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While I of course agree that you should be able to exercise your first amendment (and other constitutional rights) around police officers, and I would also like to see fewer officers carrying deadly weapons, I don't see why they should be related?

If you exercise your legal rights and the police beat you with a baton, or cuff you and kneel on your neck for several minutes, or just detain you for the maximum number of hours without charging you, that's still a meaningful problem.
Meanwhile in the UK summer has been grey, rainy and miserable.
And the best way to disempower auditors is not to react to them. When the police learn not to react to lawful activities, the "auditing" movement will be dead. The "plenty" will be happy with this situation, because that is what they want.

I am certainly no auditor, but last week I felt uncomfortable with how a stop-and-search of a person of colour was being conducted in England last week, so I filmed it from a reasonable distance. There was no provocation from me, and the police didn't react - which is the right thing, and makes a boring video (which I had no intention of uploading anyway).

Despite this, when one of persons friends got close (~15 feet away) to talk to him (which is entirely lawful with a stop-and search), one of the police pushed (with force) him away. I interjected and told the constable he "could use words, rather than force", and his response was "I could have pushed harder if I wanted". If the constable was willing to have this type of interaction on camera, imagine what it could have been like if it wasn't filmed.
Was there an actual video? I saw the meteor flash caught on a doorbell camera and a Blender animation people were trying to pass off as footage.
It’s not just a mudslide.

No matter how much I block alt-right YouTube channels, google continuously either ignores those blocks, or forces more and more in to my recommended.

It’s crazy to see “right wing content is being censored” claims while google is very very clearly pushing right wing content above everything else.

I don’t use Facebook, but my wife does and Facebook is exactly the same. It is very obviously pushing right wing content up.

When you can open up a video and within 30 seconds, they’re calling for the eradication of the Jews, with hundreds of thousands of views, it really begs the question of what the hell these people are saying that it’s actually being removed. Cause straight up calling for genocide is not just allowed to thrive on Facebook and google, it is actively pushed on to recommended no matter how much you try to block it.

I watch PBS space time, various software engineering talks, and chess. That’s it. Why is YouTube recommending conspiracy theorist alt-right shit?
What is the real difference between the 2? One is manual while the other one is highly automated? Given the number of question on an ESTA application, visa to other countries are a piece of cake (and I don’t even talk about visa on arrival).

This is just a semantic trick to make people that there is still a visa free travel but this is no more the case.
Theyre lucky they let this last as long as they did. Lots of other teams and products built on top of someone elses ecosystem havent been as lucky.

I think the term we use for this is being “Sherlocked” back from when Apple copied Sherlock and turned it into spotlight. Anyway theyre joining the ranks of famously successful short lived products. Glad they made bank in the meantime.
Abundant and reliable energy sources will let us deal with the higher variance; notably, deaths related to climate have decreased to one-third over the fifty years from 1970 to 2019[0], even as the human population more than doubled. That isn't one-third the rate, it's one-third in absolute number.

[0]: https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10989
The spatial variation map is very interesting, it shows my area as a dark blue spot, which confirms something I've felt anecdotally. Last few years have been colder and wetter than ever before.
Seeing with neutrinos: how astronomers are mapping the cosmos without light
With hands still on the wheel so I knew it couldn’t override me. Until that moment it just felt like the car drove “video game straight” with it on, instead of me making never ending micro corrections to account for things like the road, wind, tires.

But after that no thanks.
Well, the porn industry basically as a whole regularly pressures and somewhat "forces" women to do things they did not initially agree to. This is exploitative and rampant in the industry currently.

But that doesn't make porn inherently bad, but rather that a grey market industry has ample opportunity to pressure the people in it to be exploitable.
It just blows my mind to see liberal Americans being ok with every major social media platform ban accounts and block content they said was false when it was actually true. Biden laptop for one.
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Tons of conversation yesterday over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880471
Ask HN: Is crypto an unviable, tech-bubble delusion?
As someone who's been in and out of the crypto space for years, recently it has felt increasingly as if this is a technology desperately in search of a UX solution that it may never achieve.

The industry is run by a cool kids club of crypto twitter thought leaders who seem to lack the experience and wisdom to realize that the threshold of UX required for mass adoption is currently wildly out of reach for the technology, no matter how pretty the UI is. Seed phrases, gas and fees, irreversibility of transactions, virtually no concept of customer support, etc etc.

Steve Jobs famously said "You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it." The entire crypto space seems to be guilty of the latter.

