skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, regardless of how much these are abstracted in modern software development. Size is an important aspect of many things in a computer. It impacts:

- storage capacity

- speed of communication

- speed of computation

- representation of numeric values

- encoding of strings

Bits and Bytes are the fundamental units of size and representation, and knowing them is critical to understanding most other things that build on top of them.

For high level software, you see this come up in:

- integer limitations (e.g. database identifiers)

- internationalization of user interfaces

- floating point numeric comparison and other mathematical operations

- communications over various transport layers

- speed of various abstractions that are used to make the higher level software fast / good
Amazed how this isn't a standard accessibility feature. Great idea, good execution! Shame my main device is an iPhone.
Prettier for Rust
How can you say that the agricultural sector in Argentina speculating on the dollar is incoherent?

For starters, if the dollar goes up, the inflation doesn't necessarily follow. Otherwise that means that the salaries (among other things) follow the dollar, and that's not true at all.

Second, this whole week there were talks about a special exchange rate for the sector to tempt them to export more, because the government needs more dollars for energy imports. So by just waiting they get a better deal, that's clearly speculation.

You can argue if this is right or wrong, if it's good or bad for the economy or the people, but speculation it is.
It might be a self-perpetuating problem.

Maybe people prefer (red, green, bright blue), but they fear that they won't be able to sell their car because of its color. So they buy white.

(I read somewhere [so take this with a grain of salt] that this effect happens with marble kitchen countertops: not that many homeowners actually like them, but they believe that potential buyers might, so an overproportional amount of people put them in their kitchens - leading everybody else to believe that they're actually very popular.)
Predators and power politics know no party. I guess I'm old, but I still remember:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_sexual_assault_an...

And this headline from 2015:

https://observer.com/2015/03/the-jeffrey-epstein-affair-impe...

In fact the Clinton-Epstein relationship didn't "imperil Hillary Clinton's Presidential prospects" at all, because none of the major networks reported on it. An ABC reporter had the full story including the Clinton connection as early as 2015, but was told to quash it:

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/469042-abcs-robach-caught...

When Biden leaves office I'm sure we'll be allowed hear more about him, just as it's now become OK to discuss Clinton and Epstein on the mainstream left.
Was anyone else expecting the interviewee to be John Romero, of Daikatana fame?
I used to backup all family photos taken by my wife/kids to my NAS until one day I browsed the gallery looking for something and found a nude full frontal my daughter (17) received from her boyfriend.

I said nothing - stopped the archiving and deleted everything except for my own photos.

They deserve their privacy and do whatever on their devices without snooping - if we go away on vacation I now ask them if they want to share any pics they want so I can keep it.

Apple is turning out to be big brother.
No issues with UTF-8? I guess less of a big deal if you're just using English.
I was about to say "no", until I realized just how much I internalized this knowledge.
In front-end you may be able to write decent applications without knowing that, but for CRUD apps it would say it is impossible to avoid.

I mean, it's something you will inevitably stumble upon. I'd say that even if you actively try to avoid learning how many bits go in a byte you will one day wake up screaming "Fuuuuuuck, I never wanted to know that there are 8 bits in a byte!!!!!"
There, now you know, too!
However, these 100 LOC probably could be split into an internal library function which won't change until necessary. If you use an external library (especially in JS and especially in frontend), you or your successor will have to update all these 5 LOC entries all over the code every 1-1.5 years in a non-trivial way when a new major version arrives.

For example, the migration guide for react-query: https://tanstack.com/query/v4/docs/guides/migrating-to-react...
This attempts to recreate https://sfia-online.org/en , but it is way harder than one imagines and then is in danger of being too prescriptive and inapplicable.

It's better to go the other way and work out the principals behind progression... that the further in their career the more ownership, agency, and scope they have. Most things can be guided by merely understanding the principals of it.

This very old doc (from Sun Microsystems engineers IIRC) remains excellent https://web.archive.org/web/20090420152505/http://mark.kampe...

It speaks to the spirit, the principals, behind progression... and that makes it extremely applicable to lots of fields, personal paths, and environments.
Yes. This comes up even in the highest level and most trivial work.

And not just “should be able to look it up”, but should know it in their sleep.

Should also know other esoterica like e.g how a string could be zero terminated in one case but length prefixed in others, Joe they could be one, two, four, or variable numbers of bytes per character/glyph in a string and so on. Not because one needs this every day but a) because doing work adjacent to it means you eventually shoot yourself in the foot and b) doing any amount of work will expose you to this and not having picked up on it means you aren’t picking up things.
Deep meditation in a Vipassana retreat. I strive to be that person every day to at least some extent: full equanimity over all my sensations and a strong resolution into all my sensations. I don’t know much about Buddhism but that day I learned that this thing can indeed lead to not suffering. How can you suffer when all experiences you’re having are not judged, not even subconsciously? You can’t. This was so lifechanging that my username is named after it on HN

Playing poker semi-professionally, life has become a tree with chance values ever since, for every action, including writing this comment.

13 years ago, reading online how to seduce people. It’s mostly toxic advice, but not all advice is. Without it I am fairly sure that I would still be a virgin, whereas now I’ve enjoyed several long-term relationships. And before some get triggered, I’ve never tricked anyone in bed, nor did I follow the mainstream advice. My cornerstones in this area are: improvisation, playfulness, meditation/spirituality and coming from a frame of not needing/craving sex but preferring it (meditation/Buddhism teaches the distinction well).

Discovering the internet in general.

Recently: becoming a digital nomad

I can fill this comment with many more things but I’ll stop here.
Daimler Truck https://northamerica.daimlertruck.com/autonomous/
Roles and Responsibilities for Senior Technical Staff
> That's so American.

Not sure if I see anything particularly wrong with that. Apple is an American company.
I don't know what you mean?

I live in an apartment that's about a century old, the style of which was widely (but not universally) replicated all over the industrialised world around that time. The view out tall my office window has some other apartment towers in a different and more recent style, perhaps 50 years old, and some short ones in yet another style that might be less than 10 years old.

I suspect that if everything looks the same to you, what you're seeing is the last time a place had major economic growth leading to a building boom.

When it comes to world models, I've met an anarcho-capitalist and an anarcho-communist, and I've known someone who thinks the best thing about democracy is preventing(!) people from getting what they want, and multiple people who want to end technological growth to let the ecosystem (they use the word "planet") heal, and at least one other who would gladly disassemble the actual planet to build a swarm of O'Neill cylinders to power a colonising swarm of von Neumann replicators to do the same to every star in our future light cone. My mother had anecdotes about relatives causing scandals by marrying outside their denominations of Christianity, I've known at the least atheists, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Muslims, at least one literal Satanist, and Wiccans (and probably some more but it hasn't come up in conversation).
If you think Instagram is bad now, you won’t like Zuckerberg’s plans
Author unknown, I believe this to have been written by a Sun Microsystems employee... if you have more context then it is appreciated.
There were (are?) some old a.out binaries lurking in /usr/local which occasionally caused amused remarks on irc when someone found one :-)
This looks really interesting and could potentially allow a lot of folks to switch to EVs. I wish there was more information available on exactly how it works with EV charging. Most of the stuff I can find relates to solar power integration.
I would argue the graph looking at pixels in photographs is probably more affected by smartphones than any societal trend.
Because so many more pictures are taken with smartphones now, the colors produced by smartphones have an impact here.
But probably a greater impact is the number of throw-away pictures that are taken and published now as opposed to before.

(Not to say that smartphones pictures are bad pictures, but to say that ease of taking pictures, and ease of publishing pictures, removes bariers to 'bad' pictures. Smartphones are probably also responsible for an absolute increase in the total number of good pictures)
No idea about (1), but years ago I used to work with a pretty attractive and wholesome guy who was prrtty popular in the office who fit (2) and (3) to a T.

I think the best way to summarize what I mean, I once got invited by him to his church, and the only reason he stated was "that's where all the hot girls are". I found it to be a pretty solid reason, and his assertion definitely aligned with my previous experiences with the matter, but I had to politely decline. Mostly because I felt pretty awkward about going as a non-religious person, and I knew he was actually pretty religious.
In that big meta study that questioned the efficiency of nudges, it was said in the discussion on HN that they excluded default options from the definition of nudges.

Either way, the line seems arbitrary to me, and it's part of why I think they're moving the goalposts.
Different countries have different cultures. That seems alright to me.
Lets see how long we can keep this going, before the NDA gods hammer down.

Life longs for the exponential. Intelligent life defeats the predation of life by other life (bacteria, virals, predators, etc.) and allows for a exponential curve bumping into the resource ceiling , the line that is the environment. Again and again. Starts the moment you become apex predator actually.

Now darwinian evolution is blind, it just sees the merry go round spiral and adapts sub-groups of the population to it. Stable -> Exceeding Env Limitations -> Unstable -> Society Reassembling. Each of the four groups should in a cycling society be around 25 %. Each yearns for its natural situational habbitat and tries to push towards were it has advantages. Each has deep instincts, to not "waste" resources and step outside the god whorshipped which is a bloody wheel of butchering.

A stable society is basically only possible for brief amounts of time, where the wheel is propped up and technology used to harness a surplus to keep the cyclic society from returning to the "default" of old.

The amount of resources to do this, is enormous and some of the groups involved see this only as a "prolonged" recovery phase pre next conflict/collapse. Handing them the technology necessary to keep the peace, equals handing them apocalyptic weapons for conflict, should the peace break.

