skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because as I keep saying, this kind of issue almost never goes to court in the UK because they know that a company needs to demonstrate a severe financial loss to override the employee's right to work for a company of their choosing. So the result is that in practice, we don't have non-compete agreements, and in almost every case where we do, they're not enforced.

The examples that were mentioned elsewhere in the thread, of restaurants in the US using non-competes to prevent their staff leaving to work for a competitor simply do not exist in the UK, because if a company did try to pursue such a case, it would be laughed out of court.

In the very few cases where somebody does steal trade secrets, then they can expect to get taken to court. This very rarely happens, and with a presumption of innocence, requires significant proof that this has occurred. It simply isn't something that a normal person, conducting themselves professionally needs to worry about.

> Hopefully you can see yourself how non-competes make it possible for people to switch jobs and simplify life for everyone.

Quite the opposite. How does a non-compete help a waitress paid $5/h switch jobs when the restaurant across the road pays $6/h, but she can't work there without surviving several months without pay? How does a non-compete help an accountant switch jobs? How does a non-compete help a programmer switch jobs? Simply, it doesn't. Whatever the profession, a non-compete does not help the employee at all. It only helps the employer keep wages lower, by restricting their employees ability to move to a better paid job.

The only case where non-competes are genuinely useful to a company, other than for restricting employees seeking better paid jobs elsewhere, is when an employee has access to sensitive company information and actively uses that information at a new company. A non-compete period would just slow that down, not eliminate it, and there are other legal ways of handling that situation should it occur.
And then we “break up Google” so we have a Google Search company, a Google YouTube company, A Google Chrome company and instead of one company having all of your data to target you, now multiple companies are sharing data between them…

But more to the point, which tech company has a monopoly at all and which one is based on structural issues and not network effects and how do you propose to break them up? Better question is where is the consumer benefit of breaking up any of them and how would you slice them?
It would not collapse, but the inflows to the fund would.

However, it would still likely provide for decades at least. Norway distributes the returns from the fund, not the fund money itself.
The compiler can’t fix your data layout
wow its crazy that different people have different experiences

(as it turns out, writing code for yourself is a different skillset than writing code for a boss!)
I still don't see the cause. Eating is the cause ? How is that surprising ?
gemtext (the native presentation format for gemini capsules) is a markdown-like language which only uses the first three characters of each line to determine the presentation mode for that line. it's designed so that it's trivial to create a renderer, even on retro 8-bit computers (determine presentation mode, set up the font, then just dump the buffer until you hit a newline). it supports paragraphs, headings (3 levels), links (not inline with text, must be on its own line), lists (unordered), blockquotes, and preformatted text. there is zero inline formatting (not even a way to emphasize words in a paragraph).

https://gemini.flounder.online/docs/gemtext.gmi
indeed we are; but CUDA+Jax, which we need, isn't properly supported on pypi
To the extent that the Australian Energy Markets Commission wants to make the price negative for small producers. That is, you will have to pay the electricity companies to take your excess solar power. It probably won't fly politically.

https://theconversation.com/now-they-want-to-charge-househol...
To be fair, a lot of fast food joints decided to jack up the prices in the last 4 years.

That’s not a great way to endear yourself with a customer base
They're the same thing in a way. Most dense n-dimensional matrices are stored as a simple 1d array with some metadata about how to interpret it.
Maybe position someone on shore with a megaphone to read out The Funniest Joke in the World?
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I know plenty of folks who do object to the use of shoot in this way. And, in their company, I do try to avoid it.

Your suggestion suggests you are not discussing in good faith.
There was no tracking ban. Apple gave consumers a choice of being tracked and 90% said “no”
This is close to a point I've been making for a while. I think we could all agree that being White vs. Asian should not matter in a properly-functioning society, it's impossible to imagine the mentally retarded ever being able to lead the same quality of life (job prospects, marriage prospects, social life, etc.) as someone who is relatively intelligent. It seems like a complete impossibility. In other words, whether or not it's considered to be White or Asian could equalize or flip over time, there seems to be no world where one would equally not mind being either "above average intelligence" vs. "mentally retarded."

In other words, you're never going to land on a purely positive term for "mentally retarded" because of the harsh reality of the situation. (it's worth reminding folks that "mentally retarded" previously was the polite euphemism.)
> Eu, definitely a good name

I see what you did there.
SW Wisconsin. 7% grade, 300 foot driveway that is exposed to North winds. We had a (walking) snowblower and I used that for the first winter. It sucked.

With the hill, waiting for a melt isn't possible - there's no way to keep control of a car going down that hill, and at the base of the drive across the narrow road is a line of mature pines. We got very little snow last winter, but what snow we did mostly came in a two week window and it was multiple feet of heavy snow.

