skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, those are interesting points, although it seems like both can be addressed with a simple cover over the trunk.

I think you’re right that SUVs and crossovers are taking over, from both sedans and traditional hatchbacks.

It must just be fashion, as SUVs don’t have any real advantage -- most people never do any off-roading or haul large sports equipment, and most “SUVs” wouldn’t be up to the job anyway.
As someone who used to coerce people into doing things that were ultimately good for them, I find that this definition is too close to a moral hazard for my liking.

Let me attempt another.

We have within us a large set of goals. Some of our short term goals are directly at odds with our long term goals.

When we persuade we appeal to a person's long term goals in a way that silences complaints from their competing short term goals.

When we manipulate, we exploit or subvert the short term goals to achieve a result. Whether the manipulation is ethical or not depends on whether the goal we chose supports or undermines the target's long term goals. This is subject to re-evaluation at any time, but it was always a manipulation.

There are professions where we pay people to manipulate us. Therapists, personal trainers, body workers, all are capable of manipulating our lizard brain, tricking it into doing something it really doesn't want to do. Why? To get us something we always wanted (or previously had).

Motivational speakers and coaches try to persuade. They get you so excited about your long term goals that you shout down the disruptive voice in your head that tells you you can't, that you're not good enough, that it's too hard.
For some of my clients (Medical Practices & Plumbers) being able to send appointment reminders via text has been a huge improvement in their workflow. Their customers get timely information without interrupting their day, about the only thing missing is a secure delivery medium. We've explored Signal & Whatsapp integration, but I think we're still a few years off from anything taking off.
For a company that has consistently been FAR below their production target, that's the difference between a press marketing material and reality.
Tesla may be "normal" looking where you come from but the are pretty easy to spot here because they are wider than pretty much every other car.
We did evaluate it. Some of the things off the top of my head that I think Fusion.js does better:

- isomorphic treeshaking

- more powerful bundle splitting (i.e. lazy loading can happen in any component rather than only at "page" level)

- async server-side rendering is composable via HOCs rather than only at top-level getInitialProps

- more things are provided by the team via plugins (e.g. I18N, CSRF protection, atomic CSS, async font loading, etc)

- better support for maintaining server-side complexity (e.g. by using Koa + DI system to make testing/mocking easier)

- out-of-band brotli level 11 compression for static assets

The team is about a dozen people now and we've been working on Fusion.js for over a year, so there's probably other stuff I'm forgetting right now :)
There's a massive amount of demand here in Europe: the car is the right size, the right price qualifies for all of the tax benefits. They also have 0 competition. I expect there to be a waiting list for the next couple of years unless they keep boosting production..
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On mobile, the whole story is displayed on one page, so presumably you could just do the same thing on the desktop.
What if I guess they aren't making enough profit or selling enough cars to make the runway calculations moot?

I mean, people basically said the same about Groupon. "Once they become profitable the losses won't matter." Except Groupon hardly turned out to be the juggernaut that rewrote how commerce is done.
"The average new car buyer is now 51.7 years old and earns about $80,000 per year" [1]

In a study from 2003 the new car buyer income was $69,875 [2] which is $96,905.51 in 2018 dollars [3]

[1]
http://www.autonews.com/article/20150804/RETAIL03/150809938/...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/cex/anthology/csxanth8.pdf

[3] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=69%2C875&year1...
There are a lot of automotive buying decisions where you can save $15k by purchasing a smaller, slower, uglier car. It’s not a choice people always make.
I'm surprised more people aren't saying this. Many people are forgetting that the manipulator doesn't sincerely believe what they are trying to get you to believe. They're hypocritically pushing you in a direction they will not go. How many of the ad executives who advertised cigarettes in the 90s smoked? Do you think Phillip Morris knew that cigarettes caused lung cancer? If so, the advertising was a form of manipulation.

As another example, if your girlfriend is trying to talk you into something that you know she wouldn't do herself, that's manipulative as well.
>It’s important to view each article as a distinct product that requires a budget, has a clear purpose and performance goals, and also needs a distribution strategy.

The reality is, the guide he created was a product on it's own. While he ended up with "product" market fit for that piece of content on his first try, this is rare.

>We’ll start off with the tutorials, since it is better suited for expensive, amazing content that will allow us to impress and attract 3rd party communities.

To find product market fit, you need to solve a problem. Since you know who your target market is (the main niche influencers), identify real problems they have and solve these problems with your product (content). In this case, the solution was making a more user friendly product than what was available on the market. Some markets are saturated with user friendly content, you will need to make your content 10x better than the rest.