So its a trap, unless one learns to implement societal self-control, one will forever hand more dangerous toys to us loop-deformed creatures. Which would make a great explenation for a universal filter, if there ever was one.
Wikipedia is not a primary source. Students can cite the original source but not wikipedia itself. The university departments i'm aware of still don't allow citing wikipedia and explicitly cover it as bad style. And i have to agree with the professors there. The quality is plain bad, last time i checked a medical article on wikipedia it was full off of claims without citations and those claims contradicted official medical guidelines. If i would receive a academic home assignment without citations the student would have failed the course, so why should it be OK on wikipedia.
This is the least charitable perspective you could adopt. If you looked at the prompts, it's clear that this system is to help initiate a healthy conversation with your parents/trusted entities about how to deal with and understand these types of photos.

1:1 conversation couldn't be more different from NSFW internet searches. A malicious party can use coercive tactics to have the child send them compromising photos.
An explanation might be LED lighting.

Sunlight, candle-light and resistive filament lights (incandescent)
have a broadband spectrum. Through most of history we've viewed the
world lit by these sources.

Moving to fluorescent lights causes spectral quantisation as the
frequencies are due to electronic band transitions in the gas. The
phosphor absorbs and re-emits energy in different bands that fills out
the spectrum but it's still really strange, with missing bits. When
fluorescent lights first became popular people complained of headaches
from the strange spectrum. They are disfavoured in certain industrial
applications because they make some colours harder to see.

Semiconductor lighting is even worse in this regard. Radiative
re-emission in valance holes emits line spectrums. Only by combining
these do we trick the eye into seeing "white light". Recently we've
got good at blending doping agents to give mixed spectrums that
approximate daylight.

If these forms of electronic lighting have holes in their spectra,
perhaps that's why an analysis of a corpus of photos shows a change in
spectrum over time?
Europe is a big place, maybe that beach was that way but its definitely not the norm. Naturist beaches are usually separate or there is a section that that is for naturists. In Sweden (where I live), even topless sunbathing is unusual nowadays.
I am living from app sales too. Got heart attack. Received that email and after two hours successfully received payment.
Getting challenged on one's positions and reconsidering them is ideal if it were so, and perhaps on HN it is about half the time.

On other social media there is no challenge to one's positions. You are racist, so it doesn't matter what you said. You are sexist, so it doesn't matter what you said. You are a shill, so it doesn't matter what you said.
This is a result of a group in harmony with people who are in love with what they are doing. When you like the subject, and pour what you have into it, this is what comes out. I'm sure this wasn't tiring for them.

Make no mistake, this is a very high achievement, and is very rare in both private companies and research labs. It's a very hard point to reach if you don't like or care about what you are doing.

Kudos to them.
Apple's new favorite reasoning for invigilation is kids' protection. Ban all knifes because someone can use a knife to harm a child.

They wouldn't do it if it wasn't profitable in some way or another. But would they choose to give other reasons for their actions, there would definitely be more backslash about their snooping.

People in general know that protecting the innocent is a good thing and Apple exploits this to push their agendas under the guise of children protection. Again.
It’s natural to look for consistency when building design systems. But flexibility in a design system isn’t at odds with consistency.
Check out my last blogpost about how and why you should build flexibility into your design to level up your system.
I haven't used it yet but https://github.com/nadirizr/dazel might help. It runs bazel inside a docker container via a seamless proxy.
Things can break in ways that are harder to fix if you don't have any idea approximately how many bytes things should be
Children taking photos is not natural.
> The better argument is that the more immigration there is the more difficult it becomes to provide various social programs

The counter argument is that in an aging Country like mine, less immigration is killing social programs (caregivers are mostly immigrants here) and entire economic sectors (like catering and hospitality) because there aren't enough workers willing to do the job, but the trumpets both left and right shout that the other party is not doing enough to create new jobs and people lament that they can't find one.

We can call it the Schrödinger job that's both nowhere to be found by employers and yet highly prized among the population.

I believe Schrödinger would be very surprised to see that his experiment can be applied to social phenomenon and not only to quantum mechanics.
Sure, but even that has become more uncommon than it used to be, in my experience.
While this is true, I know several productive software developers who probably have no idea how text encoding works or what's the limit of integers.
How one can compare "going to a nude beach with a kid" with "sending penis pictures to a kid"?
There's a surprising number of programmers who can't count in binary, or who can't do bitwise operations , or ... any number of things.

It's surprising how far some people can get with their hands tied behind their backs.

I wouldn't recommend it of course. Also it might possibly be a kind of warning flag: how can someone constantly be exposed to this stuff and never pick it up? But somehow it does sometimes happen!

