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by WaitWaitWha | 2026-01-08 03:30:25+00:00
Unfortunatelly this is incorrect. Do not be fooled by the decoys. They do it to customers, employees, and contractors.

Walmart was sued [0] for exactly what Wegmans just started in 2022,

Walmart is sued [1] by delivery drivers,

and, so on.

[0] https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/privacy/bipa...

[1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/walm...

[2] https://caseguard.com/articles/retail-corporation-walmart-fa...
by topspin | 2026-01-08 03:30:40+00:00
No. A batch of submission queue entries (SQEs) can be partially completed, whereas an ACID database transaction is all or nothing. The syscalls performed by SQEs have side effects that can't reasonably be undone. Failures of operations performed by SQEs don't stop or rollback anything.

Think of io_uring as a pair of unidirectional pipes. You shove syscalls and (pointers to) data into one pipe and the results (asynchronously) gush out of the other pipe, errors and all. Each pipe is actually a separate block of memory shared between your process and the kernel: you scribble in one and read from the other, and the kernel does the opposite.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-08 03:30:57+00:00
This is defeatist. You imply that local retailers are in on this as well, I know for a fact that my local co-op is not. Neither is the local farm stand or the local salvage grocery store. If you aren’t in a huge metro, shop local and you’ll do fine.

Why do you want everyone to give up? Don’t be evil.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-08 03:31:20+00:00
You can definitely get to 20% without much trouble, maybe even 30-50%, if you do some freezing tricks. Though what such percentages mean is highly subjective.

I am thinking if an ideal butter croissant has some flaky fluffiness (perhaps if we define it as "trapped volume" between flakes), and we define this ideal flakiness to be 100%, then you can extremely easily get to 20% with just olive oil. Frankly I think you might even get close to 50% (defined in this way) provided you also start with a trustworthy recipe by mass and that aims for proper hydration (e.g. https://www.seriouseats.com/croissants-recipe-11863500) and work quickly with lots of chilling.

Just, subjectively, you might realize that 20-50%, defined this way, isn't much like a proper French croissant, and is more like a cheap doughy supermarket chain croissant—which I do still frankly enjoy sometimes anyway!
by no-name-here | 2026-01-08 03:31:27+00:00
Specifically:

> It’s also 100% vibe coded. I’ve never seen the code, and I never care to, which might give you pause. ‘Course, I’ve never looked at Beads either, and it’s 225k lines of Go code that tens of thousands of people are using every day. I just created it in October. If that makes you uncomfortable, get out now.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-08 03:31:47+00:00
I wish we could move past the "highly processed food" thing.

You can engineer healthy food. The problems isn't the processing. Its that most people who are engineering food do not have "healthy" among the goals.

We're conflating "designed" with "designed recklessly".

It matters because a lot of people can't afford the diet suggested here. The messaging needs to distinguish between adding protein powder because there's no meat available, and living on Cheetos because there's no meat available, and "highly processed" fails to do that.
by carsoon | 2026-01-08 03:32:05+00:00
Those prior recommendations you supplied are worse than the current ones.

Added Sugar: it says <50grams when its clear that NO added sugar is best as the new guidelines suggest.

Fat: it says to choose low fat cuts 95% and low fat milk. There is no basis for these options. you are just reducing the nutrients from fat. You should just drink/eat less of the fatty food if it contains fat, not choose a processed version that removes part of it.

Protein: The protein section clearly skews towards plant based proteins which are fine but for the majority of people animal proteins are going to be healthier and easier to eat enough of.
The protein amounts to around 35-60 grams of protein depending on the sources/amounts listed which is not ideal for a properly functioning human

Sodium: It says in multiple places to lower sodium but the studies on sodium were correlative not causative. Meaning there is no basis for a low sodium diet unless you have other health conditions.

