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One time I learned from Google's documentation that it was best not to spawn content after loading which affects page layout.

Sometime in the last few years, Google started doing that very thing in their search results. After 1-3 seconds, sometimes a widget pops up which pushes all the search results down. I have countless times gone to click a URL after 2 seconds of searching and had it suddenly move and end up on a different website.

It's incredibly disconcerting. Because of the inconsistency, I've become hesitant and scared to click anything for the first ten seconds of loading the page. I'm being habituated by negative stimulus. Nothing has ever made me want to ditch Google search more strongly because it's now literally giving me anxiety to view the search results.

Anyone who was in charge at Google and had good design sense is long gone, and an empty-headed cargo cult remains.

P.S. I organize my bookmarks bar by favicon color without labels. Gmail was fourth, after the EFF, Youtube, and SMBC. Now I will be kicking gmail to the end of the bar with the rest of the multi-colored icons which can't be sorted and remain indistinguishable from each other. I may be a small data point but Google just effectively killed their premium placement in my bookmarks which will lead to checking my web mail less frequently.
A megadose to bump vitamin D levels has been used for years, perhaps decades, and verified to affect blood levels - a friend’s doctor recommended to them a while ago 60,000IU per month, 20,000/week or 1000/day. I don’t know the exact logic, but it’s not new.

Whether or not such a bump gives the same benefits as slow ramping (and if it delivers then more quickly or not) is something I haven’t found any studies on - but I have found in the past studies indicating sun exposure is better than supplements for the same attained blood vitamin D levels (not surprising, as vitamin D is far from the only result of sun exposure)
Leisure time etc. is very important to creativity and productivity as well. There's a lot of studies that I'm too lazy to link to, but you can find them pretty easily.
Figma user here, I wouldn't call it snappy. Feels just about the same as any other design tool I've used in the past (as a dev, consumer -- not the designer).
I'm reminded of Daniel J. Bernstein's post "My trip to Russia / Maybe jail isn't such a bad option" from 2000: https://cr.yp.to/conferences/russia.html

He woke up in the middle of the night not able to breathe with some sort of toxic gas permeating his hotel room.
Is there any research available into these alleged microwave weapons?
Were you hanging your clothes above your mining rig?
No mention of the system time issues which can wreak havoc?

It's best to fix this on linux with timedatectl. Changing it on windows often ends up being a cure worse than the disease.
This seems to imply that on call is a normal arrangement and goes about how to make on call better.

I would argue that on call systems are an abusive practice.

A company should hire enough people to support its systems during times it considers that the systems should be available. It should not rely on stealing time (and by extension money) from people who are also expected to work at other times during the day. IT people need to stand up and fight back against abusive practices like on call and the expectation of 24x7 availability.
Nope. That post was asking about the difference between stripping in a club, and streaming sex work on the web.
undiscovered physics?
I think it goes rather the other way, that intellectual property is distinctively morally defensible --- it wouldn't exist at all without its creators and investors, unlike the land we stole from indigenous people --- and the idea that you can declare something "American culture" and thereby expropriate it from its rightful owners is alarming.
Since I have a vision impairment, I'm sure the effect is amplified very much for me, but using the mouse is such a massive break in flow:

- First you have to lift one hand up off the keyboard and put it down on the mouse. This may or may not mean taking your eyes off the screen.

- Then you need to find the mouse pointer on the screen

- Then you need to aim for what is usually a relatively small target and move the pointer there.

- If you're right-clicking, the right-click menu usually presents more small targets you need to aim for.

- If you need to use the keyboard, again you have to move your hand over to the keyboard from the mouse.

For finding the pointer, I developed this unconscious habit of slamming the mouse pointer to the very top-left of the screen. It's difficult though when on someone else's machine, where your brain isn't used to the pointer velocity or where multi-monitor means that slamming the mouse to the top-left actually puts the pointer on another monitor.

People look at me in awe when I'm using a two-pane file manager but honestly not having to take your hands off the keyboard and not having to move your eyes off the screen gives so much better flow. It's also why I like the UI of Blender - one hand on the keyboard and one hand on the mouse at most times.
but do you, a different person than who I responded to, feel that way here?

what is sleezy about converting pirates into customers? is it the pornography relation?

what if it was found that Netflix itself was the one selling their accounts for sharing on some websites? Sleezy is not the word I would use.
At the risk of sounding cheeky, Apple's engineering and design are the sole source of the money involved.

Apple's involvement with TSMC also provides TSMC with an opportunity to learn from Apple. Nobody books an entire pure-play foundry without taking the time to figure out what they want to do with that manufacturing capacity in the first place.
It is still in beta. It needs help and developers to push it to a modern OS like Windows or MacOSX.
I would just to check out the hardware and service..
Are they using the same amount of hardware acceleration?

