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Ask HN: Which soft skills do you develop as a programmer?
I have been a programmer for about 15 years now, and I still try to hone in on skills that will make me better every day. One thing I realized is that I do not spend as much time on soft skills, There also aren’t many companies out there who target programmers for soft skill development either.

For me, I focus a lot on communication – especially presentation and public speaking, which is always an issue. Now I am branching out. I’ve started searching for things like Ethics (especially with the improvements in AI, this is becoming a hot topic). And since I work remotely, I am also realizing the benefits of teamwork, getting promoted while working remotely, creating a company culture are also important skills to gain.

What do you think? What soft skills or side skills should programmers focus on improving? Anything else you think would be beneficial to add to a developer’s collection of skills?
Yes I realized this, but this makes the word unnecessarily ambiguous and this new definition is the purely the result of enough people using the word incorrectly long enough.

We don't mean "destroy 10%" when we use the word decimate anymore, I get it. Natural language, migration of meaning, subjective denotation etc.
Bad guys will certainly know that given phones includes backdoor access and they’ll figure out devices that does not.

Law enforcement will end up spying on regular citizens and catching small fish while big fish and bad hackers will laugh watching.
Do you live somewhere decently upscale?

Walmart in upscale areas tends (in my unscientific observation, n = approx 10) to be full of people who are working there and shopping there as a last resort and it shows.
thanks for the response, what do you think is ideal?
I would use schwierig for difficult - but I am not a native speaker, so take it with a grain of salt. I tend to use schwer to mean hard (or heavy in other contexts)
Let's say a recession is in the future (12-24 months), what should the average person's position be? Transition to even longer-term investments?
These plans are already overpriced. Charging more for the same thing is fleecing, and an indicator of a sick monopolized market. Hopefully once low orbit satellite plans will kick off for real, crooks like Comcast and the like won't be able to do it anymore.
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Don't want to be "difficult" but the 303 isn't really the typical psy synth. Although it's used, psy trance required a bit more sophisticated equipment for chords and layering etc.

The concept of "acid" appeared in Chicago.

It's fascinating how goa trance came about. At first they were just strumming guitars out there and then came the drugs and the very early electronic music from labels like Harthouse and Eye Q ... those were the roots of this movement.
You mention that "nobody pays the spot price" but what effect does this price have then if nobody pays it?

If I have a way to make, let's say, 30MW for up to 5 hours per day, and inject it into that system, could I get $9000 per MWh for that power during the period mentioned in the article?

If I wouldn't get $9000 then what purpose does this price signal have? "Oh great, the notional price I won't actually get paid went up. I will be sure to increase the notional amount of electricity I don't actually make"
Agree that this is definitely not new. There have been few variants of this play across the US. Trio (thinktrio.com), for example have been around for quite some time. I wonder though, if the typical HN reader is a great target market for this offering.
You forgot to include EU (but that excludes such countries like Norway and Switzerland):

- EU land area is 1,728,193 square miles with 508 million people
They probably wouldn’t know what it is or why they shouldn’t use it if they’re being introduced to the word via the Notes app.
1080p streaming on other services will reach the 1TB cap much quicker. YouTube compression is much more intense than Netflix compression, depending on the show: Netflix picks optimal compression parameters based on the type of show or movie you're watching.

With my tendencies to watch a lot of video content, I myself easily hit over 1.5TB of data consumption each month. Luckily my ISP doesn't do any data caps so I don't have to worry.
Wouldn't the boomers be heavily allocated in bonds at this point? Even the youngest of them are basically at or nearly at retirement age (at least the ones with enough resources to hold much in stocks)
The effective interest seems to be above 0% though. The linked FAQ shows calculations where the total amount paid back is more than the total loan amount. Plus some talk about some kind of exchange rate(?) seems like this could be even riskier than normal?
Oh wow, that's almost a real-life "Sort By Controversial", Scott Alexander's short story about what happens when an algorithm optimizes for controversial content that's so warping people think the other side misunderstood it.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
At least AGA had 4x bandwidth compared to original chipset and ECS.

Bus width went from 16 bit to 32 bit and fast page mode provided another bw doubling.
I asked this in a similar thread a couple of weeks ago, but I feel like the sentiment is a lot more pessimistic today than it was then. Anyway, I've been holding way too much cash for the last two years in anticipation of a recession. Everyone was telling me that trying to time the market is a bad idea and that I should just invest and forget about it, but given the current signals, might it be a good idea for me to hold out just a little longer?

