skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a startup called Manara (YC W21) that connects engineers in the Middle East and North Africa with global tech companies.

Here's their Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849054

Here's their website: https://www.manara.tech

I wrote a little Twitter thread that contains tips for people who want to do consulting/freelancing that you might find useful in the meantime: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965...

I am not unfamiliar with the government problems you describe, and I'd stay away from government work (whether that be getting a job in a state run entity or working on projects for government run entities).

What you can do to increase your revenue and get to a better place financially and mentally that affords you more options and the ability to think:

- Re-sell the product you built for one client to other clients in the same sector. Example: you built a static site for a pharmacy, make a bundle and go after pharmacies so the product is already made and you can close sales and generate revenue from the same code base.

- Find more clients: you can generally get a list of operators from the chamber of commerce or governing bodies for certain activities/professions. For example, you can get a list of all registered pharmacies and then sell your already-made product to them. Your pitch will be tuned because of all the conversations you'd have had with them.

- Build additional things for additional problems in their workflow to get a suite (either at the feature level, or in separate products).

- If what you built is for a role that's present in several sectors, target other sectors as well by targeting the roles as opposed to the sector, but it may make sense to focus on one sector at first.

- Charging more for your services: qualify clients, weed-out hagglers, continuously audit for what went well and what didn't and try to reproduce the good interactions/projects/clients.

- Improve your skills and tooling. (note that this is at the bottom of the list, but to be done as you do the above)

I'm available if you have questions along the way about product, people, engineering, hiring, sales, or you want to bounce off ideas or have problems. Contact information in my profile.

From Algeria, with love.
Mamaa
I would consider interactive fiction I’ve seen to be more like stories than games, mostly because the game mechanics part of them are often extremely thin(clicking).
I like MATE, but it (and most other DEs) doesn't have HiDPI support. So, back to Gnome.
Best Practices for Kubernetes Object Storage
You can have all those ports on regular x86 laptops. We used to have that.

Nothing about port selection has anything to do with the M1 chip.
I haven’t played either game but any sort of visual medium is capable of story telling without dialogue or exposition: visuals can tell a story at least as effectively, if not more so, than words can. For a somewhat recent, very well regarded example, see the opening prologue of Up.
Are you sure it’s a crash? I used to think my apps were crashing until my remote batteries ran out and I was too lazy to replace them using the phone app instead.

And I noticed the “crashes” disappeared. Turns out there’s a bug with my remote that seems to automatically send a home signal to the device. But it’s also strange because it affected different apps differently.

I rarely saw it with Netflix. But YT was almost guaranteed.
Agreed. I read it like the classic "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
GitLab – Full Time – Back End Engineer, Database – RoR and PostgreSQL
Most backend developers work on all aspects of GitLab, building features, fixing bugs, and generally improving the application. The Database Group is responsible for making application changes to improve database performance, availability and reliability. Additionally, the Backend Engineer, Database will be expected to review database related code with the goal of eventually becoming a Database Maintainer.

We have multiple other open roles at GitLab - https://boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/
Yes, [1] is an instructable from some years ago. It should be achievable on a recent hobbyist printer nowadays, e.g. [2].

[1] https://www.instructables.com/3D-printing-records-for-a-Fish...

[2] https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4648393
Meta.com was already owned by CZI. I wonder how much Facebook paid to the CZI for the domain? I assume they’ll also have to pay for meta.org.
>> the company's book value increases as its stock price rises because they own the shares they purchased.

You might refer to the company's intrinsec value.

On the book value, repurchased shares are accounted for at the original purchase price as treasury stock ( https://www.investopedia.com/articles/fundamental-analysis/0... ).
I agree, I enjoyed the self-deprecating, comic tone of the article. I still appreciate the comment pointing out that large numbers of people apparently still read books. I was surprised to learn that!
Please be aware that already at its current level it beats its competitors hands down in not being annoying :-)

Edit:

> I think it has to do with the fact that either there isn't content that match my criteria in some topics, or the spider is stuck in some local minimum and simply hasn't discovered it yet.

This is totally fine with me:

Telling me the search engine doesn't know of any good matches for my search is not only a valid answer but also a far better answer than a list of a billion pages that some dumb AI somehow can construe as being related.

In fact the list of non-matches has a negative value since I end up sifting through a hood bunch of them in a year hoping that this time there was something usable there.
Putting the cab at the front makes the most sense for visibility and driver experience, but the way most steam locomotives worked is by humans scooping solid fuel out of a hopper car behind the locomotive called a tender, into a furnace located in the cab of the locomotive.

If you put the cab at the front, getting the solid fuel to the furnace becomes a more complex operation since the cab and the tender are now separated by the length of the engine. Once liquid fuels became a thing and the need for shoveling solid fuel waned, the cab could be moved to the front much more easily.
Batteries turn on and off quickly
>Nuclear emphatically cannot provide that.
This is a falsehood. Nuclear plants can and do load-follow.

