carpenter on what tools were right for any given particular circumstance, it would be silly to try to micromanage them doing their job - just let them do their work!
Unfortunately vaccine efficacy is something almost nobody can verify on their own so trust is required.

The real question is: why do you trust people that they don't?
What quality? A buggy version of Chrome (the start page has been broken multiple times, for example) with tons of half-baked extra features?
Well, it seems Facebook is back up now.
To be in certain healthcare settings you’re often required to be vaccinated against some diseases e.g. if you’re going to be part of surgeries you need to get a TB vaccine. That’s a public health measure and this is no different.
Heard a clip of a 60-something nurse saying that she's getting a "monoclonial [sic] antibody" treatment, but she didn't get the vaccine because "all those side effects that's been proven".

I do not want this nurse at my bedside.
lol an article from July 27 just before the Provincetown study came out
Fauci was also for banning hiv/ aids patients from public places in the 80s. Because a novel disease was thought to be more communicable, more deadly, and more of a pandemic than it really was.
I'm a boomer; that may well be a fair point

I do think Facebook has something really valuable over in person interaction: you can observe how a potential SO interacts with a wide variety of other people

Also, I like that it's async. But that's more of a personal preference
I've noticed that people are uncomfortable with nuance.
lol, California fire code makes no exemptions for python projects... this whole story has a "virgins talking about sex" vibe.
This is the one thing I just don't get. I check the news everyday to see if the U.S. government has clarified the natural immunity part. The amount of research on it seems good, and other countries already acknowledge it and use it.

Why??
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Does HN have any Facebook integrations that could have caused the slowness seen earlier? Or it could be that some part of the network infrastructure is shared between the two and was overloaded.
Explain OSHA
“Are you sure? Can people you need to recover from this change already in the building?”
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> endangering the rest of the staff

Where did this idea come from that we vaccinated people need to be protected from the unvaccinated? That’s what the vaccine is _for_, protecting us from the unvaccinated. And it’s good at its job!
"Provably" is doing a lot of work here. Could they screen each of the employees for immunity? Yes. And the cost of that would be high, and you wouldn't get results back for two weeks or more.

And, natural immunity fades faster than vaccine immunity[0], so it's _not_ unnecessary. Hybrid immunity is "provably" better than natural immunity alone.

0: [edit: not from the delta variant]
Police power doesn't simply mean having a law enforcement agency. It means being able to do the daily policing work that the federal government is basically explicitly barred from doing except in particular circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_(United_States_co...

> Federal police power has been defined by Supreme Court rulings. In affirming that Congress has limited power to enact legislation, the court ruled in United States v. Lopez (1995) that "The Constitution...withhold[s] from Congress a plenary police power that would authorize enactment of every type of legislation."[6][7] In United States v. Morrison (2000), the court invalidated a provision of a federal law on violent crime. The court stated, "The regulation and punishment of intrastate violence that is not directed at the instrumentalities, channels, or goods involved in interstate commerce has always been the province of the States...[W]e can think of no better example of the police power, which the Founders denied the National Government and reposed in the States, than the suppression of violent crime..."[6][8]
I keep my fingers crossed that the worst of Delta is indeed over for NYC, but I don’t feel more than 50% confident. Last winter NYC experienced a huge surge before the introduction of new variants. I hope the vaccines, booster, and upcoming child vaccination will help this time around, but it is hard to predict or control this disease.
this is an intentionally inflammatory headline and all of the news providers have been doing them.

the correct headline should be: "New York's largest healthcare provider reaches 98% vaccination for entire staff, with help from mandates, leading to vastly improved patient and staff safety"
> Most people outside of the US don't even know what "60 Minutes" is.

I live in Australia. 60 Minutes exists here as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes_(Australian_TV_prog...
Exactly. 150 or so for me, but the ones who insist on being political all the time have long since been muted or unfriended.

And who do you know who still sends Christmas cards? That was for those people that you never see IRL. Now they're FB friends.
I don't see the connection.

COVID exists and makes people sick --> The best minds in medicine harness bleeding edge tech to create vaccine in record time --> vaccine gets tested, then distributed using crises management protocols established long before the pandemic --> vaccine uptake low due to right-wing propaganda

Where did healthcare fail folks here?
So your interpretation is that they suggest that Facebook "upper management" can spontaneously organize to keep employees locked out while some somehow immediately formed (or prepared just in case something happens?) group of in-the-know people gains access and goes through systems to make an effective stab at deleting data, while dealing with an actual outage?

