skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not having government be a gravy train also seems to help select for people who genuinely want to be civil servants because the people who are just in it for the paycheck don't stick around in challenging environments like that.

This is partly true, but it's just one of the outcomes of the process.

I work for a state government that doesn't pay close to the median wages for similar positions. What my government offers is a lot of job security (I'm confident the state will not dissolve anytime soon) and lenient hiring requirements. Looking at my official job description, anyone who passed calculus in college and had the ability to learn basic programming could do it. And that was me, so I was hired. Once here, I realize people expect a lot more out of me, like statistical knowledge common to those with high-demand master's degrees. They keep the official description simple, because nobody who can already do the tasks would accept such low wages.

Which leads to a couple outcomes, and I've seen them all:

1. The government position is a stepping stone, either to a more politically influential role or a more lucrative position in the private sector

2. The person feels a sense of purpose in public service (I consider myself here) and stays a while. They will try to improve things, but this happens in short bursts when they meet similar people in other bureaus. Chances are, they'll burn out. Then they either leave or move onto the next group...

3. The person realizes they only have to do what's in the job description. So they stay for the security and resist professional development. Could also be the result of #2 burning out.

This is not, in my opinion, a good model for improving government. It relies on the hope you get enough people from group 2 that can do enough before burning out. But because group 3 exists, that burn out will happen quickly.
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It's like jsfiddle for multiple languages.
I like the sentiment, but I have to disagree. I believe there is something genetically different about Grothendieck that makes him possess superior intelligence. I don’t think you can cultivate a bunch of Grothendiecks in mass by teaching a bunch of children advanced mathematics at a younger age.
Not quite.

You can set an Accent color and either a light or dark background - that’s it. You can’t specify each component color or named system color - such as separately specifying the colors of the scrollbar’ track and thumb - or icon text - or button shadows - and so on.

The old “Desktop Themes” feature for Windows 95 Plus! and Windows 98 let the user radically change the appearance of Windows - for better or for worse - when was the last time you saw a custom desktop icon pack or purple 3D face color?

But yes - all of this assumes the user is aesthetically capable - but neither was Microsoft: Google Image Search for “windows hot dog stand”. Be careful, you might get a migraine.
My favorite story of a pivot comes from anon on HN [1]:

In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go.

To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the SF startup scene. One company that I really liked and did some small stuff for was Burbn, which was a mobile-only location check-in that was hinged around taking photos of your location.

Missing my friends in NYC (I made a lot of friends in SF, but my inner circle were my college buddies from CMU; I went to tech and they went finance, sigh), I decided to leave SF to head to NYC and get a fresh start.

As I was leaving, I wanted to tie up a few loose ends, so I emailed my contact at Burbn and said I was likely to be unavailable for any more work, but that I liked the project and hoped for the best for him. He responded and said that he was near funding on a small pivot, and that if I was interested, there might be a full-time role available. I declined - I was mentally done with SF and the startup scene (Larry Chiang, 111 Minna, the rise of FB spam-crap like RockYou, etc.) as it was then.

That person was Kevin Systrom; that pivot was Instagram.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063362
If you simply bury them, there is a good chance the wood will be decomposed anaerobically, producing methane then carbon dioxide.
You renner the times where in a browser one picked colors and font for background, text and links and many sites followed those choices? Now one has to spent time to tweak the Userstyle By finding the right CSS classes and things to change
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I thought the reddit discussion did a better job explaining it, but here are the direct links:

https://lokl.dev/

https://github.com/leonstafford/lokl

The developer, Leon Stafford, is also working hard on WP plugins that convert to static sites and even upload directly to popular services such as Cloudflare, Netlify, Amazon, etc.

(I am not associated with this project.)
Except that Windows 10 themes are a severe security/malware hazard, not a customization of harmless graphical elements.
It does that, it loads the last cached result - need to press 'rerun' to execute it again.
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> I was wondering where this product was, and/or why some of the podcasts I listen to don't use something like this.

These are called "multi-enders", and lots of podcasts do them. There are many[1] tools for this which are focused specifically on podcasters.

Additionally, it's straightforward to do it manually as well. (Tip: Have participants on all ends do a "1-2-3 <CLAP>" to make it easy to align the audio during production. Do this at the beginning and end to account for digital clock drift.)

[1] Cast: https://tryca.st/ [2] Cleanfeed: https://cleanfeed.net/ [3] Ringr: https://www.ringr.com/ [4] Zencastr: https://zencastr.com/
Google Should be banned in whole world.
QAnon?
Most of the stuff in there doesn't even apply to Google. I think Google is just about the most "pull only" advertisement company I can name of the top of my head. Certainly compared to local companies here they're saints.

