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Ask HN: What should Realtor Joe do to help his family member save money?
Hi, just wondering what everyone here thinks about this. What should Realtor Joe do to help his family member save money?

SITUATION

Realtor named Joe is helping a family member with buying a home. They are in the middle of negotiating the purchase price. The price will make or break the deal.
The commission (paid by the seller) will be split 50/50 between the listing agent (seller’s broker) and the selling agent (the Realtor that brought the buyer in this case) at closing.

JOE’S 2 IDEAS

1. Joe SHOULD tell the listing broker that he is willing to give up his share of the commission. In other words, the listing broker will not have to split the commission at closing, since he is giving up his buyer to the listing broker.

He understands that the Realtors' job is to work in the best interest of the clients. The listing broker can and should pass on this savings to the seller.

2. Joe SHOULD NOT give up his share of the commission.

THE GOAL / THE QUESTION

Which way will help the buyer (Joe’s family member) save the most money?
> The science and societies of the past were always flawed, and mistaken, they just didn't know better. The science and societies of the present never are wrong or flawed in their thinking.

That's also the reasoning the communists and the National Socialists used in their reasoning; turns out they were faced with the same problems their predecessors had to deal with but they didn't really have better solutions. In the end the people paid because it was more important to save face than to admit being wrong.
I agree perfectly. It seems there are zillions of apps (just look at this thread), but the moment I look for my requirements (markdown, good math rendering, no format lockdown, decent GUI, basic backup options) it seems that no matter how I look the only options are Obsidian and Joplin. Joplin being open source, albeit not perfect, it is my choice.

It always surprises me how many apps there and how I don't get a feeling with 95% of them.
I own a tesla and agree with your points. The only thing to factor I. Is a standard outlet charge for a night might get you 50 miles of range
I still use Perl CGI scripts for handling chores on the server side.

The newest version of my app uses service workers to store almost all the app code in the user's browser. Almost everything the user does with the app is done on the client side so for the most part they only hit the server to get or put data in the server side database (CouchDB) and for the most part those are very small gets and puts.

Compared to earlier versions going back to 2002 my server barely has any load on it. If your goal is to track every click a user makes then CGI isn't a great server side option, but if your goal is to make a fast and reliable app than an offline-first/local-first side benefit is you don't need a huge box or tons of bandwidth to run it and CGI scripts are a fine way to handle small server side chores, which is pretty much all that's left.
Neat! I wouldn’t have expected this to be possible anywhere in the Southwest. There’s no connection — not even Amtrak, between Phoenix (where I’m from) and Tucson. I didn’t even know San Diego had regional trains.
Good ol' Manufacturing Consent.
People who would want the data of someone knowledgable enough to install a custom pam module and write a script to utilize it are most likely also sophisticated and informed enough to know what to look for. This is not some street thug, it's most likely either law enforcement or organized crime who know very well what they want and that it's supposed to be on your machine.
I love NixOS but the way Flakes are written, it's not stealing mindshare from the mainstream distros anytime soon. Flakes could have been a chance to write Nix comprehensibly but it reads like a layer of complication on top an already complicated language model.
Both past societies and current ones contain contradictory points of view. There was always conflict between people of opposing opinions. They were always people who broke contemporary moral codes, either for money, power or profit or idealism.

There were always sociopaths or people who were cruel for fun.

As in, here you are attacking strawman.
It's easily enforceable. Avoid applying the tax to primary residences. If it's not a primary residence, tax.
>they’re facilitating an oppressive autocracy

>Is the US somehow immune from this same threat?

No, if you investigate how many police in the US act now with qualified immunity and get away with it scott free, you would be horrified. I would guess people like Chauvin is one of thousands.

Here's just a taste.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/us-police-br...
> I am 41 years old.

We are pretty similar in age.

> I feel like in last 6-8 years, people have become far more intolerant regarding free speech.

Which people, and what speech?

I grew up in a smaller town (but not tiny), where teachers who were fired or otherwise quietly left town after coming out as gay.

My parents stressed about petty church politics because good standing in the local church had a direct effect on their ability to get and keep (completely secular) jobs.

They put out yard signs for candidates they secretly voted against.

If you weren't a white right-of-GOP-center conservative evangelical christian, life was an exercise is constant self-censorship.

From my perspective, "cancel culture" doesn't really seem particularly new. On average, people enjoy more expressive freedom today than they did in the 1980s.

