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We don't need special programming education, we need mathematics reform. Stop teaching everybody old-school pencil and paper math, and teach them to use computers to compute until they get past algebra. No need to waste kids' time with hand calculations, just teach them to use the tools and apply logic. Exposing children to more abstract concepts, like numerical bases, boolean algebra, recursion, etc., would have greater impact than making them memorize multiplication tables. Using software that can seamlessly connect the shapes to the equations with painless modification should benefit many who struggle with trigonometry and geometry, while helping those with an interest to explore more quickly and easily.
Solitude isn't for everybody. I've always been attracted to it. My favorite books as a kid were about being alone: Robinson Crusoe, The Other Side of the Mountain.

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”

― William Gibson

I think people are creative and intelligent, it's just that there are three spheres of life: public, private and secret. The public sphere isn't that interesting because people censor themselves so they don't get judged. People in the public sphere end up playing roles they learned and think that is how one should be in public. Most also have boring private lives.

Where it gets interesting is in our secret lives. I know people have rich secret lives because of the drama shows that people love but don't talk about because they give life to our fantasies and imagination, so to say what you really like about them would be too revealing.

There a couple of movies that demonstrate what would happen if people spoke about what was really on their minds with each other. In Judy Berlin a solar eclipse occurs but doesn't go away. It just stays dark for days and days so people start reaching out to each other trying to understand what is happening and in the process start telling the truth. Why not, because it's the end of the world.
Like the author, I pay for Carrot Weather. I do so because I find the features it provides to be helpful and of high-quality, and I find it a joy to use. I could probably just use the free version, or any other app that didn't charge, but I also find it feels good to give a clearly talented and passionate developer a job making an app they seem proud of. I don't find it any different than buying a nice piece of art, or eating out at a nice restaurant.
They're all semi-rural though, cyberpunk is a city genre imho.
Of course, many people spend about $100/month on a cable TV bill.

I think $100 may be low these days.

At a neighborhood party around 2017 I asked people what they were paying for their cable service, because I was thinking about switching from satellite. Not one was under $125, and most were in the $175 area. $250 with internet. The big sports fans were well over $300/month.

One guy who considers himself a "professional sports gambler" (when he's not repairing air conditioners 9 to 5) said he was paying over $600/month to feed the wall of six 60-inch TVs in his man cave.

"Hunnert bucks a screen!" he crowed proudly. I ended up keeping my existing service, which I think was in the $35/month range.
With content in particular, there's far more of it out there both streaming and otherwise than anyone has time to watch. Indeed, it probably makes sense, if one were to budget, to have something entertainment as a category of which streaming is just a subcategory. It's certainly an area where you can end up subscribing for some show and then you really don't get your money's worth. I don't watch a huge amount of video and I'm always leaning in that direction.
Bad old days: go to a poor country, plant your flag on their property, demand tribute and export it back home

Bad new days: go to a poor country, plant your flag on their intellectual property, demand tribute and export it back home
If you are using Nightly (which updates twice a day), you can turn on "Show fewer update notification prompts" in your settings (about:preferences#general) which removes the update nag and puts a small reminder in the top right corner like you asked.
It reminds me of the old bit of advice for newly arrived starlets to Hollywood:

"If you have something to say, better to be behind the camera than in front of it"
Musical instruments are a good example. Nobody _needs_ to replace their guitar/piano/violin/pipe organ/harmonica after x years, but they might build a collection based on the quality.
No, but laying down your arms is a good first step.
At least 80% of German women voted for Henlein and SdP in 1938 long after Hitler had been in power and known for what he was. "Women just didn't like em that much" is pure fantasy.
Agreed (although i hate Lombok myself, as being altogether too much magic; happily, standard Java language improvements now provide a lot of the comforts that Lombok does).

But other languages have quirks on a par with Java. JavaScript is quirkier, and Ruby is basically a DSL for composing quirks.

I see two areas where Java fell more dynamic competitors.

Firstly, Java does not have a great story about being able to open up an editor, write some code, and ship it. Using a simple text editor is too tiring, and the extremely sophisticated IDEs take a lot of learning. Java has never been well supported by the middle ground of Sublime Text-esque programmer's editors. Meanwhile, the standard tooling (javac and jar) is simple, but using it to get to production is cumbersome, and the more sophisticated build tools are not standard, and either verbose and maddeningly inflexible (Maven), or crammed with arcane secrets (Gradle). And none of them make starting a new project as easy as 'rails new' or 'npm create-react-app' (Maven has archetypes for this, but i don't think they ever got really popular).