I'm really on the fence about it, I know I've lost a lot to opportunity cost and inflation and I regret holding out, but given recent news, it's hard for not to want to keep waiting... just a little longer...
With details of medical treatment that would be administered in the case of a heart attack. Interesting that we have no details of what induced said heart attack.
> It’s valuable because you can compare what the media reports to what was posted on 4chan and look for discrepancies.

This only works if you hold 4chan to be more reliable than the media. Given its history (think, like, QAnon) and love of trolling, this doesn't really work. This story was notable mostly because 4chan is notoriously unreliable.

> Twitter is an ultra short form platform that has already demonstrated political censorship.

Right, but you said that anonymity was important, not censorship. Is anonymity important, or is lack of censorship what matters? They're not the same thing.
99% is memes, random boards, or hate/bigotry/odd. The platform we need right now is proper enforcement of whistleblower protections.

Mainstream media is 30% Fox, by viewership, with most traditional publishers remaining trustworthy in most reporting. 4chan/8chan ties in with Daily Caller types too often to be of any value 99.9% of the time.
<$3 mill is the latest number. I agree it was never worth a billion dollars, but tumblr definitely lost a huge amount of value during its stay at Yahoo. You don't just overvalue an asset by 99.8%.

Do you? I have to believe you don't.
>That means the bank is absorbing a real loss of 1.5%/year on the deal.

(As I understand it) the Eurobor rate is negative (the rate that the central bank lends to the other banks), so its unlikely that the bank are taking the hit directly.
The poor sap and you don't pay the same amount. Fuel taxes, which are levied as a percentage of what you spend on fuel, will be different for you and the poor sap who drives less. The more you drive, the more you pay in fuel tax, which (ostensibly) goes towards road maintenance.
To me, it's mind bendingly frustrating that we're even considering things in terms of a 'reduction from current emissions'.

It's like someone deeply in debt cutting their spending by 5% or whatever.

What is actually required is that we start from zero emissions and work upwards - e.g. if we need some agriculture, that's some unavoidable CO2 right now until we have electric solar powered tractors or whatever, and so on.

The reduction method is so far from the correct approach that even if it works, it doesn't work, as you've stated, because it's based on the idea that we just go on as normal with small tweaks.

It's looking like we actually need to create a completely different economy, rapidly, in order to survive. Oh boy.
Agreed. It wasn't until later in life that I realized how obnoxiously hipster-ish metal fans can be. Band t-shirts are great conversation starters, but it quickly devolves from finding common ground ("Oh, you like Behemoth? Me too!") to bringing up super-obscure music to look like you are "deeper in the scene". "If you like black metal of course you've heard Zarzagamel's latest, right? It's a solo project from southern France with a limited release on vinyl."
It certainly won't be worse than 2008. 2008 was a financial crisis, core parts of the banking system were suspect, nobody knew who they could trust or who was solvent and worse nobody had a clue how to solve it for a dangerously long period of time.

The financial system is not in that same position this time and as for China, China's growth is largely kept to china itself and guarded jealously, China did little or nothing to ease the 2008 financial crisis for the west.
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House prices will remain artificially high so they won't be able to afford one.
Creative thinking, I like it. Pyramidal sand might be even grippier than the standard, cubic version.

Alternatively, I wonder if just splitting spherical sand in half would work?
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There was an article some where on the internets, that the protesters in the Tiananmen Square movement are the biggest supporters of the regime now. Given these people benefitted immensely from the China's economic growth after the immediate after math of that movement.
Sounds like a lot of cool learning was done though :)
Yes indeed, although I assume that since Mandarin is more accessible for learners, it can serve as a 101 to classical.
Quote:
[None of what has been said up to this point is to suggest that studying Chinese language and early thought is only for the classically curious and linguistically intrepid].
I just discovered that breathless clickbait headlines are worse than useless.
Traditionally, anything above ~350% has indicated a bubble. With the housing bubble, we saw a peak of 473%, and the dot-com bubble was 429% at its peak. Essentially, yes, wealth will be a multiple of GDP, but the multiple has been fairly constant historically, and it's diverging rapidly now. So either we're in an era where assets are significantly more valuable (and I'm not sure there's a good case for that given the multiplier), or we're in an asset bubble.
Singapore has working legal system. Chinese are eroding that in HK.
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That is a legitimate concern, which is why we have to fight this.
They really should be sued out of existence and nothing less... perhaps it sounds harsh, but unfortunately companies have to be scared into taking security seriously, otherwise they will just continue to cut corners to save money or out of simple incompetence (which again could have been prevented by investing in a proper security audit)
Real estate is a very poor example considering countless cases of landlords neglecting repairs and maintenance. In some states in the US, there's little or no accountability for this.
I didn't believe my eyes when I saw "psytrance" on the front page of HN...

