skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right of way is an important safety measure and isn't something you should just yield unexpectedly.

I got in a car accident about ten years ago which resulted in my and another car getting totaled. I was going down a 35 or 45 mph four lane wide (two in each direction plus a median) street which was crossed every quarter mile or so by smaller two way residential streets. The cross streets had stop signs at intersections. The larger road I was on had left turn lanes but no stop signs.

I was in the right lane of the larger street going along at the speed limit. As I was passing a backup of several large vehicles waiting to turn left in the lane next to me, a car from a cross street pulled out in front of me from the left. I'm still shocked that I managed to steer so that I hit the back of the car instead of the front. The other car spun completely around, but neither of us had any injuries other than whiplash.

Apparently what happened was that the car I hit was waiting at the stop sign and got waved forward by the driver in the lane next to me. They decided to pull into the intersection despite the fact that they couldn't see the lane I was in, and thus didn't know that there was a vehicle in it.

Obviously, they shouldn't have pulled into the intersection without knowing that there wasn't a car going into it, but also if they'd refused to go until the cars with the right of way had turned it wouldn't have happened either.

As a cyclist, I've often been waved into an intersection by some well-meaning motorist when there's no way for me to be sure that the intersection is clear. I usually just shake my head and motion for them to go on. Usually they smile and go on, but sometimes they get visibly irritated.
Elon is a self-professed "free-speech absolutist." I don't think it's good for absolutists of any stripe to run our social media companies. There's no quick fix for the problems twitter faces.
How does 25% of your salary "sum up" 18 months pay for 18 months non-compete?
The worst part is whenever bringing up such points others are often quick to dismiss them as wacky "conspiracy theories" or even just unfounded pessimism about the state of things as they are today. Merely bringing up comparisons of certain observations about society today to those of Nazi Germany (or other reprehensible regimes throughout history) risks getting oneself cancelled or targeted in other ways. "How dare you compare the horrors of World War II with the relative ease of things today! It's nowhere near as bad today as it was back then!", cry the detractors. And they may be right about that in some sense, but those who don't learn from history and apply its lessons to the present are doomed to repeat certain mistakes, or at least to make history rhyme, as the saying goes. The chilling effect caused by the stifling of open discussion about how things are today and where they could risk going wrong in the future is how we all end up sleepwalking into the well-known horrors of the past that we'd otherwise all wish to avoid.
The linked source article has more details: https://linknky.com/news/2022/04/14/man-awarded-450k-after-f...

> “At this point he starts employing other coping techniques that he’s worked on for years with his therapist,” Bucher said. “The way he described it is he started hugging himself and asked them to please stop.”

> Bucher said the two employees in the conference room asked Berling to stop, and when he didn’t, they walked out. Once the panic attack had subsided, Bucher said, Berling walked out of the conference room and was asked to leave the building. He was let go a couple of days later.

> “They way [the Gravity Diagnostics employees] say it, they believed he was enraged and possibly about to get violent,” Bucher said.

> Berling has never demonstrated any violence, Bucher said, and someone who is suffering a panic attack becomes almost paralyzed with fear; they don’t often lash out.
The 5G connection can be limited to phone-home functions.
Strange - in most US states you have to yield to pedestrians at all times, even if they’re doing something stupid.
Oh, I see. I got derailed by the usage of terminal to refer to three different things :)
I think that’s because their driving license tests are so easy to pass.

It seems they can’t assume drivers recognize a “no U-turn” sign, even though there’s a clear similarity with other signs (round with a red edge and a diagonal red line means forbidden, black arrows mean driving directions)

So, they write its meaning below it (https://www.alamy.com/beverly-hills-california-usa-8th-septe...).

Weirdly, they do assume their population and tourists can understand written English when passing such signs at speed in a car and even know what a ped xing is.

It may be a broader cultural thing, though. Their state flags also are full of text (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_U.S._states_and_t...)
Good to hear. I opened up a slot during Covid by pulling the plug so I did my part :-). One would think/hope that experienced people have value but one never knows.
If I give Gravity Diagnostics the benefit of the doubt then I’m guessing that the panic attack caused him to react in a “violent outburst” that wouldn’t be appropriate in a professional environment leading to his dismissal.

That doesn’t absolve them of an ADA complaint. A birthday party is not a required work event and this was preventable on their part.
> money-grab

Connotatively negative word.
History is full of groups opposed to technological progress. Perhaps the most famous being the Luddites who are now the namesake of a word that signifies someone who is opposed to technological advancement. How do you differentiate your senses now compared to what they sensed back then? As it turns out, they were incredibly wrong and the amount of suffering has reduced as a direct consequence of technology. Technology has also made us more aware of human suffering but we should be careful to adjust for information available. The truth is that, since WWII, the quality of life has increased tremendously due to technology.
After an award is given in a judgement, the time for a company to reduce the amount is long past, and they can only drag their feet for so long. With the proper filing, the plaintiff can put a lien on the company's bank accounts, and in egregious cases can even walk up with a cop and start taking stuff from the company to satisfy the award (a "sheriff's sale").

