skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> McDonald's costs more than my local gourmet burger place, but with half the flavor.

I really wonder what the economics of this is.

A lot of people mention the app being cheaper (I don’t know, I don’t eat fast food). Are walk-ins just paying a premium for convenience? Is it actually more expensive or did they raise prices beyond the necessary point under the guise of inflation so they’d have headroom for later? Does your local place actually pay and treat workers worse?

In my HCOL city, I’ve seen ads for McD workers with a $30+/hr salary. I don’t know if they’re overpaying compared to mom-and-pop stores to get workers, but it seems like a good thing to see even more incentives to eat at local restaurants instead of chains.
What’s Google?
I saw that, yeah, but I don't want to do that manually.

A custom command that could add some jitter automatically or just pretend to be a bit more human would be nice.

Lets type "ls -lap" with some hesitation and a typo...

Type "ls "
Sleep 200
Type "-"
Sleep 300
Type "l"
Sleep 50
Type "aa"
Sleep 100
Backspace
Sleep 150
Type "p"
Enter

:(

There is the TypingSpeed variable but its not exactly what I'm going for.
Frozen came out ten years ago and frozen 2 came out five years ago. I think that qualifies as a few years.
Granted life has been tough on the movies since some odd event in 2020
I’ve already been using asciinema 3 as a Rust library to build tools - specifically, a tool that runs a command and streams the output logs directly to AWS CloudWatch.

So far, apart from some minor bugs which mostly didn’t affect me, things have been working perfectly - so much so that it’s kind of surprising really. Kudos to Marcin (and my thanks for being so engaged on Mastodon when I had questions!)
I don't quite follow what that means in context, so I'll answer as if it's asked in isolation:

It's not the same at all. At least, IMHO: The volume of disinformation and misinformation is orders of magnitude greater than ever before, as is capability and quality:

1) Volume: The Internet reduces mass communication costs by orders of magnitude, of course, and similarly reduce wide-area communication costs, so people in Russia and China or anywhere can send disinfo to people in the US or UK or West Africa, etc. Also, computers greatly reduce the cost of producing disinfo, by automating it (and now GPTs reduce that mcuh further).

2) Capability: Before, mass communication required going through narrow gate with a gatekeeper. You had to get it on the evening news broadcast or in the newspaper. The gatekeepers were experts who exercised judgement - not always perfect judgment, but they are less easily fooled than non-experts. Now disinfo can go straight to the consumer (disintermediation). The Soviets, dedicated to decades of expert propaganda to reach westerners, I bet would have thought it was an impossible fantasy to communicate directly to individuals!

3) Quality: Through corporate mass surveillance, collecting data on individuals, tracking responses in detail, A/B testing, etc., the effectiveness of the disinfo can be greatly improved - just like advertising. (I'd be interested to know how much it can be improved.)
IDK if I agree. Disney wants to sell you a mickey tshirt on every platform so you have to buy N of them.
The heavier you make your counterweight, the more strength you need in your cables.

The problem is that you could solve this by say, lowering a small pallet of whatever to the bottom of the shaft and moving it sideways out of the way - trading "power" for "energy storage".

But if you extend that idea you wind up at "pump a liquid" as the obvious way to do it, since that has essentially no limit on flow-ability.

The other problem of course it lead in the first place: 1000kg of lead at 1500m high is about 4kWh of potential energy. 1000kg of Lead-Acid batteries is about 25 kWh of potential energy. I suppose you could put the batteries on a cable for the extra 4kWh but I suspect the complexity isn't worth it.
I wonder what need they're fulfilling here. It's not really more useful than using llamacpp-python. This is not something old Google would even release.
Wiktionary seems to agree with my guess about the meaning of -ung:

> forms nouns from verbs, usually describing either an event in which an action is carried out, or the result of that action.

> Note that the -ung suffixed form is different from the gerund which is formed by simply capitalizing the first letter of the verb. The gerund usually refers to the activity in general rather than a specific instance or result.
For me I have no real issue using the MacBook Pro 16" on a plane, in bed, on a couch, at a desk, etc. Much more ergonomic than AVP for every use case I've tried. (Laying in bed is especially bad with AVP). I’m sure some people will prefer it though.
Why? If you don’t follow the rules of the road the cyclist is to blame. Now what Waymo needs to do to avoid this in the future is a whole other discussion…
OpenAI makes you submit it one image at a time too.
Definitely agree on the slower bit. I would love to play a much slower version of this at least to learn the controls better and also think through some strategy.

