skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately (you must have observed, particularly in the case of South Africa) it is not easy to accept that someone is who they say they are on the Internet. The DA is accused of running hundreds of fake accounts on twitter, and we all know about Bell Pottinger.

Your question, "would you rather censor me" is the hope that I cling to, because it sounds more reasonable than troll to me.
I had to learn, and try to tell others every chance I get, that moving up that ladder will come with relearning how to manage your time, and learn to get gratification out of different things than earlier in your career. If you don't, you'll always walk around with the feeling that you didn't get any work done.
The same is true for abusive parents or partners - some just spank.

Lobbying in that metaphor is the kid in the family with the most clout convincing the parent they should spank another sibling instead
> Respect the opportunity

Honestly, this reads like a Rule of Acquisition. I think Google may be run by Ferengi at this point.
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This is inaccurate. A $50K a month AdWords spend does not get meaningful support.
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Given the reputation of ABP, I'd be worried too.
Saved you by doing it to prove you are not lying.. you are welcome
I got a good chuckle out of you not even considering the manager's self awareness, empathy and competence as factors. Are we living a Dilbert cartoon?
Some societies are simply not ready or fit for a democratic system.
Which literally puts you on all autoreject spam lists because SPF and DNSSEC. Unless you pay for GSuite and/or your mail provider allows this custom domain functionality.
It would be more compelling if you actually mentioned what app you've found that's so naughty.
Now or when the next pandemic hits? Suspend patents now, better be prepared to develop the next vaccines without private pharma. Then again, maybe that would work out just fine. I doubt it would be unproblematic, either.
I would start with takeout.google.com and put that in cold storage in a good cloud provider (obviously not google cloud).
Admins don't particularly like political threads. For good reason.
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Are you going to continue deleting and recreating this comment until it is upvoted ? It is the 3 times I see you creating and deleting this comment, in either this thread or in the other one on the front page on the pricing strategy.

You were already flagged for bad behavior there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25322651
Plenty of people use fastmail and seemed to be happy. If you're OK with its price, I think that's a sweet spot.

It's absolutely possible to host your own e-mail server on VPS. You'll receive mail without issues. But sending mail might cause issues, so unless you're OK with some delivery problems and spending some time to investigate, I don't suggest going that route.

Hosting your email on NAS is problematic. You need to have static IP address with PTR record and most home providers won't offer those services for reasonable price.
> I trust them

You literally mentioned a company that betrayed trust so bad a government tried to call them to account.
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They make supercomputers, which are typically the size of a large room. It's quite unlikely you'll see one connecting to your free wifi.
And then the app isn't working anymore due to newer os breaking change

Or it suddenly gone from app / play store
Couldn't care less about twitter but if you use google for email/storage/docs etc then it's a real issue.

Email is how i do business or access to other websites and i store important documents in the cloud.

Like you i've seen the ban issue many times and even worse there's no customer support to help (just automated responses). Ever since i've been migrating away from google.
I was pretty disappointed by the EU’s big tech bill not addressing this.

In the UK at least, the largest banks have to offer you at least a basic current account.

A lot of these big tech companies have monopoly positions over certain areas. They should have to provide at least a minimum level of service, and have proper processes when there are conflicts.
I started switching to ProtonMail for this exact reason. It’s not that I’m doing anything that would draw a purposeful or legitimate ban, but they’re so damn capricious that I fear getting my account locked because of a bug and not being able to undo it.
I think you are absolutely right about how easy it is to fall prey to lots of money for adding a simple payload.

In the early days Wordpress sold use of their domain to black hat seo / spammers.
I’m not even a vegetarian, in what sense would I be a martyr?

I just think people should eat authentic and low processed food.
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> Passing the Turing Test is not a sensible goal for
Artificial Intelligence

yes, but I never understood it as that. I thought it was more a philosophical thought experiment about humans and a reply to people who don't/didn't believe in (strong) AI. "You think humans are intelligent and have conciousness - but how do you know that another person has that?"
If you're using wpa_supplicant (most linux distros and probably android), you can automatically randomise the MAC address, even before association, using

set mac_addr 1
set preassoc_mac_addr 1
set gas_rand_mac_addr 1

On a home network you may want to disable this to avoid emptying the DHCP address pool. I do this using a dhcpcd run hook that check the network SSID against a whitelist.
> The correct approach is to make sure it doesn't happen incorrectly in the first place, and that it can be resolved quickly and easily if it ever does.

...and if you can't make it work at a given scale, don't do your business at this scale until you can. But that would be leaving money on the table now, wouldn't it? So, with no outside pressure, the companies at the top are the ones who don't care about making things work right.
Two wrongs sometimes make a right. So 10 wrongs make 5 rights?

