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Tell HN: Google Pay suspended account and it affected Google Play dev account
I have reached the end of my rope trying to get Google support to understand our issue.

We were using Azlo as our business bank account, but they got shutdown after being acquired. We switched to Mercury and got our account setup.

We had no issues getting Apple to add and verify our new bank account, and we are receiving payments as expected.

With Google, we were getting an "Unknown error" when trying to add our Mercury bank account. Their support initially said they had to escalate it, but it would take no longer than 7 days. We waited more than 7 days for a reply. The reply was for us to install the Google Pay app on our phone to add the bank account. The instructions were to try to send money to someone, and it would prompt to add a bank account.

I replied saying that it felt very weird to use a consumer facing app with our developer account, but did it. However, it still did not show up as a payout option in either Admob or Google Play developer console.

After more waiting, I asked for a status update, and was told this:

"While investigating this issue, our specialist team discovered unusual activity on your Google Pay profile. So they temporarily suspended it for your security and canceled any pending transactions."

Fine, we can do that, but what they didn't say is that when they suspended the account all existing subscriptions would expire due to payment being declined. We found out when an end user contacted Google Play Support and was told there is an issue with the app developer's account (us).

My co-founder is based in Japan, and I'm in the US. We have a single account for the company, and he logged into it from Japan, which I guess triggered the "unusual activity".

Our users are angry at us for not accepting their payments and allowing them to use our service. This feels horrible because I understand the users' frustration, but there is nothing I can do until Google looks at our verification documents.
Sorry that is misinformation. The article you have quoted is also completely incoherent. What is the point of comparing dates of when India placed first order with when UK targets complete vaccination ?

- The Indian government had never placed a substantial order or prepaid for an order to the SII in order to ramp up production until the numbers started spiking.

India had placed order for 14M vaccines in January. an by March 16 had placed order for around 120M vaccines. Cases spiked after that.

- The SII at one point was running out of storage space so they resorted to selling to western countries at higher margin to free up some space and get more capital.

The space has nothing to do with the exports. SII is obligated to export vaccines as per their licensing terms with AZ. (Indian government might engage in coercion and prevent them from honoring it, but that is a different tale).

> https://i.redd.it/r4ybk9b3w3u61.jpg

This article is some kind of shoddy job of stiching unrelated facts to create a story.

Indian government made a major goof up. They put unreasonable price controls on the vaccine manufacturer and harassed a lot of people involved in the process. With low price controls there was no way for SII to raise capital, not to mention their gamble of stockpiling vaccines did not pay off because of that. Indian government passed down the responsibility of subsidizing the vaccine to SII instead of taking it on itself.

Some government folks even openly wondered why GoI should even bother paying SII. This is the old socialist mentality.
They've already paid over 30 billion to resolve the scandal, and they've pledged to invest 86 billion to develop electric vehicles. It's pointless to hold old grudges against companies when the people responsible for the scandal are gone and the company is now moving in the right direction.
Possibly. I was responding to "the fuel cost advantage is claimed to be 10x" though.
While this is true for the benchmarks, the UX experience may not be the same between an 8GB and a 16GB depending on your use case.

My use case:
Mail, Calendar, Messages, Signal, Safari running at all times. Safari running an adblocker and with 1-3 tabs open. Firefox open as needed, adblocker, no more than one tab. Lightroom as desired.

8GB MacBook Air: slowdowns when typing. Slowdowns when switching apps. Returned.

16 GB MacBook Air: zero slowdowns, snappier than my old i9 MacBook Pro 16.

Could I have adjusted how I used my Mac and gotten a better UX? Probably, but I have been working that way for 5+ years.
If you throw in a classifier for detecting dog poop, and ideally, urine, I will buy five of them, place them around my home, and ensure the floors are clean before sending an API call to start my robotic vacuum. Thank you.

Edit: there is a market! https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26916974&goto=item%3Fi...
I have worked in HPC (academia) where the cluster storage size is measured in multiples of PB since a decade. Since latency and bandwidth is a killer requirement there, Infiniband (instead of Ethernet) is the defacto standard for connecting the storage pools to the computing nodes.

Maintaining such a (storage) cluster requires 1-2 people on site which replace a few hard disks every day.

