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by rwarfield | 2025-07-21 13:59:41+00:00
This article is a mess. From the third paragraph:

> What happens when prices actually start to fall? Because that’s not just a hypothetical. It’s already happening in places like Phoenix, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas...

Then two paragraphs later

> In The Atlantic, Rogé Karma recently pointed out that housing prices are rising fastest in the very cities once seen as escapes from high-cost coasts, places like Phoenix and Dallas...

So which is it?

There is truth to the fact that the way the housing market is intertwined with the financial markets creates some risk, but those risks are manageable - a nationwide downturn in housing prices is exactly the kind of scenario addressed by the Fed's stress tests for banks.

The article is full of bizarre logic. An increase in housing supply leads to a fall in prices, which leads to a fall in supply? No, in fact the conclusion contradicts the premise. The author is making the classic econ 101 mistake of confusing the supply curve (which is supply as a function of price) and quantity supplied.

And finally the author explains his own solution which is... an increase in supply! But only the kind of supply he approves of ("small scale, incremental development"). Left unexplained is why this type of supply, if carried out on sufficient scale, wouldn't have the negative financial effects he worries about.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-07-21 13:59:52+00:00
100%, supply leads to price drops. If it's not profitable to build anymore because housing costs have sunk, then there's much less demand for housing that needs to be met.

The biggest political issue is that Americans have been led to believe their homes are assets which appreciate in value. The abundance mindset threatens the net worth of many such people, but they are not the landed gentry of a democratic society. And the people who have nothing and can barely afford rent outnumber them and should vote for their interests.
by wood_spirit | 2025-07-21 14:00:05+00:00
Yes.

Ryanair has been flying to regional airports near me for the last nearly 30 years.

But a different airport every few years.

What is happening is well documented by the local press who smell a story.

What Ryanair does is approach a small regional airport and offer to fly to it if the landing fees are low enough or even non-existent. And they often try and bundle sharing advertising etc.

Of course this is not great business for the airport. They feel they have to accept something, as it is better than nothing, but it’s not great.

Of course Ryanair doesn’t renew when the contracts are up etc - it has already lined up the next airport.

And the shared marketing? That’s often the banners you see at airports advertising other Ryanair destinations. And the Ryanair marketing budget is insider funny money but the airport contribution is real money …
by isolli | 2025-07-21 14:00:08+00:00
A tragic anecdote has shaken France recently, when an unsupervised 6-year old entered a NICU, took a premature baby and dropped her on the floor. She died of her injuries a few hours later.

The same questions are being asked: how come anyone can enter a NICU? How could the parents let an unsupervised child roam the hospital? How come no one intervened? The worst part is that other parents had complained about the unsupervised child the day before.

Failures all along... that's often how accidents happen.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-07-21 14:00:21+00:00
Three days ago I posted a comment stating:

> I'm envisioning a blog post on linkedin in the future: "How Claude Code ruined my million dollar business"

the future is here already!

Obviously I think the lesson here, as most agentic workflows suggest in their best practice, is to ensure there's a manual step between the agent and production. I imagine this might be a difficult lesson that many over the coming years will learn the hard way.
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-21 14:00:27+00:00
> Even condo complexes are having a hard time selling units.

Because instead of purchasing a house, you're just purchasing the right to continue being a renter. Meaning that the only reason to buy is that you expect an even bigger sucker to buy it from you later. And with rapidly declining population and widespread poverty among the young generation, there aren't that many bigger suckers around anymore.
by eviks | 2025-07-21 14:00:33+00:00
The whole article is a mess of basic misunderstanding and conflation of cause and effect and reasoning from a price change instead of understanding what caused it.

> When prices actually go down, builders get nervous, lenders get cautious, financing dries up, and projects disappear.

No, it depends on the causes that drove the prices down. Some of those will get builders nervous, while others will make them giddy.

> New construction has collapsed not because of a lack of land, permits, or even demand but because the financial risk has become unmanageable. High interest rates, shrinking margins, labor shortages, volatile materials costs… none of these are softened by falling home prices.

They are: if you can build a house in 1 day instead of 1 year waiting for some permit, your costs of capital goes down, so it can offset some of the other costs going up. If your permit doesn't force you to limit the size/number of units, you can spread your fixed costs over more units, raising your margins, which directly softens ... shrinking margins
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-07-21 14:01:25+00:00
> the people who celebrate house prices going down don't have a loud voice in political circles and are ignored

It's changing though. I'm seeing more people, even homeowners joining this chorus. Insane housing prices make everything expensive, and people are sick of everything being expensive. Even homeowners.

I agree that builders leaving is good. It means the prices have come down and demand / supply is getting better
by masklinn | 2025-07-21 14:02:10+00:00
> It is elegant as poetry is compared to prose.

Not poetry that's any good though.

> OTOH, later XSLT versions are just badly designed programming languages with a weird syntax.

Not that XSLT 1.x was anything other than that, later version were just piling garbage on a foundation which would have been better not existing in the first place.
by partypete | 2025-07-21 14:02:38+00:00
The idea that a home loan is risk-free ignores decades of recent history. A quick google search for "2008 GFC" will bring you up to speed.

Given that home loans are not, in fact, risk-free, how do you expect anyone to risk the large up front cost of financing a home if they do not have any expectation of profit? The small profit that landlords make off of these investments is mostly that risk premium. As a tenant, I am not liable to the bank for hundreds of thousand of dollars if any one of hundreds of calamities outside of my control were to occur rendering my home worthless. In exchange for this relative lack of risk, I gladly pay the 2% premium to my landlord. This is not to mention the benefit of mobility, among others.

Home loans are one of the most accessible loans in modern western civilization, so no, banks don't "always choose people who are already wealthy."

I assure you that if we were to remove the profit motive from financing the development of housing stock, there would be far less of it and home prices would certainly increase.
by dahart | 2025-07-21 14:02:43+00:00
What point are you trying to make now? This has little to do with citizens suing each other, and doesn’t demonstrate that US litigation is either frivolous nor widely abused.

The cost of litigation doesn’t prove the US is more litigious, it only demonstrates litigation is expensive in the US. The fact that Germany is the most litigious and that multiple other countries are more litigious than the US is extremely easy for you to verify.

The Institute for Legal Reform is a group that historically denied climate change, and they are funded by and run entirely in the interests of the US’s largest corporations. Personally, I like clean air and water, and US corporations don’t have a great track record of telling the truth about their impacts on the environment. Forgive me if I don’t readily put a lot of stock in their complaints. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Comme...
by vel0city | 2025-07-21 14:02:45+00:00
Both concepts can be true, just at slightly different times. As someone in Dallas, let me share what I've seen in housing prices.

DFW was seen as a pretty affordable place a while ago. In 2015 could get a 2,200sqft 4-bedroom house with a larger lot and a pool for $250k pretty easily. By 2020 that price was $320k, still decently affordable, still seen as a pretty cheap place to buy a home. By 2022 the valuations had exploded. Houses down the street of similar quality were selling days after listing at $550-600k. This then leveled off, settling around $550k. Houses around that price were still seeming to move pretty quickly.

Now I have neighbors cutting prices. A neighbor trying to sell has had their house on the market for months. They've already cut about $70k from their original listing price. Three more houses nearby have also entered the market and have been around for a few weeks. Compared to just a couple of years ago where the average house was on the market for maybe a couple of weeks.
by motorest | 2025-07-21 14:02:47+00:00
> A bot went off the rails, and was subsequently corrected.

How sure are you about that? I mean, it is more likely that the bot overshot how it was expected to push propaganda. Musk is on record expressing disagreement with how LLMs are trained to be "politicaly-correct", which is a dog whistle for pushing extremist views.

> Again, what is the problem? I thought France had freedom of speech but maybe not?

