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by meagher | 2025-07-06 14:16:37+00:00
Bike lanes and safety improvements for pedestrians aren’t causing congestion. Check out the data!

Here are some good jumping off points: - https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikestats.shtml - https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2025/vision-zero.shtml - https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/pedestrians.sh...
by em-bee | 2025-07-06 14:16:44+00:00
the drama and controversies have kept developers away

well there you have it. i am not saying the drama is your fault because it really doesn't matter whose fault it is. regardless of who is causing drama, your only chance to reduce drama (and stress for you) is to deescalate. even if linus is causing the drama, actually especially if linus is causing the drama (we all know that he doesn't have the most agreeable personality) you need to do things his way and work to earn his trust.

others here in the comments ask you to recognize and admit you are wrong, but i'd say no, you don't have to. this is not a matter of who is right. that's completely besides the point. it's a matter of politics and diplomacy. agree to disagree and move on. that is what i hope you can recognize. to accept defeat of an argument even if you are right, and to avoid causing arguments in the first place. it's like marriage. if you want to keep the relationship, you need to defer until you earn their trust. but unlike marriage you can't ask others to join you in relationship counseling. you have to do all the relationship work yourself.

i am rooting for you, and i look forward to the day that i can use bcachefs myself.

btw: is there any goal to support in place conversion from ext4 like btrfs supports. (and maybe even from btrfs :-)
by ItsBob | 2025-07-06 14:17:01+00:00
Interesting you should say that. I found a Substack post earlier today along those lines [0].

I almost never take my phone with me, especially when with my wife and son, as they always have theirs with them, although with elderly parents not in the best of health I really should take it more.

But it's something I see a lot these days, in fact, the latest Vodafone ad in the uk has a bunch of lads sitting outside a pub and one is laughing at something on his phone. There's also a betting ad where the guy is making bets on his phone (presumably) while in a restaurant with others!

I find this normalized behaviour somewhat concerning for the future.

[0] - https://abysspostcard.substack.com/p/party-like-it-is-1975
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-06 14:17:11+00:00
Arguably the best transportation system in the world is in Japan. It's made from ~100 private and mostly private companies. For some reason, tax and spenders never seem to understand that.

Set up the incentives right as demonstrated it can work. Coversely, public transporation will always have funding issues because there is no way to setup the insentives.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-06 14:17:42+00:00
It's routine for transit systems to run at a loss in the sense that the ticket prices don't pay 100% of the costs.

The idea is that transit has benefits beyond what it gives to the riders. If a bus takes 20 cars off the street that's a huge boon to the other cars.

In Ithaca, for instance, Cornell doesn't have a lot of space for parking, if you do get a parking space it is probably far enough away that you'll ride the bus in anyway. Employees get a free bus pass and even though it means I have to fit my schedule to the bus, it drops me off right by the door of a building that's connected to my building so it's as convenient as can be.
by gruez | 2025-07-06 14:18:04+00:00
You're trying to make all those things sound bad but if you think about it they really aren't.

>First they let over 100k Ubers on the roads where there were only 32k taxis

Was the old medallion system where you needed to pay $1M+ to join the taxi cartel really any better?

>Then they added bike lanes. Then they added two bus lanes.

What's the issue here? Sure, it screws over drivers, but buses and bikes are far more space efficient than cars, so it likely increases throughput in people terms.
by Moomoomoo309 | 2025-07-06 14:18:13+00:00
The part you're missing: All the people whose public transit you funded aren't driving! It reduced traffic! You benefitted from it, whether you realize it or not. People in the cities pay lots of car and gas-related taxes, despite not owning a car - same thing. That street goes both ways. They fund streets and highways and infrastructure in your area just like you fund public transit in theirs. It's mutually beneficial, even though both parties are funding stuff they may not use.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-07-06 14:18:25+00:00
The OSS leading into the early CIA is exactly who I was talking about.

