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If I understand correctly, you're saying that AAA game companies are at fault for producing video games that influence people through addictive psychological tricks to the point of ruining their lives.

I completely agree that some methods uses by game companies are dubious at best, and can ruin lives. However, I don't think that game companies are to blame.

> Equating the two is like saying - all drugs are the same when one drug can leave you with a slight migraine while other kills if you take a mg more than the recommended dose.

All addictions are not equally destructive. But, all addictions can be destructive depending on the individual.

Many other companies are using similar tactics in other areas than video games. People obsessively use Facebook/Instagram to the point of depression and suicide, are they to blame? Are McDonald's commercials to blame for obesity and heart disease?

Where does it end? Are we saying that the average person has no control, and can't think for themselves? I think it's easy to play the victim card, but hard to actually deal with the core issues that lead you there.
I've tried reporting a bug where on a 2016 Mercedes GLA if you're playing MP3s from a USB stick the car will remember the track to play but nothing else about it, so after coming back the same track plays but with the wrong name, wrong album art, etc etc. It's literally impossible to. The dealer said they have no way to do that except for just flashing my car with a newer FW and hoping it fixes it(it didn't), messaging Mercedes UK yields no reply, posting on their official forums yields no reply.....I just gave up after a while.
This story was flagged earlier today, albeit another publisher ( disclosure, I was the submitter ).
The biggest threats to the current order today are not the people calling for more "justice", or more "social justice", however.

The biggest threats to the current order are companies and politicians that refuse to address our unsustainable level of pollution, which is pushing our climate out of balance.

They're the people advocating for a "starve the beast" approach to governance, literally trying to create a financial crisis just to get a few percent taxes shaved off their bottom line (and probably think they can profit off the crisis too).

They're the people pushing for increased gerrymanding and census manipulation, which radicalizes politics on both ends of the political spectrum, shuts out people in the middle, and erodes faith in our institutions on the long term.

These things are by far the biggest threat to the long term stability of the current order in the US.
I mean, the honest truth is: They walked out, made clear demands. Google refused to enact all but one of them. If they stuck around, it wouldn't suggest they were very committed to their goals.

I guess my biggest surprise was that there wasn't a second, more severe "walkout" or "strike" after Google declined to respond adequately. The Walkout made news but it wasn't nearly a strong enough action to really say it was all they could do. Most of the people who walked out went right back to their desks after work and kept working.
Click the information button "i" and then "Report an Issue".

There is no "i" button from the navigation screen and there's no "i" button from the search results either if you want to report entirely irrelevant results.
I think you missed the sarcasm from parent poster.
Daily Demos: a ritual for raising kids that create
You don't ever have to install Yelp to use it within Apple Maps. The app does not come on the iPhone by default. By default it opens the Yelp website (which of course nags you to get their app and/or login, but that's not unique to Yelp).

I suspect that all the news articles reporting on this issue are probably greatly misunderstanding how technology works.

> And all night long, there was some startling behavior by a household name: Yelp. It was receiving a message that included my IP address — once every five minutes. [1]

Literally any load balancer is going to know what IP address you're coming from. Having a website logging your IP address is not cause for alarm. A good mitigator for this probelm would be to disable background activity for Yelp or any other apps you feel do not need that sort of access.

The journalist also makes no attempt to explain what steps they took to attempt to change their Yelp account preferences. They did not inform us whether or not they were logged in or opted in or out of any particular preferences. That's what makes the story so unhelpful.

A more useful version of that article should be informing people to make a check on all their account preferences every time they sign up for a service. Usually, marketing and telemetry settings are on by default. I most definitely don't agree with this, but it's not unique to Yelp.

Perhaps you're also referring to a lawsuit in progress regarding the way in which Yelp transfers contacts? [2]

In this case, the arguments center around some rather nebulous contract law, in my layman's understanding of the case. Again, your OS already protects you - if you never grant an application access to your contacts, you never have to worry about the transmission of that data.

It should be smartphone 101 that allowing an application data access will allow it forever, because that's how iOS has worked since day one. Again, we need more protections in the form of laws, not just conventions, and I don't agree with the idea that data can be sent around willy nilly, but this is the reality baked in to all mobile applications. Once you give third party code access to your data in a rather explicit fashion, it's not in your control what's done with it.

So this still sounds bad, perhaps, but also, an iPhone with the default install and iCloud login is much more private than Google with a Google Account login. In Google's case, Google Maps has seen everything and can correlate it to your email content, business search activity, current location, and a host of other data especially if you use their search engine or YouTube. In Apple's case, Apple Maps just opened up yelp.com within Safari when you click on a business result (unless you explicitly install the Yelp app and give it permissions).

