skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Kindle Oasis. I _mostly_ like it. The yellow light feature that they added is amazing, and I like the page turn buttons.

My biggest complaints are: (1) the battery life is terrible, compared to my previous Kindle - recently I've been reading a lot but I have to charge it every couple days rather than like once a week, and it's absolutely mandatory to keep it in airplane mode. (2) the metal casing is an extremely questionable product design choice, it gets VERY cold in the winter, though I suppose if I bought a case to go with it this would be less of a problem (I don't want a case, the point is to have a lightweight device). Would much prefer a plastic chassis. (3) This one is a bit more esoteric, but: while you can switch the buttons between page forward & back, you cannot map them BOTH to forward, so if you like to frequently reposition how you hold the device, too bad, it's very inconvenient to remap the buttons as you move your hands. (Since you rarely press page back, I'd rather use the touch screen as designed for page back, and have both buttons be page forward.)
I agree we can’t have this discussion in good faith:

People keep reiterating there was a planned attack on our nation, when the FBI found there was no such thing — and at least one of the 500+ arrested for Jan 6th was released because the police waved him in.

I think we can’t have that discussion in good faith because people refuse to admit they were tricked by Reichstag Fire 2.0 — or even entertain the idea they might have been.

That’s too bad:

I think the only way we prevent the rise of Nazism in the US is to admit the Jan 6th people are political prisoners and you were tricked (like the Germans).
Uh ok, Bing/DDG whatever, that's an odd thing to nitpick. I'm not sure who is accusing whom of what, I just pointed out that the definition YOU found from wherever, has the exact phrase I alluded to above. The phrase I quoted specifically says why this could be seen as cultural appropriation, but you seem to be intent on arguing semantics of words and nitpicking so I'm not really sure what your goal is here.
Since the term “public square” originally referred to a gathering place for a few hundred or few thousand people, I think it can be applied safely to a site with nearly 70 million American users.
A lot of people here on HN are anti free speech.
To provide some additional context to this question, here is an excerpt from Elon Musk’s TED interview yesterday [1].

> I suppose that's certainly possible. I think there's maybe some value also from a technology standpoint, because I found it rewarding to spend all night programming computers, just by myself. I think most people don't enjoy typing strange symbols into a computer by themselves all night. They think that's not fun, but I thought it was. I really liked it. I would just program all night by myself and I found that be quite enjoyable. But I think that is not normal.

[1]: https://www.thestreet.com/markets/elon-musk-ted-talk
There's countless examples. A big one from the 2020 election was banning any organization that tweeted about (at the time candidate) Biden's son Hunter's infamous laptop: https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/how-big-tech-media-and-dems-ki...

Clearly that was bias to suppress negative information about potential corrupt dealings of Joe Biden's extended family and likely him as well.

A more recent cultural example would be banning the satirical website Bablyon Bee for a joke article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2022/03/21/the-babyl...

Because that contrasts with the leaderships own personal beliefs, jokes like that are a bannable offense. But, an equally crass joke about Lindsey Graham being a homosexual because of his accent by Jon Stewart would be perfectly fine: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/243250-why-...
What about opening up putlocker and binging a much wider catalog?
I support Ukraine and oppose Putin - but Putin isn’t a Nazi. His ideology, in its details, is quite different from that of Nazism.

Russian propaganda that “Ukraine is a Nazi state” is stupid, but you have to understand that “Nazism” means something quite different to Russians than to most Westerners. Most Westerners focus on the Nazis’ genocidal Antisemitism; in Russia, the focus is more on the Nazis’ genocidal Russophobia. That different focus makes the propaganda seem not quite as ludicrous as it does in the West, especially when one considers the language policy issue (encouraging the use of Ukrainian language over Russian), which the Russian government paints as Russophobic discrimination.
I think it's far too early to make this claim.
Ever not recycle in front of a German?
Yeah, except that pedestrians exist. By both law and convention in most places, they (we) do have right of way over bikes. Horses are often given precedence over both, where that's relevant. Being on a bike doesn't make you king of all roads, sidewalks, and other paths.
Just anecdotal, but my life observation of DK is often highly intelligent and competent people in a particular field who then generalize that to pontificate and proclaim, directly or indirectly, superior understanding to certified domain experts (e.g., have directly related advanced degree(s), work in the field for decades.)
It thus seems more or as much a psychological effect - in short, people with a personality type of superiority and know-it-all, yet have never done the deep and hard work to gain or demonstrate any competency in said areas.
A common side observation is of course unfounded conspiracy theories, that the derided experts have sinister intentions.
> It's actually hard to organize your time and take care of yourself in the absence of formal structure.

