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This is why every actually-productive program ends up looking "ugly" - think Blender or any other 3D tool, or Emacs, or a well fleshed-out IDE, or a professional engineering tool. The screen is cluttered with dialogues and toolboxes, many of which can be customized and rearranged into precisely the tool you have in mind.

Consider, for example, that Word 6 for Windows 3.1 let you do more to customize toolbars and menus than the latest Office 365 does inside the browser. The market was for a professional, to some extent, before; Microsoft Works was the dumbed-down version for more casual needs. Now, it seems like that professional set of functionality is an afterthought for a lot of UX designers.

Then again, you only really need pro UX when your goal is to actually get your product working well for people that aren't good at discovering interfaces themselves. If your target market is used to hammering their way through ugly UIs and CLIs out of necessity, pro UX focused on the 99% might not be the best investment; being consistent in your choices to at least make results predictable is probably the best lesson to apply in its stead.
Pretending the big-P Progressives of the 1890s-1920s are the same as today's progressives is as silly as claiming black people should love modern Republicans because of Lincoln.
> Of all the birds left in the world, 70% are poultry chickens and other farmed birds

While the overall thesis of this article may be correct, the writer undermines themself with the inclusion of misleading statistics like this one. It makes it sound as if we have killed all the wild birds or shunted them into the food industrial complex when really these things are fairly independent of one another. We're simply growing more chickens than ever because people like to eat meat.
I think you're viewing books and online content as entirely equivalent media forms; which would be much the same as treating movies and theater as equivalent content - they're adjacent, and provide similar material, but don't meet the same ends and their method of consumption are wildly different.

True, long form reading is also a skill that can be built up, and that skill even varies from topic to topic. Anybody that's done any academic reading (a.k.a. reading through dense academic journals and papers) will tell you it's a learned skill that is vastly different from either non-fiction or fiction reading. I can easily pound my way through a 1000 page book from Neal Stephenson in a few nights, but I need weeks to dig into a single paper in Category Theory, Non-linear Systems, or Control Theory; and it's because reading those academically isn't a skill I've built up yet.

And while it's true that much of the synopsis information on a topic can be found online, and you can get the details on Grapes of Wrath from piles of YouTube'ers and CliffsNotes; there is detail and meaning that you may take away from that book that you wouldn't find in those short reviews (they're great for school reports in a pinch, but not great for actual contextualization). So, in all, it also depends on what you're reading for.

And that brings me to my last and probably most important point, "What you're reading for." I read something like Stephen King for enjoyment, plain and simple, there isn't some meaning of life that will probably be gleaned from it. I have a friend that reads piles of "bodice rippers" for enjoyment, they read a lot of other things, but that's their junk food reading. I read various pop-science or pop-psychology or pop-history type books for a mix of enjoyment and seeing if I want to dig deeper on the subjects they're covering; and they can be better (and sometimes way worse) at conveying interesting points on a topic than a quick few articles online. I read academic journals to further my education and keep up with new things coming out in my fields of interest. And like most of us, of course I plow through online content, news, the Twittersphere, and bloggers I follow for many of these same reasons.

So it's honestly up to, and on you, for the reason you read books (or don't). Reading of any kind is a learned skill, and can atrophy in the same way your muscles will when you stop going to the gym - so if you want to read books, go for it; if you don't don't; but just like going to the gym, don't let the first few weeks/months/years/decades/lifetimes of soreness stop you from the goal you're interested in.
Lest anyone be confused by what this is arguing, it seems to say that the kind of discipline offered by mentors is not the same as just "punishing" bad behavior - perhaps colloquially known as "discipline". Having greater discipline to express your feelings, especially negative ones, to a positive direction is good advice. And that is what the benefit of having good male role models for young men is all about.
a lot of good comments here and I'd like to add some book suggestions here. You could start with some high-quality classics such as Meditations by Marcus Aurelius or other philosophy books such as from Epictetus or Seneca and see for yourself how much wisdom you can get out of these books.
> It takes an extraordinary amount of effort to find customers.

Aren't there services to help with that?
Its called "sarcasm".
Try as I might, I could not escape the feeling that this article was simply pretentious gibberish. It seems to largely draw its facts from vague 'torn from the headlines' ideas about colleges (which are, as any reading of Big Thinkpieces About The Decline of Practically Everything, uniformly full of snowflakes hysterical about triggers etc. etc.).

If I was interested in a psychological depiction of what it's like to be a pretentious business major with a keen interest in analyzing Game of Thrones and kissing Peter Thiel's ass, I think this might have a good deal of merit.
I think this argument fails to understand that purpose of black-box models is to be impossible to understand, as it shields the operator from pre-emptive accountability.

