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by gundmc 6y ago
The vast, vast majority of software written is done at neither a startup struggling for survival nor a tech giant monopoly.
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FIFA 2014 World Cup live stream architecture (2015)(leandromoreira.com.br)
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by gundmc 6y ago
Really cool idea! I didn't find the chess openings graph particularly useful, but what a fantastic way of finding related media! I'd love to generate clusters for my favorite movies, music, and games and use it for new recommendat
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by gundmc 6y ago
This stands in stark contrast to IBM who announced halting facial recognition offerings, Google who has prohibited use of facial recognition against non-public figures from the start, and Amazon who just announced a moratorium on facial rec
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by gundmc 6y ago
I see a lot of misinformation in the comments here across multiple threads. Here are a couple sourced rebuttals. > Featured snippets means no one clicks through to the source and thus underlying sites lose money. Fact: Features snippets
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by gundmc 6y ago
The only reason would be the goodwill/value of the brand, but I can't imagine a company with the design and marketing chops of Apple running a service named "Duck Duck Go".
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by gundmc 6y ago
I'm surprised that there are nearly zero comments about the subject of the article - the choice screens and associated auction. It seems like a reasonable implementation to me. Maybe the number of choices can be upped from 3 to 5 to he
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by gundmc 6y ago
"Facebook, Google Digital Ad Market Share Drops as Amazon Climbs" - June 2019 [1] "Amazon is eating into Google's most important business: Search advertising" - October 2019 [2] There are dozens and dozens of articl
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by gundmc 6y ago
Yeah, we'll have to see how quickly the various providers are able to get EPYC Milan GA'ed once it's available.
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by gundmc 6y ago
AWS behind Azure, GCP, and even Oracle Cloud in this release. Azure had EPYC Rome available 6 months ago. Surprising, AWS had been among the fastest to roll out new hardware in the past few years.
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by gundmc 6y ago
I remember watching a talk Brian gave where he touched on the meatspace implications of his reporting. Private security, threats of violence, doxxing. This is the kind of stuff that people kill over. I'm really glad he's doing the
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by gundmc 6y ago
This is why I would never use Amazon Web Services for my startup. You can't count on them to not pull the plug if a product doesn't gain traction. killedbyamazon.com /s
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by gundmc 6y ago
Ah yes they did change the ad indicator as you described, but that's not what the pushback was against. They briefly changed desktop search to include favicons next to every native search result, making it way harder to quickly see wha
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by gundmc 6y ago
I don't see any favicons on my desktop search, which is what the links reference. Mobile favicons had been around for some time prior to those articles and continues to have them.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Yep, sounds like an attempt at a cash grab and nothing more.
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by gundmc 6y ago
I believe it was Google Contributor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
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by gundmc 6y ago
I've had good experiences with Accenture in a staff aug role, but leading projects have been disasters. Similar problems working with Deloitte. That being said, I've had nothing but good experiences working with McKinsey.
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by gundmc 6y ago
The linked video and description are from The Independent reposting CNN's feed. The CNN video has no such description: https://youtu.be/ftLzQefpBvM
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by gundmc 6y ago
Seems like exactly what many on HN were asking for: weigh page speed without biasing towards AMP. This can only be a good thing.
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by gundmc 6y ago
I have to do this every month or two to reset my bricked lights. This video made me involuntarily twitch. Awful, awful experience.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Literally every one of those sites is blocked in China...
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by gundmc 6y ago
Looks like this is finally being sorted out. Tweet from Hiroshi Lockheimer an SVP at Google (which puts him in the top ~12 execs at the company): Apologies to Podcast Addict fans today. We are still sorting out kinks in our process as we co
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by gundmc 6y ago
What makes you think this is something other than another (awful) high profile case of automation gone wrong?
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by gundmc 6y ago
Can you elaborate on the security considerations of this? It seems like you could just as easily say it's more secure because it reduces the attack surface to a well-tested program with mature sandboxing.
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by gundmc 6y ago
As much as I hate citing blind for anything, the scuttlebutt on there the past few days from Uber employees makes it sound like this was an open secret.
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by gundmc 6y ago
> It is not surprising to me that productivity has skyrocketed for problem-solvers working from home. Do you have a source with data to back that up? The early indicators of the efficacy of WFH that I've seen have been pretty mixed.
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by gundmc 6y ago
Yep, this isn't affiliated with Google. Wouldn't be surprised if the author got a nice email from Google's lawyers if this gains enough eyes.
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by gundmc 6y ago
> Facebook, Twitter and Google (YouTube) have used that strategy to ignore their obligations to filter their content by getting into some type of "too bug to fail" situation and throwing their hands up when they are asked to do
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by gundmc 6y ago
Wow. Reading the comment threads that were censored on that post is incredibly disturbing.
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by gundmc 6y ago
From the cherry-picked conversation section of the research paper [1]. > Human: Hi! > Bot: Hi! How are you? I'm a vegan, so I don't eat any animal products. Even AI vegans reinforcing stereotypes of being overly-forthcoming.

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