just a place to show off my work
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Show HN: Learn CSS from First Principles https://ift.tt/3rDv4GD
Show HN: Super Realistic Text-to-Speech for Blogs https://ift.tt/2PgH5ow
Show HN: Bugout.dev – Crash and usage reports for developer tools https://ift.tt/3dCTWtl
Show HN: Kubectl cost – Kubernetes cost metrics via CLI https://ift.tt/3m5RAXE
Show HN: Anon – Create anonymous, self-deleting blog posts https://ift.tt/39sZwNC
Show HN: Signed Work – NFTs, without a blockchain https://ift.tt/3u6uNOb
Show HN: Jamstack deployment providers performance benchmark https://ift.tt/3weJG2C
Show HN: Find people to play tabletop roleplaying games with https://ift.tt/3wpzsNc
Show HN: Make gratitude a daily habit with Three Things Daily https://ift.tt/2PqiGg1
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Show HN: Learn to rebuild product hunt's #1 products with no-code https://ift.tt/39toFHH
Show HN: Remote Choice – Discover where to live and work from remotely https://ift.tt/3fwQnXZ
Show HN: NFTPedia – search and find info on NFTs https://ift.tt/3rxlqoR
Muni’s Equity Toolkit Helps Essential Employees Get to Work
By Mariana Maguire
The latest data from SFMTA’s new Equity Toolkit shows that Muni service changes are helping people in neighborhoods identified by our Muni Service Equity Strategy access more jobs and support the city’s recovery.
In winter 2020, we launched the SFMTA Equity Toolkit to understand how service decisions are affecting neighborhoods where there is likely a high prevalence of essential workers who rely predominantly on Muni to get to their essential jobs. Our goal is to make better service decisions based on the trends and impacts we see in the Equity Toolkit.
Recently, the greatest increases in access to jobs via Muni have been in Hunters Point and Western Addition. The Hunters Point neighborhood saw the largest gains from the addition of the 15 Bayview-Hunters Point Express, as demonstrated in the table below. Thanks to the return of key Muni lines and increased frequencies on connector routes, Inner Mission, Tenderloin, Oceanview-Ingleside and Treasure Island have also seen increased access to jobs via Muni.
Lessons Learned
The Equity Toolkit also shows some decreases in job access via transit in other neighborhoods identified by the Muni Service Equity Strategy. This reflects the Toolkit’s methodology and/or the impacts of service changes and helps us to understand where we need to make improvements in our data collection, transit service or both.
Bayview job access increased for commutes of 45 and 60-minutes, but decreased 11% for 30-minute commutes. How can that be? The answer is that the T Third bus substitution was replaced with rail service in December 2020, which makes different and fewer stops than the bus within a 30-minute time period. Overall, Bayview residents are still able to access more jobs now than in August 2020 – roughly 644,500 now compared to 624,000 then, a 3% increase.
In addition, we rely on fixed points of reference, such as the Bayview Opera House, to gather data and Bayview is a large neighborhood. We learned that using one community landmark for this area is not enough, so we will be adding additional landmarks in future analyses to more accurately capture service change impacts.
In Visitacion Valley we see decreases in job access via transit across the board. Like in the Bayview, we determined that the issue is both methodology and service. When we redistributed buses from the 8 Bayshore to 8AX to respond to changes in ridership, the community landmark (John King Senior Community) we were using to track the data only showed us the decrease from the 8 Bayshore, not the increase from the 8AX.
By comparison, more affluent areas show very low to no increases in job access via transit. This reflects our decision to prioritize resources on Muni service for essential workers and essential travel, especially for communities with the fewest options during this unprecedented pandemic. More affluent neighborhoods have more transportation alternatives readily available and more people who are able to work from home.
These findings give us insights we didn’t have before and help us think about service in new ways. As we learn from the Equity Toolkit we will continue to refine it and make it more detailed by adding more reference points for our data analysis.
As San Francisco gradually reopens and we continue to add back Muni service, we will also continue to evaluate the impacts through our Equity Toolkit and work to use these insights to inform service adjustments that support our city’s economic recovery.
Read more about changes to our network on the SFMTA’s Transportation Recovery Plan webpage.
Published March 30, 2021 at 01:33PM
https://ift.tt/2PkupwH
Show HN: Imperium, a free and minimalist file manager https://ift.tt/3frCbzn
Show HN: Sleekplan – Feedback Board, Roadmap, and Changelog for Websites https://ift.tt/3wd2Jus
Show HN: Collect and View Data from SEC 13F Filings https://ift.tt/3cF4b0Z
Show HN: Build Autonomous Economically-focused Agents using the AEA framework https://ift.tt/3ruO2ze
Show HN: Yazz Visual JavaScript Now on the Mac App Store https://ift.tt/2PiVHDG
Show HN: Play with Shaders Inspired by Slime Mold https://ift.tt/3wdv2c8
Show HN: Writing a simple, event-driven, extensible, rich text editor framework https://ift.tt/3wbEaOp
Show HN: Poulette – A Color Palette GUI https://ift.tt/3dhWKf8
Monday, March 29, 2021
New post from the NAACP: NAACP Georgia State Conference Sues Georgia Secretary of State and State Election Board to Prevent Enforcement of SB 202 by Marc Banks
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The NAACP Georgia State Conference, alongside the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, the League of Women Voters of Georgia, GALEO Latino Community Development Fund, Common Cause, and the Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe, are suing Secretary of State Raffensperger and members of the State Election Board to prevent them from enforcing any provisions of SB 202 – Georgia’s new voting law that is designed to restrict the right of Georgia citizens to vote. The lawsuit states that SB 202 is a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate based on race, and violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution as undue burdens on the right to vote and the right to free speech and freedom of association.
SB 202 restricts voting at every stage. It makes it easier to restrict early voting hours – even allowing for the elimination of early voting on Sundays – which will prevent voters from being able to get to the polls. Black voters and other voters of color utilize Sunday early voting hours more often than white voters. It limits where voters can cast their vote in their own counties. And, it also shortens the runoff period. Their efforts to try and restrict voting access, as required by SB 202, constitute intentional discrimination in violation of the U.S. Constitution and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
SB 202 makes it harder to vote by absentee ballot by imposing stricter ID requirements, making it harder for voters to receive them and return them, and moving up the deadline to request one which will prevent some who need to vote absentee from being able to do so.
SB 202 includes provisions that target and make early in-person voting, voting by absentee ballot, and using ballot drop boxes more difficult, all of which were used much more extensively by voters of color than voting in-person on election day. Furthermore, SB 202 removes the voting power of the Secretary of State on the State Elections Board, and allows the State Election Board to take over county election boards, which would give the State Elections Board unprecedented authority to target jurisdictions with a large population of Black voters and other voters of color. Even as it will cause longer lines and delays to vote, SB 202 goes so far as criminalizing individuals and charitable organizations who provide food and water to voters when they are waiting in line to vote.
“SB 202 is a blatant attempt by the Georgia legislature and Governor Kemp to suppress the participation of Black voters and other voters of color,” said Janette Louard, Interim General Counsel, NAACP. “The Georgia law is part of a broader attempt to disenfranchise Black voters in states across the country. Voting is a fundamental right and efforts should be made to make it easier and to encourage more people to do their civic duty. Instead, we are seeing efforts to restrict voting for Black voters and other people of color. We will not let these blatantly discriminatory actions take place. They must be declared unconstitutional.”
