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Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’
Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,047 posts.
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On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage
On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage.
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What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love
Wesley Faulkner’s story
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Meta Meets Microsoft
Meta’s new hardware is more impressive than expected, and the Microsoft partnership makes a lot of sense. The question is if Meta will capture enough value to outweigh their costs.
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Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste?
Many countries ship plastic waste overseas. How much of the world’s waste is traded, and how big is its role in the pollution of our oceans?
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What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft
Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology2022442 points881 commentscited by 4Society, Policy & Culture details
From 2021 to 2022, I worked as a manager in Microsoft’s AI Platform division. I’ve been working in the software industry for over a decade, and while I’ve often encountered some combination of the words “diversity” and “inclusion,” how those words have been translated into culture and policy has varied dramatically…
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Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts (2020)
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts said Richard Feynman. Feynman had a Nobel prize in physics. He was a remarquable educator: his lecture notes are still popular. He foresaw nanotechnology and quantum computing. He is credited with identifying the cause of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. There is…
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U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace
Google Public Sector will provide 250,000 active-duty enlisted members of the U.S. Army with Google Workspace.
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We should measure well-being instead of failing to measure economic productivity
Measuring Economic Productivity Is Pretty Much Bullshit -- We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis Instead
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An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets
Monopoly This is the difference between “pro-business” and “pro-market” policies which are often conflated. The former leads to concentration of
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Energy vs. Sovereign Bond Markets
October 9, 2022 Latest Articles: A Look at the Lightning Network Energy: The Area Under the Curve This newsletter issue focuses on recent problems with developed country sovereign bond markets and how energy supply constraints pose an ongoing problem for them. The Sovereign Bond Bubble During much of 2019 and 2020…
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MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
John Galvan was arrested at 18 and spent 35 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
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Call for Participation to Chaos Computer Club’s 37C3
The Chaos Communication Congress is the Chaos Computer Club’s (CCC) annual symposium and hacker party.
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Lufthansa has not banned AirTags
Lufthansa has not banned Apple AirTags and I think it is clear why: it is the sort of rule that would practicably be unenforceable.
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COVID-19 infection poses higher risk for myocarditis than vaccines
The overall risk of myocarditis was higher immediately after being infected with COVID-19 than in the weeks after vaccination for the coronavirus, new research shows.
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Grad students at Northeastern pushed back against invasive digital surveillance
This is a wild and hopeful story: grad students at Northeastern successfully pushed back against invasive digital surveillance in their workplace, through solidarity, fearlessness, and the bright light of publicity. It's a tale of hand-to-hand, victorious combat with the "shitty technology adoption curve."
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Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
This is a bit genuine red meat and perhaps a little sensitive for some people but it does raise a point that deserves discussion. A shorthand for that point is the title of today’s post. A more descriptive way of describing it is, “Is the FSF’s demand for purity actually harming the users they’re striving to protect?”
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School vs. Wikipedia
Edit: Oh! Hello, there, HN . For context, we're talking about elementary school here. More importantly, I'm not arguing that students should get quick answers from encyclopedias instead of reading books and other primary sources. I'm arguing that Wikipedia is better than "a Google search," which is a position I will…
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Mastodon.technology Shutdown
Dear mastodon.technology community,
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SAT score distributions in Michigan
The state of Michigan required all public HS seniors to take the SAT last year (~91k out of ~107k total seniors in the state). This generate...
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Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta
📢Update: My message has been heard and our domain has been unblocked. We never received an explanation - HN might have done it. Thank you everyone for sharing. In my spare time, I maintain an open-source SAAS tool for non-profits that allows you to build an online shop, sell
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Computer Saturation and the Productivity Slowdown
One of the current puzzles in economics is the recent worldwide slowdown in productivity, compared to the late 1990s and early 2000s. This productivity loss is economically large: if productivity growth had stayed at the same level as in 1995-2004, American GDP would have increased by trillions of dollars. In this…
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Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations
Facebook owner Meta’s dangerous algorithms and reckless pursuit of profit substantially contributed to the atrocities perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya people in 2017, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.
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Internet Archive Seeks Material for Library of Amateur Radio and Communications
Internet Archive has begun gathering content for the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC), which will be a massive online library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early digital communications. The DLARC is funded by a significant grant from the Amateur Radio Digital…
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The deception of “buying” digital movies
World of Matthew is a personal website, like few others. Not just a blog but also provides reviews and video content