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As a mathematician, I have to say that a good definition comes first :)

I don't know if my definition is good, but I have a working definition of 'cultural appropriation' that says something can only be 'cultural appropriation' if it falls in the confluence of 1) erasure of the origins/failure to cite sources and 2) money being made, with additional penalties if it involves co-optation of a religious symbol or practice for the purpose of making money for people outside that culture. So for me, a white person running a generic sweat lodge for $2000 a visit would fit my definition. Generic yoga gets in there; Alison Roman's 'stew' would fit. Here's how I look at it: I can write a calculus textbook and sell it for money, but I can't claim I invented it and fail to give credit to Newton or Leibniz.

For instance, I don't think Korean tacos fit my definition of cultural appropriation because they do not 1) erase the contribution of the cultures involved (the very name 'cites the sources' and if you want to go learn more about Korean food or tacos, you can follow that culinary history back!).

The definition comes before you can debate whether the question belongs in our ethical systems. From there, how do you debate whether "Murder is wrong" belongs in our ethical systems? I would think you could follow the same path.
I am from the Netherlands and have seen this news on other small dutch news channels but I do not understand why this is on "HackerNews". @blue_devil could you elaborate why you posted this?

Yes the fact that mink can get the virus and that they can transmit it to humans is news worthy but even on the dutch national television this news was only mentioned very shortly.
A comet will hit the earth is also easy to predict.

But we won't build something now against it because it's a long time ago.
Trying to explain monads is misguided. The formal definitions do not help practical understanding (at least without a strong background in category theory, maybe?).

It's better to simply use them until you get the idea: the IO monad is the same sequencing operation as in any traditional programming language, state monads are slightly weaker versions of the same, maybe and error monads are short-circuiting evaluation, and list is much less weird once you get that (and see the "Turn your failures into a list of successes" paper), and by that time you're probably deep into monad transformer territory.

Once you get comfortable with those, you're good to go. Unless the Haskellers have created a bunch of new nifty abstractions to learn.
You're just saying that kdb has the opposite imbalance as Haskell (relative to mainstream languages).

If supply and demand for kdb favours employees, then presumably it disfavors employers, who would rather have a bigger pool of kdb programmers so they could pay less.

That doesn't contradict what I said about Haskell vs mainstream languages. I didn't say all niche languages are like Haskell.
Yeah, this is a big problem with pip. If you can't get the old maintainer to add you as a contributor, you can't update a package on pip.

So now you have to fork it, come up with a new name, and then publish that instead. And then hope everyone who depended on the old package switches to your package.

Reddit had this same problem with abandoned subreddits. They instituted a policy where you could apply to take over an abandoned subreddit, so if there had been no mod activity you could take over.

Pip needs a process like that. They need a way to take over an inactive project. Safety would be a big concern, you don't want someone malicious taking over a popular but abandoned package and then hacking it. But safety the other way is important too.

There is also the odd situation where you could end up owning the code and not the package on pip. When my company acquired another, we got all their code. We only realized later that we didn't get the credentials for pip. Luckily the old owner was kind enough to just give us the credentials, but we could have been stuck owning the code but not the pip package.
You can't hoard search results since they change. The same search in March may be different in April.
> Do you think it is possible that there are truths that cannot be articulated in words? Is it possible that there are meaningful experiences that cannot be easily conveyed by language?

In a vague sense, yes, but I think I'm making is subtly different. I think many people struggle to turn important ideas in their heads into clear words. This synthesis is largely what separates smart people from people who change the world. My observation is that psychedelics seem to place the idea in a persons head that they have synthesized some fundamental truth, but their explanation of it doesn't sound like a difficulty putting a complex idea into words, but instead they discover that that thing they are convinced is a fundamental truth is actually just an empty shell. They have just broken the part of their brain capable of realizing that there is nothing there but an emotional belief.
Whats a low doses for you?
Toggling between unified and split diff with CSS Grid
OK, but then you have a very controlled way of deploying each service.

Each team can't just deploy a new version of their microservice when it makes sense to them.

So your collection of microservices becomes a bit of a distributed monolith, losing some of the classic microservice advantages.

Or so it seems to me. I just read about this stuff, have never used it. Happy to be educated.
I have never checked out how much karma anyone has in here, but after reading you I went on to have a look. First time I look at this, and it turns out you have "331331". That was a strange enough number that for a split second made me think I was looking at some random description field and you had put some magic number you like (a la 1337 or the likes)
It sounds like you don't know what "loss ratio" means in the context of an insurance company. Loss ratio is the % of premiums collected that are paid back out in claims. If the number is below 100%, then your core insurance business is profitable

Of course, this doesn't mean your company is. Insurance companies have many expenses beyond paid claims. But loss ratio should never get to 0% and, by definition, can't be negative. 72% is pretty good for a relatively new insurance business.
I don't understand. You have a source of light far away - it blinks. How do you know if its a lamp or flashlight?
I don't know how it is for renters, but you can't find a standard homeowners insurance that will cover earthquakes, at least not in California. This occurred after the damages and insurance claims from the Northridge earthquake.

