Enjoyable read, but kind of ironic that it interrupts your reading half way down to nag you to subscribe. Everything is an overcrowded airport lounge, indeed.
Readit Newspaulgb commented on Every industry is an overcrowded airport lounge now quoththeraven.substack.co... · Posted by u/walterbell
paulgb commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
I mean if we required a license to own a bike in NYC we could see a significant reduction in injuries/deaths, same for pedestrians. Cars are already heavily regulated and likely aren't the underlying issue.
There are many ways to interpret data, but one often comes to the conclusion that pedestrians and bikers are the root cause of most accidents.
Cars are only “heavily regulated” in the sense that you pass a test once when you are a teenager and then never have to pass a test again, just pay a nominal fee to renew your license.
I am curious what data you are looking at that gives you the impression pedestrians and bikers are the root cause of most accidents. As a frequent pedestrian / biker here, I see a car doing something unhinged about every mile I walk. On Wednesday I almost got hit by a car flying the wrong way down a one-way street and then running a red.
paulgb commented on Perfect Freehand – Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines perfectfreehand.com/... · Posted by u/NikxDa
This is by Steve Ruiz of https://tldraw.com, in case anyone noticed the similarity between the two.
paulgb commented on A conceptual overview of asyncio github.com/anordin95/a-co... · Posted by u/anordin95
This is great! Thanks for writing it.
One nit, the unquoted quotes in this file seem to be a parse error (I replaced the inner ones with single quotes and it ran) https://github.com/anordin95/a-conceptual-overview-of-asynci...
paulgb commented on The Architecture Behind Lovable and Bolt beam.cloud/blog/agentic-a... · Posted by u/Mernit
Q: Has anyone on HN built anything meaningful with Lovable/Bolt? Something that works as intended?
I’ve tried several proof of concepts with Bolt and every time just get into a doom loop where there is a cycle of breakage, each ‘fix’ resurrecting a previous ‘break’
I had a trip with my family and used v0 to create an itinerary app with a timeline view of our flights, hotel/airbnb bookings, activities, etc.
It was the only thing I’ve 100% vibe-coded without writing a line of code myself. It worked pretty well. In an earlier era I might have used a shared google doc but this was definitely a better experience.
If you’re looking for things to use lovable/bolt for, I’d say don’t use it for software you otherwise would have written by hand; use it for the software you would never have written at all.
paulgb commented on Bitcoin's Security Budget Issue: Problems, Solutions and Myths Debunked budget.day/... · Posted by u/marcbarbosa
I've said it before but really feels like a flaw that the halvings are discrete and happen suddenly every four years, instead of gradually each block. As far as I can tell the only advantage to it is that it makes the math simpler. The disadvantage is that it creates weird market dynamics in which large amounts of mining capacity are plunged into unprofitability in one instant. If I wanted to run a 51% attack, I'd look to buy up suddenly-unprofitable capacity immediately after a halving.
paulgb commented on Bitcoin's Security Budget Issue: Problems, Solutions and Myths Debunked budget.day/... · Posted by u/marcbarbosa
ChatGPT famously can't do math. A pocket calculator can give you the right answer here
That's a dated rule at this point, ChatGPT has been able to use its Python interpreter as a calculator for a while and in my experience will opt to do that for back-of-the-envelope calculations.
I feel it's Orwellian, or Stalin-esq to have us being paid off to snitch on each other.
Certainly, if you have evidence of murder or something, please do report it.
But for an idling vehicle?
Note that these laws are only targeting idling while parked, rather than during normal use, such as at a traffic light. This is called "true-idling" or "long-duration" idling.
Has anybody considered how much CO2 or other greenhouse gases are actually released by "true-idling" or "long-duration" idling vehicles, either individually or in aggregate? I spent a few minutes researching it with an LLM and couldn't come up with much. Most of the information and numbers I got were for ALL idling, including during normal driving like at a traffic light. My guess based on that is that it (true idling) is a trivially small amount of CO2 compared to the overall.
But it's plenty to earn yourself a nice payoff at the expense of your hard working delivery driver!
I think the intent is less about the CO2 emissions as about the air quality that people have to breathe (hence a stricter standard in some locations).
I don’t know about measurable effects but I hate when I pass a long-idling truck and can taste it in the air.