skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About me: I'm asian, 32 years old.

Throughout my childhood, I always thought Black people seemed so cool and funny. They exude confidence and it intimidated my to make friends with them.

Now I teach people coding before and after my work as a full time software engineer. A few of my students are black. I had a hard time working with them.

Later, as I became friends with them, I realized they are very self conscious about their intelligence. (I know I'm generalizing here, but 100% of the black students I mentored felt this way). I realized my asian background and hyper-competitiveness and high expectations made the situation worse. This realization completely changed me as a person.

This eventually let to me starting a coding bootcamp at our public library and I try to create an environment to make students feel safe and not judged. I don't have this down to a process yet, if anyone knows please let me know. How does one create a safe environment so students showing up will feel emotionally safe enough to start asking questions without fear of being judged?

Say we measure the time from when a student walks in to the time when he/she starts asking questions whenever they have a question. Are there any activities to do that can reduce the comfort time to the minimum?
Covariant (https://covariant.ai/) | Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer | Berkeley, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) | full-time | onsite | visa

At Covariant, innovation is at the core of our company. Drawing on recent advances in deep imitation learning and deep reinforcement learning, Covariant is developing AI software that makes it easy for robots to learn new, complex skills -- bringing the next generation of robotic automation to the world’s factories, warehouses and, one day, even homes.

Covariant employees come from varying technical backgrounds and interests, and together we’re building a team that is friendly, helpful, and down-to-earth. We value continuous learning (both human and robotic), empathy for each other and our customers, and taking on the impossible. And, while our industry struggles to be representative, we're actively working to build a diverse and inclusive culture at covariant.

We’re always hiring for a variety of roles, but our current priorities are:

- Software Engineer: http://bit.ly/33JiOZ6

- Sr. Software Engineer: http://bit.ly/2nwAcBi

- Infrastructure Engineer: http://bit.ly/2oiLA3K

- Site Reliability Engineer: http://bit.ly/2nnKfZH

- Field Engineer: http://bit.ly/33MSVbb

Experience in AI/ML/robotics is not required!
Well, yes, of course that's what they think. And so far they have been right given that they are currently back ordered and saw 10,700+ backers on Indiegogo raising $3.5MM for the thing.
Ignoring the fact that all other things being equal, Between Blacks and Whites committing the same crime, a Black person will receive a harsher sentence....
old technology + AI == breakthrough.

Kinda like back when everyone started moving to the web...
Black community does not have a solid culture and tradition comparing to other immigration minority groups, as other minority groups can succeed in USA without much troubles.

I thought about adopting a black boy for a while, I may still do that, I want to help, but don't know how to do it, the gap is just too wide to connect for me somehow.
Yikes. Still, it doesn't change the father-away issue fundamentally, I think?
I had the reverse happen, where, once I knew of Thiel’s affinity and support for his work, I became far more disinterested.

I’ve read most of Girard’s books and while I think they’re a good critique of both desire and the formation of religions, it has a great deal of shortcomings because of Girard’s retreat into theology. Instead of really tackling the problems his work raises, he simply sets it aside with something to the affect of “be a Christian,” (while nowhere acknowledging how modern Christianity has been weaponized to spread the kind of contagion and scapegoating his work sought to expose.)

I do think an understanding of Girard’s philosophy is necessary to understand Thiel’s political project. But I think he’s actually taken a quite dark lesson from Girard, allying himself with a new, scapegoating sacrificial order to attain further economic and political power.
That's pretty cool. It reminds me of GodBolt (https://godbolt.org).

I'm told that the story behind it, is that he was arguing with someone about the efficiency of an operation, and actually wrote that site to prove his point.
A) The laws have been specifically designed to allow targeting of certain populations (the "War on Drugs" has had a hugely disproportionate impact on non-white Americans).

https://www.vox.com/2014/7/1/5850830/war-on-drugs-racist-min...

B) Non-whites are way, way more likely to be arrested (despite similar rates of drug use), and receive harsher penalties.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324432004578304...

The list goes on and on... "Broken windows" policing results in targeting of minority communities. Blacks and Hispanics are significantly more likely to be targeted under "stop and frisk" laws, despite equal (or lower) hit rates for contraband discovery when compares to whites.
Another vote for a blog post, please.
Seconded. The whole news story here is that someone is patenting Signal's algorithm (or something very similar to it) and not just a random interesting patent.
Four kids as a baby mama, I'm guessing. A couple with an extended family can handle four kids, but an individual who may not be all that tight with anyone who can keep an eye on the kids... Well, chances are they'll fail at a lot of important things.
That might be because those cookies have been stored for a while. I get quite different results when I check one of my side projects in a normal browser window versus incognito. The latter results in far fewer warnings, and the majority are no longer Google properties (ironically a couple are, but it's much better).
"and no daddy in their lives". I thought the context was obvious.
Currently, no. We don't know what the situation was like when they were having kids.

