skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work with a guy who used the original Model M that he had with the PC he was given in the late 80s/early 90s. It's survived multiple coffee spills and at least one case where it was repeatedly picked up and bashed against the desk out of frustration (both key-side down and up). You'll almost certainly get that 20 years.

If you want to restore the keys -- and to be clear, I can't honestly recommend this approach -- but I used to bathe my Northgate Omnikey and clean it with dish soap, followed by a trip to the oven on the equivalent of a "keep warm" setting for a half-day. I was surprised that a lot of the discoloration on the keys wasn't the usual plastic oxidation but was from the oil and grime on my fingertips. It always came out shining and like-new -- partly because whatever they did to print the letters on the keys was very resistant to being worn off. I did it about once every 2 years during the decade and a half that I owned it and it was sold at an estate sale in perfect working condition 15 years after that.

At least one person mentioned using a dishwasher. I've never tried it, and would never do that to a modern keyboard, but I'd imagine the effects would be similar with a whole lot less effort.
According to your first link, the rule had been in place in some jurisdictions prior to 1968, but was struck down by the US Supreme Court at that time.
Where in the logic loop are we?
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And even that is only true for systems that don’t use interrupt threads.
Your perspective is 100% valid in a society that did not have several intentional attempts to punish a group of people because of their skin color.

The USA is a society with a long documented history of actions to undermine a population because of their skin color so unfortunately, your perspective is a little too simplistic for this situation.
Come on man. Just read:

https://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/
Are you implying that a human with black skin is predetermined to commit crime at a higher rate? Or might there be some confounding variables, such as poverty, caused by hundreds/thousands of years of institutional racism?
Plenty of great content can be found online. The Martian: rebuffed by literary agents when trying to get prior books published, Weir decided to put the book online in serial format one chapter at a time for free at his website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel)

Honestly, I have read hundreds of books, but my personal favorites are all online or started that way. Freedom means a lot of junk, but also stores that are truly different.
Strange title : "Black boys" : Why specially black ? Why specially boys ? Every child needs a mentor, if not a father.
I've had my rant at someone already this year. A lawyer posting about legal documents saying "make sure you put all four digits in to avoid confusion" and the giving an example like 03/01/2020.

Sigh.
"Fleabag" offers wonderful commentary on this subject (among many others).
You're saying that black people have a higher propensity for crime. Is it not more plausible that humans are more or less alike, and the difference is outside their control?
It can be both. The competition can help you figure out how you're doing.
That's not extremely low power compared to real low power states. The main advantage of PAUSE is the scheduling of the other hyperthread (if it exists) and maybe not generating a gratuitous L1 / MESI workload at a crazy rate (well if programmed correctly that should be quite cheap in lots of cases, but still...). To my knowledge this does not cut any clock, so the power economy is going to be minimal.
For sunk costs, you are supposed to consider your all options including the sunk cost project.

For your example your options might look like:

* Stick with industry, 0 year lead time, no cost, possible sadness, low risk

* Slight change, 2 year lead time, $20,000, moderate happiness, medium risk

* Vast change, 10 year lead time, $100,000, unknown happiness, high risk

The fallacy would be giving the first option some sort of financial value because you spend time and money on it in the past. You are just supposed to look at your options looking forward only.
http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-non-western-can... -- A Non-Western Canon (along with some words on Harold Bloom)
I think he’s talking about forever-newbie / perpetual rookie syndrome.
> higher crime rates

Source? Everything I've read suggests that crime rates are pretty much the same across race and ethnicity when controlling for economic status. The primary variable is contact with the justice system, i.e. getting caught.
I’m curious to know how NIM performed given it transcodes into C.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21957325 places the result of that racist + non-racist incarceration at 11% of the total male black population (20-34).

Are there any numbers on how many black fathers are absent?
> “I’m always paranoid when I meet new people that they have seen my video or [when I] meet new people [they] are going to say, ‘I know you.’”

The context of the quote was not as you describe.
Then only billionaires will win office. The old rule of a low monetary cap per house hold was the start of a good system. I'd say extend that further into a slightly higher cap overall but make it all political donations and not just per candidate.

Allowing unlimited dark money into super pacs is where it fell apart.
Why the hell shouldn't they worry about practicality?
My shared hosting provider 20 years ago didn't have a CDN and would fall over if I got too popular.
How does reading the classics shelter from engaging with ephemeral works?
I know you think you are being sarcastic, but this very thing does happen, see stop and friskbl for example - white men on 5th avenue were not being "randomly" stopped.

