skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fascinating. So I guess the sound must be produced by something in the body; blood flow would be my guess. And then the structure of the ear is maybe amplifying it?
It just occurred to me - we only call these 'invasive' not because they invade nature, but because they invade the spaces we as humans have carved into nature. If our presence wasn't there, perhaps the natural ecosystem wouldn't have space or room for some of these species to enter, but because of human activity, a space is carved out for these other species to grow in, and that's what causes us the stress.

Isn't it weird how we're so acutely aware of the effect of the species that invade our space, but so ignorant so often of our effect on the same spaces when we invade them?

I think I learned something valuable today chewing on this article.
“Alliance” is just code for “Team America: World Police.” If everyone is our “ally” then we are just the world’s border police. Our real allies are the UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. None of those countries are endangered by Putin. They were also not endangered by Iraq invading Kuwait, communists taking over Vietnam or Korea, whatever happened in the Balkans in the 1990s, and all those events that led to mistaken wars over the last 70 years.
Very interesting. Scammers are getting very good at this stuff.
My first thought was that the AI of the bot was code written by GPT.
Rust to .NET compiler: Statically Sized, dynamically sized, and other
That was fun to play!
Yes. It fosters economic prosperity for Americans by creating a larger global workforce that generates more value, which eventually benefits the U.S. economy and create better paying jobs for Americans.
I've advocated at work for a similar strategy using prompt injections and jailbreaks in the dataset, and to abort when those documents are matched. So far no traction. I think overall it is a mistake to build any such system with only positive examples or documents, but I'm a security person, and still learning machine learning.
>Some of the more modern languages have that facility, but it's rarely as elegant as it is in Lisps. It's a consequence of functions/procedures being first class values

Can you explain how it is a consequence?
https://web.archive.org/web/20240606093250/https://thequietu...

https://archive.ph/uuRuX
From some quick reading I don't think this is a new discovery, there is even a name for it "objective tinnitus". Here's a case study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4922963/
At some point even highly invasive plants like JK have to respect laws of thermodynamics. You get it eventually!

On that note, the dried knotweed stalks are fun to burn because their bamboo-like segments are divided by a membrane that seals them shut, so they pop quite satisfyingly. Our kids were sad that they ran out of it at some point after a while harvesting the stalks behind our yard.
Great! now do this for commercial notifications sent to my email. Things like bank transfer. Usps deliveries. Shopping delivery notifications. Food delivery.
Sonic pest repellants? Supposed to be ultrasonic, but some work around 13 kHz, I've heard... (Oh, and I have a roll of black PVC tape in my travel bag for taping over hotel air condition LEDs. I don't understand why they have to make them light up the entire room.)
Not Howl's.
> low floating tones would cover [other people’s] speech

This is not my experience. I've had tinnitus my entire life, and it's more of a phantom sound (cf. phantom limb) than a something that competes with sounds in the real world. That is, if there is any real noise like speech it basically gets muted. In a completely quiet environment however the ringing sensation can be comparable to high pitch TV static. The quieter the environment, the louder it gets.
22 years ago I permanently damaged my left ear at a beach concert on Tortola, British Virgin Islands. I was young, drinking in the sun, and standing far too close to a concert speaker stack that was turned up way too loud. The damage started off as pain - felt like water was stuck in my ear for weeks. It's still noticeable 22 years later. I'll always regret that moment, but have come to accept it. Your ears are so fragile.
Well I'm sure that the courts will agree with your assertion if it's quick. That's why it's not left up to just one regulatory agency to define an illegal monopoly. I, for one, am glad they are coming under scrutiny. If there's "no there there" then they'll be just fine.
In that case I think the strategy would be to create a lead and then let all the balls through so that the game ends. At the start I was winning but at some point I wasn't able to keep up anymore.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590495
I don't have hyperacusis or tinnitus, but I am extremely sensitive to noise, especially fans, engines, pumps, and anything else that makes percussive or resonant noise. I am fortunate to live quite remotely in the countryside, with no human sounds nearby. I have a personal policy that nothing that makes continuous noise is allowed in my house. I installed all my appliances in another structure (a root cellar) a short walk from my house. It's made all the difference!

If you live in the typical American configuration of a house with a garage that is near the kitchen, consider putting your fridge/freezer out there. Sure, it's a few steps of inconvenience, but you'll find the lack of noisy appliances a true consolation. If you really need quick access to something refrigerated, put a cooler in a corner of the kitchen, and make ice with the freezer that's in the garage.

Truly silent refrigerators exist, but you won't find them at your typical home improvement box store. (Ask me why I know this!) Look into Amish appliance suppliers. Or the tiny-house folks who've found quiet, compact absorption-based fridges.
I think I failed to make myself clear. I don't trust the package maintainers, I trust the supply chain and the process.

