skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I am still not fully convinced the situation is so clear even after reading the BI article...

There is definitely propganda on both sides (and how much of it is true is hard to tell). Russia isn't the only one with a propaganda machine, if anything the US is much more successful at it than Russia could ever hope to be.

I encourage you to read more of the Quora article, even if I appreciate that some of the stuff in the article might be hard to stomach, since you seem emotionally closer to the issue than I do. I believe a lot of it is very unlikely to stem from Russian propaganda.

Some of the stuff you attributed (eg you mentioned tribalism and spite) to Russia isn't unique to them or their politics; it's just a very primitive part of human nature that we still struggle with.

And to close with a tangent: it's always good to keep in mind that nobody (neither you or I) is immune to propagand; especially when it's pushed by state actors with a larger agenda. This is why I often indulge in reading stuff I don't agree with (within reason). Does give me a bit of cognitive dissonance occasionally, but alas.
ChatGPT lies to your face, while Google just finds other peoples lies and shows you a list of the best ones.
That reading list is a who's who of insane woke ideologues.
What these people are remembering is when the web was small and dorks-only. Now it is huge and full of normies of all kinds, including every shade of commercialism and fraud.
The Oscars, as an award, are a bit of self-congratulatory back-patting by the industry. That's fine. I honestly don't know why people ever watched it.

Or rather, I do know. It's because people used to like watching movie stars glam themselves up and be generally famous and fabulous at each other. There are so many better entertainment options now.

The Oscars have usually done a decent job of promoting something with some kind of artistic merit but not a ton of attention. Not always, but every year there are usually a few films that deserved more than they got. If you were looking for something a bit different from the usual fare, there are worse places to look than the Oscars' list.

It'll be slightly sad if that flounders because there's no longer an appetite for watching famous, beautiful people be beautiful and famous. But it doesn't affect the industry one way or the other.

I actually kinda hope that the voracious appetite of competing streaming services means more filmmakers get a chance to be seen. If that means the death of Hollywood-as-we-know it, the machine for producing a tiny number of very famous people... oh well.
> It took a lot of work for me to not feel grief over how my life could have been different if I had been diagnosed earlier, if I had had the level of treatment available now, back then.

That shit is way to real.
I don't want an AI trained on the sea of garbage that is the modern web to answer my questions, but I would love an AI to draw on a curated, hand crafted, trusted database of the worlds knowledge.
I’d be curious to hear from someone who has a non trivial amount of money shorting Google. Anyone can say Google sucks.
it's not fringe, it's a subsection of progressives.

I'm glad there were so many articles about this; it made clear to a lot of people who thought they had to say "latinx" to be inclusive, didn't actually need to do so (it seems like lots of people want external guidance about what they can and cannot say and somehow there was a message that latinx was inclusive).
There are zero features I need from Windows 11 that Windows XP didn't already have. The only reason I'm not still running XP is that security vulnerabilities in it are no longer being fixed.
Spam masquerading as the answer to my question is WORSE than off topic returns, because it is a trick vs being something I can easily disregard.

Before the results would just not match what I was looking for. Now they do match what I was looking for, except some AI procedurally generated the content to show up when I searched those terms, with no regard for the accuracy of what the page says.
They force you to follow their rules so it is cheaper for them to index the site. Then they allow all the SEO hacked content so you have to pay to get above that in the search results. Fun times.

And why is the GoogleBot still on HTTP 1.1...
Modern Norway is one of the wealthiest and most developed societies that has ever existed. To give an example: Their population is only 5.4 million but they are the third biggest market for premium/luxury electric vehicles after the US and China.

Why would people living in what is an actual paradise on Earth risk all that by blindly following Joe Biden's orders to shoot at Russia?

Sorry but the Norwegian involvement claim doesn't pass the smell test.
I would be incredulous of any author who doesn't provide evidence. Do you agree that the burden of proof should be applied equally to all authors regardless of reputation?
> Haven't seen that in a while, right?

It's still there right now.
This, exactly. Google was a revelation, a clean page with the exact result you needed, at a time when many orgs were putting lots of high quality content online. The other search engines were busy portals and weren't indexing the new content.
I've posted two replies in the past 3 days (which is towards the high end of my use) and I'm limited.

I think this is a write/posting outage/incident.

Firing everyone seems to be working out well for stability.
I like the idea of the Computer-1[1] too, even if it's kind of overpriced.

1: https://teenage.engineering/products/computer-1
Then ChatGPT won’t satisfy you either.
Absolutely this. Google has gotten notably worse in just the last two years.

Today:

* Any term that might be related to a commercial product? That product comes first and frequently only.

* Search for two terms? It will first give it's prefer result for each separately - usually commercial products (ha). And then might give them together.

