skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be surprised if their CA employment agreements even have the non-compete in them, and any halfway-competent lawyer will be able to redline that portion as un-enforceable. This is a bedrock rule in CA employment. If it had any enforceability at all, we would know.
Could also mean that group isn't one you can build a successful product around, even if they do exist.
There was a doctor in Nazi Germany whose clinic was vandalized by people who though he was a Jew (he wasn't) so he joined the party out of self preservation. Then, being a good party member, he started treating other more affluent party members at his clinic. As a reward for this, he was eventually gifted a lavish property (formally owned by a Jewish businesses man) but it was a bit of a white elephant. The upkeep was very expensive, he was expected to keep it staffed (maid, butler, groundskeeper, etc.) and being a gift, he couldn't sell it. He was trapped into having to continue doing business with the party in order to pay for it all. I found the story interesting because he wasn't a Nazi at the start, he was just acting out of self preservation and his life spiralled out of control as he got sucked further and further into the party.
Notice it doesn't say AWS, it says Amazon. That covers a lot more than cloud hosting solutions!
Thank you! It does seem incredibly outrageous
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To be clear, the “assault” you are referencing was the hit and run. Cops attributed to unsafe speed. Has absolutely nothing to do with the cooperation we’re talking about here.

Anyhow there is nuance here indeed. I have lived, biked, walked, and driven a car I own extensively in Oakland for over four years - it really is better than other places, with regard to the cooperation cited upthread! And also, I encountered my first aggressive-toward-bikes driver here the other day. Clearly, norms and safety are all relative. Oakland has room for improvement.

For example, I’ll take Oakland over adjacent Berkeley hands down. Berkeley people (drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, everyone) are bimodal (unpredictable!) between “excessively polite” and “horribly impatient”. And Berkeley cops are busy bodies, they’re pedantic with both drivers and cyclists (while Oakland cops ignore both, but have always been respectful when driving nearby to me walking or on my bike). And Berkeley’s transportation politics are far more dysfunctional than Oakland’s - see how Oakland will put a protected bike lane on San Pablo, but Berkeley refuses [1]. Stuff like this make us Oakland cyclists grateful to live in Oakland.

There’s also the median driving behavior in a geography that matters. Bay Area drivers are pretty terrible all around, and Oakland is as bad as anywhere. But that’s not specific to bikes, it harms everyone. See the Molcajete (good burritos btw) parklet that was destroyed last week [2]. Bad driving in general isn’t a bike issue, it’s an everyone issue.

[1] https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/17/san-pablo-avenue-corridor...

[2] https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Oakland-restaurant-parkl...
Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
I thanked my good star that when I was drafted into the German army (1991, freshly reunified) I got to be a Leopard 1A5 electronicd and weapons systems mechanic (EloWaMech), instead of having to fight in one.

Closer on topic, that tank had an additional no-holes layer of armor in front of the actual armored turret mostly on the two sides, and in the back with much more distance. Here is a model that nevertheless shows it pretty well:

https://www.super-hobby.at/zdjecia/0/7/3/35478_rev03320-4.jp...

If "detonate at a distance" does not work I wonder what the function of that kind of add-on armor was, on the sides specifically?

It should have worked fine against RPG from the back because as you can see it extended quite a bit there, creating external storage space and probably providing ample room that an RPG detonating there would not have done anything to the main unit. But on the sides it was just a few centimeters of space between the additional armor layer and the main armor.

I do remember it was really good steel. We had to replace one of those armor plates, and the new ones had the holes slightly different than the tank we were working on. Getting a new hole drilled into the armor plate proved to be impossible with the drilling tools we had.
use yt-dlp - seems to be more actively maintained, at least for the youtube downloader which runs at full speed for me, while youtube-dl downloads videos at <50kbps.
Let's go all the way back to i.reddit.com
>... for some strange reason...

