skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a 2000K bulb or a 2700K LED bulb is not much better than a warmer one? Or they are, but worse than incandescent?

How are halogen bulbs?
Related:

some before and after in the netherlands https://twitter.com/schlijper/status/987269913311137797

I do like roads a bit, when it's where kids can play and also have some cars at times. But the green/bike version has a lot to offer. It's relaxing just by looking at it.
I definitely can feel the lag in normal usage, and it's stressing me. Having tried various terms, I've always quickly returned to xterm with bitmap fonts - even before I'd heard of latency measurements being done on terminal emulators. xterm feels almost instantaneous. Gnome Terminal, for example, always felt sluggish. Not having done any measurements I couldn't tell what it was (and didn't think that other terminals could possibly have noticeably slower latency) - and I still think there can be other contributing factors, like usage of Vector fonts and aliasing. Or, as someone else points out, it might be more jitter than lag.

I also never liked GNOME 3, and suspected it must have something to do with it being a compositing WM and the latency it probably adds on top.
Ask HN: Why are so many coding challenges about math?
And where can I find ones that aren't? I want to improve my skill but I don't feel like I should pick up advanced algebra or number theory just to do a coding assignment.
>If you dont want the comparison between the current system and none you have to be able to present an alternative.

The problem with this is that you want a top-down defined system with a master ruling over you. I want an emergent system where free people interact for mutual benefit. Surely there is some tiny fraction of the population that will be unable to take care of themselves. I'm happy to have a discussion with you about how we help that tiny percent of the population. Helping them doesn't require that you turn my healthcare decisions over to Donald Trump.

>but if you dont share the burden out of principle and your own stubbornness, you are simply acting anti social and living off others.

I suspect that if you had to rely entirely on the personal charity of others for your survival that you might be more inclined to behave in a pro-social manner.

>I am not saying it is either or, but if you boycott the current system without offering a new one its simply dishonest. Your actions still have consequences whether you like it or not.

You're being dishonest by painting a picture of a utopia where if I'll just turn over my healthcare decisions to Donald Trump then everyone will get the care they need when they need it. Can you even say out loud, "Donald Trump should decide what kind of medical care I deserve?"

>Fundamentalism is rarely a working model for society. Despite your motivations, your actions have effects in reality. They have effects on others. And no matter what you think might be possible, as long as its not, you are still betting on getting bailed out by the current system.

I'm not a fundamentalist. I'm not an anarcho-capitalist. I just believe that, in general, I am better able to make healthcare decisions for myself than Donald Trump. I also believe that emergent systems tend to be better than centrally planned ones.

>We are all stuck with each other whether we like it or not and we have to find a way to coexist without actively seeking to harm each other for your own benefit.

In the scenario I'm describing there is no active harm to anyone. The worst case scenario is passively not aiding someone. Your scenario actively harms many for the benefit of the few.
> This is why I don't take the CPI seriously as a meaningful measure of inflation "on the ground."

But it (that CPI doesn't including housing costs) is a completely false statement that can only be made (other than dishonestly) if one lacks even a basic knowledge of the matter being discussed.
this only applies if your project can be organised within Django's requirements though right? I use Flask and Django a bit but it usually depends on how "cookie cutter" the project scope is
My first and probably last post to Skeptics SE was a fairly intense affair [0]. I posted an answer that got quite a few votes but then got deleted.

As you say - then there doesn't seem to be any clear guidance about what you can do after it's deleted/closed. By luck I came across a friendly moderator in the chat that gave me hope of getting it re-instated. I wrote a Meta post how to get a post re-instated [1] which got some positive feedback from the moderators.

[0]: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/39887/37853

[1]: https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4090/so-yo...
I've never seen Falcon, thanks.

Flask is still one of the most approachable frameworks I've used. It's great for getting something hacked out really quickly, but for asynchronous requests Tornado is where it's at.

That being said, when I really want performance I usually reach for Golang.
For fixed rate, you'll get hit when you renew at the end of the term (typically 5y).

Say you've got a 5 year fixed mortgage, at 3.49%. You buy a new home, taking a $500k mortgage at 25y amortization. That's $2494/mo. At the end of the mortgage, you'll have $431,321 remaining on the loan.

Renewing, if you find the fixed-rate amount is up two points to 5.49%, your 20 remaining years now costs you $2950/mo. If you're taking a mortgage right at the edge of your expense threshold, that 20% jump in monthly payments can hurt.

