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> This market is ridiculous if you actually need a place to live, and it's not even a matter of income.

The US needs to make a policy decision: are houses investments or a way to nurture and grow the lower and middle class?

If it's the former, they can use tax policies to encourage the desired behavior. Tax every residential home (single family or condominium) at 10-30% of its total value per year, regardless of who owns it. Give a complete write off for your first home. Maybe give a partial write off for your second home. Make owners bear the cost of appraisals, and if appraisals aren't available, tax them at the most expensive 90th percentile.

But of course maybe the US decides homes are investments. Great for the wealthy, but the lower and middle classes are really going to get hurt. Birth rates will slip even further.
70% of the Russian military is at the Ukrainian border. Russia started a war 8 years ago that already killed around 10000 soldiers and 3000 civilians. They annexed Crimea 8 years ago.

I don't think that Biden's poll numbers has anything to do with this conflict.
> Latest Safari cannot be used by users who cannot run the latest MacOS on their hardware

Yes it can - pretty sure my daughter's old Mac running Mojave got an update to the newest Safari a few days ago.
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The current uptick in prices is affecting all markets. I bought an unremarkable bungalow in South St. Louis for $72k in 2016 and sold it for $135k in 2020. Zillow says it's worth $150k now. That's still a relatively cheap house, but the houses that were $150k in 2016 are now $250k. These are big jumps for an unfashionable neighborhood in a Midwestern market.
"Ivy League business school grads"

Is it possible they have to wait due to larger than average student loans (although many do come from wealth), or that the high paying jobs they seek are in HCOL areas?
lol, forgot to put the word theory. What a difference a word makes =)
> It's become basically impossible to buy a house as a normal person, even on a higher tech salary. In most markets around the US now, the expectation is that buyers will waive inspection requirements, make an offer as all-cash (e.g. pre-approved financing), with no contingencies (e.g. not based on sale of their previous home).

In some places that may be true, but I was able to get a home last January on a single relatively moderate-high tech salary, I have a friend that signed for a home on a single person decent salary as well near me, and my next door neighbors again single relatively decent tech salary just bought a new home elsewhere.

You may be right about places in like LA or Toronto or NYC, but to generalize that everywhere is a little absurd. I know that the market I fled in UT was that way, and things are getting pricier here in the neighborhood that I am living in, but we are definitely in the middle of a crazy bubble right now; however it won't last forever, things are going to pop eventually. There are good affordable places to live even if they aren't in CA. Much of the Midwest is great, I think part of the bump we are seeing is rise of remote work exacerbated an already existing bubble brought about by government subsidization as it allowed tech salaries to be redistributed geographically.

I do agree that part of the problem is large investment firms purchasing housing as an investment and an article the other day on here pointed out how they are able to take advantage of government subsidies to purchase more homes, but a bubble can't last forever it will pop, and I feel like the popping is going to come soon.
This isn't exactly true. Other than NFL, American pro sports have pretty strong unions, and even if you get cut, you still get paid. You might even get paid more, even though you're not working. Netflix doesn't give out guaranteed contracts that continue to pay you even after you get fired.
These kinds of articles tell maybe half the story.

In my early 20s, I was earning $120K a year while living in rural Texas. I had an expensive apartment (3 bedroom), a leased Lexus IS, and spent lavishly. I also got a second car (a Honda Fit) for grocery store runs. If this sounds absurd, yeah I know.

2 years of this and I had some 401K savings but no after tax investments. I wasn’t even maxing out the company match. Just before each pay day, I might have had $800 in my checking account on a good day.

