skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's the revolution that GSM brought: just take your SIM and move it to a different phone. No permission required.

In virtually all countries sans a couple of dictatorships and other authoritarian regimes, you have many network providers to choose to buy an eSIM from - the US alone has 109 MVNOs plus the five network providers per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_v.... You also have the right to have your phone number ported.

When you want to switch your phone and your provider does not allow you to request a new eSIM profile, you can switch both the phone and the provider.

There are many things to criticize about modern phone markets - the lack of a right to root your phone and the lack of portability between app stores (not just purchases, but also stuff like game progress!) are the most important ones - but the switch to eSIM is not a problem at all.
My answer is a response to the poster’s question as to why he might care. And I believe most people do care what happens to their descendants.
It really makes no difference one can trick the support to deactivate your physical sim and move the number to theirs
Realistically when was the last time you switched your SIM card? I only change it when i change phones.
You can view the history (with the line numbers) by typing 'history'. If you have the following set, you can avoid any command prefixed with a space ever getting in this list.
HISTCONTROL=ignorespace

I have trained myself, over many years, to hit space automatically before I type rm/reboot/shutdown etc. It's occasionally inconvenient if I need to rerun something but does mean I can't fat-finger anything destructive!
Be that as it may, there is a reason finance is regulated the way it is. Like it or not, if you implement a technology intended to create an ecosystem where that type of regulating activity is impossible, you will find every character excluded by design from the regulated system amongst your userbase. You will very quickly, come to re-invent many control schemes in an attempt to get your unregulated space "mostly safe" for normal people, but in the process of so doing, be back to square one.

This is why we (note the royal we) can't have nice things. It is also why becoming a financial services provider is a late-stage growth milestone of a business. Once you get past compliance, monitoring, and risk management boss, offering a line of credit or other finance products is an exercise in bookkeeping, and scales relatively trivially given sane accounting practices and managing your liabilities/issuing demographic.

If as a business, you achieve that and are still even remotely true to your original roots, congratulations, you're The Man(TM) now.
C is the most cross-platform language today, because almost every platform supports C. JVM is written in C, for example, for portability.
I hope you are right... I dislike my realist take on it. :)
> There is no way to extract these cryptographic keys and enter them into another phone. Instead, you have to repeat the whole process and get a new QR code from the carrier. They may charge for this, or just be a pain in general and make it difficult or refuse for whatever reason.

Even worse, in many real cases. Let me give you an example, happened to me this October:

I get a new phone. I browse my carrier's website to find out how to transfer the eSim to the new one, but find nothing. I call them, they tell me it's impossible. I ask them to double check because this doesn't seem realistic - after one day of internal checks, they contact me saying they found a way! I just have to request to be migrated back to a physical SIM (costing me 15 EUR and 1 week of waiting), and when it will arrive I'll be able to migrate it to an eSIM again!

Isn't technology amazing?

This was in Germany, the operator is Congstar, an MVNO using Deutsche Telekom's network.
> There's no way to approximate this experience in IRC.

Yes, there is.

<bmn__> !tell smichel17 crowdmatch me, see HN frontpage
<reminder`bot> 1 message stored. will deliver when smichel17 rejoins or unaways.
⋮
* smichel17 is no longer marked as being away, gone 04:30:55
<reminder`bot> smichel17, bmn__ wants you to know: "crowdmatch me, see HN frontpage" (2021-12-28 13:12)
I understand your point of view, which is why I tagged my comment with a "/s".
The same could happen with a Google/Bing search with their "intelligent" results box (or whatever that's called) which also uses ML algorithms to extract information from specific pages and present it out of context. The problem is we should never trust a computer to understand the meaning and context of anything. Ban AI from consumer products and from any system making life decisions, or we're doomed to repeat the same story over and over again.
We used to use acoustic couplers to allow computers to talk using a handset, back when Ma Bell didn't allow you to plug directly into the phone line.
> but I really miss headphone jacks in mobile phones

Buy a USB-C/Lightning to 3.5mm dongle and leave it permanently attached. Not ideal I know.

But one benefit is that the DAC Apple designed in that dongle is so good that the sound quality far exceeds any phone with a built-in 3.5mm jack.
Interestingly, there was a Hacker News discussion on this article when it first came out, debating the claims made by the paper you cited.

TL;DR: It wasn't sarcastic. Whewel was an admirer of Somerville. The paper made some liberal attributions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24863419
> I feel like we're on the verge of an age where every single person is used to, and just has an Alexa/google home voice assist in their house.

This mostly applies to the USA.
Poor countries have benefited a lot more from industrialization over the last 50 years than wealthy countries. No matter the metric you look at, be it extreme poverty, food security, education, life expectancy etc.

https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...
> measures about 600,000 cubic kilometers — roughly the volume of water that would fill 240 billion Olympic-sized pools. The second zone, off the coast of Central America, is roughly three times larger.

