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Have you ever seen the movie "The Big Short", where they go to Florida and meet a stripper who owns 4 McMansions and a minimum-wage lawnmower who is buying a giant, expensive house? Those were realistic depictions of the fraud happening at the retail level which created the entire problem.

The people defaulting on their mortgages were people who had committed fraud by lying about their incomes and assets in order to take out massive loans they could never repay, because they thought they could flip the house for a profit before paying any principal. Foreclosing on those people is the good and right thing to do, they were criminal fraudsters not victims.

Of course, the ripple effect when half the market turns out to be fraudulent is that prices go down when the bubble bursts which also hurts legitimate buyers who bought at inflated prices, but that's secondary to what caused the wave of defaults.
It is? It’s “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, not life, <deleted> and purported happiness under socialism, where you are assigned housing and a job.

Housing was guaranteed in the old Soviet Union, but if you didn’t cooperate, the housing was in the gulag.
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Based on the post timestamps it took up to 9 days for Google to respond publicly. In some ways this is impressively fast (but only for Google.) In others it's incredibly slow because revenue impacting production issues get addressed in hours.

Question for HN: Is there any formal critical contact network between Google, MS, Apple or other large companies? In incident responses like this are people relying on personal contacts?
Why EmberJS?
> Mobile telephones manufactured after February 13, 2000... must incorporate a special procedure for processing 911 calls. Such procedure must recognize when a 911 call is made and, at such time, must override any programming in the mobile unit that determines the handling of a non-911 call.

It doesn't matter what Teams does. Android is required to ignore Teams in the case of an emergency call. That's the law.
> &mem[65536] must be a valid pointer value

explain
Of course not. I'm not a snitch.
It’s ironic that people are trying to censor you for this.
When you say “position that commercial flying can never be automated,” I’m assuming this to mean “fully automated.”

My position is that “fully automated” is a logically inconsistent human objective. It means that there is no possibility of human control, because if there is human control / supervision, the system is not fully automated. And, so long as there is human control, you are designing tools for people to use. No one wants anything to be fully automated. It’s the biggest fallacy of AI in design.
I have always been interested in the star trajectory/ history of various projects. But I suppose I will have to wait till I get to my laptop. This is TOUGH to use on mobile.
I'm sorry to read this. It is very cynical.

It's not necessarily wrong, but I perceive it as inductive reasoning (failure to admit failure means failure, as a whole), that may not apply to many application contexts.

I've been in the NPO world for over 40 years (as a side gig). I have family that have been in it for even longer (as a full-time vocation); with varying degrees of success. I have friends that work at some very famous and effective NPOs.

I've had lots of failure; both individually, and as a member of a team, and we have always admitted it. I have also had what might be perceived, in the for-profit world, as "failure," but was actually a form of success, in the long game.

The same kind of thing can be ascribed to academia, and even to a selection of for-profit endeavors. I have seen this behavior many times in my "day jobs."

That said, the NPO/Academia world is pretty crazy, compared to the neat, clean lines of for-profit organizations. The main currencies tend to be passion, reputation, and ego, as opposed to money, and that leads to some "strange" behavior. Also, people can be quite ... driven, so the fights can be ... invigorating.
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Buying land that has buildings on it but not the buildings is an awkward situation that requires a further negotiation of a lease transaction to the building owner. Even if you could set something super complicated up with this bidding system I don’t think it would accurately value what the land would be worth empty.
This seems like an odd bro-math stat?

It seems to assume everyone is married, for one. Can someone tell me why such a trivially-calculated and easily-cooked example is useful here? Is there a source for their numbers?

Also, why are they saying “disposable income” when what they mean is _all their income_?

From their info page:

“Note that there is no standard formula to calculate property price indices. Our formulas differs from Case-Shiller Index, UK Housing Price Index, etc.

Price to Income Ratio is the basic measure for apartment purchase affordability (lower is better). It is generally calculated as the ratio of median apartment prices to median familial disposable income, expressed as years of income (although variations are used also elsewhere). Our formula assumes and uses:

- net disposable family income, as defined as 1.5 * the average net salary (50% is assumed percentage of women in the workforce)
- median apartment size is 90 square meters
price per square meter (the formula uses) is the average price of square meter in the city center and outside of the city center

...”
We should not give Google a pass on this. Google does whatever the US Government wants, and lately the US Government has a far worse humanitarian track record than the Chinese government (when you consider all the civilian death and suffering in the middle east over the past few decades).
Likewise, I'm also not a Trump fan and also not American (I'm British), but the American centre-left perspective on the Jan 6 riots is utterly ridiculous. It's yet more predictable histrionics from the bored suburban housewives who - deeply insultingly - arrogate to call themselves the #Resistance, and other such privileged bollocks.

