Pratikshya

DevOps Engineer

[Jacqualine ❤️ @JaeHasABlackJob]

May he win it all! Bring Workday to their knees!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Derek Mobley applied to over 100 jobs. He was rejected from every single one. Several rejections came at 1am, within minutes of submitting.

He just became the lead plaintiff in the largest AI lawsuit ever certified.

May 2025, Judge Rita Lin granted preliminary certification of a nationwide ADEA collective in Mobley v. Workday. Workday's own court filings represent that 1.1 billion job applications were rejected through its software in the relevant period. The court discussed potential class size in the hundreds of millions.

If you're over 40 and you applied to a Fortune 500 in the last 7 years, your application was probably processed by Workday. You may be in the class.

The legal precedent matters more than the headline number. For decades, the vendor screening applicants for an employer was not directly liable under Title VII. The employer was the only defendant. In July 2024, Judge Lin ruled the AI vendor itself qualifies as an "agent" of the employer and can be sued directly. First time. The "we're just the tools" defense evaporated in a single ruling.

Same precedent now extends to every HR tech AI vendor in the pipeline. Greenhouse. Eightfold. HireVue. Paradox. None of it is priced into any of their valuations.

Combine that with the rest of 2024. Air Canada lost in February for $812 because its chatbot hallucinated a refund policy, killing the chatbot-as-separate-entity defense. iTutorGroup paid $365K to the EEOC, confirming the algorithm doing the discriminating moves liability nowhere. Gemini cost Alphabet roughly $90B in market cap in days for one weekend of bad image generation.

Every legal shield around AI in production got tested in court and lost. The AI PMs interviewing for foundation model roles can recite all four by month. Most engineers shipping AI at work cannot.

[lari @violetraume]

you had a sweet sixteen, i had a suicidal sixteen. we are not the same

[Shubhvani @shubhvanii]

The most GANGSTA thing you can do is get mad at yourself for wasting your potential and then rebuild your entire life from that ANGER.

Don't ever settle. You're made for more.

[blue @bluewmist]

You're NEVER "too late":

• Restart at 25
• Build wealth at 30
• Become unshakable at 35
• Inspire at 40

Stop using age as an excuse.

[Gabriel @gbrl_dick]

if oppenheimer had been born in 1999 he would’ve failed the technical screen at open ai and he’d be living at home in new jersey commuting two days a week to a swe job at wells fargo

[☔ @Whotfismick]

went from early twenties to mid twenties in the blink of an eye

[定 @de3dsoul]

me after realising my future is eventually going to happen and it depends on me

[blue @bluewmist]

I fell in love with this quote:
No matter your age, you'll always wish you started younger, but today is the youngest you'll ever be. So start today.

[alreadydawn @alreadydawn]

> be nikita bier
> non-technical Berkeley grad
> slew of failed slop apps before hitting virality with `tbh` via growth hack trickery
> sold tbh to facebook, shut down less than a year later due to low usage
> rugged fb, hell yeah
> new app gas sold to discord
> shut down less than a year later due to low usage, again
> rugged discord, hell yeah
> talented at private equity-esque antics
> hired as head of product at X summer 2025
> why_elon_why.jpeg
> proceeds to implement features everyone hates
> no one sees their followings' posts any more
> feeds full of political rage baits and room-temp IQ memes
> X experience worse than reddit front page
> rugged the entire X userbase, hell yeah
> major main character syndrome
> "cope and seethe harder, losers"
> won't get fired because he lets the algo promote Elon's dumb tweets

I want to get off Mr. Bier's wild ride

[Susan Swartz @beadmomsw]

13 years. RIP my darling boy.

[Luke Belmar 👽 @lukebelmar]

Your lack of urgency is killing your future potential. Focus up and don't miss your shot!

[UPSC Lifepedia @UPSCLifepedia]

If you are aged 24-32, this is the most expensive season of your life; every year wasted will cost you twice later.
Your future is being decided right now.

[leon @profleonn]

@amritwt you need to keep spreading this lie so that the normies will start leaving cs, plz

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

I nearly just got robbed in a broad daylight in Manhattan

I was ordering a coffee in a Starbucks on Fifth Avenue

Menu at the counter said $4.90

I handed the barista a $5 bill

She said "umm sir that'll be $5.91"

I raised my eyebrow

Did that blue-haired, weirdly looking obese woman try to scam me?

"The menu says $4.90" I said

"Yes, plus tax"

I felt my blood pressure rising

"So the price on the menu isn't the actual price?"

"It is but there is also a sales tax--"

I couldn't believe what I was hearing

I pulled out my phone to call the Federal Trade Commission to report false advertising

Unfortunately I did not purchase roaming feature in my German-made Android phone, so the call did not go through

Suddenly a Wall Street guy in a Patagonia vest pushed past me, tossed a $20 on the counter

"I got this loser's coffee, keep the change"

Now I was even more disturbed

I legally just received a gift

Personal donations over €50 require reporting in the EU

I asked the barista for the guy's name for my tax filing

She said "bro I don't know who that was just go away"

I took a photo of the receipt as documentation

I called my representative at the German tax authority who said I must declare this coffee right after I'm back in Europe

I got on the Lufthansa flight to Munich the same day

Americans have normalized financial deception so deeply they think transparency is confusing

Europeans, as usual, lead the global civilization

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

Day in the life of a European entrepreneur:

You wake up, it’s August and 29°C, your apartment has no AC because you live in a climate conscious building

You open LinkedIn to see Americans half your age raising $50M Series A, while you’re on the month 4 of due diligence for a €100k bridge round

You take a lunch break at 12pm because the restaurant closes at 2pm, reopens at 6pm, and is closed on Mondays

You eat bread with cheese for the third time this week. “This is the European lifestyle”, you tell yourself

Back in the office, you try to hire an engineer and discover it costs €90k to employ a person who receives €42k

Your accountant charges €400 to tell you that you owe €6,000 in unpaid VAT obligations you didn’t know existed

You google “Delaware corporate tax rate” in incognito mode

5pm, time to call it a day. You open up LinkedIn again to see that the candidate you wanted to hire just joined an AI startup in SF. His salary is higher than your entire seed round

You take the bus home, but need to get out early to not interrupt the cultural integration process of two friendly dark-skinned passengers (they are breaking windows)

You finally get to your 38 sqm apartment that costs €1,900, and you’re exhausted

Fortunately, tomorrow is Friday and your country just introduced a 4-day work week. You can finally rest

There is nothing better than life in Europe

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Urgency is the real separator between winners and everyone else. Not intelligence, not resources, not even luck. Urgency converts intention into ownership. The man who moves today owns tomorrow because momentum compounds immediately. The man who waits for perfect conditions stays stuck forever because perfect never comes. Waiting feels responsible but it quietly kills progress. Speed is leverage. Delay is decay.

[neural nets. @cneuralnetwork]

The Verhoeff algorithm is a base-10 error detection algorithm.

It uses:
- a multiplication table d
- a permutation table p
- an inverse table inv

These tables are fixed constants. (4/6)

[neural nets. @cneuralnetwork]

to do this, aadhaar uses something called the verhoeff algorithm. it’s a checksum algorithm designed to catch human errors like wrong digits or swapped digits. it’s stronger than the luhn check used in credit cards. (3/6)