skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would T-mobile have your number if you ported it out to the VOIP service a year ago?

Did you ever confirm it arrived at the VOIP service? The last place you can confirm you had access to the number is where you should be looking.
I love that!

I'm currently writing "PriceOps for Product Managers" and "PriceOps for Growth" as well. We hear a lot from PMs and PMMs who are eager for something that can allow them to make pricing and packaging changes safely and reliably (and often).
Recently I switched to Verizon from a pre-paid service subsidiary of T-Mobile and had some porting issues myself. I totally commiserate with you, but there is hope.

I left the store at end-of-business before the porting was totally complete and the in-store rep couldn't contact the porting team because they'd already gone home. I had data and could receive incoming messages but couldn't make outgoing calls or texts. The in-store rep assured me I could handle this myself the following day. He didn't mention the hours of bullshit I'd endure. I persevered for the same reasons as our Bojangles Aficionado above, but, honestly, I don't know that I saved myself the time that would otherwise have been spent re-authorizing myself on my 2FA accounts.

The gist of the story is that the junky prepaid service didn't give me the right account info from the start, so when it came time to port, Verizon couldn't help me unless I produced account numbers, PINs, and zip-codes. The zip-code was from an address I haven't lived at for 10+ years. (That remains a
mystery and is somewhat concerning.) At some point, I was trying to socially engineer the zip-code out of the T-mobile subsidiary rep, which eventually just turned into a plea.

I don't have a magic solution for you, but here are some thoughts about how I'd approach your situation:

* I would recommend continuing to call and escalating as high as you can go. My principle with customer service of major corporations is that if I don't like the response I get, I call back a maximum number of three times. If I get the same response 3x in a row, then that's a hard policy that I'm not going to bypass. Chances are though, whether by human error or a policy designed to be flexible, I will get some leeway.

* Related to the above, in calling back a few times, you might find that the technician you talk to in subsequent attempts is more qualified, experienced, or simply desires to handle your problem efficiently. Essentially, play the game more to win.

* I would also recommend getting T-Mobile and US Mobile on the phone with one another. They have the capacity to do this, and they might discover the problem together as opposed to being able to punt to the other side. Make yourself a nuisance. At the end of the day, you're in the right here.

* Last bit of advice I can impart is make sure you are absolutely speaking to the right team. Most customer service lines are structured in such a way that the first line (FLS) filters out people who don't need specialized help. The problem I faced with Verizon was being asked repeatedly by FLS who staffed the Porting hotline number to do the same troubleshooting steps (e.g. reset network settings on my phone) before speaking to the actual team who handled porting. Verizon might not be structured like T-Mobile or US Mobile, but at some point I was getting detailed information about the status of the Port from a Tech Support rep who ultimately had to hand me off to the Porting team to finalize it.

Good luck!
Seems like they dislike subscription models.
> It's simply zero covid working better than the best vaccines which will still lead to millions of deaths at PRC scale and with PRC's relatively lower per capita medical infra.

If China was able to logistically handle zero covid, I would be more inclined to agree with you. However, each time a city in China has been locked down, it has been a logistical disaster that almost always resulted in:

- extremely poor quarantine zones in unsanitary conditions (which defeats the purpose of being free of disease). This includes many people who were lucky enough to quarantine in their own homes as even their pets are not allowed to leave, they need to dedicate spaces in their home for their animals to defecate.

- lack of basic necessities; food, heating, water leakage, insect problems, or even lacking a proper indoor building in some cases.

- a lack of professionalism, discipline, or even respect of human decency among the staff. Attaching spikes to entrances to keep people from leaving by force, refusing to allow elderly access to medical care, threatening people with weapons, security bao'ans going on China social media laughing about all the new found power and control they have over the populace, beating people in a show of their power trips.

- questionable policies, such as requiring everyone in a community to come together, line up, for a covid test, which increases the likelihood of getting covid, rather than go door to door.

This has lead to more than just inconveniences, it's lead to death. Which is supposedly the very thing this is all supposed to avoid. The Chinese state has proven by experience, repeatedly, that it cannot logistically handle these strict policies. It is a failure of the zero covid policy and a failure of the Chinese Communist Party to administer its State in a competent manner.
It is a bit as with insurance. You pay insurance in case something happens. The insurance model is based on the assumption that a lot of people will be paying for it without getting the insurance back, otherwise it does not make financial sense.

The cheapest paid workspace account is cheap enough that it probably costs less than processing a single support ticket. Remember, when you loose access you are probably looking at multiple touch points and multiple people on their side to get you back. You wouldn't want any single person to be able to just change whatever they want?

So if they allowed it, people would just pay for the privilege once to get the problem resolved and then downgrade themselves back after one month.