There is no evidence whatever that it was an effort to take over the country - much less that Trump, or anyone beyond possibly a couple of wingnut far-right House reps, conspired to bring it about. It was some angry hicks going on a rumpus.

As a side note, it's disturbing to see that 'the paranoid style in American politics' now extends to the (centre-centre-)Left as well as the Right. First it was the ludicrous fact-free conspiracism about Russia conniving to install Trump as President; now it's the (transitively contradictory) theory that Trump, unable to cheat the election, tried to bring about a coup - not via the enormous tools at his disposal as President, but by supposedly encouraging some morons in fancy dress to storm the Capitol building and then aimlessly wander around stealing petty artefacts.

I suppose the paranoid style is simply a response by the dispossessed - but this is the first time that the rich and comfortable suburban centre has experienced being dispossessed.
Talking from a Swiss perspective here: What usually happens here is that facades are protected to "maintain the look" of a certain neighborhood. But everything inside the exterior walls is ripped out and completely rebuilt from scratch every 50 years or so. I think European cities are just denser than North American ones and the resulting buildings more expensive per square meter.
many formulations of RL systems and optimizing feedback control both have origins in for example, in optimal control theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontryagin%27s_maximum_princip...
Check out troff (https://troff.org/) and texinfo (https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)
When has the compose button ever been anywhere besides in the left sidebar near the top? Or are you talking about on mobile?
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Stevie Ray talked about learning amazing solos from Hendrix in his dreams, but he could never remember them when he woke up.
It was true. The banking system can absorb in a best case losses on its outstanding loans of about 0.75% - that is 0.75% of the total amount of loans.

Absent intervention, the consequences of 2008 would have been Great Depression 2. With intervention, we get to deal with a different set of problems (most of which could to be fair about it, be resolved by clamping down on tax avoidance in the financial sector.)
I disagree. It is great because you can actually see where the steps are performed. It's sometimes faster than reading a bullet point than finding out where on the screen it is.

And I did NOT grow up on videos, I just think they're neat.

Of course, there are times when I dislike them too. It's not always black and white.
Why should separatists be treated as criminals?
> Usually you can get a job by asking a friend to put in a word for you at their place, or just letting them know you're looking.

tl;dr
The resulting inflation would also have been somewhat epic.
Now I need two lines of CSS that will undo whatever this page does to disable my arrow and Vimium keys so that I can read whatever it has to say.
This seems to have started a fight; in both countries the price of the house is probably going to be a small part of the cost in major cities. Certainly construction costs have not doubled at the same rate as house prices.

The UK perspective on old vs. new: newer houses tend to be tiny and feel less comfy even if built to stricter standards. Old houses come with more problems. In Edinburgh "New" Town (late 1700s), it's common to see cabling being run up the outside for things like broadband, because the building is of stone and there's no other sensible way to do it. Retrofitting all the old housing stock is going to be difficult-to-impossible.

Don't forget planning regulations. Gutting a building and effectively building a new one inside incurs far less paperwork (and possible objections!) than demolishing it and building a new one. The UK loves declaring anything and everything to be historic.
Alexa is the worst tool ever and I'm glad it is closed now. According to their "ranking", my website is hundreds of times smaller than it is, just because my visitors don't install their cr a ppy browser plugin. Even random numbers will provide much better ranking than this garbage.
So part of what makes it feel bad is the difference in loan structures. People do not have to pay 50% down in most of the US.
You would have had moral hazard with home buying, and people would have been incentivized to pay a lot more for their homes because the likelihood of a bailout would be good.

At least with a central approach, regulators could come in and monitor. There wouldn’t really be a way for regulators to check home prices / the free market at such a massive scale.
Building a Poor Man's Supercomputer
Tether is said to not have 1:1 backing with USD and instead have exposure to Evergrande bonds. Nobody knows the veracity of this claim, because the organization itself is tight lipped, but it is posited by some critics.

If Tether collapses, it could result in widespread blowback against the entire crypto market.

There's also increased regulation in India and broader skepticism. Crypto is feeling anxious right now, and many are harvesting their gains based on the uncertainty.
So I lived in a SE Asian country and saw this first hand.

There is no equity market (that you can trust), bonds pay nothing so property is what you invest in (or you just sit on cash that is rapidly losing value during to inflation). Ownership is recognized even by corrupt bureaucrats and courts. Ownership papers are next to sacred documents. And no property tax so zero holding costs. The perfect investment.

No legally defined ownership? No problem! The developer is working on it. They just need $30,000 USD down to secure a plot. Ownership papers will follow.

So you pile your savings into real estate. You dump every single dollar you have into speculative real estate developments.. A single family home 10 km from a major city costs more than it does in California (~$1.5M USD) and local median wages are 1/10th that of the US. You can visit developments that are nothing more than 100 homes that are concrete shells with rusting window frames. Maybe 1% occupied.