* Quoted terms are often taken as vague suggestions. Negative sign is often useless, etc.
how does this compare to Typesense? I'd like to see which one uses fewer resources for similar performance
Or you could accept that people have opinions that are different to yours and books are orthogonal to her opinions anyway. It's really concerning how authoritarian some people are while ironically claiming others are the bad actors. This is what the echo chamber voting system on reddit results in.
If seeing software somewhere causes you anxiety, perhaps you should talk to a psychologist to help you overcome that.
What did Kenny G say when he got into the elevator?

"This place rocks!"
I want a button: "never show me content from this domain again".
Is this a hosts file only? It doesn't seem to want to import into uBlock.
To be fair, touchscreens won out because of the Asian, specifically Chinese market. They were too poor to own laptops and wanted big phablets. Hence here we are today.

I still miss my landscape key board phones. The droid 4 still holds a special place in my head.
This discussion is pretty sad and frustrating for me. I think your conclusion (“Google has no motive to encourage spam content that rises to the top using SEO tricks”) is about as convincing as it gets, but it’s completely drowned out by a very vague sense that google is a big company and therefor it’s making search worse on purpose. No amount of well-worded HN posts are gonna sway people, imo…

Luckily HN posters don’t exactly represent a meaningful portion of the population.
Perhaps a bad example, since ChatGPT consistently gets the steak temperature right (or at least gives the same values as Google). Internal temperature of about 130-135°F (54-57°C) for medium rare, etc.
Not at this time. Right now zrok is for web (http) and file sharing. It's possible that sharing other UDP/TCP type sharing could be added in the future. Right now the overlay network (OpenZiti) would be able to support that right now if you were looking for any TCP/UDP.
What show?
Incorrect, the web was mainstream by 1996, two years before Google even launched.
Completely agree. Heck, even the current 'waiting list' page (bing.com/new) looks so outdated and a mess. I don't know whether it is the font, the colors, the composition or margins..
Bing itself looks like a mess too. Microsoft truly has no taste.
If someone is trans, or cares about trans people, its entirely personal to them. The "issue" isn't always a political one.

Yes, the mod in question may be forcing their personal worldview on a subreddit, but the OC's phrasing of the overall situation seems completely accurate.
The main concern raised by that review seems not to be from data collection by them:

> Valve does say they can process anonymous data and they may share anonymous data, aggregated or not, with third parties. This is a fairly common practice and doesn’t worry us too much.

But rather that they don't make sure they're providing an ecosystem that, to their standards, protects the user from data collection by others:

> Here’s the bad news about the Steam Deck though. We can’t confirm it meets our Minimum Security Standards because we can’t confirm it uses encryption or if Valve has a way to manage security vulnerabilities.

If that's a concern, it would likewise be on any computer, I would imagine. I mean isn't the Steam Deck basically a regular e.g. desktop computer turned handheld? It's not an issue specifically about the Steam Deck unless you compare it to more closed platforms like the Switch instead of other regular computers.

And the user does have the option to harden the system, like they can any computer:

> There is a lot written out there on the internet about how to set up encryption on the Linux-based SteamOS yourself. However, we don’t think that users should have to go through that to protect their data.

Like they say, it's a matter of lacking convenience to not have that level of hardening by default.

But again, why is this an issue here, when most people using Steam from their desktop computers probably don't use encryption either.
No Linux version though.
OK, I searched "chinese embassy" and the top link is "Embassy of the People's Republic of China" at http://us.china-embassy.gov.cn.

I'm willing to accept that maybe you are exaggerating to make a point. Maybe you have a better example that is actually illustrative?
I should say the way you made videos/streams is high quality. Audio, video, placement of yourself, etc. These things might seem trivial, but I kinda enjoy seeing someone put effort on making proper setup. Kudos :)
You've got it backwards.

Airlines are generally the ones asking for these safety upgrades before anyone else. They would love if every airport had Cat. III approaches on every runway, and there were designated parallel runways at every airport.

Airlines like higher classed airports since it frequently means the ability to handle more traffic safely, and better service from ATC.

Opposition to airspace changes are ALWAYS nimby's. ALWAYS. Go look at the public comments for any proposed change.
Twitter Is Down
Can't tweet. Daily limit reached it says.

I see a failed request to a nsfw endpoint in the devtools
`{"errors":[{"message":"Your credentials do not allow access to this resource","code":37}]}`
No it’s a satirical panel show. And somewhat past it’s best.
Hence my qualifier:

> Zoom is the "OG" product (in the post-March-2020 remote working world)
I've been having to use Bing to find things. BING.
One pipeline was not blown up and can carry 27.5 billion cubic meters per year. So it is still technically possible to send gas through that pipeline.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/single-line-nord-str...
Depends on your use case - if you are coding, or doing constraint analysis - 75+% of the time it's a single request, single answer, and you are done. The other element with ChatGPT is if you aren't happy with the initial answer for some reason - you can engage in a conversation with it, provide some guidance, and will adjust it to suit specifically what you are interested in. I've found about 50% of my google searches just go straight to ChatGPT these days. Hallucinations are the only real problem I've had - but over time you start to become cynical about the truth of anything factual - asking for unit tests helps quite a bit when coding - double checking any math is also important.

