skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my first 'learning a language' projects was to write a DNS query in python from scratch. Basically, writing and reading bytes directly. Read the RFCs, made sure the format was right, wrote a parser for the reply and...fail. I remember pouring over every detail for about an hour before realizing the qname was missing the trailing dot. So, apparently at least some number of resolvers really demand it.
I had nearly this exact thing! The backup email wasn’t working. My mom was able to leverage an existing session on thunderbird to access her emails. Her SMS auth was failing as she’d change numbers. She managed to convince a phone provider to give her the old number so she could successfully authenticate.

Still mad about the lack of ability to provide proof of ownership, we had ample evidence which would have held up in court if required. But alas, google are worried about their immediate bottom line instead of their long term viability.
Was very effective for a couple i know, so much so that the baby had a very flat head from sleeping so much
Here is another idea no loving human being should like: humans are guilty of everything bad in the world. Last thought of a dying zebra in the maws of the lion: "damn humans."
FWIW, my kids hated a rocking chair, but loved being held while gently bouncing/wiggling on a gym/yoga ball thing
If they expect ordinary people to use this, the Install page could use some love:

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/get/

The very first heading is "Neon based reference rootfs". It gives the impression that you must know exactly what these words mean and what you're doing, or there's no hope of ever using this thing. (The classic 1990s style Linux onboarding experience, in other words.)
You can run native apps from Kodi.

I used to launch Steam games in Big picture mode from Kodi just fine.

Actually I was waiting for a desktop environment like this Plasma Bigscreen for a while but then got a new TV with Android and use that instead.

I would still prefer to use Kodi as the main app launcher on Android but it gets Killed to save memory and takes a while to start up again.

And using Kodi over HDMI is not an option anymore since a lot of content I watch comes in 4K 10bit HDR or 4K Dolby Vision and sadly desktop Linux does not support HDR and variable refresh rate over HDMI (so Linux Steam experience also bad).
Top quality post! My list would be embarrassingly short..
This doesn't apply to staking validators - validators earn a payment for doing useful work by validating transactions are performed correctly. They're not expecting to benefit from the work of others.
If you ask any random person on the street "is Gmail free?" they will answer yes just like Wikipedia calls Gmail a free email service and if you search for "best free email services" Gmail is usually top of the list.

I fully agree with you there is an agreement that the user gets Gmail (or Google service) at zero monetary cost in exchange for them showing you ads and using your data however they see fit. And you can argue if that is 'free' or not but to the vast majority they see these things as free, rightly or wrongly.

Is 'free' the wrong adjective? Perhaps but it is what is used for a non-paid service.

> Not having support for customers you make money on is despicable.

I agree. Like I said it is crazy there is no real support process to get your account back when there are a lot of processes to keep your account safe.
Does EU have any regulation to prevent it? I hoped that the latest Digital Markets Act would have any provision against it, but afaik it didn’t.
Human support can be social-engineered or bribed. You hear about SIM jacking, OG Instagram account takeover, etc. because of human support.

It certainly sucks, but in this case you lost your second factor, which is very different from the other flagged-as-suspicious-and-locked-out-permanently cases.
So you don't need actual product, just their idea. That is pure consumerism. I do recommend documentary series Century of Self (2002, BBC) from Alex Curtis that explain how it works.
Hmm, yes, that's actually the exact behavior that I expect from 2FA. To not let people in my account without the code.

I fully sympathize and understand that the outcome is bad, but this is just a system working 100% as expected.
> That's a very very strong claim without any supporting argument.

I'm afraid you completely misunderstand my position. I'm merely pointing out that because we know that more soundness is not always better, the claim that Rust is more effective than Zig is not obviously true. I'm not saying it necessarily isn't. We simply don't know yet.

> the success of the Stylo project on Firefox is a significant counter-example for instance

A counter-example for what? No one is saying that Rust doesn't work well or that it doesn't offer more correctness than C++.

> You've shown a real difficulty so far to substantiate your argument with anything concrete

But I don't have any hypothesis to substantiate. I'm pointing out what we don't know.

I did give concrete examples for cases where unsoundness worked better than soundness, but because we already know that the most effective approach is not on either end, we cannot extrapolate from any specific comparison to another.

If someone wants to say language X works better for correctness than Y, they must compare X and Y, not X and Z. But I'm not making any such claim about Rust and Zig.

> Now if Zig comes and wants to challenge it[1], fine but the burden of the proof is on Zig.

No one is claiming that Zig works better than Rust, no one wants to "challenge" Rust with Zig, and no one is challenging the claim that Rust works better than C++. I want both languages to challenge the status quo.

> But Rust is especially well-placed in that regard

Of course. Rust and Zig are both well-placed in that regard, and people who care about correctness want both:

First, we don't know which, if any, works better than the other.

