skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The family dining segment (cheap sitdown fair) is a shambling corpse. They weren't doing well pre-COVID, because each successive generation is proving less and less willing to sacrifice food quality for table service. At the price point restaurants like Chili's, Applebee's and their ilk operate at ($15-30/head), you can get substantially better food at a fast-casual (above fast food, but no table service) restaurant, and people are clearly choosing to do so. Nicer sit-down restaurants (in the ~$40+/head price range) are still doing alright.

Then COVID hit, and "going out to eat" was pummeled: fast-casual restaurants weathered the storm alright-ish, because they likely already had a non-trivial takeout segment, and were attracting people based on their food. Family dining, who's main selling point is table service, were slaughtered.

The outlook continues to be bleak for them, since they're being squeezed out of the market: cut costs by making worse food, and they cement their laughingstock status, cut costs by cutting back on staff and they jeopardize what little remains of their customer demand, or raise prices and further reduce their value proposition versus going to a nicer sit-down restaurant.
Don't forget air tags.
That's a horrible opinion to have of your family. Do you really have kids and a spouse? Why do you get to "judge" what they "do" with it? They're your family. They can live beyond your dreams of what's possible, you can't proscribe or foresee what they can do. You should want to support them, and make their life easy, and pass on your gains were you to die, right? How can you think giving it to some random charity is better than passing it to your own blood? That's a poverty of family love, to me.
Typical Apple NIH mentality. What will be next, memory chips may be?
What if it's not audio processing real time?

Some voice codecs get their rate down to 2-3kbps. Maybe it could store and forward with content loads without raising flags?

Just spit balling here.
> "You know what would be better? If I were sitting on some form of public transit right now..."

But almost everyone would say "it would be better if there was less traffic to deal with."
I didn't make that connection though, you did.

I heard people around here don't like that...
You are spot on - I have a thesis that most of Americas issue stem from its poorly thought out build environment.

Recommended reading:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125313.The_Geography_of_...
The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (2013)
Feels like you're taking reasonable prioritization personally. Over 90 percent of students attend public school:

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=55

And private school attendance is mostly higher income families:

https://www.educationnext.org/who-goes-private-school-long-t...

Unfortunately public transportation resources are limited, but prioritizing the vast majority of lower income public school routes over the vast minority of higher income private school routes makes sense
> Or, to put it another way, how many people do you know who complain about the difficulty in looking at their wrist or cell phone?

Everyone who tries to speak a text message with Siri. Apple should have been brave and not reshaped messages - that screen is not meant to consume text messages at any length - they should have changed the communication to match the context.
The point is that driving should not be required to live a full life, and in fact it's much more pleasant to live without cars everywhere.

The goal of driving is to get from point A to point B. But when point A and point B are a 5 minute walk, why drive at all? Well, in America we designed our cities and suburbs to make the distance between A and B as large as possible. But we didn't have to do that!
There is little question that after he left teqching math he became a money person. He got his money from somewhere, there are questions around how. According to Bloomberg (reasonably reputable) he was a great trader at Bear Stearns and then a money manager. Trader, money manager, and giver of donations to finance stuff. How far away from financier is that in your book?
Are transformers

- a hack devised/stumbled upon by AI workers or

- a theoretical concept concocted by a mathematician who has been thinking about what NNs do or,

- a set of techniques pipe-lined together by clever programmers who work with NNs? Or...

- something else?

I mean, if transformers really do something rational, then there should be a straightforward rational mathematical statement of the problem, a clear and clean expression of what they do!

What I see instead is a lot of complex cumbersome description and terminological noise: no clear problem statement, lots of steps, lots of moving parts, and downhill from there.

Now I'd be the first to admit that, if I believed I understood and could reproduce intelligence or language [and is intelligence merely language? An argument to that effect can be made - see Helen Keller], then if required I'd be prone to provide dense, noisy and incorrect explanations aplenty to potential competitors and even to honest inquisitive people. I would do that b/c revelation of the truth would destroy my competitive advantage. IOW I see every reason for ChatGPT et al developers and corporations to guide outsiders astray at this time.

Developing something like ChatGPT is like running an exposed Manhattan Project - everyone wants Da Bomb and you don't want them to have it - instead you want to lead them completely astray. Seems to be succeeding: certainly as far as I'm concerned.

Here's a simple test: has anyone within reach of my words made a version of these systems from scratch that does anything like the fullblown ChatGPT does and that (s)he will reveal?

Current times would indicate that we won't learn how it all works until someone leaks it or someone else figures it out (like happened to Heisenberg and Schrodinger). My bet is on the latter. And that's the guy/gal who should get the Fields medal or Nobel Prize. [I'd bet a mathematician will do it].

