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That's wild for me to hear. The scooters are dangerously slow to ride in bike lanes, and unstable on the irregular pavement. They're strictly worse than all other forms of locomotion, including walking. They also make you look ridiculous, in a shameful way. In my experience.
Sure, let's pretend the Prius hasn't been around for 2 decades making eco-friendly cars fashionable...
It's interesting, I wouldn't have thought this is a business that could work. Expensive scooters left on sidewalks. Bikes get stolen constantly and are a lot bigger, and could have a tracking device on it.

What keeps them from being stolen and the GPS disabled?
Going to need a source on that 8 million Americans per year going to the emergency room for a fall. That sounds absurdly high. The US population is only about 300 million. That means more ~2.5% of all people each year go to the emergency room because they fell down.
I joined the supervisor hearing today late, but there was important context there that is missing in this article.

- They mentioned several companies that were waiting for permits to launch, and applauded companies like Scoot (which is planning to launch e-bikes) and Waybots for working with them.

- They mentioned that SFMTA was first contacted about these scooters to in February and immediately began working on a permit process which is due to begin next month. That's light speed for a government agency.

- The only reason there was a sudden rush in deployment was that one company (Bird or Lime) decided to jump the gun and launch on St. Patrick's Day. The others that deployed didn't want to lose first mover advantage. At least one of these three hadn't even contacted SFMTA until after deployment.

- Lime did not even send a representative to the meeting at all. Apparently they decided to just contact TechCrunch after the fact.

The supervisors were rough on them and Aaron Peskin even had the nerve to call them "techbros", but they brought this on themselves by trying to use the old "move fast and break things" play that this city has seen before.
I haven’t used these yet but I’m very happy with Jump electric bikes, which seems more appropriate for med-long distances and a lot cheaper ($4hr vs $9-10hr for Bird)
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> Unfortunately, the software for [the low-power DCON mode] was never implemented.

For what it's worth, I was the OLPC employee working the most on the software for this, and it worked and shipped. I recall that there were serious hardware bugs that went unfixed until XO-1.5 and XO-1.75, but just those two models add up to millions of deployed laptops in the field that were using this CPU-off-screen-on mode when idle. If you've ever seen the power LED off or flashing on an XO while the screen is on, it was using this DCON mode.
Since before money was invented, salesmen would size you up and steer you towards what products you'd be most likely to buy, and would dynamically set the price based on sizing you up.

Walk into a car dealership, and you'll see this blatantly in action.
Where do they source their scooters from? they seem pretty high quality, you'd think they were pretty expensive. I'd like to buy one myself.
There is an 80% chance that you are carrying a Linux kernel powered device in your pocket right now.

I think is a undisputed win.
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It doesn’t seem like your dad’s experience applies. Tesla workers are being asked to take vacation days or to stay home. It’s also the second stoppage in 2 months.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-model-3/tesla-tempo...
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Moving from a PC like ecosystem to a tablet like one is a net loss in my opinion. People are willing to absorb this loss and enter into a walled garden because right now building iPad-like hardware is not easy.

Can you go more into why the difficulty of creating the hardware leads to willing adoption by users that most likely will never see "how the sausage is made"? I would think it would be the opposite (commodity hardware and easy app creation would lead to wider spread adoption by the hobbyist crowd).

I think it will mostly boil down to what you grew up with. I'm 41, I came of age building my own PCs, getting excited about an OS (Win95), the tools of creation (the PC) differing from the tools of consumption (the smartphone/iPad). My son and daughter (3 and <1 yrs) will be exposed to PCs due to my job, but I bet a lot of their friends in daycare will see a tablet as "the way computing has been and always will be". (Honestly my kids may think that too, daddy just hasn't accepted how much of a dinosaur he is yet).
In fact i'd say it makes it worse.
To me it seems like the traditional PC model has too many downsides in terms of cost to support applications from a developer perspective as well as inferior security in comparison to a more sandboxed model. For most users, a walled garden is better than an open software ecosystem. That being said, I think the best hope we have for an open ecosystem at this point is web applications. They don't have the same downsides as the traditional PC software model. The sandboxing you get with web apps may restrict some of the functionality you could get relative to traditional PC software, but IMO the security benefits are far more important. The risk here is that these all end up being tied to centralized cloud services owned by a handful of giant tech companies, and that's ultimately not as open as we'd like. But it's at least a significant improvement over the App Store model.
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America, China, Russia... They are all very sick, corrupted, power hungry countries ran by psychopaths. Your brand of psychopath may seem more likeable to you, but that's because you grew up with it.
I had no idea that bacteria had it so hard. I thought they mostly had "easy liv'n".
I loved this series when I was younger. I am still fond of it, but I have read so much more that is better now.

