That's not really Noam's style

does anyone have a proper comparison of binary control systems like lore, xet, etc? i'd love to see how it handles mixed case workloads.

A tool for backing up Google photos more incrementally than Google takeout:

https://github.com/ebrevdo/gphoto-pull

A version of the IFTTT linter that I missed after leaving Google:

https://github.com/ebrevdo/ifttt-lint

gphoto-pull!! I've been downloading NN x 50G zips every two months like a caveman. Assuming I'm backing up in "Original", this manages to retrieve byte-identical backups?

Yup. Uses browser automation to download originals (well, whatever storage setting you used)

They also keep their own inboxes; emails downloaded to or sent from the old version are not visible on the new version.

I forgot how to count that low...

Couldn't help myself and ran a quick analysis:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1tstVoKkVP_8B7dTOofa...

nice plot at the bottom.

rank correlation between GDP and life expectancy (child mortality would have been maybe a bit better). uses a 20 year window in both directions per year. bootstraps for 5% and 95% quantiles of the rank correlation.

there looks to be a max around 1992, and steady downhill in correlation since then.

this seems unlikely to be an artifact of the analysis, though 1992 is eerily close to 20 years from the last date. 2013 is the last year where we have at least 15 years total symmetriclaly around the given year to include in the correlation for that year.

Proving Trolls... wrong?

HN has a title length limit, mods will have to step in on that one I think. I shot off an email.

Thanks! in this case the solution is easy - we can cut out the baity bit about trolls.

My guess is that the submitter is automated. It's not the first time their post title has been truncated by the text limit without their editing it.

Does this have the same gtasks API limitations as the rest, namely that it can't set or retrieve task deadline *time*?

I have not yet worked with this feature. I will check this and let you know.

See also Push Go: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/push-go-for-pushbul...

... works with Pushbullet apps.

Yes, but it can be more of a pain keeping track of pairs. In production though, this is what's done. And given a fault, the debug binary can be found in a database and used to gdb the issue given the core. You do have to limit certain online optimizations in order to have useful tracebacks.

This also requires careful tracking of prod builds and their symbol files... A kind of symbol db.