skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite being a middle-class white guy from the US, I've experienced three of these on the same day.

When I met my future wife, my last name ("Coon") happened to be a (somewhat rare) slur on her ethnic background. At that time, a man couldn't automatically change names on his wedding day in California, so we had to go to court ahead of time to fill out a legal name change form.

The paper form had only one blank for the entire new name. A Hispanic family ahead of us in line had a son whose last name was supposed to be [father's surname] [mother's surname], but his birth certificate had accidentally recorded his father's surname in the middle-name field instead. So the family wanted to move his "middle" name to the front of his surname. With only one blank for the whole name, the kid's current legal name had the same exact sequence of characters as the new legal name, and there was no place on the form to make a note. The judge asked if they were OK with adding a hyphen, and they were.

Epilogue: each of my daughters has two middle names.
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"despite a promise never to do so" is a recurring Facebook theme.
Yes but I am really interested in my actual question, which is how we can tell whether any given behavior that exhibits desire for lower price is done willingly, knowing that there is a safety tradeoff.

I am absolutely not saying it doesn't happen. I am asking how can we tell?
They clearly meant "big 3 automaker sedans".

2 American cars sit in my driveway; a BMW Z3 M Coupe that was built in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and a Tesla Model 3 sedan that was built across the bay in Fremont, California.

Though I will say, I generally hate the sedan form factor (from a styling and practicality standpoint), and of the ~10 or so cars my wife and I have owned, the Tesla is the first sedan.
Even sadder: the Bolt is the affordable electric car that the Tesla Model 3 promised to be but isn't. And yet no one is excited about the Bolt. In fact, probably most people are not even aware that the Bolt exists. Sad indeed.
Right, that's the enthusiast market.
Not a joke. Tesla is an American car company shipping sedans. The mid-range Model 3 is getting lower in price. While it might not be price-comparable to some of the others mentioned in the article, it's still an American sedan.
The pressure to increase profits exists regardless of ownership, if anything having large institutional funds own the majority lessens the pressure (vs an activist fund or something similar). If they're leaving money on the table someone is going to take it.
I thought I was getting too fat in 2015. I went on an "eat half" diet. Literally lost weight eating pizza and drinking beer, just less than I needed. Lost 12 kilos.

After this, I just ate as I felt like, with intermittent periods of damage control, where I'd revert to the diet for a few days here and there to either budget an upcoming event (e.g. Christmas), or pay for a recent one.

Works for me. Only note is to watch out with sugar & alcohol, as both can turn on the 'fuck it I WANT THIS NOW' mode, at least for me.
I have really terrible handwriting, whenever I sign a document it literally is just some random continuous line. It's never been an issue. Nobody seems to care. You could probably make a smiley face and never have an issue regardless of the importance of the document.
> not because markets have subsumed the role of societies at large, but because monetary exchanges have become the de facto be-all and end-all of social interaction.

This was part of the joy of Burning Man: it felt like an experimental laboratory where we could try out non-exchange-based modes of society. After a week in an environment which was, thrillingly, both utopia and dystopia at once, we could then go home and see about recreating the good parts of those experiences in our everyday lives.

(I don't know if it still feels that way - it got too big and too institutional for me to feel like I belonged there anymore, but it's possible that it still works for people who are less sensitive about the presence of complex power structures.)
I bet that you could not pick a BMW or Audi from equally priced car from other companies.
"Summoned" implies it's only possible for people who know the arcane secrets, I'm not personally a fan of removing people's agency when talking about something like this.
Greger's "How Not To Die: The Role of Diet in Preventing, Arresting, and Reversing Our Top 15 Killers" has lots of data while remaining quite entertaining:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXXXygDRyBU&t=2m11s
Too lazy to watch the video, is that $2500 profit? There is shipping costs, time spent, gas for car, car wear and tear.
Cute. So now from your laptop with audio piped into a rec-room amplifier via Bluetooth you can have a Euro-based SW receiver complete with 'waterfall' display and U/LSB (moderate sensitivity) plus with the Google 'Radio Garden' web site you can listen to American pop music in stereo live from Petropavlovsk on the Russian Kamchatka peninsula, an area of significance during the cold war.
Ouch, this is going to be hard on me.
People complained about the lack of functionality in IE. Atom is functional and iterating fast.

It works great on my 5 year old Mac Book Pro with 16 GB. I understand that some people do have more minimal hardware, but 16GB looks like a $100 investment. Performance and memory usage are being addressed.

I simply see memory usage as less of a problem in 2018/2019. I want more functionality.
VERY old article
This looks really great! Congrats to the author on reaching this milestone. The library management seems like a great step forward!
A key passage from the article.

"Once Americans began driving Hondas and Toyotas, they discovered that these cars had a lot more going for them than just gas mileage — they broke down infrequently, could last for hundreds of thousands of miles, and were even fun to drive."

