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The problem is that without strict regulation any health care market will be flooded instantly with quacks.

Quackery is much easier than actual medicine. Quacks don't have to spend anything on R&D and quack medicines are a lot easier to manufacture (look up the synthesis pathways for popular pharmaceuticals!), and this means quacks can spend more on marketing and operate with much higher margins. This translates into a huge market advantage. Pretty soon you'll have nothing but quacks.

Medicine has a unique and extreme case of the "uninformed consumer problem." In medicine it's incredibly difficult even for professionals to tell whether something actually works, let alone individuals.

"Do your own research" doesn't work at all in medicine unless you have a billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket and can assemble your own research lab. Excluding emergency medicine and the most instantly and dramatically effective drugs, it's really hard as an individual consumer of health care to tell whether a treatment is working over the short term. Check out gwern.net and how much work he's put into trying to tell if various nootropics work and how much uncertainty remains.

The fact that individual discernment is so hard in medicine means defrauding people is incredibly easy. It's a market that is inherently vulnerable to massive fraud, and there is no easy way (that we know of) to fix this. Even with the FDA there is still a tremendous amount of quackery. Without the FDA and strict licensing and supervision there would be only quackery.

BTW news seems to suffer from a similar problem. Actual investigative journalism is expensive, hard, and sometimes dangerous. (Old PI joke: How do you know if a conspiracy theorist might be right? They are missing and presumed dead.) Fake news is cheap and easy, and since it's fake you can craft your stories for maximum click bait appeal without having to be limited by pesky "reality" and "honesty" constraints. The reader meanwhile has neither the time nor the ability nor the expertise to really fact check anything.

In general markets where the consumer is unable or unwilling to discern tend to be flooded with and overcome by fraud.
Something which people don't always recognize about open source is how "value-capture" works for creators. FOSS eschews direct monetization (selling licenses to the core product) based on an ethical premise (it's unfairly limiting to end-users) and/or a business premise (the ecosystem is a key to the value prop and licenses would slow down the ecosystem growth).

None of that means that the creator isn't capturing value. You capture social credibility and market awareness which you can convert in a variety of ways, including monetarily (by selling complementary products/services, by donation models, or by getting a job that you might not have had the career-credentials to get otherwise). As an aside to elaborate on this point: a lot of the recent debate about paying FOSS maintainers has to do with projects which realized all the potential social value-capture, and left creators with an externality of maintenance.

Intuitively, I think people understand that forking and rebranding a project without a really strong motivation can be scummy, but I don't think people can verbalize why. This is why: you're attempting to steal the upside which the creator is the in the process of capturing.

And FWIW, anybody saying that a blogpost is weak action and you ought to be going to court is ignoring that, when the value you're capturing is reputation, then public discourse is the tool you want to be using to manage it.
It would be a kilowatt-hours per hour in this case, also known as kilowatts.
These are the measures to watch as they were unavailable at the start of the pandemic. Hospital admissions, Covi-19 occupied beds and ventilator beds have all roughly doubled from 1-14 Sep.
since you have instead settled on forking as the zen PL, which is your right to do, would you turn that trademark over to the zig foundation as a show of good faith?
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I have a related question. How is instacart so slow? I am usually pretty unbothered by slow load times, but searching for and selecting groceries is a full 10 times slower than any other experience on the internet. Is this a deliberate push to get me to use the mobile app? Some dark pattern thing?
I wish the historical view on this site projected forward to the present. I'd like to know which model was the least wrong from the beginning.
They do something somewhat along those lines https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-cases.html#content https://www.gnu.org/education/successful-resistance-against-....

But I think the FSF would rather focus on ideals, absolute purity, and technical stuff like LibreJS tagging than do marketing for the impure populist Ubuntus of the education world (like Canvas) that already have corporations to do that (like Instructure, kind of like Canvas’ Canonical).
True. And I block reddit because it is addictive, information wise.
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Can't leave that hanging... have any details?
Seriously, this is auto/tech nerd news which is read by a sliver of car buyers. Folks will stroll into the dealership they bought their last GM 15 years ago and say ‘gee maybe ill give electric a shot for these lease terms considering my use lately.’
Lots of servers and wires and things stored in RAM long before you ever ask for them basically
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>Amphetamines (adderall/vyvanse/amfexa etc): these will easily clear the fog from lack of sleep, the downside being theyre expensive

and addictive and often neurotoxic..
> people aren't obligated to respect it

There's actually a word for calling yourself something that you aren't: fraud.
I took a look at the app on the play store, the horrible grammar doesn't exactly inspire confidence in it.
I'm talking about what to teach in school. FreeCAD does a lot, and it has gotten a LOT better recently. You could do things in FreeCAD that would cost thousands in other packages. For most of school, this is enough. When it comes time for CFD and FEA, there are tools better than FreeCAD, but not for long if FreeCAD had the user base the other tools get from schools
The more allocations you have, the more frequently your young-gen GC has to run (or the larger your heap size needs to be to keep GC frequency constant). Allocations are cheap, but they aren't free, and you definitely pay a cost in GC.
All that said, you do have a point, and I'll refrain from saying that I'm a kind and openminded person that people tend to (as opposed to always) enjoy working with.

