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by tsycho 4y ago
Is there an open source speech recognition model which can be restricted to a smaller domain-specific dictionary? Use case: I want to transcribe my poker hands while playing, eg: "Flop was 2 of spaces, 3 of diamonds and King of spades&
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by tsycho 4y ago
And offers a generous notice period, and data transition options, when it shut downs. To be fair, this should be what to expect from any large corporation, but sadly, many don't.
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by tsycho 4y ago
While your question itself is good, it's unfortunately quite likely that the recruiters won't actually know the answer. So their answer isn't a good signal. Separately, in larger companies, there will be significant variance
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by tsycho 4y ago
You are not wrong. It is dehumanizing (for Indians in particular), and downright dystopian for some. However, people still go for it because they have significantly better career and financial prospects taking a tech job on a H1 in the US,
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by tsycho 4y ago
How can we help?
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by tsycho 4y ago
I really really hope you are right.
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by tsycho 4y ago
Unpopular opinion (on HN at least): A Chromebook, under locked down mode to prevent installing any plugins, is best for non-tech savvy, casual internet users.
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by tsycho 4y ago
I know HN hates Facebook (I don't like them either), but isn't a simpler explanation that: A lot of people are working from home, so there's less use of office facilities so there's less janitorial work needed, and whoev
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by tsycho 4y ago
Are you planning to provide native iOS/Android APIs? Any ETA if yes?
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by tsycho 4y ago
Underrated comment. Not sure if roschdal@ intended it this way, but I interpreted it in a dark way.
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by tsycho 4y ago
Old news, not sure why it's on HN now. That said, I remember being very surprised how little flak Microsoft got for such blatant cheating imo. Even this article is surprisingly being nice to Microsoft....I guess they wanted to retain t
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by tsycho 4y ago
I want a two-person local network game to play with my son (let's say 6-10yr age range). The game play should explicitly have a parent-player and kid-player with different difficulty of controls and types of actions. I think collaborat
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by tsycho 5y ago
This one annoys me a lot, and I blame Amazon. They seem to think that my purchase data is a monopoly for them to sell me ads on. And to be anti competitive, they have completely screwed up the UX for customers. "Hi, it's Amazon. W
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by tsycho 5y ago
First of all, I have been reading a lot of publications on Substack, thank you. I have been using your app for a few days, and have a few feature requests: 1. Can you please support signing in to multiple accounts? Ideally, you would merge
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by tsycho 5y ago
Unfortunately, almost every company expect "total control" [1] over your life during work hours. FAANG companies just pay more. Also, tech workers probably have way more autonomy on their schedule than most other industries. Btw,
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by tsycho 5y ago
Immigration?? It's been at record low levels since 2018, once Trump's policies came into full effect.
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by tsycho 5y ago
So is this iPhone to iPhone only, or can the customer use any NFC enabled credit card directly, or (shudder) their Android phone?
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#15: Nuanced communication; On Seriousness; Rorschach; How to become the best(ilearned.substack.com)
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by tsycho 5y ago
I am building a site to analyze my investment portfolio - run risk models, evaluate payoff scenarios, and even suggest options trades. I have been doing a lot of options trading in the past few years, and needed better tools to analyze comp
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by tsycho 5y ago
From their website (About/Disclaimer): _The Unmask is not designed or intended to prevent, mitigate, treat, diagnose or cure any disease or health condition, including COVID-19/Coronavirus. Unmasks are intended for general public
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by tsycho 5y ago
Are you saying that Blackrock et al wouldn't buy homes if there weren't Zillow/OpenDoor/Offerpad? For Blackrock to rent these out, they clearly have to staff up a property management arm. Z/O/O might have made
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by tsycho 5y ago
This is a non story, full of anecdotes without getting into the actual problem that home prices have been rising across the country faster than wages, making it harder for the lower income segments and young people to buy homes. That's
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by tsycho 5y ago
A bunch of people use my email address for signing up to all sorts of websites (I have a common name, and my email is basically my name @ popular email provider). It is annoying to receive all this spam (usually I can unsubscribe), but the
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#14: Expectations move slower than reality; Reality is moving faster than ever(ilearned.substack.com)
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by tsycho 5y ago
On the other side, unfettered population growth for the purposes of maintaining a sufficiently large proportion of young people (in a world where people are living longer as well) is basically a Ponzi scheme. We’ll have to eventually stabil
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On Competitive Monopolies and Cartels(ilearned.substack.com)
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by tsycho 5y ago
This is a great law that I had never heard of. Given that NYT and others don't actually follow this though, how can California residents enforce this?
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by tsycho 5y ago
You can do all sorts of "monopolistic abuse" on your platform as long as it is small and inconsequential. No one cares, even if it was illegal, though it mostly is not. But the rules and scrutiny changes once you become large enou
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by tsycho 5y ago
I don't think that follows, sadly. The evolutionary history matters a lot in these things, since they set the culture and precedent on the platform. Macs and desktops started (or at least, became popular) as an open environment where u
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by tsycho 5y ago
Generally, using an internal IM client provides a stronger guarantee that all people in the group are employees. This reduces the risk of leaking out sensitive info, or the chances of a journalist/competitor snooping in, or phishing at

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