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Tell HN: Google Reviews on Maps Silently Hides Reviews
Forgive me if this was already well-known or obvious - I learnt about it recently and accidentally and it was disappointing to learn.

I had been logging reviews of places on Google Maps just because of the convenience compared to Yelp's separate app and because of the obvious lack of perverse incentives compared to what I had heard about Yelp.

I had some terrible experiences recently with some horrid business that I felt were outright scams so I logged reviews containing the necessary details and appropriate rating. One day, I was casually browsing Google Maps incognito and noticed that my review of one of the places was not visible. Going back to the GMaps app, the review was present as if nothing was wrong, with the business's 'response' intact. I checked a few other places for which I had logged negative reviews and most of these were invisible when incognito but were still present in my list of Google Maps Contributions. I similarly checked a negative review a friend had logged about a place that had tried to scam them and same thing: they could see it in their list but it wasn't visible to me logged in as myself or incognito.

It is sad that Google is soliciting reviews and then silently hiding them without letting the reviewer know. I imagine that scam businesses probably are able to afford nasty lawyers to coerce Google into becoming an enabler/participant of their scams.

I was wondering whether anyone knows of better places to log and view reviews of businesses.
Sorry Dang, didn’t mean to.
We need a thread on pans. I have no clue where to start.
As a consumer, how can I request a removal of my personal info from Stripe's Identity database?
FHE isn't obfuscation, nor is it functional encryption. it's not the cryptographic equivalent of Intel SGX; all it lets you do is put encrypted inputs into a program and get encrypted outputs back.

the real holy grail is program obfuscation, which lets you build your programs as "black boxes," containing secrets but never divulging them. there's progress on that front, but it's less feasible than FHE (which is saying something!)
Yeah I haven’t read the article yet but OP is making flat-earth level claims

Even in Paris Roubaix (where there are cobbled sections) they ride 28s
How exactly do you shorten trails, or race courses?
Universities have incorporated scams and hussling for money into their very foundation in a destructive and predatory manner. Young smart people should really consider if they want get defrauded of their future by enrolling there.
To be honest, who on HN actually uses IRC anymore? Going on feeenode 5 years ago, it already felt lifeless. How can something already dead commit suicide :smile:. Maybe there were some obscure side hold outs?
I didn't even realize I needed this in my life.
> so that identity information is stored in a less ad-hoc way

It will be more ad hoc. Stripe does not decide how their client stores such data. Stripe will make asking for an ID very easy and that will vastly expand the number of businesses utilizing this method of registration.

Right now I think of Stripe as a reliable service. When one of their customer's data is breached or leaked, I don't know that everyone will still trust Stripe as a brand. News articles about such breaches won't be able to relate the nuance of who's at fault.

I'm not concerned about my online personas being linked to me. I'm concerned about making it easy for bad actors to perform identity theft en masse.
I’ve been wondering for a while with the (US) code is around 240V/15A outlets around the countertop along side the 120V. I would think as long as it’s a standard plug and has GFCI it should be ok but haven’t got far enough to ask an electrician.

Then just need to see which appliances i can get to run on it. Seems most kettles, resistance and induction cooktops for the UK (50hz) should work. Anything with a motor is probably out unless it’s an inverter drive.
The emergence of virulent variants that the existing vaccines don’t work against, especially in countries that are already behind on vaccinations or unable to acquire vaccines is a good reason to not stop research into treatments that may provide other options.

I’m not making a claim that ivermectin is that treatment, but saying “who cares” goes against the old advice that “if you have one you have none, and if you have two you have one.” It’s always good to have options.
Yes, that's why companies don't like to fire people in general. Alas, sometimes the choice is between firing people, taking morale hit and likely dying later, or not firing anyone, and dying much sooner and with certainty.
Robinhood had legitimate, if hard to understand, liquidity reasons for stopping trading on $GME. As far as I can tell Lee has no strategy at all for Freenode, and just keeps trying different fuels to extinguish the fire.
Yes, and with the money come higher prices and bigger administrative overhead. Because they can get the funds they will charge more.
I meant to delay it by more than that.

If you own 100000 shares of AMZN, it should take an entire quarter for your trade to go through. You will lose money if there is bad news.

If you own 1 share of AMZN, it should take 1 ms. If you are a super well-networked intern and figured out the bad news, bravo, you just made a bunch of money.
The cyberpunk "jack-into-the-matrix person is bleeding from the eyes due to feedback" trope is often complained about.

"Why not use a fuse?" people cry.

