skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at Ant Financial for a time (startup acquihire) and spent some time working in offices in both Beijing and Hangzhou. As an American 996 was surprising but also doesn't quite live up to it's name, or at least not at Ant afaik.

In practice the typical "996" day would usually go something like this:
- ~9:30 - 10am Arrive, commutes could vary as you might imagine
- 10 - 11:30am Morning meetings, usually a team stand-up or two
- 12 - 1:30pm Lunch, typically 1.5 hours
- 1:30 - 7pm Most work is done during this period, with some meetings later in the day
- 7 - ~8:30pm Team dinner, sometimes in the office and sometimes at a nearby restaurant*
- 8:30 - 9/10pm People start to leave

* - I was a visitor in the China offices so that could've affected how long we spent at dinner or how often we actually left the office for it

On top of the large breaks it was fairly common that the work day was filled with breaks and naps and such, so I didn't really observe people actually working for much longer than most western offices but it did tend to increase the bonds of teams by keeping them together for the entire day. As for working Saturdays... I asked various colleagues about it and was told that it was rare, only when it was absolutely necessary to ship something on a set schedule.

Another thing I found interesting was that our office in the US had Tue/Thur work from home days and when folks from the China offices would visit they were just as surprised as I was when I first heard about 996. Some of them asked me how I would get any work done from home or how management could enforce it. In general I saw that management in China placed a lot of value in office time even though the levels of productivity seemed to match it even less than in western offices.
> I'm not sure this is as practical an attack as simply firing on an aircraft on approach, of course.

But that would reveal your position. Presumably the above could be executed without even being present: just leave behind the equipment.
Adobe Tightens the Leash
The basic problem with processed foods is that they mimic the qualities of natural foods.

If you leave kids to eat whatever they want with an abundance of food, they will create a perfectly balanced, healthy diet. They did a study of this in the 1950s and the kids who had certain vitamin deficiencies would naturally even go for the fish oil they needed to supplement their levels back up.

Take something as simple as bacon flavored potato chips: you eat them, and your body thinks it's getting the protein it needs, but it's not, it's getting something that mimics protein. But your body's kind of dumb, so it wants more chips, because they should have protein in them!

Almost every obese person out there is someone who's had their natural feedback loop completely destroyed by learned behavior. They don't feel "full" the way people without eating issues do.
Ah, I thought you could redirect to prev. Sorry about that!
SQL Server 2017 Achieves Top TPC Benchmarks for OLTP and DW on Linux and Windows
> ZoL[1], a based on a ground-up re-implementation of ZFS

ZFS on linux is not a re-implementation of ZFS
The calculation completely ignores any risk of nuclear disaster.

It's simply based on historical data, which is hugely misleading and dishonest.

Each existing barrel of nuclear waste has been causing risk for few decades at max but will cause risk for thousands of years.

(Not to mention all the waste that has been dispersed in the environment)

This is like driving a car for a 30 seconds and claiming that it's safe.
The waste problem has in no way been solved. Reprocessing is, itself, horribly polluting and its waste byproducts are more dangerous than the original spent fuel rods.

I'll also add here that Fukushima is still pouring radiation into the Pacific Ocean while we pontificate.
So yeah- sounds like "make the code open-source and use a tested protocol" is about all you can do.
Tesla Fires Sound Alarms About Safety of Electric-Car Batteries
Private higher education will always increase inequality in the long run as the wealthy can find ways to optimize/game filters. For the wealthy the more complex the filter the better as they can pay to navigate the complexity.
It's bad in the long run. It destroys your domestic industries and they won't subsidize it forever either. It's a lot like how some conglomerates will use profits from one industry to subsidize entry and take over of another and then they jack the prices up when there are no competition in the new industry. Rinse and repeat.
Well, my neighbors are on public assistance, and I swear the kids are truant half the time. Doesn't matter how great your school is if the kids don't go and the parents don't care if they go or not.
In theory you’re right but bread makes me really hungry later. When I stopped eating bread I stopped getting hangry between meals
You brag about it somewhere on the Internet, the post gets traced back to your computer, and the parallel construction does a bunch of hand-waving about serial numbers and purchase records and electronics batch numbers and fingerprint matching.
It's the "redesign culture" in a nutshell. Change things (expending effort) for no discernible reason, break familiarity, arrive at subjectively worse appearance, and at objectively worse functionality. It's hair-pullingly frustrating.
Anomaly detection API allows you to find weirdness inside crowd – Part 2
We had lots of free content during the Internet's early years; people simply made things and gave them away for the pleasure of sharing. Generosity is as much a part of human nature as greed.
that a profit seeking entity will somehow pay "social dividends" at the expense of profits.

