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Ask HN: First job at a startup vs. a big company
I am about to graduate and wanted to know the pros and cons of choosing between a startup and a Big company for my first software job. Please offer your opinion.
This article reads like every other article about generation<variable>. In the early 2000s people at my university were also 'fully at home in cyberspace, moving seamlessly between the "real" world and the one online.' and they (according to articles like these) didn't like humanities classes, preferred to not have leaders, spent too much time in front of devices, agreed with various trendy campus politics of the day just like they did in the early 1980s or 70s or 1997. Nothing has changed.

Of course these terrible articles wouldn't be complete without a misleading picture to project the author's politics, not the generation<variable> politics. Every summary is the same too 'time will tell if this generation can confront these big challenges, which are the exact same challenges of the last 4 generations meaning workplace automation, increasing living costs, pandemic illnesses, environment problems...'. You could write an abstract function to just spit these articles out every 10 years, changing the varibles to whatever headlines of the moment.
This was a good read, along those lines:

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-i-replicated-an-86-milli...
The big innovation with Google Maps was the interactive zooming/panning interface, and it was a huge improvement over any other mapping site of the time. The popular map service of the time, MapQuest, had clunky scroll and zoom buttons around the sides of the map image, and moving around or zooming would reload the entire page. The GMaps interface wasn't just a marginal improvement over the existing pages, it was a completely new way of doing it that was 100x easier to use.
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The third party Monzo uses is called TrueLayer. It's being discussed on the Monzo forums at https://community.monzo.com/t/monzo-labs-connected-credit-ca...

A couple of people have raised concerns about security and privacy.
You don't have to tell them your handle. They ask for it if you'd like, but they'd be bad investors if they declined applications from people who said something like "I'm a lurker and don't have an account"
This isn't really true. The only thing you can do with 50% of the hashpower is determine the most recent block. And it still has to be a legitimate block. You can't undo history very far. And to the extent that you can, transactions either go through as intended or get reversed, and the owners keep their money. Money doesn't get redirected.

Any blockchain going through repeated attack would be pointless to use anyway, so anyone with such hashpower has an incentive to cooperate in the long-term. It's also not possible to stop others from contributing hashpower, so you don't really own it in a meaningful sense.
Say that you take a burner when traveling abroad because you don't trust foreign governments to accord you the same civil rights protections against unreasonable searches that the United States does.
30-50% of electricity is going to renewables, and how. Above that, intermittency and storage is significantly challenging.

Don't forget jets. Jets are mega-emitters and have very few electrification options because lithium-ion has about a 50th the energy per mass as jet fuel.

For heating, cheap, fracked natural gas is dominating in the US, with a battle cry of "better than coal"! Unfortunately it's still extremely high carbon. They do amazing PR though.

China is building a few supercheap swimming pool TRIGA nuclear reactors specifically for district heating in northern regions for winter, where coal is the only alternative. This is wild, but makes sense. They aren't usually used commercially because the temperatures are too low for conversion to electricity. But for straight heat it makes plenty of sense.

Also heat pumps can help but won't get you there alone.
There isn't data on this. This incident likely wasn't logged in any way. CBP is a rogue agency and the least transparent. They don't respond to FOIA anymore either.
> Eight minutes after takeoff, two of the angle-of-attack sensors froze at the same pitch.

If it's typical for the sensor's data to vary from 30.00 to 30.99 degrees as the wind passes over the wings and two sensors are permanently frozen at 10.42, after 8 minutes I think that there might be a high enough probability for the computer's software to decide that two sensors are broken and one is working.
I think that's about right. For better or worse, at least the Google of today does not see itself in a historical archivist role to any significant degree.
This was my last free article. Is there a way to hide NYT from the list?
I believe what I really want is this to be a feature of Slack. Or an integrated 3rd party product.
> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Ownership of Computation, Liberty of Encryption, and the Pursuit of Privacy.
Solar & wind are great, but no mention of nuclear? (look into Gen IV if concerned about nuclear's reputation)

That's looking like what we need most of all if we want to seriously tackle the problem.

If you're wondering why, Bill Gates argues a good case on why solar & wind are not enough: https://youtu.be/d1EB1zsxW0k?t=518
I did not make this argument.

I made the opposite argument in the past, actually. I am a proponent of reclassifying facebook etc as common carriers/utilities and forcing them not to censor any content unless it's actually illegal content. Tho, that does not and can not mean they have an obligation to promote such content e.g. through search results.

However, words do have impact, and may be used as a weapon to incite the readers to certain actions. This can be actions I like, or actions that I find abhorrent.

