skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foreign investment requires either the property can be resold later for more, or let out for the duration. The former is a bubble that eventually collapses, the latter still has people living in those properties for whatever the market rates are.
By house to earnings ratio beating SF, it seems you mean it's easier to buy there than SF (Manchester 7.1 to SF 10.5 from first Google results). That seems expected as SF is known to be expensive.
This is bad advice that no one could possibly follow.

> Look at the current research, listen to people who devoted their careers to studying this, make up your own mind.

Do you honestly do this with every single belief you have? Even every single controversial belief? Have you looked, yourself, into whether the world is flat? Whether the 9/11 conspiracy theories are true? Whether crop circles were created by aliens? These are all absurd conspiracy theories, but I assume most people don't know the "up to date" research on any of them, or what people who have "devote their careers" to research them say.

And those are incredibly common and well known to be false theories.

You have to take some things on faith to at least some degree - though to be clear, by "on faith" I mean "on faith of people you trust", which should really start with professional scientists etc. Also, it's totally fine to just say "I have no actual idea" about most things, and just go with what your current understanding of the status-quo position is.
The immigrants also pay taxes from today though. And have their own purchasing power for the private market.

The issue is more NIMBY's preventing supply from meeting demand and local government not using the increased revenue effectively enough to provide sufficient infrastructure and services.
At the end of the day, the question is what do you do when things aren't working. Being resilient in the face of failure is the most important skill. If AI in 2032 never gets stuck anywhere ever, then that's a totally different world we'd living in. So assuming we don't, that's the underlying thing to pass on to your kids, regardless of the actual details. Just the other day I was vibe coding and the code had two fields for date and time instead of one timestamp field and it kept getting confused, but I had to go into the code and actually read it to figure out what went wrong. Low level programming is important for programmers because you have to dig deeper to find gold. The program isn't working like it's supposed to? look at the source. The library being called by that program isn't behaving like it's supposed to? look at the source. The binary doesn't match the source? stick it in a decompiler. At the end of the day, that's where the true value lies.
What would be the largest difference to Kurrent (former EventStore)?
Yeah exactly. People read way too much into this
I think Chinese people have already seen exactly that and are now "laying flat", see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping
I recently moved to London(been a few years) and love the city, but the cost of living is extremely high—whether it’s dining out, attending concerts, going to the theatre, or especially paying rent.

A large portion of my salary goes toward rent and utilities. Fortunately, I work in tech, but I often wonder how others even manage.

Workplace conversations revolve around how expensive everything is and sharing tips on saving money. It’s definitely a source of anxiety.
> Commercial Crew Program is fundamentally different than the way NASA has previously done business

It is exactly the same for SoaceX and Boeing, other than Boeing getting way more money for the same job.

Free-market capitalism is like the Easter bunny - a nice bedtime story for children.
It doesn’t exist.
I agree with you, but I don't think they're absolute fundamental drivers.

Low interest rates will drive prices up, but not to the point we have now where nice-sized family houses are divided into multiple small residences and it's still not enough. I haven't tried it, but I suspect if you game-theoried it out with a stable population and low interest rates there would be up-bidding, but everyone would still end up with a house.

With a relatively stable population you don't particularly need many new houses to be built (and not by councils in particular).
And then the government wants us to play by its rules. Sure /s
Women had 1.9 children on average in 2017: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42110846

More than 50% of women aged 30 were child-free in 2022: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/27/women-c...

Has reproduction increased a lot since then?

If we build houses everywhere where do we grow food? Where do we go to get some peace and quiet? We don't all want to live in a hell hole where the only chance of quiet is in a small sealed box.
I also reinstalled windows one too many times and used norton backup.

I am not clever enough to understand that I could just do it with linux by disk dumping into an image, but hey, old times
In the GDR there was this BASICODE record (German website, no https, a personal blog site):
http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2016/01/08/hard-bit-rock/

(German) Wikipedia article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE

I recorded to tape cassette GDR radio shows on VHF that broadcast code, usually for the GDR "KC 85" 8 bit computer line (U880 processor - Z80 clone).

Funny thing is, you could easily tell from the sounds if the code was assembler or BASIC. The latter was much more orderly and structured.

Problems occurred when someone nearby turned on an electrical device during that transmission, because it was audible and introduced too much of an error and the recording became unusable.
Alternatively and far more likely and simply one curbs migration.
Allowing housing prices to not be buffered up by the promise of eternal population growth and conversely creating less downward pressure on local birth rates.
As far as I can tell my local media and government are more corrupt than national / federal. All local newspapers, radio stations, and TV "news" are owned by a handful of entities.

