skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see why you're getting downvoted, but sadly (as a Catholic-sort of) I think you're right. It now seems to me that the Catholic Church's hierarchy is catastrophically flawed. I see this as quite separate from lay Catholics, who somehow aren't outraged by all this, but I guess more due to cognitive deficits than actual acceptance.

Catholic Church has an intransparent, rigid hierarchy built on secrecy and obedience, and apparently severely lacking in the morals department. It has a lot of trust and a high cross-section for interaction with the general public (in Catholic countries at least), in particular children. Celibacy (a social, not biblical concept), probably doesn't help. In Poland, which you quote, the majority of priests found to be sex offenders against children, were not found to have paedophilic tendencies in subsequent psychiatric evaluations, rather chose children as easy victims.

Controlling for all these features, I remain unconvinced that there is something particularly wrong about religion itself in this organisation. Abuse of children and other weaker members of the society has sadly been a hallmark of large organisations (e.g. abuse by Oxfam employees in Haiti), it's just that most organisations lack either the reach, or the rigid structure of CC.

As an aside, I wouldn't use Russia Today as a source for anything meaningful, certainly not when it's about Poland; if ever there was an axe to grind, surely it's there.
The detrimental effect doesn't lie with thousands of people getting cancelled, it lies with thousands of people not speaking up anymore.
Any insight into how this one compares to Alacritty and Kitty?
Charity Majors wrote a couple of blog posts on the subject that I’ve tried to bring in to my workplace with varying levels of success. But still I’ve had colleagues express surprise that as an engineering manager I still wanted to get my hands dirty with the code of the systems I own.

https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum...

https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pe...
In addition to stress and lack of sleep, depression can make your memory worse, and other cognitive functions worse. I mention depression because it is surging in the US (and maybe worldwide idk), and many people don’t realize that’s what they’re experiencing.

https://adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/depression/symptoms
When you update your phone number, as long as you register the transfer in WhatsApp (as opposed to creating a new account) it's pretty seamless. There's no need for everyone to update your contact.
I am 47. Contemplating to close my office and go to work full-time as a design->frontend person for big corporation.
Ageism is real, but I see it as a use-case experience.

If a company cannot utilize my professional experience as ex owner of business, PM or design specialist in general, it means that they prioritize "cultural fit" criteria over real performance evaluation.

This is not a problem for me. I don't have expectations every business to be "mature enough" to know the value of effective professional work over "power of the young mind".

The idea that after "40" you are having "cognitive difficulties" or you are "out of fashion" comes from companies who exploit trough "overtime" or extreme performance prerequisite.

Working in this kind of environments is a suicide. Burnout is real and avoiding it is the only effective countermeasure.
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Ditto. Damn.
I would have appreciated a picture of the display. I have a strong sense of what I think it looks like, but would like a picture to be sure.
> can all be boiled down to word choice

I don't think that, but I lack the communication skill to be sufficiently clear to avoid being misunderstood in this medium on this topic.
> The report found an _estimated_ 216,000 children were victims of sexual violence by French Catholic priests, deacons and other clergy from 1950 to 2020. When lay members of the Church, such as teachers and catechism supervisors, were included, the figure rose to at least 330,000 children sexually abused over 70 years.

How did they do this estimation? The article does not say.
> "Due to Brexit merchant fees in the UK are no longer capped."

No, they are absolutely still capped in the UK. The IFR regulation has been mirrored in the UK so the same caps still apply to UK cards and UK banks.

The exception you are referring to is when a UK card is used for an online ("card not present") transaction at an EU merchant. In this case it is now considered an inter-regional transaction and a higher cap applies: 1.15% for debit and 1.5% for credit cards. (but note, even here there is still a cap!)
Indeed, I keep being a jerk to junior developers that constantly comes to me with the same questions after I explained to them 10000 times and they say "Yeaah, I got it now". It is so hard to avoid being a jerk. What should I do?
How about people who don't live in their home country?
Siri can't start an outdoor walk, silly. She doesn't have legs.
I was asked to add a maintenance page to a critical product when updating the system! Adding maintenance page is a type of additional induced downtime!! What u need to do is just do the needed update, and any downtime goes from your downtime credit. Maybe inform that not all services will be up and site performance may be sub-optimal. Best if you can simulate the updates on a test environment beforehand!
That's what you get when you try to get 100% in a Starfleet drill assessment simulation. A rigged one at that!
> Nobody wants to touch this story with a comment in 3 hours? I wonder why.