You see this a lot with anything involving a description of a volume of liquid. It inevitably ends up using an Olympic-sized swimming pool as a yardstick for the laymen. To me, especially in this case involving hundreds of billions of those pools, this is meaningless to the average reader. It implies that the reader is familiar with or has a good mental image of how much water an Olympic-sized pool will hold. While I do watch the Olympics and have a rough idea of how large they are I find it a bit ridiculous in this case to make this particular comparison.

Most people are not going to have any idea what 240 billion Olympic-sized pools looks like. Maybe it would be better to rephrase in terms of how many pools every one of us could have if this water was all contained in Olympic-sized pools. In that case lets just round the global population to the nearest billion, so ~8 billion people, divide this water equally amongst us so that we can all share in the bounty of oxygen-depleted seawater - so that gives everyone on earth about 30 Olympic-sized pools of water. That is just from the first zone. Including the water in the second zone they describe as being about 3 times larger than the first gives everyone on earth about 90 Olympic-sized pools of oxygen-depleted seawater.

Then you can flip that into terms more recognizable, say acres or hectares or something else.

I think for most of us, that volume is easier to picture than the 240 billion Olympic-sized pools they use in the article.
if you are using windows go to settings > display > Scale & Layout > Scale: set it to 300%.
It's not enough to plant trees. Fallen trees rot and release CO2 back in the atmosphere. You need to cut the trees down, then use lumber for building something, and bury the rest so that it does not decompose.
> C isn't converted into assembler language unless you ask the compiler to. For example, LLVM lowers IR AST structures into target specific machine code. Assembler is never involved

That depends on the compiler. GCC, for instance, most certainly emits assembler code as part of its standard compilation process.
Should you contribute open data to OpenStreetMap?
Per Scott Galloway's latest slide deck (it's on YouTube), he's convinced me the WFH push is an opportunity for those willing to work from work to lap the WFH crowd. Companies actually do still need people to work from the office/place of business. A worker willing to work at the office/business is thus at a competitive advantage to the much larger population of WFH-ers.

(However...I really would prefer a hybrid mode. But after having the economy jettison me in 2008/2009 it's definitely past time to exploit any competitive advantages for me...)
Slightly off topic question: how can I get started with pipeline models and with optimizing the instructions that get executed? What tools would one use to inspect what gets executed, trace the instructions and measure the execution time?

Could you recommend any books on this topic? Thanks!
The only actual hardware description I could find was in this arXiv link, where you have a laser that is spread then put through a light gate chip (as found in projectors), a random mask, then to a CCD camera. This does random multiplies, in parallel, which somehow prove useful.

I fail to see how it actually does matrix math.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05204
> I feel like we're on the verge of an age where every single person is used to, and just has an Alexa/google home voice assist in their house.

Are you aware that [1]37% of the people in the world has never used the internet?

Also technology is not as accessible everywhere as it is in the US. In my home country, for example, more than 60% of students couldn't catch up with remote classes during the pandemic because they either didn't have a mobile phone (they certainly don't have computers) or they didn't have reliable internet connection. This resulted in the lowest attendance to our SATs in our history. If people still don't have access to entry-level smartphones and internet connection, I doubt they'll have home assistants anytime soon.

While I share your worries of having these devices inside peoples homes, I'd like to point that we are far from "the verge of an age where every single person is used to, and just has an Alexa/google home voice assist in their house".

[1]: https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2021-11-29-Facts...
On the formal side, SC is deterministic and nodes only talk to their friends, which is the opposite of Avalanche. The article has some calculations for the case of real-world time, but in the end it is always a question of acceptable timeouts. In a fully asynchronous system, deterministic consensus is impossible.
What does it mean practically is a different story though.

Regarding distance effects, if node clocks are well synchronized (like, NTP well, not TrueTime well) and the time step is long enough, then the heartbeat should work fine, I believe.
Is it actually more effective at that? Are people who employ humanities thinking any better at say social engineering than are people with equivalent verbal skills who don't employ humanities thinking?
Soooooo, walkthroughs weren't a thing when you were kids? They definitely existed for every space/police/kings quest game, and many others.

I'm not sure things are so different now, perhaps we are looking at the past through rose colored glasses.
Interestingly, IRC operators also combat spam. But they never ask your phone number.

