skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the figures, maybe they are too big to fail at this point. I’ll be interested to see how they weather the coming downturn and multiple scandals.
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I should add context: Facebook has ~20% of the digital advertising marketshare in the US (2018). They are #2 to Google. What both of these two titans give marketers (individual teams within a larger org) is something to brag about. How? Run a campaign for display or video ads in FB or Google and make sure you can tie it to a site action (ideally a conversion of some type). Let that run for a month and then give yourself a big pat on the back. You just drove some cost per action (conversion) number that with some tweaks can improve month over month. Your marketing org is now optimizing! yes! Drive those sales or site visits.

It is a great approach for marketing teams. They grow, look good, claim to drive revenue, try to impact consumer behavior, but it all is dependent on Facebook's (insert any ad platform partner) attribution. So yeah, Facebook will not mess with its attribution. It would make a big mess for both its business and it's client's business.

Marketers's should measure the incremental impact of their marketing buys (get their data science team to manage the study). They will be surprised to see how much display banners or video ads are impacting consumer behavior. Stay away from modeled approaches, try to grade the reporting yourself.
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3068312/microsoft-...
Hi. I made the graph. It was definitely not my intent to obscure or distort any information. Here's the raw data if you like [1]. Some context: the input text is silesia.tar, which is a standard mixed corpus of data. It was benchmarked by @Cyan4973 on his i7-9700k.

I guess I'm confused about how you feel we're misrepresenting the data? Are you talking about the sentence preceding that graph, "The benefits we’ve found typically range from a 30 percent better ratio to 3x better speed"? That's more describing the benefits we've seen in the real world, where for a variety of reasons (many of which are discussed in the rest of the post), we generally can get more out of zstd than this vanilla benchmark shows.

[1] https://gist.github.com/felixhandte/f6a91bf775d6e7df76ce06c0...
When you have a meeting with someone you can see where they do/used to work and perhaps find people in common. It's also apparently a good way to find employees though I'm not sure how our recruiters manage to use it in that way.

Otherwise...I don't get linkedin either. My gf used to work there and raved about it a lot but I still couldn't figure it out.
Are they on felony probation? I have moved a few times with little money for better opprotunities. It seems like most people are just psychologically conditioned to die near where they were born. Most people just think the hardship is worth it, which is very much a choice. It is literally cheaper to move to most of the USA than live another month in places like california or nyc.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/vitality/201205/face...

tl;dr> FB addicts are chasing the same dopamine rush as cocaine and heroin addicts.
USA dentists don't work on Sunday. If you had waited until Monday you would have had many more options. Besides what could she have possibly done to "fix a broken tooth" in one day? Nobody was milling crowns in the office a decade ago. If it was really just a filling, wow.

Do dentists in Europe work on Sunday? In my experience the grocery stores aren't even open...
facebook recently allowed users to delete messages which was cool (i deleted a bunch of ny old wierd messages)
Proper insurance pays you for insured losses you incur.

When my car is damaged in an accident, I take it wherever I want to have it repaired. I don't have to think about whether the shop is "in network" or not. My insurance pays for the cost of the repair, up to the limits of my coverage. Simple.
Gee, that sure does sound like a private dispute between you and your employer to me. If you want to opt out of your company's health care plan then you're more than welcome to go attempt to negotiate with your manager about raising your salary by the amount of their health care contribution. Best of luck to you.
Or just seal the bag and throw it in freezer.
This probably helps but is not the sole solution. The state of Maryland has done this for 40 years and they have some of the highest Medicare hospital prices in the country. The problem seems to be consolidation: Johns Hopkins has gobbled up most of the other hospitals in the state, and so has significant control over prices.

(Source: my wife worked at a rural hospital on the border in a neighboring state.)
>It is possible for the total poverty rate to get lower, while the rate and absolute numbers of people in extreme poverty (hence the term third-world) increase.

In fact I'd argue this is exactly what's happening. The people who are willing and able to move out of impoverished regions to the coastal megacities are doing much, much better now than they were 10 years ago. But the ones who have stayed are sinking deeper and deeper into poverty as the economy completely shifts focus.
— What does it mean to be king?

— You will be the land, and the land will be you. If you fail, the land will perish. As you thrive, the land will blossom.

— But why?

— Because you are king!

King Arthur and Merlin, Excalibur (1981)

This, concisely, is the problem with kings.
The thing to note is that (good) tube amplifiers can be designed to be very linear until they're driven too hard - the audiophile community often overlooks this detail when they're shopping for "warm" tube amps for general power amp duties. The big differences between tubes and other kinds of amplifiers appear when they're driven at, and especially past, their design limits.

