skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard a low pitched 'hum' for a couple of years now at my house. It is weird because it actually has two tones, one at ~28hz and one at ~36hz and it alternates between them...usually at the lower frequency but will sometimes hop up to the higher frequency for a few seconds.

I've tried recording it with several different high quality microphone setups and absolutely nothing at all. Also, nobody in the house and none of my neighbors hear it. So at this point I think it's something in my head, but I only hear it when I'm in my house. Never when I'm on the road.

Not sure if this counts as 'the hum' but it's definitely weird.
I limit it to products I consume but am an early adopter on. It has worked great on TSLA and ENPH. I got into BCLI because of Making a Murderer 2 attorney on Twitter talking about an ALS treatment her law partner’s wife was taking. Big fan of index plus 2-5 stocks.
Yelp is just looking for another extortion angle. You'll get a Racism Alert, but for a small monthly fee, you can make it go away.
So what happens if the security is successful, and the level of crime decreases substantially, and now the government uses its newfound powers of surveillance against the law-abiding populace?
Does one have to be a genius to do maths? – By Terence Tao
I think this had a lot to do with low quality fluorescent light ballasts in offices. I agree that it seemed to happen a lot more with CRT, but I have experienced it with LCD too.
My only purpose was to get a webcam above my monitor and I had all these parts.

I don’t know what part Apple played with Intel in the design of FireWire and Thunderbolt. I’m glad that over ~20 years of marked improvement, it’s still possible to connect and use this hardware. I think I still have a 3com USB webcam somewhere that’s even older but after only a few years, it wouldn’t work with anything I had.
This was quite a popular technique to achieve fancy video effects on low powered hardware.

A good example is the various parallax and scrolling effects in the intro cinematic to Link’s Awakening on the Game Boy/Color, achieved by changing various hardware scroll registers in the horizontal blanking interval (time between one line being finished and the other starting). The main limitation is that you can only do horizontal effects, not vertical.

I’m wondering if the article you’re thinking of was the Wired piece on the Atari 2600? That famously ran all of its game logic in the H- and V-blank intervals.
I'd trust more than a deepfake TicTok video reposted by FoxNews/CNN.
Not trivial at all! Yea, I know that sell your own product feeling. Congrats and subbed. Cheers!
>it's pretty obvious it's the boats

What exactly about "the boats" would it be? The motor? The propeller?

Doesn't sound like a thing...
The tail-recursive version of fibonacci runs just as fast as the iterative in languages with optimized tail calls.

Tree- and graph traversal is often easier to reason about using recursion from my experience.

Worst case, you can get the same effect by pushing recursive calls on a stack/queue that's consumed iteratively.
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Any vehicle with Onstar has this as an intentional feature. The feature was introduced in 2009.

Electronic ignition interlocks have been common on most vehicles over the past 20 years too... the only reason you can't remotely prevent most other cars from starting is simply software.

https://www.toyota.com/connected-services/remoteconnect/

https://owner.ford.com/fordpass/fordpass-sync-connect.html

https://www.nissanusa.com/connect/features-apps.html

https://www.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/blue-link

etc...

Since all the hardware exists, all you have to do is find an exploit: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
Why do you see this degrading? It's a genuine question. Say, in my country probably no more then a few hundred people exist who can recognize D&D abbreviation. So one might say "If you're from X, you probably don't know what it is", and I don't see why that should offend me as an X-ian. I suppose there are substantially less female players then male players, so as a generalization the statement evaluates to 'true', and what goes next? How should one proceed to take it as an offence?
A few notes for those going down this path (I'm doing the same).

1. This doesn't work on OSX yet. Works really well in windows though.

2. There's no microphone. I'm looking for a directional mic setup for the rpi but haven't found anything I'm satisfied with yet.

3. The 6mm lens is total crap. The 16mm lens is decent but the zoom makes it difficult to use as a webcam. I'm still looking for a good rectilinear lens in the 4mm to 8mm range that has minimal distortion and doesn't cost an arm and a leg (after all, the whole point of this is to do it on the cheap). There's no obvious candidate yet.