Black men have been and continue to be systamaticly oppressed in the US. Black men serve more prison time than white men for the same crime. Black men are more likely to be charged for a crime vs dropped by the prosecutor when compared to a similar situation for whites.

This has been going on since litterly before the US existed when blacks were sold like animals for two centuries in america. Black people face institutional barriers to voting, jobs, loans, education and more.

This is a matter of fact not opinion.
Tell HN: My brilliant plan to save Fry's Electronics
Context: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Is-Fry-s-Electronics-in-trouble-Company-denies-14945559.php

Here's my brilliant idea for saving Fry's:

Two of their biggest problems are

1) Not enough people coming into their store to buy, and

2) Past real-estate investments that left them with cavernous, excess indoor space.

Solution:

Take half the space of each store, and turn it into a maker-space/education center.

Hold workshops there. Free, or dirt cheap, on how to do fun things with a Raspberry Pi, or build your own PC/gaming rig, or whatever.

Have spaces where people can assemble their gear. With a few knowledgeable staff around - plus the friendly neighborhood volunteers who will be naturally attracted to just come hang out at this space - to help out. And since it's right there, they can just walk over to the store and BUY ALL THE PARTS.

Make it FUN. Family friendly. A place where people want to come and just hang out, to be around other technical hobbyists...

A place where local tech enthusiasts go to meet their friends, make new friends, even bring their families. And spend money.

(Heck, Fry's could even sell food and drinks. Popcorn. There would be people there who need to eat and drink; why not?)

Would this work?

Maybe. Maybe not.

But I bet it has a better chance of working than the direction they're
heading now.

Thoughts?
I just happened to read a story where an Asian was killed while two blacks trying to steal laptop from him https://abc7news.com/5811847

The story mentioned one suspect's sister saying " I have 4 kids and no daddy in their lives ". I simply can't understand this. One kid , I can understand. But four? ... Four (Add: non has daddy present)? I just have too many questions.

Add: I interpreted "no daddy in their lives" as they never had a daddy present ever. This could be my mistake.
Just because you know how much effect you’ve had doesn’t mean you know how much control you have.

They are related but the relationship is not clear.

And only the second question matters.
Girard would nod mmm-hmm at trying to find differences among people who went to college together. If you zoom out to look at the whole wide range of people around the world -- truckers, subsistence farmers, politicians, assembly line workers, homemakers -- people who went to the same college in the US are clustered very close together.

One reason that Girardian conflict is attractive is that the differences aren't big enough to ensure different destinies. Rivals in college can put each other down, CS geeks insulting math geeks, knowing that their likely outcomes in life are broadly similar. Putting down, say, a subsistence farmer, who does have a different destiny, would seem quite cruel.

Girardian conflict doesn't feel like elitism. Marxist conflict does.
The Springsteen ticket example is a horrible one.

It turns out the amount of time you spent getting the tickets is irrelevant.

No its not my time is worth something.[1] If I spent 3 hours getting the tickets and I value my time at $150 an hour then the value of the tickets is now $505 and I'm only getting offered $500

Also the value of a ticket "To Me" may be worth more than $55 I spent. It might be worth $1000 in my mind for a chance to see Bruce regardless of what I spent.

[1] One of my great life hacks as I've gotten older is valuing my (particularly free) time at some amount - usually $150 per hour. Have a task I can pay someone to do and get the time back on a weekend? - $150 x Time of Task is the amount I'm willing to pay.
Yes, please. It's so much easier to hit the right F-Key (without looking down), especially when combined with ALT/CTRL, when they're on the left. I wish this was still an option these days.

Thanks for the link. Damn, I haven't seen a 122 key keyboard since the 80s!
The only thing worse than reading his writing was being his student. He was the ultimate bureaucratic academic, skimming off his students' research and undercutting their futures. Oh, and fucking them (or trying to), if they were pretty enough and female.

His "literature of resentment" codifies the outgoing generations irritation at insufficient worship and gratitude.

RIP, he won't be missed, and his ideas are sinking ever-further into irrelevance.
As long as there are no rounded corners, ya.

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We can argue all we want about how ineffective and/or misguided the War on Drugs has been, but that doesn't change that fact that crimes are crimes. Were some of the sentencing guidelines structured in a racist way? Maybe, I've heard people say that and don't have any evidence showing the opposite, but that is a side issue.
> I couldn’t believe my ears. After regaining my composure, I answered: “I regard such behaviour as unethical, because our customer would suffer a substantial and unnecessary loss.” [...] In hindsight, I should have terminated the project at that point [...]. The example shows how ingrained hourly billing is. Customers accept it as God given, although they know that they are ripped off.

