skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a society we have agreed that the laws in most places are "Pedestrians should cross the road at these designated spots, where they have right of way, sometimes only when given a specific signal".

For example this isn't the law in the UK. Yet our road death rate is a fraction of yours.

> we all have to follow the agreed upon rules

Yes we should... but the rules shouldn't be as they are in the US and Canada, with hostile rules like 'jaywalking'.
You have to remember there are also people in the cars who are now put in unnecessary danger by pedestrians jumping out in front of them. The worst part is that they are at the mercy of others to avoid this danger. Even if they see you unexpectedly moving in front of traffic and react in time, the 2-3 cars behind them also have to do the same for everyone to avoid injury. If you jump in front of moving cars, you should be personally liable for any injuries and damages caused by cars trying to avoid you. And this is all avoidable if the pedestrian walks a little further to get to the crosswalk, or waits a little longer for a walk signal.
It depends what you are doing. in my experience when you write a script to do something with a CSV it's been created by a specific piece of software and you only feed that csv to the script. I doubt anyone is writing anything generic in ask for parsing a multitude of different csvs
By accident I bought:
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquests_of_the_Longbow:_The_... ]

Didn't know what "an adventure game" is, at that time. So many good memories.

What a great game.
I think this was true several years ago but these days with such pervasive mobile app use I'm not so sure. I think people think Facebook is part of "the Internet" but they are getting there through an app, not the Web.
Yep, slightly under the cost of two decent brews for hours of fun. Lua is easy to learn, there is a ton of Pico-8 info. Give a search for the Pico-8zine, a ton of tips and great ideas. Pico-8 has been talked about here and Hackaday.
I'm not a gamer, either, but I might say that Space Quest was my one dip into games, and I played that a lot. That was a long time ago.
You'll probably like Million Short (https://millionshort.com/) then, a search engine that can filter out the most popular websites.
If you start screaming at the top of your lungs inside of a Walmart, they will kick you out because you are on private property. But you can still scream outside.
> I didn't catch that title at first

For once, blind people using screen readers have an advantage. :)
>It's sad to see how servile about censorship so many hn readers are.

most of us have corporate jobs that pay well compare to the majority of the people around. That isn't a recipe for fermenting rebeliosness , it is more of a way for complacency and being content, at least deep inside, with the things they are.
It has the opposite effect that you described.

Consider the 2000 Gore v Bush v Nader. Bush won with a minority of votes. But if they used Ranked Choice, and Nader voters are generally assumed to have the preference order (Nader > Gore > Bush) then Gore would have won.

We can assume that politically, Nader is to the left of Gore, and Bush is to the right.

So in fact, ranked choice voting helps the candidate that is in the political center!
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If you’ve ever almost walked into one the failure case is really clear. They use stopping as a default mitigation strategy when something unpredictable happens - this isn’t always a good solution especially when suddenly blocking transit (Crosswalks, bike paths, railways, traffic) instead of just crossing it. This is a failure case humans can get cited for - I hit a car in the bike lane once when they did a left turn in front of me and it was legally the driver’s fault for blocking that path.

It is just another characteristic they need to figure out in a complex problem.
There are some great 'how its made' videos on youtube under combinations of search terms like

circular loom weaving machine

Plastic netting for fruits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FG2d97nxSg

Lexus CF printing promo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kttvDaUIWCs
Scientists Discover New Organic Compounds That Could Have Helped Form First Cell
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basking_in_reflected_glory
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> isn't it better to do what people would expect other cars to do?

You--a human driver--have no idea what the other cars will do either. Some people run yellows, some people don't. The only reasonable thing to assume the other car to do is follow the law, but be prepared for the unexpected.

Unless Waymo cars are doing something unnatural like braking significantly harder or faster than a human would, the Waymo car is not at fault for being rear-ended.

Once we pass ethical muster (meaning don't ship knowingly buggy code, don't sell cars you expect to crash a lot, etc), I have a hard time seeing what the moral issues are here.
There's a little something called "network effects" you should read up on
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First, they're not farmers. They're ranchers.

Second, it hardly "destroys the environment for their convenience". Where I live the cattle graze down the grasses and prevent fires from spreading. In return, they leave manure which is super useful as a natural fertilizer for gardens and such.

Third, ranching is about food security. The areas where cattle are grazed are typically not much good for food crops, and it's a far more humane way to keep cattle. They got to roam around some pretty vast tracts of land, and you have a really healthy source of locally-sourced protein.

Finally, cattle are property. The idea that you shouldn't be allowed to protect your property is nutty. There are plenty of other wild animals for wolves to prey on, and there's no good ecosystem argument for why they should be permitted to slaughter cattle willy-nilly. Allowing ranchers to shoot wolves threatening their cattle would result in surviving wolves being much more reticent about going after cattle in the first place.

