skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I have a lifetime supply of TY media. I hardly ever use it. I don't even know if it is CD or DVD. I'd have to look. I wonder if there is a shelf life for the media before it is recorded.

I'm in the spinning rust camp. I use the ZFS filesystem which protects against bit rot and I usually migrate to larger drives every several years. And I have an off site mirror of my local storage. My only concern is what happens to it when I'm no longer able to manage it. I guess I need to leave instructions.
Surgical implanting yubikeys.

That won't at all bother anyone homeless, because there's never been a homeless person who was a conspiracy theorist.

(Obvious sarcasm detected)
homelessness is definitely something that affects a ton of people so it definitely is our problem as long as we are city dwellers.

We have to break out of the stereotype that homelessness is a city problem. It isn't. Far from it.

Homelessness is more obvious in cities because there are fewer places for homeless people to be. But there are plenty of homeless people camped out in rural and suburban towns, if you know what to look for.

I recently lived in a snooty city suburb where most of the homes cost from $600,000 to $10 million, and guess what — the drainage tunnels beneath the Home Depot, the maintenance underpasses in the parks, the undeveloped wooded lots were all full of homeless people.

Promulgating the notion that homelessness is a city problem is what allows suburban and rural politicians to cut funding for homeless services because "it doesn't affect my constituents."
> the main issue at hand is google's neglectful lack of customer support

Imagine Google had a full service customer support system for account recovery that everybody could access rapidly. How would a homeless person use it? They lose all their possessions regularly so they don't have a reliable form of identification. They'd need to enroll their drivers license (which they probably don't have) in the system and then still have that license when they need to recover their account. Or they could be vouched for by a pre-enrolled trusted party account that does have strong authentication systems. But... homeless people are often transient and don't have access to regular support networks like a family member or social worker who could be enrolled as a backup account. In fact, you can already enroll as backup account if you want to.

> Google as a brand is absolutely dead in the water for anyone that has woken up from the 'Don't be evil' kool-aid of the early days.

Google has a pretty bad reputation at this point on tech blogs and forums. But, believe it or not, it actually shows up near the very top of trusted brands when 3rd party analysts do surveys on the wider population. Maybe this data is wrong, I don't know. But it is interesting.
Huh? Gmail most certainly supports paper codes, hardware authenticators, and non-google auth apps.
The biggest lie media has sold us is that the "bigger reality" is more important.

This is going to be extremely controversial to people that live on the internet like you and I, but what is actually important to you is what's in a one mile range from your current location, your family and your house.

It's culturally accepted that being "cultured" to be interested in what's happening in the other side of the world, but it is not important as in vital for your well being and immediate survival.

So, no. The local is what is more important, the rest is what makes us buy newspapers, TVs and radios. News is an product.
> This position is absurd.

No. As much as I don't like this ruling, the reverse would be absurd.

Holding that the "effective" adjective means "strong"... would mean the law prohibits circumventing impossible-to-circumvent technological protection measures but doesn't prohibit circumventing the ones that you actually can. It would have no force. This was clearly not Congress's intent.
I sure hope Ceph stays "untouched"
wonder if rust in the kernel has the decency to compile with the rust-written rust compiler.
And what happens if I've already been using that gmail address and then become homeless?

I guess too bad! Should have thought of my future homelessness when I was signing up for an email service a decade ago!
Though not a social service, the recent shutdown of Stadia is likely indicative of how corporate shut downs will be handled.
I can't remember where I found the idea or if there is any scientific evidence behind it but I like it, increasing your rate of failure is the best way to learn something. If it took a computer 30 minutes to compile code, compared to a few seconds for a small program today, you could only run a program 8 times a day and debug your mistakes. So I would say, do not worry about time, but find a method of learning where failure is swift :)
good examples. Thanks. Recession is looming so i keep both full time developer and startu's CEO as a part time job. We automate most tasks so it's feasible.
Social network IRL. You can only add a person to your list if you meet with them in-real-life -- then you swap QR codes or something. I think it might have potential, but how to bootstrap the network?
> it is still possible to create a gmail account without phone number

Nope. Not possible.

Oh how I would love to be proven wrong though.
Don’t they have backup codes?
It sounds like they're used to being nickel -and-dimed or having money taken away from them.
> someone in their 70s keep

I'm in my early 40s, computer programmer, and I've temporarily lost access to my WhatsApp account because I don't have a recent enough mobile phone, and the phone that I do have doesn't have a relatively recent OS installed.

It's a 4-year old (I think I've got it for 4 years) iPhone SE, on which I never updated the OS because I hadn't feel the need to do it. When I started getting pop-ups that "hey, our app will stop functioning on your phone unless you upgrade the OS" was already too late for that, I was afraid that upgrading the phone to the latest OS will cripple it permanently in terms of performance (the battery is already on its way out by this point).

