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I keep saying JS JIT + WebGL/WebGPU is fast enough for these kind of games, no need for the WebAssembly toolchains that are still a pain to use years later.
See PlayCanvas.
The whole GX code reminds me of the Gamecube API from the same name.
And for those paying for Qt, there is a compiler that partially generates C++ code out of QML.
Absolutely Do Not Want.
EDIT: Tell us what characters you want to see in the comments and we can make them for you to talk to (e.g. Max Headroom)
Sure, that kind of thing is great fun. But photorealistic avatars are gonna be abused to hell and back and everyone knows it. I would rather talk to a robot that looks like a robot, ie C-3PO. I would even chat with scary skeleton terminator. I do not want to talk with convincingly-human-appearing terminator. Constantly checking whether any given human appearing on a screen is real or not is a huge energy drain on my primate brain. I already find it tedious with textual data, doing it on realtime video imagery consumers considerably more energy.
Very impressive tech, well done on your engineering achievement and all, but this is a Bad Thing.
This is a reasonable choice, but of course also one that is only people who can be pretty confident of not being personally affected by newsworthy events.
Ironically, just like all religions when one does a criticial analysis of what is preached, and what most people end up doing, especially the ultra radical ones.
Or does a comparisasion between pagan religions, and the ones officially accepted as such in modern times.
Naturally this is heresy, as too much knowledge isn't called for when discussing religions.
> played by Trump’s book
I'm betting that's exactly what will happen - the FBI will single out some core organisers and let them serve as an example.
The industry decided that decades ago. We may like to talk about quality and forethought, but when you actually go to work, you quickly discover it doesn't matter. Small companies tell you "we gotta go fast", large companies demand clear OKRs and focusing on actually delivering impact - either way, no one cares about tech debt, because they see it as unavoidable fact of life. Even more so now, as ZIRP went away and no one can afford to pay devs to polish the turd ad infinitum. The mantra is, ship it and do the next thing, clean up the old thing if it ever becomes a problem.
And guess what, I'm finally convinced they're right.
Consider: it's been that way for decades. We may tell ourselves good developers write quality code given the chance, but the truth is, the median programmer is a junior with <5 years of experience, and they cannot write quality code to save their life. That's purely the consequence of rapid growth of software industry itself. ~all production code in the past few decades was written by juniors, it continues to be so today; those who advance to senior level end up mostly tutoring new juniors instead of coding.
Or, all that put another way: tech debt is not wrong. It's a tool, a trade-off. It's perfectly fine to be loaded with it, if taking it lets you move forward and earn enough to afford paying installments when they're due. Like with housing: you're better off buying it with lump payment, or off savings in treasury bonds, but few have that money on hand and life is finite, so people just get a mortgage and move on.
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Edited to add: There's a silver lining, though. LLMs make tech debt legible and quantifiable.
LLMs are affected by tech debt even more than human devs are, because (currently) they're dumber, they have less cognitive capability around abstractions and generalizations[0]. They make up for it by working much faster - which is a curse in terms of amplifying tech debt, but also a blessing, because you can literally see them slowing down.
Developer productivity is hard to measure in large part because the process is invisible (happens in people's heads and notes), and cause-and-effect chains play out over weeks or months. LLM agents compress that to hours to days, and the process itself is laid bare in the chat transcript, easy to inspect and analyze.
The way I see it, LLMs will finally allow us to turn software development at tactical level from art into an engineering process. Though it might be too late for it to be of any use to human devs.
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[0] - At least the out-of-distribution ones - quirks unique to particular codebase and people behind it.
This is the best thing I've seen from Scientific American in a decade.
Some screen captures of the apps mentioned would be nice too.
ProCalc is pretty sophisticated.
I knew they had an authoritarian streak. This is not surprising, and frankly horrifyingly dystopian.
"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
I have no idea what you're talking about or who you're arguing with. You brought up the "cold winter theory". "Cold winter" is very funny. It's just a very funny theory put forth by a huckster white supremacist. Where do you hope to go from there?
