skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>evolving understanding of the use of masks

This is just absurd. Did our medical establishment not understand at all how masks worked before 2020? They were just guessing the whole time until COVID happened?
Lots of technically illegal things happen the first time an interviewer sees your face.
I sincerely hope you are right and that all the elder folks I have met are just putting on an act to fit in.
I had such "euphoria" about "tech tupia" as recently as 2012!
Building an integration with Microsoft Teams has been infuriating, especially after working with the Slack and Discord APIs (which were so much easier to manage)... I'm curious what other potential high-value integrations have been difficult for others.
I think you have backwards. The priesthood became entirely too revered and thus a status symbol. Within that framework, there were people who could go into the priesthood as a means of papering over their glaring faults and achieving a respectable image. Along the way, enough of those people have promoted into positions of power from which they try to shelter the priesthood at the expense of the church.

The Jesuits are mostly this same phenomenon; the order's brand became too coveted, the value was mined out of it, and now it's used by too many as a shield. It's like private equity for holy orders.
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But still, what is your added level in say Go over a 35 year old who does Go for 5 years already?
Wouldn't it have been better to just stick to one or two techs throughout your career?
Are we counting humiliation, gaslighting and brainwashing as child abuse? Asking because those are really common in religious families and often seen as normal ways of teaching a child.
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You are delusional to suggest the legitimate problems with American capitalism are anything close to genocide.
You can have a correct expensive tax file and you can have a correct not so expensive tax file.
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> I like the feeling of taking something that feels like a magical black box and systematically breaking it down to the point where it doesn't feel magical anymore.

This is also a good working definition of “engineering”.
This seems overblown, I've had credit cards for over ten years in the US, using them in person and online, and the only time I've ever had a fraudulent transaction was an hour after my wallet was stolen, which like yeah, kind of expected.

I'm not sure what you mean by "happens once every couple of years for most people."
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“How does one earn reputation? By sending emails which are not marked as spam.”

So I just do a sybil attack of sending messages to accounts I control, and not marking them as spam? Avoiding Sybil attacks ain’t so easy when you’re building a peer to peer and permissionless system.

Oh and it gets better… this reputation can then be milked for all kinds of things:

”In a system where we want to incorporate some kind of reputation system, after reading the message, the recipient could publish an acknowledgement on the chain with an indication of how valuable the information was. This could be as simple as yes/no/abstain. There would probably need to be rules here to prevent gaming the system. For example, the weight of the acknlowedgement could decrease over time. The pricing mechanism could then be based on your reputation.

The reputation would be stored in a token, and a set of smart contracts would goven their behaviour.

Reputation could be fungible (ie if I have 10 reputation, I can "endorse" someone else up to 10-N reputation, N tbd, for example - there could be other endorsement rules). This could permit anyone to create multiple pseudonyms which, with some ZKP magic, all "share" their reputation, but cannot be linked. This could even work across networks.”

So basically, the whole system would be built on “reputation” credits that are easily obtainable by creating lots of fake identities, to “mint” reputation tokens by colluding.
A search for "Facebook"[3] here on HN gives lots of hits. here are some of the highlights:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage[0]

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/[1]

https://riskledger.com/blog/facebook-outage[2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28752131

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28752131

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28752318

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=facebook&sort=by...
Keep your body in shape and 60 will definitely be the new 40.
This is the April announcement, at least it says it was published on April 21st.
https://archive.ph/3TJFV
Why isn’t Medicare gradually phased-in starting at 40 or 50?

Why are my sheltered retirement funds only available penalty-free at 60 and onward?

Can I survive and thrive in tech into my 50s?
I don't understand what problem is this system trying to solve, it just seems overcomplicated to me.

> there should be economic incentive to only communicate valuable information. Sending an e-mail should cost "something".

Why wouldn't this be solved by attaching a simple POW to every message? The trust thing is a non-issue, you'd just whitelist people or domains you trust.
This post makes me wonder about your age. And not in a negative towards you, but in raising my awareness that a younger generation now accustomed to poor customer treatment by Google and other online providers might not realize that this money is still theirs and is extremely recoverable.

So many online companies have taken an approach of "virtual property is no longer yours if you can't remember a password, or change phone numbers" - but it's shocking to me to see someone assume that applies to physical property as well.
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If you are planning a proof-of-work system for email, you need to address the issues in this paper: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/proofwork2.pdf

And since blockchains are public, you need to address anonymity and communications tracking (what the spooks call metadata): public keys are pseudonyms and there has been a lot of successful research on decloaking “anonymized” data.
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Who is this lunatic and why should I care about his ramblings about Al Gore' Marxist eco-terrorism camps?
> Not in the U.S. Perhaps

Why the assumption that I'm American?
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I’m sure many people dungeon grinding the tech industry feel completely used up and ready for retirement or a career change by 40. As I get older I certainly understand the sentiment more each day.
Exceptional examples. But what I miss here is instructions how to do it actually well?

