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Centrino··on Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
I've often read that 2FA should be through an authenticator app or a physical key, not via texting a code to a phone number. Malicious sim swapping is a thing, so purposely deleting any phone number from an account should be good practice, right?

So will they also delete inactive accounts that have no phone number, but one or more phone-less 2FA methods associated?

Centrino··on Reacting to Two French Entrepreneurs Who Built a $100K SaaS
Something seems to be lacking from the text, like a link to a video.

>> This is the most important quote from the video.

>> Final Verdict: A Must-Watch, But Not a Bible. This video is a masterclass in execution but not a guarantee of success.

What video?

Centrino··on Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years
> Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years.

Well, during those 30 years you'd have to learn a few additions that were added to the SQL standard, like "OVER / PARTITION BY", and maybe a few non-standard extensions like "QUALIFY".

There have been 11 modifications to the SQL standard since the initial SQL-86 ANSI standard of 1986.

Centrino··on Why do Indian trucks say "Horn OK Please"?
The first theory sounds plausible to me, but it is not explained clearly in the text.

"Large trucks had limited rear visibility" => The main problem when overtaking is that the truck who wants to overtake, has limited front visibility of oncoming traffic.

So who has to honk? The front truck, who sees that a truck behind him wants to overtake, honks to signal that there is no oncoming traffic? Or the rear truck, to signal to the front truck that he wants to overtake? And then what?

Or is there some implied sequence of honking: first the truck that wants to overtake, to signal its request, and then the truck in front, to signal that there is no oncoming traffic?

Centrino··on Stop paying $360/year to access your own email history
502 error, bad gateway.
Centrino··on The Orange Pi 6 Plus
I had good experiences with the Orange Pi 5 (only problem was soft reboot hanging), but only because Joshua Riek had created and maintained an Ubuntu distribution for the Rockchip. That project seems to be in limbo now, no kernel updates since at least a year.
Centrino··on Lightweight internet radio management tool
Can you explain the concept of AutoDJ in your system?

I'm asking, because in some popular radio automation systems like RadioDJ, an "AutoDJ" is a way to avoid having to create playlists manually. You create rotation rules about the way different music categories are to be used, and the system will rotate music according to these rules. A playlist on the other hand is a predefined order in which specific audio tracks have to be played.

So, in many systems, AutoDJ is "automatic on-the-fly playlist generation from predefined rotation rules" while in your system it is described as "automatic playback with playlist rotation", which sounds more like the automatic playout of user-defined playlists.

Centrino··on Would America be in recession without the super-rich?
"free access to this article has expired"
Centrino··on 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
Don't get hung up on "patent". You can't patent an idea, you patent a specific implementation of an idea.

The boy experimented to find the optimal parameters (height, width, angles) for load bearing of that earlier invention.

So, the result of his work would warrant a new patent, of course with reference to all earlier patents of which his work is an improvement.

Centrino··on Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it
This may help: https://github.com/yan7109/yan7109.github.io/tree/main/ma-bo...

Though I'd rather download a PDF or ePub.

I would say that the current format is a 'book' in content, but not a 'book' nor an 'e-book' in form, as you can't manipulate it as a single object. But I've seen a few other examples here on HN where people showed off a 'book' purely as a website.

Centrino··on impact.soylent.com
What are we seeing here? The hijacking of a subdomain?
Centrino··on Starting a startup at 25, 35, or 45 is not the same decision
Feedback about a technical aspect of your blog, not about the contents of the article: unfortunately the HTML title of the page is not the title of the article, but the title of your website. As a consequence, when I print your blogpost to a PDF file to read it offline at a later time, the filename of the saved PDF has no clues whatsoever about what the article is about.
Centrino··on Russian number station UVB-76 suddenly plays Swan Lake and Erika [video]
It's probably a pirate station, deliberately broadcasting on the same frequency. Contrary to FM modulation, with AM modulation two superimposed signals one the same frequency are demodulated as if they came from one transmission.
Centrino··on Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind
Yes we can!
Centrino··on 'He Was Poisoned.' Toxic Fumes on Planes Blamed for Deaths of Pilots and Crew
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/toxic-fumes-airplane-p...
Centrino··on Kew: Simple Static Site Generator
I like minimalistic tools and designs! But I don't like minimalistic documentation.

You included an example with .md files and a template, but I would like to see what Kew generated from it, without having to run the program.

How exactly does templating work in Kew? Does it fully support the 'rc' templating from Werc, or is it purely Lowdown-based with optional HTML wrappers?

