skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spectral subtraction is a way of mixing tracks that will surgically "cut out" the frequencies of one or more tracks from another. The process will generate two or more tracks that fit together perfectly and whose frequencies never clash.

One of the main issues that arise when mixing tracks is when they share the same frequency bands: where these frequencies clash, they mask one another, in a phenomenon called Auditory Masking.

The solution to this is lowering the volume of one of the clashing track, moving it to the "background" of the mix. This is the visual equivalent of dimming one track to make the other stand out.

With spectral subtraction, the clashing frequencies are "cut out" from one of the two tracks by exactly the amount of the other track's frequency profile. Visually, it's like cutting a hole in one of the tracks to perfectly fit the other, or cutting a Dovetail Joint in woodworking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetail_joint
Executions come to mind. That surely will stop drunk drivers from driving drunk.
They need this for repeat text offenders.

Volvo has a camera system tech that either makes the car start beeping like not wearing seatbelt and even pulls you over once the camera detects you playing with your phone.

This would also be something parents and insurance companies would love. Though I think insurance companies have this new docking system you get from them.. dock your phone & keep it there while in motion and get a discount.
> And as for the organs, much of the west ( especially in europe ) take people's organs without their explicit consent (it's called opt-out organ "donation".

I feel like equating the forcible harvesting of organs to opt out organ donation is extremely disingenuous.
This is clearly the unfound dog from the movie "Encino Man".
You probably need to contact the DPO of each company starting with Samsung and/or consult their dedicated GDPR resources.
Unfortunately GDPR is not really enforced thus fails to live up to its promise. In theory you should have nothing to worry about unless you opted in to their data collecting shenanigans.

Even if you are prepared to exercise your rights under GDPR in my experience the usual modus operandi is asking for more data via various registration forms and accounts or sending copies of personal IDs. Then if you manage to hand in a Data Request or Deletion Request there is no way to find out whether they really complied or not, making it pointless.
Every 2 seconds all devices speak to google, if you have one amazon echo, one fire tv, google chrome cast , roku then your entire life of every moment is in google hands.
Better URL: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
And both have the same content. Unfortunately the Communications of the ACM are not accessible to most prople, the manual appendix is.
Review by Ben Horowitz:

https://a16z.com/2015/11/13/high-output-management/
Yep. Maybe not true, but also sounds too much for me like object-orientation is the saviour to all structural problems, and by just using it all these issues will go away.

No, that is not the case, practice taught us now for years it can even become the opposite; heck why are universities still teaching this without questioning :(
Is online coaching the ultimate human tech tool to help ppl strive in life?
I've heard a proposal for a alternative to opt-in and opt-out which is 'forced choice'

How it works is a form to do some other thing (for example, get a driving license) has a checkbox to donate and one to not donate, and the form is rejected as incomplete if you don't choose one or the other.

This of course means you don't have to apply a default to those people, because they've made an explicit choice already.

Of course, you still have to work out what you'll do with people who haven't filled out the form - like the newborn baby mentioned at the start of this thread.
Yes he can, but why would he? It just doesn't make sense to do so.
I can recommend “Radical Candor”
Having an incredibly privileged up bringing, but my parents never spoiling me.
Congrats :)

It's something extraordinary, isn't it?
Public housing in the US is not a place most people want to be and no reasonable person leaves their phone on a table and goes anywhere.
I very much do explain all of this correctly. I clearly distinguish between the properties of typically available data types (binary floating point vs. decimal fixed point) You are splitting hairs in a pathetic attempt to sling mud.
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Using it and recommending it: unsubscribe to emails with one click. Also Privacy-focused.

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But you don't want to do that. The bandwidth between GPU and system RAM is 10x less than the bandwidth between GPU and GPU RAM, so the GPU would spend > 90% of time waiting for data. In this scenario, using CPU would most likely be faster.
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> Not in rural parts of the country.