Instructions how to

* upgrade server-applications quickly without user interruption

* to create autonomic applications on client-side

* how to change data models in the background

Desktop mail-client like Evolution or "git --everything-is-local" are good examples. They work autonomic and can sync with servers anytime. The examples of the author are awkward exceptions. Real world ones are available.
For example Garmin Connect or Google Mail. Garmin Connect cannot do anything autonomic and we've seen an outage last year over a complete week. The same for Google Mail, it cannot download all mails in an mailbox. On a mobile device with 128 GB disk space. You see the irony? A mobile device which will suffer concnetion loss often which a big disk? Leets look at K-9 mail or Evolution: Download all? YES! Sync when possible? YES!

That is my recommendation. Make your local application autnomic and use servers to sync when possible. Of course that cost time in development. And it should - reliability costs. Making a server un-failable isn't possible.

By the way, I'm interested in quick and better migration best practices.
There are breakdown for hospitalized in Switzerland:

https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en/vaccination/breakthrough

Switzerland runs with a much higher infection rate and faster economy than Germany because it has many more beds per million. These beds are being occupied by more 20 somethings without than 80 somethings with vaccination.

I'm annoyed by the slowness of things in Switzerland, I'm impacted by the even more absurd slowness of things in Germany. And all of this is from people who voted down pesticide regulations and water regulations so they don't care what ends up in my body.

The west behaving this way on public health while viewing libertarian ideals as justified whenever they are economically good and accidentally hurt people is the kind of insult to morals that I think correlates to western decline.
You're seriously misrepresenting reasons for vocation in the previous century. And they did have a private life.
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This is an advert placed in the Financial Times, seemingly partner content.

I was a bit suspicious that I could read anything on the FT website without fiddling about.
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In this case it might be better that NiH had the support role rather than FDA, especially since education and science seems to have a more similar role than administration and education.
> I guess you could have a stubborn CEO who demands a less secure policy.

More common than one would think. Also, more common than one would hope: CEOs who insist on their favorite MacBookPro which they share with family. :-)
Unfortunately, it is not only me that has these problems. But I agree that I am not the best teacher in the world. However, I do believe that they are not trying very much and keep calling me or stopping the team with meetings for small problems. I get it when you are new to the company, but for god's sakes when you have 2 years+ and you still keep asking trivial questions, there is some other problem here.
Why doesn't anyone clone anyone?

Why don't I clone Apple? Or AMD?

Let me think about it...
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Stop giving them the full answer and only lead them part way there. They will then (hopefully) learn how to look up documentation for themselves. Essentially "teach a man to fish". They don't necessarily want to know the answer, but they want to know how you know the answer.
The key here is Principal. 40 plus is considered fine and good for Architects/Managers and people in leadership positions. Try to get a senior engineer or below job where you are expected to be grinding out code instead.
Ok, I take your point there. HNs support of markdown is lousy. But the design of the site itself is fine
Yeah, apologies. I’m fairly certain I read much higher numbers somewhere else before, but then found this article (through archive.is) had it’s own numbers, so I modified the comment since it frankly works either way.

Whether 25 or 2.5%, it’s still millions of people.
Ultimately I guess the best solution here is something like intel PTT where the TPM is on-chip, or otherwise some sort of soldered shared secret / keys that the TPM and CPU have for encrypted communications over the bus.
Reforms? What about completely shutting the whole thing down. What other institution out there would be able to be responsible for such an unbelievable level of abuse and not get prosecuted/sued into oblivion?
hmm there are a lot of old brands and designs out there in clothing, and I dont think I have ever owned anything from a "hot new" fashion brand

My clothes are either no name, or old old companies like Carhartt, levis, Wrangler, Dickies, etc...
When a company knows it’s in a position like this it can charge whatever it wants. Should never be in this position.
>What I am bemoaning is planned obsolescence, under capitalism there is hardly any incentive to make things more durable unless absolutely necessary.

Counterexample: gorilla glass on phones. Surely using it isn't "absolutely necessary" either?

Also, you can apply the same logic to planned economies. What are you going to do, buy it from the competitor?
Once everyone starts taking it preemptively for covid, would it still be cheap?
Domesticated and undomesticated both sound terrible, does your paranoia not allow for an in between state?
Basically yes. This hypothesis has been getting way too much attention. Science journalism really needs to improve.
It's completely insane, full stop.

What this will 'incentivize' is absolutely everyone suing their employer, right now, for discrimination of some kind.

Being called some choice things is bad, but there are worse things that happen in this world, particularly in the area of safety.

The damages need to be commensurate with the actions, not some kind of incentive driven thing.
what is the current state of the art in open CSR/transcription? it feels to me that theres a lot of potential in these assistants that seems locked ip by the big players
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Vpn can also have a zero day, and seems about as likely?
If those represent major complexities maybe there can be open source tax software that serves 80% of people, I.e. people in coastal cities that have one job, and then the remaining 20% have to pay for their software?
I would also consider that a problem, but a distinct one from the discussion of child sexual abuse.
This is a sad state of affairs where one can't even have a meta discussion about a topic without having to tip toe around ill-defined lines.