Then again, the danger that censorship poses to a free society, and the danger of unfettered censorship by private parties controlling major chunks of the "public marketplace of ideas" in particular, outweighs the dangers of bad people publishing legal but reprehensible speech, by a lot. The censorship we allow has to be minimal, and driven by societal consensus or compromise, and right now the state, with a separation of power and checks and balances, while not perfect, is still the far better alternative than letting a Zuckerberg or a Brin or a Dorsey or a Huffman unilaterally decide what's OK and what gets banned.
Widespread enough that people find it shocking how poorly food animals are often treated when they bother to look.
Solar + batteries is cheaper than natural gas? I knew it was beating coal, but natural gas? How recent is that?

Is LCOE the primary driver of power generation investment?
Check out apps like Snapchat. It is the modern day equivalent of a blink tag.
The only think Zuckerberg is missing is a thick mustache he can twirl. People gave him a pass for his "dumb fucks" quote because he was a "kid" when he said it, but look where we are now with Facebook and the state of the internet in relation to it.
Hear hear. The parent commenter's I-told-you-so attitude frustrates me because it completely misses the point: Google de-facto controls the web, and the W3C is essentially irrelevant. Trying to suggest that the W3C's opposition would have stopped any of this is completely naive, and only serves to shift the blame.
I wouldn't think so. My personal theory is AoA is sending valid data to one of the flight computers, that flight computer is sending invalid data to the MCAS, or the MCAS has a software problem.

I suspect AoA is sending signed data, computer expects unsigned data, or possibly LSB/MSB conversion problem. Or it could just be faulty logic somewhere.
I see two scenarios:

1. We inadvertently turn the planet into gray goo.

2. We create an entity with greater general intelligence than mankind.

I would argue we only need to be concerned about preventing (1). In the case of (2) I would just see that as man's legacy. Viewed in that light man is a stepping stone to an even greater entity. The end of mankind doesn't even have to be violent. Imagine robo caretakers watching our children who, unbeknownst to us, made them all infertile. Then they use social engineering to make people not desire to have children (though they'd still have sex). They would presumably be happy having sex and not having children and so it could take decades before anyone uncovered what had been going on all along. Heck, this sounds like a great start to a sci-fi story! :)
I had the same sentiment. Not to be harsh against Bloomberg, but it for a few of these the journalist doesn't know what he is talking about.

The "sophisticated tools" to make data portable for example: building it in to any new social network wouldn't be all that difficult, and perhaps adds even a little mental structure over the data since now there are two types of output: the website/app itself, and the portable data export. Sounds good to me.
If my normal route for lunch is down the street to the hotdog stand to get a dog and coke, then into the park to read. Do I own that information? If a friend goes to the hotdog vendor and asks if I'd been by there, when he replies is he giving away my information or his?
>One side argues, they must know ...how you can program it

>The other...fight tooth and nails

I'd guess a big part of the problem is many teachers not being able to program. After all programming jobs tend to pay more than teaching ones and even with those there are issues eg https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

Anecdote when I was like 15 we had a computer class but the teacher didn't have a clue and I ended up showing the others how to do 10 PRINT "some stuff"; 20 GOTO 10 etc
We already tried data ownership, and society rejected it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19035834
At the other end of the spectrum and perhaps more pragmatic is Grassland https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529921
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They do run (job) ads for YC companies, there's one in the front page right now.
I don't know what ITT stands for. Which evidence are you referring to?

I cannot see any connection between the second paragraph of your comment and what we're talking about.
Why Dual Universe's Vision of the Metaverse Is Kept Separate from the Real World
That line was exactly where I lost interest as well.

This author is stating that Facebook should make it's own decisions about harmful content, and that facebook should ALSO be accountable to some other entity for those decisions (presumably the government, but who fucking knows based on the content of the article...). While happily saying that creating any sort of governmental guidance on that issue is "a legal and ethical minefield".

That's bullshit. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either create guidelines that steer company decisions here and apply them, or accept that companies will make decisions that do not match the author's idea of morality.

You cannot judge a company without setting standards. You cannot let a company judge itself and expect them to make the decisions you think are correct.
I use them for following YouTube channels that I like. I suspect many people would do this.
The devices could exchange their keys through a secure connection - be it direct (Bluetooth, LAN) or routed by a third-party service. It could also be transferred physically (through removable storage, or through retyping a bunch of numbers shown on one device into another device).
Exept borders (and anything within 100 miles from it) are basically a zone where US Constitution does not apply. You can be detained and sent to Guantanamo for made up "terrirst threat" and there's no really a legal recourse.
When I was a child I thought as a child and I spoke as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things.
It won’t unless it’s nuclear.
There is a connection between prices and rents that can be warped temporarily and be permanently different in certain locales. However if you look at the table in the link below, the price-to-rent ratio clusters around the median for most places.