Being able to support yourself might include having to move. Indeed it does for most people at som point in their lives. Situations change. If you lose your license because you do stupid things, you might just need to move somewhere near a bus stop.
ECUs aren't perfect. On my old 2003 Volvo a common problem was solder points in the instruments panel failing after 8 to 10 years, and for the central ECU the connectors could corrode due to moisture. Luckily I wasn't affected by either. Of course Bosch probably doesn't perform "disruptive" software fuck-ups such as Tesla did here, and if they do, chances are good out-of-warranty replacements are free or at least come at a reduced price.

(But at least an EV doesn't have issues like VWs "maintenance free timing chain" skipping a link or two after 70kkm/50kmi)
> I think they're saying now lawyers, doctors and engineers have the highest [...] suicide [...] rate of anyone, at least in this part of Colorado

I don't know about alcoholism or meth overdose rates, but I do know about suicide and doctors or lawyers do not have the highest rate of suicide in Colorado. I don't know what you mean by "engineer".

https://cohealthviz.dphe.state.co.us/t/HSEBPublic/views/CoVD...
You like to live in a place with crime, there's plenty of places to choose from. People should also have the right to live in a place where they won't mug you or rape you.
I am thankful I made it through the war with my body and mind mostly intact, and that it spurred me to seek the truth no matter how ugly. I am thankful I have a family and friends who love me despite my antics. I am thankful that people like RMS and Torvalds and many others saw the incoming desire of corporations to own our computing lives and they fought against it, and the many people who continue that fight to this day. I am thankful I live in a first world country with running water, a roof over my head, and food to eat. I'm thankful to live in America where I have rights that many other countries don't.
That's not really correct either.

Modern Android/Qualcomm phones have pretty sophisticated security architectures that do indeed isolate the baseband, partly because exploiting baseband bugs was such a common source of phone unlocks in the past. If an app is using SSL then the baseband can't read what's happening.
I had the same problem and just used a node-webkit shell to override the shortcut.

It works amazingly well. I use it to work on my EC2 spot instance and works very well even behind a strict corporate proxy.

If you need the shell, please ping me on my email.
How is this different from phones or other smart devices?
>The city seems super clean, but mainly because low paid workers clean the city really often.

As opposed to, say, cleaners in the West, which are paid more than engineers,
> the simplicity of RPC

Simplicity? Have you ever tried to integrate distributed applications that do not share the same codebase?

And calling REST anti-pattern tells me that you aren't that familiar with alternatives.

>despite virtually all of them being RPC APIs with a veneer of rather pointless HTTP semantics.

If you want to do RPC over HTTP and pretend that it is REST interface, it isn't really a problem of REST.
Isn't jail time a punishment? Obviously driving in most of North America is a governmentally enforced obligation, which is why durisdictions often permit even those whose licence has been suspended to drive. I think it seems a fair response.
Michurin's work was appropriated by the antiscientific ideology of Lysenkoism which Stalin favored. Also there are lots of places named after Michurin, for example there are multiple neighborhoods named "Michurin's gardens" in the city I'm from.
There's hardly any point forking if most or all websites are tested for Chrome and its idiosyncrasies, and don't work well on other browsers. We have seen that playing out for sometime.
I am not suggesting that git itself should ship with a bunch of custom merge utilities for specific file types. git ships with a mechanism that allows custom merge drivers. Setting up custom merge drivers might not be ergonomic right now, but it could have some benefits compared to the transformation approach. For example merge conflicts could result in a valid notebook and it could be manually resolved inside the notebook interface, no need to dive into the text file.
Show HN: Fuck Black Friday
After seeing a bunch of Black Friday adverts on tech websites (e.g. VPN sales, domain sales, and so on) and looking at infographics showing exponential sales growth on this day for the past several years, I've decided to assemble a list of companies that aren't just doing their best to raise their revenues on BF, but actually use the moment to do something good. That's what the Black Friday basically is.
Make "Save as PDF" work well. I have tried to move to Firefox many times but I always return to Chrome because of how badly the "Save as PDF" work in Firefox. I use the "Save as PDF" feature ALL the time to read web articles on my iPad.
Genuine question: is there any proof for organ harvesting of Uighurs yet? A quick Google search on "Uyghur organ harvesting" leads to me tabloid sources and calls for investigations.

