skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only wild card here is what will happen with cash buyers, who aren't affected by mortgage rates.

Depends what you mean by cash buyer. There's a few different categories here and people sometimes get confused.

1) Someone who is very wealthy and has enough cash (or cash convertible assets) lying around to buy house without financing. I'd put Bill Gates in this category. I think most people assume that this is what all cash buyers are (albeit not as wealthy as BG)

2) Someone who sold a home that previously appreciated in value and is now able to use the difference (plus some savings) to pay for the next home in cash. For example, you bought in Brooklyn in 1970 and now want to retire in Miami. You can probably sell that first place and have enough liquid cash to buy in Miami. This is sort of like category 1, but not necessarily someone who is wealthy in a way that most people imagine.

3) Someone who has access to some other means of temporary financing. For example, let's say you run a company and have a close relationship with your bank. You might already have a line of credit with the bank collateralized against your business or other assets that you can draw down to get a temporary loan so that you can make a "cash offer", which you then plan to turn around and get a mortgage on. You don't need to be able to afford $600,000 in cash to buy a $600k home. You just need to be able to have some means of financing it in between when you buy the home and when you take out a mortgage. Often times this might be a family member or friend helping out.

4) A real estate investment company that buys houses in cash. Again, you may not actually have the cash around, but you have a banking relationship and the ability to get large amounts of cash on short notice and without the amount of due diligence a mortgage reuqires.

In 2020-2021 when the housing market was at its peak, I suspect that a substantial chunk of "cash buyers" probably fell in category 3. Yes, people had more money and there were lots of bitcoin millionaires, but not enough to hear about multiple cash offers on $500k homes (if you are the sort of person with $500k in cash to spare, you probably want more than a $500k home).

In any case, all of these groups are affected by the current environment. The stock market is down and there are just fewer people in Group 1 right now. Sure, Bezos and Gates are just fine, but the person who had $10M in liquid assets in 2021 might have $7M in in late 2022 and is probably a lot more nervous about taking money out of that. For group 2, the house you are selling isn't gonna sell for as much, so you'll have less money to spend on your next house. For group 3, these people were planning to use financing as a bridge, but the underlying mortgage rates still very much affect you if you plan to take out a mortgage after the sale. And of course, Group 4 is probably the most effected... what kind of person in their right mind is investing in residential real estate right now :)
The government does provide real-time election information, but Twitter has scoops, gossip, first-hand accounts, and opinions that people want to see.

It's like saying the NBA shouldn't let Twitter be the place the league is discussed because they should control all the information and discourse. It's not realistic and not what their money is supposed to be spent on.
As long as the people that make the damn laws are allowed to trade, we shouldn't hold federal agents to that standard.

Let's start with Congress, and then trickle down to other government employees.

And no, they're not crooked, the system that allows for this to happen is.
I’ve heard that, but isn’t that assuming the news will be released on a weekday? I can’t remember the last time a corporate press release went out on a Sunday.
It’s because it falls back to MMS with android users in the group which does have a weird duplication issue. Best bet is to use another platform for group chats (Signal is excellent but WhatsApp may be a path of less resistance)
This is surely just the bias of those willing to make a comment one way or the other. If you are so-so about it, you probably don't make the effort to make a comment.
I think everyone is in agreement that college admins are the cause of the problem.
Does anyone know why colleges keep adding to the admin staff? Presumably, they're adding to the profits. I'm curious how this constant bloat growth is increasing profits though. When we get down to the actual minute specifics... What is happening?
Tesla, like Preston Tucker, was his own undoing. Tesla did not manage his business relationships well. He needed someone to help him with that, and didn’t have such a person.
Median earned income 10 years after enrolling at an Ivy is about 2x the all schools average.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/14/this-...
I was on a date once and I was a few models behind with my iPhone, and my date said, "You work in devops, and you have an iPhone 5?" The disgust was evident in her tone.

