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Ask HN: Google just kicked me out of my account, no option to verify
Earlier today, I got logged out from one of my devices (Macbook Pro ) on Chrome. I thought it was not a big deal so I tried signing in again but then it asked me to verify my phone number which I did not have at the moment, my phone's screen had just broken and it was gone for repair. Eventually, Google just gave up on my device when it even stopped asking me to verify. I tried clearing cookies, switching VPN on/off, restarting my system, using location spoof but literally nothing helped and now I'm just locked out of my own account on one of the devices. Not sure what to do next.
Thanks for the summary! This is why I almost always come to the comments first.
Right. Further to this, I consider it spammy when the same organisation uses a range of different From addresses in its mailings. I have unsubscribed from lists for this triage-hostile behaviour.
Lol at the article. It’s should be Pytorch vs Jax. TF is dying. Everything else is irrelevant.
Why is the distinction between "runs with zero changes" and "runs with minimal changes"—or even just "runs with fewer changes"—so critical?

Where is the line? Is Android "compatible" with Java programs if those programs need to be recompiled first, but no source edits are necessary? What if source edits are necessary, but can be automated? What if recompiling isn't necessary, but you need to hex edit the binary?

"Compatibility" is a spectrum, and I'd say Android falls within that range.
Good point. If someone sends you valuable information, he don't have to try to steal your attention with such cheap tricks.
Yep, would be good to see, but to be clear, Promscale is the only long-term store for Prometheus that supports full SQL (and thus enables complex analytics).
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>In 2020 bandwidth is never a problem

...unless you live in a rural area. I’d hate to download a 50GB day 1 patch on 5mb/s DSL
Are there any articles you could link that go into more detail on soil restoration at scale, or specific examples of it?
Cool idea:

Feedback: When I miss typing a character, all subsequent characters are marked wrong (red), even when they are actually correct. For example, let's say I write "paralel" instead of "parallel". The E and L would be marked wrong, even though only the L is missing.

Using a measure like edit distance could be a better way to identify incorrect characters.
Easy, free, I know it, I know other users will be familiar too and know it will likely be one of the better options for many years.
PS4 does get a bit of crap for being loud, so maybe trying real hard to make sure the PS5 is quiet.
Shouldn’t IPFS + Filecoin be well-suited for this exact use-case?
Cool idea. Really cool.

Quick suggestion: the search could maybe return a results not found message when it can't find anything instead of doing nothing. Otherwise people may think it's broken.
But, assuming you have a true random number generator, so is the probability that a stream you generate is computable.
Let's put it this way. I would rather my MacBook Pro is double its height than having this. In my PC I intentionally put a chunky, oversized cooler just for the fan to be silent as long as possible and keep the performance as long as possible. Consoles should be performance machines, in my opinion, form should follow function, and beautiful does not mean tiny.
Loyalty is not a requirement for a citizen in any free country.
Similar problem with other brands that have been "diluted" over the years. Elsewhere in the thread someone mentioned Dr Martens who now make shoes in China that are complete garbage quality.
By the way, for those interested, our first community meeting is Next Wed Oct 14 @ 16:00 UTC / 12:00 EDT

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I might do in the future. To be honest, Github Pages has not been on my radar until I saw the recent article posted here with benchmarks across popular static site hosts.

I'll have to look at the benefits of that over Netlify, too.
> Waste of time for most businesses.

In what way? Are you saying server logs aren't just as good for basic analysis or business dont use analytics?
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> I don't want to spend my precious spare time fixing my tools…

You get the entire GNU/Linux desktop for free, so you aren't in a position to complain. If you value your precious spare time, part with some of your money. Pay someone to fix this for you. Ask your employer to pay someone so that your "tool" works. Whatever.

> In any case, a non-kernel developer fixing it in a day of coding is IMHO wildly unrealistic.

Please... at least read the linked issue to see what the problem really is. This isn't kernel development. This is a userspace library, and the problem in question is isolated to a single C function that spans one or two screens. This really isn't rocket science. I wouldn't hesitate to ask students to fix an issue like this in a followup programming course.
That's an interesting take on this! I often work on small projects for mildly decentralized / storage stuff. Often i have the need to encrypt this stuff in various ways and i am disappointed by the tools available to me.

I feel like i have so many tools for amazing feats of engineering with minimal understanding required (which may not be a good thing lol), but Crypto tools and/or advice always seems to suggest you shouldn't use crypto at all if you don't know what you're doing.

