skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] very few men are willing to spend ~8 years in higher education to make ~$30,000 a year for a job where you're on duty 24/7 with a private personal life forbidden to you.

That's a rather ascetic view of what it's like to be a Catholic priest. They do have free time, and while yes, working on Sundays and holidays is part of the job, weekdays are relatively free.

> There's a lot of things wrong with the Catholic Church, but their actions can be explained without a need for some child abuse ring running the whole organization.

I used to think that, but the scale of cover-ups found in the Polish CC convinced me it cannot be the case. A number of bishops have now been found to ignore and bury accusations against sex offender priests, with written evidence available. All continued to have the full support (material in particular) of the Church. The scale of the tragedy is inexplicable. Protests by various groups to Vatican have also achieved literally nothing. You had paedophile priests pampered and protected by the CC like they were martyrs for the greater good (some were in fact called that).

As Napoelon said, never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence. But what's happening there is beyond any humanly possible incompetence.
I'm not doubting major abuse occurred, and the church needs major reforms. But we should hold the numbers up to the same standard that we hold all other numbers to. There should be a detailed description of the sampling and data, a detailed description or the model used for the projection, and a detailed description and justification for any bias adjustments. Any results should have an error band. Otherwise, this is likely published with an agenda, not to find the truth.
That is often the case with the Nobel prize though. Higg's most cited paper was also many decades old before he got the Nobel prize.
Domande sul blackout di Facebook
Well this is a roundup of a bunch of sources:

https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2021/03/are-catholic-c...
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I've dealt with it too. Some USB c extenders even won't carry some signals, such as video. It's an unbelievable frustrating mess. Just because thunderbolt uses the same USB c style connector doesn't make it usb c I wouldn't think. I figured the connector itself would have its own name, such as rj45 does. But who knows with this shit show.
Fittings are getting there now. We’re not quite at triple paned glass, but the house which I bought 2 years ago (in Japan) is very well isolated, and incredibly easy to keep comfortable with help from the aircon units installed.

The house feels extremely solid, though that’s not an experts opinion.
It sounds like the 2500 page report has been released to the press, but not yet publicly available.

Are you contending that the numbers are unreasonably high or low?
Conveniently, my phone number is from when I lived in another state. So now I can use a call being from that state as almost a 100% sign it's spam.
I call it the "grumpy old fart" syndrome. I've (M50+) felt it - the urge to stop learning and complain at everything that changes.

It is a struggle to continue learning at this age. But it is worth it. Being a grumpy old fart sucks all the joy out of life.
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Show me a 5 year old kid who is starting out as a professional and sure I'll believe a 25 year old can have a 40 year olds experience
((hugs))
Barcelona’s hidden smart city: How tech and history can live in harmony
What a confusing, click-baity article.

tldr: Facebook was down, so millions of people couldnt access the internet, it's Facebook's fault, monopoly, whistle blower etc etc! Break FB!

Im pretty sure most people managed just fine without being able to post cat pics for a few hours.
Write a knowledge base, or Wiki, or FAQ, or whatever. A place where they can re-read the same thing 10000 times. Maybe add some examples too, in cases where it makes sense (i.e. code).

Even better, make them write it, and you just review it. It'll help them learn faster.

If you have a junior who already understand problem X, ask them to explain it to someone else too. It'll help solidify the knowledge, and at the same time offload you too.

Take my comment as wisdom that came with age and experience, if you will :). I don't think the above would have been my first thought 10 or 15 years back.
From the post:

“Obama got a prize for peace before he did anything of substance and before he started dozens of wars (Trump would have deserved the Nobel Prize in Peace about 50 times more than Obama but for obvious political reasons, he didn't get one).”

Not suggesting that Obama deserved the Nobel prize, but to suggest that Trump deserved it “50 times more” is a ridiculous thing to say no matter how you slice it.
"To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, " ... yesterday was another example of why you shouldn't depend on us to such an extent.
He predicted 0.57C of warming by the year 2000, and we saw 0.54C of warming. So accurate at least according to that.

https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1445359093905084417
The author also cherry-picks some examples of planned downtime that are anomalously egregious.

