skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You, more or less, need a domicile to live. This puts them in a very distinct place in the market.
This looks really interesting. Could you please ELI5?
This isn't true. I and many others really had a hard time with a few. HBO Go, for example, particularly at the beginning, was too shite to use. Had tons of content I wanted, and I never used it. But I agree that once you pass "good enough," there are diminishing returns.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/mobile-phone-location-data...

The Melbourne CBD pedestrian counters are open data... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-08/victoria-melbourne-co...
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Oooh now I wonder if it literally means "dual intestine".
The State Took Her Home Because She Missed $900 in Property Taxes
who's everyone exactly? it's moody's saying that homes in 97% of //cities// are overvalued. or, in other words, moody's is predicting a sudden drop in house prices in basically all american cities.

is it not typically the case that, before the price of something goes off a cliff, most people think it's worth the going price?

your first sentence is quippy, but i don't think it's saying anything.
All houses need maintenance and upkeep to survive.

My wood frame house in Oakland was built in 1896. Clearly it lasted longer than 70 years. Brick is a terrible building material in California, due to earthquakes.

My brick house in Amsterdam was built in 1886. However, the piles it sat on were wood, which decayed, and the house sank 8 cm.

Both needed new foundations, both were gutted and remodeled on the inside to update them to modern standards.
I buy electricity from a monopoly provider in my area, run the government. Is that a market? I buy sewer and garbage service likewise.

There are some commodities we choose to operate as natural monopolies because competition and profit seeking leads to bad outcomes for society. My argument is fundamentally that housing is the same.
It's really incredible that you're saying "superficially similar policies are being enacted in multiple, disparate geographies around the world, in vastly differing cultural and economic contexts, so you can't deny that all of them should coincide in one totally separate place I've chosen."

I notice you didn't mention Berlin's rent control fiasco btw
I mean.. "rethrow" sounds fine?
I hope not.

By the way, it's a global news conference, the ESO is one of many organizations involved.
> “By round 190, the researchers had hit on a new surprise: The huge dynamic swings in the population of each lineage had started giving way to smaller waves. This stabilization suggested that the lineages were no longer competing to replicate. Instead, they had started to interact as a network and cooperate in a state of quasi-stable coexistence.”

A very interesting experiment. I know this is reaching, but I wonder what round human being would be on right now if we were in a “test tube” of sorts.
It's funny. There are ignorant people everywhere. But smug ignorance, that I only find it in Americans, for some reason. Maybe it's that "best country in the world" mentality leaking. That mentality doesn't make humble people.
About a third of Singapore is persons who don't have Citizenship nor PR. Their public housing is propped up by making like 1/3 of the often lower earning workers (who are ineligible for public housing) pay taxes so that the Citizens and PR holders can profit.

If 'Success' is your metric, the Singapore analogy to America would be to import way more Canadians and Mexicans, ban them from public housing and then make them pay for it.
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So basically everybody should live in a Khrushchyovka. Real central planning communist slum type housing.
Actually, if you go to /r/teenagers many teens complain that LGBTQ+ has become a mark of status such that teens who proclaim loudest their bonafides as trans/bi/whatever are those who reap status.

Teenagers have always pushed against the prevailing narrative, it's how we get new ideas into the world. It becomes problematic when viral vectors of trends are disseminated at the speed of thought globally. Humans aren't hardwired for this. See also the recent HN post that more teens are depressed than ever. It has nothing to do with actual geopolitics: remember that the Cold War was extremely bleak for Americans and go back just a little earlier and you have World War II and the Great Depression.
How will you be deciding who gets to have a view of the ocean, and who gets to sleep next to the overpass? First come first serve? Birthright?
The EHT observes supermassive black holes.
On my Macbook/Trackpad I use 'Enable dragging > without drag lock'. The best setting i've ever found in macOS, it takes a little getting used to but it's so much better;

' > System Preferences > Accessibility > Pointer Control > Trackpad Options > Enable Dragging. > without drag lock'

It basically allows you to drag everything without 'force clicking' the trackpad. Instead you can now just 'tap twice + hold finger down' and drag.
> The person who dug it up and sold it didn't really have an inherent right to it. They just found it.

I don't get it. Why wouldn't a person who found it have a right to it?
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The thing is I don't think it is bold at all. Housing being overvalued seems perfectly obvious consequence of negative or near-zero interest rates. One side effect of those policies is that the mortgage rates were artificially lowered.

A lot of people buying houses unfortunately don't really look at aggregate home ownership cost and focus (incorrectly) on monthly payments. So, because they can afford the monthly payment, they think they can afford the house. This of course works works until the music stops.
“profit from rent is amoral”. Care to elaborate on this? Does this ethical standard also extend to other human needs as well? For instance should farmers not be able to profit from providing food?
The only meaningful thing this chart is telling me is that Netflix produces an absurd volume of content.
Yes. And also no.

Today, if I cannot pay, I get no housing. Taxes allow us, as a community, to decide that we should all chip in a little bit extra (commensurate to our means) to make sure everyone has a roof over their heads.

Also, government operated facilities do not have a profit motive, so there's less incentive to maximize the cost of housing.
A decently built wood home will last centuries too if it is maintained.
You seem to be saying you think keeping liquid fuel in tanks does not qualify as storage. If that is what you mean, you will need to explain why you think that, because it makes no sense.

If you mean we have not yet built out as much storage as we will ultimately need, because we anyway haven't enough renewable generating capacity built out yet to charge it from, then yes we know. The solution to that is obviously to continue building out renewable generating capacity, and then storage for the excess.
Housing is very, very far from being a commodity.
The ultimate endpoints of personal wealth are… home equity itself (down payments) and cash flow (retirement). There are also major purchases like college but compared to housing they’re pretty small. A fancy private education costs just 10% ($250k) of a decent 3BR in a walkable neighborhood ($2.5m).

It seems like home equity is actually a pretty safe and efficient form of cash flow. Even with a cheap mortgage, the payments I need to make each year are about 5% of the principal, which is of course more than the standard 3-4% safe withdrawal rate for investment. The mortgage interest deduction is relevant, but the mortgage is also the reason I would need to realize so much taxable income in the first place. There are no taxes on imputed rent or home equity. Living in a paid off home, you can appear to the income tax system and even some means-tested programs (those that consider income not wealth) as a pauper.

Because housing so dwarfs all other expenses, it is not clear to me why growing my principal at the expense of housing-sized cash flow would be a good tradeoff.
A more practical solution is housing coops like the BRF system in Sweden. Individual landlordism is mostly banned (there are some company rentals though) - you buy the place you live in, and there are restrictions on renting it out (no more than 2 years in a row, etc.).

It's helped a lot here.

I don't think that social housing is a good solution. It's a complete disaster here in Sweden, with 12+ year waiting times, and massive inequality between those who have those rent-fixed privileged first hand contracts and those stuck in the unregulated wild west of second hand renting. Often resulting in the working poor effectively subsidising wealthier, older people to keep their very cheap flats in the city centre, etc.
> we choose to operate as natural monopolies

No, not at all. We don’t choose natural monopolies. We recognize them. The whole point is they are naturally occurring whether we want them or not. Housing shares nothing in common with the other services you mention which are anything but commodities!

The natural monopoly of the electrical company isn’t electricity, it’s distribution. Power is a commodity, and delivery is anything but.

Your argument that housing is the same is not well informed.
If they didn't care except when they were selling, that makes the effect of them being more consistent voters on zoning issues hard to explain.

I think this idea of wanting your house price to be low to avoid property taxes then suddenly increase the value when it's time to sell is like the idea of having your employer pay a trust so you can collect food stamps 11 months of the year then the trust pays you all your money in December.

It might be possible and it wouldn't shock me if a few people do it but it's not the normal approach.
I’d rather have software engineers make the decisions about software engineering than insist managers do that job.
What's interesting is that oil pretty much prevented the entire world from being deforested in our crazy search for fuel. It also saved the (remaining) whales when it replaced whale oil for lamps.

(I think I learned this reading "the rational optimist")
It's worth noting that many cheap android devices let you spoof the IMEI and other device identifiers. If so, just find someone else with the device you want to emulate and copy over the identifiers over. It's usually an app in the app list as "Set up Phone" or something - you type in the IMEI, hit save, and then reboot. Probably best to find someone not on the same network as you - many phone networks won't let two phones with the same IMEI connect at once.

It's very useful in countries like Turkey which don't allow foreign phones. So you need to copy the IMEI of a local unless you want to buy a new phone.
It depends, Shopify for example is providing eCommerce technology to shop owners. And they do great. Netflix could have gone that route.

Contrary to Shopify so, streaming lives of content. Which means the only reasonable customers for Netflix tech were content owners looking at their own streaming service (not that many around pre-Netflix, Amazon developed it's own tech) or content creators (excluding big studios, this market was and is owned by YouTube). I think Netflix didn't have much of a choice, and they did very well, didn't they?

Anecdata: Most of my current streaming is happening on Netflix (original content from Spain, Scandinavia, Poland,... stuff you don't get somewhere else) or Disney+ (incredible how deep Disney's catalogue is, especially for older films like Alien). Prime Video fell behind quite a bit on the content front. Netflix has an opportunity so, IMHO, in cooperating with local studios and producers in smaller countries. Something neither Disney nor Amazon seem to be capable of doing.
Population may have flattened, but a toooooon of people were looking to move suddenly to new areas, which is another way that scarcity is created.