My case might be extreme (I don’t know), but it was certainly poor financial decisions.
Apple is 'ungodly well-managed,' Berkshire's Charlie Munger says
I'm in Colorado and in the Denver area, $600k will get you plenty of house.
Precisely. You can definitely see the downstream effects of this, too, with lots of academics who see great success by publishing total tripe in well-packaged books (see: Malcolm Gladwell, the entire field of social psychology, etc).
Lawyers say a lot of stupid things to be sure, but generally not when it pertains to their practice area. Some things they say that sound stupid are actually how the law works, and in my experience as an actual lawyer, people who are not lawyers vastly overestimate how much they know about the law, and are far more confident when giving opinions than a lawyer would be.
It'll be easy to find the Shellys. Just look for light switches that don't cause the light to turn on or off, or lights that turn on randomly. We put a Shelly 2 on every light switch in our new build 2 years ago (about 30 Shellys) and over 50% of them have already failed.

Usually its either the relay refusing to switch on or off. Or its able to switch on and off via the app, but not via a light switch that it was happily doing the day before. Or it disappears off the WiFi and refuses to connect no matter how many resets / power cycles are done.

After replacing 10 or so of them, I decided it was easier to rip them all out.
Solar cells to achieve fast underwater wireless communication
The SpanDSP library has low-speed FSK modem implementations (including Bell 202 and V.23). I've employed the 202 demodulator to listen in to some radio-based telemetry.

https://github.com/freeswitch/spandsp
Canada Asks Banks, Exchanges to Block Crypto Accounts
"...there are far too many corporate shills, the good ones know they have to be careful."

Huh. Today I learned I'm not one of the good ones.
Gentrification ad a concept is bullshit. The alternative is sectioning off cities by race or income.
Virtual Environments and Package Management in Python
I had a similar issue at my last job. Whenever a user created a PR on our open source project artifacts of 1GB size consisting of hundreds of small files would be created and uploaded to a bucket. There was just no process that would ever delete anything. This went on for 7 years and resulted in a multi-petabyte bucket.

I wrote some tooling to help me with the cleanup. It's available on Github: https://github.com/someengineering/resoto/tree/main/plugins/...
consisting of two scripts, s3.py and delete.py.

It's not exactly meant for end-users, but if you know your way around Python/S3 it might help. I build it for a one-off purge of old data. s3.py takes a `--aws-s3-collect` arg to create the index. It lists one or more buckets and can store the result in a sqlite file.
In my case the directory listing of the bucket took almost a week to complete and resulted in a 80GB sqlite.

I also added a very simple CLI interface (calling it virtual filesystem would be a stretch) that allows to load the sqlite file and browse the bucket content, summarise "directory" sizes, order by last modification date, etc. It's what starts when calling s3.py without the collect arg.

Then there is delete.py which I used to delete objects from the bucket, including all versions (our horrible bucket was versioned which made it extra painful). On a versioned bucket it has to run twice, once to delete the file and once to delete the then created version, if I remember correctly - it's been a year since I built this.

Maybe it's useful for someone.
Sure, but you might just throw in cheap bulbs before you show it. Depends if you move out first.

If I ever sold this place, I would move out most of my ha and automation stuff first.

Even a generic hot cold thermostat is pretty cheap and easy to put in.

Would probably leave recessed touch screens though.
Japan also has a declining population, which takes a lot of pressure off of housing markets.
You're right - although you can pick better or worse providers. At least 1Password doesn't have a long history of breaches (like LastPass lol).
Why not?

For the same reason you wouldn't take technical advice about how to structure a scalable backend from the guy who mows your lawn.

I've listened to a lot of really idiotic theories by lawyers

Lawyers can, and will, say a lot of stupid things, because lawyers are very opinionated people and like to argue. It's why many of us became lawyers. But when we have a client the things we say and do with respect to that client's case are made on a professional basis (i.e., with at least some support from the facts, law, cases, etc.).
just when I thought we couldn't imagine more wordle variants!nice :D
It’s not how I play, but I know several people who throw random words in to try to tease out hints.
WebGL was my first exposure to gpu programming - when I eventually wrote a D3D11 renderer I simply could not believe how much better the tools were. My advice to anyone wanting to learn graphics programming is to start with D3D, the debugging experience is at least 10x better, which makes the whole process so much less painful.
Thanks! I’ve never seen that film :)
They use them like private IPs, across several air gapped networks. When I was enlisted we were putting them on desktops.
Not saying it's the main reason, but if you have to pay for your own health insurance, and you have a family, that can eat up a whole lot of even a low-six-figures household income. Then there's the cost if you actually need to use any healthcare....

