skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Liquor laws of Utah regulate the selling and purchasing of alcohol in the United States state of Utah and are some of the most restrictive in the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_Utah

Mormons account for nearly 90 percent of state Legislature
https://www.apnews.com/286983987f484cb182fba9334c52a617

Utah is America's worst state for women's equality in 2018, study shows
https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-is-americas-worst-state-for...
Phishing Scams: Is Your Financial Institution Helping Cyberthieves?
> I think characterizing duality in this way is kind of superfluous,

It's an analysis done out of necessity. These dualities might not be a 100% in every case, but maybe I care about the ways in which they are similar.

> because the only way all those meanings of duality are the same is in the most abstract sense of the word.

So is a monad. Do you think that in the future, the level of abstraction in mathematics is going to increase or decrease?
> Is this a primary use case? When it's not practical to make the changes at the origin server?

One major use-case, yes. "We'll pay big bucks for you to fix the website. But also, we can't make any changes to the website." Fine, "patch" it with Cloudflare, just one more layer on top of the un-fixable mess for the next guy to deal with (in exchange for even bigger bucks).
Dog domestication is possibly at 40kya or so, so in that case much different than the rest of domestication events.
Buy shares. Become a shareholder.

These are public entities.
Who said this person hasn't bathed in months? I have to challenge your claim of it being fine to want "pleasantness" or "standards" in a public space. 60 years ago, pre civil rights, this "pleasantness" meant not being black, which is ridiculous. "Filth" is also very much culturally shaped ... it sounds like you are saying homelessness == filth && unhealthy && public menace, which is very problematic.

edit: also, the no-cash policy does not filter against the "middle class home owner who hasn't bathed in months", so that does not hold.
Vonnegut is definitely in the same camp as Adams and Pratchett. I like to think that Adams was influenced by Vonnegut in his own writing, as Sirens could easily have passed for a Douglas Adams novel if it'd had more jokes and a bit more Britishness.

One thing Adams and Vonnegut have in common is their almost nihilistic sense of cosmic absurdity and the futility of purpose. Without spoiling anything, the whole story in The Sirens of Titan turns out to be meaningless. A bit like how, in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, we eventually realize that Earth was originally created by little white, superintelligent mice to compute, over billions of years, the meaning of life, the universe and everything. (The answer isn't... terribly useful.) It's absurd, and funny, and sad at the same time.

Vonnegut got more eccentric in his writing over time, but Sirens is actually very straightforward, and it's a masterpiece. Give it a shot. Cat's Cradle is also excellent. I never liked Slaughterhouse Five, which everyone recommends, as much.
Great point to illustrate the value! And how much does it cost to employ two good full-time developers?
Thanks! So you mean if I wanted to trigger a fresh build of a Gatsby site, it would only take a single API request to pull in all the content needed for the build? Even if you had thousands of posts and pages?
I mean if you're curious there actually is a good argument for not buying the homeless food, and it has to do with a sort of "market saturation." Talking to some homeless people and some formerly-homeless people, my understanding is that they know at this point where they can go to get a hot meal, and they take full advantage of those sorts of help.

By contrast what is missing includes reliable sources of clean drinking water, reliable sources of quarters and possibly detergent that could be used to do laundry, reliable sources of personal-needs products like toothbrushes, toothpaste, toilet paper, dish soap, changes of underwear/socks since those are less-often donated to clothing distribution locations.

Indeed the argument against giving the homeless money seems to me a little strange, since it inherently places them in a distrusted role over their decisions about themselves and emphasizes your control over someone else. It's not that the argument has no merit—it still has some. But in many regards the argument is limited, simply because wisdom cannot be imposed on someone from outside but must be learned and chosen from within: if I create a sandbox for the homeless where they can only do the activities that I approve of, I might get them out of homelessness—but am I really sure that then when I send them back into the world they will fare better? Put another way, how many people go through drug rehab and then relapse? Giving someone money and saying “I don’t know if you are going to spend this on booze tonight but I trust that if you keep having opportunities like this eventually you will learn that its more wise to spend it on your laundry” may be worse overall—but it's not clear that it’s worse in the long run by a substantial margin.
There are things which "are" which are not entities: objects.
Original source:

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/wh...
Neonatal circumcision could increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome
According to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2068#section-19.7.1.1 HTTP/1.1 defines the "Keep-Alive" header for use with keep-alive parameters but does not actually define any keep-alive parameters. I don't see a definition of this header in any of the RFCs that obsolete this one (just some mentions of issues with persistent connections and HTTP/1.0 servers, and the fact that Keep-Alive is a hop-by-hop header).

MDN's documentation on this header references https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-thomson-hybi-http-timeout-01... for the parameters, but this is an experimental draft that expired in 2012.

