skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All you need to do is look at total housing units vs total families to see that…

… homebuilding outpaces growth of "family units"!

In the UK you can track ONS census data back in decades and +1m families, +1.1m households. In the US 2011-21, it's +5m families, +10m homes. Bigger surpluses wouldn't hurt —and I would happily believe there are markets where this isn't true— but this idea of market drought causing inflated prices is too simplistic.

What has changed is that banks have leant far more aggressively in the past 30 years. If they hadn't, homes in high demand areas would be demanded by relatively fewer people, prices wouldn't be so buoyant.
By "viable" I meant the price point a market bear. There's your SAD.

Another change is the proportion of owner-occupied: absolute number in the UK has stayed relatively static, while the number of private landlords has exploded. Two thirds of those privately let properties are on mortgages that again, are a financial product that has been far more aggressively stretched in the past 30 years.

High ratio mortgages have lifted this. They allow us to afford more, so the market can charge more at the same level of demand. That means we all have bigger mortgages, the banks make far more in repayments.

It's a long game and banks have won. We even bailed them out when it bit them in the arse. What's worse is they lie about the reasons in order to build more, lend more with this idea that it will magically become more affordable. No amount of building can ever be allowed to depress these prices because our institutions depend on a constant rise.

I don't have a solution. Creative sale restrictions for newbuilds (eg everlasting price capping, return to state, etc) might be the only way to have a lasting affordable housing stock but as things are, we're only a major financial crash away from the banks being able to take 20% of all mortgaged properties when people can't keep up with repayments, and one more after that to take another 20%. That's where we're heading.
The C programming language was a successor of other programming languages, too. Not a completely new entity, the first programming language of the world.

Innovations that aren't on the frontier of knowledge, but have great potential for mass deployment, are precisely those that tend to have the biggest impact on humanity as such.
I never booked Ryanair because of that reason
Did the person survive?
Huh, that's just a (poor) homebrew thing, however there's many decent homebrew shops that sell malt, nitrogen flushed hops etc. For example - https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk

Additionally the UK also makes very high quality malt including malt made from heritage grains and floor malted, which I've had in IPA form.

There are many decent IPAs available in the UK, such as American style ones comparable to beers such Heady Topper etc. Or more traditional ones such as made by Fullers etc.

Check out breweries such as Thornbridge / Verdant / Polly's / Cloudwater / Siren / DEYA etc.

Very curious as to what IPAs you've had.
<< You should stop trying to predict the next crash.

Hmm? No. I will attempt to secure my own financial interest.

<< According to the study, most people (including institutional investors) consistently believe there is a >10% chance the market will crash in the next 6 months when historically the probability is only 1%

Historically is doing a fair amount of work here. I would argue there is little historical value to the data we face. Over the past few decades we went through through several mini revolutions ( industrial, information and whatever they end up calling now ) in terms of how we work, eat, communicate and, well, live.

All of these have upended how humans interact with the world effectively changing the calculus on the data that preceding it if not nullifying it altogether in some ways.

Your argument is to stop worrying since you are likely wrong anyway, by a factor of 10. I am saying is 1935 people also thought they have time to ride the wave.

edit: ok, need coffee. too many edits
Surely there are more than one anti-virus that can check the audit box?
Don't forget the cereals!
Aims and Scope – Arnold Mathematical Journal
Thank you for sharing, it really does a good job (real progress tracking) that my solution doesn't cover, maybe it will be more suitable for someone.
I'll try to use it myself too :thumbs-up:
Again, "should be" academic stuff.

So you have multiple AV products and you target those groups. You have those groups isolated on their own networks, right? With all the overhead that comes with strict firewall rules and transmission policies between various services on each one. With redundant services on each network... you've doubled or tripled your network device costs solely to isolate for anti virus software. So if only one thing finds the zero day network based virus, it won't propagate to the other networks that haven't been patched against this zero day thing.

