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by gipp 8y ago
All these things have dedicated low-power hardware that just listens for the trigger phrase and has no network access. That's why you can't choose your trigger phrase.
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by gipp 8y ago
> Sunlight is the best disinfectant, after all. So, I had never heard this phrase until maybe a year or so ago. Now it seems like (on this site particularly) someone parrots this exact sentence in any thread at all related to news and&#x
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by gipp 8y ago
Looks nice, but can we put "people are" on some kind of ban list for headline phrases?
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by gipp 8y ago
Road maintenance and expansion is not really the point. It's not like midtown has a bunch of extra room to build new roads. It's more of an admission that eventually you're just gonna bump into hard physical constraints that
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by gipp 8y ago
What feels slow in YT for you? I've never noticed myself being bothered by it.
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by gipp 8y ago
The catalyzing event for the article is a talk at NIPS drawing a comparison between ML and alchemy (i.e. experimentation by intuition and rules of thumb without an underlying theoretical foundation). The author presents this as a novel bomb
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by gipp 8y ago
> But it is boneheaded to serve up results that completely ignore one of or more search terms. Then you've never worked on a search engine. There's a real bias in the comments here because the way technical people search for te
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by gipp 8y ago
I... What? This is so disconnected from any experience I've ever had searching anything I don't even know how to approach it. What on Earth do viral memes have to do with anything? What does "banned" even mean in this co
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by gipp 8y ago
I don't see how their reasons are any more "inscrutable" than any other company who cans failed products (all of them).
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by gipp 8y ago
This comment has gotten so predictable and tedious on this site; I really don't get it. Google launches products. Some of them fail. That's life. Depreciation schedules for cloud services are one thing. Consumer products are anoth
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by gipp 8y ago
There are many other factors at play, yes, but physical size does impose information-theoretic upper bounds on its processing power. Bounds we're nowhere near probably, but still they are there.
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by gipp 8y ago
While the mechanics are certainly complex, I think a big part of the learning curve is the lack of a concrete objective to focus everything around. It's not just that the game is complex, but that it doesn't even really point you
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by gipp 8y ago
That's just being deliberately obtuse. I don't believe I've ever in my life heard "apologist" used in a non-pejorative sense. Etymology is irrelevant here.
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by gipp 8y ago
How is that "superficial"? You listed some of the most economically and culturally impactful factors for a settlement.
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by gipp 8y ago
Not really; chrome and Android are far more independent. YT is integrated at every level from infrastructure on up. It depends on Google-internal libraries which are in turn integrated with other parts of the infrastructure... It would pret
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by gipp 8y ago
I agree. It's a scattering of good (if not novel) observations about the issue, but there's just no through line connecting any of them. The last paragraph is phrased as though it follows logically from the preceding one, when it
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by gipp 8y ago
Pretty sure you just overflowed the count of people drawing that comparison.
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by gipp 8y ago
This is very thoughtful and gets at the heart of the matter. It's a little discouraging (considering how influential it is in the evolution of tech) how quickly HN reaches for "rah rah decentralization" as a panacea for anyth
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by gipp 8y ago
That's pretty much the opposite problem of what the GP is asking about.
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by gipp 8y ago
What you've left out of that idyll of the early internet, though, is that its population was - smaller, by many orders of magnitude - from a highly homogeneous distribution of cultural backgrounds - mostly of comfortable material means
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by gipp 8y ago
I don't see how the theory outlined in your post makes it a "PR stunt". You're just saying they wanted to do the right thing but needed political cover to be able to get it done. If anything that makes them look better.
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by gipp 8y ago
Indeed, it was hard to miss. There was tons of coverage.
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by gipp 8y ago
Language is forged by consensus, and consensus won that battle a long time ago. Besides, that's an extremely narrow view of what those giant companies do. Cloud? Hardware? AI? Car/drone autonomy? Natural science research, even?
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by gipp 8y ago
I think a lot of people really overestimate how pervasive this view is outside of this website.
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by gipp 8y ago
https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing-our-work-t... YouTube and Google have put out tons of comms lately indicating that it's at least something top of mind
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by gipp 8y ago
Somebody makes this post on every HN thread involving Google now. But the three big public deprecations I'm aware of are Reader, Inbox, and G+. All consumer products. All the other stuff on that killed by Google site is stuff I've
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by gipp 8y ago
I have no strong conviction about the merits of their view, really. I'm just pointing out that painting them as hypocritical in regards to the Amazon deal, as in your original post, is not really well-founded.
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by gipp 8y ago
Pretty sure the opposition is opposed to those as well...
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by gipp 8y ago
It takes a special sort of brilliance to really capture a particular kind of interiority in prose. To really get at what it is like to be a particular sort of person. This accomplishes that feat for the modern internet addict and hivemind
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by gipp 8y ago
I was only responding to the claim that Google had made no real commitments.

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