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You're talking about two fundamentally different operations.

With food trucks, first and foremost, people don't "hang out" for as long as they might at a restaurant. It's more akin to fast food - get your food, wolf it down, get out. The process is also different - people approach a window, order their food, and then eat it wherever they want. They have the option of eating it near the truck, but the convenience of taking your food to a different area of your choosing (say, your warm and cozy house) is also there. In addition, in places where food trucks are hugely popular like Portland and Austin, there are "food truck parks" where multiple trucks congregate around a shared communal eating area that is often covered and heated. That space is often operated by an entity other than the food truck so the truck operators don't have to worry about it.

Restaurants, on the other hand, are places where people like to hang out at for extended periods of time. Whereas at a food truck you might order all of your food at once, at a restaurant you're ordering your first drink, then an appetizer or two, then another round of drinks and your entree, then more drinks and your dessert. That process lasts a lot longer than your time at a food truck. There also isn't a convenient "communal area" like at a food truck park that is in the center of a block of restaurants that restaurants can send people to - restaurants must figure out how to build their own seating areas and provide ample warmth.

Food trucks don't care about people being comfortable because that's not in their business model - you order your food and where you eat it is your problem. In order for restaurants to maintain business, they need to cater to the comfort and warmth of their customers.
I think the majority of people would say that those two weren't stupid ideas. Uber didn't become a 'stupid' idea until it's business idea shifted to "sell everything at half cost and hope we never run out of money". Airbnb still isn't a stupid idea, to my knowledge. Particularly if you're wealthy enough to afford spare property.
I think Paul Graham would respond that after having watched the startup world for a few decades, you start to have serious questions with your bad bet meter, as such a huge percentage of groundbreaking ideas seem like such bad bets beforehand. So when people undertake what seems like a bad bet and they fail, that’s okay. You don’t need to gloat that your bad bet meter was correct this time because most bets fail anyway.
I was using https://symless.com/synergy for same case. Ups, Just popped your comment about security policy.
The saddest part about Quibi is that with the $1.75B they raised they could have given every American $1M :(

https://twitter.com/zck/status/1319046278618099712
>This is probably the most inexcusable aspect of it all. You raise all that money, hire a bunch of people, and still don't at least have a great app. Not being able to share clips. No TV support. Not even screenshot support.

They intentionally blocked screenshots and sharing clips, because they were worried about piracy. An error of design, not execution.
We really have to stop letting wealthy people and corporations buy their way out of legal problems. Fines and settlements clearly don't stop bad behavior as banks and polluters have been showing repeatedly. The whole thing feels like a protection racket where it's ok to do illegal stuff as long as the government gets its cut.

Either somebody has to go to jail or the fines have to be on a level that they lose all of their illicit profits and more. Not just a part as it is now.
Naturally; any employee picking it up would be immediately fired, for disbelieving in efficient markets :)
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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerxes_Canal

"a navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, built by king Xerxes I of Persia in the 5th century BCE. [...] The total length of the canal was two km, its width was 30 meters, and it was three meters deep, enough for a trireme to pass."
Because it ignores that this whole idea was born from toxic hustle culture, relied on skirting union laws to stay afloat, did things like pay spouses $6 million US for voice overs, and blamed it on a pandemic where most other forms of media have thrived instead of owning up to ineptitude.
that's so true. I'm a very warm-weather person and so if I'm in that environment, it can be very difficult to focus because of the temptation to go to the beach, swim, exercise, play, etc.

living in the PNW feels like it's more conducive to work, but I frequently long for the beach
I wish I had known about the serotonin part earlier; I destroyed my back today on the dumbest thing and took one so I could get some work done. I wasn't taking an SSRI when I used tramadol more frequently, but I am now, and I probably wouldn't have had I known.

Sigh. I really don't know what to do in these scenarios, it's nothing but bad choices :(
Read that as Slackers ...
The "Wizard's Bane" series of books by Rick Cook are probably what you are looking for.