So, again: which people, and what speech? Perhaps a few major metro areas enjoyed true liberalism re: speech in the 80s; I wouldn't know. But in most of America, your golden age of free speech never actually existed.
Seems to me that the foundations are not crumbling, but there should be a way to formally determine how good is a model going to be in the wild before it is used, especially in certain industries. Which I think it's where research is focused on these days? White box models, Bayesian distributions etc.?
In most cities and towns across the US, you have to retain half the state bar association simply to get the permits to do the environmental and traffic pattern studies that must be submitted to the approval council before you can get permission to build.
That'd be neat. With Touch ID, it would be very intuitive to configure the middle finger as the trigger to run a duress script.
> As an example, if we're all tracked and recorded in public that will pretty much end non-domestic crime. Or at least guarantee that anyone that commits a crime will be caught and punished.

Where's the evidence for this? As pointed out above, we're already being tracked, and it doesn't seem to have stopped all crime, or even cut it down in a noticeable way. As for being recorded in public, that hasn't even even stopped 7-11s from being robbed, let alone preventing or resolving all crime everywhere.

> AFAICT there's little to no evidence to tie advancing technology to authoritarianism or otherwise diminished civil liberties.

Do you remember how there was a time when having a scan of your naked body examined by a stranger at the airport was considered at least mildly invasive? That was just a few years ago. Now, we're used to it. That's a small example of how fast humans adapt to preserve their sense that everything is fine. The amount of surveillance we consider normal today would have seemed oppressive not long ago.

> Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and any number of others through out history have created repressive regimes without modern technology.

It's true that Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot did not use GPS tracking against their citizens, because (being dead) they didn't have the option to use it. But electronic surveillance has been the tool of every country's secret police dating back to the invention of the telephone, so I'm not sure what you mean.
I wonder if you can discern what type of problem a person is working on based on their path. For example if you give a person two good solutions to a problem but they can only pick one, would they naturally pace back and forth ?
> return Double.longBitsToDouble(
> Double.doubleToRawLongBits(value) & 0x7fffffffffffffffL);

Technically, this will change NaN values into different ones.
> Does "conservative-aligned" still mean anything at all in the UK

When it comes to UK newspapers of course it does.

> There's basically no more serious non-conservative political parties in the UK

That's certainly an opinion, but one that is not relevant to talking about newspapers.

> whereas the COVID lockdowns (lasting roughly 8 months) were enacted by a conservative leader.

UK lockdowns were consistently too late, because the Conservative government did not want too admit the necessity. That's why the lockdowns had to be so long and repeated. Pressure like this article exits because the UK Government is know to be susceptible to it. Because they don't have their own serious plans for COVID, or actually for anything else either.
> If you don’t know this, then you simply don’t understand how the system works.
Here's what I know:

> - filter was very easily defeated. (took 1 week at most)
> - actual CP can be made to hash the same as anything else.
>So it's actually useless for catching CP, its stated goal...

This is just bullshit. Nothing was ‘defeated’ since neuralhash isn’t a secure hash. It’s just a perceptual hashing algorithm. Nobody expected collisions to be impossible, and the system doesn’t rely on that.

> Now, here's how its weaponized by other parties:
> Make child porn hash the same as pictures of Trump or Biden for example, witness half of america being acused of porn once hash enters database.

> 2 insecure hashes are equivalent to a somewhat longer original insecure hash MxN matrix vs 2Mx2N with independent determinants.

That is speculation, and depends on the second hashing algorithm which we don’t have access to. I think it’s unlikely you are right.

> You defeat it the same as it was done here. It took 1 week to defeat the current one, so say 4 weeks for 2 hashes?

If in 4 weeks, someone has actually produced an image of Biden (or any innocent looking image) that fools both hashes, I will agree that the system is broken.

That wouldn’t send people to prison, since it wouldn’t pass manual review, but I agree it would make the system useless.

However this shows that you are in fact lying about people’s photos of their own babies triggering collisions, and that the links you posted do not support this claim.

You understand the system well enough to know what it would take to fool it and that a photo you take yourself has no realistic likelyhood of generating a false positive, and you haven’t even tried to explain how it could.

Since you are speculating that it will take 4 weeks to break both hashes, you are admitting that the system is not broken now.

You have admitted that the system is in fact secure against neuralhash collisions alone, and that nobody so far has a proven way to break CSAM detection.
Different weeds have different strategies. There is one that specializes in wildfires (cheatgrass): it has a large root system and burns very easily, so it "awaits" to be burned: no one but their root system survives the fire, so it can grow out quickly again after the fire.
apache caching reverse proxy even.
In USSR, there was massive Civil War with around 6 different parties struggling to gain power via violence. The victor turned out to be violent. Nothing similar is going on in west now, you could compare Islamic regions.

