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> It seems like the kid-friendly software still exists, but has shifted from word processing and painting to coding and game making

Thankfully! I remember managing a classroom computer lab around 2010. The challenge was to get often buggy educational software from the mid-1990's to run under Windows XP, since the mid-1990's was when most of the software with any educational merit was developed. There were a handful of contemporary standouts, like Scratch and TuxPaint, but they were scarce. (The children may have loved KidPix, but it was nearly impossible to teach with since they were fixated with the animated effects.)
There's a huge demand for Software Developers in every industry in the last few years. Retail, Finance, Marketing, etc.

Also, looking at a Marketing Company for example. There would be a ton of need for Software Developers, but generally no need for an electrical engineer.
I think you missed the point. Making coffee at home means counter space, machine maintenance, and keeping a stock of freshly-roasted beans. A trip to a cafe, ordering, and waiting, and going back is a minimum of 15 minutes (maybe if it's close and not busy you can do it in ten?).

Instant is less than 30 seconds and easy to keep stocked.

It sounds like you enjoy the ritual, so it's not wasted time. But it's not convenient for everyone every day.
oh really, well that's quite sad. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm glad at least they let him start it, although I'm curious what their thinking was at that moment (like "it's gonna "fail" anyway, just let him play with it").

I would so love for this discussion to be in a Wave-like tool. With inline comments instead of adding quotes by hand, in real time and with all the other cool features. Actually, maybe I can try to integrate my tool with HN API. Although looks like the API is read only, but at least it can be useful to track new comments. Wave was so great at features like showing new comments and playback as well!
All encrypted communications are treated as foreign origin regardless of its true origin. The US government uses this twist of illogic to justify their domestic collection.
I can't imagine life in the summer without them, and I live in Lisbon. We hit 41.5 last week, some places in the country got to 47. That's going to kill a lot of people, with or without blinds and closed windows.
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It's not because they don't care. They are just inherently bad at it. Look at all the bad designs in programming languages. The designers certainly did care.
The curriculum is fine. The entirety of the problem is correctly identified by the remainder of your statements.
>Well I am not you, but Brian Krebs' opening paragraph proudly ends with; "Watkins suggested the outage was somehow related to the work of the committee, but the truth is KrebsOnSecurity was responsible and the timing was pure coincidence."

>So to me it appears that Krebs is working against Internet freedom.

No, it appears that Krebs called up and asked if Psychz Networks knew what they were hosting. Psychz looked into it and decided, "Oh, we didn't know and we'd rather not host this, and it's within the terms for us to pull the plug, so we're pulling the plug."

Psychz could've just as easily told him to go kick rocks and kept it online. In that regard, Krebs is only indirectly responsible for the outage despite his statement otherwise. Your ire should be directed towards Psychz.

>Also, I have never visited any 8kun sites or consumed any of their content.

If you've spent any chunk of your time on the internet, or paid attention to the news, for the past five or six years, you have absolutely "consumed their content", in that it has trickled it's way down to you in one form of another.

>I have no stake in their existence, but I believe that they should be allowed to exist. If crimes have been committed by people using their service, the criminals should be dealt with and afforded due process according to the law, instead of removing the entire platform.

Sure. But just as the moderators of 8kun patrol their platform for content they don't want on it, hosting providers are under no obligation to host content they don't want to host. All Psychz did here was exercise their own free speech. C'est la vie.
I feel that the entire machinery of the government at the state and Federal levels is so thoroughly captured and corrupt that its levers can now never be used to cleanse itself.

The American people have/had rights they didn’t have to sacrifice to get, but which are valuable to a very determined and well-organized group of people, and so they are and will evaporate. The average American has never even heard of Snowden.
Govt can’t use $5 hammers on 330 million people at once as they can with data collection.
Sure, but then you have no way of distinguishing which type of creationist they are, which will lead to concluding more people believe the earth is under 10k years old, which is exactly the problem we are talking about. There should be either a separate option for creationists who believe the earth is older than 10k years, or remove the earth age part from the question.
Midjourney != DALLE2

One has a much smaller customer base than the other and effectively amounts to, as you suggest, a hype club that finetunes open works and monetizes by giving early access to members.

The other is backed by Microsoft and currently scales to 100,000 users.

To answer your question - not everyone spent their time learning to master art and design. The idea that this is stuff is trivial and devoid of value for a beginner is non-sense. It is useful anytime a coder is in need of custom assets matching an English description. Will it offend some artistic sensibilities? Probably, but have you looked around lately? Nobody cares about that anyway, unfortunately.
I recommend a Udemy course from a climatologist [1] who curates a massive online "encyclopedia" of climate data and issues using TheBrain.

