skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual report is at: https://www.valisluureamet.ee/pdf/raport/2021-ENG.pdf, and does indeed contain the text quoted in the article's title, specifically on p.69:

"Implementing China’s foreign policy doctrine, or creating a "community of common destiny", will lead to a silenced world dominated by Beijing. Faced with growing confrontation with the West, China’s main goal is to create a division between the United States and Europe."
It's supposed to resemble a mac app window. I can add a setting to remove it if you like. Email me at daniel@onegraph.com and I'll let you know when it's available.
It's kind of crazy that power plants are competing with consumers over a shared energy source: natural gas.

You can use it to heat your home, or you can send it to a power plant to convert it into electricity and heat your home at a 3x markup.

But regardless, you are relying heavily on a single resource in a single state.
not sancho panda at it again?
Looking at my area, OpenCellID seems to have a lot more data than CellMapper.net (which people often point to). It definitely has way more data points than there are actual towers.

A lot of them are 310-260s so maybe a lot of people have T-Mobile CellSpots hooked up to their WiFi and that's what is getting detected? If you know more, I'd love to know.
AI Unicorn Alert
I seem to recall years ago google was looking to make that sort of thing useless because they would always download all images in an email and serve them from their cache... wonder what changed?
Facebook bans Australian news as impact of media law is felt globally
Refer to "Practices Related to Naked Short
Selling Complaints and Referrals" by the Office of the Inspector General: https://www.sec.gov/files/450.pdf

> Our audit disclosed that despite the tremendous amount of attention the practice of naked short selling has generated in recent years, Enforcement has brought very few enforcement actions based on conduct involving abusive or manipulative naked short selling.

> Of approximately 5,000 naked short selling complaints
received in the ECC between January 1, 2007 and June 1, 2008, only 123 (approximately 2.5 percent) were forwarded for further investigation.

I guarantee that more 2.5% of murders are investigated. Reg SHO violations remain massively under-investigated still today, to the extent that the SEC is well aware of simple ways to bypass: https://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ocie/options-trading-risk-...
The observations used to postulate the existence of a ninth planet were not representative of the dataset, but a product of selection bias, according to the researchers.
Please listen to me. I was in a similar position to you. I chose wrong. I chose my family.

Let me tell you why: by choosing my family, I reduced my ability to become stronger.

You need to spend the next 10 years becoming the strongest person you can.

Then the next 60 years of your life as well as your sister will be great.

Yes, your family's life will suck in the meantime.

DO NOT DEVIATE FROM THE GOAL.

The goal is to be the strongest man you can and come back to take care of your family.

So in that vein:

- Keep coding
- Go take the auto mechanic job
- IGNORE YOUR FAMILY'S PROBLEMS FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS
- Send them what you can, do not send what they ask for. Do not overstretch yourself.

Imagine you work for microsoft in 10 years vs you're working retail for minimum wage.

Which do you want?

Prioritizing your family ensures that you will NEVER GAIN THE SKILLS TO WORK AT MICROSOFT.

Prioritize yourself. Let your family know what you're doing. DO NOT DEVIATE.

I REPEAT.

DO.

NOT.

DEVIATE.
The hell are you even on about? Epic making their own phone? Epic can create an alternative store on Android TODAY.

If you don’t like your phone, get another one. This is the most ridiculous first world problem, and associated whining, I’ve ever seen.

You have alternatives, but you’ve willingly chosen the iPhone. Then you whine that it’s not sufficiently like the competition, despite this being the headline feature of this product and company. It’s completely
childish and ridiculous.

Let me make this very clear for you: I, as an end user, want Apple to have complete control over its platform. That’s precisely why I bought into this, and not another ecosystem. I do not want sideloading, I do not want alternative stores, I do not want the so-called “healthy competition”. And I should be able to make that choice, as a consumer.
Is this snark or is the difference between what free-speech looks like today and 30 years ago not apparent?