Anyways, for anyone in North America looking for psytrance festivals, here is a guide put together by fractaltribe:

https://www.fractaltribe.org/blog/north-american-psytrance-f...
For me tumblr does best in that you have chains of responses (reblogs) in images/gifs and text form, that then are reposted on one's own blog for their own followers to experience broadly in a singular dashboard whose ordering isn't really manipulated (like twitter and instagram are, to my extreme vexation).

Also, because tumblr makes it easy to create side-blogs, you can follow a favorite person for their specific stuff. For example, if my artist friend has an "inspiration" blog I can follow that blog instead of their "personal/vent" blog. Similarly if I'm looking for some kind of tea-specific blog I can follow a stranger's side blog without needing to also be exposed to the stranger ranting about a political opinion I am uncomfortable with.

Furthermore, it's one of the large social media sites for which there is a significant and semi-permanent resource and groupings for a variety of LGBTQ/diversity/political/fandom interests in a way that is more flexible than a subreddit or an interest forum. You can follow the individual blogs that you're interested in instead of needing to follow a whole community. So if you don't want to be exposed to some aspect of a community it's relatively trivial to just not follow the people involved.

Twitter has a lot of this, but the lack of easy threading posts and out-of-order feed really ruin it for me. Several of my favorite artists left tumblr for twitter and I've had very little success following them from there.
Is it "Powerpoint", per se, or presentation-slideshows in general? I suspect the latter. I worry that if we use the name of the specific product we only encourage a flood of "Powerpoint alternatives" without addressing the root cause of the issue.
For me, it would be better to focus on drastically reducing the duration of copyrights. At the speed things are going, 2 to 4 years would be good. It would be beneficial for everyone. Drugs, Manuals, Seeds, Arts...
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Employers Can’t Retrain the U.S. by Themselves
Also reduce car trips in general, if it's an option

I haven't even owned a car for the past 3 years but I understand that's not possible for everybody. Having a grocery store in a 10 minute walk helps a lot.
Whatever you feel comfortable with. To own stocks means to accept upside and downside risk. If you can't afford to lose 40% in a year because you might need the money within 10 years, reexamine your risk profile. It's okay to have cash on hand that you might need for a down payment, wedding, car purchase. If you're talking about money you won't touch in 10+ years and you won't panic sell, then don't try to time the market.
Another scam IPO for another scam tech company.

The fucking hot dog stand at my neighborhood park is in better financial shape than these toxic scam businesses like Uber or We.
I recently switched from Medium to a static site, but for anyone else looking to switch from medium - this may now be an option again?
This is why Amazon handles the logistics for so many third-party sellers rather than simply buying their merchandise and reselling it. They get the little guy to assume all of the risk. Unsold products? Your problem. Some kind of defect? Your problem. All Amazon is on the hook for is shipping (and warehousing, although the cost there is a bit more abstract).
This is not advice, but if I were 100% or even 50% in cash and had at least 20 years left of time horizon, with no immediate need for the cash, I'd probably put 5% back in the market each month until I had 100% allocation.

But... the US does feel heated up, so who knows?
Here are my versions. Every playlist has top 5 songs from the artists mentioned for each subgenre on the list.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dAcwPZxCRk5V2ab3EFPZP?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6WrCSyOd1UfrmaZJFXeqAF?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3SfxYfyeBU1ph75Ed8mCpP?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tETCS8IwxJiz5XWHz8Kqp?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Y3IUHGeiOwkpuUhjW2ErM?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hRuECtfy9PKczpWPE0SRh?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/22tkk9pQIbGVqpBVY2996d?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0W9ICmxCNPQzkknHa6CyKI?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1lIeAjrLNrggjQmC8BNxh0?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0O1gKw9KRYTUFS7WyywMoT?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5S34tPfWB0q9s3f3fcHLh8?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3k13QP7kaDvbxYyKo4CuZp?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7sZ7YSdmZXb2ksze3bk3cS?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KxhKNBkrW47UfrpW4ezAO?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5D9xAkuYC9cklxFXZUns8K?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/62XI14VIjqZxsA2CikNrBf?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5kf1tVYouTxcJGbxV1lQny?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bBurOc5GGytLjnKPIExy9?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5n6n7vNaBbRNelVzAD8UKw?si=...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jPeGD6FKvEiYH4HP6m0Lv?si=...

Hope you enjoy. :)
This seems like a potentially useful teaching / learning tool for piano teachers. I'd be interested in seeing other things like AR for teaching instruments/music.
My Ark folder is sitting at 192GB at the moment. I only have the official maps at that. And there are 2 more maps coming out.
Another youtube channel that does the same, but mostly soundtracks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs7O9sOUQiBGBxaaAguIwig
"The HIPAA Privacy Rule protects the individually identifiable health information about a decedent for 50 years following the date of death of the individual."