Then, since they are supposedly the 'only way' to provide whatever function the market is 'demanding', then clearly we must abandon any notion of accountability, as this need 'must' be met.

This logic is perhaps most evident in google/facebooks content moderation dilemmas, where both companies refuse to define any sort of non-vague actionable standards about what they censor (or fail to promote) as 1) they can't provide them and 2) they don't want to be held responsible for what they actually are.

Then, as outrage has grown over facebook/google's terrible content moderation and censorship policies, and the need for accountability has grown, both companies have been forced to hire ever more moderators and censors, because the technologies as claimed just don't work well enough.
It appears I can't answer your questions to your satisfaction. I live in the deep South. I provided my (not limited) experience and exposure to professional environments as evidence. And that experience, and the application of Occam's razor, tells me your claims that bias and racism is more effective now that it is comparatively invisible is absurd.
What experience did you have at that point? (Asking as someone trying to get a first job part-time in college).
Is it worth visiting the Sistine Chapel or going to the Louvre or the Hermitage? Who knows!

But it is completely different from seeing pictures of them.

What books are worth it? Hmmm. Depends. But some are very much so.

Is The Art of Computer Programming worth it? Is little Rudin worth it? Is the “Feynman lectures on Physics” worth it? Is “The Ides of March” worth it?

Depends.
I'm one of those weird people who's missed skeuomorphism ever since it fell out of favor. It had so much more charm than the soulless, flat interfaces we get these days. And honestly it was more intuitive too. The accessibility issues with this new style definitely need addressing, but given that I'd be excited to see things move back the other way some.
Epigenetic side-effects of common pharmaceuticals (2009)
The Philosophy of Software Development
Sorry, I don’t follow.

Are you saying it works well in safety critical software development?

Cheaply in the case of adverse outcomes (whether cost, environmental impact, or impact on life) seems at odds with the very definition of software that has a high severity if it fails. I.e., to say safety critical software can be developed “cheaply” seems to ignore the costly consequences of that software failing
I'm still confused. Why is runtime compilation a component of the "system", but aot compilation is not? Why are python interpreters a component of the system, but microcode interpreters and aot compilation not?

If you haven't given a clear definition of what "the system" is, I can't really use your evaluation to influence my decision making.
What Is HTML? Advantage and Disadvantage of HTML
This sounds less like discrimination and more like a bug.

Where are you coming from that you think that a CAPTCHA would be used to prevent you from seeing this?
No sane pilot would fly an extra hour in a twin with a failed engine if it's not necessary for safety (e.g. weather and runway length are considerations, the rest isn't really important in case of an engine failure)

The plane doesn't just fly nicely with one engine, it will yaw and become much less stable. You will also usually be descending (drift down procedure) because the single engine service ceiling is lower than normal cruise. And the autopilot doesn't work so you're flying manually, for all of the diversion.

You really don't want to be doing that any longer than necessary. You have also no redundancy left, so continuing means you're increasing risks. Even more so because you'll increase your remaining engine to max continuous power stressing it more than usual.
Could you expand on what closed/open loop mean in this context?
Ask HN: Facebook API bug can anyone help?
some of my customers who are using my chatbot, keep getting errors and problems happened in their Facebook pages.

Others reported the issue on Facebook too but no response yet!

Anyone can help with that?
The issue is in private replies to comments.
> That progress bar doesn't even make sense. For "cash available"? What kind of progress bar makes sense for that?

Savings goal. Credit limit. Mortgage.

It would be badly named, but it's not completely stupid.
[PSA] There is one standard date format.

It is called ISO 8601 and looks like 2020-01-04. Use it. It's very good. If you write 4.1.2020 or 1/4/2020, you're wrong. Those are both bad, as are many others.
Yeah, if somebody were willing to invest the money / time / energy into it, I think something like that could work. There would be a lot of details that would need to be worked out, but I like the concept in general.
> It's just how it works.

Nitpick: that's how it should work, and how HN trys to make it work (hence the so-called tribalism), but in many cases those rushing fools get a golden parachute and a cushy retirement while leaving a straw-stuffed limited-liability corporation to be "held accountable" for liabilities it no longer has the assets to meet. And that's if they can't use superior legal funds, PR, and lobbying to shift those liabilities onto engineers or dismiss them entirely.
DARPA working on developing autonomous ships as Navy pushes for unmanned fleets
Not true. 9/11 was the direct result of us interfering in Indonesia east Timor conflict 15 years earlier by stopping jihadis from wiping out christians.
Next, we'll be simplifying the hand down to a few strokes in a well-defined order, and...
I think the previous commenter is on to something re icebreakers. Also, please check out Carol Dweck’s work on Growth Mindset. Her book shares examples of how researchers and teachers successfully primed underprivileged students to stop thinking of intelligence as a fixed trait. Some interesting mindset “hacks” that eventually helped them outperform students w/better resources.
Sounds more like a useful side effect than anything someone would design on purpose. But that's an interesting point none-the-less.