Which is to say, I can't really fault Safari for not respecting keep-alive parameters that never made it out of the experimental draft phase.
I never said they were wrong to deprecate unprofitable services, I'm just saying that it's not like the outrage is coming from nowhere, or has no justification.
thanks for helping me get the point across, that's exactly what i meant.
GRPC
With hotels, I can get late checkout until 4pm, and sometimes check in early. Additionally, they’ll hold on to my luggage even when the room isn’t ready and they’ll hold on to my luggage when I checkout and I’m ready to leave the city. I can be guaranteed that my room will be professionally sanitized and cleaned.

If I have status either via frequent traveler program or credit card, they’ll reward me with points multipliers, upgrades, and free breakfast and lounges (free beverages, waters, and snacks). Marriott’s BonVoy program comes to mind.

Airbnb’s, on the other hand, have strict check-in and check-out times. Then I have to carry my luggage for the rest of the day from 11am checkout. And for Airbnb’s without a keypad entry system, I have to negotiate a check-in time with the host to obtain a key (and if I lose a key, I’ll owe a key deposit).

I also find them priced within comparable range to Airbnbs. Not that I advocate anyone doing this, but somebody could try a /[1-9]{1}[0-9]{3}/ brute force search for a SET code/corporate rate on Marriott :) It’s only 9,000 permutations to find a good rate... (SET code: 1000, 1001, 1002...9999)
> Someone’s foul odor and possible mental illness affects others negatively, the color of someone’s skin does not. They are not comparable at all.

To be perfectly frank: that justification stinks of rationalization. I'm sure that the people who put up those signs I linked also felt that the presence of black customers would have affected them negatively.

> Let’s build facilities to treat the mentally ill and help addicts, let’s help the homeless who have hit hard times.

Those laws I mentioned previously had something to say about limiting black people to special facilities built especially for them, and excluding them from facilities built for whites [1].

> Let’s not make it the job of...libraries to host them and play the “discrimination, but not discrimination” game.

Are you serious? Libraries are public institutions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_Unit...
I’m a multi-unit host and I charge a $50 cleaning fee for a $100/Night two-bedroom.

I’ve been thinking of doubling or trebling the cleaning fee and reducing my nightly rates lately to better mirror my costs: I spend almost as much time greeting and cleaning guests who stay two nights as those who stay two weeks, so I spend a lot more time in two weeks if I have multiple guests.

Upping the cleaning fee to $100-150 so it pays for my ‘greeting time’ as well sounds fairer for everyone: it’ll be cheaper for long term guests, as it should since they’re less work per day.
>> But it does make the hired population more male and more white & Asian

Is that a reflection of bias or a reflection of the graduate hiring pool? If 90% of the CS graduates are male and your hiring process hires 90% male, is that bais or simply an extension of some problem upstream?
How is that in any way double edged? Or am I wrong in thinking that hiring policies should strive to be as meritocratic as possible, even if that means more white/Asian men?
I'd be available as a DevOps helper
> This post needs (2012) in the title, or in my opinion, deletion, since there is not much to discuss.

Why does the date matter to your statement at all? You’re really suggesting the link being replaced by a YouTube video (this content is date irrelevant anyway). Which I agree, video is the source of the info.
It absolutely could be selection bias.

That said I still hold their English was better than the average English person I've worked with generally (not just Developers).
American deaths from alcohol, drugs, suicide in 2017 hit highest level on record
I never would say something is impossible to believe unless it were a logical contradiction, and even then I wouldn't be 100% sure in saying it. People believe all sorts of things.

I’m just saying that people have a right to be disgusted by the store’s reasoning. I did not say anything that could be construed as supporting violent child molesters and the fact that you think I did says much more about you than me.

Your comment is bluster in search of a fight. I don’t have one to give you. You were just wrong. Tomorrow’s another day.
The Therapeutic Benefits of Free Play Outdoors
Except the reason why no one has an opportunity when put together is because of groups fleeing school systems (see: white flight) due to other issues like racism or religious reasons.

The solution isn't to further punish the poor by essentially defunding public schools. It's to increase the quality of public schools and increase opportunity for people to go to school. And make no mistake, the entire point of school vouchers is to punish the poor.
Predicting the ‘holy grail’ of climate forecasting: A new model
> almost nihilistic sense of cosmic absurdity and the futility of purpose

You nailed it. That's the part I could not swallow.

But I'll give Sirens another try. Thank you.
This is a kind of anti-fallacy. You take the mere presence of these comparisons to undermine the rest of the substantive argument that their claims are wrong.

Just a couple of examples:

the framing leaves no room to consider how historical and social change might legitimately change institutions or individuals, or that individuals might want to change their world. (This framing also explains how they can write hundreds of pages about what’s wrong with contemporary higher education and not mention debt or adjuncts.) The authors cite the “folk wisdom” “Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child”. They call this attitude “pragmatic”. The prospect that a group of children might get together to build a new road themselves is not one they can countenance.