They typically are run as close to 100% as possible because so much of the cost of the plant is divorced from the power output at any one time. Framed a different way, they are somewhat more expensive to idle or run at lower utilization fractions than other sources of electricity. But they certainly can (and do) operate this way when needed.
Weeks, which is the sequel to the original film, Days. Weeks revolves around the asymptomatic carriers, while Days is mostly about the outbreak developing.
For operators where it’s not obvious, sure, but are you really writing

if (((2*x) + 3) == z)

instead of

if (2*x + 3 == z)

If so, that’s pretty annoying.
Brutalism was popular in France too, withmany extremely popular proponents (Le Corbusier to name one). Many big projects in the 50-60-70-80s were built in a brutalist style. Most have aged terribly though mostly IMHO due to poor maintennce.
'New hidden world' discovered in Earth's inner core
> Simplified gameplay, skills, items, etc.

This is a hard stop for me. If the game is not complex enough to trigger my dopamine loop, I'll just log back into my work PC and get back to coding, or go watch Netflix.

I don't even care if a game has sweaty PVP or other competitive aspects. I just want to be challenged in novel ways which result in rewarding outcomes. The more dynamic the game space, the better.

I feel like alternative titles like POE provide a far superior "game space" compared to the latest iterations of Diablo, but I haven't been able to find the time to get myself hooked on it yet.
Funny you single out Apple when I would worry about any other producer way more both in terms of climate impact and slave labour.
Anyone know of something similar without Google and Facebook trackers built into their app?
New schools are rising across the U.S. that look like charters but aren’t
So the power supply used to change the speed of nuclear warships from bare steerageway to 30+kts rather quickly is not responsive to changes in demand? Friend you seem to have some conceptual errors.

There is a lot of things you need to do if you take a plant out of operation, and there is a significant amount of decay heat from fission products that does require external power (basically what caused fukashima's fires) to cool over days if you turn a plant off, but you are oversimplifying solved engineering challenges to present them as intractable challenges.
Unfortunately, this is subject to internal and external political pressures rather than “good planning”. Way easier, particularly at the moment, to close up tight and keep “them” out. There is ongoing criticism that this was not done earlier and harder in Canada and I’m sure in the us. Politicians virtually always act so as to remain working politicians, so they can/will only bend as far as this allows.

And if their electorate wants blood, there’s little chance of collaboration.
> The mystery that remains is where does the money go? A share buyback just shifts the decision of reinvesting profits from the firm to the investor, so when Apple buys back shares where does that capital go?

This was my main question from the article too. After thinking it through for a bit though, I think the answer may be related to the large and increasing US trade deficit.

In short, the money goes to the actually growing economies of East Asia and other parts of the world. If not in exports, then in ownership of future cashflows from American businesses.

American workers send their money overseas in exchange for cheap goods, which foreign powers then use to purchase control of those workers' future labor via ownership of American companies.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.
And now that lame video game storytelling style is bleeding into cinema
Yes, that's the hybrid model used by most RPGs:

- visual novel mode for dialogues and plot choices where player freedom is very restricted by story can be detailed

- game mode for mechanics and combat that have barely any influence on the story (besides "survive this challenge to continue") but players have freedom to express themselves

It is very formulaic in structure, I'd argue more formulaic than ancient theater, and it limits the possible plots a lot (for example you won't find any RPG where the hero gets weaker with time). But all these conventions are accepted as necessary evil by the intended audience, so that's fine.
> “Leoric?” So this is the same story as D3? Um… so far, yeah. In fact, I played last night until, at L18, I got ganked by the Skeleton King. And yep, Deckard Cain is there.

Oh God why. The Diablo III story is so incredibly bad. They waited all this time to rehash it on mobile? This is why people hate Blizzard. It’s just so lazy to not have at least made a new story and characters instead of retreading the same tired ground. It’s why people screamed when Blizzard announced this game.
Retard alert
> We are deeply concerned about the news that every application on nuclear energy for the Green Zone at the upcoming COP26 conference has been rejected

I don't understand what this means. What's an "application for the Green Zone at the upcoming COP26"? "Green zone"? What, is this a military occupation?

OK:

> The Green Zone is the ‘official’ fringe space (managed by the UK government), with around 200 events for the general public, civil society, youth groups and academia. Tickets are free.

--https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/an-architects-guide...

> The Green Zone is managed by the UK Government, and is a platform for the general public, youth groups, civil society, academia, artists, business and others to have their voices heard through events, exhibitions, workshops and talks that promote dialogue, awareness, education
and commitments.

