Testing out some of the mobile offline local knowledge apps that people have been trying to build
(see here )
Definitely getting much better than the one I tried to build myself 2 months ago. But also still much slower and less effective at difficult questions than the models that can run on a laptop.
It's weakest at specialized travel-related queries (eg. my eval is "Tell me the best vegan restaurants in [city I am currently in]", unfortunately none of these performed well on that)
Looking forward to seeing these continue to improve! I hope we can soon get to the point where you can comfortably look up any facts about the world that you care about without needing to access the internet at all.
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Back to where my family are after a while, so the family got together. I found a spot on Google Maps with 1000+ reviews at 4.5 stars and gave it a try.
Beautiful setting, genuinely fresh food, quality same to what I'd get back in NA. Not cheap tho, especially by Thailand standards.
One thing stood out: the menu was only in Russian and English. No Thai, in a restaurant in Thailand. Tells you exactly who it's built for.
Great experience, though probably more of a "come for the view and the company" place than a regular.
好久没回来了,一家人聚了聚。在 Google 地图上翻到一家 1000+ 评价 4.5 星以上的店就去试了
风景真的好,菜很新鲜,水准跟北美相似。就是不便宜,尤其比泰国本地物价
有个细节挺有意思,一家开在泰国的餐厅菜单只有俄语和英语,没有泰文。客群定位一目了然
体验很好,不过大概更适合看风景和朋友聚会
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A good late-summer food outing needs variety: Baltimore's three-day Inner Harbor festival brings restaurants, food trucks, and beverage makers together. Let the lineup guide your stops.
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After so many demos, models, pilots, robots are still struggling to land real deployments with real customers. Until now.
Today we’re excited to share that our robots have successfully crossed the ROI threshold, and Din Tai Fung, one of the highest revenue per location restaurant chain in the US, is rolling out Dyna robots across its extensive restaurant network.
This brings our rollouts across hotels, logistics, data centers, and many other use cases to a fleet that reaches hundreds of robots by the first half of 2027. And we’re just getting started.
It’s been a wild year, and today we’re double clicking on the battlefield stories and sharing a few learnings about scaling robot deployments. We are just scratching the surface.
Read the full blog post:
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Just finished "Welcome to Dragon Restaurant" .
A Chinese chef. A war-torn Middle East. One small restaurant serving the only thing war can't destroy — a hot meal.
"Eat well. Live well." Simple words. Devastating meaning when bombs are falling outside your door.
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《欢迎来龙餐馆》中,食物是爱,是联结,也是普通人在战争中“熬”下去的力量。
In Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant, food stands for love and connection, and also serves as the sustenance that enables ordinary people to get through the ravages of war.
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I’m 24, and last night I went on a date with a 41-year-old man.
Honestly, I expected it to be awkward.
Instead, he showed up in a car that probably cost more than my apartment, walked into the restaurant like he owned the place, and then did something I absolutely wasn't expecting.
He asked me about my job.
Not the usual “What do you do?”
He actually listened.
I told him how exhausted I was, how much I hated waking up every morning knowing I was going somewhere I didn’t even want to be.
He stared at me for a few seconds and said...
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I spent 14 days in China, and it was my favorite trip in a while.
It changed so much since I visited 11 years ago that it felt like a new country. Here is what I liked about China, and what I didn’t.
1. EV adoption is huge. 100% of scooters are electric. You can walk on busy streets and it’s surprisingly quiet! It made me enjoy cities again.
2. It’s so convenient. All restaurants let you scan a QR code to order and pay. You can order a taxi and drive 100 km for $30. The malls are so big you can spend an entire day there.
3. Value for money is top notch. Hotels are new, food is delicious, and yet everything is super affordable. Chinese people are really committed to doing their best, and you can feel this everywhere you go. It’s very humbling.
4. Chinese people are super friendly! We made friends everywhere we went: restaurants, hotels, taxis. I memorized Chinese sentences like 是免費的嗎? (“Is it free?”) and I would repeat them to outdoor vendors for fun. They would laugh and come slap me on the shoulder! I even got a free ice cream doing this ^^
5. Internet is a gamble. The Great Firewall blocks a lot of websites. You need a VPN and eSIM to access Western websites. And it’s not guaranteed to work, so it’s tricky to get deep work done. I used Revolut eSIMs. It’s expensive, but most websites worked.
When I called my parents during the trip, they couldn’t believe how modern China is. For most people in the West, China is still a third-world country.
There are 17 cities with 10M+ inhabitants. Most of them were built in the last 30 years.
When I was in Hangzhou 杭州, I felt like I was in an ant house. Very crowded, yet super modern, quiet, and organized.
My wife and I loved the trip so much. We’ll come back next year and get lost in China because there are so many wonderful places to go.
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Restaurants need to stop trying to reinvent every basic food. I don’t need a cheeseburger stacked 11 inches high with six sauces, an egg and a knife stabbed through the middle. Give me a burger I can actually pick up and eat without taking a shower afterward.
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THE "NO TIP" SURCHARGE
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The menu board price and the price after you decline the tip screen are not the same number. Nobody prints the difference as a fee.
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- A Shake Shack kiosk raised one customer's total by $1.50 the moment he tapped "No Tip" instead of the suggested-tip screen
- The clip hit 61K+ likes and 7.5M+ views in a day. NBC picked it up four days later - 329K views on their own version
- Shake Shack blamed the one register, not the policy. But the mechanic isn't store-specific - most quick-service kiosks now run "suggested tip" as a live input into your total, not a line item after it
- None of this has to be itemized as a fee. The FTC's own "Junk Fees Rule" took effect May 2025 covering only two categories: live-event tickets and short-term lodging. Restaurants got cut from the final draft before it shipped
- Same week, a separate viral post (9,900+ likes) flagged card-only checkouts skipping the itemized receipt entirely - one total, no breakdown, sometimes an unlabeled line the post claimed goes straight to the restaurant.
Unverified beyond that post, but the pattern matches Shake Shack's kiosk exactly: one number, no itemization
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"No Tip" was never a discount option. It's the input that tells the register how much more to charge you for saying no.
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