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> UK has massively high house prices - at least in "desirable" areas, and some not so desirable ones where it's possible to commute to work in a desirable area.

Other than very undesirable areas, the house prices are pretty bad. I have friends living nowhere near London in remote Scotland noticing the house price increase. I've seen a local property double in price after ~11 years.

> That doesn't necessarily reflect a shortage, it also reflects availability of money [..]

It's not clear who has an availability of money. I'm aware of zero people within recent years buying a home without a mortgage. Availability of money has never been worse.

> It took a while to filter through, sure, but in the end, it has - to the point where most families are now obligated to have two full-time earners.

I don't think we're seeing 4x the living standard of 1970. It also doesn't explain that we see house prices increase by more than 4x relative to wages [1].

> Housing is a positional good (think about an auction where demand of the most desirable items will always exceed supply), the prices bear almost no relation to rational economic utility and every relation to how much cost people are able to bear. Which is one reason they're so responsive to interest rates i.e. debt affordability.

It's didn't used to be like that. A house would feasibly cost between 4-10 years of one man's wage. But this would defend what I said, that demand outstrips supply. There is a saying at auctions: "it's only worth what somebody else is willing to pay for it."

> we're using migrants to prop it up and provide much of the labour needed by the NHS, childcare and elderly care.

It's not working, the NHS is failing. Where I live I cannot get an appointment any more. If I am lucky the doctor calls me and essentially prescribes anything I ask for. I recently saw a similar situation with midwifery.

I generally don't find myself convinced that migration is a net good. They typically have dependants and create massive burdens on our infrastructure and systems. We are now at the state where children are deferred from starting school because there just are no palce

> Our government is massively anti-immigration, and yet immigration remains high, the country can't and won't go cold-turkey on that: [..]

I suspect not. If I am right in saying that immigration increases demand for housing and therefore the price, it would make sense that the Conservative party would keep this in place as their largest donors are property developers [2].

> The current system where they can't build apartment blocks on train-station car parks because a bunch of pensioners complain that it spoils their view is massively counterproductive.

I don't think that is fair, the answer isn't to build on every square metre of the UK until it's gone. Besides, if they get rid of the train station car park, where will all the commuters park? (I've seen this one play out, they park everywhere else.)

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456991/h...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/14/who-are-the...
Every. Rolling. Stones. Album.
Sometimes laws need to be broken. Censoring ability to talk about government crimes is quick path to genocide.
> Unfortunately there is a segment of the population that is completely incapable of filling in a form. These people should probably be passed off to human beings, but then those human beings are wasting their time dealing with similar issues constantly.

> LLM chatbots are even worse. They have great latitude to say convincing and incorrect information, but can rarely actually do anything. It would be much better to just publish a good knowledge base.

Just as there is a segment of the population that is incapable of filling in a form, there is a (probably larger) segment which is incapable or at least unwilling to educate themselves with a good knowledge base. There are also a lot of bad knowledgebases with incomplete, obsolete, or misleading information out there, which doesn't help the cause.
Totally agree with you - great point! HN is known as the hub for drug addicted homeless people from Portland, OR. I should probably find a different forum since I don't share this experience first hand.
No, lack of building _is_ the main problem. It doesn't matter if the demand for homes is "artificial" or not - the easiest solution is to build more.

> Ask yourself, do Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Britain, Ireland, etc, all have the same inability to build or is there maybe some other common cause?

This is something I've wondered, and I'm of the opinion there's two reasons that are rarely discussed. One is the great recession/sub-prime crisis, which, at least in the US, caused a collapse in housing construction - I'm not sure how much this is true for other countries. The other is the coming of age of millennials, leading to a "bump" of people in their 20-30s trying to get their first home - I'd expect this to apply to most of the countries listed.
Focusing on PM 2.5 makes sense because anything that size and smaller tend to cause the most harm. [1]

[1] https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/particulate-matter-pm-basic...

> Particulate matter contains microscopic solids or liquid droplets that are so small that they can be inhaled and cause serious health problems. Some particles less than 10 micrometers in diameter can get deep into your lungs and some may even get into your bloodstream. Of these, particles less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, also known as fine particles or PM2.5, pose the greatest risk to health.
> YouTube has tons and tons of educational and hobby-related content

I think the parent's comment is about how a lot of this (even well-meaning) content is not aligned with Google's advertising profile and won't be promoted in order to increase ad-revenue. On a platform that is reliant on advertising to offset the cost of video storage, it's a sinister but logical move.