4. Commonlands has a couple M12 lenses that look promising. I'd prefer a C mount but you have to go with what's available. I'm going to pull the trigger on one of them to test out when I get back from vacation.

5. Arducam has a bunch of lenses, but I find them to be very strange. Maybe it's a language barrier issue, but the videos and the marketing copy are all very odd and don't quite tell you what you want to know. It feels like a Chinese company masquerading as an English company. It's all weird enough that I'm not ready to pull the trigger and purchase one of their lenses.

6. Focusing is a pain in the ass with all these lenses. You will not have the same experience as a typical webcam but once you have the focus dialed in things look great. Just don't move.

7. The HQ camera is very capable but it's limited by the bandwidth limitations of the pi interface. 1080p 30fps is the max you'll get. Don't expect 4k video.
Articles like this make me wonder how everything even works if basic math functions can be so wrong and how a simple concept like floor can have different definitions/ implementations
I pity the fools who rely on these maps for real-time directions. Whatever happened to reading a map and making mental notes? What ever happened to people being able to follow street signs and using your common sense?

How did we become so utterly dependent on this technology that only a generation ago was unnecessary?

Driver-less cars with AI powered navigation coming to your house in the not too distant future. It will plot the most efficient course to get your meat-sack self from your house to the corner store to buy bread & milk....and you don't need to think at all about what your legs are doing. That is if you even still walk. Maybe you are so lazy you will order by the noise-polluting drone delivery service.

People marvel at tech, and don't misunderstand my rant, Google Maps, Openstreet Maps etc are extremely useful in researching places, but, we should not become reliant to the point where we cannot function without them. Otherwise we are becoming mindless zombies in this ever tech-infested world of ours where we are loosing basic skills such as navigating from point A to point B.

Very sad state of affairs.

https://www.wired.com/2013/09/navigate-without-gps/
> even if an open source organization had that money available, I don't believe they would be able to access the kind of infra needed to train GPT-3. The closest thing would probably be some TPU pods on GCP, but even then, I think the biggest pod you can publicly access is too small (unless you are ok training for 3 years).

Surely, at that budgetary scale, buying/building your own infrastructure would be cheaper than renting it? This is the same economic calculation large animation studios have to make WRT render farms (which also use similar types of hardware).
> Don't know if this is 100% accurate, but Tor?

You probably meant "Tor Browser". Changes from there were backported, and last time I checked plan was to have it entirely backported within Mozilla Firefox.
Just wondering. Can "integrity" be used instead of url to provide better caching? Because it is based on hash, which should be more reliable than just url.
Even the freaking Gmail app for iOS has a convenient "bug" where it keeps forgetting your browser selection and suggesting you download Chrome and use that instead of Safari.
Yes, I have done non-trivial implementations of a number of SoTA models in Julia. The framework I've used is Flux[1] which I love for it's simplicity, it is very much like the DarkNet[2] framework in that regard which is refreshing after using TensorFlow. PyTorch is much better about not having unnecessary complexity and a sensible API but Flux is certainly better.

The ability for Julia to compile directly to PTX assembly[3][4] means that you can even write the GPU kernels in Julia and eliminate the C/C++ CUDA code. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of work to be done to make it as reliably fast and easy as TensorFlow/PyTorch so I don't think it is usable for production yet.

I hope it will be production ready soon but it will likely take some time to highly tune the compute stacks. They are already working on AMD GPU support with AMDGPU.jl[5] and with the latest NVIDIA GPU release which has IMHO purposefully decreased performance (onboard RAM, power) for scientific compute application I would love to be able to develop on my AMD GPU workstation and deploy on whatever infrastructure easily in the same language.

I do have some gripes with Julia but the biggest of them are mostly cosmetic.

[1]: https://fluxml.ai/

[2]: https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet

[3]: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpu-computing-julia-progra...

