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Presumably the benchmarks? I'm also interested.

How did you get permitted without an inspection or adhering to code?


In rural areas this isn't too hard as they often don't have the in the first place. Of course there are reasons people generally live in cities.


Also reasons for codes, don't want to have to wonder if every building you're in is a death trap. And when buying a house you don't want to have to tear it apart to inspect it and look for balloon framing or lack of fire stops.


Nobody is building death traps to live in as their own home. The people who are only on a deathtrap budget are not engaging in those projects, they're renting. The people building death traps are slumlords dividing shit and fly by night contractors and flippers altering things <screeches in open floor plan>.


That is false. Plenty of people build death traps as their own home. Nobody will know if you remove a load bearing wall without a permit so long as you are not obvious about that work. Slumlords are generally in a place where people will know.

Slumlords do want cheap, but they need to get money from the bank and that means the bank will care about quality. Slumlords also don't want to lose everything if the building burns. Note however that quality to a bank and slumlord are things you cannot see and so their buildings often look dangerous while being safe. (I'm not saying all slumlords are perfect, just that their reputation is on a few graphic failures that often were 100 years ago)


The permit isn't what keeps you safe (except from being shot by the government at the behest of people who think like you). What keeps you safe is not doing a shit job. When working in one's own home it's far easier to just over-build things than to engineer things to the bare minimum or pay someone to tell you what that minimum is.

Also slumlords are the guys doubling the number of units in an existing triple decker, not the guys building new stuff.


Flippers bid the death traps to oblivion during circa 0% loan inflation binge fest during COVID. I tried looking for a freestanding deathtrap first but they were all 160k+ and that's burnt to a husk. That is how I ended up DIYing from raw land.


It's in the 98th percentile, lol. Yes, it's very high.


High, but not particularly rare. IF you see a movie, there are probably several people >130 in the audience with you. When you filter by education and other factors, it goes up quickly. Depending on your line of work, a majority of your coworkers might be over 130.


Very few people understand this. It's why it's very hard to understand how normal people think wrt politics.


While "normal people" often have crude political opinions, the stupidest political takes often (usually?) come from high IQ, well educated, people.

And among those are also the ones with real influence and power to promote and/or enforce them.


> Depending on your line of work, a majority of your coworkers might be over 130.

This seems pretty reasonable, but once you start to get to know people a bit...


Then you realise that trying to quantitatively test intelligence only goes so far :D


The road to hell is paved with smart people who think they can become experts in something just by reading some blog posts and thinking about the subject for a few hours. As one example, see successful poker players who become amateur economists, geneticists and virologists.


30 points higher than the average person on HN!


Ha ha. If anything, HN skews quite high.


I don't know that means anything, I score well above 130, yet I will likely make ton of mistakes even if thought it about it and planned for months.

IQ tests are a single dimensional psychometric measurement tool that when if administered correctly only measures some attributes of what would be considered intelligence.

While those skills correlate to your ability to perform as a engineer it doesn't always translate to aptitude towards this sort of crime.

There are plenty of people who will score poorly in IQ tests but are "street smart". the good criminals (i.e. those have a long successful run or never get caught) are of this category.

For example Al Capone never got caught tied to any of his actual crimes, he had intimate understanding of the legal system and how not to get tied to evidence, he wouldn't score over 130 in IQ test probably


> While those skills correlate to your ability to perform as a engineer it doesn't always translate to aptitude towards this sort of crime.

A smart n00b is still a n00b.


Al Capone had the police working for him.


I am sure the various other parts of judiciary too, bribing takes skill, knowing who to bribe, how to make them vulnerable to bribery and so on, all these are important street skills that a criminal of his stature has to have. IQ doesn't teach you those


Well, "very high" according to what comparison group?

The overall general public? Sure.

People with STEM graduate degrees? Maybe not so much.


Not really. Half of people are barely literate. Maybe the top 10% have writing and language skills cogent and coherent enough to hang out on a website like this. So realistically we're talking about maybe 20% of the people you're interacting with. Possibly more, since this is the modern USENET where all the shape rotators hang out. People who can rotate shapes at all probably score at least that on tests.


Shart taters


Unless he went to a tiny high school it's unlikely that he was the smartest person in the school. Possibly in his year.


There are two people that smart in every NYC subway car during rush hour.


And what percentage of the world do you think are engineers/STEM?


Didn't they do this before and brokers found a way around it?


Good question. I rented my first and so far only NYC apartment in 2021 and I did not have to pay a broker fee. Apparently, I had very good timing...

"In 2020, interpreting a tenant protection law passed by the legislature, the New York Department of State issued guidance that prohibited brokers hired by landlords from charging tenants. The Real Estate Board of New York challenged the restriction in a lawsuit, resulting in a state court overturning the ban in 2021."

https://council.nyc.gov/shaun-abreu/2024/06/11/the-city-what....


