skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> CBC News asked Loblaw what happens to shoppers who refuse to scan their receipt, and what customers do if they didn't buy anything and have no receipt. The retailer did not respond.

Given it's illegal to detain someone as outlined in the article (with some exceptions that don't apply here), is it fine to just barge through the exits and trigger the alarm and keep on moving? I would certainly not comply with a human asking to see my receipt as that's also not legally required.

Even if that's legal for me to do, I don't want to get banned from stores...

There's just no way I'm letting them try to detain me after I've already paid for my goods. Terrible. Can't believe some non-Loblaws stores even lock the gates until receipts are scanned. Sounds like a major fire hazard.
What I noticed more and more is me using alternative front-end or deliberately changing my user-agent to some old browser in some sites that still have some legacy version
This has an unfortunate naming collision with the M/M/1 queue, a common stochastic model for the study of queueing theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M/M/1_queue
This is not mutually exclusive, is it?
The comparison really, seriously, doesn't make any sense.

It's like asking if anyone has benchmarked gnuCOBOL on OS/2 against LLVM ML IR.

You might be interested in llama.cpp's Vulkan backend_s_, that's more of an apples to apples comparison.
If they're a GitHub App, they receive a token to authenticate into your account/org when you grant them access/enable the app.

Everyone should audit their GitHub Apps periodically/avoid using them if at all possible IMO. Most of these integrations are just a convenience for adding webhooks, which you can do yourself without compromising security. Always prefer "outbound" integrations.
You know there are few technologies that I like, take C#, it's an awesome language, but satan forbid investing efforts to make myself subjects to a change of CEO, an acquisition, anything, one thing I take from all of this Broadcome situation: always use only open source
Looking forward to see where this goes. For me, the Files/cloud storage portion of nextcloud is essentially why I _would_ use it.
> The only thing that might is a wholesale different client architecture that sacrifices features and polish to provide the slimmest code possible. That is, an alternate "lite/basic" mode. Unfortunately, this style of approach has rarely proved successful

But it is gaining popularity with the unexpected rise of htmx and its 'simpler is better even if it's slightly worse' philosophy.
Well that's me shot out of the water! It looks like someone bought a brand name and got it a bit wrong, through lack of understanding but who cares when the cash is running in and its not harming anyone.

Sadly this rings too true, rather closer to home. I own a smart new EV - an MG4. MG is a long standing British Marque. I know my car is largely Chinese.

I went to school in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK which is where the Morris Garage originated. My dad drove an MG Midgit in the '60s. My mum owned a Morris 1000 (Moggie). My granddad (Morris Oxford) ... well you get the idea.

In the end you have to decide for yourself exactly what you get when you buy a brand or even what a brand means in the first place.

I quite like my car but I do "firewall" it somewhat - I'm an IT consultant by trade.
Easier for the web devs to work with I guess? Multiple mentions of web browsers in the post
See "Who’s Killing Who? A Viewer’s Guide" by Nina Paley:

https://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/
https://www.rabbitears.info/screencaps/or-eug/185855-0_0.htm
Debian Stable was very out of date 25 years ago, but ever since mid '00s (after Ubuntu got popular) it improved by miles. Debian Stable is akin to Ubuntu Stable LTS. Ubuntu Stable non-LTS is a 6 month snapshot from Debian Testing, does not get supported for long. If you run Debian Unstable, you're probably running something akin to a rolling distribution. What is best all depends on your goal and purpose of the task. Personally, I very much like the Debian ecosystem and would prefer any Debian(-based) OS. However these days, Docker can trivialize a lot (and also mitigates your mentioned issue), ZFS and other filesystems allow to rollback in case of issues (useful on a rolling distribution, but also on Debian Unstable), and hypervisors allow snapshotting, multiple OSes, and all that, too.

For a server I'd recommend Proxmox (especially since ESXi is now only for enterprise). From there, have fun with different OSes.