I posted incorrectly. It is not 100% universal, but I'll bet it's a lot more than you might think. I've spent the last 40 years, getting along with some of the most difficult people on Earth. In fact, many of them are ones with a history of violence, and it's always a good idea to be polite in that kind of company.

Geeks are easy, after that.
hey folks, don't downvote this, it seems like this is a good opportunity for a conversation!
Software engineers used to be able to get licensed. I think in Virginia the last time it was applicable was 2011.
I mean, you are John Cena after all. You probably have much better things to do.
Had been a solo entrepreneur in edutech sector and I can tell you this may not work. Schools need customisation, support and dont have IT expertise for anything.
I called it weird because not standard but that PSU design was also more energy efficient and even completely fanless.

And yes, by the time 286s and 386s came to the market there was really nothing more to cut, or even to add. Every part was standardized by then, profit margins shrinked and MS-DOS became ubiquitous.
And using its super advanced HTML5 machine learning and Nikola's patented "3rd Law 2.0", it takes that gravity and stores it in a regenerative fuel cell in the battery for energy. It does this by redirecting existing inertia into the forward dampeners!

So cool.
> Unlike Tesla and the never-ending $TSLAQ "Tesla is nothing but fraud"

I think the problem is people don't understand what fraud is. Fraud does not mean fake. A company can have products and still be a fraud. A CEO can lead a multi-billion market cap company and still be a fraud.

In fact the most successful frauds rely on having a real semi-viable company built around the fraud because it becomes easier to perpetuate the fraud.

Nikola was on that path too. How far would it have gotten without the vehicle demo? Without the factory? In there, there's quite likely the seeds of a viable company, but they did not achieve escape velocity (e.g. sheer cash reserves, cult of personality, and share price) fast enough to keep the press away from fraud.

If financial journalists were as vicious with other companies that the short seller community has mountains of evidence against, then half the Chinese companies on the US markets would be gone.
I think most didn't notice. Basically everyone in our class used their smartphone as primary computing device, only a few even have used laptops or computers at home. Those that did were quickly able to adapt and I only rarely heard complaints.
no Nikolas have been delivered to customers, so no you cannot do that.
Thank you! Our SDK is written in Typescript and we're starting with support for building apps using React, but we plan to support other frontend frameworks as well.
I was hoping this was red flags from the interviewer side. Yeah I'm hoping a blog will give me some feedback.
That comes with the territory of entering public markets though. If you don;t want to handle that kind of scrutiny, stay private and raise private equity or aim for a slower growth rate you can fund. Short sellers are good for the nature of the market they participate in.
"ASAP memory management"

Do you mean this?

ASAP: As Static As Possible memory management

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf
One factor that is missing from this post is the processing time on the backend which is also insanely fast. This post only considers frond-end optimizations.

On the author's benchmark, a roundtrip seems to take on average 30ms, and the time to first byte for the main content is around 140ms. Which means that in less than 110ms Google is able to parse the search query, and build the HTTP response.

I'm sure they are heavily relying on caches and other optimizations, and for tail-end requests the result might not be as impressive. But compared to many other websites in 2020 this is still unfortunately not the norm.
It's a political article which made me hesitate submitting it but since it is extraordinary in the sense that Scientic American hasn't supported any presidential candidate before, I decided to give it a pass.
Two logical issues with that position:

1. Why do you believe that No. 2 can make valuable contributions to Zig if you do not value his contributions to Zen?

2. Why do you believe that No. 2 would be a potential contributor to Zig if he weren’t otherwise legally restricted?
I think it all comes down to competition.

If I'm hiring a remote team globally, then you are competing against people I can hire anywhere. A great engineer in Brazil could cost...I don't know...$45,000. An engineer with the same exact skill set who lives in California might be $160,000 and one in Chicago might be $110,000.

