skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demand for cheerios is elastic- people can substitute by buying oatmeal. Demand for salmon fillets is elastic- people can substitute by buying tuna, beef, beans, tofu, etc.... for just about any given food item there are substitutes to provide similar high quality nutrition.

You are simplifying too much by saying demand for food is inelastic. It's true that people consume roughly the same amount of calories every day. However, Grocery stores are a low-margin business. Your grocery store is in constant negotiations with suppliers that vary from local produce farmers to General Mills to Anhauser-Busch. Some suppliers may be making high margins.

The idea that increased consolidation has caused this inflation has to compete with other ideas- such as:

The productive output of all sorts of businesses decreased during the pandemic at a time when the money supply increased. There were more dollars chasing fewer goods. As the pandemic eased off, the productive output was able to climb back to capacity, but money supply increases (and lagging effects of reduced inventory of goods) remained in effect.

In a time where there is less production, the production that remains is more valued. Margins would tend to increase in this environment.

How do you prove that the consolidation effect is more relevant than the macroeconomic picture?
Finally a question about my area of expertise!!

I’m the CTO of commenda.io. We help Indian startups get set up with RBI-compliant, venture-ready Delaware c-corps.

There are 2 reasons why Indian corporations like to incorporate in the US:

1: VC. American VCs love investing in Indian startups, but they hate investing in Indian corporations. YC invests only in corporations set up in the US, Canada, Singapore, or Cayman Islands. Other VCs have different requirements, but they all accept US.

2: Sales. If you’re selling to US customers (which most Indian SAAS startups want to do), a US entity will help you build trust and a US bank account will make it easier for your customers to pay you.
Same rendering and JS engine. That's just monoculture where you slapped some branding on things to make it seem more varied.
This. "Useless cat" is more useful than "useless file-arg".
So true. I had a similar experience in Germany. I'd say Ireland is small enough that everyone is connected to everyone else in some way, and people are curious about others, and discovering those remote connections. I've found that in many other places, people just don't care and are not interested.
I keep getting illegal move on the chess problem.. although my move is not illegal.

[Variant "From Position"]
[FEN "3k4/1p3Bp1/p5r1/8/P3P1N1/5Pp1/1P1r4/2R4K b - - 0 1"]

1... Rgd6

When I put Rgd6 I get "d6 (Illegal move)"
> How would you alternatively design a system that calls emergency services in a crash?

It's already done and mandated. Why design something new?

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/security-and-em...
Make sure both your phone and computer have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on.
P = phosphorus, atomic number 15

V = vanadium, 23

I = Iodine, 53

So in your password they add up to 167
Also got stuck at the chess one with "551A!mayShellVIIVr8gecmaboutAuSingaporeBxe6"
Apple can't decide to do that? And if they cooperated with a manufacturer, that'd affect only its future cars, few compared to everyone with an iPhone.

And that'd sell more cars not more iPhones
Not really weird, if that person was an asshole along the way.
Ketamine is a psychedelic, just not a "classical" one that operates the same receptors as LSD/mushrooms. Or rather, whether or not it is a psychedelic is a semantic argument, and it still makes you hallucinate. MDMA is another "non-classical" psychedelic.
If you have any questions, please reach out to yaacov[at]commenda[dot]io
also for Bing? curious to hear
OP was arguing that today the big size doesn't matter, because disk space is cheap. I was providing argument that it still does.
It's full mesh with 3 fixed servers and one machine with a dynamic IP. Just configured all peerings in WG instead of Tinc. I don't need Tinc's mesh routing, so WG is sufficient for me.
VAG COM alerted me to a faulty module because its mileage was wildly different from all the other modules in the car.
Remember Minecraft is written in Java, not C++. The Bedrock version is written C++ but has only experimental, very rough native server software that is almost never used.
I'll put up with convincing my family and friends. But if there is arbitrary person X, and if you were to sample X's views and they had no correlation with the truth if "time studying subject" is removed, then that person is a low information source.

For most people, I get to sample their view on something occasionally. I have no idea how far they are in the process of being wrong. Someone who is almost always wrong until they are convinced is a low coefficient source of information.

It's not enough to be convinced. You have to be right a lot. That's just how it is. This has served me well so far.
It's a new designed RDBMS Arch based on memory map with optimized HASH as the Primary Index and use Native APIs to access with user Struct efficiently. There're lots of optimization methods used to improve performance.
You can still believe the Earth is flat, too—don’t let those ships disappearing over the horizon bully you into thinking otherwise
The reality is that people are mocked when they hold political beliefs that mockers don't share.

Political commentary online is neither fair nor honest. It creates negative value for any platform.

You can always find a way to mock someone, for even the most common and innocent behaviors.
Seatbelts were mandated some time ago. This was done even though most cars were old. Then, time passed. Now, all cars have seat belts.