Proxmox on a desktop is a bit meh, but possible. There's a lot of useful Linux desktop OSes out there. For example if you want to perform pentesting you can use Kali Linux. The one which interests me most from a security standpoint however, is Qubes OS (Fedora-based, sadly, but you can run anything on top of it). For gaming, SteamOS is neat (Arch-based, these days) and could even be fun to have a kid play around with Linux, too.

As for macOS, I played around with Hackintosh a couple of times in the past with success. But I never liked it much because you'd lag behind on security patches, and every new update would be praying it'd work. I did get it to work under Proxmox though, that was fun, but had to install a second (dedicated) GPU for that. I latest M-series ARM-based Macs work very well, only disadvantage is the fat price upgrade for RAM and SSD (often even soldered!). That part is terribly sad.
just use ChatGPT .
>> Entrepreneurs are often characterized by their willingness to take risks. This trait is considered fundamental to entrepreneurship because starting and running a business involves navigating uncertainty and making decisions that could lead to either substantial success or failure.
right before i rage quit my last position, i got dinged for not being “active” enough in some of the slack channels monitored by “leadership”
Right, YC are a VC firm themselves - so if you don't want to do the VC rocketship thing they're probably not the right match for you.
Whoops! Thanks, I fixed that.
COBOL is very easy to learn and write if you use it for what it was intended for. If you try to make a crud app or read from a web service, you are going to have a bad time. Trust me, I know. It can be done, but it is not pretty and was kind of shoe-horned in.

We have been trying to get rid of all of our COBOL and get off of the mainframe (many apps have been) for the past 20+ years. We are getting closer but priorities keep changing which keeps delaying that goal.

I love doing backend and db work so I would gladly switch to Go for my new projects. But, I would still need to use DB2, which (surprise surprise) is on the mainframe.
the vaccine is still beneficial to men.
I wonder how much algae and plankton a blue whale ends up eating accidentally, and how much of its caloric intake that would represent. It has to be non-zero… but how non-zero I’m unsure.
In case anyone else is confused as to why the domain in the example provided needs to be unicode (compared to the filename which is obvious): it's because the hyphen is the shorter '‑' char, which is extended ASCII 226 not the standard '-' (which would be ASCII 45).
Isn't that 'worse is better' philosophy?
Re "it's not a ban, it's forced sale" I think EFF makes a very good point. I'd put it as follows. We tend think of banning X unreflectively as not allowing X to continue to exist, but it's perfectly possible to ban X by allowing X (i) to continue to exist but (ii) not to continue to have such-and-such (important) property.

For example, suppose a left-wing administration does not like a right-wing publication and demands that it be sold to one of a list of potential left-wing owners or face a ban. It would then clearly be absurd to say: "it's not a ban, it's forced sale," because it clearly is a ban of the right-wing publication's as it currently exists, i.e. a ban of its right-wingness. Even if, legally, the right-wing publication is allowed to continue to exist as the same legal entity after the sale, its former right-wing character has been banned and for all intents and purposes it's no longer the same publication.

(Needlessly to say, this is not intended as an exaxt analogy to the TikTok situation. It's intended rather as an example showing that the inference from "the bill allows X to continue to exist" to "the bill does not ban X" is invalid.)
Last week I watched Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal which deals with this question quite literally, as the main character spends most of the plot in conflict with the very personification of death, in the era of the Black Plague when it seemed everyone was dropping like flies.

Some people obsess over what's beyond and fall to despair or cling to religion when there's no definite answer, not that any of us know anyway. Death is probably easier to deal with if you're alone and have nothing, but that in itself makes life much more bland. Bergman probably agreed, at least that's the way I understand it now -- keeping yourself busy with community and the pure things that make life sweeter like strawberries, like family and friends, is how humanity 'ought' to face the realization that life is short. Sure, you'll be scared when the time comes but at least it was a life with meaning.
Unrelated to semantics, but whenever I hear people talking and my Spanish alarm goes off (I’m a native Spanish speaker), but I realize I don’t understand the words, it’s Greek most of the time.