If the US sedan makers can't compete then they should deprecate those cars. Why make something that people aren't buying? Cars are too expensive these days to have to pay for frequent maintenance or fit-and-finish issues. Never mind the fact that "American" cars are not as American as they used to be and the Camry isn't distinctively Japanese.
The https://github.com/srsLTE/srsLTE/ readme says they’ve tested LimeSDR too (I don’t know how well the smaller versions of Lime would work though)
Ag-Grid lost my business for having a very complex, immovable licensing structure. I'm not sure who pays them but someone must be OK with it since they're still in business. It's a shame because I really like the quality of the code and would gladly pay their asking price if they would have a realistic outlook on educational organizations or startups.

I am VERY excited to start trying to use this instead.
Question:

I have 0 knowledge of the web and whatnot..

I already have privacy badger, would this also help? or would it make no difference?
There is a general problem of massive amounts of liquid cash looking for an asset, and an increasing dearth in quality loan collateral. Appears nudes are the new pound of flesh.

Surely, next will be a way to securitize tranches of pawn tickets.
I think it's fair to say this falls under grandparent's "enthusiast" category. Nothing wrong with being an enthusiast, but I think the characterization as "irrational" is probably correct.
> Or are all purveyors of the 'free market' automatically heroes in your eyes?

No, I don't even like the guy. Why must I consider someone a hero to feel they deserve a trial for their punished actions?
When people will realize that carbs are the only non-essential macronutrient? The sports community (especially bodybuilding) knows that for decades.

If an athlete says to me that a thing he does to his body work 95% of the time, I would consider to try it, and already did, some things against over-the-counter conventional medicine like this no-carb diet.
A lot of the issue is how did we anticipate going from 1 billion people to over 7 billion? We didn't There are a lot of people that need somewhere to live and the supply doesn't keep up with the population that is always growing. If a couple raised kids in an area and those kids want to stay there and have their own homes, while their parents also stay and have their own homes, the demand multiplies per every kid.
> that will literally kill people (eg. Trafigura)

I had to google that. Shocking story.

> To them, it is like a game.

I think you're right. I also think Trump (ahem) once said something along these lines: "At some point, all this stops being money and is just numbers that you want to keep going up." That would support your competitiveness assertion. (It might also explain why men tend to make more than women, but I digress.)

> I think its the same mechanism that will drive someone to grind for many hours in an MMO or suchlike.

nah, that's just the variable-ratio reinforcement schedule :)
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-variable-ratio-schedu...
How will they make sure people don't cheat and eat more anyways? 800 calories a day for an overweight person requires some serious will power.
They made odd choices on the body styling. It's a Chevy Trax but squished horizontally. And the naming sucks. The drivetrain is amazing.

They also just don't seem to want to make enough of them or ship them to markets where people want them. Canada was starved for inventory all last last year. None went to Europe. Asia, where they'd make a lot of sense, got only a smattering. And they don't seem to be improving on this.

The fate of the Volt and Bolt together makes me entirely skeptical of GM's claims to making a transition to EV production. I used to be a big advocate of GM's EV designs -- they're technically excellent -- but I don't think I can get behind the company at all. I'm somewhat tempted to sell my Volt and get a Honda Clarity PHEV.
Minimizes, but does not remove.

I'll stick to Chrome when I want my browser to not lose my sessions constantly.
http://www.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html

The above contains relevant numbers.

I'm seeing a lot of cars on the road that fit the wheel-base of a sedan, but are larger. Here are a few models that come to mind: Hyundai Kona [0], BMW X2 [1], Nissan LEAF (though this is an all electric offering) [2], and I'm sure there are more.

My point is, there are vehicles that are roughly the same size that fill the needs of people who would have purchased a sedan.

I'm guessing that if we refactored the numbers in terms of wheel-base and interior volume we'd see people are buying similar wheel-based cars with more interior volume.

[0] https://www.hyundaiusa.com/kona/index.aspx
[1] https://www.bmwusa.com/vehicles/x-models/x2/sports-activity-...
[2] https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/electric-cars/leaf.html

[edit]
AND it looks like I missed a crucial piece of the title, so here are some 'murican cars that fit the description above: Chevy Trax [3], Buick Encore [4].

[3] https://www.chevrolet.com/suvs/trax-compact-suv
[4] https://www.buick.com/suvs/encore-small-luxury-suv

[/edit]
In the US the official nutrition advice has been both wrong and corrupt since the 1970s. Gotten wrong by sincere hard working scientists with the best intentions. Corrupted by corporate capture of regulatory bodies and funding of exculpatory studies.

These same forces would choose what is mandated. That is horrifying. Not only could they give bad advice, they could compel ever larger fractions of the population to follow it.

