skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple seems to maintain the expectation that they deserve 30% of revenue from massive corporations like Netflix, Amazon, etc.

That's exactly what Apple believes.

From Tim Cook's testimony in Epic v. Apple, from Ars Technica:

> The in-app-purchasing (IAP) system itself, Cook said, is simply the most efficient way of collecting a 15 to 30 percent commission on each in-app sale. "If not for IAP, we’d have to come up with another system to invoice developers. It would be a mess."

This view is explicitly affirmed in the Epic v. Apple verdict[1]:

> Under all models, Apple would be entitled to a commission or licensing fee, even if IAP was optional.

The court found the 30% rate arbitrary but not objectionable[2]:

> Indeed, while the Court finds no basis for the specific rate chosen by Apple (i.e., the 30% rate) based on the record, the Court still concludes that Apple is entitled to some compensation for use of its intellectual property.

Personally, I don't approve of Apple feeling entitled to a cut of commerce that doesn't hit their app store, but the court's take (before appeals) is that it's perfectly legal.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/05/ceo-tim-cook-faces-po...

[1]: Page 67, https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21060631/apple-epic-j...

[2]: Page 150
> It reduces your risk of serious illness to the point of irrelevance.

For the most part, and if you're healthy. Unfortunately in a hospital you're working with people that are vulnerable.

Why is this such a controversial thing anyways? In the past we've made vaccines mandatory.
Assuming that your sensitive data is a key part of your product offering (and if it isn't you shouldn't be storing it imo) - wouldn't logging all decryption requests just generate a lot of noise during the day-to-day operation of your application? I struggle to see a scenario where what you described actually increases the real-world security of your data, beyond allowing you to do a more in depth retrospective of who took what data (which can be achieved without the overhead of double encryption).

In the event that some DB creds get leaked or brute forced or however, to the application/DB those creds will look just as legit and any irregularities would only be discovered at best while the data is being taken
It's interesting how far removed this is from the competitive ideal of "provide a better product/service at a lower price".
Cry harder f4g0t. Enjoy your experimental jab which doesn't stop the spread or prevent death.
Indeed, degree programs as we know them have a shady history where they were often just nonsense credentials the general public was too ignorant to invalidate, but they were secular, and gained popularity as religions has faded.

There’s a long history of payola in university. IMO our entire accreditation and credentialing system has so much corruption, anything but reproducible STEM education should be treated as being of suspect value.

The credential is earned due to social hoop jumping, and very specific. It doesn’t really say much about general intelligence or worker skill. I’ve worked with PhDs that were so obtuse nothing was accomplished.

It’s like trying to make a simple knife by first bootstrapping a universe to mine engineered carbon steel of the purest quality.

In the end political network effects dictate reality. And that realm is clearly rife with delusions of grandeur.
Sure, although it doesn't seem to be doing very well at the targetting. All of the ads seem to revolve around a singular life event that I recently posted about.
Communist clown show.
So all federal laws are invalid?
It always surprises me how much clout the startup community gives Product Hunt.

Seems like whether a product "launched" on PH would be completely irrelevant to an aquisition marketplace -- especially one not even affiliated with PH. It doesn't even look like it scrapes PH for information (though it's hard to tell, since there's not much content yet), so what's the point of coupling to tightly to another site?
I'm going out on a limb and gonna say your probably the odd person out if you think a chessboard is more fun than a dry, dirty gin martini.
Not saying firing is the best course of action, but they’re endangering others, so what choice do you have at this point? Vaccine has been available for months and it is free (while other countries are begging for it). We’ve asked nicely, tried educating, mandating, pleading … there are still people who refuse to vaccinate.

I don’t know what the answer/solution is. But nobody has the right to put others at risk.
An app designed for getting a user's previously purchased content (i.e. the Kindle app). They are exempted from certain App Store guidelines around account management and in-app purchases.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#rea...
Show HN: Learn more about the Fast Fourier Transform, animated in 3D [video]
It is a moving target because yes - we don't (as a society) have a ton of practice with worldwide pandemics. Information evolves and our expert's interpretation evolves with it. If you reject opinions from everyone who has ever changed their mind after receiving more information you'll be left with one or two ridiculously lucky people and a who bunch of stubborn morons who simply reject the notion that their past selves might have been incorrect.
Sorry to interject with something more generic but I feel it's somewhat pertinent. And sorry for the gray beard tone. Here it comes:

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Obsessively following anything or anyone is not good for you and that's very likely a 99% universal advice.

I was super good at multi-tasking all my life... until 2-3 years ago my brain started resisting me and sabotaging me at every turn. Gradually I realized that I am gulping waaaaaaaay too much information online; not just HN but favourite forums like ElixirForum, Rust Users, OCaml, and a few very big subreddits on top of that.

