skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I interviewed for a data analyst position at a known startup, I was asked to define a target KPI for a controlled pseudo-A/B experiment, and I suggested total revenue. The interviewer replied "that's a dumb answer because revenue can be gamed; you should have said # of sales."

I was too taken aback to follow up asking why # of sales can't be gamed too.
Well I took it because I was silly enough to buy a flight with a transfer between London City and Heathrow. The first time I took a cab...238 pounds. Kill me. Next time I took the tubes, and was glad to get on the cushy express after the crowded London tubes...and I had to make my flight so another hour would not have worked for me.
The rent they are earning on those properties is definitely real money.
are you suggesting i might get to buy a house or i might not because i'll lose my job?
You're conspicuously ignoring the initial point I made in my post, that being a URM is valued more highly than being an "exceptional talent" at a number of elite Universities. And at those where it's not the most important factor, it's very likely one of the most important factors.

Test scores are just used as a proxy for overall application quality. If you are a URM, it's much easier to get into elite colleges.
This seems substantially much more complex than "connect your Dropbox account and choose a theme".
What you suggest sounds like the model minority myth.
That's my favorite conspiracy theory. That VCs own the property and are fine with channeling their fund's money (which isn't all or even mostly theirs) into rent.

Disclaimer- I don't really believe it's that simple.
And as soon as a measure becomes known, it becomes the target.

IMO, the law ought to be "As soon as a measure becomes known it ceases to become a good measure."

"I'm fat because I can't touch my toes? Hang on, I'll be back in three weeks."

"What's that? Your measure for gas consumption and co2 emissions has you go exactly 35 MPH for 10 minutes? Hmm....."
There's basically two ways polyamory goes down:

1: You learn a lot about yourself and unpack all the stuff you've buried over a lifetime, figure out what you want, and are forever changed for the better. Maybe this means you decide poly isn't for you. This is how it went down for me.

2: You double down on all your insecurities, ruin everything, and blame polyamory for it. Most of the negative stories you hear come from this. All polyamory does is amplify what's already inside. It's like getting superpowers. A jackass with laser vision was already a jackass without it.
Apple Maps has been down for hours, users unable to search for places/directions
Serious question - it may no longer be a good measure, but does that necessarily mean it is a poor target?

Assuming targets are necessary, do they not have to based on done measure?
Can you explain how the recession was caused by "government's choice of credit worthiness metrics", instead of rollbacks of regulation?
Personal attacks have no business on Hacker News. If you're going to comment, you need to leave those out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The stress of having no choice except being successful in your venture can be a huge forcing function / motivator. Steady paychecks are comfortable. Comfort isn't motivating for me.
> Personally, I think we'd all be a lot better off if we adopted open and polyamorous relationships in a large way.

What you suggest seems to go again the Universal Declaration of Human rights (Article 16.3) which states that:

"The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State."
Mary Meeker reminds us tech utopianism is alive and well
Impressive specs...
Can sounds be played from EFI? It might be possible to create a stub EFI bootloader that does nothing but play the chime and kick off the normal macOS boot process.

EDIT: In fact I think Apple may have done something like this in their own EFI for the startup chime on Intel Macs – compared to PPC Macs, the sound was always a little delayed and clearly played further into the boot process.
How did the CEO do this? What strings do you pull to get someone banned for Reddit whistleblowing? Who on the Reddit staff might "fence" his request?
The overriding, pervasive problem with regional comparisons is that people give undue attention to non-standard, arbitrary distinctions -- e.g. political borders -- where comparisons across standardized areas (e.g. those defined by the OMB) would be more useful and generate more informative results.

This is an example of a good comparison in a never-ending sea of bad ones.
Cumberland Farms doesn't cost much different. Hotdogs are about the cheapest possible meat, and fountain soda costs nothing, effectively.

My dark secret is that I absolutely love gas station hot dogs. Especially at old country stores that have a steamer loaded with red hotdogs on one side and the buns on the other.
So you “think” it doesn’t say a lot, but the only evidence you offer against a statistic is anecdotal.

What do you “think” it says then?
Not as strong as stating they researched it and found it didn't work. Those sound like off the cuff remarks to me.
At least in the US this is not true. The very first minimum wage, inflation adjusted, comes out to something like $8k/yr in today's money (https://bebusinessed.com/history/history-of-minimum-wage/).

It is simply not viable or desirable to require the lowest skill jobs to pay enough to support a family. It has never been the case that the least skilled laborers in an economy were able to support families without support from other sources (e.g. a multigenerational house).
Except I justly compensate people for my electricity, food, and clothing. I do not steal it from them. For almost everything I am provided, I agree to pay a set amount to receive a desired service.

