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mkeedlinger commented on A lawsuit says Workday's AI shut out applicants over 40   san.com/cc/workday-hires-... · Posted by u/SunshineTheCat
Terr_ · 2 months ago
> He added that Workday’s AI recruiting tools are not trained to use or identify protected characteristics like race, age or disability.

Hmm, perhaps, but I think we should be clear on the distinctions between:

1. "We didn't try to cause X."

2. "There is no X happening."

3. "We don't look to see if X happens."

4. "If X happens we don't try to stop it."

As someone involved in HR-tech-stuff, my default stance towards complex "AI" systems is that they all harbor biases, and the main difference is which ones have been discovered yet.

mkeedlinger · 2 months ago
> my default stance towards complex "AI" systems is that they all harbor biases

I’m sure there are exceptions, but one could assume that opaque systems are used as tools to encode biases that are advantageous but wrong.

These biases could have existed in code, but opaque agents give much better plausible deniability.

(Caveat here acknowledging one can often assume a lack of malice)

mkeedlinger commented on SQL Anti-Patterns   datamethods.substack.com/... · Posted by u/zekrom
aerzen · 5 months ago
These "anti-patterns" are just workarounds for bad language design of SQL (or lack of design actually). I'm working on a language that can run on SQL databases, so I hope it will do better with every one of these points.

If anyone wants to check out a half-done lang with lacking documentation, I'd be happy to read your feedback: https://lutra-lang.org

mkeedlinger · 5 months ago
Hey, this looks really cool! Best wishes and I’ll try to watch out for when this is more ready
mkeedlinger commented on I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?   iconsolutions.com/blog/i-... · Posted by u/paltaie
hinkley · a year ago
The whole time I was learning/porting to Otel I felt like I was back in the Java world again. Every time I stepped through the code it felt like EnterpriseFizzBuzz. No discoverability. At all. And their own jargon that looks like it was made by people high on something.

And in NodeJS, about four times the CPU usage of StatsD. We ended up doing our own aggregation to tamp this down and to reduce tag proliferation (StatsD is fine having multiple processes reporting the same tags, OTEL clobbers). At peak load we had 1 CPU running at 60-80% utilization. Until something changes we couldn’t vertically scale. Other factors on that project mean that’s now unlikely to happen but it grates.

OTEL is actively hostile to any language that uses one process per core. What a joke.

Just go with Prometheus. It’s not like there are other contenders out there.

mkeedlinger · a year ago
This matches my experience. Very difficult to understand what I needed to get the effect I wanted.
mkeedlinger commented on GrapheneOS on Pixels getting extended Android support   grapheneos.social/@Graphe... · Posted by u/akyuu
chuankl · a year ago
The title is ambiguous. It might sound like it is about

> "GrapheneOS on Pixels" getting "extended Android support"

But it is really about

> GrapheneOS (commenting) on "Pixels getting extended Android support"

mkeedlinger · a year ago
Thanks, your disambiguation helped me
mkeedlinger commented on Ploopy Trackpad   ploopy.co/trackpad/... · Posted by u/mssdvd
mkeedlinger · a year ago
I can't tell and I couldn't seem to find confirmation one way or the other, but is this connected via USB micro? Would be very unfortunate not to be USB C.

Otherwise this seems awesome! I'll certainly take a look at their other products

mkeedlinger commented on Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued   support.spotify.com/us/ar... · Posted by u/sowbug
mkeedlinger · 2 years ago
There are so many examples of this. It's been hard to express and advocate for my severe distrust of proprietary garbage (my choice of words isn't hyperbole in this case) to others around me. But with so much of this race to the bottom, I can't help but wonder: how much will consumers take?

I'll admit, my FOSS prefering, DIY leaning use of tech is tedious, but is it worse than dealing with the churn companies force you (and your wallet) to deal with?

mkeedlinger commented on I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search   aftermath.site/google-ai-... · Posted by u/awkwardpotato
Vvector · 2 years ago
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Don't complain about a company having a monopoly while using their products WHEN THERE ARE COMPLETELY FREE AND VIABLE ALTERNATIVES.

mkeedlinger · 2 years ago
And alternatives that I honestly think are better.

One reason I'm unwilling to move from Firefox right now: Recommended Extensions.

They're extensions that are checked by Mozilla employees for quality, security and privacy. Extensions have such unfettered access to my browsing, and so many have such nefarious practices that I'll only install extensions that Mozilla vets.

mkeedlinger commented on Show HN: bef – a tool that encodes/decodes interleaved erasure coded streams   github.com/gbletr42/bef... · Posted by u/gbletr42
mkeedlinger · 2 years ago
Hey this is very cool! And something I've looked for multiple times before
mkeedlinger commented on Pingora: build fast, reliable and programmable networked systems   github.com/cloudflare/pin... · Posted by u/KajMagnus
mcpherrinm · 2 years ago
River is going to be a fully-featured reverse proxy product built on top of Pingora:

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/introducing-river/

It's mentioned briefly in the Cloudflare blog post. I'd expect that if you're a current nginx or other proxy, River is what you'd want as an alternative.

One of the big things I'm excited about in the River plan is the ability to use wasm for scripting, which should make it relatively easy to extend.

mkeedlinger · 2 years ago
Can't wait! I've currently settled on Caddy as my reverse proxy, but something rust based and extended with wasm would be great
mkeedlinger commented on Plex Accounts Getting Disabled   old.reddit.com/r/PleX/com... · Posted by u/edsimpson
newsclues · 2 years ago
I know people with large networks of people paying $10/month for access to pirated content.

I have my own Jellyfin server with pirated content for myself and mother, but I don't feel good charging money for "stolen" things.

Stealing to eat is one thing, stealing bread to sell for profit is different.

mkeedlinger · 2 years ago
I mostly agree and wouldn't do it myself, but as a consumer what are the odds this is just a better experience? All content, very few restrictions

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