For example, a well maintained APT repository contains multiple levels of signatures, and these signatures are stored in a keyring. You import the keyring, and it contains public key of every package maintainer, plus the repository manager. So, package maintainers sign their packages, and repository maintainer signs the repository, plus the packages via their checksums. Packages' own signatures and own checksums provides consistency and authenticity checks, and repository maintainer's signature makes sure that nothing in the repository moves after the repository is signed and published.

So, you have to compromise at least two private keys (or two people) to compromise a repository. If you're working with a critical repository, you can use "m of n" scheme for the repository signing keys, so you need to compromise m+1 people to do something nefarious.

> So if I send you a signed script that checksums itself before running will you run that without audit?

Hard no. You don't have a verifiable chain behind that script. Even if you do, scripts are always read and examined. Period.

> I can read exactly what they do and they are delivered over a connection where my user agent has verified the TLS certificate of the server.

Yes, a TLS certificate guarantees that MITM is impossible for now. But it doesn't guarantee that server has not been compromised and the file changed at rest. We have seen that happened in the past.

> The only thing signed files prevents is modification in transit ...

No. Both RPM and APT repositories' signature chains ensure that files are not modified at rest or at transit, plus the files are put into the repositories with an approval of a real human being.

These signatures are tip of a "web of trust" iceberg, and not mere automated signatures.

Moreover, if a software doesn't inspire confidence and doesn't pass the smell test, it doesn't get installed on my system anyway, regardless of its form.

If I have to install it, I install it to an isolated VM, and destroy the VM as soon as my work is done with it.
Gold then opportunity for the line:

> Public support for convicted felon Donald Trump ...

And they didn't even try.
Has something changed with the service agreement? I was under the understanding that Microsoft didn't mine or sell to advertisers 365 data, at least for corporate accounts.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/wh...
> EDIT: Now quickly scrolled down and it seems residences see a drone in the sky and think it's spying on them.
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> It's not but Wired wants to make a big deal of it.

When most of these drones are owned and operated by private corporations and the government, is it really safe to say they're not? It's been well established they're performing mass-surveillance on every other aspect of our lives, why wouldn't they do it here?
https://archive.is/lkr04
I use earplugs made for sleeping (so have an emphasis on comfort over noise blockage) and that definitely helps.
I only saw this topic recently. Sorry for replying 2 days after everyone else has left...

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I like the pMOS constant-slew rate trick myself.

A number of voltage-regulators have soft-start ramp-up already built in. But if your project doesn't have one, you can build it out of pMOS pretty easily. With just a resistor + capacitor on the pMOS (serving as negative feedback, to slow down the start), you can arbitrarily slow-down inrush current to whatever values you wish.

https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slva156/slva156.pdf?ts=17176224951...

Constant-slew rate voltage control vs a capacitive load effectively creates current-controlled startup functionality. So its "good enough" for most people's purposes (assuming capacitive loads are what's causing you to be worried).

So its a bit of an A-problem vs B-problem here. I'm giving you a slew-rate controlled soft start circuit when you asked for current control. But... its probably what you want?

> but I'm guessing there must be better integrated solutions (e.g. with temperature protection, etc.)

I believe the "proper" solutions are called a "load switch", of which there are a huge variety of integrated chips and MOSFETs with load-switch (constant slew rate + temperature control) solutions available.

EDIT: Something like this: https://www.nxp.com/products/power-management/smart-switches...

Things get rather complicated as you edge into "proper" solutions. I'm just a hobbyist though, so I don't have much experience with these "proper" designs.

EDIT2: Maybe that NXP Load switch is a bit "too full featured" for most projects. This TI one I found seems to be more mainstream and simple. TPS22950CQDDCRQ1 (https://www.ti.com/product/TPS22950-Q1)
I would be surprised if more than a small minority of consumers using CUDA ran anything other Linux. I would like it if I wasn't forced to use their crap drivers that force me to use X just because I want to do some ML.
No, I didn't.

It may be dumb but I had things to manage like work and children in their teens, so tinnitus management had a low priority. Still, I look avidly at discussions about tinnitus. I tried the method of tapping on the neck, but it did not work for me. I tried hearing aids, but it didn't help either.
Plenty of great use cases have already been pointed out, but what I also love is that sometimes I get carried away and use the close window keybind on the wrong terminal, with tmux set to create a new session when the terminal is launched (which isn't closed unless all shells in the sessions have excited) I just use a keybind to spawn a terminal attached to any unattached sessions and never again have to recreate 10 different panes in different working directories on different windows

Also let's my colleagues monitor my builds on our shared server pretty easily and it's better than screen sharing
While it is certainly true that shipping from the US to China is expensive, it is my understanding that returns for many kinds of items are free these days, using a shipping label generated by AliExpress.

