skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has nothing to do with not caring about friends. It has everything to do with the company itself. Every news story that comes out just confirms my decision. Not one of them has made me think that I was being too hasty in my decision.

Before FB, it was possible to stay in contact with family, friends, etc. Was it as easy? Maybe. Email was perfectly fine. What FB (and everyone else in social too) was make so damn easy to post to the world "here's what I'm doing this exact second. please look at me!" The noise went sky high, and the signal went very faint. Then the algorithms kicked in, and the signal got even harder to find.
Tools in the 2018 edition of Rust
A telling contrast with the Mark Rober video and comments. Citizen has video evidence of package being stolen ? Or in the case of the comments GPS of offenders? Police dont give a fuck. Trillion dolllar company? Yes sir Mr Bezos, and we’ll deliver those extra packages for you on our time as well!

YPDMV
Brotli added custom dictionaries in 2014 or 2015 (before zstd format was even frozen). We are currently working on a new more efficient custom dictionary that uses context and transforms to ramp up the impact of the custom dictionary (by about 20%).
It's one reason that "lifetime employment" worked so well for them.
I'm discussing the problem of collections of python scripts using /usr/bin/python and I included the state of RHEL7 as an example.

The actual subject is CoolGuySteve's build system, which is likely to look like my example of RHEL7 rather than yours of ubuntu. The vast majority of environments look like RHEL7 or CoolGuySteve's build system where #!/usr/bin/python is the norm.
Vision and dental are areas where the market is halfways working. If you get a planned surgery the hospital will still try to rip you off left and right. It's not only emergency.
(Replying to the dead comment)

People are bloodthirsty because stealing packages is so much more personal than, say, shoplifting. The mail is personal. The shit you get shipped is personal. Especially around christmas. "Who the fuck steals the gift for my nana?"

And it's like, people don't usually even know what they're stealing. There's a damage&reward imbalance between the person who loses something of great potential sentimental value (it's not always amazon packages, sometimes it's stuff people send each other), just so that some petty thief has a shot at having something they care about / can make a profit on.

I'm with everyone else on this, fuck people who steal packages. Those and bike thieves.
>Bit of a hassle to go there for pickup, but better than having expensive things stolen

afaik you're not liable if that happens (Amazon will send another for free), so why should you care?
> No. That’s the justification given so that people get angry at the wrong thing. Hospitals charge this because they CAN. They are doing what businesses do and that is maximizing their profit.

Hospitals make very low profit margins; hospitals have been hemorrhaging money and either being bought out by hospital systems or insurers, or even shutting their doors entirely.

In any case, it's not uninsured patients that cost the hospital money; there aren't enough of them to make a difference at most hospitals. The patients that cost hospitals money are Medicare patients, because Medicare reimburses rates that are below COGS, and private insurers are required by law to reimburse more.

In other words, yes, it's the politicians that enable a broken system, but no, it's not the uninsured patients who are at fault, and it's not "profit-maximizing businesses" that are at fault either. Hospitals don't want this convoluted billing system any more than patients do, but it's literally forced on them as a result of accepting Medicare patients.
Yep, and the "Access my data at any time" basically lets them store and refresh access tokens, not give blanket access to things like messaging.
I'm not sure that social advocacy should be a goal of the legal profession. I understand that most politicians tend to have degrees in law, however when you take on a political stance and display it, it seems to me that this has the net effect of weakening the role of lawyers and justice in general.

I've always thought that public defenders, and prosecutors should be a pool of publicly paid lawyers that have to take on cases of all kinds. That the respect for the basis of personal liberty and being able to objectively argue for either side of any given narrative is of paramount importance.

I think too many of the current twenty-something generation appear to be far more concerned with feelings, virtue and equality of outcome than they are thinking critically and doing what is most right for all involved. Less self, more service.
Presumably, though, once someone offered you more than $10 a month, you could just pay for another streaming music service. I think the whole idea here is that paying someone to not use a service means they then use that money on some alternative - whether it is a social network, music streaming app, or anything else you can spend money on to pass the time.

I wouldn't spend money on a replacement social network if you paid me not to use facebook, but I certainly would put that money towards something else I found fun and entertaining.
> Coffee powder needs to be kept in a sealed container to be 'fresh'

There's no shortage of those sealed containers. If someone has a Keurig machine, and is using those pods, then they also have a refrigerator and are able to obtain containers, which are inexpensive.

There is no real argument for keurig cups other than convenience.

Is that convenience worth all of the waste? Should people be able to choose to generate such waste for something so trivial? Should be firms be allowed to sell waste-generators like Keurig? If Keurig is not responsible for the mountains of damage done, and the consumers are not responsible, then where does the buck stop?

