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I think we continue to ignore asset inflation in these discussions.

While there are obvious gaps and issues with physical construction and zoning, the real issue is that housing, and many other assets, have gone up way above inflation for the last 14 years. And the corrections do not wipe out enough of those gains.

If we never solve the asset inflation problem with real estate values, all others issues are ultimately moot.
Hi everyone!

Firezone CEO here. Someone just clued me into this thread. Unfortunately I’m in and out of Internet service today but I’ll do my best to answer questions.

As noted by others, Firezone isn’t really aiming to be a mesh networking tool like Tailscale, but more of a classic east-west VPN similar to OpenVPN Access Server. We also expose simple controls for managing egress firewall rules.

We have a big release planned next week to bring OIDC auth and the ability to manage multiple WireGuard networks, plus Docker support and more firewall + multisite features in the pipeline for later this summer.

We have a one-line install script for Linux at our repo if you’d like to give it a whirl! Grateful for any and all feedback.

https://github.com/firezone/firezone
(Disclaimer: github employee speaking for myself)

Reactions are not really about fostering “social” aspects of code review and issue triage as much as they are to prevent the need for a build up of low effort “+1” style comments. I view them as a community management tool that OSS maintainers would be much worse off without.
They explicitly say they trust the results. They're complaining that top labs use lots of compute, so the results aren't relevant to someone who can't. They give an example where a paper used 18K TPU core hours. It's easy to find papers that use millions of core hours.

IMO, asking AI people to not use expensive compute is like asking astronomers to please stop using expensive telescopes. The opposite side of this argument is "Gee, it looks like increasing compute helps AI a lot. Why the heck have we been spending so little on compute?" [0].

[0]: https://www.gwern.net/Scaling-hypothesis
For single-machine key-value needs (and lists, sets, sorted sets, hash tables, and various full-text operations) it’s by far fastest in my experience. But it’s not going to have the level of transactional
guarantees in a clustered setup or full ACID (writes aren’t immediately durable) that some use-cases will require.

Treat Redis more like a cache or
job queue or pub-sub or event streaming platform or full-text search engine than a primary datastore of mission-critical data.
I live in a townhouse. Its land efficient, i have a garage w/ storage its relatively affordable to houses. What i dont like are HOA fees and useless common expenses (the pool) and forced rules (only white curtains). The space 3 units take up is about one house in same neighborhood.
This is not actually missing from the models. See for instance https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01598-4
They are not a bank to make loans. They are custodians of money minted and backed by the US government.
Ask HN: Is DALL-E behind this video?
Ugh, I remember that one. Painful to read.

For an extra level of irony, where do wealthy Angelenos go for vacation? Paris, for its great, walkable neighborhoods that allow exactly what their city rabidly bans.
The biggest effect is in homes without any sort of central air system, which would usually include various levels of filters up to HEPA and UV systems at this point. During the worst of fire season in the Bay Area though, a single Coway HEPA filter, basically a box fan with a HEPA filter strapped to it, kept my apartment in the "safe" range for AQI. Just stepping out my apt front door into the hallway I'd be hit with the heavy stench of smoke.

Truly remarkable how well they work, but whether you need one or not depends on whether you have allergens/pollution as an issue in your home. You can purchase an air quality monitor (I have a Temtop M10) or check online measurements of AQI, pollen, etc. for your area. If you have an issue, they work, but not everyone has an issue.
Ancedotally they work 100%. Not only do they remove noticeable odors, they suck up tons of allergenic dust and invisible particulates that can mess with your breathing (if you have a sensitive respiratory system).

Non-anecdotally, I've heard it claimed that indoor air pollution is the #1 factor in reducing the lifespans of otherwise healthy people. No idea if this is the case or what the evidence is, but I don't find it hard to believe.
> why don't more people act as their own architect / build more of their housing themselves?

In Europe at least legality of the process. I do a shitload of DIY in the home and so does my brother in his home. Fancy hotel-looking closet with lighting and whatnots? (this sure give a "luxury" feel): we got it. But I'm not allowed to build a house from scracth. I'd love to: my grandfather build a chalet all by himself in the fifties and that chalet still exists.

For the architect plans you kinda can do it yourself and then find an architect that'll adapt and sign the plans.

But the concrete, the electricity: you need stamps/approval from professional and the state does send people verifying that everything is kosher.

You can have the wall and electricity lay out and then do a lot yourself, but you now have the issue that the price you'll pay for "stuff" aren't the discounted prices the professionals do get.
It's not just that they're suspect or unreliable. They're complete bullshit.

The actual use of VPN technology is to create virtual networks that are private (hence the name). It's a system level technology. There are several types of network topologies you can set up, when I was learning about this I found this article which is quite nice: https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2020/10/wireguard-topolog.... You can proxy traffic through a VPN, but the only scenario I can think of in which it makes sense is if you are an OSINT researcher and you need a safe system on which to conduct your research.

