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With HDR and wide gamut on the horizon, things are moving even further away to ever requiring any form of dithering.

You still need dithering to prevent visible banding in really subtle color gradients.
She didn't know her kidnapper. But he was using Google Maps
From the article, Shared.com and its subbrands already didn't have a relationship with Facebook, they had a relationship with "third-party contractors." They already had stopped working for them.
Isn't that what they're doing, which is why the prevalence of private sector unions in the US has been on the decline?

The union leadership, of course, describes the employers making their case as "union busting" and "anti-union propaganda".
There's a difference between an intentional release of the virus, which is what conspiracy theorists say, and an accidental release, which is what this article postulates.

Do people have a tendency to dismiss both as if they were the same? Sure. But that's just because there's many more people saying it was intentional than accidental.
I’ve had similar experiences with other google products:

My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this. We had a live session via thunderbird but there were no channels of support. Luckily we were able to register her old mobile number to achieve a password reset, thanks to a helpful phone provider and NOT google.

My mailserver is marked as spam by gmail, a helpful HN commentor pointed out it may be my lack of ipv6 which appears to be the cause. I have no idea why ipv6 would indicate that I’m not a spammer, I can’t ask google because they don’t have a support line.

I understand others have far more expensive (read: >1m$) problems with google specifically, and I know I’m not alone here.

I just hope that by continually airing grievances with lack of (useful) customer service by major providers, they end up caving and investing in customer support.

Until then, fuck you google.
A lot of readers here don’t live in US
How would that even work? Search and search ads are one product.
> If given the chance, I would go to great lengths to adjust my business, to right whatever wrong Facebook believes I have committed. I would change my business model, and shift the direction of my business to ensure I am fully compliant with Facebook’s policies. I have done it many times before. I would like to do it again.

15 years ago or so I happened to become a moderator on forum for script kiddies. I had been a temporal appointment for a month, because of another anecdotal funny story, but what I've found while being a moderator, that all those script kiddies trying to sell some stolen data were open for a discussion of their behaviour. In a good way open.

Before me (and by the way after me, and even with me) the forum was a mess. A great heap of kids trying to outcry others with their offers to find a buyer for their crap. There were strictly sounding rules, like "do not post into your forum topic (to get it on top of others) more than once per day", which were violated frequently. The approach of a moderator before me was to temporarily ban anyone he caught crossing the line.

I was the reason of my temporary assignment to this forum, and I tried to do the best I could. So I started to take notes, and I talked to people, explaining them what they did wrong, and what consequences they would face when I'll run out of time to talk with them. It worked like a charm, they were ready to conform to the rules, conditionally on the rules for everyone not just them. I used banning as a way to affect behaviour, but mostly short-term bans, no more than a day long, just to make sure they noticed me and to give them a feeling that they were punished enough and all their guilt is in the past redeemed and forgotten. (The guy before me could kind of dug up some half-a-year old violation and use it as an official reason for ban, while the real reason was violation of a pecking order, with him on the top).

I had learned a lot from that. From the other hand I have been never worked for 12+ hours a day for a month without days off. It was exhausting. If I had some tools for automation it would be easier, but I never got time to write the tools I needed.

I know that Facebook is a lot of orders of magnitude bigger then my problem was, so I'd likely be mistaken if tried to extrapolate, but nevertheless, my guess is Facebook have run out of resources to manage that mess and is trying to shrink it.
Right, yeah, it left out all the context is what I’m getting at. Being able to criticize the government is paramount to western ideals. That’s about the only thing you can’t do in China with enough money.
There are a lot of folks who are willing and able to be president for a low amount of pay. Might even do a better job than Trump.

The idea was that if teaching was a prestigious profession, we would see large returns on that investment. We have an entire underclass of population that is poorly educated, so maybe we shouldn't be living off 'discount teachers' as we are doing now.
Please don't delete your comment since this is a great reminder for all of us, but yeah, dang is an active HN mod.
Not surprised. Too bad nobody is gonna do anything about that or other crazy shit Beijing is doing.
How do you trust distribution if you also have mirrors all across the globe (that are not Cononical's machines)?
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Google should reveal it's algorithms to make it transparent and fair to everyone. So we can game the system. [not really!]
Why is it bad to be forced to be part of a union and contribute dues involuntarily, but OK to be forced to contribute to your employer's profits involuntarily?
"China is the best place in the world to start a company"

Here is what happens if you succeed to the highest level.
> For as wealthy, powerful and influential as he is, for him not to realize what was going to happen to him is kind of flabbergasting.