[4]: http://blog.maleadt.net/2015/01/15/julia-cuda/

[5]: https://github.com/JuliaGPU/AMDGPU.jl
That’s easy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Liberation_Front

I think they were the first domestic terrorists.
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>Dropping the tank and replacing it or the filler neck is a pretty easy DIY project.

Um, no.
I guess most people can’t see the flicker on a CRT set at 60Hz, but I can. It’s especially bad in a room with fluorescent lights. First thing I’d do upon sitting down at a new computer with a CRT monitor was to bump up the refresh rate to 75Hz so I didn’t get a headache.

Taking standardized tests in the early 2000s on locked down computers in fluorescent-lit test centers was torture.
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It's how my team had it reiterated that I like to mess around with things like this (especially when I'm already working from home).

I still just have the basic Microsoft 1280x720 USB webcam that I grabbed from the office when we left in March. Phone-as-webcam was more trouble than it was worth, but it did get me playing with OBS for better control over exposure, white balance, gamma, etc.

From there I rigged up a couple of desk lights and clamp lights I had around for better lighting. Then I got a cheap green sheet to replace the white sheet I'd hung behind me to hide the junk room I've been using as a temp office. Then I hooked up a Shure mic to the old USB audio interface I used to have hooked up for messing with guitar.

So now I've got the best sound, lighting, and video-loop backgrounds of the team. Yay? ;)
> And why don't you look at my comment talking about the header?

1. You only mentioned about it in an edit, it's disingenuous to suggest that I intentionally ignored it.

2. It says "DuckDuckGo News" even before you scroll down the page.

> You seriously think more than 10% of Internet users recognize the DuckDuckGo logo?

I find the accusation that DDG is engaging in "astroturfing" when they clearly identify themselves ridiculous.
There's a book out there, can't remember which; that has two index entries for recursion, both referring to the other. I always thought it was a nice touch.
After getting thoroughly sick of the full page "pop up" that Google Search and Youtube both now display on just about every visit, I switched to DDG for search and youtube-dl for YT and it's actually been great. DDG results are fine, and the !bang (!g, !w etc) makes it really easy to jump to other search engines / places if I really need it. Google have lost me as a regular customer for good.
So much for innocent until proven guilty
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localCDN has more resources than Decentraleyes. It also has very important resources like Google Fonts, some cloudflare resources etc, none of which were present in Decentraleyes (the last time I checked)

> will be sticking with the original

It's your choice. The fork is better. The maintainer seems a bit more active (more updates) and extremely pro-privacy (I concluded this from his home page and extension settings)
So it only needs 4 Billion times 90s, so is this like never in a million years? (actually it should be only around 12000 year, so you could use a cluster of 48000 Computer and be done in 3 month)
Then that would be a specific environmental consideration. The argument I was addressing was the consideration on utilitarian grounds.

It's possible that there may be second order environmental affects on the utilitarian calculus. I.e. the loss of sharks, causes enough ecosystem imbalance that it out-weights the direct suffering caused by species X. But that's specifically an empirical claim, and simply claiming that "sharks feel pain" isn't sufficient.

In general there's no reason to believe that the current ecological balance is the utilitarian optimal. Darwin selects for inclusive fitness, and doesn't give a hoot about animal suffering. Imagining that the pre-existence of a large predator population exists to improve the lives of the prey population is succumbing to the fallacy of group selection.
I have used DDG for the past five years and I like it as a hedge to keep other search engines honest but this is not in good taste.

