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> Well, if you have it all figured out, why engage with me in conversation?

I don't have it figured out. What I am trying to do is explain your policy. I'm trying to get you to commit to an actual viable policy rather then doing moral grandstanding.

> This is false, and an empty assertion. So the people who disagree with you haven't studied WW2 in detail? A variant of the "all non-populist historians agree that [...]".

It reflects my own experience with studying the topic, in media, books, podcast, forums and so on.

And generally the people who disagree refuse to make detailed historical argument or proposing alternative solutions and just relay on moral grandstanding.
>Nuclear is the opposite of variable, as it can’t be turned up or down quickly.

As far as electrical output is concerned, nuclear power is just as variable as any other turbine based power generation system. Just divert the steam away from the turbines and you are no longer making electricity. Therefore, through creative plumbing, you could easily adjust the amount of power generated by controlling how much steam is going to the turbine. The issue is that while you are diverting steam, you are wasting money by running the reactor.
Curiously, Harley sounds don't raise my hackles the way a loud sport-bike does. What are they, Ducati's or something? There is just something just so shrill about their sound.
They’re not, intrinsically. But on an ecological level, domestic cats kill so many birds that they are responsible for severe reductions in some species populations. I happen to think that species preservation is important. So people's free-roaming domestic cats should be considered fair game.
I wonder what else they're listening to.
I wonder if their data streams are as regulated as private firms.
Hmm, I think you should use TAI over UTC because UTC has leap-second corrections, Which means that the current time + X seconds might not actually be X seconds from now
I don't think nuclear waste is a key factor, but cost overrun is. Source: https://www.vox.com/2016/2/29/11132930/nuclear-power-costs-u...
Well I'm doing both. Like many of my intended audience, I'm doing it part-time (nights and weekends), while working on Quiver doing during the day. It's progressing quite steadily and over the last 10 years, I have learned to become a lot more efficient with my time. My last startup was also about time management, so I have a lot of experience helping people finish what they start.

I should add that this is really scratching my own itch. I wanted a place where I could learn and build in public, so I decided to create a place like that.
The massive branching storyline is something that happens all the time. Often ends up being, like, a single branch point at the end of the game.
My children grew up from birth till they went to college on the second floor of a New York City apartment with their bedroom facing a relatively busy street (110th Street by Broadway)

It is astonishing what they can sleep through. My wife and I are in the back bedroom and street noise that wakes me up they just sleep right through.
Now I'm really sad that I don't have the manual for the TI-99/4A which was the first computer I used. IIRC it's where I learned everything about both operating it and programming it, starting from nothing. It's so true that we just don't have anything like it anymore.
Due process requires an accuser to take the stand at a hearing for cross-examination if requested by the defendant. All defendants have this right. Good luck getting the entire development team to explain the code, line by line, in front of a judge, explaining how the audio is always in-sync with the vehicle on screen.
Oh, right. In my mind a 5 pointed star is made up of 5 triangles, each in a 1.618 ratio, so I mixed up star and triangle in my mind.
Thank you! We're going to be adding support for options sometime next week. IB is also on our roadmap, though we don't have an exact timeline for an integration yet.
Genuine question: suppose you get a link from a known, nontechnical friend for some interesting product on Amazon. The link goes to:

https://amazon.shopping/...

How do you determine whether this is actually Amazon or a scammer?
In what concerns Windows, it is surely hybrid, specially since secure kernel was introduced.

And Apple's long term roadmap to move all kexts to userspace is a means to improve the current state.
I moved to the city for peace and quiet! I didn't know there would be so many people around!
That would probably be the consumer friendly approach, or at least some kind of life time discount on the subscription platform. At the same time, a perpetual license is typically for the version you buy and that's it (old Adobe or MS Office approach) so I can see the argument for "you got it, and can still use it".

As someone who moved from LastPass to 1Password (after they aged off the lifetime license) though I'm happy and given their growth I'd imagine most of their customers are happy enough with it.
"Still, I'm curious what about your home county makes your wife so enthusiastic about it compared to well, everywhere else?"

I asked her that during the discussion. She wasn't able to give any explanation. My guess is that it's because she's never lived anywhere else. I've lived multiple places. They each have their good and bad characteristics.
This is an excellent example for people concerned with privacy rights.

In order to have nice things the population really needs to culturally understand that "with great power comes great responsibility".

Instead we have a culture of entirely selfish individualism, so the popular backlash is that damn near everyone is this thread (including myself) applauds the erosion of privacy rights because we're fed up and sick of living in a society with assholes.

If we can't govern ourselves voluntarily, we'll be governed by machines that we build.

We do desperately need to have income and wealth-adjusted tickets for these things though. A $20 slap on the wrist might be more than some people who are on the edge of homelessness can afford while a CEO might need a minimum of a $10k fine to even register for their attention.
James Fallows, a pretty influential journalist, did just that in the District of Columbia. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/james-f...
But we're talking about that country right now.
Noise pollution is just one of the many reasons we should have never allowed cars to be the default mode of personal transportation.

In practice, it is more quiet and peaceful at night in a dense walkable city neighborhood, than it is in the supposed bucolic suburbs or countryside. Purely because the first does not have cars.

This enforcement is a great step, but the it's dabbling in the margins. Cars, and especially ICE cars, are fundamentally incompatible with a healthy and safe city life.
The worst part about the noise is the constant cycling. Whirr WHIRRR whirr WHIRR whirr. For me, at least, it is dramatically more annoying than just a constant hum.
When I was growing up I had heard that a good use for old potatoes was to weather-seal the open end of exhaust pipes.
Alot of new development is that architecture from the 80's and 90's is not tailord to modern life, was adapted to the car revolutions of the late mid century, and is agressive towards pedestrians. All the new construction in my area is tearing down old warehouse, office buildings and parking lots, to be replaced with wide sidewalks, brick paved streets with clear crossings, and high rise young adult "luxury" apartments with amenities. It's making the neighborhood nice and connecting all the bike routes and walk routes.

Being right outside the city core helps justify the price of redevelopment. However, I think the larger buildings are getting facelifts rather than rebuilds.
well not for the problem of security, but for their problem of trying to identify who is actually behind a site it of course is a problem that the ties to identity became weaker.

on edit: yes, they want to verify identity because their purpose is really to provide a form of security as well, so it is sort of removed by a step / nothing works all the way down, getting confusing at this point.
People always seem to ignore the obvious. In addition to advertising, Apple partners with third parties to sell stuff "directly" (with Apple as the middleman) to the computer owner after the sale of the computer is complete. Apple takes a cut. Music, e-books, software, etc. Apple wants credit card numbers for future use; most purchasers comply.

Buy stuff using an Apple computer and Apple makes money.

There once was a time when Apple computers were just computers, not an intended means for capturing further revenue after purchase by partnering with media companies and other sellers. There was no mandatory data collection after purchase. No submission of credit card numbers. I still have one of those Apple computers. The company changed. Whether that was in response to what other companies were doing, e.g., Google, "changes in the industry", etc., is left as a question for the reader.

There was a patent application from Apple some years ago regarding advertising embedded into the operating ssystem. (Imagine the computer refusing to boot until the user has viewed an ad.) Perhaps we could tell ourselves Steve Jobs was trying to protect us by filing for claims to the most annoying advertising tactics imaginable, with the intent to never practice these inventions and to sue anyone who does. No doubt online commenters will have more cogent explanations of what this application represents.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
I would mind less smogging my car every two years if I thought it actually made an impact on this at all. I just wish police would actually crack down on these sorts of crimes. But I get the feeling that a lot of them are the same ones driving Harleys and Chargers.
Singapore has a major problem in this regard, with loud sometimes expensive cars revving up to the allowed speed limit (50-90km/h) on very short stretches of road.

Particularly irksome given the high population density within earshot, and all the stranger given the fairly strict laws in Singapore which only recently outlawed electric scooters on the roads among other immediate effect measures.

Wonder if they'll follow suit with this, though the prevalence of the modded/sports car culture for showing off and the fact that having a car at all is rightfully seen as a privilege given the sky-high costs of ownership probably make it harder to do so.
Agreed, let's say all intersections within a mile of a school? ;-)
Where do you live that you can go around shooting cats in your yard? That's a felony where I live and I live in Texas which is a very gun friendly state.
Exactly, it would be much better if my kid was crushed under a loud-ass F250.
Who defines what a "normal, reasonable" person looks like?
Well when someone is asking me for a random digit, the last thing I want to be is predictable! To avoid the shame and embarrassment of being basic, I go with 2. Or maybe 9. Depends on my mood.
You seem to misunderstand me. I don't make an argument for its "rightness".

Rather, war crimes will always occur in war. And the primitive instinct to stay alive, at almost any price, is programmed into us. When faced with existential threats to our loved ones, these ivory tower questions about the relative worths of lives (100:1? 10:1?) are exposed for the nonsense they always were. Our biological programming kicks in: "survive at any cost - protect your own – eradicate the threat". It is only subsequent generations, from upon high in their ivory towers and far removed from the threat, who are able to condemn the savagery of the survivors.

