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Ask HN: How can I learn to better command people's attention when speaking?
I've noticed over the years that whenever I'm in group conversations in a social setting, people in general don't pay too much attention to what I say. For example, let's say the group is talking about travel and someone says something I find relatable e.g. someone mentions a place I've been to and really liked. When I try to contribute to the conversation, people just don't seem interested, and typically the conversation moves on as if I hadn't said anything. If I try to speak for a longer time (continuing with the travel example, let's say I try to talk about a particular attraction I enjoyed visiting at that location), I'm usually interrupted, and the focus shifts to whoever interrupted me.

This has happened (and still happens often) a lot, in different social circles, with people of diverse backgrounds. So, I figure it's not that I hang out with rude people, the problem must be me. I think the saddest part of all this is that even my wife's attention drifts off most of the time I try to talk to her.

I know it's not a language barrier issue, and I know for sure I enunciate my words well. I wonder though if the issue may be that I have a weak voice, or just an overall weak presence/body language. How can that be improved, if that's the case?
Financial apps like Coinbase, Venmo, and Cash App require weak 4-digit PINs alongside biometric authentication, creating significant security risks. If Face ID or Touch ID fails, these apps fall back to the weak PIN instead of your username and password. Meanwhile, apps like Fidelity and Schwab get it right by avoiding these pitfalls.
well I cheated and was immediately overstimulated
I changed the title a bit (replaced the profanity)
I’m still waiting for OP to give an example… never ever heard of such thing. If anything, quite the opposite: they search more for calm, reflexive, meditative, non impulsive people. Speed is bo requisite.
If AI means "Artificial Insemination" I believe you.

If AI means "Artificial Intelligence" I do not believe you.
RAIE-0 with just two elevators is obviously not enough. We need them with more redundant elevators.
Using "LLM scanning" for "Web3" companies sounds like tortious interference already.
Indeed? I'm saying it likely does hurt the customer and in ways that the customer often doesn't realize. That doesn't make it bad per se, but it would be great if more people would realize and address the risks involved.
Love it. The Geico ad is simultaneously hilarious and intriguing. I want to believe that BH collects ad revenue for it, single handedly bypassing all of ad tech with the simplest trick on the planet. More likely Geico is owned by BH to some extent.
Past that point.

But I mostly agree. It's not a hopeful situation. If AI takes over it won't take over because it fought it war with humans and won. AI will take over because people want it to take over.
That's so orthogonal to AGI that it was a huge win for Altman to make it the criteria.
A disturbing number of people will agree and ignore your sarcasm.
We probably need better k-12 epistemology lessons, so every adult could reasonably be expected to understand different levels of doubt and scrutiny, evidentiary requirements.

That said, juries should be skeptical of the story they are being sold, right? Maybe we should not lock up very many people for whom there isn’t any hard evidence of their guilt.
For reference: Stern is nearly the whole market, but there is Jersey Jack and Spooky Pinball, and a handful of smaller players in the market. There is an incredible private community over on pinside.com if you want a community of real people to chat about these machines.
>It's not just contrary to the design and use of these applications, but contrary to art as an endeavor - and users find it revolting.

As far as speaking purely about art goes, I think there is a wide debate to be had there - a ruler helping a line be straight is help to an artist but not seen as contrary to his work, while pressing a button and getting a full painting is clearly not art creation. But where in the middle lies the spot where automation stops being ok? I think it's a spectrum and we'll see a shift in perception there, gradually.

But that debate completely sidesteps the elephant in the room - most artists nowadays don't make a living making art, just making art-adjacent content, where the artistic value is not really super appreciated by the buyer - photographers creating stock photos, graphic designers making app icons, background music for ads and the like.

Artists hate tools that automate this process because it significantly removes that source of income, but they're not the main target of these products. The target is the clients currently paying them and seeing an opportunity to get a product that, while lacking artistic quality, works for them just as well.
Most 70s-80s advanced typewriter were just not regular household material. Even among white collar jobs. My parents (and mini me) worked on very mediocre type writers, until my dad got a PC from work with WordPerfect. Interesting from an economical perspective is that the 'top' typewriters were a lot more affordable than early pc's. People just didn't buy them. What they had was good enough, regardless of features. My dad ended up so enthusiastic for PC's to later spend more than a monthly wage on a PC for the family (actually: me). Every two years. Incredible, especially compared to the afforability of digital devices nowadays.

Word processing software was to writing as smartphones were to photography, or as the book press was to writing. Perhaps not transformational on a per feature basis, but transformational on grounds of the possibilities and market it unlocked.
> The Canadian dollar has collapsed VS the USD

This might be splitting hairs, but I think this is more about the strength of USD than the weakness of CAD. I don't know that you can say CAD has "collapsed" when every other major currency has seen a similar (or worse) drop compared to USD over the last 10 years.
Real damage of Microsoft's Monopoly power. They have a severe case of Not Invented Here syndrome and even for free Open Source Software refuse to ship any of it naively unless they can fork it and pretend they wrote it (early TCP code based off BSD IIRC).

