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skbly7

101 karma · joined November 20, 2015

Working on the intersection of cloud, infrastructure and MLops.

Always happy to connect. Feel free to ping me!

https://shivamkhandelwal.in/

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skbly7··on Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
> almost all of the government email IDs are Gmail.

I think you are mistaken.

Majority of the emails are on government server: https://email.gov.in/

They used to be on 3rd party provider till a few years back (but still never on Gmail).

skbly7··on Show HN: Morgan – PyPI Mirror for Restricted/Offline Environments
Thanks for creating it and looking forward to try it out.

I have been looking for similar solution and the whitelist used to fail with other tools as they weren't resolving the dependencies.

skbly7··on Ask HN: How can I monitor job openings?
You can use smart search queries specially for the title/keywords/companies you are interested in.

A sample search will look like this:

- `"python" "engineer" "infrastructure" site:jobs.lever.co`

- `"python" "engineer" "infrastructure" site:boards.greenhouse.io`

(and in the search tools, limit the results to Past week, etc)

Obviously it can only track companies who use tools like lever, greenhouse, etc.

skbly7··on Ask HN: Any open source stack exchange clone
Plus, these plugins to achieve similar functionality: https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-a-plugin-which-turn...
skbly7··on Digitizing Smell: Using Molecular Maps to Understand Odor
In case someone is interested about this domain. There was an interesting challenge around it on AIcrowd last year.

It was called 'Learning to Smell' and hosted by popular swiss fragrance and flavour business Firmenich. It contains publicly available dataset, baselines, winner codebases, etc., to play around with.

[1] https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/learning-to-smell

[2] https://discourse.aicrowd.com/c/learning-to-smell/357

[3] https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/learning-to-smell/noteboo...

Disclaimer: I have been affiliated with AIcrowd.

skbly7··on Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage
Well, it is already written in the link....

> $3.5 billion worth of cargo

skbly7··on Airbnb asks people to donate money to landlords, backlash ensues
Have you tried talking to your neighbour about the issue or adding a small A4 print saying "No Parking"?
skbly7··on GitHub was down again
Pagerduty,OpsGenie, etc?
skbly7··on 2010 SoftBank 30 year vision document: its a wilde ride [pdf]
Well, to be honest they acknowledged in the sides that any company's survival chances for 30 years are 0.02%.

They don't need to worry about all investments turning into multibragger.

skbly7··on Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
Thanks for the merge!
skbly7··on Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
Similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23400285
skbly7··on Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
I like the explanation and seems fair trade off to me for complying with laws. Meanwhile, I think Zoom sucks big time with their PR team unlike Google, Microsoft, due to which they are being pushed again and again on privacy issues.
skbly7··on EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
Will it have opt out, download your information and....?

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skbly7··on Apache Kafka Security on Kubernetes, Automated
Looks like the solution is something available only on BanzaiCloud?

How different is it from strimz-kafka-operator which do most the listed stuff and even more for any Kubernetes cluster or OpenShift? https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator

skbly7··on Indigenous datasets: A listing to help AI perform better in India
Glad to see multiple contributions from my college.

Here are few more datasets which I am aware of and can be added to the list:

- Dataset for Indian National Rupee https://cvit.iiit.ac.in/research/projects/cvit-projects/curr...

- City-scale Road Audit using Deep Learning dataset https://cvit.iiit.ac.in/research/projects/cvit-projects/city...

- Multi domain corpus for sentimental analysis (Telugu dataset, download link isn't working probably email for download)

skbly7··on Leave Gmail in 10 steps
Yup, I have gone through this. If you aren't confident with your skills you can look up to softwares like VestaCP [1] to setup everything for you. You can also use more advanced solutions like FreedomBox [2].

The pain is worth it!

Another fun tip: Enable catch all for your emails and then provide different email for each purposes, like this website can have email ycombi@yourdomain.com and so on. I love to regularly see which website fucked up handling my email id and I just silently block that email in a click (and hence, much less spams).

[1] https://vestacp.com

[2] https://freedomboxfoundation.org

skbly7··on India’s banking system is flirting with a Lehman moment
Full Version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181110084624/https://www.econo...

skbly7··on Android apps will soon be able to update while you’re using them
This was possible since long (2013) but Google decided to keep it "banned" via policy which stated:

> An app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other than Google Play's update mechanism.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/googl...

https://gizmodo.com/5995416/google-bans-non-play-store-andro...

skbly7··on Confessions of US Postal Worker: “We deliver Amazon packages until we drop dead”
There is an interesting take on this matter in "Patriotic Act" show by "Hassan Minhaj" (episode 3):

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80990674

skbly7··on Ace – an embeddable code editor
I am pretty much fan of Ace editor. It has worked perfectly over the years and have no nearby competitor when I compared back in 2015.

This was a project I made using ACE, "an online IDE (code, compile and run)" for competitive programmers: https://www.codechef.com/ide

skbly7··on Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
The company which consider every single bit of data as "gold" decided not to keep their API's access log > 2 weeks? wow!
skbly7··on Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows
I don't know people here noticed but they are already doing so by bringing "confidential email", etc to all users which explicitly require WEB VERSION or Gmail app.
skbly7··on Rust Ownership Explained with Python
It will have memory impact though with larger range.

A better approach might be:

    squares = lambda: (x * x for x in range(10))
    print(min(squares))
    print(max(squares()))
skbly7··on An IPv6 Update [pdf]
I believe in this explanation a bit. u/okket (@OP) will it be possible to get IPv6 in India graph somewhere? (like you have for China)
skbly7··on Archiving your website in the Wayback Machine
There is already quite a good plugin available by Berkman, Harvard University related to what author's idea seem to be. It works with Drupal as well as Wordpress upon which I worked as my GSoC project (nginx/httpd modules as well). http://amberlink.org

It use Archive and local copies as backend, while had ideas to support IPFS among others.

What Amber does?

Amber is an open source tool for websites to provide their visitors persistent routes to information. It automatically preserves a snapshot of every page linked to on a website, giving visitors a fallback option if links become inaccessible.

If one of the pages linked to on this website were to ever go down, Amber can provide visitors with access to an alternate version. This safeguards the promise of the URL: that information placed online can remain there, even amidst network or endpoint disruptions.

skbly7··on Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders
Blackberry and BBM went this route already, and we know what happened to them. I think it is high time for Apple to jump the ship and get messages into Android. :)
skbly7··on Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders
I think they are already working in that direction I last checked. https://www.whatsapp.com/business/

I liked the business app especially for shortcuts, auto-replies and other stuffs. But yes, official APIs is deal-breaker.

NOTE: Many applications and websites somehow are already using custom APIs (or something). Ex. Airlines sending booking details as WhatsApp message, flight/bus status and so on.