Fast, but not faster than XOR filters. I was wondering if the title was a typo, but the article clarifies they sacrificed some speed for the smaller size.
One construction is smaller and faster to build than xor filters, and another is even more compact, though slower:
> we build probabilistic filters -- called binary fuse filters -- that are within 13% of the storage lower bound -- without sacrificing query speed. As an additional benefit, the construction of the new binary fuse filters can be more than twice as fast as the construction of xor filters. By slightly sacrificing query speed, we further reduce storage to within 8% of the lower bound.
> that are within 13% of the storage lower bound -- without sacrificing query speed. As an additional benefit, the construction of the new binary fuse filters can be more than twice as fast as the construction of xor filters. By slightly sacrificing query speed, we further reduce storage to within 8% of the lower bound.
They are faster to construct (2x) and smaller (within 13% of theoretical limit) while maintaining the same query performance.
But that raises the complexity of hosting this data immensely. From a file + nginx you now need active authentication, issuing keys, monitoring, rate limiting...
Yes, this the the "right" solution but it is a huge pain and it would be nice if we could have nice things without needing to do all of this work.
Speaking as the person running it - introducing API keys would not be a big deal, we do this for a couple paid services already. But speaking as a person frequently wanting to download free stuff from somewhere, I absolutely hate having to "set up an account" just to download something once. I started that server well over a decade ago (long before I started the business that now houses it); the goal has always been first and foremost to make access to OSM data as straightforward as possible. I fear that having to register would deter many a legitimate user.
Yeah, I totally get it. In an ideal world we could just stick a file on an HTTP server and people would download it reasonably. Everything is simpler and happier this way.
Agreed on the madness of wide open OS defaults, I share your vision for isolation as a first-class citizen.
In the mean-time (for Windows 11 users) theres Sandboxie+ fighting the good fight. I know most here will be aware of its strengths and limitations, but for any who dont (or who forgot about it), I can say its still working just as great on Windows 11 like it did on Windows 7.
While its not great isolating heavy-weight dev environments (Visual Studio, Unreal Engine, etc), its almost perfect for managing isolation of all the small suff (Steam games, game emulators, YouTube downloaders , basic apps of all kinds).
All of which could be solved via a VPN of Seedbox.
The point being, my movements around the homepage aren't tracked and used for pushing more ads. My microphone isn't being recorded for AI training or recommendations algorithms. The intricate ways I use the platform isn't being sold to some third party data company. I just open the film, and it works..
Your IP address being logged in a bittorrent swarm is far less concerning to me than the 100 page privacy policy which explains how they will take rectal scans and sell them to cancer research agencies or something.
Fair point about it being less invasive than adtech sites, but my comment was just addressing the claim that piracy doesn't “track users and send a bunch of telemetry”.
Torrent-trackers broadcast ip-addresses, timestamps, and torrent metadata; even if you consider it minor or mitigated by VPNs/seedboxes.
Your characteristics are you. Businesses already having that data allows them, specifically, to market their junk in a way they have an advantage over other businesses.
It's imbalanced: it screws the economy, and can be used to influence you -- to show you information which encourages conformance/lowers diversity. Freedom of choice is diluted by unknown leaking of your personal characteristics.
Yeah, according to my router, my IP address hasn't changed in 8 months. But this site has me torrenting a bunch of anime, porn and Russian audiobooks ... while I was sitting on a beach last week in Hawaii.
(And I know I'm not being used as an unwitting seeder).
What's actually happening, it looks like, is it's finding any hits on the same Class C subnet as mine.
This ends up more looking like a precursor for some "I know what you're downloading" bitcoin extortion.
I did bring my dell craptop with that I scrounged parts from 3 nonworking used business ones together...it had the ATi Mobility 1 (Rage 128?) and could do half life 1 if you really tweaked things or Quake 3.
That aside, it sucked performance wise even with a Pentium 3. My main PC and 19in monitors were what we drug around to LANs all over.
There used to be an old movie theater in North Branch MN that was converted to basically a permanent LAN Party where people would just come and go.
Movies and bands would play on the stage on weekends or something, too. Best time of my life.
> I'd point out of course that it appears that those folks are trespassing on private property - possibly in an environment that is quite unsafe.
I hope nobody on here is daft enough to follow their lead.
Said the guy who proceeded to follow their lead. I get it he was a BT employee so may have not been trespassing, but he appeared to have a change of mind about the possibly quite unsafe environment.
it's clear in the thread that he got permission to do so
it's also reasonable to assume he had more information about the state of the location given his access as an employee, particularly given that it was a full two months before he actually retrieved them
It's clear in the thread that a forum user worked for BT. What was unclear was whether the site still belonged to BT and whether the employee was given official or any clearance to retrieve the parts. There was no 'we' language, all 'I', which is unusual at best. For a company of BT's scale one would expect a small team for such a recovery.
I'm curious, where is it clear in the thread that he got permission?