> …The Green Zone will be a stakeholder-led space and act as a key hub for engagement during the Summit. As such we are keen to see proposals that drive participation and interaction focused on the themes of climate change

>…In the Green Zone a number of exhibition spaces are available for organisations. As a public-facing venue, we are keen to receive proposals that engage audiences with the themes of climate change and climate action through interaction and participation. We see this two week showcase zone as a hub of tactile and immersive activity.

> …The Green Zone aims to facilitate discussion and engagement, and we’ve heard how important it is for organisations to have a focal point for convening attendees and having conversations. A number of stalls will be provided free of charge to use for one or two days, depending on demand, over the course of the Summit. These are spaces for dialogue and conversation, and might be of interest specifically for NGOs, trade bodies, and youth organisations.

—https://ukcop26.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Stakeholder-i...

"Green Zone", really? OK, anyways.
Noam Chomsky: “It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way”
Interesting article. It shows that since nuclear is at least 3x faster to respond than wind power in France at the time of the study, its response time is more than adequate as a major part of the energy mix. However, even in France with their dozens of reactors, it is not fast enough to respond to more than 2/3 of peak demand changes (100MW/min of their peak 150MW/min change in demand).

It seems obvious that it's extremely useful to be able to produce so much electricity and reduce the need for fast switching power by 2/3. Surely 100MW/min of fast switching energy storage is not without its own massive environmental footprint, something that significantly reduces the calculated impact of nuclear.

If we could ramp up construction of solar, wind, and long range transmission capabilities to the point where they could effectively respond to all demand, we would not need to have a conversation. But in the midst of worldwide supply chain disruptions that will likely last for years, it seems irresponsible, even extremely irresponsible, to push aside the parallelization of additional low emission energy production capabilities. Seeing as this is all very time sensitive at this point, and the consequences of failure are likely a widespread collapse of society and suffering for generations.
I'm still using 500GB VelociRaptor (WDC WD5000HHTZ, made in 2012) as my "work drive". It's noisy, but fast enough.
4GB is nothing for a dataset of that size and Espacenet is certainly available online, but it is heavily rate limited and they do not just allow you to download the full thing.

The data was only a side point. My main frustration with the EPO is the fee structure.
Totally disagree. I start learning journeys all the time on Google (and Youtube).
Maybe. But until we have that first plant, it's too early to go for mass implimentiion.

I wish Musk would take a shot at it. He's the only engineer/financier/crazy-person who I think could make an impact. Government's clearly aren't interested and no one else can get the cash together.
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> They are pretty hard to avoid, being an effective monopoly.

Im confused by this claim. Is it really that difficult to avoid Google search? It seems to me that it just requires going to bing.com, or changing the default search in your browser.

Also, Brave Search uses its own index, not google results.
I like this point of view.

I get why people are saying things like "normalize mistakes" etc, living in some kind of police state environment that punishes every misstep is just miserable. Especially if you're working in software, where "no mistakes" is not a reasonable standard.

OTOH it shouldn't become an excuse for complacency, and especially not an excuse to tolerate incompetence and/or totally unforced errors.
Just because you have money doesn't mean you have a market. Just to run a plate to create test cpus cost in the millions. All others were happy with the incremental upgrades that they were getting from ARM. Apple needed more and started creating CPUs for the iPhones a few years back
All this presupposes the global system is a 1 variable tweak away from being “fixed”:

if CO2 lowered then Earth saved, else death for all species.

Never mind that the plants consume CO2. Or that we are wise enough to know what is the correct cooling/heating rate for the planet. Or that CO2, is even the right metric at all. Last but not least, that it if humans had stayed pre-industrial, at what temperature would the planet be at and is that good or bad?
Somewhat related: I remember watching a segment on the Computer Chronicles in the mid to late 1990's where a developer was boasting about the puzzles in some sort of space themed shooter. He then proceeded to show an example. It involved toggling a switch in a control room to open a door in an adjacent room. Ever since then, I have taken claims about the sophistication of video games (may that be in puzzles or story telling) with a grain of salt since the standards are remarkably low. The only way to assess those claims is to play it yourself or, these days, to watch a walk-through.

Even then, I tend to gravitate towards open world games without stories since it is easier to imagine your own than dealing with expository interjections. The Long Dark is a good example of this. The developers are trying to make a narrative driven game with their Wintermute story mode, yet the reality is that survival mode is far more fun. Rather than dealing with criminals in an otherwise inexplicable desolate wasteland[1] while trying to find my ex (their story), I am trying to figure out what happened to the once sleepy community that I last visited in my childhood while trying to survive long enough to be rescued (my story).

(1) Technically, there is an explanation, but it is weak and not always consistent.
I’ve found Grim Dawn to be the best ARPG if you’re looking for something similar to Diablo
Meta is more open ended than search.com. It could just as easily be a bar or art gallery as a $100 trillion dollar virtual empire. You are right that a great name can only take you so far, ultimately you have to have a competitive product.

