skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life expectancy differences are entirely attributable to lifestyle. Americans are, on average, more likely to be obese than Canadians.

As for "fundamental right", this is not really how rights work and it's dangerous to define them that way. You have the right to bodily autonomy, freedom of speech, etc., but you don't have the right to someone else's labour. Rights are generally protection against interference from others, not an obligation to receive something.

Broad access to healthcare across socioeconomic status is a worthy policy goal, but saying it's a "fundamental right" begs the question: how much healthcare are you entitled to, exactly?
For the third time, we are told that there are two trips, one of which is "significantly more costly". It doesn't matter if the prices fluctuate, the fact that one is the "significantly more expensive" one, as opposed to any other description which does not utilize price, indicates that the relative difference in price is useful for distinguishing them, and indeed more useful than some alternative method of distinguishing them. You would not refer to something as the "significantly more expensive option" if you reasonably expect it to be cheaper than the "cheap option". It would be one thing if we were told that there was a last minute offer or a seasonal variation at play, but we were explicitly not. The question is what is the logical choice given this information, and that logical choice is to go on the more expensive trip. It doesn't matter if you'd make a different decision under different circumstances, it's fine for something to be logical under some circumstances but not under others.

The whole purpose of this discussion is that the point that the article is trying to convey, that autistic people are more likely to consider other circumstances and are thus more logical because they avoid the sunk cost bias is incorrect, because this is not an example of the sunk cost bias. The non-refundable cost you sunk into two things in the past is relevant to the decision of which one to keep because you can use it to predict future prices. What the article claims most people do is in fact the rational approach, and what the article claims autistic people do is generally irrational, thus working against the thesis of their article.
It seemed suspicious to me that the vaccine seemed to increase the rate of infection. I had no idea how it would do that, so I looked at the report itself. My initial suspicion was some confounding factors.

> As with all vaccines, the safety of COVID-19 vaccines is continuously being monitored by the MHRA. They conclude that overall, the benefits
of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh any potential risks (2).

> We present data on COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths by vaccination status. *These raw data should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness as the data does not take into account inherent biases present such as differences in risk, behaviour and testing in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations.* Vaccine effectiveness is measured in other ways as detailed in the ‘Vaccine Effectiveness’ section.

> Vaccine effectiveness is estimated by comparing rates of disease in vaccinated individuals to rates in unvaccinated individuals. Below we outline the latest real-world evidence on vaccine effectiveness from studies in UK populations. We focus on data related to the Delta variant
which is currently dominant in the UK.

Nearly every statistic in the report except for this one showed that the vaccine was effective against COVID19. Look for yourself: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

UKHSA explanation for this one statistic: https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2021/11/02/transparency-and-data-u...

- people who are fully vaccinated may be more health conscious and therefore more likely to get tested for COVID-19 and so more likely to be identified as a case (based on the data provided by the NHS Test and Trace)

- many of those who were at the head of the queue for vaccination are those at higher risk from COVID-19 due to their age, their occupation, their family circumstances or because of underlying health issues

- people who are fully vaccinated and people who are unvaccinated may behave differently, particularly with regard to social interactions and therefore may have differing levels of exposure to COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report – week 1 36

- people who have never been vaccinated are more likely to have caught COVID-19 in the weeks or months before the period of the cases covered in the report. This gives them some natural immunity to the virus for a few months which may have contributed to a lower case rate in the past few weeks
Ultimately they're both expressions of the scientific method.

But the "innovation" (if that's not too strong of a word) in the nested plan-do-learn loop is that it's explicitly engineered for someone's personal life routine, rather than, say, the development of an external product or service.
Note that relying on your side project for income can make it less exciting. Don't push yourself too far, any money you make is an achievement. My first $5 was more exciting than my first $500. I tried pushing my side project as hard as I could for a few months and made a “ton”, but lost interest and now hardly touch it.

A few tips:
Don’t wait for perfection before launching, but don’t ship something incomplete either.

Even though you’re starting small, the project should be scalable and it should be easy to add features down the line. (So you don’t have to rewrite the whole system)

Listen to user feedback, don’t have to implement all of it, but it is extremely important. At least respond to requests even if you aren’t going to implement them. Be nice even though they sometimes aren’t.

You don’t need to be the biggest to make decent money. Even if you pick a market that’s already competitive, there is still a big enough slice of the pie for you.

