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Hi all - mobile.dev cofounder here!

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I think the simplest solution to this would be to simply hide comment/retweet/like counts. It will be possible to sort of figure this out from the engagement, but it won't be easy to figure out if a tweet is popular or wildly popular.
What are your thoughts on net neutrality?
> Most major office software suites like MS Office will have an encryption feature so that you can password-protect spreadsheets.

I don't know about now, but in the .xls days that wasn't encryption. You could bypass it by rewriting the file's header.
If I may share a personal anecdote, I went through a lot before I even had the courage to do this. Then one of those chance encounters with strangers led to a great friendship. So I'm commenting to verify your story.

Though I need to do it more, it is very difficult to break this old habit which I believe was developed as a necessary survival strategy in my young days. The cynic inside me believes that I was broken in an effort to keep me around, from people who otherwise had nothing positive to offer. I sometimes wonder how many other people are being held at emotional gunpoint for the same reasons...
The advantage is not just 'regulatory capture'.
There is also an inherent moat in being a regulated industry.

Any new players will need to figure out the regulations, compliance, licenses and pitfalls before they can start to challenge you. That is a lot of upfront costs that will take a long time to recoup. Hence helping the old players remain entrenched.
Or it’s a legitimate link apparently from someone you trust to a site you haven’t visited before? Or to a site you trust but was compromised? These were very sophisticated attackers.
I don't see any similarities here: A really disorderly patron is hard to avoid in a restaurant but easy to avoid on YouTube.

Then, on YouTube (or woke mailing lists) there are mostly two sides, only one of which gets censored: The one that opposes the dominant clique.

YouTube is full of filth that is kept up because it is non-political and makes money for Google. If Google were really woke, it would take down all videos that are demeaning to women (according to their ideology). They don't, because these videos are a cash cow.
AWS Simple Workflow to Step Functions: Serverless Orchestration
I worked nearly full-time for about 2 years using my personal savings on a project management software for labs ("Labengine"). The big hook was that it let you run common bioinformatics apps on your data and it would automatically convert the input file to the expected format (there were lots of competing bioinformatics file formats at the time). I had a few of my old professors use it and "love" it but nobody ended up paying. It was a good lesson for me to not work on a project in isolation too long; release early release often is the motto now.

Edit: I stopped working on it after it bombed horrifically but kept burning through my savings and after a few other ideas ended up with a successful company (Shodan). I still learned a lot from failing with Labengine but I don't think working on it another few years would've made it successful.
One thing not discussed much here is time of day -- I have a few daily practices (exercise, meditation, painting) I do every single day, and I try to do them all before work. Occasionally something comes up and I have to do them in the evening, but my focus is usually diminished then.

Of the people featured in the Daily Habits [edit: Daily Rituals] book mentioned elsewhere in this thread, many described doing their most important work in the morning, though there were notable exceptions (night owls, no consistent pattern, etc.).

What works best for you?
Epic’s new MetaHuman tool lets you craft photo realistic human faces
This technology needs to be something one can enable on their own PCs, and reach via their own private VPN. It should not require using a public cloud such as Azure.
Facebook drops funding for interface that reads the brain
That's a false dichotomy. No society has ever been on any extreme, certainly not a livable one.

While there are inviolable limits to what is morally acceptable, and things you should never do, you cannot decide everything beforehand because some things are highly contingent on circumstances. So this is a never-ending process of determining those things. It's called prudence.
Yet the difference between socially approved on Twitter and in the real world is massive.

I imagine that quite a few Twitter-socially approved statements would raise a lot of eyebrows in the real world. for being plain weird, nonsensical, or the listener simply not able to understand it at all.

I imagine a subset of things said on Twitter and/or tactics used will make you wake up in the hospital when applied to the real world.

This is why hardcore Twitter users tend to be so shocked when the election results come in and learn that a vast majority of people do not support their view.
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> You never spend dinner with people who spent that time being condescending or insulting something close to you?

Oh, sure.

I've probably also inadvertently been the one who was condescending or insulting before too. People are fallible and some fraction of them are pretty shitty.

But my experience is that the fraction is low enough that it's worth rolling the dice to find new connections with the larger fraction of people that are generally pretty good. I can take an insult or a boring conversation.

