skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having options of places to go to pay essentially the same price doesn’t feel fine to me. We’ve got four major chains within a 5 minute drive and two very small independents, and the prices at the chains are all within a few percent of each other unless you want to mix and match each week for the various items on sale. This would normally mean that the market had found the equilibrium price that eliminates excess profits but, like our telecom industry, there are record profits. The variety of options is just for show, masking the inherent price fixing by the oligopoly.
Why so much?
Is there any aggregation of near misses? How often do things like this happen?
For some reason, “I think Apple does this too” always comes up in the discussions about Microsoft forcing online accounts within Windows.

MacOS doesn’t do this. Accounts are machine local. iCloud integration is an optional layer on top. Always has been. Nothing has changed.

Maybe give the OS a try before assuming Apple is following all the same antipatterns just because they also happen to fall into the category of “big tech”.
A large fraction of Canadians lives where it's legal and practical to grow chickens. Rabbits are even easier.
I just hope we walk before we try to run. It feels like Mastodon has been given a colossal opportunity and it feels like it’s being completely squandered.

I trust that Space Jerk will give Mastodon a very long opportunity window but the sooner the better.

Maybe revolution is a good idea and I’m completely wrong. But I still find Mastodon so frustrating and unreliable that I am just not on social media at all now.
> There’s nothing we can do to get Amazon to fix this

It might be easier to get publishers to fix this. Not all publishers use DRM on books sold by Amazon (Tor is a notable example). Books not encumbered with DRM can be used by alternative apps.
I think (and have been saying this a bunch lately) that he's right about ActivityPub and Mastodon, and that "a universal timeline" is actually a really good way to put words to it. I was a Mastodon hater for years, but having used it for the past month or so with an actual community of people (really: the whole community I interacted with on Twitter before), I have to admit it: the ActivityPub people were right about this. It's easy to see the potential, and how it pulls in the writing we were all doing before there was Twitter while keeping most of what Twitter was good for too.

I'm expecting this to be the second-dumbest thing I ever predicted badly (I dismissed MP3s, too!)
I jumped to macOS 20-odd years ago, mostly out of frustration with the build quality of Windows laptops and the endless PITA experience of Windows itself. Figured the resale value of Apple laptops made it a minimal risk.

Bought a Lenovo laptop the other year and installed Ubuntu. Thoroughly meh experience there, really disappointed. But then I found KDE, and it’s my main dev environment now.

If Lenovo could come out with a laptop with the build quality of Mac, running a KDE environment integrated with their new Lenovo phone, I think they’d stand a very good chance of going head-to-head with Apple.
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> Space Karen

> billionaire bozo

> comparisons to his Mother's death

Yeah, I had a hard time getting through it. At least, I don't get the point the author is trying to make.

Is this really a surprise given the direction social data has gone in the past decade or so? APIs will only remain public as long as they are useful.

Elon sees an upside to making the API at twitter more private, in order to maintain control over Twitter's direction. You can argue as much as you want for, or against this, but don't add noise and make me rake through it.
Micro blog supports ActivityPub

https://help.micro.blog/t/mastodon-and-activitypub/95
Great post. I hope we see a multitude of new clients for Mastodon. In the meantime, if you're someone like me that is dipping their feet into Mastodon but isn't ready to leave Twitter fully yet, then you might be interested in a browser extension I developed[0] which puts Mastodon posts in your Twitter timeline.

[0] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-chirper/l...
Currently only 2009 LinkNYCs, according to https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Social-Services/LinkNYC-Map/tg...

My assumption is that these kiosks log all wifi and bluetooth traffic from nearby persons and vehicles, and USB device IDs of anything plugged in for charging. And of course the new ones will be logging 5G signals as well. Maybe there's not yet a centralized effort to coordinate these logs with the camera feeds to map people's physical appearance to their electronic footprints, but I can't imagine it isn't somewhere on the roadmap.
I recently got into mixology and I've grown to despise the alcohol monopoly(s) in Canada.

Paying 20-25% more per bottle than Americans is something you get used to but it repeatedly sucks to watch bartending youtube or read books and not being able to make something because it's not sold in Ontario. Quebec is slightly better (the french know how to drink) - but even there if you want to buy Yellow Chartreuse, which is in a ton of cocktails, you need to basically own a bar + a liquor license to get access to the full inventory.

There's a million small details that make living in America easier (and way cheaper). Especially when you're into any niche hobby. /rant
“Song of the South” is a full-length Disney film and the first to mix live action with animation. One might think with that historic meaning, it would be preserved.

But it’s impossible to find. Even eBay has banned sale of the DVD.