I occasionally get notices of planned downtime from services I use. It's almost never an issue for me - the outage windows are usually relatively brief, infrequent, and off-hours. Not every service has the luxury of even having "off-hours", but simply making planned downtime infrequent goes a long ways.
Started a business with my dad, brother joined a few years later, it's been 13 years now, we've put our blood into it , same with every one in the family. We prioritised the business over everything, health, relationship, friends,all our life savings buying a house. Covid hit us pretty bad, missed some payments, 3 days from now I'm probably gonna throw the downpayment I've been saving at it, but the lawyers's have fucked up and it might go under and we'll lose everything. Might have to support them indefinitely. I think it's over with the girl i like. Smoking more than ever, getting high every day.
I like Julia a lot, but out of curiosity why are you writing a web server in it? I would 100% reach for Python for that use case.
Work out what you're doing to make people prefer to lie to you and tell you they've understood when they clearly haven't?

If you're having the same communication problem with multiple people, then I'm afraid that's you not them.
> By arbitrary I mean why are chemically addictive substances like tobacco and caffeine legal?

If you are truly asking, then I'd say that it's because those substances were normalized and became a large part of culture before the overzealous harm considerations were broadly accepted. If something has enough popularity or momentum it's simply infeasible to outlaw, regardless of your general policies and principles. Prohibition etc.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/do-the-right-thing/2...

Note also

> 4 percent of Catholic priests in the U.S. sexually victimized minors during the past half century. No evidence has been published at this time which states this number is higher than clergy from other religious traditions. The 4 percent figure appears lower than school teachers during the same time frame, and certainly less than offenders in the general population of men. Research states that over 20 percent of American women and about 15 percent of American men were sexually violated by an adult when they were children.
Even though I like Siri this reminded me of this one time I was driving with my Apple-hating friend with me. We were discussing whether it'd rain, I asked Siri, she said it doesn't look like it's gonna rain today.

Literally 10 seconds later, it started to rain, giving my Apple-hating friend enough material.
WhatsApp for Business and Instagram Shops for example are SaaS offerings.
10 years after Steve Jobs' death, this is still his most important lesson
I didn't think anyone would interpret my text as an attack on catholics or christianity, but I can see how some may be perceiving it like that. Yes, ofcourse, this isn't a religious problem of Christianity or Catholicism but due to the current structure of the Vatican. It's not as if Protestant churches, or Hindu ashrams or Muslim Jamaaths don't have such incidents. But the absolute scale of it in the catholic church is a clear indicator that there is something very wrong with their organisation.
Are the recruiters targeting YOU specifically or are they just taking the spray-and-pray approach reaching out to everyone who fits certain keywords?
For macos users using iTerm2, installing the integration provides ‘imgcat’ and ‘imgls’. Not sure about tmux support though.
You seem to be suggesting that the US has vast swathes of well-built old houses, and agreeing that what's currently built is flimsy. Is that a correct reading? If so, do you have any opinion about why what's currently built is so flimsy? The flimsiness is even more puzzling if almost everyone (among both builders and buyers) has experience with solidly built houses.
It’s baffling to me that managers are given coding screens. As an IC I really don’t want to deal with a manager’s half thought out PR’s slapped together in between meetings.

Perhaps some shops give a light meeting load. But “manager code” has a stigma for a reason.
You don't have to resort to QAnon thinking about cabal's and secret clubs when institutional protection is plenty motivation all by itself (which is what happened in my school with a pedophile priest).
Hm - so you're telling me that taking thousands of men, forbidding them from having sex, having them share their lives with young boys in secluded locations, and creating a protective organization around them with its own legal system lead to widespread sexual abuse? Crazy...
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Is there something new here from the April announcement? Did something change?
This is exciting! As others have mentioned it’s important to use psychedelics in the appropriate context. These medicines are powerful tools which can really help in self examination and course-charting but like all powerful tools can also be quite chaotic in the wrong circumstances.

I’d recommend reading a bit on Erowid[0] or checking out Michael Pollan’s book How To Change Your Mind.

In general it’s important to trip with people you trust, in a safe place you are ideally somewhat familiar with, and with as open eyes about your current mental landscape (what’ve you been excited about? What’re you struggling with in your life?). Set positive intentions for your trip!

If you do find yourself wanting someone to talk to either during or after a trip, please reach out to the Fireside Project peer support line[1] (I’m a volunteer here, this is a cause and domain very dear to me)

If you do decide to trip, know that you are loved, experience is positively weird (both on and off drugs, eh?), and… welcome!

[0] https://www.erowid.org/

[1] https://firesideproject.org/
Also possible:

technician: "But if we authenticate using the facebook DNS, how will we do our jobs if it goes down?"

boss: "That's a good point but not a blocker for go live, let's remember to add a story to our backlog to revisit this."
My professional experience has taught me two opposite things on this subject.