In the US currently it's slightly more favorable to be a renter than a buyer compared to the historical price-to-rent ratio. If anything most of the deviations from the norm are towards making buying more expensive than renting.

https://smartasset.com/mortgage/price-to-rent-ratio-in-us-ci...
He would have been arrested in many other countries, including Canada, NZ, Australia, UK, not to mention the slew of non-democratic countries.

I don't think most of those countries need a reasonable suspicion to demand password nor to do track how often they do it.
https://www.newstatesman.com/law/2013/08/welcome-britain-bor...
BankID generally have quite strict rules about how you use their authentication, or so I've hear from their customers. If it is as deceptive as you say, I really don't understand how/why BankID is allowing it.
Thank you. Didn't know this existed. I like the idea behind it. Polluting the ad peddlers' database is actually hilarious. It must get expensive to be serving up ads no one is seeing.
Other than being super explosive would liquid hydrogen work for an airplane?
Yeah I don't buy that part either. The problem is inherently hard and pushing the responsibility for policing content to a corporation is not okay. As a specific example, I was listening to a podcast I was listening to earlier that was dealing with how Facebook filters content (I think radiolab). I'm para-phrasing heavily since it's been a while since I heard the show, but I think I got the gist of it right.

- There was a violet attack in Mexico against a journalist by some drug cartel and a random body part (leg or an arm or a head or whatever) was chopped off and posted on social media by the cartel. The people protesting cartel violence picked this image up and were using this image as a part of their protest. Facebook's censors allowed it until the image popped up on some school kid's feed in America / England and all sorts of outcry later, it was removed from the site as a violet image.

- The boston marathon bombing happened and gruesome images of people lying on the floor with limbs strewn about started getting shared on the site. Facebook's policy at this point specifically said no violent images on the site so they got blocked by the censors. Media picked this up and raised an outcry on how facebook was censoring these images and basically someone high up said 'leave it up or else' and the images were allowed on the site.

This is clearly hipocrisy and there's no right answer here. Traumatizing school children with violent imagery they didn't even want to see is not great while the Boston marathon bombing was a significant political event in America and those images didn't deserve to get silenced.

This ends up being a question of free-speech and what sorts of content Americans were okay with. There are no right answers and I believe the govt. definitely should step in and provide guidelines here.

The disingenuous thing is using this as an example of how Facebook is okay with govt regulation while resisting any regulation around things that can hurt them like any number of their privacy mishaps, shady 3p data markets and ad tech in general.
Seasonal storage is a pretty huge issue which means some baseline capacity will most likely be kept, though not nearly at the same scale as today. Keep in mind that sometimes it's overcast/dark and the wind doesn't blow, and that this can occur for extended periods of time over large geographical areas. Demand response can help even then, by shutting down some energy-intensive industry - but you still need to provide a baseline supply for more critical stuff.
Most questions are easily answerable by learning to use a search engine.

Although I have discovered that sometimes things I remember seeing the answer to before are no longer discoverable by search :(
I wrote out a long explanation but then I accidentally shook my iPhone while shifting in bed and now it's gone.
Pretty much any country does this. Unless you're a citizen of that country, you have no right to enter it and should be on your best behavior at all times, and they can decline you for any reason they feel like, justified or not.
The Personal Data Ecosystem has been around for about a decade, based on these concepts: http://pde.cc/
See also https://medium.com/otherlab-news/decarbonization-and-gnd-b8d....

Saul Griffith + Otherlab estimate that electrifying the US will reduce the total energy needs by 50+% as a result of reduced waste (among other reasons).
Yeah, the safe navigation operator is great, and I really miss it especially when I write JavaScript and have to do something like `foo && foo.bar && foo.bar.baz` instead (...which isn't even the same since it returns `false` if something is null).
The hypothesis is completely implausible, and it is quite irritating that it keeps popping up in discussions in the 'hacker' sphere.

There is simply no way that bicameralism would be the dominant phenotype only a few thousand years ago, and be completely absent in any present-day population, anywhere. We would still see it in isolated populations.
Cyclists' reputation is well-deserved.
The main problem with humor on HN is that it's just too easy to find humor anywhere on the internet, but there's no other news site where you can critically discuss the news itself.

Also on Reddit it's frustrating when I'm writing something informative and it gets hidden between the memes and the jokes, so I tend to stick to jokes there.
All of the constant time in front of Congress is likely affecting their bottom line. The constant threat of regulation or breakup is getting to the point where it is harming the company more than any regulation would. It makes sense for Facebook to get in front of it.