It's not "society" I owe anything to, it's the individuals I enter into voluntary contracts with. And "society" has no more right to disrupt the voluntary relationships I enter into any more than another private citizen. To declare my sexuality or relationships are not serving "society" well enough is a criminal infringement of my freedom of association, and no amount of populist religious zealotry will make it permissible or right.
Is there a chart somewhere that has this kind of information?

Especially if it pertains to tech jobs specifically
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Trends only shows data for the past few years, but searching usage in print can be instructive. Frida seems to have become hugely popular beginning in the 90's. Strangely enough, there doesn't seem to be a rise in usage after the early 2000's Hollywood movie.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Frida+Kahlo&ye...
There are very real reasons to object to an artificial floor to salaries (minimum wage) that have nothing to do with validation.

How expensive do you really want your burger to be? Operational costs get passed on to the consumer after all. Raising the minimum wage just increases the rate of inflation leaving everyone holding the bag.

Also, jobs should pay what they are worth to the business and nothing more. Why should a high school student working for McDonald's be able to afford a 2 bedroom apartment in the Bay Area? That's not some sort of right.

Maybe we should be talking about realigning education to give people valuable skills instead of pushing for the non-skilled to get an artificial raise that evaporates in meaning due to inflation.

EDIT

I'm really surprised by the push back on this from a community of entrepreneurs. Anyone who has run a business will tell you that you can't just raise salaries without increasing costs. It's Econ 101 but apparently that's not the general sentiment here. I hear a lot of complaints about how things "should" be and what's "fair" but the math and reality isn't there to support that. Some jobs just don't have much economic value and pretending that's not the case isn't going to solve anything. It's nice to imagine a situation where janitors and fast food employees can have a middle class lifestyle but who is supposed to pay for that? When the costs of good raise dramatically, their additional pay will get sucked up by inflation. Again, Econ 101.
Doing so in a large software company would likely result in Sales & Marketing being empowered. Which in turn will likely lead to technical debt (as the company stretches to meet impractical promises), as well as stagnation in Engineering (S&M are delivering on the metrics, so they get promoted).

In general, large organizations are like an AI. In this case, making a goal that won't backfire when applied without thought is really difficult.
They don't. The cost of just boring a tunnel is typically somewhere in the region of $50 million/mile. $1 billion/mile is on the mildly pricey side for building a twin-tube subway tunnel, all-inclusive of stations, rolling stock, substations, etc. The Boring Company is guilty of pointing to the latter to complain about tunneling costs while quoting the former for their costs.
What about walking?
Theranos had a bunch of larger investors [1] many of them as sophisticated as any tech investor. I’m not saying SV investors are particularly dysfunctional, just that it’s pretty normal for tech DD to not get done, or get done badly. I use the Theranos example because it’s big and public (most disappear without any news).

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/theranos/investors/i...
Minimum wage as adjusted in comparison to rent and home values, started going down in the mid 1970s, so that makes sense that you may not have seen it.
Why would I use smartphone for this?
Captures how it makes me feel now as well, unfortunately. It also surprisingly exacerbates my chronic pain. I wish it helped.
The last thing they want to do is make it more expensive for their members to feed themselves sickness and disease. Costco reaps the benefits of having unhealthy members in their Pharmacy department among others, including over consumption of other food items, especially prepared factory foods and lower quality animal products.
From the FAQ: "We fully intend for Ultibo to support other boards, which ones and when depends on what the community shows interest in."

This project is freaking interesting. I would welcome some support for smaller Nano/Orange PI boards and others with Allwinner/AMlogic/Rockchip/Sitara etc. MCUs. All chips already employed in TVs, media players, cellphones, industrial boards etc. as opposed to the Broadcom MCUs which are used only in the Raspberry PI, so there's already a huge load of iron this environment could become useful to write software for.
Within the next 2-3 years, there is likely to be another recession which will, if patterns follow, will be longer than the previous one. It would be bad news for a lot of boomers getting out of the market for retirement.
My biggest concern is sneaky, vaguely "the company owns" everything agreements, even when the HR department/owners tell you "Oh, it's just for work-related stuff".

I have nightmares about this.
It's recursive. Landlord -> business -> VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord -> business -> VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord -> business -> VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord -> business -> VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord -> business -> VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord -> business -> VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord -> business -> VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord -> business -> VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord -> business -> VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord -> business -> VC -> Startup -> Employee -> ...
“Putting aside the wholly made-up g factor”

Why do you stoop to blatant lying?

