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Ask HN: Raspberry Pi 4G/LTE SIM for business use?
For a project (business, not personal) I want to purchase a SIM card with service in the U.S. (global would be nice)

I see tons of fly-by-night IoT SIM card sellers but it's very hard to determine which ones are trustworthy, and most of them seem targeted at very low levels of data usage. Many of them charge for usage, which could easily end up costing thousands per month unexpectedly.

I really just want something similar to what is easy to purchase for consumers: unlimited LTE service up to some reasonable amount (30-50-100 GB/mo) which is then throttled to 2G speeds after exceeding that amount.

But I want to purchase it on behalf of a company and not worry about issues related to using it in an always-on capacity.

Is the solution just to sign up for Google Fi or similar with a company account? Or is there a service that offers similar service that I can sign up for?
"Our report indicates that we don't have resources to provide definitive answers and we need more resources" - The report

With political acumen like that they will quickly have the best run UAP program in the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5zEb1oS9A
> Moderately more expensive

This bill hurts the poorest people by making certain products even more inaccessible to them. Before, they could at least have a choice between something they could afford and something repairable. Not anymore, that choice has been taken away from them.
Tech valuations are all fairies and unicorns right now. I don’t know what their “actual fundamentals” valuation should be, but actual fundamentals haven’t dictated tech stock pricing for at least a decade.
42488.2.f already mentions limitations in the bill to prevent overriding anti-theft.

They could have extended that to include anti-piracy or anti-cheat or cryptographic pairing, but they didn't. They created a specific carve out for video game consoles and not for those other things you mentioned.

When the government uses words generically to define its compelling interest to regulate, they are usually sincere. When the government uses words to protect an industry explicitly, they usually have been bought.
ARM uses a mix patents, copyright and trade secret protections for their ISA. The give you the RTL/vhdl/verilog for the core when you license it and they forbid you from changing the core in the license agreement to use it.

You can clean room implement the trade secret part, but the patents would be an issue and ARM could still sue and drag things out.

You also could never legally call it ARM because it's trademarked. This makes it harder for semiconductor vendors to sell chips.

See the Qualcomm lawsuit shitshow which is now causing Qualcomm to invest big in RISCV.
So what you really want to do is subsidize _managers_ who can't?
That's a good observation – it aligns with why we have vintage personal computers that have comparatively large battery lives on relatively low-powered power sources. The TRS-80 Model 100 had 20 hours of active use on 4 AAs, the eMate had up to 28 hours on 4 AAs as well. I imagine the difference is due to both limited displays, lack of networking beyond serial and POTS modems, etc.
Interesting, I didn't know that. Why would Intel do that?

What is the legal interpretation of IP law that says you need permission to design a chip that implements an ISA?
Does this apply to general purpouse computers such as the PS3? (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS)
Absolutely not. I can write a score where 16 people each strike a xylophone note at the same instant. I pick xylophone because it's a very sharp transient, and in theory the performers could perform so well that it's literally one attack. If that's not enough, make a XM file with 16 channels and guarantee that they'll all be the same attack, or run a modular synth and some mults and trigger it off the rise time of a clock pulse, no computer involved.

Midi has to fire all the notes one at a time. You cannot represent even everything represented by a score through MIDI because it's serial and sends one message at a time. Stretch that out to 16 sharp clicky attacks and you'll notice that MIDI cannot fire them all at once, it'll blur.
They don't just hold the patents, but actively develop the ISA / designs too.

ARM doesn't have a big enough moat to stay static and just troll. There are competing ISAs, some free, and there isn't as big of an lock-in as for e.g. x86.
Full interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++ [video]
That's also not how logic works, if you want to claim that this measure was successful you need to offer convincing evidence in favor of that. The benefit of the doubt doesn't go to failed war on drugs policies.
It makes less sense. Video game consoles typically run 5-10 year cycles. If anything, supporting repair on them should be easier, because you can play the same games on the console at very first release as you can on the console sold right before they discontinue them. PCs and phones get updates yearly, and a 10 year old PC certainly can't play the same games as a brand new one.
"This decade" only has 6 1/2 years left to run. (Maybe 7 1/2, depending on where you put 2030.) So, that's a bit closer than it sounds.
Adding to this, the IP's mentioned are mostly Youtube, OpenStreetMap and maybe Netflix. 1e100 can be in front of user contributed content for repositories but it would help to see what inodes are opening that connection. Malware is often boot-strapped on public repositories these days.

102.115.120.34.bc.googleusercontent.com.
123.208.120.34.bc.googleusercontent.com.
141.128-27.179.104.184.in-addr.arpa.
fra15s46-in-f2.1e100.net.
fra24s05-in-f2.1e100.net.
fra24s06-in-f8.1e100.net.
fra24s07-in-f10.1e100.net.
fra24s11-in-f4.1e100.net.
spike-08.openstreetmap.org.
zrh04s06-in-f130.1e100.net.

