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> It is very hard to point to any non-bubble explanation for it.

> I find it difficult to believe this is sustainable.

As someone who just got approved for a million dollar loan in the Bay Area earlier this year, and decided to let that approval expire, I feel the same.

But I still feel nervous about “timing the bubble” by delaying.

Here are my “non-bubble explanations” for housing value increases:

1) Investors who want something like a bond. If you park a million dollars in a rental, let’s say you got back $3,000 a month. That’s something like a 2.3% interest rate. Not bad if your other options are 0% or less.

2) Investors who want to get out of the dollar (or any other currency): maybe they don’t care about the rental income they just don’t want cash. They want something that will track or slightly outpace cash.

3) Inflation is real. It’s happening, and in cities employers will have to increase wages to match. This is already happening for many of us, when we negotiate salary it’s not just “how big is you grocery bill”, it’s “how much do you need to pay me for me to pay a mortgage”. If city employers keep keeping up and housing stock keeps staying low then the houses really will do have value for people who need to work in the city.

4) Short term rental investors: Housing stock is now competing with hotel stock. This has the potential to be much more than $3000/month of revenue, although costs are higher to realize that revenue.

5) Government assistance: at the moment the government is paying or deferring anyone’s rent who can’t pay. Which I have to assume is reducing supply. Who knows how long this can continue. But as long as it stays true, the gain stay real.

And here are my explanations for why the value might be DECREASING:

1) Government assistance will likely end soon? And bankruptcies both of renters and landlords should increase supply and decrease demand?

2) Work from home: got a real shot in the arm from COVID, especially in the Bay Area, it seems like this might be a structural change for many companies. VR won’t affect this until headsets support eye contact, but that seems poised to happen around the timeframe COVID becomes manageable. The “end of offices” seems to be increasing in probability which would massively change the housing demand in cities.

So I don’t know. At the moment I am having a hard time believing there is that much headroom in housing prices to justify their current “only upper middle class can afford to buy housing” levels. But I really do see an argument on both sides.
mainly Jio :)
I wonder if there are any water loss effiencies that can be applied to crops. Farmers of certain crops in California basically erect and take down temporary structures of all sorts either for pest or temperature controls to optimize yields already.
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The realtor market is already a cabal-like gang so it’s not surprising they’d do that. You can’t really stop things like this without actual laws and penalties as people can just not “list”.

In an era of internet access to the MLS they need to provide value - apparently by creating a secret secondary market.
Ask HN: What stops employees from sharing secrets to their new employers?
I am wondering, outside of ethics what stops employees to share information? Are there laws that prohibits new employers from asking? I am more curious about the US situation but happy to learn about other places as well.
1000 useless articles you should never read as a human being
None of those are arguments for why IPv4 or CGNAT costs are optional; you cannot run an ISP without IPv4 or CGNAT, therefore the IPv4 or CGNAT costs are not optional. You will incur them regardless of if you deploy IPv6 or not.

If you deploy IPv6, you might not deploy CGNAT, but unless you are dual stacking, something functionally equivalent is required.

As to scaling costs, IPv6 offload isn’t a 1:1 replacement for IPv4 or CGNAT capacity. You need enough capacity to carry the IPv6 traffic over IPv4 in case your IPv6 transport, transit or peers fail. Again, not optional.
I do kind of wish Rails had just taken the 'bring your own JavaScript and CSS' route instead of wrapping Webpack and adding a boatload of confusion due to multiple layers of things that don't feel like they were designed to work together.

Tell me where to output my .js, .css and other assets and let me worry about compiling - or not as is often the case.
I haven't seen any data indicating that this is much risk.
The "No. There is no additional overhead. Components participate in a unified renderloop outside of React. It outperforms Threejs in scale due to Reacts scheduling abilities." made me do a serious double-take.

If you want to go fast in this space then you need to care about data layout and how the system is structured end-to-end. Calling a function per object is going to hit a wall regardless of how you schedule.

Hundreds/Thousands of updates is not small but it's also not massively impressive either. I've done ~2,800 node scene graphs on underpowered ARM chips back in '09 at 60FPS including rendering. You have to use NEON, and be aware of your caches. No scheduling magic is going to change that unless you're just deferring work which sounds like what may be happening there.

FWIW I've also done this in Java via FlatBuffers(which uses ByteBuffer internally) to keep data coherency when driving animations frames so it doesn't require dropping down to C/C++/Rust(although C#'s value types do make it easier).
I have to disagree here. Yes, the Arduino is made for beginners and it is easy (to use). But it is not simple.

Just a week ago I ordered a RPi Pico and made an also easy to use Rust toolchain for it: Compilation, upload and run in one command "cargo run"!