(How they handle that on their end is really not something that I think I need to worry about.)
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593275
It's difficult to imagine any cataclysm that would result in the Earth being less habitable (even for us squishy humans) than Mars already is.
No, I didn't complain about the front row seat :) calm down. And yes, SpaceX is the trend setter in the industry right now, there is no question that their approaches are more modern.

Having said that, cameras today can be really small. Not a big box. Lenses or their protectors can be rather, well, protective (I'm thinking about moissanite here, but may be better solutions are possible). And I didn't see lots of cameras when Starship was going through atmosphere back - how many did you see? Yes, flap melted - but if, say, the ship had cameras all over (figuratively), you could switch to the one which works at the moment.

All of that and more should be, and I'm sure is, rather obvious to SpaceX guys, just like some reasons why some of this can't or shouldn't be done - they are the professionals here most intricately familiar with the hardware and the landing conditions. We'll see how they choose to move forward soon.
I thought they were all bad - according to the U.S itself when it is the target of such activities at the minutest level.

There is a lot of evidence, including open statements made by ex-CIA directors, published books by former military/intelligence agents, de-classified documents, news articles, interviews of EU ministers, etc. But most Americans hold your position - that direct or covert U.S. interference in other nation's affairs is completely fine. The only thing I complain about is the sanctimonious hypocrisy when actions reflect back.
Netscape would crash literally every half hour, on every platform. Was that MSFT's fault? IE actually was the better product at the time.
I don't think anyone cares what is written in acknowledgment sections. That's where people thank their mom and dad. If they thank their mom and dad in exactly the same way as someone else, who cares?

Ruth Marcus may be liberal, but she's also extremely pro-Israeli. The entire motivation for going after Claudine Gay was that she didn't stop students from protesting against Israel's war in Gaza, so Marcus' political stance on that issue likely colors her view on the plagiarism accusations.
The submitted title was "First recording of tinnitus raises new questions". We've changed it to what the article says now. (edit: well, I added the bit about tinnitus, in a concession to the already existing thread. If someone has a better title suggestion, preferably using representative language from the article, we can change it again.)

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I didn’t know it was when no balls were left. So this time I got an initial game, jumped ahead after using a special, then let all balls pass. I won by two points! :)
Wonder if this plant would be helpful for greening up deserts or converting co2 to biomass. Apparently it doesn't even need light!
What plagued even my generation with technology access, was that there was no guiding hand that took you right to the wizard behind the curtain to see how it all worked. Everyone you knew interacted with the computer from the most abstract way. And in turn, that's exactly the sort of pattern you picked up as well, using a GUI surfing the web, because that's all anyone could at best teach you to do. Today, that is still the case, but the abstraction has moved a notch further. Kids might not even have computers in the home anymore at all. They only learn to interact with technology through how they see their parents and peers use it: using a phone in a walled garden full of skinner boxes and other dystopian patterns.

If more kids got more of a chance to be exposed to how the sausage is actually made, and learn how to actually take a computer they own and program with it in the same way every other developer programs with a computer (not some contrived learning language but exposure to the real tools), they'd probably be a lot less susceptible into falling into these patterns as they see them for what they are: energy draining time sinks. Empower them to think of the phone or computer as it actually should be: a tool that could run whatever you can imagine and write up on it, rather than basically a TV screen full of commercials in your pocket.
why is any journalist, blogger, or critic important? They are popular the vast majority of the time, and have earned it via their blog/podcast/magazine articles. It's not because they're the best SME in the field or even ever practiced in the field, it's "can they bring things to light?" for the masses, and he often does.
Interesting.

What you're describing is like how the Visual Studio Code Remote system works, but broader and untethered from an editor environment. I will have to experiment with it.
And peoples.
Elizabeth? Is that you?
Calm ocean, yes.

The real problem are the storms, as a naked human you won't survive in an ocean storm any longer than in vacuum.

At least you are going to space in a sophisticated vessel full of redundant life support systems. People sailed the high seas in old, barely seaworthy wooden ships dangerously overloaded with cargo, which didn't even have a reliable way of determining where precisely they were, because no one could tell longitude at sea before the mid-1700s or so.
I wonder what the average rank of the most popular comment complaining about the headline is.
I don't think it's that low. The number of coincidences will rise exponentially with the number of churches. You also have to account for the fact that there are something like 1000 prominent Catholic saints, and 10's of usable map projections, etc.
Is there a demo or API to test the model? There are so many vision language models these days, it's hard to say which one is better, they also use in many cases different benchmarks.
Apple Cancels Free iPhone Screen Repairs in New Warranty Rule
Sure, if the Product Owners get that.