The alternative is another 25y amortization for $2630/mo (and hey, inflation means you should be clear to $2730/mo to match your first mortgage) but that's just prolonging the life of the loan.
Anyone else think the 50% cloud revenue increase might be due to spectre and meltdown mitigations? Those mitigations caused a 30% “slowdown” for many major workloads. That slowdown translates directly to CPU credits, i.e. minutes spent over baseline CPU usage. It also means any company operating servers with less than 30% headroom had to provision additional capacity to continue meeting demand.
I was implying that earth government are not going to control outerspace nations.
This looks on-topic, but this is a English speaking forum, so the submission will probably get ignored of flagged, unless it has some very interesting material that is not available in English.

Do you have an English version? With a little of luck it will be more popular here.
> Well for one, the inflating assets aren't directly part of the CPI. And to the extent they are (eg bankrent on a new home purchase), they only apply to the sliver of people who just bought a house.

I would agree with you, if not for:

- CPI is supposed to measure inflation - if the effects of monetary inflation (due to excessively free credit) in the largest household expense category by far are completely masked by the typical slow turnover of that asset, shouldn't that be accommodated in the calculation (again, keeping in mind what the advertised intent of the CPI is)?

- Despite the slow turnover, you would expect the increases to show up eventually, would you not?

- I can't find the link today, but in the past I discovered in the methodology description that index measurements are deliberately chosen outside major cities, as the prices there are "too volatile" and therefore "not representative" of overall prices (ignoring both population concentration, and the fact that we well know more and more of the population is moving to the major cities)

> Furthermore one would expect the long term CPI trend to be downwards, due to technological progress and economic evolution. So the fact that we are not seeing that is indicative of huge inflation.

Agreed, except for the people who are spending >= 50% of their take home pay on rent. If this very serious state of affairs isn't reflected in the CPI numbers, then I suggest we start a public debate on shutting that government department down so we can at least save citizens a few dollars on taxes, because I can't see what value it is providing beyond misleading propaganda.
It's surprising how (relatively) poorly Alacritty did. The first question in their FAQ still says:

> Is it really the fastest terminal emulator?

> In the terminals I've benchmarked against, alacritty is either faster, WAY faster, or at least neutral. There are no benchmarks in which I've found Alacritty to be slower.

Despite them already acknowledging that they have problems with latency[1]

1. https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673
I have not been able to get good frame rates from Zoneminder connected to MJPEG streaming on Raspberry Pi. I figure I'd need to record the video locally on the Pi but that's about as far as I've gotten.
Yeah the images must still be distributing. Some hits still show beta but go away after a refesh.
These fuses don't necessarily stay blown; it's possible for them to mechanically heal. Consoles I've worked with have often blown multiple fuses and taken a vote (for controlling important features and version minimums).
>A CEO that presided over a security breach, kept it as quiet as possible, and only cost the company $35MM. Like it or not, his job is to protect the company, not the users.

Sorry to be pedantic but it'd be 'her job', in this case - Marissa Mayer was CEO at the time.
To flip this around: there are very few people in medical or law school that I would trust with a wrench.

People like to look down their nose at people whose jobs they couldn’t do if they tried. They also like to pretend like everybody is stupid for doing them. If nobody did any of those jobs, Mr Smartypants, you’d be dead in a gutter somewhere because you can’t take care of yourself.
I immediately thought of the book Go, Dog Go!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go,_Dog._Go!

The old gopher wasn't serious either, but at least it was fun.
Ironically, it looks very generic.
It's not that they are getting worse treatment, it's that that the impact of the same treatment on them is worse.
I think this is a case of Apple applying the logic that 95% (more likely 99.99%) of users are better off not having to make the decision of what version of their os they should they install.

Compared to other companies Apple does an amazing job of supporting older hardware.

I feel like it’s a double edged sword, if Apple devices didn’t get updates people would complain, Apple updates older devices and people complain.

I think the route they have chosen is the best for most normal none techie consumers.
Sabine Baring-Gould is a character in a non-canon Sherlock Holmes novel by Laurie R. King called `The Moor`. If you enjoy fictional accounts of widely knowledgeable characters, I recommend it :)
Amazon to increase fee of prime from $99 to $119 in U.S
I think a lot of criticism is valid. Flask has a lot of bizarre conventions which don't scale well, like stuffing all shared resources into the global context or app-level dicts and using `@route()` decorators all over, for example. And I'm not sure what the benefit is, except that clever feeling one gets when they use decorators or other seemingly magical features unnecessarily and later need to workaround the tight coupling.
If someone barely qualified for a mortgage in a 2% environment, and now suddenly is faced with 10%, that's a bit of a shakedown.
> Trying to make this about minorities feels like a desperate attempt to fit in with the 'social justice' sphere, and to virtue signal to people on sites like Twitter.

