skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are ten Shanghainese sentences, four short ones and six long ones:

1. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/wuu/488406.mp3

2. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/wuu/485590.mp3

3. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/wuu/485698.mp3

4. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/wuu/488621.mp3

5. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/wuu/489046.mp3

6. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/wuu/489736.mp3

7. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/wuu/492871.mp3

8. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/wuu/496402.mp3

9. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/wuu/485676.mp3

10. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/wuu/488252.mp3

They're not especially slow, but you can replay them as often as you want or even slow them down, so I think it should be easier than for someone in Chengdu trying to understand a Shanghainese speaker in person.

For comparison, here are the Mandarin equivalents of those sentences, pronounced by the same speaker:

1. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/cmn/332870.mp3

2. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/cmn/332436.mp3

3. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/cmn/332568.mp3

4. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/cmn/333012.mp3

5. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/cmn/333070.mp3

6. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/cmn/333151.mp3

7. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/cmn/333392.mp3

8. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/cmn/333584.mp3

9. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/cmn/332549.mp3

10. https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/cmn/332788.mp3

And here they're written down, together with translations into various other languages:

1. https://tatoeba.org/cmn/sentences/show/488406

2. https://tatoeba.org/cmn/sentences/show/485590

3. https://tatoeba.org/cmn/sentences/show/485698

4. https://tatoeba.org/cmn/sentences/show/488621

5. https://tatoeba.org/cmn/sentences/show/489046

6. https://tatoeba.org/cmn/sentences/show/489736

7. https://tatoeba.org/cmn/sentences/show/492871

8. https://tatoeba.org/cmn/sentences/show/496402

9. https://tatoeba.org/cmn/sentences/show/485676

10. https://tatoeba.org/cmn/sentences/show/488252

If you want some more examples, this search returns a few hundred: https://tatoeba.org/cmn/sentences/search?query=&from=wuu&to=...
You only think the situation in America is bad because that's all you hear about.

The current Federal Reserve balance sheet is 7 Trillion dollars, or 35% of the US GDP[1].

The current Eurosystem Bank balance sheet is 7.9 Trillion dollars, or 43% of the EU GDP[2].

If you're worried about pumping money into the economy, then USD is a much safer investment than EUR for you.

[1]https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

[2] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/wfs/2020/html/ecb.fst2010...

EDIT: clarification for those unaware, the EUR/USD currency pair is the most traded currency pair by far (which is why I chose Europe as a comparison). The distant second place most traded currency is USD/JPY, but Japan famously has a national bank balance sheet even greater than its own GDP.
I don't understand what the end goal of this project really is. "civility"? To be honest, you can't really promote civility on the Internet, it really depends on what platform you're using and the userbase of this platform. And I don't see how this is connected to this feedback thing at all. But perhaps I've not truly understood the gist of this project.
Summarizing Large Documents for Machine Learning Modeling
I visited the page with NoScript turned on and it looked the same. All the HTML is sent fully rendered by the server, so there shouldn't be any reason to expect that JS would be necessary to show the page.
You can divine it from the tech specs page by comparing the screen size to your existing phone.

https://www.apple.com/iphone-12-pro/specs/
Just the camera lens and the home button on devices with Touch ID; their deal with GT Advanced Technologies fell through and the company folded.
It was published in Dutch by Reiner Kist, and Hans himself translated it to English. It says so in the footer.
Being small is not in the question. Being there is. Otherwise we wouldn't be here discussing all hyper dependencies in detail as some of these are a lot smaller than zlib.
I wouldn't categorize this as best-effort. This is why we need more consumer protections because I think any reasonable person can agree that this is not how consumers should be treated and we shouldn't normalize it by providing a flawed rationalization of "Google needs to make more money"
FWIW, Churchill wasn't completely wrong when he (supposedly) said, "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
One of the interesting things is that on the specs page it says it supports “Thread”, which is a new wireless protocol championed for home automation tech, as an alternative to zig bee and Zwave. One thing I didn’t see was any mention of if it would support being a “Home Hub”, allowing for remote access to smart home stuff.
> I find troubling the mindset in which fictional devices, societies, persons and universes aren't perceived clearly as just narrative tropes meant for making the narrative where they're contained work.

