skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That aspect is not coming back in any way for the generation growing up on the current internet, unless they go deep into techie circles to 'frontier' places like certain corners of the fediverse or matrix, the only internet they'll know is the heavily sanitized corporate-run advertiser friendly side where everyone's walking on eggshells because a power-tripping moderator or AI has complete power over you.

Is this true? Maybe you just don't know the right places anymore. Im sure there's all kinds of crazy, basically unmoderated shit going down in discord or roblox or vrchat.
That's all great.

And nobody's saying don't pay realtors for their work.

They're saying, certainly don't pay them 6%, and preferably not a percentage at all. Just pay them like a contractor or anyone else you hire -- either a flat fee or by the hour, depending on the exact services.
The next batch of YC startups named things like “Turnkey” and “Realify” will do it for $499
Hah, thanks for noticing.

The challenge I think is that for any individual the power/information dynamic is vastly against them.

Taken to an extreme, one just ends up poor and ostracized (best case!) and made no difference at all.

Any individual in Russia trying to stop the machine that attacked Ukraine would have accomplished nothing but their own destruction. If all the folks against it had taken action, it would have been stopped.

Which is why coordination to do that was, has been, and will continue to be, illegal and targeted by extensive gov’t security apparatus’s.

Not to say Meta is the Russian gov’t, but rather that for any potential employee, their incentive is always to get paid the most and go with the flow, and hope nothing too bad happens.

Taking idealogical stances can be high risk, low reward.
Reversible hydro is actually pretty possible in much of the world, particularly the US, because all you need is something bowl-shaped at a high elevation. Pumped hydro for the most part needs storage measured in hours or days, and something like the size of Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam is overkill.

It's also more advantageous than regular hydro, because it does not need to be in the path of flowing water, so you avoid issues with silting up, lack of suitable locations, it's much less environmentally destructive, etc.
That's a depressing viewpoint.

The text chat version of Omegle could have easily been hosted on a single server with some kind of automated spam protection. Donations could have more than covered the costs to run it. The positive value it added to millions of lives far outweighs the negative.
Title insurance is a real thing, but it is wildly overpriced for the actual risk.
I’m pretty confident that payouts from title insurance don’t even reach 10% of the premiums collected. That’s my definition of a scam.
Being shy doesn't mean you are silent. It means you have to use energy and courage to break that silence.

So while most people would say someone who doesn't dare to talk is shy, it is totally possible to still be shy and be the life of the party.

As an introvert who has zero stage fright and good talking skills: I am still an introvert. Being around people costs me energy, while for extroverts not being around people costs them energy. I would not be perceived as an introvert by most.
The multiple outages shortly after their new features went live might undermine my confidence in their infrastructure scaling/planning/provisioning.

But not the features themselves, not so much.
I did not realize contact meant phone call. It could be as simple as leaving your business card or sending them mail.
I had that same feeling with the AOL chatrooms of the early 00s and to a lesser extent forums around that time and after.

So if nothing else the sentiment is very real.
Any one experiencing the problem?
This is very true. A home I purchased recently, the sellers had a very new realtor, who was friends with them. She had listed the commissions very low - probably thinking she was doing them a service.

I purchased the home without a realtor, and one of the ways I had a much stronger position was because no one else was being shown the property. (As in, realtors weren’t mentioning it to their clients).

I had a friend of mine who is known locally in the area as one of the best realtors look at the mls and listing, and that was the take I got from him.
You're very lucky, even if it probably didn't feel like you were lucky at the time. If it had grabbed your clothing you might not have survived.
Looks like an obvious move to inhibit the free enterprise of those that are not already more financially well-set than average.

Otherwise if you go without zoning for the long term you could end up with a place like Houston where lots more average people can pursue lots more opportunities of many more different kinds, compared to equivalent-sized towns which had misguided anti-growth policies.
Don't be lazy - if renters offered a few grand to their landlord then they could; plus the cost of construction materials, inspection and labor.

The problem is that it's prohibitively expensive compared to just eating the cost of any thefts, keeping an eye on pickup times so you (or a family member) can take the package inside ASAP, and using pick-up for any truly expensive ($1k+) items when possible.
Not many compute clusters run windows
You can certainly get it to places closer, then shift those areas' power to farther away places, etc.

