skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a hotly contested subject in anthropology, so it will be pretty easy to find dueling sources about the precise rate of violent death in various pre-agriculture societies.

And you know what? It doesn't matter. The exact percentage of the population that got murdered is only one portion of the basic thesis that the present is the best time for the average human being to be alive ever. While the typical ancient adult may or may not have been murdered, the average ancient human would be dead before their 15th birthday due to disease (most common), malnutrition, or predation.

The worst countries today for infant mortality are in central Africa, with countries like Chad, Nigeria, and Somalia averaging a heart breaking ~11% mortality rate for those under the age of five. While I wouldn't run around shouting "this is fine and we should do nothing about it" compared to the entirety of human existence this is an astounding stat. There are royal families a few centuries ago that did worse than 11%.

No, these benefits are not evenly distributed. All in, you'd much rather be born in the US or the EU than in say, Chad. And quality of life does not improve linearly; you would much rather be a hunter gatherer than someone in an ancient Greek polis, where you were both more likely to be enslaved and where you'd probably live an even shorter and more disease ridden life. But if you had to pick any point in time to be a random, average person, now is the best time in all of human history to pick.
Makes sense. If the riots are organised and the DA's are arresting without prosecuting, the Feds could trail the released rioters to find the organisers.
Electricity has a big leg up here, we already have a great distribution system for this (with lots of capacity at off peak times) - battery technology (ie storage) has been the missing link here and it's rapidly being solved
You referring to hanzi as kanji is more or less the same as someone referring to a chinese person as a japanese person.
This is not atypical for YouTube. I had a full on paid gsuite account and when they lost my channel there was “nothing we can do”. I had the video backed up, but lost all the links, views, and subscribers.
News sites just add random stock pictures. If a story is about airplanes, someone adds a random photo of a plane. Not a plane that has anything to do with the story. Not necessarily the correct type of plane. Or even a plane from the same manufacturer. But they want to show readers a plane.

Stories about construction projects will feature stock photos of people in hardhats, taken years ago and half a world away.

I guess people like pictures and it's expensive to go take relevant ones. My mind still boggles. Can you imagine newspapers doing this 30 years ago?
Any combination of price, availability, and number/variety of regions would make me at least consider another option as a replacement (or even as a supplement) to my current setup.
There is a provision in there for medium and heavy duty vehicles to require it 10 yrs later but heavy duty day cab trucks meet the same req as cars.
Setting up a CDN on any cloud provider takes less than a minute and if you have any issues with it, then your IQ is probably way below 80.
Mars' atmosphere is also 95% CO2. It's the pressure that makes the temperature so high in Venus, not CO2 concentration.
I skipped the drugs for my colonoscopy and I highly recommend considering that option.† It was a lot less discomfort than I expected--I get more discomfort from my abs routine at the gym, and I don't work out very hard. It was also extremely interesting to be able to watch the procedure on the screen. How often do you get to see your own appendix? And it was nice to have zero recovery time and be able to drive home.

†I recognize that everyone is different and this option may not work for everyone. I also think that I got a talented doctor. So your pain mileage may vary.
The earlier versions of this technology that I can recall used an oral interface. So this is definitely a big step up from that.
Isn't there significant latency when screen casting a phone?
This would be fine for basic malware but the most exciting stuff (what is most likely to be of interest to an analyst) is more likely to contain VM-escape exploits and strategies.
NYTimes Serial Podcast: “Nice White Parents”
> I mean, what other answer is there than what’s implied by that very question: it’s because “legislators haven’t made a law”.

Imagine if someone ask you "Why is this Apple red?", and then you responded by saying "Well obviously, it is red, because it is red!"

Would this response be considered by anyone to be anything other than a pretty extreme bad faith response?

I think it is pretty obvious what the other person was asking. And yet, you responded... in the way that you did.
> It seems we are getting to the point where wind power and particularly solar power are now cost effective.

Hydrogen is made from fossil fuels, so I don't understand this point.

Yes you can make hydrogen from electricity, but why. There are better uses for excess electricity.

> Ask HN: Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power in the next 10 years?

Nothing will happen in 10 years. But it might be clear it'll be the way forward in 10 years.

Batteries are not a solution to hydrogen generally.

The answer to hydrogen I think will be the same as now, fossil fuels. But we will work on cleaning the PM 2.5 coming out. That will be big in 10 years.
Thanks! I've learned a ton from iq's writing. He's such an inspiration!

I find that his articles are best for folks who already know a thing or two about computer graphics. Here's a post that I think is pretty good for beginners: http://jamie-wong.com/2016/07/15/ray-marching-signed-distanc...
California moves to end sales of new gas-powered cars
100% no one commenting at the time of this comment has tried the tool. It's pretty much Google Trends for Twitter+Reddit+4chan+8kun, which makes it very useful to just see when an idea became popular, etc. Tools like this democratize access to large scale queries. That's an unalloyed good. More people can know when something started being a thing.