Actually, even if your insurance is employer provided but you still have to pay a significant percentage of the premium, that can be a problem. $12+k/yr on top of what the employer's paying isn't uncommon. Most employers aren't as generous as FAANG and such.

Doubt that's the case for most, but it's one way for that to happen.

(I'd expect that poor spending choices are the main reason.)

[EDIT] Oh, childcare. It can easily be the case that your household income is $120,000 but $25,000 of it goes to childcare—but your household income would be $80,000 without the childcare, so you're still coming out ahead.
Should change to a montly fee. Then people would get rid of the ones not used.
My younger brother was diagnosed with Type I when he was 4 and I've always thought I had a pretty good handle on how tough having diabetes must be. I recently had gestational diabetes when I was pregnant and boy was I wrong. It's TOUGH. Particularly getting a handle on glycemic indices. I will say it turned me into a huge proponent of massive amounts of protein and fiber in my diet (but kinda turned me off Thai food :/ )
> I like to do more than is expected, but if what is expected is by definition more than what is needed [..]

Do (m)any companies attempt to drive sales by describing a product as "adequate"?

If your child sits a school test and the teacher describes the result as "adequate" would you be content?

In the workplace why wouldn't one want to always aim to do "good" work (which is very definitely one step above "adequate"). That doesn't mean amazing, outstanding or exceptional. It also doesn't imply pressure.

Why would anyone approach a keyboard if they weren't attempt to do something good?

Put another way, who gets out of bed aiming to be adequate? It's not like it even sounds like an aim, it sounds like it happens when you're not paying attention.
I do the same thing but worry about a nation state or rich enough hackers to just take over the project and add nefarious code. I’ll never audit the code and make sure it produces the binary I get from the Apple store. So I’ve started adding my own “salt” - I type an extra character or two (same for all passwords) to the end of every password I enter. It’s the easiest way to protect against not being able to trust my local password app that I can think off.
Sounds more like non technical leadership sleeping at the wheel. I mean if they could just afford to lose money like this why bother with all that work to fix it?
Or, since housing is a basic human need and not meant to be an investment, legislate against investment companies holding housing
What about the lifecycle stuff?

I thought, S3 can move stuff to cheaper storage automatically after some time.
>Users do the bulk of the flagging, your comment was almost certainly flagged by other users for, among other things, the obvious use of one of the oldest categorized bits of messageboard flame-baiting:

Well, I remain punished. While a very hot subject, not being able to discuss shocking and extreme issues based on 'flamebait' will only prevent needed discussion.

Here's the thing. I dont think Trudeau is hitler. My post does not call him hitler. If anything, we got to the point where both sides of politics are calling each other hitler. What an absolute disaster.
By the way, doesn't this page need an update now?

https://cryptomuseum.com/crypto/philips/index.htm

"The Philips version with encryption (PX-1000Cr) contained a much improved cryptographic algorithm."
Continuous Integration Isn't Rocket Science
Came here to say this. When you're on the job hunt, there are a thousand different MyWorkDays you'll need to sign into and what an incredible pain it is to keep track of those manually. Just don't forget to delete all those accounts when you're done hunting.
> In most markets around the US now

Do you actually have any evidence this is true in "most" markets? It seems like only in a few markets around highly-desirable cities is this true. Farms don't sound like they're going to be representative of the types of housing that most people are looking for.