You have to buy earthquake insurance through a state program that the insurance company may offer - but it isn't really from the company, its from the state. In general, they are extremely high deductible programs and only for catastrophic loss - e.g. deductibles that are 25% of the structure.
I might be a little biased but CodeFund might be a good choice.
> It's Reddit garbage talk that should stay on Reddit and die.

KnowYourMeme.com traces it back to Dane Cook, so it's actually just comedy (which is only occasionally funny).

Reddit is just a representation of what a broad spectrum of the internet is talking about.
I think this is a very pertinent question. Here’s an essay for you which explores this topic and how it relates to other issues.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK

MULTICULTURALISM, OR, THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF MULTINATIONAL CAPITALISM (1997)

https://newleftreview.org/issues/I225/articles/slavoj-zizek-...

The intro paragraph:

‘Those who still remember the good old days of Socialist Realism, are well aware of the key role played by the notion of the ‘typical’: truly progressive literature should depict ‘typical heroes in typical situations.’ Writers who presented a bleak picture of Soviet reality were not simply accused of lying; the accusation was rather that they provided a distorted reflection of social reality by depicting the remainders of the decadent past, instead of focusing on the phenomena which were ‘typical’ in the sense of expressing the underlying historical tendency of the progress towards Communism. Ridiculous as this notion may sound, its grain of truth resides in the fact that each universal ideological notion is always hegemonized by some particular content which colours its very universality and accounts for its efficiency[.]’
Availability and Applications of Sustainable Biomass [pdf]
Not in that time, but in the vein of the other stories under this -

I saw a group of people in a web community (comics sharing group in a small town) self-organize to collectively fund a couple of them (one artist, one writer) for printing a short story that they'd done and never got payed for. Each person that contributed got a signed copy!

I thought, hey, this could generalize to all sorts of stuff if there was a platform to help organize it!
Mused around with it for maybe a couple of hours, became a bit disheartened by the legal aspects of it, and put it on a 'TO-DO' list.

Six months later I heard the first things about Kickstarter and realized I missed the boat
It seems that Lemonade advertises charity as a psychological trick to make customers willing to claim less money on their insurance, but is unlikely to have processes in place that make donations actually work this way.

If Lemonade were serious about charity, wouldn’t they make themselves contractually obligated to donate excesses?
I pretty much agree with you and thank you for your answer.
Unfortunately the article omits 2 important details:

1. The toxicological report.

George Floyd had a blood concentration of Fentanyl 11 ng/mL plus Norfentanyl 5.6 ng/mL plus Methamphetamine 19 ng/mL. I'm no expert but I've read a few papers and these concentrations seem pretty high and have been linked to fatal cases in the past.

2. The 'independent' autopsy wasn't done on the body

Media reporting on this detail is very shoddy. The 'autopsy' commissioned by the family of the deceased and carried out by some Dr. Michael Baden wasn't actually performed on Mr. Floyds body but was merely remote review/diagnosis of the widely-circulated video and reading the coroner's report.

3. Floyd was complaining about being unable to breathe before he was even on the ground

In a differently angled video preceding the viral video Floyd can be heard telling the police officer he had problems breathing before he even was in a restraint hold or on the ground.
That is fair. It does not contribute to curiosity, discovery, or good conversation. I will remove the negative bits.
Every 157 days feels like travel time. Can we isolate everything that in the Universe that takes 157 days from Earth and scanning the sky?
> Our perception of time flow is just an illusion

Can you demonstrate this in any meaningful way that will affect the world you exist in?
> messing with one's brain is dangerous

Meh. I'd say we're likely stuck in a local optimum - the default programming of our brains is clearly not optimal for our state of evolution... our brains evolved for hunting and gathering clearly don't have good default programming for understanding and exploring the universe.

Hope brain-computer-interfaces come soon and we can do more controlled hacks with those, but until then anything that can nudge our minds out of equilibrium / gradient-pit is great. And some side-effects (eg. small minority of people manifesting psychoses etc.) are a sign we're on the right track imo.