Uighurs are Turkic people who are genetically different from ethnic Chinese. Transplant recipients must have similar genes in their immune systems to those of the donor. Otherwise, the body will reject the organ. This is also why blacks have a harder time finding organ donors: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2013/01/21/blacks...
How to write a good help desk ticket. (preferably a few grades before high school)
"I’m thankful for my parents"

I must admit that I didn't really appreciate what my parents must have gone through (and the grief I must have given them) until I had kids myself.
It's always cute to see JavaScript developers reinventing things that have been in the industry for 30 years. Welcome back RPC.
It could also be twice, which is why the title is accurate. You would have to be incredibly foolish or terribly unlucky, but it's possible.
I’ve been an atheist for the majority of my life, but I was born and raised in a Southern Dwaitin Brahmin family. And growing up, I did get a fair bit of home schooling on the Vedic texts.

The Vedas, which are considered sacrosanct in all surviving sects of theistic Hinduism. There were once atheist sects like the Ajivikas and the Charvakas, but they went out of fashion a long time ago.

The verses in the Vedic texts can be classified in many different ways. For instance, “Bheda Stutis” and “Abheda Stutis” in the Upanishads (which essentially are Dualist and Monist verses). The classification that I’m interested in touching upon here is the distinction between Karma-kanda and the Jnana-kanda (which translate to procedural canon and the theoretical canon). The procedural part mostly deals with the details on rituals and worship (one bit that I vividly remember is the part on the rituals of animal sacrifice, which might come as a bit of a surprise). The theoretical part deals with the questions around the true nature of Brahman (the ultimate god) and Atman (the individual soul). Hindu priests usually specialise in the former (the part involving rituals) rather than the latter. I wouldn’t trust a lone Hindu priest’s opinion on such doctrinal matters. :)

The Vedic doctrine on your question is fairly unambiguous (which is quite rare for anything in the Vedas). The soul (aka the Atman) always takes precedence. The body is considered to be a mere shell in which the soul temporarily resides. Thinking that the body and the soul to be inextricably linked to the body is considered a common fallacy which even has a Sanskrit term for it (Dehatma bhranti). The body (Deha) is considered temporary and dispensable and the soul (Atman), eternal. What happens to the body after death is merely a procedural implementation detail and will not affect your chances at the lottery to attain Moksha. :)

The priest you spoke to probably is confounding the cremation rituals with the idea of sacrifice (aka Bali).
> People would be justifiably upset.

You're talking about whether or not people should be upset. I'm talking about whether or not Tesla is legally responsible. These are orthogonal topics.

Yes, people should be upset with Tesla for a shitty design. I don't think anyone is arguing that. I don't think that automatically means Tesla should get sued for it.

Then again, I've never tried to sue an automaker. So maybe I'm just ignorant of how this is supposed to work.
Well I have some bad news to you about bridges, dames, boats, rockets, and anything that is really expensive to make...
Show HN: RPC Between Front End and Back End (Node.js) – REST/GraphQL Alternative
Lighter maybe, not thinner. I There's no reason for laptop to be thinner than ethernet or VGA ports. Give me full size mechanical keyboard instead (minus numpad).
Except that as a collective, we are indeed demi-gods of this planet.
Not entirely ICT but I wish my school taught me:

- Engineering

- Flight dynamics

- Systems theory

- Useful mathematics

- How to lift heavy items properly

- How to make a cup of tea properly

- Sword fighting

But to be more on topic, I think ICT was completely off the mark in high school 01-06 in the UK, it focused on Microsoft Office suite and, well, that was about it.
In general - no. Not in order to solve the problem. But participants familiar with such techniques will often recognize a pattern in a given problem and provide an elegant solution.
I like books which are sort of lessons within a biography format. Points pulled from real experience. For me, this adds context and makes a book readable. If you don't learn anything, then at least you might get to read a good story.

