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Ask HN: Night owl, health, and career options
I'm currently reading the book "Why We Sleep".

It lays out a biological truth about sleep cycles that I've experienced for 2-3 decades now: about 30% of humanity are night owls, and we have a hard time adjusting to work hours deemed normal by society.

I'm now in my early 30s and have been noticing the negative effects of constant sleep deprivation over the years. My job starts at 9am and I get up at 8am. Naturally, I'd sleep until 10am. That means I'm jet lagged by 2 hours every single day. I go to bed around midnight, but can rarely fall asleep until 1-2am. I use a medical grade light box in the morning.

The consequences of all the sleep deprivation are pretty dire. I keep getting fatter and feel terrible. It seems to be messing with my digestion. Of course, I'm constantly tired at work and have to make up the sleep debt on the weekend, which leaves me little time to actually enjoy my days off.

I know that it's the sleep because I took a sabbatical and lost a ton of weight - and then gained it all back after going back to work. No changes in diet or workout.

I've asked about starting work later, but the response was complete non-understanding - my manager seemed offended that I'd even ask for that, when everyone else was coming in at the same time as me. I didn't want to start a huge debate so I wouldn't be "that sick guy who wants special treatment". But I guess I do want "special" treatment so that my schedule won't make me sick.

How have other night owls dealt with this? If 30% of us are late risers, there must be huge demand for jobs that start later. I've never even heard of a job that would let me start late enough to wake up at 10am, except maybe a 100% remote job. That would probably severely limit the opportunities and number of jobs available, but I really feel like I can't do this to my body much longer - 20s were fine, 30s don't seem so fine. Maybe I should prioritize health now?
Tidelift was previously discussed here in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17957744
Yes, I've thought about that. And it's an attractive idea, however one thing that sets Turtl apart from other note apps is that it's both encrypted and enables sharing. Other apps do one or the other, not both, and in order to truly support both you can't use something like Dropbox or Nextcloud unless you want to be handing people keys out-of-band and doing a lot of manual work.

Turtl's main goal is to make security easy. If you have to setup Dropbox or Nextcloud to get syncing working, then it didn't attain that goal, I believe.

Also, by providing a service on top of the server, I can eventually make some money from this thing I've spent years building =]. I hope you like v0.7.0 when it launches!
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A discussion from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=929362
Cheap shot indeed. The decision to use HTTP over HTTPS is unquestionably impartial whether it's implemented for an Apple or Android device.
> I went to tech and they went finance, sigh

I doubt they would be that much better off...
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One of the reason why fine collection and civil forfeiture is prioritized is because of the underfunding of police and other basic services.[0] Politicians encourage this because they cut taxes too much, and this is a way to essentially impose a tax, but not call it a tax.

The police know the game, and so you end up with these bizarre situations like when the NYPD union announced they they were going to stick it to DeBlasio by making arrests “only when necessary.”[1] (Which of course is an implicit admission that arrests were being made that weren’t necessary.) The real target was the NYC budget, because the NYPD brings in half a billion dollars a year. (Over 10 million a week) That’s insane.
Ironically, even though the police stopped citing people, crime remained low and steady.

[0] https://www.rand.org/blog/2015/03/to-serve-and-collect.html

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/1/6/7501953/nypd-mayor-arrests-unio...
what could possibly go wrong integrating an engine capable of running arbitrary web downloaded javascript, with a wallet capable of being drained of real-world affecting value...

oh, its ok, we have sandboxes
California does have some legally guaranteed entitlements if (edit) there is a mass layoff. Apparently like this case if a company just goes under with no money left that doesn't apply. What is the situation in Europe? The healthcare continues, but if a company has no money who pays the entitlements? Do employers have to fund a reserve? Or the govt pays?
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Yes, they would prefer the software to always be perfectly tuned to them, even as they change their own... preferences.
I'll put this on the list of things to keep an eye on. I have dedicated a fair bit of time to an open source project I started a few months ago. I have no idea if it will ever make me money but I'm hoping to at least be able to pay for server fees through donations. My current plan is to go with patreon and I'll see how that will work out.
> Once you reach a certain size you can continue to squash competition through sheer momentum.

How about someone building a better search engine? Google’s massive spending isn’t all about a better search engine; it’s about scaling that better search engine. Certainly the money used to fund Juicero or similar crap would be enough to create a really great search engine. Microsoft has that Bing thing and it just isn’t as good — despite having plenty of capital to really go after the problem if they wanted.

How many search startups have YC funded? How many people reading this are trying to build a better search engine? It feels like nobody is even trying. DDG allowing google searches makes no sense if they really want to win. It’s a cop out. Google, even in the early days didn’t allow people to search Yahoo through Google. It seems like a large part of DDG is simply a wrapper on Google. When Tesla started nobody thought they could beat the entrenched players. They aren’t exactly winning, but, at least in California, I see a ton of them on the road. Where is the “Tesla” of search?

