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Current UI/UX dogma comes from endless studies, done at the dawn of wide scale adoption.

Yes, many users between the late 90s, and early 2000s, were a mass of people which had never, ever used computers. They bought them for the Internet, and as their workplace adopted them, to work at home.

Many of these users grew up without televisions, calculators, you name it. Yet all new users today are essentially using a tablet or phone at age 5.

Users are not as easily confused as they were in the 90s. I mean really, Amazon's website has more complexity than most desktop apps.
the market for CO2 as a raw commodity is pretty large and growing significantly!

I think your comment on the concrete capped price assumes that the price for producing CO2 does not increase. If current concrete produces CO2 (which it does produce a lot) and CO2 gets taxed, it makes concrete that sequesters CO2 very financially viable even if it cost more than the current concrete market price. Plus I know I would pay more for concrete that sequesters CO2 so maybe that's another competitive advantage that allows it to cost slightly more.

Plants are great and we love and support using our lands more effectively, but there is not enough land to store the CO2 that has been emitted over the last century from fossil fuels, and keep up with the increasing energy demand from population growth as well as developing nations. So plants cannot do this on their own.

There is such a large market for CO2 (and its growing!) that we can find users of the CO2 very near our storage tanks. For example one pilot program we are planning right now has a CO2 concrete producer only 6 miles away! Of course our CO2 hauling trucks will have our device and we will get better and better at leveraging existing infrastructure (pipe lines and trains) to transport CO2 efficiently.
ovh monitoring is even better, everything is green on the destroyed dc http://status.ovh.com/vms/index_sbg2.html
Kubernetes Is Not Just About Containers – It’s About the API
I was pretty explicitly discussing print.

But it's not new for an outlet to have a general agenda. That was virtually always the case. I'm without a doubt that the agenda of Railroad Model Craftsman magazine has an agenda in bolstering the niche railroad model industry.

Thankfully, again, editorial rooms are not monoliths. They are ever-changing. The brand and the voice are respected and all attempts are made to remain consistent within that until any major direction changes are decided upon (again, not a dictated decision, but generally one with communal input from various sides of the publication). Don't mistake an image for the summary of ideas published anywhere.

It's also important to mind that a single publication may group several related ideas into an avenue and publish to speak for that larger avenue.

Working within the industry I have my critiques... but these kinds are unceasing, yet as inaccurate every time.

It's a terribly cynical method of assessment to attribute the basest, worst traits of an individual to a large and varied group. (It would also be inaccurate because no individual inherits the traits of the class by default excepting critiques of the medium itself which I don't gather is the problem in this case)
I think the big distinction is avoiding launching companies and instead launching products.

I'm increasingly convinced that very few products need to be companies, and the insistence that they do is why a lot of them end up so shitty.
Where do highschoolers end school sooner then elementary?
Does it matter if it is on top of the sky at 11h, 12h or 13h? Noon or mid-day is still when the sun is at its highest point. Only noon does not have to be at 12.
No, no, no. Just kill DST.

Noon should be about when the sun is highest in the sky, not 1pm.

Sunrise and sunset math is so much easier if solar noon happens around clock noon too, because sunrise and sunset are equally distant from noon. If the Sunset is around 7pm, then sunrise will be at (12-7) 5am.

It makes no sense at all to have solar noon shifted one hour for the entire country, especially because for most of the world, solar noon happens around noon, for obvious reasons.
In contrast to humans, many animals do not put out extraordinary efforts when they are dying of old age or serious disease. Ever see the videos of the sick old Cape Buffalo lying down while lions munch its rear?
Before school programs exist. Daycare exists. School does not need to start early enough for parents to get children off to school first. Folks working retail, in factories, and in health care deal with this all the time.
To be honest most of our tests for UI components are fairly abstract which has pros and cons. The way we test UIs is by creating multiple prototypes that differ in various ways (hidden vs. not hidden scrollbar), giving the user time to familiarize themselves with the prototype, and then asking them to perform a series of tasks. For example after asking them to familiarize themselves with an abstract spreadsheet like software, we might ask them to find a specific data item and we check how they go about it. Or we might give them a form and ask them to fill it out and we see their usage. Or we might present to them a large set of changing data, ask them to mentally keep track of any numbers that change to be between 100 and 200, and after 2 minutes we ask them how many numbers did they see and measure that, then we change the UI (increase information density) and have them repeat it and see what the effect is.

After we give this to a bunch of our users, for our specific business, we split users up according to a bunch of criteria including people who performed the task the fastest in terms of time, performed it using the fewest actions, in terms of precision, sometimes eye tracking is important, and a host of things.

Now the next thing I will admit people will find distasteful but for our industry it matters a lot... we then design the software according to how the "optimal" users accomplished the task. Sometimes it's possible most users accomplished the task one way, but the optimal users accomplished it another way... in many cases we will then design our software for the optimal users even if they are a minority.

