skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I'll bite. Maybe it is wrong that SV companies have proportionally more Asians than whites. Not "morally wrong", but wrong in the sense that Asian communities have optimized for certain metrics (tests, school performances, college aspirations) and SV companies have just gone along with what's in the pipeline. Despite the fact that SV has a long history of highly successful companies being started by dropouts and other kinds of "miscreants".

So these SV companies should alter their recruiting process so that their hiring pool isn't basically a mirror of Stanford's application pool. (full disclosure: I'm Asian. I also work at Stanford. I also play no part in Stanford admissions and probably have less clue about it than the average outsider)

That's fair enough. So what's wrong with making an effort to examine the ways that the SV hiring process systematically -- but not intentionally or maliciously -- filters out blacks, Hispanics, and women from engineering positions?
As someone who has been doing machine vision related work for most of the last 15 years, it is exceedingly gratifying to see my field 'growing up' and achieving such success.

12 years ago I was working for a machine vision startup with a Prof. two post-docs, a sales guy, and me as the only paid employee.

Now, I'm more likely to be working in a team of dozens, if not hundreds of machine vision researchers and developers.

Quite a change.
Why not use zerotier and have a super simple vlan?
Because there aren't as many, sadly, and many convince themselves SV is not for them, or they have no chance
You'll be consumed alive and rightfully so. The easiest explanation is culture (that is, assuming the facts are there to explain, which I did not verify).
Indeed. zerotier is really great. I cannot understand why it doesn't get mentioned more often
The price of bitcoin is totally fraudulent, driven by a couple of exchanges literally printing money, and gullible people doing arbitrage and exchanging bitcoin for tether.
same here, but then again, if you don't disclose it and cover it up properly, who's to say you've been hacked? it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. unless some external party can prove you are hacked, which is not always the case, it's hard to apply this law to anyone.

To properly apply it, countries would have to scrape and invesitgate all sites in their locality, which is a problem, as automated processes for this can lead to false positives, and that could be very damaging for a company, as the fines are very high and would be devastating for a company who is wrongly accused by some automated process. (which is why they are careful with implementing such a measure i think, or i hope)
I'm a bit weary. Say this cryptocurrency thing does take of and it's not a bubble. Then wouldn't this have similar effects that quantitative easing would have? I understand quantitative easing as 'printing money', because I'm not an economics person.

But if this would take off and get a strong foothold at the prices that we're seeing now (bitcoin almost 10K in dollars), then didn't some subset of techies print a lot more money than there is?

To me it seems there might be a chance that we're devaluing real currencies by quite a bit over the course of the next couple of years. Of course, the bigger chance is that this is a bubble and it will pop, but what if it isn't?

I know this is quite an unnuanced comment. I'm putting it out here, because I feel other people have the same concern and would like to see people who know a bit more comment on these ideas.
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MakeHuman is what you are looking for. http://www.makehuman.org/
It would be nice to see people work on some alternatives to traditional churches. We tried creating a scientific pantheism[1] group a while ago and there was a decent amount of interest, but at some point it became clear that continuing it really required more time than any of us was able to put in. We might try something like that again some day; I definitely think there's a lot of untapped potential out there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_pantheism
You sound like the one to submit a PR to auto-refresh the line chart! Set it to minute mode and watch your retirement tick closer :)
This or any similar project should run on IPFS. How is this an open community driven if it's dependent on a single private centralized entity ?

What happens if they disappear ? The amount of public effort made should stay public with no dependency on a private entity
Actually in some places you still can buy burgers with raw copper and iron. And the metals are quite easy to exchange for any currency.
Thanks for the response, I posted to a non-front-page thread knowing you specifically (if no one else) might see it.

I would like to know what you mean by subverting the racism / acknowledgeing it, without tinkering with the developer's vision. I believe the video that the plot (which brings with it the dice character) was inspired by racist cartoons, but I don't think the art style alone should have to excuse itself.
Does anyone use a projector for this? I have occasionally used a macboook monitor and 10' projector + screen(made of Fomrica countertop) as a duel screen setup, but I have always wanated to rig up some kind of multiple mini-projector office setup with duel or tiple screens.
Not too far off from "power excursion"
What do you mean by 19th century pseudoscience?
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How the hell could "same as us" mean "white/indian/asian boys"? I'm a white man from eastern Europe and the white americans I work with are anything but the same culture as mine. Indians could well be from another planet. Interestingly enough (though only anecdotal) black US workers have a more similar way of thinking to mine than white US ones.