Most crashes have at least one car involved.
If no one speaks than you can't differentiate a false alarm from someone who can't breathe, or is hiding from an attacker, or is too hurt to put the phone to their ear.

It's a massive nuisance unless someone gets on to say it was a mistake...and if someone didn't notice their phone buzzing before it made the call they aren't gonna pick up.
>They avoid an unnecessary invocation of the cat executable.

And ... ?
This is great to see!

I recently had many issues with MacOS's Photos export option having no resume feature, so fclones was very helpful for deleting the hundreds of gigabytes of duplicates I had made trying to get all my photos.

The dev of fclones making the gui also gives a lot of hope for its quality. The fclones CLI is so ergonomic that it is easy to remember all the commands even with occasional use.

Do you have any plans on adding the gui to FlatHub as well? That would be nice for using it on Debian more easily.
I think it was humour, but the issue is that it's easy to conflate.
I love this concept and I have pined for more for a long time.
Perhaps there have been some I missed.

I would love to have some real computers inside my computer,
preferably able to things my box cant or just do it faster.
The solution is to move the system to the car. Cell phones are the wrong tool for the problem. Rollout will be much slower on the automotive side, but this can be addressed if we legistlate such systems up from luxury safety features to mandatory ones. Just like what we did in the past for airbags, automatic antilock braking, etc.
I've always been confused why climate change is so skewed to the downside. Why the asymmetry?

For example, couldn't more rain lead to less droughts / wildfires in California, or turn deserts into usable farmland?
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Oh god, I got to the part where the password starts catching on fire, eventually poor Paul was consumed by the fire.
> Support for hardware ray-tracing acceleration has been added for AMD and Intel graphics cards.

Added experimental support for AMD hardware ray-tracing acceleration, using HIP RT. This improves performance on RX 6000, RX 7000, W6000, and W7000 series GPUs.

Known limitations:

Windows only, as HIP RT doesn’t support Linux yet.
Degenerate triangles may causes crashes or poor performance.
Shadows in hair are not rendering accurately.

> Windows only, as HIP RT doesn’t support Linux yet

NOOOOOO. I guess I'll have to stay with Blender 2.80 for now. Honestly, the situation with hardware acceleration on Linux is pretty sad. I'm a full-time Linux user, and I acquired an AMD GPU specifically because of better Linux support and much better open-source drivers.

Blender 3 taking so much time to give AMD Linux users hardware acceleration back makes me sad. I guess it's not misguided though, they got a lot of attention from the industry in recent years, and that's where funding comes from, so naturally they will focus on supporting the major use cases (i.e. Windows and Nvidia) and improving features. Though I do love the new and improved features, UV packing, for instance, was a longtime pet peeve of mine while using Blender compared to other (closed-source) modeling packages.
The entry for the Dedekind numbers in the On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS):

https://oeis.org/A000372
A warning to future players: I got to rule 16 and was given an egg named paul that I had to keep safe. Then on rule 18 a fire (of emojis) broke out in my password, killing paul and ending the game. Dont be like me, keep Paul safe.
I didn’t know about textutil before, I’ll have to try that. Does that use the same backend as pages for word documents? How good is the conversion?
haha exactly
I don’t know — I suppose I’d agree that even a “bad” rum-and-fruit-juice cocktail is almost always still drinkable. But there’s a wide difference between a Mai Tai or a Zombie made at a tiki bar following the classic recipes and one made at an Applebee’s. :)
I don't think it makes sense to confuse the preferences of teenagers (a market group who, overwhelmingly, don't buy their own phones) with adults. In other words: the fact that teenagers prefer the same kind of free devices as their friends have is not particularly strong evidence that adults make purchasing decisions based on just chat bubble colors.
Under what theory are your comments personally identifying information and that they don't also fall into publicly provided information?

(2) “Personal information” does not include publicly available information or lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern. For purposes of this paragraph, “publicly available” means: information that is lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records, or information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public by the consumer or from widely distributed media; or information made available by a person to whom the consumer has disclosed the information if the consumer has not restricted the information to a specific audience. “Publicly available” does not mean biometric information collected by a business about a consumer without the consumer’s knowledge.

Your ownership of your words is not in question.

From https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.

Your ownership does of your words does not mean that you can revoke the license that you provided to Y Combinator to display the comments. Trying to do that would take significantly more legal effort than sending a request to randomize your account identifiers.
Theoretically that would work, in practice it doesn't.

