skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say unless you look like Chinese, speak like Chinese, have the resilience to endure long hours and enjoy adventure, then maybe China isn't really for you.

Like bamboo ceiling is a thing in US, similar ceiling will be put upon foreigners in China, unless it is your own company.
I think the real reason is that the bosses like watching all their subordinates at once. They can see that nobody is slacking (or at least everybody is pretending not to, which signals social submission almost as well), and enjoy the feeling of power. Productivity statistics don't produce the same feeling, partly because they're too abstract, and partly because they're evidence of submission to the organization as a whole, not to the boss personally.
Why is it any less natural than a vinyl album in the first place? For example the concept of A and B sides is simply because there are two sides to a vinyl record. I don't know much about the evolution of albums but I assume it's just arbitrary and a result of the underlying technology plus consumer expectations.
It's not just price.

Think about how trends evolve over time and how long it takes larger companies to "catch up". The planning/facilities groups are still high-fiveing from the major work it took to spin up open layouts, ignoring the growing evidence that it was the wrong direction.

And completely opening and shoving people in like cattle is way easier than "well-planned open" (as mentioned in other comments), or even closed offices.

They're not about to embark on an expensive complicated project until it's unavoidable.

Will be years if ever.
Can we stop accepting paywalled sources? I don't ever see links to $20 papers on Elsevier.
Employee per square foot is an easier metric to quantify than knowledge worker happiness and productivity.
What the hell is wrong with people?

Two factors are at play here, although “wrong with people” may be overly harsh and is certainly unhelpful. First, a lot of people, myself included, think that prohibition of prostitution is a bad idea. Now I’d argue that in this case that’s a bit of a red herring, because we’re talking about sexual slavery, not sexual work.

The second factor is a little nasty, but let’s face it... a site full of “toolmakers” takes a strong stance against people who make tools being held accountable for the uses of those tools. What a shock. Now it’s not just that simple, because some people are legitimately concerned about the proverbial blacksmith being held liable for making hammers. Others point out that if the blacksmith specially made “head cracking hammers” for Big Bob The Headsmasher, then the blacksmith crossed a line. Others are ideologically or practically opposed to almost any regulation.

It’s a mess of people talking past each other, angrily. Personally I believe that BackPage was a bad actor, and as for SF I’ll wait and see what pretrial discovery turns up. Most people seem to be more interested in rushing to conclusions though, and fighting over hypotheticals, hence the high noise:signal ratio here.
Americans and Russians vs. Somali Pirates
How about "The collosal problem with a $1 trillion dollar Pentagon budget when I can barely pay my rent".
Unless Salesforce was doing a custom deployment for them, this kind of revisionism is a non-story IMHO.

Just to give context, I work at an adtech company and to be eligible to speak to an account manager, the customer has to spend upwards of 10 grand a month. Rest are self-served. We dropped Infowars as a customer `after` we got to know that they had been a customer for a while.

Would not be surprised if Salesforce has similar tiers and has magnitude more customers than we do.
ok, so I hate to be this guy and I'm going to do it anyway because it has to be said:

Did they just invent Java again? Aren't they promising what Java promised? Won't they hit the same problems that Java hits during its write-one-run-anywhere promises?

I'm asking honestly - why is WebAssembly outside of the browser needed?
Also gives me a pretty poor impression when I hear other sales people shouting over whoever I'm talking to. Feels like they are in some kinda boiler room selling me vapourware.
Note to readers: this is not a mere rhetorical flourish. Falun Gong practitioners are likely killed in large numbers (thousands) for the purpose of harvesting their organs, though obviously evidence of this is tightly controlled.

Some facts that increase the plausibility of the claim:

1) China has among the shortest wait times in the world for organ transplants

2) China has little public engagement for voluntary organ donation. There were 373,536 registered organ donors nationally at the end of 2017. That number of donors would equate to 29 donations annually, going by US rates. Let's be generous and grant that 100 or so donations come from a voluntary donor.

3) Officially, the government of the PRC says that around 10k organ transplants happen per year. Most outside observers claim this is a significant undercount, but let's go with it.

4) The PRC claims that most of its organs come from voluntary donors.

Where do the rest of the organs come from? There's a huge discrepancy here. You can find plenty of people who attest that they've witnessed them coming from Falun Gong practitioners. I don't find individual accounts of anything that compelling, but they're easy enough to find. Plus, any mention of any particular individual would bring in a large number of accounts dismissing and attacking that individual, derailing the conversation.

If someone responds complaining that a lot of this is ultimately speculative: sure. The government of the PRC could easily address and dismiss this issue by offering transparency into its organ donation system. This is low risk and shouldn't undermine the PRC's informational priorities, as there's no reason for it to be a heavily politicized area of discussion (aside potentially from some class issues involving Western medical tourists).