The hard thing about hard things, by Ben Horowitz

The Score Takes Care of Itself, Bill Walsh (49ers Coach)

Creativity, Inc, Ed Catmull (Ran Pixar)

To Pixar and Beyond, Lawrence Levy (CFO of Pixar with interesting different POV than Ed Catmull)

Otherwise for any dumpster fire of a subject I want a book on, I'll try to trace the "lineage" to see where the starting points were. The trash today won't be a thing 50 years from now. So, maybe look at books from 50 years ago or more.
I would also rather use hydrogen.

The Hindenburg disaster was spectacular, but not especially deadly! 36 fatalities, 62 survivors. Compare to modern passenger airplanes, where EVERYONE tends to die. If modern dislike for zeppelins is mostly due to Hindenburg, it's irrational.
> So please point to all the security holes created by Lamport or Knuth.

If the logical fallacy in this request is not glaringly obvious to you then you have less understanding of computer science than most "data-entry clerks".
text: fluorescent vs. an incandescent
the graph below: fluorescent vs. _LED_

which is it? ;)
> . Why is the ECU designed around low cost on-board, non-replaceable constructs like this?

What's not replaceable or too expensive about a $400 or so nVidia Tegra board in a $100k car?

> Nobody asked Tesla to shave $1 on the ECU assembly

Are you suggesting it would have cost Tesla $1 per car to go from an industry standard board used in many cars to a custom solution with all parts tested in-house?
I don't know if this is what you're asking but I'll reply from a different perspective, as many here are giving excellent technical responses.

Tech of any sort is a tool, just like a hammer or screwdriver, but more complex. It is only a tool.

A tool's value is in it's use, not its existence. Having the very latest high-end computer or flattest laptop is worthless unless you use it (then watch 95% of them ignore it, because Teh Shiny!).

The collection/distribution of data is power. That power may be benign but usually isn't... Teach them to understand how it can be misused (in fact tell them to imagine they were head of FB and ask them to abuse user's data) so they have some idea of when that misuse involves them. They can then maybe evaluate the worth of social media a bit better (not to put any of them off social media, just give them better understanding so they can suss the cost/benefit).

Tech as a tool has consequences. There are ethical implications in developing software/hardware for eg. use by oppressive governments. You can't make their moral decisions, nor should you, but you can tell them they must consider the consequences before accepting work[0]

Tech's sophistication, both in use (browsing the web) or its creation (programming is a wonderfully constructive activity) can be addictive. Don't let it destroy your social life. Also if you're having a less-than-delightful childhood/life, it can become an escape (but not a good one. Experience talking here).

The creation of an internally beautiful program gives no indication of its worth to the world. Therefore teach them to make business decisions before starting to do the technical stuff - is it intended to be of worth just to them? OK, it's a bit of fun. Is it intended to be open source and "blow people away"? Make sure there's a need for it or they're wasting their time[1]

Basically, teach them the wider context.

IMO, YMMV, etc.

[0] as someone will inevitably challenge me on this, yes I do before accepting work.

[1] I nearly got involved in some open source, then saw it being worked and reworked at one person's whim. It was never going to succeed. I wasted a lot of my time doing something that I later realised was not of use to anyone. That was months utterly lost and nothing to show for it.
Economics, as a discipline and organised body of knowledge, is going through a rather severe crisis of confidence. And does, periodically.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/events/the-economic-crisis-and...
Why encryption is failing us
If that's the meaning of "official language", then it seems they're illiberal, anti-democratic and unnecessary. I see no reason why the state shouldn't be able to use any convenient language when dealing with the people who live there.