The only two not entirely clear are the googleusercontent unless that is just Youtube. Only 1 IP is in a blocklist.

voipbl.netset:34.120.208.123
A union is like insurance in a situation like this. By the time you need it, it's too late. You needed it to keep things from degrading to that point.
100% true - find a friend or good online resource. A lot of the workforce is just repackaged contractors. There are many good ones -- but their model is still built on needing to sell more solar and you need to know what you are buying.
> Surely you don't need anything from them to design a chip from scratch that implements the same instruction set, as Cyrix and AMD famously did to the ia32.

Cyrix and AMD got (cross-)licenses from Intel:

* https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000119312509236...

* https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/amd-clar...

This has been true since the very beginning:

> Early 1980s--IBM chooses Intel's so-called x86 chip architecture and the DOS software operating system built by Microsoft. To avoid overdependence on Intel as its sole source of chips, IBM demands that Intel finds it a second supplier.

* https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/intel-and-amd-a-long...

* https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/intel-and-the-x86-archit...

The reverse engineering happened with Compaq doing the BIOS:

* https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/how-compaqs-clone-comp...

This was a major plot point in AMC's (very good) show Halt and Catch Fire:

* https://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/05/the-incredibl...

* https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/05/review-halt-and-catch...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series...
I like adjustable height desks to fine tune them for sitting ergonomics. Just have a manual one.

I never stand and work a keyboard.

The chair is where I put all my money.
This has already proven to be wrong, imho. There's numerous Wayland versions of popular niche X11 WMs, for example the way sway is a Wayland implementation of i3, and some exciting new experiments (like scrolling tiling WMs) that never really existed on X11.

It's usually a lot easier to make a compositor/WM with unusual or innovative behavior on the Wayland stack than it was with X11 in general, as far less behavior is presumed/baked-into either the display server or the existing applications. For example, apps not being able to introspect or manipulate their global coordinates also means the compositor can arrange them however it wants without breaking app assumptions, which enables fancy new layouts.

There's prominent libraries that make compositor development easier, for example wlroots and QtWayland -- XFCE is also using wlroots. "Punt it to a library" isn't radically different from "punt it to Xorg", even if the slicing is a little different.

The tail looks alive and well.
AKA the John Deere exception.

FFS, Deere's egregious behavior is a large part of the push for RTR legislation.

Disappointing, if not unsurprising.
> HVDC transmission losses are quoted at 3.5% per 1,000 km (620 mi)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_curren

> The Changji-Guquan ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission line in China is the world’s first transmission line operating at 1,100kV voltage. The transmission line traverses for a total distance of 3,324km and is capable of transmitting up to 12GW of electricity.

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/projects/changji-guquan-uhv...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-voltage_electricity...

Losses can be compensated for with...more renewable generation.

(note that the above distance is roughly the distance across Europe east-west, distance across the US is a bit more, but you don't need to pull east coast generation all the way to west coast load centers or vice versa)
Wow. I thought the above comment was hyperbole. But it’s quite literal
Yes, there are already a number of products that Californians just don’t have access to, for their “protection”. I imagine this bill will further reduce the quality of life for Californians.
Only a few licensees are capable of designing their own core from scratch. Most customers are licensing some form of reference design.
You need a vector db because all the vector db companies need customers...

You definitely do need information retrieval. It just shouldn't be limited to vector dbs. Unfortunately vector db companies and the VCs that back them have flooded the internet with propaganda suggesting vector db is the only choice.
https://colinharman.substack.com/p/beware-tunnel-vision-in-a...

For most serious use cases, you'll have far too much data to fit into 1 (or several) inference contexts.
> And I can't believe males and females of 21st century still fall for this*

*In the USA.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

> 42488.2. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, every manufacturer of an electronic or appliance product with a wholesale price to the retailer, or to others outside of direct retail sale

This only affects manufacturers who sell wholesale. Is this intended as a proxy for a manufacturer's ability to comply with this law? It seems that any large manufacturer who wishes to not comply simply has to stop using wholesale prices, though I'm not sure how feasible that is.
No, not new. If I recall correctly, Snowden approved of it back in roughly 2017(?)
They are clearly different if you look at them side by side.

Of course, if a document comes with one of them, I certainly wouldn't be able to tell you which one it is. But they are certainly not the same.
Is the real problem that this is retroactive? ie if you are a 5 year old game on steam using unity with minimal ongoing sales now you are incentivized to just remove it from sale altogether?
It's not a guilty vs innocent thing. It's a proof of provenance thing. It's not even remotely new. If you're in a patent or copyright dispute, being able to "show your work" has always been the strongest way to demonstrate provenance in court.
It's probably too little too late for Mordor at this point.

