skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lynchpin in the 'cultural appropriation' argument hinges on the idea that cultures are static. But this is a fallacy.

All culture is a lie.

There is no such thing as "Quebecois", or "American", or "Austrian".. these are inventions which require the acceptance of a conceptual lie - a non-truth - to be perpetuated - in the telling. The only way cultures persist is to keep the telling of the lie in a kind of continuum. By means of identity, differentiation and association, lies are persistent only as long as they continue to be told, identically, in a fashion which differentiates from other lies, among an agreed-upon association.

Those who would argue for cultural sanctity intend, really, to keep the lie to themselves - or at least, limit its telling to an in-group of their own choosing. In so doing, they intend to limit the mutability of the relevant culture.

Alas, lies don't persist unless you keep telling them - so cultural 'appropriation' is merely a means of controlling the identity of the culture involved within a smaller bounds of association.

I've never tried poutine, but I'd love to. The only way that can happen is if I appropriate a recipe for it, and cook it myself. As soon as I associate the recipe among others in my circle, I have appropriated the 'poutine identity' into my own identity. If I don't differentiate enough between the origin and my source of the concept, say - by sticking only to the recipe and not adding anything else, from other aspects of my identity - then the 'poutine culture' persists. But as I alter the recipe and add my own flair, perhaps by throwing some kren on top, I change the identity. Thus is the nature of lies: in order to persist, they must be continually told, as originally as possible, without alteration.

>Whats the fear?

I feel that the fear expressed by those for who cultural appropriation is unacceptable, is simply this: they lose control of the lie.

But the irony is, culture doesn't really exist as a thing until someone decides to go through the phases of identity, differentiation, and association. Thus, the culture of 'cultural appropriation' callouts is a self-defeating conundrum.

EDIT: I don't expect to get upvotes for this, because its quite clear - none of us like to think we are living a lie. It's offensive. But its interesting that the mechanism of upvote/downvote itself, is a manifestation of this fact. That you don't agree with - you invalidate, and degrade. (Downvote). That you do agree with, which you identify with, persists because you validate it (Upvote). This is the nature of culture: a system of lies kept in perpetuity, by the telling. I'm prepared for my position to disappear completely - I'm also prepared for the ideal to be appropriated without further identification. We humans have the unique ability to choose which lies we want to assist with the perpetuation, and which we wish to destroy utterly. Every culture is susceptible to this dilemma...
It’s opposite from what i feel. On one hand hand I suffer from seeing all the PDFs or papers with poor MS Office type set.

But when it comes to the web I feel like people spend too much time (and waste my resources) to arrive at a perfect layout. There I would prefer a simple robust layout that renders well on all devices and resolutions.
We can always negotiate a shorter work week, or shorter/time-shifted work days, or move to a place/company where that can happen. It's easier if you are The Tim Bray, but I've done it before and, if I can do it, so can anyone.
The problem for me--and I've thought about this--is that shorter days wouldn't really buy me anything (I already have a lot of flexibility) and a 4 or 3 day week would only buy me, well, longer weekends. Those would be nice but nothing life-changing. What I'd really like to do is take regular extended vacations to go hiking, etc. And, once you're heading off for a month here and there, it's really hard to keep up with what's going on/being someone people can depend on/etc.

It is possible in some roles where things don't change all that much, you don't need to deal with the business side, and tasks are fairly short in duration. (I knew someone who worked as a lawyer for around 6 months a year.) But for me, disappearing for a month or two at a time and unplugging would be hard to pull off while doing what I do now.
Computer jargon for "set up", likely from (US?) military jargon.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/125681/usage-of-...
I think your comment is extremely patronizing and arrogant ("To me, it shows haters' level of intellect.") and a "let them eat cake" attitude that to me shows a clear lack of understanding of why people have become so anti-tech over the past 2 decades.
unfortunately, that's a risk with an untampered supply as well. things are made EVEN WORSE with the fentanyl problem
Last time I checked Quebec reaped the benefits of Alberta's oil sands... didn't they?
> What LaTeX truly shines at, is typography.

I respectfully disagree. I think people use LaTeX to write scientific documents because there is no better alternatives, not because LaTeX is good.

I find the typesetting system in LaTeX is extremely verbose and over-complicated, as compared to something like HTML+CSS or Markdown.

If someone comes up with a good enough typesetting system with some inspiration from Markdown, HTML and CSS, LaTeX will lose its popularity. HTML and CSS are more expressive than LaTeX, so it should be theoretically possible.

