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What a well written, gripping analysis! One of the most interesting plots was the Ocean Booking Volume Index... booking volume vanishes right around the start of Feb each year. I think this is about when Chinese New Year is celebrated. That's crazy!! Every year, booking volume collapses for a few weeks for Chinese New Year, bottoming out at less than 1/2 the minimum during the most recent early 2022 Shanghai lockdown.

A friend of mine recently left a mainframe assembler programming job. They didn't want to get stuck as a mainframe assembler programmer. They were part the first batch of new hires the company had made in over 10 years for the role. The company didn't pay like they wanted to keep their talent though. And, to top it off, a high level execs criticized growth in that product: "it's in the wrong bucket!".

Speaking of gun deaths... someone linked to https://www.osha.gov/fatalities the other day and I was surprised to see how many fatalities involve workers getting shot, often by co-workers!

Oh yeah, another fun one: the content inside the macOS native Dictionary app is HTML styled with CSS!

I don't think your sources support your claim -- but it's complicated. The first link: https://theicct.org/planes-trains-and-automobiles-counting-c... has a graph showing that bus achieves ~150 passenger miles / gallon gasoline equivalent, compared to amtrack, plane, and car all at ~50 +/- 10 miles / gallon gasoline equivalent. Bus is 3 times more efficient than the average car by that measure -- but it really depends what kind of bus loading they assumed. The second link: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa-615.pd... is mostly arguing that trains should not be built _in the US_ for environmental/efficiency reasons. One strand of the argument is that building rail is less flexible and takes away ridership from the more efficient bus mode. I think this is the passage you were trying to quote:

> Two commuter-rail systems —New Jersey Transit and the Northern Indiana Commuter District—are the only transit systems that use less energy per passenger mile than a Toyota Prius. All other commuter-rail lines, except for the SEPTA system in Philadelphia, use less energy than the average passenger auto.

Quite the contradiction to "none are even close to being as efficient as driving a Prius".

Their 500 page is delightful... More downtime, I say!

There was a recent link posted exactly about this... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30068020

Early versions of Creative Commons (CC) license had a bug in which the license would terminate on breach of terms. The terms were easy to mess up, like requiring attribution and linking to source. There is now a new form of copyright troll that is basically fishing for CC violations.

How does one go about finding a third party to front the cash and split the upside? And how do US federal taxes work in this situation?

I don't think all driver assist tech is dangerous. Tesla FSD is dangerous because the name suggests no supervision is needed, and it's good enough that drivers fall asleep at the wheel. My driver assist experience is with a 2020 Honda Insight. The LASK/ACC features make the car a collaborator in the driving process. I can't fall asleep, it requires too much supervision/collaboration. But instead of running the exhausting speed/lane position/follow distance loop as fast as I can, I can do it at some variable fraction of that speed depending on road conditions. I have to monitor for the things I know or suspect cause issues for the automated system. For example, it generally wants to follow exits, so I have to put resistance on the wheel when passing exits to keep it on the highway. On the other hand, it is excellent (better than me) at making fine adjustments to stay between well marked lines on long straight stretches... that's where I feel comfortable stealing a glance out the side window or resting my foot on the floor instead of hovering over the pedals. It doesn't avoid debris sitting in the middle of the road, so I have to watch for that and wrestle LKAS to avoid if I see that coming.

Google Chrome, Firefox, and Slack select the next suggestion on tab from the url/search bar. That's a pretty big precedent. I like it... my arrow keys are far away from the home row but tab is not.

Anyway, we can disagree about proper tab behavior here. My intention is to support the article by highlighting sloppy behavior from Maps.app. A case in point, the arrow keys don't work either.

To see, type a few characters in "Search Maps" until suggestions appear, press down arrow key, ... no suggestion is select, instead the search box looses focus and the map moves?! While messing around with this... I noticed that pressing the right arrow before pressing down arrow (sometimes??) begins selecting suggestions. Seriously, go mess around with it... but it's super finicky.

This is the state of Apple UI polish and consistency today.

Costs trickle-down... Profits don't.

Similar nit pick… Not sure if this is fixed in Monterey, but in Catalina the maps app is so close to being amazing. When you search, it shows suggestions but hitting tab defocuses the search and closes the suggestions!! It should select the next suggestion.

That sounds like a horrible situation to be in, but I can also understand the safety benefit. From high school, I remember a friend telling me about how they crashed. They glanced at the radio to switch channels (or change volume or something), which was just enough for the situation on the road to change and they hit the car in front of them. Clearly, that wasn't a good time to look away for even a split second, and a mature driver should know that. The empty highway has a lot more "safe" opportunities for glances away from the road, but I'm sure there's friction because the AI isn't lenient in this way. By the time the AI is aware of that, it's probably going to be doing the driving anyway!

