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Show HN: Instantly transcribe/translate any audio playing on Windows with alt+B
Hey all,

I've been learning Spanish for about 2.5 years, and consider myself upper intermediate.

I made a tool for when you're watching a Spanish YouTube video, Netflix show, or listening to a podcast and don't quite catch something that was said. I wanted to go ahead and post it here since I could easily expand it to work with any language, and was curious if others might find it useful.

When the tool is running, you can just pause the video and press Alt+B, and an instant transcript and translation of the last 10 seconds of audio will appear. It's useful for when native speakers are talking fast and you can't immediately parse out each individual word.

I made a short demo video below to explain what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl734JTCaIQ

I feel like this is a situation a lot of language learners run into, and there isn't a great tool for it (until now hopefully)! Would anyone be interested in helping me test it out/make it more useful? You can download it for free at briceleaf.com to try it out.

(It can't be free forever if people like it unfortunately since I have to pay for the API requests to transcribe and translate the audio. It would be awesome to get some financial support if people like it, let me know if you want to make a purchase haha)

The way I like to use it is to have YouTube, Netflix, or Spotify playing and listen until I hear something that I didn't understand. Then I'll press space to pause, and Alt+B to open the transcription. After I read it, I press enter to close the transcript and then either rewind to relisten or just keep going. I don't like clicking, so it's nice that you can use the keyboard to pull it up/close it in stride.

It only works on Windows for now, but if there's interest I'd definitely make a Mac/Linux version.

Would this be useful to any of you? Anything you'd like to see changed? I've been using it like crazy for my Money Heist rewatch to get to 100% comprehension, so I hope someone out there likes it too.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts - let me know if you want to stay in the loop as I develop it more!
Haha that's impossible. They all look the same
On android, as soon as your display timeout it will auto scroll to new messages. It is also very tedious to go and stay in the first post of threads.

Quite infuriating especially on a lengthy thread. There's a 5 year old feature request that nobody ever bothered to respond to.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600320...
I got a bicycle at age 6 and a minibike at age 11 and have ridden bikes and cycles ever since, mostly on-road but I'd love to do more off. I only wish it was safer to share the road. Most drivers act like running down a cyclist is their god-given right.
My bank just said that there was "no error" when I did this after Amazon failed to deliver something last year. I imagine that Amazon makes up a good portion of their chargeback complaints now.

Separately, I had my bank block Amazon Prime from charging my debit card. It shows up as a different merchant so they were do it and I can still make one-off purchases (which I don't like to any longer). I did this because the UI to cancel Amazon Prime did not work on my new, updated MacBook. It did not respond to clicks on the "confirm cancel" or whatever button.
The petition doesn’t name any specific device. But the Church of Scientology uses a “religious artifact” it calls an “electropsychometer” or “E-Meter” to “measure the spiritual state or change of state of a person”

Is it possible that this is just some odd variation of an ohm or microvolt meter? Has anyone here taken one apart?
> I can't even think of an API where a single call would cost $1cent.

paying engineer for the same job will be many factors more expensive.
There are no jokes in here, but HN definitely has a posting/comment "culture", a vibe, as the OP calls it, that's for sure.

For example I could never understood how come the rationalist thing was not derided to the moon and the back, especially after that crypto debacle with the Bahamas guy. But while there was a slight reaction shorlty after the fact that rationalist mindset has returned here in full force.
By late-undergrad, it was intuitive to me that "proof" means "all mathematicians who reads this agrees with it". Mathematics is unique in that, mostly, the field can achieve consensus on results, which we then call "proofs".

But similarly, it makes sense that, even if a result is is "true" in a universal, objective sense, if the mathematician cannot communicate this in a convincing fashion to the rest of the mathematics world, I don't think we can call that result "proved".
Oh definitely I know they’re not the allies. I’m just hoping and dreaming.
It's a false equivalency.

Effective discretionary income for the vast majority of people has shrunk significantly due to how expensive housing has become.

Yeah, people can sacrifice but folks are sacrificing MUCH more now than they've had to in the last 30+ years.
If you only need 5 kwargs, reading 5 elements from a 500k element dict is O(1). Just finding the max index is O(n). You might be right that even passing 500k element dict to a function **kwargs has terrible performance today anyway (I haven't checked but it does sound plausible from your timing tests).

It seems like we are now looking for imprecisions in each other's reply and discussion does not seem to be constructive: we are agreeing on rough potential implementations, it's just that we differ whether that should be acceptable or not.

That's fine, you are not convincing me and I am not convincing you, so we might as well drop it. It's not like this proposal is happening :)

Have a good day!
Why much prefer MOO stuff?
Asking is CRITICAL. Do not praise me without consent. I have had too many abusive managers in my career to ever desire unsolicited praise. All information is a weapon in the hands of an abuser.

