skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one interpretation but the next sentence doesn't really track with that. Of course there are roles in DEI departments, and roles focused on DEI. That doesn't do anything to weaken the argument the GP was making but that second sentence sounds like it should.

The reasonable interpretation then is that this isn't the right interpretation. The only other one I can think of is having prescribed immutable characteristics you're hiring for.
Are you sure about this? There is data to back it up in The China Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study and mentioned in the Forks over Knives documentary. That's more about prevention, but it has a measurable impact on cancer rates, I don't see how that could be classified as no impact.
That they decided to fold before even being challenged really shows you how deeply held their DEI beliefs were.
> If the ADA was being proposed today, Republicans would decry it as yet another woke DEI effort.

A lot of the culture war entities which now dominate the GOP did so (obviously, with different language, as "woke" and "DEI" weren't the current generic epithets for things the Right doesn't like) at the time, but (1) were mollified in some cases with special exclusions, like religious schools being excluded from the definition of covered public accommodations, and (2) otherwise were less politically powerful within the party.
A guy I worked for 20 years ago goes on rants on LinkedIn about how he can't find a job as a recruiting manager because of his age and DEI. Maybe if he wasn't such an overt racist crybaby, then he'd have more success at finding a job.
I wrote a paper about doing this using human eyes as the "repeating pattern" (either someone else's, or your own in a mirror): https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEDSK.pdf ...You can use this trick to make boring meetings or conversations mildly more amusing (but be careful not to look like a clown crossing your eyes).

If you're an expert at this, you can even do it to your own hands. Hold both hands in front of you but with one of them palm-away and one of them palm-toward you, so that they have the same shape, then cross- or parallel-view them to get an illusionary middle third hand. Walk around while focusing on the third hand and it's a seriously trippy effect.

Another "super power" application similar to OP: the ability to confirm whether or not two distant digital clocks' seconds-digits are perfectly in sync. Since they're distant, it takes time to shift one's gaze from one to the other, making it hard to confirm whether they're in sync. But cross your eyes so as to reduce the distance, and voila.

Yet another application: quickly assume the same head-tilt angle as your conversation partner. Suppose they tilt their head to the left by N degrees and you want to tilt yours the same way, how can you be sure you have the exact correct tilt? Easy: parallel-view their eyes (as described in the aforementioned paper). You will HAVE to tilt your head the same as them in order to see their "third eye" (and once you've locked on to their third eye, you can effortlessly adjust your head tilt as they do by using their third eye as the necessary guide)
> it wouldn't be racist to hire based on diversity as it's not done from a basis of racial superiority.

If you hire someone over someone else due to an immutable quality such as their skin colour, sexual orientation (which shouldn't even be a thing to discuss on a job interview), hair colour, sex, gender etc than that is discrimination, and in the case of race, racist. Just because the majority of racism happens in one way, does not mean it's not racism in the other way.

Unless the immutable quality somehow makes the person physically better for the job, such as males typically having better muscle/bone mass which gives them an advantage for physical work (e.g. oil rigs), or employing a black female actor to play a black female character.
> Maybe men are indeed better firefighters than women generally?

On average? Maybe! The woman in that video looks like she could severely kick my ass; I strongly suspect she could carry me. (I also suspect there are multiple roles in a fire call, and "carry big man" may be balanced by "squeeze into tight spot" tasks at times.)

If you can't hear the joking tone in that statement in the video, I'm not sure how to help you. "You're in a fire, I'm helping you, don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
> an image that can only be accessed if you're logged in your google / facebook / twitter accounts

I don't understand how this would work? Wouldn't there have to be some kind of cookie/storage that is accessible to third parties in order to know this? AFAIK this is exactly what angered people about Flash due to their use of cross-domain capable "super cookies".
> Can you even achieve this with prometheus? Afaik it operates by exposing metrics that are scraped at some interval. High level stuff, not per-trace stuff.

Correct. Prometheus is just metrics.

The main argument for oTel is that instead of one proprietary vendor SDK or importing prometheus and jaeger and whatever you want to use for logging, just import oTel and all that will be done with a common / open data format.

I still believe in that dream but it's clear that the whole project needs some time/resources to mature a bit more.

If anybody remembers the Terraform/ToFu drama, it's been really wild to see how much support everybody pledged for ToFu but all the traditional observability providers have just kinda tolerated oTel :/
Final update - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap...

He's being allowed to continue graduating.
AI is too big of a thing to ignore. if you're a CTO/CIO in 2025 and you're not at least looking into it in a cursory manner the rest of the C-levels will assume you're slacking or dumb.

of course it may be dumb to use it, and largely a way to extract value out of corporations for mediocre benefit, but that's still not yet certain at this point.