###
The post NAACP Georgia State Conference Sues Georgia Secretary of State and State Election Board to Prevent Enforcement of SB 202 appeared first on NAACP.
Read more here.
Show HN: Statsig – feature gates, dynamic config, experiments and more for devs https://ift.tt/39pGGqG
SFMTA’s Cable Car Signal Tower Gets a Refresh
By Jeremy Menzies
At the corner of California and Powell Streets stands a diminutive but important building that has been in use for well over 100 years. This octagonal signal tower controls the crossing of the Powell and California Street cable car lines, and recently underwent a full restoration thanks to the skilled craftspeople at the Cable Car Division.
A group photo of Muni craftspeople and shop management who worked to restore the signal tower in 2020-2021.
The tower’s history dates to 1888 when the original was built by the Ferries and Cliff House Railroad, which operated cable cars on Powell Street at the time. That tower was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fires that ravaged Nob Hill. In March 1907, it was rebuilt by then-owner United Railroads of San Francisco (URR) and went back into operation.
Photo showing signal tower in 1908 with the Fairmont Hotel and passengers waiting for a cable car in the background. Photo courtesy OpenSFHistory.org.
In 1935, a runaway automobile on California Street struck the tower, causing severe damage and tragically killing the signal operator inside. The tower was subsequently rebuilt, and a heavy metal barrier was installed on its west side.
This 1966 photo shows the west-facing side of the tower, painted in green and cream, shortly before paint and repairs were done on the building.
The next major change came in 1967 when the tower was renovated and a new copper roof was installed. The structure was also repainted to reflect the maroon and tan color scheme of the California Street cable cars. Until 1982, the tower retained its manually-operated kerosene lantern signals originally installed in 1907.
A 1967 photo showing the newly repainted and copper-roofed signal tower.
The suspension of cable car service during the Covid-19 pandemic proved an opportune time to give the little signal tower some much needed T-L-C. During 2020 and early 2021, SFMTA carpenters, painters, metal workers and mechanics undertook a complete overhaul of the building. A new floor, roof, ceiling, door, windows, steps, heating, lighting and electrical system were all built and installed.
As with our world-renowned cable cars, no detail was overlooked during the tower rebuild. Muni carpenters repaired woodwork throughout, custom-building both the octagonal ceiling and split Dutch door. Paint crews highlighted each element of the tower with colors that enhance the structure’s overall visual appeal. Our expert mechanics installed new electrical systems. Even the grab handles and handrails for the steps were custom built from materials that are also used on Powell Street cable cars by skilled metalworkers at the SFMTA’s Special Machine Shop. A final step in this rebuild will be the installation of new signals before the tower goes back into operation later this year.
Check out the gallery below showing photos of the tower through the years and the recent restoration.
Published March 29, 2021 at 05:10PM
https://ift.tt/3m39I4d
Show HN: 8bit live chat with Papercups and NES.css https://ift.tt/3wbRceQ
Show HN: Unlimited app designs, user stories, and landing pages https://ift.tt/3sxS1fO
Show HN: Beehive – Talk 1:1 About Anything https://ift.tt/39pAij2
Show HN: Canopy – API first loan servicing infrastructure https://ift.tt/2QGvEqg
Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative https://ift.tt/3szUA0S
Show HN: I wrote a program to convert lines of text into trees https://ift.tt/3ryfwnt
Show HN: WebRTC-Echoes: Interop for C#, C++, Python, TypeScript, Go and Servers https://ift.tt/31vbBNG
Show HN: Nettu Scheduler – A self-hosted calendar and scheduler server https://ift.tt/2QCU5ov
Show HN: Mosh Mallet: Single packet UDP port knocking for Mosh without SSH https://ift.tt/39oxD9i
Show HN: An alternative to AlternativeTo (GitHub version) https://ift.tt/2PyfgaR
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Show HN: I wrote a program in Zig to solve my friend's riddle https://ift.tt/3sJkdfT
Show HN: Suspend DigitalOcean droplets and 3x your use/cost https://ift.tt/3u0UUpv
Show HN: A Hacker News CLI Reader (MVP) https://ift.tt/3ddvL4h
Show HN: Webletters – discover and review blogs and newsletters https://ift.tt/3sx73lY
Show HN: useNft() is a React Hook to fetch NFT metadata https://ift.tt/39lXbnE
Show HN: Muboard: Self-Rendering and Distributable Mathematics Chalkboard https://ift.tt/3vZV6XY
Show HN: I rebuilt an API-first chatbot platform from 2015 https://ift.tt/2QHpshL
Show HN: Fooder – a private digital kitchen notebook https://ift.tt/31stJrG
Show HN: Togglee – Feature flags/toggles OS library and SaaS https://ift.tt/3cqNqq2
Show HN: A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style https://ift.tt/2PF72h1
Show HN: Salary Standoff – Resolve the salary expectation/range stalemate https://ift.tt/3ftcAWK
Show HN: Learned to code during lockdown and built a Rotten Tomatoes for tech https://ift.tt/3rD9uSR
Show HN: Automation tracing coming to Home Assistant https://ift.tt/3rvdggE
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Show HN: A cyberpunk theme for Python desktop applications https://ift.tt/3ruEMeu
New post from the NAACP: Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, released the following statement on the recent signing of SB202 and the arrest of Rep. Park Cannon: by Marc Banks
Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, released the following statement on the recent signing of SB202 and the arrest of Rep. Park Cannon:
“The recent underhanded attack on Georgian’s voting rights by Governor Brian Kemp is reminiscent of the Jim Crow era. This is nothing more than an attempt to suppress the voters and make it harder for Georgia’s most vulnerable communities.
Further, state Rep. Park Cannon’s arrest and detainment for simply knocking on the Governor’s door is a gross misuse and abuse of power. Georgia’s highest elected official exploiting his authority to suppress a sitting representative and the voters places the state down a dangerous path.
We will work with our Georgia state conference and branches to end this blatant encroachment on the people’s voting rights.”
The post Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, released the following statement on the recent signing of SB202 and the arrest of Rep. Park Cannon: appeared first on NAACP.
Read more here.
New post from the NAACP: Lebron James to Receive President’s Award During 52nd NAACP Image Awards by Marc Banks
NAACP SIX-TIME IMAGE AWARD RECIPIENT ANTHONY ANDERSON RETURNS AS HOST
THE STAR-STUDDED TWO-HOUR LIVE TV SPECIAL TO FEATURE APPEARANCES AND PERFORMANCES BY ALICIA KEYS, ANDRA DAY, ARSENIO HALL, CYNTHIA ERIVO, JAZMINE SULLIVAN, LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, MAXWELL, MC LYTE,
MICHELLE OBAMA, MISTY COPELAND, REGINA KING, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, THE CAST OF “TYLER PERRY’S SISTAS,” SWIZZ BEATS, AND TRACY MORGAN
BEVERLY HILLS, CA (March 25, 2021) – The NAACP today announced that NBA superstar, business entrepreneur, and philanthropist, LeBron James, will receive the prestigious President’s Award during the 52nd NAACP Image Awards. Additionally, six-time NAACP Image Awards Winner, Anthony Anderson, will return as host of this year’s two-hour LIVE TV special, which will air on BET, Saturday, March 27th at 8/7c, and will be simulcast across ViacomCBS networks including CBS, BET Her, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV, MTV2, Paramount, Pop, Smithsonian, TV Land, VH1, BET PLUTO, and CMT.