They are based on the idea of a computer programmer being summoned/teleported into a world of magic and then using programming principles to become a powerful wizard.
How about "chefs adapting to reality of life during a pandemic?"
If you want any more reasons to think HN is stupid look at they way they think they knew better the whole time about Quibi in this and other threads.

I'd like to see who actually wrote it down and explained why it wouldn't work before it failed.

Quibi is brilliant. Short form TV will take a huge market share.

Quibi failed due to a content issue. This is hard. It takes a lot of money and a long time to pull this off. Pre-existing content is rarer.

It's possible short form TV will come into play first going through places like Netflix. But if you wanted to own the market this was an ok attempt.

And yes forcing people to use phones and having different views was wrong. People want to be on a couch and passively watching TV but next week everyone on HN believes in VR. HN has no idea of the world and IT.
Wendy Carlos transitioned in 1979 and hasn't used her birth name since then, you might wanna fix that in your story.
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haha. well deserved
And.. here's the lawsuit.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/uber-driver...
> I do not condone violence and at the moment the police seem to be doing most of it. There needs to be a check on that.

I guess your opinion then fully depends on where the MSM camera are pointed toward, because you've got to be awfully blind if you think ONLY the police has been violent.
I used Uber once in LA almost 2 years ago and live in Germany. I received an email from them to vote in their interest sending a sponsored MADD campaign letter. (lol)
This is just the people who were caught. There are literally hundreds for more every case you ever hear about.
Correction: Musk didn’t start a new car company in America. He’s not even a founder.
By default, ballot intiatives, once enacted, can't be repealed or changed by the legislature. When a proposition has historically allowed for legislative editing, it's typically to allow for unthought of edge cases to be handled without going again through the ballot prop process. Far as I know, of propositions that allow for legislative editing, requiring a 7/8th majority is unprecedented.

The legislature can always work around this, however, with a simple majority, by passing a proposed constitutional amendment to be approved by referendum.
The easy parts are what make it a selling product.

I'd love to see "github for non-developers", that is little more than a markdown-app, with a thin wrapper around some git server and pandoc.

Most CMSs implement all the hard stuff (version control, document generation) themselves, but exposing some of the "knobs" of pandoc/markdown/git and letting users run amok is kind of all you need to do, imo.

Confluence is kind of like this, but limited to the production of web pages.
I have seen plenty of bad bets become temporary unicorns, but I can’t think of any that became giant successful aka profitable companies. What in your mind makes that list?
I chose to live across the street from the office. Saw it as a way to force work out of my home. If I needed to work, I'd walk over to the office. Obviously not something a lot of people get to do, but it was nice while it lasted!

Wasn't so much of a hard choice as apartment costs are pretty much a constant around where I live. Thanks Irvine area...
Here id DC, eating outside in the winter sucks. Wind makes the outdoors miserable, and we have a tendency to get just-above-freezing rain. Outdoor seating just packs up for 4 months.
They show the prop 22 ad before I can request a ride too. I wonder if it pisses people off too.
Correct. I do believe what they did was quite evil, and they should be disgorged of all profits - and if that bankrupts them then all the better. While 8.3bn is still not the 11bn they made in profits, it's still significantly more than 225mn. The headline is misleading.
This is what baffles me the most with PG's take. Quibi's approach went against every thing YC teaches and yet it's impressive. I would think we'd have even higher standards for veteran execs like these.
“It also assumes that NOx emissions from cars will stay roughly the same, because although fewer people are going to the office, many are using cars when previously they would have taken buses or trains.”

We should be past the point of assumption at this point. According to a chart on this page from this credible source, auto trip counts are down by about 20%...

https://inrix.com/covid-19-transportation-trends/
Heh, I get the sense I know who you work for...
I don't want a scape goat.

I want a justice system that is capable of approaching some approximation of justice.

