skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True - my point was that the carrier can't prevent you from physically switching SIMs and locking them at the network-level to an IMEI would cause backlash as it would break long-established conventions.

With eSIM, not only are they in control of switching eSIMs between devices but it also gives them a clean slate to introduce the aforementioned network-level restriction under excuses such as security (though again since they're in control of switching eSIMs they can just block it there or be annoying in other ways - some carriers already charge for reissuing eSIMs despite it being a completely automated process).
Could? Probably.

Should? Maybe not. One goal of removing SIM and headphone jack is to reduce opportunities for water intrusion.
Almost every company is an aspiring "big, evil" company, and they can pull out the rug whenever they feel. Discord fits the mould of proto-bigevil-co exactly. What companies in their position reliably do is be as inviting as possible until they have solidified a dominant position, e.g. through network effects, then turn up the pain and the profits when it's safe.

The only question is whether they get big enough and safe enough to start abusing their position.
Could you please tell me how much you pay for Linux if it were a proprietary OS?
EduDo obviously
The parent doesn't mention the T480, but the X1 Carbon which comes with a full range of USB and HDMI ports. The Macbook Pro is 1.55cm thick, the X1 Carbon is 1.49 cm thick.

Lenovo also sells the T480s, those are not substantially thicker (1.6 cm high) and beefier and come with a built-in ethernet (!) port.
The constructs are always useful, but rarely do they form a coherent whole, because they're formed by accretion. The "outsiders" are usually going to be right: throwing everything out and designing the language from scratch would allow for substantial improvements, regularization, etc. The insiders will however have adapted to the existing system and found its complexities easy enough to navigate. And that is why the USA does not use metric.
They could, but they (mostly?) don't. On the other hand carriers do charge for moving eSIMs between phones.
Just because it's on Wikipedia doesn't mean it's a real thing. The only source for that page is some bizarro, circa-1998 website about "computer jargon". These are not academic terms that I've personally ever heard of. Happy to be wrong, but I'm not going to pretend they have any utility or legs.
Side discussion: Why is it that they have to find someone for the company? Why can't I instead have an agent that goes around and sells me to potential companies?

Right now recruiting is Yet Another Dysfunctional Industry with non-optimal behavior that favors job creation and useless busy-work instead of finding optimal solutions.
Sir, we called you to have a extended sampling conversation about your cars extended warranty.
> I would have expected HN to entirely understand the FDA’s approach.

Oh, I get it... I just think it is immoral. I also believe that the software developers who go around thinking they are gods that should get to decide whether other people should be allowed to install an app on their phone or an extension in their browser because "people are (apparently) universally too stupid to have such functionality" are also deeply immoral, and have spent over half my life at this point--ever since I started working publicly on network scanners and decompilers through all of my work on jailbreaking the iPhone and now my latest efforts in decentralized systems--fighting against people who think like that (and I am even a politician now!).

I strongly believe that people have a right to know things and get access to things that help them know things, and you aren't doing the world any favors by preventing such: you are just going to make people--100% correctly--distrust you and your motives. FWIW, I do see a job for the FDA, and I do appreciate some of the work they do... I would even have sympathy if this were "the tests are inaccurate or unproven, and the FDA doesn't want people to claim a test works that doesn't actually work and has never been tested" (note: I still have issues here, but I would at least have sympathy).

But for a test we know works and can legitimately be used correctly in a home (but might theoretically be used incorrectly, sure) but we are just afraid people will do something bad with the information as they don't understand statistics enough to deal with false negatives or whatever? That is just evil, and it mostly stands in the way of actual good work being done.

This is the reason why diabetics I know have had to hack into their hardware to cobble themselves full-loop control mechanisms. This attitude would have--in the story presented here--prevented people from having access to pregnancy tests... which should simply feel preposterous at this point in time when clearly at home pregnancy tests are extremely common (seemingly having required a legal challenge to the FDA over it!).

And really... if you want to apply population-level analyses, that shouldn't even be the job of the FDA: that's the job of the CDC. And neither the CDC nor the FDA did a good job here of reacting quickly to this pandemic. A covid test even with relatively low accuracy can do wonders for neighborhood-level tracing efforts, but not only did the CDC never mobilize any kind of voluntary test sweeps, the FDA was proactively shutting down efforts by local universities to do it themselves. In the words of a friend of mine who is much more passionate about this than I am: "they have blood on their hands".
I'm not that old, you could get an apartment in LA for $600 just 10 years ago.

I was also working full time too, a good chunk of the time anyway, so that helped. You could seriously figure it out 10 years ago
I had countless selfmade bootdisks to config DOS to play games. Almost every game did need it's own bootdisk.
I am wondering if this excellent essay has surfaced again because I just tweeted it in reply to a popular Twitter account.