Using the government's actions to define the natural rights of the government's subjects against the government is a little backwards.
Samsung is reportedly making 14nm CPUs for Intel
AMD Ryzen 4000 7nm+ Zen 3 CPUs Spotted in AIDA64 Update – HotHardware
If your looking at the military for examples I would suggest you have a read of a conventional leadership manual like what the MOD put out for Sandhurst.

http://www.ceptm.iue.edu.ar/pdf/ADR002383-developingLeaders....

Obviously office work isn't the Army and you really shouldn't frame your work like a battle but generally. Everyone has a job, they are the one doing it so they are best to do it. Be professional, respectful and share a vision and you'll see people you lead follow you and mirror those traits. Your culture will start to reflect the environment you create.
Reproducibility initiative at the computer architecture conference (ASPLOS)
I would happily ditch the selfie camera for a full-screen phone
Wow, when did that come out?

Called it.
PHP 7.4.0 vs. 7.3 vs. 7.2 vs. 7.1 vs. 7.0 Benchmarks
1) You want to be recognised for your achievements - that's human nature - everyone wants that. The problem is, you're not getting the recognition you want. That's a disturbingly common thing in the workplace. And it's unlikely to be the last time you'll face it in your career.

Having faced similar situations with myself in the past, I've learnt not to wait for recognition to value my own achievments. If you achieved something, and the outcome was good, and you really were responsible for making it happen then no-one can take that away from you. It's yours. It goes on your CV. You don't need permission or validation beyond the outcome that you achieved.

In summary, you don't need external recognition to validate your achievements - you only need results. Do question whether you really were responsible for what you think you've achieved. If you're sure, then you're allowed to take credit. The fact that you did it is what makes you valuable, not that you were recognised for it.

2) Don't play politics. It'll burn you out even more. I'd say that it's the lack of recognition that's burning through your emotional energy and leading your feeling of burnout. Trying to play politics to 'win' against your percieved enemies is only going to feed your dissatisfaction with the situation. See 3.

3) Forgive your employer and lead. Carrying around resentment does nothing for you - it actually costs you. Resist giving in to the temptation to speak ill of the company or lead in the future, especially in job interviews. It's not an attractive trait. Remember that everyone is trying to do their best, in their own understanding of "best", driven by their own values, from their narrow view of the world. Just. Like. You. Be compassionate. See 1.
I felt mildly feverish and had aches. I also slept poorly because of narrow passages causing brain fog. Then I had FESS which cleared the chronic infection. Now I sleep better and almost got rid of brain fog.
> The more I hear about the engineering the longer I will avoid buying an electric vehicle.

You can look up the nVidia Tegra board on Wikipedia and see for yourself that the "shitty short sighted engineering" board is used in many gasoline cars.
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With such extensive logging and monitoring it's hard to believe they didn't monitor MMC wear and didn't see it coming.
it would be superb if something like this can be built on the newer ASGI based frameworks - Starlette or Fastapi (which is built on Starlette).

They are among the fastest python frameworks according to techempower benchmarks, have automatically included type checking and are async.
> But here's the part you didn't get. If you are going to be a programmer, you should think like an engineer. You need to understand your machine and your code and the effects of it all.

Totally. And my website aims to help people understand this aspect of their machine better, and it does this quite well (other people's observation, not just my assertion).

> I believe your hypothetical audience doesn't exist. Give them some credit. There's simply no reason a competent software engineer cannot understand Goldberg.

That they can understand it doesn't mean they have to invest the hours it would take to go through all of it with rusty formal math skills, when their immediate problem or question concerns ony a small (and not immediately discernible) part of it.
> Is it worth it?
None of the positives you described are exclusive to a totalitarian government.
Once again, a problem that could easily be solved by requiring a right to root as part of the right to repair. I hate how so many of these are running linux on the underside but you can't do anything with it. I had a friend who got a Samsung smarttv and when I looked up rooting it, the chances were high of bricking it, so we decided not to do it.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the way we prevent this is in right to repair legislation that includes the right to root.