skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google/Gmail is a nightmare to use for me as someone who travels overseas to visit family. Logging into Gmail from a different device is a harrowing experience. SMS 2FA doesn't work with many providers even with international roaming turned on. So you're dead in the water and face a potential account ban that can never be recovered.

Years ago, I had my account suspended when I was implementing an Adsense integration into a site for no discernible reason. I have too many ancient financial institution's login tied up to my primary email. That was the last time I signed up for anything related to Google. At my workplace, I'm a strong advocate against the Google ecosystem. A few of us fought hard to keep our cloud systems away from Google and move to Azure. I've seen similar sentiments from quite a few devs in the last few years.
My phone number is probably the least valuable thing Amazon knows about me, I figure.
I certainly can, and I can also think of several examples of dynamic languages that succeed where Python fails.

All of them just as dynamic, if not more.
Edit: I just got back in! I had to give a real phone # for the SMS step. It pretended to accept a Google Voice # but would never send a code and I just got stuck in the loop I describe below. I've now closed the account. Oh, the irony...

Yup, I've got an old gmail account that Google won't let me into. First I get:

"This device isn’t recognized. For your security, Google wants to make sure it’s really you."

With options for "Confirm your recovery email" and "Get a verification code at <elided recovery email>."

Regardless of which I choose, it then asks me for a phone # for an SMS code. So I give it one, just to get:

"Unavailable because of too many failed attempts. Try again in a few hours."

Except, "a few hours" is a lie. I last tried this weeks ago. I get a "Try another way" option which prompts me "Enter the last password you remember using with this Google Account." at which point I'm at a dead end because this account only ever had one password.

The best part is that shortly after going through this exercise I get an email to the recovery address:

"Sign-in attempt was blocked. Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened."

With a "Check Activity" button that takes me right back to the Google sign page...

Buttle? Tuttle?

The irony in all of this is that I'd forgotten about the account until Google sent an "new terms of service" email to the recovery email address and decided I wanted to close the account. But I can't login to do so.

Anyway, I switched my primary email away to Fastmail years ago and I'm still happy with that decision.
Before you know it you'll have to sign 3 legal contracts before an offer and 10 more after, then when you quit cause you found a better job they'll sue you saying you aren't allowed to work anywhere else.
Sure, but are you optimizing for "utility" or happiness? There are definitely circumstances where you can be happier "wasting money" than not.
Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?
Obviously, outside of Hacker News.
No, you don't need sex to be sure, but intimacy plays a major role in understanding who people really are, what their extremes are, how they handle various situations, etc. You don't discover these things in a lot of friendships.
Most Indian scripts including but not limited to Gujarati are syllabaries: each letter has a default vowel (a) and the shape is altered in systematic ways to indicate a different vowel.
> enable 2FA with Google Authenticator [...] also suggest not to rely on a phone number as 2nd factor

Well, I have my PayPal account set up with a strong unique password and 2FA via an authenticator app. Recently installed the PayPal app on my smartphone, and it asked for CAPTCHA, password, 2FA token, and then additionally SMS to an old phone number I still had on file. How does it make sense to ask for 3 factors?
At any rate, I logged in on the computer and updated the phone number. Still wouldn't let me log in on the smartphone, needed to contact customer support.

Look, I understand that many people choose bad passwords and they get pawned and all, and I'm glad that the providers are a bit smarter and use other factors (cookies, IP, phone number...), but it really penalises security and privacy conscious users. If you use strong passwords and 2FA, but use VPNs, switch phone numbers, clear cookies, etc., you get flagged and locked out. Very annoying.
This has all been solved already. Cars.

I modded my car and it didn't void the warranty. I can goto the dealership, 3rd party, or repair it myself. I can swap out nearly everything for non OEM parts.
> using YubiKey for 2FA

Today Google/Gmail suddenly logged me out and asked me for the hardware key, and I thought no problem as I have OTP with my Password Manager, but OTP didn't work. I had the key somewhere else. Luckily after insisting a bit Google gave me the option to use my mobile Gmail app to verify it's me (note it was not Google Authenticator, why did they made me install it?). All this hassle even though I've been on the same ISP/IP range and computer for weeks. No VPN or anything.

On top of the multiple authentication options, I'm going to add a second hardware key in case I lose my main one and Google decides it's the only way to log in.

Edit: the OTP option is not there anymore in my Google account 2-Step Verification, but it did ask for it and it failed.
> What were they doing before this? "Unempirical" economics?

Building tractable mathematical models. Explain phenomenons. Empirical results are used to validate these days.

