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Few markets are as distorted by government action as the US housing market. It decides where people work, where people can build, what they can build, and how they can build. We directly and indirectly both tax and subsidize sales, loans, insurance, rent, and just about anything else related to housing.

The vast increase in home prices has almost nothing to do with the housing market and is almost 100% driven by government policy combined with a slightly wealthier society.
As much as TFA reflects how I think, it reminds me of how I thought about Dropbox - I never had a need for it because for reasonably technical people, it was always trivial to set this kind of thing up using ancient technology.

I suppose similar to SSID, the Metaverse is a marketing plot to bring what's already happening (for decades!) in some circles to a wider audience. And marketing being a complex problem, I believe it's largely up to chance whether it succeeds in the long run or not.
It’s $1.5M because of limited supply, not because it has to be that expensive.

You’re ignoring two things: 1) many people don’t care about city living just access to jobs, thus a cheaper city with jobs is a good substitute and 2) sure there is a price premium, but $600k seems more reasonable than $1.5M.
I've transferred a load of customers from Intel mac's to M1's with no issues at all. I suspect they were just unlucky.

There are a few ways of telling which ones of your apps are native too: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/tell-apps-optimized-for-m1-...
They might agree in principle, but they’d be pretty pissed off when nothing works when the open their web browser. The golden rule in web standards development is “don’t break the web”, ie you can’t just recklessly change web platform features, you have to do it thoughtfully and carefully to avoid breaking existing websites. It’s not a perfect rule, there are exceptions where the breakage is tiny and the benefit is huge, but what you’re proposing is huge destruction and would not make it past the first stage of consideration.
I dont think its bullshit. Facebook./ meta can pull through, just by the pure power of money.
Thank you for your detailed answer with recommendations!
And Central/Eastern Europe is still hurting today because of policies like this.
move to where?
It used to. But we haven't gone full circle yet, these days the internet is full of overly opinionated clients that consume dumb APIs.
I realised thy would be after I posted my comment - I recognised your username from the Gopher mailing list. :)
There's probably some cosmic horror that just seeds barren planets with life to give them a nice umami flavor. Life is just Cthulhu's fish sauce.
I'm not the biggest fan of Terraform either but it would be naive to deny that Terraform doesn't still offer a lot of advantages over CloudFormation even if you're not writing cloud agnostic code (even though I do actually agree with your point that Terraform doesn't make your infra cloud agnostic).

Terraform offers far more constructs than CloudFormation and there is still a lot to be said for using the same language from describing your AWS infra as GCP, Github, any on prem infra, etc (even if the resources differ between providers requiring bespoke code for each). It's a bit like those who advocate node.js because it means the same developers can right frontend and backend code and in the same language.

If you like the tooling around CloudFormation in AWS then you're better off with serverless (`sls`) or even Amazon's own CDK (https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/) over YAML-based CloudFormation stacks in my opinion.

That's not to say I don't think Terraform doesn't have its warts: properties are non-guessable, IDE integration is pretty mediocre, and it's overly verbose in calling modules (so bad that sometimes the calling code has just as many lines as the module itself!) but I do still think it is the least worst tool available at the moment. And one can always use a 3rd party tools like Terragrunt if you want to fix some of the shortcomings of Terraform while still taking advantage of it's benefits (though personally I'm on the fence about whether the industry really needs yet another transpiler that compiles to code that needs to be transpiled....it's starting to feel like it's just abstractions all the way down....)
I think that the author and a lot of you discussing here are forgetting that in large parts of the world, Facebook is the internet.
Short version - until we find a candidate progenitor virus in an animal population, which enables us to work out a likely route of transmission to humans, we don't have enough information to know.
Are you actually serious? You don’t know which race the US discriminated against in the past 100 years?

Native Americans.

Who stole pretty much all of their land, sent them on death marches [1] and kept them out of politics with discriminatory policies?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears
The Metaverse is our generation's "opium for the masses" - it's not trying to be a context for democratic, open or free information exchange. It's trying to be a means of selling artificially scarce resources (bits) to a placid populace who deeply enjoys the experience.

How can Meta (and other Metaverse advertising companies) not be seen as an evil organization in context of the dystopian Cyberpunk futures it is so heavily influenced by?
> I think the idea is that the Metaverse will give you as close to the real experience of being in that specific car as possible...

The experience of driving a real car is heavily influenced by the real world. Take those little flap things cars sometimes have to shield your eyes from the sun - the metaverse will first have to simulate an annoyance (possibly with harmful eye-melting ultraviolet light?) then let you mitigate it with the flap. It isn't obvious why people will want that or pay money for it. If they don't simulate glare, then what is the flap for?