I have strong doubts that you’ve been remote for “20 years”. This is much easier to accomplish working remotely. Outside of tech and Silicon Valley, there are still managers who are keen to see their their employees warming their seats despite the proven effectiveness of the independence of remote work
I guarantee you it is a yield, most people will rolling stop that.

I’d just leave it unsigned entirely since it’s a three way, the incoming traffic has to slow down to make the turn anyway.
>The most far-fetched crate there would be pin-project I think, because a lot of other work would have to be done to make Rust async code work in the kernel.

Pin's usefulness is not limited to async. Any type that contains a pointer relative to itself benefits from being wrapped in it to avoid accidental misuse.
The correct term for this behavior is "nicehole."
Purely anecdotal and worth nothing as evidence, but I remember how hot that damn coffee was. It was insane. We would literally take the lid off and hold it in front of an A/C vent to try and cool it off and it still took 20 mins before you could drink it. It burned the hell out of our hands lol. But, it was good coffee once it cooled down.
There's another article linked which has more of the quote from the attorney: https://linknky.com/news/2022/04/14/man-awarded-450k-after-f...

> “Basically what the argument was is he was fired for having a panic attack,” Bucher said. “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, Bucher said, Gravity Diagnostics would have had grounds to fire him, but he didn’t do anything threatening.
It used to be his semi-personal email many many years ago, part of his "open door policy" for employees, partners and customers. It was transformed into an escalated support inbox many years ago because it go too busy. Even though he isn't at Amazon anymore, the inbox remained open because people keep contacting it for issues that aren't being resolved through the proper channels.

I'll clarify: The "I" pronoun in the reply I got isn't referring to Mr. Bezos. The email is signed by an Amazon employee who I won't name for his privacy.
It sounds like twitter would be paid for by blue checkmarks, rather than by every user, which is a significant difference.
So Twitter changes the rules after a move from Musk?
You can’t get rid of the C-suites’ safety layer. Middle management exists to take the fall when the C-suite makes major mistakes. The sociopaths at the top won’t even consider it.
He had to write a column, and he did! It ends like this:

"Anyway I really truly am on vacation but I assume that by Monday Elon Musk will have somehow acquired Money Stuff. In a sense he already has."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-15/sure-e...
Web Surfing That Feels Instantaneous, Even Though It’s Not
American streets are very wide. You kill parking near the intersection and you can add a small “roundabout” which is basically a diamond in the street preventing straight through.
I think he appeals to the people who want him as a politician for the same reason Trump appealed to his supporters: they're dissatisfied with politics as usual, they want change at almost any cost, and he's a middle finger at the people they dislike. That's not good justification for a gamble with the whole country, but these people see it as time for a Hail Mary. Sometimes I feel that way too; then I put down my phone and take a walk.
This is incredibly enlightening, thank you for this.
U.S. Warns Newly Discovered Malware Could Sabotage Energy Plants
I dunno, if we account for the whole mosaic I think there is a higher probability of younger Cornell undergraduates performing poorly and self-assessing highly. They could very well be thinking, and especially against the backdrop of their high school peers, that they know it all. I think the explanation of "You don't know what you don't know." with a splash of "I'm the top 10% of my public high school class!" moreover I'd operate with the presumption they don't read outside of the curricula and so they're exceedingly unaware of the boundaries of their knowledge within the bounds of all knowledge, and the scope of the surface they cover. It's a wonder that they're as accurate as they are. But I think that has to do with the nature of the test, which as I recall was something like the ACT/SAT where they're effectively only testing to 8th grade standards. What happens if they test people against the whole of human knowledge?
You misunderstand. :) The phrase is a play on words that literally means if “no one” is there you don’t have to stop for them. It’s a contrapositive description of yielding—the point being precisely to counter the common misconception (and ensuing outrage) that such laws do confer higher right-of-way to cyclists.
The poison pill. This is going be super interesting to watch play out. Pretty much eliminates the hostile takeover from being feasible unless they want to bury many more billions to get it done. But Twitter is going to get their butts sued left and right for breaching fiduciary duty to stockholders.
They were angry because factories could produce their crafts more cheaply and then they could not find a job (in their choice of craft) because the factories had reduced the demand for those jobs. So they burned down factories in order to protect their jobs. The same sentiment has been rediscovered every technological shift. Refrigeration, computation, internet, etc. Last time I checked, no one feels bad for all those iceberg harvesters that used to bring ice cubes to millionaires in the Southern US who no longer work. We are too busy enjoying our iced teas I suppose.

> Where will you be if you are wrong?

