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Ask HN: Lost 10-year-old Google Voice number due to policy change, any recourse?
Hello HN, my wife lost the Google Voice phone number she uses for her business after 10 years due to the recent change requiring outgoing activity every 90 days.

For the past 10 years she has used the number for inbound lead gen, forwarding the voicemails to her main business line. However pregnancy has put her business on hold for a few months, and as such she has not checked the email associated with the number (different primary email) in a little while. Today we discovered the number is gone and we are outside the 45-day reclaim window. There were no calls or texts to the Voice number with any warnings, so we were not aware this was a thing until it was too late.

According to localcallingguide.com, the number is still held by bandwidth.com which I believe means it's still in Google's pool, although we can't see it for reclaiming in the system. Is there any chance a kind Googler can help us out? This has been the primary inbound phone number for her business for over a decade and losing it permanently would be devastating. My email is in my profile, we can prove a long history of usage privately if that helps.

Thanks!!
Reminder that the US government has a public RfC on widely available model weights closing at the end of the month. If you don't want unserious ideas like these dominating the conversation please remember to provide your input: https://www.regulations.gov/document/NTIA-2023-0009-0001
The only extinction level threat I see with AI is corpo rats being the only ones with a say in how models are trained, how they are to function, and how they are to be used.
You make sense, but whats needed is a word that isn't 'processed' that means: 'proxy variable for rate at which nutrients enter the bloodstream' and an objective measure for that word[0].

To put up a bit of a strawman: By what empirical measure, is an apple different (healthier) than an apple-equivalent of raw glucose/fructose + multi-vitamin + fiber supplement? The latter is obviously more processed, but I literally lack the means[1] to say how, why, and to what degree, one is 'healthier' than the other.

[0]Regardless of name, afaik there is no meaningful way to say e.g. kraft mac and cheese is '80% processed, where as homemade with box pasta, fresh cheddar and bechamel, is 50%, and homemade w/ hand-pulled noodles is 25%.

[1]e.g. a test of 'rate of which simple sugars leach in a ISO standardized simulated stomach'.
Even if an AI was developed to the point that it could do a full requirements analysis, executive/managers/high status people will still want someone else to do it. You're not going to get a CEO to sit down with such a system and determine requirements.
No, I do not work at Figma lol
$8B in Alberta Renewable Projects in Jeopardy
I use GRML almost daily, sometimes booting it over network and loading it to RAM. We don't use iPXE specificially, but use "vanilla" PXE regularly, too, generally to install systems with Kickstart or xCAT, depending on the cluster we're working on.

I'll be using GRML again tonight to rescue some laptop drives which were retrieved from a fire, to see what can be salvaged, for example. First in forensic mode to see what's possible, then to use dd_rescue on a N95 box.
I, too, can see Russia from here.

On the basis of your moral imperative, there are no Western nations worthy of the peace, either.

Its not like NATO isn't responsible for wide-spread destruction of sovereign democracies, also ..

That's entirely besides the point. These entities should be making peace with each other in spite of each others crimes.

It is your propaganda which precludes peace, because you are convinced, without rational thought, that peace is impossible... whereas, there was actually a peace deal brought to the table, nix'ed by NATO ..
> Ironically, weights and biases are likely not copyrightable.
> The courts even have controlling precedents that say "sweat of the brow" is not a valid justification for copyright

You might be right for the US, but the EU seems to have different laws:

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/running-business/intel...
Definitely path of least resistance but also bound to get us a monoculture
He just released a book last year called Same As Ever that seems like a book adaptation of this post. It was pretty good if you like this kind of post.
Star Trek is this for me. Having watched the canon series several times over, much of the dialogue is second nature.
Yea, there needs to be a `snapshot -r` option or something. I like using subvolumes to manage what gets a snapshot but sometimes you want the full disk.
> 200gb of files over wifi […] took at least 6 hours

> I wonder what could I have done better.

Used an Ethernet cable? That’s not an impressive throughput amount over local. WiFi has like a million more sources of perf bottlenecks. Btw, just using a cable on ONE of the device => router ~> device can help a lot.
An interesting perspective, makes it surprisingly fair play and totally crippling to third parties at the same time.

I guess the outcome will be that outside some completely irrelevant oddballs there will just be one or two entities like Epic serving the intersection of non-casual gamers and people who consider the iPhone a gaming platform and they won't pull much market away from Apple, but serve as a limiter to how much Apple can abuse their platform rule. It will look like a failure, but only because some of the limiting effect on platform abuse will also bleed into makets not directly affected by EU rules.
As an interviewer it is the opposite to me. If there is a link showing your open source work, I want to review it to see if it indicates anything good or bad, and could be a topic for discussion. Too few people have good content there, so it can be a useful filter.
Some departments are starting to hire programmers. There's an effort to define this as a (broad) job category under the heading "Research Software Engineer":

https://society-rse.org/
https://us-rse.org/

Institutional support varies widely; some projects or teams are rather well funded for big projects and senior talent, while at other schools, the cost structure is more aimed at "one off" projects staffed by more recent graduates.