A classic model is supply & demand curves -- as price increases supply increases, demand falls, with certain exceptions. Empiricists have spent significant effort doing RCTs to demonstrate the model works and there are exceptions. The model stands tall even today.
Exceptionally low ?
12% of the population is below 80 iq.
75 IQ is not exceptional, it's common.
Tailscale does a version of this.
Sermons.
> Basically, if you can get grease or dirt on your clothes, it's blue collar;

There are also orange-collar workers.
The team of developers I was on around 2014-2015 was asked to do some user experience testing sessions of a mobile app that was part of our company's partnership with IBM, which was using Watson to answer users' healthcare questions with a chat interface.

In short, we were not impressed, and basically said so in our feedback. Granted, that's just a few data points, and it was internal.

But besides that, the overall vibe I got from the very businessy, very not-engineer management behind the effort was that Watson was brilliant, as demonstrated on Jeopardy, and the main stuff left to do was some plumbing to connect our stuff to some of that Watson brilliance, and of course the business details of the partnership between the companies.

Glad I got out of there.
Thanks for not politicizing this kid’s achievements.
I moved my email to Fastmail this week in the wake of the Google Apps announcement. Having your own domain is great since your email becomes provider-agnostic. While Fastmail had a great import tool, I could have transferred my Gmail myself from backups. I'll be ready to do the same if Fastmail goes under or is no longer competitive.
For this purpose, we trained goldfish to use a Fish Operated Vehicle (FOV), a wheeled terrestrial platform that reacts to the fish’s movement characteristics, location and orientation in its water tank to change the vehicle’s; i.e., the water tank’s, position in the arena. The fish were tasked to “drive” the FOV towards a visual target in the terrestrial environment, which was observable through the walls of the tank, and indeed were able to operate the vehicle, explore the new environment, and reach the target regardless of the starting point, all while avoiding dead-ends and correcting location inaccuracies.
Basically his brain has huge fluid sacs pressing most of his brain matter up against his skull.
check out https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash for I use it for performance sensitive non-crypto stuff.
If you can think of other benefits to Strongtalk other than “it makes jit compiling better” then why say that there is no reason for it to exist if Smalltalk’s design makes it easy to JIT?
There is not need for a law. Just don't use google.
Nearly all knowledge is socially constructed and appears as though it isn't through the process of reification. This is different from the realism-idealism divide.

That is about as simple as I can make it. It is probably just as useful as saying a spinor is a square root of a vector. While simple, it doesn't do much to illustrate the point. A background in constructionism can however be had at the expense of reading 189 pages.
I recently quit my job in Information Security. We used the NIST 800-53 framework. 99% of people following security frameworks just blindly check in boxes during audits or control assessments.
A security control/requirement can’t be met? No problem! Just create another piece of paperwork accepting the risk and get it signed off by the system owner (who has the most incentive to not inconvenience their project or department due to an outstanding security requirement).

The things I saw that were labeled as “acceptable risk” would drive me crazy. Maybe the government hires incompetent security practitioners? Do all organizations have this type of behavior behind the scenes?
it probably is harder… but that’s because families can’t intimidate 15 year old girls into marrying grown men anymore
It is easy to find people like bsenftner who have elected to stop learning, and to continue writing in an old, crappy, error-prone style. They are not representative of competent C++ coders.

For the record, OOP is a bad fit for most problems. The overwhelming majority of actual template use has nothing to do with "template metaprogramming", which has been superseded by modern language features he evidently knows nothing about.
I have an account that I frequently sign into in an incognito session. Every time I do, Google emails the same account saying that it doesn't recognize the device. I've tried requesting that it remembers the device, but despite the browser and IP address staying the same, it doesn't seem to matter. Though it also appears that I can ignore these warnings entirely.

The biggest issue that I have is that I have an email account through my web hosting provider that isn't connected to Google. If I email anyone with a Gmail address, it gets rejected for being potential spam, despite not having any links or anything. Even if I respond to someone writing from a Gmail address, Google will reject it, saying that it was unsolicited since I was the one initiating the conversation, which is simply ridiculous. I usually end up logging into a separate Gmail account just to communicate with those users.
MITM is a networking term for when an agent in a trust based communication system falsifies data in order to exploit the system. I don't think using a term that isn't directly used in a whitepaper is a flaw in my argument. Decentralization, in general, guards against MITM by using consensus mechanisms instead of trusting any individual link, so blockchains are theoretically resilient against individual agents breaking the rules. That is literally the basis of blockchain tech. What I am getting at is that there are still ways to exploit a system while technically operating "within the rules" and blockchain makes those easier to get away with.

> Ultimately, what you critique is simply an inherent part of the system
YES THATS THE PROBLEM. Systems arent immutable facts of the world. We can change them. Systems are built by people and people can be wrong or at the very least mislead.
This reminds me of the "too much water is poisonous" argument.

