skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You realize that Goldman has a price target of Twitter in the 30’s right. An offer then of $54.20 is nearly double that target.
I think we need more information about what he did that violated the "workplace violence policy" before we can say the retaliation was harsh. If he bumped into somebody on his way to the car, then definitely harsh. If he beat the shit out of a coworker, termination is probably appropriate. Tragic, and really sucks that the supervisor didn't listen, but as HR/management you can't expect to make a person/people (we don't know cause article didn't cover it at all) work with someone who beat the shit out of them, even if the person's supervisor had a warning. Whole situation just sucks.
What's your offer monetarily?

I've read the following things:

- Amazon caps salary, and uses stock options for comp

- vesting is 3-5 years, and Amazon loves forcing people out before you vest, either by natural attrition from their toxic HR practices/stack ranking/ridiculous workloads, or by just forcing you out

On top of that, they will then noncompete you after you leave?

AVOID.
Ehhh. There's reading text, and understanding symbols.

For example, the first time you see a sign in the UK denoting whether you or the oncoming lane has right of way through a narrow spot the meaning may not be totally obvious.
Windows 10 minus the spyware plus added stability and security
I have felt terribly alone at some "disruptive" startups.
What's weird is that at least in a few occasions I proposed things that became a trend later (like using AWS EC2 for computation immediately when it was created, today "cloud" is a buzzword).
I think it's based on where you are when you sign the agreement, not where you are when you leave. When you say the law applies to where you are, this is all in the action you're taking. The promise not to compete is the action in this case.

I am also NAL, but I don't think moving to CA gets you out of non-competes and I've seen evidence of this (one well covered story involved an Amazon exec going to a Bay Area company and getting sued).
For all but some very egregious cases this will not be enforced. AWS lost a bunch of VP-level execs and they went to work at Microsoft... If they didn't use it against them they won't use it against anyone.
> their representing bank (Goldman) [...] rejected the offer.

GS deserves some fire under them for this for sure. Not solely for rejecting it, but due to their stated reasoning for "why".

Their reasoning for rejecting the $54/share acquisition offer was "it is too low of a price target". In the meantime, Goldman's own last reported price target for Twitter is at $30/share.

Unless I misunderstand something about how such things work, which is entirely plausible, this isn't a good look for GS at all.

EDIT: as one of the replies pointed out, I was indeed misunderstanding the situation, and there is no actual discrepancy here. The entity saying "$54 is too low" was GS Bank, while "$30 is the target" statement was from GS Investments. They are separate entities and often disagree with each other.
Two Sizes Fit Most: PostgreSQL and ClickHouse
My beef with this kind of verdicts is that the perpetrators are not punished. The company pays reasonable compensation/damages to the plantiff. The managers who ignored his requests and caused the whole mess go along with their lives without any consequences. There should be some mechanism to enforce responsibility for shitty behaviour.
Old Games Win
It was because they were warned about it multiple times before. The government tends to react poorly if you ignore their warnings.
> Twitter does not need a part-time CEO.

It had one in Jack for a long time.

But more to the point, did Elon ever propose becoming CEO? I don't believe I ever saw anything from him to that effect.
Good point. Legally Car A of course, but people definitely follow B more often than not.
My comparison is driving in the US is mostly stateless and context free. While in Europe, you must know from context what type of road you are on, and also remember the current state you should be from the signs you saw earlier.

I find driving in the US easier because of that. I just which there was roundabout instead of stop signs everywhere.
I think people exaggerate about him way too much in each direction. He's not the smartest man alive, and he isn't a fraud on par with Elizabeth Holmes. He's a businessperson who's clever at times and childish at times, like most people. I have yet to see a politician or company head that is infallible. All that being said I don't think he'd make a great politician-- just because you're a brilliant engineer doesn't mean you're gonna know how to run a country
there's a similar issue with lanes. i grew up in a county with twisty mountain roads, and even in the flat valley areas roads tended to be more like a lane and a half wide rather than two. none of these roads had lanes painted and it was fine. if you saw someone coming and the road was too narrow, you both slowed down and eased past each other, and it's much safe to drive in the middle of the road on the twisty mountains, you just have to be situationally aware of oncoming traffic.

someone from the state saw and freaked out, and lanes were painted. they were too narrow and not safe, but they had lanes!
Indeed. The author of the article came to the opposite conclusion:

> Is bar armour worth it? It depends, but broadly yes, it is cheap, simple, and adds a layer of increased protection against a common and widely proliferated threat that would otherwise be very likely to do significant damage to a vehicle, particularly lighter classes of vehicle like protected patrol and utility vehicles (MRAPs in old money) that are vastly overmatched by the threat.
For me it was dedicated time in nature getting back into my body ... trail running in particular. I'm prone to intellectualize everything, including my emotions. The mind is a wonderful thing and I've found that to depend on it for everything is pretty limiting.