If you need to proxy traffic and "hide" your IP, just use a flipping proxy. It's an application level technology (e.g. for torrenting, every torrent client under the sun supports a SOCKS5 proxy). If you don't have the patience to set up a VPS yourself, you can even use something like Outline (https://getoutline.org) which automates that (and it has a mobile client app as well).

If you need privacy (and to actually hide your IP), then use Tor.
I just discovered the "share" item in the tab contextual menu includes AirDrop (on mac naturally) and while this doesn't help you, I was always copying and pasting a site between firefox and safari in order to send it to my iPhone, and was previously frustrated that I couldn't hit the airdrop function from firefox directly Thanks, your comment made me look for it!
Why would I use this instead of Redwood?
Which highly valued startup is running on a flawed premise, heading for layoffs?
After news breaks of a layoff or startup bust, the community explains that it was inevitable based on factors they had already foreseen.
That's called inclusionary zoning and exists in many large markets. There's no evidence that it broadly helps but it does further turn housing developme t into a political pawn.

https://www.mercatus.org/publications/urban-economics/inclus....
It's pretty well known and stated that these are hybrid amps with solid state output stages. Was this not known in 2018?

https://www.amazon.com/Nobsound-MS-10D-Tube-Power-Amplifier/...

Arent't the tubes just the preamp stage?
The passion people have for tube is so much that at some point I expect to see a full 32 bits DSP with low latency ADC and DAC disguised as one.
I had two similar experiences recently. DOH turned itself on a few weeks ago for everyone, I think, out of band from a new release.

And when they released v100, the Ubuntu snap just updated itself automatically and killed a firefox process that I was actively using. (Not sure exactly whose fault that was, but I think we can give Mozilla some of it.) After restarting, I was greeted with that bullshit-purple-neon-themed "100 Thank You's" modal dialog, with no useful information, that had to be acknowledged before continuing.
> I didn't tell you not to use. I said I don't see any reason for me to use it. I prefer the simplicity of text based LOG files over binary files requiring that you use the systemd API that was changing regularly the last time I touched it.

Modern syslog implementations (e.g. rsyslog) will write journald log events in plaintext, if you're desperate to have plain-text-on-disk.
This. I'm surprised Cydia is still kicking around, especially like this!
Kudos to author for making it work in somewhat old browsers!
But... are there any offline non-js (ok, C) analogs? :)
I've been using it for a while it is extremely efficient and precise even with bad pictures.
Instead of a fixed amount, I would prefer on-need-basis funds. That would be a great way to live. Say, today I have a need for $100, then I should be able to afford it. There should also be a cap on how much a person can spend in a day. That way is better than one huge lumpsum amount in pocket.
The universe is not isotropic in the time dimension. However, across space the prevailing thinking is that the universe is isotropic on a large scale in the spatial dimensions.
The most counterintuitive fact about urban/housing economics: Only volume of new housing relative to demand matters. You solve housing crisis buy zoning high volume of apartments and the zoning is dense with good public infrastructure and transportation. That's all.

Research shows that if you build a new expensive apartment, it starts a avalanche of people moving and just 2-4 steps later someone with low income gets into a new apartment.

Background assumptions: no empty apartments (this can be fixed with tax) , no NIMBY limits for housing quantity or quality.
I suspect that you will find that your opinions are just not shared, and that people -- everywhere, including in places that you imagine to be ideologically aligned with you -- generally find that driverless cars make their lives better on the margin, if good driverless cars start to exist.
What Is the Difference Between Get vs. Post vs. Put? Mainly Post vs. Put?
First of all I am not learning this currently from web development Point of view. So I think I don’t need the extreme level of understanding. I am studying this in a topic called “HTTP protocol”. And in my opinion, I need to learn enough to write what it does in exam paper.

It is so confusing in internet. I can’t explain enough. Firstly I was just confused between PUT and POST. But later someone started to tell me that you could use GET instead of these two in submitting form. That got me confused to next level.

What I have already understood(be it wrong or right I am not sure).

GET-: It helps to retrieve the file indicated by URL in request line from server.

PUT and POST seems same thing to me.

PUT places data in body to the URL in request line.
POST has no such definitions anywhere in books or internet. And it is generalized as “POST is used to submit form data”.
But the gist of these two seems similar ie post data to server. What’s the difference?

And there are like 6,670,000,000 results in google.
But I don’t know how stupid I am to not get this.Most articles in internet are copied from each other and written pretty unprofessionally. I am not very smart. I mean smart in the sense that one who can understand anything taught by anyone and doesn’t need that clarity. I need something very simplified to understand and I don’t find it at least till now.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/630453/what-is-the-difference-between-post-and-put-in-http
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/107390/whats-the-difference-between-a-post-and-a-put-http-request

These are perhaps the only reputable answers about this but I find them very confusing.

