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Mike Masnick is probably one of the most critical people of Elon. You've may have read one of his articles prior, perhaps in the early days when Elon bought Twitter. His analysis of Elon's obligations to purchase Twitter, criticism of Elon's approach to content moderation (and lack of understanding), it's all been pretty good and legally sound.

The fact that he is praising Elon here says something.

Consider getting a blood test if you haven't already. At the very least, it'll help you knock off any possibilities that you may be low in iron, vitamin D, or vitamin B12. For me, that turned out to be the case and taking supplements fixed the issue.

And this goes without saying but have you tried, and I mean REALLY tried the following (be honest with yourself):

- Cut down on your phone time. Delete your apps for at least a month. Cut down on news. Cut down on distractions. Even your normal apps you find useful, turn off any notification sounds or popups.

- Exercise regularly.

- Eat a healthy diet, nothing that spikes your blood sugar like sugar-heavy or processed food.

I'm not saying this is the solution for every one and the solution for everything, but there have been multiple times in my life I haven't felt like myself and returning to these "basics" really helped me.

I really encourage you to try and give up meat and eggs again! It's not too hard -- just like any other habit to build and continue. And honestly I have the same mindset as you. The sacrifice we make to intelligent creatures for 5 minutes of sensory pleasure (taste/smell) makes no sense.

If I think of every community I was a part of during the 2000s, they've all shut down. In the end money played a part in all of them closing, or people who don't want to commit any longer to something that isn't making them money. In contrast, I've been on reddit since 2011 which is really good. I've spent zero money and learned and enjoyed a lot.

Oh man I am with you on this in that, the fact that it's not a phishing site, to me, means google is sending the completely wrong message to users. Here is a site with a non-google.com URL that expects users to know that only google owns that TLD, has a non Google sign in page, uses google logo. Eek.

YouTube Premium is my most loved subscription, for what it's worth. I don't even use the Music element, but if I did that would be another reason. While all other subscriptions I pause on and off waiting for content, YouTube has always had solid stuff -- from mindless good stuff, content reviews, learning household chores, to full-on lectures/talks from Universities/Conferences.

If you're getting served McDonalds at the world's largest buffet, it's because that is what you enjoy.

In their presentation, they talked about multiple sizes for the PaLM 2 model, named Gecko, Otter, Bison and Unicorn, with Gecko being small enough to run offline on mobile devices. I can't seem to find any info on what size model is being used with Bard at the moment.

There is another possibility here, which is MS + Activision - Cloud Gaming > MS + Cloud Gaming.

I wonder if MSFT is considering that at all. They obviously have the numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if cloud gaming hasn't seen the growth they expected and it makes sense to kill it entirely.

Dragonfly was discontinued in 2018, MAYBE mid 2019. That is 3-4 years ago.

It's a NEW browser in every sense of the word - a new rendering and JS engine, not built on top of Chromium's (or Firefox's) backends. It's impressive because most people have a few preconceived notions: a) It is impossible to build a NEW browser given the complexity and huge history, b) browsers need to rely on JIT and other tricks. This browser is new hobby project, from scratch, breaks away from the preconceived notions of what a browser should be, and gives a glimpse of a future where another open-source project has some influence in web standards instead of the monolith companies that we have now (this is a pipe-dream of course, but we're in a better position now than we were a year ago).

Edit: And I would say to others, please don't downvote a question because I think it was genuine and not meant with malice - and provides a good learning opportunity for EVERYONE

So... Just to get this correct, the social media person who probably isn't privvy to plans affecting their job in two months should have written something along the lines of "were told it's going to be ok, but who even knows with Google"?

Can we not with this tired joke. Yes we're talking about the company with hundreds of chat apps, but we're also talking about the 100,000+ employee company that developed and support Golang, Dart and Flutter. But ignoring all this, the GitHub page is pretty clear: "Carbon is currently an experimental project." You shouldn't have confidence that it will be supported but they are pretty clear about it, they're trying to find the right fit.

"Obviously Gmail and such are piped directly into global intelligence databases"

Wait --- 'obviously'?!? Do you have any info on this because that is a wild claim.

Please I beg you - don't let HN become another online discussion site. Aim for quality, give examples, don't just rely on vague comments that are meant to provoke emotion and nothing else.

