skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m referencing the section further down, showing salaries for BSN holders with less than 1 year experience.
Since Hong Kong is a former British colony, English is co-official with written Chinese there, and you can read the official brief and the text of the bill in English on the Legislative Council website: https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr18-19/english/bc/bc56/general/bc5...
"a log management server was leaking system-wide information"

Interesting. Similar to Facebook's issue with logs.
Though it didn't leak outside the company in their case.
Maybe I'm dense and there is some obvious source of data on the AWS admin pages that I haven't been able to find by clicking around, searching the documentation, and googling, but I still have this question:

Why is the cost and size of snapshots so opaque? Is there a way to see how big each one is, and how much it will cost to keep it around for a month?

I understand that snapshots are differential, and deleting one snapshot in a series may move blocks to other undeleted snapshots, of course.

I just want to know how much storage each snapshot requires right now, and to be able to accurately predict how much each one of them will cost at the end of the month, so I can decide how often to make snapshots and how long to keep them.

And is there an easy "serverless" way to automatically archive a snapshot in glacier storage or simply download it, without manually making it into a new volume and using "dd" or "tar" or "dump" or whatever?

I understand they're stored in S3. So why can't I see a list of them in the S3 interface, see how big they all are, and tell how much each of them is going to cost at the end of the month? It's my data. I'm paying for it. I think I deserve to be able to see it and know how much it will cost.

I get the feeling I'm missing something really obvious (probably a big blinking green button on the main page that my brain is filtering out). Surely many other customers must want these features?
You have to be in the US to apply. It looks nice though. Thanks.
You're not wrong, but mind the point from manfredo about double-counting, too. I.e., the bicycle is not _itself_ a source of CO2 as the bus is, so if you cownt the beefeaters' full carbon hoofprint, you have to subtract that elsewhere in the overall assessment.
I love how companies say no credit card data was leaked, and don't admit that everything else know to the company including client and employee PII data was there. All of these sorts of things can be turned into money including blackmail and identity theft.
> "- studies that incorporate statins don’t seem to segregate impact of anti-inflammatory effect of some statins vs cholesterol lowering."

How would you tease that apart? CAD requires some amount of inflammation, since macrophages have to enter the blood vessel wall to become foam cells. So, it may be mechanistic that reducing LDL also reduces some markers of inflammation. If you have a method of testing statins' anti-inflammatory effects in some way that is independent of their LDL lowering effects, by all means someone would do that study.

> "- some docs are prescribing statins to healthy individuals based on only cholesterol scoring, also not taking into account more expensive but better imaging like coronary calcium scoring"

Coronary calcium scoring can be a good tiebreaker when someone's risk factors suggest that they should be on a statin, but they don't want to take a statin.

> "- Are there studies that show proactive use of statins on otherwise healthy individuals lead to decreased overall mortality?"

There are many primary prevention statin trials. They all involve people with at least one risk factor (high blood pressure, etc). I consider them trials in "healthy" people, since they don't yet have coronary artery disease, but if you meant people with zero risk factors, these wouldn't answer your question. Primary prevention trial examples: ASCOT https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14997313 and Jupiter https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18997196
My attempt to create an opensource POC of a cloud gaming service inspired by Google Stadia. Cloud gaming is the future of gaming when all the game logic is handled on a cloud server and then media is streamed to the user, so no installation, no heavy device is needed.

Try the platform at. Recommend to use Google Chrome:

US West (San Francisco): http://usw.cloud.webgame2d.com | US East(New York): http://use.cloud.webgame2d.com

Singapore: http://sg.cloud.webgame2d.com | India (Banglore): http://idn.cloud.webgame2d.com

Europe (London): http://eu.cloud.webgame2d.com | Europe (Frankfurt): http://ger.cloud.webgame2d.com

Game Instruction For the best gaming experience, please select the closest region to you.

- Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqWB1VKflo (If you cannot play)

Game Instruction:

- Arrow keys to move

- H -> Show help

- C, V -> Start, Select

- Z, X -> A, B

- S, A -> Save (Save state), Load (Load previous saved state)

- Share button/ W -> your game state is stored in a link in clipboard, next time you can continue your game by loading that link.

- F -> Full-screen

- Quit button/ Q -> Quit the current game

*The game is designed as joystick targeting multi-platform, so you can play it on Desktop, Android (IOS is not supported yet). Our purpose is to also to bring the modern gaming experience to Retro game.
Ask HN: Best resources for home energy optimization?
I’ve been interested in home energy efficiency for years but I don’t have any experience with electrical work, HVAC, energy auditing, insulation, etc. I’m thinking about diving in one subject at a time as a hobby but I’m not really sure the best place to start?

