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Ask HN: How startups use tools for data analysis?
Being in an enterprise world I have seen large swaths of data engineers, data analysts and/or business analysts employed to meet the need of business users/management. Yet mostly business is never satisfied with the response times of the data team.

I'm curious to know how startups manage data analytics(To be clear I am referring to analysis of offline/online data, not clickstream/web analytics). Especially when the company size is small and is devoid of dedicated data analysts, do you rely on readily available tools (code or no-code) or build your own self serve tool? What is the typical outcome of using the tool: to produce insight or generate visualization/report. If it is report, do you produce it to feed your own work or for the (co-)founders/teammates?

How much time do you typically spend on data analysis in a day?

Eager to know what is the problem that the tools doesn't solve but you are desperate to find a tool that does.
Last time I played DF I would just compulsively keep going until 1-3 AM despite having to go to work the next day.

I had had a normal sleep schedule before that bout, and was otherwise a functional and responsible adult.

I’ve been waiting for this release for ages, but I do not think it’s going to do my mental health any favours Hah
I can attest that we’ve grown a SaaS a lot bigger with 3 people than I ever would have thought possible.
As awesome as The Culture sounds I find it unsettling that Humans basically become the exceptionally pampered pets of the Minds and at least right now it's unlikely we will create AIs as benign and benevolent as they are.
Paul Graham founded this site. How did it end up being so hostile to founders?
The comment above is wrong, you are right. I've worked on similarly complex stuff (active implantable devices like artificial hearts, lvads, and surgical robotics, etc.). We don't cause our animals to suffer like this, we don't need 1500 to do our work.
Even better: let's see how many billioaire entrepreneurs will appear in a society where few or no people are there to buy their products and services, because they've made redundant and are out of jobs or in new lower-paying forced careers...
> The platform has more engagement than anyone has seen in years

Yeah, but so does every dumpster fire, or car wreck. Everyone is looking at those.

> The only negative was the haphazard release of Twitter Blue "verification,"

I'm not even sure how to respond to this. He's been firing people left and right, and everything points to the overall system being about to collapse under it's own stress (because there isn't the staff to support it).
The legislative and executive branches of the US government blocking the majority of rail workers from going ahead with a rail strike: https://apnews.com/article/business-economy-strikes-congress... .
What is there to be confused about?

On the one hand you seem to be arguing that neuralink is more complicated and has more unknowns, and that this explains why it needs to do more animal tests, but that depends on how much data one can capture in a single test. So it is not a given that the complexity-to-tests-needed graph is linear.

And assuming that we do actually capture a lot more data in a single test (I would hope so at least), then that also means more work needs to be done to interpret this data in a meaningful way and make improvements. Which would suggest that it should take more time to move on from one test to the next.

There is a difference between total animal tests and how quickly the tests are done.
Huh? Signing doesn't solve anything.

Students can do their homework with ChatGPT then digitally sign it as themselves.

Another example of "blockchain thinking".
But before doing all that, Elon Musk built an online payment system.
I will admit that I assumed a lot before I read the whole thing ( I was kinda hoping it will be more about automation ), but I guess it goes back to the opening statement:

<< You still occasionally hear people saying that founders don't deserve to be rich, because their employees created all the value.

I don't hear that a lot. I see 'Eat the rich memes', guillotine pics popping up on various community sites. PG may be very limited in his view to VC-land only ( and if that is all he is talking about, he may well be right ), but if he is making a statement intended for general public, lets talk about not getting the current mood. The argument itself seems off, but I am having a harder time finding where it fails.
This is simultaneously a great question and a terrible multiple-choice question.
I have to agree here.

Automation increased the productivity of employees, and drove down the price of goods. It never truly 'reduced' the size of the workforce. The industrial revolution actually led to an increase in the size of the workforce. New qualifications were required to handle technically-complex industrial equipment instead of the simple production methods of the pre-industrial world.
You seem to be conveniently forgetting the fact that first world lifestyles are only possible due to entire countries worth of third world slave labor.

Someone has to do all this yucky boring work and by golly it's not going to be me! Out of sight, out of mind.
automation only scales to a certain point though? after a certain point of scale it makes sense to do something in house & save money at the margin right?

automation seems great for small companies & solo founders, but kind of an open question if that gets you to unicorn status
It just spam automation improvements in a nutshell.
There are many Invidious mirrors other than snopyta.org, here you can get the video link for any of them: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=lMHaQGB1Wdc

I posted a youtube.com link as well.
I am pretty sure among hunters there was a very strict pecking order and I am glad to live in the system we have today.
It depends on at which point.