I'm 45 minutes south of Seattle and I purchased a large house with a backyard, recent-ish construction, no contingencies waived, for less than what a 500sqft loft is going for in Seattle.
It’s important to note that the age at which one accepts the massive financial burden of university is around 17 years old or even younger. So you aren’t even legally considered an adult. At the same time, you likely have most people in authority positions in your life trying to get you to go to college.

So whether or not it’s a poor choice doesn’t really matter. The impact of that choice is really too difficult to understand until later in life, at which point it’s too late.

The end result, and really the only thing that matters, is that young people in America are royally fucked, and many aspects of that are outside of their control. Bad societal things tend to happen when a certain class/generation gets completely screwed over (many examples throughout history, including the French Revolution and World War II.) Which is why it’s important to solve the issue instead of blaming people.

With student loan forgiveness specifically, there are more options than just forgive everyone. We need to change how federal loans work moving forward to avoid more problems. At the same time, you could forgive loans if the total dollar amount you’ve paid matches the principle of the loan. (Lots of people are on repayment plans where they only chip away at interest.)

But the real question is why would it be a bad thing to allow young people to have an extra several hundred to thousand dollars per month? Obviously there would be a huge economic impact. Ok the one hand, people could spend more on local businesses, which would almost definitely be good. More spending in general is good for the economy. On the other hand, more people start being able to afford “expensive things” like houses, which are very scarce. In those markets, competition would increase, highlighting the scarcity we already have.

But the root problem isn’t that people can suddenly afford a better life, but that we’re putting up with scarcity in several parts of the economy. If we also made economic or policy changes to promote abundance (e.g. an abundance of new housing above and beyond population growth), that problem also goes away.

We all want to live in a better world, I’d hope. Public student loan repayments are regressive and have no place in this better world unless they’re changed drastically.
HN isn't a forum.
This is a hard story to hear because even a little bit of investment over the past 10 years of quantitative easing means you'd have some pretty big returns.

Real-estate, stock market, bonds, literally anything you could throw a dart at is up big over the last 10 years.
HyperWeb (a YC company, I believe) offers this functionality in its Safari extension. Very helpful!
I am not in US, but I lived paycheck to paycheck some time ago when I was already in the top 5% earners of my country.

The reason for it:

1. Chronic Health issues that are fairly expensive to treat, coupled with the fact I am too wealthy to get government help (this actually was my biggest money sink).

2. Renting in a place "near enough" of my workplace. (still wasn't that near, and the place was tiny, when I moved out a lot of furniture fit inside a hatchback car).

3. Constant inflation + health issues I mentioned before that require me have a diet of items that are more expensive. (I can't live off ramen...).

4. Thankfully this part is over, but some years ago there was the student debts too, at one point I had to pay to service my debt literally half of all my earnings, and had to pay food and rent with the other half.
Ooof, sorry for posting it then. Would delete or edit if I could.
Yeah, frankly the latter clause is more of a red flag than a positive. It's "we're not FDIC insured, but we've thrown this basically irrelevant detail about our banks into the sentence (they're not storing your money in banks), because it might confuse some people into thinking there is some degree of protection, and those are the sort of people we want as customers"
Also there are dozens of ginormous game companies producing what the FB metaverse needs in order to survive: CONTENT. FB won’t be able to create anything like the quantity or quality of content these game companies can. If they decide to play in a different arena than FB’s metaverse, it’ll meet the same fate as Stadia and for the same reasons.
I find it silly that appraisal waivers are the norm now. It's like saying, "yes, I know I'm going to overpay for this house" before any negotiation even takes place
Just like how The Intercept keeps burning its sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept#Reality_Winner_c... you pretty much have to assume any time you talk to a reporter you're like one step removed from talking to a cop. You cannot assume any security competence at all. Putting the source's full first and last name on the recording and then sending it to a third party, sheesh.
Best science fair I ever saw was at a remote construction site near Qinshan, China in 1999. Many Canadian engineers lived on a camp by the site, building two nuclear reactors [1]. The camp also had a school for the engineer's children, literally one room with a teacher and about twenty children from grade 1 to grade 8 [2]. It was a good school, the teacher excellent and the kids clearly loving it. The older kids got a lot out of helping the younger ones. There was excellent quality recent school work in evidence on the walls. Though I did occasionally pop by the school when I'd visit the site, I usually didn't.

