skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much this; it's like they've got 90% sales and marketing and business people running the show and the software devs are just sticking around because Stockholm Syndrome.
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If anything, I don't understand the worries people have about replacing 95% of their entire diet with a well-engineered food. In the past people lived on a single or very small number of crops. In our current time we know people who live entirely on fast food or delivery pizza. The human body is more resilient than we give it credit for and having soilent is likely better than what we'd be giving it otherwise.
The pollution gets shifted to the power plants, but the greenhouse gas emissions from power plants are often better than those from cars. IIRC, in California the fraction from hydro and other renewables is ~ 25 %. Nuclear is another 15 % or so. Natural gas is a big portion of the rest.

People living in an areas that get all of their electrical power from coal need to be more careful about choosing the better option, though. In those cases, something like a high-efficiency hybrid may currently win.
Btw, all they have to do is change two lines of CSS.

.html5-scrubber-button {border: 0; width: 1px;}

But whatever, let's not risk anything here ;)
The rationale is to minimize the number of clearances. Even though you can't get information without a need-to-know, the government still likes to limit the number of clearances.
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Remote: Yes

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Let me put it like this: If you're an unemployed developer writing sob-story posts about how it's impossible to find a job, I'm going to assume that you're not wedded to a particular tech stack and are willing to work on the technologies that are in-demand.
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OK, this is going to be a bit off topic for HN, but let me give it a shot. I work in finance controlling, in a global manufacturing company. I am interested to see how numbers are crunched and analyzed in other companies, so I can offer some freelance consulting. I am especially interested in connecting all kind of data to actual P&L impacts, setting up efficient controls, better reports, training on financial/controlling/excel stuff (and I really like to teach). Also, I played a lot with python and web development, so if you are building any kind of financial system, I can help on the finance side but I get also the tech side. Anything around finance and financials of a company really, you can send me an email, I'll read it and if I get interested I'll see how we can work together.
> The net effect of this is that electricity originally generated by nuclear plants and other fossil fuel plants gets 'converted' into (more expensive!) 'green' energy.

In some situations, even pumped storage storing non-renewable power power is "greener" than you seem to imply. The problem is that nuclear generators can't stop producing electricity when it's not needed; let's say you are France and a large part of your electricity is generated with nuclear power. If you can't store your energy, during the night you're producing power that you need to waste away. And during peak hours, you need to turn on many gas turbines to get additional power.

If instead you can store your additional energy during the night, and use that one during peak hours, you burn less fuel and pollute less.
I think he meant the author was bemoaning the demise of the rise of decentralization.
It came out after the article was written.
The internet is 46 years old. I've personally been using it for almost 23 years.
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Remote: Negative.

Willing to relocate: Very much so, but only to the bay area.

Technologies: JavaScript, Ember, Angular, Node.js, .NET, Python, Ruby, php, AWS, MVC/ASP.NET, Web APIs, SQL, and more.

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lhfFi100ROJ8l58iFb8WzTRt...

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I haven't talked to any of the YouTube vloggers about my stuff. YouTube is mostly a black box to me right now. I've been doing some live-broadcasting of my coding sessions, saving copies, then some basic editing-for-time-and-focus before posting to YouTube, so I've been getting some exposure on YouTube that way, but I don't follow any gaming channels so I don't know much about it yet.
I completely agree. I am self taught, started learning code about 6 years ago, and I get recruiters contacting me and job offers constantly. It's gets annoying actually. A guy without a degree getting calls about 6 figure jobs on a regular basis sure sounds like he'd be in a different industry than the guy who wrote this article. When I hear developers with degrees complaining about how hard it is to find work these days I'm completely baffled. Software engineering is one of the best fields to be in today with an overabundance of jobs available. I start to wonder about developers who say they can't find work. What's really going on?
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And by putting it in a place where he can't see it, he has no idea how much environmental damage he's doing.

Restaurants don't give a shit about reducing their carbon footprint. And those Chinese clothing manufacturers probably aren't even constrained by local laws about what they dump into the air and soil in making all his new clothes.
Sure, you can email me at the address in my profile, and I'll get your message to the right person.
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Exactly. And we are talking about millions of ICEs in cars vs orders of magnitude fewer "engines" at power plants.
One last thing, there is a law in CA that even if your a salaried employee, in computer programing field, they are liable for overtime unless you make more than a certain amount.

That number was something like 83k the last time I checked. 70k is not 83k... if it isn't over the exemption minimum your dealing with a company that has NO idea what its doing.
And that's where I stopped.

I can appreciate people who can run low powered devices. But new clothes? Just run a washer and hang your clothes if you're in a dry climate. Then you wouldn't even need to buy new clothes because you don't have a machine that slowly turns clothes into lint.
I occasionally replace a meal with Mana (e.g. when I am busy, lazy, etc.). If anyone wants a small review, just ask.
These numbers need a bit more data and some unit conversion before they can be compared. Tons/powerplant and tons/car are not comparable units. We need something like tons/mile_electric and tons/mile_gasoline.
He's also the creator/founder of Soylent, and even if he were a good cook, he'd likely continue to live off of his creation if only to say "look, I do this!" which will probably get more people to buy his product.
I'm mainly a backend/infrastructure guy, but open for anything interesting, Haskell convert as of last year, before that a lot of C and Python, religious user of vim and git. Also did some stuff with XCB, Wayland, SDL and even the Linux kernel before, although mainly for fun. I maintain a couple of open-source projects of mine, including a X11 window manager, a Python benchmark framework, a simple 3D engine and some smaller utilities.

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Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Generally yes
Technologies: Haskell, C, Python, some Go,
Yesod, Django, Flask,
Linux internals,
various DBs (MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, memcached),
(neo)vim, git, make, cabal & stack, pip, virtualenv
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Actually it's the other way around. Javascript was created because the author couldn't use Scheme.