I recently used lane keeping assistance and automatic cruise control for a long distance road trip, and it's SO liberating. You actually feel safe taking glances at the landscape. I never felt safe doing that in an old car. The new experience is simply not as exhausting as running the speed check, lane check, distance check loop required in old cars.

> These mirror-image molecules are manufactured from synthetic D-amino acids strung together in the same way as their left-handed counterparts.

This sounds like a prion? Scary! Could someone who understands the nuance better explain the difference?

Supply chain chaos? I assume bike parts in the US come from overseas in shipping containers. One of my shifters broke in September and the local bike shop said they were out of parts and didn't expect to have any more until April 2022.

> The UI for <input type="datetime-local"> has been added.

I've been out of frontend web dev for a while... does this mean the days of trying to find/create your own (good) datetime picker component are gone?

This happened to me. Just get online, play games, and do puzzles and you will improve. One of the tough things is getting started. When you sign up on lichess.org, you start out with 1500 rating which is literally ~50th percentile [1]. You're probably not actually 50th percentile so you're going to loose literally all of your first 10-20 games until you stabilize at a lower rating (it was ~850 for me). It's a little rough, but you just need to get through it. Once your ranking stabilizes, you'll be matched against opponents who you have a chance to win against. From there you'll see improvement over time. Improvement is slow, though. 600 points in 6 months is notably _fast_. I've managed ~800 improvement 3 years.

[1] https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz

This is beautiful. The real numbers are uncountable, so seems intuitive that could approximate any other space with them... basically a hash function. But this one has an inverse! It's so cool that someone actually implemented this.

A valid license is a valid license? Whether or not rural cops are aware is a different issue. I'm also curious how it will work to hand over "license and registration" info. Traditionally, you give them your physical license, they might go back to their vehicle with it, and come back after several minutes. No way I'm giving them my phone!

Until the technology is ubiquitous, people will have to carry the physical copy like normal. If it becomes ubiquitous, it should become ubiquitous in tandem with something like a handheld scanner the police brings to your window. Will it ever completely replace the physical copy? I doubt it... Apple Pay has been out for 6 years now and not all point of sale terminals accept it. It's hard to know beforehand which places accept. Not to mention that phones run out of battery and can get misplaced. Redundancy is good.

Can you comment or recommend any resources on the legality of owning a PortaPack H2 in the US? (eg. is an Amateur Radio License required?)

> chances are you have a gmail and have 46289902834 unread messages that they auto filter for you in an ads tab (being facetious) and force you to use webmail.

A fix for this:

1. Create a label called "Promotions"

2. Create a new filter for Matches: category:promotions, Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "Promotions".

The Skip Inbox setting means your inbox will stay clean! You can do similar things for the Updates and Forums categories, but don't skip inbox on those.

The wonderful tbkeys [1] extension allows you to configure hjkl navigation in Thunderbird.

[1] https://github.com/wshanks/tbkeys

I was jokingly asking a friend the other day if we might ever have to ride horses again. Probably not, but it's interesting to imagine the scenarios that would lead to that. Americans take personal vehicles for granted. Addressing climate change is going to require some uncomfortable changes.

Zeal Optics based in Colorado: https://www.zealoptics.com

> If you do round to whole dollars, you must round all amounts.

Aww....

The response from Airbnb seems aggressively dismissive. There may be some truth in their rebuttal, but stepping back and recognizing that they are economically incentivized to disagree, it's tempting to dismiss their objections outright. Their unwillingness to provide better data, or refute with data is also... telling?

Evoking the sense that there are systematic forces at play is intentional! Who cares if _you're_ bad with money? It could be an edge case that doesn't matter. But if it's normal to be bad with money (i.e. there are a lot of people who are bad with money), that's a little more interesting -- something to pay attention to.

Also, as someone on the younger side, this mentality is comforting. It's the comfort of existing within a school of fish. Despite unpredictable currents that act on you like an object, it's comforting to know that there are many of you. A few individuals disappear here and there, but chances are the school will survive. You're normal, you belong, things are hard, but you'll probably be fine.

The situation is absolutely chilling and should give you goosebumps of fear. Watching the thermometer rise toward 100F today, I randomly thought about how terrifying it is to be an atheist. There is no entity watching out for us. No divine entity who will tip the scales in our favor and make sure things turn out okay. It's literally just us, out here on our own. Some days I'm not sure we can do it... and other days the nihilist in me doesn't care.

Very cool! I wish macOS contacts were supported. I would not migrate to something that doesn't solve the "sync b/w devices" problem. It would be pretty nifty to have a CLI frontend for iCloud contacts.

... And it looks like such a thing somewhat exists! https://github.com/keith/contacts-cli

Interesting, so this is a lower bound on the value of your data!