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> Finding apps and launching them quickly seems like an art to learn.

Swipe up from home screen, the launcher + search bar appears.

It is somewhat annoying that none of the primary buttons now brings up the launcher, but that change happened long ago. :/ IIRC pressing the home button while on the home screen would make the launcher appear. Since it is Android there is probably a utility to add that back.

Of course users can also arrange apps on their home screen however they want and ignore the launcher altogether.

> Funnily enough, among all the Android users I’ve seen, everyone has a habit of force killing their apps every time they close it!

I haven't witnessed this, but anecdotes are useless! I've had to show iOS users how to force kill misbehaving apps. Back in the days of 1 button knowing the right sequence of taps / holds to activate any of the button's many features was, well, the exact opposite of intuitive. Not that the modern practice of various arbitrary swipes around the screen to do stuff is much better.

On stock Android, one button is switch task, one button is go home, one button is go back. Three of the most common things users want to do, all right there.

A quick access menu + notifications can be pulled down from the top. Pull down once to get notifications and common shortcuts (Wi-Fi, flashlight, rotate, Do Not disturb, shortcut to settings), pull down again to get less commonly used options (Airplane Mode, BT Toggle, manual brightness adjustment)

Media playback stuff is done in the same UI as notifications, media playback apps pin a card to the top of the notifications list. No separate UI to learn, everything is in one place.

Don't get me wrong, Android used to be terrible. It was slow, buggy, and background apps had free rein to thrash the system to the point of it being unusable. But now days it is pretty good.

Also I can set my own animated wallpapers, so that is pretty nifty.

(But seriously, Windows Phone 7, most discoverable UI ever!)
That's App Store ToS and most game companies.
Open source project of a Roku emulator (web, mac, windows, Linux)
Man kept getting drunk without drinking. Docs found brewer’s yeast in his guts
Might be an interesting problem to have a localizable programming language. As someone else mentioned, there are localized version of VB. And having worked with code from other languages, I know those developers are not using english for their variable names (or database schema names)
The baseline isn't that strong tbh, it's from a very small competition from a long time ago. https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn2811262/wiki/78388
Some molten salt reactor designs were planned first with helium turbomachinery and later with supercritical CO2.

Also GE tried to sell gas turbines for ship propulsion. You get back some efficiency with a CO2 turbine running with the waste heat. Ship owners still like their diesels. Really long time between overhauls.
We're too busy feeling good about ourselves for pointing out English privilege
The Surface line (Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, and Surface Book) have hit that category lately, IMO. The specific value proposition is "it's a well designed device at a reasonable price and it doesn't come with a giant pile of OEM crapware."

I've been using a dedicated GPU (switchable) model of the gen 1 Surface Book for four years, and (other than that gigantic hiccup where Intel screwed up the power management on their chips) I've loved it. Plays many of the fancier video games, battery life on the scale of 5-7 hours under web browsing workloads, great screen, and with WSL2 I get most of my Linux development needs covered as well. I can detach the screen and use it while I'm flying. I can break out the stylus when I need to draw diagrams in meetings (or... when I'm dungeon-mastering for D&D).
So... uncritically take everything someone says at face value and ignore possible alternative explanations, assuming the worst about the person being discussed that isn't there to defend themselves or otherwise offer any possible context?

Sounds like a poor recipe for civic cohesion.
This is true in a discussion where the relative value you place on international trade is either infinite or zero.

You can oppose an ill-considered trade war without opposing all actions that would impact trade. This is not an either/or proposition. It's not hypocritical to suggest that, in the real world, sometimes you might have to weigh competing goods.
Mainly because I want to keep my team small so it’s easier if we all commit to Postgres. But We also hard a hard time with Firebase’s filtering on sub collections (for their new Firestore)
Could a localization be implemented in a header file with #defines to turn the localized keyword to the real one?
The way Bill Gates writes in that e-mail doesn't seem as elegant as his published writings. And he calls it the "Add or remove programs place", what a non-techie way to describe it.
Who the hell opts in to that?