There is no more than 100% wrong. Saying it is 1000% wrong implies that you are arguing emotionally, not rationally.

Rationally, it doesn't matter how google reacts to their non-customers. There is no obligation to treat them well. The correct approach for non-customers is to either become a customer or to switch to another provider.

If somebody is wrong it is the non-customers who could fix the situation. Their unwillingness to change email providers is what enables google to keep on providing that bad service.
I'm not sure what you're getting at: That all seems to be consistent with the parent comment's point. No doubt it is indeed made and eaten in Greece, but so are other types of yogurt, so "Greek yogurt" is an overly broad name for that type of product. Just as Emmental is indeed made and eaten in Switzerland, but so are other types of cheese, so "Swiss cheese" is an overly broad name for that type of product.
How the empire is organized internally is beside the point for the trade policy mostly. And yes, my comment is a little euro-centric in that central asia had some states and countries along the silk-road where not every stop along the trade route was a city that wanted to tax travellers. But: all the -as you said- autonomous countries did want their taxes all the same, no matter if they had to pay the next higher organisational layer or not.

You are contradicting yourself (and historic evidence) in claiming that the empires you named are "unified" in any way. The farther (as in, a few days ride) away from the capital you get, the less unified they get, provinces are governed by king-like governors with quite some autonomy, farther out vasall states had to pay tributes and submit to imperial authority, but were autonomous. The Chinese even made it into a world model and philosophy. Regarding trade, you did not point out any imperial mandate unifying that. There was only enlightened self-interest, because trade lined all pockets, so most generally allowed trade. But all the provinces, states and vasalls also had their own policies, taxes and regulations.

As for the protection between cities, there is also a very nice example in one of your named empires: Read up about the Thugee threat before the British got rid of it. There was no protection outside cities, period. Otherwise, even your example about cheques would have been unneccessary.

Nothing you said changes anything about my point, just reinforces it: The empires of old were more restrictive and less unified trade-wise than almost all current nations and trade blocks.
Yeah I wonder if there would be a tier of Google One that comes with "we won't ban your account". Assuming users/customers are operating in good faith, they cannot get banned even if an automated check flags them.

For example, someone got banned from Ads for paying with Apple Credit Card https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841586

I'm obviously not a fan of paying for protection, but peace of mind for your online identity is worth $X/month. Not to mention search, email, maps, etc. has way more than $0/mo. utility.
"Bug fixes and performance improvements". ~AirBnB
From Wikipedia [1]:

> The ship will be equipped with five retractable, telescopic wingsails that can rotate 360 degrees. The masts will measure 80 m (260 ft) for a total height above the waterline of 45 to 105 m (148 to 344 ft). That would also make it the tallest ship in the world. The rigging will be made from steel and composite materials and resemble airplane wings. An auxiliary engine will be used to navigate harbors and provide emergency power.

> While the design is meant to be usable for different types of ships, the first version is planned to be a 200 m (660 ft) long roll-on/roll-off ship with a capacity of up to 7,000 cars. Such ships will be used on transatlantic routes and are expected to perform the journey in 12 days, longer than the current average of eight.

> Open-sea trials with a 7 m (23 ft) prototype were conducted in the summer of 2020 and are scheduled to continue during the fall. Commercial orders are expected to start in 2021, with an entry into service in late 2024.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanbird
Pretty interesting but the quality is far from top notch. Most reasonable and 20x cheaper alternative to Google Translate as I know is [1]

[1] https://www.deeptranslate.net/
All resolvers either follow that path or ask someone else to follow that path. It’s the only way to get the answer.
> Democratic goverment is the best way the people have at organising their society.

Is this a fact? States are monopolistic armed organisations, and democratic states mean that who to point this violent threat at is determined by popular vote - the mob decides.

My claim is that this does not remove the moral evil of using violent threat to get your will.

Re: your last paragraph: lobbying exists just because of the state - if you can convince those closest to the trigger who to use force against and who to leave alone, you can succeed at your competitors cost. It is a natural reaction to lobby, like a child of a violent family may convince the parent to spank a sibling instead
The value can be arbitrarily close to the round-off point for the chosen number of digits, so you'd need to make the radius arbitrarily small, which can take an unbounded amount of time.

Of course if you're not a table maker trying to make a fixed-width table with correctly rounded values, you can just increase your precision to 10⁻¹⁰⁰ instead of worrying about the rounding error of a 10-digit representation.
I am a china hater, but this thing smells just like the "WMDs in Iraq". Been seeing lotsa pieces recently on the net about the Uighur/china issue, looks like they are building a case just like the WMDs
>"Swiss Cheesing your calendar"

That's brilliant!