Modern VR started with the Oculus Kickstarter -- it was as nerdy as it gets. Some random nerd nobody had heard of (Palmer Luckey) just had a vision. It was announced on various very nerdy sites (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6172881). One of the big draws was John Carmack's endorsement. Yeah, later Facebook nabbed them, but before then it was pure nerdy enthusiasm, and to a decent degree it still is.

Bitcoin also started in very tight knit, technical circles, part people with libertarian ideals, part cypherpunks, part just random nerds curious about playing with new tech. Today the scene is very, very different.
I know I shouldn't recommend it because it is extremely addictive, but try Oxygen Not Included. To me it is like Rimworld, but without the feeling of arbitrary nonsense sometimes literally falling on your colonists' head. There is a lot of challenges, and all of them are natural consequences of the simulation. It's much more "emergent simulation" although since the simulation is much more focused on physics than humans, it might feel a bit too technical.
Yes, and the children who have grown are answering "I won't do that to another generation".
While I can see the utility for individual people/companies, I find it hard to imagine how GPT-generated drab (for lack of more neutral wording) will be a net positive for society. We're already thoroughly overwhelmed by mediocre content, without the machines helping out to produce orders of magnitude more.

Still, I prefer it to crypto, I think. :-)
I don't think this forum post or any of its replies were written by GPTChat. It's unlikely that this whole thing was a test. However, I do think it would be funny if it were!

Spoiler: ChatGPT wrote that reply to your comment!
As someone who has only done internships in academia, is it possible to share some tips or point me to some good resources? Thank you
Isn't Notch [1] a solo billionaire? Not sure if he had help running Minecraft (I guess so), but you could say he created a billion-dollar company single-handedly.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson
They might be right about the actual plane ride because the filtration systems on modern (read 20 years old or newer) are really good. Public busses tend to be a disaster for air filtration though, especially in winter when no windows are open. I wish there was some better research/more accessible research on this.
Who said anything about a third party?
It's easy to make any argument sound valid when you tout the extreme outliers (Instagram & WhatsApp in this case). What about the average case? What percentage of founders have grown their company to $100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation on the backs of "automation" (whatever that is)?
For starters, people have figured out how to run pretty solid and stable elections for while without needing anything but most basic technology.
Also, if you have a society where no-one trust anyone, no amount of software will fix that. People can then just not accept the result of software and do what they please. Immutability is totally irrelevant at that point.
That sort of nihilistic attitude is anesthetizing, though. If we shrug and mutter that everything is evil to some degree, we'll stop trying to address large problems on a societal scale.

In the words of John Oliver's character in Community, "the average person has a much harder time saying 'booyah' to moral relativism."
> It looks tacky, insensitive, and leaves a bad first impression on the people working there.

Sure, but is it enough to call a person a sociopath? By that definition, every rich person sheltered from ordinary working man's reality is a sociopath.
Yeah if work was so great you wouldn't have to pay people to do it
Honest Question: Isn’t the future of AI image generation (of all kinds) and AI-driven Chat all predicated on some human signal for future training? Otherwise it will have future training sets including its own output…

So far the human signal was that text and images were crafted by humans, of course with some tooling.

However as the universe of images and text corpuses grow, they will embody the idiosyncratic nature of the AI generation process. And those “glitches” as has been called higher in the thread, will potentially get fed-back into the training data set with out some filter using a human-signal, if even just an AI human-signal.

See https://nopecha.com/ (I’m not affiliated) and plenty others.
You have a point. A related question is, is being useless at being evil equivalent to being neutral? And is profiting of such useless evil, in turn, also neutral?

That is, if the VCs are intending to do something evil by turning a company into a growth lottery ticket, but they're so useless at picking potential lottery tickets that they might as well be setting their money on fire.

Then what is the moral standing of someone who collects a paycheck from that company, grabs some popcorn, and sits in the sidelines to watch bad decisions unfold?
Can you say more about these metrics, for those of us who don't know?
EU throws party in €387K metaverse (and hardly anyone turns up)
not in my experience. coming out of college, i worked for 3 years then took 18 months off. nobody i spoke to cared. if they asked about it, it was out of genuine interest for what i got into during that time.
Hospital shutdown spurs questions about private equity in health care
> Twitter is also finally taking child exploitation seriously.

Does that explain why Ol' Muskie gutted the moderation teams leaving one (1) moderator to look after all CSAM for Asia (60M+ users)?

