skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was the number used to sign up for, and receive communications from credit card companies? Is the ban related to signing up for +100 cards?

https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/my-credit-and-debit-card-colle...
The US a pretty big outliner in inequality, it's much worse than any other developed country. https://g.oxan.com/analysis/GI267313/2022-02-14-JAPAN-capita...

The bottom 50% are at 5.8% wealth share in Japan (same as in, e.g., Sweden) https://wir2022.wid.world/category/glossary/#tab_672cf68aa3d...
You get a phone number with the account. SMSs come from/to that number. You can transfer in a number if you want. You get some phone minutes as well. The basic idea is that you only need a data connection to your various devices. It eliminates the annoying need to type on your phone when you want to exchange SMSs with someone while you are on your laptop/desktop. Particularly helpful to people like myself who don't have a smartphone to type on.
One option is to buy an Ooma ($80) and port your number to it ($40). The my.ooma.com site isn't responsive, but otherwise works fine on mobile.
There is pinned context on the very top where you can pin the files which you frequently use.

We will start including the open file by default in the context very soon (one of the gotchas here, is that the open file could not be related to the question you have)
That's exactly why I have been de-Googling for the past year. I have lost all trust in Google. I still use some of their products, but I make sure I never got in a situation where losing my Google account means losing important data or getting myself into serious trouble.
This is a good point. I'd argue well more than 80% though.

Time signatures, instrumentation, arrangements, chord progressions, etc are the base gruel that forms the core of almost all (western/popular) music.

The "new" contributions of most artists are more like flavorings or spices with the occasional unexpected twist on the base. And, critically, this is necessary to find an audience.

Even bands that "change music" are just permuting on the basic gruel. And, usually, just popularizing the permutations that other bands have tried first but were too early/didn't break out of their local audience/etc.

Often these permutations only get popular because they bring with them a new and appealing (or under-represented) aesthetic. It's not even really the music, necessarily.

There are exceptions, there are some real musical innovators. They rarely get popular though, no matter how much respect they earn from their peers.
Trump is namecalling politicians, the Dems are namecalling the voters.
It’s actually not Google’s phone number, as evidenced by the fact that he could have gone to the FCC and gotten it back if Google refused to release it to him.

Edited to add:
Also, it’s not true that phone numbers are only so important because of identity verification. That is one reason, but solving that doesn’t let my children’s school call me if Google shuts my number down, just to give one example.

Edited to add again: It’s unclear to me now if the FCC actually requires Google to release the number or if Google voluntarily does it (eg to avoid problems with the FCC getting more involved).
I see a lot of Rust projects in the market, a lot of projects done and integrated in other languages (pydantic, ruff, etc...)

From Go I only saw a promotion in Google ? now is finally abandoned?
> As soon as you start going down the rabbit hole of state sponsored supply chain alteration, you might as well just stop the conversation. There's literally NOTHING you can do to stop that specific attack vector.

Just want to point out that Apple has designed in a certain degree of protection against this attack, and they talk about it![1]

In a nutshell they do two things: supply chain hardening and target diffusion. Supply chain hardening involves multiple verification checkpoints. And target diffusion greatly limits the utility of a small-scale compromise of a few nodes, because users are not partitioned by node. Together these mean the entire system would have to be compromised from manufacturing to data center and across all or most nodes. Which is certainly possible! But it's a significant raising of the bar above your "run of the mill" state-sponsored shipment interdiction or data center compromise.

[1] https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu...
had some women join in who fit in, usually they had a background in highly competitive environments.

now that you mention it, id say when a woman does fit in, were all so struck by it that we let her steer most of the conversation. if i had to guess, its more typical in a culture where cooperative competition is accepted.

i managed a d1 women basketball team for a season and think their dynamic was similar. teasing was shorthand because it effectively communicated difficult-to-describe concepts using an emotional memory of "that one thing so-and-so did that one time" via a nickname or reference to an action.
Thankfully when I signed up for Google Voice I had a few friends send me text messages and none of them came through. I wrote it off as unreliable and never thought about it again. Scary to think I almost let myself become reliant on a Google service back when I was naive enough to think that was a good idea.
Well I’d encourage you to follow your dreams/preferences and adjust your spending accordingly, especially now that the recent mini-shock reminded us that absurd salaries can’t always be the norm, but;

IEEE puts out an incredible report on this stuff every year: https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2024

The boring answer based on current demand is that the old languages are still dominant. Of the new languages Rust and Go are indeed at the top, but they’re still ~below C++/C, Java, and C#. OTOH, they are definitely near the top of growing languages, which is probably where your sense of them being “chosen” comes from; if you’re cynically trying to maximize long term career earnings, IMO either would be worth some investment.