Whatever the rest of these arguments are, I'm not invested enough in this thread to drag this out.
Cold winters. Tell it to the Abbasids! I guess some of them had kind of cold winters sometimes? Maybe that explains it.
No, we're upvoting the solid and novel (to many of us) mathematical derivation. I don't really mind what woo-woo statements sacred geometry enthusiasts make as long as the math checks out.
This is the main reason I'm extremely disciplined about making sure all of my personal projects have automated tests (configure to run in CI) and decent documentation.
It makes it so much easier to pick them up again in the future when enough time has passed that I've forgotten almost everything about them.
Because it's an extremely large and complex project that is also very clearly specified, to the point that the three word prompt "build a browser" encapsulates a huge amount of detail.
Similar to "build space invaders", another useful test prompt for seeing how well an LLM can do at a medium complexity task without having to give it a great deal of instruction.
I called building a browser the "hello world" of complex parallel agent coding harnesses the other day: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/23/fastrender/#a-single-e...
The results are debated, as there are many factors at work. Nobody thought or suggested it would end crime - just reduce it.
> As for why to be independent, i hope it should be self-evident that being able to do what you want
To be honest, not really.
I have a million limitations in my life. Trying to achieve some kind of "independence" is not something I understand. I prefer to accept a kind of interdependence, to be part of an ecosystem. To work together, in sync, for mutual benefit.
I rely on third parties for my food, my housing, my health, my education, my technology, all of it. Using an LLM hosted elsewhere feels no different from using electricity generated elsewhere, or food grown elsewhere, or a computer manufactured elsewhere. So why the difference for you?
> Amazon One palm authentication services will be discontinued at retail businesses on June 3, 2026. Amazon One user data, including palm data, will be deleted after this date. For more information, click here.
It’s interesting that this issue has triggered the trolls. It underlines how damaging the story is to MAGA.
Which part of 'enough' is it that went by you?
Should be dropping packets of extremophiles into the atmospheres of the other planets to see if anything takes hold.
I.e. practice panspermia.
Money has its own reality distortion field.
> It doesn't postulate that language itself creates a worldview in whatever system processes text. Or else books would have a worldview.
Books don't process text.
That's the reason I called it the lethal trifecta: the only way to protect against it is to cut off one of the legs.
And like you observed, that greatly restricts the usefulness of what we can build!
The most credible path forward I've seen so far is the DeepMind CaMeL paper: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/
"only around 1MB" is not particularly impressive in absolute terms... there are a few browsers which are the same or smaller, and yet more functional.
https://tinyapps.org/network.html
Of course, "AI-generated browser is 1MB" is neither here nor there.
Related:
Norco prison will close as inmate population declines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998016 - August 2025 (3 comments)
America’s incarceration rate is in decline - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379670 - June 2025 (548 comments)
USAFacts: How many states use private prisons? - https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-states-use-private-pr... - February 6th, 2025
USAFacts: How many people are in prisons in the US? - https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-are-in-prisons-... (updates annually)
You've just seen the people at the very top of the administration saying that just having a gun in any sort of proximity to federal agents = terrorist. If you show up tomorrow with a rifle on the other side of a Minnesota street from a bunch of ICE agents, do you think they're going to prioritize de-escalation and professionalism or just light you up? Serious question.
> You realize that stamina is a core bottleneck to work
There has been a lot of research that shows that grit is far more correlated to success than intelligence. This is an interesting way to show something similar.
AIs have endless grit (or at least as endless as your budget). They may outperform us simply because they don't ever get tired and give up.
Full quote for context:
Tenacity. It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It's a "feel the AGI" moment to watch it struggle with something for a long time just to come out victorious 30 minutes later. You realize that stamina is a core bottleneck to work and that with LLMs in hand it has been dramatically increased.
