skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would we type their speech patterns vs ours? Different frequency ranges? Speed? Cadence? ...

Here is the only bit I can remember from cross-human language comparison, not cross-species:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_tempo (searched: different languages speaking rate) (Edit: information density and speech rate)

So my first question is about types of "spoken languages"?

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from searching, "types of languages" "click languages":

* African languages and linguistic typology - https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/jcgood-AfricaTypology.p...

* Language Classification: History and Method -
https://edisciplinas.usp.br/mod/resource/view.php?id=2225588

Anyone have a speech-to-text and POS-tagger yet for dolphins' language morphology/-ies?

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Deciphering the Dolphin Language - http://neuronresearch.net/dolphin/pdf/Dolphin_language.pdf

An assumption can be made that the CNS of the dolphin employs a frame time similar to humans, nominally 30
milliseconds. As a starting point, it is reasonable to assume that a typical phoneme is three to five times longer than 30 ms based on experience with human languages. A complication arises because of the multiple sources of sound within the dolphin’s nasal passages, recalling that the larynx of the dolphin is not in its throat (the passage along which food is ingested). These multiple acoustic sources suggest the dolphin can achieve an equivalent of the unique “throat singing” of the Inuit and Tuva people of Asia. Throat singing is also known as overtone singing.
Wikipedia provides a good description of throat singing. In Dolphin, the equivalent is clearly nasal singing. Nasal
singing in dolphin may be even more extensive.

As a starting point, the acoustic range of dolphin sounds (other than its forward focused echolocation sounds)
potentially useful in communications (language) extends from about 2000 Hz to at least 80,000 Hz (with whistles
extending up to about 40,000 Hz). In seeking to understand Dolphinia or Truncates, it makes no sense to restrict our
analyses to frequencies that the human can hear. Nor is it rational to limit the dolphin’s language to either a tonal or a stressed structure.

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Interpreting the acoustic pulse emissions of a wild bottlenose dolphin - http://aquaticmammalsjournal.org/share/AquaticMammalsIssueAr...

The study of acoustic signals and the supposed spoken language of the dolphins -
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240572231...

I hope some researcher(s) will put out organized videos of dolphins chatting alongside audio spectrograms. Remember the Enigma story, every message had certain words in it and was likely to have certain ones in certain places at certain times from certain senders to certain receivers... Certainly.
That is, if you care about notifications.

Let's not forget that on iOS you can disable every notification, which is the much better option.
Am I the only one who thinks that the Japanese versions of the Starbucks and Toyota sites look infinitely better?
Didn't you read the part where they compare it to any other sport?
“Apnea is not different from many other sports, in the sense that practice at a high level often leads to deleterious impacts on human physiology,” he said. “Think about alpinists going to Mount Everest, climbers, gymnastics, marathon runners—every sport has its drawbacks when performed at the élite level.”
Show HN: Draw Chrome Browser UI with HTML, JavaScript and CSS
The parent comment is actually a good one. I think the spirit of shenzen is different or experimental. We have a lot of regulations in developed countries - many good but some to the point that the president criticizes them in the state of the union (point about the empire state building). It is an interesting idea to have a wild west type economic zone .. given that govts are really trying to boost innovation, maybe something good can come of it. I know this is hard to do .. earthquake regs seems pointless until u have an earthquake - i get that. But look at the shit transit in most of our cities ... I think high costs are because of complex regulations.
NY/NYC offering tax breaks to them almost makes me vomit. The ONLY point of trying to get them to open up in NYC is to get more tax money from them. It should be as much as possible. NYC doesn't need another 50k people here and however many barista jobs they will 'indirectly' create. We need better infrastructure and housing first. Last time I checked, we don't even have enough schools planned for all the people we have.
In my view philosophy is important in and of itself, because these are natural questions about our existence which many brilliant people have thought about and written on for centuries. And these are very worth reading.

Second, because it illuminates good ways of life.

Third, because of the reason you mentioned.
After looking into it some more, it appears as though that screenshot was an attempt to simulate what the user may have seen because the agency did not release any sort of official images. Anecdotal evidence led everyone to speculate on what the "bad UI" may have looked like.

I still wouldn't call it "fake news", just a half-assed attempt to try to mock-up what the operator saw with little information. Its bad journalism (and should be called out as such!) but its not malicious. And that's why I hate the term "fake news" so much: it carries a negative overtone but it can applied to ineptitude and/or stupidity. Seeing as ineptitude and stupidity are rampant in life, assigning malice to them could be used as a rhetorical technique by a bad actor. For example, a politician wanting to bring down news groups that don't support him/her could say that all news is "fake news" and offer up examples such as the "bad ui".
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Chatbots with Elixir
How we fought bad apps and malicious developers in 2017
I hate to be picky but this is not quite accurate.

