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>re: things being produced as their exclusive property, what is the issue with this? They did the work to make the thing, therefore it's their property

The more the world is built out of "other people's property", the less freedom you have. And the specific property-like law Congress chose to make people pay for software is incredibly strict within the narrow range of its scope - i.e. perfect if you want literally anything to do with technology to become a coercive monopoly.
You did not post any data. You made some assertions about Toyota and Tesla. I asked which data you were using. You linked to an infographic and an article about a recent recall. You seem to have a bias. You should think about that.
Does that mean Bitcoin has just doubled its energy waste?
$2M award for the miners. Wonder how much energy that took
Tell you what @dang, I'll apply if you want to be my cofounder.
> What they missed was the after action surveillance and analysis.

Isn’t that literally an unprofessional error? The big three already have this as standard operating procedure. Tesla still seems to be treating building cars like devops: move fast and break things, but don’t worry about the break things part until it’s bad enough that end users start complaining in a public forum.
Two hunters from the same lodge afflicted with sporadic CJD: is CWD to blame?
Let alone animals with sentience, can anyone prove to me beyond reasonable doubts that there is actually a world that exists outside my senses, or mind?
This depends on what your specific problems are that are holding you back.

General advice is to start with common techniques .. getting things done, pomodoro, etc.

Building good habits is the best thing you can do, because you no longer need motivation once you have a habit.

Charles Duhigg's "The Power of Habit" is a good place to start with that concept.
This is a cool idea. I'll buy it and play it this weekend if I remember.
Absolutely there are. Many (or most) of the people who catch fish, pour coke onto the mortal wound they just created for their own leisure and toss them back into the water to die would confidently tell you fish are incapable of experiencing pain.
I meant $100M in annual revenues :) Your point is taken though, I think a lot of VCs would scoff at our present-day numbers despite our growth and outlook. It's very much still a small business, yet by far the most impressive thing either of us have ever done and the hardest we've ever worked. Been at it since July of last year pretty much non-stop.
Oh! I had just come across him via this recent YouTube video. I'm glad to be introduced to a new influential thinker. I guess I have some reading to do, thanks Mr. Dennett!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGrRf1wD320
> and we call them “cowboys” because it was originally applied to Black slaves who worked with cattle.

source?
It failed because I fucked up a bunch of other unrelated stuff sadly, I was still in the throes of alcoholism and made a lot of poor choices(sober now). The product market fit was decent for getting going, we built the solution and people seemed to like using the product, we had contracts etc: https://municipal.systems/
This is only half true in my opinion. Only future versions will be non-free, all the contributions before the license change stay free and can be forked.

Any project with a permissive license (BSD/MIT) can always be made into a commercial product. I could fork Valkey any minute, change the name and start selling it.
One of the creators of greptile here. We are retiring this concept (it’s not part of our new landing page which should be out this month). You’re right, good docs contain the “why”. Our premise was most docs are tech companies are bad, so Greptile is 0 effort and rests squarely in-between bad docs and good docs. That was not how it was interpreted by most people, understandably.
Waste is constant in this context.
The energy use didn't significantly change, and the value it creates for humanity didn't significantly change, so probably not?
I admit the number of nines is as much artistic license to drive home a point as it is a possibly realistic statistic.

Either way, we seem in agreement.
The singleton structure with guns being a democracy and the many structures anyone can start (without guns, which exists inside of the singleton superstructure) being a democracy are not the same thing. Maybe the latter should be a democracy as well, but the former being one does not logically imply that the latter necessarily should be.
The compelling reason to apply would be that going through YC can increase your value by more than 1.07 or whatever number represents break-even on the standard deal. Whether that's true of your startup or not I can't say, but I do know that lots of founders go through YC after raising seed rounds because they're answering that question with a yes.
It largely depends what you mean by "works just fine", if all you want is "high throughput on a low latency link" then sure, whack up the buffer and throw it at the wall, it'll stick - but you can just as well use curl for that.

To study higher end network stacks or more modern protocol dynamics, or cross network flows, the other tools are providing much better insights.

The need for -P for basic tests is also telling and part of the problem: if the tool can't outpace a browser then even for these "basic cases" it's showing its inadequacy for the kinds of things the bulk of users care about even today, even with old protocols.
HeadSpin Founder Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Fraud
> VC industry

Well said, and you reminded me to be more careful about what I share haha
Presumably somewhere in the ballpark of $2M worth.
Not really, it just means what it means: a block rewards 2 times less than before. What happens regarding the number of miners growing or shrinking depends on a lot of factors. If you're so sure it's gonna increase the mining power, then I suggest you invest in it right now.
No, the energy expended and the value it provides to the Bitcoin network is unaffected. The only change is that the inflation of the token decreased.
Yeah, the amount of energy per coin mined kind of follows the price of the coin (in the longer term, not so much in the short term).

