skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value for being in the office for me was in the spontaneous connections with folks that weren't in my immediate work unit. Those connections have lead to every job I have had. The best kinds of jobs are the ones that come to you and you don't have to interview for; and you just aren't going to get anywhere near the numbers of those opportunities without "pressing the flesh".

If that's not a concern for you then have at it. But if you are at the start or mid way through your career, are motivated and still hungry for advancement I'd be VERY careful of spending too much time full time remote.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@ColinTheMathmo has a nice mix of intro to Mastodon stuff and interesting math and science stuff
>The question is: What kind of company is Apple?

>I honestly have no idea. But to assume, universally, that all companies will renege on their hybrid work commitments is much too cynical for me.

It is the kind of company that colludes with other employers to illegally gain advantage when negotiating with employees about pay and quality of life at work.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-s...

If you want to believe people at Apple have changed, go for it. But in my opinion, it always behooves sellers of labor that buyers of labor are always playing an adversarial game. And vice versa of course.
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It likely originated in rhyming slang where words that rhyme are used as replacement[0]. It isn't the only example in nick names. Bill is a nickname for William and Bob is a nickname for Robert.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang
Isn't this study flawed because they asked people to report on their dog's behavior? When I talk to other dog owners, they discuss the dog with respect to their perceived breed standard, "Oh, Kelly is much more calm than I expected from a Rotty" or "Joy is pretty dumb for a Collie." If they somehow got neutral observers that would be much more persuasive, in my mind.
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There is a certain set of tricks you need to use, if you already know what those are you can score much higher. You can practice for IQ tests too.
Should be possible to use Consfigurator for that, indeed.
>ActivityPub gives you both an online inbox AND a "outbox" that YOU can put stuff in that others can check out.

It's djb's Internet Mail 2000!
Huh, I would have guessed Borges (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges).
Also what would count as "no issues" by and large depends on the dog breed I'd say. If a rottweiler tried to attack a rabbit that wouldn't be out of the ordinary, but if a border collie did the same it would.
> 640x480 grid

320x200. We could only dream of 640x480 with 256 colors in those days!
Stats that reveal breeds like pitbulls causing the majority of attacks seem to contradict this, no?
...and then Escape from Monkey Island utilized the same tech as Grim Fandango, but without those stylistic choices that made Grim Fandango's graphics work so well :)
I did play Life is Strange when I was 36. The story wasn’t so great, but the atmosphere? Just great.
And how can fediverse survive, and how can it pay for servers? Who among the professionals will do this? If you leave this system only for enthusiasts, then you can leave everything as it is and improve only the code. And if you want to overthrow the monopoly without violence, then the authors will need monetization tools and not necessarily advertising . Linux would not have become so popular without redhat and other commercial companies. P. S I myself really like everything free and use only open source software, give donates periodically to the authors.
Ron you really should not be bashing your oldest most hard core fans.

Monkey Island 2 is a masterpiece. The 2D hand drawn style and animation are a huge part of it.

I'll take any Monkey Island sequel, but if you take a closer look at say the Tales of Monkey Island sequels, you'll see what people are worried about.

Monkey Island 4 was TERRIBLE. Fully 3D and tank controls. Tales of Monkey Island was great but completely ruined by terrible tank controls.

A proper Monkey Island games needs to be
1. Point and Click
2. Have excellent puzzle design and structure
3. Ideally 2D hand drawn art and animation
4. Least important, Pixelated style like MI2 or Loom

People who are critizing the trailer are worried we're getting another Tales of Monkey Island or Monkey Island 4.

As long as you nail #1 (proper point and click controls) I think you will still make a better Monkey Island sequel since Curse of Monkey Island
This one buries the lead: Now, though, the murders are not just over accordion music. Rival Famo groups also battle for control of the lucrative illegal gold mines in South Africa where many of their followers work.

"The deadly gold wars of Lesotho" would probably have been a more accurate title. There seems to be politician and police involvement as well. So it's fair to guess that this is really a struggle over economic power in an area where there's no independent judiciary and police and politicians are involved in the cash flow generated by the 'illegal' mining activity.

