skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IT industry is vast, and there are hundreds of different kinds of programming jobs, not to mention other jobs in IT.

The first thing I'd do if I were you is start mapping out some of what's out there. Start by looking at job boards and look at every single position listed for IT. You may not understand the titles or what is involved. Maybe it doesn't look interesting, or it looks difficult. Just map it all out anyway, and consider how many openings for a given position there are. Then start researching those positions to find out what's involved to get one. Since you're in Iraq, I would focus on positions that can be done remotely. But there may be many positions in your country going unfilled for niche jobs.

There are other jobs that won't show up on job boards, and you can find out about these the more you learn about the IT world. Network with different IT groups, talk to different folks, learn what's out there that isn't on a job board. Networking is the best way to get hired. You can do this on message boards, mailing lists, Discords, IRC, meet-ups, etc.

Even though you've spent a lot of time on programming, it's not too late to switch to something else. Maybe you enjoy working with people more than the kind of coding you'd get paid for. Maybe you're interested in systems. Maybe tech in general is just horrible and you would be happier with something with low hours, not a lot of expertise, and a big paycheck. Maybe you just want to freelance but in a different field of programming. There's a lot more options than you might think.

One way to be exposed to a lot of positions is to get employed by a massive company (remotely, let's say), and slowly work your way into different positions internally. Some don't have much lateral flexibility, but some have tons. This can give you job security while you learn a new skill. You can also learn different human languages, and become valuable by being able to work on projects that span the globe.

But my main point is this: there is a lot more out there than just making websites or mobile apps. A lot. And you are very young still, with all the time in the world to go a new direction.
But, the chart clearly showed that 50-75% of the pumpkins cannot be sold.
China has 50 nuclear plants running and over a dozen plants under construction right now. Kinda seems like they're ramping up to me.
Yes. The conclusion has changed!

Electric cars are ridiculously efficient. A 100kwh tesla drives approx 500km. So 50km/day/car needs just 10kwh. The UK also has 2 persons per car (plus additional cats and dogs..)

So just the on-shore book projection is already enough AND only requires a tenth of the turbines.

Lets keep nuclear as well. Invest in efficiency. Lots of hard work ahead.

But we are probably closer to "problem solved" than to "civilization collapse". Cheers.
Elon already won this for the US. Excluding China stealing the Starpship technology so they can match the lowered cost per tonnage, there are no competitors.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/starship-is-st...
Theyre much faster on Linux and Android.
I am ~850 ELO and I could tell that 5 minute blitz was no good for me, I had no time to think about anything. I would use up all my time just scanning for immediate threats.

10 minute works out well though, I can look for tactics.

At some point you probably get faster as scanning for immediate threats and looking for tactics and 5 minute games start to make sense.
Nah it was actually a big deal, Doom was basically: Get to the exit, in some illogically defined alien maze designed to maximize fun for the player. In Half-Life simply having the game take place in a logical location was a big deal even. I remember people praising Half-life for stuff as simple as weapons drops were in places that made sense, instead of floating in the middle of a corridor. The story wasn't the main selling point for sure, but the fact that it took place in reality, and had some sort of logical progression of events was a big deal.
Relations are hard to model in category theory
What is the cost of 1GW of reliable solar (i.e., with storage and/or over-provisioning such that we have similar reliability to nuclear)?
This seems like a website dedicated to only good news stories. Cool idea!

> Since 1997, millions of people have turned to the Good News Network® as an antidote to the barrage of negativity experienced in the mainstream media.
Reading "if (((2*x) + 3) == z)" is annoying as well to me...
msgpack comes to mind...
If the Yellowstone caldera erupts, simple power outages are the least of your worries. Large sections of North America will be rendered basically uninhabitable, and GLOBAL climate will be noticeably affected.