It can sound completely frivolous or entirely sensible based on your definition of "too much water".
Adversarial strategies are another type of problem entirely (as in, if you're playing Word Mastermind). Wordle is a 1-player game, so I find hgibbs's comment totally reasonable. I would think that 'optimal' is more accurately his second definition - minimizing avg guesses but always winning (as in, losing is +inf guesses).
Even many live performances are put through the tools. It's pretty sad.
You can pay your taxes to the US government with dollars. In fact you can't pay your taxes with anything else - not even tulip bulbs.

So you are completely wrong, USD has value because of the US government, not because of the 'greater fool'.
Is this significantly different from other car dealerships? Are people surprised?

My thought is "no" and "also no," but I have always had fairly cheap, functional cars so I can't really compare.

At the very least "prioritizing growth over retention" is textbook "tech darling" behavior, so this surprises me not at all. Am I alone?
Karax. Single page applications for Nim
80-90% of brain mass are not neurons, but the "supporting" tissue, taking care of things like storing nutrients supply. It is entirely possible to loose that extra mass and still be fully functioning.
I understand the technical distinction but in common practice it seems to be used more and more as interchangeable with knowledge workers.
>If the government intervenes, it would undermine the free market.

Haha, free market! Hilarious!
Aside from the other reasons cited, at least once in the past Google replaced Authenticator with a new app and I had to re-configure all of my 2FA from scratch to transfer over. Deeply untrustworthy, it's already bad enough having to reconfigure 2FA when I get a new phone without them forcing me to do it again.

I use Authy these days.

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20899/why-does-t...
"With Google’s nonexistent customer service..."

What's needed is enough of these cases to bring a class action against Google.

It's over a decade since I've used a Google account and I was similarly ignored even back then.
> I totally agree with meowface that bigger problem with people shilling Bitcoin and ICOs and NFTs and other shams is that they're obviously snake oil salesmen pushing get-rich-quick pyramid schemes.

Oh, yeah, they are definitely a ponzi scheme, MLM or, at best, Beanie Babies. At some point this will all come crashing down, either by regulation or lack of new patsies.

It's like the dotcom boom all over again; where co-workers, friends and family are all buying these crazy stocks at insane valuations.

I was just curious why the meowface was focusing on the "whataboutism" of Bitcoin vs. ETH.
>Sure, it's cool to be a "player" for a little while in your late teens/early 20s, but it gets boring soon, just as the fun with alcohol and partying and many other things. Most of the people you know that 'did' go to parties and such, are dead bored of them at this age

I agree. It's also not too late to host parties in your late 20s/early 30s, and I daresay they can be more fun that college parties. The experience of college parties for many students include: attending and speaking with people you're not likely to see again; playing drinking games (fun in the moment, but forgettable especially if you aren't friends with the strangers you meet afterwards); and (possibly if you were physically attractive and charismatic back then) casual sex.

A person can create a better experience by hosting a smaller party with people they know, via hosting a wine night with people you know, so you create a fun experience and can deepen friendships with people you know (a lot of people would enjoy going to this one). Bachelor/bachelorette parties are possible for people about to get married, along with birthday parties. Drinking games are even possible. Casual sex less so, but to be honest, the vast majority of people at the college parties I went to didn't have casual sex anyways (besides, most guys I've talked to would agree that a meaningful relationship with someone is harder to find and more enjoyable).

The bottom line is, there are still opportunities for the original poster to enjoy social gatherings with alcohol with people in the future, and it's less likely to be boring versus college parties where you don't know as many people.
Hi, one of the founders of Levels.fyi here (appreciate the kind words)! The question we try to answer with our leveling comparisons is “What level would I transfer into if I were to switch companies?". To answer this, we collect company leveling rubrics from employees and crowdsourced transfer mappings, and use it to match levels based on similar scope and responsibility.

There are also a lot of factors on an individual case by case basis that go into leveling including: interview performance, tenure in level, and scope of work, which is why it won't always perfectly map 1:1 for all cases and hence why some levels are wider and overlap into more levels at another company. And beyond that, leveling is a living and breathing thing within any organization and may be in flux at any given point in time. At the end of the day, the site is meant to serve as a rough guide for where you may be placed. Also note that the leveling boxes actually have no bearing on compensation.

Hope this helps!
(you're all checking out the 'new' page now, aren't you?)
Perhaps you'd have more luck using a Firefox Container instead.
I'm sorry but having the "freedom" to ignore abuse and harassment is not a solution at all. If someone releases e.g. revenge porn of you, whether or not you can personally see it will be 100% irrelevant to whether or not it is abuse because clearly other people still can.

