skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is pretending that "the government is run by white supremacists"?

If you're referring to my statement, I only said that many law enforcement agencies contain white supremacists, which includes anyone with a white supremacist viewpoint. They don't even need to identify as one openly or even in action. How many white supremacists are and are not anti-government is immaterial to the point.

The way you're using the definition "white supremacist" implicitly assumes that "white supremacy" as an ideology is inherently anti-government. We know that's never been the case, because all white supremacist states around the world have had strictly authoritarian governments. There's no way to enforce the supremacy of one group of people over another without coercive force.
Either violence or authoritarian government are required for a white supremacist state.

As for whether US itself is a white supremacist state, on one hand you could say that it has allocated a massive amount of resources in systematically rounding up black men (1 in 3 will be arrested in their lifetimes) without addressing the factors used to justify that, and many states systematically disenfranchise their vote. And historically it was economically reliant on chattel slavery. Many southern states are effectively authoritarian governments at the state level due to district gerrymandering and black disenfranchisement, now no longer stoppable by the Voting Rights Act after a conservative supreme court decision a few years ago.

OTOH, federally, is democratically accountable to the people, making it a coalition of whites and non-whites. So you could still see white supremacist reactionaries taking anti-government standpoints for as long as this governing coalition includes non-white people.

>It turns out that the people who make those sorts of claims are really just anti-white.

Do you think it is somehow "anti-white" to point out ways in which white supremacy harms and oppresses non-white people when it is used at the level of state and federal governments?
Unfortunately it could be that Twitter survives long enough to be handed off to a saner CEO which restores some sanity. I don't know how many non-tech people would notice if Twitter doesn't ship anything for a year.
For motivation and to see who's involved there are a few other places you can go such as amber-dev [1] and his PR's [2].

[1] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/amber-dev/2023-January/th...

[2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+arc...
A lot of creative outlets are faddish for production, even if they remain commercially viable. For a while podcasting was having a moment, with big names like Serial making a splash.

Now TikTok and short form videos are having their moment. Something else will come again.
I think different formats have different propensities.

Your problems with podcasts appear more related to propensity than inherent format issues - that is, books too can come off as self aggrandizing, fluff and winding, but you have found mode examples that don't do this perhaps?

Perhaps one thing inherent to podcasts vs books is that you can simply skip sections and skim past the content you find not worth your time, where podcasts are harder to do this without missing your spot, etc.

Podcasts like 99% invisible I find hit the right balance, but again, definitely have more emphasis on interviews than pure factual info compared to books. But I think that's kind of normal, as podcasts do suit discussion and interviews better than a more straight facts approach.

Still, I feel the points you've listed, while valid, are not always the case and like most mediums, you can find examples that would suit your style.
The surveillance technology, which is already being tested in real homes, tracks the rodents’ habits and streams real-time analysis using artificial intelligence. A central command centre can then help to decide where and how to kill the rats caught on camera.

WTF

Rentokil has acquired 300 companies since 2016

Realizing I could build a tiny hunter-killer bot for under $100 ':-/
I roll in his interviews like a dog in dead fish. Really thoughtful and introspective. Some are very technical (i.e. I have to listen to them twice).
Yes that's how annexation works. See for example Russia annexing Crimea. Historically Crimea has been populated by ethnic Russians since Rurik conquered the place. I think it's a good thing that wars of conquest have become taboo, but let's not kid ourselves, for the vast majority of history it was bog standard to invade a place occupied by your co-ethnics and claim it was always your territory.
This comment is so so so relatable. I’ve lost a number of great friendships/relationships in my life because of how much I suck at keeping in touch with folks. I can’t even blame those folks for considering me a bad friend because of this. What does make me sad though is when some of them think I do this on purpose or that I don’t care about them. While I excel at many things, frankly, keeping in touch with family and friends is one of those social skills I’m not so great at. I constantly feel misunderstood on this point, but I get it, no one owes me understanding, especially if they perceive me to be a bad friend. On the bright side, this has made me much slower to judge others when they don’t behave the way I’d prefer. Anyway, I digress . . .

I just wanted to let you know I understand your perspective here.
Yep. My previous company laid off so many people that were _clearly_ better than me. In multiple rounds too, it was horrible. I couldn't not stop looking behind my back I had to find a different job.
Ceremonial security and cargo cults
The auto suggesting where they filter prompts to only safe terms

You literally can't go to page 2 anymore

It ignores what you ask and answers what it think/wants you see.

Previously you controlled search now you are lucky if a site is even in the index.
This is a great tutorial for embedding. So many things with AI are a mystery to me. Articles like this help a lot.
Mainly Google and Slack app store
Even given those criteria, you are still using the coincidental numbers to conflate major injuries with death. You aren't innocently pointing out the odd numerical alignment, you are implying that the vaccine injuries are a likely source of the deaths.