Well, storytelling is why that trope exists. Now storytelling has no excuse not to fix it. If military trained dolphins are hacker supremes then guinea pigs are the "fuse".
The stats in the article show ~150k users on the "old" freenode... and ~6k tops on the new one.
Does anyone know where I can short Freenode? Any arbitrage opportunities here?
On a similar note, I don’t get why people want government support services. People are making plenty of money! Just look at Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
This may not always be true.
I have a ~$50 110v induction cooktop I bought on Amazon. It replaced the same thing from about 7 years before that worked pretty much flawlessly until we melted it on the other range.

I never babied it - even took it camping, used it to cook in the backyard, and some very slow beer brewing with it. It's unreasonably awesome for the low price, and it makes cooking really fast and easy.
Base it on the size of your position before or after (whichever is higher), not the size of your trade.
I can’t help but see some kind of special interest or agenda whenever I hear a news story now. You have to ask why they chose to report this, why they slant things one way or another with their choice of wording and emphasis. What is the aspect of this story that is too politically incorrect or unfashionable to be included?

I have never researched a topic deeply and found that the media had been covering that topic accurately, ever. The harsh truth is that generally speaking the news is almost completely useless. You might as well just never watch it.

I think the very final nail in the coffin was the leaked recordings of the CNN technical director basically admitting what everyone pretty much already knew. That they spread misinformation deliberately, only give interviews to subject experts who they know will say what CNN prefers them to say and ultimately design everything they put on the screen to get hooks inside your limbic system and keep your eyes glued. The main tool they use to do this is the emotion of fear, and it was for this reason and no other that they created a COVID death counter. And every single one of those points is explicitly, literally and plainly stated on video by a very senior employee of CNN for all to see. so I’m afraid that I can’t be brushed aside as a Russian bot. It’s right there on YouTube.

And what about all the other media companies? This CNN leak, which is maybe the very embodiment of a scoop, was not on the front page of any major newspaper or news website. It was not elaborated on. It was basically not reported.
I’ve been doing a deep dive on ivermectin the last few days and that’s something I didn’t know. TIL.

https://www.thesprucepets.com/ivermectin-based-heartworm-med...
Why did you read this. So that you could debate a hypothetical ultra-conservative in your head ? Or worse because you have people in your life who enjoy these stories and you don't want to get blindsided when they bring it up ? If the latter, stop talking to them. People who believe the earth is flat, dinosaurs are a hoax, Jan 6 was caused by democrats, mask-mandates are like Nazi persecution, or Harvard is worse than North Korea should get zero brain cycles from you. Let it go.
Flexible and future-proof is not the same as quality.
> the air inside a wide tire doesn’t add weight

This is true, but it's not weight that matters for acceleration, it's the mass, which that paragraph gets confused about. The air inside does definitely have a little mass.

The difference in mass between wider and narrower tires does have some effect on handling, even if not on acceleration.
IBM, on zSeries mainframes and z/OS, has even bigger commitment to backward compatibility than Microsoft.

Yes, it might take a long time to fix some mistakes, but usually, you get another better API added that doesn't have the old flaws. Over time, system accrues a byzantine set of features.

Unfortunately, end result of these policies is that nobody wants to develop for those systems anymore. So the (dharmic?) wheel is reinvented elsewhere.
I think that's where TikTok and other emerging video platforms might have an edge.

Imgur includes a fair bit of video with roughly a 60s cap.

Monetisation seems mostly to be based around branding / influencing.
> It's very amusing you were actually able to show yourself laughing at anti-vaxers right here on HN, thus winning the argument against eganist completely. You should probably have called that out more clearly. I guessed what might be in the link but it would have been good to quote it.

My guess is that what drew so much ire was the tone and presentation. Similar to "thus winning the argument against eganist completely" when it was less of an argument and more of an immune response to common patterns that proved in this case to be a false positive.

But yes, simply going with quoting the past post, drawing attention to it very clearly in text ("Please see linked one example of a past post where I've declared my own pro-vaccine views"), and then using that past position to contextualize their current aversion would've been great for constructive engagement.

Water under the bridge. Either way, sorry trhway; glad you're not anti-vax, but hoping to win you over to the mRNA side (though feel free to laugh at me on my way to the grave if I die of vaccine induced long term effects. I guess I'll have earned it at that point).
Not to mention the silly grin you get when you ride them. Only thing I miss about living in the city
My trading system works similar. It presents me a list of stocks ranked by that they had some coverage in social and traditional media + my preferences. This allows me to quickly check what is important and what not.
Minus a lot of the noise. Makes me a happy trader.
Am I the only one who's seeing a Japanese Imperial chrysanthemum in the middle of that logo? Seems an odd move for what seems to be an almost entirely Korean-American company, even if it is slapped on top of a Korean rose.
Libera was going to overtake Freenode at the end of the month; he still had some time. But yes, it's likely he did this so that he can turn a race to the bottom into something that looks vaguely positive, if you're naive.
The original release of bitcoin from satoshi used the #bitcoin channel on freenode to find peers to connect to, this has long since changed though.
Spraying kerosene onto the fire doesn't seem to be working too well.
Says due to excessive snowpack, so I’m guessing issues would be during the day and/or at fringes of coverage.

