skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google shows countless scary warning dialogs to users who even think about installing a third party store. Any competitor trying to run an alternative store needs to somehow educate potential consumers on the process of enabling "unknown sources", and convincing them that doing so won't actually kill you (translates directly into higher business expenses, and is probably an impossible obstacle to overcome to reach the majority of consumers)

It is a single setting/message about allowing you to install apps from unknown sources that you can grant for that specific app. You can enable/disable anytime.

> Google regularly monitors apps installed outside of the Play store with their "Play Protect" thing, which is an opt-in virus scanner, except not really. When you install an APK, they ask you for permission to enable Play Protect. If you decline, they'll just keep asking you again and again until you accept either by accident, or do it so they stop annoying you. Through Play Protect, Google is able to arbitrarily block any app they consider to be "potentially harmful". Consider that they regularly ban apps by accident on the Play Store using their broken AI, and that those registered developers struggle to get those erroneous bans reversed. I'd imagine getting a ban from Play Protect reversed is nearly impossible.

I have multiple apps installed from F-Droid and I have never got a single message from Play Protect warning me of anything.

> Google has a full time hit squad of penetration testers called "Project Zero" which goes around checking competitors for vulnerabilities so they can make big scary press releases about how unsafe the competition is (even though Google Play itself is riddled with malware).

I've never seen Project Zero act unethical or unprofessional to gain a market advantage.

> Yes, Android is open source. The operating system on your Android phone is not open source.

Depending on the phone you get. Many people specifically pick manufacturers that are more friendly to open source.
> I am a little surprised though that nobody's written an operating system like this for standard hardware

You can run a bare metal Smalltalk-80 or Squeak on the Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/michaelengel/crosstalk
https://github.com/pablomarx/RaspberrySqueak

I think Pharo uses the Squeak VM so it could conceivably run on the bare metal Pi as well.
I think it's more like they don't want to do it. If they consider someone a "fraud", why allow this "bad actor" to be still in the system? It's like "if someone steals, put them in the jail altogether, instead of just ban him from grocery stores".
I am not sure what are you referring to when you say "bank reverses the entire transaction". Who gives you that guarantee?
Classic sealioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
Like a previous story, this is truly harrowing, and I think everyone reading this sympathesizes with you. This however doesn't really sound like exes teaming up to destroy you, this is just one bad person.
Since this article is about the stock, I hope I can share an update on my AMD position, though I have found HN has been very unfriendly when it comes to anything related to stocks.

AMD has been one of my best investments. I remember being on HN toward the end of 2019 and being downvoted hard for touting the stock. Back then I had 1200 shares at a cost basis of about $17. Today I have 1500 shares and a position worth about $130k after hours, almost about a 474% return, in less than 2 years. This isn’t even my only position that has turned out so well, you may have heard of some others in my past posts, just look for the ones that are very gray.

The moral of the story is do your due diligence and don’t be afraid to invest boldly, early and often.
It's the same account though right?
Thanks, I appreciate the explanation. So is there good evidence that agriculture is causing these stores to run dry? Or is it more a matter of climate change causing droughts, and we're all supposed to "tighten our belts" to mitigate it?

(As an aside, thanks also for the interesting info on desalination you shared in other threads. Do you have any pointers to good resources on this topic that are both up-to-date and freely available? I'm very interested in this topic but have found in the past that a lot of the open academic literature is out of date while the up-to-date industry sources are usually paywalled.)
Hyundai Ioniq 5 First Drive – Fully Charged Show
Cool project. I really enjoyed the screencast- you sold me on giving it a whirl.
Do you realize you are comparing a CEO taking an illegal drug at work to a CEO taking a legal drug outside of work?
> So you're arguing that diversity of background (age, previous career, class) is more useful diversity than ethnicity/race?

That isn't at all what the commenter argued. They argued that diversity in ethnicity/race is not the same as diversity in background. The commenter did not provide a superlative or other qualifier.
That doesn’t really change anything. It’s still their policy to change. They still decide when to review the policy.
Thoughts on Hover? I've been using them without issue for a while but I also never hear about them in the conversation. Is there something I'm missing?
Shameful that the ABC doesn’t know the difference between teenager’s and teenagers’.

The article briefly mentions that the relatively restrictive laws around traditional advertising haven’t kept up with social media. I think that should be the focus of the article; we know companies (including those wanting to advertise and advertisement platforms) will do absolutely everything they are not forbidden from doing if it brings them more money. They might still do the forbidden things anyway if the punishment isn’t substantial. They won’t stop doing this out of the goodness of their pockets, I mean hearts. It’s an unfortunate reality for most of us, but it’s how things work currently.