Sure, we can try tweaking external factors, sprinkling in some wars, terrorism, pandemics, riots etc. to occasionally wake some people up, our benevolent true leaders, whoever they are, treat us with these at least... but I'd support more direct and less destructive alternatives :)
Between the operating system, development tools, compiler, and libraries, a 'Hello world!' web server is several careers worth of work.
Here in my garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here. It’s fun to drive up here in the Hollywood hills. But you know what I like more than materialistic things? Knowledge. In fact, I’m a lot more proud of these seven new bookshelves that I had to get installed to hold two thousand new books that I bought. It’s like the billionaire Warren Buffett says, “the more you learn, the more you earn.”
As per last week's announcement from AWS about the availability of AMD EPYC cpus, we have repeated the “single socket” test for the EPYC cpu as well.

The updated chart is included in the post or you can find it here: https://blog.min.io/content/images/2020/06/single-socket-per...

It clearly performs and scales a lot better than the Intel CPUs (no doubt also benefiting from the increased memory bandwidth) and at high core counts is very close to the Graviton2.

Furthermore, I agree that the “investment costs” for Amazon are almost minute, they might have already earned it back.
Why should it? It's content-free ... why would anyone upvote it?
No, we downvote because you act like a jerk. If you want to talk to people here, lose the attitude.

For example: "normies". Yeah, you don't actually need to use putdowns to communicate. If you're going to be on HN, don't do that.
What I don’t understand is: SMR is for increased density, no? So, why don’t the 8 TB Reds use it?
There was a large thread about that article 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212822 in 2019.
Putting the User in “User Consent”
With cupy you limit yourself to nvidia hardware. By using pytorch instead you can run on whatever hardware supported by it, either directly or indirectly (e.g., through ONNX conversion)
> If a language manages to become hugely popular and then stops development, that's how you end up with Perl or COBOL.

Perl development didn't stop. In fact, Perl 5.32 will be released in a few days and it will introduce several new major features, such as operator chaining, the 'isa' operator or the ability to disable the indirect object syntax.
Is it easy to convert the money back into cash? I remember PLEX (and WoW now has a similar token among many others), but I swear it was a one way conversion, though there was monetary value in playing for free.
Well yeah, it seems you're reiterating that it's great for employers, not for employees. I don't disagree.

Of course if Haskell somehow takes off and all the FANG companies want to hire as many Haskell engineers as they can, then the situation would probably reverse.
The title could be fixed from "in £1 deal" to "as part of £1 deal".

No ambiguity there, although it doesn't adequately explain how that came about, but that's why there's an article.
Lots of good answers here. And I think there’s reason to be skeptical.

One concrete thing I’ve taken out of it is greater empathy for my kids’ lived experience. Alison Gopnik at Berkeley talks about how fmri studies suggest that the increased connectivity between different regions of the brain on psychedelics shows some similarities to children’s brains at all times.

I can sense in my kids, particularly the one with some sensory processing issues, just how overwhelming certain situations can be by analogizing to my experiences with psychedelics. I look at her and think, yeah, I wouldn’t be able to handle this birthday party either if my brain was in that state.
>>It's more obviously sexist than racist, and more obviously harmful to actual people named Karen.

Your comment is such a fantastical stretch that I thought it was posted by a Romanian gymnast.
How do you know it was actually beautiful rather than simply stimulating the part of your brain that registers beauty?
Unity Mars
Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip
Fern. Apparently he used to visit the treasure a couple of times a year.
I don't know if it is purely based on upvotes but what I can say for my account is that on average I used to get significantly less then one karma point per upvote. When I watched the upvote counter on the individual item[1] and compared it with my karma increase a view years ago it was pretty consistent at 0.5.

Back then I shrugged this of as effect of the voting ring detector but it left me wondering: can the false positive rate be so high and so consistent ... IDK. Needless to say that I never participated in a voting ring and I'm not that well connected that many upvotes should be from the same people.

An alternative explanation that crossed my mind was if it could depend on the story/comment ratio because back at the time I submitted much more stories than I wrote comments. I did this with good intentions, I often like to read what other think even if I don't get involved in the discussion, but I could understand if a platform incentivized a healthy ratio of submissions and discussion.

[1] I can't remember if this was true for stories or comment but I think I could only see it for one type of submission.
Yeah I'm not totally convinced myself of the CDCs numbers, and there's probably going to be consequences in a couple weeks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22176686

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17689715
Whoa - if typical loss ratios are around 50%, surely there is a big opportunity for someone else to swoop in with cheaper insurance products?
With the expectation that if the ship is infected, everyone on it will die, and no medical help will be given. Pretty brutal by modern standards.
> All the more reason to have an IDE

No, all the less reason. The path existing Haskell tools are taking makes sense. An IDE would be a massive community undertaking to do well, and still a waste of massive community effort to do poorly.

