skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a difference between hesitating and pausing to think. Perhaps not internally, but in body language. In some ways they’re even polar opposites: hesitations are involuntary and make you look weak, while pausing to think can help you control the pace of the conversation, and (if not overdone) can grant you some authority.

The timing is very important: if you pause in the middle of a sentence that generally feels like a hesitation. If you pause before you start answering, then it’s all fluid, that’s pausing to think.
I would guess that Bezos has never read this letter. An underling of his would never present this letter to him unless Bezos has specifically asked to be presented such letters, and the fallout from this letter will never be sufficient to warrant his attention.

It's unfortunate that American and European voters don't realize that allowing our companies to do business with places famous for worker's rights abuses and lack of environmental controls affects them, too.
Shout-out to the recent reboot of Connections (1987), Connections with James Burke [0], for threading cabinets of curiosities through museums and finally ending with the internet in episode 3, "In the Net".

[0]: https://curiositystream.com/title/series/787
I really enjoyed Tim's Vermeer (about how Tim painted a Vermeer):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3089388/
That's one of mine from last March. Happy to see it surface again.

If the subject matter is of interest then here is a more recent story of mine about a Lisp Machine OS that's been resurrected, is now FOSS and is in active maintenance and update:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38391112

Link to HN discussion.

Article itself:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/23/medley_interlisp_revi...
"Story" covers a lot. But "x causes y" is the barest story, and also literally how we understand the world.
> Not to be glib, but I'd like to see him try to tackle these problems before saying that big tech is "selling basic usability back to consumers".

A problem statement is not invalid just because someone pointing it out can't solve it.

The tech industry has incentive ($$$) to improve click rates but very little incentive to improve UI beyond what A/B testing says makes the most money. The author was just claiming that from a consumer point of view.
I don't expect it to be the cause, but who knows: does your GPU happen to be sitted in the bottom-most PCIe slot of the motherboard ? I encountered weird stuff with the PCIe lines connected to the motherboard chipset (instead of those connected directly to the CPU) on several B550. Some PCIe packets would apparently be garbled/lost when under load, resulting in the driver for the associated peripheral timing out.
Why not operate it in the FIPS mode all the time?
They're not doing anything effective. What does split testing have to do with it?

You might want to see my other comment, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38542185
To verify you could either do a simple text search through the source document or utilize a 2-shot approach to double check the answer. Just take the answer from the first step and then ask the model again:

Given the following document: <document text>
Does this document support the following statement: <statement from step 1>

The downside of course is that you pay twice for the inference.
Aging population in Italy is due to birthrates in Italy dropping before this trend reached other developed countries.
This is a paper tiger. just by banning "Hedgefonds" (misnomer of the decade by the way, they do anything but hedge these days), or, more precisely investment funds structured as limited partnerships, from owning residential real estate you do absolutely NOTHING to mitigate what happened in 2008.

hedge funds are just an easily hated scapegoat, because they ARE insufferable in many cases, but they are not at fault here.

The real problem is the moral hazard that is growing exponentially with every increase in distance between the ones dishing out the money and the ones who are liable. If you can repackage mortgages into more and more complex derivatives you can sell to other people, and you also figure out a way to game rating agencies into a triple A rating by misleading them with thin-file FICO scores and faux diversification, you can profit from deadbeat customers and make someone else the bag holder at the same time. That’s the archetypal moral hazard.

The institutional clients don’t understand that correlation increases with volatility, they are consoled by the ratings and don’t realize they are part of a time bomb, waiting to drag the whole economy down with it.
“What self interested, selfish reason do these terrible people have to this ostensibly good thing?” - paraphrasing your question.

Answer - Message content wasn’t used for advertising. I believe it had been tried at some point and found to be sort of useless. But people like you won’t believe that, so end to end encryption might help build trust and increase engagement.
been building my own cabinet of curiosity for a while now, which pieces from family history, great way to pass the cold winter
Hacking on Ruby Prism with Kevin Newton
>Fortunately there is an incoming way out of that with work of Viktor Zverovich on std::format and libfmt

Those are great, but iostreams hasn't been necessary in a very long time thanks to other libraries like Qt and Boost.
Good question.

Perhaps for audio and video is by directly integrating the spoken sound (audio mode -> LLM) rather than translating the sound to text and feeding the text to LLM (audio mode -> text mode -> LLM).

But to be honest I'm guessing here perhaps LLM experts (or LLM itself since they claimed comparable capability of human experts) can verify if this is truly what they meant by native multi-modal LLM.
> We worry about Elon of late

Elon and Stamets in the same club? Sounds rad.
2 Generals problem
thats Birda!
> I wonder if EU citizens feel well-served...