This all started when I had more time to myself again after my kiddo began school 5-6 years ago (I'm 40, now). I found yoga early in this period and began to learn how to feel into my body more than ever. To feel my emotions rather than think about them, and let them pass. Also, I began to listen to and trust my intuition even for the seemingly smallest of decisions.

It seems that getting to know oneself deeply is a daily practice. At least it is for me.

edit: One more thing: journaling. By hand. 3 pages (30-45 minutes non-stop). First thing in the morning, every morning as described in "The Artist's Way." This helped get the sh*t out on paper before bringing it into the world. Whatever happened to be on my mind ... even the mindless drivel.
Not exactly what you were asking for, but Nassim Taleb's "Antifragile" might be of interest to you. It's about how many human made things e.g. machines, the economy, etc. are fragile and get weaker/collapse under stress. In contrast many organic things (e.g. muscles) are antifragile, i.e., they gain from (small) stressors. Definitely an interesting read.
But you can certainly learn to ignore it. After one particularly loud concert, my ears started to ring, and they have never really stopped. I was depressed, disappointed, and angry with myself for not having taken better care of my ears. But you know what? After 6 months to a year, I habituated to it. I notice the ringing on a super quiet morning in the countryside when there aren't any other sounds, but other than that, it doesn't bother me. I can still listen to music; in fact, that helps mask out the ringing.

If you have severe tinnitus, look at getting hearing aids -- they fill back the affected frequencies so your brain doesn't crank up the gain and fill them with the phantom sound. Or look at Tinnitus Retraining Therapy. But most people do habituate to it. What you read online on the tinnitus forums and so forth has selection bias. People post on the forums how terrible things are right after they develop tinnitus, but after they habituate to it, they don't post as much about that.
No. This is wrong. Disregard it, please.

If you’re talking about at least California, that isn’t how those work, and please never stop at one unless it’s occupied. Those of us who read the book are expecting you to proceed through an empty crosswalk because we know the flashing yellow lights are legally advisory and often keep going long after the crosswalk is empty. Some even flash permanently. Every time you stop for an empty, flashing crosswalk, you’re risking a collision that you’ll probably get away with, but that will really be your fault deep down.

This is quite simple: if a pedestrian is threatening to cross or actually crossing, whether the crosswalk is painted, flashing, not flashing because they didn’t push the button, or even merely implied by an unpainted intersection (another overlooked reason to read the book, given my pedestrian experience!), you yield. Otherwise keep moving. It’s that easy.
It's rare, but not new; Steve Jobs was also worshipped as some kind of infallible God-King. It seems to me there is a lot of overlap between their two flocks.
i like how everything is for looks these days
Yes, you cede much more of your personal data using the apps than the browser. I would view myself as deranged were I to install those apps on my phone today. The features are there to entice you you install the app.
“Free speech” can have a few meanings.

There's the 1A one, where the government isn't to restrict your speech, and you can argue about absolutism (fire in a theater, etc.)

And there's the suggestion everyone should get a free platform, and suffer no consequences for whatever they say. In other words, acting like a ten year old (or not even that. Some 10yo are much smarter than that, and realize their acts have consequences)
That's moreso "stoned" than "high" — a calm, vs a stimulant sort of thing, with CBD vs THC.
Solaris is good memories for me too but only nostalgia in 2022. First job out of school was writing device drivers for Solaris.
Around where I live in Massachusetts (and I think where I used to live in Virginia), bikes are permitted to use an entire lane.

Paved shoulders are not travel lanes. They often have debris (nails, glass bottles, etc) which don't get cleared by regular vehicle traffic.
> Building things people want gives credibility.

nope, it generates hype. That's all there is.

Up until very very recently they were losing money on every car they made and only a pandemic killing enough factory workers worldwide to create shortages have they managed to break even. What Tesla made money on is regulatory credits.

A year ago

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36266673/teslas-q1-2021-e...

> The company had an income of $438 million, including a $101 million "positive impact" from the sale of Bitcoin, and $518 million from selling zero-emission regulatory credits to other automakers. That means Tesla continues to lose money making and selling vehicles.

The Boring Tunnel Company barely have built anything and what they did build is a deathtrap.

Hyperloop is completely impossible.

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are involved in about 1,600 close encounters between two spacecraft every week, ~50 % of all such.

Also, Elon Musk already committed a federal felony as a twitter user and it is beyond bizarre he is a) not in jail b) allowed to bid on it.
It was a combination of factors, including the coffee being intentionally way too hot. The coffee was hot enough to give third degree burns in a couple seconds: you don't need to drop that in your lap to get burned.
many of you said its pump and dump.

i'll like to know how. Twitter price chart shown its been on decline. it got a pump from the news that Elon bought 9%. do you believe the stock going up with Twitter's poison pill? unless Elon is looking for a tax write off. is he going to sell for less?
As one who is undergoing mapping of Cochlear Implant, I feel the need to put it out there some things about regrowing cilia hairs in cochlear.