For me, personally, I don't think it's just to intentionally and knowingly profit off of the suffering and despair of those in pain with a chemical you damn well know is addictive and then walk away considerably richer than you started after "justice" is meted out.

Now - I agree 100% that the issue is much more complicated than this one family, and this one company, and I'm damn well on board for pushing to restructure our current for-profit medical system (I believe it's abusive to both practitioners as well as "patients")

But we cannot allow criminals to walk into a bank, steal 100 dollars, fine them 10 and call it justice.

This ruined disenfranchised families and communities across the country. The least we could start with is some fucking jail time.
Manage the complexity, yeah. Solve it? Well, if you’re managing complexity, you’re not really solving it, are you?

Heavy lifting needs to be done with code. If your config layer is growing, I would look for why that is and how you could push the complexity to the code or data and “boil down” the config until it can be represented with just keys and values.

Growing config means there’s areas of your application that aren’t being properly encapsulated. But once something is enshrined as config then it usually never will get treated as a legitimate application concern, worthy of a data model and a UI for changing it. Devs just keep adding onto it and before you know it you need a whole team just to deal with it.
I'm curious about that as well...
The tragedy of people, used as an excuse, will be even bigger if the planers will use such tool (deployed to watch for people, maybe in masks, talking quietly), as an prosthesis (and probably as an excuse too) to their disability to learn their job, the virus and that's waste of founds but not their case - which is:

the virus is airborne (what shall be considered since the beginning until disproved), not visible on the cameras so far, only one person may be recorded when the transmission happen - the other one may be in distance AFAIK up to 3km and hours of time away in the extreme conditions (wind, low humidity/temperature maybe frozen).

For me it compromises all the people signing it as a success.

BTW. https://abishekmuthian.com/images/covid-19-temperature-corre...
Along these lines, I really loved Apple hardware at the times of Apple II, and Apple software at the times of HyperCard.

By that time, and through 1990s, Apple was very niche, much like desktop Linux today. It did not have viruses because nobody cared to seriously write them. Apple were catering for some specific professional circles, power users who were ready to pay quite a premium for the machine.

Since the iPhone revolution, Apple is about the mass consumer, with much more non-geek mindset, buying at much more affordable prices. They lock down their ecosystem both for users' security (because non-IT people have hard time understanding computer security), and to extract more money via App Store-only software installation in the future.

Againx the problem with freedom is its cost, and you have fewer chances finding pockets of it where the majority is. Fringe groups have more chances to value and protect it, like OSS movement, or early Apple / Amiga / all the way to Altair customer base.
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One thing to note about this settlement is that it does not make them immune from additional criminal charges in the future. I don't know how likely it is we would ever see criminal charges here, but it isn't a "sweetheart deal" in that sense.
Good point. A downturn in the urban center could very well mean a boon for other neighborhoods. I'm imagining a place like Arcata, Ca would become more desirable than living in the Bay Area for a professional, so they move. Sure, it means the coffee shop across the street from their old downtown office closes, and someone in their early 20's cant find work in SF. But then that young person moves back to Arcata. They bring their indie band and contribute to the local culture. Having graduated few years later that young person runs into that same professional from across the street, they get around to talking and find a shoe in the door at that same formerly impenetrable wall of glass on the Bay's skyline. The downfall of the urban center isn't necessarily a bad thing if it means the economic and cultural boons of city life are spread to other wanting communities.
Both should be held accountable. Unfortunately people like to identify single villains or problems instead of realizing that there are many bad players. this is the problem with the whole US health system. Pretty much all parties involved (except the patient) make a lot of money but when people look for a solution they always they to find the one root cause. In reality it's hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and many others that live well off this insane system.
Well better than reasoning with baseball bats in dark alleys I suppose.
Uber is already unprofitable in CA, and then they get sued by there drives lol. When Uber goes bankrupt nobody has a job.
First we started bringing our own laptops, now we're bringing our office.

