ma2rten

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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   If you hadn't replied first, I would have replied the exact same thing as your first paragraph - also starting with "Huh?". That said, public ownership of companies is not necessarily undemocratic. It's just a bad idea f
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   Stillness Flowing Biography of Ajahn Chah https://www.abhayagiri.org/books/617-stillness-flowing He is a Thai Buddhist monk, who is responsible for introducing mindfulness/insight mediation to the west.
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   That's very odd. Using some random YouTuber's video is very unprofessional, but taking that aside what is Lenovo's intention here? Were they trying to test the market? If so, were they are actually planning on building the ph
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   Google has it's own internal SQL dialect. It's the same that is also used in Cloud Spanner. I think it's mostly standard complaint, but less feature complete than the standard sql dialects.
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   I don't know if I would call it fraud, but I can see where they are coming form. Drivers aren't individually deciding to turn off the app, but they are doing it collectively to manipulate the app into surge pricing.
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   Actually I feel like asyncio is the one thing that should be part of the standard library. It even introduces special syntax. To be honest, I think she might be biased here given that she maintains a competing package.
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   No, federated learning is about training on the device not running prediction on the device. Training a speech model on the device would be hard, because there is no labeled data. We don't know what the user said.
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   They also read emails to index them for search.
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   I don't really have anything to add, but if you could give me an upvote that would be great.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    Yes, I actually have an overall positive opinion of Facebook in terms of engineering talent. Facebook has made some questionable decisions, but I would not automatically assume that everyone who works there is so immoral that you shouldn&#x
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    There are sleep tracking apps that integrate with the health app, but I tried two of them (sleep++ and pillow) and I found them to be very inaccurate.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    Machine Learning.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    Bay Area.
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    Ask HN: How do I get into consulting?

    1 points by ma2rten 7y ago|6 comments
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    I don't think so. "The bubble" is more about using shiny new languages like go and rust.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    Google might have thrown out some old pages, but the internet keeps growing exponentially. I highly doubt that Google is indexing less pages than a couple years ago.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    The question in mind is, how do you ensure that the safety code does not have a bug which makes it impossible to disengage the system.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    A lot more people drive the stock version than the OpenPilot one. All else being equal, it's more likely that OpenPilot has a serious bug than the stock system.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    I don't think anyone buys computer because they looked at it in the store and the display looked clean. Tech savvy users have very specific requirements. Tech unsavvy users typically just want to buy something that's familiar. Th
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    They are a neutral third party, but they are choose and paid for by the employer. The employee doesn't have any choice, because it's part of the employment contract.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    I think they are talking about GDPR, but GDPR actually hurts smaller European companies more than it hurts big tech.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    IE is not the dominant browser anymore and Windows is not the dominant OS anymore (if you consider mobile). Instead Google got a huge fine in Europe now for being the default search engine on Android.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    As the article states, the company already pays the cost of arbitration. You can go into arbitration without paying anything.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    Last time I checked x86 decompilers were not that useful. They were producing code that is not compilable, often completely failing on more complex, translating code compiler boilerplate into code. This was a while ago so maybe things impro
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    Google Ads: Raising the bar on transparency, choice and control(blog.google)

    2 points by ma2rten 7y ago|0 comments
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    If it's language that has byte-code like java or .net you might be able to decompile the production binary.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    Google has actually already has an internal cloud-based IDE.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    I don't know how you define datacenter. An AZ could be a different building on the same campus. These are Google's main locations. As you can see there are only 9: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters&#x2F
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    You could cache the responses for the suggested inputs to handle the load better.
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    The article said the minimum wage is after expenses. I think the minimum wage is high compared to other ride share wages in other areas. It also above the minimum wage in New York, despite being more flexible than other jobs. My wife is a d