What people are nostalgic for is the ability to have semi-anonymous semi-ephemeral speech.

For example: The ability to have a private conversation in public without fear someone is recording you and can easily use that recording to identify you.
OP, this is the most realistic advice for your very short time frame.

Take on a freelance contract and kick butt on it while simultaneously looking for the next contract. Eventually you will will either get offered a position by one of your clients, or you'll have enough of a resume to start applying in other places (or you'll like freelancing enough to stick with it).
Please listen to me. I was in a similar position to you. I chose wrong. I chose my family.

Let me tell you why: by choosing my family, I reduced my ability to become stronger.

You need to spend the next 10 years becoming the strongest person you can in every way you can.

Then the next 60 years of your life as well as your sister will be great.

Yes, your family's life will suck in the meantime.

DO NOT DEVIATE FROM THE GOAL.

The goal is to be the strongest man you can and come back to take care of your family.

So in that vein:

- Keep coding
- Go take the auto mechanic job
- IGNORE YOUR FAMILY'S PROBLEMS FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS
- Send them what you can, do not send what they ask for. Do not overstretch yourself.

Imagine you work for microsoft in 10 years vs you're working retail for minimum wage.

Which do you want?

Prioritizing your family ensures that you will NEVER GAIN THE SKILLS TO WORK AT MICROSOFT.

Prioritize yourself. Let your family know what you're doing. DO NOT DEVIATE.

I REPEAT.

DO.

NOT.

DEVIATE.
If you don't like it stop storing your data in Apple's systems. Why do you keep doing what you are against?
I got mildly pleasant nostalgic feelings looking at screenshot of DOS Edit theme myself, but I still wouldn't want it as my daily driver. Can totally understand about screenshots of that not really being cool to chuck in a presentation too.
> the girl in question has (later, when she grew up) expressed that she does not wish that Polanski be prosecuted or further punished by the industry.

I think Samantha Geimer has been doubly victimised – first by Polanski, then by a legal system which cares more about itself than about the interests and wishes of the victims it is supposed to protect.

I think Geimer feels, that as Polanski's victim, she should have some say – some power over – what happens to Polanski. But society doesn't want to give her that power. Polanski made her powerless then, and the system makes her powerless now. And when she complains about the system making her powerless, people misinterpret that as either some defence of what Polanski did to her (which she doesn't agree with and wishes never happened), or start (horribly unfairly and cruelly) dismissing what she has to say as the result of "Stockholm syndrome" or "grooming".

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/18/samantha-geimer...
Ask HN: Why is contractor the next step after senior engineer?
Frustrated London contract engineer here. I worked my way up from junior to senior engineer, didn't want to go into management, and hit the salary ceiling for permanent jobs in Europe. Contracting was the next logical step. I earn 1.5-2.5x the market salary of a senior engineer, but I would rather have a permanent job.

I have some questions:

i. Why is the market like this? Something seems very wrong about this situation. Surely this is neither optimal for myself or the companies I work for.

ii. Am I missing something? There seem to be perhaps a hundred high paying engineering jobs in all of Europe, and they all seem to be in hedge funds. Or am I somehow not seeing them?

iii. How is everyone else handling this? Are you also going in to contracting, moving into management, or accepting that your senior engineer salary is as good as it will ever get?
So what alternatives are there to the Apple Store on Apple Devices? Can you point me to an alternative store that I can create, upload, sell and purchase games from that isn't the Apple store?

I'll gladly buy some games from the alternative store... because I love competition - unlike the Mafia.

If this was a Microsoft phone and Microsoft controlled the market share Apple does? people would be stampeding to force Microsoft to allow competing stores (or browsers, default email applications, etc) on them because anti-competitive behavior.

Yet Apple is "magical" and gets a pass for not allowing competition on "their" devices.

