skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All of our restaurants offer a full-service bar where our entire menu is served. During fiscal 2022, alcoholic beverage sales represented 12% of The Cheesecake Factory restaurant sales. We offer all items on our menu, except alcoholic beverages where disallowed by regulation, for off-premise consumption, sales of which comprised approximately 25% of The Cheesecake Factory restaurant sales during fiscal 2022. [0]

Industry benchmarks for similar chains put food ingredients typically around 28–35% of the menu price and alcoholic beverages around 20–25% of the menu price. Nonetheless, making 2x profit on 25% of sales is incredible for restaurants.

At Cheesecake Factory, total food and beverage cost is 24.6%. Labor cost is 36.7%: of that waitstaff is ~50% of labor and kitchen staff is ~30% of labor. Operating cost is 26.7%. Looks like after other costs the profit was ~1.2%. Not much but that profit comes from the 25% off-premise consumption without alcohol.

Takeout for Michelin star restaurants is not a good idea. For almost all other restaurants, takeout is were the profits are. Engineering a menu and kitchen is like engineering a database, you have to ask things like are there a lot of writes and few reads or a lot of reads and few writes to determine how to structure it. When designing a restaurant and menu there needs to be equilibrium between how many seats in the dining room, what if any liqueur license to acquire, an expectation of percentage of food will be takeout, and menu items that will satisfy both dining room and takeout quality expectations. We eat with our eyes first even if it is opening a steaming hot carton of Orange Chicken from the Cheesecake Factory. There are always tradeoffs and it matters what the end goal is and more often than not the goal for both a database and kitchen is to earn as much profit as possible.

Some advice if you ever open a restaurant. The single biggest pain point when working in a kitchen opening a brand new restaurant is not enough storage. [1] You need enough containers to hold each of every element. You need enough containers to hold each of every element in cold storage for backup during service. Lastly, you need enough clean containers to switch the contents of each element into at the end of each night or to be dirty waiting for cleaning while the others are being used. The week before you open a restaurant, count how many containers you thought you needed and have in stock and triple that amount. Nothing will slow down service like not having enough containers. See, engineering a kitchen is like engineering a database.

[0] https://s29.q4cdn.com/187116270/files/doc_financials/2022/ar...

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Rubbermaid-Commercial-2-Size-3-Quart-...
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Geophysicist and former MWD engineer here. I agree. Even if you fuse everything that you penetrate to the annulus of the borehole, the material properties of the fused annular ring will vary as you cross formation boundaries based on the mineral composition of the formations being drilled. You may have some nice silicon glasses through a clean sandstone that transition quickly to inhomogeneous glass from a silicon-poor limestone. That has to create zones of weakness along the annulus and as you drill (zap) deeper it becomes even more critical to stabilize the borehole.

I can see this being a lot like conventional drilling to a point with several bit trips or casing runs necessary until you reach a point where the borehole tends to collapse due to overburden pressure, especially in overpressured environments where well control is critical, and it is no longer possible to trip out and run casing before the borehole collapses in the newly drilled interval.

What happens if your proposed well encounters salt or other evaporites? A lot of questions could use answers and those answers only come from poking holes in the ground so maybe if they throw enough money at it they can determine where this method can be useful. That would be the most valuable result of all this.

This looks useful for near surface stuff but for ultradeep wells looks like it needs some experimentation.
your beam waist is going to increase (and intensity is going to drop) after a few hundred meters. you'd have to lower the whole laser down the hole
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The fact that they no longer require concrete to install is a huge win. Concrete is a very labour and co2 intensive material
Yeah, I'm pretty uncomfortable with Waterfox because of that episode. In the HN thread the creator responded to complaints about this privacy-unfriendly turn by saying that they "tried to stay away from branding Waterfox as" being about privacy or user control. That's fine, but an immediate turnoff for me even now that the advertising company is apparently out of the picture.

If Waterfox isn't about privacy or user control, who knows where it gets sold next or what the dev adds to it next?

Edit: I just realized that the dev is the one who wrote the grandparent comment. Maybe you have an explanation that would help?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343476
Really good public transport does, because you're not constrained by having to return to your personal vehicle at the end of whatever you're doing, you're not constrained by its operational or mechanical limits (think: family members who can't drive for reasons of health or young/old age, large groups who won't fit in your car, drinking or other intoxicants that make you unfit, reading a book/resting your brain on the way to or from a long day, households not wanting or affording to own as many vehicles as there are people in their home).

OK, it's not as private or comfortable as your own vehicle, but I'd rather be in public but able to read/dream/listen than in private but having to concentrate on the road. (This of course requires a public transport system which is safe and not full of crazies, I understand that's a problem in those US cities which have it).