Yes, because I can tell them to fuck off from harvesting all my data and have an easy, legally enforceable way to tell them to delete whatever data they've harvested off me. I've reported a few websites that have done shady shit with the cookie banners and even saw them get some fines, so I'm perfectly happy that companies can't hoover up any and all data about me that they want to feed the pockets of some rich assholes an ocean over.

If a company can't exist without massive privacy violations and personal data exfiltration then they deserve to die.
In other news: "First-time rider on roller-coaster happy about the steady climb and great view"
All decent compilers type check format strings.
https://gamingmuseum.at/

We have a lot of systems - my particular contribution is the 8-bit wing. :)
There’s a military history channel I follow that did a special on this topic. I remember that nerve gas initially came out of the pesticide research:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0D4Ph_yRYM
The government should be taxing higher the profits of the big companies and the top earners and reinvesting the money in governance of them.

I think if you are above 500k yearly income, the taxation rate should be something around 80-90% on every cent above that threshold.
Audiobox: Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation
I had this issue. It went away when I replaced monitor with a BGR panel.
I think that US agencies are not as interested in stealing trade secrets or harming US companies as other countries would be.
Coding Addiction: How Programming Affects Your Brain
My experience of whistleblowing even here in the west is that usually it goes very very badly. The only real thing open to you is to refuse to do anything unethical, quit and walk away. Many people can't afford to do that. Things ought to be different but we live in corrupt societies where the law is different for the rich and powerful than for everyone else.
As the opening sentence of the post says:

> This is likely our last Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive before we start shipping, and those of you who ordered one can dive deep on your own

They've had some delays with manufacturing (https://community.frame.work/t/second-update-on-framework-la...), which they wanted to resolve before starting large scale manufacturing.
As an EU citizen, yes I feel well-served. Having been burned by companies refusing to delete my personal information before when trying to close accounts, I appreciate having some regulations and basic rights in this respect. I also feel safer shopping online and not getting "stalked" by personalized ads everywhere is nice.

It was a bit of a pain to manually reject all the _purposefully_ annoying cookie consent banners that companies started pulling, but now there's plugins for that, which rejects everything for me by default.
I think it's very exaggerated to call this xenophobia and suggest it needs to be moderated. OP said Europe struggles to make tech, and focuses more on luxury. This isn't xenophobic - it's true.
> I would guess that Bezos has never read this letter.

I would guess someone might have informed him of this letter or he might even as well have read it already. What I would not guess about is whether he would give two fucks about it. Because no he would not. Yes, he and his company has proven this.

Business and profit over all else. That is not just really a Chinese problem.

It surprises me how people still love to try to think that “Oh, this is such a horror! If only the Western corporate overlords had the time in their busy schedules to know of these, this would most likely go away”.

Nope, those cheap contracts were signed with this expectation to begin with it.
> Does Gemini have a date cutoff at all?

You can ask it. Here's what it responded with:

> "Do you mean to ask if I have a cutoff date for the data I was trained on? If so, the answer is yes. My training data includes text and code from various sources, and the most recent data I was trained on was from July 2023."
This is the sort of delicate topic that tends to exceed the boundaries of normal hypocrisy, with tangents that are irrational and self-delusional (like the abundance of slightly blunted, sometimes subconscious hate speech), rhetorically illogical and distracting (slavery, precedents of other conferences in other places, etc.), drastically missing the point (e.g. the distinctions between Tanzanian laws and what happens to foreign tourists in Zanzibar).
Not to dismiss your statement entirely, but Frances Haugen is doing fine:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Haugen
How the hell does Facebook generate 56$ of revenue per US user per quarter? Are selling ads and selling personal information really that lucrative?
It's not going to be any one magical account; it's just slow general decline, which is how social media sites normally die.
If you don't rebuild the zfs volume on the backup computer aren't you left with a) unlimited incremental backups, or b) doing a full backup every x days?
Renesas reveals its first 32-bit RISC-V CPU
That's easy to check, and the answer is yes it would. See https://godbolt.org/z/eqseqxhca

It's dramatically different, C++ compiles down to 10 or so instructions even without the vectorization turned on.

Rust OTOH compiles down to 188 or 129 instructions with the vectorization. This is pretty bad.
> This is such an understated point. I wonder if EU citizens feel well-served by e.g. the pop-up banners that afflict the global web as a result of their regulations[1]. Do they feel like the benefits they get are worth it? What would it take for that calculus to change?

Absolutely. It goes far beyond cookie management, it's a fundamental thing about what you're allowed to do with my data without my consent.