It's also the BBC, the state propaganda organ of the UK, comparable to Russia's RT, and so they don't mention the interesting and relevant fact that the major foreign outfits mining in Lesotho are UK firms, and they're probably pulling most of the profits out of an impoverished country, paying kickbacks to the politicians, good 'ol colonial extraction style:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_Lesotho

But no, says the BBC it's about the music. Come on, now. It's more like cartel drug wars on the Mexican border, yes, they have narco-music too, but nobody claims that's what they're fighting over.
I wonder about the effect of a strict time limit. It seems to benefit time management skills over raw intelligence. Perhaps it would be more accurate to allow the test taker to finish the entire test while tracking time spent, and then use time spent to adjust the score.
That seems to be a reference to https://lwn.net/Articles/893346/ - I'll let people come to their own conclusion about whether Drew's framing matches that, but I will say that I've never written a line of Rust in my life and certainly can't be described as representing the Rust community in any way. My position here is based on spending my days dealing with the consequences of bugs that we know how to get rid of - I just don't see the excuse for building something that isn't at least as good as solutions that already exist, especially when the consequences are potentially so significant.
I would wager Apple employees, or in-office employees in general, tend not comment on threads like these in fear of publicly disagreeing with company leadership. So maybe there is some selection bias at play.
So, I looked into doing that back when LLBean had the lifetime warranty, but they offered to send me a new jacket. They wouldn't repair the old one. And I wanted to keep my old jacket.
From the source:
"The team found that some traits were more common in certain breeds. For example, compared with a random dog, German shepherds were more easily directed; beagles, not so much. And the authors’ genetic studies revealed that mixed-breed dogs with a particular ancestry were more likely to act in specific ways. Mutts with St Bernard ancestry, for instance, were more affectionate, whereas mutts descended from Chesapeake Bay retrievers had a penchant for wrecking doors."

They then go on to say that the variation is only around 9%, but it does seem to suggest the opposite than what the title claims. If you can estimate behavior of a stray based on assumed breed and be right more than wrong, it would seem that while breed does not predict entirely, it does correlate. It would be nice to see what the actual study was instead of a blurb.
Yeah just an idea
Consfigurator relies on homoiconicity for starting up Lisp images on remote hosts and giving them instructions. The user's specification of what configuration to apply to a host is basically just Lisp code and this can be trivially serialised and deserialised.
Ask HN: What do Elixir developers work on?
I'm trying to find a backend developer to join our startup and I'm curious about Elixir/Phoenix as a tool for our new planned backend. It's very difficult to find anyone who has worked with Elixir and it got me wondering, what kind of products are you guys usually working on? What kind of companies, etc?
Intelligence is like the person said above, horsepower for brains. It's about how well you're able to reason things. And often how quickly you're able to do it, although this test seems to disregard that portion. Which is fine, they make it clear that it's more of a test to see if you should be tested rather than a test in and of itself.

Pattern recognition is a large part of that. A person who is able to discern patterns more easily, is usually able to reason better. More able to do second and third order thinking.

IQ "tests" that use words or numbers are also testing knowledge to some degree, which isn't something you typically want when you want to test raw intelligence. Being able to do calculus doesn't necessarily prove you're intelligent, it proves you know calculus.

So that leaves abstract concepts. And that's another facet of intelligence, being able to think abstractly. There should also be some "die folding" questions in there. Where it shows you six connected boxes and you pick the cube that it makes. That one is also about spatial relations as you have to model the cube in your head in some fashion.

All that being said: intelligence is nothing on its own. It's a force multiplier. Intelligence allows you to use the knowledge and skills you do have better. It also makes the acquisition of knowledge and skills easier. People with higher IQs have better life outcomes on average than those with lower IQs among every cohort. What that means, if you take all the poor people, those poor people with higher IQs are going to be doing better overall. Still poor, but able to make more of what they have. Tall people? People with higher IQs will be doing better overall than those with lower IQs. Doctors? Same. Welders? Same.

Now, this doesn't mean that every person with a higher IQ is doing better. Success is very multi-faceted and dependent on a lot of things, some of which are outside of our control entirely. But it helps.
Apple is in a very tough spot. A $5bn headquarters sits relatively vacant with decreasing likelihood that there will be a return on investment. They ironically dug themselves into a hole by preaching how it would revolutionize the workplace while most feel this way about WFH. The paradigm shift seems obvious, especially when you account for the unrelenting rise in commercial real estate prices since Covid.

Perhaps Apple cannot acknowledge the foot in their mouth because it would contribute to a systemic collapse of the commercial real estate market... crazy times.
> undiagnosed adhd

I don't know if not wanting to perform boring activities in your free time is a great indicator of adhd. How far would a neurotypical person get into a long terms and conditions disclaimer before wanting to quit if there didn't seem to be a good/any reward?
I recall somewhere that this same type of optics can make heads-up displays that have depth of field as perceptible to the eye, but I can't find the reference. It does sort of make sense tho

> commercially exploited

I feel like this is an odd way to put it.
To give a slight clarification (though I ask the exact same question every Who's hiring thread time of the month) I think "not more popular in the startup bubble" is more accurate.