But that's the thing. Companies exist solely to make money.

Let's say it again.

Companies do not exist to create value.

Companies do not exist to do cool things.

Those are all secondary.

Companies exist solely to make money.

This is business school 101.

The CEO and the rest of the workers were right in this instance. In this decision the agency was better off as a company if the person took the deal. The client at all times had the choice of going to a different firm that was cheaper, the customer in this case opted not to bother with doing those things (which might have cost them more in the long run anyway), and therefore had already committed to the cost that they would be charged.

The job of the client company in this case is to extract as much value as it can from the consultants while paying them as little as it can. Clearly in this instance, given they were happy paying that cost, you weren't being paid as much as you could have been, based on the 'value' that you 'created'.

I don't see why the person in question sees this as unethical. Or rather, I don't see why the person in question sees this as unethical under capitalism. Capitalism is an inherently unethical system, where the entire system is (From the top perspective) about ripping other people off as much as you can, or (From the bottom perspective) trying to ensure you get paid as much as you are worth to the company that you serve.

If you don't like it, back projects to change the system, whether that's to introduce more regulation, or to change the system full stop so that gross wealth-hoarding cannot exist. Until then, you have to make a living and try and make sure that you and the people you support are better off. If you can 'create value' for others by doing that, then all the better!
It sounds progressive at the time.

Men worked, if one wasn't part of the home then women needed more support.
I'm guessing the justification was intentional maliciousness.
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This thread is a dumpster fire and should be nuked.
Can you suggest some books
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> ads can be reduced to simple voicing of opinions on a media channel ("I love product X, you'd love it too, I'm sure!"),

We already have rules about this, https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=701066299822530421...
You can't understand someone having four kids?
Race as a social and political construct is what is being discussed here.

Genetics is only relevant to the degree that it provides a visual heuristic in skin color by which the construct of race is applied and enforced.
I'm at the end of my knowledge on the issue. Someone else will need to weigh in.
Add a second sail and use the AI magic to move it to roughly counter the force on the first one, helped with the rotors for fine control.

I don't really know if this would be possible, but sailing ships can rig their sails to propel them against the wind.
Yes.

You know what else happened in that time? The War on Drugs.
I don't think the discipline of computer user interfaces has been around long enough to say anything is "timeless".

I am sure people making advertising art in the 1950s thought their work was "timeless" too but from a modern perspective there sure is a distinct look; today's Apple-led "minimalism" will probably look just as archaic most of a lifetime later.
What it made me think of is how I see people being an extra level of harsh with black boys who run at the swimming pool or talk at the library. To me it seems like authority figures fear them getting out of control, think they only respond to discipline, or have had enough problems before that they crack down hard. I think I would respond more rebelliously to that approach myself.

I'm not saying black boys would respond the same way whites do if they were accommodated the way whites are, but pure discipline doesn't seem helpful.
I already don't abbreviate the year if I can avoid it. I prefer YYYY-MM-DD format myself; long form (e.g. "January 4, 2020") can also be used. However, some forms specify use of a particular date format (but if they do, then it is clear what the format is from the form; still sometimes the year can be ambiguous if there is only two digits).
The Guardian considers their free speech very important, too. For example, almost all of the UK press is regulated by IPSO which (amongst other things) enforces accuracy standards. Except the Guardian. They've consistently refused to join because they think those restrictions on the press should only apply to the other lying publications who just so happen to have political views that don't agree with theirs.

I discovered this after they published a really astounding partisan whopper about a London terror attack right before the UK election - one which was not only completely untrue and debunked all over the place, but was something being spread by their preferred party as part of an explicit attempt to politicise the attack against the ruling Tories. They didn't care to correct this, and given their position that independent regulation was only for the other papers there was nothing that could be done about this.
I can't comment on the rest but I recently paid for my driving license electronically.
How do you crack an online service that doesn't authenticate you without a valid license key?
"For boys born in 2001, the lifetime probability of incarceration is estimated to be 32 percent for young black men."

That's absolutely enough to tilt the data significantly.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/mass-incarceration-statis...
What's the point if it's not the primary medium? I just gave you an example, taking my money elsewhere. Bank accounts can be frozen.

I think you're moving the goalpost from "crypto grants me more financial freedom" to "crypto makes me literally untouchable by governments". Nobody here is claiming the latter. I have no idea where you even got the tax evasion angle from anything I said.
Such systems exist today, at least in Alaska. The GRA is only available to single parents. https://singlemothersgrants.org/single-mothers-assistance-in...
And many Black fathers are “absent” because they are incarcerated because of the “War on Drugs”. Study after study shows that minorities are given longer sentences and even stopped more than non minorities.

