skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It'll be brutal. Bay area home prices will fall by at least 40% from 2021 highs by end of 2024.

This is a perfect distillation of "bad news leads". A year ago, threads like this were filled with complaints that bay area housing development and pricing was completely unsustainable and that the values and rents were simply too high to permit the needed workforce to live there.

Now fast forward, the situation is correcting itself, and... that's not good. In fact it's "brutal".

Really, what did we actually want? This is what dropping housing prices looks like. Any time prices change some people win and some people lose.

(From my perspective, FWIW: yeah, this is a sorely needed correction and while it must suck to be a property owner right now there's no way we were ever going to sustain that ridiculous bubble.)
The claim seems dubious in Europe, but in North America the stove has access to twice the voltage potential as the kettle, so can heat faster. Then with equal losses the stove wins.
I agree it may be a bit more muted in the Bay area, though in dotcom we saw a 10% retraction and great-recession saw a 30% retraction.
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Here's an example for a controller going up to 16 kHZ. http://www.iskydance.com/index.php?c=product_show&a=index&id... (no affiliation). Would need a DMX fader to control it though.
Strange.. every household and even hotel room I've ever been in North America had a kettle.

I only went to an Airbnb once that didn't have a kettle, so I Amazon'd one and just left it there.
I need a Twitter bingo card. These plus many other predictions seem completely plausible.
I hope that whatever they decide, they don't flap in the breeze and update their policies based on every bit of media attention. Doing that is worse than making almost any policy / product bet and actually seeing it through
You can also use a lot less water than is standard: just enough to cover the noodles. Kenji Lopez-Alt has written about this a bunch [1]. Noodles cooked that way were indistinguishable in his testing. He's also discussed it on his cooking youtube channel, which I recommend to anyone. For example, a 3-ingredient macaroni and cheese [2] in which he discusses the noodles at 0:40-ish.

[1] https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-cook-pasta-salt-water-boi...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWge-2jT9ZQ
Housing is a very "tipping point" thing - if there are 100 houses for sale and 101 buyers, prices will rise until one buyer drops out. If there are 100 houses and 99 buyers, prices will drop until another buyer appears or a seller takes a house off the market.

It's not exact, but small changes can have large effects.

However SF likely has a huge waiting list of people who would like to move in, so it's not likely to take effect immediately.
Airlift (airdrop even less) isn't remotely enough to sustain 24M people, that requires maritime bulk cargo and available port infra.

> unrelated to China and Taiwan

Yes. Foreign nationals operating on what PRC considers to be Chinese territory under rival governemnt without CCP assent. Many of whom working in NGOs/agencies specifically to undermine PRC interests. I don't how international law will categorizes them, but PRC has good argument for "not civilians".

> give them ample time prior
...
> sinks an actual PLAN vessel

There's going to be time/opportunites assuming graduated escalation process, but TBH I presume chance of inciting spark that pushes things to 100% more likely and preferrable for PRC. Even in a blockade scenario I think PRC will preemptively destroy major TW military targets that could threaten back, which PRC can do so without much telegraphing via air/rocketry. Lesson from RU/UKR is no half measures. Blockade = PRC is starving the island and not invading, but doesn't mean it won't defang TW first, PRC won't give TW the chance for fair fight or maintain ability fight back. As far as taking hits, it would be resumption of civil war and losses would be expected including mainland strikes by TW missiles.

> delicate diplomatic situations
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> undoing diplomacy

Look at RU vs LIO relations now, it's unsalvageable regardless of how mild the war started. And with respect to PRC/TW the countries that plan to sanction PRC are simultaneously trying to increase TW cooperation to undermine PRC interests while their genpop perception of PRC is already in gutters, so even less reason the cooperate, regardless of why shitshow started (i.e. LIO MSM will fault PRC even if PRC responding to provocations). And third parties that cultivate relationship with TW inspite of PRC warnings are in better position to compel TW into concessions anyway. IMO another lesson from RU/UKR war is just how little diplomacy is possible between active belligerants when strong outside actors are involved, i.e. RU isn't going to convince UKR to talk, but US might.
Cryptography: How do you prove a secret?
I have to agree with you there... I ditched Android at the Galaxy S4.
Right, perhaps it would have been better to say state school.
Why would Elon Musk do this?

