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Share the non-copyrighted ones and it's still a win if you make it possible to people to contribute, both through PRs, testing and discussion.

Some of us are aware of the risks and choose to accept them. Last week I tried to analyze HTTPS traffic on my Linux machine using MITM to check what some programs were sending back home, but omg, it was a pain, I also partially failed. Some apps just ignore system certs and use their own. Tools like mitmproxy help (docs are lacking btw). I paid for both the devices and the software, shouldn't I be able to take a peek at what they are doing?

I know this is contrary to popular opinion but I wish people would slowly move away from python. I've wasted so much time in understanding, integrating or just making python projects work that at this point I'm just avoiding anything python. The best python projects that I can confidently say are high quality are the ones where a lot of the code is c,c++ or rust and python is just a high level wrapper.

Found this but the ranking is from 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_charitabl...

Finally, Google gave me access to my account by allowing me to use the new phone number they asked me to provide and not the one from 2022, exactly 8 days after the incident.

Did Elon Musk really only take 9 minutes to read, consider, and respond to Ilya & Greg's thoughtful "Honest Thoughts" email? That seems remarkably brief, crazy.

I'm surprised by OpenAI's resilience through all this drama. It's impressive to see how far they've come from 2017 to 2024. This journey has given me a whole new appreciation for startups and the individuals behind them. Now I better understand why my own past mediocre attempts didn't succeed.

Thank you for sharing this information!

Update: Recovery attempt via telecom operators failed - the number is stuck in limbo between two carriers. While this didn't work in my case, other European users may still recover their number by either:

1. Starting a new 2-year contract

2. Paying a one-time fee for a preferred number (~150 EUR in my case)

Tip: Contact your local carrier to check if number recovery is possible, or if you can request a specific number for a new contract.

Currently pursuing Plan B: Submitted a Data Access Request [1] to Google in hopes of getting my data back.

[1]: https://support.google.com/policies/contact/sar

Tried that, the loop remains the same and asks for the phone number and then asks for the code.

I may, remains to be seen, the main offices of the telecom don't work during the weekend.

Appreciate the emotional support, I feel for you. You reminded me of my youtube music subscription with my massive playlist, I like to think of it as just currently unavailable, I lose hope slowly.

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This post seems to have been flagged but I want to thank everyone for their suggestions and future measures. The plan for now is: 1. Retry again with email/pass in incognito in a 24 hour interval; 2. Try to get the same phone number from the telecom operators; 3. Make Subject Access Request (EU) to Google in hopes of at least getting my data back.

In order not to get caught up in the same thing again there are many good suggestions in the comments, all with some overhead/friction but 100% worth it if you ask me :D.

Just to clarify, I moved countries in the past, for the last year I've been in the same country for well over a year.

I do live in the EU, if the plan to get access to the phone number with the telecom operators on monday doesn't pan out I will try to do that.

Honestly I don't mind waiting weeks to recover the contents of my account as long as I know that it's not lost forever. But all the FAQ and comments on the internet regarding similar scenarios have no good ending and people just giving up with no recourse.

I knew about Subject Access Request but didn't cross my mind I could use it in my current scenario. Thank you!

I'm not on any socials. At this point I'm more ashamed of myself, I'm technical enough to build a homelab, I was just delaying the migration until I had something a bit more solid with k8s and ceph that I could share with a nice UI.

Even a small job that would backup emails and data to S3 and a hdd once a day would have saved me all this embarrassment. Hopefully starting with 2025 will have something to share with HN that is more positive.

Just tried, first screen:

"Account disabled 'myemail@gmail.com', We noticed unusual activity in your Google Account and locked it to protect your information. Learn more" and a button "Try to restore".

And now I got: "Too many failed attempts, Unavailable because of too many failed attempts. Try again in a few hours.".

At least I got a new message.

I did, it's not currently allocated and it's in a "quarantine" list before some phone network operator allocates it.

Sorry, I meant that I don't have it in my possession as I've moved out of the country and stopped paying for it, but I still know the number, the issue is that I can't get a message to it for 2FA.

