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Show HN: Fast Music Remover – Remove Music and Noise from Internet Media
I've recently open-sourced a tool for removing music, sound effects, and noise from internet media, with an emphasis on speed and simplicity. The project processes videos at around 8% of the original media length — meaning it can handle a 10-minute video in under a minute.

Repo: https://github.com/omeryusufyagci/fast-music-remover

The tool is lightweight, works through Docker, and is licensed under MIT. It supports several use cases, such as improving the audio quality of lectures, field reports, and isolating speech from videos with heavy background noise.

I'm currently working towards adding live stream support and would love to have contributors on board. There are interesting open issues for developers experienced in backend, frontend, Python, C++, and audio processing.

Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are very welcome. Thanks for checking it out!
I'll have a chat with the mirror.
Very interesting perspective, thank you.

>> Also, the contacts one makes at an Ivy or a Stanford are leagues ahead of what's available at a public school.

> As someone who attended an Ivy/Ivy Adjacent, I highly disagree, at least in Eng (and Eng adjacent roles like PM/EM/Sales/Entrepreneaurship and even VC to a certain extent)

In my long but undistinguished career, I don't see that my Berkeley undergrad classmates and I have set the world on fire and we're not powerbrokers by a very long shot. We were all (at that time) from the same chunks of middle-class Northern and Southern California with almost no out-of-staters. Many of us including myself commuted and there was almost none of the stereotypical college social life due to courseload and research (a very big emphasis).

Now, I am sure things have changed in the nearly 40 years since I graduated. Perhaps the increasing cost and explosion of Silicon Valley/CS has changed who came after, where they come from, and their family backgrounds.

> CS/Eng is much more driven by defense and private sector funding, which is biased towards National Labs, which are overwhelmingly managed by public universities.

That used to be true when UC ran LBL, Livermore, and Los Alamos but these days they are run (poorly) by "public/private" consortia. Stanford runs SLAC, Chicago for the moment runs Fermilab - both are private schools. I don't think wealthy families send their kids to any of these private schools with a view to jobs at LocMart, Boeing, or Argonne.

> Middle management turned upper management in most tech companies tended to attend flagship publics in the West Coast/TX/Midwest plus some elite privates like Stanford/Claremont Colleges/USC/CMU, which impacts recruiting as well.

The real surprise here is USC which was a scorned backwater when I was in college. "University of Second Choice" took great strides in the 1990s under Steven Sample. IMO it is far from an elite[0] place like Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford, etc. but the USC network is a Very Big Deal at least in So Cal. At my company, their alumni association virtually guarantees that an applicant will get a face-to-face with a decisionmaking alum while others are getting screened out by the AI or HR.

Edit:

[0] I mean elite in terms of academic quality vs. job/networking opportunities.
I'm not sure I want any of that in my camera. Maybe fast wifi for photo sync at home but still faster to plug in the cable/card.

You know what I want and have? A sub half second power on time. Probably sub one second from turning on to first photo. I don't want any "smart" crap slowing that down.
From the doc you linked we have

var clock = K . find (
"(and
(variableRepresents that thing)
(typeBehaviorCapable-DeviceUsed thing
(MeasuringFn Time-Quantity)))")

So if I want a clock instead of using the name system.timer, now I need to know the much longer name. Maaaybe you think I can reason about the parts of this name, but it's just a longer string with funny syntax. And it's only really useful if we all agree on the language of description, which if we had a common language of description, we wouldn't have the problem this is trying to address.

If you've got an example of a real system using this where it's actually better than searching docs, or learning what the language of today uses to measure the size in bytes and the size in codepoints and the size in glyphs, please link to that. But this feels like yet another thing where if everyone agrees about the ontology, everything would be easier, but there's no way everyone would agree, and there's not even an example ontology.
I'm a core developer of Crystal.

All sponsorship contributions pay some development hours, so they're valuable to improve the project.

Sponsors presentation is only based on their _current_ contribution, not the accumulated total.
You should never do blind retries in an infinite for loop, ideally it should be a generic retry function ( bounded ) that type check the error.
Doing the ad industry's work? :-)

I strongly suspect someone from ad industry will start offering an option to serve a heavily obfuscated WASM-based rendering engine to render the website, with obligatory promises that it "protects the integrity of your content", "stops the AI crawl theft", and of course it also "lowers development costs by ensuring consistent rendering across all platforms".

