skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an awesome project, but it seems it was done without reference to academic literature on source separation. In fact, people have been doing audio source separation for years with neural networks.

For instance, Eric Humphrey at Spotify Music Understanding Group describes using a U-Net architecture here: https://medium.com/this-week-in-machine-learning-ai/separati... - paper at http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/19289/1/7bb8d1600fba70dd7940877...

They compare their performance to the widely-cited state of the art Chimera model (Luo 2017): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5791533/#R24 with examples at http://naplab.ee.columbia.edu/ivs.html - from the examples, there's significantly less distortion than OP.

Not to discourage OP from doing first-principles research at all! But it's often useful to engage with the larger community and know what's succeeded and failed in the past. This is a problem domain where progress could change the entire creative landscape around derivative works ("mashups" and the like), and interested researchers could do well to look towards collaboration rather than reinventing each others' wheels.

EDIT: The SANE conference has talks by Humphrey and many others available online: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsdxfneC1EdPorDUq9_XUJA/vid...
Personally I took a break from frontend work, I'll circle back in a few years once web assembly is ready.

The JS ecosystem is insane once you take a step back and look at it.
> It's not unreasonable to use fallback DNS servers when the DHCP provided servers don't work.

I don't know about "reasonable" or "unreasonable". I do know that there's no way I'd allow this in my network. My DHCP servers point to my own DNS server for a good reason, and I am completely invested in ensuring that nobody bypasses it to the best of my ability.
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Your argument implies a race to the bottom in which the only way to "win" is not to play, since otherwise you drive taxes for megarich as near 0 as you can bear.

I prefer the approach where if we lose them, "tough nuts." Revenue should be robust and diversified, and losing no individual source should be a death blow. Similarly, good services and local effects should be the goal to draw people in, not handouts, as this aligns incentives _far_ better while still maintaining workable bases of revenue. This is not to say "ONLY tax the rich", the parent post seemed to me to be making the wise argument that there's a line here, but the fact that the focus is so much on these few individuals makes me think we're already off in left field, and bowing to them further isn't the direction I want to move in, even if it may cause a temporary revenue hit.

So yes, "they (NY) get zilch." But they've also made a strong statement about corporate handouts (my own opinions aside about whether it was a smart choice or not) and will not stop being NY and will not stop being desirable because of this; FLA is not going to supplant them even if amazon decides to go there alongside whatever megarich actually care enough about the taxes to _not be in NY_. (Now, NY's inability to develop infrastructure within reasonable cost may do that over the next hundred years or so, but that's to be seen, and I don't think losing a few billionaires is going to make or break that)
It's pretty well tracked. https://www.wired.com/2009/03/howtojunk/
You're not extracting that value from the banks. You're extracting it from poor people.
Google Makes You Smarter, Facebook Makes You Happier... (2013)
I'm sorry, but pushing a button on a fully automatic espresso machine does not make the robot a barista. I'd like to see the robot make me an espresso using a semi-automatic espresso machine, making sure to sample the espresso throughout the day to check for over or under extraction, and adjusting the grind to compensate for changes in air pressure and temperature.
Google appears to respect the quotes for me. Changing the example query above to `"film" "noir" -"film noir"` returns results that mention noir films but not the phrase "film noir". However, searching for `film noir -"film noir"` without quotes on the individual words does return a Netflix page titled "Film Noir".
TIL! This upsets me more than the Chromecast using Google's DNS.

I barely use Chrome anymore (just for testing really) but the thought that any domain I wish to go to can be overridden by the browser by default - that's scary.

I mean what if Google doesn't like your website's content. They can block it on their DNS server and 99.999% of Chrome users would think something was wrong with your site.

Thank you, I hate it.
At least until Google starts DNS over TLS with cert pinning.
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She's dumb and doesn't understand that giving away 3 billion to a company is good and also tax credits aren't giveaways because reasons.

I'm smart and don't understand districting.
Short, to-the-point, and I wasn't familiar with any of these options! Love it!
Why Webpack? (or, How Not to Serve JavaScript)
What Wild west? stop kidding yourself...

https://www.cato.org/blog/there-no-national-emergency-border...
I'm also working remotely and whenever I move to a new city I find the nicest coffee place and spend half of my work time there to be around people.
Well, sites like GitHub could be designed so the PR appears as merged from the beginning and then enabling the "merge" button, once more commits are available. Doing it this way also allows to naturally support merging a PR/MR more than once, which I don't know if it's undesirable, but it more closely aligns with what git supports.
I'd like to try using this kinda thing to build an automated beat saber map. The ability to orchestrate the beats very specifically would make for excellent mappings.

Alas so many projects, too little time!
> It shows that Amazon never cared about the people here and would bring nothing to the community.