As far as I'm aware Java and C# are still first/second by job listings in both the US and UK but in significantly less sexy enterprise settings. This might have changed since python became more widespread though.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/20774089_What_One_I... Here’s an analysis of matrices
the same can be said for people living in States or cities where they don't agree with the current administration's policies.

should the response always be to leave? what about fighting to try to make the place you are currently in better?
Data source? Did you correct for splits and dividends? Why not use returns? Nice idea, but we’re left with so many questions.
Any actual metrics on employee productivity with the full remote, full office, or hybrid model? No wonder our labor productivity has been stagnate over the last decade.
Whiteboards can be replaced by digital tools, but as far as I know, companies do not invest to remote work tools enough currently.

There are great tools, which should be available for every worker in home, but that does not happen for some reason?
Thanks, that clarifies things a bit. And I can understand not wanting to give up an improvement over pre-COVID times-- I agree it shouldn't be necessary. I guess I was just confused that they seem to be implying that a partial return to in-person would make things worse than pre-covid.
SendGrid was great, but between the countless upsells and the fact they keep terminating my azure marketplace-based accounts for lack of use (not true) with no way to recover (create a new account!) is super annoying. I don't doubt the people at Postmark think nothing will change as they're still as dedicated as yesterday, but they no longer drive the ship and will do what they're told, then probably leave.

No blame and expected, but still sad.
> What IQ seems to fail in capturing is the human ability to be creative and unique

This is completely contrary to the evidence we have. Creativity is correlated with IQ and inversely correlated with age. A lot of famous artists in a variety of fields are recognized to be quite intelligent. Most creative arts programs in universities are highly competitive; perhaps the most competitive of any college in a university. And a surprising number of famous musicians have degrees in other difficult fields, for example the lead singer of the band The Offspring has a Ph.D in biology.

Additionally, it has been observed that papers written by younger mathematicians are much more likely to have novel approaches to solving problems. Suggesting that younger minds are more creative than older ones.
The Four Dangerous Animals of Product Development
Ha, perfect, exactly what I was looking for, thanks for pointing it out, didn't realize I was looking at a subsection of the thread, my bad.

But it confirms what I was thinking, going from "liable" to "criminally prosecuted" is a pretty big stretch imo.
> "according to these very clear numbers, our profitability as a business has suffered due to remote work"

Seems like this has absolutely been the case. FAANG and the like aren't gonna to willingly lose 10-20% of their staff unless in office work was more productive. The business will make their decisions based on what will make them the most money at the end of the day. They aren't politicians seeking power, just profit. If remote is more profitable, we will see remote companies dominate the scene in the next few years, but as of now, all management has to go off of is reports showing productivity went down during WFH.
Semicolons are like the periods of sentences It's so much easier to read something someone else wrote when thoughts are properly terminated Why would you ever demand that semicolons are removed They also prevent issues such as pronouns like SemanticStrength if used with mechanical automatic period insertion

Seriously, semicolons are something that was baked into the design assumptions of JavaScript. Python's an example of a language where the syntax was clearly designed from the inception to avoid them. Most such languages make explicit tradeoffs and TBH I'd much rather have semicolons than whitespace sensitivity.
LOL, I feel attacked...
Sometimes getting out of the loop and going to a coffee, to a walk, or anything that just makes you leave the building but keep talking with coleagues can make wonders for productivity.
Rocket Lab Catches, Then Releases, Returning Electron
I'm a cyclist too and in the recent good weather I've averaged about 50km per day (split into morning/evening rides) during the week and usually a 70-80km ride one weekend day. Making the most of the weather while it lasts!
It would contradict the headline as written, but headline is not actually an accurate statement of the article itself.

This headline, to a superficial reading, says "breed has NO predictive power with regards to behavior". What the study found was that breed is a weak predictor of behavior, not that it has no impact at all.
Check out https://www.stepn.com/
It's an expensive choice to make, too. It quickly becomes apparent that, no matter which lisp you choose, there will always be a group of people trying to convince you that you picked the wrong one, and pressuring you to second-guess yourself.
Video calls shut my brain down

Honestly there's very little good about video calls. I would prefer In-Person ideally, but if that is not possible, it is always more productive to just use slack or email. Or just a short audio call.
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Interesting, but the reason I personally avoid IQ tests is they are like horoscopes or having your fortune told, where it creates the conditions for subtle attribution errors that can really compound over time. When I was a kid, the answer I got from my parents was along the lines of, "they didn't get a number, but you're on the high end, and so you have to be extra careful about being lazy because IQ doesn't mean much."