Group think or not, you gotta at least do something with it. FOMO -- what if you miss that bus?
Every completed project was at one point a few weeks away from being done.
The general public will never pay for a search engine as long as they have a free option, supported by ads. And that's not a problem. There are millions of companies who have millions of customers, without being something for the general public.

> And I am 100% sure that if Kagi would cost 4,99$ a month, we would be talking about hundreds of thousands of users already.

I really don't think so. The difference between free and paid is gigantic in the minds of people, but between $5 and $10 not so much. Especially when it's a product that brings incredible value already. If you could have dinner at the best restaurant in the country for $10, or free cup noodles in the supermarket. Would you argue all day with the waiter that the dinner should be $5? I think most people would be happy with a great deal, or go stand in line for the free cup noodles.

As for privacy oriented customers, those are the absolutely worst customers imaginable for anybody selling anything. They bring a lot of headache and demand very much for the very little they pay. Building a business with trying to get people to pay because they hate your competitor is not sustainable. These customers are fickle and can start hating you instead for any or no reason. It's much better to have customers who like your product and think the price is great.
I found it almost instantly, which was by dumb luck.

But in the following few moments, seeing two nearly identical photos side by side soon made me think of stereograms, since I'm into them, and have shot a few in my lifetime.

I then used my eyes to overlap the images.

In binocular overlapped view, the difference loudly draws attention to itself, because it flickers between the two eyes.

It's almost as if there were a blinking LED saying "here it is!"
I've basically stopped these problems by coloring the servers. My production shells have a red PS1 background. Datagrip gives a red color to my prod databases. HTML admin consoles got some red css if configurable.
Isn't that more about the value of the shares they personally received as part of their compensation package?
Google doesn't want the leeches, they throttle the buyers who don't win enough, and Google was forced by the law to make lot of privacy improvements.

For example, before the GDPR you would receive the full IP address of the user and the visited webpage URL.

123.456.123.456 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNvlZg_zh1s

Now you receive only:

123.456.123.0 and more limited information about the context

Though this better privacy has a cost, because it means less revenue for Google, but also less revenue for the publishers, and less relevant advertising.
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf

It details Alexander von Humboldt, his travels through South America and Siberia, and general contributions to science.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995249-the-invention-o...
> Glad Polymarket (and other related markets) exist so

Polymarket is a great way to incentive people into making their predictions happen, with all clandestine tools at their disposal, which is definitely not what you want for your society generally.
This is a funny example because some in the pro-DEI movement advocate for ending blind auditions to enhance diversity[1].

I think if we could somehow do "blind auditions" for any kind of work, that would be the ideal case of non-biased hiring. But if the outcomes of this kind of blind hiring did not result in a "diverse" workforce, I don't think many DEI advocates would be on board.

[1] https://archive.is/iH2uh
A number of years ago I was at a friend's house and he wanted to play Uno but he couldn't be cause his dog got into the deck and many of the cards were damaged.

I noticed he had a couple of packs of playing cards on his coffee table and upon closer inspection, I realized that each card in Uno maps to a card in 52 card deck. A standard Uno deck has 108 cards, which is a standard 52-card deck plus the jokers.

So we played Uno with his two decks of playing cards.
This has been my experience as well as a director of engineering. I also think more diverse candidates is a good thing.

The thing that was harder for me was working with the people hired to run the DEI recruiting programs. I never was able to establish a great working relationship with them even though I was able to do so with a good cross-section of the rest of the organization. Not really sure why tbh.
The TikTok Ban Would Be Social Media's First Extinction-Level Event
lol.. the clickbait-iest of clickbait titles possible. Is Ars Tech really THAT hard up for clicks?
Can a German Bus Startup Make Greyhound Suck Less?
Adding some data. Draw your own conclusions about wage suppression

Googles AI search
"As of January 2025, the median H-1B salary in the United States was $141,000 per year, or $11,750 per month. The average salary was $167,533 per year, or $13,961 per month."

https://h1bgrader.com/h1b-sponsors/visa-usa-inc-op0lw9gmkl/s...

This is excluding government costs of sponsoring the visa for the employee AND their family.

I am not supporting US companies by any means - they are as greedy as one can get.
Show HN: Prompt to App Generator
I built a very simple and easy to use app generator that generates working app prototypes from text prompts. It is deployed immediately so you get a shareable link to your app. If you're applying to YC and want something to prototype your idea with as an early demo, this could work. Built it because I feel there should be one step before MVPs, something early, cheap and shareable. It simulates all frontend and backend functionalities so it's perfect for validating your ideas with early adopters or investors before committing time and money to a full MVP build. It's pay per use, so no need for subscriptions.
Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Become Successful on YouTube
I've actually never seen a 'diversity hire' take place. When we set DEI policy and act on it, it was about trying to encourage a more diverse pool and a more diverse group of choosers.

