skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since picking up an Apple TV, my Netflix consumption is down to zero. Everything else is right there in the main UI, and it provides zero incentive for me to open their app.

At least from my perspective, Netflix really dropped the ball on this decision.
Credit scores are a very good thing. Someone who pays their bills on time shouldn’t have to pay the same rate as someone who always skips the bill, and without them, every loan would have 10% interest at least, even for mortgages
FB does have business customers with (at least) Workplace.
Hence the name of this dashboard.
I think people could really work on self-curating/self-filtering content to make sure it's mostly what they want to see on social media.

I've made nearly a dozen friends in Japan who I've now met there on two separate trips purely through a shared interest by connecting on Instagram.

I rarely see content that I don't expect or care to see.
>That’s it.

It really, really isn't all they're doing. Not by the longest of shots.

Here is one example: https://indica.medium.com/facebook-is-evil-and-i-quit-215105...

There are thousands of others. Every week on here there's a new story about some new uncovered act of heinous evil from the Zuck and his buds. It's a wonder you haven't seen them.
Proof of intent is a significant burden placed upon prosecution. If that can be overcome, there’s legal precedent for criminal conviction namely under the CFAA.

https://tadlaw.com/can-charged-crime-sabotaging-employers-co...
Yes people said the same thing about television and by and large most people think Television had some pretty bad side effects. A dumber society, all kinds of depression began manifesting in people who were sold an image of ‘reality’ via ads/unrealistic shows, the gutting of ‘journalism’ into 24-hour news, none of that stuff was wrong.
That's nearly 2% of their workforce, at a place that I would assume would self-select for people who take vaccines seriously. I wonder what the unvaccinated % is for other industries.
If our healthcare system cannot or does not wish to serve us, it is time to take responsibility for our own health.

Good start: https://store.hesperian.org/prod/Where_There_Is_No_Doctor.ht...
in-app purchase, i believe
It's interesting how Facebook experiences differ. To me it's a peaceful place showing mundane updates from friends and family, with zero politics. Plus, a bunch of niche hobby groups I subscribed, full of very kind and constructive people.

The actual war zone to me is Twitter, not Facebook.

I should add that I'm not from the US.
I have no idea how much extra traffic you had to deal with today, but I'm always impressed with how gracefully HN seems to degrade under high load. There are increased page load times, and frequent "Oops, we couldn't serve your request messages", but the pages do load and trying page loads and comment posts actually works.
I’m pretty new to BGP, but I’d imagine that cutting off access to an AS is fast because all it takes is for the neighbouring routers update their routes. At which point any traffic that makes it that far is simply dropped.

Whereas to make an announcement, the entire internet (or at least all routers between the AS and the user) need to pickup the new announcement.

(Note: I still need to read the article)
Clients weren't getting NXDOMAIN, they were getting SERVFAIL because the nameservers were unreachable. These responses cannot be cached for more than 5 minutes [1].

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2308#section-7.1
> Second, very few people want a contact or calendar app that exists solely on their phone. They want the synchronization they get from any alternative app, whether that's from Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or some other third party.

AOSP calendar supports syncing with online calendars.
1,400 out of 76,000 employees.
That’s the one.
I mean, sure, status quo can / should be changed - but you want to get to a point where a changed status quo is sustainable, and you're not going to get there by simply removing existing options. It doesn't change the incentives people have for preferring to use the platform, namely the pre-existing widespread penetration.

You want to dislodge Facebook, you need to disrupt it / curtail its monopoly.
I feel like we're singling out FB here. Can we bundle Twitter and Tiktok with it? May be Youtube comments? The danger of course is that we have all piled up on a scape goat and the rest of the social media companies will continue to enjoy great PR. Tiktok continues to be HN's darling.

Edit: Downvotes really? What for?
Nature was healing.
I agree completely. The target audience Facebook is concerned about is not techies wanting to know the technical issues. Its the huge advertising firms, governments, power users, etc. who have concerns about the platform or have millions of dollars tied up in it. A bland statement is probably the best here - and even if the one engineer gave accurate useful info I don't see how you'd want to encourage an org in which thousands of people feel the need to post about whats going on internally during every crisis.
No matter what time of year it is, people tend to use 'EST' for 'Eastern Time' even when we might be in Eastern Daylight Time rather than Standard.