Secondly, Java does not have a really good framework for being highly productive at building webapps right out of the gate. By which i mean Rails. There's absolutely no technical reason you couldn't build a Rails equivalent in Java. I am astounded that (AFAIK!) there was not an urgent effort to do a straight port of Rails to Java once it became clear that Ruby was eating Java from the bottom up. Meanwhile, Java had Spring, but until Spring Boot, Spring was nowhere as easy and consistent to use as Rails; Spring Boot has helped, but by slathering another layer of even more complexity on top. I have never used Dropwizard, but maybe that's closer to the Rails spirit. The more 'sophisticated' frameworks like Play and Vert.x are not the answer, because they're so tied up with particular overly clever concepts.
I don't understand, 1,700 per year is nothing.

You'd need to spend twice that amount just to acquire decent coffee equipment.
Then waste a huge amount of time teaching yourself how to source good beans, make good coffee, not mentioning the time needed to execute and clean up even when you have achieved mastery.

No, buying from a coffee shop with trained baristas making coffee all day is a much better deal, unless you're in need of a new hobby.
It's turnkey blogging but without the BS.

There's blogger, and wordpress(.com), and a lot more, but I (and presumably you and OP) would take anything over those types of platforms.

This fills the gap between 'do your own thing' and 'just use wordpress'.
> apps like Carrot Weather, Craft, and Flighty I find to be a generally superior experience to the $3 single-purchase apps that they generally replaced

Not sure about the last 2 but a weather app is a simple problem that needs to be solved once and then never messed with again - I would personally prefer my weather app not to be constantly updated. The last thing I want is the UI on my weather app to change all the time.

I don't go buy a new screwdriver or hammer despite newer and slightly better models being available unless the existing one breaks or stops being compatible (let's say a new kind of screw/nail became mainstream). I want the same from my utility apps.

The collection of weather data itself is a different task but that's something that's already often done by governments and given away for free (as we pay for it indirectly via taxes).
I’m finishing up making my family a GAAP family (kinda joking, but mostly serious). I’m doing this to understand where my money comes from and where it goes. Think YNAB, but including paychecks, etc. against a family of four. Built with some hand crafted software on top of hledger, too.

Anyway, we’re at about $80/mo, largely dominated by Apple One and Google Cloud subscriptions (though I’d love to move off the latter, but lock-in). What really gets me is the cell phone bill, though.
Mozilla VPN missed a real trick by being an additional client and not (also) integrating it into the browser/container natively.

Was a real chance to do something better rather than just doing the minimum (rebrand an existing VPN client app) and potentially pulling in a new customer base.
I get it, but when it comes to Photoshop, you buy it and then can use that one version of the software for 10 years if you don't care about all of the upgrades, which aren't necessary, or you can pay ten years worth of monthly subscription fees.

The subscription is massively more expensive.

Buying a product and then buying a replacement at some point in the future is massively preferred to me over paying every month for that product. It allows me to budget and update when I want to depending on what features are released that I need or want or to replace the item when it wears out a subscription generally costs more and robs me of any flexibility.

Production quality and innovation is also better without subscriptions. Businesses have to win me over with there new product or version and convince me it's worth paying to upgrade, if i'm already on a subscription, they don't really care as long as there are competitive to alternatives.
Zero. Cancelled it a long time ago and haven’t looked back.
Yes but if they piss off Putin arent they already forgone that scenario? It's guaranteed that Russia will target countries that helped Ukraine by weaponizing its captured commodities. So it puzzles me why rest of Europe would do this because NATO and Russia is NOT going to engage in WW3 like so many people have you believe.

Europe will go on its own way while experiencing shortfalls and Russia will go on theirs. They both suffer but in different ways. Europe's middle class will pay the price for this war. Russia's entire population pays the price. The United States benefit massively here 1) destroying an old enemy 2) several new customers to buy their energy and food supplies from.

I think whats clear is BRICS emerging as its own sustainable barter economy of sorts (its sure as hell not going to be able to push its reserve currency beyond its own borders) with some onramp/offramp to precious metals that becomes impossible to track when melted down and cleared in second/third tier merchants.

Nobody wins from this multi-polar world order, its really bad for the global economy and the middle class suddenly finds itself unable to afford the lifestyle that they enjoyed not too long ago. (ex. PS5 is prohibitvely expensive, think back to PS1, PS2 how affordable and liquid the supply was).

This is the new norm, get ready for even more expensive stuff you took for granted. Eventually it will cause a deflation as boomers wallets dry up as their pension is in limbo. The biggest losers will be the MZ generation.
Pretty much this

1/3 of this list is just BS. Another 1/3 are things that you can go for the cheaper option.