Also: you don't consider the need for new companies to get initial attraction for a new (or better/different version of X) product. How would you have that happen without advertising?
Very impressive!

At the last Vintage Computer Fest West before covid I saw this on display [1] and was completely taken with the clicky sound and blinkenlights. It does use semiconductors for the memory and IO.

I built one last March and April, and found it to be surprisingly enjoyable and relaxing. Highly recommended for those who love clicking and blinking things.

[1] http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/
So you support the abolition of free speech to preemptively keep a hypothetical free speech abolitionist group from abolishing free speech?
I'm not quite get this "style". It only has headlines, one picture for each and very short description. Also it only really works with Javascript on.
I'm curious how long you need to wait before you declare it non-open-source.
QED is a powerful, programmable and extensible text editor with a CLI interface. Just as Emacs had multiple from-scratch implementations by different authors, so did QED. The Tilbrook, Pike, Redelmeier QED for Unix was based on the ed source code. It was far more powerful than vi (also derived from ed), but lacked vi's visual mode. The CLI interface allows you to perform global text transformations across a collection of files, using short 1 line commands. It's a very powerful paradigm, not really duplicated in either Emacs or in mainstream editors. Rob Pike's 'Sam' editor is a successor to QED with more powerful regular expressions, and a visual editing mode.

I knew David, and I was amazed at how productive he was using qed.
Cron maybe?
It's true! This was done with an early prototype of the Welder so the quality is not the best. We should've reshot it already, but we love the vibe of it, haha.
Ask HN: Why does Google Search sometimes return empty pages? Is it a bug?
For example, if you search for "why wikipedia is free" (with the double quotes, or you can use [1]) you should get:

- About 1,920 results
- Pages 1, 2 & 3

Now, if you go on page 2, the page 3 will disappear from the list. If you go straight to page 3, it will be empty. Doing the latter is almost like a bug to me, because you are then on a potentially misleading page:

"Your search - "why wikipedia is free" - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

Make sure that all words are spelled correctly.
Try different keywords.
Try more general keywords."

Which is clearly not the case since my search has "about 1,920 results".

Why is Google showing that page 3 in the first place? Is it related to the location and intended or is it a bug?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22why+wikipedia+is+free%22
I think top gear did this when they staged a drag race between the original Tesla and its Donor car.

The amount of torque and electric vehicle can put out is huge.
Yes. As of now have a few paying customers and it covers the expenses of my servers.

I will need to double down on marketing efforts in coming days. But I do see there is a need.
They can stop Trump from posting on Twitter but I was also being facetious.
This sound interesting. I wanted to read the documentation but the link in the README file returns 404.
> I do need polished hardware that I can walk into a store and try out

Doesn’t this apply to my first two suggestions? The Dell XPS Developer Edition is the same hardware as the Windows version, just with Ubuntu preinstalled. And Dell has upstreamed the drivers. Similar with Lenovo hardware, except IIUC they haven’t started shipping Linux preinstalled yet, you just buy a normal Thinkpad and install your distro of choice. Purism has a basic return policy, though IIUC you have to pay shipping and, if there’s no hardware defect, a 10% restocking fee: https://puri.sm/policies/. System76 has a 30-Day Limited Money Back Guarantee linked in their websites footer: https://system76.com/warranty (^f 30 and hit enter a couple times).

> if the kernel drops support for my hardware

Is there precedent for this? It still supports 32-bit CPUs long after most people have upgraded — indeed certain distros like Ubuntu have stopped supporting them, but there are probably hundreds of other distros that haven’t done that¹, like Devuan, which also champions init freedom and maintains a list of a ~two dozen Free distros/OSes that don’t force systemd: https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom

¹Edit: Distrowatch lists 40 active distros that support i386, 102 active that don’t use systemd, and 25 active (and 115 non-active) that meet both of those criteria : https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&o...
>If its for the work they perform they are just one of many.

Sure, but that counts for almost anything you can use to like or dislike something or someone, so it's not really useful to bring up.
sounds exploitable
Yes exactly, there's plenty of space for a decent sensor and lens. On top of that we're talking about a wide-angle lens, which are generally flatter. Two things add thickness and complexity to camera lenses - telephoto and autofocus. Phones only recently started getting thick bumps for the rear camera when telephoto lenses became more popular. My phone has a sizeable bump for the telephoto camera but the ultra-wide angle one is outside of that bump.
See, this is the exact refusal to engage in good faith that I'm talking about. The red scare really did do a number on y'all.