Jesus christ, no. The state put an outspoken opponent of the deal in a position where he has veto power to stop said deal. Then when Amazon execs tried to call this guy multiple times he refused to even take their call. That's why they pulled out.
> I've sometimes wondered if it's laying the groundwork to fork the internet.

Would that mean that my internet would no longer have Googly stuff on it? I could get behind that.
> But it's insanity for locals to be celebrating shooting themselves in the foot

By preventing the massive rent increases and forcing out of the locals that Amazon will bring?

Damn, that must suck.
Sure, but that won't stay to be the case since otherwise no needle-moving group would start to use it, so what would step 2 be?
No, but the idea that the only options are "amazon with a bunch of tax gifts" or nothing is a false dichotomy. The point is that NYC probably doesn't need Amazon's side (High End Jobs) as much as Amazon needed NYC (Access to high end talent, proximity to the center of the global economy).

There will always be some megacorp looking to open up in NYC. Why diminish the return for the city?
There's so much latency already with the chromecast. how much difference does a few tens of milliseconds make?
Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages
If you mean logical paradox there can’t really be any because computer programs are necessarily logically consistent. See Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
Eh, even if you don't value airline/hotel points, you can pretty easily get ~$500/card in value in sign up bonus just for opening the card and using it for expenses you were going to incur anyway. You need to be discerning about what you apply for and only apply for the good deals, but it really doesn't take much time.
Growth of the average has slowed, but rent for lower-end units is growing.

Growth in housing prices has slowed, but at this point, the only homes normal people can afford are an hour out of town - North Bend/Everett/etc.

And, even if things magically get better tomorrow, the lower class has gone through a decade of pain to get there.
> I ran fleets of FreeBSD machines 20 years ago and we dd'd disks to spin up new hosts, PXE booted some, local and remote (NFS) storage

To me all of this sounds like crazy complexity vs a basic Kubernetes cluster. It all depends on what you are comfortable with I guess.
Just take a step back and look at it, you're combining HTML, SQL and JS, on the fucking server.
Amazon and/or Austin would literally have to build in another part of the city and construct their own rail system to compete with how awful the traffic is.

Also, I disagree that diversity is a priority over long term tax revenue and infrastructure improvements and economic success.

Also, I didn't downvote you.
Oh apparently ray casting is considered a form of ray tracing: "Ray casting is the most basic of many computer graphics rendering algorithms that use the geometric algorithm of ray tracing." [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_casting
To clarify, it used to be the case that you used your personal account for work, but facebook now uses their enterprise "workplace" version of facebook internally. The accounts are still linked, but silo-ed in such a way that you can't use them interchangeably.
Any examples? I find it hard to believe it is "nearly useless for most searched topics". It is easy to check, go to your search history and look at your last 10-20 queries and count how many them useless.
Idk, from what I've seen, page rank is still the super major factor that's responsible for 90%+ percent. I work for a few large affiliate projects. Renting subdirs on high-link-count-sites = instant top 3 for anything, even the most competitive keys, even when it's totally unrelated to the site's other content. The whole "we have more than 200 factors" seems like mostly hot air to me personally.
Because the system is broken and Amazon knows that their dog and pony show about a competition will put politicians in a position where it's give away the money or face an opponent who attacks you on jobs.
This is how Bluetooth Beacons work.

The beacon sends out a signal which is a the same as the connection advertising format, but with the CONNECTABLE bit turned off. This gives 20-30 bytes or so of data you can stuff out there along with the UUID.

The app typically listens for UUIDs of beacons it cares about, and when it sees it, collects the one-way device to app beacon data. Then does something with that -

It's just that the "something" is usually reporting to a website that the beacon has been seen. This is entirely how TILE find-it tags work.

So the threat model here is that if you can get someone to go to your website, you could potentially see what BLE beacons are near that device and report them.

I am not sure if SCANNING requires user consent - or just connection event does.
Their justification for spying on these people is that they believe they need to spy on these people.

It’s cool that they’re not just picking people at random, but they are engaging in a level of electronic surveillance that would require a warrant if they were a government agency. Do they share this BOLO list with outside groups? Do they share the surveillance results with law enforcement or other people?

It’s disturbing behavior from an utterly disingenuous corporation. Zuck is like an incompetent Lex Luthor. We should expect him to announce a run for the presidency soon.
I know right? ssloy is on fire, one of the few non-organizations I follow on Github. Does anyone else know some similar users that should get some more love?
And when the next update uses DNS over TLS with cert pinning?
Worse than Molten Salt - https://www.energycentral.com/c/ec/thorium-vs-molten-salt-re...
> You can choose between "he", "she" and "it", at least in regular English, sans the XXI-century additions.

