skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- A bunch are staying un-bought and remain empty. (The bottom of the market is closing in hours, the top of the market is sitting for months)

- A bunch are technically getting occupied, but buyers are having to go way beyond their means to get them. (2008-style, except it's not their fault, you have to live somewhere or die, and you can't manufacture used housing, so it's hard to fault them for taking on risky mortgages. There simply isn't cheaper options)

- A bunch are getting bought and turned into luxury rentals, and those rentals are getting occupied. (This might seem like a win, since the end result is people-in-housing, which should be a good thing. But forcing people into unaffordable rental rates permanently hollows out those people's finances, it's super unhealthy unsustainable housing strategy)

- A handful are getting bought and getting turned into illegal unlicensed hotels. (Permanent "Air-BnB-s").

- A bunch are getting bought and stay empty. (According to local realtors, "second-home" purchases are up 300% since 2019. Generally, this is wealthy or upper-middle-class coastal urbanites realizing the currency conversion between the coasts and the midwest, and using that to their advantage)

Individually none of these are the worst thing or the primary culprit. But added all together, it means that "real people buying houses to sustainably live in", is the least likely scenario for any given home on the market right now here. "Demand" is super high, but most of the "Demand" is kind of fake-demand (demand from finance, demand from investment, demand for vacation -- but not demand for housing to house people).

> Where are all the people coming from?

They aren't coming. House prices are up 250% this decade, but we've only got a ~1.5% YoY population growth rate (for our city) and a 1% population loss YoY (for our state). We aren't a major city, and we've built more new housing units than had actual new population for 5 years straight now.
Sports analytics is an interesting field, worked in it, you can use it for keep tracking of the health of your players.
To know when you need to keep them from playing the next game or stop them from continuing their current game.
SEC Chairman Testifies About Digital Assets
I think the technology is interesting. I think someday we will be using some kind of digital currency every day, but major innovation needs to happen. Either we need an alternative to PoW (and PoS is problematic) or we need to have vastly more transaction volume to justify PoW expenses. If Bitcoin could handle a few hundred thousand transactions per second its PoW costs would seem less ridiculous.

One thing I dislike is the ecosystem. It's almost all scams, crackpot projects (unconscious scams?), and pump and dump get-rich-quick shit. There are some people who use it for legitimate commerce or black/grey market commerce (which at least is still commerce), but that's a tiny fraction of it. Most cryptocurrency use is "buy, shill so number go up, then sell."

That's why I tend to downvote crypto posts. If it's related to crypto then it's almost always a shill for a pump and dump. The only ones I upvote are ones with deep technical content that might be of interest beyond cryptocurrency, and that don't seem related to obvious pump and dumps.

The ecosystem is also full of toxic people. Lots of alt-right types, get-rich-quick idiots, and trolls, and I get the sense that serious organized crime has been involved for a while too. It's probably one of the few tech ecosystems where you have a small but nevertheless non-zero chance of being targeted by a mafia hit-man if you manage to get in the way of a big scam.

Lastly, I think the economics are questionable to say the least. Cryptocurrencies almost all implement pop-Austrian ultra-deflationary monetary policies that don't really work in a modern economy and that play a huge role in their attractiveness as gambling and pump and dump vehicles. This isn't a technical requirement though. You could implement other monetary models if they can be coded.

Edit: I get the sense from observing both traditional finance and cryptocurrency that it's really hard to get money to do anything useful at all. It's hard to create a financial system that isn't mostly scams and bubbles. The problem is human behavior as much as conscious crime. If you took the conscious criminals out of the equation you'd still get a ton of bubbles, pump and dumps, and similar nonsense because gambling creates a tighter dopamine loop than useful investment.

Traditional finance is probably like 50% bubbles, gambling, and scams, while cryptocurrency seems more like 99%. Getting to a financial system that's only like half bullshit requires constant vigilance and a byzantine system of regulation and oversight.
They take your property, then force you to sue to get it back. Meanwhile, you go out of business or go broke.

https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/seize-first-questi...
There is already a language called S [1]. Objective-S is not related to S.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_(programming_language)?wprov...
I watched a couple of movies back to back this weekend, and it was so striking the difference in quality. One was a middle-budget movie from the 70s, the other a recent lower-budget indie (well I imagine, three actors and one location).

The movie from the 70s had so many out of focus shots, tracking shots were a bit hit or miss and colors were rather poor (mostly just flat but also color balance issues between scenes).

The modern indie movie looked almost like any triple-A movie, with crisp focus, smooth tracking and with lovely natural colors, even in low light.

Not like it came as a surprise as such, but just the back to back experience highlighted the contrast. Really made me sit and appreciate the technological advances.
>The New York Times caused a stir recently when, in an article about pandemic book sales, it disclosed that “98 percent of the books that publishers released in 2020 sold fewer than 5,000 copies.”

this is somewhat misleading. It includes tiny publishers, niche publishers, niche non-fiction, and so on. Such as "top 100 hiking trails in the Bay Area" and niche stuff like that. Fiction debuts by top publishing houses tend to be much more lucrative for the author and sell way more copies. Most aspiring authors tend to write fiction for a general audience, not niche non-fiction.
You consider a transportation device "murder"? Interesting, seeing as it also can be used to do the opposite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtvCnZqZnxc
The Engineering Quad at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is also named "Bardeen Quad" in John Bardeen's honor.

I haven't been back to my alma mater in a while, so my memory may be fuzzy, but I remember there was a plaque on the southwest end of the quad commemorating his achievements. I hope it's still there!

When I was taking my introduction to semiconductors class in junior year, I thought it was pretty cool that we were studying a subject that one of the university's professors helped invent.
> Do you also rewatch TV series

Good ones, with a lot of depth, absolutely.

I also look at paintings more than once in my life, consume my favorite meals more than once and so on. For those without a perfect memory, re-reading a good book can often teach us new things.
Right, making software leaner for small organizations doesn't give a good return on investment for the effort applied. But for larger organizations that have a massive compute bill like say Netflix, the return on investment of software optimizations across that massive compute footprint saves millions of dollars. So it makes sense to have performance engineers like Brendan Gregg on the pay roll. His book on systems performance is ridiculously good and is useful for smaller orgs as well when systems performance degrades to the point where the customer is impacted.
Minor typo in table 3-4. Motor vehicle detection on a dirt road should read 0-500 meters not kilometers.
> every species is biologically trained to propagate itself, consuming resources and expanding presence

It's not obvious to me that this would apply to xenobiology.

(It's not even totally obvious that it applies on Earth - other species live a much more synergistic lifestyle than humans do)
A new .map line has limited scope of access, and thus highly restricted possibilities.

The same line in a for-loop can access anything, including things from other lines.

The primary benefit of these kinds of functional chains is that each step is highly constrained in their capabilities, mainly by their function name and access scope, so you can better verify that it really does do what it says on the tin.

A for loop’s content has to be ultimately read thoroughly, because anything goes. Including modifying lists unrelated to the list under question.
That’s very broadly true but football (of the soccer variety) still lags a bit behind basketball. The number of clubs using computer vision, or deep learning models on tracking data is probably still in the single digits. Even clubs that do have people capable of doing this (or pay a provider), aren’t necessarily integrating that with their actual coaching or recruitment.
Things as NFTS or smart contracts are really new it need years and development for higher adoption.
Show HN: Pytest-deepcov – debug unit tests using code coverage
Exactly. It's getting the kids conditioned and addicted to devices just like Pavlov's dogs. Facebook knows exactly what they are doing here.
Dual head stacks were once a thing, and there was a recent thread about them as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26502216
Not to mention that the recoil would be very difficult to control.
The real reason for requiring LaTeX submissions in academia
Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?
I was reading this article (https://themdpreneur.com/purchase-future-cash-stop-buying-more-stuff/) on HN the other day and it talks about a hypothetical person who buys a condo and rents it out, or a vending machine and has it serviced, and a website that brings in income.

I come from a fairly traditional investing background of purchasing equities or ETFs as my primary investments, and am interested in learning what else is out there in a non-traditional sense like the above?

What other kind of passive income or cash flow helping investments are out there?
Yup. Napoleon was also a terrific writer who carried a printing press with him as a (just another) General in Italy to be sure his first-hand heavily spun reports of his fighting prowess were the first French citizens would see. Of course, we see more of this now, in a mass civic rather than rural society.
Such a great answer! Thank you. I've just bought a Planar 50/1.7 last month and can't wait for the scanned negs to come back any minute now.
Lots of people burn out. There's no reason presented to think the author would have had more, less, the same, or no burnout programming on their own. They happened to burn out, and they happened to be pair programming for an extended period of time. Myself and friends have also experienced burn out, and none of us pair programed any significant amount.
the problem with this argument is you're pinning solving a major world problem on the masses. Why have Americans not spend 103 billion a year on their pets when Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos are much more equipped to do just that. Instead were trying to go the other direction and not let Amazon employees unionize.

Saying things like that makes you sound like when ExxonMobil Publishes papers on how if Americans ate 150 less grams of beef a year we could turn around global warming.
Here's the conclusion of the article after reviewing those details, including Madoff:

"Still, boil down all the numbers and caveats above and you arrive at a simple fact: In the United States, in 2014, more cash and property transferred hands via civil asset forfeiture than via burglary. "
crowdsourcing the edits sounds like a good way to never finish
Another feasible option is finding a niche market and publishing quality books that are either new or out of print to build that community. https://lostartpress.com/
We’re getting very very close to the point where a group of amateurs can make a ‘major motion picture.’ Not quite yet... but it’s getting closer. CGI can create sets and even characters; AI tools to assist with rotoscope and backfill are becoming quite incredible.

These tools are still packaged in relatively inaccessible environments (such as Blender and AfterEffects and others.)

But, that’s changing too.

In short, it’s going to become increasingly tempting to a creative type to ditch the book he’s writing and, instead, make a movie.

Sounds silly.

But, what occurred in the musical realm (where rank amateurs can simulate an entire orchestra on their PC if need be) is going to happen with Movies.

Books — as a vehicle for drama — may not be coming back.
Did they take it down?
> lockdown theory doesn't posit any sort of Swedish exception

"Lockdown theory" doesn't posit an absence of lockdown variables. Perhaps the straw man you would like to imagine does, but it's alone in this regard. A "Swedish exception" doesn't disprove "lockdown theory" any more than a lottery winner disproves the idea that earning money is generally hard work.

> you're claiming that there was some sort of "big spike" in Swedish cases

April 2020: 800 cases/day <---- paper data ends
November 2020: 3000 cases/day
December 2020: 5000 cases/day
January 2021: 7000 cases/day <--- paper published

> around Christmas the international pressure got to their leaders and they started to get tougher, not laxer

Feb 2021: 3000 cases/day

Looks like it worked.

> And of the papers arguing lockdowns work, they're all free of methodology errors in your view?

I've spot checked a couple and the quality of the analysis was considerably higher. They generally rested on much sturdier statistics, like estimating effect size of policy interventions on R, which don't rely on cherry picking pre-spike Swedish data.

> You should see huge sudden drops or surges when lockdowns and mask mandates are imposed or released

No, you would expect to see hard-fought dips in R after major interventions. Booms and crashes will act as a threshold on integrated R because such is the nature of exponential growth.

To be clear, these interventions frequently lead policy -- they can come from other countries, they can happen through policy of major institutions, ad campaigns, even distribution of news stories regarding other countries. Also, policy lags and suffers from inefficacy from people ignoring and even fight mandates, and this particular brand of inefficacy should be factored out for normative purposes. All of this dampens the effect and spreads it out in time. You would expect the dips in R to be messy but measurable given generous windows, and they are.

More than that, virus transmission isn't a cosmic mystery. We know exactly how it happens and the mechanism by which lockdowns impact its transmission is so straightforward that even medieval plague doctors were able to get it correct. The "lockdowns are ineffective" hypothesis needs some serious magical thinking even before you start cherry-picking data and ignoring confounding variables. It seems like an odd hill to die on.
I've been my oldest child case with this very topic to the point they eye-roll me everytime I bring it up. To be clear, they often claim they've lost a shoe or toy just after literally walking past it or accidentally knocking it under a table or chair. I guess its also a prevalent issue for young adults as well as children now? (Table 2-1, specifically)
Elon said on SNL that he is on the autism spectrum, hence some of his jokes fail
I always find something I missed the first time around. Or I feel differently about the story. There's always something different.
The writer of this article seems to be unaware of existing communities of exactly what they are taking about.

They mentioned Jemisin's patreon as if she's invented the idea or is the only one who's had success doing it, which is simply not true.

Go to https://royalroad.com, view top rated stories, click on basically anything and you'll see patreon links of authors making thousands of dollars per month/chapter.
> Did it used to be easier to make a living as an author?

I suspect there is now a middle ground that didn't exist before: In the 1970s you were either selling >10,000 copies, or you weren't a published author. 'Self-publishing' had a reputation as a scam to extract money from naive would-be authors. (I'm not sure what the academic book market was like at the time)

It's only with the rise of ebooks and print-on-demand that niche, low-selling authors have become a thing.
Bitcoin is not fungible, ransomers choose Monero.
Wow that is so messed up. I think why the bank settled for that one lady was because they just gave her valuables to the state without notifying her. The bank completely forgoed everything about ethics and likely couldn't tell a judge with a straight face "she was an inactive customer" when she has written documentation from them that she was. Also, California throwing that in the general fund? And people think democrats have their back? A democratic legislature enacted those policies to actively steal from their constituents even faster.
HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27075180
A steady stream of cold air coming into your apartment might introduce an airborne virus from outside while the cold weather may hinder your immune system from doing its job as effectively? haha that sounds impossible! stupid grandma!
Chicken, meet egg. Why do you think corporations are terrified of unions? Especially trillion-dollar corporations? Because people have excepted this mythical work ethic. It is a time of self-policing, which is what your comment amounts to.

UNIONS

The nefarious angle of the work culture myth is that it perpetuates by our own hands, or rather, it is supposed to. Anyone who speaks out against it is a "unionist commie" or "lazy". It is self-reenforcing, where one group of workers is scared of losing their jobs so they attack the ones who want to unionize for better conditions.

FEMINISM

There's a similar analogy in feminism, where women who have internalized misogyny actively work to make sure other women don't try to upset the status quo in the name of liberation. It is why you sometimes read about women tearing each other apart because one might chose to not shave her legs or armpits, or wear makeup or heels to work: why should THEY be free of oppression when I'M NOT. Self-policing is very effective for the upper classes to retain control.

RACISM

It goes even further. Read "The Invention of the White Race". The idea of pitting poor white people against poor black people wasn't intentional: the hierarchy was constructed because wealthy land owners needed help policing their slaves, so they created the notion of white / black superiority which led to former white slaves earning their freedom becoming slave masters. (I'm simplifying, but that's the gist.)

Self-policing is highly effective way for those in power to leverage fear and keep the oppressed classes at war with each other and not the people exploiting them. Your comment is spreading that fear.
> The hardware wasn't there:

...

> The average Mac had about 2 megabytes of memory. OpenDoc wouldn’t run on a machine with less than 4 megs, and realistically, 8 megs was probably what you wanted.

Maybe I'm misreading this but this feels like a focus on the neat technology rather than what the user gets out of the technology. Sure, OpenDoc was cool component-based stuff, but if someone's 2MB Mac runs Word or MacWrite or whatever just fine, they aren't going to upgrade their hardware to run your OpenDoc-based word processor. Oh, but I could embed a QuickTime component in my text document? What does that even mean? When I print my document, I get to see a blurry postage-stamp sized video thumbnail in my document? Hoo boy!
Heh, we did much same at my (Danish) university with the store FøTeX.
Also extracting resources from astroids avoids the problem of getting them out of the gravity well. Sure they could mine Earth, but they would have to haul it off Earth too.
Yes, I've always focused manually for astrophotography, and it always results in a series test images. Even using the live view at 10x, there is still room for improvement even though it is a good start. It's always a take pic, zoom all the way in on preview, and then make adjustments from there.

I would buy an entire kit if they would release modern glass with 100% manual including aperture. There are places that will rehouse your lens so that it is full manual. The cost pretty much doubles the cost of the lens, but I have been tempted to do that for the 70-200.
DeCODE genetics – Rounding off the human genome
Chinese court cannot stop suit in India, says Delhi High Court
The same effect can be great for sports, animal videos, and documentaries.

I would describe the effect of HFR as pushing immersion past suspension of disbelief into reality. You can no longer see them as characters, you see them as you would as if it wasn't through a screen - as you said, like watching actors on a stage.

Fortunately(?), humans may get used to HFR as we have with previous advancements in video technology. Remember when people were freaking out about 4K, 3D, HD, Color, "The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station"?
I believe there needs to be reform of civil forfeiture as much as the next guy, but I find it funny that 2010 is always the year used when a specific annual amount is cited. That year includes the forfeiture of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme money which alone makes up some 20%-30% of that annual number. Also there aren't going to be a lot of people defending Madoff's right to the money that was taken through civil forfeiture. It is therefore a little misleading to use that specific year to instill fear about the practice without acknowledging that it is somewhat an outlier and that maybe there are valid uses for the practice.
How much do you trust add-on developers? For the past 5 years I'm only using add-ons during recreational browsing. The market for personal information is just too aggressive to assume you're safe. I imagine this is part of the reason. Another reason could be that "power users" opt out of analytics right away, leading not only to skewed statistics but also awful UI decisions by Firefox, as they have to make their decisions based on the data they collect.
how many people like me does it take to support one professional writer?

Back of the envelope, I would estimate authors get 1/4 of book sales as royalties, so you've sent $1000 to authors in your lifetime. I don't know how old you are, maybe that's $100/year since you were at book-buying age. If an author gets by on $30k/year then it takes 300 people like you to support a professional writer.

That's not bad, really. If you watch 120 movies a year then you're probably supporting the movie industry more than the book industry but it sounds like you prefer movies to books anyway so that's fair.
When Vladimir Nabokov was teaching literature, he instructed the students to read each novel twice, to get over the plot suspense so they could concentrate on the details. When they appeared for the final examination, they encountered questions like, “Describe the wallpaper in the Karenins’ bedroom”.
a great book can have much more social impact than any movie, tv show, or other medium. Books allow for detail and development that is unrivaled by other mediums
Just don't stash things in your oven (unless it really can't heat up). One might think it's great because it's heat resistant, and a burglar is unlikely to open it, and that's true; but, there's a non-zero chance of a guest turning it on with the intent of baking something, without checking if it's empty.
when i was young and poor i wouldnt mind being a pirate

but now, being a professional i wouldnt mind paying ... i would gladly pay $50 for winds of winter if GRRM could finish the book!

look at the expanse saga on primevideo, the books were selling ok but now is a hit box world wide