I'm glad this exists, and I hope it is spun off so it survives Mozilla's search to preserve revenue¹.

¹ If The Googlords won't just keep them alive the way MSFT kept AAPL alive.
> They weren't all treated horrifically. Slavery is wrong in principle, but that doesn't mean it was all horrific in practice. It wasn't all as depicted in 12 Years a Slave.

What does this have to do with anything? Sure, there were slaves that were treated kindly, but even if you proved that that was a majority of slaves, it really does not subtract from my point in any way, like, at all. The fact that remains that some slaves that were treated horribly still stayed in the south.

> Colonialism wasn't slavery, plain and simple.

Ok then. I guess we'll need to agree to disagree on this point. It seems like even if it's not "slavery" in your narrow definition, there's a pretty big bit of overlap between British colonization and slavery.

> As it happens the British colonies tended to maintain local customs and laws instead of steam rolling everything as some other colonial powers did.

In some places, yes, but in other places they would go around murdering a large percentage of the native populations and forcing them into labor.

> If you go and visit any of the colonies you'll find that they gained a lot from British rule and many of them are quite grateful for it.

Except for the ones that aren't, like, you know, the United States, or India. Did the US "gain a lot from British rule"? I mean, maybe, that's basically impossible to quantify, but I seriously don't know a single person in the US that is "grateful" for British rule...US schools basically teach that England was pretty evil and that's why we had to separate. While that's almost certainly propaganda and a gross oversimplification of history, the fact remains that the people of the US aren't "grateful" for the British rule, whatever that means.
His law degree from George Washington University, being a member of the bar, and his having worked for the Washington, D.C., law firm Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge probably refutes your assertion. [1]

1. https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-P-Barr
we're agreeing on a lot of the substance (it's a problem that should be addressed right away, along with other super-emitters), but the title is absolutely clickbait. i did skim the latimes article (and as an LA resident, it's of particular interest)--not even one attempt at grounding the actual risks, but absolutely filled with emotional language. without a sense of the collective risk involved, it's certainly meant to automatically push the alarm buttons of the less well-informed. methane, oh my god, what's next, cancer?!

it's the same tried-and-true sensationalist tactic of making the issue de jure outsized relative to the danger. it's worked with aids, 9/11, covid, etc. fear sells.

again, 8% reduction at the limit is nothing to sneeze at, but it's not by itself going to change our lives materially (except for those nearby, reason enough to adjure action). that's why the sensationalism was added, to make the story seem more relevant than it is. but we as citizens should not, and do not, need that kind of manipulation to do the right thing. it's cynical and infantalizing.
> Also large fonts need to die

It's possible that you're browsing on some configuration that makes Wikiwand display "large fonts" (mobile device? even then I haven't been able to reproduce), but Wikiwand isn't using large fonts. In fact, articles' font-size is set to 100% of the UA's preferred font-size, and then they use use a third-party font ("Lora") which actually makes text smaller than your typical serif font rendered at the same size.

> I love HN because I can see so much in one shot, can always increase fonts with Ctrl +

By the same token, you can always use Ctrl+- then for sites that use a "large font"[1], right?

Note that HN is actually screwing things up and using a "small" font. From news.css: "font-size: 9pt"(!). IMO, pulling shenanigans like that is actually pretty disrespectful to visitors. It's why I have to permanently browse HN at 133% zoom + force the rules for mobile devices to kick in. It's only at that point where text is displayed at my UA's correct size.

1. (Wikiwand excluded, for the reasons above)
That's Coase's Theorem in action: any inconvenience can be compensated, so it's fine to mandate the globally economically optimal decision and use transfer payments to make them locally fair.
Even 8chan had some level of editorial judgement, however small it was. It was there.
How the Artemis moon mission could help get us to Mars
I'm not here to educate you.
Can you cite any specific parts that are handshaking via certificates that need renewal? In many cases device authentication is turning towards certificates that don't expire, and I'm unaware of any certificate renewal cases inside a Tesla. If they are there, I'd love to know about them.
If the vast majority of the public use the term conservative to mean Republican, that's pretty much what the words mean. That's how language works. Conservatives of today have the same hallmarks as the original conservatives. It's little to nothing to do with sound fiscal policy or responsible spending or size of government and everything to do with maintaining social hierarchies. From that perspective, Trump supporters are definitely conservative.
Perhaps so. Thanks for guiding me through this!
Looks like there's an exception for certain use-cases, and extreme range requirements would probably fall into that. Fuel cells might be an option for that requirement.
What percentage of CO2 emissions are from cars?
They're reportedly targeting $35k minus the tax credit. Don't have the link but I read this in a publication this AM.
And if you don't have a garage?
PyCM 2.9 released: Machine learning library for confusion matrix analysis
“ Following the order, the California Air Resources Board will develop regulations to mandate that 100 percent of in-state sales of new passenger cars and trucks are zero-emission by 2035 – a target which would achieve more than a 35 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and an 80 percent improvement in oxides of nitrogen emissions from cars statewide. In addition, the Air Resources Board will develop regulations to mandate that all operations of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles shall be 100 percent zero emission by 2045 where feasible, with the mandate going into effect by 2035 for drayage trucks.”

