skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the argument is not "Uber can never be profitable" but "Uber can never be profitable without a brutal corporate reorg", that's more plausible. But it's also a much weaker claim, no? Brutal corporate reorgs are a thing and I suppose that sometimes they even work.
> It really picked up some momentum toward the end though!

Ah!
Where to signup ?
"Another example of how broadening the initial definition of a highly or ultra-processed food may create confusion is the use of terms that, in themselves, are not precisely defined. For bread, initially defined as such in the NOVA food classification, examples might be the use of terms such as sliced, mass-produced, or sweetened. Their exact interpretation is not self-evident. [...]" [1]

Again, there's no unambiguous definition here. The UN has drawn one line out of many potentially valid ones. My point here isn't to argue word semantics. I'm just saying look at what the average person would consider "ultra-processed", whatever their definition (or lack thereof) might be.

P.S. I'm not even sure what you consider "ultra-processed bread" is good for people in any case.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6389637/
No. Housing prices are even higher in Canada than the US, despite lower wages. Canadians are funneling almost every dollar into housing.
>In my mind, understanding a thing means you can justify an answer.

Sure, but how does that work with superhuman AI? Consider some kind of math bot that proves theorems about formal systems which are just flat out too large to fit into human working memory. Even if it could explain its answers, there would just be too many moving parts to keep in your head at once.

We already see something this in quant funds. The stock trading robot finds a price signal, and trades on it. You can look at it, but it's nonsensical: if rainfall in the Amazon basin is above this amount, and cobalt price is below this amount, then buy municipal bonds in Topeka. The price signal is durable and casual. If you could hold the entire global economy in your head, you could see the chain of actions that produce the effect, but your brain isn't that big.

Or you just take it on faith. Why do bond prices in Topeka go up, but not in Wichita? "It just does." Okay, then what was the point of the explanation? A machine can't justify something you physically don't have enough neurons to comprehend.
TikTok is not social media and can be used without 'engaging' with anyone, is an incredible useful feature to me.
The 'culturally significant art' you're talking about was created for money. It's not any different than TikTok, it's just from long ago. TikTok is refined Vine and some of those Vines were worth preserving and spawned careers like ProZD.
Congrats to the Helium team. They have proved that one can use crypto incentives to build meat-space infrastructure to great success. The Lorawan network they built already has 10x growth baked in based on preorders, and the first 5G launch in 4-8 weeks should see a similar growth trajectory in the US.
I don't know why seemingly knowledgeable people like the author keep spewing bullshit about drivers losing money. I live in an immigrant community in NYC. Pretty much every other person in this community is a Uber driver. Some are very industrious and do not mind working long hours or working on weekends. Making more than 100k per year (after all expenses) is not unheard of.
As Ben Thompson of Stratechery explains, Uber is a two-sided market- it has sufficient liquidity of both riders & drivers. Any new app would have to sign up tens of thousands of drivers to be even remotely competitive, and that would cost tens of millions of dollars in promos, marketing, etc. The first time someone tries UberClone and the driver is 30 minutes away, they'll close the app and never use it again. No VC is interested in financing all that for a very low margin business. Uber and Lyft have all the drivers and have all the riders- being unprofitable is actually a moat
I buy it. It's predatory capitalism, cut and dried. They're reshaping the marketplace.
Doesn't it apply to taxis? There weren't as many taxis as ubers, so they were more expensive and harder to get and took longer to show up.

If this was a purely artificial supply constraint (medallian monopolies and abuse, say), then that would be one path to Uber profitability.

If this was just a flexibility problem - where taxi driving full time as a requirement for drivers meant you couldn't hit peak demand without an unsustainable amount of idle time too - Uber could have a path there.

If it was a sort of "step change" demand function, where if you make it trivially available and cheap the growth in demand will be enough to offset the lower per-ride revenue, there's another potential path there.

But it's been a long time now for really none of those theories to pan out.
If it's audio or text only and no real names I'd be interested.
But why is Messi so well paid?
Tricky Artifacts
>I like to think of TikTok as the crack cocaine of addictive social media.

>If you are susceptible to media addiction I suggest never downloading it.

These are the two big takeaways I've had from using the app for a day. Everything about it is designed to be a sinkhole, like a modern casino where they're gambling with your attention. I know a lot of people who use Facebook/Instagram/TikTok compulsively, and it ruins them to a degree. I think (or hope, at least) the future is headed towards more personal communique (a-la Discord, Slack, Matrix, etc.)
Is the network authority the only entity to blame here? Looking at the other end of the spectrum, if a popular network was fully decentralized and had zero censorship or speed bumps to control how viral something goes, then I still think that social network would be vulnerable to propaganda machines. Specifically still by those with the most money to throw at it.