Marking his eighth consecutive year as host, Anthony Anderson is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor and currently the star and Executive Producer of ABC’s multi-award winning sitcom, “black-ish.” He also holds the record for the most wins in the NAACP Image Award category of Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series with six wins.
The President’s Award is presented in recognition of special achievement and distinguished public service, with previous recipients including Rihanna, Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter, Jesse Jackson, Lauryn Hill, Soledad O’Brien, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Muhammad Ali, among others.
“LeBron James is one of the greatest athletes of his generation, and through his work both on and off the court, has transcended beyond sports to become a cultural icon,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson, who will present the award to LeBron James during the LIVE TV special. “This is nowhere more evident than over the past year, where LeBron has used his platform to speak out on issues that were directly affecting the Black community including voting initiatives, police brutality, and racial inequality. LeBron epitomizes the type of leadership, sportsmanship, and commitment to social justice that we seek to highlight with our President’s Award.”
Alongside his incredible achievements on the court – which include four NBA MVP Awards, four NBA Championships, four NBA Finals MVP Awards, and two Olympic gold medals – off the court, LeBron has used his platform to inspire and uplift others through the LeBron James Family Foundation, which invests its time, resources and passion into creating generational change for kids and families through a focus on education and co-curricular educational initiatives including the groundbreaking, public I PROMISE School, I PROMISE Village by Graduate Hotels that provides transitional housing for families, and House Three Thirty that will offer job training and financial health programming, as well as More Than A Vote, a coalition of Black athletes and artists LeBron founded in 2020 that is dedicated to educating, energizing and protecting Black voters.
As a business entrepreneur, James has infused his commitment to empowering others into the business and entertainment sectors through The SpringHill Company, which unites three companies he co-founded with Maverick Carter including UNINTERRUPTED, the athlete empowerment media and consumer product company, SpringHill Entertainment, the premium scripted and unscripted film and television production company and The Robot Company, the brand and culture consultancy. With a diverse team committed to creating the most culturally inspired brands, entertainment and products, The SpringHill Company is telling important stories, empowering diverse creators, and connecting brands and consumers to culture and entertainment. Coupled with his achievements in sports, business, philanthropy and activism, James’ diverse business portfolio of innovative partnerships and investments has established him as one of the most influential figures in the world.
As previously reported, the LIVE broadcast of the 52nd NAACP Image Awards will feature performances from Image Award Outstanding Female Artist nominee Jazmine Sullivan who will perform–along with Grammy Award-winning singer Maxwell, who will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his debut album Urban Hang Suite. Throughout the evening there will be appearances from Alicia Keys, Andra Day, Arsenio Hall, Cynthia Erivo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Michelle Obama, Misty Copeland, Regina King, Samuel L. Jackson, the cast of Tyler Perry’s Sistas, Swizz Beatz, and Tracy Morgan. MC Lyte will serve at the night’s Voice Over announcer.
Earlier this week, the NAACP Image Awards kicked-off its’ Virtual Experience, which is streaming at naacpimageawards.net. The celebration of “Black Excellence” has included a portion of the non-televised awards, virtual red carpet, curated conversation series, a theatre featuring past performances and speeches and much more. Following the LIVE broadcast on Saturday, the Virtual Experience will host an after party which will feature classic cuts by DJ Questlove, current cuts by DJ Kiss, and a Jazz Lounge performance by Robert Glasper and Lalah Hathaway.
The 52nd NAACP Image Awards is presented by Wells Fargo, and sponsored by AT&T, FedEx, Nike, Bank of America, American Airlines, Airbnb, Alaska Airlines, AARP, Ford, and Hilton.
The NAACP Image Awards honors the accomplishments of people of color in the fields of television, music, literature, and film and also recognizes individuals or groups who promote social justice through creative endeavors.
The 52nd NAACP Image Awards is produced by Hudlin Entertainment and The Gurin Company. Executive Producers Connie Orlando, Reggie Hudlin and Phil Gurin, Co-Executive Producer Byron Phillips, and Producer Robin Reinhardt.
For all information and the latest news, please follow NAACP Image Awards on Instagram @NAACPImageAwards.
###
NAACP
Founded in 1909 in response to the ongoing violence against Black people around the country, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is the largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the nation. We have over 2,200 units and branches across the nation, along with well over 2M activists. Our mission is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.
In media attributions, please refer to us as the NAACP.
NOTE: The Legal Defense Fund – also referred to as the NAACP-LDF was founded in 1940 as a part of the NAACP but separated in 1957 to become a completely separate entity. It is recognized as the nation’s first civil and human rights law organization, and shares our commitment to equal rights.
About BET:
BET, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS Inc. (NASDAQ: VIACA, VIAC), is the nation’s leading
provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience. The primary BET channel is in 90 million households and can be seen in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, sub-Saharan Africa and France. BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions including BET.com, a leading Internet destination for Black entertainment, music, culture, and news; BET HER, a 24-hour entertainment network targeting the African-American Woman; BET Music Networks – BET Jams, BET Soul and BET Gospel; BET Home Entertainment; BET Live, BET’s growing festival business; BET Mobile, which provides ringtones, games and video content for wireless devices; and BET International, which operates BET around the globe.
The post Lebron James to Receive President’s Award During 52nd NAACP Image Awards appeared first on NAACP.
Read more here.
New post from the NAACP: Following Colorado Massacre, NAACP President Derrick Johnson Calls on Congress to Ban Assault Weapons by Marc Banks
President Biden, we agree with you. We can no longer ‘wait another minute’ to act on the gun violence epidemic. That is why the NAACP is calling on Congress to immediately ban assault weapons. Preventable deaths have been the tragic result of paralyzed progress. As our nation prepares to reopen, the lives of innocent Americans depend on expeditious action.”
The post Following Colorado Massacre, NAACP President Derrick Johnson Calls on Congress to Ban Assault Weapons appeared first on NAACP.
Read more here.
Show HN: An open source calendar and scheduler server. Calendly alternative https://ift.tt/3tWZfKs
Show HN: Simpler Goimports https://ift.tt/2PfMmMK
Show HN: HextEdit – A fast and native hex editor for macOS https://ift.tt/3crpoLy
Show HN: Learn Spanish quickly while reading https://ift.tt/3cqzT1v
Show HN: Stackby – Spreadsheets, Databases and No-code APIs in a single platform https://ift.tt/3dffQlQ
Show HN: Reverse engineered Opera VPN client https://ift.tt/3sxVs64
Show HN: Collaborative Smart Note App https://ift.tt/3dbMg0H
Show HN: Google Forms Alternative https://ift.tt/3w4BGRN
Show HN: How to free the Ever Given https://ift.tt/2Pw5030
Friday, March 26, 2021
Show HN: Device Shots 1.0 – Screenshot Device Mockup Generator https://ift.tt/31nRUHG
Show HN: Send Me a Secret https://ift.tt/3w600CL
Show HN: jCore – JavaScript library for building UI components https://ift.tt/3u3hYEp
Show HN: UpfrontJS https://ift.tt/2NVNiW1
Better Connections from Bayview and Hunters Point to Downtown
By Enrique Aguilar
To better connect southeast San Franciscans with downtown, the SFMTA debuted the 15 Bayview Hunters-Point Express in late January, coinciding with the return of T Third train service. Within weeks, average daily boardings reached 1,000 customers on this new service.