Subcompact diesel tractor with a snowpusher (not a plow). Driveway takes no time, and I use the bucket and forklift forks all the time. I have a mower deck but I use a little cub cadet instead as the tractor (especially with liquid in the back tires) is kinda heavy for a "lawn". (I have very little lawn, converted the front 3/4 acre to mostly prairie), but I still have to mow some.

Every situation is different.
Good question, I don't know, but it feels as if their bug bounty service is something that contributes to the level of trust in the apps listed in the play store for which they charge a premium.

Less trust; less money on the line on which to base that trust equates, for me, to a reduced premium for a listing.
When I first started selling on ebay, I wondered why they always seemed to charge buyers a bit more for shipping then what they charged me. Eventually I realized that the difference was their fee and it looked odd but actually worked out fine. Apparently enough other people were confused by this that they stopped doing it. So now it looks right on the surface, but ends up worse for sellers.

Also, one time I sold two items for the exact same price + shipping, and noticed ebay charged slightly different fees. The buyers were in different states and paid different amounts of tax. That's when I realized ebay charged me a fee on the tax. I suppose they're paying the credit card processor a fee on the total amount including tax, so maybe that makes sense, but I wish they were a bit more upfront about it.
Because you used to give a certain % to Google for their service that includes the Security Reward Program. But now that they are shutting it down you get less for the amount you pay for the service.
I think a lot of George Lucas' "genius" just comes down to laziness wrapped in 50 years of nostalgia and mystique. The best parts of Star Wars have nothing to do with him, and the worst parts of it have everything to do with him. The trench run in Star Wars wasn't simply "inspired" by Dam Busters, it was practically lifted scene for scene. Most of the action sequences in Star Wars are the same.

Anyone else would be denounced as a hack and a plagiarist but because George Lucas is a master at tweaking people's member-berries he gets away with calling it "homage."
One of these years the Colorado mountains are going to get a fraction of the snow they normally get and it's going to be a disaster for the entire southwest US. It almost happened in the winter of 2020-21, the snowpack statewide was just 30-40% of average at the end of winter. A heavy, wet, late spring storm dropped a ton of snow in the Colorado mountains in April of 2021 and saved the day, but man if that storm hadn't happened...imagine the 60 odd million people from Colorado to Mexico fighting over just a third of the normal amount of water they have to work with?
Good point. Haven’t thought about it like that.
This is a good example, a large desert solar park made in Pakistan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaid-e-Azam_Solar_Park#Hurdle...

It massively ballooned in price + issues like dust covering the panels + the large amount of water needed to clean them + cross border tariff issues basically made the energy unaffordable

> Bahawalpur is desert terrain, having high dust count, therefore, the efficiency of panels were reduced by 40%. It required 30 people to clean panels with 15 days to restore the panels back to their full capacity, which reduced production of installed 100MW plant to below 18 MW.[26][27]

> Each of the 400,000 installed panels required one litre of water to clean. A 15 days cleaning cycle required 124 million litres of water (enough to sustain 9000 people) while rain in the Cholistan desert is rare and far between.

also politicians start interfering:

> Despite the fact that Balochistan is more suitable for solar power with more barren land and suitable dust count,[32] Government of Punjab convinced the Prime Minister that Punjab is more suitable venue for solar power. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif later accepted that producing 18.5 MW for Rs. 13.5 billion is an expensive deal.[33]
My snowblower is 283lbs with a 10hp engine. It takes about 30-45 minutes to do my 3000sf driveway for a normal snow. Adding the weight and expense of batteries is something I'm not at all interested in.

Not all manufacturers have big batteries for power tools, but the ones that do like the MX fuel that is used to run concrete tools have prices that are >$500.

You can't just recharge the battery overnight like you can in your car if it run out; you need to have the machine running to get out of the house - and filling it up with gas is just a couple minutes charging is going to take much longer.

Even the smaller machine that I had before was 8hp (but had wheels instead of tracks) and weighed 150lbs.
I wouldn't say that statement is wrong, at least for Canada.

MPs, MPPs, MLAs, etc., that belong to a party typically don't deviate from the party line, even if it means going against their own constituents' wishes and interests, especially for prominent issues.

A party typically has a member who acts as what's called the "party whip", and whose role is to ensure the rest of the party's members vote as the party wishes them to, and to punish those who might not.

Voting against one's own party doesn't guarantee that that a representative will be kicked out of caucus, but it certainly has resulted in expulsions in the past (Nunziata, Casey, and Karahalios are cases I can think of off the top of my head).

I think it's reasonable to believe that Canadian politicians represent their party and themselves to a greater degree than they represent their constituents.
The outbound ones are scheduled a minute and a half after the inbound. (For neat integers, should have been twice as often, or 8 minutes between them.)

But the bigger question: What's the difference between "an inbound train" and "an outbound train"? Aren't almost all trains usually both inbound and outbound? First they arrive at a station, then they go on to the next. Or even at a "terminus"-type station; first they arrive at the terminus, then they go back in the other direction. How does he decide whether a train is an inbound or an outbound one, while it is standing still?
In 2005 the drummer for Semisonic wrote the book So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star. In it the band received a record plaque and asked the record company rep if it was their music. The response was no, it was probably some left over Sinatra LP that had been painted.
And yet in other countries when Facebook was forced to give users a choice of pay for the service or accept targeted advertising, people chose to keep their free service.

The ad tier of services like Hulu makes more than the paid tier.
The targeted ad industry grew during the time where data privacy was not being actively discussed in the mainstream, it grew to be a massive cash cow for some of the largest tech corporations to ever exist. After this period we have found the issues with the lack of control on data privacy, we now know much better the side-effects of that, and people want it to be controlled.

Your argument is that because the industry is massive it now shouldn't be controlled even though it can be harmful because it might increase costs, or it might create annoyances.

Try to apply the same argument to other industries which are regulated due to their potential harm to see how flimsy this argument is. Food could be much cheaper if there were few regulations on quality control, cars could be much cheaper if safety devices weren't required.

> Are you ok with a recession in Ad-based ecosystem (merchants, ad brokers, stock market depression, fewer IPOs) that may result due to this?

Totally ok, it will free up brilliant minds working on this to figure out new, and potentially better ways that fit into a more privacy-focused regulatory framework.

> Edit : Expected nothing better than downvotes from massively brainwashed HNers with ZERO independent thinking. The irony isn't lost that they are the 84% ers

Refrain from this bullshit here.
>Or that the elected representatives are elected by the 16% who don't want stronger privacy laws?

This one is closest. Said companies hire lobbyists to always be in the ear of politicians. For example, here are the recent bills that Google has lobbied on. Note that most of them are about privacy.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/bills?c...

They also give large donations to politicians when they're campaigning. Or the opposition if the candidate isn't willing to play ball. This is all completely legal, as long as its disclosed.
Querying AI Trends: OpenAI and Azure Peaked in March, Amazon Peaked in June
People that dualboot are probably also people that run random debloat scripts that disable telemetry. So when such system broke there was no signal it happened.
Pedantry: the theory th' interwebs give me is that the evil weed has also been known as "pot" since the 1920s, and its use, without determiner, is attested in print as far back as 1938, so I doubt that extraneous determiner would be anything but intentional.
It would be entirely unsurprising if most TPMs had a clipper chip[0] like backdoor.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
As someone who very nearly lost a family member due to the state's complete inability to implement and enforce preparedness regulations, and due to ERCOT's herculean effort to do just barely not enough to keep the grid online... respectfully, fuck that argument.

We live in a time where functional electric service is a necessity for life. We also live in a time where extreme weather patterns are getting more frequent and more intense.

The very least Texas could do is implement the equipment and procedures necessary to enable importing power from the national grid in an emergency. The cost to implement interconnects at key locations is infinitesimal compared to the costs incurred when there are systemic outages.

The "we can do it better ourselves" argument only works when you don't repeatedly catastrophically fail at "doing it better."
No, it sounds like he is promoting hearing somebody out and thinking for yourself if they are to be trusted.
This is exactly what happens with one exception, these groups don't have to lobby.

The politicians know full well that many of the highest paid people in their respective districts are employees in tech. This is true across most of the US. No one, and I mean no one, is interested in becoming a new rust belt city. So politicians act to keep the money flowing and the tax coffers full so that they can then dole out projects. The doling out of projects is a necessary, some would even say foundational, basis of whatever corrupt extraction is able to be carried out.
Hi, great questions!

> How does this handle concurrent distribution of work? For example, my team has an upcoming epic which would take 3 weeks if done sequentially by one person. But what if the team has 2 devs, or 4 devs? Does it assume a linear decrease in work with increase in number of devs?

It's for this reason that Easy estimate works best with "Story points". It does not matter how many devs worked on the epic, but looks at the total story pointed completed for the project in the past and predicts the ETA based on the work completion.

* Does it handle task dependencies? For example, there may be a sequential chain of dependencies in my epic that mean it will never be done faster than 2 weeks no matter how many people work on it.

This is a project-management-hell and hard to get it right. Your best bet is to create a "techincal spike" ticket and try and answer all feasibility and dependency questions and manage risk. Then create smallest and realistic tickets from the spike and estimate the work required to be done by story-pointing them. Easy estimate then takes over to continually track the project status and project ETA.

