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In my opinion, there should be pay cuts to continue coming to the office with a 2 hour commute by car.

Google's proposal incentivizes the wrong thing.

At least this is a public project. In the United States, we have no problem using eminent domain to tear down homes for private business interests (read: Foxconn in Wisconsin [1]).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/08/wisconsin-fo...

Apple Maps needs to provide bicycle directions in my city (Madison, Wisconsin). Until then, it's literally nonfunctional for the vast majority of my trips.

Driving! I've managed to convert ~95% of my trips to my ecargo bike for the past couple years.

The picture in the article is of a protected two way bike path. If the robot was in the car lane here, a driver could not pass in the bike path.

I could envision problems with unprotected bike lanes, but those are dangerous by design [1]. However, a robot clinging to the rightmost side of a car lane next to an unprotected bike lane could easily make passing in the unprotected bike lane infeasible.

But, this is all just speculation.

[1] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-sepa...

In my opinion, these robots should just drive in the street with cars. If they get run over, nobody gets hurt. It might actually make things safer by forcing drivers to pay more attention!

Actually, a study conducted in 2017 for the Florida Department of Transportation and conducted by scientists at the University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation Research concluded that cyclists were slightly more compliant with traffic laws than drivers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180623224226/http://www.fdot.g...

There's definitely amenities at home that seem simple but seriously factor into my preference to WFH.

For example, a Toto washlet. I visited Japan in Feb 2020 and purchased a bidet promptly afterwards, along with starting WFH at the onset of the lockdowns. After more than a year, it's hard to imagine going back. :-)

As you point out, you cannot buy a new car today (in the US) without a wide array of safety features for occupants.

Why isn't the same true for pedestrians and bicyclists?

I disagree. There's no technical reason SUV and pickup truck front bumper design is so dangerous. People just prefer that design because it looks more appealing.

"When a car strikes a cyclist, the initial impact causes severe lower-body trauma, but it’s also likely to sweep that person’s legs out from underneath them. This is significant, because as the rider slides up the hood, they’re scrubbing speed and, with it, some impact force. An SUV or truck, by contrast, is taller, so the initial impact is likely to target the pelvis or even the chest. “That momentum is carried through your body,” says Hu. In addition, the front-end shape of a vehicle is vital. More than 85 percent of fatalities among pedestrians and cyclists hit by cars and light trucks involve impacts from the front of the vehicle, according to 2017 data from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. Modern truck and full-size SUVs favor blocky, muscular styling at the front end, rather than the more gently sloping transition from grille to hood that cars and some compact SUVs have. Instead of sliding onto the hood when hit by a truck, the rider’s pelvis and torso rotate with a twisting, tearing motion. With a squared-off front end, Hu says, “it’s basically the person wrapping around the vehicle.”"

https://www.outsideonline.com/2411345/suvs-trucks-deadly-cyc...

Safety... for whom? Occupants, yes. But for pedestrians, bicyclists and other vulnerable road users, it's gotten worse with the trend for larger vehicles [1][2][3] in the last decade.

[1] https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/new-study-suggests-todays-s...

[2] https://www.ghsa.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/Ped%20Spotl...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision...

Do you have a source? Anecdotally I've found clipless to make my power transfer more efficient. Some quick googling shows this seems to be true:

"Mean power output was higher using clipless pedals ( = 617 watts, SD = 112) than toe-strap ( = 572 watts, SD = 77), and flat ( = 566 watts, SD = 83)." [1]

[1] https://scholars.fhsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1118&c...

Wow. This is a significant UX improvement for MacOS users! I might try FF as my daily personal browser in lieu of Safari.

Overscroll and (to a lesser extent) native context menus are huge to me.

I just want my .dev email address to not be rejected.

Indeed.

Even HN cannot see past the perverse dangers and flaws of modern auto design responsible for the current vulnerable road user epidemic in America. [1] When it comes to cars - it's "personal responsibility". When it comes to treadmills - it's a "manufacturing flaw" [2]

[1] https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2018/06/28/suvs-killi... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26846641

In the US, https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov

Although it is usually ~ one year behind.