Because that would ruin fiction for everyone. You're meant to suspend your disbelief when perusing fictional works.

Otherwise, you can just scroll through TvTropes instead of ever reading or watching anything. Or you could just read this:

template<typename Hero, typename Sage, typename Villain, typename MacGuffin>
void Story(Hero hero, Sage sage, Villain villain, MacGuffin macGuffin) {
while(true) {
auto what = hero.advance();
if(what == sage) { sage.teach(hero); }
else if(what == villain) { hero.fight(villain); }
else if(what == macGuffin) { roll_credits(); return; }
}
}

That's literally it. The whole of fiction, if everything is just narrative tropes.
Bank reserves are counted in M2, but US Treasuries and other highly liquid assets aren't.

The fact that these are functionally the same to a bank is ignored (or deliberately obscured).

I mean, this is just common sense: if M1 or M2 expansion were printing money, then a rapid doubling of M2 should cause CPI inflation. But it doesn't.
HomePod mini works with your iPhone for requests like hearing your messages or notes, so they are completed on device without revealing that information to Apple.

This is the big differentiating feature, along with the seamless integration within the rest of Apple's product line.

EDIT: HomePod does this too but it was not at a price point nor size that competed with other assistants.
And I would point out that some of the best Game Devs who make frighteningly fast code don't have CS degrees and are sometimes fixing up after people that do.
Can anyone with a Homepod comment on the usability compared to the Google and Amazon spy systems... err speakers?
Usually this only comes out when benchmarking software can be run on the phones. Apple doesn't disclose it.
that's interesting to me, cause the complete opposite worked out for me well. I treated 9-5 work as a necessity to put food on the table and pay for rent(I always tried to find a comfy job where I can put in a few hours/day max and survive), and my side projects as the possible real money makers. And it worked out very well for me - have been able to achieve my main goals in less than 10 years since graduating.
Has the network ever been a problem or bottleneck for the deployment of IoT, or is it just yet another bullshit buzzword pushed by the telecoms industry, similar to remote surgery/telemedicine? Most current IoT is using 2G cellular modems and seems to be fine with it given that the majority of devices don't need high bandwidth and the carriers themselves are not rationing the amount of SIMs that can be active, suggesting that there's plenty of capacity left too.
because everyone else did similar printing.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/21/eu-leaders-reach-a-breakthro...
Still no usb-c
Modern explanations tend to have interactions causing decoherence rather than observers and collapses.
Wasn't it always passed down?
I had a Palm Pre .. didn't have the wireless charger though:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/every-cellphone-i-have-ever-o...
Do we know what program they use for their presentations?
Note that the 2014 blog (with an earlier, now non-functional link) was discussed in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8065583
Conveniently the image on the display has a black background so you can't make out the bezels. Or maybe, we're being served different pages.
just the way they present stuff like the ceramics or chips is very nice, it makes it feel futuristic even when the actual in development tech has already advanced years past this point
It matters to me, in the sense that I prefer to have some bezel left so I can actually hold onto the phone without accidentally pressing things on the screen.
You realize the event wasn't live, right? And Tim's watch clearly shows 10:09 the second he shows up in the video which was 10:01 at the latest "real time".
IMO the reachability gesture improves about 20% of situations where one more tap is required, and for all the other situations I find I need more than one tap.
American in Shanghai Quarantine 21 days and counting
Same. I don't even power up the phone until the case and screen protector on.

Even my five+ year old phones are in perfect condition, despite their primary users being my toddlers now.
Only because other states are offering cheaper labor by not having those protections, much like other countries offering cheaper labor by not having worker/environmental protections.

