skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$2M house. 6% commission split 3% to seller's realtor and buyer's realtor. Seller's realtor gets $60K if it sells in 1 month or 1 year, same commission. No sale = $0.

First week gets a 10% low offer of $1,800,000. If sale completes, that's $54,000 income for the realtor (.03*1800000). Or, could hold out for a better offer after for some months of additional work to hopefully get an offer for the full $2M, and the realtor just gets $6,000 more - or $0 if no sale. Seller holding out would get $200,000 more, or if no sale, still has the house.

Realtor's personal interest is to maximize return on invested work - take an early offer and go on to the next sale, even if it is low. Seller's best interest is probably to hold out for a bit better deal.
When I last bought a house, I had an agent to show me houses. Then when it came offer time, I actually had my lawyer do the final review and he essentially did the bulk of the negotiation, the agent was simply a mouth piece with access to the databases and someone the other agents would talk to. It was during the 2008 time and I placed a bid on a short sell, my lawyer gave me distinctly different advice than the agent did (a personal friend, no less) the seller made some demands that he wanted in the contract and the agent simply wasn't capable of giving sound advice about it. Probably saved me about $50,000.

The big problem is agents are incentivized to have sales in the market. If you sell your house for $100,000 vs $110,000 is could make a difference of months and they're paid nearly the same even though it's a pretty large difference to the seller. To many of the people "helping" you sell, it's better for you to take less money now than 10% more in 3 months. Nevermind the roles they helped play in the big 2008 crisis... And this is a profession that has a claimed "code of ethics"
https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Bros._3/Unused_graphics#World_8

Apparently not.
We rather enjoy the state of the art IDEs, JIT and GC compilers from Java and .NET, while slowly enjoying watching hipster startups rewrite their stacks when customers come flooding in.

Ask Twitter how their Rails apps is holding on.
From the tests I've seen on beta versions, no difference.

The performance increase is from a different algorithm + full multithreading. Not from collecting garbage less often as is a common tactic to reduce time spent in GC
Check out Koken for self-hosting photo albums. It's pretty great:

http://koken.me/
and then bridge space-time to connect to the App Store from 1993? If we’re going to go that far we could assume a 28k modem peripheral.

If we had iPod Touches in the 90s before widespread internet, software could be distributed by USB drives (Lightning port drives I guess).
I find it culturally characteristic one person here said that you should start a new company/product as if that is the answer to feeling overworked.
presumably there's still primitives and boxing ?
I would totally use this!
if any part of the tech industry needs unions, it's content screeners: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
You can easily configure Network Manager to ignore anything from the DHCP, including DNS (properties ipv4.ignore-auto-dns and ipv4.dns* on your connection).
I got a paywall on mobile the other day which didn't let me read the content when I was signed-in.

I can understand that for a media outlet, but is medium paying the blog owners a cut? I used to write on medium, and I have not received any notification that they are paying the producers.

I'm surprised to see them get into the mess they are in. They don't provide enough benefit when there are so many other options.
>I often times see people confuse East Asian aesthetics with looking 'amateur' to American eyes.

I’m guessing that both are driven strongly by economics, so it makes sense that there is some perceptual overlap.
Yes 5G is what is on my mind also although that comes with different problems such as network access.

How about a controller with an RJ-45 so I can plug directly into my router :)
I just recently came across this in Ubuntu and was astounded that it's allowed to be this way. I think this kind of behavior will become more and more prevalent once one util is allowed to do it.

It leads us on a path where daemon authors don't allow us to override the settings to suit us, rather to kept them controlled to suit them.

The arrogance sets a very bad precedent.
In addition, if you're using dhcp, you can add an enter hook to override make_resolv_conf so /etc doesn't get cluttered with a ton of extra files.
My Lunch with a White Supremecist (2018)
Just a quick question... But do you have any personal experience with the UAW (United Auto Workers Union)? Because while on it's face, I'd agree with your comment... but in experience I've seen things closer to what the other guy was implying.
switch assignment:

int numLetters = switch (day) {
case MONDAY, FRIDAY, SUNDAY -> 6;
case TUESDAY -> 7;
case THURSDAY, SATURDAY -> 8;
case WEDNESDAY -> 9;
};
As far as working, I think you might be happier doing your own thing. If you have some runway I would look at starting your own company.

It sounds like you might be happy with a lifestyle business.

Inspiration: @DHH Startup School Talk (2008) it's still relevant and a great talk. Lots of great quotes in this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com is a great podcast, start in the archives. You can follow Rob along from starting out with job board sites, he even mentions drop shipping beach towels, to an invoicing app to an SEO SaaS app, to founding Drip all the way through to a nice exit. Inspirational and sound advice along the way.

Check those out, that might be your path to a job you can be happy with.

I enjoy work and you have to make a living but there is more to life. Family, friends, pets, volunteering, mentoring, helping others. These might bring a new perspective of work time vs personal time and give you things to look forward to outside of work.

Reach out and find a mentor/group/mastermind to help guide you through this time.

Take care and good luck.
Kind of terrifying that we know so little about the chemicals which agrochem industry (many of which grew from humble roots as chemical weapons manufacturers) which soak our food supply.
Rather than criticize that which you have utterly no knowledge or understanding of, why don't you go see what it really is for yourself?
> All I know from friends/family is all a union does is put another group of people over you to tell you what to do

This is an unfair characterization of what unions are. They're not a second set of bosses; they're democratic organizations, no more, no less. What you get out of them is largely up to you and your interest in being involved.

Saying they're "over you" and "tell you what to do" reminds me of people who complain about politics but don't vote (let alone be politically active). For people unwilling even to show up to the discussion and use what little power is literally given to them, it's unsurprising that they'll get more than the minimum from such organizations.
What has Facebook exactly “unleashed” upon the world? Facebook didn’t invent live streaming. You think someone determined won’t be able to do a one-off stream without Facebook?

> In contrast, Facebook released their creation on the world without the tools needed to keep it safe.

Instead we should be more like China. They keep their citizens safe, right?

Yes, free speech has negative externalities. But imagine world without it.
The partial root of the problem, I think, is that prior to Facebook, YouTube, et al. there were decision makers and responsible parties in the flow of such materials.

So news agencies had to decide to print it, or broadcast it, or a publisher had to distribute it. Even on the internet, until fairly recently distribution meant you had to seek out the content you wanted. These people were all responsible for their decision.

Now Facebook and YouTube are operating like broadcasters. They're the biggest broadcasters in the history of the world. And there is no human in the loop, there's no decision made. It's just some algorithms designed around harnessing attention. It's all automatic. And it can be used for harm.

Distributors of the past couldn't absolve themselves of responsibility because they were in the loop. Distribution was a decision they made.

Facebook and Youtube want to absolve themselves of any of the responsibility those distributors used to have.

What this may mean, and we haven't seriously discussed it as a society, is that there was an automatic assumption that what we now have with FB and YouTube is right and okay. Perhaps it's not, and perhaps these platforms should be regulated in a way such that there is a "distributor" that is responsible, and/or a person has to "seek" the content.

Totally as an quick thought experiment of how that might work, using Youtube for an example:

YouTube channels would need to have validated owners, and all autoplaying and promotion of videos on YouTube would need to stop outside of those channels. Thus each channel becomes its own "distributor" with a responsible party. And users must seek content by subscribing to or choosing to view that channel.

The negative implications of this are:

1. Youtube's business model changes, it's bad for Youtube, but it's maybe not nearly so bad if it's regulation that affects everyone the same way.

2. There's this idea that these platforms can also be used for good by allowing anonymous distribution of dissent and the like (e.g. Arab spring). This would quell that somewhat, to distribute dissent it would need to be done through, say, sending a video to one of the channel distributors who makes a decision to publish it or not, like a news agency of old. This isn't inherently bad, note how most of the big leaks of recent years have required responsible journalists to accept and publish the content.

3. There would need to be some regulation around deplatforming actions. For example, a person becomes a "distributor" on YouTube, they're authorized, and YouTube knows who they are. They're responsible. But if someone sends them snuff films, are they allows to broadcast them or not? In this case things are easier, because YouTube can block individual "distributors"/channels in a country like NZ based on local laws. In the US for example I don't think there is anything that makes distribution of this video we're talking about illegal, so it would probably be an issue if this regulated platform was able to decide to kick off this channel now. But it's certainly a lot less gray in this set up than it is in the current set up.
Systemd has serious issues that mean personally I don't ever use it, but I feel like most common distros pick it just so gnome behaves.

I'm still not sure about the complete garbage thing but sysV init definitely wasn't good enough.

busybox init if all you want are some ttys and fs and openRC are probably what you want.
> In the first 24 hours, we removed about 1.5 million videos of the attack globally. More than 1.2 million of those videos were blocked at upload, and were therefore prevented from being seen on our services.

1.2m "blocked at upload". Not shares or links.

Remaining 300k were not "blocked at upload".

This is why Facebook's specific numbers like "4000 times" are so insidious and deceptive.

It's what they intentionally neglect to say that's important here.
A journey from Python to Go
That's not the context in which the word was used, but it's a fair point. I have worked professionally with Haskell, and while I am not good at it (my forte is Erlang which is what I would consider "close to functional"), other developers I have worked with were very good, and watching them code in non functional languages and listen to how they thought about solving problems is were I developed the idea that adding a few features doesn't make a language functional.
It would just need to prohibit usage by the 3 major cloud monopolies, using any language that just applies to all 3 of them, e.g. a commercial license is required if earning over $1 Billion total from hosting Services.

