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I mean I would write the damn thing myself, Im not worried about security.

I just think windows tools for navigating the file system are straight garbage and think it could be done a million times better by just indexing interactions between processes and files. But who knows maybe im barkin up the wrong tree.

Also- organize your files better : first off easier said than done and second off, my shit is already a total mess and I am not willing to take off work for 3 weeks to organize everythibng. I just want a file viewer UI that is actually useful in allowing my to find files.

Imo the folder hierarchy paradigm shouldnt have ever been exposed to users as the primary mechanism for accessing files. It makes no sense for 99 percent of use cases for the average user.
Saying no to bad feature requests
LA > SF
Electric cars emit a lot more than 0g/CO2 per mile, even in a perfect world. We need to get people out of car dependent suburbia, and it's going to be painful for a lot of Americans.
Speaking of Funnel, a holy grail use case is to be able to host one-off game sessions to an untrusted stranger who do would not trust this "Tell-scale thing" you require him to install or register an account for. Most frequently these kinds of spontaneous interaction happens over Discord, where perhaps you want to quickly show someone what you're building in Minecraft and have him make some suggestions in-game or something. Is there any possibility that Tailscale can improve on reducing friction for some of these more "social" use cases where the target demographic is not tech-savvy and distrustful?
> except for CO2

Considering this entire thread is only about CO2, not air quality, perhaps that would have been worth mentioning in your original comment.
No you’re not, there are far too many unexplored interfaces.

Then again many programs aren’t secure against untrusted input either.
I tried this with the following:

"Bash script to add a string I specify to the beginning of every file in a directory, unless the file begins with “archive”"

I tried looking for this on Google and didn't find anything that did this -- although I could cobble together a solution with a couple of queries.

The interesting thing is that I wanted ChatGPT to append the string to the filename -- that's what I meant. But it actually append the string to the actual file. That's actually what I said, so I give it credit for doing what I said, rather than what I meant. And honestly my intent isn't necessarily obvious.

I definitely see this as a value add over just searching with Google.
> You can go with Linode or Digital Ocean. You would need to set up a VM with all the dependencies and make it secure. Oh and you'll need a database - should that sit on another VM? What about backup and restore? What about deployment? Sure, you can use Ansible, but that's yet another learning curve.

An interesting perspective. I started using Linux as a kid, long before I started programming. When I wrote my first webapps, setting up a VM and database was the easy, familiar part. (I didn't really care about securing it.) It makes sense that if someone's first delve into any technical field is writing webapps, setting up a VM and database would be daunting.
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Currently, I only have a Linux daemon and command line client written. So if you are a Linux user and comfortable with the command line, you're an ideal alpha user for this project. Bonus points if you're familiar with server administration or using cloud providers.

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At a first glance, seems to blow interior ai out of water by a big margin
At the same time a lot of innovation was for stuff like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. Lots of focus on making a quick buck at the expense of humanity's long term prospects.
Wood in the ocean will float for a long time, eventually sinking and storing that carbon. It will be broken down over a very long span, and the CO2 will enter the hydrocycle and eventually be released as a gas. Probably on the order of millennia.

That said, it's not clear what impact smothering the ocean floor would have in the habitats there, nor how we would get the wood to sink reasonably rapidly and stay sunk -- we don't want massive logs floating back up and hitting ships.

I (personally) believe we are better served by heating the wood in an oxygen free environment (pyrolysis). This produces a charcoal like substance and energy, we can bury the biochar or use it as a soil amendment to achieve the same result (hundreds to thousands of years of sequestration) and get energy out of the process.
> if people include their website or Github URL in their profile, and they have their Mastodon account listed on their website, it will automatically verify them.

How does this work in reality? Couldn't I just put runjake.com and github.com/runjake in my profile and get verified as you? There has to be more steps than this...
> How do we live in it's shadow?

From my own personal business experience: times of economic downturn are the best times to start a business. Even more so if the economic downturn is largely just in people's minds.
The more vague and hand-wavy it sounds, the better it is for corporate PR statements.
Fair enough, it's only tangentially related. I was more interested in replying to what the other person said.
Indeed, it's a balance. The Fed indirectly controls our explore / exploit trade-off.
Modern monetary theory: an explanation [pdf]
The MRI didn’t feel like anything. It wasn’t until the neurologist showed me images of my brain with my eyeballs right there in the front that I felt like I was going to have a panic attack. I have no idea how regular people just laugh off stuff like that. Awful existential crisis level dread seeing my mental meat.
We already have a subtractive solution. Birth rate in the industrialized world has plummeted and the demographic wave initiated by industrializaton has crested. We can expect carbon emissions for the next several hundred years to peak soon.