The issue here is that the ratio of free accounts to paid accounts is so high that if any support was allowed for unpaid accounts it would absolutely deluge the system and paid accounts would have to pay a lot more to cover the cost of support for unpaid accounts.

But I do think they could provide a paid support ticket where you can pay an amount that would cover their costs (and of course then some) for a single support request.

The issue with this is that somebody could do this to "recover" account that does not belong to them. Paradoxically, there is some extra security in not allowing any social hacking by just not allowing any manual work on the account.
Unsure why you chose McDonald's, but those employees are eligible for $2500-$3000 tuition assistance - with good standing and 30 hours a week. Even more assistance if they apply for targeted scholarships.

https://www.archwaystoopportunity.com/tuition_assistance.htm...
PANTONE colors are specific mixes of pigments, not RGB or CMYK values. A PANTONE color includes elements like texture and lustre in its definition that cannot be captured in primary-color systems like RGB or CMYK. Certain trademark shades, like Tiffany blue, are captured as PANTONE colors as well. PANTONE is the standard for print graphic design because a designer will always know exactly how a PANTONE color will look on paper whereas significant calibration is necessary to get a consistent appearance from RGB or CMYK colors.
A better example would be to implement an efficient HashMap in pure FP. This is simply impossible unless you fall back to some tree based solution which is less efficient.

Interested why this is downvoted .. Hashmaps can have O(1) time complexity for lookups and inserts in the imperative world, in pure FP either lookup or insert can be no better than O(log(n))
Went to pick a song from my music library to try, only to find that the visualizer doesn't support flac.
Except even that's not true, if you consider that, canonically, "python" means CPython -- and PyPy is faster!
Yeah they will do that when they're being idiots, which is quite often. There should be a hold on it being reassigned, if the porting request is recent, keep on hounding them until they get it worked out, if it's been awhile, you're probably hosed.
Of course not. There's still the "newest first" sort option, so it's still possible to sort by time. It's purely an interface choice, not a backend issue.
Show HN: Time Travel for Billing Periods
Hi HN,

Lago (YC S21 = Open-source metering and usage-based billing) founder here.

Billing cycles are often a source of engineering complexity and confusion, so we made billing periods flexible in Lago:

- If you want to migrate existing customers to Lago, you can set a billing period in the past.
- If you just signed a new contract that will start in two weeks, you can set a start date in the future

Other elements of flexibility:
- Switch from 'calendar' to 'anniversary billing periods' within Lago
- Assign multiple plans to a customer, and meter and charge usage separately (e.g., if your pricing looks like Heroku, Shopify or Webflow, for instance)

Documentation: https://doc.getlago.com/docs/guide/plans/subscription#subscription-date

Github:
https://github.com/getlago/lago
Though the more you live in a sterile environment the less your immune system learns to fight pathogens and you may pay it dearly later on.
Doesn't this mean you also have less ideas to answer questions?
You can trademark a style, you can't copyright it. IANAL but that is what my corporate IP compliance training tells me. As long as am regurgitating non legal advice, I suspect half mona lisa half starry night might be considered a transformtive work. If a single human artist painted both perfectly onto the same canvas it could be construed as a statement about changes in the culture between the two contexts, so if you do it with Photoshop, it might very well get ruled the same way.

As for the morality of it? I don't like the idea of copilot replacing me, but I don't think it was wrong to make it. I'll eventually have to retrain myself to retrain copilot models I suppose. Or we'll have to decide to care for each other as we all go unemployed.
Mastodon is still littered with dead accounts from the last "exodus" so I'm not holding my breath.
> why is it a bad thing to acknowledge that and try and fix it?

I think the main objection against this kind of affirmative action is that you can't make up for discrimination against one group by discriminating against another group: None of the young, white (and Asian) students that are given a disadvantage today were responsible for the discrimination against black people decades ago – they weren't even around back then.

That's the ethical argument. There's also possibly [1] the economic argument, that this kind of affirmative action is inefficient, i.e., it doesn't fix systemic discrimination, or that all in all it creates more harm than good.

[1] I don't know if that argument is true, but I could see someone making this point.
Show HN: Just another HN note taking app reveal.
I completely understand the effort of building a secure enterprise browser but is there a need in the market and is the market big enough that it is a sustainable business? How will a browser replace existing user habits in the long run?

IMHO, the missing piece is to figure out how to turn a browser to replace the existing browser in a user's system and ensures the end user never turns back to the old one after using the new one.
Of course at that point you're already bought into the ecosystem with physical samples (which are not cheap), monitor calibration and all, so it feels like a "double dip" for no value added
Making the Sourcery CLI More Robust with Rich
Nascar driver stuns racing world with a move learned from Nintendo GameCube
Oh that's true. But you're a terrible masochist if you consider that an option.
But, no. See: "we are literally about to BOIL"

This statement is demonstrably false and completely disconnected from reality. We are not literally about to boil.

