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I'm 38, so I basically came of age during the Great Financial Crisis. I had so many friends who were slightly older than I lose their asses on houses. Multiple of my single friends had partners who also owned houses, and when they finally got hitched, they had to either pay the mortgage for a house that sat empty, come up with five figures to pay someone to buy their house, try to negotiate a short sale (in a recourse state), or risk renting it out.

I'm not talking one or two people either, this was an extremely common situation, it was a common lunch time topic of conversation at every job I had in the 09-13 era. Even my parents were against my buying a house at the time, as they were severely underwater on the poorly-built boom-time piece-of-crap they ended up buying.

I'd argue part of the problem is an entire generation of people saw houses as anti-investments and avoided buying them when they were $80-120k because one look at the pricing history showed they used to be $100-140k for the same house just six years earlier. Renting was (at the time) cheap, had none of the maintenance requirements, and was less risky if you wanted to move.

Of course, the contrarian people who had a long-term outlook made out like bandits. People who bought those heavily discounted houses with ultra-low interest rates using the housing buyers credit are enjoying the housing boom right now.
I am fairly certain the answer is "Yes". The DOM and other APIs have well-defined interfaces so it would likely be reasonable to wholesale export those to WASM. If the timeframe is "ever" the answer is "yes".

However I don't think it will be soon. I think the current biggest question is how garbage collection works with WASM. DOM nodes and many other resources are garbage collected. You need to define how WASM interfaces with that. (Does every object just get reference counted when passed to WASM and require an explicit free? Is there some sort of GC that traces over WASM memory?).
Looks like they first asked “how can we suck the money out of customers?” instead of asking how to make a milestone game. They repeated that a few more times as I recall. Not sure how they do it now.
It seems like VCs are doing a lot of cargo cult tech.

Cargo cults work if you have enough money. Throw it to the wall with adequate speed for large enough amount of time and some very few will stick. Then you can rest on the laurels that Fortuna gave you. This is why Silicon Valley cannot be replicated elsewhere, except perhaps Switzerland or some filthy-rich Petrocountry.
> And when it's not crashed it's slow as cold shit.

And stale. When they changed algos in ~2016(?) to try and stop certain subs I swear it got stale and feels like it updates on a cron job once a day anymore.
I haven't been able to find great statistics, but you can look at state populations to get an idea. California, as an example, went from ~5 million to ~30 million in a few decades post WWII.
> The last time we found something that was predicted by the Standard Model was 1983, wasn't it?

The Higgs Boson was found in 2012 by the LHC and was predicted by the standard model.
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> I hear advice from the older generation that “buying a house is an investment”. [...] With all due respect, this is a crock of shit.

I was lucky that my dad (an economist) told me that houses are lousy investments. It's been true for me. I've lived in serial houses that I've owned, and toting things up over the years, they've been a lousy investment.
While that's true, the project attracted new core contributors. The development slowed down, but the project is still in active development. A new release is planned for this month.
The problem with this approach is the impact it has on areas that have availability problems, and where there is more demand than supply for housing (think big cities that are experiencing condo booms).

In those high-demand areas, owners will simply pass those tax costs down to their tenants, and the rents prices will go up, leading to even less affordability.
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There's a reason bakeries are so prevalent in many areas. That "squish it" part is a lot of work, and you have to wait long enough that it's not available for breakfast. Making it yourself counts as hard to obtain every day.
Why would you guys even allow this poison to infect your culture? We never had these benefits in the US so there was nothing to take away and many Americans are too poor to ever travel overseas and don't realize how things are done elsewhere. In fact even conservatives fight to maintain what we do have (eg. Social Security, Medicare) But Europe? You guys already have the benefits, aren't you going to get pissed off if they get taken away?
Learning you're getting the wrong answer quickly is a big part of why we test.

Taking longer can help your career, but there's a limit. Test times were always very generous for people ahead of the curve, short for people below, and just about right for everyone else, because that's how they're designed.
Have we considered simply making mortgages illegal? Allowing the inclusion of future money (and thus future labor, usually) in bids must increase the cost of land (at least) as a percent of income, no?
The problem with Flash and Java was that they were not integrated with the browser's sandbox. WASM is integrated with the sandbox.

How would allowing DOM access be insecure? The DOM is designed to be completely controlled by the webpage. I don't see how adding an additional way for the webpage to do so adds any insecurity.
No, because if they happened to own a small place they won't be able to rent it for a wishing price as there's a price pressure from above thus anyone with a smaller place will pay smaller taxes.
Ask HN: Are you experiencing Ethnic Matching as part of your SaaS support plans?
This is a bit of an odd question. But we are seeing repeated patterns here with the various support plans we are on.
> How does a plumber avoid kneeling?

They technically have the option of reducing weight, exercise, proper shoes, knee braces and knee pads, kneeling pads, and such.

What I am suggesting is that both (all?) jobs have their own health related demons.
They never fixed the terrible traffic AI in the first game.

I have no confidence in the sequel.
It's almost like industries are run by people who make decisions. Those people need to change their behavior as well.
It's not "exotic" in that it isn't used (it has major industrial Uses) but rather that it is one of the less common materials in the crust. It's less common than many of the "rare earth" elements and less common than uranium (Uranium is the 49th most common element while Molybdenum is the 58th depending on source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth... ).
WASM neatly solves a pretty common problem of running code that can't be easily ported to JS inside the browser.

It also sort of solves a common problem of running untrusted code, both in browser or on server, because WASM VMs are much more isolated and restricted.
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> The last time we found something that was predicted by the Standard Model was 1983, wasn't it? That's 40 years.

IANAPhysicist so correct me if I'm wrong but the last time we found something predicted [1] by the Standard Model was the Higgs Boson in 2012. Before that it was the Tau neutrino and the quark-gluon plasma in 2000, the top quark in 1995, and then (the discovery I think you're referring to) the W and Z bosons in 1983

[1] we mean experimental confirmation, right?
What is it that makes Apple so reliant on Samsung displays?

It uses TMSC to make chips which is a "neutral" company.

Is there no "neutral" equivalent of display manufacturing?

Is Samsung just so advanced in displays that nobody else can catch up?
Companies can’t stop using open source
Wait, to install this python package I have to have a working c, rust, and fortran compiler?
Samsung and Apple were in court for 7 years over patent infringement claims. Apple won, but then they were in court for many more years trying to determine what the damages should be.

They finally settled outside of court in an anti-climactic ending.
> These studies and press releases seem counterproductive. If sliced bread or fancy nuts is in the same category as aerosol cheese or high calorie soda, a lot of people are going to struggle to understand what isn't ultraprocessed and give up trying to select better items at the grocery store.

Well, that's because they are. The question is why they are unhealthy.

Take an Apple. You eat it, it is healthy.

Slice it. You eat the slices, it's not making much of a difference. You are still eating whole chunks.

Make juice out of it. NOW it is no longer healthy. Not only because you have shredded fibers (so the fructose will absorb faster) but you are probably going to drink many more apples than you otherwise would. And your gut bacteria will be unhealthy. You are probably still fine if you drink a small amount.

Add sugar to it - now it's extremely unhealthy and it's basically a coke but with more nutrients and it's not healthy in any amount.

Or take rice. Cook the rice - fine. Polish the rice before cooking so you have white rice: no longer fine.

Food that's unprocessed, there's very little restrictions. You are going to get full eating them anyway, so it's fine. As you increase the amount of processing, you should eat less and less of them.

> high calorie soda

Note that calories are only relevant to laboratories. Living organisms work very differently. Calories are not fungible. An almond has a similar calorie content as a soda can, but it doesn't matter: we do not absorb all the calories in an almond. It's a similar thing when you eat an avocado: it's very calorie-dense, but a lot of it is in fats that will be absorbed very slowly.

Even simple sugars work very differently from one another. Our cells can readily use glucose(that will require insulin). Our cells, with very few exceptions, cannot use fructose. It goes straight to your liver to be processed by fructokinase. Most of it will actually become triglycerides and you will only burn that when you are burning fat. That process also takes a lot of energy(basically you get into debt to be repaid later). There's also a limited amount your liver can process and that's why people are getting fatty livers even without drinking - from the point of view of your liver, you might as well be drinking.
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But the cost structure could very widely when there are different motivators. I suspect this is what is really happening. Colleges in the US are 5 star resorts wheres in Europe they are either old beautiful relics or just old boring buildings with no real amenities and a lot less staff needed to run the operations.
Thank you! I have ventilation problems and don’t really know where to start, so this is helpful.
The point is that the popularity of that joke will make life hard for a hypothetical questioner that asks that non-jokingly, i.e. looking for actual examples of sticky brown things.
Yeah that's one reason why houses in the 90s were more affordable.
And the way we prevent abuse is with anti-discrimination laws

Have you not noticed how heavily those are contested in many jurisdictions. If you discover some way to draft legislation on morality such that it's effective, consistent, and widely accepted in a disparate population, I look forward to hearing about it. I can't wait to read about the solution to spam, scams, and discrimination deployed at industrial scale. In the meantime, it's wise to take the amplifying aspect of technology into account and consider its potential for abuse as well as for good.
Uh

"Saves $14K on printing costs for ~25,000 pages.

