skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This study/paper is ridiculous.

Anecdotal, but I've had lots of dogs growing up. We have five right now. This does not reflect the reality I know.

Shiba inu act like cats and prefer to spend time away from their person. They frequently get kicked out of dog parks for not being friendly to other dogs. It's documented and well-studied. They're not at all like other dogs.

Corgis are protective, commandeering, and can be aggressive. They'll bully other dogs away from food. But they're incredibly loving, needy, and prone to feeling lonely. Again, it's a breed characteristic.

Australian shepherds are outgoing, cheerful, and tend to be neurotic. A corgi might be needy, but they won't ever express it like an Australian shepherd. A corgi will nudge you. An Aussie will dance on top of you and sometimes freak out.

Look at which dog breeds are most likely to attack humans. There are histograms for all this data. It correlates strongly with breed!
> Be prepared to spend at least $50/mo

> You need a dedicated box

> But then you're talking $250/mo

Nonsense.

You only need a $2-5/m cheap VPS for your server and have anything as MTA/smarthost for you. Eg: Fastmail, $5/m, just receive with a catch-all address, send through a SMTP with auth (with an app pass).

No bother with SPF, DKIM, PTR, SPAM and all this bullshit. Also you have a breaking glass access to your mail in case your server burst in flames.

Don't want Fastmail? Any other provider would do.

Want to tinker it yourself? Just buy anything anywhere, configure it as a smarthost.

Anecdata: I have a small business of ~15 people use Fastmail in the said configuration. The only difference is what they are on Exchange Server locally. The old one, on premises. They use it for almost 8 years without problems.
>Pits can bite and shake because they have ridiculous jaws and a powerful build. If a miniature poodle tried, it wouldn't have much effect.

They got that way because humans designed them that way intentionally with selective breeding. It's not so much "they do X because Y" than it is "they do X because they were designed to do X, and Y is the result of that design."
The article title says:

"Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour"

While the paper states:

"Breed is not a reliable predictor of individual behavior"

If it needs to be spelt out: The former implies no correlation between breed and behavior, while the latter explicitly says that breed does not reliably predict an individual's behavior, it could be a pronounced bell curve but you still have outliers.

So yes, the article title is obviously wrong and any sane person should trust their gut over it. And what is actually stated in the paper (not mentioning the conclusion because it doesn't have jack to do with the article title) in relation to this article's point is an obvious observation: It doesn't hurt to have data on, but is pretty much pointless for anything except producing bullshit, misleading, clickbaity pop science articles.

Even the article itself recognizes that there's a significant correlation between breed and certain behaviors, but merely dismisses it as "smaller than expected".
My wife's name is Aleksandra, but the short version of that is Ola. Similarly, Olek is a short for Aleksander. Also no idea why.
Yes, there's a 25 minute time limit on the test as a whole. I just recalled the part where they said there was no bonus for finishing fast.

So it probably bakes in a range. Like if you complete this test in the allotted time, you will be in this range. But if you completed it in half the time, you'd probably be higher, but they haven't calculated the range you'd be in. They'd just say, "Yeah, you're in the top range".
Is it as simple as a symptom of clickbait for views that's propagating this type of poor "science"?
Trying to force my neuro-divergent brain to work in an office setting where I'm surrounded by noisy people (any people, really), lights that may flicker, and temperatures I can't control is going to limit my career a lot more than failing to have serendipitous conversations in a hallway.

What works for you may not be what works for everybody, and that's the point.

It could be that remote work would have limited your career advancement.

For me, it's the only reason I can have a career at all.
My friends are not my coworkers and my coworkers are not my friends, nor do very many of my coworkers become my friends. It's a job, not a lifestyle. I'll do team and business lunches and hang outs, and they can be fun, but they are nothing but a distraction from what I'm trying to do.

My manager worked entirely remote for our company since it's inception, literally in a separate time zone. I never met him, I don't even know what his face looks like. I still had better interaction, cooperation, and discussion with him than most of my other coworkers, excepting only someone who was already my friend before this job. When we wanted to discuss something, we brought it up in our teams chat, and they could go one for significant time or topics, sharing opinions, plans, work related thoughts and designs, and often personal improvement things including programming ethics and work adjacent learning presentations.

Don't force me to comply to your interaction style just because you don't understand mine.
watch the freaking turning lane like a hawk too. I got hit by a police car, of all things, once because he was turning and just didn't see me. I had to do the whole ninja roll across the hood and off the other side. I wasn't injured too bad, just a sprung wrist.
Spoilers.