Lastly, keep us updated on your progress. Wish you luck!
It's a completely different skill that you need to bring to the table. A retail employee just requires a week or so of training vs. a four year college degree (or similar experience) for an engineering job. Similarly, the skill that a good CEO brings to the table is equally as different. The article also mentions that his compensation in 2020 was like 4x lower, so that's interesting.
It sounds like you think the state of California has mismanaged taxes, pensions, infrastructure, law enforcement, and education, but you are not willing to consider that it has possibly mismanaged anything relating to housing supply or building laws.
Except that you do need to use Google and Facebook if you want to interact with their data. They literally gate-keep the access to their data. It's not just inconvenient to host your own server that discovers peers and syncs the entire log of all historical events on the Facebook social network and allows you to write new events to that log which those peers will recognize. That's impossible (or at least, it would require some significant and very illegal hacking effort).
“We're Making Ethereum Greener with Zero Knowledge Proof” Daniel Puzny of ZkTube
You’re going to run into a problem right off the bat: Your home network is likely behind a NAT and has an IP assigned by your ISP that can change at any time. You’ll need to tunnel through a server in the cloud somewhere (or use a tool like ngrok that tunnels through a server in the cloud). And now that proxy server is “really” the server, because if the business providing the tunnel decides you’re using too much of their bandwidth, they can throttle you, and if you don’t want to get throttled you’ll likely need to pay by the GB/month for a premium tunneling service. You could make your own tunneling service with an EC2 instance, but it’s the same difference: You’re paying AWS, and the EC2 server is now your “real” server.

As far as I can tell (and I’ve looked pretty hard) there’s no good way to run a website from your house without tunneling unless you have a very unusual house or a very unusual ISP.
Google Home Mini connected to YouTube Music also suffers similar problems and I swear it's ability to determine the voice commands given has gotten far worse than it was a few years ago.

For example, asking for specific albums and it will play someone's playlist of the album - in terrible quality because someone uploaded it as a video to YouTube I think part of the problem is that the music catalogue is so poorly maintained/governed on YouTube Music. For example there are many songs that state they are by Little Richard that are actually other artists' songs
Explaining complicated things to people is mostly an illusion - especially in a short period of time (professors have a window of months and many hour-long lectures, plus a textbook to offer people for background reading.) No one can explain, say, blockchain to someone who's never heard of it before in 5 minutes so that they really understand it.

Instead, focus on saying simple and high-level things about the subject, and go into increasing levels of detail if you have more time, after checking that people are on board with you. For instance, you could start by saying 'blockchain is a form of internet money'. Great! What does that mean? They won't know, and this statement isn't even particularly accurate, but they will feel they understand you so far.

You could follow up with 'It is decentralized - that means it's not controlled by any government or bank. Instead, ordinary people all around the world work together to authorize transactions and release new money. There are many different kinds of blockchain. We often call the money that's released on a blockchain a cryptocurrency.'

Be very careful about dropping lots of jargon. Avoid using technical terms at all. (An exception for terms they've probably heard before like cryptocurrency or bitcoin miner - people like to tie together words they've heard before.) You want people to understand the high level concept, not the grandchild concepts. Be humble about the amount of knowledge you can convey in a short period of time. And be interesting! Be funny! Help people to stay attentive.

Also, you will get better at explaining any given concept if you practice it. Over time you will get faster, know what points tend to cause confusion and clear those up proactively, and ramble less. Make sure to talk with people instead of at them -- get their feedback. If they seem confused, see if you can figure out why, and work that into your talk!

Good luck.
isn’t the feynman technique about learning not really about teaching?
I don't think this article "lampoons" web3 in any way.

While the article is on the whole critical (but not completely), it did not do so using sarcasm, ridicule, or irony.

lampoon: publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.
Yeah, it takes grit to exploit people left and right, all day everyday. Most people aren't cut out for that amount of evil...

Ironically I want to be a CEO but of a worker-coop that has a cap on pay, union-built in, and flat management style... read: ethical CEO.
every few or so year, IPCC picks the best model from hundred in the past few years that predicted the present the best, extrapolate the future, and call it the truth, and people online get flogged for suggesting that maybe the whole process reek of selection bias, since the model in exam are for the most part curve fitting and not derived from first principles, so in a changing environment their long term accuracy is questionable.
You mean like paper cash?
Luxury watch brands prevent copycats by making the watches hard to copy using special alloys (Rolex), glass techniques (AP) etc.

And fashion brands iterate quickly on their designs so when you see fake LV bags it already looks dated.
IMO jumping to labels is obviated in modern languages by low cost inline lambdas. Instead of complex loop breaking logic, stick the body in a lambda and use return. It's easier for me to follow and gives you more control over what's in scope. It also makes refactoring easier later on.
> Not because it's difficult to make turnkey personal servers.

It's crazy hard to make turnkey personal servers that will be usable by ordinary people.