I mean, he's a shareholder who owns 5.2% of Twitter. Not so "strange".
Don't males have denser bones? Random thought (probably a stupid one), but maybe they are more likely to last?
From what I read the law stems from exactly that, though I don't fully see it either. Most bikers get slammed while they're waiting at intersections by drunk, tired, or impatient drivers. This gets them through more quickly.
The same "not necessarily" would presumably apply to the choice of law clause as well, for example if California decided they didn't want a company attempting to evade their laws with such a clause, which presumably would be at the discretion of a judge who probably isn't too fond of that behavior.
> why are we re-litigating a discussion about mcdonald's coffee on a topic about workplace harassment

The person who asked the question didn't even bring it up.

There is no harm done by answering a bad faith question in good faith. But there is harm done in treating a good faith question as bad faith.

Unless someone is repeatedly spamming a venue, this whole sealioning thing is just people caring too much about who "wins" on the internet.
Just to be clear, because I see this misconception frequently, using Cargo does not require using crates.io. You can set up your own private registry and configure Cargo to use it, if you like. You can even use Cargo entirely offline.
We can at least sense that the potential is there for technology to become something horrible and oppressive - either on its own, or underlying some kind of oppressive government.

We don't have to know the exact form it will take. We should oppose all the forms that tech can become oppressive.
„The government“ played no part in this.
We’ve Heard of Bricking a Hard Drive, But
Like when he was going to take Tesla private?
Or the speed reduced - you can handle a lot of traffic at an unsignaled intersection of both roads are slow enough.

It’s when there’s a huge speed differential and no signaling that it becomes a problem as traffic gets higher.
If you hate something about yourself, maybe it affords some reassurance to see that thing in someone else and then try and destroy them. I wonder if thats what's going on with some of these Russians.
It's far more than that. The OP said "you know exactly what" - and the comment disproved that, by not "knowing exactly what".
Also, how is the comment supposed to refute a negative? A negative that wasn't even a claim to begin with but rather a vague gesture towards some conspiracy (?).
> I know, chances are, I would have most likely ended up as one of those German citizens who would have gradually become part of the Nazi machine

You can think about how you handle current events:

If you live in the US, how did you handle the Trump presidency?

If you live in Russia, how are you handling the current situation?

A few weeks ago a Russian colleague of mine IMed me looking to move out of the country. That night I told my wife how lucky I felt that we didn't need to leave the US when Trump was in power.
And those 4 years are not over yet, the echoes continue.
Executing advanced ALTER TABLE operations in SQLite
My takeaway, which may be flawed, is that the DK effect really hasn’t been debunked it any fundamental way. It’s just that the effect is statistical rather than psychological. High skilled individuals are still more likely to underestimate their skill level while low skilled individuals are still more likely to overestimate theirs. It’s just that everyone is bad at estimating their skill level and high skilled individuals have more room to estimate below their actual, while low skilled individuals have more room to miss above.

Is my reasoning flawed in some way?
Same compiler and optimization level provides different behavior when you ask it to compile as C vs C++. Gross.
You should get a consult with an employment attorney before agreeing to this to understand the specifics. In WA, very likely enforceable if you make over $100k. Also they are unlikely to negotiate for a non executive position.

If you are in CA(or ND or a few others) this would not be an issue at all. Non competes are illegal with few exceptions.

Amazon does have a history of enforcing this against competing employers/former employees, against working at google or microsoft specifically
Its like a wave in the ocean, each water molecule only moves a tiny bit, and contributes a fractional amount of energy to the wave, but in aggregate it can move fast and cause lots of damage
It is certainly more nuanced and complex than reducing it in terms of a persons's propensity towards good and evil. You must look into the psychosocial conditions that made Germany the breeding grounds for Nazism. Why was it appealing to the ordinary Germany citizen? I recommend reading Erich Fromm's book Escape from Freedom as he explores this at depth. Still a relevant book almost 80 years after being written — where might observe similar phenomena today?
Isn't Twitter already a cesspool? Does it matter a hill of beans what one person controls it? Why will this time be different no matter who is CEO?
It is, and Colorado has previous legislation (from ~4y ago?) _permitting_ individual counties to allow the Idaho Stop; as I recall they call it such by name there. Hard to pull in search, since everything's swamped with this new, more comprehensive legislation.
Perhaps by making it clear to the pedestrian that they should confirm the vehicles are stopping before stepping into the road?