We can try taking Sauron to court?
>Wayland proper is a protocol specification. By it itself, it's completely inert and it's all up to an implementation.

Wayland should have shipped with a default implementation that had screen sharing, recording, clipboard and everything else that x11 had by default. The fact that they've thrown all that responsibility on DEs without so much as a HOWTO on how to reach parity is ridiculous. I will never understand why anyone took their effort seriously.
my only concern with this exception is it creates a monopoly, which then needs to be carefully regulated at multiple levels.

Yes, we can regulate the price, but if only the original vendor can perform repairs we might also need to regulate quality and timeliness (similar to how lemon laws for cars often specificy a maximum number of repair attempts, or hours away from the owner for repairs, before the vehicle must be refunded).

I think it’s an okay approach, but I also think it requires a heavier hand from the government, and from ongoing oversight, than letting the market figure out reasonable rates for a repair.
I think it depends on how you define that. People were quite happy with HMM-based MIDI generators that could generate Beethoven- or Mozart-like sequences 10, maybe even 15 or 20 years ago. But of course other people pointed out the problems of it being boring eventually. Then LSTMs improved long-term dependencies and people were impressed by the improved quality of generating whole musical pieces. But still others thought it was not good enough. Then the goalposts moved again with transformers and neural vocoders and now we want top-40 direct audio generation. And these latest systems can kind of sort of do it! But still there are people who demand better. And so on, things will continue to improve.

Progress only moves as fast as expectations, and expectations move with technology. Music is not special in this respect. So you could say at any given time in the past that some people "see meaningfully high quality" and others are disappointed. You see exactly both these sides of the spectrum even now with text-to-image and text-to-audio technology.
Yeah, just encountered those on a road trip and wondered how they were legal. Was right on the Cali/Oregon border for a couple of days and those checkpoints were also only sporadicly staffed, so I don't understand the point anyways.
He gives away a lot of game assets resources. Every game developer has been helped by this .
I would add to this that people who make statements like the parent did are woefully ignorant of how the industry really works. Board producers rarely design the entire PCB. PCB designers rarely produce the board. Chip designers rarely produce their chips. Chip producers often do some portion of the design process. And on and on.

Computing is a complex business and few companies do everything in house. ARM's business model of focusing solely on the IP seems to have worked well for them. From the engineering side, it's certainly nice to have the ability to pick and choose which IP blocks we'd like to use and then shop around the design ourselves versus having to battle with Intel to get what we need while trying to poke through the various layers of obfuscation they tend to put in place.
Unless they’ve walked it back, they even seem to be claiming that pirated installs will count. How is that even legal? It’s certainly not moral.
New spider species named after Star Trek characters: Kirk, Spock and McCoy
There may be a security advantage to using a separate non-bypassable network appliance that puts your traffic on Tor, since then it would be much harder to break into a Tails machine and make it leak your location. However, given that it's meant to be easy to use, I think they probably picked the right balance by having the Tor redirecting occur in the same address space as the computing environment.
It is NASA though. So, more like “Plz ask the defense budget guys if they have any money between their couch cushions.”
Intel licensed x86 to provide a credible second source, which they needed for some of their early business deals.
If anyone replying to this needs you to define ISA for them, their input isn't very useful.
Wait, what? Was this in the US? I've never heard of or seen this, I don't think. Got a picture of an example?
I heard that's what market exchanges are supposed to be doing. /s
Thousands of people live in a zip code, while hundreds and thousands of people live in a city. We are literally giving away that data for free through our API and database. The creepiness of IP geolocation is mostly a meme.

IP geolocation is mainly used in cybersecurity and marketing analytics. There are many ways to geolocate someone. I once came across a project that could estimate the country a user is from based on their writing style and grammar mistakes. For example, American people sometimes use "should of" instead of "should have". Knowing the geolocation of an IP address isn't super creepy. It's just how things work on the internet.
If energy is like money, demand will always increase to be just slightly over supply.
Swimming 5-10k a day in your (presumably) 60s/70s is intense! This is comparable to how much an average college team would swim.
Is this satire? If someone walks their dog past your office and you can see their testicles does someone have the job of blocking the view for all the employees?
The problem is that every parser and emitter needs to be aware of these weird and changing rules. It wouldn't be that bad if the only things that read HTML were browsers but as it is every language has HTML parsers that are broken different ways leading to bugs and security vulnerabilities.

For example emitters need to know what void elements are because <br></br> is actually equivalent to`<br><br>`. But `<script src=foo.js/>` is only an opening tag so the rest of your document will be executed as JavaScript. So you can't just write an emitter for arbitrary elements, you need to emit different things for `br` and `script`. Plus `script` has special escaping rules that are often forgotten about. Plus you better keep that list up to date!