But seriously, almost every company reliant on ads has announced layoffs this year. Neither Twitter or Facebook layoffs should be a surprise.
The authors should redo the video every couple of years as the tech progresses. It is easy to spot the fakery in the 2019 edition, but I'm sure it's harder now.
To add to your point, the U.S. government suffered budget deficits every year from 1970 through 1997, then when Bill Clinton was president in 1998, the government finally recorded a surplus. There were also budget surpluses in 1999, 2000 and in 2001. 2001 was the last year the Clinton administration proposed the budget. Republican George W. Bush succeeded Clinton in 2001, and the US went back to having a budget deficit in 2002.

https://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/03/cnn-fact-ch...
Total and utter nonsense, the Onlyfans empire will outbid Automattic paying just under $20 million.

> - Even some legitimate users who'd be willing to pay for a checkmark are reluctant, since it acts as something like tacit approval for Musk himself, in a time when public opinion is low.

The virtue signalling will go both ways - some will pay $8 in the sad hope that Elon will notice them. Some will refuse for the reasons you outlined above. Nobody sane will actually give a shit.
Sorry but all you say in you post is a bunch of baseless personal assertions pushing a specific personal political take that has no substance or credibility.

The Ford F150 is no niche product. It's the most popular car in all US states except in 5 or 6 states. According to some sources , "the vast majority of these new trucks are [sold] in large and medium-sized cities."

https://hedgescompany.com/blog/2018/10/pickup-truck-owner-de...

So unless you want to claim that white males living in large urban centers from all corners o the US are not Twitter's demographics, your view is baseless and completely detached from reality.

But be my guest and point out the best source you used to source your claim.

And lastly:

https://marketing.twitter.com/en/success-stories/ford-f150-l...

Hard to explain, isn't it?
It's more about saving face. China has being beating the drum for 3 years that it's covid policy has been successful and it should be the poster child of covid response and every other country is wrong and sucks.

If they end zero-covid policy it's admitting they were wrong and that its failed.

On the flip side their covid vaccine has also being a failure.
Ask HN: Anybody running successful MEV bots?
I've been reading up on this space for some time now, and the general consensus I read is that it's a highly saturated market with ten or so bots making all the profit out of thousands.

I am not looking for your exact code but would really appreciate some pointers! If ethereum is saturated, maybe there are opportunities on other chains, other long tail opportunities?

Thanks!
Probably the "best result" for everyone would be prices stagnating for 10-20 years (could this happen? maybe) and let inflation slowly bring them back to a sane percentage of income.
I'm American, and I often heat up leftovers with a toaster oven or on the stove. For some foods it gets better results.
> iA Writer

The typeface is a modification of IBM Plex Mono[0][1]. I'd recognise that 'a' glyph anywhere.

[0]: https://github.com/IBM/plex

[1]: https://www.ibm.com/plex/
Tough for Elon.
There's still a huge amount of energy that gets dumped out into the kitchen by any non-induction cooktop, no matter what pot you use.
I like your taste – Input and IBM Plex (on which the iA Writer family is based) are my favorites as well. iA's old typeface Nitti is great as well.
If it isn't overpaid bloated admin, what is the cause?

I worked in EDU.
The devil really doesn't need more advocates.
> it would be a really bad idea to skip a cost/benefit analysis

Western leaders aren't doing any cost/benefit analysis at all - except to their political career.

We have a range of very low-cost, technological measures avaliable. For exampme upgrading schools with proper ventillation. We have scientific studies that show this would reduce likelihood of infection for everythint, from COVID to common cold. It would reduce CO2 concentrations in classrooms and help children be more alert and awake. There has been zero budget allocated to them.