Or the quote in my original comment, which if you remove the apparently distracting "Like Trump", is entirely substantive:

the authors romanticise a past before “identity” but get fuzzy and impatient when history itself comes up. “Most of these schools once excluded women and people of colour,” they reflect. “But does that mean that women and people of colour should think of themselves as ‘colonised populations’ today?” You could approach this question by looking at data on racialised inequality in the US, access to universities, or gendered violence. They don’t. They leave it as a rhetorical question for “common sense” to answer.

And:

They argue that intersectionality theory divides people into good and bad. But the scholars they quote do not use this moral language; those scholars talk about privilege and power.
Of all the micro-optimizations I could think of for web apps, the one with the highest cost and the least benefit would probably be supporting http2 (or *quic). In almost all cases, there is a fix that will speed up http1.1 to acceptable levels.
Also check out: https://www.stackpath.com/products/edgeengine/
Bad gateway.
> I guess I were right in that we're not allowed to post opinions here

I don’t think that’s true, but merely expressing an opinion without providing some form of justification or argument isn’t really something that is viewed favorably around here.

I’m just a user on this site, but I tend to prefer to read comments that go beyond one liners in the vein of “something sucks”. To me this is a place to express thoughts that further the discussion, not to express one’s emotions necessarily. Just my two cents.
Unfortunately there is no clear answer to that, I'm latino but living and working in a south american country so its irrelevant; but I have searched for jobs overseas (remote) and a few times I have landed the job.
and kernel is one of them
Highly interesting writing. I found myself both agreeing and disagreeing with points - but mostly agreeing.

At the same time, some of it "plucked at my liberal nose", which bothered me, but further reading seemed to indicate that the author wasn't doing it to be "on a side" - in fact, I could see him "plucking the conservative nose" as well!

...and indeed, I believe that is intentional; his point being (I think) to get the reader to break out of the us-vs-them dynamic, try to see all points of view, especially those you don't agree with, and think more for yourself instead of succumbing to the systems in place that attempt to tell you what to think and how - and are oh-so-seductive as they do so.

I like to think, as we probably all do, that "I am better than that - I think for myself!", etc.

But do I?

This kind of writing makes me pause and question that; I find it a good...if a bit unsettling...thing.
This is the kind of article that makes people who think they are geniuses (but have produced nothing useful) feel justified in hurting others to get what they want.
The desktop sync client is probably the way to go then.
Almost all of Tesla's Model 3 orders came from their pre-order queue, which had to be done online (even in store, they simply directed you to an kiosk of their website.) before they even had Model 3s to test-drive. This means that the 78%/82% comes overwhelmingly from the preorder Model 3 buyers, and that as time passed more of the buyers were doing so through the stores.

Consequently, they're not losing "at most 22%" of possible sales, they're losing at least 22% of possible sales, likely more, since they're trying to target mainstream buyers that heavily prefer to test-drive vehicles before purchasing.
Yeah I don't think my comparison to fluoridated water is out of line. The entirety of the NSAKEY evidence is "it has NSA in the name." That's not even as strong as the evidence that fluoridated water has minimal health benefits and more risks than the government claims, which is weak evidence but at least it exists.
Nasa Photographs the Shock Waves of Supersonic Jets
A/B testing at work
Fair enough, there are other protections besides patents. Still, that doesn't seem to be the case here at all; like I wrote, competitors were selling alternatives within a couple of months.

What seems to me is that the market was crowded out while the primary producer kept the prices low; when they were raised, the market responded.
The article you cite says that's exactly what happened:

> Last year, organizers said that on the Day of Absence, they wanted white people to stay off campus.
I’ve met many incompetent people who don’t belong at their job. Race and gender isn’t related.
FYI we have and will always grandfather in early customers.
Hm, Philip K. Dick, Stephen King, and Terry Pratchett come to mind.

William Gibson, although I liked Neuromancer's ending, and every novel since that has followed the same template (mystery bigwig hires someone to find McGuffin, but is really manipulating/being manipulated about something else, the end).

Maybe I was being harsh. I'll see if I can think of more examples.

At the other end of the scale, Iain M. Banks never wrote a badly paced book that didn't have a perfect ending, as far as I'm concerned. The guy was a master.
So Canada must be the nicest place on earth during the times of the year when the Canadian Geese are visiting not Canada.
A 10" screen is 71 inches square. A square foot is 144 inches square. You are saying your working area is about 10 square feet and ergo nobody could possibly want the same applications on a machine with 2 27" monitors as one 10" or even 6" screen despite many tasks being useful on both because SOME tasks are not.

An absolute ton of people use actual computers with 12" - 14" screens including for complex tasks they just switch tasks more which is probably less efficient but hardly impossible.

They may opt to dock their machine at home/work for a larger work area but as it happens many tasks may cross both environments.