Some advantages I noticed so far:

- The installed binaries (rustc for arm-v6-thumb etc) are much smaller than the Arduino IDE.
- Can be programmed in standard C, Rust, Assembler, or what ever you like!
- Simply add some libs which are not even made for embedded systems and get them running instantly
- Does not require any special uploading driver, just acts as a mass storage device
- Supports a wider range of technical limits (such as logic voltage levels)
- Far more performant while also way cheaper

I can say that I am done with Arduino and for me this is the clear winner.
Maybe your bad experience just boils down to using the official SDK, which I agree is overtly complex and feels like it was just made to barely function.
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"TGV Software" stood for "Two Guys and a Vax", before they eventually hired about 128 more people, bought a few more computers, and were acquired by Cisco in 1996. It was originally an SRI spin-off.

I ran into one of the founders at a party in Santa Cruz in the mid-90's, and laughed with him about the great acronym, and asked if he and his buddy had ever gotten around to buying another Vax. He shushed me and told me never to tell anyone what TGV originally stood for! (Oops.) They must have been in negotiations with Cisco at the time.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tgv-software

>TGV Software, Inc. employs more than 130 people and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. The company develops, markets and supports TCP/IP internetworking software products which enable connectivity between disparate computer systems over local area, enterprise-wide and global computing networks. TGV's principal product line is marketed under the name of MultiNet. MultiNet for Windows integrates a robust suite of TCP/IP applications including a 32-bit VxD kernel, NFS client, FTP client and server, VT100-320 and TN3270 emulations, network printing, Pronto Mail V2.0 electronic mail, Enhanced Mosaic V2.1 web browser and network diagnostics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SRI_International_spin...

>TGV: Founded in 1988, this company created communications software and simulation software for VAX computers. TGV stood for "Two Guys and a Vax". The company was sold to Cisco Systems in 1996.
CIA mocked from all sides over new ‘woke’ recruitment video
I always thought it was because Giphy is integrated into a bunch of mobile keyboards and third party chat services. These services would never integrate a Facebook gif service because of the implication. So giphy's entire valuation lies in being a trojan horse for an established surveillance capitalist.
Show HN: Livestream Unity Scenes to WebXR
Comment above yours mentions it blocked on quad9, you using that?
Lists, Option, Either, Reader, Logging (non-effectful), STM etc... There is even a probability monad that I have found quite useful.

ST & State are far more useful than updating a local variable. If you are going to choose the simplest use case for them ever and then say that is the only thing they can do it is not a productive discussion. The state monad is a lot like a context object that allows state to flow through function composition (for functions that have no knowledge of such state). For example you could compose a bunch of functions and have the results of each function call stored without changing any of the functions to know about the operation. It's a method of abstraction and encapsulation.

It's not just monads that are useful either, it is the full hierarchy of Monoids, functors, applicatives, monads, etc...
Eh. An-72/74 is the definitive example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-72

But maintenance is a bitch on them, so they redesigned it to underwing pods - An-148/178.
Ironically, many people think it is perfectly normal to play the same game with alcohol and collapse.
NDAs you sign when leaving. also, most employers do not want to hear any secrets of their competitors. that puts them at high risk for litigation.
Is there a tl;dr description as to how the current address generation/randomization process works?
Consider the account of the former ambassador, who says this was avoidable, and not something assured: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/aug/14/a-self-inflict...

Or the account of this former Army colonel who mentions how poorly managed Afghanistan was all this time, with basically no real attempt at establishing institutions over the last twenty years: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/how-americ...

Or the WSJ editorial board's suggestions to rescue Afghanistan from a few days ago: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-rescue-plan-for-afghanistan-t...

There are plenty of ways this could have been handled better. It all comes down to having better leadership. The US hasn't had good leadership for a long time. Four different presidents came into office based on populist sentiments more than competence, and the result is they completely mismanaged all of this while we still incurred the immense expenses that a more successful plan would have required. Worst, they lied to the public and assured the public of how things were going well - this too came from multiple presidents.
As long as the other states’ diet can be 100% corn based, they’ll be fine.
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Hey all, my name is Dan.

I've been developing this 3D streaming pipeline that lets users livestream scenes out of the Unity Editor to WebXR.
You can see a customized example here: https://hyperplane.live/tk/vods/097aef

## Why build this

I was an engineer at FB on FB Live & IG Live & I worked at Oculus on VR Media. A trend I started to notice was people using the Unity editor as a recording studio! The recent rise of Vtubers as an example. I wanted to give people a way to share these Unity experiences in WebXR!

## Why Post?

I'm looking for developers interested in partnering to build some cool products on top of the streaming platform!
This will enable me to focus on improving the core streaming pipeline and adding features, which is where my passion is.

