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That's how I did things but something somewhere during the iOS 14 has broken Spotlight search for me - I can't search for apps any more (well, I can, but it gives me the app store page or a website.)

It is most aggravating and utterly perplexing. Whilst I like the app library for hiding all the stuff I don't use, it's a massive pain to use for finding apps...
It's mostly procedurally generated, so they might be making the case that it's just a rough representation of the terrain and not specifically a representation of the building. I could see a judge deciding that's bullshit, but it certainly would be a slippery slope to declare it illegal to provide accurate 3d maps of a city
I've always found the idea of permanently implanting a picture in someone's skin without it legally becoming part of their 'likeness' to be insane.
Probably still not economically feasible: "Lloyd’s of London puts the odds of a structure in Tornado Alley ever taking a direct hit from a tornado at 5,000 to 1." [1]

[1] https://www.builderonline.com/building/predictable-destructi...
I use "owl for exchange". It's not free but it's very cheap and I've found it to work perfectly.
I quit all noisy apps before doing presentations. It's a healthy habit.
That's literally this world. That's how it works with some tattoos.
The tattoo artist was incentivized by someone paying for the tattoo. If they think they were insufficiently compensated they should charge more.

(I understand the position, though, and of course if people copy the tattoo the artist is not getting compensated for that)
> water mains that transfer water to the city from upstate are well over a century old. ... They just wait for them to fail, then replace the small part that failed.

At some point, all the older parts will get so old that it fails frequently and at a greater rate, that the fix cost will greatly exceed the budgeted amount.

Being a quite cynical person, I would say that up to that point management will have collected fat bonuses, then cry poverty and push for ruinous rate increases.

Along the same lines, CT just had an issue with a rate increase that doubled most bills.

The point being spreading out the cost over years and limiting "downtime" is a lot better than 1 huge event that leaves customers without. (re: Detroit and bottled water)

https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/eversource-and-ui-a...
> A common effect I've observed is that diversity training often seems to trigger defensive behavior.

> During a Zoom meeting with hundreds of students, the interim dean and dozens of other faculty and administrators each declared they were "a racist" and "a gatekeeper of white supremacy."

Historically, accusing a whole ethnic group of being inherently guilty of some great evil (e.g. racism), has worked out less than great for that group, so it's hardly surprising they'd be defensive.
If the geometry is sourced from a service like google maps, it would probably be blurred. AFAIK, anything blurred in Bing maps is also blurred in Flight Simulator.
I was going to say I rock climb in Victoria, Australia but I've never met anyone in tech!
I actually didn't mean video quality on Amazon Prime in general. For example, we just got done watching Mr. Robot on Amazon Prime and I had no issues with the video, personally. But Stargate SG-1 was particularly bad, for some reason. Worse than SD, lots of artifacts.
How else could they render the pixels? /s
One thing I hate about ddg is that the search results are quite inaccurate sometimes, especially what you are looking for is relatively uncommon/obscure. I hope to see a change in the future.
It's actually a good argument for integration between screen-sharing apps and instant messaging/status - your status really should go to "Presenting" when you are presenting and for incoming alerts to automatically be hidden.
This is USB HID hardware, right? People can use wireshark to capture USB packets and create an equivalent driver for Linux. Assuming there aren't any already.

The only reason to use this proprietary malware is to reverse engineer it.
I dunno, I'd generally think of this as probably the better failure mode for this particular feature! It's popular enough that there are dedicated apps to help with it (https://muzzleapp.com – which if I'm honest I'm just sharing because the website is that good).
How does it work with already installed applications? Will it ask again or I need to check every application and re-configure permissions as needed?
They bought it in 1994, before everything you ever needed to know about construction was on the internet. Short of having a preexisting familiarity with underground construction or having a buddy who designed missile silos their ability to identify potential future problems was likely quite limited.
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Still bitter about them dropping Linux support.
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> minimum thing is source availability for auditing

That is not FLOSS. Its normal and expected and usually required to give source code to stakeholder.
but on the other extreme you have a different common fallacy: Here meet Person A! Person A shares a couple of macrodemographics traits with Person B so they are automatically and authority on B's experience (and probably already friends)

something to consider is that in most demographic groups there is a similar internal diversity than the entire population. so yes there are many experiences shares mostly by only women and also by most women, but this does not mean that many will be completely alien to that experience.

in my opinion any kind of diversity effort needs to be based on our shared humanity and a belief that we can learn from each other (without treating the other neither as a saint nor an enemy)
This is like the fourth time an iOS update has broken the ability to use your phone as an alarm clock. Incredibly frustrating. I definitely missed meetings a couple times back when I owned a first-gen iPhone and relied on it for this - I eventually bought an old-fashioned clock.