There's huge diversity in IT, you're just too blinded by your ideology to see it. You are the problem with your black/white quotas. You think there's diversity/differences inborn in the skin color. And that kind of thinking is called racism.
Similar to StrongDM, except it does less. SDM implements the SSH protocol which allow both session logging (for audit and training purposes) and on-prem deployment. It supports all SSH services such shell (for interactive operation) exec (for remote scripting, like ansible and scp) and subsystems (like sftp). And on top of that it supports DB connections through the same tunnel (again with query logging for audit purposes).

The on-prem part is really neat.

Disclaimer: I work at StrongDM.

Edit: fixed typo
> The average sub-saharan IQ is around 70, the SD 15.

That is the kind of statement that really, really needs a citation.
+1. Very eloquently put.

I would probably add that a portion of these are temporary work visa holders (e.g: H-1B). If you get terminated under these visas you are out of status and need to leave the country.

Being on a temporary worker visa makes workers submissive and gives companies leverage over the employee.
And that Guardian article was dispoven nonsense: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dont-worry-eating-...
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Which might have been good for late 70s -- and the main users being academics and the designers of the system itself, but might not be as good for late 2010s.

Besides, we already have the Examples section, would it be too much to ask to have it better (or at least somewhat) utilized in all manpages?

We could even have different sections, shown with flags, and keep regular output as it is.

man --examples foocommand
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The pressure on introverts to socialize is actually being discussed in this vein.
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The cheapest is the least qualified.
'Over three quarters of British men say they have never or rarely danced'
so the title should be "why most men don't dance" or "why it's the norm for men not to dounce"

PS: dancing with a beautiful girl can be the most wonderful thing in the world, but dancig lonely just to get sweaty might not be as appealing.

so they should open up a "Grandpa's dance palace" where men pick women and dance in pairs. or a campfire dance where men and women run around naked in circles stamping their feet.
The same reason they don't like hiring women coders and coders over 30 (because of ageism). They use "culture fit" to shield them from diversity.

I hate to be cynical, though. It's just that I know too much about how tech companies operate. There's no doubt in my mind that there are more black coders working now than there were when I got into this industry, and that's a good thing. They just don't have much visibility now, but I think that too will change. Baby steps...
I'm not a fan of Ethereum (because their languages and VMs seem to be designed to maximize bugs), but the answer is "powerful smart contracts".
If you absolutely have to dance, this might be a sign of OCPD or narcissistic personality disorder.

Just as baseless.
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> He knew exactly what to say to the responding officer to cover his ass

Replacing human judgment with algorithms is a terrible idea for many reasons, but this might be the worst. Algorithms are deterministic, and thus they can be manipulated. "SEO" services exist in spite of Google's efforts to protect their ranking algorithm. Does anybody seriously believe their local government will be more successful than Google at preventing people (i.e. police, prosecutors, etc) from "optimizing" their input to the algorithm?

edit - justification for the claim that a bail algorithm would be easy to manipulate:

The recent single-pixel attack[1] against image classifiers. https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08864

Google's failure to recognize obviously inapropriate videos in their "youtube kids" app ("elsagate") https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in... (a good summary & discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp2gikIkD8 )
How about the large percentage of blacks without degrees and with poor access to education?

Isn't that an even simpler explanation?
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Just because you don't know why something is going on, doesn't mean it's arbitrary.

In this case it's because of a path to mass adoption: http://coinivore.com/2017/11/26/bitcoin-reaches-time-high-95...
> Deformities in new born living creatures seems to revert back to near normal levels within 2 or 3 generations.

Except for micro-organisms. The Chernobyl area apparently has issues with dead matter not decaying. See https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/forests-around...
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You make it sound as if every other Western country with a tech footprint doesn't do the same thing. They do.
Not a currency.
Doesn't have a 'market cap'.
Second, why don't these people (apparently) band together? Where are the <underrepresented demographic> founders that hire people that are a cultural fit for them?

I don't get why the blame is put on "silicon valley"; they don't have an obligation to provide work for everyone.
If you want to learn more about international humanitarian law there’s an excellent MOOC from UC Louvain on EdX.

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If you ever worked for a truly great company, with tons of inspirational people, then you know the culture stuff is real. Very real. Once company loses it, most of the best talent will simply walk away, because there is only so much motivation you can get with money (and competition doesn't usually pay really much less anyway).

Never worked in US, so hardly understanding the pathological obsession with political correctness there.