That phrase is going into my 2021 lexicon!
You’d think that there’d be a “this person is high profile and any automated bans will cause a stink” flag on accounts to require human review on such decisions, but apparently one of the richer companies in the world just can’t be bothered to hire a few extra people to avoid a PR problem.

That or they’re convinced that they’re this close to fixing the automated system, which they obviously are not.
Can't speak for Google, but I've gotten great phone support from AWS while spending less than $100 a month.
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I built this Figma plugin to help developers and designers to quickly iterate on splash screen designs for their Android/iOS apps.

The plugin generates all the necessary files for each platform from just two master templates (landscape and portrait).
Does the article conflate overtaking an incumbent's product in market share and overtaking it in Google trends? I don't think these are the same things. They would if both relied almost exclusively on Google searches / ads / SEO as a channel, but I don't think Adobe sells the same as the other companies. It may not care about Google trends / SEO because it does enterprise deals. They have the sales people to do that.

Adobe has gone +50% from 2020 to 2021, and the trend seems to keep going up. I'm not attributing that to Photoshop, though.

Second, a company may have millions of users and still have no/little/less revenue. This also often would mean no support. That could be fine with a certain category. Many of the companies cited in the article are private companies, so we don't really know much about their finances.

>Microsoft Teams: Slack

>Well...they don’t. Baremetrics sold. Slack sold. You can’t compete against freemium when you’re able to offer the primary value for free. The existing market leaders can’t match your pricing without giving up millions in recurring revenue and they’re not going to do that.

Slack does have a free tier. Am I misunderstanding the paragraph as meaning that Slack lost because it didn't have one?

The freemium model can be interesting if an additional user is one entry in a database, and you don't incur that much cost from usage. For example, we make a machine learning / MLOps (oh yeah) platform at https://iko.ai. Users train models models on data, which means GPU, RAM, and storage. Unless you are venture backed and can spend money on free users to onboard a lot of users fast, it's not sustainable. We're not venture backed, and we're not really looking to be for now, which means our clients belong to a different segment.

Now, it is not excluded that the revenue generated thanks to these paying customers will subsidize free users, and we are engineering our way out of this conundrum. But someone has to pay for all that compute. One of our colleagues was supervising about thirty students doing their final year projects in machine learning, and we let them use our platform to be able to complete their projects and get their degrees. We provided support that you'd find in an enterprise offering, and we spent a lot of nights hanging out in the Slack channels helping them troubleshoot and optimize their code, giving guidance on how to train and use the models, seeing it through their graduation. You can't really generalize that level of support for all free users, and when it came to students, we couldn't just shrug it off and not support them just because they were free users, as this was personal.
> One day, I updated the app and all my local data was uploaded to the cloud

This happened to me with Chrome. It auto-updated, then automatically synced browser history, passwords, and who knows what else, to Google. They soon changed it to opt-in sync, but it was too late for me at that point; they had already hoovered up my personal data. That was when I stopped using Chrome and switched fully to Firefox.
I don't know man.

When WW2 started, companies in the US were forced to join the war effort and it did not end capitalism.
Generally the apk can be decompiled and the protections stripped if it really bothers you to update.
And why disabling all other related account ?
"Right" in this case means that the evidence each man has gathered is all correct, even if it appears to contradict the stories that others are telling. The conclusions are wrong, but their mode of interacting with the elephant is consistent.

The whole idea of divinity is that it is beyond us. Many cultures say they have knowledge of the divine, but each culture interacts with it differently. And if the thing they are interacting is really some 11-dimensional being, why not both?

So you can conclude that it's a bunch of shared delusions, because it appears to be uncorrelated. But what if it's not? Sometimes, it does seem correlated. Here is where the leap of faith is. (It's always hidden in there somewhere.) What if, instead, they're describing different aspects of the same font of divinity?
> To make matters worse, scanning a barcode when you enter a store/cafe (to register your location), is now begin done everywhere in order to track potential covid19 spreaders. This forces anyone without an iPhone to install at least one of these potentially harmful apps.

Our (New Zealand) Covid tracing app scans QR codes itself. What jurisdictions are requiring to scan an arbitrary QR code using random apps?

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/...
Gives me a chuckle for every high profile case such as this. Just get a domain & link it with a Zoho Mail account or any other paid one, for everything else use self-hosted storage
In Australia we use proportional representation to elect the federal senate (upper house). It is used at state level too, in some states.

I used to be of the opinion that it was fairer. I no longer think so. I agree with former PM Paul Keating, who referred to the Senate as "unrepresentative swill"[1]. When I first heard this view, I thought Keating was nuts. What could be better than PR for giving minorities a voice? All you need is portion of votes and you get a seat. Seemed pretty fair to me, and allowed members of minor parties to have a say in the passing of bills into acts.