The 15 Bayview Hunters Point Express
We added this route based on community feedback from the Southeast Muni Expansion Project in 2018, which prioritized a more direct trip to downtown from the Bayview. With the sudden rise of the COVID-19 pandemic and its disproportionate impacts on communities in the Bayview and Hunters Point, fast-tracking the project became critical to our transit planning. Adding service capacity and a direct connection between these neighborhoods and downtown is a crucial step in supporting the City’s economic recovery and increasing job access for essential workers using transit.
Using data from the SFMTA Equity Toolkit, staff determined that the addition of the 15 Bayview Hunters Point Express in the January 23 service changes resulted in the largest increase in job access for 45- and 60-minute commutes of any San Francisco neighborhood.
The SFMTA convened the Bayview Hunters-Point Express Working Group, comprised of community leaders who helped shaped the conversation on route options. Then, at a time when pandemic precautions precluded in-person community outreach, we invited all area residents to vote for their preferred route through both an online and text-based survey.
After months of planning and continuous support from the Bayview Hunters-Point Express Working Group, we were able to implement a route that offers service closer to residents’ homes and make trips shorter for community members.
“We appreciate the community process and approach SFMTA took to reinstate the 15 Bayview Hunters Point Express,” said Lyslynn Lacoste, Executive Director at Bayview Hunters Point Mobilization for Adolescent Growth in our Communities (BMAGIC) and working group member. “Particularly identifying and prioritizing those that are most isolated in the Bayview community and ensuring that they have efficient access to the public transportation line extending to downtown. I look forward to personally utilizing [it] myself as I travel from the downtown area to my office in the Bayview.”
While in-person outreach remains limited due to COVID-19 physical distancing guidelines, SFMTA staff continue to engage community residents and leaders in order to evaluate the service and gather feedback. Discussions with the working group on the initial impact of the service began earlier this week. In mid-March, project staff also distributed handouts to customers of the 15 Bayview Hunters Point Express waiting at bus stops and onboard when riding between downtown and the Bayview. Posters were also placed in businesses along Third Street in the Bayview.
Muni customer reading handout provided by SFMTA staff
15 Bayview Hunters Point Express signs were posted at businesses along Third Street
Community members are encouraged to provide comments on the 15 Bayview Hunters-Point Express by completing the online Muni feedback form.
Published March 26, 2021 at 11:27AM
https://ift.tt/3svsJig
Show HN: We made a 3D landing page for our product https://ift.tt/3lVyuTL
Show HN: A Chrome extension to see notifications for comments on your HN threads https://ift.tt/3fhi2fi
Show HN: Source generator for SQL commands in C# https://ift.tt/3coPpuR
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Show HN: Superadmin – No Code Visual Testing Made Easy https://ift.tt/3cnoGyN
Hate is a Virus
By
As a city we stand united against racism. While violence resulting from racism has been more visible in recent years, many of our colleagues and community members have been surviving the violence resulting from racism for generations. This is especially true for many Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and Pacific Islander communities that have often grappled with the effects of racism in silence or without widespread acknowledgement and support.
Hate against Asian American Pacific Islander communities has risen at an alarming rate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anti-Asian violence has been fueled by rhetoric baselessly blaming people of Asian descent for the outbreak and spread of COVID-19. We condemn all forms of racism and xenophobia and stand in support of any marginalized groups who are being targeted.
Let’s continue coming together to stop racism in all its forms, including Asian discrimination. We can all do our part to stop bias, hate, and violence by educating ourselves and taking action.
One action to take today is enrolling in Hollaback’s online training, Anti-Asian/American and xenophobic harassment. The organization has partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice to launch a free bystander intervention training to meet this moment.
As this year has shown, San Franciscans excel at connecting with each other in order to create the change we want to see in our city and the world. And we can do it again.
Published March 25, 2021 at 06:25PM
https://ift.tt/3sAHCzG
Show HN: Smokeshow – deploy ephemeral sites via HTTP or CLI https://ift.tt/31gSpTV
Show HN: Pixeltex – a fun little LaTeX and emoji pixel typesetter https://ift.tt/3d5KYnX
Show HN: I wrote a book about Elasticsearch https://ift.tt/3rllRCH
Show HN: Stricks – managed C strings library https://ift.tt/3rlaVVF
Show HN: Trove – Curate and publish a knowledge base on any topic https://ift.tt/2NWkLzM
Show HN: Encrypt then upload files/videos to Discord to use on your website https://ift.tt/2Pr2lHR
Show HN: Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet https://ift.tt/2NSVlD9
Show HN: Half Lemons – recipes with the ingredients you have on hand https://ift.tt/2P5MFK8
Show HN: Ruby Range Syntax in JavaScript https://ift.tt/39gsrEl
Show HN: WebAssembly and ffmpeg = Quick clip, overlay, resize and GIF-ize videos https://ift.tt/3sh8On7
Show HN: Hoppscotch – Open-Source API development ecosystem https://ift.tt/3lPxsc0
Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser https://ift.tt/2P5pRu0
Show HN: Package https://ift.tt/3lSWGqa
Show HN: Wikiyarn – Smarter way to browse Wikipedia https://ift.tt/3d4lAz0
Show HN: A link aggregation site for health content and global news https://ift.tt/31npPA1
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Show HN: Arc, an Open Source Databricks Alternative https://ift.tt/39crHzX
Show HN: Beeple Generator https://ift.tt/39cX4e1
Show HN: Nyum, a Pandoc-powered static site generator for your recipe collection https://ift.tt/3lLelzY
Show HN: I wrote a book about my side-project https://ift.tt/2NQaSDJ
Show HN: I build a cross-platform zero-based budgeting app: InstaBudget https://ift.tt/39cVg4z
Show HN: Fstalign – A fast and efficient text alignment tool https://ift.tt/3rdfz8c
New post from the NAACP: Civil Rights, Racial Justice Organizations Applaud Biden’s Executive Order Aimed at Facilitating Voter Registration, Urges Robust Implementation and Tracking by Marc Banks
The Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative—the foremost diverse coalition of national racial justice and civil rights organizations representing and serving more than 53 million people in the United States—applauds President Joseph R. Biden’s recent executive action to make it easier for Americans to register to vote.
Signed on the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the new Biden executive order requiring federal agencies to submit plans to help facilitate voter registration invokes the legacy of the 600 activists, including the late Congressman John Lewis, who were attacked by law enforcement as they attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to protest for the right to vote.