Your chart is the number of units under construction, but that high number doesn't translate into more new homes than ever before, because completions have been massively delayed. So there's a lot of homes sitting half finished as they wait for supply chain crunch's to resolve. And to compare this to numbers from the 80s means normalizing for length of construction, something which is getting delayed more and more.

Overall, construction has massively constructed since 2008, and even before that it had been trending down for a long time.
Related to the Evil Moron Theory

https://en.incelwiki.org/Evil_moron_theory
Evidence of multiverse?
Pricing? You can have the government / housing co-ops sell properties and just forbid private renting out in absentia.
I left AT&T back in 2012 or so when they started to flag and reclassify my plan on every import model I bought. Prior to that, T-Mobile was almost purely urban and AWS band supporting phones were a little obscure. But that's not an issue today and now I can import whatever.

I still have a few active SIM cards supporting GSM-only operation if I feel like using an old phone from 2005. (I have a sony ericsson w810i that Google's WAP site still works on, the oldest phone I tried within past year was a t68i but data wouldn't work, just calls/sms)
There’s a whole lot of text without any citations.

>There are absolutely better policies. The injunctions are an act of desperation in the face of a mounting death toll.

My question was simple yes or no. Can you take another crack at answering this? (repeated below)

> Do you support the ability of the police to impose jail time in a way that circumvents the (elected) prosecutor’s office?

As for this…
> Care to point out how its factually wrong.

Nope, not my job. If you haven’t bothered to cite literally any sources other than walls of text about how you understand things better than everybody else, I doubt my efforts to educate you would be considered.

I pointed out that you are factually wrong because you posted some factually wrong nonsense. I did not do that for your benefit. I did that for the benefit of genuinely curious people that might read your ridiculous screed and mistake verbosity with understanding or cleverness.

Anyway I asked two yes or no questions and got nothing but some Dickensian-length mental gymnastics in response.

1. Yes or no, do you support the ability of the police to put people in jail in a way that circumvents the elected district attorney?

2. Yes or no, do you view yourself as somebody that could at some point —for any reason whatsoever— piss off a cop?
Isn’t there tension between what I’m assuming is land-value tax to push developers to create more housing and keeping people in the home they’ve lived in for 20 years? That home has probably become inefficient from a public value standpoint and would better contribute if it was a multi-unit dwelling. I’m with you that people should be able to continue to afford to live in the same neighborhood even (with a shift in the type of building most likely), but attempting to protect their exact house just creates the equivalent of a public subsidy to exempt them from keeping pace with local land efficiency demands.
Do you need an online course to give you “assignments?” (AKA exercises, as they don’t really need to be assigned.)
Sounds like a classic government IT project failure. They basically codified their internal Kafka-esk bureaucracy in UI form and projected their collective incompetence by insisting the project must be built exactly according to their (wrong & incoherent) requirements. I can imagine the long documents. This is classic waterfall. They would have insisted on that even. The project was doomed as soon as they started writing those documents.

So, they got exactly the thing they insisted on. And now they are blaming the consultants. Bureaucracies work like this: they are full of useless people defending their existence by participating in endless meetings that will find creative ways to deflect any form of responsibility and accountability. So, bonus points for meetings with consultants. The more expensive the better.

Pass it up the chain to the politicians who will be long gone by the time the whole thing blows up. They absolutely love that; do what the expensive consultant says. Which is of course echoing what they were told by the incompetent bureaucrats. The bigger the egos in the room, the dumber the plans get. Usually these projects start off fine and then some moron pulls rank and derails the whole thing by insisting on adding their own requirements to the pile. Big expensive projects attract that kind of behavior; it's almost inevitable. And then some politician signs off on it. Job well done.

The consultants bill by the hour so they don't mind the endless bullshit and they take notes. And then they do as they are told to take the money regardless of whether that makes any sense. There's almost no way for a happy end in such a situation. Don't blame the consultants; blame the career bureaucrats and the politicians for being absolute idiots, again. This outcome was 100% predictable 20 years ago.
That hasn't been my experience, in lots of years of having to call them and make them fix dumb things. Once you get past the "no, I am quite sure there is no wifi interference on this cat5e cable" bit of the Generic Support Script, they do seem to be capable of understanding where the problem could plausibly be. (Ability to do anything about it varies.)

They even helpfully provide a compatibility list: https://www.xfinity.com/support/devices/#unauth
Called a leasehold. Not all property is like this though.
The singapore housing system is a great policy. I dont see it how it fits with your ideas. First landlord is protected over tenant (rents are through the roof in singapore as well).

The hdb scheme is worth look into: government build apartments sold to people with medium income and racial quotas.
And flammable gases.
Washington State is considering removing single family zoning.

No, no they are not.

Washington state has more than Seattle in it. It has rural areas, and mountainous regions, and no, every house in a rural area is not on agriculturally zoned land.

Nor does it make sense to have multidwelling houses, miles apart from each other.

I think, as others in this thread have stated, you are mistaking musings, ponderings, and "feelz good" ideas for serious discourse.

I support public housing, but that has zero bearing on changing the housing market. Which, I may add, is in a tiny, temporary inflated bubble. A decade ago, it was still recovering from the largest crash in modern history.

In terms of public housing, as land value increases, so do property taxes.

Thus, municipalities then have more funds to... build and maintain public housing! Which means that housing costs do not change the percentage of a city's budgetary costs, to build and maintain public housing.
Capitalism does imply the absence of regulations imposed by a bunch of goons with guns that claim to be "a legit government representing the people".

Mixed economies are not capitalism.

You can say you're a bit capitalist - that's an easy one, we have plenty of data to show that positive economic effect for everyone are linked to free markets - but still believe fairy tales about the government being moral and caring about something which is not being re-elected and stealing money from people.
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https://www.cemex.com/-/cemex-and-synhelion-achieve-breakthr...

>February 2, 2022

>For the first time ever, CEMEX and Synhelion successfully connected the clinker production process with the Synhelion solar receiver, producing solar clinker.
>This revolutionary innovation is an initial step to develop fully solar-driven cement plants.

they are trying it out, hopefully it works out for the whole manufacturing process, at an economically feasible rate

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some papers on solar heat:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...

https://www.irena.org/publications/2015/Jan/Solar-Heat-for-I...
What course/uni was this at?

I’m in a similar position (incomplete BSc, but 20+ years commercial experience) and was looking at the OU’s masters but wasn’t that impressed with the syllabus.
I approve of the use of talented non-white actors in British period dramas, such as David Copperfield. It is obvious that the person's skin colour is ahistorical for the role. But it doesn't matter. We the audience are tacitly invited to look past this detail. It seems a little incongruous for about ten seconds, then just disappears into their fine performance.
> I would hate to use Rust libraries that would crash my entire program if they for some reason are bugged.

You would, but for other programs with other requirements it would actually be beneficial. There's no single right answer, and you should pick the library that follows your particular requirements for that particular program.
I don't think we can assign blame in a complicated situation based on a two-paragraph retelling, please have a bit more empathy.
> The Germans don't really have any more right to it than she does.

Article 56 of the Hague Convention of 1907 disagrees. Stealing art is a war crime. So do the Allies themselves, in their memorandum on January 5th, 1943.

> The most likely story of this bust is from the 5th century until the 18th or 19th centuries, it was buried in the ground somewhere in Italy or former Roman empire.

Given that the person depicted was originally associated with Drusus Germanicus (the name's a hint here) and Aschaffenburg was in fact part of the Roman Empire back in the day, chances are they found it in the vicinity. The object is a lot more related to Aschaffenburg than Texas, which in fact never was part of the Roman Empire.

> But is that museum inherently this German one?

The wartime looting of art and/or cultural objects is barbaric as it robs the object of its historical context and the regions of their heritage. This is true regardless of the uniform that the criminal wore. If you think Germans should hand back art stolen before or during WW2, you cannot really argue against restitution demands for art stolen by Americans.
Oh my, clearly you’ve never lived in these places. I used to live in Singapore: it’s one of the most overheated housing markets in the world.

All of the things you mention exist in the US to much larger degrees (do you know how much the US spends on social housing??) You are slinging insults to other commenters but you are really out of your depth here and have picked a couple of things and hailed them as solutions. You know not what you speak of.

Source: American expat currently living in London, previously Singapore.
Another +1 for Divvy. I have a hard time living without it.

When plugged into my large monitor, I have hotkeys set up to put a window on the left 1/3, the middle 1/3, and the right 1/3. It is so unbelievably useful.

Also when doing multiple monitors, if you do a Divvy hotkey it will move the current window to the monitor your mouse is in. This makes moving windows so fast.
No, this is just what a lawyer would say. Every time I've consulted a lawyer (in Europe) I was told that the situation is very difficult, and there are big risks involved if I didn't do it properly, and a long and detailed contract would be required to avoid all these risks, and it just so happens that the lawyer I consulted with is very experienced in this area and would offer to set up such a contract for me.

The contract is generally some generic patchwork piece made with copy and paste. Half the text doesn't apply to the situation at all and when challenged the lawyer says: "These are standard terms that we always put in there".