You know you can block them right? Ublock origin has "annoyances" in the lists, just tick that.
There's something wrong with the rendering. There appears to be a graph? it spans so much vertical height I have not found the bottom before giving up

fyi, this is an opinion piece
they care about profit. they have to. At least in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
e2e encryption can be negotiation chip with gov agencies: "we turn off encryption this time, but you'll forget about our shady ads business"
> The HN hivemind is not going to like this

A government gambling taxpayer money in a virtual casino? What's not to like?
The direct shameless and unapologetic ripping off of someone’s voice without approval to promote your own company and/or project, to me, is distasteful.
Even if I don't, any inbox chosen to randomly download could have videos.
Ozempic and a Protein Shake: Food Makers Prep Weight-Loss-Drug Side Dishes
That's ideology for you.
https://archive.ph/lRamq
> Couple clicks to tell a website not to profile me is nothing

Also with an ad blocker, see if you can turn on hiding the banners. Without you clicking "yes" they can't use consent for a reason, so this is equivalent to clicking "no".
> The extensive reach of the law is breathtaking.

It is.

> The EU claims jurisdiction over any web property, based anywhere in the world, that might be seen by an EU national.

Not really! The EU simply claims jurisdiction over any company that trades in the EU. The company doesn't have to be a "web property" - if you sell cars, or food, or medcines in the EU, you have to accept EU jurisdiction. If you want to operate a web property that is accessible in the EU, that's fine; but don't have a EU trading arm if your web property isn't GDPR-compliant.
Why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?
On Designing Carpets
> Western companies apparently DO NOT CARE

They do care about profit margins, which is why they outsource slavery.
one case that consoles me is that harry markopolous, the quant who blew the whistle on madoff and his feeder funds-of-funds, despite rigorously not being listened to and almost being railroaded by an SEC coverup, at least got some sort of payout for his pain and suffering that went on for years. I cannot recommend his book enough.
I think what we're seeing is the first instances of LLM based advertising.
Musk has been having temper tantrums for the last few weeks about people not advertising on his platform, Rockstar not hosting a GTA video on his platform, etc etc. He seems unhappy when people _actually_ stop using the platform.
> Anybody who speaks Japanese knows it's really hard to get reliable information on topics searching the Japanese web.

Really depends on the topic. If you're searching for "water business", the results are amazing: there's pages explaining at length the difference between each subtype of businesses, shop aggregators and ranking, even people discussing the service providers, etc. I agree that that mentioning sources isn't a priority but that's the exact same thing in the West save for research papers.
"We judge ourselves to be good people who are not wrong whatsoever. Trust us, we know."
> monetary system

Bitcoin is not even close to being that nor it ever could. It's entirely a speculative assets not an actual currency (I couldn't think of a token/system less suitable to be used as actual money even if I tried very hard).
> This is a very controlled market, and also one where the different niches are working in very different ways. Even in very different ways from other markets you would know about.

Are you talking about making "art"? Because if you don't neccessarily want to make "art", but just paint paintings ordinary people will enjoy, the market is not controlled at all. The skill level required is very high, but if you can product museum-quality non-abstract paintings of subjects people are interested in (e.g. pastoral landscapes, or landscapes of the US South West), then you can probably sell them at non-negligible prices - a couple hundreds to even a couple thousands dollars a piece.

The task is difficult, because there's so much competition that your work needs to really stand out, so that people will pay $1000 for it, instead of say paying $100 for painting done with good, but not great technique.
A barcode.
> Our aim is to ensure that everyone’s personal messages on Messenger can only be accessed by the sender and the intended recipients

Don't forget the authorities in the mass surveillance industry.
Not surprising that it will go badly. Most of us have some secrets to hide, so the individuals that make up society have an incentive to exclude such people from their lives.

I couldn’t trust a whistleblower. While grateful for a lot of the work they do, I never want to be their target and would never risk getting close to them.
their bonds seem to do pretty well..
That doesn't require passports and controlled movements.

Wherever you are today, you have to conform to all local laws regardless where you came from yesterday or go to tomorrow.

I don't see any honorable excuse not to give anyone the same rights and expect the same responsibilities.

Every problem you can state has an infinity of possible solutions, not just that one.
Ask HN: How are you doing coding interviews, in light of generative AI?
Traditionally, we've either done take-home tests or live coding interviews in a special environment. But the way we code and problem solve is changing quite a bit.

Are you still interviewing people in the same way, or have you adapted it over the past year?
It was a Security System, they were even told the trains are blocked because of a security system...

> "Newag explains that the trains were blocked by a "security system" - but there is no mention of it in the 20,000 pages of the manual."

In my experience, It's more common for Security Systems to be un-documented than it is for them to be documented...
> I think it's very exaggerated to call this xenophobia

I'm also not quite sure it's xenophobia, but it's something other than calm and rational. Whenever Europe comes up in a HN thread, there's a sudden glut of snide comments and gloating, as if people are desperate for themselves and others to believe their layoffs-stricken industry is amazing nonetheless. Maybe to distract themselves from the mandatory RTO bad news?

Rather than calling it xenophobia, let me call it adversarial, and it's always the same side initiating it. Very, very tiresome.

