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This is one of the most content-vacant articles I've seen on HN lately.

- "Google Is Getting Left Behind Due to Horrible UI/UX": provides exactly zero statistics relating to declining Google usage.

- "What happened to Google Docs? Why does it not look and behave more like Notion, or Quip, or any of the other alternatives that made progress in the last 5-10 years?": provides zero screenshots or even textual descriptions of whatever it is these competitors have that Google should just copy.

- "How can you let Google Docs get completely obsoleted by startups?" I guess the words "completely" and "obsoleted" have no meaning?
Besides the terrible UX I’d say Google is getting left behind due to the virtually zero improvement in its apps over the last decade.

Started using Google Drive for work in around 2011 and stopped last year when I moved to a Microsoft-based company. In that time it didn’t seem like there were any major improvements in functionality to the core Drive, Docs and Sheets (and poor, forgotten Draw) apps. In fact most changes made things worse.

Drive’s search is so poor that it’s often easier to get a colleague to resend the invite to a doc than it is find the thing via search.

Docs is pretty much stagnant, with the only noticeable new feature being the section navigator on the side.

Gmail went from being a stunning demonstration of the possibilities of web technologies to a bloated, over-JavaScripted hog that takes ages to load.

Chat services came and went but none of them were particularly better than their predecessors. Just a slightly different arrangement of deckchairs.

It’s amazing that Google have left room for competitors like Airtable, Notion and Miro to both flourish and fulfil some of Google docs’ early promise.
Most audio gear was built to last then, my sound system, speakers and amplifier is from the 80's and still sounds so sweet. The only other notable mention was my Nokia 2110 which I had for from 1996 until 2001 and was bulletproof. (but alas not waterproof)
Dude Hohmann transfer to Mars is less than a year.
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I usually think these "Google is the worst" posts are over the top, but I genuinely find Gmail's mobile interface bewildering. There are two three-dot/ellipsis icons when you read an email and after using mobile Gmail for years I have no idea which actions are in which. "Move to Inbox": upper icon. "Add star": lower icon. "Mark important": upper icon. "Mark unread": lower icon. I'm sure there's some explanation or at least mnemonic but I'm lost.
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I think you're overlooking the "on their own" part. The OP isn't lamenting that things are less reliable in general, just that they aren't reliably capable of working offline or on a local network.

Phones are maybe an odd example, but it's somewhat true: Traditional phone systems let you make local calls even if long-distance lines fail, or within a building without leaking data externally. Very few people would ever need (or expect) newer voice/video chat systems to be usable in this way, and they largely aren't.
Oh, there was a repost in 2020, that explains the sudden spike in page hits that I saw earlier this year and couldn't trace back. ;)
Also see previous recent discussion of indoor/vertical farming (2017) - (1) and (2).

As discussed on that thread, vertical/indoor farming is great for leafy greens (mainly water but but not much other nutrients or carbon), but much harder for other plants.

See this video [3] - "Why Vertical Farming Won't Save the Planet: Bruce Bugbee, Utah State University Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, has studied plant growth in controlled environments for most of his career. Here he presents the results of his analysis of the environmental effects of Vertical Farming/Indoor Agriculture (September 2015)".

A copy of the slides can be downloaded here (the link shown on the youtube page is dead - correct link[4]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14809841
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347288
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw
[4] https://cpl.usu.edu/htm/research/publication=15787
The nanometer process is not an actual standard. So it's apples and oranges to compare two fabs
That might be a dumb question but why all companies are trying to grow outside their core product? From what I see from the comments, all previous attempts from Reddit to extends to new domains have more or less failed. Shouldn't they just invest and focus into making their core product better, slicker, faster, instead of absolutely trying to conquer new territory?
Power is important, but without economics, it's just an academic research project/network.

Yeah, that made the Internet great in the beginning, and there are projects that don't depend on being "monetized", such as the OG hardcore F/OSS ones (GNU, Debian, KDE/Gnome, CCC, Wikipedia) and their ideological offspring (peertube, mastodon, matrix.org, blender).

But the average user doesn't care and doesn't understand the importance of having a free as in "as independent from the powers that be as possible" platforms.
what an amazingly simple, but thought provoking insight and subsequent research. sometimes i see myself more rapidly opening tabs and looking for internet entertainment when i am hungry. its not fun, and i can say to myself "you arent enjoying this" but i still do it for a bit before i tell myself i need to eat. ive always though of this as a "seeking behavior" gone awry, that somehow my brain equates consuming content on the internet with consuming food, and tries to sate the need with the wrong thing. but i feel like the insight of this article might give me some more clarity- maybe i have a period where hunger influences my "wanting" region, which governs how much i want things in general. so my desire for food grows, but so do other things, like internet content. since im sitting at the computer already, my brain opts for the content first, and its only after a couple minutes of acting on the "want", but not getting the "like", does it realize that its gotta do something else- in my case, eat.
Software updates were necessary to bring about internet play without rampant hacking and cheating, and also can provide general fixes to you giving you better value over time, so I’d have to disagree. If you don’t want to play online, you really don’t need software updates anyway.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25413053 and a few others more
Vetting and sourcing information accurately is a Hard Problem. I don’t expect WaPo (or anyone) to get it right all the time, but I do trust WaPo reporters to be very aware of the best ways to do it, and to let me know when they end up getting it wrong.

