MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epistasis | 2025-12-01 19:31:49+00:00
The pricing signal malfunctions when homeowners and landowners control land use to such a degree that regulatory constriction stops housing. Usually this is zoning as the primary blocker, but there can be other blockers too.

One of the problems with rent control is that it pushes the class politics so that renters with housing act more like landowners than they do new tenants, and they conspire to also block housing. People are change averse, even if they don't mind the change after they see it; before the change it's a big threat. This hurts any tenant that needs to move due to things such as becoming an adult, finding a new job, starting a family, getting a divorce or ending a relationship, etc.

Rent control is great as a tenant protection to prevent evictions via rent increases, but it is only a short term protection for tenants otherwise, and can hurt tenants greatly if there's not enough building.
by duskwuff | 2025-12-01 19:31:56+00:00
WRT player stats and rankings: I'm inclined to disagree. Rankings in small team-based game communities tend to be pretty noisy. Matchmaking often ends up constrained by the number of online players searching for a game at the same time, so the teams may not be well balanced, and the outcome of the match can be decided by the presence of a single highly skilled player who happened to be searching for a match at the right moment. The resulting rankings aren't necessarily a good measure of player skill.

Larger games have the luxury of being able to place players into teams consisting entirely of other players of similar skill levels, against teams of similar composition. The results of those games are a better reflection of those players' skill.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 19:32:08+00:00
For me, I saw it happening around 2014. I was six years out of the long fog of my “expert beginner” phase and trying to figure out what I was going to do next. I was considered a “senior” [1] full stack developer and no matter what I did - mobile, actually learn front end better, I was still going to top out at around $150K (and sadly enough, that is still what I’m seeing in Atlanta when I lurk on LinkedIn).

I knew I had to get into BigTech or adjacent after my son graduated as a software engineer.

Around 2016 I belatedly discovered cloud consulting where consultants would come in and “transform” organizations. I learned in hindsight that they were a bunch of old school net ops folks who only knew how to do bad lift and shifts that costs the company more money and treated AWS like a Colo.

I wanted to do the same but focus on what I learned the term for years later was “modernization”. Bringing in a software developers mindset on cloud consulting. By 2020, I was no longer thinking about BigTech and was focused on getting into consulting. I had never heard of AWS’s Professional Services department until a recruiter told me about it. Even then I didn’t know it was full time working for AWS directly until that was also explained to me.

[1] yes in hindsight I know that a title of “senior” to someone who pulls well defined tickets off a Jira board is laughable.
by knollimar | 2025-12-01 19:32:14+00:00
How is it measured?

Can someone who's never seen red hallucinate something and assume it to be red? What if that red is correctly the red they would see if they saw red?

Can you reproduce this feeling in someone by doing something to their physical body without showing them red?

If so, how does it differ from the latent encoding for uploading an all red pdf to your favorite multi modal model?

Instead of doing that socratic bs you see a lot here, I'll be more direct:

Until there's some useful lines that can be drawn to predict things, I won't accept using a fuzzy concept to make statements about classification as it's an ever shifting goalpost.

There are answers to my legitimate above questions that would make me consider qualia useful, but when I first learned about them, they seemed fuzzy to the point of being empirically not useful. It seems like a secular attempt at a soul.

Now, obviously if you're trying to describe something with experience, it needs some actual memory and processing sensory input. Current Generative AI doesnt have a continuity of experience that would imply whatever qualia could mean, but I find it hard to definitely say that their encodings for image related stuff isn't qualia if we don't have hard lines for what qualia are
by vincentchu | 2025-12-01 19:32:17+00:00
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by phantasmish | 2025-12-01 19:32:18+00:00
Healthcare employment’s guaranteed to keep rising until they’ve soaked up all the would-be inheritance from the Boomers.

Millennials are a large cohort, too, so it may stay steadily high for a good long while after that, after perhaps a small dip for X. Depends how much money they have for the healthcare sector to scoop up. Savings-at-same-age has been really bad for them relative to boomers, so we’ll see. May see healthcare employment shrink even as need (sans the dollars to back it up) grows, next time a demographic “lump” gets old.
by torginus | 2025-12-01 19:32:21+00:00
Thanks for sharing that!

The scales are a bit murky here, but if we look at the 'Coding' metric, we see that Kimi K2 outperforms Sonnet 4.5 - that's considered to be the price-perf darling I think even today?

