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Ask HN: Any advice on how to deal with AT&T's eSIM/EUICC Lock?
I bought 24 refurbished 9th gen iPads for my business and 7 of them are limited to using AT&T for eSIM (note: they will work for regular SIM cards but will only allow AT&T for eSIM). AT&T is the ONLY cellular company in the US that uses this disgusting anti-competitive practice. I talked with my Apple Business Manager rep and they confirmed in their system that the eSIM Lock (Also known as EUICC Lock) is on AT&T's side and only AT&T can unlock the device.

I have spent 4+ hours on the phone and 1-2 hours on chat/DM (AT&T forums and Reddit) with AT&T and sometimes they tell me there is nothing they can do and sometimes they tell me they are putting in a request but in the end these 7 iPads are worthless to me until AT&T unlocks them. Their reps are HIGHLY inconsistent and some even tell me "those iPads are not in our system" which is wrong as Apple has confirmed that the lock is on AT&T's side.

Other terms AT&T sometimes uses instead of "unlocking": "carrier visibility" or "carrier reveal".

I'm at my wits end here trying to get these to work. I just filed something with the FCC and with my state's Attorney General but I was wondering if HN has any more suggestions.

Thank you.
I enjoyed it too.
The problem is GitHub’s if they’re the ones accessing copyrighted content under poorly defined terms.
Stuff for old models, like the E-3, is even more expensive. Obsolescence, tooling no longer available... A similar sotuation happens with spares for classic cars. Try getting rubber and plastic parts some old car models, same story: Lost tooling, low demand. For aircraft you have to recertify production and parts. All of that is actually quite expensive.

Edit: Since the article mentions circuits and such: The alternative to paying through the nose for spares for obsolete systems and parts is a new development. In which case price, and lead times, increase even more. And now contractors are obviously abusong that situation, but parts of those high prices can be explained by the fact that a lot of current, top notch, military hear is running on old, commercially sometimes even obsolete tech.
The level of understanding of the problem that this paper expresses is extraordianry in my reading of this field --- it's a genuinely amazing synthesis.

> How could the common-sense background knowledge needed for dynamic world model synthesis be represented, even in principle? Modern game engines may provide important clues.

This has often been my starting point in modelling the difference between a model-of-pixels vs. a world model. Any given video game session can be "replayed" by a model of its pixels: but you cannot play the game with such a model. It does not represent the causal laws of the game.

Even if you had all possible games you could not resolve between player-caused and world-caused frames.

> A key question is how to model this capability. How do minds craft bespoke world models on the fly, drawing in just enough of our knowledge about the world to answer the questions of interest?

This requires a body: the relevant information missing is causal, and the body resolves P(A|B) and P(A|B->A) by making bodily actions interpreted as necessarily causal.

In the case of video games, since we hold the controller, we resolve P(EnemyDead|EnemyHit) vs. P(EnemyDead| (ButtonPress ->) EnemyHit -> EnemyDead)
I doubt that word models can lead to world models. To quote Yann LeCun:

"The vast majority of our knowledge, skills, and thoughts are not verbalizable. That's one reason machines will never acquire common sense solely by reading text."

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1368235803147649028
But doesn't the loop-back happens in capillaries - which are biologically mediated?

Totally outside my area of expertise, but I wouldn't expect you can pump cold fluid into arteries and it'll just come gushing out the veins
It's been argued both ways for a hundred and eleven years now, but my understanding of the current historical consensus is that they weren't doing anything especially unusual for ocean liners of the day, either in design or in operation, and indeed had altered course further south in response to iceberg warnings received by radio on the 14th.

It's considered to be true that the prioritization of on-time arrival and the belief that the ships of the day were too well designed to founder contributed to the disaster, but rather than representing unique hubris on the part of Titanic's builders and captain, these are understood to have been common throughout the passenger shipping industry of the day.
I think I can deliver a trashcan that matches specs for a mere 40k.
If you like that and 18th century naval history, you'll also like Rule the Waves 3, which also makes no bones about being a spreadsheet sim. Definitely on my wishlist!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008100/Rule_the_Waves_3/
I don't think you really disproved anything. You're just saying another hypothesis. Often, LLMs produce impressive results on domains that aren't in the training set.
The shapes of the crystals affects the taste. If the salt is going to be dissolved, such as in pasta water, then grain-shape doesn't matter. Use the cheapest salt. But if the salt is going onto the surface of a food, such as in popcorn or a steak, then fresh-ground salt gives a more salty flavor per gram used. The salt grains that come already ground have a smooth texture like the smooth pebbles in a creek. Fresh-grinding gives the crystals a jagged, irregular shape. This enhances the effect when they hit your taste buds.
>Not just containers, all the core linux stuff. gcc, binutils, gnome, systemd, etc.

