skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. If you want to convert a SIM card (micro, nano or whatever size, they're all the same thing just differently cut plastic part) to eSIM you're SOL. Unless maybe if you have a very ancient SIM card that you've refused to upgrade (but then you're probably without LTE).

The reverse might be theoretically possible during activation (if you feed the QR code to your own custom device and your software implementation doesn't guard the keys, letting you copy those freely), but I suspect there is some form of attestation so it won't let you activate with anything but "trusted" devices (by network, not yourself). And if eSIM is already activated on a phone, you most likely won't be able to extract the keys, because those are most likely protected with some sort of secure element.
>now my SMS 2FA is a lot more secure than before

doubtful. insecurity of sms has always been on carrier side. this does not solve fundamental problem.
I actually would like to, it would be amazing, and I bet he wouldn't tell the story you are trying to sell.
Confusing title. This is talking about a positive or a negative reminiscence, not the faculty of memory.
the MIT course on this type of material is 6.012 and it's open courseware.
I'd love this solution.

If the government is not doing its job, taxpayers should be automatically entitled to withhold an adequate percentage of taxes, while officials in the responsible offices (up to lawmaker level) should automatically get a corresponding pay cut if enough people withhold taxes because of their office.
This would introduce some incentives to actually do the job, or to push fellow officials to do their job.
I feel like the incentives are skewed and that's the root cause of all these stories.
When I run it, I get "Your session crashed for an unknown reason."
> That's a pretty big assumption that offering this service would not result in these users also spending more time on other, non-education related content on YouTube that is monetized.

It isn't a big assumption at all because this is an external embedded player (so the user is not 1 click away from the youtube homepage, they will be in a completely separate app), with no watch-next recommendations or external links.

This is designed explicitly to not compel the viewer into continuing on to watch unrelated youtube videos.

> a new YouTube embedded player that shows content on commonly used education apps without distractions like ads, external links or recommendations.
>Huawei is “free” to use AOSP, but can’t use Google’s APIs. See how far they got with that. No App Store and no Google APIs means a lot of apps won’t work. So you really need Google’s version unless you’re in China.

I don't think that's the main reason why Huawei cannot make phones. Sure in International markets it's an issue. But Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi and other phones sold in China also don't have Google Play and Play Services.
It is well accepted that GC-based runtimes greatly increase memory footprint. A tracing GC might need upto several times the memory to match manual memory management. Nothing interesting about the "viewpoint".

https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf

https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/11/m1-memory-and-performanc...
I suspect it happens wherever you have a centralized economy, the government sector, internal corporate divisions, and if your corporations are run by the government, as found in the ussr.

A market economy does not really help, that just means you don't have a budget to cut in the first place.
the exact opposite is true, Apple iPhones have never been worse than now.

1. almost every generation has some kind of hardware defect that you only find out later that lots of people report in enthusiast forums. Be it the loading cable, display bending, weird issues around refresh rate straining your eyes.. it never ends. And no, the hardware doesn't even feel better than the competition anymore. I had the iphone 13 in my hands and it felt like any cheap plastic phone.

2. The UI is horrible, the false perception of iOS being "simple" is perhaps the biggest marketing success in human history. I had an iPhone 13 for a few hours and there were already countless things I found incomprehensible. E.g Undiscoverable gestures or extremely hard to achieve gesture to swipe up to remove an opened app.
For one ui menu on the right middle side I had to press part of the hardware button on the right (what on earth, a hardware button to activate a touch ui!). Since when is the point of using a touch device to: ignore the touch interface and instead use a hardware button. Not even considering yet the weird annoying popup ui in the first place, why would you ever put something like that on the middle of your screen.

3. scrolling is slower, they have some kind of terrible human-like algorithm where you have to gear up the scroll speed as if you're manually accelerating a dial every time you want to scroll down. This is why they had to invent all these little tricks to scroll back up to the top of a page with a shortcut. Scrolling is just too slow, on huge pages it's fingerhurting work to get to the bottom.

4. The notch is objectively terrible, it was never good, it was never acceptable to put camera holes or notches into the display but the notch is the worst, most biggest affront to visual consistency. It almost has comical qualities, "oh yes, please put a huge black block directly into my visual field and make it so I am forced to look at it, I can't even install an app to hide it".

5. The amount of popups when I open any kind of app or the appstore is incredible. I think I had at least 4 consecutive popups before it lets me do anything.

6. The prices are a riot, it's a designer luxury item. I guess in the US the prices seem somewhat acceptable but anywhere else in the world the value for this phone does not match the money you pay for it.