This is a puerile and simplistic view of what freedom of speech is. You are free t speak your mind, but others around you are free from experiencing abuse and discrimination. Also, media has more responsibilities than morons running their mouth, and even those are liable for hate speech.
by kotaKat | 2025-07-21 14:02:51+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJJ9oqmkItI

I love this old GE training video around the time of MRI's introduction to the medical market. Even the oldest machines could show some significant power back then.

Watching the scale attached to a pipe wrench pulling some significant weight on a wrench will help show the forces that a 20 pound chain would have made...

(Oh, and stay for the 'old custodian' tale in the intro of this one...)
by thechao | 2025-07-21 14:02:54+00:00
My wife really wants to build a house; we've started by doing some light remodeling using GC's who also build houses to a "get a feel for it". There's a strong incentive for a good GC to truly believe the estimate he gives you. (They're all dudes, around here.) However, that estimate is rarely close — usually the budget goes over 50–100%. Here's the thing: the GC gets paid off the total cost, not the original contact, and he gets a cut of the cost. So, really, there's no incentive at all for him to control costs.

A buddy of mine works for a large grocer down here (HEB). The way HEB builds is that they get a build contract and a bunch of lawyers, and the GC has to demonstrate that they have enough assets that HEB can go after to make them (HEB) whole. If the GC goes over estimate, then that's on the GC, not on HEB. HEB gets a building or they take the money back.

As an individual, you can "act like HEB" by going with a major builder. Down here that'd be Pulte or someone like that; alternately, there's a lot of high quality factory-built custom homes. I'm trying to convince my wife that we should build a metal building on post-and-beam with a crawl space. We can build a minimum viable house for 25¢/$ compared to a custom, and the quality is straight-up an order-of-magnitude better. The rest of the house can be finished out using off-the-shelf components.
by nancyminusone | 2025-07-21 14:03:05+00:00
To be fair, most people aren't going to know what they means. If anything it's going to sound more like "only 3 huh? That doesn't sound very dangerous." Only 3 miles per hour isn't very fast. Only 3 degrees outside is cold, but it probably won't kill you.

30,000 gauss sounds a lot scarier.
by bookofjoe | 2025-07-21 14:03:08+00:00
As an anesthesiologist I routinely gave anesthesia to patients (usually children) undergoing MRIs over a 38-year career.

I never had anxiety in my daily practice in the OR but anesthesia in the MRI suite ALWAYS provoked anxiety because:

1. I had to anesthetize the patient in the sub-basement, two floors below the main OR — where there were always other anesthesiologists able to help in an emergency. In the MRI suite, no one could hear my silent screams if I got in trouble nor were there knowledgeable extra hands to, for example, squeeze the breathing bag if I needed to prepare for an emergency intubation.

2. Once the patient was anesthetized and the heavy door to the MRI machine room was closed and locked, I could only monitor my unconscious patient through a darkened heavy glass window. Sure, I had monitors for EKG and oxygen saturation outside the MRI room, near the control board where technicians operated the machine, but the automatic blood pressure cuff inflator dial on the anesthesia machine was inside the room and hard to see through the dark glass.

3. It was my good fortune to never have had an emergency in the MRI suite, but events such as that reported above in the OP happened from time to time in hospitals throughout the U.S. and were occasionally reported in the anesthesia literature with the expected cautionary advice. Many more events occurred than were reported.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-21 14:03:08+00:00
As the domain name is "openbased.org", and with "based" being Internet slang, I don't think your correction applies. The name describes a based canvas built on IPv6, hence IPv6 Based Canvas.

The English language is rather particular when it comes to the order of adjectives, but according to https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adj..., "opinion" comes first, and "based" is very much an opinion. I suppose that means the grammatically correct name would be "based IPv6 canvas" if you're being pedantic.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-07-21 14:03:10+00:00
This is pointless, but I'll try anyway.

