skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A camera is cheaper and a camera can measure speed as well as slowdowns and stoppages that a tube simply can't do. A tube was the old way but if you're going to make a new device a camera makes more sense.
I see. Thanks for the insight.
OKRs can be really great but only if they are used properly and are fully integrated into the process from top to bottom.

Just relabelling old KPIs as OKRs is pointless (just, why would you do this?)

Just having OKRs at a division or company level is pointless (no buy-in or engagement from regular employees)
Just adding the information contained in your second sentence here would have been enough to ask the question better. This kind of point is one that people typically get very hostile about, very quickly, in internet discussions, so if you're going to go there, you need to differentiate your comment from flamebait.

Also, scott_s's original comment didn't say that fish isn't meat, or even imply that. In English the word "meat" didn't traditionally include fish, and that usage is more than enough to cover what he probably meant. Taking the strongest plausible interpretation, as the guidelines request, makes the question unnecessary.
When they have purchased machinery with microphones and set out policy and procedure like the following: ‘The policy adds that "audio from the City's intelligent streetlight sensors may be accessed exclusively for law enforcement purposes with the Police Department as the custodian and departmental owner of these records."’

That means they are planning to use audio recordings.
OKR and Slack are completely different things?

Ones a chat app the other is a system of setting objectives and measuring against those objectives.
I won one of these at my undergrad. It was fun times. Feynman's trick was helpful.[0] But in the end, trig identities won the day.

[0] https://medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse/richard-feynmans-i...
> You should definitely get your doctor involved in this process.

Doctors are often ignorant of the need to taper benzos over a long-term period, and not rapidly. Some might see you coming to them with a problem quitting an often abused drug as a sign that you need to be taken off of it as soon as possible. Sometimes instantly.

Of course you should always let your doctor know when you're taking less medication than you're prescribed. I suggest consulting with a specialist before trying to quit with a GP or your run-of-the-mill psychiatrist.
Fast<->Cheap<->Good/Pick 2 is up there with the second law of thermodynamics in its inviolability.
Deadlines are effectively reality for many projects because tons of people and scares resources need to planned around them. Rallying against them is unrealistic

Let me give some examples:

You're making a product for retail. The stores that will carry your product need to plan to have their shelves full of product. That means they need to know when your product will be available. What promotions will appear on posters, flags, etc in the store. They need the plan this 6 months in advance so you have to commit to a deadline well beyond your finish date.

You plan to run commercials. The TV companies need to know sell their commercials months in advance. So you commit $$$$$$$ to pay for those commercials 6 months in advance. Miss your deadlines and there will be no product when your commercials run.

You're adding features to a mobile OS. Your partners (Samsung, or Sony, or LG or Motorola) are planning all of the stuff above (PR, Commercials, retail placement). They are going to be touting your new feature. Because they have to commit to ads and shelf space months in advance you also had to promise your feature will be ready months in advance.

I'm sure there are better examples. Here in Tokyo they getting ready for the Olympics. The venues, transportation changes, etc have a hard deadline.

Video games used to (still?) have all the same issues. 6 - 9 months before Christmas you have to promise the stores your game will be ready and on their shelves. That may change in the future but even in 2019 retails sales of bluray PS4/Xbox and Switch SD games are greater than online for the majority of games.

If you happen to be on a project that can run without deadlines and things get done and shipped whenever then lucky you.
Networking and recruiters, mostly.

I spent 9 years at a hedge fund in Chicago. I started a year out of college. That job, the reputation and that I lasted nearly a decade, and left of my own accord have opened numerous doors for me, and I only got the job because of networking (my best friend from college worked there and vouched for me, and he was there because a college friend of his sister worked there and vouched for him). Now that I'm "in", I can call up a handful of recruiters that specialize in finance to setup interviews inside of a week or so any time I want. Usually beginning of the year is the best time to interview (after theyve fired tje worst performers from the previous year). Recently, I was looking for a job after being let go in January. I had my first phone screen 3 business days after I lost my job. Accepted an offer after about 4 weeks without work. Actually accepted the lower base/higher bonus potential that also had better work/life balance and easier commute.

But, like I said: networking and recruiters. The hedge fund world is a very incestuous industry. Once you get in, lots of opportunities to move around as you meet people, they leave for new shops, etc. Education also doesnt much matter except to open the first door. I.e. a degree from MIT, CMU, Harvard or Stanford will open more doors without a network connection. I got in with dual BS degrees in engineering from a well respected, but not top tier tech school, with a referral from an employee. While there worked with some very talented people, few of which had degrees in CS. Worked with physicists, philosophers, mathematicians and English majors - all in a software development capacity. I'm sure there were other disciplines, but they escape me.
While I support the argument you are trying to make, I want to disagree slightly. Capitalism does not require freedom, and China is proof of that. But we have not seen freedom without capitalism and I do feel like the inverse relation is true: freedom requires capitalism.

