skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use Firefox, have my userContent.css DIY dark mode. Or you can massage it into the syntax expected by { Arc’s custom CSS, uBlock Origin, your CSS injecter of choice }:

@-moz-document domain(news.ycombinator.com) {
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
body {background-color: #111 !important;}
#hnmain {background-color: #181818 !important;}
.c00, a:link, .subtext a:link { color: #eee !important; }
.comhead { opacity: 0.5 !important; }
a:visited, .subtext a:visited, .pagetop, .reply a { color: #777 !important; }
button, select, input, textarea { -moz-appearance: none !important; color: #eee !important; background-color: #444 !important; border: 0.5px solid gray !important; }
pre, code { color: #9d9 !important; }
}
}

Obvious caveats apply: it’s mine, it’s certainly incomplete, yadayada. But hey, been working for me for years! Also, now that you know that the feature exists, you can probably search "Hacker News dark mode userContent.css" and find better / more complete ones :)

Always a pleasure helping tasoeur.
(2/17) Quick update! I've added colors for nested comments to improve readability and started working on a voting system. It's still a work in progress, but it's live!
Geeze, Louise! Did a Koala mercilessly bully you while you were there, mate?
One major annoyance of IPv6 is that it lacks support for IPv4's whole 127.0.0.1/8 range.
I am right about it. Find a single document - written before the viral tweet that claims this.

The idea doesn't even stand up to basic common sense. Nobody ever thought about the default date in the social security database system before?? Really??? "Uhh, guys, maybe this should be a 'not null' field?"

There is a whole chapter in their manual about how to establish age for people who don't have a birth certificate. They don't just enter null.

https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/lnx/0200302000!opendo...
As was noted elsewhere (I forget the source), it's zero sum: anyone who makes money is making it off someone who is losing money. In fact, it's less than zero sum because of platform fees.
Park rangers make $30k-40k in small cities/towns. Not to mention big cities can help pay for some of the transition costs for these homeless, with their 15 billion budget. Also, it would be way cheaper to house these homeless once they choose to transition from park to an apartment.
Yes, it is discomforting, I agree. Just want to make sure folks know who was fired.
It is a very old jailbreak: Ye Olde Gaolbreak! One had to bribe the town constable with a ha’penny and a pint of mead just to install a third-party reading app. Dost thou even root, sir?
Wikipedia says "ISO 8601:2004 established a reference calendar date of 20 May 1875 (the date the Metre Convention was signed), later omitted from ISO 8601-1:2019." I was curious what "reference calendar date" is supposed to mean.

Thanks to links in the SE thread, I found the relevant actual text in ISO 8601:2000 (I don't know how different it might be, if at all, in the 2004 document):

> The Gregorian calendar provides a reference system consisting of a, potentially infinite, series of contiguous calendar years. Consecutive calendar years are identified by sequentially assigned year numbers. A reference point is used which assigns the year number 1875 to the calendar year in which the “Convention du mètre” was signed at Paris.

This last sentence is simply an obtuse way to say "this year right now, as I [jomar] write this -- we call this 2025". Apparently the ISO committee did not want to refer to what was going on around 1 AD or felt that the missing 0 between 1 BC and 1 AD would lead to confusion or something, so instead used the birth year of the metre to state the bleeding obvious.
> Frankly I'd say they found the obvious solution, the one that any decent programmer would find for that problem.

That statement seems to belittle the amount of effort and thought described in the article. And wildly contradicts my experience.
This is one of those "do we really need to do this" type of things. If you go and play with an OKLCH tool like this one, you'll notice that the differences in the OKLCH vs RGB/hex color are imperceptible: https://oklch.com/#65.88,0.2097,41.29,100.
America has no social safety net and a drug epidemic. What did you seriously think was going to happen?