Do I need to take a class to actually become an electrician to do the work on my house or are there good resources to self teach? Same with HVAC (I’ve heard self installing geothermal is possible)?
I've noticed that as soon as I start wearing my morality as a badge of honor, that I'm most likely covering up for some other sin.

So as a Christian, I don't view the Christian fish as evidence of ethical business practices.

Christ speaks the divergence between appearance and action in Matthew 7:22-23:

"Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
BlenderConf 2018 had a talk from the co-founder of Tangent (Jeff Bell) about how Blender was used for Next Gen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8
I would recommend you to not program your builds with the scons framework (not even normal python). See my larger comment. The problem is that you are one step away of creating a giant mess of unnecessary, ununderstandable mess from which you will never escape. Use less power for the parts of the system which are not your core value.
My experience is that AWS is remarkably open to helping you get things right. They seem to focus on making things possible before easy, but (Enterprise) support is quite good and have specific incentives on spend efficiency that run counter to the short-term goals of Amazon.

I can only imagine how the Oracle cloud must go for victims^Wcustomers.

Systems engineering is hard, on-prem or in-cloud.
Other people have mentioned how it's done in practice but there have been recent advances on this on the theoretical front as well. Here's one I know of:

https://threatpost.com/academics-make-theoretical-breakthrou...
Millimeters != hairline. You can fit a lot of hair in a millimeter.
I’m on a team with 8 other people right now. All 9 of us are quite capable at our jobs. We all got through some sort of interview process to get there, of course, but that just means we weren’t weeded out. We weren’t false positives, in other words.

But, why did we get through? Maybe the process really is capable of separating wheat from the chaff. Maybe the process works 85% of the time, and the 1 time it didn’t work in recent memory is someone who has already left the company. Maybe only capable people self select into the process for some reason. Maybe we’ve been phenomenally lucky.

The point is, just because a filter allows the right people through doesn’t mean it’s necessarily any good.
Blog Statistics: What We Learned from 1,117 Bloggers (2019 Study)
Ah. I misunderstood the “push” part of the comment.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20138546.
Seems like a dumb move. This affects a (relatively) small enough number of customers that had they just let it slide, the public at large would not have noticed. This isn’t that bad of a news story in the grand scheme of things, but at this point I don’t think Tesla can afford any bad press, at all.
my experience is that it will end up corrupted and bringing lots of ignote errors no one could have explained, and finally disappear by removing all precompiled files, chaces and databases.
Ironically Firefox killed their extension API to be compatible with Chrome's extensions. Now they probably don't want to be compatible with the new Chrome API.
Great link! There were also other scientists like Alice Hamilton who helped challenge the biased science on this.

Ironically, the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center is now a world renowned medical research institute, but it will be hard to believe that they will ever save as many lives as Sloan and Kettering prematurely ended through lead. (tangentially, they also were responsible for freon, and thus the ozone hole)
Do you think vegans eat 'nothing but carbs and butter'?
I am writing this comment from Android Firefox with uBlock origin installed on it.
I think it's hard for no religious institutions to form cohesive groups because they don't have a commonly-held value structure. Indeed once you start to impose values on group members then for all intents and purposes you become quasi-religious because there's no materially bound "value-driven particles" or similar physical structure to values.
This is true of non-vegan burgers too, surely?
Isn't LDL and HDL measured with TC all as part of the same test?
I did ask those things. Don’t underestimate people’s unwillingness to look you in the eye and tell you the truth when they think you might not like it.
This is odd considering how relatively rare pre-packaged, proprietary software that makes boat loads of money actually is. CS students today are exposed to a lot more open source (look at what comes with a $5 hosting account) and SaaS, where the money is, today than 20, or even 10, years ago. Unless you're referring to games, but even the the big money making games make money on in-app purchases than with the sale of the software itself.
> The first place for an excellent start begins at your home.

The 99% Invisible podcast did an episode on this [1]. There is strong evidence that even very intense forest-fires won't cause buildings to burn if they take well-known preventative measures.

I don't know how much of the financial damages from the utility companies are owed to homeowners, but it certainly seems like homeowners aren't absolved of responsibility if their house burns when they've ignored preventative measures.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/
Caddy web server no longer completely open source
Hi there, by "this view", I take it you mean the article, not what virtuallynathan was saying. Is that correct?
Because it's a Freudian slip that reveals what this is all about. Google "kiron skinner"
Grow faster?
Feels != facts
The Evolution of Successful Prediction
So what do you mean? That anyone can do this? I don't really know anything about front-end web development, so I couldn't do full-stack, and it isn't the case that anyone could.

