skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a 3,000 km solo bicycle tour of S.E. Asia, started in Bangkok Thailand, headed up north to get my legs and then dropped back down once I was comfortable and headed off for Cambodia, crossed over to Vietnam and headed up the coast, headed east and into Laos to cross back to Thailand again. Best experience of my life. If I didn't have a dog, I would do something similar once a year.

My general method was to ride for 4 hours, usually covering 100km (60 miles). Some days there isn't a good destination within that distance, or the terrain is steep, poor roads or an extreme headwind. On those days I'd put in more time or do distance (sometimes only covering 30 km). Once I got to a nice location I'd stay until I felt there wasn't anything interesting to take in, usually 1-3 days, and then I'd head back out. Sometimes you want to put in back to back rides, other times you just want to sit and relax on a beach.

Food was terribly cheap while I was there, so I at at street stalls as often as I wanted. Portion sizes were small enough that you could sample a lot of cuisine. Fruit stalls were plentiful too.

There is really no camping in S.E. Asia, due to land mines, etc. So you stay at guest houses, which were extremely inexpensive while I was there. People are extremely friendly and helpful. Some will try and become your friend simply because you'll buy them a meal, others to practice English or for the prestige. This was a bit annoying at times, but hardly insidious. Lots of children will run out and yell "hello" which gets tiresome on long stretches...but still rather cute.

What people don't mention, is you have lots of time to your thoughts. My journals from this time period has tons of great inventions and ideas for books, businesses and what not. My writer friends were jealous of the outpouring of long form writing that I was doing at this time.

I highly recommend bike tours!
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Nothing terribly major here, it sounds like. Making login items visible is a long-overdue change... but none of these are going to have any particular impact on average users or average apps.

On a pettier note, can we get a better source than a website that's using JS to change its title when it doesn't have focus to try to gain attention? (It toggles about every second between "macOS Ventura | 7 New Security Changes to Be Aware Of" and "Message from SentinelOne". https://imgur.com/ynPqpvK - it's pretty awful.) I don't normally complain about scummy websites on here, but this is just annoying.

Interestingly, I went looking for alternative sources for the content, and found that identical content is on other sites [1] which are also doing the same title-flicker technique. So presumably this is part of some content network...

[1]: https://phxtechsol.com/2022/06/13/apples-macos-ventura-7-new...
Some crypto are actually better but with the caveat that they are only better if you keep it in the crypto ecosystem. Trading in and out of fiat currency is probably the biggest hurdle for crypto. Going in and out of crypto comes with massive fees if using a trusted exchange, headaches in accounting (in two monetary systems) and calculating fiat taxes, it’s slow, and adds inefficiency. For example, you may accept bitcoin for your product but now you need to pay one of your suppliers who doesn’t accept bitcoin - convert what you received to dollars, calculate a gain/loss on the change in value of bitcoin from the time you sold your product to the time you are converting it to dollars, pay a fee on converting, and finally you need all the same fiat accounts, credit, etc to then pay your supplier. It’s completely inefficient. In a new country that only used bitcoin or another crypto, you eliminate internal volatility completely because everything is priced in crypto in a closed self sustaining economy. Cryptos are not as volatile against each other as they are against fiat, after established. All of the volatility problems crypto has are exactly because people view it as an investment vehicle, in theory a currency shouldn’t fluctuate itself, it should just measure value of other items in a consistent way. There are many reasons one of the feds two main goals is price stability, both the prices going up and down can hurt the economy in different ways. Had bitcoins and other prices been able to remain stable rather than deflating however many thousand percent then the ecosystem would have been much more robust by now. I know your thinking stable coins do that, but I’d argue stable coins are just an extension of fiat but allowing a non-government entity to print money, and the only stable coins worthwhile are those backed by fiat bank accounts holding ever single dollar and not allowing the company to use customer funds or accounts as collateral to make their own decisions but without the regulation of a typical bank.
We actually can by disassembling the YouTube.ipa, examining the calls, and checking for AVAudioSessionDataSourceDescription objects. Tracing their lifetimes.

It’s the same method Apple uses to check for “unauthorized internal API use” people get busted for.

We can also replace the AVAudioSession class with our own proxy to examine calls.
Source #2 indicates that "wrong-way" biking is more dangerous, but my intuition is that it's safer: I like being able to see the traffic that is closest to me. I guess whatever advantage that provides is more than offset by the accident being head-on, and having less time for the driver to react (and maybe there's an expectation aspect too).
I wonder if my older "Samsung Chromebook 2 (2014)" model will work with this? Google removed support for that model a long time ago.
I wanted to try this in a VM but the install image seems to lack decent drivers for libvirt/kvm/virt-manager/whatever caused issues. The cursor was invisible, the system was slow, and the system didn't boot after I finally got it to install.

