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In the 90s, the majority of people in federal prison were due to drug offenses, primarily cocaine. [0] The sentencing disparity was a big driver of these increase imprisonment rates.

But no, not all because of the disparity - but a large part. Illegal guns are another big offense sending lots of black people to prison.

> African Americans now serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offense at 58.7 months, as whites do for a violent offense at 61.7 months [1]

[0]: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/sp/DimRet.pdf
[1]: https://www.aclu.org/other/cracks-system-20-years-unjust-fed...
Surely, they would be able to get their education somewhere?

It's not like it's physically impossible to provide education at $10k/year. I live in Europe, I went to a normal university, and I think the "market rate" for non-EU students was something like that.

If you capped it to $10k/year, are you saying there simply wouldn't be anyone around to give you an education at that price in the whole country?
> And considering only bailing out student loans without a provision for reimbursing students with similar backgrounds that didnt finance college or did but paid off loans early is incredulous. There is no reason the solution to the price of college is to selectively bail out people that choose not to repay their student loans and ignore everyone else.

This is a very crabs in a bucket mentality. From the perspective of a society we should ask: what is the effect of removing this debt burden? Many people are repaying loans at a very high monthly amount. My loans are currently >400/month. If that debt "poofed" I'd be spending that in my local economy (instead of going to a bank to then issue another student loan for). Much better for the economy.
Banning prerolled cigarettes while allowing the sale of rolling or pipe tobacco might be a good middle ground.
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I agree what testing on crappy hardware is a good thing BUT...........

I think the industry has a problem selling underpowered computers in general. AFAIK it's the non-pros that need the a reasonably powerful computer. Maybe "powerful" is the wrong word but not the crappy $300 windows laptop running on a celeron or whatever the latest.

My dad got some ~$500 HP all in one desktop and it's so underpowered as to be unusable. It takes 4-5 minutes to boot while and launching any app takes what feels like half a minute. Just typing you can feel the machine struggle. You could argue if all software (and the OS) was optimized it might not be underpowered but there is no world where all software is optimized.

It see a similar problem all the time with people giving up an old computer. My friend had some like 2007 Mac and she was thinking of giving it to a friend for their kids. Maybe some hacker kid would find a use for it but for most non-geeks, an old PC won't run current software, the current OS, current browsers with vulnerabilities fixed or modern standards. Zoom, youtube, etc are probably not going to be good experiences on such a machine.

Basically it's my opinion that non-techies should always get a relatively new and reasonably powered machine but sadly they don't have the knowledge to know that so they get led to a crappy underpowered machine and then have a crappy and frustrating experience using it.

I don't have a solution. It's only an observation. In my own family, when they let me buy them a machine, on a scale of 1 to 10 I aim for ~7 in terms of power with say 8-16gig of ram and a reasonably powered processor, at least an i5? not an i3 or N or Celeron.
Also, most transfered bytes are in images and videos, so compressing the text part of html/css/js will change the total number very little.
Not everything he says is wrong just because he has lots of nutty beliefs more generally. Maybe I missed something, but I didn't see anything terribly controversial or wrong in the article.
I set permissions on something just infrequently enough that I dont have that as muscle memory, and often I need to match permissions on something already there, so I'm trying to go "uhhh, its, rwxr-xr-x what does that translate to again?"

Also, frankly, the computer is a calculator, why not have it act as the calculator for me, and tell me what the permissions already are, I can read the octal permissions and know what they mean.
What are you talking about? chrome is being mentioned by two people besides yourself and neither mention is negative. Did you even read the comments before commenting about their predictability?
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> In traditional science, you start with a “null hypothesis” along the lines of “this thing doesn’t happen and nothing about it is interesting”. Then you do your study, and if it gets surprising results, you might end up “rejecting the null hypothesis” and concluding that the interesting thing is true; otherwise, you have “no evidence” for anything except the null.

Not true. The degree of evidence for either hypothesis would be determined by its respective p-value. The fact that you then take into account the evidence on either side to make a pragmatic binary decision is a different matter altogether.

E.g., a p-value of 0.050000001 is not strong evidence for the null.
A p-value of 0.99999 on the other hand, is.
Easy.

Maximise salary. Minimise work.

We all die in the end, no one ever wishes they worked longer or harder.
You missed the question.

Why allow any thing on any advertisement, regardless of network, that is not image or text? Anything else opens up security issues.
> Hundreds of millions of people use Excel. What if all the APIs we just talked about were accessible to regular folks, or "Citizen Developers"?

I've been living this scenario recently, leading development of an integration with Okta and SCIM and it has been pure, unabated hell. One of the most insanely frustrating projects I've ever worked on, hands down.

