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> Whether you agree about the relative scale of cold and heat deaths doesn't matter.
> Are you arguing that lives lost due to warmer temperatures matter, but lives saved by warmer temperatures don't?

I'm arguing that the scale matters, so please give me numbers, which you seem to know at least for the now?

It is surely not a 1-to-1 exchange right now, and not in the future.

So how many lives lost due to heat vs due to cold now?

And what are your predictions for the future (that as far as I get it deviate extremely from scientific consensus)?

> say homeless and poor people dying of the cold, is too trivial in your opinion to matter in public policy discussions?

Oh come one, now you are trolling me. I didn't say and mean that at all..
> Because people (for the most part) aren't fools, especially on here.

But even if it were true and those revenues wouldn't exists and Tesla would have 0 profit, it wouldn't actually change that much about the overall position.

If you want to make the argument that Tesla is not worth 600B then just make that argument. Rather then endlessly trying to make an incredibly marginal argument about Quarter to Quarter possibility.

Literally nobody that owns Tesla stock believes this Quarter profits are what gives the shares the value.

> They all earned their significance by touching so many lives

No they don't. In fact most people don't have a clue about what Salesforce is or how IBM touches their lives.

They are valued because of their financial data, predictions about and predictions about future potential data.

> Musk has been able to answer to such question up to now with:

At this point you are just making things up. Musk has not said any of these things and seemingly isn't very interested in answer that question.

> People are more and more asking questions though, and he keeps answering with postponements and future deadlines, while Teslas are still less common than Porsches

No in fact people are asking less and less questions. The FUD about Tesla was 100x larger a few years ago.

Also, even a 14 old should figure out that a product that has 20-30 year utility will be more common then a competitors product of a company that started less then 20 years ago and didn't even growth to any relevant size until less then 5 years ago.
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Definitely. Their aim has always been to figure out ways to squeeze the software for money. It partially makes sense as they built the company and expenses first and now have to monetise that. Yet nobody asked for it.

With pfSense "plus" they published that they will only work on that paid product and mostly ignore the open source stuff, only do the essential requirements. It's essentially just a marketing gateway into their closed products. At that point you might as well buy any other mature closed product... there are many and from a closed source commercial product perspective they are all better than wat netgate produces, including commercial VyOS without a gui.
For a reverse engineering company... Applying the blur as a PDF postfilter that can easily be removed with a grep on the pdf source code seems not very smart...
That's the first thing that stood out to me as well, but it's actually pretty accurate when it comes to light speed communication. It was basically 3 hours after the event observable by us, which is for all practical purposes "when it happened". There is no true universal "when it happened", it's all relative.
This irritates me. People keep forgetting about costs of maintaining services.

What is a cost of maintaining a service?

What is a cost of maintaining equivalent amount of code as a separate module in a larger service?

The reality is that plopping a piece of code to its own separate module and then maintain communication within the service (ie. call another class) is usually much easier and cheaper than creating new services.

I get that creating a new service might be fun, but if you compare costs of maintaining a thousand services vs cost of maintaining of single application with a thousand modules it is not given that the services are going to be cheaper.

I think there is no rule to decide how big a service should be. How big a module should be?

Rather, services should be split when there is some essential reason to do so. For example, the functionalities might have some intrinsic differences that make it costly to reconcile within a single service. Or you might have a functionality that does not scale linearly and so it might make sense, from performance point of view, to maintain less nodes of that service but fully devoted to executing particular functionality.

Another good reason might be if you have separate teams maintaining the functionality -- separate services might allow the teams to work more independently, make independent technology decisions, etc.

Splitting services just because code size of single service will be smaller is stupid. The total code size is the same -- each part of functionality is still somewhere. Actually, you need more code just for the overhead of having separate services.

If hiding code is your aim, just put it in another folder and squint your eyes so you don't see it. See? How easy?

If defining good APIs is your aim, just do good job defining modules within single service. Do you really need overhead of separate service for that?

So, the good general rule, as with practically anything in life, would be: Split services if you see gains that are bigger than costs and risks.

Actually, much bigger, because your attention is also finite resource. If you spend 50% of your time talking about creating services you are not spending that time focusing on other important stuff.

But don't just split services because they are bigger than your head.

This just irritates me.
Do you have insight into details, problems and current solutions in those 20 industries?

I'm looking for validated B2B business ideas, e.g., companies in industry _ share problem _, this can be solved by software solution _, early adopters will be _, personal introduction can be made to _ .
Also it makes no sense to attribute a rebound on a defender to the defender (Spain-Switzerland, own Goal by the switzerland defender which is just a kick by J. Alba).

Dumb metrics of "objectivity".
I see a lot of people trying to compare its "machine learning" to human learning.