I will never trust a vehicle no matter how much the law and signage is in my favor - I will see it stop before I move.
For me, Nim provides much of the developer productiveness of Python, but with higher performance.

I'm a big fan of Nim, and while I love Python, I keep finding more ways to use Nim instead of Python because it means if my proof-of-concept in Nim gets popular, I can avoid making trade-offs in scaling (due to performance).
>As someone slightly on the spectrum, I regularly get accused of being "obtuse" when I'm asking honest questions to make sense of something.

I'm similar, but I've come to recognize that the default of communication is asshole, and the best method to avoid that is to ensure you're meeting others halfway in a conversation.

I imagine most would agree that the parent comment's statement "Why was the McDonald's one not frivolous? Was it just because it was 185 degrees?" comes off as somewhat ignorant in that they could have done a quick Google search or asked less defensively if they genuinely wanted an answer. Their followup comment is even worse.
VCs are more like lemmings.

They're beholden to funders who, while wanting to see ROI, also want to make sure they're not missing the next big thing.

This FOMO competition means VCs are more likely to jump of a cliff once that first VC makes the leap, because in the off ~1% chance it's a big thing, the VC can't afford to miss it.
It’s a US federal holiday. The filing won’t be posted to SEC’s EDGAR system[0] until Monday morning.

However this press release was posted on Twitter’s official Investor Relations feed[1]. So it’s probably fair to treat it as gospel.

[0] - https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1418091&owner=exclude

[1] - https://twitter.com/TwitterIR/status/1515001122603388928?s=2...
"Mental health is hard to study."

is it? what is mental health?

"I'm also very skeptical of people who think widespread use of psychedelics can make society better. Lots of people used LSD in the 60s and 70s and as far as I can tell they didn't usher in a new age of love, peace, and tolerance."

what was the control in this experiment?
I wrote a desktop, text-only personal knowledge organizer that I use and rely on every day, primarily for my own use, hoping to make broadly useful someday but...we'll see. AGPL, scala, postgresql; hoping to move to rust/sqlite in future. Would love if others could find benefit from it, but not currently aware of any. http://onemodel.org
I saw that analogy in Simon Singh's The Code Book and found it very helpful.
> History is full of groups opposed to technological progress.

That is a disingenuous comment or you gravely misunderstand the
issues.

There are almost no groups ever in history "opposed to technological
progress", even the "Luddites" that inevitably will get mention a
dozen times in this thread.

Nobody is opposed to technological progress. The opposition is to
technological tyranny. I do hope you understand the difference between
the two.
Reads like a description of today's social media.
This is common in the financial industry above a certain level; it's called "garden leave".
He had the foresight to ask his employer to make a reasonable accommodations for his disability. Not having a birthday party seems reasonable enough to me.
One division installed them badly as a retrofit and discovered they needed to add some really big rocks as people were just driving straight OVER the roundabout.
A market enables you to trade more easily. And trade enables you to exchange something you value less for something you value more. That's the value gained. If instead of making a series of barter exchanges like a chain of quests in an RPG game, you can simply sell stuff you produce for money, and buy stuff you want for money, you gain time. Of course markets have their pathologies like speculation, and, it seems to me, unfortunately cryptos are mostly speculation.
The phrase "zero tolerance" is often abused as an attempt to abdicate all responsibility for being reasonable, while making it sound like willful blindness is a virtue. It's a common enough usage that the phrase has become a red flag indicating the possible presence of an out of control bureaucracy. And in this case, it certainly appears that the company is trying to use a stupidly simplistic policy to reframe callous behavior as not only good but required.

