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I've always shied away from luxury brands because repairs are so expensive. Little things like a switch, or a seat lever, or even trying to replace the middle console lid because your kid scratched it up, is always more expensive when its a luxury brand. Just because it comes from BMW doesn't mean it should automatically be more expensive.
> Users absolutely hated the new system.

I feel like this is a universal absolute, doubly so when it comes to enterprise apps (the lone exception being when we switched from Lotus Notes to Gmail -- then only half the company hated the change).

I would've liked to know how long the changes were in place and how it affected productivity metrics, especially the amount of training time spent on new users. As is, the article seems kind of obvious. Enterprise users abhor change; who knew?

> Just like you wouldn’t appreciate a dictionary with only 10 words per page (so many pages to flip through!)

This also makes me question the veracity of the article. It's a really terrible metaphor that makes me wonder if they were _solely_ concerned with pretty design on the outset.

I want a dictionary that shows me 1 word per page, with a search bar. The page flipping functionality is useless and can be removed entirely. It's a bad workflow.

I can definitely say that over the past 20 years, our in-house LoB app has developed some really bad workflows as well (business changes a lot over 20 years). Removing these bad workflows would give us back a ton of screen real estate without losing productivity.

The causality is backwards. I don't want to create whitespace by changing the design and ruining the functionality. I want to change the functionality which will create more whitespace and allow room for beautiful design.
"It's definitely hitting the uncanny valley."

I'd say you're correct that it is still in it, but it is clearly climbing up the other side now. We're past the minima of verisimilitude now.
With the exception of safety features (think blind spot monitoring, backup cameras, lane keep assist, parking sensors) and mobile connectivity features like bluetooth, frankly I'm getting tired of all the crap they're throwing into vehicles these days for many of the reasons you mention.

It seems every manufacturer or parent brand has their own infotainment system, NAV, etc. and you pay the price for it when you buy the car. And god forbid you want the upgraded safety features or leather seats, but don't want any of the other bells and whistles, because you can't have it without tacking on $4000 for the "technology" package.

My ideal car these days is one with the safety bells and whistles, limited luxury features (automatic and heated/cooled seats, climate control), but without any complicated infotainment beyond bluetooth/Android auto/Apple Car Play connectivity. There's no reason to have redundant technology built into cars by companies that aren't as good at it when we have perfectly capable, and generally more up-to-date mobile devices with us at all times.

Is anyone making reasonably well-appointed vehicles without throwing everything and the kitchen sink in there?
Ironically not listed as a solution: use skeuomorphism.

Skeuomorphic interfaces, for all their pitfalls, are good at visually separating interface elements for quick comprehension without requiring mountains of whitespace.
I'd guesstimate that it is tied with 60GHz femotcells and ISPs. Graphics at 4K+ resolution and 120Hz+ refresh rates does not seem viable for many years on mobile platforms, but indoor positioning and high-bandwidth streaming provided by a device that takes the place of your WAN/LAN router could possibly work. Time-sharing high-end GPUs could also be quite economical, and give ISPs yet another revenue stream.

All the infrastructure needed for this already exist in a form which offers barely adequate performance. Good performance should be just a generation or two away, and then things should get interesting.
There are so many hours in a day. Exposure to computation as opposed to not exposing to what? What would you trade this with?
It's the same concept. For linux you'd use SSH which gets you to a shell for remote administration, for Windows you use powershell via the Enter-PSSession command.
You can also use that argument to wave away any statistics you don't like the ramifications of.
In what format are the users stored? Is it just another custom database schema?

It's kind of pointless when it can't be integrated with bunch of other infrastructures that support common protocols like LDAP.
> The mfgs wanted to outsource the development, and now when they need an adjustment to traction control it's a $50, 100, 250, 500,000 charge, BUT, they've also moved the responsibility to the mfgs like Bosch, ConTevis, etc.

I can see where this would complicate and slow delivery of bugfixes, but if you ask me who I'd rather have mucking around with my ABS firmware, a GM engineer or a Bosch engineer, that's an easy answer.
The operational principle of political correctness is we imagine a way we would like the world to be and then we act like it's that way. When people dispute with empirical data that is not that way, they are destroying the magical thinking that will make it that way. They are a heretic that must be persecuted. So people hide that the empirical reality and the imagined perfect world are not matching up.

This is much like Soviet plant managers would lie about their production numbers to avoid getting sent to Siberia because the politically correct idea in those days was that communist production was at least equal or better than capitalist production. Similarly, in order to give praise to the imagined perfect world, we offer up a regular sacrifice to the imagined perfect world in the form of a persecution of non-believers, some would even call them saboteurs of the imagined world when they point out its lack of empirical observability, even though after the persecution the empirical dissonance remains and doesn't go away.
That last one is funny. Basically: expect anyone photographed at this angle to be wearing one of those TED-talk wireless microphone things usually. Rendered probabilistically?
Probably isn't helping that their screenshots are all about a decade out of date
This is exactly the Google plus vs Facebook argument I've been making over the years. 'Plus', with all it's white spacing was arguably ugly and this was also why it had low user retention that led to it's demise.
Everyone is afraid of being "left behind" and not being able to get a job. Keeping one's resume marketable trumps being productive.
I think that's a great idea.

Honestly I don't think any culture in the west has ever been truly supportive of becoming a STEM person. Until very recently is was extremely derided in even white American culture as being "for nerds".

A more positive exposure to technology at an early age can only be a good thing. I think we'll still find very few people want to become engineers due to the required workload and that will be ok.
I feel like you're missing the point and you think you're not.
I genuinely don't know, I just noticed that Emacs could be rather sluggish for some operations while dealing with massive files. For all I know all other editors might fare worse.
I think I get what you're saying. I've seen people call others "fat fucks" (heard that one yesterday) and shit like that in person in public, which is fairly extreme by face-to-face standards but very tame by twitter standards. I've never seen somebody accuse somebody else face-to-face of being a cannibalistic child rapist, but I've seen that on twitter! I think that's the kind of insult that would stand a decent chance of starting a physical altercation.
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Fuck this * world.
Onboarding for new tech hires
Windows Server doesn't support ARM, neither does Windows IoT Enterprise. The Nano Server install is strictly for virtualized use.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/...
You'll have to talk to a proper lawyer to get a citation.

The state difference emerges because the "for hire" bit depends on local labor laws. And yes, the type of work matters. If a programmer writes a novel, or an accountant writes software, the employer likely doesn't have a case. But if a programmer writes software, then in New York it doesn't matter whether the software relates to your job or what your employer does. In California the content does matter.
Your answers read exactly like most of the people I know at Microsoft. I think to a certain extent companies with high average tenure produce cultures where people become risk-averse and reinforce these values through statements like your own.

For what it's worth, by staying there you are leaving a serious amount of compensation behind, assuming your skills could find you another job. $225k would be $350k elsewhere, easily. Many of the MSFT lifers I know don't really have a skillset that would translate or be valuable elsewhere, due to their focus on their company. That's probably true of most cases where someone stays at a single firm for a long time.

By no means am I suggesting there's anything wrong with your worldview, just pointing out that in this industry, you are leaving serious comp behind by not shopping around. Your work after moving would probably be more enjoyable and interesting, too.
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"Consider working towards an early retirement"

I suspect this just delays the whole situation. With additional risks of burning your physical and/or mental health.
"And as criticism grows over Silicon Valley’s bro culture and its lack of minority representation"

Isn't 40% of the tech industry made up of east and south asians? Do they not count as minorities? If anything, you'd think SV would be praised for being one of the most diverse industries.

"A growing body of research shows diverse perspectives bring tangible benefits to firms that support them"

You see this so much in these types of articles. "Diverse perspectives" doesn't necessarily mean "diverse ethnicity". A group of 3 white men ( CEO, factory work and homeless man ) will have greater diverse perspectives than 3 female CEOs ( black, white and asian ) who went to the same schools, hung out with the same crowd and live in the same area. Also if her assertions were correct, wouldn't more diverse firms naturally have beaten out less diverse firms and we wouldn't need to legislative or force diversity in these companies?

If what is being stated in this article is true, why doesn't YC or any VC firm gather the most diverse set of founders to start a new Google, Facebook, Apple, etc? "Research" has shown that the new diverse google, facebook, etc have tangible benefits which must translate into success. Right?

Instead of complaining about it, why not start a diverse company and take hundreds of billions from the less diverse companies like Apple, Google, Facebook?

Also, does this apply just to tech companies only? What about another highly successful firm in the silicon valley area - the Golden State Warriors. Instead of having 5 african american starters, why not diversify the team since "research" has shown that has tangible benefits.

I'm against racism of all kinds whether it benefits whites,blacks,asians,etc. I'm against sexism as well - whether it benefits males or females. If there are systematic obstacles, lets remove those rather than creating more racism and racial obstacles.
The problem is that, in a market economy, like the one we live in, we can dig up and burn coal much faster then we can grow and bury trees.

Coal can be mined for $30/tonne. That's 3 cents/kilogram. At that price point, it's nearly free. How can you keep up with sequesteration, when you are competing with nearly-free?

Sequestration makes sense when we are talking about an economy that derives ~5-10% of its energy from liquid fossil fuels, and everything else from renewables. It doesn't make much sense when 50% of energy generation comes from fossil fuels. It's just too labour intensive to make it work.
A few words about J.D. Power:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKN5Wl4uTyY
Things do get applied. If you want applications of GANs to better games, did you notice the past few weeks discussion of using ESRGAN & other superresolution GANs to upscale artwork of old games to make them far prettier and highres?
The person I responded too was saying that Sublime and VS Code are incomparable because they are different types of software.

I was disagreeing with his distinction between advanced text editors and lightweight IDEs.
I think "most of the time" is the key part here.
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That’s not even an argument, but I’d certainly be willing to see your analysis of these particular statistics and why you think they’re fraudulent.
I have a CASIO CFX-9850 GB PLUS with 64 KB memory, and it's been the most useful gadget for spreadsheet-style graphics and data analysis. Since it has a 3 color display, it's very easy to visualize lots of different datasets.

As far as I know, they don't make them anymore, which is a shame. They were great. Slow BASIC, but the BASIC was amazing and easy to use.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14087381
Ask HN: How do opensource projects know who is using their software?
I've noticed many opensource projects publish who's using their software on their website. Typically it will be big name enterprise and trendy startups. What different methods they use to find that info out?

For instance https://nextjs.org or https://www.styled-components.com have big names on their websites, but neither seems to track who's downloading their software.

I also wonder if they ask for permission before putting that information up. Depending on the software/user, it could be sensitive information that may require explicit approval.
That is worth posting separately.
Why are they irrelevant? Why can't the data be used to address this disparity? If certain groups shy away from STEM careers, why not try to do something about it?
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Karras et al 2018 dumped a random sample, not a screened sample. (This avoids cherrypicking accusations.)
No you probably wouldn't, as Silicon Valley attracts the top X% of the tech population due to the pay, the status of the companies hiring, VC money floating around, etc.
Where is this data from? I see 300MB model on their Google Drive. And if I understand correctly, you also need source and destination images to transfer styles from and to, so it's not like the model generates photos out of thin air.
I think you need both.

You need to ask/provide a way for users to tell you what they want (fixing or features).

And you also need to observe users using the product.
I've watched in amazement as a person slammed through green-screen after green-screen to enter data while the new "more productive" GUI interface took everyone 10 times as long. Worse, the damn GUI actually required a longer on-boarding period for the new employees.

I miss companies like Palm that had a person who counted the taps to get something done.
The best approach is to watch them do their work and ask a lot of questions. For example, "Why did you have to leave this screen to go find X?"
Exactly, I knew of IOTCore already, but I don't know of any WinAPI to access such low level features
If you don't use open standards you'll look like a pyramid scheme.
Nobody ever talks about the psychological toll this takes on developers, and also on the overall software quality. If you are just re-building the same UI over and over again because "everyone is now doing it in Django / Angular / Vue / React / {insert future hyped framework}", no developer will go the extra mile to produce a stable, high-quality code base anymore. Why should they, if they instinctively know that they are just coding for the garbage bin? What you get is a team of depressed, cynical developers and low-quality software that barely works, which will then be re-implemented 12-24 months lather in some other framework, possibly by another team of developers because the old team has left in frustration or been fired for lack of motivation. It is a vicious circle that consumes the most productive age of an entire software engineer generation, and (although I am sure some of you will heavily criticize this) I am deeply convinced that the only way out of this is to just stick to basic tools and programming languages that have been around forever. Avoid any framework that is advocated like a religious cult.
Yes, but does this make my argument false?
and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14121437 of similar vintage.
Calling the Steele Dossier unsubstantiated is just objectively wrong considering we've seen many claims within it bear fruit over time. There's a reason why many agencies take it very seriously.

What exactly is your bias here?
DDT is bad. But its effect is limited to the amount of used chemical.

Altering genomes of living organisms with the intention of wiping out a species ... has a potential unlimited side effect.

I especially like the second example: fighting the toad in australia. Originally the toad was brought in to mess with the local ecosystem ... then it messed too much and now the solution is altering the genome with a exponentional bigger impact.

