skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Recognizing personal and institutional bias” sounds nice, until someone has to decide which biases or differences to overcome, and at what cost.

There’s a bias against tattoos. What price should the company pay to overcome multigenerational tattoo-phobia? Tattoo activists will tell you any amount of money and inefficiency is morally required.

The shift from “non-discrimination between races” to “offsetting differences attributable to society’s bias” necessarily calls for special treatment of those perceived as disadvantaged, and so becomes illegal where the law lays down a nondiscrimination rule. Kendi was honest about that part.
Most people in mainland Europe are poor by American middle-class standards.
I don't know if they still do it, but the Apple Silicon Macs also lied about their architecture and said they're Intel. Truth is not the guiding principle of the User-Agent (or all the JS navigator properties, or anything else easy to use to check this kind of thing).
I think I would rather eat glass than rent a movie on Amazon Prime for $3.99. I'm so sick of those polluting the search on there.
Linux Running in a PDF
This is exactly what happens on VOGONS, but it relies on the community reporting violations, and I suspect this isn’t happening consistently. I’ve reviewed too many reports where multiple people had been breaking the rules for days before anyone bothered to flag a single post.

I don’t know what to do about how toxicity has become so normalised in online spaces that people don’t even bother to flag it. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to tell new members that VOGONS is not Reddit or Twitter and to not import antisocial behaviour from those places into this place. It is like fighting a losing battle with an invasive species.

Frankly, I also don’t know how to strike the right balance when it comes to long-time members who break the rules infrequently but consistently. Knowing that a forum regular is probably going to break the rules again in the future, but not for several months, doesn’t make for an obvious solution to me. So I try to do the best I can to remind people to do better, and hope the time-until-relapse goes up. But I am sure this negatively impacts other community members since they will see the same person doing the same thing again and wonder why nothing is being done about them, not noticing that the last incident was three or six or twelve months ago.
LLMs Were Backdoored Years Ago
NYC Mayor Proposes e-bike Mandate
Why not both? I also use NixOS as the main router/fw/nat, and OpenWRT in bridge mode as dumb APs.

All updates except semi-recent DSA changes were seamless.
Show HN: I built a tool to create polls on Bluesky
Hey everyone. I’ve been missing polls on Bluesky for a while and got curious about how to make it work. So, I put together a little tool called blueskypolls.xyz as a workaround that lets you create polls for your posts. It’s not perfect, but it gets the job done!

Here’s how it works:

• You can create polls with multiple options

• You can also create polls as a reply to a post

• It even supports custom emojis if you want to make things a bit more fun

• You can also setup a poll end date

• You can see results of each of your polls with some beautiful graphs

One thing to note: the tool requires your an app password to work, not your main account password. App passwords are specifically for connecting third-party tools and can be managed in your Bluesky account settings. It’s a safer way to use tools like this without sharing your main password.

If you’ve been wishing for polls on Bluesky, this might be something you’d find useful. I’d love to hear your thoughts or if there’s something you think could make it better.
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Do you have a counterexample to illustrate your point?
I recall we have a specific carve out for Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders, and I recall seeing specific hiring drives especially around the public service (I also am aware that elements of the federal government had a program specifically targeting autistic people too, which is also a protected characteristic)

Theres also 2 forms these DEI programs took.

1. (The FAA Thing) where they specifically manipulated their hiring system to ensure a greater percentage of african americans.

2. (What a lot of the tech companies did) Write tons of new HR documentation, and add checks and balances to ensure that the implicit bias of the hiring manager didn't result in a biased outcome.

Theres really nothing wrong with 2 in an Australian context other than the extra overhead. The overhead was carried for a while as it allowed companies to signal alignment with political stances. They are shelving these programs to signal differently.

Honestly I cant completely hate the idea of 2 either. I despise the idea of more HR people drawing paychecks, but I recall an incident 20 years ago where our team couldn't hire a woman because the all female HR team unilaterally decided she wasn't technical enough, and bounced her out of the running without telling the hiring manager. (The applicant was conventionally attractive and younger than the HR team)
I’m not going to systematically rebut what you cited because it has been done better than I can (see the TWIV link above), but I have heard all of what you cited before, and frankly it still appears to be just a politically motivated conspiracy theory that is extremely implausible.
They never were legal, but people looked the other way. Now that will come back to haunt them.
Every pro DEI argument is “no true Scotsman”.

Whereas in practice it’s just plain racism and discrimination.