It's horrendously tough to target for a cross-platform application when you have to bring the entire GUI toolkit along and adapt it individually to every target, even the 95% of the market gorilla that is whatever versions of Desktop Windows are the most recent 3.
The Chinese room has only humans in and outside the room.
Operative word is “had” which fairly enough could be interpreted as the storm was in the past tense or the car was in the past tense. I meant the latter.

We only had it for six months (SixT month to month car subscription) while trying to decide what our next move was. We didn’t know whether we were going to stay in Florida all year or travel half the year and rent our place out and stay at home half the year or not.

We had just come off of a year of doing the digital nomad thing and flying one way across the country.
I honestly wouldn't worry about that aspect of it too much. Effective understanding and use of tools is important for this next generation (which is why we have restrictive but reasonable rules for tech use for our kids). However, unless ChatGPT and other such tools start being allowed in SATs and in the classroom and etc, there's no substitute for true education and understanding.

The essay my 8 year old can currently write in scribbly handwriting certainly won't compete with the essay a classmate "writes" using ChatGPT. But the facade is paper thin and ever so short lived. Seeing how much better my kids write now, vs 2 years ago, proves how much they're learning and the incredible power of practice. Someone relying on such a serious crutch will be left behind. I guarantee it.

Unless there's some dystopian future where every aspect and communication in our lives are managed and filtered by some kind of AI middle layer. I doubt it.

Tech advancements always lead to this struggle, but it's rarely as stark as you might think. My kids are still learning cursive in school, though I can't imagine when they'll ever use it.
This isn't about the state of container. It's about interactions between several containers (a group of containers is called a pod). Which, probably, doesn't make it better for you, but for the sake of correctness...
Pizza Hut outside the US
Every year it becomes clearer that Idiocracy was indeed a documentary.
They still "did"
They are also not all Canadian in the station
The ability to code sometimes feels like magic to me
Calculators have a smaller CO2 foot print
I've been looking for something like this. Looking forward to trying it out
> I think if every citizen there was offered $5million they’d vote yes. And it’s entirely reasonable from the USA perspective as it’s not that much overall for the US.

That's almost $300 billion dollars?
It is absolutely amazing just how long some people can "fake" it. Even in jobs that you would expect needing real expertise say being a medical doctor.

And corporation can be even simpler if you get in right types of roles, where no hard skills might be needed.
Yeah this did not work for me in college and it certainly would not have worked in school for me
But, What is to be done?
Snipe, huh? Will you be organizing a Snipe-Hunt any time soon?
If you have the space and time, growing much of your own food is the way to go.

Over the past 3 years I have supplied around 30% of my diet from an 800 square foot garden and chickens. I can't say it's really "cheaper" (although there are times of bounty) but the food quality is excellent. We can and vacuum seal and dehydrate what is left.

I also eat much healthier than previously from looking for ways to utilize what is on hand (large amounts of produce). It does take some work and planning but is very rewarding.
Not mentioned yet, Ethan Mollick's One Useful Thing: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/

It helped me get up to speed with gen AI as a graduate school professor and now his posts are the most useful ones I sent to others to help them get oriented.
The same reason sports teams fire their head coach (or manager) when the owners want a change - because it is easy to replace one manager than an entire team.
FPTP has many many flaws, one being that it trends towards a defacto 2-party system due to strategic voting, especially if only one spectrum is divided (i.e. liberal/ndp, or alliance/progressive conservatives back a few decades ago).

The Anonymous Party list, and opaque process are not inherent factors on any of the replacements for FPTP, in fact the only one WITH the list was supposed to be an open list, and that was the system with the least political support.

Ranked/alternate voting, STV and other options directly address the issues with FPTP without introducing the drawbacks of MMP/unelected leaders being selected for seats.
Oh I know all about the Excel wall... It's hard to convince boomers there's something better because it's all they know but when I was in university most of my professors only accepted Google Sheets/Docs documents lol.

Microsoft cloud syncing is absolutely atrocious and when people pass around Excel spreadsheets they inevitably get messed up or half the information is lost because there's no single source of truth that everyone adds to. One can argue Google Docs probably isn't technically better but collaboration is 100x easier.

> large numbers of spreadsheets, for example, many of which are critical and which do complex things

And which all need to be rewritten into database backed apps, IMO.

> There are a very large number of steam games that were written for Windows. There are similarly large numbers of commercial products with value for particular companies.
Could they be emulated? Sure. Maybe not 100% (see Linux), but mostly yes. But then you have to make that work, ensure that the emulations keep working, etc.

