skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising is generally seasonal as it's a lot more common for people to spend money around the holidays than it is for them to spend money in Q1. Therefore, fewer companies buy advertising in Q1 because the audience of people who will buy their product is smaller. There are a few exceptions to this rule (Mcdonalds, Coke, etc), and they only do that because their business model is essentially to advertise so much you think about them subconsciously. If they stopped advertising for 3 months, this trick would lose a lot of power.

This isn't limited to ads btw, when I used to work at a restaurant we'd be noticeably slower during Q1 because people had less money saved (or were more aware of how much they have been spending lately). Similarly, when I worked retail our store "goals" were much lower as well (they usually picked up again late spring/early summer).
As another linked article attests, this milk doesn’t do anything in regards to lactose. It instead is a milk that uses a less common (in the Western World) A2 type of Casein Protein instead of A1 type. There are various health claims about A2 and A1 that have nothing to do with lactose intolerance. Lactose is a sugar in milk, and casein the main protein component.
"There is no current scientific evidence that A2 milk has nutrition and health benefits beyond regular milk"

- Greg Miller, chief science officer at the National Dairy Council in the U.S.
Big congrats to BigCommerce. I absolutely hate Shopify and any alternative to them is a good thing in my book.

I did try BigCommerce, but there were many issue with them. The software was very slow, and the app ecosystem was rather incomplete. From what I understand from talking to one developer, they weren't able to dependibly connect to the API without throttling or losing connection.

I don't really know if BC is a viable alternative to Shopify, but the e-commerce space is very much unsolved. No other industry in the world would tolerate Shopify, Solid Commerce, Channel Advisor, and Megento, and so on, as their top platforms. It's a sad mess of uninformed companies attempting to build for an industry they have zero knowledge of, and the sellers are squeezed dry for systems with broken and missing features.
$2500 is on the low end, some shops in the Seattle area with everything you are looking at near $4k.
'Rules of evidence can and do let many perpetrators free' - yeah, justice lets people walk away from the heinous crimes of "walking behind the wife of his white employer" and "denouncing her husband’s lynching by a rampaging white mob". This is so jaw-droppingly idiotic you must be deliberately trolling. Did you read the article at all or you were to busy single handedly rewriting history to read any of it?
I second you on the keyboard issues but I haven’t had any issues with the trackpad. Actually, for me it is nice that is large and it has always been precise.
Been a long time since I've seen an Ask HN from someone looking for strategies to get their car running again.
Fonterra is a co op - you are literally buying from the farmers as directly as is sane. Seriously I wish people would stop just going “you should just have Uber for X” every time they hear about something that isn’t advertised as “Uber for X”

The alternative (directly dealing with numerous separate farmers) and then finding a company to do the transport and processing would be stupidly inefficient.
Fake news, financed by YCombinator. For real. Who will believe a YC company spokesperson now?
> If you compare that to paying for a dietitian, it's actually not TOO bad. BUT, I think churn will be high due to price.

Could the high pricing be because this is really a guide to a solution -- once customers have need for a guide, they'll stop using the service; that is, churn is naturally built in due to the nature of the service.
Wow I did not know that, thanks!
Bionic beaver (Ubuntu 18.04) released
Yes, but that already happened.
I used to believe the same thing and then I moved to an urban area.

Now it suggests something entirely different to me. In particular, I think the casual disregard for "the rules" in heavy traffic is an amplified reflection of the "putting yourself first" values of American society (though surely not unique to it). I think the amplification comes from the relative anonymity of individuals in vehicles, the actual lack of consequences for breaking "the rules", and the "fear of missing out" after seeing other road users benefit from breaking them.

In the past, I've seen extending the yellow light times trotted out as a way to improve intersection safety (as opposed to enforcing not entering on red). That analysis, in my estimation, hinges on the idea that drivers are accidentally running red lights. From what I can tell, that is not the case. I believe attentive drivers run red lights because it saves them a whole signal cycle. I don't even think extending interlock (all directions red) times would have a meaningful impact on safety as I suspect users would quickly adjust to it, as they do to adjustments to the speed limit.