Making distroless containers is the way to go.
I didn't know about `taskpolicy`, I'll add it to my list. It will be handy now that it's getting hot around here for long running commands that I don't mind waiting for, Apple Silicon Macs run cooler than Intel's but they can still get very hot when maxed out.
> open - open files and applications

And urls! I use that one in a lot of my scripts. We have a ticket-based workflow, and I can parse out the ticket number from the current git branch, and open the ticket or create a merge requests without having to do anything complicated.
It's 74% of eligible adults, not 74% of the population.

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/culture-a...
> How will chiplets affect software? Naffziger: One of the goals of our architecture is to have it be completely transparent to software, because software is hard to change.

This greatly amuses me. Of course the interplay between software and hardware is a dance, with drivers and responders on both sides. And of course "software" here means close to metal. But it still seems counterintuitive to say the industry is at a point where cutting-edge hardware decisions are made because of the current state of software.
I name all my personal programs prefixed by the comma. I learnt it from someone on lobste.rs. No Unix utilities use the prefix in their name and it is a valid filename.

So I can type , and I am sure it's my program and I'm not running something else and it'll autocomplete among my list of programs.
I'm using Thunderbird on Linux with an Outlook work account. Granted, I have to pay for 'Owl for Exchange' for it work, but I absolutely hate the Outlook program, I'm willing to fork out the $10/yr of my own money just to avoid it.
Sorry, just saw the question, I don't really understand what you mean?
Launch HN: Fuse (YC W19) – Unified API for financial data aggregators
Hey HN, we’re the co-founders of Fuse (https://www.letsfuse.com/). We offer a single integration to multiple financial data aggregators and automatically select the most reliable one for each institution. Here’s a quick demo: https://youtu.be/w7sNHGav0Fg

If you're building a product that requires customers to link their financial accounts, you might integrate a financial data aggregator (such as Plaid, Truelayer, or Finicity) to connect with your user's bank account. You’ll probably then experience the following issues: customers unable to use your product because their financial institution is not supported (e.g., credit unions, local or community banks); frequent disconnections; API errors; and high drop-offs during the bank linking flow.

We spent 2.5 years developing YSplit, a fintech app providing joint spending cards for couples. Users linked their bank accounts for spend limits but faced issues with unsupported banks and frequent disconnections. We looked at other apps and saw that the ideal solution was to rely on multiple aggregators, but it wasn’t the right use of engineering resources for that startup. Upon pivoting from YSplit, though, we decided to go back to that problem and address it.

We provide a UI component for React, React Native, Flutter, iOS & Android native to facilitate bank account linkage within your app. When a user taps on an institution, we use a time series model to identify the most optimal aggregator to show based on historical success rates and disconnection as well as downtime. After linkage, we provide a Fuse access token for querying balance, transactions, and more via our unified API, offering a consistent model irrespective of the aggregator.

We also provide other products to translate historical bank data into consumer/business credit risk to help you answer questions like: How much credit can I feel comfortable offering this user or company? Is a user likely to pay me on time? Can I offer instant ACH to this customer?

By combining aggregators, you gain from their diverse connection methods, favoring APIs over screen scraping. Our customers have cut disconnections by 16%, increased coverage by 5k institutions in the US, and boosted conversions by 20% with Fuse. Moreover, we support aggregators in Africa, Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia, enabling global product expansion with a single API.

We don't store personal info and only act as a pass-through. We are currently undergoing SOC 2 II audit and can provide engagement letters for anyone looking to go to production.

We have a self-serve onboarding https://dashboard.letsfuse.com to get sandbox keys. Our docs are available here https://docs.letsfuse.com. We’d love for you to try it and give us feedback on improvements to the product and docs. If you have any feature requests or any aggregators you’d like us to support, let us know.
Germany definitely tends to be like that - but it makes it all the more interesting when strangers do talk to you. It could also vary by region and the type of bar. I've done my share of loitering around neighborhood bars in different parts of Germany, and it is sometimes surprising how open people can be - once they get a few drinks in them.
For a long time I used an app for this as well, but the app was just a thin wrapper around the CLI tool
It doesn't lack a personality. It just so happens that the personality is so close to your ordinary daily experiences that you don't perceive anything off. Try asking someone from a culture very different from yours.
You can keep it in the phone, but use phone GPS to detect that a crash-like event correlates to something that looks like a crash from recent GPS data. That should reduce the false positives.
I know apple can’t easily decide to do that, but they can decide to _not_ do this with such a high false positive rate. I don’t think selling iPhones is a universal good (even as an aapl shareholder). Selling aftermarket car sensors or whatever if they really wanted to be in the market for this makes sense to me.

But, I haven’t seen a good source on how frequently the false positive trigger versus real calls where the caller was unlikely to place it themselves. I could be totally wrong.
Even then, the rules state 1 year before a repost
This explains some of the physics in John wick then
SteamOS Linux does this too on Steamdeck, wiping out dual boot setups on updates.
This subject can quickly become a fascinating epistemological journey into solipsism, semiotics, and cognitive biases.