The elephant in the room is, as you briefly mentioned, Python and its relation to the AI boom. There’s lots of fantastic shovels being made in other languages (eg llama-cpp), but the huge majority of new libraries are written with python APIs in mind (eg VLLM, Langchain, BentoML, and ofc the classics like PyTorch/Keras, SciKit, and numpy/pandas). Again, speaking cynically, I think there’s a lot of money flying around the python space right now.

Finally, I think it’s worth mentioning my take on the old refrain: languages aren’t really that different so don’t stress about it, but it can be worth it to invest in new paradigms/spaces/application types. It sounds like you’re not a fan of webdev, but instead of hyper focusing on picking a language, maybe consider picking new spaces to explore! I mentioned LLM shovels (aka quantizers, inference platforms) above, but there’s also some other booming spaces such as CRDTs/LocalFirst and spatial computing, to name my two faves.

Best of luck! Exciting time to be a member of the puzzle-solving class :)
> At what point does a fetus become a human? No one really has a great answer to that question.

I have a simple and correct answer for that -- at conception. It's not a matter of if abortion kills a human being, it's a matter of if that's ok or not.
I am willing to get into the pod of goo if it means Clippy comes back
The driver's license is not an ID, though. Besides, at least in Germany you get it and then it never changes. So the photo is pretty much always outdated.
Ugh old joke but:

1. React is 11 years old. Even "modern" React with hooks and such is more than 5 years old.

2. Express has been the backend server for Node for over a decade and it hasn't had a breaking semver change in 7 or 8 years.

The front end bundler ecosystem has been a hot mess forever though.

Compare this to Android which somehow manages to break its build system ~every few hours~ at least once per year.
BNR notably works with real numbers and non linear constraints.
In Golang, you have to learn to be dumb, because that's explicitly and deliberately what the designer said about the intended users of the language and how it's designed.
You have management experience. Your competitive advantage isn't your stack: it's your ability to understand context. There will be plenty of jobs in anything in the top 10: apply to all of them and if you get a bite, learn enough of that language to pass basic problems.
My guess would be that it would take too much extra design work. Making the current upper stage reusable is necessary for the HLS contract anyways, and they've got a lot of work to do already on refining the heat shield & fin protection, enabling landing, and working on propellant transfer.
I'm not even complaining anymore. I'm just ceasing to use this Ai garbage and ceasing to deal with people who spruik it. And if you're wondering what "spruik" means, Google will give you an Ai summary which is subtly wrong and contradicted by the first actual search result it list directly below it.
You are right that this is wise, but it's too much to ask the average user to do. At least in the US, most people lack the technical literacy to do anything but depend on big tech.

What we really need is legislation to regulate big tech services as the utilities they really are.
We haven't had such FOMO-induced self-destruction since Google+.
>Sure I never paid for Google Voice, but Google never gave me an option to pay for it.

Pretty sure you can pay for Google Voice: https://support.google.com/a/answer/9229433

While this sucks, I know that my free Google accounts (including Voice) could go poof at any time and I don't really have recourse. For this reason, my Google Voice number is only used for likely spammers.

It's also part of my sales pitch or "branded email" to web clients: "You don't want to operate your business on a free email address".
AFAIK LLMs are fairly mediocre at math after being trained on vastly more relevant data than a single high school textbook.
Folks, do not use Voice for anything critical. It has all the hallmarks of a "destaffed" project - no significant updates in years, nobody even bothers to rename it every 6 months. For all we know it's a purely volunteer effort at Google, like Reader was shortly before it got canned. I only use it in the cases where I need to leave a phone number and I know I'll get spammed.
Monolith vs Microservice argument all over again.

Tradeoffs for mono are drivers of micro and vice versa.

Looking at the GitHub insights it becomes pretty clear there are about two key devs that commit or merge in PRs to main. I'm guessing this is also whom the code reviews happen etc. Comparing itself to Linux where the number of recurring contributors are more by orders of magnitude just reeks of inexperience. I'm being tough with my words because at face value, the monorepo argument works but it ends in code-spaghetti and heartache when things like developer succession, corporate strategy, market conditions throw wrenches in the gears.

Not for nothing I think a monorepo is perfectly fine when you can hold the dependency graph (that you have influence over) in your head.

Maybe there's a bit of /rant in this because I'm tired of hearing the same problem with solutions that are spun as novel ideas when it's really just: "Pre-optimization is the root of all evil."

You don't need to justify using a monorepo if you are small or close to single threaded in sending stuff into main. It's like a dev telling me: "I didn't add any tests to this and let me explain why..."

The explanation is the admission in my mind but maybe I'm reading into it too much.

