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by jdm2212 6y ago
The team I'm thinking of was responsible for structured data ingest/extraction -- business hours and such things, but not all data.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
There's a pretty good argument for making Google Maps a utility, but not for a long while yet. Maps adds new features at a pretty impressive clip. Once it's in maintenance mode in a decade or two, it should be nationalized ;)
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The business owner probably put "closed for private event" or some such in structured data on the website or in Google My Business. Your edit was rejected because it conflicted with a highly credible recent update (the one from th
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Google provides lots of ways for business owners to fix their listings, and even lets individuals directly edit Maps. The case in this post happened to slip through a crack. Cases like this can (and sometimes do) lead to improvements to the
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by jdm2212 6y ago
There's no way around the precision/recall tradeoff. Every map and business listing ever created has this problem; either you carefully vet listings, in which case you miss lots and by the time you publish they're out of date
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by jdm2212 6y ago
There are various ways for businesses to tell Google stuff -- structured data on their website, working with aggregators, Google My Business, etc. The problem is that (a) business can mistakenly enter wrong data (b) businesses can lie (c) b
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Once you start letting anyone edit, you have to solve a bunch of other problems: various kinds of spam, non-spam low quality edits, deconflicting manual edits with other data sources. The easy/default solution for most things is to hav
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I was (briefly) on a Maps-adjacent team at Google circa 2015. From the outside, you just can't imagine how few Google engineers are responsible for how many products and data integrations. One example: back then it was a dozen people (
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by jdm2212 6y ago
> Boeing just chose a more conservative strategy That's the legacy defense contractor strategy -- deliver something that checks off the boxes on the government requirement list at an exorbitant price. It's a very conservative s
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> SpaceX can achieve much higher profit margins by reusing rockets What I've always heard is the legacy defense contractors are used to cost-plus contracts where you don't make bigger profits by reducing costs. They sometimes d
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I was in a cab and made my wife watch the livestream on my phone. I'm not even into spaceflight; I just can't help but watch and marvel at the fact that we can put a person into space on a rocket... and then land the rocket. It&#x
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The list of living Americans who've done more to rewrite our future -- electronic payments, cheap spaceflight, electric cars, cheap solar power -- is pretty short. Everyone's flawed, great people more than most, and I think Musk l
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> It might be more time consuming than having query hints The queries in question can't be allowed to get any slower than they already are. They bottleneck certain critical uses.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I'm not a DB expert by any means, but the DB experts at my job are pretty insistent that (given the way we deploy our software) it's not practical to do in Postgres what we can do with Oracle query hints.
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Query hints are one reason. I'm not a fan of Oracle as a company, but for certain usage patterns you need query hints and Postgres doesn't support them.
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I'd rather have my data in Google's hands, where I basically know who can access it and when (US government with a warrant or NSL, Google employee with a specific business need, no foreign governments, no hackers) than in the hand
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Most people have only seen the film, I think (I only read half the book). Gaetan Dugas is much more prominently featured in the film, which pretty strongly implies he was a key factor in the wide spread of HIV.
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Both are really incredible movies, and I'd also highly recommend them. "How To Survive A Plague" is pretty great too (it even features everyone's favorite NIH official, Anthony Fauci!). One thing worth being aware of wit
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by jdm2212 6y ago
This comment isn't constructive or substantively related to the article it's on. But on the subject of privacy: I'd rather have my data in the hands of Google -- a company with strong compliance and the world's best non-
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> It has to do with managers preferring to make sure that they can somehow avoid being personally blamed for their subordinate's mistakes You can't fire a crappy AI and replace it with one with better judgement. If it does some
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It's rare, and really cool, to have someone who's deeply knowledgeable about the workings of a business like this walk folks through things. Thanks for sharing!!!
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I think the previous poster was referring to SQL injection vulnerabilities from not sanitizing DB query parameters. And that's something you only f * up if you're clueless (like I was back when I used to do that).
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It's remarkable that you can hear stories of the form "my boss is raping/harassing me, and I'm terrified of him so I play along to protect myself" and characterize the victim as "lying" to "cover up m
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Google has a ton of PhDs, too, but the vast majority don't do R&D. I'm guessing the same is true at Huawei. Anecdata: My team of 12 or so at Google had (I think) 4 PhDs, and what we did was the usual "turn one proto into
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I think it was Maven they backed out of due to employee ethical concerns. I don't know that they were ever a serious contender for JEDI, and they didn't submit a bid.
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The guy was known throughout Hollywood to be someone you wouldn't leave a friend alone with because he might well rape her. So, yeah, it's possible he was sincerely confused by affectionate text messages... but it's a lot mor
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> The ethical thing is to quit your job The ethical thing to do is not to rape your subordinates. If they choose to persist in their chosen profession despite rape or sexual harassment, that in no way diminishes the severity of the rape
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This comment reminds me a bit about what Dave Chapelle said (jokingly) about Bill Cosby: > Didn’t want to believe it. At first, I didn’t believe it. I said, “These people are obviously trying to destroy Dr. Cosby’s rich legacy.” Even 34
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by jdm2212 6y ago
I don't know that Moore's Law is what most people would mean by a historical law, but it has held up surprisingly well even for a non-historical law :)
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No one has ever built a historical model that predicts the future with any accuracy. There are plenty of overfit models that "predict" the past, but none hold up on new events. Interesting book on the topic from the world's l

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