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> Why not create a "Chat with us" page that loads the chatbox instead of force feeding it to every user who comes to your site, wasting bandwidth and load performance?

Presumably because having an obnoxious pop-up that follows you around their site is effective. See also Annoying subscription pop ups and annoying "Allow our site to send you notifications" pop ups.

I just wish everyone would standardize on one super annoying pop-up/ follow you everywhere behavior instead of applying all 3+ to their site layered on top of pop up video adverts which stay in sight.
== is a test, not a statement of equality.
This works for non-PWA's. 'Install as app' is only present for PWA's right?

You also do the 'add to home screen' instead of using this app.
> FYI this is a concrete example given by a regulatory authority of non-compliant behavior they observe in the wild, so it's not just theoretical.

Can you give a link to this?

Would it still apply to Crisp chat?

"You do not need to ask for user consent regarding Crisp cookies. Crisp uses cookies solely for messaging purpose, and not for tracking purposes."

https://help.crisp.chat/en/article/crisp-chatbox-cookie-and-...

Also, is there a good source to answer when you need and don't need a consent pop-up? It's maddening how difficult it is to get a straightforward yes/no for common use cases. Has nobody made a questionnaire/wizard where you tell it what you store and why, and it'll tell you if consent is required?
Gawker ultimately settled for $31M which would be about 2% of what has been raised for Trump's reelection bid. The NY Post is still owned by the Murdoch family who would consider that a worthwhile investment.
Seriously?

I guess they get the same treatment
Yep! This is exactly what I do. With Google Takeout, I don't have to worry about data loss if I get locked out of my account or other issues like that.
It's the same problem with bond rating agencies getting paid by bond issuers instead of bond investors. Of course this ends up happening-- the incentive structure all but guarantees it.

I think Glassdoor's service is useful enough, particularly for someone who is actively considering working for a specific company, that a version of the same idea (not Glassdoor, but a new company offering reviews of companies/management teams) could make sense with a limited subscription model. For example, a one-time membership for 3 months for $5.00 that automatically terminates, or maybe $10/year for an automatically renewing subscription. And if you submit your own review that receives enough "upvotes" or whatever the mechanism is, you can accrue credits that can be used towards the membership cost. I would probably sign up for that myself.

Also, to keep the system honest and fair, the company being reviewed should have the right to respond specifically to any review to make their case, and this should be free for them to do so long as they can prove they represent the company.
> the collapse of our civilization as having started around 1950 or so

The pessimist (or realist) in me tends to agree, that a fundamental shift occurred after the second world war. What exactly is the nature of this change is hard to say - something about the dominant ideology of the ruling class, the relationship of wealth, business, politics and governance - maybe.

At the same time, this period has been one of the greatest maturing and flowering of our collective global civilization. Not to go all Pinker ¹, but the optimist side of me wants to believe that the cultural and technological advances we've made have enough momentum to overcome the negative tendencies that are possibly bringing us to the brink of collapse.

¹ https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/international-poverty-line-ip...
It seems to me that the bad reviews were published on the site regardless of their offer. So I can't see how is this extortion.

Extortion would be along the lines of "we publish some made up bad reviews unless you pay".
And use what instead? You're just re-stating the problem, not offering anything in the way of a solution.
I left Gsuite for Zoho (mail) a couple of years ago after reading so many of these Google account closure scares. I cannot speak to the quality of the Zoho office apps, but their email seems reliable and allows me to have over a dozen domains tied to one account at a tiny cost per month. Fastmail, as I recall, couldn't or wouldn't allow many domains tied to one account (otherwise I would have chosen them).
This is pretty cool and I like the UI. Congrats on the launch!

For anyone that's interested, I created a "Programming Career Advice" group: https://openland.com/invite/sX8kTKR
> since that puts me on the hook for assuring physical safety and backups of my backups

Only in the event that Google locks you out, at which point you can create a new backup elsewhere. If Google has a copy and you have a physical copy, then Google would have to lock you out at the very same moment your house burns down for you to lose any data.
Idk. I prefer AM's recommendations, integration with ATV4K, HomePods, lyrics, music videos, separation of music and podcasts, and audio fidelity.
Fastmail. But the key thing is using my own domain name. You can actually use Gmail safely... as long as you are using your own domain name. If Google (or Fastmail) terminated my account, I could point my domain name to another mail service, and not lose access to any of my other services.

But as long as you're using an @gmail.com address as your digital identity, your access to all of your online accounts is tied up in that single arbitrary point of failure, to a company that does not view you as a valuable customer.
>Remote-only cuts out the in-person experience entirely

Not necessarily. I work in a group that's very distributed and we get together (normally) a couple of times a year plus another once or twice with a larger group.

