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What? LASIK practitioners are opthamologists (not optometrists!) who, typically, do nothing except LASIK procedures. LASIK is "expensive" because there are plenty of people who are willing to pay $3000 for permanently better eyesight, LASIK equipment is expensive (especially the best and newest equipment), and because there's really not much of a low end to the market (because people generally only want the best available options in the "shining lasers into your eyes to permanently reshape them" market).

Also, LASIK isn't that expensive compared to other surgical operations. Here's a price list from the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, which specializes in low-cost, out-of-pocket surgical procedures with transparent pricing: https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing/

And here's the pricing from the LASIK specialist I went to: https://sharpe-vision.com/pricing/

Notice how LASIK is pretty cheap compared to other surgeries--and this is from a cash surgical center in Oklahoma as opposed to the higher-cost locations Sharpe Vision operates from. I mean, there are cheaper surgeries out there, but probably because they're simpler and require less expensive equipment. For example, a local urologist in my area, "Dr. Snip", charges $1000 for a vasectomy: https://www.drsnip.com/getting-started/#billing
My wife and I used this somewhere around 10 years ago when reorganizing our apartment. It was great!
I was just going in for a routine eye exam to update my prescription. The guy said, "The good news is that we can skip the rest of the exam." The bad news is that I had cataracts.

The same thing happens with people with glaucoma, or macular degeneration, or...

Being able to see is a really big deal. Catching stuff that can make you blind rather abruptly is a big deal. On the other hand, as you say, being able to afford to get a prescription and glasses that fit them is also a big deal.
Is this the new thing now, were everything is going to be cyber-thing, built for a post-apocalyptic world, with bullet proof shielding and water proof, emp proof?
What does MySQL have to do with this? It seems it was RFC3629¹ that restricted the domain of UTF-8 to cap at U+10FFFF and therefore remove 5- and 6-byte encodings.

¹https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3629
No, nothing has changed, places like Costco still provide cheap access to glasses. There is a lot of incorrect information floating around. I don't know how to explain the article seemingly intentionally ignoring the various options for getting inexpensive eye glasses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_food_therapy

Of course, the notion that there's a correlation between what you consume and what your body exhibits is common to pretty much every culture, including modern culture. Likewise for classes of foods correlating with classes of ailments.

The devil is in the details--what's the particular effect, if any, of a particular ingredient or mix or ingredients. Rarely do the claims and the reality line up in a rigorous, medically significant manner. But like with religion, the classes of foods and ailments are susceptible to very liberal interpretation, and lend themselves to equivocation with whatever correlation may actually exist. And because foods obviously can and do have significant health effects, opportunities for coincidental relationships abound.

That said, modern food science isn't particularly rigorous either, relies on its own gross generalizations and fallacies, and even shares some with folk medicine--most infamously, the supposed relationship of salt and saturated fat consumption to hypertension and cholesterol, respectively, exhibit many of the same classic errors you see in folk medicine.
Probably this?

https://dw.com/en/healthy-eating-in-traditional-chinese-medi...
I think, though I'm not sure, that RH makes their money by investing in treasury bills with the cash balances of people's portfolios. You're (most likely) not getting secretly screwed.
Do you also have 'opticians' as well as ophthalmologists and optometrists?
I'd like to see him take on AI with his own AI programs next.
> 2: clang is still significantly worse than GCC

Do you have any sources/information to back that statement up?
Unfortunately this is what happens when companies are allowed to operate completely unabated. They'll gladly build up a monopoly and try to make it as invisible as possible while lobbying behind the scenes to reduce regulations for them and add regulations to prevent challengers.

We have multiple markets like this in the US which have occured as the result of consolidation and lobbying and we're just...not doing anything about it. While they exercise rent-seeking behaviors in order to gouge customers.
So it sounds like you're okay with Google collecting all your data because your description doesn't cover them

> If you are reselling my data

Google doesn't resell data

> allowing access to my data,

Google doesn't allow access to user data

> or deriving data / servives from my data that identifies me in any way

Google doesn't let people be identified from the data they collect.

> and then selling that to a third party for a profit or giving it to them as part of a license so that they can generate profit from it

Google doesn't sell data to a third party for profit.

I'm 100% for a law that prevents that scammier companies who do all the things above to stop doing those things. Just pointing this doesn't cover HN's most hated company.
ITT: Anecdotes and bad science.
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...patrolling the dead zone, transporting lander passengers to the martian base, running 80's hair bands out to the venue, ...
When curves are made on a computer, and CNC cut into a steel press that can make a door in 8 seconds, they turn out very cheap. In fact, curves are much stronger than flat panels for the same weight/cost, which is a big reason for exterior curves in some cars which are also structural.