The struggle really does revolve around the network effect, and how inadvertently helpless the average user has made themselves. We have no choice but to play by Google's rules because we don't know of a better way. We swipe down to search something on our iPhone, and we get a YouTube video in response. What, are we going to ideologically oppose the default response? Are we "too good" for the ordinary privacy-destroying, time-disrespecting vehicle of YouTube? No, we watch a 15 second bumper ad and then someone shows us how to fix our sink. And you can damn-well bet nobody will ever know what DailyMotion is because they're not paying phone OEMs a king's ransom to show up before everyone else.
What is Acme in this context? Id like to get an idea of what you mean.
I also find chatbots to be useless time-wasters. So much so that if a company forces me to go through one to get support, I consider that to be the same as not providing support at all.
The AI hype means we have record number of companies confusing optimizing for their needs with optimizing for the customer. I have worked at one place that did this, and slowly but surely, everything they did to improve "scalability" chased the customers away.

If you make me interact unnecessarily with a chat bot, I dislike your company more, instantly. If a competitor doesn't and you are largely interchangeable, I'm leaving. The fact that Gen AI cuts down your support costs by making support worse is a net negative to me, the customer.
It's plausible to me that cooling becomes exponentially harder as you aim for lower temperatures but I don't understand why you think you need lower temperatures for more qbits? The whole point of quantum error correction is that ones you reach a constant threshold you can use more iterations of error correction to decrease you logical error rate without decreasing your physical error rate.
I have zero respect for companies with such predatory behaviour. Not a knee jerk reaction, but threatening employees "diplomatically" with such draconian agreements and even sometimes non-competes should actually be grounds for mass resignation. I worked in a similar company and till date have traumatic memories from that era.

For this and many other reasons, I would never ever use a proprietary AI model in any of my AI projects. "People first" should be the guiding principle for developers.
i strongly suspect the demographic of C to be much greater than we would like to belive.

then again, misanthropy is likely the core sales pitch with digitization
Seriously asking: did those three go around to existing events and hijack them? e.g. Did they jump on stage and grab the microphones, or did they block traffic so nobody could get through? Or did they threaten people with violence for passing through having contrary opinions?

My understanding after reading "King" by Jonathan Eig (a fantastic biography btw, highly recommend to everyone) is that they didn't do that kind of stuff. They marched alongside traffic and were so non-violent that they allowed themselves to be hit with dogs and high-pressure water hoses without responding.

Rosa Parks especially was not like most "activists" today. She clamly and peacefully kept her seat on the bus. Maybe the former Google employee activists who refused to leave the conference room would be similar here, though there are of course differences.

I consider myself an activist, and I believe strongly that people need to help raise awareness because there is far too much ignorance and apathy out there, but I agree with GP and siblings that many of the activists today are harming their own cause by being obnoxious. Raising awareness in an empathetic way is the right way to do it, not trying to bully people into agreeing.
I'm not sure you're following. An attacker who controls BGP controls, for some small (or large) section of the Internet, the meaning of IP addresses. No DNS validation gets you around that.

LetsEncrypt does in fact do things to mitigate this attack, but they have nothing to do with DNSSEC: they do multi-perspective lookups, so you'd need Internet-wide routing control.
How can people possibly be surprised by this? It’s just another layer of obstacles between you and someone might be able to help and take action.

At the absolute best, it could be an alternative to sifting through poorly written help docs.
Ask HN: Which metrics are necessary to monitor backups?
I'm still new to backups for MySQL and PgSQL so i'd like to know such things

I do know about metrics like backup file size, backup delivery time but which do you think are necessary for backup collection processes and which ones just make your life easier?
People were likely angling for a discount.
Yup. I did this a few years back after getting frustrated with few responses. After doing just that they increased significantly. People will say it's not worth it, that it doesn't work in general or because "companies are updating their systems", but from my experience it totally is worth it and apparently a lot of places still aren't using solutions that vet this.

Worked particularly well with getting responses from gov applications lol
Fond memories of the Canadian capital being shut down for several weeks by trucks.
In the midst of layoffs, I've been putting together a database of deep tech companies that are still hiring across across design, engineering, operations & more.

