skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two things that are important to separate here:

1. In one hand, the rolling back of how DEI has/was implemented I think can be a good thing. I think lots of people, myself included, believe that it "went off the rails", but most importantly, I think it ended up being counterproductive to its end goals. Nearly everyone I know who wasn't part of the DEI cottage industry came to view many/most of these programs with cynicism, even if they weren't vocal about it.

2. Don't mistake the validity of number one for thinking that this is just pure and unadulterated pandering to the incoming administration. Meta would sacrifice small babies if they thought it would make them more money in the long run.

The reason I believe so strongly about number 2 is what happened with their content guidelines changes. I'm gay, and I'm actually fine with people calling me insane. But I also better be able to call lots of religious practices based around some invisible sky fairy insane too. The fact that the guidelines specifically called out "it's OK to call gay and transgender people mentally ill", and only those groups, is grossly despicable, and clearly shows Zuckerberg is just taint licking his new overlords.

And to people who still work at Meta, I also think that's fine - we all need a paycheck. But please don't try to convince yourself or anyone else that you're doing it for anything but the money. I'm so sick of these tech companies talking about their lofty goals (and honestly, have been for a while long before Trump) when it's so abundantly clear it's just about making money. And again, I think that's fine to only be about money - it's a business after all. Just don't pretend you're doing some sort of societal good.
Just joined a new team as a senior dev last fall and went through this. I simply worked my ass off the first couple of months and asked a lot of questions and banged out some very high quality initial commits to make a strong first impression. Have a zen mind/open mind, things will be different and you may not care for some of the approaches taken. Play the long game and gradually make suggestions and changes as you get to know the landscape. My initial feedback from management was very positive, so this approach worked for me.
> common non-serious usage of words like ‘weird,’

Are they still mad over the couch thing?
Starlink can talk direct to cell phones.
George Floyd's "incident" was in 2020.

DEI efforts long predate that date.

2011: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13583

2019: https://time.com/5696943/diversity-business/

> A 2019 survey of 234 companies in the S&P 500 found that 63% of the diversity professionals had been appointed or promoted to their roles during the past three years. In March 2018, the job site Indeed reported that postings for diversity and inclusion professionals had risen 35% in the previous two years.
Art Deco style is popular again, a century after its heyday
Exactly this. I keep my personal life and work completely separate.

My wife and I travel a lot and we have done the digital nomad thing for a year.

I go out of my way not to talk about that at work because I don’t want people to say I’m “being distracted” or when I actually do have something like doctors appointments for them to think that I’m goofing off during work hours.

I worked from 15 cities the year before last.

That’s partially PTSD from my time at AWS (Professional Services).
This is a pretty low-level mechanical thing, but your first day/week is the best time to do it...

Almost every time I join a company/project, they don't have even remotely accurate docs about how to set up a development environment (configure workstation with prerequisites, check out the code, run the code).

If they already have a wiki page you can start editing, great. If they have a wiki without such a page, great. If they're open to having this info in the README.md of the repo, great.

Document everything you have to do, which the next hire probably will have to. (Example: Don't have some credential or authorization to access the repo? Ask around for how to get it, someone tells you that you go ask person X? Document who someone should ask if they don't have that thing.)

If you're not sure whether you'll be stepping on toes, make the notes in a file in your home dir, as you're going through it, and later ask someone about whether it'd be helpful to new hires to put it in the wiki/repo/etc.
This is practically a guideline to people who want to deploy hate speech against other minorities on the platform: just make a topic "controversial" enough.
What's more a lot of people (maybe 20%) don't benefit from things like

https://www.reald.com/

which is one reason why stereo movies have struggled. (That plus some people get sick... Having both a flat and 3-d movie in two different theaters comes across as money grubbing to the consumer but it is really a money sink to the theater.)
DEI = Diversity, equity, and inclusion

(Not explained in the article)
Hah, old trick, I read pull requests this way for years
They may have been a dog and pony show but were definitely real and forced executives to change how they hire and promote in illegal, discriminatory ways.
I had a coworker who grew up in Africa and was involved with ISPs there. He had some pretty important jobs in a couple countries.

His explanation why he came to the US to do what were lower level jobs was that in the places he worked it was all who you knew and if your given buddy who got you that job fell out of the good graces of those in power ... you were screwed forever.

He had enough of that, good guy, very capable, worked his way up again in the US.
With an infinite domain (e.g.numbers) randomised testing is necessary, no?
I think being alive in 2020 is a good enough source for this one.
The industries that cause it do. I just think it's better to avoid equating it with a force of nature. We're doing this harm to ourselves. We could stop if we wanted. Viruses we're stuck with.
public domain review is already one of my favorite websites, their infinite gallery is really cool to peruse
Something that has always been really appreciated, and can be an easy "first commit": update/complete the docs. There's always a missing step, something unclear, an outdated link, and undocumented "whys", something to automate, ...

