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Ask HN: What lessons were most valuable to you as a new grad in the tech sector?
In about a year and a half, I'll have my B.Eng in EE (w/ focus on MATLAB/Python-based DSP/AI courses, and co-op work terms incl. a research internship in a computer vision lab). I'd like to think I've got at least a little self-awareness -- what I've learned in the bubble of academia probably isn't all that reflective of what things will be like once I'm working with a degree under my belt. But, you don't know what you don't know, eh?

I'd love to hear any thoughts you think might help make the transition a little easier. I'm sure I'll need to learn many things the hard way, but. I figure it wouldn't hurt to try and prepare myself mentally by listening to the "hard way" experiences of other folks. Thanks! :)
Incentives matter, as they say, so I'm sure you're correct to some degree, but by how much?

Don't forget about the importance of relative status. At least some -- my guess would be a large majority, but part of the problem with these discussions is that everyone's just doing WAGs without much real data -- folks will want a) better than average educations for their children, b) nicer houses in safer than average neighborhoods, c) etc... and will work quite hard for it. And since these are positional goods, UBI will have no impact on their availability.

Personally, I tend to think that UBI is untenable for mostly other reasons (extraction by rentiers, for example).
That looks funny, but really you'll want something like this drafting stool:

https://images.globalindustrial.com/images/275x275/NOS_B1691...

Notice the height and the circular foot bar around the base. Hooking your feet underneath the seat pushes your center of gravity under your trunk, allowing you to sit in a balanced, relaxed posture with a straight back at the edge of your seat (important to prevent your legs from falling asleep).
Because per the article, one of her father's last wishes was that she not sell the factory.
> So why wouldn’t everyone just become an authoritative parent? Religious people...Donald Trump...

Ah, now I know why it's an opinion piece. The author thinks if you love Jesus, you're a sub-optimal parenting, Donald Trump loving, equality hater.

So much for tolerance.
As opposed to the good ol' days when businesses all incorporated as 501(3)c's, funneling their funds to widows and orphans?
If you select for all instances of phone hacking and then split it into two parts:

1. Government hacked

2. Not government hacked

I'd wager that count(2) is by far the largest. Sure governments do it, but they literally don't have nearly as much human-attention and interest available as the rest of the entire human race.
Cost: The money isn't going into a black hole, it's being given to those who tend to spend their money more quickly and more locally (aka the poor). So I would expect it to increase the velocity of money rather than decreasing it, giving the economy a nice boost.

Necessity: Any sane UBI system is revenue neutral. So anybody with above average income is going to pay more in increased taxes than they receive in benefits. That's easier and fairer than a claw-back.
They do when regulators come calling with significant penalties.
There's a strong argument for "$10/month is amazing for unlimited access to this entire catalog!" But I wonder how many songs or artists I actually listen to. Is it really that much more than I would if I were buying CDs?

I do enjoy the personalized playlists a lot, though.
Inert, no-cookie ads are the compromise position between total blocking and allowing arbitrary code execution and tracking.
Yes.

I trust the government more than I trust insurance companies.
I might give it another try
I wouldn't name my variables "Fred" or "Noodles" either.
I think there are a great many variables that might contribute to the differing fortunes of young people now versus those thirty years ago. Parenting style is only one of them, and not necessarily a major one.
Next step is smarter ad blockers.

Where is this arms race headed?
CDs don't send money to musicians either, unless they are self-publishing. But there's still a gap: I can't mix my paid-for (ripped) CDs and paid-for MP3s/AACs with streams in one app. This is the problem of letting the music distributer (Spotify) also control the player app.
The only difference between turning off the audio and ad blocking is at which point the data gets blocked. Turning off the audio means that it gets filtered by your phone's audio processing system. Ad blocking means it gets blocked on the network level.
So if a company X is offering something I would like but on different terms, you think it would be entitled and selfish of me to make it known publicly that I would prefer different terms?
yup, then you don't have long arms, it's just that most desks are too high for computer work unless you're super tall. Can you get a lower desk?
This thread reminds me lexers vs parsers debates https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2842809/lexers-vs-parser...
What type of content were you posting prior to not using the account?
As the scorpion said: "It's just my nature."
I've written documents for Jeff, and IMO, the six-page narrative memo is a key part of Amazon's success. It's so easy to fool both yourself and your audience with an oral presentation or powerpoint slides. With narrative text that has to stand on its own, there is no place for poor reasoning to hide. Amazon's leadership makes better decisions than their competitors in part because they are routinely supplied with better arguments than their competitors.

"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is." -Dick Guindon, via Leslie Lamport
She is an irrational actor who is preventing a more efficient allocation of a scarce resource.

