skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if at least 90 percent of the world’s new urban population is housed in buildings made from wood

I put this in the category of my favorite joke with regards to physics in the classroom vs. real-world physics. It goes something like this:

"Assume a cow is a uniform sphere of milk, one meter in diameter"

Anyone who has studied physics to a reasonable depth understands the great disparity between the "assume..." constraints of classroom teaching (which are necessary to be able to learn) and what happens with real-world problems.

This is at that level. At least NINETY PERCENT? C'mon. I thought Disney was where fantasies are made for entertainment, not in scientific research.

We've just experienced several very large fires in California. Just one of these probably emits more CO2 than all internal combustion vehicles in the state in a day. I remember reading vegetation fires in California, in one year, emit the equivalent of 25% of the CO2 emitted by the entire transportation sector in the state during the same year. In other words, if internal combustion engine cars went away tomorrow, we would still produce so much CO2 from fires it would almost be pointless.

Now add to this the additional fires we would have to contend with if we plant millions/billions of trees. The fires would be larger and likely more frequent. They would probably destroy more property and wild life. And now, add to this entire cities built out of timber, rather than concrete. In other words, in a sense, storing the CO2 containing wood in a structure full of electrical wiring, gas lines, and other fire hazards.

Yes, that would be intelligent. Instead of creating less fire danger, increase it. Exponentially.

Like a I said, assume a cow is a uniform sphere of milk one meter in diameter and everything is possible.

EDIT:

The irony, of course, is that massive reforestation around the world is likely the only realistic way to capture CO2 at scale.
You have to pay many orders of magnitude more than simply using a database. In what way is it cheap? And, to what end? What [legal] problems can you solve with crypto that you cannot with a database?
Similar to the TSA, I've found a lot of these platforms and nanny-software (Life360 et al) to be little more than security theater. If the person is determined enough, they will always find ways around it -- and good on them for doing so, this software is not a net-benefit on society no matter how "noble" they try to appear.

Not the most related example, but I was just watching a video about undetectable online cheating in video games with a camera that monitors the screen and a robot that will physically move the mouse to accomodate.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/696507/this-real-aimbot-uses...
I see, so money is locked up but they'll deploy another smart contract that you have some stake in but you still have to find a buyer otherwise you are out of luck and your money is actually locked up
No, "diet and exercise" is not the only recommendation. I don't even know what point you're trying to make there - if that were the only recommendation, health care costs would be fairly low.

And it's not just mental health issues (~25% of all chronic health issues), it's also respiratory issues (~10%).

Then add to that the fact that many metabolic diseases have long lists of causes that amount to "not really sure". Atherosclerosis? Can be caused by physical activity. Hypertension? Being older than 65 is a cause.

What the Rand paper does say is "90% of all health care cost is incurred by people with at least one chronic condition". Not metabolic diseases. What it also doesn't say is that the entire 90% are attributable to chronic diseases. (It's sort of akin to claiming that 10% of all healthcare costs are incurred by people named John, Robert, or James. True, but certainly not causal)

Again, I'm not saying that chronic diseases aren't contributing a huge cost burden. I am saying that they're far from the only cause of the cost burden, and that blaming it on metabolic diseases is highly misleading even if you just focus on chronic diseases.
I work for a remote only company. I’ve never met most of the people I speak to daily. Do I feel strong bonds with them? I don’t. Do we work well together? Absolutely!

And I think that contrary what I’d expect, not bonding strongly with coworkers makes for a better workplace.

Instead of a hierarchy of friendships and relationships, you focus on communicating information to each other.

Since there is no body language to read in wfh, contentious discussions don’t feed off our instinctive reactions to say an eye roll or a quick glance at the laptop screen while you are talking to someone.

If a conversation has reached its natural end, you have to explicitly say it in wfh.

Discussions have much longer shelf life in wfh since everything worth remembering is put into a confluence/Google doc. For example, I’ll get forwarded docs or KT videos from early 2021 explaining the state of a certain product.

Is detecting slackers and “weak links” easier in wfh? Since everything worth doing quickly needs a doc to act as central repo for the project, a quick glance at the document can tell a manager whatever they need to know about whether someone is doing their job or not.

In all, remote only work has less drama and social jostling. E.g., if you’ve never seen a coworker casually chat with the ceo about their shared interest in (say) sudoku, you’re unlikely to feel “less close” to the ceo and make that a factor in how you work.

What about team culture? Intangibles like water cooler chat?

Tbh, I wouldn’t recognize team culture if it smacked me in the face. Your team culture is literally the water you swim in. Only someone outside the can tell you that you have a team culture.

As social animals, we anyway gravitate towards forming bonds with people over some obscure commonality and it’s no different in wfh.