/s, obviously
Show HN: astro-react-i18next - i18next and react-i18next integration for Astro
Pretty sure most don't. Most A/B Test SAAS vendors cater to lightweight clickstream optimization, which is why they don't have features like Stratified Sampling. Internal systems are lightyears ahead of most SAAS vendors.
File Naming Conventions – Data Management
Typically anytime someone gets lost or diverted or something else, they are eager to gather information and do as much science as possible. Some large themes (like most of Voyager) and some smaller ones like when individuals are stranded on planets, end up being much about the scientific opportunities. Mainly the attitude of looking at a situation like this as an opportunity for science both resonates with me and reminds me of the optimism of Star Trek :-)
Co-administration of an agonist and an antagonist for the same pharmacophore seems like an interesting approach.
Ah correct! It seemed weird to me they would have that figured out while others have not.
Thing is, the underlying central chains getting so expensive that nobody wants to use them for everyday transactions.

So, offloading is the only way to make them usable again.

I off-ramp only every second month because of absurd gas costs on Ethereum.
Seems like a variation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage but yearly instead of one-time payments. The Million Dollar Homepage had a sort of early-internet novelty vibe to it, but beyond that I don't get the practicality of this kind of thing. Okay so it's a billboard...who drives traffic to it? Who looks at the billboard other than once or twice to see if they want to rent their own space?
I wonder: is there anything more predictive of success than being clever, brave, and persistent?

Yes: wealth. That’s just an empirical fact, even if it’s an uncomfortable one that doesn’t help with individual ambition. If you think it’s tough for a poor malnourished kid with a single parent and bad schools to become a successful entrepreneur in America, you should see how tough it is for a kid born into a poor malnourished nation.

I also don’t buy the skill-will distinction at all, especially since they eventually say matters of will can be “practiced more intentionally”. The bones are there, but the details are kinda arbitrarily determined by ideological bias IMO. I think the author would love modern psychology lit on “Executive Functioning”, has a lot to say about how often a typical human is able to choose to will something!

Good article otherwise. Provocatively written, and refreshingly concise - def made me think. Also, obviously, inspiring!
To be inspired by something really has no bearing on how the _inspired_ thing is built. I think you place much emphasis on that but really it does not bring much to the argument. One can say that a plane was inspired by a bird (and it is, since we wouldn't to build one if we didn't see birds flying), but a plane is not designed like a bird.

I also somewhat contest that "interesting behavior comes from the emergent runtime interaction of tons of tiny components". There can be very tight, hierarchical structures to programs designed in the way Alan Kay talks about. He is promoting clear, manageable interactions, not emergent unpredictability, which is something I am sure you came across (we all did), but I would not go so far as describe the whole model of Kay as "fundamentally misguided". He talks of "clear fences", which can be understood to refer to things like "actor-based" models, with controlled, clear messages, as done in languages such as Erlang.
I think we're currently starting to see behind the facade of Chinese economy news. It's not all rosy.

But also: For China, Taiwan is only to a very limited extent about the economy. It is about ideology. For the US, a war now would be a bad idea - only slightly better than it would be a little later. There's an increasing gap in naval abilities (that'll - so the Pentagon thinks officially - close in the 2030s)

That means that we're currently in an unstable time. War is possible, but not a given. Meanwhile, if war happens, the US can't fight on three fronts. And so both Ukraine and the mideast conflicts strengthen China's hand if it comes to war, and weaken the US's. Similarly, an independent EU with at least some manufacturing capability lessens US constraints.

At the moment, things are all about shaping the odds.
It definitely is annoying. I’m sure they’ve made it for Find My to work most of the time. I wouldn’t mind bluetooth being on all the time but if you have AirTag nearby it drains the battery pretty aggressively.
In fact this is the gist of what i wanted to reply, but i feel we were cross-talking anyways...
Wonder what his take on dithering vs compression was
City (Artwork)
Then simply make the two transactions?

But not just one of them.

It's hard for a "smart contract" to securely do a transaction on a blockchain not its own. A trustless system needs an atomic commit across two different blockchains, which is hard.

See [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/10/hackers-have-stolen-1point4-...
Additionally, code is an excellent tool; leverage it even if you don't ship any code.

One of my friends, a senior director in a reasonably large corporation, still manages his various financial data pipelines for analytical purposes using code, writing stuff in Python / Pandas / SQL. I bet it gives him a much better visibility into what he wants to discern in the data.
It was already common then, I gather—the ex-developer-product-owner guy who showed it to me (in the course of doing something else) didn’t seem to think it was remarkable, just an assumed capability. I don’t recall the name of the product, but it’d record all the input and page content for an entire session, you could watch it play back like a video. Exactly like standing over someone’s shoulder while they used their computer. Creepy as fuck, but some genius renamed “spyware” to “telemetry” and that was enough to get every developer on board because we’re super insecure and will jump at the chance to pretend we’re building Mars rovers or something else real while we make yet another “app” the world doesn’t need (I suppose that’s why that label was so successful at changing attitudes, anyway)
C'mon folks, PNG? Webauthn on every page?

If we're talking lunars, why don't you print posters and distribute physically in your neighborhood?

100% bot safe & "meat finger" guarantee.
I would instead say, as many have, that the entire wonder of the young Internet was that it couldn't be tied to just one demographic.
> Good! Iran is an undemocratic, authoritarian theocracy run by violent, repressive misogynists.