If they want a product blog, rather than using something like this as a name, they can simply do what other respectable companies do and use something like

- duckduckgoblog.com

- duckduckgo.com/blog/

- blog.duckduckgo.com
Yep. This is generally what I meant by that line.
On a side note - many of these are good samples of technical writing. They introduce the audience to the environment where failure occurred, but in a way that doesn't take the focus away from the issue itself.
On LCD monitors, I could notice that on very low brightness settings, which was likely due to PWM flicker. I guess I'm sensitive to it.
There are 'DD' authors that manage to produce good insight and get 5-6 good predictions in a row but they are quite drown in other poor DD. See the ticker GME, someone with a pristine record predicted a GME pop following a console deal before the second COVID wave. Somehow he timed it perfectly (GME / Microsoft partnership annouced less than an hour after that post). That was a good DD and people apparantly made good money. Then it was followed by a tremendous amount of other poor posts (yolos, shitpost and 'gut feeling' DD) AFTER the surge. Without any information it is rather difficult to distinguish between the 'good' and 'bad' ones. There are some people tracking performances of different authors but I did not get to see an exhaustive study that would conclude one way or another.

Edit: ok nevermind the GME DD exemple. I tried to find it to link it here, but it is now deleted. People are claiming the author was a Microsoft Insider. Disclosing that info was highly illegal. I don't know what would be the legal ramifications of trading on illegal info when you don't know that said info is illegal. But I knwo that being investigated by a 3 letters agency is something you want to avoid.
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> 1. You only mentioned about it in an edit, it's disingenuous to suggest that I intentionally ignored it.

My comment was talking about the actual header in the first place. And I posted the edit about the sticky header like ten minutes before your reply. But maybe you didn't refresh the page, so whatever. If I was disingenuous I wouldn't have labelled it clearly as an edit, unlike the site which isn't clearly labeled as a corporate blog, until you scroll down.

> 2. It says "DuckDuckGo News" even before you scroll down the page.

"DuckDuckGo News" is only a category among many. A privacy advocacy group blog can't have a category called "DuckDuckGo News"? Hell, many people's personal blogs have Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. categories.
I think that a new paradigm should try to achieve the following:
1) Be based on code that can be machine interpreted and used afterwards in computations. Maybe this will require a more standardized way of writing math (like the apl that was suggested).
2) Be based on source code that is not cluttered and can be read easily by a human (maybe like markdown)
3) Most important of all: Formatting should be a completely independent layer. My original equations should have nothing more than math, it should be the renderer's business of how to present it to the consumer (webpage, pdf or whatever). It should be very easy for example to change the alignment of your equations a-posteriori without messing with the equations themselves.
Once again, South Korea ahead of the curve. Good job
I'm curious if this will hurt AOSP and aftermarket ROMs in the long term. More and more things are being subsumed into "Google Play Services" after all.
How do you know the frequencies they're at? Did you Match it with sounds from your computer?

What constitutes high quality microphones for you? Where these microphones that were made for this low frequency range?

EDIT: Especially on the microphones maybe the actual noise isn't 28Hz, but the 28Hz are harmonics of a 14Hz, 7Hz, 3.5Hz,... vibration. These harmonics may get produced inside some structures near your ear, explaining why you hear it and others don't.

You'd need special equipment to measure these low frequency vibrations.
> Looking at only the last five years is myopic and not wise. You may want to look up the "Lost Decade" of the S&P 500 from 2000 to 2009.

I'm 50+, my money has been moving around these funds since the late 90s. :) I lived as a tech worker through all the 2000-2010 had to offer us, everyone took a beating not just index funds. Besides that point, holding a fund 5 years is normal - it's not like you have to keep a fund longer than 5, make your money and let it go. Roll it over into something else - passive investing does not mean ignoring your investing, you must still tend to your crops from time to time.
There's already MIDI platform called OpenDeck
https://github.com/paradajz/OpenDeck
Yeah, I used the highest refresh rate I could force, usually 75-80 Hz. Some monitors could handle 90, and it made a difference, but it was still worse than LCD PWM flicker.
Not quite the same field, but see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24649992 for an article about PLT (programming language theory) notation.
I don't believe there is a video of this. I took an in person course hosted by David Nolen a while ago where I witnessed, in person, D Nolen working. The course was a CLJS Masterclass.
If you're using DVI-D -> VGA or HDMI -> VGA, probably a couple of pixels worth on a simple converter, as it would be expensive and unnecessary to cache a whole frame.