What makes you think he didn’t recognize that there was a significant risk of that?
At the very least it would solve the massive conflict of interest where a service that you can pay to make people find your webpage is strongly intertwined with another service people use to find webpages.
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> I mean, yeah, he criticized the party publicly. This is what happens.

Amazing the casualness in which people defend dictatorships these days.
10% of the population is 33 million people. There's a sleight-of-hand going on here where people whine about a tiny number of billionaires and CEOs screwing over the masses and then point to statistics that actual show the average upper middle class household doing very well.

I bet a large fraction of the posters on here who complain about being oppressed by economic inequality are themselves part of the top 10% too (and have benefited greatly from the trend towards more inequality).
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Your point about a personal liability suit is interesting, but there are many ways to hide money before an incident occurs, Bitcoin is just one possibility that has its own risks. If you’re trying to hide money after an accident then it will be obvious so you will still be on the hook.
> There are hints at the realities being described, but we really aren’t anywhere near them being accurate.

The problem is that they can become a reality at the flick of a switch.
I would not argue a legal point with a magistrate, because magistrates are not lawyers and do not have legal qualifications. They are enthusiastic amateurs. They are a feudal hangover, and are just as likely to bang on repeatedly about how it has 'been this way for a 1000 years' than to offer you a learned opinion.

It is unreasonably late and I'm done feeding trolls. Goodnight
You can also get away with all sorts of illegal and terrible things in China with enough money, just like anywhere else.

But, in China, you can’t criticize the government no matter how poor or rich you are. That’s the only reason Ma disappeared- he defied the government. Not to say bad things don’t happen to dissenters in the US but it’s not a matter of course like China.

IMHO, being able to criticize the government publicly without being disappeared is paramount to our ideals of society.

The article’s interpretation left out all that context.
> It’s really bizarre to call a business a ‘warlord’.

It's not more bizarre than calling someone else's servers "the cloud". I'd call GAFAM warlords because they are monopolistic, force their unwanted preferences upon users and buy up competition so there is none to migrate to.
Ask HN: Bitly for Multiple Hashtags?
Recently we've started curating content demystifying legalese for folks with tenancy/money disputes, and it feels excessive adding a chain of hashtags at the end of the article. As a publisher I find it necessary to get the word out, but as a reader annoying to read so many hashtags at the end of articles, feels spammy. Is there a bitly that compresses hashtag chains into a single pretty printed hashtag or something?!
No, US media has some sort of infatuation with China right now. I think they figure if they kowtow enough they’ll get access to that sweet China market.
Oh I'm not defending them whatsoever. Quite the opposite. I'm saying that this kind of thing is utterly normal in China, which is terrifying in and of itself. People go missing there all the time. This isn't even the first billionaire [1] - and that guy they grabbed from Hong Kong back before they renationalized it.

Knowing that, you'd expect him not to get too big for his britches in such a public way.

I expect a similar story arc here: he's going to pop up in a few months, explain he was seeking medical treatment, or he's discovered a new love of mining minerals on the western frontier, and apologize for the trouble he's caused. Then we'll never hear from him again.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/20...
If ED works with ssh, I'm very interested and I'll buy a few as long as price isn't outrageous - I don't mind supporting development. I have a couple of somu, but ed25519 didn't seem to pan out (haven't tried).

Personally, I would prefer flush mount and/or tactile buttons, but NBD.

Hope they will be available on other than kickstarter, as I never got it to work, with all their tracking and what-not.
In this case it would be me against a group of employee activists with goals I don't agree with plus the executive leadership. So now I'm powerless against two groups. Even from their announcement post it sounds like they're mostly in favor of political activism and not a single whiff of anything that would actually make my life any better.
> That's great, I wonder that others think of this.

You don't understand. It means that in China basically EVERYONE is at the mercy of the government, not just the rich. You just don't read about the anonymous ones they crush every day, and then you find them in your 'Real Body' exhibitions around the world.
It's BS. Jeffrey Epstein was rich. John McAfee too.
> I'm not going to link sources as I'd get flagged/down'd by the sympathizers.

So what? To hell with fake internet points. Speak truth to downvoters or GTFO.
The irony of this reply is I can't tell if it's a tongue in cheek piece about the hubris of the HN community or 100% serious.

I think there's something to be said about quality, but if we look at unionization at just the company level, you are likely to get a much higher average at some companies. Even if the assumption on the average HN reader's ability is true, this doesn't end the conversation: it refocuses it onto other levels than a union over the entire industry.
The company that makes the search engine and the company that sells the ads to the advertiser can be different companies, in the same way that you can put Ad Words on your website and they'll show ads based on the content of the site even though you aren't Google.
This does not seem like a good faith reply. We already have simple labels for things like: organic, free range, BST-free, grass-fed, etc.