I even find a weird sense of respect for the folks who want to build concentration camps because at least they are honest.
It was invisible to me. I just started scrolling without thinking. I guess I'm an Internet lover.
Dumb question. How exactly do you make something "patent free"? Do you get the patent (so no one else can troll with it), the promise not to enforce "violations"?
Ongoing condolences to all the public servants who are being wronged in this ongoing destruction of government.

For what it's worth, people care and sympathize; we just don't know anything that we can do to help.
When I was posting, `document.title ` said "US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers". I didn't want to introduce my editorialization.
Well I don't think you're a renter then. I am so glad I bought a house in 2016 because everyone I know who rents has been on a wild ride.

Section 8 has long wait lists. It seems kinda unbelievable to argue that destruction of thousands of units of low income housing didn't cause people to not have housing.

I don't doubt that many people are mentally ill. Before Rahm's cuts, we had a taxpayer-ran system of caring for the mentally ill.
The timing was definitely chosen to let it get lost in the noise.

It also plays neatly into conservative ideals of letting the free market reign and “do your own research” is an excuse for everything. It’s trendy to blame only the buyers of these coins while praising the creators as genius marketers.

That said, the Trump and Melania coins have generated a lot of anger in the crypto space. At first people were twisting themselves into pretzels to pretend it was all very good, but one by one they seem to be capitulating to the idea that it’s not even good for crypto.
All these fired employees were hired in the last year. How much of our government is new like that?
Didn't they offer some sort of buyout severance deal?
Perhaps Greasemonkey can do the customization(s) you would like:

You can add styles that override existing styles, or styles
specific to new elements that your user script inserts.[0]

HTH

0 - http://greasemonkey.win-start.de/patterns/add-css.html
The opposition party doesn't have the numbers in Congress to even start the impeachment process. Regardless it's still a decent reputational hit for Milei
Attorneys general in places like Texas can subpoena the companies for records requests, and try to deduce if any of those tracked had abortions.
> No browser supports CMYK

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Every browser supports CMYK color encoding/space; they just transform it into RGB on the fly.
Perhaps they have improved now, but in the major winter storms of 2-3 years ago, we were regularly frustrated by how PG&E seemed to be spending more time on their innovative ways of reporting outages, but not actually fixing outages.

If your power is out, the "estimated restoration time" is a complete guess. We used to enjoy how it used to jump forwards 24 hours at exactly 6pm every day, during our 8-day outage.
The SSA's master records, the Numerical Identification (NUMIDENT) files, store dates in text as either CCYYMMDD or MMDDCCYY strings according to their archived versions.

https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/207202/

I have a hard time believing the DB2 systems would convert it to days/seconds/whatever since 1875. It's not impossible, but I think whoever came up with the 1875 thing was simply wrong.

That's not to say there are 150 year olds collecting social security either. Dates of birth are sometimes missing or entered wrong and sometimes death records don't get entered. It's also clear DOGE didn't understand that social security numbers can't be used as a unique identifiers (nor why it's unnecessary) which can lead to all sorts of issues when processing.

Edit: It also seems the SSA presumes anyone over 115 is has died and halts payments which makes it even more unlikely there are 150 year old beneficiaries: https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0202602578
I moved to Kobo because I bought my partner the Kindle Oasis and just after a year the battery couldn't hold a charge. I contacted Amazon and they would only give me 10% off a new device. I only found one person on the internet who was courageous enough to open one up. The screen was epoxied to the body with no way of opening the device without destroying the screen.

So I got her a Kobo Libra H2O. Just as waterproof, significantly cheaper, and you can actually repair it. I ended up getting a Libra Colour for myself and love it.
The part of all of this which I have a problem with from the outside, is that it seems extremely irresponsible to address the White House and the public to say you have found people that are 150 years old receiving social security payments in such a provocative way. As if you have so simply stumbled across this error that has gone unnoticed.

There’s been no formal inquiry, there was no mention of any of the checks and balances that may have been occurring, there’s been no nuance to the argument from him at all. Okay maybe there are people that look to be 150 years old, is there a reason why? Were they actually being paid the social security or was there a legitimate exception? Maybe people were but it was so few and far between and was an internal controls issue which all governments and companies have globally or was none of it true and your team simply assumed they were being paid.

