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> when this came to light many years ago it was treated as a cheating and recruitment scandal. But only recently has it been reframed as a DEI issue.

Respectfully, thats not accurate.

The article actually shows that dei considerations were central to the original changes, not just recent framing. The FOIA requests show explicit discussions about "diversity vs performance tradeoffs" from the beginning. The NBCFAE role and the "barrier analysis" were both explicitly focused on diversity outcomes in 2013.

The article provides primary sources (internal FAA documents, recorded messages, investigation reports) showing that racial considerations were explicitly part of the decision making process from the start. This is documented in realtime communications.

The scandal involved both improper hiring practices (cheating) AND questionable DEI implementation. These aren't mutually exclusive; they're interrelated aspects of the same event.

> Taking old, resolved scandals

In what way do you consider this resolved?

The class action lawsuit hasn't even gone to trial yet (2026).

The FAA is still dealing with controller shortages. (facilities are operating understaffed,controllers are working 6-day weeks due to staffing shortages, training pipelines remain backed up)

The relationship between the FAA and CTI schools remains damaged, applicant numbers have declined significantly since 2014.
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I was referring to a noticeable subgroup of HN commenters.
I never made that claim, I only say the raw age is irrelevant and distracts from the real headline. Experience with those specific systems is a separate category. e.g. a 25 year old with 8 years of finance systems programming might be more qualified than a 50 year old with 3 years in that domain, it all depends on their background. The more important headline is that it's an illegal coup.
If you're outraged by anything that does not directly impact your life you're doing life wrong. We all have limited time and energy. I have never been able to understand people who get emotional over things they read online that have no impact on their day to day life.
That's awesome. Yeah, I agree with your point about people without any computer skills. We're probably still years away from that reality.
A coup? This was a general election and the person who won the election is allowed to choose his staff to run the executive branch. Pretty much everyone in the executive branch except the president and maybe the vice president is unelected. Was it a coup when the current people at the NSF got their jobs?
Sure - that's why Sony is the winner. Other companies tried other things and lost. Now they see what the winner did and they're following their lead.

When WB started all this it wasn't clear what the winning strategy was going to be. Now that it is clearer, they're just following.
No a few transgender subs as well. There’s also a massive ban wave of any sub reddit says is unmoderated which they claim to be unrelated but timing…

https://www.reddit.com/r/BannedSubs/
Sony built Crackle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crackle_(service) but it's failed at this point.
It is still two weeks, just the official days you get off from work are only a week or a few days.

In 2008 when they burned down the CCTV cultural center with fireworks on the last day of CNY, we were already pretty much back to work in Beijing.
How does release of LLM API relate to assistant?
Hard disagree. We can agree on Science the institution being imperfect, while acknowledging that a Twitter style hostile takeover of our government is absolutely unacceptable with no wiggle room for bullshit artists to throw out red herrings.
Intel SGX was never pushed on anyone and it's also Intel only Skylake to Ice lake and requires vendors to provide consistent firmware updates to stay secure. You can’t run the entire OS in SGX enclave because it can’t do I/O on its own.

> There are TPM 2.0 dTPMs. If the conspiracy is that they want to push people towards "hardware attestation", then they're doing a pretty bad job.

No "normies" are doing TPM bypasses. That’s the point. Majority will eventually be on unbypassable TPM.
This was such a relieve for us.
Looking back its unbelievable how much combined time we wasted complaining about and fixing formatting issues in code reviews and reformatting in general.

With clang-format & co. on Save plus possibly a git hook this all went away.
It might not always be perfect (which is subjective anyway) but its so worth it.
That's how the Nazis took over Germany. Everybody kept their heads down.
What helped me is to realize: Sadness and anger come from within, not from the outside. Nobody can "make" you mad. They will do what they do, and it's up to us to decide if and how to emotionally respond to it. We are not amoebas that simply respond to stimulus. We have agency over our own thoughts and feelings. This is something I try to teach my kid, and I think it's also helped her deal with others who she would previously say "made her mad."
> Security.

Ironically, TPM requirement comes from the same company that invented logging your screen every few seconds and storing it unencrypted and without your consent.
Can I get this on my Netflix, Disney+, whatever too pls?
Twenty+ years ago an aunt of mine regularly called our local news on channel four the Channel Fear news.
One of the major complaints in the blog post is that Snaps suck, i.e. that some ways of installing packages are much worse than others.

The people moving OSes in response to Snap presumably have strong opinions on package managers :)
Yea, making sure legacy apps keep working is the hard part especially when they have million+ unit customers that have issues around it.
To expand my point. DEI is explicitly designed not to make hiring fair, but to make unfair hiring policy. Making accommodations for people who need special help (I work with the blind community so that was where my mind immediately went), but who are otherwise capable could hypothetically be part of DEI. But it also predates the term and connects to initiatives like UNCRPD Article 27 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. In other words - helping disabled people or ethnic or sexual minorities gain equal access to work could be described as DEI, but it's not what DEI usually is. You can't simply reframe good initiatives that help these groups as DEI and then wear the glow of that history with reference to what has in practice been an entirely different set of initiatives rooted in ideas like privilege theory, capital A 'Antiracism' and the like.

Explicitly in the American context DEI is primarily about hiring more members of minority groups at the expense of members of majority groups, based primarily on race and sexuality. This is perfectly exemplified in the FAA scandal.

In the context of DEI 'helping' the disadvantaged is never never done by expanding access to educational opportunities in order to find equally talented people who have been financially excluded or barred entry by prejudice. It is always a matter of lowering the bar for certain protected groups, and often also a matter of removing opportunities altogether for members of perceived privileged groups.

This is especially visible in the arts and education here in Europe - where funding and employment opportunities are overwhelmingly based in exclusion. Primarily of straight, white, cisgender men. You site the example of young white men in the UK having worse outcomes. Please point me to a DEI initiative that targets employing them over other groups. What happened at the FAA is what always happens under the banner of DEI, capital A 'Antiracism' and other successor ideology initiatives. The goal is never fairness, and always power.

The issue with these approaches is simple. They are massively divisive. Rather than aiming to address prejudice, hiring bias or systemic barriers to entry - they actively create them, with the justification of historic prejudice. I heard a joke once in college - whats the difference between an activist and a social justice warrior? An activist sees a step and builds ramp, a social justice warrior tears down the stairs.

DEI is a bad idea, rooted in bad ideology and the stolen valour of movements towards genuine equality. As is any ideology that privileges members of one group over another - however 'noble' its adherents pretend to be.

If you're advocating for approaches like blind hiring, or addressing poverty, or providing educational aids to help neurodiverse or disabled people, or free school meals, or free university, or increased arts and community funding or any of a thousand other initiatives that help people based on real need rather than perceived privilege, you'll find me and many others whom you presume to disagree with support you. But the entire brand and practice of DEI and associated initiatives and terminology is beyond saving.
China is a nuclear power and has been recognized as a major security threat since they acquired nuclear weapons (in the sixties?).

But your last sentence is true. Politicians and corporate executives failing to accurately extrapolate long-term consequences have not done us any favors over the past 50 years, and now we’re super fucked. It’d be hard even if we still had a competent government instead of the smoking ruin in progress.

(Thomas Friedman and his globalization-is-brilliant shtick making people think this was all OK wasn’t great either.)
If he gets away with shutting down USAID by fiat then it makes it clear that he can go outside the bounds of law and demand anything of the executive branch.

The next step might be going to the DOJ and telling them to detain, let's say, Ilhan Omar on suspicion of treason. This illegal demand will have much more force because anyone refusing it will know that they stand on their own and have no recourse through the courts or congressional oversight.
>> Americans' blind faith that their peculiar system of government makes tyranny impossible will only lead them to deny reality even when it hits them in the face with a truncheon.

Even those who crafted the American system knew that it was not perfect. Benjamin Franklin said:

"I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that, the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others."

"In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government."

Source: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/constitutionalconvention-se...
I haven't seen Pinterest in my search results for years and honestly that alone is worth the price of admission.

If I get a bad result from an ai slop blog, I can permanently ban it. I think that Kagi aggregates this user feedback to globally downrank some sites, but I might be wrong.
> The Chinese "text" unification was done two millennials ago, but people "speak" differently of every individual "character", as dialects or mutually unintelligible or whatever.

It's like Latin in Middle Ages. Everyone speaks differently (in Old English, Old High German, Old French, etc.), but people write things in the same way (in Latin). And often don't even learn to write their native language.

> I'd argue Chinese characters don't actually represent a sound

If this were true, people wouldn't need to switch from Classical Chinese to Written Mandarin.

If Chinese writing didn't represent sound, it wouldn't matter if you wrote 學而時習之，不亦說乎？ or 學習知識以後，常常溫習它，不也很快樂嗎？

But people stopped writing in the first style, and started using the second one, to better represents Mandarin speech.

> if a person reads a "character" completely wrong, he/she may never realize until some awkward moment happens during a speech or a conversation

This happens in most languages, just to a smaller degree. E.g. for a long time I thought Septuagint was Septugiant, because I've only encountered this word in writing and never cared to read it letter-by-letter.
Because the majority of my communication is already in iMessage and I don't want to bother with another app. I also by default opt out of any Zuckerberg operations that I can, they get enough of my data without me having an account on any of their platforms as is.
Indeed, 40 years ago, if we weren't getting our news from the TV, we quite often got it via weekly news magazines and Sunday newspapers.
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> lesser evils are present in every election.

No, there are usually viable, non-genocidal third options - as there was in this election.

> By your logic, total surrender is the only outcome.

That's the very logical flaw which has you thinking that stumping for a genocide accomplice was 'the only option'. You're so close.
Oh wow, I would perhaps have expected that email to include some kind of "message from seller: / company: " type subject to at least identify it as such.

For anyone to just be able to send an email in the name of paypal.com with no indication that it was initiated by another paypal user is pretty bonkers.

I haven't seen this before, so either they have very good scam / spam detection or I was just lucky not to have been targeted yet.
I think when you first start out as a programmer you’re impressed by complexity and complex solutions

But once you’re more experienced you realize complexity is arbitrary and anyone can make things more complex
He was a major in the US Army, typically leading a battalion, and while not a government department, saying he has “no experience” is false.

What does a battalion leader need? Organizational ability, the ability to motivate.

He is preceded by a guy who decided to hide a serious health issue from his own boss (must have though nobody noticed Biden’s issues, so no biggie), to the point he was unreachable for days. So as long as he doesn’t do that, he’s already an improvement.

But I get it. It’s “it’s not my team so it’s bad” and then find the justification after. If the situation was flipped the Democrats would be talking up “fresh ideas” and promoting their lack of experience (Buttigieg). So I’ll just take this as politics and no actual, well thought out criticism.
> without centralized servers?

Git is complicated _beacuse_ of this. The defaults are tuned for this. But, most people don't need this. I'm sure there are people out there who set an upstream to their coworkers PC and clone a branch from them, merge it with their work and then someone else takes that and is saved a bunch of work because the commits all line up, but for every 1 of those people there are probably 100,000 who push and pull to a centralized forge, and pay the complexity cost for the distributed workflow.

> but they almost always fail to put forward some simpler alternative that can handle the same things. Is git actually accidentally complicated or purposefully complicated because the topic at hand is kind of complicated?

Git is complicated because it's got poor defaults, an unintuitive cli, and is designed for distributed workflows (I've never worked anywhere that has used a distributed workflow, fwiw). I can sit someone down with perforce for 15 minutes and basically never have to interact with them on it again. It's _so_ much simpler - because it's centralized. It has some baggage, is definitely not perfect (and it costs an absolute bomb). Mercurial is another example of something that is much, much easier to use and work with. I wish mercurial won, honestly.
Nope. Same applies to the third one.

Awesome funny movie and i think the best part of this „trilogy“.
I don't know who would both want to and be good at moderating that.

Also, I'm not sure it would make sense for YC to fund it. HN is in a sweet spot that way [1] but the sweet spot is a fairly constrained corner of the internet, different but analogous to how I described the political constraints in my reply above [2]. I doubt it's possible to modify one variable very much while keeping the others fixed.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42949237
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The problem is it hasn’t been resolved, there is a big lawsuit about it still working its way through the courts.
I remember the 90s before China joined the WTO and things did feel “more expensive”, the rise of Chinese production definitely led to lower prices and basically tamed inflation for a couple of decades.
How on earth do you need a newspaper to tell you which political party aligns with your values?

Depending on where you live, there’s 2-10 parties. You know who they are and what they want. If you want to affect the outcome you can get involved in your local politics; being glued to NYT.com all day isn’t changing one thing except wasting time.
I miss GetGuesstimate. It was well-polished and surprisingly powerful for what looked I remember being a prototype. For the scenarios like that example in the article, it would arguably fit better than spreadsheet interface.