See: why bears and cougars rarely attack humans, even though their populations are healthy enough to be on the "hunt all year round" list for property owners in many areas.
We have it here in St Paul for city elections. It is definitely more complicated. It sounds easy in practice--just rank your candidates--but how you actually put that down on paper in a machine-readable way is a bit non-obvious. Here's an example of how it actually looks[1]. Now imagine that same thing, for every office on the ballot... It's not too bad if you know what you're doing, but it's easy to see how someone would do it wrong.

To be clear, I'm a huge fan of RCV and think it is massively unethical that we do not have it (or some similar system) for all elections. I consider elections that don't use RCV to be borderline invalid.

[1] https://www.minnpost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/default/fi...
I think that people who favor ranked-choice voting have really underestimated how confusing it will be to a lot of people.

It may be "better", but like a lot of things that are "better" it also just feels strange. It feels like your vote, if for the leading candidate, only gets counted once, while voters for the losing candidates get more votes.

And yes, I understand that this is not the case, but adding additional confusion to our system when trust in it is at an all time low doesn't seem like a smart play. Gone will be the days when you can present a simple set of numbers to the general populace.

It's also been very strange to have a lot of out of state money dumped into my city of ~50k to get it added for our local city elections. I've gotten more ads and mailings about it than for our US Senate election, probably by a factor of 5x. It's clear one political party has made the determination that it will be beneficial to their side.
I am somewhat surprised not to see a mention of the humble x-ray tube (diode), or the medical linacs. Modern medical linacs are incredible, essentially a large block of copper that where you apply a few kilovolts and hydrogen on one end and get megaelectronvolt protons out the other end--the rf drive tube, vacuum pump, and resonant acceleration cavity is all integrated into one unit using different vacuum electronic devices. https://altairusa.com/role-of-the-linear-accelerator-linac-i...
Looks like the number is now 30.[1]

As I discovered, they also allow the thousands of out of state hunters that come in with OTC elk/deer tags to harvest a wolf (or black bear or mountain lion) instead.

Predation of big game is a planned for event and IDFG in Idaho and equivalent agencies in other states work to find a balance because at the end of the day - conservation is the goal.

This isn't necessarily how hunters and trappers have been historically portrayed in the media but I think we're at a turning point. For any readers that are interested in learning more about how hunting and trapping as a crucial component of conservation. Do read up on the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.[2[

PS: Idaho is beautiful!

[1] https://www.livingwithwolves.org/2020/03/03/wolf-hunting-rul...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Model_of_Wildli...
It can occasionally lead to weird results, the most often cited is the 2009 Burlington Mayor election[1] where more voters preferred Montroll to Kiss, but Kiss was the winner. The counter-argument to this is that plurality voting quite frequently leads to weird results (spoiler effects, etc.), and it seems relatively rare in RCV in practice.

[1] https://ranked.vote/report/us/vt/btv/2009/03/mayor
It's a long conversation and hard to have here/in-comments, but I'd encourage you to look into it again, for several reasons. I get the focus/creativity aspect for sure!

1. Medications have come a long way, and there's more than just Ritalin (or Adderall) as options. I get the grey scale concept, but I don't think it has to be that way. There are varying doses and varying medications, and you might find something that is almost all upside with (possibly) no downside.

2. You might perceive yourself to be managing / coping fine (and you might be, I don't mean that in any disrespectful way!) but there could be vast undiscovered focus abilities you could access. For me personally, the difference on and off medication is VAST.

3. You might not always have that manager/environment. Or (what happened for me) someday you might (already) have a family, and fewer options for those bursts of focus. I used to work until 3am when I was on a roll, but now I can't.

4. The distraction / multiple threads stuff can have other impacts on your own self-image. Depends on how well it's managed I guess, in the world and inside your head.

Good luck! :)
Getting close to Deer season. I hunt in northern Minnesota, and have really seen the wolf population take off. Watched a big one walk under my stand a couple years back. The coyote population is gone and you can hear the howls all around you as they feed on the gut piles. Nice to see them make a come back. Seen them up in the BWCA area too - they are making a come back.
As long as you can keep your DNS provider and hosting company from pulling the plug when pressured.
In Firefox (v82) the text-field does not seem to render in a strictly non-proportional font. Thus everything is garbled. Unfortunately w3m text-mode browser isn't capable to display the page...

[EDIT] The following steps fix playback in Firefox for me:

- I press F12 to open the web-developer tools,

- select the "Console" Tab

- at the prompt at the bottom (marked by ">>") enter:

document.querySelector("pre#screen").setAttribute("style", "font-family:Monospace;")

- press Return. Renders correctly now.
I recently learned that there is a group in Oregon advocating a slight twist on RCV called STAR[1]. There are efforts to get it used in Lane and Multnomah counties at the moment.