When drugs were affecting the “inner city” it was all about “being tough on crime”. When it started affecting “middle America” it became about “treating drug abuse as a disease” and “increasing social services.”
Ha! I already got downvoted for my culturally appropriate joke. If I'd said "She'll be right", I probably would have gotten banned from HN.... again.
Graceful questions to avoid a toxic engineering team
Race is not only skin colour.
All right everyone, empath75 has made his ruling on what opinions people are allowed to have and discuss, let's pack it up.
I can’t say why users are tying to hide you post.

The incarceration rate for blacks is lower than the rate of fathers not being around for their offspring. That’s a fact.

Anyone arguing that the entire problem is “we’re just locking up all these otherwise-would-be-there fathers because it’s a fun game to lock blacks up” is ignoring the reality.

I don’t have a strong opinion on it either way, but I’ve seen much better arguments that the welfare system has allowed for the higher rate of non-nuclear families. That it doesn’t take two parents to provide so the rate of single parents increased. Seems logical enough.
Ignoring the other possibilities, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_birth
I feel like I’m in a parallel universe: I’ve always done .net jobs so never been offered a Mac. Although with .net core it’s possible now but it’ll take a decade for most shops to upgrade their legacy. So windows for now. Personally I’m for best tool for the job. When playing with Ruby I installed Linux as it was too frustrating using Win.
The history in the video doesn't ring quite right. The heritage of the PS/2 keyboard also relate to mainframe terminals (3270 and maybe 5250) which predate the IBM PC and to the original IBM/AT keyboard which predates the PS/2. Presumably some of those have electric typewriter heritage as well. I also think some of those older keyboards were nicer than the PS/2 IMNHO.
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I wonder if you would feel the same way if it was a good Middle American Catholic Family....
Check out https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-shocking-and-sickening-st... if you're curious.

The money quote:
> "You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
I think the bank should have the option that the person with the bank account can require that cheques written from that account to be digitally signed. If this option is used, then the digital signature must be included in the cheque; you can calculate this on your computer, without requiring an internet connection or any proprietary software. If you do not have a computer, you can go to the bank and they will digitally sign it for you.
I thought for a second it was some sort of portmanteau of the German 'neu' and Greek 'neo'
I'd argue that depends on 1. laws being put I to place for strictly rational reasons, 2. arrest decisions do not depend on race and 3. punishment magnitude is equal for equal crimes.
That’s certainly true, but I’m not sure it’s a complete explanation. Jobs and education are less available in say Bangladesh than in US inner cities, and even among impoverished people families remain intact. Strong cultural and religious taboos on divorce and single parenthood play a big role in that. It’s worth noting that the percentage of white children raised without fathers has tripled since the 1960-1970s: https://images.app.goo.gl/SkTaWF9nyoZwXUbBA. That’s not a change that’s caused by institutional factors.

Of course, systematic racism impacts culture too. People in Bangladesh may be materially poorer and less educated than those in inner cities in the US. But they have standing within a social framework that institutional racism denies to African Americans.
11% may even seem like a small number until you consider that not all the black men who have been incarcerated at least once in their life are currently incarcerated. 25% of black and hispanic men will face incarceration at least once in their life[0]. The incarceration is also skewed towards younger men who are one supposes potentially more likely to miss out on the formative years of their children's lives. It's also difficult for a strong family to develop in this situation imo. Life is about getting a good start and keeping that momentum going as steadily and predictably as possible.

[0]https://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/Llgsfp.pdf
There was https://archive.is/20150311153857/https://mmh7.ubi.com/en/bl...
If a huge subset of a society is afflicted with problems, it is by definition not a matter of individual blame. If there's an outbreak of measles, the problem isn't individual.

There is a compulsion along the political Right in the West for shifting blame to individuals rather than the institutions and forces in society, where it usually belongs. Shifting blame to the individual might make you feel good, but it distracts from real solutions that can bring about real change.
If the law is just and fairly applied.

If you make a whole bunch of laws that huge swaths of the population violate, and then use them to put subgroups you don't like in prison... it's not so "valid".
No. Non of them has father present. I thought the context was obvious.
I think Boondocks, a cartoon about black boys that was written and drawn by a black boy, most accurately illustrates (pun!) the desired solution for black mentorship. Grandpa Robert Freeman literally fills this role for his two grandkids, especially with Riley. Uncle Ruckus offers an even better example. Maybe we should look to this show for guidance on the issue.