"No bugs" would fit right in.
The existence of google adwords on other webpages suggests otherwise.
So the 2h edit window ran out just before I could fix two quite annoying typos.

What I meant to write was: And that they spent insane amounts of money, relative to their income, later on... [on an 8086 and then a 486 PC].

I suspect that quite a lot of us now sort-of-old-timers owe our careers to parents who did something similar to what my parents did to me.
Will reappear soon, praising CCP and donating all his wealth to good causes important for the party and the people.
Is it defending a dictatorship to point out the reality of the situation? Where did OP defend it?
Good question. From my point of view it's because megacorps are already too powerful entities with whom individual workers have little leverage for negotiating or influencing business decisions in favor of improved working environment and socially responsible company conduct.

If FAANGS were to unionize together the field would be even more imbalanced. For instance, Apple already makes US$ 1.9 million per employee [1] which is 19x its average worker salary [2]. Nothing wrong about that, it's a profitable company, but it doesn't strike me as if they're in a unfavorable position.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/217489/revenue-per-emplo...

[2] https://www.zippia.com/apple-careers-825/salary/
Exactly. That's like saying Tesla should be divided into a part making cars, and another part taking payments from buyers.
Even when the obvious distinction between over a billion people with 5000 years of history and the Chinese Communist Party is preempted clearly a lot of people seem to want to act as if the Chinese people are being attacked, not the criminal gang oppressing them. Strangely, when American policy is attacked however viciously I never see any of these bleeding hearts chime in about the over 300 million Americans that aren't human trash.
Apple and Tesla do perfectly well everywhere, in China and guess what, in Switzerland, one of the most democratic countries there is. You are suffering from strong does of selection bias.
I own a condo at one of the properties in the article. The building and surrounding buildings are working with the county to help restore the beach. In our case, pockets of sand were found just offshore and will be brought in along with some stabilizing structures to widen the beach by up to 150 feet. The buildings (specifically our AOAOs) are responsible for the cost.
I love your website. Google sucks.
Perhaps a rising superpower that both sells you every plastic trinket you own and operates concentration camps is story people want to read about.
Yes, if they're willing to continue letting their organizers be fired afterwards for "unrelated reasons". As-is organizing each walkout has to start from scratch since the previous leadership structure no longer exists.

This has allowed the management to make promises to address concerns and fail to follow through on them. Or have HR take over employee-organized community groups discussing grievances and slowly let them die.
Completely agree with you. FB and Twitter can (and have) destroyed peoples lives in more ways than one.

Knowing about history can be important when evaluating and thinking about some of these ideas. Most people I have seen posting comments to your comment are rehashing arguments that were at the core of the Cubby v. CompuServe some thirty years ago.

FB and Twitter MODERATE and control everything on their systems. This places them in a position of responsibility. While IANAL, I think I can say this is a case of legal precedent. Are there cases that reverse or modify Cubby v. CompuServe?

For all their AI prowess they sure as heck seem to just suck at it when it comes to moderating for quality. These platforms are oceans, no, galaxies, of lies, misinformation and manipulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc.
How much longer can this go on? Something has to be done!
Google is doing a terrible job at it’s core responsibility. I look forward to watching the company falter over the coming decade.

Switching costs for a search engine are pretty damn low. And yet their search product is littered with crap and exploits users like only a monopolist would.

Ideally they’ll continue burning goodwill by doing things like adding some fact-checking or censorship “features” into Gmail, delisting political sites, and feature hyper-partisan political infighting as a core tenant of their employee training and advancement practices.

GoodCheapFast alleges they have a 7% conversion rate from visitors to purchases. That’s insanely high, and indicates Google should be sending them as much traffic as possible if their goal is serving the end-user.

But since the site doesn’t advertise with Google, and in fact fosters a beautiful ad-free experience, its essentially an indictment of everything Google stands for and therefore must be eliminated.
Search is not making profit and only exists to show ads.
Look any of his interview with elon musk. He's kind of dumb.
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Not jumping on bandwagons and exercising restraint - you don’t need all that shiny stuff to get the job done.
FLIR is an aweful company. This is coming from a customer. Don't buy a FLIR.
what makes you think the "catchers mitt" can't/won't be another couple meters up?
TLDR for below. Several people argue that Boris was totally clear, and then demonstrate their complete ignorance of the rules he so clearly set out.
Not if you remove China's swiftcode which the USGOV can do and China is very nervous because it would lead to mass unrest.

