Current economy flights between the West coast and mid-west are about 3-4x what they were back then.
Citation please. Don't forget to use an inflation calculator.
I did. I could reliably get non-stop flights from San Jose to STL for $200 at Christmas time in the mid-90's. That works out to about $357 in today's dollars. Good luck getting a flight like that for double that price today.
If you want something usable priced a reasonable increment, forget it.
Except that is horseshit.
Firstly a business class flight now costs less than an economy class ticket from the 80s and 90s.
Citation please.
I was flying in the mid 90's. Current economy flights between the West coast and mid-west are about 3-4x what they were back then. Granted, there is inflation but up until recently it was pretty low. There is no way in hell business class is cheaper than economy back then and economy seats were much spacious then. If you back far enough into the 80's you get into the pre-deregulation era which is a different world but the packed in like sardines trend is long past that point.
There's no problem with legroom on any flights. Airlines offer you whatever you want, be that ultra tight and ultra cheap, seats with extra legroom, seats big enough that someone can walk past you (emergency exit row) or seats big enough for you to lie flat in (business class).
Sure if price is not a consideration the airlines are happy to offer you luxury priced seats to accommodate your basic needs. If you want something usable priced a reasonable increment, forget it. I once computed the cost per inch of seat pitch for these extra four inches (1 usable) on Delta's premium economy. If applied to the normal economy fare, the price would more than double. And that was five years ago. I'm sure it is worse now.
The trend is to make the base fair so unusable that everyone must buy an a luxury priced upgrade just to get from point A to point B. There are already airlines where I physically cannot use their economy seats and I'm not exceptionally tall.
when A->B costs more than A->B->C you got to wonder where the logic it.
time to regulate the airlines industry so that this bullshit stops.
Probably because airlines compete on endpoints and this is what determines the fare but their cost is based on where their hubs are.
Semi-hypothetical example:
United and Delta compete on flights from SFO to STL.
United has a hub in Denver so this is an efficient connector for them. Denver is right in the middle between SFO and STL.
Delta's hub is in MSP. This awkward connection costs Delta more to operate and is less desirable to the consumer. To stay in the game, Delta might price its flights to STL less than the United flight even though it costs them more.
Meanwhile, Delta has a non-stop flight to MSP. Customers like that so Delta may charge a premium for SFO -> MSP above what United can charge for their connector flight. And that SFO -> MSP fare just might be more than Delta's SFO -> STL fare.
I am contrarian on this, because nearly all these people are biased toward ANN-based ML. I know that sounds stupid but I will explain.
Neural networks are the primitives end of cognition, meaning that they are only tools for implementing engines but they are NOT the basis for architecture design of complex systems. If you want to design cognitive architectures for AGIs, you have to start at the top and work your way down, not start at the bottom and work your way up.
Top down has been tried. It failed because no one could figure out how intelligence works. That is a requirement for top down. The result was the AI winter. We still don't know how intelligence works but we have learned that massaging mimics of biological neurons can produce useful results. It is grossly inefficient but we don't have enough understanding to do better. If it peters out before understanding is achieved then we will have another AI winter.
In practice, large AI systems are blends of the two approaches. Seas of neural nets down doing mysterious things controlled by more conventional top down architectures. There still too many ???? situations do it fully top down and full neural net systems are too difficult to control.
54?
You must not be familiar with base 10 maths
Or as Arthur Dent put it "I've always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe."
Another possibility is that the Ultimate Computer (Earth) just wasn't done yet. It was going to return "What is 6x7" but the Vogons blew it up before the final answer could converge.
U of C teaches CS in Scheme. I can't help but think it's because they know no one will ever let them use it in the real world and they'll have to learn a second language to get work done. And they'll already understand computing when they learn that second language, so they'll start on the right foot.
Second language? Do students actually graduate knowing only one language?
The summary says this this does affect "remote" workers. But what is a "remote" worker? (TFA paywalled). It may only refer to people who do not leave near a Meta office. Everyone else has to come in three days/week.
For reasons specific to my situation I can just about deal with three days/week. Today I was offered a quite promising role with a startup but they insisted on four days/week in the office. I refused. No deal. Coincidently, I am actually working indirectly for Meta. The remote terms are good. The job sucks.
Or it could be the opposite. The layoffs are to strike enough fear into the workforce that people will just shrug and accept the unnecessary return to the office.
Stories were first introduced in 2017 under the name Reels and were available to users with over 10,000 subscribers.
In the spirit of competition can we now get Facebook to dump their version of "Reels"? They are just as worthless and far more in your face. I didn't even know that Youtube "Stories" existed. I was fine with that. I wish I didn't have to know that Facebook "Reels" exist.
before they get headaches? Glasses are OK for gaming and short term use but people stare intently at their computer screens for long periods and, unlike screens, you can't just look up from VR goggles to rest your eyes.
Bring the patient to the brink and then restore life support. If the activity is conscious in nature, it may take a few tries to bring them back. If there is no response then they were truly gone.
It may also be possible to determine the chemical storm that brings them back and reproduce that without half killing the patient.
This isn't true in California, because of Prop 13.
In Cali, the folks who've been there for longer are property rich, and have negative impetus to sell, because if they do so, they may reset the property tax floor.
This creates a negative feedback loop-- there is less supply, so prices go up, so you're less incented to sell (if you want to keep living there), which decreases supply...
It is worse than that. There is negative incentive to allow more housing to be built. Less new housing means the house you already own is worth more but Prop 13 keeps this from adding to your tax bill. Existing home owners have nothing to gain and everything to lose by allowing new homes to be built so they fight tooth and nail to prevent it.
What's completely missed is that typically when somebody is at the beginning of their career, they shouldn't expect to be able to buy or rent the fancy new housing unit, just like they can't necessarily buy every other fancy new item they want.
If Austin is like the Bay Area, the housing shortage is most acute at the bottom end and not really all that bad at the top. New luxury apartments won't be available for those to those who really need them for 20 years, if ever. (Many luxury apartments have amenities that will never work at low rents). Where are the middle and low income people going to live in the mean time?
pocket-sized, with an outside screen that measures 5.8 inches across, according to the documents. Photos viewed by CNBC show that the phone will open like a book to reveal a small tablet-sized 7.6-inch screen
So, it will have an outside dimensions that won't fit in a pocket and it unfolds to a screen that really won't fit in the pocket. What is the point of folding if the folded size is still too big to pocket?
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