Readit NewshifromLA commented on A practical guide to quitting your smartphone nytimes.com/2024/02/01/te... · Posted by u/lxm
I never found Screentime usable because something like turn-by-turn navigation would count against the global screen time, with no option to exclude it. worthless.
If you are using car play the work around is to have the screen off and use car play without nav full screen (using the view with tiles basically).
hifromLA commented on Ask HN: Would your life be better if you stopped visiting HN? · Posted by u/1212321234321
Moderation would be the best. I have gotten a little bit of value from Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, and HN. But most of that value can be captured within a few minutes a day rather than the few hours I spend. But moderation feels harder than quitting outright. I relapsed on Reddit recently and I found it easier to just have a zero tolerance policy.
hifromLA commented on Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada trains.fyi/... · Posted by u/ryry
It's sad that even great potential routes like SF->LA aren't accessible by train, and we don't seem to have the state capacity to build HSR there.
I was just in Japan, and took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto, which is a similar distance as SF to LA.
That train:
- runs every 10 minutes -- if you miss one, just take the next one!
- takes 2.5 hours travel time
- starts and ends in city centers on both ends.
- has better legroom and wider seats than economy
- free, fast Wifi on board, your cell signal still works, and you can use your computer the whole trip.
- has no security or boarding hassle. You can show up 5 minutes before departure and just get on.
- has no luggage limitations AFAICT
It's faster and far less stressful than flying SF to LA, with the security and boarding hassles, Ubers on both ends, and cramped onboard conditions.
The HSR route between San Francisco and Los Angeles is under construction. It’s not gone perfectly but it is starting to pick up momentum.
You're very generous with LA. The few lines it's built recently (eg Exhibition Line) are so slow that no one in their right mind would take it unless they have absolutely no better option. In Paris, public transport is always the first option.
The speed yes it’s not ideal and at a minimum there should be signal priority or just remove at grade crossings entirely, but land use in LA is really really not good for transit. The built environment is designed to support automobile use and that will hopefully change through TOD.
My point is the distances regularly covered in LA would be absolutely unthinkable in Manhattan and the more urban parts of the outer boroughs, let alone Paris which is a smaller city than San Francisco. So on the one hand we need better land use to reduce distance traveled and on the other improvements to overall speed.
By contrast New York has a built environment that is absolutely fantastic for transit but cannot build enough to fully capitalize on it. Their costs are astronomical and going up.
Rings kind of suck. You have to go around to get anywhere, and so you spend a lot more time on your subway getting home.
I disagree. Look at something like the Chicago el which is a true hub and spoke system. The el needs a ring line since any trip that doesn’t start or end in the loop generally requires taking the bus which is fine but not rapid transit.
By contrast look at the Yamanote line in Tokyo for a great ring that provides tons of connections and gets tons of ridership.
hifromLA commented on Amazon cuts 'several hundred' jobs in Alexa division cnbc.com/2023/11/17/amazo... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
This is what bothers me about all of this "investment" into AI now. Is it the same thing? Just purely CEO performance art to mollify stupid and uncreative Investment Banking analysts so they can fill in the cell in their spreadsheet that makes stock price go up? "Yes. Mister Johnson at Goldman, we, also have an AI strategy for 2024, very similar to BigCoXyz who you also model..."
It seems that companies don't have to do anything anymore--they just have to spin a story for Wall Street and make sure they lap it up.
Once the dust settles we will realize yes LLMs have some applications. But no they don’t need to be integrated into everything.
hifromLA commented on It's true. Your devices are listening to you cmglocalsolutions.com/cmg... · Posted by u/tempestn
How does this work with device permissions? Assuming most of these conversations are happening when there is no app in the foreground.
Reddit is, at this point, a literal mirror held up to reality.
Everything you read there isn't happening.
Maybe people want it to happen and think if they spam it enough times people will believe it is happening and report that it is happening, but it isn't.
If you read something on reddit, believe the opposite.