Of course, that doesn't work if it's more like getting together in person every week or two.

In any case, I agree it makes sense to collaborate. If you wander into the office and no one you know and work with is there, it doesn't make much sense to come in.
Thanks. Wasn't hard to find that, it was just a minor nitpick to say if you're going to spend the effort to promote then perhaps provide some clues immediately after the click. Maybe this was a strategy to make people curious, and therefor more engaged, and therefor more likely to convert :).
True, the full solution is to NEVER rely on Google as a single point of failure for anything. Which means backing up all photos/documents elsewhere and never using your Google account to auth with another service. I've always avoided tying my Google account to non-google services for just this reason and haven't ever had it be a problem.
I learned CAD last year for work and my prototype turnaround times went from weeks to days to same day. Truly game changing for me. I can iterate an idea 5 times faster at least, not to mention hundreds of times cheaper (in some cases $800 part down to ~$5 part)

Even faster would be better, but print speed often isn't the bottleneck, solving engineering problems often is.

That said, of course faster would be better.
Ask HN: What are the unaddressed problems in fintech today?
Seeing if I can get opinions from people working in different areas of fintech or people using fintech products. What problems currently exist from your point of view and experience?

I understand that fintech is a broad term, I didn't want to narrow onto a niche to solicit wider conversation. Particular niches could include banking, wealth management, debt or credit management, budgeting, payment api / integration etc. I'm not sure myself.
I've seen this happen at a previous place I worked at too. One extremely on-point and constructive review with low stars and tons of likes that was then followed by a flood of junk 5 star reviews that obviously the CEO or his lieutenants wrote. There doesn't seem to be any way to combat those fake reviews now.
The Washington Post already debunked it. The story was lies.. it seems like a Russian Op, that some have been trying to spread for months. Twitter did right to block. Its a fake set up manafactured scandal.

The Days of Trump extremism just planting garbage fake stories like they did with Hilary (With Russian backing) should be consigned to the dustbin.
Per the article, your total size is something like 230kb, so more than half your size is in fonts? I'm sure I'm in the minority here in that I don't like loading external fonts, but couldn't system fonts be good enough, or using the default of the site you're hosted within?
Email addresses and inboxes are important to people. They are critical to our online identity.

Wiki mentions Gmail having 1.5 billion users. Imagine even 100M of them paying $100 per year. Makes Gmail a $10B product just on paid subscriptions, that is not a small amount.
I like this analogy! Key differences from Openland to Reddit

— Most users use their real name

— Focus on direct and group chats, not posts

— Ability to save people in contacts, profile hashtags to find interesting people

— More professional-grade tools for organizers: automaton, integrations, analytics, payments, etc.
Amazon cloud storage is $1.99/mo for 100GB. That's exactly what I get from Google(I pay $1.99 for extra storage).

Are you saying the software to perform the syncing costs more than a few dollars per month?
...shave?
“black market” argument could be made for pretty much any law

Not the OP, but ... murder or genocide is very clearly a crime, while lobbying starts with "talking to an elected official about laws that concern you", which is sorta normal in democracy, the elected officials should be available to talk. It only becomes problematic if it is overdone or done too secretively.

I think that a good and transparent lobby register is probably more useful than outright ban; at least an external observer can glean some information from it.
Do You know, is there a self hosted solution for automatic photos upload to own server?
People post guides to HN periodically about how to do exactly this. But it will require a lot of effort and a carefully designed backup/failover plan for when your self-hosted things tank (or get hacked).
Chrono.gg is shutting down and launching a new Nexus website on October 30th
Reading through these HN comments, it is amazing to me how many people have already concluded the NY Post story is either obviously true or false.

But I agree with the gist of your point. Social media platforms should stop pretending to be unbiased disinformation watchmen. It's their platform and they don't have to justify squat. If people want free speech, they can go somewhere else.

On that note, I really do think distributed social media networks are the future.
Its only 9 times out of 10 when the story is escalated to the front page of Hacker News. For all we know, 99,999 times out of 100,000 its a case of fraud or law enforcement action that is completely correct and valid, and you do not give those actors information on how you detected them.
I tried to create a collaborative (the most important point), local-first, end-to-end encrypted app.

I really tried. But it's hard, really hard. Like all distributed systems.

CRDTs are far from a panacea:

* No implementation is compatible with another

* There is very few implementation in languages that are not JS.

* The biggest problem is when 2 documents are diverging for too much time (think a blockchain fork) like if you go offline for 4 days while your coworker work on the same document as you do. You have to come back to differential sync, like Git.

And it's just for sync, then to move to P2P you have to handle NAT traversals, distributed identities, rendez-vous places and much more.
This is why I moved off of Gmail and Google Drive for important things.
You would think that with congress seriously talking about breaking up monopolistic tech companies, the big players would have tried to _tone down_ the monopolistic behavior, not amp it up...
I was about to ask the same thing.