The dad (or dads) might not be around for a lot of reasons. Maybe they divorced five years after the last kid was born, maybe he got arrested, maybe he died.
Everything I've read also indicates that it is mostly or entirely driven by economic status. White people who grow up poor and/or with single mothers are also highly likely to end up in prison compared to the normal population.

This isn't about ethnicity, it is about economics and culture. It only disproportionately affects black people because of historical trends and welfare programs decades back that encouraged single parent homes, as was said in other comments.
> Hopefully network analysis/data mining laws/politics will be handled with a little less FUD, a little less grandstanding, and a little more efficiency than we're seeing with climate change politics...

They were clearly describing the handling and discourse (I suppose on a large public scale) of climate change as FUD, not climate change itself.
I have a friend who switched worlds in adulthood simply because someone convinced him it was possible to do it. When he describes it, it isn't like it was a pep talk, it was more like someone telling you that you can change your own oil in your car and sends you steps. Part of that is that he was ready to hear it, and was quite smart, but if no one had said anything.
The UK’s new parliament is its most diverse ever
IT exec set up fake biz, bills employer for $6m, gets caught by MS Word metadata
About 95% of books are essentially trash. But the the other 5% is very worth reading.

What books offer is a deep dive into a subject your interested in without distractions, while online content is optimized for short attention span and serving ads.

For example, you can spend an hour watching a documentary on the battle of Stalingrad. Or, you can spend an hour reading Beevor's "Stalingrad" and learn 50 times as much, and you'll gain a far greater understanding of it. If you want to learn even more, you can dive into Glantz's trilogy on Stalingrad. You'll never find any of that in any documentary.

Or, if you're into politics and wonder how LBJ managed to manipulate a hostile Congress into passing his Civil Rights bill, check out Caro's incredible quadrilogy on LBJ.

If you want to know about Rockefeller beyond the glib soundbites on the internet, try Chernow's "Titan".
As it's not on Drew's list:

Nim:

$ cat hello.nim
stdout.write("hello, world!\n")

Static (musl):

$ nim --gcc.exe:musl-gcc --gcc.linkerexe:musl-gcc --passL:-static c -d:release hello.nim
$ ldd ./hello
not a dynamic executable

Execution Time: 0m0.002s (real)
Total Syscalls: 16
Unique Syscalls: 8
Size (KiB): 95K (78K stripped)

Dynamic (glibc):

$ nim c -d:release hello.nim
$ ldd ./hello
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007ffc994b6000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f7c88785000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7c883b8000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7c88989000)

Execution Time: 0m0.002s (real)
Total Syscalls: 42
Unique Syscalls: 13
Size (KiB): 91K (79K stripped)

Which I think is actually pretty reasonable for a high-level GC'd language.
Boys generally need more mentors. I honestly believe that boys educational results would be much improved if taught under a mentor-ship hierarchy, rather than flat classroom organizations.
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I am not sure that numbers add up to support this claim. In Oklahoma, which has the highest percentage of black people incarcerated, there is approx 2.5% of the total black population imprisoned, while over 60% of black children are raised without fathers.
Are you really arguing that racism is worse in 2020 than 1960?

Have you looked at what was going on in the 1960s?
There are some studies on how to scare birds in airport, they can be used in those farms as well.

See:
https://newatlas.com/optical-illusion-raptors-airplanes/5675...
Sure.

But in most cases, that first semester of college beats that out of them.
Speaking of that bias, I just read this:

https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merg...

(Sorry about the 'amp' link)
This relies on two different XSS bugs where the page displays messages by just jamming them straight into the HTML output rather than properly encoding text to HTML. This technique – reusing the unprocessed input straight up as the output – doesn't seem like the first tool people ought to reach for just to display a simple string, so maybe the frameworks and templating libraries used make it far too easy to do the wrong thing?

In Mithril, for example, injecting raw HTML requires you to explicitly call the trust method[1], so doing it wrong is more work than doing it right, and the documentation is very clear about the risks of trusting data.

In Thymeleaf, displaying text uses th-text, injecting raw HTML uses th-utext and the documentation[2] in clear on the difference, but this seems a bit more subtle and easy to miss for those who aren't familiar with the consequences.

Microsoft's ASP.NET, from what I can tell, used to[3] do it the PHP-style wrong-by-default way, relying on developers' unfailing vigilance in remembering to call Html.Encode every single time they display a value if they wanted to avoid XSS, but in version 4 syntax was added for displaying values as text by default. Their newer Razor templating library apparently[4] also does the right thing.

So... maybe these pages were created in old-style ASP.NET? Or have newer libraries recreated the mistakes of the past?

[1] https://mithril.js.org/trust.html

[2] https://www.thymeleaf.org/doc/tutorials/3.0/usingthymeleaf.h...