But that's the problem. Very often a few minor party seats hold the balance of power. The 2 major parties are deadlocked in disagreement over some legislation and whether it becomes law or not falls into the hands of a few senators represented by a minority.
So oftentimes the "uprepresentative swill" get to pass law, or not.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG1khlbqI9k
Is that your own society? How would it exacerbate your trust issues? Surely making people doubt untrustworthy things is good?
> Does anyone recommend any alternate providers with custom domains, or some OSS?

I'm happy with Namecheap as my registrar and Mailbox.org for mail services, and have been for years (my Gmail account still exists and forwards the rare message it receives to the other one).

Mailbox.org offers ordinary IMAP and SMTP access + DKIM signing for your domain. Hosted in Germany. Prices vary, I pay about €2/month for several GB I think.

Their webmail interface is bad, but then again, I've never seen one that isn't. And I've never used it after logging in for the first time anyway.

> Is it possible to host your own email server on a NAS or RPi something?

It's possible, but I wouldn't recommend it for something as critical as email. It's not that the actual hosting is hard, it's that more and more of the big providers are refusing to handle email messages from certain networks.
That's a blast from the bast. I played a lot of Soldat in high school in Poland like 15 years ago. We was virtually never doing any actual learning we just played MoH:AA, Unreal Tournament and Soldat for hours.
I use this one from F-Droid:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.secuso.privacyFriendlyCo...

you can directly download the APK from that site, don't need an F-Droid client.

If you want an F-Droid client, i recommend Foxy Droid. Unfortunately lacks some features of the official one but way faster and nicer to use.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/nya.kitsunyan.foxydroid/
The developer's street address, as shown in the malwarebytes screenshot, is obviously either incomplete or bogus. There's no city or country, and a weird unit number. Is Google Play really approving apps from such dubious sources?

Or does Google have the full address? Seems unlikely
Probably the simplest middle ground between do/don't offer a free plan is: offer a free plan, but be very clear that any kind of support, feedback, contact etc can only be reached via a paid subscription.

This works well in e.g. AWS where I often temporarily pay for a subcription while I'm having an issue. This weeds out for them many low-value, high-maintenance users.

(AWS in particular cannot be very blunt so it's still possible to get support without paying specifically for it... but when running a small business, please be blunt)
> update the OS / kernel without a restart

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_live_patching
No way! This is one of my fav childhood games! It ages well too!
We have a free plan on our B2B SaaS. We don't experience the issue of entitled free users clogging up our support pipeline at all (despite having tens of thousands of users, 3/4ths of which are free). Maybe we've just been lucky enough to iron out most of the UX kinks enough that most users just won't need help?

The real downside to a free plan as I see it is that you're effectively building two products - first a free one that needs to be good enough to get attention in the marketplace, and then a paid one that needs to be sufficiently much better to justify upgrading. That takes a while when you're bootstrapping, and you might not have the runway to execute all that. But the upside is that our free plan is a massive part of our marketing strategy, it's scalable and it's "pay once" (server costs are negligible for us, so it mainly cost us in development time). Our product is B2B, so isn't suited for a Dropbox/Airbnb-style referral system, but the app marketplaces that we integrate with (G Suite and Slack) grant visibility based on active users (and on G Suite also positive reviews), which we have 4 times more of than we would without the free users. It's much, much better for us that someone uses our free tier, than that they use a competitor. Used this way, a free plan is effectively a way to turn engineering/product dev hours into marketing - that might not be a good tradeoff for everyone, but it's been great for us.
Its a a series of pumps, filter and tubes, and that is if we don't consider the tank. All of that is IN ADDITION to everything a normal EV also has.

Look at this simple design, I'm sure they can't wait until they can finally mass produce it, so easy: https://global.toyota/pages/news/images/2020/12/09/1200/005....

And every car maker disagrees with you that it doesn't cost much.

Maybe in some future it can be built as cheap as you say, but not now. So you would really have to compare it to some future EV as well.

Fuel cell have been studied for 60 years, and their efficiency is still not good. Li-Ion has made far more progress in far less time and is still improving significantly year over year. Nobody has announced anything close to that in terms of improvement for fuel cells.

And even if there were such announcements, there is still a long way to go for fuel cells to catch up to current battery tech.
> Why does random newsletter guy have a better system than two “we care a lot about the truth” news corporations each worth billions?

Because the news corporations are solving a very different (and much harder) problem. It's the same reason the rationalist community was ready for the pandemic weeks or months ahead of the general populus. A small entity (such as a newsletter) has the slack to actually optimise for truth. A large entity must instead optimise for power. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-... and https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/02/07/why-i-am-not-in-char... .