That was our first and last date, but I did quickly thereafter buy a new iPhone...
Article is paywalled. How did the school manage to enforce this? When I was in high-school, phones were "banned", and we just got around it by putting the phone on silent and keeping it in your pocket.
Legal ethics rules in the US preclude a non-lawyer from controlling or supervising the legal judgment of a lawyer, which makes the notion of non-lawyer shareholders problematic.
Well that's not good. Sad day for a product trying to make a difference. I can hear Leo Laporte crying out ;)
If you had jobs in both stacks as I have you'll see that the differences are trivial. Python can get just as complex as either c# and java.

Those other people your copying your argument from likely only had jobs doing Java or C# and they did some python scripts on the side and came to their conclusions like that. I have extensive experience for production work in both and I can assure you my conclusions are much more nuanced.

Python and java stack up pretty similarly in my experience. There's no hard red flags that make either language a nightmare to use when compared to the other. People panic about runtime errors, but like I said those errors happen anyway.

Python does however have a slight edge in the fact that it promotes a more humane style of coding by not enforcing the oop style. Java programmers on the otherhand are herded into doing oop so you have all kinds of service objects with dependency injection and mutating state everywhere. So what happens is in Java you tend to get more complex code, while python code can be more straightforward as long as the programmer doesn't migrate their oop design patterns over to python.

That's the difference between the two in my personal experience. You're mostly likely thinking about types. My experience is that those types are not that important, but either way, modern python with external type checkers actually has a type system that is more powerful then Java or C#. So in modern times there is no argument. Python wins.

But prior to that new python type system my personal anecdotal experience is more relevant and accurate then other people's given my background in both Java and python And C++. Types aren't that important period. They are certainly better then no types but any practical contribution to safety is minimal.
It's pretty much the same in Denmark. It's either a blue bubble or a green bubble. I'm pretty sure it's because of the heavy competition between mobile carriers in the 00's resulting in unlimited free SMS texts, thus having no incentive for using an alternative messaging platform. This meant that once iPhones became popular, every iPhone user's message automatically became an iMessage.

Practically no-one has WhatsApp here, but all my family in the Netherlands use WhatsApp almost exclusively. It's my impression that in the Nordic countries it's iMessage but the rest of Europe uses WhatsApp.
Yeah US has a weird system. The mortgages are packaged up and sold as a bond, so the investor who buys the bond has the interest rate and credit risk. If rates go up the value of these long term bonds go down. The bank or company that sold the original mortgage is protected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage-backed_security. It really relies on a lot of government coordination.
See also: a little bit pregnant, almost alive, and close but no cigar.

Yes, I read the article to the end. No, I don’t get it. Either they line up or they don’t. Either it’s monospace or it’s not.
Ask HN: Tamilians, do you feel represented by independent films and in chess?
Players like Anand and Dommaraju have upped the ante within the game, so you must be proud
I've had both. But after your 28th phone, 4th for wife (cause they never lose or break em) and 609th one for kids, the thrill wore off a line time ago. Phones are a blur.

Nonetheless I'm pretty sure apple would not want to hear X likes apple hates android merely b/c it reads apple where it disappears into NY Post page 6 buzz and gossip thing eg vapid nonsense

I think they want to hear they like apple because of its hw/sw features and tight integration.

Brand is a by way to tqa which is a by way to sqa (isakawa). Fanboys are repulsive to anybody who cares about products and services
> House prices are set at the margins, just like any asset. Even if the folks with 3% mortgage rates sit tight and don’t sell, there will still be downward pressure on prices because prices are not determined by non-transactions.

YES! There is a sort of delusion that has taken hold of people who became “house rich” in the past couple years. They seem to think that if they don’t sell, their house will still be worth whatever fantasy number they have in their heads.

