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I love how we’re wringing our hands about the technological side of this fight.

If every time we found someone with CSAM on their hard drive, we swung them from a tree—folks would think twice before engaging in the production and distribution of CSAM.

We don’t need to break encryption. We need real, permanent, consequences that fit the crime.

Genuinely curious, why must privacy extend to online?

Last week’s events have me pondering the real value of online anonymity in a civil society.

I understand encryption and privacy aren’t 1:1, but if one goes, so goes the other.

At any rate, I want to hear other opinions. While I agree with the right to privacy, I’m wondering if privacy in ALL contexts is a good and healthy thing.

The last week has taken me from “I believe in the freedom of online anonymity” to “Online anonymity possess a weight that a moral, civil society cannot bear.”

I do not believe humans are capable of responsibly wielding the power to anonymously connect with millions of people without the real weight of social consequence.

Rails and Laravel are still big players in the space that have only gotten better with time.

As someone who went from MEAN -> Java (Spring) -> MERN - > Rails I cannot comprehend how many times the JS community has reinvented the wheel.

These days I do my best to stay in Rails land, far away from Next.js. It just looks like a cluster.

Strength training is probably the number one predictor of long-term quality of life. I wish I could recall where I read it so I could offer more than anecdote, but essentially the ability to carry weight is a predictor of your ability to balance and not fall. Lifting weights also increases your bone density which lowers the risk of falls.

In many cases a bad fall precedes deteriorating health and lowered quality of life until the person is ultimately rendered unable to move on their own.

Life heavy things. Don’t overdo it. Try to life heavier things with time. The earlier you start, the better off you are.

Lol. Have you ever used their “IDE”? My guess is you haven’t based on the tone of your remark. Apple has been developer-hostile for years, and OP was just synthesizing their thoughts around this and TBH I found the conclusion to be fairly nuanced and apropos.

I was nodding along right until the rule… it allows for “entertainment” as part of your informational consumption. That’s a bit strange to me as I’d classify all of my “just in case” reading as entertainment.

> The biggest problem with this is how we would define “porn”.

I wholeheartedly agree. And that’s a problem we should lean into and solve. Its difficulty doesn’t make it less worth of solving.

> The horrors and dangers of porn are squarely a domestic and family issue.

Therein lies the problem however. Every systemic issue in our world begins in a family or domestic situation of some form. While I am well aware and also concerned about the implications of government overreach here, I don’t think we can throw up our hands and say, “Meh”. At a minimum it can begin with education. We can teach people about the destructive nature of porn (and social media).

The fact that this impacts every family, domestic situation, and therefore indirectly or directly touches every single life in our society actually kinda makes it a great candidate for government oversight.

I think you’re vastly underestimating the destructive nature of porn. I’m no longer watching porn, by the grace of God.

You know, I'm not really sure that requiring IDs for access to porn / social media is a terrible idea. Sure it's been anonymous and free since the advent of the internet, but perhaps it's time to change that. After all, we don't allow a kid into a brothel or allow them to engage in prostitution (for good reasons), and porn is equally destructive.

But with the topic at hand being social media, I think a lot of the same issues and solutions apply. It's harmful to allow kids to interact with anyone and everyone at any given time. Boundaries are healthy.

Aaaaand, finally there's much less destruction of human livelihood by guns than both of the aforementioned topics if we measure "destruction" by "living a significantly impoverished life from the standard of emotional and mental wellbeing". I doubt we could even get hard numbers on the number of marriages destroyed by pornography, which yield broken households, which yield countless emotional and mental problems.

So, no, guns aren't something we should discuss first. Also, guns have utility including but not limited to defending yourself and your family. Porn has absolutely zero utility, and social media is pretty damn close, but not zero utility.

You're not the only one!

I also believe that this is a Big Deal™ that we need to take seriously as a nation. I have yet to see any HN commentator offer a robust pro-social media argument that carries any weight in my opinion. The most common "they'll be isolated from their peers" argument seems pretty superficial and can easily be worked around with even a tiny amount of efforts on the parents' part.

As an added bonus, this latest legislation removes the issue of "everyone is doing it". I mean, sure, a lot still will be—but then it's illegal and you get to have an entirely separate conversation with your kid. :)

I can’t speak to Rust, but these past 6 months I’ve had a very interesting adventure diving into Ruby on Rails. My background is full stack JS dev with Typescript. So I like my shit explicit written out, no magic. I like my shit strongly-typed. And I like my shit running primarily on the front-end.

Well I had several sour run-ins with Ruby on Rails and I had decided that it was the worst thing ever and I hated it. And I valiantly defended that position for many years. However, recently I’ve had several roles that required me to use Rails in various ways and I managed to find one or two things that I found… interesting… about it.

So I decided I was going to learn Ruby on Rails just so I could see what all the fuss was about and then I could _know_ I was right and throw it in all those smug Ruby-ist’s faces!

Long story short, I’ve learned a great deal and I’ve come to appreciate many of the design decisions that Rails has made over the years. It’s very opinionated which can go either way, but what it sets out to do, it does very well. I am actually building a Rails application using turbo and it’s been mind-expanding and a total joy to use.

