skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a good reason to block Google Voice at all. Regular phone numbers also get recycled by phone providers after a few months of not paying the bills (or not topping up a prepaid account). The chance of me losing my regular prepaid number after a few months of traveling internationally is significantly higher than losing my Google Voice number.

I also seriously doubt that blocking VoIP numbers is anything other than companies making their own lives marginally easier (because VoIP numbers can be used by people generating multiple trial accounts in case they're used as a (bad) "proof of personhood").
The feature I most want from little languages like this is safety: in addition to restricting what it can do, I want to be able to take a snippet of untrusted code and execute it with a strict limit on how long it can take and how much memory it is allowed to use.

I want this so I can build features for end-users to provide snippets of code while knowing they won't be able to break anything, either accidentally or maliciously.

This is a surprisingly rare quality!

A common failure point here is allowing infinite loops ("while true") or allowing unbound mathematical operations, like powers or factorials of really large numbers.
Unable to dig, researchers look to cosmic rays to unlock ancient underworld
This is a good question and one that comes up often. I'd say it's around 60% to dealers, 40% to collectors. I'd like the skew to be more like 10%/90%, and that's my aim, but I take the position that a quick profitable sale to a dealer can be better than waiting for the right collector to come around and pay full retail price. It's a delicate dance and you need to develop an intuition for what coins are collector-friendly and quick sellers vs. what's more likely to sit around for a while. And the answer is different for every dealer and every series of coin. There are a lot of variables!
>The myth that engineers make better leaders may have originated with Andy Grove.

Quite possible, and what's really ironic is that Grove's successor, Craig Barrett (who helped start the company with Grove), also an engineer, was a terrible CEO. He was the one who made a bunch of bad moves: P4/Netburst + RAMBUS, Itanic, refusing to adopt amd64 or make their own x64-64 ISA before AMD, etc. The company did poorly under his leadership and only turned around when his successor, Paul Otellini (an accountant IIRC) took over and moved to the "Core" CPU architecture.
It's a lot faster to just give them a code than to read a complicated order.

It's especially great for making substitutions and tweaks to your order.
likewise! it's always a pleasant surprise to encounter a real debate on here instead of macho aggression. thanks for passing me that channel!
Good sir / madam - I was in the middle of fixing a production bug on what was at the time one of the busiest sites on the net when the layoffs came. Like literally was typing out a fix when I got called to the conference room, computer locked when I returned to my desk. Corporate American don’t care.
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Just don’t say something like this out aloud near Gary Marcus.
> If you look up UUIDs you will (correctly) get the impression that they're mostly random, except some types aren't.

Either we have very different ideas of what "mostly" means or you don't know what the different versions of UUID include as well as you think you do.

If we're considering the 5 published versions: 1 is built from random data; 2 are built from time & host data; and 2 are built from a namespace and a "name".

If we consider the 3 proposed additional versions: 1 is built from time & host; 1 is built from time & random data; and 1 is built from custom data.

So I personally wouldn't consider "most" to mean either 1 of 5 (20%) nor 2 of 7 (28.6%).

> I would not expect every engineer to know to inspect the UUID and figure out its type and to know that this could have real consequences for guessability by external actors.

I would expect someone who is writing software and encounters UUIDs to take the few minutes needed to understand the basics of what goes into the different versions, ensure they're being used correctly.

> If your team is small enough that everyone can hold the entire system in their head at once, that's great, but that excludes many real world projects.

They don't need to "hold the entire system in their head". They just need to (a) have the most basic understanding of what a UUID contains, and then (b) use it appropriately.
[dupe] yep, Cory's weird permalink scheme messes this up every time.

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261875
Some password managers do offer the option of challenge-response from a hardware key, but technically speaking the password manager vault file can be considered "something you have" so long as you store it securely, like your SSH private key.
It’s not worth the risk nor the guilt.
I assumed they meant a baseball at baseball speed.
You're able to use plain old .css files in a React project, which a lot of people do, using something like css-in-js or tailwind is a choice.
Having an engineer as CEO can get you dumb decisions like thinking the Pentium4 Netburst architecture and dependency on expensive RAMBUS memory is a great idea.
Oh, I was only speaking of waste / environmental impact; I would expect that as business cards they're far more effective than paper.
Or maybe they thought: we don't want this fool around who let us exploit him so much.
My big find was a fair-condition copy of Graham Greene’s retracted second novel in a secondhand bookstore in Canada for CDN20. It’s not in collectable condition, by any means. The spine is angled and the dust jacket is missing, but just the opportunity to read this (not that good, to be honest) book and the delight of finding a copy that I could afford were a joy for me.
All of the above! There are people who are SUPER specific -- they collect only a single series (say, Buffalo Nickels from 1913-1938), some people who only collect a very specific type within a series (Buffalo Nickels from San Francisco in MS65 or better), and generalists who just like anything that's pretty or interesting or gold or silver or from their hometown, etc.

