skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't need to. The regular conditions on the local farms were about the same.
Making Sense of Uber's Engineering (1/N of How to Build an X-like App/Business?)
> the trustworthiness of NIST-produced curves being questioned after revelations that the NSA willingly inserts backdoors into software, hardware components and published standards were made; well-known cryptographers have expressed doubts about how the NIST curves were designed, and voluntary tainting has already been proved in the past.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signature_...
No, in fact, that's not what I'm doing here at all. The point I'm making has nothing at all to do with my personal feelings about either cancer or privacy issues.
> The majority have vaped THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, but some say they have vaped only nicotine.

> Another patient was a 21-year-old man who reported vaping nicotine for five years, and who became ill shortly after adding marijuana to it for the first time.

This is getting ridiculous, journalists need to get more precises when discussing "vaping".
Vaping what specifically? I have a hard time believing that anyone is getting chemical burns from vaping propylene glycol.
I wasn't trying to make the argument that "'not meat' doesn't taste as good as 'meat', so don't eat it", but rather "Don't eat oranges looking for apple". Oranges are still delicious, but they're different and comparing them is not the point.

Also, I might disagree with this statement:

> There is nothing special about the taste of chicken or beef other than it is good and you're used to it.

Umami (savoriness) is actually fairly difficult to find outside of meat if you have an even slightly limited diet and some studies suggest it's craved as an instinctive signal of protein (like sweetness and simple carbs), so if you just stop eating meat there can definitely something missing.

(BTW, if you're trying to get off of meat but still have a craving, dried mushrooms and soy sauce have very concentrated umami flavors, and adding MSG can just up the tasty factor in a lot of dishes)
I like to think of it as concentrating complexity. This allows a programmer to focus intensely on a small area of the code with the benefit of easing the development process of a much greater portion of the code base.
This is really cool! I think the chord naming has some bugs, but it's been awhile since I studied theory. For example all the diminished triads are labeled "min 7-5" which is kind of alien to me (and wrong, there's no 7), shouldn't it be "dim" or "o"?

Feature request: viewing the intervals on a keyboard/fretboard, with different colors/numbering for each scale degree.
> Can you think of another country named after a dude.

Liechtenstein is named after the princely family there. Bolivia was named for Simon Bolivar.
Any process can be abused all the way to unproductivity.

The problem is literally always some empowered moron in charge, without any clue what the work actually looks like, yet with the ability to destroy work.

I’m looking forward to a time when companies don’t insist on running themselves like hierarchical feudal societies... it’s such an immense efficiency drag, but since it’s the dominant dogma in business, the garbage continues.
That's interesting. Now thinking about it, a downside of this framing is that it might turn people away from those ingredients. Particularly if it's their first time trying it.

If you're expecting bacon and it doesn't taste like bacon, then your impression and association with said ingredient is going to be negative by default.
So far all we have his word that he was assured it would be a limit of 5 people and out of state.

There’s no signed contract that he’s produced, and doesn’t remember how many times he donated. It was decades ago, he could easily be misremembering someone saying the “average” donor is used 5 times. It wouldn’t make sense for a standard contract to include those limits either.

I’m interested where this goes. I’m guessing he’s trying public pressure to force a settlement, knowing he’d lose in trial.

Also, if it wasn’t a cash grab, I think he’d have already committed to giving any settlement to those children.
The agile manifesto doesn't say anything about scrum masters, but it does say (in the twelve principles) something very similar to your points 3–5.
How about Be kind?
I think the concept of "freedom of speech" is highly subjective. If you go to China you would find very little consideration for a lack of freedom of speech aside from a few radicals whose mission is to cause turbulence to the existing regime.

In Beijing, you can walk in many taxis and hear the driver blabber on to no end regarding the state of existence in China and state defamatory words regarding the Communist, the past, or the current presidency.

In contrast, in America I often find myself in fear of coming forth and stating any merit that I thought of the potential Trump presidency, and the now presidency. In professional careers I'd fear a sense of being seen as a "demoral" person and I would fear for silent retaliation.

Propaganda and ideology come hand in hand, I certainly do not disregard Chinese propaganda, but likewise I am no different to the narrative on China's own political structure that's becoming ever stronger in the West since the uprising of China.

On the other hand, what is true "freedom of speech"? The narrative has been sounding more and more to me like a "freedom to uprise and overthrow the government". Due to my limited existence in the world, I can't claim merit or demerit to such ideal. But I am simply no fan of chaos caused due to the act of "trying to overthrow a government to seek ideal in the face of perceived oppression", especially when an entire region is almost shut down and hurt for many months.
Paid... same as for the 5 years before that.
> So you consider an iPhone works so much better and its design is so much better than Android phones that you allow Apple to choose what you can install?

Yeah. Lots of people do. Giving up control means a lot, I get it. However I give up control with loads of devices, appliances and services every day. In exchange I expect my iPhone, my gmail account and my Samsung TV to make my life easier. They (hopefully) can’t read my mind, so my choices will always lie on a spectrum between:
Taking all control, but having to do all the work myself vs. giving up control (and risk being betrayed) but not having to do the work.

> I hope you never end in a situation like in Hong Kong where freedom matters more than design.

Absolutely, but I wouldn’t trust most alternatives out there either. I honestly don’t know what I’d do in that case.
Follow the sensible approach instead, and name your messaging app with a catchy generic name, like "Messenger" or "iMessages".
What happens if you don't mention what languages you used?
You don't have a reference, because high quality steel was invented in the U.S.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
They've started wearing Guy Fawkes masks, which I presume is the reason for the diktat.
How does it destroy other drones? Collision?
"What was wrong with US's response to 9/11 attacks?"

Many Things.

"Yes, Saddam Hussein was evil, but the consequences of"

Saddam, a guy with a mind of a petty street criminal, was actually a sea of stability in a region ridden with tribal societies.

"Yes, what Saudi Arabia did was gruesome"

While Iraq, ISIS and Iran was never a real Problem, Saudi Arabia is: https://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2015/0...

"Is this one incident, which is not like Saudi Arabia didnt get massive blowback for, worth the long term consequences?"

Saudi Arabia is exporting terror an Wahhabism all over the world. I can only stay stable by exporting the terror.

I am skeptical about the future of all this "non integrating gap countries", especially the middle east:

http://www.martin-van-creveld.com/the-monster/

http://www.martin-van-creveld.com/monsters-ii/
Those very few influential people who make the decisions are incredibly conservative; they won't even kick criminals off the Internet without overwhelming evidence. I don't think they're even interested in discussing IPv4 sunset at this point.

Rather than a date I think it would make sense to look at the traffic. When IPv4 hits, say, 1% it might make sense to turn it off. I would estimate that's decades away.
Sure, but idea is that the idiomatic way of working in the language accomodates passing around data that is not necessarily closed in shape. Ie intermediate functions will by default pass along also attributes that they don't have knowledge of, for example. And checking data shape conformance is customizable (by the "spec" system).
https://dilbert.com/strip/2005-11-16
Took me a few tries to find "Hungarian Folk or Byzantine Major Gypsy" scale as I first tried the other aliases:

1. Double Harmonic (main English language theoretical name) [1]

2. Byzantine (finds it, but in my experience is known as "Byzatine scale" and "Major Gypsy" is another scale name -- it is weird to see them glued together.

3. Mayamalavagowla

4. Bhairav Raga

5. Arabic (Hijaz Kar)

It would be nice if a given scale had all its known names attached to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_harmonic_scale
Wait until Trump realizes he can have his supporters kill people and then pardon the killers.
> This feels like when Facebook spun off Messenger, I just stopped using it on my phone

From a separate point of view: I was super happy when Messenger was spun off so I could delete Facebook from my phone.
Uber's tech is mammoth. Studying and understanding it can prove quite helpful if you are venturing into building your own business or a product or even a new feature. Not because you should align with it from day one, but so that you never fall into the trap of building fancy, complex tech in the early stages.

Here’s how I have planned the series:
1. I plan to start by understanding Uber's tech ecosystem
2. Next, delve into what you should (and should not be) building for your first product or feature
3. Finally, try to build an early version of an Uber-like app ourselves

In the first post, I would be covering point 1.

To make things simpler, I have italicised terms throughout the post which should only be taken as examples and skimmed through (have also hyperlinked them as well though in case you are interested to read further on them).

At all points, my intention to focus only on the larger picture and not get bogged down because of the details.

Would love to hear what the community has to say about this :)
Also this is a Company, they can decide whatever policy for their market. If you don't like it don't be on it. This is why Android has overtaken apple in market share but its stupid to expect them to be god almighty savior in every public situation. Their policy works perfectly for their user base, it is crazy to expect them to change for your opinions. Apple is one of the few companies who is taking privacy related mater seriously. I enjoy their ecosystem for this reason and I will take other things that come with it.
'tptacek would write that no reputable cryptographer believes the NIST curves themselves are backdoored.
Are you not speculating what the money was for?

And, you know, frankly - please consider the integrity of the source (NY Post). Tabloid journalism is not generally reliable, and they have a history of stating the wrong facts (i.e. lying), and it probably wouldn't be hard for me to find cases of "lying by omission".

I don't have a stake in this battle. If the Saudi government was fully complicit in the attacks, it would not shake my world view. What I don't like is lowering the threshold of evidence against an entity simply because there are good reasons not to like that entity.
Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
While on the topic of insufferable linguistic pedantry: I always cringe when people use that to introduce subordinate clauses instead of who when the subject refers to humans, but don’t say anything because the majority does not seem to be bothered by this. Example: “The coders that use sublime are great.”