Water cooler chats don’t happen as much. Still, sidebar conversations find their way to the shared doc because without documenting the conversation, no one else is going to know what was decided in the sidebar conversation.

All this said, wfh does leaves a void in my life which used to be filled with friendships with coworkers. The only way to fill that void is by proactively building relationships with neighbors or parasocially.

Do I love it? Wfh makes ideas like love obsolete, imho - with wfh, I’m far more outcomes focused so my relationships with coworkers or work assigned to me doesn’t seem very relevant.

I do appreciate the zero commute but since I wfh, I end up doing more around the house.

All in all, wfh isn’t at all like the traditional norm of work - your work is fully integrated with your day. There’s no obvious clock-in and clock-out.

Busy work is low. Dead times when you’re waiting for people to talk to you are frequent.

I like all this but I’m still
not able to decide whether I prefer wfh over in-person.

Wfh checks all the boxes for the ideal job environment - low drama, less office politics, outcome based performance reviews - but you’re also alone for huge parts of the day.
Singapore does not control prices (though it’s moving in that direction), it’s public hospitals are privately run, and it has a system of “forced savings” to make sure patients have enough money to cover out of pocket costs and buy health insurance. It’s ethos is “the patient has to pay something out of pocket, even if it’s just $2”. It’s also more than happy to tell poor patients “if you don’t have enough money, there is nothing we can do”.

It is more similar to the US system than a system like the UK or Canada.
In an amazing thread about an amazing article, as a Jeep owner, I did not know about this. It's like the bumper stickers print themselves. However I suspect that given their fuel consumption, owning a Jeep itself may be proof someone does not understand this problem.
That’s a good reason not to build them, and keep building heights lower so that neighborhoods, towns, and cities have a good level of density.
"Stanford scientists invents thing that generates press releases".
the article did not mention the Santa Clara Principles:

https://santaclaraprinciples.org/

> The Santa Clara Principles outline standards related to transparency, due process, cultural competence, and respect for human rights that internet platforms should meet in order to provide meaningful, public-facing transparency around their moderation of all user-generated content, paid or unpaid.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-partners-launch-new-e...
Cheating software is silly. Seems simpler to force someone to a secure location with a trusted proctor. This can and should be shared amongst all users of this and costs amortized appropriately.
I know this is silly but I can't wait for games to have automatically generated "levels" that look like this. I guess 3d training and output is probably minimally researched at this point, and there is NERF research... at some point all of this research will truly show off its potential beyond pretty pictures.
Thank you for bringing this up. The medical community's intense obsession with people's size and shape over their health causes a lot of misleading conclusions and misguided efforts.

If you walk into the doctor's office underweight and concerned about an issue you're having, the doctor doesn't put you on a strict fettuccine Alfredo and hamburger diet before treating you.

If you're overweight and concerned about an issue, you're far more likely to be told to lose weight and ignored.
Very nicely put.
sounds like all a shady company has to do to get away with fraid, is to become its own customer and block every criticism with 'cant prove we did it, because privacy' the way crypto scammers do with 'cant prove we did it, because decentralized'
> The other dirty secret is home computers are still single-tasking machines. They may have many programs running, but the user is doing a single task.

It isn't often you really want it, but it is nice to have when you do. I am still bitter at Intel for mainstream 4-core'ing it for years...
Canada is the only country I know of that has only one system - public.

So your claim of public + private being the issue makes no sense when almost every country has that.
In any language there are going to be certain possible arrangements which take an exponential number of words to reach. By simple counting arguments, some things are always incompressible. I can contort myself if I so desired to find something easily reachable in Brainfuck that would be tedious to reach in JS.

The only "way out" is for one language to force rote memorization of sophisticated abstractions as part of its vocabulary. Eg you can make a language that is superficially more capable than Brainfuck because it contains all of Brainfuck as its vocabulary + a few extra words that encapsulate everything you need to implement an extensible web server. But that's not really an improvement in expressive ease, you've just swept the difficulty of constructing those expressions into learning the language in the first place, then showed off how easy it is to express the stuff you just defined words to express.

You don't get more utility out of the marginal extra vocabulary than the work you put into defining the marginal extra vocabulary.
Applying ML to health care is a guaranteed path to wealth, and later, insanity.
I guess couple of questions out of curiosity:

- machine dies at 4am, what happens? do you manually restart process when you wake up? does this down time cause slashing?

