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Five years ago, I've used common software to do this. I had to take hundreds of pictures of a scene, getting as many angles and details possible. Then when you pass it to the compu…

When customers picked up their orders from our warehouse, they signed the A4 sized receipt. We made a copy using a photocopier, and kept our copy in a box. Then the following month…

I like broken systems. Especially those that still manage to generate money. We all want to see clean code, written by sane people. But the reality is that it is rare. And when you…

Ah yes, crude indeed. We used to cut a small piece of payer, around an inch. Then fold it into a little square and place it inside that little empty square space on the front of th…

An advantage of RSS is that most companies that remove it, only remove the link from the website. Even bloggers who somehow feel the need to remove it, remove it from the share opt…

My brother was the first driver employed in a brand new amazon warehouse. He shook hands with the manager and came home to tell us the good news. He was hired! His start date of th…

Here is what you can do. Take an episode from The Simpsons in 2005, then take one that was released this year. Listen. In the 2005 audio, the silent parts have grains. Both the sou…

oops, that was a typo. Fixed it.

Anecdata (only because I don't have access to the data anymore). Customer satisfaction is so much higher when they get a one click unsubscribe. In fact, when the friction is so low…

A good friend of mine has been working on low resources NLP for a couple years now. A few months ago, he joined Mila Quebec AI Institute under Yoshua Bengio. Where it is hard to fi…

The governor's stance is just posture. "We take these matters seriously". It reminds me of that time, a few years after I was out of college and into a job. My professor contacted …

On a serious note, the G in FAANG is for Alphabet.

Interestingly enough, I watched this growing up in Saudi Arabia. In the late 80s, early 90s there were only 2 TV channels. Channel 1 was in Arabic. Channel 2 was mostly English and…

> echo json_encode($search_results); This is how I found out how much I, and all other contractors were being paid. And also how much the contracting company was actually charging …

You have summarized my first two months at a new job. I joined as a lead and spend a good deal of time in meetings where they discuss new features and tasks. Before the meeting, I …

Seriously, as someone who does not use Facebook because I think it is harmful, I think we should put ourselves in his shoes for a second. There is no right way to answer Facebook s…

In 2003, I was chatting with a schoolmate and I sent him a file. It arrived instantly. Him: Oh my God, that was fast Me: I know. I have super fast internet. Him: Ha, what's your in…

I feel for everyone who isn't a good writer and doesn't succeed in getting featured on HN homepage. (writing > coding) Realistically, we need automation to handle most cases. But t…

Before the coup that happened a few days ago, my country was casually known as a dictatorship. You don't insult politicians, not especially on a public place. When you are home, yo…

There is a demo video on twitter: https://twitter.com/facebookai/status/1435733478516133892

I was thinking about this recently when I took an Asus laptop apart. You can get a 720p camera and microphone for $5.00 [1] It weighs nothing, cost nothing. I just have to figure o…

One of my proudest moment in my career is when I lowered our app processing time from ~8hrs to 17 minutes. When I deployed my first update, it reduced it to 2 hours. The sysadmin i…