I can imagine someone being manipulated into opting in. The old “if you cooperate we can quickly get you on your way” type of thing.
Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming
"I've got just four words: I. Love. This. Company. YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!"
A couple of years before we had an election about what side to drive on. The right side actually lost the election. The politicians promptly (and legally) ignored it and went ahead anyhow. And that is a good thing.
All good plans can be executed badly, the devil is always in the details : D

I was not proposing the above example as a foolproof plan applicable to every situation, so much as an example of a type of plan that has worked in some scenarios in the past.

I should also point out that part of the plan for the Scandinavian plan wasn't the replacement of government workers with locals, as much as the expectation that by moving so many jobs into such small areas, they were guaranteed to majorly shift the local economies. Numerous jobs opened up overnight supporting all these well paid government employees moving into the area.

Nonetheless, I am happy to learn about the counter-example, thank you!
god yes I fucking hate trying to rearrange my icons

oh look I accidentally moved this icon between two others and it reflowed everything and the last icon in THIS screen is the first on on the NEXT screen and this cascaded to the next few as well, now I get to move them all back, joy!

It's especially fun when you are trying to put an icon into a folder in the last slot in a screen and it slips to the next page instead. JOY. UNMTIGATED JOY AND DELIGHT.

And I still hate how you can't have any organization for your icons beyond "all of them crammed up towards the top left of the screen". I still miss that from Android and I still miss that from the days when there was a usable jailbreak.
No electricity source has 100% availability. Nuclear tops out at about 90% so tough luck for the poor Britons that want to drink tea during the remaining 10% of the time.

Modern offshore wind farms features huge wind turbines built dozens of kilometers out in the sea on spots chosen by computer simulations to have optimal wind conditions. They can reach up to 60% utilization meaning that 60% of the time they produce electricity at full capacity. https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/09/04/5-stats-about-offs... Of course that is still lower than nuclear's 90% so what you do is that you build many wind farms. Especially if augmented with hydro power they can be a just as reliable electricity source as nuclear power.
Try burning dead trees or their derivatives indoors or underground and suddenly you care about zero emission vehicles. Zero emission here means that they don't emit at the place where they are used e.g. in an underground mine or a city center. Electricity generation in a power plant with proper filters is much cleaner than having many local burners emitting their exhaust right into your breathing air.
TFA is about scrollbars on mobile.
Failure has to be an option.

Not attempting such things doesn't mean we avoid the risk of such wealth destruction; it just means we have nobody to a point a finger at when it happens. Politically this is easier because of how people think and the dynamics of our social discourse. See Appeal to Nature Fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature). This is especially true the more cynical and ideological we become as we're more likely to pounce on failures of action, but excuse failures of inaction as inevitable natural events or limitations.
Testing on my iOS device, I don't think it's an app thing, but UIKit standard thing that comes with scrollviews. The bar doesn't become finger thick, but it's still usable. I've been using iOS devices for a long time, so it shows you how hidden it is.

I agree it's sloppy on desktops, but it helps to understand the reasons why the sloppyness happens. Kind of like electron apps :p
Would it be reasonable to say that most or all servers could quit their jobs and find new ones in better fields - or that a significant enough proportion could do this to pressure real change in terms of compensation?
With all the electronics driving these machines, I don't think they are simpler. There are certainly less moving parts, but if something fails in an electric version you will only be able to debug down to the modular level, which could be VERY expensive to replace. Also, if the manufacture goes bust, you may never be able to get a replacement module so the vehicle is now worthless.
The key to sustainability is to organize manufacturing across large height differentials. I’d better open some mines in Denver.
> Why can't we just have sites/apps/SPAs/whatever that look and work well on whatever device they supposedly support?