How far down the rabbit hole do we want to go? If you assume many companies are doing this kind of thing, or even a double digit percentage of companies, I have bad news for you.
I always thought this was pretty kitsch but it's cool that he made it public domain.
I'm no Ryanair fanboy but they do have the best tech, no denying. Everything just works. EasyJet website/tech seems stuck in the year 2005
Wait till you see what happened to Dick Smith.

https://www.dicksmith.com.au/da/shop/?q=shoes

It's just a Kogan skin. As is Matt Blatt, formerly furniture. Really weird.
Tip: Decline when they first prompt you about choosing luggage options. They will ask again later in the booking flow, and it will be cheaper. I only ever book cabin luggage with Ryanair and it worked every single time so far.
> Now, with that perspective, how do you expect a rational person to behave?

What is a business to do, maximize business or manager contentment ?
Why on earth Cloudflare scripts are running on a webpage made by a little girl?

We fucked up bad. Real bad. As software engineers, we have produced nothing but garbage in the last two decades.
This. I can see such an update shipping out for a few users. I mean I've shipped app updates that failed spectacularly in production due to a silly oversight (specifically: broken on a specific Android version), but those were all caught before shipping the app out to literally everybody around the world at the same time.
So what are going to be the consequences of this? In my country some healthcare institutions and emergency systems are working.
Just reversed the downvote that was on yr comment because I interpreted it as not so much as saying the Bible story is what literally happened but that biogenesis feels very unlikely (even over billions of years). I feel similarly and my personal belief is that life has always existed and that it's fundamental to the universe.
As I understand, this only manifests after a reboot and if the 'content update' is tested at all it is probably in a VM that just gets thrown away after the test and is never rebooted.

Also, this makes me think:

How hard would it be to craft a malware that has the same signature as an important system file?

Preferably one that doesn't cause immediate havoc when quarantined, just a BSOD after reboot, so it slips through QA.

I don't believe this is what's happened, but I think it is an interesting threat.
Don’t you need more options if the key is in a TPM, or there is a password but it’s only part of the key?

Can you even get the secret from the TPM in recovery mode?
Sure, I forgot about those. Those are homebrew kits, nothing to do with the IPA you buy at a pub or bar. You can't make a sweeping statement about IPAs based on those.
Thanks for the comment!

We are working through what exactly that will look like at the moment.

First thing we think we want to add is comments to tracks.

Following this I want artists to meet other artists and to start sharing their fan base. Some kind of ‘connect’ feature that allows artists to chat and shows they support each other. Also if an artist shares a track they get mentioned on the home feed in some way.

Finally we want to add a full forum type thing like indie hackers as well as a blog for artist tips and advice.

Little by little for now though!
"All over the place I'm seeing checkbox compliance being prioritised above actual real risks from how the compliance is implemented."

Great statement and one that needs to be seriously considered - would DORA regulation in the EU address this I wonder? Its a monster piece of tech legislation that SHOULD target this but WILL it - someone should use todays disaster and apply it to the regs to see if its fit for purpose.
Moreover no manager gets dinged for "internet-wide" outages unfortunately, so the compliance department keeps calling the shots. The amount of times I've had to explain there's no added security in adding an "antivirus" to our linux servers as we already have proper monitoring at eBPF level is annoying.
I guess all the blamed EuroCommission will again have to do their job to bring anti-oligo/monopoly regulations, which everyone will hate but still slightly work.

Architecting technical systems is MUCH WAY easier than architecting social-economical systems. I hope one day all those tech-savvy web3 wannabe revolutionaries will start to do the real job a designing socially working systems, not only technically barely working cryptographically strong hamster-tapping scams
> It says that whatever else you implement in terms of security you must implement a bypass that can be activated by routinely non-authorised staff to access health information if someone's life is in danger.

Huh.

I can see why this needs to exist, but hadn't thought of it before. Same deal as cryptography and law-enforcement backdoors.

