skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another argument might be made that income variability is now more significant, as any break or disruption is likely to be highly disruptive: loss of housing, family relocation, disruption of children's education and environment, etc.

I'm notaware of any specific study of same, offhand,but the notion has a name: The precariate.

It's what Yonatan Zunger (not an economist) describes as "your financial shock wealth":

https://shift.newco.co/your-financial-shock-wealth-4845e6dc1...

"All hollowed out" does reference several related studies:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/white-w...
Semi-related: has anyone here been successful in setting Startpage as their search engine in Chrome in Android?
Running sneakers are a relatively new invention. You wouldn't want to run a marathon in whatever the ancient greeks wore.

If this kind of thing is important, the best approach is to narrowly define what athletes can wear. (Shoes, socks, compression sleeves, clothes, ect.)

Then, working within the limits is part of the sport itself.
Yeah. If Clojure is functional, then so is R.
I could never understand why so many people run as a sport, when nearly all runners eventually develop joint problems, many requiring knee replacements (which you supposedly can't run on).
either cameras will inform AI algorithms and they will classify you as a "bad" passenger, or the next person who rents the taxi will report the taxi as unsanitary.

Which means you're going to lose your taxi privileges. Cue Black Mirror comparisons. Though it's pretty much how Uber already works.
> Tagline: [Murray and] Hello Games coded a near-infinite universe and survived a harassment ordeal

Murray did survive a harassment ordeal and was a victim. Hello Games was held accountable and was not a victim - gamers who were lied to were victims.

This whole fiasco was at the pinnacle of the industry lying to consumers. Hello Games concentrated this practice and exploited it to deceive gamers into pre-ordering. The resulting fallout corrected this and it is absolutely justified that the worst offender bore the brunt of the consequences.

The game is still full AAA price but plays like an indie title. Their promotional content is not in-game and is deceptive. Hello Games hasn't learned anything at all and really doesn't deserve a pity piece such as this one.
To clarify -- I don't mean that the service itself needs to be centralized. You just need a single place to find stuff.
Sounds like The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Hello: Thank you, but Auto-Ma-Tron is refusing you service. On your last visit you abused the TOS. The actions that were flagged are viewable here <Video of user shitting in the car>. Your credit card account has previously been charged $150 US for damages. You are no longer allowed to use our services until <one year from today's date>. As we use facial identification, attempting to use alternate means of payment to avoid detection will result in criminal trespassing charges being filed.

Good day, prick!
Ask HN: Navigating US healthcare regulations as a technical founder?
Hi there. I am working on a startup in the healthcare technology space. I am a solo founder with an engineering background and am building an MVP by myself.

My issue is that I have trouble navigating the various regulations that come with doing business in this space. I am generally aware of HIPAA but would ideally like to find someone with much more experience to serve as an advisor or even cofounder.

How should I go about this?
Good to know. Presumably it doesn't trigger a ban from the system in the way that repeated infractions of the kind described in the article do, right?
I think they'll go on step farther. There will be a video screen with a video of a person on it who will be there to answer questions the customers might have, subtly advertise things and so forth. The presence of a human face who "interacts" with the passengers will help create a personal connection both to the company and to the car, so people will be less likely to vandalize things. Even crazier, whoever is the "face" of uber or waymo will be one of the most viewed human beings one arth, so there will be big bucks invested in find a face or faces that people will bond with on an emotional level. At some point, someone may say to you, "I prefer uber because Gina is so much nicer."
The fact that only one percent of people go on to download a competing browser isn’t Google’s fault.

I’m sorry, but this idea that Google is some evil monopoly because it actually bundles USEFUL software with its OS just isn’t this huge problem.

I don’t even use Android, but I think it’s absolutely ridiculous to expect Google to either leave out critical software from its OS, or to force them to preload competing browsers (inferior for the most part).
A while ago, I ended up watching a video about making roofing shingles using hand tools, which uses the same technique, but on only ~footlong logs.

https://youtu.be/UZA1J8RHltY?t=555
That's a perfectly legitimate concern, and would be a great reason to get something like this if you can afford it — but that's not how they're selling these shoes.

Instead, they're focusing on the athletic performance aspect, to the point that, near as I can tell, they're outright fanning the flames of controversy around the idea that these shoes are unfairly fast.
>it's got nothing to do with left or right

> left just seems to value the truth more than the right.

huh?
You may choose to go through a big integrated directory-and-player system, but the content is read into Apple Podcasts via feeds of a standardized format hosted across the internet, and your device is also downloading the audio content from arbitrary third-party servers. Because of this, I can---and do---quite happily pull down those same feeds and content directly to my own Android device via my app of choice.
I would imagine this wood-working technique wasn't unique to the Scandinavians. For one thing, a wedge is much simpler to make than a saw.
What a bunch of fuckwads. Yet another reason to avoid this shitty ass company completely. Weed is legal in California as the article points out. So now they are penalizing riders for doing something legal? What did they take a page from Amazon's playbook who kicks people off for returning shitty products? Let them close accounts. If people really need to use their shit service, they'll create new ones. It works everywhere else.
> Sometimes I wonder if engineers and doctors are the only profession that constantly hold conferences and write blog posts about how to become better at their jobs.