This is not just some ordinary, mountain-like volcano. Look up the area in Google Maps and imagine ALL of Yellowstone park as the mouth of a volcano to get a better sense of the scale. Several states will effectively lose all access to the sun for an extended period.
A “white box” server not built by a typical server manufacturer. It could be a no-name part or a consumer PC acting as a server. Google were known for not buying traditional servers from Company, Dell and the like.
simplewall for Windows. Or a separate hardware firewall device given how much trust microsoft products deserve.
- Yes I read your post, though I had the exact same question, as I feel we are talking past each other a bit :<

- (Yes, I wrote that by myself though that's a strange question to ask :)

- Yes that course was real. Two years of Latin, 1995, Prva Susacka Gimnazija u Rijeci. You can wake me up at 2 am and I can recite "Terra Terrae Terrae Terram Terra Terrae Terrarum Terris Terras Terris" in about 6 seconds (just measured:). And that's literally what our exams were for two years - conjugate this verb; recite declension of this noun; give me a list of propositions; at no point did we actually learn to speak it conversationally, or tested on reading comprehension or speaking skills. Extreme example but it exists!

Now let's see if we can productively engage on same topic together:

- I am not talking about "reading or writing" or "music theory" or "Communicating with other musicians in general". I am making claims very specifically about western music staff notation, being taught first or early, for casually interested potential musicians. Not that "communicating music is unimportant" or "professional musician doesn't need staff notation"

As such my claim specifically is:

- Staff notation is provably and demonstrably not necessary, and I claim not helpful, to either start learning an instrument or communicate with other musicians or learn advanced music theory; and further, a lot of fairly advanced fun can be had with music without learning staff notation.

That's it, that's my claim.

We need to arrive at better understanding of where we disagree. A LOT of very good musicians mentally, subconsciously do not distinguish between "Music theory" and "Staff notation". I am NOT claiming Music Theory is not helpful - I am enjoying it tremendously. Understanding what you're playing and how and why is great! But staff notation is completely lateral to learning Music Theory, as I mentioned above but may get missed.

Some examples that may help see where I'm coming from - You do NOT need Staff notation to:

- Tell your bandmate "hey, can you try doing a riff in E major pentatonic?"

- Understand keys, triads, chords, inversions, intervals, etc; or communicate them

- Learn a chord progression of a song

- Learn a solo, learn to improvise, learn to arrange

.... Whopsie, Sorry, kids are waking up from their nap, I'll write more in couple of hours, I'd be eager to continue this conversation, whether here or on Hangouts/Gmail/Whatsapp/Whatever :). But my central point here is - staff notation is perceived by some as necessary to a) learn music theory b) play an instrument c) communicate musical concepts, and today in 2021 there are plentiful counter examples to that, beyond theoretical discussion :)
I don't like frontend either, but I'm not wining emotionally about it on forums.

So my comment was provocative intentionally, to make OP take a bit wider perspective.
I never played the Witcher but if Cyberpunk 2077 is anything to go by (same developer) I'm not surprised. At least for Cyberpunk the storytelling was not its strong part (neither were its bugs etc... but the visuals were, oh my.). I tried out Gamedec recently and that's an isometric RPG without fights. Which means reading and decisions. And of course great storytelling because without it the game would have basically nothing.
This is all up to the player.

In SSX, they broke that wall by referring to the characters as riders we identify with, explicitly challenging the idea of them being characters we pretend to become.

Other titles do that, but that was the first one I noticed the distinction made in an overt way.

People are all over the place on this too.
Everyone's entitled to an opinion, no matter what the situation. That's called freedom, too. What you are also entitled to is a vote, and you can feel free to vote for politicians who will enact your agenda, which seems to be holding poor people accountable.

But that doesn't really have anything to do with whether or not your attitude is actually constructive. You seem to be stuck in the 80s era of Reaganomics/welfare queens thinking, which has since proven to be incredibly ineffectual, destructive, and misery-causing.
I don't disagree that there is abundant solar opportunity at the planet-level, but it's unrealistic to build infrastructure to funnel energy from eligible deserts to the rest of North America.