Meanwhile as we twiddle our matrices much effort must be afoot to infiltrate the ChatGPT working groups and get the goods and also to keep the current ChatGPT worker bees from flying off to other hives and revealing secrets. This may be one of the few times when tech workers' jobs seriously shorten their lives.

- Wandering in the desert...
Even our own universe could be vastly larger than the observable portion.
Mullvad has options to pay by cash, bitcoin, or even a physical gift card, in addition to the usual methods. There are no usernames, everything is tied to a randomly assigned account number. It's also moving many servers to a diskless infrastructure, running off ram and supports wireguard and openvpn.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/8/1/expanding-diskless-infr...
Anyone know of a reason why this isn't available on the UK app store?
It seems that any language stating intentions in the Constitution has only as much relevance to real laws as the relative strength of the lobbyists arguing for/against the provision in question, e.g. "A well regulated militia..."
https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3/blob/master/_example/sim...

notice that the SQLite package isn't used directly, its only imported to handle the database behind the scenes. all the actual code is written using only the standard library
People were historically drawn to urban centers because it was just easier to live that way vs making do on your own in the middle of nowhere.

Business saw a large number of people collected together and went, well, might as well set up shop here.

Now we have come all the way around where people want to move away, and businesses are going nope, you stay right here, because we need you to survive.
The issue is that cooking becomes more enjoyable and fast if you have a well-stocked large kitchen which not many can have due to size constraints or budget constraints. Then there's also cleaning which is never enjoyable and takes a big chunk of time. Cooking is definitely efficient at 3 or more people, can have tradeoffs with 2 people and makes little sense if you live alone or with non-cooperating flatmates.
I don’t even think having a valid license is a reasonable requirement. I should be able to own and register a car without having a license.

I think you can do this in most states; I know you can in my state (MA).
Because it feels like prosperity. In a town with no public transportation and very few cars, getting a car would feel awesome. And it's just a lot easier for 1 well-off person to buy 1 car than for the entire town to get good public transit.
Another thing to consider: A 3d fingerprint of a space can be created with live photos. I'm sure object recognition benefits from the small perspective changes as well.
> 1) people use youtube to not have to see TV ads

Then the good news is they still can by paying for YouTube Premium. The service has to be paid for somehow and Google gives you two choices, your eyeballs or a subscription.
I really hope it's not legal to drive while wearing a consumer AR headset. You would need to guarantee the device can't fail in ways that block important parts of your vision, and also prove that it is not a distraction hazard (which seems impossible)
One of the major problems with songs is they often “borrow” from songs in competition or even the same style. Art that’s appealing to wildly different customers is given significantly more leeway where art that competes head to head is more suspect.

This is one reason comedy is given so much freedom. It’s much easier to argue South Park retelling a story isn’t economically harming the original creators. That isn’t to say transformative only applies in economic terms, but such things make the arguments a lot easier.

As an example of this, Blizzard actually provided significant help in creating “Make Love, Not Warcraft” which shows just what transformative reuse can look like.
like, maybe? What are the demographics?

The one I know intimately is worth less than $1m for the land. I believe there are far fewer of those left than in 1960, but my perception is there are still quite a few.
My suspicion is that Pixelmator Pro is the odd duck — perhaps an attempt to move Pixelmator from pixel-editor toward more of a photo-tool.

Photomator might be an acknowledgment that pixel and photo editing are fundamentally different processes (... and never the twain shall meet).
It appears that way when the richest people in the country are able to avoid them and bribe politicians to use the working class tax dollars to bail them out every time their risky behavior causes problems. When it’s actually used to properly fund public services we spend less money for better services at the end of the day.
Maybe unpopular opinion but these types of articles exist to make people more dissatisfied and distract them from going after what they need.

A couple PhDs don't know what you need. They can tell you to focus on friendships, but you'd probably work less, and they don't know what your life would be like if you had less money and for example couldn't afford a car, or if you became disconnected from your work friends.

In general if you have a strong work ethic at something, even if it's working toward the American Dream, you're probably doing exactly what you need to be doing. The solution isn't to get distracted by lifestyle articles and try to go foraging for friends in a cliche way, the solution is to get better at what you're working on. Sometimes that means finding a new path that fills the same void, but you're going to have a hard time until that void is filled.

Usually you'll find friendships fall into place when your life is in order and has clearer direction because you find like-minded people.
> So what's going on with Zig?