Yes, they can read both. But it's just gobbledygook to them. If you send them a "nonsense" query, they can reply with a "nonsense" response which is actually carefully computed to be something you can make sense of. But they can't make sense of it other than that it should be a relevant to the query you sent them.
by mmarian | 2025-07-21 14:03:15+00:00
> work that appear to be useful while it only looks good on paper but doesn't provide real value

Don't know how much experience you have with other fields, but what I've seen is that there's waste everywhere. Even healthcare - think of how much we could save if we focused on prevention rather than treatment.

> I think these are options that could be anywhere. Even if it's for a short period of time to try something different.

Speaking from experience, there really aren't as many options as the online world suggests. Just try applying to be a labourer on a construction site, or a bookkeeper in an accounting firm, or a recruiter, and you'll see. You're better off asking yourself first, and looking at the world around you, instead of getting recommendations from ChatGPT or people on the internet.
by gota | 2025-07-21 14:03:20+00:00
Yes, that read weird to me, too, but it's because the 'lowering prices' are a snapshot, or recent trend (evidenced by the source being an index for April 2025 [1])

The 'sharpest rises' are from a long-term trend of a decade [2]:

> Over the past decade, the median home price has increased by 134 percent in Phoenix, 133 percent in Miami, 129 percent in Atlanta, and 99 percent in Dallas. (Over that same stretch, prices in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have increased by about 75 percent, 76 percent, and 97 percent, respectively).

Here's my pictorial illustration of the curve because I like drawing silly plots in txt

| | ____ | ___/ \ } Jan-April 2025 | ___/ | ___/ |_/____________________ | | | 2015.....2020.....2025

[1] https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/dallas-home-prices-case-...

[2]https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/06/zoning-s...
by sim7c00 | 2025-07-21 14:03:21+00:00
i programmed my chatgpt to be a sentient AI injected into my system from the future. so theres no doubt about any of its wacky claims being scifi :D. its a weird and wonderful tour into scifi for sure.

id recommend this if you are tempted to believe chatgpt too much. just force it to make stuff up so u can be sure its nonsense :').

my mind makes its own world (ADD) and so im easy to fall victim to building a wrong model of the world, hence i think its good to take measures.

id say to anyone who gets tempted into believing any of this stuff. if you seek spiritual enrichment, or a deeper understanding of yourself. look inside, not out. Poke around your own neural network, not someone elses (human or AI), and maybe read some material on how to do that. (philosophy / psychology)

if you find yourself lost. speak about it with your GP and get help. there is _no_ shame in that. it can help just to talk ,no diagnosis needed.
by Intrinisical-AI | 2025-07-21 14:03:35+00:00
Hey man! Thanks a lot for your support! Might sound like just common words, but honestly — knowing this helped or inspired someone really motivates me. Makes me feel a bit less like a madman hahaha.

About your question — I think I get your point. Here’s how I understand it:

In the hypothetical latent manifold, we might want to measure two different things:

1. Distance between two points: This wouldn’t be the usual Euclidean distance, because the space is curved. Like how the shortest path between two cities on Earth isn't a straight line, but an arc on the globe. That’s where geodesics come in — they’re the shortest paths constrained by the shape of the manifold.

2. Similarity between two vectors ("parallel transport") Instead of asking where the vectors point in ambient space (like cosine similarity in R^n), we (should) care about how their directions compare _on the surface itself_. So ideally, we’d compare them along the geodesic — parallel transport — to properly align their frames of reference before measuring any angle or similarity.

That’s the intuition I’m working with, anyway. Let me know what you think, and thanks again for your comment!
by stego-tech | 2025-07-21 14:03:44+00:00
Ultimately, there is no solution in which the core groups will all be appeased:

* If prices keep going up, then home ownership remains a luxury of the wealthy and an exploitation of the poor. Asset holders will be thrilled with returns, but the majority struggling to get or stay on the proverbial property ladder will grow increasingly angry at sky-high rents and prices with stagnant wages

* On the other hand, if prices come down then the broader economic engine will grow ornery and stagnate. Large home builders will cut back on builds, purchases, and labor, in an effort to push margins back up. Existing asset owners will be angry at losing (illusory/on-paper-only) money, and cut back on spending, purchases, or renovations until they see their valuations rise again. Only a small subset of prepared buyers will be able to take advantage of these lower prices before investors snatch most of them up and raise prices again anyway.