They lead stay-behind operations in the recently liberated Italy(Operation Gladio) that funded Italian Mafia activities to act as strike breakers, assassinate union leaders.

They funded right-wing terrorist militias, ran false-flag operations, and started their early psychological warfare programs.

Your father resigned a couple years after the conclusion of the Indonesian Coup in which the CIA installed a right-wing military dictatorship, replacing a democratically elected government, that rounded up and murdered 1 Million communists while imprisoning a few million more for years. This event created a blueprint called the Jakarta Method which was used across the globe.
by donohoe | 2025-07-06 14:18:28+00:00
NYC has 0.6 vehicles per household, and in Manhattan it’s closer to 0.25. This isn’t LA (1.6) or even Chicago (1.0). Congestion pricing is aimed at those who drive into the city - often with solid public transportation alternatives.

The revenue goes toward improving transit—something the vast majority actually use. These upgrades take time. Six months of data means very little in a system this complex.

If you're offering deep takes on this, it’s only fair to say whether you actually live in NYC or nearby. Most of the loudest critics seem disconnected from the day-to-day reality of getting around here.
by ksec | 2025-07-06 14:19:00+00:00
Some slightly outdated information from PlanetScale [1] Especially now the have Postgres offering as well but most are still relevant. Most people would actually find cost reduction migrating. Similar story with Neon although I am more bias towards PS.

It is not that RDS dont work well. I think it is AWS being too greedy with their pricing and we have finally reached a point where it breaks our mental model on cost evaluation. And people are starting to look at alternatives.

[1] https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-vs-amazon-rds
by rainsford | 2025-07-06 14:19:03+00:00
> The article has evidence of modal shift. Car journeys are down, but both subway ridership and foot traffic are up.

In addition to making for a more pleasant environment, it's also worth pointing out that in a dense urban area, cars are pretty terrible in terms of people throughput compared to alternatives. People traveling in cars take up way more space than the same number of people riding buses, subways, bikes, or even walking, and the cars don't have enough extra speed to make up for it (in fact they're probably slower than everything except the pedestrians). This doesn't matter as much in less urban areas where there's plenty of room to spread out and the higher speeds that enables, but in downtown areas cars are realistically a pretty slow way for a bunch of people to get around.
by felipemesquita | 2025-07-06 14:19:33+00:00
I’m usually weary of long readmes with too much styling as that indicates to me a high likelihood that they were written by ai and the author might not have even read all of it. The use of generic ai images also gives a bad impression - for example, there’s an image captioned “The green lines? Those are your CPU cycles escaping.” without anything green pictured.

I’m not saying your gem is bad. It’s nice to se an attempt at a circuit breaker that is based on the state machines gem, I will certainly look into the actual code if I have a need for it in the future.

Just wanted to give you this bit of feedback about maybe cutting down on length and loosing the ai images in the readme as I think it might be a turnoff for others as well.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-07-06 14:21:11+00:00
That was exactly my thought. But no I guess they won't. Because they had good old plain text files but they changed to sqlite db and apparently the reason they gave is sync related challenges. Since it's not a FOSS app I don't know the challenges and I feel all other text based notes/editor apps that work on plain text files on disk must be doing something right/different. I don't know.

And as for sqlite being local first - it's not the same. It's the nature of the data a plain text note taking app deals with that neuters that very idea of those plain text notes by storing in a local sqlite db.
by Spooky23 | 2025-07-06 14:21:19+00:00
Please. I grew up in Manhattan and Queens and have spent 75% of my life there. It was even more congested in the 80s and 90s.

The big innovation of congestion pricing is that it demonstrates is that miserable Long Islanders would rather endure their way through Manhattan than pay the toll and the trip across the Verrazano or Throgs Neck.

End of the day, NYC is changing whether you like it or not. The people living there want a voice in it, after being stuck behind the wants and desires of New Jersey and Long Island. As the populations of office workers continues to shrink, so too will prioritization of their needs.
by sixo | 2025-07-06 14:21:26+00:00
oh, what the hell, I'll argue with you.