Here where the sky is cloudy as much as it is sunny, and clear even less, and where it snows, solar works but isn't reasonable to replace all power needs at an individual, county or state level. The logistics involved are much more complex than, say, having a few nuclear reactors in the state. Which work regardless of the weather.
> I haven't read Taibbi for a long time. It just becomes too much

yeah. if the question is "what happened to Matt Taibbi?", then the answer starts with "follow the money, he certainly did"

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/what-happened-to-mat...
And it worked really well for Tony:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/technology/tony-hsieh-dea...
Checkout my open source web version:

https://github.com/benkaiser/learn-piano

It lets you select from a midi file and play with your midi keyboard. You can even select a note to split on.

I need to add more intuitive controls (i.e. tempo is controlled by a random slider on my midi keyboard), but the core of it works.
Supplying the US using solely solar power would only require 20,000 square miles of land. We have more land in parking lots.

The battery land requirements are approximately 1 square mile.

And wind requirements are effectively 0 since wind can very easily co-exist with other land usages.
OpenWrt 21.02.1 First service release
Why are you gatekeeping this profession?
Yes:

precedencegroup MyPrecedence {}
infix operator +++: MyPrecedence
func +++ (lhs: Int, rhs: Int) -> Int { lhs + rhs }
let a = 1 + 2 +++ 3

Error:

Adjacent operators are in unordered precedence groups 'AdditionPrecedence' and 'MyPrecedence'
Define "we" and "running". While the US nuclear industry is admittedly a bit moribund at the moment, there are already many gen 3 plants in operation with passive safety features, and several gen 4 in late research and plans to build commercial plants. But the majority of plants in operation are gen 2. We could be doing so much better by just building out gen 3/3.5 plants today.

The big 3 nuclear disasters, Chernobyl (started construction in 1972), Three Mile ('67), and Fukushima ('67), were al really early gen 2, designed in the 60s.
Programmatically generate .NET IL from C# in a browser
Stylish Ways to Rock a MIDI Skirt
I write a super basic open source version that lets you select a midi file:

https://github.com/benkaiser/learn-piano
If WFP can describe how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock
Depends on your goals really.

If you want to become proficient in personal asset management, read Bogleheads.

Personally, my goal is to earn a CPA and CFA. Yes it’s credentialism, but it can’t hurt to have other than the time it takes to get the work experience.
My Favorite Windows Apps in 2021
Whale: “Hey, I found some fish.”

Whale Eliza: “Interesting. How does that make you feel?

Whale: “What the fuck?”
How is that at all relevant to the asymmetric vulnerabilities the US faces in LEO & GEO, which is the focus of the article?
Summary: Principles by Ray Dalio
I think you've somehow missed the vital part: our lifestyle is not sustainable. We shouldn't aim to sustain something that simply cannot continue.
TBH, I think you over-complicate this.

1. Dry-weight scales are very common in produce/stores and extremely common in EU stores (I'm in Russia right now and it's de-facto the standard for most every store)

2. Get a few scales cause you can use them for all produce year around, and they easily earn their keep, and the upkeep is cheap

3. Pre-pick pumpkins under a certain threshold and sell at flat prices; this creates two sale levels: one for those who want a big pumpkin to mess with, one for those who just want a pumpkin to carve. The latter doesn't need to be heavily regulated, your workers can just eye-ball it and given the margins around Halloween you won't really lose out (probably such "eye-balling" will benefit the farm, not the consumer)

The technical solution here might eventually be more accurate, but it doesn't really benefit anyone. The conditions to make the camera detection work are wonky and you probably end up wasting more time making sane conditions for detection than you do just setting some limits.

Similarly, don't forget that too much tech, and it actually might __discourage__ people as they see the farm as non-authentic. The aesthetic of an organic "real" farm doesn't include a lot of high-tech in many people's minds, and you risk offending the wisdom of the masses by being "too technological". Granted, there's absolutely no difference in the end result, but consumers certainly thing differently about it (there's a reason a lot of people still prefer a human cashier to the touch-screen terminals at fast food restaurants, and it's not efficiency, that's for sure)
> are you saying that nuclear power related accidents like chernobyl don't happen?