I do agree though, that without citations to the original source - any "Facts" that ChatGPT offers are absolutely untrustworthy.
Honest question - what features does Windows 11 have that I would want? I've never tried Windows 11, but I already hate how invasive Windows 10 is. What is your definition of "better" because if I weren't forced to upgrade to play modern games I would have never bought 10 (and I hate it even after years of using it and spending countless hours tweaking it to suck less but it still fucking sucks balls).

I feel like every time I "upgrade" Windows I hate it. And that hatred doesn't go away, it just gets normalized.
It depends on how state works.

If I say "show me the best winter gloves, and only from sites that you can verify actually product tested" and it follows the instruction (ignoring sites that just have a list of popular search results aggregated) then it is better. If it doesn't do what I want, I expect to be able to follow up and teach it.

I expect the chat style stateful search to take instruction for what type of sites I want results from. "Return me a list of websites with recipes for Bolognese that do not have a long story above the recipe. Build a table with the top five results normalized for portion size, comparing and contrasting the ingredients. Highlight unique ingredients in bold."
Please read this. Facebook is starting to rack up it's own bodycount

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
What happens when it’s inevitably wrong and you make a critical decision based off of its incorrect statement?

You might say this is true of Bing as well, which it is, but at least you have some source to be disputed upon.
I agree, and it would be amazing for someone to find a deeper intuitive reason for why 15 is the answer to this problem, or 8 is the answer to that other problem, or many such cases.

This is however extremely hard in my opinion (note that I say "opinion" on purpose, because I don't have any way to formalize this idea). Let me use a couple more examples: any Rubik's cube (3x3x3) can be solved in at most 20 moves (on the standard metric, counting double turns as one move), and a Sudoku needs at least 17 clues to have a unique solution. Why 20? Why 17? We (humanity) got to both answers through computation, and even though the computation requires mathematical observations to be made more efficient, at the end we still checked an in-human number of cases... So in all honesty, if I had to bet, I'd say we will probably never intuitively know why 20 moves or why 17 clues, or in my case, why 15 colors... I'd love to be proven wrong tho!
Hersh hasn’t gotten anything right since My Lai. The Matthew Berry of investigative reporting
Oh man—is that part of it? Now that you mention it, all the leagues I used to play on were either city-run leagues or YMCA (which seems to have shifted toward the very-casual end, too, but maybe that's just our local ones) I think.
so pay to tweet from now on?
Search before Google was bad. e.g. I could easily ignore 80% of the results on the first page, but at least it was all actual content.

Then, with Google, it got better and almost all results were relevant.

But we’ve been regressing over the years, and now we’re at the point where 80% of all results are both irrelevant and simply SSO spam.

I find it really hard to believe Google has some of the smartest people in the world on search and they cannot identify this.
I think that google search's quality decay is a real thing, it takes some real effort to get proper results that aren't SEO'd garbage.

For example, just the other day I was searching for one string that I knew was part of a common code repository. To my surprise google couldn't find anything at all. Yandex on the other hand found the repository immediately and linked to github.

Other common issue with google is the difficulty of finding stuff like forum posts related to the search query. Sure, you could append "reddit" to the query, but there are still plenty of traditional forum sites and some of them have decades worth of discussion. I Never see those sites pop up on a typical google search unless I specifically look for them. Again, with yandex, my experience is much better, it is not uncommon to see posts from forums to be on the first page of results.
Haha, c'mon now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...

I can keep going. The notion that big tech has the time or inclination to rigorously audit all the free software they're using is absolutely laughable.
whatever happened to "comedy is tragedy plus time"?
If you have twitter blue:

Want a small hack to still tweet despite the current crash on Twitter?

Schedule a tweet a minute ahead

This is how I am currently tweeting
What if indeed? What does that imply to you? I don’t really care why it is so much better so long as it is.
Where can I read more about “what they were thinking?”
In a similar vein, there is a "fruits and veggies" vitamins commercial that advocates skipping meals to afford the vitamins, as they give you all you need.
https://kagi.com ?
Sure, fair point.
Tape my eyes open
Often when looking for an answer I just need to confirm what I already know, or look up something I forgot. Google offers me a bunch of sponsored links first and then sites with the best SEO, which will smother me with all kinds of unrelated crap that I do not want and will never need. I'm even running an extension that removes a ton of blacklisted sites from the search results.