So, assuming I get to 70, in no way I'll be up to date by then in terms of having the latest OS installed and all that crazy stuff, who has the time and the nerves for that? (especially the nerves).
I think there are possible solutions here for a library, off the top of my head, taking a picture of your face when dropping off the codes, so that when you come back and ask for your codes, the librarian can ID you against the picture they have. Basically what is done when verifying your ID card/passport when you travel/go to the bank etc...

It wouldn't be a librarian doing someone a favour, but rather a service that libraries provide.

This could be a great evolution for libraries. They are already a distributed, public system, that people in general trust, but their role in society has changed with the rise of the internet and online services, and this could be a really useful role they could fill.
Presumably the majority of the people living there like the rules, otherwise they wouldn't have been voted into the rule book. Democracy in action.
Can also recommend Covet, great songs, and the guitar work is pretty bonkers--really incredible what different tunings and tons of practice/talent can do. I watched a YT where Yvette Young was talking about how her 1st tele had Bill Lawrence pickups, which (after a truly mad dive into pickup research) I now also have in my main guitar (microcoils + an L45-S in a strat, not a tele, I'm not a monster). My point here is: be careful or you might find yourself up at 1am trying to decide what capacitors you want on your tone pots.
That Snapper You’re Eating Might Be 80 Years Old
Yes, if the committee declined to award it most years, and only gave it to the truly worthy, it would be much more impactful.
Plz tell your dad if he ever wants to grab a non-alcoholic beer and vent about you, I'm down.

I'm kidding of course. He and I would be able to talk for days about other things, though. You and I, true to the OP, would probably rate each other not worth each other's time after 5 seconds. This is the inoculation I spoke of in my other comment. It's a powerful mechanism.

"Do you know who owns and controls the station you're watching? Does the truth you know rely on its funding? Does it matter? DOES IT MATTER?!?" --kmfdm
But, But, But --- blockchain is super duper secure.

Maybe so but DeFi does not exist by blockchain alone. The surrounding crypto infrastructure is a security nightmare waiting to happen --- oh wait, I think it just did.

Use at your own risk.
The "quiet homeless" who can hold down a job are also likely to be able to keep track of a phone or other two factor device.

If we can "solve" the problem for the dopest of dope addicts, the problem will also be solved for the homeless barista.

That still doesn't solve the problem for homelessness, of course.
Yeah people should be able to have bon fires on their front lawn to cook the animal carcass they have hanging in the front yard tree because they shouldn't be enslaved by fridges and stoves.

They should be able to bath themselves in the front yard by pouring water from they collected from a nearby creek over themselves because showers are slavery.

It's ok for people to tan animal hides in their front yard because the clothing store requires transportation which is just slavery.

I'm going to have torches inside and out because light bulbs enslave me.

I'm thinking about joining an Amish community because the machines I own have ended up owning me.
You don't need to become a master to switch jobs. You just need to be able to learn new things. You weren't a master at your current career when you started it.

Assuming you will live to 86, you still have half your life ahead of you. But the longer you wait, the less time you have.

Just do it. You will regret not trying.
Gmail != Email.

There are many other usable (and free) email providers out there. It doesn't have to be Google.
> You do realize that KaiOS is Chinese, right?

What's the point of this comment?

Google is American, so what? And people all over the world still use it regardless.
It a crime to enter an unlocked door, or even to walk into a building with no door at all, uninvited. This is a very different thing than visiting a public website.
We need our own version of 18F to build technology patterns and in house expertise so that government is less reliant on outsourcing. With more in house work when government does outsource there would be a much better yardstick to determine requirements and measure success.
Tracing a possible origin of animal pollination
I am a daily IRC user and I think you are exaggerating the problems. I can count on my one hand the number of times I have seen an attack on my nick or the channels I hang out in, in the last 15 years. Those attacks pass without much disruption (sometimes requiring staffer intervention). Nick squatting is solved by Nickserv these days. Splits do happen occasionally but they resolve on their own automatically without much disruption.

It is ok if it never gets adopted as mainstream communication. But for the target audience (like opensource support communities being the target audience of Libera), it works quite well.
Congratulation
About a month ago I had a mechanic call me pissed and tell me they didn't want to work with me anymore if I didn't trust them. I had been asking questions over text.

That this happened is a statement of fact.

I'm taking my old ford explorer over to him this weekend. Do you know why?

Because I asked him what was wrong and explained the intent of the questions. We've had a working relationship for over 2 years, he was obviously having a bad day. No harm, no foul, humans are humans.

