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Tell me you don't have kids without using the words "I don't have kids"

Kids gamble away a bunch of money from their parents all the time. Look at games like FIFA that are rated E for Everybody and all of the news articles about kids running up thousands of dollars in FIFA Ultimate Team Packs. Expecting parents to know that they need to be on the look out for their kids being able to spend unlimited money (well, up to their credit card limit) on a game rated E for Everyone is ridiculous.
There are effective ways (cryptography) to implement age verification and other forms of ID and ID-adjacent verification online that isn't a privacy nightmare.

I am currently working on one such solution:

https://youtu.be/92gu4mxHmTY

https://certisfy.com/

It works, it scales and solves the problem comprehensively.

Happy to answer any questions.
Yes, my super expensive secret is way more valuable than getting ads about my hemorrhoids.
That's pretty cool. So do they load your sheet into their database from which you write SQL?
I don't have my machine on hand to give you the specific extension, but basically it's something called "notabs" or similar. Whenever a new tab is opened, it gets moved to a separate window. It works mostly OK, but it can sometimes get confused.

I combine this with some custom chrome to completely hide the tab bar area at all times.

Afterwards, I manage my firefox windows with i3 as I would any other window. They usually end up in tiled mode.
Well yeah, I mean that's nothing new - it's called a tree nursery. But, as the BBC article states, the chances of them reproducing in the wild are slim...
Interesting to hear someone else with that method!

Mine is a little different, to suit different circumstances (I think I have a problem with YouTube and other online venues, but not 6hr+ per day).

For me, it boils down to the phrase "start the day right". When I wake up, I can default to opening the laptop and finding something interesting to look at, or I can sit and wait until I think of something else to do. If I can maintain the willpower needed, it only takes a few minutes for my brain to tell me there's something much more useful or interesting to do.
It's illegal at the federal level to distribute pornography to people under the age of 18. I don't understand why people don't advocate for repealing this law while at the same time saying internet companies deserve an exception to it. There is no other age-gated product, such as alcohol, tobacco, or firearms where "well they told us they were of age" is sufficient, nor does the responsibility for verification lie on anyone but the distributor.

Personally I'm more of the free-for-all, repeal the obscenity laws type of person, but this logical inconsistency irks me.
Boeing's problems could be solved if they cleared all of the McDonnell Douglas accountants and MBAs from upper management and went back to being a company run by engineers who created fantastic aircraft designed by engineers (not focus groups) and on schedules set by the engineers. Sadly it might be too late for that.
Thanks for the feedback. All great points.

Drilling down on higher engaged posts = indicating that they hit a chord, validation

On the topic of questions I'm looking to cover signals (keyword traffic for market, barriers to entry for traction etc)

RE: graveyard thats a good idea. Failory cover that so that may be a new feature too!
Ah yes, the “subcommittee on weaponizing government”, a credible, neutral group.

I do believe this was an issue (in fact suborned by FBI practices) in the 1960s against civil rights targets, but I haven’t seen any credible accusations since the Nixon era.
> Perhaps the "basic" aspect of it that is just enough for food, clothing, shelter, and health, helps incent those taking more risks for things like entrepreneurship that they'd be too scared to do normally?

Exactly.

It is not as expensive as you might think because it replaces welfare systems. it also avoids welfare disincentive traps such as we get in the UK, where taking on a low paid job can get you hardly any extra income as the earnings are mostly offset by reductions in benefits.

Very few people want to live on a minimum income so most people will work. People like to eat better than the minimum, go out, have nice stuff, live somewhere a bit nicer....
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With TikTok, presumably one way to achieve a ban without a firewall is on the supply side (i.e. make it illegal for entities doing business in the US to buy ads on the service, reducing the revenue from the service in the US to $0). That could also include the app store owners, forcing all new users to side-load.
Social scoring is an interesting topic. E.g. why is it not banned if you don't use AI? I'd guess that most social scoring systems today are not actually AI based. Perhaps they have some components that come from AI, but it's easy enough to make one with simpler mechanisms.

Also, I assume insurance risk scoring is not banned, even though that is already almost a social scoring system. E.g. you live in a dangerous poor neighbourhood, higher insurance! You are a given age, higher insurance!
Thanks! Are there any drawbacks to Pywebview compared to a browser?
I feel like if there is one country where this wouldn't fly, it's the US.

Not only because of the population but politicians would have a hard time justifying it when they openly complain about the same thing in other countries. Not that it has ever stopped them, but it'd be harder I think.

The US still projects an image of freedom to the rest of the world. It's certainly not idolized as much as a few decades ago but, when compared to other powerful countries, the general population still maintains a good perception of it (at least in the Western world?).