You're right that the lawyer will probably get a good chunk of it, though.
This seems to be a clear case of management working against shareholders. Twitter stock has gone nowhere since IPO 10 years ago. 10 years of no dividends and no appreciation in value. Elon is offering a decent premium on the current price and its pretty obvious if he walks away it will return to the old price. Who does a poison pill help and protect? Current management who have attached themselves to a company, this doesn't help the people invested in the company or the people with stock ownership. All these comments are outside if it would be good or bad if Elon owned it, that shouldn't be an investors concern.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll save it for future reference.
As someone slightly on the spectrum, I regularly get accused of being "obtuse" when I'm asking honest questions to make sense of something.

Of course some people really do intentionally be difficult, but OP's question was not near enough info to conclude that, and his additional responses were after he got slammed with downvotes (which usually bother people)
The original reporting is much clearer:

https://linknky.com/news/2022/04/14/man-awarded-450k-after-f...

1. Kevin Berling didn’t want Gravity Diagnostics, his former employer, to throw him a birthday party.

2. “The person who was responsible for the birthday parties who he talked to flat out forgot about his request. She didn’t do it to be mean. She said she would accommodate it and she just forgot.”

3. The party was thrown anyway, and Berling began to have a panic attack. He went to his car and worked through some breathing techniques. He then went back upstairs and finished his workday.

4. The following day Berling was called into a conference room to have a discussion about the party. According to Berling, she started reading him the riot act and accused him of stealing other coworkers’ joy.

5. He started to have another panic attack. At this point he starts employing other coping techniques that he’s worked on for years with his therapist. “The way he described it is he started hugging himself and asked them to please stop.”

6. The two employees in the conference room asked Berling to stop, and when he didn’t, they walked out. Once the panic attack had subsided, Berling walked out of the conference room and was asked to leave the building. He was let go a couple of days later.

On points 5 and 6:

Berling's attorney: "They way [the Gravity Diagnostics employees] say it, they believed he was enraged and possibly about to get violent. They made assumptions that he was dangerous based off of his disability and not off of any evidence that he was violent. If he had made violent gestures Gravity Diagnostics would have had grounds to fire him, but he didn’t do anything threatening."

Gravity Diagnostics COO: "My employees deescalated the situation to get the plaintiff out of the building as quickly as possible while removing his access to the building, alerting me and sending out security reminders to ensure he could not access the building, which is exactly what they were supposed to do."
That's not surprising, as what we think of as "presence" is usually in the ~4 KHz range, where our ears are the most sensitive. What's over 10 KHz may provide a sense of "air" but doesn't convey as much information.
That makes no sense to me. Elon is already the richest man in the world. What would be the need for a few extra billion dollars, at the cost of endless lawsuits?

My intuition is that his plan is genuine. He is buying Twitter’s audience, not Twitter’s product.
If it helps: Amazon, Google etc are using these non-compete agreements almost exclusively against the executives who jump ship. Here's are some cases of AWS→ Google Cloud:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/11/aws-case-against-worker-who-...

https://www.brodyandassociates.com/blog/even-amazon-trouble-...

I personally as an individual contributor (IC) who's not a distinguished engineer would not worry much about Amazon chasing me down to my next job. Not a legal advice obviously.
Harder to imagine a scenario where firing the employee wasn't a 100% asshole move and the jury ruled in his favor though.
If Trump would have been smarter, the democratic institutions would have fallen one by one within the two terms which he would had. The supreme court (is still affected by his choices), the Senate, the house (both still more or less 50:50 split), the military and the executive (which both bled a lot). By now, he would prepare to change the constitution like Putin abd friends did.

As a German I am not in the position to tell this is a fault in the American people, but saying the US institutions and habits right now are strong enough is to survive a Hitler is just wrong.

You need to fight for democracy every day!
He's gotten results where others have provided only talk.
> Pretty sure I specified my post was anecdotal. I really don't care what stats say

Why should we care about your anecdotes here, though? Especially when they're going against the science.

> I understand you have a cause to push but I'm not the guy you should be pushing it at.

You're the one claiming your anecdotes to be the truth here, trying to push your anti-bicyclist view.

> I'm just some middle aged dude trying to get his kids to school safely

Ironically, you and the other drivers are the risk factor for school kids. Why do you even feel the need to drive them to school? To dangerous for them to walk/bike because of other cars is my guess.
Opinions such as offense is not harmful? He's asking why you feel empowered to define someone being upset at some comment as something other than harm. As am I.

Is it not possible that your unilateralism on this issue has galvanized the will of the victims of the conduct you espouse to oppose you via controlling speech?

