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How would this possibly be achieved when everyone in congress has pockets lined with defense contractor lobby money?
With my kids the popular creative tools are: Super Mario Maker (Switch), Game Builder Garage (Switch), Minecraft (everything). Book Creator, Procreate, GarageBand, Pages, Keynote and iMovie (iOS)

My kids end up using a mix of "kid friendly" software (especially when it relates to game making or coding) and regular software. The regular software they use typically relates to schoolwork and is usually on iPad: Procreate for drawing and painting, Google Docs or Pages for word processing. Book Creator / Keynote for class presentations

It seems like the kid-friendly software still exists, but has shifted from word processing and painting to coding and game making
Is this true across all cultures?
I understand that you consider this a bad thing, but why?

Why shouldn't a person who believes they discovered some phenomenon name it, write books and give talks on it?
They have.

John Oliver did it this year, and it was f*king great!

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/last-we...
EEs are pretty far away from the money. That really impacts earning potential. Most EEs who went the traditional route and want to keep doing electronics in some form but make money become Field Application Engineers (FAEs) to get closer to the sale and show their value to the company. The crustiest old engineers are buried deep within a corporation and it's hard to show value on the bottom line.

Similarly, the FAANG/MANGA folks of the world are beneficiaries of being closer to the end customer, at least in terms of always being able to track customer usage of products. And hey, some of the highest paid ones are doing some hyper scale stuff that touches billions of users. Then there's just the general markete conditions of having much more need than talent available, especially at the upper eschelons.

Credentials: 20 year EE, have the largest podcast about designing electronics (The Amp Hour, check us out)
I have to say that I find little pragmatism in asserting that either tent encampments or more permanent housing may be of more worth, when the fact is that both are necessary to combat our homelessness issue as it exists right now.

Real people, right now, are living in tents in the woods somewhere because that's all they can afford. Many, if not most, are hiding there in fear of being kicked out of yet another living space. Tent encampments remedy this issue.

Just to be clear, I am speaking of government organized encampments, with access to clean water and toilets. Not just tons of tents in the middle of some street somewhere.

There are many, many days in the year...surely some of them can go to solving homelessness from both vantage points.
I've had some different friends work with colleagues who literally do this. My friends typically left for various reasons, but it never seemed like the best way to "make you improve your code" to me.
Source? Would love to hear about this.

I searched for "thailand hard drive shortage nsa" and only got...

2013 Nov, Backblaze's annual hard drive report still only blamed the flooding: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/farming-hard-drives-2-years-a...

2015, Tech Power-Up has a story about NSA malware hidden in hard drive firmware: https://www.techpowerup.com/209925/nsa-hides-spying-backdoor...
Of course, and you are right on many/most accounts.

However, it is worth mentioning that it is definitely a dangerous game to play, even if the government doesn’t do anything.

Government contracting world is pretty cut throat and all it takes is a competitor, a partner, or an employee catching wind of the foul play and you make your company pretty vulnerable to a few things:

1) extortion for work share (e.g., a partner company threatening to out you to the contracting officer if they don’t give more work share % or some other form of monetary compensation)

2) A competitor contesting the contract award due to the awarded company not meeting the set aside requirements. This can be very costly and lead to the government being forced to look into things more thoroughly. It’s also public record and could seriously damage a company’s reputation in perpetuity.

3) A company employee filing a qui tam suit under the False Claims Act. This can lead to at best, a costly settlement, and at worse, repaying the government even after the work has already been performed.

It’s definitely not a route I recommend taking!
Wonder if this drew inspiration from the dude that survived a wildfire inside his concrete dome of a house: https://abcnews.go.com/US/mans-concrete-home-survives-raging...
> Whats the point in doing things if the AI can do it better than you ?

“countries engage in international trade even when one country's workers are more efficient at producing every single good than workers in other countries”

“Widely regarded as one of the most powerful[7] yet counter-intuitive[8] insights in economics”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
Has privatizing public infrastructure EVER gone well?

Of course. It's impossible to make the case that US telephone customers were better off under Ma Bell than we were after deregulation, for instance. If only we could've kept Bell Labs alive!

Also, consider the medium you're using at this very moment.
Black Garlic maybe? But it's energy intensive, because it needs constant high temperatures for months.

Saying this because I recently discovered it, and like it, because it's basically garlic without the 'stink', useful for spicing up many things, again without the stink. Hard to describe. Anyways, it's seen as a gourmet thing. So one maybe could make some money with it, without much volume. OTOH energy isn't getting cheaper. Dunno. See and search for yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_garlic
The SBIR program is essentially what you describe… though with a research bent. Virtually zero red tape with a Phase I grant (apart from the application itself).
Based on information publicly available deemed correct and accurate by the company. This is false representation and downright fraudulent. If indeed Twitter lied about their not numbers, there will be a major lawsuit against the company.
Just the lost goodwill among your less drony drones is probably worth the Slack subscription.