[3] https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/new-lt-gt-syntax-for-html-en...

[4] https://blog.slaks.net/2011/01/dont-call-htmlencode-in-razor...
It's worth to mention Leonard Adleman's (of RSA fame) research from 1994 on using DNA to solve Hamiltonian path problem in graphs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing
Absentee fathers are more often than not absent because they got jailed in the war-on-drugs or died as collateral damage in that war. You can't show up when you're dead or in jail.
That URL won't load for me, is it just me?
Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time
Any suggestions or examples of the type of hardware you have in mind?
Though I imagine the prevalence is much higher in black youth, this is a general issue that goes beyond race.

A stable upbringing with a family that you can use as role models. If you don't have that, you're in for an uphill struggle.

If everyone around you is unemployed, or works in part time unskilled labour - if you're moving from home to home all of the time - if you have no bedroom - if your family argues, or you don't have proper food so your blood sugar is all over the place - these are tremendous things to overcome in isolation never mind all at the same time.

People talk about 'privilege' in upbringing because it's actually kind of rare to have a functional family.

This is what the class system really is. Some people can jump the gap after their formative years, but most people are going to be stuck in those patterns if they've spent 20 years in the trenches.

I grew up in a poor family; my father left when I was young. The one thing we had (aside from the absolute warrior-woman of my mother), provided by the government back in the day, was a council house. A low rent secure tenancy. So whilst everything else was a struggle, my mother was able to provide a relatively stable housing situation for us.

Without that I'm sure I would be a complete fuck-up now.
Woman and man get four kids together. Man dies or dissappears for some other reason. How is that hard to understand? Or did some racial bias make you assume that all the four kids had different fathers?
> JITs

This is...highly context dependent. For highly polymorphic code, my understanding is that JITs can outperform precompiled binaries, since they can inline virtual/polymorphic calls in tight loops.

This also isn't a "performance" test in any real sense. It's a test of startup time. Where, yes, JITs lose, but unless you're writing short lived interactive command line tools, or something that runs on lambda, that shouldn't be a concern. For "normal" serverside or desktop apps that run for more than, say, 30 seconds, the difference between 0s of startup and 0.2s of startup time is literally in the noise.
Thanks for the write-up. I'm going to look into the Healios -- I've been wanting a heavy, mechanical, keyboard but I'm in an open office environment and don't want my co-workers to hate me.

On the fatigue side, it might be less of an issue than you expect after you get used to it. In fact, I noticed that while my fingers are more tired when I use a "heavy-switch" keyboard, my posture is better and my wrists hurt less. I suspect that I'm positioning my wrists "more correctly" on the heavier keys because it's necessary in order to still type at the same speed on them[0].

I think the main thing is to be consistent. I used to play piano and for about two years after I moved in to my first apartment, I had to switch to a (non-weighted) electronic keyboard due to budget/space. When I returned to a regular upright, I couldn't actually play a lot of the music I had learned on the synth because I wouldn't apply enough pressure to result in a sound. After about a month of regular practice, I ended up replacing the electronic keyboard with a much more expensive one with weighted keys and never went back.

[0] And as much as I try to be really careful ... adjusting my typing posture, consistently, would be about as difficult as adjusting the way I walk, consistently. It's second-nature and burned into my brain. I'd only adjust if I received a consistent reminder, like missing keypresses.
Cryptoindex AI Daily Predictions and News for 01/04/2020
I wonder how they are a surprised since Leonard Adleman (the 'A' in RSA) developed the field in 1994 solving the the Hamiltonian path problem with seven points[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing
As others have pointed out, it's been around a while, although the only reason I knew is that I'd spotted a previous headline on HN some time after the initial announcement.

Regardless, the relevant information isn't so much the announcements, as understanding SameSite and the changes you might need to make to keep your site(s) running. You can find that at:

https://web.dev/samesite-cookies-explained/
Sure, but that's the problem with inequality: we're not mad at birds because they can fly and we can't - we're too different. But we are naturally mad at other humans, who are 99.99% identical to us but who live vastly different lives through accidents of birth or sometimes business success.
On Larry Elder: https://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2003/11/19

And if you deem it beneath HN's standards to quote a comic strip as a response to another post, well, I would say the same about quoting Larry Elder.
Except - there is almost no cash welfare system in the US. Pretty much just healthcare and food stamps for the poorest.
Pretty recent. Not sure about macs, you might need a third party app.
Dramatic Increase in Teen Overdoses of Anxiety Medications
I don't know. "no daddy in their lives" makes me interpret differently. I guess.

