skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In California, the local portion of collected sales tax goes to the location where the transaction took place, not the location of the customer.

Well that's clearly the root of the issue here.

Why?

Generally, across the country, for online purchases you pay sales tax for whatever the delivery address is.

Seems rather bizarre that California allocates the local portion of sales tax of online sales to the business location rather than customer location, no?
This is not open source, it is missing any licensing information (either in a license file nor in any headers in the source files)
> If anything, if the world was fair then the American minimum wage would be lower, with that money diverted to people in underdeveloped places like Africa instead.

In practice, the American minimum wage being higher diverts more money to people in underdeveloped places like Africa. Both because it directly makes them more price-competitive in low-end, easily offshorable, labor, and because distribution downward from capital to labor in the US for the jobs that can’t be offshored increases consumption and imports.
Probably worth considering pyrolysis before burying it. By heating the wood and baking it into char you get a few nice benefits:

* You produce biochar, which is almost pure carbon, and therefore you are only sequestering the weight/volume of the carbon, not all the water and other stuff.

* Biochar can be used as a soil amendment to improve microbial cultures and store carbon for hundreds or thousands of years

* You can produce energy in the form of heat or wood gas

* You can produce wood vinegar, which may have some agricultural or industrial uses

I think there's a nascent industry in converting biomass into biochar and sequestering it, but it would be very interesting to see it done with forestland more generally.
I was joking with friends, that it appeared that people saw shows like Star Trek and Star Wars, and thought - hey, we can do that.

The problem is that politicians and governments saw shows like Idiocracy and Space Balls, and thought - hey, we can do that.
> At this point, any rocket program other than what SpaceX is doing are government job programs.

That is the thing: all rocket building organisations before SpaceX were actually government job programs. The goal was not to build cost efficient rockets. The goal was to maintain a large pool of trained aeronautic engineers and technicians for strategic defence purpose.
Inside of the Appstore on iOS
Those points are both matters of opinion, with which I do not agree.

(The first one doesn't particularly matter, because I'm forced to use the iOS App Store regardless of how you classify it, the second of which I forcefully disagree with - I am opposed to any ads that I cannot opt out of seeing. I don't go to the store to see ads, I go to download exactly the apps I want, and to update apps I already have installed - in both of those situations ads are unavoidable.)

(And other portions of the OOB experience do have ads - as noted in my link, both the News and Stock apps, although I don't use either. And apparently soon the Maps app if it doesn't have ads already.)
That doesn’t sound super cheap. Global production is 35.5 tons per year.
Interesting. I totally missed that. Thanks for clarifying.

Do you have a more preferred financial website?
`xargs` is a helpful command to keep in mind. I use that surprisingly often when scripting something up.

- https://linux.die.net/man/1/xargs
Totally agree. Part of the magic of the Apple ][ was that BASIC was burned into the ROM and ready to go without loading any other software. I always wondered what the Mac would have been like if HyperCard been shipped as an onboard piece of software.
It's hard not to look at this and think of Stephen Wolfram's post on the "personal analytics of his life".

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-ana...

I have to admire the foresight that went into this as well as the analytics, but have to wonder how actionable it is.
They also seem to, based on the footnote:

> 4 For historical architectural reasons you cannot currently have more than one user on a “personal” tailnet (such as a gmail.com account). You need either your own domain or a GitHub Organization. Sorry. We will fix this, but not today. Meanwhile, don’t forget that you can use Node Sharing to share devices (including Exit Nodes) across individual tailnets.
The theory behind models is that they learn the distribution used to “generate” the data. A good model has a good approximation of the distribution. But then anything generated from it follows the approximation of the distribution not the distribution itself I.e. the generated data is not going to be good training data for the generating model.