You will know you have solved their problem, and found product market fit, if they distribute your content.

The questions I have are: what is the MVP equivalent for content? How do I know if the content I am creating really solves the searchers problems 10x better than the alternative before spending thousands of dollars on the content?
Perhaps hatchback is seen as teenager's or poor person's car
But if you've already pumped your new RSUs into investments and have a lot of money saved up, go for it! It's fun!
Well, C# LINQ inherits laterally from F# which pulls it from a long tradition of ML languages, which in turn inherits it from granddaddy Lisp and it's OG code-is-data-is-code principle.

I agree that most people that think of LINQ as "just another set of collection functions" miss the "code-as-data" bit that can make it truly shine, but .NET isn't the only place that can be found. The most unique thing about it is that C# was the first ALGOL descendant deigning to add some modest code-as-data chunks to its compiler. ;)
I wouldn't call Twilio charges per message in Germany ($0.0850) or in Brazil ($0.0570) "little". WhatsApp is much bigger in these markets than in the US.
Could you please share your tech stack?
The preferred nomenclature is "Micro$haft".
That's somewhat the point. It humanizes these "famous people" by showing that their actual "work" (literally in the case of Newton and others) wasn't that different from anyone else's.
And what about all the small businesses that could grow from providing them an advertising outlet to their customers on WhatsApp? What about countries where it's difficult to make online payments, or credit card fraud is rampant? What about processing fees? What about necessary price fluctuations as the infrastructure grows? What about user growth?
"and that the solution is for a non-profit lending organisation to offer the loans"

As I said above, the major issues are (i) effective underwriting, and (ii) efficient operations.

The better you can distinguish good customers from bad (better data and better models), the less money you lose to people that don't pay back. The better your tools to serve customers, the more customers you can serve without needing to increase the size of your team.

By reducing costs, you can charge less, get more customers etc.

A non-profit would face exactly those same two challenges, just to break even. Not needing to make a profit would have a much much smaller impact on its ability to reduce prices, than the two factors I mention.
They're talking about building a factory in Europe too, either in The Netherlands or in Germany.
> Value creation is not a zero-sum game.

Who said it was?

> A cooperative selling the same products and services as, say, Amazon might not make the same profit.

It might make more. It might make less because it's paying it's workers more fairly.

> Coherent vision and leadership can contribute a lot to the value creation process.

Yes, this is also labour and should receive a fair value. Everyone in the company is a worker but "unless the owners are adding billions in value by themselves they are paying people less than the true value of their work".
Appointment reminders can be useful though!
Hmm, I dunno. Seems like this is duck-type'able.

If you are seeking to degrade someone's decision making, you're manipulating.

If you are feeling like your decisions process is being degraded, you're being manipulated.

For the first case, it doesn't mean that you're succeeding. For the second case, that doesn't mean it's their intention.

I'd then also say you can duck-type the opposite (which I wouldn't really call persuasion, but anyway) - if you seek to empower someone's decision making, well, then there's no reason to beat yourself up over which you're doing. (If someone says you're being manipulative tho, take it as a bug report - but again, since your intentions are solid, no reason to beat yourself up over it).
Toyota went from selling 19,000 Prius' in 2000 to 281,000 Prius in the same timescale. It becomes even more impressive when you realize that before the Prius, there was no market for green cars, hybrid, electric, or otherwise. Amazing!!!

[1] Even more impressive is that these are sales of a single model...
Yes, Intellij and Eclipse are IDEs, like Atom.
Indeed, Finland is a model state in so many ways. That is why they can do with schools stuff that likely won't fit the immediate needs of inner-city US minorities: Finns can have short school times because parents have flexible working arrangements, generous subsidies, free healthcare and so on. Finnish kids go home to solid families that can make time for them without sacrificing their wealth; American kids go home to parents who are overworked, absent, or even addicted -- especially the poorer ones. In that situation, it's much better to keep them in school doing activities for as long as possible.