> logged and reviewed after use

I was going to ask how this has protection from mis-use.

Seems good to me… but then I don't, not really, not deeply, not properly, feel medical privacy. To me, violation of that privacy is clearly rude, but how the bar raises from "rude" to "illegal" is a perceptual gap where, although I see the importance to others, I don't really feel it myself.

So it seems good enough to me, but am I right or is this an imagination failure on my part? Is that actually good enough?

I don't think cryptography in general can use that, unfortunately. A simple review process can be too slow for the damage in other cases.
You save nothing. There's a manager who needs to show more people switching to online accounts and they want to achieve it by brute force.
nix-shell -p calibre

I'm not sure what the container is for...
Why the difference between servers and desktops ?
Why this isn’t criminal,with the companies engaging in it prosecuted for fraud, I don’t understand.
This is only true in those parts of Eastern Europe were "vodka" retained its (old) colloquial use from Polish. So... Poland and maybe some parts of Ukraine, Slovakia etc.. If there are parts of Moldova where these drinks would be called "vodka", I haven't been to them yet :-).

The local generic term for an alcoholic drink is different, but "vodka" is specifically used only for things that say "vodka" on the label pretty much everywhere between the Tatra Mountains and the Mediterranean.
Last time I dealt with HP, I had to use their fakeraid proprietary kernel module which "tainted" the kernel. Of course they never open-sourced it. I guess it's not necessary.
I would imagine that their best weapon is that so many other big organizations are using CS, so choosing CS gives the decision maker the best shield from responsibilities, similar to "nobody gets fire by choosing IBM".

Of course, how they started from small was completely different.
Outage resulted from a "security update".
It is perhaps more useful to consider “fake urgency” as defined here: https://www.deceptive.design/types/fake-urgency
Hmmm, you woke up a lot of former Soviet Bloc demons there.

Moldova isn't Russia, but has a sizeable Russian-speaking minority concentrated in a generally non-recognized separatist state of Transnistria. This minority is mostly Putin-oriented and despises the West and anything Western-related.

Until/unless Russian imperial intents are defeated or collapse on their own, the risk of Russia reabsorbing parts or whole of Moldova stays real, though mostly contingent on defeating and reabsorbing Ukraine first.
> Only if you don't need a GUI/Desktop.

I not only need a GUI/Desktop, it's my daily driver!

And there are precious few things that Windows GUI/Desktop provides which I don't have on Linux, while the reverse is never true.

When I used Mac (Big Sur, I think?) until a year ago, I was absolutely miserable about having to use such a primitive GUI.
This is wrong, there are many facilities that, once applied, cannot be modified (unless reboot)
The problem is that some viruses may run in the kernel mode, so an AV has to do the same, or it will be powerless against such viruses.
> Tested by Microsoft

MS don't have testers any more.
Where do you think CS learned their radically effective test-in-prod approach?
> When every company goes down you get let off.

And when only companies who use a certain OS and/or Cloud vendor go down? ;-)
Do you also get let off?
There will be no Crowdstrike left after this. I am just upset I cant short it…
I’ve long felt that “dark pattern” isn’t the right term. It obscures the intent behind purposeful decisions made by real humans, by describing a malicious action as an abstract outcome.

The use of urgency here is absolutely a manipulative pattern designed to influence user behaviour for the benefit of the manipulator.
seek, yes. find, is a hard problem
There are plenty of monochromatic cases. Right now hw has a lot of orange.

