Last time YouTube wanted to verify my phone number it was easier to find a free service to receive SMS than for Google to deliver it to my actual phone. And Google didn't care I "verified" a number assigned to other side of the world.
Be careful. Google once locked me out of an account that I've owned for over 10 years one day. My username and password were correct, but they randomly flipped 2FA on (without my consent) and sent the recovery code to a phone number that I switched away from years ago. It was completely unrecoverable. There's absolutely no way to get in touch with customer service. Never make an account with them unless you're not willing to lose it randomly to automated bureaucracy.
It's becoming increasingly hard to find a service that lets you see verification messages, and even then google doesn't like a lot of the numbers those services use
In my country there are several telco operators that will send you basically an unlimited number of SIM cards for free (as in free beer) that you can use for getting the verification SMS and then immediately throw the SIM away. The only "cost" is that you have to wait a day or two for the SIMs to get to your physical mailbox.
If you create an account from another country, since you can only send the sms verification from that country, locks your account to that country for at least one year. I created a US account years ago and it still is US. I don't even spoof my location.
Can you delete the phone number after verification + switch to TOPT (with the private key written down next to your password, probably in a password manager) for 2FA?
I think that's considered "more secure" in most account security flowcharts.
Yeah I try to switch everything to TOTP these days, try to remove the SMS option on whatever I can. Google offers about a dozen ways to verify your account now.
It is so confusing to me. I never worked for company that wouldn't self host its code repository and CI/CD. All the way back to SVN and when Jenkins was stil called Hudson. Most of the time there was also a local proxy for all 3rd party dependencies/artifacts. I understand why open source projects love GitHub but why are software companies depending on it?
His rants were more palpable when he blasted the design of PCB visible on screen, or vendor that didn't want to sell replacement parts, when viewer could see the damage at the same time. Now he is just another guy with mic. And while he fights for good cause I find his videos at least 5 times too long considering the actual content.
Isn't it simpler, in general, to just move the development off GitHub, while leaving existing repo in sync, so it can harmlessly drown in PRs from people who didn't bother to even read project contribution guidelines?
People don't seem medical services because they want to, they do it when they need them. It is the only industry where there price list might as well be replaced with "we will take as much as you can afford". No one can afford to be stingy with money with health and live of their loved ones on stake.
It is very asymmetric situation, so it is clear to me why someone would want to ban for profit hospitals.
Nothing you said there is related to for profit hospitals, I live in Sweden and we also have for profit hospitals here, wanting to ban for profit hospitals is just stupid. There have been many in Sweden who want to ban profits in healthcare so that you can't go and get a private doctor, do you really want to do that?
If you want to make progress in USA you must separate the crazy left from the moderate left, if you defend the people who want to ban private medicine then you aren't going anywhere. Those aren't your allies even if they pull in a similar direction, even if they sit in the same party in the two party system.
right but feel like comment count is a poor proxy for flamewar in an age where cheap intelligence to semantically classify discussions is available, so that, as affected me in the past, an author of a post simply enthusiastically engaging with every reply is not punished.
maybe to put it in a way where your values are aligned, i'm a curious person, and i learn a lot from the discussions that happen right on HN rather that only going to the source.. indiscriminate comment count damping takes away/lowers visibility of the most interesting comments that would provoke my curiosity.
one could instead do any sort of basic classifier system ranging from bag of words to running a ModernBERT to rate flamewarness and differentially apply the downrank based on "flamewar score" rather than "really poor proxy to flamewar score"
Strictly speaking there is that one startup that compiles entire models into huge ASIC. With trade off that entire hardware becomes outdated when new model version is released in 2-3 months.
No hurricanes there, so I guess they can just slowly rebuild walls to keep up with sea level and increase number of pumps already used to get rid of excess rainwater. Not great but manageable as long they secure enough money.
