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> There would be no patents.

> You could also sell them to other governments, hospitals, people, etc.

Sell what, exactly?

> It's possible for competing products to exist. Is yours cheaper or more effective than your competitors? If you wanted your money building a bad product then tough luck.

These are existing risks. You're adding a new one: Pfizer and Moderna each create a working vaccine. The government buys one of them to give away for free, so the other one makes zero dollars. Normally they would each take an equal share of the market.

> How do you make a vaccine for a disease that you don't know about? You don't.

Some forms of cancer are caused by a virus. It's possible to vaccinate against them. We did not know that a century ago. Two centuries ago we didn't even know that vaccines were possible. What don't we know now?
Food in the US is indeed inexpensive but it's only technically true that someone can live on nothing but eggs, beans, and canned tuna.
> You could spend 20 years building something and have it stolen by a huge company with no means to recoup your costs. Removing patents would immediately benefit the biggest players, entrenching existing monopolies.

But why is the big company stealing it? Currently, it makes sense to steal it because the patent protections make it seem as if the idea itself is valuable (and can be a private property not commons). But in the world without the patents, what is valuable is the physical implementation, or rather, the coupling of both.

It has been pointed out that you have many cases in free market economy with a similar problem. iPhone, for example, has very little innovation in it, it's just an idea executed well, based on past things like Palm Pilot for example.

It seems to me, to have fair patents, you need to assume that value of everything can be broken to additive pieces - value of this idea, that idea, and then the value of the materials and energy from which it is built. But this is really hard, because things have value that also comes from combining these things. (In general, this is a problem with free market with respect to labor too, because you cannot really meaningfully determine what contribution of different types of labor is more valuable for the product to arise, but at the same time, the people need to be remunerated for the labor somehow.)

On the other hand, in the world without patents, we assume that value of everything can be broken to little pieces (not so valuable by themselves) that are added by individuals in small amounts. So if all innovation is in the commons, no need to toil for 20 years to invent something. You build a little piece, add it to the pile, and everybody benefits because at the end of the day, you take lot more from the pile than you put in.
They must be getting their bread by charging $400 for the ram upgrade instead of the traditional $200 apple price for what should be $80 of memory.
I had a similar epiphany except it has driven me to consider a new industry, as I can't possibly hope to solve the state of my current one and frankly don't want to, they made their own bed. The capabilities present when you own the whole stack and make a point of offering safety and robustness really makes the behavior present in other industries almost embarassing.

Drones are science fiction dreams come true. But more than that, they offer a really tangible way to work through software and hardware to as you say, interface with the world.

It's a really exciting space and I was initially really skeptical, but as their practcal uses outside of just a camera in the sky become more achievable it became clear to me that I want to get involved.
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I don't think they need to make fats, the tallow taste of McD fries is added, but its not fully artificial, its apparently made not made with any beef but its made of milk and wheat.
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"Democrats openly admit that their strategy is to pass new entitlements like national child care, disguise their cost by pretending to phase the programs out inside the 10-year budget window, but assume they will become permanent as they always do. This means the real cost of the Sanders-Biden-Pelosi budget is $4 trillion, and it will put the U.S. on a path to European entropy."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-3-98-trillion-trojan-horse-...
Surely slamming the brakes on the economy so that we can reduce inflation is going to hit those people worse.
> That you can't see past your own experiences and prejudices says much more about you than it does about centralization vs. decentralization.

I get why you came to this conclusion, but you're pretty far off from understanding my actual point which had nothing to do with decentralization. I'm actually a fan of decentralization. There are obviously technical means of solving the failure case I shared. I'm not trying to generalize my experience to everyone. Actually, that is kind of the exact opposite of my point. I'm saying that the problems in social media aren't technical, but social, because people are different.

> It hasn't been tried at any real scale and hasn't gained a lot of traction because of the perverse incentives of asymmetrical bandwidth, user-hostile TOS and the willingness of companies to burn cash in order to stomp out/acquire any other group that attempts to compete with them.

My core point was that the problems aren't simple, because they aren't technical, and you're kind of making that point as well now.
You've never been sure of something only to find out you weren't correct on it?

I think I generally have a sense of how confident I am and yet I know I sometimes overshoot because I'm overlooking a detail or incorrectly remembering something.
Thank you for sharing this, it's interesting - I've also gotten the impression (but lack citation) that Intel E cores are targeted at thermal isolation instead of power minimization as the M1 may target.

This is front of mind for me since reading a Cloudflare blog regarding AVX-512 instructions invoking dynamic frequency scaling to manage power/thermal capacity on chip. (https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen...)