Fortunately I have a copy my father ripped to DVD from some unknown source sometime in the 90s. It’s poor quality.
If you download the books for an old Kindle that doesn’t support KFX, can you get a crackable file?
It's not really wrong but myth carries a strong something that isn't true suggestion. Something like mythos would probably be a better word.
I didn’t know this. When you say they were carved out, you mean carved out from being forced to allow other NAFTA member companies from entering the market at all? Or exempt from having to ensure anti-trust approval would meet international standards?
When can I buy a rejuvenation treatment?
Nobody cares enough about me to target me, and I don't run Windows. That excludes like 99.99% of possibilities.

Android, on the other hand... I have installed apps I didn't know much about, and that store is full of malware, so I have no idea.
Albert Einstein on How to Become the Best Researcher in the World
I see that now after re-reading. You meant the other browser developers could add this. I first took it as saying websites could add it with some input attribute. My mistake.
I think the legal position is that only data access requires a warrant, not data retention. The in.es.ā. argues this, local police don't have that access - they buy things like location data on the private market though
Why Canadians pay much more and have access to less than Americans despite living in a country that is 95% culturally, economically, and politically identical to the US, I do not know. I didn't fully understand the disparity until I read the amazing stories in a /r/canada discussion. victorn72's account <http://np.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1ueai3/why_are_our_pr...> caused my jaw to drop open.
Is there a physical limit to how many digits of pi can ever be computed/represented in the universe?

For example, let’s say we need one atom for each digit of pi that we want to store, the max limit of digits of pi would be something like the total number of atoms in the universe, minus the atoms required to compute and store the digits.

Has that been studied/calculated?
> how their work ethics share the same ability to resist deformation as their play habits

"We work hard, we play hard" in case anyone missed it :-)
I would like to support dreambooth, if there is a way to store the fine-tuned models more efficiently. The challenge is that each trained model is quite large and a bunch of models can't fit into one gpus memory at once.
Some rando backlink checker says it's about 1300.
Hahah, I do try not to dive into eigenfunctions when talking about this, but it is so compelling. Love seeing that exposition :)
Now that they can no longer dismiss it as conspiracy theories, the "free press" is trying to dismiss state-corporate collusion on censorship as something that is routine.

> no one involved in the selection and analysis of the internal communications appears to have any familiarity with (let alone expertise in) how social media and tech platforms are moderated or run.

They didn't have familiarity with it because Twitter was hiding it, and it took essentially a hostile takeover for their practices to come to light.

That social media is crawling with intelligence agents [1] and e.g. kept secret US government influence campaigns [2] is, according to what can now accurately be called regime media, so profoundly uninteresting it's barely worth mention.

[1] https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/facebook-twitter-stocked-with-...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-...
Wasavi – Vi editor for any webpage
I try to stay away from browser extensions as much as I can, it will only bloat my browser even further. Firefox + Tampermonkey should be enough in my case.

Is there anything a browser extension can do that Tampermonkey cannot?
In large systems an enormous amount of energy and dev time is wasted in trying to maintain staging/dev environments. Accepting that they won't ever be the same and building out tooling for safe testing/rollouts in prod is a far better use of resources
Microsoft returns to the Altair
Ask HN: Where do small and midcap tech stocks go from here?
2022 was brutal for tech stocks across the board, but especially for the likes of HOOD, COIN, SQ, to name a few.

Where do you think they go from here and why?
Windows 11 pro doesnt require an ms account, you can create a local account.
They were always exempt from competition. We also didn't bother to open them up as a part of NAFTA, CETA, Canada-SK, etc.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co...

Grocery itself has more competition than the rest (thank you Walmart), which is why you gotta be careful when making US shopping trips. I've found rice, oils, canned beans/tomatoes, carrots, bananas, potatoes, onions all cheaper in Canada.

And every year, I get more and more non-perishable grocery stuff from Amazon.ca

Fun fact: Canadians can import non-prescription meds by mail, officially up to 90d supply (so I address it to "Family Scoundreller"), so I cruise ebay for a lot of that stuff.
> petulant and juvenile

Who does that remind you of?
People are definitely choosing cheaper alternatives where I live. Prices of pasta and ground meat have gone up 20-40%. Meanwhile prices for better cuts of meat, salmon and seafood are stagnant. I don't doubt that at least a part of this difference is because people are choosing cheaper foods.
Thanks! I’m happy to answer questions if you have any: Stephen at bate-man.com.

It’s a bit of a Wild West right now so there are very few resources. I just started building a couple tools using the shortcuts app (it comes with a builder GUI).

The system is more powerful than it looks. You can pull HTML from pages, grab all the links, do for each loops, if statements, variables, etc.

the biggest drawbacks are (1) the UI in the shortcuts app is targeted at non-developers and (2) not all features are supported on older devices and (3) you can’t issue “updates”, so once you share a shortcut it’s just out there and (4) people don’t usually have context for what a shortcut is.