You do not know my stance on the matter. You presume, because I responded inquiring into how your senses were different, that I was not on your side. But I would most likely be in a little cabin in the mountains. I have quit Meta for the past 6 years, have de-Googled myself (in so much that you cannot really what others do), and generally agree that many technologies are more harmful to society than help. Particularly, what people call surveillance capitalism. That being said, I recognize that it is not the underlying technology that is problematic but the institutions and decision makers. If you read the article, they are recreating the exact widening of the gap between themselves and the people under the guise that they know better (since the have the data, they made it, only they understand the tech, etc.) I would never advocate for the destruction of the internet to prevent these institutions but rather educate and elucidate my peers to narrow this gap. I asked you to help close this gap by telling me what you see and your response was "you're the problem for even asking".
And it's the crux of the whole problem.
Haven't used reddit in about 5 years and my life has improved almost as significantly as a few years prior to that when I deleted facebook. HN is the only place I have social interaction on the internet, even while interacting with people I may adamantly disagree with the tone of comments are generally more respectful, informative and less band-wagony than any social media platform out there. Good for them for fixing their infamously broken search feature, but it isn't remotely enough to entice users back onto their platform.
Yeah, I agree that this will probably bring a lot of cyclists into compliance with the law (and hopefully reduce injury and death as more cyclists take advantage of the newly permitted behavior!)
Why not? I could join the US military and fight alongside a communist, muslim, christian, nazi, etc. that wouldn't mean I was any of those things.
AWS allows you to pay in advance. [1]

A static website hosted on AWS S3 and CloudFront would need to serve a LOT of traffic to generate a $100 bill per year.

But if you pre-pay for the next 50 years, will AWS exist until there?

Will the internet exist?

Would Putin have already f** humanity up before that?

Hard to guarantee...

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/prepa...
Mellow Mushroom had expanded by then to lots of the southeast, including most of the SEC and ACC college towns. I made a joke to a friend who had moved to Denver that he should start a franchise out there because it fit the culture. Turned out someone has already done it, making a little island of Mellow Mushroom in the Rockies.
Elon Musk is not in the OS business.
To be fair, Ark isn't doing so hot. So I wouldn't be concerned much about what Cathie "God wanted me to create an ETF and told me about it as a child" Wood thinks or does, when it comes to financial performance of tech companies.

Here is the yearly performance for every single fund that Ark is running. Keep in mind that some of them have existed for barely a year if that, but the point still stands.

ARKK (ARK Innovation ETF) - 54% down.

ARKW (ARK Next Generation Internet ETF) - 50% down.

ARKG (ARK Genomic Revolution ETF) - 53% down.

ARKQ (ARK Autonomous Tech. & Robotics ETF) - 25% down.

ARKF (ARK Fintech Innovation ETF) - 53% down.

ARKX (ARK Space Exploration & Innovation ETF) - 18% down.

I am not trying to attribute such performance exclusively to poor decisions, not at all. There is definitely a good amount of unforeseen circumstances that drove ARK ETFs down. But it is difficult to consider ARK's actions as a good source of predictions for tech companies they get involved with, given that 4 out of 6 of their funds are over 50% down in a year, and the rest are still down by a significant amount.
> You always have the right of way in the U.S. unless there is a stop sign or a yield sign.

Incorrect. There are explicit right of way rules for completely unsigned intersections. Yes, they do exist. My neighborhood hasn’t been fully polluted with stop signs yet, so about half our intersections are unsigned. The last crash in the neighborhood that I am aware of was about 10 years ago and was wholly unrelated to intersection control.
You have defined yourself and your group as a distinctly small and specialized subset of humans. Largely one that does not represent humans en masse
He is into crypto.
I'm not sure I see the virtue in ending an article with a declaration of wanting to commit untold damage to the environment for the sake of personal scientific experimentation
Censoring important news stories during an election and then a year later just being like, oops, ya that was real.
There's not enough detail or background here to make confident armchair readings about anything.

When someone asks for something you should respect their wishes, and this company chose to ignore that and follow the protocol despite being asked not to. From that alone I know that this company is not somewhere good to work. Putting following the rules when you don't need to ahead of people's welfare is a huge red flag.
So this affected you personally? You were banned from twitter?
Former Amazonian. I didn't renegotiate the non-competes and I wouldn't stress much about this.

To my knowledge, this is one of those overly broad statements they put into the contract because it's advantageous to them and to reserve the right to sue the "VP of something" who took the knowledge and ran away. They won't act on it for your regular employees because it costs them money to do so and developers _routinely_ jump ship, though they want you to know that they technically have the power to because you signed that contract.

Like others said, there are other problems with Amazon you might want to focus on. This one may not be worth fighting over, but you can use it as part of a response with multiple requests, to let them say no to something and accept your other requests.
Twitter board adopts poison pill to block Elon Musk takeover bid
It's always fascinating how differently people read the same text.
I was just here browsing comments about the python2 drop after noticing the headline of the changelog:

> BREAKING CHANGES

> Support for Python 2 is dropped. For Python 3, the minimum supported version is 3.6. Legacy :pythonx commands are still available, and always uses the python 3 provider.
Is that a major difference? to who? us? makes absolutely no difference to the victims
I think there was a communication issue. My post could have been worded better. I was specifically interested in the culpability portion. To my knowledge at that time it was simply about the temperature of the coffee. People were bringing up the injury portion. I wasn't questioning that part.

