skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX is not Tesla, and a company is not any single employee.
And how many of those developers would have “made a living” if it Apple lowered their fee to 15%, cut the price of a Mac Mini by $300 and waived the $99 a year?
Intuitively, I would say the number all cash buyers is a pretty small number in every market. Especially in a low interest rate environment.

Most people with the means to pay cash for a property would likely be savvy enough to understand that that they would be better off getting a jumbo mortgage at 3.25% and deploying that capital at a higher rate elsewhere.
If you are interested in Pidgin, the lead developer has a Twitch stream (rw_grim). He is always open to ideas, and onboarding new contributors. There is a new version of Pidgin being written that significantly improves the user, and developer, experience. If you check out the stream, you could get some swag too (I have some Pidgin stickers). That said, I am also interested in Dino, and supporting other projects. It's unfortunate that chat has become more proprietary, instead of more open.
Prop 13 just removes property tax consequences driving transactions, not housing price concerns of anti-development / anti-density owners.

IF you drive those owners out via property tax increases, you have new owners just as concerned with the same anti-density drivers, maybe even more because they're in even greater debt at a higher price and can less absorb a feared price decrease.
Most of the renters I know in the bay area rent a house with 3-4 roommates and pay reasonable rent with that split ($1400/month -> $1900/month each for a room in the house).

Then saving as much as possible and hoping stock or RSUs will get you the rest of the way there to buying something (or buying a 1 or 2 bedroom for ~one million once you find an SO and working from there).
The dollars don't really matter though because the majority of people don't actually have that money.

The majority of people base their housing budget on the monthly payment they can afford.

When interest rates are low, people can afford higher principal values.

When interest rates go up, the amount of a monthly budget that can go toward principal goes down.

Housing prices will tend to fluctuate to match what people can afford, and what people can afford is determined by their monthly payment.
It absolutely is a basic necessity unless you wish to remain a serf for life.
"Your RAID rebuild could be recreating junk.."

From experience i can tell this can happen. nervous trauma twitch
I would love your feedback on my current project: HTTPS://stimufy.com
I would love your feedback on my current project:

https://stimufy.com
When rent is close to or even greater than a mortgage (because the RE market is essentially seized) then I’d say people are having difficulties finding a place to live. Having a place to live absolutely is a necessity. Does no one any good to have people commuting en masse.
The cut-over into sub-micron process was a real trip, but sub-nanometer is going to be wild.
That's great, but maybe you know exceptionally high earners with good money sense?

Or maybe I just know exceptionally low earners with poor money sense.

Given the constant furor surrounding housing affordability in California's desirable cities, I'm leaning towards the former.
Encryption. You are missing encryption.
> But calling the iPad a failure because [...]

You're making exactly the mistake I described. You're getting hung up on how the criticism was lobbed, when it wasn't meant to be taken literally. Obviously it's not actually a failure: it's made billions of dollars for Apple.

> The lack of "professional" iPad software should be directed more towards the developers than Apple - why needs some iPad app to be crippled in comparison to its Mac counterpart?

The problem isn't the software, because the goal isn't to have one or two magically complex IDEs that can do everything, the goal is to allow useful ways to shovel intermediate data around in between apps. That has to happen at the operating system level, and so the criticism needs to be directed at Apple.

> Why do we need to criticize one tool because it is not equal or better to another?

Because it fucking could be better, and it's maddening that it isn't! That is a totally valid reason to criticize something!

If you want to use a woodworking tool analogy, it's like a tablesaw with a crosscut sled welded to the table. Sometimes I want to make a rip cut. I could buy a new table with a welded-on rip fence and spend an hour retooling every time I want to switch tasks... But interchangeable fixtures are useful, and I'm allowed to be upset when other people stubbornly refuse to acknowledge this.

If the issue persists and remains unacknowledged even after a decade of criticism, you should expect that people are going to start using hyperbole out of sheer frustration. But that's "frustrated person language" -- you still shouldn't get hung up on the literal phrases.
Part of Musk's "get your ass to Mars" bundle.
Tesla to begin deliveries of Model Y by end of first quarter
I would be astounded if SpaceX turns on Starlink over China and other countries that censor the internet.
Ask HN: Why the Double Standard?
Every day here I hear about abuses from FB, Twitter, China, etc censoring this and that. There was a minor furor over Reddit admins getting caught changing comments.

Yet here on HN dang can and does remove any comment that questions how things are run here, without trace. Stories about important topics under active discussion :disappear:.

And it might never change, because every comment and article challenging HN can be removed without trace.