Eg if i write some storage application that fits my needs, and i want to add encryption for the data at rest - i often find the environment (crypto tooling and communities) hostile. Hostile to encrypting something without knowing enough to be competent.

I get why crypto communities/tooling are afraid of informed-idiots (as i self describe), but i view it as a failing of the environment not the informed-idiot.

Do you see your angle on this as something that could lower the barrier to entry for informed idiots just wanting to _use_ crypto? Ie the fact that Crypto Wallets/Coins have standardized and simplified a lot Crypto-related UXs, do you see that impacting common software usecases for encryption / signing?
I think it's because the more we learn about the universe in which we exist, the more and more apparent it becomes that we are not a special part of it, that there is so much more to it than tiny slice of space and time we happen to occupy. The universe existed long before us, and it will continue long after us. We are inconsequential. This is all pretty contrary to what most religions tell us.

Personally I have no reason to trust or believe what clergy say (they're as human as the rest of us and make lots of unverifiable claims), so all I have to go one is what we collectively discover about our universe.
Facebook should've acted sooner and Gelinas should've know better. Maybe this qanon non-sense will finally go away.
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Absolutely! Thank you very much. I will try it out right away and let you know how I get on. Thank you for the swift reply
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Great idea!

List of more durable items:

Stainless steel frying pan instead of nonstick frying pans where the non stick coating wears off. Cast iron even better.

Plain bicycle without electric parts easier to recycle metal.

Durable quality Screens drivers.

Non electric espresso maker. Bailetto.

Corded headphones no batteries that wear out. Changable parts. No wireless protocol that go obsolete.

LifePo4 lithium iron batteries instead of lithium cobalt chemistry. Cobalt is a conflict mineral mining that puts out dangerous pollutants. Lifepo4 can take more recharge cycles than cobalt chemistry and are safer.

Reasoning is if the product last for life it’s more environmentally sustainable.

Cell phones are on the opposite end of the last for life spectrum.
People that lie and defame anonymously should be hunted down. You have no right to such a behavior in civil society.
There are, absolutely, tremendous differences in the way an American student/postdoc or an German student/postdoc attacks problems and thinks about science, speaking for the two countries I worked in.
But this is not a language issue but some educational problem, it depends on luck if you land on some bad book or tutorial. If the language offers performance it must give me access to unsafe stuff like run raw SQL.
>in what way is it an indictment of the functionality of America's representative democracy?

To a certain extent, I can see it as a case study against the functionality of representative democracy.

One one hand, elected leaders were fiscally irresponsible enough to enact policies that bankrupted the administration leading to a change to the water supply to save money. If I were playing devil's advocate, this could be seen as representative democracy incentivizing short-term political thinking leading to this outcome. E.g., it's easier to get elected on promises that benefit voters while ignoring harsh realities of how those promises will be paid for.

On the other hand, the decisions that led directly to the water crises were made by emergency managers appointed by the governor. This means non-elected officials overruled elected officials. Playing devil's advocate here can lead one to believe the displacement of elected officials is an indictment of the functionality of the system to truly be able to select those who govern the constituency.
> spam 3x+ per week

> 0.01% unsub rate

no way
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The comments on that article are frustrating because they clearly didn't read it, by proposing that a rational type is sufficient.

"We solved this 40 years ago in SmallTalk!"
> As to soda, I struggle to imagine a soda that has any amount of juice worth taking into account…

It's not just the juice. The acidity level of your stomach affects absorption of many drugs - some are absorbed faster in an acidic environment and some are absorbed slower, which means drinking even Coca Cola (pH: 2.5) with your medication could potentially have the effect of negating your medication or increasing the effective dosage substantially, depending on the drug.
It's inherently abusive.

You're tied to a pool of employers and have to get government permission to transfer employment. Your employer has an enormous power over you, with little recourse on your side.... as if employers didn't have enormous power over their employees as is.
>> America just doesn't have the deep well of manufacturing knowledge that a new company like Tesla can draw on.

Is this serious? America has been offshoring domestic auto manufacturing for a couple decades now. The people who worked in those factories didn’t just die, they’re mostly still available for hire. There is no metric in manufacturing knowledge where America lags that far behind other first world countries, let alone the rest of the world.
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Yeah, BIFL takes a while to sink in as a concept for a good chunk of people. Lots still think it’s just buying a high quality product and don’t consider that it’s about lifetime longevity.
In practice it's junk food and brand name sneakers unfortunately.