Article is nicely written and an enjoyable read but the arguments don't have enough strength to justify. You are using a monorepo, that's okay. Until it's not, that's okay too.
The incentives align for everyone to play dumb, as incompetence at this scale can dissolve responsibility/accountability via complexity/laundering that can systematically benefit a select few.
but the upper middle class is relatively small, depending on how you define upper middle class. Nationally, one might say the 15% who are below the 95th percentile (but locally is what matters for the purpose of buying property, and maybe "upper middle" is 60% to 95% of the local ranking).
You write well :)
This is easy to verify: go to Indeed.com and see how many Rust vs Django vs Golang jobs are posted. Do the same on LinkedIn or Stack Overflow jobs. Django + React with solid SQL skills is the best most marketable skillset in the US. Rust is out there but its mostly small startups ... growing companies shouldn't pick stacks that aren't popular if they want to hire alot of devs.
"it becomes incumbent on you to have a disaster recovery plan should that service suddenly become unavailable to you." -> It's already hard when you are a seasoned IT professional. I don't know a single person in my family who has the faintest idea where to start, even if I've lectured them several times on this topic.
I love the joke, but tbf React and Next.js have shown some serious sticking power so far, and show no sign of slowing. Also, JavaScript is so 2022, TypeScript is mandatory now IMO!
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That's my general attitude about programming, but the invisible hand supplies many bitter and uninterested software developers to meet the industry's demand.
My strategy for this class of issue is paying Google. I pay for Google Apps (now rebranded to workspace). I have so much of my life tied up into the Google Ecosystem I see no problem paying per month for their services. This also provides me a number to call when shit doesn't work.
This has nothing to do with content moderation.
Where is China …which could demand access to the data of TikTok's U.S. consumers through Chinese national security laws… different to the USA in that context?
Nuclear as in fission power plants :-)
Barrista, I'm guessing, as at Starbucks?
Is it a violation of any of the policies?
I’m getting sick of the “take no responsibility for human or computer mistakes by creating automated processes where fixing the mistake manually can’t be done or hurts a KPI”.

FedEx lost my package. Apparently there’s no process to flag it missing without being able to physically scan the missing item (???). It’s permanently marked as “out for delivery”, so all of their systems tell you everything is fine and actively work against you ever reaching a human.

Meanwhile the sender has an automated system that checks the FedEx tracking number, sees “out for delivery”, and does the same thing. Even when I do reach humans at both FedEx and the sender it’s obvious they can’t do anything except sympathize with the situation.

I feel like I’m part of some sort of psychological experiment at this point.
Wouldn't the failure to recognize be more like the cause of why so many people believe that it is a knowable fact that there are no ghosts (and various other "supernatural" phenomena)?
Well the shows I go to are packed and there are other people dancing.
Nvidia's GeForce Now to Cap Game Streaming at 100 Hours per Month
Original announcement is here, but Nvidia buried it under mountains of unrelated news: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-performan....

Seems like the unlimited RTX 4080 for $20/mo was too good to last. Starting in 2025 or 2026 (depending on your subscription), playtime will be limited to 100 hrs /mo. According to Nvidia, that's more hours than 94% of their users consume.
The operative part being "that you can build on top of", because the "ID token" approach means it now has to act as essentially a mini-OAuth-provider for many other websites, not just government services
I predict in 2 years there will be some aspect-ratio fill-in using genai. The thought of which terrifies me but I can definitely see it happening.
If they're moving to drop GPT, I'll miss "chat gippity". I don't think I'll stop referring to OpenAI's chat solutions as that, no matter what they call it.

"What does the SEC do?"

"Securities market stuff? I'm not sure, you should ask gippity"
Damn, that one hits close to home.

I have a custom domain for my email + a docker instance running Thunderbird, configured to keep an up-to-date local copy of my gmail. So if I lost access to gmail, it'd be a pain in the rear, but I wouldn't really loose that much.

But I hadn't thought much about my google voice account. That's the phone number I usually give out, although some friends and family do have my verizon number.

I suppose I need to figure out how to make regular backups of my google voice messages also.
Sorry, I should not have assumed that Google voice numbers provided for free are portable. Or at least not immediately released back to the pool of available numbers.

It is a free service, so I expected to not have any right to it.

I also feel like my only use for phone numbers for many years has been identity verification. If I lost access to it, I could be reached via multiple other communications avenues, but I can only get 2FA SMS sent to my phone number for many services, including government websites.
I hope XMPP just goes away and stops distracting people from more productive avenues.

It can't be fixed. It's dead. Matrix is the modern replacement.

I used XMPP to implement a chat client within our application around 2012. It was a freaking nightmare. The roster system, the incompatibilities, the lack of standardized synchronization, the never-working group messaging.
This is why I ported my Google number away years ago, and I'm happy I did so. That said, phone is considered a utility, and I"m puzzled why Google Voice isn't regulated as such by now.
With vacuum tubes, no less!
Also mitigated many millions of hangovers, including my own.