Let's use this thought experiment: Imagine that Github's Copilot was just a massive array of all the lines of code from every github project, with some (magical automated whatever) tagging and indexing on each function, and a search engine on top of that.

Now imagine that copilot simply finds the closest search result, and then when you press a button, it inserts the line from the array, and press it again and you get the next line, etc.

Now hopefully nobody here thinks such a system would fulfil either the spirit or the law of any half-restrictive license. Yet that is a perfectly valid implementation of Copilot's aim - and it sounds like it's not that far from what actually happens, maybe with a bit of variable name munging.

So my question is this: If you could build a line between the system I describe above and the system of human learning, where a human learns the patterns and can genuinely produce novel structures and patterns and even programming languages that it has never seen before.

At what point along that line would you say that Copilot is close enough to human to not be violating licenses that require attribution?
This reasoning is absolutely spot on.
No. No matter if you have wide-angle lens or the telephoto lens, you still need to cover the whole sensor with the image and the distance from the last glass element of the lens to the focal plane does not differ that much.
The average app with near zero or zero transactions wouldn't be affected very much if the fee was 30% or 0%. In terms of antitrust what matters is the transactions.
> comparing the actions of a democratic country that promotes rule of law globally (although I am well aware sometimes realpolitik and worse happens) versus a country that has no regard for a rules based order or anything other than increasing their own power seems like a false comparison

Are you aware that most of the world sees the US not as a country that promotes the rule of law but the one country that's the biggest risk to world peace? It has been like that for many years.

The US completely ignores and shits on every single rule it claims to uphold the very moment it becomes inconvenient to keep following it.
There are indeed people willing to trade USD for BTC, so there is a market price for BTC. However, there are three major risks in my opinion which I think could make BTC worthless in the next 10 years:

1) There seems to be very credible evidence that Tether and other stablecoins are essentially fraud, and Tether makes up a massive portion of the BTC market cap

2) Ransomware is becoming increasingly prevalent, and has managed to compromise large institutions - it's not difficult to imagine regulatory action banning cryptocurrency as a result of this

3) Similarly, BTC is viewed by many as an unnecessary driver of fossil fuel consumption. Carbon regulation will necessarily get stronger in the next decades, and BTC may face harsh regulatory challenges because of this
None of the ones I have seen are "proper" own goals. They are still, as usual, defenders doing desperate clears in front of attackers that would have scored 999 times out of 1000 if the defender had let it be. Those in my view shoulnd't even count as "own goals" as they currently do. The passer should get the goal and that should be the end of it. This is how it works elsewhere like in ice hockey and others.

Counting "own goals" as any goal where a defender is last to touch the ball and it wouldn't have gone into the goal otherwise is simple but it's just not useful. The skill is setting the defender in that impossible situation to begin with, and it's the attackers' effort that does it. It's filed together with true own goals which are mistakes - and it's silly.

"Proper" own goals where a normal goal isn't almost a given in the milliseconds after, are still extremely rare and always were.
Thanks, that makes total sense (as guidance how to apply it). Is that a new thing?
You can remove the blur from the images by editing the source code of the pdf with a text editor...
It's more about linguistic structure than origin of words.

Kannada, Telugu & Malayalam, even pre-dravidan-movement Tamil have lot of borrowed sanskrit vocabulary, but they retain structure of Dravidian languages.

Also most common words used are also Dravidan origin.

For example:

Kannada - Naanu,
Tamil - Naan,
Telugu - Nenu,
Malayalam - Njan

Etc..

Another small thing unique about Dravidian languages is clusivity, there's exclusive 'we' and inclusive 'we'. While modern Kannada, unlike Tamil / Telugu, doesn't retain this feature, some dialects such as Havyaka retain this feature.
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Well you can read public code all you like but you can't just take chunks of code and write them under different licenses like how copilot has been shown doing.
Was that even the question to begin with? Here is the comment I replied to, originally [0]. Try to find the word "Bitcoin" there.

And, again, thanks for continuing to support my point, by failing to address the fact that the first example I gave had nothing to do with BTC.

Have a nice day.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27769442
Same here. I copy boilerplate code for new projects etc. regularly. But I don't remember copying anything verbatim from SO. Function, argument and variable names rarely fit the scheme used in the particular project I'm working on at that moment and usually I do a better job at adapting the code thinking what I'm doing rather than just copy and paste and then wonder what went wrong.
"Nothing" is the common denominator of everything. Mass market movies are attempting to reach this perfect "nothing".
Wasn't Mach a re-implementation of the original 4.2BSD completely based on IPC in place of syscalls? I distinctly recall some documents saying that XNU achieved much better performances than plain OSFMK thanks to NeXT reworking the BSD parts as components of the kernel instead of being binaries in user space, like in the case of plain Mach.
> circumventing the rule of law

I'll risk some karma here (I don't place a high value on it!)

A major use of cryptocurrencies is for drug-dealing. That is trade, and trade is normally considered to be a good thing, economically.

The "rule of law" makes possible the (non-violent) enforcement of contracts, so it facilitates trade. But it's prefectly possible to trade without relying on access to courts; in many places, the courts are corrupt, or the system is so slow as to be useless. But trade goes on.

I'm stuck to think of any other way in which the "rule of law" confers economic value, and the war against drugs clearly reduces economic output.

I'm not taking a position on whether the drugs trade is more or less reprehensible than (e.g.) the trade in fossil fuels. But it happens, and it's been happening ever since Prohibition and Reefer Madness; apparently "rule of law" doesn't rule very effectively.
That's true for good implementarions, but is it true for all implementations? I don't know, but I'd be worried about it.
How to Properly Archive a Project
This article proposes a model (“TURTLES”), or more simply, a checklist, of how to properly archive a project.
For 1 USD = 0 EUR to become a reality, we would have to imagine a massive geopolitical shift has taken place.

For 1 BTC = 0 USD, all you need is one government, which has been the victim or ransomware attacks, to regulate BTC out of existence.
Well there's Krav Maga.

Kalaripayattu / Silambam / Angampora could have been more skewed towards armed combat with the weapons of that era, which is fair. But martial arts have a place for self defence.
Yes, I know. But it was the original claim that triggered the current thread.

Either way, thanks for the insight and information you brought to the discussion.
As a vim user, I'm using lazygit[1] for handling git operations. What am I missing w.r.t a EMACS+Magit workflow?

[1]: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
>Does the web site have any idea how rude it is to claim that my last name contains invalid characters? Clearly not

That is one of the milder error messages. I have an accented character in my first name and run up against this all the time. I used to screengrab and collect them, but it would have been easier to collect the sites which didn't object.

In the rudeness stakes, I think my favourite so far has been:

"Please enter a valid name"

although there have been plenty of others, nearly as insulting. I see the post is from 2010. I'm still running into this problem today.
I’ve found the following to be key in a good experience:

1. Do not take too much. This cannot be overstated. You don’t need to take 4 tabs of LSD, you don’t need to take a 1/4 oz of shrooms. Take the right, safe amount. Usually 1 tab or a 1/16th oz will do for me. Double that if I’m feeling up to it. I’m a larger person too.

2. Set/setting. Are you emotionally and physically prepared to go on a trip that could get _very_ complicated? Lots of people think they are when they're not.

Trip sitters can be helpful, but they do not guarantee a good trip by any means. Sometimes a person being around you that isn’t on the same plane of existence can make a situation needlessly uncomfortable. I’ve had a moment where we had to ask a trip sitter to leave mid-trip when things went sour. Once he left, we felt we could deal with things more naturally.

If it’s one of your first few times, a trip sitter could be great. Make sure it’s someone everyone in the group deeply trusts and likes. I’ve found I have better experiences without them personally.
Experiencing WSL as a Linux Veteran – Part 1
If people cared about scientific this pandemic wouldn't take so many lives.

People care about fear. They by themselves come up with the dumbest possible fears. In absence of hope for reason I'd prefer they feared the thing that steers them in the life saving direction.
Yeah for me magit was one of those "magical" Emacs apps that really keeps me sticking with Emacs despite how slow it can be when you load it up with many extensions (compared to VSCode).

I hope the native comp in Emacs 28 helps somewhat in the speed aspect. The ports over to Deno and other JS stuff look interesting too [0] https://emacs-ng.github.io/emacs-ng/
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A No Code Tool to Build TailwindCSS Websites
Show HN: Chat-style, quickest note taking app – nanonote
China has imprisoned millions of people in one of the biggest ethnic genocides since Nazi gernany. They murder people to sell their organs.

The US is a mess but comparing them to a morally bankrupt genocidal China is disingenuous
Shout out for Shorewall, i've been using it as my primary firewall-helper for nearly 20 years with 0 upgrade hassle.

It's a perfect-balance of power and simplicity. It doesn't have a web interface but is just a nice way configure Linux' built-in networking features.

It doesn't consume any extra resources and will run anywhere Linux does.
> Sorry, but are you saying that, now that we have fire and clothing and "whole cities in permafrost", hardly anybody really dies of cold anymore?

No, but how & how many people die to cold right now will be significantly different to how & how many people may die due to heat in the future due to climate change.

It is really just a strawman apples to oranges comparison to make here at all, because also:

And I'm further saying that climate change will likely also not change due to how many people die to cold right now.. where do you have this from? We get more persistant extremes both directions, right now!