It slows to a tedious chore, particularly around the Knitting Circle leaving Ebou Dar with the Aes Sedai. All that is pretty obvious grinding to quota from the author.

If you want some next level fantasy, check out The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson. Few stories have so emotionally buffeted me. It is brutal, macabre, tragic; but also redemptive, funny, clever - dazzlingly imaginative.
loving his ideas, it's crazy now but in the future it might be very useful
Partially true, but knowing that google is making it easier to publish web applications just makes me more attracted to that ecosystem as a web developer. Apple has for long been a closed ecosystem and they have their reasons, they try to control everything in it to maintain a quality standard, so it only makes sense that trying to build something as open as a PWA would not be of interest to them, or beneficial for that matter.
> ...so it sounds like we're using net-smaller apps :)

I also remember circa 2000 when the CS meta was, "who cares about optimization when you're riding the perpetual tailcoat of Moore's law"...then homogeneous parallel architectures became a thing overnight and much of the software development community was caught with their pants down.

Flash forward over a decade later with low-power embedded being the dominant end user platform and heterogenous compute already at the competitive forefront. Perhaps it's personal bias, but when I read net-smaller apps, my hardware design instincts immediately kick and scream net-complacency.
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As soon as Linux gets up to 5% market share (currently 1% tops), you might see a Linux version.
But what about when collectively we decide to optimise for short-term rather than long-term? I mean that’s basically the modus operandi of politics, and that means that engineering problems — following your line of thinking — must do the same? Because getting politicians and even regular people to care about the future has proven intractable, to my mind.
> No, the reason it is expensive is because we've signalled that we are willing to pay large amounts of money, essentially regardless of the actual benefit extended by the state of the art treatment.

Not the cost of medicine, the cost of medical research. If finding a cure for cancer wasn't expensive then either we've been doing something very wrong or we should have found it already.

And if it's expensive then the reward has to meet the expense in order to get someone to do it.
Everyone knows real vimmers map CAPS LOCK to esc.

Maybe this whole thing was just a big troll by the Apple engineers to coax more people into doing it "the right way" ;)

It's sort of like the nerdier version of the Jobsian "you're holding it wrong".
People riding them on sidewalks is emphatically not the fault of these companies. Period, paragraph.

I'm shocked to be reading this argument over and over today. That's about enforcing the law against stupid riders. Not companies trying to create a business model for shared bikes.
They seem to have managed the growth just fine. I don’t think they wanted to manage a massive construction project.
These scooters are all over my neighborhood. Most of the time they are parked reasonably. Sometimes they fall over. But they suffer from the "dog shit" problem: there are enough inconsiderate riders who leave the scooters in stupid places that it's going to piss people off. You don't notice the well-parked scooters.

The big issue I see with them is that the people riding them are often unsafe. They don't come with helmets. I've also seen some pretty reckless driving, both in traffic and on the sidewalk.
They look for all the world like a Mijia scooter, with a sticker on them.

https://xiaomi-mi.com/electric-scooters/xiaomi-mijia-electri...
I'd just expect that somebody who owns a computer and is nominally responsible for administering it will tend to learn stuff about it over time. In practice, they seem to learn very little.
Worldwide, Google has a much larger market share. Let Google take the lead.
Adding friction doesn't work for me. But I can just say, "I don't facebook anymore. It's not a thing I do." And I stop. Fine, but there's still an itch that needs scratching. I bounce to instagram, reddit, imgur, news sites, then my favorite bloggers, in that order. There's always something. And as for facebook - I can't quit altogether. I manage a page for a small business, I have to test things for work, I want to promote my blog. So I can't do cold turkey, and I keep coming back. Fuck, I hate it so much.
How much genetic complexity exists just to thwart viruses?
What geo are you in? There’s no CEO on the planet worth a damn that expects to find someone to work for $30k/yr unless you’re WAY out there in, like, the Midwest or something—-and even that’s a god damn stretch.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. You're absolutely right.