I can practically replace Iran with US here, and this would actually still be true.

Trump is a massive misogynist. Both Biden and Trump are internationally violent and both would actively support a genocide happening through their closest ally.

The next president of the US is either Misogynist Trump, or Kamala Harris which no American has voted for in a primary for - making it undemocratic. In this regard, both Iran and the US are picking from a pre-selected pool of candidates.

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So, govt bad therefore people shouldn't be able to access research material?

> The trick is, really, how to make these libraries accessible to individuals but only insofar as they're not pawns of the regime.

Research is going to mostly be happening in universities, which are usually regulated by the government. Education is also connected to the government. The answer is you don't.

> Individually, I love you all with affection unspeakable; but, collectively, I look upon you with a disgust that amounts to absolute detestation.

Thanks?
I’m having trouble following what you mean.

Yes, you can certainly send a whole SQLite database using any binary communication protocol as a way to exchange data today. You can even compress it before if you feel like it.

It will not make for a good ipc format because, well, it’s not designed to be one but it would most definitely work.

What’s your point?
Regulatory capture doesn’t mean the entire of idea of FDA as a safety mechanism is bad… nor does a legitimate reason for their existence mean that capture doesn’t exist

It is good to hold federal agencies with large power to a very high standard. But that’s often not the case as any critiques get dismissed with the “well they have good intentions and can you imagine if they didn’t exist?” hand wave tactic.
> Them being a totalitarian dictatorship doesn't necessarily mean they're stupid.

No, but it does mean that they are significantly more prone to irrational decisions. And Xi's not exactly ultra-rational to start with.
For some reason, there is no current software implementation of a "globally consensus-replicated, peer-to-peer, append-only, signed-message log store, with Turing-complete programmable matviews that pump by reducing over the store's log messages as CQRS commands per some set of validity rules"... other than the ones that are also permissionless to transact upon, and thereby are "blockchains."

I find that almost all (non-blockchain-space) tech people who find "blockchains" interesting as a concept, and see potential use-cases for them in system architecture design, are actually thinking about the uses of this taxonomic parent category — whether they realize it or not.

But the only way to currently talk about this concept — in a way that doesn't require you to first give an extensive definition of the idea you're talking about — is to use the word "blockchain", even though that's not precisely what you mean.

Since there's no software system that's just one of these things, without also being a blockchain, there's no word we've invented to talk about the set of such software systems.

If someone came along and actually made a piece of software that was all the things a blockchain is, except for the "open submission of transactions, with spam control using eStamps that necessitate the introduction of a whole economy into the system that it doesn't otherwise require" part, I think it'd become a huge thing among tech crowds, and "blockchains" as infra systems would be completely forgotten about in favor of (whatever name these parent-category systems would be given once we have any to talk about.)

Sadly, I think there's very little interest in doing this, for two reasons:

1. Anyone who builds such a system knows that with just a little bit of extra implementation effort, they can introduce such an economy, turning their thingy into a "blockchain", and potentially making a bajillion dollars by being the first one in the door of that new economy as it grows with usage.

2. Most blockchain node software is designed to be flexible-enough in its definition of a blockchain network, that it can be flexed toward being used in a "Proof-of-Authority" network implementation that doesn't actually have an internal economy. And, because blockchain node software has a lot of engineering effort already invested into it, vs. systems of this parent category that have none yet — it makes a lot of sense, as a systems engineer who just wants an infra component to slap into place, to use blockchain-node software for these use-cases, configured into a Proof-of-Authority mode where the economy logic is vestigial. It feels like an "overkill" solution, but the alternative would be DIYing a parent-category system and having to learn all the Hard Lessons that blockchain-software engineers already figured out about non-repudiability, storage architectures amenable to state garbage-collection, scalable consensus mechanisms that don't halt-and-catch-fire during hard-fork network upgrades, etc.
Animals will eat those or the composting of the food simply returns nutrients to the environment
glances at Bitcoin mining ASICs

Any day, now.
Great question. DBSP should work here -- spreadsheets are by definition incremental (and there's even recursive queries there with cells depending on each other).

Note that we use Z-Sets to bridge SQL/tables with DBSP, but Z-Sets aren't general enough for spreadsheets.
Preferred Data Removal Service: incogni vs. optery vs?
Anyone have personal experience with both/either of these?
But what was the cost of producing that revenue? At what point do they expect to break even on their investment?

I can very quickly generate a lot of revenue if my investors will let me buy eggs at $0.50 each and resell them for $0.05, but I don't think I'd get any bites unless I could explain how that enterprise will eventually turn a profit.
Generally all quantum computing operations have to be reversible at the gate level, so you can’t have a simple thing like an AND gate, and this can make things more complex. As you either need to put some out put to a qubit you don’t care about, or find some other way to handle it.
Your link isn't showing the declarative shadow DOM, this does:

https://web.dev/articles/declarative-shadow-dom#how_to_build...