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-child-sexual-abuse-mater...
Interesting, I didn't know this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16183700 (2018)
Sorry yes it was harsh, and I did not mean it personally, but that it’s pretty common for people to complain about things they don’t understand, and I saw that in evidence in OP. There are legitimate reasons we should temper the hyped and expectations, but “I want my next dose of novelty” is not one of the stronger ones.
Rackspace: Exchange Email Outage Is a Result of Ransomware Attack
Rackspace updated their status page this morning admitting what many people had already supposed - that they are the target of a ransomware attack, which has resulted in their hosted exchange email service being down since early Friday morning:

"We appreciate your patience as we continue to work through the security issues that have affected our Hosted Exchange environment. As you know, on Friday, December 2nd, 2022, we became aware of suspicious activity and immediately took proactive measures to isolate the Hosted Exchange environment to contain the incident. We have since determined this suspicious activity was the result of a ransomware incident."
Again, it's not that the animals died. In your analogy it's as if McDonalds mishandled many of the animals in its supply chain, caused them to vomit so continuously that they had open sores in their throat , kept them alive anyway, and then slaughtered them.

People aren't upset that neuralink did animal studies, everyone does those, it's a cost of our modern medical magic. People are upset because they tortured those animals, and way way more of them than is typically needed.
Nice straw man you have built here.

I did not answer your question because it is absurd. There is a difference between having an opinion and forcing that opinion on others. My children are their own people and they are allowed to disagree and I will not hold it against them. Because I love them more than they can understand until they have children themselves. I however hope they will be confident and flexible in their opinions and change them if they prove a poor fit to reality and not resort to logical fallacies or grudges.
Unfortunately they still crop up, with increasing frequency.
Seems you’re ignoring the entire professional space of people who want to make art and make money out of it. Impoverished internal lives of CEOs will always push them to pick cheap AI generated, laundered art, instead of hiring an artist. It’s cheaper and that all those people care about in the end.
> The platform has more engagement

Funny you should use that word, seeing how it has gotten more and more obvious that focusing on "engagement" is the reason why most social media is so awful.
But if you cost the company $1m you still get your $90k.
You should do this if you want intelligence testing to revert to whiteness testing. I can't wait for my government IQ test to require knowledge of How I Met Your Mother characters.

I feel like this scenario was already played out by the dystopian postapocalyptic Brazilian sci-fi show 3%.
I remember when people were saying this about the Internet.
Biden is so pro-union that when a union threatens to strike for paid sick time he'll tell them to suck it up and sign a law forcing them to work
And the NYT subscriptions go to Households, Offices, Waiting Rooms where the number of readers is greater than the number of subscribers
I'm from Brazil, my wife is from Greece. We are both living in Germany. So I'm well aware of what you are talking about.

Yet:

> one of the downsides is that they have to navigate parenting by themselves.

That's not true. Our families may be away most of the time, but we have a constant rotation of our parents (and my wife's Giagia) coming to stay with us. When our second kid was born, I don't think we were by ourselves for the first six months. Even today, we get someone visiting us at least every other month.

> kids a higher probability of success when they grow up.

This is increasingly becoming something we are asking ourselves. I think our kids would benefit more from being able to grow up close to their families than in a place with a culture and values that we don't really share. For us (and me specially) living in Germany has been more of a "tolerable" than a "desirable" situation. With remote work becoming a reality, I think we can have our cake and eat it too.
Duga Radar (Russian Woodpecker)
This is my own experience: if the recruiters don't call me back, that means I fail.

No - it just means the decision has been made, and you won't be hired.

Which is different from "you failed". It could just as easily be their failure to evaluate you properly.
Show HN: Visuali.io now auto-suggests words while writing text-to-image prompts
Not disagreeing; but for clarity you'd want to refer to generating surplus value rather than value, i.e. net of costs. i.e. if my work can be construed as having created $1M of revenue, but $990,000 of cost (say some low-commission dropship affiliate sales structure, or online payments with a small transaction fee), I've only created $10,000 of surplus value, out of which I can make a case for a different distribution scheme based on an update (read: agitation) of normative values.
>If anything I'd expect the lack of activity to cause your immune system to be hyper-aware and you'd get less sick

That's not really how it works afaik. The immune system can only respond quickly and effectively to the things it knows. If you spend 3 years outside society and you come back, your system will be 3 years behind on disease evolution. When you finally do get exposed, you'll have a much stronger immune response because it's an unknown threat.

Compare this to a immune system that has also never seen the latest variant, but has seen the one before -- it'll be much more effective at recognizing and fighting the threat early, and the person might not even notice they were exposed.
Also, keep in mind debates about embryonic selection are going on even as it is being offered as a service for a fee right now.

There's all sorts of things ethically questionable about this proposal. Even if the model of progress it's based on was correct, and even if there wasn't any fraud, there would be plenty of other problems with it.
Is six a lot? Ford has had 53 recalls in 2021 and 52 recalls in 2022 so far; even adjusted for recent car sales - Ford has sold 8.4 million in the past 4 years, Tesla has sold 3 million in the past 4 years - that's 2 recalls per million Teslas and 12.5 recalls per million Fords.

