skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a major problem for many people visiting Germany since roaming charges no longer apply within EU and you can carry your operator's plan to other EU countries, which IMO eliminates the need to buy a new SIM card altogether for many people.

It only sucks if you come from somewhere else not in EU. Even then operators (iirc at least Vodafone) offer remote verification of documents over a video call, so it's not as painful as it might seem to be. I don't see how eSIM would make this easier, since the main pain point of verifying your identity will remain.
Psychology and politics (which is just mass psychology) are more art than science. STEM on the other hand is built on repeatable experiments, controlled conditions and reliable rules. These foundations are much less reliable in the world of politics, philosophy and economics.
China Creates AI “Prosecutor” to Charge Crimes Like "Political Dissent"
You're a funny guy. I'm going to go ponder the ethical aspect of the bagel I'm about to make for lunch now, and whether there are any externalities I didn't pay for when choosing a toaster oven to warm it up. This should interest you, so maybe I'll report back later.
My account was created in 2013 and changed the password last in 2016. I went back and looked in the audit log for the last year and there was nothing else suspect. Just some failed logins, but that's pretty common, I didn't see any logged in usage from any IPs but mine
The doubt is removed for those who believe Jesus was God.

How they came to believe this is another matter.
Related thread about the same document from a month ago (November 30th) with 450+ comments : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29396643
>One of the nice things about the internet is that IP addresses can't be (legally) tied to the person using it.

FBI does it all the time. They send in an IP, then we track the MAC to the device. Seen a few arrested based on this.
I've seen and worked with a fare share of projects that base the mass production in China in the past 20+ years, this is what you can expect:

- Sourcing of electronic components vary from day-to-day currently, expect quotes to go from 1x to 5x the actual price.

- Plastic moulding is expensive [0], you need injection moulds for every part of the headset and each one of these moulds range from $2K to $20K per part depending entirely on the factory, place of manufacture and the business of choice. Also, use a factory that have frequently do new moulds, because the differences in pressure and precision is something that needs to be dialed in, doing your own moulds and then ship them to China is risky due to differences in implementation methods.

- If you do assembly in China, expect every single part to be copied and sold on the Chinese market and to wholesalers that ship out of China, probably even before your kickstarter backers have gotten their initial units. This is even more true for the low-cost factories, which cover their invested costs by selling your IP to larger factories.

- Shipping out of China for packages over 3KG is currently very expensive, especially during Corona where shipping by water can take +6 months at the very least. Shipping by Air is even more expensive because prices have exploded 3-5x depending on carrier, but you can ship out in a couple of weeks (depending on volume of goods). Also take into consideration distribution in the US and the EU, both vary greatly and stock can be outright stolen (happened twice for a client that did a Kickstarter with distribution in US).

[0] https://www.plastopialtd.com/pricing-guide/
I was traveling to Germany a month ago and read that "By law, all SIM cards in Germany now need to be registered on your name verified by your ID document (and an address) to be activated"[0] and "many more places sell SIM cards, than are allowed to register" and "newly purchased SIM card... doesn't work as you still need to register."

I then installed Airalo app and bought an eSim in five minutes, still at home. Once I landed, I had 4G service for a week.

On my trip, I was never asked for my (German?) phone number but had received multiple SMS verification codes to my regular line.

Your experience may naturally be different.

[0] https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Germany
not sure how you could self diagnose something you don't understand.

and why seemingly your first stop is a social network. go talk to a therapist/shrink/doctor.
Thanks for saying this.

There is always a generational tendency to point out that the next one has it easy or that they are weak because $OBSERVATION. I would like more folks to counter that. I’m a millennial but absolutely love how Gen Z is incredibly adept at navigating the always online culture, calling bullshit on dated traditions around work ethics and so on.

You can look at change and either pat yourself on the back for being better for having overcome challenges they didn’t have to. Or you can see what other generations bring to the table and work with that.
Thanks! Same 160.116 ip range as me and many others here.
No headphone jack. No SD slot. Soon no charging port (wireless). Now no sim car. How soon before there are no plugs whatsoever? Once everything is wireless then apple, through software, can finally take absolute control over how and what is connected to their phones. Want to communicate with or even charge an iPhone? You better be running approved and licensed software. Then the phone can be physically locked like a seamless vault, defeating any potential for repair: the ideal consumer product.
To complement your argument, with the rise of mass culture and mass advertising, marketing to children and youth proved to be lucrative. U.S. culture is mostly youth culture. Market cigarettes to children, and you'll have customers for life. Make and market your movie franchise to young people, and you can keep making predictable profits for as long as you can punch out sequels.