I’m sure in theory it’s all very nice. Just like communism.
That's quite a lot to ask. Not OP, but I'm not doing all that just because sometime else misconfigured their anti-DDoS, unless I really need to.
Well I would have to figure it's quite common for people not to have a clue who Lorne Greene was, and probably don't attend that many big old international ships in the average year for very many decades either.
Take a breath and take this from first principles...

People tend to be tribal. People, when interviewing and select, will tend to hire people that look like them. A white guy from a white school from a white neighbourhood is far more likely to hire another white guy because that's what the've spent their whole lives surrounded by. This is justified a million ways, but what it boils down to is favouring someone who is a certain race.

And when tech is already full of white guys, it just means more white guys will be hired in tech... Cause maths.

All DEI was doing in the tech world was saying, "try interview at least one woman/ black person etc". Also maybe some training on how to avoid the pitfall in an interview of just hiring someone the same as you.

But look around you in the office. How many women are there? How many black people? How many... Black women?!?! Yea, I thought so.

If you are talking about "merit based" then that is "DEI". If you are talking about "people who look and act like me", then you are racist.

Anyway, excluding people leads to worse outcomes. Unfortunately, it makes life harder for people on the way.
> You can't have an advanced economy with most people sitting on the side.

If AI lives up to the hype, that will become possible.

> If all that remains of the economy consists of a few datacenters talking to each other, how can the ruling class profit off that?

I don't think it would be that. There'd also be power generation, manufacturing, mining, and construction, etc.; but all extremely automated. If you get to truly extreme levels of wealth concentration, things would shift out of our capitalist market system model, and concepts like "profit" would become anachronisms.

It actually might kinda look like the "economy" of Starcraft: you gather resources, decide what to build with them, and order it all around according to your whim. There will be a handful of guys playing, and everyone else will be a NPC.
Part of DEI at Google is to engage with universities to understand why some prefer not to study STEM/PR/whatnot. Shutting it down at Google will also affect the education pipeline.

Agreed on PR (or avoidance of negative publicity) being the main driver for Pichai to engage in the discussion, but there are many people at Google who care.

Disclaimer: worked at Google in Europe.
> You've called this one out as bad. Well, it probably is bad. if I invested through this company I'd be upset. But the thing is, its "hunt for keys under lampost, not because I lost them there, but because it's lit up" bad: You know this hire does not make much sense. The other hires, you are letting through because (I believe) you implicitly assume they can learn to do the job, all other bad reasons for hire not withstanding. Why can't he learn them too?

I can’t tell if you’re taking the piss out of me or not. Do you really think that because no one’s perfect that means hiring someone with no experience in a complex job is equivalent to hiring someone with experience?
I do hope they find something that isn't philodemus at some point!
That is far different (and much less severe) than the original claim of accelerationism that was being made earlier.
Which non-human species do you believe are being referred to when the term "pregnant women" (or "pregnant people") is used?
The hairy part the 6502 instruction set is Subtract With Carry, and the confusion about how the carry flag works as a result of subtracting or comparing.

SBC is implemented by adding the ones-complement (XOR FF) of the number or register. And the carry flag is backwards compared to other architectures, such as the Z80. On input, Carry Set means that you don't want an additional one subtracted, and Carry Clear means you do want an additional one subtracted. Then on output, Carry Set means that no borrow took place, and Carry Clear means that borrow took place. When borrow takes place, you get an additional one subtracted, and that lets you chain the low bytes up to the high bytes and subtract bigger numbers.

CMP is like SBC, except it always adds the extra one whether your input carry is set or not, making it act like you'd expect comparison to act.
We should revive Microsoft NetMeeting!
https://archive.ph/2025.02.06-031901/https://www.ft.com/cont...
Probably in the NBER report[1] on the data that came out of the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case[2]. It's an interesting read, as is the other one on legacy applicants.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w29964

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...
On the other hand, I recently tried onlyoffice and could not find a way to format a date with the day of the week
> All DEI was doing in the tech world was saying, "try interview at least one woman/ black person etc". Also maybe some training on how to avoid the pitfall in an interview of just hiring someone the same as you.

A lot of people are strongly in favour of this, of course, including me. But are you sure that's all that it was doing?
> Doping with anabolic steroids also seem to act partly by recruiting new nuclei.[7][8] It was recently shown in mice[9] that a brief exposure to anabolic steroids recruited new muscle nuclei. When the steroids were withdrawn, the muscle rapidly shrank to normal size, but the extra nuclei remained. After a waiting period of 3 months (about 15% of the mouse lifespan), overload exercise led to a muscle growth of 36% within 6 days in the steroid-exposed group, while control muscles that had never been exposed to steroids grew only insignificantly.

aqueueaqueue probably meant this part ^. If you do steroid once, then you stop doing steroid, its effects remain, according to wiki (in mice).
Or even emacs, AS Amy Grinn showed last Werk at Fosdem.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5139-org-...
i said controlling for demographics.
Has there been a big effort to call the FAA whistleblowers nazis?