If she weren’t so notably irrational, the New York Times wouldn’t be writing an article on her.
Granted, it's a condition that practically guarantees that my lifespan will be shorter than if I didn't have it. On the other hand:

1) We already have medicaid programs for the poor
2) We already have medicare programs for those not in the workforce (age, disability, etc)
3) We already offer subsidies for those who cannot afford traditional plans but don't qualify for a medicaid or medicare program
4) Medicare still costs money. It's a public insurance plan, not "free for all". So no, it won't give millions basic coverage that they couldn't already get.

I'd prefer my death to be a bit more meaningful than fulfilling getting some politician political points, because that's pretty much all it would do under such a system. The above points don't add up to a perfect society; maybe we could work on improving those instead.

Edit: For those not in the know, elderly pay for medicare out of their Social Security income. Anyone who reads "Medicare for all" as "Free healthcare for all" is either misinterpreting what's being offered, or what's being offered is a lie.
Uh. Yes it does?

You can't make money off something without any value to people. People have to "want" the thing
Yes, you can easily turn this into an autonomy question. But you're missing the point I'm making. Suppose you instead asked how pacifists can be in favor of laws restricting assault and battery, as this is like waging war against batterers.

I'd rightly point out that pacifists don't tend to like people getting hurt, and battery hurts people. You could turn this into a bodily autonomy question and point out that we violate autonomy with seatbelts so why not violate the autonomy of the punched, but that would be missing my point. Pacifists aren't all about bodily autonomy, they're concerned about not hurting people.

Similarly, I'm saying here that vegans should be against forced continuation of pregnancy, regardless of who's doing the forcing or who has control of your bodily autonomy. Vegans are against egg farming regardless of who the farmer is. Who gets to make decisions about the chicken is a different question than whether this particular decision should be allowed.

Note that I'm not making an argument for or against abortion. I'm only pointing out that being pro-choice seems to be more in line with vegan ethics than being anti-choice. I don't think vegan ethics are based on bodily autonomy arguments, so it's weird you that you keep bringing it up. Vegans aren't primarily concerned about bodily autonomy. Their concern is about not hurting animals. Humans are animals too, so vegans shouldn't want women to be hurt regardless of how the government works.
> So what? An increase in housing supply results in lower prices for everyone. If the "rich" are buying a condo in location A, that means they're likely not buying that condo in location B. That means the price has to be lowered since now A and B are competing. If A and B are competing for rich people, that means less "rich people" demand in location C.

This kind of intuition rarely work in real life though. People migration flows and the housing market isn't a A+B=C type of problem.
Is that better than buying a pack of caffeine pills to travel with?
> Jeff was using company money and contracts to keep his mistress happy.

That would mean he literally committed fraud. What's your source for that info?

> And despite the letter, does anyone think he isn’t spending a big chunk of time on this?

Why shouldn't he spend his time on whatever he wants?
Recently I started learning VHDL. I have some very personal pep talks... look to your own past for something more applicable.

* "you've learned over 20 languages"

* "this won't be as annoying as brainfuck, Piet, or FRACTRAN"

* "you've absorbed the basics of analog circuit design, this digital crap is gonna be easy"

And then it's all about setting reasonable goals, breaking the work into discrete chunks and tackling them in an orderly fashion.

* my coworker whose FPGA board I'm using tells me "just get to a point where you can turn on an LED with a switch and it's downhill from there"

* I tell myself, "your algorithm is a series of interconnected state machines. Figure out how to make a state machine and it's downhill from there"

And then there's the expertise I have access too -- I know that memory and timing issues are going to be a nightmare. When I get to that point. When I get to that point, I can worry about the PCI bus and API. At that point I'll have the basics down, and I'll be able to have more fruitful discussions with my coworkers and they'll take a greater interest in my work.
Your rebuttal is irrelevant to my point. My point precludes it.

Psychology presupposes that the problem is in the individual and therefore does not investigate elsewhere, but nonetheless delivers a diagnosis!

I am not giving a diagnosis, for nothing of the sort is necessary to recognize the agregious fraud in this wrecklessness.
I really like http://hergert.me/
Why should someone forfeit their wishes only so you can pursue yours? You're saying one persons greed is more valuable than the other.
But she is going to rent it out, eventually.

> The shop closed two years ago. Since her father died,
> the factory space is Ms. Galuppo’s to use as she wishes,
> but she is not rushing to rent it out. Before seeking a
> new commercial tenant, she wants to find the right way
> to dispose of all the old equipment, file cabinets and
> other workplace detritus.

This person just wants to move on her own timeline. That's perfectly fine. The family must be pretty flush to be able to do that however.