They say idemptotencyy is there in some and not in other. But I want their basic difference in working.(PUT is idempotent).
Idempotent means you can keep repeating the same thing again and again but the final result will be the same as the initial result that happened when you did that thing for the first time.

Is this the only difference between POST and PUT working and is their definition same?
Another thing that I am seeing is PUT keeps data to be sent in URL whereas POST doesn’t do it. How do we know about it? I can’t see any information that shows this thing practically. (They say while googling you use PUT so that you can visit that page again as well.) But IDK how to explain, I don’t know how.
Just tell me the difference between PUT and POST in terms of real working difference, Like how they work. Thanks for the information.
Oh, marketing really pushes the "prestige" line and you can clearly see people buying overly large cars just to show off how wealthy they are. It's a thing. We don't think this way, being rational human beings, but most people really do.
Non-inflationary and deflationary are different terms, with my point strictly referring to the latter, so it would help for you to specify.

Deflation means what it sounds like - goods, assets, wages generally trending downward over time. Yes, I posit that this has a chilling effect on recirculating money into investments, because you get worse odds on a positive return on any investment you make vs. just doing nothing.
Hey pal. I agree with you. Selldone in our #5 startup and all of them bootstrap :) Not looking for VCs currently.
It makes you wonder how "held" back people that suffer from suttering, autism spectrum and dyslexia (to name a few) are held back in day to day life. Where most of life really falls under communication.
It appears to be using PHP on the server side. So if you’re coming from laravel this may be attractive.
You can find someone to get offended by anything, if you look hard enough. It's like a kind of Rule 34 of offendedness.
I recently started using the Merlin iOS app to identify birdsongs and it works really well.
Platt scaling, isotonic regression, and beta calibration
This reads less like a paper and more like a scifi novel. Cool idea though.
it's shit. can't understand anything written in wikipedia.
It's ironic that I know someone who lives in a building where sprinklers have been retro-fit in the most incompetant and chaotic manner you could imagine.

The problems within the UK construction industry go far, far beyond the implementation of obvious saftey measures.

The Grenfell disater would never have happened if works had been carried out in accordance with regulations at the time, sprinklers or no sprinklers.
Okay so I bought a cheap-ish Air Purifier, now because the brand is...I think it's Chinese(Rohnsonn), I can't determine if it really does anything, if these filters do anything at all to improve my air quality and if the UV light is even strong enough to kill germs. Is there a way to verify it's effectiveness?
Do users really care about those shiny new features? For me most of it was stupid stuff. Stickers, shaking windows..

The ability to turn that crap off is entirely why I'd want a different client.

And it's not really like you can have your feature available everywhere on day 1 really, even on a proprietary client. People often lag behind updating their apps on their devices.

I managed a fleet of 60k mobiles of which 40k byod (personally owned). and we often ran into issues with people not updating even included apps like chrome for years and we'd have to email them and even ban them when a serious vulnerability was found in the wild.
Is Redis really more performant than FDB on a single instance when Redis persists to disk? It wouldn't surprise me that Redis is faster in-memory, tho.
Very astute observation. Although it's a bit painful to admit, as Rust scratches a perfectionist itch which Go absolutely does not.

I've read a bit about algorithm-driven performance gains vs. hardware-driven performance gains... this seems like an argument for a third category: DX-driven performance gains.
> Is it that many don't care about their house as a home?

Most people do not even understand something as simple as marginal income taxes and income tax withholding procedures. They would be well out of their league managing real estate development. Not to mention they would need to quit their day job to manage all the contractors.

And even with a general contractor (GC), you need to know enough and spend enough time to make sure you and/or the GC is not getting scammed. You will not find out about big problems until years after, and good luck pursuing those at fault.

Also, most people have nowhere near the necessary liquidity or cash flow to handle purchasing land, obtaining a construction loan, and managing payments for materials and labor.
vpc and ec2 are the big ones. they both support tagging atomically during create though, so it’s fine?

for ec2 i’m not sure i’d want unique names per instance. typically i prefer groups of instances with the same name.
Where did I make a distinction between engines and game logic? How can you say I conflated anything?

Anyway. I only have unfinished attempts at low-latency netcode and rollback, so can't say I'm speaking from solid experience. But I would doubt that engines implement rollback netcode for you. Essentially the game needs to be structured in a way to accomodate storage of game state as snapshots. And it needs to decide how to incorporate messages that arrive late.
> Systemd has extended its reach far beyond that of an init system. Long tentacles. Hence I say you are using systemd, not linux.

You could make the same argument about KDE, or Gnome. It's not a good one.