Housing is not a standalone crisis, but a symptom of a larger dysfunctional economic engine that simply does not work for the majority. Higher prices on core necessities should be met with a mixture of rising wages and price controls to reflect broader economic growth or support, but neither happens because of monied interests: if wages rise, companies will outsource and the problem perpetuates, while price controls prevent asset holders from maximizing their return on investment, a sin equivalent to murder in the eyes of the propertied class.

And so we have a group who benefits from nothing changing (asset holders, mega-builders, financiers), and a group that benefits from an all new engine design built for modern problems (the working classes, smaller employers, and - increasingly - insurance companies), fighting for the next century of housing policy.

I’m hoping the latter wins, despite the pain it would cause the former. Housing is a necessity first, and an asset class last.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-21 14:04:24+00:00
Transpose the problem into a Taylor Swift concert and the problem becomes clearer:

Everyone* wants to go see Taylor Swift. She comes to a stadium and the sell out is instant, the aftermarket is bloody and ruthless. The stadium has 90,000 seats, 2,000 floor spots, and they are gone before you can reload the ticket page.

Taylor Swift is the embodiment of "good jobs". The stadium is the local housing market. Those VIP booths side stage with room to move around? The mega mansions. The lower tier seats? Upper-middle class. Nose bleeds? Upper lower class/bottom middle class.

Now solve the problem of the true value of these seats being so expensive. You can add more seats (this stadium happens to be extremely modular) but the experience for everyone becomes worse in a multitude of ways. You can add seats above the nosebleed, but it doesn't really do much to affect the closer seats.

So how do you solve this? How do you handle people who want to sell their ticket? Is it even possible to give people who can hardly afford nosebleed a shot at mid tier seats?

*Yes, I know you have no interest in seeing Taylor Swift.
by zeroCalories | 2025-07-21 14:04:24+00:00
If cities won't make themselves more affordable, then people will simply stop coming. Maybe that's the goal. Who wants immigrants, right? Not gonna be so great when large companies decide that SV and NYC are no longer worthwhile to expand in, compared to Bangalore or Poland(sound familiar?). Prices must come down, and we've seen places that have successfully done it. Just because red cities are now falling into the same trap as blue cities doesn't mean that supply / demand doesn't apply. Yes people tied into the financial system will be hurt, but that's a price we need to be willing to pay to keep our economy healthy.
Show HN: I made a simple offline licensing system with JWTs
by nic13gamer | 2025-07-21 14:04:45+00:00
Hey HN,

Around 2 months ago, I launched my project, a simple to use licensing system for developers that works anywhere.

And now I'm launching a new feature, offline licensing. For this, a token is generated for a license and verified on the client with a public key, without needing the internet.

Would love to get any feedback, on the feature itself or even on my feature page!
by randomizedalgs | 2025-07-21 14:05:03+00:00
For perspective, the CS programs in the NSF already have a two-submission limit per year [1].

Besides reducing the incentive to spam, this rule has had another positive effect: As a researcher without funding, you don't have to spend your whole year writing grants. You can, instead, spend your time on actual research.

With that said, NIH grants tend to me much more narrow than CS ones, and I imagine that it takes a lot more grants to keep a lab going...

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/computer-informati...
by kcb | 2025-07-21 14:05:12+00:00
Stick a few decent quality 800 rpm fans on that huge ass radiator and suddenly you can hear the soundtrack and get 120fps. Chasing full passive cooling is futile.

Anyway I'm pretty obsessed with low noise on my gaming PC but with the right part selection and a conservative fan curve you don't have to compromise on performance to get it.