I once experienced this great environment, and even though I am now paid maybe 4x as much, this was by far, far, far the best working experience I ever had. The relationships from this period are still alive across whole (former) staff even after the company was bought 8 years ago by international corp and lost much of its mojo (and within few months tons of those great people left for jobs that weren't paid more).

As for the topic discussed, yeah just hire the best fit for hard and soft skills whatever the background, color of skin or native language. This is true equality, in mind and in action. Anybody expecting that spread across races/skin color/religion/whatever will be 100% matching that of general population is dangerously naive though
> Who were these early contributors, how much did each get, and why do they get to have 12.5% of the entire economy on day 1?

Why does Larry Page or Google Engineer #1 own billions of dollars of Google stock? Because he was there on day 1 and you weren't :)
> Then take my "good" and "bad" as shorthand for "more" and "less" appealing/convenient.

So why are you upset when I say that I don't find pure FP to be appealing or convenient for concurrent/interactive/distributed programs? I think that the very notion of representing computation as functions in such circumstances is ill-advised, and results in a very inconvenient, very unnatural (at least for me), and very hard-to-reason-about formalism compare to alternatives. Nevertheless, my opinion is subjective, and I can accept that some may not share it.

> If expanded on that as much as you have expanded on the semantics of Haskell in this thread then we might actually learn something very interesting!

I did. Read my blog post (which is the general theory), and then read the Dedalus paper. Some time ago you asked me to write something about TLA(+). I have, my posts (especially parts 3 and 4) are aimed precisely to get people away from what Lamport calls the "Whorfian syndrome", which is confusing the analysis of a particular formalism with that of computation or programs in general. In addition, I strongly recommend reading the overview paper, Binary Relations for Abstraction and Refinement [1] by David A Schmidt (who also wrote the book Denotational Semantics: A Methodology for Language Development). While the last section of that paper discusses temporal logic, the paper really applies to all programs in all programming languages.

[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.16....
The culture is young, single, not going to rock the boat. Why do they trendy SV companies have everything on site? So you don't leave them site. Parents do.
>Maybe it is wrong that SV companies have proportionally more Asians than whites. Not "morally wrong", but wrong in the sense that Asian communities have optimized for certain metrics (tests, school performances, college aspirations) and SV companies have just gone along with what's in the pipeline.

How is that wrong? Let the other communities optimize for those metrics too.

And if those other communities have a history of systemic oppression, poorly funded school districts, legal bias against them, etc, attempt to fix that too (which would be even more important for the community overall than getting more people from the community to work in some specific industry).

>Despite the fact that SV has a long history of highly successful companies being started by dropouts and other kinds of "miscreants".

That's just a myth based on a few selective cases, which even count people like Zuckerberg with a Stanford education or Bill Gates as "drop-outs" because they didn't finish their degrees.

Besides, a founder can be of any potential background as they are not to answer to anybody else nor do they have to have any specific technical skills (a DB admin position however, or a data science one, does have to have them).

And even then, they are usually from well educated, well connected, and usually well white, backgrounds. I'm not so sure we want to take them as example of with which criteria to hire.
> Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Not an argument

> African Americans have had western cultural innovation on lock-down for at least the past 100 years

African Americans (which are mulatto btw) constitute to a very small percentage of blacks in the world. And while the importance can discussed all those cultural innovations were built upon western (white) accomplishments. There is almost none signifact scientific/cultural innovations that came form Africa.

> and IQ was cooked-up by by a field of "science" that can't even reproduce its own seminal papers

IQ study is the most well-researched and studied branch of Psychometry and usual attemps at "disproval" are centered around bogus arguments around enviroment being the dominant factor (where study finds that 50%-80% of it is genetic)
I don't think anyone fresh out of college could afford to live there, not even in a shared house.