It does get me thinking about the psychology of these economic cycles and how the transformation of that delusion to acceptance/sadness on an individual level will impact their buying habits and risk taking. On a large scale, it is easy to see this is sort of spiraling into a protracted recession.
Possibly because that's including the flag ship and state school systems (if I'm using that correctly). For example, the Cal State system seems to be in the $6-9k/yr range and the UC system seems to be $13k+/yr. I think this excludes fees, and I think some programs may also cost extra.
Yeah, their goal must be to make us laugh. If it makes us think, that's just bonus.
These days with the iPhone SE you can get a $400 iPhone, there’s $300 Androids which the iPhone doesn’t hit but below $300 an Android is gonna be so bad it’s not really in consideration in the first place for most people.
I like Phil Schiller's response -

> And since we make no money on iMessage what will be the point?

In case you ever get fooled into thinking Apple really cares about its users or their experience - they care as far as it makes them money. Then they don't care.
For many years my friends and I had a rule that we wouldn't buy a new computer until it offered at least 4X the speed of our old one. We didn't have to wait all that long.
If "everyone did what I did" is just another form of game theory, but then at least "lesser evil 2.0 - I'm slightly better than hitler" would win with 0.0001% of the vote or something.
Ask HN: After job cuts, do salaries go up for remaining staff?
In the wake of so many companies having significant reductions in their laborforce, I found myself wondering what happens to compensation for the remaining workers?

My basic logic would be that it ought to go up as they assume more responsibility.

But then again, I realize that some job cuts are to remove bloat and redundancy and so has little effect on the actual work that the remaining staff would be doing. i.e the cuts are trimming off 'unnecessary/excess staff'.

How does it all pan out after cuts?
https://youtu.be/x9iYvyffAh4?t=35
Show HN: Find Your Celebrity Look-Alike
I was in high school 15 years ago when I first was interested in crosswords. I remember reading the news paper (or, at least, attempting to). I thought crosswords would at least be an accessible entry point.

There were questions from shows that ended in the 80's. Random political questions about nonsense. None of the questions seemed fair or reasonable. It's like going to a meetup but everyone except you have been best friends for 40 years and just keeps talking over you.

I immediately gave up and never even attempted to try again. I absolutely know I made the right call.
That is insanely impressive. Could you share more about the characteristics and nature of that workload? How did it perform above typical loads?
SEA is a bit more diverse than just Whatsapp.

Vietnam: Facebook Messenger, Zalo (home grown IM), Viber.
Broadly, they have to but that doesn't mean that tech salaries will - they've so far outstripped inflation over the last 20 years that they could stagnate or drop for 10-20 years and still be way ahead.
People want to feel better about themselves despite having an objectively inferior product
Not quite, it gets you about 90% there. Even with a grammar to use off the shelf, you still need to write queries to make use of it for highlighting, text object selection, auto indenting, etc. These have so far been particular to the editor.
Show HN: textshader.com
TLDR: Click the link to see some cool visualizations, refresh a few times for random examples, and try editing some of the code yourself.

This is a small weekend project of mine inspired by shadertoy.com

It's a static single-page site hosted on GitHub pages so the website design is pretty barebones. I'm not a web developer so I mainly wanted to create a Cool Thing with my free time and not have to learn tons of front-end to do it.

I'd love to hear what people think about it and please post or send me any shaders you make! You can use the link button in the bottom right to share.

I hope that this gets more people interested in shaders because GPU programming is a pretty different paradigm and learning it has made me a better software engineer even though my current job doesn't touch it. That said, textshader only runs normal Javascript on the CPU so think of it like a simplified sandbox and not the real thing. I'd highly recommend checking out shadertoy to level up to the real deal too!
That sounds like a societal failing rather than marketing genius
Indeed.

That is, however, error detection and not error correction.

Once an error is detected you can apply 'correction' to the nearest probably correct value .. which only 'works' for errors under a threshold.

Hence the assertion in comment above yours.
It's not mutually exclusive.

I am sure Apple cares about its users or their experience and making money.
Show HN: Deliver big burger on your CLI
Show big burger on your cli.
You can put in and out any toppings, like cheese, and tomato, lettuce, bun.
Aluminum formate Al(HCOO)3: Earth-abundant, scalable, & material for CO2 capture
The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico
Numbers in many non-monospaced fonts are also monospaced. It's a font feature known as tabular figures.
Average outcomes in terms of income for the most famous schools are not much better than regular state schools after you control for high school grades and SAT scores.
Yeah a median of $110k isn't that amazing. Could just be because they're mostly in the NE. Also against "all schools" isn't really comparing good state schools which I'd like to see.
Twitter asks some laid off workers to come back
Good lighting is more valuable than art!

But also my time is probably more valuable than it'd take me to figure all this stuff out.

The sun and my waveforms will have to hold me over until something better hits the market :)
"Aluminum formate, Al(HCOO)3: An earth-abundant, scalable, and highly selective material for CO2 capture" (2022) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade1473

> Abstract: A combination of gas adsorption and gas breakthrough measurements show that the metal-organic framework, Al(HCOO)3 (ALF), which can be made inexpensively from commodity chemicals, exhibits excellent CO2 adsorption capacities and outstanding CO2/N2 selectivity that enable it to remove CO2 from dried CO2-containing gas streams at elevated temperatures (323 kelvin). Notably, ALF is scalable, readily pelletized, stable to SO2 and NO, and simple to regenerate. Density functional theory calculations and in situ neutron diffraction studies reveal that the preferential adsorption of CO2 is a size-selective separation that depends on the subtle difference between the kinetic diameters of CO2 and N2. The findings are supported by additional measurements, including Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, and variable temperature powder and single-crystal x-ray diffraction.
I'll tell you on Tuesday
Thailand also heavily use WhatsApp as well.
Your date did you a favor. Your phone is by far your loudest status symbol, in part because it signals you (or your employer) value your productivity.
There is a castle you can rent for camping outside of Brno.

https://en.mapy.cz/zakladni?m3d=1&height=305&yaw=148&pitch=-...
>Modal editing

>Not using an ADM-3A terminal

To pick more than one of these is nonsense.
> healthcare.gov exchanges. It’s much cheaper

Interesting... I've heard it's the opposite, price-wise.
Because it's generally true?
We all love free money,no need to ask, but the increase in money supply will increase inflation making things worse. So,no...

I wonder if a special credit card that can only be used on food and gas for those under X income would work? It would need to be paid for and not be debt so that the money supply does not increased.
The laws and treaties and compacts governing water rights can be changed. They are not set for eternity in a stone tablet from the Creator, they are human constructions.
You mean in a timely manner, right? Because the crazy thing is that they did follow through on FaceTime. It just took them nearly a decade. Seeing all of this now, one might wonder if there were certain legal motivations for that.
That's not a real cartel. Several new colleges have achieved accreditation in recent years. There is some paperwork and expense involved but it's not a huge obstacle for any legitimate school.
Vietnam: Zalo or FB Messenger, not WhatsApp
FaceTime now allows people to join from a browser.
It does feel unnaturally influenced, I agree. Follow the money, I suppose.

Who stands to gain from twitter and/or elons failure? We can speculate for fun. Certainly Bill Gates, with his half billion short on Tesla. He'd have the money to influence social media. We already know Microsoft games HN from when the CEO was bragging about it to shareholders. So it can be done.

Who else? Oil and Gas probably hate him for Teslas battery tech.

The entire automotive industry would be interested in piling on.

... NASA? That doesn't seem like them but who knows.

Everyone on twitter who already hated him would be doubling down.