Dynamic resolution / subpixel rendering. Retina looks really good already, not sure if the effect would be relevant or interesting but it might open up something new
It's an interface to the ring 0 kernel module. Everything is a remote shell if it can talk to ring 0.
Specifically, if the file is corrupted, in what way is it corrupt? I’m fascinated by how this issue occurred.
Unless he broke any laws explicitly I don't see a problem. Dating in Russia is not forbidden.
State of React: dying a slow death
I believe so but would like better details. We used to use another provider that depended on exact kernel versions whereas the falcon-sensor seems quite happy with kernel updates.
The south of Italy still has leftovers of Arabic cultural influence from the Arab occupation in the VIII century. That lasted about 300 years but we're talking about a millenium ago, so it's perfectly reasonable to consider Moldova as culturally influenced by Russia, even if just for the geographical proximity.
This is such an exaggeration. I fly with them, wizzair, easyjet etc. at least once a year each and I never have issues - I just press skip on every page that upsells me, same as I do on any other site including Amazon.
It’s odd that a country synonymous to minimalism loves complex websites.
Broken regulations? Fix by adding more!
> What is a business to do, maximize business or manager contentment ?

A "business" is still just a collection of people. Each person is going to take actions that are in their best interests.

What I'm saying is that the business's interests are not aligned with the people comprising that business.

In that regard, what "the business" wants is irrelevant.
It would require dismantling, or at least scaling down, fintech, because that's where many smart people end up - the ones who would have been inventing Cool New Stuff if they hadn't been co-opted into working as quants.

There have been at least two lost generations of fundamental research because of this.
Then when you try to cancel they play word games to say you want to "lose your benefits" not cancel, etc.
"Series of tubes" smarts
> we'll all end up eating food that it is just nutritious enough to keep us from starving

That's not a problem with "big food" - the food is far too nutritious and abundant. Sugary cereals for children and big macs can't be described at "just keeping us from starving".

We want restricted (but complete) nutrition that is just enough to keep us from starving, so that we maintain our size and don't end up with an energy abundance that causes processes like fat storage and inflammation to run wild.

Even outside "big food", the virtue of trying to maximize "tasty" means that our home cooking is also driven by food addiction - "big food"'s laser focus on this makes them much more effective in making addictive foods at the lowest cost, in turn making the healthier options seem "bland".

Our bodies and food reward systems are not geared for this abundance of concentrated nutrition.

It's only "good" if the tastier versions of food don't come with even more nutrition that we cannot handle. Carrots in their natural form are for example not at all as large, sweet and nutritious as the orange things we have now. They were bitter and bland.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78768073/your-device-ran...
Everyone Wants to Control the Internet
EU tech regulation actually addressing an issue effectively? I wouldn't hold my breath, but there is a first time for everything.
it's about the difference between "was" and "is". Sure, a bunch of states were formally parts of the Russian Empire as well as the USSR. That doesn't mean you can reduce them to "it's just Russia", those lands and peoples had history prior to being invaded and some have been lucky to have had some independence since the fall of the USSR. Considering that there are people out there literally fighting to the death not to be a part of the next russian imperial project i'd politely ask you to be a bit more sensitive about the whole thing.
Over 670 US flights canceled as global IT outage prompts ground stop
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Is it believed to be an attack? I only saw mention of a bug so far.
It's possible that CrowdStrike heavily incentivises being left to update itself.

Removing the features that would allow sysadmins to actually do it automatically, even via the installer itself- would definitely be one way, but another one could be aggressive focus-stealing nags (similar to Windows' own nags) which in a server environment can actually cause some major issues, especially when automating processes in Windows (as you need to close the program when updating).

I think it's easy to blame the sysadmins, but I would also be remiss if I didn't point out that in the Windows world we have been slowly accepting these automatic dark patterns and alternative (more controlled) mechanisms have been removed over time.