“Research in the field of behavioral genetics has established that the construct of g is highly heritable. It has a number of other biological correlates, including brain size. It is also a significant predictor of individual differences in many social outcomes, particularly in education and employment. The most widely accepted contemporary theories of intelligence incorporate the g factor.[1]”

“The practical validity of g as a predictor of educational, economic, and social outcomes is more far-ranging and universal than that of any other known psychological variable. The validity of g is greater the greater the complexity of the task.[2][3]”

[1] Neisser et al. 1996

[2] Jensen 1998, 270

[3] Gottfredson 2002
Not discussing any of the particular subjects you bring up, but in general most individual/personal things that people think don't affect others have an unfortunate way of actually affecting others.
Thank you for this comment. I've had this thought so many times and you've phrased it more eloquently than I ever could have thought of.

I grew up in a poverty-heavy community, where people often felt hopeless, and believed that everything was aligned against them (a pessimistic viewpoint). I then studied Philosophy and learned to try and be as "correct" as possible, and thought it was always the best method to try and be correct about things (a realistic viewpoint). After a while, however, I realized that some of the most successful and happy people I knew, and (I believe) in the world, are incredibly naive, and that this naivety and optimistic viewpoint played a large part in their success.

Even if determinism/fatalism are true concepts and/or nothing matters in the end, you'll have the best life if you disregard those concepts and assume that anything is possible, and everything matters, and it's all up to you. Positive viewpoints, even if incorrect, can be empowering and create this positive feedback loop.
Yes. You can either punish innocent firms, or punish innocent firms plus lots of extra paperwork.
They can try selling to other customers, but US is still around 25% of global GDP and probably a larger percentage of the market for the components that have been tariffed. Chinese government would have to print a lot of money to make up for that, which causes it's own issues, especially when considering the amount of debt China has already racked up.

The point isn't for the government to skim 25%, it's to get China to trade fairly or if worse comes to worse bring manufacturing back to the US.

In the event of a trade war US has leverage because we have the market and a essential product, food. US consumers can live without another 42in tv, Chinese can't live without food and they are entirely dependent on importing that food.
> This is only benefitting people for whom 25 minutes is worth $20/$22.50.

This is addressed in the RFQ, which includes a model of time value split into four markets:

Business (HH income under $100K) $33

Business (HH income $100K and over) $92

Non-Business (HH income under $100K) $25

Non-Business (HH income $100K and over) $55

It includes this reasoning:

>In the Project work, the values were adapted from a previous study on express service which found that the value of time for business trips is higher than those of non-business trips to O’Hare. In many recent studies, the value of time for long distance trips and work trips has been shown to be higher than VOT for everyday short trips. Trips to/from an airport could be considered as one leg of long distance travel. Also, the total cost of air travel is much higher than the cost of everyday travel; therefore, travelers may be willing to pay more to reduce the risk of missing their flight. Willingness to pay a high fee for airport trips is reported in other studies, for example, for business trips to airports, Harvey reports $42/hour, Furuichi & Koppelman report $73/hour and Hess and Polak report a value in the range of $93-155/hour. The value of time also varies across regions with large metropolitan areas such as New York/New Jersey having higher values than smaller cities.

In the cited 2016 Airport Survey, taxi rides are still in the double digits for non-business low-income residents and drop-offs are as popular as rail (tripling the amount of time to account for, though I don't think they include this). In their reweighting of the survey (because "the Blue Line survey percentage was thought to be high due to over-represented CTA Blue Line use), the plurality took taxis in every category.

http://chicagoinfrastructure.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/...
Socially permissible is code for things that people approve or disapprove of as a general rule. Your business will not do very well if you do these socially impermissible things. People will not want to work for you if they have other choices, which means you will have the bottom of the employee barrel, customers will not want to hire you or use your products unless you make them much cheaper or better than the competition and that will negatively affect your margin and state and federal agencies will realize you’re a popular target and file suit for the employer discrimination you’ve outlined above. Good luck in your future endeavors, because you will need it.
That's not pedantic, that's pointing out a terrible headline.
The story might be more involved than this, or maybe he managed to convince reddit staff that he has alternate interpretation of the events and the believed him.
And most of them I've seen are frittering that money away on bullshit, content in the idea that the gravy train will keep continuing ad infinitum.
To be honest I don't know what point you are trying make other than governments don't like people to think for themselves.

The gist of your point is that when people hear ideas (that you imply they shouldn't hear) then they can make decisions that you or the government doesn't want.

My point: Let me hear things and I'll make my own decisions using my brain.