Or "they". People seem to think that singluar they is some kind of modern invention, but most people also use it all the time without thinking when talking about people that they don't know the gender.
While we're on the subject of bad login pages, can we also please stop showing UI elements (e.g. upvote/downvote/flag in comment sections) that jarringly take you to a completely separate login page when clicked (rather than giving you a modal or some other non-jarring login opportunity)? The more egregious ones don't even take you back to where you were after you login.
Okay... way at the end of the article they say that $115 isn't the real amount he was paying, he was only really paying $79. Making that change gets a lot closer to their -6000/+4000 for 2.2%/4.75% electricity increases.
Oooh, those companies will build the superyachts of the future!

Or alternatively we create a policy that:

1) no superspacecrafts are allowed. Not one

2) no individual owners are allowed? Oh no what if the Walton's bought their own? Now that would be UNFAIR

3) No fun is allowed aboard the spacecraft, it must only be used for the common good in a strictly utilitarian sense.

4) Joe gets half

Cheers,
Ah, gotcha. Yes, that's a truly awful way to use it.
> Giving them a ~10% off coupon on an extremely high tax rate is not the same as handing them money.

Yes it is. How the hell is it not?

and Amazon wants NYC for the size of it's talent pool and ease of recruiting. NYC has no reason to give them anything.

> If you want to have high tax rates and not lose business to other states, it's a winning strategy to be open to compromise sometimes

NYC is having so much trouble getting businesses to come.
There is also talos embedded systems and the talos raptor workstation/servers
having been homeless and been around homeless groups before - being homeless is very unsafe (deadly) for women, so many will pick the path of slavery instead. (or abusive partners, whatever. It's not really like there's a difference)
after all, both involve being used as an object and thrown away, but with the latter one's likely to at least get food first and probably drugs to help survive.

It's a really horrible place to be.
>I don't think Newsmax is the best source of news on this, you might as well have linked Breitbart.

The cspan video in the link has her entire comments unedited for you to review if you doubt she made the statement. I wasn't able to find CNN or Buzzfeed's reporting on the matter I presume they chose to not cover it. I am citeing it for the quote not any of the editorial content, I'd cite the video directly but it's over half an hour long.

>As far as the defund ICE movement, it's just a small movement by a small set of people

This small set of people are extremely loud, if you have a more reasonable voice please use it. The DNC would be wise here to put forward their plan for immigration because as I see it today AOC and her supporters are driving the conversation from the left at least as far as public perception goes.
Are you implying traveling to the past doesn't change anything? You could spread antibiotic resistant bacteria, you could walk over a bee that was going to pollinate a flower with a significant mutation, you could breathe their seasonal flu and carry it over to your time before it manifests.

The only way time travel consistent with known physics is if past past travel is impossible. You can visit the future, but if you do, you can't travel back. Besides paradoxes, time travel to the past would make perpetual motion machines possible.
Not really oddly timed, as the link between video games and real world violence has been debunked countless times.
20 years later, SSD drives are eating "enterprise storage" companies alive. Time marches on...
But that's chicken and egg. Collective action problem. You can't stop accepting one or the other until the large majority of customers carry both, which they won't do while most vendors continue to accept both thereby allowing the cardholder to only need one.
The Delta example is not quite the case. It only asks you for the last name if you provide a username instead of their number.
> I’m utterly tired of robot-like things being given gender.

I would actually prefer it if humans weren't given a gender either. Obviously we should recognise that people have different physical characteristics, but the abstraction of genders with different societal roles doesn't seem like a very useful one in this day and age.
This article is pretty embarrassing - it misses so much nuance, particularly around multi-step sign in, and magic links. I don't think the author has actually thought through the user need here. A few examples:

(1) Multi-step sign in flows – as noted in other comments here – are incredibly useful for any product which supports multiple authentication methods. The email is used to point the user in the right direction, versus putting the cognitive load on them to know their own authentication type, or making them enter their password multiple times.

(2) Magic links are incredibly useful in a few places: an example would be something you use infrequently (and thus won't remember your password and/or have a cookie clear between sessions), something where you're typically authed via SSO (same deal – you won't remember your password, etc.), or where you need to sign in via mobile. Mobile sign in, in particular, is really frustrating with special characters. Most users remember that they hit shift+5, they don't remember that that translates to "%". However, they almost ALWAYS have an email client with an active session. Magic link emails are a great way to help that user get into the product with minimal pain.

Generally, I'd assume that most companies have put a lot of thought into this (Google, Slack, etc.), and they don't deviate for "fun", they support these patterns because there's an established user need.

Source: experience as a PM on sign in flows across a number of products.
Capitalism is astable and requires a negative feedback framework to operate properly. It also has a narrow habitable zone otherwise it will cause an ecosystem collapse.