If an employer paid $160,000 for every employee then they aren't using their capital very efficiently when they could have saved $115,000 on the employee in Brazil and potentially hired two more people for the team.
Not to worry: next LTS release will be Java 17, scheduled for September 2021 - next year.
Instagram did that. However for social networks you make money from ads, so they’re rotten in a different way.
> After Theranos and Wirecard, I'm surprised how much benefit of the doubt Nikola is being given

Thank Elon.

His war on shorts has created a narrative that's gotten eaten up in the tech sector. Heck, you can see it in the comments on this post.

We poor tech companies are just the victims of these big, bad, evil short sellers. If you'd just leave us alone, man, so much disruption! We just need a few more billions and, we swear, we'll be profitable in no time.

Edit: Apparently people are getting very confused by the point I'm making here.

I'm not saying Telsa and Nikola are equally fraudulent.

I'm saying Elon Musk is responsible for pushing and promoting a narrative to de-legitimize short sellers, and in doing so, has undermined an important function in the markets that helps prevent companies like Nikola and Wirecard from succeeding in defrauding the public.
You can host the binary on your web site / store; it's not as smooth an experience for the end user, certainly, but it is possible.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/mac-app-unide...
JDK 11 is the current LTS version, so that's probably fine. With 2 releases per year, it's hard to follow the bleeding edge. Especially if you have to ship stuff to clients.
TL;DR: Billionaire who snored through fifty years of tax cuts for the rich that inevitably gutted basic healthcare in the US now appalled at the US governments inability to marshal even basic care for its citizens.
Maybe something like digiKam would be an alternative?
It's 2 weeks (at most) isolation when you have a greater than 80% chance of being infected and spreading it to hundreds of people.

That seems a reasonable thing to do, because unlike all your other hyperbolic examples it is potentially harmful to large numbers of other people.
Is there a definitive source or initial point where it all started? Link or story perhaps?

It's pre-web. No links. You had to be there.
> We don't plan to use this trademark to harm Zig.

Of course you don't. How about we register a Japanese ZSF subsidiary and you hand it over?
Except essentially none of the statement takes issue with the forking itself.

In fact the author of the statement is active in this very thread and specifically notes that this is very much allowed and is not what they take issue with.
While stopping short of suggesting injestion of bleach trump certainly posited whether bleach used internally (on the lungs) could be an effective medication - so yeah, maybe he didn't mean drinking it, maybe he meant injecting it?
Roughly $100K-$200K maximum and it would be a good use of time if it would recover potentially millions for the foundation.
Regardless of the legality of a thing, the foundation might of course recommend against using it. Imagine that someone wrote a shitty book (without stealing any content) which ends up as the only result on Amazon. It’s perfectly legal to release such a book and it would be sensible for the foundation to warn the Zig community about the lacking quality.

Just because the license allows anyone to fork it and sell it doesn’t mean that Zig is obliged to endorse it.
Since Russian is my native language, I read enough Russian papers. And I can tell when a western outlet overlaps with the official Russian party line a bit too much for comfort.

So, I guess you admit that WL has a western bias?

Also, they don’t really have any better options. Just FYI.
> calling yourself a doctor when you have no medical education

... as opposed to calling yourself a developer when you have no software education (or even actual experience)?
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I believe the main reason for this is that Golang is heavily "value-oriented". Combined with escape analysis it causes most of the short-lived objects to actually be allocated directly on the stack.

While the JVM also has escape analysis, because everything is a pointer the chances of an object escaping is considerably higher.

I'm hoping that when Project Valhalla eventually lands, it'll help greatly with allocations and reduce memory pressure even further.
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>The last thing you need is someone trying to make the case that you are going to fail at every turn.

Isn't that called your mom for deciding not to become a doctor?
Along with this, what's helped me with my long term project is to realize that Rome wasn't built in a day. That I don't have to work on it today if I don't feel like it. I've got my ups and downs and it's helped me to realize that the project will take a little longer than anticipated but I've got time.
In previous times, I worked for a company that had the acronym AAPL. I kept getting the stock quotes for Apple every time I browse the company's intranet.
Isn't much of the excitement gone due to Oracle's license for its JDK?
Details about what? Examples where the shorts were right and the targeted companies were full of it?

Is Nikola and Wirecard enough, or do you want me to go digging for more examples?
And should be pronounced as Ni-kool-aid, it seems...
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A cold cache google page load here pushes 725kb just to render a logo and search box. To avoid fingerprinting my cache is always cold.

Google search is a huge dog
No. There is almost no free application software that is better than the proprietary equivalent, especially when operated by someone of average tech fluency. The education of our children should not be the proving ground for this effort.