Not to mention stuff like "CleanMyMac"

(oh yeah I'm not paying for 1password)
That implies we should simply empty the world's cities which I hope you recognize is not a serious or pragmatic alternative to simply vaccinating more.

We could just vaccinate our way until Covid transmission rates fall enough that we don't have to worry about it. Congrats on living in the middle of nowhere, but that's a bubble of a different sort.
Maybe both of these two things can be true at the same time. This might be a sign that society is spending too many resources operating software companies for silly things when they would be better spent else where.

Looking at the costs and voting with your dollar, like OP did, is your responsibility as a consumer to drive efficient market and resource allocation.
I actually stream more, rather than shop, via Prime these days.
More evacuations as Mediterranean wildfires spread
> I only open Netflix when I know what I'm going to watch.

Only to realize that it's not in their library (anymore).
Do you think it would be ethical for someone to work on search ranking at Google and moonlight doing SEO work? Would it be ethical for this person to implement a search ranking algorithm in their spare time and license it out to competitors? What if they don't work on ranking themselves, but they spend their spare time reading through the ranking codebase, which they have access to for some legitimate business reason (say, doing large scale refactors)?
Not exactly "killer" but the ability to customize the keyboard shortcut to focus the URL bar (to Cmd+D) is what keeps me from switching to Firefox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32130168
Make a summary & review video & post article :)
It also provides an effective income for those disadvantaged enough; if the five cent deposit on cans had increased with inflation there'd still be an incentive to do it.

$1-5 for vape devices would be similar.
Any reason to believe that's true for the subset of US residents that are on HN?
WASM on the browser runs inside the Javascript engine 'context', so you will always need to deal with some Javascript (for instance to load and start the WASM blob, but also for calling out into web APIs). Emscripten hides most of that from the programmer (depending what web APIs you need to talk to), but there's still plenty of Javascript running under the hood.
Sure, but not the average net income for people on HN probably, or the author's. The entire article is about them realizing they're probably spending too much!
By all accounts, he was good at it. Nazi party was not the only rough party fighting for dominance over audience. There were multiple of them. When Hitler joined, they were rather small party. Hitler as a speaker was drawing crowds, but he was not the only guy trying to get attention. They got large under his leadership.
Nobody is gonna go through that effort though, and it’s not possible to translate the params back because only the server decrypts them. This seems like the tipping point where cat wins for all but like 5 people.

I’m actually kinda surprised this hasn’t happened earlier.
Is there case law on this? The CA moonlighting law heavily implies that a huge company could claim to own nearly anything you produce (as an exception that proves the rule).

> (a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either:

> (1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or

> (2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer.

A huge company like Google can claim nearly anything relates to their business, so they could trigger (1) even if you don't do that kind of work for them.

In practice, I agree they usually don't care about side projects and wouldn't take action even if you didn't get an exception, but there is substantial risk if you are contributing to a significant project that ever attracts their gaze.
Chrome is horrible you can't even click on a tab sound icon to mute it, you have to right click and select mute. All Google does puts in first place their interests, not users. Fuck these people.
I once had people screaming bloody murder at me here on HN for suggesting that, for a professional North American software engineer making a typical US SWE income, a one-time $150 purchase of a tool you would use daily in your professional capacity was totally reasonable.

There’s a baffling disconnect here between how people perceive their own value of time while feeling entitled to the product of others’ time for essentially nothing.
Java was my first introduction to full bull-goose, consultant-class enterprise architecture, where I think that salaries and hourly rates are proportional to the number of cascaded factory classes your solution requires. At least four or five, or you're bush leagues.

Wait, am I sounding shocked, wounded and bitter again?

"This thing is so enterprise-y that the documentation alone can send email."
Same here:

Found 5098 videos in the watch history. Assuming average 40 minutes per video...

0 minutes this year so far
0 minutes on average per day during last 30 days

All time stats (over last 0 days)

3398 hours 40 minutes during all time
Infinity hours on average per day
Infinity hours on average per week
Yeah, that's clearly wrong. The Nazis were about as far away from Luddites as you can get. The whole point of the post-WWII recoil at the horror of Nazi-ism was the realization that a culturally-advanced high-tech progressive society was capable of using all of that advancement as a lever to do the same barbaric and horrible things humans had done before, only much more efficiently.
If you're in LA you're far from burrito territory. LA is south of the burrito-taco line. North of the line, burritos are tastier. South of the line, tacos are tastier.
Aww. Disco spawned house music[1] and, from there, all of house's subgenres and massive influence on popular music. Listening to old 80s house is full of samples of disco beats and string grooves. You can still hear it in popular records; disco influence is all over Daft Punk's discography[2]. I think it deserves some credit and fond appreciation :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daft_Punk#Musical_style
If I recall, F6 should get what you’re after.
Oni Press Hit with Layoffs, Unpaid Labor Allegations
The conspiracist in me tells me big software groups actually like piracy quite a lot. Sure they want to extract as much as possible from the ones who can pay, but they'd be pretty pissed that the others go to the competition.