If (unsophisticated) AIs were in charge, the civil rights movement might never have happened. Black Americans were the victims of institutionalized racism. That racism was self reinforcing: Society did not support the education of blacks, which caused them to be uneducated, which reinforced the stereotype that they were stupid, therefore making it obvious that educating them is pointless, which caused society to not support the education of blacks.

How would an AI controlled system reason to understand that the rules of society itself are creating the conditions of inequality? Will it merely strengthen positive feedback loops, reinforcing stereotypes and preventing reform?
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>They ran a study across 1000 Americans who are "representative of the US population in gender and age."

>"Privacy matters to our panelists. Thirty-six percent said they are very concerned about it and another 41% saying they are somewhat concerned.

Their behavior on Facebook has somewhat changed due to their privacy concerns. Seventeen percent deleted their Facebook app from their phone, 11% deleted from other devices, and 9% deleted their account altogether. These numbers might not worry Facebook too much, but there are less drastic steps users are taking that should be worrying as they directly impact Facebook’s business model"
I'm also guessing the vast majority of those falls are inside (probably inside the person's own home). There's a reason companies like lifealert exist.
This has been a fascinating rapid reaction by the public. I've been both an evangelist for these and a huge critic. I love the tiniest form-factor, and think the bad parking can be solved by user-incentives. Typical ask-for-forgiveness-later that caused people to blow their tops (possibly due to the still ridiculous looking nature of tiny scooters?).

What really soured me is the quality of machines that have been out of on the streets. Anecdata, but in 12 total rides for me, I've had a scooter that had 1) a hand brake with zero functioning ability 2) a throttle that stuck on as far as the user had pushed it 3) a missing bell. Unluckily, first block on that no brakes scooter was downhill and I dug a heal into the asphalt and eventually did a running dismount to avoid rolling into fast moving perpendicular traffic in Civic Center. Sticky throttle scooter caused an uncontrolled skid. Missing bell was a missing bell. But c'mon, these machines had been used for 10 days and they're having critical safety/maintenance issues. These are the worst possible mistakes, and could easily turn fatal.

LimeBike shirked responsibility and their ops manager gave me a "LimeBike Saboteur Theory" over the phone. Bird took hours to disable a a scooter that i was desperately trying to tell them was dangerous to the next rider. Forget sidewalks, these are dangerous vehicles in their current state. You know how Ford bikes feel like tanks relative to a road bike? These scooters also need to be 10x more robust than what's in private use.
Bird and Spin both use this model: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Xiaomi-MI-M365-electr...
They cite BuzzFeed:

BuzzFeed, which first reported the news, said
workers were expected to use vacation days or
stay home without pay during the four- to five-day
production pause.

The thing is, during a ramp-up there are incentives to get the workers working seven days a week, because they want to minimize the time the line stands still. So usually he's taking that extra cash (and that's also how I found out, as I was wondering why he's gone for the weekends, too).
This will change again in six months. It's not worth paying attention to any of these studies until there's a critical mass of them saying the same thing
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Yeah, but scooter companies won't have a business without people riding them on the sidewalk, because riding them on the street is terrifying, and it's not possible that the companies don't know it.
I interpreted that as to reduce talking about yourself.
So who recharges all these things? Do they credit people if they bring it to a charging station, or what?
You can feel the hate as you glide along. A+++++ would ride again
> Bait and switch. Apparently some devs contract out their end of the hiring process, paying "experts" a couple hundred bucks to interview under their name, get them the job, then on day 1, the interviewers and rank-and-file developers none the wiser, show up as a different person with the same name, without the requisite possibility to pass the interview or succeed in the workplace

There’s no fucking way this is real. There is NO possible way that a human could actually think this could work in their favor and be OKin any way.
Having tripped over one already, I'd argue the sidewalk cluttering is an issue.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the likely true reason behind this stoppage: the “burst rate” production and other shenanigans Tesla has put on at the end of its most recent quarters.

These tricks artificially boost its weekly production for the quarterly reports. After the cameras are off, the burned out workers and other resources need time to recuperate.