It's especially annoying when dealing with multiple countries that may or may not be using Daylight Saving Time.
For others who were confused like me: Whoop is apparently a health/fitness tracker.
You should not be torn. Apple is blatantly acting against your interests as a user, and you should be adamantly against this. You always need to place some level of trust in anyone you're allowing to repair your device -- even if they're using genuine Apple parts, they might not know how to properly work with them, for example. But this is why we have reviews. (By the way, they would be more likely to know how to do proper repairs if Apple freely published the top-secret internal repair documentation they already have, so they could just use that instead of random third-party guides, but that's another topic.) As a user, you should always have the choice of who to trust with your device's repair, just like you have a choice between mechanics working on your car. As a reminder, if you don't trust third party repair shops, right to repair laws don't force anyone to make use of them. You're free to be overcharged by Apple if you want. But it's important to have a choice.

Also, theft is not a problem that you can solve with software. People will always steal iPhones because there will always be at least some value to the components inside. I guarantee you that iCloud locking was not even a factor in the decision Apple made to implement this bullshit into iOS:

if (camera.serialNumber != mainboard.camera.serialNumber) {
freakTheFuckOutForNoReason()
}

The only factor in this decision was most likely Apple's relentless, unending quest to acquire as many US dollars as possible, despite already having ~200 billion of them reserved [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/apple-q1-cash-hoard-heres-ho...
Exit from a building is usually not limited by access control. Either there's a button near the door on the inside which releases the door (cutting the current to the maglock, or energizing the solenoid, or even mechanically releasing the latch), or there's an "emergency use only" fire exit nearby with a crash bar which opens only from the inside (and triggers an alarm when opened), or both. So no, slow badge readers are usually not going to be a safety hazard similar to blocking a fire door.
from an operational security standpoint i find it hard to argue that workers in the healthcare industry should be able to refuse something which significantly reduces their risk of being a vector for a harmful disease and transmitting it to those who have a higher likelihood of having pre existing conditions
facebookwkhpilnemxj7asaniu7vnjjbiltxjqhye3mhbshg7kx5tfyd.onion is the latest
I wonder how sure we can be of that.
Allegedly, this was a BGP update gone wrong that locked out their remote access. And the people with physical access didn't have the necessary privileges to fix the issue.
You should see the current top comment!
Well, they could at least be specific about how large the outage is. "Some people" is quite different to absolutely everyone. At least they did not add a "might" in there.
>I should add that I'm not from the US.

That's probably a big part of it.
> Tech has yet to go through it’s ‘industrialization’ phase where one of the main advents was replaceable/interchangeable parts.

Not going to happen without legislation. Maybe not even with it.

Industrial standardization was driven by the US Army around and after the time of the Civil War. The Army wanted rifle parts to be replaceable by any spare of the same type, not only those from the same batch as the gun.

There is no large single buyer with "social" apps, and the incentives for vendors are to try to lock in their customers.
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Did you get confused and think "There is so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angy, and harmful messaging on FB platforms." was data?
Not a proof. But a useful anecdote.

No one is doing large scales studies of how many people meet their partner on FB, so anecdote is all we have for that.

Most of the criticisms are also anecdotes, but you seem fine with those.
Yeah, I think that is true. If you look at the Update near the end of the Cloudflare article there is a huge spike in the BGP activity (I assume re-announcing all of the routes). So that part of it was relatively instantaneous after they got all of their ducks in a row actually getting to the routers and locating the BGP from some earlier version before it went offline this morning that they could use.
And why exactly would everyone being easier to track be helpful to the actual people themselves? I don't want Facebook to have that information. I'm even less interested in some random small business having it.
That doesn't mean something else is going on. It means that there are a lot of us who are web addicts who were temporarily deprived of our Zucker-smack and desperately flailed about in the rest of the web for a fix until our main dose got restored.

As for WhatsApp, that is of course a FB property.
I am interested in opportunities to cooperate on this.
Ah, but what about all the marketing analytics ISPs deploy on their DNS servers so that if your browser ever looked up viagra.com, forever will it grace your web browsing retargeting ad units? /s
Per your edit: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-var....

> Fully vaccinated people with Delta variant breakthrough infections can spread the virus to others. However, vaccinated people appear to spread the virus for a shorter time

The last sentence clarifies.
The same deal is available for everyone though.

https://developer.apple.com/programs/video-partner/
Does employees include administrative staff, janitorial staff, etc?

Healthcare providers probably employ at lot of people who aren't nurses or doctors.
The issue is that this view always relies on stuff like "make people triple check everything".

- How does that relate to making a config change?

- How do you practically implement a system where someone has to triple check everything they do?

- How do you stop them just clicking 'confirm' three times?

- Why do you assume they will notice on the 2nd or 3rd check, rather than just thinking "well, I know I wrote it correctly, so I'll just click confirm"?

I don't think rules can always be encoded in the process, and I don't see how such rules will always be able to detect all errors, rather than only a subset of very obvious errors.