> because they’re trying to normalise the AI’s writing style,
AIs use em dashes because competent writers have been using em dashes for a long time. I really hate the fact that we assume em dash == AI written. I've had to stop using em dashes because of it.
As often happens these days, I’m confused at the hysteria here.
No you're not. You're choosing words like 'hysteria' to delegitimize others' opinions while striking a posture of disinterested neutrality.
The silly part is buying a $600 Mac mini when any $100 NUC or $50 raspberry pi or any cheap mini PC off of eBay will do the job exactly the same.
Seriously.
Browsers originally had text zoom -- only text zoom -- until page zoom was invented, I can't remember by which browser. And then page zoom quickly became the "main" zoom mechanism across all browsers because it was obviously so much better -- icons, layout, everything adjusted together. (And for those who remember, when there was only text zoom, it was a common practice/workaround to define everything in em rather than px, precisely to "fake" page zoom with text zoom.)
I'm baffled by the idea of trying to bring text zoom back. Just no, a million times. We tried it. It was bad.
> Real "are we the baddies?" moment this morning
Humans have a well-earned nickname: "murder apes"
> Somewhere, there are GPUs/NPUs running hot.
Running at their designed temperature.
> You send all the necessary data, including information that you would never otherwise share.
I've never sent the type of data that isn't already either stored by GitHub or a cloud provider, so no difference there.
> And you most likely do not pay the actual costs.
So? Even if costs double once investor subsidies stop, that doesn't change much of anything. And the entire history of computing is that things tend to get cheaper.
> You and your business become dependent on this major gatekeeper.
Not really. Switching between Claude and Gemini or whatever new competition shows up is pretty easy. I'm no more dependent on it than I am on any of another hundred business services or providers that similarly mostly also have competitors.
> Should I be able to sue McDonalds if I let my kid eat 100 of them in one sitting?
If McDonald’s is handing them out for free at the playground, yes.
> unique among animals in that we have a genocidal tendency
That's an unsupported generalization.
The article describes "behaviors" that include "perhaps even genocide", and notes that wiping out populations exists in chimps and wolves too.
So not unique, there's a "perhaps", and it's not a tendency. There's no evidence we have a "gene" for it or anything.
In the vast, vast, vast majority of conflicts between two groups, we don't exterminate the "enemy". Otherwise, the human race would have gone extinct a long time ago. Wiping out entire populations is by far the exception, not the rule, of human societies. It happens, but the situations are notable precisely for their extremity, precisely because they're not the norm.
UNESCO using a definition that doesn't account for fascist corporatism and other means vy which nominally private entities can serve as arms of the state doesn't make that definition universally correct, it just makes it UNESCO’s definition.
AI slop security reports submitted to curl - https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d...
HN Search: curl AI slop - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I've been fascinated with The Waste Land ever since junior year of high school, when my creative writing teacher saw a copy of it on my desk and said "why do you have that, you'll never understand it". (I mean, fair enough.)
This is interesting backstory! My perception of the poem is that it's sort of a fractal of backstory and that everywhere you look you find 2000-word articles on its historical antecedents, from Eliot's life, from the history of Europe, from friends of his lost in the war, &c.
There's a whole book on this that's very similar to the article:
https://www.amazon.com/Waste-Land-Biography-Poem/dp/03932402...
If you're bored, you can also kick back and bounce sections of it off Claude or GPT5 (or both and have them argue with each other).
I wonder how directly you can connect Ludwig to the Fisher King.
They don't have to get a conviction if they know your address and have a gun.
It's using a constructive solid geometry system. You can add and subtract volumes. Making a hole is subtracting a volume. This has classically been numeric roundoff hell, where points that should coincide and surfaces which should touch don't get handled properly due to numerical error. The geometry engine is Manifold, which guarantees watertight meshes from boolean operations.