To that end, I can only recommend going in to “prove yourself right” and you may find that you prove yourself wrong.

I still hate Ruby as a duck-typed, dynamic language. I will jump ship at the first full stack web framework that is as comprehensive as Rails but has full-stack, native Typescript runtime. (Hoping for some deno project to fill that void!)

But until then, I’ve come to appreciate and even enjoy Rails.

Dad, professional (and freelance) developer, training jiu jitsu 3-4 times per week, and strength training. (Trying to get hella yolked).

It’s takes processes, systemization and at the end of the day: discipline. Someone else said it here, but I fully agree, you have to be willing to sacrifice other things.

I don’t watch TV, ever. I don’t stay up past 9pm (except veeery rarely) I wake up early and get my most important stuff done before noon.

Oh and I just fail a lot. But that’s part of the process. I try to build consistency and just like we do with software I try to figure out why something failed and I make adjustments. Like my own little mini-postmortems.

If you really want tactical advice, I write notes daily. I use reflect.app and I have an end of day ritual where I write down anything that sticks out as unique or interesting about my day. Then I write about 3 things I’m actively trying to accomplish and what I’ll do to make those happen tomorrow. Then I’ll write 3 things I’m grateful for. Last I’ll write one thing that’s stressing me and out then I’ll reframe it in a positive light and finally I’ll write down how my best version of myself would handle that particular issue.

Writing really helps me slow down and make sure I’m doing the right things and helps me recognize when to stop doing the wrong things.

Am I to understand then that a member of the UN could decide that intervene? Or would they need to be “allowed” to intervene on behalf of the ICJ?

What's the ICJ's actual ability to enforce this? "Orders" sounds like they have some sort of weight to throw around if Israel doesn't comply, but I'm not familiar with the ICJ or what possible consequences could arise if Israel simply decided it was going to do what it wanted.

If you think commit messages are useless, you're almost certainly using them wrong. The examples provided are fairly contrived. Yeah, so your local commits may not have a _ton_ of meaning, but you should write a meaningful PR description and (many times) if you do that part well, you can just re-use that for your commit message with minor tweaking.

Combine the flexibility of the shell and git aliasing, and I just don't understand how they could possibly be complaining about this.

Perhaps I did click on the link and still find this to be a profoundly terrible business move?

Uh… what? Did I miss something important? That sounds like a profoundly terrible move.

Hellen Keller was deaf. How could she _develop_ the ability to listen to a spoke language?

Damn I wish any PM I had ever worked with had this attitude. Honestly I don’t recognize any of this ownership in the last few companies I’ve worked with. PMs are just people that don’t talk with customers, review a product backlog, and cover their eyes and point at the Feature du jour. I wish more PMs had your ownership approach.

I find this incredibly hard to believe with all of the research on neuroplasticity. Not to mention there’s a VERY famous case that proves this is not a hard and fast rule: Helen Keller.

As someone who is quite new to Ubuntu, and recently just ran an install. I've seen this "snap" word thrown around and for better or worse I consider the opinion of random HN users to be better than the average opinion elsewhere on the internet.

What do you dislike so much about snap? Also any tips on how one goes about purging it from their machine if they too also decide they don't like it?

TL;DR Solar chimneys aren’t nearly as promising as modern solar panels as far as energy generation goes. They require tons of money and space in order to operate efficiently.

The idea that somehow one of the worst game developers in the world is going to usher this new age in is extremely laughable. Sounds like Ubisoft needs to recognize what a joke their studio is.

Yeah that’s my biggest issue here. Whatever FAANG wants to decide is the “truth du jour” is set as an unassailable position. To even discuss (and I’m sure there’s both reasonable and unreasonable views here) in a manner that violates the Sacred Truth (du jour) is labeled as dangerous.

It’s so wild to me that we’re here as a society.

Instructions not clear; I pressed the red button.

Considering half of the links in this article are linked to things like Yahoo News, I'll take it with a healthy dose of skepticism. Beyond that, sure things are bad but I'll point out that every single generation I've ever talked to has thought "theirs would be the last".

Maybe civilization will burn out. Maybe not. In the end, we're all going to die whether it's individually or corporately. Make use of your time to the best of your ability. Love the people are you well—especially those who are hardest to love. If no one cries at your funeral, you have only yourself to blame.

I wonder how many people like this (myself included) would fall under the “Type 8” in the enneagram system. (I view it as a personality system, not a spiritual system)

I find that my fear of losing control makes it very easy to do cold-turkey quitting. Something that seems harder for most other folks. It sounds like the author may resonate with that idea. It’s the main reason I quit things as well.

One of those online folks here. I tell people this all the time. College was largely a huge waste of my time. It got me interested in CS which has become my career, but I probably would’ve stumbled into it anyway. If you can manage to do it without debt, hell yeah—do it. Otherwise it’s just not worth the financial burden unless you’re doing something that only college people do like operating on brains or practicing law.

Otherwise there’s much better paths with less wasted time and less debt.

To be honest though I’m not sure college really changes the trajectory of people’s lives most of the time. If you get into a ton of debt, you’ll probably be alright in general. If you take the shortcut of not going to college, you’ll also probably be alright.