I guess this confirms 10gbe m1 minis in 2021?

Just to clarify, he's jumping a BASE rig with a wingsuit - albeit technically a skydive (jumping from a helicopter).

It's a BASE rig since it only has one parachute, and the sole canopy is designed to deploy quickly and consistently.

Another clarification - BASE rigs with wingsuits are not inherently dangerous. In fact, BASE/wingsuit gear failure as a cause of death is extremely low. It's correlation vs causation - BASE rigs are used almost always (except for certain stunts like this) used in a BASE environment flying close to land, where the margin of error (time to impact) is extremely low compared to a skydiving environment.

In a skydiving environment, you can do everything wrong, even do nothing and likely live (automatic activation device triggered deployment of your reserve canopy). But with BASE, oftentimes you are flying so close to terrain that you cannot deploy your canopy and live, and your only option is to continue flying your wingsuit to a safe place to deploy - which is a problem if you stall, take a slightly wrong line down the mountain, etc.

Source: I'm a parachute rigger and I wingsuit (in a skydiving environment).

What I am skeptical about is putting large car batteries in tunnels, which store enormous amounts of energy that could potentially be released in combustion and need be managed by adequate ventilation and fire suppression systems.

Versus an electric train. Theoretically, since the energy is transported into the tunnel via power lines, wouldn’t fire suppression and ventilation systems be cheaper since they wouldn’t need to handle so much stored energy potential (via batteries) traveling through a tunnel?

Studded bike tires are common in bike friendly, cold cities. Work great with ice. It's all about the right tool for the job.

Although what a lot of winter bike commuters do in my city is go by bike 95% of the winter, and take the bus when the conditions are really bad.

A cheap beat up iPhone SE fulfills this requirement for $75.

If you're leaving it at home anyways it doesn't need to be pretty or fast. Just needs to allow you to set up the Apple Watch.

I've dreamt about this. I would immediately move to the first US city that bans SOV commuters from a significant portion of the city (let's say, a couple square miles), and establishes superblocks where no vehicles are allowed whatsoever, with the old streets converted to green space.

Of course, I doubt this will happen in my lifetime.

My next phone after the SE will hopefully be a standalone Apple Watch (Cellular) with some AirPods.

Once watchOS grows independent enough from the iPhone...

What city do you live in?

EDIT Also I am a little confused by

> That being said, I would love to see you haul a fridge three miles on foot to your next parking ramp.

I thought we were talking about commuting? I am not saying get rid of your car, I am saying perhaps don't commute with one every single day and then expect to park on-street, because there might be better options...

There are so many alternatives other than commuting by car and parking on the street...

1. Bus 2. Bike 3. Walk 4. Carpool 5. Move 6. Parking ramps

^ And combinations of these, such as park-and-rides, parking outside the core downtown area and bus/biking in, etc.

Not to mention, at least in my City (Madison, WI) there's thousands of off-street car parking spots in public ramps, and removing 5 spots for 5 corrals in high demand areas negatively affects nobody. Unless you happen to be the 0.00001% of downtown car traffic affected by this and needing to walking a block or two from the nearest ramp to park your private vehicle is such a big deal...

There's zero argument here.

It could be, but keep in mind Skydive Freefall Adventure is trying to capture a lot of northeastern Wisconsin, not just Green Bay.

No, Skydive Freefall Adventure is a brand new reincarnation of Green Bay Skydivers.

SEO is making all titles/descriptions be less creative and use more targeted keywords.

For example, Skydiving dropzones. Some in Wisconsin:

  1. Skyknights -> Skydive Milwaukee
  2. AtmosphAIR -> Wisconsin Skydiving Center
  3. Green Bay Skydivers -> Skydive Freefall Adventure

I see where the story is coming from. Devil's advocate: I think it would be really cool and great for security if the smart lock manufacturer could notify you if your landlord accessed you unit.

I can see pros and cons for both sides, is all...

This is why videos are allowed to autoplay if muted.

Otherwise sites would use GIFs or something like this, which is much less efficient.