skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much less, in theory.

At an imaginary hand waving level imagine the complete state of a cpu as passing charged capacitors around and occasionally charging new ones or discharging some. This is not all that far off of how they work...

If you want to count to 7 reversibly there's an easy way involving hitting a 7 bit shift register, 7 times. In theory there's no reason to drain any capacitors per op or per the entire system, that same unit of charge just meanders down the line. Like a CCD sensor or old fashioned bubble memory kinda. The way chips are designed today that doesn't work, but insert a lot of kinda sorta in theory it could be done.

On the other hand if you want to count to 7 using three full binary adders you're going to run into scenarios where two bits enter an adder (say, 001+001) and one bit leaves (result of 010), so at least one capacitors worth of charge got turned to heat. And that charging and discharging is basically wasting battery power for no good reason. And its not a lot of power for one capacitor, but you toggle a flip flop a couple billion times a second and then not-much adds up over time to a pretty hot CPU.
Does HP still own 15/8 and 16/8? I remember visiting there once and everyone had public internet addresses.
I have hired. I allow remote work though and pay going rate for devs. I understand however that hiring remote isn't a realistic option for all.

"We can't even get enough qualified resumes"
Why? What are your qualification requirements? Where are you located?

A lot of devs won't waste their time applying if pay isn't listed and if your qualifications requirements are steep.

I agree with CS grads. Out the gate many want to work in a start up or a Google. Let them go through that for a few years.

I also agree with "university education is far too expensive". I actually like the bootcamp concept to get new developers started. That coupled with a year or 2 of hands-on experience can be a good investment imo. Problem is, I see many companies trying to hire for senior dev skills but at bootcamp grad pay.
Do you have a source for that? (not arguing, just want to read more about this)
Yep–we have a really high bar for therapists. We also look at outcomes data (de-identified, in aggregate) and can use that to evaluate therapist performance over time.

There was a really cool article in the Atlantic a couple weeks about why outcomes data is so crucial to making therapy more effective. It mentions an study where they used outcomes data to see which therapists treated clients more effectively: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/what-yo...
I'd argue the cause and effect relationship you're positing is backwards.
When hiring a junior developer (or anyone, really), the attraction is the gleaming future potential of a person. So, if you want to get hired, you'll need to be projecting an exciting upward trajectory no matter what. I think you'll find it unconvincing to say "yes, I've been at it for seven years, but look, I should be able to do your junior work at least, yes?"

So you want to frame it differently. For example, provided this is true, you could emphasize that you've been the most senior person in your company, but that your company offered limited growth opportunities. Now you're just champing at the bit to work with people from whom you can learn and grow, and you're overflowing with energy to do so. Demonstrate why it's true, perhaps with examples of things you've been poking at on your own. Or something. You need your story to be true, and the above might not be. But you do need to have _a_ communicable story.
Oh I know, I am not advocating this as the correct way to build a business. But for throwing up some crappy CRUD app, you are going to get the best bang for your buck either oursourcing it or hiring 1-3 years of experience guys.

It's going to be buggy and not scale, but it can still do stuff.
if you are a human, you are biased full stop.

why you consider a news site dangerous is beyond me. consider this: in the west, saying that a news site is dangerous is dangerous.
We want all the solo founders to come out to our demo day ShowYC.com
Your company fails when you stop innovating and start copying, and enters a death spiral when smart employees (and investors) leave, because they know that no amount of fancy demos and vaporware will make up for the declining quality of the core product. Eventually the neglected core becomes weaker and weaker to the point where it fails spectacularly. We are saw this with MySpace, are seeing it with Wikipedia, Google Search, and if Facebook continues on the same path, it won't be long before they suffer the same fate.
First off - this looks amazing; I'd definitely buy a copy myself (even digital only). I'm going to have to follow your progress on this work!

Now - a couple of suggestions (and I realize this work is still in progress - so maybe these are being considered):

1. You mention Dungeons of Daggorath - so there's a few things I wanted to clear up:

Don't write "Tandy Coco" - the proper term for the machine of the era is the "Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer", and there were two main versions; version 1 ("TRS-80 Color Computer 1") was sold with a large gray case (it was originally based off of a machine Radio Shack sold to farmers for Telex information!) and version 2 ("TRS-80 Color Computer 2") with a white case (there are sub-versions within that version, but that's not important). Later, Radio Shack released the Color Computer 3, which looks similar to the Color Computer 2, but had a different keyboard, and vastly upgraded capabilities. However, it was -not- labeled as a TRS-80, but rather as the "Tandy Color Computer 3" - I am not sure of why that name change occurred, but it did.