> vastly conceptually wrong

Only for a useless definition of "wrong". Modeling reality well is an end in itself, and to the extent that model predicts well and "factors" reality cleanly into distinct mechanisms, it is conceptually right. This is all "conceptually right" needs to mean. You can not, as I'm sure you'll agree, even hope to explain the "root cause" of motion and time-evolution. at some point you have to base any theory on some postulate or assumption about why things happen at all. But the point of work like Newton's is to get things right above that level, and he was enormously successful at this.

> mostly Newton played mathematical parlour tricks.

Only for a useless definition of "parlour tricks". The hard part of new ideas (1) is getting to the point where you're posing the right problem and thinking about it the right way. Once you get that right, the predictions (2) hopefully fall out as simple tricks! Then they have to be validated (3) against data—also hard. Newton pulled off all three, the hard parts and the tricks. Not single-handedly, mind you, but almost.

To bring such a big picture into view and fill out its details with credibility was a monumental task. I think of it as akin to evolution developing a new organ system—the genome usually has to find its way down on a very long limb to get there and to be stable enough to stay there. For a species this can happen over many generations, but for a human thinker it is has to happen by imagining and testing many subsequent ideas. Newton did an enormous amount of this on his own, over decades.

> are often incommensurable

Newton being absorbed into relativity is like the one case where they are commensurable. Newton is a clear limiting case! The "ways of thinking" about reality are perhaps not, but nobody (except cranks) is still stuck on Newtonianism at this point.

> as some extension or modification

Obviously it contains new math and new abstractions, as needed to match empirical reality on new data. Its content doesn't extent logically out of Newton, because how could it? The data wasn't there. But the conceptual gesture of devising a mathematical framework which can handle the data is the same one Newton used.

Postscript: philosophy of science folks always like to show up in physics discourse ready to fight various tired, old battles which mostly mattered in the context of the particular ideological dispute of some decade or another. The matter in question is always how to generalize the success of physics by fitting various philsci "models" to the "data" of physics' history. This can be interesting, but they never contribute much to the physics itself, which has always proceeded by its own internally-coherent and immensely-successful logic.
by stefan_ | 2025-07-06 14:21:42+00:00
It seems Python has firmly reached its "Wikipedia notability" era, with busybodies that code little but discuss much dominating and ruining all progress. They make up stuff that reads insane to anyone doing actual work, like the "maintenance burden" of the cgi module:

https://github.com/python/cpython/commits/3.12/Lib/cgi.py

Turns out most maintenance this thing received is the various attempts of removing it.
by jordanb | 2025-07-06 14:22:37+00:00
Not my experience using taxi call services in Chicago. Whenever I called them (before Uber) the taxi was prompt and courteous.

The apps did three things that the call services did not do:

1) subsidize drivers with vc money for many years making drivers plentiful and fares cheap

2) use unlicensed cabs so they could saturate areas like Manhattan that had previously limited the amount of cabs that could operate

3) Deprive drivers of info they might use to reject fares they don't want (like destination).
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-06 14:22:45+00:00
To be fair I have a friend who lives in Brooklyn who thinks congestion pricing is a scam and this is a person of moderate means who has a car. She's inclined to blame traffic problems on Uber.

One point she has which is good is that the transit system is not good if you're going perpendicular to the major routes. A 20 minute car ride from Queens to the Bronx turns into an hour and 30 minutes on transit. Of course, it does take funding to improve the service and NYC has a hard time of it because funding for the subway is not controlled by NYC but rather by the state so a lot of upstaters like me who just ride it a few times a year or don't ride it at all have a say in it.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-06 14:23:37+00:00
What I am stating is a step above church-turing, that the constituents of any physical process is either deterministic or random, computability aside.

