Hacker News: knuckle

New comment by knuckle in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

knuckle — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:00:33 +0000

Stop being reasonable! This is a hypecycle!

New comment by knuckle in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

knuckle — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:54:38 +0000

I think you're 100000% correct.

These problems will continue as long as it is legal to operate in an unsafe way.

We've learned this in every other industry, but we can't seem to accept it in software. One of my hopes for AI is that it reduces the cost to behave responsibly to a level where this absurd resistance to acting responsibly erodes.

New comment by knuckle in "Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta"

knuckle — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:28:55 +0000

From the paper:

The micromobility ban was implemented in the city of Atlanta on 9 August 2019. We use high-resolution data from 25 June 2019 to 22 September 2019 from Uber Movement to measure changes in evening travel times between 7:00 p.m. and midnight

The data was very specific to evenings in certain areas.

New comment by knuckle in "Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta"

knuckle — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:11:08 +0000

Atlanta is huge. It can take two hours at highway speeds to get through it. Most routes do not allow for scooters. I think it's obvious that banning scooters cannot have had impact on most commute routes. This conclusion needs to be more specific about commute routes impacted to help folks learn from the data.

I think they also need to discuss other projects which impacted commute times at the time. For example, major work on the GA400/I285 intersection began at that time. Changes to I75 and its dedicated pay lanes was underway. Those two routes are used by huge numbers of commuters every day and the impact was huge.