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Wow, this is an amazing update!

Here is an overview of all the features + screenshots: https://twitter.com/Chris_Smeder/status/1671565267145748480?...

1. Component playground

2. Redlining

3. Links to github in components

4. React mode

5. https://animaapp.com plugin will build the component for you...

6. Tasks from Jira and Linear in Figma

7. Figma in VS code

8. Autocomplete fill in code when you select a layer

FYI: To learn more about Dev mode, check out the live (free) workshop from Figma at 2pm PST https://config.figma.com/agenda?d=day-2

And here is the keynote where the announcement preview was shown https://youtube.com/watch?v=-44qrQDnLMM

We don’t have a tv in the house. And we don’t use our phones/iPad in front of our son. So the only time he sees a screen is when we are changing his diaper. The only exception has been when we are all sick we watch a family movie on the iPad with him. And if I’m being honest a few Saturday mornings I’ll watch a show with him while we are waking up.

I use control center to lower the brightness.

Correct, as he gets older this won’t work because he will understand what I’m doing.

I’ve thought about writing an app that shows a pre set collection of videos from my photo library and then slowly turns down the brightness after a few minutes. If anyone want to build this let me know. I’d love to use it.

Hi Royce and Oliver, I have a suggestion: look into dimming the screen slowly for the last 30-60 seconds before you pull a person out of the app. This will greatly decrease the annoyance of being pulled out. It gives you time to anticipate being done with your session. I do this with my toddler.

We let him use our phone to look at family videos while we are changing him. If I turn the phone off abruptly, it can be frustrating for him at times. However, if I manually dim the screen more and more (and lower the volume more and more), it feels natural that the phone is getting "tired". He is then okay with leaving the phone.

Something I don’t understand:

Patagonia's stated mission is to save the earth and microplastics entering the oceans is a major environmental concern. However, it is also true that many of Patagonia's clothes are made from synthetic materials such as plastic. The use of synthetic materials in clothing (and each washing) greatly contribute to the problem of microplastics in the oceans.

I’m I missing something? Is the above wrong? Or is Patagonia lying about their mission driven approach?

The highlights:

"I'm not going to spill all the beans right now. But what I can say is that we are going to move to, just, to truly massive scale. Scale that no company has ever achieved in the history of humanity. And that has to happen in order to transition the world to sustainable energy."

"There is going to be a dedicated robot taxi that is going to look quite futuristic"

"The Tesla robot Optimus, this is, I think Optimis will obsolete what an economy even means. So it will be able to, basically anything humans dont' want to do, optimus will do it. It's going to be an age of abundance."

"It's maybe hard to imagine it, but as you see Optimus develop... It's really going to transform the world, event to a degree greater than the cars"

"And I think we have a shot of being in production, for version one of Optimus, hopefully next year."

"Cybertruck is coming next year, we will be in production with Cybertruck next year, we will be in production with the roadster, and with Semi. ...This year is all about scaling out, and then next year there is going to be a massive new wave of products."

https://youtu.be/fiwUE_2JhvY?t=3363

My go-to test search term is: "grass-fed beef restaurant in sf"

You do much better than Google (Google will always include "Top 10 Best Grass Fed Organic Steak in San Francisco, CA" from Yelp and then link to places that don't have Grass-fed beef options.)

However, currently, your first ranking option is Pinterest spam FYI: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=grass+fed+beef+restaurant+in... → https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=grass+fed+beef+restaurant+in...

Your second option is the correct kind of result (a blog from a local that actually answers the question): https://www.grassfedgirl.com/paleo-friendly-restaurants-in-s...

Where most of the results on Google are not correct. They are mostly articles about Steaks (and a few actual restaurants that serve grass-fed beef, so that is good). Actually, FYI your results don't include these restaurants. eg. It would be nice if this Google result showed up in your results:

"SF / SOMA - Belcampo We source grass-fed and finished, pasture-raised meats directly from our own climate positive CA farms and seasonal vegetables from local farms."

What year will GTP be able to take an app written in Swift/SwiftUI and output a spectacular Android translation? 3-years? 5-years? 10-years?

This is an interesting benchmark because it is a very difficult problem, however: GTP has both everything it needs to do this without needing a fundamental improvement to the core of GTP (this process is more of a science than art) and using automated UI testing GTP can check if its solution worked.

Thus this challenge is in the realm of what GTP already is, however, once it can do this it will have massive implications for how software is built.

Maybe he should try to sell the service as an API to search engines. E.g. I just tried the question "what's the best headache medicine" on the front show hn article: Andi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30832589 and the result was "the best medicine is what your doctor subscribes you"

I tried this Figma plug-in a couple weeks ago. It is quite magical!

What previously took me hours in Webflow, now only takes 30s (+ the extra 10-20 mins to format things correctly in Figma).

I’m looking forward to using this next time I make a portfolio.

The feature set still has some gaps but I’m quite impressed for how far it’s come in a few months.

I tried this Figma plug-in a couple weeks ago. It is magical!

What previously took me hours in Webflow, now only takes 30s (+ the extra 10-20 mins to format things correctly in Figma).

I’m looking forward to using this next time I make a portfolio.

The feature set still has some gaps but I’m quite impressed for how far it’s come in a few months.

My first job as a UX designer was at a company named Mindybody.

You might not have heard of it, however, they are the world’s largest provider of scheduling software for Yoga studios (they process billions of dollars in sales every year).

I was their first designer and I redesigned their mobile apps and tablet point-of-sale apps (both are modern and decently well designed native apps), however, even today Mindbody still uses most of the stuff in this article for their web experience! It hasn’t changed since they built it in 2008.

Here is an example (close the ad for the mobile app to see the site):

https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/asp/su1.asp?tg=&vt=&lvl=&...

Every time I apply for a job I worry they will think this is my work. [1]

[1] Technically I did design this desktop mobile app. The very first job I had was to adjust the colors and font sizes and replace out gifs on these pages (but the engineers and myself were not allowed to replace any of the underlying html/tables or the VB script that powers — besides a few minor tweaks).

Bookmarking for Nov 2026 — my prediction: GM and Ford go the same way as Volvo (sold to another manufacture) or have gone bankrupt and sold just for the name.

Also: "You know who Hertz CEO is? The former CEO of Ford.

And he didn’t order the Mustang Mex-E. He ordered 100,000 Tesla Model 3" - @WholeMarsBlog

And:

"To be clear, cars sold to Hertz have no discount. Same price as to consumers." - Elon Musk

So you have the former CEO picking Tesla (with GM, Volkswagen, and Ford losing out) and for the first time ever a rental company is paying full price for a 100,000 order.

If you think that is wild, did you know Tesla is worth almost 1,000 Palms!

The iPhone launched in '07 & AAPL saw its cap go from $100b → $2,400b in 14 yrs

In the same 14 yrs

Nokia: $110b → $32b

RIM: $72b → $6b

Palm: $54b→ $1.2b

FYI, the global auto industry is not Apple in this example

As we saw with Inspiration 4, SpaceX is willing to take commissions, thus:

This might not be the cheapest way, however, if you can engineer a satellite to last 500 years [1], you could then have SpaceX put it up in orbit for over 500 years[2]. Have this satellite broadcast your website via radio [3]. Then setup a trust with a consortium of lawyers to maintain a ground station network that hosts the website on earth's internet.

This way even if the earth lawyers/society fail you, you are still hosting the website technically, just not on earth's internet.

[1] Does anyone know if this is reasonably possible?

[2] https://space.stackexchange.com/a/5599

[3] https://science.howstuffworks.com/question431.htm

The sale of Volvo to Geely blows my mind in particular when you realize $1.5b is only 30,000 BTC. Geely bought Volvo for the cost of 6 pizzas [1].

[1] Ford paid $6.5 billion for Volvo in 1999, ten years later, in 2010 10,000 Bitcoins was worth 2 large pizzas, and 8 years later in 2018 Ford sold Volvo to Chinese carmaker Geely for $1.5 billion (30,000 BTC by today's valuation).

That's one take. Here is another: "$F holding the Feb 1 1994 resistance as support to the penny so far. Legacy auto gonna need some catalysts as chip shortage will be prolonged and billions in capital needed for EV development." https://twitter.com/JoTrader4/status/1434945782323589123

See you in 2031!

Haha, and then in 10 years when He announces X you will say: “since he’s had great success in pioneering self landing reusable rockets, starting a colony on Mars, pioneering the EV market, pioneering Robo taxis, making the first commercial humanoid robots, moving traffic underground, adding computers to people’s brains, he has now fallen for the idea that he can easily repeat that success in other areas like X”

This is going to be a good thread to come back to in 10 years. Maybe I’ll be completely wrong and need to admit I was foolishly optimistic in Musk’s ability, however, my guess is the parent comment will be hilarious/absurd in hindsight.

Every manual job I’ve ever done I’ve probably failed more than 1% of every movement. But then I correct. In a car moving at high speeds (focus matters more), I do this less often, but I have been in crashes.

Fair point, however, I look forward to coming back to this comment in 5 years (1966).

Maybe I’ll be eating humble pie, however, my guess is that by then it will be out of prototype phase and in use.

From what I’ve seen FSD makes minor mistakes that at high speeds lead to danger or death. I can’t see a minor mistake in folding laundry leading to the laundry being shredded. Musk said the robots would not be strong (only can lift 5lbs). So unless the robot picked up scissors it couldn’t shred the laundry.

Unless I’m missing something?

It is interesting that many of the top comments are as dismissive as: “No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame,”

When you look at Tesla’s talent in: AI + motors + batteries + manufacturing I can’t believe how negative and dismissive the comments are. Can we not have some appreciation for what Tesla HAS achieved vs only focusing on missed ship dates?

The part that I think is going over peoples head is that for so many jobs a robot can be as error prone as FSD is currently today and still be safe to replace a human. You wouldn’t want the robot to control a fork lift but it could replace many jobs in a factory with out creating major risk.

The flaw with full self driving right now is not that it doesn’t work sometimes. Rather it needs to work 99.999999% of the time. This isn’t true for many 5 mile an hour jobs. If they can get the robot to complete a job correctly 99% of the time, at the right price that robot will be printing money for the company that owns it.

This is a good checklist for a much later date: the day your ready to raise capital.

This is a bad checklist to start with, because your right. 99.9% of ideas start off bad. The founders of Airbnb originally required each host to serve breakfast and expected each host to use airbeds in their living room. That was the original idea. They went to investors and explained the market size by counting the number of airbeds sold.

There is a good YC essay on building a toy. Start by building a toy that has meaning to you. Then if it morphs into a real business and you think your ready to raise capital: this form will be useful. Also, play with this form now. It will help you think about ideas but don’t buy into it too early. Focus on meaning at early stages.

From recently discovering Dr. Sarno’s work on physical pain (Eg. Back pain). My current working theory is most psychological pathology comes from repressed rage. It sounds crazy but thousands of people have been cured from chronic back pain, depression, IBS, the list goes on from just learning to get in touch with their embarrassing and painful feelings of rage. Most people have no idea how much bottled up rage is living in their subconscious.

“Though he may not be a household name, Sarno is probably America’s most famous back pain doctor. Before his death on June 22 2017, a day shy of his 94th birthday, he published four books and built a cult-like following of thousands of patients — including Howard Stern and Larry David. Many of them claim to have been healed by Sarno, who essentially argued back pain was all in people’s heads. And Sarno himself often said that some 80 percent of his patients got better.”

“After digging a little deeper, I learned that some of Sarno’s theories are now even being validated by science — specifically, that there can sometimes be an emotional basis for chronic back pain. And that’s an important truth mainstream pain medicine still hasn’t quite figured out what to do with.”

“More specifically, he believed that the brain distracts us from experiencing negative emotions by creating pain. We may not want to accept the uncomfortable truths that we are angry with our children, or that we hate our job, so instead of thinking those thoughts, we focus on the pain.

He also thought that pain was created by reduced oxygen and blood flow to the muscles and nerves of the body. So our brains unconsciously [sub consciously] direct blood away from certain areas of our body, and that creates pain.” - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/scienc...

The problem is that Sarno was at his peak when western medicine wasn’t willing to look at studies that show that emotions can be the root cause of physical conditions. Which is crazy because the placebo effect is well documented. Thus there is obvious evidence that our mind has the ability to effect our body in various ways (including our immune system).

Haha, what’s funny is I’m terrible at spelling, so I asked my wife how to spell anatomy she must of miss understood me (she is good at spelling) and she spelled “autonomy”.

In the field of UX/Psychology there is a term “suffice”. Our brains are constantly sufficing rather that perceiving all data and interpretating it. If we had to do the latter end of the spectrum, our heads would need to be bigger, to the point birth wouldn’t be possible based on current female autonomy. You wouldn’t have survived child birth.

As a result when a person visits a page on a website for the first time people in average scan the page only reading a few words (I’ve hear 7 on average claimed). However, most beginner designers will not realize this and put a couple hundred words on a page with out proper typographic hierarchy. Better designers (same is true for poster designers) use typography and visual hierarchy (Font sizing, spacing/white-space, color, font weight, alignment) to create a design that is easy to scan for a sufficing human brain.

The less scannable the page is the more the brain needs to work to make sense of what is being displayed (higher cognitive load), and the less of a chance the user will read the highest priority data first (the context or hook data).

If the user reads the data in the wrong order, it will likely be confusing noise. The goal of a designer is to present the data in such a way that the signal to nose ratio is high, as they scan and dig deeper into a presented page or poster.

I’m confused, why would they sell large portions of equity (for billions) if they didn’t plan on spending those billions? So by definition any company that raises billions is planning on being unprofitable (by billions) or they wouldn’t raise money right?

Companies don’t sell equity for fun, they only do it if they have no other choice (they aren’t profitable yet, or they plan to become unprofitable due to new expansion. For the latter they may be able to raise debt instead of venture capital investment) right?

Here is a moon shot idea for US cities, by 2050:

1. All car streets need to be under ground in tunnels

2. All vehicles must be 100% electric

3. Over ground traffic is limited to: walking, wheel chairs, bikes, scooters and wide load special permit vehicles.

Forget Trump’s plan for going to the moon another time, can we do this instead?