## How it works

The streaming pipeline is composed of 3 key pieces

1. Unity recording software. (An SDK + desktop application, Mac & Windows supported)

2. Custom file format spec, think DASH but for fully described 3D videos

3. A 3D video player that knows how to read the custom files and manages playback & overlays.

## Currently supported features

Meshes, Skinned Meshes, dynamic lighting, textures, materials, animations, audio

Setting up new users is still a manual process, so feel free to reach out if interested and I can set you up.
> more documentation, more tutorials, more help, more libraries, more maturity.

Haskell's got all that but I can't argue with it needing more programmers.
And yet, drunk people drive and kill themselves and other people every day. We may understand human failure, but we’re still really bad at mitigating it.
https://archive.is/R5Rw6
I agree. But who is a really going to hold TMobile responsible? USA govt isn't going to do anything.

Even if a class action suit occurs, they'll just settle it. To T-Mobile, that's just the cost of doing business.
>These guys are just cynically exploiting the Western, left-liberal agenda of protecting female rights and stuff like that

>I believe these guys understand Western society pretty well, and that’s why they can manipulate us easily.

I've gotten quotes on Telegram from various marketing teams (It is easy to build a network there if you launch any project or community in the crypto space), and one or two of them are legitimate, getting their catalogue of capabilities is fascinating:

A campaign taking advantage of Western Leftist ideas? check

A campaign taking advantage of Western Rightwing ideas? check

Come on you've seen the headlines for all of that, its been a whole decade now we can stop feigning surprise, what you might not know is that the same groups are well versed in things like

Political campaigns of almost every country. US, European countries, India, any party

Campaigns for NGOs

and more

Probably the most hilarious thing out of all of this is that doing campaigns for crypto projects is the most lucrative and immediately profitable with unlimited upside, while being the most informal
Wildfires don't really play into climate change much, carbon gets released, the plants grow back. In the same way, planting trees doesn't help climate change much, its just a temporary buffer.

Also it is easy to say "build water projects", but to actually do it is not so simple. Build what exactly, where, and what other consequences will result? The world is crowded enough that people's usual "simple" solutions almost always cause other problems, or are vastly too small in scale to help anything at all (plant trees! don't use paper straws!)
Right, and we also don’t have options and infrastructure because we haven’t had incentives to create it in the first place. It’s a bit of a chicken and the egg problem.

Carbon pricing would fall disproportionately on the poor, as most changes to society do. But then again, the effects of climate change would also fall disproportionately on the poor. What’s going to be worse?
Less individual users behind NAT so they can track them better?
Look at how much trading costs have reduced for all investors over the last two decades due to reduce spreads due to automated market making.
So again, I have to contest this. Not all UIs should be described in a tree structure. React and it’s whole diffing algo is to make sense of parts of the tree that changed.

That idea didn’t come out of the blue, it came from html, it came from the DOM.

If I give you a blank sheet of paper and say ‘write me a rendering api’, and you immediately reach for a tree structure, I’d be compelled to say you are influenced by html.

I feel like the watershed moment for us will be that moment in the Matrix where the kid tells Neo ‘there is no tree, there is no spoon’.

Edit (full quote from The Matrix):

Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth... There is no spoon... Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

We have been bending over for the DOM for quite some time now, I think it’s time we explore.

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Edit 2 (being rate limited), reply to some posts below:

Interestingly enough, ever major performance trick on the frontend requires breaking out of the tree structure. If you want a data table with a notable amount of rows, you have to break out and start defining heights and positions and calculate what to show manually. In other words, the free stuff we were supposed to get from the tree were not free.

My irreverence for the DOM comes from the fact that we have to negate it, ignore it, to achieve certain things.

So in the end I wonder, why bother with it at all?
In diabetic adults aspartame does (and probably stevia, sucralose in everyone iirc), which is only a subset of sweeteners. More than that, the studies are being done regarding apparent insulin resistance developed by the guy bacteria after prolonged usage, which causes the body to have to produce more. So it does sometimes and usually, depending on composition. I'll double down on that.

Good luck with whatever.
is this stuff really that new? I feel like I've been reading about solo founders who are able to bootstrap some company into the hundreds of thousands to low millions per year, for several years now on this site

what seem new is all the products around it, like "micro private equity"
Really love UHF, which this is taken from. The adverts in that movie are ridiculous as well.

> There's just one place to go for all of your spatula needs! Spatula city!
I don't know what's really going on, but I know this article is trying to mislead the reader. The headline is about pocket listings, but the only numbers mentioned related to that are

> The number of homes that have likely sold without being marketed to the public has grown by 67 percent since November 2019, when the NAR adopted its stricter rules, according to a Redfin analysis tracking MLS listings that were marked “sold” or “pending” the same day they were put on the database.