Cars aren't independent of reality, they exist as well designed tools that allow us to do and experience things that we otherwise couldn't. When that gets translated to some sort of virtual space all the design decisions start to fall apart. The only thing that really carries over is to get the branding in front of a person to make them think of the name - which rather undermines the original "isn't going to run ads" thesis.
Not to mention libraries.
I think it's more a lack of imagination. I gave up renting in LA and moved to a place where I could afford a great house with great local amenities for under $400k. I tried to convince my brother and his wife to move here but, although they can barely afford their condo fees, they're stuck in the mindset that anywhere outside LA is the "sticks". So it would mean losing their big shot at bigger career opportunities... even though they really only want to raise their kids and have no serious ambitions about that. Meanwhile they're in a tiny place while everything around them falls apart. It's frankly incomprehensible to me that people can't adjust to changing circumstances and re-evaluate their situation, and tack a different course. But my point is, you have to credit a lot of inertia to the reasons why people continue to live in places that are not affordable. Given the choice and if they knew they had job security elsewhere, I think most people would spread out to smaller towns, $300k houses and build the communities they want. They're just paralyzed by having to break with familiarity.
> When you make housing an investment, by definition, it has to become less affordable in the future.

Not really. It's fine to "invest" in something that just outperforms holding cash, or bank deposits. Trillions of dollars are invested in treasuries.

You can even invest in something with negative expected returns, if it hedges exactly the risks you will face in the future (eg, the risk of accommodation costs rising is offset by owning a house, because you will always need somewhere to live).

So you can make housing an attractive investment for medium-net-worth individuals, say, that section of the population that can afford to own 1-2 houses over their lifetime, without it becoming less affordable over time. You can use tax incentives to tweak this further: many jurisdictions give you a lot of tax relief on your first home.

So, what causes house prices to rise faster than incomes is not an approach of making housing an investment per se, but a focus on making it an investment competitive with the stock market and attractive to institutional investors seeking outright yield.
> But basically every government intervention leads to some abominable result.

Some interventions do, some don't. Without environmental legislation, for example, companies would export their negative externalities, e.g. pumping sewage into water systems, onto the rest of us.

Saying that, however, there have been some bad housing policies in the UK, for example, "Help to Buy" which could just as easily be called "Help to Sell".
I wonder about confounding effects. Students who were struggling might be more prone to study late and more prone to do poorly on tests. (My first year at MIT [when you’d typically take 3.091] kicked my ass and I got little sleep; maybe the second caused some of the first, but the first definitely caused a lot of the second.)
>You can tell this absolutely makes no sense, because if we're in the metaverse, why the heck am I driving a car around? I can fly, can't I? Or if I can't, I'm going to open up a shop next door that sells metaverse helicopter rides. If I make a vehicle in the metaverse, I'm going add rocket launchers and nos, because that's way more fun than driving a Camry around.

The corporate metaverse will be advertiser driven. You won't be able to put rocket launchers on a car except in specific zones where violence is allowed. You'll have to pay the metaverse operator to get your helicopter approved, and they'll want 30% of anything you make from helicopter rides.

All of this is an advertiser friendly second life with no reason to participate. I've had plenty of fun in VR but I want nothing to do with advertiser driven VR, and a metaverse even less.
Stag film is a term I'd recognize, though I'm not familiar enough with it to use it.
Yes, they are. Strap one on and fly a fighter jet in Flight Sim 2020 and tell me they aren’t.

But they are fatiguing, unflattering, and uncomfortable, even for 20 or 30 minutes worth of usage.

Maybe in 10 years when the software stacks are ready the headsets will be good enough for passive use.
In someways it doesn’t matter. We know the Chinese state is responsible either by design nor by negligence and we know that they covered it up. China truly is the evil empire
You are wrong, look what ie France is doing with its housing market. No bubbles since it highly demotivates speculations and corporate mega-investments that move markets.

There are tons of tools any state has to motivate or demotivate markets. Taxes, rules on primary, secondary and investment residence ownership, same goes for rents etc.

I tend to see a clear pattern here, just like in other topics - folks who are profiting from current situation by already owning see nothing wrong - in contrary, market forces in effect etc. The more the better.

The rest not so much, ie younger generation thrown in the world where they probably will never own their residence, which can be pretty infuriating compared t situation say 20 years ago. There aren't that many more people to explain this. But the move to consider housing more and more as a speculative investment rather than commodity is definitely out there, everywhere.
If you select the first option (multiple domains), the load balancing would be done by the client ( hit one domain, on failure hit next.)
Oh man, thanks for that, HoMMIII is one of my favorite games!
No teacher can afford to live in the neighborhood if the house prices are that high. Why would the schools be better?
And a house in Switzerland will cost you way north of 1mil CHF at average wage of 60k CHF (5 years of which is 300k CHF which doesn't buy you a shed in most cities).