Indeed. There seems to be a weird idea that it's possible to make a UI that works well on all form factors. I don't see how that's possible, and I've never seen it happen in practice.

What actually happens is that you have a UI that works well on one form factor and badly on the others, or you have a UI that works poorly on them all.
Cruise's Peer Driven Engineering Culture
Ubuntu 16.04 Mate regions for resizing a window with te mouse is too small. Scroll bars are often too small. If I have to move my mouse back and forth trying not to miss...its not a good gui interface.
This is begging for a deepfakes-style adversarial system.
Blame the Economic Policies, Not the Robots
> The thing is, we can never put the free trade genie back in the bottle.

Tariffs as a weapon in the fight against climate change would sure make free trade look at LOT more equitably distributed.
It is possible:

https://imgur.com/gallery/8zv0AJ7

https://i.imgur.com/vjdfNOe.jpg
Your Job Will Never Love You Back
Please do not post flamebait to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How long till NLG becomes good enough that it can answer questions factually? I think integrating it with a knowledge graph might just make search obsolete.
It's one thing to pay a lower wage for the same work - especially when the cost of living varies considerably. But I don't really think there's anything that justifies inhumane or unsafe working conditions.
I've wondered the same thing about the effect of slow-accelerating trucks on stop-and-go bay area freeway traffic during rush hours. I feel that the effects are fairly non-linear as more of these vehicles are introduced. Some cities in India don't allow heavy vehicle traffic on congested roads during peak commute hours, though I'm not sure if there's been a study of traffic patterns that validates/simulates these scenarios.
I am so confused. There seems to be a blatantly obvious method to find out how well this machine works, no anecdotes or trust required: You get a decent amount of test subjects to dry run it in a controlled environment.

Has this not been done? If not, why? Or am I wrong in believing it's that simple?
It's amazing how wide the applications of supercitical CO2 can be -- we used it as a solvent to extract high-value lipids from algal biomass at a biofuel company I worked for:

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

But it can also be used as a 'solvent' in non-toxic and low/no-water laundry systems:

http://e3tnw.org/ItemDetail.aspx?id=512

In addition to all of the benefits it can provide for energy-related pursuits as a working fluid.
Tipping came about during the great depression where restaurant owners lobbied to have the statutory wages of servers reduced to (by their expression) allow them to continue to employ them. It's weird because instead of taking the same approach taken elsewhere with the WPA to subsidize existing positions or nationalize some entities within that market segment.
San Francisco to End 100-Year, Disastrous Dockless Vehicle Pilot: Cars
Perhaps because the author did not consider what you personally do or don't detest before he wrote the article.
Linux Desktop users do indeed seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time bickering about which popular apps best fulfill their purity tests:

whether the app is "free" enough for their liking (MIT vs GPL-based license, etc),

whether it picked the "right" frontend in the never-ending GTK vs QT battle,

whether it is written in an "acceptable" language (Electron being Satan Incarnate, of course),

whether it has been properly packaged as a DEB/RPM/Snap/Flatpak/AUR/AppImage, etc.

Fail any one of these things, and the app is instantly "unusable" and we should all use ncurses-based obscure-thing-I-found-over-the-weekend-in-some-dude's-PPA.

Meanwhile, an increasing array of "free as in freedom" apps that are widely available and cross-platform (e.g. Blender, VLC, Audacity, Calibre, etc.) serve the larger community by just letting people get shit done, and build up name-recognition as a result.
I think most economists would say that the purpose of globalization was to make the nation better off, and that the nation's values, systems and leadership would be called on to distribute those gains in a way consistent with that nation's values.

Perhaps the real issue here is not one of trade, but of the collapse of unions, the dramatic change in the nature of our media, broken leadership structures, and a lazy mindset that views capital and markets as the goal rather than the tool.
As always, the only true cost is opportunity cost.
I strongly agree on Office/Excel. Fantastic product suite (except maybe Outlook which is long in the tooth/essentially unimproved for the last ten years).