Citizens who practice free speech are being disappeared to El Salvador.

If you organize resistance, you will be targeted by billionaires and their massive media networks.
As a great philosopher once said: "The grass is always greener, where the dogs are shitting."
The twin purposes of ToS are (1) to provide jobs for lawyers and (2) to screw the customers.

If the ToS were understandable, neither of those would be accomplished.
In a normal functioning market, foreign investment would mean more houses getting built.
I'm working on something similar. I'm building a MUD with an LLM playing the role of GM. Currently it just controls NPCs, but I eventually want it to be able to modify the game rules in real time. My end goal is a world that hundreds of players can play in simultaneously, but has the freedom and flexibility of a TTRPG (while still remaining balanced and fair).
The unemployment rate is relatively low at 4.4%. The pernicious gig economy may certainly be driving low wages, but the government is starting to clamp down on that.

Housing is arguably expensive because it is being treated as an investment opportunity. I remember when the 2012 Olympic Villiage flats were put up for sale. Many locals were excited at the prospect. In the end most were snapped-up by firms buying 10s or hundreds of them
Obviously it's a multi-facade problem, but the other commenter was closer to the truth imo.

There is no natural population growth in the UK anymore. We have below replacement rate birth rates. Immigration is the only net driver of population growth today and immigration is currently growing the population at around 2% annually. We saw similar problems with housing affordability in Canada after their mass-migration experiment. It honestly surprises me that there are still people who deny that mass-immigration policy without a comparable mass-home-building policy would increase house prices. The UK would need to build something like 500,000 homes a year just to keep up with the current rate of immigration. This isn't feasible in any near-term time frame. As it stands, if you want mass-immigration to continue you must accept increased home unaffordability.

Obviously you can offset the impact of immigration by building more houses, and the UK should build more houses, but to say that you would need a sterilisation policy to fix is obviously wrong – you just need to slow the flow immigration and the growth of the population to levels which match the rate at which the UK can build homes and new infrastructure.

The bidding up of property prices in the UK is also an issue and the parent commenter is right to raise it. It's not just dual-income families responsible there though, but also wealthy, foreign and corporate buyers. In the UK property is seen more as an investment than somewhere to live. So here it's quite common for people to buy and hold property simply for the return. Often properties in the UK are brought by foreign investors and left unoccupied. We've tried to make changes to stop this in recent years, but it's a problem.
Discussed here (well, a bit): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43519100
Networked bytes generally don't matter, networked packets do. Would your proposed change move the needle on that?
Your third option sounds suspiciously similar to golden-age DARPA, which had been created in response to the launch of Sputnik in 1957?
Ask HN: Watch ads to broadcast them, I want your opinion on this system
I once thought of a platform where people have to watch other people's ads to accumulate virtual credits and be able to post their own ads. This is theoretically a system that could work; it would allow freelancers and enthusiasts to promote their projects for free. I would like your opinion on this system and to develop the idea further.
I love the niche of enthusiasm that exists for the Windows 95 UI. It's not an original point that aside from nostalgia it's a really clear and usable design; but that leads me to wonder, are there any modern UIs/themes/etc that are inspired by (rather than necessarily directly mimicking) Windows 95?

Would be interesting to see what a modern version of Windows 95 would look like, or what general design lessons can be learned from it's niceties.
Some sites, like Facebook and YouTube are listed as being able to see your browser history. It doesn’t seem to be related to tracking scripts, so how exactly does that work?
> When a citizen is born, they don’t need their own place to live until they’re 18-20 years old.

Only if you put their bed in the cupboard under the staircase; normally they do need their own bedroom — even if a couple can squeeze into a one-bed flat, they can't really raise a family there, and need to get a bigger place when they do start one.
Works great until the government can un-citizen you, I'm sure.
A question to security experts reading this thread:

What is your opinion on deploying C++ codebases with mitigations like CFI and bounds checking?
Let's say I have a large C++ codebase which I am unwilling to rewrite in Rust. But I:

* Enable STL bounds checking using appropriate flags (like `-DGLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS`).

* Enable mitigations like CFI and shadow stacks.

How much less safe is "C++ w/ mitigations" than Rust? How much of the "70% CVE" statistic is relevant to such a C++ codebase?

(I've asked this in an earlier thread and also in other forums, but I never really got a response that does not boil down to "only Rust is safe, suck it up!". It also doesn't help that every other thread about C++ is about its memory unsafety...)
Extrapolation from what he knows about history.

Things looked very bleak right after the French revolution for example.

We see our history as a dot, because we live in it.