Depending on who you're talking to, this may not be a good thing.
> US’s unique ability to essentially endlessly deficit spend

This is not unique to the US, nor even unique to countries. Almost all countries deficit spend endlessly, which is fine as long as it's offset by economic growth. And that deficit spending can speed up that economic growth.

The US's uniqueness is being massively wealthy, so its deficits are bigger.
A very quick Google search reveals they are a tech essayist
It was the unions wasn't it?
Embraced extend extinguish null-sec.
The problem is not the Pentagon's $52,000 trash can, but the US' $858,000,000,000 trash heap which is the defense budget:

other than massive corruption and unaccountable-for assets - the actual delivery of this budget is military intervention, occupation and war-mongering all over the world. Not to mention the danger of nuclear holocaust.

And - almost all members of the congress vote for these monstrosities. Here are the Senate results:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/16/moral-and-polit...

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

very few righteous people in Soddom, and even those - who knows how they would vote if their Nay actually had a chance to block the bill.
That's when IBM bought RedHat.
Read the first part of the comment:

> You can't really know this. This data is usually found in Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster tools, etc.

Before it used to be possible to get keyword data, but nowadays, it's impossible to get on your website. Only the search engine has this data and can provide it for you, no analytics platform can. In the best case, they can integrate with Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools to load the keyword data from them, but you can already see it there.
They even collaborated with the Excel team at Microsoft, including a quote on the announcement page from Excel’s Head of Product and participation from Microsoft in a recent livestream event.
The viable alternatives are too extreme for most people to stomach.
As a professor you're mostly working on trying to find funding, so being able to copy a 5 pound bill is a plus :)
It’s hard to blame it all on one class.

Littering was a social norm when these chemicals were invented. Even today, most Americans eat meat from factory farms, drive gas powered cars, and throw most trash in a landfill. Problems that will have to eventually be fixed.

If you’re born into this kind of society are you going to handicap yourself by holding yourself to a stricter set of rules than everyone else? The ‘yes’ and ‘no’s to that question don’t fall neatly into class lines.
sigh I moved all my projects (from Bitbucket and Github) to Gitlab.
Now it appears Gitlab is feeding its data to Google [1].

I do have a codeberg account so will consider moving my repositories again, although it's probably too late and has all been sucked up by Google already.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36445526
or just git init --bare
Played that game before myself. It's really, really hard! And it costs a lot of human effort and time to do right.
Something tells me they've changed their trash can build pipeline to microservices.
You need iodine.
Hang on, you mean people only buy things they can afford (or have the ability to get some sort of terrible finance deal on)?

I thought they went and robbed a couple of banks like I do.
That's a really curious policy. In my family I know of at one person who after an 18th birthday discovered they were adopted. People they thought as on unrelated were actually sisters and brothers etc. How would you square that up with Amazon's policy?

"friends" and "associates" is easy to square up and try and define. My business partner is obviously an associate, my neighbor I cook BBQ with is a friend. How would I know who is my relative? What defines relations?
You totally can, but it won't match users modern expectations.
Work that wouldn't be done in a free market
Why does it have to grow?

It can also be stagnant, which is totally acceptable as well.
Show HN: An open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor
Inspired by the design and UI/UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor.

Some features worth highlighting:

- Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets

- Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing)

- Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports)

- Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs

- Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when logged in)

- GPT-3.5 integration (only when logged-in with the corresponding extension installed)

Stack used: TipTap, Solid.js, HocusPocus, Fastify, tRPC.

Some notable drawbacks:

- No mobile support

- Collaboration available only between signed-in users, in the same workspace;

- I tried my best to support most common Markdown formatting, pasting and in-editor shortcuts, though there might still be room for improvement

- Self-hosting isn't easy right now, though you should be able to figure it out from the source code

The editor itself is a standalone app, extracted from the larger Vrite CMS project (https://github.com/vriteio/vrite) which you can also test out (only with sign-in) here: https://app.vrite.io/
> People falling into freezing water, dying, then being revived ours later comes to mind.

Except this doesn't exist, these people don't actually freeze, as in they never go bellow 0, most of them stay well above 0 actually. They're very different phenomenons

For example: https://jmedicalcasereports.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11...

> A 52-year-old Italian mountaineer, was trapped in a crevasse and rescued approximately 7 hours later by a professional rescue team.... His core temperature was 26.0 °C

or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bågenholm

> her body temperature decreased to 13.7 °C (56.7 °F), one of the lowest survived body temperatures ever recorded in a human with accidental hypothermia.
“Military spending is good for the economy” is basically the same as the broken window fallacy. There’s a massive opportunity cost
No butter or parmesan, just salt is perfect.
I encourage you to submit a coubterproposal! I'm sure you'd learn a ton about plane based trash cans.
Depends which civilians you're talking about.
They’re buying four trash cans at a time via a process that can take months of paperwork by the contractor. It’s simply not designed for such low volume scenarios.