> no point arguing mere statistical matters.

That's cheap... so no numbers or relative scale?
The market has decided that it does not care about a lighter footprint browser engine - it just wants autocomplete, to remember all your passwords, and users don't want to have to think too much. This much is clear. If there was a browser with the light footprint of Safari with the nice flexibility of Chrome without the permanent 5gb of memory usage, you'd have a winner. I'd even pay Sublime Text prices for that (once, optional upgrades).
Isn't it the same everywhere in the world?
> You are using the term "homeopathy", which includes osteopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic treatments, and other "holistic" areas of treatment.

> Homeopathy is a very broad area …

Homeopathy is a specific system of “alternative medicine” that involves treating “like with like” – albeit in dilutions that no longer contain the active ingredient. It has little in common with acupuncture or chiropractic which have very different origins and belief systems – other than they are all pseudo-scientific and are broadly categorised as complementary or alternatives to mainstream, evidence-based medicine.
“Where do I start from?”: Newbie Guide to Programming
Apologies. This isn't how I wanted the poll to manifest itself. I am quite sure I followed the poll guidelines, but it certainly didn't add the "type on/in ear" addition as it should have. Obviously they are meant to be two choices, separated by a line space. Moreover, every refresh of the poll page rearranges their order, is that meant to happen?
You do have a point there. Crypto does have a massive fraud problem. And I'll admit that so far, it's been a net negative for society.

I'm hoping this will change as the ecosystem matures.
I recommend you rethink your advertising strategy.

I'd bet over 70% of developers run some kind of adblocker. I personally run adnauseam[0] and I will NEVER click on an ad.

[0]: https://adnauseam.io/
Ideally it's good to give it 110% and then take a lot of rest. This is how you improve. But there needs to be trust there. So find a job which you can trust, and which trusts you. Your colleagues and boss should have your back, like a military squad would. If one of you needs to be away, you'll cover up the workload for them or they'll cover for you. If your leader feels you're tired or overworked, they'll try to push work away from you.

But that's an ideal. Many jobs are transactional; they squeeze what they want from you, and you squeeze what you can from them. In situations like this, you'll have to give it 80%. There's tricks to look like you're working more than you are. If the boss expects you to work at nights, you slack off in the day. You complete a task, read HN for a couple hours, then commit the code later to pad your effort.

But this 80% will make you mediocre in the long run. Going at less effort than you can will decrease your energy. Find something that's closer to your pace. They'll seek to punish you for doing well, so find someone who appreciates your efforts.
> [...]if even traditional finance is slowly adopting these things,[...]

All this means is there is money to be made. It does not mean that any particular use-case exists. So no, this does not make it hard to hold on to the idea above - no use-cases outside of crime and speculation.

If you provide storage for people's stuff and someone wants specialized storage for tulips you probably do not care whether the tulips are worth anything or useful. You rent them the space to store their tulips if you can make money that way.
> in my opinion

> I think could

Who is speculating about the value of things here? Wasn't speculation supposed to be bad?

None of the things you mentioned support the hypothesis that the value of BTC is literally zero (not 0.00000000000001 USD, but literally zero).

> 1) There seems to be very credible evidence that Tether and other stablecoins are essentially fraud, and Tether makes up a massive portion of the BTC market cap

I have a hard time even parsing this ("Tether makes up a massive portion of the BTC market cap"), and it sounds more like an appeal to emotion than an actual argument. Please explain in which ways are DAI and USDC "essentially fraud". Perhaps you should contact US authorities, and complain about the fraudulent Coinbase, if you really believe that to be the case (and if you're not just engaging in unfounded speculation).
My sole use of the touchbar is adjusting sound volume. Sometimes adjusting brightness. That's it.

I like the idea of a dynamic input system. But in my opinion the execution is just terrible. Sometimes when I'm typing something in the terminal I accidentally press the touchbar and the man page pops up, which is mildly infuriating.
Same way as GC enabled tools. At some level they all rely on massive libraries written in C.
Yep, me too.

Like a lot of people, I really miss filenames with built-in version numbers.

[1] Create a file called `WUMPUS.FOR`

[2] Every time you saved it, the OS automatically incremented the version number: `WUMPUS.FOR;2` and `WUMPUS.FOR;3` and `WUMPUS.FOR;42`.

[3] You could optionally `PURGE WUMPUS.FOR` and all the old versions would be removed, and then the OS would continue making new versions.

With this, who needs a revision control system? For a single user, this is all you need -- you can go back to old versions, copy or rename them to branch, etc.

Unix came along at the same time as this was happening and it never incorporated this functionality, which is why we need clumsy functionality bolted on top, such as Git. The actual versioning info isn't in the filesystem -- it's hidden inside concealed data files.