When you've just joined from outside, you're in a unique position in that you haven't internalised yet all the little idiosyncrasies. Best to take note of them, understand the context, and maybe help change them.
Those work far worse (bandwidth) than the dedicated terminals.
It is "everyone". Just like "all lives matter" is a deeply humanistic message about the sanctity of life of all human beings, nothing else.
Deep insight? It was completely obvious that it was performative. Why would huge companies like suddently care about black people or women if it was not to seek popular approval and get closer to power?
Putnam found a linear correlation between diversity and social trust.
I too use iTerm's profiles to change background colors, fonts etc. to indicate where I am.

Reduces number of fat fingering disasters.
Sure, but that's the limit. I didn't say it was impossible, just that crossing your eyes basically works all the way up to your nose.
Is it possible that's happening somewhere? Certainly.

Is that the reality I see? No... it's entirely symbolic.

Different experiences, but I trust what i see in the real world versus anecdotes of people against it for political reasons.
Maybe the confusion here is in comparing different things.

The InfluxData docs you're linking to are similar to Observability vendor docs, which do indeed amount to "here's the endpoint, plug it in here, add this API key, tada".

But OpenTelemetry isn't an observability vendor. You can send to an OpenTelemetry Collector (and the act of sending is simple), but you also need to stand that thing up and run it yourself. There's a lot of good reasons to do that, but if you don't need to run infrastructure right now then it's a lot simpler to just send directly to a backend.

Would it be more helpful if the docs on OTel spelled this out more clearly?
Has Starlink as an org shown any interest in resisting local pressure to that extent?

I'm asking, I don't know, but even when technically feasible there are lots of concerns with defying local governments, good and bad.
Not just famous, but causing users to publicly support the murder and voice support for future murders too. Again, the central point is that most murder is condemned by the public while this one is enjoyable a disturbing amount of support.

I bet companies are getting uncomfortable with just how many of their users are supportive of murder, and how much it's going to increase TOS violations for incitement to violence. Do you think advertisers want their products next to threads fawning over a murderer and saying more need to be shot?
Hmm. I noticed in lectures, if I stilled my eyes, most of the field of view would grey out, except for areas of motion (eg a lecturer's head or writing arm) which appeared normal. After motion stopped in an area, it would slowly grey out. When a motion started, its area would snap to normal, making it easy to spot onsets of motion. Eventually my eyes would twitch, and the whole field would refresh.
I'm with you on this: Anyone that rejects clinically studied treatments in favor of "alternative" treatments is an idiot.

That said, the keto diet is being studied clinically and preliminary research does seem to indicate that it has an effect. So it may be an "in addition to" treatment. That said, the news isn't entirely good:

https://www.cancer.columbia.edu/news/study-finds-keto-diet-c...

The bottom line is ask your oncologist. They're probably paying attention to these keto studies and they know more about your cancer than HN does.
So you mean GDP per capita?
Fantastical sfumato in the first picture.
> Optimising for the majority over the minority is always good.

Unless it's taxes.
I just want to note, there exist two main flavors of formal methods: extrinsic techniques, which are disjoint from the code itself and generally reason about the specifications of code, and intrinsic techniques, which are inline with the code itself and reason about the code more directly. Historically, intrinsic techniques (such as type systems) reason about code at a functional level, while extrinsic techniques (such as decidable model checkers like Spin/P) reason about a model of the code, ascribed to formalism like an automata. But imo we're currently in a complete golden age of formal methods research, and extrinsic techniques are falling out of flavor in comparison to intrinsic methods as pushed by type system advancements and projects like Verus [1].

[1] https://github.com/verus-lang/verus
Isn't the point of providing the data to give bidders a reason to bid (no point in bidding outside their market)? If so, that would give all data to any bidder, as claimed above.

Regarding proportionality, don't they always get the info of the bids they win? If so, what you're saying is that you only get the info of bids won.
I mostly agree. FB is trying to “sell” (the price is data / ads) a product. They have to decide if that will be a “moderate” product or an extreme product. But, I’m not excluding that they have reasonably concluded that a more extreme product will generate more revenue (perhaps from fewer people).
> 1) Twitter has imploded, and is on the road to Myspace level relevance

Revenue is down, yes. But when a head of state wants to say something to the world, they put it in a tweet. 189 countries have an official presence on X.
Seems fine as it always appeared as virtue signaling to me. This is one less talking point that conservatives will use when literally anything happens.
No, it's a security problem, which is much worse.
That would be a far superior submission.

It also provides a basis for substantive criticism. E.g., there are many claims advanced without any evidence or testing of those claims.

There are full-size structure tests under wildfire / WUI (wildland/urban interface) conditions. These are nontrivial and expensive. Findings are often nonintuitive.

