skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 there’s nothing preventing a seller from insisting on a graduated commission structure. In hot markets like SV agents love to be the selling agent. In fact given the low probability of a successful purchase with buyer competition, getting listings may even be the #1 skill/attribute of a successful agent.

Agents regularly engage in client management. The best agents can manage counterparty agents and get a deal done to close the buyer/seller gap. Clients have a lot of room to perform more stringent agent management in hot (ie liquid) markets.
China stands to gain the most from bitcoin mooning at the expense of other countries' currencies. Every yuan exchanged for bitcoin siphons value out of the chinese monetary network and into the global cryptocurrency network. Ideally, if china secured a large portion of bitcoin and then ceased all bitcoin trading within their borders, they could allow other countries to foot the bill of economic instability while the net value of their assets increase.

Bitcoin is an economic weapons created by the chinese government.
The book the millionaire next door goes into great depth and detail about what the majority of millionaires spend money on. A lot of the people driving mercs are not rich. Most have bought their cars using lease schemes which is a really expensive way to own a car you can't afford
Once I saw kids begging and I wanted to give them money. But they pointed at the packed leftover food from the restaurant. Then I knew it was not a scam and it taught me about the living conditions in that place. Thank you for the chance to remember this incident.
That is due to the construction? Just wondering nif there are any hidden runtime emissions you are refering to.
On the myth of medival short life expectancy, and Covid complacency
You sound like an efficient assets manager. People turn to a suicide because their life is miserable, often for objective reasons (e.g. cancer) and you may find it hard to believe, but it's their right to end it.
Photoshop, PostScript, Illustrator, Premiere. PDFs, as influental as they've been, are a footnote in the changes Adobe wrought on the creative industries.

Also: "Steve Jobs attempted to buy the company for $5 million in 1982, but Warnock and Geschke refused. Their investors urged them to work something out with Jobs, so they agreed to sell him shares worth 19 percent of the company."

Good call.
I've been playing with making an economy simulator. People in the economy get jobs, rent apartments, have free time, can start businesses, etc. Prices change based on supply and demand. Cool.

But it's not clear to me what the player should be doing because buildings are placed by the NPCs and then they make their own decisions according to self interest. What is the player doing except watching? Setting laws maybe, but it doesn't feel very fun to play yet.
From the academic paper linked to in that news article

> the hours at which output is a maximum is at 67 and at 64, respectively. In fact, there are a few cases in which actual observations on hours of work exceed 67 and 64 meaning that, in these instances, average observed hours were at levels where the estimated marginal product of hours is negative!

http://ftp.iza.org/dp8129.pdf

The Productivity of Working Hours
John Pencavel
April 2014

I believe this is in line with what I wrote

> I have never seen any research showing net negative productivity for any job for under 60 hours a week of work.
Probably depends on the market. In California, holding costs are ~1.5% per year (or less if the home has been held for many years), and purchase prices can certainly fluctuate 5% in a Fairly arbitrary manner. Also, since nearly everyone is leveraged, even a 2% sale price increase will have a bigger effect on return on equity.
> When people don't deliver what you expected, it's because you did a shitty job of communicating it to them.

Why is this necessarily the fault of the manager's communication skills?

Sometimes the person sucks beyond repair and needs to be fired.

If you have a competent person who didn't deliver what you expected, then yes, it's probably the fault of the manager's communication. Not so for the lower-end of that competence spectrum.

It might still be the manager's fault for hiring that person in the first place, but that's separate to it being their fault at not communicating properly.

The shitty job here is not firing that type of person quickly enough, and misdirecting the blame towards your communication skills.

EDIT - edited the first sentence for clarity.
OpenAir Cyan: Accelerating Carbon Dioxide Removal Through Open Hardware
right, you're not even supposed to use those 4k at native resolution if you want good fonts! some sources still list a couple of manual commands that supposedly enable antialiasing again but I don't think they do anything anymore.
When I was small I used to be a huge Tinitn fan. Now they are really planning to do it they need to get the paintwork right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Adventures_of_Tinti...

Also they should take a little dog in a spacesuit.
Or just use a solar panel. I'm sure with a battery, a single panel could light up my room perpetually.
Why can't we get rid of Real-estate agents all together? Snipping off 3% of the house sale price is a ridiculous fee for shuffling some documents around and pretending to be acting in my interest. What's stopping Redfin/Zillow or SV tech scene to disrupt this arcane industry?

I haven't purchased a home before, but it seems like most things such as discovering homes, securing loans, touring the place, inspection, sending offers, closing and signing the deed - is very much automation-ready. There must be some reason.

