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Ask HN: Google Store support does not investigate order issue
Hello,

I ordered 2 pixel 6 pros from google store. This was on Dec 9th, 2021. The order was delivered on Dec 22nd. However, they only delivered 1 phone. But they claim that they delivered both phones.

I contacted support, and created a ticket on Dec 22nd (or Dec 23rd, I don't recall). And since then, I keep receiving the same message from them:

> Thanks for reaching out to the Google Support team.

> Please accept my sincere apologies as it is taking more time than expected.

> I can completely understand how inconvenient it is not to have your issue resolved soon. However, let me
assure you that we're trying our best to resolve it as soon as possible.

> Furthermore, I've shared the details with our higher end support team. Rest assured, I'll notify you as soon as
they reply.

> I really appreciate your continued patience and cooperation as we work to resolve this situation.

Almost every other day, I receive a message like the above, that this info is shared with someone. I was told this ticket is escalated (twice now?). Nothing has moved forward. And it has been 3 weeks (and over a month since the transaction).

If this is the experience I have with an order, who know how it is if I need to invoke the warranty.

What should I do in this case? Is this a glimpse of how Google support in general is?
Having had an unbelted passenger come to visit me once long ago when I was driving spiritedly, it's important that all passengers are belted in. It's hard to stay focused on driving when someone lands in your lap.
> Not to mention this should not even be required given the supreme court struct down the vaccine mandate for everything except medicare/medicaid facilities

False.

There were at least three federal mandates:

(1) Federal workforce,
(2) Federally-funded healthcare facilities,
(3) Large businesses

In recent Supreme Court decisions in cases challenging #2 and #3, #3 was struck down and #2 was upheld, #1 was not challenged in those cases.

This database is concerned with #1, since it's an employee database for an agency within the federal government (hence why the employee database has a federal register notice.)
great point. I work the land daily and often look up to think [ i need help/more hands and "folks would love this experience" if they just tried and unplugged a bit. interesting enough i see a great shift happening, folks or more than ever interested getting their hands dirty/working the land.
we're not going to make progress until we stop pretending there are only two choices to every issue
well, last year in every discussion about the "retail theft wave" people would bring up police statistics indicating only a modest rise or actual decline, and were thus criticized for assuming accuracy. so, let's just exercise the same skepticism here
I don’t think the need will arise again so I shall not. The evidence is already well apparent and I doubt I have to repeat it. Would you have said anything to that top comment if those who observed the racism stood silent? If the only mechanism to control it is to participate in the flamewar, then that is the mechanism that will manifest.

Not out of a cynical exploitation of it, but merely from memetic selection. You won’t see me there because I prefer being not banned, but the behavior will likely persist among others.
I see little historical precedent or common understanding for the HN definition of 'email I'd rather not have in my inbox' equating to 'spam'.
Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse
I don't think xmpp failed.

Cisco has products based on it, and there is a wealth of clients using it at my workplace. Many of our other partners use it.

I see it as very complementary to IRC
Yes yes yes yes!

For some reason people want a formal specification for everything, even when "N/A" is an applicable option here.
Since when refusing the vaccine is equivalent to being a "trumpist"?

In case you're not aware of it, the biggest group in US who is "vaccine-hesitant" are higher-educated individuals with PhDs(and for reference the least hesitant one is individuals with masters).Though it shifts a bit over time, people with PhDs have never been exclusively right-wing, let alone trump loyalists.Usually the opposite actually.

[0] - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americans-with-phds-are-mo...
[1] - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v...
Disposable email domains aren't the issue here. Creating a disposable @gmail account to avoid paying is possible too. Don't use emails to assert user identity. Most companies use credit cards for that. Or make it so that creating another account from scratch is more of a hassle than paying.
Better yet, offer free tiers.
Fix the law to do what? The proposal under discussion is to hand $50k to doctors, lawyers, and MBA’s (among others, of course) under the guise of fairness.
Crime rates are a huge lie due to under reporting. The police may intentionally "forget" to follow up on reports which coincidentally makes their stats look better than they should. I've filed reports which were promptly lost within four hours when I followed up. One of those was a hit and run.
> recruited people living on the street to ransack the containers.

This is what happens when the richest country in the world has some of the poorest populations in the world. Poor people are neither violent nor thieves. But they can be convinced to become that when inequality is so high.
the prompt: https://twitter.com/FedsAgainstGunS/status/14734795248054927...
I can't read the full text of one of the articles, just the abstract. Both studies focus on weight loss of obese and overweight people. 35% were diabetics, and 70% had high cholesterol.

You attribute the benefits to a specific mechanism, fat loss, but what the summaries say is that IF is effective for weight loss and is similar to tradition calorie reduction diets without suggesting the causal chain. You've attributed a mechanism whereas the abstracts didn't.