Learnt my lesson, already working on taking measures for new data or hopefully the data from the account if I recover it.

I already called the number, it seems it's not in use, called someone (he was selling "pretty" numbers online) to ask if it's possible to get it back and they said that there have been cases and it's currently in something they call "quarantine" and there may be complications as there are two operators involved, the original operator of the number and the one to which the number was ported to. I will follow up on Monday on that front.

Thank you.

Thank you, will probably resort to that as well.

When we're building something, we don't have all the specs upfront (unless it's simple). I'm learning and adapting as I write more of the project, and at some points I may backtrack or start from scratch. For projects where you have the whole code upfront, I guess you could pass that to an LLM (maybe).

The way I found most success using LLMs is as a partner to ping-pong ideas, to come up with code design, algorithms, and data structures that would fit a particular scenario. Then I'm ignoring its code and writing it to fit the project. The trick is to use the randomness combined with the vast array of information it holds to your advantage - like a supercharged Google.

Regarding my joy of programming, for me it's not even close. I get my joy from the project as a whole, not from snippets of code sprinkled around (sometimes I wish it could - I have hundreds of projects I would like to tackle but they're not worth my time). The only thing I worry about is that the next version would not be accessible to the public or they would cost exorbitant amounts.

edit: for the way I'm using LLMs I found the approach taken by Zed editor to be the best, really recommend it's buffer, easy to copy-p, modify and search (it would be nice to also have divergence from a chat, hopefully in the future)

Over the years we've gotten more and more technological advances, we have automated more and more labor yet the amount of labor we have to put in increases which makes me wonder, where is all that output going as I'm pretty sure it doesn't go into our pockets or our governments. For years I haven't noticed and even burned-out few times as I'm very passionate about this field and STEM in general but count me out from this, my resolution for the next 3 years is self-sustenance, self-sufficiency and gig work from time to time to pay for things like internet and other raw materials.

I was assuming that each contributor would have their custom rules on what the code looks in their editors. I agree that we should have a different solution so everyone reads the exact code they wrote in the style and format they wrote it...; Scratch all that, the more I think about it that sounds like a very bad idea, what about pair programming, collaboration, being able to talk about some parts of the code or it's design? Back to Go and Rust for me :)

That's very close to what I want, I wonder if we'd ever have customization for programming languages on the client side but when pushing to git it would get transpiled to the most common subset. A small change I would have loved at first glance would be the double colons (::) for namespace path along with explicit extraction and pub for public types.

I also endorse that, they've somehow made way in Europe. They are active during the day and are very aggressive.

That's a nice innovation that I'm not that happy about, as there would be even less privacy...

Maybe on the other side it's good news as ppl are usually their best selves when they are being watched.

I know a lot of people that wouldn't mind that.

1. There are ways to bypass geo-block.

2. People would build alternatives specifically for EU (with few exceptions).

3. They could even offer those alternatives to US, but with better privacy out of the box.

The internet is broken and I don't think it's only in the EU. In the last years I found myself just avoiding using websites I'm not familiar with or confident they're not filled with ads and trackers, I've set-up some aggregators and custom readers to find and get the information I'm interested in. If I open a page that has the cookie banner that blocks me from reading the content or forces me to agree I just close it, it wouldn't have been that important anyway.

Thanks for this, I've been using the localstorage for the same use case a while ago, I'll try to go back and update it.

Yes it's fast enough, especially if you don't need something live.

Looks very nice, saved it for later. Last week, I worked on implementing always-on speech-to-text functionality for automating tasks. I've made significant progress, achieving decent accuracy, but I imposed some self-imposed constraints to implement certain parts from scratch to deliver a single binary deployable solution, which means I still have work to do (audio processing is new territory for me). However, I'm optimistic about its potential.

That being said, I think the more straightforward approach would be to utilize an existing library like https://github.com/collabora/WhisperLive/ within a Docker container. This way, you can call it via WebSocket and integrate it with my LLM, which could also serve as a nice feature in your product.