When are the big SV companies doing what's right and creating new offices in other cities where there's talented developers that can't afford to move to / live in SV and/or its shit conditions?
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An Indian mother with young kids and a heavy accent.... is that "cultural fit" to a hip and young fast moving programming team of boys who like to do hackathons and have beers on friday night? Does your team employ any such people right now? I know for sure there's plenty of them applying for jobs....
We can dance if we want too.
Quantum computers (assuming we can build one) can access computational resources far beyond what classical computers can do: imagine a classical computer so big and hot that it collapses down into a black-hole. Or it takes so long to run the computation (eg. a classical computer the size of the solar system) that heat-death of the entire universe comes first. These are the physical limitations of classical computation, and a quantum computer will (if we can build one) surpass this.
If we were to trust the questionnaires it is related to expectation that men socialize less and express themselves less.
Which is potentially related to early education and biological differences being amplified.
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This is a good thing for the Spanish economy at least - they can charge higher prices, increase production, export more, etc. Some new jobs, probably not that much, but hey. They'd rely less on European subsidies (iirc Spain received a lot of agricultural subsidies - mind you last time I heard this was like ten years ago, idk if that's still up to date)
E.g. http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/lynn2010.pdf
StarCitizen is based on Lumberyard now. In theory, any game using the right versions of CryEngine can move to Lumberyard as well, for whatever reason they might choose to do that.
I know of some people who go to church even though they don't believe, and it seems to work for them. For a lot of people, though, that becomes extremely uncomfortable. You say you don't have to lie to people, and maybe that's the case, but I suppose it depends on one's definition of a lie.

Given a prayer to a god one doesn't believe in feels dishonest for some, as does nodding along and letting people assume you share their beliefs when you don't. The foundation for church is supposed to be a shared theological belief, so it's not too difficult to understand why some might be uncomfortable joining when they know that they don't share the belief and have to go through certain motions to conceal this fact from their brethren.
Isn't the exposure making people less likely to trade? No-one wants to spend bitcoins because they're afraid they'll grow in value and they will have wasted money.
They don’t find the science of psychometric credible. This is a trifle harsh since psychometrics is very, very extensively validated, not something one can say of social psychology, for example.
The story literally talks, repeatedly, about how the Chinese demand is pushing up prices.
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> "Silicon Valley is rife with Stanford and MIT graduates who started coding during childhood, won programming competitions in their spare time, and spent their summers interning at startups. At Howard, few of Pratt’s students fit that profile."

> "None had programmed before college."

I think these two quotes answer the headline question.

Specifically, give one group of people a 4+ year head start in the field in addition to engaging in activities that will build confidence for the person when engaging in those activities (e.g., participating in and/or winning programming competitions in high school), is it really a surprise that the less-experienced group is grossly underrepresented in hiring?

To make the above comparison not about race, how well are low-SES white people represented in Silicon Valley? Probably at equally low proportion for similar reasons -- they just don't have the same amount of experience as the highly competitive applicants.

What's the solution? Reach out to underrepresented populations and get them started on programming much earlier. It's expensive and time consuming, but it's totally doable.
More like an opportunity for Europe to earn a lot of money once they manage to increase production. There's still a lot of wealth inequality, both inside countries (e.g. the UK) and in Europe itself (the former DDR is a good example).
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The CRTs looked better because there was more "bleed" from pixel to pixel. A great example I found to describe it was if you were in the iOS ecosystem when the iPhone 4 came out, every outdated iOS app looked terrible. The 4 had the same screen size but double the PPI of the previous generations. An outdated app looked better on a <4 than it did on a 4 because the bigger pixels of the earlier phones bled into each other more while the 4 created crisper edges that were incredibly jarring.
No probably not, and I hope the name is protected so substandard mass produced stuff is clearly marked as such.
But you say "going with what's in the pipeline", that basically means "hiring on average the best/mean candidates according to their metrics that apply".

To say that they shouldn't do that you basically have two options:
Say that they should discriminate and hire candidates that will be worse on average by their metrics, in the name of social justice,

Say that their metrics are wrong and they should adapt them.

I'd probably accept the second statement but that has to be a complicated and difficult thing to do.
Strangely, hiring your friends is seen as corruption when it's for the government, but it's somehow the proper way to do things for the private sector. If companies really do exist to serve potential employees, then we should require them to do that fairly. However, if they're there to provide value for their customers, then maybe it doesn't matter who's friends they hire or what race they or how the discriminate. Nobody has a right to work at Google.
ngrok is useful for those things, but also for more. I don't see how ondevice is more for production than ngrok though, especially since any of ngroks plans gives you custom subdomains and reserved addresses.
It doesn't surprise me that the person who led the UK to exit the EU and the person who led a military coup in Turkey would be on the Time shortlist. Indeed, I'd have been shocked if either of them hadn't been on the list.

I'd say that both of them are likely to have a larger impact on the world than Trump, really...
If I recall correctly, most of the big IQ-related results are unfortunately pretty heavily replicated. The results that have major replication issues are stuff like stereotype threat - which is to say, ideas that often go hand-in-hand with the belief that IQ is a racist lie.