and have precise close rate based on 1) visits 2)
store departments

I'd have thought this was totally standard practice!

Still though, really cool that they have confidence that satellite imagery is
a good proxy for this.

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rickdale
Hm, what the article doesn't say is that Lowes are typically located near Home
Depot. Definitely close enough to get a snapshot of competitors parking lot
too.




Show HN: Tech Education. Done Right. For Free - dhandalanawaz
https://hackerbayuniversity.com/
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jbucaran
I am almost sure "in fact" is always two words.



Ask HN: What are you doing to look after your posture? - shahocean
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tinymollusk
Yoga practice, 3-5 times per week has done wonders for my posture and how I
physically feel over the course of a day. Doesn't have to be hot or boot camp;
I prefer restorative classes.




A curated list of Chaos Engineering resources - dastergon
https://github.com/dastergon/awesome-chaos-engineering
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matt4077
Never having heard off 'Chaos Engineering', this seems like a bad case of
'Cargo Cult Engineering'.

That starts with the term 'chaos', which has a well-defined meaning in Chaos
Theory, where it is quite obviously borrowed from: small changes in input lead
to large changes in output. Neither distributed systems in general, and
especially not the sort of system this engineering strives to build, fit that
definition. In fact, they are the exact opposite: every part of a typical web
stack is already build to mitigate changing demands such as traffic peaks or
attacks.

The mumbo jumbo around "defining a steady state" and "disproving the null
hypothesis" seems like a veneer of sciency on a rather well-known concept:
testing.

A supreme court justice once said: "Good writing is a $10 thought in a 5 cent
sentence". This is the opposite.

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drdrey
Have you tried to see how that's a useful practice or are you just angry at
the name? It is indeed a form of testing, specifically failure/latency
injection testing in production systems. It allows you to test hypotheses an