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Cities definitely don’t create a desert.

Not exactly a desert. More like zones of coalescence, like areas cleared out inside a nebula that's a stellar nursery. You're not going to find every single kind of service in those suburbs. You're not going to find certain kinds of businesses. Anything that benefits by being well connected to a hub is going to be drawn into that hub, which means that other areas of the city may have less of it.

By "impoverishment," I don't mean "becoming poor" in an absolute wealth sense. I mean that certain things are sucked out of certain areas to other areas.
We've removed that from the headline. Regardless of interpretation, it's a little weird and clearly distracting.
I'm not sure the static type system thing is real. Ultimately for 90% of workflows you wind up reserializing into a very much not-static-datatype (JSON, e.g.)
> You could have made the same statement any time in human history.

How are you so sure of this? To me it sounds too optimistic. It implies that we have been in control for the extent of our history, and I think this couldn't be farther from the truth. In fact, even today I'm feeling a bit pessimistic regarding our ability to overcome challenges such as changes in social dynamics and known/unknown threats introduced by technology.
Awesome. Can you share with us how it's going with getting more clients on your platform to hire contractors? I know competing with upwork and toptal must be a challenge.
From the article: "“If there’s a 12-person little vehicle coming down the street every 5 minutes versus a 40-person vehicle coming every 20 minutes, then you’ve got more capacity in that corridor and and a much better experience for people,”

Total game changer.
I'm reminded of the chapter "Two-Part Invention" in Douglas Hofstader's "Gödel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Tortoise_Said_to_Achi...
Yeah, it's fairly gross. Insurance and banking are chock full of corporate cockroaches. They can hide for years without adding any real value. But boy, do they want their fair treatment.
> By eliminating the costly overhead of the driver, AV shuttles could provide more frequent suburban service at a lower expense, making transit a more viable option for communities that are now poorly served by buses. “If there’s a 12-person little vehicle coming down the street every 5 minutes versus a 40-person vehicle coming every 20 minutes, then you’ve got more capacity in that corridor and and a much better experience for people,” said Colin Murphy, director of research and consulting for the Shared Use Mobility Center. “In a lot of cities that could really make a huge difference.”

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I don't need a babysitter to tell me when to stop doing things, but I'd love to be able to login to YouTube without having to be logged into the rest of Google.

That's one reason I think Twitch is killing YouTube in live-streaming: Like Reddit, I'm able to create a new Twitch account without having it affect the rest of my life online and I can be completely anonymous - they don't ask for a phone number or anything.
Wow, that's a lot nastier than three months at half pay. Thanks so much for your insights!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15843918 Feel free to read the two parent comments and the responses to the one linked.
Am I the only one who has 0 youtube addiction? I find FB far more compelling, though I derive quite a bit of value from it.

I watch YouTube to watch a video or two I want to watch. that's it. Frankly, when someone sends me a video to watch, I resent it, because I hate spending 5 minutes of my life watching something that probably won't be funny.

Some nights I'll pull up YT on the TV and play a Wendover productions vid, or an AvE vid, or a car video or two, and that's it. I don't ever feel sucked in or addicted to it. If anything, I often want to watch something but can't find anything interesting to watch; nothing sounds that compelling, or I get 3 minutes in and am bored so I try to find something else.

Am I unique in that way? I've also never gotten into video games, they just don't hold any appeal or hold my attention. That's not to say I haven't spend 12 hours gaming at a LAN party once in a blue moon (actually far less frequently, maybe 4 or 5 times in my life).. but I don't get sucked in in the same way I get sucked into other internet distractions. I can go down HN rabbitholes or keep refreshing FB or some news site hoping to find something interesting, but YT doesn't do it for me.
I had a feeling the Surface Book might be comfortable for me, looking at images of the keyboard/trackpad layout. I'll see how open they are to this vs their normal hp route. They just suggested an elitebook x360, which also looks nice. I'd have to lose an inch or 2 of screen, but unfortunately it looks like most everything is moving that way.
The idea of a trackless train also appeals. If they had a separate right of way and could get integration with the stoplights the analogy could be extended in terms of utility as well.
I think the analogy to parasitic capacitance is meant to refer to the fact that the pipe is a buffer: if you connect it to a source of zeros or NULLs its value doesn't immediately change until it is full.
Just be sure it doesn't leak into work code.

"Dude about what you pushed yesterday.... what is this swordOfDestiny function you keep using on customer records?"
Not sure what city you're in, but hardly any buses in Seattle even have a 10 minute schedule. In fact, in Seattle you have neighborhoods actively lobbying _against_ transit because transit frequency is legally coupled with rules for housing density.
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Because it is not a person. It's a machine. There is no shared experience, it doesn't have experiences, it's sand and metal.