In other words, it is always best to not enter a war. Perhaps even if attacked. 9/11 and the U.S.'s insane and disastrous responses in Afghanistan and Iraq being the latest demonstrations.
Well as long as only 13 innocent unarmed people were unloaded on by law enforcement everything is fine
Ask HN: What is the best way to begin the Nerdle game?
I go for 2+3*4=10 as it eliminates five digits and two operators.
I was sort of curious, so I went to see what impact this had on the customer experience at AWS. Searching for 'elasticsearch' in the AWS console services dropdown now yields:

'''
Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service)

Run and Scale OpenSearch and Elasticsearch Clusters (successor to Amazon Elasticsea...
'''

This seems like a petty, small win from the Elasticsearch people. I understand AWS has a history of gobbling up OSS and productizing it, and that that's detrimental, but it's hard to see Elastic, Inc as anything but sore that they got their lunch eaten here. Maybe that's justified. But it comes off as incredibly petty.

(disclaimer: i used to work at aws, but not anywhere near the referenced offerings).
Aha! I see.
In the case of red light cameras, aren't there pictures to prove the violation?
Dark Mode is first class in the next releases of GTK4 and LibAdwaita. It'll be available in GNOME 42 and Fedora 36.
Without definitively having some stat that proves or disproves this, the way this opinion was expressed feels a lot like survivor bias because you're reacting to the relatively small number of negative police interactions that are hyped up by the media (because they play on emotions well) and mentioning nothing of the millions and millions of police interactions that go positively or times that police presence prevented a crime.
In case it wasn't clear from my comments above: I don't doubt JSON may be important for this “definitely-not-the-web”-3. I just don't care about it, and neither does a good half of web developers here on HN.

(And yes, I'm also a bit angry because a bunch of lazy marketing dudes decided to hijack the “Web” name for something which has nothing to do with the web…)
There's a certain network getting through quite a few SHA256s, just give it a couple decades
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What shitty red light cameras are these where the data is all secret? In my city, tickets from red light cameras include a video of the incident, which clearly shows the car and traffic light.

Is that really how it works elsewhere, they just send you a ticket saying "we caught you running a red light, please pay fine"? What happens if you show up to court to contest, can't you just point out they have literally no evidence?
I do agree it could be worded better. I kind of doubt a single word would change the tone that significantly (given that many people don't know the difference).
> If we are going to need energy storage regardless (we will)

Why? Couldn't we just go all in on nuclear?
Towels work pretty well apparently (sometimes better than foam acoustic panels): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eKwb58vvFI
Sets a bad precedent, I'm on rails's main branch and this was the big dependency holding me back for a while. Sidekiq works with rails's main though
Hu, a fully nuclear grid would be built to support the highest demand, and plants would be giving energy away when there is a surplus (or actually what would probably happen is that people would design plants that can economically load follow). So, that surplus could go into various liquid fuel's, or whatever.

Its something I've said before, you overbuild nukes, and use the excess capacity for water desalination, jet fuel production, CO2 recapture, or any other energy intensive process which creates a product that can be easily stored.

Nuclear energy is basically free once you have built the plant.
It’s strange to complain about occasional motorcycle noise when emergency sirens could be heard all the time on Manhattan. Orders of magnitude more than in any other city I’ve been to. Or you New Yorkers tune that out?
By ‘Pyrrhic victory’, you mean enforcement action carries risks? That’s true for every society in human history…
ah thanks... fixed! you would think i would know that having been on HN for like 7 years but i obviously dont do this very often
Just because bitcoin is bad doesn't mean Ethereum isn't too.
Those employment centers are where resources are. The alternative is setting up resort towns with shipped in and strained labor serving the leisure and remote work class. See the mountain towns. Living remotely outside of towns starts to get isolating and inefficient unless you are getting all your resources from around your house and living off the land. Forget modern amenities.
It seems to me most traffic citations ought to be issued by mail based on dashcam footage now that the technology to do so is widespread. It would also reduce traffic stops as a pretext for searches, which act as an end-run around legal protections from unreasonable search.

Traffic stops could then be relegated to imminent dangers like drunk or otherwise reckless drivers, and serious crimes.
This just doubles the UI development effort.
The Soviets would not have been able to make a meaningful entry to the war in Japan at that time. Firstly because almost all of their armed forces were in Europe and secondly because they didn't have a pacific fleet.

Just for context, the invasion of the island of Okinawa just weeks prior had consisted of more than 1,600 allied ships. Japan would have to be a much larger task. Where were the Soviets going to get thousands of ships?
Azure AD MFA has a preview feature that helps mitigate this somewhat, https://m365security.net/2021/11/21/how-to-enable-mfa-code-m...

Instead of getting a contextless “approve?” notification, you’re shown the app asking for approval, location, and also asked to enter the two digit number shown on the apps login screen requesting login. You can also respond “this isn’t me”.

This means you can’t really approve such an attempt because you need to enter a two digit code too.
The problem is that to a cop, "normal" and "reasonable" is code for anyone with a police placard [1]. And if you give them discretion, "antisocial assholes" will end up largely meaning Black people.