> They fail because they don't bring any benefit against real-world threats,

For a vocal contingent online, real-world threats involve lack of control over hosting, over their data, over encryption. Your own servers would address (at least partially) all these problems, but of course, these are not problems that most people in the world using walled gardens even consider to be problems.

> So your home server ends up backed up to the cloud anyway, and now you're maintaining a home server and a cloud server

Utilizing an online/network backup service as part of running your own server is qualitatively different from running a server in the cloud.
ipython has 'exit' without the parentheses.
Given the miners do a hugely dangerous job and suffer health effects, one would think they'd be paid more too.
I would suggest looking at the patents. They are exactly the type @samwillis says he would think are silly.
I think the important part of decentralization is not that “everyone must” own their own server, but rather that “anyone can” run their own server, that indexes the globally consistent blockchain database.

But, I agree that the most troublesome parts are around the client/server relationship due to the need for indexing/caching, and the irony of having a man-in-the-middle between you and the trustless network.
Freeing up unused IPv4 space has the opposite effect, it delays adoption of IPv6 since it increases supply, thus lowering the price.
Abstracting away correctness (2020)
That's not it though.

ECJ rulings are the law of the land as far as they see it, not a 'recommendation'.

There are no rules around sanctions etc. for countries that don't 'comply'.

It's just 'make it up as they go along'.

The problem is: there is no treaty basis for ECJ Supremacy. By opening that can of worms, the EU may find themselves with a 'big losing hand' and more affirmatively lose their power.

As I pointed out in the previous comments, the issue is unsettled even in Germany.
Hi im from germany and we had some very localized flooding in recent times. My question- seeing the data is already there- can i get a version, were i can click on a waterway and get all area that flows to it marked down?

It would be a real neat tool to project floodings, should a super-cell discharged the same amount of water we had in the last time. Im actually pretty sure some emergency services would love to have this for "worst case" planning.
No one on here is speaking from experience. Are you expecting only replies from multi trillion dollar company CEOs? Let's try to keep the gatekeeping down. Pretending only multi-trillion dollar company CEOs opinions are the only ones that count is dishonest.
Really the best approach here is create multiple pseudonyms, fake addresses and random emails for each of your online accounts. Don't use enough information to tie something back to personally.
Everywhere I click shows the error
>Unable to find a flowpath for that location. Please try somewhere else.

:/

Using Brave Browser Version 1.34.80 Chromium: 97.0.4692.71 (Official Build) (x86_64)
everyone running erigon nodes (like myself) are running full archival nodes, currently there are ~300, https://www.ethernodes.org/.

Many geth nodes are archival, but we cant see which ones are.
Not sure where you're getting this from in the article. The author never once implies that he quit his job to court this woman (although elsewhere on the site he says he wanted to take the time to find a wife, still doesn't imply being owed anything) and there's nothing here along the lines of "I sacrificed my job to spend more time on her and she'd better notice."

There are men like that, and women too, and it's bad, but I'm not seeing this from the author of the article at all.
You are so close to seeing the point.

Tim Cook can't make and sell iPhones by himself. The C-Suite can't do it by themselves. Management can't do it. The designers can't do it. It's not until you consider the whole team, including store employees and assembly line workers that Apple can produce iPhones. It takes the WHOLE team.

Why is 1 member of a team of people who all have to work together to achieve their shared goal paid 1400x more than average? Does that seem fair?
Economies of scale basically.

It's way simpler to just connect to Wikipedia.org and download the pages you want to read instead of downloading the whole Wikipedia.org database and keeping it stored and updated on your devices. Same principle.
>Moreover, as a citizen of the US that has paid for the R&D of those vaccines through my tax dollars, I have a right to see the results of that research. This shouldn't be a controversial opinion. (it certainly wasn't when the House passed the Freedom Of Information Act 306 to 0 in 1966)

there's hundreds if not thousands of top secret military r&d projects funded by tax money that will never see the light of day regardless of foia, this isn't particularly special and could very well include classified info that needs to flow down very long approval and bureaucratic processes. Hiring more people and then training them on that process would just lengthen the time needed to release the info
Instead of acknowledging their OPSEC was utter ruinous and thousands of people had their data breached (include credit card data), they pretended this was a Trumpian enemy-of-the-people attack.

https://sicnoticias.pt/sicnoticias/o-ataque-a-sic-e-ao-expre...

They even pretended there was no ransom asked, when the homepages were literally plastered with bitcoin addresses.

https://twitter.rss.somini.xyz/JGomes_PT/status/147915952857...
Archival nodes also keep state back to the genesis block, it's just stored in delta format so you could say that it's not "unpacked" out to the disk. It's a common misconception that "full nodes" don't have all this data.