If it sped up over the course of the game that would be great.
Let's hope that this German court does a better job than the one that heard Christopher Helwig's case against VMware for infringing on Linux copyrights.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-developer-abandons-vmwar...
Let's wait until there's a neutral 3rd-party description.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35844915/ntsb-letter-nhts...
Have a look at many cross-platform native apps like Jami, Pidgin, VNC, XnView - all made with Qt/GTK+.
I’m savvy too and had a similar one recently that I stopped myself at the check out. I was surprised I got so far before realising.

I clicked a Facebook link for a clothing brand’s factory outlet, which went to a site that had all the logos, a web store with correct looking products, and really great prices. Like 80% off.

I hurriedly loaded up some stuff in the cart and checked out.

At the credit card entry I realised the URL wasn’t tied to the brand’s website.. it wasn’t a subdomain, it was like https://brand.outletfactory.com or similar… still could be legit as a business partner may have been running the site.

Before entering the cc details I went to the brands website to see if there was a link to follow to their outlet site and there wasn’t.

At this point the dread set in as there was no actual link between the brand and this site despite the right logos, products and a nice looking webstore, so I googled for a scam and found people had been caught out.

I promptly backed out of the transaction and reported the ad to Facebook. I can’t remember the exact response I got but I remember being underwhelmed as if the scam ad would continue but I had been taken out of the filter.
I can’t believe those things are allowed on the road!
Errr...two posts so far, and he is also collaborating with iFixit?
Wish I could find a burger joint for $12.50. My favorite is Five Guys but you can’t get out of there for under $20.
I’m not counting on a cheap money future. Not near future at least.
I like what you're doing. I was heavily involved in building DigitalOcean and thought often about a lot of what you're working on. Good luck, I think you're doing great work. =)
Chinese Hackers Embedded in US Networks for at Least Five Years
Moana came out almost 8 years ago! The force awakens is even older. I think you are proving the OPs point.
I owned the first iPhone right when it came out. It was a revelation. It’s original cost was about the same as Windows Mobile devices off-contract, and it quickly got a price cut weeks into its launch, so it really wasn’t more expensive than any other Windows Mobile device or BlackBerry. And it was a revelation - blazing fast, did everything important the competition did (except enterprise support), and it truly was a giant leap. Nobody bought the iPhone and said, This thing sucks now, but just you wait… It was great from moment one.

Vision Pro is a bust. Tim Cook’s Apple is one where bean counters rule. Steve Jobs would never have shipped this. He would have felt like a dork with this heavy monstrosity without purpose, and he would have killed it. That’s what leadership and taste look like. Today’s Apple is not capable of bold things like the iPhone anymore. The model is the Apple Watch - put out an unusable piece of shit, and then iterate until it sells well.
It's also arguably safer for the cyclist to do so. Bikes typically accelerate much slower than cars.
Is the mirrored mac as sharp as the rest of the visionOS UI for you? For me it's not. Also, even visionOS UI elements are almost but not quite retina quality unless I move them 1-2 feet from my face, which is exactly what he describes.

Also the FOV is such that there's no point in having a huge screen, since I'd have to move my head from left to right to see everything.
This has been addressed already, though not by manufacturers. If you live (or drive through) an area where brick attacks are known to happen, you just put protective films on the windshield. It usually still ends up damaged but you can continue to drive just fine (I know because I have).
I don’t think you have a genuine interest in what I’m talking about.
In this yesterday's video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzpoLmPRZ8I (Starship is Misunderstood, with Casey Handmer (Terraform Industries)) - Casey Handmer touches a bit on some fundamental problems Starship presents to JPL. Basically, JPL excels in making really small and lightweight and very capable yet very expensive equipment, for space - and Starship suggests that it can be replaced with much less lightweight and less expensive one but with about the same capabilities.
Important to note is that rentiership, by definition, is a non productive use of capital. (A housing unit does not produce anything, as other deployments of capital do)
It's funny because I was just starting my job-search today and, at the top of HackerNews, there was this article that seems to suggest that prospective employers look for applicants like me.

I wonder what sort of prospective employers might be looking for the sorts of things that this article describes?
For comparison when they say they are only producing 28k units a month that’s over 1,200 tons of artillery shells a month.

Reading that it says 150 tons of explosives and this happened 10 years ago. So, not particularly relevant today.
In the commodities business there’s an old saw that long-term contracts solve supply problems, and spot prices solve inventory problems

And this seems like a perfect example of the first part of that.

The thing I didn’t see was how much it would cost to build a facility that produces x/k rounds a month.