Geopolitically speaking, opposition to colonialism and imperialism (and their neo- variants) are generally considered to be leftist ideals. Internationalism skews left and globalism skews right, despite American conservatives' pearl-clutching in that regard. Decentralisation of power (with the extreme including advocating for anarchic/acephalous societies) also skews heavily left, with the flaw that without strong systems this often leads to the re-centralisation of power in the hands of one or a few (conversely, hierarchism which skews heavily right often leads to codification of power in de facto aristocracies).

Economically, capitalism is unambiguously a right-wing economic theory (note that capitalism is not the same think as markets - another thing that people would rather remain cheerfully ignorant about). If your politico-economic system involves capitalism, you'd be very hard pressed to describe it as anything further left than centrist at best (as most mixed economies are). Actual leftist economics would include the somewhat vague blob that is left-libertarianism, encompassing everything from Georgism (often criticised as capitalism lite) to syndicalism, mutualism, anarcho-collectivism and the (of particular interest to me) various schools of African socialism. Opposition to capital/private ownership/wage theft takes many forms, not only that of the communist bogeyman.

Why do people want to think of themselves/be thought of as being on the left so badly when they're completely unwilling to actually engage with what leftism means?
Where the pastebin is your own GitHub Gist (https://gist.github.com), which you can view or host from https://gist.cafe/<gist-id>
I guess we'll never know until we have the front camera assemblies from both sitting side by side.
Nice to see you can deploy OSS on it! :)
I was looking through the Shopify marketplace a while back and I had the thought that channel partnerships/marketing is probably an amazing way to bootstrap a SaaS. Glad to see someone else had the same idea and did the due diligence to collect a good chunk of these. I'm bootstrapping something consumer facing now, but I've of course thought about "pivoting to B2B" if the opportunity plays out. It's nice to remember that these channels provide ample concrete space to help figure out the distribution side of things beyond paid acquisition. Now paid acquisition is great and all for VC backed companies, but for indie hackers, listening to and iterating /based/ off of the channel itself seems to be a real lifeline. You don't have to worry about the marginal acquisition costs that would otherwise price you out of the game entirely.

Looking at a couple of comments here, I'm seeing some eye popping figures from folks who pulled off using channel marketing for their SaaS. It's very heartening to see.
> all that's left is a giant advertising behemoth

Was there really ever anything more?
Yes, there's been a massive revival of fascist and racialist ideology in the past 10-15 years. I still don't completely understand it.
We need hard science, not software, to power our post-pandemic recovery
My annual merit based increases are often at or just below inflation levels and the cost increase of insurance, I wouldn't hold my breath on my employer upping my pay a comparable amount - shareholders aren't fond of shrinking profits.

I think the largest pay bump I've ever seen in a year was right at 2% or possibly even less.
All of Ray Monk's biographies are supposedly excellent. I have only read the Wittgenstein one, but he also wrote some books on Bertrand Russell (philosopher/mathematician) and Oppenheimer (scientist.)
Sure, but is there any supposed cognitive failure that "cognitive bias" cannot explain? An omni-explanation explains nothing.
That wasnt my point at all. My point was that this seems like basic application of simple concepts from Computer Science, so it's not that odd if people aren't thinking about using this library to do it.
If you don't know what gists are from the get-go then that's where I'd start. Gists are a separate feature of GitHub where you can share code like if it's pastebin or other similar services, but tied to your GitHub account. This enables you to execute code from gists, which can be written in dozens of languages.
I was the same way with Windowmaker themes. Now I use a fairly boring desktop with a dark theme, and I'm happy if GTK and Qt themes coexist nicely.

With that being said, a lot of themes were UGLY or clones of OS X or Windows.
>You still earn exactly as much as you do now,

And one would assume you'd see rents and housing prices very rapidly start going up, then presumably other prices over varying levels of time.
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Why are auto workers considered out? The UAW still has hundreds of thousands of members. I would consider it relatively successful, for its members anyway.
Most of the higher production value podcasts I listen to with remote hosts/guests do this, albeit manually (ie record locally with something like Audacity, sync on a click/clap, recorded live call as a backup). This feels like a nice improvement to streamline an otherwise cumbersome process.
No, actually I didn’t get that far in the comments - I happen to have a copy of her book The Art of Memory
Up to Windows XP I used to change Windows colours and occasionally fonts and border sizes in order to distinguish real windows from fake ones in popups and banners, now the Windows 10 automatic colour changes are a mediocre substitute.
"Through tortuous committee procedures, it managed to kill some important provisions, including a requirement that new homes come already wired for electric vehicle chargers."

I don't trust the general argument that the government will save people money by restricting their choices. If I don't want to buy, for example, a house wired for an EV, that should be my choice.
How does it fly against it? To me it appears to say "well of course that's popular, the configurability gives users a sense of ownership over their device"
downloads.com was much much worse, also few other sites I can't remember right now.