In London I have seen UV sterilisation installed on handrails of the escalators, and ROI on that will be mostly zero.
Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sponsor

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/M4CjT700l7E

https://youtu.be/S-Wq0I8HIG4

https://youtu.be/I1t4pO1noJI
Cook should be sacked. After a President openly hostile to trade with China, Covid and a crazy Zero Covid policy, now he’ll throw up his hands and say “who could have known?”

With a $100B in cash sloshing around overseas, he’s had 6 years to be a genius.
We need to accept this and start immediately facing it head on. I'm talking a 5 Trillion Dollar investment into manufacturing in the US. Set a goal of 5 years. After that 5 years we cease any and all import from China and countries beholden to them.

While extracting and exporting every ounce of oil the US has. The profit made goes into Nuclear and Renewable Energy.

Next we Annex Canada and Mexico to further build out US infrastructure. We will dub this the Nation of North America.
It feels like much plastic since you touch each one, but it's a very tiny amount if you weigh your monthly usage.
The worst part of a standard American drip coffee machine is cleaning it. Too many different nooks and crannies to get gross.

I find pour over to be one of the easiest methods in amortized time. It takes three minutes to make a cup but the clean up time is only another 30 seconds—-throw away the paper filter and rinse the dripper.
Why we’re leaving the cloud
I think the title of the post is a little misleading. It's not really the subject of the article nor is it the actual title.

The article is closer to this text:

"Whether or not the lab leak theory is correct, it's now clear that these public officials concealed their conflicts of interest with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and minimized their own roles in providing government funding for unsupervised gain-of-function research that may have led to the pandemic."
they hold a lot of us denominated debt

we are cool for awhile
True, some do, though some don't (and some have both). Even dedicated LED drivers using PWM can be better than simple PWM by using smarter modulation to get high resolution without reducing the frequency to something noticeable.
That may be true but at least for JVM languages, intellij is better than LSP.
I think you missed the point here. You don't use link lists when you are going to walk the list and insert in the middle or some random place. The only time you end up walking a link list in typical scenarios is when you want to print them out or some unimportant operation.

Link list is used to hold relationship between nodes and when you are operating on that node the common patterns are remove and add it to another list, or re-add it on either side. Take a look at bsd or linux source for inspiration. A process struct has more than dozen member variables of node* type because the object ends up being in several lists like sched, signal queue, child threads etc.
Meta's layoff going to be the biggest round of tech layoffs to date by a margin
Let's see those credentials.
They’re related, but different things.

Interest rate changes could (will) reduce demand because people can’t “afford” what they used to be able to.

Mass layoffs can lead to people being forced to sell because they can no longer afford payments, or have to move. Edit: and increase supply. Somehow I missed saying this explicitly.

These two things together could be particularly bad for the local area.
I think he's specifically taking about the algorithm. Tiktok can be friendless, but so can Reels and Youtube. In the end Tiktok is a similar concept to Facebook when you consider that it's catered content.
I mean that it literally won't matter what the official policy is. Eventually COVID will become so virulent that no amount of lockdowns will stop it spreading.

E.g.: by the time a case is detected and a lockdown enforced, it'll have spread too far to contain. Rinse and repeat and there will be "hotspots" everywhere, impossible to contain.
See also: Duospaced font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duospaced_font
We're talking about deaths from disease, not deaths period, so again not sure how does has to do with anything. Should we stop medicine because people will die anyway?
Yes. While I originally disagreed with nkurz, I responded to their non-confrontational approach. So the above is not an argument, it's a cooperation. (I know; weird)
If they are on garden leave until Feb 2 with full pay and benefits, there could be a weird email which says "to keep your pay and benefits we need you to come and do work for us".

I don't understand how to integrate sources that say everyone was locked out of work but is still on payroll with sources that describe what happened as layoffs. It seems like telling everyone "please keep working but we will have layoffs on Feb 2" would have made more sense, get some labor for the money spent?
Can we stop pretending that email is a great example of decentralized networks? Modern email is extremely centralized with most people on either Gmail, Apple, or Outlook. No one rolls their own server.

Email on the other hand is a great example of how decentralized things become centralized over time due to the network effect. There's even a weak network effect with email and it still happened.
Is that why just a rumor that you know how to code can lead AMZN recruiters to call you every week?
(offset, length) was how I coded it in the 90s, too, precisely because it made correctness clearer. "Nearly all" broken, hmph.
>If you think Fox News

One slightly right authoritarian news source does not a rule make... I bet you think "republican" means right.... I am a firm believer of the unipary theory of politics

Republicans are no better than democrats. One wants to tell you what to do with your life (including your bedroom) but leave you with your money and guns, the other wants to take your money and guns but will allow you to do pretty much any thing you want (including victimize violently and take an property of others it seems)

Neither are good, both are very much authoritarian

> If you think MSNBC or CBS were anywhere close to 'far left',

If we are cussing.... What the fuck are you talking about... MSNBC not far left? What the hell do you consider far left then... MSNBC is the leftist of left.... Hell At this point they are probably more left than the Young Turks

Ground News marks them as left as well [1]. NPR is "leans left" [2] and Reuters is "Center" [3]

[1] https://ground.news/interest/msnbc
[2] https://ground.news/interest/npr
[3] https://ground.news/interest/reuters_fa2539

For every Fox news, there are 5++ Left media companies, so yes Fox nows has a large audience because it is consolidated and not spread out between MSNBC, CNN, New Times, Washington Post, and the 100's of other left and left leaning outlets.
"metadata" & "everything we see" is not the same thing as "all internet traffic". I'm not trying downplay the quantity or sensitivity of what is stored, its just the idea that all internet traffic is being recorded by any government seems technically very challenging and makes me very skeptical of that unqualified claim when I see it.
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Some people care more about people dying than the economy, as China clearly is showing.
Businesses that use a bachelor's degree requirement as blunt hiring filter. Loose credit that can't be discharged in bankruptcy. Colleges are in a rankings arms race instead of prioritizing affordability.
It's also a way to take advantage of high-priced stock while they can. Of course that doesn't mean they should hire recklessly and pay through the nose for people to do VR research or whatever that won't pay off this decade.
I'm pretty surprised that one fell off the front page so fast.
Now that is nice, spoiling it for the readers by outing this scheme.
This means that this hole will be patched, only because somebody wants a scoop.
In a "healthy/non growth" economy (perhaps) you'd have firings regularly, instead of keeping the "dead wood" around until the "big fire".

Arguably it's better for the employee (assuming they actually underperform) because then they can recognize "this is me, I need to aim lower or upgrade my skills, etc" instead of "I was one of thousands laid off, I'm fine, it was the company".
Sorry for the misunderstanding...

I was not talking about financial cost, but the overall cost to the biome, along with work expended and materials used.
People flag things they don't like, and it increases the decay rate.
Interesting articles. What other things are you referring to?
It should be considered legitimate to call out agenda seeking, even if you agree with the opinions of the agenda-holder. When creators sprinkle their convictions opportunistically, people will notice that they're being told what to think. For many, that leaves a bitter taste, even if they agree.

There are a few stories were currently popular agendas overlap with reality, such as the story of Alan Turing. You cannot tell his story without also talking about the government abuse based on his sexuality. In those situations, you can tell the story neutrally, and let the audience judge. Obviously fiction is different though.
I hacked it with regexes to expand out the ?s. Maybe it'll mangle a query one day but I don't see how it could be injected. The only issue I ran into in ~10 years now is on bigass queries my regex was a bit slow because I trying to handle the string case properly. I found a way to speed it up though.
Discussed today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33497012 (315 points, 300 comments)
The most jarring thing is seeing the flicker when you move your eyes. If you scan your vision past a flickering light, you'll have multiple discrete images of that light left on your retina.

Strobing can also be dangerous around rotating machinery, like a lathe, because at certain RPM the machine will appear to not be spinning.