But in exchange you get instant, one-click install without an approval process. It’s pretty cool!
Sure, there will be groups of people who are doing that. But to commute 200km a day? That will be something like 0.0001% of all workers, I cannot imagine it's any more than that.
Would be interesting to know why they made this change, the link doesn't really explain it.
This isn't true.

What is true is that if you want users to be able to just download and run (rather than download, run an obscure command, and then run your software), you have to pay Apple to notarize your builds.

Fuck Apple for this.
I believe you when you say you understand, but your first sentence was "If you can download it from arxiv, it is published." Which is precisely what GP was responding to.

Furthermore, this thread started with someone complaining about the lack of polish which the publication process can provide.
Maybe, but this isn't elementary school stuff. It's complicated. To really understand it requires some knowledge of law, business, finance, human psychology, math and history. There is a good reason it's so misunderstood.
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident

https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/statistics/

https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:93:::NO:::
You could consider contacting lawyers to explore accommodations under the ADA.
Twitter has been crippling their API long before "Space Hilter" took over.

https://tidbits.com/2018/08/20/twitter-cripples-third-party-...
The really nice thing about the nix-shell example is I can specify external python dependencies within the script itself, and even the python version itself, all within one file, and nix-shell just takes care of it.
My biggest fear is that aging can actually be stopped and humans live forever. Reason:

1. The putins of our world will never die naturally. They will die only by force.

2. According to Max Planck, scientific progress will stop, because science makes progress funeral by funeral.
The incentive would be to act as a dumb pipe, which absolved telecom providers from liability pre-230. (And still does today for unmoderated communications services)
They are lower, but they are certainly not low, and are still the highest in the G20, IIRC.

It’s embarrassing, and the sale of Shaw to Rogers is only going to make things worse.
Fair enough, I should have looked before I added the snark - upvoted cause fun response. But the rest of my comment stands, I do think they selectively disclosed and working in PR would know they were doing so.
I used to say, "'Beej', like 'B.J. Hunnicutt' from MASH."

But MASH is getting a little too far removed these days. :)
Yep. Firefox is my browser, but their add-on story is garbage.
Not sure how it is for others, but for me tapbot Tweetbot is working again since today; is the API back up?
There is Reason who runs a successful biotech company, and his corpus of writing at https://fightaging.org

His commentary on new papers in ageing is pretty good, in my opinion.

He has a good coverage of NIA ITP trials as well: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Afightaging.org+NIA&ia=web
Yep, that’s it!
Effectively both. NAFTA and other trade agreements often let foreign corps initiate trade decisions that normally only a government could invoke.

TransCanada is doing that against the US Gov for cancelling a pipeline project. The company will probably lose, but so much $ is at stake, so it makes sense to try.
I couple of years ago I met a freegan and even had some of the stuff she found - the most risky item was a dented, but otherwise fresh pineapple.

Stores throw away so much still edible stuff that I find it hard to believe that shoplifting makes much of a difference.

There seems to be not enough pressure to keep prices low, which doesn't bode well.

On an unrelated note: I wonder how is this going to affect obesity levels?
Better, with CRDTs.
Serious question: How big is OpenBSD as a target for malware, exploits, viruses, etc. ?

OpenBSD's track record is impressive but is it a significant target compared to Windows, MacOS, and Linux?

It is easy to say "only two bullets have ever penetrated my armor" when hardly anyone is shooting at you. I do not know if this is the case because I have never used OpenBSD and I do not know how widely it is used (headless servers, embedded devices, etc.).
Don't they offer older DRM schemes for older devices? Surely you do not have to update your kindle (especially if it is older) to read newly published books?
My Agile Testing Project
It should be liberating, no more working under ever worsening constraints, someone just ripped off the band-aid and made the hard choice for them. Didn't want to let go? Not sure of how much effort and support to continue putting in? Problem solved! The answer is zero. Zilch. Nada. Enjoy the free time!
That would definitely work.
Restic is my current backup solution of choice and that takes snapshots by default. If you took a backup on Monday, ransomwared on Tuesday, your backup volume would double in size (file de-duplication is going to fail spectacularly), but the Monday backup will be unimpacted until a prune operation is run. Suggested prune workflow is to maintain fairly staggered snapshots eg: 1x six-months ago, 1x three-months ago, 3x from last month, whatever makes you comfortable. Which should give a pretty comfortable margin on retaining your files.
> proper sandboxing

Do jails not fulfill this?
Then there's this ever-popular classic [0]:
Genghis killed so many people that forests regrew, sequestering CO2 and cooling the Earth.
[0]:https://www.livescience.com/11739-wars-plagues-carbon-climat...
Linux builds of GIMP already ran on arm64, as well as a number of even weirder architectures (like mips or s390x).
Yup, just plug in -1.
The two biggest grocery retailers in Canada have below 5% profit margins: Loblaw's profit margin is less than 4% [1] and Empire ~2.5% [2]. The other smaller ones are in the same ballpark. Put it another way, if grocery stores reduce all prices by 4%, they will be operating at a loss. Prices have jumped, but I am inclined to believe it is due to fundamental market forces (Ukraine war, avian flu, energy crisis, etc.) and not the retailer, who just happens to be the only part people can see and direct their anger at.