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/while-youre-sleeping-y...

[2] https://www.courthousenews.com/data-mining-privacy-suit-agai...
Same feelings here. This implies that.

1. The founders of the corporation were not aware of the established personal brand James Halliday had built under the handle, or didn't preform a google search to find out.

2. The founders were aware and just didn't care or lacked the creativity to construct a unique brand.

Both make me disinterested in whatever they're shilling.
Agreed. Thiel wasn't playing realpolitik at all. He is adamantly anti-democratic in his political views and appreciated Trump precisely because he lined up neatly with his corporatist-authoritarian views.

Thiel has unusual politics that don't fit neatly along the right-left spectrum and lucked into a candidate that matched them more closely than anyone who had come before.
There are also Ka-band Doppler radar systems used for sensing speed on the vehicle (exactly like how a radar gun works). You mount it on the vehicle to point to the ground at an angle and then connect it to a speedometer. Accuracy is usually within 1-3% up to 300mph.
How is it surprising that rendering a React website is slower than simple HTML?
Can you please not take HN threads further into flamewar? Especially not by going personal.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The crossword ran on election day. The clue for the big across line was something like "headline tomorrow" and the crossing clues worked equally well to match "CLINTON ELECTED" and "BOBDOLE ELECTED". For example the first crossing was "Halloween animal" (CAT/BAT) and so on.
By that logic every internet user everywhere is “helping“ because wechat can train their algorithms on any public picture “before”.

It‘s just a false claim that the “users” are helping.
I genuinely hope this takes off. The idea of breaking the government money monopoly is very appealing to me.
It's not a scientific concept, it's a term used by the aliens-built-the-pyramids crowd.
So at $204 a share, that's about $56 million, right? If his reported net worth is correct $2.5 billion, that's around 2% of his net worth.

So, not a huge amount of Facebook nor of his net worth, but still a huge amount of money. I'm not sure how billionaires think, but I suspect to become a billionaire it's usually not "I won't sweat a loss of couple tens of millions of dollars."
And the article actually glanced at but didn’t elaborate on

- Google decided to open a new AI research center in China, expanding its existing presence there. This in the face of expanding AI assisted surveillance in xinjiang and its 10 million population.

- Google decided not to renew its contract for project maven, a way to analyze drone footage using AI, for the US DoD
You don't ever have to install Yelp to use it within Apple Maps. The app does not come on the iPhone by default. By default it opens the Yelp website (which of course nags you to get their app and/or login, but that's not unique to Yelp).

You sure about that? For me tapping on any business info takes me straight to the iOS app store.
I was thinking the same. Implying that Amazon is at the forefront of solving this problem, when in fact they’re the main culprits (and have been for years).
Robert Ghrist has written an colorful and innovative calculus text.

https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/calculus.html

https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/notes.html

https://sites.math.washington.edu/~morrow/334_13/FLCT.pdf
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Hey, lets ignore Toyota Production System (which was invented by a startup, Toyoda Automatic Loom) and then perfected on building cars with small amounts of resources and minimal failure. It's pretty clear they don't use TPS at Tesla, which will be their downfall...
For me the issue is my own home address. I own an iphone and verified it. Typing out my direction: Address, City, State, Zip Code will direct you to an address in the neighboring city with a similar looking address(address number is wrong and Ave is Street). I give people a neighboring address close to me that I know works if they own an iphone. Apple Maps has also gotten me lost or stuck in terrible traffic. I really hate Apple Maps.
Neither is the US at this point.
In addition to properly escaping inputs, Content Security Policy Headers to restrict the hosts that the browser executes JavaScript from (e.g., script-src). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...
In another comment, someone says the trick here is to do a resumable upload.

The document is covering the sign at the start of the video, so the uploader could have uploaded that section (without any text on the sign in-game), then "resumed" the upload with a different video that contains the URL on the sign and starts after he switches to the Minecraft window.
>I don't think purchasing a spool of spot tie costs much more than electrical tape and neither does heat shrink.

No it doesn't but Tesla doesn't exactly have a mature vehicle manufacturing operation.

>Collateral duty inspectors (and QA) ensure quality work so this is not the case. All work done is always inspected by someone who is an expert and did not participate in the maintenance.

This is usually not the case in general aviation. Its my understanding that this also not the case for a lot of commercial operators, especially the smaller ones with thinner margins, but my knowledge may be out of date.

>I have seen electrical tape come apart in just a few years.

Yeah, 20yr is probably an exaggeration for tape applied by rushed assembly line workers but I've seen a heck of a lot of 20yo tape (usually used to bundle wires) on commercial vehicles. Most older wiring harnesses use "harness tape" (which is basically just electrical tape with some cloth fibers in it) to keep the wire from falling out of split loom and some use electrical tape to bundle wires in some places.