It’s a bit like doing a custom PCB design and fabrication run for personal reasons. It’ll be $10 worth of components, but a half dozen might cost you $1k if you want someone else to set up a run on their machines to make ‘em.

The Stinger missile example further down seems more egregious. edit: Maybe less egregious than I thought; its original microprocessor is now obselete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger#Replacement
> Either you accept that not every person on the planet agrees upon which uses of energy are useful to them individually. Or you're basically saying "my opinion on which energy uses are legit and which aren't is the only one that matter"

Those are the only two options? How about the one where I agree with you that there are other massively wasteful energy activities out there but that fact is not an argument for tolerating them or allowing for more. Bitcoin is crazy wasteful compared with other financial tools which can do the same thing. You seem to be saying that because some people can drive giant trucks when really all they need is a small car or better yet take public transport, that you should be able (and without any criticism) be able to burn a mountain of energy to get a transfer added to a public ledger. You are both being wasteful and its not ok!
>It is absolutely trivial to show Hyp2 is false

No it's not

> Current LLMs can produce impressive results on a set of linguistic inputs and then fail completely on others that make trivial alterations to the same underlying domain.

>Indeed: because there're no relevant prior cases to sample from in that case.

That's not what that tells us. Humans have weird failure modes that look absurd outside the context of evolutionary biology (some still look absurd) and that don't speak to any lack or presence of intelligence or complex thought. Not sure why it's so hard to grasp that LLMs are bound to have odd failure modes regardless of the above.

and trivial here is relative. In my experience, "trivial" often turns out to be trivial in the way a person may not pay close attention to and be similarly tricked.

For instance, GPT-4 might solve a classic puzzle correctly then fail the same puzzle subtlety changed.
I've found more often than not, simply changing names of variables in the puzzle to something completely different can get it to solve the changed puzzle. It takes memory shortcuts but can be pulled out of that.
LLMs have failure modes that look like human failure modes too.
The traditional response is “over-specification” with a coffee pot on a commercial airliner needing to be certified against becoming a dangerous missile in the event of a plane crash (shatter, break, etc).

Yes, it may be that the trash can or plastic had to be certified against breaking in a weird way since it’s a military plane and you don’t want plastic shrapnel in your soldiers (or whatever).

It _could_ be that Boeing made 100 trash cans, threw away the mold, and had to re-make the mold in order to fulfill the order for 4 more trash cans.

If not Boeing, potentially _their_ trash can supplier threw away the mold and you end up with the same price.

So there MAY be a reasonable explanation, but it seems very egregious that the “before” and “after” prices are so dramatically different.
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk 'dead serious' about cage fight, says UFC boss
> We can absolutely have a logical conversation.

Maybe. But definitely not with the average westerner whose knowledge of China is from mainstream media.

Let me ask you this. When was the last time you read something positive about China in the mainstream media? If you can remember, how many negative stories to positive stories?

1.4 billion people and not a single good thing happens there, according to mainstream western media.
Please just stop with the "extras". Focus on your core thing and make it cheaper. Literally all I want.
Here's someone trying to evolve the industry to be more worker and environmentally friendly.

https://terraformcoldbrew.com/
it is not only perpetrators but also benefactors that (pre-)tend to be blind of conspiracy.

it is not only actual benefactors but also those who are misled to believe they benefit from some conspiracy that turn a blind eye to conspiracy.

does the man who weaves a fishing net not know what it is used for?

does the man who makes boats not know what it will be used for?

does the man who makes fisherman's clothes not know what it will be used for?

The spectrum of conspiracies has a treacherously gentle, slow and long tail.

The truth is that groupthink encourages us to treat actual conspiracies as banal.

"If the target isn't me, I don't believe in or care about the conspirational nature of supposed conspiracy."
>At 12.5B, they are just paying up the people that can prove they now have cancer because of ridiculous exposure levels.

Probably not even that.
Maybe being featured on HN attracts more developers now?

You seem to consider this important, maybe you could volunteer?
That's also a story about a western cyber attack. Unproven, uncertain, definitely a story, and given the address involved, definitely western.
I got cancelled by PayPal for arbitrary "we can't tell you" reasons. I'm already a pariah. I can't send money to my friends (especially internationally), can't commission artwork (because people use PayPal), can't buy stuff with protection online...
Not sure about IG, but my FB account has a yubikey.

The only tag was the brand of the bag
> If their AI uses my code as the basis to generate similar code, how is that not a derivative work?

How would you know the LLM used your work specifically and then prove that in court?
There was a major incident with nuclear weapons caused by pillows on a B52 catching fire:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash
What specifically do you find to be untrue?
I'd welcome your contrary explanation if you have one handy.
The "failure modes" in humans do not show we lack the capacity.

Eg., do you have capacity to reason about physics? Well if you're extremely drunk, less so. But not if I permute the name of the object.

