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I really want the original, highly translucent liquid glass back from beta 1. Pleeease?

The original liquid glass was my favorite UI ever, and I love to customize my UI.

Also, all the hate is really boring and lame.

What a non-sequitar. Your wife is an adult human being. Sex is a consensual act. Not really comparable to trading time and labor for currency.

You missed the geekbar and the penjamim. For max effect also put on a twitch streamer in a different game, listen to imported pop music or edm, and idle in a discord. Oh and have a collection of fidget toys on your desk.

Ima guess they mainly mean exercise, but also sleep.

Personally I obsessed about diet for a decade before I finally got religion about running for 30+ mins every day coming up on 2 years ago(I now typically run for more like an hour). It has made far more of an impact on my well being than any diet or fasting regimen… which, mind you,I was extremely strict about, like eating disorder levels of obsession. It has also made catching quality sleep a complete non-issue. I won’t lie, it took many months of consistency to feel these benefits, and I personally didn’t really see them when I was doing cardio only 3 times/120mins total per week on a bike and resistance training. My understanding is that this is probably a result of metabolic adaptation. Much the way I learned that the bacteria in your gut is a culture you grow and maintain, happy gut = happy me, I now think of my muscle mass as a crucial metabolic organ that needs to be properly conditioned for my bodies energy systems to function properly. Strong metabolism = little metabolic waste accumulating in your tissues and more of the machinery your body needs to work.

Unfortunately we live in a society where you have to make this a lifestyle, I personally find I have to keep my run very high on my list of personal priorities to stay consistent, as it is rather disruptive to my day. I have reflected that a lot of that is around cultural norms, so if this sort of routine was much more normalized it would be easier to integrate socially while still maintaining it. Sweaty people are only really annoying if you aren’t sweating with them. With how much sharper, more energetic, and emotionally regulated I feel, it amazes me that more employers don’t incentivize it-maybe someday.

That said, I’m in my mid 30s and I’ve never felt better in my life, so I’d say it’s worth while. I feel strong, faster, and much more durable, with virtually no pain and less illness/infection/inflammation than I had even in HS. Meanwhile my contemporaries are complaining of back and knee pain, frequent illness, poor sleep, dietary intolerance and out of control and appetite. They say, “I’m getting old” and I just shake my head.

I know it’s cliche as hell to say we were born to run, but seriously, our species almost certainly has an evolutionary legacy of running a lot, and I think many of us can tap into that legacy if we so desire.

> it sure does seem sad (and wrong) to claim our modern life is “out of balance”.

I think the global CO2 levels would disagree. Our oceans, and therefore most of the biosphere are quite literally out of (pH) balance due to rapid CO2 release.

> We are destined for the stars.

I doubt it. Don’t get me wrong I love the idea of it, but the reality is our physical form is so fragile and fleeting relative to the harsh vastness of the Universe.

We should protect this cradle of our genesis with everything we have. That we have not met other life should be taken as a warning of how difficult the road ahead.

Is it good that a model is steerable? Odd word choice. A highly steerable model seems like a dangerous and potent tool for misinformation. Kinda evil really, the opposite of good.

> If food stops being cheap then it stops getting wasted

> If meat shortages start happening

You really think the U.S populace would just be okay with this?

Yeah, same. Illegal to pay donors here too. I’ve donated multiple gallons, kinda felt it was my duty as a driver on the road… but at some point I came in to donate and got told they were extra short staffed and I’d have to wait at least an hour. The clinics already have terrible hours that seem to mostly cater to retirees, never open in the evenings and most clinics are closed on the weekends too, the one nearest me that I was going to stopped opening on the weekend entirely, meaning I had to travel quite a ways. I’m basically poor and the cost in terms of time, travel, energy and food is not insignificant. Meanwhile the high level staff making the cuts to the clinics have secretaries to reply to the emails they solicit from donors. Even though I sent them a long, insightful email, with followups, about my detailing why they are struggling as a young millennial (supposedly an audience they are trying to attract), and after all of it I get phone calls from the vampires minimum twice a week every week, sometimes every day.

Interesting, I’d speculate that better hydration/hydration education and science play a part. While it used to be thought of as “part of the sport” it seems to be accepted that dehydration is really bad for you with no upside at all and to be completely avoided.

> Meta et. al. aren't "stealing" anything anyway

They were caught downloading the entirety of libgen.

Gross. History is not for LLMs to generate. I find the praise in this thread disturbing. The amount of completely anachronistic scenes would probably lead to worse historic understanding, making this an anti learning game.

It’s generative art, made with Houdini from what I gather—so not technically coding—but davidope is making amazing things all the time and I personally find him a very inspiring visual artist. You can see his art on IG @dvdp or check his very Hackernewsy about page davidope.com for more info.

The extremely well-documented strength of the placebo effect is exactly why medical trials need to be so robust.

for whatever it’s worth, I have found a lot of meaning in sunset runs.

Companies are not fungible in the eyes of a nation.

> This is pretty much the exact same setup that US companies get in China.

I mean, no? Meta, Google, X, Snap and American social networks in general are banned in China.

They routinely do just that in campaign stump speeches.

If you don’t have fact checkers, a debate loses all its value. Debates must be grounded in fact to have any value at all. Otherwise a “debate” is just a series of campaign stump speeches.

> Trying to outsource those decisions to corporations and government simply isn't working

I don’t follow. What is wrong with the status quo?