Italian and Spanish also share lots of idioms, too.
Then why not cut imports now. Time will only make them more resistant.
This kind of behaviour is very common from Apple.
PG has thrown his weight behind boosting questionable builders (50% supportive tweets were about Austen Allred's Lambda School and Suhail's Mighty). Now Tan, who is throwing tantrums on Twitter ("die slow motherfucker"), while passing on someone like Seibel?

I suppose all of them were still sadly supportive of the SVB bailout, "government cronyism for me, capitalism for thee". So much for any illusion of libertarian ethos.

If Garry Tan stays long as YC CEO, I'm betting we have a mutiny and a fork form. It looks like Seibel isn't going to do all the work of leading the batch while Tan reaps the larger share of rewards.
COBOL's boilerplate doesn't seem that much worse than what Java programmers lived with for decades.
What makes you think they want to do their jobs?
It’s super serious …
One partner does remote work, and the other moves for a job? That seems trivial and not particularly unusual.
There is no contraposition. In both cases, big company simply does something it wants.

This comparison actually highlights that there is no “system”, because some (imaginary) impersonal entity decides that those bad actors are allowed, and those bad actors are not allowed. Some public sensibilities are given as a reason, but no one is actually asking anyone's opinion on anything. Still, there are people who believe that Santa Claus brings presents for free, and that the whole thing is not governed by typical hypocrisy and typical politics behind closed doors. The thing is, you've built a turnpike, you can now bargain with people interested in sharing control over that turnpike.
I think a punch card program that output to the console (or whatever punch card systems used for output, a teletype?) instructions for creating a new set of punch cards containing itself would meet the definition of a quine. The source code is the program itself, the “compilation” is the process of punching new cards, the execution is feeding the cards into the machine, and the output is the source code again.

What is described in the original article is more like feeding a program into the machine that does nothing and declares the fact that the original deck is now in the output bin to be a quine.
Abrahamic prophets are not soothsayers or prognosticators. They're poets and social critics that speak truth to power when power doesn't want to hear it in language that cannot be ignored. Their message is shockingly consistent through the ages: we allow people to be oppressed; that is not right; no good will come of it.

Isaiah 58 absolutely crackles with this.

https://onbeing.org/programs/walter-brueggemann-the-propheti...
I wonder to what extent dot size / spacing matters. Traditional braille is absolutely tiny to make it even remotely possible to construct books, but with a digital device it might make more sense to make it larger.

Making it 3-4x as large would make it fairly trivial to use off-the-shelf servos for each dot. Instead of moving your finger left-to-right across multiple characters, it'd raise & lower the dots while your finger stays on them.

You could even take it to the extreme and create a "reverse steno" display: imagine a regular keyboard home row, with one dot per finger. Use the thumbs for speed control or word skip or something. Maybe it could do double-duty as input method.
Often they’re not luxury, they’re “luxury,” which means 1970s shitbox with asbestos popcorn ceilings and a fresh coat of paint. Aka, it’s the price that’s luxury, not the condo.
Something tells me the reverse doesn’t work that way.

Ex: how do you recognize a fake dollar bill? By knowing what a real one should look like.

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
- Blaise Pascal
> ...which is a long standing point of academic contention.

What contention? If anything, Luu is being rather generous–Knuth was just whining that the decades-long free lunch program was being cancelled.
An Invention to Silence Reggaeton
Are these mainframe developers or system level guys. I wouldn't use REXX to run production batch processes. I would use REXX for TSO utilities and ISREDIT macros. JCL is pretty much a must for running batch processing. It is waaaaay more simpler and re-startable than trying to do the same thing with REXX.
As a counterpoint, I have a 2015 MacBook, a 2015 iMac, and a recent Apple Silicon MacBook. Of course I do Photoshop, Lightroom, Generative AI, etc. on the Apple Silicon system. But I basically don't care which system I browse the web with and, in fact, the iMac is my usual for video calls and a great deal of my web document creation and the like.