FWIW I've had similar problems with other phones in the past, so this isn't exclusively an Apple thing - but insufficient QA of alarms is a distressing ongoing problem with iOS and I don't know why they haven't made sure that it's a core part of their release process by now.

Unfortunately once you generalize all your notification infrastructure, it becomes easier to break alarms. The Windows Alarms and Clock app relies on system notification infrastructure, so if notifications are silenced (there is a longstanding bug that causes this, and the people responsible for Win10 Notifications don't give a shit), the alarm sound doesn't play until the notification appears - often hours later. If they played the sound directly this wouldn't be an issue, but they assume notifications will work. Yay for abstraction and infrastructure...
Aside, I use a very large clear glass bowl to kill the nest. Flip it over the hole, leave it for a little over a week and the nest will be dead.

It has to be a clear bowl to trick the wasps to think that they can still get out otherwise they will dig a new exit.
You can keep notifications disabled on desktop but enabled on phone, and keep your phone in front of you while presenting. Ignore single dings and notifications with silent / vibrate. But you should notice multiple slack dings this way and can react. Also can see calendar notifications pretty easily.
I might understand the point if what you were trying to sell was a picture of the tower- that is, if the image of tower itself were the reason people are paying for something.

If it's just part of a crowded the background, though, as in this case, it doesn't make sense. You can't put in the sky an object visible from everywhere and then ask people to pay (or even just ask permission) to use pictures that include it.
You can hope for this but it is more likely to be like mobile phones.
we're entering digital brazilocene, featuring w3c-golderg machines
It was inevitable after they were bought. Funny how they lied about this up to the last moment still. It's also blatantly illegal. Well the game is readily available at the common piracy sites though.
> I woke up late and well rested today.

And as usually with iOS, the user experience is excellent!
The USA has half of a continent to house all these hundreds of millions. The problem is with overcrowding in larger cities, not the lack of space (even if the location is suboptimal).
Interesting. I had this same idea some months ago but was too busy to build it due to growing my new product - appcontacter.com. Nice to see someone launch something in this space.

Goodluck.
I have SteelSeries headphones and if you don't have SteelSeries engine installed, you are losing quite a bit of functionality.

I think it's a grey zone as for most of the cases people are going to be happy to get that software.
Theoretically, two layers are better than one for solar-cell efficiency
Interestingly this is not the first time that the World trade centre was missing/removed from a Spiderman related media. The early rendition of Spiderman at the start of the century had the twin towers in and prior to release 9/11 happened, so a whole scene was removed. Which as you can see for yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozz8uxW733Q was no small budget scene either.

On a side note - is it Spiderman or Spider-man? I grew up with the believe that it was the former.
I don't think this is the case – the article mentions that this is explicitly related to the "bedtime" feature, rather than the more general "alarms" feature.

I use this feature as well, updated to iOS 14 last night without changing anything or updating my settings, and the alarm still went off this morning – so it at least seems like it's a more complex failure that it might first seem.
Yes with Threader: https://threader.app/thread/1306359385656946688
My alarm rang normally in the morning after my phone updated itself in the night.
This isn’t worded correctly based on my experience. It should say ‘enterprises no longer trust their developers and SREs alone to take care of security,’.

Devs and SRE still have a very important role as SAST and DAST tools only catch a portion of security issues in code and are generally useless for gauging architectural/deployment/runtime issues.
The goal of incentivising work is nice. But the concept of copyright is busted even from the concept. The idea that you have a story that you wrote on your own dime and you're shopping around to publishers puts the authors in a tournament theory situation which is totally abusive.

The other issue of bringing a document to an independent publisher (akin to having a Chinese factory build your devices) who could steal the IP is a contractual and security matter.
Well, if you use it only for their messenger, then they can still for example track webpages you visit (either via cookies or some finer fingerprinting based on e.g. user agent).

It may also be a bit of a knee-jerk reaction, but in a world where even seemingly innocuous data is used to find unexpected correlations and identify people, I certainly prefer to keep a safe margin of error and steer away from companies which live on our data.
Maybe because Apple users consider themselves locked in tot the ecosystem so they can't vote with their feet/wallets and walk to a competitor when they're tired of bugs so Apple feels no pressure to do right by their users. Am I right?
> Great developers like this should stay in google forever.

Not to promote snark as a primary means of comment here on HN, but this sarcastic little nugget of a sentence really had me chuckling for quite some time.
I use my own self-hosted analytics platform[0], which is not blocked by ad-blockers and can be hosted on the same domain (no external script).

I do have to test more with Safari though, I'm not sure if it sometimes blocks it or not.