I'd found some good videos previously, those aren't turning up for me presently, though this is a detailed discussion of the phenomenon:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=NRpVPhjGscA>

I'd be quite wary of either coincidental anecdotes (as Reddit discussion notes, there are several other surviving structures, apparently not Passivhaus designs), or speculative discussion of how a design might perform under actual wildfire conditions.

One example from the current fires is the Pasadena Jewish Center, which at first blush looks fairly robust: stucco or concrete construction, clay tile roof. But that structure burnt completely in the Eaton fire.

Story of the destruction here: <https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2025-01-08/pasadena-...>

I've found a few images of the structure previously, though those don't show much detail. The vulnerability of that specific building was surprising to me.
Suppose you made a bad policy decision and want to roll it back. How do you do that? Anything you do is going to piss someone off. I think they're trying to do it in a plausibly reasonable way without shitting on everyone who worked on it for a couple years.
What is a DEI specific role? Isn't that against EoE rules?
...huh? I work with customers who (through a mistake) have created literally multi-million span traces using OTel. Are you referring to a particular backend?
> you're acknowledging rolling back DEI initiatives in part because of the "political landscape"

Isn't that the same reason they were rolled out in the first place?
I always feel like I'll permanently see cross eyed if I keep doing that. It doesn't help that I was accidentally hit in the head by my double's partner racket in tennis and spent like a minute or two walking around seeing double. Not fun.
Agree. Here's the repo for SigNoz if you want to check it out - https://github.com/signoz/signoz
After a short period of training, I got to the point where I can see the third image which I can focus on. However, the differences are very subtile and don't stick out at all :/
Traits That May Cease to Be Valuable
We've had these stereoscopic books with hidden images and I never saw any. So I've been failing at this since 7 years old – does that count?
Wow. That’s insane! With the trick I can somehow solve them all!
> Public services are not a jobs program.

Indeed but wealth extraction from already piss poor countries by artificially dumping prices that cannot be sustained by domestic industry has been a problem with Africa for decades, and that after centuries of colonialism on top of it.

Africa used to have a vibrant textile and agricultural industry - Simbabwe for example was known until two, three decades ago as the "grain chamber of Africa" - but Western "donations" aka mitumba and "aid" programs completely wiped out the domestic industry, leaving many countries that were self-sufficient now utterly dependant on foreign supply.
Oh, thanks, that's good to hear!

Edit: only now I see that's also from 2009 with updates into 2013. Do you where one can easily download the latest patched version?
Once a sideproject, Gumloop's $17M Series A
Only for extremely low-bandwidth service, good for texting and such.
Blech.

If you already have reloadable configuration infrastructure, or plan to add it in the future, this is just spreading out your configuration capture. No thank you (and by “no thank you” I mean fuck right off).

If you want to improve your bus number for production triage, you have to make it so anyone (senior) can first identify and then reproduce the configuration and dependencies of the production system locally without interrupting any of the point people to do so. If you cannot see you cannot help.

Just because you’re one of k people who usually discover the problem quickly doesn’t mean you’ll always do it quickly. You have bad days. You have PTO. People release things or flip feature toggles that escape your notice. If you stop to entertain other people’s queries or theories you are guaranteed to be in for a long triage window, and a potential SLA violation. But if you never accept other perspectives then your blind spots can also make for SLA violations.

Let people putter on their own and they can help with the Pareto distributions. Encourage them to do so and you can build your bus number.
You have a completely distorted view of the history of these programs which LONG predate 2020. Unfortunately so do a lot of people.
Privatize the FDA
We've already run the experiment on what an unmoderated discussion forum looks like once it grows beyond a trivial number of users. It's called 4chan, specifically /b/. Twitter/X is just reinforcing the previous findings as it rapidly shifts into being another version of /b/.

The shameless and the trolls push out the sensible people. It quickly devolves into conspiracy theories, grifts, porn, and propaganda.
Comparing the homlessness chart in the article to Finland's net immigration chart (https://stat.fi/en/publication/cl8n2ksks2yau0dukaxe3it75) the country's net negative immigration created much of the housing availability to house people immediately. Next door in Sweden, the situation is different.

Their approach of building flats and committing to getting homeless people into them absolutely worked and should be an example, but not without a relatively fixed homeless rate. This is the general issue with the nordic social model. it was the model of functioning social programs, but in a vacuum of relative isolation and homegeneity.
Right. For the large companies, and the majority of the workforce, they mean nothing. Then the small to mid size businesses with some whackadoo who goes "we're not hiring X anymore, underrepresented groups only!" get a ton of press and create political capital.
? Have you ever even opened a history book? Is this sarcasm?
Google HR is on the record doing this.

