So, a certain Joshua Moreno is fed up with the system and did something about that, 2 paragraphs. GREAT. Then the rest of the entire article is about institutionalized racism and how the current system fails us. At no point do we get a good example about what mr Moreno did, only what he moved away from. This is horrible confusing writing.
I'm sorry but this is absolute click bait garbage. I AGREE with the fact that there is institutionalized racism and I aplaud work to reduce that. But this article is misleading, and confusing, and poorly written. There's no concrete idea in it that we could debate here on HN. If there is, someone would have to rewrite and state it clearly.
Sure there is. The problem described in the first few paragraphs is essentially due to a Goodhart's Law situation and the imposition of deadlines that are not actually related to what the class is trying to accomplish.
These are both things that are ripe for HN debate (and have been debated in other contexts here).