This area is ripe for regulation and well overdue.
Duck 'vanity sizing' sometime.
Why shouldn't someone with means be able to buy a better level of care?
Comparing stealing a package to stealing bread is silly.
Computers generally become obsolete at some point. Most audio equipment doesn't - newer equipment might be cheaper, more reliable or more convenient to use, but it probably doesn't sound any better. The cachet and mystique surrounding vintage equipment means that it often appreciates in value with age.

Vacuum tubes are considered obsolete in pretty much any other field, but they're still the gold standard for guitar amplifiers. Despite huge advances in digital modelling, many guitarists still strongly prefer traditional tube amplifiers. Tube amplifiers are fragile, finicky, incredibly heavy and frequently too loud for domestic use, but they sound superb. The NuTube is by no means the first product to promise the sound of tubes in a lighter and more reliable package, nor will it be the last.
SQLAlchemy is not an ORM. There’s a companion ORM project if you want it, but it’s not necessary.
Many ER bills are broken down similar to that now. I was in the ER earlier this year for about 12 hours and there were 30 different line items. The big ones were "part trauma tm response activat" for $26k, "critical care 30-74 min with mo" $5.5k, and a couple related to ct scans. I was only billed $5.92 for ibuprofen 600mg.
> dilapidation of reading culture

Surely we read more than we ever did? Surely more people a literate than ever before?

Certainly we didn't read much television...

My friends that are dyslexic or illiterate have learnt to read in their 30s and 40s because of the internet.
From Mark Nottingham's email:

> the unfortunate limitations of some DNS gateways/proxies

With growth in public DNS services like 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1, plus the advent of DNS-over-HTTPS, I wonder for how much longer that will be a problem.
You can compose queries, using the queryAPI in SQLAlchemy, without touching the ORM.
Without their offer, the market value of the property is zero. Who is going to buy a house that has no fire insurance and is currently on fire? Is a steeply discounted price really outrageous? They might perish in the fire, they might fail to save it. Firefighting back then was no sure thing.

Now, if two crews showed up and bid against each other, things start to get interesting.
I wish there was a data audit log for your account. I'd like to be able to check which companies accessed what part of my data, when, and for what purpose. If I noticed something I didn't like, I could revoke permissions. If I noticed something that seemed very shady, e.g. Spotify editing my private messages, I could start an escalation.

This seems like a good way to move the burden of auditing partners onto the users for Facebook to me. Make application fill in information about why they call specific operations, make those operations and reasons available in an audit log that any user can review.
Yes, may be I read it the wrong way. I later noticed the authors. BTW, thank you for your part at making it the best compression library for wide variaty of cases.
The End of Europe?
There's a reason the post wasn't worded as "you would have had to explicitly give permission for Spotify to access all of your messages."

It is my opinion that Facebook recognizes exactly how unethical their behavior was, as evidenced by the language they choose to use to describe their behavior.
>So even to argue that the health insurance market is a "free market" would be pretty weak

I was arguing(tongue-in-cheek) that the process to make our healthcare system was completely a free market.
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If you realize something is wrong a couple years in and it takes 5+ years to fix it, then that seems like a long time to me.
Why is it standard practice in the US to leave undelivered packages on the porch of people's homes? With the reports of stolen packages and Amazon having to put dummy packages to catch thieves, as a non-American I'm struggling to understand why they don't just put them back in the truck and let you arrange a later delivery or pick-up at the closest parcel centre.
Looking at the Spotify sign-in image from 2013 that jahlove found above, Spotify didn't even ask for that auth permission.

The full messaging access seemed to be a hidden bonus for their larger partners.
I'm sure mongodb is fine and powers a lot of high-profile sites and services. But I've never had a good experience running it or administering it.

But I'm also one of the the people that still prefers to run MySQL over PostreSQL just because the tooling is still far superior
This is a simple form you can reuse:

Does [increased polarisation of views] increase engagement? [Yes]

Therefore, we can conclude that Facebook does this.

FB is designed for maximum-engagement regardless of whether that is positive or negative for the useds (to use Richard Stallman's pun).
Scandinavia is different than the rest of europe and they dont have 11 million illegal immigrants too. Belive me i know both places pretty intimately.
Since my wife is from Panama (I am Australian) I have long considered doing something like this. That part of Panama Chiriquí is particularly pretty and the climate is indeed fantastic.

In light of the AABill and the NBN perhaps I should consider it more.
zstd vs. brotli -- there are loooots of badly conducted experiments. Even the zstd folks themselves fell into the trap of comparing brotli and zstd with different window sizes.

I never was able to locate a file that compresses better with zstd than with brotli, if you use the same window size in both.