I learned about it, went "oh that sucks", but never felt like they were being racist. They have a great evidentiary basis. Its not like some red hat guy screeching about losing his job without being able to show cause.
A discussion of the victim is not relevant. A discussion of the root cause is.
And all three filled from the same tube. That the widescreen version doesn't show because the top is cut off.
I am a former hiring manager at Google and we were specifically told by hr that we could hire 2 people on one headcount if one of those people met specific dei criteria and there was a list of races and genders that met the criteria. One of my peer managers grew his org twice as fast as me by only hiring females with engineering degrees. He got promoted shortly after. Within 2 years his entire team was disbanded for being completely ineffective. Google ended up getting sued over this practice and they lost. This is not the only example I have. The worst of all was Eric Schmidt literally saying to us that diversity was "strategically important" as it helped to "increase the talent pool" and "keep salaries competitive." This was never about doing the right thing for employees.

I'm very pleased to see this all coming to an end. I've witnessed what can only be explained as outright racism. As a white male, I've been called a blue-eyed devil in team meetings and I've been accused of sexual harassment. The most disappointing thing of all is thinking back on people's careers whom I know were affected by all this. Some of my best directs were denied transfers and promotion opportunities simply because they weren't the right gender or race. I even know one person who literally faked being non-binary so they would stand a better chance of getting hired and it worked.

It wasn't all bad. Some of the training I had to take I still use today and learning how to practice allyship absolutely made me a better leader, but this got way too out of control and I'm not at all surprised people got tired of it and started pushing back.
You're missing the point. The real issue is that r/pics, a subreddit that should be about photography enthusiasm, has become so hyperfocused on politics, that it only features posts that are critical of Musk and Trump. As is evident from the list of active topics you posted.
Deep Research considers the costs and benefits of US AID
It's not entirely fair to choose this flight as a random sample, but assuming for a moment that it is.. The pilot has a 85% or lower, how many 9s on the controller fix that?

If controllers were like traffic cops they would take time to raise or remove that 85% when they caught it and pay limited attention to current traffic to take actions to reduce future traffic risk. But they are not that as you just explained again.
The provider may be on the hook of legal consequences from authorities *if" their customer is a business offering services in Germany.

Nothing that would involve you as a third-party individual.
That's what did it for me, too. The magazines at the time said that if you wanted to make your game run faster, you had to write parts of it in assembly. I was fortunate that no one told me that was supposed to be harder. I just knew that it was different, and it never occurred to me to be leery of it.
I agree with the article. The 6502 was the first CPU I wrote a lot of machine code for both on the Acorn Atom, where the Basic had a buildin assembler, and the Atari XL-800, for which some roommates and I programmed a compiler in Basic and next made it self hosted.
How Do Exchange Rates Work, Anyway?
You’re right and iirc it’s what Microsoft did with their NetMeeting that worked on Windows 9x (although poorly by today’s standards).
> But only recently has it been reframed as a DEI issue.

Did we read the same article? I didn't see this as a "reframing" but rather an investigative expose into the history and most importantly "why".

And it's pretty clear that at the time the cheating scandal came out, the FAA wasn't interested in implicating themselves.

"The FAA investigated, clearing the NBCFAE and Snow of doing anything wrong in an internal investigation."
We're in Deep Research
Some terminal frustrations
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince plans to block AI bots from websites
Oh thank god, I thought that was just me.
So your argument isn't that it's irrelevant, but rather that it might be irrelevant, if you happen to have a core where the extra latency of a 64-bit adder on the load/store AGU pushes it just over to the next cycle.

Though I'd imagine that just having the extra cycle conditionally for indexed load/store instrs would still be better than having a whole extra instruction take up decode/ROB/ALU resources (and the respective power cost), or the mess that comes with instruction fusion.

And with RISC-V already requiring a 12-bit adder for loads/stores, thus and an increment/decrement for the top 52 bits, the extra latency of going to a full 64-bit adder is presumably quite a bit less than a full separate 64-bit adder. (and if the mandatory 64+12-bit adder already pushed the latency up by a cycle, a separate shNadd will result in two cycles of latency over the hypothetical adderless case, despite 1 cycle clearly being feasible!)

Even if the RISC-V way might be fine for tight loops, most code isn't such. And ideally most tight loops doing consecutive loads would vectorize anyway.