The longer that this space continues to focus on and struggles to get traction for novelty toy products – eg art experiments – the more pessimistic I am about the long term viability of the underlying technology. I say this with friends who work in the space who after years of pontificating about the disruptive implications of crypto, are still tweeting about the latest NFT collectible.
Those are things that you can talk about with your partner, no?
"The social sciences are viewed with contempt by the real scientists and engineers, by the way" was obviously a shallow dismissal and a putdown, as well as an internet cliché. Cheap oneliners expressing contempt not only poison discussion, they dumb it down and evoke worse from others. Surely you know this.
several reasons for this one.. ad was on small screen (my phone) - and I was gaming on the big screen - so it was not interrupting me in any way.

Also the "I'm a digital marketer, starting to learn ads for youtube, and curious how this is actually working, so watch it and learn what can be learned from.. youtube platform, how it's visual / audio / etc is working.." had me willing to suffer more than 60 seconds..

And.. strangely it was on a topic that I studied ~18 years ago - with someone making claims I was ready to pounce on, but then became surprised that this speaker / presenter had taken over this program from the original creators - and I was super curious if any new insights would be published..

In the end I learned a little about the current state of the old program / group.. but more learned about the marketing buzz words used, the crescendos of the claims / benefits / social proofs.. of a 30 minute infomercial, and how the captioning / graphics could be presented on a vertical / tiny screen and be effective..

and of course I had to know the actual pitch and price at the end for the 'new online program thing' that has been adapted with the original stuff..

I still wonder how or IF youtube knew that I would or could be interested in the X program method or if it was just targeted towards whatever demographics the system thinks about my mini-device.

Also thought whoa - what kind of crap is this YT - a 30 min ad?! How, what? Why! Is this real?! (I had seen a 2 hour ad on YT on the PS3 some years ago, that was trippy)

So yeah I wonder if there are stats showing how many ads longer than 30 sec are attempted via YT and how many are watched.
I'm impressed a single individual got to 600K MRR by himself. Only a few people can say that they've done that. Who knows when shopify would've taken their checkout experience seriously were it not for this guy. you can have interesting experience, build temporary things, be proud of it, and move on to the next thing.
I don't know if this is allowed here, but whatever...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-023-01611-3.pdf
I think the issue is that Democrats did not want to push it farther because they didn't want Republicans to turn around and use it against them.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/590947-house-has-the-p...

They're likely plenty of republican hobby horse issues where they would start subpoenaing other members of Congress once they had power.
You climate guys crack me up.

15 thousand years ago Canada was under 3 kilometers of ice. Now it is home to 40 million people and covered in wildlife.

The human population went from 2 million to 8 billion during this warming period.

All the evidence points to a warmer planet supporting more life, not less.
When did this become a worldwide standard?

There are many cases where those making a problem never fixed anything. In fact too many cases throughout history to enumerate.
For chat, Teams is horrible. I mean who thought in order to send a message in a channel, you need to start a "New Conversation"? And it has depends on other MS services such as Sharepoint and Azure. Not to mention you can't just have channels, you need to have a "Team" that has channels. The whole experience is way more convoluted that it should be.

For video, yes, it has a higher quality compared to Slack, but pretty much that's it. Because the joy ends with random crashes for no reason. Like now, I wanted to double check the "New Conversation" way of chatting and it just crashed. Lucky for me I only have to use it for video conferences once in a while.

Sometimes I am under the impression that not even Microsoft uses Teams internally because of how horrible it is.
I was contacted by a non-technical team with a concept about a new shopify based startup. I thought I can just build it in a couple of months then let them operate it.

I spent a month on it just researching through the mess that is the Shopify API. It was a pain. I got the mockup working but it looked like this is risky. Tried all channels and got nothing. Eventually someone answered and it seems that everything I built won't work. We would need to jump through hoops to be Shopify compatible and I decided it would strip the startup of its value.

Decided to declare the month of work I did as a loss and bail. Still traumatized from the whole mobile development pain of Apple and Google...
New syntax for string interpolation in F#
I have used ESTA. Very simple and worked great for me. And the fee is like 3-4 coffees. Not bad.
We are witnessing the sixth mass extinction event. Defined as the loss of 75% of species, this process typically spans around 2.8 million years. However, we're on track to reach this milestone in just about 100 years.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what-is-the-sixth-mass...
Wow, great design, did you use Microsoft Word?
LLaMA2 is far and away from GPT 3.5. Just look at HumanEval and other code generation metrics. All these GPT-4 based "chat evals" are extremely misleading and people should take it with a bag of salt.
The animations are very slick, but I can still grumpily pick at them: the "Clustering and Quorum-based Replication" one shows 4 total servers (suboptimal number because quorum requires 3/4 where I'd prefer to require 2/3 or 3/5) and all the followers acking before the primary proceeds (the animation could show one lagging instead).
And don't forget to know everything about cryptography and security to actually spot the issues!

All in all with 15yrs of training you can start the task :D
Hey, want to say I'm super excited by protomaps. I'm struggling a bit to convert existing OSM pbf files into the pmtiles format. Specifically, I'm trying to convert this guy https://daylightmap.org/

Do you have any tips for doing so without renting memory in the cloud?
None of that is a scam?