Okta picks and chooses which aspects of the SCIM standard to implement, and intentionally deviates from the standard in some cases. To be fair, all of the major identity providers do this, Okta isn't the only offender.

They don't provide any kind of comprehensive test suite to validate compatibility with third-party SCIM APIs, and because you're interacting with a GUI and Okta's internal system log, which does not provide access to the HTTP layer, things fail in the strangest, most opaque ways. Their backend behaves very differently depending on which kind of template app you start out with, and they don't document clearly how this behavior differs (probably because it would be really embarrassing to put something like that on the record).

Slapping a GUI on top of these HTTP interactions has been an absolute abomination to work with and I'm convinced that "no-code" is total scam as long as the actual developer experience isn't considered, which is why open source tooling largely took off in the first place. Companies that aren't in the developer tools market don't give a shit about developer experience.
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You're clearly pining for a world that no longer exists.
Scientist explains how a crumbling Glacier could shrink coastlines Globally
Speaking of food, dried corn snacks are practically non existent even though they're great with beer (also dried bread snacks).

Not dried unprocessed corn, I'm talking corn flour baked/fried into a chips-like snack, like we do potatoes. Bet you never heard of it.

Also, in the UK, they don't have dried fish/octopus snacks in pubs! A fucking island nation! It's the same old peanuts everywhere, come on!

Actually, that's most of Europe. Dried fish with beer is quite popular in Asia and even Russia.

Quite literally a multimillion dollar market right there.

On the ocean food issue: They've been in terminal decline for a while now. The future of seafood is farming. Today, half of the fish for human consumption is already farmed. Shame about the less farmable species.
No. A scientific racist is a racist (someone who thinks one race is inferior to another) who uses science to back up their claim. Not sure this person is one.
Same here. I've been in technology for 30+ years. I cannot wait for the day, I can close my laptop lid and just walk away. It cannot come fast enough.
The failure rate of the average start up is heavily against you.

My outlook is that you will have to work through a few failed start ups before you finally build/find employment with a successful one. That being said, it can be soul destroying to see a product/system you’ve worked hard on to never go to market / go live.
i see. it appears the post has been updated. last night it had the title and reference to the university of minnesota kernel security study, but no actual reference (unless i missed it!) to the fact that this was a princeton study.
> Clients should pay for value, not hours sat in a chair.

I think the implication is that if one party is capturing the excess value produced disproportionately, that is screwing the other side. Particularly if this occurs because of information that is asymmetric in negotiation.
They are pretty simple though, and the dev tools are fabulous. I guess we disagree here. :)

Note that I would never (again) use thunk - using such side effects leads to unmaintainable code, at least in my experience.
Deal reached between Disney and YouTube TV
This is a recent development and that was designed to support GNOME/RedHat's flatpack , we should not get tricked to believe GNOME would have done this for helping someone else then themselves(do they support this in GTK2 apps too?, I really hate having different file choser with different sorting order of files and folders)
Yeah I'm not saying literally everything in the article is trash, my thought process basically went as follows:

"Wait this is an elementary mistake. Also he's not really up to date on the science. Who wrote this again? That name rings a bell...oh dear..."
> I would add though, that if you only have a high school education I am not sure how or where you would get into a Ph.D. program. It may be possible, but I have never heard of it.

I plan on beginning an undergrad degree next year. The reason a PhD is in my long term vision is because I’d like to do industrial R&D in a certain field
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> Unpopular opinion

This is HackerNews. Hating bloated websites is a time-honoured tradition here.

> Most web developers don't have a grasp of computer science or assembly, and act like computing resources are free

It's worth separating these two. Plenty of web developers have computer science degrees, but if they're paid to quickly churn out bloated websites, that's what they'll do.

> Nuance, knowledge, and metrics are what's needed.

If the aim is to improve the performance of software/websites, what's needed is a userbase that's less forgiving of bloat.
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It's 100% normal for cali companies to contract non-cali companies. Especially DE/NV corps.

As long as your corporate residency is in check, you file annual reports and pay taxes you are 100% in the clear.
Cyprus is a much better example than Catalonia.
Those are too thick for my laptop, so I use these adhesive stickers instead: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set-ii
> even distros like NixOS encourage users to use GNOME, which is absolutely insane when you think about it.

? NixOS doesn't have a default desktop environment. At the same time, the graphical installation media images have always come with Plasma as long as I can remember, and the example desktop environment commented out in the template given by nixos-generate-config has likewise always been Plasma.
I wish I could hug you. This is exactly how I feel but didn’t have the words to express it.

Kids take up so much time that I often wonder why -> how did I spend time before kids -> why am I not that much less productive now -> awww -> everything’s gonna be all right.

