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When houses get sold, capital gains need to be paid. This is nothing new.
The BIOS on an AMD reference platform refers to there being 1, 2, or 4 "X3D stacks", suggesting that eventually you might be talking about more cache than this: https://twitter.com/aschilling/status/1399701274489151489

(Who knows when/if they get 2/4-high working and at what price: the I/O die needs to be able to track tags proportionate to the total cache size, the compute chiplet needs to support it, and packaging/power/everything else needs to work out. Switch in BIOS doesn't mean the rest is there.)

Other clever thing about this for them is they can keep focusing on one base compute chiplet but turn it into a wider range of SKUs, on top of how they already do that with core count etc. Same chiplet can end up in a product with 32 or 96MB L3/CCD as soon as the first two-high stack comes out and, obviously, more if/when they get 2/4-high going.
The game is also seriously fun :D. It has such replay-ability for me. You can either make new factories or you can infinitely tweak old ones. So much fun tweaking lines to increase efficiency and throughput.
I was told that once you are moved to a legacy project, you should read it as that your employer doesn't want you anymore.
We know. This sentiment is expressed literally every time a Twitter thread is posted to HN. Use threadreaderapp unroll and move on.
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Ok...we need more houses so tax the hell out of developers?!

You need people to be able to build and flip properties without being taxed at all. The current taxes are carving a modest profit down to "not worth it" for a lot of people who could otherwise build and revitalize affordable housing.

More taxes on home sales results in less homes for sale.
I remember there used to be plugins for setting the UA to mimic popular browsers. I should see if I can dig one up.
Thanks!
I remember last year when believing COVID may have come out of a lab made one a crank. It was only on certain news channels or specific papers. Of course, let's also assume there are no widespread liberal beliefs (the world is going to end in 12 years) that should label someone as a crank.
That's not the only issue. Channels cost a blockchain transaction to open and close, so you would never open-close a channel for an individual small transaction.

The point is essentially to setup an off-chain chain maintained by a 3rd party. If you are selling non BTC into that channel, you are TRUSTING the other party to close the channel.

If they never close it, you cannot unilaterally close the channel, which means you might never get your BTC because they simple leave the channel open forever and get to keep whatever you sent them (ie other crypto or real-world or digital assets).
Exactly. With this model, poof, there goes all your supposed benefits of "digital gold".
The first post calls for a nationwide armed militia to protect "conservative" society from its fellow "progressive" citizens. I don't know if this is standard, but it is not a good idea, and it is not bigoted to call it crazy. Anybody anywhere in the modern world who calls for an armed force to be created explicitly in the name of "God Almighty" (or some synonym of that) is crazy.
> [I]t's very difficult to say what happens in year ~2140, we'll all be long gone by then

I think it's more likely that at least one young person reading this news today will live to ~130 than Bitcoin making it that long.
It's not zero but overall you're right.
It really was a bad end. Pretty much describes how capitalism's natural end will fuck us over, and then decides to throw in some support for the billionaire landlord president he liked...
What really grinds my gears is the seemingly unstoppable global transition towards SMS to a mobile phone number as means of identifying an individual, conflated with "security" through 2FA/account recovery, with this as the only option.

This is especially popular within Fintech.

Wise (formerly Transferwise) recently started requiring 2FA for signing in - SMS is the one and only option. Revolut requires it for acknowledging transactions and changing/viewing debit card info.

That legacy banks do this is expected, but I'm really concerned about this trend among newer global and big actors who otherwise present themselves as modern.

I strongly urge other users here to reach out to customer support of these companies and request them to supplement this with some other more secure means of 2FA, such as TOTP (hey, we gotta take what we can get), U2F, or Webauthn.
Right but the node needs to be online anytime you transact, correct?
The Apple II has a very weird graphics mode in which each byte stores seven pixels plus a palette bit. On a monochrome monitor, the palette bit is unused and the seven pixel bits just become black or white dots on the screen. On an NTSC color TV there's an additional color signal added to each block of seven pixels, and through the use of artifact color the seven dots per byte becomes three-and-a-half color dots per byte.

At first I thought this might be referring to the palette bit - as this was almost certainly intended for B&W operation that bit is free to be used for other purposes. However, that's the high bit. Using the low bit would mean every seventh column of pixels would need to be white. Either that, or the engineer in question misremembered something and actually meant to say the palette bit.
> Strike is custodial...

You seem to be correct, based on their suggestion that you download another lightning wallet[1]. My prior impression was that strike contained a lightning wallet and a custodial wallet (for their fiat exchange). That said, with low cost and instant lightning network transactions you can basically use it in a non custodial way (ie. transfer out the moment you exchange for fiat).