As someone who was born to poverty beyond what even the poorest Americans have, and made it all the way up, I can see that most of the people's problems come from bad planning and lack of self-discipline. But, of course, the fact the I made it, makes me "privileged" and gives an easy excuse to discard my opinion.
O1 is not as painful as people think. I just got my 2nd O1. Didn't do much "above and beyond" in last 3 years. Or maybe I just got lucky.
Same here. Does anyone have a good one?
Among the challenges for a site like this is the dimension of time. An outstanding brand one year can become a scourge five years later. But does the site's algorithm account for this?
I'm curious to know what percentage of commenters who know exactly how mirrors work can perform simple tasks like assembling a puzzle with the same speed only looking through a mirror.
It has nothing to do with Racism. It's a quota.

If there were more people from New Zealand than India trying to apply, it would be harder for New Zealanders.

I've lived aboard and had residency in two other nations. The overall amount of people applying is outrageous. That's the real problem. 22,000,000 apply for 50,000 green cards.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/23/application...
If we're doing old 90s programming resources that we have fond memories of, does anyone else remember x2ftp.oulu.fi and their /pub/msdos/programming folder? Full of gold and a frequent haunt for me :-) It seems to have been archived too: http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/

The PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia (PCGPE) was something I used to read and update religiously at the time, and there was a similar archive of BASIC-specific stuff whose name I forget now..
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Money helps. It would be hard for me to become competent in something I wanted to educate my hypothetical kids about if I were struggling to make ends meet. On the other hand, if I were among the really rich, I would furnish my kids a well-equipped lab and ensure they get a chance to hang out around top experts in the field.
Up and down are relative too, and not absolute. People in the Northern pole vs Southern pole will both point "down" toward the centre of the earth, in opposite (absolute) directions.

The concepts of North and South also fail dramatically when close to the poles.
> A 10x speedup of charging?

Not possible with existing infrastructure. The limiting factors are cooling the batteries and feeding them enough power. On small scale like laptops it's possible to speed up charging but not at large scale like cars.

That isn't to say it may be possible in the future but it isn't now.
A couple of hours a week.
The best way to deal with questions like this is often practice. You may well already have the ability to form the well-reasoned argument (achieving a PHD is evidence of this) but finding the words in a timely manner - especially during an adrenaline-fuelled debate - is difficult.

I would recommend trying to find a regular spot in your routine where you can spend a timed 10 minutes doing an exercise of your own choosing - and record yourself on your phone doing it. For example, you might spend a week with the exercise "Pros and cons of a technology". Then speak to the camera and write out the lists.

For example, one day you might choose PHP, and decide to be against it - so you would write

Cons:

Poorly designed

Leads to terribly written programs

Lack of decent security patterns

Pros: - each having a counterpoint, because you've decided to be against it.

Ubiquitous (but rubbish that everyone uses is still rubbish)

Good documentation (it needs to be because it's so hard to write well)

Good online help (though also poisoned with bad advice)

Keep each line 10 words or less, and if you find yourself becoming incoherent, strike through the line immediately and move on to a different pro/con. Don't be disheartened if the first few goes at this are all crossed out lines!

Don't feel you HAVE to watch back the recording - it's simply there to provide artificial pressure, and can often be useful when things go wrong as a kind of post-mortem - why did I start to stutter there? What words could I have used to better convey my point? How did that look from someone outside my head?

The key here is to practice your arguing skills, pressure management and multi-tasking - not to improve your knowledge - so use topics you know well and start with viewpoints you hold yourself. As it gets easier, try to flip to the opposite viewpoint, e.g. argue that PHP is the best language, and try to argue that. Then, try to come up with new challenges for yourself that work on the key weaknesses you've identified in yourself.

Once you feel you're getting the hang of it, look into joining a local debating club or public speaking club. Many exist, with vastly different flavours - and having a real human being on the other side of your argument will notch the difficulty up a bit, but in a supportive environment. And often you'll get good feedback on your technique.

Lastly, remember that most people are secretly socially awkward (especially in Tech). Some of us present a better facade than others. Don't be scared to take a deep breath, or say "I'll come back to you on that", or ask "can you reword that as a question?" and write the question down to deal with later. This is a difficult skill that we're not evolutionarily designed to excel at, so cut yourself some slack and build your personal heuristics. You can do this, but it takes practice. Good luck!
Thanks, both - it sounded to me too like something to do with new hires, but that didn't make a lot of sense to me in terms of a newsletter.
$30-$40 wholesale in China, but...