After reading an article where Gov security experts were worried because they were having to give Elon’s team access to Putty and SQL tools. It seems like people are going through this data and making inferences that may not be completely true or vetted.
Thank you! Using online translators are more miss than hit.
Here is a Tampermonkey¹ script I've used for some ime to make HN look the way I want it to (plain white background). It should be easy to adapt for a dark preference. It also adds a "bookmark" at the top of each page which is also easily removed if you don't want that.

https://pastebin.com/fnf4CeBM

¹ https://www.tampermonkey.net
I am struggling to take this comment seriously. How do you feel about requiring minors (< 18yrs old in most places) to wear a seat belt? Do you also think that crash test safety is an overreach of gov't... or speed limits?
It's super nice to see this random submission of mine ended up being a meeting point of sorts :) It is one of my favorite design documents, probably 'THE' one now that I think about it. Thanks for all the hard work put into the document -- or well, the game in general, still a favorite of mine.
By finding the person who can help you?
I take it you’re not american?

This is how the US works: at will employment: one day you have a job, the next you don’t.
That's because we are so weak as a nation we can't come together and say "fuck that" to companies owning any bit of data they can collect about us without permission. Could be solved by laws, but we are far too divided for that.
Are you referring to “Silence Unknown Callers”? Last I had it activated, it didn’t show an unknown call as a notification. It just sent them to voicemail and updated the badge on the phone app.
There's going to be a lot more of this happening over the next couple of years.
Or a cocaine.ninja or national.shitposting.agency address
> largely always just agreed upon make believe

The benefits of having a common/standard unit for an economic ledger are enormous, as it greatly reduces trading friction. That added benefit has real (i.e., not make believe) value, and the more liquid the currency the higher the monetary premium.

Even after hyperinflation, if you normalize to the money supply, currencies generally don't lose value without losing liquidity (being less "agreed upon") .. "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon"
> Maintaining VIM turned out to be a full time job, though the community has stepped in to help.

I think if you sneakily put me on Vim 7.5, I might not notice.
Entirely possible that part of the system fails on whatever is causing there to be 150 year olds.
These don't just include new hires but also people who switched to their job recently. It is not uncommon in the government to switch jobs.
Maybe it’s just my social circle, but for about 20 years I’ve been having these conversations and approximately 0% of people care about this stuff. They just want cheap or free crap.

The human mind seems to, as a default state, only care about visible and immediate cost, filtered through a lens of many other biases.

At this point, I feel we need to judge based on observed behaviors rather than armchair psychology of what people actually want but have been given no chance to try. Alternatives to Google exist only as a niche; to me, this feels like pretty conclusive evidence about what most people prefer.
Dissident have something to hide, persecuted people do. Wives escaping their violent cop husband do. So when we are saying "I have nothing to hide" we are essentially saying "I'm throwing all of these and more under the bus." And we hide what that says about us, from ourselves and others. I'm not saying this to point fingers, I do it myself, I'm no better.

As for that article... what?

> I am to offer a practical privacy viewpoint and tangible advice. Something you can change in 5 minutes while sitting on the couch. And I will tell you why it matters and the differences you may notice as a result of doing it.

Alright, reading on..

> Social media is a big part of privacy, but that’s not all of it. Here are some tangents I occasionally go on:

okay, I'm sure the advice will appear anyt--

> 6. Let’s do this - Subscribe and stay in touch. I have the most awesome community over on Instagram, and I’m really excited to have a community here, too.

Okay. So we're discussing the headline of an article that is 100% marketing and provides zero information or value. And the subject "privacy" is 100% political. No flags, no people telling us they're so tired of politics. How weird.
Earlier:

Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After 'Insiders' Pocket $87M

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072790
Vim did that in 1994 already.
> the company informed him about the Libra blockchain project and its aims to finance private ventures in the country.