>If an autopilot system receives incorrect input it could kill someone.

You could say that about a lot of things. Technology is mostly at a point where it takes a cascading failure to kill anybody. The autopilot algorithms are far more suspect then even the most lazily assembled hardware.

>military aircraft

In the military they have tons of bodies to throw at things so everything gets triple checked. This is not the case in the commercial world.
C.f. this tweet, which has a link to itself: https://twitter.com/mauritscorneIis/status/99142460340155187...

(And as we all know Twitter has no edit button, no post-upload shenanigans are possible here, just some clever guessing and reverse-engineering Twitter's ID generation algorithm)
Cool project! I've had success with ClickHouses's local utility which is extremely fast. It helps that its basically a "local" version of an already insanely efficient columnar database.

https://www.altinity.com/blog/2019/6/11/clickhouse-local-the...
What You Can (and Can’t) Learn from the Average Car Payment
Here's a few to get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_LAC
That's $56 million in shares at $204/share.
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freeipa has this

users with totp tokens can kinit using their password+totp in the password field. better still, if you use PAM for all your services, you you can define hbac rules allowing users access to specific services on specific hosts.

the caveat is that the freeipa servers must be available to provide authorization even once the ticket is issued. with x509, the authenticating host doesn't need to rely on a server for anything but CRL checks
This is blatantly using government power to attack political opponents. Trump, Thiel and other conservatives see Google as left leaning, so they want to hurt it. Thiel also stands to gain economically through Facebook and Palantir.
To the mechanical turk point, that's where the enforcement arm comes in. It's rare that companies so blatantly break the law as a business model. Ubers happen, but not break-into-you-neighbor's-house-as-a-service companies. As soon as the latter gained any traction it would be shut down and people would go to prison. Nobody would start that company. Hopefully a law could be written to make the company you describe more of that kind of company and less of an Uber.
"something physical" happens in both cases either to the moon (lunar eclipse), or to the earth (solar eclipse).

If you're going to question people's perspective, tell them this instead of telling them that solar eclipses are virtual.
The main point of the paper is that you should account for the structure of the solution space, and take advantage of that. For SR, one example is a+b = b+a. For physical objects, like antenna, that would be symmetries along axes. PGE can be generalized to any problem which can represent their solution space as a trie representation and a grammar for local modifications or movements in the search space.

With regard to PRNG, GP can only produce statistically significant results if run a minimum number of times, because it is a probabilistic algorithm. My stats professor said that was at least 29 times. If you fix the random seed, you lose the power of the GP algo.

It's hard to trust results from GP research as the vast majority is not reproducible. There is one guy who publishes the world best results to Springer anytime someone out performs his results. Totally bogus work. The GP field needs to adopt the publishing and open code / data that we find in the DL/RL community.
"Hackers" of course already more or less happened to Maersk.
Apple Plans to Bankroll Original Podcasts to Fend Off Rivals
I agree. And I didn't mean to say that pursuit of justice is a problem, but I do have an issue with calls for justice at the expense of everything else that I sometimes hear from the Internet pitchfork mobs, and I worry that it may gain momentum at some point.
You prefer government by Facebook shareholders instead of democracy?
The study that the article is based on: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/ab27cf
DarkMatter Launches Appeal to Mozilla Foundation over Root CA Inclusion
I wish there was some sort of program to give the boxes back to amazon so they could reuse them or something. I guess the work of having to make sure they were clean would be too expensive.
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=corporate+whistleblower+protection+law...
Quite a lot of companies are vulnerable to forms of this, but will notice if you try to exploit it for "millions of dollars". It normally doesn't have much to do with what technologies they use internally.
Political machinations like this are one of the reasons most of the population in western democracies do not feel represented in any way whatsoever. The systems designed to balance power between civil servants, the economy, the military and the populace are increasingly bound by the whims an wishes of a selected few.

One can argue that this was always the way of the world -- and it's only coming to light now, but I think that this is a far too cynical view IMO. It neglects the steady decline in political participation, party/union membership and actions a single individual can take.

Keep in mind, that this is not only a problem in the United States -- maybe its just more visible there. My home country Germany has more than enough shady connections between economic execs and the political machine.
You’re right, the terms do ask you not to do that. My mistake.

I’m glad it’s at least straightforward to do so now if it wasn’t in the past, even if it’s against the terms.
Just running uBlock Origin, the pictures did not load for me either.