So the price going down is great news for anyone concerned about energy conservation, but because the amount of energy wasted is directly correlated to the difficulty of launching a 51% attack, the energy usage going down is bad news for anyone actually using bitcoin.
I still don't get why I would want to hold a bitcoin for anything other than speculation. If I want some form of currency to actually use there are plenty of less volatile options.
The printing press!

https://macleans.ca/facebook-instant-articles/boo-a-brief-hi...

Btw I think social media is a very dangerous tool being abused and exploited by many.
>I will go ahead and claim that it is not like anything to be a bat

After reading about this conceptualisation of consciousness I always thought that the true point is that we truly can't know if anything else is conscious until we can truly answer that question.

Likewise, is it something like to be a rock? Probably not, but you never know.
Energy requirement is constant, reward is halved. So smaller players get out and bigger players benefiting from ASICs and economy of scale will stay.

Usually after these events the energy usage of the network decreases temporarily for ~60 days and then settles to what it was before. [0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/19/bitcoin-just-completed-its-f...
My view is that it can never be used as a currency because it is inherently deflationary.
Any interest I might have in this is tempered by the fact that Bitcoin mining accounts for about 0.2% of global carbon emissions - roughly the same as the country of Greece. As long as Bitcoin is based on a proof-of-work process, I think the world would be better off without it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_effects_of_bitco...
Well, I'm not an expert. But I know that, among those who are experts, many-worlds is not the consensus or even the majority view. So, while it may seem clear cut to you, it doesn't to everyone. That's why I keep saying that no, it's not clear.

I realize that's argument by authority, and that's considered a fallacy...
I work in the SQL Server org at Microsoft, though on the service side and not the databasey side. The reverence with which people who knew him talk about Jim Gray is truly awe inspiring.

I don’t have much more to add beyond that. It’s one thing to know someone is a significant force due to their academic legacy, but another to see it in how people who knew them intimately speak of them after they are gone.
Sure why not? If I were you I'd try not to worry too much about what will/won't seem good—what YC is pattern-matching for is usually quite different than what people assume.
Damn you're worldy af. So interesting that you think that's interesting. Is it difficult to be you what with all your worldly ideas? We're way down here using accepted terminology generally agreed upon by 99% of the public but you're on a whole different level.
This is the case with most seat-based tools, except here you authenticate via your code hosting service, so it only lets you query the repos you have read perms for. Of course it’s not fool proof.

IMO it’s really easy to build a basic version of this that answers basic questions. We are attempting to build something that can answer the types of questions a good developer at a company would have about the company codebase. In our experience that’s a much harder problem than it looks.
> Get back to me when even a bare majority of philosophers and researchers can agree on a definition of consciousness.

Get back to who?

You appear to be claiming to be some kind of linguistic illusion, a meat LLM. If that’s true then there is no “you” to get back to, just some random chemical and physical processes.
If you make a robot which screams in response to stimuli, is it conscious?

I think this kind of reductionist approach to consciousness is bound to end up very weak in the face of these kinds of counterarguments.

Maybe I missed your point.
Or the notion he accidentally took some. He’s a Swiss chemist. The Swiss are known for being meticulous
So sorry for the delayed reply. I had to hit several O'Reilly stores to find someone who had any idea what I was looking for. I finally found one with a college-looking kid behind the counter instead of all those old farts like me and after I explained what I wanted he knew just which aisle it was on.

Turns out that an electron funnel isn't a fancy new tool. Instead, I already have several of them in my shop but just didn't make the connection. It became clear though when he handed me the plastic funnel after rubbing it through his hair vigorously for a few seconds and I got shocked by the crackling electrons streaming from the funnel to my fingers.

If this power thing ever happens to my battery again I'm just gonna get the big funnel from the set, rub it through the remnants of my hair and pour some electrons at it till it charges enough to start the engine.

Thanks for this suggestion about a new way to use an old tool.
Hopefully it means waste goes down as more miners become unprofitable and shutdown.
Hacker News has a fetish for these kinds of posts.
I suppose "well known" is relative, it may surprise you how little agency some people have over their health.

>It's the first thing you learn when you google "how to take bp".

The populations that I frequently deal with are not in a life/financial/cognitive place where this is a thing they would think of doing, or be capable of doing.

Take a look at this [1] about over treatment of mild hypertension. It's not a new problem, and potentially affects millions [2].