How do you compete when nobody is buying Yuan and the demand disappears overnight in the foreign exchange markets?
> Too much Chinese money in SV startups for most people to risk it.

Despite HNs sponsorship, I don’t get the impression that the readership is dominated by people financially dependent on the SV startup scene. Sure, they are overrepresented here, but given how small a percentage of world the SV startup scene is, it can be massively overrepresented and still be a minority position, and HN has a very broad audience.
We are all at the mercy of “The Algo” even people that think they are immune.

Have you looked at dumping the “wellness”?

> Your Money or Your Life”? YMYL is Google’s nickname for health and wellness websites.

https://radialgroup.com/google-ymyl-medic-update-health-well...
You’re comparing Norway’s 2 year recidivism rate with the US’s 5 year rate. The US’s 2 year rate is 29%.
Hahaha you think they want the truth. Truth just gets double downvotes.
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oh nice to see someone disagreeing with a dictatorship here. I hope this message on a internet message board will change things in China !
Better than the elitists? They are the elite.
Some conference apps have the ability to automatically blur or replace the background.
Your comment does a wonderful job explaining our current situation and I will share this with people who are less tech security conscience.
Yeah but that's another point totally. I still don't think that allowing only those with money to criticize our government is something to be proud of.
I’d focus on the concentration camps and leave out the cuteness. Maybe that’s just me?
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That is how most of the (American) retail auto market works, though, so it's not a strange idea.
In 2021 I don't believe it's strictly true that you have to be in China for this to happen, if you criticize the Party.
I only see two differences between MacOS and iOS: kernel development is allowed on MacOS, and running self-signed code doesn't delete itself even if you don't pay like it does on iOS. Running unsigned code doesn't exist on MacOS anymore with Big Sur, unless you self-sign everything. Stop kernel development (going to be "higher friction" going forward) and a daemon to delete self-signed code, and it's iOS.

Allowing neutral parties to do app-signing for Chromebooks, Windows 10 S or i/MacOS (the way SSL-certs are issued and trusted by browsers, Mozilla App Store anyone?), alternative app stores (iOS), alternative signed-OSes on hardware (Occulus) are all Ulysses pacts that Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and others could do.
>> What really puzzles me about Apple fans and it's userbase is that they do not care. They simply do not care at all what's being done to them.

> we have different priorities

That's a different way of saying "we don't care". You aren't really contradicting the other person's point.
The big difference between warlords and these companies is that a warlord uses force and often violence to gain power.

These companies have gained power by selling things people are choosing to buy.
For some reason I am really impressed that this shirt correctly spelled "their" every single time it was used.
I would like a better format, but I like to print things, which PDF is still better than HTML at, AFAIK.
How another country chooses to conduct itself within its borders is none of our business.
> I still enjoy macOS

I would enjoy macOS if it subscribed to open source ideals, but then it wouldn't be Apple right

> You are free to buy something else.

That's exactly the advice I give to everyone who asks me about appel
Meh. What I got out of those interviews is that Ma is more of a humanist and Musk a technologist. Not a fair apples-to-apples comparison. I’m sure Ma brings skills in other areas.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky thought he was more powerful than the Russian government [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky
I recently was shopping for a new chair for home, and realized that... I don't actually need anything special because I habitually sit on the front half of the chair and don't rest my back against the back. So I just got one of the low-tier Steelcase chairs we have at the office and it's great! It'll last, and it's just... fine.

I tried sitting on a yoga ball for a while, but realized that it's not doing anything more for my back (because of how I already sit), but it's difficult to turn between my three laptops because the ball sticks to the floor and my clothes. So I went back to the chair. <shrug>
If you are over 47 and from the UK then this joke is extremely funny. Laugh out loud funny. I don't believe anyone outside this niche truly gets it. Brilliant.
H predicted so many things now that has become true.

ex) He predicted HNA ceo would be assassinated. A few moths HNA ceo is killed.

edit: another chinese CEO was killed in abroad in helicopter. there is just too many to keep track now
Google has taken upon themselves to become the gatekeepers of the web, yet they have not taken the burden of responsibility that comes with such powers. You will argue that Google is just a product, that you choose to use, but the users of the author's site do not choose to use Google, it's the only alternative (Google pay big money to platforms/browsers to make sure any search goes via them). Google has the power to kill any business, so it would be fair if they where required to tell you exactly why a site was unSERPed.
Not really.

It would take a lot more than a flick of a switch.

They are already under a lot of scrutiny from governments without having flicked such a switch (whatever you imagine that switch to do).