I suspect that people who have somewhat older Macs (obviously there's some limit) who find their web browsing intolerably slow probably have something else going on with either their install or their network.
lol… this comment just makes me remember that how likely you are to die is determined by an estimate of what a company can get away with by an actuary.
No, silly. Full self-driving has already been achieved by the end of next year:

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
the worst case scenario for being a YC founder is probably a 500K+ job at FAANG or another YC startup if you fail
I have worked on this aspect on quantum computation [1]. The main problem is that reversibility is a feature of isolated quantum systems. In practice, they are not isolated.

Why? It's not just because of small interactions with the environment that we cannot control. It's that even the apparatuses that we use to control/drive the logical instructions (lasers, electrical transmission lines) should be taken into account if the computer is to be considered isolated. But usually they aren't, and this leads to inevitable losses of reversiblity in the data register.

In other words, unitary (reversible) operations do not come for free.

I think that in quantum computers it is more likely that energy-efficiency will come from some sort of algorithmic advantage.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10470
Could be local law, competition, or maybe the people are more or less conservative about this kind of stuff in different countries.

> Also perhaps different markets are different due to local law and competition.

I’m just curious (for no real reason, just curiosity) and want to nail down the “perhaps.”

> But isnt water wet?

If you ask a chemist or physicist why water is wet you might get an interesting answer!
Nah I can believe they'd be a chemical engineer or even a software developer that writes iOS apps or something like that.
I don’t get why they don’t support gRPC (HTTP 2)? They already support Websockets.
I have heard horror stories about IMS but have been fortunate to never have to use it. DB2 is pretty decent and very reliable.
Not going to get promoted*

*By Dell

Most places have politics and limits around promotions. The best way is to self-promote into the role you want at another company.

Besides, your employer will drop you in an instant if they think it brings in profit. Why shouldn't you do the same?
I've got an iPad Air 2 running iOS 15.8. My user agent will surely tell you I'm only one or two major versions behind the "latest and greatest" but the hardware itself is a different story. On this device modern GitHub consistently crashes when displaying more than a few hundred lines of code. I've lost the ability to use a perfectly functioning device due to bloatware.
In theory, a lot is worth whatever something built on it is worth minus the cost to build. So the lot should probably be worth less.
Hook up fees are often hilariously inflated. Trenching on an empty lot is not very expensive.

My point is that, if you remove distortions from a market, prices may go down.
You missed the point, which is that it's better if users with slow devices see actually useful content rather than a splash screen.
Dynamic Memory Compression: Retrofitting LLMs for Accelerated Inference
We could generate theories at one a second for a hundred years, and they'll remain just that: theories.

The MH370 plane itself won't be found except by accident, and probably more than a hundred years in the future from now.
".. is affecting all Java versions from Java 8 to the early access builds of JDK 22. There is no workaround available .."

Do not update until Apple fixes the issue.
if you're still using vmware for virtualization i feel like you get what you deserve at this point. KVM has been around for over a decade, powers most clouds, and has easy to use and powerful implementations.

VMWare by comparison is hot garbage. Want to migrate a VM? thats a fee. Want to clone a VM? thats a fee. need a way to configure more than one hypervisors networks at a time? thats a fee. want iSCSI? you've gotta dedicate a full network port to the traffic and cant converge it with the existing trunk. need ARM? tough shit. want support? good luck, if youre calling VMWare you are truly desperate, and some of those 2800 people cut from the rank and file probably had byzantine ESX style answers for you.
>Something never quite sat right with me about this argument, and your comment finally made me understand what it is: the understanding you gain from tinkering is priceless, and it's exactly the experience that you use to help everyone around you: it turns you into an expert.

Yeah, but an expert in what? There are only so many hours in a day. Like if you care about learning about some rando soy d driver, or why all you photos come out pink under Linux, but not Windows[], that’s great. Go knock yourself out.

But if you want to do something that’s not rando debugging, then maybe it’s not for you. Like, I like Unix. It’s lets me do my work with the least amount of effort. What I don’t like is being a sysadmin. Some folks do, and that’s awesome. But that’s the reason why I got rid of desktop Linux 20 years ago.