Yeah, I think it's pretty obvious why everybody else either not read the comment that way, or thinks it's a totally unbelievable conspiracy theory.
The thing is: if you ever engaged with political posts, facebook will make sure to show you political posts for the rest of your life, and the more likely to upset you, the better.
Sure, this might be true but you're diverting from the point OP is making. May be it's that HN has lost it's ability to have a civil discourse without people downvoting you for the slightest challenging opinion, let alone contrarian viewpoints (which would be flagged). It used to be not like that just two years ago. It is very much reflecting a low effort echo-chamber.
Not true. 1. By not getting vaccinated you’re a potential
Burden to the health system and taxpayers so it’s a public health issue. 2. Data shows vaccines reduce spread.
John O'Nolan from Ghost was a guest on indie hackers recently. His approach to Ghost speaks pretty directly to the question you're asking here.

https://share.transistor.fm/s/957e541c

The other suggestion is I would try to find a small place to start. Of the different parts of the industry who is feeling the most pain from these problems? What is the smallest piece of the project you could focus on delivers immediate value to that group? Something that you can iterate on.
Friend randoms and get to know them over time through public wall interactions; switch to DMs if things are clicking

I've sent thousands of FB friend requests to strangers suggested by the algo; the vast majority accept. I have met some of my favorite people in the world this way. Also some huge assholes/crazies, of course. Sometimes they are the same people
As much as I dislike Facebook, my father died yesterday and listening to some of the relatively unknown folk musicians that he had shared on there over the years meant a lot to me today.
This. It's absolutely infuriating. Honestly my browser defaults were broken for so long I assumed it was just that.
Honestly... will someone please explain OSHA? It was held by many to be unconstitutional at the time of institution. It still is today. Just because the feds broke the law in the past doesn't mean we get to excuse it again in the future. The federal government is very good at breaking laws. At some point, they must be held to account.
I think the implication is that "what successful people do is immoral/illegal"
Nice work! I like the cost metric a lot, even though it's hard to gauge it. BTW you could have used $FB stock as a heuristic :)
I am not sure you understand my question / hypothetical. A bank is not the only form of a lender first off, second the reason there isn't a 100% loan on an equity is that it's understood that the value of the underlying collateral can fluctuate. These are called over collateralized loans.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
What part of the constitution?
>Facebook has to make some public statement

History has shown us they can give us zero response, or an incorrect response, and we (via our representatives) will accept it and continue living life as before.
>“We’re facing a terrible teacher shortage so we can’t fire the ones who abuse the kids just a little bit.”

That is an absolutely absurd comparison.
Yes. The same is applicable to every social networking site.
Because hackernews sets their TTL to 5 minutes:

dig +noauthority +noquestion +nostats news.ycombinator.com @ns-225.awsdns-28.com.

news.ycombinator.com. 300 IN A 209.216.230.240
No police powers are being used, so I don't see how that is relivate. Also, the Agencies are not going out of their mandate. OSHA was created to make the workplace safer and by mandating vaccines, they are.
They're probably like me. I know the vaccine helps. I also know that I have near-zero risk from COVID. So I don't get the vaccine because I don't like injecting unnecessary stuff in there.
Yeah it's still ticking, many services are still down. Yearly uptime assumes 100% uptime for the rest of the year, so this is a absolutely an upper bound.
Except 'having a cigarette' and 'breathing' are activities with two different moral weights. 'Having a cigarette' in a building is a luxury. Breathing in a building is not.

For example, it would be okay for a state to ban drivking alcohol anywhere. Alcohol is a luxury. Breathing is not. Neither is working.
Well I'm against government forcing this either. It should be venues responsibility. You can always leave a venue that is smoker friendly.
And Google Wave.
In what situation do you believe your solution would be better than to create a table Colors, insert the desired list of colors and have a FK from MyTable to Colors?