Absolutely nothing to do with judges.

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, which was passed by Congress and signed by the President, is what prevents age discrimination against people over 40. According to the EEOC it does not apply to people under 40, so baring any local or state laws, employers are free to discriminate based on age for younger employees/applicants, not just for being inexperienced. In my experience, its not even an uncommon practice either, I've met a few employers who have had floor ages for their employees due to (perceived) immaturity in younger employees.

As far as the reasoning, it's stated in the act itself:

(a) The Congress hereby finds and declares that-

(1) in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs;

(2) the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons;

(3) the incidence of unemployment, especially long-term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers; their numbers are great and growing; and their employment problems grave;

(4) the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

(b) It is therefore the purpose of this chapter to promote employment of older persons based on their ability rather than age; to prohibit arbitrary age discrimination in employment; to help employers and workers find ways of meeting problems arising from the impact of age on employment.
It's not really moving the goalposts since in overweight and obese people the disk can damage by improperly lifting their own body weight - and that matches well with the demographics for low intensity physical exercise like 10000 steps.

So I'm not against burpees and if it works for you that's good, I would avoid recommending any spinal stressing exercise to a broad demografic where it can do more damage than good for some. Seen in this light, his answer makes sense: the exercise that you should NEVER do is probably safe for most people, but could be detrimental for enough otherwise healthy people for him not to endorse it. A classic case of a few of us ruining it for the rest of you.

Thank you for the kind words.
It seems to work pretty well in places like for example France.

Have you seen what happens when a politician tries to take away a single sick day or reduce their already-world-leading maternity leave? .. millions march in the streets for days and you can bet your bottom dollar come election time the responsible politician is swiftly voted out.

Those people care about what is happening in their country and how it impacts them. They know it's more important than football and cheap beer.

Americans have forgotten how to participate in Democracy.
Can't you deduce skin colour from chemical analysis of bog bodies, or is melanin unstable in those conditions? Also, can't we deduce skin colour from analysis of DNA (and from the climate: sunlight affects skin colour)?

Perhaps the problem is that scientists are not particularly interested in skin colour, for which I wouldn't blame them.
> endorsement / promotion of the X60 [...] with non-free EC firmware and a dial-up modem that requires non-free software to work

Sorry, I may need a source on this. My X60 boots perfectly without any non-free firmware, and everything works (except the wireless card I swapped in, I don't know if also the original needed them). I'm asking for a source because I would like to understand how they endorsed it. If it boots without problems and you need an external dongle to get wifi I don't see a problem with that, from a freedom standpoint.

Really, I'm not trying to be a contrarian, just trying to better understand where my money is going.

EDIT: typo
> America is falling apart. Visit these towns where industry is obsolete or shipped abroad. Look at that, and then say "yep, accelerating this process will be wonderful".

Genuine question (not trying to flamebait): why are these failing communities "America" any more than the metro regions are booming like crazy and creating prosperity for so many Americans? Again, I'm not blaming them for their predicament, but I've met many Americans who grew up in rural areas but migrated to other places to seek work. Why should the rest of us be heavily taxed and regulated just to preserve these anachronistic, unproductive communities?
Those margins are usually baked into the contract and decrease over the lifetime of the console. At least that's how I've heard it told with people who were in the know.
> It's often said that one of the benefits of studying math is that it improves critical thinking skills. I believe this to be true, but I also believe that if our primary concern is improving our day to day critical thinking skills, then we would be better served studying natural language philosphy than mathematics, because on a day to day basis we tend to think and reason and debate and engage with one another in natural language.

I agree. For this reason, my favorite philosopher has always been Wittgenstein. I also have an affection for the existentialists, but language games demonstrate that philosophy can be eminently practical and relevant despite the pejorative connotations of the term, "philosophizing."

That said, I really don't think philosophy should be its own major in most schools. It would be better, in my opinion, to teach philosophy as we teach arithmetic and language, rather than a focused degree.
This is what I found about this particular debacle.

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2017-1...
The amount of money in this field puzzles me. The difference between relative novice and competition winner on kaggle.com is often in the single digit percentages or less. When 26 year old George Hotz can build his own self driving car in his garage, it seems like a very narrow moat.
He assures us based on him being Walter Bright. That’s good enough for me.
Isn't this because it's so different from anything else?

