Principle: Progress over perfection.
When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
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Re: When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
1200 people is really nothing, specially if you have a job tangentially related to social media (for example journalists). It's really simple, you are not the same type of user. You have 50 "acquaintances", they have 1200 "sources". The article is talking about people who have following/follower counts in the millions. Those are dozens of writes per second in one feed and a fannout of potentially millions. Someone wi…
Why are you following 1,200 people? What is the point of your home feed? What are you trying to see?
there are a lot of interesting people on twitter
Re: When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
A friend of mine works for a Management Consultancy firm and they have full flex tickets if they miss the 8pm flight home they can take the next one or fly back the next morning. All without additional fees. So I believe business travel is the biggest factor when it comes to missed flights. Side note: His employer is the biggest client of a major European airline.
No additional fees, but the cost of the ticket is typically sky-high. In many cases the company could purchase 3 restricted-fare tickets for less than the unrestricted fare. (And also, the consultants want to get home, they HATE staying extra nights, so they have inherent motivation to catch the original flight). You'd think that management consulting firms, you know, who are supposed to be good at optimization and r…
> You'd think that management consulting firms, you know, who are supposed to be good at optimization and reducing costs, would have figured this out.
Maybe they've figured out that enabling their employees to stay a few extra hours without worry to finish a deal is worth it.
Re: When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
#204> some of them will do abnormal things like… well… following hundreds of thousands of other users.
Sounds like Bluesky Pro.
Re: When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
#205I wonder why timelines aren't implemented as a hybrid gather-scatter choosing strategy depending on account popularity (a combination of fan-out to followers and a lazy fetch of popular followed accounts when follower's timeline is served). When you have a celebrity account, instead of fanning out every message to millions of followers' timelines, it would be cheaper to do nothing when the celebrity posts, and later…
This problem is discussed in the beginning of the Designing Data-Intensive Applications book. It's worth a read!
Do you know the name of the problem or strategy used for solving the problem? I'd be interested in looking it up!
I own DDIA but after a few chapters of how database work behind the scenes, I begin to fall asleep. I have trouble understanding how to apply the knowledge to my work but this seems like a useful thing with a more clear application.
Re: When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would be so much more interested in Bluesky if it were technically impossible for a random super rich guy to buy and bend it to his whims.
Isn't that the whole point of bs? Empowering users to take their data where they want. It's completely open-sourced and well-documented. If someone buys bluesky you can move all your data to a different service that follows the same protocol
You can move your data, but whoever controls the AppView controls what people see “on Bluesky”.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
No additional fees, but the cost of the ticket is typically sky-high. In many cases the company could purchase 3 restricted-fare tickets for less than the unrestricted fare. (And also, the consultants want to get home, they HATE staying extra nights, so they have inherent motivation to catch the original flight). You'd think that management consulting firms, you know, who are supposed to be good at optimization and r…
> You'd think that management consulting firms, you know, who are supposed to be good at optimization and reducing costs, would have figured this out. Maybe they've figured out that enabling their employees to stay a few extra hours without worry to finish a deal is worth it.
Similar reasons people buy overnight sleeper tickets from the west coast to asia for sky-high prices. That person has to be there, and they have to be rested. If they are negotiating 100m+ dollar contracts its a no-brainer.
Re: When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
#208"Lossy timelines" have already been implemented in ActivityPub and Mastodon by design. Will Bluesky ever catch up? It remains to be seen.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
(Replying to both you and the parent poster) Airlines are far from perfect. They overbook flights and sometimes have to ask people leave and pay them for the inconvenience. My wife and I once got $1000 a piece and a hotel and food voucher to volunteer to take a flight the next day on a layover in Atlanta. As far as your particular situation, the number one rule of using a third party portal to book flights or hotels…
Overbooking is not a mistake, though. People miss flights for many reasons, and the airlines predict this with impressive accuracy, to the point that they can afford to pay tremendous sums for being wrong and yet still come out ahead.
> afford to pay tremendous sums for being wrong
Or they can just haul you forcefully from the flight you paid for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Express_passenger_...
Re: When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
Blekko was gone by the time I learned about it. Recently (past few years) I emailed someone who worked on Blekko to get his opinion on a search engine concept I still have yet to start. His advice was to not bother competing with Google (obviously) LOL! I don’t know if anyone’s embarked on a P2P search engine but that’s essentially my concept. Anyhoo, thanks for the inspiration!
Peer to peer would be tough, you really need a 10G network connection to some tier 1 provider, and about 2500 machines to distribute the crawling/serving load. (that is if you want to do a full stack search engine). And while you can run that infrastructure for on the order of $100K/month (not counting depreciation) that means you need roughly $5K/day in revenue from that cluster. At $10 RPM ($10 revenue per thousand…
When you don't know what you don't know...wow.
I know "search is hard" in the general sense but context is lacking (not a lot of details online from ex-search teams). It's always been apparent to me that you must have some other high-grossing product if you want to get into search or video, if only to pay for the servers.
Thank you for providing your context!