The way I see it a single atribute relation is a sum type. Implemented in current imperfect systems as a single column table (maybe two column table if you insist on using surogate keys for various reasons)
Eh, you're technically right but the courts have interpreted interstate commerce extremely broadly. A pandemic is interstate in a similar sense as the wheat in Wickard v. Filburn.
This is actually false and contradicts findings from several very reputable and large studies. See e.g. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
When I visit hospital I have to get or pay bills (providing by their billing staff) on site before procedures. Also emergency happened everyday, even billing or any staff many need to do on-site work if network is done. Checked facebook today?
A better comparison would be a software engineer who refuses to patch his out-of-date operating system because he's "not sure what the updates will do".
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My team set up a discord lol
I don't know what the Provincetown study is, but see above for up-to-date evidence that vaccines continue to be effective at reducing transmission.
I would assume most of the larger companies would just keep them in place, as it's good for business. the mandate gave companies cover to do what they really wanted to do anyway.
Its useful for me, and surely this or any sample size of 1 undermine your point as otherwise your point is unfalsifiable.

I am familiar with a key difference here:

Some people find nihilism to be demotivating

Some people do not

For me, it helps me remember to try to recognize my privileges, support systems and luck. I respect people that play the cards they are dealt. Any child prodigy with a lot of resources could just as easily done nothing with them, so the nihilistic approach more so helps me not resent people that won a birth lottery and also appreciate what I do before I forget and start giving generic success advice.
What percentage of them are black or Hispanic?

Many healthcare providers in NYC, including companies like Northwell, are staffed with black and Hispanic workers who have much higher rates of refusal to be vaccinated.

If these workers are disproportionately black or Hispanic workers, then this would appear to be a textbook example of systemic racism. This is certainly the view of BLM who has expressed this view w.r.t. the mandate.
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>>"sunlight is the best disinfectant" is completely and utterly wrong.

Certainly for some types of infectant such as weapons-grade dezinformatsiya...

Or at least, to achieve disinfection, that sunlight needs to be applied at intensities found on the surface of the sun vs at the surface of the earth.
Please educate yourself on herd immunity.
Funny choice of words when talking about healthcare workers.
> The least they can do is follow their own rules.

Do you have any avenues to report policy breaking anonymously?

> I know a guy who started at $90k as a diesel electric mechanic with great benefits. That’s tens of thousands saved in college costs. Plus you can start working sooner.

It does happen for sure, but be aware that this is a widely shared narrative talking point that comes from a political agenda. The US Fed publishes statistics about this exact issue, and I was really surprised how big the average difference in earnings is for college degrees - it’s about 2x for an accredited bachelor’s diploma on average across the entire US. It’s 3x for advanced degrees. I thought the average would be maybe 15 or 20 percent, but a 2x average for all Americans is freaking enormous and should not be written off with anecdotes. Note also that the gap is growing, not shrinking, and has been for a long time.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/2019/10/...

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...

Anyway, that’s interesting stuff, but beside the more important business of improving your personal situation, and my rantings probably don’t help. It sounds like you’re in a bit of a stuck / bad situation. I’m sorry to hear that and I hope you can find a way to improve it and enjoy your work. Managers with no power certainly could be one of the reasons that managers get petty and pushy with their teams. I know it’s not fun though. Good luck!
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...? The vaccine isn't a panacea that eradicates the virus. Vaccine means your viral load is going to be lower than the alternative and less likely to spread. You can be vaccinated and still spread the virus, but getting the hogs to stop running around so we can try and achieve herd immunity for those that aren't able to get the vaccine is a pretty obvious goal.
It's the billions of people who have been trying to use it all day logging in and trying to update their feeds and catch up on what they missed that's slowing it down, not the small city of nerds clicking the title through HN. Facebook (and subsidiaries like Instagram hosted in the same DCs) normally receive more requests per minute than HN receives in a month.
A CDC prison study of a Delta variant outbreak showing an attack rate of 93% on unvaccinated inmates & staff versus 89% for those vaccinated more than 4 months prior: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7038e3.htm

Another example of a major outbreak in a 96% vaccinated and high PPE setting: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...

No relationship between case rates and vaccination across 68 countries: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7
I can see "nails vs screws" ending in a brawl if enough alcohol is served beforehand. The first punch would probably be thrown after the clipboard warrior makes some quip about dovetails and other "fastener free" joints and gets everyone riled up.
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You're going to pass the last few months off on seasonality? That strains credulity.
All those physical health effects ignore the other aspect, which is mental health.