In the long run, this has the potential to turn people how want to stay out of politics and draw them in out of necessity, or they may also be cowed into something they disagree with to protect their livelihood.

In either case, it's not a good thing that one may not seek science in academia. The thing that got us to where we are. Without science and inquisitiveness, even into controversial subjects (many normal things were at one time controversial) we would not be where we are today.

This is being undermined by dogmaticism and we can only hope science prevails.
216,000 sounds like a lot. Does that make French Catholic priests more or less likely historically to be abusers than the average adult male? Can't get outraged until I find out.
I agree with your sentiment. I was 51 when I last applied for a job at a new company. Initially I was getting very little interest in my resume. Then I cut out the first 10 years of my career from my resume (and LinkedIn), and downgraded the oldest position listed from a Senior Lead to just a developer -- essentially making me appear 40 instead of 50. Within a couple of weeks I started getting responses.

And it is not like my work from 1990-2000 wasn't valuable. I worked on a complex large scale analytics system in the early 90's and migrated to large scale web-based applications in the later half of the decade. I'm proud of that work and have some interesting lessons and stories from that time period, but they are telltale of my age and were working against me.
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No. It's an insult to the victims to attempt statistical whataboutery.

The record is clear and damning. A decimal point or two on the percentages doesn't change the facts.

Even one story like this is one story too many. And the number of stories like these is much greater than one.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/school-of-s...
The UI makes you believe that is the case, but people that still have your old contact will send messages to your old number and you will not receive those messages. See also their FAQ on the website [1].

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I ran into this problem when I changed my number while temporarily staying abroad. After switching back to my old SIM I suddenly got a bunch of messages that I had missed from people who messaged my old phone number.

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I can relate. When I lived in the Bay area, I started getting nervous in my late 30s that it would become harder and harder to find my next job in software development. I've since discovered that this seems to be a regional thing. I have not had trouble finding remote work in other parts of the US. Now that I'm 45, I still don't worry too much, because I'm seeing businesses with a good mix of people, including a lot of people in my age group.
If the preference is to perceive the world as a Marvel movie, McKinsey can play the part of a secret society of evil do-ers. If there's any interest in the actual mechanics of an economy dependent on growth, "evil" is fairly common and spread out with individuals making decision independently (even if they're "just following orders")
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> What's even the point of the TPM

Normal full disk encryption needs you to enter two passwords - one to decrypt the disk, another a minute or two later to log into the operating system. Your corporate IT helpdesk can remotely reset the latter password if you forget it, but the former can't be remotely reset. And if several people need to be able to boot a shared computer, they need to share the disk encryption password (which isn't winning any security awards).

Between the TPM and Secure Boot, the intention is that you sacrifice a certain amount of security - but in exchange, you can have only a single password prompt, a password IT can remotely reset, and no shared boot password.
What are you trying to say ? It seems like you're making some sideways comment about "the media", but I'd really like you to spell it out.
Its very hard to replicate 4+ years of "required" study because you don't know what you don't know
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I don't know how you would meaningfully rank physicists without resorting to subjective value judgements. The notion of importance exists only in relationship to our ability to accomplish our goals, and goals are subjective.
"corporate executive manager" is a tech role.

"surgeon" is limited by the AMA cartel's supply controls, and requires 10 years more training than a programmer, so subtract 10 from effective age in job.

Experience is valued for leaders (managers), which OP refuses to do. Experience is valued for careers where the work is the same year after year, which programming is not. So much of a 40year olds knowledge is useless because fashions have changed. Wisdom is useful in managers, but individual contributors need continually upating deep detailed knowledge and constant analysis and Nobel problem solving, which favors the youngish. It's more like chess than medicine or law.

OP also gives hints that he has a bad attitude that may shine through in his interviewing and networking. He also didn't give any hint as to how many jobs he applied for and where.
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Unless the operators were in direct contact with Facebook, it doesn't sound like a good idea. It's certainly not the job of the ISP to reduce an outage for FB. They also weren't sure if the outage would only be 5 minutes or 5 hours. Instead, ISPs should scale up and handle DNS traffic for outages like this. In this case, FB isn't the only company to learn a lesson or two around failure modes and how to improve in the future.
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Great. What did any of this have to do with the article? Did you just read the title and get fired up?
Why anyone would continue to support the Catholic Church -much less bring their children there - is totally astounding to me
I do not think anyone is suggesting it is not a behavior, but what seems curious about it is the question of motivation, given that it quite often is a voluntary behavior with little or no prospect of having tangible benefits outside of that person's mental state.
Hypochondria generally has you believing there’s something seriously wrong with you, not that you cannot smell or taste things any more (at least in my experience with it).

Like, if you were suffering from brain fog, you’d attribute it to a brain tumor or aomething.
Why does doing 27 years at one company make someone unhireable? It's one thing if he used the same old tech for 27 years, but without that assumption, seems like ageism to say 27 years at one company is an obvious ground for disqualification.