Even Google allows "sideloading".
>Apple does not actually have a monopoly

It depends on what you consider the market. Apple totally have a market on 'iOS App Distribution'. Which does not compete with Android because you can't get apps on each other. This is the same logic in the EU's ruling against Google's Android monopoly:

>Google's app store dominance is not constrained by Apple's App Store, which is only available on iOS devices.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_...
QA and dev are not the same job IMO/IME. Simplified:

QA is “the system should do this; does it do it?”

Dev is “the system should do this; make it do it.”

I’m not putting one above the other as both functions are needed for most successful companies. I am saying they’re not the same job.
Which is exactly what they've been doing.
But! It might not be better if you are leveraged based on last known rental rate.

Something is broken in the real estate lending market because landlords do prefer lack of occupancy to lowered rents. I don’t know the industry well enough to know why but it’s definitely a pattern.
The Mafia could have used the same argument... “You don’t have to have your store on this street, plenty of room for your store over in another town if you don’t like paying for our protection”
> Prioritizing your family ensures that you will NEVER GAIN THE SKILLS TO WORK AT MICROSOFT.

Citation needed.
Fifteen pieces of flair is the minimum.
I suspect that it wasn't the mitigation was too challenging, just costly. Someone looked at the map and said, "Texas? You'll never need to be handling subzero temperatures over a long time period."

I don't even necessarily believe it was malicious (unless you consider cost cutting to make a profit malicious, which, maybe you'd have an argument there), just potentially lazy.

This is the sort of thing we should have some baseline regulations to support -- critical infrastructure should be designed to support a temperature range of X to Y, where X is a record cold times some factor and Y is a record heat times some factor.
Is this because they are afraid of the model misused, like used for generating fake reviews? It is frustrating that I've been hearing great news on NLP but am able to try none of them myself.
Plus, it’s 1000x better than sanding Bondo all day!
You can always claim any monopoly is not a monopoly by defining the market to be larger. Google tried to do a facebook competitor and failed, abysmally. The end. Twitter is not "a different facebook" and the idea that it could be is ridiculous outside of discussion of monopoly.

"Water distribution is not a monopoly because you can go to your local shop and buy a can of coke or a bottle of artisan spring water if you're thirsty." Every monopoly always makes an argument like this. Treating it with withering contempt is always the correct response to such nonsense. Your family "christmas letter" or equivalent relating to more distant friends and relatives family news is also not a competitor to facebook despite some similarities. So it goes.

You cannot do what facebook does in competition to facebook at any price. You can't get whatever people get from facebook somewhere else at any price. That is market power. That is what economists call "market failure." That is an open-and-shut case for regulation the same as electricity and water distribution on the grounds of natural monopoly. It's so open-and-shut that's true whether you lean socialist, libertarian or something more moderate.
It’s not about the sex and drugs but rather about controlling and abusing people.
Building Addiction Recovery Through Connection
And as a local, how sparse most of Australia is...

Comparing Sydney to San Francisco and London at the same zoom levels is fascinating (to me) and trying to find other areas on the globe as sparse as the dark bits of Australia is also fun...
This just made my top 5 "WTF" moments of working in Tech.

Thank you for this - I thought I was the only who experienced these types of madness at some of the smaller companies I worked at.
Ask HN: Yt-dl has insecure cert?
The hyperlinks on their site gives me a big warning message about their cert:

> This server could not prove that it is yt-dl.org; its security certificate is from *.aries.uberspace.de. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.

Does anyone else get this? I don't remember seeing that last time I tried to download it:

https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe

https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
The orders were placed and guaranteed over half a year ago. Don’t make up excuses.
Hey, thanks for getting back Evan. Thanks so much for all your hard work. I will be following closely.
> They just seem to have a strategy of not wanting to sell their products to many people.

Alternately, product designers and consumers seem to have a preference for LCD or OLED devices because they are better for common use cases and they have no need for the niche features that EInk provides.
As a software engineer, I'd love to see that someone is capable of putting effort into updating documentation, even with minor corrections and changes.

This is the kind of thing full time engineers typically don't enjoy doing, so docs stagnate and can quickly become out of date or inaccurate.

