My wonder isn’t why he is doing this, it’s more why everyone else is t doing the same? Are we all that sure we know what happens to the stock market when the government collapses?
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ForrestN commented on Warren Buffett amasses more cash and sells more stock cnbc.com/2025/02/22/warre... · Posted by u/belter
A library of documentation (nearly 1 million high res images and documents) of recent contemporary art exhibitions from all over the world. Free to the public, operated as a small non-profit.
ForrestN commented on Hammer Looking for a Nail, AI Drone Looking for Business Case · Posted by u/maxwelllwang
Security companies? Seems like a lot of people would pay to have this on a dock in the back of their house checking their property every so often. A lot of camera systems are sold and this could replace a lot of permanently positioned cameras. Could respond to requests if something comes up, avoid being swatted down etc.
ForrestN commented on Sextortion scams now include photos of your home krebsonsecurity.com/2024/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I started getting some of these recently. They try to be threatening about porn watching and stuff like that. I just "Report Phishing" and move on. The threat itself is not that great: they'll send videos of your self-love to everyone. That's not outrageously threatening, if I'm being honest.
Not only that—anyone who's ever tried to have FaceTime sex knows that the only video they would capture is of your face watching porn... it's not like they can see your body unless you're specifically placing your phone in order to show it to someone else (which is actually kind of challenging and definitely nothing like how you'd use your phone to watch porn). They're basically threatening to send pictures of your "O face" which really wouldn't be that embarrassing at all to me, at least.
ForrestN commented on I'm leaving OpenAI after 3½ yrs twitter.com/E0M/status/17... · Posted by u/tosh
Who's got the scoop on what's going on?
Partnership with Apple, maybe?
ForrestN commented on Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial independent.co.uk/news/he... · Posted by u/belter
As a disabled person, I admit to being made slightly uncomfortable by the uncritical framing of genetically modified people as "therapy" that all people should want. Where is the line between "gene therapy" to eliminate differences (such as deafness) and eugenics? If we have statistics that taller people have better outcomes in life, should we do gene therapy to make sure everyone is taller than 6'? How much diversity of human experience is too much?
Obviously, there are easy cases: this kind of technique to prevent conditions leading to abject suffering, for example. But, knowing and admiring deaf people makes me unsure about the idea of "curing" deafness, for example, as a goal of medicine.
ForrestN commented on TikTok CEO expects to defeat US ban: 'We aren't going anywhere' reuters.com/technology/ti... · Posted by u/tithe
Literally what else could he possibly say in this situation?
“We understand the concerns expressed and are committed to finding a resolution that puts the interests of our users and the American public as our top priority.”
They should sell it or spin it off or whatever and make statements commensurate with that.
ForrestN commented on Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor · Posted by u/the_king
This is so cool! Great work. I'm writing this comment using Aqua Voice, and it's very impressive. I've been waiting for something like this. As a neurodivergent person, certain tasks (cough, email, cough) are about 10 times harder sitting down at my computer than they are handling them aloud with my assistant.
I'm sure you get this feedback 100 times a day, but I'd gladly pay a substantial amount to use this in place of the system dictation on my Mac and iPhone. Right now, the main limitation to me using it constantly would be the endless need to copy and paste from this separate new document editor into my email app or into Notion or Google Docs, etc.
Two more small pieces of feedback, in case they're useful:
- Consider a time-based free trial. As others have said, tokens are confusing, but also your model is unlimited so the chunk of tokens doesn't allow me to see what it might be like to actually use your product. I'm more than halfway through my tokens after writing an HN comment and a brief todo list for work, so I've been able to see what it'd be like to pay the $10 for about 5 minutes worth of work, which feels like a very short trial. A week, say, seems fair? And then you have some kind of cap on tokens that only comes up if someone uses an abusively huge amount (an issue, I'm sure, you'd face with paying customers too, right?)
- I had a bit of trouble with making a todo list—I kept wanting the system to do a "new line" or "next item" and show me a new line with a dash so I know I'm dictating to the right place, but I couldn't coax it into doing that for me. I had to sort of just start on the next item and then use my keyboard to push return. When making lists, it's good to be able to do so fluidly and intentionally as much as possible. Sometimes it did figure out, impressively, that long pauses meant I wanted a new line. But not always.
ForrestN commented on Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor · Posted by u/the_king
Awesome. Agree on the copy-paste annoyance, we're working on more clients.
But I do think that the reliability needs to take a few more steps before it becomes a true keyboard replacer.
Thanks for all your hard work! Even, as a start, I found myself asking the app to copy the text to the clipboard for me without even thinking. Might be nice to be able to do that more seamlessly, just as a start?
You've moved us all a lot closer to my dream: taking a long walk outside, AirPods in, and handling the day's email without even looking at a screen once.