I can imagine someone making the claim that intentionally running a recently red light is not actually dangerous. I've not searched for any data in this respect, but common sense suggests the benefit is far outweighed by the risk.

On the subject of speed limits. In at least some cases, speed limits are intentionally set to a speed lower than the road's design speed. Experience has shown that the posted speed limit provides an anchoring effect on most road users. Increasing the posted speed limit to the speed that the "majority" of traffic travels at often has the effect of increasing the speed of traffic on the roadway.

The underlying principles of the rules with respect to speed, right of way, and traffic control signals are in my opinion reasonable in dense urban areas. I think there is a strong disconnect between the perceived risk of operating a vehicle and the actual risk of operating a vehicle.
Oh my goodness, I love icarus verilog, I wish there was a push to get to icarus systemverilog...

... or a more recent version of the verilog standards ...
>engineers need a language that treats machine learning as a “first class citizen”

Machine/Deep Learning are not some novel application, we've been multiplying matrices since forever.
Amazon Alexa to reward kids who say: 'Please'
This is called "whataboutism." Other people made similar mistakes, so it justifies this mistake because it's smaller by comparison.
Absolutely agree! Im Kazakh.
I should be able to blacklist it from showing up when I look at hacker news, either by the grace of the ycombinator site or via a custom client. Does this exist?
I have one and am a bit indifferent to it. Personally I slightly prefer the older version but it isn't a big deal. I also am kind of indifferent to the touch bar. It looks neat but is not that useful except in one or two apps.

Overall I think Apple reached and then slightly overshot the point of no more returns on "thin and light."
Don’t use slurs like that here.
Like most twitter innovations, this convention started years before that. I noticed it with stocktwits.
> Rich neighborhoods often have much better roads than poor neighborhoods under our current system. I don't know that it would be any worse under a system where roads were privatized.

Do they? Better how? Maybe they're slightly better in the "potholes get fixed sooner" sense, but I'm worried more about poor/rural roads being abandoned because they're not profitable to maintain. Or worse, shunted back to government in a "privatize the profit, socialize the costs" scenario.

I'm curious to see a detailed plan if there's one floating around that has some steam behind it, as a lot of this of course depends on the details of how privatization is implemented. But if the argument starts and ends with "Well, privatizing things is inherently good, why should roads be different?" then I'm strongly against. If you want to up-end a perfectly functional transit system in a radical and poorly-understood way, the upside has to be a lot clearer than "I don't know that it would be any worse under a system where roads were privatized"!
Just as fair, is why would they? There are plenty of languages besides English which use the Latin alphabet, and plenty of keyboard variants out there. Crikey, even within English, there are those who prefer non-QWERTY layouts. Find a mapping that makes sense for the language, which, from an admittedly non-native eye, it appears they've done.
The Saga Pattern
And even if they somehow do manage to do it, I'm not sure at all that any lasting improvement will be made. An urban planner friend tells me that people decide where to live based on commute time, not miles driven. So if you put in more roadway, people move to cheaper places farther out, using more road-miles than before, at least until the speeds drop back down. ￼￼￼￼￼￼￼
Ask the Ukrainians about "current realities".
The maximum deceleration of a vehicle is g times the tangent of the angle from the center of mass to the front wheel contact point.

On a sidewalk, a safe stopping distance is about 1 meter. Because of the small angle, safe speed for scooters and skateboards is about the same as walking.

Also, the small non-pneumatic wheels are easily stopped by cracks and small objects.

They are far less safe than bicycles, which are excluded from sidewalks, and riding them on roads with vehicle traffic is suicidal. I guarantee that this will be born out by accident data soon.

I’ve spent years of my life on the road by my own power, and I am certain that I would be dead many times over if I were on a scooter instead of a bicycle.