At some point you have to trust others to be good at their jobs, and when an org like WaPo demonstrates their proficiency over and over again, their believability rises.
They couldn't convince developers to publish applications to the Amazon Store, which meant that the device was substantially less useful than a Google Android phone.
I see the M1 Mini fairly consistently outperformed by the M1 Air... anyone know why this would be?
I deal with this anxiety by lobbying for electoral reform. There is a lot we can do, but we have to stop using first-past-the-post, to delegate power. It's like a software bug in our global decision making. Some countries have managed to debug their electoral systems. Canada has a long way to go. US, I don't even know.
ironically?
How many such routes are there in Europe? Checked a bunch and seems like 9 hours is a decent timing even for the fastest train option. While by plane you're always looking at something under 2 hours.
> But roughly, there seems to be no strong evidence that Pornhub did not remove illegal content they became aware of.

There seem to be no strong evidence that Pornhub did remove illegal content they became aware of.
Fire suppression systems fail, cars get recalled or malfunction, people get food poisoning in restaurants or from food bought at a supermarket. Any product, not just tech, runs into problems when manufactured at scale. Tech is more visible because it is newer and in the spotlight. Nobody says "stop manufacturing cars" when one manufacturer issues a safety recall because cars have been around so long. The entire premise of producing 100X fewer cars so we can hand-craft cars and hand-check them is ridiculous - we simply accept the occasional manufacturing defect or product recall as the rates at which they happen are so small. These are all rounding errors, and the benefits of scale far outweigh the cons.

The same applies to tech. Content moderation has been ~solved as well. The overwhelming majority of content on social media platforms, websites, etc is regular, legal content. The illegal content that makes it through the filters and stays up for a significant period of time is a rounding error.
> Two more likely possibilities: (1) Pornhub wasn't really checking, which is an easy way to get good stats.

These were incidents counted by a third party, not self-reported
I'm not sure how you spin it that the bank or insurance company is the bad guy here. How would you rather it be handled?
Yes they absolutely did, they just couldn't get them. Games still shipped buggy, you just had to get used to it, tough. I work with people who were in the games industry in late 90s and the idea that games shipped without bugs is just funny to them.
Ask HN: What are some methods to get into Google?
Traditionally it seems there are some possible ways you could model a career that will lend you at Google, for instance, some join an Ivy League University, others create some core open source technology or startups which gets acquired, others get accredited into Google Experts Community, while others get referred. Another weird story was a person who was working for a contractor of Google and later joined them as it was acquired.

I would like to know if you were starting from beginner level as a developer, how would you model your journey to best-fit the ideal Google candidate? What are some stories(or tips) you've had, or experienced.
And spinning up a new video host (that you intend to make money somehow) isn't cheap or easy.

Nor is it terribly safe right now legally speaking. Considering the child porn castoffs from pornhub will be out looking for a new place to upload their trash. Eventually, not only child pornographers, but so many other undesirables are on your site, that it's just dangerous to continue running it from a liability perspective.
When comments are bad they can be actively misleading and when comments are everywhere they can do nothing but obscure logic. I like well commented code, but poorly commented code can be worse than uncommented code that's clearly written. Lastly, adding comments to code doesn't always add value.
Thanks - its more the wait time than the custom order. I'll go for the 16gb then.
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Sure, the M1 chip is very good, the question here is what made the M1 perform better than a i9 and I would argue it is because of the 5nm technology. If the M1 had only 8b transistors and was using 14nm technology I really doubt that it would beat the i9.
I believe that you have mis-read their comment - they aren't saying Solar Winds is "yet another startup", they're saying that SolarWinds is incorporating 3rd party technology (the so-called supply chain attack on their build) without vetting it.

And, if we're being honest, those technologies probably are based off startup tech; SolarWinds purchases and incorporates startup companies (such as Vivid Cortex recently).
Yeah, this is cool and all, but how about you make DDG good so people want to use it?
I've been obsessed with the idea of the best book in any field since I've seen Good Will Hunting where the hero says something along the lines of "you have a lot of books but it's never the right one".