It could also prohibit any commercial cloud hosting without written permission, for which it's automatically granted to every company that isn't Amazon, Microsoft or Alphabet.
Yep.

It's never been a better time to go BSD instead.
The overall success and value they are able to create jointly with their colleagues and take home a portion of for themselves and their family. I also find that to be an interesting, motivating, fun, and financially rewarding game to play.

I support your right to use other metrics as you prefer to make your choices, of course.
Then you need independent appraisals where you pay for the service, but they pay a penalty based on how inaccurate their appraisal is.
Not Linux, mostly systemd.
> but is medium paying the blog owners a cut?

Yes they do. I believe the most important factor is the amount of "claps" they receive but I am not too sure.
The reason you must pay the commission comes back to the cartel nature. If you won't pay the 3% to each side as the buyer, then many agents refuse to show the sellers the house. I don't think they ask the buyers, they just don't tell them about it. Then when redfin in Seattle started selling houses for lower commissions, it again was difficult because of buyer agents not wanting to bring their customers to the lower commission redfin houses. Redfin I think experimented with only reducing the commission on the seller side, not the buyer side, to try to break the 6%.
The idea's my own and more than a bit crackpot. Longer explanation:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190115035057/https://plus.goog...
Well, for better counter-arguments you first need better arguments.

(And of course you skipped all the non-whatever points where you didn't have anything to respond).
My previous ISP actually just blocked all DNS traffic that wasn't to/from their servers. I had to tunnel my DNS traffic (ridiculous!)...
Also, while most games are fine with losing a frame or two every few minutes, in VR dropping frames will cause motion sickness really fast. FPS is, from what I've observed, the most important part of a VR game. If you're dropping frames or stuttering, the experience will suffer greatly

When I was developing a VR game, my team noticed that some ultra-sensitive people started to get sick when we would drop around five frames (the vive displays 90, so this is only a ~5% drop). There was more to it (dropping a few frames every few minutes was usually fine, but consistently dropping frames every second or two is an issue).
Except you don’t work for Red Hat anymore. You work for IBM.
best search interface in the domain industry. Sedo/Afternic sucks and this one covers both.
I constantly boost my PixelFed posts in Masotdon :) It's such an awesome way of doing it. My latest toots are in fact, from PixelFed: https://mastodon.social/@veb
> It's like making iPhone without USB-C cable and Macbook without USB-B port.

Was there ever a MacBook with USB-B?
Your points are well taken.

I believe, more generally, that the problems we're seeing with FB and social media overall were an entirely inevitable result of, effectively, free and unlimited exchange of information among most of the people on this planet.

Even more generally, I think that the effectively free and unlimited ability to exchange information was an entirely inevitable result of the arc of technology as it exists here on planet earth.

Our ability to magically beam information and emotions, at effectively no cost, and with effectively no limits, is, I believe, making us crazy, because our evolutionary neurology is still pretty miuch the same as it has been for the past 100,000 years.

For the record, I firmly believe that FB and the other social media companies, and tech in general, have objectively produced more good than bad. It's just that our still relatively primitive brains can't handle this new kind of bad.
> basically never did anything for me

Who can say what workers' conditions were like before the union existed? Without knowing the industry, it's hard to say that they did nothing for you, but knowing capitalists and owners in general, it's really hard to say they did nothing for you.
You might be able to do it in a more system-agnostic manner with SELinux.
This is a good argument for empty place holders when loading dynamic content. Although some people don't like them, it is an easy way to prevent UX issues like this.
This is more along the lines of a kid growing up around an alcoholic parent. If they don't see the parent as a reliable source of safety, it hampers 'normal' development. Psychologists call this attachment trauma. What happens in War is a different story.

The kids here are saying give us an environment where we don't have to waste mental energy worrying about the reliability of the authority figure. Valid imho. Especially if I was footing the bill.
Two things (among many) you will be missing when targeting WASM vs JVM: Garbage collection and mature profiling tools. Each of these is bigger than many language features in my experience for writing production software. I would gladly write Java 1.0 if it was the only way I could have them. But in fact I can choose anything from Scala to clojure.
Ah, okay. I thought the danger zone was slightly lower. Thanks!
Microsoft were never in breach of anything legally. If they'd have had their way we'd still be on IE6.
Why are you blaming a tool for communication for people's actions?

>It's not perfect, as occasionally FedEx will deliver a bomb, or the post office will deliver an envelope with anthrax powder, or a threat will be delivered by telephone.

This is a false comparison. When was the last time Facebook was used to deliver a bomb? The answer is "never" because it's literally impossible to do so.

