skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a world where US culture basically shapes the design of the tech
products and social media we all use, this scares me.

This is a key point. Today we are all so progressively aware of
"cultural hegemony" and wallow in the shame of colonialism. But we
don't see its new and more powerful forms.

The prevalence of digital technology means that companies like Apple
and Google imposing their values is a real problem. And let's be
clear, these are often very parochial values.

It could be said that Europe's digital split with US is only about
things like privacy and data control on the surface. Underneath are
more subtle cultural forces at play.
I didn't appreciate this comment at all. I have worked with folks from non-computer science backgrounds that only picked-up programming from a bootcamp and they were fine programmers for their level. I would gladly have them on my team over others that bring with them a bad attitude or cannot work well with others.

There's more to a successful team than top-quality code on the first try. Very few people can do that, even among experienced developers.

Bad code is due, in large part (in my experience) due to a lack of any kind of technical leadership. Put a competent tech lead or manager (i.e., one that can code/was a senior dev before) over even mediocre developers and you come come-up with decent code. Surely there are folks better than others, but bootcamp graduates aren't all bad and not the only source of bad programmers. It's more about attitude and willingness to learn than out-the-door abilities, in my opinion, as I stated elsewhere in the comments.
Honest debate was the ultimate adventure. Sad its gone, replaced by yelling matches in feeling hive-mind choirs. Guess this how medieval times felt, with oppossing faiths.
As I understand Slough and West London more broadly are a sweet spot for both connectivity to international fibre cables as they come out of the ground and available electricity at a reasonable rate (although they might have saturated that particular aspect if the article is true). Slough trading estate has a dedicated Biomass Power Station.

With less confidence, I vaguely remember a discussion with a datacentre technician at one of these sites who said something about the curvature of the cabling which can impact latency/speed for high frequency trading outfits located in the datacentres. I'm not sure in which direction this would worsen but perhaps another factor.
Dirty you sharing photos of electronics without the cover
At least it's not orange-and-teal. Presumably scandi-noir will in turn give way to a different colour fashion in another few years (retro '80s neon?), and we'll be able to get nostalgic for subtle understated lighting and color grading.
Nobody gives a damn about those studies. They even don't need studies - they can look at bug reports. It's not that this issues are new.
Just looking at MS there are bugs which are not fixed for years.
Bazel can cross-compile Rust, but you need a linker that can produce target executables. Cargo has the same limitation.

Apple ld doesn't support Linux as an output target, so you need to use GNU ld or LLVM lld instead.

Code examples at https://john-millikin.com/notes-on-cross-compiling-rust#baze...
So it’s an opt in part of parental controls - if parental controls are involved we’re already talking about devices that are under the control someone’s parents.

The analysis is done on device, and no data is sent to Apple, and no data is decryptable by Apple (presumably this also applies to SMS but SMS is unencrypted and routed through carriers).

If the device does decide that a message contains nudity it blurs the image and provides “age appropriate prompts” which sounds like suggestions to contact their parents.
How do you prove both of these claims wrong, using calculus?
Whenever the conversation veers this way, there's always people pipe up to talk about how American it is to have any concerns about nudity, and that this is portrayed to be a bad thing. Which seems extremely European or western centric.

Having issues with nudity is absolutely not "American". Nor are Germany or Sweden moral compasses by which everybody else should strive to live like.

Look around the world, there are many countries and billions of people around Africa, China, South East Asia, the Middle East, that are as "prudish" if not massively more so than USA. Even with a European or western-centric myopia, does it really hold? How about Poland or New Zealand?

In any case, I don't see what the point is. USA is overall not as liberal with nudity as some European countries. So what? Germany has blasphemy laws and laws punishing people who talk about things, is that normal or natural?
I've seen companies where a team was managing 10 services and companies where a team was managing one endpoint

The former had some stressed principal engineers, the latter was terribly inefficient and people had 1% productivity.