I find it hard to imagine these facilities are that expensive (in the context of US defense spending) so it makes me feel there was a something else going on here…
I'm excited about Unison as a language so I'm glad to see something that will hopefully give it some additional forward momentum
Calder Mercury Fountain – Barcelona, Spain
Careless cyclists?
Is the app giving away any more data than what was being given away by using a credit card?
It’s the screen quality. Every time I use the XReals, there’s intense blooming and bleed with the colors being super off. It’s basically impossible to read anything in the margins of your screen.

I bought them as “nreal” in dec 2022, I don’t know they updated the hardware when they rebranded.
I have ADHD and I'd love to understand this. Can someone give a layperson's explanation of the abstract?
I'm not giving up my phone to them for their bottom tier food.
How? On iPhone I only give it location permissions while I'm using the app, and I pay with Apple Pay to avoid giving them much that they would be able to correlate elsewhere.
“We only need to be right for a day.” Glenn Close in The Paper (1994).
And yet everyone who knows anything about VR disagrees with you.

Vision Pro is far from incremental. Expensive, needs more work etc. But not incremental.
Sounds like a working solution is not as “widely available” as you suggest. Apple/Amd play similar games.
I never liked the usual "discount for new customers only". Why don't loyal customers get the best deal? Back in the old Zortech days, we gave repeat customers our best prices.
Good. The last thing we need is another Oliver Stone.
I grew up in Ukraine, and I distinctly remember how little Ukrainians cared about their military before 2014. It was chronically underfunded, equipment in terrible shape, not nearly enough training, outdated tactics, etc. And Ukrainians wanted it that way, because who wants to think about war and spend resources on the military when your country is in such terrible shape financially already? I shared that attitude growing up. And this is a huge reason why the war happened in the first place. In some neighbourhoods, weakness invites aggression. Ignoring that fact won't make it go away. To have lasting peace, it is necessary (though not sufficient) to have a strong deterrent.
And how much did those movies cost to make? I think the movies you are referring to were expecting to make 500m or more. They needed to make about 500 to break even!
Disney said have some successes last year. But they aren't as impressive as you might think
Why do this though from McDonalds point of view? Isn’t it better to continue to be known as the mediocre food stop with good prices than an expensive place with mediocre food? Seems short sighted. Their economies of scale must really mean they have huge margins compared to a mom and pop.
I think by dehumanizing them, you sacrifice your own influence and humanity. They are humans, with empathy and other human emotions, and can be persuaded.

On a slight tangent: A popular technique these days is to aggressively demonstrate amorality, sociopathic lack of compassion, etc. There's a reason they go out of their way to demonstrate it and so aggressively - it's BS. It's a negotiating tactic from the second week of negotiating class: Act angry to put things out of reach and to intimidate people into backing down. <Yawn.>
According to that page, Frozen merchandise alone has grossed nearly as much in ten years as the entire Star Trek franchise in almost sixty.

Presumably not adjusted for inflation, but still impressive.
I was shocked to see a 2L bottle of Dr Pepper that cost $3. I'm not going to be drinking it anymore out of principle.

The really insulting thing about McDonald's is the service is bad and the food is worse than it ever was. The last time I went in So Cal, we waited 5 mins to order (there was no line-- just no attendant). Ordered, my daughter got the pancakes. 10 mins later when the order came up there were no straws, napkins, or syrup. My daughter asked me to get some syrup, another 5-min wait. She knocked over her drink (no straw, she's little and clumsy) and absolutely nobody that worked there noticed. I tried to clean it up with napkins, but it was clear it was just too much liquid for that to be effective.

I waited another 10 mins and told the guy at the counter what happened, I even said, "If you can get me a mop I'll clean it myself." He assured me that wouldn't be necessary.

I went back to my table, ate my sad mcmuffin-- which was dry and weird and the “cheese” doesn't melt anymore. And they forgot the hash brown which was now worth $4, apparently, but I wasn't going to wait again.

When I left, absolutely nobody had cleaned the floor and I was terrified someone would slip, but it wasn't my problem anymore.

Last time I will ever go to McDonalds. They ruined Chipotle too.
Yeah on marketplace I always do the “pick up only, cash only” thing. The scammers try to talk me into some other arrangement but if I hold to it they disappear.
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Wanting the war to end is reasonable. Not caring who wins is extremely naive or selfish
That's a rather simplistic view of things. Anyways I'm not going get into it and instead leave you with a quote from Mr. Sherman:

>You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.
That's a very convenient way out of explaining yourself.
I can't believe we have roads in the first place. It is the invention of the romans. And what good have they ever done for us?
No, its UI is made with Qt/C++: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/tree/dev/Telegra...
This is just revisionist history.

iPhone 1 sold 1.4m units at a much lower price point.