The Anchor Collaborative commends this executive order’s commitment to promoting equitable access to voter education and registration while centering Indigenous voting rights and ensuring those in federal custody have ample information to exercise their right to vote, where possible.
It is, however, just a first step in the pursuit of a vision of democracy that honors and protects every American’s right to vote. The Collaborative calls upon President Biden to ensure that federal agencies act aggressively to achieve the aims of the EO. We further call upon Congress to continue the fight to eliminate barriers to voting by affirmative voting acts, and a modern Native American Voting Rights Act.
In order for our Democracy to remain reflective of and responsive to all of its citizens, it is imperative that federal agencies and Congress work to ensure:
- voter registration gaps, particularly for voters of color and young voters, are closed;
- voter outreach and education campaigns are robust, accessible, in-language and multicultural;
- the path to voting is unobstructed, centering the lived experiences of historically marginalized and disenfranchised voters of color;
- pro-voter measures including those restoring federal oversight of state elections, as codified in H.R. 1 and H.R. 4, are implemented to thwart the implementation of discriminatory voting measures.
Barriers to the ballot, far from being bygone relics of our history, are indeed alive and well in 2021. The Anchor Collaborative’s November 2019 report, “We Vote, We Count: The Need for Congressional Action to Secure the Right to Vote For All Citizens,” uses the voices of voters of color to highlight numerous contemporary barriers preventing free and clear access to voting. We now call on the Biden administration to follow steps for robust implementation of this order to fulfill his promise of ensuring that registering to vote and voting are simple and easy for all eligible voters, and to develop clear metrics on voter registration, voter intimidation, language access, and turnout among voters of color.
###
The Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative includes the following leading national racial equity anchor organizations (the Anchors): Advancement Project National Office, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, Demos, Faith in Action, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Congress of American Indians, National Urban League, Race Forward, and UnidosUS. Supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, we work together to promote racial equity, advance racial healing, and ensure that all children, families, and communities have opportunities to reach their full potential.
The post Civil Rights, Racial Justice Organizations Applaud Biden’s Executive Order Aimed at Facilitating Voter Registration, Urges Robust Implementation and Tracking appeared first on NAACP.
Read more here.
Show HN: A TypeScript API for constructing XPath 1.0 expressions https://ift.tt/3fc6bzs
Show HN: Ape Playground https://ift.tt/3d4eFWl
Show HN: I wrote a book about Go https://ift.tt/3rixkTt
Show HN: SEC 13F Filings – Investment Manager Quarterly Holdings Data https://ift.tt/3tRdy3i
Show HN: Grid – turn existing spreadsheets into interactive web documents https://ift.tt/3tOeUM7
Show HN: Wi-Page – Rank Wikipedia Article's Contributors by Byte Counts https://ift.tt/3fasXHW
Show HN: Encrypt the root partition of a Raspberry Pi stock image https://ift.tt/398uYjK
Show HN: Search engine to find who is working with your target company https://ift.tt/31g76GC
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Show HN: Bangle.dev – Collection of tools for building rich text editors https://ift.tt/2QzYuss
Show HN: Suspend Digitalocean Droplets to Disk and Save on Cloud Cost https://ift.tt/31bTMmK
Show HN: New GraphQL Framework for TypeScript https://ift.tt/399Yupw
Show HN: TxtFiddle – JavaScript playground for text manipulation tasks https://ift.tt/2PgfLpT
Show HN: Opytimizer – A Nature-Inspired Python Optimizer https://ift.tt/393Cxs9
SFMTA Supports San Francisco Small Businesses Through Construction and COVID-19
By Sophia Scherr
Local small businesses are what give San Francisco its eclectic and unique charm. Running a small business in San Francisco isn’t an easy feat either, especially over the past year. Therefore, it’s imperative that SFMTA’s projects not only provide resources to businesses that are impacted by construction but are also responsive to COVID-19 concerns as well.
Through our partnership with the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD), we have been able to provide an additional layer of support to businesses along project corridors including the Geary Rapid Project, Van Ness Improvement Project and L Taraval Improvement Project. The SFMTA project teams have made it a standard practice to include dedicated support as part of every major capital project. OEWD staff undertake door-to-door outreach and provide information and assistance with grant applications and other city resources that are available to impacted business owners. This partnership with OEWD is just one of many tools in SFMTA’s toolbox to ensure that our small businesses can thrive.
Projects like the Geary Rapid Project span diverse neighborhoods, each with differing needs. Project staff therefore customized outreach and engagement with small business owners and merchant groups for each of the unique business corridors along the corridor: Union Square, the Tenderloin, Japantown and the Fillmore.
Geary Rapid Project and OEWD staff meet prior to COVID-19 with Fillmore Merchants to discuss upcoming construction
Prior to construction starting in a neighborhood, SFMTA and OEWD staff held frequent meetings with merchant groups and business owners to describe the anticipated impacts of construction and determine which support-resources best fit their needs. Once construction began, each merchant corridor was provided business wayfinding signage in line with their branding, as well as to fit the look and feel of the neighborhood. This wayfinding signage helps to raise the visibility of businesses, so that patrons can still find and access their favorite stores throughout construction.
Wayfinding signage next to Construction Crews working in the Fillmore
COVID-19 and shelter-in-place orders only compounded pressure on small businesses already feeling the effects of construction. In response, SFMTA staff and merchant groups worked together to develop new ideas on how to keep customers coming during this challenging time. Small businesses, local events, and COVID-19 resources were featured within the project’s weekly construction forecast, which is sent to over 3,000 subscribers.
Each group also collaborated with staff to determine what type of marketing support would best suit them, and when was the best timing given the changing nature of shelter-in-place restrictions. The results were a mix of traditional and new approaches of promoting local merchants. For example, the Japantown Merchants Group chose an advertising campaign to promote visiting Japantown, featured inside and outside of buses throughout the Muni network. The Tenderloin Community Benefit District took a social media approach and promoted visiting restaurants and stores via targeted Facebook ads.
No matter the chosen method, providing targeted support is a proactive way for the SFMTA to help small business during these trying times, so they are able to remain open as our city begins the re-opening process.
Bus ad produced for Japantown as part of the Geary Rapid Project Business Support Program
Of course, we recognize that in the past not every SFMTA project has been smooth sailing when it comes to construction. However, we have built upon our experience as a lesson for projects currently underway, and for those being planned. We have learned that consistent, personalized outreach and having project staff dedicated to addressing issues directly and quickly are essential to building and fostering meaningful relationships that maximize opportunities, and minimize the impact of construction.