Are the config options as shown in config.go the complete set, or does Kew support more config options like Werc does?

Centrino··on US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
> internationally recognized government

Countries not recognizing the current government of Venezuela as legitimate:

- US

- all 27 EU member countries

- UK, Canada, Australia

- Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay

- Israel, Japan, Morocco, South Korea

- Switzerland, Norway, Iceland

Centrino··on Cognition and Culture
You're linking to the home page of a website, but I think you meant to link to one of the blog posts, which I found after a few minutes of searching:

https://www.cognitionandculture.net/blogs/nicolas-baumard/wh...

Centrino··on Seed Oils, Early-Onset Cancer and Human Metabolic Variability
Interesting. But instead of limiting seed oil consumption, why not supplement your food with omega 3 to counterbalance the omega 6?
Centrino··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
Unlike in many other countries, where provinces or regions are merely administrative divisions created to decentralize or streamline administration, the US emerged when states voluntarily came together and decided to create a country. The states were willing to outsource part of their autonomy to a federal level, on condition that guardrails were put in place to limit the power of that federal level. Those guardrails were: bicameralism, equal representation of states in the Senate, and the electoral college. The House is the voice of the people, the Senate is the voice of the states.

The practical consequence of this system is that it effectively prevents a majority of voters from large urban centers from imposing their will onto rural populations, at least at the federal level. It was designed that way.

I've seen comments here claiming that countries like Canada or France deliver better outcomes than the US. They are stronger welfare states, yes, but they also have become overly paternalistic nanny states, with heavy-handed regulations, and high taxes stifling individual initiative.

Centrino··on Chat Control is already live on Facebook Messenger
I thought that Facebook Messenger was end-to-end encrypted for personal one-on-one chats? That's also the reason why Facebook asks you to set a PIN to retrieve your chats on other devices. Only group chats are not E2EE. So yes, this looks like a chat control-like feature where the scanning is done on the client and not on Facebook's servers.
Centrino··on Show HN: Online ChatGPT to PDF – ChatGPT2PDF
This definitely fills a need! I have always wondered why ChatGPT and other chatbots make it nearly impossible to print out (to a printer or to a PDF file) a neat transcript of a conversation. Are they just sloppy, or is it a deliberate strategy?

Anyway, while I will definitely test and use this web app, I would prefer a browser plugin to facilitates the printing of a ChatGPT conversation, without having to use the 'share' function first.

Centrino··on Ask HN: Deploying WireGuard on VPS to bypass censorship?
I would recommend to start with Wireguard, test it out with a VPS and one client computer before installing it for other family members on other computers.

Another tip, for enhanced comfort and ease of installation: most modern routers, even cheap travel routers, can function as a Wireguard client. So you could install an additional router, downstream of your main router, and create a wifi access point for your family, which tunnels all traffic to the VPS. The advantage is that you do not have to install wireguard on every client machine. You just install wireguard on the VPS, and you enter the wireguard keys and other config information in the wireguard config screen of the router.

At the same time you can leave your existing router running with wifi, so that your family can switch between censored and non-censored internet by simply switching from one to the other wifi access point. Why have both options? First, because non-tunneled internet will still be faster than tunneled internet (I guess), second, because some websites or government-run services in your country may only be available from within the country.

Centrino··on Ask HN: Deploying WireGuard on VPS to bypass censorship?
It works. Just make sure you install and configure wireguard correctly on the VPS and on the client computers. Make sure IP forwarding is enabled on the VPS. That should suffice to have your personal VPN running.

Some censorship-heavy countries are blocking Wireguard though. And if VPN use is prohibited by law in your country, your use of Wireguard can be detected if they want to.

Centrino··on [dead]
What is it? A content management system, or a document management system, or something else?
Centrino··on Artificial sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of aging
What about sucralose, another widely used artificial sweetener?
Centrino··on Debt has always been the ruin of great powers. Is the U.S. next?
> The US's military spending currently exceeds the next nine countries.

Military spending as percentage of GDP (or of total government spending if you prefer that) is what counts if you want to measure the financial burden.

Centrino··on Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue
And xAI the other one?
Centrino··on Ask HN: Why isn't my ISP providing AI as a service?
This would be a good idea if bandwidth were the bottleneck for using AI. Since it isn't, I wouldn't worry about it.
Centrino··on Building a Blog from Scratch in 90 Minutes with 233 LOC
The link to the Github repository gives a 404 error.

I like the idea and the 8 constraints, especially the 'system fonts only'!

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