skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who should I believe, an editorial in the WSJ, where all I can read is the headline and some introductory text, before I hit a paywall?

Or a search of the Miami New Times web site at miaminewtimes.com where I can read about:

"Latinx Art Sessions Explores What It Means to Be Latinx in the Art World " - https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/things-to-do-in-miami-lat... and here's that museum using "Latinx" at https://www.pamm.org/en/collection/?term_id=1347 .

"Latinx Playwright, Cast, and Director of GableStage's Fade Recognize Themselves in Story" - https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/things-to-do-in-miami-fad... (Teo Castellanos is quoted as using 'Latinx' twice. He lives in Miami.)

"Gay8. Celebrating the intersectionality of being Latinx and queer, Gay8 takes over Calle Ocho on February 19. Expect everything from drag shows to live music and dance parties as you celebrate every color of the rainbow." - https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/things-to-do-in-miami-cul... .

Or a search of that event's web site, where https://www.gay8festival.com/news/gay8-festival-weekend-retu... says "The festival is set to attract over 80,000 guests and 70 vendors, making it the largest Hispanic/Latino/Latinx LGBTQ hosted festival in the nation."

To be clear, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx highlights the various controversies in using the term, and how only "2% of US residents of Latin American descent in the US use Latinx", and how it's mostly a US term, with Latine more common in the Spanish-speaking world.

But 2% is not "Nobody", and I easily found counter-examples of people in Miami using it, making me distrust the editorial I am unable to read.
Addiction is a bitch. There is no denying it.

However, there is a paradox: If everyone just stops using unmaterial goods (information, software...), who is going to use the "stuff" you are supposed to "focus on”?

Watching/listening to tons of Youtube and podcast in the right spirit could be better that producing stuff just for the sake of doing stuff. It is all about the spirit.

It is like you finally do that “Show HN” and then nobody upvotes cause “Who needs Yet another X”. If information overload is a problem, overproduction is one too (it is even its cause in the first place).
Maybe we have different concepts of what "education" means. But in any case, I didn't come here to spew low effort vacuities so here is another go:

Individuals could with fairly minimal technical changes get central bank accounts here and now. That would already change the universe: Currently all electronic money is private bank money, only as good as the credit of said private entity, which in turn depends on the types of risks it might be taking while you waste your time on HN. With CB accounts some electronic money is sovereign money (like cash). It may get inflated but it will never default. Already that simple "savings" window can upend banking as we now it. Individuals transacting in sovereign money and any other features are all on top of this.
The OP-1 is a pretty solid product, it's just insanely overpriced.
Such an action would be an act of war and uncovering it - in the US - likely seen as unpatriotic or worse.
As a former resident in Russia I'm shocked at how all state controlled media from Russia has been completely censored in the west. I understand why it's done (bcs it breeds conspiracies etc) but it's not for free because now people don't get any 'alternative' view on the matter. Censorship is a tricky thing
Cannibalize means customers migrate to one thing and leave the other behind.
Sure, skepticism is warranted, as is usually the case. Those who already suspected the USA military-industrial complex of taking this action that massively benefited the USA military-industrial complex are less likely to dismiss TFA out of hand. Others will have to see a great deal more reporting, and as seen here loads of credulous fools (or impersonators of such) won't believe it even 75 years from now when we have complete FOIA documentation. [0]

However, we may make a few predictions. Over time, as more details emerge, TFA will be shown to be basically correct yet wrong in some important details. As Hersh stipulates, he relies on a single source, which source probably slants a few points in self-interest. The same apologists for imperialism seen here in high dudgeon in total denial, will over time move to more nuanced positions: "of course USA did it, but Hersh portrayed it as something USA shouldn't have done rather than something that muh security demanded! USA couldn't have known that it would lead to European penury and/or nuclear holocaust! Also he claimed that Biden made a decision, when we all know he has been non compos mentis for years... You can't take credit for being right about USA militarism all the time just because you assume it's always evil and stupid." As the avaricious crackpot realism that has pulled us so close to the brink of extinction takes over more and more Western media, we'll see far fewer independent moderation decisions like that of 'dang here today. We can be sure that phone calls have already been made.

[0] That's a joke; USA definitely won't exist 75 years from now, and this event is both contributing cause and justification.
Australian mining companies ramp up Toyota EVconversions
Do you people really want AI generated answers? As if the internet wasn't bland enough as it is. This forum has been soapboxing for years about the longtail of blogs and BBs and niche sites, right up to the moment that Bing got chatgpt.
You describe the feeling very well. I feel exactly the same way and have to actively make an effort to avoid getting distracted.

All "bad habits" I've been able to combat has been with some mechanism where I can stop the temptation from growing in my mind. Nip it in the bud, as they say. I lost a lot of weight by killing any thoughts about snacking with the mantra "no eating anything you didn't plan to eat, ever for any reason" for example.