To be honest, you don't even have to go as far as the US, there are very similar issues in European banlieues and the likes. Long school hours used to be a typical postwar demand of progressive worker-rights movements, because it freed parents (especially women) to pursue career advancement and focused kids on academic achievement. I am a product of that sort of system, myself: from the age of 6 to the age of 12, I would be in school from 8:30am to 4:30pm, 5 days a week - plus an optional extra hour at both ends because my parents couldn't pick me up sooner. Unfortunately, after the social regression of the last 20 years, that kind of system is slowly disappearing in Europe too, and for all the bad reasons (cost-cutting).
The Volkswagen GTI and Golf R would like a word with you.
Ah that's right. I guess I've found video adapter dongles more annoying than the proprietary power connector.
Performative scolding is about the egos of those who initiate it or perform it. It's not about the goals of a movement like environmental action. It's a "social disease" free of any particular ideology, and it is a destructive epidemic.
Well then send them to a different school
My professor says that it would be like calling astonomy telescope science. In Danish it is called "Datalogi" the teaching of data because the founder of danish computer science, Peter Nauer, called it that.
If 'x' marks the notch of a rod of length "1", [0---------x------------1], then the implied ratio is not x/(1-x), but x/1 (so the ratio is always < 1.) Even so, your question could be "what is the information content of 1/7" (the presumed implication being that 1/7, while periodic, has an infinite decimal representation.)

But that is not the direction we are interested in. We would like, given a message, such as "l-o-v-e", or 12-15-22-05, or 0.12152205, to figure out what is the ratio that uniquely specifies it. As we can only mark one notch, we can create "only" h ~= 10^35 ratios, or represent h unique messages. We know how to distinguish between h unique elements with log(h) bits (we just enumerate them from 1 to h and write that number down in binary.)
Who are you to dictate what I should do with my hard-earned money? As long as you can comfortably afford it without any debt, spend the money on what you are enthusiastic on.

Next time you are buying groceries, laptops, or go to a restaurant, I am going to point out all your laughably poor decisions of not spending your money on the absolutely cheapest options.
My non-tech friends can and have and do install signal, I’m pleased to say! It costs nothing, takes them a few minutes, and there’s no downside for them. I use it all the time.
I mean, unironically, yes. Prius is one of the most remarkable cars ever, even if actual car enthusiasts weren't very enthused.
No, square is fundamentally geared towards long-tail consumer retail, not peer-to-peer payments, and it's very credit card oriented. They still would not even be comparable.
That's not true. TypeScript spec is just the latest JavaScript spec. Decorators are a JavaScript (TC39 stage 2) proposal, and TypeScript only uses them if you use --experimentalDecorators. And TypeScript uses the ECMAScript module system. Whatever other features you think TypeScript has that aren't "proper JS" probably are either already JS, or are late-stage TC39 proposals.
You can see some of David Beazley's presentations on YouTube. He presents regularly at PyCon and other conferences. He's also the author of Python Essential Reference and the editor of Python Cookbook, 3rd Edition.

One of my favorite presentations of his that gives a flavor of his instruction style is "Python Concurrency from the Ground Up" at PyCon 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4

I saw this one live, but I think the recording is good quality. He live codes a Python 3 highly concurrent, generator-based TCP server that does fibonacci calculations, if I recall correctly.

One of the YouTube comments gets it right, it's "The Jimi Hendrix of Python﻿".

The prior course I took with him was called "Writing a Compiler (in Python)". I think I took it the first time it was offered, in 2012. In that course, we implemented a programming language that was a (very small) subset of GoLang, by building the entire parser/compiler in Python. So, in 5 days, you learned all about compiler theory, and wrote your own compiler (in Python) for this GoLang-style language. The last day, we peeled away the layers of the onion for how PyPy is implemented under the hood, using our newfound compiler toolchain knowledge. It was really fun. He has a very engaging presentation style and a fascination with computing that is infectious. You leave the course energized and happy to be a programmer.
Why is it "very clearly" not theirs? Antoinette's is written with perfect-looking calligraphy; I suspect she was capable of that. And ya, the Hawking one is just his thumb-print but still kinda cool no-less and in a similar spirit to the others.
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Good point! I'd adjust it a bit tho - I'd say that that's one way to manipulate, but not all of them. In my [uneducated on this topic] opinion.
Doesn’t Facebook make $100per user per year in the US off ads? If WhatsApp can get anywhere near that there would be no reasistic price point which people would actually pay that would work for Facebook.
iPhones represent about 15% of global smartphone shipments, but over 90% of profits. Google intended to commoditise smartphones with Android and largely achieved that aim; nobody is making much money from Android handsets. iOS (and the luxury cachet of the brand) gives Apple a moat that allows them to make meaningful profits on their devices.