[] Both of these are actual lived experiences. I do not care about you chiming in about either of these.
It'll be sad when it dies. I remember running Snow Leopard on my netbook and taking it to WWDC. It was sacrilegious but quite the conversation piece; I remember lots of Apple engineers being amazed it worked so well.
To some level, isn’t this an effective way to keep employees focused on the mission? The second you get a big payday you reconsider the need to work full time, the importance of family, health. You might even quit and start a new company with your pile of cash. All of which are not good for spaceX.
I thought I sold at a good time 4 years ago, for 3X what I bought it for... (bought in 2009)
Thanks for filling in the details, this sounds like a great use case.
You can't prove such a thing in ZFC [1]. ZFC's "power set axiom" is a misnomer. It doesn't imply the existence of infinite power sets. It just says if any set S exists and is a subset of an infinite set A, then S is element of a set P (the supposed "power set"). But the axiom doesn't imply the existence of "all" subsets of A. There is no way for first-order logic to state "every possible combination of elements of A forms a set". And Cantor's theorem stating that there is no mapping f from A onto P merely means that the mapping f itself can't exist inside a model of ZFC. [2]

[1] Or any other theory of first-order logic.

[2] This is explained in more detail in Stewart Shapiro's book "Foundation without Foundationalism" p. 114f.
This is 100% false.

I have been running Ubuntu then Arch as my daily driver 2004-2017. As I started a consultant working for Western companies I thought they will care about me being clean copyright wise so I went 100% Linux. This was obviously not so but what did I know? I deeply regret doing this now. (I was dual booting before.)

With Ubuntu, upgrades every six month or so meant you were better off reinstalling and reconfiguring -- no matter which way you went, it was 2-3 days of work lost to tinkering the system. With Arch, the whole system doesn't shatter, it's just this and that doesn't work and it's frustrating. Bluetooth, multifunction scanner-printers being in the forefront. In fact, I needed to sell a perfectly working Samsung MFC at one point because Samsung ceased to make drivers, the old ones didn't work with newer Linux and while open source drivers surfaced that only happened years later. Let's not even talk multimedia. https://xkcd.com/619/ is ancient but the priorities are still the same.

Neither systems were great on connecting to weird enterprise networks, be it enterprise wifi or strange VPN. At one point I was running an older Firefox as root (!) to be able to connect to the F5 VPN of my client because the only thing supporting 2FA for that VPN was a classic extension -- and the binary helper disappeared in the mists of time. The only Linux related discussion was ... the IT head of my client asking how to connect Linux to his VPN now that he turned 2FA on and being told it doesn't work. https://community.f5.com/discussions/technicalforum/linux-ed... well I made it work but faugh.

I have been running Windows 10 + WSL since 2018 January and all is well. It reboots sometimes while I am asleep and that's about it. You need to run O&o shutup like once in a blue moon. Right now I am on Win 11 as my primary laptop is being repaired, you need to run ExplorerPatcher but that's it. It's been indeed six years and there was never an update where the OS just didn't start up or a hardware driver decided to call it quits after an upgrade.

Also, updates are not forced, I control my machine thanksmuch via Group Policy.

https://xkcd.com/619/ is ancient but the priorities are still the same.
I’m glad to hear it! I’ve been grappling with how to package something I’m calling “HYPER // MODERN” (which I can talk about if you’re curious) and we’re pretty locked-in on flox at this point, it had been a combination of flakes and Homebrew and flox is just a better time.

If you drop me an email at b7r6@b7r6.net (I also just joined your slack) I’d love to give my feedback on this or that nitpick.

But overall, well done friends, very very nice stuff.
It also 'starts off better' because they refined its components throughout the rest of their ecosystem over the last half decade (or more?). If you look at a variety of unprovoked UI changes in iOS and tvOS, or hardware changes in iDevices, they now look like field tests at scale for learning, before bringing together these new, now proven, things.

It's a way of development seen almost nowhere else.

Or I'm giving them too much credit ... but I don't think so. I think it's evident they seeded hard parts throughout the rest to learn at massive scale.
Can you provide a reference? I wanna see this.