If one has support for VP9 and one doesn't, then most of that is not because the cores changed in performance, it's because the video decoder got rearranged.
Undiscovered physics that somehow only Leninist states have their hands on? Which, in this case, would have to be discovered before the Sino-Soviet split of 1956, but not by anyone else?
i looked at phone some days ago where i had all google apps... and i was thinking why do i have so much garbage installed... only later i realized it was gmail, i was looking at.
Everyone talks openness but rarely commit when its really needed.

I think mobile app development would have been a different experience if people had the convictions similar to their 90s parallels that made GNU, WWW or Linux foundations possible and lasting.

The paper "Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech, Masnick 2019" underscores the difference.
I had the same problem in the past 18 months even with my accountant writing letters to support me the whole way. Only, my mistake was making a single monthly tax deposit in 2019 marked Q2 instead of Q3.

irs threatening to lock all my bank accounts (oh how I would love to get stuck overseas with no friends or family where I am and lose all access to money). Exorbitant penalties, and I can easily get them on the phone - only the person I spoke with had an IQ so low they replied to everything I said as if they thought I was mentally handicapped. The phone call was beyond worthless.
> Walter Reed is cutting-edge when it comes to treating traumatic brain injuries, a testament to its vast experience in dealing with wounded troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I've asked [the CIA] repeatedly over the last year to send me to Walter Reed, and they have actively rejected this, which to me is is kind of mystifying," he said.

curious
I was in your shoes about 2.5 years ago. I quit my highpaying job and its been fun for awhile, but since the pandemic hit I'm finding zero work. I keep getting passed over after going through all the hoops of tech interviewing. It's exhausting.

One thing you should talk to your doctor about is temporary leave of absence. I took 3 months off although it wasn't nearly enough it was enough to get my shit straight. I quit shortly after because corporate America is a toxic shithole especially for people like us with mental health issues.

Even if you quit and worked part time, the only real option out there is upwork. Pay is crap and you're competing with India.

I would say find a way to stay where you are until this pandemic nonsense is over.
There exists monochrome icons. I don't think all the icons having the same color makes it all that much harder to distinguish them. More likely, you aren't used to the new icons, and will have to wait a couple days to adapt. Not the best thing in the world, but c'est la vie.
Long ago Google was said to be obsessed with testing, to a fault sometimes.

I can't imagine these would get past many tests of regular users as 'better'.

I actually find them difficult to 'see'. Almost like there's a lack of definition on the edges to my eye.
Those two axioms would make a fantastic sci-fi novel.

The second one isn't that interesting to me philosophically, but your first questions gives rise to so many questions about human nature, free will, etc. Also, it would give credence to the theory that we are just one giant super consciousness. it'd also have the added affect of making the concept of war super brutal.
Yes, we and they are up to lots of dirty stuff way worse than this.

This is resonant because it's educated-class people. Not latin-american nuns being killed by death squads, harder to relate to that.
Curing Loneliness in the Pandemic Age
its better to just go outside and wear a mask
Except, if the royal family didn't exist, wouldn't the same amount of money still be coming in, only now 100% of it would by used for the taxpayer's benefit (supposedly)?
This is a weird logic I don't understand.

People who don't give a shit don't crunch after the game has gone gold to make last minute improvements and fix more bugs. People who care do.
IDK if I'm the only one but figma feels lightyears away from sketch in snapiness, but the multiplayer features of figma are what give it the edge.
Google has shockingly bad UI/UX for a company of their size.

For example, if you search something in google, click a link, and then go back to the search page, after a very small delay, google will open a small box changing of "people also searched for" that changes the layout of the site and pushes other results down. This violates so many important norms of ux design. I hate it because it leads me to misclicking when I am trying to go through a bunch of links to find the right information.
If Apple was truly out to help the environment, they would kill the lightning port altogether. Simplifying their product line to USB-C and aligning with the cables that the rest of the industry uses would actually contribute to helping the environment.
Or maybe a 5th option: "People who are staying socially isolated spend less time in the sun, so the population has become more vitamin D deficient".

I know that I'm spending less time outdoors than I used to -- no more outdoor picnics/parties, no beach time this summer, I'm not even biking as much as I used to.
I was not aware of the mitigating effect of excess selenium vs. mercury content. Thanks for sharing this!
> Hip-shot hypothesis: The productivity literature audience is overwhelmingly intelligent people with untreated ADD & ADHD.

I see your point.