Starting to gradually dial down things did wonders. Even today I still insist on checking 2 outlets from the above listing and I am working on eliminating my fear of missing out. So far a good compromise has been to never check them during this or that hours. And even that helps.

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Here's something even more generic as an advice but I also feel it applies well, especially nowadays with all the distractions that bombard us:

Do your own thing. Develop problem-solving skills. All the out-of-context advice is still out there. If one day you need it, you can get metric tons of it in minutes.

Start focusing. Start analyzing your own life, your own personal / work faults, and optimize for your own unique circumstances. Treat your life (or whatever part of it you want improved) as an optimization problem and work on that.
Because the comment I replied to made the generic claim (emphasis added) “One thing to remember is that it is always possible and acceptable to contact the author of a GPL-licensed piece of code”.
Can someone please flag this garbage?
I am almost certain that the....'probabilitically' added benefit of a trained healthcare worker is likely greater than their taxation.....
I am guessing that most POTS is VOIP now, except for the few places with existing copper infrastructure that has not been decommissioned yet.
Question about the WARP map - I assume the grey countries are places where Cloudflare doesn't have any presence, but what about Egypt/Oman? Why are they green? And why is Australia orange and not red?
Anything that has state involved in a known boundary of conditions, AI will always best human's.

Human's are really good at generating rules that create dynamics of play. Whenever that set of rules is inscribed in a form of notation, AI will best it.

Human's create notation, AI consume it. This can be mutually beneficial. AI depend on human's illogical-logic for breaking novelty thresholds, and human's depend on AI for doing better at logic. AI solve a very important problem of the human condition that has a huge attack vector on reason and logic. If we can somehow find harmony with AI where it doesn't become a risk of manipulating the source of debugging logic & reason then it'll be a very nice match!
You mean the shots that provide sterilizing immunity for diseases that have orders of magnitude higher mortality rates for children and healthy people? None of which is true with COVID - and anyone that disagrees can just look up the stats on the CDCs website and read about sterilizing immunity on wikipedia.
some mechanical keyboard companies run discord servers to offer order / tech support and various loyalty programs.
That article isn’t about herd immunity.
To help improve the framing a little more, with rough orders of magnitude:

* 10^10 Watts: electrical power generation of the Itaipu Dam[0]

* 10^26 Watts: luminosity of the Sun[0]

* 10^10 neurons simulated on the Japanese supercomputer K last year[1]

* 10^10 neurons in the human brain[2]

I'm not claiming that a simulation of the human brain with equivalent capability is just around the corner, just that it is misleading to point to the scale difference between artificial and natural energy sources with the implication that brain simulation is beyond our reach in the same way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28power%2...

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fninf.2020.0001...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...
The guy as noted had/has already published papers in renowned journals, and that was a reason for the PhD (see last few sentences). I don't think this guy skipped any fundamental steps. He probably should have been admitted/applied to a PhD to begin with.
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Sure, that seems a bit dramatic, but basically sure; I did say the other contentful posts are fine of course IMO, there's a blog post from Cloudflare now too, it's just the initial [x is down](currently dead link) posts that I don't like/see a need for.

99% they just get used as 'is it just me' checks, and there are dedicated sites for that.
This is a case where an anecdote is proof, at least a partial proof.

If the proposition is "Facebook brings at least some good to the world". A single confirmed anecdote of Facebook bringing a single good thing to the world is a proof. In the same way that all you need to prove that black sheep exist is to show a single black sheep.

The proposition is "Facebook brings a lot of good to the world" is a bit trickier, we need to define "a lot", but it can still be proven by "a lot" of anecdotes.

It is not a generality we are trying to prove, so we don't need to have data representative of the general case.

The part about Facebook being the best for dating is stated as a personal opinion.
Doesn't excuse firing people who have already had it.

Regardless of whatever the argument is about those who haven't had it.
Please link your sources and highlight the relevant information.
Quite likely. Cloudflare has a report that outlines the reason behind it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
He called on his mobile phone. As a result it was a voice-only conversation, no video.
...or use Tox and no service providers would be affected because it's 100% decentralized.
> apps won't accept an error for an answer and start retrying, sometimes aggressively

I'm certainly guilt of this. Retries make the world go round, and round again. I've been given attitude by teams that own downstream services.

Them: "Why are you retrying so aggressively?"
Me: "Why is your service so damn flakey?"
SMS is sort of that, right, at least a crude form?
Late last year here in Australia, I remember ACT Health announced a major change to the territory's COVID restrictions exclusively on Facebook Live one afternoon and didn't update their website until the following morning.

Highly inconvenient for someone without Facebook looking to visit the territory.
Amusingly enough, 1.8% is close to the IFR of Covid.
I'm a draw-bored mortise and tenon guy myself.
That makes a lot of sense. Indeed the most charismatic and attractive people I've known rarely seem to have any idea how it works. It comes across as false modesty but it's likely indeed a mystery.