When the streets of SF are wide open because the cars got kicked out, ride whatever you want. Until then, ride a bike. Ride a big long frame with steel-spoked wheels. E-bike if you must, and don’t mind me trying to keep up with you with an aging meat motor.
There are browser extensions which support that, as well as other features ("cleaner" UI, thread collapsing before it was in core, inline reply, etc). Explore a few, you might find something you like.
You mean when there was still academia. There isn't anymore. It's been replaced with vocational training.
I wonder how well it would work to price it based on income? I love the idea of doing that with speeding fines and the like. Perhaps doing it for the roads wouldn't be bad either. Call it value-based pricing.
I find it overestimates traffic lights sometimes, on a medium road next to a grid neighborhood to turn right on another medium road, generally has you cut the corner by one block to avoid the light, even if you can't ever make it out into traffic before the light changes anyway.

Try and safely pay attention to wazes route and ignore it sometimes, but it's generally correct.

And you can send audio prompts to a phone speaker instead of Bluetooth, unlike gmaps, so that's also useful.
I'm a Russian speaker who listens to Okean Elzy and I heartily give this suggestion a thumbs up.
Experience is gained on the job, not during education.
> and its been working great for them.

If money is all that you count. Switching from low-impact sheep farming (especially in the South Island) to dairy has basically ruined the environment. It's NZ's worst kept secret. I guess it will take something like Japan's "四大公害病" to make everyone wake up
Previous versions were of a different design such that you could shove a small sandwich under the keys and they'd still work.
Facebook killed my favorite real community's local discussion forum on their own hosted website. Everyone just uses the Facebook group now and so I can't just leave facebook which leaving the communication I have with this group.
It's not free. The price is agreeing to allow your private data to be mined forever. You're the product, not the customer.
Well rounded education? No such thing anymore.
2011, and the iPhone 4s was released a few days after he died.
What other meaning did it displace?
I've been saying this for years. Try asking your dentist or doctor how much something will cost. Most of the time they just tell you well we bill your insurance and then your insurance figures out your cost. Once in a while I can get a cost within 10 minutes, but that makes it impossible to shop around. It should take them a few moments 90% of the time to give me a quote with only exotic procedures being the exception.

Is it so hard to provide a real-time cost? It might not be easy now, but we have the damn technology. System is broken. Mandate this, give them a deadline to implement. They have deep pockets, the engineers and tech exists, delivering it within 3 years should be mandated. Let me shop around cuz capitalism...

You want to cut healthcare costs? This is something 100% of congress can back, even with a hefty lobby against it. Cruz and Sanders could co-sponsor this for Christ-sake, thats how non-partisan this is.
No. Fax is a specific communication medium where you can send physical documents to others, and was replaced by email because email was a general communication medium that was more accessible (everyone had it), and didn't have as high costs to accessibility especially for non business users (fax machine).

The current trend is actually the reverse: general communication is being replaced by specific communication that is better suited for the type of communication it is. Social, pictures, group chat, business collaboration, negotiation/agreement, etc - email CAN function as the medium but is not ideal, whereas the apps that replace email streamline the communication experience.
Likely they're referring to ML, the programming language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_%28programming_language%29
I can't comment on what the US allows, but the normal process of standardising and homogenising doesn't involve any additives. The fats and a liquid known as permeate are separated from the milk via centrifuges and filters. Then the parts are tested and recombined to produce a given level of fat, protein and lactose. After this the milk is homogenised by forcing through a screen which breaks up the fats and then pasteurised. There's no need for additives in this process as milk is naturally an emulsion.

One reason for homogenisation is the pasteurisation process causes the fats to clump together and rise. This is exploited when making clotted cream.

Personally I buy non-homogenised milk as I prefer the taste, but that's just me,
Come to Baltic states. Some people went as far as refusing to speak Russian during Soviet times. Now many young people don't speak Russian and don't even try to because of anti-Russian position.