Then again, one of the problems for some of those are that they start way too many thing.
I guess it is used in places where there are no land lines or cable companies. Would be useful if people living in a swamp could get Internet and any cable strung gets sunk in the swamp by the pole.
That wasn't related to my point at all

I completely agree on school being too many hours and too many days per year. I've read research on the inverse correlation it has with creativity.
Regardless of the origin this is a terrible outcome to live with. If it is being used as an offensive weapon it is truly diabolical. In many ways it is much worse than simply killing somebody. Not only have they degraded the performance of an operative they are also causing us to consume resources on medical treatment. There is also the mental and psychological terror of knowing you may be next.
Using an article entirely as an excuse to soapbox about something that's barely related should always be downvoted. Even if you agree with it, that doesn't make it a relevant (or good) comment.
Wow, all those icons next to each other on a phone screen look really hard to tell apart at a glance.
A great 2006 essay on the other side of this coin is "Why Johnny Can't Code" by David Brin [1]. From the lead paragraph: "BASIC used to be on every computer a child touched -- but today there's no easy way for kids to get hooked on programming."

The author ended up buying a used Commodore 64 for his son.

He touched this topic again in his blog in 2011 [2] (scroll to "encouraging kids to program"; he also participates in the comment section).

I personally think single board computers seem to keep tinkering and line coding alive.

1: https://www.salon.com/2006/09/14/basic_2/

2: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2011/06/milestones-leading-up-...
Well the US's M.O. would normally be regime change leading or regime propping leading to tons of abuse of civilians. Clearly in utilitarian terms that is way worse.

But I don't know of an example of messing with the personal well-being of diplomats/spies/goons/whoever who are in their country's compound rather than deployed in the field? Perhaps a taboo is being violated here?

No one got hurt by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device).
I wonder what the effect of this no-code trend is going to be on the world of Open Source and Free Software.
Yes you certainly can. Famines are not spread equally. The people that can afford to have food shipped in (i.e. anyone who can afford to order things on Amazon) could comfortably remain fat while the entire lower class in their local area suffered from a famine.
Interesting.
Possible wide spread.

Spoke in person with HR office couples years back and finished with crippling headache for days. Then car dealership. Then bank office. Then airlines office.

Stay safe
As long as we are excluding Amazon, the website, which is designed to make it as difficult as possible to do an in-depth search or meaningfully filter out items you don't want but they want to sell. It just feels like a spiderweb of dark patterns at this point.
The Fall of Silicon Valley
Thanks for the interesting discussion. My main point of disagreement re:foundations is that in my view a central criterion for a foundational system is easy translation of common mathematical discourse into formal proofs. Otherwise, it seems that the coherence of ordinary mathematical discourse must be an article of faith.
HAHA this is why i love HN. Seems as though, given this wiki page that this has been an ongoing field of study for a while. Everyone seems to be dismissing this as out of pocket. I don't see why both action potentials, electromagnetic waves and whatever phenomenon we discover next can't be all contributing factors to consciousness?
It’s a ruler for time
No doubt directing to an AMP page, as well.
You maybe underestimating the hatred for Comcast :)
The increasing overall complexity of the product itself and the diversity of platforms the product needs to ship on makes actual 1.0 nearly impossible. Games especially never ship as 1.0, they ship when the deadline comes and it's in somewhat playable state. No matter how much you delay, there will always be more shit to fix and letting it go is always a compromise.
figma is pretty freaken amazing, and it works outside of macs. So overall there is nothing but upsides to it. Collaboration is amazing too. Just... No down sides.
Does Mathworks Simulink count as "no-code"? Because if so, then "no-code" seems to be incredibly useful across a diverse set of critical use cases.
Think of the possibilities...
Well, perhaps we are conflating two facts inaccurately..

The TechCrunch article says "First I should say that I understand Google’s intent here, to unify the visual language of the various apps in its suite."

The need for redesign is justified, it might as well have been kickstarted by the new person on the big seat who probably due to his fresh perspective could put this in motion; but the execution and the end result did not turn out great.

However "useless" VPs are in general (debatable in this case - Javier Soltero has a great track record), this exercise would have been easily seen as a great step forward if the results were good and received great press.
No more EZBake ovens or Toy popcorn makers that use inky bulbs.
File a complaint with the Iowa AG Consumer Protection https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/about-us/divisions/consu... Possible lien on that new massive Bondurant warehouse will get their attention.
maybe, but this isn't the first report of this. russia has been pulling this crap in several countries for several years now. Our Cuban embassy is making the news every six months for this same problem.
FWIW ...Frappe and ERPNext are the mothership(s) of low-code.

They are useful for a very wide range from indie / small businesses and high tech capital market discount brokerages (#1 ranking).

I have seen my employers waste so much money on sub-standard products. Few (one) of which I hope to get to market using Frappe / ERPNext as an indie venture.

