skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noncompetes for hourly, non permanent employees are clearly abusive. Based on the experience of California, they don't hurt company performance and competitiveness for highly compensated engineers either. They are just another way to control people.

Washington state just banned them basically for people like sandwich makers but on amazon's advice, they made them supported by law for people who make a certain salary which looked basically to be targeted to software engineers. [1]

Also, amazon has enforced some non-competes on people who aren't vps [2]. So don't work at amazon. Seriously talk about this with amazon, if candidates talk to them about it they will knock it off. I know they rarely try to enforce them but they have so much more power and money they can throw their weight around, in the same way that this article talks about abusing weaker parties like interns.

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/washington-state-legislators-p...
[2] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/business-personal-amazon-web-s....
https://localhost.run/ works (and when you use their tunnel, both http and https work).
In my view this company took what used to be a perfectly capable, useful, and reasonably priced (well kind of high priced) app, and abused the idea of subscriptions to parlay it into a way to pay for their swimming pools and SUVs for life. People deserve to get paid, sure, but we are talking about a small utility app here. They knew they had gotten some lockin and they played it to the hilt, to the detriment of users. All the complexity they have added is optional and arguably worse. The sense of entitlement is breathtaking.
Thanks for the responses. Not sure why my question (/opinion) was downvoted below zero, maybe it's obvious to 1Passwd users, but in any case I appreciate the answers.
If you own a Mac then it comes with Numbers which can open Excel spreadsheets.

Also: `brew cask install microsoft-office`
Occipital uses structured light. Kinect uses time of flight. Completely different sensor technology.
The portion of comment I was replying to was "no start or end" . This is reactive programming.

Having said that, other than Excel and some cute UI things, I've not seen much utility in reactive paradigms. Hence I am bearish on reactive programming. Someone please correct me.
Nov-Dec : wooo. Chennai is flooded. (after 1night heavy rain)

May-June : wooo. Chennai is parched.

just utter callous ruling that state .
Thanks for the info. Is there a place where one might find the data on brand/carrier responsiveness to security updates? I'm thinking e.g. Google publishing a dashboard on this might make it to the radar of the marketing departments of the involved partners.
It just amuses me that such extreme legal arse covering can not be avoided even when you are called privacy.com. But you're right, I can't think of any nefarious purpose to which the history of my consumption could be put...
Researchers studying Toxoplasma gondii figured out why it only breeds in cats
The potential and the perils of driverless cars and disability
Keepass (I use keepassxc) works great across all three platforms I've used it on (Windows, Android, Linux) and the database is less than 100KB so it's easily shared on the free tier of any cloud storage provider.

1Password does have a good UX, but it's not the only option that does.
Not, it's not appropriate to be a bottleneck. With varying success, I try to keep my feelings to myself. My point is that emotional conflict will always be there, we just need to be rational about it. Seeking premature validation in an attempt to avoid that conflict, or harboring resentment if validation never comes, simply shifts the burden.

I try to follow the Hacker Ethos: he who writes the code gets deference. And I encourage people to write the code. I have literally told developers, countless times, that if they disagree with me or someone else to show me the code. Likewise, I've also let it be known many times even though I agreed with them, without the code their job--our job--is to faithfully execute after a decision has been finalized. Faithful execution doesn't necessarily preclude working on the alternative, but does necessarily preclude revisiting past debate absent changed circumstances.

But the key point is that you write the code first; you don't ask for permission first. Useable code is empirical evidence about the strength (or weakness) of an approach. Without empirical evidence why should a subordinate expect any deference? But if the code is there and deference withheld, now you have objective criteria with which to criticize authority. If you have such evidence, focus on that, not the emotional conflict. The emotional conflict is the background to all human affairs; the way to overcome it isn't to complain about emotional failures but to model (as a manager, as a subordinate, as an adult) a focus on the objective.

Maybe this was a horrible parenting idea (but if you can't experiment, what fun is parenting?), but I tried to teach my son when he was about 2 or 3 that it was okay to sigh, loudly, when he was asked to do something he didn't want to do as a way to help him reconcile his feelings with a rational decision to do as he's told. And for my part as a parent and empathetic human, as long as he obeyed I shouldn't take offense at the sigh, although the original idea was that over time he would learn to sigh silently out of respect--where respect implies a lack of lingering resentment--and ideally not need to sigh at all. (I hope that's what he's doing because he doesn't sigh so much anymore, though maybe he just learned other coping mechanisms.)