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/L.TO/profit_margin

[2] https://ycharts.com/companies/EMP.A.TO/profit_margin
Sweden Says It Has Uncovered a Rare Earth Bonanza
For my part, after considering this very question in the past, the answer is that the question is wrong.

The question is: is there some reason to trust, and the answer is: no.

In my opinion, any and all general computing devices sold to the mass consumer market are already compromised in some shape or form as they roll out from the factories -- otherwise such things would simply not be sold in large quantities.
I tried a similar phone app years ago but it crashed almost every day, which made it impractical. I'm not sure why it should work now as phones aren't designed to run continuously for long periods without attention from a user.
What would be an example of a piece of software shipping _with_ another piece of software where the relationship couldn't be described using "within"?
There’s room enough for the both of us. :) but seriously thanks for the question.

The short answer is by being web-first and absurdly fast. SimplifyRecipe is for people who used Pinterest for a couple years but got annoyed by the cruft in that ecosystem.
Bitcoin goes up, Nexo charged, GBTC still wants to be an ETF
I don’t understand why politicians don’t worry that if the NSA are allowed to do this they will have a lot of information on many people in public life including them. Do they not understand the NSA will be harvesting representatives data together with the rest of the citizens?

Personally I would struggle to resist reading Biden’s/Trump’s emails, whereabouts and digital footprint for a day, it would be pretty interesting to say the least.
Windows struggles with feature adoption though. Win11 helped with the TPM requirement and features on by default, but MSIX apps are still underrepresented so userspace sandboxing is weaker. Windows virtualization-based security is great though, imo it's a significant advantage over Android
It’s not even clear that they “pulled the plug”, could just be a temporary outage. Wish Musk would announce his thoughts on the future of the API, though.
(Most) poor people don't trust one another to begin with.

Some ethnic communities do in fact have an array of services that are provided inside the community, like loans and food banks and so they can negotiate directly with producers in bulk. That's how these communities thrives where ever they live. In some communities, someone who wants to buy a house or a business isn't going to ask for a loan at a regular bank.

Co-operatives do work but often legislators are making it extremely hard for people to organize, because of the regulatory capture that favor their wealthy allies.
Yes that is mentioned in the opening paragraphs of the article.
This definitely happened to me a while ago. I'm not that upset about it, except that I spent some time changing all my local accounts from "jon" to "jrockway", and signing in with my email address made my local account "jon". Now when I ssh places, I have to supply -l or properly add an entry to ~/.ssh/config because this is the only account I have that's not named "jrockway". All in all, this reduces the enjoyment in my life by 0.0000000000000001% but I'm not losing too much sleep over it.

(My favorite Windows 10 update was the one where you installed it, and instead of getting your desktop on reboot, there was this weird slideshow that said "HELLO" "ALL YOUR FILES ARE EXACTLY WHERE YOU LEFT THEM". I thought it was malware, but that's apparently something a large team of experts at Microsoft thought would be fun for their users. Maybe they were really excited about some filesystem bug that they fixed? I'll never understand.)
The only "trick" I'm aware of is when signing into accounts in certain (Microsoft) applications. You will get a prompt where you need to select to only sign into this specific app.

Other patterns pushing you to use a Microsoft account are not dark at all. They're everywhere though!
I actually take all my mom's money every month and put them in one of my accounts.

Then I pay her fixed expenses and give her cash whenever she wants. She mainly spends money on yarn and LPs.

After retiring, her only trouble in life is her health and her children who beg money from her.

She can't refuse them, but she kept saying she doesn't want to. Eventually we agreed that I admin her money.

We're planning that she moves in with me and my spouse.

Cooking for her every day and removing all economic worries is the best I can give her.

When she leaves Earth, she can decide who her money goes to. (I'm not on the list.)
Oh, I’m talking about the paper they’re hyping up. I’m just not terribly impressed, and I think if was written by people at UCSD instead of Harvard nobody would have even noticed it.
I don't think the final build output being statically linked has any connection to a virtualenv. I've only ever used Python's virtualenvs to avoid having to install dependencies globally. When using Cargo you don't need to worry about that because their data is saved per-project already and Cargo can sort itself out when you invole a command