I'm really only posting this hoping to hit a few pairs of eyeballs before it gets removed, because direct questions to dang have gotten nowhere.
One of the few movies that actually made me cry.
I used to make about $600K/yr salary in SF and couldn't imagine affording a home there that I'd feel comfortable with a 30-year mortgage payment on.
Australian tax law is incredibly geared towards home ownership, and the culture of owning your home is very, very strong. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Dream.

Personally, most of the people in my age cohort (mid 20s) who've bought homes, have bought in areas considerably further away from the city than they were raised.
Tesla still lost $800 million this year and has never had a profitable year, on both record car sales and record regulatory credit sales. What about that indicates sustainability?
IIRC San Francisco all-cash buyers were accounting for 25% of transactions a couple years ago.
And who would decide what the cost is if the government makes it?
Show HN: Bookmark CLI for Linux players to resume where you left off in podcasts
I believe they still own SolarCity, now Tesla bonds, technically.
NASA finds real uses for VR and AR in astronomy and engineering
This data makes me wonder why taxation doesnt take CoL into account? "Lower" salaries in the Bay Area are upper tier tax brackets.
Discussion from 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22130874

Discussion from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919297
Deep as anythink. ;)
Pip and apt install to different folders already. In the very unlikely event there’s an issue in a container the solution is simple, modify the sys.path. The other 99% of the time avoiding the venv is a win.
It’s inexplicable. They aren’t even beating the estimates they have put in front of them.
If you can’t afford $900 for a Mac Mini and a 1 year developer license and can’t sell anyone on letting you borrow the money, is it really a great idea that would stand out among the million of apps out there?

Also, you don’t have to buy a Mac. You could always pay Mac Mini Colo $80 a month and develop remotely.
Gitlab CI or Bitbucket Pipelines deploying to Heroku.
Perhaps it could be better other way around. Start with GeoIP and add an "Improve Location" option. That way more people would enable it.
Household dust put under the microscope as scientists seek to understand it
The Starlink satellites additionally have krypton ion thrusters for stationkeeping as well as to raise their orbits from their 290 km deployment altitude up to the 550 km service altitude.
The bubble is in assets. Anything that any slight bit of profit growth or good publicity will go up higher as people and HFT bots are looking to get the best return possible.
I like clipleap.
TSLA beat earnings with $2.14 per share vs $1.72 expected
Ok, to be correct it is one of the factors. (one extra random write per hard link is a lot). Add another extra write to the Windows change journal and you probably have 3x the random writes per hard link compared to Linux (discouting active shadow copies which can additionally double that to 6x).
If they are still a company still trading at the multiples they are, short interest is never going to be 1-2%
I find it strange, that in this strictly B2B market, where target audience is just dozen hundreds/thousands chip design engineers, they still use BS marketing. There is no physical dimension of 5nm anywhere, neither there were for "7nm" or "10nm" processes.
If your app was such a great one, you couldn’t convince your customers to pay enough to make up the difference?
That's because you're not on the solar powered website.
Hackernews is linking to the old site.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is...
The feedback actually goes directly to the engineers that work with the product you are leaving feedback for. It works, I swear!
The Colorado Mystery Drones Weren’t Real
Or I could hire an assistant to sit in front of a computer, follow my directions issued via Facetime running on my iPad, and read back the results (or not, if I only care about side-effects).

Is that interesting in the context of a frank discussion of the iPad's capabilities as a general-purpose computing device? No, it isn't.
Economics is strongly against price controls. It's very much against the core mechanics of micro-economics. If you put a price control, you limit supply.
Open source just means you have or can get access to the source. FOSS Free open source software also gives you the rights to use the source.
I live in the greater Washington DC metro area (Census-defined) and don't have internet access at my farm. No cable and no DSL available. I connect through a wireless 4G hotspot. This is really inadequate, my kids can't get online and we can't do any connected household stuff like Alexa or Ring. Our entire community is praying for Starlink!!!
How do you manage that? I assume you structured as a S corporation?
Not the night sky, you can't seem them at all at night. You can see them during twilight, when they aren't in the shadow of the earth.

Work is ongoing to reduce their visibility during twilight, and even during twilight it's not giving up the sky, just making a minor alteration.

For comparison, there are as many planes in the sky at any time as their second phase plan of 12,000 satellites, and planes are much more concentrated around where humans are. There is also something like 5000 satellites already in orbit.
A problem with complex categories and propaganda and probably personal experience lumped in there too.
Play Rogue in 2020
This is not a regular CDO - this is a synthetic CDO.

The 'synthetic' means that the issuer may not (and most likely does not) hold the risk being tranched (loans in your example). Instead it generates return by selling CDS protection on certain market defined risks (hence the word synthetic, in the sense of being a derivative exposure).

