skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philips vs. OSRAM

My flat has some sort of bad-quality switches and when switching on/off the lights I often used to have some failures when using classic light bulbs (I have no clue about electricity - in any case in some way when I press the on/off-button the transition seems to be "dirty").

4 months ago I bought a new lamp and decided to give OSRAM-bulbs a go (it's a well known brand in Europe but up until then I always used Philips) => 2 LED-bulbs failed within 2 weeks (I put in the 1st bulb => failed after 2 weeks => replaced it with a 2nd bulb => failed again after 2 weeks).

I then went back to using Philips-bulbs and the one I used to replace the last one which failed is still working now.

Philips seems to be, at least in my case, definitely better or at least more "lenient/tolerant" at least concerning my the switches installed in my flat.

Anybody having negative experiences with Philips or positive ones with OSRAM or the opposite?
Thank you for the article. As I have used Nanocosmos H5Live Server in production for over a year I can provide some insight into their product.

It works by repackaging an RTMP stream into GOP chunks and pushes them via Websockets to the browser where they're piped to a video player using MSE (Media Source Extension).

On iPhones, where there is (was) no MSE available it used something like very short, chunked HLS segments. Not sure I fully understood that part but somehow they tricked the m3u8 playlist into loading short segments very very often.

The beauty of it was that it was a drop-in plugin for your existing RTMP-based infrastructure. You just add an instance of their server software and you would use their JS player to your pull your RTMP stream, repackaged on-the-fly.

let player = new NanoPlayer({
server: 'wss://nano_server_url',
rtmp: 'rtmp://rtmp_server_url/app/stream.mp4'
});
All three, check out the Viper/Cobra packages for Golang
UTF8 does lose a lot of nuance. Compare a quality handwritten letter like http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/01/your-pal-john-k.html with the transcript (in UTF8) below.
It's probably due to Gmail users reporting PayPal's ToS/Privacy Policy notices as spam. I swear they send one out every week.
Pong's perfect game design
There’s no reason they can’t smooth out the power like other lamps (except space). The linked article mention manufacturers already doing this in 2014, surely you’ll find flicker-free versions. These are all over home improvement shops over here.
It is because of the DMARC setup that Paypal has put in place which is doing exactly what they want it to do which is put any non verified and in alignment (not coming from the paypal.com domain) - this is why you see the via in the from.
The current DMARC policy for Paypal.com is
dmarc=pass (p=REJECT sp=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=paypal.com
Wrong thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095849
Suggesting there is bias? It's pervasive and not unique to the Church. For example this article's sampling is narrow.
> For the same amount, you'll buy a very decently made device today, too.

For most products I find this to simply not be the case anymore. What I find is the more you pay, the more "gizmos" and "features" you get that ultimately lead to earlier device failures than the cheap models.
That's being a little bit hyperbolic. There's nothing new under the sun here as far as ccTLDs go. There's a long history of ccTLD operators taking away domains for reasons similar to this. It's what you're (knowingly or unknowingly) signing up for when you register a ccTLD domain name. And yeah, that applies to .io domains as well.
I hate so to resort to stereotypes but I live in a big college town with many asian drivers a number of which I assume are driving in the US for the first time.

They are decidedly not of the stereotype that you are claiming for asian drivers - careful and slow. I stay far away from them if possible. They don't have any idea about driving in a safe manner.

But like I said stereotypes fail but I had to comment on yours.
> “Emails that are sent from a domain that's different than the from address are legitimately suspicious”

That’s not how this works. The “from” email header has nothing to do with the actual sender due to the email standard. The actual sender is specified in the SMTP command.

This is why SPF and DKIM for example have nothing to do with “from” either. SPF refers to the sender in the SMTP command and DKIM signing can use the keys of a domain unrelated to “from” and it’s all legal.

It’s very easy actually to spoof the “From” header and Gmail won’t complain.

That “via” information you’re seeing is just another header that doesn’t have much to do with Gmail. If you’re seeing it, that’s because the sender wants you to see it.
It can still mean ham as in ham fisted while not being pejorative.
What do you recommend to buy if I want a ~2700 lumen, high CRI (>90), and non flickering bulbs for home?
There is a technology called hair coloring, stack it with a hoodie and some well fitted slacks, roll up one of the ankle cuffs a bit. Talk like you've exited a startup and are just working for fun, or something to keep you interested, but not like you actually have to.
The customers don't have perfect information of a company's full behavior and dealings. Fully checking every company you ever interact with would be exhausting and nonproductive - so people rely on news and word of mouth, but even then the information doesn't reach every potential customer.

Companies that facilitate business checking, have their own problems too. E.g. yelp, BBB, et al.
> You are comparing people defending their own property to people stealing other people's property.