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/23/governor-newsom-announces-...
How is it less weight? I'm assume this is counting the weight of the pressure vessel, and aluminum hydride reduces the pressure needed to contain the hydrogen?
My guess is this is probably caused by the anesthetic. Maybe it somehow got its way to his brain and damaged his hippocampus. That they didn't find any brain damage, doesn't mean he didn't get any brain damage.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2AA7CBF/an-anatomical-cross-sectio...
The latest Android Firefox update also disabled several of the addons I was using, as apparently they are now incompatible until the addon developers do some extra work to fix whatever backward incompatibility Mozilla introduced with the latest version.
Early Sales for Developer Facing SaaS
You raise good points and I suppose valid differences in focus will alter one's notion of nearness. Here's why I made the claim I did:

> Rust that came from ML and that aren’t features of Haskell

> As I understand the history of algebraic data types and pattern matching, they first appeared in Hope, and from there they were added to ML, and later adopted by Hope’s successors

They appeared first in a practical form in Hope but I'm taken to understand that these ideas could already be found in Programs and their Proofs: An Algebraic Approach and the core ideas are clearly present in this 1968 paper by Burstall: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2010/course/DAT140_Types...

Creators of HOPE, VAX ML (which also had limited patterns and case analysis) and LCF/ML all influenced each other and played prominent roles in the design Standard ML, which would in turn strongly influence future functional languages, including Haskell and Ocaml. It's tricky to untangle the history but I don't think it's controversial to say SML popularized functional programming as prototypically understood today (before Haskell evangelized it further).

> Rust’s two most prominent type system features are lifetimes and traits

Other than the initial prototype being written in Ocaml, I'd say Rust's pragmatic feel: eager evaluation, immutability by default but a hatch to mutability and the implementation of the features listed in the posted article all make it feel more like an ML. I agree, though, that this is a subjective take.
> You are creating a false option - such that it is only this or that.

Exactly what I wonder, the pollution problem should not be turned into an electric car sales booster, it is a wider problem that needs to be tackled from different directions and I don't hear anybody making a wider analysis or plan.
If you have a decent gaming PC Microsoft will still take care of you.
This doesn't bother me in the least. A CEO's boss is the board of directors, period. Every board meeting is a review on the performance of the organization, and therefore the CEO. Most employees do not roll up to a committee, and their review is usually with a supervisor. The board meeting is no different.
Amnesia needs to come out with a mobile version so I can go camp out in the woods alone.
Hmmm I wonder why the title only mentions gasoline then?
Straight forward answer is energy density needed for shipping and flight. Even if we get super-duper mega battery with 100%+ more kWh/kg in 5-10 years it will take time to scale it up while hydrogen delivered through synt. fuels is here.
It seems that the Danish are betting on it:
https://www.energyglobal.com/special-reports/28082020/haldor...
Seems like this opens up a long-term opportunity for someone to build some car dealerships on the CA/NV and CA/OR borders, since it doesn't outlaw bringing existing cars into the state.
They introduced recently an interesting feature: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/07/shared-indexes-plugi... that might help with indexing of some shared libraries. I have not experience with this feature, but it looks promising.

Frequent re-indexing sucks and and times it slows you down. But I see it as a direct price to pay for intelligent autocomplete, search, refactoring, etc.

It also eats a lot of memory :(
Different surveying companies have different results for their surveys, especially as they measure different things.

JD Power, for example, reports that Tesla owners report the highest number of problems and complaints with their vehicles, which is supported by Consumer Reports' owner satisfaction surveys (but CR finds that Tesla owners "forgive" Tesla for these issues and have high satisfaction ratings despite the numerous problems with their vehicles).

CA investigations have found that Tesla has the highest number of cars of any brand that would be subject to lemon laws (meaning defects serious enough to require the dealership to take the car back).
Yes, if you know how flight paths work, then you'll realize that.

For most people it is another thing that they won't think about.
Adobe unveils ambitious multi-year vision for PDF
It's literally announced 15 years in advance. Plenty of time for the public to elect politicians who will roll it back (indeed, the cynic in me assumes that is the whole reason it was able to be announced).
This is just wrong. All the instructions tell you to keep your keycard on you at all times. And the keycard is literally the size of a debit card. Just put it in your wallet with your ID and you never have to worry about a network outage.