It was better than the competition at its time but definitely not a mainstream phone.
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A lot of personal data. Their app is super-sketchy in terms of permissions.
> Your language is clearly emotional.

that might be true, but how does that address the points in my arguments? if
someone is lacking a strong argument, its easier to attack the commenter.

> is not a reason-based, technical argument, it's an expression of anger

this comment seems to ignore the four technical points I made in a previous
comment.

> Vertical space isn't tight

unless one is on portrait device, yeah, it is.

> The three-panel layout has been around forever, it's so common because it's an efficient way of organizing site-wide and page-wide navigation.

it also hogs too much vertical space. again just because something is old
doesn't mean its good. guess what, the home button has existed for longer, so
people can press that, and then a fixed top bar is not needed.

> Clearly the site is usable, it seems as if you're just nitpicking details you personally don't like and overreacting to them.

another ad hominem. I would welcome a constructive comment, rather than a low
effort attack.

> You want me to make a "compelling argument" about what amounts to a disagreement on subjective matters

I provided reasoned justification to my position. however some people seem
distracted by the strong language, or maybe just using that as an excuse
to avoid having to actually create a cogent reply to the point being made.
I mean you can get an In-N-Out hamburger for $2 or a cheese burger for $2.50

Get 2 cheeseburgers and make your own fries at home for $0.50/potato. It’s what I do and you have a pretty big meal for ~$5
> It's quite baroque and the UI is chaotic and confusing and the documentation is very badly organized.

I’ve got no real love for AWS, but I do have some hate for GCP.

The UI is chaotic, cluttered, and has no sense of hierarchy. There’s very little consistency, and poor information hierarchy. On a page with eight layers of toolbars (why?!), it’s not unusual to find two things that conceptually seem to operate on the same thing in entirely different places.

Even pages I use almost every day in the Google Cloud Console I find myself unable to find common functionality. I literally wasted hours one day looking, googling, looking, searching the raw DOM, and more trying to find a panel that the documentation said was on a page only to find they’d introduced a brand new type of widget just for that page and apparently it automatically hid and left you just a tiny icon with no description off in a cluttered corner of the screen to reveal it.

Let’s not even get started on permissions.

I’ve never struggled as much with any other product.

And as for the documentation, well… at least AWS _has_ comprehensive and effectively always up-to-date/accurate documentation. It might be a slog to get through, but it’s extremely rare it doesn’t have the answer I’m looking for.

I’ll never get back the time I’ve spent blindly hammering away at GCP to figure out how it’s supposed to work. Or worse, the time I’ve spent following the documentation only to, after all my effort, find the random 5 year old GitHub issue about how the documentation is out of date and inaccurate and the project needs to be accomplished a totally different way… which it turns out was also out of date! Third time’s the charm!

My experience with GCP has been so bad over the past… almost decade now? in every aspect that my immediate reaction to the top level comment was to assume it was a troll as soon as it started praising GCP. I’m honestly shocked to find other people in here defending it.
My local Mom & Pop burger/pizza/grinder places actually cost the same or even sometimes a bit less than fast food these days and the quality is much better. Most of these places actually need about your repeat business so they haven't been as greedy on jacking up menu prices.
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i think cyclists should have equal share of the road and should be protected but for whatever reason cyclists in SF seem to think the rules don't apply to only them and will get militant if you breath the wrong way.
Then why are you buying from them in the first place?
Methinks thee doth protest too much
>What I hope Waymo learbx for this, as well applies as similar scenarios: never cross through these zones of high bike traffic when the obstruction from another vehicle prevents a wide enough view to brake before this zone.

I hope it's as simple as that, and that regulators will understand just how little fine-tuning could yield substantial safety increases not possible with human drivers.
I can often buy a 5.5lb free range, locally grown while chicken for under $9 at my local $KROGER when there's a sale.

Fast food is just a gigantic rip off at these new prices. And the quality has gone down the toilet to boot.
I was hit while riding a bike in a situation that sounds similar: I was biking behind a car. A driver headed in the opposite direction turned left and hit me. I was difficult for the turning driver to see because I was obscured by the vehicle I was following. The description is totally plausible. It also sounds like the biker may have ignored the stop sign.
> What I hope Waymo learbx for this, as well applies as similar scenarios: never cross through these zones of high bike traffic when the obstruction from another vehicle prevents a wide enough view to brake before this zone.

This might be fair, but at some point, if you are applying this consistent level of caution, there isn't going to be anywhere in the real world left to actually drive
I think Opera was preferabke at some point at that time?
the cyclist left the scene “reporting only minor scratches.”

I'd never considered it before, but perhaps the endgame is humans getting used to automated taxis like potholes, animals, nails and other road hazards ? And then learning to judge the risk and accepting occasional small crashes like this.