People I've known who are financially successful (some massively so) tend to fall into two categories though. Some will say that this and this and that happened just so, and they wouldn't begin to know how someone else could replicate it. Others will say it's just a matter of perseverance and not making stupid mistakes and anyone can do it if they just bothered to, despite ample evidence to the contrary.
I feel like you've posted evidence that vaccines are effective at reducing spread (in addition, of course, to being extremely effective at reducing deaths).

The CDC prison study says "The attack rate was higher among unvaccinated versus fully vaccinated persons (39 of 42, 93% versus 129 of 185, 70%; p = 0.002)."

The Eurosurveillance article you posted says "The calculated attack rate among all exposed patients and staff was 10.6% (16/151) for staff and 23.7% (23/97) for patients, in a population with 96.2% vaccination rate (238 vaccinated/248 exposed individuals)." Do you think that indicates that vaccines don't reduce spread? What do you think the attack rate would be in an unvaccinated population?

The European Journal of Epidemiology article isn't actually trying to look at vaccine effectiveness in reducing spread. It has some interesting information, but that's not what it's about.
Eight posts on the front page of HN are about FB outage
It throws me off that Python 3.10 is a later version than 3.9. I would have named it Python 3.91.
I assume that if your business relies on this service you have an account representative you can contact for help with technical and billing issues?
Disclaimer: this is from memory

You could submit paid products to default Cydia repositories, where you personally handled payments. There was no commission in such scenarios. If you opted for payments to be handled by SaurikIT, a 30% fee was in place.

Cydia had special deals in place for Intelliborn products, I dont think this extended to other groups. Intelliborn previously operated Rock Your iPhone, which was acquired by Cydia and this was a negotiated term.
It's happened [1] but for it to happen to a company with the structure of Facebook a lot of things would have to go wrong.

For starters Zuck owns Class B shares which have 10x the votes of Class A shares. I'm sure a bank would happily loan him money against his Class B shares, but any forced liquidation would involve a transfer to Class A shares. Zuck could lose a lot of shares and still maintain control of the company.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-board-struggles-with-its-ceos...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/30/provincetow...

Whatever you do, please understand that if you had the vaccine it doesn't mean that you cannot transmit covid.
As well as higher-quality output with Blender, it's also possible to add atmospheric effects such as fog and reflection in water bodies.
What you are seeing is a major weakness of platforms like HN and Reddit. This weakness could very well cause more harm than Facebook, but studies or articles that point this out likely wouldn't receive exposure on the platforms they impugn.

We've seen the negative effects of this feedback loop in the past (who else remembers Reddit's role in the Boston Marathon bombing?), but it is clearly a much lower priority than the current Facebook witch hunt.
I know your entry to the conversation was about transmission, but the broader context here seems to be about hospital staffing, which would make hospitalisation vs cases the more useful question.
An enlightening excerpt from a related article: "The decision by the Durban University of Technology to require a Master’s degree as a minimum requirement for a lecture position has been welcomed by education experts."
>It’s not all about you...

>Stop being selfish and...

His body his choice.
Someone asked somewhat recently about visualizing analytic signals in 3D (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28633829). This is my video, with 3D animation, summarizing the FFT and analytic signals, plus a review of digital sampling.

The submitted link is for a blog post about the video which includes a video transcript (repeated for reference: https://blog.mikebourgeous.com/2021/10/04/fast-fourier-trans...)

Here's a direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyjIVSnrPSo

I've opened the Ruby code building blocks I use to produce these visualizations (which are not open): https://github.com/mike-bourgeous/mb-sound
Don't be FB friends with your crazy family! Be FB friends with cool strangers
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At a guess: reconnecting traffic at the billions-of-people scale has the potential for finding all sorts of weird behaviours. For all we know, it has been connected and disconnected 10x already during the outage, with each reconnect overwhelming some new, deeper level of the system each time.

Reconnect and the GLBs fall apart under load as the entire world’s cadre of recursive resolvers hit you.

Fix that. Reconnect again. This time your LBs have marked half the servers as offline because their heartbeats have been failing.

Fix that. Reconnect again. Now all the memcache data is hours old and so the site business logic fetches straight from databases, knocking them over.

Fix the databases. Reconnect again. Ad nauseam.
“Air-Boot v1.07 is not mine.”
Why don't you flag yourself? Go watch TV and play some more games, drink some cokes and get injected again.
If you went to a group meeting with them, even if you're talking to someone else you could potentially overhear the other friends talking to someone else about those political views, wouldn't you?