You can sort of divine some German if you're an English speaker and some Italian if you also understand Spanish, etc. But hey, Japanese is highly regular and also very hard to learn.

(I did play with Duolingo Hungarian for a while, and it seems interestingly regular, although not in ways you might expect)
Lyme can cause very similar symptoms to multiple sclerosis. It's very serious. I know a person who has died fighting Lyme borreliosis.
I'm not familiar with games for the Switch but the DS had a lot of games that are easy for younger children to play. The trouble is that they get horrible reviews because they're targeted at kids but kids aren't the ones reviewing them. Fortunately the bad reviews mean these games are usually half the price or less of a AAA game like Mario so you can take a gamble and buy a couple.

I recall Mario Party, Rabbids, and Carnival games being popular games for my kids because the mini games were usually pretty simple and easy to understand. The games themselves develop coordination, timing, and problem solving skills that are helpful for kids.

The Animal Crossing games are perhaps a little beyond a 6 year old but they're definitely worth while. The require reading comprehension, resource management, and a bunch of other skills that require a child to think.
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Here's a Popular Science article I read a long time ago on this where the author gets to experience free diving:

https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2003-06/one-dive-one-...

Although, my first exposure to the topic was a movie called The Big Blue about a free diver pushing himself to and past his limits. Had Jean Reno in it. Just found out it was Luc Besson's movie, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82onGmBx9ZM
Yeah, but the point is that Columbus, Indy, etc. don't stand a chance of actually getting picked. They're just being used as leverage to get Boston/NYC/DC to play ball.
Is there a OSS that can let a robot to be able so speak your native language?
I live in a country where you need to at least speak 4 languages to be OK, is it possible that I can find an open source voice program that I can modify and install into a Robot. My aim is to get the Robot speak my language
I did 3m06s in a pool, very much like those apnea competitions. I had a spotter and people around me in case something went wrong.

For me the idea of controlling my body and mind to do such a feat felt like a huge accomplishment. It requires fighting off reflexes, relaxing my muscles and reducing my thoughts to the bare minimum so as to use the least oxygen possible.

Control and determination are tested and it feels great to overcome these things.

I stopped practicing apnea because I didn't have any data on how it could affect my brain negatively but I still am very proud of my accomplishment. Also before I started I couldn't swim a full lap underwater without coming up for air but now I can do it without any problem.
I don't think that's too bad though - I'd prefer them to clarify what they mean by 'deep' vs 'basic' understanding, but I certainly know a few developers with 3-5 years experience who could comfortably tick the box
I have tried Bear, thanks. It's not good enough for me.

For one, it's tied to Markdown, which I find distracting to work with, especially on mobile. (I don't understand the tech community's current obsession with Markdown; it's fine for documentation or Github comments and so on where there's a clear workflow separation between writing and publishing, but for personal tasks? Ugh.)

Bear also makes the same mistake with regards to files that Evernote (and every other note-taking app for that matter) does, which is to only display them inline. If I dump in a bucketload of images into a note, they're all display as huge images that need to be resized. Actually, Bear doesn't support resizing images at all, all you can do is switch between displaying them full, and as thumbnail (just like Apple's Notes), which is even worse. Evernote's image editing/annotation mode is great, Bear doesn't have anything like that.

No folder support. Evernote is also bad here, but it does allow you create "notebooks" and to "stack" notebooks inside each other.

I like Bear's modern UI much more than Evernote's, but a note-taking app would have to be considerably better than Evernote for me to switch everything over, and it's unfortunately not.

Sorry about the rant, talking about note-taking apps fires me up. :-)
> One of the root causes of New York's government dysfunction (though not the only one) is that New Yorkers reliably vote in the democrat candidate regardless of pretty much any other consideration.

Er, what? That's not really true. Bloomberg was an independent and his predecessor was Giuliani.

Over the last 40 years, the mayor has been a democrat less than half the time (18 years over Koch, Dinkins, and now de Blasio).
There are also her essays in the London Review of Books [1] and, as mentioned in the article, her long-running blog for the Times Literary Supplement, A Don's Life [2].

[1]: https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/mary-beard
[2]: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/category/a-dons-life/
They previously (I saw previously cause they're doing a mild re-org right now), organized their console business under their "Enterprise, Embedded & Semi Custom" business unit which is broken out by itself in the article (https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AMD-Q...).