Granted, there's only a few dozen cities in the world that do it that well.
The issue with C++ is that it is a hyper-complex language that really is a combination of four languages: C with classes, template code, macros, and constexpr code with largely overlapping functionality. It seems to be getting better in amalgamating these different parts, but it is still a mess that annoys me all the time when I try to use it. This complexity is what drove me away. Still there is a unmet need for generic programming in C and I can now do this with macros very well means I can have it without missing this part from C++. So the idea is not to reinvent C++ but to make minor tweaks to C to be able to do similar things in a much simpler way.
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Domestic opportunity is limited by corruption which causes unpredictability that small business can’t plan around.

Say you’re a software developer. You already do software freelancing but you’d like to hire a friend and grow your business into your own agency. You need a couple laptops with more DDR than you can find locally, but you find a $400 model online. Officially, it will cost you $200 in import duties, but when you ship the package, it doesn’t arrives because customs employees extorts recipients with claims of under declared value or unpaid taxes, then confiscate the contents for themselves. Other packages may arrive without an issue, until you open them to find the contents have been substituted for some worthless ballast. The first time this happens the online retailer may refund you, but at some point your money is lost. If customs notices that you’ve ordered several laptops to your home address they may accuse you of running an undeclared business (which you’re not doing yet since you lack the equipment) to extort you for an order of magnitude more fees.

Or one time, your package might arrive. You can’t predict it. Which makes it impossible to save/plan, especially on a shoestring budget.

Customs corruption kills small business ambitions and upward mobility in the cradle.
Not a data scientist, but my understanding is that restricting the set of training data for the initial training run often results in poorer inference due to a smaller data set. If you’re training early layers of a model, you’re often recognizing rather abstract features, such as boundaries between different colors.

That said, there is a benefit to fine-tuning a model on a reduced data set after the initial training. The initial training with the larger dataset means that it doesn’t get entirely lost in the smaller dataset.
Hah, yes.

"Mostly Harmless" did have this on the front:

"The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Trilogy".
This is a very phenomenal result and everyone in the field is excited about this! Josh and Hong both gave talks about this at a conference 2 weeks ago in Berkeley, and the videos are online: [1] [2]. Josh's talk (at least from my perspective of someone who is adjacent to this field) is quite approachable, whereas Hong talks more about the induction scheme on Guth's grains decomposition which is quite a bit more technical.

I visited Josh at UBC last year around this time and I recall asking him if he thought Kakeya in dimension 3 would be solved soon. I remember that he believed it would be (though perhaps he was worried by someone other than Hong and himself). In the end they were able to complete the proof themselves.

Hong is probably quite a serious candidate for the fields medal because of this. She has already made impressive progress on problems in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory and she is one of few people has a firm foothold in both fields at the same time.

The quanta article talks about a 'tower of conjectures' in harmonic analysis; at the top of the tower is the so-called "local smoothing conjecture" (a conjecture about how much waves, such as 'idealized' sound waves, can amplify from some initial configuration when averaged over time). A Kakeya set is a certain type of geometric obstruction to local smoothing; resolving the full conjecture also requires handling so-called 'oscillatory' obstructions. In dimension 2 + 1 (2 spatial and 1 time dimension) the local smoothing was only recently resolved (also by Hong and co-authors [3]); even though the corresponding result for Kakeya sets in dimension 2 has been known for over 40 years.

[1] https://player.vimeo.com/video/1062254156

[2] https://player.vimeo.com/video/1063428579

[3] https://annals.math.princeton.edu/2020/192-2/p06
I believe most people don't truly understand percentages. Or are not good at thinking in percentages and probabilities
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325085811/http://orfe.princ...
https://web.archive.org/web/20160508114924/http://orfe.princ...
https://web.archive.org/web/20170809073230/http://orfe.princ...
A list of urls from the beginning of post that don't seem to work anymore:

* Measuring the Earth’s Diameter from a Sunset Photo: https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/tex/sunset/ms.pdf

* The Earth is Not Flat: https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/tex/sunset/34-39.OPN.1108two...

* Sunset: https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/tex/sunset/sunset.pdf

* The Earth is Not Flat: An Analysis of a Sunset Photo: https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/tex/talks/sunset/sunsetTalk_...
And, looking again, the issue seems to no longer be there, and both CDNs produce results that are within a few tens of milliseconds from each other.
Not an expert on China, but I thought standard of living for Chinese people greatly improved in past 1-2 decades? can we call that a collapse?
I think the example is simplified to make its point efficiently, but also: the moon is something whose size would very likely be precisely explained in texts about it. While some hunting journals might brag about the weight of a lion that was killed, or whatever, most texts that I can recall reading about lions basically assumed you already know roughly how big a lion is; which indeed I learned from pictures as a pre-literate child.