It's a language made for people who like to do things a certain way both in terms of technical details (eg no macros, no hidden control flow) and when it comes to governance of the project (small, independent, non-profit organization free from big tech influence). While we do believe that there's value in this approach, this doesn't mean any other way of doing things is now obsoleted in favor of what we're doing :^)

More in general, Zig and Rust are different enough that if you spend enough time to properly evaluate both, you will probably find one more congenial to you than the other. I like Zig because I like simplicity, somebody else might like Rust because they like sound memory safety guarantees and a powerful type system.

You shouldn't see Zig as a threat to Rust, also because Rust already succeeded pretty much, and in fact I would recommend Rust as the much safer bet if you're looking for a new language to bet on, all else being equal.

> Is there a Rust vs Zig war going on?

Uhhh, no? There are certainly different sensibilities at play when it comes to the different communities, but that's it. I think I understand where this is coming from, but I really feel compelled to point out that I find crazy how people get really worked up when it comes to programming languages and immediately assume there has to be a fight for ultimate dominance there, while instead are completely oblivious about actual wars being fought under their noses. If you want to look at a war, watch Deno vs Bun, where different VCs have backed a different horse, and now they truly are in a battle for dominance. The ZSF has taken no VC money, has no big tech company brand to bolster, and lives off of donations. We just want to be able to move forward with the development of Zig and, for as long as we can do it, all is good, no need to convert the entire planet.

If you do end up evaluating Zig, I would recommend reading these two non technical blog posts about the ZSF & the people involved with it:

https://kristoff.it/blog/interfacing-with-zig/
https://kristoff.it/blog/the-open-source-game/
Actually, the GDPR only defines a minimal baseline for all the EU countries to meet. And countries didn't need to update their own laws to match it: since it is a Regulation rather than a Directive, the GDPR is enforcable in the entire EU even without a local law supporting it. Countries are still free to enact stricter policies if they want to, but those obviously wouldn't apply outside their own national borders.
I think income is a big factor: average Americans can afford to run cars, and have for a very long time - this is not so much the case in most countries.
I have a basic python script running in one of my tabs on my CLI to talk to OpenAI. It's not even 50 lines. It's basically just a while loop for user input, which it then sends to the the ChatGPT API and prints the response. Add a try/catch for rate limits and connection issues and that's it.

It's really nice to have an always-open ChatGPT equivalent in one of my terminal tabs that I can switch to at any time.
Laughs in Michigan.
Mac Rumors forums seems to be dominated by people who hate Apple. I have no idea what possesses people to join a forum where they hate everything the company does, but it's very prevalent on all types of content there.
And yet there's still zero remotely plausible evidence for it.

Nobody has caught continuous audio feeds being transmitted from smart devices to the cloud (which would be noticeable due to increased network traffic and bandwidth usage) nor identified any secret speech recognition code on the client (which would be noticeable due to severely shortened battery life). Nobody who's worked in adtech has come forward to blow the whistle or admit that they shipped this feature for a big tech company.

I get why it's an appealing conspiracy from a gut instinct perspective, but it really makes no sense. When you're observing the behavior of billions of people and using machine learning algorithms trained to get the best results possible, some uncanny shit will naturally result. Look at how effective LLMs like ChatGPT have gotten without an obvious route to profitability, then think about how much more money has been invested into ad targeting algorithms just in the last couple decades alone.
Or worse, quibbling over minor issues to avoid settling important problems so that there's a platform to motivate votes
They’ve incorporated a lot of vector functionality into Pixelmator itself. It’s a pretty decent drawing tool now.
The Netherlands begs to differ.
Absurd waste of materials, then.
> Between duck-typing languages like python and javascript and the minefiled that is C++, I think Java and C# fit a pretty nice sweet-spot.

Imagine where we would be if an actually good way of doing type systems had been invented in the 1970s and there was a whole family of languages that followed that approach. Oh wait.

> Java absolutely has "just data", they're mostly used for DTOs and database Entities, with tools like lombok @Data and `records` being some nice mechanisms of implementing them.

The fact that you have to step outside the language with @Data rather proves the point. And while Java now has a "record" keyword, they're still reference types, with turning them into actual values being something that's supposedly coming Real Soon Now for 10+ years.

> Inheritance, when used for implementing is-a relationship, is a pretty powerful tool. If you're surprised by overriding, maybe instead of complaining about `Parent parent = new Child()` examples, try to see a `Writer writer = new PdfWriter()`. Are you still surprised that `writer.write(document)` generates a pdf?

Inheritance is a conflation of 3 useful features (interfaces, composition, and delegation) that's a lot less useful than the sum of its parts. Better languages separate these out properly. (And, credit where it's due, Java made a positive step in normalizing the separation of interfaces from the other parts of inheritance).