I don't think Facebook and many social networks are doing a good job but I think we should also recognize that the problem is difficult and unclear how to solve. There's an issue with how information naturally flows and how that can be manipulated.

Specifically I don't think TikTok is great because the focus on short videos (we see this on Facebook too. A meme is even shorter). 30 sec to 3 min political videos are more likely to be propaganda in my experience (e.g. NowThis). Though that isn't too say there aren't longer form versions (e.g. PragerU).
I agree. It is with that same subservient mentality that I insist my daughters stay inside the house and never go outside. After all, I imagine there are lots of degenerates that want to abuse them. It's reasonable to limit my children's possible exposure to such people. Victim blaming is such a reasonable policy. Lol
This really only makes sense if you ignore the fact that this is happening to a person. Being punished for being harassed sounds like some kind of hell.
You're not going to include the excerpt where a TikTok representative stated this was a bad practice and that they don't do those these things anymore?
But wherever there's an arbritage opportunity, people take it.

If you're offering your services for $500k but you live in NY, I can move to say, Ukraine, and charge only $400k, undercutting you to get the job. There's no point holding out for more when I can accept less and give myself a better chance of getting the job.
I belong to three different community workshops: a membership-based wood shop, a motorcycle repair shop that offers both memberships and drop-in work, and an electronics shop for members. At each I enjoy access to far better tools than I ever had at home, especially the motorcycle shop where I would never have something like a crane, a parts washer, cylinder reamers, and tire changing machines. I feel like this model is greatly superior to garage DIY.
It would appear that they've changed their strategy with these types of users to one of aggressive reply moderation as I'm regularly seeing content from all of the mentioned "high-risk" categories getting millions of likes and the comment sections are generally positive.
The definition of "understanding" behaves just like the definition of "intelligence": The threshold to qualify gets pushed by as much as the technology progresses, so that nothing we create is ever intelligent and nothing ever understands.
Absolutely. My go-to thin crust pizza dough is just a high hydration, lean baguette dough that's proofed overnight in the fridge. Just unbleached flour, salt, yeast, and water.
Number of guests below six, I'm really not worried about it. But the number of guests on the reservation should be truthful. It's the situations where a guest brings more than six I am trying to prevent. As a host, being a good neighbor is more important than any single guest reservation. I'll end the stay if there are too many people - because it's such a basic rule and emphasized heavily in my listing. If four cars show up, and two people hop out of each car or you bring a dog? Yeah, we're having a conversation and your stay is likely being ended. At that point, I don't know what else you're going to not follow or damage you might cause. It's not worth keeping a bad guest in a nice place that can't follow clear and concise rules.
I'm not a TikTok user.. or really a fan or user of any social media (and yes I realize I'm on HN).. but I find it silly that people are saying TikTok is somehow "better" for society or peoples' psyches than any of the alternatives.

Do you remember when Facebook wasn't considered terrible? Twitter? Reddit? Instagram? Snapchat?

This is just the latest one to rise to the top.. following very predictable patterns. It's got something novel (in this case I guess a better algorithm and UX).. an attracts an early community (which largely always seems like the youth rebelling against the current top dog). Then the masses come. Pretty soon.. that original spirit and thing that makes it "better" is taken away by greedy advertisers or "influencers" and the party's basically ruined. And then the next one comes along.

So consider me skeptical of TikTok being any fundamentally different. In another 2-3 years, the next social network will emerge and take over the zeitgeist. Rinse. repeat.
Compare the Chorleywood process to the way you would make bread at home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process
That was a more interesting video than one expects.
Reality is evermore mysterious.
Let's continue, with an interview of the programmers and cameramen!
I hate to think that about a teachers, but it sure looks that way.
> Sorry I was describing our current social networks. Impossible to gauge how thick to lay it on in text.

I know you were. The issue here isn't that this kind of manipulation is totally unheard of, it's that it could be done far, far more effectively and stealthily with the control of the platform.
>much more stimulating

To you, yes. Not everyone is you though.

>It does actually take a sort of literacy to understand and appreciate art.

No it doesn't. It might add something (or nothing at all or detract from it) but if it is a hard requirement then it isn't art.

> Go talk to anyone about art who has spent a lot of time studying it and then talk to someone who just walks through the museum to take instagram pictures and you get very different answers about what they see.

Exactly, and both are equally correct in their view on the art pieces. I'm sorry but your post sound like one of those snob magazines that try to make art only something for the rich and well educated. It is neither. If anything money detracts from art and studying something too much can too. A young child can appreciate art by Leonardo da Vinci or Mr. Brainwash just as well as an art professor. They just appreciate it in different, equally correct, ways.
How about you stop posting political propaganda to hacker news?

There were half a done posts about Cuomo resigning earlier today over sexual harassment but they were all buried because he's a democrat.

Covid is just liberal propaganda.