If this is happening on Xeons, it's probably happening on consumer dies as well, in addition to other non-obvious power/performance optimizations. Perhaps this is why Alder Lake is pumping up the TDP[1]?

edit: [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106860
Totally agree. And so many of the changes that people are enjoying about the new MacBooks (namely reverting Apple's failed experiments like TouchBar, only USB-C ports, and the butterfly keyboard) were all introduced alongside Apple Silicon. Not saying I blame them — it makes a ton of sense from a business/product marketing perspective, especially bundling the new display too.
I agree with you that replacing all of the eLisp with say JavaScript would be impractical because there are hundred thousands of lines of eLisp that would have to be replaced, but Emacs is never going to increase its appeal while requiring new users to learn its own, somewhat peculiar, extension language.

Emacs out of the box is usable, but not as good as JetBrains tools or VS Code or Vim. Emacs is worth learning because it is an incredibly flexible editor construction kit that can be shaped into the editor one desires, but this, unfortunately, can require the user to write dozens of lines or even thousands of lines of configuration in eLisp.

The young programmers that I know are just not going to bother to learn eLisp to get their mode line to look useful. Spacemacs and Doom are good examples of how far one can push Emacs configurations, but even working with these prebuilt advanced configurations requires some delving into eLisp.

One approach to replacing eLisp would be to write a tool that compiles eLisp into JavaScript. eLisp has enough idiosyncrasies that this will be very challenging, but perhaps this could work. There are so many JavaScript programmers that could help with cleaning up the inevitable broken packages.

Alternatively, like the NeoVim project, most of Emacs internals could be left in place and a JavaScript extension language could be added so that new packages could be written in either eLisp or JavaScript. Someone would have to figure out interoperability between the two—sharing data between two interpreters each with different garbage collectors for example.

LaTeX faced a similar problem. The TeX esoteric macro capability was used to build LaTeX and LaTeX was used to build hundreds of complex packages to be used with LaTeX. The TeX/LaTeX world moves at a snail’s pace compared to Emacs, but they have made gradual progress in modernizing TeX and LaTeX (LuaTeX, LaTeX3, ConTeX, etc.)
It seems pretty obvious to me that the alternative would have been far more calamitous so, sure, they can have my consent.
>It’s a self deprecating joke, dude.

Jokes are usually meant to be funny.

>I sometimes really wonder at the social skills of people on this website.

One's social skills are not defined by comprehension of poor attempts at snarky humor on the internet.
Similar point to this is wildcard imports in Java.

Previously I prefer import bla.* because it's shorter and neater, but as the code grows, more naming conflict and more difficult to find where's where, I prefer explicit import. I can configure my IDE to collapse the import lines anyway.
Tell me more about what worked and didn't..I recall the pain of watching QzDesktop load and Bob/HUGS jobs failing..but what else, and what did you enjoy
I'd throw in warfare and labor force reduction too.
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> The concept behind the overton window is fundamentally rooted in the statistical properties of large numbers of people.

No, its fundamentally rooted by the fact that the relationship between distance from an individuals preferred policy in any dimension and a candidates actual policy on that dimension and the effect on the individuals willing to vote for the candidate is nonlinear.

The thresholding effect in groups is only because of (and is a function of) the thresholding effect in individuals.
OK, but that would seem to fall under "through some other means than eating the deer". If instead of eating sick deer the wolves exiled them, or vaccinated healthy deer, presumably you'd see the same increase in deer population.
You really believe that? Feel free run your computer after you take off the heatsinks of your computer, removing all the fans, and removing all the heatsink paste if you truly believe heat doesn't degrade pc components. Feel free to post the results.
I doubt that at this point of our technological advance any predator could really pose such a threat to humanity in whole. No PETA in the world would save such predator from extinction, and this would come not from everyday Joe who started to excercise more, but from military and police (and maybe some other organizations, depends on real threat level)
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Yes they do. See thread above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104177
> What does the public have anything to do with it? It's Congress that makes the laws.

Congress most certainly is not going to undo all patent law. The ability to be rewarded for your work is foundational to capitalism.

> Let a bit of corruption do something good for once.

This is nonsensical.
I think most comments misses the perhaps non obvious point. You may have some other fatal flaw in your resume.

I think you should call up the recruitment people to whom you applied and ask for feedback on your CV and/or application.

They would know best.

Then ask for tactical tips on how to get called.