Terrorists can communicate through the mail service just like they can on Facebook and there is nothing the mail service can do, because the secrecy of your correspondence is literally a human right (article 12 of the universal declaration of human rights).
I kind of wonder if it is even that private.

I use little snitch on mac, and I still continue to get Firefox connect dialogs for private tabs long after they were closed.

Safari on mac does not exhibit that behavior.
The "next generation" that you're referring to has options - they can certainly make a life in numerous other locations.

Hey that's just too bad you've been priced out of the place you grew up. That's just the market. That's the breaks. Hey, you have options in other places. Quit being entitled!

Instead they are coveting one of the most desirable places in the world, and want that location and its people to change in significant ways to accommodate them.

Instead techies moving there for the sweet, sweet high paying jobs are coveting the most desirable places in the world, and want that location and its people to change in significant ways to accommodate them. The big difference is that they have the money, so they're the ones that get their way. The golden rule: he who has the gold, writes the rules. Again, it's all well and good. It's all legal and within the letter of the law. In an overall view, is such an approach really that smart and benevolent? If you look at it a certain way, no, I don't think that's benevolent and wise.

I don't think that's the prior generation interfering as much as the next generation exhibiting entitlement - the entitlement of wanting scarce, highly-valued things, without creating the necessary value to earn it

Living where you grew up is now entitlement. If you want to live where you grew up, you're going to have to create the necessary value. What, are you entitled!? Again, that's the market reality. That's all technically legal, technically correct. It's still kinda crappy if you look at it from a different point of view.

If it weren't for a certain California law, nearly all of the easily accessible beaches would be owned or indirectly access-controlled by rich people. If it weren't for a certain California law, that condition would be simply market reality. It would be technically legal. It would be technically correct. It would definitely be kinda crappy, though.

It's in the long term interest of us techies to act in ways that are good and benevolent, and show some forbearance in certain matters, even though our market power and money allow us to do it anyways. Social unrest is caused by perceived relative inequality. Wouldn't being forced out of your childhood home by richer people feel quite "unequal?" That said, the answer isn't to try and legislate equality, as that is shown to have the opposite effect. The answer is a market which creates enough housing for all segments of society to live in the "desirable places in the world." That's how they become and stay the "desirable places in the world."

Moreover, I don't know that your perspective is uniform across any generation.

Fair enough.
Yep, we definitely have to update that page ASAP. Maybe next time it hits HN we'll be ready. If anyone's interested you can see from my Mastodon what I've boosted from PixelFed: https://mastodon.social/@veb
> Electron is undoubtedly slower and more resource-intensive than other options, but outside of specific audiences (HN readers) I bet most people won't care.

I think it makes even more of a difference for people outside of the HN audience.

A non-technical person might grab a $400 laptop from Costco with 4gb of RAM which is fairly common.

All it takes are a few Electron apps to exhaust that entire system's resources.
Funnily enough, the Legion étrangère is not a romantic thing at all in France. I have in fact always found it odd that it was even a topic, mostly for Americans to be honest.
I am not sure what else are you looking for, Spring boot/cloud has pretty much all you need to build any application.
Shorter games don't happen. We saw this with Steam when they added a no-questions-asked refund policy for short games. Devs get absolutely punished by making short games now so we're going to see them get longer, and the same will hold if Stadia pays by the hour. If Stadia pays a fixed amount per game we will probably see a proliferation of short games designed to bait people into playing.
And yet Linux distros like Ubuntu around 9.0 were much more stable than these days.

With 16.04 I get core lockups (Intel microcode) and cannot switch out of X with Ctrl-Alt-F1.

NetworkManager no longer connects the mobile surfstick, so I do it manually now with pppd.

I can't claim that I had a specific problem with systemd, but I never had an issue with SysVinit either.

The overall trend however is that Linux distros accumulate crapware by RedHat's NIH developers. I'm not surprised that NetworkManager is also by RedHat.
In my experience, many of the best CS students from foreign countries go to U.S. universities anyways (usually in the upper tier programs). So wouldn't that mean other countries are already at a disadvantage?
Ugh, I think you get to pick between "strict purity" and something other than strict purity -- you can't have both. You can't deliberately tolerate something you deem to be devilish without becoming morally soiled by it. You can't perform an act that you call evil, or tolerate and implicitly encourage the act, and then in the next breath condemn it.

Either you have to maintain strict purity, or you have to acknowledge on some level that real life is not especially compatible with strict purity, and sometimes compromise is, at a minimum, necessary and to some degree desirable.

There's no logical way around this, and trying to force there to be a logical way around it gives you this kind of wink wink, nod nod, say-no-more sort of idea.
> Facebook didn't invent live streaming

When you understand why the terrorist selected Facebook to livestream instead of hundreds of other services, then you'll understand why Facebook is the problem and not livestreaming itself.