The 1975 Banqian Dam failure: 26,000 dead from flooding, 145,000 dead from subsequent famine and epidemics, 11 million homeless:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st...

Does that mean hydroelectric dams should be shut down?

Over the many decades of nuclear operation, there have been two major incidents: Chernobyl and Fukushima. And Chernobyl could probably have been prevented with a containment building.

I live with-in 50km of a nuclear power station: I'll take my chances with nuclear over climate change, given the choice.
We’re seeing this play out in real time in Europe and the lack of serious coverage in the USA is disappointing
Might be why the “fartlek” workout has been a fixture in running plans for decades. In Swedish it means speedplay and the original structure of the workout was there is no structure. Start running, spot a landmark like a pole, run hard to it, jog until you see another one like a tree, run hard to it, and repeat. This research might suggest this type of activity let’s athletes run harder than they normally would.

Nowadays many coaches prescribe timed intervals to structure the fatlek, so the original idea behind it has kinda been lost though. In fact, timed workouts actually have the opposite effect where athletes perform worse at the same rate of perceived effort than distance based workouts.
How hard is it to actually follow that money, from a data perspective? I know public companies have to publish some finances, but I assume there are ways of keeping the "secret sauce" out of the public eye.
You mean "I wish" don't you?
Are you implying Google has a revenue stream that doesn't depend on the iPhone? ;)
What are some good gopher resources?
On the contrary, the anecdotes are what I find to be the most meaningful. The odd cases, edge cases, and the opinions of how people use a tool is what I find the most important. That’s where the value is of “why not?” It’s easy to generalize and assume that everyone is just like you. I’m glad we have folks sharing the differences.
Why do they want to rewrite history?

Here is the reason why people HATE and boycott diablo immortal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkHAlhCvWg
Mobile work really isn't about user interfaces, it's about full application design. Both iOS and Android are platforms which allow you to code out most basic UI tasks "for free" in a way that doesn't really exist in web dev.

Complex UIs, of course, can be challenging and unpleasant to write, but one can make a career as a mobile developer spending a very small percentage of their time concerned about UI.
They never forget a face. Research on how ‘super-recognizers’ can do this
What you needed was something more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygn7ORgPbEE

(some snippets of composer/conductor/pianist Leonard Berstein explaining some musical concepts to young people using examples from pop/rock music).
> For OS X: Little Snitch

And for open-source (GPL3) macOS solution - LuLu. Switched form Little Snitch about a year ago with no issues.
The users are evaluating benefit vs. harm to themselves. For them, they can either use a free product or pay for a product that is far less useful to them that still collects the same data.
Consumerism is a problem in that it causes ephemeral and superfluous goods. From fast-fashion to overly large autos and search for fame (hollywood or tik-tok) and some of the ready-made options which we could do at home.

But...

The above probably described much of the "essential" workers. Capitalism is not the problem. Consumerism and advertising and the media are the creators of this artificial demand.

Communism or socialism would not fix things either. There you have no choice of what you will be in society. That is determined for you by your school and your connections. And because the economic demands are different, there is usually less automation, meaning more boring work. Now, sure, doctors and bricklayers may get more even compensation, though one may get a better apartment, but you're not in the driver's seat and you don't get to figure out your place in life (ala UBI dream), you get to do what the state (or if cooperative based, the cooperative) thinks they need you. You may ultimately become a parasite, but t will be where they want you as a parasite.