This may say nothing about ChromeOS Flex's actual performance on real hardware, but open source virtualisation tech seems like an obvious point to start at when you're developing an OS for general purpose use.

Hopefully support will be better in time, this could be an excellent balance between Windows 11 growing ever more resource hungry and Linux being difficult to maintain by novices.
> This might not be possible - there are many inputs into the model; it would be impossible to trace which one tipped the scale.

I am not a fan of problem-solving via legislation, but I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep if Big Tech was no longer allowed to burn billions of CPU cycles on making opaque, inexplicable guesses as to what ads are most likely to make them money if shoved in front of my eyeballs.
All the more reason for transparency if no one can explain how it works. Ideally "my model is too opaque" isn't an excuse, but an admission of negligence.
I listened to a podcast which mentioned a relatively obscure topic in passing using the basic samsung music app on my phone which didn't have a SIM card in, location turned on or an internet connection.

Later that day I see an advert for said obscure topic served on a web page.

Is it possible that there is someone transcribing podcasts or at least scraping databases of their RSS feeds and somehow my music player app is broadcasting that I've listened to a particular file(after receiving an internet connection)? The alternative is that the machines really are listening.
You can upload any number of attachments in any format, and each one can be up to 200MB. There is no limit. I used this to great effect when I still used Patreon to host FLACs of all my music for supporters in zip archives split in 200MB volumes.

I replaced it with a simple Ko-fi shop where you can just upload anything up to your 200GB quota (if you're a Gold member): https://ko-fi.com/s/7e9f22c63b
Okay, yeah I'd used Uber once or twice when I moved to Estonia but Bolt just so completely dominated that I switched over to using that whenever I was in Estonia and then if you wanted to go really low priced you could use Yandex Taxi (although I mainly used that in Armenia because that was the best local option at the time).
Those are attributes, not value.

Some people may value those attributes, while for others, they are outright drawbacks.
200k in damages after recovering funds from lawsuits.
There are strong reasons to want to eliminate drivers from cars. I'm very optimistic about the overall impact of it on society and the environment if it actually ends up happening.

Children's book illustrators, though, really? How do we benefit if we make it impossible for that to be a living? Is there any benefit to you or your children if they look at pictures generated from a machine learning algorithm based on past images instead of by a human artist that was paid for their creation? Is there any benefit to artists? Is there any benefit to society as a whole, or to any individuals except the owners of the algorithms generating the pictures and the publishers who save a relatively minor [1] cost?

Personally I doubt ML-illustrated children's books would catch on as anything more than a novelty simply because generating illustrations in this way seems so dystopian, impersonal and tacky, but the way people react to new technology is something I find very hard to predict.

[1] Typically between £6,500 and £8,500 per book according to https://www.peopleofpublishing.com/post/how-much-does-a-chil...
> NPR/PBS tends to have better and more balanced news but it is largely because of their donor/patron model.

This is an interesting hypothesis, because PBS is near the top of my quality ranking for news orgs while NPR is near the bottom (obviously excluding the long-tail of sources I don't often encounter, like breitbart). I don't see much of a correlation with manner of funding.
Cost of storage and management.

Time is money, and it's expensive to pay people to mess with things if they don't have to.

I might not choose to make the same tradeoffs, but I can understand why others might.
Spoken like an apologist. There has always been incentive to cross ethical, moral and legal lines "for the money", and this has been so since time immemorial. We are not living in some special moment in history, neither does crypto hold a monopoly on shady actors.

None of your either-ors apply.
Could it be that your colleague just spent the morning googling these subjects, and Google notices a correlation between the stuff your colleague googles and the stuff you later look up?

e.g: it's using location-tracking to link you two, not an open mic and realtime transcription.
I am neither a professional driver nor a professional artist but I have paid both for their services. In both cases it's an exchange, money to take something somewhere or money for the illustrations I want. They both, from my perspective as a user, could be replaced by software that performs well.

I'm reading your comment as saying that there is some sine qua non about art that professional driving lacks - but I think that may just be your bias as an artist. If software produces results that are as good or better than yours, what is lost by replacing artists with software?

I'm also not writing this just to dig at professional artists and drivers. I think my career too is in the process of being replaced by software. I have doubts and misgivings about whether this will be entirely good, but it seems clear that it is happening and that most (all?) professions are or will soon be in a similar state.
I was just thinking to myself, that if my commute looked like this, I would probably not commute.
I don’t think what how I travel is morally superior.

I know it is better for me.

Because the alternative to how I travel is not a bicycle. The alternative is more or less not traveling to the places I travel.

And not traveling with a typewriter, six cameras, and a 61 key Yamaha.
Search history including Google search history, I’ve found.

