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by lazyjeff 5y ago
I also worked at Yahoo at that time, and I remember the feelings internally were more mixed. It was known that nearly all (or even more than 100%) of Yahoo's market value was the investment in Alibaba. Microsoft's offer basically
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Show HN: Crowdsourcing academic profiles for 5k computer science professors(drafty.cs.brown.edu)
3 points by lazyjeff 5y ago|1 comments
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Just curious, what kind of 3-year informatics grant not being completed ends up with a team brought in to fix the situation? Multi-million dollar grants don't sound big enough to be a dependency for any major customer (like defense or
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
The article also brings up the difference between two types of comments, the "let me know how I can be helpful" comment versus "I will connect you to five potential customers tomorrow" which is the more helpful one. Comm
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
This is awesome, I would use it. Maybe make it a visual studio code plugin?
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Since there are no comments after 4 hours, I'll write a longer one. I read this paper a while back and learned that the Turing Test, even if it was purely a test for imitating a human rather than specifically a woman, is still greatly
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
There's more subtle signals too. Luis Leiva is a researcher who has some work on mouse cursor trails as a fingerprinting technique, and ways to counteract it: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348739714_My_M
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Yes, that's a good way to put it. I've been campaigning against this trend for a while in any project I'm involved in [ https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ ]. The toolchain is simply bloated, and piece
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How to recognize different types of timestamps from quite a long way away (2003)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by lazyjeff 6y ago|0 comments
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
My understanding is that currently people set up a STUN/TURN server to relay WebRTC, so it's not really used as P2P but there is still some benefit to the protocol itself. To move to true P2P for WebRTC seems impossible, as even i
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Biden’s Commerce nominee backs changes to Section 230(theverge.com)
2 points by lazyjeff 6y ago|1 comments
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The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Changed Our Sleep (2020)(jeffhuang.com)
3 points by lazyjeff 6y ago|0 comments
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
It's a hard problem to figure out what's readable text on a page, and what isn't. Even Google has a hard time figuring that out. OCR works very well with screenshots, and is purely computation time. But the real reason is gen
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
You'd think so, but code (even web code) needs to be executed and is brittle. Some of it doesn't even work as an archive even right after saving. All my images from 10-20 years ago work perfectly today. None of my code does withou
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
I feel like a simple automatic capture of timestamp + url + screenshot would already be very useful. This gives you a visual memory of the things you've seen on the web. I've wanted to develop this for a while, as a browser plugin
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Agreed. Applications spend so much time trying to replicate user interface features that are inherent in plain text via any text editor. For example, full text search is already built in via Ctrl-F or part of the OS via grep or desktop sear
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
A static site generator requires a toolchain, being platform-aware, updating dependencies, etc. Sometimes I think of these things as labor for a new employee (if you need to onboard a new maintainer) on a new system (if you need to switch h
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Aren't university research labs a type of a studio? 1) Generates and tests ideas but within the scope of the professor's expertise and vision (what the article calls the "focus"). An automatic moat if the idea is somethi
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
I'm not the author for either project, but my impression from some tests has been that hand pose is obviously better information, but fickle. There's simply a limitation of how well a camera operating in the visible light range ca
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Handtrack.js: A library for prototyping realtime hand detection in the browser(github.com)
115 points by lazyjeff 6y ago|31 comments
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
There's a great podcast / Youtube series called "Fall of Civilizations" that documents some of these collapses and why they happened: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Great suggestions. I've opted to include more broad umbrella conferences, than more narrow ones. So S&P, SIGMOD, and VLDB represent security and databases. This is because it already takes about 40 hours of work each year to update
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Best Paper Awards in Computer Science in the Past 25 Years (1996-2020)(jeffhuang.com)
142 points by lazyjeff 6y ago|11 comments
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
The tricky part is as a society, we haven't trained many people for jobs where you build sociotechnical systems: processes and systems that have a major human element in it, and a major automated/computation element in it. We have
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
I think what you're describing are the behavioral aspects resulting from covid. I've done some analysis on the changes in sleep behaviors on about 100,000 people using a sleep tracking app, if you're interested: https:/
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
I teach computer science, and love the growth of these cloud-based IDE/compiling tools because it's a good backup for students who can't get their programming environment set up in a remote class during the pandemic. It'
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
This is probably a hot take, but I think custom fonts are self-serving for the web developer and for 99% of cases, not a benefit to the user. Most people who use Google Fonts hotlink to Google which means you're sending information abo
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
I use winamp 2.91 on Windows 10 as my main music player. It works fine except .wav files have clipping/static which doesn't occur in other players, and some newer formats are not supported. But still works great for flac (with a p
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Part of it might be the format it comes in. If it comes in the mail, which for me is 99% grocery flyers and bank offers and fast food brochures, it might just be going in the trash. Texts are probably much more reliably going to be received
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Some of the time, web developers are using CDNs because they want to save 5 minutes from downloading and hosting it on their own servers, or they want to not have to add it to their package.json. I've noticed this with novice web devel

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