What do you think "conflate" means?
It's impossible to keep up the pace. Not because people can't create them but because most can't find an audience. If you create one you want a sizeable audience. That's not possible if the number falls in the millions. My bet is that a few hundred, if that, will eventually be successful enough to create a viable business. Most others will be hobbies but there won't be 100's of thousand of them. We've hit peak podcast numbers.
Interested in exactly when it becomes impractical. Personally I'm prepared to go to quite an extraordinary amount of effort to make sure PANs and cardholder data never comes near any system I am responsible for.

Honestly shocked by how much pushback I've had on this on this thread. I feel like I made a fairly innocuous comment that, essentially, was just suggesting that it's probably best practice to avoid storing customer card details in your own database. That seems to me about as uncontroversial as saying 'you should not be storing plaintext passwords', but apparently, judging from the replies I've seen, it's hopelessly naive, and you can't actually handle payments without storing CC numbers.

Which comes as a bit of a surprise to me, as in my day job I work on an e-commerce system that handles a billion dollars of credit card transactions a year, including stored payment methods and processing recurring billing - and we haven't got a single credit card number in any of our databases. So I kind of suspect it can be done.
Perhaps, but then again maybe it's just really good PR.
I'm assuming this is a bit you're using to promote your new comedy podcast.
Would you please stop posting political/ideological flamewar comments to HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We need to bring back the 88x31 gifs! What's missing from the Internet these days is a little bit of heart, and a little bit of soul. All these algorithms curating our content and the people tweaking their content so that the algorithm will rank it better is making the Internet a little less wholesome by the day.
>There are certain procedures that need to be followed to declassify documents which Trump definitely did not follow.

There is debate if a president needs to follow any specific procedure.

>Also, I've read the legal briefings. Trump doesn't actually claim that he declassified the documents, only that he may have declassified them.

Ok?

>And when pressed to clarify whether or not he was arguing that he declassified them, he complained that it was unfair to demand that he take a position on that matter.

I don't think he needs to take a public position. If there is a trial he can take whichever position he wants then.

>(Also, Trump never offered the declassification argument until well after the search warrant was executed, and not at any of the other several times when he was asked to return classified information.)

We don't know that. We only know he publicly didn't make the argument until after the search warrant.

>(And to be fair, Trump has been unfairly treated--if anyone else had SCI information in their personal residence, they would be arguing these points of law from jail awaiting their trial. That he has yet to be charged with any crime is a sign of how unequitable his treatment has been.)

Biden, Obama, Nixon and quite possibly all sorts of other politicians have all done the same and aren't in jail. I think you mean if he was a pleb he would be in jail, which is probably correct. The problem is, this whole thing was a comparison with Biden, who isn't in jail...
I .. umm.. err ... well my comment is still technically accurate .. ^_^
I think the main difference is that eating an unfertilized egg doesn't end the life of a viable animal.

I am personally happily eat meat, but I respect people that choose not to kill animals and at least some of them find eating unfertilized eggs to be acceptable.
No, zero is when you're born.

Conception is ~9 months before that.
Clients use random IPv6 suffixes.
Ooh, I'll give it a whirl - performance isn't a priority right now. Thanks Bryce.
How long did it take you to develop your Senior Mindset infoproduct? Curious what the ROI on your time looked like for that.
I thought the /r/golang comments on this post were pretty useful[1]. They also introduced me to avo[2], a tool for generating x86 assembly from go that I hadn't seen before. There are some examples listed on the avo github page for generating AVX512 instructions with avo.

1 = https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/10hmh07/how_to_use_...

2 = https://github.com/mmcloughlin/avo
Please don't use HN for this sort of pre-existing ideological drama battle or whatever this is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The fact that the analysis that Protestants did failed to disagree with the Catholics on that point doesn’t mean thet let the Catholics decide the Scripture; had they done so, their decision would not have varied from that of thd Catholics on any point, but it did, because thet decided for themselves.
Very cool, it works for videos too. Parsed a 1 minute video with ~95% transcription accuracy
the kind of experienced user like you is not the one causing to many support issues. the difficulty is knowing which users are, and being able to charge them appropriately
I’d be moderately interested to hear more. The cynic in me is saying that the brief description on the signup page sounds to me like “We’re going to get people to pay us to drive shoppers like you to their online shops, but with AI involved!” If that’s all this is, no thanks.
I want to note that Google indeed did that. G bought 56bn dollars of its own stock last year (which is equivalent to a 56bn dividend).
Hydrogen is a storage technology. When I looked at it last, it was largely planned to be produced by electrolysis, so the greenness of that depends on the power source for that operation. So it could be green if powered by solar? Or brown, if powered by coal.
There may be fewer, but there are still people making new podcasts, though! I really like this one weird local podcast called Bay Area Weekend, for example.
Diagrams are where architecture goes to die.