Visual Studio I'll slightly disagree on. I resent it. When VSCode, an electron application, can run lag/stutter/micro-freeze free and Visual Studio an IDE written in C++ cannot you know the codebase has become unmaintainable. This isn't a recent phenomenon either. This has been a nuisance in VS 2015, 17, and now 19 (16.4 Preview).

I'd love to switch to VSCode but the csprojec/C# support isn't there yet. I don't need a forms builder, server explorer, EDMX designer, test explorer, and all the other bells and whistles VS offers. I use VS strictly to write code (C# MVC/Web), run, and repeat. The refactoring tools/Intellisense/IntelliCode/QuickFixes are awesome but if I could trade them all for a lag free experience I would in a second.

I'm using a i7 (6th gen)/16 GB of RAM/SSD. I have no extensions except the built-in ones and Web Compiler/Bundler & Minifier. It doesn't help.
Not for those who professionally speak Mathematics; which is the audience APL was made to serve, after all.

Amusing so many programmers will complain how they feel horribly excluded by APL, but see no issue with every other programming language in existence speaking exclusively ASCII English. At least Math is a true lingua franca, unlike our awful Saxon bodge. I know which I'd be safer speaking when Aliens come to visit. https://youtu.be/t2TDf9XU09k?t=120
The vast majority of the world use mobile devices as their only computing device, and the office workers and power users such as us are minority users and thus get minority attention. I think something like iPad OS getting laptop features and everyone targeting one or two mobile OS targets will be the future in 10 years.

It's like proliferation of electron apps, or how even the prosumer SLR / MILC camera market is dying as smartphone cameras get better and better.
This was my experience of Ballmer-era Microsoft management hires at my previous company. They were the perfect combination of narcissism, manipulativeness, toxicity, and above all else, idiocy. They did a lot of damage, probably irrevocably. They were know-nothing bullies who liked to yell if you ever questioned them, completely convinced of their own superiority. I've heard a lot of similar stories about these people at other companies. It's a shame what people like this get away with.
That's actually not the last line!

It's only the last in the screen shot posted to twitter. The PDF contains more of the email, and it gets worse (if you can believe that).
Confessions of an Advertising Man (Twitter Thread)
What, nobody mentioned fairphone?

https://www.fairphone.com/en/

https://www.ifixit.com/smartphone-repairability

You can vote with your dollars.
Europe Has Declared War on American Tech Companies
They did get wider at the expense of height. Monitors are sold by diagonal size, and a 15" 4:3 monitor is 9 inches tall while a 15" 16:9 one is only 7.4" tall.
Deep at the bottom of that submenu is a place where she can change the order of what's shown in the share menus, but the likelyhood of her ever finding this is of course nil.
Their loudest majority is probably mobile then.
A lot of people do not realize this.

The reality is that corporate culture has incentivized and rewarded certain behaviors (manifesting as sexism, racism, bullying, extroversion, whatever ) over and over again and people are slowly pushing back.

It took a while for 'executive' to not only mean "older caucasian male in a suit".

For all its thorny parts, the increase in exposure of these issues will help more employees realize the power imbalance and try to define a better and more inclusive corporate culture
Good times. I remember when this was part of the court case.

Sounds like what we need is for Tim Cook to try to use iOS 13 and lose access to one of his favorite apps by upgrading to Catalina, and then to get a crumb or something into his keyboard.
Our eyes are WIDE shut
I had no idea what you meant with "swipe 3 fingers upwards and one downward", but the image and description at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204895 made it much more clear.
The Importance of Cigarette Receipts in a Thirty-Two-Year-Old Murder Case
I think he meant that he reboots his computer every night.
>I can’t imagine this being stable

That doesn't seem to be their concern, since the mayor planned on removing the property tax completely and then relying solely on sales tax.
Ah, thank you. I couldn't find it because I don't have any Apple machines.
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From my perspective* the biggest challenge facing humanity currently isn't even the challenges themselves, it's the resistance to the growing pains associated with tackling these challenges.