I figure most are just secretly jealous. I am.
while you list some interesting quotes, I'm not sure what us the point you are trying to make. That there was no decline? but your last quote says there clearly was a decline.

to me as a layman, it's very impressive to look at the Pantheon and to realize that the next structure of such massive complexity would only be built a 1000ish years after it. Sure, some things have been invented in that period, but the next "wow" would be probably Santa Maria del Fiore, and after that (pick one for your taste). (With a notable exception of Hagia Sophia, since the Second Rome has never been considered "European enough", as aptly observed by the commenter above)
Upscayl works fine, albeit exceptionally slowly, on my Ryzen APU (5600G). It uses the GPU, it's just that the GPU is very small.

I suspect they are just not really wanting to advertise such a slow user experience, which is reasonable.
In comparison, a commonly-used portage in Greece was only 8km long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diolkos

Much less work, but of course much less benefit.
"I am concerned the Imessage on Android would simply serve to remove an obstacle to Iphone families giving their kids an Android phone." -Craig

It was with great difficulty that I convinced my girlfriend to try an Android phone that I had tricked out for her. The main obstacle was that her entire family of more than twenty are locked into Imessage. She felt ostracized afterwards being the green bubble in the family. She has gotten many of them on Signal, but they treat me with some disdain. I really learned what a firm grip Apple has on its users, and it is proven here yet again that it is by design. She must really love me.
Espressif's Matter Demo
After thinking on it, maybe it is a form of unintentional straw man. People are attacking a hypothetical position and view that is a synthesis of many people and only is combined in their mind.

There is also a reverse no true Scotsman, I've seen referenced as dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid. Not as catchy as no true Scotsman but you're basically imagining a perfect Scotsman and then attacking them when they don't exist
I really wouldn't want to be with someone long-term who thought like that. Date, maybe, could be fun, but definitely not settle down with.
You can search to avoid repeats of the same story:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This should be at the top. I was wondering how the school managed to enforce this.
> which is well above the Fed's interest rate, then isn't the lender loosing money?

There is a unique market for long-term rates hedging among American mortgage traders. And the government backstops the risk.

Keep in mind, too, that America uses capital markets. Most of the world uses banks. (The U.K. being a puzzling counterfactual.)
China’s First Photonic Chip Production Line to Be Ready in 2023: Media Report
It does, totally. My comment is very much anecdata.

As an example, I've noticed this to be very common in many scenes in Berlin, while in Germany as a whole iOS has a 45% market share.

So, yes, definitely. However it does show a marked difference with the US which is common enough to be worth mentioning.
US salaries are much higher. What looks like a reasonable spending on quality and privacy (especially with an operator offering a loan) when you make $180k, may look senseless display of wealth when you make $90k.

Replace iPhone with something like Vertu.
Passive cooking also works well for other boiled foods such as vegetables, eggs, and dumplings.
exactly. And when writing a test suite, I monkey-patch at will, which makes it sooo much easier to have self-contained tests without side effects or complicated dependencies.
It doesn't cover the full cost of roads. https://taxfoundation.org/state-infrastructure-spending/. Americans have revealed through their elected representatives that they prefer to keep fuel tax low and let general taxes pick up the slack.
The funny thing is you can also find 100s of articles extolling the virtues of daylight savings time. Those were written to justify the existence of DST when it was created and parroted later.

Now that we are getting closer to abolishing DST, we get articles like this...

Like this doesn't even seem correct to me. It claims the 1 hour DST shift suddenly means 1 hour misalignment with solar noon. But the number of hours of sunlight itself changes throughout the year. Solar noon is the midpoint of the hours of sunlight, so it also changes gradually across the year. If the sun is the ultimate thing pulling our internal clocks in the right direction, our internal clocks CANNOT stay stable at 24 hour intervals.

I'm too tired/sleepy (heh) to work out all the details, but the one thing I know is that this is a weird marketing sort of article anticipating the change that is coming, not truth. There are advantages/disadvantages to both systems. None can be ideal because DST discretizes the gradual daily change of solar duration into 2 shifts and no DST ignores the duration completely.

But the decision has already been made to abolish DST and US/Canada are slowly collaborating and getting ready to make it happen. So now we get marketing extolling its virtues.