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Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:35AM (#50290747)
> I think the argument here is if you allow delivery to become a local monopoly

What monopoly? I can barely remember all the companies in this space, GrubHub, UberEats, PostMates, etc.

The point is that no human had access to the same data, because the LLM used the unpublished work of a number of mathematicians. The only way for a human to gain access to the same work, i.e. the same dots to connect, is to be in active collaboration with those mathematicians. In which case they would all be included in the resulting paper.
Re:Docker Is Weird on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:36AM (#50206884)
The docker daemon runs as root by default which IMHO is a security issue on machines with multiple users. For those machines, consider a rootless docker set up where each user runs their own docker daemon. (This is a supported configuration.)

All of the above applies to Linux, ymmv on other OSes

Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:10PM (#50187679)
Yes sorry, missed the reply link
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:15AM (#50181392)
main (or master) is just another branch to git.
Re:Siri is so bad at everything on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:27AM (#50105082)
Who would have thought that a watch needed a Clock app?
Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:13PM (#49850638)
I look forward to buying the dip every April 15th
Re:Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore? on Monday September 21, 2026 @10:17AM (#49787606)
> There probably is a finite amount of math to be done

> The universe is bounded by rules, as far as we can tell, and not a lot of them

Respectfully, this is not a useful frame for the discussion. Nobody is expecting to reach the limit you have noted either with or without the assistance of LLMs. So there is always more math that could be done.

Re:English: A vs. An on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:50PM (#49780938)
Because vowels are sounds, not letters
Re:GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:54PM (#49483425)
Can we start with TUIs? At some point Claude code CLI stopped responding to the keys I had been using to scroll the presented plan and it seems only the mouse wheel works
IMHO it's about proximity. It's easier to be inhumane from a distance.
Re:Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:47AM (#49241518)
IMHO, the verbosity is an attempt to make the results more deterministic. The more specific the prompt, the less wiggle room.
Re:Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:42AM (#49241466)
That argument is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

There is no perfect security.

Re:Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:38AM (#49241432)
I've set up a second user on my machine just for running AI. That way I have the additional layer of OS protections against it doing something like that.
I am saying there are unintended consequences to such changes. If all the grocery stores all at once raised prices 5%, your margins might turn negative. And most of your neighbors.
Some companies run at an extremely narrow margin. For example the margin for grocery stores is reportedly 1%. If you changed the tax system to tax gross revenues, now those stores would need to dramatically raise prices to accommodate.

It's not an easy problem.

Because if you are someone that generates good content you might not know anything about designing or hosting websites. But they can ask an AI to do it for them so they can focus on what they are good at, generating interesting content.
Re:The lost joy of music piracy on Sunday July 19, 2026 @05:20PM (#48971747)
An important part of my observation is that everyone is using them, not just that they are available
Re:The lost joy of music piracy on Thursday July 16, 2026 @05:56AM (#48932415)
I wonder if the real difference is that everyone has earbuds versus playing through a speaker
Re:The Git history command deserves more attention on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:37AM (#48907634)
One part of me wishes for multiple levels of logical commits.

When using GH we essentially have one level. The PR is the like a roll-up commit and then we have the component commits it consists of.

It would be nice to be able to say this commit consists of N component commits. Then users can expand or collapse the commits depending on what level of detail they want.

So user A who likes to keep a record of how they actually went through the process with all the warts can have those "messy" commits as component. And user B who likes to see a coherent story told by the commits without unnecessary steps can look at the higher level commit.

But also, git is complicated enough so maybe not.

Approximately ten defensive linemen
people have been making similar predictions about the US and soccer since I was a kid. Youth soccer is incredibly popular yet...
> the safe drawdown rate of 4% per year

IIRC this rate is based on some standard retirement length (like 30 years), not forever.

> Manhattan Scalpers won't leave unsold seats to a game like this

In this situation, it is unlikely that is it scalpers with the really desirable court side seats that fetch the highest value. It is season ticket holders and people with connections. The price you see is essentially, "it's going to cost you this much to make me miss watching my team in the championship".

For the other seats that were available to the general public, sure, it's likely scalpers as with any other event.

> Most of these tickets will go unsold I'm sure.

The tickets have already been sold. These postings are for resales.

You probably use direct deposit in which case your employer already has your banking info
Yes, technically payroll taxes are not income taxes.

And people who that x number of people do not pay income tax are implying they are paying no federal taxes when that is not true. It is a disingenuous argument.

People who complain about people not playing income taxes ignore payroll taxes.
I feel sad that what I think of as the obvious solution, companies using subdomains like internal.microsoft.com instead of making a million different domains, is so far from happening that no one here on HN has even brought it up.
Accessibility, if I am not mistaken

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