A good, precise spec is better that a few pictures, sure; the random text content of whatever training set you can scrape together, perhaps not (?)
> We need better capabilities.

I'd love to say "just use Kubernetes and run Nexus as a service inside" but unfortunately Network Policies are seriously limited [1]...

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/netw...
If you like this you might also like Anukari's 3D Physics Synthesizer.

It is also a spring-mass synth but with Midi and audio and much more options.

https://anukari.com/
Google has happily provided you with those services because they are stealing your data and invading your privacy secretly behind your back for 20 years. Everything Google does is to steal more info about you.

It’s baffling that you’re unhappy with companies wanting you to pay for their product. Yes Netflix increases their prices and wants to prevent you from sharing your account, but they’re not scanning every single email you’ve ever received or making the web worse for everyone to collect more data about you.
> The philosophy argues that democracy inherently leads to social decline, because of the development of deep state bureaucracies that are unable to control oligarchic forces

This must by why all of the billionaires are trying to disassemble the civil services, to save us from oligarchy.
A laptop with Ada 5000 or 3500 seems pretty good in terms of value/price ratio for this use case. Dell and Lenovo have decent offerings.

I was just researching this for my own use.
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My mistake. I thought all new domain registrations had stopped, but apparently it's to do with being able to process international payments due to Ukraine-related sanctions [1]. Presumably this domain paid in rubles.

[1] https://www.register.su/questions-about-su-domains/
If a single report from a source of unknown credibility is enough to send agents to upend an innocent person’s life, then that system is broken. The same is true for swatting. A single phone call should not result in an armed police response.
The immune system is a complex, only partly understood system, and there isn't a single unifying solution to all of its edges. Broad understandings don't necessarily translate to individual cases.

At some point your immune system faced an adversary and conquered it, but one of the signatures it learned from the enemy encounter unfortunately also matches some molecular component of eggs. There is evidence that some people come out of norovirus infection with an egg allergy, for instance. Similar to how a bite from a lone-star tick can give you a meat allergy.

All sorts of auto-immune diseases can be kicked off by relatively benign things, and often we might never discover the cause. Our immune system learned the heuristics of something, but it's too broad so ends up looking too much like our thyroid glands, nerve myelin, pancreas, etc.

Maybe one day we'll be able to enum all of the signatures an immune system has learned and delete some of them.
So to keep smart people interested in the conversation, let’s add a crutch: the lies are load-bearing members of the outward facade. The true intentions are too easily misunderstood by a hazily observing public. Let’s presume the internal conversations are closer to high-order dystopian sci-fi.
>SROs (which were outlawed in the US decades ago)

I found no evidence that existing SROs were "outlawed", rather that construction of new SRO hotels has severely declined from a century ago, for a number of reasons including laws/regulations.
Imagine looking at the whole of human history and saying modern western civilization is where we got the least shit done.
>And once the race was no longer between two old guys, age ceased to matter much to a number of news outfits.

Age never mattered with regards to Trump, but it was a meme with Biden even when he was VP. In terms of press coverage and popular perception it was never a race between two old guys, it was a race between "the old guy" and Trump.
Wrist based heart rate accuracy during rowing and cycling is notoriously bad.
I'm not sure about having them "pretty soon", but what do you think AI, self driving cars and androids are for if not to alleviate people of work?

Better health care is a tough one, I'll give you that.
Is there any reason why we couldn't have some rudimentary GPS-like satellites around the moon? That could help out these kinds of landers, no?
That's a valid question. As the vaporized rock cools it needs to be directed to the annular walls of the borehole being drilled. If it flutters chaotically up the along the drillstring and sticks itself to the drillstring then you are effectively blocking the borehole as you drill. Even if you rotate the drillstring the cumulative effect is that the drillstring becomes a long length of sandpaper or a vertical grinder, grinding the fused rock from the annulus above where you are currently drilling.
not to dispute, but the fact that most of our stuff is 'made in china' might play into the public perception of this dynamic more than the political labels attached.
This assertion is sharply undercut by the facts. I have an incredibly hard time believing that you're engaging in good faith here.

There is literally zero evidence whatsoever that Russia cares about 'equality for ordinary people' and a mountain of conclusive proof that it does not.

