skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In more strict states it's 0.3%.

Just to clarify: <=0.3% is the federal cut-off. it’s protected by the agricultural whatever act of 2018 - the plant itself is legal to cultivate, and its CBD oil derivatives are likewise loosely regulated. Above that it’s considered to be illegal cannabis, and -its- CBD oil derivatives are regulated accordingly.
Scanning with your phone is getting easier. At a minimum you can take a pic of each of the pages. Software can clean up the images, sorta. It's not ideal but it's better than nothing.
In principle it should be but in this case the devil was in the details.

Take the Quadratic Expression forms

o Standard Form: ax^2 + bx + c
o Factored Form: a(x – r1)(x – r2)
o Vertex Form: a(x – h)^2 + k

Arkansas could decide that in Algebra I all students must know those three forms. But the book I had was created off of a standard that said that the Factored/Vertex forms weren't needed until Algebra II so it didn't cover all of them.

I would have needed to recognize that shortcoming and figured out a way to cover it so that my students didn't appear to be lacking according to the ever-shifting standards. Not impossible but arbitrarily stupid to redesign the standards every couple of years.
My go-to here is pretty simple: "I assume X didn't work?"

This puts yourself in their shoes, imagines that they tried X and it failed and you're not sure why without having to say all this "not clever enough" stuff.
Lenses.io user & data experience is at a totally new level .. feels like using Slack / but for real time data - and makes hard techs like Kafka & Kubernetes such a pleasure to work with !
I can pretty much agree with you. Especially in state boards, it is just knowing how to solve problems given at end of textbook..
That was a cool read, thanks for the link.
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Was one of the stops on this creator's journey Lag City?

I don't know because I had to sit through > 5 sec loading animation, which just brought up a "Click here" screen that also needed additional loading time.

Fully expect this to be on Awwwards' Site of the Day sooner or later.
Sadly it's less than useful on MacOS (Still not stable, you have to manually turn it on in about:config). You cannot resize it, and it doesn't stay on top.
Would this work with the Boehm Garbage Collector given the "pointer to the middle of the object" trick?
The One-Traffic-Light Town with Some of the Fastest Internet in the U.S.
just fyi opera has had a free built-in vpn for some time. works a peach.
Are they factually wrong or providing a slanted view in this article?
NLP on iOS: Language ID, Translation, and Smart Reply
This isn't that hard to understand. In order to access corporate email systems, you have two choices generally. Either you use a Corporate Owned device or you use a Personal Device but allow Corporate to do what they want to it.

In either situation, the corp has the ability to remotely wipe the device and enforce other policies on said device.

This should be abundantly clear to anyone who works in Tech.
if i like the guarantees that BPF gives the kernel, and want to embed it into my user-space software so that it can execute BPF programs received from other untrusted processes, are there any hints on where to start? the "BPF beginners" material i come across doesn't seem to discuss this use case.
Sure, and it’s also not illegal to sit across the road from your house and take a picture every time you leave or get back.
Contractors are not expected to work after hours. This is a reasonable stance for the company to take.
When you target everyone, you end up targeting no one
No, not quite. Notice what comes after "the right of the people" in the 4th amendment: "...to be secure in there persons", then later: "...and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"

The 4th amendment outlines specific rights afforded to individuals. There is no such verbiage in the 2nd amendment. Instead, all that is referenced is the State.
Yes, people adapt. I'm saying you can't look at someone and determine whether how things are for them are good, just because they look fine. An animal raised in captivity looks fine, but maybe it would be better if it was raised in freedom. Or maybe it wouldn't. The point is you can't tell by looking.
I thought WireGuard was not yet ready for primetime, why is it being used here? I've been wanting to stand up a VPN at work to make my life easier than SSH tunneling but I was waiting for a 1.0 release of WG.
An interactive model-based calculator of cycling power vs. speed
Being in Africa I start at home. I donate to less well off relatives. There are too many so I focus on the elderly. My dad's brothers and sisters who are all above 70 years old. I then pay school fees for one of my cousins. I also do occasionally donate to Wikipedia.
I share your preference for keeping politics out of the office, but:

* In the US, and in Tech, I hardly think trying to organize a union is going to not have worker v. worker politics. "We should organize" involves all kinds of Why's and How's about which there are widely divergent opinions among today's workforce.

* Employers routinely bring politics into the office, for starters by funding Political Action Committees and lobbying for what they perceive to be in "the company's" interest. I actually heard a COO in an all-hands once say "yeah I guess we don't support the Democrats <chuckle>" -- so if your employer is going to make their support of Candidate X part of the work culture, is there any reason other than job security why I'd want to keep my support for Candidate Y under wraps?
Mullvad vpn is very good which Firefox vpn is based on.
I am a Math student and I am curious about the topics in this article.