Like, a really smart parrot is not a person, right? Even if the parrot could be an answering machine, it would not be due respect and it would not respect you back; because it's a parrot.

I think the issue is that the answer-bot is inherently disrespectful to the real human. Just using one at all is like saying to the real person:"You are not worthy of the time and/or respect of a real human; talk to this clever metal parrot." Text devices and digital sign-ups are at least 'equal', though the transaction is sterile.

Trying to fake that a person is talking to a bot is disrespectful of that other real person and their time; it's trying to pull one over on them and fake them into thinking that the bot's owner is worthy, but that the other real person is not worthy.

Just use a sign-up service. If the company/person does not have one, they are signaling that you have to actually talk to them, and you should respect their decision because they are a real person too, not try to pull a fast one.
Someone who is forced into taking the bus for economic reasons doesn’t necessarily love it.
Consider finding a reputable and talented agency to work for. I some people automatically reject working for an agency, but when your goal is to travel, it's nice to have someone else maintaining the infrastructure for you e.g. generating leads, signing clients, and taking the liability.

That's what I did, I took a job with a great _local_ agency who is actually remote first. It has allowed me to spend more time with my family and plan actual world travel.
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I won't lie: My first reaction was to say "This is BS" to a lot of what JP writes and talks about - particularly biblical references as an atheist.

But then I realized much of what he is saying is true - and it personally hits my ego in such a way that the reaction is pretty much revulsion/dismissal.

Can it be written more concisely? Probably. But he is an academic afterall...

FWIW: If you enjoy his lecture style / cadence - try his Audiobook version. I would likely have a tough time with reading his book - but the audiobook format delivers like his youtube lectures, which IMO are very well done.
That link was dead for me. Is it this one? https://www.fairpixels.co/pro/
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I think there are advantages and disadvantages to developing a project in a statically typed language just like there are for a dynamically typed one. For a lot of projects, Python makes sense because of the very deep and rich set of packages out there. It's also much easier to make something quickly if you're not fighting the compiler or a type checker.

But it's not binary and there are plenty of good reasons to have static type checking. I personally went through an exercise where I applied type annotations to a large Python project and found a good amount of bugs just by type checking.

I think having the flexibility to add type annotations later, only apply to parts of a code base, and allow some violations is a great middle ground and makes Python a much more attractive option for large code bases.
I guess it's a matter of taste, but I often (not always) prefer less return statements in a function with gotos to error handling/cleanup code. Especially in kernel mode drivers.
Since it seems you won't stop starting generic flamewars here we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
auto types really don't have anything to do with dynamic typing, in fact I would argue type deduction is an important tool in making static typing more attractive. An example of dynamic typing in C++ would be std::any (although you're still limited by what you can do with the contained object of course, for better or worse).
Thanks for the turn on! I like the Strandbergs!
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And Google has been trying:

Not quite the same thing. It's one thing to be extorted by ads in order to pay. There's a lot of content for which advertisement doesn't work, so there's no extortion to shut off ads. Google doesn't want to facilitate that content for some reason. It wants to squash it.
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I don't see how that matters -- it seems to indicate a misunderstanding of what type systems are. Type systems obviously have boundaries whether you're interchanging with another type-safe system or not, that's irrelevant.

Every program has to deserialize data like JSON into types and enforce its assumptions about that data whether you have static analysis tooling at compile-time or not.
> Can't imagine why you'd even think that would work out

That's a bit unnecessarily hostile, don't you think? But to the actual point, lots of people are able to work from home with kids without it being a significant problem. You'll notice several replies to this very thread bearing that out. :)
This post reads like a Buzzfeed article of pointing out not quite impressive iterations of known technologies or fixes to "it ain't broke" situations.

Electric buses have been around for a while, they're called trolleys. Putting the batteries inside the buses is an improvement, but hardly a breakthrough, and I'm not entirely sure it would make me "Love the Bus"

Likewise, autonomous buses have been around for at least a couple decades in the form of driverless trains. For high-density routes with lots of passengers doing the same itinerary, I feel it's probably cheaper in the long run, more maintainable and safer to use rails, so I'm not sure an autonomous bus is an innovation we want over trains.

Seamless payment is not a tech breakthrough at this point, it's just a matter of getting regulators and government contractors to implement seamless payments.

"Accessibility" is not a tech breakthrough and the things mentioned in the article make me question the author's understanding of the state of assistive technology and the actual current needs of people with disabilities.