A recent grant is trying to fund this work at several schools with a history of well organized services:
https://www.schmidtfutures.org/our-work-old/virtual-institut...
I personally feel that most “Personal CRM” is kinda tarpit idea because the moment you are “managing” and nurturing it, it becomes professional/commercial. And that professional/commercial space is kinda saturated with too many good options. For instance, the free CRM tier of Hubspot[1] will do a good job.

Nonetheless, it is a good habit to maintain a personal network but then it will be lot less for any tool of that use. I have tried my hands on quite a lot of tools such as Dex[2], Monica[3], and a few others. Now, I've settled on a simple Google Sheet inspired by Derek Sivers[4], and then enhances by an article[7] from Jakob Greenfeld.

Having said that, best of luck and hope this works out.

1. https://www.hubspot.com

2. https://getdex.com

3. https://www.monicahq.com

4. https://sive.rs/hundreds

5. https://jakobgreenfeld.com/stay-in-touch
I'm 1000% sure, in 20, 50, 100, 500 years humans will look back on "science of 20/21th century" as we look now on say 16/17th century- there were some things that were "mostly" right, but most of it was incorrect / inprecise / incomplete and was a fantasy of earlier thought up models.

It's been like that always. Don't think it'll be different this time. Though people of every time thought they had (almost) complete understanding of the universe. I remember reading that at the beginning of 20th century science was largerly considered complete... we know how it turned out! (think relativity, quantum physics, etc.)

Think about that!

(ps. me personally I just cannot stomach that universe is only <15B "years" old. Not saying there was no BANG! (ie. large cosmic event) back then and we're products of it :), but don't think it was "the beginning of everything". Seems very much like "god created universe!" type of thinking)
And saving it keeps the fixes, thanks.
>That is a very good and insightful article.

Thank you!

> The only issue with the article is sometimes it's too optimistic, e.g.

The reply below is criticizing for being too pessimistic, lol :-)

I agree, it might be only a transient state. We really can't comprehend how we would deal with such existence if at all. Would we manage to keep our sanity?

Nonetheless, I don't claim to have the right answers, just questions and perspectives that I hope inspire deeper thought about the journey we are travelling and hopefully deeper reflection as to whether it is the journey we want to be on.

What I do find interesting, are those that read it and still don't perceive it at all. Their response is "That is exactly what I want." I suppose that is the case as was in an excellent allegory for this "A Nice Place to Visit" Twilight Zone episode. It plays out this scenario very nicely.
The DMA absolutely allows charging money for access to a regulated platform. The Core Technology Fee is the only thing Apple is charging that can even remotely seem like it may be prohibited. We'll see how that goes:

> Pricing or other general access conditions should be considered unfair if they lead to an imbalance of rights and obligations imposed on business users or confer an advantage on the gatekeeper which is disproportionate to the service provided by the gatekeeper to business users or lead to a disadvantage for business users in providing the same or similar services as the gatekeeper. The following benchmarks can serve as a yardstick to determine the
fairness of general access conditions: prices charged or conditions imposed for the same or similar services by other providers of software application stores; prices charged or conditions imposed by the provider of the software application store for different related or similar services or to different types of end users; prices charged or conditions imposed by the provider of the software application store for the same service in different geographic
regions; prices charged or conditions imposed by the provider of the software application store for the same service the gatekeeper provides to itself.
I am puzzled by the fact that he provides private lessons about life in general...
The irony was not lost on me! This piece of "information" seems to be free to link, view, and enjoy (with a big watermark).
People being a pain in the behind.
Are you sure you want iOS? Perhaps you want Android?

Sounds like you just want the iPhone hardware, but not the spirit of the OS that contributed to what it is. Adding manual disk management makes more like running Windows XP than a smooth "mostly just works" phone.
> I have vendors who instead of filling out a web form which remembers their inputs and eventually even fills everything out for them instead print it out and fax it back in.

Somewhere along the way we built computer that are so intuitive people find printing and faxing easier than our web apps. This isn't completely the fault of any single web app, users have a lot of learned avoidance because of bad experiences with many apps.

In the end completely automating the job ended up being easier than building a good interface for a human to do the job.
What crime is Ukraine guilty of? Ukraine is not in NATO.

One side is murdering and the other side should make peace by being murdered?