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...
Not necessarily. If I were attending a party with some Avante Garde/Post-Black Metal and suddenly a band broke out in Djent or rap-rock....I would find it a highly jarring and unpleasant change in atmosphere.
He's pretty unique. Ott sounds very similar.

Both excellent.
> This is not true for financial debt.

It is however true with assets; The housing crisis provides a great example; housing is an asset when it is always appreciating; however, if it starts depreciating (2008), it quickly became a liability.

This translates nicely to product. Each feature is an asset for selling; until it is found to have liabilities (pii data storage, inability to scale), then the feature either needs work again (requiring reinvestment) or removed (sold).
That high yield savings account is (likely) unavailable to their tax-advantaged account(s) such as 401k. In that case, their choices may be limited to stocks or bonds.
I find it interesting to see this similar kind of behavior in video game economies like with Path of Exile. There are people who spend all day looking for good deals or opportunities, and essentially buying and reselling, maybe with some minor tweaks. These people tend to be the wealthiest in the game, with far more in-game currency than people actually playing the game.
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Not the world's first at all. https://tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/interest-rate

Switzerland has been negative for years.

Negative interest rates mean only 1 thing. The central bank is 100% confident that they are on the brink of deflationary spiral; much like Greece or Japan.

This is all connected:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20615403

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20654624

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/households-debt-to-incom...

When you are above 100% disposable debt to income. It means you must stop spending or your debt continues to increase. 170% is worse than the USA's financial crisis. Other countries like Australia are up around 200%.

We have reached a long term debt cycle. We are about to have one of the worst recessions in a very long time OR depression.
It's more complicated than that. Let's say the US adds back doors. What is to stop China, Russia, or some other nation state from using it in the US to intercept the communications of lawmakers, CEOs, and others? These are policy implications worth raising and discussing. Do many realize implications like this?
Maybe I'm a crazy for taking the state of the fed funds rate, the budget deficit, and the Fed's balance sheet into account? We can print money, but so far the USD hasn't reflected any sort of consequence for that. They can do a QE program, but will other actors accept the implicit loss on their treasury holdings? I can think of one major player there that is a lot less likely to do so now.
Unfortunately, news that associates culture with alt-right politics have become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Many folks don’t want to be associated with the alt-right. Example:

> Pepe, the green frog that has become a mascot for right-wing internet trolls.

Pepe was an ultra popular meme on 4chan when this was originally ran in the news. It is unsurprising that alt-right folks on 4chan were using it, since everyone else was too. But since the news ran, people on social media had to stop using it, lest they be associated with politics they despise; ordinary people who read the news and don’t live on the internet would not know the difference.

I am not keen on 4chan culture but if I had to guess I’d assume that merely posting Pepe on 4chan doesn’t signify political beliefs unless it’s a specific variant with for example, a MAGA hat.

Obviously this is a pretty exploitable pattern.
I think the real alternative to Medium is Ghost as a hosted or self-hosted version. Depending on your needs and the amount of time you want to spend on it.

https://ghost.org/
Because of age appropriateness.

Guns are only sold to adults, and the only media censored in the US is that which is broadcast publicly to audiences of all ages. Nudity has been in US movies for 50+ years.

Many platforms for children do already censor swears that are typed.
Still looks surprisingly useful even in its current form.
Op is not the player, so "I" in the title is deceptive.

To me this would be more interesting to watch without the distracting (and chintzy) scrolling bars and particle effects which are clearly not part of "added LEDs to my piano". They drag attention away from the actual playing.
Perhaps this is a stupid question, but is an S-1 the first chance for the general public to get any insight into a company’s financials?
HIPAA has a minimum necessary standard of disclosure. Ideally, EMS staff should try to put a stop to lurid interest of that sort (keeping in mind that their first focus will be emergency medical care, not policing who happens to be nearby, possibly for legitimate reasons) and could be held liable if what was leaked was due to things they actually said to a third party.

But I think you would probably have to pass a test of reasonableness. If you are getting medical treatment in a public space, there's only so much EMS can do to protect your privacy.

In practice, it's really hard to strictly comply with HIPAA and many institutions routinely violate it in small ways.

From what I gather, law enforcement, such as prison guards, have their own rules covering confidentiality. But I don't think a prison guard would be covered by HIPAA. A leak by a prison guard would have to be dealt with via other channels.
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I always name my TBrowser T_T to express my annoyance of having to use it ':(' is sadly not a valid name : /