The spreadsheet has hundreds of companies organized by industry, location, headcount, and other key metrics. Link is here: https://tally.so/r/nrlMVo
>But, sadly, it's not their anticapitalist 'eat the rich' agenda

> Following years of research, a team of biologists, government officials and marine industry representatives have released their findings

Nevertheless, the "rich" quickly mobilized with a full on multi-year research team alongside government officials, with decent funding to fix the problem. Out of all the current global and local problems, can't have expensive yachts damaged.
True but also if I weren’t drinking mate I would probably drink at least 2 more cups of coffee a day, so all in all I think it comes out as less daily caffeine consumption.
Some locales have experimented with property tax, but they haven't really expanded the program yet, and they usually exempt your first home. It isn't enough to fund municipal services, and cities are still screwed when it comes to income (the central government collects most of their VAT, they are expected to pay for a lot of services without a lot of income beyond taxes on property sales).
> Take, for example, the curious case of the lack of post cloning

The percentage of users that need this functionality is exceptionally low. If WordPress bundled every feature that some percentage of users could ever need, we'd have the opposite problem. The GUI would be an endless mishmash of features that most people don't need.

> There's a 99% chance that site is running WordPress and has dozens of plugins and got hacked at some point

I don't know about these statistics, but I take your point. Although I'm not so sure this is as big a problem in recent years. The WordPress team has made big improvements in improving the quality of the WordPress plugin repository.

The reality is that WordPress is a big target. Even if they included all the features from the top 1000 plugins (which would cause an uproar), there would still be a huge market for plugins and some of those plugins would have security vulnerabilities.
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that's a good question. for this use case, we have a custom models feature where the user can define an entity type (types) they're interested in and then a custom ner model is trained to identify the specified type. for this, a combination of llms and user input are used to generate training data for the ner model.
> Measure things. You really have no idea how slow you are unless you have data to compare against.

Can you share some examples?
Rental also enables economic and educational mobility, and provides (some) shelter against severe economic losses that are risks when you own property. For my own part, renting enabled me to move across the country as an 18 year old for a higher education. Even if "affordable" housing could have been owned at that point in my life, I had no idea if I was going to stay in that area or move. And it turns out I did move, quite a lot. I moved almost every 1-2 years, sometimes chasing lower rent, sometimes to move closer to a new job (allowing me to save money and time on commuting). Having to sell a house or even a condo every 1-2 years would have been a nightmare at best.

And that doesn't account for all the economic risk that comes from owning property. When I was renting there was no way I would have been able to afford the tens of thousands of dollars I've had to outlay as a homeowner for everything from water main replacements, roof replacements, plumbing repairs, mold remediation and remodels, HVAC repair / replacement, appliance replacement, tree removal etc. As a renter, all of that is mandated to be repaired by your landlord. Sure, it's possible (and even likely) that your rent will go up next renewal if your landlord is outlaying $20k+ for an emergency roof replacement, but the best part of renting is you can just leave and go somewhere else. Where as if you own property, even if you put the roof repair on credit so that you have a similar "rent" increase, you can't just up and leave if you can't afford the rent anymore. That debt stays with you, not the property, and it just got harder to sell if you used the property as collateral for the loan.

Oh and that changing rent payment, yeah my mortgage payment is 50% higher than when I started. No it's not an ARM, thats just the increase from property taxes and insurance (see aforementioned emergency roof replacement and tree removals). Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love owning my own home, and there have been times in the last handful of years that being in a stable location without needing to move or (mostly) worry about significant rent changes has helped me through some situations that would have sucked as a renter. But equally having been a home owner, I absolutely look back on my time as a renter and laugh at how naive I was to think that owning would have been a better deal for me. Renting enabled a degree of flexibility I no longer have. I don't necessarily need that flexibility as much as I did, but I also accept a commute that I previously would have considered moving to reduce.
alright buddy calm down
Honestly, this has massively changed with the introduction of ChatGPT. I've used an intercom (Fin) based support function on two separate occasions and they both got me the answer (and it was not in the knowledge base, it was clearly based on a previous support chat someone else had).
If you want to play videos at 32p…

High resolution images on the other hand is supported natively in many terminals (sixel protocol, iTerm 2 protocol, etc.).
Conspiracy theory (that I genuinely believe): Consumers don't know what they want, and in reality they would love RSS if it was allowed to blossom. But, RSS readers make the web unmonetizable, so they've been actively destroyed from every angle, in favor of the enshittified feeds the world is now addicted to. There are so many ways to quietly bury a certain technology if the market incentives are stong enough. You can't algorithmically manipulate and addict someone who just follows accounts chronologically without ads. So silicon valley market forces tend to discourage RSS. Google killed their RSS reader once they realized browser-based feed browsing generated way more adsense profits. Other readers get VC investment and mysteriously their free version becomes unusable garbage and adoption plateaus. Not every controlling interest in a VCs portfolio is benevolent. Facebook, twitter, etc all make it against their terms of service to "scrape" your own friends privately shared posts - you can only see them via the walled garden of ads. Apples app store fees would drop if consumers understood the utopia an RSS based web has the potential of being, instead of a dozen addictive apps. But it was too free. RSS derails trillion dollar roadmaps. The incentives are clear, and silicon valley knows it.
From a practical perspective, its easier to demand a US-based company to break non-US laws.
Many of the SEO suspicions were confirmed too.