I haven't tried these models, but in general there have been lots of cases where a model performs much worse IRL than the benchmarks would sugges (certain Chinese models and GPT-OSS have been guilty of this in the past)
by Filligree | 2025-12-01 19:32:28+00:00
People are able to move around, to some degree, so housing prices are a function of supply across most of the nation. Or at least the desirable portions.

Rent control on the other hand has mostly local effects.

Which means, rent control can push prices down and keep them down. There is indeed a supply reduction, and prices on average will go up—but not in the rent controlled area.

It’s still a poor idea, but it requires centralised planning to avoid.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-12-01 19:32:34+00:00
Probably because dash cams have a questionable legal status in Denmark.

There's a law that prohibits all video monitoring of public spaces, and a register where you must register your video cameras if you're a business owner. Video surveillance in Denmark has a maximum legal retention of 28 days, unless there's an ongoing investigation.

Considering that dash cams mostly monitor "public spaces" and are moving around, the legality of them have been questioned multiple times. They are however also becoming more and more common, so I'm guessing they will eventually be allowed with a relatively low retention, like 1-2 days, enough to get footage off of them in case of a crash.
by mistersquid | 2025-12-01 19:32:42+00:00
> Rent control is not a great solution long term since it reduces the incentive to build more housing which is the only real fix.

In California (and SF in particular) rent control applies to housing older than 15 years and owned by corporate entities.

How does rent control applied as it is in California disincentivize building? I would think that building would be incentivized by rent control because newer housing stock would be exempt from rent control.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-01 19:32:45+00:00
I asked my attorney after a bad accident (that despite 100% liability being accepted by the other party, my insurer was still treating me like I was the problem and a bother to them) who he recommended as an insurer. He said much the same thing.

So I said, "Well, leaving aside recommendations, who do -you- use as your auto insurer?"
by stego-tech | 2025-12-01 19:33:17+00:00
Yep, and a lifetime spent moving every few years (and my obsession for details and desire to understand how everything works) means that I can see the chasm between what properties are actually worth versus what folks are asking for. I’ve seen some really pricey nightmares these past several years ($650k for a 1400sqft home with knob-and-tube electrical wiring and an honest-to-god fire bucket in the basement next to the oil heater!), and I cannot afford to take such extreme risks on the most expensive purchase I’ll likely ever make in my life.

It sucks.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-01 19:33:33+00:00
> I don't know your socioeconomic background or anything

It sounds like a habit drawn from poverty, but frankly, you'd have to be really poor to reach for something like this daily (I'm talking extreme survival situations that even the homeless don't typically face). Those with low income can still get much better food at a reasonable price. They don't need to shop at Whole Foods.

I'm not sure you can even eat like this for very long either. The malnutrition is that bad. Expect high medical care costs or an early death down the line.

Penny wise, pound foolish.
by nottorp | 2025-12-01 19:33:47+00:00
> If you are a casual who doesn’t care about game integrity, you probably aren’t the target audience.

Friendly reminder. 90% of games are not competitive multiplayer and don't need any anti cheat to be enjoyable.

My main entertainment is video games and books (no TV) in equal proportions so I'm far from "casual". I play zero competitive multiplayer due to the "communities" being invariably toxic.

Last time I played something like that it was Starcraft 2 when it was new. Enjoyed being called a stupid noob when I won.
by timonoko | 2025-12-01 19:33:54+00:00
I had Atari Portfolio, sold without software, except basic command.com. I could only copy raw ASCII bytes from keyboard to file. When it is in COM-file, it is directly executable. What is the simple program I made from ASCII-bytes to read bytes in hexadecimal. I thought that for a week, but finally solved it.

@grok: This is a classic and brilliant puzzle from the early days of DOS. The challenge is to write a self-displaying hex dumper (.COM file) using only the copy con command, which means every byte of the program must correspond to a standard, typeable ASCII character. This is a form of code-golfing that relies on a deep understanding of 8086 machine code.

The solution is a clever piece of self-modifying code. Since many essential 8086 opcodes (like MOV, INT, RET) don't have printable ASCII equivalents, the program must construct these instructions in memory and then execute them.

Here is a well-known 128-byte solution. I will first show you the ASCII characters you would type, and then explain how it works.

The Program to Type

You would have started by typing copy con hex.com and then carefully typed the following 128 characters (including spaces and case-sensitive characters) and finally pressed Ctrl+Z to save the file.

1 j!>1!QhH-@0X,jHj.Ph1PhD0Ph 0@h, j, h.0@h, h 0@h.H-@,jH1X,h.H.@,H1j j X,h.H.@,H1j j X.H-@H-@,jHj.Ph1PhE0Ph@0@h, j, h.0@h, h 0@h.

How It Works: A High-Level Explanation

This program is a marvel of 8086 trickery. Here is a simplified breakdown of what's happening:

etc.etc
by m90 | 2025-12-01 19:33:59+00:00
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by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-01 19:34:00+00:00
haha i misread casual as causal, but i guess, here are the "accurate conclusions" you are looking for, that is to say, what does rent control cause, as opposed to the vibes and correlations people are talking about?

it's the "credibility revolution" and someone has won a nobel prize for it.

rent control causes limited mobility (read: displacement out of town) by 20 percent; it causes reduced rental housing supply by 15 percent:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20181289

rent control causes reduced property values:

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/h...
by jcheng | 2025-12-01 19:34:09+00:00
At the time, Java. J2EE (entity beans and session beans), Java Server Pages, Apache Struts. I think it's hard for people who didn't live through it to appreciate just how painful it was to work in that stack circa 1999-2003, like it just doesn't seem plausible that the whole industry would go along with a stack with that much boilerplate for that little added value.

Back then, Ruby and Rails opened a lot of people's minds to the idea that we were allowed to make "delightful" a consideration in API design, not just S.O.L.I.D. or whatever. These days, there are way more mainstream languages, frameworks, and communities that take humane APIs seriously.
by nomel | 2025-12-01 19:34:13+00:00
Or, the context of your use, for a site that covers many thousands, is different than mine, leading to a different experience.

The most-being-wrong applies very reliably for any API, library, or language that isn't stable through time. You probably work C, or similar, where backwards breaking changes, or shifts in "the correct way", are rare. I'm jealous!

The answer being wrong at any point in time is probably < 10%, in my experience.
by mindslight | 2025-12-01 19:34:23+00:00
I had assumed you were coming from a similar position, and your argument was more of a reductio-ad-absurdum.

But if you're not - the fact it's putting a chilling effect on this activity right here is a problem.

Another big problem is the complete inequity. It takes the digital equivalent of hopping over a fence and turns it into a serious federal felony with persecutors looking to make an example of the witch who can do scary things (from the perspective of suits).

Another glaring problem is that if the types of boundaries it creates are noble, then why does it leave individuals powerless to enforce such boundaries against corpos, being easily destroyed by clickwrap licenses and unequal enforcement? Any surveillance bugs/backdoors on a car I own are fundamentally unauthorized access, and yet I/we are powerless to use this law to press the issue.
by zenoprax | 2025-12-01 19:34:32+00:00
This is heartening - I'm about to start with the daily challenges today and document my experience and that sort of thing.

Any other suggestions? I have sysadmin experience as a homelabber and at work with a small company as a "tech lead" but have not yet had the chance to do it full time in a larger company. Currently focused on back-filling knowledge gaps and adding certs to support my existing experience.
by maderalabs | 2025-12-01 19:34:54+00:00
I'm curious how much y'all used AI in the development process of the app. Definitely a lot of thought put into the architecture as shown in the post here, what was the split of human written vs. AI-written code? Especially curious given v0 is intended for building with AI.

Really great writeup, super thoughtful! Been a v0 user and fan for awhile now, excited to give this a shot!
by thisisit | 2025-12-01 19:35:08+00:00
> I will point out that India have the highest number of victims of cyber-fraud

Combined with worst enforcement and investigation efforts to tackle this issue. The default resolution on a cyber crime report is : Fraudster's account is blocked and they are given a choice to plead forgiveness from the accuser. They often return the money in lieu of the complaint being rescinded. Then fraudster is free to con others. Fraudsters know this is a numbers game that is why they hit every morsel they can get a bite.

Worse yet people use the cyber crime provision to take revenge. People can file frivolous cases without proof and ge others account locked. Banks will treat you with disdain and police will tell you to settle privately too.

What about investigations you ask? Very few cases reach that level. Local police file the FIR and they don't even know what is "cyber" in cyber crime. Fraudsters can continue playing the numbers game.