It may sound silly, but “we use Slack instead of Teams” would not be insignificant in the consideration of whether to accept a new job.
College Accreditors: 'New Colleges Need Not Apply'
Yes that's correct re the Birch. I believe the alder was what we call Slide Alder, which is useful for holding down the soil and preventing erosion on steeper areas. Not sure which Larch it was.
But browsers already have HTML for this. Links are just <a> tags. POST endpoints are exposed with <form>, etc. Webpages.

Why do we need a separate concept for this thing called REST if it just reduces to hypermedia in the end?
While still fairly expensive, you don’t have to be in the top 0.1% to go into engineering.
Perhaps my reply was a bit too defensive - I’ll use the excuse that it’s uncharacteristically hot where I am and I can’t sleep. I do feel like you were being derogatory in your labelling of this as a Hippie ideology which I still think isn’t quite fair since you go on to generalise this negatively. I’m definitely aware that there have been many sacrifices made by older generations for the younger generations to live better lives - yet I do think that we can all do better at trying to build a world where we wouldn’t need as much conflict to make the world a better place for future generations.

Have a good day, too, stranger.
Thanks for the detailed reply, this one convinced me that I'm probably wrong thinking about this in terms of society as a whole. I've added the book to my reading list, looking forward to it!
> So basically: instead of just having what you need, just, like, hope that your neighbour has what you need. Great plan, i also hope that the neighbours are going to always follow me (just in case i'm going to move elsewhere).

A lot of new neighbors are nice folks. Invite them over for a bbq, and they probably will let you borrow their belt sander or angle grinder. It's a nice way to build community.

I do a fair bit of DIY work, and am a big user of my local public library's tool lending center, where I can borrow everything from a giant table clamp to a wet table saw. It's amazing. Public tool lending libraries have a history going back to the 1940s, and the first was thought to have started in Grosse Pointe, MI [1]

For more expensive stuff (i.e generators, bobcats), there are local tool rental shops.

I still own everyday tools (drills, circular saws, hand tools), but I don't need to maintain/store anything too large.

Or have all your own tools - that has big advantages too, especially if you are constantly using them as part of a hobby or job.

1. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=14...
> describing resources in generic ways

the trouble is that HTML is anything but generic. If you've ever tried to write a web scraper that can be used on _any_ webapage you quickly discover that its near impossible.
I use to belived that there should be one way to use HTML to describe the page content and the rest should be CSS but gave up as its completely inflexable and the approch has been abandoned for simply describing presentation as this is actually practical. You'd need a HTML structural standard, but that will get mostly ignore (as have most of the W3Cs recommendations on that subject).

As you said "REST" and "RESTful API" are different beast, i guess the "-ful" should be more of an "-ish".
Most home in Portugal haven't needed AC. That's the underlying point.
Exactly! It's strictly there to mock you. The only way you can find the message with the answer you're looking for is if you already have the answer.
This reads exactly like someone going to great length eloquently bemoaning how racetracks are meant for horses and anything else is a travesty, and here’s a pedantic list of reasons as to why!
Stock hardware, they mean.
> I’m going to assume you mean code that you created and chose to release as OSS.

It doesn't matter how the output is licensed; I'm paid for the process of creating that output, not for the perpetual profiting over that finite output. That's the point you're missing.
Those outside blinds... I miss those.
Sad truth is that the 13in Pro doesn't fit when opened on an airline fold-down tray, unless you are flying first-class!
> Whats the point in doing things if the AI can do it better than you ?

Whats the point in doing things if someone else can do it better than you?
Late to respond but I'll do it anyway.

I'd estimate about 75% of the US population would have access to an Uber when the car needs to go to the shop (and $650 would buy a few rides). I wouldn't buy a 15 y/o Fiat/Chrysler but a Toyota or Honda should be decent enough not to need repairs every month, maybe every 6?

And (another thing most people skip) that can help a lot is preventative maintenance and regular checkups that you can schedule at your own convenience that would catch a lot of problems proactively. And you'll have to bring in your leased car too lest you want to get dinged even more at the end.

A cheap car isn't just something you buy and forget, it needs some planning and care that i honestly think most people can't handle. Probably because they're so overworked as you said. But is paying be nearly $30k over 3 years really going to get you ahead, just so you to get you reliably to your job every day to pay for that car? Or is it worth the effort to plan and manage a shitty car for 3 years to save 15k?
Every institution with a big enough research budget gives SBIR grants. I got money from NASA last year (project didn’t work out, unfortunately).
You can CNC cut carbon fiber for custom UAVs.
Let's flip this around...In the era of The Military Industrial Complex there's little if any incentive for the government to eliminate the "unemployable class."

