Nobody in my family has any kind of crazy chronic conditions. A few surgeries, a couple of c-sections, a week in the NICU, a few short stays in some hospitals. We've experienced nearly half a million in healthcare benefits from our insurance companies over the years. I don't think I'm ever going to pay enough in premiums to cover these costs.
Im 41 and haven't been to a doctor since I was 10. I have had insurance coverage my whole life. So technically I (my employer on my behalf I guess) have paid for many other people's services.
I have been a huge net positive for insurance companies. Other people get way more services than they ever paid.
> FYI for anyone who isn't familiar with the wacky US insurance situation: Nobody in the US actually pays $800 for the drug. That's the "list price" for insurance companies to pay. Even insurance companies don't pay that price because they negotiate their own rates with the drug companies, which are lower.
Sure, we do not pay $800 at the pharmacy when we go to pick up the prescription, but every cent the insurance company pays, we are paying by proxie with added admin costs.
YouTube offers an ad-free subscription called YouTube premium. It's reasonably priced and includes access to YouTube Music.
I like the hybrid approach of being able to be ad-supported or paid with no ads. I would like to see more of it.
What I don't like is a paid service like Amazon Prime that also includes ads. They include ads in their search results and they include tons of ads in their video library.
FWIW: Hulu offers paid access to content with ads but offers an upgrade to get rid of most of the ads, so there seems to be a whole lot of testing what works in this area going on right now, which I see as a good thing, I just hope that once everything settles the predominant model will be fair and respect user privacy.
YouTube is a good example here, because at least in the EU, you can disable any tracking. You then don't get front-page recommendations, which would normally use that tracking information, but otherwise you can use YouTube just fine.
Disclaimer, I just pulled this quote from Google ai which probably took it from somewhere else, but I just wanted to provide a little context. ASCII encoded text is also valid utf8.
> The first 128 characters of Unicode, which are the same as the ASCII character set (characters 0-127), are encoded in UTF-8 using a single byte with the exact same binary value as their ASCII representation. This means that any file containing only ASCII characters is also a valid UTF-8 file
Yes, but the box drawing characters in "ASCII" are all above 127 so they don't encode the same way. So that last AI generated sentence is basically false (or really misleading): ASCII files that consist only of characters in the lower 127 will also be valid UTF-8. But ASCII files that use characters above 127 will not be valid UTF-8.
Now, technically, ASCII only concerns the lower 127 characters. There's no single standard definition as to what the upper half of the byte space represents in ASCII itself so technically it's true that all valid ASCII files are valid UTF-8. By the same logic however, the box drawing characters are not ASCII. They're actually part of something called code page 437, which maps those bit patterns to box drawing characters. With other code pages they map to something else, often non-Latin characters or ones with accents.
So, the name ASCII flow is misleading and the the output options are too. ;-)
Basically, if the high bit is set in UTF-8 it indicates that more than one byte is needed to represent the code point.
Granted, all of that is true, but GP specifically differentiated between ASCII and ASCII Extended, then GP went on to say that after choosing the ASCII option and pasting the text in a text editor on Mac it was reported as UTF-8, which I was pointing out would be true because if the ASCII option is chosen as opposed to the ASCII Extended option then what he ends up with (ASCII) is valid UTF-8 as reported by the text editor.
Indeed, UTF-8 "was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII: the first 128 characters of Unicode, which correspond one-to-one with ASCII, are encoded using a single byte with the same binary value as ASCII, so that a UTF-8-encoded file using only those characters is identical to an ASCII file."
I love python f-strings. I dont use the format specifiers that this article points out.
Also, even though use in log messages is discouraged, I go ahead and use them. It will let me know if there is some code path where the proper variable is never set. This usually comes out through testing, especially during fuzzing so I guess it really only works because of my testing, otherwise it would come up during runtime...
Those platforms seem to be web analytics platforms, purpose built to track and analyze data from visitors to your web site.
Delve, on the other hand, concentrates on ingesting large quantities of structured, semi-structured and unstructured text based data. Think log files, csv, json, xml, item descriptions, etc.
The closest product to Delve would be something like Splunk or ELK.
I would say Delve is easier to get started with than Splunk or ELK, but actually offers more control since you can easily write your own search commands and field extractions. Also, role based access control is implemented to give fine-grained access to data.
Also configuration is all in one place, backend databases are configurable (sqlite, postgres, MySQL and any other database that works with the django ORM) and more.
Please let me know if you'd like any more details.
I like the name. If everyone renamed their product based on HN comments, the marketplace would look like the home directory of a mentally unstable data hoarder.
It does sound like there are some collisions but that doesn’t really matter unless your CLI name clashes, in which case you have many options for adjusting it. The domain name can have suffix or prefix or just “analytics.” And realistically people are going to google “delve analytics” if they can’t find it.
Depends on the size, but I have seen a non-trivial number of GitHub projects that reference an .mp4 served by raw.githubuserassets.com in their readme
I would suspect the cheapest way of doing that is to create an issue, drag the mp4 onto it, and then you have a stable reference to use from within the readme
Same thing, but from the trades instead of the military.
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