I'd rather look at the merits. If I recognize a good idea, I'm going to signal that I'm on board with it, so virtue signaling in itself is, at worst, a bit gauche.

The reason I'd avoid making these things about social justice is that it's very hard to show that social justice as a concept actually works to promote comity. When you put things in terms of oppressor and victim, you deepen divisions rather than heal them. When you search for reparations and retribution, you have to harm people.
Look at it from the other side. The person who is getting mean comments tells someone at SO about it (maybe via a survey). Then the SO admins notice that in the surveys women are overrepresented in the population of "people who complain about hostility".

Perhaps minorities already get enough abuse and hostility every day on meatspace, so they are less tolerant of even minor hostility over the Internet. Since they have a limited amount of fucks to give, so to speak, they are more likely to leave the site for good after an unpleasant interaction.

Think of minorities as the canary in the coal mine. They are more sensitive, so they start leaving the moment the environment starts to become toxic. Left unchecked, the toxicity will grow and push away everyone else too, so you can't just ignore them for being "snowflakes" or whatever.
You have my sincere thanks for prioritizing workflow improvement. In healthcare IT, so many decisions are made without stakeholder input, leading to truly bizarre interfaces and less time I get to spend with each patient. There are some exceptions, and there are limitations (meeting HI-TECH requirements, etc), but workflow generally seems an afterthought (well, 1 of 3 places I was at had things right-- probably tellingly, system was designed by MD programmers). I remember running into a UX-programmer in a hospital elevator excitedly asking my thoughts about the recent "upgrade" to the computer system. Basically IT made aesthetic changes (larger, fancier buttons) with 1-5 second animations (including delays) each time you pressed them. I suspect they didn't test the software on the VMware machines we used, which had crippled specs. You can imagine my feedback-- (20 patients * 40 button presses per patient * 5 seconds per button press = 1 hour wasted each working day waiting on that obnoxious UI. That translates to 1 hour of lost sleep per night.
Tech is a type of a trade to be honest, just virtual.
You are spending your energy attempting to ignore people's view points.

You called SO reacting to complaints and feedback "pointless virtue signaling" You are now attempting to say you personally wouldn't bother with what SO is doing (as if anyone asked) because other people are unfortunate enough to not have access to the same resources we do? Do I really need to illustrate how nonsensical that is?

What's your angle?
Residential break/fix is always a hot topic for small computer business owners - some people make it work, others get stuck with "residential break/fix is dying." There's also the question of having a storefront and employees.

I think any on-site is going to vary widely by where you are, the demographics of your area, and the size of your service area. It's too easy to get into traveling half an hour or more to get to a customer, and if you're doing that without trip charges then suddenly a 1-hour visit turns into 2 hours of your time and halves your rate.
In my mental model the requirements of the modern web are way above what was in the 1990s.

A single static landing page would be expected to have at least traffic tracking, at least for the sake of load-balancing.

Even if the page is that - just a static page, the chance it's hosted by the content owner themselves is becoming smaller every day.

So frankly - yes. I believe today is the right time to start adding/replacing layers in the stack. After all - we've gone a long way in terms of software deployment tools so it's way more interchangeable.
The MacOS security products (donationware) are also excellent and overlap the functionality of these.

https://objective-see.com/products.html
The TechCrunch article about the deal says they have 625,000 paid subscribers
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/26/square-acquires-weebly/
On California state plus federal income taxes (the claim I was responding to) that's simply impossible even if you refer to AGI and not gross income before deductions. If you are including some other taxes, such as payroll taxes, it's possible but not the claim I was responding to.
I think the problem with Signal is that it requires a phone number to sign up: which some people may not feel comfortable doing.
On the other hand irc is nice, but it doesn't exactly have the media sharing tools that have become standard in chat clients (Discord, Slack, etc.).
Although it is a little early for France to choose Matrix, at least e2e is becoming more standard, and countries are endorsing it.
I don't think it's petty or irrational. It signals to me that there are more important things than selling decal stickers and t-shirts. It says we don't care about exposing this technology to the largest possible crowd and diluting what can be produced with it.

I love C and Lua, and both are untrendy, long-lasting languages that don't attract particular crowds, and it means that when I produce something with them, unlike the trendier side of software development, it will actually last and run 5 years from now.

I think branding like this is a double edged sword. It says, "We're trendy and attractive, but established," and at the same time it says, "We guarantee you're going to love our mascot plushies and the high quality $15 decal stickers you're going to slap on your $1,299 MacBook Pro that you just got back from the Apple Store over a stuck key repair."
That's not a "fixed-rate" mortgage (at least in the U.S.), because fixed-rate mortgages set a fixed interest rate until the entire mortgage principal is paid down to $0.