On one of my site visits I was asked if I wanted a detour from the project site to check out the school science fair. I later figured out that the minor scheduling difficulties I had around that particular visit was so that I'd be there on the day of the science fair.

Every student had a project. There were a few of the usual suspects, like the baking soda volcano and potato battery. However, those were the exception. Most of the projects were astounding, well beyond what I'd seen as an engineering undergrad in university.

The kids, standing proudly in front of their project and the bristol board explanations, knew very well how to explain the project and had a deep understanding of how it had come together. They'd definitely done the work and were justifiably proud.

That said, the majority of the projects were such that they could only have been the product of many evenings and weekends over months of father[3]/child working together. I'll assume that work on the next science fair would have begun the day after the science fair I saw wrapped up.

1. Qinshan III, units 1 and 2; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinshan_Nuclear_Power_Plant.

2. High school was a boarding school back in Canada.

3. I'm pretty sure that all the engineers were male, for I'd be remembering a female engineer, but the school kids were a balance mix of boys and girls.
You only have 258 karma. You don't have to worry yet. When you get into the mid-thousands, that's when things get dicey.

Tech is like card counting. If you actually figure the game out, you get punished and flushed out. If you keep gambling and losing and don't know why (because you're bad at what you're trying to do) there will be a seat at the table until everything is squeezed out of you.
The rich people who are still buying ocean-front property?
Perhaps some government interference?
I don't think it not being that harms it as much as people think. It has to require updates for everything either way, people by and large don't care about "oh but it's only a small total breakage, going to jump on that then". On the other hand, yes, there certainly was some "we break everything anyways, so lets 'improve' things", combined with those improvements being designed at the wrong time, with assumptions that not always turned out to match reality. (E.g. a bunch of pieces that were added to IPv6 kind of assumed that routers would stay as they were, with routing done on CPUs, in software. Which they obviously didn't, and specialized hardware works on entirely different constraints)
sure, in a world where machine learning doesnt exist i would agree with you. for low level logs of things like "memory low, spawning a new container" i would also agree with you. not for user actions though (which is the topic closest to whats under discussion given what sort of data these regulations cover)
Incorrect. This is what we were told about Reddit as we watched it become basically unusable as a platform. Voting alone isn’t a proper way to guarantee quality discussion (the opposite actually.)
Let's not discuss our choice of nearby planets but the paper. It offers:

- A light-powered inflatable jet engine with an impressive Isp of 3000 s.

- A reusable acceleration block which is laser-powered relatively close to Earth, and then can return back to LEO and attach to another spacecraft.

- A way to shoot missions to other destinations using the same tech.

- An extreme aerobraking maneuver at Mars, because the acceleration block is not available for slowing down.

- A colossal 100 MW laser array on Earth, and the perils of atmosphere compensation. I hope in the future such an array would rather belong to LEO and be solar-powered.
Button It: A collection of Soviet control rooms (2017)
FBI to form digital currency unit, Justice Dept taps new crypto czar
Try explaining semiconductors to an Ancient Roman - they'd have exactly the same objection! You can't understand the words until you understand the objects they're describing, and you can't get that understanding just by repeatedly asking for an explanation that uses words you already know.
"Americans now say they need to be making roughly $122,000 a year to feel financially secure, more than double the national average,"

I don't make that much, and I support a family. The only thing rest makes me feel financially insecure is the way that IT hiring "works" today. I'm slow at code screen and my background is in irrelevant systems. Living in a terrible area for IT jobs doesn't make it any easier. If I could easily switch jobs and retain a similar salary, then I would feel good.