I'm also willing to bet a very high % of the same demo would readily call HN an explicitly American forum and that inclusiveness or being welcoming to others shouldn't be a priority of the site, which I personally find just sort of jarring anywhere on the web, since https doesn't know borders and I grew up in the very overtly international FOSS community as an engineer. You know, where we make that Linux thing you probably have ten copies of on devices around you right now that started in Finland.

> OP said Europe struggles to make tech, and focuses more on luxury.

Only for a very narrow definition of "tech" that doesn't include the vast majority of engineering disciplines, as well as basic research and the education that enables the "tech".

I will take, for example, BioNTech over most startups posted on HN, and I'd rather we build another ITER than another Twitter clone.

Your bio says you're an R programmer. Are you aware the R foundation is a European (Austrian) org, like most organized open source? Seems those Europeans have quite a bit of time for tech after all.
Yes, very important point as well! If there's no story around the facts, we can either ignore the facts, or build a story to fit them in. Stories are where we store facts.
>> Don’t be fooled. It’s mostly a distraction from what we really need to do right now: phase out fossil fuels and deploy more effective climate solutions.

> This is a false dichotomy. I’m yet to find a person that claims these solutions will be enough. It’s just a piece of the puzzle.

1) That's not a dichotomy because it's an AND not an XOR. So it's not a false dichotomy.

2) "Deploy more effective climate solutions" seems awfully open-ended. How is that "a piece?" I would argue that the phrase means roughly "actually solve the problem(s)," which would also be a complete solution.

> Also, replying ad hominem to an article that is ad hominem as well - people who are against CCS are people who are degrowth and just want to get rid of technology altogether.

3) Making a claim about what people believe or how they act is not an ad hominem. An ad hominem attacks the person rather than the argument.

Best of luck to anyone cramming for a philosophy final next week!
Exactly. E2EE is just "transit encryption" when clients are not open source/ audited/ trusted. And FB cannot be trusted (I'm not going to list instances by which they gained my distrust here).

Encrypting metadata is also really hard. See the Matrix (and XMPP) community for detailed discussions on why that is.

I use and advise others to use E2EE encrypting tools, all are open source, audited and popular.

Fake sense of safety is worse than understood unsafety.
> What I cannot accept or understand is that the owners and managers of Western companies, who supposedly share my moral ideals

Are you really sure that these people share your own moral ideals? ;-)
> continues to do business with China ... It's absolutely disgusting.

I want to inject some nuance here. Competition in the labor market, which drives business to low- or middle-income countries like China, is really really good for the typical low-middle income person in China. If wealthy countries pulled out entirely, then China's GDP per capita will probably drop from $12,000 back to sub-$5,000 and you will be causing more suffering for the people you're concerned about. By all means, advocate for better pay and conditions and regulations, but don't advocate for pulling out of poor or middle income countries with lax labor protections entirely. It wasn't clear to me which avenue you're arguing for but I feel it's an important point worth stressing.
It's a matter of degree. No source is free of bias or ideology so it's not particularly interesting to call the BBC "ideological" as it's rather like calling a tree "green" (don't pick holes in that metaphor, please)

My point is - your comment doesn't really add much as you're not saying whether you think the BBC is unusual and if so - in what way.
I can accept that this is effective with most companies, and I don't blame you for doing what you can to increase your chances, but in an ideal world each side is their genuine self.

I understand that some people see an interview as a sales meeting, but in the end, if it works out, what results is both sides having to interact with each other on a daily basis ideally for a long time.

An employment relationship is in the end a relationship between people. Embellishing in an interview just makes that relationship uncomfortable.
"we cannot give access to the user's messages as we do not have them"
Certainly at least fascist-curious.
> 25+ for hard drugs, daily limits,

So we can start with prescription drugs I assume? Unlimited access to OxyContin for everyone 25+. It's much safer than any illegally consumed opioids after all so what could go wrong? Oh wait..

> GIGANTIC increase in funding.

That's a silly claim unless you tax them to such an extent that black marker drugs become more competitive.
Not only if you're a consumer. There are multiple cases in Germany of Oberlandesgerichten (~= "Circuit courts") voiding arbitration clauses in B2B contracts as well.

Subway (the sandwich chain) is a good example of that. They were kinda screwing their franchisees and were forcing them to do arbitration in NYC, even for German franchisees. This was voided by the northern German "circuit court"[1]

[1] https://www.omsels.info/wp-content/uploads/OLG-Schleswig-Urt...
As a seasoned python developer deployment of a pure Rust program is much simpler than Python. The only issue that I ever had was figuring out how to cross compile for a raspberry pi, but even that took me less time than the typical python dependency problem that may happen when you e.g. devlope on Ubuntu and deploy on Debian.

When Rust deployment gets hairy, it is typically the fault of non-Rust-dependencies.