But don’t get me wrong, some developments fill up super quick. But some just die.

Want to rent a place? Fuck you. Owners aren’t banking on rent, so pay them $3k per month. It’s all about appreciation. They would be happy to leave it empty. Less hassle that way.

Seems like a recipe for a major housing crash.
How does that happen tho? I'm thinking about the gaps in my own that's only slightly younger and the only gaps i can think of are at the door and maybe there's a gap at one corner of the roof but i can easily fix. Nothing gets trough that brick and mortar.
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This is very intentional. Attacking specific journalists and broadly claiming that the entire space is corrupt and manipulated is what increases the tolerance for things like this.
Trial for in-app payments in WhatsApp via Novi
Why crypto? WhatsApp users are not particular tech-savvy, why not just use Fiat?

The use of crypto in here just makes it more difficult to understand for the end user, or am I missing something?
Far more people will read OF as OnlyFans than as OpenFinance.
are u stupid or a troll? lmao ... the average citizen in murica can pay off a house or apartment in 4 years? it should be obvious to everybody not living in a rich people bubble that there's something very misleading about your little statistic.
I think that the success of the 'British invasion' groups in America is that it provided a safe way for mainstream Americans to listen to black musical genres.

The British musicians—who weren't as queasy about it—took R&B, Rock and Blues and played it back to the Americans from a safe distance.
That's not what this statistic means. It means that if you spent 0 dollars and saved all your income you would need 7.27 years to buy a house. In practice you need a mortgage, of course. But now think how bad this gets when a house price is your 40 years worth of income...
Manufactured homes also typically don't move once installed except to the scrap yard once they're too old to meet regulations for being moved to live in.
And what exactly did he post on Twitter to 'try to overthrow the country'?

I'm not a Trump supporter in the slightest – I think he's a ridiculous buffoon – but I loathe even more the politicisation of truth, and the idea that anything goes, provided it attacks the right people.

What you're saying is not true. That shouldn't be a political statement.
Thank f for this. Github search has been complete garbage for years tbh.
Being able to search, for instance, for 'def method' and not finding EVERY other def first is gonna be kinda nice
Not sure how to calculate ROI on infrastructure. There is a limited amount of infrastructure a country needs, once that is built the government can decide to keep pumping money into the economy (say state operated oil machinery factories, armament factories, furniture factories etc.) or they can do what the Norway government did and just dump the money in the stock market, letting the market decide what works and what doesn't.
Samsung installs Facebook services you can't uninstall without using adb or rooting your phone and lots of other bloatware too.
T H A N K S !
> because they assume the exchange rate risk themselves. If that bet goes sour, though, the borrower faces higher costs to service the debt.

Man that seems like “doubling down” (I’m thinking of the gambling term) on a business bet…
When you count all the ways to be wrong, the median scientific paper is wrong.

In biomedical fields they dismiss more than half of papers out of hand when they do a Cochrane meta analysis. It begs the question of why such papers (which aren’t fit to extract knowledge from) are published or funded at all.

I got a PhD in theoretical physics and routinely found that something was wrong on page 23 of a 50 page calculation and nobody published anything about it in 30 years. Possibly the whole body of work on string theory since 1980 [most of hep-th] is a pipe dream at best. Because young physicists have to spend the first third of their career in a squid game fight for survival not to fathom the secrets of the universe but to please their elders we get situations like that absurd idea of Steve Hawking that information gets lost in a black hole. (E.g. if you believe that you aren’t even going to try quantum gravity.)
I mean I'm just voicing my own opinion here, and I respect yours and even agree with you on some level. Apple has been charging through the nose for battery replacement for a long time, though at the time all this happened (or shortly after at least) they did have a very good battery replacement program, and they recently announced a new replacement parts program which hopefully ends up doing some good on that front, but we'll see.

Personally I think it's pretty great to know that I can use my iPhone even with a degraded battery and not have it shut down unexpectedly.

I've had both iPhones and Androids do that in the past, often in cold weather and during bursts of high load (like on a chairlift at a ski resort, which my example here is based on).
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The biggest difference IMHO is when comparing to something like Wikipedia or Stackoverflow. I wish the fabric of scholarly communication similarly allowed for browsing reviews, updating papers, commenting with new references, etc.
Brinks and concrete are common materials in Europe due to the lack of abundant lumber. Much of Europe was deforested centuries ago, and what forests remain are generally heavily protected. In North America, there are trees out the wazoo. In the parts of europe that do still have substantial lumber supplies, like Sweden, you see substantially more lumber used in construction.