But that was February
Past related threads:

Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11467339 - April 2016 (64 comments)

Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11265424 - March 2016 (4 comments)
Please don't spread FUD. I was onsite and still learned slower. It all depends on your team and documentation. I mentor people remotely and they have been successful
To be fair, academia everywhere is exploitative and toxic to its members, with exceptions, perhaps, of top level administrative positions - see [0]. So this kind of exploitative and toxic behavior does not surprise one bit. Who wants to bet that these patents will be created by students for negative pay?

[0] https://alexandreafonso.me/2013/11/21/how-academia-resembles...
I love Money Stuff, but even other Bloomberg newsletters are pretty tame from the outrage point of view.

I suppose it's just the editorial style driven by a different marketing strategy than daily newspapers.
agree. recently discovered them, very impressed.
I think their new show has some kinks to work out and a bit more modernization of the graphics to put it back on par with how things they were doing were presented with their spots through "the Hill."

Which I hope stay online to show how they are professional.
I also hope their new show gets the graphics and tech to catch up quickly, as they are a refreshing source of truths that need to be told, and I'd like others to be able to watch and feel the same without being distracted and wondering if the new/current as of June 21 make them amateurs with uninformed opinions - instead of the professionals with the history and knowledge that some of us have become aware of.

So glad to see them doing real and truth - we need more.

When I caught part of on TV the other night with Sharyl Attkisson

( eg https://youtu.be/ol-6AwoPLH4?t=947

) I had a similar - jaw drop - OMG someone is telling the truth and they are on the air and not in a mysterious car accident! This is amazing.

EX-CNN aparrently(?) - maybe it's going to be a new movement of like ex-X-cult - no longer beholden to Y -

Perhaps old media is not just losing but started to be lost.

I want a browser extension to highlight individual reporters and info about past biases - as it's too hard to pin a portal as being one way or the other, when there are shills mixed in with regular reporters and editors all mucking up everything it seems.
It appears to be working now. Great launch demo!
> If anyone knows some good arguments to use when your partner is an excellent cook and loves gas for the high heat (searing and wok frying), I'm all ears.

Other comments had some good suggestions, but I'd be sure to also mention:

Ease of cleanup: Induction units only get warm, none of the food or oil that gets spilled or splattered will burn onto the surface. A damp cloth is all the cleanup necessary.

Comfortable kitchen temperatures: You have a tiny fraction as much heat emitted into the room, so the kitchen remains a far more comfortable temperature.

Found an interesting list here: https://www.bestspy.co.uk/do-professional-chefs-use-inductio...
I'm not sure you understand. When a business needs your ID to do business, they ask you for it and store it in their infrastructure. This already happens today. Nothing Stripe is doing necessarily changes this. Stripe is simply providing a streamlined mechanism by which business can fulfill their KYC requirements and obtain this information. And now they have the choice to continue to store it in their infrastructure or look it up via the API as needed. If somebody breaches WellsFargo and dumps all the identity info of their customers, clearly Wells Fargo is at fault. Nobody will care if the entry form where they put their info in when they signed up for a bank account was hosted by Stripe and white labeled by Wells Fargo, or if there was a permission box that popped up from Stripe asking if you'd like to allow Wells Fargo access to your info, or if it was simply hosted by Wells Fargo. I don't see the problem here.
Was the book "written" by the girl or is it the church/colonizers that had authored the book.

And did the girl live for centuries just so she can experience the white savior?
Can anyone suggest a good weather instrument set for home use?

Something i can use with a pi or arduino?
HEB does curbside service, but what is their delivery service? I’ve looked, and I haven’t found anything. I’d love to use them instead of InstaCart, but so far as I can tell, there is no such option available to me.

This, in Austin, TX, or all places. The HEB “Tech Hub” is here, so we should be the first place to roll out a service like that.
>> the money would at least likely go back into academia so I am not a visceral no.

I'm not sure how involved/aware of US universities you've been in the past 20+ years but this just isn't true. Tuition costs have skyrocketed because when you can't ever get away from student debts it turns out there's lots of people willing to lend you unlimited funds.

Endowments at the majority of the universities listed here have grown enormously in the past several decades, and have unicorn returns in the past few years.

And yet the amount of money going into research and pedagody hasn't really grown at all. Why? it's all going to adminstrative overhead. Just like the article states here, most schools can't even cover the cost of their technology transfer and licensing overhead (more administration) so they're going to squeeze those who can't lawyer up vs. actually provide valuable IP.

