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I don't say this often but... thank you facebook. https://facebook.github.io/zstd/ https://facebook.github.io/zstd/

glogla 4y ago
This and Presto are about the only things that Facebook did that benefited the world. Maybe React too, I'm not a front-end person.
- orangepurple 4y ago
  “All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
  - glogla 4y ago
    Pros: zstd, presto, react Cons: created a post-truth world which destroyed democracy and killed millions of people by spreading antivaxx propaganda Eh.
    - midoridensha 4y ago
      So how does this compare to Twitter, I wonder? I can't think of any real pros to Twitter. Did they create any great new open-source technologies?
      - glogla 4y ago
        I think Twitter pioneered some pretty cool streaming technologies in its day. Now Airbnb, those people caused untold suffering by both their impact on housing market, and by creating Airflow ...
    - lazide 4y ago
      I hate to break this to you, but the whole ‘post truth world’ and antivaxx BS existed long before Facebook. You might as well be blaming highways and radio - Facebook made it more accessible, but far from created it.
- zitterbewegung 4y ago
  Their research in transformers for conversational AI is good. See https://parl.ai/ https://parl.ai/
- sneak 4y ago
  So far, the societal benefits from Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram have been net positive, because the massive amounts of data they're collecting have not yet been bulk misused for mass torture, society-wide oppression, or a large-scale war. The game isn't over yet, however.
  - glogla 4y ago
    Not in the West, but check Facebook and Myanmar, for example.
skrause 4y ago
The initial release of zstd by Yann Collet was in January 2015 and he started working for Facebook in June 2015.
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This and Presto are about the only things that Facebook did that benefited the world. Maybe React too, I'm not a front-end person.

orangepurple 4y ago
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
- glogla 4y ago
  Pros: zstd, presto, react Cons: created a post-truth world which destroyed democracy and killed millions of people by spreading antivaxx propaganda Eh.
  - midoridensha 4y ago
    So how does this compare to Twitter, I wonder? I can't think of any real pros to Twitter. Did they create any great new open-source technologies?
    - glogla 4y ago
      I think Twitter pioneered some pretty cool streaming technologies in its day. Now Airbnb, those people caused untold suffering by both their impact on housing market, and by creating Airflow ...
  - lazide 4y ago
    I hate to break this to you, but the whole ‘post truth world’ and antivaxx BS existed long before Facebook. You might as well be blaming highways and radio - Facebook made it more accessible, but far from created it.
zitterbewegung 4y ago
Their research in transformers for conversational AI is good. See https://parl.ai/ https://parl.ai/
sneak 4y ago
So far, the societal benefits from Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram have been net positive, because the massive amounts of data they're collecting have not yet been bulk misused for mass torture, society-wide oppression, or a large-scale war. The game isn't over yet, however.
- glogla 4y ago
  Not in the West, but check Facebook and Myanmar, for example.

skrause 4y ago

The initial release of zstd by Yann Collet was in January 2015 and he started working for Facebook in June 2015.

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