> Acvepting situation in which they talk and you are silent or submissive.

I think human interaction is a lot more varied than a binary choice between arguing or rolling over.
Yeah that's probably why it lost.
excalidraw.com

There are some libraries available [1]

[1] https://libraries.excalidraw.com
It is a pyramid scheme though, each generation needing to be bigger than the last to support the previous generations retirement. It has to end at some point.
> Depending on the level of trust between you and your family you can use the thing as an rsnapshot target - giving you fine-grained direct access to time-based snapshots (I use 4-hour intervals for my rsnapshot targets which are located on-premises in different buildings spread over the farm) or as a repository of encrypted tarballs, or something in between.

These days, openzfs native encryption is the best of all worlds, I think.
A Dentist’s Chair: For Practicality, Comfort, or Spectacle?
> Good thing everyone is already trained to click through certificate warnings.

With a proper UI there would be different messages when a cert mismatches compared to when a new cert is seen or the previous cert was about to expire. (Quite like Gemini browsers)
We will sort out our differences one way or another!
From the tone in OP comment, unfortunately I think that this is not possible anymore.
I can talk to strangers for hours with confidence and honest interest in what they have to say, but only as long as the stranger and I have a pretext to be talking.

Sit me and a stranger down in a room and tell us we have to talk about our opinions on package management, the best BBQ recepies or the latest Marvel film and I'm happy.

It's the small talk crap that I can't deal with. When I'm in a line at a supermarket, I neither want to talk to my fellow shoppers or the checkout person. I don't want friendly banter from the person selling me beer at the pub. I can't be bothered with trying to turn a pleasantry, exchanged while holding a lift door, into a fleeting relationship.
I am surprised to hear there is no mention of children who just don't like what their parents have become. My mother did a good job raising me, even if it was very heavy on the "I am your mother not your friend" philosophy and tough love. But in general, it was a lot about hard work, taking education seriously, being reliable and self reliant, etc.

Yet I see none of these things in her today. Every time I call its a pity party about all the wrongdoings done to her either by people or life. I know at some point I am going to have to support her, despite working most of her life and getting a sizable divorce settlement, I am not sure she has any significant nest egg saved. Quite frankly her brain seems to be rotting as she has few friends, hobbies or outlets in general and spends most of her energy getting involved in the near constant squabbles my extended family likes to get themselves into with each other.

On a more generic level though, I read a lot on the internet (well reddit really) about parents falling into Qanon, or even just being slightly cultist Trumpers, or crazy religious, and they just can't deal with them or identify with them at all. Then there is also the resentment of them being out of touch and being critical that they can't buy a house at 23, are having trouble finding a job, or aren't married and having kids, etc... completely oblivious to how much harder it is to do the things they did at their age today.

I do the minimum to keep in touch and literally have to mentally prepare myself each time I call or visit, because I just find the conversation immensely unpleasant. Its not "toxic" but the constant negativity is very draining. Maybe I am just an outlier here, but with 48% of the nation or whatever it is going out and voting red, and it appears that the younger generation having mostly opposing views, the disconnect might be more that they are just avoiding their parents- actively "losing" touch, rather than merely misplacing it.
seems to be from 2016 but still a good read...
I need to run the latest Python versions, including alphas and betas, though, and have everything just work even if the system and local Python versions change under me. Pinning Python would make it difficult to contribute to CPython, or make sure my libraries work with new Python alpha/beta releases before stable versions are released.

Virtualenvs based on Pyenv's local Python installs on Linux works well, and virtualenvs that were based on old system Python versions still work even when I upgrade the system Python. This is where I'd get linking errors with Homebrew that I don't get with Linux.
so, why was it disabled then?
Not over five years, nor as much time.

I created an app. It functioned fine, but never made any money. It was a lack of marketing. I spent time looking into marketing. I think I spent $10 on Facebook ads and went to a local college campus to put up posters with QR codes (I had quite a few hits for my one design, so I'm proud of that). My problem was targeting the wrong demographic and/or making the interface too bland. I should have targeted event planners instead of college kids. Even after releasing it for free it never really took off.
That's why spending 365 billion USD per year to reduce oil supplies by 10% seems like something which could be decided nationally but have global effect. Better than taxing or carbon credits.
There are several other blockchains already for at least 5y to try prove work authorship or creative idea "first". That could possibly help authors with monetization, or copyright issues.
And they are not called NFTs
I think you're reading too much into it. Sure, it's possible that they have some sort of RDMA technology that allows you to automagically offload work from your local machine to a cloud GPU/CPU, but I doubt it. My guess is that it'll be something lame like "having a synced workspace (aka onedrive) and being able to edit documents on it locally and have it synced to your cloud workspace"
All your data are belong to us.