Yes, but enough about those other greedy companies, what about Bosch?

"...nearly all of the profits distributed to shareholders are devoted to humanitarian causes." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH#Corporate_af...
This is a fundamental problem with our society at large and market economies in general. Companies find it easier to deal with the consequences of a resulting regional housing crisis near their headquarters than they do to invest in second tier cities.

You know how you get those smaller cities to be places where tech companies can grow successfully, you start now, by building infrastructure that retains the college graduates from the area, and in 10-20 years, the region has highly competent professionals in the given field.
Seems like an indirect method of detecting repeat visitors within a known fixed time interval.
Nails it, there are so many avenues for abuse with this and they will be abused accordingly.
It's a sad "research study" in ergonomics. You can't really make a partial automation, it's a double penalty.
Are the hard crapatoes even easier to harvest?
Nothing, although if colleges accepted you under the assumption that you reported who you were honestly, and then later found out that you weren’t who you claimed to be, you might find your acceptances revoked.
is btrfs as a project even healthy? a startup I worked at looked hard at btrfs since the COW model and better integrity verification were both very, very useful from our POV. But btrfs in practice was just simply unsuitable; not only were there basic reliability issues (corrupted filesystems) and really bad corner case behavior (full filesystem in particular), we noted that it was not actually fully endian neutral, at least at the time, which caused filesystems between x86 and a BE ISA to appear to work, and then to be horribly corrupted if taken from a BE embedded system and mounted on x86.

Given the volume of btrfs negative experiences that are going to need to be overcome (for example, many of the posts in [1]), maybe people have just given up? If ZoL licensing wasn't a problem, would anyone even be interested?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15087754
Microsoft Build and Google I/O Pledge Better AI; ICLR 2019
Are you implying the source of the data is the primary concern for media attention as opposed to the outcome? What is legitimate and illegitimate data?
Lambdas are limited to a single expression. Threads don't work the way anyone would ever want threads to work because o the GIL.

That said, homoiconicity (s-expressions) is not a feature I want. It makes code like reading a wall of text compared to a nicely laid out magazine.
This is nonsense. San Marino is almost entirely dependent on tourism from Italy, and is very, very heavily trafficked. This list seems to be based on some arbitrary absolute value and not on rate.
So You Want to Write an Linear Programming Solver
It is interesting to know whether a system that is important for safety and/or security is susceptible to hijacking by anyone who can build a radio or whether it is protected using secure cryptography (and then, who holds the keys).

If, for example, simply transmitting in the clear on the right frequency can get the airliner to try to land on a virtual runway that is 20 feet below the real one - that is interesting.
I was very surprised to see wiktionaries phonetic transcription and sound sample of "Buch", apparently it is not throaty everywhere.

It's a /k/ in all "-achs", e.g. "Dachs", "wachsen", "Flachs", exactly as in "bochs" the emulator (compare "boxen"), except across boundaries, e.g. "wachsam, wach-sam" (wakeful, at guard), or contractions, e.g. "[Meister seines].Faches/Fachs".
I have mixed feelings about Perrow's book.

Sometimes he leaves out details in his stories that make the behavior of the people involved seem less perverse.