Was it 1% of homes and now it's 1.7%? The article is leading us to believe this is a large gain, but doesn't present any evidence showing that. "67%" is a suspicious number as well, as if someone said "about two-thirds" and it got translated back to a precise percent.
FWIW: Buffett is donating shares. Also, he sometimes talks about an interesting problem where the non-profit may not be allowed to hold shares of companies in certain industries (ex: insurance), and of course Berkshire is involved in almost every industry, certainly in insurance big time.
> ISPs log all of the translations

On my personal router?
You have to wonder what the executives thought of this!

Sounds like an interesting documentary ready to happen.
Just FYI, The Daily Sabah is a pro-AKP paper, not that that should cast any doubt on this, which is headling everywhere right now.
Any reasonable non-profit will accept stock, and every non profit I've been involved with liquidates them immediately and uses the money. Generally, a mission-driven org needs money, not a well-balanced stock portfolio.

It's quite a hit to their ``ratings'' as well, if they keep large un-spent sums of money around. Just imagine the clickbait article showing a non-profit hoarding stock instead of helping children in need. Those that do are rightfully derided so much that honest non-profits that are just trying to build their own infrastructure with self-directed spending are caught in the crossfire for not investing in ``programs'' enough.
You do lose money because they raised the prices.
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I thought I read a couple days ago that they were ~a month away from taking Kabul? Yet this article is saying they already have taken it.
I came here just to say “Fake Purse Ninjas is missing” but then I saw it immediately at the top of the Action category. Amazing.
I think too many people have a mental model that we can just shift a little north and it will all be ok, but that’s too simple a model. The temperature extremes from regular seasons are likely going to widen, making crop yields drop in a much wider band than just where the average temperatures rise and precipitation drops to drought levels.
Why not just use fixed versions and upgrade when you have a reason to?
Yeah, this is all over CNN too. In fact it's more than just "the formation of an interim government": Kabul has fallen.
Maybe this works for you? https://archive.ph/Ys5od
Facebook has a lot more power than that, and you have no authority over them.
It's bound to happen. Those who are easily manipulated by propaganda are easily manipulated by other people.
She might get burned on such a yolo-giving, $8B per year is quite a lot. George Soros talked a lot about how hard it is to give money, how it corrupts both parties (both the donor and the grantee). Gates tried hard to eradicate polio, and failed at that, now he's an anti-vax meme.

This will irk a lot of people here, but frankly the government is a pretty good nonprofit, as far as nonprofits go.
Does anyone know how to donate to Mr. Hardman's efforts?

I can't seem to find anywhere to do so and I don't use Facebook so I can't reach out to him via that platform.

I appreciate in advance any help you can offer!
There's also the HDCP and some other DRM keys in there... but then, they encrypt iBoot too. So can't be all of it.
I took the parent poster to mean that 1000 more programmers working on different open source projects has a force multiplication effect.
It would be better if neither collected the data, but second best is that Facebook doesn't.
Rust is truly cross-platform, while Swift isn't (though even it was initially announced to be).
Formerly know as MacKenzie Bezos.

Also, interesting that $1.2bn (27%) of the money went to ”Philanthropy & Grantmaking Infrastructure”… sounds like a bit of a Ponzi scheme? I really can’t imagine that was the best use for that money…
> From my dabblings in the non profit space, I'm finding many are unprepared to accept anything aside from cash.

If you’re donating huge amounts of money, you have lawyers to help those companies figure it out.

If you’re a small-time donor, trying to saddle a tiny non-profit with all of the extra hassle and legwork of accepting appreciated shares just so they can take your one-off donation is counter-productive (unless they're already set up for this, obviously). They might end up spending more time and money figuring out how to deal with your single donation than they would gain from accepting it, which is why they don’t bother.

The solution is easy, though: Set up a “Donor Advised Fund” through any number of major brokerages. They will handle the liquidation of your shares and mail a check to the charities you choose. Couldn’t be easier for both you and the charity.
> What terrorist acts have the Taliban committed?

Giving aid to a terrorist group that commits those acts doesn't make the Taliban less complicit. See this UN report from June about how the Taliban is still closely tied to al Qaeda (https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/02/middleeast/un-report-tali...). As for what atrocities they've committed, there's a long list on Wikipedia, many of which meet the definition of terrorism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Condemned_practices).

> Why does the U.S. need a foothold in a region on the other side of the world?

So many reasons. First, to contain China, which is the principal threat to America's prosperity and control in the future. Second, to support other democratic nations like India, who will suffer from the Taliban's resurgence. Third, to expand our economic interests. Fourth, to continue our mission to sustain human rights which the Taliban is already eroding. There are others, and I am certainly not a foreign policy expert, but my point is - there's something there.