Published March 23, 2021 at 12:30PM
https://ift.tt/2QtB1ZP
Show HN: Runway – Release apps with less bouncing between Jira/GH/CI/Apple/Slack https://ift.tt/3f7bOi9
Show HN: Programmer’s Poop NFT https://ift.tt/3rdj6Dp
Show HN: hdoc, the modern documentation tool for C++, is now open source https://ift.tt/3tHOgUY
Show HN: Episuite, open-source framework for epidemiology in Python https://ift.tt/3rdlSZr
Show HN: PyWebIO – Write interactive web app in script way https://ift.tt/3sjyCPu
Show HN: Email-untracker: Get rid of tracking links and spy pixels (self-hosted) https://ift.tt/399BbvX
Monday, March 22, 2021
Show HN: Sendfiles.dev – quick, secure P2P file transfer using WebRTC https://ift.tt/3lI4f2L
Show HN: Create an infinite scrolling blog roll in Rails with Hotwire https://ift.tt/3tMvlbL
Show HN: First AI generated news letter(powered by GPT-3) https://ift.tt/3lDZ5Vx
Creating a Better Market Street: Car-free Enforcement to Resume
By Mariana Maguire
It’s been over a year since Market Street went “car-free” on January 29, 2020, but shortly afterwards, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down our city and changed how people move through San Francisco. As the city begins to reopen and vehicle traffic is increasing, we are by stepping up compliance and enforcement efforts to keep Market Street car-free starting March 29, with the help of SFMTA’s Parking Control Officers (PCOs) and the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD).
Under the year-old car-free rules established as a part of Better Market Street, no private vehicles are allowed to travel along Market Street eastbound from 10th to Main streets or westbound from Steuart Street to Van Ness Avenue. Traffic is still allowed to cross Market Street, but there are no turns allowed onto the street in the car-free area. These restrictions apply to all private vehicles, including Uber, Lyft, Postmates, DoorDash, and other services whose drivers use personal vehicles without a commercial license plate.
Map: Car-free area on Market Street, implemented January 2020.
Enforcement of compliance will increase starting March 29 and will continue for about a month to help remind drivers of the restrictions. PCOs and police officers will monitor the street at various locations. PCOs will wave on vehicles attempting to turn onto Market Street within the restricted area. During the first week of the campaign the SFPD will issue warnings to drivers as we ramp up education efforts. Thereafter, they will issue citations to vehicles in violation of the car-free restrictions.
These efforts are in direct response to violations and concerns we’re heard from people that private vehicles are still driving in the car-free area. We also understand and appreciate concerns around police enforcement and we’re working hand in hand with SFPD to address those concerns.
Photo: Crew member installing new signage on Market Street in January 2020
Photo: Car-free Market Street signs limiting private vehicles from driving on Market Street east of Van Ness Avenue.
Vehicles that are still allowed to use Market Street:
- Muni and other transit service vehicles
- Taxis
- Paratransit
- Licensed commercial vehicles
- Emergency service vehicles
- Bicycles
- Scooters
Vehicles that are still allowed to use Market Street are:
- Muni and other transit service vehicles
- Taxis
- Paratransit
- Licensed commercial vehicles
- Emergency service vehicles
- Bicycles
- Scooters
Don’t get ticketed! If you’re not one of the vehicles above, don’t drive on Market Street east of Van Ness Avenue. Pay close attention to signage like those shown in the photos. If you’re using a navigation app it will route you around the car-free area.
Please help us spread the word to family, friends, neighbors and coworkers. Plan your trips accordingly. Consider alternate modes of travel if you’re going downtown. If you need to use your personal vehicle to reach destinations along Market Street, take alternate streets – they’re open!
Keep checking the COVID-19 Muni Core Service Plan website for the latest Muni service as we continue to expand and restore additional Muni rail routes which will improve transit service along Market Street.
Published March 22, 2021 at 07:37PM
https://ift.tt/3f75iIe
Show HN: Art × Engineering https://ift.tt/3vOns7B
Show HN: Cloudboost.io – open-source BaaS platform just like Firebase https://ift.tt/2PckSaB
Show HN: Distributed – Live social chat app to help remote teams stay in sync https://ift.tt/393yOuy
Show HN: reclist.me – share your favorites books, podcasts, newsletters https://ift.tt/3lFuAhL
Show HN: I wrote a minimal deep learning library from scratch in Python https://ift.tt/3vQM7rV
Show HN: LogoMaker – Easily create and download free logos [no email required] https://ift.tt/3tKPpv7
Show HN: I landed a Data Science job without a Data Science degree https://ift.tt/3f0BCMV
Show HN: Career Vault – The largest database of active remote jobs https://ift.tt/3lCRW7I
Show HN: Regular expression compilation visualized https://ift.tt/3rdXWF3
Show HN: SimpleR State – simplest state management for React https://ift.tt/3cXmoFI
Sunday, March 21, 2021
Show HN: Put Localhost on the Internet Instantly https://ift.tt/3rhc3tD
Show HN: xocc – C compiler based on BSD license https://ift.tt/3caMBlf
Show HN: Control a Synth with Your Webcam https://ift.tt/3vMwSjX
Show HN: AccessiByeBye – An Accessibility Overlay Blocker https://ift.tt/3tI9cLH
Show HN: Database of Business Strategies https://ift.tt/3tUyHd1
Show HN: Programmable browser you embed in your app https://ift.tt/3sa1KbJ
Show HN: Make continuous reforestation part of your daily workflow https://ift.tt/3tD1sL1
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Show HN: Online communities indexed by topic, platform, features https://ift.tt/3vLkxMV
Show HN: Papercups – open-source alternative to Intercom https://ift.tt/3vIK4Gt
Show HN: Minimalist Web Components for your static website https://ift.tt/390DvFC
Show HN: Goober.rocks https://ift.tt/2OTNc1x
Show HN: I calculated the monthly cost of ownership for products https://ift.tt/3cQyj8d
Show HN: Wi-Stalk – Analyze Wikipedia User's Activity https://ift.tt/318gCvj
Show HN: Catalst – Find out who has a crush on you https://ift.tt/391DLUD
Show HN: An online game I've been working on (eolsh) and its server architecture https://ift.tt/390hgzC
Show HN: AdBlock-Decoder, a helpful tool to extract domains from a filter list https://ift.tt/3tF3wlz
Show HN: Polar Bear Blog – Minimalist Markdown Blog for Google Cloud Run https://ift.tt/39053dY
Show HN: Alkymi – Data/Task Automation in Python https://ift.tt/3tDrwp7
Show HN: Schedulr – Meeting Scheduling Automation https://ift.tt/2NASpLh
Friday, March 19, 2021
Show HN: My site texts you if Covid vaccine bookings are available https://ift.tt/3f1yro6
New post from the NAACP: Civil Rights, Racial Justice Organizations Decry the Racist and Misogynistic Murders of Asian American Women in Atlanta by Marc Banks
The Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative—the foremost diverse coalition of national racial justice and civil rights organizations representing and serving more than 53 million people in the United States— condemn in the strongest terms the heinous murders of eight people, including six Asian American women and one Asian American man on March 16 in Atlanta. This attack against Asian American women is white supremacy and misogyny in action.
Too often, racist policies at home and abroad pigeonhole Asian women, immigrant women, and poor women into unprotected, low-wage jobs — including as massage workers in spas — where they are subject to racist and sexist abuse on a daily basis, whether from their customers, employers or police. Violence against Asian American women— regardless of their country of origin or citizenship status — is not new. Racist narratives have exotified, fetishized and hypersexualized Asian women. As Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen said, Asian women constantly experience brutality at the “intersection of gender-based violence, misogyny and xenophobia”.
The core element of discrimination and bias, whether based on race, gender, nationality, or other characteristics, is the dehumanization and “othering” of people. This assumes all individuals within these categories are the same and are all of less value than those making these judgments. Many times, multiple forms of “othering” converge to target the most vulnerable intersections of these identities. The dehumanization of these women was personified when the killer justified the murders as the result him just having a bad day.