But that being said it’s absolutely okay to not want kids and be extremely happy with your life. If only there was a shareware parenthood.
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Scientific racists don't use such crass words like 'inferior', they'd rather say 'have a lower mean IQ and impulse control due to genetic differences'
I always worry about our oceans. We farm them as if there is a limitless supply and our actions have no consequences. Frankly African consumption is probably nowhere close to what the west has an appetite for or some of the Asian countries have. Can only wonder about what happens when the consumption goes up in other parts of the world including Africa.
At the risk of being offensive, it does not matter if you are in downtown SF - stop being afraid of the homeless and black people and assuming that they are more likely to harm you than someone you know. That statistics are not with you there.

But let's look at some statistics:

https://danger.mongabay.com/injury_death.htm
Bathtub: 341
Assault by sharp object: 1,805

From that, assuming their data is correct, for every one person that falls in a bathtub and then drowns, there are 5 that are killed via assault with sharp object. The latter includes premediated and not, the number of those from a 'rampage' would be a fraction.

So, if you change the side of street you are walking on to avoid walking near someone homeless out of fear they would go on a random stabbing rampage, and if you do not also have traction stickers attached to your bathtub, then you are exhibiting rational irrational fear.
Once the mud slinging stuff like "he's a scientific racist!" comes out (especially when it's clear the author would vehemently disagree with the label), you gotta somewhat adjust your Bayesian priors that the person slinging the mud isn't doing it because he ran out of rational arguments.
This appears a strange mindset. You see the issue, you see solutions to the issue, but you imagine these solutions are too difficult? Are they more difficult than the mental health and happiness struggles you've been having?

I certainly get anxiety especially when unpracticed in the subtleties of forming meaningful connections, so I understand what's likely holding you back. But I think it's likely important to realize your rationalization here doesn't make a lot of sense.
It would be better if it used fstatat instead of regular stat calls. On a deeply nested directory it can make a difference (e.g. a single-threaded 'find' easily beats a parallel 'fd' with warm caches on my machine, 'exa' could similarly benefit)
Agreed though only in the past few years (and primarily only in the USA) have progressives started to push against classical liberalism towards more illiberal views, that has not generally been the case in the past.
> Crick and Watson certainly didn't discover DNA as the substrate for Mendelian inheritance, that was known long before. They (in collaboration with Rosalind "don't talk to me about this woman" Franklin) discovered its 3D structure.

From Wikipedia, it goes back to at least 1927:

... In 1927, Nikolai Koltsov proposed that inherited traits would be inherited via a "giant hereditary molecule" made up of "two mirror strands that would replicate in a semi-conservative fashion using each strand as a template".[186][187] In 1928, Frederick Griffith in his experiment discovered that traits of the "smooth" form of Pneumococcus could be transferred to the "rough" form of the same bacteria by mixing killed "smooth" bacteria with the live "rough" form.[188][189] This system provided the first clear suggestion that DNA carries genetic information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA#History
Your argument isn't very convincing. AirTags are one of the few location tracker that the public can recognize by sight and identify its use. This makes AirTags much less effective for use by malicious actors than other generic black-plastic case electronics.
> If something of value is being lost, let them that see that value pay for it.

Absolutely, but that's not what was proposed above. This quote suggests the usual model in which the government pays for education (which I support, most nations use, and even the US uses for K-12), not the income dependent repayment model proposed by julienchastang.
The number of hacks and workarounds that users will come up with without complaining to the dev team is always astounding. One time I shadowed someone who was using one of our internal tools that spit out pdfs, and at some point along the line he realized he wanted something extra included on them but didn't think to contact the dev team. As part of his daily work flow, he was taking data from one of the program's temp files and editing the pdf to add it. He had apparently been doing this for about a year. When I saw this, I spent 10 minutes updating the report template to add it and ended up receiving thank you emails from people I'd never talked to.

So yes, find a user and shadow them.
I didn't know claiming a genetic component in explaining differences in racial averages for IQ is scientific racism.
Probably because it's a made up story.
Fair enough, I don't wish to diminish their work, or lionize Smalltalk-72 over Smalltalk-80.
Yeah, it's just biology. Works for some, not for others. The problem with the advice 'have kids for meaning in life' is if you do have kids and you get nothing out of it, you might resent the kid which would ruin two lives.

That said, I didn't have my first kid until my late 30s and every thing I did prior to that seems like a pointless waste of time now. YMMV.
And in fact nobody calls it a country.

I mean, I understand that in US Taiwan is recognized as a country, in Italy Palestin is recognized as such too, but they are not officially sovereign countries and protest from mainland are to be expected because it's a very complicated international matter and of course China uses all the tools they have to support their position, just like the US.

Do you remember what happened when Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel capital?