So no they are not lying to you and these new guidelines are 100% evidence based given the new evidence that we have had for the last 30 years.
by roywiggins | 2026-01-08 03:32:39+00:00
If they're collecting biometric data without posting a sign they are breaking the law, that requirement to post a sign is why this story about Wegmans is public at all, Wegmans posted signs as required.

If they are, and aren't posting signs, that would be a story in itself. Of course it could still be happening, it sounds like the law is fairly toothless, but it did get Wegmans to post the sign, so probably not useless.

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-wegmans-is-storing-biometric-...
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-01-08 03:33:29+00:00
I would say: medicine consists of many sub-disciplines and there are many very different positions for doctors in the medical system, including ones where you have a lot less to discuss with patients.

So, yes, such as doctor who excels at health science is very likely a really good doctor, but this does not imply that this doctor will excel in every position in the medical system for which doctors are hired.

This is very consistent with my claim that I don't think that "being exceptional in cybersecurity is a pretty good indicator that someone will be successful in other fields".
by kelipso | 2026-01-08 03:33:34+00:00
I don’t think it’s an unreasonable assertion in the first place. Just because they are holding a small portion of all houses doesn’t meant they can’t have a huge effect. The primary reason being that the portion of houses on sale is small as well. Another reason being they are huge institutions with tons of money, and thus can hold houses longer, buy houses are higher prices, influence related markets, etc.
by gaigalas | 2026-01-08 03:33:40+00:00
Has anyone else noticed that there isn't a single AI karma company?

The idea is simple*: Instead of users rating content, AI does it based on fact check.

None. Zero products or roadmaps on that.

Worse than that, people don't want this. It might tell them that they are wrong, with no chance to get your buddies to upvote you or game the system socially. It would probably flop.

Both AI companies and users want control, they want to game stuff. LMArena is ideal for that.

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* I know it's a simple idea, but hard to achieve, and I'm not underestimating the difficulty. Doesn't matter thuogh: no one is even signaling the intention of solving it. Harder problems have been signaled (protein research, math).
by kristopolous | 2026-01-08 03:34:10+00:00
Sure. What about the public citizen efforts for crumple zone and seat belts in the 1960s?

Or are you saying bad incentives, good long term outcomes?

Maybe Napoleon's rework of Paris? That was done to control public dissidents but you know, it also made it a beautiful city.

Mass timekeeping? Those were adopted for industrial labor... Seems to be quite useful

Joint stock ownership was I think invented for the slave trade but that's proven to be generally useful
by tpmoney | 2026-01-08 03:34:45+00:00
Part of the problem is how hard it is to sell a home in the first place. I'm not interested now, but for a while I was looking at needing to move states, and that was going to involve selling my home and buying (or renting) in the new location. And all the math was saying that anything other than getting really lucky with a sale just before moving was going to cost me a LOT of extra money and be a drain and a hassle on top of all of the stresses involved with moving to a completely new state.

I really hate the idea of selling to these "we'll buy your home fast" shops, but I have to be honest that had I needed to make that move, it would have been a very real possibility.
by fjfaase | 2026-01-08 03:35:28+00:00
Just before the agents came out of their car another ICE car passed in front of her car. She was waving the agents to pass her. She could not back-up, because there were people standing/walking behind her car. She was not blocking the road, but nevertheless the ICE agents came out of their car to confront her. Context does matter.

After the women got shot, the agent who shot lost the scene taking the weapon with him, which is against all regulations. Other ICE agents prevented medical help from a doctor who identified himself as such and the blocked an ambulance, making them complicit with the murder as she might have been saved if she had gotten medical treatment immediately.
by Komieter | 2026-01-08 03:35:36+00:00
Fair points. You're right that it's Gmail-only right now, which doesn't work for your setup.

IMAP support is the top request I'm getting. The main challenge is speed, as Gmail API scans 10+ years in ~3 minutes, IMAP would be 30+ minutes. But it's definitely on the roadmap.

Also thinking about a local-only version where everything runs in your browser. Would that work for you, or is IMAP specifically what you need?

