TravisLS (u/TravisLS)

TravisLS commented on LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs lapdhelicoptertracker.com... · Posted by u/polalavik

stefan_ · 4 months ago

I mean in most other places people have simply realized that unless there is an immediate risk to life, the only thing high speed police chases do is create that very risk.

Nicely contrasts with all the news about the omnipresent license plate scanners - it's just pointless, don't take the risk, arrest them at your leisure.

TravisLS · 4 months ago

Worth noting that many people who run from the police also have fake or stolen plates.

TravisLS commented on True Defamation [pdf] journaloffreespeechlaw.or... · Posted by u/folump

lukan · 2 years ago

"Are there good solutions for this problem somewhere?"

There are no simple solutions to a problem this complex as human trust.

But I really do not see, how I can I trust humans more, if it would be illegal to say true things about the past.

Truth may never be hidden, if you want real trust. And there need to be more consequences of lying.

And people should accept, that people change. If someone was stupid in their teenage years 10 years ago, then most can actually assume, that they changed a bit.

But if someone was lying and stealing 20 years ago and is caught doing it again yesterday, I will probably also not trust this guy in 2 years, unless he can convincingly explain why and how he changed.

TravisLS · 2 years ago

I think you have identified the crux of my objection to this piece. The OP is mostly talking about cases where a truth about someone is so much more widely known than other truths about them that it becomes overwhelming in perception of that person.

The problem to be solved here is not the liability owed by the reporter of the truth, but rather the way in which our reptilian brains fail to balance that truth against an undoubtedly bigger picture.

TravisLS commented on Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas lerner.co.il/2023/10/19/i... · Posted by u/reuven

lbriner · 2 years ago

The whole issue around not telling you what rule you broke "because then you might work around it" is total BS. It's like a company I complained to the other day because they didn't label one of the inputs on their password reset form because "it would help a hacker know what to type in it" (it was the password reset password they expected but you wouldn't know).

How much quicker would this be resolved if the first AI said, "your account has been blocked because we detected an advert related to live animals" to which you could appeal with your one sentence reason, "these are not animals, they are programming languages with the same names as animals" which would take a very cursory check and continue to bring in advertising revenue.

I think like another poster it is probably true that if you were spending a lot, you would have been given more time to argue your case. For someone who brings in $10 a month, it's not worth their time.

TravisLS · 2 years ago

I'm not sure where the threshold is for spending. I have an account that was spending over $500K/yr on Facebook ads and we were blocked by AI with no recourse for over 6 months before we finally found a human who was able to reverse it.

TravisLS commented on The 2002 Überlingen midair collision admiralcloudberg.medium.c... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

ogig · 3 years ago

Ok, last week or so it was posted another long read blog post from Admiralcloudberg. Somebody commented that the rest of her posts were very nice. So true, I went into rabbit hole mode, been reading the rest avidly, just a few to go. Be warned!

PS: Tonight I dreamt of a surreal MD-80 crash.

TravisLS · 3 years ago

I came here to say the same thing. I've read about 20 of them in the past few days and they're absolutely captivating. The TWA 800 post got me started and is a must-read: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/memories-of-flame-the-cr...

TravisLS commented on Space Elevator neal.fun/space-elevator/... · Posted by u/nivethan

TravisLS · 3 years ago

This is great! But also, in case you missed it, click back to the homepage. There are a bunch of other equally great diversions.

TravisLS commented on What is the minimal possible UK address? microblog.vladh.net/posts... · Posted by u/noughts

jrochkind1 · 3 years ago

In the US, someone I know who had a Post Office box liked writing simply `box-number zip-code` as their address.

It worked. Eg, if you wrote on an envelope:

    1034
    21240

It would get there! You might want to add a "Box" before the "1034" to be safe -- and to disambiguate between a house number, as in OP? (I'm not sure just a house number would ever work in the USA?)

But it looks cooler with just two numbers. Especially it did 20 years ago when my friend did it. Very futuristic cyberpunk. Maybe a square glyph for "box" would be good.

TravisLS · 3 years ago

A bunch of US zip codes are for PO Boxes only, so this seems to stand a strong chance of working, at least in those places.

TravisLS commented on The Nixon White House plotted to assassinate a journalist washingtonpost.com/histor... · Posted by u/mzs

boringg · 3 years ago

Sounds like another president I've heard of.

TravisLS · 3 years ago

So tired of people on HN disparaging Warren G Harding.

Seriously, though: several of the Trump campaign's architects (Paul Manafort, Roger Stone) got their start in the Nixon administration.

TravisLS commented on Endless Horse endless.horse... · Posted by u/Bondi_Blue

Taywee · 3 years ago

Slightly inefficient, because it repeatedly loads http://endless.horse/legs.html . Would be better to keep it inline and just clone it and insert it endlessly.

TravisLS · 3 years ago

You say inefficient. I say mysterious. Who's to say the server always returns the same thing?

The only way to find out is to scroll infinitely as the domain name suggests. Beware, your scrolling may have been finite.

TravisLS commented on Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car gist.github.com/jwbee/90e... · Posted by u/jeffbee

TravisLS · 4 years ago

r/whatisthisthing might be your friend here