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I'm a researcher in the bay area. I love meeting new people, so if you want to talk about life, books, tech, econ, feel free to email me at [email protected].

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Comment · 2 years ago

https://www.videogist.co was mentioned previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555629

Comment · 5 years ago

No, Tesla probably has very few employees older than 65 and no employees in nursing homes.

Comment · 5 years ago

To add a bit of context: brokerages like Robinhood send buy/sell orders to national exchanges and to private trading firms e.g. high-frequency traders. Private firms provide price improvement: orders that execute at prices better than the national exchange. All brokerages have a duty of best execution, including a duty of price improvement. Brokerages can also receive payment for order flow from private firms, as long as it does not interfere with best execution. However, "Robinhood explicitly offered to accept less price improvement for its customers... in exchange for receiving a higher payment for order flow," which is illegal.

Full order: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2020/33-10906.pdf

Comment · 6 years ago

That’s only for the final model. To find it, they’d need to run 1,000 experiments, trying many high-level approaches, many architectures for each component, hyperparameter search, and multiple seeds. Large machine learning projects need $10M in capital.

Comment · 8 years ago

Same here, I run the latest Firefox on both Windows and Linux. Gmail always takes at least 5 seconds to load.

Comment · 8 years ago

Perhaps he wasn't prescient, just lucky.

Comment · 8 years ago

People are perfectly capable of distinguishing between browsers and websites. For example, users have no problem logging into Facebook with Chrome.

Auto-signin only adds confusion. Many (most?) users have no reason to associate their browser with a Google account. This is something that Google is pushing unilaterally, just like Google+/YouTube integration. As an advertising company, they stand to benefit from more accurate user tracking.

Comment · 8 years ago

Thanks for the explanation. It seems to assume that Gmail is the internet. If people sometimes use Facebook or forums or games instead of Gmail, then history will appear to sync to random places, no?

Comment · 8 years ago

The world is very small, and privacy is a mainstream concern these days. The impact of one story or one action is limited, but in the end, users do get their say. Otherwise, we would still be using Internet Explorer.

Comment · 8 years ago

What's the point of signing in at all for users who don't use sync?

Comment · 8 years ago

But the tech-savvy community has influence. We set up computers for our friends and families. We write IT policies. We are web developers, tech reporters, and more.

At least for me, Google's behavior means that I can no longer recommend Chrome.