I guess the ms devs finally figured out that their powershells can run ssh
[dupe] from 3 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27837165
That's fine until a business monopolizes the entire industry and starts working in collusion with other tech companies to remove content they deem inappropriate.
...or Guns, Germs and Steel.
The Art of the Romanian Haystack
This sounds extremely expensive
The real question being, of course, given that your life is finite ... how often will you actually look at any of these pics.

The more pix there are, the less likely it is you'll ever even open any of these.
I think it's implied that she passed away.
This would work so much better in a federated model.

One where there are multiple mutually compatible YouTube providers. If your current provider has a weird content policy, then you move. If all providers have a policy you don't like, then either you start your own, or you happen to be at the fringe of society.

People so far at the fringe that they cannot gather momentum (especially on the internet) are either clearly wrong, or illegal. The second option still gives avenues for censorship. But hopefully democratic principles keep that under control.
Sure, I've had four projects that I spent years on and never went anywhere (at least in the way that was planned).

But that was certainly not wasted time and effort. Not only did it improve my skillset, but large amounts of the code written could be repurposed for other projects, giving a head start on them.
What about private industry violence? Don't make Google out to be some victim. Private industry is pushing social changes that the US government could never dream of doing, not at this scale. Fear of government overreach needs to be balanced with fear of oligarchic overreach and corporate power.
I remember seeing and playing this on a cruise ship.

It was a dollar per try, and I shoved in 5 bucks. By the 4th try it was NOTICEABLE that if you press the button at the "right time", there was a lag before it overshot it and you failed. I pretty much could guess that something like the article discusses was at work, and was simply more a game of luck.

Obviously I stopped after that, as a pure luck game is not as fun. If I had known that the default was 700 losses before payout as a default, I would have had a nice drink or 3 and counted the many people that tried it throughout the day

As a side note, saw one winner at the machine get a wrapped stack of 500, 1 dollar bills
> How does not wanting kids makes you think that our socialization has taught some of us that humans have little inherent moral worth as individuals?

Doesn't not wanting kids for X reason mean that you consider the moral worth of a new person to be less than X.

I think a lot of people don't consider a new person worth anything at all. Or at least would prefer 9 people at happiness level 10 over 10 people at happiness level 9.
It's very unlikely that anything like this exists. Whatever writing craftsmen may have done in ancient times, it simply was not preserved and copied.

The situation gradually improves post-Renaissance, but we don't even have any contemporaneous writings about how Newcomen designed and built his engine in the early 1700s - just second-hand information from decades later.
There's a lot of "Fox News robbed me of my parents" stories out there.

https://www.salon.com/2014/02/27/i_lost_my_dad_to_fox_news_h... (2014, situation has generally got worse!)

https://captainawkward.com/2020/12/09/1304-fox-news-stole-my...
The Quiet Mysticism of Almanacs
The point is that developing countries will increase their per capita consumption regardless. If birth rate decreases with level of consumption/gdp, you want to accelerate into it, thereby limiting the peak total consumption.

For example, it would be better if Nigeria hit a European standard of living and stabilizes population sooner at say 400 million people. The alternative is they grow per capita consumption more slowly and hit an EU standard and stabilize later at 1 billion people.
It is how I work usually for the past 30+ years: I spread my time between 3-4 projects always and most are my own. I work on them for 3-6 years per project until something hooks some success or does nothing at all. Most fail, I had a few successful ones that made enough to live a nice life with a family and a few turned into serious companies. I suspect I will keep doing this until the end of my life: it is a lot of fun, failed or not. But success is obviously a better feeling.
I think I'm missing something obvious, but why is this better than keeping your tower at home?