> There are absolutely horrible ways of designing code in Java, but that can be said about any language.

That's a cop-out. No language completely eliminates bad code, but there are better and worse languages.
I'm sure in principle the rule is the same for all mediums, but in practice our sensory systems are not unbiased and its far easier to hold up two pieces of art side by side than it is to listen to two different songs in two different ears.I think it may be as simple as visual similarity is just more obvious and easier to point out.
Insert the word 'some' and a lot of people might agree, since this is an instance of gradualist vs revolutionary approach to change.

It's a linear optimisation problem. What if using more LNG now stops use of coal? Is that better than trying to move to solar only or solar plus wind? What if wind offshore scales faster than wind onshore because of land rights issues? What if nuclear would displace more LNG and coal than solar sooner?

Of course there are counter arguments. I'm not a Schwarzenegger supporter, but he's got the kernel of a valid point.

Trajectory to a goal is different to solving a problem and can take different paths and can land on different points which solve the problem, or are closer or further away from the goal. Some people want highly specific goals and reject local optima which are visible but differ from the specific goal in solving a problem.
> Rust's use of typeclasses (which it calls traits for some reason)

Scala and (apparently) PHP call them traits too, among many others [1] -- Rust wasn't the first here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait_(computer_programming)
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I don't need a latest Gentoo image to bootstrap a new system. The stage3 is more important, and that can come from dozens of mirrors.

Edit: I download a new image like once a year.
> But someone how says "like" repeatedly telegraphs confused thinking. Normally I hear that from teenagers, who have the excuse of youth.

Or it telegraphs that they're constantly reevaluating the assumptions behind what they're saying in real-time, unlike charismatic salespeople or politicians who will never use the word "like" because they are spewing unthinking bullshit.

I have the same evaluation of Musk as you do but don't agree with the comment about "like" usage.
FCKGW was blacklisted VERY early on with Windows Genuine Advantage updates and later service-pack-integrated media would block that key in the installer, even.
That’s Amsterdam. Go visit some less touristy cities in The Netherlands.
You seem to be confusing modern-day terminology with medieval use of words. At the time the article discusses, the distinction between top and bottom fermenting yeasts wasn't even made yet as far as we know.
But... as a business user I need the camera for my endless Zoom calls much more!
Cities can't continually become unaffordable if all the rich people you say are leaving don't come back. It doesn't equate.
"Entrepreneur of friendship"... love that.
> it's just a lot easier for 1 well-off person to buy 1 car than for the entire town to get good public transit.

Sure, once the town is already built for cars. If it wasn't, having a car would be a pain with no parking and no space in the streets.

The question is why cities choose/chose to rebuild themselves for cars in the first place, and continuously in the third world as suggested by the OP and the book "Urbanism Imported or Exported: Native Aspirations and Foreign Plans" by Joe Nasr and Mercedes Volait.
This is a false dichotomy, no?

Driving somewhere for 30 minutes means you waste 30 minutes of your life in transport.

Taking a train somewhere for 50 minutes means you can do something else for 50 minutes. Read a book, browse the internet, write a poem, whatever.
Zig starting to look nice, but compile speed is painfully slow..

Everyone wants to go after Go, but they fail to understand how important compile speed is
> the new hotness will be something like a small company "town" in the outskirts somewhere.

So the "new hotness" will be kind of like the old days where you worked for Pullman, and with those wages you earned, you: paid rent to Pullman, bought your goods at the Pullman general store, and so on in effect giving much of your earnings back to the company.
Oddly enough, the reason I have so many VR headsets is because I mostly give demos to non-tech people. Quest Pro still gets the, "Pretty cool, but why is it so blurry," comments. Not as much as other headsets, but still enough that it will never fly for general use. Meta, to their credit, does a good job of masking the poor optics by keeping texture detail to a minimum in their own software and encouraging developers to do the same.

I think people really into VR get so used to looking around with their head and having low expectations that they don't notice just how poor it is. By comparison it's good. In isolation, not so much.
Actually, believing this kind of monopolistic behavior is in any way unique to Americans is a perverse form of exceptionalism
> However, what it also demonstrates is that you can't reliably predict 'the next five years'

Generally, you can't, though I think in this case, the prediction is more confident due to the La Nina/El Nino phenomena.

Basically, the last few years have been breaking heat records despite a cooling force being in effect (La Nina). Now, that cooling force is gone and is replaced by a heating force (El Nino). So it's likely the fluctuations will now rather go up than down for the next few years.