I also completely believe that YouTube correlates via IP for at least not-logged-in views (or at least tries to associate to accounts even if they've never logged in); I get bleedover to my iPad from my completely disassociated PC but not my Mac that’s logged into a different account.

(Also maybe I put too much effort into tailoring my own YouTube recommendations, but 99% of the time when they start going awry, I have a pretty good idea what triggered it. Random coincidences don't happen...)
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It's obviously not true. Teaching is a distinct skill (it's probably a large basket of distinct skills). People having varying aptitudes for it. Common sense tells you that the cliche can't possibly be true. George Bernard Shaw put those words deliberately into the mouth of a character you in particular would find absolutely insufferable.
Agreed.

autocrlf = input

Then change your editors and IDEs to save files with LF line endings (preferably with something like .editorconfig) and you'll have fewer problems.
ChromeOS Flex is for amd64 chips as far as I can tell and your Chromebook actually runs on an ARM chip, so I doubt it'll work (for now, at least). You never know, maybe they'll release an ARM version in the future, but I sort of doubt it.
I’m not convinced YouTube is using such data for its recommendations engine. We are talking about the app’ that serves you ads in languages you don’t speak whenever you travel abroad.
I agree that "the complexity of Kubernetes is overstated". Kubernetes itself is actually pretty simple, very reliable, and more mature than it seems. The complexity and challenges of Kubernetes come from all of the add-ons that may not be necessary in most situations.

Vanilla K8s is pretty good. But when you think about admission controllers, policy engines, service meshes, progressive rollout, etc, you are increasing the scope.

Start with k8s, and hold back the temptation to solve 10 other problems with 10 other projects from the CNCF sandbox. Once you have a good system running, really evaluate the complexity of each new solution with value it provides, and make a decision. Say no to most.
What do you mean "uninformed"? We are getting news about next crypto scam almost every day and looking at inflated egos of crypto riches, mostly profited from those scams every week. And never a bit of good news. Even poor Nicaragua tried to circulate Bitcoin for good purpose and get busted for it. Pointless crypto kitties, silly NFTs, endless bugs in smart contracts to funnel tokens away by hackers, Ponzi schemes disguised as play-to-earn games, and so on. Tell me one good thing ever came from crypto?
Windows 95? What specifically are you talking about? It uses the GDI and driver model similar to Windows 3.1 and is nothing like any of the NT lineage OSes - and Windows 95 architecture is at its core not stable at all - it’s kernel driver model is simple but even a user mode program could crash the system with errant I/O.

Windows NT 4.0 migrated GDI into the kernel, maybe that’s what you’re referring to.

But KMS is not a graphics engine or display driver nor “moving the graphics subsystem in the kernel.” These are not at all comparable.
KMS enhances system stability by allowing better modularization.

As for “the same group of folks” there is always the know-nothing peanut gallery on sites like Phoronix and Reddit, and to a just a slightly lesser extent, here. They will say whatever dumb uninformed crap they want.
The author of this post has some excellent history. They used an exploit chain on the PS Vita.

https://theofficialflow.github.io/2018/09/11/h-encore.html

https://github.com/TheOfficialFloW/h-encore
What is non-sense is creating all this destruction and waste of resources just so we can have some cooked animal flesh on our plates when it's not necessary for human survival in most societies anymore.

Especially this community here, who relies on logic for their work.

What makes more sense?

A) Choosing food products that require fewer resources and land to feed the world.

B) Continuing on our current path (pollution & deforestation) that will eventually mean the destruction of our biosphere.
Sounds like certain videos about historical trivia start trending and your colleague watches them before you do.
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They do it for music identification these days.
More likely it is the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon [1]

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
It was supposed to be a lighthearted joke but now I'd seriously suggest you to review your sources of information on what enables the economy of Russia
Take a look at Kubeflow.org for an example. There are several reasons that a tool like that targets Kubernetes and not native AWS. One of the benefits of k8s is how portable and non-vendor-specific it is. Basically, it's become a standard platform that you can target complex applications to, without become tied to particular vendors, and with the ability to easily deploy in many different environments.
>Sucrose is metabolized in a different pathway than fructose. Fructose is directly metabolized by the liver, which is why things like High Fructose Corn Syrup is devastating for your body.

Source for this? Specifically, the part where HFCS is worse than regular sugar?