In my experience as a former head IT architect, the value of an architectural process is in management and communications. For example, finding out and documenting where your thought leaders are going (a technology acquisition plan) and how they plan to get there (a technology implementation plan). Those are from COBIT 4 BTW.
Google has really stayed true to its mission: connect people and information.

When I'm sitting at my desk and in focus mode, I get information by opening a web browser and navigating to google.com. But if they hadn't invested in Chrome, that might not have been the case by now.

If I'm out and about, I access information via my phone. They built Android for that. If my only option were Apple or Microsoft phones, I might not be asking Google for information.

When I'm sitting at home on the couch, I just yell my queries and a little round computer answers back. It could use some improvement, but it's still me asking Google.

Along the way, Google finds ways to monetize the dispersion of information. I don't really mind because there's literally no alternative that doesn't also try to retain some of the value add.

So why this myopic focus on search? There are a lot of products here that keep me in the ecosystem. Google is a platform company that knows a lot about me and makes my life easier and along the way takes money from advertisers.
Video games being connected to the internet 24/7 are quickly becoming the norm. I am convinced there is a treasure trove of exploits created by the gaming industry just waiting to be found.
That's not even an anecdote. You are literally just assuming something is true, then arguing vocally with people giving you evidence to the contrary.
> The world, on the whole, lost a lot of interest in podcasting.

Your customers' data may reflect that, but industry data shows that podcasting is still growing steadily. In their more recent (2022) report, Edison Research notes, "Monthly podcast listening saw growth year-over-year among those age 35-54, as 43% are now monthly podcast listeners, up from 39% in 2021."

> Some of my biggest customers have half or less than the number of listens they were pulling per week in 2019.

Shows fail. There are countless podcasts whose listens have grown substantially since 2019.
Tbh, I thought in early humans females got pregnant at 12-15. Simply because that when they begin to have the capability to have kids.
"bloody Hampstead"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYAyq5l2Bs&t=2661s
mostly Microsoft but i'm sure there's plenty of hypocrisy coming from the others too.
--too much competition. How many more productivity podcasts, nutrition, or fitness podcasts does the world need?

--too much expenses such as production, audio, set-up, etc.

--hard to get good guests unless you are part of the clique/network , although I don't think this matters too much. It's not like you need top gusts to have a good podcast.
Running in the latest safari iPhone browser I get the error:

failed to asynchronously prepare wasm: CompileError: WebAssembly.Module doesn't parse at byte 5: can't get Function local's type in group 1, in function at index 9
Aborted(CompileError: WebAssembly.Module doesn't parse at byte 5: can't get Function local's type in group 1, in function at index 9)
Will Twitter even be around in 6 months?
Yeah. I remember when podcasts first came out (before they were even called podcasts in the iTunes Store.) It was super easy to be discovered because there was so few things out there, and most of them were junk.
their market share in the total ad market is very far from a monopoly
Except gold has intrinsic value, and cryptocurrency has none.
The standup comedy podcast circle feels like a pyramid scheme. It's funny how interconnected it is.
It works if the guest is discussing a topic that interests you and the information cannot be readily found elsewhere, because it's his unique story or perspective.
For everyone interested in its inspiraton Little Snitch (macOS) - there is also an open source variant called LuLu[1]:

[1]: https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html
My hot take is that my LinkedIn feed is being filled with reposts of “I was affected by the layoff…. {proceeds to humble brag about Ivy League college they attended and other Valley companies they’ve worked for, and express concern about finding another job ASAP despite having months worth of severance}” and it rubs me the wrong way. This is the general trend of ALL layoff posts I’ve seen from ex-Amazon, Google and Microsoft people recently. It’s:

1. I was laid off, but I’m not bitter.
2. My resume is prestigious.
3. Please help me find another role.

So I do believe “entitled” fits.
If I were given a 3-month paid vacation, I would take the damn vacation.
Jamaica had significantly more deaths from COVID than the global average. 3,476 deaths out of 3 million people is 1.16 deaths per 1000 people.

Global average is 6,713,093 deaths from 8 billion people or 0.84 deaths per 1,000 people. Granted there is likely underreporting in global numbers.

The real difference is simply the age of the population. Jamaica has a median age of 29.4 years old, where Italy which got hit even harder with 3 deaths per 1,000 people has a median age of 46.5. This is also why the developing world got out so easily: https://www.statista.com/statistics/829732/global-population...
A few hours... It is constantly listening.