Or, to put it another way: a "zero tolerance" policy should not be a "shoot first, ask questions never" policy.
I've heard of them in finance in the states, mostly, but I believe they do exist.
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You might be referring to a quote from Paul Stamets. I am not an expert, so here's my anecdotal take on it: when I drink alcohol, my mild tinitus completely fades away. I'm highly suspecting it has something to do with lowering blood pressure. Psylocybine is also known to affect blood pressure, (both rising and lowering). Then again, so is trying to relax. Being a micro doser myself, I have become very sceptical about the psylocybine craze lately. It's being advocated as a panacea, which it's obviously not. I know you are referring to an anecdote, but it's not far off from what I've seen being pushed by these so called 'institutions' without any substantial evidence. The quackery going on is pretty worrysome and will end up damaging the image of psylocybine yet again, imho.
Lately I've been looking for a good book introducing zero-knowledge proofs. Would anyone here have any recommendations?
Killing good (funny) accounts from various anons and even small celebrities, like Nick Mullen.

It stifles discussion (people are worried about getting locked/limited/banned) and makes for a much less interesting scroll.
A question that seems pointless to me unless you believe you have some sort of innate fundamental morality, which history has shown usually isn't the case for people. Your upbringing and circumstances would have been totally different, and therefore your mindset unpredictable.

Your greatest chance of being anti-Nazi, for instance, would have been just to be a card-carrying Communist.
Careful with the shopping mall analogy. Someone will inevitably bring up Pruneyard[0] and derail things. I think "a bar" is probably the best analogy out there. There might only be one in town. It's open to the (adult) public. People discuss issues. The barkeep can 86 you if he doesn't like your behavior, or shoes, or politics, and your rights will not have been violated.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...
That's hilarious, I had no idea his email was public. I have to wonder whether the response was written by an assistant, though.
Wow that's a very bad law.

I wonder if changing the constitution will cost him less than buying Twitter.
Twitter adopts poison pill defense to block Elon Musk takeover
Re: the "tailwind is the new Bootstrap" bit - half agree.

tailwind-typography is highly opinionated and "automatically applied", unlike Tailwind itself. I don't think that Tailwind will be quite as immediately visible outside of blogs....unless TailwindUI really takes off.

Unless you're really sensitive to colors, then you might notice the Tailwind gray
If it was a sufficiently violent response, I assume the jury would have taken that into consideration.
Or maybe the elections really were illegitimate, and you'd never know because you've never looked at sources that weren't on the same side as the party allegedly rigging the elections?
Yeah, it's an extremely fragile system and it only takes a few dozen people out of 350 million to end democracy in this country.

- You only need a few dozen state reps in a few swing states to override the popular vote and choose their own electors.

- 51 senators to reject the election results.

- A rigged Supreme Court that could choose a case from a lower court related to elections and rule whatever they want.

We think we have a robust and stable democracy, but we're already halfway there in most of these events.
That doesn't seem like it would matter in the Linux kernel, since they don't have a kernel debugger, for better or worse.
That is fair.

However I don’t think that applies here. if the board truly believed it, they would have sold the “pure Yahoo” piece to Microsoft for far more than $4.5B and spun out the Alibaba stake. They didn’t and ended up losing billions in shareholder value.
If this article were right, Google X would have transformed our daily lives in so many ways by now
I figure at least ask the birthday person the day before.
Superfluous is roughly synonymous with 'unnecessary' and that seems to be the confusion here.

Extra males are unnecessary. They exist, but could easily not exist and that wouldn't present major issues for the species
I'll give you reddit is rude about this but IMO on HN questioning is perfectly reasonable. In this case, though, I imagine most would agree the parent comment came off as needlessly arrogant and defensive, especially since they could easily Google the answer.
Of course, no one is arguing that all sides are equally bad or that when one side says that that the other side is evil they are always wrong… the problem is that it is hard to know if you are being tricked or told the truth.
I also don't like anonymity, but some people might need to remain anonymous for safety reasons. Those living under repressive political regimes, for example. They'd need anonymity to get their message across.