What is my country guilty of?
I don't see how they would. Aren't many of the anti tracking features implemented at the OS level?
Greed - you could be working on the most altruistic endeavor ever that everyone wants and all it takes is one founder or investor that sees a way to cash out to bring it all tumbling down
Actually I think most is going to be the same. Even with AI companies still need people to fill the lead and senior ranks while AI implements things.
> second only to India globally

Do you have a source for this? I thought Argentina and other extremely high inflation countries had much higher crypto penetration.

Also, isn't crypto pretty much banned in India?
"He was turned to steel
In a great magnetic field"
I also have a demo here where I show transactionality between two SQL-databases, a MySQL and a Postgres instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJSSjY4szZE

And another, where I show loose coupling, ie: that the system continues even when an instance goes down and that it catches up once restarted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4_phLs4d_M
New account. Rage inducing story. Aggressor left the country which leaves no solution. Another motive for these posts is to solicit sympathy donations over DMs.
For me, it's two things:

* Whenever I come across an interesting project hosted on Github (On Hacker News, Mastodon or some such place), I usually star it. Then when I'm later looking for a library or piece of software I usually search my Github stars first for a nice pre-filtered list of options.

I know I could also use a bookmark manager to keep track of interesting non-Github projects, but that's way too high-friction and so in practice I usually forget about them.

* There's also the social feed on the homepage where you can see which repositories your friends have starred/contributed to. I don't personally use this super often but frequently I star some repository and then notice a bunch of my friends starred it shortly after, presumably because they saw it in their feed.
Maybe it would be less puzzling if he called it coaching, since it sounds like that’s what is it.
It's cool, but how can it make money competing with the countless free job search tools?

What's your differentiator?
Or even shoot a documentary as you go. Netflix could end up paying for your time.
I really wanted to like sourcehut, the premise of a code forge that you could submit PR's into that had enough-ish traction was nice, even if always a subsection of GitHub. At some point sourcehut had added a 9front runner to their ci system but it was a bit limited and never updated. So I took it upon myself to try and help out and fix this, make things better. Long story short on that was that I got lead on for 8 months with moving goal posts and then eventually told "sorry not interested".

So without the benefit of being able to add code for things I care about, and without an interest in helping more niche software projects the benefits over GitHub seemed to just evaporate.
I find it hard to believe the story, mostly based on the description of the new IT guy finding all of that within a week.

Not to demean IT folks, as many of us have worn that hat at some point in our lives) but in the first week, a new IT worker is finding obvious things like "why do we only have 30% of our network gear in the monitoring system" or "shouldn't we change the hard drive with a blinking error light on the server?"
In other words, you're only "eligible" for web distribution if you meet the threshold to pay the Core Technology Fee tax? (on top of the other requirements). Sounds convenient.
Due to financing options like Klarna, keeping on monthly prepaid sim-only plans (which are cheap) and using a finance option to purchase the device outright has become much more popular at least in my circle in the UK.
Pretty sweet sweater Woz is wearing, anyone know the story? Did early Apple custom make apparel?
The hnn submission title does not match the link.

Discussion of wifi at the "Bay view" building

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39671129

Two years ago discussion of the link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704063
All computers are Turing machines.
Rive can do that!
Every day the book "The Windup Girl" feels a little less like fiction.
Huh. I would have thought that was easier for some reason.
Presuming you were subscribed to the mailing list at the time the issue was reported. Which may be true for your own projects, but is much less likely for arbitrary projects that you may be looking to report an issue on yourself.
Mobile OSes are not the same as windows or even Mac.
I don't. This is a stark realisation that I have had over the past few years. I would once staunchly recommend iPhones for their strong security, in particular app isolation, on-device AI, and physical device security.

However, over the years there have been more and more instances where Apple decides what I can do with my phone. From restricting APIs to give their first-party apps advantage, to, most recently, not having any (local) method to move voice memos off my Apple Watch.

I've realised they are orchestrating their hardware and software to build a truly solid wall from within which they can extract continuous rent from their captives.

I don't own my device because I cannot freely run the software I create on it (without paying Apple and gaining their approval, which is impossible in some cases).

I'm done with Apple... but there are no acceptable alternatives. Android is bad in other aspects.

This is not a free and fair market; it's a duopoly.

I genuinely pray weekly for a phone like the Framework Laptop, where I can run my own software (Arch Linux) and repair and replace the hardware as needed.
Estimating internal rates of return for college majors
Even half-finished projects can be a valuable reference if they showcase passion, good development practices, or some specialty skill. Contributions to popular projects are valuable as well, but they should also showcase some of these attributes.