And that's only dealing with the simplest class of issues. What about a complex distributed systems problem? What about the engineer who doesn't make their system tolerant of Byzantine faults? How is any realistic 'process' going to prevent that?

This entire trope relies on the fundamental axiom that "for any individual action A, there is a process P which can prevent human error". I just don't see how that's true.

(If the statement were something like "good processes can eliminate whole classes of error, and reduce the likelihood of incidents", I'd be with you all the way. It's this Twitter trope of "if you have an incident, it's a priori your company's fault for not having a process to prevent it" which I find to be silly and not even nearly proven.)
They could sue over Facebook not telling them the cause
The last information I saw was that asymptomatic vaccinated individuals with the Delta variant may be just as contagious as the unvaccinated / symptomatic, however you are of course much less likely to be infected in the first place.
The public is tired of being gaslighted and lied to by large corporations.

The whistle-blower only brought to light what we have known previously, Facebook is a net loss for humanity.

Letting people contect with family and long lost friends is good.

Purposefully pitting people against each other, human experimentation https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook... , creating hateful echo chambers, claiming to be the source of all facts, manipulating users for engagement and ad revenue is bad.

The low effort posts could signify a loss of cultural cohesion or new accounts, but Facebook and its children fading from the public would be a gift to many addicts.
I don't think it will surprise anyone to hear that Northwell is based on Long Island.

Other hospital systems were not obliged to fire so many staff.
FWIW, WhatsApp doesn't know what is in your messages... including your messages that are telling other users to delete messages. They are just an event queue. Personally I don't think they should have implemented "delete" at all as it implies that other users are going to play along with your deletion requests, which is not only totally out of their control but morally shouldn't even be a thing: once you send me a message it is MY data, not your data, and you don't get to delete it unless I agree. It maybe seems awkward that a re-delivery of a deleted message is causing it to resurrect temporarily until the delete event is also re-delivered, but if they "actually delete it"--which I imagine you want--then they might also forget any unique identifier stored with the message, which likely makes it hard to know that this message was both already received and deleted in the past.
It is insightful on how to direct your energy. For many people, some activities should remain enthusiast hobbies because it wont take them anywhere.
You’re right, of course.
Is it reasonable to suggest AWS's primitives and even finished cloud products for video delivery are largely commodities?

Wheras, there is no such thing as the other App Store?

IIRC, Apple customers spend more and don't quote me on this, but are more influential in the spending of others. If that's true, then I think this comment under-represents the utility of operating in the App Store.

It doesn't necessarily mean that it should command the 15% tax, but it isn't "no value" either.
Is this really the behavior of a hospital system on the brink of collapse due to an ongoing pandemic? Really?

I'm meant to honestly believe that the hospital system is on the brink of collapse, and that you are now firing 1400 workers who have been the ones keeping it going for the last 20 months?

I think this might be my "yeah, the pandemic is officially over" moment. You don't fire the freaking healthcare workers in a time when you supposedly need them desperately.
They could have dialed in by their own cell phone though
Interesting how low quality comments seem to be correlated with FB going down :)
> beyond reasonable doubt

It's already far, far beyond a reasonable doubt in any US court that one of the Wuhan labs was the source of corona, and that the CCP covered it up at every step.

What's ugly is that Fauci funded it to a significant extent and has been allowed to cover it up by two administrations.

(For those who don't know, Fauci gave 65 grants to WIV, including GoF research, plus grants to 26 other labs in China. Yet he lied to Congress multiple times about GoF, and never mentioned 90+ grants. In addition, WIV asked for a grant to release corona into a bat population. The grant was denied, but we don't know if the project stopped.)

One of the weirdest things is that NIH has PR staff, yet Fauci is on TV daily. Just like a crooked accountant who never goes on vacation so he can keep juggling the balls in the air.

If you recall, the CCP said, "It came from the US." I think they meant Fauci asked them to do GoF research and funded it. CCP statements fall into 2 groups: fairly factual, and hyperbole. It's fairly easy to separate the two, and I think in this case it was a fairly factual statement. The reason it was not more detailed is because their main audience is internal, and they did not want to share blame for the corona release.
The losses are likely concentrated in support staff, both because of the educational correlation with vaccination and because relatively low-earning employees have a lot of employment options right now and perhaps not that much to lose by switching jobs.

Also worth knowing is their annual employee turnover rates, which appear to be 8%, vs. 1.8% in this firing --- since that's not a RIF, it's likely those roles will quickly be filled (though at higher cost).
1. Get physical access to the systems; employee badges were also offline, so they needed to bring in a different set of people with physical access to the premises.