Nevertheless, when I would continously need massive amount of data, I would opt in doing it myself anytime instead of cloud services. I just know how well these clusters run and there is little to no saving when outsourcing it.
Definitely not backblaze. If you get a signed URL it remains valid for 24hrs and can be used over and over. If they are going through a proxy, that would be different, but I imagine they don't want that as that doubles bandwidth cost. You definitely don't want your client to be able to upload all the data they can in your bucket.
On internal UK news, there is nothing as good as Private Eye. Every two weeks they publish more “hard” material than newspapers do in a month. I’m a subscriber, the value for money is simply ridiculously good.
B1617 strain emerging from India is a cocktail of worst parts of the strains originated from UK, SA and Bra. The strain is known to be more contagious and deadlier.
What exactly is the current RFC for email addresses? Do you go with 2822/2823 or do you read all the extension ones?
I dont think you're understanding the urgency or the scale of the catastrophe. People are dying the streets waiting for hospital beds. The doctors are breaking down because of their helplessness. What exactly do you mean by cooler heads? Isn't the apathy shocking?
Koomey's Law
"Koomey's law describes a trend in the history of computing hardware: for about a half-century, the number of computations per joule of energy dissipated doubled about every 1.57 years. Professor Jonathan Koomey described the trend in a 2010 paper in which he wrote that 'at a fixed computing load, the amount of battery you need will fall by a factor of two every year and a half.'"
Allesdichtmachen
There are three models of cybertruck. The most expensive, 70k version, has a 500 mi range. That's what I was referring to as higher end.
Worth noting that Google and Facebook no longer have a cliff, and Google has also started experimenting with frontloading your initial vest (something like 40/30/20/10) to avoid the "dreaded" fifth year drop.
Not sure tequila will really help this situation...
I don't think that tracks. Australia, New Zealand, and several countries in east Asia enacted strict lockdown measures and their populations fared better than the US's by basically every metric except a nebulous notion of having the "freedom" to spread an infectious disease. And - this should be obvious but you never know - a massive, uncontrolled pandemic also paralyzes the economy.

As for Texas and Florida, I'd love to see some more details on how you're comparing them to other states. It seems like there are a lot of variables you would need to control for (population age and lifestyle, existing healthcare infrastructure, voluntary compliance with guidelines exclusive of legal requirement, etc.). But suffice to say, Florida is in pretty bad shape right now relative to the rest of the U.S., so I'm not sure it makes a good example for your argument.
Except you're spreading misinformation. Not everyone was at risk of dying.

You're not sure what I want? I've clearly spelled it out.
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> I think it's more about how well people follow restrictions than how strict the policy is.

I keep hearing this but is there any hard data or studies to back it up? The numbers I've seen comparing e.g. Google Mobility data to case transmission rates haven't shown much correlation at all, let alone causation.
For anyone reading this far, Mercury acknowledged that their customers have had issues with adding Mercury bank accounts to Google, but they do not have a workaround.
In most languages you can have more than one result or pack multiple values in a struct like object and that would simply solve this problem.
Another way would be to return just the status code, knowing if it failed or succeeded and passing a closure to be called when the operations finish, either with 'ok' or 'failure' signal and the possible result.

Ok, we can do all of this now, but in this vision, you would have some sort of Ohad Rodeh btree, which would track all the states (it basically needs to be some sort of GC and handle all the state allocations).

With this btree you would be able to create branches of the whole universe of states in a memory cheap way. Once theres a possible state change a new branch is created, and once consolidated(not just one, but it might change many states of the tree) it would be passed as the "front state".

If a side-effect prevented the change in state from occurring nothing would happen as the original state would keep the same.

I know this sounds trouble and that we kind of have the tools for this, but i've noticed that we have a "fractured state" problem where we end up doing much more work that it would be not actually needed if we managed to pack it all in a ubiquitous initial signal that would get 'sliced' into other signals with transforms, but would be consolidated into one again.

Rendering got that right, with a back buffer with a bunch of intervening state that is flipped as front once its all set. If things are breaking in the back buffer, just try it again or fail the whole state tree all at once, keeping the last good state intact.

We already do this manually in code, but we manage a lot of fractured states giving we don't have the bird-eye view perspective.

If you had something managing it all, looking at diffs, etc, my intuition(maybe wrong) says that it would make a more efficient and stable program, more performant, with more memory efficiency and easier to reason about from the developer perspective.
The problem is that people think a punishing lockdown is going to be more effective, but it's like any highly technical task: working hard at something is only effective if you are doing the right kind of effort.

We (in the West) are big on theater: we've closed public parks, we wear masks outside, and we loooove sanitizing surfaces. Those things are expensive, distracting, and totally ineffective.

South Korea and Vietnam don't have super strict lockdowns or quarantines. Instead, they wear masks indoors and have effective contact tracing.

FYI, reverse contact tracing is even more effective, because most people aren't highly contagious, which means new cases likely came from a relatively rare super-contagious case. Step backwards to find that person, then contact trace them. Like fire against a grass-type, it's super effective.
Last time I tried it (couple of months ago) there were practically no extensions and Bitwarden didn't work in incognito. And Chrome's UI/UX is simply great. And dev tools as well.
Indeed! If I heard that a doctor was deliberately and repeatedly poisoning his patients, I'd absolutely avoid the place because proper oversight is clearly lacking.