For example at home you may have many windows visible at once one of which is a document you are reading or a video you are watching another an editor in which you are writing documentation or code. After you undock you may wish to continue SOME of the tasks on the smaller screen for example watching the video or reading the document but opt to defer others until you have richer input and display options.

Lets go a level deeper. Your device is a general purpose computer. It could in theory run 2 entirely different UI stacks that run on the same OS and access the same files. Its the files that are the vital thing. If you create a video in one stack and merely watch it in another what of it.

Convergence is merely the idea that you will eventually be able to carry a small enough cheap enough computer in your pocket that it wont make much sense for many people to lug around 2 different portable computers.

This seems as inevitable as computers going from buildings to something we lug around in the first place.
That's the Peter Principle, and it applies to everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
> You've got a bit of an edge case... Haswell is the last machine I'd consider modern. Go back one generation and Ivy Bridge is missing AVX2 and loses performance in a number of applications.

(acknowledging that this website is for a particular subset of computer users) I think this comment misses the point of the original comment. I use a desktop I built in 2011 (i5 2500k) as my main driver - I upgraded to an SSD and a RX580 recently, and it performs fantasticly. It has USB 3, which is iomportant to me for bulk file transfers to removable media. It plays any game I have thrown at it yet. I may upgrade the CPU/ram/mobo at some point, but haven't felt the need yet.

I'm sure my computer would be pretty terrible compared to a new i7 at the particular CPU-intensive tasks you mentioned (encoding, rendering, compiling...), but for everyday use and gaming it can't be faulted in the slightest. Very impressive for an 8-year-old CPU. Even 3 years ago, an 8-year-old computer would've been trash (core2 duo, ew)
I'm guessing but I can't really explain why, my gut feel is 42.
> We already have this problem, just that there's no way out for a lot of people, and we could enable a few people to get out.

Actual studies of choice programa generally show that in the short term they hurt outcomes and in the long term that goes away to about even; some of the worst student outcomes in the US are in the systems with most extensive availability and use of school choice. The evidence does not suggest that school choice is a solution to any actual problem in public education—which has real problems—no matter how much both those with money at stake in the private education business and religious devotees of free-market fundamentalism want us to believe it is; it's certainly a powerful distraction from efforts to find real solutions, though.
I grew up in a majority hispanic community, but I'm not hispanic. I find it very hard to say "latinx" because that's not the label used when I was growing up. However, "hispanic" is apparently exclusive and should be avoided. I've asked my hispanic friends what they think about "latinx". They all hate it and never use it themselves. One said of the recent PC wave: "This is all perpetrated by clueless people, almost all white, who tell us what problems we suffer from and how we should solve them." I fall into the LGBT bucket and that's a different minefield, but I can sympathize.

I got off topic. Nonetheless I agree that if I were to constructively criticize these often misimplemented diversity initiatives, it wouldn't be well received. Meanwhile I'll let the compound interest do its thing.
I didn't read this article as encouraging either coyote or racoon behaviour, but rather to be an arborist [0]. What makes you think this?

[0]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-arborist/
The linked article is down. Here is a Wired article discussing the same leak: https://www.wired.com/story/email-marketing-company-809-mill...
I’m not Indian (I’m Uruguayan).

There were two times where I more than doubled my pay. At one point I was 1 month into a contract and I got an offer from a previous client doubling what I was getting. I used that to make my case and we figured a schedule for me to make 2x my rate.

Then, I was bored and started playing with Asterisk and Twilio. I built an integration before there were docs on how to do it, I blogged about it and people started contacting me offering me to do it for them.

For each client I asked for more money. I started at 35/h and doubled it every time somebody contacted me.

One of those clients offered me a 40 hours/week contract. They got acquired and I was a key member working 60+ hours per week.

The new company wanted me to sign a long term contract and... to sign it I asked for even more money! since I’d be giving up opportunities to work with other clients.

Once you start making more money it’s easier to get the job because... you’re already being paid that. Obviously, you need to deliver according to the expectations, but luckily that wasn’t an issue for me.
I spent the first 6 years of my career in a mainframe environment. There really is a lot of good there, especially for enterprises that have mission-critical applications.

But it must not have been that great, because I haven't gone back. :)
> "one size fits all" programming ends up underserving both segments

citation needed. The majority of applications I need would work just fine on a powerful smartphone.
The Soviet War paintings you link to are well executed but seem completely unoriginal to me. I can't see any reason why these paintings would be famous.
Moral judgements are by nature not objective. To most people it is subjectively obvious that it is a bad thing, in the same way that it is a bad thing to kill another.

If you wanted an argument, we could say that dollars of wealth have decreasing marginal value in terms of individual well-being/happiness, so that, in order to maximize collective well-being/happiness, a more even distribution is desirable.
Medium. If you view in incognito mode or in mobile app then you wont see it.