>The United States Food and Drug Administration states that it is not aware of evidence showing that HFCS is less safe than traditional sweeteners such as sucrose and honey.[5]
They must have signed in to YouTube with their Google Account and you may be one of their Contacts. Just a wild guess.
Even Nature has a sensationalism bias; that's why they're so well known. They like to publish papers with the most punch.
No, as in - even if you don’t want to take the scientist’s word for it, finding someone who is able to make an informed comment about whether the work is actually any good or not is really hard.
Wide-scale game piracy can be very profitable in markets that aren't well-served by the console operator. You're not gonna make money selling pirate blurays in the US since you'll go straight to prison, but I can imagine PS4 owners in second or third-world countries buying a stack of pirated blurays for 20% the cost of retail and local law enforcement not being terribly interested in doing something about it.
Believe it or not, some people are not in it for the money.
"the price has spiked in the last couple years, from about $1 for 25 liters to $6"

How do they control that people don't add water to it (and perhaps some colorant) before selling it?
Do you mean the soon-to-be Terran subsidiary of the Mars Republic?
Even when they are known to be scammers and frauds?

V's author is paying others to write things in V (even when basic functionalities don't work as advertised). They don't want to improve the language, they want to create a showcase to attract more funding, that's about it.
> The only reason your system needs to be deterministic is because your company is afraid

With good reason. It is called caution. We're talking about a nation's economy.

You misunderstand me about the reason for running yesterday's or any other day's full load. The idea is that after you have made a bug fix or a performance fix, you want to see that the output reflects the fix; the best way to do that is do a diff with yesterday's output given the same input, and one should be able to ensure both correctness (all changes accounted for) and completeness (all the input tuples that ought to reflect a difference do reflect the correct difference).

Given that there are a hundreds of thousands of events a second and terabytes of data, it is impractical to run a test 100 different ways. Besides, how do you know you got it correct? Events are not commutative because there are limits. Deposit is not commutative with Withdraw, because Withdraw can throw an OutOfMoneyException. Order matters.

Please refer to [1] Parallel and Distributed Simulation, fig. 9.4, pg 265 for an example of an anomaly introduced by the lack of a total order. The text also covers why it is necessary to have a model of time; it is not enough to have agents sending messages to each other and let them duke it out.

[1] https://doc.lagout.org/science/0_Computer%20Science/3_Theory...
Or the hijacking of attention by unwittingly flooding the streams with "engaging" content that is politically divisive and spreads misinformation.

Maybe you left that out because it already happened.
Its most likely paranoia paired with the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon[1] rather than a big conspiracy of "the machines are listening".

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Very curious about userspace filesystems, would be awesome if there's finally a fast solution for this that's well-supported in the OS.
I've travelled ("overlanding") the panamerican highway for roughly 2 1/2 years and I've always admired the people doing this on a bicycle.
Since I'm back I've done much more bike touring than before and I do enjoy it a lot.
The best thing about bike travelling is that speed, you really do get a sense of the landscape and the changing of it.
On the other hand, a quick detour up to a mountain that you saw from the coast is not an easy feat and you will have to skip a lot of things that are not on your route.
> Could we have it run in 010ms vs 250ms?

if it runs once per hour, then it may be inconsequential; if it runs every 30s, then it might be an extra 1hr of battery life for your phone, but people will still keep using it and not complain. is there a problem? maybe.
But if you call it AI you get more investment
Accelerometers can be used to detect speech, with a high enough resolution they essentially can be used like microphones. The audio data inferred doesn't need to be good enough for humans, just good enough for some AI algorithms to produce a perceptual hash.
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The biggest thing that I failed to understand was that with every user commenting

this feature is essential for me to keep using Grafana

or asking

why hasn’t this been implemented yet?

a barrier was being built to stop anyone from ever working on it.

Wait, does the article not explain why, or does my comprehension fails me?

Other points have been reiterated a million times, and still worth to be reiterated. Sure, the most useful attitude for free software is free to contribute to, not free as in beer. Recently I discovered that Photoshop is pretty poor in handling color for the industrial standard it is. Could I suggest an improvement? Nah. In addition to their imaginary "average consumer" (who of course always wants bells and whistles instead of core improvements), Adobe often cater to the requests of large companies, which I am not. Moreover, they have their own business interests such as market segmentation - they had great software called Speedgrade that they butchered and integrated into Premiere, so video folks got everything and photo folks like me got nothing. Meanwhile, Darktable was free to contribute to, which I did.
But isn't it always on for "Hey Siri"?
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Good point actually. :) This effect is all over comments in general.
Yeah, there must have been a reason the colleague came up with that obscure historical person, certainly not random.
You don't actually need to provide an email address if you have Google Chrome installed.

You can use the Chromebook recovery tool (a browser extension) to write an installer image to a flash drive. I'm pretty sure you need 8GB of space or more. Others have intercepted and extracted the downloaded image, but I never cared enough to use that approach.

This process doesn't work with all Chromium derived browsers, though, probably because they added extra permissions to the extension because I wouldn't normally want a browser extension to have raw disk access.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromebook-recover...