Journalists are literally doing this all the time. What makes you think that engineers and doctors are the only people who have conferences? Also, if we're talking about industry, most tech conferences are hardly very self-critical (this is changing at some conferences) most are about selling products to developers / other people in the tech industry or self-promotion and recruiting.
It seems like HN ranks a lot by recency. I have seen articles with 40 or so points high on the front page and of course highly rated articles need to leave it at some point.
Joint damage and pain from running is real, and if it's a concern you have, you might want to look into speaking with a professional in that space.

There are exercises, stretches and techniques you can learn, as well as products you can buy that you aren't going to find at a Foot Locker.
I'd love to help, but honestly, the only resource I used was the company's 'employee handbook'! All I did was ask HR and my Norwegian manager if it was OK, and they said 'no problem!'.

There are 3 factors I think made it so easy for me:

1. I'd been with the company a long time, had a senior architect role, and at the time there had been something of an employee exodus - I think they were a bit afraid of losing me at an important time in various customer projects, and wanted to keep me happy!

2. The company was Norwegian, and the Norwegians are famously liberal on employee welfare

3. In the UK, employers legally must seriously consider requests for part-time working
You don't use your race as an occasion to test your running shoes.
MacBook Pro (Mid 2018) Throttling may be due to GPU
It's easy to maintain accountability: any damage done can be trivially traced back to the party that did it. Anyone that opens up a disgusting mess will just report it, and that will be tied to the previous user.

This is already how car-share programs work. Each time you use a Zipcar, you look around for any damage and claim it. If you forget, you might be held responsible.

If it's really a problem, then people might not mind placing a sizable deposit to use a service where that's discouraged even more. Or accept that they'll be recorded for the duration of the trip, etc.

I agree it's an issue, but it seems like one that can be effectively mitigated.
Just a nitpick here: when you open your car up to the public, you open it legally and socially to a status beyond just your "personal property." It's not their living room, but it's not yours either, in the sense that you take on a litany of obligations the second you open to the public.
Maybe I'm out of the loop but I feel like the utility would be greatly increased with a sentence or two. I have no idea what the values in the table mean, let alone why I'd want or need a second passport. (Also, what "HDI" is)
There's no correlation between popularity and speed growth. Perl6 should never have been released in its current state.
> imagine what could go right

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My tests do not show this, but show that putting the CPU under load alone is enough to get rather disheartening results: https://imgur.com/a/ehtleu4
People were suggesting the home remedy of adding redshell sites that the software reports to to your hosts list.
Good point, I was forgetting that not everyone may have the luxury that I had of dropping 20% of my salary without any real problem.
Something these macbooks produce a distinct lack of..?
No link to the website. No explanation of what it is. Close tab.
Disney Fired James Gunn as “Guardians Vol. 3” Director Over His Old Tweets
Updated (from https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/n...). Thanks!
This seems like it would be very interesting but a series of Tweets seems to be just about the worst possible medium for this.
This oft-repeated claim is factually inaccurate. Runners and former runners, as a population, have better knees than non-runners.[0]

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27333572
>I doubt Chinese or Korean CEOs spend as much time on 'identity politics' flavored 'diversity hiring' as a CEO would in SF

There are many responses to that statement, but one of the most notable ones is that there are significantly more non American users of American software products than non Chinese/Korean users of Chinese/Korean software products.

Building a diverse team that will be able to reason about how your product will be used in a variety of cultural contexts, by people from a wide array of different backgrounds, is therefore much more important in the former situation than the latter.
Niantic explains how and why it bans players in Pokémon GO
Or maybe where Jobs would have been obsessing over every detail Cook is content to have delivered an animated poop emoji and never used any other feature anyway
Global solutions of AI safety [pdf]
It’s hard to interview in this field even with a CS degree, unfortunately. The problem is there are too many people interviewing, with and without CS degrees.
With these you do. Maybe do a 3 mile tune-up run to make sure there are not hot spots and it fits well, then you go race in it. Can't spend 50 miles breaking in a shoe with a life of 100 miles.
Awesome! Thank you for taking the time to respond.

I will try to refrain from criticizing the project until I am more familiar. The next time I interact with this project will be on github, my username there is the same as it is here.
I'm running Reeder on the Mojave beta and ... nothing changed.
You have made an awful lot of salty comments on this sub-thread and they beg the question: did you buy NMS on release and are miffed about your purchase? Or did you not buy the game and are simply outraged on behalf of others?
The article in question above is from the geekbench team compiling their geekbench suite over and over to force the overheating issue.