A whole lot of handwringing, but it doesn’t seem like anyone is really trying. Apple’s new HQ is built pretty much on the ashes of HP. Building a better search is possible if there was anyone audacious enough to try.

Start small. Make it good and focused, then grow. Perhaps be the best search engine for people interested in flower arranging or whatever niche is interesting, get good at that. Start marketing to people interested in flowers. Build an audience, then add trees or tropical fish or whatever. Start selling contextual ads targeting that demographic but while respecting privacy (no tracking.) Rinse and repeat. Even borrow from the olden times and hand-curate results until you can figure out how to automate and improve quality. It’s completely possible but instead everyone simply laments how powerful Google is without doing a damned thing to innovate.
Does anyone remember Gerry Anderson? he designed relays attached to puppets, which made the jaws clack in time to the sound-track being played, while they filmed the puppets for Thunderbirds are go in the 1960s. Look at me ma! my puppet is speaking!

Thus, it only took us 50-odd years to write the reverse-compiler..
> PS: they don't need to be flashing.

In fact, in modern aircraft, they're not flashing. The trend today is to not light a light unless it's important to pay attention to it. It's called "dark cockpit".
Fortunately these new modern children are jaded and hip to the game. Drop one in a prison and they'd take over the joint in no time.
>> I'm so bloody sick of helping Google train their self driving cars. I swear I'm going to have PTSD about stop signs and store fronts for the rest of my life.

> I've started deliberately getting them wrong - probably won't make a difference, but makes me feel a little better about it

I don't even have to try anymore to get them wrong on a regular basis. Now, I think it's now more like training Google users to make the same recognition errors as its self-driving cars than training the cars to do a better job.
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I'm Nigerian and also about to make use of flutterwave for processing payments with my SaaS.
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In business-speak it's called "switching cost". Google aggressively pursued the entire tech stack: search -> browser -> OS (and in many different verticals) so that switching to another platform would be costly (in terms of time and convenience).

That's why they branch out into so many free areas like Email, maps, etc. to create an ecosystem that works efficiently with itself and not as efficiently with external services.
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What are the incentives on the user side to pay the fees to Tidelift? How would Tidelift prevent free riding?
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Facebook, Twitter and Reddit are all pretty message board-y, they’re all centreded online discussions/arguments, and that can get toxic in a hurry, unless the discussion is super focused and tightly moderated. Instagram has always been a place to share the nicest photos you take, and that’s basically it, the comments are extremely secondary. There’s way less opportunity for conversations to turn toxic when there are few conversations.
> Considering the average annual revenue per U.S. Facebook user is ~$20, startlingly less in other countries, arguably Microsoft, not Facebook, is the more interesting company.

Your points are all valid. However, you're comparing Apples to Oranges. MSFT makes a large chunk of their revenue from Enterprise customers. I don't think it's fair to put the two companies in the same category.

Your larger point however, I def agree. Microsoft diversified itself, and Facebook will eventually too.

As the saying goes "This too shall pass".
I use it on mobile. It's quite nice, has an okayish ad blocker and a nice text wrap zoom feature that I enjoy and no other mobile browser has. It's fast enough but Brave is faster. Also used it on the Windows desktop before FF quantum.
But that's unfortunately how this works. I think people forget market players can, and are, self-destructive, when short-term profits interfere with long-term survival.

It's also part of the reason for the pace of the industry. You pump out as much money as you can from some space, and then move on to focus on the next thing.
VCs would throw money at a new search engine if they thought it could be 10x better than Google, but so far no one is trying to run with an idea like that. Google doesn't have to be the best after it owned the market, just not lag so far behind that it's significantly worse. They keep improving to keep the barriers to entry high in search.
I've tried it recently. I lasted < 10 minutes. The spinner in the tabs while things load are very distracting. cnn.com causes it to start spinning every 8 seconds for about 3 seconds.
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Not just sandboxes, passwords too, and 2FA.
> Better suffer a bit now than a whole lot later on.

This is just one sentence, you can re-read it many times. Yet, the guy would not really appreciate the depth of its meaning - since he doesnt know what it means to live with a bipolar or close to a bipolar person. Its a circle of hell of its own, he was only slightly touched by the sickness and is still shaken, compared what it can be after longer time. Words just cannot describe how awful mental illnesses are.
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Yeah, it assumes a good deal of prior knowledge about violins.
No question, just a big thank you. I followed along the first half and wrote my own Lox using Python. I learned a ton about a domain I would never have and may never use professionally. But writing my own interpreter helped me understand Python and love the magic of programming all that much more.
Instagram co-founders resign in latest Facebook executive exit
Please don't be mean on HN. Sometimes people aren't entirely clear about how the submission system works.
For a family?
Instagram co-founders resign, CEO Kevin Systrom says will 'take time off'
Why couldn't Microsoft block URLs before they emerge as a dominant player?