I am curious as to what all branches of Mathematics is the paper related to? It's a result about polynomials, so Algebra and Analysis?
Thanks for flagging this up!
A textureless shader recreating the first room of Quake
In addition to the compiler there is a verifier that imposes some strict limits on programs. One example is it must prove the program will halt. It would be foolish to say there couldn't be a vector there, but they have done really strong work in protecting against that type of attack.
A JVM Does That? (2016)
I wish paywall/registration bypasses could be the original link by the OP, or at the very least, pinned at the top of the comments.
>Nope. Nuke plant did not provide 85% during those 50 years.

That's a fair point, but it doesn't change the argument, the cost is over a long period with a big part of the electricity mix.

>This 121B€ budget is not spent

But locked in with feed in tariff form the pre-2017 poorly functioning 5.1%/1.9% mix. You seems to think that more solar and wind will come with that, no new solar panel and wind turbine will be build with that.

https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/huet/2018/04/19/la-cour-des-comp...

>this is a very low-key counterbalancing measure

No this is a useless way to create an artificial competition, and a disgusting way to kill a company, when EDF OA is forced to buy solar and wind, uncorrelated with usage, at an expansive price.

>Germany chose this horrible wind/solar/biomass path. Poor Germans, they don't know that those challenges have no solution, that they are doomed to fail. You should inform them. An EPR or two may save them!

They have coal, lot of coal and only a plan to close them in 2038 and to replace it with russian fossil gas when France will have the latest closed in 2022 and since long barely used them.

>Source?

Look on your electrical bill the CSPE line, and Turpe because of decentralised renewable.

https://www.uarga.org/downloads/Documentation/2019_09_12_Sou...

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contribution_au_service_public...

http://www.leparisien.fr/economie/les-prix-de-l-electricite-...

> Lemme try to guess who will win...

France already won in decarbonising its electricity. Why would Germany win all industrial challenge, what are you a German supremacist ?
imagine how this might be useful in a distributed context.

rather than specify a limited set of api entry points (like segment gates) that you try to make safe....you can provide general security and resource guarantees and let the consumer do what they need. so that's cute, but imagine the round trip reduction (nfsv4 does this to a very limited extent) and increased generality.

what if your btree traversal could be safely run on the storage server.
So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014)
If you already use Mullvad, Firefox Private Network probably won't be an improvement for you.

However, this partnership would most likely benefit both Firefox and Mullvad. Firefox gets a stream of revenue (independent of Google) that would be used to finance development, and Mullvad acquires additional customers through the partnership who would otherwise not know about it.
I plan to do this as I was going to use Mullvad; now I can help Firefox reduce the Google reliance at the same time? Sign me up
I use wolframalpha.com

Here is the result of the equation from the OP
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3+%2B+4+%2F+%28+5+*+0....
To be electrocuted has always meant death, until relatively recently. Because Englishe talking is good not, it now can mean what formerly meant "shocked".

I still prefer the specificity of death for electrocuted. Keith Relf was electrocuted, if you can still talk about it, you received an electric shock.

Edit: spelling. Make Englyish great again!
> It's materially different to have an X multiple of an NYC salary versus an X multiple of an average US salary, for all values of X.

Let X = 0
Probably. I'm not going to waste my time reading or fact checking something from them.

If it's an interesting topic find a trustworthy source to post.
> They don't have to undercut AMD to sell CPU's if they can deliver more volume.

Intel is having supply issues, so they also have a volume issue as well.
https://www.techspot.com/news/82415-over-year-later-intel-cp...
Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children - Kids in the foster care program often need an advocate and a role model. This organization is a group of amazing volunteers who stand up for those who need our help the most. There are chapters for most cities. https://casaforchildren.org/

Also don't forget your time is a valuable resource. There are many local non-profits and charities that would appreciate 1 hour of your time, even if it is drop in. Local food banks, soup kitchens are easy ways to get into volunteering. It's also a great opportunity to involve your family. If you can coordinate a group of people that helps even more!
I agree with your point of view that only trained medical experts are qualified to treat a real medical health issue. However, the mentality of completely entrusting your own life and health to someone whom you don't know whether they have good enough work ethics and compassion or not is frankly quite a big risk.

In reality, other than medical scientific knowledge and methods, effective treatments also come from having compassion and caring deeply for your patients. Unfortunately, we have to admit that not all doctors today have that. I have seen the good and the bad ones, good doctors were really good and bad doctors were also really terrible, just like in any other professions I guess. Without those human attributes though, those bad doctors can't really help anyone as it is the main force driving them to help seek the right cures for the patients. Worse, they may contribute to misdiagnoses and malpractices that are the prevalent sources for medical related accidents and deaths.