Some of his predictions were also wrong, like the one that problems with aviation safety and marine safety were going to get worse.
Google finally advances Linux+Vulkan gaming using a side door that bypasses the market share blocker altogether. MS and Sony don't like it and plan to mirror Google. Instead, they should stop being lock-in jerks, and should support Vulkan as well.
How much money can you make writing articles on Medium?
Fairness: The ingredient that makes businesses work better [video]
Correlation between two factors doesn't tell you how to compare two sets of values. Kids who have to work after school until bedtime won't get as good grades in HS, but if no longer made to do so, may perform substantially better in college.
Tokyo is able to solve affordability with massive economies of scale around prefabricated buildings (that include multifamily buildings).

To develop a comparable economy of scale, the US would need to significantly relax zoning rules and develop national by right standards.
>but I would shudder the thought of living in a society where the government tells you exactly what you can and can't eat.

I agree, but the government can use softer nudges like taxes and subsidies to help encourage healthier eating. A good start would be to examine existing farm subsidies and ask whether they encourage unhealthy dietary choices.
The economics of building nuclear power plants is directly affected by the availability of tooling and volume of the production.

The reduced number of new plants has resulted in increased costs for the parts required to build a plant. If we build more plants, capital costs will be reduced.

I agree that solar, wind, and other alternative energy sources are ideal for smaller installations. Although, battery technology, manufacturing capacity, and available raw resources will not be capable of supporting radical change anytime soon.

New nuclear can be a solution. Or, at least, it will need to be part of the process if we are going to replace large scale carbon emitting power production facilities.
White rice is pretty much the definition of "white carbs". Its glycemic index is only just behind white bread and brown rice isn't far behind it.
Ask HN: Selling software as a feature for another company's app
I've been working on an app as a side project, and come to realize that while there isn't a compelling business case for the app itself, its functionality would be perfect for a different company's application.

Does anyone have any tips/know of resources on how to go about reaching out to the company to discuss a possible partnership?
where is source code for VM recipe? what entities are behind it? does it mine crypto on behalf of creators? ipfs-zeronet-dat? where is crypto donate button? alternatives? i know there is forum, but stuff should be read on main page.
OpenBSD no longer has lkm, or any loadable kernel module framework. Any kernel implementation would have to be part of the kernel source tree (this one is userland, in ports).
Considering the FBI busted the ringleader of the scam and a bunch of people are going to jail, this seems like an example of the system working.
>I think what people choose to eat is extremely personal to them. I'm glad you made a lifestyle choice that benefitted you, but I would shudder the thought of living in a society where the government tells you exactly what you can and can't eat.

This canned "the government shouldn't choose what I eat" argument is reductionist to the point of deficiency at best, and disingenuous at worse.

The fact is an unregulated free market forces choices on us no different than government regulation. The quality and type of food a consumer has access to is highly dependent on market decisions — that is the food demanded by other consumers — not individual decisions. The problem is consumers in the US at large are either ignorant about health/nutrition or just plain don't prioritize the future (sustainable health) over the present (what I'm eating was iteratively designed in a lab to maximize my immediate dopamine hit).

Good regulation isn't binary. You can regulate the food industry to protect consumers from predatory/harmful practices (such as engineering food so that consumers overeat by "growth hacking" food via salt/sugar/fat in order to drive revenue growth) while still allowing an abundance of dietary choices.

>FWIW, I've eaten processed, fried, GMO foods my whole life (and consume fast food drive thru at least 5-6 times a week) and have no health issues whatsoever. But I try to not eat to excess and I exercise regularly.

Some people smoke two packs a day and die at the ripe old age of 100. The vast majority of smokers die significantly earlier than average. Much like you wouldn't consider a lottery ticket a wise investment even if it pays off, you shouldn't interpret your personal health and dietary experience to much other than good fortune. Your experience is an outlier in the face of mountains of data that tell a different and honestly quite depressing story.