There are 1001 ways to collect and it's fun to meet all the different folks and learn about their different approaches.
> . So some levels of pilot retraining is expected.

I mean the whole reason for the 737 max was to avoid re training
No freaking way. I don't use YubiKeys not because they are expensive, but they are less convenient than other options.
"Foolishness 1, Reason 0."

A variation on the Emperor's new clothes methinks.
Black holes aren't immune to the effects of gravity from other objects just because they're black holes. It'd be no different than trying to use a trio of stars as your gravity engine (well, more space efficient). I.e. you still have to accelerate the stars, you still have to deal with slower things the stars "eat" slowing them down, if the stars pull your ship it's slowing them down. Effectively, you've just increased the mass of your spaceship by however much mass the black holes have and then still had to find something to accelerate the whole lot instead of your spaceship.
What do you mean by "of this scope"? The winning solution was produced by students and interns who coordinated over the Internet, in less than a year. The problem isn't scope, the problem is attracting lots of bright individuals to work on such a task (for free). And offering a substantial monetary incentive to the winner is probably the best way to do that.

And yes, $1 million is very substantial for an individual. And the cool thing about offering it as a prize (from the point of view of the organizers, that is) is they only have to pay one person or team, although potentially thousands ultimately contribute to the solution, directly or indirectly.
I'm not talking about sex when I say "sex appeal". I'm talking about vibes
I have always saved my dtrings in a separate keypass database.

New Google Auth takes a second or 5 to show accounts. I use old apk because that one shows accounts in a millisecond.
The methods are incredible, but it seems like the text is ordinary and nothing to write home about
Wouldn't you still need the password database, plus the password or whatever used to open that database? The two factors are related though (a good keylogger should be able to get both).
Because they paid less than they would’ve paid for an off the shelf solution? They ripped off a bloke instead
The vagueness of end-user is also a little concerning, are they using it in sense a lot of corporate it folks do to mean employees, or are they implying their customers are their end users.
> how tf would they land?

Most planes—including many GA planes—can land themselves.
The problem is that most of these apps have good and bad stuff on them. I get a lot of value out of high quality content on youtube, but I also have to try really hard to not get sucked into watching an endless stream of garbage youtube shorts.

Also even if you delete the apps, most people are in social groups with people who still use them and send links to content on them. It’s hard to avoid them entirely.
Forced down our throats via Instagram, a few people trying it out just to get away from Twitter, and the rest that have 'latched' onto it seem like grifters and terribly low quality content. Mixed engagement. And then there's all the weird UI quirks and failings on 'network effect'/reachability that impact daily use. Maybe it works for some but it just ends up being another separate thing like all the mastodon servers, siloed, and missing that broader eclectic reach that twitter still somehow is affording in some ways (debatable I know). Everytime I give it a chance I'm away within hours/days thinking its DOA just like bluesky.
Yeah, I was reading it and I got really confused when they talked about $20 sequencing runs.
Disclaimer: I work at ClickHouse

Thank you! Glad it helped you.

ClickHouse is in particular well-optimized to take on real-time analytical workloads from BigQuery - both functionally and from a cost perspective.

For anyone wanting to try it yourself, there guide to follow when syncing or migrating workloads from BigQuery to ClickHouse, with some benchmarks and back-of-the-envelope cost comparisons:
https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-bigquery-migrating-da...
>Koch's Postulates where redefined and then abandoned entirely by virologists as they couldn't find a way to apply them to viruses.

Koch's Postulates have since found new life among conspiracy nuts as indisputable proof that viruses aren't real.
Sure, Han!
>Counterpoint: SMS login and account recovery is good UX, and it's the telcos that need to step up their collective game.

Oh, yeah, fantastic UX.

I've had my phone and credit cards stolen while traveling abroad (such a hard-to-imagine scenario, innit?), and was consequently locked out of all important services.

Very good UX: being left without a phone and access to bank account and email and most messengers at the same time (thankfully, Skype isn't one of them).