This makes a big difference:

1. Since individual tranches can be created on demand (unlike a regular CDO, where the full capital structure has to be placed), banks can create bespoke standalone tranches which are then hedged based on a correlation model. Thus there is much lesser market feedback to put a brake on unbridled issuance. A (very) loose analogy would be insuring your house (i.e. needing to own the loan under the CDO) and betting that your neighbour's house will burn down (where you have no skin in the actual asset). You can clearly do much larger sizes of the latter contract, for the first one, you need to buy a house each time you want to put the trade on.

2. The CDO invests in collateral to back the protection sold. One of the issues during the crisis was that this collateral itself was other CDO tranches (either synthetic or physical). When the market melted down, these assets became unpriceable given the opacity of the collateral. Result = even higher illiquidity

Of course the issued size is nowhere near becoming a systemic problem similar to 2007, but it does seem that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat their errors.

In this context Raghuram Rajan's speech at the 2005 Jackson Hole symposium is especially prescient: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/53/sp0827...

Edit: misread JumpCrissCross's reference to payment processors as protection buyers, deleted this part.
You could've just saved the 3x income and paid cash if you wanted. Today, it's a much longer path to use frugality to build up the pile of cash needed to buy a home outright.
As you mentioned that's marginal profit. You'd have to include estimates of their other costs/liabilities before estimating future market cap.
Cross-reference with school quality and you’ve got a map I’ve wanted for some time. Difficulty: it’ll be less useful the more people have access to it :-/
Where did you move to after that, and what's your current income if your don't mind sharing?
They’re energy business (SolarCity) has declined every year since they bought it. They’ve lost significant market share in the rooftop Solar market, and the market has started to move away from rooftop solar in favor of large Solar farms in general. There is nothing to indicate any advantage in the energy space
> That's what makes it impractical to use for anything other than very big and rare events.

Which is totally fine. Growing an array is a big and rare event. I'd be totally fine if I have to take the array offline or read-only for the duration. I just want the option to do so at all.
Funny coincidence, I'm currently reading "de Bourgondiers"[0] and this event was just mentioned in the passage I read yesterday.

[0]: https://www.flandersliterature.be/books-and-authors/book/the...
"pandas is an open source, BSD-licensed library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language."

If anyone else is wondering what this is. (Source: project homepage
For clarification, the coronavirus is currently exponential with a R^2 value very close to one. The question is whether of not it will stay exponential, or go sigmoidal soon.
New owners want to get the most out of their purchase. This means multifamily buildings.
Tesla’s Solar deployments declined YoY as their recent report indicated
The carbon intensity of the national grid is calculated as follows: carbon emissions of burning coal and gas in power plants (say 600 g/kWh) + carbon emissions of wind turbines, solar panels and the like (0 g/kWh). Embodied energy is not taken into account.
> Step #1 should be to give a huge wad of money to the FDA. Say $1B/yr. Then you tell the FDA: every year, pick the 50 most promising drug candidates. Publicly fund the clinical trials, and the public will own the patent. Give some cash to the inventor and the institute to incentivize them to do this scheme and not sell to pharma.

I think the FDA is whats making drugs prohibitively expensive. First by disallowing the importation of drugs, second by putting a very conservative standard on the commercialization of drugs.

You are right about something, the policy is unappealing for either side. The right doesn't want to give more money to the FDA, and the left doesn't care about giving a gov institution pocket money, they want to outright outlaw profits as a whole.

Call yourself Elon because you are on Mars :)
Key position is important if you want to keep some individual keys depressed (or partially depressed) in order to keep the damper up. Or if you want to release a key/keys slowly for damper effects. This is different from velocity.

Also, support for Sostenuto pedal (i.e., the "middle" pedal) is spotty and frequently doesn't get captured or preserved on MIDI piano controllers and sequencers even if a MIDI'd piano records it.
You picked the wrong Melbourne. The one in Florida is a far better deal. Median household income is $40,000, and the median house is just $150,000. The house is 3.75 times the income. Of course, it is even lower for the typical people here on Hacker News.
the french are great at reminding their leaders that their economy only works because of the people participating in making it work.
The problem with notebooks is that they are not searchable and tracking code changes and creating libraries from them is not straight forward.