Lastly, I know sometimes tone can be misinterpreted easily in text. So if my comment came off as brash or an attack etc, please re-read it with a polite and friendly tone in mind. I'm passionate about this topic because I want to help.
Huawei launches AI-backed database to target enterprise customers
The whole industry is dying, all over the world, and must now reply on PR puff pieces such as this one that continue to haul out the "climate will kill us!" bogeyman.

Perhaps nuclear advocates haven't considered that, given enough time, the Earth's cyclical climate will kill us anyway. Personally, I'd rather wait for that than have nuke plants speed up the death toll and pollute the land with uranium tailings and contaminated water. But that's just me.
American life is improving for the lowest paid
I think this is missing the point. Yes you can make seitan from scratch, but it's not necessarily going to be better since seitan with its main ingredient being gluten contains little fiber either way. On the other hand, chickpea flour may be processed, but if the process preserves the fiber, that's not really a problem.

The lack of fiber in /most/ processed foods makes you eat more of these.
I suppose the risk is totally coincidental outages for Sony during critical moments in the product cycle. They'd better have a solid SLA in place!
You could do three years at a great school and then cap off with one year at a bad school to grab the diploma.
It is basically like this: China sells stuff to USA, USA pays with paper it can produce in infinite amounts.

USA benifits from this arrangement.

There are some more details of course and that adds complexity. But fundamentally it is a simple story.
Why are they likely to be unprepared?
How would you reliably capture race, or sexual orientation, or gender identification — or even income — on a self-reported metric with no third-party validation? They aren't talking about sending the College Board your tax returns.

Realistically, this will be based on ZIP code and registered high school. Information that's already publicly-available. This changes nothing except potentially making neighborhood-level affirmative action more politically palatable.
"$500B in trade imbalance"

You make it sound like it's a bad thing. Trade imbalance simply is, there is no moral value statement involved. For consumers a trade deficit is actually pretty sweet.

You can also see it this way: America gets 500B worth of goods from China, in exchange for currency it can simply print.
?? So your link says anyone can present themselves as developing. what alternative definition contradicts this?

China surely has some very shiny metropoli, but there is a few decades worth of modernization to be done still as you go inland.
Add to that our sedentary but stressful lifestyle. When I am backpacking for a few days I don't eat much and have almost no food cravings. But as soon as I am in the office I start eating all kinds of crap I would normally never touch. I think the same happens to kids in school being forced to sit still for hours.

"Almost every obese person out there is someone who's had their natural feedback loop completely destroyed by learned behavior. They don't feel "full" the way people without eating issues do.
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I am really sorry for kids that grow up on frozen dinners and junk food. I have read that your food tastes develop in the first few years so if your parents have bad food habits you have a very good chance to be imprinted with them for a life time.
I've done something similar cutting "white carbs." For me that means grains & starches. I avoid bread, pasta, potatoes, rice, etc.
Redistributing Walmart's store managers wealth is a really poor example when you don't even look at executive salaries or dividends.

> The problem is fundamentally this: A typical Wal-Mart store has around 300 employees. If you take the manager's entire $100,000 and distribute it to the employees, they each get less than $500/year, a raise of less than $0.25/hour.

Walmart has 2,867,125,000 shares outstanding * $1.96 per quarter * 4 = $22,478,260,000 per year spent on dividends alone. If you take all that money and give it to the 2.1 million employees listed that comes to $10,703 a year in additional wages alone. I haven't even looked at executive salaries or the costs from lawsuits Walmart gets from it's shady tactics. Or that many employees are part time and the per hour wage increase would be much higher than it indicates.

> And nice as it would be to pay all 300 employees $100K/year, that would immediately bankrupt the store. Moreover, it would be more than the amount it would cost to automate most of those jobs.

No one is asking Walmart to pay a bagger 100k a year. Most people are asking a decent wage for where they live. For most places that is $15 an hour... $30k a year. In California that is more. If Walmart can't pay that then maybe they deserve to fail and Costco, which does pay well and comply with the law, can take their place.