You can see that in 2016, their console (+ other stuff) was making an operating income (basically revenue - cost of business not including R&D) roughly the same size as their losses in their main CPU&GPU business. This is before their ~400 operating losses in other categories. I think R&D gets rolled into that? I'm not sure
Wittgenstein is one of my favorites as well for the same reason. The Tractatus should be required reading for everyone, not just philosophy students.
I think his point is that the existence of a SPOF obviates the need for distribution.
The withdrawal was unfortunate IMO. But it's not as simple as "anti-vax outrage." Efficacy wasn't great, vaccination only protected for a few years, and there were questions about side effects especially over the long term. [1] Especially given how Lyme has become such a problem in some areas, it's too bad it was withdrawn, but it's not a black and white case.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/
> And also, the opening paragraph is the height of privilege:

> I don't mean the bit about chowing down on steaks in midtown Manhattan, but that the OP just seems to accept his placement on Twitter's recommended-follow list to be status quo or destiny or based on merit.

Actually, it's the opposite of privilege. The entire article is about fake followers being common amongst accounts.
Google already partners with SAP to bring larger enterprise customers to their cloud.
'So it acts like it hasn't made up its mind and gets a bunch of potential suitors to woo it with tax incentives.'

Isn't this what already happens with businesses that have the potential to employ a lot of people?

In the UK, at present, there are plenty of firms playing this game of 'we're thinking of shifting operations to mainland Europe' just to see what concessions they can get from the Govt.
SAP and Google do partner, exactly what you mentioned

https://news.sap.com/flexibility-scalability-speed-sap-googl...
Enforced by what bodies?

(Not trying to be cheeky, I really want to know. The primary problem here isn’t specifying rules but enforcing them among superpowers.)
Seems to be mostly pretentious over written prose with little to say:

e.g. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/01/12/do-classics-have-...
That's a good thing if you're into value investing for long-term returns. If a strong or strengthening company is selling for less than it's worth, then it's basically on sale. Such irrationalities are bad for short-term trading though unless you find a way to exploit such tendencies consistently.
I think you should post the link directly in the Show HN.

Also, the site is a little too gray-blueish, it looks somewhat unprofessional because of that.

The service I like more is the static maps configured with query strings. I didn't investigate to see how you control that and make people pay for it, but it is something I sometimes wish exists.
Can a US city legally apply economic sanctions to another US city in another state, or would that be considered as affecting "interstate commerce" and preempted or something?
Screencast: Let’s Build an Earthquake Globe in D3 in 10 Minutes
I wouldn't want to be caught dead writing a GUI Windows app (I might do Qt if forced at gunpoint though), so I'm probably not the best person to test this :)
Yeah it really is simple:

Richest man in the world

Richest company in the world

Plain history of boon doggles coming to town screwing locals

All this does is continue to validate corporateocracy

Fuck these clowns

Where is everyone else’s handout?

Here you go, Jeff, let’s boost YOUR wealth very plainly on the backs of others

There’s some free market competition huh? Are you rich? You win tax breaks!

Hey, why not give fat breaks to new players. Let them fill warehouses of crap to sell online. But no, kiss the rings

It’s simple and obvious and this mystifying with prognostications you can’t possibly validate because you’re no visionary with the ability to see the future (and are plainly ignoring the past [sports stadiums, etc]) is nonsense
Aren't checksum functions suitable hash functions though?
First of all, keep the grass short. The hens are useful, so is a cat to keep rodents away.
Sure. I see several points:

- It seems to me that people buy stuff they don't really need just because it's discounted

- When the relative discount is large but the absolute discount tiny, people tend to overestimate the value they're getting

- Lower income folks tend to spend more on materialist things that they don't really need, but when it comes to essential items like food, they try to save money

I just can't believe that people go this crazy over a couple of euros in savings. Maybe someone with a psychology background can help me out? :-)
I would think any patent would have expired by now as Oracle was founded in 1977.
> There's something very contrary about expecting payment/compensation for FSF software.

No, there's really not, because free software is about freedom, not price. C.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre

> Or don't I understand the FSF at all?

I think that's the case. Read https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html for more about the Four Freedoms: to run, to study, to distribute copies & to distribute modifications.

The FSF (for all its faults) has done a lot of good in the world, and companies like Google & Amazon owe it a huge moral debt. They are under no legal compulsion to pay it a single cent, but it's fair to say that without the Free Software Foundation there would be no modern web.
Well, most compiler bugs are cases where the compile "is wrong" and "being too limited for what I'm trying to do" also sounds like a bug. So this reads to me as "aside from when they are wrong, compilers are not wrong" ;)
All the Amazon employees pay taxes, as you note. Taxing Amazon itself on top of that just leaves it with less resources to pay employees. And why should a city reap an extra tax windfall when an Amazon decides to locate there? Amazon isn't really going to add much burden to city services.