I may have helped you complete your task but my manager could interpret that as wasting time not delivering my own task.

In other words going over someone’s head (direct to their manager) is an aggressive and rude action. It is never kind or helpful, regardless of intent.
Yeah, and it's precisely that kind of opaque behavior that makes me question the whole proposition.
The CEO was Iranian, that's why.
I should also have mentioned The Mill architecture as an example of dealing with code as blocks of instructions instead of each one separately. In this case they get a higher fetch rate for their VLIW machine by starting execution from the middle of the block and fetching both up and down at the same time. So they have two program counters which get set to the same value on every jump or call.

https://millcomputing.com/

The point is that inside every advanced processor instructions are handled in groups and if you expose that to the compiler you can save transistors and energy.
One of the key techniques for radiation hardening is big transistor geometries. Big transistors are less susceptiple to SEU (single event upset) caused by cosmic rays [0].

Unfortunately big transistors are old transistors. Modern 7 nm geometries are much too small to be rad-hard. Rad-hardness needs big 20-year-old geometries or even older. That also implies slower clock speeds.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-event_upset
Here is the YouTube link to the demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl734JTCaIQ
It can understand image somewhat, and for free so that's nice
[ Do I need blockchain? ]

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No.
Threads died because the content trends was consistent with that of Facebook, highly monetized and therefore unappealing to Twitter users. Totally irrespective of Threads, Facebook is a superior replacement to Twitter in terms of its systems, and the value of Twitter is its violent flow of unmonetizable content generated by explicitly anonymous users, and so the whole thing is where capitalism goes to die and financially there's just no way out.

That billionaire man paying generous amount to users would have been a fortunate event to users collectively, but that's it.
No, uploads won't save you at all. See upthread.
Pigeon keeping, well, I use to keep them as a kid. Found an injured wood pigeon, broken wing, an old woman next door had a few lofts at her farm that use to belong to her husband - I was allowed to keep it there and managed to splint the wing, after it healed I let it back into the wild. An avid pigeon racer who use to visit her noticed my interest and gave me my first racing pigeons. I started racing them, earned some okay results for a kid my age. Switched to my focus to fancy pigeons later on, mainly tumbler breeds. I stopped keeping them when I moved out of my parents house. Missed them ever since as they brought me a kind of peace. I loved having them around me.

I recently bought a house with a nice garden and I’m in the process of starting again. Fancy pigeons, 2 specific breeds. Planning the loft build as we speak.

Besides that, I love woodworking - which I learned from the same pigeon guy who owned a woodworking company.
> trailer

I'll wait for the teaser
Wow, beautiful out of the box ideas.
If we could go back to the days when there was no feed and Facebook was just a way of keeping track of your friends and sending a message, I might use it at all.
Yeah because that's totally worked out, right?

Where has technology as disruptive as 'AI' ever been defeated by regulations? That's just more rules that the rich can ignore with impunity.

Western society doesn't really have real solidarity. It's a performance we go into every election season but it's just that: a performance.

Society will do nothing about this until it affects the rich. As always.
Reinforcement Learning Powered Drone Beats Human Champion Pilots
i notice that a forum for a productive effort gets much less useful if there is a "general" sub form. It seems to ruin organization permanently.

One could in stead have a "i don't know where to put this" section that forces the mod to move or delete it.
Ah yeah. I love maker faire but I don’t think I can stomach the 2 hour trip (and then back) to get there.

Hope everyone has a great time tho, and if it goes well maybe they can bring it to the peninsula in the future
This reminded me of AWS in plain English
https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/
> ISO 8601 is prolific. Is RFC 3339 well used/adopted in any system?

90% of the time when a library says ISO 8601 it doesn't actually implement the more esoteric parts of ISO 8601.
> But when you get regulation like generation shifting, corporations and the political right wing collude to say that the regulations are unconstitutional.

The argument wasn't that they're unconstitutional, it's that they weren't authorized by Congress. To have the law you have to actually pass the law.
Again, I'm not a future seer,

Then why do you keep pretending you can predict the future?

I said that people do notice, maybe not most, but yes, some people do notice. If you would like to make a different claim, then do so. It's not about some YouTuber, it's the fact that at least some people do notice bad CGI, while you said "people can't notice" it.

You still don't even understand what I'm saying. There is a huge amount of explicit detail demanded by the people making movies and it all needs to be exact.

People write scripts for fun, yes. I'm not sure what there is to show you

There is nothing to show, because kids aren't writing "hollywood blockbuster scripts" in their bedrooms even though they could just type it out on their computer.

It only seems that easy to something who knows absolutely nothing about writing.

Based on this sentence, I can tell you haven't used the state of the art recently, even if you say you used something like ComfyUI with inpainting.

Or maybe these results aren't as great as you think.