There's no way for social platforms to tell apart which anonymous users are "good" or "bad"...

KYC wouldn't help against state actors, which are the offenders with potential to cause most damage. They're the issuers of their national IDs in the first place, it's useless to verify their ID.
Not a lawyer, but I have seen this exact thing in the past and discussed it with our lawyer. He advised to say that the scope was overly broad, point out as you have that AMZN does absolutely everything, suggest that you either see what they say in response, or you suggest you would be happy to agree to a reasonable narrowly scoped provision (e.g. not to work on products directly competitive to the products you worked on at AMZN).

I'm not sure making this about confidential information is helpful -- there are already other provisions in the contract, I'm sure, relating to that.

In general yes all contracts are up for renegotiation and in house lawyers fully expect this kind of push back. If they rescind the offer then they're a.holes and you shouldn't work for them anyway.

It seems to be a concept in law that you can't enforce overly broad and unreasonable provisions like this so they are being a bit cheeky slipping it in anyway. Again there's a legal term I forget for this but it means "something only a fool would agree to".
Since it’s a trial, I would not recommend deaf/hard-of-hearing who had spinal meningitis of this trial … yet.
I read that, that’s why I have the question. What’s the reason for the second panic attack? Confronted and criticized?
Not to mention the backweighted RSU vesting schedules. AWS comp is designed around recovering comp back from employees that put in, say, 2 years and decide AWS isn't the place for them. Not how I run a business, but to each his or her own.
IANAL as well, so all I can do is make a semi-educated guess at how the legal system would treat this. My only "qualification" is I raise guide dog for the blind puppies, so I see ADA stuff often.

I'd guess that that forgetting that a request was made does not mean a request wasn't made, and doesn't remove the employer's requirement to comply with the ADA. It's also unclear to me that the "informal" part of "informal request" means anything here - a request is a request, and it was made to the person in charge of birthday parties.

Regardless of if she threw the party to be mean or not (given the outcome, I don't think that's relevant) - the root problem may have come down to the company's reaction to his panic attack. They fired him for his disability. That's a clear violation of the ADA.
For agreements entered into after January 1, 2017, California Labor Code Section 925 clarifies that employers may not require employees––who primarily work and reside in California––to agree to forum-selection and choice-of-law clauses that select non-California forums and/or laws, unless such employee is “individually represented by legal counsel in negotiating the terms of an agreement.”
The Tomatis Method is a little pseudoscience-y for my tastes -- you have to buy the tapes / app / etc. directly from the Tomatis folks, and I've never seen any good studies from a non-conflicted third party that support its efficacy.
Sounds like Severence
The idea is that if the bicyclist doesn't see any cars, they can go. If a bicyclist is not able to see a car irrespective of the driver's condition, they probably should not be on the roadway.
I have some experience in this situation. About 20 years ago, I transitioned from employee to consultant. I do IT projects like fractional or temporary CTO in smaller organizations.

I do projects that last from 6 to 18 months, and in each one I learn about a new business, and often learn about a new technology. it keeps things fresh and interesting.

I can do this because my skill set is pretty broad and I have spent time building and maintaining a big network over my career - not necessarily attributes that can be acquired quickly.

I guess the only actionable advice is to consider working out side FAANG, and be open to consulting vs. employee. There's plenty of reward and plenty of interesting work out here.
Effective is stopping the cars at points but not the people - Queen Anne in Seattle has many streets that become stairs at points because it’s too steep.

You can also have portions of the road that block cars but allow transit as necessary.

Cars should be discouraged and forced to go the long way around as it doesn’t harm them much, and gives an advantage to walking.
I think a lot of it is genetic, the poor guy should have picked better genes.
Where I live (Arkansas) stop signs are being replaced by roundabouts.

Seems sensible to me.