I can’t believe people are still falling for these claims. Every single time someone launches a coin with claims that purchasing it will help fund some special cause, there is no basis to the claim.

If you want to fund or finance a cause, give your money to that cause. If you buy a meme coin, you’re only giving your money to insiders who held the coins before the pump.
Whatever you do, do not buy bonds right now. As they sell off and rates rise, the value of your bonds on the secondary market will get trashed. You'll also have an opportunity to buy bonds with massive yields if the market crashes due to a debt crisis. I mean imagine getting paid 20% per year, tax advantaged, for the next 30 years.

Honestly, the rule with indexes is buy and hold. Although I'm confident we have a crash incoming, unless you need the money soon, you should just hold your index funds and add everything you can to it at the bottom. You'll also have to pay taxes on the realized gains if you go to cash. I do believe that Trump's entire presidency is going to be a massive crash, temporary rebound, and then downtrend through 2028. We will probably not return to highs until the 2030s.
zsh-autosuggestions is very useful!
I'm just saying: the ABLA homes weren't a relief valve for people who could not safely take care of themselves. It wasn't where all the people in tents on the streets came from. The CHA projects were overrun with gangs, for sure, but the median CHA tenant was a taxpaying full-time employee. I guess what I'm snagging on here is the assumption that there's an equivalence to draw between an ABLA tenant and a fentanyl addict.

(I've been a renter and a homeowner in Chicago; I grew up here).
I have no problem with Australians, I think they're mostly great. Occasionally you'll get an obnoxious one who insists on inserting "gaol" into a conversation just to kick off an insanely stupid side thread.
Interesting, I’d never heard of text now. I wonder if it’s an awareness thing, or is it aligned with previous conditioning? (Eg I always paid for cell service and it’s cheaper and better now than it’s ever been… whereas Google has always been free)
Charging at home is often more expensive than gas in much of California and Hawaii but yes generally cheaper to run if you ignore vehicle cost and lifespan.
> It was used as a hash, and every TEA key has an equivalent alter-ego key or something, I forget the details.

It's that flipping bit 16 and 31 of a 32-bit word makes the end TEA state the same [1].

[1]: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/591...
I don't think "without thought" is fair.

They know what they're doing.
It's 2025, and the split-brain world of Google vs YouTube vs AdSense accounts has still not been solved, and is only getting worse. It seems you need to be an expert in how Google backend is structured to get anything done on YouTube. To my understanding:

Google account: everyone knows what it is, your personal account. Unless you have GSuite, then nobody knows what it's meant to be and let you do.

YouTube account (channel): there is now a many-to-many relation between Google accounts and YouTube accounts, but they otherwise function pretty much like pre-Google+ YouTube accounts. You can even change the primary Google account of a YouTube account, that requires clicking a button and waiting for a week. Then there is this brand vs non-brand distinction, where you can convert from non-brand to brand, but not the other way around, and some stuff used to work only with one of these types. And I think nowadays there is some way to make a Google account without a (named) YouTube channel, if you're just a viewer that doesn't even comment or create playlists, but there is not much reason to do that.

AdSense account: A billing account, once again with many-to-many mapping to Google accounts, and also many-to-many [0] mapping to AdSense projects ("sites"). Requires unique billing details, and apparently unique address as well [1], but otherwise shouldn't do much.

So in the linked situation, I think editing Google account login info changed the AdSense account details, which is definitely unexpected. YouTube account was probably not the problem here, I suspect the author would have had same issue if they were selling ads on a website instead of YouTube channel, though of course you have to use different AdSense UI if you sell ads on Youtube vs on the web, which probably further complicates things.

Anyway, since it hit the frontpage of ~~Google's only working support channel~~ HackerNews, it will soon be solved (for that single creator only, probably).

The only good solutions to this mess seem to be to either make YouTube account a standalone thing (cutting AdSense from the picture, and using Google accounts only for authentication), or to decouple all the accounts and make links between them more configurable / clear. Anything in-between, and we get (waves hands) this.