The car analogy in using different window sizes is to drive on 1st gear with one car and drive on 5th gear with other, i.e., meaningless comparisons. One needs to use the same window size with both algos to be able to understand the performance potential in them. When one does that, brotli always wins in density and most of the time on compression speed to a given density. Zstd wins in decompression speed, but neither of them is slow (think 600 MB/s vs. 900 MB/s).

https://github.com/google/brotli/issues/642 is relatively well conducted, but covers the slow+dense and large window compression only.
these overhyped autonomous deployments are how we slowly progress to accurately-hyped autonomous deployments.
A lie is a falsehood that's meant to deceive someone. A rep saying the data is gone because, functionally, it is is not a lie. If the intent is to set proper expectations with a customer then I think telling them it's gone and potentially being able to say "actually, we were able to recover it by escalating it" is better than "we may be able to recover it by escalating the issue" because you're underpromising and overdelivering. The opposite just sets you and the customer for failure.
I wonder if these are any different to JFETs in blind auditions. People have been basically taking old Marshall circuitry and turning it into pedals using J201 JFET transistors. It's a bit of a bear to set up bias for, but the results are impressive enough that there's an entire cottage industry around this by now and some higher end manufacturers (e.g. Bogner Amplification) have jumped on the bandwagon. Needless to say, a JFET is at least an order of magnitude cheaper than this can ever be.
"Regulation" is not a monolith, the specific details of a particular regulation are absolutely essential to evaluating its efficacy. This tendency to suggest that all regulations are bad reflects an ignorant perspective.
Region. The multi Region thing is partial BS too if US East has a total failure there is not enough spare capacity to absorb all of US East compute in other Regions.
This was always the case. If the item is defective it can always be returned for free, but if the reason is more user-preference should Amazon really cover it? It'd be easy for people/competitors to game the system.

They do seem to provide a significant amount of leeway if your acct has a low return rate.
A Trip Down Memory Lane from Fred Wilson
Yes. The secondary market for audio gear is very healthy, even for things that have stopped working and may only be useful for parts. It's so healthy that building modern clones of classic early innovations is a sustainable business model.

Electronic music exists as it does because the advent of digital synthesis/recording technology in the 1980s led to mass abandonment of analog gear by rock and pop musicians, which was eagerly snapped up by broke hippies and hip-hop DJs. Commercial musicians jumped on the digital bandwagon for reliability, range, and repeatability (sounds stored as easily-recallable software presents instead of requiring tedious rewiring and knob-twiddling or having 10 keyboards on stage). Also, commercial musicians had mostly used synthesizers to substitute for acoustic instruments; it's cheaper to hire a keyboard player than a string or a brass section, and digital synthesis and sampling offered more realistic imitations than was possible with analog gear. Electronic musicians are more interested - no, obsessed = by the timbral characteristics and weirdness of the instruments themselves. I know people who have dedicated years of their lives to analysing and reproducing the characteristics of discontinued instruments like the TB-303 bassline as if it were a Stradivarius. Synth circuit engineers are venerated like stars at music equipment trade shows, and the social hierarchy of electronic musicians is ordered by their known propensity for experimenting or modifying their gear rather than commercial success. It's an interesting ecosystem.

Anyway, rest assured that few if any of the products using this component will end up in a landfill.
does this mean mongo is a liability insofar that there is a lock-in aspect?
What does firmware as a service even mean.
That doesent mean the healtcare system is the same, its not. Again you probably need to do a little more studying of scandinavia and the EU cause you are getting some fundamentals pretty wrong.
What would happen if I noticed a package not addressed to me on my porch, and I:

1) Took it inside?

2) Took it inside and called USPS/FedEx/UPS depending on the shipping label?

3) Took it into my car, and drove to a USPS/FedEx/UPS office depending on the label?

To add, I appreciate that there are efforts behind solving this problem. I'm living in an apartment, and I've had to deal with missing packages as well. I'd personally rather have legitimate packages have trackers, and then return or drop-off the tracker once I receive the package successfully. I understand the price would be high given the scale of my ask.
Many are reading, probably: http://copyright.nova.edu/mickey-public-domain/
>a socioeconomic segment that, due to pervasive discrimination, is notoriously underrepresented in higher ed

This argument is getting very tiring, and increasingly dangerous. There's a laundry list of reasons coming from a poor background is disadvantageous. Especially growing up without a father and with poor nutritional intake.

If we handwave all inequities away with discrimination, then actual, internal problems will never be solved. That goes for all marginalized minorities.
Oh my god so did I
Yes, I know Swisscom does this already.
> Fancy new buildings

Rarely paid for with reimbursement revenues.