I still can't understand why you think it's such a hilarious question that you laugh out loud about it?
It is supreme arrogance to assume we have it right and all the ones before us had it wrong. Truth is we have no idea about much of anything, especially the universe or ourselves and it's all essentially blind faith.

Scientific consensus is just the new papal decree.

We have been to the bottom of the ocean and orbited the globe. We have put people on the moon and robots on Mars. We have sent probes beyond the far reaches of the solar system and we have peered into the depths of the universe.

All of these things we've done, not with arrogance, but with humility. The central scientific principle is that we are fallible creatures who have no privileged access to the truth. Only through the hard work of experimentation and repetition can we build any semblance of a model for reality.

And yet we maintain that "all models are wrong, some are useful." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
Greens should stop playing God: climate change and the extinction of thought
On average, in cities like London, driving is more or less the same speed as walking.
Interesting, do you have a link to the lecture?

IIRC fastai transitioned from keras/tf to pytorch while back so I don't understand what's happening now
Using the AWS figures above, it's over $20/TB, so Hetzner still compares very favourably.
Eye Contact in Video Conferencing (2018)
Here is some constructive feedback. A few things that I wanted to see when I looked at the website: a "how it works" page with technical information; an explanation of how multi-environment templates with deployment pipelines work; ability to view the template source before I deploy. From 60 seconds browsing the site (which is about how long someone will spend before closing the tab and moving on) I can't tell exactly what the project does (what is the local dev environment like? How does deployment work? Is it self hosted? Does it support cloud deployments?), and looking at the details page for a template doesn't let me preview the source or see what the components are. For example, the microblogging template; what language is it written in? What does it use for a server? Does it use frameworks for the client and back-end? Does it use a database? I have literally no idea what will happen if I click on the "Use Template" button, and I'm unlikely to create an account just to find out.
Oh DDG gas been my primary search engine for ages now. Highly recommend DDG. No CAPTCHAS there - it is just on random other sites that use reCAPTCHA that are a pain now as I believe (I don't know for sure) that Google relies on your Google cookie(s) that they have associated with your account - if you have sandboxed Google then there is no "normal" browsing history to check so you look like a bot. Annoying, but not really a big deal.

I don't think having proxied Google search results will solve the reCAPTCHA menace since you presumably won't get the Google cookie(s)? If Google still cookie you when using startpage then that kinda defeats the point surely?
China Calls in Foreign Tech Firms After Huawei Sales Ban: Source
I completely agree to be honest, but it seems like when you see Doctors and nurses complaining on social media, it's almost like they do it as a badge of honor and not because they actually want fewer hours, given the implications that come with fewer hours (i.e. lower salaries).

That's assuming hospitals are actually operating on a tiny profit margin, but if the margin is huge, then there should be more demands. I mean, there's the nurses union at least, but what about the doctors, or the various technicians.

Either way though, the system is still broken with respect to how much the patients have to pay.
Yeah I meant to say nitrogen but said hydrogen
Ultimately you want a readout of CAD risk, and we know that only a portion of CAD risk is attributable to LDL. We're always on the lookout for better biomarkers, but right now there isn't a comprehensive CAD biomarker (aside, perhaps, from coronary calcium - but we can't go around exposing everyone to radiation every year just to observe disease progression).
A compact collection of examples of popular, powerful bait-writing techniques:

- attacking something very popular with the intended audience (Git), to make it personal and create a desire to read the article

- a very misleading false dichotomy (evidently, if CI tools build what's in one Git repository rather than the intended software components it's because of simplistic CI tool assumptions or lack of proper CI configuration and maintenance, not an issue with git and to a large degree not even an issue with repository structure)

- vague hints that their product might be somewhat related to the issue (judging from their own product description, it could be marginally useful but only as an addition to actual CI/CD system)

- fabricated problems (e.g. "Git is an excellent match for single-process applications, but it starts to fail when it comes to multi-process applications" or "It’s time for a new generation of source control that wasn’t purely designed for open-source projects, C and the Linux kernel. A source control designed for delivering modern applications in a polyglot cloud-native world."), shrouded in strange language to hide that they are bullshit

- unreasonable, exaggerated statements presented as fact (e.g. "You can easily end up with repo sizes that don’t fit in your hard-drive, or clone time that ends up in the hours" or "There are certain components you will need to build and deploy hundreds of times a day")

- derogatory language (e.g. "a mishmash of source providers and various artifactories", alluding to Maven repositories and similar proven ways to keep non-source files out of source control)
Retraction and Apology to Michael Mann
I do half of that crap on personal calls too. Interestingly enough, I don't get those issues on phone calls! Or most audio only calls over the internet.