Double props to CitiBank for requiring SMS authentication to change the phone number on the account.
No bank is using (only) SMS as an authentication factor for 2FA. It's not allowed under the EBA's technical interpretation of the PSD2 regulation. Some banks do still allow it as a fallback option, together with another factor, e.g. a password or other knowledge factor.

My bank even made it a paid service, which I fully support – SMS is extremely overpriced.
Not too surprising, but I like the random ancient texts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81...
Do you do paid appraisals of collections?
I dunno, I found it pleasurable.
fifty percent of managers rule by fear
I think there is a middle ground to be had. Instead of someone immediately going into debt as soon as they turn 18, they could take some time to get some kind of emergency fund in place, and dedicate a percentage of their income to savings. This doesn’t mean they will never spend money, it just means they will do it more responsibly and sustainably.

I didn’t get my first credit card until I was almost 30. I was still buying MacBook Pros, Playstations, iPhones, and TVs in my 20s… but was saving until I had the cash to afford them. And that savings was after contributing to my 401k and keeping a buffer of cash to avoid needing to lean into debt. My thought was, if I can’t pay for it today, what makes me think I’ll be able to make the payments on it next month. It seemed like a risky bet I didn’t want to take.

Obviously there are people who get a bad roll of the dice early in life, but with 80% in this situation, it’s a lot of bad money habits. I’m not saying never buy stuff, just wait and bit and be more selective, especially while young. Save then buy, instead of buying and then paying back. Stuff still gets bought.

Will this mean fewer trillion dollar companies? Perhaps. $1T in spending would be taken off the table vs what’s been done right now. But slower sustainable growth seems like it would be preferable to the exponential growth we’ve seen, and allow companies to focus more on the products and long term health of the company, rather than milking consumers for profit until things collapse in on themselves.

How are people supposed to buy more stuff when 100% of their income is going to pay off old debts and they can’t even afford to make all the minimum payments? Borrowing at 0% interest to make those payments kicks the can down the road and shifts more and more risk to the banks, and that can only last so long, as we saw in 2008. In this scenario, only those saving to buy will still be spending money.
We have this today! Roman numeral analysis and the study of western music theory will give you the tools to be able to compose a piece of music, without listening to it, and know what will sound good or bad or new and surprising to the listener.

The metrics we have are Roman numeral analysis. We know the four chords to use that will make music sound familiar. We know the harmonies to use that will make music sound like jazz.

This makes sense since it’s possible to create music that sounds like a certain genre without trial and error.

This is to say nothing of non western music, and I’d be interested in an effort, like Chomsky, to define a universal grammar. But we have a lot of material to start with!
Humans are humble. We only ride our star in about 200 km/s so we can take the scenery route. It takes mere 100 million earth years to get to the other side of our galaxy.

It's not very clear where our black hole in the center of the milky way is taking us though.
We call self replicating programs viruses when they're unpleasant and quine as curiosities.

Is the game of life, life?
One nice illustration of "space is really big" is a fact that if you take the cube with the side equal to the distance from the Sun to the nearest star and fill it with water, then the mass of this cube will be roughly equal to the mass of the whole visible Universe.
I lived in north Seattle and my favorite pizza place to order from still used this model (had their own delivery drivers). Doing a quick check and it seems like they still do. It wasn’t overly expensive and they’ve been in business for a long time. So I feel like this is still a thing?
This sounds about as bad and earth-shaking as MySpace shutting down.
Germany more individualistic?

There is a quote from the book _three men on a bummel_ written in 1900 wherein one of the characters states that he could take over Germany simply by putting up the correct signage as Germans followed all the rules; even their dogs would not walk on the grass signed "do not walk".
Not a bad deal.
Solid as a religion bugs me... Not as much as "Clean Code" patterns in the .Net space. You usually don't need half the level of separation in practice especially for micro services. Write similar code. Have classes that represent the concern from a feature perspective instead of a technology perspective. Etc.
Now I'm a little nervous about the idea that someone might be running a thyroidic bioreactor in a reckless manner, and we get the endemic Common-Substance-ivore microbe.
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NASA's Juno Probe Makes Another Close Flyby of Io
I'm not saying it should go without human intervention. It could do a great job at selecting the most likely codes and displaying them to the biller.
Hopefully you learned to better identify when you should/shouldn't do that kind of thing in future?

If it's your own startup then sure, otherwise "hell no". ;)
It doesn't appear there are any similar sized conferences scheduled for the original time slot though? Or that there will be one in the near future, unless you know of some information.
Milvus – Storage Model Part Three, Data Indexing
Their corrections may be correct, but it's still always nicer when the magnitude of the signal is larger than that of the corrections to the data.
It's worth noting that GP's example was about non-quantized rhythmic patterns, which are poorly understand by music theory.