Seems that what we have now, which is essentially Isiah Berlin's negative liberty would be a good compromise. Negative liberty:

"liberty in the negative sense involves an answer to the question: 'What is the area within which the subject—a person or group of persons—is or should be left to do or be what he is able to do or be, without interference by other persons" --Isaiah Berlin

Basically working to eliminate coercion of individuals as much as possible.

This state would serve everybody except, of course, those who were seeking to coerce people either overtly or covertly, instead of persuade them, which I feel is something different.

Thoughts?
Yes, it means McDonald's did expect it to happen.

> "Normally you don't get 3rd degree burns..."

It was normal.

"Other documents obtained from McDonald's showed that from 1982 to 1992 the company had received more than 700 reports of people burned by McDonald's coffee to varying degrees of severity, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $500,000."
> History has a term

> History records the actions, not the intent

You haven't spent much time with history, have you?
Author includes reference to Nuhfer, related studies can be found here:

https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol9/iss1/art4/
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol10/iss1/art4/
I love the eink technology and have been happy with a reader bought about ten years ago. However, nowadays, I find myself mostly using the ReadEra app[0] on my phone (no affiliation).

It being an app on my phone means that I always have my book with me and can read during any break time in the day. Plus, it deals with pdfs very nicely which turns out to be surprisingly useful when reading other things such as scientific papers and technical books.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.readera
I want the zealots at Twitter who don’t believe in free speech to leave.

Musk is right on this one, I hope he succeeds in taking it over.
They're referring to Correct the Record, which flooded the site with fake accounts to push narratives that supported the US Democatic party.

It was really obvious when something unexpected happened, like that video of Hilary collapsing and having to be pushed into a vehicle during the presidential campaign - for several hours the sockpuppet accounts didn't know what to say so comments from regular users started making it to the top again.

(Quick edit, had the wrong organization in mind before)
They should also lose their licenses for the misinformation of hand-washing before surgical procedures: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639...
Elon's "fans" are legion, and are not driven by logic.
This is one of those issues we can't discuss intelligently on HN because it involves bad faith. Someone will be along to deny that it happened ("Biden's president now, right?") or that there are any anti-democracy forces at work in the US at all for that matter (other than millions of illegals voting), and we'll have to treat that as a good faith argument.
I originally responded to your code, and you're right about it. That's not what I expected or would want to happen.

However, your code doesn't actually address my comment about conversions and arithmetic. Where does this code code fail?

int a[2], b[2];
uintptr_t x = (uintptr_t)a;
uintptr_t y = (uintptr_t)b;
uintptr_t offset = y - x;
int* p = (int*)(x + offset);
printf("b == p: %d\n", b==p);

I didn't try _every_ compiler on Godbolt, but I didn't see it misbehave anywhere I did try.

edit: changed to uintptr_t
he doesn't have to run Twitter. he can leave it to someone whom he trust like Gwynne Shotwell w/SpaceX. it work perfectly for SpaceX.
The argument wasn't that you violated a law, it was that your argument is blunt and lacks nuance.
If anything, those four years showed how poorly the system holds up against bad actors simultaneously in all branches. I'm not sure how you can solve that, though.
I'm quite interested about military technology like this, are there any good books or resources HN would recommend to learn more about anything from engineering to tactics?
Metaverse is what VRML tech was aspiring to back then, but standard dial-up internet, early web browsers, and PCs could not deliver immersive realtime 3D. It was obviously decades ahead of its time. I recall needing to install web browser plugin (I tried a few), then the VRML scene file takes a while to download (dial-up) and then draws an ugly 3D scene in the browser. Then the mouse navigation was horrible. No collision detection of course so you could easily fly through the floor, end up upside down, walk through objects, etc. No sound. No chat. No multi-user. At least it had level of detail optimization so processing wasn't on distant details. Then you'd click on a link in the scene and it would either load a different 3D scene, or jump you back out to a plain old 2D web page in the web browser. And of course you'd be looking at this on a plain old 17-inch CRT screen (no VR headset). I see my Oculus collecting dust and I feel VR tech has improved by a lot, but still, meh.
He's a vindictive egomaniac and serial liar with a sense of fun, a good dose of perspective, and a ton of panache. I might not trust him, but he's great entertainment.
-nuff said. you nailed it.
Considering what Musks reputation is for creating shareholder value, and the meme power he has, at some point existing shareholders could get really pissed at the board if they are sabotaging a really big payoff.

Unless of course there are some back room political games going on, which wouldn’t surprise me.
Thank you for the source - it was surprising to me that the word "violent" was used in the original article but the behavior was not elaborated on in any way.
You should look into what the luddites were actually doing and why. There's definitely a lesson there but not the one you think.