From a purely practical standpoint, we don't know of any non-computable physical systems and it's just so painfully god-of-the-gaps to say "The brain could contain new physics that transcends everything we know even though this has never proved true with any other complex system we ever gained knowledge about. It's all proved computable".
by billy99k | 2025-07-06 14:25:06+00:00
This has been a failed experiment. When you legalize drugs, it comes at increased cost due to taxes and regulations.

The black market can easily compete because they can sell a cheaper product without either of these things (and now that it's legal, it makes it easier to bring shipments into the country under the guise of a legal business) and it eventually drives the legitimate companies out of business.

This has now been seen in both Colorado and California.

Violence still drives the business and it only makes the cartels richer. I'm also tired of all the pot smoke you can smell everyone now in every US city where it's legalized.

The people like me, that didn't want drugs legalized, predicted all this would happen a decade or so ago.

Update: you know I'm right
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-07-06 14:25:26+00:00
One cubesat launched as a rideshare payload wouldn't cut it. Those typically get dropped off in a highly inclined low earth orbit -- around the world, roughly pole to pole, in 90 minutes. Any given satellite in that sort of orbit will only be useful to a ground station when it has line-of-sight for maybe 5-10 minutes every few days.

At the very least you'd need a few dozen. Iridium manages to get coverage from 66.

Then there are the power/cooling/antenna size issues.
by chasil | 2025-07-06 14:26:22+00:00
The thought is that things had improved in Columbia, until a recent attempt on a Columbian senator.

Miguel Uribe is in the minority conservative party and was shot three times at campaign event by an underage youth who was hired for this purpose. A number of arrests have taken place.

The leftist president Gustavo Petro has not strongly reacted against this event, and the U.S. recently recalled their ambassador for somewhat confusing reasons (Columbia did the same).

https://thecitypaperbogota.com/
by IshKebab | 2025-07-06 14:26:48+00:00
Yeah the range between mandated breaks is way over 100 miles. In the UK it is 45 minutes after 4.5 hours driving, so about 270 miles. But you need to account for the likelihood that there isn't a charger at the break stop. On the other hand the Volvo trucks in this article apparently have a similar range and they're selling so I guess it's worth the hassle.
by b112 | 2025-07-06 14:26:51+00:00
It may be efficient in Europe, but when trucks drive long distances (are you sure you understand how far?), speed makes a huge difference.

You'd literally need to build more roads, as long haul trucks would be on the road, literally, for an entire day longer per load. Speed is efficiency.

A lot of driving is actually done at night. Fewer cars.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-06 14:28:32+00:00
One is a precursor for the other. Being mean and inflexible is their means of avoiding personal growth, which leads to the incompetence. Of course, they are exceptionally competent at being mean and inflexible because it’s what they practice in their lives.

But I think the point they’re making is that it’s moot that they are mean and inflexible if those traits make a good government. It is at least more relevant that they are incompetent at governing; even if both points are likely to fall on deaf ears and even if one naturally follows the other.
by ralferoo | 2025-07-06 14:28:33+00:00
I'm specifically talking about the windings in the motors themselves. There's only so much current they had take before they start heating up, and that's when they can start to fail - just as melting or burning the insulation, creating a short across some of the winding, making them even less effective and even more prone to short circuiting which can cause even higher currents.

In normal use, only one phase is active an a time, so the duty cycle is 1/3. When the motor slows almost to a stop, the duty cycle on that winding is 100% meaning that the effect of that current on heating the wire is much worse than normal.

The catastrophic failure is when the MOSFET fails in a way that it doesn't protect the winding or battery from a short circuit which could lead to runaway heating in the battery as well as the motor. But even before then, unless the controller is actively limiting current to safe levels, the motor will get destroyed.

The only happy day scenario is if the motor control is actively limiting the current to safe levels well below the expected failure point, and then the EV will just fail to move at all under that load, other than rolling backwards.

As I said, the limit for this will be based on what the manufacturer expects the maximum load will be, but people have a knack for trying to carry more weight than their vehicle was designed for, or taking it places that are unsuitable. That's just humans being humans.