You can for example train a very large and good model and use that to generate more data to train a smaller model e.g. for a faster inference use case. That data follows a closer approximation of the underlying distribution than the small model has so it can still be used for convergence to the underlying distribution.
this whole borland/delphi approach is rather similar to how Visual Basic for Applications still works inside of Excel or Outlook, and is still used by big companies all over the world as i type this.
I find this response kind of puzzling. I'm telling you about my subjective use of iOS. As far as I'm concerned, the App Store is a core part of iOS. iOS isn't a useful OS without the App Store. I can't install apps or manually update them without seeing ads. It's not really a matter of definitions, it's simply a matter of how I use iOS.

I've prefaced all my comments on this subject by pointing out that I'm describing my experience. And in my experience, despite my best effort to avoid ads, I'm forced to see more (and lower quality) ads on iOS than I am on Windows.
It's never been easier to publish a blog available to billions of people that no one ever reads.

In the 60s you would travel to a music centre. A place where others performing music went. You leveraged a community. If someone in your community made it, it shone a light for everyone and created a scene. People helped each other make it.

That small community with those opportunities have been replaced by centralization without the community or scene multipliers.
So true. Sometimes, you read some source and you think "surely, there was a simpler way to implement whatever this is". Then you notice that the class name ends with "Visitor". Mystery solved. Now go make yourself a coffee, a pattern has been deployed.
Irony is that you get less features, according to their pricing feature graph...
The only thing you feel is heated a bit in my experience (sports injuries, torso and sinuses).

However if they use contrast it might have lasting effects. I only had that once and swear it made me feel dopey for weeks.
JSLinux – Linux/DOS in the Browser
Given $2 trillion, is it a better idea to spend it on developing nuclear energy, or to grow a bunch of plants to then be dehydrated and wrapped in plastic?
Does it come with verified STI testing?
Having to hold perfectly still (possibly in an uncomfortable pose) in a giant machine that's making loud, uncanny noises for 20+ minutes is indeed a very bizarre, meditative experience. It is interesting, but, in my opinion, you're probably going to be happier not having the health concerns that lead to getting an MRI in the first place!
And you may well be -- but I don't know you or your company, so I have no way of knowing. The space is generally so tainted that it's not unreasonable to assume the people in it aren't exactly good until proven otherwise.
It's an exaggeration because bans in question are very local but yeah, I didn't know this was a thing in US/AU...
Social media is doomed to die
If you render a 240p video as 4k on youtube - the bitrate will be much higher and it will be less compressed than if it is uploaded as a 240p video.
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/10/13/its-time-to-ban-gas-pow...

Air Quality, yes; but I will admit CO2 is not compared.
If you’re having a mass evacuation you can’t very well use your appliances. What’s the point of this nitpick?
SpaceX is also a government jobs program.
> For historical architectural reasons you cannot currently have more than one user on a “personal” tailnet (such as a gmail.com account). You need either your own domain or a GitHub Organization. Sorry. We will fix this, but not today. Meanwhile, don’t forget that you can use Node Sharing to share devices (including Exit Nodes) across individual tailnets.

Darn. Looks like I may have to create another tailscale account!

I do wonder whether this restriction will severely limit the number of 3-person free accounts that are created though - I have my own domain, but that probably puts me in a small minority of people, even the kind of nerds who are willing to try out tailscale in their own time? Which in turn might put something of a crimp on the hoped for flow of viral “my friend put me on their tailnet & I discovered how easy it was” signups.

I have been recommending tailscale to absolutely everyone though, so I guess free services work as a marketing tool!?
> Not being beholden to a foreign company or government is a strategic advantage.

Yes, but that was never the primary stated reason for Ariane 6's development. That's a later goalpost moving.
And this is why normal people hate the tech industry deep in their guts. All we do nowadays is immiserate people by replacing their jobs with shitty but cheap alternatives that reduce the amounts of human labor. When you have your own software job replaced by GPT-[X] and find yourself unable to pay your mortgage, remember how you treated those who had this done to them before it happened to you.
My understanding is that that over the period of 2015-2022 Germany has imported anywhere from 2-8 TWh per year from France, which is up to 1.5% of total annual power draw. [1] I don't know if you consider that significant or not.