In terms of what other assistance can't do, it can integrate w/ my desktop computer in a way that other assistance can't easily do. The M$ voices take things to another level. Apple has better quality voices for Siri on desktop, but they don't let you access them through the 'say' command.
I'm amused when this is asked here. If you answer you're begging to get a surge in copycats, and by folks who might execute better and bigger, with more resources backing them.
There are no modern scientists who understand evolution and think it can be "completed" or that humans have done so.

If you stand by your assertion, please provide evidence.
> This proof-of-concept would be a breakthrough for healthcare, security, gaming (VR), and a host of other industries.

They forgot the panopticon and Big Brother. Big breakthrough here as well!

Enjoy the week people, funky times ahead :)
Okay so nobody will buy it.
Like the app store, we had a gold rush but it quickly became oversaturated and dominated by few players. It's also very hard to get discovered. Only way to get to top 10 is to spend a lot on marketing. I don't know people who build new apps anymore as a result
Wow. It's just staggering.

From the article :

219,178 new podcasts were created in 2022 as opposed to 337,063 in 2019.

2022 saw the publication of 26.1 million new episodes, up from 18.1 million in 2019. Yet, those numbers fare poorly compared to 2020 and 2021 figures (30,130,431 and 29,513,070 respectively).

Even if it's declined it is a mind bogglingly large number of new podcasts.

It's like book publishing but arguably even easier. Who knows, perhaps 100K new podcasts per year is enough....
Is it finally time for Hashcash[1]/PennyPost[2]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

[2] https://pennypost.sourceforge.net/PennyPost
https://archive.ph/EA0EF
I'm looking to show HN my project next month and would love to know a good strategy to avoid the hug of death.
Thankfully I use an extreme custom keyboard layout so I wish them luck.
2015 paper, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2789168.2790109

> We implemented the WiKey system using a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND WiFi router and a Lenovo X200 laptop. WiKey achieves more than 97.5% detection rate for detecting the keystroke and 96.4% recognition accuracy for classifying single keys. In real-world experiments, WiKey can recognize keystrokes in a continuously typed sentence with an accuracy of 93.5%.

More papers on keystroke recognition: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=5%2C31&sciod...

60Ghz mmWave radar (coming to Wi-Fi via 802.11ay) has higher resolution, shorter range and low ability to penetrate building walls, but can pass through unshielded windows:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30172647.
Related:

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31876220 - June 2022 (75 comments)

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206116 - Jan 2020 (131 comments)

OpenSnitch: LittleSnitch clone for Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16566823 - March 2018 (6 comments)

OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch application firewall - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245270 - May 2017 (103 comments)
This is what agencies do. They can make someone 'blow up' by having their client on top podcasts and other media.
I have it running on my M1 Mac. I picked up a few minis with frequent flyer points and have started to use them in places where I'd use a Rasberry Pi, and as a gateway for my RAID. I'm tickled by the idea of a modern version of Stephen's personal infrastructure[0].

[0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
> e and pi arise in axiomatic systems we use to approximate our world. They never appear in nature.

Thank you! I was beginning to think I was the only one who believes this. So many people seem to mistake the map for the terrain.
Those numbers aren't constant or the same for every group of people. There are genetic pools where girls reach puberty earlier than that.

Ex: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8672
Podcasts have become professionalised IMHO as well.

With the likes of the BBC creating tons of them which are written and recorded by professional journalists, the quality is pretty high and I can see these capturing the market from the amateur "I just recorded some crazy stuff and threw it out there" sector.

It's also very different from the podcasts I think other posters are talking about, which have a host and guests, all of whom bloviate about whatever the topic of the day might be. That's just like an old-school radio show and not really very interesting to me.
the web might just lack genuine, useful, reliable information for most queries.

People here love to remark that they prefix every query with "reddit" but ime the only difference is that they've tricked themselves into thinking their results are worth something.
Sturgeon's law applies - 90% of everything is crap. 90% of movies shot on film were terrible too. Everything in the direct-to-video bargain bin in Blockbuster in the 80s and 90s was shot on film, and trust me, they were not all Tremors II.

So when more stuff gets made, more crap gets made. But the 10% that's good gets bigger too.

You want a world that contains Everything Everywhere All At Once? You have to also accept The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as well. Sorry.
I’ve wondered this too. I don’t know any young people (at least nobody my kids’ ages between 17 and 26) who use Facebook. It seems like they might be missing a large part of their target audience.
Whoa, this just brought back memories I didn’t know existed. I definitely recognize simfreaks, and it brings to mind another content house called Seven Deadly Sims, which I cannot find anymore. Unfortunate because I remember them having a particularly cool landing page (for the early 00s that is).
You're right, and it also is apparently optimised for m1.
Does it bother you that white men do podcasts?