7. [insert here every other criticism, e.g about iTunes being required or any other of the dozens and dozens of legitimate problems]

This list is nowhere near complete. Meanwhile when I use my Android, my only complaint is that Samsung installed some default apps I don't want. That's literally it. Everything else works fine for me. I had an iphone 5s for years, while I was using it I liked it but nowadays when I have a comparison with a fluid, new android phone it cannot compete. To me it is clear that the success of Apple is a psychological success of two things mixed together: speed and beauty. The ui is always fast, therefore there is a false impression that it's simple and good. Beauty likewise gives a false impression that the ui is good in a general sense when in reality it's not better.
Nebula has also recently started selling skillshare/masterclass-esque classes in addition to the main video platform product. Many (maybe all???) are taught by existing Nebula creators.

The classes are advertised on the Nebula homepage to subscribers, but require additional payment.
To me even a diode is slightly mysterious, or at least the "electrons and holes" explanation is. It kind of skips what happens at the metal-silicon (n-doped) junction and why this doesn't work like a diode even though "holes meet electrons".
Does this apply to the phone or only the transformer? Last iphone i unboxed came with a charger that has a usb-c outlet and a usb-c to lightning cable.

Even if i would be more than happy to hear that the phone requires it as well. The transformer is the biggest source of e-waste and the biggest nuisance to carry around while traveling. Cables are smaller factors in both aspects.
>The fact that linux systems need adminstration is one of the reasons why they suck.

Do you buy and string together several MacBooks to run your business's custom built ERP system 24/7/365?

There isn't a vast ecosystem of open source solutions to enterprise problems because that's not what macOS is, or attempts to be.

I can't tell if this is a serious response or not, this comparison seems pretty ridiculous.
Since when has inline Assembly stop being an C language extension?
> There is no foul play here. I work at search serving, I've seen that algorithm. My personal opinion is that nobody cared to improve it because almost nobody (modulo YC crowd) cares.

In other words, the product is shitty because no-one at the company really cares about it - because of course, that “product” is just a vehicle for a big ad company. On top of that, there’s no meaningful competition. Hopefully we’ll get some DoJ action on this at some point.
This seems like a very interesting story if true.

Anyone have a link and/or know more?
Regardless of what it says on paper, you two are not co-founders.
Revolut under pressure from auditors after UK regulators find flaws
> "stick and stab" tactic

Nice. I have heard the term motte and bailey used to describe that tactic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
It might be less profitable if you view cancer treatment as MRR. Actuarial tables tell you that this MRR will certainly end unless you produce remission and so I'm not sure if that is a good reason for them to not release it as a single dose. Though, there's no reason they wouldn't divide the dose. Charge say 375,000 instead 200,000 for the treatment using 3 doses instead of 1. But then the question is asked - why wouldn't they just release the treatment at 375,000 then?
One anecdote:

Last week I went back to Google (Mountain View) for a friend's retirement party. I was expecting to have to park a long walk away.

There were hardly any cars there. I actually got out and looked at my spot, to make sure it was legal for Google parking. Amazing. I could have parked right next to B43.
The original question was “is there a HN for writers”. Your post, in my view, proves me right. PM is not a HN. I don’t pay a subscription, there isn’t a paywall. Without logging in I can’t tell where in the IRL/pseudo anonymous usernames range it is but I’ll continue to speculate that it’s more on the IRL range.

As I said earlier, I think our definitions are different. Yours is a very broad take on a news site. Mine is more of a direct analog to HN.

You are correct I am not a part of the science fiction writing community. The fact that I am not in no way precludes me from having valid positions on the viability of a community model translation from one community to another based on a more broadly informed macro perspective. It might even be the more accurate perspective as members tend to be biased toward their communities.
California Flex Alert: Blackouts May Have Been Averted by a Timely Mobile Text
Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks (2019)
Here's how they'll work out; the city will send "random" inspections from the fire department, inspectors and other departments every week to spite you. Applying for any other permit in the city will result in rejection after rejection.

Government is spiteful and vengeful, and wronging them will result in vicious consequence.
Oh my gosh, this is crazy. They can remotely disable your browser extension? I had just recently convinced a few people to switch from LastPass to Bitwarden. Personally I use pass with git, but that solution is not for non-technical people! What are the alternatives for our non-technical family and friends? Should we be encouraging Firefox and Chrome's built-in password managers?
Oberlin lost because it was the dean and admins themselves that perpetuated it. They printed and handed out flyers about it. If they're federally funded they need to be blacklisted from student loans and grants. Once closed, wipe it clean and start over. Or else that culture will infect and continue to cause irrepairable harm.
That cusp isn't a failure, so much as the definition of parallel not matching your expectations. You can't have the radius of the curve smaller than your offset without forcing a cusp.