For this case we were predominantly interested in information density and the scrollbar was taking up about 10% of the width of a table (on 96 DPI the scrollbar is I think around 15px and the window as a whole is about 150px). The optimal users, and the vast majority of users overall tasked to find data in a table as well as the ones who did best in terms of keeping track of changing numbers, don't move the mouse over a scrollbar and use it directly. I don't have all the details off the top of my head although I could ask the UX researcher about it if there's a lot of interest, but I seem to recall that the small number of users who did drag the scrollbar are "clumsier" and slower.

Since I work in quantitative finance, it's better for our business to design our software to appeal to the so called optimal user and try to find ways to get the majority of our users to adopt more optimal usage patterns. That means if we can get our users to prefer using more precise ways of using our software through familiarity, training, or other means, we'd rather get them to do that instead of trying to design our software to accommodate usage patterns that they are currently comfortable with, but that we measure as being suboptimal.

None of this is perfect, we don't always get it right, but we do care about it and put quite a lot of effort into it and have seen a lot of substantive improvements in our users that translate to substantial earnings for our trading firm.
Hi Stefano, I'm really looking for an opportunity to design for impact on business projects. And I believe designing for Epistemic AI could be it. I'm also an emerging conversation designer trained in Voice UI. I would love to chat to know more about your UX designer role. If you'd like to learn more about me please reach out at pallavip.designs@gmail.com
Here's a link to my portfolio- https://pallavi.work/
I'm still preparing my VUI project for uploading on to portfolio. But happy to share with you a consolidated pdf of UX for VUI projects separately.
Cheers,
Pallavi
Is that like "break a record, die of cancer" kind of choice. I wonder if you gave an athlete that choice explicitly which path would they choose.
> I tend to disagree - better to let people sleep.

I'm not advocating to move around the standard work day, but grown adults could just go to sleep an hour earlier. "let people sleep" makes no sense. It wouldn't take away an hour of their sleep.
Self-Supervised Policy Adaptation During Deployment
Yeah. Newspapers after some time develop reputation. So you buy X, but you wouldn't touch Y, no matter the headline.

Then "social media" take a bit of this and a bit of that, and put it all next to each other.
WorkOS raises $15M to build “Stripe for enterprise-ready features”
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> I always thought being calcium deficient is very difficult to do.

The RDA is 1000mg (goes higher as you get older, apparentlty). Broccoli is one of the higher vegan sources at about 100mg in a in a cup. Tofu (depending on how it's made) can be around 400mg in a cup. Beyond that tahini (seseme seeds) is pretty high at 420mg in 100 grams. But I wasn't consistently eating those foods every day. When I'd add up my total for a day I'd often come up with maybe 500mg.
Welcome to modern discourse. Think that some of the things the BLM organization stands for are detestable? Congratulations! You're now a racist bigot, because you don't believe that Black lives matter.

EDIT: The flagging of this comment only proved my point.
Either Marco Rubio is playing some kind of 10d chess in the hopes of subconsciously suggesting to all 8 people that will actually look at his policy record that he is protecting Florida, or the bill is intended to make daylight savings time permanent. To tell you the truth, I favor the latter interpretation.
The Future State of CSS Selectors
Adding adequate street lighting near bus stops really isn't that hard.
It's actually the other way around. The government needs a court to be able to force the transfer of deeds, so essentially control over the ownership of those NFTs. At this point, there is little reason to use a blockchain.

Art NFTs are digitally native. Like Bitcoin, the blockchain entry is the thing you own. That is why they are seeing the success that they are.
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> [insert anything you enjoy]

Writing software.
Work schedules would have to change. Schools are basically a child care service with varying qualities of value-add education thrown in. Maybe after a year of WFH being normalized, companies will be more accepting of flexible schedules.
No. Standard time is the worst one.
Yes but did they copy the idea using their own skills, or did they need VC funding to get it off the ground?

The former seems ok-ish, the latter not so cool and unfair to the original inventors of the idea.
Bitcoin may consume as much energy as all data centers globally
Ur/Web has something like this (example: http://www.impredicative.com/ur/demo/sql.ur.html).
Well, the same as when X11 crashes, which happens... Apps lose their connection to X11 and kill themselves promptly, usually.
That whole GME thing is not stupid... institutions are holding 106% of GME stocks... not sure how much non-institutions are holding. What is stupid is what the government is allowing institutions to do.

> % Held by Institutions 106.22

https://invest.ameritrade.com/grid/p/site#r=jPage/https://re...
Did anyone consider pros and cons of shifting just by 10 minutes every month? 60 minutes per 6 months divides so nicely (and maybe unleashes hell to time duration calculations, but who cares). Edit: same for timezones.
This switching is finally over in France (and in the EU, each country had a choice).