I've always liked these tests because they're like little sudokus that tell me flattering things about myself, because they ask about what I'm good at and not what I'm not. One time I saw one that had 3d visualization stuff, which made me feel really dumb, and it scored me accordingly. I was frustrated with the time limit on this one -- it seemed like the really interesting patterns may have been at the end, and I just didn't have time for them at all because I'm a slowpoke motherfucker who likes to triple-check stuff before I move on. I was at 60 seconds remaining by the time I got to question 30.

The stuff before that was OK, but got a little tedious when I realized that a lot of them were either just rotations, or variations on or/and/xor logic applied to segments of shapes. I didn't feel like I had to reach for new tools to solve those.

Personally I'd have loved more time and the chance to see correct answers, and maybe some explanation of whatever patterns that I missed. Of course, that undermines what Mensa is after here, and I guess that's why I'd be a bad fit.

I'd love a local group where we exchange fun puzzles like this over beers and weed, but Mensa seems a little more concerned with creating some sort of status around ranking than the pursuit of puzzlecraft or whatever. To me, it was a welcome surprise in adulthood that we're not actually lined up by SATs/GPA/whatever and those percentile scores have fuck all to do with what we're capable of. But hey, to each their own.
or maybe just ignore the link
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do you think that people in an office _don't_ slack off and browse HN/reddit/whatever?

At least at home I don't need to feel like there's someone standing over my shoulder.
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There is more in life than just career, I'd say based on site where we are most of our careers are largely meaningless if one steps back enough.

But trying to explain this to folks who consider their office careers as pinnacle of their lives with some numbers on account to back this up are relatively high is often futile. Something about strong resistance to admitting mistakes done / direction taken in life that can't be undone.

I don't get why things need to be strictly this or that. Some way in between is almost always best. My needs may be very different from next guy's needs, but as long as we deliver what is expected who cares about the details.

Or to summarize this for those in back seats - WFH gains are not in added work productivity for most (some achieve that, mainly due to crappy offices) but what we gained for our personal lives while still able to perform enough. Its not even only about commuting, for me its 20 mins each way, but overall amount of freedom I gained is massive. Life is damn too short. Don't do decisions that you will almost guaranteed regret later. Chasing career is frequently quoted as #1 regret by dying folks.
I'm white, male, straight, neurotypical -- and I vastly prefer remote work and do not plan to go back into the office. So, how does that fit into your narrative?

There are plenty of more substantive reasons to not want to go back beyond "it's not fair".
>I, for one, have no idea what neuro-normative means.

Having no psychological/developmental conditionals recognized by the DSM
I had this beautiful bespoke suit which had just been hanging in the closet, due to me gaining some weight. After slimming down I wanted to wear it again, only to find a couple of large and very noticeable moth holes on one of the lapels.

Welp, money down the drain I thought. Local dry-cleaner tipped me about "invisible mending", so I did some research. Ended up shipping it to the UK, and paid around £120 for getting the jacket repaired - with excellent results. Some might say that's a steep price, but the alternative was binning a £4000 garment.
I would not recommend that you get into full time remote work until you’ve decided you are OK with no significant career advancement.

I think I'd agree with you unless something crazy happened, like a global pandemic that completely shifted the way companies think and made them massively more likely to recruit remote workers.

If that happened then you'd have to be daft to think it wouldn't change anything.
but these are very rare things. The person you originally responded to did not mean anything against anyone who has these things. I've met many people in my life that were convinced they were unable to do things that they were quite capable of. Stephen Hawking was still quite expressive despite his limitations, although they did come later in life
On top of that, it's average amongst the group of people who self select into taking such a test.
This is why you should disable for all of your apps that require your location permission. If you have a weather app that has your permission, they're probably working with IBM to sell your location data.

Edit: forgot location just said permission.
> The analog is that we give people potential outs so they are not forced to be responsible for another person.

I wonder if you take the same position regarding fathers and child support.
This is standard for all acquisitions.

- The acquiring company's share price drops because it often pays a premium for the target company, or incurs debt to finance the acquisition.

- The target company's short-term share price tends to rise because the shareholders only agree to the deal if the purchase price exceeds their company's current value.

See https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/203.asp
Key elements of successful monolith-to-microservices migrations
Of all the arguments against RTO the ones the signatories chose were racism, agism and sexism. Because everything, absolutely everything one does not like must somehow be linked back to white maleness. God, this stuff parodies itself.
That either means you guessed a lot and got too many wrong – or you were extremely good. If you only took 10 minutes that means you only had 17 seconds per problem; I'm not too bad at pattern recognition (I think) but for some of those questions 17 seconds (or even 30 because it's an average) would be way too short for me.
True, but again, carnivore diets seem to be more popular historically speaking. Rightly or wrongly
The amount of engineers that discover finance an the incredible, flawless, never-gonna-go-wrong-strategy of being short volatility and feel great about their results for a long time before blowing up their accounts never ceases to amaze me.