In an application like a guitar amplifier, some kind of effect/distortion pedal, etc the tube circuit is typically overdriven by design to get all of those warm harmonics. A tube that isn't being overdriven is every bit as capable of being a "wire with gain" as any kind of transistor or more modern circuit.
That's beside the point: You cannot conclude that cigarettes are beneficial by this method.

Right in the abstract they say:

> ... our results show that the benefits these services provide for their users are large.

...which is absurd.
No. The same logic does not apply, as the two situations are drastically different. The regularity of airline costs is drastically greater than the regularity of healthcare costs. Airlines can set ticket prices upfront because they predict their expenses on a given flight with a reasonable degree of accuracy. Hospitals, subject to extreme and frequent irregularities between what patients may need, cannot. At least not with individual patients. Insurance companies are very different types of customers as compared to individuals. Because the negotiated price applies to a large group of people, the question isn't "how much do we have to charge to break even on X procedure?" The question becomes, "How much do I have to charge for X procedure, *averaged over hundreds or thousands of patients?". Each patient is effectively a slot machine for the hospital. Insurance companies negotiate on behalf of a large number of patients so that the aggregate cost becomes something that is predictable enough to negotiate.
I hate to admit that I just realized the hard -> firm -> soft
ware analogy.
Browsers could cache dictionaries per MIME type per domain which are provided by the server. Would be super cool, if a bit more complicated.
High deductible health plans are close to half of all policies now (in 2017 it was 43.2% according to the CDC).

Insurance companies clearly have nothing to worry about. I might be able to put in extra effort to negotiate my costs down by paying out of pocket, but then it would not count towards my deductible or out of pocket maximum. Even with HDHP, I am still clearly incentivized to just pay whatever the insurance company thinks I should.

It's a great racket to be in, really. They can negotiate the pricing in advance so that they appear to be useful in making my costs lower, while not actually incurring any costs other than paperwork. They hold all the cards and they have captured the regulatory authorities.
Having spent the last few years in the 'real' (ie. non-software) world, it boggles me how anything less than an order of magnitude improvement is handwaved as trivial. 13% of bandwidth or 20% of offline storage space is huge savings for a company like FB. Once the software development industry matures a little, more people will start realising this.
I've noticed too that when returning items, some options make you pay for return shipping (e.g., selecting "No longer needed" for the reason). I don't remember that being a thing in the past. I used to buy items, like clothes perhaps, that I had to see and feel before deciding whether I wanted it and returning was straight-forward and free. At least that's my memory.
Please be honest and admit that this is solely about yourself; your kids having nothing to do with this except with respect to your own benefit. Even Walter White "did everything for his family."
From what I can tell the participants for the auctions came from:

>One hundred twenty-two Facebook users on the campus of a Midwestern liberal arts college took part in Study 1

>A third sample was recruited online through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an “open online marketplace for getting work done by others,” where workers complete Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) [40].

Thus the study sample populations were college students and people on Amazon Mechanical Turk who do Human Intelligence Tasks. I would guess that the Amazon Mechanical Turk also had a high number of college students. Based on the samples, I think that you can conclude that college students really like Facebook. How that actually translates into the general population is a different story.
This should be a highlighted comment in this discussion. My dad just retired and shut down his medical practice. He hated Medicare as a doctor (OK, my words, not exactly his), but now that he's using it as a patient he can see why people like it so much. It really isn't going to work like it does now if it becomes the only option for everyone.
I have seen so many critical articles of Mongodb. Even if I did have a use-case particularly well-suited for it, I would never consider using Mongo.

As an aside, I did consider using SQL Server until I looked at the licensing fees. Why would someone choose SQL Server when options like Postgres or MySQL/MariaDB exist? Is there a specific SQL feature (MSSQL or Oracle SQL) provides which is not available elsewhere and would be a core feature which the companies data storage is built upon? I.e. that feature is so important that the companies product architecture would be fundamentally different without using the proprietary database.
> Two years ago, Facebook open-sourced Zstandard v1.0...

Bullshit, Zstd was open-source from the very beginning, they just hired Yann and moved the project under facebook org. How do I know? I have written the JVM bindings [1] since v0.1 that are now used by Spark, Kafka, etc.