Things like Ultimatte with Unreal Engine's virtual sets do just that actually

They absolutely do not. Ultimatte is not a natural image matting plugin. The virtual set stuff isn't even in the same ballpark as natural image matting, it is a live screen behind people.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/ultimatte

https://www.google.com/search?q=natural+image+matting

My point, again, is that people will be making current blockbuster level content in their houses

You don't even understand what that means. Lots of people read article headlines and watch 30 second youtube clips, but it is a mistake to buy into so much hype without understanding that new tools are still just a piece of the puzzle.
I agree in general, but I think bugs are a lot easier to track down with divide and conquer strategies. If you're able to reproduce the bug by sending request X to service Y, gradually shrink the test case down until you've found the culprit.

Optimization is often an architectural problem. Sure there are cases where you're copying a thing where you could recycle a buffer, but you run out of those fairly quickly, and a profiler will tell you what you need to know.

A lot of the big performance wins are in changing the entire data logistics, possibly eliminating significant portions of the flow until the code does what it needs to in as few steps as possible.
This is a blank page on iOS Chrome.
Didnt they retire these in favor of the vector icons?
I too miss MUD/Moo/MUSH/MUCKes

I remember trying them all back in the early 90s, spending some time on lpmud instances and Amberyl's pennmush mostly, before writing my own.

More recently I played a hellmoo inspired moo for a couple of years back around 2015 before I just stopped playing for some reason. Maybe I should try it again, it seems to still be running (good mud/moo/mush/mucks never seem to truly die)
Intentionally left open to interpretation, but generally ‘known’ projects not private ones others couldn’t possibly be aware of.
Surely redundant transistors would also be a useful technique. E.g. have an array of transistors at the current geometry, all doing the same function. The chance of a single event upsetting them all becomes unlikely.
You can’t change the license of the original code. But you can say “all changes from now on are licensed under the BSL”, with no need to physically separate the BSL and non-BSL parts. The result is a codebase where users have to comply with both the original license and the BSL. For most permissive licenses, that’s basically the same thing as a pure BSL codebase, except that typically the original license notice needs to be preserved in addition to the BSL one.

This isn’t the case if the original license is the GPL, because the GPL requires derivative works to also be licensed under the GPL.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - It's an odd combination of intense physical activity and human chess (setting up attacks in advance while also trying to deflect your opponents attacks, except using chokes or joint breaks). Grapplers are either freak athletes, 120lb stoners, or business professionals. BJJ is one of the most unique sports/martial arts out there, and I encourage everyone to try it at least once.

I started after enrolling my children in it, and then figuring "why the hell not, I should train too."
Learning Ableton opened me up to a whole world of meeting new people and picking up new skills.

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iuRsiKtObw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxY0x1i3XhY

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9oiyAGA6zOTSPR5-ttojODT4...

Getting some teenage engineering pocket operators is also something I'd strongly recommend. They're affordable and fun!
Check out this 8 year old building a tune with them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhFIUdICYSA
It's right there in the description of the situation. You didn't like it: "If you are calling out your colleagues for doing bad work, ...".
This is a hilarious blog.

Honestly, it’s not just the icons but the names as well. A lot of them are completely unrelated to the product and make no sense
But there is "putting your own at risk" and "putting your family at risk".
This is a great point. In a computer proof system, you produce judgements like "the term x has type is T", where the type "T" encodes the statement of a theorem and "x" is the proof. We must be certain that whenever the type checker verifies that "x has type T", it means that the theorem "T" is actually true. Such a meta-proof must be done on pen and paper, before any code is written at all. Any bug in this meta-proof would destroy our ability to rely on the computer proof system.
Linux DRM Developer's Guide [Revision 1.0 2012-07-13]
Or to avoid using the anthropocentric language, we could just use "Consciousnesses at IBM" :)
Phononic quantum computing probably needs LightSlinger sensors, too?:
https://www.google.com/search?q=phononic+quantum+computing
Yeah, Schwab can track other accounts from Fidelity, Vanguard, etc.

I’m probably a minority but I don’t micromanage my wealth. General account level information is good enough. I also do not trust wealth managers, usually their advice is terrible. Schwab automatically assigns a person on your account after a certain wealth threshold. They call me occasionally to make sure I’m aware of the risks which of course I am.
I listen to music when what I'm doing allows for it. And sometimes I'll watch a Youtube video. But it's usually something that's at least tangentially work related. I don't really just sit around and like, watch cat videos at work, or whatever.

And, of course, checking HN obsessively. :-)
Update your model. That's a internet rumor spread by NPCs.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min...
1. Yes, when you have a hard cutoff for anything you get strange behaviors near the boundaries.

2. Are you saying there should be no cutoff (graduated or hard) anywhere, so that CEOs with total-compensation in the millions get paid overtime?