Is this to guard against house fires?
This made me laugh - I'm setting up some projects on a new machine and going through this process atm. Tried to get one going on Window Subsystem for Linux and had some issues so putting it on my old Mac just to get it to run. I will be happy when it does!
Many ToS often contain disclaimers all over the place to the effect of "this doesn't apply in cities/states/provinces/countries where the law says otherwise" and catch-alls to that effect. Sometimes that's enough, sometimes not; if the company still tries to enforce rules in a region where they are invalid then the ToS is simply even more meaningless.
Maybe this will help...

What is hybrid cloud?
https://www.netapp.com/hybrid-cloud/what-is-hybrid-cloud/
They did not delete it because it was unprofitable to host.

If they want to diminish the impact legally and profitably, they can just drown it in in more intrusive ads.
Maybe not 5+ years worth of development in many cases, but if you want examples, just open up Steam...
Indeed. It’s a tradeoff. I’m not sure how I feel overall on flat design, I just hate the transparency in software everywhere sometimes.
Block IO is a feature I never knew I wanted until now. Are there any other terminal emulators with similar functionality?
It is in some cases (such as employment) in certain states. Ironically they were often enacted by left wing legislators, but are now being used to defend right wingers.
"But browser makers have made it significantly harder, if not impossible to use self-signed certificates, by not allowing the user to visit sites that have self-signed certificates."

What business are browser makers in. How do they make money. Why are browser makers the ones deciding what users should and should not be allowed to do.

Which goal is more important to the browser maker:

1. protect the user against the possibility of the wrong recipient possibly receiving an encrypted message (which she cannot decrypt)

2. require that the user must use the browser maker's software to "verify" the server (via a certificate)^1

The underlying assumption with #2 is that the user has no possible means of verifying a certificate other than the browser maker's software. Like on a corporate intranet, on a home LAN, I use another program, a proxy bound to the loopback, to verify certificates.

Chrome throws a warning "Your connection is not private. Attackers might be trying to steal your information from ____". That's a guess and it's wrong. The connection is from the browser to the loopback. The server certificate has already been verified by the proxy. I do not expect Chrome to figure that out, the warning is fine (the keylogger is creepy), but I do expect an option in the browser to turn off certificate verification. This is not an uncommon option in other TLS-enabled software.

It is very difficult for me to believe that Google's self-interest does not factor into these design decisions. It is always possible to spin the explanation for any design decision at a "tech" company to be for the benefit of users. That does not necessarily mean it is the whole truth. It may not be full disclosure. We have no way of knowing. Facebook and Twitter collected phone numbers under the guise they needed them for "authentication" but it was later shown they were using them for advertising. Then 533 million Facebook user accounts many which included phone numbers became available to the public, not just "friends".

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-two-factor-advertising/

1. Consider that we just witnessed the browser maker with the most users, who also has the majority of search engine users, video hosting users, webmail users, online ad services users, etc., etc., launch an experiment and proposal to start tracking users through its browser instead of via cookies. Ideally, it would be best for users if this company, which effectively controls much of the world's web traffic through its search engine, did NOT also make a web browser.
US Citizens are allowed to go, but Iran will not grant visas to US Citizens easily because the US and its greatest ally Israel have been participating in assassinations of Iranian non-combatant citizens and lots of espionage in that country for decades for a reason most Americans could not even tell you.

I'm just saying, the US has restricted its own people's ability to visit that part of the world because of the actions it has engaged in.
I took a year off and for fun, I spent 40 hours a week for 9 months on a website that used OCR and other packages for some games. It generated around $15/month in ad revenue, just enough to pay for my EC2 instance at the time. I kept it around but at some point the ad revenue I made dropped like a rock by 90% so I shut it down. It was fun nonetheless and I learned a lot, but it was not successful by any measure.
I've been estranged from my family since my teens due to an unpleasant childhood and young adulthood.

Eventually, the flames of the furnace of life reaches all of us; some younger than others; some more acutely than others. In skillful hands, it can temper us to become purer, higher quality versions of ourselves. In unskilled hands, it can damage us. All of us acquire wounds, it is a part of being human, being unskilled, and being alive.

Strength is just another word for empathy, love, and kindness. Everyone is capable of that, regardless of their pain. That's what makes humanity beautiful.
Thank God they did this, as is it was going to have me switch to chrome lol
Candide is a critique of Leibnizian optimism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds