skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, voice over does the exact opposite of that, it takes written text and converts it to speech. Live captions take in audio and output text of the speech in that audio.
> - When they merged with Kape Technologies (resulting in the ludicrous situation of having Mark Karpelès as their CTO) I lost all faith in them and immediately switched to Mullvad.

This is not true. Mark was hired by London Trust Media and never worked for PIA. Since Kape acquired PIA in December of 2019, there is no connection at all between Mark and PIA.
My first tech job was web dev at a small local shop. I also got out the phone book (and performed extensive google searches) to find all of the local web development companies.

I emailed them all, and wound up with two interviews. One was a wordpress sweat shop, and the interview went poorly--the owner had not even read my resume, started my interview while on a conference call, and told me my job responsibility was to "make her happy." When she said that, I politely declined to finish the interview.

The next went fantastically, and I wound up landing that job in a 3-person shop. I loved those people, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity they provided me. I also think we provided a lot of value for some important causes, which makes me remember the work very fondly, despite being in way over my head many, many times.
Before you credit frontier with that, most of Frontier's fiber was acquired from Verizon and represents a minority in their customer base.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean I need to hear one's bullshit. The point is that the mask talk is a useless argument everyone jumps into whenever there is the occasion. Everyone has something to say about it.

Do whatever you (not you in particular) want, just quit moaning about it. It's as interesting as discussing political affiliations.
CenturyLink 6 Mbps DSL was normally ~6.2 Mbps. Sometimes it would go down to 5Mbps.
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The Economist had a good article on this earlier this month. In short, for the past decade content creators have, for the most part, provided free content for Twitter, Facebook, etc. These companies in turn have made billions of dollars displaying ads alongside this free content. Sites like Substack are changing that and making it easier for content creators themselves to manage / monetize their content.

[1] https://econ.st/3fzbPKe (This is a "gift this article" link which I've not used before. Hopefully it lets you see it if you don't have an account.)

[2] https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/05/08/the-new-rules-... (The article itself)
Just curious, how did that work out for you, career-wise? How would it have worked out if pseudiuridine didn't turn out to be important?
You can just wrap the NFT inside a holding contract, then trade access to the holding contract without triggering an actual sale. At least on ethereum you can do this.
> Missed a couple of early opportunities to buy eh?

I was referring to the above. You are incorrect. I'm thoroughly enjoying myself, and this particular advocacy is making the world a better place.
A name for the male segment of this class of words is "bronoun," which includes things like bro, man, guy, etc.

Basically anything you can use in place of a name, so long as the grammatical usage is namelike.

"That guy doesn't have a clue." -- guy is a noun

"Guy doesn't have a clue." -- guy is a pronoun (you can tell because "he" also works grammatically)

However, I think these would need to be in the initial position(s) when slash-delimiting one's pronouns, because the final position is for a possessive form. That is, they're analogous to "he" but not analogous to "his" (and using them like "him" would be a stretch, as far as I can figure...), which might be what got GP in hot water.
You don't need blockchain to establish such a system. Australia has been using the Torrens title system [1] since the 1800s, which is essentially a (semi) public register of titles and transfers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrens_title
This is excellent. We should found a religion based on it. CHURCH OF THE ENTROPY MOST HIGH.
Did you also invent Spicy Cheetos?
As a Chinese I know that the government doesn't publicize such things very often, even in Chinese. Medias are not really professional enough to do these kinds of reports either. Most reporters simply do not have enough science and tech background to even ask good questions. If you know Chinese and listen to the live reports you can feel it.

Things might turn around for the next decade when more young people who are motivated by these missions get into the fields (both R&D and media). But again I won't expect a lot of English reports. There will be some in the English channels such as CGTV.
> Imagine if cryptocurrency started doing that?

It happened, that's SafeMoon. Sounds like a Ponzi scheme? That's their selling point!
Sort of, yeah. My personal laptop is an M1 MBP, so I can run the iOS version of Otter on it, have the system default audio point to LoopBack with the headphone jack as a monitor (which goes to a device that streams to my hearing aid). Then in my video conference software I set up the system default audio as the sound output and my Logitech C920 webcam as the microphone input. Conference software gets what I'm saying, Otter gets what everyone else is saying, I get captions.

Work is a Windows laptop; I could (and do, on my personal Windows desktop) use VoiceMeeter to accomplish the same general approach as described above. But rather than have my security team at work asking me annoying questions, it's easier to run Otter on my iPad and use a TRS-to-TRRS patch cable (I use the Movo CFP-1 from Amazon) to feed that into my iPad... plus using my iPad to display the captions frees up my displays for meeting-related things.

In pre-pandemic times I would also use it for some meetings at work, and meetups.