What would be bad is allowing the space to disintegrate like what happens in many other cities.
Makefiles and JavaScript
I tried it out for about a month. In principle, I think it's a great idea. In practice, no one in my IRL circle is interested in using it when we can just message each other. The lack of use and discoverability means it's difficult to meet new people on it. At least that was my experience.
I would quibble with "known adversaries". Saudi has been a close ally of both UK and USA for nearly 30 years. Haven't Snowden's materials proved the point for the rest of the root supposition already?

Of course it's more likely that someone (anyone, really) just pwned Ms. Sanchez's phone directly.
They needed to show some success fighting the "russian bots", so they flagged some unused accounts and can claim success now?
It is greed though, but of a different kind. Self-needs before the needs of the rest.
Soylent debuts new top shelf drink, Soylent Beige Label
Iranian women – before and after the Islamic Revolution
But if humanity as a whole enforced social norms that rewarded blackmail-refusals, then the value of blackmailing would drop so low as to be not worth it and extremely uncommon.

Essentially we could develop a herd immunity to blackmail.
And what if I pay for the service AND have an ad blocker installed? Are they going to suspend my account?
It's hard to compare, since Reviewable is an OAuth app and hence needs an install per-user rather than per-org. However, on the page you linked I see a couple apps topping out at 6-7k installs, and most of the rest are in the low hundreds. This doesn't look particularly impressive to me...
Because there are many other variables that apply than parenting style.
Services vs. Product Company
She can get millions without selling. She could walk into any bank and get a $10M line of credit the same day from this property. This could be arranged in 24 hours or less.
If the reason for your fear is out of deadlines, then simply ignore the deadlines for the most part and focus on learning overall. Obviously you can't ignore them completely, but if you actually let yourself just focus on learning instead of the deadline you will actually have a better chance of completing your goal by the deadline rather than if you focused only on the completing something by the deadline.

If it does not have something to do with a deadline, then I would suggest just pursue the new language, concept, etc. like you would something you are naturally curious about. If you are a fan of a certain science fiction universe, it is not scary to try and learn something new about that universe, because you will be naturally curious about it and be focusing on the joy of learning new information about the universe. Treat whatever you are trying to learn like that by finding ways to get naturally curious about the new subject.
Yes, that happens basically with any app you run on your computer, duh.
Obama CTO's note of advice to himself
Your beliefs are that coffee is infinitely more valuable than media, even though you need both in your life?
did they really have to study this? We have decades of welfare to analyze. UBI is dead in the water. Call it a negative tax rate instead.
Do you see subscription model work for music in the long run?
> She is an irrational actor

Human beings are deeply irrational, not everything has to be tweaked for maximum output / productivity / efficiency / optimisation.
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The presumption is that they were using the product against the stipulated terms. Nobody is arguing against free speech and if you think Spotify are awful for serving bad ads you can say so.

But this article is specifically about people using a product against the stipulated terms. Criticizing bad ads is valid in general, but people expect topical discussions to stick to the context. Either clarify you are speaking from a different context or you will get misinterpreted.
This looks really cool! No public demo?
> It's fine to say that science does not support the claim that animals have consciousness, as long as you also agree that science does not support the claim that humans have consciousness.

It doesn't. Can you name the scientific theory that predicts the existence of consciousness? We know it exists from direct experience, nothing else.

> I don't understand what you are saying about emrgentism being non scientific. Emergentism is the reason the reason that the Universe today has so many properties that it didn't have when it was a miasma of isolated hydrogren or whatever around the time of the Big Bang.

In this context the philosophical term "emergentism" is commonly used to refer to the theory of mind, not the general concept of emergence.

But no, emergence is not the cause for anything. Emergence is a human mental model, developed to deal with complexity, for example: "life emerges from chemistry". A brain the size of Jupiter might be able to maintain a mental model of all the fundamental building blocks of chemistry interacting to create complex biological organisms. We don't have a brain the size of jupiter, so we need shortcuts. The Universe clearly becomes more complex the more time passes, having started from a state of zero complexity. This is a direct consequence of the laws of physics, but there is no explanation for why the laws of physics are a certain way. They are just brute facts. If you keep asking "why" you will eventually bump into a wall.
My situation is one of medication payment, not in-patient treatments You can bet that one of the worlds' largest drug manufacturers, and the pharmacies that provide their medications, aren't going to opt out of participating. If the bill truly makes participation all-or-nothing, I'm SOL. (US health insurance covers both treatment and medication; I'm assuming that the participation rule in this bill applies to both).
The difference is whether I have the power to customize it or turn it off, or if it is forced into my attention.
How is this waste of time / pointless ? They do bring value for fb, they reduce the loss of ad money.
Embedded in the desktop app. It was news at the time. "spotify ads malware" looks like a good search term to dig up more information.
Spotify: Serves arbitrary, third-party content through known malware vector.