Second, even if one of them does work better than the other, I think it's pretty uncontroversial that they both provide better correctness than C++ (they both provide stronger guarantees, and neither is significantly more complex than C++). But because it seems that there are people who don't like Rust, and there are people who don't like Zig, software will be better served by having both.

Those who say they want Zig to not exist (like pcwalton) are not serving software correctness. I want Rust; I want Zig. We don't know what works best, neither of them is for everyone, so we need both.

> in fact this has never been an explicit goal of Zig's creator, who just want to make his programming language without bothering anyone else

Indeed. More correctness than C and C++ is, of course, one of Zig's goals; more correctness than Rust isn't. But more correctness than Zig isn't a goal of Rust, either. We want both to exist, if only because different people would prefer different languages, and both are probably improvements over the status quo. It's pcwalton who said he doesn't think Zig should exist. So let's not bother anyone else by making unsubstantiated claims about which is better, and certainly not by saying that the other shouldn't exist. Okay?
I use a mail hoster with my own domain. This way if they ever do shanenenigans I just have to migrate the IMAP directories to someone else and point the domain(s) there.

However I have been using the same mail hoster without troubles for the past 10 years.
This is happening to me with facebook, without 2fa. I temporarily disabled my account for a couple years as they promised you could log back in at any point to restore it. fast forward to today and even though i have the same email and password combo they are stuck in a loop asking me for my passport/state id, which i’ve provided dozens of times at this point.

sucks because i have a bunch of memories locked in that account and can’t contact a human at FB.
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30 years ago I first saw Breathless, which was then 30 years old. It’s hard to believe the same time has passed. The film has stayed with me ever since as one of my favourite movies. It had such verve, style, self confidence, and a sense that it already knew it would be revolutionary. Even if Godard had stopped making movies after his first, he’d still be a legend.
Side note: I swear this is an issue with very old google accounts. The backup email address was working but refused to validate, we also had the password. If you work at google, please submit a bug report on behalf of us pleb public users who have no access to such features!

And if you work for government, please propose legislation which fixes these asshole ghost companies!
When I first installed viu[0], I did not think I'd be using it as much as I use it today.

PS: I use nnn[1] with the preview plugin which make use cases like yours very easy to solve.

0: https://github.com/atanunq/viu

1: https://github.com/jarun/nnn
An idea would be to have more than one account on different providers and have all their emails forwarded to each other, but make sure the forwarded emails arent forwarded again.

Might go do this now.
I’m reminded of that scene in Battlestar Galactica (2004) where Starbuck cuts open a crashed Cylon raider, climbs in, and finds it’s actually organic rather than robotic — instead of the neatly-organized metal and wires and computers you’d expect to see in a hi-tech starship, it’s full of messy flesh and blood and organs.

In the same way, here they cut open a microcontroller and instead of finding a neatly organized CPU with all the usual recognizable bits and software written in a straightforward ISA, there’s this weird, surprisingly analog amalgamation between hardware and software, between control and data. It’s not obvious how anything even functions because it’s so alien compared to our nice, clean, modular general-purpose CPU. Instead it feels…almost natural, like the hardware and software grew and evolved together as a single unit (which, to be fair, they probably did). It’s beautiful and terrifying at the same time.

At least, that’s how it feels to me as a (sleep-deprived) software engineer. Maybe to a hardware guy, this is just Thursday.
I was thinking flac 32 bits is float as well?
Prion disease isn't just any misfolded protein; it's a misfold that:

* Has a lower bond energy than the correct fold (so can't readily be fixed), and
* Can cause its correctly-folded version to also misfold.

So far, as far as I'm aware, there have only ever been a handful of misfolds that fit this pattern.
What is the name of this technique where some ranking based on year (or any other criteria) is displayed. Is there any javascript or c# etc library for this where the Year could be user controlled?
iPhone 14 lineup, Apple Watch Series 8, and new Apple Watch SE arrive worldwide
> Wait a few days.

Sounds exactly like what someone named waitforit would say
Cloudflare Vows to Fight Global 1.1.1.1 DNS Blocking Orders
You can’t have human-like thought processes without human-like upbringing. Humans need to “bootstrap” from society.

Do you know why happens to kids who grow up without other humans?
Not a criminal cartel, just an extension of the intelligence services in the US.
Surveillance, censorship, propaganda, behavior modification,
globally over billions of people.
Meanwhile this one has less noise since it wasn’t taken by the British and no one is asking for it back AFAIK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daria-i-Noor
Well, that’s just great news after they completely botched HDR handling on the AppleTV client (it now flickers back and forth several times between display modes on my TV, so I miss the first queen seconds of everything).
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I never used facebook for this reason and advised people not to. Now that you are locked in, there is not good solution. It's like smoking and getting cancer, there is no magic to solve the problem and a lot of pain. The best is to not start.