Because wise people have humility about their ability to communicate clearly with strangers about trauma-related topics.
Ask HN: How should I back up data on devices if I'm not smart?
If someone is a less able, cognitively impaired, or perhaps very young - It would be good to see what advice HN would give them for protecting their data from ransomware, theft, or disaster.
Supporting the LaTeX expansion is just a necessary feature of any Julia-compatible code editor. It is not then particularly more difficult to type `\sigma` over `sigma`.

Also note that other languages often support non-ASCII identifiers as well --- for example, `σ` is a completely valid identifier name in Python (though it is more restrictive than Julia, `σ²` is not valid in Python and yet is valid in Julia). It even works in C, but that might just be a GNU extension.
> I question his impartiality on making statements such as this.

There is a very good way to verify the claims: check the data.

Dragging in questions regarding antibody test policies, stock portfolios, and potential conflicts of interest just sound like cheap character assassination attempts that have absolutely no relation with the prevalence of long Covid.
Today I learned that there is something called SQ besides IQ and EQ
Which is extremely easy: you click on the actual patch that has been merged and look under the commit message where all the tags containing this particular commit are shown.
The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret!
Get a stress ball. Practise screaming inside your head. Works for me.
There is a ton of tax code, but if you have W2 income in one state and only contributed to a 401k then virtually none of those pages of laws apply to you. Most people fall into this category.

Genuine errors on your taxes are also not criminal offenses.
> Imagine if scientists just "believed" science and never tried to reproduce.

You're mixing up scientists-as-individuals with scientists-as-a-whole.

Scientists-as-a-whole should certainly reproduce results, both to check new claims, and to teach/learn/demonstrate old knowledge.

Scientists-as-individuals need belief, since there's no way to indivudally reproduce everything. For example, climate models rely on decades of measurements from Earth-observation satellites; if scientist shouldn't "believe", how would they go about reproducing those measurements for themselves?

Even if individual climate scientists began each of their projects by building and launching their own satellites to take decades of observations (which would lag behind existing data, in any case), how would they calibrate the instruments on those satellites (e.g. without "believing" in the zeroth law of thermodynamics)?
First off, I'm not doubting that abuse occurred and it is terrible for the victims involved.

What sampling method did they use to arrive at this estimate? What is the error range and 95/99% confidence intervals? I haven't been able to find the original report online.

From some articles: The commission found evidence of 2,900 to 3,200 abusers – out of a total of 115,000 priests and other clerics – but said this was probably an underestimation.

We would really need to see what the method they used to arrive at the numbers - this smells like major hyperbole.

UPDATE: a better article is available in French:
https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/les-cinq-chiffres-c...

The number they gave is cases over 70 years, which is a weird way of reporting it. Annually, it is about 2900-3000 priests per year. The article also mention that the current rate in about 1/4 of the rate in the 1970's, showing that some of the church reforms have actually worked. If you compare the French stats to what is being reported here, the anti-church media bias is flagrantly clear.
Probably not a human level extinction event, but a lot of life that we depend on might not make it.
Solvent separation would be possible.
Well I've been thoroughly nerd sniped by that game, so much for a productive Tuesday.
I think the core of the problem here is the free ad-supported model that's so pervasive in the industry. Data mining in order to optimize targeted ads is the business driver for this bad behavior and society has struggled to grasp it's implications.

The problem is that once something is free there's no going back. You'll never be able to compete with free. Free is the new antitrust. The only players that will be able to survive and thrive in this model are the ones with the most data and the most socially exploitative techniques.

Lots of us are happy to pay for nice things like operating systems that don't use this model but there aren't enough of us to adequately fund such projects. We're just not a big enough market share.
Context is always important. "Haha, you're such a fucking asshole" is not the same as "YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!" either.

