The bikes in this article seem on the lower end of the market, which is normal for amsterdam imho. The area is small and very flat, almost exclusively on hard surfaces. I dont see many of the high-performance mountain/trail/road bikes that are the norm in western north america. This would impact the black market. I doubt there is much of any market for used bike parts, negating the entire chop shop concept.
I cant seem to find the article now but over here e-scooters were being tossed in the rivers. I can imagine the same could easily go for stolen bikes. Any one have any related articles of such nature?
This an elaborate presentation which frankly speaking has no meaning. You start reading, and it feels like an intro to an interesting research, or detective story, but then it just ends.
I didn't like the presentation at all. I'm not on a mobile device; the amount of information on the screen at one time is tiny, like one sentence, and the UX is unpredictable.
I think it's the result of the "mobile first" dogma, when you don't follow through with "desktop second". IME, "mobile first" usually degenerates into "mobile mainly".
The line visuals at the bottom are not using Mapbox for the data rendering. Rather they're using the open source Kepler.gl [0], (a user-friendly wrapping of the deck.gl library [1]). These can use Mapbox for the underlying basemap, but the data rendering is done separately.
(This is easy to tell if you look at the page source. The map at the bottom is an embed from a static HTML kepler.gl map [2]). Disclaimer: I've contributed to deck.gl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822281
(197 points | 51 days ago | 299 comments)