For now, I'm focused on the majority use case (Gmail users who don't purge email), but would love your input on what a power-user version should look like if you're interested.
by sublinear | 2026-01-08 03:35:55+00:00
Overall foot traffic is down in stores. People who shop online don't go to the store as often, and when they do they expect a worthwhile experience and to probably spend more. They know their online shopping is already monitored and cashless, so it's only a minor annoyance to see that in person. Not many are going to walk away just because of that. Those nicer stores are also in the wealthier neighborhoods where the expectation is safety while they spend extra time with the shiny new amenities in a smaller more peaceful crowd.

The people who avoid online and delivery may not have a choice and are more price sensitive or likely to shoplift, so those other stores also have to increase security.

I'm saying that people have become segregated. The suburbanite middle and upper classes don't "stop by on the way home from work" anymore and they aren't leaving home just to shop unless it's worth the hassle. They expect much higher levels of convenience and safety than ever before. Increased security everywhere makes sense.
by jcranmer | 2026-01-08 03:36:34+00:00
Federal officers aren't immune from state prosecution just because they're federal officers, or because they're doing their federal duties at the moment. They also have to be acting in accord with their federal duties. See, e.g., https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-federal-officials-i... (although that's not in response to the current incident).

They will certainly attempt to dismiss any charges, but they are far from guaranteed that they will be successful.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-08 03:36:48+00:00
Cochrane systematic reviews should make you seriously question whether the Mediterranean diet really is much good at all - hard data is inconclusive and low quality [1].

In general we really even barely have enough nutritional knowledge to say if the term 'good fats' even makes much scientific sense, but broad and vague things like "Mediterranean diet" are just total nonsense, from the standpoint of serious nutrition science.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6414510/
by NoPicklez | 2026-01-08 03:38:07+00:00
There's more nuance to this.

Yes sugar enters your blood stream almost immediately which isn't a bad thing, but not all of it. A large amount of that sugar gets stored in the liver as glycogen and any of that not used becomes body fat.

But also

Yes when you consume fat, it is converted to be used by the body as energy however the excess of that similar to sugar is also converted into body fat.

Importantly, 1kg of fats and carbs have wildy different energy levels with 1kg of fat representing 7,700 calories and 1kg of carbs being around 4,000 calories. So yes it burns energy to convert fat into energy, but you have a lot more energy to burn for the same amount eaten.

This is why carbs and fats have different recommended daily intake levels. Therefore, most of what causes CVD is actually due to overconsumption rather than a balanced meal that doesn't take you into constant excess of either carbs or fats.
by hallole | 2026-01-08 03:38:30+00:00
It's not just a personal belief that plant sources are, on the whole, better from a health perspective.

Since we're talking about the actual wording of the report, it admitted the significance of previous reports deciding to order plant foods before animal products. That is reversed in this most recent report, and very intentionally, which they make clear. They also pretend that the health effects of saturated fat intake are still fuzzy, as if the evidence doesn't heavily point towards it being detrimental.

If anyone is holding to unshakeable beliefs and unwilling to consider evidence, it's the shoddy scientists (many with meat-industry related conflicting interests) that wrote the report.
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-08 03:38:49+00:00
It really depends on the market. The institutional investors are common in the South and Southwest. I think the fact that they exist at all is a problem.

You are correct however that smaller private investors are more common. I live in a small city. Small property management companies from NYC and NJ are pretty commonly buying up 2-4 family houses. I suspect that some of these "small" players aren't small at all, but hiding in a maze of LLCs.

I know a couple of dudes from way back that have leveraged their way to a real estate empire with >2000 homes in the region.
by epistasis | 2026-01-08 03:41:14+00:00
In my experience, there are a lot of people who don't consider renters as people that deserve consideration in governmental decision making. So if rental supply becomes available, it doesn't matter, not only because the person doesn't want to rent, but more so because renters are not considered permanent citizens of the local city and therefore they don't matter.