It necessitates growth in the collective consciousness of humanity, similar to how addicts cannot give up their addictions without growing as people.

*edit
Ask HN: How to Monetize a Website?
What are the options available to monetize efficiently its website, with 300 articles. I am using adsense right now but I am not satisfied with the income, I feel that I can earn more.
Yes, it's just one piece of the puzzle. The op might also be interested in David E Nichols' research into structure-activity relationships of psychedelics. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20080704190159/http://www.heffte...
Why have an election if there is no intention to respect the outcome?
Here’s a terrific explanation of how differential gears work, from a film produced by GM in the 30s: https://youtu.be/yYAw79386WI
[OP - I posted the tweet]

If you liked this, you might like my collection of business memos here.
https://sriramk.com/memos

I remember this particular memo very well as I was at Microsoft at the time and it felt so unfair to see the reaction to what you expect any good CEO to do.
Google Cloud wants to be known as the best place for all kinds of machine learning. Google may not want to get into perfume manufacturing, but it wants Unilever (?) to run all their ML research on their cloud. This kind of research strengthens that part of their brand.

(complete speculation, but seems plausible)
That's why I used the qualifier "democratically tenable". The human calculus of equity and fairness isn't something we have a firm grip on or even an adequate appreciation of, but I think it's safe to say objective, absolute improvements in either individual or collective welfare don't necessarily account for much; and our cost functions for particular benefits and risks less than obvious or intuitive.
The Ctrl-H history opens up the annoying sidebar though, and then you have to click to expand. It's not as ergonomic as the menu. The Bookmarks have the same problem.
Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover
We have SAFe at our place for about a year now. I'd say there's a fair chance it will take over large enterprises fairly quickly. It's so process and management heavy that the people in charge will love it, and at the same time it claims to be agile so it's easier to push it down the throats of devs.
Me too! I always have the feeling while in the bay that "the grass is greener on the other side". As in I think I don't want to talk about tech all day everyday, and only be surrounded by other engineers.

Then I go visit the "other side", and man do I miss conversations around the newest framework, or latest VC investment bust. It's very much a love hate relationship; which I have no plans on leaving.
> If the cars coming towards it just slow down to allow the cars there time to leave, the jam will clear.

Yes, but, which problem are you trying to solve? The thing most drivers want to optimise is door-to-door time: slowing down as a solution is a tough sell!
Can you provide an alternate link to the PDF that works worldwide? Some people are getting a 451 error.
Presented without further comment:

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tceacsimperative-15072621371...
But I thought economists have known this for a long time (at least since 2013). Basically, the Elephant Graph [1] summarizes the effects of globalization. Most of the economic gains of the past few decades went to the super-wealthy and the middle class in the developing world. Meanwhile, the middle class in wealthy countries and the poor in developing countries were left behind.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/2/16868838/el...
Yeah, this is another aspect of the debate I find myself challenging: Labor is different. Our human lives are different than a cell phone plan.
More and more it seems like some sort of UBI or welfare system is the only real option. Give people an income floor and don't worry if they flourish above that, at least to a certain extent.
Anyone know how this is different from the reactive query layer that Meteor built on top of Mongo?
ah, I was trying to place him. Nice one
> the truth is, on balance free trade is better for the world

Only because economists' only metric is GDP with the baked-in assumption that exponentially increasing natural resource usage is a good thing.
$120B in overnight loans is not $690B a week. It's the same $120B, lent at night, repaid in the morning, and lent again the next night. A site that doesn't understand even that much about what they're talking about is not a site that I'm going to read in order to find insight about Wall Street.

[Edit: spelling]
Yeah, but humans are easy to recycle, and made of renewable resources.
Is there any good book for explaining all of these startup evaluation, fundraising, etc. terms, how they work, what to ask about, etc.?