No one wants dark/cloud kitchens, and I don’t think anyone wants dark software either.
It’s extremely hard to do many things well. If a restaurant specializes in pizza, they’re going to get good at doing that — their employees will know the best way to cook them, their recipes will slowly evolve over time, etc. If a restaurant rarely cooks a pizza, none of that experience and refinement is there.
Not to mention, DoorDash doesn’t have any obvious health ratings visible for restaurants in NYC. I’ll happily order from somewhere I know, but not some unknown restaurant. And what’s to stop a poorly rated dark kitchen from closing shop and reopening the next day under new branding?
The whole model feels gross. It’s centered around profit and questionable tactics, rather than making a genuinely good product that people come back for.
> I’ll happily order from somewhere I know, but not some unknown restaurant
Exactly this.
Part of why I go to (or order from) a particular restaurant is that I've been there before and I have an expectation of the taste, quality, service etc. I could also, in theory, go look into the kitchen and see if there are safety issues etc (or outsource this to an inspector). Feels a lot tougher to do this if the "restaurant" is just a label on top of the dark kitchen product.
On a side note, this is why chain restaurants were so successful: you could go into one in any part of the country and have a predictable experience with some base level of quality. The mom and pop restaurant in the town you've never been to wouldn't have that same offering to you (it might for locals though).
I just wish the food problem was completely solved so I would be happy with dark kitchens. There should be a service that I don't have to think about bringing me healthy foods with taste thay I can bear. That is all I care about.
Think about it from the parent’s perspective: the safety of your toddler while you’re at a crowded amusement park is of high value.
Losing a young child must be terrifying, even if they’re found shortly after. I think the value proposition justifies the price, at least for a reasonable amount of parents.
When I was 18 years old, a security guard kicked me and a friend out of a grocery store, much to our confusion.
After talking to them and requesting the store manager, it turns out they had a photo of a shoplifter that looked very similar to me. Eventually we were let back in the store and it was all OK.
So, it’s not an entirely new problem? Although with facial recognition I guess there is less recourse; a manager is not as likely to believe they got it wrong if their computer tells them otherwise.
There isn't much recourse anyway, you were entirely lucky that they were willing to be reasonable. At least if you live in the US, not sure what laws are like around this in Europe
I don't think this status quo should be empowered further by error prone tech
Even without the facial recognition system, security guys can ask customers out, since those are private property. And you are lucky that store manager helped you with the issue. Most cases I heard around me are that the security guy and the manager just gives no explanation.
Some cases yes, but in plenty of cases, this wouldn’t be great.
- Browsing HN, and your scroll gesture happens to start where a link is? Before you know it, you’ve navigated away.
- Long pressing to delete an app, and the app opens in the meantime? Awkward UX.
In the majority of cases, press gestures are competing with other gestures like scrolling. Waiting until you’ve released is often the first moment that it’s 100% clear which gesture you intended. If both gestures get invoked, it will probably lead to much worse problems.
I’m sure there are cases where act on press makes sense, but I don’t think it’s as dramatic as the tweet makes out.
> For example, it should be easier to cancel an app launch in VR that you miss-clicked — it is irritating that the meta button doesn’t work during the launch process.
Or just implement an uninstall apps screen in settings. The ratio of tapping to launch apps on purpose vs deleting an app is, what, infinity:1?
Yep, UX design is all about tradeoffs. So it's important to ask: What is more important to have UX polish? Uninstalling apps, something that happens rarely for most users? Or launching an app, which most users do dozens or hundreds of times every single day?
Adding a couple of taps to the uninstall workflow, whether it be a settings screen or a way to switch the app list into a select-to-manipulate mode, seems like a good enough UX for less common tasks if the percieved responsiveness of the device is improved.
He clearly points out that scrolling is a good enough reason t o break the rule.
>- Long pressing to delete an app, and the app opens in the meantime? Awkward UX.
I don't think he's envisioning a world where long press and act-on-press are valid on the same object. You'd have to abandon long press and double clicks.
Well, you don't have to abandon double clicks in probably the most common case, where click is a non-destructive action like "select" that can precede the double-click action (e.g. "open").
I have a free utility app for school kids with an install base in the multiple millions. I don’t make much off it, but many users find it helpful. It’s most popular in the EU.
So… if I’m understanding right, I need to take the app down, or start charging an up front fee to school children? Nice one Apple. I hope I’m allowed to add a pop up explaining to users why the app will now incur a mandatory charge.
The best way I can interpret this: it only applies to new downloads each year. In that case, it’s still concerning —- what happens if there is a surge of downloads? I’m on the hook for $50k overnight?
And if updates are included in this number like some comments here suggest, users aren’t going to get any bug fixes.
Wow. HN, please tell me I’m interpreting this wrong.
> Developers who don’t want anything to change can stay on the exact same business terms available today — continuing to share their apps on the App Store alone, and to use the App Store’s secure payment processing.
Thanks -- this is a relief. I hope it lasts though, I could see Apple deprecating this option in a few years, once most apps have adopted the newer terms.
‘Nobody’ is a large assumption. For developers with a consistently small download base, they can switch with little concern.
The consensus here seems to be that Apple don’t want anyone to switch. I’m not sure I fully buy into this, because most developers don’t have the size problem, so switching could be beneficial for them.
You don't have anything to worry about. You are just stuck in a nice new cage Apple has built for you because they were forced to dismantle the old cage.