It's super useful if someone is used to a routine where they know how to dig into a project, find errors/inaccuracies, and work to improve them.
I don't see any reason why App Store the app won't be able to give you a unified interface to several app stores, including search through all of them.

For some reason, apt-get has been able to do that with different package repos for last 25 years or so.
Hmm this sounds... familiar....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit
Don't ordinary employees perceive greater control of their destinies when they feel that their jobs are secure? How much passion should they feel working for a company they know will fire them the first moment it becomes convenient?
Qualcomm's CDMA (CDMA2000).
No one knows. We all want to, but we really don't.

I think a sensible strategy is to diversify. I have my assets and retirement split between the market(mix of VTI/VXUS/VOO for no apparent reason), cash, and commodities(VCMDX). I may buy back into gold if it dips down to around $1,500 (where I think it should be for no good reason). I have half of my potential wealth tied up in unvested RSUs of a large S&P500 corp so I feel fairly exposed to the market as it is. I plan to periodically rebalance as things grow and shrink over time.

If you want to get rich, I'd explore ways to start a business using the cheap credit available now. If I wasn't a software dev, I'd be looking into doing that for real estate and service businesses(small, specialized restaurants) in underserved areas where CA folks have decamped to during the pandemic. I still think(for no real reason) that the most profitable use of money(and even better, debt) is to run businesses.
Would add Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy to that last. At the very least, the first one.
As an Australian this morning my Facebook feed is a bit of a wasteland. None of my friends were really sharing anything so the only content in my feed is now ads and posts from groups I'm members of.

All of the "news" has been removed, with them the manufactured outrage, toxic comments and political rants. It actually feels far closer to the Facebook of 2008 that I actually enjoyed rather than the "engagement" machine of 2020.

Obviously the publishers will be hurt by this, particularly smaller ones without organic traffic. But it also feels like a lot of the "engagement" Facebook had been pursuing has been removed too. I wonder how this will affect usage as currently there's little in my feed that would encourage me to open the app every day.
Zoom Is the Best Thing to Happen to Local Government in Years
It is all Bay Area counties, with Alameda, Marin, and San Mateo rounding out the top 3
Atomic energy, please. This is a solved problem :(
I’m not sure I would characterize his angry word vomit as “smart” or “intellectually honest”. He’s a male Ann Coulter; a loudmouth who loves to stir up controversy.
Apply to a lot of them, there is a statistical element to this. Apply to smaller, non-tech companies where competition is not as high. Make your resume as good as possible while being honest.

This may be overly personal, but I would consider contract/temp work, too, to build up your professional experience. That would also reduce the risk of losing your existing full-time job and ending up in a financial hardship.

Also, apply to non-developer roles. There is a bit of complexity to working in a software company, more than just writing code. Consider a support or other development adjacent field that is still technical.
(They are definitely going to exceed their storage quotas.)

I want to see how well weights for these models compress, but it will take me some time to run this code and generate some. I'm guessing they won't compress well, but I can't articulate a reason why.
In a way, the Apple fans don't matter. The DOJ can fix this single-handedly and force Apple to open up.

We need to speak up now more than ever. The heat against Apple is turning up, and with all this pressure and focus we can frame our argument with crystal clarity and make it LOUD.

Tim Sweeny, DHH, and plenty of other luminaries are carrying this argument forward. We need to join them in unison.
I know we should not judge person and only ideas but it seems like all of Pinker's ideas are tok shallow for an academic. For example,

Also, Pinker wrote a book on how the mind works, which is very very wrong (my wife, who's a psychologist absolutely hates it).
She asked me to read a small article called "That's not how the mind works" by some guy at MIT to explain.

Then I've also read his book on "How to write" and as an avid reader, I'd say we'd not have had Shakespeare if we followed his advice.

And now you're telling me that his other books are also very shallow? Does he not realize it?
> the market has spoken. And it's happy.

When has the market been given a choice?