These are not charities regardless of their taxable status. The pay of top administrators at Harvard is actually determined by the Harvard Corporation, and in addition to incredible benefits and sweet lifetime deals they're all making well over $500K a year in salary. HMC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard is even more ridiculous, with the top 5 bureaucrats all earning between 4.5 and 6 MILLION dollars a year in salary. This has nothing to do with research and teaching.
You're definitely faster with the GP5000s and it's not just an illusion. The GP5000 is an extremely fast tire - some of the lowest rolling resistance out there as measured scientifically [1]. Even the fastest 38mm tires are probably going to cost you minimum 10 watts per tire over the GP5000; perhaps even double that.

[1] https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/road-bike-reviews/c...
> Opening an IndexedDB database fails 100% of the time on the first try.

This is something that should have been caught by automated tests.
Show HN: A simple multiplayer top-down shooter game using Love2d
Honestly, not a terribly surprising result. I'm glad these sorts of studies are allowed to be performed.

I'd imagine untreated PTSD can lead to all sorts of debilitating anxiety issues, with ensuing substance abuse problems to cope. Leveraging the fight or flight response reduction effect of MDMA in conjunction with therapy to treat it makes all sort of sense, and I'm glad the science seems to be backing it up. I'll be curious to see if the remission % difference will hold long term (not that this needs to be a one-and-done kind of thing)
> I don't think any of this is related to politics

I seriously urge you to check your cognitive dissonance to the situation as a whole. This is literally the definition of political theater.

> Covid has actually outpaced cancer and heart disease to become the number 1 cause of death

Not true at all. Did you miss the months of heated discussion when it was found out that hospitals received lump sums of additional money if they checked off "covid" as the "cause" of death? Then they clarified that by making it acceptable to consider covid as the "cause" of death if the patient had any "flu-like symptoms"...aka coughing, shortness of breath. Is it even possible to die without at least one of those "flu-like symptoms"?

I hate to break it to everyone, but we did absolutely nothing to slow down covid. Everything we've seen over the past year has simply been placebos, population control, and political opportunism. Buy hey, can't wait to read Fauci's new book!
My college buddies did that, too. This was in Houston, Tx.
I think this experiment offers a glimpse into an area that might deserve looking into.

For example, a breathable weave of that reflective coating on the inside of a tent might make it warmer rather you use a campfire or not and reduce condensation when compared to my garage built proof of concept made with off the shelf materials.

As to places where you can't have a campfire, I addressed that at the end of the post.

One of the things I didn't really talk about, but did show in the video a couple times, is that reflective bubble wrap I use for the floor of the tent.

That stuff makes a great pad for under your mattress pad or bag. It makes a huge difference when you're sitting or sleeping on cold ground and it protects your mattress from rocks and other small sharp hole poking stuff, folded up it makes an awesome pad to sit on, and it's pretty light.
It's worse than that. IRC has no login by default, and the first user to join a channel becomes the sole operator (nickname and channel registrations are a layer above, but those databases are now blank, so all their records of persistent ownership are gone).

Since he pointed the same domains at a new network, that means now a random user of every channel, upon reconnecting to the network, has now become the sole operator and is now free to register said channel and take control over it.

So it's not even that this allows random people to register channels; this is literally appointing a random user as the new owner, for each channel. Oh, and if that user quits without registering anything (and any other users joined in the interim), the channel is now opless and orphaned and cannot be moderated, registered, or otherwise controlled without admin action, unless all the other users leave.

So if you owned a channel on the old network with more than 10 or so users, there is a ~0% chance you'll be able to own it on the new one without help from the admins, unless you got extremely lucky and you were the first user to reconnect among the people in your channel, or unless whoever won the oper lottery is nice enough to give it back (and this being IRC, probably half the users are idle bouncers, so there's a good chance they'll be unresponsive, if not outright malicious).

This was actually an issue for Libera too, as people switching their Freenode configs wholesale wound up creating channels that didn't exist yet that they'd been a member of on the old network. But this time it's global, not just individual users changing their config, so it's infinitely worse.
MLB is poorly run. They have lost viewers and stadium attendees, despite other sports growing. The commissioner doesn’t even appear to like the sport and the changes they’ve forced are ridiculous—especially the forced runner in tie games.
> The internet would be a better place if there were more identity requirements SO LONG AS companies are not legally allowed to sell or transmit that information to advertisers or other third parties without explicit opt-in consent ideally on a per-use basis. Or simply at all

This is a pipe dream. The online world spans the globe and we can only enforce the law in our own respective countries.

And even if all countries were cooperative about enforcement, distributed communication tools already exist. The internet has always been a place where you can go to share your thoughts without worrying about what your family or friends think. I don't think that will change in our lifetime, if ever.

Anyway, the market can sort this out. If using an ID to authenticate your Twitter account makes Twitter more successful than its competitors, great! I would not count on it.