Occam's razors the easier way to explain the actions of the big guys and their own internal responses to cultural pressures to not allow things they don't like from happening or being tolerated in the world.
Interesting take. I'm also a huge carnivore, to me there's nothing better than a rare ribeye or filet. It's going to be interesting to see how the synthetic meat movement develops. If they could "print/grow" filet mignon's and at a "frozen burger price," I feel like I'd be happy to switch.
What's Paddle's pricing? I can't find any information online. I want to bill people for a SaaS for example, using Paddle.
You both fundamentally misunderstand. American conservatives don't trust the government to do right by the people. It's as simple as that.
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> Are you the only consultant who could figure out how to bring down the cost of the appliance (in the articles example) down by 1$?

I have never seen another person or company be the competition.

The competition is always "do nothing".

It takes real motivation somewhere to knock a company out of inertia if they can continue to muddle along.
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Is there a guide anywhere in setting the wsl and using it for let’s say ruby based dev?
you get called and the flop is shit, what do you do?
I like making the internet less dangerous to handle, so to speak, but there are always trade-offs, and I'm not sure that changing the default brings enough benefit to warrant all the pain.

To me, it seems like it would've been better to use this energy to push the community into opting into SameSite={Lax,Strict} by default (make it a 'best practices' thing). Get it added to automated security tooling, make the browser console print messages for cookies missing SameSite, etc.

Albeit, it is much harder to reach all the web devs in the world, and so some sites may not opt into SameSite and be bitten by CSRF, but that is in line with e.g. X-Frame-Options / Content-Security-Policy. It's not ideal, but it preserves backwards compatibility, which is a thing I value very, very highly.
Well maybe also because black box models can be applied to a wider range of systems and can help to understand general properties of a class of algorithms. I’m sure it’s mostly all a conspiracy, though.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/world/asia/north-korea-mi...
You also were too verbose...

OP Q: Books worth it?
Answer: Nah.

Or maybe we can remove all the vowels and connecting verbs and extraneous adjectives and still get your point across...

"Ans shld b obv frm SvN. Shldv ax "books worth time?" Books take 2 mch time 4 same pt."

Yup, you were definitely still too inefficient...
Then why are we talking about the age?
Reports from the other side of the argument contend that the modern age continues to drive down the number of people in dire straits.

So one idea is to step back from the messengers and wonder who drives the messages: how much of this reporting is intended to manipulate policy?
>the purpose of black-box models is to be impossible to understand

nothing is impossible to understand
The tendency to say, "Don't worry, we've got it covered," is precisely where my worry stems from. It is better than not having any awareness of the potential problems, to be sure, but only so much so.

Your last analogy is an example of this. The link between sickle cell anemia and ancestry is a causal link that could be shown conclusively with a genetic test for a SNP. Finding that gene may have been an involved effort undertaken with a great many resources, but that link was established with near-perfect data and a clear conclusion.

The most promising are applications for ML are situations on the exact opposite end of the spectrum: problems where data is imperfect, noisy, or incomplete, where conclusions are not certain, but simply likely, to some measure of confidence.

We want to use ML to come to answers approaching conclusive, when a solid conclusion is impossible or unlikely, or would too long to obtain by conventional means. And we won't know how that conclusion is reached. So, in terms of conclusions that could spark wars, genocide, untold suffering, maybe we need to be more serious about our vigilance in regards to what we can control.

To put it bluntly, these concerns people have seem akin to NASA being more worried about handling post-catastrophe PR and internal messaging than keeping the shuttle from exploding in the first place.
I've a small bag of thoughts on this:

- Whether it's books, videos, short-form articles, long-form articles, academic papers or podcasts, it's about searching for good information and positive stimulation. Both of these criteria are subjective.

- How you search and filter is also highly personal. It might be that your needs are such that the content you find in those mediums you listed are ideal for you.

- For me, people who write books and people who do videos/articles/podcasts are often not the same people, and I tend to be more interested in what the book writing people have to say.

- Videos/articles/podcasts present first-hand ideas far less often. The opposite is true: authors of interesting and original ideas often elect to convey them through books. Again, subjective.

- If an idea is novel enough, short-form mediums like those you listed are not enough to convey it. A book (or rather its length compared to e.g. article) allows the author to explore and swim around in his ideas. You need that for innovative ideas. Noam Chomsky said that at the time (1960s or 70s) how much time you got to present your idea on TV -- 5 minutes -- was not enough to change a person's opinion, so the medium itself framed the discourse. Same applies to all mediums. It pays to be mindful of that.