Many thanks @rushabh!
I use an iPad for taking video calls at work. Since they made the change a few weeks ago, it takes me 5 seconds every time I go to open Google Calendar for my meetings to find the icon on my dock. Half the time I end up clicking on the icon for Apollo since I'm so used to hitting a blue icon.
So he had $1.5m in merchandise that was totally authentic, sent it all to Amazon and yet couldn't reclaim it? And he has no insurance on literally a million and a half of clothing?

How did he go from holding $1.5M of merch for over a year to being homeless and having to couch surf?

So, I had this $2M bridge up in Wisconsin, but Elon Musk took it out with a cybertruck one night after a few too many mimosas and...
If it's anything like Labview, incredibly useful but also incredibly awful.
I just tested this myself. Something tells me pushing the other results down is entirely intentionally. It lands my mouse perfectly on the next link.
> But if speed of light matters to performance

It barely matters. Gate delays and thermal limits outweigh distance by a huge factor. If you need to go further distances then you can wait one cycle and cover a relatively huge length.
It's widely acknowledged and understood that Russia is deploying some kind of acoustic weapon: the damage among multiple Cuban embassy staff has been quantified and described in medical journals.

All these recent attacks on the CIA and other government officials by Russians in Russia and elsewhere in Europe have just confirmed that they were behind the Cuba attacks, and some originally suspected.

Edit: Looking into the research, there are dissenting voices who believe that explanations other than a weapon are possible. But the authors of the two studies I saw published leaned toward some type of offensive weapon. After WMD debacle, I should be more careful with my conclusions.
This is very misleading.

Of course it costs the taxpayer. The government could simply stop handing over millions of pounds a year to these people if it wanted to. But it doesn't. This decision costs the taxpayer.

Taking the logic further - all privately owned property and revenue "costs the taxpayer", relative to the public owning it instead.
I want the apps on my machine to have standard conventions for that platform, not alien conventions.

Having a standard UX across platforms optimized for the uncommon case. The more common case is that the user sticks to one platform so learning an astandard set of conventions is a barrier.
> Many cities have and are

No, there is not free public education anymore so in California than Texas.

> It's worth pointing out that there are literally millions of Trump supporters here

Don’t try to blame them. They have no power at the state and even the extremely Trump-devoid Bay Area (iirc <10% support) has failed to offer anything approximating a solution to housing or good education. The answer to shitty schools in the bay was a lottery to make sure everyone got to suffer the shit, rather than you know... fixing the shitty schools.
That's all well and good, but I don't see where your earlier points about business competition fit into all that.
In a more general sense, these are all various attachments people and society drives people to have. This isn’t to say that indifference to our world is the path that makes sense - this would be a fast way toward suicide. Rather, a life of intent and choosing our attachments with wisdom and understanding finds a good balance between being enslaved by our attachments and a belief that living is itself an attachment.
Why do people immediately assume death rays? Poisoning agents designed to avoid detection are pretty much Russia's specialty.

They might have something that the CIA is unable to detect, or is unwilling to advertise its ability to detect.
an undetectable self-reported major disability is quite a potential liability, to say nothing of whether it is real
> People think qualia must just show up this way because if you're committed to materialism, it seems there's no other option. But that's not an argument, it's just faith in materialism.

What other explanation is there? A magic fairy unicorn in the sky is making the qualia possible? How does that solve the problem you are pointing to, wouldn't we still want to get there via "first principals" ?

And if we did find a magic unicorn in the sky, we'd study it and probably eventually understand how it works, what forces are acting upon it or vice versa. And once we'd done all that, someone on a forum would say of course this can't explain qualia because its "just materialism".
The Open Startups Initiative (2015)
“Fraud”
How long does vitamin d, as produced by exposure to direct sunlight, stay in the body?
Ugh, Gmail is actually terrible for corporate emails due to the long threads and numerous attachments I end up with. I'm so happy that I can use GSSMO to use Outlook for my email because despite all of Outlook's flaws, it is at least mostly usable.

I actually had a coworker that left us and when she interviewed at her new company, she apparently checked to make sure they didn't use G Suite because it was a deal breaker.
In effect, murdered...
> shouldn't expect company incorporation

You probably already explored this in greater detail but couldn't you go with a One Person Company to run your side projects? From what I can tell, it's quite inexpensive and the compliance overhead is minimal.
I actually just heard this on the radio this morning. Here in Australia, the conservative government has a "we don't know if climate change is affected by humans" feel to it. We were all quite surprised by Boris Johnson's moves on renewable energy and climate action, but the conservative party in the U.K. has historically been strong supporters of climate action.
IMHO, yes. So does Microsoft Excel, Airtable, n8n and AppSmith (https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith)
Yes and I was around back back then and extremely concerned.

32 years later I'm not.