No, I'm comparing people forcibly, by way of the state, defining property one way and depriving people who disagree with that definition of what the dissenters see as their property rights to people forcibly, by way of the state, defining property a different way and depriving people who disagree with that other definition of what this other set of dissenters see as their property rights.

That you happen to prefer the capitalist model of property rights doesn't change the fact that it is imposed with state violence on those who disagree with it's parameters.

> Fortunately, humanity came to agreement about which of these two were acceptable at the dawn of civilization.

Humanity did not come to a universal consensus on a model of property rights at the dawn of civilization, and various models of property rights have gained and lost popularity in the intervening time with many (including as recent examples, but not limited to, the Leninist Communist model and the capitalist model) having been imposed through state force at various times and places.
Isn't this typically the job of an Attorney General?
It is crowdsourced; the best thing you can do is mark it as not spam. The most likely explanation for what happened here is PayPal are a bunch of filthy spammers, lots of users marked their mail as spam, and they use the same IPs or envelope senders to send service messages. Always use gold-plated IPs and return addresses for critical service messages.
Wage theft of exactly the form Instacart perpetuated has existed in the restaurant industry for a long time. This is not a Silicon Valley innovation. It's even enshrined into law in some US states, known as a "server wage."
It's actually a smart domain registrar unsubscribe once the goal is achieved!
Dude! it's been 10 years now. Where have you been all along? 'Like' button was added on February 9, 2009. And, it's not going anywhere
If you've purchased something, you've already paid. If you want your money back, you have to do the legwork, and about the only option you have is to get a refund from the place where you bought it.
The ones with very deep pockets who own the payday lending companies, of course.
A while back when Yahoo released inactive email addresses, I grabbed moore@yahoo.com. It was a nightmare. The account would receive 10,000+ emails a day. The inbox was full of insurance claims, social security numbers, mortgage applications, pay stubs, and more. In the end, I deleted the account since I didn't want the possible liability of the account.
This extends to: There's no good reason to trust computers... (including Apple)... there are exploits, negligence and malice left and right
I made the statement about economically feasible, not Shaw. Based on many readings of the Python developer comments, there wasn't enough people time + money to make that happen for mainline Python, that is, CPython.

Your statement is perhaps true about Python-the-language. CPython has additional constraints, including specific details of reference counting and extension APIs, as well as the desires of the current developers. You'll note all the work that PyPy has had to do for that level of compatibility, and it's still not perfect.

My comment was with respect to "Shaw also declared". Shaw's posting is, in my reading, obvious mockery and not a declaration of a truly held belief.

I don't see how a flamebait posting in a Reddit group titled "shittyprogramming" means much about the contents of his book or the topic of this thread.

Isn't there something more substantial about his opinions to criticize?
Consumers who run payday lending companies.
Isn't the problem less about predatory payday loans and more an existential issue around the fact that so many people can't afford to simply live?

People take these bad loans because they literally have no other choice. They are using these loans to buy groceries and cover bills, not splurge on non-essentials.
> Given that 'I don't know' isn't a lexical item but a phrase composed of at least four lexical items,

Well, the three words "I don't know", if fully realized, are only three lexical items.

English has three words that can be spoken without opening your mouth, with the meanings "yes", "no", and "I don't know". Yes and no are conventionally spelled "uh-huh" and "uh-uh", and consist of voicing interrupted by an [h] (in the case of yes) or a glottal stop (in the case of no).

The "I don't know" sequence consists of voicing broken into three tonal segments. It is a single three-syllable lexical item in which every syllable is "mm" (if your mouth is closed) or "uh" (if it's open), but which uses a tone sequence copied from the phrase "I don't know".

It's a good model for how languages develop tone in the first place.
I drove a stiffened up sports car in the area for years and the idea that Seattle has bad roads is ludicrous. The city of Seattle literally has an app where you can report potholes. I reported one on my street and it was fixed 2 days later with no further interaction from me.

For comparison, my parents' road in South Carolina is less than 5 miles from a major downtown and has a pothole in it that disabled an ambulance a few years ago. The pothole has been there for at least a decade.

People who live here have no idea how good they have it.
Just a note, unless you have negative edges, running V Dijkstra's is likely to perform better than Floyd Warshall. Dijkstra's gives you distance from a single node to all other nodes in V log E time. If you run it V times, you'll get V^2 log E, a substantial improvement upon V^3.

It also seems to me like it's likely to be easier parallelized, considering that the V runs of Dijkstra are completely independent.
> every website asks you to check the spam folder if the verification mail

This is not a registration email that you expect to receive after clicking somewhere on a website.

This is the kind of email that says "something important happened to your account you may not be aware of, you should really know this; if it wasn't you, you are now in danger".

(Of course in this case it was me, but the whole purpose of this type of email is to alert you promptly in case it wasn't you.)
A big part of what makes art good is taking risks. Safe art (e.g. Thomas Kinkade) is kind of boring (which is not to say it isn't enjoyable on its own terms).
No, what I'm saying is that we need to find some kind of way that balances protecting workers from exploitation with the kind of security that allows corporations to invest in workers' training.

Yes, one way, in theory, of doing that is by offloading training externalities to higher education. But that has its own tradeoffs, namely, the tendency of universities to adopt ivory-tower attitudes to education, the tendency of American higher education to inflate costs beyond any reasonable limit to afford facilities, services, and administration of dubious value to the education afforded the end consumer / student, and the tendency of universities to not educate with an eye to the skillsets which contemporary employers value.

Which is why the better way is to localize training efforts with the actors for whom it is most relevant. But corporate actors are not going to do "the right thing" in a vacuum, the law needs to empower them to do "the right thing", because typically "the right thing" will hurt any actor who does it in isolation but is bearable if all actors commit to doing it together. The easiest, safest, and most predictable way of making that happen is through law or regulation.
Say you have transactions which follow a complex supply chain... Sure you can reconstruct the path taken using recursive SQL, but you're also joining lots and lots of things together at runtime.

In a graph database, you've effectively taken your 'join' penalty at the point of ingestion and you have an expressive query syntax to describe the pattern you're trying to match.
great idea, which also warns about the websites it won't work on.

some require session authentication, so bot needs to login and THEN verify.
Virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines
The Fatal Ensnaring of Dan DePew
As someone who is stuck with Teams at work and uses Slack with a small circle of friends, I'd say Teams is mostly acceptable. If either one were to replace the other in either context, I wouldn't care.
It's leverage, but like any leverage (even low cost leverage) it could as easily of sank the parent insurance company if he lost that money in bad investments.
No, GP was right the first time. "Server wage" is exactly this — the employer pays less than the nominal minimum wage, and tips from customers are appropriated to make up the difference.
.eu = censored TLD, stay away from it

What's next? Registrar censorship of anti-EU ("fake news!") sites?
Stack Exchange, don't share my e-mail with Amazon without my express consent
Leedarson? (according to http://wastonchen.com/3973.html ) Never heard of them, they make good LEDs?
This new finding doesn't actually add much to my aversion, considering their past aggression against Tibet, internal mass killings before & during the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square, their standard practice of IP theft as ordinary business...

I fully understand that any purchase supports that govt.

So yes, I already consciously and deliberately avoid purchasing any Chinese item whenever there is an option or I don't strictly need it.

E.g., the laptop and MBoard in my desktop are from Taiwan, Phone for SKorea, etc. I check labels on everything from clothes to furniture, absolutely refuse to buy any food or drugs made there (nevermind boycotts, just avoiding toxicity).

I also advocate against such dealings when I can. Treating this Chinese govt as if it were normal and legitimate will go down as a geopolitical blunder of historic proportions. Westerners think we're exploiting their cheap labor, while they are actually exploiting our myopic focus on quarterly profits above all, even strategic security.
> The employees make about the same except with more stability, and there is no awkwardness.

This is my biggest gripe with tipping. It's just a crappy experience as a consumer, and a weird power dynamic for the employee. Promotes class divisions, and makes me feel kind of crappy. I just want everyone to get a fair deal and thats it...
Border wall plans threaten Monarch sanctuary
Domain squatting epidemic incoming.
What do you think is the end goal of Trump's "Muslim Ban"?
> Which consumers is the CPB protecting?

Those very same consumers. Large, established players do not want to even touch that customer base because it represents a high risk and a low payoff.

These are the only financial services these people have access to. Cutting that off is not a solution.

Encouraging competition and increasing the number of players will reduce the "obscene fees". People aren't stupid, they'll always pursue the lowest cost option.

A good article/video to listen about this topic:

https://reason.com/reasontv/2017/04/13/lisa-servon-banking-c...
The actual "cargo-culting" in K-12 education is opposing new ways of teaching because it's not how you learned when you were a kid. That's not that far from worshiping cargo boxes because you remember that one time that they had food in them.

As an example of new ways of teaching math, my daughter is in public school kindergarten and they are doing less arithmetic than I did as a kid, but they're already introducing concepts like number sets and bases.
I get it that you hate ads, but having a handful of DOM elements to show a word won't bump CPU usage in a measurable way.
>> There's a long history of ccTLD operators taking away domains for reasons similar to this.

Any references for this? Not doubting but interested.
Migrations in a strict relation database always guarantee correctness. It's the need to roll back that causes issues.

That is solved by not doing destructive changes (removing a column) until the software is stable and a few iterations have passed.

The issue of downtime is semi-valid but can likewise be worked around by batch migrating data in manageable chunks vs nuking.
Budget sequestration was a factor. Ships require increasing maintenance as they age, but the military budget was flat or declining.
The higher end line (Ledare?)
Not me, but my father in law, located in the midwest, is a sql dev. He's about to retire in a few years, switched jobs a few years back. From what he tells me, they didn't care that he was going to retire soon, they needed his skillset.

Location probably matters. My (also midwest) company was foaming at the mouth for a competent Java/SAP developer (which, forgive me for being catty, seems like a technology only a 40+ yr old would fill) a few years ago, never found anybody, position was never filled.
Agreed. Productivity is just another word for control. The trend is to transfer control away from the developer and to the identity provider (OAuth2), app store (Apple/Google), search engine (AMP), cloud provider (AWS serverless), content author (Wordpress), ad exchange (DoubleClick), CTO (microservices) etc. Not necessarily good or bad, but no reason to expect that trend to reverse.
Transitioning to a career in data science
That's a pretty condescending answer and pretending age discrimination isn't real doesn't help anything.
Would you be willing to talk further about this? My email is [redacted] if you're willing.
This is an amazing writeup. I'm currently solving the "migrations" problem for a side project of my own, and have basically resolved myself in the short term to be OK with short downtime for the sake of making migrations somewhat trivial.

And honestly? I hate this answer. As a solo dev it's pragmatic, but the solutions described in this article are _SO NICE_ that I'd love to leverage them.

If there's any way that those deprecate_column and rename functionalities could make their way into OSS/upstream support, I'd have a field day. (Those who know more about PG than I do and perhaps may be able to suggest another workaround, feel free, I'm very much learning this space as I go)

If nothing else, thanks to the benchling team for taking the time to write such a clear yet technical expose. This really hit the sweet spot of "explanations without uneccessary verbosity, technical without being impenetrable, and giving sufficient explanations of motivations and tradeoffs/pitfalls" and will give me a north star for where I aim my own DB work.
Nobody said it wasn't legal according to specs, but that it's suspicious. And it is. Having a "From" header in the email that doesn't match the sender used for SMTP _is_ suspicious, and certainly should be an input signal for any spam filter.
I'd like to use Instagram if it had a way to turn off likes. I'd like a way to share pics with my friends without the weird feeling of expecting likes, it just changes the dynamic of the whole thing.

"I want to show you this, with no expectation of a return." would make Instagram a lot more interesting and less fake.
You're probably a young'n. This is what everybody thinks until they hit the point in their life where they realize there is more to life than just work (family, friends, hobbies, etc). You'll be complaining soon enough.
Agree 100%. This is quite literally the only place I post anything online anymore, and it's been that way for some years now. I never had accounts with Twitter, Instagram, etc. Only Facebook because it was new when I was in college and a bunch of people suggested I sign up. I never really gave a shit about it, honestly. Didn't post that much. Commented on a few things. Never posted pictures. Gave it up many years ago.

But, I did have a tendency to get into arguments on forums of other sites, including YouTube of all places. Most were news/political sites, though. I stopped commenting on any sites other than this one for many of the same reasons. It's just not worth it and is a giant time suck to comment elsewhere. I absolutely love not seeing asinine responses to my comments where I get enraged and then feel obligated to respond to counter that idiocy. I hated that feeling but was obsessed with proving myself. I do not miss that at all whatsoever.
Was unable to get my Jabra Elite 65t to connect to my Surface Book at work. Glad to know it wasn't any fault of my own. Will avoid Jabra in the future.
You're claiming that 100 people in his position, would not do as well.

Therefore he was different. If it was simply a matter of self-made difference, all his peers could do that too. Which means whatever it is, is something he was born with.

Why does he get credit for being born different? Does he get credit for being male as well?

Either it's something any of his peers could do, and he's not special, so why praise him, or it's something nobody else could do, so he was born with it, and why praise him?

It’s been 25+ years and basically none of them did anything with their lives

Did any of them have the situation to be the provider of the dominant OS of the dominant computer platform of the last 30 years? Why do you think that isn't enough to account for "far, far better" all on its own?
This is all infuriating to read as a civilian. This is what we get for all the billions we pour into the military?

At least some heads rolled for it. But based on what I'm reading here, the problem is systemic.
Right, 'speeding' is an infraction that results from regulating traffic. Nobody suggests that lobbying should not be regulated (and guess what, it is!). OP suggested that lobbying should be illegal. The equivalent to that in your analogy is to ban cars.
Here is the best argument in favor of the change:
>> if the rule had kicked in, some two-thirds of borrowers wouldn't qualify for a payday loan

If the above is true (and not fake news), I would like to understand how the industry was expected to survive with 2/3rd of its customer base taken away in an instant; and what alternative services these customers would have been routed to...