Overall Tucows was great, they helped so many people.
Thank you guys!
I think what UI customization shows us is that software vendors providing customize-ability correlates with a lack of confidence in the defaults they ship.

When someone creating software has a strong opinion about the "right" way, they can't see the possibility that anyone would ever have legit disagreement with their brilliance so they take away control. And when they can't figure out the right solution to something, they ship flexibility so it can be the user's fault that it works like shit.
I'm struggling to understand how I could have been misunderstood. $100/yr is $8.33/mo. Even a burger meal at a fast food joint is that much now. Ergo: less than a single lunch PER MONTH. Where did I lose you?
Eh? Windows 10 themes are just wallpaper packs and a defined accent color.

I assume you’re referring to UxStyle etc as used since Windows XP? That doesn’t involve loading any executable code (unless there’s an RCE vulnerability in the theme resource loader, I suppose) - patching the signature checks in UxTheme.dll isn’t that big a deal, imo.
Ha, that’s amazing. Haven’t seen that episode...

The thought of my dead relatives supposedly trying to sell me grocery goods is quite odd...
I used to view things this way as well. It has a lot in common with blank slate psychology. I have come to not believe things like this anymore.

As I get older, I am returning more to it's more about nature than nurture: genetics matter much more than environment. I've realized just how hard it is to do some of these things, even with all the resources and tools at your disposal. I spent much time thinking of how environmental cultivation can help, and I do think it matters to a degree, but genetics matter much more, in as much that the only reason environment matters at all is that it helps bring forth expressions of your genes. Having children made me realize this even more. While they pick up on some things and mannerisms of their parents, I have no idea where their unique little personalities came from, and their tendencies towards certain subjects, hobbies, or activities. It amazes me every day I see them change and grow into their own person.

Additionally, it belittles the consistent effort and energy spent by these individuals to train their minds. Genius to an extent has a lot in common with madness, in that you have to be almost mad to take ideas they did to their conclusion. We see the result of their works, but not the countless hours and sleepless nights put in to get to that point, driven by the idea of novelty and discovery.
This reply would be much better if you provided some examples of these corner cases.
I agree but I am a firm believer that all things between people are highly situational, including when to inform, when to explain, when to suggest, when to ask, and when to listen. Correcting people can be considered impolite. In discussions marked by conflict, it's often more useful to get the other person to arrive at your conclusion themselves, by simply presenting the information and your evaluation of its meaning. It depends a lot upon the audience, the prior conversation, the circumstances etc. People are marked by a great deal of hysteresis (not to be confused with hysteria lol).
Interesting read. How high tech is used in the middle east to track and identify terrorists and how this tech is becoming more widespread domestically.

Some choice quotes below.

Must be super boring:

> Kevin spent hours a day, seven days a week watching all kinds of people go about their lives, with the goal of separating out the insurgents from the civilians.

Terrifying:

> These are actions that allow for that individual to be moved out of civilian status and into insurgent status—to be targeted and killed legally according to army rules of engagement.

> Because we know what you did, we think we know what you are going to do next.

Powerpoint. Also terrifying.

> The 429 package, which allows an insurgent to be killed in an air strike, must meet the legal requirements. The full-motion video gets snapshotted as evidence. While this is going on, the PGSS operator quickly generates a PowerPoint containing all the data, which goes to the S2. The S2 quickly reviews that, then sends the information to the battle captain.

> If there’s not air support available, then the person of interest remains marked for death in the system. “The moment there is a target of opportunity to take him out, I call it in. I don’t have to go back through the approving process,” Kevin says. “The 429 package stands. That’s why it’s called a Target of Opportunity. When you have the opportunity, you strike the target.” You kill the man.
Will Smith had offer from MIT, opted to pursue acting
Nice, I have joined a few meetings from my phone and my desktop simultaneously because my desktop didn't have a webcam or microphone. It worked in a pinch but I wouldn't do it on a regular basis.
This! and GitHub lets you basically create your own gists of anything at https://gist.github.com
Thank you! That was driving me crazy. And now I see why I got confused: it's another phonograph-related dangerous-element fact that I learned from reading Theodore Gray's book, The Elements [0] [1].

Now if I could only remember why I thought neutron beams were involved...

[0] https://theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Elements/084/index.s7...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011IZNWZU
The post is from mid-2019. I think the development you mention tallies very well with how the post ends.
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My intent was to inform the people that were going to read the comment and decide to try gitea due to it of the issue.

Although I would say that my comment would also be relevant to that user as long as their personal server is public and they do not want to exclude people with vision issues from viewing the projects that they host.
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