Anyway yes, as I said. Dismiss excuse invalidate. I will truly be happy if I turn out to be wrong about this. Where will you be if you are wrong?
I am not sure how comparing against a value from 5 days ago will help. Twitter stock shot up 27% after Elon Musk disclosed his ownership stake on April 4[1]. Although the price has trended down since then, the stock is still trading roughly 14% higher than what it did on April 1 (The trading day before the announcement).

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/04/twitter-shares-soar-more-tha...
Just my 2c.. GitHub, instead of the statement "All stars and watchers", can improve it by showing "All 54000 stars and 32000 watchers" will be deleted.
Twitter still has fantastic network effects, making it difficult to supplant. If only someone, perhaps Musk, can solve the censorship problem for them.
Terrible things I'd do with that money:

Fund the Sun Ra Arkestra to keep innovating jazz without catering to whiteness.

Fund systems for giving to everyone's needs, hopefully undermining capitalism.

Create a new currency by defacing old currencies with messages of gratitude and revolution.
No.

Yahoo got lucky with the Alibaba stake. That wasn’t what Microsoft was after. Microsoft was desperate to be relevant in Internet consumer services and compete with Google.

Yang and the board believed they could fix Yahoo. None of their predictions came true.

—-

“In an email to Yahoo employees after the board's rejection of the Microsoft offer was made public, Chief Executive Jerry Yang maintained that the company is well-positioned to grow, citing the Internet powerhouse's efforts to improve its standing in online advertising and build an alliance with newspapers.

"We have accomplished a great deal in a very short time," Yang said. "Yahoo is a faster-moving, better-organized, more nimble company well on its way to transforming the experiences of its users, advertisers, publishers and developers."

He said the company aims to "grow visits to key Yahoo starting points and properties by approximately 15% per year over the next several years."

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/yahoo-rejects-bid-micr...
All the links I got talked about the temperature or were random opinions about the case. Someone else in this thread brought up the defective cup design as the other point of culpability. That's the sort of information that I was looking for but couldn't find.
That sucks. My Samsung did not have that issue (although it has other weird issues, such as having a button to turn it on without the remote, but not one to turn it off lol)
The worst part about it is that they get paid to fix what's not broken... it leads to those changes that nobody wants.
Musk has a long history of just saying what he means. He often fails to deliver on things that were too ambitious, or pivots to better ideas in time, but that's entirely different than what you are suggesting.
VCs aren't the risk capital anymore. They're riskier than e.g. the S&P 500. But I'd bet the average distressed-debt hedge fund has more variance than the top tier VC funds.

The venture (versus scaling) risk is taken by angels and seed investors. A majority of their bets totally fail. Not a down round or bad IPO or acquihire. Totally bust. Zero dollars back.

We have multiple bets in space colonization, genomics, fusion and direct neural interfacing in play in America. I'd be cautious before calling the entire space risk averse. If all you're hearing about is crypto, FAANG and grocery delivery, you may want to broaden your professional circle.
I'd be far happier if we were just allowed to ignore the signs and have strict liability for the consequences if we screw up doing so. Being subject to fines and harassment by law enforcement is what I don't like.
I would add Stackoverflow for a very significant amount of queries. In particular in the domain of web development extremely outdated answers are heavily outranking far better answers. It shows how domain/link age is a strong factor in ranking, which is also why w3schools ranks highly.
That's bad, but I can somewhat sympathize with it as these sites are not really purposefully gaming SEO. It's rather Google's poor handling or relevancy and recenctness.

That's an entirely different situation from scammers like pinterest. They clone content without permission and then rank higher than the original. They broadcast content to be open to search engines yet when you visit, it's behind a login.

The behavior of duplicating content will normally tank your ranking. Faking content to not be behind a login where it really is behind a login, may get you fully delisted.
https://quotesjin.com/fake-friends-fake-people-quotes/
https://quotesjin.com/sad-quotes/

But not pinterest, they seem to get a free pass for anything.
Some of these concepts sounds like “management from hell” handbook. Sure it’s great if people want to follow you but that also makes you a massive liability to any company hiring you: people will FOLLOW you. How that is considered something positive is beyond me: one day you hear “yeah I got a new job, here’s my notice + 6 different people are leaving too, lol”. I have seen this happen, it really shook the “old team” when one of the guys took all his work friends and moved to another company.
Anyone have a clue what happens next?
Musk starting his own thing and taking the Muskovites with him would be a huge win for everyone. A bit like Ark Fleet Ship B.
You will never fix it the same way you will never make a diamond out of ruby. It's constitutive of being human.
>Twitter will be flooded with thousands of shareholder lawsuits (for breaching their fiduciary duty)

It's hard to say that Twitter breached their fiduciary duty when both their representing bank (Goldman) and the second largest shareholder (Kingdom Holding Company) both rejected the offer. The lawsuit will likely go nowhere; the sentiment is that the offer is way too low.
Someone needs to change the culture there, get the egotistical censors out of the company.
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