In other words, the problem is solved. Any gargantuan efforts that we apply now are just about trying to get there a decade or two faster. Given the history of worldwide coordination attempts, it's not clear that it is possible or worth it.
Again, standing in the shoes of a beginner, you don't know what you don't know.

Heroku offered a path to easy, relatively secure deployment of a database-driven web application. If your aim is to just get something up and running - an MVP - it was probably fine, until it got too expensive. Maybe then you could buckle down and learn the "right" way, or maybe your business took off and you could just keep paying Heroku. If you're running a one-person SAAS, you might not have the time to spend on learning devops, when you have to fix bugs and add features and deal with customer support and sales. Sure, you'll hit that pain point when Heroku no longer works for you, but as detailed in the original post, that pain point may be years off.
Subscriptions would be cool, allowing you to leverage this library for state management.

Add an async storage interface so you can persist and you’ll have an awesome little database.
I case somebody else wonders, here [1] are some electron microscope pictures of neurons [and other stuff] to better understand what 5 µm voxels means. Seems about one order of magnitude away from being able to image all the connections.

[1] https://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/rberdan_scanning_...
For sure, NOLA too, beautiful!

Savannah, Asheville, old streetcar suburbs in general, small college towns ...

Those are the kind of urban environment that are an easy sell. Calm traffic, safe mobility options, diverse mixed housing options, ... Lot's of existing cities can move in that direction. Nothing too crazy or extreme.
Some of the highest quality music is made by humans making the most of the newest machines.

That's how hip hop came into being, with the advent of samplers and drum machines.
Why does building sidewalks need to take up so much CO2?

And why can’t we use other forms of energy to power these machines w electricity?
These show up again & again in the openwrt 22.03.4 submission, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611662

It's sad to me that PCE hasn't upgraded to newer chips & it's sad to see even barebones Ryzen embedded boards costing so damned much. What a great space for computing, and it's so unfortunate that there's such a vast rift between rpi and low end industrial-embedded.
One of the downsides to have a device for both personal and business use with no easy way to separate the two.
> Entire site-to-site tunneling/routing. I didn't have to do anything for my parents I just dropped a subnet router at their place.

Can you elaborate? What do your parents need tailscale for? I mean my parents have internet purely by the telco dropping a router at their place and it just works, what is my family missing?
I'm not sure what you're claiming. Rockets cannot cause shockwaves on the ground by flying over you in space. You experienced something else and misattributed it.
Thank you very much!

IIRC, Nixdorf was - alongside Fujitsu - an early investor in Amdahl. Both companies went on to resell Amdahl machines under their own brands in their respective home countries. I didn't know about TCSC, though.
The atmosphere does a pretty good job of mixing, with the CO2 concentration uniform to within +/- 1% around most of the world so if there are enough places with stranded energy just building DAC plants there could help the whole world.

If there aren't enough places with stranded energy maybe we can make more. All that takes is installing more solar in some place than there is infrastructure to transport the electricity out. That excess is stranded.

The amount of energy available for solar is insane. To illustrate how ridiculously abundant solar power if you wanted to build a solar farm whose output during the day matched the power use of the entire world you'd only need about 500 000 km^2 worth of panels.

At night the power falls to near zero, but so what? If all it is doing is running a DAC plant it doesn't need to run overnight.

I'm sure there are hundreds of places around the world with good daytime sunlight, enough room for a DAC plant and a solar farm to power it, and limited grid infrastructure.
Yup. Built in BASIC was the norm for all those late 70s / early 80s machines. Didn't the first couple of IBM PC models have a cut down ROM BASIC?

It's apparently popular to disrespect BASIC now that we have gigahertz 64-bit machines with gigabytes of RAM and terabyte solid state drives on our desktops. But when you think about what you could do on a 6502 machine with a frigging 256 byte stack... hella props for the folk that made that work.

But yeah... I think by the mid 80s, most people really just wanted to run a few games, a word processor and maybe a spreadsheet. The idea computer buyers may want to write their own code was fading fast.

HyperCard had one or two warts, but it was definitely functional and you could do a lot with a small amount of effort. Also... the way you learned it seemed very exploratory. You had to learn a few basics, but after that it was hard-core experimentation and remixing. I bought an old PowerBook 160 recently explicitly to run MPW and HyperCard. Mostly to remember what the old world was like.
That period gave rise to the most educational web surfing I've ever experienced.
I am not sure why Tailscale is always on Hackernews.

For example, Twingate allows 5 free users and supports more complex use case without requiring a subnet router. They generally have stronger enterprise features as well.
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> Instead, we hope that by being transparent about our security practices and helping ensure that Headscale remains compatible with Tailscale, you will either use Tailscale, or host Headscale for your own personal needs.

You love Headscale for personal use? What would you say to someone looking at Headscale for their business over Tailscale?
The hosting is not the issue. Github would have different security requirements for code hosted in a private repo for a paying org than OpenAI would for free users sending prompts to an LLM. It can and should be assumed anything you type into ChatGPT is being logged to be potentially read by a human.
I think the implicit premise in the GF theory is that it's "adapt or die," i.e. either our civilization/species develops truly robust means of preventing mis-application of high-leverage technologies, or, it goes extinct. Most likely.

But I agree, it's a process, not a state machine.
This part is amazing:

> we’ll bill you retrospectively each month for the number of users who actively used Tailscale [...] More importantly, it aligns our incentives. [..] With this change, we don’t get paid for a user in your tailnet until that user is getting value from Tailscale. That means it’s not just our job to sell seats, but to help you succeed.

Trust is one of the most valuable things in a brand seeking long-term relationships. But so many brands optimize for short-term metrics in ways that damage trust. E.g., places that make it much harder to close an account than open one. (NYT, GFY.) One I really dislike is subscription-based businesses that care more about getting signups than delivering value. It has made me deeply suspicious of joining anything with a subscription model. [1]

So I'm very glad to see Tailscale, whose product is great, taking such a thoughtful approach here. I think it's especially important for them, as trust is deeply necessary for them to succeed. I hope some other people learn lessons! E.g., I'd sign up for more streaming subscriptions if I were sure they'd not bill me a month where I didn't watch anything.

[1] And I'm apparently not the only one: https://www.wsj.com/articles/people-are-sick-and-tired-of-al...
This is not really true anymore in the streaming economy. On Spotify, you earn a LOT of money if your song ends up in any of the generic playlists that people listen to while going to the gym our out running or in a hotel reception etc. You definitely don't need to do hits to get on these lists and earn money. Sure, they won't be remembered, but they will be heard! This reflects a change in how people consume music I guess.
From a 2015 ESA announcement of Ariane 6 development:

> “These contracts will allow the development of a family of European launchers, highly competitive in the world market and ensuring autonomous access to space at fully competitive prices for ESA’s Member States,” said Jan Woerner, Director General of ESA.

Seems like a primary stated reason to me.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ar...
I don't know about them but the last time I used Ubuntu, it was extraordinarily slow and non-responsive on my test system with a 6600k, 32gb ram, and a 1 TB Samsung SSD.

Pop-OS also had that issue, but stock Debian did not, and Fedora has been consistently a good performer for me.
Hmm. We got it for free here in the states.
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An aside but some years ago I was taking a flight in Europe and I was fascinated to see the differences. It seems many budget airlines operate on a similar model but the EU has steep fines for late flights so there's a huge incentive to find alternatives.

In my case the alternative appeared to be an entire backup airline that seems to exist only to serve other airlines when they experience issues. A plane was quickly scrambled from (IIRC) Lisbon and flown to Heathrow and we were all shepherded onto it as quick as they could possibly manage. The plane was garbage, service was garbage and food was garbage but they did get us in the air quickly. Ultimately they missed their 4hr delay window by about twenty minutes so I was entitled to something like 600EUR of compensation anyway.

I imagine there are a number of reasons why this wouldn't work domestically in the US but without the threat of fines there simply isn't any incentive to provide it anyway.
> Just because you have a good experience, doesn’t mean everyone will.

So you stereotype, generalize, and assume the worse just in case your pre-judgement is right?

> There’s plenty of history in America to defend the assumption that minorities will have a worse experience in rural towns.

And what is that? What in "history" specifically makes you think people in rural towns are worse than people in cities?

Either way, that's not a good excuse to stereotype people. I don't think every person in the city is a gangster or a mobster because of cities bad history of them.

> You seem to live in a very diverse town which is great. That’s not most towns in America.

You have no idea what you are talking about, many towns are very diverse.

https://theweek.com/articles/692098/rural-america-more-diver...

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/44331/10597_pa...
Makes sense, after all they picked the F9 to launch the James Webb. Oh wait...
> The only reason my town is dense and walkable is due to geography. It was settled 250 years ago and it is nestled on a river between two "mountains" (really just big hills) so once all the available space filled up 100 years ago it just stopped growing (my house is on the outskirts of town and was built 115 years ago).

It's not geography, it's history. The only nice places in the US are places that were built before cars.
Its so you can try to build a business with > 1B valuation.
Note that Stéphane Israël is a classic French civil servant: a historian by education, and not knowledgable about technology.
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For school you may have language barriers, depending what language(s) your children speak. They're entitled to a place at school though.