This is a recurring theme k see among both right wing and left wing people when it comes to looking at single family homes.
by quotemstr | 2026-01-08 03:41:21+00:00
And this is why in computing we can't have nice things. Any mass market profit can't, in a business realistic evaluation, ship something that breaks even 1% of users.

Consequently, we're stuck with lowest common denominator everything and have a hard time delaying software fixes for what ails us. Instead of fixing things, we are best encapsulate the damage.

If I were running Tailscale, I'd say "Fuck the people with broken TPMs. Fix your computers. We're going to be secure by default."

I guess there's a reason Avery and not I call the shots there
by mootothemax | 2026-01-08 03:41:21+00:00
That’s an excellent point, thanks for linking.

My takeaway from this thread is: his theory’s great until you discover that your customers are wiling pay *so* much more.

On a more positive note, I’ve been blown away by the (largely, one conspicuous troll-like annoyance aside) positive thoughts in the comments. Maybe it’s not too late?
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-08 03:41:42+00:00
Kinda funny.

Back in 2000 I was at Wegmans and was offended when the head security guard followed my freaky hippie friend around so after that I started to mess with him. Like I noticed he had a spot where he liked to stand and surveil people going in and out of the store and I would stand in his spot so he couldn't have it, or I would conspicuously follow him around the store.

I signed up for an enumerator job at the US Census and a bunch of us turned up at the workforce development office where we were administered something like an IQ test. I disagreed but I remembered someone saying "the questions are so hard!"

They called me up and offered me a supervisor position which I didn't take because it seemed like a tiny amount of extra money for a lot more trouble. I got called back maybe a week later with an offer of a regular position which I took.

I show up for work and my supervisor was... the head security guard from Wegmans! He turned out to be a pretty nice guy and liked working for him!

The job had plenty of other misadventures like the way we had a plan for counting homeless people that you thought would have worked but we actually found zero homeless people (funny I would see them everywhere if I wasn't wearing my enumerator badge) Or how a woman who was working with us figured out we could save many hours of work by buying $20 worth of stickers, something there was no budget for but we decided there was nothing wrong with her just billing another 2 hours. Or how the students at the black living center mostly didn't fill out their census forms but instead of pestering them to fill them out we got a printout of all the students from the bursar's office that didn't have race on it and sent it on to the processing center -- so blacks got undercounted.
by paxys | 2026-01-08 03:42:22+00:00
While I'm sure AI is partially to blame, I feel like the real problem is that (1) they don't have a sensible business model and (2) they have saturated their market.

There are relatively few individuals and organizations out there with products that are worth spending vendor money on, especially for something like a CSS library. Companies that do have this need are ready to spend BIG.

Tailwind charges a one-time fee in the hundreds of dollars range and pledges lifetime support.

When they say revenue is down 80%, it's because everyone already bought their library in its first few years of existence. And looking at their site there is nothing else to spend money on. So how are they planning to sustain their revenue?
Show HN: I built Mike – AI motion graphics
by chcardoz | 2026-01-08 03:42:54+00:00
When you think of AI videos, you think of something like Sora or Veo 3 (diffusion). What if the AI could write the code for a video like a website? This thought experiment led me to create Mike. It writes React code which can be rendered into a video. You can ask the AI to use any Node library to render graphs, animations, simulations.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-08 03:43:32+00:00
> Looking up records now, it looks like most of these equity firm purchases are back to actual people owners! Interesting. What does this mean? Firm bought property and resold at a profit?

I never went far enough to get all the details back when I was considering a move, but my impression is a lot of these "buy your home and close fast" corporate purchasers were offering just enough to make the speed and ability to not have to make a lot of major improvements worth the lost money from selling on the market. Then they do just enough work to clean up any "show stopper" problems and re-sell at market prices.