Edit: I got a real estate agent to kick off house search from Redfin. We had a zoom call, he looked at what I've added as favorites and basically didn't do anything useful or provided anything more than what's already on Redfin wesbite. We browsed some homes together and had a bit of small talk. I didn't go as far as putting down the offer but why do I need to do this bullshit with a real estate agent? It's frivolous and unnecessary. May be he would be useful later down the process? If you've bought a home, would love to know what parts of that process are ripe for automation.
You could if you lived in Europe, where you must get at least four weeks minimum vacation per year (plus public holidays).
If i had to model this i wouldn't say

> Without the bitcoin driven demand, there would be less pressure to mine faster than feasible and fewer accidents.

I don't buy that demand has suddenly exceeded the operators capacity, forcing them to trades safety for production. I would assume the pressure is constant and trading safety for production is done for profit.

So in effect:

Without the bitcoin driven demand, there would be less miners leading to less accidents.
Not sure if this is innate to the Peloton Tread+ or just a general warning that should probably exist for any treadmill in the home.
Surely you’re thinking of “Shenzhen I/O”[1] which is “Suspiciously close to having a job as a circuit designer in Shenzhen China.”[2]?

Or is it Factorio[3], which is “The Best Technical Interview We Have”[4]?

[1] https://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/

[2] https://www.gog.com/game/shenzhen_io

[3] https://www.factorio.com/

[4] https://erikmcclure.com/blog/factorio-is-best-interview-we-h...
You'd have to factor in the resource usage of producing zinc and copper plates before even considering using this as a real solution.
Maybe it's unethical in academic context, but in public service context, you have an existing service, and you're in charge of improving it.

When you have an improved algorithm, would you change your algorithm all at once for everybody, or would you test your change on small % of users, before you go full-scale? You'd do the latter. There's no better option. Because if you're wrong, your impact is much more devastating.

In other words, there's always an algorithm filtering your feed. If that was unethical, it makes Facebook unethical by merely existing.
some nation states can - for example, the US can easily ban it globally. They don't because it does no harm to anyone.
California Needs More Affordable Homes. This Union Stands in the Way
Sid Meier's Memoir! describes all of this and more, I can recommend it if you liked this article.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50489373-sid-meier-s-mem...
Indeed, but in many countries this is done via a 13th payment.

To be honest I've never seen 13th payments offered in dev careers, so when I hear some of my Scrum friends demanding it I'm quite surprised since I know they make comparable amounts to me.
Here, in Ukraine, we usually try get rid of the soviet legacy and I’ve never heard about anybody collecting soviet books. They are filled with communist propaganda and are not fun to read.

The thing is, they were printed at a massive scale (up to 100s of thousands), which doesn’t help them in being a valuable collectible.

By the way, there is a website where soviet children books translated to ukrainian are published with illustrations in case anybody is interested in such things:

https://xn--80aaukc.xn--j1amh/

english version (much smaller):

http://freebooksforkids.net
I'm not sure why I would feel one way or another about Zuckerberg reading anything I say. (Winklevos twins probably feel differently.)
Crypto flash crash likely due to margin accounts on Binance
I was lucky to get hold of 70 of these books in absolute mint condition (except for rusted stapler pins) last year after years of futile search in secondhand markets all across India. My dad, a book hoarder extraordinaire in his own right, managed to connect with a retired journalist who apparently stumbled upon them in Nepal and bought them at like less than a dollar a kilo or something!

For anyone interested in scanned files of these in Telugu, you can get them from my blog here http://linkdot.link/sooviytt-prcurnnlu-childrens-books.html#...

https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/ probably has the largest collection of many of these books in English and other Indian languages. There are tons of children’s books from other countries too.
nothing, except for momentum and that real estate transactions don't happen enough for people to investigate an app to do it.
I mean, it’s not their addiction and not their problem. Everyone tries to push/trick/force you into it, from drug cartels to facebook. You can’t do much with neither of them for a variety of reasons, thus it sounds reasonable to perceive it as something that you should refrain from by yourself.

And you can do that even without Quitting Facebook, just bookmark an url that has no feed in it. Personally I’m not using facebook, but e.g. youtube always tries to push me into viewing something. But I simply do not scroll the feed, and go to subs or search instead when I want something new. Only user’s laziness allows them to take control, and only a user is in control of their laziness. All of those who complain about the modern internet forget that old internet required you to “surf” it very actively. FAANG exists as a multi-trillion industry only because people are inert content junkies with a thumb.
If requirements were provided and person didn't fulfill them, they did a bad job. If requirements were fulfilled, but you aren't happy with the result, then you did a bad job.
I upvoted you because what you're saying is true now, but it wasn't back then.

Both Costco and Sam's Club 25 years ago were truly "warehouse" stores. They had no heat. No air conditioning. They weren't brightly lit as they are today. Nowadays, they both have decent-to-above-average well-lit interiors that are designed to be essentially middle-class (in the case of Sam's) to upper middle-class (in the case of Costco) stores that are just "really big".

They were little more than distribution centers with printed price tags on items back in the mid-90s. A lot has changed, about both chains, since then.
Pirates! was superb. I've never visited the Caribbean yet, but I'll be hearing the sound effects from this game when I do.

If only those war wounds didn't stop you playing... and the crew wanting to mutiny or divide the plunder.

It truly was the golden era of games, for me, as a kid. Remember thinking how the incremental improvements in hardware would make games more life like, and when that day would come. Wonder if kids now think the same?
My first thoughts are:

Add some sort of story or goals. Encourage business starting, innovation trying to get more futuristic or get to space or something? But to Achieve these goals, the player has to pass the right laws, manage their economy, ensure sufficient funding & taxes, etc. The core game loop being passing laws and seeing how it impacts behavior, then repeat to achieve a goal

Could be an interesting colony sim or something
Signing a contract with an advance that turns out to be all you get paid for the book is not at all "really a work for hire contract" -- you could say it turns out to really be a flat fee contract, but that's not the same thing. A "work for hire" contract has to do with who owns the copyright, not the payment structure. If your publisher gives you a $10,000 advance on your book and you don't earn enough royalties to break the $10K mark, the book is still yours. (And there are work for hire contracts that pay royalties rather than flat fees!)
This is an essential part of software design today in General. If a part of your system takes time to develope, it should be an instinctive signal to look an alternative. When all of your time is spent on creating value for the customer instead of tweaking technology, you are on the right path. If you find yourself tweaking, you need to stop and look for alternative approach. This does not mean hoarding more tools as I have seen many do, because tools have a maintenance cost.
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

My love to PDF in the early 2000 turned into hatred. This format should really be abolished.
If you live in the US, your real estate is in the US, your salary is in US dollars, and your pension is in US stocks, you are already pretty deep in long US dollar. Might as well diversify your egg basket a bit, just from financial risk management perspective.
Redfin at least takes a smaller cut than 3%...well they kick some of it back (to the buyer they represent, the seller pays the commission, I think they do something similar when they represent the sell side).
I wonder if it would make more sense to just have a profit cap. Like “internet must be provided to low-income New Yorkers at cost + 10%”. That way it’s always at least profitable to reach more people.

The predictable result of the above is plenty of people getting cheap internet, but perhaps many people won’t get it at all because it doesn’t make any sense for Verizon to get the internet to them if they can’t recoup their investment - so they simply won’t. The above “profit cap” preserves the incentives for Verizon while achieving the boost in consumer surplus.
Those people are all millionaires, they all live in either Los Angeles or New York. They can have women delivered discretely to them.

Every person you listed there was an abuser who wanted power over women which were either beholden to them, or women which they held position above. It wasn't about having a sexual encounter for the mere sake of a sexual encounter.
Source for that organizational chart: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
Sure, but the existence of good management in one company run be a PE guy does not necessitate that this will always happen.

Additionally, management is an incredibly hard job to do well, and most people suck at it, so most management chains do incredibly short-sighted things.
That's the theoretical point of every redesign. The practical effect of every redesign seems to be that I must relearn how to use an application. This means when an application is redesigned there's a period when stickiness decreases.

You may also eliminate those features used by only 10% of the population. The issue is that 100% of your customers use one of those features.
What is "at cost"?

If they increase everyone's salaries in Comcast by 50% then "at cost" increases by 50%. Or they could order 5-star Michelin dining delivered by helicopters to WFH employees and call it a "business meal", and "at cost" would be higher as well.

Too easy to abuse.
> Sometimes the person sucks beyond repair and needs to be fired.

Which is... also the responsibility of the manager. Q.E.D.
> the makers of a market shouldn’t be allowed to participate in said market.

by definition a market maker participates in the market.
> At some point I finally embraced it and actively started figuring out what kind of leader I should be.

Can you expand on this? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. What sort of leader did you become? I don't even know what kind of leaders there are.
It is corruption.
P L Deshpande is one of the best author in Marathi literature. For me the best part of learning Marathi, is reading his literature. When reading his book, you will be rolling on the floor while laughing and then suddenly he will touch your heart such a way that you start crying. What a roller coaster ride !

His real potential was observing individual's traits/characterstics and waving story around them. Sadly I belive it is very very difficult to translate his work as there are lot of cultural references in his writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purushottam_Laxman_Deshpande
Things you blog post said about you.

1 : "I'm a girl, I'm entitled to extra attention!"
2 : "I think C is shit"
3 : "I use furry SJW iconography, I'm a good person"
4 : "I use sexist language to shit on men"

Please take your CoC Rust Trojan elsewhere!
Much of the problems could’ve been avoided if PDFs embedded their own source code (e.g. the TeX that generated it) much like a website has a View Source option.

Alas.
First link demonstrates reading from uncleared buffered to capture screen contents - and is from Windows XP era.

Second one is about running a bitcoin miner on the GPU, hypothetical memory breaches, and GPU DoS. You can stall the graphics pipeline without shaders, run a miner on CPU, and I'm going to need a demonstration of a usefull GPU memory breach with WebGL. On top of that any such breach is likely driver dependent and will only work on some specific driver/HW combination - that's such a low attack surface I doubt anyone will bother developing exploits targeting that.

I didn't bother going through third because I wasted enough time on first and second, I don't see how anything here suggest you need to sandbox shaders.
The person who invents a way to save 3% of the house sale price will make 1.5% of the house sale with their automation, while screwing a bunch of people out of an income.

and I don't even like real estate agents.

Downvote all you want, that just means I hit a nerve.
I knew someone would point that out. A large slab of aluminum like the iMac has far greater capacity to get rid of waste heat than any laptop. I suppose that is what I am keen to get my hands on.
Agents tend to not have time issues, and so can wait for the best price possible.

Sellers usually have some time limit they want to sell by.
I'm using GOGs for far more than just a single mirror repo. But thanks! :)
The vegetation now covered by water will start to rot and release lots of methane and other goodies. Unless it is cleared away first. This is only practical with trees though.
As best I can tell the specialty with the lowest annual hours worked is pediatric emergency medicine at around 52 hours a week. Vascular surgery average 66 hours a week. If you want to check my calculations the below paper has annual work hours for different specialties.

Annual Work Hours Across Physician Specialties

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...

Pop article in magazine for physicians

> 2018 Average Physician Hours Worked Per Week
Physician Type Average Physician Workweek
Age 45 years or less 54.73 hours
Age 46 years or more 49.87 hours
Male physicians 51.89 hours
Female physicians 50.46 hours
Practice owners 51.96 hours
Employed physicians 53.73 hours
Primary care physicians 50.64 hours
Physician specialists 51.76 hours

https://www.locumleaders.com/physician-news/the-average-phys...
Adequate money + fun > Lots of money + miserable
I edited my first sentence in my post to make what I'm trying to say clear, I realize it was worded in a confusing way.

I was trying to say that it's not always the responsibility/fault of the manager's communication skills specifically.
the system should predict delays and adjust animation speed accordingly
That's not meant to imply they don't pay well. I included that as a nod to some people I've known in the past that thought they didn't pay well enough, but I also know they've been much more competitive for tech positions the last decade or so (you have to, being SF adjacent). As for tech support (where I think a majority of grumbling traditionally was), I'm not sure what that's like now. It's also a problem of supply and demand though, lots of people are qualified for that.

It doesn't matter how much you like a specific company if they don't have a need for your skills or your skills don't provide enough to live off of. I'm not saying abandon your tech career to work as a janitor at your favorite company, just that there are lots of other choices for someone in tech other than working at a startup. Some pay okay, some pay quite well. Some may not pay well at all. What someone thinks is worth it is obviously up to them and their circumstances.
Being strict and enforcing rules with one company while being tolerant and forgiving with others is how real world corruption often works. And for that matter, how bias in general works. Or nepotism.
This happened to me this past week. I built exactly what the spec said. They came back and said it all looks good, except we expected this to be that. Um, nothing about that was in the spec, nor was it ever mentioned verbally in a meeting. Making the change from this to that will require everything to be redone since it requires fundamental changes. I would have built it differently had it been communicated to me from the beginning. Apparently it didn’t occur to them to mention it. But they really want it. So I’ve started rebuilding it. Sigh.
Incentive comes from profit, not just there being a 'problem'.

If rent was allowed to naturally increase due to an increase in demand, investors would quickly be there to build more appartments. But with rent control, you have little opportunity to offer something unique. It's also harder to compete with appartments that are already close to the center, as they are artifically cheapened.

Of course it's made more complex by additional regulation enforcing you can't build up, more than n stories in most european cities.
If you do a google images search for "running treadmill" you'll see most of them have some design aspect that would prevent the accident shown in the video, most commonly a bar or guard of some sort that would stop a child or large object being dragged under.

Edit: in case you haven't seen the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onXNnlCYJ4Y
What is the legal mechanism for a unilateral world ban on use of a technology?

Closest thing to that I can think of is nuclear proliferation but you’d have to get countries to agree and play strong arm tactics. Possible I guess but not “easily”
Thanks, the URL I had is long dead https://bonkersworld.net/2011/06/27/organizational-charts and so I wasn't even sure whether that's the original author -- for all I know the website could've been replaced by someone else's since. Thanks, we should always give credit where credit is due.