I just personally don't see this as a social media problem but I know it can definitely happen in real life (I've been that person listening to "friends" discuss views I don't agree with at an event/party/hangout).
Why do we even let corporations own things that we consider "utilities"? Seems like a case of people being perfectly happy with using a free service until it breaks, then it's all a shitstorm. If WhatsApp's mere existence is enough to warrant deregulation, what does that mean for platforms like iMessage, which fundamentally fill the same role?
Russia's segment of ISS loses 1 docking port due to cracks in Zvezda module
Kentucky and Missouri have roughly the same climate zones as most of the Northeast, thanks to their inland position. A decent chunk of Missouri is actually in a colder climate zone than the NY metropolitan area[1]!

[1]: https://basc.pnnl.gov/images/iecc-climate-zone-map
Is it harmful?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/29/facebook-...

Did Facebook lie to congress?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/03/02/facebook-...

Also short comments without discussion and evidence do poorly.

I believe it should be halted for public safety which is well within the rights and capacity of our government. I believe a fair trial should happen before anyone receives punishment, but I don't believe we could find an impartial jury as Facebook is ubiquitous.
Just think of the images as a PCA/dimensionality reduction. Instead of running a model on 3D atmospheric conditions, you run predictions based on a 2D slice of it. Enough of the information remains embedded in the radar images that predictions have similar accuracy to crunching numbers on higher dimensions.
Sounds like a tension between what is and what should be.

As it stands now, it seems like there are ways other to make lots of money other than merit. Is that an argument against meritocracy? It sounds like it's the opposite to me.
Banking and the ability to use Facebook messenger are not even remotely close to the same thing. SMS services are still alive, so are phone and other actually critical services. Messenger is nice, but really, outside of being able to send stickers and whatnot (which is nice) this isn't critical infrastructure.
Vermont is a pretty bad example because while the numbers are up again they're still quite low - thankfully the state has never been hit terribly by the virus.
Even free form handwritten text recognition is pretty good at this point and that's true for most languages. You can try with Google Lens if you have an Android phone.
> we need to start differentiating between

No, we don't. PII is PII.

These large scale breaches harm everyone's privacy (anonymity). Even people who are not included. Because with enough data you can deanon people, eg thru process of elimination.
still true since some people get covid more than once.
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The current system seems to prioritize de-activation of employee badges versus ease of use for existing employees. A local cache would need an invalidation mechanism that was networked.
2kWHr/day is about 500 watts of solar panels (just for starlink, similar math for the rest of the stuff). So that's about $750 plus brackets, wires and stuff. You'll need a battery bank and you will trade off the size of the battery bank against the size of the solar array to survive partly cloudy days, but there will always a cloudy period longer than your batteries will provide, so get a small generator running on whatever fuel is convenient (you want to charge using at least 1/4 the capacity of your generator to keep the efficiency up, so small generator unless you have vast batteries). Then you don't need such a big battery bank or solar array.

In the cost of a small home, the solar/battery/generator is minor. $1500 panels, $1000 inverter charger, $1000 lead acid batteries (5 years, then lithium will make sense), $2000 generator, $2000 more because I underestimate… $7500 all in.

Fantasy is still a go!
It's not a utility, and it shouldn't be considered one.
Am I looking at the wrong parts of those pages? In the first I see "The threshold for establishing herd immunity for COVID-19 is not yet clear." and in the second I see "The proportion of the population that must be vaccinated against COVID-19 to begin inducing herd immunity is not known."

Also, the threshold for herd immunity is based partially on how well the virus spreads, and Delta changed that, which means that the threshold for herd immunity probably changed. When facts change, the messaging needs to change to stay accurate.
I'm sure they got stuck in a security loop. To get access OOB passwords or IP address, they needed to get into a password vault that is under facebook AN.

Next time FB save you passwords in OneDrive and Google Drive as a backup LOL. facebook-oob-password@gmail.com
Yes, why shouldn't the next standard (like 6G) introduce support for a better messaging network than SMS? With group chats and image support. Each carrier could decide if you can send unlimited messages or a few thousand. In any case it would remove this dependency on a single company.

Edit: Just realized there's RCS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
This page makes Brave think it's unavailable and offer an archived version, lol.
Lovely practical comment, seems almost universally applicable, thank you :). Especially this bit:

>If one day you need it, you can get metric tons of it in minutes.
In case anyone comes across this thread in the future, I've uploaded the video that covers analytic signals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyjIVSnrPSo

FFT section starts at 4:33, analytic signals come up at 7:20.
They should be protected and masked up. They are not the source of the highest risk.

Stats say you are most likely to catch it from your kids.
Sorry, I should have been clearer - the dongles controlled access to that bank account. It was a bank account for banks to hold funds in. (Not our real capital reserves, but sort of like a current account / checking account for banks.)

I was friends with one of those people, and I remember a major panic one time when 2 out of 3 dongles went missing. I'm not sure if we ever found out whether it was some kind of physical pen test, or an astonishingly well-planned heist which almost succeeded - or else a genuine, wildly improbable accident.