The user and their browser decides what ads they see. Websites are not entitled to showing ads.
The way I've interpreted it, when done well, it's usually focused on designing experience first (ie the "what") and then focusing on the "how" afterward. Think about a well designed mobile app with thought out user journeys vs. a circa 1999 VB6 app, which was focused on whatever IT nonsense was were doing first.

When done poorly, it means you get trapped in a room with some folks with religious zeal and a set of post-it notes in various colors, sharpies, and colored paper sticky dots for a few days. Afterward, you get... not much. It's just like agile.... if the "practitioner" is hyper-focused on the rituals and ceremony, it's easy to miss doing actual work.

My personal beef with the concept is that the ceremonial aspects mean you need a special UX/design/etc specialist, who comes in and leaves. Usually the "design" processes focus on 80% solutions, and nobody comes back to finish the other 20%. You used to notice this when people built out responsive websites -- key functions that weren't in the "Top X", would just disappear on mobile.
You want to bury a power cable connecting my city to a solar farm in the Sahara desert? Not in MY backyard!
I have owned a Model Y for a bit more than 2 1/2 years, having driven a Nissan Leaf for 8 1/2 years prior. Factoring away the obvious battery capacity difference, I have found the Tesla range estimates to be far more accurate and consistent when compared to the Leaf. While I found the "secret team" headline to be comedic, given my experience with electric cars, I do have other serious concerns (phantom braking #1). Estimating vehicle range using map data is not a simple problem, even if Tesla is utilizing high-resolution GIS data and/or on board accelerometers in their estimating. Weight of passengers, cargo weight, trailer utilization (I just completed a trip through the Cascades pulling a trailer on my Model Y) all factor in, and have larger effects as road grades increase. I think that mileage estimating is a case where Tesla has actually provided reasonable value, but these cars are fallible and far from all-knowing. I recommend developing a cautious range intuition when driving electric cars which may take some time to develop. Honest empathy to those who have been stranded in them.
The timing on this is suspect. With all the Airbnb travel and remote work dynamics, it seems like its an effort to clamp down on tax loopholes.

It's splitting hairs not calling this a 'visa'. If you have to pay a fee and fill out forms before arrival IT IS intended to regulate foreign entry, which is the definition of a visa, since you're exchanging information with immigration authorities before they let you in.
> to get an idea of pretty much what the average person would think

There is no such thing as an average person.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-disc...
Well ordinary people have an option of just walking away that police officers generally have a duty not to, meaning they put themselves into tense situations in the course of doing their jobs.
Randall Munroe: If you hate someone, teach them about kerning.
Layout. I'm not even going to read this. You don't need to do it in LaTeX, but you really have to add structure to it. I want to glace over it and make out distinct areas of different contents.
I can only answer for the lakes near where I live and that I know, for example Lake Iseo o Lake Como.

They might look all calm and placid, but they are really deep with steep shores that are pretty irregular, think of them as a valley between two mountains filled with water with water coming in from one side and going out from the other (that's exactly what they are actually).
The water flows more rapidly beneath the surface and creates turbulences due to the irregularities of the shores, so now there are two things:

- those turbulences might pull you under very rapidly, many meters below the surface, and that might cause you a shock. If you pass out when that happens, well... you're dead.

- those turbulences and the currents sometimes detach boulders or other chunks of rock, when this happens water needs to fill the void left by the fallen rock and if you are unlucky to be in that water it can pull you down for tens of meters. 10m of water on your head increase the pressure by ~1atm, if you get pulled under by 20/30m in just a second you will pass out for sure and as in the other point... you're dead for sure.

If you go to one of those lakes and want to swim you must stay close to the shore and you must enter the lake where the shore is not steep or else you'll be risking it.

Lake Garda, Lake Idro, Lake Moro and other are very much safe on the other hand. That's why asking a local person is often wise: it just takes a couple of minutes to find someone and ask, after you know you're safe get into the water and enjoy :)
Read the whole thread before calling names. I asked the OP to clarify what "kind of people" who look at female anime characters refers to. I never equated Japanese people with anything.
AXPBox Alpha Emulator release 1.1.1
"athletics" -> "aesthetics", right?
What a condescending answer.
I work in architecture and went to school for it. The only reasonable definition of design thinking that I’ve heard is “a way of thinking that considers the affordances of a design decision across multiple scales or perspectives.”

For instance, you need a floor plate of the second floor of a building to be a bit bigger to accommodate a certain type of room. So you make the second floor cantilever over the entrance, thereby also providing the functionality of an awning that protects people from rain while they wait for the bus. This is a bit of a silly example because the cantilever adds cost etc but that’s the general idea. Identifying opportunities that are “win-win,” might be a crude way to say it.