While the generation is fairly constant, if there is an excess of power (which there historically has been) then you can import a variable portion based on the European grid and electricity market pricing right?

I could be missing something.

[1] https://www.energate-messenger.com/news/223699/nuclear-power...
Thanks a lot for this.
The problems I personally had and seen others have/had are static when no sound is played, and intermittently bluetooth audio playback issues (no sound). Also in one instance heavily distorted sound was reproducibly played when the discord notification came on.
> I wouldn't count a city of 250k as "smaller".

Salt Lake City is even smaller by that metric, with only 200k people. What gives?

Well, that's why we measure metropolitan areas instead of cities themselves. If your metro area is in the top 100 in the US, then it's bigger than Reno/Sparks by a considerable margin.
It would be bad enough if they JUST denied that Drake was a victim, but they go one step further and say Drake has committed the offense!

Learn to spot the DARVO tactic: Deny, accuse, reverse victim and offender.
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If you're basing your criticism on looks, there are two responses:

1. it's an opinion, and there are a substantial number of people who like the cybertruck

2. a truck is a functional vehicle, and functionality is the primary consideration. Lots of people think the Ram is the best looking truck, but it's substantially outsold by F-150 & GM.
no, its a joke because the creator of homebrew couldn't do it and didn't get the job at google, despite making something immensely useful.

There's also this gem of how google wanted one of the creators of C to take a C test
https://www.theregister.com/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_our...
Interestingly, many forest stands are actually overpopulated with trees. Removal of organic matter helps the existing trees grow taller and more healthy, improves the habitat for other species and animals, and can result in a more biodiverse, healthier forest less vulnerable to parasites and invasives. It can also reduce the severity of forest fires.

Source: I manage forestland in the PNW for the purpose of habitat restoration, and was surprised to learn how removing tree mass from a system can actually improve the overall health and biomass of a system.
The Coder's Guide to Marketing Yourself
About time! I've had a to do to set up a link tree account, just never got around to it. Now my laziness has finally paid off. Curious as to why it's just up to 5 though.
I grok you. I think it's cause the Apple ][ was built for experimenters and builders. The Lisa, despite being an amazing example of what early 80s tech could do, was made for "business people." It made the things that business people wanted to do easy. If it made things that young tech geeks like me wanted to do easy, that was an accident.

The Mac was intended to be a machine that people could write apps for, or at least that's what people said after they started distributing dev kits for it. But the way it evolved is definitely more authoritarian than anything in the Apple ][ world.
> It is hard to generalize, but I would be willing to bet that it is cheaper to convert more modern, recently built or still under-construction office high-rises.

No, it's harder.

As anyone who has visited a doctor's office or somesuch in an older office building knows, they tend to be already divided up into smaller, discrete spaces off hallways, like apartments, and often have individual plumbing into each space. Modern office buildings with big, open floors aren't like that.
I assume higher interest rates are also decreasing the attractiveness of private equity and to some extent M&A (although at the end of the spectrum, companies going bankrupt can probably lead to a increase in a specific type of M&A)
SaaS retention benchmarks: How does your business stack up?
Regulatory capture sausage in the making?
> Even assuming just upper/lowercase and 20 characters you are looking at 114 bits of entropy.

Careful, that math assumes each character was chosen randomly, which isn't how people usually pick passwords. If the password contains words and patterns, then it was much weaker. "Passwordpasswordpass" matches those requirements, and is decidedly weak.

But I agree, password reuse or other similar mistake seems likely.
The alternative is an unknown tail risk of unmitigated climate change. The decision isn't "98 or 100% GDP", its take a hit now, or increase risk of ecosystem collapse in the future.
English as a spec is incredibly "fuzzy", there are many valid interpretations of intent. I don't think that can be avoided?
That sort pull architecture is interesting thought. I do see it working best when a worker nodes ability to do work is very clear cut, i.e. the response time does not significantly vary with the number of concurrent requests it is handling.