App Stores have been the only way to get software on iPhones since they were first released. I can't even install an alternative OS on my iPhone, and jailbreaking seems to have become less accessible now too. How do we know what experience is more competitive if competition isn't allowed to blossom? Maybe the market would value an alternative App Store that is able to compete on moderation and/or the 30% developer tax status quo?

> If that comes to pass, there will be no highly-guarded, highly-moderated mobile OS to choose from.

If the market wants this kind of experience, then surely it will continue to exist no?
So, 2021 is the year of Linux on the desktop.
Ideas reduced to practice are still ideas. They're just metaideas.
Where did you move in East Bay ? I live in an East Bay suburb and it is amazing. Great schools, rural, hilly, forested, great community, diverse, huge lots, and yet only 10 mins from Oakland Berkeley for all urban fun
Yes, and that's not right.
Can someone translate this post into english for those of us not imbued with AI knowledge?
This is really awesome! Very fun to play. UI Looks good as well.
OpenCellID shows an LTE point in an agricultural field near me. There definitely isn't a cell tower there in the traditional sense of cell tower. There is an Emergency Call Box located there so maybe that is what is getting picked up?
While you're right that there's a reasonable argument, I can't say it's one I agree with. I already strongly dislike the change in US tax law that now requires all e-commerce companies to adjust their sales tax based on the location of the consumer. It added a bunch of new bureaucratic overhead for us on top of negating one of the competitive fringe benefits of having a business in a small state instead of California. And it mostly just seems arbitrary to me which way that tax swings, rather than intrinsically fair.
Why Is Naming Things Hard?
You expect some correlation. Even 5%.
From looking at my feed now I'd suggest its far more than 4%. All of the manufactured outrage and angry posting on news stories has disappeared leaving my feed with a few group posts and a bunch of ads.
It sounds ridiculous because the analogy is really far-fetched. A slightly better one would be that the owner of Walmart is also the mayor of the town, and he won't approve the business permit for the fertilizer store unless they agree to also sell their stuff at Walmart.
Get a desk phone and dial numbers by hand rather than just tapping the name on your cell. In a few weeks you’ll have your most common numbers memorized.
Nuclear can perform fine even in very cold weather, but one of Texas's reactors went offline due to freezing water:

https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/counties/matagorda_county/n...

So it's not clear that relying on other electricity sources would have been better, if those other sources also failed to plan for operating in prolonged cold weather.
Scott Siskind refuses to stop thinking for himself and therefore he must be publicly shamed. Since he hasn’t done anything wrong, his words and thoughts have to be wildly misrepresented.
Best of luck! Remember- what’s the worst that can happen? Even if it doesn’t become a commercial success, surely you’ve learned something(s) new that you can use later. Hope to see it on Show HN one day!
I have some extra work that I'd be happy to offload. Probably not enough for full time yet, but I could pay hourly much better then min wage for moderately technical work (like: configuring SaaS products, making presentations on technical projects, writing up project proposals, maybe setting up some networking gear.) All remote, with maybe the opportunity to travel a bit if things work out and you want to. Email in my profile, hit me up if you'd like. Open to anyone interested.
In France you have free parties to make up for that (or at least HAD, before Covid)
The stories around Death Row Records are now legend.

Dr. Dre said he saw one sound tech get beat down by six guys because he rewound the tape back too far.

The amount of intimidation, blackmail and extortion many in the rap game talked about was legit. Even in the DMX documentary, the two founders talked about twice strong arming record labels and their owners to let artists they wanted to sign out of their contracts.
These ships reminds me of the old action-strategy PC game named Battlezone from 1998. It was set in an alternate universe during the Cold War where the US and Soviet Union were secretly engaged in an interplanetary war throughout the entire solar system, but concealed from society under the guise of the "Space Race."

On another note, I've always wondered about the feasibility of putting a large caliber one-time use cannon on a satellite. Like a WWII battleship main gun floating in space for highly precise attacks on remote areas without the fallout of tactical nukes.