"Let's slow down development and make sure we've written enough tests" is a phrase I haven't heard too often in Agile.
No-nonsense product help for startups
What is the source for the logos? They are sometimes jpg with bad compression artifacts.
V2 had no direct military value. V1 was a very cost-efficient weapon.
For the model fine-tuned on biomedical image data, does anyone with domain knowledge know how the model's answers compare to the "Gold" answers?
Top-dollar price tag, plus availability & maintenance issues out the wazoo.

Sounds like the sort of purchasing decision that every municipal official in America would want his name to be associated with.
> But we are missing half the story if we don't consider the other end of the spectrum

No, not really. Theft is not the answer.

Consider laws restricting how many houses a person can own, or maybe an increasing property tax on each unit. These are good solutions.

Condoning theft has no other side to the story, it's always wrong.
Where I live thieves now demand your passcode and iCloud password at gunpoint, along with the phone.
FWIW, I've found the most joy by subscribing to very local, independent news outlets. For me in the Twin Cities, that means places like RacketMN and MN Reformer and Minneapolis Voices. (I also subscribe to Ars Technica because I think they're a good tech/science news aggregator.) In general I've found the really big names, and even my local statewide newspaper, to be too enthralled with "both sides-ism" and eager to publish rage-bait trash, so they don't deserve my money.
Looks pretty cool. I installed on Windows, and while it automatically found all the entries in my ssh config file, it wasn't able to import the key information for these even though it's all in my file (my config works perfectly with VScode remote for example). The thought of having to manually specify each of many dozens of key files is enough to make me not want to use it unfortunately. Seems like that should be easy enough to fix though.
Yeah! I have had this as far back as I can remember, and recently found out that (I think) it's tinnitus.

Interestingly enough, it doesn't really bother me unless I'm seeking it out, so I wonder if my young brain just adapted to it.

Another weird fact about me is that I can hear things (I'm 35) that lots of people can't. I can definitely hear switching power supplies in everything (well, almost everything - really high quality electronics mostly seem to be exempt). I also know when bats are around, because I can hear a "clicking" noise from whatever their echolocation-producing organ is. I don't think I can hear the echolocation itself, but there is a very distinctive clicking that they make in the process.
Nothing says “we take your privacy very seriously” like “we don’t think it’s necessary to have a chief privacy officer”
>I agree with the author that casting between unrelated pointer types should probably be considered unsafe but would probably require a new edition which would mean Rust 2027 at the earliest

As I understand it, unsafe pretty much says "what you are doing here may violate memory safety". Casting doesn't do that, only dereferencing. If you'd like to increase the scope to also include "things that might violate memory safety for another code block", then shouldn't compile either:

let mut foo = unsafe { int_ref as *const u32 as usize };
foo = foo + 1;
let bar = unsafe {*(foo as *const u32)}

the mutation of foo is also "unsafe" under this definition, and the compiler shouldn't let you modify pointers in any manner.
To the latter point: yes, and each API page contains both the HTTP endpoint to curl and also the pvesh command to run
I hate this article, yet there might be something real here.

On the cover, this article looks like pesudo-scientific hogwash and a marketing puff piece for some artist's album. It drones on and on.

But this morsel could be absolutely groundbreaking if true:

> The most mind-blowing moment, not only for De La Mata but the scientists too, came when they managed to actually record the sounds that she heard in her ears – which now appear as ‘Left Ear’ and ‘Right Ear’ which begin sides A and B on the album – and in doing so opened up questions about the nature of tinnitus itself. “The NHS definition is that it’s a phantom sound that your brain is creating, that it isn’t something ‘real’, so you should try to ignore it.” By having De La Mata place her ear into an anechoic chamber, with an ultra-sensitive microphone perched in her ear canal, they were able to provide significant evidence to the contrary. “After the first recording of it, it was ‘There’s no way, this isn’t possible.’” They tried again with her breath held, and again with her tensing her ears, and again with other members of staff, but each time it became apparent that yes, the noises De La Mata hears are seemingly something physical.

Is this actually real, or was this made up? Was it simply amplified blood flow, CSF, or some other biological and unrelated phenomena? Is anyone looking into this?

This is the absolutely wrong window dressing and treatment for this kind of news and investigation. This shouldn't be puffed up marketing, but should instead be in scientific news circles and in the hands of principal investigators.

I'm skeptical, but maybe there's a valid line of research here that could result in a treatment for lots of impacted people.
> Regardless, it's going to take years for the West to catch up with China's development of a tech designed to help the West escape its dependency on Chinese-mined lithium, he told The Register.

Burying the lede there. Not having to depend on China for Lithium means a pretty big blow to China's money and power.
Windows Recall: Microsoft has lost trust with its users