I've since read a lot and sometimes I get a book that I feel is something anyone interested in the subject should read.

Skimming my shelves I recommebd:

The innovators dilemma

The idea factory

The design of everyday things

Shop class as soulcraft

A mathematicians lament.

Red plenty

I look forward to sseing what your project Karl is about
Also video games that didn't get regular, free content updates. Top of mind because my partner and I are doing another playthrough of Terraria and there's once again a bunch of new content for us to go through.
I'm really scared to open this can of worms... but I'll say this. I still think my cigar habit is not the healthiest. I only do about 2 to 4 a month. However i will agree that the "tobacco studies" are done on the chemical cocktail cigarettes. With the vast range of just shit they put it in, it's not hard to believe they cause cancer. But a fermented leaf cigar that's only bound with rice glue or whatever that other plant glue is, I think becomes similar to the difference of road safety between vehicles. Theres a chart I recently saw on transportation deaths per 1 billion passenger miles traveled. It was like .7 for planes, 1.5 for trains, 10 for cars and 200+ for motorcycles. To me, cigarettes are the motorcycles, cigars are the cars and the plane is being a nonsmoker, mostly because nonsmokers still get lung/throat cancer. I haven't seen a study on just cigar or pipe tobacco. Only on cigarettes, which again, I'm super against. Not defending Marlboro or the ilk. But I won't be blind that there isn't an increased risk in both me smoking cigars along with drinking alcohol. Im just mitigating my risk taking with both moderation and overall danger factor.

Damn it, this was a can of worms response...

Anyways, got a recommendation for someone that enjoys Alec Bradley Black Markets? Im looking to try something new out of left field soon.
If you could convince incel types to see women as actual people (not objects they are entitled to own), and as a consequence to see more types of women as desirable (not only the most model-like or mainstream media-like), then far more of them would find affection. But then again, if you could change those personality traits, they wouldn't be incels.
Look at the history of currencies.

The British pound sterling, the French franc, the Dutch guilder, they all were reserve currencies but they got overtaken.

Usually not because their inherent values changed but because the environment changed and another, more suitable currency emerged. That's exactly the narrative that people push about Bitcoin's advantages over the US dollar.

But because things happen a lot faster in crypto than they do in traditional finance, I wouldn't bet on "Bitcoin can't ever be overtaken".
The point of my post is that your epistemology is too narrow. Trying to sell you on my epistemology was outside of my intent.

Your epistemology leads you to not "know" all of science. Even logical positivism accepted the results of repeatable experiments, and logical positivism is itself too narrow of an epistemology (which is why it was rejected in the end).

I also profoundly mistrust any philosophy that says "the only way we know is X", where that rule (about the only way we know) is not something that is knowable via X. That leaves adherents using a rule (which by their own statements they do not know is valid) to decide what they do and do not know. That's... not something I can accept. It seems self-contradictory to me.

I'm not going to wade through your wall of questions. That's a much lower level of conversation than I am willing to get bogged down in.
Sigh.

"Engineers are expensive, so don't build, buy!"

How about... the middle way? Let your own engineers deploy open source, something you can verify, even audit, if you ever have to.

Ah, I forgot. Those usually don't come with fat envelopes from the provider to the people making the decisions.
And yesterday's startup is tomorrow's billion dollar company, often with nothing changed except the number of customers.
> No. First, okcupid is hardly a legitimate and reliable source.

Contrary to this assertion, OKTrends has a long history of being considered a legitimate and reliable source, and has been at the forefront of sociology research in dating and relationships for over a decade. They have serious researchers on staff and they have multiple peer reviewed publications which are simplified for their blog.

> It only show a strong skew in how women pick a number between 1 and 5.

You clearly didn't read the article, as you are misunderstanding their methodology.
You can't really claim a license on one line of code that shows off a GCC extension :P
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25369840

I remember this article because I commented there too and didn’t find it here.
Cinemax at least shows content that is softcore erotica by any definition. Though from what my [dead] sibling comment says, maybe they no longer have this sort of programming.
"we ALSO can not and should not judge or impede anyone in finding happiness and even love in other ways. AI's, robots, online personas."

The problem with that is that the people who fall in love with AIs, robots, and online personas will be subject to manipulation and control by the makers of these things.
It’s the same argument as ‘they’re so busy nobody goes there anymore’ anyway.
I brought up the past model to show that apprenticeships in the past worked for a specific reason. Various models of apprenticeship/training/education fail today, because we have rejected what made them work in the past. We don't want / can't have a system where young people are completely under the control of an apprentice master for several years, unable to change jobs or live where they want. This is probably a good thing. But without it, the idea of apprenticeships makes little sense.
I didn’t miss any facts. I was deliberately cagey because this line of debate your comment enters is irrelevant to my larger point: the arguments may be wrong, or right, or any number of other conclusions, but they aren’t incongruent with each other.
> Instead of growing cabbage in prime real estate in Copenhagen, why don't we invest in Africa, give them some huge machines and then buy their produce?