These murders are the most recent large-scale manifestations of centuries of violence against communities of color. These murders represent a flashpoint in the ongoing violence against communities of color fueled by systemic racism; and is the same fuel that fed the past four years of vitriolic rhetoric from America’s most powerful leaders and inaction against white supremacy. In the face of the disturbing rise in Anti-Asian hate, this Collaborative consistently has stood by the Asian community (in 2017 and as recently as last month). We will continue to stand in solidarity with all those who are impacted by racist violence and attacks.
We advocate for community-based solutions that advance collective safety and ensure that all workers, including Asian women, are treated with dignity and respect without an overreliance on law enforcement response. We also call on the Biden administration to heed the recommendations from our previous statement, which help us all to better track and address acts of hate violence.
As members of the Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative, we stand united against anti-Asian hate in all of its forms. And we believe that the best approach to end anti-Asian hate violence is to lift up and provide adequate resources to community organizations that serve Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, especially those for and by AAPI women, and to support multiracial efforts that include Asian American and Pacific Islander leadership indirectly addressing the problems caused by systemic racism and misogyny.
# # #
The Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative includes the following leading national racial equity anchor organizations (the Anchors): Advancement Project National Office, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, Demos, Faith in Action, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Congress of American Indians, National Urban League, Race Forward, and UnidosUS. Supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, we work together to promote racial equity, advance racial healing, and ensure that all children, families, and communities have opportunities to reach their full potential.
The post Civil Rights, Racial Justice Organizations Decry the Racist and Misogynistic Murders of Asian American Women in Atlanta appeared first on NAACP.
Read more here.
Show HN: Libmon – Tokens to monetize your library and offer trials https://ift.tt/3vHN2uW
Show HN: Finger Pool, play pool with your finger https://ift.tt/2P6Omqk
Show HN: Developer First Engineering Metrics https://ift.tt/3r7z5CN
Show HN: SQLGlot – Customizable Python SQL Transpiler https://ift.tt/3s9wb24
Show HN: Drovio – remote pair programming tool https://ift.tt/3901ODD
Show HN: Infracost diff – “Git diff” but for cloud costs https://ift.tt/3cLmXTa
Show HN: Enough Tea – NFTs for Anything https://ift.tt/2PcluNe
Show HN: Hoppy – Public IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses over WireGuard https://ift.tt/2Qm5tVP
New post from the NAACP: Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP Demands Formal Meeting with NFL to Discuss Unscrupulous Partnership with Fox by Marc Banks
Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, released the following statement regarding the ongoing exploitation of the NFL at the hands of FOX:
“For several decades, the Fox Corporation, and more specifically, Fox News has represented the worst traditions of American broadcasting. The media outlet has used its news division to sow bigotry and racism, create dissension, spread misinformation, and promote conspiracy theories that ultimately led to an insurrection against the U.S. Capitol. It is safe to say, the views and opinions of Fox News are often squarely positioned against the progression of our democracy and not in the general public’s best interest.
But here’s something that many do not know. Fox actively exploits its Fox Sports licensing deal with the NFL by extracting increasingly high cable subscriber fees to subsidize Fox News programming. This is the same network that has used its hosts and personalities to regularly attack the NFL and its players for promoting racial justice. However, this is just one aspect of its inaccurate, incendiary coverage of racial injustice. Network personalities routinely attack Black Lives Matter and downplay the existence of systemic racism and police brutality. A league where nearly 70% of the players are Black and prides itself as America’s favorite sports pastime, should not be complicit in helping to increase the profits of Fox News.
The NFL should immediately rethink its relationship with Fox, given all that Fox has done to harm its players and the franchise. It’s disturbing that this renewal is even on the table. Fox has further fomented racism, undermined the public health response to the pandemic, and attacked the election’s legitimacy at a volatile time.
The NAACP is requesting a formal meeting with NFL leadership to discuss the unscrupulous tactics employed by Fox to underwrite hate speech and the un-American attacks on those that stand for racial equity and justice. The NAACP is ready to work in tandem with the NFL and hold Fox accountable.”
###
The post Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP Demands Formal Meeting with NFL to Discuss Unscrupulous Partnership with Fox appeared first on NAACP.
Read more here.
New post from the NAACP: NAACP President and CEO, Derrick Johnson, Releases Statement on Atlanta Shooting by Interactive Strategies
Statement from NAACP President and CEO, Derrick Johnson, on Atlanta Shooting:
“Our hearts are shattered tonight. The horrifying shooting that took place in Atlanta this evening is a disgusting and disturbing example of how the spread of domestic terrorism has been allowed to torment communities. These acts are the visible manifestation of hateful words birthing hateful acts. An attack on one is an attack on all. We condemn this in the strongest possible terms.”
###
The post NAACP President and CEO, Derrick Johnson, Releases Statement on Atlanta Shooting appeared first on NAACP.
Read more here.
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Show HN: Video Game in a Font https://ift.tt/2PasyKh
Show HN: Usage and crash reports for Python libraries and command line tools https://ift.tt/3tCAQdc
Show HN: Glue – Pandas as a DAG https://ift.tt/3s3kmdo
Show HN: R/shouldibuythisproduct because Amazon reviews is broken https://ift.tt/3lscos3
Show HN: Inventhub – Electronics product design collaboration platform https://ift.tt/2ODcYHv
Show HN: SpectaQL – auto-generate GraphQL API documentation https://ift.tt/3s2Q1M6
Show HN: A Directory of Personal Blogs https://ift.tt/3ls7bjQ
Show HN: Chat builder – Build a fully customizable open source chat-widget https://ift.tt/3cH7CCW
Show HN: Generate stick figure GIFs from a webcam using openpose https://ift.tt/3vEwST2
Show HN: LitiHolo – a desktop 3D hologram printer that makes true holograms https://ift.tt/38TfDUq
Show HN: Obsidian - OTP Authenticator https://ift.tt/3qWXOJZ
Get On Board for Your Driver
By Lori Phelan
Today is Transit Worker Appreciation Day, a national day of recognition to thank and celebrate the public service of transit vehicle operators and support staff who keep our cities moving. Operating any vehicle in a city like San Francisco is not easy, yet our operators strive to provide a comfortable ride while navigating large-capacity buses with precision through city streets and traffic. We recently celebrated hundreds of Muni Operators with years –even decades-- of “safe driver” experience, having had no avoidable collisions. We also celebrate the hundreds of mechanics, car cleaners, and other critical personnel who keep vehicles safe and operational.
Muni’s transit operators and support teams have been on the job in San Francisco throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, providing essential service at a time of unprecedented challenge and uncertainty. In addition to keeping our Muni Core Service Plan rolling during shelter-in-place, many of our Cable Car and rail operators have served as ambassadors while rail service was suspended, distributing masks, assisting customers while waiting for Muni and keeping the public informed about how to get to where they want to go.
In addition to our 2,500 Muni operators, there are nearly 3,000 taxi and 100 paratransit drivers in San Francisco, all of whom have had to manage the unique constraints the pandemic has imposed. This workforce has proven more than equal to the challenge of the past year.