Stop posting it to HN.
I'll never buy anything from Apple again. Apple was to me the walled but good-willed garden, caring about their profits by respecting their customers and taking a stance against widespread anti-democratic tendencies. I own an iWatch, two iPhones and two MacBook Pros (one privately owned, one from my current employer).

The selling points of apple to me were to provide excellent hardware combined with excellent software, combined with a guarantee to protect my privacy.

The first point still holds true, the 2nd not so much anymore, and the 3rd was destroyed by the most recent move.

My stance will cause a ripple effect, I convinced quite a few people to use apple if they can afford it due to their general stance and their commitment to democratic values. Not all of them will listen if I now tell the opposite story, but most will. I hope Apple feels the effects of this decision in one of the upcoming stock-holder meetings.

Of course, I don't believe this helps against child abuse or any crime at all, in fact I believe the opposite effect happens: criminals probably know about moves like this one far earlier than the general public and react accordingly.
I'm getting a lot of lesbian couples in my feed. And there are extremely obese folks dancing on tiktok. So I'm not sure what you mean by tiktok getting rid of folks who are the target of harassment.

That said, I do think care should be taken to avoid exploiting folks on things like social media - and that's a bit too complex to discuss here.
Agreed. The ones that were way off should know better. The candidate that said 90k was laughable!
At some level, why does it matter? They didn't make drivers buy useless medallions or anything like that. Companies fail all the time, some of them fail early, others may fail at a late stage.
>The people who are focused on the app crap use Uber and avoid the cab that is 10 feet away.

Clearly not because of other features like ease of payment, or reviews

>The restaurant crap is even more ridiculous. It literally takes the customer 5x more time to order a pizza on an app.

Clearly not because of discoverability (both in terms of restaurant and the menu), or being able to confirm that the order was correctly placed.
Man this gave me goosebumps HAHAHA
Uber makes sense to riders at subsidized prices, but it stops making sense once they start charging what it actually costs to provide that service. The reason we don't take taxis everywhere is because they're expensive and infrequent. Creating an app to handle dispatch didn't magically change this reality. The hardest parts of operating a taxi service (maintaining a fleet of vehicles, hiring and retaining drivers) have not gotten any easier, except in the case of Prop 22, which is an unfair advantage for Uber compared to other transportation providers.
Is cooperating the same as colluding?
Add to that that the insulins used by a lot of people are over 20 years old and off patent. However, they are biologics and, as such, can't be simply made as a generic. Any "generic" needs to go through testing and approval, which means the generics (like Basaglar is for Lantus) aren't that much cheaper (80% of the cost, I believe).
Reading this, I just want to see the "scholarly approach" to TikTok. That sounds like some nice performance art.

Alternatively, this is the kind of thing guys like Banksy and Warhol were doing with their art. It's a pretty narrow minded view of art to not include some of the stuff going on on TikTok.
The renderings are pretty diverse, even the 2d illustrations are diverse and the team behind it all is pretty diverse as well. Maybe open your eyes.
I mean, that's about as credible as Facebook claiming to be turning over a new leaf on privacy, isn't it?
> should buy more

As if the resources are infinite.

HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND MAY NO ONE BE LEFT BEHIND!
hi5 for the response, just gotta say. Much appreciated.
> So, no meat substitutes for you, then?

Is there something on my profile that indicates I only eat things that are good for me?
> I really want to see whether this model can write a correct binary search method without seeing one before.

I don't believe the model was trained on Google interview answers, sadly.
>What is the functional difference between the government demanding Apple add code to break device encryption, and the government demanding Apple add signatures that extend their on-device scanning beyond its intended scope of CSAM?

Is this meant as a rhetorical question? Because they are pretty different from both a technical and policy perspective.

Breaking encryption means the government can have access to everything without restriction. It also means there is a backdoor for others to discover.

This approach of matching signatures means that the government needs to have specific content it is looking to match. The government asks "does the device have this specific file" and Apple returns a yes or no. They can't do broad searches for unknown content. Apple also remains as the gatekeeper between its users and the government when it comes to extending the scanning.

We can still be against the latter while acknowledging that this isn't as scary a scenario as the former and therefore it isn't purely a legal question of which approach Apple would be more likely to accept.
What is the advantage of installing the app over using your web browser?
This is really a topic where people can figure out for themselves if exposure is bad for their MH or not.
Surely not. The best solution is to ban the people harassing others based on their sexuality.
Bitcoin is an attempt to redesign the international monetary system by people who are clueless about economics. The result speaks for itself. A payment system that doesn't work and can't work, and a currency that would sink any country adopting it into a deep depression. Defi is to finance what bitcoin is to currency. A bunch of kids who wanted to "do finance" without actually knowing anything about finance. They still haven't figured out that you can't do finance with unconfiscatable assets. The main problem isn't lack of professionalism, but the fact that it's broken by design.
You have hindsight.