Spam does happen on IRC, but gets shut down eventually. Same as Discord and other messaging platforms.
> And I think it’s obvious why that context is never provided

It is not obvious to me. Can you to tell us more about why the context is not provided, if you are better informed?
I feel like this is a "cars can't replace horses" kind of debate.
In an emergency situation you can't blame people for not clicking through, because of ads, popups, etc. which all take valuable time to ignore/load/get past.
"then what does it care for"

Wel most of the time it's an investment.
So for those bidders the perceived market value is very important.

But you can also imagine this scenario: someone has a ring from a great great grantparent. The market value of the ring is $10. But the owner would only sell it for $100000. Then their would noone to bid against.
I've provided a Docker example so users can quickly try Uptrace without downloading and configuring anything. I don't use Docker to run anything besides examples so can't give any recommendations.

Thanks for the clickhouse-operator though. I guess we will have to provide something for k8s sooner or later.
I don't see how that adds up, unless production of these light computers is extremely constrained they are just going to be produced en masse if they provide an edge for PoW mining, then you'll just have many more computers using the same amount of energy. And if the supply is constrained in such a way that only a tiny amount of people have access to the technology it just means that you have a centralized mining pool that can easily perform a 51% attack.

It's always a zero-sum game in the end. The only way to "fix" PoW is to get rid of it.
Philosophy (as I regard it) is a sort of history of very clever but confused thinking, thinking which didn't lead anywhere. Thinking which did lead somewhere got relabelled science or something-else-not-philosophy.

Thus what little philosophy I have read (mainly Popper) has helped me to tolerate confusion.

Paradoxically my ability to think has been improved by this ability to be confused, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxa1gLt5YKI

For instance, I've noticed that most people refuse to see problems. They either want the answer straight away, or they want to pretend that the question or task is invalid or not needed. It takes a real thinker to put a confusing thought on one side and then pick it up later.
Personally, I believe it's for the same reason there's an Afrofuturism exhibit at The Met in NYC speculating a history which never was. It's the same reason Black Panther grossed 1.4b. It's the same reason Ian Smith is painted as a racist and Mugabe is now remembered fondly as a controversial but well-meaning champion of the people.

I'm not sure how to phrase this without being accused of dog-whistling, but I do think there's a subversive effort, especially in the media, in painting the history of Africa into something that it's not.
I suspect it depends on where you live. I live in Massachusetts, but because I live too far away from Boston, I need to primarily work remote. (And, oh, I'd much rather be in the office 80-90% of the time.)

Believe me, it's easier to get an in-person job than a remote job! Most positions that I see still want staff primarily in-house.

Do you live in the Bay Area, or in a generally high cost of living area? I suspect the push towards remote in those locations is actually cost-saving, and not a "perk." When I lived in the Bay Area, every job I worked involved working with a lot of remote people who lived in cheaper areas.

If you're willing to move, there's a LOT of on-site work in Massachusetts in and near Boston!
It's completely reasonable to expect kids to do things - e.g. cleaning their room, helping with the washing up - for your convenience. Why should life be completely one-sided? That's a way to raise a spoiled kid.

Of course, yes, you also make some requests for teaching purposes. But what you're teaching her is to do things for your convenience in future.

"For your convenience" sounds terrible, like you're using the child as a slave. But most families do things for each others' convenience the whole time, and that is fine and normal.
Number assignment is handled at the network level. I have the exact functionality you speak of (single number to multiple devices) on my company's good old physical SIMs.

Phones & SIMs don't even know nor care about their own number. The SIM has a field for that but in fact it's often left empty (iOS devices discover their own number by texting a known Apple number and getting the response via the Internet, they'll then populate this field out of courtesy but it's not necessary for functionality).

When a call comes in, the carrier decides which SIM it should be routed to. When a SIM makes an outbound call, the carrier decides which number to set as caller ID.

The functionality you speak of has nothing to do with SIM vs eSIM, it's about carriers having to actually innovate and do some engineering. Their current oligopoly means there's no commercial pressure for them to do so, and there's no reason why they would suddenly do this with the switch to eSIMs.
Solving matrix equations in one step with cross-point resistive arrays
EmbarkStudios is full of some great engineers. They're also very supportive of open source software they use (in my experience). Glad to see the amazing leaps in progress they're making.
The most important upcoming telescope is the Starlink satellite array.

It will be computationally expensive to integrate signals from such fast-moving receivers, but the resolution and noise resistance of the very large number of receivers positioned on a baseline fully 13,000 km across will enable incomprehensibly better imaging that has ever been conceived of.

For optical telescopy, position a collection of mirrors, in solar orbit, multiple km apart, with ion drive station keeping. You don't need many, and they needn't be very big. But the long baseline will let you image continents of exoplanets.
The most expensive painting ever sold turned out to be a ridiculously obvious forgery, so I concur with your statement.
You Don’t Need a Spaceship to Grow ‘Weird Little’ Martian Radishes
Correct, though I was actually referring to the existing cell network as great for road trips.
No, I don't agree, because other developed nations have anti-satellite capabilities as well.