Perhaps because the Danes rather be self-sufficient with respect to food, than depend on the development and continued cooperation of a country in Africa?

I personally have a deep love for the idea of mechanizing agriculture in a fully sustainable way to the point you could drop a few pods anywhere and provide healthy, nutritious and free food for any population, for free, forever. What a gift for our children that would be.
Also i9 doesn't mean "fast" it just means it is the most expensive of its generation. You will get much closer to M1 performance using a mobile 11th gen i7 than with any i9.
I think “trade winds” is better analogy than “super highway”.
Your list went from most efficient to least efficient, and finally to "my g-d, could we possibly burn any more resources just to get where we're going?". Meaning it went the wrong way. Which, because it's the 60s in the hypothetical example, is fitting. The next revolution is the quantum of transportation: the electric scooter. I jest, but only a little. It gets me to work just fine, gets me there in only five minutes more than the car, and I don't have to pedal. And I can power it with the 400W of solar panels on the roof of our RV. Seeing how fast one can dump fuel into an engine in 2020 isn't what I'd call a "revolution".
I tried reading this article about terrible UI/UX but a giant subscription box obscured the content. Irony.
https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1195/ as an example
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I don't mean to be crass, but to me that just sounds like you're the perfect target for propaganda. Talking to an AI about politics is the definition of being trapped in an echo chamber...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)
> Despite significant efforts by the Go security team, it has not been possible to patch the vulnerabilities discussed in this blog post.

Well, that is not something you want to see in a public disclosure.
I highly doubt the children being raped for the enjoyment of others consider it "broadly harmless".

I also certainly hope that an aversion to the abuse of children is not something uniquely American.
I hit plenty of game-breaking bugs before updates were a thing.
According to another comment, they do:

> It's right there in section 5.1.1.2: "Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically)."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25421584
Because it’s easier to control them outside of your home WiFi, which is what customers expect nowadays.

Also because Google Assistant and Alexa require cloud to cloud communication. Which customers also want.

And cheap WiFi devices such as the esp8266 are very optimized for a single tcp socket.
I am not making a two wrongs make a right argument. I argue that grains are pervasive in our society and have no noticable ill effects. You strawmanned by claiming soy has way higher phytoestrogens than other foods. It's not true. It is just more studied due to its increasing popularity. Lignan forms of phytoestrogens are in potent concentrations in common cereal grains.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24284429_Phytoestro...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5302234/
Since we’re fantasising, I’d say a bare metal Linux distro — or a fork of Chromium OS — running as web client for AWS Workspaces. The downside is that you need an Internet connection at all times, and possibly a subscription.
> Try opening the reddit homepage, new design, no account, and tell me with a straight face that that is a place where serious, well-thought discussion happens.

This has nothing to do with the new design. If Reddit was ever a place for “serious, well thought discussion”, it hasn’t been that way for the past 10 years.
I think it seems more like Google doesn’t care about UX because they don’t prioritize/reward work on a product once it doesn’t grow in user numbers.

They do care in the early stages when there’s an opportunity for quick growth (and promotions for those involved)
Because it definitely couldn’t be China or any other country.
Smart and very true. But honestly, I'm lazy. I don't leave my house much. I like to keep it no lower then 72 or 73 in the day and 75 at night. I have my heating setup such that after 9 am it drops the house to 72 (naturally) then at 4 pm kicks it up to 73. 6 pm 74, and 8 at 75. Hold all night until 6 am when I have it kick down to 74.

I don't care about the cost. Sure I could spend less and yes, I use more then all of my neighbors, but I really, really don't care. Sure it might be environmentally less efficient, but I couldn't care less about my bill being $20 or $50 cheaper. I want to be comfortable. That $20 or $50 isn't going to change my life in any meaningful way, but being warm sure makes me a lot happier, every, single, second, of the day.
Then big brothers came along, built centralized systems, you bought devices you have zero clue how they work. With your own money you let them collectively manipulate you.

I believe this is what the author tried to explain.

Internet and technological advancement is not evil per se, too much power in a very tiny group is going to be problematic.
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You're right that cars are more reliable today but I follow a lot of mechanics on YouTube (Car Wizard, Kilmer, etc) who say that cars were easier to work on back then. These days (at least in the luxury segment) there are a lot of electronic components that can only be repaired by the OEM. We are also in a strange transitional period with the addition of auto start-stop, hybrid engines, etc that also complicate the car.