Someone else on here brought up that the design of the cup was defective. That was the type of information I was looking for. Even some Google searching was not bringing up that for me, probably because like this thread, most people are focused on just the injury and the temperature. The cup issue really added to my understanding of the case, and answered my question about why it was not a frivolous case.
There's a Ruby ORM called Sequel [0] (Github [1]) which provides a cli [2] to do just that across different databases.

Example from the docs -

sequel -C mysql://host1/database postgres://host2/database2

or for Postgres > SQLite

sequel -C postgres://host2/database2 sqlite://database.sqlite

and vice-versa

sequel -C sqlite://database.sqlite postgres://host2/database2

[0]: https://sequel.jeremyevans.net

[1]: https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel

[2]: https://sequel.jeremyevans.net/rdoc/files/doc/bin_sequel_rdo...
>Maybe this is all more difficult than I think.

I think you basically get it. It all comes down to property rights vs public good. Take the extreme case of someone with a vacant lot in downtown Manhattan.

On one hand, the development could help the city and improve general prosperity. On the other hand, someone owns it and is free to use it (or not) as they see fit.

My understanding is that the current state of eminent domain is that public good is necessary, but not sufficient to justify the forced sale of the land. The city can not take it because someone else could develop it for the public good. The city could take it in very narrow cases, like if they wanted to put in a metro station and there were no viable alternatives.

Whether this is a feature or a bug is really a matter of perspective. Is the goal of the government and law to optimize for the greater good, or protect individuals against the greater good as long as they aren't harming anyone (and opportunity costs don't count!). I tend to land on the latter side, but get that others don't feel the same way.
That is part of why the MUTCD requires that the hexagonal shape of the stop sign not be obscured from either side. That way, you have a clear visual reference if there is an hexagonal sign in the opposing directions.
Same as if you have above 500 karma here and someone criticised Microsoft legitimately after Nadella arrived on the scene…

I regularly throw accounts out in disgust at the political voting.
This isn't a meaningful criticism because -- well, watch what people do, not what they say. But it isn't even coherent because you're working with an out of date list: https://amazon.jobs/en/internal/principles
I always clarify scope on non-competes. Even if you can get an email back from an HR person clarifying scope, that should be sufficient. They will take it to legal and legal will come back with what they can do. For example, in the last non-compete I signed, it was phrased as something like "Company's business". I clarified that "company's business is X", giving X in my own words.
This understanding of ourselves as being as flawed as everyone else is so important, I think.

One of my favorite sayings (even though I am not religious at all) is, “therefore but by the grace of god go I.” It is about realizing that so much of our behavior is dictated by circumstances. We don’t like to think of it that way, but it is true.

One of my favorite essays of all time is called “A muscular empathy” (https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/a-muscu...). It is about using this idea, and thinking about why we would behave the same way as all these people who we would like to believe we would have been better than if we were in their shoes. My favorite quote from it:

> It is comforting to believe that we, through our sheer will, could transcend these bindings -- to believe that if we were slaves, our indomitable courage would have made us Frederick Douglass, or if we were slave masters, our keen morality would have made us Bobby Carter. We flatter ourselves, not out of malice, but out of instinct.

> Still, we are, in the main, ordinary people living in plush times. We are smart enough to get by, responsible enough to raise a couple of kids, thrifty to sock away for a vacation, and industrious enough to keep the lights on. We like our cars. We love a good cheeseburger. We'd die without air-conditioning. In the great mass of humanity that's ever lived, we are distinguished only by our creature comforts, and we are, on the whole, mediocre.

> That mediocrity is oft-exemplified by the claim that though we are unremarkable in this easy world, something about enslavement, degradation and poverty would make us exemplary. We can barely throw a left hook--but surely we would have beaten Mike Tyson.
> I mean, half of the world's chips (and most of the best ones) are
made on one tiny island - God forbid something happens to it.

Resilience is one of the big issues I work with. It's one of the
topics that's not about tyranny or malice, but is in some ways more
frightening. It's because we don't see it as "other inflicted" that it
stays beneath the radar somewhat.
My current org (series A startup, headcount around 20) is only hiring senior/staff level positions and it's very hard to find people. We have a pretty diverse age range and only two of the team are under 30 with several in their 50s/60s.

So we're out here, and we have a bias for senior talent. It's pretty easy to find junior people, but the good series A/B startups that are trying to build out their org don't really want more junior people and need folks like you.