Anyway, a national firwall would create roadblocks for business and money talks.
This is effectively "the same" as dot product.

For a lot of embeddings we have today, norm of any embedding vector is roughly of same size, so the angle between two vectors is roughly same size as length of difference that you are saying, and can be expressed in terms of 1 - dot product after scaling
> wondered what the US would do if TikTok sent a notification saying, essentially, "just connect to our servers in China"

That would be fine. The bill [1] bans Americans from listing it in app stores or providing it hosting services if it hasn’t been sold to a non-foreign adversary country within the required timeline.

[1] https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites...
I’m fine with a compromise where TikTok is still available on the web but you can’t install the app, because at least that removes the obvious malware/spyware vector.
Let's hope a new generation of kids learns the wisdom in cooking up fake IDs. I was worried it was dying out due to today's children not boozing as hard as my peers.
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Yeah, that works technically, but it's a PITA. Because you have to:

1. do an extra action

2. remember whether you actually have a parent or not, since it's context dependent. Doing this while the single-window IDE is selected, it'll do nothing (the parent is "everybody", so there's nothing to the right).
Didn't fully get the value from reading the post so thought I'd give it a try. Our company is open source so put in our actual url :)

Sadly it errored with the classic NextJS:

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

The error in the console was:
601-ce9691b65ce5066e.js:4 Error: An error occurred in the Server Components render. The specific message is omitted in production builds to avoid leaking sensitive details. A digest property is included on this error instance which may provide additional details about the nature of the error.
It's great Trump let it lapse, but there are lots of provisions still in place, such as being able to label political protestors as domestic terrorists --any of the pro or anti Hamas/Israel protesters can be labeled as such if they want to. Spying on Americans is till permissible. DHS is still in effect. Lots of added bureaucracy from that time is still there. Do we need all this overhead? The bureaucracy just keeps on growing.

Now, that's not to say some things are not necessary. We need to surveil foreign terrorists and also kerb money laundering, etc. but it should all be above board using legitimate warrants and not secret subpoenas.
Strictly for research purposes, what would some of these offshore sites be?
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It seems outrageous to consider a national firewall in the United States, but you're absolutely right. That is where this has to go. The saddest part to me, is that it's probably going to happen. All they have to do to sell it to the the average person is to say that it's to combat CSAM and it will be palatable. They will start by making it very small, and limiting the scope to only CSAM. Then as new use cases arise, they will slowly expand it. This will get it slowly ingrained in society to where it is just obvious and expected, much like the TSA airport security is now.
Quanta headlines are very commonly gobbledygook.
Yes but in the context of a lawyer's post mentioning it indicates it's a nod to it.
If anything, the stigma is growing, not fading. I’m not sure why. People who grow it tend to say that there’s new evidence porn will cause mental problems. Or relationship problems. Both claims seem suspect, but I don’t doubt that some people react badly to it.

Unfortunately the era of "viewer discretion advised" seems to be closing. Today it’s punish the broadcaster if viewers have an issue.

I do think there need to be tighter restrictions on the industry exploiting people, though. That seems to be a consistent fact: many people have claimed the industry is exploitative, and that there are few if any protections against it.
Indeed, and the government don't care about the laws anyway.

I lived next door to someone that was busted for growing weed. The neighbor on the other side was involved at the time and then continued to harrass him then me because I complained about it for the next 10 1/2 years. The law only allows use of a civilian for a year with a contract in advance and no committing crimes. Didn't stop them. They spent more than 1 million euros in harrassing someone who was already convicted and then their neighbor because they complained.

I was told by the police that my phone had been tapped already, though I had already guessed that.
Gov’t rollout of IT - just like any large roll out of IT - remains a mess. The recent work w FAFSA is a good example.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/03/11/how-new-...
Great point about SYN. I'll drop it.
Isn’t the point of markdown that it’s a bridge to ordinary text editors?

Programs like TextEdit and Word should have a “save as Markdown” option, but it isn’t that important.
It's using every single damned feature in the thing, plus doing a bunch of stuff that has never been done with the templating system.
Your anecdote isn't data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_pornography_on_youn...

I'm not saying that it's black and white, but I hope we can rise above the level of discourse of "I watched porn when young and turned out just fine". It's about as interesting as e.g., "I started smoking when I was 16 and turned out just fine" or "my parents beat me as a kid and I turned out just fine". First of all, what you might consider "just fine" is perhaps, well, not fine. Second, it's one single data point; well, not even a data point, but rather a hot take.
> Serious question. I used Turbotax again this year. I want to get off of it next year.