But who has the disposable income? Who is being catered to, really?
POD structs are fine if your wants are limited. Most usually, they are more error-prone and hard to use, and often slower. Limiting yourself to PODs is, first and foremost, limiting yourself.

There are reasons why, in the highest-paid programming jobs, you would be laughed from the room if you suggested coding something in C. Dull knives, cracked pots, and filthy ingredients make a bad stew.
It's also the case doing that securely required pushing the boundaries of modern cryptographic protocols. Telegram's protocol graphs are novices' doodles compared to Signal's group encryption stuff formally described here: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/signal_private_group_system.pdf
I definitely see them in the US. Trailers are just as unacceptable as ads.
Just want to say you are not alone. I too want to have a place to go. Whether it's a co-working space or an office for the company I work for, waking up and working in the same place every day is slowly driving me crazy.

The WFH people are probably the most vocal online (especially on Reddit as subreddits tend to create echo-chambers), so it feels as though _everyone_ wants to work from home, but ultimately I think/hope most people understand the social benefits of working in an office.
Who's the kid? I can't place him.
Right. So commercial (C-PACE) require the original first lien to approve. However residential (R-PACE) don't require the original first lien's approval (the bank that gave them the mortgage). So if its a bad financial decision, the mortgage borrower can't interject. And residential PACE participants can be duped into taking a second lien on their property that they won't be able to discharge and will have to pay back in full if they want to sell their homes. You can go from a healthy loan to value to being underwater with the stroke of a pen.
Cybersecurity Analysis for the Internet-Connected Satellites
There was one really good talk about from black hat or defcon [1] but there's also this [2] which seems more thorough so I'm gonna watch it too later. I happen to have a friend who writes software for simcards so that's what really was my main source.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scArc93XXWw

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31D94QOo2gY
How much does temperature affect sound distance? How about humidity?
They kind of are hanging out on HN, given that a story in such a spirit is being upvoted into the front page once a week or two, but they also seem a bit bipolar in that they swing between wanting to use the internet ascetically and defending the "web is your new OS and TV and it's a good thing!" attitude because they do it for a living, and that 150k is a 150k after all.
Because the iPhone 12 were mindlessly thinner and had such bad battery life that they had to make the battery bigger?
> I think part of this change is just that there is such a high number of new games coming out every day.

The "high number of new games coming out every day" are overwhelmingly indie titles that don't use denuvo. It's not like crackers are being overwhelmed with hundreds of indie titles per year.
This will probably never happen, but... There is technically already a partial solution for this but AFAIK there are no regulations or legal frameworks to allow it. Construction workers can already buy noise cancelling bluetooth headphones [1][2] so they can listen to music while working. They will still need ear plugs when working with loud tools but the headphones are loud. If the equipment with the beepers also transmitted a signal the headphones could be adapted to pick up via bluetooth along with a TDR calculation to figure out distance, the worker could hear the machine coming to them and would probably be more annoyed they can't hear their music. All of this also assumes that regulations were stricter on fencing off the area from non construction workers assuming you get rid of the beepers.

Missing is the standard for linking these headphones and the myriad of construction equipment to something that calculates distance and warns the listener. So there you go HN entrepreneurs. Write the RFC's, make some prototypes and give them for free to a construction company. Maybe partner with companies that produce the top 10 fork-lifts, skid-steers, tractors, bulldozers, flat-bed trucks and dump trucks as a start. BONUS if you give the workers a way to talk to the driver without having to allocate licensed frequencies.

[1] - https://www.homedepot.com/b/Safety-Equipment-Hearing-Protect...

[2] - https://www.lowes.com/pd/DEWALT-Earbud-Noise-Canceling-Headp...
> Haven't people in tech figured out how exponential growth works?

Mostly, it doesn't. Pretty much all initially-apparent exponential growth in things that aren't human-created abstractions is, at best, logistic if conditions are constant, and usually is just the net of a large number of Ransome events that averages to that growth curve, but features gambler’s ruin and collapse to zero eventually, or collapse to zero due to changing external conditions before it hits gambler’s ruin.
That's an interesting material. I'm not a knife maker so I can't really answer your question. I would imagine that this material would, initially, pose a problem for large-scale production. You would have to learn how to work with this material as it is not steel. Their current set of tools and techniques probably won't work well with a fundamentally different material.

If anybody were to try this, I would suspect that it would be easier for a customer knife maker to do so. Kase Knives[1] has messed around with elastic ceramic before. He's always pushing boundaries. He might try something like what you suggested.

It would be incredibly expensive though. I wonder if you could laminate some slabs of mild steel around a carbide core. This is done with steel all the time (especially in Japan). Not sure you could do this with steel and carbide though. You only really need enough carbide to form the apex. The rest of the blade stock is there for lateral strength.

[1]https://www.kase-knives.com/home/english/
My understanding of the philosophy of open source is different. I believe it was always more fundamentally about freedom and specifically encouraging a marketplace of ideas.

Going back to the early days with Stallman and the GPL it was about making software more transparent and empowering users. You can see how something is implemented, modify how it works for your own needs, etc, just like if you were to buy a physical machine like a car.

Competition is not a waste, it is the means by which free actors improve society. In theory there if there's one provider of everything, there is less waste, and that may be true for certain periods of time but not in general. Power structures ossify, become bloated, corrupt, and inefficient. If you have a monopoly, even if it's the most benevolent, open one in the world, the incentives to improve are diminished. The most powerful incentive to improvement is the threat of those you depend on for money, power, or status, freely choosing against you, which requires competition. You need people that are able to look at the status quo and decide that they can do it better, creating the next generation of whatever it may be.

The OSS community has lots of competition and is better for it. Linux competes with the BSDs and private OSs. There's tons of distros building off each other trying new ideas. Forking is expected. It doesn't always lead to the next great project but it moves the needle.
Tesla Giga Shanghai shows off its Model 3 production
I don't think eSIM has a number, and so no verification is needed. I bought a German eSIM a month ago and it worked without any need to register. I never had to do any video call in a language I don't understand. eSIM just worked.
My Walking Desk Setup
Germany also has mostly 6 months probation.

A probationary period is not only beneficial for the employer, but also for you (which many forget): If you don't like the job after a few weeks, you can quit short-term (as for example in Germany within 2 weeks or even less) and just leave and start in another company.
I can't use devices with eSIMs on my MVNO, so nope, I've never actually dealt with eSIMs.
We have about 50 people.

An interesting tidbit is that some of the picking processes described in the video I linked to above were implemented only recently as COVID-19 simultaneously applied upward pressure on order volume (people shopping online more) and downward pressure on fulfillment capacity (warehouse worker density restrictions). We literally had to stop taking orders for a short while to keep the backlog of orders reasonable.

It was gratifying to apply things we learned from computer science and industrial engineering together to help us keep up with demand.
Predicting User Participation of TikTok Challenges
As I recall, even one on one chats are not e2e encrypted unless you explicitly start a "secret chat". Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
Netflix for Documentaries for $15/Year
Maybe once the carriers are forced to adapt, but in Canada they don't support them on most eSIM capable devices. Swapping an eSIM requires an app, entering values, waiting for the swapping process. Whereas a physical SIM I can just pop out and pop into another phone.
It’s funny how worthless patents are for things that are slow to change.
> Most countries in western Europe and many states seem to have less than 10 ℅ excess deaths in 2021

That may well be true, but it cannot in and of itself be a reason to decide to relax measures.

It's like saying the number of traffic accidents are low, thus we can abolish drivers licenses, speed limits, age limits on driving, alcohol limits on driving, seatbelts etc.

No: the measures (e.g. seatbelts) cause the good results (low traffic deaths). Simply looking at the good results can never in and of itself be a reason to remove the measures.

You'd want to evidence that the desirable results will remain without the measures, before removing the measures. e.g. if there's evidence that removing speeding limits does not impact traffic accidents/deaths, then you can remove the limit.
> I mentioned multiple interests that I couldn't match

> I've noticed this pattern about tech people today

> I am not sure how old are you or what is your background, but I feel that today people

> I feel like to have something in common with my coworkers I should have to watch unlimited amount of netflix and marvel movies..

Step 1: stop being condescending and assuming moral superiority just because you have an interest in a random list of things you assume everyone shold be interested in.

Your approach is the classical "kids these days" that is so classical even Aristotle and Horace have said the same things.

Step 2: Accept that people are free to do in their spare time whatever the hell they want to. Watching unlimited Netlfix? Good for them. Setting up IRC bouncers? Couldn't be happier for them.

Step 3: if truly interested, you could try and figure out what exactly interests people in tech, and why they do it. Could be it's just because it pays more than the alternatives and they are much hapier carving out wooden dolls on the weekends.

If that's not your cup of tea, there are now communities around any and all things any person could be intersetd in, no matter how bizarre or "out of fashion".
Hmm I see the exact opposite. If I wanted to know how something worked or how to build something I had to go to a physical library and hope some dusty encyclopaedia had a minimal entry, and if I needed supplies it would be a specialist catalogue.

