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butternickon Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows

But how much energy is used to create the wind farm?

butternickon What SoundCloud created can never die

Would love to know more about this project.

I been working on UX with the team at https://www.radiooooo.com and I believe there is a lot of space for new UI and discovery interactions that treat finding new music as a game.

There is an unspeakable ‘uncanny valley‘ quality that’d algo generated playlists create. Like the music is too similar too aligned, it sends my ears to sleep.

butternickon Ask HN: I'm Lost. Struggling to Land a UX Design Job After a Career Switch

1. Find an open source project, contribute to it. You’ll make connections, sharpen your tools and collaborate with a team.

2. Do a ux case study of emerging technology. It’s much easier to get a job in a sector where no one has ‘years’ experience.

3.Build something. Take your skills further and build something, and try and sell it. Most ux’er have little knowledge of end to end product, I.e what decisions are trade-offs are needed to build, sell and market a product. Build something and lean into the full product cycle.

butternickon Ask HN: Why is Europe great at making game studios but not tech companies?

I think ‘class’ has a lot to do with it.

I have a hunch that a good portion of the start-up capital allocated in Europe finds its way to the upper-classes.

I’ve worked for a European VC and experienced many founders with no knowledge of product, marketing or design were given ample access to funds and opportunities simply because they went to a ‘posh’ school and were good at selling themselves.

This is also the case at sme sized tech companies in Europe where mba types are promoted over people who build product.

Where as game studios are always founded by developers. Developers who if nothing else know how to ship.

butternickon Technofeudalism

https://youtu.be/VatYrw0uqjU?si=0PIFTf_O36oTHGBu

Here’s a great interview with the author

butternickon Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)

You’re correct to state that yes black children in the UK are more likely to go to university than their white counterparts, however, this not only goes for black children but all ethic minorities. The truth is working class white children in the UK have issues British society isn’t comfortable talking about and I believe is one of the leading causes of the rise of popularism in the country.

It’s also important to note that although black children are more likely to go to university they are also 2.5 times more likely to be unemployed on comparison to their equally qualified white counterparts which indicates institutional racism. If as you suggest we avoid the topic of race solutions for issues like this will never appear.

Lastly, there is a huge black wage gap in the UK £3.2bn according to reports.

Speaking as a British black male I can say that race issues in the US and the UK aren’t as different as you make out and in a lot of ways the US is miles ahead in confronting the problem openly in contrast to the UK approach where people would rather sweep the whole issue under the carpet as you have so neatly illustrated.

Links to the data below.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/educ...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/201...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/money/2018/...

butternickon Show HN: We created a funeral fundraising site

It’s great Argentina has some kind of safety net for families this is really not the case in the U.K.

The average cost of a funeral is nearly $5k and rising and social pressure means the poorer a family is, the more likely they are to spend big.

There is a financial support scheme from the U.K.goverment but this can only be accessed after you’ve already paid for the event. Sadly this leaves many with loan sharks as their only option and ‘funeral debt’ averages nearly $2k per family in Britain.

Because death is a taboo no one really talks about this issue. We’re really hoping to change that as technology can make a big difference in this area.

The speed of Argentina's funerals organization has a lot in common with Jewish and Muslim funerals, who also have funerals within days of a death. We encourage people to fundraise before or after the event. Especially as there can be a lot to organise in such a short space of time.

butternickon Show HN: We created a funeral fundraising site

We are based in the U.K but the site also works for US based funeral organisers. We’re getting traffic from all over the world as we assume paying for a funeral is a challenge globally.

There is no minimum ‘target’ for a campaign all donations are available for the funeral organiser. Labelling a campaign a ’failure’ for not reaching a targets didn’t seem fair and I’m sure every penny is helpful.

‘The guy in the tree is creepy..’ lol coming from a place with small trees I never considered tree climbing as all that risky but you do have a point.

The site is named guidestick as we’re here to give people guidance through what can be a tricky process and the photo is an attempt at a visual metaphor for that support. I can appreciate the image might be a bit to abstract.

To make money we’ll offer additional ‘paid for’ features such as hosting details about the funeral (maps, email invites, memorials and live streams) eventually we’d like to offer the organiser a platform to plan and save for their own funeral.

We’re manually checking all the campaigns that are launched but we’re looking into better spam protection to protect donator. We suggest not donating to people you’re not in contact with.

Thank you for your time and feedback it’s really appreciated.

Do you think you’d use a service like this?

butternickon Show HN: We created a funeral fundraising site

Hello HN I’ve been bootstrapping in the end of life space for 4 years with my company thinkwillow and we’ve recently released a dedicated funeral crowdfunding site to help people tackle funeral poverty by raising money from family and friends.

I’m looking for some feedback, good and bad and questions about the end of life industry.

Excited to hear your thoughts.

butternickon Ask HN: How do you pay remote employees in different countries?

What’s the best solution if you’re a CEO but work in a different country to where your company is founded?

Will the contractor model still work?

N:B I’ve created a company in the UK but I’m thinking of moving to Denmark.