You cannot reach anyone that you need to reach in order to effect changes with that type of thing. I mean, I'm "on your side" and I've stopped reading at this point and will not resume.
What are the civil approaches that make a difference to you? Voting blue? Logical debate? Patience for scientific progress?
That’s how I learned to read.
But have they accomplished anything beyond mere publicity? We are way past the point where we have to convince the majority that something has to change. That seems to be the consensus as far as I observe. The hard question is what do change? And how exactly? And did they offer any proposals for that? If not, they are just wasting everybody's time and attention.
That's the point, B=H(B) doesn't follow from H, it's a new independent construct, so you need an independent proof of its validity.
That is super annoying. When trying to find answers for programming stuff, the first one is usually stackoverflow and next 5 pages this autogenerated bullshit.
By 'hex code' do you mean RGB or CMYK?

Pantone encodes more colours than those two.
I do. No I am not a software development. I'm a system administrator. I do write code and I would be pissed if some AI came along, took it and regurgitated it for someone else.

I take pride in what I write. I don't write it for someone to come and steal it. Sure if I had posted my code online, than I can expect it to be copy & paste but not for the usage of AI.
You shard the number into groups with a salt for each, until you reach a number of combinations that is computable for FB size on a check request, but way too long pre-generate. You can combine it with some bloom like filter to increase efficiency.
Github: https://github.com/getlago/lago
It's full of dishonest phrasing, or at least it was until I could no longer continue reading the article.
Not practically, legally. Not sure what the significance of metaphysical ownership or the lack thereof is. The FCC enforces these rules.
Notably the status quo for decades of research pre-covid was that masks don't work ...

Then in 2020 hysteria broke out, most scientists got scared shtless and you could only publish papers that indicate that masks work even though all the empirical evidence around us show that they don't.

If anything shows how short term scientific consensus is trivially falsifiable as it depends on few influential people.

Good luck trying to get a NIH grant with the hypothesis that masks might no be effective ... It is a no-go hypothesis from the start.

Same with zoonotic vs lab origin.
Print backup codes for each service
Sounds interesting!
Will check it out
Doc: https://doc.getlago.com/docs/guide/plans/subscription#subscr...
That’s been our experience as well. Auth0 seemed like a great deal and we were happy to have such a sensitive component handled by a dedicated third party, but their sales team aggressively pursues us as soon as we go over some MAU limit and it’s clear that the nickel-and-diming is only going to get worse as we grow. We need to migrate away sooner or later.
You see a light fly by.

- If the light flashes, it is an aircraft

- If the light is not flashing, it is a satellite

- And if the light is very very fast, it is a shooting star
Namaste HN fam. I'm part of a small pseudonymous design studio based in India. When we are not working on client projects we fiddle around with our own ideas.

As a design studio we share a ton of quick notes. Meeting notes, design cycle reviews, code snippets ... etc. Unf current note-taking apps are too bloated. So we whipped up Crumple, a quick PHP, web-based app to take, share and publish notes, code snippets and white board doodles. It's free, no account is required, and fast.

We've had about 100k users use V1 now. For V2 (like all the cool kids these days) we are trying to implement additive AI in the background. eg. Text Prompts, Img to Img generations via doodles, code snippet audits. If you are a script kiddie and want to jam with us holler at: labs[at]lazyeight.design , we're putting together a small solo team.

PS: To claim a Crumple note. crumple.me/[name] , ps: remember to put a password.

Feedback is appreciated and as always thanks much for your time.
Certainly on the Mac, compatibility issues stop you from even installing older versions (installer is 32bit), then I think there were other issues with certain functions.
Good.

Hopefully that will create some incentives to switch to electrical systems and invest in renewables.
Well states operate vaccine registries, but some states for political reasons chose to not really do a good job with them or not issue usable credentials beyond the CDC card. Also, rural states tended to rely more on larger entities like Walmart and pharmacies to deliver vaccinations — Walmart is often the most accessible place for healthcare, food, medicines, etc.

When entities like Apple got in the mix the process got smoother. If your doctor uses Epic, the Health app can usually create a SMART credential directly from your medical records instead of downloading a state app.

It is cool that different entities were able to self organize and deliver a valuable service. It sucks that the Federal government backed away from any leadership role. People in Florida who had to travel abroad often got re-vaccinated at Walmart or in another state, because the Governor wanted to own the libs or whatever.
But you can do something about this if you want. When you're at work and everyone is talking all around you, making it impossible to concentrate, it's a lot harder to fix that "togetherness" than to fix temporary remote loneliness.
It's not just about FP, it's about creating a language that will allow you to think more clearly about the problem. If we cannot graduate our primitives to the level of abstraction that's required for the problem then codebases will be fragile, projects will run over-budget and complexity will forever increase.
Misunderstanding is unkind? Did I misunderstand unkindly?