For gmail, have several addresses, with redirections to each others, use imap, don't use social sign it.
Always test your life platform, doenst matter if its payments or software, always test life, i can not emphasize that enough.
Yep. I got locked out of my eBay and GitHub accounts for two different reasons, but through their human support I was able to recover the accounts.
Then you are still inside.
this is about justification. The current thing works fine but I would like the new expensive thing. I cannot justify expense of replacing working thing, but if it would die, then it's justified expense.

it isn't about that it's more economical purchase when it dies, but I even saw people breaking stuff just so they "had to" buy new thing that they want.
Using these machines on a 2022 display adds so much lag, it really makes them unplayable. On a CRT the connection between your movement and the paddle on screen is so immediate and undamped, it can be quite a powerful experience as you embody it despite its crudity. Helps to understand how simple games like this were so popular.

I have a few, but sadly I don't have the space to keep a CRT monitor too.
Banks verify your identity when you open your account, which they can refer to later on. Gmail does not, so any “proof of ownership” you can provide is circumstantial.
Does google allow to have same phone number listed as 2FA on multiple google accounts?
Back in the day, there was a strong public perception/rumor that plasma screens would fail much sooner than other kinds. Maybe it was just a FUD campaign, after all.
This argument is non-sensical.

>Why does ${PROJECT} use ${TECHNOLOGY}?

>So it doesn't have ${DRAWBACK}.

>Most other things have ${DRAWBACK}, so it's really neither relevant nor worth discussing.
Thanks for asking this!
The main difference is that, it provides ability to structure the arrows(and hence layout of the diagram) with just single characters as per direction required. In other tools either the arrow direction(and hence layout) is auto-decided by tool, or difficult to change as you want(atleast thats my understanding, please let me know if its wrong). Also, this tool is not as extensive in current form when compared to others.
Examples might help clarify the point : https://blockdiagram.herokuapp.com/examples
True, there are dozens of us!
Every baby is different.

From our experience - and of course every baby is different - we found consistency is key. New borns need to nap like every hour and you as parents need to actively manage those naps to make sure they happen at the right time, and you do the same set of things each time so soon enough baby knows that when you do foo that sleep time is coming and they calm down. Foo could be singing or a special story or getting into a sleep sack or music or whatever. Then just into a normal cot and they slept soundly.

The other thing we found that was essential is a £10 gym/yoga ball to slowly bounce/jiggle on while holding them. Worked really well for us (as part of the routine).

Good luck. Perhaps as every baby is different you really need the 2k cot, good luck either way.
He he. At times world needs reinforcement
How are you going to get e.g. the Chinese Government to pay? (1)

And if you can get them to agree to pay, who is a suitable body that they can be convinced to pay it _to_ ? I'm pretty sure that any arm of the US government, or US parastatal body, would not be acceptable. It's an international governance problem.

1) https://www.space.com/3415-china-anti-satellite-test-worriso...
Probably because spinner/loader is currently not present, it might look like nothing changed, since updates to the diagram are async. I will put a spinner in place, but change actually happens, if you change the text. Also let me know what was the change, i can check if there was error.
Same happened to me a year ago. My customer was on a tight schedule to run a trial, and postponing the launch on the launch day because of Stripe ruined their trial.
Freedom like in "book banning" ?
> Nah, it was totally common, at least in Europe - and way past medieval ages.

Reading about Ukraine and what’s being found in liberated towns, it’s not hard to agree.
This is loosely measured by EROI (energy return on invested). Concrete muddies the water slightly as it's a non-energy ghg emitter.

The answer is definitely to the first part. By what ratio depends on who you ask. The nuclear lobby claims 50-80x. Most other people say it's in the 10-20x range.

This is about as good as to somewhat better than wind, but at some point between 2012 and 2030 solar has surpassed/is going to surpass it by whichever measure you choose.

Of course once the steel/silicon/composite/etc comes from low carbon sources, then the embodied carbon reduces as well.

To the second part (while being profitable), no new nuclear build can be profitable, so no.
I would say social networks. I remember pen pal days. There were like fanzines with mail addresses from all over the world.
I don't think that's the case. It's also a tabletop game so the rules are all out there in public and not even inhumanely complex.

Even if WotC's servers go down, you could use the blockchain to prove ownership of a card for use in a live tournament. It's also possible for a third party to create their own server to implement the game, and then refer back to the blockchain for ownership.

As for non-official cards, I mean, yeah? That's the case with physical Magic cards too. Not even actual counterfeits have held the MTG secondary market back from astounding prices. Meanwhile non-NFT cards would be the equivalent of proxy cards - cards that aren't X, but both players agree to treat as X - which haven't been any more successful than counterfeits in holding Magic prices down.

I'm not claiming there would be greater faith in a blockchain than WotC, I'm just saying I see it as possible.
Companies make more money
Consumers put up with it
And devs like how it's friendly to major rewrites and tinkering.

I use a lot of cloud stuff because there's no other choice. There's no P2P Tile or YoSmart. I'm not interested in hosting something as important as email myself when there are entire teams that focus on that full time. They kind of have the upper hand.

What's the alternative to google docs? Does it involve maintaining a server or saying the words "Ok, just download this app and type in this IP address"?

Open source and (Non-cryptocurrency) P2P is probably always going to be the best for this. Commercial software seems to have clearly decided that it wants to be SaSS.

Maybe there's a niche market for non SaSS, but so many people who want local stuff are concerned with privacy, or have a very low budget, and prefer open source if it's available.

Obsidian seems to be doing well as proprietary local first software. Now that SyncThing exists, it's a lot easier to develop and use this kind of thing.
Okay, that's an interesting idea. Do you figure maybe the skeleton's abnormalities could be related to inbreeding common in aristocratic families?
Well, I never used Facebook for any login nor did I ever give them my personal phone number or email because I never had any reason to. I deactivated the account a couple years ago, which doesn't delete it. It would just be nice if they let me recover it, but they don't want that as they'd rather force me to create a new account to get their hooks in.

I also never use social sign in for anything other than using my GitHub account for certain things.
It is literally the precedent that has already been set. Colonialism is exactly the same as ancestral predator prey dynamics (whatever you mean by that).

We do recognize, apologize and make repairs. This is why Africa, India and southeast Asia are all free, sovereign nations now. Repairs were made.

I always find it funny that Indians venerate the moghuls and vilify the British. They were both foreign invaders that conquered people. At least the British led directly to a much more unified India as it stands today, the concept of a single Indian state is a new one (that was created by the British), India is as much one people as Europe, do you think the Indian government owes reparations to the princely states for forcibly annexing them?
Science Magazine on Me/CFS and Long Covid
Nice to see my post linked. Last time I was accused of being a shill account, however I just do not post often. :D
Re. Apple, I bought an iPad, took it to another country and gave it to someone. After a few years when they tried to access it, they could not. I contacted support, they wanted to see the purchase receipt before helping to unlock it.
It's literally one button to skip, then? The whole process takes about 4 clicks.
Maybe it's time for developers to launch projects that make designers look good when participating in OSS projects.
Similar with Yahoo recently - had an almost 20 year old account, and suddenly it wants verification on a long gone phone number. Good that the account was used mostly for various registrations and non-critical communications. Still a lot of history and context de-facto gone. A kind of personal mini-Alexandria library fire :)

Similar situation with Hotmail went better - as the phone number was gone, the system offered an alternative - i had to provide previous passwords, recent emails recipients and subjects.
Cyberpunk, but cute.
I don't know what the situation in Germany is, but as I only ever hear about those issues from the US, I assume its something ridiculously bureaucratic, which might actually be a plus in this case?
> At one point I had to click a link in the recovery email and enter the month when the account was created.

Seriously?! Who comes up with these security questions? This is such a useless question, on the one hand it's insecure because it is a 1/12 chance of guessing right, but also who remembers what month they created an email account? I would venture a guess most people here couldn't even get the year right (I certainly couldn't). Seems the question is only useful to lock out the legitimate owner.
But what happens if getlago.com bans you?
Haven't you just moved the single-point-of-failure at a different place?
Fiddle Leaf Fig
I've definitely cancelled a yearly plan without talking to anyone before. But I did have to pay the early fee
I have absolutely no respect for geographical location checks in this kind of thing. I can immediately think of five services that I occasionally log into that in practice email me about every new session, at least two because they always do and at least two because they think it’s from an unknown location (not device, location), even though they always list my location as Melbourne. Seems to me they’re either lying about remembering locations at all, or have all implemented it as a check for exact IPv4 addresses (/32), which is a very poor proxy for geographical location and almost completely useless for a significant fraction of internet users. I use mobile data for my internet connection. My public IP address changes from session to session.
I think spanner itself isn't really good at scaling down to be very small and cheap, so Google isn't happy to offer small instances for totally-free.

That's Google's mistake tho - if they had had a totally free option when they started, students would have built pet projects on it, and now they'd have a whole ecosystem of companies giving hundreds of millions of revenue for it.

They should have offered a totally free version (at a loss), knowing that in the future they could do the engineering work to make it cheap for them to run.

For example, stick 10,000 users into the same spanner database with some frontend to check no user can access rows owned by another. Then, when a user gets large and wants to pay for dedicated spanner, migrate them out of the shared instance.
They can park their car outside the city in the park+ride of their choosing, and take public transport from there. That's what I do.
Love this reference
There's a value in compact / structural notation though, to an extent of course. But o come from the world of verbose application programming :)