So (very simplified) if you have a home that might sell for 200k on the market if you put 10k of work into it, but you need to move in a few months, and you need to pay off 100k on the loan, the company offers you something like 180k. You walk away with 80k (instead of 90k) in your pocket and avoid the various real estate agent fees and the need to do any of the fix up work or deal with trying to sell and move at the same time. The company puts the $10k of work into it and sells for the 200k, pocketing the $10k you gave up.
by pear01 | 2026-01-08 03:44:22+00:00
So, that would be corrupt because you don't agree with it then?

Which are these sane countries? How do you think lobbying should work then? Everyone should get equal access? Hunter and gatherer man was egalitarian like that. Afaik it is a universal feature of civilization that this eventually breaks down. Of all the existent modes of dealing with this problem, money is probably one of the better ones compared to some historical or even contemporary alternatives. I actually will be very surprised if you come up with a single country that credibly makes "paying for access and influence illegal" as that is pretty much the history of all of human civilization, but I would welcome being surprised.
by triceratops | 2026-01-08 03:45:17+00:00
I meant in a zoo. Of course it's not realistic for a lion in the wild to live exclusively off poultry.

The person I responded to seemed to seems to believe lions eating only poultry would develop nutritional deficiencies of some kind. Maybe that's true but I'm interested to learn if there are sources. Not just gut feel "they don't eat them in the wild so they can't do it".
by jorl17 | 2026-01-08 03:45:43+00:00
Every single one of my non-techie friends who use ChatGPT rely heavily on memory and whenever they try something different to ChatGPT they get very annoyed that it just doesn't "get them" or "know them".

Perhaps it'll be easy to migrate memories indeed (I mean there are already plugins that sort of claim to do it, and it doesn't seem very hard), but it certainly is a very differentiating feature at the moment.

I also use ChatGPT as my daily "chat LLM" because of memory, and, especially, because of the voice chat, which I still feel is miles better than any competition. People say Gemini voice chat is great, but I find it terrible. Maybe I'm on the wrong side of an A/B test.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-01-08 03:46:26+00:00
I wrote "pit America against the rest of the world's nations" not based on this news alone, but on the totality of the past six months. For example:

https://whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-Natio...

It's hard to think of a plausible scenario in which America carries on like this using hard power alone.
by Fiveplus | 2026-01-08 03:47:21+00:00
Before the "rewrite it in Rust" comments take over the thread:

It is worth noting that the class of bugs described here (logic errors in highly concurrent state machines, incorrect hardware assumptions) wouldn't necessarily be caught by the borrow checker. Rust is fantastic for memory safety, but it will not stop you from misunderstanding the spec of a network card or writing a race condition in unsafe logic that interacts with DMA.

That said, if we eliminated the 70% of bugs that are memory safety issues, the SNR ratio for finding these deep logic bugs would improve dramatically. We spend so much time tracing segfaults that we miss the subtle corruption bugs.
by NoPicklez | 2026-01-08 03:47:43+00:00
Yes it can and it does that when there is an absence of available glycogen provided through carbohydrates, it is not to replace but to support in addition to appropriate sugar intake. It is a less efficient source of glucose, does not provide a large enough amount for exercise and also uses amino acids from muscle to help. Do this long enough and you end up in ketosis which is a whole other kettle of fish.

Why neglect one aspect of our bodies digestive energy systems for just gluconeogenesis. Wouldn't you be better off eating a balanced meal of complex carbohydrates and unsaturated fats. Our bodies have multiple pathways to producing energy, focusing on using only one is silly and not the right approach because it wasn't designed to be that way.

Just because our bodies can survive doing a particular thing in the absence of another, doesn't mean that thing we're absent of isn't required.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-08 03:49:44+00:00
> I doubt that would be an efficient use of money

It works for ice cream trucks, and when you ban all other forms of advertising, it's not like there's any more efficient places to spend that ad money.

> Blocking that double use is part of why I tossed "independent" into my earlier post.

So we'd just wind up with fleets of "independent contractors" doing deliveries for part of their income and advertising for the other part. It's not like a bunch of those vans and trucks aren't already contractors in the first place.