(Feel free to replace capitalism with free enterprise if you don't like the term "capital".)
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The governor of Wisconsin defunded the railroad literally to own the libs. I got downvoted elsewhere in the thread for saying so but “owning the libs” by sabotaging their own state’s transportation system has been the centerpiece of many recent state and federal policies.
> They are now incentivized to find alternatives, creating demand for alternatives, therefore creating supply of alternatives.

As a cyclist, I'm interested in how much congestion pricing (and related ideas like eliminating free parking) would promote cycling.

For a while when I lived in the DC area, I would use a paid bike parking service. I parked in a parking garage that charged something like $10/day for car parking. If I recall correctly, I ended up paying $0.53/day, which seemed very fair to me. I wouldn't mind more paid bike parking if it were good quality like this was. I didn't have to worry about theft. I parked in a cage that took up roughly 5 car parking spots, yet could fit roughly an order of magnitude more bikes.
This response strikes me as a typical "software development is so special we have to live by different rules" response that developers all too frequently make. Software development is not as special we often make it out to be.

Building a house is the same, yet we want our builder to tell us deadlines and get upset when he misses them.

All infrastructure work is the same, yet we gleefully complain about how that subway/overpass/bridge/new airport is behind schedule.

Medicine is the same, but we become (extremely!) upset when our doctor is 60 minutes late to our appointment and we have to wait.

Teaching is the same, but we'd flip out if our teacher decided to keep kids an extra 20 minutes and we're waiting outside in our car to pick them up.

Heck, just look at how upset people get about how long it takes George R.R. Martin or Patrick Rothfuss to write their next books!

I guarantee many of the same people complaining about George R.R. Martin taking so long also complain about their boss asking for estimates and setting deadlines.

And on and on and on.
Due Date = Real deadline (like your examples)

Target Date = A guess as to when something will be ready that can and will change with new information

Sprint = Not even remotely a deadline, just a measure of time that serves no useful purpose at all outside of contract dev shops who sell time by the sprint
Agreed, we need to let a pattern emerge before jumping to conclusions about where Lyft stock is headed

There are many interesting criticisms and observations to be made around this IPO, but I don't think second day stock movement is one of them
Not really - okr are a communication mechanism to communicate goals to a larger org in a distributed way.

Does it still make sense when the org is closer together due to slack
I still have all the code for sure - I spent a lot of time pouring over it recently. They spent a lot of time creating elaborate software-based mobile test environments to test it, and I get the impression that the project was more of a proof-of-concept thing as a result. The code was nicely modularized and somewhat tight (with a few things that drove me nuts).
You're absolutely right, but there's also a theory that SSRI withdrawal brain zaps may actually be brief, localized mini-seizures.
Wouldn't spray paint be a lot easier?
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It’s up to us to stop this. Me and many others took time off work to tell our transit agency, BART, not to implement a draconian police state, including facial recognition cameras. BART wound up becoming one of the first (if not first) transit agencies in the US to implement a privacy policy instead [0].

Work still remains though, one BART employee told the press they were considering fake gun turrets that would drop down from the ceiling on suspected criminals. Work still remains to make American culture see the dangers of a police state as more than a punch line [1]

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@mods The actual title is “Nice People Matter? NPM may stand for Not Politely Managed – job cuts leave staff sore”.
Which is why okrs are untied from promos at Google for instance (in theory that is =))
Do you have a smart phone?

A telescreen by any other name...
Capitalism means free enterprise. It means being able to start a business. It means being able to compete with someone if you think you can do a better job. It means being able to choose from multiple options as a customer.

If it means something else to you, I'm sorry about that.
Ask HN: Would you leave your company for a raise of 20%?
“In 1968, the year Intel opened shop, a psychology professor at the University of Maryland cast a theory that surely influenced Andy Grove. First, said Edwin Locke, “hard goals” drive performance more effectively than easy goals. Second, specific hard goals “produce a higher level of output” than vaguely worded ones.

In the intervening half century, more than a thousand studies have confirmed Locke’s discovery as “ one of the most tested, and proven, ideas in the whole of management theory.” Among experiments in the field, 90 percent confirm that productivity is enhanced by well-defined, challenging goals.

Year after year, Gallup surveys attest to a “worldwide employee engagement crisis.” Less than a third of U.S. workers are “ involved in, enthusiastic about and committed to their work and workplace.” Of those disengaged millions, more than half would leave their company for a raise of 20 percent or less. In the technology sector, two out of three employees think they could find a better job inside of two months.”