I almost don't recognise the deployment environment today as to what it was in 2004; and yes, 20 years is a long time, but the total loss of control over what a computer is doing is only going to make issues like this significantly more common.
Flying Ryanair definitely requires advanced preparations. That said, their traps are predictable and don't change much year-to-year. If you are aware of them and can prepare yourself, you can get really great bargains when flying around Europe.
The companies I had the displeasure of dealing with were basically run by mindless people with a shell script.
Are there any examples of white hat hackers or similar fighting against stuff like this?
Too much cyber harm is done to benign businesses and people already, so I wonder if there's ever some "for a good cause".
Consider the number of people whose dating profiles say that they've been to X countries by the age of 20-something.
Yep, easy way for that to be true is to just drive through them.
Clowns are taking over reality, on many levels.
And they will tell you that you are the clown.
Welcome to clown world.
Hm, is there any website that explains why C-00000291*.sys caused the widespread BSODs? For example, was it some kind of definition file that was accessing invalid memory locations?
Bad URL. Actual /r/crowdstrike status post here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_e...
I'm reading this as first third of computers have AV brand A, second third have brand B, remainder have brand C.

Thus, if brand A does something actively harmful all by itself, only 1/3rd of machines are impacted.

This is an improvement on having only 2 brands, as having 1/3rd of your machines go down is better than having 1/2 of your machines go down.
They've done it to a degree but only for graphics drivers, Windows is (AFAIK) unique amongst the major OSes in that it can nearly always recover from a GPU driver or hardware crash without having to reboot. It makes sense that they would focus on that since graphics drivers are by far the most complex ones on most systems and there are only 3 vendors to coordinate API changes with, but it would be nice if they broadened it to other drivers over time.
> endpoint protection

That's a polite way to say malware
It passed all unit tests!
Other than Haskell, OSes in memory safe languagess whose System C# and Bartok features starting arring in .NET Native and .NET Core, Haskell contributions, plenty of Cloud stuff on Azure, Azure Sphere with Pluton, a LLVM like compiler stack using MSIL, contributions to OpenJDK JIT, Q# and Quantum stuff, ...
Electricity too is a SPOF.
Not this time. Use paper, pen, and a non-electronic cash box.
Ryanair is the world's safest airline and revolutionised travel within the EU.

The majority of complaints are always like yours, not following the instructions and expecting flag carrier service from a discount airline.
“We’ve encountered a small single issue in which.. cough we’ve crashed all the computers in the world…”
Falcon has a feature called "Real Time Response". The sensor is in contact with a server with which it exchanges events serialized in protobuf.

One of the event you can get from the Crowdstrike server runs an arbitrary shell command.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/tech-hub/endpoint-security/the-p...
It's a crowdstrike update file with a bug in it, from what I gather. This makes your Windows machine go blue screen and stop working as it starts up. If you manage to remove it by various methods, it doesn't run and you're fine.

More informed people will give you more details, but this kind of AV software often has privileged access to the OS, so it can scan your files. The same privileged access also means it can really mess things up if it's not well tested.

By contrast your ordinary python or VBA script should not be able to blue screen your machine, especially not during startup.
Speaking from a purely customer perspective (I'm not a business person or startup founder), the big things that are missing from the landing page and/or signup flow are:

- Pricing. I don't know what this is going to cost me. It does not say if I'm entering a trial period or if it's free.

- Privacy policy. Who are you and what will you do with my data?

Also, I suppose this is a target market thing, but I've never heard of LINE so having it mentioned does not make me more interested. I guess it will work where that app is popular, though.
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I'd be fired if I caused enough loss in revenue to pay my own salary for a year.

I am responsible for my choices. I'm CTO, I don't doubt that in some cases execs cover for each other, but at least I have anecdotal experience of what it would take for me to be fired- and this is clearly communicated to me.
But then again, walking through Tokyo is like looking at these.
This is why I have started booking flights for my less tech savvy parents. Theyre terrified of the dark patterns.

As I understand it American medical care is quite similar.

Late stage capitalism isnt much fun. Far too many forms.
When you see the size if the impact across the world, the number of people who will die because hospital, emergency and logistics systems are down…

You don’t need conventional war any more. State actors can just focus on targeting widely deployed “security systems” that will bring down whole economies and bring as much death and financial damage as a missile, while denying any involvement…
Just kernel drivers. To know what is inside, you can disassemble them with https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra