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I thought about this a lot during our home buying process. Our agent, too, wasn't asked to do much... because we found the house we wanted online, and had our financing, so the agent didn't have to show us any houses or help us along in any way. She just submitted our offer and that was that.

I have heard that realtors, like for instance car dealers, simply have a vested interest in middleman-ing the inventory by way of commission and there are powerful lobbies that protect that interest. I've heard that there is cartel-like control over the MLS listing service, which requires you to be a member of the Realtors Association for access, and is a shared venture between all the major real estate companies -- which, if you aren't a part of, basically means you can't even know what house is for sale. I don't know if any of that's true.

In this day in age, it's hard for me to fully trust a process like buying property that is just so opaque. Purely for conversation purposes, an anecdote of mine: we bought a house and we were willing to pay a certain amount over, no more, because we had a hard budget. So we told our agent, we want this house for list price. The agent says, we can do that, but "the seller is expecting multiple offers and they are reviewing them tomorrow". Okay, fine, whatever. So we put in our offer, with an escalation clause going up another $15k to our theoretical max. Lo and behold, we have two offers on the table that beat ours. "But they really liked your letter, so is there any way you could make your offer better? Borrow money from your family? Take an employer loan from your 401k?" So I say no, absolutely not, I won't be doing that. We'll just wait til next year when we have more money and do this again. Thanks.

So a week later, we get a phone call. Oops! Guess what? The top offer bailed unexpectedly, and the 2nd best offer wants time to reconsider. "If you resubmit your offer tonight, I'm sure the seller will accept". Okay, fine, resubmit it. Thirty minutes later, the offer was accepted and we closed in about 20 days from then. It was a crazy ride! And we are definitely happy with the house we got for the price we paid. But at the same time, I'm left to wonder... how do I know those other offers existed? How do I know they weren't just trying to get more money out of us? I suppose I could ask for proof, but even those types of documents have been faked before. I trusted our people and the process seemed above board, but it's one of those things that is so convoluted and human that I felt weird about it then, and I still do to some extent. Perhaps I'm just cynical. It really doesn't keep me up at night, though. Like I said, I'm happy with the place.

But the reality was clear: in that industry, it seems so clear that collusion COULD easily exist... and if that's the reality, I'm sure it does exist in at least some instances.
But a "restaurant on wheels" is a idea that will be truly profitable, at least in theory! Its true that restaurants abound in localities today but mobility of people (and their eating preferences) from one location to another has also increased. Restaurants which are profitable today may not be tomorrow. A restaurant on wheels can easily adapt to changing demands by constantly moving on from low demand areas to high demand ones. Maybe, Amazon can even build an AI or something to guide it for most efficiency.
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> Using the per-app VPN feature, traffic from the Mail, Contacts and Calendars built-in apps will only go through the VPN if the domains match that of the business.

Shame that Apple doesn't take this one step further and do it system-wide.
I'd like to add that Dash helped me grok React far quicker than I'd expected. I code in a lot of React now and I'm only here because of Dash. Thank you for your hard work!
Most people who live in SF are either insane aspirationally rich (spending all of their money, saving nothing) or actually rich.

$25k USD/month rent for a 2BR/2.5BA is ridiculous https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/san-francisco-the-mil...
We watched Chernobyl after GoT and then cancelled.
This happens all the time to me.

The other day, I found my old hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy infocom image (interactive fiction) and it turns out someone wrote some elisp that lets you play it in emacs.

(that said, elisp isn't a very expressive language for me, python is my favorite language right now)
That's the last product they have which contains the original Zen dies. They are probably just liquidating the remaining stock.

I wouldn't make the assumption that AMD could sustainably sell that much silicon at that price point.
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Why don’t these news publishers come together and make a competitor to Google News? Google News is a poor product. It cannot do basic NLP things right, like properly grouping related news. The titles that are chosen as the first ones to display often don’t convey the story. Irrelevant or extremely partisan stories are prominently listed. “More stories like this” or “fewer stories like this” does nothing. The publishers could ban Google News from displaying their headlines and include snippets on their service, so they wouldn’t even need to compete fairly. To me it seems that they are scared to losing short term traffic and lack a long-term vision.
No, because of the time value of money. Money now is worth more than money later. Having all of your toys today vs saving for a couple years to buy a home. [1] has a somewhat explanation but the same conclusion.

1. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/timevalueofmoney.asp
What settings/cflags/&c. are you using? I get about 0.6 FPS on x265 1080p video on a Ryzen 7 2700. That's 10% the framerate on half the cores, with similar clockspeeds.

The only video options I'm using are:

-preset:v veryslow -crf:v 18
Scala 2.13.0
There is so much emphasis on designs coming full circle, reverting back to the tried and tested from the novelty.

I think that is part of what makes this book so invaluable, the lessons on this including the 'folly of the patent' (where inventors forget about the '... and useful' part) is instructive no matter what business you are in.

I found the seat designs particularly telling on this front. The modern seat supports the bones on each side with a central channel that does not put pressure on the nether reasons.

This design was 'new'. Bicycle seats of the latter half of the last century did not have this, the highest point of the saddle (viewed straight on) was in the middle, there was no channel between each half. Yet in 1898 they had arrived at what is considered today to be the correct design. So this has gone full circle.

I also found the early pneumatic tyres to be an interesting read. The way of fixing a puncture has not changed, you have the same processes involved, a puncture repair kit from 1898 would be compatible with tyres on today's bikes. Although the glue would have run out, the process is the same and the instructions for doing it properly are the same.

Wheel rims have come a long way, in wood with the original pneumatic tyres it would take all day to peel off the tyre to get to the inner tube in order to fix it. Yet the benefits of the pneumatic tyre were such that this was considered worthwhile. This is also telling in that Dunlop's invention needed decades of refinement to be the tyre we know today.

Although some brand names are still in the game there seemed to be a lot of diversity with stuff actually made in a 'Trump approved' way, in American cities, all competing.
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Thanks for the insightful post and especially the first link. Hadn't come across that before. I will definitely be sharing that (to my kids first of all).
(note: my example of "textbooks" and "oil" was arbitrary, and this was also in a completely different era, maybe 50s?)
I think most markets are not efficient in that sense because people don't have perfect information and are not perfectly rational.
Interesting. Brave blocks the RHS ads.
They will eventually, like they always do. They start with in house apps effectively to prove out the process, then publish the updated APIs required to use the functionality.

Other examples: App Store itself, Siri, cross-app sharing... it always starts with just-Apple-apps before expanding.
I understand what you mean, but that is one of the trade offs when using opinionated frameworks.

I've found that a more effective way to achieve the same results as microservices is to deploy the monolith to multiple servers and have each one acting in a specialized capacity.

This tends to make testing a lot more consistent and improves code reuse dramatically.

If you really want to make it modular you could always package the functionality you want to share into gems.
Logically yes I think it would be close, depending on how you objectively define close. Humans aren't always logical though and that low monthly repayment without requiring you to save up can look really tempting.

At least with something desirable like a car, where some parts of the world have seen a significant shift towards renting.

No idea how well it works for beds, but it wouldn't surprise me if there's margin there too.
What definition of “force” are you using? What is stopping someone from finishing paying the monthly cost of the phone after 2 years and then not signing a new contract to lease a new phone?

Every single mobile provider in the US makes it clear how much mobile service is if you want to pay for just the mobile network, or to lease the phone and the mobile network. Apple offers a monthly payment plan that is equivalent in cost to paying upfront for the same phone and AppleCare+.

All of the information is clearly available for the lease vs pay upfront, and mobile network vs mobile network + phone calculation.
FWIW, 3-5x increase is about what x264 to x265 is for me.
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What do you mean by "run completely bare with regards to microcode patches", that they don't apply microcode patches & errata?
Ask HN: I'm having a boring summer. What should I do?
I'm a college student and because of health reasons last semester, I wasn't able to get an internship.

I'm taking two online classes (calc 3 and physics 1) and I find them in credibly boring.

What fun/ intectually stimulating things should I do?

Please help.
I don't love micro frontends, but having been in an org that grew very fast to dozens/hundreds of engineers working on FE stuff, Conway's law was definitely at work there.

You are definitely right, this really is a case of prioritising your org chart, but you often don't have the choice.
It would do you well to stop being so hurt that you didn't get credit or recognition for the work you did. Why didn't you blog about it instead of being pissed off Sun engineers get the credit?

Yes I'm a big fan of their work, not least because their products work damn well, especially when solutions in GNU/Linux are compared to theirs. Did they screw up over the years? Yes they did, the USB subsystem in Solaris is an infamous fuck-up of epic proportions. Ironically it has nothing to do with distributed systems. But the things they really put effort into like Sun clustering, NFS and networking work and work damn well.

As for me and learning something new, I do that all of the time. The problem is that most of the new things coming out aren't new at all and certainly aren't better.

And you know what, for a passionate computer enthusiast, I'm sick and tired of IT and all this bullshit.
If there is, that means there is still a repository of Earthly life around, even if Earth itself somehow perishes.

Might be pretty serious indeed!
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Given their commitment to privacy as a selling point, it would be nice if Apple provided an integrated VPN service (say included with the upper iCloud tiers). For now I’m on the waitlist for Cloudflare’s offering - their DNS works fantastic.
I have not set up an iPhone from scratch in over a year (in particular I'm uncertain if I have set up a device from scratch with ios 12, I know I have upgraded one)

Does your comment apply to non-phone iOS devices, or does it include iPhones?

With the latest OS, do you have to identify yourself or create an apple id to start using an iPhone?

Also, is this in the US or outside of the US?

(thanks!)
> There is no reason home sale paperwork should cost thousands of dollars to process. Someone like Amazon could eliminate agents altogether.

It’s a mistake to think that the real estate commission is primarily for paperwork or executing transactions that would have happened anyway.

I brought my house to our agent and pushed the sale through. That’s probably a rarity when I think about all the time friends of mine have spent with agents “house hunting”. That time costs money and to a great extent, the fat commissions are paying for a lot of “no commissions”.

People seeking to disrupt the “fill out the final transactional paperwork” part of real estate need to figure out how to disrupt the whole value chain, not just the part that looks outrageously overpriced.
I could be mistaken, but I think this is a somewhat weaker version of Android for Work, which shipped about two years ago, I believe (couldn't find the exact date). Perhaps Apple is doing something that AfW isn't already doing, but it's hard to tell from this article, which doesn't mention AfW at all.
I'm suggesting that, contrary to the article's thesis, bitcoin's thesis and the parent's assertions, identity is central to many core functions of our society and is not something to be elided or ignored.

Identity is not dead, nor does it deserve to die.

Is there room for a corporate or distributed version of identity? Probably, but it might have to wait for the power of nation states to wane further, and it needs to acknowledge that identity is a core concern in many of these domains.
I wish such laws existed in Germany, but I never heard of them. It's still legal to build new houses that depend on fossil fuel for heating and are poorly insulated, even though we need to become carbon neutral in the next fifteen to twenty years if we want to stay below 2° of warming. The Denkmalschutzbehörde can still prevent you from upgrading your windows and adding insulation to your home.
Yes, that they did not bring up microcode patches that cover some of Spectre/Meltdown family bugs
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My last two years living in the US I spent about $3500/year at Amazon. This works out to $175/year cash back, and $105 more than my main credit card would have yielded at 2% cash back. That was enough for me to spend a few minutes applying for and setting up the card, and I was happy with the product.

You factor in the cost of the Prime membership in the break-even calculation, but as someone else noted, that does not count the value of other Prime benefits. I was already a Prime member when the store card was introduced, which means I was valuing those benefits at ~$120/yr on their own.

Different people have different shopping needs/preferences. I have no trouble conceiving of the idea that what might be a good value to me might not be for someone else. In your case, I wonder how you are able to say "Sorry; that’s not a good product at all" with such conviction when there are so many people out there (~100 million) with Prime memberships in the US.
Indie hackers covers them regularly, but I guess that also qualifies as "press": https://www.indiehackers.com/interviews/page/1

You'll have to define startup though. Some are bootstrapped but growing slower. Some have millions in revenue but plan to be family businesses rather than giants.
The money you are talking about would easily bankrupt Norway. What a government can do is to create tax incentives for EVs and tax gasoline cars, as laws are free. Norwegian government is not able to change the Indian tax code.

What I see as important is anything that moves the price of EVs down and utility up. Norway is helping EV battery research a lot (although China still leads).
Let’s say you have 20000 tables in total for a company. They are in 10 different databases. You have no overview over the data and no comments. You don’t have a starting point for where information x are.

Welcome to my reality.

Would I love a data architect and a domain expert in my team? Yeah.

Will I run around booking meetings with everyone that even hints at working with data like a headless hen? Yeah.

Is this the normal procedure for Data Scientists in big and old companies? More so than I would like.

Oh! And I forgot that the security department will constantly deny your access to data you need (until you force their hand).
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Androids will behave more like iPhones or Vice-versa?
I read an article on nytimes.com (https://nyti.ms/2WcPHtr) that claims newer iOs 13 and Android Q will speed up old and new smartphones.

How true is that? Have you guys seen any significant proofs and changes?
Thanks for clarification. It only adds two fences, one into the load and one into the store ordering buffer. (not IO).
But this has an as dramatic of an performance impact as a "clear cache", that's why I usually describe it that way. it just sets something like two dirty flags.
I love not having money and therefore paying extra for the convenience of having the items required for basic dignity in decent condition in the richest country on earth.
In fact, in some domains (such as SQL), ‘null’ stands for values we dont know: https://modern-sql.com/concept/three-valued-logic
Lineage are quite aggressive in dropping older hardware since they pivoted towards 'experience'. My 2013 Galaxy S4 is no longer supported.
It's expensive to have boots on the ground in every zip code. RedFin hires their own agents full time. OpenListings and Zillow refer online buyers to their affiliated agents who cut them a deal on commission in exchange for leads. You can always list a place with photos and all on Zillow or CraigsList and mention that seller will not pay an agent's commission. End of the day there's a "For Sale by Owner" sign for those driving or walking by.

But considering that in the US it's the seller who pays both agents, there are no immediate savings for potential buyers, and some, being new to the home-buying process in general or new to that zip code, would prefer some hand-holding and chit-chatting provided by their agent at no cost to them.

Among some not so obvious valuable tidbits that the buyer's agent can provide:

* general feel about the neighborhood, whether it's on the rise or in decline

* previous scandals and issues, like contaminated water, city attempting to pass an additional levy or tax, house being on the airport path, etc.

* potential future improvements, like a light rail station planned nearby

* referrals to various local professionals, like inspectors, surveyors, painters, or movers

* any other new developments in town or neighborhoods that the buyer might not have considered, especially when shopping remotely
I really enjoyed this story! The best part is people like to think this loop hole is easy “profit”. No one pointed out the fact that they would go on 10 day benders buying/sorting/etc. to get the profit! Even this loop hole for easy profit was incredibly arduous in manual labor.
But credit cards do exist. And the person is getting a rebate over paying cash.
Yes. I think they made a classic mistake of raising too much money, expanding too quickly and not staying hungry. VBS.TV and early VICE were good; at least before they moved their HQ, they were cratering.

I'd like to see much more of sustainable, non-profit journalism that only raises anonymous, no-strings donor money and subscriber donations to stay afloat because this is really the only way out of the ad-supported corporate MSM abandoned fourth estate hell.
This is a bit late. I was rhetorically appealing to liberals but consider myself a socialist if that helps.
This is like an app store of ml models which is pretty cool. There are a couple of tooling around ML that more of compliments the above than being redundant.

-- Open Source --

Mlflow : https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow

Polyaxon : https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon

Modelchimp(mine): https://github.com/ModelChimp/modelchimp

ModelDB : https://github.com/mitdbg/modeldb

Sacred : https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred

-- Non open source --

Cometml : https://www.comet.ml/

Weights and Biases : https://www.wandb.com/

MissinglinkAi : https://missinglink.ai/
It took a little hunting, is this the paper? http://www.irisa.fr/caps/people/seznec/JILP-COTTAGE.pdf
Eliminating the Class of Cofounder Problems
Modern GPUs are in a very real sense the spiritual successors of the Connection Machine. So in some sense the "sort of analogue" has already arrived.
Sorry, but reality does not work that way. The economy is not really some collection of autonomous agents trading spherical cows like macro-economists would like you to think. When you get two or three layers removed from a cost/benefit at this scale it has been reduced to noise. What will happen is that the ad vendors (Google, FB, etc) will pass some of the cost on to ad buyers but not all and the tech titan stockholders will take a small hit. The ad buyers will integrate the new costs into their ad models and so they will view it as a cost of advertising and pay it (small profit hit) or will consider alternative advertising options if the cost impacts advertising ROI. What will the consumers pay? Nothing.
Single points of failure via centralization, comparable to monoculture in farming
Once you switched to Android because of privacy? I always wondered why people choose this operating system.
I just finished a bankruptcy a month ago. Before a tenant fiasco my credit score was ~800. Now that I've gone through the process I'm at ~630. It's not that bad.

But when I went to look for an apartment in NYC. I was constantly denied due to the bankruptcy on my record. I felt the solution they offered was downright predatory. Either a for paid guarantor. Which took 3 months rent as a non refundable collateral, then an additional 3 months as buffer for failed rent. That was on top of most land lords wanting 6 to 8 months rent for down payment. Another service I saw was a guarantor insurance plan. Which tacked an extra ~8% as an insurance fee for the first year, than 5% the next year.

The only reason I care about my score right now. Is related to putting a roof over my head. Due to the above I went down to Philly and only had to put up four months instead of the typical three.

To rebuild my credit I had two secured cards. One for monthly services, the other for larger purchases. I paid them down to 10% each month. This is what brought my score to around 630ish range.

Since being discharged. I have been receiving offers that feel predatory to me. House loans with a consultation fee. Or auto loans with really high APR. I've also received a number of credit rebuilding loan offers. Which have non-refundable application fees ranging from 75$-100% with a variable APR between 24-32%.

I'm blessed to be a well paid software employee. Because once you're on the other side of the fence. No one trusts you, and the fine print is much more aggressive. I really feel now for people who are barely scraping by. Having to sign these agreements just to cover a roof.

I will look at this just to rebuild my score. It may not be the best. The only other company that approved me was Dell.

We do need a better program to help people recover. Without penalizing them with higher APR or hidden fees. If they got into that perilous position. They may not be on the best footing.
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