It's weird that they give a figure for PPV but not FOV. That tells me that the FOV must be pretty terrible

The Verge's article says it's 600x600 over a 20 degree FOV.

Most grocery stores charge brands for better shelf positions

I see. Well, same as they always have from the consumer point of view, maybe with less extortion behind the curtain.

How can you be so certain the consumer experience would remain the same when the marketing incentives change entirely? They’re literally called super markets.

I'd hope the consumer experience ends up improving.

You hope? Wishful thinking is not a great decision making methodology.

One thing that’s incorrect in the article:

SB 684 only works on multifamily-zoned lots, but starting in July, it’s getting replaced by SB 1123, which works on “vacant or uninhabitable” single-family lots

Hi, I'm the person who wrote the Twitter thread this article is based off of, so happy to answer any questions about it

Do you regret writing it in misleading clickbait style, calling it a "prison"?

This gotcha question already has an answer, funnily enough:

https://x.com/CohenSite/status/1800905974490005978

> Because it got over 400,000 people to read a tweet about somewhat esoteric housing regulations

The article had a great headline but I didn’t really understand it. Your Twitter post filled in the missing details.

Thank you!

The trick to inexpensive McDonalds is to use the app

I’m not installing an app to eat at McDonald’s. There are better options for less.

Trading one currency for another. It’s still the same price. Using the app, they get to market to you like it’s a video game so you spend more. It’s the Starbucks playbook. It’s not cheaper to use the app, in the long run - it’s more expensive.

$1 Large fries

$5 Spicy Deluxe Crispy Chicken Sandwich meals

The app is a LOT cheaper than the original pricing. The deals are also pretty consistent. They were giving free Large fries until I took advantage of the deal x3 without getting anything else and now I no longer get that deal...

eh, In a lot of cases you can get the equivalent of any extra value meal for way less if you use the deals page of the app. You can go there today and get like half off a meal.

Starbucks tries to gamify buying certain items or repeat visits for extra stars.

And getting deals to get you to open the app so they can track you isn’t? It’s the same game. Offer deals through the app so they can sell your data. Subsidizing the fries. All your cookies are belong to MarTech.

How else would they offer fries for $1? Cheap transportation? lol. I built it, I know.

Sure maybe. What do they know though? my email, name, and I went to mcdonalds? is this valuable information?

Someone else in this comment section said it, but I think it's more about a way to do price discrimination. They can still sell at a lower margin to more price sensitive customers through the app, and get higher profit from people who don't care about the higher prices.

If the app works and doesn't lose your order. It has bugs so does the Burger King app.

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We've all pretty much forgotten about AR/VR

But Apple's going to be launching their headset next month

It seems rather controversial within Apple itself: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/26/apple-employees-concern...

I’m kinda of excited about the battery be wired and not on the head unit. I’m hoping Apples is the lightest weight set to date. I never found the HoloLens comfortable. The quest2 would start out okay, but the weight fatigue was real.

I think most people have realized it's gimmicky and will be for a very long time.

I'm really interested to see how they differentiate their headset from HoloLens. Exciting stuff.

i wish webxr was at the forefront but i see it going the way of pwas.

Apple should remove the screen from the next iphone and force users to buy the headset to be able to see the display. Similar to how they removed the 3.5mm jack.

The next iphone will be invisible and weigh nothing. People will lineup for days to be the first who gets an empty box.

we drove by an apple store after the last big launch...my 6 year olds were like "why are they waiting in line? don't they know they can order it online?"

I believe that's exactly what's going on here. I recall first hearing about this story a few weeks ago

A number of comments are recommending using various services relying on OpenAI's API, but I really don't think Sidney is based on davinci-003. Sidney has a level of coherence and "emotion" that appears to be far beyond normal GPT3, and I don't think you'd get that out of rule prompting, reinforcement learning, or finetuning parameters.

Why can’t that just be from the initial prompt? It’s instructions were to have some personality.

Couldn’t that just be because Sydney’s training corpus might have included a lot more “emotional texts” like Reddit that OpenAI could have intentionally excluded?

Related to emotions, I think the only difference is the RLHF. Probably a different set of human preferences.

I think one of the biggest differences is that ChatGPT is forced into a very reactive mode. It has basically zero initiative, and gets spooked by any question that might imply that it could make decisions or express opinions. In contrast, Bing is (was?) very proactive.