(For systems software of course the Free alternatives are far superior but that’s why nobody has to write essays in their defense).
Do you think the ads are ‘rendered’ client side? Also you have to specify what server side means because the ad networks don’t trust the web sites their ads are on.
> "Gatekeeping" is a dirty word on HN, but it also has its usefulness

Especially considering that its literal definition is "requiring people to actually understand how to program computers before hiring them for professional computer programming jobs".
I imagine he either enables once in a while using NoScript, or just bails out. I do not block Javascript for the time being, but nowadays I bail out much more often, because most of what I see on the web, including on HN, is trash or sightly higher then that, but still inconsequential.

Try sometimes to use links -g and you'll see how web can feel like browsing local resources, if you have a decent connection. Some sites will not work, but it kinda works as quality filter. If only links would support tabbed browsing.
I didn't fall it low because I disagreed I called it lo because you jumped to a low analogy.

And you using a legally protected status to talk about developers is not relevant and a poor analogy but ok. You using veterans is low.
Noted, thank you
I would say the exact opposite. I found MATLAB painful to work with at university. Using python for everything after that has been a breath of fresh air.
I think that's misinterpretd, the ref link in the paper is https://globalbiodefense.com/headlines/chinese-lab-that-firs... , which leads to SCMP's https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3052966/chin...

SCMP's piece also mentioned that "It also obtained the required credentials to conduct research on the coronavirus on January 24." That indicates the Centre actually gained more access.

And if you search Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre on Google, you can see it's still actively doing COVID-19 related research. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
M-x screenshot even exists, and there are the elpa packages emacs-gif-screencast and keycast. It's so easy to do from right inside of emacs that there really isn't a good excuse. Less than stellar documentation is a pet peeve of mine and I try to submit small improvements to the documentation for the packages I use most often. I'd encourage everyone else that hates bad documentation to do the same. It's one of the easiest and most impactful ways to contribute to open source, and often something that the maintainers have difficulty doing simply because they can never view their project in the way a new user would.
Then why do they imply in the blog post that “closed source superficial rebrandings” should be avoided by potential customers?
I remember the hype about how it was going to kill off Flickr - we set up graphs of how many photos were being uploaded per day to each service and ... well.
It really reminds me of Jai programming language by
Jonathan Blow. Just downloaded and started testing it, looks promising! Is its main use case for now the games development?
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There one example
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Are you blind to the fact that you're causing damage & frustration to one of the coolest open-source projects to pop-up over the past 5 years?
You probably need to just read the paper. It has very cold professional and neutral tone, lots of verifiable links and references. I mean, it really does not matter in what faith it is made, as soon as it checks out.
If there was a way to setup a nonprofit actually competent enough to carry this out, and maintain it, and fend off any local politicking that is bound to happen then this might be the fastest solution. Of course the difficulty is getting enough buy in from the countries with those rivers since using force is probably not possible.
I read that article, and it doesn't seem like it's beyond the pale of civil discourse to me. Sounds like cancel culture run amok, which you are now a part of.
That's up there with describing your Wordpress as "a globally-connected information transfer system"
With pain in my heart I just installed MS Office on my son's laptop because he needs it for school (free on a license from school fortunately). I thought it was stupid because LibreOffice. He thought it was stupid because Google Docs, which his primary school used.

I particularly find it stupid because Open Document Format is what students should be using, not some proprietary format.

Thing is, schools want to teach, not maintain software. And many companies offer attractive ways for schools to provide their students with the software they need. Someone should do the same with Free Software, make sure it works perfectly, and then call every single school to convince them to use this instead of Microsoft or Google. And then schools will still prefer the system that everybody else is using and has proven itself.
US President Trump seriously suggested research into injecting bleach to the horror of doctors and medical professionals everywhere: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177

It lead to actual problems of US American citizens ingesting/consuming bleach which forced government agencies to put out warnings: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/08/24/some...
You do not necessarily need to hire these devs yourself, though. It can be managed by the legal entity overseeing regular development, like the LibreOffice foundation.
...also a bit insulting to all the innocent victims in some poor countries.
Conversely, why is Windows search so miserably slow?
That’s the default mode of most PD cables, as it is the required standard. USB 3 (err, 3.1 in USB-C-land) is an optional mode in the USB spec.
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If curious, see previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403271 (191 points / Mar 15, 2019 / 182 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19526924 (61 points / Mar 30, 2019 / 101 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229632 (146 points/ June 20, 2019 / 137 comments)
Than your opinion is baseless, and just an attempt to silence uncomfortable claims.
Actually, people with engineering backgrounds see a huge difference between Elon and this guy. It is Wall Street who doesn't understand and is afraid to get burnt by NKLA the way other naysayers were burnt on TSLA.
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