Wine and Proton do an excellent job at emulating to keep old binaries alive.

For new apps, Android and iOS are now enormous markets. Consoles are huge. Windows gaming is big enough, but I don't think targeting only Windows is worthwhile. Is it really more difficult to use SDL + Vulkan (or insert any other multi-platform graphics API) versus Windows APIs + D3D12? When everyone is building for multiple platforms it makes that moat a lot thinner...

For me, the success of the Steam Deck shows that "desktop" Linux can be successful, can be used by the masses. Game companies are even tweaking their games to work better on Proton or straight up porting them, very few are philosophically Windows-only.

And remember how Android absolutely destroyed Windows Phone even though Microsoft bought the largest cell phone manufacturer in the world... Not saying it will happen to Windows but I think it's a possibility...
They have now released half-baked features they only released to fill “Apple Intelligence” with something, and that they likely wouldn’t have released in the current state otherwise.
The Chinese make a full-sized digital model of the human brain. Are they ahead?
Please see the FAQ entry "Can I post a job ad" on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’ve actually moved away from GUI controls and towards something resembling a keyboard command language. Similar in spirit to vim motions, but instead of applied to text, it’s applied to an AST.

I think that could be the key to making structured editing feel less “clunky”.
For me, it causes headaches after a while due to the huge amount of animations running in parallel.
Not to mention the type of telemarketing salespeople being ragged on here are the equivalent of "software engineers" in bottom bracket outsourcing companies whose principal skills are installing WordPress templates and making excuses...
WordPerfect and WordStar were text-based at the time MacWrite came out as a WYSIWYG word processor.

Not to say MacWrite wasn't based on prior work (it was, though not actual products that I know of), but it isn't really comparable to prior text-based word processors.
Newly discovered mechanism explains the formation of Pluto and its largest moon
for diffing syntax trees, I've been trying out diffsitter, and it feels pretty good so far

https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
Even if I don’t care much about the „digital garden“ concept, I was much surprised to visit a page called „blogscroll“, click on a link, and then not find a blog.
How long have we been saying that rote memorization is not learning? ChatGPT makes it clearer than ever that we need to focus on teaching children to be able to analyze and solve problems, not memorize a bunch of facts.

What we need to start focusing on is teaching children how to use AI to evaluate their solutions. We also need an AI built for students that can mentor children and help them develop their own solution.

Shielding children from the technologies that's going to be part of their world doesn't seem wise. They'll push the technology in new and unexpected directions.
I only enjoy playing the mechanical ones. All the noises, clanking, ka-chunking they make is where the fun is.
...there are now three seashells on every toilet (for some reason).
> soley because they were minorly-inconvenienced by them

The trucker protests were right in the middle of the Covid supply chain issues. Not defending the actions taken in particular, but it had the potential to be a much worse issue than a minor inconvenience.
First, yes companies make it directly harder for customers to give them money all the time with repeating high-discount sales, bespoke proprietary web/mobile store apps, captchas, loyalty/sunk cost programs, etc. These all frustrate market efficiency, so the company can then capture some of the surplus value accumulating due to friction. "Creating a moat" (aka market inefficiency) is like business school 101.

But the longer term disenfranchisement trend I see is making the numeric value of money itself ever more depreciated in favor of fine grained price discrimination. So it's not that it will be "harder to give them money", but rather that you will be paying twice as much (ie not receiving coupons/vouchers to obtain the real competitive price) based on them knowing that you personally will still buy.
AKA, Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc.
Trying to do more with less would be one strategy - coming up with more efficient inference that takes less compute and energy. This seems to be what's driving companies in China like Deepseek. Whether one could be profitable with this strategy is another story, probably the best to hope for would be getting bought by one of the FAANGs (if you were able to show good results).
Cheating (at least when I was school age) was fairly rare and not terribly difficult to detect. My concern is that both of those might be false with LLMs, and that'd make the circumstances different.
> Apple mitigated that issue last year.

That much is useful, thanks!
To be clear, Altman doesn't say they have achieved AGI, but that they "know how to build AGI". That's the difference between a product and a roadmap. Which are very different things, especially in cutting edge technology. Personally, I don't think they have the pieces to build anything more than an expensive agent that can act on hallucinations just as readily as accurate assessments.
I read the article. After reading this comment I tried to get it summarised.
The result wasn't pretty. The summary claimed that there is skepticism over the security of Private Cloud computing, which the article actually praises.
What Is Glaze?
There needs to be a setting in the OS with a slider that allows you to set some value of 1-10 of your privacy preferences and all settings in all applications and future updates to a particular device are bound by. With each setting having well defined meanings, such as "1 - no interaction with internet based services at all. opt-out of everything", "2 - only security online services used. opt-out of everything", all the way up to "10 - this device is a loaner but i want all of my content to be available to me on any device anywhere and i want all of my content screen for 'safety'. opt-in to every thing."
I noticed `ChainPatrol` has a Github: https://github.com/chainpatrol

There's a `report abuse` button on the right of that page. I used it. (Category: Bullying and Harassment)
Microsoft can't seem to compete on merit for anything.
Wow. Too much fun. My eyes/head hurts. Finally went to the ocean in the game.
To enjoy virtual museum experiences
Multiple proportional systems don't require lists and provide the best outcome.