> giant endowments

Definitely not paid for with reimbursement revenues.

> amenities for staff

Try cutting these, and see how quickly 1199 SEIU comes down on you.

> raising administrator salaries "to retain premium talent", etc.

Even if you assumed that there were no relationship between the wages paid and the quality of work performed (there is), these are nowhere near big enough to account for the difference. They're also not that far out of line with other countries, either: 25% in the US, compared to 20% in the Netherlands, for example.

But more so than that: they're SG&A expenses, which are further down the balance sheet than the reimbursement revenues. And yet, hospitals actually lose money on the top line for Medicare patients (who represent about 40% of the market). That's the real reason reimbursement rates are raised for private insurers - the private insurers are required (by law) to pay more, and they need to subsidize the sub-COGS reimbursements from the public insurers (Medicare, and to a lesser extent Medicaid).

So no, none of the things you listed actually explain the reason hospitals charge private insurers the rates they do.
Disney has prepared for this moment. They have registered trademarks for every aspect of mickey mouse (e.g. the name, his silhouette, etc). So, yes the original B&W steamboat willie video will enter the public domain, but mickey mouse as a brand will continue forever as trademarks do not expire.
The driver had the "temerity" to remove a delivered package from someone's porch for $5 of personal profit at the cost of the shipper's and receiver's time and/or money.

"Gaming" systems in reality can result in draconian, irreversible punishments. That _some_ systems are more permissive and allow people to exploit them once, twice, or more times before exercising punishments is no guarantee that _all_ systems will.

There is fault to be found with Amazon for designing a bad system. There is fault to be found with the driver for "gaming" a bad system. One does not excuse the other. Participants in a badly-designed system are not automatically empowered to disregard the rules and "game" that system.

TLDR: "An eye for an eye" may be an appealing strategy, but it is not universally accepted as valid.
Might have been after you commented, but at the bottom of the article:

>Apologies for the Facebook Like button on this Medium page. We’re just about ready to get off Medium as well, so that’ll take care of that!
Are you suggesting that the delete command shouldn't be trusted because there might be a backup of the file somewhere?

You people are throwing around the word "lie" very loosely here...
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> Allowing single line if statements (as, eg, ruby does) also allows for clearer code, at the expense of consistency.

This (or rather allowing conditionals without braces) was what I was referring to. They are a foot-gun, because of the lack of clarity. It's a common source of bugs in C/C++ code that a developer thought they'd add a line of code to a conditional block or loop but didn't, because of a lack of braces. Requiring braces unconditionally make it always unambiguous and obvious what block a given statement belongs to.

Obviously YMMV - this is, as most discussions in programming, a matter of opinion. Which was my point :)
It is but they dont do the complex procedures which is the costly part.
That cannot possibly be it, the last permission is just the "offline_access" field that was available to normal developers and I remember seeing used a lot. I refuse to believe this is what fb talks about when saying users gave permission.
> You give permission for those and the data accessed is often not public.

I'm not sure this was always the case with Facebook though. Let's say my friend John gives RBC access to his messages and I message him asking to loan me $50 because I'm struggling with money. Down the road if I apply for a loan from RBC they now have access to my "private" message, without my permission and can ostensibly then use that information when determining my creditworthiness. All without my knowledge or consent.
IIRC, Woese gets a fair bit of credit in TVQ. Certainly far more than a sentence.
I do this myself, though I don't hit it as hard as many people (I do about ~$1,500/year). I've never heard of anyone being banned from existing accounts, just being prevented from opening new accounts.
With zstd you end up on average 5-6 % worse than LZMA in density on a variety of large test corpora, but decodes 8x faster. Brotli with --large_window 30 can get within 0.6 % of LZMA, and decodes 5x faster than LZMA.

https://encode.ru/threads/2947-large-window-brotli-results-a...
First hint of near-room-temperature superconductor
I don't think it is standard practice but depends on neighborhood. Trying to re-deliver a package should be more costly than covering the cost of lost package when the crime rate is low.
Facebook Sued by District of Columbia Over Cambridge Analytica
That incident still gets me angry. Migrating wasn't a horrible experience but they way they went about it demonstrated they couldn't be trusted with anything remotely mission-critical.
True, if

1. You start from a normalized schema.

2. You denormalize in a structured way (eg dimensional modelling), rather than any old how.

3. You test the change.

Database query planners work better when they can take logically-safe shortcuts in their work. In large part that comes down to a properly-constructed schema.

Denormalizing makes it harder for the query planner. It also means you will probably lose out on future query planner enhancements.

Generally speaking, if someone wants to denormalize, I want to know the actual business value created and that the business risk is properly understood.