skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090623150621.h...

https://www.livescience.com/53624-morning-person-genetic-inf...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00652...

I didn’t read all of these (and their references) in great detail, but there seems to be studies suggesting that chronotype is genetic. Some studies seem to be more reliable than others (ie as you said, some seem to rely on self reporting, but others seem to rely more on genetic testing or other things).

But this isn’t even close to my area of expertise so take with a grain of salt and read up on it yourself.
Ive been working for over a year writing a algorithm for unfolding 3D models (http://www.ministryofflat.com) for texturing.

Unfolding 3D models is an almost unknown task that is done mostly by hand by 3D artists. Game developers spends huge sums of money on this.
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My wife wants to learn web development for making her own web apps. She has no prior programming experience. She would like to start with the simple stuff. What's the best way to get started?

Thanks!
Well there are things to do that aren't deep-thinking coding. Interfacing with team members, running errands, interviewing candidates, etc.
I'm familiar with most functional languages. This post was in a language with slightly unusual syntax. Still, I found what this is written in to be surprisingly quite readable.

It turns out it is {lambda talk}, a simple functional language for the site. [0]

[0] http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=start
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I don't see how this rant explains the differences seen between Italy and Switzerland, both of which are in the Western world, last time I checked.
Do you have any proof of that?
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Not OP, but my experience has been that for more senior people and for projects that don't require a lot of collaboration, productivity is way higher.

For junior people or projects that require lots of collaboration, the remote nature does add some overhead. Your culture matters a lot here. If your culture is one of facilitating remote communication, then it can be done without too much drag. If you have a culture where many people are in an office, and don't tend to put things in slack or a video system such as zoom, then the overhead can become huge.

When working remotely full-time, I had some of the most productive days of my life, as well as some of the worst when I had to wait hours sometimes to hear back from members of my team. Highly collaborative efforts tend to suffer quite a bit in the asynchronous distributed model.
„all you to know“ is very ambitious and misguiding phrase for such a shallow presentation. It’s not even close, without ubiquitous language, SOLID, different programming paradigms etc. Distinction between software, solution and enterprise architects is questionable: there are other definitions of those roles.
Oh I see. In the over 74.6M entries about him on Google, you just happened to pick the detractor talking points which aren't even in the first 10 pages.
I’m Italian and I live here in the northern parts of Italy that directly abut Switzerland. We’re not happy-go-lucky (or at the very least we aren’t anymore, haven’t been since the end of the nineties). We’re mostly exhausted and desperate about the apparently endless slide into destitution that our former political class failed to prevent (by failing to foresee the downsides of ‘globalisation’ for a cheap manufacturing economy such as ours was) and that our present political class apparently cannot reverse. It’s horrifying to live in a country that is literally falling apart around you.
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I can understand transposing whole octaves to limit the use of extra bars.

Transposing anything other than that seems silly to me.
WeWork keeps pushing. Now landlords and rivals are pushing back
Why use the in-flight entertainment system when you can bring your own entertainment on your phone or tablet?
There are several saliloquies in the 21st century unfinished novel "The Pale King" by David Foster Wallace that do the accounting profession and its requisite temperament plenty of Justice. E.g., from a character working for the IRS:

“I learned that the world of men as it exists today is a bureaucracy. This is an obvious truth, of course, though it is also one the ignorance of which causes great suffering.

“But moreover, I discovered, in the only way that a man ever really learns anything important, the real skill that is required to succeed in a bureaucracy. I mean really succeed: do good, make a difference, serve. I discovered the key. This key is not efficiency, or probity, or insight, or wisdom. It is not political cunning, interpersonal skills, raw IQ, loyalty, vision, or any of the qualities that the bureaucratic world calls virtues, and tests for. The key is a certain capacity that underlies all these qualities, rather the way that an ability to breathe and pump blood underlies all thought and action.

“The underlying bureaucratic key is the ability to deal with boredom. To function effectively in an environment that precludes everything vital and human. To breathe, so to speak, without air.

“The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable.

“It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”
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we use a stand-up bot, and currently we are all in the office. We don't have the same work schedule, but it does overlap I probably 6 hours. Having a bot manage stand-up is great because it means that stand up reports are persisted for easy review later, and there is no debate or controversy over the proper time to do a stand-up.

There are disadvantages of course, such as the fact that any sort of communication regarding the stand-up report must be done asynchronously when people get around to reading it. It also puts some onus on members to actually read each other is reports and respond to questions comments and concerns.
The ruling junta is pulling out all the stops to garner support before the February elections (first one since the latest coup 4 years ago). They've rigged it so heavily in their favor and they still seem to worry it may not be enough. Literally calling it a gift takes away any pretense that this isn't what this is about.
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>the loss of sound quality

My Nuraphones sound great, as did my Sennheiser Momentum Wireless 2/HD-1 Wireless Bluetooth headphones before them. No static whatsoever.

Just because you're too cheap to pony up for decent Bluetooth headphones doesn't mean the rest of us are.
I use Rs-232 almost every day at work. So I guess this does not seem that exotic.

@OP what was your prompt to post this?
Buttery smooth Emacs (2016)
Does it bother you that HN colored the numbers on the left column of the front page red and green today for Christmas? Do all these Firefox easter eggs also bug you?

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/easter-eggs-come-from-foxes...
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Or they have their lunch a bit later, like 2pm. You don't have to have lunch at noon.
> It's such a simple thing, but it represents such a middle finger to consumers that it's enough for me to say no.

My refusal to buy a phone crippled in this way is also a middle finger to them. The only way to influence their decision is to vote with our valet. It might be easy for them to ignore the "vocal minority", sales results might deliver a stronger result.

Although, frankly, the probability of Apple admitting to making a mistake are sub-zero. Nevertheless, it may stop them from making a similar "courageously" stupid mistake in the future.
I’ve definitely seen this dynamic at long and steep escalators at airports — people won’t walk it. But it completely changes on the normal sized ones, which are a lot more common.
>They all sound better, on average, than any Bluetooth

No, they don't.

They may sound better than cheap Bluetooth headsets.

But I guarantee they don't sound better than my Nuraphones, or the Sennheiser Momentum 2 Wireless/HD-1s I was using beforehand.

Note that I own both Shure 535s and 846s, as well. The Nuraphone sounds better than either of them.

I use my Nuraphones for business con-calls every day. They sound great on my end and I've been told they sound great on the other end(s) of those calls, as well. Same with the Sennheisers.
Could you please share an example so I could better imagine what you mean? Thank you.
Krugman has an intolerable ability of making simple concepts quite incomprehensible to the layman (i.e. anyone without a post graduate degree in economics).

I lost interest in what he was saying in his long winded article after the first few paragraphs.
Emm... nativescript?
Am I the only one that thinks stand-ups are pretty much worthless? We have two versions, in person once a week. Then a daily slack version. Recently I asked in a real stand-up "does anyone actually read them", 2 out of 25 hands went up. I was surprised by people being so candid that they don't. I don't, it's generally irrelevant. It's a waste of time.

Interpersonal direct communication and making sure the appropriate people are kept in the loop is far more efficient. Otherwise it becomes a bunch of meaningless chatter.
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I have complete flexibility in my work hours, and have stabilized at 2h in the morning, 5h-6h in the afternoon. The morning hours are used to close tickets, answer emails and other sub-15min tasks. Afternoon is for zoning in.
If you look at Gitlab, the intent is similar to yours and is no different. Just that the brand is managed much better.

For example, Runner is an open source project that is used to run CI jobs. https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/ . Omnibus is packaging tool (https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/README.html) and Gitlab is the git tool itself. If you peek at the top right corner of the documentation site, you will see these three big headings.

Here are your gitlab clients - https://about.gitlab.com/partners/ (including all the native apps)

Gitlab CE is the open source software. This is similar to you having riot. Gitlab.com is the hosting service - similar to you having modular. There is no difference in intent or licensing... im talking about brand. For the end-user, the benefit in incalculable - one website (and Google search keyword) to find out all the options and all the information. I send people to Gitlab.com if they want to run it themselves OR if they want to buy the hosting service. In fact, Gitlab had org vs com domains for open source vs paid software .. when they then merged (https://about.gitlab.com/2014/03/07/moved-to-dot-com/)

There is no reason for you to identify Vector.im as separate from Riot.im as separate from Modular.im . For me as an end-user, it doesnt matter - Riot.im could have a link to download and a link to host and a link for about us.

It is not about inevitability - you are outwardly branding stuff separately that is not needed and can be unified under a single umbrella to reduce confusion.
Recognition of how certain roles are becoming extremely specialized, as Adam smith first set out in his division of labor thesis in the wealth of nations as a way to increase productivity, succinctly critiqued by Robert Heinlein: “specialization is for insects”

Accountants used to be merchants, businessmen, politicians, lenders, financiers, and insurers all rolled into one. Now they are (at entry level, or working for the state at least) seen as excel jockeys and bean counters enforcing some arcane business/legal code that nobody else wants to touch

And as much as I hate to bring in taleb, most accountants/auditors have no skin in the game, and therefore what they do is intriscally boring. If they stood to lose a pound of flesh as in the merchant of Venice when the businesses they oversee go bankrupt, perhaps they would be written about in Shakespearean terms today
I am currently reading the book "why we sleep" by Matthew Walker, and it is a fascinating scientific look at the reality of sleep schedules by an expert in the field. It sounds like you would be very interested in this. You should check it out.
Also, "Curry–Howard–Lambek correspondence" is the real name for "computational trinitarianism." I like the latter better because I don't like naming mathematical things after people, which have no bearing on the actual meaning.
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This is excellent work. Is there a catch? Limited vocabulary versus open domain? Noise or accent sensitive? How large is the model file? What's the accuracy? It's amazing you were able to get anything beyond keyword spotting on such a relatively low power computer.
That’s the half-life. After that time it will be half gone, so the remaining half will still be active for a while.
I do deliberately try to limit what goes into my production machines, yes. I choose to trust some things, carefully, and choose not to trust others. No, I can't review everything out there. But technically, I should. And if it goes wrong and there's a problem with some code that I put on the production machine, then that's my problem.

I don't really understand why we have "reasonable expectations that maintainers of a project are reasonable people". We absolutely know for a fact that a not-insignificant percentage of our users are malicious. Why do we assume that zero percent of package maintainers are malicious?

The only qualification someone has to be a maintainer is to have written something that someone else wants to use, and to publish that thing on a package repository. Or that they volunteered to take over maintenance of a thing that other people want to use. There's nothing in there about not being malicious.

And yes, I would absolutely blame every glibc user for trusting the glibc maintainers. Glibc is a gift. I don't have any contract with the maintainers of glibc that says they have to act in my interests. I choose to use their work because it saves me time. If that stops being the case, I'll find an alternative (together with everyone else), or roll back to the last known good version of their work that they let me use. If the glibc maintainers really want to make it Christmas Day every day, then that is entirely their right. I do not have the right to demand anything from them or their code. I don't have to use their code, and they don't have to take my needs into consideration when writing it.
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It looks like you took the exact opposite inference from the parent than I did: it's not about vaporware, it's about people's impossible standards for what's considered "artificial intelligence".

The neural network stuff is anything but vaporware, it's delivered incredible results, but people keep coming up with silly dismissals along the lines of it not being "real AI".
Keeping it would also have not impacted your life.
I still miss slide out keyboards.
It would be nice to have an Electron 100% compatible framework (drop-in replacement) that instead of using Chrome, it would use Apple's webviews that are of course based on WebKit.

It would be faster and take much less RAM, specially when multiple Apps are open and they could use the shared library.

Also, now that Chromium is going to be part of Windows, the same would also be a good idea, I think.
The intent is different. Gitlab wants to distribute and sell one unified thing, Matrix wants it to be clear the pieces are just that: pieces you can interchange with others. It's not important to how Gitlab represents itself to the outside that you maybe could replace Omnibus or the Runner with other software, for Matrix it's important.
Worth noting: he teaches (or taught) advanced data structures at MIT. It's probably worth looking into... I didn't manage to find an equivalent to his course anywhere when I was looking around a few years ago.
I think 16yr olds shooting people in games or watching them get shot in the latest movie doesn't lead to 16yr olds shooting people in real life

I think 16yr olds watching pornhub with gangbangs and other extreme sexual behavior leads some 16yr olds to seek that out. Something my parents for example had zero exposure too when they were growing up in the 50s. Where would they have seen that kind of stuff at 16?

https://qz.com/849487/they-go-into-a-different-world-and-we-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-36527681

Note: I'm an in no way suggesting going back or banning anything. I'm only responding to the very common argument

> Q: Why is a sexual media considered harmful to children while graphic displays of violence aren’t? I will never understand that norm.

A: Sexual media has measurable consequences, violent media does not (so far)
Think it will be Flutter. There is already some support for desktop.

Here is the project

https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
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The author is wrong in one point, Electron is not based on Chrome, it's based on Chromium, and you don't need to trust Google because it's 100% open source.
I think the guide does not work when you have less users and more data, for instance if you are a b2b saas provider. I think the way you architect an infrastructure should be driven by the value of the user.
Same. I work for a company that is 100% remote. It’s the most productive group I’ve worked with in my career. Also the most senior, so it’s hard to say how much remote work is to credit vs median seniority.

I think the remote-first culture of the company attracts self-managers who value quiet, focused work, and who have relatively good communication skills.

Anyway, I never want to go back to office work after this gig.
This article is seriously lacking in photo evidence. Aside from the headline image, and one of dumpsters, none of the photos contain any trash or graffiti.
The most obvious Electron alternative on any platform is of course doing things the way we sort of used to: Get your toolkits and compilers out, your hands dirty, and your integrity clean and code some honest to God desktop applications.

If you absolutely need to do web primitives inside your app, well then, html engines used to come in a few megabytes and no external deps. If your webcode needs the entire Chromium monstrosity bundled in order to run, someone has been doing something entirely wrong.
While it's true that the basics of Deep Learning (eg ImageNet) are not that conceptually interesting, it is also worth noting people are working on tons of interesting directions within this framework combined with other ideas from AI (see eg 'Learning to Reason with Third-Order Tensor Products' - https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12143 | 'Beyond imitation: Zero-shot task transfer on robots by learning concepts as cognitive programs' - https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02788)
Interesting, never thought to dig for non english versions of the game

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=simcity+superfamicom&t=ffab&atb=v1...

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Farcticsunbur...

ps: crazy, while looking at these, my nose started remembering smells of that era..
A dedicated infrastructure team could cost more in long term with current salary level. It’s not easy to find engineers not operating themselves on public cloud. It ends up reinventing the wheel. Honestly high rps doesn’t mean the investors will agree it’s time to buy hardwares
This was a big thing around 2011 - 2013 when HipChat was catching traction, then obviously Slack in 2013-2014.

It worked/works well for remote teams and slowly fell out with a lot of big corporations using (Enterprise) Slack.
1. If you are replaning (?) every day, maybe your project is in chaos and needs some real planning so people can make consistent progress without changing direction every day?

4. Everyone is forced to kill time or disrut schedule so that they can start the day at one privileged time.

5. Aren't you slowing down by waiting for a meeting to get the info? Everyone has to prepare for the meeting in advance, so waiting for the meeting is delay.
One things that is not talked about a lot is parallelism in terms of kernel and I/O.

There is the aspects of an application but what about system code?

If read the FlexSC paper and using multiple cores you can see some pretty incredible improvements are possible.

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/...

We should also see some of this with Zircon as it gets further along and looks to leverage cores in a type of pipelining.
Statistics is quite valuable and grounded in theory. It's a trusty tool if used with respect (like a knife).
The most obvious counter-argument: one shared codebase vs. your five.

Native is awesome when you have the money.
> "in front of everyone * after *"

Your own quote makes it equally arguable Jobs was the provoker? It's not like it would be out of character given what's publicly known about Jobs. Maybe what you say is true but this quote could just as easily be taken as someone standing up to Jobs as "deliberately provoking him".
I'm sure there are valid reasons but I disagree with the extension solution. That is not in any way meeting the stated goal of

> One of the goals of the Modules Team is “browser equivalence”

There are already tons of browser libraries not using the .mjs extension.

Not clear to me why just using 'import' makes it a module and 'require' not. I'm sure that's spelled out somewhere
Worked in Google US, then Alibaba China, then a startup founder. I'm comparing not your average companies but top notch from the two worlds.

Engineering culture has a lot similarity between the two, both are doing very innovative stuff and paying great attentions to quality of their infrastructures and both suck at building social network products. Notable differences include

1. Google engineers have a stronger say in their company and Alibaba pays more attention to the economic ecosystem. As a result, Google's products really shine as engineering 'miracles' while Alibaba's have greater impact to the society. Different DNA from their founders.

2. Alibaba engineers work much longer hours than Google's, at least 20% more. This has pros and cons.

3. Shorter product development cycle in Alibaba. This has pros and cons.

4. Higher pay growth in Alibaba. Fresh grads start around $30k/year, about 1/4 of that of Google. However, into 4th/5th year the former increases to one million yuan ($150k) per year including cash and RSU, on par with Google's. More seasoned engineers get tremendous respect and insane pay. Alibaba usually double or even triple people's total package when they left Google to join the company.

5. Alibaba pay more attention to the value of data and has better data infrastructure IMHO. This can be decisive for the future.

And now I'm into the 2nd year of my startup. As contrary to popular belief, the Chinese are true entrepreneurs and the society is generally very supportive for changes. And government's stimulus is insane. For example, my company got six million yuan (almost $1 million) fund from the municipal government when it's just established, with almost no requirement and absolutely no string attached. Free money and that's all. Probably the best place in the world to start a company and I'm greatly thankful.
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