If you're doing all that crazy stuff you mentioned, then you're gonna need a tax prep specialist, yeah. But you're in a tiny, tiny minority if you're doing any of that, and you're almost unique if you're doing all of it. So it's OK if the system doesn't optimize for that very special case.

If you're just managing a W-2 and a few 1099s, and maybe one or two of the crazy things you mentioned, then it's easy to just do your own taxes and skip the tax prep scam industry. It takes me about two hours to do mine & my wife's. Most of it is just manually entering data into the IRS's Free Fillable Forms website, and then doing some basic calculator math, then copying most of the same info over to our state taxes. It's not trivial, and it will be a little frustrating your first time doing it, but it's about on the order of middle school math class exam. Not fun, but not graduate level physics or anything.

If you do screw up, the IRS will politely let you know your error and how to fix it. It's not a big deal. (Unless you're intentionally trying to hide something. Don't do that.)
Dark topic, but amused that they mix ads for products into the slideshow list of 'products made by prison labor'.
It is just cable, but online. Interdimensional cable, at this point.

'member when people used to obsess over what to watch on Netflix? And the brief "golden age of TV" that gave us Breaking Bad? I stopped caring for such conversations in a pub in Barcelona where people were gathering each weekend to watch the last season of Game of Thrones (first week was packed, slowly decreased to 3 people by the finale, never to be spoken off again after almost a decade as watercooler fodder).

There really is nothing to watch on Netflix. There is nothing "mainstream-y" to watch on YouTube. There's no real need to keep up because the shared experience has fragmented and gone. MrBeast supposedly has hundreds of millions of viewers but I've never met one. It just doesn't come up in the real world. Who cares.

And soon all will be generated images by AI. Like an impossibly advanced version of the arch toys they put over cribs. You don't have to jack into any of these things, you never did.
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I'm _really really_ not a fan of the app insisting on defining a 'project' before allowing you to open a file. I recognize that project-oriented management is probably a requirement for something like this given that markdown files usually do exist as a collection of related documents, but I regularly want to just open a README.md.
The ROI on GenAI might not be so great, after all
You can't legislate freedoms. You can try, but we've always had the tools to subvert (most likely legally on the federal level) and skirt the unconstitutional (face value, not a lawyer) nature of such things.

I'm a Christian, and live within my belief structure, too. BUT the path to redemption is either a chicken finger sub if you are a secularist, or a pulpit if your God fearing individual.

I just can't stand politicians who have 0-faith that try to leverage it without consulting those on the opposite side of the idle that need that Adam and Eve 12" whatever demonstrated on pr0nh0rb.
Is that kind of 180 even possible anymore after being "married" to McDonnell Douglas for nearly 30 years?
What an entitled question. I think it's worth going back and questioning the priors that even lead you to ask it in the first place.

How much do you charge when people perform the same action in your UI? (I'm going to go out on a limb and guess $0.)

Is the data you're trying to hold hostage yours? (No.)
Your example, where they spend money in a video game, doesn't match what's going on here. Adults had to attach their credit card ahead of time. This regulation won't help that, and future "prove you're an adult (in privacy invading ways) or piss off" won't help that either. This would be like dad buying a porn sub and then giving the kid their login details. The laws here don't help that.
As people have mentioned, we have to be able to determine or label whether data or information is synthetically produced or not. We can't have synthetically produced information input back into these systems to build upon bad information --we have dirty enough information produced by people that we don't need a bad positive feedback loop to make things even worse.

In other words these AI systems can’t be implicit or explicit primary sources in any way.
Yes, and then a few years later there also will be a ban on VPNs once the congresspeople realize their firewall is a lot less effective than they’d like it to be
Trees are a crop, but the very slow growing sequoias are more of a status symbol (as the article also mentions). And not only in the UK, many parks, botanical gardens etc. all over Europe just have to have at least one sequoia...
I propose putting all age gated products under the purview of the ATF, since we are already well on our way to doing that.
How is this different from the scam where someone sends out stock tips for different companies to different people? The ones that were successful they send out another round of random stock tips. Some of those will be right. Then they can target the people they sent the right ones to and say, look we predicted these so we are successful.

Basically, if you have many people predicting something, just from randomness some will be more successful and some won't be.
Well, I've covered myself with a few lines of Rust that do exactly that.

By the way, there are a few subtleties which your script doesn't handle which bit me ;) Off the top of my head, some full-screen windows (mpv IIRC) behave a bit differently and would be missed.
Probably loads. It's an extra dependency so it adds complexity (though it does seem to be very cleanly designed from what I've seen so far). Stuff people do in Pywebview won't be added to their browser history, doesn't get access to their existing cookies, presumably doesn't work with password managers and browser extensions.