One possible explanation for the lack of better alternatives is that the people who really need the alternatives and people who are capable of coming up with better alternatives are somewhat mutually exclusive. Former is more research-heavily and latter is more coding and user experience heavy.
Programmer in Berlin here. I'm very happy Google gave up. The political implications of being anti-gentrification are complicated: here I know many anarchists that are fervently in favor and others that are fervently against. Same for the commies. I have my opinion but I don't think it's worthy to bring it into the discussion.

I'm happy for a single reason: as long as Berlin startup scene preserves its working culture (that reflects German working culture in general), it will be a better working environment than the Silicon Valley. Big campuses and the presence of foreign corporations in general will have a slow but steady cultural influence on the IT workforce, normalizing the level of individual and systemic exploitation that is acceptable in the USA but not in Germany. Unpaid hours, unclear separation between work time and leisure time, ideological brainwashing, identity politics are all things I wouldn't like to see in the company I work for, but if a majority of my colleagues have worked for American corporations before (because they can afford to offer good salaries), it's more likely for it to happen.

Zalando is enough of a meat-grinder, we don't want more.
I'm 58. The only reason I haven't already made the decision is because, well, I've never retired before. It's hard to know that you've got enough to last the next 30+ years.

I've three income legs - pensions, SS & 401K money. Each has its own perils; all of them seem to have the US's growing instability at their core. Being an expat is looking better and better.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18295942
> On Ubuntu it just doesn't work. Period.

You are, clearly, doing something very wrong.
Nothing in the linked article is about using AI in court.
> “just pointing out a fact”

No he’s not, it’s an authoritarian dog whistle. Stop supporting this crap.
Well, saying that he's one of the more prolific OpenBSD contributors and has had a front row seat would obviously be a good start...
What dedicated tooling would you like to see?
What would an elastic hosting experience feel like to you?
please don't write that twitter client
> Economists are pretending their statistics are filtering out 'noise' when they are really filtering out data they don't want people to see.

You could really replace "Economist" with anything in this statement.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_Univer...
Nat Friedman running this is one of the reasons I don't worry much. Plus, Microsoft buying GitHub meant...Oracle, IBM, etc. couldn't buy it, which removes a lot of risk.
I find balloons to be a useful analogy when describing charge limits to users (and when configuring ThinkPads I limit the max charges). If you have a balloon and repeatedly inflate it to 100% then deflate it, at some point it's going to pop (or you're going to have to start putting less and less air in) due to the repeated stress and stretching. If instead you inflate it only to 80-90% you're avoiding that last extra bit of stretch and will likely get far more inflation cycles.
It's not – at least in Germany. Laws prohibit intense rent hikes, thus you can lock in a low rent, with a delta to new leases that is just ever increasing.

Also, the idea to make everyone a landlord while widely accepted in housing economics to be a good thing, I happen to think is shortsighted and contradicts the principle of "economics of scale".

Housing companies (can be non-profit co-ops as well) often provide much more quality/€ to tenants than the landlord, who owns 1 flat and is always overstrained with the simplest maintnance requests.
Its cute you think US congress/government is democratic.
The definition of 80% (or 0 or 100) is up to the manufacturer, so the apparently same charging behavior may have vastly different effects on the cells.
Web era began around the rise of LCD displays. CRTs are too non-linear for most people to tolerate black on white, so its a status symbol from around the turn of the century to do white on black.

Not helping matters is the rise of glossy distraction screens, again before the turn of the century the status symbol was ultra low glare matte screens to avoid eyestrain and with the conversion to everything must be shiny its hard to look at a black background reflecting tons of distracting moving shadows so everything must have a white light blackground to cut thru the bright distracting reflections.
I guess so. I was imagining what a massive waste of time and energy it will be to just read the comments much less respond to them. It's already bad enough when you have people in your field who refuse to understand your work no matter how you re-word your explanation (yeah, going through this right now), but when you have people like the Wikipedia editors or reddit commenters who have all the time and energy in the world and no understanding of your field, you can imagine how much of a disaster it will be.

Reminds me of a time when this person in my field decided to move its most popular wiki to Wikipedia and delete the wiki site. Well it resulted in the wiki site being gone, and a bunch of scattered Wikipedia pages with no content because it was way too much trouble to get the Wikipedia editors to change the content so that it will be actually informative.
One of my favorite books, "A Pattern Language" [1] – which is a sort of architecture manifesto / philosophy book – has a section related to building a workshop for retirement. The idea is that retirement shouldn't be an end, but rather a transition to a kind of work more suited towards one's later years. In building that space, one starts preparing for that next chapter, considering what that new role will look like, and eventually moving into it when the time is right.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language
Is this the opposite of "stand down"? It seems to be.
Can you explain how different TexMe is than Markdeep?
This is one of the things where the market will decide. All it takes is one firm to drastically reduce costs while maintaining standards (or possibly improving them?) and the rest will be forced follow suit.
Honestly, that sounds utterly horrifying.

I'd much rather work at a company that practices Japanese-style lifetime employment.
A couple of months ago, I had a nice conversation with a local restaurant owner. He's in his 70s, and mostly runs the place himself, doing the waiting and the cooking. His wife died a few years back, his kids are grown, and what else is he going to do? Watch tv? Move back to Trinidad? (He's lived in Minneapolis since the 1960s) Nah. He likes to cook, he has loyal customers due to his flatly amazing food, and he feels useful. It keeps him going. I'm sure if he "retired", he'd be dead not long after.
There is a city called Hamilton in Ontario, Canada. Houses a good University called McMaster and is near Waterloo University - premier Computer Science university in Canada.

City (Hamilton) is fairly well developed with a functioning International Airport and since it was initially built around manufacturing, its prestige within Canada has suffered somewhat in last 20-25 years. If firms like Google would be so kind to invest there, the locals and the children of locals and other Canadians would welcome them with open arms.
I was wondering the same thing as I posted that. It would definitely make sense.
It's more than stress though it's hierarchy of needs.

If you don't have food in the pantry, you're not worried about saving for retirement. And that's probably sensible.
I think that the risk to one’s privacy is too great. I don’t want the government or my employer to collect biometrics on me.
If he is a really good friend, I suppose he won't care at all.
Yes, I'm using it in Firefox 65.0a1 on a 15" 2017 MBP running High Sierra.

After setting gfx.webrender.all to true and restarting, check about:support and you should see "Compositing: WebRender"

Of course you may still hit bugs.
I'm not telling you that your feelings are wrong. Saying "I don't like that Tesla sold a 75 kWh capable car as a 60 kWh car" is perfectly acceptable. Saying "Tesla sold me a 75 kWh car that performs like a 60 kWh car" is also valid though misleading because it belies the truth that the buyer wanted a 60 kWh car.

Calling it ransom or extortion isn't just misleading, it's an outright lie.

You're free to feel what you want about the situation and express those feels but I feel that it's harmful and toxic to then make false assertions because you feel bad about a situation.
Both the manager and the friend-of-friend could be correct – it depends on the team. Some teams encourage (but don't require) a group feedback session where everything is out in the open; others encourage private feedback.

But either way, the goal is the same – not to target you or make you feel inadequate, but for you to discover things that you might not have realized were negatively impacting the team.

Group feedback meetings do exist, but I can't imagine that anyone would be penalized (even in thought) for choosing not to participate.

The way I see it, people will talk about their coworkers at any workplace. At most places it's behind their back; here we have respect enough for one another to give each other constructive feedback directly instead of gossiping. It makes a lot of sense to me, but I guess not everybody feels that way. If your manager doesn't make it clear that group feedback is optional, that would be a great piece of feedback for your manager!

So I think "criticized in public as a matter of course" is a mischaracterization. IME managers go to great lengths to ensure that people are treated respectfully and not made to feel pressured to participate in things they aren't comfortable with. And "fired one day unexpectedly" is certainly not the norm – I'm not aware of anyone who was let go without having been told weeks or months in advance about issues they needed to address. That's not to say it couldn't happen, because it could happen at any workplace. But it's not the norm.

Edit: Should also mention that the feedback cycle also includes positive feedback. It's not just a gripe fest. You identify things that your colleague is doing well/things you appreciate, and also things that they could improve.
This is some great FrontPage news
You see the simple answer to your query because Google decides what to show based on what users will prefer, and most users just don't give a fuck about "the broader narrative of their lives and personalities".
Injecting .Net Assemblies into Unmanaged Processes
"saving expensive lawyers from spending their time wading through the documents."
Do lawyers want to lose that much time in billable hours? I'd imagine part of what lawyers like is making lots of money and this will be a limiter.
Memory enhancement by ferulic acid ester across species

Science Advances 24 Oct 2018:
Vol. 4, no. 10, eaat6994
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat6994

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaat6994
The 17 startup stages between “I have an idea” and “I can buy steak again.”
The building was originally renovated by ID Media, one of the largest digital media/web development companies in Berlin at the end of the nineties. It’s been filled with IT companies ever since they went bankrupt and currently has an incubator as one of the renters. It’s never been full of artists for the last 20 years.

So while I’m not surprised (and very much not sad) that the plans didn’t work out for a host of reasons I really don’t think that the campus would have led to substantial gentrification in that region.

Disclosure: we (still) have our office in the complex.
This article equates “exciting work” with “9-5 job at BigCo”.

After going independent, my impact has only gotten bigger and my work more interesting and engaging. Write and share what you’ve learned, consult, do OSS, be an “emeritus”, work part time... these require the ability to self-manage, but it’s a skill that can be learned like anything else.

Why a financially independent person would spend most of their waking hours chipping away on Amazon’s problems is baffling to me.
I worked an intense amount of hours at a stressful company for about two years before I developed a blister on my retina due to the levels of cortisol in my blood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_serous_retinopathy). My vision has been permanently damaged due to it. I thought I could power through and "sleep when I'm dead".

Don't do it folks, it's not worth it.
And the car was sold by weight and battery capacity. No one was mislead about the curb weight were they?
Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome?
Wow, this is really good! Subscribed.
What's their positioning? I assume they're sold for parts or scrap? It seems so strange.
Progressive Web Application (PWA) – Complete Quickstart Guide
Putting Puppet on top of an environment that is poorly designed will not solve that poor design.

I implemented Puppet to manage a hugely complex application/environment. Because the architects of that app didn't think of Puppet, they threw up roadblocks at every opportunity. Things like refusing the allow the install package to be simply changed to RPM, or allowing a large part of install logic to be moved from shell scripts to Puppet. Or allowing an automated push from the release branch of the Puppet repository to any of the Puppet environments.

A lot of stuff that was initially planned that would have greatly simplified install, configuration, rollbacks, verification, etc etc, was all refused because it had been invented by the ops team instead of the architects.

So we ended up making things worse because management wanted Puppet, but didn't want to lay down the law to the architects to update their stuff.
>Yet average stress level seems to be getting higher and higher.

An important point is the occurrence of "Dominance Hierarchies" which has been persistent in animals/human since the dawn of time. In a small hamlet, it was 'easy' to become known as the best blacksmith, the fastest runner, the best storyteller. You physiology literally changes and you gain an increase in dopamine receptors.

With the rise of technology, we are exposed to Dominance Hierarchies of much grander scope. Kids (and adults) are evaluating themselves against Instagram models and NFL Stars. A 14 year old can win their local brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament and still feel inadequate.
note there's already a google office nearby in kitchener.
There are lots of addons available - here is a highly rated one: https://darkreader.org/
"to hunt a species to extinction is not logical"
What makes "artists" better to live around than "techbros"? Having lived in my fair share of neighborhoods inhabited by both, I can say neither is better/worse than the other.

It's basically the difference to people living off their parent's money (artists) vs. people living off money they make themselves (tech workers).
It seems to me that his reasons to retire are much more geared towards himself than are his reasons to keep working(?)
The data in the table disappears if I scroll around by dragging the scrollbar, and reappears as soon as I release my mouse button. However the data stays visible if I use my scroll-wheel while the pointer is over the data.

I'm currently on Firefox 61.0.1 on Kubuntu.
I moved to programming from biomedical R&D. It wasn't a decision based on economic concerns. I don't actually agree that "we could be further along in biotech if there were already a good number of us working on it", there are a bunch of people working on it and they are very intelligent, but the way projects are managed, communicated and evaluated is not conducive to great and immediate impact and doing research on humans actually has some issues.

Am very interested in talking about the field w/ pretty much anyone though. It has remained quite near to my heart.
Shouldn't Hacker news be open source, since monetization is not their primary intent ? That could be a nice comment system.

Edit: since Hacker news uses firebase, it would be nice to have some statistics for Their firebase usage and costing etc, if available anywhere ?
What happens when the honeymoon phase with your VC backers is over?
That's not a tough job at all. Actual "enforcement" part in "law enforcement" does not constitute even 1% of their work even in so called "warzone" cities. No way to dismiss this argument. Even in an armed to the teeth nation of America, there is no real need for an ordinary patrol officers to be armed at all.

They can call the job taught when they would be doing policing in actual war zones.

Even with "below the sea level" standards of police professionalism you have in US, there are no way to deny that it doesn't meet even that. No matter how you evaluate the performance of American police, it is simply terrible. I have no idea how anybody can spin that in any other way than this.
I think that was because of an acquisition.
that's true...they have been studying the packet flow patterns for a while -- such as this research,

http://security.riit.tsinghua.edu.cn/share/classify_encrypte...

But if the government completely blocks out VPN uses in the country, lots of international business operating there will suffer and then they will complain, which is not something the government can ignore (at least not always)...VPN whitelist could be a solution, but I don't know how well that is implemented (if it has been implemented) -- not to mention keeping a perfect consistent whitelist at that scale would be difficult...in addition, there is always some false positive/negative in their flow pattern analysis -- those are statistical approaches after all...so there is some grey area here...

Anyway, back to that openvpn experiment I did with my friend, many websites were still accessible with my openvpn tunnel -- although Google was not among those sites -- this seems to imply that they were doing some package semantic analysis (i.e. deep packet inspection)...