So his point kinda stands.
I just use Sandboxie instead.
For one, it's closer to a proper programming language as opposed to straight up data interchange format. Sure if you write it in YAML than you can take advantage of variables but YAML's syntax for variables is pretty gross.

Comparing CloudFormation to Terraform is a little like comparing HTML and CSS to Javascript (though Terraform isn't nearly as nice to code in as Javascript -- and I'm not exactly a big fan of Javascript). You can cover most use cases with plain HTML and CSS but the moment you need to get a little more intelligent with your code you get stuck.
Zettelkasten note-taking after one year – spoiler: use logseq
The US tax code intentionally taxes investments and dividends at about half the rate as income.
Or: people who are relaxed enough to be able to go to sleep early are more likely to do better in tests.
The way to modulate this used to be customs, traditions and passing on of knowledge via inter-generational living. It works fine if a given individual does not have to re-invent the whole of civilisation on their own, and there is no reason they should need to.

This has been lost to a certain degree, which (among others) explains the rise of The Expert. The failure modes are worse though, because incentives are mis-aligned.
"What are the ethics of writing code that would result in its "suffering"? "

I doubt that code can suffer. We do not understand feelings enough and this might help to understand it eventually - but for now I see no reason to assume that they can recreated digitally.

And I am much more worried, about many real life beings that suffer in our food chain and co.
Note that the price can also go up a bit after accounting from inflation without making it “less affordable”. Median income in the US has increased about 10% more than inflation since 2000.
If you did that, who would want to build houses?
Buying an asset because it will increase in demand is not "speculation", it's investing. Banning investment means no one will invest to make more houses.
>I think the idea is that the Metaverse will give you as close to the real experience of being in that specific car as possible, a video game won't do that because any car placed in a video game must be subservient to the goals and mechanics of the game.

Why do you think the metaverse will do a better job than the developers at assetto corsa for whom it is their primary mission?

It's all just marketing wank to get advertisers excited to put product placement in facebook's new second life metagame.
The funniest part of this for me was Roblox changing all their mention of games to experiences earlier this year during the start of the Epic-Apple thing.
I don't really have an opinion on the subject, but I do think this argument you are making isn't all too convincing.

Hypothetical scenario: Imagine if we hadn't discovered the medium of air. Yet we have discovered that putting a sail on a boat makes it randomly push the boat forward. In that case, we could explain the mechanics of the sail with simple spring models, we would observe how the sail is perturbed as it accelerates, we could see that it's made out of atoms and see how those atoms build molecules which build threads which make a fabric, we could even convincingly model the fabric in computers, yet it would tell us very little about why the boat is animated by the sail.
Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux
The fentanyl death rate is almost exclusively an outgrowth of US drug policy. Compare US and Swiss rates of OD’s for some perspective.
Which we won’t it it was bred in a lab. Hence, we won’t know.
As long as incomes rise faster than inflation, disposable income rises exponentially faster than overall income.

Suppose your disposable income is 10% of your total income of 50k, so you have costs of 45k and 5k to spend. Let's say your total income rises by 10%, but your cost of living rises by 5%. You now earn 55k, and have costs of 47.25k (5% increase on 45k spending).

Your total income went up by 10%, but your disposable income went up from 5k to 7.75k, that's a 55% rise. More than 5x leverage!

I first noticed this early in my working life when a small increase in pay made a dramatic change to my disposable income. This means as your pay and career advances you can devote rapidly increasing resources to the highest priority spending in your life. For a lot of people, especially those with children, that's housing. Since a lot of people have that as a priority, and we're competing for a static or slowly growing housing stock, we're constantly bidding up prices against each other.

Yes there are other factors too, like low interest rates, of course, but I think this is the main dynamic driving it.
> From my experience, push notifications are a very important feature too, almost all of my customers want that

I agree, but I also think that most of your customers don't want useless marketing/advertising push-notifications from your App. Based on my experiences, almost all larger 3rd party app makers will abuse push notifications for this at some point. An example would be Tinder, which sends you a notification like "There is someone new who likes you" and if you then check you learn that you can't actually do anything with that information, because that feature is only available to paying customers (but you will get the notification if you are a free user anyways). This is a clear sales/marketing dark pattern that users usually don't want.
The density adds to the appeal like a gravitational pull towards that city.
I had many of the same needs, so I wrote Harbormaster:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/harbormaster

All it does is manage Compose applications, with a sane directory structure. It's been working great, both for my personal use and for a few companies running production workloads on it.