There can be enormous pressure on physicians to treat certain conditions from a population-health standpoint with medications if they fit certain clinical criteria.

The recent (2017) change in standards for hypertension [3] have been controversial. It put millions of people into the category of hypertension that weren't previously. Coupled with certain clinical criteria that recommend medication prescription even for mild hypertension, it's concerning that there may be an overprescription issue.

Many busy clinics don't have time to have a patient sit for the recommended 5 minutes of rest before taking BP (though I've seen this improving). Many medical assistants are poorly trained in BP measurement, and are overworked - I've seen many cases where a harried MA will do things like sit a patient down, put a cuff on them over-the-sleeve, as the patient slouches in a chair, with the arm in an incorrect position, a poorly fitted cuff, and just write down the number the machine spits out.

Of course, a good PCP will double check this and look for a trend. Not all PCP's are good and go to this effort.

(I am not a physician, I'm a tech nerd with a clinical background, but I've worked in healthcare for decades)

I've also experienced it personally. I went to the doc once about ten years ago for a wellness check. Based on the in-office BP reading and labs, the NP prescribed me five different medications, including BP meds, statins and others.

I decided to focus on lifestyle changes instead and that's worked well for me, but that's not an option for everyone.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCuJheVJA0

[2] https://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-archives/2014/11/umms-fam...

[3] https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/reading-the-new-...
You can't "double spend" without anyone noticing, even a minimal amount is in theory detectable by the exchange and the word would spread like fire.

Perhaps the exchange would let it go if the amount is small enough, so that the value of the currency doesn't crash for everyone, but remember you are trying to recoup the enormous investment needed to get to 51%.

It's true that you can withdraw a large amount of money once, let the whole thing crash and run away with the cash. But you need to control that money to withdraw it, so you'd need to take it from other's accounts using your 51% advantage, and get the cash from the exchange before anyone notices. How are you gonna do that for such a large amount of money?

The exchange would never let you withdraw anywhere close to such an amount anyways, they just don't have it. Even if you somehow do it on all exchanges at the same time, it's too much. Even if they somehow have the capital, they just wouldn't let you, because they know it will tank the value of the currency, even if the withdrawal is legitimate.

I really can't see how you can steal more than you spent with the 51% move. The only thing you can do is spend a lot of money to crash the currency with a big loss on your side.
> Which law says there is a landlord cartel and building apartments is illegal? We both know there is no such law.

We both know that it's zoning laws that prohibit land that currently contains a single family home from containing any structure with a larger number of housing units.

> How come people get in and out leasing market all the time? An apartment building near where I live changed ownership recently, I would appreciate the exact law you are referring to, this could be a crime in progress.

Buying or selling existing units doesn't increase supply.
Are you intentionally trying to conflate weather and climate? Is it hard to believe that short term trends (weather) are much harder to predict than long term trends (climate) because you’re smoothing out the chaos of the short term behavior?

A poor analogy is that you can’t predict where an atom is located and its speed due to quantum, yet when you average over a bunch of atoms you some pretty useful bounds on the shape of the problem.

Also, we already have plenty of data to evaluate the models - climate models are underpredicting the consequences (ie things are hotter and more volatile than climate models predicted). This indicates the models are conservative about the predictions in the wrong direction (you want to be predicting 20% worse than reality than 20% better because of it impacts planning). The reason they’re likely wrong is that we don’t have a full accounting of the ways in which human activity causes warming.
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That’s good feedback. You could try the list here -> https://app.greptile.com/repo
That's the decade old philosophical fight about what to consider free software. GPL/GNU vs BSD.

I think both opinions are fine, if you don't want your contributions to end up in a commercial product, you can't contribute to a project with BSD/MIT license. On the other hand most companies prefer to support projects with a permissive license over projects with copyleft (GPL). For many projects (except the big ones like GNU/Linux) copyleft seems to be more of a burden.
> That you would deride Wittgenstein on a math/CS forum, when he is literally the person who thought up the concept of truth tables, seems quite egregious.

For extra lulz you should ask him about which of the many meanings of the word "is" he is using here, for each instance of the word:

> That's because a lot of philosophy is eminently pooh-pooh-able.

Of all places, you'd think people on a hacker forum would know the difference between is and equals.
We’re working on a feature that lets users exclude certain files and directories from the indexing.
"Experiencing pain" is more of a philosophical/religious question dating back to at least Cartesian dualism, rather than a question of whether pain receptors exist and induce a pain response.