From that perspective, I think the flat angular design used is for style only, and has no engineering basis.
Cohen's comedies were hugely offensive. He starts off by making fun of young lower class people in britain, then gay people, then a specific eastern european country, etc etc.

He would not be successful in the world he now demands, and he is not a social expert hes a 'funny' man who spends his time on business deals and movies.

I'm jewish, I don't want him speaking for me. I'd rather sasha cohen be allowed to make offensive films and everyone else too.

He's no more expert than joe rogan or any other comedian.

He's just the one the ADL decided to use as a mouth piece for censorship, and as a jewish person I don't appreciate their pretending to have my best interests in mind while hurting the basic freedoms and ability for self expression of everyone in the country.

He's not brave and there's no king. he was celebrated for his comments. The things he's saying are only the words of a jester because he's a clown, not because they're wise.
First of all, this is typical Gawker-site blog spam. It has zero insight.

Second of all, while I’m sure you can find some tesla fans who will go for it, especially with a $100 refundable deposit, I think they just made a bad call. How they go from Model X/3/S to this, escapes me. I love flat car panels, but I don’t think anyone who isn’t already a tesla fan will go for it. It’s viscerally ugly. They got many fundamentals right. The problem is the look. Trucks are not utilitarian. They are SUVs with the roof removed to make it less useful so that men will be comfortable buying it. Utilitarianism is not a legitimate excuse for this design.

It looks like a bunch of Silicon Valley nerds designed a truck they’d want to drive. It definitely has that niche appeal, but certainly no mass-market appeal. Is Tesla’s long term strategy to stay in the high end? I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re doing this kind of niche appeal because the price of batteries has not come down far enough to make a cheap decent electric car yet.
Albion comes from early Celtic rather than Latin. Originally naming all of Britain it changed at some point to refer to just Scotland, and gave the modern Scots Gaelic of Alba for Scotland.
What costs $3000??
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We've just created a tool people can use to play Go better than a person without the tool. Until something emerges from the rain forest, or comes down from space that can throw down and win I'd say Humans are still the best Go players in the known universe.
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Curious why the downvotes on this? You don't have to buy into their magical alignment aura junk to objectively know that it feels good having your back aligned.

It's just a fancier version of having a friend or family member push on your back until it pops whatever was out of place.
I'm now living in Vietnam. Friend of mine wants laser eye surgery after I told them about my great experience with it in San Francisco.

We go to the local eye hospital in Saigon which looks on the outside like it hasn't changed much since 1974. Kind of scary for a third world country.

Turns out that the doctor speaks perfect english, they have all the very latest equipment and offer many different procedures depend on your eyes, they do literally tens of thousands of procedures a year.

My friends operation cost $1600 and they were completely healed up within 24 hours. Mine cost $7500 and took 6 months. We are both happy with the results though.

Of course mine was more complicated, I needed PRK which is more invasive... but still. The hospital here has the newer laser version of PRK (SMILE), which my 'best' doctor in SF didn't offer.

Any way, I'm surprised medical tourism isn't more of a thing. I know that Thailand is starting to crack down on it because people are stiffing the hospitals with the bill. But this experience definitely opened my eyes (ha ha) to being more open about finding alternatives.
Wow. That’s spiritual abuse and nothing less. It boggles the mind that people pay attention to such people when scripture clearly warns against them (like 1 Timothy chapter 6).
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That was an epic troll. In a single post it took the OP from implied acceptance of an anti-GPL trope to explicitly defending proprietary licenses from an attack by the same kind of careless metaphor.

I hope others on HN pick up on this and use the "proprietary is deadly" trope similarly (that is, only in response to casual uses of the "viral GPL" trope).
Whereas my point is that the developers of Atom have shown their true moral colours—and their honesty isn't sufficiently instructive to you? Unless you can get the developers to change their principles, getting them to change their source code today seems to be a rather temporary fix.

Meanwhile, isn't it strange that the default behaviour (on nearly all major consumer computer platforms) that we implicitly trust all applications with near-unfettered access to the internet. And we merely hope they don't betray us.
By definition, if a system wins even 10% of the time against you and gives you a headache, while it's doing it in a breeze, you're going to give up. It's unsustainable.
Well, as “annoying” as you might find it. I mentioned both the source (salary.com) and the population (the top 20 cities in the US outside of the west coast and NYC to not skew the numbers).

I’m using readily accessible sites that have publicly available numbers.
There's actually (at least) two versions of GP's comment - unsafe code/data, what you appear to be referring to:

rm -rf $FOO/*

And typos, which is what I first thought of upon reading it:

rm -rf . /*
Yes! It's so infuriating. I usually go to Chinatown where they will sell you contacts without an exam or prescription.