I think Otter has a fairly significant user base of people using it for accessibility and not just meeting notes, and is seemingly aware of it because they've added features geared to that use case, like the full screen text option with adjustable font sizes.
This reminds me the idea of using the blockchain to implement land registry in Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay. Some Swedish startup came with this idea, I guess.

But if the legal authorities there aren't reliable/competent enough to implement a land registry why would they be reliable to enforce a blockchain-based registry?

- "This blockchain says this land is mine!"

- "This gun says get the f**k out and that police officer I bribed agrees with my gun".
I am on Ziply now. No real complaints.

Prior to that, I was on Frontier who took over Verizon fiber, which was setup at my house, but unused due to their insistence I pay a very unreasonable setup fee. Was $600, and no way. It was up, ready, nothing needed. Pretty sure they did a free move deal for the people who lived there prior thinking they would get money from me too. Nope.

I used a 3G dongle for about a year standoff with Verizon. Also had a Moto droid with Verizon unlimited running the house for a few months too. Was a work phone with that great plan baked in.

Frontier waived all that and I bought TV plus Internet. (Fam wanted TV)

Frankly, I loved Frontier!

Tried to setup auto pay and it would break. This happened a few times, so I left it broken figuring someone would call and we could sort it out then.

8 months go by, and service stops.

I call, expecting a big bill and terms.

The service woman and I had a chat about the back end mess and it was truly spectacular. I asked her why she worked there and she said the crew was the best, systems not so much. Fair enough.

It was broken, but they laughed a lot. Love that!

Anyway, she said it would be easier if I were a new customer. No big bill, no terms, just start over. And new customers get a free year of Amazon Prime.

I asked her is she serious? Answered yes and this spoke to why they laughed a lot. The system was broken, but they had wide latitude to take care of people because it was broken enough the higher ups rarely could sort it out otherwise!

She was a hoot! Great chat while she got me all setup on the new system, autopay working just fine.

TL;DR: Payment system failed and I was shut off for non payment and got free Prime and better service for less money despite being 8 months over due!

Other than that, I love an ISP I never hear from, unless I really need to. Never heard from Frontier. And it worked just great. Seriously fast, basically no downtime.

The only negative is the old Verizon fiber interface and its pain in the ass battery. I finally just wired a power supply to the battery so it would shut up and I no longer change batteries.

I do not hear from Ziply today either, and it works great, and cost makes great sense for everyone.
> Satoshi Nakamoto may end up being the most destructive person to have ever lived.

I was with you up until this part...this kind of over-dramatization might turn others away. I can think of several genocidal dictators worse than Satoshi Nakamoto. If anything Satoshi is an Alfred Nobel type figure, who invented dynamite. We don't attribute all deaths from explosions to Alfred Nobel, and Satoshi is not guilty of what miners and speculators do.
That sounds like inventory management more than ownership which do obviously have overlap. But why would having something minted on purchase of say a Rolex be bad? Then when you sell it you could transfer that to the new owner. Showing a chain all the way back to the original purchase. This still has the issue of someone who could come into ownership of a minted item without the object and then try and make a convincing fake but this at first glance sounds like a great way to reduce fakes in the market significantly.
It does work on touch devices but YMMV. Unfortunately iOS Safari in particular is very, very stingy with allocating resources to the Web Audio API - the performance is generally dismal. So even if the UI is responsive, the oscillator performance generally makes the end user perceive slowness and unresponsiveness.
I am no expert in china, I don't know what exactly it means. But if my country had a "State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense", and the national space adminstration reported to them, i would assume the national defense was military.
Not original commenter, but here are some relevant papers that should have publicly available pdfs if you search for them on Google Scholar:

Landis, G. A. (1998). Mars dust-removal technology. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 14(1), 126-128.

Kawamoto, H., & Shibata, T. (2015). Electrostatic cleaning system for removal of sand from solar panels. Journal of Electrostatics, 73, 65-70.

Saravanan, V. S., & Darvekar, S. K. (2018). Solar Photovoltaic panels cleaning methods: A Review. Int. J. Pure Appl. Math, 118, 1-17.
Why can't they keep the old version around and continue using it? It just sounds like excuses.
> Doesn't every ISP do this?

No. Most ISPs overprovision. e.g. my Spectrum service is nominally 600Mbit but actually supports 680. This is done because a) users often measure payload throughput vs wire throughput and there's a ~10% packet overhead, and b) to avoid customer complaints at the margin.
> On a related note, I think the US approach to dismissing class is preferable to the UK where it’s very explicit.

Huh. My perception has always been that America is far more obsessed with class and “keeping up with the Joneses” than Britain.

That said, I have in the past been called “rich” in a derogatory manner just for owning an iPad. But that’s more an amusing anecdote than social commentary. I find this type of thing to be the exception rather than the norm.