P.S. I also like to use the word insufferable, picked it up from Pride and Prejudice, unfortunately doesn’t get the usage it deserves nowadays.

P.P.S Not many people use P.S. in their emails/posts either, would be a good habit to bring back.
I get where you're coming from, but you do need to realize that short of the Librem phones that only recently came into production, there was no non-city park unless you were a developer.

Case and point. I did not burst from the womb computer-savvy. I had to learn. Part of that was supported by the fact there were not highly technical barriers to entry in regards to expanding my computational toolset.

Getting something working on Android and iOS on the other hand, is over and again more complicated.

I can at least side-load to Android, but I must understand Sal and encryption enough to grok code-signing. That is not a trivial barrier to entry. For iOS, I essentially have to sign up as a member of a registry in order to even get something on the phone/tablet for development purposes.

My love of computing and figuring out how things work carried me to where I am today; but the high degree of friction that is increasingly implemented for no other reason than being good for business presents a form of computing that I'm still amazed anyone partake in as a pastime at all.

Hell, Android is specifically set up to prevent you as a User from doing anything you would conventionally do as a User of a computing system. It is very much a computing platform for the developer's and not the user's benefit.

It's a precarious balance to maintain admittedly, but what Apple has illustrated through their actions is that their Phones and AppStore are meant as an extension of themselves to do business first, and to be useful for what you deem fit second. Even if Hong Kongers ended up getting developer accounts to run the safety app, Beijing is well within their authority to use that list of "developers" as a basis for a crackdown by demanding Apple hand it over as a condition of doing business.

I can understand the luxury in just being able to get your Gram a mobile phone and not have to worry so much. I worry even more at the consequences in store a few generations down the line where the bunch of we Free Software nutters who remember what flying by the seat of our pants as root, damn the torpedoes, are not guaranteed to be around for to protest when increasingly large and entrenched models of proprietary software distribution networks and OS architectures lock users out of even being able to leverage honest-to-God General Purpose Computation.

The more decisions are left to the industry and supply chain, the more rights will be lost by the wayside in the name of doing business.
Hard to read the article after baseless FUD/BS privacy concerns about Electron or anything from Google, and then jumps right into using node. WAT.
In China they use DNA as a way to screen if someone is Uighurs. I think this is a concern for everyone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/business/china-xinjiang-u...
“Starting September 1, 2019, all Model 3 cars built for the US market now come with a Pedestrian Warning System (PWS) to meet US requirements.”

“The Pedestrian Warning System (PWS) is an audible tone played when the vehicle is moving slowly (up to 19 mph) in either Drive or Reverse. The sound is played via a speaker mounted in the front fascia and alerts nearby pedestrians of the car’s presence in low-speed situations.”

Easy to unplug, but I don't recommend doing so depending on your state's liability laws. The pedestrian takes on a percentage of liability when they're in the roadway in several states.

https://electrek.co/2019/09/10/tesla-pedestrian-warning-syst...
...a list of new business models zero of which have shown an iota (pardon the pun) of traction in a decade.

Bitcoin is worth $140 billion. What are you waiting for, before you believe it has traction?
Let me have a go then:

1. A way for businesses that cannot get a bank account to accept digital payments. Think porn sites or marijuana stores.

2. It's used on darknet markets for obvious reasons.

3. You can use it to pay for things even without a bank account.

4. Send money to anyone from anywhere.

5. It can be used as a decentralized timestamping service[0].

6. Lower fees than other digital payments (credit cards take 1-4% fee per transaction, plus other costs).

Cryptokitties is just like Beanie Babies and in my opinion not very interesting.

[0]: https://whycryptocurrencies.com/timestamping_service.html
It isn't anymore and hasn't for quite some time.

Older generations sometimes live in with younger ones to help care for children and/or care for the elderly as well.
Yes and no. There certainly is what you describe. They are what many people think as vegan because it is the most vocal subset of vegans. There are many who eat vegan but don't proclaim it.

It is like my father-in-law who believes all gay people are loud and flamboyant. When in reality, he is dense and requires someone to hit him over the head to see it.

I've seen this out workplaces where a coworker A is vegan. A new coworker B notices and starts having a friendly chat with A about vegan food. Coworker B, who has been working and eating lunch with A for two years, is surprised to learn that A is vegan the whole time.
It took me a while to place my finger on why I never really loved everything about it, but I eventually decided that it felt like it was a façade to a management power grab.

Yup that's exactly it. Or to put it more delicately (than simply a "power grab"): a façade that servers various ulterior purposes -- from making their company seem hip and modern (to the uninformed) to simply being able to say "finally we have some structure!" even though it's very debatable whether new "structure" really brings the benefits that it claims to (and evidently brings many negatives on board with it).