But both of these solutions would also make it too clear where to cut if/when the Google antitrust process comes, which doesn't make me think it will happen anytime soon.

[0] https://support.google.com/adsense/thread/11680365/how-we-ca...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/PartneredYoutube/comments/17vb8w8/c...
It wouldn't matter. Elections are closely monitored by observers from both parties. If there is credible evidence of fraud across multiple election sites in multiple states, including states with blue legislatures, those observers should probably stop sitting on it.

Assuming any evidence exists, why did none of the people who could actually gather any file injuctions, lawsuits, etc? They had four months to do it, three of them while the incumbent still controlled the executive.
I put a top-level post on this submission requesting more poll options.

> contentious 'options' which presume malice on the part of "science"

My poll attempted to ascribed malice to the powerful people who use the trappings of science to concentrate wealth. I made a similar comment 2 days ago: "[...] the medical system has been gamed to concentrate wealth. Doctoring pays well, but doctors are much lower on medicine's economic dogpile than insurance and pharmaceutical companies." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053362

> self corrections or false accusations

I went to a seminar around 2004. The speaker mentioned a foundational science mistake from the 1800's. In the past year I've heard this mistake was corrected, but the correction was classified. <shrug>.

There is no official guide to "how to prevent your child from becoming Autistic", so this issue is still open.

Thanks for the feedback.
This is a variant of a pig butchering scam. Pig butchering scams are a dime a dozen and screw over many who get so deep in the game they can't stop.

Cryptocurrency 'pig butchering' scam wrecks Kansas bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years

The massive embezzlement led to the collapse and FDIC takeover of Heartland Tri-State, one of only five U.S. banks that failed in 2023.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/cryptocurrenc...
Yeah, this is the thing that made me realize that cryptocurrency is pretty much always a bad investment.

Stocks aren't zero sum, at least in their idealized form; if I buy a share of some company, they can use that investment to create products or provide value in some form, and if the product is good then that gets reflected in the stock price increasing. It creates value, and the stock price follows.

With cryptocurrency (with maybe the exception of the more computation based stuff like Ethereum?), it doesn't really do anything, it's not creating value. It's just transferring between wallets, and the value increase is pretty much entirely speculative.

Obviously not all stocks are "ideal" like I mentioned above; there have been plenty of cases where stocks are ponzi-adjacent, and it's certainly not uncommon for stocks to be overvalued during bubbles and the like, but my point is that stocks aren't inherently zero-sum like cryptocurrency is.
Hackernews users are getting softer and softer. Such a childish reaction to a simple website.
What would it look like to combine Google search with LLM in-context learning?
Remember: official emails will only come from .gov domains. Oh, and also now @doge.lol.
> Sure, and not even a quarter of Americans voted for Harris.

So if Harris and her goons did this shit, the correct response would be the same.

> if you really want to be pedantic

Why would I want to be? Saying "the people are fine with this so it's fine" would be BS even if 99% of Americans voted for it. That's the "dumb numbers game", I didn't start with that and I attribute zero value to it.
> I get the whole subplot of freed vortegants turning you into a heroic figure

That's not really it at all, it's the G-man's machinations that turn him into a "heroic figure". If anything he's more comparable to Paul Atreides. The Vorteguants just temporarily release him from the G-man's grasp in HL2:E1, but that barely lasts to the next episode.

He's a pawn of whatever game the G-Man is playing, and was unleashed as sort of an unwitying agent of chaos on Breen and the Combine ("the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world").

> Also all of the "girlfriend simulator" stuff is cringe that aged poorly

Huh?
Apologies. Missed that line, you are quite correct.
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Wow. I didn't know about this (or might have, as I an obsession with trying to hunt for interesting online tools/services/things, but had never tried). Thank you for mentioning it here! This is awesome. I am loving 'Suburbs of Goa' station. Will explore more.