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Ask HN: Headaches from Charging Batteries?
Hi, I've been struggling with an unusual technology/medical issue for some months, and I'm wondering if anyone here has gone through anything like it and possibly found success dealing with it.

I assume most people here are heavy users of technology, which these days means many devices with rechargeable batteries. I've noticed that I get terrible headaches when I'm in the same room with a device while it's charging. It could be a phone, tablet, laptop, or even a battery for power tools. I would describe the feeling as a kind of clenching in my brain. I've gone so far as to request a desktop rather than a laptop for work in order to cope with this.

I've talked to my doctor, but he was baffled. We did a standard screening for epilepsy but found nothing.

Needless to say, this is very distressing. I realize no one here will be able to offer medical advice, but I guess I'm hoping someone out there might be experiencing the same thing. I'm also interested to know if anyone knows of any relevant research into the health effects of charging batteries.

Thanks.
Not true. If it were based on cost of living, then Google would pay more for you to work from Hawaii than from Alabama. (Spoilers: it doesn't, they're both in the same salary band.)

It's slightly more true that it's based on the local cost of labor, but even more so that it's just based on the state, with carveouts for MSAs (which are defined based on county) surrounding certain offices commanding higher salaries.

You'd make just as much working remotely in Matamoras, PA as you would working out of the NYC office in Manhattan.
Eulogy of Continuous Integration
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It comes from Civilization V, where you could become the suzerain of city states.

;)
Hot take: this is kind of non-news.

I had a thrilling but ultimately abortive courtship with Google last fall, and at the time, the messaging on this subject was remarkably consistent: the plan was to go to a part-time model where people would go into the office 3 days a week, and they were hoping to be executing on that plan by the 2nd quarter of 2022.

So to see now that they are going to having people in the office 3 days a week in the 2nd quarter of 2022 is certainly no surprise to me. I would guess that that also means it's no surprise to any current Googlers who've been paying attention? And also that this says nothing about Google's own level of success with fully remote work, because, at least as far as I'm aware, leadership never seriously considered it as anything other than a temporary business continuity measure in order to get through the pandemic, anyway.
Is "graphene" vaporware? I've been hearing it hyped up for over ten years but it isn't actually a proper usable technology yet, as far as I can tell. Just endless press releases about making it in increasingly unlikely ways in the lab.
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Does anyone have a mass downloader for your purchases on Bandcamp?
well summarized.

its easy to make bad SPAs nowadays. imo more time needs to be spent in the tool/environment/framework/language selection and evaluation process.

also, many SPAs cant even handle basic forms correctly anymore, because developers learn more javascript than html5. like the author pointed out, rebuilding features in js that already exist, just because one is unaware of the fact that it exists or what the underlying design choices have been, often is a bad idea.

are there actually still people that care about noscript? i mean, i get that most people dont care and js is enabled by default in most browsers, but the no-js-web-world is also quite interesting.
A little birdie told me that most denials were for specific roles (eg some entire departments were not going to let employees go remote, mostly not engineering). In engineering the bird told me most denials were due to being very junior, working on something that needed physical access, or poor performance
It seems the author overlooked the possibility of writing out the full binary string of whatever format he'd like (i.e., "zero one one ..."), prefaced by instructions on how to parse that.

That would give you great "authenticity" (in his definition) and great longevity.

Not practical for reading back, but that was not the point. With the help of a few simple scripts, writing is easy. So, in the end, not really an argument against storing information exclusively in plaintext.
The MAX failure illustrates what happens when one relies on one "cannot fail" component.

But you should know that there was a backup. 3 crews experience MCAS failure. 2 crashed. The 3rd crew simply turned off the stab trim system and completed the flight safely. You almost never hear about crew #3.

I can't really offer any suggestions for the power grid, as I don't know enough about it, except that I'm sure there's a way :-)
I'm definitely not in the smartest engineer camp but took a break this last summer to grow tomatoes. Very therapeutic.
That "individual preference" has a massive effect on the team just one remote person is a massive drain on efficiency. You can't frame it as "individual" when work is an inherently collaborative process.
I'm well aware of the lawsuit. It went nowhere.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/27/17509114/pubg-fortnite-la...
> the manager is also one of those 'do as little as I can' types of people

Doesn't sound like the kind of person you should put all that much effort in for.
Not meditation related, but a lot of people with ADHD have some serious shame issues, and taking meds that treat the ADHD can put them in a state where they can no longer easily distract themselves from the fact that they hate themselves, which is ... not a great feeling.
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I’m always amazed at how quickly we jump to judgement (and finding wanting).

I was a very good manager for 25 years.

I guess maybe I ended up doing OK. Read the testimonials on my LikedIn.