Personally I don't respond in Russian if I'm sure the person was born or lived here for decades. If they look like tourists, I try to help with few Russian words I know or ask if they speak English... Old good pointing at the map goes a long way too.
Great. Does this support persisting to disk RDB[1] or AOF[2]?

Pricing seems reasonable?

1GB of Redis data is $0.049 per GB hour. 730 hours in a month = $0.049 * 1 * 730 = $35.77/mo.

5GB of Redis data is $0.027 per GB hour. 730 hours in a month = $0.027 * 5 * 730 = $98.55/mo.

[1][2] https://redis.io/topics/persistence
Charge by a multiple of the number of unoccupied seats in the car. 2 seater with 1 person? 1x fee. SUV that seats 7 with one person? 6x fee. Motorcycle is free!
I did. No issues. I like it, it works.
Correct, there's no such thing as grain-fed dairy in NZ, though you can get some grain-finished beef. Dairy cows are supplemented with palm kernel cake though which has some controversy around it.
You are getting a lot of disagreeing comments, but I do believe you're right.
No, it isn't that big a deal to pick up a new alphabet, especially not a closely related one like anything in the Latin/Greek/Cyrillic family. But yes, it does make a difference in the absorbtion of a new language whether you are somehow submerged in it, and can run the osmosis routine on it.

Having had peek access to all Western European languages since the day I learned to read has clearly helped me gain early access to the style and idiosyncracy of each. Not that I can read them as such, but I can with some confidence pick out basic meaning from simple text in more or less all Indo-European languages written in some kind of Latin letters. For very basic meaning, this includes languages like Polish and Czech. It does not include Russian, unless I make some extra effort.

I actually know more Russian than Polish, but would no doubt have an easier time learning the latter. It does tend to matter what you had chiselled on your brain at age three or four.
How to Drive Change as a Software Engineer
Education is developing people's intellect and reasoning ability, turning them into members of civilized society.
It is not job training.

And the fact that the former has been replaced with the latter shows: the US is no longer a society, let alone a civilized one.
>Well, what if you don't?

This is kind of a silly question. Its always possible to subvert a safe construct system if you try hard enough. You can write unsafe blocks in rust. You can pass in a callback to a nursery, as is described in the article.

>The proposed construct does not require that

Well, kind of. The article actually explicitly states that

>Here's a simpler primitive that would also satisfy our flow control diagram above. It takes a list of thunks, and runs them all concurrently:

which is equivalent to promise.all, satisfies the invariant nurseries do, except in very specific circumstances (unbounded while loop-y constructs). And you just simply can't use promise.all in that situation.
BigCommerce ships with a lot more features for B2B and enterprise out of the box, than Shopify.

To get a Shopify store configured to the B2B & enterprise features of BigCommerce you need a fair amount of 3rd party apps, bubblegum and duct tape
From the article:

> In 2017, the average L.A. commuter spent 102 hours in rush hour traffic, making it the most congested city in the world

Having lived in Jakarta and Bangkok, this is extremely hard to believe. LA is horrible for a supposed first world country, sure, but it's nothing like some of the asian megacities. 102 hours a year? I'd wager many jakartans spend 102 hours per month!

Very questionable reporting IMO.
I am not entirely comfortable with that. There are legitimate reasons someone may be driving a larger vehicle by themselves, and what you suggest seems a lot like trying to make it a moral punishment, assuming that everyone who has unoccupied seats is unnecessarily luxurious.

Ultimately I like the idea of using weight. We have weigh-in-motion scales already, and the relationship between weight and road damage is well understood.
Also great for scripting chat bots! Used to as part of Air New Zealand's chatbot Oscar. 390 topics, multiple regions, 60K words of content so it helps keep us sane :)
I'm frankly amazed these things aren't instantly stripped for their batteries. How long does an unattended bicycle last in San Francisco? Minutes?
You're totally right. The issue is although people are promoting #deleteFacebook, there's no other alternatives with widespread adoption to replace each person's Facebook network.