Now - owners of the machine typically called it the "CoCo" (notice the capitalization - so CoCo 1, CoCo 2, and CoCo 3), but it was never referenced this way by Tandy or Radio Shack. Since Dungeons of Daggorath originally came out prior to the CoCo 2, it would probably be best to label it with "Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer" which is generally understood to refer to the original version of the machine, but can also represent the second version as well.

It should be noted here that for the Color Computer 3, a "sequel" to DofD (of sorts) was released, called "Castle of Tharoggad" (notice the spelling!) - but it was poorly received, and most fans of DofD don't like to talk about it.

2. On the Color Computer, there were more than a few other RPG games - for the CoCo 2, one of the earliest was "Gates of Delirium" by Diecom Products (1984) - it was somewhat of a clone of Ultima.

3. Later, the CoCo 3 had "The Seventh/7th Link" released by Oblique Triad - it too was similar to Ultima, but incorporated an interesting 3D system similar to Dungeons of Daggorath for the "dungeon" portions (IIRC). It utilized much of the CoCo 3's better graphics capabilities.

I'm sure I am missing some others in there (which if you are interested, I can dig in my archives for and see what I can find); the Color Computer is near and dear to me, as it is the machine I grew up with and ultimately led to me becoming a software engineer. I still have both of my machines (a CoCo 2 and a CoCo 3), plus all of my issues of the Rainbow Magazine. I keep in touch with a long running listserv with other members who own or love the Color Computer.

Lastly - and I haven't looked at the book deeply to know - I am interested in finding out what you cover on RPGs for the Amiga - there were a few lesser known ones on that machine as well (one - I forget its name - used an early first-person 3D system with flat-shaded objects - when it didn't crash, it was pretty neat to play for the time).
Developers and 'QA' were the same people at the best companies I've worked at.

That solves that ridiculous 'prestige' problem you mentioned which is really just diva-developer behavior of a different flavor. If someone can't/won't write a test for a feature they've developed or fix the test suite when it breaks, I don't want to work with them.
You are correct, the US does all of this, just like every great military power in history - and all wars are for economic reasons. States are not moral actors, they seek to expand their power and influence and it's up to us to keep them in check.
Can you help me understand what is being offered here? Is it basically a wrapper for, in the Rails world, spin up EC2 instance -> install make / git -> clone repo -> bundle install -> install nginx -> configure nginx to whatever app server they have decided you will be using -> set up CI server? I wonder if you can customize how the recipe gets built?

It basically just seems like an AWS specific deployment recipe as a service for people who might not be familiar with a tool like Ansible. Is that accurate?
This book is great. First few chapters outline the general framework and give you the overview of strategies("traction channels"), and the remaining chapters just explore each strategy in more detail.

Definitely worth buying even for the first two chapters.

If you want a TL;DR:

https://medium.com/@yegg/the-19-channels-you-can-use-to-get-...
I didn't appreciate the severity of the condition. My apologies if I come across as insensitive, I should have paid more attention to the original post.
I think it's more that he has a distaste for Facebook's "90's-Microsoft-esque" strategy of watching like a hawk for any potential competitors in the space, and going to them with a "either let us acquire you, or we will crush you" offer, and how successful that strategy has been so far. Most people have a vague sense, if only for aesthetic and "fairness" reasons, that we don't want the world to work like that. Unfortunately, the world doesn't care about our wants.
Maybe you're right. Unfortunately. Thanks for the heads up anyway.
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Do we really want markets to have a free hand in everything? Historically this has not turned out well.

I can't really think of a historical example of a truly free market outside of black markets or maybe for a short period of time, failed states. Historically, "freer" markets have dramatically outperformed planned economies. It is better in most cases (outside of obvious e.g. environmental externalities) for individuals to decide what is best for themselves than for the subset of the population that is politically active to come to some plurality decision about what everyone else should value.

Essentially I disagree somewhat on the deciding things as a community (we should avoid doing that whenever possible), although that's fairly vague. Having said all of that I would vouch for common sense stuff e.g. progressive taxation. America would look a lot different if capital gains were taxed at same rate as income; I would say that's more of a re allocation of market intervention than an increase in market intervention.
'We had to give them bonuses' to leave work early
> What I am skeptical of is the idea that people, once they reach adulthood and see dim prospects, turn to drugs to cope with that depression.

Do you really find the idea of people self-medicating depression hard to encompass? I'm having a hard time myself, encompassing the idea that there is anywhere in the world this might seem like a controversial question.
It's quite literal about price for advertisers, and not so literal on revenue sharing for publishers. It explains what it is talking about both times, and also explains that talking about price for readers is nonsense.
My favorite thing is coming to the HN threads to read the "tried it out to see if <personal hangup re: obscure app feature 6 people use> is fixed (meaning works the way I want it to work) but it's not, therefore the entire project A SHIT" posts.