All Microsoft would need to do is keep an eye out for potential competition and start blocking them. More than that, if Microsoft was going to that sort of extreme, they could start tracking URLs that their users go to. Anything that starts to get popular would be investigated and blocked if it was a threat.
(Pedantic)

The 'flix' in Netflix refers to 'flicks', i.e. films.... that is clearly not the case here. Surely the name should have been something more like 'NetCasts'?
> Winners in the tech industry turn into giants via vertical integration and predatory pricing. They keep adding stuff related to the segment they first won in. They keep making stuff cheap or free to undercut competitors.

> There are many examples of this and we have two big examples in the US of anti-trust regulators stepping in and hobbling the giant: IBM in the 60s/70s and Microsoft in the 90s/00s.

If IBM was really a vertically-integrated, predatory giant, how could Microsoft have been successful?

If Microsoft was a vertically integrated, predatory giant, how could Google have been successful?

The only sensible answer is that the incumbents were not as powerful as they seemed to be.

> You could also argue that making things free is good for consumers. You'd be right again, except in the case where the freebies are designed to kill off competition and stagnate the product category (Internet Explorer being a classic case where Microsoft bundled it, gave it away for free, then stopped improving it for years

And yet Internet Explorer was beaten by Firefox and Chrome. So clearly the market works just fine, otherwise we'd still be stuck with IE.

> We have 50 years of precedents and the people at the DOJ know their history. I suspect it's just a matter of political winds and timing before Alphabet has to follow in IBM and Microsoft's footsteps.

Yeah, they will. They will be beaten by new companies that they, and the government, did not see coming. That is my point.
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Nope. See other comment.
I'm not sure you fully appreciate the context of the article is around the linux kernel, on LWN.net (a linux news site). The article has no reason to talk about Windows.

If you're really that keen on Windows and need to implement process management functionality in a crossplatform tool, take a look at the Python psutil library, or the all- but-obsoleted SIGAR. That's not really what this article is about though.
That's reductive and backwards.
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I understand you, you made very good and the hardest choice.

Mental disease is a disease air-borne AIDS, highly contagious Ebola, biological warfare weapon. The closer you are to the diseased person, the more sick you get yourself. There is no help for the diseased person, like with so many viruses as TBE.
Nothing about self-hosted licensed software is unique to Gitlab, it's been a standard business model since the software industry started decades ago.
Aren't these two statements a bit contradictory? e.g., the suggestion that they've editorialised "gun rights" to something (control) that would lead to less profitable results, but the statement that they doctor their setup to favour commercial enterprise?
It's hearsay. For a counterargument: Zoho product manager replied in this thread.
Interesting. I wonder how well a logistic regression that spits out masks would perform in the source separation task.

Also a bit surprising to see that they had to STFT the audio before feeding it into a convnet. I thought half the point of convnets was that they figure out how to do spectral domain representations on their own...
You suggested that the doctors were wrong to dismiss a causal relationship - I'll call that "link" and you can call or whatever you like. Don't weasel.

Could the implant have had an impact on the infection? Yes, sure. In medicine the answer to "is it possible… ?" is always "yes". But is it likely to be a significant factor, I'd say not.
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It's really simple to take any crypto currency holdings you have and split them into multiple accounts. One of your accounts, that you enable on your mobile device, could have a small amount of currency and even if there were a JavaScript exploit that hijacked your private key, you've only lost that bit in the small account. And, you don't have to wait for the bank transfer to occur, or even create an account with a bank bureaucracy. It seems much better than the alternative, no?
> I'm using almost daily Android studio on Celeron J3455 with 4GB ram on Ubuntu 16.04 64bit and it's usable. I mostly do WebView apps, it is also on some cheap SSD.

I don't think it's possible to run the emulator with more than 5 FPS with this kind of set up. Let alone the editor itself which frankly runs like crap on low end hardware. The irony is that eclipse was much much faster in constrained environments. It's like IntellJ spends its time indexing and when it's done it's doing some more indexing just for kicks.
> maps, images, news, and sports scores and schedules

DDG provides all or most of those things, and they work well in IMHO.
OP here!

I run a recruiting company, and I want to buy the pizza for local tech meetups here in Melbourne, Australia. And presumably there are meetups and hackathons and internal brown bag lunch presentations who would like free food for their attendees.

So I created a list of sponsors who are offering free food for tech talks, hackathons, meetups, heck even internal brown bag lunches!