Theoretically, I agree it's possible to have too much worker protection, but it's a laughable notion in the US where pretty much all but a handful of states have no protections and "too much worker protection" is not even a remote concern.

I have a family member complaining that they cannot eat and have to stand for 8+ hours straight, a pharmacist because who is enslaved by their student loan debt, and are on the wrong side of supply and demand and there is no law that says employers need to give their employees the ability to pause and eat. So they snack on junk food in their pockets while they work.
That would be too human. Better to keep them isolated and trapped trying to communicate through opaque dark patterns.
Just to correct your blog post, the Webmentions spec says in this scenario where you're just logging, you "MUST" return a 202 Accepted. I went through a similar phase (logsink with 204) which I corrected recently.

https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-webmention-20170112/#h-receiv...

I was wondering if I should've sent this comment as a webmention instead but I guess old habits die hard.
Just looking at "mobile-optimized" web pages from now compared to a few years ago proves this in spades.
I think he refers to the fact that those categories have their inflation higher than CPI.

CPI weights changed in 1980, and seemly when using old weights the CPI is 10% instead.

I've read (I didn't checked with all details, I don't live in US so it is not that relevant to me) that a major change is that the cost of having a shelter had its weights greatly reduced. (I don't mean the "housing" category in general)
> Senator Mike Lee wasn't just being honest, his statement that the US is not a democracy is factual. This isn't actually new, and there's a reason that the white house and senate have been packing the courts with justices from the Federalist Society. The ideological disagreement between federalists and democrats is as old as the country. The "weird" thing is that the country has been quite focused on installing democracies elsewhere, but that rather makes sense because we maintain influence over those countries and often "observe" their elections.

Just a nitpick, but the federalists of early American history have little to do with the Federalist Society. I'd say the modern-day Democrats are probably closer to the Federalists and the Republicans are closer to the Democratic-Republicans.
I have to wonder if Apple will ever release a sound bar or the like, for Sonos-style 'sound bar plus two rear speakers' surround sound rather than just stereo.
玉 was a variant of 王 (king)[0] thus king in walls (国), it's definitely NOT "only jade".

[0]: https://zh.m.wiktionary.org/zh/%E7%8E%89
They look to both be almost exactly the same size- 3.9 inches in diameter.

Echo Dot: 100 x 100 x 89 mm
HomePod Mini: 98 x 98 x 84mm
The slightest gap or join will make it useless. To be effective it must be very heavy foil with welded or bolted seams, and no wires passing through.

And contrary as it seems, earthing it won't make much difference. Especially as any earth wire will be many wavelengths long at VHF/UHF.
We are. If you want new giants, paying them properly is a good idea. That proper pay cannot come from the public. Look at the university system, it sucks. It's a difficult problem.
I haven't used Alexa, but Siri on HomePod is way behind Google Assistant in capabilities and recognition reliability. I use it moderately for setting timers, reminders, shopping list, controlling my HomeKit lights, and getting weather.

I'd judge it to be 80% reliable in picking up commands (but the way human memory works, it's likely much higher than that but the times it fails are more memorable)

But HomePod is a phenomenal speaker.
I use it for home automation using hoobs, and as a primary speaker. They are the best sounding of all, and in stereo mode, they sound even better.
I agree with that to the extent that the States stick with the Constitution ie my right to bear arms is not infringed when I travel or a particular state or a state’s decision does not cause my taxes to raise in a different state where I live ie California trying to change vehicle emission laws.
Those 20 years weren't about current functionality, but tons of changes reflecting how business requirements were changing. New system from the scratch in the same technology would be very cheap (given there are folks around who still know original language/platform).

System being completely rewritten - I can't agree on that one either. Some, in some companies do, most don't. I personally manage quite a few of those and there isn't budget for costly migration experiments if things work. Working in one of the biggest global banks in Switzerland. What works is if ie OS/browser that is absolutely required isn't supported anymore and there is no way around it.