I dispute your conclusion, and this is the reasoning, as expressed in the article:

"High level" is tricky to define, because high is a relative assessment. But "low level" has a clear, agreed meaning: relatively similar to the machine's instruction set and architecture; close to the metal; comparable to assembly language.

And the point of the article is that C is close to the architecture of a PDP-11. Modern CPUs are nothing like the PDP-11 and haven't been for a third of a century or more. C models the architecture of a 1970s minicomputer, and 21st century computers are nothing like 1970s minis – they just run similar OSes.

If C is not close to the real architecture, then it's not low level.

The fact that there's nothing mainstream which is closer is irrelevant. The C programming model is nothing like modern multicore SIMD superscalar 64-bit CPUs with out-of-order execution, branch prediction etc.

If it isn't close to the metal, then it isn't low-level. C is neither any more. QED.
I agree. This really felt patronising to me. Like they were trying too hard to be impressed. At the very least such claims require some contextualisation, which the article does not really supply. And I think it’s obvious why that context is never provided.
Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust
How much would you pay if Ubuntu (or your favorite Linux distro) was proprietary?
Airalo is the one I find myself using the most, amazing coverage and great support.

I’ve probably used their sims in 30+ countries at this point, they’re even available in more exotic places like St Barthelemy or Moldova.
No problem.

Have you found the bottleneck and has the experience improved?

I don't know the specifics of your app. But minimizing assets could also reduce bandwidth, it's mostly done by default. So that's what's why i didn't mention it before.
This is exactly what we’re doing but we unfortunately can’t do this in 48 hours.
I see a lot of mask wearing where it’s legally mandated. I see limited mask wearing where it’s not required. Neither of those is surprising, of course.

That seems like it’s compatible with a framework for atmospheric carbon reduction. I think the challenges are mostly economic and technical, not societal.
Right well, thats why there is a new hashing algorithm. And they want other energy heavy cryptocurrencies to switch to it.

Basically there is a whole row going on in the far far corners of crypto land, where some Cambridge and Columbia university alumni have made a new hashing algorithm (HeavyHash) that is heavy on linear operations specifically so that it would theoretically have an advantage on light based computers and be a sustainability solution [for now].

They stood up an example project back in May and forgot about it ("optical bitcoin", oBTC), but people kept mining it. Just on GPUs and FPGAs, as the low power better processors don't exist yet so there isn't really anything different at the moment. Because these are students with no funding, the management is very weak.

There is at least one fork of that project that has better management ("photonic bitcoin", pBTC). But they are waiting for OPUs to exist at all, as there are a variety of vaporware companies out there with massive funding.

HeavyHash itself is being used in more and more other newly launched cryptocurrencies. Hoping for OPUs to become available to actually make their networks different than others.

They all so far only aspire to be examples for other major energy consuming cryptocurrencies we've heard of to switch to. The university students had submitted a proposal (BIP) to Bitcoin-core, and that slow moving network typically needs real world examples and fear of missing out for consensus to shift.
Yes. It’s a major step back in terms of selection. And more to the point, it’s continuous major steps back every year, even compared to itself from a few years ago.

Part of what people don’t seem to remember is that one of the benefits of iTunes was its huge selection. Netflix is becoming more and more like BandCamp, not iTunes, in terms of selection. I don’t go there to find something to watch anymore. I only go there if I want to watch one of the few things worth watching on it.

There is currently no legal video platform for watching all the things. (And that’s ignoring the DRM crap.)
It's not that much of a fallacy. What if you come to a socially unnaceptable conclusion about some ethnicity or culture after too much study? If you are a software dev that poses a significant risk to your job and social life.
thanks for the interesting questions!

I did everything on opensea.io [ethereum / polygon] for pre-MVP
when we do it in waka [our product], we will do it right!
Same here. I went all in, had dots everywhere. After confirming the complete lack of privacy the final straw was when I asked Alexa for customer service and "she" looked up customer service and read me the definition. I unplugged them all and threw them in a junk bin.
Being "proprietary-software-friendly" and proprietary is not the same.

How much would you pay for Ubuntu if it was proprietary?
Have you RTFA?

Because that is exactly the point that the article refutes.
California (specifically the CPUC, as servant of the for-profit utilities here) is choosing to make electricity extremely expensive, which is making it short-term economically less favorable than it could be to switch.

I have an EV, which makes sense economically especially because I can charge somewhere that power isn't produced or delivered by PG&E. But I burn gas to keep warm because my own home electricity is too expensive.

Municipalities are removing residents' ability to choose by banning gas. I expect this will accelerate the failure of companies like PG&E (and the grid) by driving new construction to be off-grid. I've been inching my way there on my own home. Cars as storage batteries is inevitable and will be game changing.