Speaking for a friend, of course.
good thing telecoms & phone manufacturers aren't trying to roll out such a network or anything like that
Honestly that would be a great outcome.
Swedes aren’t quite so puritanical, as I think you know. In Swedish culture it’s apparently funny when small children make jokes about bajskorvar.
Author here. One thing that occurs to me is that it seems to me that there's a lot of "dark matter" programmers out there, which we don't often interact with. These are not professional programmers but they tinkered with it at some point, possibly out of curiosity, possibly out of necessity. These people maybe wrangled with PHP because they had to to get the website they wanted back then.

These people may drift out of doing any programming as and when it becomes unnecessary. It's similar to the sentiments expressed with GeoCities, where you had web design being done by amateurs who weren't very good at it. Nowadays they probably use some kind of site generator and aren't exposed to HTML at all.

Of course one can say that these these things are better left to professionals, but it's clear I'm not the only one with a clear sense that we've lost something here. Neocities, for example, is a clear reaction to that.

It's similar to how home computers used to boot to a command prompt and now they don't. They essentially invited you to learn how they worked, whereas the modern desktop computing experience tries to seem as magic as possible. Many people of a certain generation probably learnt to program as kids on these old 8-bits because the machines themselves basically invited to. As a professional programmer now I'm genuinely unsure what I would recommend to a child of the same age today.
Nobody Goes There Anymore, It’s Too Crowded.
How does it / will it pay for servers? This is a great question and I can guarantee if you set up an account somewhere, and start asking instance admins this question, you'll find out exactly how. I'd answer your question but you'll get much more organic answers and they'll answer you in a way you'll believe and understand far better than just from me.

The system is not, and was never, just for technology enthusiasts. The majority of people I chat with probably wouldn't know their RAM from their GPU and I wouldn't expect them to. Sure there are a lot of Linux/FOSS enthusiasts there, but they're the minority.

I don't know anyone trying to overthrow monopolies by running an instance because again, I say that not everyone's motivation for everything they do is for the acquisition of wealth.
"Japanese art" is kind of underselling pornographic images of fictional children. Most forms of Japanese art, I presume, aren't of this nature.
Maybe single day move on acquisition announcement - ATVI up quite a bit on 1/18, MSFT down that day.

As an aside, the methodology says "We calculate the correlations between 2 securities on the daily closing values of the last 20 years. If one of the two securities has not been on the market for so long, we use all available prices to calculate the correlation." - hopefully the author means daily changes, not daily values, because otherwise everything is spurious.
So, the case is that the formatting string fits into memory, the data being formatted fits in memory but the output formatted text does not?

This seems like an extremely rare case, which is itself a subset of the very rare case that you are formatting something that can be arbitrarily large. Oh, and the programmer must somehow have overlook this and not written it formatted output to output in reasonably-sized chunks.

Meanwhile, having back-and-forth between the formatter and I/O means the formatter must correctly handles all the I/O problems and corner cases: disk full, disconnect, transient failures, ... not even going into that for some of them, you might want the caller to decide the outcome, which is easy when you split formatting and I/O, but hard when the formatting performs the I/O.

I think this is a case that it may sounds superior to mix both, but it is actually buying next to nothing but both complicates matters and probably hides or ignores real issues.
I’m going to use this post as an opportunity to tell people about Amazon.

The company has some of the most incompetent managers, who under pressure, will throw their own people under the bus. By incompetent, I mean “yes” men who tell 10 different people exactly what they want to hear.

These are people doing the bare minimum to keep their own jobs, and when things go off rails, they pass the blame to everyone around them, without ever accepting any responsibility.

It’s the opposite of everything described in this article.

I’ve been in meetings where VPs acknowledged their expectations on a service launch had led to 60+ SDEs leaving the organization or leaving Amazon entirely. They had no remorse.

I was personally told to not get involved in day to day matters and keep a distance with engineers in my own organization, so I can better focus on doing what’s right for the company.

The other problem was that the L5/L6 managers, often without US permanent residency status, would simply cower out of fear of losing their own jobs. If such a manager loses their job, they have maybe 30 days to find another employer who provides them sponsorship, or otherwise they have to move back to India.