Thinking to myself "focus means saying no" has recently helped me close a few background-opened tabs without reading the genuinely interesting articles hiding behind them, but I have found no silver bullet. If I let myself go one night, I'm at 20 wikipedia tabs and 12 HN tabs as bedtime approaches, easy. :)
A 6-minute Bob Newhart clip from MadTV that is guaranteed[1] to fix all your problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw (tl;dw: stop it!)

> But the work is tedious enough that I am too tried in the evening to do something interesting.

Same; sounds normal.

> Have you been able to detach yourself from the constant flow of information and focus on your own stuff?

I put the xbox in the closet for while and made it just a little harder to indulge the impulse. Don't tell yourself you have to swear off podcasts or HN or whatever forever—just ask yourself if you'd be willing to try a brief but significant break, and make sure you have some ideas for what you'll replace it with.

I also rarely spend free time programming. Once in a while I'll get an idea and the motivation to do so, but I find that if I spend a significant chunk of my productive/creative energy during the day on work, I'm much happier if I then spend the rest of the day socializing, exercising, doing stuff around the house—basically anything not in front of the computer.

Habit change can be daunting, but the hardest part is often recognizing something that you want to change, and you're already there! Good luck with the rest :)

1) Not.
Haven't seen that. In fact I had to look it up.
This almost sounds like you are suggesting that people look at the situation, the motivation and context, to judge the possible consequences and see the reasoning behind those actions. That despite the bad optics of a situation, they can look at the larger picture and consider the unfortunate, grim reality of war. That they are aware of their own blindspots, missing information, lack of understanding of geo politics and judge their own possible ignorance carefully and introspective... before coming up with an opinion on military aid to ukraine.

But no that can't be it, that would be complete insanity.
Judging from the decreasing quality of Google Search I'd say they've been doing it to themselves over the past decade regardless of large language models or not. However, that being said, Google is still super dominant and when people say "SEO" they generally mean Google search results. And until my mom stops using Google as the default search, I wouldn't count them out of being the dominant search engine for some time.
John Bellamy Foster: The New Irrationalism
The web was a lot of fun before ads came along. It was all open and free back then.
> it is so intolerant of this behavior that the institution will not even hire such a person, let alone attempt to make them feel welcomed or accepted.

I'm probably speaking out of turn here because I went back and checked, and some faculty don't have this in their signature. So it's optional after all. Even still, leadership has asked us to put our pronouns in our signatures, so my perception was that it wasn't optional.

> Consider how asymmetric these affordances are.

I would soften both sides of your argument. On the one hand, it is considered a priority that to accommodate all students. Normalizing pronoun usage isn't a huge ask for anyone, dissenters are apparently accommodated, and trans customers (I'll refer to them as customers here to highlight that these accommodations are in fact made in the context of a transaction where large sums of money are exchanged) feel more visible and welcomed.

On the other hand, while the employer can apparently tolerate an employee who prefers not to put pronouns next to their name, it aspires not to hire people who outwardly express their political opinions about our paying customers during working hours, or in a way that would negatively impact revenues. This is the prerogative of all businesses. I'm using the employer/employee dichotomy to highlight the fact that this is in fact a job, where the expectation is that the employee will leave their politics aside.

So yes, the affordances are asymmetric, because the relationship between these groups and the institution is not the same. One is a paying customer, the other is an employee. Customer concerns are treated as a priority because education is a person-centric business. It's all about personal service to the customer. If a school gets known for a bad customer experience, that impacts enrollment which drives down revenues.

Conversely employee concerns are brought to HR and handled through internal channels. Otherwise employees abide by the institution's rules and procedures and are compensated with a salary and benefits.

I'm sorry if that offends your political sensibilities or strong and closely held beliefs, but they should be kept closely held in the context of your employment. The personhood of our customers is not debatable, because at the end of the day they are paying a large sum of money to attend our institution, and there's a lot of heavy competition out there. If that's picking winners and losers so be it. They're voting with their wallets so that's why they're winning.
> don't tell other people to cheer up. that's always a dick move.

I didn't tell you to cheer up. I told you to stop being a curmudgeon. Go be anything else.

We do all need to make a living. In our most natural state, we would be hairless apes that have to go outside and pick berries or kill antelope. That is doing hard things and making a living. Measuring yourself by snowflakes (rich people) is a losing battle. Be your best self with the realities of life.

> but we are not. and we do not. we are strangers, your life means squat to me, and mine means even less to you.

Right on both counts.

> you have no idea where im coming from.

Right again.