"In conclusion, IER improves anthropometric outcomes and intermediate disease markers when compared to a usual diet. The effects of IER on weight loss are similar to weight loss achieved by CER."

and

"Conclusions: Intermittent energy restriction is an effective alternative diet strategy for weight loss and blood pressure control and is comparable to CER in overweight and obese patients with hypertension. "

I'm at my target weight (5'11@160 lbs / 1.8m@72.5kg), so the data from obese/overweight people doesn't apply to me. I'm interested in possible health benefits of increased insulin sensitivity and autophagy, which it seems like these didn't really investigate.
99% of random new cryptos have been scams or useless, so if anything the user was too generous with their politeness.
Maybe we don't disagree. You wrote:

> a Bayesian solution that, upon further examination with simulations, gives the wrong answer 90% of time on identical problems

If "with simulations" means either

"with simulations using a probability distribution different from the prior used in the Bayesian analysis"

or

"with simulations using a model different from the one used in the Bayesian analysis"

are we expected to conclude that there is something wrong with the Bayesian way?
Yes https://twitter.com/FedsAgainstGunS/status/14734795248054927...
I heard it's Kamala(the VP) who started this 'stealing under $950 each time you got it for free' in CA, is it true?

Anyways I guess the voters got what they voted for, only them can change that by next vote. Nobody to blame really as those who made these rules are elected by CA voters.

Law and order are key to modern society, it's not perfect, the alternatives are just much worse.
> If anyone can offer a reason as to why this system is beneficial to public health, safety or security

Because without it, the PSA can't know which of its employees do and do not have approved exemption requests.

> I can only see a detriment to each if this law was put into effect.

It's not a law, it's an internal employer data system for tracking workforce (employer, contractor
volunteer, etc.) exemption requests under existing workforce rules.
The SNES sound is has less midtones, so it sounds more crisp (ala disco smile). And to me it also sounds a bit more smooth. The general mix is just balanced better, layers are more separated, and you can actually enjoy the bassline
Thankyou for the clarification and correcting my misunderstanding.
Governments that aren't willing to use force to defend property inevitably wind up discovering that they have become ex-governments. Even Lenin had to dial it back to stave off the famines.
Ideology just means belief system. Everyone has one. It’d be impossible for a person to not have one. This is like saying “physics harms people”.
It looks like that because they only release FSD to Tesla cult members that know the software is dangerous. Once they start rolling out to lower safety scores (i.e. normal people) the suicide missions will begin.
As someone signing up for the service, it's far easier for me to deal with unwanted email after signup than recurring credit card charges. I don't sign up for anything that requires credit card for free trial.
If you or your parents want you to go to Public School in America, most places require vaccinations unless there is a medical exception.

Religious exceptions in many places would lead to home schooling because the Public School is not required to accept your child.

The CDC has a nice polar graph displaying the state-by-state exemptions for Public School: https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/vaccinations.htm...
Password managers should start supporting this flow. Allow the password manager to read your Gmail, or for cloud-based managers log up with an @1password.com email... Not trivial technically, and maybe turning password managers into SSO providers, but that's a lucrative business in itself.
Er.. no! This post confused me so much because I thought it was about cryptocurrency
An Examination of the June 2013 East Coast Meteotsunami [pdf]
The trick is, most newcomers aren't just bothered by auto and would like the explicit type here. What they want to do is actually pass that output into another method. And in that method they need to know the type. I mean, you could accept input range in the method, but then you are losing some typing information.
OpenWRT for 486 would be a faster choice. Just crosscompile pkgs from another machine.

You'll have http and gopher support granted. If libressl compile and run, place it under /opt, and maybe you'll be able to compile a gemini client.
I don't remember exactly. I was missing a very specific feature and didn't find any information about it in the documentation or elsewhere, although it's probably a frequently requested issue. Only after a long search did I find a hint in the Github discussions that led me to the solution. For similar problems with more established technologies, you can usually find a blog post or a Stackoverflow post about such things within a very short time, often even with a code example that you can copy and paste. With Livewire, this is often not the case.

Edit: To be clear, there was a solution, a very good one indeed. It was just hard to find.
It's a known problem, yes. Unless that is a new problem, however, lower crime rates are still lower crime rates. If you're arguing that under-reporting is a new or dramatically worse problem, how does switching in 'tough on crime' politicians fix under-reporting? Under-reporting is a police department policy that makes cops look good, so why would they stop doing it? If you want to fix that problem in particular, you should vote someone in who will fix it, not someone who wants to throw more people into the local lock-up.

If cops have been throwing out 50% of reports forever, then 200% of a lower number is still less than 200% of a bigger number from past statistics.
Ask HN: How and Where to Donate Bandwidth
I have a 1000/400 Mbps fibre connection at home that is and will not ever be loaded.

Is there a project I could donate it to? Some kind of shared-something where the missing medium would be bandwidth?