This led to managers not acting on their teams interest or protecting their engineers. Instead, they do everything to protect their own careers.

I’m convinced most L7+ managers at Amazon have no ability to empathize with engineers. They are literally coached (like I was) on avoiding it. It’s a sign of weakness.

I do NOT recommend working at Amazon. It’s a form of suicide for your physical and mental health.
Poast is by far the most interesting and active instance, though I don't have an account there, just on a smaller but similar pleroma instance. If you want to interact with real people go there.
Yea problem from an admin perspective is that all malicious traffic attempts to use privacy respecting technology. It’s more guilt by association than anything else for the legitimate users.

One of the weird realities is that in order to combat fraud you need to be able to identify the source, which is a hard reality as a privacy advocate.
> Grimmelmann, a copyright scholar at Cornell Law School, tells Ars
that this is an uncharted area of law because licensing practices
for modern characters are "so much more intensive and so much more
comprehensive now" than in the 1920s and 1930s. "We never had
megacharacters in the same way" prior to the 1920s, he says.

They literally make this stuff as they go along then paper over the
laws they buy with a thin veneer of "reason".
I took one as a kid. I had to draw pictures. There's a lot to an IQ test besides guess what's next.
I don't want to diminish the challenges newcomers have with interacting with people online, but we have to understand that even choosing Lisp is going to be met with significant derision from people who don't write Lisp since it's not a top-10 language. "Lol just use Python it's the second best at everything," is a common refrain to people who are trying in earnest to learn something new and nonstandard for a change.

While I won't claim nobody has been "psyched out" by a community of people for their language-learning choices, I just don't think that this is something that happens with Lisp particularly often. The subreddit r/Lisp is predominantly Common Lisp, but more frequently than not accepts viewpoints from Clojure, Scheme, Racket, and even NewLisp programmers all in the same comment section, without bickering.

As I said, if anybody wants to
learn a new technology, and that somebody is a social person, finding a supportive community is important. If somebody going to be a novice at a particular language, and broadcast opinions about that language on disparate forums—some opinions which may come across as uninformed—sure, people will likely come out of the woodwork to correct them, suggest allegedly superior technology, etc.
You should spell it out, or stay silent. This middle ground is cowardly and contributes nothing.
Or, instead of just giving up on modern life and modern technology, we could express the appropriate level of outrage, and vow to make this kind of conduct a felony, and then vow to jail the people selling this data for 25 years or whenever their bodies reach room temperature, whichever comes first.

That would be another choice we could make.
I think for completeness, you should have three categories, and include the offline-onlys. They, similarly, don't understand all that they're missing.

(Btw, this took me on a tangent trying to figure out the proper way to pluralize 'only'.)
I constantly accidentally interrupt in video calls. I had a hard time with long distance on phones as a kid too.

Not sure if I'm the problem or the tech.
side note but if you're suffering from chronic fatigue please also consider getting checked out for sleep apnea especially if you snore or are overweight (which again is not uncommon for programmers given we sit on our asses all day). It very well may not be the only problem, but it may be part of the problem.

In the long term sleep apnea will fuck up your heart due to hypoxia and it can't be good for your brain or anything else. Plus sleep disorders seem to possibly be tied to Alzheimers (one theory is that REM sleep helps clear amyloid proteins). It's just bad news in general and it's widely under-diagnosed given how fat the american population is.
I got burnt out and it took me 3 years to be interested in tech again.. even now I'm not at prev level of starting GitHub projects, going to hackathons, and reading tech books. I was done done. I attempted random entry level jobs in different fields.. video editing, cold calling, marketing, and more
We are big fans of Datasette (though I've yet to use it in real life). I think it's important work.
More than one facet to the problem and potential solutions. How about...

The problem is this data is not owned by the individual.

Which will mean government guidelines and optional private enforcement via lawsuit with meaningful minimum penalties.
Most career data shows that once you reach 125-130 IQ or so, it stops really being a factor in career success, and other things matter more: grit, interpersonal skills, etc.

Being at the 99.9% level is impressive to be sure, but it doesn't seem to translate to much tangible benefit in our current society.
What I like to do sometimes is spend the first 10-ish minutes listening to a book or podcast to plant some ideas, then let these ideas percolate, let my mind wander, and if I get to somewhere interesting and actionable, I take a note.
I don't disagree at all. I can walk many miles at 3mph. At 1.5mph I'll be in pain pretty quickly. But if I really want to suffer, I'll stand for a couple hours.

So I don't have a standing desk, either. I primarily sit when working at the computer. But every 30-45 minutes I get up and go for a stroll, even if just around the yard.