This shutdown period conveniently conceals this burnout. This is part of the shell games Tesla has played, robbing from its future self to manufacture the narrative it needs to maintain its share price in its stricken state.
I don't often agree with the supes, but here I do. There really needs to be planning and coordination with the government with things like these.

There is only so much bandwidth for modes of transportation that cannot allow leisez-fair transit to run amok in the city. Proceed with a well developed plan with all stakeholders in mind.
I think it’s bigger than that. There’s a massive FUD meme around dockless technology: the only time it’s in the news is to show the random landfills a few of them end up in, ignoring the 99% that have made millions of lives easier. Dockless bikeshare went from 0 to 200 million riders in just two years, in a country where everybody already owned a bike. This is a technology that makes cities more accessible in a way you can’t imagine til you experience it. But people point to a few left out of place and tell us it’s going to kill our grannies.
> I've had several recruiters and my former professors say it's better to Google it than admit you don't know.

Oh, western culture. Please, it’s okay to admit you don’t know something!
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If the models reflect bias then surely that's a good thing.

It's funny. I like programming because a computer can't lie and doesn't make mistakes. I guess some people don't like that.
I do that with politics, so I can't point fingers. I don't know why - it's not like I can change anything...
I read the Wait But Why series about Musk where the author had a lot of one-on-one time with Musk, and he basically said that's what's going on. It's just too complicated for twitter, that's why he doesn't talk about it there.
I don't understand the appeal of services like these. If I had billions of dollars to start companies strictly for ironic/satirical purposes, I'd start one for sunglasses sharing. For those who find it too much of an onerous burden and a logistical nightmare to maintain and store a pair of sunglasses in between uses.

Seriously though, why rely on the vagaries of supply and demand on somebody's network, and their maintenance diligence and so on, for a thing that you can own so cheaply, and always have there when you need it? It just has never made sense to me.

The exception of course is for tourists who didn't bring their scooters or bikes along. I have considered it in that case... though never actually did it. I just walked.
Over 10% of the US population is over 70. Falls are serious incidents for the elderly.
Incidents like this are starting to make me feel that software engineers should have a code of ethics, similar to the Hippocratic Oath. So technologies aren't abused to marginalize individuals/groups.
This is actually really interesting, shame that the whitepaper is just quite bland and nondescript. I think there is potential here.

> https://playdarkwinds.com/whitepaper/darkwinds.pdf
Going deeper is possible but does have drawbacks; access shafts must be deeper and it takes a longer time for people to move between platform and street level.

Quite a few of London's lines are deep, but they generally have escalators which I don't see a lot of in Manhattan.
> Basically all possession laws (really all laws in general) require some sort of knowledge and intent. Just like you can't be convicted for possession of drugs if they were stuck to the bottom of your shoe when you came out of a club...

Clearly not all laws in general: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=188420...
It's remarkable that an article that in-depth managed to not make a single mention of the word "union", when unions played the central role in driving up costs.

I think that points to the meta problem hamstringing development of subways, and so many other things: the hold unions have over not just politics, but culture, and especially academic culture.
[1] says it is from Global Times (which is like a sidekick of People's Daily)

People's Daily [2]. Not sure if it has an English translation.

[2] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/DvQGVmHrgn_yfVCg-2xYAA
Major props to the SF Transport authority who is moving fast, breaking business models and generally acting like the adult in the room.

Looks like SF is in good hands.

NB
I thought Bird, Lime and Spin in the title was a firm of lawyers or maybe PR people. Could you adjust the title to "e-scooter rental startups get cease and desist orders from SF City" or something. :-)
Colab from Google is worth a look: https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/02/fast-ai-lesson-1-google-co...
I love that sub.
In other words, it's a bit of a danger, and also really annoying.
Because...fantasy readers enjoy food? Who doesn't?

Am I missing something subtle here, or are you actually going "HURR DURR FANTASY FANS ARE FAT"?
Right, and there are also people who who support GMOs out of pure ignorance. Lots of different people, lots of different views on most any topic of course! But I guess we're about wrapping up?
Scooters that are available on Alibaba for $200 are not durable for shared use.
A command line on the front page...the typical Windows user would run away screaming.
Much of the on-street parking is paid parking. If you're proposing that these scooter companies pay per hour that each scooter is left on the sidewalk, I think that's a great idea.
"wikipedia disagrees" like it's a source?