[1] https://strike.me/faq/howtopurchase
Understood - I rescind my comment since the way it was written I interpreted it to mean you were accusing me personally of doing this.

I am not sure why, if your original comment was properly interpreted the way I did, it would be unfair to posit the idea of you living in limited filter bubbles. It's nothing to be ashamed of since we are all continually being victimized by social media algorithms into being exposed to information they feel will drive changes in our behavior. Everyone lives in filter bubbles. I don't know how to properly engage someone with the idea they ought to consider they're in a particularly narrow set without them feeling attacked. The best I've seen in some areas of inquiry is a tool you can use to analyze your twitter account to understand the scope of news sources you interact with, but that's limited obviously given the domain constraint. Even then it's hard to convince a person they are living on a overly-constrained information diet.
Uh, have you listened to their podcast? [0] The discussion of the great reset is not rooted in conspiracy theories, but rather direct quotations uttered by extremely problematic individuals who have a broad history of sketchiness, corruption, and warmongering.

I take strong issue with your careful labeling of those with whom you disagree as all leaning in one direction politically.

[0] https://pod.link/1517364006
Anyone want to start some kind of kickstarter like company where funds are pooled for different projects that have a target plot of land with a layout for a future city? Investors could get to submit bids for sub plots for future houses and the project could start when some predefined minimum is met. All of this NIMBY/artificially constrained housing supply stuff functions as tons of glass ceilings for those trying to rise up and follow the american dream.
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Well, MLIR uses block parameters: https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/Rationale/Rationale/#block-argume...

That could just be a Chris Lattner thing, but he's one of the main LLVM developers, so...
A conspiracy means that the truth about something is different from what we currently know. JFK, moon landing, flat Earth.

Where is the conspiracy with banks buying houses en masse? They intend to turn every middle class family into a permanent renter and take any profit of the housing market for themselves. This is exactly what’s happening.

We can simply say that this problem is more important than people believe, or that the media does not talk about it enough because it’s difficult to write about. But there’s no conspiracy here.
I agree with that. Of course, this does not necessarily imply that a large people will not choose to believe in a grand conspiracy regardless of whether or not such a conspiracy actually exists.
Still too long. The bill has not been fully implemented as cities have a few years to adapt it into their code.

But you just keep pushing where you can.
the first thing they did in the presentation was show a 12% gaming FPS uplift.

market is anyone who wants faster stuff.

But yes, databases will love it, so will compilers.
The premise of this article is that cryptocurrency must be stopped because it is used in ransomware. Never mind that “ransomware” is now the new “terrorism”, a catch all boogeyman to excuse civil liberties violations. Let’s look at how he proposes to stop cryptocurrency.

By making mining illegal, maybe mining can be stopped in the US and in Europe. But it will continue in many other places, and the network will absolutely still function. Maybe the value of crypto will drop, but this doesn’t matter at all for its use in payment. It obvious to anyone that the course of action he is recommending will not have the effect he says it will.

To anticipate this author’s next article- I’m guessing that he will propose making buying and transacting in crypto illegal for US persons. This would also make the value of crypto drop, and might actually also stop a few companies from paying a ransom. But soon enough, overseas “security consultants” would pop up, who could unlock your files for a very hefty fee (really just hiring a non-us person to buy and send the crypto ransom). No simple prohibitions or attacks on crypto would actually stop this.

But this does point to the actual way to stop ransomware, without the ridiculous and unworkable overreaches that this author is flogging: Make paying ransoms illegal.

This would neatly solve the problem by stopping any ransoms from being paid. The fact that the author contorts himself into mental pretzels to avoid stating the obvious legal solution to ransomware shows how little he actually cares about ransomware, and how much he is just grinding an anti-crypto axe. It’s surprising that UC Berkeley allows him to put their name on such obviously facetious and ill-considered articles.
Nothing is bigotry if there are enough bigots. And, as everyone knows, HN is a one-party site, so I'm not expecting many upvotes.
Sure. 'Think of the possibilities' is a fun exercise. I'm more in the 'will it scale' camp, that's all.