Compared to Microsoft or Apple, which can easily afford to pay the contract labor they use in place of union janitors, technicians, drivers, etc. Despite their margins they still use it and those people live in poverty because of it.

Walmart overall is a poor example as they push lower costs at every level including using dubious or illegal tactics. Certain property tax strategies, pressuring employees to work on unrecorded hours, pushing manufacturers to low cost sweat shops overseas.

These costs don't show up in people's wages, the products they buy, or a company's 10-k. They show up in the quality of life in our towns, the unemployment rate, and the budgets of our governments. Microsoft, Apple, Wall Street banks, even McDonalds is a better example. (McDonalds operating margin is 42% compared to Walmart's 3.34%. Source: MSN Money.)
Refined sugar and alcohol are the worst for me. I can easily stay in my target BMI range without doing any diet plan apart from eliminating these two things.

The refined sugar especially seems to aggravate my appetite. It's been shown that drinking a sugared soft drink before a meal increases the amount of food you'll eat, and that's definitely been my experience. At the beginning of this month I eliminated sugar and alcohol from my diet. No other change, and I've lost 5 lbs so far. In the past I've used this diet hack for longer stretches and easily dropped ~30 lbs in four months.
Sorry, which part of my comment is unfactual?
Similarly, I noticed at least 3 of these are US territories, and are heavily traveled to by Americans, though that may cause the "foreign visitors" to be quite low.
Google’s Translatotron converts one spoken language to another, no text involved
Building the Cryptoeconomy, with Brian Armstrong and Fred Wilson [video]
It kind of functions as a hedge: this way they can monetize gaming even if PlayStation is winning.

Also Sony and Microsoft have a shared interest in having viable competition in the market against Stadia in case it takes off.
The only thing they pivoted on was their pricing model. GeForce now was just them beta testing on shield users. Once they were feature complete they flipped on the switch for PC and started charging more money.
With VMs and whatnot it's easier than ever to type up your fake vintage documents using the software of the day. As always the lazy crooks get caught.
Went gluten free at my house for quite a while. Nobody lost weight. Ice-cream, chocolate, potato chips, GF pizza crust, all kind of GF junk food out there if you look for it.
> "You can't commute to work anymore because your car will be too expensive to charge. Or, rather it will be a luxury to use a car."

Yes it will be. There are many many more externalities to using cars as primary transit than their CO2 output. Noise, land use, inefficient use of energy in terms of kWh/personmile, microplastic from tires, accidents,...

> You’ll have to live within a few miles of work.”

There’s such things as mass transit that’s actually quite ok at solving that problem. Now, if you mean “we cannot all live in suburbs and everyone gets a house and a little garden.”, yes, that’s already true. The sprawl would not be possible to manage. It’s already not true for a large chunk of the population.

Heating a house is the least of our issues. Heat is something that we can store fairly easily: Take a large, well insulated tank in your basement, fill it with water (or a better suited liquid, but water will actually do). Heat it up during the day, either using solar panels or electricity driving a heat pump, use it during the night. Works with coolant, too. Insulation is a fairly well understood problem and in such a setting, losses are fairly low.
If all I had to do was a problem like fizz buzz, I'd probably go ahead and do it. In my experience, most coding challenges that are in-person or take-home are more involved than that Fizz buzz, taking an hour or more. I can't think of a single coding challenge I did in the last 6 months that didn't involve either building a full application or something with complicated or game-like logic. The closest thing to fizz buzz level of simplicity might have been the custom file/directory system I had to work on, but even that was more involved and nuanced than writing fizz buzz.
it's hard to change a test enough that it's hard to prepare for but not so much that scores can still be meaningfully compared year to year. even if kids go straight to college, there's a two year window where they could reasonably take the test and the test is offered several times per year. I don't see how they could accomplish this without severely increasing the cost of the test.