And yet, his negative behavior is a statement of fact. Imagine if I then went around town telling everyone not to use this man because he "doesn't play well with others". I mean, it's only a statement of fact, right?

Point of fact, the engine light in the truck came on earlier this week, I called him up and then drove it over so he could check codes (O2 sensor needs replacing). Had a conversation with him, where he told me his wife is living in Arizona to be a live-in baby sitter for their kids new baby, and he drives over there every other weekend (I knew his wife was in Arizona, but didn't know why).

You're campaigning against a piece of software because you don't like the author. Not for technical reasons, but because the author "forced" (your words) stuff onto other people, then after these innocents reverted it back in defense of the whole of fediverse and he got mad and said mean stuff, so now we need to defend the reader (me, and everyone else) from his meanness.

If you say so.
> migrated seamlessly

I disagree with that characterization.

> and survived

Survival is not the issue. Mastodon will survive. Tumblr survives. Even MySpace survives. But major disruptions tend to lose users.

(And yes it's true that the potential Twitter acquisition is a potential major disruption. But it's not going to be shut down after a $44 billion investment.)
I can't read the whole article, because I don't have a membership but I thought they would make this ability to all Twitter users. A little bit disappointed
That's what I'm doing, and it works fairly well – until I get to one of the many corporations regarding VoIP numbers as inherently insecure, and they don't let you use it for 2FA purposes... (Nevermind Google supporting robust 2FA for logins, and my phone operator not even offering 2FA for eSIM swaps.)

And that's disregarding the elephant in the room, i.e. Google inevitably pulling the plug on Voice at some point.
If you rely on a free google service for anything in any situation, you are one random AI decision away from being completely fucked anyway. If losing 2FA access often is a problem for you, chose a different provider or if you have to use google for some reason, use their google authentication app and save the authentication credentials somewhere save. If you cannot keep a strip of paper with a few recovery codes safe, don't use the internet, it's not for you.
Businesses are not harming anyone by not providing charity.

I struggle to see a reasonable possibility to the government either directly or legislating others to provide identification and communications services. One of the greatest utilities in the US is USPS, a monumental accomplishment to be able to provide communications to all people in the US.

Tacking on email (and identity verification services - which USPS already does via passports) should be a no brainer.
My thoughts exactly. When the comment you responded to mentioned the word "reddit," this immediately came to mind.
I'm really curious. What would you propose?

The best I can think of is trusted backup accounts, which already exist. A homeless person with regular attachment to a family member or a social worker could set up that person's account as a backup. But this already exists and is likely to fail for a large number of homeless people, who tend to struggle at maintaining long term relationships with family members or social workers who'd be able to help them.
Using mobile phone numbers as a makeshift captcha is the #1 tool any security team has to prevent fraudulent signups. Because they're expensive to get, it puts any attack at a baseline cost $x, so many would-be attackers that only stand to gain $y just don't carry out the attack when $y < $x.
If you can't notice it is what makes it not a problem for most people.
I should be able to build a giant ferris wheel on my front lawn because it's my property after all!
I wouldn't say switching career exactly. I'd worked with asset management software for utilities and telecoms a good twenty years, it used a propriatory language no one outside the industry recognised. I got made redundant from my company, and getting another job in the field would have required moving country. TBH, I was thoroughly bored of the field anywsy, and was starting to see my career ending as some aging beardy in a server room looking after a valuable database no one could upgrade anymore.

I switched to mobile dev, although still in a related field. Well, I didn't just start out that way, to keep myself occupied during redundancy, i developed some fun stuff I was doing on MacOS, someone liked it and wondered if they could do the same on their iPhone, so I worked out how to do that.

I put several years of time into it, it wasn't a very successful project for making money, but it gave me something to demonstrate when applying for mobile jobs at the age of 43, and eventually landed me a job.

I had plenty of related experience I suppose and soon started making an impression in my new line, now I work on an app I developed and proposed myself to the company. I feel happier I work with more modern languages, that I can come up with an app a company thought had enough potential to invest time and money in, and is slowly starting to get successful and has an impact in my industry.
They didn't go in city centres, they went in suburbs.
"...work of teaching itself), as beneath them."

Smart Alec yes—so long as no one's hurt. It's easy to understand how teaching is considered beneath them as it's distraction. It seems to me that a possible (or partial) way of ameliorating the problem would be to teach students from the outset that the principal role of a university is educate and that if they which to do research under the auspices of a university then they must expect disruption as routine.

Whilst I understand that being disrupted is irritating, the fact that they consider teaching beneath them seems shortsighted. I am not a teacher but on ocassions I've had to teach and I quickly discovered that there's nothing to hone one's own knowledge more than to teach. When teaching in front of a class, 'knowledge' that one's thinks one's clear about in one's mind quickly distills into either actual knowledge or embarrassing garbage.