It’s pretty shitty of you to not credit the creator of your image like they ask in their bio.

> https://unsplash.com/@lighttouchedphotography

> https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-wooden-bench-PWxcv9hKOQc

That's just factually incorrect. Paradise was forced to take PGE stock (at some unrealistic valuation) as a repayment. The settlement is years in the rear view mirror now. I actually live in the area and meet people from Paradise. Most people involved got absolutely shafted and the money is mostly going to lawyers and accountants in San Francisco. Surprise.

PGE costs have gone up because the state's Public Utilities Commission and many of our leaders in Sacramento are in bed with PGE. PGE has been vastly underinvesting in infrastructure development and maintenance for the last 50 years, which is at least partially the PUC's fault by letting them take profits instead of forcing them to either lower rates or reinvest. The Camp Fire shined a light on the neglect, now they have to play catch up on 50 years of deferred maintenance in many quite remote areas.

Local Sacramento ABC Station actually does some decent investigative report on this. If you are interested there is a fair amount of content to go through, as they started the investigation in 2022, the series is called Fire Power Money.

Link here https://www.abc10.com/search?q=fire+power+money

Maybe like 3 years ago, people I know will use it exactly like y'all. Just last night I was hanging out with some (late 20's, early 30's) friends and my buddy said, "Chat, what are we having for dinner" exactly how you would say "Hey y'all...". This has become really common amongst young millennials I know.

That “grittiness” test is a joke, right? Task saliency is a poor marker for grit. If that were true the grittiest people would be workaholics, which just isn’t what I think of when I think gritty. Also, you can’t expect people to honestly self-report about something as character defining as “being a hard worker”. lol. Might as well ask, “are you, on the whole, a good person?” My observation is that in the USA, being a hard worker is considered the basis of being a good person. Like I literally get told, “you are a hard worker” as a baseline compliment all the time, even though I don’t believe it. I personally do!’t really like being called a hard worker, and strive to work smart, not hard.

That said, I’m a fairly gritty person. I run everyday outside, whether its raining, snowing or the outside temps are in excess of 110F(43C). I’ve gone on many long alpine backpacking trips, thin air, wet weather, blustery passes, crossing ice fields. I usually camp with just a tarp if I can get away with it. Type II fun is my fav, most people I know think of me as exceptionally gritty.

I’ve worked grueling hours on businesses I had interest in, doing heavy manual labor for 10 hours before moving on to office work, spending my weekends on maintenance and catching up on paperwork. Doing disgusting work no one wants to do is kinda my specialty.

That test put me in the bottom 10% of US adults. I just answered it honestly, not aspirationally.

I really wish we would see some legislative action on this. Selling and publishing cheats should be completely illegal and punished heavily.

I like tools to have defined roles, not multipurpose.

I mean the top post is a ~200USD “smart” pomodoro timer. I’m not even close to that.

I use my phone for communication, quick photos/ notes and sound. It carries my cards. I want it to be completely locked down because it gets used in public and could be stolen.

I use my laptop for personal business including coding. I want it to be secure and streamlined.

I have a gaming PC, it runs widows and gaming rootkits and all kinds of questionable software. I don’t want my sensitive data around that computer.

I do art on my ipad, I want it to be about art. I dont need the phone stuff there. I don’t want my personal stuff there.

> flashlight too

lol I actually carry a flashlight with me always. Phones are absolutely garbage compared to a modern High CRI flashlight. I also have a FF camera and take it with me very frequently.

> One single integrated experience. I think everyone wants this

This is insane to me. Like not just no. Hell no. I want my phone to be a gadget, like a watch, not a whole ass computer. I want my tablet to be its own thing from my laptop, which is different from my PC(s). I absolutely, positively do NOT want general purpose computing to be the typical paradigm. I don’t want, need, or even like the idea of my phone, that I typically use like a wallet, to be a general purpose computation tool. Lock that shit down, please!

Amtrak doesn’t have turnstiles to check your tickets either. The conductor will ask to see your ticket while you are riding though. Pretty sure thats normal for trains.

> the only thing you miss out on without google play services is the wifi/bluetooth location service

not true. A standalone gps unit can use an almanac to get a gps lock, but supl suppplants using an almanac.

supl is a spec created by the telecom industry[1][2]. I don't think they want people to have good offline gps.

> it's also trivial to run a proxy to mask where you're requesting the supl data from

Lmao. It is definitely not trivial. I have an Android that is running lineage and microG, it's an endeavor for someone who likes tech.

Regardless, according to my understanding of the spec, the supl server authenticates your identity[3] and is already effectively tracking you, so using a proxy would only obfuscate your IP address. As such, I don't think IP alone is enough to maintain privacy from Google. You would need middleware to anonymize your device ID.

But really, I find it egregious that I can't choose to use simple gps almanac data and must instead either use a blind fix on my phone or give my data up to some random server. Standalone GPS units that use almanac data get a lock virtually instantly compared to my Note 10. I'm trying to create a disconnected smartphone for backpacking. It's garbage to have to burn battery needlessly.

[1] https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/1211168566155

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Mobile_Alliance

[3] pdf! page 13 https://www.openmobilealliance.org/release/SUPL/V2_0_6-20200...

You don’t have GPS satellite data, “location services” without Google Play services. That means a gps lock takes minutes. This data could be stored on the phone, but it’s better for google if you fetch it from them when you need it.