> I've found more often than not, simply changing names of variables

Yes, lol --- why do you think that is?

Because in the digitised dataset of "everything ever written" those names correspond to places in that dataset that can be sampled from by the LLM. Showing Hyp1 to be the case.

P(Hyp1| ChangeNameMakesDifference) >>>>>> P(Hyp2|ChangeNameMakesDifference)

To such a degree that the latter is vanishingly close to zero.
I'm not sure about that. Python was a good 20 years old when it became mainstream
For the USA I've found that Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and Best Buy together satisfy much of my "need that free shipping on cheaply made shit" desire.

You do still have to watch out for marketplace items on some of them. And if it really IS direct-from-China why not go to eBay or Alibaba?
Yeah even the cup measurement itself varies. It's sometimes 250mL and sometimes 236mL and sometimes 227mL.
Salt corrodes stuff
those have even raw div's then.

...
</div>
<div id="sitemap-2" class="yui3-u-1-2 first">
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It won't stutter because the actual animation is done by the browser CSS engine.

await is only used to build the non-blocking timeline: Think keyframes, not frames.
I unironically have no issue with racists being locked out of their homes. Perhaps with the doorbell robot giving them sarcastic responses to their pleas.
Read the comment I'm replying to. People aren't buying Dacia instead of Volkswagen because Dacia is better, people are buying Dacia because most of Europe is poor.
Generative Grammar
Illegality of the invasion is not akin to a commitment of defense from the US. I am more concerned with what the US' legal obligation is to Ukraine. There is no reason to dump money into the country if we don't have a legal obligation. It's more akin to insanity.

If the US is legally obligated to provided funding only due to the Budapest Memorandum, I understand. Short of that it makes little sense considering how the US already refuses to pay its debt. It's selling out its position in the world for almost no gain.
It was a tradition long before that.
Project: Voronoi Mosaics
It's also disturbing that they might be tracking who your friends and family are even though you never told them.
That article appears to be talking about the type of bags and wrappers you get from fast food joints. I don't think a standard "brown paper bag" contains PFAS.
Not bad at all. CCP is handling the game well, modernizing the client, UI etc. It's in a pretty good state. But it's also not so much different from what it was 10 years ago. Playing extremly casual these days though, maybe once a week I log in and do a site or something. It's just so relaxing, almost zen, worth the subscription for me. Happy this is still going.
If only everyone paid their fair share!
Yep, though currently they are not even very cheap used, right now a used Panda year 2021 with low mileage (10-20,000 km) is around 12,000-13,000 Euro.

A 2019 one with relatively low mileage (50,000 to 60,000 km, maybe 70,000 km) is likely to be in the 9,000-10,000 Euro range.

I wouldn't however attribute the scarcity exclusively to high demand, for all we know it could simply be under-production (for whatever technical reason or as part of a plan to sell higher priced models).
GitHub publish a transparency report where they reveal how many of these requests they processed.

https://github.blog/tag/github-transparency-report/

> In 2022, GitHub received and processed 432 requests to disclose user information, as compared to 335 in 2021. Of those 432 requests, 274 were subpoenas (with 265 of those subpoenas being criminal or from government agencies and 9 being civil), 97 were court orders, and 22 were search warrants.

Concerning national security letters:

> We’re very limited in what we can legally disclose about national security letters and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders. We report information about these types of requests in ranges of 250, starting with zero. As shown below, we received 0–249 notices from July to December 2022, affecting 250–499 accounts.
Ansible Semaphore – a modern open-source UI for Ansible
> It keeps people employed, ...

What fraction of that $50k landed in the hands of the workers, do you think?
It is apparently called anastrophe, but yes it is correct but not common. I figured it's a hold over from Germanic sentence structures. As far as I can think of really it's only ever used in this type of sentence "something... Does not a adjective make"

Gpt4 seems to think it has no relation to Germanic roots of the language but my gut tells me there's probably no way this ordering finds it's way to English without that history

https://chat.openai.com/share/0c9a56d5-75e3-493f-96b2-2ac3a8...
Neat, thanks, did not know about this!
CAT=CT
If you want a 4x space strategy game with a enterprise business software UI, then I'd recommend Aurora 4X. It's a great way to feel like a galactic bureaucrat.

Forum: https://aurora2.pentarch.org/

Wiki: https://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php

Video (previous version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xhUGGEnJcU
Bad example, JLCPCB will do PCBA for just a few dollars.
The native Web Animations API supports this with setting currentTime relative to the total duration.
So a “bypass probation” ID-only queue.
The Unlikely Story of UTF-8
Subs use Xbox controllers to control the periscope because they found that the controllers were far more intuitive to learn and operate.
Amazon is a large entity with complex processes. Firing one of the people involved in implementing those processes does not make things better for users or affect how much power Amazon has in the situation.