But people in the future will take a more long-term view and might say: oh this was a difficult phase in history.
It's the average cooldude marketing of self-proclaimed "India 1", denigrating their own people and can't think outside of labeling others as something else.

These people are extremely snobbish in person when you go past their sweet talks, who don't understand much about people. I hated the "real" interactions and went back to being an IC in big tech.

Part of it is because they don't understand them, part of it is because they "understand" via someone else who told them stuff (like a redditor assuming everything on r/india is true), part of it is their own contempt of culture due to previous reasons ("ah these people are beyond any repair!"). Basically, ignorance in elites.
> The new government has said they want to sort out the NIMBY stuff and get Britain building again, let's hope they do.

There's decades of underbuilding to make up for, and the current government's house building targets are modest. I don't think we're going to see price inflation slow in this Parliament, or the next.
Fair's fair. "Ok GPT" seems like a shitty dunk, is all. Real low-effort, and on people trying to think for themselves no less (who are thus providing the tastiest food for any scrapers! priorities!)
Minor quibble but wouldn’t it be a subset?
> Theres a couple million works of poetry sold every year.

Really? This sounds like a huge exaggeration to me, but I know next to nothing about poetry. Just compared to how many books are sold this seems ridiculosly high.
In hindsight, naming my cat Newton may have been a bad idea.
Where do you think all that money went? Pretending the top 20% are "the middle class" is part of the problem. Just because you don't have a private jet doesn't mean you aren't one of the rich ones.
Opposing views are a primary tool in building deeper understanding of any topic – as long as those views have some honest meat on the bone. It's worrisome to notice true neutrality is so rare these days both on the internet and in funding.
Looks interesting. It would be nice to see something like this for all the communication methods in Beeper unified together. That way all communication is covered rather then just 1 app of many.
It could have, but for stuff you only do once per session that seems excessive. Better to have names that need no explanation, especially for stuff that I think is completely optional.
We're essentially continuing to ship faulty software while hoping that tooling will protect us from the worst consequences.

Yet one way to measure how effective these mitigations and countermeasures are working is looking at the cost of the zero day market. The trend continues to going upwards in the stupidly expensive realm due to needing multiple chains and such to attack software. However, I'm not discounting software now developed in memory safe language doesn't already contribute to this.

Here is one of the references indicating this in the article: https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/06/price-of-zero-day-exploits...
In my view prime examples for Multimedia would be 3D models to explore the human body, with ability to show/hide organs etc. on 2D representations some of the aspects are hard to grasp.

But such a thing has major technical complications and somehow falls out of the "Wiki" idea where anybody can edit and improve ...
The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden
Some computer magazines included a 7 inch "flexi" record with software on.
i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc#/media/File:FloppyR...
Didn't realise how up their arses he was ... thanks.
Yeah I don't get that statement at all. How can a professor not just post their slides on their website? What exactly is so special about their slides?

I come from physics, but basically at the undergraduate level above introductory courses most of the professors simply wanted to talk about physics with students. They didn't even want to lecture they wanted to have a conversation. I think this is what is missing here. Building personal relationships with students based on the interest in the material. The author fails at this because they won't even share power point slides and think they are an arbiter of knowledge that the student must write down as notes.

in fact, this is why I currently want to find opportunities for teaching in addition to my current role as a research scientist. I miss discussing fundamental topics with people who are building an understanding and not already experts on some topic.
The US has always been very divided on who is considered a US citizen.

Atheists, black people, Hawaiians, Germans, Japanese- all of them have found themselves in court.
The why is because we can, but damn am I finding the tools being built with, or having tacked on, AI depressing. Is this a small glimpse of the future we're building for ourselves? Communication is valuable because thought and effort went into it, lowering the bar on producing content doesn't mean more choice, it means lower quality. Already I see a reaction against this amongst some peers when they find out something they were asked to review was AI generated, why should they put effort in if the other person didn't.
Where do disruptive ideas come from?
In Italy, many of these invoicing challenges have already been tackled through a nationwide standardized system.

Every invoice—whether B2B or even B2C (receipts included)—must be sent electronically using a government-defined XML format. This invoice includes predefined metadata and is digitally signed by the issuing party. Once ready, it gets submitted to the national tax agency’s centralized system, called the Sistema di Interscambio (SdI), which validates and registers it before forwarding it to the recipient.

This system essentially acts as a clearinghouse: it ensures all invoices go through the same format, are verifiably issued, and are automatically recorded on both ends. For consumers (B2C), the invoice still goes through the same pipeline and is made available in their personal portal on the IRS website, while the seller can still email a copy (PDF) for convenience.