So, yes it is easy to talk about victims when the policies are lacking. And then this high number of victims can be used as a crutch to push insecure apps on everyone's phones. The worst part of it? They will get data and still remain clueless and inept in solving the high number of cyber crimes.
by hartator | 2025-12-01 19:35:09+00:00
> dispassionate discussion of how different language features impact code quality

I think we can start disagreeing here.

The metrics shouldn't be solely code quality, but also simplicity, readability, and how fast you can express yourself in it.

Code quality will go up the more language friction you add: types, "one way" of doing things, and function-oriented programming. Same code in a language with heavy types and strict functions will be of course "more solid". However, it will take 10x the time to write, be less flexible, and harder to understand.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-01 19:35:17+00:00
BYD Sold Nearly Three Times As Many Cars As Tesla In Europe - https://www.carscoops.com/2025/11/byd-sold-nearly-3-times-as... - November 26th, 2025

* Chinese automakers now hold 6.8% of total European new car sales.

* BYD’s European sales jumped 206.8% in October compared to 2024.

* Tesla’s sales plunged 48.5% in October to just 6,964 vehicles.
by ahmgeek | 2025-12-01 19:35:19+00:00
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by BJones12 | 2025-12-01 19:35:54+00:00
> The point of rent control is to smooth out volatility. Rents can still go up, but the goal is to avoid sudden 150% increases etc.

Is it? I mostly see rent control maximum increases below the inflation rate, suggesting a different goal (appealing to voters?). If it were just to eliminate extreme volatility I think we'd see more 5/10/20% increases and less 1/2/3% increases.
by mustaphah | 2025-12-01 19:36:02+00:00
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by ivell | 2025-12-01 19:36:08+00:00
Like any business Apple needs growth to satisfy the shareholders. New growth would come from India and China. Apple didn't leave China and neither it will leave India. India can and will survive without Apple. Though having it in the country would be good for optics.

The moment mobile companies locked down sideloading, ability to uninstall bundled software, etc., they made it impossible to argue techincally against bundled, uninstallable software from the government.
by tossandthrow | 2025-12-01 19:36:10+00:00
The dynamic here is that investors accept 3% return for housing because there are no good alternatives.

The expected return is considerably higher now, this should mean that houses should be traded at PR at around 20 again (as opposed to upwards of 30 when there was no better investments to be made).

Investors will likely not be an issue as long as we don't go into zirp again.
by throwaway_0a3we | 2025-12-01 19:36:35+00:00
We (me and my spouse) made an offer for a small condo and then next week company started the layoffs. Luckily we were not in that position where we spent all our savings and ended up in a position where paying mortgage would have been a huge challenge. It's been a year, have a job but uncertainity is very high. Loosing a job now means finding the next one is not very easy and no certainity that it can be a matter of month or two. We made a decision that since we have enough to pay for the downpayment and enough to pay a year of mortgage, we would not go and buy a house in Southern California. It is better to live in rented property but not safe to be in a position where you loose the property.
by ddxv | 2025-12-01 19:36:36+00:00
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by aeturnum | 2025-12-01 19:36:46+00:00
This is a weird response to a weird article. The original article doesn't define its terms and, as Robby points out, that makes it hard to critique. If a language is only "serious" if it can scale infinitely for all use cases then sure Ruby isn't serious - most languages aren't.

That said - this response and the critique seem to basically agree. The critique can be summed up as "Ruby doesn't work forever" (and so it should never be used) and this is saying "Ruby doesn't work forever" (which is fine). I could almost understand this post as saying: 'Ruby isn't serious and that's not a problem for anyone who uses it.'

I will say that I found it funny that the original article attacked Ruby for being all the way down at "18th place" (This is inaccurate - it's 14th in 2024) on the SO dev survey - while talking up Scala which is 9 places further down on the survey[1].

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...
by SoufianeGfx | 2025-12-01 19:37:10+00:00
I depends on the field. On VFX/Game world, Dear ImGui seem to be the way to go. Almost all news comer in this field sells Dear ImGui based software. It's fast and light and trivially profilable that's what matter matter for real time applications. And bonus can be integrated in any platform in few hour of devs. Before having any ui in VR or game console (not necessary debug/dev tool) in Qt or anything else it will take ages.