Too bad the commercial nature of “sports drinks” have dialed up the sugar and broke away from the clinical goal of rehydration.
I don’t think we can voting system engineer ourselves out of populism. European democracies are not doing so hot either.
I tried kagi for a while. Did you ever notice that kagi image search is just a wrapper around google image search? The results are exactly the same, just in a slightly randomized order.
It's so absurd that we used to complain about customer service from phone companies etc. and fled them for tech companies whose business models are defined by being scaled so high that customer service is impossible for them to offer.
Here you go: https://www.gabriel-zucman.eu/files/capitalisback/T271

Years from 1929 to 1932. Deflation was 12% in 1932, in particular.
Perhaps not exactly what you're talking about, but maybe? (unsure bc the with statements are sometimes called "temp tables")

https://duckdb.org/docs/sql/query_syntax/with#cte-materializ...

Obviously, the materialization is gone after the query has ended, but still a very powerful and useful directive to add to some queries.

There are also a few DuckDB extensions for pipeline SQL languages.

https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/extensions/prql.html

https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/extensions/psql.html

And of course dbt-duckdb
https://github.com/duckdb/dbt-duckdb
On a resource constrained system, you'd be limited in how big and complex the world can be.

Now imagine factorio, but in multiplayer the world calculations are divided amongst clients so you get a bigger and more complex world when you have more players.
>>I think some of the dithiapentane might degrade into stuff that's more more reminiscent of petroleum products.

Seems very likely, considering the process of refining or"cracking" oil into usable products is based on temperature and pressure, and organic compounds in general have different reactivity at different temperatures. In cooking with oils, one of the key properties to consider is their "smoke temperature", above which they will not be cooking your food but smoking and ruining the flavor, so you must select an oil that is good at higher temps than you need to cook the other ingredients. So, it wouldn't be at all surprising if there's a threshold temperature that will break or re-combine the molecules of this artificial "truffle oil" in a way that ruins it.
Yeah, it's great. One package that works and already knows all its dependencies. And thosev exploring the CVEs should generally find themselves in a chroot jail so not too much to worry about.
I think MMA would be a more apt comparison; the fighting itself was very real, if still entertainment.
I ended up just compiling notepad from wine and tossing that into the windows directory. Among other things.
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There is a difference with an HOA. The HOA can be removed if enough members agree. It's not a restriction added by a past owner that can't be removed by the current owner.
Well, at least now it will have a semi-valid reason to connect to the internet. It is still bonkers, but a different kind of more acceptable kind of bonkers.
in germany this i absolutely illegal. even in the US this is probably considered discrimination: https://www.eeoc.gov/pregnancy-discrimination
I guess it depends on the area, but I thought Rust jobs were still hard to come by even today?

For jobs, ecosystem and general productivity my go-to is always Java/C#/Go, if you learn one of those I think you'll be set, so Go in your case. The learning curve for Rust is similar to C++, much steeper.
That's not entirely surprising. Markets very often get excited about things that are terrible for everyone except market players.
I've yet to have a good experience with copilot in Visual Studio

It still surprises me to have shows stopping bugs with it, In THE first party IDE, in Windows, using pure .NET and other microsoft tooling

I couldn't describe a more perfectly vacuum'ed spherical cow, and still, copilot dies randomly even after they have acknowledged the problem and made some fixes
Sure, but having additional responsibilities when you have a family is not a new phenomenon created in the last 30 years.
Google is unique in how badly they treat their customers.

Would any other provider take away your number without explanation, nor allow you to talk to a human?

At a minimum, Google needs to be regulated.
>I really had less interest in developing a closer friendship with that person after learning that.

>I just cannot understand how someone can support someone whose rhetoric demeans her on two axes.

Hmm. Doesn't seem like you are interested in understanding.
It’s ludicrous that Google can simply kill your phone number and nobody bats an eye. It’s such a fundamental part of life at this point.

People today laugh at "Ma Bell," but at least you could go to a local office and sit at a desk in front of someone who could actually fix your problem, no matter how ludicrous it was.

I once lived in a four-story apartment building. When I moved from the second floor to the fourth floor, I called to have my phone transferred. The person on the phone said there is no fourth floor in my building. This wasn't a new-build. It was over 100 years old, and was converted into apartments decades earlier. But the woman on the phone couldn't do anything because the computer said there were only two floors.

I walked down to my local Bell office, and sat down at one of those battleship green desk with a woman and told her my story. She said, "Oh, yeah! I know that building. I drive by it every day. Is it nice inside?" Then she pushed some buttons on the computer, and the next day a guy with a gold-and-blue striped hardhat showed up and rewired the punchboard.

You can't even call Google for help with Google Voice, let alone talk to someone who knows your neighborhood.
Rust definitely is harder to pick up. I’ve been working on my rust, and on paper I’d like to use rust for everything, but I can move 10x faster in go for far less than 10x the runtime overhead
Are they? Have you tried Gemini lately? They might be competing on the services side, but the only two peer competitors in the chatbot space are Anthropic and OpenAI.