[1] https://www.starvoting.us/
> Wouldn't it increase the odds of an extreme and/or single issue candidate winning?

You act like this isn't happening already.
I was about to post the same video and say the same thing! I heard the theme tune in my head as soon I looked at the tool.
But if you’re writing code to normalize before sending to awk, why not just process in the normalization program instead of using awk’s bizarre syntax?
This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Easily the new TikTok for engineers.

Fantastic! Love it. Now if I only used VSCode.
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Editor support for Dark Mode? (I jest)
https://archive.vn/KMUSx
OK, I understand. The approach works even better if you multiply by 10:

int16_t celsius2fahrenheit10(int16_t c)
{
int16_t f = 0;
f += c << 4;
f -= c;
f -= c >> 1;
f -= c >> 3;
f += c >> 5;
f += 320 * 8;
f >>= 3;
return f;
}

This is really accurate:

C=0 (int 0) F=32 (int: 320, exact: 32)
C=15.3 (int 153) F=59.5 (int: 595, exact: 59.54)
C=37 (int 370) F=98.6 (int: 986, exact: 98.6)
C=100 (int 1000) F=212 (int: 2120, exact: 212)
Thank you both you have answered my question.
Yeah, I find myself encouraging others to explore this stuff until it's fully resolved in your mind, because of the difference it's made in my life and in others I've seen personally.
I don't think there's an expectation for an exact recorded output, but in this case, it's known how the arcade system draws the levels in ram, how the video output chip works from the ram, and if things show up on screen inconsistent with that, but consistent with how an emulator outputs video, that's pretty fishy for contest that's supposed to run on real hardware.

It's also an indication that the emulator isn't totally accurate at all times, even if it might be during gameplay.
We need more stories like this. I can relate. There is too much survivorship bias in society. To those trapped in the pit of hopelessness, don't give a f*. I apologize for my language, but crude as it is, it has solved a lot of my mental weaknesses.

I would say to everyone trying to fit in a world that looks for cultural fits - do not try to put a mask, find those like you and be straightforward to recruiters. Some will resonate with you and others will just brush u off.

Without sidelining to ideologies, I feel that society really needs to think again about a basic income to sustain human life. It is easier said than done but it is also easier said to people to 'fit' as a jack of all trades in an specialized world. Sometimes it is easy but most of the time, it is crushingly difficult.
Games are richer in terms of both content (“things to do”) and visual imagery, but the stories and gameplay are much more uniform now than 20 years ago (which is long after my childhood video game playing period ended). There is some subjectivity here of course, but I occasionally replay games from when I was in college or even elementary school (hello Apple II, Atari and Nintendo). The graphics and limitations are clear, but within those constraints it’s hard to say games have improved that much.

For all the advances in the tech we’ve had I don’t believe we’ve seen equivalent gains in actual gaming experience.
It's not the Cruise system's fault that you almost ran into them. They should absolutely be able to stop again to access the situation before continuing, regardless of the traffic situation. And who knows, maybe there was another pedestrian or animal running around on the other side of the road that you didn't see.

It's like rear ending a car at a stop sign because they did a double stop and blaming the front car. That's just not how it works.
> That's an interesting definition of "lyrics parody" - interesting in that it ommits the most obvious component of lyrics parody, in that the replacement must result in a, well, parody. Of the original.

All the GPT-3 stuff we've been seeing shows that generative models can generate text in the style of the inspiration text, with the topic of your choice. So that part "GPT-3, write me 300 words on the Amish people in the style of this text by Coolio" is kind of solved. But it wouldn't rhyme.

But now we have a generative text model that knows how to rhyme. Combine it with being on-topic and stylistically correct and get your "good" parody.
I think this refers to making the implementation efficient.

They wanted performance on par with existing languages that didn’t allow recursion, and could simply assign fixed addresses to all function arguments and local variables.

Lisp didn’t have that. It allocated environments left and right. That meant that a function call allocated memory and potentially could trigger garbage collection.

The major improvement was to use a runtime stack. That was fairly novel. Earlier compilers used a stack at compile time to make it possible that those fixed addresses for arguments and locals could be shared between functions that didn’t call each other, directly or indirectly, but that stack didn’t exist at runtime.

And yes, the idea of a stack seems trivial nowadays, but it wasn’t at the time. Quite a few CPUs didn’t even have “jump to subroutine” or “return from subroutine” instructions.

Algol’s “call by name” feature also may have complicated this, but I don’t see how that’s more difficult than passing lambdas as arguments.
I don't think that's the issue here. If you run a business that relies on these services, you now have to consider an operational risk which never existed before. Namely, that the employees of many tech companies seem to have bought into a weird sort of paternalism (or even authoritarianism), and may one day use that to cut you off. The fact that it's legal is irrelevant to the impact.
People trot out this line … because it’s literally how it works in the real world, buddy. If you create a disturbance inside of a coffee shop, you will be kicked out, because the owner has the right to do so as the owner of private property. But if you do it outside, you’re fine.

