This is a neat tool, and while this is maybe a bit too local for hackernews, I can say that using the current ebike rental system in Stockholm is pretty problematic atm. Currently the perspective is like you go to find a bike in the official app, but there are none there in reality. Or it doesn't unlock or the battery is at like 3 percent (shown in the app when unlocked). The system is great however when it does work because ebikes are nice.

To be honest, with how open data is becoming I would bet we see more solutions from independent parties to solve problems with official solutions. Was an interesting case to see here. And ofc I am benefitting from it by being able to actually ride ebikes so that's nice. Some problems with the app I notice ofc (doesnt show your location well imo), but the official app is so horrible I overlook this.

Here was the original reddit thread posted on this where I saw it: https://www.reddit.com/r/stockholm/comments/wc6yot/stockholm...

The thing that will be interesting to see as well is how they approach a market where delivery has been increasingly important over bulk availability. Thinking about prices of services like MatHem and picsmart etc and if they can shake it up

I am curious if your perspective comes from someone that is swedish or not. The general consensus locally is the opposite sentiment ime and ofc you can easily rent cars for the day or a small trailer for very cheap. That coupled with the fact to for example Kungens Kurva it is somewhere you can get to within an hour from within even the city center is quite nice and the bus stop is literally next to the IKEA (ofc you go to Barkarby if more north and again the station for the bus is right next to center). The delivery is interesting that you note considering we have always been able to get things delivered to our apartment though maybe it depends where you live...

Curious if being swedish national has to do with perspectives. From what I heard, perspectives of swedish nationals usually involves leaving Sweden.

I'm living on Kungsholmen for several years already if that matters.

Getting to Kungens Kurva from Thorildsplan involves one change and realistically takes a bit more than an hour to get there. Of course, you can't bring a huge box with your new sofa to a bus or metro and Ikea won't deliver bigger items too, so you have to deal with either renting a car or paying insane prices for delivery. Same goes for bringing larger items to manned garbage collection stations.

I don't rent a car because I feel insecure about driving someone's else car after many years without driving experience.

I think in many ways it does because - and this is not meant to be a criticism but a statement of experience - I have really only heard complaints from those that are used to a culture of being able to drive somewhere, get their items of choice and bring them back. Maybe it is more of a Stockholm thing to plan days around this sort of thing, but when you say you only change once from Thorildsplan that is to me initially thinking an amazing setup. But I can see where if you come from a place where you just hop into the car and drive 5 minutes you get to your destination why it would be annoying. And yeah ofc it's just expected that for somethings you need to plan 3rd party services around things. For the garbage collection prime example, TipTapp is our goto since it works wonders for us (but ofc can't technically do "garbage" with it but great for sofas and such), we accept that without a car and trailer this is what we must do. That or plan around a neighbor's trip. As for not renting, I mean it's stockholm, parking will be expensive and not everyone likes the idea of paying 1100kr per month for parking I get it. Sometimes we rent a car but that's more for longer trips (read: to Romme Alpin or the like). I guess it's part of living in the city. You make a lot of tradeoffs. I do remember hearing how frustrating it was though for some expat colleagues that everything had to be planned for summer by like April/May and they liked to be more spontaneous. It makes me wonder that maybe it is just expected of people to plan too much here :P. If you try to just be spontaneous it doesn't work out well for many

That plus people are incorrectly assuming that it's bad that the charity gets leftovers. That money is still a net positive which they wouldn't have made otherwise as well as an increase in sponsors via the event. The amount of cynicism here is daft.

Mostly inexperience/doing this with first timers played the major role

> The number of regular jumps by experienced enthusiasts done during this period is estimated at 50,000, giving an incidence of injury for regular parachutists of 0.02% – reflecting better expertise and training

> Americans on the whole don't trust their government quite a lot. If the government just said "you owe X in tax this year", nearly everyone's knee jerk reaction would be that the government is overestimating and cheating them.

That's why most governments that do self-declaration services make it so you can review what tax rules they based amounts off of. It's not like tax law is super easy elsewhere and without complications. I should never have to pay a fee just to declare taxes to reconcile things for the IRS. That is a basic governmental responsibility to give me that service for free.

> That's why most governments that do self-declaration services make it so you can review what tax rules they based amounts off of.

Right, but since no regular person understands the rules, they can't really double-check. Especially since sometimes you can file stuff under different rules that produce different results, despite both being valid (I say this based on experience from another country, but I suspect the same is true in the US).

> "sometimes you can file stuff under different rules that produce different results, despite both being valid (I say this based on experience from another country, but I suspect the same is true in the US)."

Yes, such circumstances exist in the US too. For instance married couples usually file jointly, but they could chose to file separately which results in a different effect.

how would that affect ease of tax generation? You would still need to have the proper congressional authorities vote on the matter, no? And sure, when I am in sweden I get taxed more because of VAT and such, but having a national standard where I can just declare my taxes for the year by pushing a single button for free through the government tax app is a benefit to outweigh any worry that you will get shafted by new taxes. In the US it just seems backwards and no excuse can justify this. Horrible system.

> how would that affect ease of tax generation? You would still need to have the proper congressional authorities vote on the matter, no?

People aren’t paying attention to tax bills that are getting voted on. But when they do their taxes, they’re forced to actually work out how much they’re paying the government. A bill or invoice they get in the mail wouldn’t have the same effect.

As to the US system being unjustifiable, I think Europeans don’t really understand America. In an ideal world, I’d prefer a Swedish system with high taxes, lots of social services, etc. But Americans aren’t Swedes. They don’t trust their government, and they don’t really trust each other. A quarter of Americans polled favor their state seceding from the country (ranging from 20-34% depending on region). By comparison, only 15% of people in the Basque region of Spain want independence.

I live in Maryland, which is about the same population as Denmark and only moderately smaller than Sweden. It’s a “blue state.” Our capital is Baltimore. Schools in Baltimore spend 40% more per student than schools in Sweden, in a city where you can get a beautiful townhouse for maybe 1/4 of what it would cost in Stockholm. The schools should be amazing, right? No. They’re awful, with terrible test score and enormous gang violence. The city government is corrupt. Not in the way you probably think the US as a whole is corrupt (controlled by wealthy elite), but the sort of reciprocity that typifies developing countries. The former mayor has been convinced of felonies, and in February will probably receive a sentence of 5-10 years in prison.

So despite being a strongly blue state, we elected a Republican Governor by an overwhelming majority that promised to control spending, cancel public projects like transit lines, etc. Because we don’t trust (can’t trust) our government to use our tax dollars effectively.

So yes, there is support in America for things that make people think hard about how much they pay the government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcEhl5HfGMM. And it’s not irrational or crazy. Our situation is very different than what you face in Sweden.

> People aren’t paying attention to tax bills that are getting voted on. But when they do their taxes, they’re forced to actually work out how much they’re paying the government. A bill or invoice they get in the mail wouldn’t have the same effect.

Except they’re not working it out. They just have TurboTax do it then see they get a few thousand dollars for $35+ and a few minutes of work. Most people don’t understand that a tax return is money that was already theirs; They just see it as an extra paycheck.

Infinite scroll is not for user experience. It's to increase session times. If you increase the time spent in an app or on a page you increase the chance of getting revenue in ads for social or media sites or purchases in marketplaces. In other words screw UX because this is about increasing engagement to increase monetization. Stressed or not, users do increase session time on infinite scroll pages than when using regular paginated views

Could be wrong but I believe s lot of coroutine implementations use this as well since the call preserves the frame info in the result.