I asked my optometrist once why a prescription was necessary to buy glasses or contacts, and why prescriptions expire so quickly, and she gave me the reason offered in the article: that it forces people to be screened early for treatable eye diseases. But I can't think of any other area in healthcare where your care is held hostage unless you pay them for some unrelated diagnostics you don't want. It's hard to see it as anything other than a cynical ploy to extract money from people.
Of course, that’s true. They are two different issues. Its expensive because it’s a cartel system. That it’s mandatory to test before issuing new prescription grade eye glasses is sensible.

Eye exams ought to be cheaper, but that doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be mandatory to get an eye exam before filling a new order.

Isn’t it a business liability to hand out glasses that’s supposed to make someone see better but without necessary preliminary testing? Imagine if they did it with pharmaceuticals.
Yes. Though they are not eye doctors in any meaningful sense of the word. It requires a pretty straightforward certification while the other two require years of post graduate training.
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I really like your library page! What’s the timespan of your library and how often do you read?
Even if the general shape of the cybertruck follows from the materials and production process, the packaging and marketing is clearly playing off dystopian fantasies. Both of these things can be true at the same time.

Selling cars is as much about telling a story as it is about explaining how you will get someone from point A to point B. That's even true for "boring" family cars - the story they are telling is one of reliability.
I believe opticians are the people that measure your PD adjust frames.
> Seems pretty obvious in retrospect (and probably would have been obvious at the time, too) - they don't care about locking down Macs, but they do care about locking down iPhones and iPads.

Are we sure yet? Apple ships a read only system partition now, and requires the users to go through hoops to remove that, and they have been adding more and more of the random codesign and entitlement locking features to their base operating system (to use their AuthKit library to authenticate for Apple services, for example, you now need to not only disable System Integrity Protection, but patch the Apple Mobile File Integrity Daemon... which occurs to me maybe is now macOS instead of Mobile? ;P). These are the same steps as jaikbreaking an iOS device, only without the "exploits" (though still with patching code).

I was able to find a good walkthrough of the process here:

https://pvieito.com/2016/12/amfid-patching

> The remaining GPL software, which has stayed steady for a couple of releases, are all things you don't need on iOS: emacs, screen, etc.

If it causes you to rethink your position here, you might want to try running emacs on the latest version of macOS...
Did anyone one else read "SHA-RNN" as "SHHHAAAAARRRROOOOONNN" in Ozzy's voice?
Good use-case for vim
Freedom, freedom to think. Freedom to choose for myself.
That's great news.

A few years ago, as due diligence, my GP referred me to an audiologist. She found moderate high-frequency hearing loss in one ear. Which isn't surprising, given my love for screaming guitars.

But no way am I spending thousands of dollars on a hearing aid. I'm the sort of guy who'd always be turning it off.

And her office just wouldn't give up. They sent periodic reminders for at least two years.
A-f*cking-men. Everything. Law, politics, markets, culture, everything.
The compile times are much longer and the generated code is usually slower except for autovectorized code.

I've spent a lot of time testing both clang and gcc, and right now the only part of clang I use regularly is the static analyzer in my continuous integration.

For C++ in particular, the compile times are 2-3 times as long. It's unbelievable how slow it is.
Nah, rr is not state of the art. :-)

About a dozen years ago my workplace built something like that in-house. I see you've made progress. You have the reverse dataflow. You can't debug an arbitrary firmware or bootloader or OS however, and you can't properly debug a bunch of interacting systems.

Simics also seems to have most of that. I last checked about half a dozen years ago, so the other features might now also be supported. It's not cheap, but you could model all the computers of a factory or aircraft all at once. You could then step forwards and backwards as desired, coherently examining the RAM and other hardware of all the computers as you please.

I wouldn't be surprised if dozens of similar tools have been built.
Health and food should be accessible to all and shouldn’t be subject to profiteering.

Labour should be compensated fairly but it should be subsidized from demand side by boosting purchasing power rather than supply side subsidies. This is of course more true for food/Ag than healthcare...but I feel it can be applicable to healthcare industry too.
gogoproto worked for me, using the moretags extension, thanks for the links!
Ukrainians didn't think that Russians are evil boogiemen and look what happened to them. Better safe than sorry.
Sure, if you work in the city.

But if you live and work on the country side, higher gas prices will crush you because it impacts not only you personally but the school transport for the kids, the transporting wares from/to rural supermarket, for infrastructure maintenance/development, agriculture/farmers etc etc

There are so many little things that people take for granted that is will have an impact on those living on the country side.