If you imagine dragging an eraser across the 'roadway' produced by the parallel lines, you'll see that the solution with the cusp still obeys the constraint that the lines are a constant distance apart for every point along the road, it's just that it turns so tight your eraser needs to turn in place at the corner.
Next you’re going to tell us that our computer equipped with a 3 GHz processor and 100Mbps connection should allow us to reduce that download by, say, a second or two, you maniac!
Revolut Said to Be Under Pressure from Regulator
This is exactly it. It’s pretty remarkable that it was trained on over 100 terabytes of images and yet the model has been distilled down to only 4gb.
The husband did not have the energy to fight both lawsuit and cancer. They won the lawsuit, but he lost to cancer.
I have used Jelly Bean both on S3 and Nexus 4. What I found is that Jelly Bean gets really slow after a while and you need to factory reset every couple of months. Newer versions of Android don't have this issue.
> I'd rather they spend the money on a ballot initiative that says they have a certain amount of time to reject a permit, and it simply issues (with a refund of the permit processing fees) if the deadline passes.

I'm not very familiar with the specifics, but AFAIU the most important municipalities in the state enjoy so-called "Home Rule" under the California Constitution. I believe that means that a self-executing rule such as you've proposed is unconstitutional. Rather, somewhat like the constraints imposed on the Federal government viz-a-viz the states, the state government is often limited to cajoling municipalities through expenditures, budgeting, and law suits.
This sounds like a made up story to me. The numbers don't even make sense.
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Well uh, the company also employs thousands of people who get more or less equally paid?

Taking a public company vs average employee as a wealth gap example is probably not showing what you want to show.
> … no one seems interested in fixing.

It’s more the opposite, that many people have a strong financial interest in maintaining the system.
Not exactly. There’s no real logic per se, just data. It’s made up of tons of floating point numbers that define relationships to other floating point numbers.
Solution proposed by Google: Block Youtube on non-chromium browsers (using a method other than user-agent validation)
At some point you hit a scale of operations where it does make sense.

It does not make sense for Amazon to run there own shipping fleet... until it does.

The other point is that armed forces tend to have a mandate to control the supply chain, this might be a case of that.
I actually wanted to post this under the SAP article…
Supply&Demand can indeed appear to work like magic.

Increasing the price causes demand to drop. Increasing it so the demand matches the supply means no shortage.
I think what the person is struggling to understand is the phrase "lose entanglement".

I also wonder what is meant here.

Are the particles no longer entangled after they are measured once, or what is being said here?
I recently used https://www.getnomad.app/ and it worked flawless. I like the convenience of enabling/disabling eSIM instead of fiddling with Sim Cards
> To me, having to get my "house in order" without asking for it is basically non-consensual changes by the developer, and I think that is abusive.

If you used Python 2 in a way where encoding errors wouldn't be an issue, and if you used the Python 2 to 3 conversion tool that they made when they released Python 3, then in most cases you didn't have to do any work beyond that. ...if however you used the tool and suddenly your code threw exceptions then, more often than not, the errors were errors you needed to fix anyway, even if converting to Python 3 wasn't something you wanted to do. And they gave you 11 years for making the transition between the release of Python 3.0 and the last release of Python 2.7.

I don't agree with that analogy about an abusive relationship.
It's more like a five-star restaurant asking you to please put on a shirt if you show up there in a bathing suit. It's just a norm, in this case cultural, that comes with five-star restaurants. If you don't want to follow it, you're free to go find a beach cafe somewhere.
> I don't know engineering wise why China model phones can't ship with both dual physical slots and support any combo of two physical/eSIM. There doesn't appear to be any obvious technical limitation.

As far as I know Chinese carriers don't support eSIMs for smartphones yet. I'm not sure if Apple would have been able to legally ship eSIM support in China, but even if they would be able to do that it would be an additional cost for a feature that nearly none of their customers there would use.
I have been developing software for over a decade. I wanted to give Android apps a try too. But when I tried to install the tooling, it was all so heavy and bloated and clunky that I gave up and never tried again.

Compare that to writing web apps. You open an empty text file in a text editor and are ready to go.
OTOH these is a wodespread sense that people who can afford iStuff will get that, and only the poor will get Android. In that sense I don't think it's crazy to call Android the underdog.
Agreed. That is a power move par excellence.
> I do know that some of the tax incentives related to real property in California are seriously problematic. How to fix them?

Repeal prop 13, and replace it with property tax deferral, as done in Texas. If an elderly homeowner living in their house cannot (or does not want to) pay their property taxes, they can elect to defer them for as long as they want to, with some interest accruing. The county puts a lien on the property for the amount of tax due.