China has a large network of HVDC lines. Unfortunately, due to how the Chinese power market works, they're mostly underutilized, even in times of high power stress.
Terrifying is the proper term. The only time I've ever been really mad with a co-worker is when they decided to do a demo to potential customers with the newest (pre-release) firmware of a massive lathe without my very explicit permission. That could have well ended up with people seriously injured, as it was - of course - it happened to have a pretty bad bug in it but besides people getting scared it didn't cause any damage or injury.

My own process to ensure things were safe was to first run it in air without the spindle powered up, then on foam, chalk, and finally on aluminum in that order before progressing to steel.

And that saved my ass more than once.
If we look at the Durham Report all the claims that Trump was colluding with Russia were infact a Conspiracy Theory. Like Iraq having WMDs in 2003 was a Conspiracy Theory.
Forced labor in solar-grade polysilicon production is effectively in the billions of dollars of government subsidies club. Let’s not kid ourselves.
As someone stuck on a Windows corporate laptop, I can say that WSL2 is definitely not on the approved software list. Unless it installed by default and comes with a big solid green check mark for compliance/virus scanner/whatever security doo-dad of the day, it is a non-starter for many of us.

Sure, with enough begging and pleading, anything is possible, but that usually requires Conversations.
I always figured it was just human nature, I think it is something like.

Interacting with unknown people is slightly stressful, you feel this stress yourself but it is hard/impossible to see in others(unless they actually are really bad with interaction). so when self diagnosed most people will say they are introverts, or on the introvert side of the graph(they feel this way based on what they see). but when graded externally would be average or extroverted.
>But you're not offering your services. You're trying to get a potential customer to pay you for your services.

Yes, people usually work in exchange for money.

>And you're doing this during, presumably, a time of grief when the potential customer already has a lot to deal with physically and emotionally. And you're doing it because of the event that put them in this stat

Exactly, a real estate agent can take some of the load off. Keeping a home secure, traveling to it if you live far away, etc are not necessarily easy. People have jobs to get back to, families to attend to that may not be nearby, and things need to happen, regardless of emotional events.
Well, you're paying TWO realtors. Buyer and seller, so it's really half that. But yeah, I would say $10k is a pretty sweet deal in a lot of cases.
We have a tcl Roku tv, but it’s nothing but 3 inputs we set up and some stuff below I’ve never read, presumably something Roku related. Never connected it to the internet, just to consoles or Apple TV. it’s been great. Low input lag it seems too
What you are saying is that the realtors have created an environment and now some of them (!) have mastered it.
"The customer understood that their code was broken either way. They just were curious why unordered_map seems to demonstrate the problem more clearly."

Seems reasonable to me. It's an interesting question even if any given answer is only valid under narrow conditions.
When I was in college, I just wanted to build stuff, ideally games, but whatever was fine. I had no illusions that I would be writing compilers, writing OSes or building chips, even though I took courses on those subjects. A lot of the course catalog was on esoteric theory, like proving theorems, lambda calculus, early 80s cellular automata (what we called Huffmanetics, as Huffman taught those classes); I avoided those classes like the plague, although it was kind of dumb in hindsight. I wish I had studied more math and theory...

What they did not teach was how to code. You were just expected to learn that as needed on your own. What I needed perhaps was some kind of engineering major, as opposed to computer science, but that wasn't available at my college at that time. And even if it was, it wouldn't really have taught us how to be a professional developer, it would have just given us an overview of various topics.

Maybe you are arguing that we need such a program? I'm not sure. "How to be a professional programmer" courses do exist, at boot camps. People here on HN don't seem to think they are a good idea though.
no because even though pv uses orders of magnitude more land per megawatt (not per megawatt hour; please get your units straight) it still uses two orders of magnitude less land than is available

please do the math instead of posting random bullshit without any regard to whether or not it is true

i did

https://dercuano.github.io/notes/solar-economics.html
Ted Chiang and Eric Heisserer respond to Marc Andreessen's AI optimism
> When Trump got elected, donations poured in to them amd they made a pretty clear turn to liberal causes. I think the days that they would defend the speech of deeply unpopular viewpoints on free speech grounds are over.

Hard to square this assessment with the last news item I caught about the ACLU: fighting a gag order against Donald Trump on free speech grounds.
It is the crux of the issue, alongside bodily autonomy of the woman, which is important.

No serious, mature pro-life people pretend that abortion is a simple thing. People very much so understand the gravity of it.
I was a card carrying member for over a decade, and still read their reports.