That's it. Then let the talent speak.

However, let's assume a 'diversity hire' did take place in the negative scenario you imagine. Quota's, I imagine. It still wouldn't be racist as it wouldn't be based on racial superiority.

You can call it something else, if you like. But it wouldn't be racist. A 'mistake' perhaps.

There are many out there who beat their chest and say that 'the word racist is overused so as to become meaningless'.

You've just fallen into that hole.

EDIT:
(it appears I've been blocked from replying here so to my children, lol:

@Shawabawa:
"For as long as I've been conscious and with a dictionary (40 years), 'racism' has always been about a belief in the superiority and supremacy of one race over the other, and the actions that stem from that. Sure, your simple version is included also, but the fundamental (and meaningful) definition was always about supremacy.
But really ... based on some of the comments here and the prevailing political climate in the US, let's call it quits. It really doesn't matter.
The 'winners' write the history, as they say."

@seryoiupfurds:
"Well, better than your first attempt. But the thrust of your comment is still that 'diversity hiring' is the norm. My experience says it's not - and certainly not in the way we apply DEI.")
There's often a separation between the people who bring in the candidates and the people who interview/approve the candidates.

If HR passes me a stack of resumes then that's who I interview; if all the people HR passes me are white, then I'm left to either assume that these were all the qualified candidates who applied (or at least, to operate under that assumption).

If the process gets bounced back because the stack that was passed to me was filtered by HR's unconscious (or conscious) biases, that forces them to give me more diverse candidates to choose from; the best candidate may still be the middle class white dude, but ensuring that the hiring manager is presented with a broad range of options and not just Chad, Biff, and Troy helps the whole pipeline.
>And, to be clear, even if 'diversity hires' did take place in the way you seem to imagine it, it wouldn't be racist to hire based on diversity as it's not done from a basis of racial superiority.

If you hire based on someone's race, that would appear to be racist.
> If I was porting a game, I'd at least want to make important behaviors 100% true to the original - accelerations, jumping physics, hitboxes, speeds... these are pretty tedious to reverse-engineer without source.

You're wildly overestimating how professionally done a lot of video game ports were in that era. It wasn't uncommon for home computer ports to be written by a single developer whose only access to the original was being able to pump a pocketful of quarters into it at their local arcade.
It's impressive that not only do you post the most asinine of rage bait possible but you also somehow took the quote out of context and wildly misrepresented said quote as well.
>> Behind this approach is a simple principle often abbreviated as "compression is intelligence", or the model must approximate the distribution of data and perform implicit reasoning in its activations in order to predict the next token (see Solomonoff Induction; Solomonoff 1964)

For the record, the word "intelligence" appears in the two parts of "A Formal Theory of Inductive Inference" (referenced above) a total of 0 times. The word "Compression" appears a total of 0 times. The word "reasoning" once; in the phrase "using similar reasoning".

Unsurprisingly, Solomonoff's work was preoccupied with Inductive Inference. I don't know that he ever said anything bout "compression is intelligence" but I believe this is an idea, and a slogan, that was developed only much later. I am not sure where it comes from, originally.

It is correct that Solomonoff induction was very much about predicting the next symbol in a sequence of symbols; not necessarily linguistic tokens, either. The common claim that LLMs are "in their infancy" or similar are dead wrong. Language modelling is basically ancient (in CS terms) and we have long since crossed in the era of its technological maturity.

_______________

[1] https://raysolomonoff.com/publications/1964pt1.pdf

[2] https://raysolomonoff.com/publications/1964pt2.pdf
The first does have something to do with what he's commenting on. That said, the original poster can clarify since they're on HN, rather than us speculating.
No one would allow a business perceived to be US Owned to play games like that in Africa right now anyway. With the Chinese sitting right there ready to swoop in and help the affected nations problem solve.

We’re not as dumb in the US as the rest of the world seems to think.
Yes, I was unable; just bumped me back to the login
> acknowledging that such DEI program was performative in the first place

The retraction in itself is performative as well. It’s trying to highlight that “we only did it because it was a necessary performative action at the time due to the political climate then — we didn’t really mean it.”
For anyone who wants to learn this, try this way using your finger as a helper.

Put the images in front of your eyes.

Bring your finger between your face and the image at almost middle of the distance.

Now look at your finger.

Move your finger back and forth and notice the background (where your picture is)

While doing this, notice that at a particular distance, the images in background will perfectly overlap each other.

That's your moment.

Pull out your finger and look at that image.

--

It worked on everyone I have tried to teach. You may always need help of your finger or a tip of a pencil or whatever. But it's lot easier to get those images to merge this way.
Im 34. I've used a permanent standing desk for 5 years, along with monitors at a proper height, an ErgoDox EZ keyboard, and a standing pad.