OK. I just figured out. I interpret "no daddy in their lives" as they never had a daddy present ever. This could be my mistake.
https://github.com/apple/darwin-libplatform/blob/master/src/...
Has msvc really changed mangling in the last, say, 20 year? I know that the compliler has a conformancr issue since forever because they mangle struct and class names differently and they do not want to change it because it would break the ABI.
You forgot to mention that many of the ones who didn't go have a seething hatred for those who did, possibly because they don't see sufficient difference.
I like the phrase 'switched worlds'.

It's quite apt. I chose to switch worlds when I left school. It really is a complete bifurcation - you can go back, but it's a foreign land now.
Crimes are indeed crimes. The problem is, whites and blacks use drugs at similar rates, but blacks are significantly more likely to be arrested.

Based on your comment, it seems like you haven't done much independent reading on this topic...

Here's a place to start: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/1/5850830/war-on-drugs-racist-min...
Ask HN: How to avoid AI Dungeon-style bills? I’d like to share something similar
Hiya,

We’ve trained a GPT-2 1.5B model on chess PGN notation. Surprisingly, it’s not bad after only a day of training: https://lichess.org/UMyang4z

(Or rather, it’s not bad up until midgame, at which point it usually blunders. We think it’s because it’s “playing blindfolded” due to the fact that it’s trained solely on PGN notation, as opposed to encoding the full board state each move.)

We’d love to release a Colab demo similar to AI dungeon. But as with AI dungeon, our model is 5.6GB. Downloading from a GCE bucket would cost $0.056 per click, if I understand the outgoing bandwidth pricing model.

Our options seem to be:

1. Download the model via BitTorrent in a colab notebook

2. set up a server to power the demo rather than distribute the model to every client

3. find a host with low bandwidth fees, and write the notebook to download from that

All three have tradeoffs, but #3 seems simplest. Anyone know of a way to distribute 5.6GB to ~500k people for less than a few hundred dollars? BitTorrent might be fine if it can deliver the entire model in less than a couple minutes (otherwise people will get bored and leave).
That job actually sounds like a lot of fun. Thank you for tip on Never Split the Difference.
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I can't read the article seems have suffered HN effect. Speaking as a black man in Africa which is somewhat different to the US I do agree with the title. Africa is different because the first educated generation is my parents generation who are 70+. Off course they are exceptions. My parents who were teachers coming from pure village setup didn't have any mentors. No one explained mortgage to them, they learnt that in school but no uncle, grandparent, cousin or anyone in their circle had ever had a mortgage. It was a new world to them. That generation did well. They lived the village principles, spent a lot of money educating whole villages and taking care of everyone because they the ones who worked. My parents couldn't teach me about money, they don't understand that debt is okay as long as you have a plan to pay it back. In their mind it is a bad idea. I have thus grown up risk averse and it took a long long time to understand how the business world works. Its fine though because you cannot learn these things in one generation. I am generalising but most of my peers don't understand VC funding and startups. My daughter will definitely have a much better understanding of the world as I can pass onto her. These things take generations. Extremely few businesses have been run by African's from one generation to the next. The world is changing, our grandparents were subsistence farmers, our parents were born in villages and still had cows and we were born in cities and towns. A fair number of my generation don't know what to do with a cow and my child's generation are born in town to parents who are professionals as in IT developers, lawyers, accountants and so on.
If that is your position please don't adopt anybody, black, white or any other shade.
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If a human being can practice divination, then surely an AI can too, yes?

I don’t understand why you say it’s physics..and not mathematics.

Let me give you an example from my low tech job/life. I have a farm and I want to automate it. I have been at it for five years now. To replace humans with machines, you need data. You need data sets to train the intelligence behind the machine. That data is expressed as numbers and in the language of mathematics.

Example: when I want to mow my cover crop field in spring, I simply do if I get a feel for it. I know it’s not going to rain..I know it’s before they have flowered, I know how the soil ‘feels’ before I can disc it. I just know. I pick up a handful of soil and then at the sky, in a split second I can make a decision.

But for a machine to make that decision, mathematically..it needs weather data, soil moisture data, leaf analysis, vision system data..put it all together to say ‘yes, I will prep the field today’. The language is mathematics.

In a way, I forecasted and predicted intuitively from previous years springs to determine when I can prep the field. I could be wrong. A farm machine AI however ..with math can make a decision based on narrow parameters but will almost never be wrong because it only has to be right within those narrow parameters.

Why can’t this be done with Astrology?

How can planets have an impact on humans..lets rephrase that..how can planets not have an impact on humans? The sun does. The moon does. That’s because we know heat and light are forms of energy. We acknowledge gravitational force and tidal waves and electro magnetic forces. Does this mean that there is nothing else? Perhaps there are forces we haven’t even met yet and don’t know how it works.

How can we ever figure it out if we dismiss it off hand because it feels ‘woo’. Nature isn’t ‘woo’. Nature doesn’t care how we label it.

We can only see if we want to look. We can’t look if we are afraid of being judged/mocked/downvoted/flagged. Know what I mean?