For context I’m a Brit with a decent job but my family is certainly not upper middle class or even middle class and all my friends are working class because those are the people I naturally get along with. For the most part the fact I make more money doesn’t cause any friction in those social circles. One of my mates even said to me if he didn’t know better he’d assume I lived on a council estate.

I guess the point I’m trying to make is the class lines are very blurred in modern day British society except for at the extremes. As such it’s not something people tend to obsess over.

On the other hand I’ve found that, in general, middle class Yanks tend to care more about being perceived a certain way so people know they’re middle class or upper middle class or whatever else. I’ve even seen them argue over exactly what constitutes “real” upper middle class compared to regular middle class. Not something I’ve ever seen Brits do.
Not irrational at all. I've often wondered at some ascetic values of the very rich: cold showers, building a cabin with your own hands, short duration of rough wilderness living, and in your quoted case, abstemious diet. Humanity spent generations trying to escape those conditions, poor people will never willingly engage in them. Is it because the rest of rich people's lives are elevated away from those conditions, so it's a choice to embrace it, and thereby redefining the thing's perceived values?

Yet another data point on why the poor are playing the lottery, eating crisps and not virtuously buying and cooking rice and lentil, there's a game-theory-ish idea that the poor understands that as much hard work and lentil they could shovel, they stand little chance of getting out. So with the money they have they buy the best value thing possible, discounted for future possibilities; and those best value things are junk food, lottery tickets, sometimes expensive (relative to their circumstance) and flashy things like clothes or phones.
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I've been hearing about Bluetooth LE Audio standard which should help a lot but its just started to be offered in hearing aids. Right now you have to choose between the Apple approach, Google approach or standard bluetooth each with their own limitations.
Ah yes - you've reduced all of the JVM down to a terrible piece of software that doesn't power a tremendous portion of the software on planet Earth.

This is when I know to not consider a person's comments seriously. When they even wear their bias on their sleeve.
A modified version with alphabets overlayed. https://zakaton.github.io/Pink-Trombone/

src: https://github.com/zakaton/Pink-Trombone
I bought a side project back in 2014 (3-4 month old then with about $2000 MRR) and grew it to a bootstrapped SAAS company of 20 employees as of today with revenue in 100K MRR range. Happy to answer any questions.
I like the general tone of this advice towards action over consumption. I have found that to be a good way to approach my interest in deep learning research.
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>> Do they need to make their UI flow less smooth, or give some big warning that people are dealing with real money?

>Yes. Absolutely. Why would that be a problem?

Are you proposing that this warning can't be disabled or permanently dismissed? As an adult consumer I do NOT want this.
This story I believe, largely because there's no money or fame involved, and because it's the software equivalent of "hit it with a hammer until it works again."
If "operate as a real brokerage" means that you must have $5B+ of cash tied up at the clearing house, that's a pretty stiff barrier for entry.

To be fair, I don't like RH. They are irresponsible, greedy and reckless. They have turned day trading into outright gambling - and quite frankly, if a gambling company gamified their UX the way RH did theirs, the gambling company execs would be rightfully raked over hot coals. Shitting on RH because they had to obey the clearing house rules is intellectual cowardice.

Disclosure: I work for a gambling company. And yes, I deal with compliance questions on an almost daily basis.
It’s impossible to edit a Bitcoin transaction retroactively without spending obscene sums to get 50+% hash rate
It boggles my mind that apparently consumers are not willing to peel their own garlic. What’s next, peeled apples in shrink-wrap?
Blockchain in the form of something like Bitcoin is probably the worst possible database for this sort of ledger. It’s wildly inefficient, slow, and subject to failures of all sorts. If it’s a public blockchain with public nodes, it’s subject to being attacked by malicious actors. If it’s entirely controlled by the legal authority, then there’s no reason to use a blockchain.
Some artists choose to attach "perks" to their NFTs – i.e. meet and greets, access to private communities. They could choose not to honor these perks for NFTs held by contracts. They could even choose to re-mint the work if the new owner is doing nefarious things with the old one (though many would see this as a dubious action)
I can think of at least one society that formed in the 1930's for which this was an absolute mandate! But I don't recall reading much about them past about 1945, so perhaps you should do some further research.
There is a zero change I will ever want something like this, leave alone need it, but if there's an HN submission worthy of an instant upvote, that's the one :)
No. Freenode was purchased by an entrepreneur and former Mt Gox employee supposedly to facilitate a conference called "Freenode Live". It had nothing to do with use of real names.
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I do not have a concrete proposal. If I did I'd probably be too busy arguing about it with other people in that space to comment here.

> I guess the one built into Firefox is just downloaded from there and cached? If so why would you want that over the other?

If your extension is 10kB of Javascript and you typically update it once or twice a year to tweak things, it's crazy that now the total extension size is over twenty times bigger and you need updates every month or so at least because otherwise things might not work for some users.