Last time I used it was about 3 years ago - I used it to estimate of how much we'll end up spending on renovating the apartment we were planning to move it, and then updated it as the work progressed to make decisions like whether we can afford some optional elements of the plan, if we'll need to get a loan to finish everything, and how much.

Structurally, I basically broken it down by rooms, categories of work and stuff to buy - building materials, furniture. Initially, I just guesstimated (!) the costs based on gut feel, or web search. I'd start with things like: "my mom's apartment had the same proportions and painting it costed $X last year, ours is about Y% larger" -> one node "Painting walls & ceilings except kids room", value = PERT distribution between $X and $X * (1 + Y%) * Fudge factor. After we picked the paint, I'd just split that node into a) labor and b) material, the latter split into surface area (known), bucket cost (known), buckets per sqm (distribution based on values from the back of the bucket) - getting a much narrower probability distribution on the material (and total) cost. Stuff like this for every aspect - I'd just model the things I know.

It was a bit of extra work, but it was instrumental for keeping the costs in check and gave me great peace of mind. It also made it obvious which aspects were driving the costs, which were most risky - wide distributions going into large amounts, which I prioritized pinning down the costs of - and where it's worth to look for savings or alternatives.

Also, it demonstrated the usual case of webapps being optimized for demo examples instead of real use cases. My renovation planner quickly accumulated about a hundred nodes, most of which were computing probability distributions (via ~1k samples Monte Carlo). That slowed the UI down to a crawl, and many times updating a node would create a cascade of errors down the dependency graph, as the diminished performance started surfacing race conditions in the evaluator.

(You may ask, wouldn't it be better to do that stuff in code? Not really - half of the value was in having every part of the math as a node in visual, interactive DAG, that displayed histograms of the probability distributions at every node, so you could just see everything all the time.)

Still, I loved it, and I really wish someone made an actively supported product like this.
As someone with more modest means, I'm wondering - was that just a quip, or is it really possible for rich people to buy property first, and then figure out how to pay for it? How do they finance it?
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There still needs to be more user-friendly interfaces built on top of the raw AI materials. For many of my non-tech friends, the open text input for ChatGPT is intimidating. Yes, it can do everything, but they don't know the right questions to ask. We'll need better products that make app building more "consumer" feeling, versus understanding the intricacies of prompting.
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I can't imagine any of these have potential. The Crossing Delancy cinematic universe isn't coming anytime soon. I think they just want some short term juice.
There's still more paperwork though. Canada Post cites a $9.95 handling fee on international packages over $20.

I'm not saying US customs will inspect everything. My point is on $800 packages they're moving from a very low level of scrutiny to some scrutiny and at scale that matters. They'll need to add staff to handle the new process and make the new process.

https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articl...
Now if only whoever owns the rights (Fox? Disney?) would follow suit and drop the old Fox TV catalog (Herman's Head. Whoops!, Parker Lewis Can't Lose) on youtube so I could rewatch the shows I loved as a kid, but never stream anywhere.
Pixels replaced Assistent w/ Gemini a while back and it was horrendous; would answer questions but not perform the basic tasks you actually used Assistant for (setting timer, navigating, home control, etc).

Seems like they're approaching parity (finally) months and months later (alarms/tv control work at least now), but losing basic oft-used functionality is a serious fumble.
Oh my mistake, I wasn't referring to its pre-Youtube era as I've not seen what those were like.
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This is so depressing. This is the sort of DEI effort that gives the rest a bad name.

It should never, ever be about hard quotas.

It absolutely should be about using some contextual information (factoring the person's school environment in) and challenging assumptions about stereotypes so that you are not deciding who is best on assumptions but on evidence.
> will fail a code review over a variable that he feels isn't cased properly

Many projects have fairly strict rules about identifier naming conventions, so this doesn't feel so far fetched to me.

The example about if/else vs ? : is pretty damning though.
> We need more builders, not fewer. Because building fosters understanding. And as more people start making personal software, the bar for what counts as “great software” will inevitably rise.

Love this take. After over a decade of software development I've gained much more appreciation for well-built/useful products.
I’m in a similar boat. I jumped to pop!os from Ubuntu for the nvidia gpu support (and snapectomy) which has worked pretty well. I think I’ll be upgrading to an AMD gpu next though so will likely go Debian after that too. My other non-gaming machines are on bookworm
At first I thought it would be the typical chess exercise question, just that everybody gets the same one each day, but I like the approach you have. Makes one think differently than usual.
That code (in isolation) does not tell me what unit time is though