But go ahead and project all you want.
Some of that phenomenon may be that people want to be considered shy. Like how people say they were a "nerd" in high school, so their current them is "but look at me now!".
In 1951 the Hanford reactors were making plutonium, not power. Only one of the Hanford reactors sold electricity, and not until the middle of the 1960s. That one went over budget to construct but operating costs were well under predictions. I'm not sure Mr. Suits had enough information in 1951 to make his claim authoritative seventy years later.
Now we just need an explanation of how the hell appraisers come up with their numbers.

Not only is it functionally useless to ask someone to measure fair market value of an asset that already has someone offering to buy it at a specific price, the appraisals seem to come in ridiculously close to offer price every time.

I've had to deal with around 8 appraisals over the years as buyer or seller, I only had one that didn't come bad within 1% of the sale price. Either markets are impressively efficient and we don't need appraisals, or the appraiser already knows exactly what number to put on it and goes through the motions of finding a few hundred dollars worth of random plumbing and electrical nitpicks and moves on.
Well, you can run local models on CPU, so they already do.
And the world production of food far exceeds the world's population, yes.

The difficulty, as always, is logistics and economics.
The percentage structure - while I want to agree with you, we can then look to things like ... the struggle now of delivery food percentages and tipping. If I order a $15 pizza and tip $3, I'm tipping 20%, but that is seen as "cheap" for a tip in 2023... yet if I order a $4,000 bottle of wine at dinner, and tip 20%, the staff will enjoy an $800+ tip for that meal. Worth 20% to pop the cork, really?
Only way I could immediately think of is to survey users.
You used the word inhabitable. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think it does to some degree. The chaotic life may lead to more accidental pregnancies, but also higher mortality of every kind. Stable, family-value oriented, borderline conservative belief systems like those circa 1950s US leads to steady population growth. Other systems, like where Western countries are now with negative native population growth and considerably less social cohesion, are possibly less stable long-term. Time will tell.
> they're called juniors and every other industry has seniors to help guide them

> Except in our industry
This is amazing, I feel like these vision models are going to make everything so much more accessible. Between the Be My Eyes app integration and now this, I'm really excited for how this transforms the web.
How much was there to find on the internet in the 90s?

I arrived ca. 2001 and found enough high-quality content (folk songs, math puzzles, some books already digitized) to feel like I had discovered a giant library. And it kept growing: Wikipedia arrived, various forums and magazines appeared (most were crap, of course, but there was no shortage of good ones).

As far as I can tell, things started getting worse around 2008, with places such as geocities closing down and social networks rising; then the deprecation of Java and Flash kicked the floor out of some of the good old parts. Other things were still improving, though, up to 2015 or so. It's only recently that I see most "culture production" locked in perennial closed gardens with unaccountable moderation. I wish I could point to some places still on the rise other than arXiv and LibGen...

What had I missed from the 90s that didn't make it into the 00s?
I know parent said “see it”, but a more accurate phrase would be “experience it”. What’s going wrong can be very nuanced, and it’s a bit naive to think you could diagnose complex industrial machinery by watching a few cameras.
When there's money involved, blame always gets placed on the deepest pockets that can be found, which is almost never an individual person. If I spill a soda on the floor at Walmart and someone slips on it, they're going to sue Walmart and probably not me.
And before that people were pointing to 1993 as the date the old internet died https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Its reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1227/ or people saying "kids these days"
Nope, if anything imports are flat over that timeframe: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/impo... (In constant 2021 dollars that’s 3,129B in 2007 vs 3,401B in 2021.) https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Really we’re talking a 17% drop in CO2 emissions it would take quite a lot to offset it.
The modern version of this is a laser guard that projects and outline which when interrupted triggers the e-stop circuit.
Anecdotal evidence may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases
I used to scoff at entrants into the space because I thought something valuable was being disrupted.

Then my agent let me get 90% through a sale before - "surprise" - such and such construction is required prior to closing due to recent statute in this town.

I had to haggle DOWN to 6% to enjoy effectively no representation or understanding of the market I was selling into.

If this industry is disrupted, even if by charlatans, unfortunately it deserves to be - we deserve it - for allowing the status-quo.
100% branch coverage, which is even more rare. I've done it for a couple of projects, and it's really useful (there were bugs hidden even in the last few percent), but it is a decent amount of work.
Why stunned? The author reiterates 2 times that neither maps should be used in unsafe way.

