williamsmj

"You keep focusing on Manhattan."

Because we were talking about what effect a ban on large trailers would have, and that's the only place in the US where there are no large trailers. We could have talked about ~all the capital cities of Europe if you'd preferred. Or the entire island of Britain.

"An intentional misrepresentation, and modification of my quote"

Well, it doesn't get better when I quote the full sentence, but here it is: "Lol do you know how unsafe it would be for 'non-driving' residents if trailers can't unload food and necessary items to NYC?". Large trailers can't unload in Manhattan. 53' trailers can't even be on freeways in much of Europe. It's not unsafe. No one starves.

They could be illegally transferring loads to smaller trucks in the expensive outer boroughs, or legally in Westchester and NJ where land is cheaper. It makes no difference to my point, which is:

There are almost no big trailers delivering goods to Manhattan. It works well, just like it works well all over the world. It allows people to move around more quickly and safely. It works well even though Manhattan is ~1% of the US population and doesn't dominate economically to the extent of some world cities. It's certainly not "unsafe" (?!) for the residents of Manhattan (a direct quote). I don't know what "unpragmatic" means when applied to a system that works.

Banning big trucks from places where there isn't room and they get in the way is great. I hope they ban them in more places. I hope they ban anything bigger than a Transit van. I hope they transfer enforcement to a less corrupt, lazy, anti-city/pro-suburb agency than the NYPD. In short: big trucks in cities suck. I'm done.

I'm going to say one more time: there are > 0 illegal 53' trailers in Manhattan, but not by much. It's incredibly hard to get a trailer onto the island. The tunnels aren't tall enough and only 2 of the 21 bridges allow 53' trailers (they are the entrance and exit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Manhattan_Expressway) at the far northern end (~170th St). The bridges are all controlled by Port Authority not NYPD. The trucks that end up on lower Manhattan are lost drivers, not making illegal deliveries to Target and Whole Foods. If the NYPD enforced the law _perfectly_ it would not be "unsafe" like you suggest. It would instead make almost no difference to the availability of goods on Manhattan.

I figured you'd focus on HK specifically. I don't agree it's incomparable, but forget I mentioned it. Big trucks are banned from big cities all over the world. The police forces that enforce those bans are not all sat in their cars playing games on their phones like they do in NYC. And yet life goes on.

Look, 53’ trailers illegally entering Manhattan is a problem. I’ll be the first to admit that. But if you think life on Manhattan is only possible because of a huge illegal trucking operation then I don’t know what to tell you.

The US doesn’t have dense cities except NYC, so you may not realise this but rules against big trucks in dense cities are extremely common globally. I get that this offends you aesthetically and you therefore want to think the people of Paris and London and Munich and Hong Kong are miserable and starving because they don’t let trucks in. But that’s not true.

If I thought they were the densest residential neighborhoods on earth I would have said so.

Worth noting here that the law is ignored by the NYPD in the outer boroughs but it’s actually pretty much impossible to get a 53’ truck onto Manhattan because there are so few ways onto the island, and the only one of the interstates on which 53’ trailers are legal passes through Manhattan.

And yet here’s a fun fact: it’s actually possible to buy food and necessary items in Manhattan. The NYPD ignores the law but the national chain stores that cover the island do not. It’s actually so easy to make deliveries and pickups that those stores are well stocked and serve residential neighborhoods that are literally some of the densest on earth.

Turns out humans have ways of moving stuff around without 53’ trailers.

Length restrictions are generally looser in the US, but there's one very notable exception: 53' trailers may pass through NYC to Long Island on a couple of highways, but may not make pickups or deliveries anywhere in NYC https://www.dot.ny.gov/about-nysdot/faq/are-53-foot-long-tra.... 53' trailers are pretty much the standard large trailer in the US. They are recognizable because they have a little "53" written on the side. Don't bother reporting it to the NYPD if you see one though. They pretty much refuse to enforce laws meant to make NYC safer for its non-driving residents.

It's sadly true that many people think like this, but it's not relevant. SB9 is a law. My house is eligible and my neighbors cannot stop me if I choose to do this.

"the fact that they only review products which can earn them a commission"

So you're saying https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/about/ is a lie?

I wonder if there’s a simpler explanation for the fact that the guy who directed Scary Movie 4 is not revered to the extent he once was.

Nope. Can’t think of anything. Must be the woke mob again.