Having said that, there's movers in the space - we just need more adoption. I'm looking at a new wave of products like Sociall to step up: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sociall

Though maybe there's already existing products out there that could pivot to claim some of facebook's space.
The thing is that in some village in India there is probably some real dude with that very name, and he probably has no idea why some nerds think it is funny.
WeWork owes $18B in rent and is burning through cash as it seeks more funding
It seems every other day something on HN makes me glad we built an open source platform to empower people and unite communities.

Open source removes a lot of the criticism in this article. The trick is to make it powerful and easy to use enough to compete with Facebook. Like Wordpress or Discourse do a great job doing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1O_gmPneI
You can skip straight to the assessments without watching any videos or doing any labs, if that's what you mean. But you need to complete the assessments if you want to get a certificate at the end.
Rules and regulations require trade-offs. The YC types that run these companies notice the inefficiencies resulting from these trade-offs, recognize the opportunity to profit from them and arrogantly assume they have the right to ignore any rule they can't immediately see the harm in breaking; either because they aren't / wouldn't be affected by the negative externalities the rule is mitigating, so they don't understand why it exists, or, more often than not, because they don't really give a fuck about anything other than making money and being big-time shot-callers.
What frustrates you about Shopify that you wish could be better?
One would think but converting from pdf is pretty crappy and the results meh at best in my experience.
Those prices are not per hour, but per GB-hour. So multiply your second monthly price by 5. Not cheaper for more data, but definitely cheaper per GB.
If I do the following:

let visFilter = 'foo';
const newState = match (action) {
{type: 'set-visibility-filter', filter: visFilter} => console.log(visFilter)
}

What happens?

Is it checking if action.type === 'set-visibility-filter' && action.filter === 'foo' or is it destructuring the value of action.filter into visFilter?
Maybe - just maybe - if you can't figure out how to twist half of an oval shaped piece of dough 180 degrees to form something resembling an infinity symbol or whether you want fat or lean meat in your dumplings, maybe critiquing "instructional rationalism" isn't productive. Did you want the author to also explain that this process is generally done in the kitchen?
Oops. Duh, that makes more sense. Updated.
A followup: The GNU project was born while I was in junior high, gcc started when I was a senior in high school. Linux was started when I was in college.

Stallman, in a very real sense, made my entire career possible. Likely yours too.
but it assumed students know

You jumped straight in at the 8th course in the programme and are complaining that it assumes you know something?

So many people on this thread looking for any nitpick they can, we get it guys, you just hate Microsoft. This isn't for you, then, no-one's pointing a gun at your head and saying, take this free course.
Having just now commuted to the office (not driving, I'm not native) in Hyderabad, India, I have a whole different viewpoint on the road rules we have in the states :). This is the very definition of casual disregard for the rules, by comparison in America we are puritanical.

In the end I support data-driven lawmaking. We know that speed limits are ignored by 90% of everyone, and we know very well how road design parameters such as lane width affect the way people drive. I think we should ditch speed limits altogether in the city and focus on these things which work.

The actual risk of driving a vehicle is astoundingly low given the physics involved. Wrecks are somewhat common but injuries relative rare and death is such a remote possibility that most people can disregard it compared to all the other ways the universe is out to get them :-).
Everything. It's just awful.

All apps break, costing incredible money, hyperactive policies that toss sellers under the bus, they blame everyone else and nothing is their fault. Well, okay, every developer is a moron and Shopify is perfect.
I could not agree more. I started a wholesale business 4 years ago and needed a website where my customers could place and track their orders while I could control the business using the back office. None of the solutions on the market offered even majority of the features I needed without trying to charge me close to a thousand dollars per month on top of setup fees.
It does feel like the solutions are thought of and built by people who never ran a ecommerce wholesale/retail business.