Ukraine did not owe Russia anything at all, so these 'negotiations' were nothing more than theater. Russia gave Ukraine the choice between either surrendering their sovereignty (for literally zero benefit in exchange) or being invaded. That is not a negotiation, that's state-sponsored terrorism.
I recently visited Barcelona — it is a fantastic city. A perfect intersection of amazing food, friendly people, vibrant culture, great weather. Is life in Barcelona as good as it seems from the outside?
Your app will have unpatched vulnerabilities.
Yea, when someone claims “this could not possibly work in the USA! It’s too large and the population not dense” or whatever, then ask why it wouldn’t work in just New Jersey which is about as large and dense as some European countries.
Data reveal a growing struggle to concentrate and declining reasoning
A few times in my career I've responded to job listings and contacted recruiters but these days I do no sales/marketing. The vast majority of jobs I've gotten, even the first few, have been through contacts I made online in the BBS days. I was also lucky that my first few real jobs were long-term freelance contracts (1-2 years each) so I didn't have to look for work very often. The landscape has changed tremendously since then, though, and these days a resume is less important than a good portfolio.

My advice: join a small, local tech oriented community, contribute regularly, and don't discount the value of F2F. Happy to go into more detail here, or contact me at kmoser.com.
One year of Sun movement captured in a single long exposed photo:
https://wesely.org/2019/flughafen-tempelhof-berlin-1-7-2008-...

I wonder how 14 bln years of Sun movement will look if you stand somewhere on the equator?
I would love to see this kind of work applied to old movies from the 30s and 40s like the Marx Brothers.
https://archive.is/wbWHs
I'm utterly confused what's going on. They're measuring galaxies' rotations by looking at images of the subset that are spiral galaxies, and checking which direction the arms spiral. They describe their image processing algorithm in their paper [0]. (it's around figure 3)

How can local movement of stars within the Milky Way affect which way spiral galaxy arms are pointing?

[0] https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/1/76/8019798.
While I appreciate your detailed answer it reads more like a inditement of Mozilla and doesn't actually address why my answer is wrong. I never said pinning coding the certificate is a good idea, you are attacking a straw man. I was simply answering the original commenters question which was:

> Why can't they release a new certificate?

And nothing in your reply indicates why my answer to the question that is actually asked is incorrect.

Also, Certificate Pinning, which is the technique used here is not exclusive to Mozilla. I agree it's brittle but it's not an unusual practice. They also appear to be using certificate chaining (which is often considered best practice for pinning) since they say it is the Root certificate that expired so it doesn't appear to be a naive implementation. And again, even if it was: that's a straw man, I was not arguing for the technical merits of what they did, only answering the question asked.

Do you not remember when Let's Encrypt had a similar issue when a CA Root certificate expired and the certificates stopped working on old devices?

> the sentiment and statement you made is misplaced and false

What "sentiment", I was not making a political statement, I was answering question. And your entire post is attacking the use of certificate pinning and an open source project, which is something I was not arguing for (hence, a straw man) and does not actually refute my answer to the question asked. Furthermore:

> common knowledge at a professional level, which you may not be aware of

ROTFL, this is an anonymous account but I've been in this industry for over 25 years. You are almost definitely running code on your computer that I wrote. Never make assumptions on who you're talking to and use it for a personal attack. It's not a good idea. Also, never make assumptions that something is "common knowledge" -- you must have never managed anyone and if you have a feel sorry for your reports. But regardless, not a single thing you said in your post was new information to me, except maybe that down stream projects may be using Mozilla code for certificate pinning to run Mozilla add-ons and DRM... and if they are, that's on them because a browser is an app not a library.
Chutkan is quite familiar with this administration's methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Chutkan#Notable_cases
Eh, it has seen a mini resurgence recently
If you're trying to prevent your prompt from leaking, why don't you just use string matching?
No, no, no, wait ... we need to scale back foreign aid and spend it on missions to Mars.
Genomic study indicates our capacity for language emerged 135,000 years ago
Yup this would be super useful. Scouring about now trying to find
Thank you, unfortunately we have a multiple of repositories with multiple runs that use this action so checking the logs one by one will be hard. Any idea how to get all logs?
Thank you
As the repo is was taken down is someone able to tell me when was the malicious commit pushed. Trying to get a timeline to see if any workflows using this action were trigger in that timeframe. Thank you
Consider the Pharmaceutical Advisor custom GPT for advice on which pharmaceutical medications could be relevant for a given issue. You may have to tell it the name of the country in question so it can tailor its recommendations.

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67ccde8fedd48191a1cb1131bc42b6e1-pha...

Also remember to check Drugs.com or a similar site for dosage, side effects, and interactions.
> Would time on either side of the event horizon even be related?

I think that's exactly the right question to ask. And ask it for space too. Perhaps the entire history of the interior universe unfolds between the black hole's formation and its final evaporation. Perhaps a heat death of the interior universe, where everything spreads out until nothing interesting is left, can fit inside this ever shrinking volume.