And incidentally, both Russia and those regions were destabilized by wars prior that.
Agreed, but I think it’s going to be a mess in the next couple years when ford starts shipping the lightning. There are going to be way more trucks than chargers to handle them for long trips. Practically that doesn’t make a difference (and I’d probably take my gas vehicle for long road trips).

And slow charging works at the vacation spot, unless you’re at a condo / parking garage without power outlets. It’s just enough inconvenience (with fairly significant consequences if you run out of charge [half day of vacation waster]) to make it less practical right now as a single car solution.
With the new Quick Capture stuff I'm all in on Apple Notes. Drafts was a bit more slick when it comes to just capturing and acting on text, sure. But all the nerd-favorite apps like Drafts and Obsidian are heavily text focused. So am I! But I also really like taking handwritten notes.
They will be happy to cease use of the code.

The damages probably amount to $0. "Don't use this code, no seriously don't" isn't exactly an advertisement of the value it provide.
Gonna have to disagree that it's funny.
> If we'd had the sense to do that here we probably would've saved tens of thousands of lives.

Hundreds of thousands. The US is currently at >628,000 COVID deaths. US citizens traveling abroad, or people traveling inside the US probably account for a significant number of COVID deaths outside of the US, but those are much harder to count.
Does the plan apply to homeowners' private property or only to HOA property?
> Motors and the attached gears also fail.

Almost never. EV motors and their gears don't have the problem of injected pollutants in the oil. This is why most are expected to last a million miles or more.

The lack of a transmission also eliminates a major point of failure (gear shifting)

> But batteries have thousands of parts and electrical connections.

Those aren't mechanical parts, that's the big difference. When people talk about EVs having fewer parts, they are referring to the moving parts. The parts that most commonly fail in ICE.
Sometimes you just have to define variables. Customer C, supplier P, etc. That can get hard to read if done wrong, but better than dangling pronouns.
I don't think this influx of Japan-related posts on the HN front page is a positive thing. The overexposure of Japan in nerd circles is understandable and well-researched, but it feels like a cheapening of this forum and descend into Reddit territory.
They had to install the app and also consent to have their location tracked by the club. They could still use the app without that stuff, obviously, and the platform actually didn’t allow club admins to see where members were at all times—just which members were entering/exiting designated areas. It was actually quite a challenge to get that kind of information to the club in a timely fashion, especially if the club was situated near a busy roadway. You wanted the geofence large enough to give the club time to prepare to receive the guest, but not so large that it gave false positives for members simply driving past the club.
<=> spaceship operator: Good article on the C++20 three-way comparison operator: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/simplify-your-code-wi...
https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/the-high-line-s-halo-.... Talks about an apartment that went from $350,000 to 3.15M.

As a more general principle, try to buy any good pawpaw cultivar. If you look peacefulheritage.org, which is probably the top grower in the country, they go one sale 1 day a year and completely sell out in 20 minutes. You need to license the same software that people use to scalp PS5s to even have a chance to buy one. There literally isn't any consumer product on the market that has this high of an asymmetry between supply and demand.

If you go to the estates of any wealthy families, e.g. the Rockefeller estates or the Getty estates or whatever, the one thing they all have in common is really nice trees. Picking out trees for the new Apple campus was the last thing Steve Jobs did before he died. If it's an exaggeration to say that being able to buy nice trees is the entire point of having money, it's probably not by much.
Ding ding ding. There is no satire to be found here.
I use this occasionally in Emacs with awk-mode to live edit awk programs against a data file:

https://github.com/danlamanna/live-awk-mode
Yes, probability distributions have two tails, but you can't just assume they're the same size. If you know what the probability distribrution of unvaccinated people is w.r.t. precautionary measures they take, then I'd love to see it. But my bet is that you don't have any actual data on it, and you're just making assumptions.

edit: To be clear, I don't know what the distribution looks like either, but I'm not assuming the average unvaccinated person takes other precautions. I don't think we can confidently say that.
> To be fair the current president is usually not news because they’re not doing anything out of the ordinary (ordinarily)

I do find it interesting that most news sites seem to have agreed that his stumbling, bumbling way of often losing his train of thought is rarely worth a mention.
If you didn't have any transmission problems, it's because you haven't had a new focus in the last 20 years.
Where sessions are too large to store in signed cookies (which should usually be preferred when possible since they require no extra infrastructure and avoid any risk of session data mixups) they normally end up in some kind of database or memcache since you likely want to support multiple processes.

It's much less likely you'll lookup the wrong user's session than accidentally store some user data in a module or closure variable shared between requests which may come from different users.
Radical Candor is a very common recommendation along these lines as well.
I'm waging a constant war on my property with Oriental Bittersweet. It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with... it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear... and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.