My approach is to combine the strengths of both IDE and notebooks. I put my code into a package that I edit with PyCharm. I import that code with the `%autoreload 2` magic in Jupyther to load data and test my functions. This way I get data persistency and plotting capabilities of the notebook and editing, etc capabilities of the IDE.
It's not a basic necessity, but it does give you a lot of financial security, physical security and a sense of permanence in your community, especially when paired with other trends like gentrification. I've got retired friends that rent and have lived in my area since they were children but their pensions/funds aren't keeping up with rent prices and moving out to the country to die is a real possibility. Owning a property would have buffered them against this change. For people starting families today increasing rent prices is taking up more of their salaries, a mortgage goes down relative to inflation, and when you buy a property you can factor in things like which schools your children will go to. A home owner of any age will be able to weather negative events like unemployment or debilitating illness a lot better.
I'm using it with self-hosted ejabberd and have no issues. It just works.
It would take a bit more work in the performance aspect, but entirely doable.
I like it. Anything that helps programmers to more quickly understand code is a potential move forward. ( I think it'd be best to have a variety of such tools available, to suit different learning styles.)

Kudos to the author.
Without looking at their data, I can vouch that this sort of data may be prohibitive to access. The players involved don’t see data as something to be given out freely IME. It’s probably provided in a technically difficult to parse way-just to add insult to injury. Enough so that the simplicity of the presentation is remarkable.
Solar is generally moving away from decentralized consumer Solar to more industrial levels given the decreased maintenance burden. Why do we believe Tesla is on the right side of this?
This really good for AMD because they are soaking up a bunch of Apple’s old 7nm capacity for a bunch of upcoming products (Xbox, PS5 being the major ones). Apple seems to be going all in on 5nm. Plus, I bet the next Epyc will be on 5nm too.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/01/02/tsmc-a14-iphone-chip-pr...
That's a bad example, that home was completely remodeled between the two sales.
but not everything is a string in Python and JavaScript.

It's possible your parent didn't mean literally "strong typing" or even "static typing", but instead more generally "notions of types, whether at runtime or before".
If someone tried to sell me a thin client "pro" and told me it would replace my desktop PC I'd complain too.
I'm not a TSLA shareholder because I don't really understand how the company is being valued but I also wouldn't be surprised if the stock price goes beyond $1000 within the next 2 years.
Well, at least it wasn't flying saucers this time.
I've had uncomfortable experiences. I don't know what would constitute a panic attack exactly. Get some supervision, stay in a safe place away from people. It's a journey. Even the good enlightening trip wasn't really a pleasurable experience: it was scary at times, but worth it.
He's saying scan for files that are the same and hard-link them. Both filesystems can do this after-the-fact.

Of course this only works if the data is read-only.
If it meets this guidelines, this is likely better posted as a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
And the product was announced 3.5 years ago and has been thorough 3 iterations. I’ll hold my breath this time too.
The fascinating history of how courtship became ‘dating’
leolabs.space - does something similar for tracking low Earth orbit satellites. The great thing with this tool is that you can modify the velocity and filter the data.

https://demo.leolabs.space/visualizations/leo
I'd say it's more interesting to look at income-after-taxes vs monthly payments.

The same payments/gross income ratio for a worker earning a median salary is a lot better than for someone earning $400k (as the payments to net salary ratio for the latter is higher).

Not to mention the probability of sustaining the income at the current level in the next 20 years is probably different as well.
one of the best python | data libraries out there. For analysis alone, no tool comes close.
You must have a pretty good life then. Or you don't have any neuroses. Usually people finally get to see a lot of issues that the ego conceals. Seeing yourself from a third person camera can change your life. For most people that is extremely scary.

Anything can be fun subjectively, so perhaps a better description is the triggering of a reward mechanism. LSD does not inherently make you want to do it again, unlike even caffeine. You do it again because of curiosity (higher-order decision-making) not your limbic system. Although one may redose cocaine out of curiosity, the limbic reward motivation is also necessarily at play.
How much hotter is your hometown than when you were born? (NYT)
$800M loss on $25B sales (which are growing YoY while R&D actually resulting in new models and features is maintained stable) is a noise at this point.
Why does that matter? If no one can afford the property then the current property owner will make a huge loss.
This is a feature, not a bug. This helps prevent everyone from completely piling on top of desirable places and further driving prices up, as well as effectively subsidizing poorer places cover the remaining 99% of the US.
Need user/server access control on AWS? Here's a jumpcloud guide
Consumers absolutely see process node designations. Enthusiast magazines go nuts about it.
I would say none as long as you are middle class.

Your family has to get rich enough to send you to university, there's the two generations, it is the best you have these days.

A lot of great actors break into Hollywood without legacy.

Pre-printed text it may have have had more truth, but if a father can pass it to their son, they can pass it to anyone. I think it's more a romantic idea.
Would that mean that, since California + Federal taxes are something like 46%, post tax income is roughly 54% salary?

If so, they're saving only roughly 15-25% income?