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by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago
This is the key point of the research and the tool I built, and clearly I still have some work to do on making this clear on my site: The objective is not to shift blame from one party to the other, even if its shifting from VRUs to drivers
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by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago
This is a great question and I agree with you entirely. Ultimately, Framing (thematic vs. episodic) is the most important consideration for these articles. It's important for articles to discuss road design, safety initiatives, etc. in
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Show HN: Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP(visionzeroreporting.com)
344 points by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago|205 comments
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by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago
Hi HN, I built "Vision Zero Reporting" ( https://visionzeroreporting.com ), a tool to detect editorial anti-patterns in local news coverage of car crashes. Maybe you've noticed that local news articles about car cra
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by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago
I remember seeing increased IRS enforcement as one of the payment methods for the recent U.S. infrastructure bill, and thinking about how that really meant taxing the poor: "One of the starkest differences is who will pay for it all. W
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by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago
To get to my apartment complex requires that I drive down a street where at least one house I know of has a street-facing Ring doorbell. Is that thing always recording? Can the police obtain video from that device without a search warrant?
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by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago
Sounds like a prisoner's dilemma , where from an individual perspective it makes sense to make a certain decision, but the same holds true from anyone else's perspective, and when everyone does it you end up in a worse-off situat
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by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago
I've been a Firefox user for at least 15 years as well, and the recent UI updates in v89 is the first instance of me refusing to update Firefox. I updated my user prefs file to permanently disable updates, so I'm remaining on pre-
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Ask HN: What happened to HVAC and open-air discussions for Covid?
3 points by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago|3 comments
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by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago
Windows 10 does not respect the "default browser" setting when opening web-based content through apps. For example, clicking on "Help" links or search results from the start menu always opens in Edge. This seems far wors
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by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago
Is there an official name for this sort of effect? I've been looking for something to call this. For example, we've had this effect at work when trying to organize social outings; people say they're interested in some activ
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Ask HN: What have you recently been wrong about?
4 points by chiefofgxbxl 5y ago|3 comments
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
This paper addresses bureaucracy and its effects on expense, but it sort of makes the assumption that lowering the price is the goal. It seems to me that high cost is convenient to artificially "create jobs" and bureaucracy, hence
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Ask HN: Have you ever run for elected office?
1 points by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Firefox cannot display PDFs correctly?
1 points by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago|3 comments
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
I've found Meetup alright for finding things to do with other people, but it doesn't work well (at least for me) to find people to be with . Meetup helped introduce me to a once-a-month board game group which is nice, but the p
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
(My understanding; I only took one course in quantum mechanics) Arguably the information that you "gained" was predetermined when you decided which colored ball to place in which box. You didn't gain any knowledge that you co
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
You don't need to measure the carbon cost of everything. You tax carbon at the source, like power generation and oil drilling. The costs will naturally balance upwards. The downtown parking lot, for example, probably doesn't have
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Ask HN: Advice on starting a Makerspace?
2 points by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago|0 comments
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
They could release transcripts, which would be far less theatrical than video and audio. Sure, transcripts may contain some grandstanding, but it's not as spicy as a 20 second tweeted clip. The Supreme Court disallows cameras, but rele
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
I was just speaking to a friend about this a few hours ago -- there's always some feeling of guilt that creeps up on me on Sunday evening, like I'm questioning if I spent the weekend well. But honestly, I don't think I would
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Ask HN: Have you found your dream town?
3 points by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago|1 comments
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
This reminds me of all the cases of "This notice is to inform you that " notices posted around public and in my apartment complex. When COVID hit, the grocery store posted a nice multi-paragraph letter on the window to the effect
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Ask HN: Anyone else get “pixel vision”?
3 points by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago|4 comments
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
Except that cars have influenced the way we build towns and cities: separate everything by non-walkable, non-busable distances because the basic assumption is that everyone has a car. Public transit "sucks" for a number of reasons
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
If you have excess energy you cannot use at that moment, it may as well be spent removing carbon from the atmosphere. For example, if there's a giant field of wind turbines that are experiencing more wind energy than can be consumed, a
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
> Nowadays, games like the McDonald's Videogame, where you corrupt politicians and destroy the rainforest to make fast food, would most likely be banned from the App Store, cutting it off from a large percentage of players. Brings u
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
Seems like insurance couples the driver with the vehicle for risk management though. For example, an expensive vehicle will have a higher insurance premium than a cheaper vehicle because repairs will be more expensive. But a better driver b
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Design, remix, and share your street(streetmix.net)
1 points by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago|0 comments
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by chiefofgxbxl 6y ago
> that you still have to rely on them to get the word across The website doesn't have to rely on React, Google analytics & CDN, et al. This is a simple website that could have been written in plain HTML and CSS, with server-side

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