DP has incompatible timings so I would expect a frame or so on a cheap (though significantly more expensive) converter.
Download=nothing happens.
Yet another login and account required.
I seem to recall the article being about Apple II hardware, but it might have been Atari 2600. They are of similar generations.

edit: Yep, you are right - the article is titled "Racing the Beam"

https://www.wired.com/2009/03/racing-the-beam/
Well antifa and extremist sections of BLM just burned down half the cities in America and shot a guy in the back of the head recently...so examples are out there. Why is it so hard to reconcile that extremists are on both sides and we have an issue on the right and left? Is that not reasonable?
I really wish the media would stop trying to link right to far-right. We may not agree politically, but being rightwing doesn't make you a terrorist or even a terrible human being. There is very clearly a separation between far-right and right in the same way there is a separation between far-left and left. Disagreeing on the position of abortion for example doesn't mean either of our lives are immediately at danger. This sort of conflation is dangerous.

Regarding Facebook hosting only far-right terrorism and organization, this simply isn't true. It also hosts far-left terrorism. As much as Antifa claim to have no structure, there is clearly some form of hierarchy in the sub-groups - if there was none then how do they all turn up to the same place at the same time?

Facebook doesn't have a far-right problem, it has a radicalization problem. The moment you are able to create bubbles and select who to include in them, you can't even rely on the report functionality anymore.

_Any_ service that offers comments can be used for nefarious purposes. I distinctly remember pedophiles commenting timestamps in Youtube comments to indicate the "good" parts in the videos featuring young children. Hell, Club Penguin was used for terrorist planning in the film Four Lions. I know for a fact that Discord has a _massive_ pedophile problem.

What it really comes down to is this: How do you moderate content when the amount of content is so large? You have some attempts to do this via AI, but one common problem with almost every automated system is that they over-train for things like key-words. Machine learning is well known to be too data focused rather than abstraction focused. Until we have generalized AI, I am not sure there is a solution.
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You sound pretty confident. But I'm not aware of Slack (or Discord) attempting to ban any third party clients. Ripcord has been around for 4 years. Discord has never given me trouble about it. Slack is for businesses that pay, they publish an API, and there's no reason to assume they would go out of their way to prevent customers from using whatever client they want.
Saving this one for sure, thank you.
I was once in the position to test 3M possible inputs - that took only a few minutes. It's a good strategy to keep in mind.
I wonder if there’ll eventually be enough demand for new CRTs, and if manufacturing technology has improved enough to make a CRT that is less of an ecological menace. If cost were only partly a constraint, how good could we build a CRT today?

I am still mesmerized by new display technologies / display technologies that I haven’t seen in a long time. Like the vector CRTs that exist in old Asteroids cabinets. The phosphors are really bright—brighter than you can imagine an LCD being.

I also remember the first time I saw e-ink and being shocked to see something so inert looking shift to a new image.

This article really captured my imagination. I’ve not seen a modern GPU driving high frame rates on a CRT, but now I’m very curious to do so. I’d imagine the experience would defy my intuitions the same as it appears to have done for the authors here.
See my other comment to the parent, but yeah, the lenses are a challenge. The 6mm is not great. Finding a workable cost effective lens is my biggest hurdle right now.
Last time I submitted a kernel patch which added some new user-visible API:

$ grep Umask /proc/self/status
Umask: 0002

I had to also submit a test to go along with it. I understand that these are run by CI on the main architectures, although it didn't appear to be a condition of accepting the patch that the test was correct on all arches. Also I wonder if their CI really runs on PPC601 and IA64, I guess probably not. (Obviously this minor feature doesn't depend on the arch and it's hard to see how it could go wrong even on IA64).
It's mildly annoying but easily fixed with a touch of ambient lighting or a software tool looks f.lux.

Brightness isn't nearly as bad for eye strain has contrast between the screen and ambient light.