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by gundmc 7y ago
Please tag this as 2014.
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by gundmc 7y ago
The engineer who was fired because his daughter filmed a video of the iPhone X [1] comes to mind, but I'm not sure that qualifies as "destroying". [1] https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/28/apple-f
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by gundmc 7y ago
Sundar sent an email encouraging employees to take part in this demonstration [1]. [1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/30/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-sup...
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by gundmc 7y ago
GCP and Azure are offering AMD Epyc Rome based instances as well. Intel is losing their death grip on the data center space quickly. https://cloudblog.withgoogle.com/products/compute/amd-epyc-p... https:/&#x
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by gundmc 7y ago
Digital ad company CEO endorses competitor of rival digital ad company.
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by gundmc 7y ago
P0 has gotten a lot of unwarranted flak on HN recently for allegedly only disclosing vulnerabilities in competitors' systems. This is a perfect counterexample of a really nasty privilege escalation in Google's own OS.
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by gundmc 7y ago
I think you're missing the idea of those memes if you think those are favoring Bing results...
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by gundmc 7y ago
Yeah, I'm really interested to see how the noise issue plays out. Videos of the Wing drone in action sound horrid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSfQxwqrZM
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by gundmc 7y ago
Can you share some of your examples of Mercury News "publishing click bait articles to trigger the outrage machine"? I've found them to be pretty even-kiltered overall, but am always happy to reevaluate my impression.
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by gundmc 7y ago
I think your examples help prove the parent comment's point. Each of those companies faced a reckoning when they weren't able to deliver on their promises.
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by gundmc 7y ago
It's in the second paragraph. "Our machine performed the target computation in 200 seconds, and from measurements in our experiment we determined that it would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to produce a simil
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by gundmc 7y ago
Ah, that seems like a pretty big gap!
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by gundmc 7y ago
I think in the case of automated translations it's a function of training data and confidence rather than cost. If you don't have a corpus of translation data for the source/target language combination to draw from, you'
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by gundmc 7y ago
In the account management portal there's a page called "Manage Storage" [1] that breaks down your storage usage by product. Is that what you were looking for? [1] https://drive.google.com/settings/storage
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by gundmc 7y ago
This is pretty standard, even in human (non-automated) translation. One example is technical/service documentation for a heavy machinery company I worked for. The tech writers were based in Germany, but O&M Manuals were required in
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by gundmc 7y ago
Thanks for the additional data points!
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by gundmc 7y ago
I'm not saying teachers don't deserve to be paid more, but I was surprised to see how much Bay Area teachers make. It's public info for public schools.[1] In Santa Clara County, with no experience, starting salary is $71000.
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by gundmc 7y ago
Loving the trend towards federated on-device ML. The more data that stays on-device rather than going to Google/whoever's cloud the better.
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by gundmc 7y ago
The lane markings looked pretty clear in this instance. That being said, Tesla's cruise control capabilities are best in class, but it's misleading marketing-speak to call it true self-driving.
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by gundmc 7y ago
There is precedence for a fixed-wing rotor-based VTOL aircraft with the Osprey, at least aerodynamically. Operationally, the Osprey was a bit of a disaster. But I agree that flight (and ESPECIALLY manned flight) needs extensive experience i
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by gundmc 7y ago
The chart shows the entire market value of select other tech Giants, not their cloud offerings. The purpose of the graphic was to say "Google Cloud is now worth more than all of Oracle", not to show Google's place in the clou
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by gundmc 7y ago
It's pretty absurd to shift the blame to advertising. This wasn't the age of clickbait and adtech, this was over 20 years ago. 24 hour news channels like Fox News and MSNBC were in their infancy. Isn't there some responsibili
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by gundmc 7y ago
But the Apple TV doesn't have a screen and it's hard to find a decent "Dumb" TV to even hook up a Roku/Apple TV/Chromecast to these days.
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by gundmc 7y ago
Woah, I didn't realize ASUS made ROG branded phones. I had a ROG laptop for years that I was very happy with.
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by gundmc 7y ago
Google was fined several billion dollars by the EU for prioritizing their own products in search.
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by gundmc 7y ago
The Nest Hub Max is not a thermostat. It's basically a Google Home with a big speaker, a camera for video chat and a screen. In one comment you made an incorrect assumption about what the product is, what Google is doing, proposed an i
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by gundmc 7y ago
I take exception with Brave's phrasing here. Essentially, Google assigns an anonymized identifier to a user and sends that to prospective ad buyers. The idea is that the ad buyer can use this to target ads to people who have visited th
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by gundmc 7y ago
The Xbox case is notably more important because of the disproportionate number of children using the service and the associated COPPA implications. But can you provide a source for any of these companies "selling/giving the record
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by gundmc 7y ago
<Tech Company> contractors listened to <smart device> recordings These stories feel like mad libs at this point. I don't personally have a problem with anonymized recordings being used to improve models, but maybe these ass
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by gundmc 7y ago
That's a pretty bombastic claim. Do you have any sources to back it up? Otherwise it's unadulterated conspiracy theory and FUD.

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