The law didn’t pass or was quietly killed, presumably due to pressure by lobbyists representing rental agencies.


California needs to just fully invest in nuclear. And regulate or use eminent domain to buy PG&E to socialize it. Costs would go down, executive pay would go down, reliability and issues related to forest fires would likely go down.

And they need to invest in better public transit. Imagine LA with SF-level public transit. Or SF with NYC-level public transit (or better).


LA county and the adjoining counties are roughly the same size as the Kanto Plain around Tokyo. The main difference is that Tokyo rebuilt their street car lines as heavy rail instead of turning them into automobile arterials.


And Tokyo does have highways and large streets, they just aren't in constant gridlock because people have other options (not to mention many other factors at play in Japanese car-ownership).

Tokyo was so relaxing. Greater Tokyo has the same population as the entire state of CA and yet was so quiet.


I agree. Every other comment here seems to be like "well duh" and I'm... skeptical. My experience is that the ACT/SAT seem to be good indicators of getting good grades in well-defined spaces. But things like creativity, curiosity, work ethic are much better predictors of other kinds of success that frankly matter much more in the real world.

I know some really, really unintelligent people who got good grades in college. They just ate books.


Undergraduate GPA predicts lifetime earnings[1], incoming test scores and GPA are highly predictive of both advanced degrees (which increase earnings), and increased earnings within degrees [2], [3].

I suggest these effects are because being a good student aka "eating books" is correlated with conscientiousness. They show up to lectures, prepare, and test well.

And conscientiousness is very highly correlated with lifetime achievement, AND fufillment [4]. So measuring conscientiousness, and signalling high conscientiousness is a really good idea.

IQ is great, but conscientiousness is how you get things done [5]

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9004755/

1.b (edited) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/05/20/heres... might be better. I thought this was "common knowledge"!

2. https://mpreiner.medium.com/what-is-the-impact-of-your-high-...

3. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education...

4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498890/

5. https://docs.iza.org/dp8235.pdf


> Undergraduate GPA predicts lifetime earnings[1]

That is...an extremely narrow study to use to make that broad an assertion. GPA of two classes from 2010 at a single business school in China, their starting salary, and then their salary in 2018?


You're right. But there are many other sources.

The larger point is that, since you can study for tests (and GPA), that I think conscientiousness dominates.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/05/20/heres...


> You're right.

I would not give in to their assertions so easily if I were you.


Why is it narrow? N is a few hundred at a well ranked and good amount of rigor university, and is aimed at the graduating class and then their earnings as they rose through to probably mid career positions past entry level.

I haven't read the entire study mostly because I don't care, but I think you're wrong in your statements.

GPA is well correlated to earning potential, as well as earnings in reality.


Their Figure 1 is why we keep having these discussions in society. It's grossly misleading and not what a scatterplot for a 0.46 correlation looks like. I know what the figure is, it's just done in a way to overstate a case and ignore variability within bin.

If that figure were about anything else, people would be screaming bloody murder about misleading figures and overly generalized interpretation.

I'm in favor of allowing for the use of test scores but they get abused and the language in this report is a good example of how this happens. Scores have these real but modest correlations with real world situations, but then get used as rulers of atomic precision without any context or recognition of their massive limitations.

It makes the authors of this report look either deceiving or ignorant of statistics or both.


> things like creativity, curiosity, work ethic are much better predictors

of course but how would these be measured


its an IQ test. G proxy.


an IQ test where studying for it can increase scores significantly... (probably like real world IQ tests)


its a bad IQ test. a poor G proxy


I think companies used to be able to deduct "R&D time" which was a very vague definition for programmers and the IRS has tightened that up.

https://www.eisneramper.com/insights/tax/impact-174-software...


yup I used to have to fill out timesheets in some places to quantify the % of work that was R&D


Unless they park in parking garages.


I think it's important to note how they're highlighting top MBA programs though where admissions numbers haven't changed a ton and are "typically" still highly sought after.


But unless we're saying that literally all graduates from top MBAs get jobs before those from other schools, the overall MBA count is still relevant.


Isn't Subaru also Toyota?


They have partnerships like on the FRS/BRZ and Toyota owns I think a 20% stake but separate companies.


No. They certainly have partnerships on specific models (Subaru BRZ / Scion FR-S / Toyota 86, Subaru Solterra EV / Toyota bZ4X), but they are not exclusive, and each have their own platforms and powertrains for most of their models.

Toyota has partnered with Mazda as well - for example, there was Mazda 2 rebadged as a Toyota Yaris for a few years.


Subaru is a subsidiary of Fujitsi Heavy Industries.


No, but they do have some collabs together


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