[1] https://www.udemy.com/user/mark-trexler/
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If there was tremendous demand for ditch diggers in excess of supply, digging ditches would pay very well. How hard something is has nothing to do with it.

If the current supply and demand stays the way it is eventually things will even out. Programmer salaries will stagnate as more people enter the field and other fields may have salaries go up if there are not enough candidates.

This process is very slow though. It’s not a very efficient market due to opaqueness and the fact that people don’t like to change jobs too much. A huge reallocation can take a generation or more.
> Glassdoor Alert: Employer Legal Action

> This employer has taken legal action against reviewers and/or Glassdoor for the reviews that have appeared on this profile. Please exercise your best judgment when evaluating this employer. Learn more about Glassdoor Alerts.

i.e. "FFS stop writing reviews, but assume the worst is true and stay the hell away from these clowns"
Happiness is relative to other points in your life. If you want to be happy, find happiness in the simple things in life, and save money, when you save more money and advance through your career, you can increase your spending accordingly.

In other words, be conservative with your spending and you'll always have money to make yourself happier.
I think Snapchat+ is only available in those countries.
I can cut them some slack for that part, but it's a drag how they refuse to put the rejigged name directly in the title instead of relying on click bait to reel me in.
Analysis: Worth noting that author graduated in 1985, joined a Turkish University in 1987 as faculty, and published the notable paper in 2008. As such, little bit of a stretch to say he invented novel solution to something, but was forced to leave.

________

— Notable Paper (2008):

https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3917

— Three YouTubes by author explaining paper:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PNBFUV-ZetY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ODCOzvPIAUw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqn-iQ259J0

— Slides of YouTubes:

https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/erdal-arikan-2015-01-14

— Author’s Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdal_Arıkan
I'm not a Republican, but I think you can make strong points without the inflammatory rhetoric. In fact, I think your rhetoric weakens your argument--Republican women obviously aren't biologically different from Democratic or independent women, they can all suffer from ectopic pregnancy, and Republican women would have the most to lose considering they're presumably more likely to live in states where these laws are passed. Moreover, to the point of this thread, the proper solution is legislative (at the national level) rather than judicial--pass reasonable abortion legislation at the national level.
Anything by Dr. Bjorn Lomborg is excellent.
Just don’t go to Chile expecting it - it is virtually non-existent (it might exist in some high-end restaurants - I’ve never seen it)

Chileans tend to eat merluza or reineta, and then maybe salmon.
Why can't it be both? After all, cells are alive.
>Louisiana’s wildlife department offers recipes for nutria, a semi-aquatic rodent with an irrepressible breeding habit.

Been many years since I've been but I remember some signage at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans with recipes for it. Very on-brand.
I guess it wouldn't be 5B loss, but there is a good chance shares will drop enough in value for him to lose more than $1B.
The lost art of planning (1987)
The solution for this is to match the billing method.

For example, I don't care if they use a VPN - if they want to pay Indian rates, they have to do so from a INR-denominated account with an Indian billing address and have to do so using Razorpay/UPI/Indian Netbanking transfer/AirtelMoney/.... Everyone there has it - not having it is not an excuse, "I want to pay with a US Mastercard" is not an excuse. This solves it for the 99.99%+ use case. The "majority" here is so strong that if someone in India cannot pay with at least one of these payment methods and asks to use a US billing address credit card, it's either stolen or for all practical purposes I would be wondering how they survive day to day or buy groceries (or they are probably not old enough to enter into a contract to purchase or licence content from you). (It's probably stolen)

If you want to pay RUB rates, you have to pay via WMZ or YandexCash, Qiwi, Sberpay, Yoomoney.

THB discount? BigC, Tesco, PromptPay, etc.

BRL? Boleto. Even a 12 year old with no bank account can successfully pay with boleto.

Nearly every single country (I have not found one otherwise yet) that would be lower CoL and require a significant pricing adjustment has multiple unique payment methods that the hypermajority are signed up for (or required to use in the first place so everyone has an account) or is paid physically and accessible by anyone present to pay cash, that is inaccessible from US/EU/AU/etc.

These will even significantly lower your transaction fees due to foreign exchange, and lower your chargeback rates because many are effectively fraudproof due to requiring multiple factor mandatory confirmation, not allowing disputes, or being "pay in cash in person at a physical location within the country".

If you want to pay the standard USD or EUR rates, whatever normal card network is accepted no matter where you are from.
I have a freesync 165hz display. What is the best mpv setting? In theory it should be possible to perfectly show video on my monitor without any stretching or pacing problems.
>AI anime character generator game startups that YC seems to enjoy investing in

Wait, YC invests in this space? If it isn't any trouble, could you point me to a few?
The story is interesting, but it's obvious it's fake. For starters, you wouldn't just happen to find yourself sitting next to Einstein in 1955, and it only gets more improbable after that.
I guess I'm part of the problem. I dual-majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, I did well in both, and graduated with a B.S. in each.