There is a happy medium, but nobody can manage a large headcounts without splitting in a lot of tiny products.

The core product of shopify is not something that needs 10k engineers for maintenance, even if they can afford that.
> I think you need to qualify "in Europe", as a European it is certainly not true of any place I ever lived "in Europe".

Nudist beaches or naturalists' resorts are everywhere in Europe, even where it's less obvious, like in the former communist block.

EDIT: if we are talking about kids nudity, like changing them in the open, in front of everybody, that's never been an issue in my almost 50 years on this Planet as European living in Europe.
They're in Slough which isn't technically London but still close enough to affect the west London's electric grid.

The problem with moving too far out is that you end up with even greater problems of having your data centre miles from any major fibre backbone. It's a similar reason why a lot of broadcasting studios and other network hubs used to be based close to the BT tower despite that being hugely expensive real estate.
It is not OK that children have access to adult phones and adult Internet.

Apple should fix this by creating a kid mode, where the user can only contact people approved by parents and visit sites approved by parents or conforming to kid safety requirements. In this case the children will be perfectly safe.

Why Apple doesn't do it? I guess because it is unprofitable, it requires major investments and doesn't promise any returns.

Kids must be banned from the Internet completely instead of trying to patch different issues here and there.
In Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander you can also tell construction units to help build construction units at a unit construction facility.

The faster you build construction units, the faster you can increase the amount of construction units you have available to build construction units more quickly.
To that end, I've had good success with `replease-please`: https://github.com/googleapis/release-please . It's available as a GitHub Action and works out of the box very easily. It does tagging, publishing, editing the CHANGELOG, creating a release and more. Whatever you want it to, really, using a bool flag in the CI pipeline that triggers after a release-please release was made aka merged into main.
As somebody who has recently renovated their kitchen and bathroom, it's not that I thought potential buyers would prefer white over a colour, it's just that I thought they were less likely to NOT like white over my preference of colour, and then either be put off, or feel like "this house is perfect but we'd have to redo the bathroom right away because I can't stand the pink" and then offer less.
Ah yes, it’s very American to ban nudity.. oh, sorry, we must have read different articles as this is an opt in feature in parental controls.

I don’t see anything about Apple banning nudity, where are you reading that?
You can also show your dick in non-nude sections. You have to be sensible of time and place but the likelyhood of someone complaining is very low if you do it near a lake or the sea. Pretty high when you do it in the city center or in church.

At least it was common in the region I lived, there are more prissy places though. I wouldn't do it anymore when everyone has a smartphone though even if taking pictures will get you in huge trouble too.
If you had said ’lazyness’ instead of ’sloppiness’ it would have become a higher order joke.
Do these EU hosting companies also have servers available in other continents like North America? Could you operate a sufficiently global website from these hosting companies?

Do they have S3-style or Pub/Sub-style features or do you have to build those in-house or maintain something off-the-shelf?

If you're a small website maybe you can get by but if you get large you'll probably find you don't have many other options.
I love this project
If a parent is worried about something like this, then wouldn't it be smarter to go for a phone that has no image sending/receiving possibility?

Or if they are no longer available, shouldn't there be a parental control of a white-list of contact numbers that can show more than just the text in the message? This automatic filtering seems like a slippery slope.
This is the first part, next week in the second part we'll share the result and all the issues we had to implement this
The headline doesn't say nudges. It says behavioural interventions.

(and as far as I can tell, the academic literature isn't consistent on what counts as a nudge or not)
> Not sure how an autonomous vehicle would honor this

What? It's not like an autonomous vehicle is a 100% black box that you tell "go to point X" and everything after that it figures out itself. Of course it's based on traditional route planning and you can just tell that route planning to not consider banned roads.
Start off by reading the linked article. The feature is opt-in, and has to be manually turned on. It only triggers on child accounts where this is enabled. It is designed to protect children from being taken advantage of by stopping both incoming and outgoing nudity.
Hopefully wasm will take off and a high quality wasm runtime (with JIT) will be pre-installed on every system, but we'll see if that happens.
I think it's hard not to know this, but outside of embedded I don't think I ever needed that knowledge.