Apple's operating margin hovers around 22%, but their gross margin on iPhones is well over 50%. A lot of the difference is tax trickery - Apple funnel a large proportion of profits to offshore companies, which doesn't appear on their balance sheet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_erosion_and_profit_shifti...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey....
I mean it is impressive. But Toyota was not really a startup with no manufacturing experience in 2000.

Edit: Just reading the post twice. Tesla took 7 years to go from ~0 to 250K annually. Toyota took 18 years. Not really an apple to apple comparison
I was going to say you’re wrong, but apparently in the US you’re right! Very strange.

I think that is a US-specific thing.

For some reason US customers prefer sedans (maybe some of the reasons given by other commenters) and that has probably skewed the market a bit (e.g. hatchbacks are only sold at higher trim levels since they’re marketed as a niche product).

Edit to add: and maybe there’s a feedback effect too? Hatchbacks are more expensive because they’re less popular, so then they’re less popular because they’re more expensive.
They're still making the Mustang, but I suppose that's technically a 2+2 rather than a sedan.
Large cars are safer. The IIHS publishes a stat they call "driver deaths per million registered vehicle years." Check it out: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/on-the-road-again-...

Notice a pattern? All of the safest cars (including the handful in which nobody died) are large. Mostly SUVs and pickups, with a few luxury sedans thrown in. All of the least safe cars are small. Many of them are tiny.

Incidentally, electric cars tend to be very safe for their size because the battery makes them weigh more. I'm all for that-- I'm just saying that Americans' love of large cars isn't entirely irrational. Some very unlucky Ford Fiesta drivers would still be alive if they'd been behind the wheel of a Jeep Cherokee.
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Couldn't agree more. It's also not the point I'm making.

Parent comment used the example of the 89 mile range Honda Clarity as evidence you don't get competitive battery range on non-Tesla cars. This is demonstrably not true.
> No paperwork is eliminated doing that and no other advantage is gained doing that, so of course I'm not doing it.

> Because a contractor has way less paperwork than I have to deal with for each employee

Are you saying that:

Amount of paperwork that you have to do for an employee + amount of paperwork that one of your employees has to do for himself > Amount of paperwork that you have to do for a contractor + amount of paperwork that one of your contractors has to do for himself?

I strongly doubt that is the case. But I'm not a contractor, and I haven't enumerated the work involved.
Speaking as one of the people who recommended it in this thread: I don't think math anxiety is the right focus for which textbook to choose. More precisely, I don't think you should try to solve that problem by getting a different linear algebra textbook. To put it bluntly, someone with math anxiety probably just doesn't have the mathematical maturity for linear algebra yet. In that case they'd be doing themselves a disservice by attempting the material using some sort of "more accessible" book; instead, they should focus on resolving that anxiety through developing a solid foundation in the prerequisite material.

Linear Algebra is typically the first course in which students have to transition from predominantly rote computation to proof-based theory. Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right is very often the textbook used for that course because it (mostly [1]) lives up to its name. This isn't Math 55: compared to Rudin and Halmos, Axler is a very accessible introduction to linear algebra for those who are ready for linear algebra. The floor for understanding this subject doesn't doesn't get much lower than Axler (and in my opinion, it doesn't get much better at the undergraduate level either).

It's unfortunate that so many people want to skip to math they're not ready for, because there's no shame in building up to it. A lot of frustration can be eliminated by figuring out what you're actually prepared for and starting from there. If that means reviewing high school algebra then so be it; better to review "easy" material than to bounce around a dozen resources for advanced material you're not ready for.

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1. See Noam Elkies' commentary on where it could improve: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/M55a.10/index.html
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The internet has had some interesting repercussions for the idea that all knowledge is worth saving. We're producing data many orders of magnitude than ever before, and it's easier to save it than ever before, and 99% of it is completely useless and uninteresting outside of its original context, even for hypothetical future historians.

As you say, the goal shouldn't be to save everything just in case, but to weed out the irretrievably useless and carefully index the rest.
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No. That's just a completely unworkable and unreasonable demand.
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As a car enthusiast, while I absolutely despise the driving dynamics of a Prius I deeply appreciate that it and other hybrids have had such a positive impact on cars. Hybrids are now becoming the standard for next gen drivers cars and are honestly pretty amazing tech.

Now if only people would stop driving their Prius' 10-under in the fast lane.
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Not really. Accounts payable ballooned to around $3B, and cash on hand is only ~$2B (of which about $1B is in the form of revokable deposits).