(see also eg. : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216904 Experienced C programmer who can't fizzbuzz?)

[ For folks wondering why I'm talking about counting: Bits and bytes is all about learning to count with just 1 finger: 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000, ... And the largest number you can count up to in a byte is 1111 1111 of course (A byte has 8 Binary digITs, and the highest number you can count to in a byte is having all those digits be 1s. In decimal this is the number 255. If you use a computer a lot, you might have run into 255 more often ). ]
You raise a great point here. I’m born and raised in Europe, still live here now, but I’ve spent a great deal of time in the US, and the differences in how we perceive children might be the biggest gap between the two cultures.

I much prefer the European view of children being raised as young adults, seeing the world for what it is, rather than the American idea of creating a puritan parallel society scrubbed of all the “bad” things.

Looking back on this I’ve found that the European model raises better critical thinkers – partly due to the school system as well – and you end up with a more sustainable parent-child relationship when the children are grown.

In a world where US culture basically shapes the design of the tech products and social media we all use, this scares me.
also worth noting is Buck, which is a clone of Bazel. Not only does it support Rust, interestingly it seems the next version seems to be moving toward using Rust as the language of choice for developing it [1]

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/07/01/future-...
Same here. Are you using a SEPA bank account? This might be the issue…. Idk I just emailed Apple for clarification.
Not all their customers are.
I think you did the right thing. But still, I think it could also be used as moment for education. For the boyfriend: “You have 0 control over where the image ends up when you send it to someone, perhaps even before you send it.” For the Daughter: “You are in possession of nude material from a minor. This carries some risk, you should be aware of it.”

But I get the struggle, I also turned of logging in my AdGuard home instance, at least for my wife’s phone. But it was also a lesson for her when I jokingly told here the website she was on right now… The ISP and Google probably know this too. And, I can find it in my Router without AdGuard, and that Router can be hacked. It’s also a good time for education imho.

Modern tech is so interesting. When I can’t get a hold of my wife I sometimes find myself checking the hallway’s motion sensor, seeing it just registered movement, the unify network reports to Home Assistant that indeed her phone is connected right now. Ah, gas usage, bathroom lighting and moisture sensors indicate she’s taking a shower (boy it seems to be a long one, 0.4 m3 of gas!). I’ll just wait 10 min and if she doesn’t pick up I’ll flash some lights or let the Sonos speak: “Pick up your Phone”. Yeah it’s pretty creepy but sometimes I don’t even think about it… But writing it down like this I could write a “state” sensor for my wife that could, with high probability, tell me what she’s doing and log it.
Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)
Incorrect.

From (the latest version of the standard you gave)

> byte

> string that consists of a number of bits, treated as a unit, and usually representing a character or a part of a character

> Note 1 to entry: The number of bits in a byte is fixed for a given data processing system.

> Note 2 to entry: The number of bits in a byte is usually 8.

Note Carefully: "usually"

ie. Just as it has always been - 16bits in a byte for any CPU with a smallest addresable unit being 16 bits, or 32, or 12, or 24.

As a C programmer I've worked with bytes of many different bit numbers, hence the need for a C compiler constant to define such things.

Today it is typical for 32 and 64 bit DSP processing chips (eg the TI DSP families) to have 32 | 64 bits per byte.
This is why it's so important to deliberately escape any filter bubbles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble) you may be in.
Pre-2015 reddit's r/all was a reasonable, if lazy way to do this. After their free speech bait & switch it became mostly useless for anything but entertainment and establishment/Democrat propaganda.

Here's a subset of my "daily" bookmark folder that at least attempts to do this for me when combined with honestly too heavy reddit/facebook usage:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/

* https://poal.co/

* http://slashdot.org/

* https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

* https://gab.com/

* https://www.unz.com/

* https://gettr.com/

Are some of them controversial? Of course, but that's the point. The wildly authoritarian left leaning sites that comprise big tech as a whole represent a single filter bubble. Staying in any particular bubble (right wing ones exist too) is a great way to turn yourself into a useful idiot/cultists/NPC.

Because the difficulty of tuning into a site that only leans in one direction isn't that you'll get biased news coverage, but whole entire stories are completely left out if they're bad for that side, and stories that are eventually found to be wildly incorrect, or even completely false issue only the quietest of correction edits while the untrue memes repeat ad infinite, but sites that lean the other way will ruthlessly correct their opponents.

The most important things to be reading are the things that are never talked about in your bias-confirming sources of infotainment.

tl;dr: filter bubbles bad, they'll turn you into a cultist
That's weird because in Spain - where nowadays topless sunbathing for women is absolutely normal in every beach - was "imported" by the first northern-European (legend usually say Swedish) tourists during late-Franco dictatorship.