We should be holding our politicians accountable for their total lack of digital awareness and their general willingness to prioritise money and power over their constituents. With the Murdoch media profiting from and controlling the narrative, the ABC is one major outlet that might be able to switch people on to these issues, but they turn out this ungrammatical drivel instead.
Do other mobile ad networks have a working appeal system?

It seems doubtful because of the same dynamic the article describes. Any working appeal system would teach people how to game them.

The ironic part here is that Google is essentially gaming themselves here: creating a feedback loop that encourages people to not use their ad products. I guess the ML algorithms are not clever enough yet(?) to figure things like that out.
I thought by making the argument that users shouldn't be allowed to install apps themselves you were making that insinuation and that people supporting Apple's anti-competitive behavior are willfully ignorant.
I was about to post the same response but you beat me to it.

As a follow up to (4) above, watch Shashi Tharoor's longer speech on the devastation and mess that the British left in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5ykS-_-CI

Also read the old book Empire in Asia, How We Came by It: A Book Of Confessions by William McCullagh Torrens.
Why is Epik good? Seen Namecheap around before, but never seen anybody recommend Epik.
Are they actually effective in anything but a sealed space shuttle? Nasa is the source of the plant air quality experiments people reference.

In anything but that air exchange will happen much faster than a houseplant can grow.

I love plants but I can’t imagine they do much unless you have an absolutely massive quantity.
> Google will never tell you why they banned you from AdSense/AdMob. (Honestly, it sort of makes sense that they share no evidence, because Google doesn’t want people to learn how Google detects click fraud.)

I disagree with this as I mentioned on a prior post about DroidScript. If a justice system doesn't tell people what crime they committed, what proof they have of such crimes etc, then such systems are exploitative and a lot of innocent people get hurt.
Kudos on the launch. The website looks good. Just curious, did you have prior financial experience?
On the contrary, it's in the face of ambiguity and subjectivity that management has to make hard decisions based on philosophy and values; leadership exists to clarify grey areas.

And the difference between management making those decisions and staff is that management is ultimately where the responsibility for those decisions, right or wrong, lies.

On subjective policies a lot of things will come down to personal judgement calls. The founders have spoken as such; and frankly if staff considers the decision to egregious, at this point, they're free to assess whether their values are compatible or not.
Google has huge development team to make sure to isolate themselves from any user and automate any interaction with- and responses to users.
One could have written the same thing about Photoshop, couldn't they have?
NSW (Australian state) actually has mandatory contract tracing[1] though you can use a web or physical form.

[1]: https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/covid-safe-check
You skipped right over the avian and swine flu pandemics, which weren't controlled and evidently barely registered.

Also, the widespread disruption to society has virtually all been from the lockdowns, not the pandemic.
There are native clients, but can you use git to sync the encrypted passwords with your other devices?

And that was just one example. You can also use python as a much better calculator, share files over wifi with a web server etc.
Well they didn't need high tech means to do that, did they?
Epik is excited to provide services for white supremacists. I'd think thrice if this is a vendor I'd like to have my name associated with.
I've seen a study or two that claim that the bulk of some PM, like brake dust for example, is much smaller than 2.5um. Having exposure to the industry, do you have hopes for sensors that can identify smaller particles than .3um (that's the smallest Purple Air goes).
My country (Iceland) has an official contact tracing app listed there. It was developed by volunteers and contributed to the government and the source is open on github. Nothing you said applies to it.
BTW, Dropbox was huge when it launched and everybody was using it. I don't know anybody using it anymore. Maybe it's because people are using less desktop programs and more browser apps and apps in their mobile devices. So, less "explicit" files?
I mean, a motion was filled, but has that actually caused any real issues? Scattershot motions get filed constantly as the process of law unfolds. My understanding was these sorts of tools have case law around them that they're de facto trusted barring some proof that their defects actually impacted your case.

It'd be like going in and saying that someone could reprogram the red light camera to superfluously give out tickets and record incorrect data. Almost certainly true (there's no way these systems are anywhere near secure), but try that argument in front of a judge and I believe you'll find it won't get you anywhere.
If they want to say that they won't reinstate your account because you're violating a policy, they should say as much.
Agreed, with the one quibble that I don't believe the majority of media is actually doing that.
>anxiety as soon as I go off the golden path

I used to have such anxiety, but not any more. The final piece of desired state was revealed when I found the reflog -- curiously not mentioned in the article nor by any other comment here.

Try

git log --stat --walk-reflogs

in some repo where you've previously renamed some branches, or done 'git commit --amend'. All the transitional state changes are exposed, and can be undone individually.

Fill out the toolkit with 'git branch -avv', and 'git status' with its various options, and you'll be ready to recover from almost any local mishap.
He's fighting Moore's Law - but Moore's Law is fighting React - so I'm not sure who to bet on atm.
> if you hold significant power over someone, you shouldn't be entering into casual sexual relationships

I think this situation is stretching the word "power". There's a social power imbalance, sure - but nobody acts shocked when sports figures and rock stars sleep with groupies. Hell, they write autobiographies. We don't live in a caste system where people with X popularity can only sleep with other Xers.

She didn't work for the guy nor did her career or finances depend on him. He wasn't a VC lording (someone else's) money over her. She was a naive young adult new in town and the guy was an (extremely) minor celebrity. People have hooked up for far worse reasons. If the guy was simply a better date we wouldn't be talking about this.
And if you are a mobile developer, change career?
Google doesn't care.

Users are just a worthless pawns to extract value through them via advertising.
Plant based air purifier – cleaning up nanoparticles HEPA filters cannot?
(Author here.) This is excellent advice for consumer apps/products, (it's especially important to keep enterprise accounts fully separate from your individual consumer accounts), but it wouldn't have helped DroidScript in this case.

DroidScript is a non-profit organization; when they signed up for Google AdMob and Google Play Store, they provided the same tax ID (their EIN) in both cases. Creating separate Google accounts with separate email addresses would not have been sufficient; Google knows that they're paying the same company.

(The ads in question were being run inside the same app that accepts Google subscription revenue. Google can and will follow that thread!)

Creating a subsidiary business for every type of Google account you have would be quite expensive, and, if Google realizes what you're doing, it will make you look like you have something to hide, making you more likely to get banned, not less.
Basecamp Didn't Just Ban Politics at Work, It Made an Executive Power Grab
> I use a ZTE MF820B USB 4G LTE modem as a backup Internet connection...GL.inet is based in Hong Kong and is now under the control of the Chinese red party.

ZTE is a Chinese state-owned enterprise, so if CCP-sanctioned action is part of your threat model I'm not sure GL.inet would be the most concerning part of that stack.
Largely unsubstantiated hypothesis:

Did you see "The Last Dance?" Popular lockdown fare made the Michael Jordan hagiography more prominent that it would otherwise have been.

Scotty Pippen v Patrick Ewing [1] suddenly became more prominent in the minds of many. We were lacking excitement and drama in our lives. Social media was full of this. Lazy writing follows the zeitgeist. Brutal, disrespectful dunking became more of a thing again...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtOUpybXmzo
> But NEVER rely on any propriately platform for your business. You're NOT in control.

While I agree with the premise of your comment, a lot of times, this is pretty much impossible to be done. If a developer gets suspended by Google or other companies like VISA, PayPal etc, it's pretty much impossible to do business then. There needs to be an internet bill of rights which should take care of these things.
Don't forget the native north american horses, or mammoths or other megafauna that the native americans hunted to extinction.
I hadn't thought about this before but it seems to ring true.
Even in the U.S. this spectrum exists. There are women who expect explicit consent i.e. "is it ok if I kiss you?", and other women who find that a turn off and expect more sexual assertiveness (aggressiveness?).
Gnuplotlib can do it just fine. https://github.com/dkogan/gnuplotlib/
National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.
How on earth does google manage to still be one of the most valuable (in $$$) companies in the world with this kind of behavior. I just can't imagine treating my customers half as bad as the way google does and still continue to be in business.

Abruptly dropping support for products[1], violating their user's privacy [2] , working with organizations accused of human rights violations. Each passing year it seems google is trying to unlock all the badges under the "be as evil as possible" campaign mode.

Funny bit is how you can replace the words "ads" and "android app" in the title with any two other names of google products and this same situation would still apply.

[1]https://killedbygoogle.com/

[2]https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/google-sued-u-s-tracki...
Indeed, Open Genera ran on DEC Alpha workstations
'User Fees' Are the Latest Dumb Infrastructure Talking Point
But justice system works equally for everyone, while this is private sector, where contracts rule. It is apple vs pear. Same to freedom of speech. Anyone can say anything in public, but if someone post a thread in Google Groups, they can ban you for whatever reason, because the user agreed to their ToS first.

Of course, DroidScript has the freedom to choose different ad provider altogether, but they didn't.
Here we go again with the "white supremacist" boogeyman. Not worth discussing this because such discussions never change anyone's minds.
Residential prefab never caught on in North America.

True. Neither did concrete construction for residences. Edison tried it. He had a set of concrete forms that latched together. Then you poured concrete, waited, and remove the forms. It was never popular, but there are still a few left in use.

I live in a cinderblock house reinforced with concrete and rebar. It was built around 1950 by a commercial building contractor, as his personal residence. The interior is quite nice, but the exterior looks industrial.
Nag-free link: https://archive.today/bJlRf
No need to bring in effects to cognition, even. It just sucks to live in a place where “(tonight’s run|tomorrow’s hike) is canceled because the air quality is shit” is a thing.
At least when I worked at Google a couple years ago, you could indeed start political discussions. Communications are very open at Google, and employee activism is quite visible. Political questions also come up in Q&A's, and some employees expect leadership to comment on societal issues/events. There has been some tightening in the past couple years, due to how loud it got in the last few years. But still quite open from my understanding.

One sample consequence was that open derision of Republicans was fairly common at Google, from both individual contributors and managers.
This is not true. Every major prebuilt company has significant delays on 3080s and 3090s. I just checked.

ibuypower: 6 weeks

nzxt: 4 weeks

originpc: 4 weeks

maingear: 12 weeks

alienware: 5 weeks
I would certainly want to see proof before I accepted it was true. And even if it were true, we might find it socially undesirable for people to act on (it's "objectively true" that hiring disabled people costs an employer money too). I have previously seen a similar study to this one where landlords were able to determine a prospective tenant's race in brief phone conversations and were less willing to rent to minority tenants. Was that also just sound, evidence based reasoning?
My story within the privacy war
Those very few ultra-premium models are exceptions which prove the rule; a few ultra-expensive, ultra-premium halo products for price-insensitive customers. Android phones are almost always superior value for money.
Having a web app as well would have been slightly better, especially if it works in feature phones(In several developing countries feature phone usage is lot higher than smartphones even then they didn't publish a web app) but still doesn't help those who doesn't use a phone at all(whatever the reason might be).

Distribute free phones which is capable of running these COVID apps and then the issue comes down to just privacy.

Alternate physical form seems reasonable.

*just : Not to reduce the importance of privacy(EFF commentary in my other comment).
How should someone contact you? I looked into setting up something on an Arduino last year, and the CO2 sensor I ended up purchasing was not very good, so it's cool to see someone thinking about this problem domain.
I've been using NameSilo for a while.
It's only a boogeyman if you're white.
> - Every product/project you manage should be on a separate account on Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.

I wouldn’t do this with Facebook. Creating a second account is against Facebook policy, and they may ban both accounts.
If the dominant reason to bypass the Apple App Store was to avoid their privacy controls, I'd wholeheartedly agree with that argument.
Looks slightly better for our use case than MinIO with optimization for many small files, I'll look more into it. Thanks!
Because the laws of corporate mob don't apply to everyone equally?

There is a huge difference between treatment of different parties, even if the their contracts are same (and I doubt, that Samsung has the same contract with Google as everyone else). For example, do you know, that some Android devices aren't allowed to use a different launcher, other than supplied by Google? Or that Google Play Terms of Service prohibit publishing there alternative app stores? There are many such draconian restrictions in all Google's contracts. They are ignored until it is convenient for Google to enforce them.

Back to your question, — neither Samsung nor Amazon are Google's competitors. Their app stores are garbage. Samsung was trying to jump off Android for years. And Amazon devices don't come with Google's software, so Google has no leverage against them (except YouTube).
So you don't use or recommend Mac for your family members? Because third party apps can be installed...
No worry has been directed at the second set of quotation marks. It's "the first quote"—which is not a quote, because it's something pulled out of thin air—that is the problem. It's also against the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13602947

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15893789
The original email is context for the review rejection email by saying

> In your case, we have detected invalid traffic or activity on your account

The rejection email isn't isolated, so when it says "unable" it's conveying the implied message "unable to reinstate your publisher account <without bending the rules because we think our ad fraud detection systems were correct>".
Yeah I don’t get why it’s top comment either, I just meant to vent about an annoyance that’s frankly not material to the question at hand. I was unable to refrain from laughing at your quip incidentally.
In Google’s case, this is not enough. They exert too much control over the online advertising industry that it’s simply unfair to ban anyone with no explanation and recourse. It should be illegal. It’s almost impossible to effectively monetize an app or website using ads without including various Google technologies and services, and that’s Google’s own doing; they’re the ones who purchased all of those companies and integrated their own products in a way that makes them inseparable.
Yes, that was my understanding of TFA too - but the question remains, unless more than a handful of authors are easily distinguishable, and there's a different and reliable way to identify those distinct authors (did they sign their work?) then we have a very small sample set.

Writing was not a common skill, so my naive extrapolation of that fact is that there would be few teachers, and consequently more likelihood that two random authors would present material that, prima facie, looked similar.

It's fascinating work, to be sure, though I do wonder about the usefulness of identifying how many authors were involved in penning these various parchments.