In my experience this is a particular mode of thinking that some people are clearly better at, and those people tend to be the superstar designers. Whether it can be taught or not is a bit of an open question.

Any other definition I’ve heard for “design thinking” doesn’t really make sense to me, but that might just reflect my background.
Everything coming out of the battery is a huge thing. In cold temperatures, the heating is just waste heat from the ICE. In EVs, you are using the battery to heat the interior and the battery performance is itself low from the cold, so you get a double whammy.
As to why I would hazard to say that water is dirt cheap when compared to running a closed loop system (you need pumps and heat exchangers to cool that water and those cost electricity).
I can’t credit myself with the observation, it was someone else on HN, but it ran something like this:

For years Tesla made cars that were disproportionately appealing to people with concerns about the environment, a population that skews liberal/progressive. Those on the other side of the political world view might like the cars too- especially technophiles— but there certainly a large contingent that are skeptical to anything with a primary appeal of being “environmentally friendly”. Then comes the current culture-war driven political ecosystem, and all musk has to do is tweet some controversial things that might resonate with some contingents on the political right and all of a sudden those individuals may feel more comfortable buying cars from a guy who speaks their language.

I certainly don’t know if that was Musk’s deliberate strategy though, but it wouldn’t shock me if his actions in that way are partly “him” and partly him leaning into a role of social prominence that resonates with a consumer population previously less likely to buy his cars.

It would be interesting if I could fine surveys of automobile brand customer bases broken down by political affiliation, and if it’s shifted Tesla’s at all in recent years.
1. The nice thing about these charts is that if I cherrypick particular dates (Coldest months in the past few years, warmest months decades ago), I can clearly demonstrate that temperatures aren't actually going up.

2. Which is exactly what dishonest people do with them.

3. Things over the past few years aren't as bad as they seemed now. These past few years are likely going to be the coldest years of the 21st century.

4. The Antarctic sea ice graph is beautiful. We're smashing every record.
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Damn you.
I'd recommend looking up a few things: how much private wealth is invested in fossil fuel industries, how much carbon extraction costs, how much money is spent subsidizing fossil fuels, how much money is spent on renewable sources of energy, and then speculate on how to fund it. "get more nuclear" is ok, for whatever it means.

>It's going to be hard to get people to care about this if the takeaway is going to be "other people have to do what we say" as it usually is with climate stuff.

Eh, more like hold the ultra-wealthy accountable for profiteering off, or at the expense of, the planet? and the (comfortable) existence of lots of people based on how things are going?

(The really cool thing is, most (all?) of the individual climate-shaming is propaganda from corporations who know damn well that individuals contribute very little to climate change compared to corporations themselves and the wealthy capital class.)

> The report finds that these billionaires’ investments give an annual average of 3m tonnes of CO2e per person, which is a million times higher than 2.76 tonnes of CO2e which is the average for those living in the bottom 90 percent.

Yes, I understand that's via investment, but that's still kinda precisely my point. Why shouldn't they be held to account?
Lol wut? High taxes are fine, and even with high taxes legal weed is stupid cheap because there's no moat and plenty of people who want to be growers.

Alcohol is also highly taxed, there's nothing wrong with taxing drugs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku
I think it's all the hot air in Europe taking up all the water, carrying it over to us and dumping a load of rain
You had a great run, but I think it is unfair to say that Shopify “saw what you were doing” and “hijacked” your business. Obviously a small team can move faster and Shopify could easily have internal development plans for the same solution for a long time. Kudos for the €600k MRR and your execution.
Basically, all of the electronical devices humanity uses, from nuclear power plants to smart watches, are about to get efficiency improvements in double digits. This is trillions of dollars per year, and a couple of degrees in average Earth temperature.
DIY isn't brought up to save money (that's a side benefit); it's to reduce impact by "reusing" or at least continuing to use.
FWIW, I was stranded due to a bug in the fuel level indicator and mileage remaining estimate on my 2017 Subaru Outback. Subaru knows about the issue but you have to bring it to their attention if you want a fix. Not giving Tesla a pass here, just mentioning that it's not unique to them.
The reddit forum about bad kerning is called r/keming
The Greek wildfires may be a poor example here, as arson is suspected: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/corfu-wildfi... . It's too early to ascribe a cause.
I don't know much about Lucid, but Rivian in its current form is not sustainable. Their cars are incredibly overweight and overengineered, their COGS/BOM is out of control, and with the end of ZIRP I'm not sure they have the time and financing to fix these problems at the burn rate they are at. Don't get me started on their "environmentalist adventure vehicle" marketing that's putting 7000-pound cars on mountain trails.

I'm a lot more excited about Hyundai/Kia and Ford.