I guess shutting one's eyes is an alternative way of seeing the real world, in a way.
What about being alive before 2020?
Global Climate Highlights 2024
Are they rolling back Chinese and Indian managers only hiring Chinese and Indian folks, too?
Context propagation isn't trivial on a multi-threaded async runtime. There are several ways to do it, but JVM agents that instrument bytecode are popular because they work transparently.
Good to hear. Racism / sexism has no place in hiring practices and was always illegal.
I’ve always treated my first days on any job as “my job is to make the (inevitably outdated) onboarding docs as good as possible.” That way you can contribute from day one, and you hopefully lower the rope ladder some for the next new hire.
The initiatives were put in place to appease large institutional investors who were trying to score virtue points with the public and progressive lawmakers who generally aren’t that friendly to Blackrock, Vanguard, et al.

Now that it’s not social suicide to point out that codified racism to fight bias is absurd and outcomes have been questionable, the pendulum is headed back toward centre.
I'm starting as a Staff SDE at a new company next week, and this is roughly my onboarding plan:

1. Meet a lot of people through 1:1s, both from tech, leadership and customer side.

2. Get the codebase working on my machine, document anything that's missing from the docs they already have.

3. Ask questions in the open - in a team Slack rather than DM'ing people. Everyone can learn from my questions, and in a team Slack it'll be searchable.

4. Understand from my lead (director) on what the short and long-term goals of the org are. And then talk to others to see how they fit with that story :)

5. Ask about what the role expectations are, how they do performance evaluations, etc etc. I'll ask this to my manager and peers to get a better view.

---

There's probably more that I'll do once I actually start, but this is the quick list of what came to mind.
George Floyd's being alive for part of 2020 debunks it, unless the various DEI programs predating 2020 were somehow created via a time machine.
It's strange Facebook would follow in the path of Twitter explicitly, because at least on paper Facebook is (and has been) the more profitable of the companies.

But I do understand a willingness to abandon "moderation" and allow extremes, because things like extreme emotion could lead to arguments that lead to increased user attention and thus, platform usage.
It was the grammar I had trouble with, not the vocabulary. A comma before “within” would have helped a bit.
> It seems to me you're doing at least 1 thing here, and acknowledging that such DEI program was performative in the first place.

Keep in mind that these statements are made to pander to the incoming president. The implication that "DEI is discrimination against white people" is very much a part of that.

> why the initiative in the first place?

Ultimately this is the same answer as with the broader ESG incentives. It is in fact a good idea to have a diverse workforce for the exact same reasons evolution keeps diversity around.

The pretense that it's "discrimination" is rather silly, especially for tech giants like Meta whose shortlists of qualified applicants number in the hundreds to thousands after initial selection.
Ultimately, kind of. There were some bumps along the road though.
Well said. What we need is real DEI initiatives. But private dictatorships don't care about this stuff. Only what marketing value they can gain from it.
That's only for highlighting.

```bash assumes content is a valid shell script

```console assumes content is a dialog between a user and a computer, with $ or such prompts and unprefixed program output

Console sessions showing output is why you can't magically auto-prefix every line with a prompt.
I tried crossing my eyes, but it’s not working for me; I keep seeing things blurry. Maybe I’m doing it wrong. However, I solved the first two puzzles. For the last one, I just guessed randomly. My guess wasn’t exactly correct, but it was close, just a little distance away.
Crossing is easier because you can simply hold your finger in front of your eyes and look at that for practice.

Diverging requires you to look past the image, meaning you have nothing to really look at, which makes it difficult to figure out what your eyes are even supposed to do.

Those stereograms aren't helping much either, since they look like nothing until you get it right. With cross-eye you have instant double-vision that you just need to align.

Cross-eye also works across much larger distances, diverging fails when the images are too far apart.
This matches my experience. Very difficult to understand what I needed to get the effect I wanted.
Just how many ads are there on ad-supported streaming apps, really?
Chill out, that's a bit of hyperbole isn't it? This is just a trick for doing a spot the difference puzzle. It's not exactly a daily task most people are thinking about.

Most people at least understand that stereographic vision has something to do with 3D perception because we've all closed 1 eye before.
Yeah and a blind man can see this, it’s so loud.
I don’t see how the distinction makes any sense when the Verus project you linked requires you to write correctness specs. It sounded like intrinsic techniques were preferred because they would not require you to write and maintain a separate spec, but this is not the case.
What is it about Grok that you expect to be so much better? Not disagreeing necessarily, just want to know your reasoning.
And we all know there was no racism or sexism before DEI programs.
And a marketer too! My god.

Kind of an insane stance to take considering we've seen exactly what happens when queer people's friends and family members get pummeled with anti-gay and anti-trans hate campaigns... which is that half of them end up falling for it and turning on their friend/family members.
> the ability to move across tracing providers

It's a nice dream. At Google Cloud Next last year, the vendors kinda of came in two buckets. Datadog, and everyone trying to replace Datadog's outrageous bills.