The blog post is not about benchmarking with geekbench at all.

John Poole found that using only CPU bounds tasks (compiling) wasn't that bad for the thermals.
Screw you, I can't watch it now.
I don’t like dogs. It would be really uncomfortable to have them at work. I’d probably leave.
Grafana and ServiceNow(table API) integration
> This means everything on here should always be up to date.

Oh no. I will view any article on that website as possibly from 1990.
What if I'm in a life or death running situation where seconds matter?
The sibling comment to yours is correct in its logic in inferring what I meant.

It is true that we are ignorant of many things. It is not true that our ignorance is infinitely unbounded, and it is a denial of science and rationality, not an affirmation of it, to believe such. We have gathered enough data that we already know that our solar system is not perfectly pedestrian, and no amount of additional data short of the outright falsification of our current data (which, bear in mind, is a bigger ask than a falsification of a theory, which isn't much of an ask at all) can make it more pedestrian; it can only reveal more ways in which it is not normal.
I hope whoever wrote this will not intervene in DDG's public relations again.
This is an interesting article, but riving is not specifically Viking. It was the primary method of producing workable wood blanks from tree trunks in every civilization that used wood blanks. Which is to say, it was used all over Europe and Asia (at least), for at least the last 2000-plus years. I'm not as familiar with the woodworking traditions of Africa or pre-European-contact North or South America, so I don't know whether they used wood blanks.

It's also used today by "green woodworkers" - woodworkers who specialize in building using non-dried wood. This mostly includes chair makers, but also some others. You can buy riving tools from a lot of places. Lie-Nielsen makes a very nice riving froe. You can also find antique ones at almost any antique woodworking tool show.
In the common case for Apple users (listening to iTunes), the AirPods will have the same quality as wired headphones, since they play back with the same codec/bitrate either way (256kbps AAC).

Now if they're wired headphones with gold-plated connectors, that's a whole different ballgame.
We know better nowadays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia:

”Merchants in apothecaries dispensed expensive mummia bitumen, which was thought to be an effective cure-all for many ailments. Beginning around the 12th century when supplies of imported natural bitumen ran short, mummia was misinterpreted as "mummy", and the word's meaning expanded to "a black resinous exudate scraped out from embalmed Egyptian mummies". This began a period of lucrative trade between Egypt and Europe, and suppliers substituted rare mummia exudate with entire mummies, either embalmed or desiccated. After Egypt banned the shipment of mummia in the 16th century, unscrupulous European apothecaries began to sell fraudulent mummia prepared by embalming and desiccating fresh corpses. During the Renaissance, scholars proved that translating bituminous mummia as mummy was a mistake, and physicians stopped prescribing the ineffective drug.”
FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
Perl 5 is only a bit faster than Python 3 so not worth learning another language as they're both dynamic scripting languages. Go is compiled so you could get a bigger speed bump.
It would be nice to have Apple aboard in this project. As an iPhone user I am thinking to use iCloud BUT if I migrate to an Android phone I will have to migrate all my data manually to google drive or onedrive.
Sure. I think Nike is probably aware of this and took it into account when designing this shoe. If you have a better design (your earlier comment suggests "just add[ing] springs to the entire shoe"), there's probably a financial motive for you to figure out how to sell that. (I think you are probably understating the difficulty of designing a better shoe, for any definition of "better.")
It looks like it prevents you from posting to twitter while injecting a fake tweet into the DOM of the client's browser. After 10 seconds it actually posts the tweet unless the client is revising the content of the tweet.
Articles like this make me want to get a NYTimes sub, excellent reporting on something mundane with enough statistics to make it worth the read.

If we ban shoes now, will we ban other augments in the future? Will this stunt the progression of such human performance augmentations?
That all said, I can't imagine that most folks are surprised by the general shape of most defun statements. The complexities that go into how it is implemented is crazy, but it is not at all like the first time you see a LOOP invocation, is it?
A basic, subsistence income solves the problem of losing a high-paying job that allows for a comfortable lifestyle?
The Jaz Drive contagion effect.

Bad disks create bad drives.

Bad drives create bad disks.

Wah, rinse, repeat, pandemic!
This would have been infinitely better if it was genuine, and not a character. Disappointed.
Being fucked up is one of the main reasons Uber exists and people take it. Otherwise people can just drive their own cars. Smoking even a big blunt before getting into the car will not leave that smell in the car nor will it cause suspicion if someone is pulled over. That's bullshit.
I wish the photos were bigger - as someone who has no idea about woodworking, it's hard to tell what's actually going on in some of them.
how many of those have never seen real use/adoption above hobbyists/diehards, though? irc and sms is about it from that list. it was a drag getting people to drop skype for telegram, despite telegram being (in my opinion) more user friendly. getting them to go to something like gnusocial would be damn near impossible.

decentralized youtube might be easier to get rolling, on the other hand. all it takes is sharing your videos through it instead of youtube. think about how most people found youtube -- someone linked them a video, statistically likely to be evolution of dance. no reason that can't be done with peertube.
Show HN: A Git extension for Excel workbooks
In other news today, some Uber drivers pee into bottles while driving: https://www.sfgate.com/cars/article/Uber-driver-pees-in-bott...
> And video podcast technology exists but is deeply underused

It's almost invisible, but the Apple Podcast app still seamlessly supports video podcasts, but it gets harder to find with every update.