[0]: https://www.usertrack.net/
My understanding is that there are balance concerns - if you're on a standalone device (i.e. Quest) that can't render complex smoke effects, you can see more easily than someone with a high-end PC that can.
> Wrong. Actual analysis by the engineers of one of their migrated jobs (urgent-other sidekiq shard) says their cost went from $290/month when running in VMs to $700/month when running in Kubernetes.

This is only one of the shards of one service that we migrated, and we migrated many more.

I did a high level writeup of this and many other things we've observed in
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure...

if you are curious. I am happy to have a conversation with anyone about our experiences in more detail, not to convince anyone that k8s is the "one-true-way" (because I am still not convinced myself), but of the benefits this type of change can bring.

> They tried to use auto-scaling but failed completely and ended up disabling it

That issue is just one of many though. We disabled it at the time, but we have it enabled for a number of other services.

Regardless of how I personally feel about K8s, I have to say that the migration we are doing for GitLab.com is generating set of benefits that goes far beyond just moving to a new platform.

One of the largest benefits I've seen so far is that it was a great forcing function to resolve some long running architectural challenges, and is making us think more about how the application can run at a very large scale, without being at the very large scale. Things that we could get away before, like the issue you referenced there, we can't anymore.

Disclaimer: I am one of the people involved in this migration.
At least it works well in Proton (AFAIK the Proton version has been better than the original Linux port for ages). Still frustrating
After four minutes? I doubt it.

In my experience with trying to meditate to rhythms it takes fifteen minutes to half an hour before you really notice a significant difference to meditation without it.

Also, "should" is not really the right word to use here - I would go with "might".

What I mean with that is that this isn't like a pill whose are chemicals will do its on their own after consumption, with or without thinking about them. It's an effect that is produced through a sensory interaction with the brain. As a result, how one consciously attends to that interaction has a huge impact on the effectiveness.
I'm not clear on how this is illegal. Is it something about the EULA? Most of the big publishers force you to use their launcher on Steam.
I've been using DDG as my default search engine now for over a year and 95% of the time it's great. It's main failure in my hands it trying to find obscure scientific literature or bleeding edge/just published scientific literature. Anyone else have this problem? I assume it's because the goog has goog scholar and so spent years building a massive scientific journal article database. What I don't get is the lack of same-day/week search results for an exact scientific article title with DDG.
Logitech does this too.

Just plug in a mouse - Windows fetches the driver package and, voila, you are a proud owner of LogiLDA.dll that will pester you with random marketing bullshit until forcibly removed from the system.
Those things are not mutually exclusive. And the original framing that enterprises "no longer trust their developers and SREs to take care of security" is a bit leading as well. Real, practical security is a mixture of dedicated security teams doing in depth analysis and pen testing, developers and SREs building secure solutions and automated tooling that does basic sanity checks.
> But services can’t deal with just hitting the sweet spot and calling it a day.

The problem with the free market is that "sweet spot" is usually defined as what the majority wants. That's why I think we need open-source, so small companies can deal with the long tail.
You can read a Threader version: https://threader.app/thread/1306359385656946688
There may have been other incursions across the line (I haven't been paying that much attention), but this one seems poignant because there's no direct danger to people or the democratic process in this person's conspiracy theories.
I bought the game. I can't play it now. Also I would have to agree to something I can't read.
Also better without ads: https://threader.app/thread/1306359385656946688
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duckduckgo is very very inaccurate
bangin – a primitive, portable shell script which enables DuckDuckGo-like bangs
Hi everyone! I have just launched a community to support my initial website. Users can ask money-related questions and receive opinions from verified financial experts and the general public. I’d appreciate your thoughts!
It’s hyphenated. Just look at the comic cover.
I think the intuition you need here is that while the size of the whale is bounded, the size of the infinite universe is not.(1) Thus the argument doesn't work, because the "faster and faster with each additional particle" assumption isn't met.

OTOH, your argument is a good one if we're talking about things like the entire infinite universe undergoing some transformation, provided that the probability of that thing happening somehow diminishes over time.

1) This is by far the best sentence I've ever written on Hacker News. So thank you! :)
Adding new criteria to play the latest patch of a game is something basically every major developer does on a regular basis - you'll get EULA confirmation prompts after installing an update, especially if it's an online game like Rocket League. I'd say I see one 1-2 times a year for every online game I play.

The EULA not being visible definitely sounds illegal, though. Really absurd oversight.
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Done out of anger, it rarely works. When someone honks at you in anger when in traffic, you might take time to self-reflect on what you've done wrong, if you've committed any antisocial behavior, and what you might do differently in the future, but most people don't. Because of their ego, they feel the need to defend themselves from attack.
Maybe the issue isn't with the default notification behaviour in a teleconference program, but with the expectation that someone should always be instantly accessible via zoom/slack/what have you during work hours.