I've actually worked in this area before. There's more attention on this than you might imagine, and less than it deserves. There's also better ways to use drones to cause terror and disrupt operations that I obv won't get into. Maybe its not tech fantasy as I originally said, but it is much further out than you originally said as well, and it's a bit overkill. If you wanted to have the effect of causing fear in soldiers using drones, I think (but don't know) there are easier ways that don't require the same limiting assumptuons about technology, logistics and scaling.
Here's a pretty good explanation.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/53234826

There is a library that would allow you to declare functional components, however it relies on code generation which might discourage others from using it. Dart is planning on adding static metaprogramming though, and that might provide a way to introduce functional components to Flutter without codegen.
Yea, he's a nut job.
Aren't most of these holdings through funds? It's not Blackrock, Vanguard or Fidelity that's holding those shares, it's people and institutions who are investing in their funds.
I wonder what this says about the companies that keep these privacy-friendly alternatives hidden from developers, in favor of custom code that tracks every page load, whether the visitor wants to share something or not.
Surely we could have found a better source for this information without giving free engagement to an unhinged QAnon cultist?
Buying up houses is a play/bet on inflation.

If you expect inflation on the currency, and can buy a more stable asset on leverage then the inflation eats your loan. Taken to the extreme you basically get the asset for free.
I'm going to suggest that "novelWriter" find a new icon.
Agreed. Most of this is just obvious motivations to do a thing.

Recent HN article about the SCOTUS and CFAA ruling was full of folks who felt that CFAA must have been some corporatism-ish conspiracy to pass (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) a law back in 1986 and then criminalize basic policy rules as a serious crime. And yet apparently they just chose not to do that at any sort of scale...

Rather, the most logical explanation is that some folks made some bad choices when it came to applying that law, because it was convenient for them.

As far as my username, duxup loves you.
Yes. Do better than this: "If there's a credible threat to build plenty of housing, they'll move on."

What's needed is a mainstream, national name-n'-shame strategy that identifies specific officials and offices that are causing the block in housing. Make the target highly specific and concrete, and ensure the messaging is big tent -- don't make it anti-municipal government. Make it anti-zoning.

It's a waste of political bandwidth that most Americans know the name of at least one random House Rep that represents their partisan opponent either because Fox News or MSNBC, but none of us has any idea about the bureaucrats who are making terrible anti-housing policy decisions every day and driving up the cost of owning shelter.

Read this article and tell me how the amount of pro-YIMBY energy hasn't yet turned this into a major, populist outcry against specific people and specific government agencies: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/place/article/The-quest-...
Multisig solutions are available for increased security and reliability. Services like Casa and Unchained Capital will even hold a single key from your set, allowing you to recover your funds if one of your keys is lost, however they can never move your funds on their own because they never possess a quorum.
It doesn't make sense because the headline and linked tweets misrepresented the facts of the WSJ article it sourced its info from. I quote "Blackrock is buying every single family house they can find, paying 20-50% above asking price and outbidding normal home buyer..." and then he links to https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-sell-a-house-these-days-...

The general thrust that institutional investment groups have increased their purchasing of single-family residential homes over the last decade is true (around 20% to 25% of all such transactions now, IIRC). And it may be true that such buyers are pushing up home prices in many areas. I haven't done any analysis of that so I cannot comment on it.

However, the tweets are ... not quite correct. First off, the transaction in the article was a deal where Blackrock purchased a set of 124 rental properties that was already owned by an institution (D.R. Horton). It was this complex https://www.amberpineshomes.com/floorplans. The seller is quoted as saying "We certainly wouldn’t expect every single-family community we sell to sell at a 50% gross margin", which isn't the same as 50% above asking price. Various groups bid on the complex and, from another linked article, all bids came within a few % of each other. Any seller would hope to sell with some sort of positive gross margin. The seller's statement indicates that 50% may be high for residential real estate and thus is an indicator that the market in that area is quite hot.

The average price per home in the deal was $258k. Perhaps a bit high given the average size in the complex, but... If you examine the location (because real estate is all about location), we're talking about a small town outside of Houston that has grown in population from 56k to 91k between 2010 and 2019. The median family income there in 2016 was $60k. So this looks like a high growth area with upside potential.

The buyers are probably making a bet that the homes there will see substantial appreciation in the future because of this growth. The seller probably either wanted the cash injection, didn't want to manage rentals anymore or otherwise prioritized some short term concerns over long term asset yields.

To sum up, the people at Blackrock is not stupid. They won't pay a premium everywhere. They'll only do it in areas where their analysis shows that they will make it back along with a substantial profit. Is this good for society as a whole? Perhaps not. But that's not their problem.
Who is "they"? Some article in a newspaper? A handful of researchers and futurists?