As for "Minibus or ‘trackless train’", that's indeed a super interesting question that hasn't been solved in the space of transportation: given a very dense ad-hoc demand for transportation from region A to region B, how can you broker a collective transportation solution that is cheap, efficient and desirable over, say, a slower multimodal option, or more expensive private transportation. Sadly, the article discusses minibuses (which we've had, in Brazil at least, for longer than I can remember) and only mentions they "can" be routeless but doesn't fully explain how that could be achieved.
Yes. Tens of thousands of people getting together in the spirit of competition, national unity, and music. How absurd.

What most Americans don't realize is that some major music comes out of Eurovision. Celene Dion, ABBA, Olivia Newton-John, among others.

CNN should explain Eurovision to Americans, rather than ridicule it. No wonder CNN can't figure out why its ratings and credibility are in the toilet.
As a remote worker, Spacious is one of my favorite startups. They turn unused space in restaurants during the day into co-working space. It costs between a third and half of a WeWork hot seat, and I like being able to switch locations every day to get a different neighborhood, look, and feel. I'm unaffiliated, but I think the future of remote work looks like this!
Taking on twitch? I dig it
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I tag my to-do lists as "TODO" and pin them at the top. On Android I have a widget setup only to show things with the "TODO" tag.
Right, in the book they addressed this with middle-america/canada type land, and government-abandoned cities and towns in rural states. Basically, they were too remote to bother dealing with.
Coding bootcamp broke the law. How to get into tech?
Got accepted to a coding bootcamp. Deaf, asked for ASL interpreters.

“We can’t.” I said, that's illegal. (I live in the US. ADA mandates compliance.)

“OK, we will work on getting you access.” So I paid them.

“lol, kidding! No interpreters - voice-to-text software instead!”

Oh hell no. But I had already paid. & maybe I was wrong?

Nope. First day of class, four hours of this:

"GodzillaYeah crazy Yeah like the class What are you going to Google Good morning Would you park music So I can count fast But just in case Or have an hour and a half two hours I think it's healthy right now near me Safe mode emails or talk to each other on slack make friends you guys help each other out the if you want to talk to me"

Tried two technologies: Google Docs voice-to-text & Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Dragon was a lil better; both were awful for someone relying on them to understand speech.

Other problems:

* Needed to keep window focus on the doc that the software was transcribing into. If tabbed away, software would a. stop transcribing (Google Docs) or b. transcribe into the new window (Dragon). So couldn’t work along w/ exercises.

* The software did not pick up what other students said; they were out of range of the mic. This is a participation-based class.

* Dragon is designed for blind people, so it can execute commands on their behalf. Great for them. Not so great in this situation. Remember how I said we were working in the command line? The instructor was reading out very basic but very dangerous commands such as `rm -rf.` Thankfully, nothing happened, but ugh.

~

tl;dr I had to drop out of bootcamp because no interpreters. Money refunded but I am filing complaints. They’re partnered w/ a university; fairly strict rules around ADA + funding.

Now I'm trying to figure out what to do. Have you ever been in this situation? What did you do? And how the hell can I get into tech?
Tech breakthroughs won't help. There's no replacement for an investment in infrastructure. Let me explain.

I used to live in Seattle, without a car, which meant taking the bus. I thought it worked pretty well until I moved out of downtown to just off the main drag in West Seattle (California Ave.) There, the bus still worked great! Until King County Metro decided to pull service. Suddenly, all-day, all-week service from the stop by my apartment turned into 5 rush-hour trips to downtown a day, weekdays only, peak direction only. Getting anywhere else suddenly required a 2 mile walk to Alaska Junction (or, unrealistically, a local bus transfer. The 2 mile walk was faster.)

I was naive and a fool (fortunately, didn't invest much and was able to move shortly thereafter.) People who invest in areas on the basis of bus service are fools. It's constantly being tinkered with for a host of regions (fluctuating budgets, political pressures, and the damnable need for people making careers to "do something.") You cannot trust a bus route.

Tunnels or tracks in the ground, and associated stations? Those don't move. (They do sometimes get abandoned in the worst cases of nonfeasance.) One can generally rely on continued service over a period of time suitable for investment. There's no substitute for sunk costs as a signal of commitment. It's the investments in density that come with a real transit network that make the difference, not "attracting ridership with fancy buses." See yet again, Seattle. (Sorry, RapidRide is a joke.)

You know what has historically driven ridership and attracted investment in Seattle? Areas around the trolley bus lines. Because, again, you know the route's not going away if the lines are up.
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Not just ramping up, but we also had fairly direct involvement. 'Lend-Lease' occurred before Pearl Harbor providing large amounts of military and non military aid and had a significant impact.
Do NYC residents look at the subway as something only poor people use? Honest question, I don’t live there. I don’t consider “associating with the poors” to be an impediment at all.

What stops me from using mass transit (including bus and rail service) is that its schedule in my town is totally inadequate. Stops are not frequent enough, service starts too late in the morning and ends too early at night, and travel time to most destinations is slower than by car. Fix these major problems and I happily use transit.
> And it inexplicably misses the single biggest and most obvious criterion: SERVICE FREQUENCY.