This centralized and machine-readable approach has eliminated a lot of the fragmentation seen elsewhere. There’s no vendor lock-in, no OCR, and no AI needed to parse PDFs—just a signed XML file going through a common pipeline. It’s not perfect, but it shows how much smoother things can be when the rules (and formats) are defined at the infrastructure level.
Surely you mean C:\Documents and Settings\afidel\Desktop

Or maybe it's not actually a real problem for users if these paths change.
People in India might know them as the "VR" in the PVR chain of cinemas in some cities across India.
Cool work, but I'm more fascinated by your claim "99% of your life is stored in WhatsApp...".

Not even remotely true for me even if it would encompass all messaging apps I use. I guess I'm just an old introvert, but it makes me wonder how life looks like for those for whom it is true.
Despite people always complaining about their perceived inefficiencies, standard protocols like IMAP or XMPP always seem to work on a crappy connection, when most of the modern web doesn't.
It's true, but they're victims of mass manipulation by omnipresent media. They subject themselves to it, but it's hardly by choice when there are thousands of people spending trillions of dollars and millions of working hours to indoctrinate them.
Building houses is never going to have a significant impact on food growth in the UK.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/land-use-in-england...
Probably wrong context, but the more code I wrote, more I like the these `Has`+Noun style naming than just Noun. Reading `HasChildren` will give you a clearer expectation of what the function would do and return, while `Parent` gives far weaker indication.

Maybe they thought the same when they were designing the protocol.

Also, in the context of email, given the size of each mail (including headers and body), these bytes "waste" maybe insignificant.
If you can't afford this book yet, Prof Weiss has multiple courses listed with his course notes, which are EXTREMELY detailed and well written: https://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~sweiss/courses.php
Or could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camouflage_(Chris_Sievey_song). Or probably other things too.

Edit: There is a (small) wikipedia category for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Vinyl_data
The format of Paged Out! – the 1 page limit, the custom layout, are done on purpose. They have their downsides of course – exactly as you have pointed out. It has to be recognized, that so do the no-page limit / strict layout publications (and I am writing this as someone who has been cooperating with several technical magazines as both a reviewer/editor and an author over the last 15 years).

In a typical magazine authors feel the pressure to write long articles about everything, and they don't feel comfortable posting short notes on cute tricks. So Paged Out! is basically meant to fall into this 1-page niche where short notes on cute tricks can find a happy home.

Is this 1-page format limiting? Yes, it is. Can you write everything in this format? No, you can't. And that's OK.

We're not trying to be PoC || GTFO or Phrack (both of which are wonderful btw and I'm a huge fan of both; there's a lot of love flowing in the zine community btw - see e.g. DNS TXT records for pagedout.phrack.org and phrack.pagedout.institute). We just found our own niche of short articles to occupy.

As for the layout chaos – I understand what you mean. At the same time, this is another niche which I put PO! in on purpose. I sometimes joke that PO! is a therapy for me after having to squeeze my idea into the exact layout a publisher wants, or after reviewing too many waaay too long articles for another magazine.

This is to say: I recognize your points and I believe you are right. At the same time I'm pretty happy with this little flawed niche I found and put PO! in.

Two more links about these two points:
https://pagedout.institute/?page=faq.php#why-one-page
& https://pagedout.institute/?page=faq.php#layout
Nonsense. London was the city ranked third in 2024 for the number of international visitors. There is plenty to see and do besides work.
Occasionally magazines in the UK would come with cover flexidiscs. They were similar to 7" records, but very much one (maybe two or three) "plays" only, so your first job was to copy the flexidisc to cassette tape.

Your Computer certainly had a few of these in the early 1980s.

One example is documented here: https://magazinesfromthepast.fandom.com/wiki/Your_Computer_V... By the way, you have no idea how exciting and space-age that cover looked in 1982.
Even if most devices receive data wirelessly these days, the transfer to its last wireless transmitter will be almost entirely wired. Mobile masts are wired, wireless routers are wired, and so on. That being said, consumer devices are but a part of the much larger group of digital devices connected to the internet in some fashion, and a lot of them remains wired to the internet. "Virtually all software" being downloaded wirelessly feels like a big claim.

And this is not entirely an exercise in pedantry and semantics, since traditional radios were not wired, they weren't the "last transmitter" in a long chain, but were rather often _the_ transmitter. The data for download had to be physically moved _to_ the radio station. (I believe wireless extenders for radio exists, and maybe even some wired for larger coverage, but my understanding is radio still remains exceedingly local, and national stations are largely transmitted via the internet first.)

Though a quick aside; it's funny that you refer to wireless as radio, when in radio's infancy, it was most commonly referred to as "wireless" (e.g. "on the wireless").