Communism/Socialism can usually do just as well as capitalism in terms of basic research (medicines, energy, etc), but tend to have a blind spot for other life-style centered improvements.
What ethical issue do you see? What is there to responsibly disclose? Software vendors do this on purpose; they don't need notification.
Sounds like you don't need any help then, enjoy your 50-75% performance hit playing (a scant few) games through DirectX -> Vulkan -> Wine/Crossover ($30) -> MoltenVK -> Metal!
How about airplanes and internal combustion engines?
Those are weaponised with track record off killing millions and millions.
Should we immediately throw away those as well?
OpenSnitch is a good equivalent for Linux users, btw. Don’t assume you’re not being mined for data because you’re on Linux!
He was a general tech enthusiast. There is another video where he talks about wanting a 32-bit computer called a Fortune, which runs Unix - this being in 1983.

From this video, I gather that he’s interested in Lotus 1-2-3 for tracking budget and DOS generally for a host of possibilities, probably screenwriting among them.
From 3 years ago: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22941/russia-has-four-...

Russia Has Four Potential "Killer Satellites" In Orbit, At Least That We Know About

> The problem is that any satellite that can maneuver itself very close to another one, and may have small arms or probes to physically interact with its target, is inherently capable of being a weapon. Any such repair system could easily smash sensitive optics and other components, or simply slam into the target, acting as a kinetic weapon

The future of space warfare, as it's currently understood, will involve:

1- Satellites attacking other satellites with:
1a- robotic arms
1b- small projectiles
1c- jamming device
1d- lasers

2- missiles fired from the atmosphere

3- jamming stations on the ground (https://www.google.com/amp/s/futurism.com/space-force-first-...)

More generally, space isn't safe for blue team anymore. Russia and China have aggressive ambitions to be able to dominate space and aren't restrained by any code of ethics, something China is also doing in artificial intelligence research (not bothering with "frameworks" and "guiding principles for responsible AI").

Most experts agree that space will become another area of strategic competition where the major powers deter each other with mutual destruction doctrines, because the loss of global satellite communications, weather satellites and positioning systems, and the potential creation of millions of orbital debris that would result from a confrontation would be too dire to credibly contemplate.
Staff engineer is the name for a “rank” but the rank has existed for a long long time. Staff is the first “leadership” engineering role - roughly equivalent to a manager in scope.

Some places have a manager equivalent of senior engineer but that’s also sometimes a role you’re expected to rapidly leave: either via promotion or back to IC.
Is it as simple as foreign companies purchasing control over American labor? Surely they have other things to do with that money.
When photography was invented, people judged it by how well it could compare to a painting, before discovering what made the medium unique.

Video games are in a similar position, in which they are evaluated on 'story', which is how one evaluates movies.

once we realize video games are not movies in terms of what effect they are supposed to produce, we will to be able to evaluate them on their own terms

For example, maybe what kind of beauty we should seek to maximize in a video game isnt the story, but the act of agency in the player as shaped by the game's rules or constraints. With that idea, it is the player's performance that is most beautiful, not the story.
Thanks, friend.
My comment was intentionally a bit provocative, but since you replied...

>> And you talk like it's easy to just up and leave your country

When you're programmer and you're 25 it is. Even with a family.

>> And you talk like your politicians aren't just as corrupt. As if they weren't responsible for the state Iraq is in.

No matter what's the answer — this is a reactive victim's position, looking for external excuse to own problems.

This is the last thing that could help OP right now. If he really wants to change something, of course.
Voting does not work if the majority of voters doesn't care.
Sure, as soon as you raise enough money to combat their war chest, you can do whatever you want. Otherwise, your dislike bounces off of their teflon-like suit coated with "I don't care about you".
I.e. you hurt the retirement funds and people owning ETF's (the largest Blizzard shareholders are Vanguard, Fidelity and Blackrock, through their ETF funds which track e.g. S&P 500 so would not/ could not divest Blizzard because of that, nor would attempt to control the company), and do not hurt the particular company managers who are actually making the unethical decisions.
Wacom collecting kinda intrusive information (likely justified under knowing what applications to test their product against) is not some sort of oligarchial/royalty based plot.

I mean, everything you wrote sounds great, it just doesn't mean anything or have any relation to reality.