MarkMc

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Show HN: Practice English Grammar and Pronunciation (Uses Azure Speech)(marksdailyenglish.com)
2 points by MarkMc 4d ago|1 comments
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by MarkMc 8d ago
Remember that while Bill Gates was worrying about downloading a video editor, he was ceding search to Google
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by MarkMc 1y ago
Ultimately a large number of people identify with Trump. So when he says he inherited an awful economy and the tariffs are the cure, they believe him
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by MarkMc 2y ago
Thanks that's a good idea! I think I'd need to use AI to categorise each story, then maybe have different tabs on the page for each category...
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by MarkMc 2y ago
The presence or absence of an image depends on user votes. If you feel an image is not useful, click the '...' button and select 'Suggest or Choose an Image' > 'This story does not need an image'
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by MarkMc 2y ago
Thanks! No fixed plans for future development - it kind of depends on how much traction it gets. If it gets a lot of interest I might add a 'AI editor' that chooses images and write subtitles (or deletes boring ones which have be
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Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles(hackerherald.com)
251 points by MarkMc 2y ago|82 comments
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by MarkMc 2y ago
OK that's cute, but when is Facebook going to release this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EohIA7QPmmE Lex: "It just feels like we are in the same room. This is really the most incredible thing I've ever se
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by MarkMc 2y ago
Not just magazines. I remember being amazed in 2018 how my flatmates were watching YouTube on their living-room TV instead of a broadcast TV channel. This change of attention is also affecting movie studios like Disney
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Ask HN: Website to create Manim animations from natural language?
1 points by MarkMc 2y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to pay sales tax in 38 jurisdictions?
3 points by MarkMc 2y ago|0 comments
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by MarkMc 3y ago
Waymo really needs to do an A/B test to demonstrate the safety of their cars: When you order a ridesharing car you randomly get assigned one of their driverless cars or an Uber with a human driver. After a year see which group has the
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by MarkMc 3y ago
My doctor was target of bitcoin extortionists. Now her system is so locked down and doesn’t interface with any other system. To transfer information to another system she prints it out and scans it into the new system
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by MarkMc 3y ago
Mark Cuban made a great point: > If advertisers were getting results from their X ads, or possibly If you posted data that showed that ads on this platform were effective and produced results, you would be in an entirely different pos
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China’s 40-Year Boom Is Over. What Comes Next?(wsj.com)
9 points by MarkMc 3y ago|5 comments
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by MarkMc 3y ago
Step 1: Buy put options on gold Step 2: Announce a credible space mission to mine a gold asteroid Step 3: After the price of gold tanks, sell the put options Step 4: Cancel the space mission Step 5: Profit! How long until this business plan
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Self-Driving Cars [video](youtube.com)
1 points by MarkMc 3y ago|0 comments
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by MarkMc 3y ago
> we are now serving over 10 thousand trips per week to public riders, not including employees. With this latest expansion, we intend for those numbers to accelerate rapidly to 10 times that scale by next summer. Waymo cars are safer, cl
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by MarkMc 3y ago
> Google has been worried about A.I.-powered competitors since OpenAI, a San Francisco start-up that is working with Microsoft, demonstrated a chatbot called ChatGPT in November. About two weeks later, Google created a task force in its
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by MarkMc 4y ago
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
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by MarkMc 4y ago
The rebrand to Wise was reasonable since they were branching out to general banking and didn’t want to be seen as just a way to send money.
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by MarkMc 4y ago
For those who doubt the old Twitter management could be so incompetent: These are the same people who never noticed they were showing me ads in a language I couldn't understand whenever I went on vacation.
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by MarkMc 4y ago
I am director of an online bootcamp, and we tackle the cheating problem with a custom browser-based platform that records 3 video feeds during an exam: 1. the screen capture, 2. the webcam and 3. the video feed of the students phone placed
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by MarkMc 4y ago
> He's still going to die within the usual human lifespan limits, just like the rest of us. I'm not so sure. For millennia people tried and failed to fly through the air like birds. In the late nineteenth century so many people
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by MarkMc 4y ago
The company might claim that the minority gender is in fact 'stronger' because a diverse workforce performs better.
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Ask HN: How to generate ad revenue for a webapp?
12 points by MarkMc 4y ago|1 comments
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by MarkMc 4y ago
The "living wage" housing costs for Manhattan are $22,852 [0] while there are quite a few 2-bedroom apartments listed for rent below $3,000 per month [1] So 2 single people sharing a 2-bedroom apartment in Manhattan are not earnin
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by MarkMc 4y ago
I must be the only person who thinks Twitter is still worth at least $44 billion. Yes, Elon has made a few dumb mistakes. But they have been reversed pretty quickly without much long-term damage. It's the rate and scale of successful
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by MarkMc 4y ago
When on vacation earlier this year I saw ads in a language I don't understand. Think about that: For 16 years Twitter management was so sclerotic that they were unable to perform basic improvements on targeting ads. Instead their focus
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by MarkMc 4y ago
Yes Musk's track record is one factor, but mostly it's my personal experience seeing how poorly targeted Twitter's ads are. For example: 1. When I go on vacation I see ads in a language I don't understand 2. When I sign

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