Seattle seems to agree. The Rapid Ride buses attempt to keep headways between buses very short.

I don't own a car and travel via public transit frequently. I find that an accurate OneBusAway/Transit estimate is much more useful than headways. I absolutely agree that some kind of predictability is extremely important.
Ohh haha. I thought this was a replacement for twitch or similar, but it's just the chat/subs/forum, the most important part, the live streaming, is not part of this project.
What a myopic comment, and dripping with unwarranted vitriol.

The world absolutely _should_ work that way. Companies _should_ have half a brain to realise that selling bottled water is bad for the environment, that fracking causes earthquakes, that sugar is the root of all dietary evil, that tobacco is carcinogenic, that overfishing causes unspeakable damage to ocean life, that SUVs are colossal wastes of space and fuel...

All the companies doing the above are providing wildly popular goods and services. And a lot of them are perfectly legal too.

Your suggestion implies that all this is just dandy, thank you very much, so take your hemp clothing and your vegan sandals and your do-gooderness off of my property and gtfo acting as a "self appointed guardian".

What kind of extreme libertarian hard-on does a man have to possess to believe that all of this is how society SHOULD work?

I deeply resent this sentiment that you have to take the good with the bad of a free market society because there is no alternative. Of course there is! Regulate these idiots into the ground! While this is clearly a pipe dream, that's a long way away from the statement that this is how society _should_ be.
>try to visit site
>immediately get certificate warnings

hilarious
>> (We also collectively decided that Microservivces were another solution to our woes though that cargo cult is being questioned)

I wouldn't really say that, I think it's more that we all discovered huge monoliths don't work in an "agile cloud" environment where you have 10 teams deploying on their own cadences with no coordination (which you have with on premise binary delivery, or waterfall, or when you have implicit coordination by operations because they have to build out the physical infra). Further, I think modularity has become much bigger in the past 15-20 years as more and more people contribute to open source, more problems become "solved", and languages/domain spaces mature. Whether microservices are the best solution to those observations is still up for debate, but cargo cult or not I doubt many engineers these days would use a magical wand to go back to monoliths even if they live in microservice hell right now.
> I don't always need to check types. I don't need to know that isReady returns a bool. It clearly returns a bool.

I'm sorry but you're mistaken, friend. I checked the signature of that function and it actually returns an enumeration of ready states:

enum class Ready { Insert, Process, Clean };
const Ready isReady();

Static typing is extremely useful for knowing what things return - names are not.
> One example is using Android to prevent a monopoly on the smartphone side. If Apple had a monopoly or near monopoly, it would be able to extract larger economic profits from the other links on the value chain, including Google

Your example actually shows the opposite and that's because conventional wisdom is often wrong.

Conventional wisdom states that there is a direct correlation between market share dominance and excess profits which is why anti-trust laws target monopolies to protect consumers from price-gouging, but this characterization is not always the case, as Apple has proven by not pursuing a market-share focused strategy.

Apple enjoys 87% of smartphone profits from a mere 18% of all shipments [0].

[0] https://www.investors.com/news/technology/click/apple-rakes-...
Which is a big reason that this is something the Australian government wants to clamp down on?
Original post on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17043340
Autonomous driving can increase service frequency by reducing operating costs. The cost of bus driver per passenger could be quite high off peak hours and in sparse areas.
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Prisum's phone is the only smart device I have actually looked forward to. Finally having a vanilla solution the community can work with and improve, distro independent.
Don't you find it a little ironic posting this in reply to a blog where they mention exactly what they are doing to make open source firmware work better?

You can say they aren't working on the right things - or that they aren't doing enough. All fair - but clearly they aren't just installing Linux on OEM laptops.
I'd venture to say it's both. That is, lower the wait for the bus showing up, and then lower the wait to get onto the bus.

To that I'll add: Protection from the elements. If train stops were like bus stops, no one would find that acceptable.

On that note, one can't help but wonder if the neglect of buses isn't a passive form of racism / class-ism.

Anecdotally, one of the patterns I've noticed is the further down the economic ladder you move, the longer you wait for services. Given that time is money, this works against those who likely need the time most.
What did your local government say when you contacted them about this? That sounds extremely frustrating.
I don’t think this kind of comment could possibly have been made in good faith. Please don’t do that here.
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Still waiting to see a capitalist economy that do not become ridden with oligopolies
What a great game. I really should get back into it...
I did not get to the point where I would have contacted a publishing house. I was just writing it for myself, mostly, so I had no restrictions/requirements imposed wrt file format. I used LaTeX and generated PDF from that.