But perhaps The MIC can strike a deal with the Prison Industrial Complex?
The native flora in Iceland is a low growing birch. In some places a “forest” has the trees only reaching the height of an average person’s hips (although shoulder is more common). Large trees—and by that I mean taller then the average person—are all non-native and have been planted by humans.

There is in fact a saying: “If you get lost in an Icelandic forest, stand up”.
The email filter you never check is now a Slack channel you've muted.
This is actually quite good. Other than a small quibble about Maddow (I feel like she’s coasting on her pre-Trump reputation for objectivity) I can’t fault anything on here.
> Do you actually think African Americans are worse off post-1964?

I think a lot the changes are misattributed and it depends by what metric.

To your point,

> First leap of logic, attributing these issues to the civil rights act and not to years of systemic injustice in the US (and backlash to the civil rights act).

We’re on the third generation since the act. If the act was effective we could argue systemic racism has been overcome. We could declare victory.

If it was a success this wouldn’t be a discussion. You can’t legislate things better. What we can say is since the 60s, there are more drugs, more single parents, reduced cultural strength, and supposedly still lots of racism. It doesn’t seem better.
Yeah, have to look at the date and then manually scroll back to that point in the conversation.

I can’t imagine why someone would build that and then think “This is it. This is good enough.”
The thing you can’t do is solve for this situation.

A depends on B, C
B depends on D==1.24
C depends on D==2.02

There should in an super ideal world be no problem with this. You would just have a “linker” that inserts itself in the module loader that presents different module objects when deps ask for “D” but it hasn’t happened yet.
CIS Software Supply Chain Security Guide [pdf]
sbir.gov
Since each podcast independently chooses where/who their files are hosted on/with, no not really. AFAIK podcast apps are just a directory of RSS feeds, so you could in theory subscribe to one of those feeds directly but I have no idea for sure.

If the goal is to listen on your computer instead of your phone you could probably use spotify or apple podcasts or whatever.

Personally one of the strengths of podcasts is that its audio-only, so I can listen while on the go/doing non-cognitive work. Perfect use-case for a phone, but to each their own.
Same as a rooted linux android except it's not plastered with warning messages about how you're voiding warranty, how dangerous it is, how you can't run certain software anymore, etc. Having control over your own device basically.

Edit in case I'm being too obscure: just the having of any regular linux distribution means you have a rooted device, i.e. a normal regular laptop/desktop/whatever. Or for Windows you could call it administratored or SYSTEMed or something, which is also the norm
$42.69/share is just sitting there, patiently waiting.
The first one that comes into my mind is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_posing
FWIW, I am the child of a WW2 vet and also a former military wife. People who know me well have described me as a pro military hippie tree hugger.

It is my understanding that Shaolin priests believe "A man of peace must be strong" and both willing and able to defend his views in a fight to the death.

I hope you get some sleep. Stay hydrated.
Matt Levine ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-18/elon-w... ) laid out an argument today, that the reason for Musk wanting to fight on the bot numbers is precisely to drag this out until April 2023, when his financing commitments expire, at which point he no longer has to close (and Twitter loses all of their upside). I have no dog in this fight, but this incites Twitter to move as fast as possible (which they seem to be doing).
The cruel irony will come when Telstra buy NBN when it goes up for sale using the money it received for the copper network.

And then we'll do it all over again in the 2030s.
This is fine for hacking a POC together, but for anything in production I'd want to go the immutable infra route deployed from a CD server, so the visual studio integration doesnt really help.

At a high level I'd say, Azure is more coherent and seems to have a clearer technical vision. They achieve this by moving slower and being more willing to deprecate services/apis which dont meet that standard. AWS move quicker, they offer leading edge tech first, which means that it is often more battle tested and reliable, but they dont benefit from having the opportunity to learn from others' mistakes, which means they tend to expose more warts and inconsistencies to end users.
Maybe I've just had a few bad light roasts? It seems like really light sour roasts are really trendy with additives that cover up or mesh with the taste. Cappuccino/Mocha etc.

I'll keep trying it because I do quite enjoy bitter and roasted flavors but the straight light-roasted espresso I got most recently was verging on undrinkable.
Heat stresses the heart. Enough to take out people with myocarditis.
ha, my grandpa said (this would have been mid 1980s) there were 150-year old people living in communes in russia and I asked how they lived so long and he said they ate yogurt. But I think he must have been referring to this: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/09/archives/soviet-centenari...
Vault 7 leaker convicted in massive theft of secret info
I didn't say it did, but if you can see blooms from space still, that suggests that they are not "all but gone." They may be significantly reduced, but nowhere near "gone."