So as always: it depends. A front-end dev: nope, don't think so. Embedded software dev: you don't become one without knowing.
This is the strongest point that comes to my mind. I feel that most consumers are completely unaware that their perception of transfer speeds and file size differ by almost an order of magnitude. I absolutely hate how marketing takes advantage of this. Imagine the frustration after thinking that your 10 Mbit/s connection can download a 6 GB game in just ten minutes.

Many internet operators advertise speeds as "1Gb/s" or even "100M". Add in the confusion between 5G and 5 Ghz WiFi.
> So it’s completely subjective to you

No? My prediction holds even if I didn't exist.

> not anywhere near the testable physics that I was looking for.

And now you are moving the goalpost.
Or how in europe, the sauna is nude and people WILL bother you for going in with swimwear.

In the US it is the opposite.
You could place the taskbar on win ( at least 98) in every edge of the screen. The same in fvwm.
But you do need to worry about that in almost every other language.
UK is definitely on the American side of things in this. Lived here for a long time now and there's definitely a lot of that "oh no a child might see a nipple, how awful". But yeah, in Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Spain, maybe even France - people would care a lot less. Especially in Czech Republic and Slovakia - you go to a public swimming pool, people just change in the open, children included, no one minds or cares.

(obviously that's just my own travel experience, I don't doubt there are places in all of those countries where that's not true)
So amazing. .Thanks all
From the bottom comment:
'Watching the drivers head movements has kept me safe so far, as has watching the front wheels in the absence of an indicator signal.'

This could be useful at roundabouts in the UK where the default behaviour of some drivers is to indicate the opposite way they are actually turning - partly out of ignorance of the proper procedure and, also, because they are driving faster than they can think.

Observing the direction of their wheels rather than their indicators could be a more reliable strategy?

Every day I have to cross a mini-roundabout that resembles a clown show and I am always amazed there are few actual collisions.
> They’ve literally had years.

Almost exactly 2. The last agreement between the US and EU was nuked by Schrems II mid 2020.

> What does it say about the credibility of the EU that it passes laws it doesn’t even enforce?

Companies have already been successfully sued over it.
According to what I read in the article, yes.
so amazing. Thanks all
Because you appear to be using middle-east as a catch-all for any predominantly muslim area.
I used to do this to keep my feed concise, only showing posts my friends interacted with (I don't follow any pages), but recently it has become more or less useless. Facebook decided that it wanted to show content that might catch interests by throwing it under the header "Suggested for you". Some time before that, I can simply dismiss it and it won't show again for some time, but right now it showed every day, and I can't dismiss it at all. The most "suggested" page in my feed right now is a fan page of One Piece's author, which posted memes or content related to the manga despite I not showing interest in it, and I can't make it perish.
So nice picture
Between 15 and 23. It's easy to live in a utopian ideal where you say "We'll talk to them about all of this, and they'll be rational and see sense", but having spent the last 3+ years firefighting the impact of their spectacularly stupid behaviour (all 4 kids are above average IQ, but all of them have ASD diagnoses, all of them fall into the 'loud, confident and wrong' category) - a lot of which has involved impact with people whose opinions are along the lines of free speech absolutists mixed with 8chan lunacy - whenever I see people crowing about how terrible all these ideas are, I think they probably haven't spent sleepless nights comforting their child's mother because one of the kids has spent another night in a hospital, institution or police custody because of undue influence placed on them whether it's because of social pressure, or because they've been convinced by a nutter to send nudes and use that against them.