There are very few cases where the approach 'if it isn't broken don't fix it' isn't the best approach for the company. But good luck trying to explain it to devs/teams who want to try new things (basically at the cost of employer, I don't blame them but it is what it is).
I'm not sure why that's PHP's fault? I never had problems running it locally... and to "get my code to the servers" was as easy as a git pull from the server which is probably the 2nd laziest way of accomplishing that.
That's great and all, but that would leave me with 0.2 GB of data for the rest of the month (Germany). Great now I just have to disable downloading of pictures and videos in Whatsapp.
Some real banana republic stuff right here.
SixtyFPS: New GUI framework written in Rust
A lot less than buying a new phone in the first place. That's where you take the environmental hit. If you're going to fix the environment, implement the fixes that give the biggest bang for the buck. If you don't buy a new phone, you don't need to worry about buying new adapters.
That zizek reference made me chuckle!

Derivative works are allowed under copyright law. Though the interpretation is steadily being constrained especially on site like Youtube.

His claim is more extreme. Essentially any individual involved in producing the data (annotators, aggregators, that grad student, etc) should be compensated for any downstream profit produced by any model that consumed that data. It's an interesting interpretation of Marxist critiques that workers are separated from the products they produce and alienated from the value produced by the fruits of their labor. A car factory workers don't get any more compensated for the sale, resale, and any other subsequent profit made the use of a vehicles they helped produce.

While it sounds great in theory I have no idea how you'd even begin to implement that. Ironically the best means we have available to developing that solution is the technology that he critiques as anti-human.
If you know anything about cameras and low light photography, the sensor shift OIS is a HUGE deal, especially combined with an f/1.6 lens. Instant purchase!
We All Live in Don DeLillo's World. He's Confused by It Too
This only works to convert WhatsApp data from iPhone to Android, but not the other way around.

I don't understand why WhatsApp won't let their iOS version access a chat backup from Google Drive.
I wish I could up vote this twice. Assume every step in the process will fail and have contingencies. Don't set yourself unrealistic timelines, this will create pressure on you which will lead to more mistakes.
Maybe that’s why my HomePod feels so slow?
> What a shame to "pack the courts" (as you say) with people who believe in the Constitution as their guiding light.

That's a rather tendentious take. I'm pretty sure everyone who gets appointed to the Supreme Court "believe[s] in the Constitution as their guiding light" but have rather different ideas about what that actually means.
I think I misunderstood, and you were trying to get something like an architecture planning position for small towns, but after reading it again it is more like a community helping position. (Am I still wrong?)

The first article is more relevant. It is not clear at all that I can click in the yellow part to see the flyer. I thought it was a subtitle. What about adding a small image of the flyer? Something like https://imgur.com/a/yseogIj
No you just need to be ingenuitive and solve a problem the world needs solving. Look at Jeff Bezos 30 years ago.
FWIW, I just got an original SE new in the box for around $130 a few months ago after my last one went for a swim, and it came with 96% of the original battery capacity as reported by iOS.

My goal was for it to just last me until the 12 came out, but I'm still on the fence about whether the better camera (and water resistance...) are worth the additional bulk.
Fair enough. I agree: Pretty UI doesn't _necessarily_ win all the $$$s

But I feel there's something to be said or appreciated about building or striving to build something beautiful despite that.
Then why not just put 王 in the box rather than 玉? As far as I can tell the 王 glyph predates the invention of 玉, and the purpose of this new glyph was to distinguish 玉 from 王.