So long as you are good boy and don't upload your App to any non-Apple app store, you won't be charged the per-install fee. Once you do, the gloves are off. They will start, and they won't ever stop even if you repent and go back to Apple-only distribution. Clever, right?
There is no reason to move off of Apple's App Store unless you are explicitly trying to avoid their fees, which pretty much only applies to revenue generating apps that stand to profit more by avoiding Apple's commissions than 0.5 eur/annual install.
Jesus no. Everyone gets stuck on the install fees but thats only in the equation if you switch to the new terms. And you dont have to, only if you want to use the external app stores or payment processors.
"Developers can choose to adopt these new business terms, or stay on Apple’s existing terms. Developers must adopt the new business terms for EU apps to use the new capabilities for alternative distribution or alternative payment processing."
I’ve been dealing with long COVID since March last year. There’s some interesting learnings I’ve had along the way:
- I was almost perfectly healthy and in my early 30’s. Long COVID isn’t that rare and can happen to anyone, even with a mild case of COVID.
- After first getting COVID, I didn’t rest much. There’s research showing this increases chances of getting long COVID. If you test positive… rest and fully recover. Don’t make the same mistake I did.
- Quite a few people I’ve met seem to have the opinion it’s all neurological. The linked study has plenty of proof it’s not, but people seem to like putting things they don’t understand in a nice bucket.
- If you’re reasonably healthy, don’t take it for granted. Health won’t always last.
Thankfully, I’m doing much better the last few months. I think I’ll be 90% back to normal within a year. Not everyone is so lucky though, so it’s encouraging to see so much research being put forward.
I’ve seen a similar thing happen at another well known NY hospital. My wife was waiting to give birth with all beds taken up. A couple walks in, very unhappy that there is a wait, and we exchanged some conversation with them. It was quite apparent they were from wealthy families. She had requested to be induced, after being a couple of days past her due date (extremely normal for a first pregnancy).
A nurse told us privately that we’re first on the list for a room as my wife was most in need of care; there was one becoming available in an hour or two. However, the other couple started complaining and calling family members. They were ushered off to a different waiting room. We waited 15 hours for a bed, and in the meantime heard someone give birth in the hallway.
A few days later we bumped into the same couple on the way out of the hospital. They’d been given a bed 12 hours before we eventually got one despite being there voluntarily.
This is the key to understanding this incident. A voluntary c-section is scheduled surgery. There is already an operating room reserved for it and staff. As with other scheduled surgeries, the patients and their families often have a pre-op waiting area where they wait for the surgery, so that there can be minimal delay getting them back to the operating room when it is ready for them.
My guess is that the determining factor in their shorter waiting was not their wealth, but rather the fact that their surgery was scheduled.
Now that I recall more clearly, I got this part wrong… they had requested an early induction (not a scheduled c-section). Unsure if that changes things, but they weren’t going straight to an operating room.
Now I have been involved during medical school with a lot of them. Every one of them I saw, it was a very miserable experience for the woman. Basically, the body is not ready for birth, but you give various drugs to force the body to give birth.
These inductions are done when there is some risk to either the mother or baby. A big cause for an early induction is pre-eclampsia which can be a life threatening condition and is treated with early induction.
For inductions you have to have careful monitoring of the baby and mother because you may need to convert to an emergency c-section.
Because of all this, it is not unreasonable for the scheduled induction to be taken first.
I don’t want to discount your experience here, but it seems unlikely to me that what happened followed ordinary medical prioritization.
It’s tricky to relay over a short internet comment the full experience and context - for example, hearing the phone calls the couple made to family/hospital, the full conversation the nurse had with us about priority, or the missing detail that my wife had pre-eclampsia. I guess we don’t know with 100% certainty, but having been in the situation, I’d say there is a 98+% chance that the status/wealth of the couple directly influenced how soon they were given a bed.
(Sorry to add facts after the original comment; I wanted to avoid writing something too lengthy but I can see how these details may have been necessary).
Ahh yes, because bullying people on the internet is such a positive thing for society—-especially when done solely based on rumor, assumption, and when there is an incomplete understanding of all the facts of the situation.
I recently bought an rPi 4. After trying in vain to find any in stock at a reasonable price, I figured out you can buy units that are preconfigured for another purpose and re-flash them (eg https://www.pishop.us/product/raspberry-pi-w-optisigns-pre-c... - in stock right now).
I’m not sure others have caught onto this yet given these are still in stock.
A few years back I lost 15kg, mostly driven by a few lifestyle changes:
- consistent meal times. Previously my meal window would be 2-3 hours wide, leading to increased amounts of hunger.
- less stress. Apparently this is different depending on the person, but stress can increase weight (I’m sure there are a ton of other health issues it causes too).
- avoid snacking too much. No hard and fast rule, just remind yourself you have a meal coming up.
It’s extremely hard to do many things well. If a restaurant specializes in pizza, they’re going to get good at doing that — their employees will know the best way to cook them, their recipes will slowly evolve over time, etc. If a restaurant rarely cooks a pizza, none of that experience and refinement is there.
Not to mention, DoorDash doesn’t have any obvious health ratings visible for restaurants in NYC. I’ll happily order from somewhere I know, but not some unknown restaurant. And what’s to stop a poorly rated dark kitchen from closing shop and reopening the next day under new branding?
The whole model feels gross. It’s centered around profit and questionable tactics, rather than making a genuinely good product that people come back for.