Tesla has far fewer models? Maybe that is part of the advantage?
Side question -- where can I learn this space? Until you defined it, I had seen SPAC a handful of times but never know what it was or how it is used.
> contrary to the central tenets of equity.

"Equity" is a concept in law: AIUI (IANAL) it mainly concerns trusts and contracts. The word is sometimes used as a synonym for "fairness", but I don't think something as vague as "fairness" has central tenets.

And I don't think there's anything unfair about a UBI, any more than universal healthcare, or a universal police service.
I’d settle for universal basic healthcare at this point (US biased comment).
Worth pointing out that up until now, it only had ASCII graphics, hence the interest/hype, or confussion for those, who has heard of it in the past.
Feudalism without the serfs. What is in it for the plebs?

The idea that concentrated wealth is great for everyone and will trickle down has been pretty much debunked to the point where the wealthy are openly stating we don't need the masses anymore.

The crypto dystopian nightmare of generating money with zero utility backed by quantitative easing demonstrates that you don't actually need many employees to generate wealth. You don't even need commerce, financial engineering will suffice.

Employment is a social contract. Business owners and investors (who control capital) are supposed to provide a means for the masses to live in comfort, the employees give there labor and time in return. The wealthy get to live in their mansions, vacation on their yachts, etc. We get to buy our homes in the suburbs, raise our families, etc.

What happens when no one works and humans are removed from the value chain?
This is not what the US Secretary of Defense says - https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/biden-administration...
...yes? What you list here is all covered by "consenting adults", is it not? These things are already crimes.
What is your point? OP's comment was about how revenue - (other employees wages) = profit, not the actual details surrounding working for a wage.
Is it plentiful enough that extracting highly-pure water is an economically-solved problem in Arizona?
I think it makes it more likely that China is going to swallow up Taiwan without even firing a shot. Wargame simulations are giving a dim prospect for defending the island. US has removed fighter jets from Japan. And public opinion in Taiwan for resisting China has slightly shifted toward accomadation. I hope I am wrong.
what, really? not even spacex turns profit with it's gvmt contracts...Tesla turned a profit by his manipulation of initially the market, then latterly the crypto market, but despite making the cars dirt cheap (and it shows), he still couldn't make any money for over a decade.

He consistently misses but he knows where to make his money: conning vc, and getting his fans to dance on crypto.

He's a two-bit conman whose success is not in being an innovator but sometimes being ftm, he's going to be pushed out of every industry he's playing in eventually.

His one original idea: TBC...hahahahaha.

A clown who gets high off his own hype and the worship of smooth-brained fanboys.
Officially, as answered by Anders on an interview, he was lured by former Borland colleagues, and he declined multiple times, until he saw there was time to move on from Borland.

https://behindthetech.libsynpro.com/001-anders-hejlsberg-a-c...
Given the choice I'd kill literally every monkey and pig on the planet if it meant we had the technology to cure paralysis.

I honestly can't comprehend the alternative. You'd walk up to some poor sap paralyzed from the neck down and say "Gee I'd really love for you to walk again but I'm a little bit more concerned about the pigs and monkeys?".
That's it, I just got a mail from Steam, it's been released right now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/
The offer I linked to was literally a "buy the house with monthly installments and no upfront payment" offer. So yes, you can "buy the house" if you can afford those 1900€ per month in addition to food and heating.

Also, with 2 kids and 2 adults out of which only 1 is working, you'll get heavy tax deductions, so I'd expect an effective tax rate of around 15%. That 100k€ gross will turn into 85k€ after taxes. Deduct another 10k€ annually for top-tier health insurance for everyone, 1900€ per month = 23k€ annually for the house and that leaves you with about 4300€ each month to spend on food, clothing and heating.

This might be just me, but I think if you pay people so that they can have a very nice lifestyle where they live, that's a "good salary". If the absolute $ number is higher in San Francisco than it is in Germany, then you either need to pay them more to match the lifestyle, or maybe hire in cheaper markets.

Germany in general seems to be very remote friendly. Many larger companies even have programs where you can go on a work-vacation to a tourist resort and they'll organize a co-working space and necessary permits. I guess that's why you see salaries equalize more throughout Germany while in the US the regional differences are quite strong.
Over a video call, the interviewer asked a coding question and immediately put on headphones and I am sure was listening to music. There was no dialogue and I had to use visual cues to get his attention.

I coded using C++ and pass by reference. He had never seen it in his life. He refused to believe modification on a reference would modify the value in the calling function!
I hoping he would be willing to discuss or run the code, this was a total let down.

Note: I have 2+ decades of coding experience