Sure, there are lots of people who are getting issued a laptop from their employer but there are also a lot of people that don't.
By virtue of magical "government" dust. Made by the same substance used to create ink for the sacred "Social Contract" document that can't be broken, except if you move to Somalia where it has no power. /f

On a more serious note, this is the stuff Libertarians have been talking about for decades. There is no consistency to government power and laws at all, so it's all smoke and mirrors. And only backed by circular power. I.e. Government gives itself legitimacy because it is government.
No- the $8.3B settlement was against the company, but the Sackler family has already drained $10.7B in cash out of the company.

They've known this was coming and drained as much as they could- from Dec 2019: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/sacklers-siphoned-ne...
Maybe ask on the COFF mailing list?
It's always mostly empty, and that's by design.
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Those ideas didn't require raising over a billion dollars just to try.

And they were also much more of an actual "new idea" than just "somewhere between youtube and netflix, with both subscription revenue AND ad revenue despite another new subscription (that still has ads at the entry tier!) being a hard sell to users." Which is an idea that has failed before, Quibi thought they could just buy their way to popularity by raising more money.

The more money you need to raise, the higher the burden of evidence for "non-stupid" needs to be.
But every worker wants to be the one getting the promotion.
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It was arrogant and wasteful to throw that much money at an unknown quantity. 'Famous' does not make 'Good'.

$1B could have gone into COVID research or any other good things.

'Risk' is fine, 'irrational risk' is wasteful.

Whitman and Katzenberg should have known better.
It's got functions so not a markup, it's Yet Another Fucking Config Language
Maybe it works?

I've noticed this as a senior engineer working for a fully remote organization that I'm delivering more, working harder and longer hours but there is zero talk of me getting a bonus or being promoted. Just more work. I had to start asking questions about it the other day.

This is my second remote job and the same experience. In between my fully remote positions I worked in an office, I was promoted and offered bonuses.

Maybe physically seeing a person working hard used to provoke some sympathy from management to offer promotions and pay rises?

The other thing I've noticed is that it seems now everyone is going remote, people are just working 12 hour days without hesitation. Whereas before, there were hard works and more relaxed types. What excuse does one have not to attend a 6am meeting when "all you have to do is open zoom"?
More like, if there's a ballot initiative to lower taxes on strip clubs, and a strip club's ownership sent a memo to its dancers saying they would be out of a job if it doesn't pass because the owner doesn't want to or "can't" run the business with the tax as it is.
His bad bets are risk mitigated, $100k per bet.

$1B is a gigantic sum to spend on a totally new things.

It breaks all the rules of startups which is start small, MVP, pivot to find the fit - and then scale.

The barriers to entry for them are not like Tesla where you have to set up a plant.
Dropbox, famously.

And what's your definition of a "temporary unicorn".
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iSH is distributed under a custom EULA rather than Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement:

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The only reason they are not in need of defence is because the US umbrella still protects them from invasion by foreign powers. If the US were totally uninterested in Europe, Russia would likely make much bolder moves in the region.
What, did Gruber invent the practice of putting asterisks around text? The article made it clear he did not. Did Gruber invent the name "Markdown" from whole cloth? No, it is a pun based on the word "markup". Did the Standard Markdown consortium make changes that broke compatibility with Gruber's users? No, because nobody was using Gruber's perl parser. Were they competing with the standard Gruber wrote? No, because he never wrote a standard.

The article spends a great deal of time explaining how markdown codified existing conventions. It describes, not invents. Gruber didn't create markdown, because it already existed. Should he then hold the privilege to control it in perpetuity?
> By that time, and through 1990s, Apple was very niche, much like desktop Linux today.

I'm not talking about the 1990s. I'm talking about, say, 2010, which wasn't that long ago.
This is exciting and I hope it gets extended to be usable for stills as well.

Manual focus fast lenses take quite a bit of practice to hit a stride with and this would make some of those much more palatable for casual use.
Same please do tell