Look at this from the point of code analysis - if "a bit more thread-safe" map is used - you have less chances to detect the problem in local testing & and may be surprised in prod. And, you may be even more surprised when switching to unordered map.

Usually, any big app has a huge tail of very rare crashes that nobody has time to fix, ever. Those rare crashes are indistinguishable from some system/hardware related faults (system OOM, system trying to kill an app, battery dying, bit flipping due to radiation/faulty silicon). And that's the point - if you are planning to change map to unordered map - look at the crashes list around map invocations and try to understand, if any of them are due to multithreading and not system/hw...
Regarding the recommendations:

0 is to prevent mistakes where you declare a function, but forget to implement it. If that's really intended I like to put a comment "do nothing" in empty functions, even in projects without the ESLint rule, so future readers know what's going on.

1 is for consistency & readability. Imagine you read someone else's code like <div children="foo" />, and you see that it's self-closing, so you expect it's an empty div. Even more confusing when you have more than just one attribute. Or say you want to modify the code to add a new child, so you remove the self-closing and add the child, breaking the old children in the process. What is the reason for doing children="foo" in the first place anyways?

2 is to prevent infinite loops, it's good practice to keep an upper bound (in a single-threaded world like JS, infinite loops can be very deadly and hard to diagnose). I like NASA's ten coding commandments (this is #2): https://devm.io/careers/power-ten-nasas-coding-commandments-...
Maybe that's just what you see in it.

I see a pretty butterfly.
I don't know how one could look at someone like Leucretius writing in 50 BCE about how traits are inherited from a doubled seed which can bring back features from a grandparent, how all life that we see originated from randomly scattered indivisible parts of matter, and that life proceeded by way of intermediate mutants that weren't as adaptable and thus died out because they couldn't reproduce and conclude that philosophers were wrong about almost everything.

Same guy in the same book described light as being made up of tiny indivisible parts moving very quickly - a reminder that proving the particle behavior of light was what Einstein won his Nobel for.

Or how about when they thought about the implications of indivisible parts of matter obeying physical laws as invalidating free will and thus concluded there must be a variable component to the behavior of such quantized parts of matter (which they termed The Swerve) - literally thousands of years before the experimental evidence for a probabilistic behavior to quanta and the relationship to the topic of superdeterminism.

I suspect part of the problem is that by continuing to prioritize the teaching of the philosophers that directly influenced later philosophers we extend the survivorship bias caused by the church in locking up Leucretius's naturalism 'heresy' and promoting Plato and Aristotle's intelligent design.

So most people at best learn that the Epicureans were talking about atoms and didn't believe in an afterlife and had some loose sense of hedonism, but never bother reading the off brand philosophy for themselves to realize "holy crap, these guys were objectively the most correct in antiquity on a number of major topics in astonishing detail and were broadly ignored in an age where impiety may no longer have been a death sentence like for Socrates but was certainly not winning popularity contests."
There is always hidden things while communicating with humans and because you never know all of them, things they say or do may look crazy or downright stupid. It's your choice to spend time figuring that out or not, depending on the circumstances.
It doesn't help that the non-security aspects of Signal are garbage. I have several years of data in my phone that I want to backup, but it's a painful process because Ihave to export every media file manually and then transfer it over to an SD card. My phone is low on internal storage space, but Signal won't let you choose where exported media get saved to, so I have to play Towers of Hanoi shuttling media files in and out of my limited vacant space and then deleting them in Signal after they've been safely copied to the SD card.

The app is full of tiny annoyances like this. For sending photos there are some editing/cropping tools - a fun and somewhat useful innovation, but while the crop handles work from the corners of an image they don't work properly from the sides. I was a busy evangelist for the product in its early days, now I hate using it.
Plenty do. I and many friends do RE transactions with agents who are not “realtors”
What ways could've headed off abuse thar wouldn't have defeated the entire purpose of the service - matching random people with each other?
I've never seen or heard of a real estate agent negotiating to transact a property below its previous sale price, even from the buy side. That says a lot.
> newspeak, propagandistic language that is characterized by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings.

1984 got so many things so right about the future.
I love the joke. It feels really “old world” for some reason like simplicity before the modern world took over. A simple joke.
Yes.

Why give a complete picture to a seller when they may turn into a non-seller, or a later-seller, if you do?!