As individuals, we should all educate ourselves so we are more equipped in working together with the doctors when issues arise, rather staying in the unknown and completely leave your own fate to the hand of luck.
How Amazon created AWS and changed technology forever
I did exactly this when setting up a NAS. Saved $50 / drive, and it took me a few minutes to remove the drive from each.
IMO it is all about intent. Did you check your colleagues' calendar to improve work, or did you check your colleagues' agenda to further identity politics?

In this case, the intent seemed to be: to stalk political opponents. Unacceptable abuse of the open culture.

Most reporting and discussions I've seen about this, pose the firing as union-busting behavior by Google. I also disagree there. Just because it took aim at people wanting to organize and rally for their cause, does not mean their cause was the motivation. To me, it means these people took their cause too far, mixed it with work, and publicly attacked the decisions of their colleagues, because these were perceived as homophobic. Just because you are an LGBT+ in reliability engineering, does not mean you get to raise a fuzz anytime Youtube makes a (better informed, less biased) decision you don't agree with. That gets tedious and detrimental to work relations very fast.
“High Sierra” FST in Apple's GS/OS on the Apple IIGS [pdf]
They're saying a Neoverse N1 core is ~40% faster than a 3.1 GHz Skylake thread; that's impressive.

Also note that they've changed the branding from A1 to M6g, making ARM a peer of Intel and AMD. So their 2020 lineup will probably be:

M6: Intel Ice Lake-SP

M6a: AMD Rome

M6g: ARM Graviton2
What a shite article
Stabilising stablecoins: A pragmatic regulatory approach
I'm acutely aware of this, and my pattern for phrasing things when I'm new to a scenario I'm trying to help out with is:

"What happens when you try x?"

What very often comes next is a clear explanation of why this obvious solution won't work, and often directs you right to the heart of the problem.

Every once in a while, you get an "Oh. I didn't think of that."

It's respectful, it assumes that person is smart and competent, and usually gets you where you need to go to start thinking about the hard problem at hand quickly.
This area is usually known as "additive combinatorics".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_combinatorics
How exactly does this work? Is it a poor man’s FPGA?
That's unfortunate, because industrial hemp (as opposed to cannabis hemp)is the most efficient way to capture carbon dioxide in the form of biomass. It should be grown for carbon credits alone, but this (cannabis) hemp bubble imploding will taint industrial hemp by association.
So basically ICANN itself is corrupt and must be replaced wholesale with a proper public interest steward?

Maybe people are protesting the wrong thing. The sale of .org is a symptom, the underlying cause is a bad regulatory framework for internet names.
How do they handle this in East Asian cities, where densities and package volumes seem like they ought to be just as high?
You left out the option that the industrial hemp products are more expensive (at this point) so only niche producers use it. I think hemp will see some industrial usage when it becomes cost effective.
Compliments to you. Being good to family is so important, for so many reasons, in so many ways...
Opera VPN collects user data. It's right in their policy. It's not a privacy respecting service.
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I wonder, as an AWS customer, what's the advantage of an ARM instance over a more traditional AMD64 one?
Wasn’t the problem in The Witcher 3 the necrophage infestation that prevented anyone from looting the corpses? That is why you were given the task of clearing them out. I remember spending far too long looting there on my play through.
That last sentence struck me: “banannas that can't be given away made into bananna or baby formula.” This wasn’t in the US, was it?
Yes, sorry, I was just intending to highlight non-associativity :) I agree it's not "non-deterministic".
This happened to me before too, but the phone was wiped by accident by IT. Never again will I trust any corp junk on a personal device.
This is a BIG space open for changes.

Technically this is not a new entrant, just a different way to recycle capital. Munich Re (one of the top three reinsurers in the world) will provide reinsurance/capital to Vouch or anybody who could bring growth to them.

The post is a bit misleading. A lot of startups in that field use the standard bashing of “middlemen”, “making the process more efficient”, etc when in fact they are just another broker. Just about EVERY startup in that field uses the same language (Lemonade, MetroMile, etc…).

In this case Vouch is an agent of Standard insurance, a subsidiary of Markel, a company in the business of providing “Fronting” for large reinsurers:
https://www.statenational.com/fronting/
https://interactive.web.insurance.ca.gov/webuser/Licw_Agy_De...

An analogy would be emails: you can go directly to Gmail, Yahoo or whatever or you may access all those emails on your Mac Mail or whatever . What matters is the provider behind (their tech, spam capabilities, etc.)