I’m pretty aware that CIs are simply one single data point.

Some of the days with the fewest commits, are the ones I did the most work.
If you're a consultant that makes sense, for comapnies it's just what you need to pay to fill cost of living is one of the main factors in that need
They do care. It also ensures end users are endlessly frustrated by inconsistent UI / UX handling.
I hate to be the "correlation is not necessarily causation" guy, but come on!

Most of the big tech companies could have laid off 90% of their workers over the past 2 years and would have had even higher record earnings (and maybe stock prices).

What the big tech companies are concerned about is their continued ability to be productive and stay on top, and the fact that everyone had to move a ton of spending to online over the lockdowns doesn't mean that record profits during that time are sustainable.
https://datacenterfrontier.com/inside-facebooks-blu-ray-cold...
I think you are overstating the importance of 'management'. In the modern world (i.e. not a factory or otherwise rote work) real business (and indeed societal) value is created due to the web of relationships between people who have at least some idea of what they are doing.
Interesting. I live in a big MSA (Atlanta, which includes a lot of mostly rural counties). I've considered a role at Google, but currently work in a suburb and live further out from there. 1 hour to Atlanta proper without traffic, but still in the MSA according to the census. And I could move further out and still be in the MSA (like Heard County or Jasper County if you want to look at some examples).
IDEA looked near-native (aside from docking/windowing that doesn't have system L&F anywhere) before they forced users away from system L&F.
Note this article is from 2014
the best 1:1s I had with managers were typically walking around campus, although with the construction going on near shoreline (if it's not done) that became less enjoyable, and eventually, they moved my entire department to an outpost in Sunnyvale that wasn't very nice to walk around.
I haven't seen this before, but at a quick glance, here's what I love about Plexamp that's missing for me:

* Similar artists, tracks, etc
* Auto-playing similar after listening to an album
* "sonically similar" tracks/artists - not just some arbitrary decision that some artist is in the same genre, but that the songs have similar sonic profiles
* Artist/track radio based on all of the above
* "library radio": smart shuffling
* artist mix builder: creates playlists based on some artists that you choose (and includes tracks from similar artists automatically)

I have too much music to know what I want to listen to all of the time and I don't want to sit there carefully curating playlists and trying to discover things: Basically, I want a system that's smarter than I am to tell me what to listen to (but with my own music that I own, obviously)
Not only that but bundle splitting allows for extra areas of the application to be loaded at runtime on demand.

All of that said, I'm not opposed to approaches like Next/Nuxt/Aleph.
Phoning from a Trolley Car in 1896
Making phone calls from trolley cars on the New York and Brooklyn Bridge in 1896.

Some interesting experiments have recently been tried by Mr. Kingsley l. Martin, assistant engineer on the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, in the line of establishing telephonic communication between moving trains and between trains and the train dispatcher's and bridge offices.

The necessity of some adequate method of train
communication and signaling in cases of fog or some emergency has been felt, but there have been difficulties in the way of establishing telephonic communication with moving trains that have prevented it from being put into practice.

Mr. Martin has overcome these difficulties and has succeeded in communicating with moving trains with the same facility as between fixed points.

The bridge is provided with a trolley wire for electrically lighting the trains. This wire, which was used in the telephone experiment, was connected with the train dispatcher's office and with the bridge offices, and upon the cars were placed arms provided with compound brushes which touched the trolley wire.

The circuit was completed through the car truck and track rail, the connection between the circuit wires and truck being completed by a brush resting on one of the car wheels.

The compound brush consisted of a number of brushes of brush copper fastened together with intermediate pieces of soft rubber. The brushes being electrically connected with each other and with the telephone wire, arranged in this way, unbroken conversations could be carried on while the trains moved along.

The electrical contact of the compound brush with the trolley wire was so perfect that the sliding of the brush on the wire produced no noticeable effect.

It is proposed to permanently equip the cars with telephones and to provide a suitable electric conductor on the bridge in convenient position for contact with the brushes carried by the cars.

Scientific American article and engraving, April 4, 1896
Other than startup times, modern Java is not slow at all. In fact, it's way faster than many other popular languages today such as Python and Ruby.
Protip: press the End key, then Home, and only then read the article to avoid everything moving and fading before your eyes the whole time. If it were an article with one or two pictures this would have been just a pet peeve, but here it's actively annoying because you are constantly scrolling and waiting for animations.
Many people end up doing remote work in person anyways at sufficiently large companies where in order to get things done they have to get on video call or phone.

The best solution I've found so far is to provide both as options, do meetings in a remote friendly way, and then have in person meetings for everyone a few times a year.
I know that everyone is commenting that this is the end of their independence. But, Epic Games has been really good to everyone they've acquired. Quixel is a great example. They protected Improbable when it was under licensing attack by Unity and they gave away $25 mil to help fund development for them when they didn't have to. They've given out lots of no strings attached megagrants when they didn't have to and they receive no direct revenue from. Those grants have helped independent open source 3rd party tools like Blender and Krita with no strings and no required oversight from Epic. And, some of those megagrants helped Unity and not Epic, e.g. the dialogue tool, but they didn't take backsies on their grant. They designed the grants to help the entire game industry and not just them. They have a very lawful good alignment as a company. They're an example of a really decent parent company IMHO. Also, Epic has a really solid financial foundation from Fortnite and their Unreal game engine so they're easily able to give independence to their subsidiaries without nervously micromanaging. Bandcamp is awesome so I hope I'm right.
Climate Change threatens nearly one-third of U.S. hazardous Chemical facilities
> Remote work isn't for everyone, and unfortunately there is a non-trivial percentage of the workforce

In my experience, a majority of the workforce requires some degree of regular supervision or things will go off the rails quickly. Hell, I am full-time remote (pre-covid) and I don't think I should be left alone on something for more than 2 weeks.
> the actual width (inches) is still bigger on a 16:9 (for the same diagonal).

That's hypothetical, they don't have the same diagonal in the real world. (e.g. 15.6" laptop displays are 16:9 while 16:10 ones are 16", and they have the same width after all http://www.displaywars.com/15,6-inch-16x9-vs-16-inch-16x10)
German Heise publisher will sell you individual magazine articles, though.
What an awful thing to do to people who are probably under high loads of stress already.

You have a responsibility as a key part of the internets infrastructure that goes beyond your politicial viewpoints. The fact that you think your personal viewpoints should override these responsibilities just shows the unadulterated arrogance the world has come to expect from Americans.

Well done pushing Russian people further into the censorship, controlled hole and making this regimes control worse, whilst also betraying the standards of the open internet.

I've initiated transfer of my personal domains (not a Russian, out of choice), and will remove all work domains shortly. I'll also be advising non technical friends and clients to move away, due to untrustworthy business practices.
I come for the tech discussions. When political topics come up I try to remind myself I enjoy the tech discussions here.
Moving money internationally
Why should companies subsidize landlords in Bay Area? The Bay Area has manipulated zoning and land use for a century for profiteering as well as race exclusion.
Honestly no one needs screenshot. It's not showcasing a gui framework, but a binding to an existing one.

I'd go as far to say that if you need screenshot for this, you may not be their primary audience.
Sounds like RadioShack.
Modern Front-End Magic with Rails 7: A Visual Editor for Markdown (No SPA)
Wow. This sounds a lot like the Resnet moment for Transformers.
Right, I like my raw data in the places it’s needed because the world isn’t perfect and sometimes we have less resources.

I can’t shake the ridiculous feeling that comes with typing plaintext journal entries on a gaming pc.
I don’t think any of this has to due with productivity, collaboration, or whatever corporate says.

Google (and Apple, and Facebook, and no doubt many others) have spent literally billions of dollars on real estate right before the pandemic. If people don’t fill those buildings, they’re going to look foolish.

That’s it.

It reminds me of when corporate says they need special employee shuttles instead of lowering costs by a shared shuttle. “We encourage collaborative conversations on the shuttles.” I’ve ridden them. No one speaks. It’s also not due to secrecy, otherwise they wouldn’t want employees to work on public transit.
> “The confusion over how Russia has used its air force comes as President Joe Biden's administration rejects calls by Kyiv for a no-fly zone that could draw the United States directly into a conflict with Russia, whose plans for its air force are unclear.”

Perhaps Russia assumes that dominating the skies with more aircraft than Ukraine would force an international call for a no-fly zone. This would drag other countries into the conflict because the mandate would have to be enforced.
I mean people normally wave in your line of sight then actually touch you but yes.... It's a super quick way to resolve an issue and get everyone back on track. Especially as I've gotten more and more senior over my career and a lot of your work output is making sure the rest of the team can function effectively.

Only when I was really junior did heads down code all day happen.
that may be true, but it gives the customer the impression of a broken process -- and from the perspective of the unsatisfied customer it IS broken.
> Do you realize that by calling a democratically elected leader a dictator, you are making a mockery of democracy.

If you call Russia a democracy, you're even more stupid than I thought.

> You forgot to answer my question
Our office is 100% hoteling now no fixed seats. No personal stuff unless you want to carry it in everyday you go in. Been a few months since I went in.
Those aren’t temporary exceptions. Fully remote in this context means you don’t have an assigned desk in any Google office and thus aren’t subject to any mandate about returning to offices when a particular office opens back up
cities are done with
I just remember massive state being injected into forms, and it wasn't pretty, was massive at times and just unpleasant regarding WebForms. It was fine for internal apps with a network connection, the experience was horrible if you were a dialup user. Especially in components that a change triggered effectively a full server round trip to update the whole page.

