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Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by dagw »

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #220
bob88jg wrote: post #96

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Fascist! How dare you suggest I shouldn't ever go further than 15 minutes to access necessary resources to live my life! It's my god given right to spend at least an hour in traffic to get to the doctors... /s there is actually a whole movement of people in the UK that beleive the very idea of a 15 minute city is a conspiracy to limit their freedoms...

That’s hardly a fair characterization. The problem is simply one of putting the cart before the horse. Most people simply can’t afford to live within a 15 minute walk of a doctor’s office and there is no real plan in place to fix that.

there is no real plan in place to fix that.

The plan is to identify where there are a lot of people living but there aren't any doctors offices within 15 minute walk, and then find the optimal places to open new doctors offices to cover as many people as possible that don't currently have a doctors office within a 15 minute walk.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by Tabular-Iceberg »

dagw wrote: post #221
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #220

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That’s hardly a fair characterization. The problem is simply one of putting the cart before the horse. Most people simply can’t afford to live within a 15 minute walk of a doctor’s office and there is no real plan in place to fix that.

there is no real plan in place to fix that. The plan is to identify where there are a lot of people living but there aren't any doctors offices within 15 minute walk, and then find the optimal places to open new doctors offices to cover as many people as possible that don't currently have a doctors office within a 15 minute walk.

Nobody’s objecting to just sound urban planning. The problem is when you don’t have it and use license plate readers or physical barricades as a band-aid.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by fjcp »

maaaaattttt wrote: post #59

A simple game I posted here before [1]. I think it’s rather hard to finish a project in under one weekend. And we tend to easily say “I did it over the weekend” but mean “I had something working after one weekend”. Especially if the weekend is not one where you spend 48 hours in front of the computer (counting Friday evening in). So, I was quite proud to get it finished in one weekend under normal conditions. [1] htt…

I started and when a grasped the concept I immediately closed the page and walked away haha. I foresaw myself spending hours and hours trying to finish this game. It is like 2048 but harder.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by 0xdada »

fjcp wrote: post #223
maaaaattttt wrote: post #59

A simple game I posted here before [1]. I think it’s rather hard to finish a project in under one weekend. And we tend to easily say “I did it over the weekend” but mean “I had something working after one weekend”. Especially if the weekend is not one where you spend 48 hours in front of the computer (counting Friday evening in). So, I was quite proud to get it finished in one weekend under normal conditions. [1] htt…

I started and when a grasped the concept I immediately closed the page and walked away haha. I foresaw myself spending hours and hours trying to finish this game. It is like 2048 but harder.

2 days later, I just finished it. I'm finally free. Let this be a warning to future readers.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by dagw »

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #222
dagw wrote: post #221

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there is no real plan in place to fix that. The plan is to identify where there are a lot of people living but there aren't any doctors offices within 15 minute walk, and then find the optimal places to open new doctors offices to cover as many people as possible that don't currently have a doctors office within a 15 minute walk.

Nobody’s objecting to just sound urban planning. The problem is when you don’t have it and use license plate readers or physical barricades as a band-aid.

license plate readers or physical barricades as a band-aid

What does any of that have to do with 15 minute cities?

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by Tabular-Iceberg »

dagw wrote: post #225
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody’s objecting to just sound urban planning. The problem is when you don’t have it and use license plate readers or physical barricades as a band-aid.

license plate readers or physical barricades as a band-aid What does any of that have to do with 15 minute cities?

In the UK they're called Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. It's what's at the very heart of the 15 minute city controversy.

Why would people complain about being able to walk to where they need to go? It's obviously being cut off from the places that they aren't able to walk to that people have a problem with. Deflecting from one by pretending it's about the other is a clear sign of bad faith.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by dagw »

Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #227
dagw wrote: post #225

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license plate readers or physical barricades as a band-aid What does any of that have to do with 15 minute cities?

In the UK they're called Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. It's what's at the very heart of the 15 minute city controversy. Why would people complain about being able to walk to where they need to go? It's obviously being cut off from the places that they aren't able to walk to that people have a problem with. Deflecting from one by pretending it's about the other is a clear sign of bad faith.

Low traffic neighbourhoods and 15 minute cities are entirely different concepts, trying to solve different problems and that have very little to do with each other. You can easily have one without the other.

Deflecting from one by pretending it's about the other is a clear sign of bad faith

You know I kind of agree with you about this.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by ramesh1994 »

iskandery wrote: post #189
petargyurov wrote: post #152

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This is amazing! I am curious what algorithm is behind the scenes? And how easy would it be to make this work for any city?

Thanks! It's a bit outdated now but I wrote up an explanation a while back that gives the general idea behind the scoring algorithm: https://findmyarea.co.uk/blog/how-findmyarea-works/ In principle it should be possible to do the same for any city. The hardest part is getting the data and massaging it into shape, which can be somewhat tedious. London is a fairly "easy" city for this due to the large amount of open da…

This is really cool! Appreciate sharing this work and the explanation.

You mentioned that massaging the data into shape as one of the problems, which I think is possibly one of the best applications of LLMs in my opinion. Creating a pipeline of a data feed (still hard) into an LLM which outputs JSON with the fields of interest would be amazing.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by ramesh1994 »

dagw wrote: post #92
ramesh1994 wrote: post #81

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Hey this sounds pretty cool! If this is public would you mind sharing a link?

The code never advanced beyond some hack scripts and a Jupyter notebook. Cleaning it up and perhaps making it into web app has been on my todo list for the past 2-3 years. Maybe this reminder will be the kick I need to actually do something about it.

Sorry I don't know how hackernews notifications work, didn't see this reply. But if you see this here's another reminder for you to clean this up into a public demo :)
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