You've either missed the point or are intentionally ignoring the context, because "China did something" is actually "China successfully shut down bitcoin mining inside it's borders and has the capabilities to shut down these satellites if it chose to do so".

That's not debating super heroes or even saying other countries will do it. If China saw these as a problem, they will likely deal with them.
> if I am talking with developers/sysadmin there are some things that I would expect to be interesting

The cool thing about technology is that there is progress. We can do more, we can do it faster, easier, better, etc. Twiddling with the same shoddy tools from decades past is the opposite of that. A long time ago IRC was a cool new capability that was worth putting effort into setting up and using. These days all the hacks and workarounds involved are still required, but all they get you is an inferior chat platform. So, no. The tech that excites me are the new ideas and inventions that people are coming up with today, not some chat platform that is older than I am.
End of Year Pay Report 2021
> What I liked most about them was that none of them drank cool-aid and could easily spot corporate BS.

This may be true, but the issue I usually have is that they seem to not do anything about it. Not "rocking the boat" and "yessir" are quite common approaches here, to the point that a lot of people are under very high amounts of stress.

Disclaimer: I've never worked outside of France, so I don't know how people here actually compare to other places.
> What can go wrong when everybody can program your SIM remotely?

That's bollocks. An eSIM module is exactly the same chip as in a normal SIM card - right down to the electric specifications and communication protocols, so you can hook up a provisioned eSIM module to a phone or a SIM card to a device using an eSIM chip and it will Just Work (tm).

The only difference is that the eSIM module is allowing the baseband chip to flash a new set of cryptographic keys, a process that will (usually) require the cooperation of the main SoC to get and transmit said keys.

The only scenarios where an attacker could reprogram your SIM remotely is either a malicious actor in the provider network (at which point there is the question why an attacker would want to reprogram your SIM at that point, given all they can do is give your SIM card access keys to another network) or a malicious actor with an IMSI catcher.

In both scenarios the attacker would require an exploit in your specific baseband and the correct cryptographic keys (or yet another exploit) for the eSIM to accept the new profile... and at the degree of knowledge, hardware and the actual exploits required to get to the point a successful attack requires, your attacker will be a government or an NSO-scale enterprise. And seriously, at that point you already have lost anyway because they have exploits for the OS you're running on whatever device you use, they don't need to deal with taking over your SIM card.
This made me happy. The state of language models paired with the overoptimistic ideas about AI a lot of people have sets the scene for a number of train wrecks. I hope more people critically evaluate their models before releasing them in mass scale.
I've been trying to ask this to people posting reports, and although there are many "older" accounts (like mine, circa 2017 or older), at least 2 reports are from accounts created this year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29710262

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29711950

That would make "more sense" that our credentials weren't stored and unused for years, i.e. that this is possibly a new, recent breach.
How bad are bad fundraising terms? (2017)
The problem in this case is Microsoft. They've been known to do this for years in order to reinforce their email oligopoly. Unfortunately instances where your business lost money is the only thing Nation State regulators care about, but in this specific instance, you could have sued Microsoft and made a ton of money and maybe paved the way for their stopping to do so entirely from fear of further fines.

Maybe it's not too late. You'd be doing all of us a major service.
> Therefore, if anyone is honestly worried about the constitutional implications of a policy

This is the important part. They aren't worried about the constitution, they're worried that they have to do something they don't want to.
When talking about hi-end monitor I'm always surprised that nearly nobody list Eizo monitors among the choices.

https://www.eizoglobal.com/
I can't seem to find such videos, but regardless, how many videos are there? How many of those are actually just fabricated to attract views? I'm really skeptical if there's really a whole community of flat-earthers. There are people profiting from this flat earth drama. See the youtuber "professor dave" for example. He gets an average of <50K views, except his flat earth videos which got 1M to 8M views.
No, this is as silly as saying Google is responsible for search results.

>This is not very complicated.

You're right it's not complicated. People are responsible for their own actions, that's where the line is. The device or software isn't making them do anything.

Kids tell each other to do stupid things all the time, are you going to hold other children responsible when some stupid kid acts on what they tell them to? There's a reason the "would you jump off a bridge if someone told you to" saying exists....
Not really, there were magazines where you could ask questions - and some cheats were provided. If you were badly stuck and you had no buddies playing the same game you would be just stuck.
> move everything to purely digital number porting

There's a common misconception that SIM == number. That's not the case. The SIM is simply the identity of your device to a carrier.

> a little card that runs Java

I believe (it's now been a few years since I've skimmed the spec) that the eSIM chip can also run Java and download applets.