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Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by Jommi »

dclusin wrote: post #43
dyslexit wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm very weary of resistor self-reported "data points". They don't often reflect real life for most people, or worse, don't even reflect really even for the commentor. I seriously doubt the person saying he makes $35-$40 an hour doing uber eats is any sort of real average even for him. On top of that a thread like that is more motivating to respond to for people who want to give a "fuck you" to Amazon or who want to…

In the rare occasions I take an Uber I always ask about the economics of it. From my anecdata it seems like most have never done any modeling of depreciation or maintenance cost forecasting, even extremely basic like miles until major service required and how much it would cost. At most they factor in the monthly oil change, if they even do that. Maybe some enterprising person on here could make a slick web app to he…

Well that's the thing. They just want to drive people and earn money. Uber made that super super easy.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by mycall »

wenc wrote: post #36
dyslexit wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm very weary of resistor self-reported "data points". They don't often reflect real life for most people, or worse, don't even reflect really even for the commentor. I seriously doubt the person saying he makes $35-$40 an hour doing uber eats is any sort of real average even for him. On top of that a thread like that is more motivating to respond to for people who want to give a "fuck you" to Amazon or who want to…

I'm with you about not drawing firm conclusions from potentially biased anecdata from that one post. Also we don't know if that number is gross or net. That said, I have been reading this sub daily for the past 2 months now and yes there's variability but in general, most agree the work is paying (check out the sub's history in the last 2 months). It sounds like customers are tipping better, traffic is reduced so tri…

Software engineers should know what they are trying to achieve but don't pigeonhole their common sense. Having many channels of input, not to mention interviews and sometimes interrogations in subreddits, creates more signal from the noise and order from the chaos.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by cskinner »

dclusin wrote: post #43
dyslexit wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm very weary of resistor self-reported "data points". They don't often reflect real life for most people, or worse, don't even reflect really even for the commentor. I seriously doubt the person saying he makes $35-$40 an hour doing uber eats is any sort of real average even for him. On top of that a thread like that is more motivating to respond to for people who want to give a "fuck you" to Amazon or who want to…

In the rare occasions I take an Uber I always ask about the economics of it. From my anecdata it seems like most have never done any modeling of depreciation or maintenance cost forecasting, even extremely basic like miles until major service required and how much it would cost. At most they factor in the monthly oil change, if they even do that. Maybe some enterprising person on here could make a slick web app to he…

Our local motoring association (RACV in Victoria, Australia) provides a car running cost calculator, including precomputed values for common models organised by category. Their methodology seems pretty solid.

https://www.racv.com.au/on-the-road/buying-a-car/car-running...

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by Jommi »

foodbringertw wrote: post #79
dyslexit wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm very weary of resistor self-reported "data points". They don't often reflect real life for most people, or worse, don't even reflect really even for the commentor. I seriously doubt the person saying he makes $35-$40 an hour doing uber eats is any sort of real average even for him. On top of that a thread like that is more motivating to respond to for people who want to give a "fuck you" to Amazon or who want to…

I'm not going to drop in here and say, "I did that kind of delivery gigging for two and a half years, AMA", but I did, in fact do that kind of delivery gigging for two and a half years and can vouch for those numbers. I made thousands of deliveries. I quit my desk job (making >$15/hr, but still not great) with the plan being specifically for the delivery gigging to be my main (and as it turned out, only) source of in…

Thanks for this! So... How much did you make on average? :-)

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by antonf »

jfk13 wrote: post #21
wenc wrote: post #6

I've been trawling subreddits to get a ground-level view of common narratives that we hold on to but have never thought to collect data on. For instance, there's a common and oft-repeated notion that food delivery apps are screwing over drivers, not just restaurants. So I've been reading the Couriersofreddit sub to get the story from the horses' mouths: https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/ It turns you can make…

I wonder about people who say things like "I average between $35-40 an hour" doing food-delivery gigs. How many hours per day is that level of work available?

I was delivering food via DoorDash before COVID-19 (using $5k 300cc motorcycle, so my gas expenses and depreciation were low), and it wasn't hard to hit $40/h during lunch or dinner delivering food in San Mateo, CA. Sometimes, when restaurants were slow I made about $20/h (I stopped taking orders from Mendocino Farms and Sweet Basil for that reason).

I also tried to deliver food in Palo Alto, but most of the orders were coming from Stanford Shopping Center were it was hard to find parking, and then it was hard to find the restaurant, and on top of that the restaurants were pretty slow to prepare the orders.

The factors that may contribute to higher income through delivery apps during COVID-19:

- without regular visitors, restaurants are probably faster to prepare food for delivery

- with more customers there are more chances for delivery app to batch orders

- with less traffic and cheaper gas, the expenses per delivery are lower

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by xueyongg »

I've curated some of the articles that I found interesting and thought-provoking over the month of May - tech and non-tech topics! Some are from hacker news itself, and others out of the blue haha. Share with you! Hope you enjoy it!

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-14-first-half-of-m...

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by foodbringertw »

Jommi wrote: post #84
foodbringertw wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not going to drop in here and say, "I did that kind of delivery gigging for two and a half years, AMA", but I did, in fact do that kind of delivery gigging for two and a half years and can vouch for those numbers. I made thousands of deliveries. I quit my desk job (making >$15/hr, but still not great) with the plan being specifically for the delivery gigging to be my main (and as it turned out, only) source of in…

Thanks for this! So... How much did you make on average? :-)

The last week that I worked a "full-ish" week (over a year ago, before it stopped being my main source of income) was just under $750 for 21 hours of online time. I worked 6 days that week. >$30/hr was typical around that time. When I started doing it, <$20/hr was a bad day and $25 to $27/hr was a good day. AFAIK I didn't break $30/hr (even once) until over two years into it, but it then became a regular thing.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by MamaJumba »

yowlingcat wrote: post #22

> It seems all these sites are updating very slowly; or am I checking too frequently? Congratulations, friend. You have arrived at a kind of limbo that in all likelihood you will end up at again in the future. I congratulate you, because you have arrived at the point where you have "synced" -- that is to say, you have processed material from your desired channels from the post to the present moment such that this fee…

> an almost emptiness or that of negative space, encapsulates and closes in upon the definition of "present moment".

It definitely feels like that more and more for me recently. Sometimes it feels like "I've watched these videos before" on YouTube or I find the memes on Reddit repetitive or unfunny. It gets to the point where I don't mind rewatching videos..

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