>best regards,
> a curmudgeon

A word of (truly) friendly advice, attempt to become more satisfied in life. This reeks of dissatisfaction and unhappiness.
Free disk space can be as low as zero, but we don't blame the tool makers for adding an extra 100Kb or 20MB, we blame the computer owner for not having enough disk space to install the thing they chose.

Wrapper scripts for every utility to do

UTIL_TELEMETRY_OPT_OUT=1 util ...

so they don't need to be set all at once.
The gaming of SEO has been quietly destroying the utility of search writ large as a mechanism for quite a while.

Over the last year, its become palpable.

Google has such utility in this regard that in some cases, a hallucinating lie-machine offers better answer than an index of what information is available on the internet.

This issue with with Googles failure to respond to the deluge of SEO driven content in their searches. They can do better. They've chosen to not do so.
All of these involve the reproduction of the thing. Training an AI model isn't responding the art.

I can also*do* all of those things, I just can't sell it.

That's what copyright is.

Copy right.

Not "use for training an AI model" right.

It's not similar to using it in a movie or a "derivative work" either. Those almost always actually contain the work.

The only valid argument here are times than an AI model does reproduce the original, otherwise copyright has no domain of the use of images for training, unless you illegally downloaded the images, which you didn't if you used LAION, since it's all just public image links.
> non-profit organization

No edition of Windows is free. This is the very reasonable expectation that if you pay for a product, then you are not the product.
Conceivably this is a pro-Biden article. It demonstrates what Biden is willing to do and/or is capable of when it comes to big, complicated foreign policy questions. If you know ahead of time that a Russian invasion is inevitable (as all intelligence assessments made very clear) wouldn't it be a prudent strategy to relieve Russia of one of its most prominent economic weapons?

Considering the much rumored campaign announcement, I can absolutely see a large portion of "centrist America" respecting Biden for this move, and rewarding him for it. I think this quote from TFA encapsulates the sentiment:

> The source had a much more streetwise view of Biden’s decision to sabotage more than 1500 miles of Gazprom pipeline as winter approached. “Well,” he said, speaking of the President, “I gotta admit the guy has a pair of balls. He said he was going to do it, and he did.”
That's unavoidable when moderation is routinely and deliberately conflated with political repression.
Worrisome example: you mentioned there a guy who died around the same day of Dennis Ritchie. Changed the world. Measured self-promoter.
Wouldn't there be satellite imagery of said ship in the area? Can't you get that from the likes of Planet Labs? If so, this should be a pretty easy theory to (dis)prove.
Updated to "extra accounts":

no hosting, extra accounts, or synchronization required.
use git(hub) workflows like pull requests.
> arguably this only highlights how little confidence Google has in the quality of its search engine and the trustworthiness of the web as a source for information.

I think they are realizing they killed their golden goose by filling it with trash ads and it only worked in the absence of something more accessible to the public. They were drunk at the wheel and crashed into (for the first time ever) a competent competitor. Now they realize they need to sober up quickly but their organization is lazy and bloated, they’ve taken their users for granted and abused them at the altar of advertisers, and generally done nothing for two entire decades to garner any form of loyalty.

They’ve got some work cut out for them. From my perspective, Google could come out with a ChatGPT killer and I still wouldn’t use it, because the company has a track record of arbitrarily killing off any product I’ve actually liked.
Yeah, people underestimate Google.

They have a really compelling package that is hard to replace, especially how well they understand local queries.

That as well as strong funneling factors in place, Chrome and Android being some of the biggest.
What's the difference between Quic using UDP and SRT using UDP: https://www.haivision.com/products/srt-secure-reliable-trans...

?

I understand from the other comment in this thread that Google is OK with building an OS within the browser and minimizing the role of the OS, but I do not think Quic is a great example unless and until you consider, as the other commenter did, that it could work without UDP and they used UDP only because the routers and other network hardware required it. So, I understand overall, just knit picking on this particular form of the argument.
tell me that comes from Windows and is not the result of a redirect that some app's HTTP request encountered and I'll try to find an answer.

when I boot up a Win11 Home VM and capture all traffic, I don't see any traffic to that host at all, so I can't tell you where that comes from.
Or, without needing a far flung sci-fi future, the concrete impact of frequencies under 50hz on frequencies above 50hz. Particularly as it applies to the resonance of a listening environment. Maybe you won’t notice in your headphones, but on a PA system in a physical space, e that indoor or outdoor, there’s a measurable and discernible change to the audible frequencies based on the existence or non existence of the inaudible ones. The same applies on the high end, but it’s less practical of an example, and I’m not sure half of people would care to listen long enough to notice.
Are you listening to yourself? Trump threatened to pull out US troops, which the Germans didn't want. How is it an occupation when Germans are saying "please don't leave." Germans weren't contributing enough is 100% uncontroversially about German contribution to their own military / defense. US wants European countries to spend their own money on their own defense, at least 2% of GDP. Of course EU countries don't want to spend that money if they don't have to, because they're more than comfortable outsourcing it to the US having to spend $ on those countries' defense in the interest of Pax Americana.
It's been a while since they stopped innovating.