For a well sourced overview, see
https://www.chinaorganharvest.org/app/uploads/2018/06/COHRC-... . Yes, the domain name seems sensationalist, but it's appropriate.
Join the club.

What I do:

- Take lots of notes with code examples and thorough basic explanations to self.

- Reduce inputs (news, social media, knowledge that doesn't matter)

- Exercise (moving meditation. walk, run, whatever. time to self. no listening to podcasts/music/etc.)
Human trafficking is just another word for illegal immigration. It just sounds more sinister and it gives a way for anti-immigration folks to sound humane and pretend like they care about the trafficked people, when they really care about not letting them in. As long as you have inescapable poverty and hardship in some countries, and no legal ways for people to get in, you'll have human trafficking. The only way to stop it is to let people in. The harder you try to ban it the worse it gets for the trafficked, but as I said, their well being is not the true concern of anti-trafficking laws at all.

As for sex work, there's absolutely no good reason why it shouldn't be completely destigmatized, decriminalized, and treated like any other kind of work. There are some inherent risks, but if it's decriminalized they can be managed and brought down to acceptable levels. There are certainly jobs with higher inherent risks, like working in lumber, or oil rigs, or construction. For women who aren't savvy enough to make it on their own, brothels are a good solution. With decriminalization, the bosses in brothels can be kept accountable.
Public ridicule isn’t exactly the hallmark of a competent leader either.
As with all questions like this, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of what this is optimizing for. It's only "the worst" from one perspective. But it is optimal for another.

The tension is not realizing that difference.
Things get really fun when you are asked to be able to sort these ambiguous dates.

Let's say Event A happens in New York (Eastern Time Zone) at 2018-12-08 02:00 UTC, and is recorded as occurring on 2018-12-07 (with no time) local time. Then let's say Event B happens in London (GMT) at 2018-12-08 01:00 UTC, and is recorded as occurring on 2018-12-08 (with no time) local time. Which event happened first? If we know the UTC times, a reasonable person would say Event B happened first. But if we just have the local dates with no times, we either say that Event A happened first, or we say we don't know.

This is a real problem I have to deal with and it is a pain. One user says A happened first, another says B happened first, another says A and B happened at the same time, and I say "give me the UTC time or you don't get this feature" :)
It's also bad for the people in those apartments, because it traps them there. Life circumstances change and people get different jobs. Maybe you live in Palo Alto and get a job in San Francisco or visa versa. Before you'd swap apartments with someone moving closer to where you are now, with rent control nobody can move.
Facebook Bans White Nationalism and White Separatism
In university I studied engineering/science, but when I transitioned into the working world, I transitioned into project management. To me this article is somewhat click-bait promising to "just do these # of things..."

I guess it provides helpful tips or a more simplistic way to begin to manage your time better if that is something you are struggling with and feel overwhelmed with how to even start to improve it. But I strongly feel the thing that makes me a great project manager is that you know how much rigor is appropriate for a given project so you know just how much to spend time planning and how much you need to focus on execution.

And "Beware of Distractions" is a huge understatement. I think this area deserved a little more because, IMO, you shouldn't just be aware, you need to actively manage this. You need to set specific time aside to look at your email. You need to put your phone down and not surf the web at random times. You need to be deliberate with your time, especially if you have a lot to get done. This is where having a list of "tasks" or things you want to accomplish in a specified amount of time can be helpful, because you can prioritize getting through that before you go to your emails, texts, etc.
Actually, the idea that the Koch brothers fund only "conservative stuff" is not terribly accurate. They fund things all over the map. "Conservatives" don't particularly trust them either. If you really get down to what they fund, instead of reading people's screeds about them and scapegoating, it's rather hard to characterize. (I've also seen them called "libertarian", but they have rather more left-wing and big-government stuff than you would expect with that.)
Because real estate is expensive and your boss is cheap.
switched on pop has a great episode on this: https://www.switchedonpop.com/how-streaming-changed-the-soun...
Yes, it's called DOSBox. Or QEMU with dynamic syscall translation if you want to be real fancy.
Oh interesting— I haven't been paying attention to the YTM recommendation algorithm. I'll have to subscribe and see if I can figure it out.
>And if you donate only a small percent of your wealth, say 1%, I don't think you deserve more credit than anybody having a net worth of $10k donating $100

That makes sense if you view charity/philanthropy as a signalling device or a measure for how generous and good people are.

Doesn't really make sense if you care about the actual good/contribution done though. Ceteris paribus, someone with net worth 100k giving 10k is doing more absolute good and helping more people than someone with net worth 10k giving 1k. Not to say small donations don't matter or aren't commendable -- they can definitely add up. But there is "more credit" given because the greater amount of money is (presumably) helping more people.
This. It's cheap and upper management doesn't care because they still get an office. Has there been any proper research on productivity loss / gains beyond the anecdotal? I have no idea and management doesn't read books anyway so we are stuck with open plans.
Simplifying Local State with Reducers
> There will never be a legal market for underage girls, slaves, etc.