The first comment of https://brendaneich.com/tag/history/ have this perl:

"As I’ve often said, and as others at Netscape can confirm, I was recruited to Netscape with the promise of “doing Scheme” in the browser. "

Edit: After a second read, I get now that you were being sarcastic about the koan. Silly me, I don't get those over the net :)
“The Humble Programmer” by Edsger W. Dijkstra (1972)
You know when even the IMF is recommending we tax the rich more, there's probably something to the idea...
Serving 6.8M rps at 9 Gbps from C# on a single Azure VM
The author seems to be conflating two different things in his choice of lifestyle under the same umbrella, one being energy conservation and the other a form of secular asceticism with the purpose of saving time and reducing life complexity.

Some of his more controversial choices (based on the comments in this article) reflect more the later than the former.

It is possible both to prepare (delicious) meals using barely no electricity (and even without burning any fuel), to do the laundry by hand using nothing but water and soap and to dry it at the clothesline. The drawback is that those are very time consuming tasks.

The choice to eat only Soylent and to buy cheap clothes for single use seem to be motivated more by the desire to save time than by the idea of conserving energy.

Both are worthy goals, to save time and energy but IMO it is very important to know how to strike a balance between efficiency and enjoyment. Otherwise we become the very robots we are trying not to be.
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I'm based in the UK, and was assuming - perhaps incorrectly - that many of the commenters that weren't bothered by the word 'retard' were based in the US, where I believe that word has less of a stigma.

I honestly don't understand your comment regarding historical contortions, I'm afraid. However, I'll stand by the argument that the word 'retard' is used as an insulting term for a section of society - at least here in the UK - and, from that point-of-view, does echo words used in a racist context, or the context of hate crime (while acknowledging that using the word is clearly not a crime in itself).
location: philadelphia

remote: yes

will relocate: for the right company

technologies: full pancake stack rails, ES, javascript, git, linux

skills: design, usability, infrastructure, debugging, monitoring, electronics, copywriting, project management, documentation, leadership

CV: ask and ye shall receive

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Hello there! I love ruby & rails and find both very enjoyable to build with. I'm a strong pragmatist with an attention for detail and the drive to ship good code. I enjoy learning and enabling others to leapfrog off my efforts. I have contributed to several OSS projects, and even made a few of my own (latest: https://github.com/meesterdude/cloudspeq). I'm eager for a new venture, so please feel free to reach out if you think it could be a fit!
I think it's critically important to get involved in a open source project in some way or create your own, i.e. on GitHub. My project svidget.js is up to 154 stars (at the time of this post). It not mind blowing stats, and it may be niche, but it's in a space (SVG and data visualization) that I enjoy.

The benefits are plentiful. I've learned more about JavaScript that I thought possible. It also demonstrates you have a passion for technology and it's just not a job. You have the satisfaction that are helping others solve technological challenges. If anything, you are more marketable which is the point of that article. Good recruiters and hiring managers look beyond your resume and looks for way that you standout.
Be careful with that. US have very different divorce laws and courts favors women.
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Twilight Princess takes 50+ hours to beat the first time and that's with being shepherded through by game mechanics. Even then a couple of things take forever to find.

I like what the author says but when you have to find something and you don't know what you're looking for you have to resort to a brute-force search. The original Zelda's overworld had 16x11=176 blocks per screen and was 16x8=128 screens. At a minute per screen that's two hours to do a rough exploration of the entire overworld. Twilight Princess is roughly four times the map size* and 8 hours looks like a long time to explore.

Compounding the problem is in the original Zelda a rock was pushable/not-pushable, a tree was burnable/not-burnable, a wall was bombable/not-bombable. That binary "I have checked this/I have not checked this" has largely disappeared. Not to mention 2-D vs 3-D.

Basically there is no fast Zelda Search Algorithm so either the game A) has a small map size, B) limits where the user needs to search, or C) takes forever.

*-http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/the-size-of-hyrule-area-co...
He might have made it look better but it definitely wasn't fake, since he worked at one company I had previously worked at too. We weren't there at the same time but I asked him which team he worked in, who he worked with, who was his team lead, etc.. and he gave me all legit answers. We talked about the processes there and what he liked/disliked since we had both worked in the same environment.
I've got a friend who was out of the dev world for 7 years, I think. He was originally working on his PhD when he got RSI and couldn't touch a computer anymore. He became a store security guard. Not much of a career, but he met lots of people every day (he's remarkably gregarious for a programmer). Eventually, though, he wanted to get back into software. First tried his own company for a year, which failed, but did get him some experience with javascript. Then he got a job as ruby/javascript developer.

I assume he started at the bottom, since he didn't have any real dev experience yet, but he had no problem finding that job, and he's doing quite well there.

My impression is that it's really not hard to get into software. You do have to be realistic, though; maybe you don't come across as quite as senior as you imagine yourself to be.

Admittedly, this was in Netherland, not the US. The situation might be different in the US.
I thought Skyward Sword was great. I thought it was one of the better Zeldas. I think all the 3D Zeldas are way better than the 2D ones. This is the kind of game I like.

I'm not that invested in it though. This guy writes freakin fiction based on Zelda (and Mario and Metroid!). This guy doesn't want to "save" Zelda. This guy is upset that Nintendo has gone in a different direction with Zelda, and not the one he thinks is "right" (ie the one he wants).

I couldn't agree more with other comments here:

"I have no patience for people who complain that a game is not what they want it to be. Zelda isn't what you want? OK then make your own game that is what you want. Don't insist that Minamoto make your vision over his own. That's narcissistic beyond all reason."

And if you don't like it?

"Chill out and play skyrim."
And in the big picture, the clothes have to get washed again so he's simply shifting the energy consumption onto the next users.