I'm well aware you can't protect them from all these things, but a lot of people who have young kids seem to think that as soon as they get to school it'll all be OK. My experience has been that the games get harder and stakes rise drastically, to the point where I often consider that killing myself would be a logical way out.
My impression is that architecture is becoming increasingly 'rectangular', with exteriors being basically a supremely boring assortment of different rectangular structures. Especially at the lower end, residential construction mainly meant to be sold to people who buy it as an investment rather than for personal use.
I've been targeted with a vicious corporate counterattack (2021)
Wait, you don't need an ID to vote? How do people vote then? Like.....I'm really struggling to imagine how that works.
The intuition is that if your join is a triangle you might be forced to join every relation only to discover that the result is empty on the last join, which requires m^n intermediary results, where m is the size of the relations and n is the number of relations.
A WCO join algorithm will figure out quite quickly that the output is empty and is in practice much more dependent on the actual output size, than the size of the input relations.

See:

https://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/chrismre/papers/paper49.N...

https://justinjaffray.com/a-gentle-ish-introduction-to-worst...
It wasn't just 10 years ago but now you see almost all people with phones on the beach and many opt out to show anything.
… you mean Apple provides a feature in its parental controls to allow parents to limit nudity being sent to their kids devices?

Like yes: the explicit purpose of parental controls is to allow parents to place limits on what their kids can do on a device, and in America specifically protect them from the concept of people existing under their clothes.

But I fail to see what Apple is doing here that you find offensive? Did you read the article and description of how the feature is enabled and works or did you just decide “Apple is evil and is choosing what I get to see”?
I think the person you're replying to has an embedded assumption of "climate change is fake news"
> because there aren't enough workers willing to do the job at a price employers want to pay

> Fixed it for you

I like people who assume without knowing like anybody else, but that's not the point.

These are jobs that usually pay above average salaries, people simply don't want to work on the evening (restaurants serve dinners, you know...) or in the weekend (restaurants work the most when people do not work or are on holiday etc. etc.)

So they both want the money and the time.

Long story short: they don't want to do the job, which is legit, but can't at the same time complain that there are no jobs IMO.

> There is never a labour shortage, only a shortage at a particular wage rate

There are limits though, over a certain threshold it becomes nonsensical, at some point it's better to kill the job sector entirely and call it a day.

If a waiter wants the same salary of a CEO, probably she/he's shooting too high...

Or they imagine that restaurants should be for billionaires only, that would shrink the number of available jobs to the bare minimum and skyrocket the skills needed to actually do the job.

Schrodinger at work here too.

p.s.: in my Country collective negotiation is the norm, one cannot easily pay radically different salaries for the same job. On the flip side once hired it's not as easy as in other Countries to be fired, it is actually pretty difficult to fire someone.
Well, I would be slightly worried if a carpenter forgot how many centimeters go into a meter. (Or how many feet go into a yard?).

"Sure", you say, "but they don't need to know it by heart. The carpenter can always look that up if they really need it."

This is true. You are 100% correct.

But think of this:

Said conversion is pretty common in Carpentry, so each time our Carpenter forgets, they're going to end up looking it up again really quickly.

You would think that after having looked it up umpteen times, the Carpenter would effectively end up memorizing the conversion by accident. Right?

So while I suppose it's not strictly necessary, it would definitely be a bit funny to encounter a Professional Carpenter who doesn't have centimeters<->meters memorized.
So, a kid receives a message containing nudity. How does Apple knows that the viewer is a child and not an adult? Because the only logical answer I come up to this question is that Apple is using phone's camera to see who's using it at that very moment. Which raises the question of "isn't this an invasion of privacy from Apple?".

Also, yeah, all the people working at Apple are all saints and they would never abuse this. /s
Puritanism is a distraction here. What Apple implements is a in-depth analysis of all messages between its users and not its users who happen to communicate with iphone users. The message scanner analyses not only text, but also images. This will be used to build more detailed user profiles for advertisers and spying agencies, domestic and foreign (Apple is on good terms with China).
> how soon until your phone makes your son sit trough an entire sex-ed class on his first NSFW internet search?