Not so for the employees https://twitter.com/ekp/status/1437516618553192449

Intuit want Mailchimp's data.

My understanding is that this old article is no longer the simplest/easiest way of doing this. For that, see https://marcusnoble.co.uk/2021-09-01-migrating-from-docker-t.... tl;dr:

    $ brew install podman
    $ podman machine init
    $ podman machine start
    $ alias docker=podman

If you're on an M1 you may run into https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10577 (which is WIP, and may have been resolved by https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/11451).

I don't disagree that Libby's UX for search/catalog is not great (and I'm with you on searching across libraries, but fwiw I find tags fine), but it's light years ahead of the competition for playback.

I treat audible as a last resort not because I want to avoid amazon or because I'm cheap (although both are true), but because it's so frustrating to use the app to, you know, listen to books.

A driving test is not based on accidents per mile. If you, by your own admission, cannot handle rain, left turns and construction work, you should not be on the road.

I don't understand any of that is a gotcha or in any way relevant. The entity driving a 3000 lb vehicle on a road shared with bags of blood and bones should be held to the same standards, whether it's a human or AI. Right now, AI drivers do not reach these standards, by their creators own admission. "I'm getting better!" or "I can do other stuff really well" is not a compelling argument that you should be given a drivers license.

I'm not sure what you mean by "false anthropomorphization".

If you mean "it's not reasonable to hold all drivers, whether humans or AI, to the standards required to pass a driving test (left turns, sharing the road with bicycles and construction workers, rain)", then ... uh, I dunno what to tell you.

Congratulations on your "common sense", but several highly publicized and actively exploited recent exploits against iOS required no user interaction:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/iphone-zero-click-wi...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/zero-...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/clickless-exploits-f...

etc., etc.

I don't think the video ad example is particularly unethical, assuming it's disclosed to the video uploader. Or at least it's no more unethical than ad tech is by definition (which is pretty unethical, admittedly).

This domain registration scam is more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running and https://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/, i.e. inferring from the inside information you have as the market maker/platform that the value of something is going up, and using that knowledge to make trades or business decisions that are profitable to you, not something a platform is normally expected to do, and costly to the source of the information, i.e. your customers. These are considered unethical/illegal because the possibility they might happen is not disclosed to the user of the platform.

Fun fact: you need not just a town, but a legally incorporated city, if you want a liquor store. A trailer park with a population of 188 is the densest incorporated city in Texas (and one of the 100 densest cities in America) for precisely this reason: https://twitter.com/DanKeshet/status/1350633707036663809, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_City,_Texas.

Did you read the introduction to the article? “The equivalent of asking an electrician to install a new power socket” is literally the point.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26244093

I agree the post is great (which is why I submitted it) but I also found the last couple of paragraphs kind of a let down, after nodding along enthusiastically for the rest of the article.

The article links to this other post on a similar topic https://www.sicpers.info/2021/03/one-person-per-task/. The advice there boils down to "hey, remember agile? Not just the 'use Jira' but, but the rest of it. That was a good idea!"

Hierarchies. The answer to your question is: hierarchies.

Because the apology is so shallow and glib and self-serving that it's literally worse than no apology.

I have no doubt it is honest, but it's not a good apology. He barely remembers the specific incident (by his own admission). That's not his fault, but it makes the apology pretty much meaningless. He seems to assume he was a bit of a grumpy-puss that day, and that "jaded" their subsequent interactions. This is incredibly glib and diminishes the specific incident.

But more importantly, he never admits to being a bully. The original post gives this incident as an example of a pattern of abusive behavior. He sidesteps that entirely.

tldr: "I barely remember the specific incident you cited merely as an example of an ongoing pattern of absuive behavior, but it sounds like I was a jerk that day. Oops! We good?"

'More recently, the company raised alarm for operating an SUV labeled as “private patrol” in downtown Los Angeles, although company representatives insist the vehicle is not engaged in security work.'

It seems like that was what is known in the PR business as "a lie": https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7evbx/citizen-app-private-s...

They also appear to have a private security force (or to have branded a vehicle in a way that implies this, presumably because dystopian imagery seems like good marketing) https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kv88q/citizen-los-angeles-c....

"The Citizen [app] CEO apparently wants to reframe their company as some sort of vigilante justice machine"

The app was literally called Vigilante until they were forced to rename it.