One wonders then why teaching isn't more highly valued with this lot (whenever I've had to teach I've considered it a privilege and it boosted my ego to boot—especially when in debate with intelligent students who ask interesting questions—some of which yours truly couldn't answer).
Here is a German company that created a device where you can donate by putting cash into the collection bag or by swiping your card. You can even change the amount by turning the handle.

https://digitalerklingelbeutel.de/klingelbeutel/
But it’s federated. You can have an invite only network that still federated with the rest of the network.
Am I pretending otherwise? Obviously businesses value certain people more than others. It is a business.
I guess isomorphic tunings are isomorphic in the sense that you can move a fingering not only up and down the fretboard, but also from one set of strings to another, and the chord remains the same, just transposed.
he is often the first person to debug hacks. Such an incredibly great mind.
The problem is not that a superior abstraction exists that you can make money from, the problem is that you have to hire people who work well with that abstraction, and that is usually the impediment.

For example, I bet NixOS would alleviate a lot of pain with development and deployment, but the learning curve is steep, poorly documented, and still in need of work, and the community is just not very big yet.
More common case.

Your phone breaks (broken screen, swollen battery, whatever).

With a physical SIM you can physically extract the SIM and insert it in another (spare) phone (and you can even borrow one for a few minutes).

To transfer an e-SIM you need to authorize the transfer on the old phone (the one that doesn't work):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32138466
I don't know if I necessarily agree with that when it's someone in a position of authority like a government official who is doing the "asking" since that typically carries the implied threat of some sort of repercussions
Think of it this way: your experience with your father is probably what kept you away from alcohol. It's a very common pattern.

BTW, I realize "falling off the wagon" means going on a bender, but shouldn't it really be the other way around? I mean, if you go on a bender, that's like getting on the wagon. I always picture this wagon with everyone drinking in the wagon. Because no one who drinking's drinking wants to walk. Just one of those things that's always bugged me.
Potential solution, the Obamaphone program keeps using the same phone number for an individual instead of totally new ones every time they lose a phone.
Quality can vary a lot, back in the late 90's you had certain brands and disc you would buy because of how much extra data you could write to them and also testing to see which disc performed better at higher writing speeds. It was a big deal to some folks back then and you likely bought the high quality ones.
Yes this is sort of what I was envisioning. Not as much one trusted librarian doing a favour, but a librarian team having a filing cabinet full of backup codes and an ID process that they trust and that is appropriate for their community.

This is the sort of thing that I think Google could support explicitly with more access control around it, but I don't think that's entirely necessary to get the benefits.
> For our product, 2FA is pretty important as a security feature (domain registrar). That said, if you don't want to use it, that's on you as the user.

That's all I'm asking for as a user - thank you for being on the good side. Optimally you allow for multiple MFA options, so that I can e.g. use an authenticator app and a yubikey, as well as a recovery code in my bank.
OK ... who are you arguing with?

OP stated "Maybe the solution should be to have some basic free state-paid email provider for those people."

I replied that there are a lot of good free email providers already.
Meta finds 400 mobile apps out to steal Facebook login info
It's really hard for me to read this and not think of a child, shouting, "BUT I WANTED THE ICE CREAM AN HOUR AGO, NOT NOW! WAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

The irrationality of this sentiment, combined with your assertion that President Biden is "inept," suggests to me that your statement is entirely political, since it seems to run contrary to the facts as I observe them.
I read (and liked) Gladwell's book, but the point of it was really just that no matter what your natural talent for something, it takes the opportunity to do a lot of focused practice to become good at it. This is to debunk the idea that the wealthy are all members of a meritocracy; even if they do have some talent at whatever they are doing, they were lucky enough to get born into circumstances such that they were allowed to do whatever-it-was for long enough to become expert.

Also, just because you're not great at something initially, doesn't mean you cannot become great, because it takes many thousands of hours of practice to become great.

No doubt the 10k rule varies according to field, because some fields are new, and no one has 10k hours yet. There are programmers with 10k hours, but most of the professionals in the field do not have 10k hours yet, for example. The definition of "great" (and therefore the # of hours required) is relative to others in that field.

I switched into programming in my 30's, when many programmers start to rotate out of it because they believe they are too old. I probably am not as good at certain things as others, but I also bring experience from previous careers to improve the odds that I am programming the right thing in the first place.

If you switch careers, it will take time to become good at the new one, and you (and your finances) need to be able to accommodate that. But it definitely happens.
Check out the 100h rule.

https://www.codingvc.com/p/the-100-hour-rule

A lot of professionals are not in the 10,000h range and a few 100h is more achievable.