Users: Blocks known malware vector.

Spotify and 'the usual' HN crowd: shocked_pikachu.jpg
The problem is that if your tastes are not very conventional, the "exceptions" are half the cases, and you start to wonder why you bother.

A good example is Morphine's The Night. We're not talking about a bootleg record, it's a proper studio album owned by UMG. Yet it's not available on Spotify, Google Music or Amazon Music. It's on iTunes, but that requires installing a native app, which doesn't run on any of my devices, including the most popular OS in the world (Android). Alternatively I can buy a CD, which will cost me something like $50 with shipping, and rip it myself - and that's only because I still happen to own a desktop with a CD drive.
Surprising that paying people to not work didn't lead to more people working!
I wonder at which point will we just stream pages as interactive video content with a text optimized codec. Most pages on the internet are bloated to the point where it might just make sense. (I am not advocating, I am predicting)
You should definitely read Sphere and Prey if you haven't!

Also avoid the Timeline movie at all costs unless you are trapped on a flight.
I used this a while back when I was researching a way to help people with macular degeneration. I'd created some visual distortions which could be applied to a VR headset (if you had eye-tracking information) which I hoped would improve reading ability in MD patients. I used Rant to generate some random text in Unity and then measured how reading speed varied.
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This isn't being seriously alleged, as the source of this theory was a Roger Stone associate.

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1093864755381571584
Yes they did, according to the article:

“Mr Simanainen says that while some individuals found work, they were no more likely to do so than a control group of people who weren't given the money.”

Note this means the headline is the opposite of the truth. And the quote is not to be found in the article. It’s how the author/editor chose to interpret a single individual’s statement, despite the overall finding being very different.
Microsoft: Yeah, we make Office 2019 and Internet Explorer, but don’t use ‘em
So she should be forced to abandon a working factory for someone else so use the space? Is your house bigger than you absolutely need? Do you have a garden? Would you like to be forced to give it up so multiple smaller living units could be built?

It is hers, she can choose to maintain it for its current use if she wishes, unless it is causing harm. There is a grey area here with derelict sites, as that is a waste of space and often they can be dangerous, but that does not appear to be the case here.
But stackoverflow asked users to provide an email address for the gift card as part of the survey.

Speaking from my past experience when running surveys like this at a startup, you are given the option to get a claim code to send to your customers, or to provide their emails for a one-off direct gift card message. The latter was safer because there is no handling of sensitive financial info (a live gift card code is effectively cash).
My company used to use Olark, which actually was connected to a person. It was a great way to offer technical support. Unfortunately as our traffic grew, it was hard to keep up with incoming chats, so we eventually turned it off. (This was 7-5 years ago, before these on-page chat widgets saturated the web.)
> Finland became the first European country to test out the idea of an unconditional basic income.

Isn't unconditional, you know, unconditional? As opposed to "From January 2017 until December 2018"?
The entire point is that presentations are easier to game than a narrative. If the audience can’t be bothered to read the paper it’s time for the audience to be replaced.
Of course they don't want to kill the spam! Then they'd have to admit a huge fraction of their user accounts are fake.

For all the attention it gets, Twitter is a niche product with many fewer real human users than Instagram or even Snapchat.
Correct, this particular case is obvious (and they should plan for it). However what I am trying to dig into is the “less obvious”. An example, snow showing up in an area that hasn’t seen snow in the last 100 years. Or perhaps someone “crashing a car” into your factory. My point, and my questions has to do with the following at the core: “How do we replicate/approximate the ‘general’ knowledge that a human will inherently have?”
Editorial: Cupertino-style elitism at root of Bay Area housing crisis
I also heard the term referring to parents being over-protective of their child, which brings another class of problems ("free-range kids" debate).
Ad blockers are mandatory on my parents computers. They can’t distinguish between what is or isn’t an ad (not speaking specifically of Spotify display ads.)

I feel like I hold an opinion no one else reading hacker news has, I believe website owners should be able to deliver ads and website visitors should be able to block them.
I largely agree with you, but:

How hard is it to use HN formatting? I can’t count how many times people screw it up.

It’s not difficult to begin with, the documentation is free, yet here I am reading your comment with broken formatting.

something: nothing
hello: goodbye

Anyone who has trouble with this is just being sloppy. No useless backticks! You might think you’re doing it right, but unless you check, maybe you’re not.
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Here were my first impressions:
- It is very gray. The blog looks much better with it's white space.

- I don't get what the shopping cart is for.

- The header isn't centered.

- The font is very heavy feeling.

- I like the contact page. I feel like that should be your main page, with the side bar links moved to be across the top of the page.

I'd also like to get feedback on my personal website: https://raemond.com
I need coffee, I don't need to pay for media. I want media, and I find it.