But if you want to give people a separate app experience it looks like a great option to me.
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I'm from Italy and used to live in Tuscany (mostly Pisa, but also the "mountains" outside Florence). I might have been a bit unfair, "downtown" Florence is probably only 0.75 Venices, my unit of measure for tourist traps. Although Venetians and especially Florentines are kinda infamous for always wanting to brag about their glorious past, there's nothing wrong with either city per se, they're just victims of their own success. Rome, by virtue of its scale, is only 0.5 Venices. I tell people that you could walk past all the main sites in three-four hours, but it would be kinda pointless and you really want to spend five days there.
It is an argument from authority, but such a critique is less relevant in this context. This is not the examination of a logical argument.

GP was arguing that OP is trustworthy because he has a reputation to maintain.
I think that's the point of this post. They're manually cared for until they survive but they don't have to worry about them reproducing. Kind of a nice feature!
>The law applies to websites in which more than one-third of the content "is sexual material harmful to minors."
The discussion of moderation always falls into the pit of discussion echo chambers. And while that's a problem, it's perhaps better to keep it first on the topic of objective abuse moderation (basically: how to prevent 99% of content from being spam that no human user wants). Since that has to be solved regardless of whether there is any further moderation beyond that, the moderation discussion can be about that first. There is no echo chamber created by removing botspam.

Next, you can have moderation that is strictly legal. Basically how do you moderate things that courts are finding illegal. How do you reconcile that courts in different jurisdictions can disagree and so on.

Finally - and optionally - comes the step of moderating for bad behavior, disinformation and so on. That is, human behavior that has a negative impact but falls short of being obviously illegal. And that's a difficult topic, as we have seen with facebook/twitter and elections for example. But it's important to remember that moderation isn't just this. By volume, the kind mentioned in the first paragraph is far larger.
100%, it is one of those things that I think feeds into itself.

At a young age you may have been told to repress certain desires, or that anything outside of sex to procreation was bad (I mean self pleasure is still seen as a negative even though it is very important to learning about yourself) and then you grow up get and when you have the power to do something about this you are filled with anger and so much self hatred that you push for laws like this.

Edit: I just realized I misread your first sentence. But I still stand by this.
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I really hope that you are right, but where I suspect you may not be is in the assumption that to the average person not having a national firewall is freedom. If there is one thing we have seen in the US, it is that many of the people who value freedom and proclaim it the loudest, will gladly accept restrictions like this as long as they are in a nice sounding package such as the US Patriot act.
> If we have this amazing AI why don't we make good use of it?

Aren't we all commenting on Devin's initial announcement published yesterday? Give it some time. It's a safe bet that a lot of companies which employ software engineers are currently tripping over themselves to get on the Devin waitlist, and the inevitable superior iterations on the idea of an LLM-powered dev that will absolutely be coming out probably starting later this week.
My startup used Fly for almost a year. The core feature of code to deployed code in less than a minute is beautiful. Spinning up / down new nodes for backfills takes seconds.

But the company feels a little immature. Once our API server became unreachable in Fly for 48 hours. I'm not sure if it was my fault for getting config wrong or if they just had another "silent" failure. They have a "db" product, but it's "not managed postgres". Would get consistent disconnections from that. Just feels weird for them to add a top level noun in their cli for postgres and then limit the extent it's a feature they support.

API access to their core service would frequently go down and leave us waiting to deploy new service fixes.

I miss the deployment experience, but I'm frankly happier with Cloud Run on GCP. Just way fewer "surprises" and much more complete documentation.
Is “slave labor” in your post a euphemism for low paid work? Or how exactly is Microsoft or any other using slaves?

Slave: a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property; an enslaved person.
You prefer your decision making authority to be corporate one?
Before all the posters who only read the title and post w/ assumptions as is common in Aviation threads.

> United specified that the removal of the MAX 10 from its delivery outlook was due to the unknown certification timeframe for the largest variant of the MAX family.

> “We are in the market for A321s, and if we get a deal where the economics work, we’ll do something. If we don’t, we won’t and will wind up with more Max 9s.”

The A321neo delivery schedule is late and incredibly backlogged too.
More than 1/3 of the site has to be porn before the law kicks in [0].

[0] https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB01181H...
Thanks. That was supposed to say "a standards-track" and goofed. Fixed now.

By the way, USV doesn't belong to a company. It's just me. RFC/ISO is work in progress, and I submitted IETF ID 00 last week.
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Yep that’s my use case. My home theater TV is from 2007 (not ancient) and supports either 720p or 1080i. Thanks to Apple’s helpful “up”grade now I’m stuck with 720p.
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