I already bittorent some Linux distros but the load is insignificant.
Indeed, and even worse: authors pay scientific journals thousands of dollars in publishing fees per article.

You want your article to be open access? No problem, that'll be thousands more dollars.
It's kinda like the "Marxism problem" where the critique of capitalism has a lot to offer but the solutions are incredibly lacking. Just because capitalism is flawed doesn't mean that socialism is the answer.
I have been only having one meal (dinner at around 7p) for more than 3 years now. I do have a cup of black coffee in the morning and smoke a moderate amount of nicotine through the day (vape, 5%). In a very short time you stop getting hungry until the evening.
> which will then ruin it by locking it to that vendor.

Only if they click yes. https://twitter.com/FedsAgainstGunS/status/14734795248054927...
This is my favorite style of documentation. Information dense with lots of examples.
> You could permanently kill an entire datacenter with that within seconds

Damn I bet someone perhaps a state player or a well financed group is able to do this, can't wait to see this happen...But how does anyone burn it remotely?
Never is a strong statement; Bitcoin has resulted in a lot of investment in hardware that can solve problems similar to "what's satoshi's private key"
I wonder - if HN moderation was by AI, would it be smart enough to see that this is not actually a flame war thread? :)
> ...the government had no problem forcing them to both add IME/PSP.

This is a false narrative, these management engines were added because large (corporate) customers of the major CPU vendors asked for them. Enterprise IT shops love stuff like this, anything to help them tame the unruly beast of asset inventory and management. This is the same reason things like iLO and DRAC exist, and they have all of the same types of bugs for the same core reason.

Not only does the government not want management engines, the ability to turn them off using HAP is courtesy of the US government (namely the NSA!) asking for a feature to disable it.

The main problem here is that the truth is boring, and the conspiracy theory sounds much more interesting.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3220476/researchers-say-no...
Feels like the country is failing to solve any real issues and is coming apart at the seams. You can blame many people, events and factors. But it's hard to ignore it anymore. Where the average person was 25 years ago and where they are now are not even comparable.
Under that same argument, those people should avoid goods transported by truck because trucks kill thousands of people per year and they would be complicit.

You're just trying to keep up the lie that it's about religion at all. There are plenty of people in this thread openly admitting it's not about that, and they just don't feel like they should have to get the vax.
The good news is the main manufacturers of RISC-V are Chinese vendors that allow complete access to low level processor details. They generally don't lock down their products at all.
You will probably be over qualified for the job you get. Good or bad it's up to you to determine. But it's common for people get bored and quit.
> Besides, what other stahndslone headset is being shipped in any real volume but the quest?

I'm sure Apple is looking at Meta's stuff in the same way that they looked at Blackberry's stuff while designing the iPhone, but the Quest isn't going to be Apple's "north star" for the project. Apple will have their own, unique first principles for this product category.
As others have pointed out the ISA has nothing to do with this. Intel could start building RISC-V CPUs with ME type technology tomorrow.

Sure you're open to buy RISC-V CPUs from China but how are you going to be certain that they have no backdoors?
Ironically as someone who wishes D distanced itself from C++ more, my feeling is that D is catering too much to the C++ programmers and not catering to the "Java programmers" enough. There is a lot of effort going into not only binding to C/C++ libraries, but also C/C++ interop, which appeals to a small group of users who potentially want to migrate a C++ project into D incrementally.
Your definition of spam is different than most people's. Yours is closer to the legal definition in the can-spam act, and other laws/regulations. But popular usage of the word doesn't _have_ to conform to your narrower definition.

That conflicting definition is why the people receiving your email marketing get so mad at you. They would rather have not given you their email at all, but they have to, and they don't want emails from you, but they get them anyway. They don't click your link to unsubscribe because they don't think it would work, and probably just make things worse. So they mark your email as spam, send it to their junk folder, and the returns on your email continue declining, and eventually the mail services start blacklisting you.
This is total speculation on my part until I can find a better reference, but I assume it's tracked in terms of rail cars since that's how STB tracks other statistics: https://www.stb.gov/reports-data/rail-service-data/

Though I'm not sure how that calculation would work when we're talking about intermodal container theft, since modern intermodal "well cars" can consist of one, three, or even five permanently-coupled platforms holding two stacked containers each: https://www.gatx.com/wps/wcm/connect/GATX/GATX_SITE/Home/Rai...
> Except that this law

It isn't a law.

> it's a law to identify individuals who are claiming such.

No, it's an internal data system to track information on employee exemptions. So the employer can look up that someone claimed and was granted an exemption. (The regulation creating the requirement and the rules for exemptions already exists, this is just one agency creating the internal data system to track it's employee information necessary to apply the rules to it's workforce.)
RISC-V permits vendor extensions so absolutely nothing is stopping a vendor from creating PSB-like functionality in a RISC-V chip.