I havent experienced any issues so far, what issues could this create for me?

I find that if I sit I end up having lower back pain, my legs end up getting tingly after a while, and I just get sleepy if I'm too comfortable.

Do I actually need to force myself to sit? I'm moderately fit/athletic, standing has helped me with back pain and neck pains.
For my friends reading this from Europe, you probably can keep on eating brown rice. In American it’s from pesticide and in Asia from mines erosion to water to rice. Americans might be good with organic one. IMHO the price difference worth the nutritious benefit.

You also can wash your rice to remove 90% of arsenic, basically putting it to wheat and other grains levels.
Agreed. The X ads were terrible and annoying until I flipped on that "Let X ad track you" and at least I get tolerable ads on mobile. (uBlock Origin blocks them on desktop)

The For You feed varies week by week but is generally okay. I make heavy use of lists, mute words, etc to clean things up.

X is a train wreck, but an interesting and useful one, depending on who/what you follow.
Failed to perform the technique despite multiple retries, but didn't have any issues spotting differences the normal way for all except the impossible mode - which just felt like it would be tedious.

My usual method is just to brute-force linear scan from left to right, top-to-bottom. May not be elegant, but it works.
And we will need more SW engineers to rebuild it :)
problem is musk has shown that he can shut a country down on a whim. we've seen him doing with starlink with ukraine, and twitter with... anyone that opposes him.

for all the great things starlink does and is, it should not be at the whims of a egomaniacal drug addict.
I keep my old SQL Server Anki cards alive for just such a use case. It's been a minute since I had to jump into a 3-digit-LOC SQL script that does some arcane financial processing or what have you, but there's a nice steady niche there in case I ever want to throw my hat back into the ring.
_Madhouse at the End of the Earth_ by Julian Sancton went hard. It documents the tragic expedition of Adrian de Gerlache to the south pole in the late 19th century. Due to hubris, they wound up locked in the ice overwinter, and came within a hair's breadth of death.

A gripping read. 10/10 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/09/madhouse-at-th...
One would be objectively wrong, though.
That's ridiculous. You and I don't have to buy that car. But if it existed and were brought to market, people who do like it have the option. It gives them choices they wouldn't otherwise have without restricting our options.

Tying this back to my earlier point, working on a product with people who weren't exactly like me made a better product for everyone. It didn't make it a worse product for older white guys like myself, while making it more useful for everyone else who isn't my twin. That's pretty cool, and customers rewarded us for it.

Without the input of diverse opinions, I wouldn't have thought of the simple changes we could make to expand its reach, again, without making it worse for me and people like me. The end result was universally better. That's a good thing for our users and our investors. Literally everyone involved was better off for it.
The fact that you think this is remotely the same thing is telling.
same, people keep complaining that their twitter feeds are full of violence, porn & political bullshit but I get 0 of that

I haven't gone out of my way to restrict my timeline either, I follow ~1000 accounts I just don't follow or interact with accounts that post any of that crap.
I'm a huge fan of Kindles, though I'm sure similar e-ink readers are good too.

I love it because there's no eye strain like an ipad (which I have but no longer use for reading). You can charge it once and it will last for weeks without a recharge. The highlights are amazing - you can highlight key points throughout the book (if you have a kindle scribe you can use the pen to highlight which is a nice experience) and then go online and view all your notes in one place - pretty useful like your own cliff notes. Also if you get kindle, you can get a Libby account with your public library and get basically any book for free (pending hold/wait times, but I haven't found this to be an issue). When you checkout a book on the libby app it is automatically sent to your kindle, no hassle. I use a smaller kindle for reading in bed, and the scribe for reading at my desk. You can certainly make do with one though. I love that when it's not in use, you can set it so it shows the cover of the book you're currently reading, nice touch. They're fast/snappy and work well. The back light and dark mode is great for night time reading. I didn't get hype over dark mode, but it really makes sense when you're reading at night in the dark less light coming out on your face. If you use more than one like me, it syncs across devices which is nice.

Lately, I tried reading a book while listening to the audio book at the same time. This was very immersive and I actually finished the book in one sitting, a great way to absorb information and stay focused, while still being able to highlight.

Finally, a lot of people talk about liking having an physical copy of the book as a preference, but I've found the advantages above out weigh it. You can't highlight your physical book and then seem them all in one place and quickly go through them. I sometimes get a physical copy for fiction books, but for non-fiction where I want to highlight and apply info, kindle is my choice. And as a fun thing you can do with your kindle - a lot of people find nice cases and decorate with stickers, so there's still something new/fun if you miss that new book smell ;)
They never did it. And what little immigration Canada has had (compared to the US) has been beneficial, as it always is.
Don't worry it will come, it takes a while but then you start getting sent outrage bait, stuff you will disagree with just to get you involved.