2. Login directly to their systems and update the A-name record.

3. A-name records do not take effect immediately. There's a propagation delay as other DNS services accept the domain name.

4. Any sort of "damage assessment" to check the conditions of the now-offline systems. [Not a gating factor; you can turn things on, but you are likely doing "blast radius" analysis in parallel.]

5. Restart services one-by-one. Web servers, databases, API gateways, etc.

6. Allow external access; turn the systems back on for the world. [This is where they are currently, even though some parts of Facebook do not seem to be working too well. i.e., uploads and new posts seem broken still; at least they were for me.]
If you don't think life appointment makes someone politically independent, I have to wonder what possible office would qualify. Divine monarch? Fürher?
Squid Game subtitles 'change meaning' of Netflix show
If their hospital is anything like the one I work for, their business model would be crippled by not requiring vaccination simply due to the impact on utilization.
The big problem with a dark start is bringing the grid back up (syncing frequency, overcoming initial load, calculating the load on specific lines ...). Jumpstarting a few plants is going to be the easy part.

There was a great talk on this on the 32C3; unfortunately only in German: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7323-wie_man_einen_blackout_veru...
Here is what I find confusing. When people say the M1 is revolutionary, it really seems to suggest that the playing field is "available CPUs on the market". But, then some mean it to be "no, just compared to old CPUs in the previous generation of the same product".
The problem for me, and many others, is we are friends with people on the complete opposite political spectrum. I don't have the granularity to block their political posts while still being able to see their regular posts.
Not an expert, but I have some theories:

1. Since all internal comms runs through email, messenger, and other systems all run under facebook.com, communication and coordination must have been extremely difficult.

2. eBGP servers/appliances that can serve 3 billion users must take a while to spin up. Assuming there was no cache, it would have to register thousands of internal services.

3. Per a now deleted reddit thread, the people who pushed the change and knew how to fix it weren't able to be onsite at the data center, so they were flying blind and working with lower level techs trying to implement their instructions.

4. DNS is usually heavily cached at multiple layers, but today they were getting DDOS'ed with DNS requests from FB clients. They would probably have to block those requests while the service is coming online so it doesn't just melt down again, and have some method of slowly allowing requests. How? IDK. Maybe host by host.

5. Whatever the case, some of the world's most sophisticated, highest paid engineers were under the gun to solve at $3000/second problem. I have to assume they were working as fast as they could.
100% agreed. And there is nothing funnier than seeing people on "team Twitter" excitedly tweeting about how "nothing of value was lost" without any sense of irony whatsoever.

To me, it's the difference between default private and default public. On both platforms you can curate your content, and arguably the worst content festers on Facebook because it is so hidden from the public eye, but it also means it doesn't have to find its way to you.

Facebook as a company has had much more problematic behavior, I'd agree with that one for sure.

But if there's anything we've learned from the past decade, it's the old axiom "sunlight is the best disinfectant" is completely and utterly wrong.
I personally find timezones more annoying. At least with encoding once you figure things out it will work indefinitely. Timezones can simply change from under you with or without notice.
That wouldn't destroy it, that'd just turn it into 4chan!
From a cloudflare blog post on this, their public DNS resolvers were getting 30x their usual traffic. Presumably that was the case for DNS resolvers everywhere, so that would explain a slowdown:

> But that's not all. Now human behavior and application logic kicks in and causes another exponential effect. A tsunami of additional DNS traffic follows.

> This happened in part because apps won't accept an error for an answer and start retrying, sometimes aggressively, and in part because end-users also won't take an error for an answer and start reloading the pages, or killing and relaunching their apps, sometimes also aggressively.

...
> So now, because Facebook and their sites are so big, we have DNS resolvers worldwide handling 30x more queries than usual and potentially causing latency and timeout issues to other platforms.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

Edit: Although looking at the graph on that page, it appears that only DNS requests for FB properties increased 30x, so that last sentence appears to be misleading. Regardless, a significant overall increase.
> I remember reading something similar that studied online spaces in general and found similar trends.

Probably "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881827

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
How Old Is the Maltese, Really?
Fair point of view. Except that everybody pays taxes yet get different treatment based on what they decide to do with their body.
These are details that ProPublica was unable to get. That doesn't mean they weren't communicated, as spywaregorilla (sp?) has indicated above.

Every law firm, accounting firm, consulting firm once it hits a certain size has clients which conflict, but the same employees - the same teams of employees - are barred from serving a conflict of interest. It is assured that:
1. the FDA asked
2. the FDA knew
3. the FDA agreed

Its also probable that the person from the FDA working with the person from McKinsey had either already worked with them or been referred to them by a colleague that had worked with them.