- A good book is much better than a good series or film. HBO's Game of Thrones versus GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire. Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose versus the recent series. Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series versus Netflix's Altered Carbon. Same goes for non-fiction.

- I'm a lover of film, but I turned to books because there's only so many good movies, but there's orders of magnitude more good books. Same goes for fiction and non-fiction.

- If you're looking for stimulation, rather than technical information, a book lasts much longer. I've stretched out reading some book series for years and it was awesome.

- If you don't enjoy a book, don't read it. Don't hope that it will get better or that it will have been worth it. Odds are stacked against it. I regret that when I started getting into books way back when I forced myself to read even those I didn't immediately like; I now know to give a book a serious 30-60 minutes and if my gut says no that's that. Reading takes time so spend it enjoying yourself. This applies to technical reading too.
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At the same time bestbuy started price matching, the also stepped up their customer service, return policy, and stock.
The paper discusses how source address token might be used in tracking and thus online advertising services, Google's business.

The online tracking and advertising industry and companies selling to that industry such as Google believe IP addresses, when combined with other information, tell something valuable about consumers.

Perhaps users of the "modern web browsers" cannot or will not manually control generation or storage of source address tokens. Hence the need for papers like this one, pleading with the organisations controlling the browsers to change the software. That software is of course written by employees of companies and parents of companies that are paid directly or indirectly from sales of internet advertising services.

Probably the folks creating these protocols never thought about the implications of the design on internet advertising services. However, from the perspective of people selling internet advertising services, the association/non-association of IP addresses with public keys seems like it might be significant, regardless of its intended purpose to the protocol designers. People buying those online ad services are likely to understand the potential value of IP address information, e.g., they might think it tells them something about geo-location. If so, they might also see the added value in the combination of IP address with a unique identifier.
Hm, how much would it cost to buy a "Experts Say This Software Is More Effective Than Antivirus" ad on the Edge new tab page that encourages you to download Chrome?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILl8ozWuxnFYXIe2svjHhg

Feedback and control systems can be described in a couple pages of text and a handful of simple equations. Suppressing knowledge is never an effective strategy. We shouldn't hoard the Krabby Patty Secret Formula.
> I’m sure it’s mostly all a conspiracy, though.

Yeah, mostly
Wow! They should really make a movie out of this
Good point. Though I think "and" in those other cases really means something like "additionally" or "plus" rather than OR. You sentence could be written "... list of people who live in NY and people who live in LA.".

But it's still confusing here. If they mean it applies to both imagery software and point cloud software, then point cloud software would be excluded in point 2 because it doesn't have pixels or color (if lidar/etc). So it must be software that uses both. That makes more sense if it's aimed at a specific existing product.
I recently did a book club at work, reading the book Being Wrong. At one point the book shared some research that supported the notion that children largely engage in play as a method of flirting with error and mistake making. Mistakes made in play are easily forgiven and quickly learned from. Adults play progressively less because there are fewer safe areas in which we can regularly err.

Whether that line of logic is accurate or not, it did help me to realize that in my own life I have very few opportunities to test my (mis)understandings of the world around me and find where I'm wrong. I desperately hide in my safe zones.

I've recently found reading books a good way to create fresh safe zones where I can view the world from different perspectives and test my beliefs. People of all different sorts in all different cultures from nearly all time periods have written books, and often written them well enough to transport the reader into their reality. It may not be "play", but I'm greatly enjoying the diverse worlds I have recently been reading myself into.

I don't find many internet writings to have this level of depth that allows me to rethink myself as I read.
Maintaining backward compatibility in Java rest API
1. Throw out the garbage before hitting the brakes.

2. Garbage hits planet at relativistic speed.

3. Profit.
> Its very similar to the argument kids make "Why do I have to learn how to do long division when I have a calculator?" or "Why do I need to show my work on the exam if I got the right answers?"

Exactly. We included mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers in the design of those calculators. They use algorithms backed by rigorous proofs, run upon circuits with rigorous tolerances such that the answer is correct (to a reasonable amount of precision). Kids with their calculators are intellectually lazy -- we should expect that, but continue to teach otherwise. To see this from full-grown adults in academia is an embarrassment. But, god, would I enjoy a ML salary...
Technology and Human Rights in Comics
This has gone deliciously off the rails.
A Perceptual Hash in Futhark
Good Golly Miss Molly when the coin miners discover this tech, the Earth will be waist deep in goo.
We had to do an emergency patch to the config of a well-known data analytics platform, because their regex to identify/extract 2 digit years did not cater for anything beyond 2019...
We dodged that bullet, but shows a lack of foresight by said company. Lucky we don't have much data that has 2 digit year dates.
If it's a war on people of color I guess it was an inside job:

https://www.wnyc.org/story/312823-black-leaders-once-champio...