Does not mention a damn thing about ink cost, printer model comparison types.

Typical cost of printing 25K of pages.

How many pages of full color can one expect to print on a full load?

What / Where is the data of the most typically consumed color, I assume blK - but I dont give a shit about marketing, where are the consumables number stats???

FFS this is why I dont even own a printer any longer.
Disagree. More like symbiotic parasitic relationship. They wouldn't exist without each other, at this point.
Even if they can FHA with much less down, they're stuck with PMI which is the biggest bank grift in the history of America. I'm extremely fortunate to have a VA loan. We need more loan programs that are like the VA but don't require people to give up 5 years of their life or being forced to fight in wars.

The bottomline is being less fortunate shouldn't cost you more.
Haha, 6ms to add two integers that's about 1000x slower than on my trusty old PDP-11. You can trust software people to undo half a century of hardware engineers efforts).
I think as presented this still can't be comparing things sensibly between these conditions.

> more houses = cheaper houses and cheaper rent

So why do we say that buying in scenario 3 costs ~$1.75M and buying in scenario 1 costs ~$1.1M? Everything in the preceding paragraphs makes it sound like her mortgage is fixed. In scenario 1, property taxes and insurance would be higher. Nothing should make scenario 3 more expensive to buy in absolute terms.
Is this the game you're referring to? There are some similarities, but it's closer to Sudoku than Sumplete.

https://youtu.be/gMnEBo0UICY?t=3495
Sure but obviously that number needs some common sense, right. To make a clearly ridiculous example - if you were making 100k a month and paying 25k for rent you wouldn't be poor in any possible meaning of that word.

If you bring home 6k a month after taxes, and after rent you're left with 4.5k, I'd also argue that's not "barely making ends meet". That leaves a very comfortable breathing room that is unimaginable luxury for most of the world.
I blocked him and I don't see his posts any more. What did you try to do?

I'm the opposite of an Elon fan, but so many people don't seem to know how to actually use social media. Who/what you follow and who you block can completely change your experience.
The problem appears when you try to buy a home from a seller entertaining 10 other offers, most of which are cash offers for 10-20% over listing price with escalation clauses. It can be really hard to buy a home, especially in markets like Seattle, because the seller chooses which offer to accept and, all else being equal, will accept the offer with the fewest conditions (no financing required, inspection waived, etc).
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> this is a code smell

Worry not - the only time i ever authored java code was when i was making the world's smallest (still) JVM. You have no reaosn to worry about bad smelling java code using char as uint16 from me :D
This! I strongly advise anyone stuck thinking they can't do a thing till they hit 20% to talk to a professional, there are options, especially if you have a reasonable tech income and good credit scores.

Granted, this advice was a lot easier to consume when interest rates were at record lows...
I don’t know if this classifies as a party trick. If one is aware of the existence of “>>>”, I would presume one would solve this problem without guesswork.
It is a supply/demand issue, but it is not simple. Demand for housing in the sense of people needing housing is not the same as economic demand for housing. And in order to have economic demand for housing, you have to have people with the means to buy. The housing market is not a smooth curve from zero to McMansion---there is effectively a cutoff. Right now, even if builders sold their houses at cost, in places with sufficient economic activity to support employment, the real estate cost would still put those houses out of reach of most low-income buyers. Because real estate in the past few decades has risen faster than wages, mortgage payments and rent have risen as a percentage of income for most Americans. Renters simply can't accumulate the capital needed for a down payment, nor the credit rating needed for a reasonable mortgage interest rate.

So while intervening directly in housing is one policy solution, another would be to prevent the wealthy from continuing to capture a wildly disproportionate share of economic growth, which would both slow acute real estate appreciation in urban areas (by reducing the capital the wealthy have to buy up rental properties) and increase the pool of able buyers for lower income housing.
Perhaps. My comment wasn't based on technical feasibility, but specifying the particular concern which is why Mastodon and several other ActivityPub projects do not support quote-boosts.
> low/no-risk investment

foreclosure makes it no-risk leveraged investment modulo downpayment.
Indeed, and the article is right in saying there isn't really a way out. Humanity paints itself into these kinds of corners fairly frequently over the course of history: entrenched systems where many suffer, but where too many powerful people benefit for it to be able to change.

Traditionally, the solution has been violent revolution. That's really the only way to (for example) tell 66% of Americans that their biggest asset that they've spent a lifetime saving for and investing in is now worthless because trust us, everyone is better off when housing isn't an investment.

But America is in a strange place in human development. There are enough bread and circuses in the form of cheap Netflix, cell phones, and food supply where even the totally destitute just don't have the desire to grab a pitchfork and physically march to their capital building. (And I would argue that January 6 was more of a social-media-fueled livestream event than any kind of attempt at coherent political change.)

Plus, suburban sprawl and the isolated, car-based lifestyle we've cultivated in the past century means that even if you wanted to get a group of like-minded revolutionaries together and march, how would you even physically do that? How does a poor person in suburban Tulsa even meet 20 like-minded people, and where would they go to express their displeasure physically? Once they got there, where would they all park?
Comparison/discussion of Simcity 4's traffic simulation really requires considering the Network Addon Mod, IMO. It's been in development for years and adds an extraordinary level of sophistication and interactivity to the traffic simulation. It also considerably raises the game's system requirements, but I think SC4+NAM is still the best city management simulation ever built, by a long shot.

I sunk a lot of time into Cities Skylines too, but the simulation has too many fundamental flaws under the hood. Drivers don't make proper use of turning lanes. Everyone moves in at the same time at the same age to new residential zones, and then dies at the same time. Etc. It's a good game, but the underlying simulation is hamstrung. I'd agree it's a more enjoyable "paint a city" sandbox, but trying to challenge myself with it as a game the way I did with SC4 doesn't feel as satisfying.
It also matters where and how far you are from things. Walkability is a big draw, so if you're within a mile of a major district with tons of food, entertainment, and culture, chances are any well-kept apartment building will raise their prices to account for that (and account for you not having a monthly car payment or auto insurance payment), and if this chef is within a few blocks of their work, it's not hard to believe their rent could be over 3,000 a month or 50%+ of their income (although, typically, management companies want to see your gross income be 3x or more of the rent).
I have a hard time with freeform city builders like Skylines or SimCity. The amount of unrestrained freedom makes me question why I'm even playing. I have the same issue with The Sims or something like Planet Zoo.

That and Skylines giving me a blank canvas paralyses me. How does one plan a city? Where do the roads go?

It's the sort of game I want to love, but I just get so overwhelmed by the sheer number of options and I'm not sure what to do.

On the other hand, games like Tropico (at least the later titles - 3, 4, 5, 6) having a "story" to play through help a bit because there is direction in what to build and where. Conversely, though, cities I build in Tropico end up being haphazard patch jobs where I find an empty space and put a dozen wind turbines in it because that's what the mission calls for, and so I miss out on some of the potential satisfaction.
I m glad that GPTs are kicking SEOed content out of the internet. Using bing is much much better for researching health related stuff , even considering possible inaccuracies because it 's faster. You can hone in on the subject fast, then verify your result by checking the source. The google model was users -> google -> SEOed aggregator -> primary sources. If this is dead, the value of the primary sources will go up up up in price, and SEO farming (which includes a ton of news websites) will be dead. And that will be for the better
I was replying to the parent who said that getting a 20% down payment is a big obstacle. Maybe read the comment in context of the discussion again?
Yeah I meant a continuous playable region, not lots of separate cities next to each other (ie huge cities please)
I don't think that's necessarily true. The article even mentions just talking to people about their role (that's not content), and then highlights why content consumption might be more efficient.

You could also learn about a role by observation - but that feels even more inefficient.
I think that learning about other roles is a way to significantly mitigate the luck inherently involved in getting "on the right team to show scope and impact".
I'm glad to see colossal order and paradox are behind the sequel.
Agreed. What I've seen become more common is the following:

* They'll start by having <5 real comments that seem like a legitimate person wrote them

* Account suddenly starts just re-posting very popular older posts, and other bots chime in that also copy the top comments from that post letter-for-letter

* Account goes on to shill some product
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For most office roles, employers have almost no data on productivity. The limited data they do have is very noisy.

Consider a developer: what data does an employer have? Number of lines of code committed? Number Commits? Maybe if they are very diligent in collecting data the bugs found son after those commits? You know nothing about quality of code, nothing about speed, nothing about complexity, nothing about bugs avoided, nothing about value added, nothing about mentoring others or managing tasks.

You can do the same analysis for almost any role, from Sales to SecOps.

And that's without getting into Goodhart's law...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
After using one of these at my public library, I picked one of these up at Costco (they sell the ET-2850). I love the idea of the concept of the ink-tank printer and I'm happy w/ the print output.

It's _far_ slower than my B&W laser printer (which I expected). I'm not sure how to use the scanner over the network in Linux (is it even possible? My Brother laser-printer/scanner works great).

For my purposes, I don't think there is a better color printer.
I hate the COVID caused the removal of all bulk items in my area. The bulk has been replaced with prepackaged at a significant mark up.