Tangential, but I feel there is always an effort to cater to part of these "dark" markets with as harmless as possible ersatz (underage fictional porn, dolls/robotics, etc), but there will still be a strong negative reaction from some part of the society trying to ban the ersatz as a slippery slope.

I get that for any action there will always be a reaction, it's just depressing that most of the public opinion will agree more to principled but inefficient moral stands than to efforts to move the ball in the right direction.
Keybase is not softer than TOFU
There are indications that the illegal status of prostitution does not in fact contribute to more trafficking, but the opposite.

http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45198/1/Neumayer_Legalized_Prostitu...
"This paper investigates the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows.
According to economic theory, there are two opposing effects of unknown magnitude. The
scale effect of legalized prostitution leads to an expansion of the prostitution market,
increasing human trafficking, while the substitution effect reduces demand for trafficked
women as legal prostitutes are favored over trafficked ones. Our empirical analysis for a
cross-section of up to 150 countries shows that the scale effect dominates the substitution
effect. On average, countries where prostitution is legal experience larger reported human
trafficking inflows. "
Manipulating Data with Dplyr
"This part scares me:

'... repeated violations can result in the suspension of this app or your Google Play Developer account.'"

Learn the lessson not to make yourself dependent on a despot.
I've noticed it's usually the management.
Do you want your local school to be able to hire teachers, or your local restaurant to be able to get help? Housing costs make everything where you live more expensive. Lowering housing costs makes everything else cheaper for you too.
Hacker Group Lazarus Continues to Attack Cryptocurrency Companies
Yes, I am probably being too jaded here, and I really hope that I'm wrong, but after last few years of similar hit pieces against Facebook, Google, and other big, juicy targets, I can't help myself.
Ledger Nano S now supports Cardano cryptocurrency
It's only a losing proposition for those that are borderline retarded and think that driving Lyft or bartending is worth it in the city. Who cares though? They opted to grind it out and provide services to rich people and middle class engineers while making some landlord rich. More power to them if they enjoy that.

Once you're clearing SF costs by $50k+ per year, it could start to make sense, right?

I would only move to the bay for $150k+ and that's the desperate low end. Probably more like $170k is the minimum to have it make sense vs the alternatives available in 2019.
I also use Discover Weekly (DW) as a listener fairly consistently and have had some success with it. I believe Spotify mentioned in their S-1 how transformative DW has been to music discovery at large. Side note: Spotify keeps making small UI changes that don’t really seem to improve my UI usage. The changes don’t even make it worse. They just keep moving everything slightly. I’ve run into this a few times while trying to find DW.
Glacier Deep Archive Storage Class
Is there some reason why this only happens from 7pm? I would have thought that the net would either be censored all the time and nothing would ever work, or else a VPN would work always.
The idea of isolation that java espoused is not a bad one - it just wasnt executed well. Its not a java only idea either - see Native Client[0]. As with all things, execution and marketing matter. Java was lacking in both.
[0] - https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
This article nails it:

> Open offices clearly suck. So why are you (most likely) still working in one? Behind all the fluff, there is a simple explanation: they save insane amounts of money.

In the beginning, there was a lot of talk about open offices producing more collaborative environments, and I'm willing to give this charitable credence and believe that some people might really have thought that at the time. It was an emerging idea and the complete ramifications were not really understood.

These days though, I don't think anyone ingenuous would defend that idea anymore — it's all about money, and this is doubly so in dense tech hot spots like San Francisco where real estate commands a huge premium.

My large company is entirely open office, and has even been known to downsize standard desk size in order to get more of them into the same area. It's annoying, and there's no question that it creates a large productivity tax (desks are packed tightly enough that even a small group of people having a conversation at normal voice levels three rows over is pretty disrupting), but it mostly works, and giving everyone their own office in our central location would be pretty much financially infeasible. You learn to start working around it as best you can with sound insulating headphones, working from home where possible, or even reserving the occasional meeting room when you can.

I find some comedy in the fact that my parent's generation used to complain non-stop about being ousted form their offices and into cubicle farms. These days, my generation would kill for cubicles. Even a couple drawers to store a few personal items are a fantasy at this point.
I've heard chinese pop music referred to as either c-pop or mando-pop
It would be interesting to see the bump you get in listeners post HN front page.
Some of us aren't as skilled as the computer scientists that make up the bulk of HN readership.

At $50k a year living in NYC, $1000 in supplemental monthly income would radically improve my life unlike any other social safety net approach generally discussed.
I can slack off just as easily in the office as I could at home. :D or work just as hard at home as in the office.
Social Media Has Failed
One thing is the stress and pressure on kids to perform well on testing in school, which transfers to the parents.