Point being, what does it matter if a manager sighs and rolls their eyes and maybe even backstabs a little so as long as they're reasonable in accepting or rejecting a presented (not proposed) solution? More mature managers wouldn't do that, but I've yet to meet the mythical fully matured adult, let alone manager. In Catholic theology that happens, if at all, after death in purgatory; saints are those who by definition managed to attain that maturity before death. I don't think we can expect anybody to be saintly; the reasonable expectation is that someone--everyone--will reliably fall short almost every time.
That's basically a copy/paste of https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/09/event-camera-slow-motion... but without the github link https://github.com/uzh-rpg/rpg_e2vid
> Presumably Excel has to load everything into memory at once since it's immediately viewable, right?

Depends on the file format. An XLS or XLSB file can contain special markers for where each logical row starts, so it can randomly access rows; Both also can persist "calculation chains, which are a simplified dependency graph. The binary formats also store formulae in a parsed representation allowing easy scans to see what cells have to be inspected if a file needs to be recalculated.
I’ve never used it, but the desktop app is Electron
The other thing people don't realize about Excel is that it has a compressed, in-memory, columnstore analytics database built into it. It was called Power Pivot then Power Query, not sure if it changed names again, but it's actually a SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular Model, the same thing that's in Power BI as well. It's going to perform much better than a row-oriented RDBMS at aggregating columns because that's all it was designed to do.
I don’t work there but have heard from people who used to be there... that team is full of program managers who call themselves designers and live in delusion that Steve Jobs have possessed them. This is why you see funcky UX which pretends to be minimal, different and at the same time horrible to use. To complement these deluded people, there are highly paid architects (“partner” levels) who can’t code but make stupid decisions on how someone should code. Top brass there are usual managers/VPs who can’t code, can’t design and rarely depends on their own products. This is how bad software is made. Teams is perfect antithesis of old Microsoft which used to be full of brilliant wiz kids that can pull miracles and where PMs were kept to minimum and instructed to stay out of their way.
It's unfortunately not available in the Mac client, but Excel also has an amazingly powerful and useful tool called PowerPivot/Get & Transform[1].

You can connect to external data sources such as CSV files, Excel files, any database with an ODBC connector, APIs, all kinds of neat things. Ingest that data into your Excel file, create an enforce constraints and relationships within your data model, gives you incredibly robust data munging and analysis functionality[2], and then expose all of that as a PivotTable. And the functionality itself bypasses the limitations of Excel such as max data size or computationally inefficient formula implementations, as it uses a separate data storage and computational engine that's a highly compressed columnar data store.

The PowerPivot work is also mostly transferable to PowerBI and Analysis Services. Taken together, you've got all the tools to apply progressive enhancements for end users. Let them create their Excel-based stuff. When it starts to become more mission critical, non-performant, or error-prone, provide them with support to clean it up in the ways that video from Joel Spolsky mentions. When it hits growing pains from that, refactor it further to leverage the built-in data modeling capabilities to enforce some integrity, automation, and potential data volume scaling. And when you hit growing pains with that, or the underly process/usage finally matures to a state of stability, or you need to address security/access/audit-ability concerns, transfer that data model and everything to either PowerBI or an Analysis Server deployment and migrate the management to IT.

I don't see it in practice very often, but it's an incredibly effective and frictionless way to both enable your business users to innovate their work processes via the tools they know, while also providing a non-disruptive way to mitigate your business becoming reliant on apocryphal spreadsheets being passed around to support critical business functions. And by design alleviates many of the causes of "automation" projects failing.

[1] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/get-transform-and-p...

[2] It doesn't rely on the same functions exposed for Excel formulas, but rather a language called M for ETL-like needs and DAX for calculations. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/how-power-query-and...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Pivot#Product_history_an...
Could you list some examples? I often see this happen with people mischaracterizing the Dunning-Kruger effect around the watercooler but I’m having trouble coming up with any other cases.
Notice birth rate in India is already close to 2 kids per woman, so not far from "rich countries" averages.
who on earth retweets an ad, though?
Toyota Is Testing a New Solar-Powered Prius
We didn't really forget. We just stopped wanting them.

Grand buildings are beautiful, but they're also much more expensive to build, and to climate control, and they take up a lot more real estate that could be housing for people.

Bill Gates or Elon Musk could afford to build buildings like that. Or they could use their resources to fight malaria and climate change and get humans into space. And as between them, they're probably making the better choice.
But still this doesn't stop people from giving it Red Fortera Review a second thought. Although claims about penile enlargement have been widely debunked by medical authorities, you would wonder: Why in the world is this industry still thriving? This industry is said to be a multi-billion dollar industry where millions of men secretly and willingly spend their money for.

The easy answer is that men have an insatiable drive to be always bigger and better in terms of physical qualities. Well this is not a negative thing per se. Imagine all men trying to be fit and healthy just because of competition. But the negative thing about this is that it drives men to senselessly channel their energy on something that is impossible to change.

Yes, it is utterly impossible to enlarge your member, let alone influence its growth. The penis grows along with your age, and it takes a fair amount of time to do it. The formative years of your penis lasts all throughout puberty - from when you are twelve or thirteen years old to when you reach your mid twenties.

http://wedidreviewforyou.com/red-fortera-review/
You're reading into something that isn't there. The best and most equitable way to improve quality of life is to ensure a clean environment. Pollution is a great leveler, especially air pollution, as rich and poor have to breathe it alike if they wish to go outside.
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Access and FileMaker made sense before the advent of open source, specifically Rails. Django, Postgresql, and MySQL. Both products make little sense now.
Only smug i could tell was in regards to their free app offering, and considering it costs money and resources to maintain those free services their viewpoint is understandable. The feature was removed, they thank them for the feedback for being upset that the feature was removed.
That's all very well and good, but can I make a plea for organisations to stop using spreadsheets to produce tabled documents.

This seems to be endemic for information security surveys and would be fine for questionnaires with
preset answers, but when a question starts "Describe..." and wants a full description of your software development cycle from an InfoSec perspective, it's painful edit-wise - even if you can copy/paste an answer from a different spreadsheet completed earlier.
Kafka and Cassandra deployment for Real-Time anomaly detection:19B events/day
I agree, the subscription pestering is annoying. They do still offer a standalone version though. I just upgraded from an ancient Windows version (4 or 5) to 1Password 7 for $49. They really avoid mentioning that the standalone exists, but just install 7 and there is a purchase option.
Totally. I know about it. The problem is that approximately nobody using excel does. (Yes, finance, data processing, analysts etc. do. Compared to the numbers with excel installed - still ~nobody.)
As soon as you pick up the handset, I manually simulate the wake word and Alexa starts listening as if you’d just said it.

That's a nice touch. Also kudos to the privacy benefits keeping her deaf until you pick up the receiver.
All the more reason to invest, industrialize the economy?
This is what the grinders tell themselves. They still get beaten regularly (not all the time) by those with superior native talent. Those people don't focus as you suggest, and they still win. The NFL MVP last year could certainly have been an MLB MVP, had he chosen to go that way. When he quit college baseball, he was told by pro baseball players (e.g. A-Rod) that he was "wasting his baseball talent". Patrick Mahomes was born with a lot of native talent, so his time spent playing baseball didn't hurt him...

It's fine to play sports, but only so long as it's fun. If it ain't fun, you don't have enough native talent for it, and you're wasting your time.

(This isn't the case for other competitions that don't attract so many competitors. In those cases, sure, grind if you want.)
Clearly the solution is no taxes and all the things the government does will just automatically exist out of thin air.
"Chinese manufacturing want to migrate to ASEAN"

curious, what do you mean by that?

"China will spin up African manufacturing"

you think that will work? also, my limited understanding is that china is after africa's natural resources, infrastructure etc, not people.
Striving for Simplicity in Off-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning
Do you mean you don't want it to handle 1k concurrent requests (you want some to be rejected or queued instead?) or do you mean that the concurrent execution causes some other problem?

(honest question, not snark)
I don't think it is a penalty, you arent asked to pay anything. From how I read that, if you are accepted into the main program, then you are not considered anymore for the 15k grant and are out of the running for that - it just becomes irrelevant. It's not that you get 15k, then get in, then get the 15k taken away from you. You won't even be considered for the grant.
Could not agree more. Experience is hugely valuable. Unfortunately, the way a lot of smaller less-funded companies like ours work is that we take the "brilliant ideas" from someone else (often university research but also sometimes insights gleaned through in-house interview process) and implement them for our customers. The vast bulk of our contribution is what you might call "scut work" (often the kind of thing that gets farmed out to grad students and post-docs on the academia side when they want to build a working prototype) and faster rather than smarter is what enables us to compete most effectively with the rest of our market. I wish it weren't this way. I'd still like to be doing technical work myself, in a more carefree and supportive environment, with all the protections that union members in other trades (like law enforcement and primary education) appear to enjoy. But it seems that the technology sector the world over is moving more and more in the direction of "at will" employment where everyone (except when it comes to affirmative action for certain protected classes) has to fight for their own survival until they get too old to put up much of a fight anymore. "Capitalism is cannibalism" is what one of my first supervisors told me right before I got laid off in 2002, and from where I sit today, I feel like truer words could not have been spoken.
Maybe aliens invasion.
Yup, love it, keep recommending it to people.
Maintaining