Piracy is actually a hell of a moat. It provides mindshare, ecosystem, network effects.

Let's hear it from the horse's mouth: Speaking at University of Washington in 1998, Bill Gates said: "Although 3 million computers get sold each year in China, people don't pay for our software. Someday they will, though, and as long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours."

And I'm currently writing this from a windows 10 OS that I never bothered to pay for and activate. It's been 2 years. I can't change the wallpaper, though. This is how much Microsoft cares.
Commercial VPNs prey on ignorance as well. They frequently talk about “keeping you safe from hackers”. When is the last time sensitive data was intercepted due to lack of TLS? Twenty years ago?
VPNs do nothing to protect from the most common and serious threats - data breaches, spear phishing, any/all of the other myriads of ways users are tracked online, etc.
I’m also of the belief that security services take a closer look at VPN traffic (like some Tor exit nodes) that also happens to make their jobs easier by concentrating the data for them.

Commercial VPN services certainly have some valid use cases but for the vast majority of the population they effectively do nothing or worse.

If there’s any benefit to their proliferation it’s in the security service case. Now that all of your non-technical friends have signed up for ExpressVPN because they heard about it on a podcast there’s just that much more data to sift through. Not that security services can’t handle vast amounts of data… I’m just certain that from a classification standpoint intercepted data coming out of a VPN (and certainly Tor exit) is likely classified higher for analysis, potential manual review, etc. Much bigger haystack in the VPN/Tor case.
> All they really mean to say is "two-way marketplace". Aka "we're a platform used by both buyers and sellers of a service. We arrange the exchange of labor for a fee then the two of you work it out."

That's your belief, but it is more likely to mean they have uber on their minds along the lines of "we are starting a marketplace with plans to be as big as uber, even if we have to ignore laws and treat everyone but ourselves like dirt."
I enjoyed reading Asimov's review, but I'm surprised that it makes you think less of Orwell rather than understand that they're two polar points in perspectives on writing.

I don't think I've read a character in Asimov that had more than 1 or 2 deviant terms in an otherwise averaged society utility function -- and he's far more interested in what the future 'looks like'

While Orwell engages (similar to Dostoyevsky, et al) the psychological aspects that deviate from an Enlightenment world-view/vision.

It's even more hilarious to read
> The great Orwellian contribution to future technology is that the
television set is two-way, and that the people who are forced to hear and
see the television screen can themselves be heard and seen at all times and
are under constant supervision even while sleeping or in the bathroom.
Hence, the meaning of the phrase 'Big Brother is watching you'.

> This is an extraordinarily inefficient system of keeping everyone under
control.

It sure is inefficient! -- all of our web-browsing and Internet connections would be so much faster and efficient if 80-90% of it wasn't spying on us -- but that hasn't stopped the big tech companies, nor did it stop the Soviet Union, the Nazis, or J Edgar Hoover.

And I don't think those things in Heaven and Earth, Asimov dreamt of in his philosophy.
> the additional effort needed to align and insert a usb-c connector is quite real

umm wut? I have a lightning cable for my airpods and usbc for everything else. I can't say I've ever noticed additional effort to align the usbc connector. its about the same as lighting. only now I have this one extra cable that doesn't fit into anything else
Ctrl F5, no?
It also probably not that different from what a person making that average income pays for their cell phone and possibly cable TV every month.
Because everyone wants to get paid but reduce their payments. E.g keep their money

This same thing comes up anytime the topic of paid IDEs comes up, and people will act surprised that people pay for Jetbrains IDEs

I think it's understandable when we consider most people struggle to meet ends meet, especially in their college and formative years.

However really if something provides value to your life, it should be rewarded , especially if that value is higher than the cost.

E.g Jetbrains IDEs pay for themselves every week in time saved. Many apps I subscribe to easily provide higher value to me than they cost.
It's cool but they're going to use it to lock the web down and infest everything with DRM. You won't be able to scrape anything and we'll be in a worse position than when IE6 was #1.
Not knowing anything about vape internals and with him referring to them as “lithium” instead of LiPo or LiIon, I thought on first reading that he was recommending recharging primary lithium batteries. Which would already be a kind of stochastic IFD!
Because the vaccines still slow transmission and more people getting vaccinated would slow transmission even more, lowering one's risk of getting infected as well as the severity of the infection.
That's a straw man, though, as the clause stated any work, not competing work.