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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
The only thing I need (and is sorely missing from Restic) is that the metadata be kept separate from the actual data. That way I can store the data in AWS S3 Deep Glacier at a cost of nothing per year, and still do incremental backups. Curr
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
This is a really good document: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/data-modeling.html I have been studying these key-value stores with efficient range iteration lately (such as LevelDB, RocksDB, BigTable, FoundationD
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
I'm pretty sure it'd be easy to at least fingerprint/classify your "driving style" given enough of even crappy accelerometer data.
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
This would be more fun if this could be done with the median. Then the "true" answer to any question would be 50% on both sides. (For example, more than 50% of people have a lower income than the mean income, due to extreme outlie
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
The Friendship paradox has nothing to do with what people think: it's an observed fact and related to the way that node degree in social graphs work (or random graphs in general).
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
R is used almost exclusively in stats. Most in maths use python, c++ (there's a surprising amount of hpc code, e.g. pde solvers and other stuff floating around in c++), matlab, etc.
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
What... Have you seen the piping syntax in tidyverse? It's incomprehensible unless you put in a lot of effort to understand all that's going on.
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
Thank you! Do you know why they were looking to replace Stubby with gRPC? It doesn't seem to me that gRPC is quite customizable enough currently to hook in all the monitoring and tooling that I imagine Google has. And yes, the completi
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
I was hoping to see something about xDS. I've seen a lot of work being done on adding support for it in gRPC on git but (as usual with gRPC) the docs and blog posts seem to be rare and terse, so I haven't had a chance to learn it
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
How is gRPC used at Google? I know the Cloud APIs use gRPC, but only on the client side. But I'm under the impression that gRPC and Stubby (the internal RPC framework?) are completely different codebases (even if they are allegedly sim
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
The job market is a lemon market for employers.
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
Very cool! OT but is there a list of protobuf benchmarks somewhere across languages/implementations? How does it compare to JSON or just dumping raw bytes?
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
Do all defendants not have the right to an attorney in criminal cases? If evidence is obviously (or with high chance) disputable, then it puts pressure even in those cases where the attorney recommends the defendant to eventually plead. Or
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
Hope it was those leaving that were sketchy and not those left! Sounds hard as it was already.
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
Thanks, this is hilarious > Inflicting that complexity on you all would help with margin control, but ugh. What we've done instead is set a blended price that fits most apps running on Fly.io, and decided to just eat the extra cost
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
No, that attack is trivial and direct, that's the problem.
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
There is a whole field (now relatively mainstream) of differential privacy, concerned with answering questions such as "can I be correlated and de-anonymized across queries" (query might be "what's your current cohort id
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
The standard itself looks kind of good, honestly! Have a look at 4.2 (pg 9): https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c6dbac1f8135a29c7fbb... I think tech as an industry has come quite a long way in the past few years o
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
The reason for the NDA is obvious: Facebook doesn't want you to know that there are people doing this job. Facebook doesn't want you to even realize that this job needs doing, they want you to think that the platform is just clean
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
Looking very promising, I'll definitely try this once it develops a bit more. Some things echoed by others as well: - Need clarity/support for timezones (this is critical) - Months need to be laid out correctly - I looked around f
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
Interesting video on Canadians having to do math to win prices: https://youtu.be/jOmnx-V1zBo
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
Tested only on privacy-respecting browsers? That's what sites mean when they have these "soft" banners on non-supported browsers. If it's not tested on chrome, then users on chrome might experience issues.
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
I agree, I think the image of Effective Altruism is largely shaped by the somewhat unique group of people who flock to it — in particular those who are very vocal about it.
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
The fork announcement was announced as a response to the Elastic stuff. I don't think they made any predictions about when it'd be ready in that blog post, so I'm not sure why they would've underestimated anything?
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
My favorite "conspiracy theory" is that AWS intentionally creates stupidly verbose and numerous headers in all of their APIs just to up the bandwidth usage a few bytes per request at a time.
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by z77dj3kl 5y ago
Hosting a site like this doesn't cost much, their business model is probably to add additional paid features as they go. It's nothing new, but I also don't think it's nefarious.
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
I'm not sure if normal scanners detect UV light, but that would break a good chunk of their tracking purpose these days if they were not detectable in scans.
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
To indicate I edited it (to make it grammatically correct in my sentence).
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Do you block Google trackers aggressively? reCAPTCHA uses that very heavily: if you allow all of their stuff and they track you across the web, you'll have to basically never do more than click the button. On the other hand, if you tak
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by z77dj3kl 6y ago
Seems a bit like Plausible only pays lip service to some of these ideas. Merely 5 months ago the co-founder touted here on HN about how they are "big fans of open source so wanted as permissive [a] licence as possible" [0], then p

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