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by boulos 6y ago
For folks in the Bay Area, I constantly recommend Good Eggs (goodeggs.com). They’re serious farm-to-consumer folks and have small producers and fishmongers that you wouldn’t see otherwise (many of the names will be familiar from restaurant
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. tl;dr: Wait until you need it, but there are good reasons for it! Since I didn’t see anyone mention it, the term I’ve seen a lot of people use for this pattern is “multi single tenant”. Part of the reason
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by boulos 6y ago
I removed the clickbait in the title on purpose! > Canada v US: Loon stabs eagle through heart Admittedly it was decently done, but I felt it violates the clickbait rules.
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by boulos 6y ago
Aww, that was an unfortunate side effect of me removing their clickbait “Canada v USA” that it had...
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Hertz files for bankruptcy protection(nytimes.com)
122 points by boulos 6y ago|97 comments
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Loon kills bald eagle by stabbing it in the heart(bbc.com)
16 points by boulos 6y ago|6 comments
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but am glad to see you protecting your rights to your software). The conversation down thread though raises an interesting point: why does the license say you can’t run modifications in production (under
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Bumblebees’ ‘clever trick’ fools plants into flowering(bbc.com)
99 points by boulos 6y ago|26 comments
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but I wasn't involved at all with anything regarding JEDI). I think it's more accurate to say that we did not have (and do not have) the Impact Level 6 (IL-6) authorization that JEDI strongly s
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by boulos 6y ago
No, I was just calling out the "you know, the outcomes just aren't that bad here". As I ended on, I think they'll come to the conclusion relatively quickly that there is minimal risk to the public from having such diagno
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by boulos 6y ago
https://linux.die.net/man/3/isatty :)
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by boulos 6y ago
I think it’s more nuanced than that (see my other comment). If you have a false negative, then maybe they spread the disease more than they might have otherwise (unwittingly, but now with the “certainty” they don’t have it). If you have a f
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by boulos 6y ago
This is pretty similar to the 23andme shutdown years ago, and for the same reason. The FDA regulates what kind of “medical advice” you are giving. From the article: > The two kinds of testing — surveillance and diagnostic — fall under di
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by boulos 6y ago
This article confuses me though: aren’t almost all of these programs relying on direct deposit information? That is, how do you as a scammer use just the SSN and get the money out? Are unemployment funds arbitrarily re-routable? (Multiple p
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Feds Suspect Vast Fraud Network Is Targeting U.S. Unemployment Systems(nytimes.com)
5 points by boulos 6y ago|1 comments
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by boulos 6y ago
Fascinating aside on Demolition Man: some versions have all restaurants as Pizza Hut rather than Taco Bell [1]. The version I saw as a kid was Pizza Hut, so when I said “in the future all restaurants are Pizza Hut”, a friend said “you mean
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. I wouldn't worry about it. Looks like the Anandtech article [1] doesn't either :) > bfloat16, a format popularized by Intel [1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15801/
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by boulos 6y ago
You can also get a graph this data via FRED, but you won’t have much control over the display (so if you want to roll your own, you should).
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by boulos 6y ago
In behavioral economics that’s sometimes referred to as “social norms versus market norms” [first useful link, 1]. The example given (I think it’s via Ariely) is that you wouldn’t pay your friend to have cooked you dinner. This is the same
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by boulos 6y ago
The article actually calls out that this wasn't the case for the ISP at least: > As Ars Technica's interview with BowieNet co-founder Ron Roy confirms, Bowie didn't just lend the enterprise his brand but was "tremendo
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by boulos 6y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. > paying Google $5B You were off by 10x :). The annual commitment was $400M/yr on average. Snap’s S1 [1] said: > We have committed to spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years
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VMware Freezing Pay, Stopping 401k Match(businessinsider.com)
27 points by boulos 6y ago|9 comments
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by boulos 6y ago
Fabien, how come you skipped Volta? (Presumably because it wasn’t interesting for Display, but it’s a huge step up from Pascal) The most interesting thing to me in the progression of NVIDIA’s compute offerings is that until Volta, the “SIMT
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by boulos 6y ago
The bug they caught [1] is one of the reasons some languages require you to explicitly name your captured variables. You still could have typed that code in, especially if you started with a for loop and then made it parallel (fwiw, perform
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by boulos 7y ago
For those interested in Venus, I'd recommend trying to keep up with Don Mitchell's stream of stuff on Twitter. This thread where he produces updated imagery from the Soviet Venus landing is great [1]. He's also seemingly made
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by boulos 7y ago
Borgmaster itself is written in C++, though like many internal Google systems using protobufs for defining a lot of the interfaces and RPC bits. It’s been around a long time, before Go existed :).
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by boulos 7y ago
Huh, I missed the discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902274 but while prefix-sum makes for a reasonable microbenchmark, I think it misses my main problem with any of the existing !CUDA attempts: ergonomics
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by boulos 7y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. That was probably before the change last fall [1] to have an SLA for single-"node" instances. At $0.90/hr per "node" for a Regional setup in Iowa, that's just over $650/
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Boeing Terminates $4.2B Deal to Buy Stake in Embraer Unit(nytimes.com)
5 points by boulos 7y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 7y ago
I don’t consider it against the rules of the bet to allow multiple pictures, including the underside and perhaps even “here, smush the mushroom on a piece of paper and take a picture of that”. My question is can a vision-based AI thing outp

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