It seems like you're describing a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_payment_mortgage, where you pay a fixed (or perhaps variable?) rate for a few years, but then need to make a huge balloon payment on that mortgage at the end of the term (usually done by arranging a separate mortgage).
The interviewer's job should be to determine whether, and how, the candidate would succeed in the organization.
I think part of the problem is reputation points. People are so competitive for no reason about having the best answer that they're fine writing nasty notes about the next person's comment. I'm almost wary when I see an applicant with high SO reputation. It's like, you probably had to walk over a lot of people to get this.
It was, but has now switched to the real thing
A Slack bot that says i'm typing when anyone else is typing
The idea that it's ever okay to use language that demeans other people—in their presence, directed at them, or elsewhere—is part of the culture that allows people feel that it might be okay to do so directly. It's a habit we all should be working to break.
To sell you shit, and sell you the appeal of using the language.
Snips NLU, the Open Source Library Behind Snips Embedded Voice Platform
But if interest rates keep going up, it could depress housing prices (or at least stunt it relative to inflation).
there was also work being done to port to python3
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/2539

but it looks like this hasn't been worked on since october last year.
In Germany, 10 year fixed mortgages are common, though shorter terms get you lower interest.
I adore Weebly. This seems like a bargain!
No, it is not that toxic communities produce better content, it is just the fact that encyclopedic content websites tend to atract borderline autistic people obsessed with some subject who sound like absolute jerks for everybody but themselves.
Compare to clang's website, which has the same aesthetic and is half as busy (visually): https://clang.llvm.org/
I'm sure this is US-centric, but the standard fixed rate products for primary-residence home loans here are 30yr and 15yr.
For a long time, the response to "but what about scrolling?" has been "eh, just use tmux"

I think the author may have walked back on that a bit, but this is definitely the thing that turned away most of the people I know who tried it.
There's work currently being done by Gnome to make a GTK client written in Rust at https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/fractal/.
Since we're splitting hairs instead of training sets:
Classical RFs select one random feature and choose the optimal split, whereas Extremely RTs choose the best feature (out of a random subset) whereby for each feature only one random split is tested.

Another difference is that RFs use a bootstrapped dataset and ERTs use the full dataset.
Can someone from Epic explain why they're using Mongo DB despite endless horror stories about it just like this? I understand that this wasn't a bug in Mongo and caused by programmer error, but WHY mongo?

I'm not a genius DBA but I don't see postmortems like this for Cassandra, postgres, couchDB or any other databases. In fact I see the opposite: large corporations praising Cassandra et al because they made scaling work so well.
Reading the comments here makes it clear why most programmers should stay away from design.

I've programmed for 20 years now, but that stupid gopher and the way it was everywhere was a serious put off for me on giving Go a look. Nerdy AF.

Good riddance.

I wonder if there was a huge internal battle between the brand savvy people which realized how terrible the gopher was, and the Go creators.

Guys, don't be so stereotypical, expand your horizon outside of Pokemon and Star Wars esthetics. I'll put it in a more obvious form: a lot of you like Apple, can you imagine for a second that gopher on anything Apple?

Downvotes away...
That's what I thought, until I got the app which measures things like sleep quality.
Sometimes it's helpful to have a question that's worded differently so that there's multiple ways of finding the answer. And sometimes a duplicate question gets an even better answer than the original before it gets locked.
Answering those questions is probably the best way to rack up SO karma.
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It seems to be measuring movement and heart rate
Having lived through the 20% interest days here in Australia it was far from "business as normal". We had a massive recession shortly afterwards, house prices crashed and unemployment went over 10%.

I don't think we will ever see 20% interest rates again because the level of debt here in Australia is so much higher now. If interest rates even get to 8% it will be like 1990.
In Chile mortgages are denominated in a separate currency UF which is inflation adjusted. So the wealth transfer goes the loan holder.
It turns out that this seems to be correct and that even though the 0-4 prior offense category still has over 50% reconconvicted after a year, even that segment is distorted by the repeat offenders, and that the 10:1 claim I rejected upthread, though I can't find direct support for it, mis plausible (one study found an 8:1 of one-and-out to repeats for first offenders; if that's right, 10:1 for 1-2 lifetime offenses vs. greater number of repeats is probably accurate or understated.)
I haven't been active for a long time now so this may have changed.

Back then the reason behind locking rather than deleting was because the duplicate may be asked in a different way, using different keywords. So keeping it viewable allowed people searching for an answer to effectively have multiple entry points into finding the answer because perhaps they were googling the wrong combination of keywords to get the original to show up, but the duplicate would match.
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