In about two years I will have an egregious excess of solar capacity. And hopefully no grid connection. I'd love to have a way to use that excess to suck carbon out of the air and ideally make a product I can use out of it. Pyrolitic graphite sheets would be fantastic, or liquid hydrocarbons I can burn in my legacy vehicles or a backup generator. But I would settle for something I can throw away and have buried in a landfill.
So you fight one exageration by exagerating in opposite direction? This only gives ammunition to the opposite side.
You should be worried because every other phone manufacturer has a nasty habit of copying whatever Apple does.
Crazy M&A Ideas for 2022
The laws of thermodynamics mean we'll have to expend at least as much energy removing CO2 as we did emissing it initially.

Right now, from what google searching I've done, the best option would be planting the fastest growing bamboo species and sequestering them once cut down. The sequestering is 'tough', but I suspect more surmountable via a range of means than other carbon removal strategies. Anything else is a poor approximation of a tree.
You post literally what the prevailing attitude has been for the past 50 years, claim to wonder why anyone takes you seriously, then say "just a prank, bro?"
True, but in my experience many French companies were perhaps old-fashioned and extremely hierarchical, which doesn't really mix well with WFH.
I feel the exact same way as you. This wfh life is not for me. I think it's cruel to force it on young and single employees.

I'm having trouble finding a new job that has employees on site. I appreciate you posting this.
A citation for the actual paper is given below. Unfortunately, the authors have not paid the extra charges to make it open-access.

Kwiecinski, Jarek V., and Andrew R. Babbin. “A High‐Resolution Atlas of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zones.” Global Biogeochemical Cycles 35, no. 12 (December 2021). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007001.
eSIMs significantly reduce the friction of switching between carriers and will inevitably force carriers to suck less. Especially in a world where people increasingly only care about data.
Planting trees is more expensive than you think! You have to buy the land, maintain it, actually physically plant the trees ( which is rather labor intensive). Plants are a relatively low density place to store carbon ( compared to say carbonate rock). It’s not at all clear that planting trees is a good way to sequester carbon.
> Thus, the original first reason can't be popularity -- because there was a point when Discord was not popular and it was still chosen over Matrix & IRC. The reason is that it's easier for project maintainers to create new Discord servers + channels.

Matrix did not have "servers" (in the Discord sense) until very recently. It's also much harder to produce an open, federated protocol than a proprietary one so Matrix has been less featureful than Discord for a long time, but the gap is closing quickly.

There's also the matter of marketing: Discord is a product, Matrix is not, thus it's harder to market. Yes, now there's Element, which is a product, but given above, Discord has had an effective head start of several years.

Give it a bit more time.
The phone number being tied to your identity is the entire point. If you get banned from a community are you really going to go to Verizon and ask for a new one every time you want to join again? The alternative is the kind of problem that is all too common on IRC where a troll keeps making burner accounts faster than the mods can ban them and generally ruining the experience for everyone else in the channel.
That was my reply to her. We all have cellphones.
It’s you who is spreading dangerous misinformation by attempting to validate your claims as scientific without linking to actual scientific research, just opinions in various pop science magazines.
> When that happens go to William James and read Pragmatism, then realize you can just decide what you want to believe based on what is adaptive for you.

Now when that happens, also make sure to remember all the adaptationists who stayed silent and turned a blind eye on all the atrocities committed by their governments and leaders, in their name and with their silent agreement.

Ultimately this comes down to individual and group-level optimization strategies: do we exploit the current hill of the fitness landscape we are on, or do we explore to find other hills on this landscape. Adaptive silence is conforming with the group to stay on the current hill, truth-seeking at all costs is sending scouts to explore other hills with the possibility of discovering new heights for the group. A highly social and truly adaptive species needs a combination of both strategies, it's a delicate balance and neither extreme is smart or risk-free.
Plus if the concern is extraction of SIM keys from the iPhone, the iPhone already has some more valuable keys stored on it: those for Apple Pay cards.
I think having 15 different ways to express multiplication is charming.
I use default safari on iPhone and was able to hit the x to hide the timeline and then another x to hide the donation banner.
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What's left then? Anything easy to access would've been used for spam in the past. This only really leaves services with a high cost/barrier to entry such as leased lines?
I have literally been made fun of by refusing to let this crud in my house, and not letting our kid have one. Thankfully, tech companies never fail to prove me right.
>What happens if I want a divorce?
>How do you prevent double spending?

we are under discussion
they will probably be burned

we can go to discord for discussion:
https://discord.gg/7d6EnuXbcJ
Challenging ‘rule breakers’ – children will confront their peers
A serious question: what is the advantage of thinness for you, personally? I have several laptops and I'm on the move all the time. The only disadvantage of thicker ones for me is weight - but it's negligible, even when I'm cycling and my laptop is in my backpack (or, sometimes, laptop bag). Weight aside, the thinness itself has zero advantage for me. I'd much rather have all the functionality removed at the cost of it (not just Ethernet - I care much more about user-replaceable SSDs and RAM).
Not sure. So far, I found every text to speech application quite uncanny. The ones that come with Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS are good, but not quite there. The TikTok one is the first to sound quite convincing for me.