(I mean, yeah, the meeting was presumably scheduled but the manager could have phoned or texed.)
No it's really not.

Installing adware on my computer without any input from me is NOT ok.

And I have been using headphones(wired) for 5 years without feeling the need to use their sowtware.
> (and since 1991 in Germany)

I remember that the presumed health risks were discussed years before that date, and it has been avoided by some even before the ban.
And this is probably a really good thing. We should want bleeding edge tech and languages to get battle hardened in smaller stakes products and open source projects before we try and use them at scale.
It becomes more complex if you are an Instagram influencer and share yourself with Eiffel tower on the background - do you need to share loyalties and how much of it?
I really like the idea, maybe this can make me back to GNOME, but it seems to me it lacks an absolutely vital feature of i3/Sway: the scratchpad[0], I always have an Emacs buffer opened to my org folder, and the scratchpad is very handy.

0: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_scratchpad
I do wonder how Microsoft verifies 3rd party drivers before pushing them through Windows Update. I've seen some very low quality drivers (and associated bloat of services and background exes) be pushed through, to the point where I disabled driver updates and went back to doing it manually. A supply chain attack here could be devastating.
I only have the problem with AirPod Pros. The fit test never passes in my right ear and they feel very uncomfortable after about 15 minutes. They also fall out when I speak and walk with them on.

But the worst is that sometimes my own voice resonates back in my ear, its hard to describe but very unpleasant and disturbing in a conversation.
> On a side note - is it Spiderman or Spider-man? I grew up with the believe that it was the former.

Well, there's a Spider-man related subreddit called "respect the hyphen" so...
hmm i have it on system, but haven seen any adds. Where do they pop up ?
Craig Murray is on record expressing skepticism that Russia was involved in the Salisbury poisoning. Judge his trustworthiness accordingly.
They have started an iNaturalist project.[1] If you find any dead bird in the affected areas you can submit the pictures of it to the project database. It will help in identification and understanding the scale of impact.

[1]: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/southwest-avian-mortali...
There are some complains that we can share, but honestly they are not really that fun to read. We are still early in our transition and one major complaint I have is about helm and lack of flexibility of it and operator being very flexible but a huge time sink.

I think a lot of complaints we would usually have are reduced due to the fact that we use managed K8s with GKE.

All other complaints I can think of are related to our application and some architecture decisions we made early on, but that won't be interesting to anyone but people at GitLab.
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But it still begs the question: Why are they being censored?

Regardless of how much BS this person is spouting or who is ultimately behind it all or what their intentions are, we generally hold that someone has a right to spout as much BS as they want so long as it doesn't put people or the democratic process in danger.
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It does improve the experience of using their hardware, even though mice for example work absolutely fine without it. I had it running for a while, but decided not to use it as it added nothing in my case.

The issue is they're pushing unwanted software that displays ads on the desktop through a (possibly bogus) driver update that you can't really refuse without halting Windows Update altogether.
Don’t all apps nowadays send you notifications even if they are not running?
> We have all heard horror stories of innocent people being mistaken for criminals

Sure. All the horror stories involve doxxing by anons. This is not the same at all.

> If Krebs doxxed you or I doxxed you, the result for you is the same. I fail to see your point here.

Well if he was wrong to doxx me, I'd be able to sue him into oblivion. If you doxxed me, there'd be no repercussions for you. That personal liability pretty much ensures that Krebs isn't going to doxx me unless he's absolutely certain that he's right.
Hello, author here.

The idea came to me yesterday as I wanted to use a bang for ProtonDB. I didn't fancy waiting around for it to be added to DDG following submission, and that led me to ponder the other harms of this really useful feature being locked behind DDG's service.

In theory, with the script being so simple and working on the basis of mere input and output, it should be easy to write other tooling around it, which I've briefly touched upon in the README.

The shell script is extremely simple, but anyone with experience in writing them might be able to spot problems with it, please do let me know if you do.

I'm unsure about how best to package banglists. One option would be to provide a config file with a list of lists, a bit like you do with some adblocking software, but that'd presumably require some sort of intransience.

Anyway, feedback welcome!
Eh, that's nothing, few friend of mine had issues where Android would sometimes not ring alerts. Why? Who knows, maybe some weird bug that manifested itself in some combination of system settings and phone firmware.

I have multiple devices so I usually set alert on home phone + work phone if it's something really important like a flight at 6 AM; but if I were to use an alarm clock everyday I'd probably buy the simplest one I can find for few bucks.
There is apexctl repository on GitHub that is a userspace driver for SteelSeries keyboards. Written in Haskell, but binaries are also available.