I believe the solution is to use a buck converter with enough inductance to ensure that the current to the LED is not interrupted.
If they are on garden leave until Feb 2 with full pay and benefits, there could be a weird email which says "to keep your pay and benefits we need you to come and do work for us".

I don't understand how to integrate sources that say everyone was locked out of work but is still on payroll with sources that describe what happened as layoffs.

It seems like telling everyone "please keep working but we will have layoffs on Feb 2" would have made more sense, get some labor for the money spent?
That seems too easy to game.. how many flags does it take?
Okay this seems somewhat more substantive though still a tangent of my original point that The Verge linked to a clearly untrustworthy source, which impacts their credibility.
Wait until they find out about what happens when you rapidly increase the M2 money supply...
Where do you live? That sounds absolutely insane.
Pretty much. I used my keurig this way for a few years until i realized I'm really not using pods and am only using it for hot water to make tea (via normal steeping). If you brew coffee and then use it for something right after I don't recall there being much coffee taste, but you could probably run a small cup setting to flush things in the pod area a bit if needed.

I've since switched to a Zojirushi water boiler which I adore, especially after learning my keurig wasn't getting hot enough to really brew the tea well.
Those suck, I use a Moccamaster that's been beating around for at least some 30 years. Bought it second hand and never had an issue in the past 15 years, reliable, easy to clean. It's a delight of design based in functionality for me.
Wouldn’t email suffice for international pen pals?
Mathematicians are generally interested in the implications to other bits of math.
Never mind- that doesn't actually make a difference.
The solution in this case is to not re-use an existing error variable- but re-use of an error variable is common practice.
In the hotels, that’s not a kettle. It’s a coffee maker. If you choose to not put coffee in it, that’s up to you.

(Us Americans tend to optimize for coffee over tea. If something also works for tea, that’s a happy coincidence, but not intentional.)
President Bill Clinton referenced the apparent discovery of extraterrestrial nano bacteria as did a Dan Brown novel. I wouldnt call extraterrestrial nano bacteria suppressed, just poorly supported.
Were 90s newsgroups and BBS social media?
It's a prenouncement sort of thing and the convention is to discuss such things when they actually happen mostly because otherwise you end up having the same discussion N times. 'preparing to notify' is classic announcement-of-announcement and those get downweighted routinely.
> In normal arithmetic of course, multiplication and division aren't reversible because of zero.

If a and b are in the range 0-255, am I right in thinking that (((a + 1) * (b + 1)) % 257) - 1 is also in the range 0-255? Does that also work as a group operation? Does division done this way have the properties you'd need?
It's also helpful for me to practice the polar opposite: morning pages. Where I write 750 words in the morning about just about anything, where I know it will be unpublished and remain private. It's kind of like journaling or keeping a diary, without the mental pressure of having it chronicle your day or make any sense.

I actually find that it's more valuable to just get thoughts and mental cruft out on a page in order to free up my creative brain, than to actually look back or reflect on anything I've written.
HN tries to downweight posts that get too much engagement too fast. This is described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089

After the rate of posting cools down a bit (from not being on the front page), it can bubble back up.
Turns out my husband. He’s incredible at them. I also know another friend of a different culture, gender, and age that is also great at them. Some people are geared for it.
Did you see how hard Elon tried to get out of the Twitter deal? Remember how he made up fake excuses about bots to try and torpedo the merger? Even Elon doesn't think Elon can make the Twitter deal work.
Elon Musk axed key Twitter teams like human rights, accessibility, AI ethics
Discussed 19 days ago:

37signals Leaves the Cloud

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33260061

(285 points, 95 comments)
Did it occur to you that the fired fodder trained the AI :p
Much like investors through the great booms for whom all manner of terrible trading strategies still made big money, we're now at last going to find out who actually knows what they're doing and who's fooled even themselves.
Anecdote of one: I am an American that does not own a microwave and does own an electric kettle. We are legion.