3. At a 40 hour week that's about $30 per hour, quadruple the federal minimum wage[A]. If you are salaried and making more than quadruple the minimum wage than you are more likely to have negotiating power than if you are making less than quadruple the minimum wage.

4. There's also a disconnect between the law and actual company behavior; the salary is only one test in the law; companies often give bogus job titles to reclassify non-exempt employees as exempt. This is rather clearly illegal.

A: Yes states can set higher minimum wages. They can also place extra restrictions on who is exempt from overtime laws (and probably should do so in this case) TFA is about federal law, so I'm addressing it as such.
The designer has a delightful YouTube channel and “reviewed” their own set. https://youtu.be/eFB8mHx1wAI?si=dA_NzI5Z_sC0ANC5
Sure, the glass has gotten much better. But so did the recording material, in fact that's where the real revolution happened and even though superficially there isn't much difference between the earliest light sensitive emulsions and what was used with modern film until not that long ago (and still by some people). There was something called the Schneier (sp?, that guy is everywhere :)) film speed rating, but I no longer have access to any of that stuff (the whole family archive got destroyed :( ), it makes for interesting reading. It was possible to have short exposures but they'd be severely underexposed unless you brought your magnesium flash with you!

I've sat for hours for pictures in low light.
Changing ToS w/o even updating the "update date" - not to mention releasing some announcement...

Who does that? No really?

Feels like the show is being run by lawyers who don't know how Internet works.
Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat
Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests
I have a lot, but photography, building things (lots of woodworking but some electronics and art), rock climbing, camping, going deep on random cooking projects, etc. key is to just follow a thread of interest for as long as you find it interesting. Investing in gear upfront can sometimes be worthwhile, but prototyping can help there.
Article is from 2011 (figured that out after I read the whole thing).

I wonder if in in the interim anything else happened to Gembe. Somehow, I kinda want to hear he ended up at Valve in a turnaround of events, but I highly doubt it.
Con Kolivas, a well-known Linux kernel contributor and hacker, is an anesthesiologist [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas
They were even generally considered a bad idea back on VMS' ACL system.
Anecdotally, my friend who's just starting out teaching high school physics has used ChatGPT to generate worksheet questions with mixed results, having to throw out the majority of what it generates, but still saving time overall
Building furniture out of wood. I enjoy it a ton, even the boring stuff like sanding isn’t too bad. Sure beats staring at a screen all day (I’m a Software Engineer but left to my own I will be on the computer ALL day).

I find it creative, beautiful, practical, and an opportunity to be outside
I found the rented e-scooter experience in Paris to be a cost-effective, convenient, and quick way to get around the city. I much preferred taking one of them over the subways/bus system or taxis. I did see a lot of irresponsible riders over the years, which is partly why we are here now. My next trip will find me transitioning to e-bikes rather than returning to the old transportation options.
Just go to the Playground: https://platform.openai.com/playground

All the same functionality, without the downtime. Has 100% uptime for the past 90 days: https://status.openai.com/
also check out DRM Internals

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.18/gpu/drm-internals.html
They picked boring things to look at unfortunately. Not a lot going on in Moka pot that you can't grok just by looking at and taking it apart. Throwing a whole all-in-one countertop machine might be cooler.
Not the healthiest of hobbies but I stumbled into DOTA (the league of legends precursor) 20 years ago and have never fallen out of love.

It's been a dangerous addiction at several points of my life, but in many ways has revealed to me more insight about myself than any other activity.

There is so much variation and nuance, there's always something to learn. For a naturally curious and slightly competitive person, it's quite an intoxicating cocktail.
Depends on how you define "purpose".

To me it means "the reason why <person> does <thing>", so the phrase "purpose of a system" doesn't make sense without a particular human subject who's interacting with the system.
Yep, it's a narrow-range (~2 ohms) precision ohm meter, specifically a Wheatstone bridge[0]. Newer models have a microcontroller. There is a teardown video[1] of a newer model found on eBay. Scientologists spared no expense (e.g. $20 potentiometers, custom injection molded case)!

There's also an older teardown and a huge amount of info from Dave Touretzky on these things [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstone_bridge

[1] https://hackaday.com/2018/07/19/whats-inside-a-scientology-e...

[3] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/E-Meter/
We should demand our money back!
Violin! It was a pandemic hobby I started in 2020, but has turned into a super important aspect of my daily life. I played sax for about 12 years, but wanted to learn something completely different and that always seemed “virtuosic” in my eyes.

Been an awesome journey and just about to learn my first Bach Violin Sonata!
The current time formats depend on databases that can change at any time. I haven’t found one that is implementable and usable in the real world that does not depend on something that can be changed.

Countries change. Timezones change by decree. This is a pain but it’s the real world and our tools need to be able to deal with it. I don’t like it either, and no one cares, nor should they. Reality trumps preference.
> 100% actual friends

But no family because they'd never figure out how to use the damned thing, amirite?