And the example below that one shows how to hydrate declarative shadow roots with JS custom elements, so the path to progressive enhancement should be clear.

I say alleged because I haven't had the chance to try it beyond a toy example.
Spectator Sport, a brief introduction to an upcoming Rails plugin
This is mostly for medical applications. Wearable, maybe implantable, electronics for monitoring vital signs are a real thing that could completely change form with flexible processors.
You use multiple processors and a consensus algorithm.
Basically, quantum gates are mathematically represented as multiplying your state by unitary matrices. Unitary matrices are ones where their inverse is their own conjugate transpose (i.e. XX*=I). Since each gate has an inverse, for any computation you can reverse it (in other words find a circuit that recovers the inputs from the outputs).

In practice this means that you sometimes have to keep around extra bits called Ancilla bits that just contain garbage, but are necessary for reversibility.
There is now a `/etc/pam.d/sudo_local` that gets queried and survives updates.

There is a template here: `/etc/pam.d/sudo_local.template`, copy that one to `/etc/pam.d/sudo_local` and remove the `#` before `auth sufficient pam_tid.so`.
Condemn a nation? What part of "affection unspeakable" do you not understand?

All you have to assert is that Iran is not a totalitarian theocracy, and that academic research reliably benefits the Iranian people at the expense of their oppressive overlords' agenda.

I don't understand the rest of your comment. The answer to "why not murder millions of" any given nationality is because it is unspeakably horrible, grossly detrimental to human flourishing, and a violation of our highest ideals.

I really don't know why you're attributing to me the sentiment of "because why not?". I certainly don't intend to express it.

Sanctions against totalitarian states exist to prevent private companies from empowering murderers like Khamenei. You can argue that they're not murderers, but you can't argue that sanctions are imposed "because why not."
Discussion (35 points, 13 hours ago, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685524
> It would be unsurprising to have outcomes measured from zero

Assuming that you can never make anybody worse off than they were before you showed up would be a much worse abuse.
An unfortunate requirement of modern attention/engagement economy. Readers hate this one trick, but for the media outlets, if you don't crank up hype clickbait engine to 11, you're out, or running some very niche business.
Curious that the author works for BrowserStack, a browser-automation service
Amusingly similar to the much more recent slide decks about the x86 port, e.g. https://vmssoftware.com/docs/State_of_Port_20171006.pdf
So, where a VMC was equivalent to an EV X.509 certificate, CMC is basically a normal certificate. I guess nobody wanted to buy VMCs, just like with EVs. But the mere existence of CMCs now lowers the value of a BIMI logo; if almost anybody can get a CMC, the logo can not be trusted. Might as well use X-Face, which is free.

(BIMI is still a tracking pixel in every mail, BTW.)

Previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40873830>, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32717105>, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28196403>
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People with different life experiences should just be quietly written off due to the faulty assumptions they might make out of ignorance.

> If you feel you've noticed an odd ellipticality in accounts like these, the vague sense of something going unsaid, it's this. If that's all you've noticed, better not to pry.

In what context? Work acquaintances chatting over coffee at the office? Parasocial public discussions on the internet? Intentionally public discussions? Friends talking all night over drinks?
I think you got the last part wrong. Airplanes have GPS and they know where they are on the runway, where the taxiways are and so on for all the airports they operate in.

Just as they can take off in low visibility, they can also maneuver. And airports have ground radars that know where every plane on the ground is, even if the ground controllers are able to see the planes with their own eyes.

Otherwise, in a lot of places airplanes wouldn't land pretty often :)
Be an entrepreneur. If it's not for you, you'll know within a few years.
This is interesting - I think there is a perception that just doing okay is somehow the same as failing. If you can’t be the richest, then nothing else is good enough and dropping out is the better option. It’s a bummer.
I just hope it leads to non-technical people not meddling in or starting tech startups where they have no f'ing idea what they're talking about or doing.

Stick to the scams and whatever else, or go work at a PE firm.

Source: my experience working with such types.
I'm building an AI to beat pros in League of Legends and discover new metas–AMA
I'm an AI researcher working on developing an AI for League of Legends that aims to outperform top players, discover new metas, and help players improve their skills. I've been combining multi-agent reinforcement learning with explainable AI to make this possible. I'm excited to share insights about my project, the challenges involved, and discuss the future of AI in esports. Happy to hear any cool ideas you may have that I could include. Ask me anything!
Hope they get four years, personally.
There is a world of difference between having to install python, libraries (some of them may require C-based libs and compiling, therefore also install gcc), then configure wsgi, hope it doesn't clash with other python versions or have docker and containers... or just generating a fat binary in go.