It's hard to really judge the context from here; none of us were there, and I didn't read the full court report either (as most of us haven't). In another article Diaz said "some days I would just sit on my stairs and cry" so I'm gonna guess the context wasn't particularly friendly.

It's still possible that there was a mismatch in how it was intended: the offenders intended it in a friendly way, but that's not how it was taken. It can happen to the best of us sometimes. One mistake is one mistake and can happen, but to be honest you need to be pretty darn tone-deaf to not notice that someone is uncomfortable from someone's response in both verbal and non-verbal clues, or a bit of an asshole to choose to ignore this.

All in all, based on the reporting I find the "it was intended in a friendly manner" rather unconvincing, even when we give people the benefit of the doubt. Was it truly "racist"? I don't know; I'll withhold that judgement. But at the very least it strikes me as insensitive and unkind.
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Two options:

* Ask why they keep coming? Maybe you aren't understanding their question, they want to build the relationship, or it's a really risky operation and they don't want to undertake it alone. This might be worth digging into.
* Write the answer down to the questions (wiki, internal doc, whatever). When they ask, point them to what you've written down. Will still take some time and interrupt you, but hopefully they will learn they can just go to the doc.
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The greatest software engineer I ever hired was 60 and I kept him from retirement for 5 years before finally having to let him go when his wife became ill and needed his help more. The guy never under-delivered in 20 years. No drama, no exaggeration, no personality quirks, just experience and solid delivery.
It looks great on the photos, but YMMV as far as the comfort of actually living there. I for one hate unnecessary noises, which you get plenty of from the fridge (even the quieter ones) and dishwasher.
I'm not going to discuss what the price tag for the harm caused should've been, I don't think that's reasonably or fairly quantifiable.

That said, the ratio between the punitive damages and the direct compensation to the victim clearly intends send a message to other companies. Unfortunately, the ones that are able to pay these fines - which they are, effectively - won't ever be persuaded to change their ways, and will continue to seek other legal avenues to shield themselves from their responsibilities.
That PCBite probe setup look nifty indeed, thanks for the tip (pun intended)!
If someone has this level of access and time with the device, implanting a bug and/or setting up a fake machine shouldn't be difficult.

How many here would recognize that Evil Maid has swapped out your work machine with an identical model? It would be rigged to boot into an identical login screen and send your password back to the guy with the real laptop. That's what happens when everyone has the same shiny new machines (Apple). Give me a machine with a few scratches and custom boot screen.
To me a few things:

- dang’s moderation and example

- no images

- no intentional sub-cultures

- smaller audience

- topical

- charmingly ugly

- a generally invested community that appreciates this is a special outcome

The interesting thing to me is that Slashdot shares many of these attributes, has a relatively sophisticated moderation feature and is a cesspool. It feels like a ship adrift in the Caribbean and the fourth generation of rats born on the vessel are at war.

The primary difference IMHO is dang. Anytime I think about the overall quality of HN, his efforts bubble to the surface of my mind as the primary causal factor.
Why is one job a problem, as long as that job keeps you up-to-date with the current state of the art?
I dunno, the only thing not made out of concrete and brick in the Netherlands is sheds.

I hadn’t seen wooden construction at all until I emigrated to Japan.
5.6% is the estimated historical incidence rate for pedophile priests in the US. 7% of Australian priests have face accusation - so incidence would be a little lower. The pope was reported as saying 2% - but the interview in which this happened was walked back by the Vatican. 2-3% would be on the low end. I'm surprised that you would consider this hyperbole after the endless revelations over the last two decades.
I had the same sort of attitude to the parent comment until I remembered that maybe you and I don't live in the same culture that the parent does. I mean culture here as group of networked individuals with overlapping interested. Maybe there's a significant portion of people out there that do use those tools on the regular, and you and I just haven't been exposed to them. The earth is huge, and it's very possible that while we think his n=1, from his perspective n->100%.
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> You won't find all of those in a 25 year old developer.

Am I being uncharitable to question if that’s ageism?
I've loved the idea of a verbal commandline, too, especially since watching the Play For Tomorrow episode "Shades[*]." It's a teen brave new worldish sort of thing, but all of the characters are constantly interacting with databases, networks and media (including VR) with this very stylized language, not how you would talk to a person.