With XHTML it is very easy to write a parser that will construct a tree forever and can reserialize it with no issues. I have no issues with consistent changes such as empty attributes and unquoted attribute values, but I think that these element insertion, auto-closing, void elements and non-replaceable character data are a mistake because you need to maintain an up-to-date dataset of these custom rules or you get an incorrect result.
That sounds super interesting. How does it work?
Whose perspective are you asking from? From the employee side, no, little job protection and few rights, no maternity or paternity leave, few holidays etc.

From an employers perspective it is probably different because of all those things mentioned above.
It seems like a growing number of things once referred to as Linux distributions are now referring to themselves as operating systems. If the kernel is Linux, and the user-space is GNU, what makes this a distinct operating system from, say, SUSE, or Arch?
She's not wrong. There are too many white scientists (statistically) and STEM graduates.
Didn't we already do this with desktop software and stock images ages ago? Speculatively a comment on the Adobe says that The Type Founders is private equity backed. That makes sense if they are trying to capture revenue that has been forgone out of license management difficulties. Once they prove the legalities and revenue stream, sell it to Adobe or IPO.

Nobody likes to hear it, but I think there is an opportunity for blockchain here.

Like any piece of software, fonts are licensed for specific uses. The kind of license you need is determined by how you will be using the fonts and what you will be using them to create. [...]

A web license lets you serve the fonts on a website and use them as live, dynamic text via HTML and @font-face CSS. The cost is determined by the specific fonts licensed, the approximate number of monthly page views the websites using the fonts receive, and the length of the license in years.

https://www.marksimonson.com/info/purchasing
Yeah, I could see that. It’s not common and the tooling is primitive. Same thing I would say about event sourcing. Great in theory, but it’s more likely to get your average team into trouble.
The trillion dollar behemoth famous for having few models can afford to stock parts for seven years. Can Motorola, or the smartphone or laptop arm of Lenovo (industries with famously low margins) justify staying in the space and competing with Apple?
A Mastodon Client for PalmOS
The ISA isn't very useful IMO, outside of the compiler framework.

The crux of modern chip design is the tradeoff in MHz, peculiarities of Tomasulo's Algorithm (out of order buffers, tuning sizes and number of pipelines, etc. etc.).

Lets take an example: should you have 200 64-bit words in the reorder buffer, or should you have 800 (Apple M2). What's the tradeoffs? How much slower does accessing the reorder buffer get when you need to go from 8-bits to 10-bits to address the various locations?

How many multiplication units should you have? I know Intel has 3 of them per core, is that enough? Or do you go IBM Power route and go for like 20 pipelines wide?

Etc. etc. etc.

ARM Neoverse N2 makes a lot of these decisions, packages them up into an easy moniker ("General Purpose"), and also has customizations towards V-cores (higher performance but bigger) vs E-cores (lower-performance but smaller and more power-efficient).

You then make decisions based off of the core as a whole, rather than designing a core. Ex: do you use 128kB of L1 cache? Or 64kB? Do you do L1 / L2 / L3 cache like Intel? Or do you do L1 / L2 cache like Apple?

You still need to make these "uncore" decisions, including the important MESI (core-to-core communications: Modified data vs Exclusive data vs Shared data vs Invalid data). Even _IF_ you buy an off-the-shelf core like Neoverse N2, you're no where close to finishing an actual chip yet cause the darn thing can't even talk to RAM yet.
Well the point of internet is provide abundance to everyone at every price point and product category. Initially it was only about information and now it is about good products and services. Ads help in that. Not every small niche product has physical store in every city or has an app, listing on Amazon doesn't properly convey the worth of their products to new buyers. Physically seeing products is not necessary because you can always return it if not satisfied.

Consider another area where recommendation results in ecommerce like activity. Food delivery apps. One could say why not visit the restaurant and eat there. Through delivery apps, I come to know about new items / cuisines, restaurants, their reviews and buy them. In fact the situation is far more worse in delivery apps because you can't return a food item once tasted. Not so with other category of products like clothings, etc.

I feel like Benedicts Evans should make a primer on why ads exists and how better ads could serve society.
Climate change also disrupt ecosystems. Tradeoffs have to be made, and blocking everything doesn't mean things stay the way they are. It means continued CO2 emissions, higher energy costs and housing shortage. Rooftop solar, while a good thing, is more expensive to install and not enough to replace fossil fuels.
Not having these carve-outs would force some local manufacturing know-how.

And solve some of the major
garbage issues of our times.

Of course the billwriters couldn’t push for a later timeframe for those “exceptions” rather than an outright pass.
I think you have to understand that to your friend and a large number of people wearing a mask isn't hurting him.
Pegasus is classified as a weapon and Israel is supposed to vet each contract, this has been discussed extensively here. If Russia is not the buyer in this case, then I am curious to hear suggestions about whom they could be instead.
bah. the sub-par outcome is they broke compatibility with everyone and then claimed it was every man / DE for themselves.