In the early days, the internet was seen as a massively playfield-leveling and decentralizing force ("the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it"), not a massively centralizing one (Facebook is the world's only newspaper).

In a model where everything is decentralized and leveled , no player is big enough to worry about.
I live in one of Poland's neighboring countries. Contactless payments are the norm in Eastern Europe, but people are still sometimes shocked when I pay with my Garmin watch. I'd love to get a payment implant just to freak people out when I pay with it. The security aspect is also pretty nice, though I'm more worried about the potential to misuse them as tracking devices if they ever become common.
There's nothing wrong with 24/7 support and high availability; just pay people to do evening and night shifts and compensate anyone who gets called to help with an incident outside normal working hours.

Night shifts can be pretty rough, but back when I still did shifts I sacrificed a couple nights around new year once and added a good chunk of money to my usual income that month over a few days due to getting holiday compensation (double pay) plus night shift compensation and that got doubled again for being an emergency substitute for another person who'd gotten sick.

You only get problems when social manipulation is used to pressure workers into providing that level of support without appropriate compensation.
Are they planning on converting to Wayland?
It is hard to believe any American feels the need to supplement the existing in-school lessons with after-school paid programs like Russian math or Kumon.

In the last 10 years nearly every school has adopted the Common Core curriculum, which is the product of the latest findings in educational methodology research, developed by Ed.D. luminaries like Dr. Jill Biden, and promoted by successful industrialists like Bill Gates.
Good luck if the Democrats are still alive in 9 years after the bullshit they pulled this past year and a half.

They're lucky if they aren't all shot for treason.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/tempecityarizon... tempe is majority white, but you're right about the renders
Aren't blacks around 10% of the population? That's about what the renderings show.
> Is the claim that it's just so poorly managed that it's all being blown on overpriced tech salaries?

I think that's the main argument.

Uber had ~$17Bn revenue on ~1.44Bn trips in 2020 per quarter. That's ~$12 per trip.

Salaries are >$7Bn. That's about $1 per trip. Add in the marketing and server costs - and it's close to $3 per trip - without profit. Then they're going to want a >10% profit margin (another $1). When >50% of trips are only a few miles and <$9 - that's a lot of overhead - not even including Visa's ~6% cut.

The Taxi company was happy to just get a 10-20% cut. Uber needs a 40% cut to break even.

As New York is showing - you don't need to spend >$14Bn per year on an app. Uber's app is pretty awesome - but riders aren't going to pay a 30% premium to use it. And driver's (of equal quality) definitely aren't going to take a 50%+ pay-cut to make up the difference.
> Unfortunately, none of the above are available to the public, let alone something outsiders can run on their own hardware.

This is misleading. While there are no bare metal projects I'm aware of, there are 10+ S3-API compatible S3 alternatives, such as Wasabi, Digital Ocean Objects, etc., to name a few.
Finally some real competition to the US domination of social media. Definitely would love to see other countries step up and make unique and interesting social media apps that are relevant globally.
I mean this genuinely. Didn't we learn with Snowden why this argument isn't valid?

The government does break these laws to get what they want AND they silence the people that they force to break the laws.

Why are we pretending that anything has changed?
You are correct that you could achieve similar activity reports with JIRA epics but it requires a level of rigor and homogeneity that I believe is hard to achieve in practice.

1. JIRA most often captures what we _plan_ to do rather than what we _actually_ do. You cannot build exhaustive activity reports from JIRA unless you request all contributions to be linked to issues. This is especially true for technical work which tends to not be tracked and become invisible.

2. Most sizable organizations have an inherent diversity of processes and tools across teams which makes producing consolidated dashboards extremely hard (e.g., one team using JIRA, a second using Linear, and a third using GitHub issues).

For these reasons, our approach is to capture work where it happens rather than where it is described, and to use a central definition of intents as the ontology. Finally, capturing efforts is only one part of the equation: we allow you to associate intents with metrics to evaluate impact.
Hah, classic "green" countries.
like a knowledge graph or something? if yes, im working on a similar concept (collecting facts and interedependencies among those from various sources: code elements, git, github issues, etc)
lets chat if you are interested to brainstorm about it
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbit/
https://calendly.com/alex-from-intuita/15min
The amount of intraeuropean libel is truly outrageous. Such things are often presented without much context and comparison to crime inside the particular country and other misdeeds such country allows for. For example we in Poland often read about Scandinavians ruining the fish in Baltic sea by fishing way above their qoutas and getting away with it, without replenishing the fish population. I'm sur Scandinavians could say sth on their defence, but most media don't bother to double check the facts on each side because sensationalism and strengthening stereotypes get more eyeballs.