If you had been subjected to a life-threatening high body temperature (106.5+ F, spinal meningitis), your cochlears would make for a poor candidate in benefitting from most form of treatment of cilia hair regrowth.

The problem is the fibrocyte nerve pathways (the ones embedded in the wall of the cochlear spiral) are basically heated to death through bursting/disintegration of its Mylar sheathings of its nerve cells in the cochlear pathway.

Although, not much research is done with regard to the temperature level in various part of the body notably inside the skull region during such an infection, it is arguable that cochlear is located in the hottest zone of the body given the locality of eustachian tube, inner ear and throat region being a harbor of Infectionous activity.

Not an expert here but a pretty serious consumer-based researcher of CI.
Amazon will enforce them at the exec level, but courts have ruled they aren't a total blanket ban on employment elsewhere, just a restriction on what you can do for that new employer.

"This past October, a federal judge placed major limitations on his Moyer’s role while also criticizing Amazon’s non-compete policies. Moyer was not allowed to work on any financial services projects, his area of expertise at AWS, for Google Cloud. He was also barred from contacting any AWS customers and any potential financial services customers. The conditions were to stay in place until the lawsuit was fully resolved, or until his non-compete expired in November 2020."

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-settles-non-compete-law...
Especially because Russia was the only strong ally China had. Now all their allies are weak. And they're surrounded by hostile powers.

Russia military reputation was severely damaged. Not saying they're not dangerous, but certainly not as much as many imagined.

One of the main causes is the massive corruption in their military. China suffers from the same internal issue. No one can say whether the levels of corruption are similar, but it casts a dark shadow over China's military trustworthiness.

NATO, on the other hand, has proved capable of successfully supporting a weak country against a much greater military power without even stepping foot in battle.

Maybe the most important contributions from NATO (by NATO, read 80% the US) was in strategy and tactics. If they just had sent weapons without good strategy and tactics, the outcome would have been different.
One tip that was indeed helpful in learning to ignore it, especially when I was new to tinnitus was: don't keep checking your tinnitus level. Once I stopped checking "Do I hear it now? Is it as loud?" I started minding/noticing it less.
>But what are the odds those nukes even work?

I've been thinking about this possibility for a while:

* Putin fires tactical atomic weapon at some empty plot of Ukrainian land, and announces it as a "demonstration" of Russian might.

* The weapon is a dud.

I'm not sure whether this outcome might not be worse in the long run, in terms of geopolitical stability, than if the weapon performs as expected!
Why It Took So Long for the World to See How Phnom Penh Fell
Right but I was under the impression the takeover bid was being discussed which happened in the last 48 hours, not his owning the stock in general. If the bid fails my guess is the stock will continue to decline. That's not what I would call an effective pump. If he wanted to pump he would just sold right away.
Most citations of D-K are themselves examples of D-K.
CBN, CBG, and terpenes, are all responsible for medical and recreational things that regulators don't have a single clue on, and medical folks are only beginning to.
Can you elaborate on what you think the censorship problem is?
If I understand correctly..

SWC is not a "TypeScript type-checker project", it's a bundler and compiler.

The type checker in the title refers to the author's work porting the TypeScript compiler tsc to Go, which is a different/additional project.

> Vercel is sponsoring and funding the work to port tsc to Go. We’re planning to open-source this work in the future. I’ll also be creating a bridge to use this new version of tsc with SWC.

From the author's blog post "I'm porting tsc to Go" - https://kdy1.dev/posts/2022/1/tsc-go

The author has gone back and forth on whether the work will be open-sourced.

> It will be developed as a propriety software.

Mar 2021 - https://github.com/swc-project/swc/issues/571#issuecomment-8...

> I'm considering withdrawing the plan for open-sourcing it.

Apr 2022 - https://github.com/swc-project/swc/issues/571#issuecomment-1...
Riding on sidewalks is a lot more dangerous than riding in the street.

Cyclists imagine they get killed because somebody comes up behind them and runs them over either out of ignorance, hate or both.

That really happens in Georgia, Florida and places like that but in civilized places cyclists really get killed at intersections and when they transition from being invisible to being visible.

Bike paths were built in San Luis Obispo, CA and got a reputation for being astonishingly dangerous because from the viewpoint of cars bicyclists would "come out of nowhere" and they couldn't brake in time to stop them. Oppose that to a bicycle that is operated like a vehicle and is visible and predictable like all the other people.