And where does that savings come from? The improved compression and minification? Reduced packet retransmit? Both?
Have you not seen all the similar things that happened over the years? This is not a new thing, it’s SOP. And though I think Google is especially bad, don’t ever have important data with a single company.
Who Does the Media Most Want to Silence?
s/other/your own directly managed/
IIRC there is a special user support forum for Googlers, so it's not the same treatment.
Ahh, I remember the good old days of Zomato extorting our restaurant. Zomato's rep offered to give us a 5 star rating if we gave him free takeaway food, or a 3 star rating otherwise, during the initial listing. We obviously gave him the free food, but I thought I would be a wise-ass and decided to record him. Posted it online, but turns out, Zomato's doing that with every restaurant, so it didn't become much news at the end of the day.
Hmm, I don't see it. It looks a little enterprise-y, but otherwise good IMO. What are some examples of peak social media design to you?
Employers have just the same rights. Take the case of an owner with one employee.

If I own my own business and I'm the only employee, let's say a plumbing business. For years I did my own work, own accounting, own taxes, etc. I decide to add an apprentice who I hire in full time. This apprentice starts evangelizing his political views while on jobs. This turns off customers and doesn't agree with my political views. I don't want my employee to do this. It is not my point of view and it's affecting business. Now in your world, I can't fire this person, or tell him to stop. But by not being allowed to fire this person, and allowing his speech to continue via my company, the government is forcing me and my property to endorse his speech. Why stop there? Why can't I put a Trump sign in my neighbors yard?

Now we're in a contradiction. Who's right to speech matters more in a private setting? Typically the owner of said private setting. By and large, this is true. Does this lead to sticky situations where people are profiled racially? Yes. But I'm not willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

> Do you think making it illegal for employers to discriminate against their employees based on their race is a violation of the employers’ rights?

Do you think it making it legal for an employee to bark racist words towards their minority colleagues all day at work is a good idea? Because under your free speech rule, that would be OK. Oh look, another contradiction. In any case, we have laws for these scenarios that are largely constitutional because the constitution largely ignores these private settings, thus it is up to us to legislate, hence we have laws on discrimination.
I think coming in to the office 1x / week would let you live quite a bit further away than coming in 5x / week. At least for me, I could do a 60-90-minute drive to work 1 day per week, but would not want to 5 days.
Should have been clearer.

Preferably, you should use your own domain (atleast for signing up).

Or use something like Tutanota [0], only for signing up for stuff. They have a very generous free plan. You should open it only to verify new accounts, and for 'forgot password' links.

[0]- https://tutanota.com
When this topic comes up periodically, some people comment about the difficulty of having their outgoing mail often blacklisted or automatically marked as spam when being sent to major email hosts (such as Google, MS, etc.) Have you found this to be a problem?
The victim probably did some shady things that the husband didn't know about... Something so terrible that Google would disable their account :O
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I help run a SaaS for developers and we receive several pre sales questions and support questions per day. We try to send the support questions to forums or docs pages. People seem to like the chat. I personally hate annoying chat widgets but ours is just on the pricing page and gets good engagement.
> But I don't see this specific claim made much at all from legitimate news organizations.

You really missed all of 2017-2018. My wife is a never-Trumper and this issue got her to tune into Rachel Maddow and all the podcasts and the idea that the collusion was two-sided and went to the highest levels in the Trump campaign was pervasive.

See: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russ...
The article describes ritual icon desecration where by breaking off the nose, the spirit of the person or god depicted attempting to inhabit the desecrated icon couldn't breathe, and thus would be denied re-joining the land of the living there.

They'd also ideally remove the head completely but you'd still break off the nose if that's all you could do.

When power changed in Egypt, those who came after would desecrate the icons (statues, images) of those who came before to cement their legitimacy and prevent worship or offerings being made to the prior powers-that-be, as it was believed it prevented their spirits from re-inhabiting those icons, which would dissuade people making offerings in the first place. Whether the new rulers believed this too could be debated, but the impact was the same.
It is worth noting that they can hire developers at competitive market rates thanks to donations obtained from private individuals.

Example: https://reactos.org/project-news/victor-perevertkin-hired-fu...

Donate if you have some spare dollars https://reactos.org/donate/

Apply for a job if you are a C\C++ developer https://reactos.org/contributing/#paid-jobs
Every time something like this comes up either with Dropbox, Google, or whatever big corp who owns your data, I suggest everybody to try out Nextcloud!