The only barrier to buying a flat or house might be slightly reduced access to loans. I found in Denmark it is easier for a Dane to get a loan for 95% of the house value, but foreigners might only get 80%. EU citizens are somewhere in the middle, depending what the banks think.

Language is the main problem. If you aren't fluent in the new country's language, you can have problems with government bureaucracy, school/work, socialising, children's lives, doctors etc. If you speak English these are much reduced in countries with high English proficiency (IS/NO/SE/FI/DK/NL/LU/CY, obviously IE/MT). Or, if you are moving where there's already a significant community of people speaking your language.
Both. They do different things.

Nuclear provides non-carbon-emitting base load for situations where we don't have enough batteries to ride out dunkelflaute[0] and we haven't hit peak uranium yet. Biomass carbon sequestration buries carbon that we liberated into the air back into the ground.

In order to deal with the problems we caused, we both need to stop causing the problem and fix the damage we did.

[0] German word for "dark wind lull", i.e. no sun and the wind ain't blowing.
Presumably you have time to write your own code as a developer, since you're not being paid to be a farmer or carpenter?
Tried it on my basement and the generated picture wasn't even close to relevant. I think the issue was that I have a ton of junk in my basement and the generated image had no idea about what was junk and what was important in the room. It closed off a window, made my ceiling taller, and added a giant window in a place where it's just not possible.
Nifty3929 explains this well, let me just add that good accounting rules try to minimize how much you can tweak by "build" vs "buy". Like building a $1b factory or buying one, if you intend to keep and use it to make cars, should be treated broadly the same way.

If you bought a 10-year license to use Unreal Engine, you'd amortize that out. If you instead built it (to use it!), the same rules should (generally) apply to the expenses you incur. If you build it to sell it...well, that gets complicated, especially as it's tough to estimate the useful life of software, and it's tough to say whether certain costs are improvements or maintenance (which are treated differently), etc.

Doing a sudden switch from salary costs being 100% expensed to 100% amortized (over 5 years for domestic, 15 years for foreign) is really bad, it's legitimately harmful for a ton of small businesses in this space. But honestly having it as 100% expensed is pretty silly. Hopefully this gets fixed with a middle ground and a gradual switchover.
I liked DOS because it was an executable loader. You told it what program you wanted to run and it got out of your way.

(That being said, I use a real OS these days and don't want to go back.)
They could move it.
> The real question is: what do they get out of offering a hobbyist license?

Commoditize your complements: If you sell VMS software, it stands to reason you would like there to be people who know how to use it. Even better if you don’t have to pay the train them.

Tons of people know how to use Linux because you can just download a distro and start using it… It’s the same reason MS and Cisco have all those certificate programs.

I never understood why IBM didn’t make a hobbyist version of their mainframe OSes for Hercules.
I just got the opposite treatment from another service a couple of days ago. The API endpoints failed silently without an error, and when I logged in on the dashboard it said that my current plan was replaced. They didn't even sent an email.
"Small business" is weird term.

The Small Business Administration defines a "small business" as one with revenue between $1 million and $40 million, and between 100 and 500 employees. To my mind, no business on that scale is a "small business".

As a result, for decades, I've considered "small business" to be essentially a meaningless term.

A startup is a specific sort of thing, and may or may not be a small business (even by the SBA's definition). I've long avoided labelling my startups as a "startup" because that term comes loaded with all sorts of implications I'd rather avoid.

I do what you mentioned: my business is a "business". No adjectives are necessary.
And here I was thinking I knew all there was to know about pagination: do cursor pagination, offset-pagination is bad. Good to see the tradeoffs fleshed out fully.
Most online sources say the rule in California is to use the ship-from (not HQ) address for city, county, and state sales tax and the ship-to address for special district taxes; so if those sources are correct, this is just Apple misusing the HQ address as if it were the ship-from address for tax purposes to steal taxes from elsewhere for Cupertino in exchange for a kickback from Cupertino.

Given that, insofar as there is a local infrastructure cost imposed by supporting the capacity for the transaction to occur it occurs predominantly a the ship-from address, paying city, county, and the locally-redirected portion of state sales taxes there makes some sense.
I’d just keep paying them just for sending this mail. Kudos!
Nobody (except of hardware guys and compiler writers) needs to learn Asm, but definitely you are got to get a skill of reading it. There are a lot of asms (one per every computing architerture plus several possible syntaxes).
Of course you need to be an expert in C, in my understanding this is way more important than Asm.
One of the easiest way of starting system programming is to build some electronic toy based on microcontroller and write some code for it to do something useful. Bonus points will be earned if you will manage to pack some complicated behaviour so heavily that your controller will be having zero free memory.
What is Charm?
This seems to be a process that can be used on dead mouse brains.

It doesn't sound like it will be used for live animals or human cadavers anytime soon?
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