Ah. That's what's doing the constructive solid geometry. Here's the 2009 PhD thesis behind the object merge and difference algorithms inside Manifold. Nice. At last, soundness. This is a long-standing problem. And now there's an open source implementation. Manifold itself is in C++, not Rust, though.
None of this is parametric. That's a different problem. That's where you put in constraints such as A is perpendicular to B, B is 100mm from C, etc., and the constraint solver tries to satisfy all the constraints. Change a dimension and everything adjusts to preserve the constraints. Parametric CAD is all about constraint solving and expressing conflicts to the user. Autodesk Inventor, Fusion, etc. have good constraint solvers.
[1] https://github.com/elalish/manifold/blob/master/docs/RobustB...
Correct, state charges are mostly pardon proof and there is no statute of limitations on murder.
> But today's USD decline? Brutal. It almost makes me want to say, "it's happening!".
I agree we're close, but we're not quite there yet. The bond market is punishing sovereign debt (Japan bond crisis), and there is evidence that billions of dollars of capital is willing to leave US treasuries to find something better. Gold and silver are up wildly; some may say overbought, but I think that only applies in the before times. This will, imho, continue as capital seeks venues of prudent economic management (which, arguably, the US, USD, and UST are no longer). The dollar lost 8% of its value last year, I expect that pace to continue, if not worsen.
https://economics.td.com/us-the-united-states-dollar-in-2025
(not investing advice, i am a rando)
> Despite the word "warrant" being present, an “administrative warrant” does not allow law enforcement to enter private property.
Even an actual judicial arrest warrant doesn't (legally) allow them to enter private party on suspicion that the target might be there. Search is a separate thing from seizure, and you need a judicial search warrant to search a private residence or the non-public areas of a business for a person, no matter what authority you might have to arrest them should you find them.
I can totally relate to this, it's gotten to the point that I'm just as scared of rebooting my Linux boxes as I was of rebooting my windows machine a couple of decades ago. And quite probably more scared.
The Dept of Homeland Security has had its own internal gen-AI chat bot since before Trump took office [0]. That this guy couldn’t make do with that, and didn’t think through the repercussions of uploading non-public documents to a public chatbot doesn’t bode well for his ability to manage CISA
[0] https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2024/12/17/dhss-responsible...
> I don't understand who this is for?
I think the answer is in the tagline: AI Agent writes JSX, you get videos.
Sounds like a decent approach for today. LLMs are overtrained on JSX (Claude in particular, due to Artifacts feature IIRC being originally based on React), which makes them particularly good at translating from natural language to JSX, and that in turns makes JSX a decent choice for a structured description format.
JSX is just ugly Lisp anyway, so it's not half bad a choice for something that's structured, general-purpose, flexible and well-supported by tooling.
In other words:
[You]--natural language-->[LLM]--JSX-->[Vagrai]-->Video
The US has executed people in international waters over the claim of fentanyl being trafficked into the country. Is Insta and TikTok as addictive as fentanyl? If so, does it warrant a similar response? I think a cheeseburger is not an equivalent analogy. Singapore also executes drug traffickers, for what it’s worth.
https://www.techpolicy.press/is-tiktok-digital-fentanyl/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/tiktok-is-chinas-digital-fenta...
> Certainly, some regard social media generally as addictive, and reckon TikTok is a particularly potent format. Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, and author of the book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance In The Age of Abundance, referred to Tiktok as a "potent and addictive digital drug":
> I can’t speak to the surveillance piece mentioned in the article, but I can attest to the addictive nature of TikTok and other similar digital media. The human brain is wired to pay attention to novelty. One of the ways our brain gets us to pay attention to novel stimuli is by releasing dopamine, a reward neurotransmitter, in a part of the brain called the reward pathway. What TikTok does is combine a moving image, already highly reinforcing to the human brain, with the novelty of a very short video clip, to create a potent and addictive digital drug.
Have you tried showing it a copy of your coding standards?
I also find pointing it to an existing folder full of code that conforms to certain standards can work really well.