I use it for years, because it's a very liberating feeling to OWN YOUR DATA and not be in a risk of something like this. It's even more convenient than any cloud drive I tried.
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I don't remember companies passing those savings along when they moved from offices to cubicles to save money.
Yes, that's the sort of thing that's now much better. See here for discussion about using transformers in v3: https://nightly.spacy.io/usage/embeddings-transformers

Document similarity is a tricky thing to get into the main API though, which is organised around the idea of sending a Doc through a sequence of steps, each of which adds or updates annotations. The signature for document similarity is fundamentally different. In the end we decided to not try to shoe-horn it in. Not everything needs to be one function call. So document relation predictions (including document similarity) wouldn't be a standard pipeline component.
> The money has to come from somewhere.

It can come from advertising in-app/sponsored results appearing at the top of search. That's not extortionate, and doesn't compromise the whole purpose of using the app.

Either the ROI on those ads is terrible (Thus leading to low-margin businesses not advertising on Yelp), or they want more money, at the expense of long-term confidence in their website.

It's possible that the current, bloated version of Yelp, with a headcount of 6,000 cannot survive on search ads revenue. [1] It's also possible that a smaller, leaner version of it could.

[1] Facebook, by the way, employs ~40,000 FTEs. Facebook's revenues are 70 times that of Yelp's.
Google provides a mechanism to appeal. It’s impossible to appeal if you don’t know what happened, or if you were hacked, or whatever.
FOSS movement is dominated by geeks. Fine with me, I am one as well. But the relative dearth of artists and UX designers results in very well written software that users struggle to use.
I would have thought ensuring that workers at google, getting absolutely no special access to specific other accounts, is pretty much the most sacrosanct rule.

i.e. Google's unlikely to hand over the dossier they've assembled on 'what your husband has been up to that we considered bad enough to shut down their account'

Most definitely not saying this isn't a false positive - but the handling process for it it must assume it's a positive.

Now why the poster's husband can't get the info - that is somewhat worrysome.
Its ok for companies to ask their employees to leave reviews at glassdoor right?
What is a good way to move from Google Photos to iCloud? i have a library over 300GB, is there any product that handles this?
> offered to remove bad reviews if we paid them
A real sign up with your email address on your own domain.
this is exactly why i think oauth for personal use for most people is nightmare fuel.
Does anyone know of reliable alternatives?
Wonder what the USG including the Fed do after the election. Could get very dark fast.
This is pretty interesting, from the description I would much rather program in Cyclone than C++. It would be great if gcc/clang supported cyclone, then most programs could gradually migrate to using Cyclone instead of C.
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There's ... some daylight between "internal escalation through channels" and "shenanigans".
Does Google also disable access to Google Takeout when they disable accounts? If so (and I assume they do), IMO that's really the worst of it. It's bad enough that they arbitrarily and capriciously disable accounts, but then to also deny you the ability to take out your personal data... that's reprehensible.
Has he done anything to raise the ire of the American intelligence services? The agencies that gave us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO and the like still exist. Google is not ultimately in control over matters like that.

Getting information on this stuff is difficult, given the blank check the NSA has had from 1959 onwards: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/516064-stat...

Eisenhower's 1961 Farewell Address is misinterpreted by many and totally forgotten by others. Please listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBNmecVtdU
>It's so far removed, that even Jar Jar Abrams (destroyer of franchises) tried to fix it. I don't consider TLJ "canon," to use the lingo.

Jar Jar Binks was George Lucas' idea though. Which destroyer of franchises are you trying to mock?
Thanks for linking this, I never realised other people were annoyed enough to create a blocklist specifically for those god-awful chat popups.
Looks like he still works there, but attempting to get fired.
It's a marketing piece. They're not conflating technologies; they're enumerating their value proposition.
The bridge is open source and works on Linux, there are AUR packages for Arch.

It's fairly easy to extract your data.
In the case of institutional managers, they live and die by their returns. Take pension funds: if they do not meet their return targets, pensions get cut (or debt is issued to make up the gap, big yikes).

I agree with your last statement: the amount of risk isn't realizing a corresponding risk premium in the returns available. Yet, you must invest somewhere. That's your job (as an institutional investor). A lot of structural financial heartache ahead.
One thing that is tough about these stories is that there a class of US enforcement responses for which it is illegal to disclose why you responded.

For instance, it is a prison-time offence for an individual employee of a financial institution to tell a customer they filed a SAR on them.

The way you get kafka is BSA compliance officers have personal liability for this reporting, so they prefer not to have customers that trigger reporting, but they cant tell a customer why they are dumping them, so the word comes from ‘on high’ or an algorithm and thats it. Nobody internally can help because for their own good they do not know the reasons for account termination.

This may be that or it may not, but probably its not that google is being dicks to its own employees. It is an outcome of a pernicious set of government and institutional dynamics.
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