Far better to let parents decide, so when they get it wrong we can learn from it, and don't all get it wrong at once.
For some people, I think they shouldn't be given the false hope that "enough to lose weight" and "enough to enjoy myself" go together. Part of losing weight is a fundamental rewiring of what is "enjoying myself".
It's bonkers if you take the narrow view that cars are strictly about transportation. But of course people desire and enjoy cars and trucks for all kinds of reasons--including aspirational signaling like you describe, but also the experience of driving or riding in them, or even just an appreciation of artful styling or impressive engineering.

The sales trends observed in the article seem to be explained by a mass shifting of tastes.
> On the other hand prevention of type2 is N=100% with these changes.

It is absolutely not. While the vast majority of current cases are preventable (and in most cases, reversible) through proper lifestyle changes, between 5% and 10% of people with T2DM were going to develop it regardless of what they did.

Now, it's possible that some or all of those cases are not actually T2DM. In the past few decades researchers have been investigating additional forms of DM, such as Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults, that may be the cause of some cases of DM that currently present as T2DM. It may be that once "true" T2DM is defined that your statement is correct, but as of right now it is not.
Average Transaction Price for "light vehicles" (which seems to include luxury sedans, luxury SUVs, pickups, etc) was was $36,270 in January 2018.[1]

It's not nothing, but a ~$46k medium range Model 3 is not so terribly far from that, and in fact hits that on the nose if you manage to buy one in the next 14 hours in California (or a state with even better state-level incentives like Colorado). :) (Tesla is 'promising' delivery before end of 2018 if you order in November; I only know this because my in-laws are looking at it right now).

[1] https://mediaroom.kbb.com/2018-02-01-Average-New-Car-Prices-...
You do not get 3,641 letters asking you to vote in each of the companies that make up VTI. If you own shares of a company directly you will get a letter and you may get a letter about governance of the fund you own, but not for the individual names in it (you own a piece of something that owns the actual shares).
I know why I drive a Volkswagen - it fits. Every American car I have ever driven doesn't work for my 6'5 narrow frame (I'm also long-legged, short torso). There's also the tendency to load up the dash with every possible piece of information and turn the radio into some kind of Microsoft supercomputer.

It's a car - it needs to get me reliably and comfortably from point A to point B with a minimum of distraction, look presentable and connect to my iPhone for music.

The TCO on VWs, in my experience, is very low, mostly because they don't have complex add-ons that break constantly.
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This sounds to be marketed as some scientific potion to cure diabetes or at least rid the need of medication. All it comes down to is cleaning up your diet (e.g. eating the right amount of calories for your body and eating nutrient rich foods). There's no one diet fits all but getting a good balance of proteins, carbs, and fats is all this is doing for these people. NHS is simply doing the leg work. I control my weight by counting calories and macro-nutrients. If people could figure out how to do that own their own we'd see a huge decrease in Type 2. It's true, a cleaner diet tends to be more expensive and requires more work than the convenience of a fast food diet - but at the the end of the day we're trading diabetes so we can be lazy with our diet and health.
The top level post was edited to add the line about enthusiasts after this was posted.
Interesting idea. But you could never know in advance what the results of a vote would be. The only way to do this would be another alteration to law to allow such behavior. However, I am fairly certain this would violate the capital structure and foundational rules put in place by companies with regards to what constitutes a quorum, when/how voting is done, etc. Because companies are allowed to determine how things are done so this would be directly overriding that.

I suppose it's possible to construct a law that says companies can conduct their voting as they have been, but they must also allow/accept late "votes" from fund managers but the requirement is that those late votes must conform to the same proportions.
There is a single common ancestor of all living things today. This organism survived objectively better than any other organism of its time (unless it's the very first organism ever, which is very unlikely). Same thing goes for e.g. the last common ancestor of mammals vs an animal living this time that doesn't have an extant grandchild. I think it's possible to define survivability objectively using a little graph theory.
But the replacement the US car companies are offering are SUVs, which are more expensive than the sedans they are replacing.

This seems more like the companies saying "What products have the biggest profit margins? Lets just make those."

This is fine so long as the government is willing to say "no" when the next oil crunch happens and people start scrambling for efficient or electric cars instead of big trucks and SUVs and the big 3 find themselves in trouble in exactly the same way the did last time.

Or they'll just blame it on the unions and move everything to China.
Apparently it's not a new idea... this was posted to HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18556722
The primary difference is Javascript has serious JIT's as the normal case of running Javascript while Python is normally interpreted.
> .there should be some mandate on parents to “treat” their child with diet

You're considering forcing parents to change, presumably with the threat of taking their children away. But consider this, in the past type-2 diabetes was extremely rare in children. Why is it now common?