My parents, on the other hand, thought it might be fun to plant a little bamboo patch about twenty years ago. They now have an entirely uncontrollable forest of the stuff.
If you look closely, 1 in 1971 is a lot closer than 7 that written in 109. Also as mentioned below, defining stroke in the middle with 7, and how it is written. For number 1, writing starts with upper left and goes down, that makes sense for translation from 1 to 0. For 7 you do same but middle stroke takes your hand off paper so there is no direct and smooth translation to next number. That's my reasoning for interpreting it as 109, rather than 709.
There are plenty of contemporary parallels in political parties (who become government).

The distinction with 1984 might be that the media is not entirely controlled by the government of the day, but that is not for want of effort.
I doubt its useful for code

On the other hand for syncing notes across devices , or things like that , id say its very handy
In Western Europe, it’s quite common to see tenders for electric public transport bus lines or more generic tenders being won by firms offering a solution using electric buses (not necessarily on costs, but on pollution, noise levels, and environmental grounds)

I think electric vehicles are mainstream there, already. It wouldn’t surprise me if all further winning bids were fully electric.

For example, googling “public transport bus tenders electric” gives me

- https://www.sustainable-bus.com/news/de-lijn-tender-350-elec... (Belgium, 350 buses)

- https://www.sustainable-bus.com/news/tm-barcelona-tender-ele... (Barcelona, 210 buses)

- https://www.electrive.com/2020/11/23/amsterdams-gvb-to-procu... (Amsterdam, 142 buses)
I've a 10 year old ford edge that's been nothing but failed parts.

How many miles do you have on your focus? My edge started degrading fast after about 100,000 miles.
I can agree in that CGI is a cool and simple technology that might make sense for some applications, and can be a good method to teach new developers the basics. I don't think I'd choose it for much now though, unless I knew it was very simple and would never grow more complex.

Most of the complaints here are about performance. I don't think the decreased performance would be much of an issue until you get to pretty large scale. I do think the real issue is the huge complexity in doing things correctly and securely in such a manual environment. Oh, you're going to do cookies by just printing the Set-Cookie header manually? Well now you have to handle everything about your cookies manually and do it correctly. What are the odds you're doing that? Just let Rails etc handle it the right way for you. Going to do CSRF protection manually too, and do anti-XSS escaping correctly everywhere, and mitigate a ton of obscure security issues that most people have never heard of? No way, unless you're a world-class expert. Just use one of the major proven frameworks that already take care of all of that stuff for you.
It’s interesting how fairly complex bit twiddling hacks are well-known for integers, but even very simple but useful bit twiddles for floats (like this one) are obscure enough to warrant their own article.

Of course, the most famous bit manipulation of floats is the fast inverse square root trick [0]. The bits of a float as an integer literal are proportional to its log2 value (plus a constant), which is handy for computing a reciprocal square root in logspace, which when converted back to a float gets exponentiated, yielding the answer (after a couple more refinement steps). If you actually take the time to manually hammer out the bitwise manipulations, the fast inverse square root is quite simple, but it is nonetheless regarded as black magic, likely due to the totally non-explanatory comments in the Quake source code.

Funnily enough, directly following the fast inverse square root in the Quake source code is a function to compute absolute values by zeroing the float sign bit [1], just as described in the article.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Alias...

[1] https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/blob/dbe4ddb1...
> More likely what you mean is the number of combinations of phonemes into valid Chinese Mandarin monosyllables, of which I cannot imagine there being only 400.

That's your problem, not ilamont's. The limited syllable inventory of Mandarin Chinese is very well known. No need to stretch your imagination over it.

That said, surnames are not limited by the number of syllables for the obvious reason that the spelling is part of the surname.
It’s not just a difference in mindset that prevents the homes from being valuable. The demographic pyramid and immigration rates mean these homes won’t be in-demand in the future. So investors speculate that the value will stay low.
Ah good point. Thanks!
That's what I've heard. I passed on Obsidian for some other reasons, but during my eval I was pretty sure if I was to stick with it I'd pay for their sync service.
I fail to see the point of this comment. Are you suggesting the opinion of Calvin Robinson should be disregarded because it's published on a website you don't like?
I'd recommend you read "Dogs & Demons" by Alex Kerr, which is specifically about land use in modern Japan.
The difference I think people will notice is how much less service a BEV requires as opposed to an ICE car. The ICE needs constant changes of oils and filters to keep those advanced engines operational, and this turns into frequent service appointments that cost money.

Tesla Model 3 apparently has a 6 year service interval.