If my daughter wants to know how something works she can find a brilliant well-produced video on YouTube of an expert explaining it, and she can easily buy tools and supplies from anywhere in the world for esoteric hobbies.

From what I see the next generation are far more practical and hands on and involved in constructive and creative hobbies than mine was. When I see young people’s resumés today they are frighteningly practical and talented in advanced hobbies.

Sometimes I worry about how to keep up and compete with them!
I run https://fabform.io

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Human beings learn by example. This is no different.

If students are finding it hard to think, then perhaps it's because they have no examples around them of people thinking. Principle of parsimony.

There's also a character aspect to it. Making decisions based on your own evaluations (not an authority figure's) takes courage and confidence. To listen to others' input and re-evaluate your own decisions requires humility. To act rationally in the face of strong emotions requires tranquility of mind. Do students find in their role models the traits of courage, humility, and tranquility, or do they find the opposite; cowardice, self-righteousness, and panicky over-reaction?

If all the adults in the room are freaking out over every little problem, shaming and blaming each other, and waiting on someone higher-up to make all their important decisions for them, how can you possibly expect students to learn critical thought from them?
I have written some (obscure) open-source software and have contributed to open-source code-bases. I can say that if you are doing it for some kind of recognition, then you are doing it for the wrong reason. I _do_ think that you (and many others) would be worthy of recognition and appreciation, but most people are far too busy optimizing their careers and chasing the dollar to actually invest the time and effort needed to share some of the spotlight with you. Also, so much of our (humanity's) software stack is open source that we would need to share the spotlight with hundreds of people out there.

Most people write open-source for material reasons -- it lets them bring some of their own code into a new workplace, with minimal employer resistance. Also, many people will try to open-source the tooling they built at work so that they can then take that tooling with them to a new employer (avoiding the duplication of effort and potential legal issues).

All of the open-source code that I wrote for non-material reasons, I wrote it because I thought it was fun to write, and I open sourced it because others might find it interesting or useful. But I never expected any kind of recognition (let alone compensation).

In feudal Japan, poets would write poetry anonymously (not pseudonymously), and many historians and scholars debate which known poet wrote which poem. The fact that these works of art are not attached to any author's ego or name, does not diminish their beauty after all these centuries -- arguably this characteristic amplifies and elevates the work beyond the history of people, to the history of ideas and concepts. At the end of the day, we are just transient conduits for concepts. The notion that a person deserves to have "more" for their ideas and concepts and artistry, is as shameful as the notion that artists deserve to starve for not slavishly serving the whims of the market.
Not necessarily - people close to me were complaining about what they saw as losing a part of their identity ( and grandchildren definitely were not happy about the change).

Even for those who learn to speak with an oesophagal voice, being able to real time map it to something more natural would be great.

To be more specific, they consider themselves to be 'voice mutilated', even when able to speak, so I guess that anything closer to their original voice would be a net benefit.
Someone driving too fast for the conditions, failing to notice and then striking a pedestrian, points to a different problem than not having the siren on.
At some point, we have to zoom out and look at the big picture. Should we end up with a situation where this continues because in theory there's an endless amount of kicking-the-can-down-the-road that could technically apply? Probably not.

Where's the most appropriate place to say "the buck stops here!"? I'll say it's at the first step: Alexa shouldn't just regurgitate this stuff.
>I really do hate purist visions like that.

So use an Android. You have hundreds of manufacturers to choose from. People love Apple precisely because of their purist vision, and that's what made them the most valuable public company on earth.
When the majority of programs in the world can't be "run" according to your definition, you might want to reconsider your definition.
I also don't believe in this claim, or at least in it being a generally applicable thing.

There's a point at which slowing down gives diminishing returns in my experience. I'm a music composer and I had to learn that the hard way. Sometimes my first ideas end up being good enough already, or even better than previous/future ideas that I had iterated a lot on. I also found that working for too long on a piece can potentially make it worse than previous iterations eventually.
Riot Games will pay $100M to settle class-action gender discrimination lawsuit
The purpose of DRM is ultimately asserting the will of a couple corporate ghouls over your use of the thing they basically cheated you into renting.

Which wouldn't even be a thing if intellectual property rights, which are at the core of the whole debate, were untransferable and only endured for the lifetime of the creator.

If anyone were able to lobby those simple, clear changes into law, the effects of that would probably be Earth-altering.
You might want to read first "How to Read a Book" and then proceed to the recommended list [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book#Reading_lis...
Did any of the non-northern Mediterranean/Nile influenced groups ever advanced to technologically advanced civilizations?

Or was it primarily tribal conquering/uniting?
Should be Email, not Mail.