Something people often miss is that it's not enough to just link someone to your GH profile. If it's full of half-finished projects, they will likely look at your pinned ones (if you have those set), and not bother with the rest. The crucial thing is linking them directly to specific files of a project, specific PRs and contributions, that showcase the value you can bring. This makes the job much easier for the other side, while highlighting your strengths.
Many Networking Improvements and New Wired/Wireless Devices for Linux 6.9
sourcehut UI is atrocious I’m not sure why anyone uses it when codeberg, GitHub and GitLab exist.
Agreed. From personal experience, I can tell you that cutting out carbs in favour of protein actually made me lose muscle mass! Once I got my carbs and fats up and averaged around 1g of protein per pound of body weight, I was able to grow and maintain muscle much more effectively. Plus, I did not feel tired all the time, which I most certainly did when I cut out carbs!
The monoculture already exists, and it was always going to be formed.

The one good thing is that git makes it relatively easy to move, so that if Github suffers excessive enshittification, something else can steal their lunch.
I wonder about the latter. It's known that high quality, one-on-one teaching can greatly improve learning speed. Could near future generation AI learn to be a teacher on par with the best human ones?
If you really want a progress bar chuck in a 'pv' somewhere into the command posted at the top of the thread.
Not to excuse incompetent leadership, of which we have a lot in Nigeria. However, for more context, Nigeria allows its citizens to have domiciliary (foreign currency - USD, EUR, GBP, etc.) accounts locally. You can/could walk up to the numerous bureau de change operators (approximately 5000 licensed ones until last week - reduced to around 1000) and buy USD with your naira at whatever the real market rate was (not the official rate) and go deposit it in your dollar account. These accounts are part of the SWIFT banking network, and you can send and receive FCY globally. The crypto issue arose from P2P trading platforms manipulating the rates through ads on said platforms without any intention to honour those prices but typically set up to drive the market towards a particular price point. This began a cycle, and within a few weeks, the currency lost 40% of its value. There was a local news article about this manipulation. I don’t think any government would fold its hands in such circumstances.
People submitting Ask HN's without proofreading
There is a name for that kind of state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
Telegram eyes IPO as user numbers close in on 1B
I know your comment is just internet puffery, but please know that the old adage is true: "A man who represents himself has a fool for a client."

There is a reason that judges will ask defendents multiple times if they're really, really, truely sure they want to represent themselves before allowing it.

As much as you wish it, a dictionary or common sense does little to nothing in a court of law. Mostly, you'll just annoy the judge who cares not about your dictionary, but the subtle details of copyright law, trademarks, uS code, registration timelines, dates of priority, common use, historical use, due diligence, and 50 other minute technical details I have never even thought about.
DMCA takedown notices have become a sort of gentlemen's agreement to avoid either party ever having to go to court where they could both end up spending lots of money.
Only if all the political parties benefit from people being able to make good judgements. If you have a party that benefits from an uninformed or misinformed public then it's significantly easier to lead them around through fear and lies than it is to govern well. Once they gain power they can reduce education spending, meaning they have more people they can direct more easily. Meaning they can get more power, and repeat the cycle.
There's a lot more to it than that.

Such an approach can give you a long-term unsustainable clientele.

Such an approach can lose you the marketing cachet of being sold out for months.

etc.
> The GP might have gone a hair too far in saying that C++ “does not consider it a problem at all”, but they’re correct that C++ compiler/stdlib maintainers do not consider it a vulnerability.

No this is also just plain wrong.

It was reported to both compiler through channels dedicated to report security vulnerabilities and has been fixed as such.

The fact it did not make his way through a CVE is mainly related to how CVE naming and reservation works, nothing more.
Acting Wholesomely
Why? Sure, maybe a better number to give is "somewhere around 20", but it's difficult to tell how the "true number" could be over 100 or even 50.
Security.txt File Is Missing
Math, physics, chemistry won't change. Who knows if software will be nearly recognizable in 10-20 years from now, but the reality of the world will not.
Not for emails that were sent before you subscribed.

(and that means new contributors get the worse experience.. not ideal)
> As far as I know, a phonetic alphabet was invented only once among humans, which makes it a rarity even for us.

A bit of an aside, but I'm a bit puzzeled by this statement. There are many phonetic alphabets invented through history of course. Are you saying they all have the same root or inspiration?
Laziness, make stuff that goes with the flow.
Chainalysis' "2023 Global Crypto Adoption Index" lists Nigeria as second to India overall

https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2023-global-crypto-adoption...
Knowledge graphs have been around for a long time (early 70s). You could even argue they're older than that when considering something like an ontological map. I think this post is not meant to demonstrate novel technology or structure; rather, it's simply a self-reported introduction to the topic space.
The Risor compiler, opcodes, and VM
Risor is an embeddable scripting language for the Go ecosystem. This blog post introduces its opcodes and shows how it was influenced by CPython.
They are deeply involved. If it’s that bad for developers, drop the iPhone and develop solely for Android.

Developers need the iPhone and Apple needs developers.
Hey some of us are below average.

But yes, the corporations and swarm behavior are already doing poorly for our biosphere.
>people who are very good at building stuff
Are there any large companies still focused on this?