1. Single mode fibre already costs less than high high frequency cabling.

2. A standard written from scratch can move all smart electronics, and even some passives from the transceiver into the device.

3. The moment a transceiver turns into a standardised single chip device, economies of scale turn enormous.

4. Optics can be simplified for direct attach devices.

5. Cheapest transceivers sets + cabling for single mode 10G ethernet already cost less than $10 wholesale.
The original case for RMS when he created the position for dynamically linked libraries where when apple created an GCC version that had a Objective-C frontend. RMS initially did not think this would be covered by copyright but after talking with the lawyer Eben Moglen he got the following explanation: A judge would unlikely see it as an objective-C fronted as an independent work that is talking with GCC, but rather just a compiler. That compiler would be the work, and thus a derivative work since it combines the GCC code and the objective-C fronted.

Nothing in there is about API's. There is also nothing about linking. It just about what a judge would perceive as being "the work". FSF however do seem to have a policy about enforcing the license at the technical distinction of linking, but that is just a policy decision based on where they think a judge would likely side with them. Apple were free to go to court arguing that it is not a compiler but rather different independent works simply communicating with each other, but they chose not to do so.
I'm not sure the sources in the parent comment are making the argument that you are countering. Neither suggests to me the claim that using a touch typing website, in our case, replicates the complete process of writing literature.

The second quote in the parent comment is "If you type out somebody's work, you learn a lot about it." - the focus is learning more about the finished product. And I read "I just wanna feel what it feels like to write that well." as about experiencing the quality of the finished product.
The intent of the law wasn't racist, it was to prevent e.g. Indian (or some other large demographic) candidates from taking all of the available quota.
The IRS is being investigated for using location data without a warrant
No. A coin cell wouldn't be used for anything more complicated than keeping a simple real time clock chip powered. Is it possible? Sure, with a level of engineering effort that would far outweigh any possible benefit.

If they had something fancy they wanted to do on battery power, they would stick in a Li-ion battery, which they didn't.
No, this is incorrect. You can link to an alternative implementation with the same API without any licensing issues.
Yeah. This happens everywhere. Five years back I bought an expensive and sturdily-built couch. Liked it so much I bought a second (after a series of moves during which the first one was given/long-term-loaned to a friend). Same brand, price, etc. The new one was complete shit. The back of it was close to cardboard; I put my knee through it while nudging it around! And this is something in the several thousand $ range! Don't buy Gus Modern furniture.
You put in the assumption that they are all relatively equally qualified. I don't think the 1000 best researches are equally qualified. The x best are better than the 1000-x below them.
Additionally, if the exchange of postdocs is lower (many return to their country of origin), the research quality not only in the US, but world-wide will go down.
Given the rate and size of messages we process, SQS presents a compelling "fallback" option (i.e. we need to route traffic when an irreplaceable RabbitMQ is down, pending human-initiated recovery), but not a compelling happy-path option because of cost, which you mentioned.

Edit: additionally, there was an inertial component to that decision. Not only do some folks have pretty deep expertise with RabbitMQ, but by the time we started to hit significant limitations with it, we had devised pretty good (manual and automated) ways around those limitations, like the multi-broker approach. I can't predict what would have happened had we jumped to a totally different messaging technology when we ran up against those things, but I'm reasonably happy with where we ended up.
Something that would be cool is if users uploaded pictures of their old gear. That would add genuinity and would also hint how well it holds up.
I didn't expect you to double-down on "well, it's just the poor anyway" but I probably shouldn't be surprised by now.

I wrote "over emphasis". Then you just go on about some irrelevant stats regarding the size of the public sector etc. While other countries realise that the "free market" needs to be curtailed in many spheres to not do too much damage, the US have decided that this isn't an issue and people need to take care of themselves on the "free market". Hence the lack of proper welfare and universal health care (and we can go on to worker benefits if you'd like, or perhaps higher education?).
I does not make a difference, at least from my point of view.

I think those personal emails are warranted if my first contact with a company was human, like I reached out and contacted someone from the sales team.

But "personal" responses to an obviously automated process like signup is just dishonest. If the founder responds to support requests - fine. Send me a personal response once I have a support request, but not as a signup confirmation.
I present: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/dw8f8c/i...

Someone asking how to order a sandwich (from a pretty stressful sandwich shop..) There's a huge audience for what most people consider the simple stuff.