Perhaps the hospital actually has excellent oversight and it is just that the evil doctor is exceptionally clever at avoiding it. But, Occam's Razor says that is a poor bet.
"The technology to deliver targeted audio messages in stores didn't exist. So we invented it."

Bastards. /s
We're talking about this site? (NSFW): https://boards.4chan.org/pol

Looks more like an international white supremacist convention than United Nations to me.

And I'm not saying that just because they love using the n-word so much, but that is one of the reasons.

Most posts on there don't seem to be from a diverse audience. They mostly seem to be from the perspective of a young racist white male audience, which is a very small percentage of the world population.

It's very obvious 4chan pol is disproportionately young white supremacist males with all the n-word, misogynist, anti-Jew obsession, white nationalism obsession that dominates the discussions.

I guarantee you the discussion/perspective there is overwhelmingly dominated by young white males with very few female perspectives (50+% of the population) and non-White perspectives (majority of the population).
About the only commercially available solution that provides defense against attackers with more than $1-10M is a system that is inaccessible to a remote attacker. As a company this means complete physical disconnection of the systems you want to use in addition to a complete removal of all possible connectors except for a very limited set of explicitly enumerated entry points that you add back onto a system that is completely physically disconnected.

To evaluate the quality of your security, you should hire a red team, a team that emulates an attacker, to attempt to breach your security. If they are able to breach your systems then the key takeaway is that your security process is systemically incapable of defending against attackers with that level of budget and resources which is supported by the empirical evidence that a team with that level of budget and resources did, in fact, breach your systems. This is in contrast to the standard takeaway which is to just fix the specific defects discovered since obviously the only defects that exist are specifically in the areas that were probed. To actually remediate the problem you need a systemic overhaul otherwise you will just keep getting the same quality of output that is equally defective.

Unfortunately, the prevailing state of cybersecurity has no functional solutions to these problems once you get to attackers with a few million dollars outside of the heavy-handed and highly inconvenient solution of disconnection. For systems with safety standards, that is a cost that should be paid. For any other system, you need to evaluate if disconnection is worth it in the context that there is a 100% chance that anybody with a few million dollars can successfully completely compromise your systems. If you only consider direct harms such as monetary damages, disruption of business, stock price changes, it is highly unlikely to be worth it compared to getting insurance at this time as most attacks that do direct harm are still being done by financially unsophisticated attackers who are still underutilizing their blackmail potential by at least 10-100x, so it is almost always financially prudent to just eat the cost. As for indirect effects, it is up to you to consider if IP loss, reputation loss, leakage of confidential information, etc. at the cost of a few million dollars is worse than the negative effects of disconnecting.
Well, you can do some basic things with this but honestly RPi4 is pretty much underpowered CPU for any serious AI. You can run some optimized networks probably even 200 fps like TinyYOLO linked below but it will always be a tradeoff between accuracy and hardware capabilities.

If you want AI you'd better consider Jetson or figure out some other DNN accelerator.
NASA evolved from NACA, they have always been an aeronautical research group with a focus on practical application. They do way more than just (manned) (space)flight.
Lynx-Dev Lynx386 and Caldera DR-DOS DPMI
Texas Instruments has a facility that has had output reduced due to COVID staffing issues for at least the past 6 months. They produce parts that I use in my 1000 pc/year medical device that Toyota and GM vacuum up at a much higher rate. Hard to compete against those heavyweights for available stock. I'm sure there are other manufacturers encountering the same. This isn't just the fancy very-small nm processes, it's effecting the whole industry.

There have also been unfortunate disasters such as a fire at Renesas https://www.yahoo.com/news/renesas-says-plans-restore-full-0... that have affected lead times.
Part of the problem with IPv6 extension headers is that there can be an unbounded number of them. No hardware designer wants to deal with that, so just dropping all of them is far easier.
I believe the additional motors actually contribute to the longer range. The motors can be individually optimized for different speeds, ie you can have one motor be optimized for the highway and the other for low speeds.
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I'm curious... are you in the US? 350 miles is definitely within the realm of reason here-- a couple friends and I made an impulsive 250-something mile trip a couple weeks ago, and my family took a road trip to Florida over the past summer (normally we'd fly, but COVID)-- that trip was actually in an electric car and ended up being about 4 hours longer than it would be in a gas car.

Depending on where you are, 350 miles might not even get you out of Texas!
I've read the title of this post so many times I don't even know what it means anymore.
I have to add that I do have one other streaming service I did not list and that is Formula 1 TV.