Conflicts over sovereignty on land are as old as the human race.
I actually helped convince Sato in Feb 2020 to call it "automation period"; some other ideas were "age of fragmentation" (referring to how group alleigances were becoming split, with players in more than one group at a time) or "age of the algorithm" (referring to the YouTube algorithm promoting the server).
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> I'm curious, though, what other shells offer 'quality of life improvements'

To be honest most alt of them do. Bash has enough footguns to incapacitate a small army. Seasoned users like ourselves know how to mitigate them but using a shell that doesn’t require a conscious effort to support spaces in file names and other really basic things is one less piece of mental overhead I need to consider when working.

> and can I convince my colleagues to install it everywhere?

I’m not sure what you mean here. Are you trying to convince your colleagues to switch so you all use the same shell or saying you still spend a lot of time in remote SSH sessions?

Either way, it sounds like you’re probably best sticking with Bash if those are your requirements.

My remote workflow is largely API driven (serverless) and the few times I do need to SSH into a remote instance it’s usually just to perform basic tasks. The real meat of my console work is done locally these days.
He’s not wrong. Over complicating DevOps does take the control away from developers but I think a lot of the Ops part of DevOps is to create an internal PaaS that your devs can deploy to themselves.
Thousands, if not millions, of people have multiple jobs at the same time. Granted most of those are not 6-figure white-collar office workers. But even in that world many consultants effectively are working multiple jobs simultaneously. Personally I am very happy having one employer at a time, but I don't understand why it should be an aberration to have more than one.
I don't use Chrome, and I don't give a sh*t about it. What I care about is ad networks, and the websites that vomit those ads into the browsers of their visitors.

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I simply won't have it. At the moment, with FF, an adblocker and a JS blocker, I think I'm hard to track (but certainly not impossible). If my blockers get blocked, I can live without the WWW. Be careful, Goo! You may own the web, but the web doesn't own us.

As someone once said, "It's just a fad".
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This is the first alias I create on any os I use daily.

Although I order the switches as `halF` as it's easier to remember for quick one-off use on servers (and containers). It's practically muscle memory for me now.
If you lie about having a job this can be found out (they can call the place)
If you omit one or several jobs, I don't know how they would know (call all places to see if you also worked there?).
This idea is basically conservatism. It works for a lot of people, there must be something to it, but it's not some kind of objective truth or the only outlook on life.
Honestly I would love to buy ground haddock or salmon at the supermarket. Especially if they can produce it cheaper than frozen fish.

But why haven’t fish sausages etc. been created before? I imagine there are logistic challenges and reasons why ground fish is kind of a dumb idea especially vs. frozen fish. Like i bet ground salmon would go bad much quicker than frozen salmon, and it wouldn’t get a nice texture and cook nice like ground beef or turkey.
OP is not making the claim that Earth will stop spinning tomorrow though. Nor did OP mention 50 years. Nor does OP need to prove global warning, since many others have done that. Not that you'd read it but here's a readable summary of the evidence, https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-chan...
What are some tactics you use to get these customers amped up?
You're right (though the estimate seems to vary depending on who is reporting it, for some reason). What I saw was 30% of attendees take on student loans to pay for their education, according to the fed [0]. I misinterpreted that to mean that 30% had student loans right now.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/student-loan-debt-2019-statisti...
This is the book that I used to learn Haskell. I had written music programs in other languages before reading the book, and I was able to appreciate that the Haskell code turned out much nicer.
Biased in the sense that cultures that that rewarded diligence and intelligence are able to compete more effectively against cultures that don't and the wages of these accomplishments can be seen in their posterity?
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Audiophiles don't make systems, engineers do. The only thing that audiophiles produce is consistently is nonsense: green pens for CDs, audible jitter, validating the snake oil merchants who sell them magic boxes of dirt, special resonance stones, pyramids, digital cables that can't possibly do what is claimed.

That much vaunted "training" is a special form of self delusion. Try asking any self respecting audiophile whether they can pass a double blind test in picking out the difference between good old RCA cables and all you get is a long, copy pasted diatribe of how flawed testing is. That tells you they spend all their time telling themselves what they want to hear.
Lol! Sorry for getting it locked, it is reversible if you still have the email. Mojang, it appears, didn't like spam login from a different cloudflare warp IP every few minutes...
Bell hooks: A Black American voice that reached the world
I focus on 1970s and 1980s chips, which are simple enough to understand. For that generation, Mead and Conway's Introduction to VLSI Systems is a good place to start. https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/VLSIText/PP-V2/...
Old books on chip design are also useful, and can usually be obtained for cheap.
Also see The Layman's Guide to IC Reverse Engineering: http://siliconzoo.org/tutorial.html