Siri and Alexa are also good but I think they don't count, because they probably are not purely text to speech but presumably use a lot of prerecorded phrases, especially for the common answers.
I only use eSIMs and have yet to have trouble with this. I guess all you can do is vote with your wallet and switch to a less shit carrier.
Not really; as evidence, look at the number of comments here that failed to get the point.

When you present a viewpoint to people whose profession and living depend on believing something contrary to it, it's necessary to present a lot of evidence and solid reasoning to get even a small number of the smartest of such people to consider your point.
One doesn't need act on a false positive! It is useful to have that data point, and then you can combine it with tons of other data points, and do risk benefit analyses of whether to do anything at all about it even if you are feeling sure. You are assuming people are too stupid to even be allowed to know things, which is an unreasonable starting point.
Being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709369
By virtue of trying to prop up this wall, I think the same "civilization-builiding moral standards" aren't being applied here. More realistically, it's a tinge of Zimbabwean nationalism shrouded in archeological dressing being applied here.
> I see my kids don't have much of these challenges, everything works for them.

This is one of the reasons I recommend teaching kids C++ early.

Between build systems, ABI issues, compiler error messages, and undefined behavior it really builds perseverance and a great sense of accomplishment when your program compiles and runs correctly.

I am not aware of any other production language that gives that sense of accomplishment and requires that level of perseverance.
You might be right that resolving climate change may be politically impossible.

But…what we saw emerge at COP26 - spearheaded by John Kerry - is an _attempt_ to get around this problem.

By (1) a demand-side response, ie not dependent on regulating against fossil fuel extraction, and (2) creating groups of first movers who will invest to reduce demand and dependence on fossil fuels and force a market adjustment.

Will it work? Who knows. But there’s a lot depending on it!
I think you are confused. SIM cards are not a second factor. SIM swaps are proof of this.
Riot Games settles class-action gender discrimination lawsuit for $100M
Interesting. Only the four direction buttons work for me, regardless of num lock setting. eg 2, 4, 6, 8. None of the corner buttons nor middle button have any kind of effect.

This is when using Firefox on Linux, and using a standard 101-key external keyboard.
We pulled together several lists of recently posted roles at mid size tech cos. While many of these (most?) include remote option - my guess is reaching out to the team to see if folks have an in person option could be a good signal on being serious about to role etc. For companies that are building their culture around remote they may be turned off by such a questions but you aren't looking for those anyway.

https://www.kiter.app/lists
Well, I had a delusion that Uptrace will have clean and simple UI, but I guess for others the UI is just as confusing. :(

I think we've done pretty good job with filtering+grouping+aggregation and data exploration in general. That is something I am proud of.

Uptrace is significantly cheaper.

As for the rest, it is the same but different. DD is bigger and more complex. I guess that is not the problem when you get used to the UI.
> Amazon subsidizes the cost of the software side in order to get the hardware in to homes because they believe it drives sales.

I think that's not the only reason. It creates acceptability for other ML-based technologies which in my personal view should definitely not exist (except as a best effort assistive technology for handicapped folks) and it gives them real world feedback on how broken their neural models are as well as real-life voice data collected unexpectedly by the device and sent to precarious contract workers to be transcribed (including very personal/sensitive details).

Unfortunately i don't think this article has been translated to English, but La Quadrature had a mind blowing interview with Julie who was a cheap-paid transcriber for Microsoft's Cortana, telling us all about the kind of things that get recorded without the owners being aware and that she has to transcribe (without having ever signed a privacy/confidentiality agreement): https://www.laquadrature.net/2018/05/18/temoin_cortana/
Memory holed is a good term for balaji. I don't recall the specifics but a few years back I put him in a bucket of people not worth listening to.

It was when he was sort of an a16z partner, but also had a bitcoin startup (hardware to mine cryptocurrency) funded by them, then he made a bid to be a part of the Trump administration and scrubbed his entire Twitter timeline. This was probably 6 years ago now. He seemed disingenuous then. Don't know about him now.
I feel for you. I had issues with Stripe, and it's one of the reasons I started building dapps on ETH. People read these stories and still think there's no usecase for a decentralized financial system.
This is pretty much the plot of the horror movie Child's Play.
Things are worth at least as much as the second-highest bidder is willing to pay. If everyone has a completely unique reasons then there would be noone to bid against.

And a very important aspect for most buyers is the perceived market value. And that ties in with whatever the market values, and if the market supposedly doesn't care for taste/history/material/creator - then what does it care for?