Although Google, Maps, Youtube are of daily use they are monetized exclusively by advertising which is annoying and hated by many.
It has been many years since Google has launched an innovative new product.

I don't think ChatGPT will gain daily traction after this hype. Anyway we could say that MSFT and AMZN have demostrated more power to innovate with different business models (not only adv) and products.

The GOOG stock has a PE (Price/earning) of 23, while Coca cola 26. So the stock market expect higher growth from CocaCola than Google. Quite surprising.

- GOOGLE PE (23): https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOGL/alphabet/pe-...

- COCA COLA PE (26): https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KO/cocacola/pe-rat...
Those are things that require it being in someone's hands, so I'm really by your post.
How is that nonsensical? Seems quite likely to me, especially if they can ground them better in a factual knowledge base. Most search engine queries are looking for information.
Touchscreen keyboards disappear and free up their real estate. That’s the main advantage on phones.
That url must have the highest linked-to-read ratio on the internet. Although it seems to be fading away, linked to less frequently.
How do this ToS contradict Freedom 0?
I just want Google to fall, nothing much more than that. I personally am going to continue using Kagi, but will quietly cheer Microsoft eating Google's lunch.
It's honestly shocking that it's had such a long run. An increase in high quality ways to sift through information will be a net benefit for society.
From TFA:

The CIA argued that whatever was done, it would have to be covert. Everyone involved understood the stakes. “This is not kiddie stuff,” the source said. If the attack were traceable to the United States, “It’s an act of war.”
A friend of mine figured out a much better way of building medium-sized domes (28' across) using whole and half sheets of standard 4x8 building materials.

https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Ecological_Building/Hex...

Fuller is an inspiration, not a terminus. We can build on and improve his work.
LOL this isn't serious, is it? you can't point to a lack of understanding in the human brain as a basis for equating the logic a machine performs when it is also unclear. that's just rhetorically fallacious as a first step.
Netflix’s password sharing policy is complicated – and gets expensive fast
> but you're playing with fire if it's something you can't immediately catch the mistake

Agreed. I was able to manually review 52 results, but wouldn't trust it blindly.

> also, how hard is it to get a list of abbreviations, and wrap them all in quote and comma and brackets.

Not hard at all. And I may still do that, but it was pretty enjoyable to ask the machine.
In the Golang announcements, it's clear that they completely see and understand the dilemma, and have provided a lengthy explanation of why they decided for opt-out anyway.

I respect that. I don't agree with the decision, but it was made with understanding and thought.
Same here - even Runescape was pushing the limits of our computer, but it worked.
Your only concept for what the Russians were thinking when they invaded Ukraine is what western media and politicians have fed you. You don't actually know anything about what they were thinking. lol.
I actually prefer Bing these days. (And I don't even run Windows)

Google search results are just screwy. Probably all that money is interfering with the algorithm.
No, I’m saying that if you decide to make a sale, and decide to have it mediated by the government by paying sales tax, then whether or not you get punished for false advertising has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Whether such taxes are voluntary in the first place is a different argument, but I think they should be. So there’s no inconsistency on my side.
qBitTorrent (https://www.qbittorrent.org) works great on Mac.
Let us think about the defaults in our life:

Windows: Most use Chrome (Google default), the rest use Edge (Bing default).

MacOS: Safari (Google default) and Chrome (Google default)

Android: Chrome (Google default)

iOS: Safari (Google default)

So it looks like the only vulnerability here would be iOS and then possibly PC/MacOS if enough users switch their browser.
Given current lack of availability and astronomically high price of Baltic/Finnish birch (or any euro ply, apple ply equivalent)… the $1.6k price is almost expected. But still. Sheesh.
I explained why Russia would care. Because due to financial need Russia may want to come back to European energy markets where they are facing billions of dollars of contract penalties. They can stop shipments unilaterally, but they can’t do the same if they want to resume shipments.
Coalpail is a really handy site. They've got all the hookups on the cheap coal distributors. The guy I buy from isn't listed, you just call him and ask for an appointment to meet him at his coal shed.
As MTV some 20 years ago said: "Once it's not enough, recycle."

Sarcastic, of course.

Just look at Hollywood. Every now and then they reboot some movies or they make a follow up: Cinderella, Pinnocchio, Mad Max, Avatar, Star Wars etc.
What does your comment have to do with OpenSSH?
If you’ve been on HN (or any link-sharing community) for a while, it’s easy to see that certain articles are posted and/or upvoted largely for the sake of zeitgeist-shaping, not out of a sense of intellectual curiosity. This feels like one of those articles.