Isn't that real live satire? I mean how could that possible go wrong, since we understand everything about ecosystems and the genome today and are masters about controlling complex systems ...
Per https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/28/18200885/w..., Brown was separated "for more than a decade" from his wife at the time. I have a hard time seeing that as a major character flaw.

The assertion that she slept with him "to get a better job" is just that - an assertion.

> As Siders notes, suggesting that Brown had any influence over Harris’s professional ascent obscures the fact that he broadly exerted the same influence over numerous politicians in the region, given his wide-ranging position of power.

> “It is difficult to find any successful politician in San Francisco who does not have history with Brown,” writes Siders. “Before being elected mayor of San Francisco the same year Harris ran for district attorney, Newsom owed his start in San Francisco politics to an appointment by Brown to the city’s Parking and Traffic Commission, and later, to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.”

You're really only reinforcing my point - that Google's correctly selecting the more meaningful news stories here.

This information is all available on Google (hell, that's how I found it). It's just not the "top story", per Google's algorithmic judgement call.
Food. Medicine. Shelter.

Thankfully, these are generally well-regulated in Canada. I am having a hard time thinking of other products which I would pay double for:

* clothes: I already buy these at a thrift store

* laptop/computer/internet access: provided by university; I do have home internet, but if the price doubled, I'd probably just spend more time at the library

* soap/toothpaste/shampoo: I don't use soap, as water-only showers I find are pretty good in keeping me smelling neutral; toothpaste I could do without (it just feels more icky) and shampoo I can actually replace with soap, if its price doubles (soap being cheaper than shampoo)---in terms of hygiene, I don't think there is anything else I really use (maybe razors, but I could just get used to growing a proper beard if the price of razors doubled?), and I think I do a pretty good job of not smelling

* apps/games: I don't spend money on these typically, and definitely not if their price doubles; also, open source stuff is awesome

* transportation: I use public transit, but again this is regulated in Canada; if the price did double though, I could pick up cycling (especially since there are also likely to be less cars on the road then)

The great thing about working in math is that you can do useful mathematics even if you are in a prison, without pen and paper. So, my "work" (does play really count as work?) requires very little in terms of resources, apart from a metric crap-ton of patience, and mental energy (which depends on food). It's worth noting that I am not in any sort of fancy/well-paying/tenured position at a university.

Yay for taxes, which provide public services which help lazy do-nothings like me keep their mental hallucinations sustainable!
A feature switch is not a mode switch. A feature switch in the 'on' position just gives. A mode switch gives and takes away in the 'on' position.
If you mean for exa specifically, then yes. It’s mostly compatible with ls. Never caused problems in years now.
Is the distribution of minorities static across the entire country? If you want to promote change you need to earn people's trust, skewing statistics to support your cause does not help that. I am on the side of removing discrimination, unfair wage practices, etc., but the diversity industry (speakers, journalists, special interest groups) often shoot themselves in the foot by making loud, bold, claims, based on gamed statistics...
2018 was last year?
Take home tech tests in finance are now a huge time-sink
> You would expect the percentages to be statistically equal.

Serious question: why? Why would you expect that? I’m seriously interested by a response to that, that would give way more weight to this affirmation.
I have also thought this through to the following logical conclusion: Imagine computer users being fluent in SQL and everyone sharing one giant database.

Let’s check Twitter...

select message, username
from TWEETS
order by date desc
limit 10

Slightly more realistic is the “semantic web” concept.
I've been an electric car naysayer for some time. I just don't think the price to value is there. However, with proper towing and payload, these could have a large impact on the job-site truck market. It's common to have to travel > 60 miles each way for construction type jobs, and this much range would fit the bill.

Bed just needs to be longer. At $61k and about $25k (roughly) in fuel savings over an F250 diesel over 250k miles, this could potentially be a huge win.
I'm not saying there isn't a market for electric trucks, I'm just saying that few people are in the market for an electric pickup truck in the $100k+ price range for off-roading.

Judging by the specs on these things, I'd honestly be surprised if they could produce these for less than $125k.
It's over 20 years old, it launched in 1996. Time flies.
No it isn't, flash was the best way to do many things for the years it was popular. Video, vector animation, simple interactivity.

Electron is only the best way to do something when someone knows only javascript and web dev but doesn't want to learn a new language. Maybe a case could be made for severe misconceptions also helping electron like 'a custom native app has to be made for each platform', even though C++ and Qt and many other combinations can be written once with 99% of the source being the same for every platform.
Seems like yet another complaint about Electron's filesize/memory usage? We already know it isn't great. I don't see what this post adds.
It makes your argument specious, barring any supporting criticisms of the statistics in question.