I wish I received that the first time I looked for NSFW content (at 11). I’m totally fine with this kind of warnings for kids.
We had that talk about the Internet with my kids due to some incidents at school and that made the news but fortunately NOT (oops corrected) involving them - racist remarks on Facebook - oversharing of details - stalking - posting bikini photos on Insta - accepting friend requests from only people they know - privacy settings - cover your laptop camera - don't click links you receive - spam - the usual.

Friends of ours came to me how to deal with nude photos taken by their underage daughter sent to her boyfriend - told them to contact the parents and go to his house immediately - watch him in the act of deleting the photos.

Fortunately he was not stupid to share it with his mates.

Also told them kids do stuff without thinking through the consequences and not to be too hard on them - think she only lost phone privilege's for a week.

I do have a IP camera in the house but it is angled and to watch our parrot when he is on top his cage and alert us if he decides to take a walk.
"Is there some straightforward way to list all of archive.org's snapshots (of a particular site) without a javascript-enabled browser?"

https://archive.org/services/docs/api/wayback-cdx-server.htm...

FWIW, below is a quick and dirty script I use for a variety of purposes, such as accessing www search result URLs so I do not have to (a) use sites that do not support TLS1.3, (b) use sites that require SNI or (c) use DNS. I will call this script "www".

Example usage:

alias links="links -no-connect"
x=https://ranprieur.com
# retrieve first 5 snapshots (default)
echo $x|www >1.htm
# retrieve first 3 snapshots
echo $x|www 3 >1.htm
# retrieve last 3 snapshots
echo $x|www -3 >1.htm
# retrieve all snapshots
echo $x|www 0 >1.htm
links 1.htm

#!/bin/sh

LIMIT=${1-5};
read x0;
x0=$(echo $x0|sed 's/%/&&/g');
x1=web.archive.org;
curl -A "" "https://$x1/cdx/search/cdx?url=$x0&fl=timestamp,original&limit=$LIMIT&showDupeCount=true" \
|(echo "<h2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;${x0}</h2><ol><pre>";sed -n "/[0-9]\{14\} [hf]/{s/\(.* \)\(.*\)/<li><a href=https:\/\/${x1}\/web\/\1if_\/\2>\1<\/a>/;s/ </</;s/ //2p;}");
echo "</ol></pre>";

NB. I used curl here because this is an example for HN. That does not mean I am a curl user.

I also have a small script I use for the Common Crawl archives. They also use CDX but the results are WARC files compressed with gzip. I wrote a small program in C to extract the gzip'd results after HTTP/1.1 pipelining. For retrieving results without pipelining (i.e., many TCP connections), I modified tnftp to accept a Range header.
There's a difference between nudge as in the technical meaning here from behavioural psychology, and what we would commonly call a nudge in everyday english. An economist or politician might describe Draghi's statement as trying to nudge the behaviour of the banks, sure, but that doesn't conform to what behavioural psychologists mean by a nudge in the technical sense.

Which is fine of course, pretty much every specialist discipline has special meanings for some everyday words.
I found it interesting that I would never use strings this way in JS, but TS seems to encourage it. I definitely would not want to strip typing out of my TS code and try to maintain it as plain JS.
The German band Rammstein made a song about this feeling, with a great music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM
Anemometer: Types, advantages, disadvantages
Being comfortable with sexuality and nudity is distinct from sexual harassment, and I think this feature is fundamentally designed to prevent the latter.

Some nude content is wanted or warranted by the user, and some of isn't. Apple isn't blocking this content, only optionally hiding it—almost identically to Reddit's NSFW feature for mature adults. The "Ways to Get Help" might overstep the bounds for some situations, but it might also prevent others from getting worse.

Often, children are uncomfortable with sharing about being exposed to uncomfortable content. While that may be a fault of parenting, it doesn't make this tool any less useful.