It's possible to design an EV that could withstand significantly steep hills with heavy loads, e.g. by putting many more sets of individually wired windings in parallel, but it'd be expensive and unnecessary for the typical situations that they'd be used in, and so unlikely to be commercially viable.
by atupem | 2025-07-06 14:28:58+00:00
Agreed, and the consistency has improved over time. I remember only a 9 months ago struggling to get a browser agent to accurately click on a checkbox. The growth trajectory is what has us excited.

"We" are a YC-backed startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bytebot.

Re: truth and correctness, their are different tolerances depending on the type of task.
by AstroBen | 2025-07-06 14:30:50+00:00
> it’s about having the market share to force people to do business with you

The answer to this is regulation. See: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/apple-updates-app-...

Outside of a monopoly the best way to extract more money from people is to offer a better product. If AI is being forced and people do hate it, they'll move towards products that don't do that

What happened to Windows Recall being enabled by default? Surely it was in Microsoft's best interest to force it on people. But no, they reversed it after a huge backlash. You see this again and again

Of your examples, ISPs are the only one I can see that's hated without other options. Most people are quite happy with Windows/Mac/Android/iOS/Mint Mobile/Smart-TV-With-No-Internet-Access
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-06 14:31:27+00:00
hackers effectively killed https://glslsandbox.com It's been closed for about a year and a half because some hackers spammed it and no one has time to deal with it. There are other sites like shadertoy that do something similar but still, it sucks to see someone's project get shit on by assholes.

As for denial of service issues, because it's free I've mostly hidden behind cloudflare in the hope of not having to personally deal with those kinds of issues on my own stuff.

It's always annoying to me the hacker attitude of "it's your fault if I can break your stuff. You should have implemented it better". Well, I can break your windows, your door, your body and it wouldn't be an excuse that it's your fault because it's possible. Still, I know it's impossible to get rid of the assholes so ...
by donohoe | 2025-07-06 14:31:37+00:00
Your friend’s frustration is understandable, but calling congestion pricing a scam ignores the actual problem it's solving: too many cars in a dense area where most people don’t drive. Blaming Uber/Lyft is a distraction. Congestion existed long before it, and they’re being regulated too.

As for the Queens-to-Bronx example, it’s a fair critique of the transit network, but it’s not even relevant to the congestion zone. Congestion pricing targets the lower core of Manhattan, not cross-borough driving. If anything, the funds raised could eventually help fix exactly those kinds of transit gaps.

For background: I live in Brooklyn and work in Downtown Manhattan (in congestion zone). I take the subway. I used to own a car but sold it over 10 years ago because the public transportation made it obsolete. I don't bike.
by bob1029 | 2025-07-06 14:32:31+00:00
> Isn't that part of the point? If the code runs in the scheduler then its performance is relevant.

That's the entire point.

Finding out you have tens of milliseconds of slop because of TPL should instantly send you down a warpath to use threads directly, not encourage you to find a way to cheat the benchmarking figures.

Async/await for mostly CPU-bound workloads can be measured in terms of 100-1000x latency overhead. Accepting the harsh reality at face value is the best way to proceed most of the time.

Async/await can work on the producer side of an MPSC queue, but it is pretty awful on the consumer side. There's really no point in yielding every time you finish a batch. Your whole job is to crank through things as fast as possible, usually at the expense of energy efficiency and other factors.
by dotancohen | 2025-07-06 14:33:11+00:00
I have had two Sandisk 2.5 inch SSDS just suddenly fail. No warning that I could discern, and no way to recover afterwards. Both were while running Debian variants as a / partition, luckily I keep /home on a separate partition.

Any idea what that failure mode could have been? It worries me tremendously to keep data on an SSD now.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-06 14:33:15+00:00
I want a real life version of Memex[1]. In particular, I want to be able to ingest all of my web pages normally, then refer back to their offline local copies at some future date, and spit out a complete ready to use copy on demand.

Copyright and disk space limitations be damned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex