Big US companies also have a management problem. Boeing is the poster child. From being storied company that helped win WWII with its B-17s. It decided to claim positioning bigger engines on the 737Max would not change flight characteristics and not tell the pilots who fly the planes and are responsible for passengers lives about MCAS. It then outsourced the code for MCAS to programmers who made $9/hour. Boeing is telling us loud and clear that it doesn't care about physics or its customers. It also doesn't care about its workers.

This is your brain on DEI. These mindless regurgitations of “facts” come across like religious mantras at this point.

> I'll guess the non-interest is due to some combination of HNer's being unaware, uninterested, and resigned.

I think most people here would accept that black people in America are systematically disenfranchised. But the entire onus of the article is on the failure stemming from within academia. This isn't an academic discussion board, and I never attended a computer science program so I can't speak to that either.

And again, the data they presented showed how overrepresented other minorities are within the programming profession. So it doesn't seem fair call the entire profession racist when it seems like the specific problem is that black Americans are disenfranchised across all spectrums of their life.