And I think this is an incredible example of value that can be added to television. During an event you can watch live video footage from the main feed, any of the 20 cars on the track, or the pit straights. You can listen to team radios, commentary, or just engine audio.
> Well above average (2 years) a year past the vesting cliff

This is sort of misleading. The 2 year quote often thrown around is a measure of the average tenure of current employees at the company, not a measure of the average tenure of people leaving.

I like to note that a company with exponential growth (and all of the major tech firms, excepting perhaps microsoft since it's been around longer count here) can have a seemingly low tenure by that first metric even if no one has ever left the company.
A used Premier Bolt with DC quick charging is a good compromise here.

The car software is well done, and while it isn't updated often that just means you can expect less bugs than Tesla's constantly updated software.

Downsides to the Bolt include OnStar, 3rd party quick chargers are often broken, and their app is absolute garbage. Other than that I think ~$15k for 200+ miles is amazing.
“Other automakers purchase much less valuable silicon content, and become less of a priority when compared to Tesla, who designs chips in house, secures wafer supply from foundries directly, and buys chips directly from the various chip designers like NXP, Infineon, and so forth,” according to a note from Cho Research. “They don’t outsource the design of their chip stack; they in-source wherever possible and work extremely closely with their suppliers.”

https://www.benzinga.com/news/earnings/21/04/20771098/tesla-...

Tesla doesn't seem to have a chip problem.

this whole auto chip shortage is auto maker's own f'ck up
List of the main ones who got in trouble here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal#Fiat_...

And it's not like this was the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defeat_device

It's really quite weird that it has become associated so closely with Volkswagen.
Treating C as an abstraction over assembly is a surefire way to step into all the thousands of sharp edges C has. In fact I would hazard a guess that the majority of bugs found in software written in C are a result of programmers treating it as a portable assembler instead of a language for programming an abstract machine. So many incorrect assumptions arise as a result of telling people to treat C as a portable assembler that I think it's safe to call it an extremely bad bit of advice.
If you have a stockpile of your supplies you'll notice that you can't replenish them long before actually running out and you can therefore increase the price of your product to extract the highest amount from whatever limited volume that you can still produce. Except of course when you are working off an order backlog, but then emergency procurement in an empty market will be even more ruinous.
I happen to own exa-byte.com, in case you need a domain for it ;-)

(In 1998, in school, I looked up in our math book what would come after mega, giga... 20 years later, just as fresh and useless as on day one ;))
1% might not be enough, due to entropy fighting against us all the time.
Wow, cool!

Since rg (which is awesome) understands which programming languages map to which file suffixes, could it make sense to do per-language frequency analysis? {}[] are common in C-style languages, but much less so in lisp, python, etc.
Technically, they recorded 717 incidents of malaria in 734 infants, which may have affected less than 717 infants if some of them were infected multiple times. Regardless, it's an awful situation.
I think this would be highly variable from parent to parent. I think it's also not easily defined in a concise fashion - you'll have people give you an answer of "civil rights" or "freedom" and they can mean almost opposites for different people when you did into the details. I'm not sure that will be useful to you or anyone else.

That said... I want a school with a reasonably good rating (indicating that other kids/parents care), that is safe (again, tied to general parental oversight of their kids), not overbearing by having well thoughtout policies (for example, blacklist foods in the classroom where people are seriously allergic to it as opposed to having a whitelist of approved snacks that exclude entire groups of food), is more about education than indoctrination, and has an overall environment that will facilitate learning (very open ended and subjective).
I think they either stick to S3 or run their own DC with Minio in front. BB as I mentioned in another comment will be a bad idea due to the poor S3 compatible interface, See - https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/b2_get_upload_url.html Wasabi might be fine, but don't know if they can handle 10PB.
What's that joke about the extroverted and introverted engineer again?
I do this too, as I find it a bit more readable. Also, I find it handy to reserve '&&' exclusively for rvalue references.
We need to stop looking at states and start looking at cities when determining success of different mandates.

Los Angeles - 234.6 deaths per 100k residents

San Francisco - 46.3 deaths per 100k residents

Austin - 178.7 deaths per 100k residents

San Antonio - 81.5 deaths per 100k residents
They're not bacteria.

The malaria parasite is considered a protist, which is a broad category comprised of organisms whose cells contain a cell nucleus but aren't otherwise classified as plants, animals, or fungi. This group includes some multi-celled and single-celled organisms (that aren't necessarily related beyond the fact that they have a nucleus); the single-celled species in the group distingush themselves from bacteria because bacteria do not have a nucleus, and are generally simpler overall.
Speaking of, does anyone know of a good dog poop image classifier?

Edit: Found the treasure! https://www.kaggle.com/mikian/dog-poop