The fact that this one then acknowledges that the bug is actually fixed if you use the browser in the recommended mode gives it extra points.
i have so been needing this! no more opening new windows, private windows, and new browsers with private windows to test multiple user scenarios. [thumbsup emoji]
NP. Glad I could help. :)
I would like to add that Excel macros are excellent; If Google Docs spreadsheet functionality were exportable I reckon that many existing startups could be built as a mere UI change on top of that backend.
> Prussia had recently adopted a new model of rifle: one that was bolt action and so allowed for rapid fire, in comparison to the Austrians’ outmoded muzzle-loading Lorenz rifle-muskets.

This really made a long-lasting impression, in Austria today (so 150 years later) we still use the phrase: "the prussians don't shoot that fast". We use it when there is still time and a solution isn't ready yet.
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The argument was that the US had gained a "defend the rights of man", i.e. Democracy, attitude because of the Civil War (though honestly with the early end of Reconstruction, I'm not sure it's valid). This attitude eventually encouraged the US to come directly into the War, though the US had been giving significant support to England and France prior to that point.

I agree that it's weak though. And Britain is definitely the reason Germany wasn't capable of overrunning France. America at best made it clear that Germany could not win. While 120,000 troops lost by the US is far less than the Europeans, that is by no means a small number, especially considering such brief involvement.

There really was no reason to ever believe the US would ever get involved in WWI. Even WWII there was no indication the US would actually enter the War directly until the Japanese forced the choice.
"Reversible" means that the physical processes which implement the computation (e.g. electricity flowing through wires, marbles running down tracks, etc.) can all be run backwards as well as forwards.

Think about pumping water up a hill: we have to spend energy to move it up; but it's reversible: by moving the water back down we receive energy (e.g. hydroelectric). This isn't completely reversible, since we lose a lot of energy to friction and turbulence that we can't get back. Some microscopic systems don't have such losses, e.g. gas molecules will bounce around without losing energy (gases don't spontaneously cool down). Could we use such microscopic systems to implement a computer?

From the computational side, the only logical operation which is irreversible is discarding information, e.g. overwriting some stored value with a different value. As long as we have the same amount of information out as we put in, we can run a computation in reverse: calculating the input, given the output.

Most computations take a big bunch of data as input, and produce some small output (e.g. averaging a single field from a list of records). This clearly throws away information. We can adjust this calculation to be reversible, by outputting the value we want (e.g. that average) as well as a bunch of extra "junk", which encodes all of the input data that we didn't use. Given a pair of an average and some "junk", we can compute the input which gave rise to that pair.

So why do this? If our computation is reversible, we can run our computer forwards, copy out the portion of the result we care about to somewhere else, then run the computer backwards to get it back to the state it started in. This way, we've performed our computation without using up any energy. There may be a slight loss outside the computer, if we store that result by overwriting some previous value in an irreversible way; but even this energy cost depends only on the size of the value we're copying out. We can perform an arbitrarily large amount of computation, e.g. a lengthy brute force search, and as long as the portion of the output we care about (i.e. not the "junk") is small, say a single integer, we can recover almost all of the energy used by that computation.
I understood it that since the US unified and was able to allow african americans into the military, they were strong enough and stable enough to participate. Additionally since african american (human) equality was front and center, germany's hate-fueled racist agenda was especially distasteful adding social and political motivation to participate.
This was in Safari on a retina mac book pro
I wrote a blog post awhile back comparing the differences between day and night commit messages :-D. http://randomlyunique.com/data/2016/late-night-coding/ (it's a fun looking wordcloud)
In that case Athena is more what you're talking about. Redshift Spectrum is weirder. You still have to have a Redshift cluster you provision and pay for, but for some S3 processing it calls out to other, independent, servers. I guess I'd consider that a hybrid approach.
Bingo!! In my particular location, companies try and hire devs for $25/hr but the average starter home is $500k. Then they wonder why all of the talent leaves.
The pre-WWI model of Europe, an endless struggle between Great Powers which had gone on for a millennium, is Putin's model of the world

Who plays Hindenburg in this scenario?
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I've developed a systematic framework for generating practices to change how my body, mind, and brain work. I haven't figured out a way to explain it in simple terms, but working toward it.

EDIT: Here are some basic thoughts...

Everything we experience flows through our perceptual sets (composites of relevant emotions, beliefs, behavioral strategies, and intentions), which we can intentionally craft over time. Each component in a perceptual set is processed with varying degrees of attention.