If your extension wraps, say, the New York transit map, or Wikipedia's list of English monarchs then fine, there's no reason Firefox would know those, you need to ship or fetch the data. But the PSL is necessarily built-in to Firefox, they do have the data, you just can't access their copy.
I don't agree. The fact that it doesn't work is not necessarily a hint that there are complexities involved. There are a myriad of other possible reasons, such as no one really cares that Firefox forces you to restart the app whenever it updates. People just get used to it.
Wait, the distributed ledger isn't an appropriate use case when you have a single separate over-ruling authority??

Or it's a bad question with a useless answer.
The Nobel Prize is named after the guy who invented dynamite so I'm not judging a single inventor for not being able to conjure up the infinite number of ways his invention could be misused.
Situation #1: Lets say a thief steals the Rolex from X. It goes through the black market, and now Y claims to own that Rolex.

Lets take situation #2. X realizes that Situation#1 is possible. So X sells his Rolex to Y but fails to disclose that its blockchain-tracked. Now Y has the Rolex (and is out of some money). Now X-claims that Y stole the Rolex from him.

How does Blockchain differentiate from #1 (where the Rolex should be returned to X) and #2 (where the Rolex should be returned to Y) ? The only way to solve this issue is to ensure that Y transacts on the _same_ blockchain.

Which... isn't the case at all for NFTs, Bitcoin, DOGE, and etc. etc. There are so many blockchains (and each NFT basically makes its own blockchain). It is very easy for X to transact on the wrong blockchain to fool Y right now. (or off-blockchain, by transacting in USD for example).
Congrats on launching!

Had a play through and found it pretty addictive; similar to other clickminer/grind style games I've liked in the past.

I found the action swap mechanic a little odd at first but ultimately a nice change of pace from the more typical "unlock/pay to play" style progression of actions.

I do agree with some other posters that there is a good deal of unnecessary tapping (choosing to return/continue, etc) but I think it would take a little ingenuity about how to keep the core gameplay as is and reduce those taps.

The ads did make me sad and really interrupted the flow/immersiveness of the experience. A revenue model I'd play with is a paywall after the first level (and capping the stats as kind of an "intro" experience) and doing away with the ads.

Last thought was around the item that allows the player to see the unit's information. That part felt especially clunky/tap heavy. Might be cool to just see the general strengths/weaknesses mid-battle.

Again, just a bunch of random thoughts, and the main takeaway is that you should be proud of not only building something cool, but putting it out there for others to enjoy!
It seems the unstated proposal here is that cryptography will reduce the burden necessary to validate a title. Maybe.

Let's say the house is in a town that has 100 houses and the current title verification process is that you go to the town hall, which is open from noon to 2PM on Thursdays and every other Tuesday, and you ask Ethyl, who is 71 and has cataracts, to go check the title and verify the owner is who you say it is. She takes the title document from you and then goes to an original master and checks the names. There was a flood in the town hall, so houses 21-40 had their original documents damaged in the box but there's an attestation process that applies in that case. Also, a bylaw requires that Ethyl only deals with a licensed title verification agent, of which there is one in the town, and he doesn't work Tuesdays.

This is burdensome! Both Ethyl and the verification agent are probably rent seekers!

It seems like your pitch is "if instead of this, the town webpage had a cryptographically signed register that simply notes who owns everything, then you could just go on the webpage and verify it yourself."

That would be simpler! But not because of blockchain. It's also the case that in a non-blockchain world, the town could put the ownership on a traditional database online, and give owners PINs that can be used to do the title verification. Or just list all the owners publicly by name and make the town webmaster the central trusted authority that the changes are not fraudulent. Or they could even make the ledger cryptographically signed exactly like a blockchain but with the contents centrally stored rather than distributed/public.

So it's still hard for me to think how you can separate the blockchain pitch "processes would be more efficient if we designed them to be efficient", blockchain or not.
Doom is not a good comparison as it presumably uses a lot of floating point.
> The people receiving royalties are the artists in these cases...

This is just factually incorrect. I don't know why there's so much confusion here... it's the creator of the NFT that controls where the money goes, not the creator of the artwork. I don't know why people think that it's the artist that gets the money--that doesn't make any logical sense--how would a system like that even work?
If the city can build a subway station on Randalls Island as part of Triboro RX, that location (which already has many athletic fields) would be a good place for a large complex of swimming pools.
Cicada envy? Look at this Herndon guy’s infestation – WTOP
I'm not doing that at all - his comment made it sound like he worked for an ISP. To me, hearing from someone who works at an ISP or even the ISP in question could add valuable context to the discussion. I'll edit my comment to make that more clear.

Side note - it's funny, in a wry way, that my question can be simultaneously asked in (what felt to me like) such an innocent way and interpreted in such a malevolent way when you view it through the lens of "standard HN snark".
It depends. People who have skin in the game are going to be the most responsible.

People who's compensation is based on bonuses... not so much.