Alcohol is about self-medication, at the core of human civilization for a long, long time. China, India, Egypt so many early examples (https://www.cato.org/commentary/alcohol-caffeine-created-civ...).

How many people would be under more stress, have less relationships without alcohol? It absolutely works as social grease, loosens up nerves and is a very nice way of calming down.

I know so much in modern culture is about this weird asceticism, removing anything tasteful, fun, stupid and optimize for longevity - but what's the point to live in total boredom?

I like alcohol, it connects across millenia.
> Somebody got a new pizza oven for National pizza month

There's a national pizza month?
I have heard remarks like this before in the restaurant industry. Like with dish-staff, even the Janitor is a critical role, doing an essential task that no other will do.
40% of the population is unvaxxed. More will likely be unvaxxed when the definition of unvaxxed expands to having a booster. Given the racial element, you are deluded to think there will be a time when these people 'come back' into the workforce. There will either be substantial federal structural change or substantial economic change, if not flat out riots. There is no situation under which this ends well. This will go down in American history as a very dark dark chapter.

> It's also probably going to be hard getting another job right now if you end up disclosing that you were let go for being unwilling to get vaccinated. Employers probably want to avoid hiring unvaccinated people and also will want to avoid any HR drama you're going to force on them.

No it's not. Republicans are more likely to be unvaxxed and more likely to own small businesses. They'll be likely picking up solid corporate candidates, amassing wealth and power, and will hopefully use it to end these stupid mandates.
Given the current whistle-blower situation I think it entirely plausible that FFB currently has people thinking about ways to selectively erase data. And I think it's entirely plausible that the people involved in doing so would not be the same people as would have to be dealing with an outage.

Maybe I've dealt with both the military and super-large organisations too much, but yes, I do consider scenarios like this. As part of designing soft-real-time safety-critical systems I had to think of scenarios like this.

I continue to be surprised that people didn't read exactly what was said ... I generally expect programmers to be more literal.

Again, I guess I was wrong. I'm learning. I won't make that assumption again, and I'll be more careful about exactly what I say, and how I say it.
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From my evaluation and research, nearly all the economic damage is being caused by said mitigations - not the virus or pandemic itself. So... stop doing the things that damage the economy? People want to work. People want to travel. People want to play. Let. Them. Do. It. A few are fearful and want to hide - that's fine too.
Who politicised it and why? And when you say THIS vaccine, which one?
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Why it takes this long?
I think that facebook bought instagram because it saw an existential threat on it.
Because you don't take a chance in dying if you get the vaccine but you do if you catch COVID. Also, you spread COVID when you get COIVD, you don't spread COVID when you get the COVID vaccine.
There is something inherently wrong with that - it's why exponential backoff exists.
At least when it comes to the US - these vaccines have been strongly embraced by major figures in both political parties. They were mostly developed and rolled out initially under Trump and have been continued under Biden - so both sides of the aisle would really like you to get it.

I'm in Canada and my spouse had some concerns about AZ when it was first being rolled out in pharmacies by booked appointments - so I waited until the national rollout of Pfizer & Moderna - if you've got concerns over a specific version of the vaccine there are other options.
I don't know the testing situation.

But there is a lesson from other forms of engineering here. Almost no failure has a single cause. A variety of things need to go wrong. "Just test better" is not a strategy. Any honest view of large scale software engineering has to internalize that all of the human processes can fail and even the technical processes can fail and so you need layers of protection.

People should try to write correct code. Sometimes they will fail.

People should review code carefully. Sometimes they will fail.

People should test code thoroughly. Sometimes they will fail.

Tooling should automate issue detection with static analysis and fuzzing. Sometimes it will fail.

Tooling should automate issue detection with canaries and monitoring. Sometimes it will fail.

Maybe the team skimped on testing as a rule. Maybe the engineers who submitted and review the code were tired that day and didn't test it well. Maybe something in the the CI was flakey so they did a force push. I don't know.

But I do know that making it harder to do weird things like using bitwise-and in a branch predicate with something other than a constant mask adds an extra layer of defense.
How private companies like Twitter and Facebook took over official government communication is rather lazy, and destructive to an open society.
Apparently: https://nationaltoday.com/national-pizza-month/

But honestly: who cares. Any excuse to eat some pizza is good enough for me!