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- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 4 days ago:
I looked for the original article, abstract:
Human capital—encompassing cognitive skills and personality traits—is critical for labor market success, yet the personality component remains difficult to measure at scale. Leveraging advances in artificial intelligence and comprehensive LinkedIn data, we extract the Big 5 personality traits from facial images of 96,000 MBA graduates, and demonstrate that this novel" Photo Big 5" predicts school rank, compensation, job seniority, industry choice, job transitions, and career advancement. Using administrative records from top-tier MBA programs, we find that the Photo Big 5 exhibits only modest correlations with cognitive measures like GPA and standardized test scores, yet offers comparable incremental predictive power for labor outcomes. Unlike traditional survey-based personality measures, the Photo Big 5 is readily accessible and potentially less susceptible to manipulation, making it suitable for wide adoption in academic research and hiring processes. However, its use in labor market screening raises ethical concerns regarding statistical discrimination and individual autonomy.
The PDF is downloadable here: scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citatio…
I don’t have the time nor the expertise to read everything to understand how they take into account the bias that good looking white men with educated parents are way more likely to succeed at life.
- Comment on The people who protest against the Palestinian Genocide would be the same people who protested against the Holocaust. 3 weeks ago:
Resistance networks who hid and smuggled targets out of reach at the very least.
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 3 weeks ago:
Does that mean I will have more choice in which surveillance agency I want to be spied by?
- Comment on eel butts 3 weeks ago:
I heard eels love neck kisses.
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 4 weeks ago:
In before, $99 and it sells like hotcakes. The success of Apple shows people will eat the price hike given enough hype.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated to anime where sexualization of characters is minimum and strictly no sexualization of minors (or minor looking "adults")? 5 weeks ago:
Faye/Cowboy Bebop to actually be on the more sexualized side.
Fair, I haven’t watched it in a long time, but by checking again I agree. At least her identity and design are clearly adult and she’s a strong core character, not just fan service. To be clear I am not in favor of zero sexuality, it’s part of human culture and it can be intelligently used for the scenario. My problem is when it becomes a creepy commercial trope that feeds social issues, especially for minor looking characters.
From what I saw, Kill La Kill crosses the border too much for me. She’s fully sexualized and she is a 17 year old minor. I don’t think the parody label dismissed the issue. It wouldn’t cost much to make her an adult, so why didn’t they? The scenario would be ruined, or the creepy commercial trope would get weaker?
I don’t know the other ones. - Submitted 5 weeks ago to meta@ani.social | 13 comments
- Comment on I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions) 5 weeks ago:
I guess your job market as a scientist is even worth than for IT engineers right now. So I would keep looking for a new job while keeping my head down at the current one until I can safely secure a new one. There’s also a possibility that your problems at 2 months will get better after 6 months once you get to know all your colleagues better.
- Comment on Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report 5 weeks ago:
It will keep happening, LLMs are the perfect tools for those huge meat grinding consulting companies, their industry is all about looking good, not factual quality, just like LLMs.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 5 weeks ago:
Is it sold in EU with the face collection?
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 5 weeks ago:
This cannot happen in EU with the current GDPR, they would need to request and receive consent prior to collecting the face.
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 1 month ago:
Not sure which is which, it seems to be applicable to both.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 1 month ago:
If it’s like GDPR, it applies to the citizens currently residing in the country, the location of the company or servers do not matter. Now if Imgur doesn’t have anyone there, no business happening and the website is already blocked, I don’t think they have much leverage.
- Comment on geography is neat 1 month ago:
It’s the current state of confusion floating above the country.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 2 months ago:
Isn’t the phone less private than an encrypted app?
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s the one I am fearing, the enshitification of Whatsapp, I think it already happened in some countries.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 2 months ago:
Sometimes it’s a tactic to discourage escalation because it adds confusion.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 2 months ago:
What if the platform you use with your relatives suddenly requires this?
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 months ago:
As of 7 September 2025, there are 7,052,247 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.9 billion words (giving a mean of about 706 words per article). The total number of pages is 63,983,130. Articles make up 11.02 percent of all pages on Wikipedia. As of 16 October 2024, the size of the current version including all articles compressed is about 24.05 GB without media. en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
The following graphic illustrates how large the English Wikipedia might be if the articles (without images and other multimedia content) were to be printed and bound in book form with a format similar to Encyclopædia Britannica. Each volume is assumed to be 25 cm (9.8 in) tall, 5 cm (2.0 in) thick, and containing 1,600,000 words or 8,000,000 characters. The size of this illustration is based upon the live article count manually adjusted by the average word count on an irregular basis on a user subpage of the graphic’s creator Tompw. The growth rate is approximately one full volume every three days if the increase in average article size isn’t accounted for over time. The print volumes as shown in the illustration would take up just over 9.34 m3 (330 cu ft) in total volume.
- Comment on New infostealer malware snaps webcam photos when you watch porn 2 months ago:
Good point
- Comment on New infostealer malware snaps webcam photos when you watch porn 2 months ago:
Does this work? Sound is hard to stop, it goes through solid matter.
- Comment on New infostealer malware snaps webcam photos when you watch porn 2 months ago:
If you’re a candidate for some election, sometime this kind of stupid thing is enough to make you lose credibility and lose an election.
- Comment on New infostealer malware snaps webcam photos when you watch porn 2 months ago:
What about the microphone?
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 months ago:
I believe Lemmy is quite smaller than Mastodon (hence it is not even mentioned on the diagram), so it’s probably a Mastodon instance.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 months ago:
Which server is representing 25% of the index on the Fediverse?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I thought ME was an acronym for some popular politician here, took me time to understand.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Some monarchist defend their views by saying that it allows to have a successor determined without being biased by a populiraty contest and which can be educated from birth to become the perfect monarch.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 2 months ago:
It should mention that Qwant (France) and Ecosia (Germany), announced last year a joint project for an independent European search index, although only for French and German according to this publication. …qwant.com/…/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-deve…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It seems the dad is your friend now. You don’t need your ex opinion about who you can be friend with.
- Comment on What Does Palantir Actually Do? 2 months ago:
For reference, Palantir are not the only ones to provide supposedly fancy UIs on top of data messes, there are many others like Talend, Datahaiku, Alteryx etc. Those platforms are not magic, they will still need a lot of little hands to wrangle the data to get it in a useful state, if there’s ever an actual motivation to do that, and it’s not all pretending to be “data driven”. Usually, the data engineering community hates those graphical tools that are designed to convince executives rather than help engineers because no UI can be as powerful as a code base in this field. Palantir is special in how they managed to convince the executives of the police and administrations.