I love that it's super simple and the workflow it has is fantastic, I just push to a repo and everything else happens automatically.
> ethical companies

What a cute oxymoron!
Capitalism is killing the planet – Time to stop buying into our own destruction
That's true. But that's of a different category. Governments should regulate the public sphere and public resources. That benefits individuals. Who in a democracy ostensibly are the ones who vote in the government. Notably, authoritarian governments which don't respect individuals don't spend much time on environmental regulation either.

Market manipulation or redistribution of individual (not corporate) wealth by governments -- as opposed to regulation -- is always a bad idea because (a) the people making those calls from within the government are getting rich by doing so, directly siphoning wealth from the citizenry by exercising inside knowledge and the power to tweak a market, and (b) those actions directly harm the golden goose that produces the economic uplift the government needs to survive - that is, the individual in the middle class.
If you tax the whole of the delta then real estate development would scrape to a halt. So that obviously won’t work.
If if the buyer can afford the car they can just to go a dealership and test drive one, and get a 1:1 experience. This is about advertising and trying to sell advertising as experience rather than advertising. What else would you imagine facebook's virtual space to be?
The taxation would be on resales only, not initial sales by developers.

Also, if you increased the value of house (e.g. via renovation), the value increase would be tax-free upon resale, so that you can fully recoup the money you've put into the renovation.
This is the “find out” stage after you fuck around.

You threaten violence on Twitter, you get banned.

I see nothing wrong here.
I tried this with Tor Browser on two different computers and got two different fingerprints, even in safest mode.
Not only do they both still advertise, but their ability to maintain revenue without massive ad spending is based entirely on their users marketing on their behalf -- not on some imaginary perpetual momentum. At least half of Airbnb hosts have their own website and many make their own local and regional ad buys.
What I don’t understand about this is how it’s supposed to work.

Plug anything into any port on our machines and it’ll either have the key to be recognised as one or our devices or be denied any sort of access.

This wasn’t always possible, but today even the keyboard is encrypted. And this is in a medium sized Danish municipality with a technical staff of 5, and it department of 20 and 10.000 employees.

If we can do it, any enterprise can do it.
Your input methods comment is key. Today we can have an almost true to life virtual driving experience with peripherals like direct drive steering wheels, loadcell pedals, shifters and a motorised driving rig. It's an expensive hobby with great innovation. Until the interface problem is fixed for VR then it will be a very subpar experience compared to what's already available.

You can now extrapolate this to almost any interaction in VR; walking, flying, typing or shooting.

Until there's an input method that is able to emulate these experiences effectively, then it is pure science fiction.
> I think this idea that all advertising people have no idea what they're doing and are unable to quantify their results is a weird HN bubble thing.

I’ve worked in marketing for a decade and my experience is that most of my colleagues are making things up as they go. Very few have any formal education in marketing, let alone have any interest in reading marketing textbooks or studies and even fewer still have any maths background.

I suspect things are different at larger and more prestigious companies, but the state of marketing for SME’s is pretty dire.
Yeah, thought so too.

At least adding some major timestamps in the description would be great.
No, I'm referring to the money supply increasing much more quickly than wages are. Someone is creating money and handing it out to asset owners.

It is difficult to argue against creating money and handing it out to everyone with that sort of history. Asset owners aren't special people.
That’s sort or my point. Everything is encrypted, even your keyboard and mouse are encrypted, so how is this supposed to work?
How verbose is it compared to others like Go or Rust ?
>but once facial expressions tracking arrives it's time do it

NeosVR already supports facial tracking with HTC's face tracker.
This was in works since early 2019. Changing structure of a big company and all the bang associated with it takes long.
Aside from federal loan programs and interest rates, how does the US federal government decide where people work or build? Seems like a lot of local state and city regulations, not some master plan.
‘Yeah, we’re spooked’: AI starting to have big real-world impact, says expert
See Georgism[1], Geolibertarianism[2], Are you a Real Libertarian, or a ROYAL Libertarian?[3] and Vulgar libertarianism[4].

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism

[3] https://geolib.com/essays/sullivan.dan/royallib.html, and prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7076632

[4] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Vulgar_libertarianism
Worth noting that in a lot of cases you’re forced to bid on your own brand searches to prevent competitors from claiming the top spot.
>You mean government charters for e.g. Fannie Mae that were established in part to combat behavior like redlining

US government used $200 billion of taxpayers money to revive Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Those money will lower the cost of borrowing and thus push the prices up. A new crisis will come, people will lose their houses, Fannie Mae will lose the tax payers money. The government will give Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac $400 billion this time, thinking that $200 billion was clearly not enough.
I believe you but I already use vinegar in small quantities for years just to bring the pH down to around 6. My plants thrive.
I can make a profit from investing in organised crime, but that doesn't mean its a good thing.