As I said in the previous comment, I think that the people dying on a hill to defend OP are completely missing the fact that people understand others’ statements according to their own circumstances. This is an inevitable limitation of the subjective human experience, and this is why no one can ever make the position that nothing that they say is offensive—you simply don’t know what others have gone through which they are using to understand the things you say.

I really don’t see what’s so different with what I’m saying with, say, some misunderstood law or policy at work or business requirement because the writer thought of the wording differently than the reader. I pointed out that there’s no need to demonize the commenter, but somehow people feel the need to protect him lol.

Then again, maybe you guys have been incorrectly called out on Twitter, but that doesn’t make you right in the same way that I’m not necessarily in the right here.
Just a note -- your URL is wrong and redirects to a site blocked (entirely) by my adblocker.

The right domain is dot ORG, not COM:

joinmastodon.org
Balance of probability, maybe rephrase as "anti-consumer behavior is bad" or "noticing how monopolies are inherently self serving is a lot like a frog noticing the water around it is getting a bit hot"
Artemis, the one that failed to launch recently?

EU about to give up Ariane to focus on SpaceX [1]

Isn't that a confession of failure, lack of confidence?

I suspect the US asked them to help them fund their missions

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-european-space-agency-missions...
A lot of services use SMS as a second factor and offer no backup codes.
Photoshop already is a rather expensive subscription so whoever doesn't mind paying Adobe obviously uses it for making good money on regular basis and shouldn't have a problem paying Pantone as well.
The biggest shift that generative AI enables is that content becomes personal. Everyone will create and consume their own content. It's not just that the content will be AI-generated, but it is generated for each person individually, which is the 'big' thing.

Already with Stable Diffusion it's way more rewarding to play with it yourself than look at generations made by others. It's more like a game or a dream that is a personal experience, than 'art' to be shared with others.
You know, like Europe.
Are you looking to automate your Cron Jobs?
Hey hackers, is your team writing any Cron Jobs that can be automated?

I am working on a product called Microbots. The idea behind Microbots is to help companies automate their customer engagement journeys using data directly from your database.

We are still in an early stage and would love to get some feedback from HN.
If you parked it at a VOIP how were you able to use the 2fa?
And also the vast majority of "working" applications have a full devops team, legions of highly paid senior developers, etc. "You" do not.
I'm finding the line between climate activist and religious zealot is increasingly blurry. There's a condescending "we know the one true way to live and everyone else must sacrifice themselves to our whim" that is always common to true believers of any ilk and is highly counter-productive in gaining support from reasonable people.
I've handled this (in Clojure) either by passing a context map through the entire stack or binding some context atom at the top and using it lower down the stack. The binding is less obvious at first glance, so I prefer to pass the context, but both make testing quite easy and reduce the need for heavy refactoring.
If you don't have any problem with your daily itenary beinf tracked, then no explanation will be good enough for you.
Just respect the fact that people don't want their daily activities available to 3rd parties
Forums are too small of an audience to be even considered by most people, including political leaders considering such regulation, who consider Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to be the only websites with UGC, and it's difficult to explain that distinction to folks, in my personal experience.
The other problem with functional programming is it's harder to look at code and figure out the time complexity. At least with non-functional languages I can easily figure out why there are performance problems with it. Stuff like lazy evaluation may seem cool, but it's not when you have to figure out why something's slow.
Can you more explain that as an example. I understand the words, but doesn't extend to me seeing the design of it.
My VoIP had an SMS feature that I used from their web UI
I haven't done user interface design, in anger, for 20+ years. Before the kids renamed it "UX" (old wine, new bottles).

Anywho. We used to consider Fitts' Law, Hick's Law, and so forth. Celebrity UI designers (ahem) like Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini and Jakob Nielsen would belabor these seemingly obvious design considerations ad nauseum.

Your Big-O suggestion could be a nice heuristic for scoring and ranking design alternatives. Cool.

Not that design intent ever mattered. The age old tale remains the same. Grind, iterate, validate. (Does anyone do usability testing any more?) Voilá!

Then some PHB doing drive-by mgmt decrees "Those buttons should be cornflower blue. I like the old font better. Just change it all back."

I eventually rage quit UI work. Preferring to have my good taste, experience, skill, and efforts denigrated in other domains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hick%27s_law

It now occurs to me the audience for all that UI design advice was our bosses, not us practitioners. For appeals to authority. For populating our bookshelves, to exude the facsimile of learnedness.
Uber tests push notification ads, a feature no one wants
Good article, but the chart of FP languages is way off. There are only 8,752 public Haskell repositories in GitHub (not 126,990, as claimed). Numerous other popular FP languages aren't even listed (e.g. Scala: 13,224, F#: 1,960).
> I don't deal much with C/C++

that is because there is no such thing.