It got better by ASP.Net 3, but MVC/Razor was much, much better imo.
That Roman’s wealth is (still) effectively infinite, I thought OP’s point was very clear.
>I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site.

Not everybody at Google is in one location to begin with.
How hard is it for Russia to cripple the internet in Ukraine? Is it likely that these volunteers will still be able to contribute much, tech-wise, in a few weeks?
How much warfare is currently happening on social media sites, nationally operated or otherwise?

Are sites like 4chan, facebook, reddit or twitter very influenced by governmental PsyOp operations, national or foreign?

To the average bloke like me it would seem like discussions on these pages are being "managed" A LOT, but i could not tell if that is the effects of standard propaganda on the population like the news or from deliberate/strategic postings.

Obviously the phrasing of my question is limited to platforms that operate in my known languages, but the question applies in a general sense to all social media platforms.

As many of us know, one of the most successful PsyOp propaganda tactics is that of controlled dissent. Funding organizations that present a fashionable yet controlled form of dissent in order to sway public opinion. How much of that is from private actors like Soros, Buffet, Gates, etc and how much is Govt funded? The state defends the interests of those with power, so is there a lot of overlap or is there a lot of internal disagreements?
I usually bite my tongue when these articles pop up weekly, but let’s ask ourselves a question: did Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, etc all make a terrible engineering mistake? Or did this guy with a blog miss something?

I’ve recently worked on converting a large code base to an SPA and the improvements in DX, UX and performance are enormous. Even the old timers that resisted the project have all come around.

This doesn’t mean your blog should be an SPA. It shouldn’t. but reducing the valid use cases for them to Youtube is equally ignorant.

I generally agree they are being overly applied, but that’s not an indictment on the technology whatsoever. Fads in technology happen (“rewrite it in rust” is a recent one). The fact that many people are falling into this fad says nothing about Rust as a technology other than people love it enough to overuse it.
Yes, there is a great deal of flexibility and patience. I worked from home a couple days a week.

In the old days, they drew the line at going full-remote. When the Atlanta office closed, everyone there had to either move somewhere else or, eventually, leave. I guess that's changed.
How do you feel about psyops deployed domestically, against US citizens? For example, there currently appear to be psyops against worker unions, raising the minimum wage, and the potential for a 4-day work week. Were you experienced in these?
Other examples of entirely open source projects that have paid, full time developers include all of RedHat, Godot, Blender, Linux, Python, Django... the list is very long.
Record earnings aren't entirely fake news (people are spending more time online post-pandemic, and that's not going to roll back even if things go fully "back to normal" [1]) but the stock appreciation has a lot to do with the fake-news-ification of the dollar. The CPI has always undercounted inflation, but now the divergence is worsening. Real inflation's probably 11-12% right now.

Wage earners have a couple percent more dollars every year, but the rich have massively more dollars. This is basically clathrate-gun inflation, insofar as while it's true that the rich don't compete for, say, food staples and therefore the illicitly printed money is often considered "harmless"... it goes into investment, which is a different market, we are told... the rich can and given the right circumstances will compete for other things people need, such as housing (see: Blackrock's invasion of residential real estate).

If you look at the S&P denoted in, say, houses... which I've chosen because housing is most people's biggest expense, it's actually been a mediocre market, the past 20 years.

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[1] There won't actually be "back to normal". Just as 9/11 World didn't really end but blended into GFC World, which blended into Covid World... this one's going to blend into either European War World (if the current situation gets worse) or Climate Change World. The upper class will always need a crisis to hold over our heads (and, of course, several of these represent real crises that the upper classes did not intentionally create) to keep power.
> You’ll also use social media [...] to share information meant to help change minds and behaviors in the U.S. Army’s interest.

Back when I used reddit, I almost certainly came across at least two (2) of these folks. I was participating in discussion on $GEOPOLITICAL_TOPIC on a certain subreddit (probably classified as a foreign TA) and on two separate occasions, users DM'd me in a friendly manner and seemed to want to have a good faith chat about it. They dropped lots of unsolicited links, one even said "I wish we could talk about this over drinks", but when I calmly refuted their talking points, they quickly ended the conversation.

At the time it immediately reminded me of the analogous "deradicalisation" psyops in the context of far-right/Islamic extremism.

The key behavior was the "trying to be your friend" bit. They could have just replied to my comments publicly, like a normal user.
There are thousands of cases in America where the child care provider (grandparent) died of COVID.
Nice, that definitely saves some space