Capitalism isn't just a hand, it is mostly a mind that runs as an overlay over all the participants willing or not, and it isn't very bright, but it is very powerful. We are all but rabbits under its strong hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArNz8U7tgU4
What do European banks do when debit card fraud occurs?
I've long believed that default OR in keyword searches is always a mistake, and the default should always be AND.

The reason being you can just search twice if you want either word, but in the vast majority of cases you want both words when you enter them in the searchbox. Most companies kind of split the difference and put the AND results first then fill in with OR results, but that mostly just leads to "if your answer isn't on the first page, it's not going to be on the second or the hundredth".
Bitwarden and LastPass seem to handle it fine as well in my experience
One bit of cleverness I would like to see is allowing username and password to be entered together in the same field.

Provide the normal, separate username and password fields, and if both are filled out proceed normally.

If, however, the username is blank but the password is not, check to see if the value in the password field contains internal white space.

If it does, split it on the first run of internal white space, taking the resulting two strings as the username and password.

This allows entering both the username and password with a single paste operation. This would be convenient for people who are managing their passwords via some mechanism that cannot automatically fill out fields in their browser.
> in college using OpenGL and that was 2008

Wolf3D was 1992, 16 years before. SGI released OpenGL a few months later. IIRC, the first gfx cards were thousands of dollars. The first successful consumer gfx was 3DFX Voodoo2 in 1996. We take so much for granted nowadays.
I wouldn't say it was just the index issue that allowed Google to take prominence. It was the browser toolbar that really killed AltaVista.

I didn't know anything about Google until mid 2000, and when I used it, I just thought it was an AltaVista clone.

Fast forward to fall 2000, and once after getting bad results on AltaVista, I tried Google again. At the time, I never bookmarked either of the sites or set them as my homepage. I remember, when I used Google, I thought to myself, "I'm going to switch to whoever comes out with a browser toolbar. Search should just be part of the browser."

About a week later, I had some bad results on AltaVista, and typed in google.com. Immediately I saw the "try our toolbar" banner.

At that point, I switched to Google, and I NEVER went back to AltaVista. (I think sometime in 2001 I tried AltaVista again, out of loyalty, to see if they finally had a toolbar, but the results were so bad I was in shock.)
They deal with fraud by reversing transactions, and then charging a fee. So the merchant is out for the money used to pay for the thing, and also a fine is placed on top of it. As far as I understand it, the card companies don't spend a nickel on compensating for fraud, they keep all of that fee.
It takes a special sort of brilliance to really capture a particular kind of interiority in prose. To really get at what it is like to be a particular sort of person. This accomplishes that feat for the modern internet addict and hivemind member to a degree I wouldn't have expected possible.

Great piece (heh).
The Safari browser can be linked to the Keychain Manager, both products coming from Apple.
No, I think ever-creeping (and often pointless) administrative duties are making professors stupid.
Oh, that explains a lot actually. Safari works great with a corporate VPN, Chrome randomly fails to resolve things...
> this isn't anything at all like the previous crises in our brief 60k year sojourn

We do not know that this is true. Alarmists claim it, but they have no evidence to back it up. For example, we don't know what the ice in the Himalayas was like, say, 6000 years ago. We do know that as glaciers are retreating now, they are uncovering evidence of human habitation in many mountain areas, which is evidence that there have been previous warm periods where there was no ice there as well. That is evidence against the claim you are making. But you don't hear about that from alarmists.
>which makes them look very different from normal traffic which kind of by necessity makes them look a lot more like bots.

But if they are doing so because they are disabled, and the difference means they receive a worse experience, may result in an ADA complaint (especially if a government service falling under section 508 is involved).
Why does the Internet think that I live in Florida?
> several ISPs used to do this quite transparently (pun not intended) in the early 2000s, to return advertising pages whenever a DNS query failed.

Yep. This was what spurred me to start running and using my own DNS server in the first place.

> who would you rather protect your DNS requests from? Them or Google?

I don't think one of them is better than the other on that count.
The massive talent pool and ease of recruiting people to come live there from across the world. The access to massive markets. Proximity to a lot of the hot new startups. The desire to have an HQ on both coasts. New Yorkers don't have a right to large tech companies, but the companies would be foolish not to come along.

Amazon always wanted NYC. They overplayed their hand trying to get a break and it blew up in their face.

They probably could have gotten away with most of it if they did this with less fanfare.
What system are you trusting to do this prevention? TFA seems to describe a situation in which the configuration can be changed in any number of ways by any number of users, and the configuration itself is an implicit sum of configurations across numerous machines. TFA's suggestion seems more reliable.
> random

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
What Is the Point of Biohacking?