And yeah, there are people even today that flatly deny that nonhuman animals have any form of subjective experience, even dogs.
Just in case:

- https://archive.is/pe8ko

- https://web.archive.org/web/20240420000606/https://theponzip...
They gotta get'em somewhere. Seems easy enough to do it like that.
The paid plan doesn’t have any restrictions on repo size.

We have a list of OSS repos that are free to interact with here: https://app.greptile.com/repo

Feel free to email me if there’s one you’d like us to add to the free tier that isn’t there.

daksh@greptile.com
oh man, TI-BASIC was awesome!! My first programming language, and funny enough due to how the programs worked, a relatively useful trove of "open-source" code to learn from.

I remember essentially cramming several different modified games together to make a game centered around the plot for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace with literally not an ounce of awareness at the irony of doing so or the vitriol for that movie at the time. Fun times...

edit: This seems like a more robust setup than I assumed, a color screen and C libraries to write assembly (!!) Good for the author, an impressive project
Consciousness is probably the most vague term in the west. At least in eastern philosophy they made an attempt at nailing it down.

Just because a lot of people use a word a lot, doesn't mean the word is well defined.
> It's incredible to imagine there are people out there just thinking in language as they go about their lives.

> I wonder how it must work. Are they literally lining up one word after another in their minds? I guess it has to work that way to feel like some sort of "consistent internal monologue"?

> At scale, though, imagining a roomful of people thinking in single-threaded monologues does explain a lot about why some teams take forever to get anything done.

As someone with a particularly strong inner dialogue (who often struggles to think about things in a fully non-verbal way), I definitely struggle at times with feeling like my brain is not concurrent enough for being good at multitasking, so I don't think you're completely off. To put it in programming terms, I feel less that my brain is "single threaded" as it's read/write locked in the sense that if I'm speaking or typing, I'm much less able to process properly listen to anything being said to me. For example, if I'm typing up an email (or a decently sized comment here) and someone tries to talk to me, I'll often not be able to formulate a response without completely losing my train of thought about what I was writing, which leads me to ask if it's okay for me to finish what I'm writing before responding.

As for "lining up one word after another in their minds", I don't think it's quite as tedious as it sounds like you might be thinking. When speaking out loud, it doesn't take any conscious thought for me to "line up words" as they come out of my mouth; if anything, I talk much more quickly than average. It hadn't occurred to me beforehand, but I wonder if this trait is correlated with having an internal monologue.
> For most people it is a very important part of ethics. Most people would consider it unethical to boil alive a being with a sense of self and the ability to feel pain

I disagree. I think that many people who attribute consciousness to animals do so insincerely in order to promote their political views. I say this because there's a huge overlap between vegans and pro-choice people. You can't say animals should be protected from people eating them, but it's perfectly fine to end human life.

(Not trying to derail the conversation with abortion. I actually agree with it, I just take the Bill Maher position: abortion is murder, but I'm mostly okay with that.)
Yup, current list of free repos is here

https://app.greptile.com/repo

Feel free to email me if you’d like any more to be added.

daksh@greptile.com
you're not my real dad!
I agree. I recall the Windows API and the official Hello World. I'm sure they could have got to the same place in a slightly reorganised way that kept main() as the starting point and interfaced with the event loop and the entire windowing system via some API calls that hid the cruddiest parts of the boilerplate crud (apt phrasing, thank you) away in headers and libraries. Then progressively reveal the details when they're really necessary for more elaborate applications.
Could we get a title change that adds a bit more context? Something like:

Bitcoin passes reward "halvening" milestone at block 840000

You could sort of argue that the halvening concept is common-ish knowledge for tech people with passing familiarity, but hardly anyone outside the crypto space knows the significance of the number 840000.
Am I reading these transactions right? It can cost over $5000 to transfer less than a single dollar?

https://mempool.space/tx/2fc565c457bf3202704f3b2e61c50312c07...
Yes. Software bad in this case. Fixed now!

Edit: the first sentence is even less baity so let's go with that.
Correct :)

Free list of repos here https://app.greptile.com/repo
There is even a widely publicized example of someone having a different opinion, that opinion getting out, and them getting fired.

Disclaimer: I'm not commenting on the content of the opinion. Responders, please don't attempt to steer the discussion in that direction.
You should really stop spamming all these small releases without any significant to report (not just wine, but also other things).
So you cannot deny me service or a job because I express the political views that you, your family, and people like you are sub-human and should exterminated? You should be required by to let me and my Nazi friends come into your bar and start spreading the good Nazi word every night to your suburban middle-class liberal establishment with no recourse because the expression of my political beliefs are protected by law?
I’d call it source available not open source. It doesn’t meet the open source definition.