You're welcome to say that you prefer these tradeoffs in your monetary systems but please don't try to say that it's somehow better at handling abuse. It is objectively worse.
Now get DICOM in there too ;)
As a gay man, for same-sex friendships I find that I have gravitated towards men that have some of both categories, with some differences accounting for life circumstances or other uncontrollable factors, tact and human decency.

Maybe not “physically formidable”, but being fit/looking after yourself.

Maybe not “high wealth”, but financially responsible and not ostentatious.

“High status” is a self mindset. I’m not sure what this paper’s definition of it is.

“Access to potential mates” sounds overly reductive but having some friends makes one a more attractive and interesting person in general.

“Emotional support” in willingness to listen, empathize, and not be a narcissist.

“Intimacy” in trustworthiness and dependability.

“Useful social information” but don’t be a gossip.
There are plenty of companies who believe they do not need to increase their advertising, because they have reached a point of diminishing returns.

The available time market for advertising is probably already reached; attempts to get people to watch more ads in a day have gotten higher levels of pushback (adblock etc.), and thus limited success. This means, in order to achieve growth, advertisers have to either charge more, or increase market share.

Up until now, it's been Google and Facebook taking market share from traditional media, which has more or less imploded, so there's not much more room for growth in that way. They can only charge more for advertising if they are currently charging significantly less than it's worth, which is probably not true. So, even if advertising works at current prices (I am skeptical it always does), that doesn't mean that the revenue from it can keep growing at the rate of growth that Google and Facebook are used to.
Thai script "compresses" quite well compared to English because it does not use spaces between words, the vowel "a" is implicit, and many (but not all) other vowels are diacritics, not full letters. However, tone marking is inefficient (diacritics and silent letters), there are many duplicate letters for consonants, and the writing system and spoken language have diverged quite a bit.
mehh feels like we are creating fancy ML brute force crunching machines now
> IMO the right way to improve DEI outcomes

They need to take a step back and ask why equal outcomes is the goal to begin with? They can't seem to fathom that men and women naturally have different interests and inclinations. And if somehow the arbitrary identity groups that they decide on and end up hiring do end up reflecting the underlying society, then what? All problems are solved?
Bulk and Cut as a Metaphor for Codebase Growth
This is just spam, it is a repost on the blog of a Verge article.

https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-bloc...
The entire system is about abstracting away liability, not keeping things secure. Every framework is like this. The fact that companies are paying auditors to review their own work creates a completely upside down incentive model, and turns it into effectively a rubber stamp. You have to do things horrifically wrong for an auditor to care, and it's not like they're actually going to fail you, they'll just tell you to fix it and give you a generous deadline (or, for frameworks that allow it, do what you described and have it signed off as a known risk).
For some people, anonymity of use has a higher priority.

I've largely given up on personal use of email, full stop.

Have had an account since the 1980s.
It's a bookmark, because then you can filter through your stars and quickly find a library about something that you need. How do you keep track of projects of interest?
This seems like a pretty objective assertion about what seems like pretty subjective semantics. Are there medical definitions of "exceptional" and "common" that are implicit in your post?
Pet cloning becomes popular among Instagrammers
As an example, many sweeteners are known for their crappy aftertaste.
I like the idea of ssh sites, would love to see an optional notcurses client for them - it will solve the problem of delay even when scrolling (I'm talking about git.charm.sh) and also enable true rendering of markdown / pics / etc.
AIUI, they do send push notifications if you happen to have a mobile device that's logged in to the same account. Maybe they should do the same for the "suspicious login to an unused 'secondary' account" scenario? They're already sending "recovery" emails, so it wouldn't be that big of a change.
> What I do not want is:

> 1. sign up on every blog just to comment

> 2. something like discuss either

So, you want the blog commenting system we already have? It's not common for a blog to require an account before you can comment.
In the main figure, all of the dark grey/black part of the image is cerebrospinal fluid, which usually is present in the 4th, 3rd, and lateral ventricles. These ventricles are usually much smaller than this patient. Usually, where the dark spaces are with this patient you would instead see cortical and subcortical regions. If you look up ‘brain MRI’ you will see a brain that has a lot of grey matter and much smaller dark regions which are the ventricles! Hopefully this makes sense, if not, I can clarify! :)
I quite enjoy https://restofworld.org/

https://www.instapaper.com/daily (contains some automated spamming, flooding submissions to trick the popularity scoring I guess)
Perhaps you're not supposed to have more than 1 gmail account, and the assumptions in their code cannot deal with more than 1 account per user, or worse, they actively try to discourage it.
One site I've found particularly annoying in this regard is ebay. I'll log in, enter a 2FA code (both SMS and email), do whatever I need to, and then 30 minutes later I'll get an email saying my password has been reset because of suspicious activity. ("your eBay account has been secured because your login information may have been used without your permission") This has happened several times now. At least they haven't canceled any of my orders or anything.