Most of the people around the world spend their usual time in front of screens. May it be computers or televisions; it's still in front of a screen. Spending time in front of these decreases our 20/20 vision because of the radiation it has. Eyesight problems have been around for a long time. But it was just when the screens of today that the vision problem of a person grew bigger and occurred faster. Most people would spend their usual time in front of desktop's or laptops surfing and working on things.

People like the programmers spend at least 1/3 of their day in front of a computer making software for his clients. Eyesight problems with this type of worker aren't that far off. Our eyes have tons of uses. Like now, you're using your eyes already to read this article. Without your sight, it's like stepping onto alien ground. We use our eyes to do some color combination, and we rely on our eyes to know where to move.

Blurry vision is a problem to everyone because he needs to wear glasses to correct it. Without the eyeglasses, it's hard to navigate through your environment. There are a lot of ways to preserve our good eyesight.

For example, when you're under the sun, don't be afraid to wear sunglasses. It's not just a way for a person to look good, it's also a way for us to protect our eyes; hence the word sun and glasses added together. The ultra violet light increases pigmentation in our eyes that create brown cataracts. Foods that have vitamin A in it help us retain our good vision. The vitamin A helps produce a sensitive pigment in the eye that aids us in absorbing light during low light condition. Vitamin A deficiency leads to poor vision. You can find it in vegetables like broccoli apricots and carrots.https://optimusforexreview.com/pmf-advanced-proof-review/
Or that the bystander effect did occur, but that X% of people aren't affected by it, and in a larger group it becomes more likely that one of those X% of people will be around.
Companies only ever tell the truth of course.
One of the professors I used to work with some years ago was involved in stylometry research on human-computer interactions such as keystrokes and mouse input (for example, to determine if a user who had authenticated successfully earlier is not the same person currently typing based on keystroke cadence and pattern analysis - e.g. if someone sat down at an unlocked workstation and started typing, you could detect it and force them to reauthenticate).

It would probably be possible to figure out the types of detection being performed by the poker sites and use adversarial training methods to train a machine learning solution to mimic human input patterns. Or, more pragmatically, have the bot analyse the state of the game and give orders for a human to perform at their own natural pace.
Of course the real problem is the uplifting attitude that is written.

Where really violent crime is happening as now in Western European cities, London, Berlin, etc. people got to know the very real consequences of 'intervening' frequently resulting in seriously harming oneself or even getting killed. There have been instances where the police was not able to help. There are regular occurances of rescue teams being attacked to prevent them rescuing the victims of attacks. The even started a campaign to promote not attacking rescuers.

Also, in a democracy the use of force is supposed to lie with the administration only and of course there should only be very limited room for 'bystanders' 'to self-police to protect their communities and others' unfortunately we know the opposite is true.
I don't know how I never heard about 1Password X. The last time I attempted to switch from macOS to Linux, the lack of 1Pasword was one of the biggest things that made it hard for me.

That said, a browser-based 1Password is really not what I want. I just really don't try web technologies for keeping my passwords safe. If I really was going to use it, this might be the only instance in which I'd actually prefer an Electron version to using it my main browser, just for the additional isolation.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7919850
It's _not_ convenient in many cases, such as if you're using an incognito/private window, or on a friend's computer, school PCs, don't have access to email, etc.

I much prefer the traditional username+password system. You shouldn't be memorising passwords anyway, use a password manager.

Password managers are quicker than clicking on links in emails, and if you're on a stranger's PC that doesn't have the browser extension, you can just look the password up in the phone app and type it in.
> the fact it's too easy to

I'm not sure you fully appreciate why Excel is so successful.
Given Microsoft's stance on supporting "non-native" setups I think we should be expecting ARM Linux driver's if this device catches on.