Hacker News with Generative AI: Diversity

Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts (9to5mac.com)
Apple filed its annual proxy report for shareholders today ahead of its annual shareholders meeting next month. The report reveals new information on Tim Cook’s compensation for 2024 and calls on shareholders to vote against a proposal to end its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Apple, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Business

45 points by pyb 5 days ago | 32 comments

US judge rejects Boeing 737 MAX accord over diversity policies (france24.com)
A US judge rejected a criminal settlement with Boeing over the 737 MAX crashes on Thursday, slamming diversity policies at the aviation giant and the Justice Department that made him "skeptical" of a fair outcome.

Legal Disputes, Boeing, Aviation, Diversity

7 points by thefounder 43 days ago | 2 comments

The University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI What Went Wrong? (nytimes.com)
A decade and a quarter of a billion dollars later, students and faculty are more frustrated than ever.

Higher Education, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Criticism

5 points by braza 93 days ago | 0 comments

The University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI What Went Wrong? (nytimes.com)
A decade and a quarter of a billion dollars later, students and faculty are more frustrated than ever.

Education, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Higher Education

20 points by tysone 94 days ago | 11 comments

Web Tech Needs Diversity (rubenerd.com)
Hey, remember Crowdstrike? That update to Windows security software that affected airports, hospitals, supermarkets, schools… and clients who called me desperate to know why their VMs had vanished? It was fun! By which I mean it was an unmitigated disaster, and the ultimate example of a technical externality bourne by everyone.

Software, Security, Diversity

15 points by Brajeshwar 104 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Sci-fi recommendations by non-western authors? (ycombinator.com)
While talking with a friend about books, I realised that 99% of the sci-fi I've read was written by western authors. Mostly white men at that.

Science Fiction, Literature, Diversity, Recommendations, Authors

58 points by elric 116 days ago | 56 comments

MIT's first freshman class since affirmative-action ban is less diverse (bbc.com)

Education, Diversity, Affirmative Action, MIT

25 points by donsupreme 147 days ago | 16 comments

With the end of affirmative action, MIT's incoming class better reflects merit (twitter.com)

Higher Education, Affirmative Action, Diversity

13 points by lopkeny12ko 149 days ago | 4 comments

Corporate HR is taking "Equity" out of DEI (axios.com)

Diversity, Equity, Corporate Culture

23 points by leotravis10 187 days ago | 5 comments

Schaffer–Vega Diversity System (wikipedia.org)