1) Toys. If you want to be employable you have to learn to play with all the trendy toys. You need to demonstrate the ability to build a tech stack with these toys and solve some problem. Beyond that old people skills are largely irrelevant. By old people skills I mean the ability to communicate with precision in writing and a mastery of skills (not toys). Nobody cares if you can solve business problems using code. Toys are the new inverted binary tree.

2) When things go bad and layoffs come around the only things that matter are old people skills and critical needs positions. Prior performance won’t save you and neither will titles or seniority. If you are solid with the cool kid toys but never really mastered your craft you aren’t worth retaining under a shrinking budget because they know they can easily replace you when the economy/business recovers.
Calling their studies “higher education” is being very generous.
damn dude - hope things turn around for yall
I've had similar experiences interviewing candidates, but it's been across the age range. I've never interviewed anyone who has forgotten how to code, but I have interviewed a lot of people who never learned in the first place.
> before there were (affordable) logic circuits.

That would have been a good while ago. You didn't build digital stuff out of TTL on breadboards? Now that I'm typing this, I am getting a hint from the parenthetical "(or relay (or tube))" :)

edit: I was personally an innovator of the "WAS" gate. They're made of smoke.
I don't answer the phone anymore. I don't think I ever did to begin with. I hate phones. I have a subscription because it's impossible to get mobile internet without it and nearly all mobile software uses phone numbers for identification and authentication. Wish I could turn off the calls. I don't want people to call me! I want people to message me. It used to be easy to ignore. Now with all these automated calls the system has become unusable and unbearable. Every single day I get at least 5 automated calls and my phone always thinks they're the most important things in the world, worthy of my immediate attention and warranting the interruption of anything I'm doing. It makes me wish I could delete the telephony app without breaking the phone!

That's what phones are, most fundamentally. They're human interrupts. When I call people, I'm interrupting them in order to make them talk to me. There's this underlying assumption that the call is more important than anything. People will ignore other humans in front of them in order to answer calls! Hard to think of anything more disrespectful. That may have been tolerable back then when phones were the best technology we had but they've been obsolete ever since asynchronous messaging became a thing. Why can't phones just disappear? What's keeping them alive?

I have lots of family with landlines. Older people who still think of phone lines as something valuable just because they used to be worth a ton of money decades ago. 95%+ of the calls they receive are nothing but a waste of their time. Banks offering them credit cards, loans, scammers. Yet they keep those lines around "just in case"! I simply can't fathom putting up with an advertiser who's brash enough to actually interrupt me with a phone call. That's an unfathomable level of abuse to me.
Seattle Becomes Largest City to Decriminalize Psychedelics
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I'll wait for the 90% discount on the stock.
Expanding that out. Epstein had lots of powerful friends, and I don't buy that Weinstein acted alone. Jerry Sandusky molested kids for decades, the administration of Penn State knew and did nothing.

The Taliban certainly has it faults but they don't allow boys to be raped under their watch. The US gave Afgan allies Viagra so that they may better do so.

It seems anywhere you have people with power, you also find child sexual abuse. I don't know why but it's consistent across time and cultures. Power corrupts is a fact as proven as gravity.
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The thing is, senior programmers really aren't always that useful. We want leadership, we want big meaty projects and problems, we know so much and can do so much... Except that sometimes what needs doing is boring. It's grunt work. It's some infrastructure migration or a real simple API addition. A lot of coding is actually not that hard depending on where you are. That work we consider grunt work is a great way for a junior engineer to learn and they don't complain as much as we would. I've worked with a lot of other senior folks and (like myself) and we have entire abandoned features because no one wants to own them. It's a gift when someone junior shows up and jumps in.
Ask HN: Why Facebook services were down?
Aside from emergency systems, this is not a bad idea.

People need to voluntarily be disconnected from time to time or experience it due to scheduled down time. Maybe follow some international (or local) holiday schedule.

Life will go on and people will find solutions to the time when things are off.

You should not have to rely on Netflix for entertainment or Facebook for communication, google for information, etc.

People will be better prepared for emergencies this way and won't be left as helpless.
You have a notification from LinkedIn:

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with another opportunity to

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I know of a Anti-DDoS company that did this but I won't mention their name. It does happen, but I have not seen it from Cloudflare. If you want a tell-tale sign of who is doing this, look for your quarterly DNS DDoS and a company sending out a trophy sales person quarterly to meet your team. It was incredibly insulting.