It's already pretty bad in the US, but it's nothing compared to China (or Asia in general.)
Physicist phd(2012) and postdoc(2014). I went into data science(applied) after my postdoc because I wanted to stay in the bay area. I still read papers here and there and subscribe to journals like nature to keep the research side somewhat active.
Venkatesh Rao (of Gervais Principle fame) wrote nicely on the same topic
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/08/30/morning-is-wiser-than-...
If it was like this, then laws and regulations would have no real value and no authority whatsoever.
In college about 5 years ago, I heard a presentation from some recording industry people who worked at a studio. They saw Spotify as the reason their industry would still exist in five years. I think at the time total recording revenues were still declining, but the streaming growth was really picking up.

Spotify has brilliantly convinced many people to spend $120 per year on music. The average CD-buyer spent much less than that. It's become normal and acceptable to have a subscription to this stuff. It was hard to imagine in the early 2000s when so many pirated their music for free.
Exactly.

The impact on productivity also depends on the type of work. I suspect it's a net loss in the long run for things that require or benefit from deep work.
> I doubt any human

Never trust user input though, of course :P
For the same reason why airlines are giving you less and less leg room. Unfortunately, we sacrifice comfort for the sake of cost.
Sounds like a plot for a really decent sci-fi book with an AI as the antagonist.
After using mongodb for many years, I haven't run into a use case where I should have used it over SQL. The only benefit is rapid prototyping for me personally and it initially felt awesome to have mongoose in node be the schema as it was super easy to modify. But you pay for it big time as you go and find that anything difficult means you'll have to do backflips and more requests to get things done and get used to very strange and verbose nested json queries. It's the 10-15% use cases that are really hard. NoSQL is especially annoying when needing any type of joins because despite your best planning, it still happens. There were many cases I needed to fallback on postgres to get stuff done and have a second source of data to sync and then I was wondering why I didn't just do it all in postgres first.
Cheollima Civil Defense – Facts about Madrid
Adyen is more enterprise focused, right?

What would you say Adyen's biggest advantages are over Stripe and PayPal?
This is a great question but it's a little off-topic.

I've been watching compressed sensing (CS) from the sidelines for the past decade, while wearing experimental-cosmology, synthetic-aperture RADAR, and instrumentation/FPGA hats. (Not electrodynamics or optics, per your question, but nearby.) Here's my perspective.

If you're doing compressed sensing correctly, it transforms the entire instrument from electrically complex and algorithmically simple, to algorithmically complex and electrically simple. Unfortunately this isn't a strategy you can bolt on to a traditional architecture and turn off as a de-risking strategy if it doesn't work. From the perspective of a team building a tool to accomplish a task, it's an all-or-nothing gamble. Consequently, the challenges to aggressive adoption of CS are both technical (can it work?) and programmatic (is it feasible given human, political, and financial constraints?)

In the fields I've been exposed to, state-of-the-art instrumentation is complex enough that domain experts spend their entire careers understanding the quirks of a few established instrument topologies. Where CS is applicable, it would take a big leap of faith from an entire team to build an instrument around CS. Before that leap of faith is accessible, the team would have to be conversant in CS research and the implementation of CS algorithms in practice. And, after the leap of faith, a successful CS project requires secondary leaps of faith from funding agencies to get these instruments built. These barriers are highest for exactly the kind of complex, expensive projects where CS is supposed to shine.

As an aside, the latest IEEE Signal Processing magazine (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8653526) has an interesting article on hardware architectures for compressed sensing. As CS progresses, and as CS researchers transition from pure-CS research to applied-CS techniques, the use of CS in physics will probably grow.
I used to have a drive that required an hour drive each way in and out of Manhattan. When I arrived at the building, I shared a room with two other engineers who were team mates. I had so much energy after a day of work in that environment, including the drive, than I did at a regular NYC open office. Open office's suck energy through distraction.

I have basically given up on finding a job that would give me an office with a door that closes. I think it's much more likely that I could find a remote job. If I ask for an onsite office I would basically be laughed at or thought of as a prima donna.
Any idea why you're not getting featured on those playlists?
Teachable – A Learning Platform That Encourages Entrepreneurship
I haven't put any thought or time into it yet, but I assume you could combine it with a fuzzer. cargo-fuzz [1] already does this with LLVM's sanitizers, but I'm thinking something like proptest [2] could be used to help find those specific inputs and run under miri.

It may even be as simple as creating the normal proptest tests and then doing `cargo miri --test` or something similar!

[1]: https://github.com/rust-fuzz/cargo-fuzz

[2]: https://crates.io/crates/proptest
Did you read the part about 'Library Rules'? It's a cultural leap, but that would make all the difference.

Christ, I'm sitting in an open plan office right now with two telephone conversations going on in my right ear.

Thank the hardware overlords for headphones ...