> Every now and then someone will argue on CT that Ethereum full nodes are not complete nodes because archive nodes exist. I decided to run a little experiment to disprove a few things

> The goal was to convert a full node into an archive node, demonstrating that Ethereum full nodes contain all the necessary blockchain data.

> 28 days later, I can confirm that it worked. I started with a 150 GB full node and expanded it to an archive node weighting 2.3 TB, without external network connectivity.

[1] https://twitter.com/marcandu/status/1116807660882530305
[2] https://medium.com/@marcandrdumas/are-ethereum-full-nodes-re...
Not "literally Hitler" and "with no justification".

So, a bad faith attack.
yes, that happens occasionally and then later more people move back
That's true, but if the NFTs show up on some places and not on others then you could start a "resistance" against the existing market places. Outside of DMCAs and other such legal requirements, an exchange needs to be impartial about the stuff being sold and published on there to remain credible.

The cryptocurrency crowd is usually drawn to the decentralised, unregulated market, and OpenSea has turned out to be the exact thing blockchains are trying to overthrow.
You do have access to other currencies via a Wise multi-currency account. They're free, and available in Argentina.
Me either. I had no idea that accessing a link to NFT-described content went through OpenSea for content that isn't even hosted by OpenSea. That's apparently a MetaMask thing. Supposedly a MetaMask wallet can connect to any willing node, but in practice they use the Infuria->OpenSea server.

Yes, you can run your own Etherium node and server, and connect a MetaMask wallet to it.[1] As Moxie points out, nobody wants to do that.

Worse, the blockchain does not, apparently, contain the hash of the data. You can't even prove you even have access rights to the data if the hosting service goes down. All you own is a link to a URL.

There are more Ethereum full nodes than two, but how many will accept web queries? That's a service.

[1] https://media.consensys.net/how-to-install-and-synchronize-y...
This is sort of a moot point. The court system should be expanded due to the perennial backlog, making resources less constrained. If there's probable cause to make an arrest, then it should be followed through for the court/jury to decide, not a DA.

On a side note, it sounds like it is difficult to get a conviction under that law and not just in this one case. It could be that the law was poorly written or shouldn't exist at all.
I'm actually endlessly surprised myself that you primarily use Vim this way. For me, Vim's keybindings are what make Vim, Vim. That said, one of the first things I do when trying a new IDE is find and download the Vim keybindings plugin, so most of my Vim usage is not actually in the editor itself. In a way, you're more a fan of the editor than I am!

Very interesting to see this. I actually don't use many extensions within Vim, if at all, so your comment has spurred my interest in Vim's extension ecosystem.
There's a huge amount happening in the crypto space beyond NFTs.

The article focuses on that area, which is fine, as they were the flavour of 2021, but it's worth keeping in mind that very few techies in the space saw the NFT hype train coming, Vitalik included: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/147740467160615321... so it's probably to be expected that a lot of the hacky, centralized fixes pointed out relate to NFTs.
Of note -- their company services seem to be that you pay them to return you Google search results via API.

Isn't that against the Google search Terms of Service???

If google wanted there to be a paid search api, I'm pretty sure they would just provide one.

Also, I'm pretty sure I've seen these types of startups before, and then they vanish quickly thereafter....
How did you come up with a supply of 1 person? You could find thousands of well-qualified people who would want to take Tim Cook's job.
but what is the real user story?

take a look at https://www.airplane.dev and https://www.scriptkit.com
If you’ve been a reader here for a long time, you should focus on being a better writer. The best HN commenters write for the community as much as for themselves.

The fact of the matter is, web3 is a new phenomenon that isn’t going away. HN deserves good discussion on the topic. “Good” doesn’t mean “positive.” It means substantive — make a critique with substance. Say something that hasn’t been said countless times.

The effort is worth it.
no, the two things are completely unrelated

the matrix could have gone trought 5 iteractions of the one cicle that morpheus knew nothing about, each resulting in the destruction of zion.

yet in this current version of the matrix, during this cicle, morpheus could have find 5 previous individuals that he tough were candidates to being the one, all that were ultimately not the one and who died fighting smith, before finaly finding neo the actual one for this latest cicle of the matrix.
Algorand is carbon-negative. The inventor is a Turing-award winning MIT professor.
As the article points out, many NFTs are implemented by storing a URL in the blockchain; the digital artwork sits on some server and is reachable by that link. Fine, you can prove that you own the URL. But what that URL points to can change out from under you, so there's no way to make that trustless. If you own the domain and the server that it points to, the registrar can take the domain away from you and give it to someone else.

In a sense, NFTs are a lot like those schemes we used to see where some company will promise to name a star after you, even though no one recognizes their authority to do this. Fine, that URL is "yours". You just own a sequence of bytes, the ones in the URL, not the ones that the URL (temporarily) points to.