Going into software development was a no brainer over EE. Twice the pay, "twice"* the job security, and no credentials needed beyond my degree and ability to deliver.

It was made even easier given that most of what I did during my EE project labs was doing the C coding that the other EEs didn't want to do. At that point I figured if I ever needed to go back to EE (some super-dot-com burst or whatever) I probably could.

* twice is just a vibe. Graduating in 2011, during a recession, there were NO junior EE jobs and I managed to get a coding job out of college.
If you don't click through, you don't get ads. The publisher makes no money from you browsing the content with a feed. Moreover, they can't quantify what you passed over before clicking something.

These aren't things users care about, but it's what the publishers care about.
A decent outcome here would be if Glassdoor revealed all employers that attempt to go after former employees with alerts like the current one on the Zuru page.
> The code is written to be cross-platform but the Linux and MacOS versions are not yet available.

Could you help me understand how I could help here? Perhaps I could help bridge the linux gap?
Please omit swipes and flamebait from your comments here. They break the site guidelines, and they also discredit what you're arguing for, which is really bad if you happen to be right. You can make your substantive points without any of that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am not making a point on whether workers work harder now than they did before. But at the same time, there are clearly ways in which we have had technological advancements that produce goods and services with less input (where 'input' includes natural resources, human labor, etc) than would have been required before these advancements. I used this example in another reply, but (just off the top of my head) computers + internet have allowed abundant knowledge lookup and communication for far less input cost than the services would have required previously.

Generalizing here, there is 'growth due to making people work harder' and 'growth due to inventing stuff that lets us do new things' and whatever your views are on each of these, I think most anti-growth articles ignore the latter.
Be careful about where that idea takes you...
> More goes to society. You don't see it because it is spread thinly. Think of how nice it is to have a microwave, for example. The value of my time saved is far more valuable to me than what I paid for the microwave.

This was the promise. But all we really have today is cost disease. For every microwave the US also has infrastructural costs that are 10x+ that of other countries and a culture that is being increasingly incentivized to hand over their wealth for short-term, materialistic gains, and goods/services that aren't worth the price being charged.

To say nothing of the fact that in most cases, said microwaves leaves you with lower-quality results concomitant with the time you saved. Which really feels like all of life; we are being sold a bill of plenty that is only paper-thin
Weight-loss surgery is not only dangerous but also (in a lot of cases) ineffective. Before thinking about taking such a dramatic step, I recommend trying a low carb diet. Reduce carbs as much as possible and increase protein/fat an equivalent amount so that your overall calories stay the same. The science behind it: Search for “low carb down under” on YouTube.
It appears that they have won the lawsuit against Glassdoor.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/kiwi-toy-giant-zuru-wins...

Perhaps this event will send a chilling message to would-be whistle-blowers...
Every macro investment hypothesis is a conspiracy theory. By 'crazy' I meant to be asking, has this been said before and already been discredited?
That's also my main usecase: doing plots with gnuplot

A few years ago, it wasn't compiled by default in the debian packages so I released binaries: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot
So long as you have deep control of inbound and outbound peers you can deanonymize traffic by throttling one end and finding streams that are affected. The service providers selling faux security don't have to be involved.
For what it's worth you can use RSTP streams from the cameras in most open source NVRs but you can only enabled it from the UniFi NVR thus requiring UniFi NVR hardware to begin with.
Because real engineers become hyper-specialists and get trapped.

My one my high school classmates was a mechanical engineer who was one of the top guys for some semiconductor process that failed to scale and got abandoned. Got laid off and was unemployable. He sold herballife to go back to school and is a physical therapist now.

It happens in software too. Plenty of sad tales of geezers let go from banks and government who have legacy mainframe or middleware skills.
> which will lead to concluding more people believe the earth is under 10k years old

You'd only conclude that if you haven't actually read the study. It says to select the closest option to your opinion.
Writing under a pseudo-name probably helps a lot of people.
I take it back. I don’t know any Nobel winners directly but know a few one degree of separation out (Physics, Econ, and two Biology), and the people I know who worked with them all said good things about them. However, go down a notch to just professors and there was a lot more ego and maybe more drive than curiosity. Politics likely more intense than in corporate world and egos just as large, but maybe fewer assholes?
It may or may not help.

But it would certainly be a major bargaining chip for Elon.

No execs want to go to jail for fraud. These execs are worth 50m+. Losing money is insignificant. Going to jail is a very huge deal
WHO talked to them

Still no strong evidence found

WHO is not working for USSR AFAIK

> that many kids died in their teens and early 20s or are living with cancer today.

that's not surprising

there are many people who are living with cancer worldwide

radiation exposure is not the only cause for cancer

I truly wish it was

My dad worked in oncology, he saw too many people die of cancer in the past 45 years.