One last switch in March to summer time and we are done!

I am fortunate to leave on the western edge of the timezone though.
The problem with SQL is that it is a string and simple errors, like an extra comma, are not caught by the compiler/interpreter.

Why not test it at the Clojure REPL?
The shareholders don't set the amount of the dividends. That is, in your analogy, the lender doesn't get to raise the interest rate. That kind of blows up your analogy.

But by all means, tell us again how it looks like a scam. Maybe we'll start to agree with you if you repeat it a couple more times.
Oh jeez good find. I don't know what Tesla was thinking with that gateway!
That point about moving on or expecting a raise upon finishing my degree is a great point. And yes, I realize that I took a salary risk leaving my job without an offer.

Cost of living makes the salary difference less significant than it would otherwise be, but tax differences pretty much cancel that out - rough estimate would be that in Texas I was taking home around $66k USD after taxes, vs around $46k USD with the new offer in Canada. Insurance and other benefits are comparable.

I lived in Montreal for 5 years (I went to college there), and it's a really fantastic city. Now that I've gotten the experience of living in a place I'm not so keen on, I'm more aware of how much that factor weighs in my decision.
It's very true. I think in reality it tends to be a mix—sometimes documentation goes stale, and sometimes people don't even bother reading it regardless of whether or not it's stale.

Another large problem is developers not knowing what they're looking for. Documentation tends to solve the "how I do use this" question and not the "do we already have a solution for this" question.

I'm still not sure how to solve the problem of discovery outside of telling people, "read the docs and hope that someday you'll remember the relevant bits when you need to."
Do you think that the problem is your grandna is 80 year old? I am in the early thirties and cannot understand the Google Drive and Google photos icons in my phone. Even the Gmail icon is so similar to all other Google icons I actually need to think hard about what I want, to press the right one. Often I just stare at the icons for 5 seconds. It used to be obvious. Maybe I am mentally challenged :(
(At least as of a couple years ago when i last used it) Octoprint is a lovely, well integrated system that comes close to being easy for newbs and utilitarian users to deploy; while still not impossibly complicated for hacking into whatever adjustments you need. That's a neat trick.
> I wish they had something for worker processes

It may not fit your needs, but did you know that you can invoke other Cloud Run containers from a Cloud Run container?

Alternatively, you can enqueue Cloud Tasks from a Cloud Run container. Those Cloud Tasks can in turn invoke Cloud Run containers.

Not sure if they fit your usecase, but I use both of these approaches and they really expand the capabilities of Cloud Run for me.
30x revenue multiples are actually not too uncommon, especially for a SaaS firm that appeals to both small & enterprise customers, is already profitable, and has a large addressable market.

Here's an article that has a frequency chart based on valuation multiples. Keep in mind that, while it's front-loaded with lower multiples, not all business models have the same potential for revenue growth: https://onstartupexits.com/how-to-value-the-exit-price-for-a...
Heads up: site is not loading. iOS Safari & macOS Chrome.

Mixed Content: The page at 'https://usehaystack.io/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure favicon 'http://www.usehaystack.io/favicon.ico'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.

Edit:
It appears to be an issue on the naked domain only.
Adults are sleep deprived not because of sun, but because of evening activities - games, reading internet, movies. They value a bit more entertainment or a bit more work more then sleep.

Half a year there is dark long before adults go to sleep and also dark in the morning. Sun is not preventing sleep, but people dont sleep.
No it’s absolutely not a great idea.
I usually equate VC to some new experimental rocket fuel. It's by far the best way to get yourself into orbit, but the downside is that if it fails you're going to explode rather than cruise to a nice landing.
>Some Wine (proton) games have trouble getting focused

This is fixed on master for me, but not released yet.
SARMs are unambiguously forbidden at all times by WADA's prohibited substances list. There's no shade of grey if you are in a participating sport.

https://www.wada-ama.org/en/content/what-is-prohibited/prohi...
I just added it as a search engine, and now use it from the search bar in firefox.
I've found Scalacheck quite pleasant (run through Scalatest)
Honestly, you're absolutely right. But we don't get to decide between a permanent DST and a unified switchover of business hours across the nation, we get to decide between a permanent DST and the crappy situation we have now. I, for one, would be measurably happier if I had more daytime after 5, because getting one bill passed is a whole lot easier than convincing every single scheduling body that has power over me to switch on a seasonal basis.
Yeah, of course there are trade offs, and that's not a balanced run down of them. Most of the issues raised there seem easily addressed in the modern world.
I think you're misunderstanding his proposal. He's not advocating for <<getting rid>> of longitudinal timezones, he's proposing <<adding>> latitudinal timezones.

