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by potamic 5y ago
At that point you really want to front all database access via a service otherwise it's calling for other problems with schema management, security, resource quotas etc. You can even have separate pools for different use cases like rep
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by potamic 5y ago
When does a database need to maintain large number of open connections? You really don't need a lot of connections to serve high throughput. The database system typically becomes a bottleneck before the connections do. A good client-si
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by potamic 5y ago
I think in future servers will ask clients to solve a small computation. It can be theoretically incorporated into the handshake and if it takes something like 100ms, human users would not notice but botfarms will feel the pinch. An additio
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by potamic 5y ago
Ah, legal considerations definitely adds an interesting problem.
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by potamic 5y ago
That's quite informative. Thank you. What is still confusing though, as an end user if I can participate anywhere from any server, I'm not sure what things to consider before picking a server. It doesn't seem to really matter
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by potamic 5y ago
Could someone ELI5 how the federation model works in practice? From the understanding, there is one entity that owns the core technology but the operators of the servers are distributed and independent. How do they typically manage things l
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by potamic 5y ago
Reddit and even HN currently I believe do not account for age bias. Upvotes have a cascading effect and posts which happened to get a few votes early tend to out compete all other posts. What I'm suggesting is to have a small quota on
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by potamic 5y ago
I see. 1000 is probably a bit less to showcase a search concept but this is definitely a very interesting problem.
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by potamic 5y ago
I have been thinking it would interesting to do the following experiment. Pick two random new posts and show them directly on the home page for a fixed amount of time. Feed the data from those posts (views, votes, content, comments) into so
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by potamic 5y ago
Searching on google for old english meme immediately pulls up a bunch of Joseph Ducreux memes which is exactly what I was looking for. But this one does not return any. Are they not present in the dataset or could it be because of the way t
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by potamic 5y ago
What's ironic is that all those lame shows turned out to simply be way ahead of their time. Who's laughing at those memes now?
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by potamic 5y ago
> It’s true that deep learning has the potential to provide better performance, but the model twiddling, slow training (compared to LightGBM), and slower inference are all points against it. Transformer models appear to be the current s
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by potamic 5y ago
Maybe I have seen too much shit in my time but everything in this article makes me squirm about where we have come with respect to HR/People practices. The job of HR is to maintain the working conditions for people to continue doing wh
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by potamic 5y ago
They don't want you to use other platforms at the same time. Because if you spend too much time outside and start liking them, you will be at risk of unsubscribing. Heaven forbid they need to compete on content quality to retain you. T
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by potamic 5y ago
It's asked me to sign up and then says login not allowed
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by potamic 5y ago
Just wait till your Samsung TV phones in to your Samsung mobile to share wifi credentials. It's zero click convenience!
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by potamic 5y ago
India did this with the United Payments Interface, and is it a thing of beauty. You can use any bank account, any payments app and pay to any other bank and any merchant. Ridiculously low interchange fee too since the backbone is managed by
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by potamic 5y ago
> Sengupta departed Google one month after killing the old Google Pay and making his new app mandatory for all users in the US Doesn't this reflect badly on one's resume? If you are an exec leading a major initiative, wouldn&#x
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by potamic 5y ago
This is why the argument that lack of privacy is justified for good intentions is moot. Time moves on, ideals change and people in charge get replaced. There is no guarantee that principles held when collecting information will remain. Ever
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by potamic 5y ago
Some things I think are objectively bad design - 1. Images open by default on my feed and videos and gifs autoplay as I scroll. It's a massive distraction. I'm trying to find content I might be interested in, but here I'm for
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by potamic 5y ago
I tried CookieAutoDelete but it seems to be whitelist based only? How do I instead say block only these domains?
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by potamic 5y ago
Looks pretty interesting. There never really seemed to be any good alternatives to ES for a long time. Apart from building feature set, how do you target quality of search results? Do you have any test bed for measuring this and do you benc
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by potamic 5y ago
Very interesting. Would you also share how does one discover such opportunities? I presume there's no marketplace for these things. Do you have to be in the industry and rely mainly on network connections or are there other means?
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by potamic 5y ago
Would you be willing to share how much you acquired the pizza business for?
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by potamic 5y ago
Is this like an aggregator of aggregators given that Stripe, Adyen already aggregate several payment providers? What's the long game here if someone like Stripe starts supporting every payment method?
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by potamic 5y ago
The Cloudflare captcha is ridiculous really and makes sites completely unusable with a VPN. I even get captchas for different pages on the same domain! It used to be you only got captcha for form submissions. But somewhere along the line yo
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by potamic 5y ago
I have a cynical view of how this product is going to turn out. Instant, easy access to wages is going to form habits in users to live on a day-to-day basis instead of budgeting for a month. With no headroom they will be that much more desp
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by potamic 5y ago
Thank you. That was a great post.
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by potamic 5y ago
> Fly runs apps (and databases) close to users, by taking Docker images and transmogrifying them into Firecracker micro-vms, running on our hardware around the world. Any reason you run the apps on micro-vms? Why not directly on a contai
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by potamic 5y ago
A million tps is crazy! I have heard of trading platforms operating at this scale. Curious about your use cases that led to the creation of this.

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