We're in a world where the latest Intel cores can do small immediate adds at rename, usually materializing them in consuming instructions, which I'd imagine is quite a bit of overhead for not that much benefit.
It should be a negative, just as the value of consumables are over time. But that's not possible in a system heavily indebted and addicted to interest rates under the free market rate (only possible because banks create money effortlessly and hold it artificially low to enable a monopoly on "debt").
Such a policy would quickly collapse the current system as the value of the debt would increase over time instead of decrease, and so instead the banks inflate the value of the currency down to 0 which takes more time for the system to collapse (which fiat currencies always do and always will).

Starting again with a hard money, we would thrive, instead of being enslaved by a system that continuously stealthily, steals the value out of the fruits of our labour (at a rate of ~7% year) and gives it to the bankers and those closest to them.
Equivalently: code is written for other humans to read.
AVClub on City Heat:

"City Heat has the misfortune to peak in its first five minutes. "
The US is $36 trillion in debt with that debt growing at an accelerating rate. This is happening at the time that our technological (let alone economic) edge over most of the rest of the world is fading to completely gone, and our own growth rate is starting to decline. To many, this does not seem to have the makings of a sustainable state of affairs.

And not only that but a lot of the spending we engage is a mixture of minimally beneficial and/or outright corrupt. For instance at one point the Air Force was paying $10,000 for toilet seats. It's only after that received extensive publicity that they swapped over to simply 3D printing the seats, probably for a few bucks per seat. [1] There's about a 99.999% chance that the supplier for those $10,000 toilet seats had a rather low degree of personal separation from the person signing off on paying $10,000 for them. And now imagine how much you could save if you started wiping this nonsense out of the entire government.

Government spending, however, is accounted as part of GDP and other economic metrics. Each one of those toilet seats sent the GDP up, improved the economics of the company delivering them, and even created some jobs. So getting rid of this nonsense will obviously 'hurt' the economy in the short-run, but in turn you get a sustainable system, dramatically reduce spending, and create a more competitive economy. When it's even possible to sell toilet seats for $10,000 (easily replaceable by 3D printing), who cares about the private market? To say nothing of the fact that merit/competitiveness is obviously completely nonexistent or farcical for many government contracts.

[1] - https://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/07/11/air-force-no...
On one of my streaming services the times are shown with ads though I pay to avoid them. A 2 hour show mostly comes on at 90 minutes just as you say.
Oh I'm sorry but this was a thread about gripes. I am super happy and I wouldn't have taken the job if I wasn't. I can just reinstall my laptop with Fedora at any point, I've been forcing myself to use Ubuntu this first month just to get an idea of how it works again.

I just came from 13 years at a microsoft gold partner having to tunnel my traffic through my Windows laptop.

But also the reason for that was security, which I completely understand. There was no good alternative for our VPN host checker on Linux. And the VPN host checker is what verified our systems were up2date and up2standard for working with big government clients.
Filibuster is just a procedural rule that can itself be removed by simple majority, and it has already been watered down on a case by case basis when that was politically expedient, so there's no hard line there. It's actually kind of amazing that we still have it.
Yeah, an important but little-understood fact about ZIP codes is that they are not an area, but a collection of points (≈mailboxes) and polylines (delivery routes); this is because they were created by the post office, who care about logistics, not land. You can try to impute geographical location from them and this mostly works, but there are fun edge cases such as an area where the streets going in one direction are in one ZIP code and all of the cross streets in a different one. The code for an address can also be changed at USPS’s convenience (making comparisons over time difficult); in extremely rural areas “your ZIP code” may be whichever town you prefer to pick your mail up from.

(My favorite fun fact about ZIP codes: 12345 is the General Electric headquarters and factory in Schenectady, New York. They get a lot of mail addressed to Santa Claus.)
At the graduate level there are a number of resources which can illustrate the difference between admissions standards for people from “underrepresented minority” (URM) groups and non-URMs. They manifest as materially lower LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs for URMs. There are Supreme Court cases analyzing details, and prior to the most recent doctrine, the preferencing policies were totally open because SCOTUS blessed it in the case of law school admissions.
Hotline for modern Apple systems
That is simply not true. The bigger the project gets the more you see the shortcomings of go. You can see that very well in the k8s project
DEI is fun and games until I am the person that won't be hired because I am not the niche to be de-discriminated. I remember coming to a Google stand on a conference, where they gave me form asking besides my email address, what is my ethnic background (strange word they used in my language, which I associated with gender etc, whatever would make me a minority) and would I mind share. I chose not to share and they even didn't drop me a line...