'There are two reasons why my fellow academics should be engaging closely with J Dilla’s music. The first is just cultural literacy; Dilla was influential and is more widely imitated with every passing year. The second is maybe more important: there are not widely used analytical tools for studying this music, and there is a whole world of microrhythm and groove out there that the music academy has been neglecting. Right now, “music theory” classes are mostly harmony and voice-leading classes, and that harmony is too often limited to the historical practices of the Western European aristocracy. But rhythm is at least as important as harmony, and in some musics, significantly more so. There is a persistent belief that rhythm is “less intellectual” or “more instinctive” than harmony and therefore less worthy of serious study. That is pure atavistic racist nonsense, but it also means that it’s hard to do better, because we don’t have the vocabulary or the methods to study rhythm in the depth that it deserves. If we can figure out how to talk about Dilla time, then that will open up a lot of other kinds of time as well.'

https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/dilla-time/
control structures? actual expressions?

I am not arguing for using sass, et al, but CSS preprocessors still have their place for those who wish to utilize them.
"Why don't many executives take pay cuts to avoid layoffs? An ex-Microsoft HR VP explains." - https://www.businessinsider.com/executives-pay-cuts-dont-avo...

"Container Store CEO takes pay cut for workers: A list of leaders who also took cuts' - https://www.peoplematters.in/article/leadership/leading-by-e...
The soviet worldview was "We're trying to build communism and some day we will succeed, but for now what we have is socialism". So while it's easy to attribute all the wrongdoings to the Communist Party, it's not that easy to trace them back to socialism or communism. Was something done in an attempt to build communism or socialism? Hard to tell.
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I didn't create this website but I thought that it's really cool and I'd like to share it. It's really useful. It has lots of cool features like a kanban-style board and a calendar. Also, has notes and a chat. I really suggest checking it out.
I built https://HackYourNews.com to summarize the top HN stories and their comments.
No, Steam works because it equally accepts both Valve and non-Valve content. If would not be a success if it only included titles made by Valve.
Google is really atrocious in this respect. It won’t even use recovery email addresses properly. The only solution is to move back to an IP address range that seems like your original “home” location and pray that it works. I have some choice words for whoever in Google thought not allowing account access or recovery is a good thing.
Yikes, this is a woefully misguided attempt at a seemingly rational response. Chalk up Auth-n security to the courts?

Yes, this is a known problem and, no, shrugging off the issue to the lawyers is not appropriate. Candidly it's downright irresponsible if not criminal.
I don't think the question is whether viruses are real, the question is whether scientific studies have yet to show transmission of infection that leads to disease.

There isn't a scientific definition for "real" that I'm aware of. Do you know of any studies that have isolated a virus, or a virus plus host cells, and successfully introduced those into a novel population to reproduce disease? All I've ever managed to find are epidemiological studies after an assumed viral outbreak, but I really am interested to see a more controlled study that helps prove a more direct link.
You are correct - John Irving writes his endings first.

https://www.backwordsblog.com/single-post/2016/04/27/john-ir...

"People have commented – sometimes with irritation, sometimes nicely – on the amount of foreshadow that there is in my novel. Well, yeah, it’s not that hard to foreshadow what’s coming when you know what’s coming…I write endings first. I write last sentences – sometimes last paragraphs – first. I know where I am going. I write collision course stories."
Really? Can’t imagine how that is possible it doesn’t fit the standard and I’d think it’d get berated. Are you sure they don’t give you a /64 or that you can request one
Scanning unit? Seems like the scanning was done using a synchrotron beamline. Maybe there is a suitable beamline at Elettra. I haven't looked closely why the synchrotron is needed. A Sigray instrument might work here, or even something simpler.
At first glance from the outside it looks very similar to Notion
> Ubuntu 18.04 is EOL, unless you pay for extended support. How many people are paying for that support?

The extended support is free for consumers.
There are stories of Apple locking users out of their iCloud accounts.
I wouldn't generalise an entire continent like that. Both my Bulgarian and Austrian bank accounts have SMS-based 2FA on online transactions and logins. Some banks in Bulgaria allow to use eSignatures as 2FA but afaik that has seen tiny adoption in the consumer space.
I think (have never tried) that analyzing the harmony and rhythm (can you quantify syncopation?) you’d have a good start at determining if a song is worth listening to.