The underlying issue is the technical failures of video calling, not the social environment it's used in.
Well the API would have bindings for common languages
I generally refer to the general cause/movement as "software freedom". I sometimes call the software itself "freedom-respecting software".
Really? That uses cryptocurrencies? I thought that they were more old school. As in cash and meatspace P2P value transfer networks.
Some of them provide free tasting as well: small glasses and many open bottles so that the customer can try all flavors before buying one.
This study doesn't tell us if these participants had naturally low cholesterol or artificially low cholesterol (i.e., from medications). So no such conclusion can be determined.
That is not a subsidy since people are paying for that food. There are benefits to both sides.
This is more common than you might think in rural areas in California
This is a sign of a deeply trust based society.

I don't think articles like these are good for the system's health :)
Related: Cloudflare offices in SF has a lava lamp wall called LavaRand lava lamps as a secondary source of randomness for their production servers.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-produ...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90137157/the-hardest-working-off...
That's not exploitation. Exploitation is the admin side doing great and still demanding long hours and minimal staff.
Indeed.

Has a perfect valid use, hence we can't "close the bug" by removing marketing completely.
One way to get Akamai to unilaterally lower their bandwidth prices is to threaten to use BitTorrent instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7601083
> The theory goes that as solar panels and battery prices drop, it will eventually make sense for homeowners to produce their own power, and "defect" from the electrical grid completely.

I think it already makes sense in California (given the amount of sun we get).

A Tesla solar install of 8 kW solar production + 2 PowerWalls (27 kWh capacity) has a loan payment of $188/month, which is probably lower than what your cost would be from the utility company for an equivalent "level of service".

The only tricky part is to figure out the answers to "what size panels + storage do I need so that, given elements (weather mostly), the probability of my storage being depleted any point during the day is less than X%".

Solar companies probably already know the answer to this given the data they already have, but the other part of the equation is changes to the owner's consumption (buying an EV? new child on the way? changing your range/dryer/heaters from gas to electric? etc)

That's the real pain point (it can be mitigated with a generator, but that gets complicated), which leads to a certain amount of oversizing, and as a consequence, waste (since you can't feed it back to the grid).

Also the occasional failure in your own infrastructure could lead to blackouts that could be more frequent than if you were tied to the grid (Mean Time To Repair is higher with your own infrastructure for obvious reasons), although I have to admit that the grid hasn't been very good in that respect. A solar system is generally maintenance free, but failures do happen.

Still, I think it's worth it (that's why I took the plunge a few years ago).
This is actually fairly common in rural areas in America too. Maybe someone sets up a bunch of pumpkins, apples, etc at the end of their driveway (which in rural America can be measured in KM) and a box to put money in.
Yep...I agree it works well here and let's you farm while holding down another job. You can get "vine ripened" and the flavor it much better. It also is more efficient for spoilage. Hogs or chickens get it right after it is too ripe.
When I see pictures or video of anything nuclear, I tend to now focus upon the noise as radiation will cause more noise, hence the better the picture quality, the happier I feel.

Though for this case, factoring in the lighting, I'd not panic, but equally mindful that cracks are part and parcel in the world of reinforced concrete, I'm not so sure about the material in use here. It's not what you want to be seeing in such use. Equally to combat cracks in any material, you drill small holes either end of the crack to stop it growing.

So for me, why is that not being done? After all, hairline crack today, receding hairline tomorrow possibilities.

After all, would they let an aircraft take off with a known hairline crack? That's one way to put some perspective upon this.
I have a feeling you know this, but "the cloud" is nowadays generally taken to mean providers (such as AWS and Azure) that have IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings, with a focus on the latter two.
No, what virtuallynathan said is not mainstream.
One of my favorite SCons features is that it determines the necessary build operations from file hashes rather than timestamps. Working on a project with a long link step, it was wonderful to be able to rephrase comments, rename local variables, or tidy code formatting and skip the link step, since scons saw the object files had the same hash.

A few times, the skipped link step revealed to me that the code change I had just made had no effect on the compiler output, usually because the compiler's optimizer was already doing the same thing.

Likewise, hash-based compilation made git operations much smoother, since things like rebasing or jumping back and forth between branches can update timestamps without affecting content.

I know it's possible to hack similar functionality into some other build systems by adding a layer of intermediate hash file targets everywhere. But I'm a bit surprised the idea hasn't seen broader adoption... Having build artifacts indexed by hash seems like it'd be a requirement for any system that eventually wants to support large, distributed builds.