I just searched "how to fix a flat tire" on both Google and Kagi and got pretty similar results. Different in display but no .edu links in sight.

Do you have concrete examples on how you would consider Android and Docs worse in terms of privacy?

I'm trying to imagine how Google Docs could be worse than Microsoft Word stored in your One Drive, or Microsoft Word Online. Both services don't access your private word document unless required by law enforcement.

Yikes, thanks for pointing that out! Read a few articles about this and multiple of them referred to the press conference announcing a new Deus Ex - disappointing that none of them verified for themselves and shame on me for not following the rabbit hole.

Heh. This is not to call you out because I absolutely did the same up until last week (and I'm certain a high percentage of others are the same). I've recently decided to make it a habit of reading articles first (directly from the publisher website) before even visiting Hacker News or Reddit. And after you do that, you start to realize how much discussion is based entirely around headlines.

Anyway, from the article:

And shortly after the announcement went live, Eidos Montreal confirmed in an Embracer conference call that its next major game would be set in the world of Deus Ex

One of the replies further down had a more concrete example. I did not see any Googlers refute it:

To give a concrete example of what it is like to work with her I will describe something that has not come to light until now. When GPT-3 came out a discussion thread was started in the brain papers group. Timnit was one of the first to respond with some of her thoughts. Almost immediately a very high profile figure has also also responded with his thoughts. He is not Lecun or Dean but he is close. What followed for the rest of the thread was Timnit blasting privileged white men for ignoring the voice of a black woman. Nevermind that it was painfully clear they were writing their responses at the same time. Message after message she would blast both the high profile figure and anyone who so much as implied it could have been a misunderstanding. In the end everyone just bent over backwards apologizing to her and the thread was abandoned along with the whole brain papers group which was relatively active up to that point. She has effectively robbed thousands of colleagues of insights into their seniors thought process just because she didn't immediately get attention.

The thread is still up there so any googler can see it for themselves and verify I am telling the truth.

I don't know Timnit so I won't argue she is the most toxic or the events were correct/incorrect. However, your reply made me recall this thread from July 2020 (before Timnit and Google parted).

https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1278565265135906816?t...

I just cannot imagine calling someone in your company out like that on a public platform, especially for the crime of not speaking. Both are seniors and that behavior seemed anything but, to me anyway.

Do you have an example of Google citing a "below standard" paper? Curious to see.

I would recommend the book "Inside the Machine" by Jon Stokes. I'm a programmer so not going in with fresh eyes necessarily, but it definitely felt like it began at the start and the author was a tech journalist for Ars Technica (with a Computer Systems background) - I think it does a really good job. It also happens to be one of my favorite books, especially if you're interested in older hardware.

You know, I used to care about lossless but more and more the proof has been stacking on that MP3 compression is an amazing technology and I just don't have the ears to discern. I would love to know how you do in this test: https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...

For me, it was enough to prove that lossy is good enough for everyday listening.

They deal with pretty noisy mediums though. How much of the input is actually transformed into what we perceive as relevant knowledge and stored long-term?

What about VSTs using iLok? Ive only shallowly looked at it in the past but haven't heard good things

What is an example of Google using a similar tactic to grow Chrome market share?

Here are the few I've really enjoyed.

Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture

Explains how Microprocessors operate, going from operands and building up a lot of the execution tricks used, all whilst going through popular examples of CPUs (thee pentium chips, PowerPCs, etc), discussing their history, their specs, their capabilities, etc.

Hardware and Support Support for Virtualization

This one corners on useful, but it's short and it's free and unless you work in virtualization it probably won't be much use but I found it helpful in getting a grasp on what is actually happening.

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Edit: Removed history books but, for anyone interested, the ones I listed previously were The Idea Factory, Valley of Genius, and Android: The Team that Built the Android OS

It should be noted, for the author of the article, that Libby works really well with the Kobo reader. So, for instance, I will use Libby on my Android device (signed into my overdrive account), search and borrow books through there. Then, on my Kobo, I only need to press sync for the books to appear. Much better than using the Kobo to search for books.

I should also point out that signing into Libby and Kobo is somewhat annoying. You need to sign in to both using your overdrive in some specific way. I found the answer in some Reddit thread after some Google searching.

Who was forced to work on the high speed rail? Do you have a source?

Younger and international HN readers*. Sorry just doing my part to make the English web less US-centric.