Long before Chernobyl was a thing.

> Maybe they didn’t die, but they no longer have thyroids

Half of my family no longer has thyroids, they are all from Italy, born between 1945 and 1974.

All of them are still alive and well.

> Saying that 60 total died from Chernobyl is insulting

but it still might be the truth
You can manufacture metal-core PCB LED modules and fixtures with your starting mentioned capital. For power, you can either do an on-board solution or provide external power drivers matched to your LED layout.

Bare unbranded extruded aluminum fixtures can be had COTS and cheap, and you can either get a board house to design boards for you, or link up starboards to populate the fixtures. A small SMT oven can be had for starting at $500 out of China, though making an SMT oven to solder components to a metal PCB is as simple and cheap as a couple of half-silvered halogen bulbs in a workshop fixture, and a reflective metal top replacing the cage. Due to the nature of metal-PCB rework and how it basically ignores thermal profile recommendations, don't worry too much about following a specific thermal reflow profile on the first reflow attempt, just make sure you're getting hot enough at a decent-but-not-blistering speed to ensure all solders down, and then back off the heat immediately and allow the board to cool down. Adjust the height of the board from the light fixture or adjust exposure time or both as necessary to deal with soldering issues.

Plastic stencils that match your LED/component pad profile/layout are easy and cheap to manufacture (or buy pre-made.) Solder paste is fairly cheap (though there are some that get expensive, like the indium-bearing solders.) Most components are relatively simple to hand-place as long as your solder stencil job is properly-done and the components aren't too tightly-packed together and tiny, though small high-speed dual-nozzle pick and place SMT machines can be had for around $5K ($2500 or so used.)

I suggest looking into servicing the UV market, as that is the market that is blooming. The pandemic has boosted the need for disinfection-capable UV LEDs (specifically UVC,) and also this becomes a boon for other markets, like fluorescent mineral photography, minerals location (things like scheelite are easier to find via their glow when excited by UV radiation at certain wavelengths.) UVA is also showing some experimental results at disinfection, and despite the need for more power to achieve the results, UVA LEDs are much more efficient than UVC, and much cheaper to obtain, so there might be potential there as well if more research is performed and validated.

Alternatively, you can go the simpler route of being an assembly house instead of a manufacturing house, buy fixtures, and pre-populated boards that are designed to mount in said fixtures, make working units, sell those. I did precisely this with another person, literally out of their garage, making aquarium lighting for a while - LED strips, screws, extruded aluminum heatsinks, plastic 'lens' inserts, power wire with switch, water-sealing grommets, power supplies, extrusion end caps. If you work hard, make the right development decisions, and advertise effectively, you can easily grow into something that is sustainable and rewarding.
> you can bet that past shareholders/board members were constantly asking "do we need this?"

I wouldn't take that bet.

Jobs simply had a better sense of user interface design than others, and was in a position to get his way. It's not that others didn't care about it.
I did one once and it was a huge PITA and a very slow timeline. The free money part was nice, but the overhead and timeline mean I’ll probably stick to other funding sources in the future. If your founding team has extra PhDs and you want to pay them to do “research” it might work.
Sorry about the drift into a rant.

My point is to say that the standard playbook for creating social or policy change is broken. The playbook is roughly -

1. build awareness via a nice article like the link

2. people read it?

3. people do something about it?

But very few people read. The actual issues in broad public awareness are whatever crap is on Fox news. Beyond that, even if people get mad they have no structured way to demand a change and it rarely happens.

The rant is tangentially related because we still haven't seen any action on the Uvalde PD, abortion laws just got revoked, there is a war in Ukraine, we might soon be in a recession, the climate might kill us all, etc etc. These are issues where the public actually cares, but nothing seems to change. Surveillance is not even on the list with all the other fires burning.

I guess I'm just saying "caring" about an issue is meaningless in the absence of the power to effect any change. We dont even have the basic ability to ask a government official a question and get a straight answer. We don't seem to have any common knowledge or consensus on how to demand accountability from the government. These are much deeper issues that have to somehow be addressed before anything happens.
It’s amazing that companies with billions of dollars of revenue make such poor moves. All I think when I see a story like this is “well I guess there isn’t much competition in NZ toy companies”.
Please don't stoop to flamewar or personal attack, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Flamewar comments like this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139001 are definitely not ok. Not only is this against the site guidelines, it has the side effect of discrediting your position, which is really bad if you happen to be right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Web3! For people who can't count up to four but intend to make profit off those who can't count up to two!

Chain!
That'll shock them in Guatemala and Iran (to skip over any since the 1950s).