Why not have the automated system issue a warning instead of a citation for the first offense?

[1] Check out this Twitter account, which documents NYPD traffic lawbreaking https://twitter.com/placardabuse. It's often really egregious stuff, like parking right in front of a fire hydrant or ticketing every illegally parked car on a street except for one with a police placard.
Good grief. The number of comments that unequivocally praise the police placing autonomous systems to fine people for annoyances.

Last year, all this stuff was racist and explicitly targeting minorites, and ACAB. Now, hail the new surveillance state! Go get those people who personally annoy me! This certainly will have no unintended side effects!
Wow, it's pretty surprising to me that the agreement allowed AWS to refer to Elasticsearch at all when promoting their own managed search offering.
Is that how that reads to you?
Right to trial, I could see the issue there. Right to inspect the evidence used against you, sure.

But where on earth do you get an expectation of privacy in deafening sounds you blast in public, which people can't ignore even if they want to? And audible inside others' private areas?
While I agree with the premise of discouraging people from being antisocial assholes, that sort of system is built for bias. Discouraging antisocial behavior is one thing, but other biases might be more destructive then helpful.
I think maybe the job of discouraging antisocial behavior might be more suited to something else than law enforcement, where it's more likely to actually work without becoming destructive. I couldn't give you a specific shape of what I mean, because it's a hard problem and I don't have a solution (otherwise I'd be campaigning for it).
I was looking into the idea of building a clockwork computer. Probably a 16-bit RISC based on a simple teaching instruction set (just over dozen instructions). Maybe a 4-bit prototype to work out how to actually implement everything.

Realistically even the prototype project is way beyond my skills but it doesn't look impossible. Actual performance would be in seconds-per-instruction ( mIPs = milli-IPs? ) with perhaps a few hundred words of memory.
This is what I think the police are for but as you say, it's hard to figure out what they actually are for these days. And to be clear, it's not just the police, decades-long underfunding of the public legal systems, prisons, and all the services that are supposed to stop people ending up that far in the first place.

But I'm not sure it's good to stop expecting the police to deal with this. That sort of surrender to criminality would be a dark step for humanity.
More than doubles it, because there are a variety of phone sizes, tablets, monitors, &c. But that's OK! Build the best thing, don't settle.
yes, i remember reading about this in london.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54452835.amp

>> 7 October 2020

>> More than a hundred people have been threatened with fines after London's first noise cameras were set up to combat antisocial supercar drivers.

>> The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea set up the cameras to tackle drivers using Knightsbridge streets as "racetracks".

>> The cameras intercept when a 74 decibel noise threshold is exceeded and records the offending vehicle.
I've so often wanted to replace LaTeX snippets in my org-mode documents with machine-readable `eqn` snippets (or maybe SageMath snippets). I'm sure someone out there must be sitting on an unpublished groundbreaking setup that pulls this off.
I'd argue that life for everyone would be better if police were actually writing tickets for noise rather than just doing 80 on the freeway at 2am.
I’ve been happily using DDG for a decade. Google is better for searches in Italian, but not for searches in English, imho.

Brave is interesting; and so are Mojeek (UK) and Kagi.
This will become a tax on the poor. Plenty of poor people in rough neighborhoods will get their catalytic converter stolen, will lack the money to fix it, and then will get a ticket in the mail. Taking the human factor out of police work here is a bad idea. Why can’t they up just ramp up enforcement of egregious offenders that are running straight pipes to be dickheads instead?
Depends by what you mean by "real buttons" but my first thought was that 99% of gaming mice will have at least 3 buttons and a scrollwheel. Often it's closer to 10 buttons.

This one has 20 buttons (including 3 big ones and a scrollwheel): https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gaming-mice/g600-mm...
A better solution for everyone is less dense living, and a culture of respect for not engaging in anti social behavior.
I have a Korn shell script that I use to run SQL against a few dozen databases.

I recently rewrote this script, so it would run on Windows, via Busybox ash. It needed quite a few changes. I've become somewhat practiced on the removal of bashisms.

Oddly enough I had to put a few back. Busybox on Windows doesn't implement stty that I needed to read a password, but it did have read -s, so I used that instead. I threw several snippets of ash-emulated bash back in, that would never ever run on dash.

When you ask "but why?" this is precisely why - I need this functionality in a specific place, where you cannot go.
In my experience, everyone else is worse than AdSense. You might reach out to https://www.ethicalads.io/, though I haven't got much first-hand knowledge of them.

They're focused on privacy centered digital advertising and don't approve flashy distracting media, but their target demographics are very limited and they are small. In January, they paid out a total of only $30K to all of their publishers.