Vouch is an agent of Standard Insurance, not really a top player in the field of insuring tech. Chubb and Hartford are.

Vouch is thin on experience with only two endorsed agents (I assume the founders) who only got their license one year ago:
https://interactive.web.insurance.ca.gov/webuser/licw_endors...
And have no classes/credit or whatever to back up the fact that they can “provide advice” to startups: https://interactive.web.insurance.ca.gov/licensestatus/licst...

This is public information. The fact that they are licensed surplus lines brokers is a flag as they may place your business with “non-admitted insurers” instead of established insurers in your state (who have experienced claims people, insurance wording approved in your state, and backed by state guarantees). “Non admited insurers” is an opaque field of various insurers, some are good, some are just shabby. Just be aware.

Most of the time you will be better off with admitted insurers (Hartford, State Farm, Chubb) for a number of reasons: they have the experience, they pay claims promptly, and are cheaper. The state will keep an eye on them if they don’t pay claims promptly.

I assume that Vouch will also farm out the claim process to contractors. I just don’t know.

I am not saying that Vouch is good or bad, just be aware, don’t buy into the BS and be an informed buyer.

Buying from a mid-size insurance broker provides some piece of mind: they know what they are doing, have the equivalent of a large enterprise team dealing with big, publicly traded tech companies, and they can call on those in house folks to help if needed or if you have a claim that the insurance company “initially” denied. They can apply “gentle pressure” because they have buying power.

Of course if you deal with Vouch, an agent of Standard Insurance, your options are limited if you get in trouble.

You may think “I will sue them”. You don’t sue insurance companies, or very rarely (and only if you are a consumer, not a company) because they have in house counsels they pay $50/hr against your $1,000/hr lawyers.
> What I don’t want is anyone making it a point to bring their personal politics to work. We have other forums for that.

The American life has been completely subsumed into corporate culture. These other forums have either been rendered useless through an impossible-to-navigate political system that swallows any real momentum, been disbanded due to the nature of work requiring communities to fragment and move, or are facades for community like you see in Reddit or HN--posting isn't politics, people.

I have the same inclination with you that I don't want to hear other people's personal politics at work (likely for different reasons), but it's unavoidable when every company attempts to become your family. I don't really know what to do about it, but I don't think it's as easy as HN believes it to be.
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> required to report safety-related issues to their managers, or through a confidential digital channel directly to the general counsel and human resources

What. How is it appropriate fo HR to be involved in reports of safety issues. This reads like there was confidential channel to self selection layoffs.
Imagine being this stupid
To add onto your excellent comment: Another lifesaver for me is the 'gi' command, which focuses your cursor on the first text input. Saves a lot of mouse movements.

For me personally the browser was the last application in which I had to use the mouse, vimium solved that. Sounds like a mundane application but after a serious hand injury it made the difference to me for working 4 hours with mouse and being in pain, or working 8 hours pain free.
Even without considering price, I am pretty sure smart features are standard in almost every TV now. I started looking for a new TV last week, and I can count the amount of non-smart TVs I saw on one hand.
Yeah you're spot on with those data limitations. I think the easiest solution would be to just store the more recent, granular data and accumulate that over time. But now way to get granular historical as far as I'm aware.
Also on FF Win10. Can people stop doing this please? Tank you :)
> “It was a pattern — if you talked about safety you were done, so you just didn’t,” said one former employee. “That’s just how it had to be if you wanted to keep getting a paycheck.”

Sounds like a problem with management, which isn't surprising. Sebastian Thrun is a brilliant researcher, but he has yet to turn any of his ideas into sustainable technologies or companies. Self-driving cars aren't real yet, and Udacity is going through some rough times. To the best of my knowledge Udacity has never been profitable (please correct me if I am wrong).

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/22/sebastian-thrun-initiates-...

Maybe he'll turn around Udacity (I doubt it, although I really hope so). My point is this man chases after shiny things, and then leaves as soon as there's another shiny thing for him to pursue. He does the fun stuff with early development, and then loses interest when you get to the hard slog of making everything sustainable.

Similar to self-driving cars, he was able to get his flying machines working well enough for some really awesome demos - but he can't commercialize the technology because it's still demoware.

I want to compare this to Icarus because superficially it's so appealing, but in the end Sebastian is going to be incredibly wealthy and never having really lost anything. He will even likely continue to be heralded as a genius by many (and sometimes rightfully so).
Tried to look for one recently without much luck. The crux of their death seems to be Skype ending support for their smart TV software. They definitely existed, though. And it was also possible to add a camera via USB in some cases.
This is the second time I submitted it. I deleted, rethought some things and submitted again. I won't submit again.

Perhaps you can follow your own advice on submissions!

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