Your point?: People are dumb and what they hear should be curated so they can decide "good" things and not "bad" things. I guess you or the govt gets to decide what's good and bad, and which ideas are "weaponized" or not.
Crossrail has 21km of (twin) tunnels, which apparently cost 1.5B (just the tunnelling contracts). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail)
Without dates and metrics you can’t measure progress. Like mile markers along the road (back before GPS / Smartphones). But without continuous, high trust, collaborative conversation you can’t actually make progress. That’s the gasoline powering you down the road. The goal should be Disneyland (shouldn’t it always be Disneyland?), not the next mile marker.
Google engineers are not the top whatever-percent that needs to be taxed like that, no. It's mostly the idle billionaire class. Warren Buffet agrees with me, FWIW.
That sounds ridiculous and I'd love to see it on the front page of HN when you're done
These are default data privacy settings worth changing
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You should expect people to downvote when you demand information you could get yourself just by skimming Wikipedia articles.
Sure - I'm no expert in concurrency in programming languages as such but here's my understanding: so Nim supports what are essentially native operating system threads but with a difference from most languages being that each thread has its own garbage collected heap. Nim supports shared memory if you so choose to use it with a shared heap. Nim also supports a channel based communication system similar to Go's.

Nim also supports lighter-weight parallelism with the `spawn` (unsafe, unstructured parallelism which schedules a procedure to run in a thread pool) and `parallel` (lets you use a subset of the Nim language to create concurrency safe tasks) keywords which pass tasks to thread pools in the background. You can read more about Nim's concurrency here: https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#parallel-spawn-spawn-s...

Go has Goroutines which use less resources than threads on most operating systems while also taking advantage of multicore CPUs (I assume they must run in a thread pool running in the background?). It also supports a select case statement which is a nice bit of syntax sugar for managing multiple channels, which Nim doesn't support (although its macro system is pretty powerful, so you could plausibly come up with an equivalent). Go does not support shared memory communication as a language feature, although some libraries apparently give you that option.
@hiram112. React native works in a 'conceptually' similar way as wxWidgets (if you are familiar with with that). It uses platform's native APIs. It does not rely on a web browser on your mobile device. The integration is also not just for widgets, but underneath it abstracts out Image, network api, basic storage/preference primitives, screen rotation, etc.

For the things that it does not abstract, it let's you write a native module, that you register with RN runtime, and then the APIs for your native module will be avialable to your RN java script code.

There is an active opensource ecosystem of RN-modules that you can leverage, that will work on Android and IoS , abstracting the platform specific things that RN does not do yet themselves. Everything from non trivial camera interactions to bluetooth specific things. Eg

https://github.com/Polidea/react-native-ble-plx
Maybe it would force some males to work on self-improvement...

Also, remember that, over the age of 30, women outnumber men. By the age of 50 or so, there's a clear majority. Older women would be better off if they shared mates.

Finally, remember that polyamory is not the same as polygamy. It could also benefit men who want more space in a relationship, or have had failed relationships because of this, since with polyamory your partner doesn't have to be upset that you don't spend so much time together, as they can spend time with their other partner(s).
Marginal tax rates on very high earners were 90% in the US.

https://www.theblaze.com/contributions/the-myth-of-the-90-pe...
I tried this and ended up burnt out and sucking at both. It also took a personal toll on relationships with friends and was just too much to juggle. Your side gig better be light, or your office job unambitious and coast-able for this to work.
Your cynicism is misplaced. CostCo may be a large money-making company, but they really seem to be "one of the good guys." They take care of their employees and are a well-liked consumer brand.
I don't think the things you derive from those voluntary contracts vs from "society" are quite so separable.
Not leaving a corporate job, but slowly transitioning from freelancing to working on my SAAS business (https://www.scraperapi.com) full time. I'll throw out the suggestion that maybe you should seek a bit of freelance work on the side so you can have some level of income while you work on your business. Even if it's just 5-10 hours a week, if you can get $100/hr from someone for that you can cover a large portion/all of your living costs if you live frugally. Good luck!
> How expensive do you really want your burger to be? Operational costs get passed on to the consumer after all. Raising the minimum wage just increases the rate of inflation leaving everyone holding the bag.

This doesn't make sense to me. If it were possible to raise the price of that burger, why wouldn't it already be raised, regardless of operational costs? A business's costs to produce a good typically does not have much to do with the price customers are willing to pay for it.
> And as soon as a measure becomes known, it becomes the target.

Soon after, 90% of the target is still an 'A', which becomes the new target.

On a related note of unintended consequences, the Cobra Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
They don't, probably. Totally different business models. The conspiracy theory is idiotic. VCs aren't in business to make the relatively flat world of rent. They're looking for that 100x return.
Not true. Not shipping at all is much worse. Shipping and having no sales is how every business starts. The next step is learning WHY. Talk to people, iterate, and repeat. That's business.