Here is an example where it would not work well: lets imagine workers are doing a CPU bound task and each worker has one cpu (for simplicity), but we have also identified that we can handle up to 10 requests concurrently on one worker, but they will be just slower (because they will get smaller slices of cpu). Ideally we'd wish the requests to be divided equally between the workers, but with naive pull model one worker could greedily grab requests up until its at capacity while the other workers stay idle, making the response times worse than they need to be.
TL;DR Headscale is great, and we love it.
Full details here: https://tailscale.com/blog/opensource/
Ah so not really all that realistic for personal use with multiple users.
Perhaps I don't understand your comment. What mess has SpaceX made that will take decades to clean up?
9.4 T is quite a strong magnetic field, as it is half the strength of the magnetic field used for plasma confinement in Tokamak Energy’s Demo4 facility. Scaling this technology for human-sized animals will likely be incredibly expensive, but the 5 micron accuracy is surely worth the investment.
No, because I am familiar with AI, but someone who is not and hears "AI song" does.
Wasn’t this also a plot point in The Cryptonomicon?
Out of curiosity, what happens when you dump wood in the deep ocean? Does the wood breakdown and does the carbon come back up as CO2 in the atmosphere?
I work for a small business in California that ships all our products (no retail) and we are definitely required to charge sales tax based on the location of the customer, not our business.
I've had a couple. Proton alignment is an imperceptible state. You're experiencing more significant neurological changes reading this message than having your protons reoriented.
Is that like saying sin(x)=x?
Not sure about videos, but there's a series of books on FreeBSD called The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System; the 1996 edition with a mildy different name is freely available [1], but I recommend picking up a newer version if it resonates with you; the 2014 version covers up to FreeBSD 11, the 2004 covers up to FreeBSD 5; but there were a lot of important changes in that ten year period. It will be a little dated, but the broad strokes are still the same.

OSTEP, linked elsewhere in the thread is good, too.

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/design-44bsd/
Management decision frameworks are often like that, but "5 Whys" is relatively innocuous - too simple to make tendentious. Mainly it is a reminder to dig until you hit bottom when doing root cause analysis.
> Coinbase is a public company on NASDAQ. They are about as registered with the SEC, as possible.

That is not even close to correct. NASDAQ itself is a publicly traded company (quote: NDAQ), that nonetheless has to register separately as a securities exchange.
Not NOLA?
It's refreshing to see a company that doesn't increase prices or cut features off free plans.
> Even though efficiency has improved, in 2016 California reported that just 1 hour of a gas-powered leaf blower was the equivalent of taking a Camry from LA to Denver.

That cannot possibly be true. That's a 16 hour drive through 1000 miles of mountainous terrain, requiring multiple tanks of gas, vs an hour of a small two-stroke engine spinning a little turbine.
This is wonderful, thank you. I may try this out.

Originally wanted to do it for windows but I eventually concluded it would take some prodigious hackery to get it do work
IKEA SMÅHAGEL USB power supply tear-down
???

https://tailscale.com/opensource/
"A loss of X dollars is always the responsibility of an executive whose financial responsibility exceeds X dollars."

- Weinberg’s 'First Principle of Financial Management' and 'Second Rule of Failure Prevention’

- 'First-Order Measurement', Quality Software Management, Volume 2, Gerald Weinberg, Dorset House Publishing, 1993
I have been trying to find a use case for these LLMs and I continue to keep an eye just in case someone figures out a way to use them that I
find useful in my workflow. My only use for them so far is as an explorative tool for tasks I'm not familiar such as when having to work
with programming languages I never use. For such things its great as not only do I not have to go digging through the documentation, I also do not have to then search the web for examples on how its actually used.