Sometimes it’s not a low-effort take … but simply reflective of the way legal precedent works.
illegal lane change? no, its just a car getting across a road.

Like all things in life, we define patterns of use so we can more easily predict others' behavior. Sometimes these pattern definitions come from rules, others come from experience (rolling stops). Either way, pedestrian road crossing is defined in cross walks, typically found at intersections. If someone breaks the pattern, expect others around you to react unpredictably, which may include death.

This comment sounds very entitled, as if a pedestrian is entitled to the road whenever they damn well please.
Is your stated standard ever applied for other negative stories?

There are military generals who have served under multiple administrations. When they decide to go to the media and talk about some negative story about one administration, by your reasoning, it means they're telling a selective truth - unless you choose to believe that they only ever had differences with one administration.

There are whistleblowers from the State Department, DOJ, EPA and all kinds of bureaucracies. Are their stories ever met with this standard - i.e. "you're saying the W. Bush administration did this unethical thing, but you aren't telling us what the Clinton administration did". Was there ever a "I'm sorry Mr Deepthroat you may be right about Nixon but you have not told me what LBJ did, and for all we know, that may be worse"
I'd love to hear more. I've definitely lived with the downsides, but my experience with medicating for it as pre-teen was so negative that I have been extremely reticent to seek treatment since.
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> The exact year isn't really the point..

So what's the point? Python was created in 1991, in 2000 was more popular than Rust is today. Rust was created in 2010, so it is older and in a world where it has to compete with more languages. Reality is different of what you wish to be true.
> Wolves are among the few predators that can and will attack humans

Well...I live in a place where we have (in my back yard, except for Bison) all the megafauna present since the ice age. In order of practical danger (most to least), they rank like this: Moose, Bear, Cougar, Snakes, ... Wolves.
People are regularly attacked by Moose and fatalities have occurred in the past few decades. People are eaten by bears every few years and injured by bears annually. Cougars present a real danger but they're pretty wary of humans so attacks are more a theoretical risk we hear about from reports concerning mountain bikers in Los Angeles. I never heard of anyone being attacked by a wolf nor anyone being concerned about being attacked by a wolf. Same for Coyotes and Foxes.

I don't hear people suggesting that Moose be killed on sight.
This is my biggest issue with the whole "full self driving" thing. As far as I can tell, it's tied to a vehicle and not a person. I could almost see this being worth it if you believe that level 5 driving is coming in the next few decades and it was tied to a user, but it isn't. Let's say that he doens't raise the price anymore, and you have 3 Teslas from now until FSD is present. You're out $30k. That's not chump change for the vast majority of people.
FYI, your plan to implement on smaller-scale elections first is exactly what's currently happening:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_Un...
Now do discrimination laws. I assume you’re for repealing all of those too?
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At my last employer, I built a filter program, creatively called CSVTools[0], to do something like this. One piece of the project parses CSVs and replaces the commas/newlines (in an escaping- and multiline-aware manner, of course) with ASCII record/unit separator characters[1] (0x1E and 0x1F); the other piece converts that format back into well-formed CSV files. I usually used this with GNU awk, and reconfigured RS[2] and FS[3] appropriately. Or you can just set the input separators (IRS/IFS) and produce plaintext output from AWK.

[0]: https://bitbucket.org/rbr/csvtools

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter#ASCII_delimited_text

[2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/awk-split...

[3]: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Field-Sep...
You don't get $2/month of value out of what you're doing? Then why are you doing it at all???
If a candidate is everyone's second choice, I don't think you can call them extreme or single issue.
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I agree that IFTTT isn't useful enough for me to warrant the cost (I need another monthly subscription like a need an arrow in the knee).

That said, it seems they did handle it in a much classier way than Wink who really pissed people off when they moved to a subscription model. Likewise, that was a good nudge for a lot of people to move off the "easy" platform and figure out something better.

I wonder why companies don't use a boil-the-frog approach to try to avoid this "nudge". Like, if they started off by charging, say, $1 a year I'm sure everyone would stay and just go "OK". Then start increasing the price slowly until you find the sweet spot.
Since 95% of ads delivered by mailchimp are overstating and overhyping their product doesn't that mean that they are sending "innacurate" info & that mailchimp just put themselves out of business :)
We’ve been using it in my city for ages, and the “everybody will be confused” predictions never really manifested, especially after the first couple years of it.

Voters learn, and campaigns learn how to communicate clear instructions.
From what I can tell, their public pricing is as low as $4 monthly ($48 a year) if locked in now. I guess it does not seem very expensive for unlimited integrations for an individual. I have not actually used the service but people have sung its praises. It sucks when something free goes away, but this is as cheap as a Starbucks per month in the US.