No, I'm still waiting to see concrete evidence that the "swarms of parallel agents" thing is worthwhile. I use sub-agents in Claude Code occasionally - for problems that are easily divided - and that works fine as a speed-up, but I'm still holding out for an example of a swarm of agents that's really compelling.
The reason I got excited about the Cursor FastRender example was that it seemed like the first genuine example of thousands of agents achieving something that couldn't be achieved in another way... and then embedding-shapes went and undermined it with 20,000 lines of single-agent Rust!
I recall Hoare,
"A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."
-- C.A.R Hoare's "The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture"
Guess what 1980's language he is referring to.
Then in 1988,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
It has been 46 years since the speech, and 38 since the Morris worm.
How many related improvements have been tackled by WG14?
> make it seem like the participants have access to some sort of ALPR data to track vehicles
The whole reason cops love ALPR data is anyone's allowed to collect it, so they don't need a warrant.
So I imagine Lennart Poettering has left Microsoft.
Presumably this is data taken from interdicted phones of people in the groups, not, like, a traffic-analytic attack on Signal itself.
I'm curious how it compares to Overleaf in terms of features? Putting aside the AI aspect entirely, I'm simply curious if this is a viable Overleaf competitor -- especially since it's free.
I do self-host Overleaf which is annoying but ultimately doable if you don't want to pay the $21/mo (!).
I do have to wonder for how long it will be free or even supported, though. On the one hand, remote LaTeX compiling gets expensive at scale. On the other hand, it's only a fraction of a drop in the bucket compared to OpenAI's total compute needs. But I'm hesitant to use it because I'm not convinced it'll still be around in a couple of years.
The discussion is going to be so similar, this really ought to be marked as a [dupe].
> > > Why is our tax money being wasted on this?
> > The fascists won. That’s why?
> No, they haven’t.
Yes, they did, that’s why they are able to use the executive branch of the federal government to enforce their wishes at the moment, with virtually no constraint yet from the legislative branch, and no significant consequences yet for ignoring contrary orders from the judicial branch.
They may lose at some point in the future, but something that might happen in the future is irrelevant to the question of why what is happening now is happening, and it is happening because they won. Unambiguously.
Again: what does any of this have to do with labor laws? I get that you're just responding to the comment there, but you kind of started this thread with your "you know, YC" thing, and it's still totally unclear what any of this has to do with operating a company in Canada. You can still operate YC companies in Canada!
That step makes a big difference though.
It's counterintuitive but something becoming easier doesn't necessarily mean it becomes cheap. Programming has arguably been the easiest engineering discipline to break into by sheer force of will for the past 20+ years, and the pay scales you see are adapted to that reality already.
Empowering people to do 10 times as much as they could before means they hit 100 times the roadblocks. Again, in a lot of ways we've already lived in that reality for the past many years. On a task-by-task basis programming today is already a lot easier than it was 20 years ago, and we just grew our desires and the amount of controls and process we apply. Problems arise faster than solutions. Growing our velocity means we're going to hit a lot more problems.
I'm not saying you're wrong, so much as saying, it's not the whole story and the only possibility. A lot of people today are kept out of programming just because they don't want to do that much on a computer all day, for instance. That isn't going to change. There's still going to be skills involved in being better than other people at getting the computers to do what you want.
Also on a long term basis we may find that while we can produce entry-level coders that are basically just proxies to the AI by the bucketful that it may become very difficult to advance in skills beyond that, and those who are already over the hurdle of having been forced to learn the hard way may end up with a very difficult to overcome moat around their skills, especially if the AIs plateau for any period of time. I am concerned that we are pulling up the ladder in a way the ladder has never been pulled up before.
Lamb is more like a teacher, he'll let you make your own mistakes until the situation is about to go FUBAR, then he'll step in and save it and show you where you went wrong.
This is shared with languages from ALGOL linage like Ada, Object Pascal, Modula-2 and others.
Hence why from C culture point of view they used to be referred to as programming with straightjacket.
An insight into this be read on books like "The School of Niklaus Wirth" or "Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK".
Corporate/enterprise networks have nightmarish setups for centralizing access to LLMs. This seems like an extremely natural direction for Tailscale; it is to LLM interfaces what Tailscale itself was to VPNs, a drastically simplified system that, by making policy legible, actually allows security teams to do the access control that was mostly aspirational under the status quo ante.
Seems straightforward?
I think if you don't have friends working at e.g. big banks or whatever, you might not grok just how nutty it is to try to run simple agent workflows.
You can pretty much lump all of the billionaire bootlickers in the same category. Almost none of them have any ethics, whilst of course proclaiming the opposite.
follow up to the recent Z-Image Turbo release:
Can't mention "Epstein", either.[1]
It was better when TikTok reported to the Third Department of the People's Liberation Army. They don't censor outside China.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5689104/tiktok-epstein-...
> any judge that doesn't immediately reject such cases on a first-amendment basis
If you say something illegal in a chat with a cop in it, or say it in public, I don’t think there are Constitutional issues with the police using that as evidence. (If you didn’t say anything illegal, you have a valid defence.)
Commercially driven R&D labs have been around for a long time. Much of research and development has never followed the "scientific method". There's nothing wrong with calling the current set of AI companies "labs" when referring to their research efforts. And their researchers are putting out plenty of academic papers, sharing plenty of research results, so it's not like there's any level of rigor that is lacking.
I don't know why you're trying to suggest some kind of restriction on the word "lab", or based on what. Calling them "labs" is perfectly normal, conventional, and justified terminology.
PKCS7 is a container format that pops up in a couple places in the TLS ecosystem (also in code signing); anywhere you need a secure blob that includes metadata. It's a very widely used format.
AEAD ciphers are those that simultaneously encrypt and authenticate data. AES-GCM is the most popular; Chapoly is the 2nd most popular. AEAD ciphers are how modern programs do encryption.
AEAD ciphers all rely on additional parameters, most commonly a nonce; it's critical to security that the nonce only ever be used once with a given key. You need the nonce to decrypt the AEAD ciphertext, so it's usually tacked on to the message (in more clever formats you can derive it contextually, but PKCS7 is a general-purpose format).
In parsing PKCS7 messages, when OpenSSL comes across AEAD-encrypted blobs, it needs to parse out the nonce. AEAD nonces tend to have fixed sizes, but there are extended-nonce variants of AEADs, and the format allows for arbitrary-sized values. OpenSSL assumed a fixed nonce size, but parsed with a library that handled arbitrary-sized values. Stack overflow.
A maliciously formatted Authenticode signature, certificate chain, OCSP response (I think?), all things that could trigger the bug.
No one (at a national scale) can afford to strike like that, except people who have an understanding of why they even more can't afford not to strike like that.
Given the Teamsters are endorsing these views, I wouldn’t be so quick to jump to conclusions. Amazon is building an internal UPS competitor. UPS may simply not want to over-extend itself.
> Tools predate homo sapiens (which emerged about 300 kYA)
I’m going to use a charged word because Jane Goodall used it.
Goodall asserted that humans and chimpanzees (and wolves) are unique among animals in that we have a genocidal tendency [1]. When a group attacks us (or has “land and resources” we want) we don’t just chase them off. We exterminate them. We expend great resources to track them down to ensure they cannot threaten us.
One reading of pre-history is that we had a number of hominids that were fine sharing the world, and humans, who were not. (I’ve seen the uncanny valley hypothesised as a human response to non-human hominids, as well as other humans carrying transmissible disfiguring diseases.)
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/06/does-...
You wrote "Palestine is a settler-colony of Israel". Nobody on either side of the conflict believes that. Your response here is a non sequitur.
https://supplychaindigital.com/logistics/why-ups-slashing-am...