> IntelliJ is out of control, partly because java itself is horrendously convoluted, but that's an exception.

...and partly because Java is many users' first language, and partly because its ecosystem is notoriously complicated to configure and use, and partly because IntelliJ is so mature, and....

I think IntelliJ doesn't prove your point at all. It is essentially nothing like what a hypothetical Haskell IDE would be, either in users or use-cases.

I appreciate that beginners want tooling, but I am arguing that an IDE is precisely not what that tooling should be.
You could still tie it to player interaction, so some loose combination of player skill and time spent in game. Don't these games already try really hard to prevent botting?
It’s unlikely the estimate varied much from what other insurers would offer you, assuming you were comparing the same building materials and coverage. If Lemonade were so expensive, their loss ratio from the S-1 would be much better and they’d have fewer customers.

(Anecdotally, they are offering me about 95% of what I pay Geico for similar coverage, and without the auto insurance discount.)
HBO Max Just Launched, but They’re Already Losing Most of Their DC Movies
The big one is it's nondeterministic. An obvious example of nondeterminism is the genotype which determines mirror-body, it's caused by a defective cilium. Normally that cilium enforces torquoselectivity -it only rotates in one direction which establishes chiral directionality, but a certain genotype disables its rotation, so the orientation of your body is a factor of random chance based on how your cell was rotating at the single cell level. The mendelian inheritance is basically 50/50 stochastic based on the genotype.

That's a pretty macro example (both at the genotypic ratio and phenotype levels), but it can happen at the micro level, too. You can have grossly nonlinear effects (well actually many effects are O(n^k) in concentration n, where k is the oligomer size, 2->12->20++) and sometimes even the phenotypically important species is like 10%? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%? of the molecule population. And the proportion of the species could depend on the temperature. Are you running at 35C? 38C? 40C? 42C?

In a reductionistic way you could say that any system that follows logical rules is "like a computer" but I think at that point it ceases to be a meaningful statement.

Computers are great because if you give them an input they can give a deterministic answer (you can also choose to have them not give a deterministic answer, as in ML, and yes sometimes at Google scale you have to deal with cosmic radiation) but the choice is inverted for biological systems. You can try really hard to make biological systems give deterministic answers, and in some systems you don't have to try that hard, especially nowadays, but the default still is "nondeterministic".
If you work a lot on yourself, you always end up learning things you can't explain to others.

When you approach life intellectually, because it has been your best weapon until now, you tend to think that if you understand something clearly, then you can express it as clearly.

But just like it's impossible to explain blue to a blind man, it's impossible to explain realizations about what happens inside yourself, to people outside. Or maybe you'll find a way (E.G: frequency for colors), but it will have no impact on the other party because the experience it what matters.

It's weird, but there are actually a lot that happens to us that we have no vocabulary for. Or no language tools, or even shared concepts, for. It's very frustrating, espacially if you are particularly good at putting things in words.

I like step by step explanations to get a grap on things. It infuriated me when I had to learn practices that weren't taught that way. It felt such BS. But I now know that it's not. It's just our way of communicating is limited, like everything in the human condition. And the more you practice, the more you see things you didn't notice before in yourself. It's no surprise we got no word for something we seldom pay attention to.

Knowing that now, I understand why so many self-help practices seems so full of shenanigans: testimonies look irrational, full of terrible analogies and symbolism, or flat "duh, bro".

Plus, people create complicated believe systems around their experience and mix up everything. We are so desperate for the extraordinary that we will make it up at any occasion. E.G: meditation is a very mondain activity, but the term is loaded with a lot of stereotypes, expectations and mythology.

It's confusing, and doesn't scream credibility.

Also, we reuse the same labels for totally different things. I've seen hundred of people taking about psychedelics or meditating, and they do it in vastly different ways.

If you take LSD at a party, it's not the same than in a guided ceremony. If you medidate 10 minutes singing a mantra, it's not the same than a 10 days silent retreat, etc.

Then, add variety in people, the fact experience can't be measured, that there is no way to be objective about it, the placebo effect, history, culture, politics, moral, religion, other believes, etc.

And you got yourself a puddle of mud.

But it's worth exploring, I swear.
I always thought it would be neat to apply something like pagerank to reddit (or HN, or whatever) comments. Surprised nobody has done this.

(Maybe it would turn into an echo chamber pretty fast, but I'm not 100% certain, which is like I'd like to see someone try it.)
A trip to Antarctica transformed my life
I learned handwriting under the tutelage of a very stern French teacher. She seemed to genuinely enjoy inflicting The Ruler™ on that back of even a slightly exuberant student's knuckles. It was not a fun experience, although I do think that barred 7's make for better legibility, so it wasn't all for naught!
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