Timezones now are kind of long lines from pole to pole, he wants them to be more like checkerboards. He does have a point, the same timezone that's ok at the Equator makes for kind of awkward periods of the day around the 50th meridian.
So the big problem is springing ahead. No one likes it. On the other hand, everyone loves falling back.

I'd like to propose making the day approximately 9.86 seconds longer, so that each year we accumulate 1 hour of extra time. Then, each fall, we set the clocks back one hour.

You get the benefits of DST (more sunlight later in the day in the summer) without the jarring "spring ahead" each year.
Being able to handle 250K connections versus sustaining 250K connections are two different things. If you have a chat application used by mostly north american users, your usage is going to vary wildly between day and night. Cloud Run allows you to scale this up and down with ~zero ops work.

Engineering for highly variable capacity and engineering for extreme scales are two entirely different problem spaces. If a managed platform like Cloud Run makes your business more efficient and you can save on compute costs, the "efficiency" that you're talking about is completely moot. Being able to handle bursty loads when you need to and being able to consistently handle large volumes of traffic are two separate and unrelated problem spaces.
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This problem (if it even is a problem) affects a small number of students in a handful of regions in the country. Individual schools/school districts are free to come up with their own personalized solutions. There is no reason to involve the other 95% of the population in this game.
>"why don't they just have the sports teams do one short practice in the morning, and one short practice in the afternoon?"

Another reason is that most older kids don't want to be covered in sweat for their entire high school career and having kids communally shower at school is seemingly something that is rightfully being phased out.
The real interesting NFTs are those that don't even try and pretend to have a claim to a real-world item. For example, you can currently buy an NFT for a destroyed Banksy piece (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/banksy-nft-injective-destroy-ar...). I mean if this isn't evidence of a cryptomania I don't know what is. I think the most saddening part is that almost everyone pushing NFTs are pushing a get-rich-quick scheme, and trying to get as many un- or misinformed people in on the scam as possible. Lately I've seen relatives buying art NFTs thinking that they get some kind of ownership in a piece of digital artwork (and no, they don't get the copyright. That stays with the artist.)

Honestly, once Jack Dorsey sells his first tweet, he just sell it again. What's stopping him? He got 2.5MM for it one time and gets to keep ownership. Why not just keep selling an NFT to the fabled First Tweet and rake in the cash. This is clearly an irrational market and seeing how crazy it can get would be amazing.
they do not. At least so far we have not had a regulatory hurdle that requires hazmat. Mostly because the CO2 is not flammable nor toxic (unless in a confined space, but hard to imagine a semi truck being in a confined space while our device is storing CO2).
Fed’s QE: Assets Hit $7.6T; Long-Term Treasury Yields Spike
Hacker News :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229522
Not necessarily! Shares trade all the time without funding the company. The valuation depends on what people pay for those shares.
Some school districts are K-8 or 9-12 only, which I've experienced myself. Taking California as an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Ca...

> In California there are 560 Elementary districts, 87 High School districts, 330 Unified districts.

(I do think that this isn't a great argument against switching to DST permanently. I think if this was legislated then the school districts would just adapt now, especially since a significant chunk of students are still doing remote learning.)
I agree with this. DST also ruins the summer evenings, because you have to wait too long until the sky turns into that beautiful dark blue before getting entirely dark.
That's a strange metric to pick. The Tour de France is a team race, with lots of strategy involved. It most definitely isn't about getting the lowest time, only a lower time than the competitors (very much not the same thing!).

e.g. It's common to see the entire peloton sit up and collectively agree to 'take it easy' for most of a stage to reserve energy for a sprint finish in the last 3 minutes.
So the total race time is strongly affected by the mix of team strategies.

It's also very much not a standard race year-to-year, with differing numbers of mountain stages versus flat stages, so the year-to-year times are completely incomparable.

There may still be doping the sport of cycling, but the TdF total race times would be very weak evidence for it.
I was a system administrator / Lone IT Guy at a marketing company for 15 years. Then I worked making gears for 5 years.

Now I'm wanting to dive back into programming, at 57. It's going to be interesting.
Yep, for sure. One of the things we see most frequently leading to code execution is still deserialization... but it's much more rare now, so a step forwards from my point of view.
My brother worked in commission-based sales for a while. He said the performance bonus structure was awful. It was basically based on your performance increase, rather than your absolute performance. So the top performer would likely get the lowest bonus because it's hard to improve when you're already at the top. If 100% of your calls led to a sale, you might get a good bonus the first year, but you will have made it impossible to get anything in subsequent years.

It gave an incentive to deliberately do a bad job when you first start so you can "get better" every year and get a bigger bonus.

What made it worse was that each year, they would "adjust" the commission structure as well. Of course, it was never in favor of the sales people. Commissions went down while expectations on sales went up.