If the scientists had made falsifiable predictions about WHEN they expected the population to drop, or the RATE of decline, then we would have something to discuss scientifically.

Instead we get extreme rhetoric that is likely an exageration, that helps convince noone.
Either that, or the one-eyed cannibal mutants will keep our descendants in fattening pens.

Kumbaya, m-fer.
having spent a good part of my life with Greek relatives, I beg to differ.

Birthdays might not be accurate due to difficulties in registering births, civil wars and fascist coups (they burnt every record so that people from, for example, Macedonia had to take Greek names) but the difference from on paper age and actual age is on average a few months off (plus or minus, so they balance in the end).

They also care a lot about celebrating birthdays with very big family gatherings.

On other note: if we believe that somewhere they kept false records of births, what should make us believe that in other parts of the World they kept perfect records?

What should make us think that birth records in Azerbaijan, Colombia, Ohio or Fiji are more accurate?
> What surprised me was how few households have air conditioning in Europe.

It’s been reported on for years, and it’s not just Europe. In Hawaii, for example, most places didn’t have AC, and didn’t really need it until the 2010s, when the weather noticeably changed. Now, there’s entire sides of the islands, particularly leeward, where AC companies are working 24/7 on installation projects in buildings that haven’t had AC for the previous 20-30 years. Same is true for California, where people are putting AC in for the first time in homes that were built in the 1960s and didn’t need it before.
For me I’m not even concerned with the specifics. The idea of using Teams fills me with dread. Slack does not. I do not want to spend any amount of time in my day thinking about the specifics of my chat app.
This really isn't a good argument though: it's an extra, extremely specific use case for assignment that looks visually very similar.

And worse, effects code maintainability - if you need that assignment higher up, you're now editing the if statement, adding an assignment, plus whatever your interstitial code is.

Python doesn't have block scoping so the argument for it is weak.
Not quite:

1. Twitter represented that they made sample, exercised judgement, and could be wrong

2. That is hard to falsify

3. For it to matter in this lawsuit, it would have to be so false that it materially adversely affects the company

If 10% of users are bots, #1 wouldn’t even be false. If 20% of them were, it might be, but you’d still have to cause a material adverse effect. Like a large change in expected revenue.
Men's bodies are not a battleground.

There is no law against vasectomies.
I really hope—for the sake of the reforest efforts—that this changes in the near future. The sheep industry in Iceland is way too big, and not compatible with the climate goals of the Icelandic government. The reason reforesting is not quicker is that wild gracing is such a holy rights for farmers that plenty of potential areas for reforesting, are just graced away.

The current habit of wild gracing is making reforesting much harder then it needs to be.
You're probably not aware that reprocessing spent fuel to recover plutonium is not economical until uranium reaches something like $700/kg. The advantage of burning waste is very minor; it's cheaper to just squirrel the stuff away in dry casks.
That's an exceptionally garbage link color scheme
Ask HN: Has anyone used Coz for casual profiling?
I was thinking of doing some kernel profiling, and stumbled upon this interesting repo: https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz

I'm pretty intrigued by the concept, and was wondering if anyone here tried out Coz.
Actually almost everyone is putting waste in dry casks, which is cheaper than burying it and just as safe.
That's true, but it's also true that it was an unsubstantive, flamebait comment, even crossing into personal attack, and we ban accounts that post like that. If you don't want to be banned, we need you to stop posting like that.

Btw, this has nothing to do with whether we agree or disagree; we have a lot of practice banning accounts whose views we happen to agree with, and in any case there isn't enough information in what you posted to agree or disagree with it.
The time for due diligence on that was before he signed the merger agreement.
The sister in law gave us a blue zones cook book. My wife asked me to look at it and pick two recipes. I couldn’t. I would not want to live to 100 if that was what was on the menu.
Show HN: Spartan Schema - Ultra-minimal JSON schemas with Typescript inference
Einstein once remarked to Oskar Morgenstern, one of the cofounders of game theory, that he went to the Institute chiefly to walk home with Gödel. ("Um das Privileg zu haben, mit Gödel zu Fuss nach Hause gehen zu dürfen." There is in the original German a note of gentle deference that cannot quite be translated.)[0]

[0] https://cosmolearning.org/images/einstein-and-godel/
Just because pregnancy is a possibility of sex does not mean it is a choice. By that logic, getting an STD is a “choice” because its a possibility of sex too, even if the other person lied about having one, broke the condom, etc.
And sometimes you end up with worst of both world:

The salesman say: the documentation is the API it's RESTfull!!!!!!!!

The developer hear: Don't care about user documentation it's RESTfull!!!!!!!

The client get: A shitty documentation and a JSON API