But ultimately - a façade.
I don't think I could do something within the platform itself because it's a different team, a different tech stack and a different mindset. They are disconnected from reality and build whatever features the product owner & CTO puts on their plate.
The only thing I could do is to try to convince Sales or Account managers that we need new integrations and POC projects...
but if my website is a blog that allows user submission, how I can make sure users won't submit http://images?
It doesn't sound like you're a vegetarian for an animal welfare reason though?

If you've stopped eating meat for environmental/health reasons then there isn't really the contradiction.

'Salty Crispy protein bits' gets us the same thing as vegetarian bacon, without seemingly being morally objectionable to a demographic you're targeting.
Not at all. Poe's Law is definitely in effect for that post.
But they do, and know to use paralell construction to evade the law in bad faith.
Sure. Yet every single time an organization tries agile, the result is a dysfunctional mess. After this history of pain, "real agile isn't like this!" has just as much legitimacy and persuasive power as the old "real communism has never been tried" line.
Centralization and trust are massive efficiencies as demonstrated by the sheer unparalleled inefficiency of proof of work chains. It blows my mind that hipsters refuse to use single-use straws and try and pay with bitcoin which yields thousands of times as much CO2 in the atmosphere as the straw.

1 bitcoin transaction is 607kWh (is 288kgCO2 and 85g of ewaste). That’s enough spent power to drive a Tesla from SF to San Jose, round trip. Twice. 20 days power consumption for the average US home. At that rate you may as well take physical dollars and drive them to San Jose.
Regarding the technical debt problem, the manifesto does explicitly say (as one of the twelve principles) that:

"Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility."

Perhaps that principle could to be emphasized more, but including specific technical details would make it go quickly out of date.
It's non-obvious to me why a security incident like this should dictate switching engines over to Plan B. Does the incident reveal any new posterior information about the security of using Realms, that wasn't available at the outset?

The reason Realms seems like a smarter move overall is because in relative terms Realms has a wide variety of stakeholders, is (at least so far) on the ECMA track, and generally speaking seems like the 'right' solution to this problem. I can empathize with not wanting to be the product pushing the envelope and finding these holes, but at the same time having someone like Figma validating things seems like it could push the path dependencies towards more organizations investing in Realms for this kind of thing, and hence cause acceleration towards maturity -- the net effect being Figma's plugin platform being more secure, more quickly than if they back off from Realms.

The VM-in-WASM approach, while in theory fundamentally less likely to be exploited, seems risky from the perspective that now Figma basically is on their own for finding any places where it does in fact have a hole -- I doubt anyone else but them is going to be auditing the various touch points with QuickJS for any kind of sandboxing escaping. QuickJS is also a very new engine, written by a single individual which is also a factor (who by all accounts seems to be capable of 100 man-hours per hour, but nonetheless.) Insofar as Figma is a juicy target, you can be sure that probing QuickJS for potential issues will now be a worthwhile endeavor to hackers, and it seems likely that unless others start doing this approach that Figma will be the only party who will be incentivized to try to keep ahead of identifying exploits.

I acknowledge it's a bit of a catch-22 -- they want to ship safe functionality now, but also don't want to use tech that won't be the safest, most adopted standard and best option in the long run -- but that choice, today, seems like a security risk. I'm curious if there is any other additional context that warranted pulling the escape lever. I understand they can switch back at any time, but it does seem that this event increased their priors on future vulnerabilities in Realms.
great looking product!
I think that's pretty close to the truth. Like the Tao, you can point at instances of it, i.e., you can point to a particular team and the processes it is today using, and that is agile. But it is not Agile. On this same team I'm on, I've used different process a year ago, and two years ago, and now, and almost certainly in a year and two years. Those specific processes aren't Agile... but they were each agile, because we're constantly re-evaluating how we're working and what we're doing, and tuning our processes to match the environment we're in. If you take my agile process and just blindly apply it to your team, regardless of what that process is, that's not Agile. The grass of the field does not become a bird by shaping itself into wings.
It's dryer season. Make sure you check your vents
Yes, and that basis is based on ... nothing!

Actually, it's worse. The claimed 100% hit rate implies classifying everybody as a bullshitter.
Monica Cellio's account of losing her moderator status on Stack Exchange
Phishing Emails – Explained
Pretty sure dead and unconscious things are way easier to do objective science on.

Psychology must be one of the hardest disciplines to design experiments for.
Can you elaborate on that? Many Android phones can have their bootloader unlocked, allow installing alternate operating systems, have alternate app stores, and allow sideloading of applications.
I must have missed this part!
You should learn Chinese.
I bet your marketing manager will be pleased when her website gets de-ranked on Google because all the page rendering is done client side now.
lol. I work down at the Cloud Farm.
Is this a joke? Doesn't everybody believe they're backdoored?