In terms of outcomes, what is there to say, that I'm really good at arguing on the internet? I can appreciate a lot of things while not being able to do them. Sure, I can start as an adult what most people do as kids (music, arts, languages, tech) and become a passable amateur pretty quickly, but the adult mind is irritating to teach because it has to reconcile everything new with its idea of self, and unhooking that adult ego is a heavier and heavier lift.

Intelligence is entertaining, but domain specific practice and competence prevail almost every time. I suspect the best use of a high IQ is probably to teach because that scales it. By itself, it mostly produces interesting guests.
> A lot of these younger folks pushing for full time remote at the start of their career are putting themselves into a box I don't think they fully appreciate

This 100%—I worked remotely for my first 5 years after graduating college, and I thought it was great until I went into a real office and found out what I was missing. I vowed to never work a remote job again (of course, the pandemic forced a quick end to that vow, hah.)
RDF is that public facing API. You can use whatever technology underneath, and relational databases are not a bad choice. You can even do "inference" in a relational database via Turing-complete CTE queries and make the result queryable as a "view" over the underlying data.
Factors behind battery decay change over time
It does. Once your pitbull mauls the neighbor kids you're not going to send it's DNA into their website. There's a huge sampling problem here.
I would say that it's not just a lack of trust in your specific organization's management intentions. It's also related to how much we've all seen management throughout the Western world react with horror to the idea that the people they're supposed to be telling what to do might not be physically within their view for weeks or months at a time...or ever!

There's unquestionably a very strong strain of "management" in our culture that consists almost solely of a) distrusting the employees, b) therefore trying to physically monitor them at all times, and c) justifying their own existence by calling for many hours of (in-person) meetings every week. Personally, the institution I work for has claimed—in defiance of all logic and obvious reality—that certain jobs here can only be done in the office, all the time, and thus anyone in these jobs (which is basically everything below Director-level) seeking to work remote even part of the time will be denied.

Your company many not even have any of these people. I don't know. But so many of us have heard the stories from so many others who do have management like this that we would be stupid not to be wary of any manager—on up to the C-suite/owner/board—who seems unenthusiastic about remote work.
What do 3D games have to do with this though? The new game is very clearly not 3D.

Also, while Escape was absolutely atrocious, Tales wasn't so bad. It wasn't point'n'click, but unlike Escape it actually had reasonable controls.
Is there a book for Haskell comparable to Practical Common Lisp?

Teaching the language while showing examples of using it for day to day tasks, like file management
This touches on a theme I see in a lot of US organizations I work at: Lack of accountability at the management and executive level.

If you're well established in your career as an engineer today, you have leverage. Many of us have the very privileged luxury of being able to refuse to work at a place with poor management, or under a bad manager.

We likewise have the ability to say "no" to things. I wouldn't recommend making it a habit, and I'd also suggest qualifying any "no" you give to your supervisors, but it's important to push back when it's reasonable to do so. e.g. "I won't be on call because it is not in my employment contract and wasn't a responsibility I agreed to."
> it makes me want to tear my hair out because I can shout from the rooftops that, no, we're never going to mandate a full return to office, but some folks will simply never believe it.

Six months from now you get a new CEO and they want asses in seats immediately. What do you say then?
I know you aren't 100% serious but "issues understanding directions" is probably not strongly correlated with intelligence. It could very much be down to anxiety, diet, ADHD or other conditions.

Unless we define "intelligence" broadly enough that transient or other factors are included. That might be valid but it's very different to what most people think IQ tests should measure.
I think we really need to get over the idea of trying to get our content perpetually propagated out to the population, or trying to not miss out on consuming every single bit of content in a category.

It's okay to live in a small community. Hell, it's okay to live in an enclave of a small community. There were whole sections of various topic boards I never visited, with active members there that I would not have recognized because they didn't visit the sections I frequented.

It's okay to miss out on things. It's okay to not know about the latest JavaScript framework because it was developed in a community of stamp enthusiasts instead of your community of train enthusiasts. It's okay that fashion in Milan takes time to propagate to NYC and then to the country. It's okay to not hear about every single humanitarian crisis in the world when we can't reasonably do anything about it and we have our own to handle here at home.

So much energy is put into pushing content, pushing pushing pushing. Boredom is okay! All this hyper optimization of content dissemination has started to feel like a system of control. Keep people preoccupied, overwhelmed with the enormity of the world. Then they won't question the coal plant in their back yard.
I have been on the edge to burnout. Reasons why.

Incompetent people always stress everybody up:

They put enormous pressure on single persons.

They steel a lot of time and energy.

They try to get other persons to do their work.

They always sidetrack everybody into quests that are not important.

They never solve anything. Every solution to a problem comes with new problems that are more difficult to handle.

They always blame other people for everything, especially people they can get rid of.

They think delivery is more relevant than things work in production.