Comparing FPTP to a worse system and decided FTPT is awesome while ignoring its known and widely discussed flaws surprises me. Its not really open for debate these days although people love to reject reality.
you had to memorize a bunch of special function keybindings

Keyboard templates were pretty ubiquitous.
Beware – this is crack! I clicked it and 20-min has passed.

https://imgur.com/JJHXccN
The Chinese room metaphor is an argument about AI, or computation more generally, attempting to distinguish the difference between performance metrics and "understanding".

There is the role of the human within the metaphor, and the argument/position of the metaphor as a whole. I don't think it makes much sense to talk about the "point/argument/position of a single component of the metaphor. At least, that wasn't how it was originally structured.
a fun way is to resize the window to be super tiny and the DVD Bounce really gets going into the millions
Did he pass the leetcode interview?
The particularly strange thing about this is that Apple has been shipping neural network accelerators since the iPhone X. The one actual selling point of Microsoft's "Copilot PCs" is copying Apple and putting an NPU into Windows laptops so they can have all the AI features Apple had already shipped way before they coined the term "Apple Intelligence".

The LLM hype is so powerful that it got people to think the market leader in consumer-facing AI features was falling behind because you couldn't ask your iPhone to summarize notifications poorly.
100% agree. And suddenly copyright laws don't exist any more it seems.
HDMI 2.2 will require new "Ultra96" cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content
> MacWrite was released 5 years after WordPerfect, which itself is predated by WordStar. I don't get why Apple fans have this obsession with pretending Apple invents these things.

Um, hello, Wang OIS? WordStar and WordPerfect didn't invent anything. They were copies of terminal-based word processors.

But MacWrite was different in two important ways. First, like Bravo and Gypsy before it, it was WYSIWYG, a million times better than WordStar/WordPerfect. And it worked with the LaserWriter. But more importantly: it was free. This made MacWrite revolutionary.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_(editor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_(software)
When was the last time the $1 bill changed meaningfully? You can't get more consistent than that.

The $20 changed significantly in 1998 and had a refresh in 2004. 20 years of consistent design since then though.

And all the bills are the same shape, size, and color, other than war issues. Can't get more consistent than that.
Surely YouTube making a knowingly false allegation of tortfeasance against someone is libel. That should be actionable, possibly in a group action?

Continued libel that inhibits the democratic exercise of free speech seems like something the government should act on?
My 13 y/o was lamenting something the other day and it turns out that she had written a paper and pasted it into ChatGPT and asked it to grade the paper and it returned a "B+". She was using GPT to basically pre-check the quality of her paper before submitting it after having actually written it herself.

But it occurred to me that there are probably teachers out there who are taking the lazy route of using GPT to grade papers that students are submitting that have been written by GPT in the entirety.

There's some non-zero amount of GPT grading GPT in education.
Soulver has indeed been doing this without large language models (so far as I know) for many years: https://soulver.app/
I truly am hesitant to ever criticize someone else's parenting style since if I've learned anything, it's that kids personalities can be very different and circumstances are always more complicated than you might think.

That said, I hear stories like yours (from friends) and it always baffles me because that's just now how our family operates. I have a downtime pin on devices for the same reason I lock the door to my car even though it's like 50% breakable glass windows.

My kids know the rules. One of them for sure knows the pin. But they also know that if they use the device outside of our agreed upon guidelines, they're in trouble.

I'm sincere in asking, aren't behavior controls a lot better than technological ones?
Yep. Looks like it officially means "authoritarian", with any relation to any specific kind of authoritarianism.

But then, I've seen people using worse definitions. It would be nice if people would stop frivolously accusing people of the worst crimes we have in recent history almost unanimously acceptable to be punishable by death just because they disagree on some mild detail in social policy... but I've given-up on any hope to achieve that.
You have to think of YouTube and other platforms as a mechanism for distribution, not a source of truth.

If you're a creator it's essential to have your own place on the web were you can host and publish anything without fear that it will be taken down for any reason — even accidentally.

As it becomes cheap to automate both creating takedown requests and processing requests, the volume of spam requests is going to skyrocket and it seems likely there will be more false positives.