Fortunately for Meta they already have a market leading VR product and a $10 billion annual budget to maintain that lead. As someone who has spent several thousand hours studying names and recently bought FB stock, I am delighted with the change.
> I said it villianizes those fuels.

Oh no, heavily polluting (and not only CO2) energy sources are being villanized...

Yes, yes, I am going to villanize Coal, which spews more radioactivity than nuclear.

Natural Gas, Gasoline, Oil, are "ok"ish. Not coal.
I use a password manager to store passwords but I don't add the username/email related to the password, e.g.

account: google

username:

password: *****

usernames are easier to remember for me because I don't use that many.
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Just because he has no expertise in it doesn't make it unrelated. If you're living a country that regularly murders journalists, that's relevant to taking positions on journalism in other countries.
Hell I still game and have trouble with that dissonance. I have lovely memories of Diablo 2 and StarCraft, played Diablo 3 and Overwatch, but the recent events convinced me to just not touch Blizzard games for a few years.
Hate to conclude but climate change has evolved into a self-serving political agenda for our elites and this is yet more evidence of that.

Nuclear is obviously renewable and proven. Flourocarbons - CFCs - HCFCs - HFCs - and other related are extremely aggressive GHGs yet all of those are not phased out (or in case of CFCs there's plenty of evidence (see Nature) that emission continues in non Western nations) but making it part of the debate gets stonewalled too.
Wow. They got me.....WTF.
‘I quit’ is all the rage. Blip or sea change?
As he’s said numerous times, solar is fusion at a distance and solar combined with batteries is the future, both of which can be safely recycled and manufactured rapidly at scale. Tesla’s entire business is selling batteries to store clean energy for later use (either in vehicles or stationary storage), and enough sunlight hits the earth every 30 minutes to power humanity for a year. Lithium is abundant in the world’s crust, and there are no proliferation risks.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34396787/elon-musk... (Elon Musk Says the Sun Can Power All of Civilization. Of Course He's Right.)

“That free fusion reactor in the sky conveniently converts ~4 million tons of mass into energy every second. We just need to catch an extremely tiny amount of it to power all of civilization.”

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 16, 2020
they got me. Wow...
The excesses of humanities academia are kind of why we are in this national pickle. A generation or two has slowly been indoctrinated by the ideas of corrupt French intellectuals from the 50's onward. We're just seeing now it all finally catch on.
I guess so. For myself though I had to do almost a decade of soul searching before committing to programming. Didn't get my BS until I was 27. Having worked numerous garbage tier jobs, any of the crap that gets sent my way is nothing in comparison to the low waged crap in those other positions.
Which is to say, academia needs to purge the influence of money from its ranks and offer research jobs funded by the state that just pay salaries to people who teach or do research. No "metrics", no grants from private funding sources, absolutely no patents, etc.

Because short of doing all of that the influence of money remains and so its corrupting influence will remain.
Nuclear works fine with renewables. Use nuclear for the minimum demand level, since it's cheaper than batteries per kWh. Build enough solar on top to cover the extra demand during the day. For remaining discrepancies with demand, build the cheapest combination of storage, excess production, and load-following by nuclear (which is perfectly capable of that with modern reactors). Wind adds some randomization but on the other hand it's less likely to go down all at once over a whole continent, so probably doesn't hurt if the grid is large enough.

This assumes your goal is to meet energy demands reliably with clean power at the lowest possible overall system cost. If instead your goal is to maximize wind/solar no matter what, then of course nuclear doesn't fit in.
I think acceptance and comfortability with error messages (i.e. small failures nearly every step of the way) is the basis of one's career as a developer. We start knowing almost nothing, producing tons of errors as we go (which reduce relative to experience). And learning what those errors mean-- they guide us into proper development.

Errors are good given that they lead to learning. Frustration is fun.
I deleted all my Blizzard games when they banned somebody for being pro-democracy (Hong Kong). That’s just bonkers ethics coming from a company based in California.
Economic growth is possible without higher emissions. https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1430509654698831878
How do you know, do you work there? What in the parent post indicated your assertion?
If it is Prometheus' fire, we are not ready to handle that fire yet. When one of the core concerns of using a technology is to prevent it being used to create weapons capable of obliterating entire cities, we are not as a species mature enough to use it on a wider scale. This is only one example of why we are not ready yet.

Nuclear (fission) technology is not the problem, we are the problem. Looking at the recent history of political leadership all over the world, and the baffling level of support even the most immature of policies have, it's clear we have a ways to go. Most people doesn't even seem to realize that as a species we've only just emerged, we're so young. Toddlers on any timescale but the most naïve and short sighted.