"adversarial generative network"
Readit Newsrambl3r commented on Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” simonwillison.net/2023/Fe... · Posted by u/simonw
I've been trying on and off to give Arc a try for the past few months. I've had trouble for all the reasons that the linked article names.
What brought me around was the Easel feature for scrapbooking pieces of multiple web pages onto a single page. For some kinds of research, being able to see everything at once beats anything I've been able to do with multiple tabs or window arrangements. I used to arrange screenshots onto a photo editor's canvas, but doing it in-browser is an easier workflow, and Arc makes it easy to get back from the clipping to the source.
I believe that Beam is similar to this feature, except (pro) better support for daily notes, and (pro and/or con) clippings are in a list instead of arranged in 2D.
That fact that these blocks can optionally be live also makes it useful for constructing ad-hoc dashboards.
[1] "Arc | Collect Your Internet with Easel" https://youtu.be/ukquBSOpmTk
rambl3r commented on The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/fortran77
I lived in China and I thought it sucked there too. I always found it an epic cop-out by the restaurants and cafés who refused to answer questions about their dishes or allow a simple additional request like adding more spicy. Invariably the restaurants with QR code menus were also the ones that featured pretentiously-named menu items so you had very little idea what it was going to be until after you ordered it. Fortunately while I lived in China (up through the early months of COVID) the vast majority of small restaurants still kept their classic red-and-yellow menu board that literally just says in the name of the dish exactly what you are going to get. And it was no problem to ask a question to clarify an ingredient or ask for something special.
What I don't understand is if you're just going to order off an app, what's the point of even going to the restaurant in the first place? That no-human-contact experience already exists in delivery apps, so why bother leaving your home or office if when you go out you just end up with the exact same experience? It's not like most of these restaurants are snazzy KTVs or tea houses where you get a private room and bottle service, they're just bog-standard food court style restaurants with hard chairs and dirty floors. You could just as easily order online and eat the food on a park bench. To me the whole thing just came across as inconvenient at best and actively destructive of local communities and their social restaurant culture at worst.
That hasn’t been my experience. (Living in a tier ome city since mid 2019.) Maybe it’s different now that QR menus are more the norm, or maybe we just go to different restaurants. If anything it’s easier to talk to a server, because they’re not handling the mechanics of order collection and bill payment for everyone else. I don’t miss having to get the server’s attention to try to settle the bill.
rambl3r commented on The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/fortran77
> And of course, if something is not on the menu, you can't order it.
... That's how it works right? The menu shows what they are offering and then you pay them. Why would you expect things not in the menu?
I’ve never had trouble ordering a custom dish or special options. If there’s a price difference, the server tells us what to order on the menu, and tells the kitchen what to actually make. If it’s a family shop, sometimes they update the menu for next time.
I’m sure there’s places that won’t let you order off menu. I wonder whether QR menus increases the number of them, though.
rambl3r commented on Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron github.com/railsware/upte... · Posted by u/haskman
Hacker News macro:
Author: I wrote something for people who care more about features than performance.
People who care more about performance than features: I am personally offended that you created this.
There will probably be a lot more edge computing in the future. 20 years ago engineers scoffed at the idea of deploying code into a dozen regions (If you didn’t have a massive datacenter footprint) but now startups do it casually like it’s no big deal. Space infrastructure will probably have some parallels.
The Chinese project involves a larger number of less powerful inference-only nodes for edge computing, compared to Starcloud's training-capable hyperscale data centers.
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