Also isn't a land within borders still a better analogy for a country than a king within walls? Walls bounding a king seems more like a palace.
Sorrowful Maiden
Watch out this Nigeria Nollywood movies
People usually have USB-Cs lying around anyway. Macbooks, Chromebooks, many monitors already use them. So do many Android phones.
On reflection, I think that's a really good perspective. If you'll notice, my ultimate conclusion was "actually, you sort of can" so it makes a lot of sense to look at it as "you can't because that's not the interface they chose to expose." There are important reasons why that's what they chose, but that's a separate question. (Both of these questions are valid interpretations of the original wording of the question, but they are interesting considered separately.)
I think one of the biggest problems with Python is this notion of "good for small scripts / throwaway stuff". It is far too often that a program is given this treatment, and then needs to grow or be reused and maintained later.

Trying to replicate bioinformatics work is a huge PITA because of this type of approach.
Medium used to be nice way back in the day. Paywall/popups aside, the standard or writing has fallen drastically. I don't see how it's possible to fix it

I'm trying to fix some of those things with Gurlic, but it's much more than blogs/publications..

Here's a sample publication on Gurlic, https://classics.wtf

We have communities too. (https://gurlic.com/programming)
There is something fundamentally different about an AI, though. Perhaps the ability to produce output at scale. Perhaps that its creator/owner may not have the ability it trains the AI to perform.

I'm not sure. But I feel that comparing AI to humans here is disingenuous or naive.
Just buy a new Macbook, it comes with a USB-C charger. :)
Here's what one of our Navy pilots that was actually there has to say, in an interview with Lex Fridman at MIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E
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I used an original SE until my current XS. I didn’t want a larger screen, necessarily, but UIs started making buttons smaller and it became harder and harder to use. My Airpods also work better with the XS, and I assume it is because the smaller size has antenna limitations (although I know nothing about the subject).
Sounds okish and very nicely priced.

Too bad it seemingly relies so much on Siri. I haven’t been able to make Siri play me any music what so ever, despite multiple attempts. Once I’ve started playing, I can’t even make Siri skip tracks forward or backwards. Absolutely worthless.

Caveat: not using Apple Music.
If you don't consider machine learning AI, then there are no existing instances of AI. It's all either ML or vaporware.
Apple employees already have the corporate robotic, overworked aesthetic down.

Watching them attempt to display emotions is hilarious.
> 8000 IU for young adults and thereafter

That's a lot of pills, even at 1,000 IU per.
The sound quality is way beyond anything Google or Amazon offer.

If you have other Apple devices, it works just like Siri on your phone. I've got one in my kitchen and it can hear me anywhere in my 3 bedroom house. It's pretty impressive from an audio recognition standpoint.

Amazon and Google both have much better home assistants built in.
>but without comparison I am left wondering, how much better is the new stuff

When the comparison is 8 vs 10 bit HDR while 99.5+% are watching a crappy SDR youtube feed on SDR panels comparisons literally can't be real.
Thread is not exactly new, July 2014[0], and it uses the same base standard as ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4), just using 6LoWPAN which is a low power personal aera network using IPv6.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)
I'm in Singapore. Some mobile phone stores here bring in the Hong Kong versions of the iPhones, which have physical dual SIM too.

I specifically searched for and bought the physical dual SIM version of the iPhone 11 Pro, because most of the MVNOs here still don't support eSIM.
They will include a charging cable, just not the white box that plugs into the outlet
Apple deserves to be shamed for this one, as they implemented a feature that essentially allows carriers to lie and display whatever network technology icon they want, instead of displaying the true status as reported by the network interface.
Whilst I don't wish to rain on the author's parade, but from the final screenshot (and what I suspected), they're running these tools as Administrator (root), so they're pretty well elevated privilege-wise. If an attacker has gotten that far on your machine then it's game over even before they start noodling around with the DPAPI to steal keys.

I'd love to know (I don't have a suitable machine available at the moment) if they can pull this off as a regular user, my feeling is probably not.
I can see it pretty clearly. Maybe turn up your screen’s brightness?
Funcy: A collection of fancy functional tools focused on practicality
I HATE thin bezels. I actually returned my Galaxy S10 because palm-misclicks dove me crazy. After 19 days of practice and different grips, random clicks didn't get any better.