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Your argument only makes sense if we grant that Webkit is always and forever the fastest safest most efficient and all round best browser engine there is. iOS users are denied the opportunity to have 3rd party developers even attempt to produce something better.

(googler, but i work on and far prefer iOS. i care about the platform and i wish it had actual browser engine competition)

> NZ is in a similar situation as VN where a local transmission appeared today without known infection chain. It only takes one error and you're back to square 1.

Citation? I'm not seeing it on any of the usual NZ news sites, and I rather suspect it would be big news.

edit: oh, i see, I've misparsed your sentence. VN is where the local transmission occurred, not NZ. nevermind.

This - 4K BOTW at 60FPS is really something. It's a shame the 60FPS messes with the physics a bit (it's not super noticeable if you're not already familiar with the game, but there's some fairly big differences)

> This is bonkers. The attribution is still there, you just have click it

This means, almost by definition, that the most viewed versions of these photos on twitter, probably by a very high margin, have no attribution.

Why is this bonkers? The right to attribution is clear, and it’s not your place to judge whether or not the artist should be exercising it.

The latter question comes down to how feasible it is for a person tweeting to know how their tweets are going to look on the main timeline w/regard to attribution, which seems like something it’s reasonable for a court to decide.

It's an ongoing project, most of the frontend stuff simply hasn't actually been made yet.

So far one tool has been launched: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/30/21241093/facebook-google-...

and i really doubt they're going to stop with just that.

Yes, and regularly, and so do millions of other Tokyo residents. Cases here are up to ~200 daily new cases with (AFAIK) zero linked to public transit (and this is weeks after our quasi-lockdown ended). If public transit/trains were by definition a significant risk factor Tokyo's situation would look a _lot_ different.

Now maybe a train stuffed with non-mask wearing people talking constantly would be a different issue.

> Maybe people in Japan look at the US and wonder why we have so much media about superheros, and so little about highschool

To be honest as a non-american, americans seem pretty obsessed with high school as well.

NZer, never seen it before

the 'context onself' is americans talking about america. got it.

When their title is "Why Restaurants Are So Fucked" instead of "Why Restaurants In America Are So Fucked" is why.

No they didn't. Paste a URL and hit the icon next to it.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&tab=TT&sl=auto&...

GTFS feeds are open. The ‘G’ stands for general. This person is excited about freely fixing this issue for _everyone_, they’ve just chosen to frame their blogpost around the most popular surface for that feed.

huge disclaimer: I work at google, and on transit at that

it wouldn't, which is why the complaint in these tweets ("drag the map even a pixel? it erases all your results and closes the infobox you were looking at") is, in fact, not something that happens.

give it a go.

> if I remember correctly, employees are even expected (obliged?) to use their personal Google account for work.

You remember completely incorrectly.

> Gmail on iOS is especially annoying because we often have to open links that require sign-in (e.g. Github) and there's no way to make it open Safari, but it does have an option for opening "Chrome" (also a shell around an iOS webview).

This is false. GMail has settings for choosing chrome or safari - settings > default apps.

> If you use the tickets you pay more, if you don't register your card, good luck when something goes wrong with it(and it will).

Counterpoint: No it won't, necessarily. I've never had an issue with one of these IC cards (edit: in over 10 years of using them). I've lost one, that's it. I've lost more of the paper tickets _inside_ the station than that.

Do you have actual data on the failure rates of IC cards?

? This isn't true at all. You buy them at vending machines in the station.

You _can_ add your name to them if you want. You don't have to.

> Plus, people paying cash slow down the bus as they fumble for their wallets and count out their coins and such.

Around here, on board the busses, they have completely automated machines that can read all the notes and dispense change automatically, they even seem pretty robust at it (crumpled bills, etc work fine) - they essentially as good a job as it's possible to do with cash.

And it still takes agonizingly longer than tapping a transit card and everyone else on the bus hates you.

> Standardizing a fare payment system just does the same for mass transit.

No it doesn't. Japan has a standardized mass transit fare payment system, covering close enough to the entire country, and you can get in on that with a card purchased, and topped up, completely anonymously in cash.

ok I'll bite: what are the exciting developments in blockchains that google is missing out on

So I in fact work on the maps team. There is absolutely no _personal_ incentive for me (or anyone on my team) to help Google collect more location data. I will not get a bonus for it, I will not get an increased perf rating for it, any benefit I would get from it (increased stock price, I guess?) is so completely abstracted away that it simply does not register.

There is an incentive to have increased usage of the features I'm in charge of, many of which are intrinsically tied to (or superior with) location access. I don't believe that's the same as incentivizing the collection of location data, because it's not our real goal - if Apple would provide it I would absolutely love to provide users with a 'one-shot' location feature (it's probably too clumsy but the idea is when the user hits e.g. the directions button, the OS pops up a permission box and if they agree then maps gets one and only one GPS fix and then the permission is back off).

googler.

This one always comes up a lot for some reason (I really don't understand what point is being made), but I'll point out that maps was actually acquired. But, it's been so long since that it's been a) thoroughly ship of theseus-ed such that I'd be surprised if there's more than minor fragments of the original codebase remaining and b) sprouted large new features that are under the 'maps' umbrella but could easily be standalone apps in their own right (example: public transit support in google maps; there's a whole marketplace of apps that just do that).

Similarly for docs, android, etc - maybe they were started with an acquisition but given the amount of change and work done on top of that: so what?

The old Amiga game cannon fodder did this well - you had named soldiers that rose in rank as they survived missions, but if they died they were gone forever. The increased rank didn't improve them gameplay wise, so you wouldn't reload just to get them back (er, can't even remember if the game had saves in the first place), but you got pretty attached to them the same. Every dead soldier also added a grave to a hill in the mission select screen.

On iOS, location history absolutely was not required for this. Either its different on android google maps, or you're conflating web and app activity with location history.

> Also I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Google Maps now remembers searches you've made without location history or app activity tracking being active. This wasn't the case about a year ago, when I last tried it, a dark pattern of sorts. They probably changed the behavior being forced by the GDPR or something similar.

Location history wasn't ever needed for remembering searches, FWIW.

Thanks for the update. I'll admit to not reading the guidelines closely until now, but since they don't actually outline a list of websites considered 'non-original', this does essentially mean that HN can apparently shift comments you make for any arbitrary URL to another, and you have no way to know beforehand.

Sorry, I don't mean to sound irritable, but attaching my comments to an article I didn't intend is way too close to putting words in my mouth.

Please insist on dropping comments if you're going to keep doing this. Imagine commenting encouragingly on some programming article, and then HN merges it with another one, and now you're on record as being at all positive to ESR

i deleted my comments because i was addressing points in a story that this thread no longer links to

Hello hackernews, what's going on here? I commented on a businessinsider* story about this. It is now a times.co.uk story that a) I can't read in full and b) is not the story I originally commented on.

I'm not particularly happy about having my comments attached to a different article than the one I originally commented on, especially one I can't read.

* i wrote bloomberg here originally; it was actually businessinsider.com.au. i'd say i regret the error but i don't really

See parent.