If you’d like to get on board with supporting an operator or other worker who made your day just a little bit brighter this past year, please consider participating in Transit Worker Appreciation Day and saying thank you by:
- Posting thank you messages, photos or videos to social media with the hashtag #TWAD (Transit Worker Appreciation Day) or #ILoveMyMuniDriver.
- Submitting an official commendation online through Muni Feedback -- provide details about your experience so that we can identify the employee and ensure that they receive kudos.
- Giving a thumbs-up on MuniMobile app's RateMyRide.
And remember, a simple smile or thank you works any day – for which there are 365 opportunities each year.
Published March 18, 2021 at 10:10AM
https://ift.tt/3vDWOOE
Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way https://ift.tt/38WlI2l
Show HN: Freeciv-Web https://ift.tt/3tCtCpv
Show HN: LDAP DN – PHP library for parsing and manipulating Distinguished Names https://ift.tt/3tycuRO
Show HN: Public SSH Jump and Port Forwarding Server https://ift.tt/3qWQK09
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Show HN: Flat Habits – Org mode habits on iOS https://ift.tt/2P4t3pc
4th Street Bridge Transit Lanes Ease T-Third Bottleneck
By Erin McMillan
In January, along with other proposed and planned key locations across the city, the SFMTA Board of Directors approved temporary emergency transit lanes for the 4th Street Bridge. These temporary lanes address a key bottleneck that delays the T Third line on 4th Street northbound and southbound between Berry and Channel Streets.
A Sunnydale-bound T Third train approaches the 4th Street Bridge
As a response to community feedback, the project team developed a two-phase implementation of the temporary transit lanes to allow for an evaluation of their effectiveness before fully restricting northbound bridge traffic.
The initial evaluation of the first phase has been completed, and data shows that partial implementation was effective in allowing Muni trains to travel across the bridge with little delay.
Currently, northbound left turns are restricted from 4th Street onto Berry Street. The previous left turn pocket at that location was converted to a temporary transit lane, while northbound through-traffic continues to be allowed on the bridge. As the city emerges from the public health order to less restrictive tiers, we will perform an additional evaluation of the existing Phase 1 implementation. If that analysis determines that northbound private vehicle traffic on the bridge has begun to cause delays to the T Third, the single northbound lane will be restricted temporarily to transit only between Berry and Channel Streets as a second phase of the project.
A summary of this phased approach is provided below.
Phase 1: Complete. Evaluation of this phase began after the T Third resumed service in late January:
- A southbound temporary emergency transit lane was installed in one of the two southbound lanes on the 4th Street Bridge
- Northbound left turns are now temporarily prohibited from 4th Street onto Berry Street
- The left turn pocket in the northbound direction from 4th onto Berry Street was converted to a temporary transit lane
Phase 2: If a change in emergency order tiers shows that traffic is causing transit delay on the 4th Street Bridge:
- A northbound temporary transit-only lane will be installed in the sole northbound lane on the 4th Street Bridge
- Northbound traffic will not be permitted on the 4th Street Bridge, with these additional temporary restrictions:
- Heading north on 4th Street at Channel, no through traffic onto the 4th Street Bridge (right or left turn required)
- Heading east on Channel, no left turn onto the 4th Street Bridge
- Heading west on Channel, no right turn onto the 4th Street Bridge
- Southbound general traffic will continue to be permitted
Evaluation of the phased approach
Our Phase 1 evaluation included site visits and several weeks of monitoring traffic on and around the 4th Street Bridge. Our chief metric was whether general traffic blocked trains on the shared northbound lane across the 4th Street Bridge. If northbound traffic blocked trains more than 5% of the time, our plan was to implement Phase 2. Periods of evaluation included morning, mid-day, and afternoon/evening peak.
We also monitored train travel times using location data from T Third train tracking devices to identify when trains experienced the longest travel times on the 4th Street Bridge. Because this data showed few instances when trains were blocked by northbound traffic, we paused implementation of the second phase.
Initial Phase 1 Evaluation Results
Our data demonstrated that Phase 1 was successful in decreasing transit delays and protecting trains from traffic congestion. With the temporary emergency transit lanes in place:
- On average, overall transit delay decreased by 63% at the of 4th and Berry streets.
- T Third trains are now 2.5 times more likely to travel through the 4th and Berry street intersection without having to stop for a red light.
- When trains do encounter a red light, the average wait time for a green signal is 70% shorter
- With Phase 1 in place, T Third trains were delayed by traffic congestion less than 1% of the time
Next steps
Our ongoing evaluation of the project will include a community survey in mid-March as well as continued technical evaluation of the effectiveness of these temporary transit lanes. A renewed technical evaluation will take place with the changing of tiers in the city’s emergency public heath order.
For additional information on this project, and to sign up for updates, check out the 4th Street Bridge Temporary Emergency Transit Lanes webpage.
Published March 17, 2021 at 05:18PM
https://ift.tt/3vzBjP1
Show HN: Attract more customers by highlighting why people trust you https://ift.tt/30Pr9LU
Show HN: Visa-CLI https://ift.tt/3qZvLJY
Show HN: Walk in and out of conversations as you would IRL with up to 25 people https://ift.tt/3qWf1TW
Show HN: PBJ Live – Add live streaming to any app or website https://ift.tt/2OAaz0h
Show HN: Find all names, testimonials, logos in a webpage https://ift.tt/2OFzU8M
Show HN: Mailto-links are dead. Long live mailto.id https://ift.tt/3bWofeU
Show HN: Cloud GPUs for Deep Learning – At 1/3 the Cost of AWS/GCP https://ift.tt/3bVb2Tg
Show HN: Aphros – create and share a simulation of fluids, bubbles, and drops https://ift.tt/2OGT0vo
Show HN: A platform for EV owners to share their pros and cons https://ift.tt/3qVAI6A
Show HN: Dendron – Super Fast Open Source Note-Taking in VSCode https://ift.tt/3tvCTiU
Show HN: Useful Linux tool, Find wrapper in Bash script https://ift.tt/2NrcEeh
Show HN: I wrote a free book on mastering OpenSCAD https://ift.tt/3qSnk37
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Show HN: O(log n) makes continuous profiling possible https://ift.tt/2OJ4234
Muni and SamTrans Partner on Lake Merced Bus Service
By Enrique Aguilar
Starting March 22, a new program will provide free access to SamTrans Route 122 within San Francisco between Lake Merced Boulevard and Lake Merced Hill. The SFMTA has teamed up with SamTrans to launch this pilot program, which allows residents to sign up to use the 122 while Muni service is limited due to COVID-19.
After applying to the program, customers will be sent an email with a MuniMobile pass link that will be valid for six months. There will be an opportunity to extend the pass if the program is still needed after that, pending the return of Muni’s 57 Parkmerced.
Map of new SamTrans stops in the Lake Merced neighborhood
The SFMTA will post signs at the new bus stop locations and at essential destinations including grocery stores near Stonestown Galleria Shopping Center in order to inform community members about this free pilot program. For more information and to apply, visit the Samtrans Route 122 application page.
Published March 16, 2021 at 07:23PM
https://ift.tt/3cAsfAG