With the popularity of that app, I wonder why Apple doesn't push it more to create a Youtube alternative. I know part of the answer -- you have to do your own encoding and hosting (I think, info is hard to find), but you'd think Apple could step in and offer those services.

About the only video podcasts I've seen that are recent are a couple churches and some weird local real estate services.
Visualizing the Cost of Rent in 140+ North American Cities
Depends on “how” the shoe makes you run faster if it’s by improving the grip and gate then yes it can make you fitter or at least reduce the chance of injury.

People that run in shoes not fit for running or in wore down shoes put their health at risk as well as making it a hell of a lot harder for themselves.

Also there is a psychological factor if you feel that you are improving you might be more likely to keep running instead of giving up.
For you, that is a personal decision about the nature of "special".

But I feel confident in saying, having watched the debate about the Great Questions for a couple of decades and seen at least the last ~150 years of it, and seen how firmly the default science position has entrenched itself on the hill that the Earth is completely not special [1], it's enough to falsify that position. And that's a big deal on its own.

Is it possible the Earth is just a 1-in-10000 special case? Sure. But even that is enough to open the door to the question why that is, instead of the question just getting shouted down.

[1]: For a modern day manifestation of this idea, consider how casually it is accepted in the "default scientific worldview" that it is very likely that we will find life in the Solar System, and virtually certain we will find it in the rest of the Universe. I'd submit that a rational look at the data gives you no reason to expect life in the rest of the Solar System at this point, with a lot of reasons to expect it won't happen, and I'll be generous and say that we simply have no data about other solar systems. (A less generous jerf would point out that to the extent we have data, it certainly seems negative for large-scale civilizations, which means all the data we have is negative, but I will concede that's somewhat weak for various reasons.) This confidence does not stem from evidence, or even any particularly well-backed scientific theories. It comes from the history of the debate over the Great Questions, and the general trend/desire to ensure that nothing is special about Earth, because the default science worldview would very much like to stuff the commonness of life and the non-specialness of humanity in the religious people's faces.

You'll note I keep carefully referring to the "default science worldview", rather than simply saying "science", because I do not believe the two are the same. The default science worldview takes a number of steps that science qua science can not actually justify. Coming from me, this is merely an observation, not a criticism, since I believe any worldview has no choice but to step beyond science qua science, because "real science" underspecifies the universe by quite a bit.
Matrix-appservice-discord: A bridge between Matrix and Discord
Ok, here's the math.

Solution 1: send information with a highly collimated laser. Assume 1 arc second divergence of the light beam and a distance to the nearest star of 1 parsec (the actual distance is 1.3). The diameter of the circle of light at the target is 1 AU. Assume there is a listening antenna at the target of the same size as the largest radio telescope today, which is 500m [1]. The ratio of the area of the telescope and the area of the light disc coming from the source laser is (500m/1AU)^2 = 10^(-17). You want to send about 1Tb/s of information. 1 bit/s requires about 4zW of power [2], so you need the antenna to receive about 10^12410^(-21) = 4e-9 W. You need to send about 10^17 more at the source, that means about 4e8W, or roughly 400MW. Let's make that 1GW, to account for various other inefficiencies. That's actually not so bad.

Solution 2. Send a package in a solar sail powered vehicle. I don't know how to do the math, but fortunately wikipedia has some examples [3]. A randevouz with Alpha Centauri for a vehicle with a final mass of 71 tons can be done in 41 years, and requires a power of 7200 GW here and 26000 GW in Alpha Centauri (for the braking stage). Let's say out of the 71 tons vehicle at the end of the trip, only 1 ton is useful cargo, and you fill that with SSD drives. Currently the largest SSD drive is about 100 TB, and it weights about 100 grams. That's 1TB/g, or 10^6 TB/ton. That's about 100 days worth of transmission at 1 Tb/s. So it wouldn't seem remotely comparable with Solution 1. However, by the time we reach the stars, I can easily see the information density going up by a factor of 10^20 or so.

So that's that. If you want to send information at limited bandwidth, you can send it using a big laser. If you can afford some latency (40 years instead of 4y), then you can send it by putting a lot of hard drives in a package.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_hundred_meter_Aperture_Sp...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail#Swing-by_maneuvers