The first thing many people note about the Netherlands is that they have separated bike lanes, but the most remarkably thing is that all of the intersections are designed with many different transportation modes in mind. Separate paths that connect randomly to the roads are dangerous, but separate paths that form a meaningful composition with the roads are priceless.
I forgot to note that caveat, fair point. But it's implied he returned to work after lunch in his car, and that he was "confronted and criticized" for his reaction to the party, which seems like a light response to significant violence, so I'm leaning towards the less violent end of the spectrum there, on the order of something like a shove on the high end. Without clarification, that's just an assumption, but generally, the burden for proof lies with the employer.

Edit: Actually, the Link NKY article referenced in OP clears this up, and it appears that no evidence or testimony of any violence was ever offered. The first set of opinions are obviously one-sided, but it seems clear from the last paragraph in quotation here that there was no real violence.

> “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.

> “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.

> ...

> With ever-increasing incidents of workplace violence, Brazil said, the verdict sets a dangerous precedent for employers and employees that unless physical violence occurs, workplace violence is acceptable.
> did not originally say "textbook disgruntled," it said "not someone you'd want to have keys to your kingdom," which I assumed to mean they were right to fire him

Edited to clarify. "Not someone you want to have keys to your kingdom" as in temporarily removing access credentials. Not firing.

> Imagine if a company forced a recovering alcoholic to go to a bar and then firing him when he got drunk

This would be ludicrous. Temporarily revoking his access to prod would not be.
>The last thing I want is to spend extra time with my coworkers.

That seem to be a common point that divides the WFH vs office people. For some, it's really wild how much they rely on the office, and the people that are only there because they're getting paid to be, to act as a stand in for friends, family, or fulfillment of general social need (plus, in OP's case, the office lets him get his steps in each day(!) which is a topic he surely strikes up a long, tedious conversation about with his coworkers as they're held captive at their desk).

Most coworkers are merely tolerated socially. Even if I think they're wonderful to work with, and cherish and rely on their contributions, I've got zero desire to spend any time with 99% of them outside of situations where I'm paid to be there.

The people who make blanket statements about how integrated, in-office teams are better than remote teams ("every time") fill me with contempt. Mostly because I know over the long haul their arguments will win and we'll all be back in the office because that's what managers who need to be seen want, and coworkers who need a family want, and CEOs who need an empire want.

Don't trust you're lying eyes! Distributed doesn't work! The last two years were a failure. Open source doesn't exist. Now drive into the office so we can have a meeting where everyone sits in a room and midlessly browses Reddit while someone drones on about something that could have been an email.
Generally that is how it works. Which is how the concept of buffer states came to be.
I have a patch that teaches GDB how to do this here: https://github.com/JuliaComputing/gdb-solib-wine. Unfortunately, I don't really have the time to upstream this, but perhaps it's useful or maybe somebody sees this and wants to take on the upstreaming.
Given the apparent vulnerability of MBTs (main battle tanks) as demonstrated in Ukraine to cheap-ish weapons, is this the end of the road for MBTs?
Where'd you find these?
An intersection that busy should just be a traffic light though. All of these other measures are for managing flow at intersections where natural gaps exist and can be leveraged.
Perhaps but you're talking a year or more of building. Also, while there are plenty of Muskboys on HN, I don't think he has the star power that guarantees success, so it'd have to be something more than just "Twitter without moderation", resulting in a pretty long lead time to alpha v1.

More likely he would just buy a different platform, since many of his companies he hasn't created from the ground up.
I don't think that vibe was unique to drugs or the 60's, perhaps every generation gets that.

For example, I feel the same way about the 90's Internet...

It's hard to explain the optimism a lot of people felt at the time.

It seemed like it could fix the world, what if everyone could just talk to each other? Couldn't we fix the misunderstandings?

We were gonna route around the censorship and cryptography (not crypto...) was going to free us from The Man. State control of "the message" through TV and newspapers was over.

I look at what we got and there it is, human nature staring right back at me.

Anyway, what a sap.
In cities where there are streets - collectors - arterials you can remove almost all stop signs because the streets see little traffic.

But cities like LA have grown so much that even if they had that at one point effectively every street is a parallel collector and so the traffic volumes are too high.

The “rolling stop” is just proof that most intersections could be unsigned, and then use stop and yield to alert to specifically dangerous ones.

If you rarely or never saw a stop sign, one appearing would be an awakening.
I wonder if nazis had any realistic hope of resisting. In russia today there are a handful of people who will take open action against Putin, and pay for it with years in prison. If you aren't willing to sacrifice yourself on that scale, could you have done much in Nazi germany, either?

Maybe it's like being a part of a bad company. It's too big a machine for you to meaningfully change, and the only way to remain on board is to help it along.
Oh I see. I thought maybe you were indicating it was an excuse that would preclude the woman from having a claim in her lawsuit. It was actually the opposite.
JavaScript function composition: What’s the big deal?