Edit: Got it. It's from a list of unsurprising predictions from [at least] the marketing department of the World Economic Forum. Thanks.
Pretty sure the salvadorian government isn't going to be investigating it's self other than for more power grabs for the moment:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Salvadoran_political_cr...
At least in Minneapolis, everyone who's buying a remotely desirable family house is paying a lot above the asking price, although what I've seem is more like 10–15%.
Thank you :) I'll look at those coins differently now.
I edited my comment, I had written "permanent resident", when what I actually meant was just "resident".
My personal experience. With mega rental companies.

I moved into one of Invitation homes a few years ago. Looked nice when we drove up, didn’t think about why all the windows were open when we signed paperwork.

Their negligence nearly killed my family, and left us with life long injuries.
The gas line was leaking natural gas, improper installation? the furnace and stove were emoting lethal levels of carbon monoxide. Detector was defective.

A portion of the AC fell into the kids room. One wall got so hot it burned my wife. Only reason we didn’t die is smell was so bad we nearly always had all windows open.

At every stage they lied and did what they could to cover up problems.
They were trending low before COVID. Western nations are simply trying to stave off deflation as more people move into retirement and less have kids.
this is centralization with extra steps.
Do you ever think about how crank "denialisms" are usually believed by small percentages of the population, but this time with COVID and the election it's nearly half? Isn't that strange?
Hmm, proving you’re human by hiring a human to take the test in your place. I guess the machines won’t think of that. Or is there also an antianticaptcha?
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> This is what happens when you keep printing money

The problem isn't "printing money", inflation is a good thing as it encourages investment and maintains the movement of money. The problem is that printed money is only being put towards one purpose - capital markets - so the capital markets are what inflates (at the expense of everything else). If the printed money was being used on infrastructure payments, or some other distributed investment, the inflation would go to general labor first, which then would spread the inflation across the entire economy as they made individual purchase decisions.
This is a big thing for Sweden, especially for the region of Norrland.

I guess one could say that Norrland is like Sweden’s Montana or something like that.

Currently Norrland is receiving lots of business interest and investments. Northvolt is one example. H2 Green Steel is another. For the local population I believe this is very good news. It should give lots of job opportunities that will spill over to other areas such as service jobs.

Some reasons that are often cited why Norrland is a good location is the availability of clean energy from hydropower[0] and that there is also a high level of competence already when it comes to modern manufacturing methods.

[Edit: province → region]

[0] Totally different story in the south of Sweden where nuclear reactors have been decomissioned, and the energy availability seems to become more and more uncertain.
I think it means the following:

- Everything in the Apple II is synchronized with a master clock, including the video.

- The video chip in some 8-bit systems in this era could generate an IRQ when it was generating a specific raster line--the VIC-II in the Commodore 64 for example. This enabled split screen effects or updating during vertical blank (set interrupt to happen at last scan line).

- Apple II's video did not have this capability.

- This hardware adds a VIA, with the timer-generated interrupt. Since the VIA clock is synced with the same clock that everything else is synced with, including the video, it should be possible to generate an IRQ exactly once per frame. If that IRQ can happen at the right time, it can be used to effectively emulate a raster line IRQ.

- So--starting that timer at the right time: if you fill the framebuffer with 0x01, except for the last line, and keep peeking at what the video chip is putting out, enabling the timer when you no longer see 1's, you then have a reference point to enable the VIA timer IRQ at a right place.

- Once you have the timer set you can clear the frame buffer and use it normally.
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Yes, this is what NIMBY means. "I am ok with more housing, just not by me."

The specifics will vary in every case, but in every case it will be some argument on why THIS is not the right place to build more housing. For every possible value of this. Areas that don't have extremely local control over zoning do a better job of combatting this.
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I've posted before on here about my experience getting SIM swapped and how quickly someone was able to gain access to a bunch of my accounts. If I hadn't been at home and looking at my phone while it was happening, it could have been much worse, but thankfully I was able to get in and terminate most of their login sessions before too much damage was done.

The one thing I distinctly remember was two of my GMail accounts starting the recovery process. Thankfully, that process apparently gives either 14 or 30 days to stop the recovery and secure my own account. Had I not been connected, that may have been my only saving grace, as I was able to secure those accounts and subsequently use them to recover other compromised accounts.

The larger lesson for me was to always use TOTP tokens where possible over SMS, and to completely disable SMS recovery for accounts that didn't have a delay on SMS-only recovery.
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Huh?

He’s making the argument that what you observe is a direct effect of Prop 13.

You may disagree, but it’s very much not a strange argument.

Prop 13 kneecapped the ability for municipalities to fund themselves in the way they traditionally do in the US, and public services got vastly worse.