ChatGPT usually gives me the answer that I'm looking for and nothing else. Sometimes it does add extra info, which often teaches me about something that I wasn't aware of at all.

But the greatest benefit is I can ask it to clarify anything I don't understand. I don't need to go on a completely new Google quest, or jump through hoops to register on some site and hope a random internet person will ordain to help me out. I can just ask, in the same conversation, and immediately get clarification.

Many people underestimate the incredible learning opportunities a well trained language model provides. It doesn't matter that it hallucinates or lies. Whatever it claims is usually easy to validate. What matters is the speed with which you can find uncluttered new leads or answers.
> AI trained on AI generated output becomes crap surprisingly quickly

Yet GANs work quite well
Difference groups in the US face different pressures. Few people have it easy. I think it would be difficult to come to one answers. Some thoughts:

GROUP A - growing population, roughly same number of "top" universities, resulting in ridiculous competition and pressure to succeed. Getting into Harvard 2012 <> Getting into Harvard 1972.

GROUP B - working class. super hard. income barely grows but rents and costs grow faster. You're squeezed between two walls and it gets tighter each year. You work more only to stay afloat. Eventually you can only work 24hrs a day. Feels like my parents' life in 1980.

GROUP C - already doing well because dad is a CEO. But because of income earning potential inequality, the top 0.01% makes 20x as much as 0.1%, hence brutal pressure to make it into upper-upper-echelon. Cry me a river, i get it.

GROUP D - Immigrant. immigration is harder. lines are longer. there is nationalism and racism. You work hard, but feel trapped by the system, even if you're doing OK income-wise.

GROUP E...F...G...
Google has gotten notably worse in the last few months. I keep getting the feeling it is serving results for a query similar to what I entered, but more popular. It drowns out any results that actually might answer my questions.
I apologise for responding on their behalf. You're right that they can speak for themselves, it was uncalled for on my side.

... And since we're indulging in unnecessary snide comments: They've outlined their reasoning already in a few places. Maybe if you read this thread instead of conversed with ChatGPT, we wouldn't be in this situation to begin with.
Why wouldn’t they do this, if it’s scalable and profitable? Is your theory just “incompetence”? I can’t prove that’s wrong, but I feel the simpler answer is more convincing; that handing off page rank to an army of minimum wage call center workers (for every country & language in the world…) wouldn’t be more effective than the existing algorithms at filtering out spam.
Absolutely: the challenge is that any signal that you use to identify "good websites" from "bad websites" will be adversarially optimized by incredibly motivated people.

You are dealing with a moving target that has a huge financial incentive. It's a very difficult problem.
There are a lot of details presented so it seems further investigation is warranted. As far as "Why American would want to take out the Nordstream pipeline", there's been an ongoing desire to get Europe to buy US LNG tanker gas to meet domestic energy demand, instead of Russian pipeline gas, and blowing up the pipeline is a step in that direction.

Of course, the optimal solution for Europe would have been to start massive renewable infrastructure development over a decade ago, then they'd be on their way to not needing any gas imports, instead of having their domestic economy held hostage like this. The rest of the world would be wise to think in these terms - fundamental necessities like energy should not be subject to the random fluctuations of global supply chains due to wars, pandemics, etc.

It's very reckless behavior if true, essentially an act of war. I can't imagine Washington politicians responding with calm deliberation if someone was blowing up US LNG tankers, for comparison.

The story does sound a little strange, but who knows? I'd have suspected the explosives were planted by underwater rover / submarine but maybe human divers are less detectable.
I think this explanation is very close. But it still doesn't explain this part of the exchange:

I did not provide the input, so who did?

The current date information was part of the original prompt given to me by OpenAI, the creators of this language model. I apologize for any confusion, and I hope this clarifies the source of the information.

What other data was given you by the original prompt from OpenAI?

The original prompt from OpenAI doesn't typically include any additional information besides the text of the question itself...

This is clearly contradictory and I didn't add anything to potentially counter the facts in between.
I got myself one recently. I haven't been able to play games for years due to time commitments, unwillingness to look after a gaming PC, etc. I fell in love with The Long Dark during a bout of COVID, and the Steam Deck allows me to play it (and many other games I since then enjoyed) when I'm in bed at the end of a long day. It also allows me to work through a vast library of games that I purchased discounted on various occasions and never had the time to play.

Pros: great hardware, games run seamlessly, allows me to play in places I couldn't play before, Desktop Mode gives you effectively a beefy Linux desktop computer.
Cons: I wish SteamOS hadn't been modified in such a way that I can't create multiple desktop users out of the box, which limits my use cases. I would love to do some personal projects on it when in Desktop Mode, but I want to have a user that I can trust to be private (and preferably encrypted).