That's the problem, really. You have to use a stylized language on a commandline. A GUI is really just giving you a graphical diagram and guide to a really stylized language (if you reduce a GUI to its clickable/typeable areas.) It's very hard to draw an arrow pointing at a picture representing a particular predicate in the very restricted bandwidth of serialized sound.

The reason why "Shades" was so interesting to me was that its future teens clearly all knew the stylized language well, and obviously would have learned it in school. To have that kind of universal training in a certain form of computer interaction would require a universal OS, like what UNIX quickly became.

So maybe this is a conclusion coming off the above at an odd angle, but what I'm actually saying is that commandlines are hard and people don't like them. Visual, and even tactile stuff have the ability to offer so much feedback and so many affordances for amateur operators in comparison to audio that audio can't compete. Audio feedback is all exposition and nothing to hold onto or see. And just like film exposition, it often comes too slowly to keep people's attention, or too quickly for people to understand. It's always going to be easier to grab the knob and turn it, or to find the button and click it.

The major advantage of audio interfaces is that they're cheap both materially (you don't need a screen or a control panel) and for the user (you don't have to stop walking, or sit down, or grab a thing, etc. you just speak.) For me these advantages are actually dominant over innate usability, which is why I also believe with you in the huge potential of audio interfaces as a platform.

I just think that the only way to get there is to build a universal and open verbal protocol, with standardized interfaces for accessing databases, media, and networks. Something that children can (will) learn, and will have a lifetime of use. An opinionated and efficient design moonshot like the web (or the Bourne Shell or Gnu Corutils) turned out to be. A platform whose innovation comes from addition of new ways and not from subtraction of the old ones. A platform that holds onto backwards compatibility as long as is practical, thinking in terms of how many decades to keep things around, not how many releases, or possibly even a closed kernel that will never change built on top of some mathy orthogonal basis system.

* I wish this hadn't been deleted from youtube.
This comment thread is about whether we ought to receive an explanation, not the practical likelihood of getting one.
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This is a very American centrist point of view. In Europe everywhere I worked there were a bunch of 40+ year olds writing code, it's just yet another profession. No big deal.

I've found even a good amount of people at that age that were career switching(to development) and haven't had big issues entering the job market.

But of course, you have to be flexible. Move elsewhere, or where the jobs are. Your white hair doesn't matter as much as your attitude. If you feel entitled for good job positions just for the fact you wrote a library, I don't believe this can be positive. It isn't about your age. How long have you been looking for a job? Which city? Are you easy going?

I've moved to another country and city for a better job market and I'm willing to do over and over again. Can't make big commitments to where I live, me and my wife move, find new jobs and learn new languages and culture, that's just life. We can't buy a property and never feel at home really, but it isn't a hard life, to be honest.

Of course, we don't ever expect to make these american salaries, but we do have jobs. In America, it makes me think that a lot of management and business typey people who make decisions about hiring are very individualist folks that believe that one great person that works like a slave is better than a few average well-lived people, which is completely wrong.
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I've seen a lot of good Programmers shown the door at 50-55.

Sure, some left expecting to find another job, but remained continuously unemployed.

I've personally known four homeless individuals in my life. Two were Programmers.

I have never seen an industry that just thinks employees are not worth paying when they hit 50.

And yes--I'm aware of the older high paid employee that's the first to go in a corporation. These guys I knew were not those guys. They were just enthusiastic employees, whom thought they were doing a good job.
When you see a 50 year old developer, it's possible that he's amazing, and it's possible that he's an old putz, banking on his authoritativeness instead of actual work. You need to tell the difference.

One way to tell the difference, is that a great developer who spent 20 years in the industry will have lots of contacts. There are probably a line of people who'd like to hire him the moment he'll quit his current job. This also correlates with how pleasant he is to work with.

If you're getting a resume of a 50 year old that you don't know, it's already substantial evidence that he's not that great.
I think the concept of "too senior" exists. E.g I would imagine Linus wouldn't thrive on some boring driver maintenance job or full stack developer somewhere if he ever applied.
Of course it doesn't say there is no ageism, but it could be that this specific case was indeed too senior for certain roles.