The past I remember of CF was prior to their forming a business a group of network geeks (not yet cloudflare) had a volunteer network of honeypot proxies. I volunteered some of my physical rented servers for them and a handful of VM's. I am curious how many current members of CF remember those days prior to them forming CF. Their CTO contributes on here, maybe he remembers. Either way I have not seen anything shady from CF yet and I know engineers and leaders at some of their biggest customers.
I don't know. At some point, it's also a question of perception and attitude.

Falling off the career ladder is in itself a strange idea. As I get older, it seems to me that the concept has little actual reality. Few people have linear career nowadays.

At some point, things tend to take a turn for the unexpected. It can be failing to reach the position you were aiming for or suddenly finding yourself unemployed. It can also be becoming in charge of something you weren't expecting and finding you like that more than you thought.

You have to find an equilibrium between playing the card you are given and stiring your life in the direction you want. It's not always easy but you can find interesting things to do from many positions. I can't stop thinking that to you they were horror stories but that might not entierely be the case from their point of view: hanging out at an hacker space, meeting people, working on new things, that's not the worst place to be if you want to rebound.
In Algeria, we have "retenue à la source". Taxes are withheld and paid by the company on behalf of the employee, so you don't need to do any taxes. The company takes care of social Security payment and taxes, and it appears in the tax returns of the company, and the employee's pay stubs. The organization's accountant or accounting firm takes care of it.

You don't interact with the revenue service as an employee, or fill out forms, or something.
"While the commission found evidence of as many as 3,200 abusers - out of a total of 115,000 priests and other clerics - it said this was probably an underestimation."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58801183
So, your explanation is that the Catholic Church would rather help cover up the crimes of an unfathomable number of paedophiles because it's easier than hiring some new ones? I don't think that's the case, because there seems to be an endless supply of paedophiles signing up to be Catholic priests, presumably because they know it's the safest place to commit their crimes. The Catholic Church is basically the Mafia but for nonces.
> The maintenance window serves the customer a higher predictability on when to expect failure.

I don't get this - who wants 'predictable failure'?

If you're a B2C business, this is completely unacceptable - consumers don't plan their google searches around your preannounced downtime windows.

If you're a B2B SaaS business, well... your customers downstream have their own downtime to manage. If they have two vendors, each of which have 'scheduled maintenance windows' that don't overlap, then their combined availability just dropped dramatically.

Far better to build systems that are generally resilient to being down - queues for offline processing, idempotent operations, retriability... you'll wind up needing them to handle scheduled downtime anyway, and once you have them, you can switch to 'as needed' maintenance with no loss of service.
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During my last job hunt a little over three years ago, I encountered what I think was some subtle ageism or at least discrimination based on family status (lots of questions about my family life when interviewed by the CTO and CEO, ultimately turned down because they didn't think I had the energy/disposition to be devoted enough to the company to put in extra effort when needed).

I ultimately got a job at a better company anyway and probably dodged a bullet, but it's pretty naïve to think it doesn't happen sometimes, especially at startups or places that pride themselves on a "startup mentality."
I just got a new job in my 50's. Everyone assumed I was a senior, despite me telling them "I don't have experience in the technologies you're using, so I'm probably not a senior in your organisation despite my decades of experience in the industry". Only one organisation actually listened to that and recruited me at the right level. The rest (that interviewed me) tended to recruit me at a senior level and then fail me for not knowing the technology well enough. Which got annoying.

Apart from that, I found the experience remarkably straightforward. But then, I haven't seen a tech recruitment market this hot since Y2K (in Berlin at least). It's a good time to switch jobs.
After reading "Guns, Germs & Steel" and "The Gervais Principle", I think, curiosity is better for a group and being smart better for an individual (group). So, both are crucial.

GG&S makes the case, that people say "Necessity is the mother of invention." but historically this hasn't been true. The best inventions were random findings and only got applied to the best use after they have been found.

TGP makes the case, that people who are smart (sociopaths) are able to extract the most benefit of a specific situation.

If a group of people doesn't have curious individuals, the smart ones don't have any basis to use it to their (groups) advantage.
What would the SEC have to do with hacking reports?
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There are so many alternative communication systems besides Whatsapp and Facebook owned systems. Had I not checked HN and other news sources, I wouldn't have even noticed Facebook was down. I communicate domestically and internationally. I use LINE for international communications but there are plenty of additional options.
(I'm late 40s) I think the simplest explanation is if you look and act "old", people are less excited to be around you and you have a harder time getting or passing interviews.

Out of shape, unkempt, or unpersonable older folks have a lot of bias to overcome. I've seen the reactions myself as I've been one or more of these at times. It's not fair, but it's like dating and complaining women/men don't look at what a nice person you are, etc.