And in the end you just shift the problem to the cities, where the influx of more people cause rising housing costs, higher unemployment, more miserable people and higher prices on foodstuffs because farmers give up.

Living rural areas and farmers are a very important factor for a happy nation IMHO.
The discussion is about dropbox, a background service that used to have much more reasonable memory use and for which has competitors using far less memory. A trade-off isn't necessary.
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I can repro this in Firefox. Are you disabling Javascript?
Ophthalmologists are doctors. Optometrists [people who give eye examinations] are almost never doctors.
(edited in response to comments - seems, once again, that things are different in the US; so i'll clarify, they are almost never Doctors in AUS/UK/NZ)

Medical doctors in the UK and other commonwealth countries have traditionally been MBBS.

In Australia, the adoption of the Australian Qualifications Framework and pressure from the US, where people seem to expect 'MD's has lead to most universities shifting to MD programs from MBBS (an AQF level 7 -> AQF level 9).

The bottom line on this is substantively nothing, except a bit less ink being used on business cards, millions of dollars spent on website rebranding by medical schools and endless posturing by faculty for students.

So basically, whether you are a 'Doctor' by post-nominals or a 'Doctor' by recognition of your MBBS, your education has been effectively the same, and the distinction is actually meaningless.

[0] https://www.amsj.org/archives/5996
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Little box to hold a removable piece or mechanism, so seems a bit of a stretch unless cassette gears pop out for replacement? There were far earlier uses. The box that held the glass plates in early plate cameras was called a cassette.
Yeah, using local vms is going to greatly expand access to this kind of learning. A current developer laptop is more than beefy enough, and I'd suggest that there aren't many useful lessons to learn from the pi hardware that can't be learned fully virtualized.

But if you're having fun, of course, more power to you :)
Well they are writing a scathing expose of “the great American eye exam scam.” If they acknowledged existing options their story wouldn’t be as “hard hitting.”
It's not that browser add-ons aren't capable of blocking them, it's that a) browser extensions generally don't have access to dns resolution, b) even if they did, cname tracker resolution would increase overall latency due to multiple requests to identify trackers /outside/ of normal resolution, c) it's trivial for a host to create a new cname for a tracker, so automating this makes a lot of sense from their perspective in order to avoid blocklists.

Extensions now have to identify which cnames are a front for which trackers, block the new tracker, and somehow manage to stay below the max rules-per-extension that the browser allows (30k for Chrome[0]). See original nextdns.io post for details [1].

[0] https://www.xda-developers.com/google-chrome-manifest-v3-ad-...

[1] https://medium.com/nextdns/cname-cloaking-the-dangerous-disg... ( https://outline.com/Y6PKr3 )
People can hate the design, but they will benefit from the shakeup within the existing vehicle manufacturers.

(I do hate that there is no dashboard)
The only other trick is getting the pupillary distance measurement. You can estimate this but I copied mine off the package from the opto lab the last time I bought glasses from an optician.
Not necessarily.

RISC-V Foundation just calls it 'open ISA' and Wikipedia states as 'RISC-V is an open-source hardware instruction set architecture'.
> India has committed some horrible atrocities in the area

Hah. Boiler plate blame-the-other-of-your-faults strategy.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus

Ethnic cleansing of Hindus who were mass-exoded out of their homelands through threat of murder and rape via public loudspeakers in the 90s.

Innumerable terrorist attacks perpetrated by Pak ISI instigated and based agents ever since Independence, through Operation Gibraltar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gibraltar

Kashmir was divided in partition in 1947. Pakistan didn't like it. They invaded Kashmir. Indian army held them at current Line of Actual Control. Since then they've been attacking it.

Rape is a blotch to be condemned. It's been a unfortunate side effect of every war ever fought, by both sides. WWII - Germany vs Russia, and Russia vs Germany, for example.

Taken from Human Rights Watch Report - "Rape in Kashmir: A Crime of War" 1993: "In some cases, women have been raped by militant forces as a way of punishing other family members believed to be informers or suspected of opposing the militants. In other cases, members of armed militant groups have abducted women and raped them after threatening or murdering other members of the family."

Terrorism is a huge infestation problem, especially in Kashmir Every country has to deal with it strong-handedly as a duty. Every country since the beginning of time has introduced curfews and curbed liberty for security (TSA screenings hello?) for peace keeping. It's no secret the benefits outweigh the risks for the majority of peaceful population.
I know, I worked on it :) It's not open source though.
I would love to see this built-in as a column to SHOW PROCESSLIST, that would show % done.