Lumber is easy to produce, easy to transport, easy to form into structures, has excellent tensile strength and flexibility. It is an ideal construction material. There is a reason even the wealthiest in North America still live in stick frame buildings.
> Yes, that includes pushing back and resisting stupidity, but it does not consist entirely of me getting my way in every little detail because I'm oh-so uniquely blessed with the magic and rare ability to program a computer.

Ok, that I can agree with. I think I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't push back on ideas I thought were bad, but at the end of the day it is my manager's responsibility so it is their decision.
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I think this is really terrible. If I want to smoke and I don't hurt anybody that is my business. Specially Pipe smoking and cigar smoking is a hope for people. Some people, prefer to smoke weed with tobacco.

I was fully in favor of banning smoking in many places, and even using social pressure against people who smoke in public places. This however just goes to far.
Yes, this is parallel to the web3 situation with e.g. metamask or badgerdao; the system is technically decentralized, but most people use it through a front end which naturally re-centralizes it again.
It's a cultural thing. In Austria, people build multi-generational houses because it's expected that your kids and grandkids will live in the same house. In fact, Austria only has one city with two million residents - the rest live in mostly tiny towns where everyone knows everyone (and if you're a newbie, that's not a good thing). Anyone who opens up a business, names it after their family. In other words, where you come from is important, and ideally you come from a family that's been in this town forever. So, in a world where your heritage is a disproportionately big part of your standing in the society, geographic mobility is not a universally good thing.

I am sure there are parts of the Midwest that work the same way, but that's by and large not how the majority of the US works. Your heritage is refreshingly irrelevant, and therefore you can move freely from one place to another. Most people realize that big cities offer better career opportunities, and also that big cities suck for retirement. So you essentially see the following migration pattern:

1. [some place where you were born]

2. [your college town]

3. [career-related move to a bigger city]

(this part can repeat itself many times)

4. [retirement somewhere warm and/or affordable]

So if you're going to move somewhere in the range of 5+ times, why would you invest in a multi-generational home?

Finally, as an aside, interesting to note the correlation between the geographic and economic mobility: the American Dream may or may not be alive anymore, but I've seen so many kids from my college come from nothing and make a fortune (and shockingly, kids from good families end up as failures, mostly due to some sort of conflict with their family). I think the society in the US has accepted that there's a lot of uncertainty when it comes to predicting a kid's future.

That stuff simply doesn't happen in Austria on that scale - if you're poor, you'll stay poor, and vice versa. So a good family name leads to a good standing in the society, and the loop repeats itself (this is where your residence can also serve as a signal for your wealth to reinforce that loop). Why risk leaving all that and moving to a new city where you'd be starting from scratch?
I would yield to better evidence, but my suspicion is that it stemmed directly from executive-level confusion about AI. Consider: how many investor pitches have you seen that claim “AI” technology as a mechanism to increase perceived IP value? They were telling their investors that they had AI, and AI means people aren’t involved (fallacy).
Do you know they are not holding Evergrande paper? They haven't been audited.
Ironically, if it were the case that people didn't "feel [they] were able to be [themselves] at work", then you wouldn't know if some of those 20 people were faking their political views in order to fit in. Making an assertion that 'politically, we're all similar' sort of ignores the whole proposition that some may feel the need to hide their views in order to avoid political prejudice.
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How can one participate in making profits during a "dollar short squeeze"?

GME was easy. Hold the stock, sell it to the shorts. How do you do that with US dollars?

Secondly, as crazy as this sounds, would it be one reason for the Fed to preemptively drive inflation? (I suppose a low constant multiple in devaluation wouldn't blunt a short squeeze peak entirely, but might make it less sharp?)
So... if you're okay with how ls changes its output format based on automatic pipe detection, then it seems like there is perhaps more than "one" good reason to do automatic pipe detection. :-)

Which is eminently reasonable. But your hard-line stance expressed above is less so.

> Bringing `ls` into this isn't a great idea.

I perceived your hardline stance as unreasonable personally, and so I wondered where the format changing functionality that most 'ls' implementations perform based on pipe detection fit in your worldview. It seems to me like your hard-line stance is not actually so hard-line. But you do a lot of mental gymnastics to get there, and you end up asserting that 'ls' shouldn't be used in pipelines. Which seems kinda nuts to me to be honest.

The better answer here IMO is that one should use "good judgment" when it comes to changing things based on automatic pipe detection. It's a matter of taste and there are more use cases for it than simply removing ANSI codes.
I mean this is essentially the crux of reliability for a phone, no?
This view is detached from reality. Not every house is in the eastern suburbs of Sydney and lower quartile income in Australia is extremely high.
The real reason isn't that the system would be GPLv3. The real reason is that GPLv3 includes a patent grant clause, which many companies (Apple included) are very worried about applying to them if they ship GPLv3 code, therefore they don't.