> Does it maintain the roadmap in response to ongoing delays or changes to scope? For example, if a task is delayed by 1 week, does it go through and figure out the new ETA? This may be quite complex as it may be efficient to re-assign devs to different tasks.

As this is story point based, not completing work in a week would result in a drop of the velocity, making the app compute a new ETA. So yes, at all times, the app is computing the best eta based on the project velocity and shows how the project fares given the project due date.

> Does it handle annual leave and varied working weeks? For example, if the end of the project is pushed back into a week where lots of people have annual leave, can it factor this into its estimate?

This again is factored in as the velocity drops during annual leave of a team member / lots of people on annual leave, creating a delay in the project ETA
Sure...but an interesting recent-ish development is that you're not only listening to your body, but to a enormous microbiome that is also signalling you towards its own ends (it's sugar, they always want sugar).

Here's a paper that talks about the pathway: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367209/
I learned C by using gcc directly and Python by using IDLE. Both with single file project. The actual software engineering can take time, but simple projects are very easy for beginner to reason about. Everyone can build a shed, it’s building a house that requires professional expertise.
AI development no longer exponential; it appears growth is now linear - is this a surprise?
A manager who behaves like this character: https://dilbert.fandom.com/wiki/Pointy-Haired_Boss
The "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend" podcast posted video for this segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSjdYkqY5WI
It's a first party, better integrated solution. Makes a difference
Everyone is different that's for sure. I haven't eaten breakfast since I'm a teen and I mostly eat one meal a day for the last 10+ years

Everybody talks shit about fasting but nobody even bat an eye at "you have to eat three times a day, every day, at the same time, everything else is obviously wrong", which is at least as ridiculous
Been doing this since 1999. The only thing novel I see here is the transpilers - but you know… you don’t need that. You can build HTAs with native JavaScript, CSS and HTML - and with a little VBScript mixin, directly work with Windows libs. Back in ‘99 and early 00’s I was delivering “thin-client” control panels & management tools for server farms, sensitive accounting data, among a variety of other things. It was (and likely still is) a great way to provide a web interface as a desktop app for scenarios where exposing the management interface to the open web is undesirable.

Nifty project, but IMHO the world is better off using native JavaScript without all the BS that comes with TypeScript, etc. JavaScript is so powerful and amazing, it’s a bummer to hamstring your app by using TypeScript and classic OO inheritance models that preclude the beauty and dynamics of JavaScript as a functional, prototypal language.
Yeah, it turns out applying updates during boot is bad design. I'm sure plenty of people at MS realise it is, but I guess they don't care enough to fix it.
Complaining about the neighborhood putting cameras on their property means someone cares more about their propaganda system than their neighbors. Most of what you said is valid for door locks.
Inteligov Uses FusionAuth for Custom SSO, Opening Up a New Revenue Stream
Given that fasting is enshrined as a order in many belief systems, it seems like humans needs external motivation to ignore their body's complaints and fast for positive effects.
When one considers the difference in human effort between mowing a lawn with an old-school cylinder-of-blades push mower with no power at all, and of shoveling a driveway of snow as far as a snowblower throws it… it becomes obvious one task requires way, way more energy than the other.
The real real truth is that most consumers are totally content with the current state of things, and spend virtually zero time worrying about online privacy (yes, people exist outside tech bubbles).

If google pushed to a privacy subscription model, where you could pay for google services and have all your privacy protected, people would get mad and tell google to "bring back the free stuff!".

I'm surprised people here don't see this as plainly true. Consumers _love_ the ad-supported internet, as evidenced by the incredible success of ad-supported vs subscription supported services.

What people actually want is "Privacy protection yet the internet stays the same". Which is akin to "$50 minimum wage but society stays the same". Purely naive idealistic thinking.
I use wooden cutting boards for that, works very well.
Non-trans is quite "othering". It implies that being trans is the default

In the same way that we say queer instead of "non-straight"
Open Source community aimed at encouraging and promoting communication
What? I'm Norwegian and very surprised at every assertion here.

Not unlikely? It has never been seriously discussed (e.g. because others would simply increase production to compensate). The fund would collapse? Why?
The site macros (e/client & e/server) let the programmer declare what site an effect must run on. The network is not explicit, only implied. For example, platform calls like (query-database) or (.createTextNode js/document) or (check-password) are inherently sited. Siting is essential complexity (arguably the essence of a distributed system), and consequently we as programmers are hyper-aware of where (at which site) our effects must run, and we require perfect control over their placement.
I have a pretty robust electric chainsaw, but it's not great for hardwoods at all. Of course, I have 5 chainsaws so maybe I'm not the one to take advice from, I might have a problem ;)

For leaf blowers and weed trimmers I agree.
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If I liked call center work, I would have applied to a call center position. That way I wouldn't have to deal with the pesky programming stuff.