The deal is that if you're running a hackathon, a meetup or internal brown bag lunch or whatever, and you want free pizza (or maybe sandwiches or something else) for your event, you provide a promotional message opportunity to the sponsor in return.

The idea is that people who run events that need food will come to this list to get it free.

So if you want to offer free food to tech talks, meetups, hackathons and brown bag lunches in your city, send an email to eatupsponsors@gmail.com and I'll add your company to the list.
Back in 2014 they wanted a $10k/yr minimum.
In a shell you can do this with `unshare -prf` which will create an unprivileged user namespace (mapping only yourself -- if you want more complicated stuff you'll need to use rootlesskit[1] or a shell script). Note that most programs really don't like being in an unprivileged user namespace (something the rootless-containers project has been working on fixing so you can have completely unprivileged containers in every sense of the word "just work").

[1]: https://github.com/rootless-containers/rootlesskit
A slideshow framework for hackers.

Slideshow system built on top of the Vue.js
Supports animations, themes, interactive widgets (for web demos)
Easy to reuse components, slides and styles across presentations
All APIs public, maximum hackability

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Any time you have multiple people interacting, you will have some friction, even in a hypothetical situation where all involved parties have perfect mental health. Many times, behaviors are classified as "negative" based on a judgemental third party perspective.

I raised two special needs sons. They are okay in part because I wondered why they did things. I was curious about the first person perspective. I was interested in finding out "What's their motivation?"

So I think this is a much more complicated thing than you are making it out to be. People have a relationship to themselves. They have a relationship to their environment. They have a relationship to other specific individuals and to a larger society.

Mental health discussions often posit that you are mentally healthy if and only if you get along smoothly with other people. They often don't wonder at those other elements and they don't question the possibility that maybe it is the other people who are all messed up, not you.

I think this is a vastly complicated topic. It is both broad and deep. It touches on psychology, sociology and philosophy.

And I don't know that HN is really a suitable place to try to dig into it in a meaty way, frankly.
The few university libraries I have been to had online subscriptions to all the IEEE publications so any standard or paper could be downloaded by anyone who walked in to the library and sat in front of a computer. Not as convenient as downloading from your home and office but as freely available as any book in the library.
How big is the team you’ll work on for each firm?
> As a tourist, you’ll hardly feel like you are in a police state

Especially if you can't read the propaganda posters.

> Ya, the internet will suck while you are there

Protip: bring a phone with a foreign international data plan. The packets will be routed over the phone network to your home country and bypass the Great Firewall.
Well, took a backup and decided to go for it. You don't get a choice, it converts the boot filesystem to APFS. Took about 3 hours on a very full 1.5 TB Fusion Drive, but converted successfully. We'll see how it goes.
As a complete aside, I'm happy that they added "execpromises" to pledge. It was one of the main things that really concerned me about its usage as a sandboxing system (seccomp I think is still more powerful but I will be the first to admit it's ridiculously complicated to get right).
My favorite thing thing about it is the site design. It is the canonical "insane rant" design style.
PSA that Opera is owned by a Chinese consortium as of 2016. I wouldn't trust it as a safe replacement for Chrome privacy issues.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/18/opera-browser-sold-to-a-...
Not to Mark Zuckerberg, but to the colleagues who've worked for them for years in their shared mission and who would, as normal human beings, appreciate knowing that the high-level departures are not a sign of trouble.
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Hmmm, looking through the comments it looks very much like no one has read the article as the comments assume that the humans were Homo Sapiens. In fact the article speculates that the humans where either neanderthals or Denisovans.

The earliest neanderthals date to 400k years ago. And the high arctic at the time of this find 130k years ago was pretty much one cold dry circumpolar ecosystem as ocean levels were much lower than today. Given all of this context it's not really insane to think this could have happened though of course more evidence is needed.
It becomes a game of “guess what user I’ll be logged in the next new window ?”

Chrome also doesn’t respect window order in the menu, so it’s just a pain to track when switching.
My solution to that was to switch to Safari for personal use.
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Why is the project like a workplace? Do the contributors all get paid? Do they all, or do most of them consider it as a workplace? What makes you think it's proper to treat the project like a workplace, and downplay those think otherwise?
Seems to be a strict design goal that the nothing below the top-most mapping is changed, which I appreciate.
Are you working on a tell-all, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man style? Because extraordinary claims require extraordinary dirt that should at least make for a good read
Tidelift tracks down all the individual developers and gives those "subscribing" a single point to pay. That's their primary added value.
Thanks for noting that. Strictly speaking, email doesn't include contacts and calendaring, but it completely slipped my mind and I had already shortlisted Tutanota.
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Podcast lists don't load in Safari and in Chrome -- issue for anyone else?