I found it VERY amusing if you go to r/SEO just yesterday there were moderators and flaired users (you know, the elites of the SEO community, lol) insisting much of this was "debunked" years ago.

They of course deleted their posts, but the threads are still up. What a den of scammers over there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1d1eqjj/comment/l5tvfw...

https://www.reddit.com/user/WebLinkr/

I love how reddit is turning into the new SEO scam over night because of this stuff. Great work as always Danny Sullivan!
The only way its gonna be 20k and built in EU is if it's golfcart tier and has ton of subscriptions that suck another 20k in couple of years.
> Today, it might be black Vikings. Tomorrow, it might be something that cuts against progressive orthodoxies. If history holds, we'll get a congressional investigation into biases in AI tools any month now.

Over what? Black vikings and cutting remarks against progressive orthodoxies?

The author doth protest too much, methinks.
RT.com is banned from my work computer, while any other news website is not.
Being a sailor, I've been carefully paying attention to the Orca reports, they seem to like the modern sail boat fin rudders which have no skeg (vertical support attached to hull with hinged rudder behind) and is pretty easy to knock off the boat with little damage to the Orca. I heard about a boat with a skeg-hung rudder that stopped dead in the water in that area, but was able to continue on with a working rudder. When hauled out later, the hinge mount of the rudder had been twisted quite a bit off the skeg, so that Orca got a headache, and decided to move on.
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Came here from a google search with a similar sentiment..

I'm getting the strong impression that 4o is significantly weaker than 4, at least for dealing with coding snippets.
Kind of, but that's not inherent to the over reliance on memorization. I suspect using the top tier models from any of OAI, Anthropic, or Google would have resulted in much less embarrassing results, and I believe they're all primarily memorizers, not generalizers.

The search issue happened because Google had to use a really cheap model to power the search results, and a memorizing model that cheap is going to be highly constrained in capabilities (at least right now).
One guy in moscow and his minions and gpt instances, thats what i want censored and silenced.
What’s wrong with Kotlin?
Why would you bother typing "I don't know what an ATS is" into a Hacker News comment rather than typing "What is an ATS" into a Google search?
Not only that, it has better terms than a leveraged loan, since you can't get margin called! As long as you are making your mortgage payments you can't be foreclosed even if the value of the underlying property has plummeted.
All the turntables in my life as a kid had built-in calibration, in the form of four rows of repeating black/silver squares on the side of the wheel, a light flickering at the mains frequency, and a little dial to adjust the turning speed until the row of squares corresponding to your current combination of 50/60 hz DC and 33/45 RPM appeared to stop moving. It was a very clever trick.
I wonder that too. If you're only measure one part of the funnel (e.g. CS costs) and not the total funnel (e.g. losses due to poor CS quality like a customer dropping the project) then it's easy to conclude that making CS more painful is a win.
> They're not able to reason, but we can't succintly define what it is.

For transformer-based LLMs, and most LLMs there's an obvious class of problems that they cannot solve. LLMs generally perform bounded computation per token, so they cannot reason about computational problems that are more than linearly complex, for a sufficiently large input instance. If you have a back-and-forth (many shot) your LLM can possibly utilize the context as state to solve harder problems, up to the context window, of course.
It depends on the country. Familiarity with roundabouts would be a necessity in the UK. In parts of the world where roundabouts are only recent, there are many drivers who are too old to “learn new tricks”.

I’ve got older family members that have self-excluded from driving to the provincial capital because the roundabouts are overwhelming.
I don’t understand why it’s taking the “legacy” automakers so long to respond. This is basic Innovator’s Dilemma strategy - and yet none have a cheap EV yet?
my bet is that they count on progress with sodium batteries that could dramatically affect EV pricing
Actually this does sometimes work because some of the systems now have sentiment analysis baked in and can tell if the user is getting pissed off. I've used this a few times to get through as well.
> Google wants YouTube to be a place for cat videos and shitty listicals

Not sure what corner of Youtube the algorithm has been feeding your suggestions with, but I've found higher-quality educational content on Youtube in the last year than I've seen on TV in my entire life, and videos of that kind make up for the majority of my recommendations. (The rest are indeed cat videos, which I happen to also enjoy watching.)

Sure, there's also tons of content I don't care for at all, but I've so far found it pretty easy to just not watch that.
And those departments are basically owned and run by the party.