EDIT: Actually, my initial bindings were against v0.0.2 [2]

Kudos to FB for hiring him and helping Zstd getting production ready. This is just a PR false claim.

[1] https://github.com/luben/zstd-jni

[2] https://github.com/luben/zstd-jni/commit/3dfe760cbb8cc46da32...
Let's make this a thing. Please link me to your active profile. If you deactivate it and keep it deactivated for a year, I'll send you or your favourite charity $5.
I was having a problem with fruit flies around my used pods and compost bin so I started keeping them in the freezer. Worked like a charm.
Maybe some people do, but I don't.

Just play "Grandma's Hands" for me while I code. I don't need my friends in Paris to know I'm listening to Bill Withers.

Seriously, why do people think they need this stuff?
Have any of the people wanting SRV record support in HTTP/3 gone to the working group and proposed it? I searched the working group mailing list and couldn't find any discussion of this topic.
For a more intuitive explanation, this paper on the advantages of complex wavelets switched on the lightbulb for me why signals are complex in the first place:

http://people.math.sc.edu/blanco/IMI/DTCWT0.pdf
This is because surface ironically has quite a small testing surface. All hardware from all PC manufacturers is much harder to validate.
Wow, I'm excited to dig into this.

Crazy to imagine that you could buy a _Microsoft_ Surface, strip Windows and replace with Debian and have a fully open source device.

This raises my odds that they open source the Windows Kernel from ~2% to 4%.
Honestly I was super psyched to get into F# after finishing Dan Grossman's programming languages class, but I abandoned it pretty quickly because setup was so difficult on my Mac.

1) Multiple versions of .Net available (.Net Core, Mono...) and different tutorials and documentation would apply only to one or the other.
2) I went with .Net Core because the community seemed to have decided on that, but there is no easy way to do a cross-platform GUI in F# using .Net Core.
3) I just couldn't find find a simple tutorial taking me from beginner to intermediate using a cross-platform toolchain and development environment. I stumbled around with Visual Studio Code for a while, ran into some compatibility issues with hundreds of lines of errors messages...

I'm sure it would have been fantastic if I had had an F# person help me get set up and started, but the setup curve was too steep to be enjoyable (actually, setting up is never enjoyable. I just want to get to the good part of coding stuff!).
cost money, C and other languages did not

Only in the UNIX world, where C was a freebie. When I first got into C, pricey Microsoft C and MASM were needed for MS-DOS development. Turbo C, gcc, etc. came later.
"Syntax highlighting is juvenile."

That clearly implies anyone who uses syntax highlighting is juvenile. I'd say calling someone juvenile is meant to be denigrating.
I think a very common problem with OAuth (way beyond Facebook) is that people often underestimate the permission they are giving to a 3rd party. For example, if you use some email client to manage your Gmail, the email client would request permission to "manage your Gmail", exactly what you want, but that actually gives the 3rd party permission not only to read all your mails, but to send out emails on behalf of you.
Even assuming only DAUs would pay $1000/year (Facebook has 1.5 billion of them) and a P/S ratio of 1 (which is conservative), the company would be worth $1.5T.

Edit: But we should consider something like Metcalfe's law, as pointed out by berbec

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18720468
"Move to a better market" also fails with regards to the fact that you may need the services when not at home. If you were working in sales would you refuse to do an onsite meeting with a client because their office is near a terrible hospital?
Seems similar to the guide-wheel system shown in the Boring Company's demo yesterday:
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-boring-company-car-fli...

It seems the Boring Company expects much higher top-end speeds, however. Perhaps smaller vehicles and autonomous driving will help with that.
Not saying you're wrong, but a news site and CMS has different database requirements than many other products.

They have very few write actions; in the Guardian's case hundreds of authors publishing a few articles a day, versus millions of users reading data. Writes would be sporadic and batched.

News products also changes more rapidly than you might expect. A modern news team may be writing and shipping code to better cover a breaking news event. I can imagine why a document store would be appealing to them.
As an anecdote/data point: I largely forgot about LinkedIn, and never really heard much from them. One day I installed the app and decided to see what all my old contacts were up to, just browsing around. Immediately after, my page views went up and I was sent a few messages from recruiters. I'm wondering if they don't 'reward' more active users in recruitment searches...
> Which I thought was problematic until I started hearing about people who have high deductible plans that only make you pay 20% after hitting your deductible.

If I'm not mistaken, those plans also have an Out-of-Pocket Maximum. So you pay 100% up to your deductible, then some fraction of the cost above that until you hit the OOP max.
Obviously each little act of "stop using it" lowers the value of Facebook. If nobody uses Facebook, it has no value.