Systemd isn't trying to be just "an init system".

You know Linux is just a kernel, right (now's the time for that copypasta I think)?
What does being "woke" have to do with this situation?
That's interesting. Where can I find more info on this?
the earth has elements that were formed in previous generation of stars. I wonder if the sun is also not a first generation star.
Nicer architecture: Only sometimes. Sometimes, old is just old and plain. Not to mention that things change over the years: I'm guessing by 'old house' you refer to something built pre-1940 and not the ranch style house built in the 60's: Those houses from the 60's are over 50 years old, though.

Better materials? I'm not convinced. Drafty doors and windows, little insulation, lead paint, outdated plumbing parts, and old wires are a few things that were used. Any serious look at windows used during building booms during the 50's dispels the materials, honestly - at least in the US.

More space? Again, only if you get the right house. Plenty of old houses are small. You also have a bit of survivor bias here: Old, large houses that were expensive were more likely to be maintained and preserved later. I'll also point out that a good deal of old houses are now apartments, and also point out that the space you get in an old house costs more to heat. On top of that, this was a space designed for a different time period. That means that space can be a much less efficient space than you get in a new house that is wired for modern times.

Maybe using more mature trees really isn't something we should be doing right now? At least some of those mature trees contributed to deforestation and it seems better to get trees not from old growth, but from new growth from a well-managed forest area, where swaths of trees are replanted.

Old houses are just full of downfalls, even if you happen to be getting more space and possibly a better looking house.
For outbound connections, it can be done using multiple IP addresses.
But we can control societal factors that cause success to be inequitably distributed. Through worker organization, redistribution of wealth, etc.

It’s just that individuals that have benefited from this false meritocracy have a vested interest in the rest of us “hustling” at the individual level instead of banding together to change the system for everyone.
How is this different from Relm?
> Time series means different things to different people. In this case, I want to focus on the type of time series storage engine that could efficiently power an OLTP system (strong consistency and immediately read your writes) or a monitoring / observability workload as opposed to a time series database designed for OLAP workloads.

I am more interested in the latter part:

> as opposed to a time series database designed for OLAP workloads.

how it would be any different? Can anyone explain how/why time series for OLTP would be different than OLAP? (I always thought time series is stored in OLAP databases)
> Do they make a difference? Perhaps a placebo? A must have?

Purchase an air quality monitor, something like the Dylos DC1100. Then run a HEPA filter in a closed room for 30 minutes. It will remove almost all particulates! They work extremely well. Whether it "makes a difference" for your health is less clear.
i’m not. i do my own thing[1] with the go sdk.

1. https://github.com/nathants/libaws
Never in the history of modern housing has new housing never not been an overwhelmingly consumed by the people at the top of the income/wealth distribution. Even in the home building explosion of the 50s and 60s, new homes were purchased by the upper middle class.

But the point is that todays new luxury homes become tomorrow’s working class bargains. The analogies to the car market are instructive. Wealthy people, by insisting on paying top dollar for the latest style and technology, indirectly subsidize the poor. Their constant rotation to the latest and greatest creates a huge surplus of used cars/homes that are almost just as good (even if not as high status) as their new counterparts.

Or at least this is how it worked until the NIMBYs took over and blocked the demand for new luxury housing.
> HomeDepot.com often won't let me add things to cart. The past couple months it has been working again, but there were a few months where I couldn't.

I checked for webcompat issues matching this description and couldn't find anyone reporting that adding items to the cart didn't work.

I attempted to reproduce the issue myself, but HomeDepot block visitors from my location.

> This morning, I couldn't buy a key off cdkeys.com - tried two totally different methods, email addresses, credit cards. Didn't try a second browser yet but I'm not sure I am that persistent...

Can't reproduce, I was able to buy a CD Key ("Garfield Kart - Furious Racing PC") at 28 May 2022, 16:51:52 BST using Firefox 100.0.2 and a debit card.

> A news site, I think the New Yorker, would only show the first two paragraphs of an article but in other browsers, would show the full article.

Can't reproduce. Visiting https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-baby-formul... in Firefox shows me the exact same content as when I use Chromium.

I'm not saying you've not experienced these issues, but they're definitely not widespread and your post doesn't give enough information to go on to diagnose if there's an issue with Firefox or not.

The best thing you can do is report issues to the webcompat project as and when you come across compatibility issues. It takes about 20 seconds, less time than you probably spent writing this comment.
How is this related?
OP was complaining that most of these tons of compute papers don't really show mucjg advance theory wise. They say it's obvious by now that putting more compute would slightly push SOA. The comments there add that these fancy papers are hiding more important work by showing some pretty pictures and pumping the PR machines full power.
Persist or let it go: a study of entrepreneurial decision making
I got the same one and it’s amazing for California when the air is smokey.