I keep my keycard with me at all times and it's come in handy when my phone died or the app was just being stubborn.
I don't think the problem is ability to develop software. The problem is user experience.

Granted, Windows 10 is awful and should be a non-starter for anyone due to its privacy issues, but for those that don't care about that it's still easier to use than Linux.
Sounds like a commenter who knows what’s up.

Is storage a problem because of hydrogen loss due to diffusion, container embrittlement, or just the sheer nastiness of compressing and chilling something that can done blow up on you?
> At desktop size, you get 3 columns. At tablet size, 2. On the phones, its single column. There might be better solutions to this but I can't think of any.

This is makes it hard to handle flowing content. Do you add artificial pages to break up the content or does scrolling cascade up each of the columns?

Then there's the issue of typesetting being an NP hard problem. Even Word needs a lot of hand-holding when using multi-column layouts because it often produces poor results.

I don't necessarily mind the excessive whitespace when I'm reading, because I prefer to not have to move my head and eyes too while reading. But having a lot of content on the page at once, like you're proposing, is really beneficial in technical situations, where I need to move between different pieces of information, like taking notes.
It blows my mind that anyone who purports to care about the first amendment would argue that we shouldn’t “allow these people to draft language or make any statements on the record of what they think the law ought to be.”
Personally, I think I enjoy greater habitability than my ancestors of 150 or 1500 years ago did.
Do you remember to put gas in your internal combustion car today? It will become something you just remember to do. Companies will start offering drive-out quick-charge services, and it'd probably be an option from AAA.
H.R. Giger is up in heaven fist pumping
The Rise of the Rational Do-Gooders
This seems very similar to neurallink. What are the differences? Would it be placed in a different part of the brain?
Thanks for sharing this. Will give it a try with my team next week. Could be exactly what we’ve been looking for the past weeks to handle auth with cloud infrastructure providers on our automation platform.
Ongoing discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24571019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24570690 (on front page)
Really?

When I go to a "car" dealer it seems the cars are all sold out but they have a long line of SUVs on deep discounts.

My dad would go to American car dealerships in the 1970s and they would refuse to sell him a small car. Every time I've been in an American car dealership since it has been the same story except for a small window after 2008 when you might find a small car.

Last time I went to a Honda dealership the Fits were all sold out because the factory washed out but they had plenty of CR-Vs made in the same factory.
Without paywall: https://archive.is/qriGq
Sure, but if you need it, stack the odds in your favor by having an expert involved.
I actually have the same setup and it's working perfectly fine, even with my IPv4+6 specific address only config + lots of file-based configuration. I absolutely recommend using the TLS challenge with Let's Encrypt.

No problems with Docker (Compose) networks either, but I'm not using it with GitLab because I have enough IPs.

The biggest problem I see is the accumulation of certificates that will all be kept up-to-date, whether in use or not.
Sorry to hear that. Is that a mobile processor? Perhaps you're throttling. I boost RAM on my IntelliJ quite high (I give it like 8 gigs plus a gig each for each of the tools - Maven, Gradle, etc.). Your setup looks better than mine except for the fact that its mobile.
And it's a thin card with no embossing. There's really no excuse. And convenient if you drop your phone in a river, like I did a few weeks ago while out kayaking. Upon returning to my Tesla, I unlocked it with my key card because of course I carry it with me.
Did you see what Tesla announced at their battery conference yesterday?
One thing I don't understand is how Firefox doesn't have a VR browser in Windows, but it has one on Oculus.
If increasing the number of places in the lattice where fusion can occur is the problem it would really just be a matter of experimentation with different techniques for allowing the lattice to be further saturated. The article seems to indicate that these results give them a clear way forward.

I took the parent comment to mean that the lattice would only be essentially one time use which to me doesn't seem a problem as long as you can get sufficient energy out of it to make up for 1) using an x-ray beam to ignite the reaction and 2) the energy input necessary to create the usable lattice.
It is the genius of GM that they sold Toyotas and also that they did a joint venture to take their carmaking to the Japanese level.
Problem is that without debates this is likely to just get reverted and make people lose even more trust in their politicians.
They must have seriously screwed up marketing. I loved Halo, Portal, Titanfall. I liked those games on Facebook. I read the usual game magazine websites. I watch SciFi let's plays on YouTube. This game looks like I'll very much enjoy it, yet I had literally never heard of it until you mentioned it.

How come with all this data collection and targeted advertisement, I never saw an ad for this? Google and Facebook should know that I'm interested in a Halo-like new game.
If anyone finds this stuff interesting I can’t recommend Issac Arthur’s channel on Youtube enough. Regular out-there content on Megastructures, terraforming and the fermi paradox always grounded in real physics.
First Fedora now Ubuntu I wonder which distro will be next.
If you allow people to build on a floodplain they will. Now they are a humanitarian risk.