A "lie" implies intent to deceive or mislead, but not all false facts are shared with such intent. You may be interested in Harry Frankfurt's 1986 essay On Bullshit [0] and the 2005 book of the same name, which has been discussed on HN before [1].

[0] On Bullshit: http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33605481
How to ensure all your country's billionaires become another country's billionaires 101.
What distro would you recommend for maximising gaming performance and compatibility do you think? Valve seem to have gone for Arch but
If I had to name one design pattern that really helped my org’s codebase scale into the million LOC range, it would be replacing our database with in-repo json files.
China doesn't wake up everyday to think about to harm western interest.

Are you sure? How do you know this?

Standard Charter and HSBC are both British companies and have their HQs in UK.

Yes, these are non-state owned banks operating in Hong Kong that are being put into a bind amid pressure from Chinese interests and regulators to support crypto exchanges.

The quandary is, why have Chinese state regulators in Hong Kong turned "crypto friendly" to the point where they are now pressuring others to support it when it is banned in China?

And your hyperbole is not a logical answer.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-state-owned-banks-turn-...
People who are good at rationalizing can create a compelling argument in support of almost any position. I like to use a statistical approach where I note the prevalence of each compelling argument across a variety of sources.
De-facto florists in QC need Certificat d'aptitude professionnelle

Link in french shows 1K hours https://ecole-metiers-horticulture.cssdm.gouv.qc.ca/programm... to obtain one.
The “3d object that changes with a variable (like time)” metaphor helps a little bit, but doesn’t really help to e.g. understand how a rotation of a 4d object plays out.
Well... I can understand why quite a bit of specialized knowledge would be needed. You have to know your flowers well, know how to operate the refrigeration machinery, what flower keeps at which temperature, what to do if your flowers seem sick etc etc...

Although a university degree "may be required by some employers ", I find this a bit much, however.
That's because by default Nix uses glibc (which is huge), while Alpine uses musl. You can create musl binaries, but you need to know Nix a little more and know how to cross compile.

Another great thing is that you can can easily modify existing package to remove some of their dependencies that you don't use.

This is shown here with packaging redis into a container here and making it 3x smaller than the alpine version: https://nixos.org/#asciinema-demo-cover

There's of course possibility that someone specified build dependency as a runtime dependency, but if that was done that's a bug.
I don't know what constitutes as 'great' and 'dedicated' in your books, but I'm pretty happy with how my career and life so far ended up at.

I joined a FAANGM straight out of Uni, wrote code that currently runs even today on billions of devices worldwide, and services that processes requests also in billions.
Then ended up at another FAANG with similar outcomes.

Being at large corps in my early 20s was one of the best things that happened to me financially, setting me up for life by 30 to pursue anything I wanted - a lot of it was timing and luck, but some credit for my dedication wouldn't be asking too much.

The startup, on the other hand, was bought out and the service eventually scrapped. I'm pretty sure that code doesn't even exist anymore or an archive somewhere never to be touched. Ironically, this is the place I've had to work the hardest.

Today, I can at least get my foot in the door at most places purely based on past experiences. Whenever some company wants me to do a song and dance take-home interviews, I respectfully tell them to knock it off and they usually do.

I'm definitely focused on family now, and I'd argue it is the greatest thing I'll ever achieve.

I hope young, newly-minted engineers don't take your advice too seriously.
You can definitely forge your path in multiple ways in your life. Not drinking the kool-aid is paramount to maintaining perspective of what really matters in life.
Every decade or 5-year chunks of your life, has unique phases, choices/oppurtunities and experiences that are strictly for that part of your life. Your real job is to figure out which to pick and choose to minimize regrets.

Paraphrasing another HN comment -- In a decade, the only people who will remember you worked late to go above and beyond to deliver, is your kids. And if you choose not to have kids, well there's your answer.
Wait until HN hears about how Microsoft is using Purview and DPL to force enterprise costumers switch to Edge...
Most roofs are angled, I wouldn't say the same of ceilings.

Here in the US anyways, it's pretty common to just have dead space separating the sloped roof from the interior horizontal ceiling. Maybe you have a usable attic in that space, but it's kind of unusual for it to be living space IME. It's wasteful, but it establishes a precedent of wasting interior volume.

The distinction matters in this discussion specifically since you can take the same approach to the dead space in the walls of a spherical exterior if you prefer a boxy interior living space... Put shelves and other infra/amenities in that area to achieve cosmetically orthonormal interior walls.

There's some advantage to a curved structural exterior... large flat surfaces aren't great structurally. But they don't have to result in curved interior walls. Just like our angled roofs don't always result in angled interior ceilings.