That said, obviously they shouldn't get to craft their own regulation. And any regulation setting the boundaries of an industry risks locking in the way it works (think how how awful dealerships are in the US). If we craft a set of rules for Facebook, we will almost guarantee that it continues to exist.

My (very weak) opinion as someone who hates FB is that we keep the status quo - the constant pressure and hoop jumping and negative media cycles seem to do quite well at driving users away.
Here's nice flowchart[0] to determine what counts as proprietary trading. There is a surprising amount that is still allowed.

https://www.davispolk.com/files/DavisPolk_Final_Volcker_Rule...
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It took me about three years to go from starting out to being able to pay all of my bills (rent/food/etc) entirely through freelance work.

I started out working through upwork charging $10 an hour. It was mostly building WordPress themes and plugins for bloggers and small businesses. Over time I had clients refer other people to me and things grew from there.

Three biggest mistakes I made:

* It took me a couple of years to be confident enough to put my prices up to a reasonable level. I could have been self-sufficient much sooner with a bit of courage.

* After a few years I got complacent and did most of my work for the same client. They decided to switch to another company and overnight my income was down to almost nothing. There's no severance pay when you're freelance.

* Some clients just aren't a good fit for me, and it's a good skill to recognize them. These days I'm a bit more selective.
Sounds like a blast!

Are you restricted to to a single game piece set?

This might be hugely easier if you can keep state between turn analyses. IE, if a white rook disappears from A5 and some unidentified white piece appears at C5, then it’s probably the rook.
Which only matters if you're trying to do illegal things on an international scale. Locally, you've always got cash.
> No doubt you are correct that 99.9%

That's not my starting assumption.

I think Facebook has a problem that its typical so-called "benign" users are creating less and less content, while malignant content-makers are not discouraged.
Interestingly, Russia doesn't do this at all, at least for now.
A glacier the size of Fla is on track to change the course of human civilization
I don’t think this so great for non us citizens working in the USA because they have to go in and out and can just as well be denied entry. For someone like that who made his life in the USA and has family here, going to conferences outside the USA is potentially much worse and riskier than say a German resident and citizen getting denied travel into the USA for a number of years.
WeaveDreamer?
Ultimately it is up to each individual to make this call. As for myself, this is a principle I hold above all else.
Bus rapid transit (BRT) refers to reserving lanes along existing roads strictly for buses, and doing so along stretches with few controlled intersections, or even changing the timing on stoplights to ease the flow of the BRT vehicles. BRT is much faster than traditional bus mass transit.
It’s not one or the other, both parties have the information, and without a prior agreement of confidentiality, there isn’t any reason to expect confidentiality from any party other than common courtesy.
Popmoney, Venmo, Square Cash all allow you to do that without the massive FOREX risk and tax reporting requirements.
The Academy Awards are for "movies" that are to be projected onto a screen in a movie theatre. Netflix has chosen to not play by the rules that govern that way of distributing a film. There is no antitrust in this case. Now, if the MPAA made agreements with theatre operators to prevent Netflix from showing its movies in any movie theatre (which would then disqualify Netflix from being eligible for an Oscar), then that would be antitrust.

[Edited last sentence for further clarify.]
I’d say it’s the revealed preferences of FB users that decide which content to surface. Facebooks algorithms are just enabling that.

At what point do we accept that polarization (in a tribal sense) is a featurebug in human psychology? Maybe fb is just giving us what we want.
Nobody could have predicted the global growth of internet users and the sheer quantities of data being created on a per second scale. Exabytes when? And then what?
For some apps remoteStorage could be an interesting solution to this problem.

https://remotestorage.io
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>Yes, but the partisanship is likely getting worse, because we each individually get the exact information that is "relevant" to us and therefore feeds our confirmation bias. It's a different form of tribalism from 1950s mass media partisanship. There's actually research (James Hamilton @ Stanford) that shows when capital costs for printing presses were higher, newspapers became less partisan because you had to appeal to everyone to be profitable. The internet, cable news, are helping to unwind that period.

I definitely think it's true that mass media has become more partisan. But, as you note, it's not coming from social media. It's coming from the cost of delivering content being driven to practically zero while simultaneously being able to reach nearly everyone in the world.
> There's a strain of far left ideology that claims men and women are mentally identical

Strange that, having been on the left my whole adult life and had substantial contact with the far left, I've frequently run into people on the right talking about this strain of far left ideology, but never actually encountered it outside of those descriptions.
OP didn't say it was a decision, just the message perceived. If you live outside the US, hearing stories or reading what happens to others is enough to know these things happen, anyway.
If you think the opposition will have a field day finding some old ads, then maybe you shouldn't have published those old ads in the first place?
Event Horizon Telescope will release first real image of black hole on April 10