Are parents just worse? Or are terrible diets more appealing? Maybe the sources of those terrible diets would be a better place to start imposing government violence.
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Ah, the Honda Clarity, the only vehicle uglier than any hybrid or electric that Chevy or Toyota can muster.

(I rather like the styling of the Bolt, actually)
> The car market in its' totality has always struck me as being irrational.

Consumers aren't known for their rationality.
Compiling a browser isn't exactly a walk in the park for the average 5 year+ old PC, either.

Googlers working on Chromium dev get maxed-out machines for this reason.
Same. With VSCode most plugins "just work" as I expect them too, and it's also usable with 0 plugins.

Atom plugins otoh... they're a s-fest of stuff requiring other stuff and never managing to ever auto-magically just work. For Python and JS VSCode is amazing! Also there's a Jupyter plugin that works, an integrated terminal that just works, making it idea for data-science and ML tasks too...

I have no idea what the Atom guys are doing, because in theory I'd like Atom more, but in practice I fee like wanting to throw my laptop at a wall after 30 min of using it because of how semi-broken everything is.

Does anyone anyone have a "curated" set of Atom configs and plugins that "just work"? Maybe by making it into smth like "a distro", it could be usable for people with 0-to-little-patience like myself...
Yes, this is after he deducted gas, Amazon fees, shipping fees.
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I found it easier to do via intermittent fasting and then eating all of my calories in one meal per day. Something about completely abstaining from food is easier for me psychologically than having multiple tiny meals and making myself stop eating when I'm not full.
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i thought an index fund's health depends on the health of the companies inside it. even if people decided they wanted to replace their index funds with direct stock purchases they managed themselves, the underlying value of the fund wouldn't change right?
You are aware there is a difference between "primary" and "only", yes?

I'm not saying Apple's intent is pure but there is a primary driving factor behind it, that to my knowledge, seems fairly pro-consumer. Doesn't mean it has other, anti-consumer motivations.
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Tesla ships more Model 3s than Ford ships Fusions:

http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/ford/ford-fusion/

http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/tesla/tesla-model-...
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You can load it like on Chromium. Go to about:debugging#addons, click the "Load temporary Addons" button and select your manifest.json file.
Or in other words: Type 2 Diabetes is a normal metabolic state of humanity (or at least some significant parts of it), it's just that we're too goddamn fat
If you take this extreme reductionist viewpoint, "biology"is misandrist and misogynist both. It reduces human relationships to an exchange of genetic material and its optimization. The male human may as well be the the male anglerfish and the life of the female is barely more meaningful than that.

And, well, no. We live in an industrialized world where we have all the food we could ever need and yet we have fewer children than ever before in history. People make human decisions that are more than their genetics, even when choosing romantic and sexual partners. Why would we take the most socially complex species we're aware of, and then look at one of the most complex social interactions that species engages in, and say "well, but it's really just about making babies"?

Another way to put it - I accept these things as true
1) Physical attractiveness is important to most people in picking a partner
2) Physical attractiveness is correlated with fertility
2) Physical attractiveness negatively correlates with age

Yet I still argue that a woman's worth, not just to the world but even as a partner, is more than her physical attractiveness. Biologically, a post-menopausal woman is not contributing new humans to the world, but she still can contribute to the world as a whole, contributing happiness and meaning to others, doing all kinds of things that make the world a better place. I would argue that meaning in romantic relationships isn't limited to fertility, either.

I don't think is even that controversial a viewpoint, but as a woman, there is certainly a cultural notion that your value IS your attractiveness. If you justify the viewpoint that a woman in her 40s is of no value simply because her fertility is phbbt, that's misogynist.

It is a biological reality that men can remain fertile much longer than women. Using that fact to justify a worldview that women in general have less value, especially past a certain age, is misogynist.
Agreed. Another way to personalize these data is this observation: 10 years ago, my friends and family all drove cars with separate trunks. Now none of us do.
Russ Hanneman would be proud.
The Bolt is in the "awkward middle" compared to the Leaf & the 3. We test drove all 3 and quickly dismissed the Bolt: we'd either buy the cheap car or the best car.
Because people who should know better are happy to support legal liability around the protection of shared secrets. Companies almost always prefer to protect legacy systems with lawsuits/regulations than to actually harden them.
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> It takes a large amount of number crunching to determine that an old small Japanese car has the cheapest TCO.

Is there some way to include the environmental cost as well? A 10 year old Honda Civic is going to cost less in that regard than a 10 year old BMW 318. But what about a 10 year old Prius?
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To my parents house in a very remote spot in Co. Kilkenny.

I kept my lump sum that I had almost used to get a mortgage to get a house in Dublin.. and now I'm just living off of it without needing to work for a few years. :)
For others, just about every bio of Nikola Tesla describes how poorly he was treated by Edison. Interesting reading.
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800 calories per day for three months is hardly just "cleaning up your diet".
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