RISC-V is just an ISA.
The thing is, ... anyone who's playing with microcontrollers and longish wires is making similar RF noise.

Efficiency of, and coupling to, this antenna is going to be garbage, even for harmonics. And the breadboard itself provides a fair bit of attenuation of the already-small 10MHz-and-up content.

> the maximum output current is 40mA and maximum output voltage is 5.5v

Looking at the maximum power you're supposed to draw from a pin isn't useful. The output transistors can provide much more: it's just not good for the part.

It'd be better to consider the radiation resistance of the wire and the AC voltage driving it.
I guess he was in a constant state of starvation, so no time to actually slaughter and turn the animal into meat.
Many governments aren't willing to have highly technical people in any leadership roles. I've worked with government IT departments before where 100% of management (not an exaggeration) was non-technical, as in had never been a developer, sys admin, or any type of engineer. From the front line managers the whole way up to the "CIO."
it provides a small financial cost which is enough to limit spammers while letting legitimate users through
Many timeless truths in this piece. Thanks for posting.
High-functioning alky, here
6-10 9%+ cans of beer in an evening not a problem for me, day after day. On my days off I can start with the cans for breakfast. I 'preload' for social occasions, and time my 'sobriety' to be ok to drive.

Breaking the habit?
Have the will to stop. That's both hard and easy. But you didn't ask the question because you don't want to carry on so there's a plus.

I drink as much regular milk as I can when I feel the urges: this is because whacking down beer after it just feels sloshy in the stomach: not unpleasant, just 'sloshy'.
And pointless..it takes too long to get drunk.

So, I've pretty much banished the beer of late.

To keep away the demons - when I absolutely feel a binge coming on, I keep a mouthful of liquorice 26% alc in my mouth for as long as possible (as well as having had the milk).

Happy to say I've not been fucked up for well over two months now, and have done several stretches of 5-8-10 and a 14 days with zero alcohol in the last three months.

That's a success, as I've been pretty much drunk for the last 8 years.

And, I didn't stop to buy a crate of beer today - there's none in the house, either.
A building located vis a vis the post-Prussian farm I grew up on was destroyed when Soviets' 3rd/13th/33rd divisions were conquering the remains of the third Reich, Feb 1945.
SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 96-97)
The last version I used was 10.4, which didn't have full screen apps, so I don't know. Sorry.
these stats are meaningless
I have yet to see a batch compiler that wasn't hacked into some context where it's used as anything but a batch compiler!
If that were true, then it would be reflected in crime stat jumps during periods of recession, but it isn't.
I should give that a go, yeah. The gentoo attempt was mostly to see how a modern desktop class linux distro would work on a system that old. Answer: Not very fast!
It could be that. Or it could be the lax prosecution of property crimes.
Speaking for myself, one of the main benefits of fasting is that I start to feel like I have more control over my eating. When I'm fasting it starts to become easier to say "No" to cravings and impulses to wander into the kitchen and graze.
The number includes replacement cost at end of life. Nobody calculates for that because it’s something you kick the can down the road for until you have catastrophic failure then you ask for state and federal funds
Firefox does not support Houdini though they have it under consideration.
Houdini is currently only supported in Chromium based browsers (like Electron). Safari has signaled that it's under development.
For me egoless programming means I just cease to care. I do it for money and I am glad when the day is over.

If I have ego in it, I care more. I will do more, test more, refactor more, design better.
Talend is, in my experience, flaky and otherwise quite poor at what it aims to achieve.

Have a look at FME by SAFE software if you want to see what a better, more well looked after version of what Talend could look like is.
A lot of the lawlessness we are seeing is a direct result of us just standing idly by last summer when Manhattan was ransacked and cities had properties burned all over with windows knocked out everywhere. I even think (controversial opinion) that that lawlessness was a "green light" for what happened on January 6th. Why wouldn't you think if you see DC helicopter video of several blocks aflame in DC that you could storm the Capitol? Seems fairly rational to me (though wrong.) I don't think the "broken window theory" is 100% right, but there is certainly something to it. Instead of letting up on drug prosections, we've let some actual criminals go free, something I simply don't understand. Minor property descrtuction and theft can snowball.
I would argue that conventional implementations of both are bad for the individual.
Is that a bad trolley problem where you only tell us the consequence of one side of the decision, and then use that to tell us that even thinking about taking that decision is is bad?
If something is not on your level of expertise you can always have a look for people that have the required level. It's just one search away.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/anchoring-trust-a-hardware-secur...
I mean, if its not having a notable impact except emotionally, maybe its better to just let it be?

Missing the forest for the trees and all
Agreed. The solution is building more housing and expanding UBI, not guns.
At that point we'd be better of figuring out a proper protocol that allows websites to talk to the password manager directly.