Excerpt From: Doerr, John. “Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs.” Apple Books.
How the Ricketts Family Schemed and Feuded Their Way to Owning the Chicago Cubs
Maybe not coconut oil, but I still find the Cortisol link interesting from personal experiences and research indicating a link between Marijuana and psychosis, but then in separate research linking Marijuana and low Cortisol.

Edit: So I guess what are you refuting, coconut oil or the metabolic aspect?
Wow. Sorry, I didn't see that part.

I'm surprised it's still circulating then, it sounds like a very serious bug. It's still not known? (No CVE?)
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Yup - the default is 800x600 on the LCD, but I changed it to 1024x768 fine (you just have to ensure that you select the option that outputs video simultaneously to the LCD and external VGA port to get it to work). I've since riced the desktop quite nicely and it's pretty spiffy. DOOM runs very well on it too.
If a project must have a deadline then I think there needs to be flexibility on what features are included.

For some features you can only know how long they will take once you get started on them. The overall business requirement has a deadline, but individual features may not.

The worst kind of deadlines I've experienced are we must have X by Y date, where the Y date is imposed by someone outside of the team without really thinking it through, and the only way to achieve it is via overtime and cutting corners.

This can also happen when you the dev says "10 days" then they get haggled down to "2 days" by their boss. Having split the thing up into 100 pieces and have those pieces individually negotiated, you end up with a hack solution. That kind of project, one way or another is going to go to shit. It may be delivered on time but it'll be a turd. Or it will just be late.
What the CEO made has no bearing on anything. I get that people get worked up about it, envy being what it is, but it's really irrelevant.
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To be fair, the budget and the employee's base salary are not quite the same thing.

Let's take a $150k base salary as a specific example, as a nice round-ish number. The numbers from Triplebyte don't include bonuses and equity; I suspect that 20% combined is a reasonable assumption. That puts us at 180k.

Now we have employer costs that the employee never sees (this all assumes the US):

* Social security: $8.2k (6.2% of $132,900 in 2019).
* Medicare: $2.6k (1.45% of 180000)
* State payroll taxes (for things like unemployment insurance): ~$1.5k in California, say, mostly for State Disability Insurance bits.

We're up to $193k.

Health insurance for employees, if you provide it, is probably $10k-$30k depending on the health plan and whether the employees have families. So $203k-$223k. Equipment is a few thousand per year. Office space (if local) or possibly travel (if remote, though maybe you could try to do everything async or over videoconference), really depends on the geography.

At that size, I don't know whether you have 401(k) matching or safe harbor contributions, but if you do that's presumably another $5k-$15k depending on how generous the match is.

So a base salary of $150k means a budget of at least $205k and more likely closer to $230k or $240k.
Did you mean this quote?:

"The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

It's from Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Vol. 1, 1776)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and...
Those investors bought in two days ago - is this really a problem? Let’s see where the price is in 6 months. You’re only down if you sell.
But even after all that you're still at ">$50" per mouse. This isn't the part that makes a mouse cost 5 figures.
I remember metrics such as how long can you keep playing it, e.g. people still play Kong or PacMan or WoW, different styles, different depth, but each has its own crowd. Another metric is 'how long does it take to finish' and we know that for games like WoW or Fortnite, it is 'eternity'. I find this more as an interesting notion, get people to appreciate the format and then develop it to something else, but for some reason (most) people have rejected those pixels and are on-board to far larger widths and heights, and in colour. I do not want another WAP when I have 4G though.

I do admire and respect the effort and the skill though!
Sounds a bit like what Google / Alphabet / Jigsaw are already doing with Outline, but I still think there’s major opportunity there for a transparent and decentralized one-click service. Especially when you add in #4.

For some reason, Outline is still mega-targeted at journalists and activists when it could be so much more — it’s been an absolute joy to use so far, and being powered by Shadowsocks certainly doesn’t hurt.

https://getoutline.org/en/home
Both are possible, yep. But OKRs tend to be written down pretty often (quarterly is what I've seen, but maybe monthly is a thing too). If a bad employee is cruising or a great employee's work is not being recognized quarter after quarter, that's a direct managerial problem and not really what OKRs are trying to solve.
People are taking this awfully seriously for what is pretty clearly a tongue-in-cheek writeup. An article doesn't have to be an April Fools joke to be fun, nobody's obliged to be literal in all they say.
Please don't do this; it's off topic here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547613.
The Unix Operating System
> disappears from the store

That's not how it works. It doesn't go and uninstall every copy.