> It is reported that Amazon had offered to increase its shipping volumes with UPS to meet growing delivery demands.
> However, UPS declined, opting instead to adjust its operations for higher profitability. “Due to their operational needs, UPS requested a reduction in volume and we certainly respect their decision,” said Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel.
It's plain ol' reach for more profits.
It's a dog whistle for 'keeping Canada white'. There are a lot of racists in Canada.
Yeah, it'd be our first stop whenever we came home from a trip; we even got Christmas presents from the store one year for being (embarassingly) one of their higher-spend customers. The magic has gone; places like Kroeger and Whole Food have caught up.
“If, before the hearing, the parties file a stipulation indicating that petitioner has been released from custody, the Court will cancel the hearing and will not require Lyons to appear” [1].
[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230...
I've driven around blind corners to discover people standing in the middle of the road. I also read in the paper about people being run over in crosswalks. I use crosswalks, too, and I make sure to look before I step into it. When I jog, I look at the driver's eyes to see if he sees me (if he doesn't, I step far off the roadside). Yes, as a pedestrian you do have a significant amount of control.
This post is far more interesting than many others on the same subject, not because of what is built but because of how it it is built. There is a ton of noise on this subject and most of it seems to focus on the thing - or even on the author - rather than on the process, the constraints and the outcome.
People from Bangalore were telling me it was getting crazy expensive to live there (by Indian standards) circa 2013.
I'm in Wegmans' home town, and the enshittification process has hit them hard in recent years.
The Machine Fired Me - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645 - June 2018 (554 comments)
Wegmans opened a store at the Brooklyn Navy Yard just to show people in NYC what a real supermarket looks like. I mean, you might be impressed with Whole Foods if all you know are those bodegas that have around NYC but if you've been to a real supermarket Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh and such are not impressive at all.
Broadly speaking, you want it as tall as possible, usually we're talking a few stories high, so 20m or so.
Without the attracting masses on either side you can set it swinging and measure the period, which lets you compute the restoring force in the wire.
I don't know about other areas, but here in the Bay Area (or at least Silicon Valley) our Whole Foods has subsumed all the services provided by Amazon Fresh (and Go really never worked). So we're not really losing any services, just the brand name.
Does anyone have a detailed explainer on the mobility changes, or is it just not finalized yet?
The Amazon Go stores in San Francisco were weird. They always had no people shopping in them, which would make sense given the increased efficiency, but it amplified the "am I stealing?" vibe. And the cost of goods wasn't made any cheaper than comparable stores in SF despite the touted increased efficiency.
Is it friendly to demand someone else's stuff with the threat of force?
Is it friendly to ignore the opinions of the 50k people who live there?
Is it friendly to not be satisfied with the clear existing agreements and alliances that already permit US bases there?
Would we consider it friendly if Denmark demanded "useless" parts of, say, Nevada, and threatened to wreck our economy and/or invade if we said no?
It's genuinely wild to me that you look at the available factual information and go "yep, Europe's being a big meanie here". Trump's threats are not the acts of a friend.
Such a waste of capital instead of leaning into point of consumption subsidies, durable electrical grid delivery, and robust distributed battery storage.
At least they are honest regarding the reasons, not a wall of text to justify what bails down to "because I like it".
Naturally these kinds of having a language island create some attrition regarding build tooling, integration with existing ecosystem and who is able to contribute to what.
So lets see how it evolves, even with my C bashing, I was a much happier XFCE user than with GNOME and GJS all over the place.
The Vernor Vinge SF novels have the profession of "software archaeologist", someone who digs through the layers of systems in order to extract understanding.
Speaking of historically illiterate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
> Conservatives claimed that they were specifically targeted by the IRS, but an exhaustive report released by the Treasury Department's Inspector General in 2017 found that from 2004 to 2013, the IRS used both conservative and liberal keywords to choose targets for further scrutiny.
Chickens have two feet. Humans have two feet. Therefore, chickens are human.