This is taking into account that I have removed the cost of using it as much as possible since I do not have to switch to a browser tab,
asks my question, wait for reply and then copy any useful text to my editor. I have it setup as a function call inside my repl along with saved history to a local file in case I need it.

Even with this convenient way of using it I notice that pretty much the only time I use it when working on my actual projecs is just to save
me the trouble of doing a google search for trivial things such as looking up word definitions/synonyms for naming things or for anything
else where I would expect to find the answer with just a bit of googling. I can just quickly do my request and continue with whatever I was
doing and then return for my answer later.
> unmitigated climate change

So we'll do this to counter an unknown tail risk. I would argue, in my mind, that technology and AI is moving way too fast, and the current solutions to the climate issue are not feasible politically. People don't care. A more optimistic approach would be to wait and see what technology can bring us in the next 20 years or so to solve the problem instead of trying to rush today's inadequate solutions to market. Imagine if we had begun trying to solve the climate crisis in a radical manner 20 years ago, back when we had Windows XP, ludicrously expensive and shorter lasting solar panels, no practical large lithium-ion batteries, etc. It would be impossible. I think it's about as equally impossible today for what we'll have in the future.
I'm a big Tailscale proponent, implementing it at work in early 2020. But for us I'm not sure this is great news. We have a small Tailnet of 5 users, paying $30 for the Team plan. If we went for Starter we'd save $18, but loose a lot of cool things Tailscale has come out with recently that we have been looking at, like user/group level ACLs, ACL Gitops,Tailscale SSH and Tailscale Funnel.

Alternatively we'd pay $36 for (3 free, 2 * $18) for Premium, which doesn't sound too bad. But the cost for each new user would be three times higher than it currently is (and Tailscale our most expensive SAAS product per person).

Or we stick to legacy pricing for now, and live with things like the Subnet Router limit which makes e.g. connecting home VoIP phones to the Tailnet price prohibitive.
> I've personally emailed with Herzfeld, recently.

Did you correspond with him, or merely make it into his spam folder?

> Nothing about the Star, which Jobs actually did come to Chicago and see at the intro, in May 1981.

False. See time index 5:51. Mac development began in the late 1970's, and development was well under way by the time Jobs demoed Xerox Star. The vast majority of inspiration for Mac came from Xerox Alto, not Xerox Star. In fact, little if anything was borrowed from Star for Macintosh.
> The remedy they are seeking is for the industry to essentially end itself.

Or in other words "register as securities exchange".
You should be skeptical of all ideas, not just ones that comes from groups you are skeptical about.

EA's point that charities that provide malaria medication and vitamin A supplementation for pour children are very cost effective ways to save lives are very good. That might make other good points too. They are often very good at convincing people that certain charities are worthy of donation. I think it's possible that we'll see similar arguments form members of that group for extreme climate change measures.
I really liked the idea of RethinkDB back in the day but sadly had a lot of performance issues with it shortly before it was sunset, so it went off my radar. TIL that it's still updated and continues to thrive as an open source solution.
Doesn't it just flip the registration/check need instead of eliminate it? You'd need to register the brokers/loadbalancers to the workers so they know where to pull work from?
I think the point of free plans is that no money changes hands so there's no support or SLA, while base paid plan gets now more expensive.

So if you didn't need those, you save money now, but if you do, you have to pay up to get the same features (going from $50/year up to $200+/year if you are just using it alone). So it's not all pure altruism.

But I'm not a Tailscale user, this is just from what I see looking from outside.
Maybe someone local could explain to me why “living inside the panopticon” has been so widely accepted?

Is this historically derived from loyal trust in the monarch?
I think it's one of those "worst system except for all the other systems" situations.

You can't really have any kind of discussion forum with highly polarized groups.

For a roughly aligned group, it lets good comments rise to the surface, though doesn't guarantee all will rise.

I think more important is keeping a relatively aligned group, smaller number of people, and some benevolent dictatorship to keep out the riff raff.

It's a lot like democracy, it only really works when people mostly agree anyway.