- what mechanism prevents you from running 2 identical validators by accident?
When I worked in France, I had health insurance through my employer. I never really understood what it was, and fortunately never needed to use it.
I visited Szeged in the 1990s on a hiking trip. Sadly it doesn't have enough mountains for hiking, but luckily the Kétfarku Kutya Párt (Twotailed Dog Party) is campaigning to remedy this shortcoming! http://mkkp.hu/
Researchers discover bacteria-killing toxin, could lead to antibiotic innovation
You wouldn't build timber high rises. You would only build buildings ~4 stories tall.
1 hour each way? That's some dramatization right there. You can travel the entire length of the red line in Chicago in 1 hour (26 miles).
Thank you for leaving an insightful comment on this topic. I find this much more engaging than the typical drive by crypto sucks comment. Running a node comes with an interesting set of problems, there are additional problems when considering staking as well. Something to note is that when staking[0] it is suggested to use 32ETH. At today's market rate[1] that is nearly $50,000

[0] https://ethereum.org/en/staking/#how-to-stake-your-eth
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ETH-USD/history/
Up until now, the University has served a dual purpose of education and certification.

I wonder if in the future, that will be split. Maybe the place where you study, and the place that tests are certifies your competency in the subject are two different entities.

Medicine, engineering, accounting, law all have some sort of this split where it is actually a different entity (medical board, bar, etc) that certified your competence.
It's about deminishing returns, the more ram you have the more likely you need to move bytes around.

For applications that are moving more bytes from drives to memory, this means we need to wait for the transfer and we end up preferring to delegate these applications to the cloud instead of running on our own machine, because servers are where the ram is increasing and abundant.

So basically we are doing a lot more big ram computation elsewhere and doing small ram computation on our desktop
https://1c-dn.com/library/query_language/

It was a pleasure to work with business logic on this platform, but sadly it went completely nuts trying to implement “async” web compatibility in a traditionally procedural language in recent versions. Also it is russian-oriented (and I guess you can safely replace “oriented” with “only” for the next decade at least).

SQL definitely has a huge growth potential as a language, but you can’t tell internet about it without being instantly dismissed.
> Foremost is the knurling on the shaft. It's additional machining for an essentially useless addition.

Calling that "engineering" seems like a stretch. Unnecessary cost maybe, but it's not a unique feature to the LTT driver by any means. Heck, the $13 Amazon Basics driver has a knurled shaft ( https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-12-in-1-Magnetic-Ratchet... ). So calling it useless also seems like a leap. It lets you turn the shaft directly, using it more like an (also knurled) ifixit driver.

> All the hullabaloo about torque strength for the relevant use cases also seems overdone.

I think you misunderstood that. They didn't brag about having high torque, they were instead saying that the super low back drag they obsessed over (the best that project farm tested, fwiw) didn't kill the ability to handle torque.
I'm unclear: are you describing the compilation process or the way the database's query planner handles the output query?
...because the healthcare corporations get congress to sell out citizens. $3.5 BILLION flow through lobbyists every year (all industries). Healthcare being a huge part of that. Congress sells out US citizens & corporations fuel it
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”

― Norman Vincent Peale
While I don't disagree, a secure location with a trusted proctor is not simple or easy for all cases: students may be studying remotely/at home, which could be in a rural area with no accessible proctoring, or internationally with no trusted proctoring.

And that is not always due to their own wishes: covid lockdowns, unavailability of international flights or other governmental restrictions may be keeping them there.
In 1992, I had an LCII with 10 MB RAM and that was considered extravagant. 24MB in 1994 was considered high end.

I bought a 32MB SIMM to attach to my DX/2-66 DOS Compatibility Card in my PowerMac 6100/60 for $300 in 1996.

Even as late as 2008, having 4GB RAM was not common.
Modern society is built upon shared beliefs. Dollar has value because people believe it to be so. People go to work because they believe dollar will have value in part because other people believe the same things. Comparison to circular logic is quite apt, but it applies to most of the modern wold.
That is basically what LA did and they ended up with a traffic nightmare.
Well, they do build tall timber buildings. The thing is they are virtually solid wood, with corresponding fire resistance ratings. I'd much rather be in a mass timber high-rise than a stud-and-cavity mid-rise building in a fire.
Except forest fires do not produce CO2. They release carbon that has been temporarily stored in trees and is part of the carbon cycle.

On the other hand, by driving a car, you are adding to the atmosphere carbon that has not been in the cycle.

Btw, for the same reason, neither planting trees nor building cities out of wood will do anything. It is awfully hard to preserve wood forever in any large quantities that would make any difference.
Etleap (YC W13) is hiring a software engineer in London
> Healthcare in the US is definitely not driven by the free market.