So to program your brain, the first step is to find a functional base line perceptual set to work from & learn how to direct/focus your attention on the different aspects of your perception.

To put it even more simply: go practice all the forms of Buddhism. All I seem to be doing at this point is systematically rediscovering stuff they've known for 2500 years and attempting to put a categorical structure onto it.
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Why is it always Atom and VS Code and no one talks about Adobe Brackets, is it comparable for JS development? too bad Adobe doesn't care about Linux.
Here's an Android app that converts images from the phone's camera to sounds as a tool for the blind:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe&hl...
When I interview people, I care about tangible evidence to back up what they're saying. That doesn't have to be side projects, but it can be, especially for people who have boring day jobs. (Conversely, if you actually did communicable stuff in your real job, I'm not going to care about a lack of side projects.)
> And my associate engineers make more dough than my parents ever did

That's an odd metric to choose.
> why you consider a news site dangerous is beyond me

I consider Zero Hedge a "dangerous" website. That doesn't mean "dangerous" as in a physical or financial threat. It means "dangerous" as in after I read anything there, I expect to be--on average--less informed than when I entered.
Please re-read my comment. The quantity produced is held static by an external force: the ridiculous filter used by the SV bigs that exclude 99% of developers sight unseen. They create a shortage for themselves and then complain there is a shortage because the world isn't producing enough 'geniuses' to meet their needs (without also requiring any investment by them). It's a self-inflicted problem for which they accept no blame. This 'farm team' notion is just the light dimly dawning on some of them that they might be able to solve their own bind by actually engaging (and investing) in the solution and not just whining. By cutting themselves off from the vast majority of the potential talent supply, they have, in essence, stranded themselves on a desert island of their own manufacture.

Side rant: Directed at many posts already in this tree. Economics 101 does not describe any real market and the labor market is about as unreal as it gets. Developers are not interchangeable goods, and the flexibility in supply is almost non-existent. There will not be 100 new universities founded this fall to 'sell' into this 'market'. The market for DaVinci's would never clear if he were alive in a way that would make all buyers happy. Not. Going. To. Happen.
Just curious, was it a breach of contract or did they have one of those lovely small printed clauses no one ever reads :)
I like the one from last year where some idiot decided to have a soak in a hot spring so he and his sister went into a off-limits area of a geyser basin. Attempting to test the waters at one with his fingers, he slipped and fell in. By the time the rangers got there, his body was at the bottom of the pool but, due to a lightning storm, they had to abandon recovery until the next day. When they got there the following morning, the body was mostly gone, having been dissolved by the acidic waters.
> Not only had the Prussians humiliated them on the battlefield, but they had marched through the streets of Paris – and if that wasn’t enough, they had taken the French territories of Alsace and Lorraine and added them to their Germanic realms.

Weeellll, Elsaß was German (i.e., part of the Holy Roman Empire) until 1639 & Lothringen was German until 1766. They were both retaken from France in 1871, retaken by France from Germany in 1919, occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940 and restored to France in 1945. Out of the past 1,000 years, Elsaß has been de jure German for 687 and Lothringen has been German for 814.

So describing them as French territories is a bit … Francophilic.
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I'm on about the same as a previous role, but with the benefit of working from home. The tax point is that about half of any increase would disappear in tax etc. An annual train ticket is £5k. So if I then consider travelling hours to be working hours and factor in the hassle of the journey it doesn't look good. The way I think about it is what if someone woke me up each morning and said 'I'll give you x to travel to the metropolis and back today for work' - how much would it have to be on top of what I earn now? Basically it would be more than I could expect to get via a realistic pay rise once everyone else has dipped their beak along the way.
I'm upper 30's, married, with kids.. There is no way in hell I'm applying for a job in SV no matter the pay (well, maybe if it looked like a phone number, but that is not realistic)..
Add a lot more. there is no way I would consider using your service right now, even trusting that you are completely HIPAA compliant. Honestly, I'd need an assurance that you cannot get at (or give away access to) my records without the cooperation of me or my therapist.
There's a reason CS (race not relevant) won't do borning "tech". They have a computer science degree. If you want to pay someone to do a low skill task, hire a low skill person. There's a glut of humanities majors that would probably do better at QA type tasks than CS people just because they're more skilled at soft-skills like communication. They cost half as much to boot.

The credential fetish is the blight poisoning the tech industry. You don't need the best and the brightest to build and test your basic CRUD app.
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A fresh start will be great for landing easy (underpaid) jobs, i had a friend that used that strategy and when the team realized that he wasn't a JR they quickly promote him to bigger projects and way better pay.