This is supposed to be a tool to estimate the value, not to get everyone to stop using Facebook: how much do we need to pay a given user to stop using Facebook, provided that nobody else stops using Facebook?

If we put a thermometer on every cubic millimeter of an object, we will probably significantly affect its temperature; but we don't do that; we use one small thermometer against a much larger object, so the transfer of heat between the two has a negligible effect on the temperature.
The reason why is because cops do not enforce those laws. How many times are people given tickets for not using blinkers in the USA vs Europe or Canada for example. It's a typical complaint for expats from those countries going to the USA.
The market isn’t related to the companies it ostensibly comprises at all.

Any changes are related to the expected value of the stock, not the company itself.
do you have any particular thoughts on that?
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So you think China has the same amount of population as US? Number of military personnels per capita of US is almost three times of the one of China.
The dictionary data in not personally identifiable, so no need to do anything. At least this is my understanding of GDRP, I am not a loyer.
Crassus's 6000 crucifixions in just one of his wars helped people take his threats seriously.
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I will say that we've been 'doing just fine' with zlib for longer than I'm comfortable with. I hung out on comp.compression when I was still in college and shared the dream of writing the next great compression library. Maybe the only thing I ever accomplished though was altering a Java minifier to improve compressibility of the class files.

On a very deep level I'm pretty disappointed that zlib has been 'good enough' for almost 30 years. When it was Google proposing a change, I wasn't enthused about handing more control over HTTP to Google. They have too much already. The ways I'm concerned about Facebook have nothing to do with standards bodies or protocols. So maybe this is good enough.

There are more options for files-in-motion and files-at-rest, and that could put it over the top. But you need to be filing high quality PRs on both HAProxy and Nginx if you want anybody to care.
Been working on something proposed by Manuel Blum (Conscious Turing Machines):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18577675

It's only a part of a possible AGI system ...
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My wife is a pediatrician at a large research university/med school. She is totally uninvolved in billing. She has no idea how much anything costs. She is aware of it as an issue, but its a giant organization, and the reality is she isn't going to try to fight the power.

Personally, I don't think doctors are the answer. I used to really like the idea of high-deductible. But eventually, I just came around to the idea that only the gov't can fix it (with lots of tradeoffs in that fix, obviously).
I apologize if my tone was not right... to be clear, I use Spotify exactly as you describe (different choices though) and am as baffled as you about people using those other ways.
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Hi all,
Junior in college, with a goal to work for a FANG company out of college. Which of the following would be the best use of my time?

1. Completing excercises on HackerRank

2. Creating data structure related projects for my portfolio

3. Creating full-stack related projects for my portfolio (react, Amazon S3)

4. Create projects that I'm currently interested in (was looking at making a CHIP-8 emulator).
LinkedIn is one of two main sources of job offers for me (the other one being my personal connections).
So succinctly translating for FOSS folks: imagine if Coreboot/uBoot updates were integrated into the normal default package manager repositories.
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You're right. This was from memory and I'd mixed up radius & diameter. Radius 695,700 km, diameter 1,391,400 km.
You rarely have this choice in practice. Plus, as the article points out, even if you chose an in-network hospital you may well be seen by an out-of-network doctor.
Have any professional audio products been released using this technology yet? Guitar amps or similar.

Is this purely used in audio or is there a display (video) usecase for this as well? The landing page seemed to imply the technology is coming from display tubes.
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I'm not sure why they didn't just ask this question directly?

Both scenarios are hypothetical, as no one is being actually paid to quit Facebook. So, why not make the hypothetical scenario: "Using Facebook now costs $X per month; how high does X need to be before you quit?"
Why not use multiple commas, instead of spaces? The first level branches would require 2 commas, instead of one space, else it's less error prone.
If it's a projected price, then the original commenter is still screwed if the birth becomes complicated. It's still a slot machine. Furthermore, it would incentivize sketchy practices like setting a lower base price than competitors but aggressively discovering (or manufacturing) complications so that the average price is considerably higher than the base price.
You have hit the fallacy on the head. Our (U.S.) system now is a terrible mess of regulations and tax breaks that drive stupid behavior. Single payer government health care is not the only alternative to what we have now. It would not produce maximums of quality, innovation, efficiency, satisfaction, or freedom. It would provide basic care to everyone.
Wow, I think that first reference is going to put a crimp in Korg's patent application :-)