Andrew Hyatt

When Wales lowered its default speed limit from 30 mph to 20, it created a perfect natural experiment. England, a nearby jurisdiction did not.

👀 You can see road deaths declined by 25% in Wales after the policy was implemented. Via @20splenty.bsky.social www.20splenty.org/gb2024stats

School Rumble dub was fantastic as well!

Thanks for posting this, I had no idea there was a movie made from Hard To Be A God, or that it was good!

I agree with you, but the problem wasn't Mayor Adams but the city council.

Good reaction time for sure, but the driving skill isn't so great, since he seems to be going way too fast for that kind of road, forcing him to take drastic evasive maneuvers.

YouTube video by Andrew Hyatt Introducting vecdb for Emacs

Posted a video about my newest #emacs package, vecdb: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzXM...

It's a library for accessing vector databases, to index and do embedding searches for documents, you can find it at github.com/ahyatt/vecdb

Anecdotally, this seems true - I'm increasingly the only one I know in person that uses emacs. Well, I guess they can't all be as cool as us.

Exclusive video shows vandal causing thousands of dollars of damage to Central Park's SummerStage Nikolas Evans, who describes himself as homeless and mentally ill, has wreaked havoc on the organization that offers free, live music in the park every summer, causing an estimated $15,000 of damage.

I think if done stupidly, yes. But it seems like most people believe that there are a lot of mentally ill people, and just letting them wreak havoc isn't a great idea (here's today article about that: abc7ny.com/post/man-rep...). So there's a version of this that is a good idea.

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.

So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

Interesting that I’m not seeing any reports of the “He’s An Asshole But The City Needs An Asshole To Stand Up To Trump” mayoral candidate doing any standing up to Trump re: the unjustified arrest of the sitting Comptroller

There's many things to dislike Cuomo for (and, a few things to like him for, to be honest). But one of the big disqualifications is how bad of a manager he is: a glory-hogging nightmare of a micromanager.

Mamdani really might suck as a manager too, but I prefer to take that risk.

Popular misconception: SQL's "OUTER JOIN" is not named for being the opposite of an "INNER JOIN", but for its creator, George Outerjoin.

From the "inject it straight into my veins" category, here's how they deal with modded noisy car exhaust pipes in Goiás, Brazil.

www.reddit.com/r/Fortaleza/...

FWIW, that TLC car has illegal bull bars as well.

This is super interesting - I didn't know this, but it reminds me of Orson Welles' The Trial, which starts with basically this. It's just a skilled narrator talking over projected hand-drawn slides, but it's really effective!

Increasingly, they do accept credit/debit. In NYC, you can just tap your credit card or use Google / Apply Pay, etc.

Do you even need to use an editor though? Aider is good for this and it’s just on the command line. I think you can use Claude Code like that as well.

Vibe coding is the death of the editor (for some tasks).

Gefilte Fish is due for an artisanal resurgence. It had to be good at some point!

Trump probably cannot serve a third term as president, the law can't be so easily skirted by technicalities (mostly).

But this is the wrong question. Trump can stay in power in other roles, because power can be exercized from many positions. If Vance was Pres., Trump VP, it'd be the same as now.

On vacation, I can’t help but notice street safety issues here in Portugal. This news story is about two cyclists run over by a driver (note they say driver when reporting about collisions instead of car!) Before was a story about a child getting run over by a motorcyclist. Both were a hit and run.

It's interesting and mostly great, but the same narrow streets are why parking on the sidewalk is pretty common (and very annoying).

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I agree that robots of radically different form factor would be more interesting and better. I'm no expert, but I'd guess that making robots humanoid is probably because our environments are built for that exact form factor.

Remember everyone, complaining online or on your couch does nothing! You live in NYC, one of the most watched places in America, where a strong push back will be seen, felt, and matter. Get up. No matter your age, if you've protested before, any of that. Come today!

📢 Let’s SAVE CONGESTION PRICING!

Tomorrow, Saturday, February 22 at 3PM, we'll be gathering in Times Square (Broadway & 47th St) to show our support and rally for a cleaner city and safer streets.

Judging by the traffic this morning in Manhattan, I'm imagining the fun conversations that will be had by the MTA support staff with drivers who heard Trump canceled it and drove in, only to later get charged. #congestionpricing

The similar improvements they've done south of this are a real joy to bike on. This is great news, thanks for sharing it!

I'm impressed. After she put congestion pricing on delay, I vowed to never vote for her again. Not caving on this may just be enough for me to forgive her. Maybe. I'm still thinking about it.

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