I imagine that website is doing something that I wouldn't approve of.
I really dislike those white plastic bags they ship stuff in. Always seems so wasteful.
If this guy has a family then really what you said is the only real option. It's a large fixed expense, but at least it is with a 'reliable' healthcare company.

If he/she is single and wants to roll the dice with never having to use it, yeah you can save a lot of money (potentially), but I certainly wouldn't put that risk on anyone else.

Long story short.. if you don't want to walk around in fear of potential costs I would stick with a large provider. It's your most secure bet in this terrible system we call healthcare...
Nice to see Sam reached the front page of hacker news!
Research shows black plastics could create renewable energy
Yeah, C:S will gobble RAM like there's no tomorrow, especially if you've got a lot of mods installed.
I am sure James Damore also wanted that. They went even further with him and outright fired him and shamed him.
One thing that concerns me is that the cardboard biodegrades, while the plastic bubble wrap envelopes I’ve been getting things in lately presumably does not. That’s a lot of plastic packaging waste that will end up in the oceans.
It loves RAM (and probably RAM speed), but not necessarily in a bad way. Jumping to 16gb (2x8gb) from 8gb (1x8gb) on the laptop I first played it on was a big jump in performance even with a GT740.
What I think it would help me (personally) was a way to block certain web addresses (for all apps) at certain time periods (with no easy way of disabling it).

There are a couple of apps that supposedly do that, but they all fail more or less miserably (one of them is easily defeated just by pressing Android's back button for instance).
It's quite possible that we have already passed the threshold for triggering feedbacks that make cutting consumption insufficient to ward off cataclysm. The permafrost is one, among many others that we're still discovering. Even if industrial civilization stopped on a dime today, it's quite possible that we've already initiated a runaway hothouse scenario. That only becomes more likely the more we emit. Technology will be necessary to mitigate and adapt, and so switching our energy systems to carbon neutral is the first of many steps. Consumption will also have to come down, but I don't imagine many places will manage to do it voluntarily. Perhaps some more pro-social, community oriented countries will do so, but the more hyper-capitalist, individualist countries will likely fight tooth and nail to continue consuming until nature forces an end to it. Classic tragedy of the commons, except the commons is our only known habitable biosphere.
Interesting design that's being crowd-funded that has a chimney to reduce human-bee interaction to help with stinging risk:

* https://kottke.org/19/07/a-small-simple-hive-designed-for-ur...
I agree on the idea of these sort of things feeling like a "book club."

A recent example that worked for me: I took a short vacation by myself. I went to one event I wanted to see, and then for the rest of the time I had zero plans. Basically, I walked around the beach, walked around town, ate food, and that was it.

Was it mindful meditation? Not really. But the effects were the same or similar.

I think some people should really just take time off work more often (mandatory paid leave in the United States, please!)
The Lotus Evija
Please stop posting ideological flamebait to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure, but that's the third sentence of the linked article. It was hardly necessary to call attention to it specifically.
:)

Our "billionaire" president paid his son's Boy Scouts fees with charity money rather than his own. People with that kind of money are usually SUPER cheap and REALLY attached to every dollar.
How is applied ai for weapons (maven) at all similar to an academic research institute that focuses on fundamental ml research in areas like NLP and ai for education?[0]

[0]: https://ai.google/research/join-us/beijing/
I've reported dozens of POI and route problems. It couldn't be simpler.

Click on POI, scroll down and select "Report an Issue" and similarly when a route is complete there is a reporting option.
This is utter nonsense. From all I can say, Amazon has been moving away from recyclable / re-usable packaging and is pretty bad at optimization.

Paper padded envelope have moved recently to plastic ones (say, over the past 6 month). Now the shipping tag cannot be removed and the enveloppe cannot be reused. Also Carboard box move every now and then to non-descript box to highly customized and covered by advertisement ones.

On the optimization side, they are very, VERY, bad, how many times have I received a huge box with a tiny item...
This is very unfortunate. Apple being totally hands off, other than running the iTunes podcast directory, is one of the best things that’s ever happened for podcasts.

I like my 3rd party app (Overcast). I don’t want to have to use 3 podcast apps to listen to all my podcasts.

I think I agree with some of the podcast app developers: if it’s not available in any app it shouldn’t be called a ‘podcast’.
Did the parachutes deploy? looks like they might have been too close together and straight dropped down. Which is probably safest.
They have very cool looking landing page:

https://www.lotuscars.com/model/evija/
This is literally a $1 problem.
That's remarkably bizarre. Typing out a full structured address should always be parsed correctly.

Have you reported this to Apple? The Apple Maps apps (iPhone and macOS) have a means by which you can report a variety of issues, including incorrect search results. In my experience Apple tends to be pretty good about handling these.