You're conflating 'capitalism' with 'free market'. You can have either without the other and OP was calling out 'capitalism' specifically.
Pascal was the thing in the 90s, specially with Turbo Pascal and Delphi. For me that was the golden decade of programming with WWW opening a whole new world.
Am I forgetting something or does merely changing the IMSI while doing nothing about IMEI just lead to a security theatre mentality when fake BTS can still track the device by the IMEI?
They’re called 1+5s.
Actually it works pretty well outside of HN.
Yes I did! Thanks for pointing it out and very politely too. :)
1) it's faithful to the original

2) it's meant to be rendered large enough that this doesn't matter

3) "bitmap" fonts always have compromises to fit the limitations of the grid
From the song:

> It does all my work without me even askin'

It sounds like Wierd Al had the same use case!
A Taxonomy of Drawdowns
dup, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32744795
No the person you were asking, but this is one of the better views of data on this topic.

https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat
Try stepping out of your mothers basement every once in a while and chat up somebody who doesn't share your same zip code. Of course that means you might learn that your neighbor (across town) is actually more tolerant than you are.
There are 10+ storey timber high rises in Canada now. The building and fire codes are being updated all across the country. Turns out heavy timber is actually pretty decent for fire - it chars before it fails whereas steel loses its strength at high temps.
Adobe's Camera App for Serious Photographers
>What you are describing is against androids terms of service and can find your entire google identity banned.

Distributing an APK? There is nothing google can do about this. I never accept google's terms of service because I use an AOSP distro like calyxos or grapheneos

>There are major roadblocks being put in place by powerful entities. I have to use VPNs, different distribution/ platforms, .onions, NATS, and other bits of technology to get around those roadblocks and use the technology as I see fit.

The cryptocurrency is only as decentralized as its development infrastructure.

>Ensuring privacy is money laundering? Please tell.

It can be prosecuted as money laundering if you are offering a service (tornado cash, wasabi, coinjoin, etc.). If it is a passive feature of the network (zcash, monero, etc.) then there is no one to prosecute.
Of course it is.

The problem is that the health care costs situation results in many deaths and very severe economic consequences for much of the country.

Until lying, cheating, and scheming, and screwing over the public have consequences like prison time, you can expect executives to do everything possible to avoid complying with the spirit of laws like this.

There probably was an effort to create a more useful and sanely worded law that would provide a uniform format for rules that could reduce dataset sizes by a factor of 100, but was killed by the healthcare industry because it would require some implementation costs on their end and make the data files actually useful.
According to this website [0] there are 30 states with a population of less than 6 millions. Why can't they each operate like Singapore?

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/states
> Except forest fires do not produce CO2. They release carbon that has been temporarily stored in trees and is part of the carbon cycle.

By that reasoning burning coal doesn’t produce CO2 either. It’s just a matter of the size of the time constant. Coal burning is just a forest fire with greater hysteresis.
The original 5150 PC had 5 slots. The followup XT had 8 (one nonstandard) because 5 was skimpy, especially before high integration-- if you needed a whole slot for just a serial port or a battery backed clock, and seperate cards for floppy and hard discs, they ran short fast.
I have done clean installs of Windows 10, Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 36 on my ThinkPad over the last few months. From best to worse perceived performance the order is Windows 11, Windows 10, Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04. Windows 11 also has better power usage than Windows 10 on my ThinkPad. Fedora and Ubuntu have greatly improved over the last year as far as battery usage, kernel 5.17 seems to be when the big improvement happened, but are still significantly more power hungry than either version of Windows.
Other than civil engineering, I don't think that's true in the US for engineering. Happy to be corrected though.
LA has a traffic nightmare because most of the "city" is single family housing.
Plenty of Apple employees have some very valuable golden handcuffs.

Apple's insistence on an in-office culture isn't insane when you consider the amount of hardware design that goes on there. That said, I have to think that the majority of the company doesn't touch any physical object outside of a standard laptop to complete their work.
Microchip is no stranger to RISC-V[0].

0. https://www.microchip.com/en-us/about/news-releases/products...
I read your link, and except for words, I see not explanation why the market hypothesis is more likely. Just "I thought that, and now I think this".

The rest of the article says that the reports were deemed by the WHO to be "inconclusive". And what else do you expect? Conclusive evidence for the lab-leak hypothesis should be hyper-ultra-uber strong, because its consequences could potentially be requests for trillions of dollars of reparations. Evidence for the market hypothesis doesn't need to be as strong, this alternative would make quite a lot of people quite happy, but for some reason no clear evidence was found.

In the article they claim the possibility for contagion via frozen food was deemed "possible". This is total BS. Covid is an airborne disease. We've all lived for more than 2 years with it, and most HN readers probably read for thousands of hours about Covid. The claim that you can get Covid from food is preposterous. Of course, if you intentionally want to get it, you can get it, so one cannot rule it out, but deeming this "possible" is clearly just based on politics. It should be deemed "possible, but highly improbable".

So, no, I don't see a plausible scenario where the wildlife is the source of the disease. I can see a lab worker contracting the virus in the lab, and then going to lunch to the market, and then the disease spreading from there. But not from wildlife, because there were no documented cases of live bats or live pangolins being sold in that market.