When the owner passes away, moves out of the property, or sells it, the tax lien needs to be paid, which can be done with the proceeds from selling the property.
Interesting. I wonder how common miscalibrations are. Personally I've noticed that my overall impression of experiences is usually much more positive than they should be. I'll think back to, say, a business trip I didn't want to take and think of it fondly even though almost every individual memory I have of it I was either bored or miserable.
Helmets significantly (clinically and statistically) reduce the rate of all head injuries, not just skull fracture: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=bicy...
Probably way better than eating a slice of cake per day.
I stopped running their ads. Their technique didn't work for me.
Interesting, I've been learning and doing almost everything with a functional or procedural style, but I've felt kind of guilty I don't understand OOP patterns enough, or don't know when I would want to use them.

So I've been learning Smalltalk/Pharo and reading Smalltalk, Objects, and Design [1] because people say that's what OOP was really supposed to be. It's been interesting and enlightening in some ways, but I still feel like I'd rather do most things without OOP. Do you think it's still helpful or worth it to dig into all this for someone now?

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Smalltalk-Objects-Design-Chamond-Liu/...
Well some things take priority
I understand and sort of agree but this could spiral into some deontological debate. I don’t see “boys will be boys” as relevant because, well, boys will in fact be boys and do stupid stuff. You’re imo rightly pointing out that there’s a certain strain of moralism today that, mostly as a political project, excuses certain behavior - like theft. I don’t think the people you’re concerned about are actually saying “boys will be boys”, and far from it. They actually want these kinds of thefts to happen, and that’s not the same as “Johnny 16 year old crashed the car racing his friend”.

My point about scarcity and material abundance isn’t that harsher penalties weren’t morally or philosophically justified. Just that it was much easier to do so when things were scarce.
There were platform groups who adapted the C code to each platform, which would include using the correct linker.

But if you had code that broke the coding conventions, they could send it back.
>Apache 2.0

>open source movement is not about making it easy for you to do business, it is about freedom for users of your software.

Say what you will about RMS this is the exact kind of thing that the GPL is written for. "Open Source" exists to benefit business. "Free Software" exists to benefit users.

On the flip side I think it's fair that if they have many of these large customers with more than $25 million in turn over not contributing that they do pay for the software development.
Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/github/WASasquatch/StableD...

To run it elsewhere in the cloud, grab a GPU (spot) instance and SSH in.
1. Presidents only need to go through the Iowa caucuses once (baring exceptional circumstances where they get primaried)

2. The Iowa Caucus has a fairly low correlation with nomination success

3. 99% of congress will never need to give a shit about the Iowa caucuses
> The YIMBY approach to homelessness is just a modern form of trickle-down economics

Trickle-down economics is the theory that giving money to people with lower propensity to spend it (the rich) will somehow lead to more economic activity (which is obviously wrong). I don't see how that's at all connected to the idea that more supply of a good leads to lower prices for that good.
> The reverse might be theoretically possible during activation (if you feed the QR code to your own custom device and your software implementation doesn't guard the keys, letting you copy those freely), but I suspect there is some form of attestation so it won't let you activate with anything but "trusted" devices (by network, not yourself).

There are programmable SIM cards available that allow you to install an eSIM from a QR code. Those SIM cards can then be used in any phone that doesn't officially support eSIMs: https://esim.me/
This is really cool. I would love a VR meditation-style app where you just planted trees and watched them grow. Perhaps set at the foot of Mount Fuji with some daily haikus or something.
"What to Expect: PMF, for entrepreneurs and their close families and friends"
> They just let every smartphone company do what they want

Android is an open source project.
actually syncthing on iOS is pretty great using https://apps.apple.com/app/id1539203216. I'm nothing more than a very happy user.
Danielle has been posting substantial update blogs every month, so I'd at least tentatively say that the project seems to be moving forward.
Though?
This is an extremely short-sighted move by Apple with no upside to the customer:

- Traveling abroad will be a hassle: Multiple countries (and especially smaller carriers) *do not* offer eSIM functionality (and/or it is more cumbersome to get than advertized). Planning a trip to a developing country? You're in for a surprisedpikachu face when your expensive device $800-1000 can't use basic phone functionality compared to a basic $100 phone. Step outside the international airport in Cambodia (like I did just a few days back) and ask for eSIM - and you're going to get stares. Physical SIM is the way to go in developing and under-developed countries.

- "But I can just use an app!" argument does not work: Sure you can. There are apps like Airalo and others but - they're often targeted around offering data only and are often more expensive than buying a local physical SIM.

- Moving abroad with new iPhone will be a challenge: Good chunk of regular business travelers or expats living in developing countries. I actually know a girl who moved to India for a couple months' project and was trying to set up eSIM with a carrier in India for days. Physical SIM took 5 minutes to swap!
It was a joke but then it made me think there might be some fact to it. The way married peoples start to share biomes and are probably lacking in diversity compared to someone who more frequently changes partners. There’s probably some gut health aspects there that could be studied.
It was, I should have made that clearer.