After exhausting these options, then maybe, it could be appropriate to ask about the significance of hobby projects.
if you want to have that conversation, you must agree it would be irresponsible to destroy the single extant system by applying large uncontrolled inputs, before such an engineering technique is understood. we are currently shitting where we eat.
Huh? Bluetooth seems the most inefficient possible way to track a phone. The cellular radio has much more interesting info, and there are so many apps that leak location data that it hardly seems worth the trouble.
I think lemma 4 glosses over the immense variety of ways computation can be expressed in higher level languages.

At one end of the spectrum is source code that’s so poorly written it’s practically impossible to understand or edit. OTOH, well written code with good abstractions can make changes trivial; it can also document relevant information and educate engineers.

There’s a lot of value and creativity embodied in well written applications beyond the derived object code and those qualities are (in my mind) distinct from compiled algorithms.
I'm interested in knowing how many vulnerabilities in production code were actually detected. In my former companies, we used Fortify and Zalewski's old tool (seems to have dropped off the grid) with little benefit. The False Positive Rate was just too high for anything beneficial to come out of the so-called automated approach. We had engineers parse through tens of thousands of hits with no real vulnerabilities being found; this made the whole process a drudgery and a financial blunder in terms of work hours and licensing fees. On the dark side of the security industry, some people were making a lot of commission money on million dollars a year inert tools, because the business folks wouldn't get it.

To the best of my knowledge this is still a very open problem in the industry, and if any mention is made of it, in compliance standards or in implementations, it just serves as security theater.
What makes you think it was out of "compassion"?
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Much of homo erectus is similarly debated but OP treats factually
So an attacker can track your physical location provided they stay physically close to you. Ok.
Logically, it cannot work via pre-existing nutrients alone. Even if wales poop out 100% of the relevant chemicals they ingest from krill again, because they do not need it, krill won't be able to eat it completely as it is diluted in the sea. There's always losses. So someone has to produce something.

For instance: Krill need chemical X when young but create it when older in large quantities. Wales poop out X then. Or wales create X, while krill do not.
Most tech stuff is made in China. Why does is matter so much if the capitalists harvesting the fruits of the Chinese workers are American rather than fellow Chinese?
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Only gay people have suffered millenia of outright persecution, and face a death penalty in several countries to this day. Not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison here.
It’s probably one of the most irresponsible things humans have came up with. Let’s hope nobody gets hurt in the aftermath.
Do you write down your guesses, confidence levels and revisit these when something changes or comes to light? I'm genuinely curious how you keep track of this and how it fits into your day.

EDIT: oh I think I missed that this was specifically referring to the link. I read it as a general comment about calibrating confidence through one's life!
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They still sell medium format cameras. They'd probably be out of business without the investment.
I've used it with other tools / frameworks like Vite or Svelte; it's pretty agnostic. Plus setting it up is a one time thing.
Yes well there have been many modern coronaviruses as well. The naming of nCov19 is intended to communicate thats this is a recent novel coronavirus first seen in 2019
That's too simplistic. The moment wolves start vaccinating healthy deer, there'll be a 20-30% anti-vax deer population.
> But why is the big company stealing it? Currently, it makes sense to steal it because the patent protections make it seem as if the idea itself is valuable

It makes no sense to steal when the owner is likely to sue you for doing so, thus invalidating all of your work. It is also not a good business practice to steal.

> in the world without the patents, what is valuable is the physical implementation, or rather, the coupling of both.

You've discounted the value of research.
Youtube vanced on android has changed my life. No ads, even within videos! If Linus starts talking about how great dbrand skins are, it auto-skips that part of the video. Really amazing. You cannot get such a great experience even if you pay for youtube red.
Obviously, this has more powerful hardware than the Pocket 2 - but to me, it feels less appealing than the Pocket 2 in every other aspect.

Most noticeably size. It's significantly larger and thicker than the Pocket 2 - and size is the one standout feature of the Pocket. The size is what makes it unique.
I find it better, in the same way that finding the PowerPoint ‘theme’ that makes everything a bit rough round the edges was also a revelation.

The perfectionist in me won’t let me publish a regular, square-edged diagram unless it’s pixel-perfect. As a result, nothing ever gets published.

Take away that absurd situation, make the whole thing a bit shabby, and the need for perfection disappears. In fact the ability to make it perfect disappears.

Life changing. Sounds daft. Is absolutely true.
The worrying part is that you cannot appeal. That 'AI' bans seemingly random is known, but you should be able to appeal that in a sane world.
Yeah, and most plants and bacteria and any life that is capable really.

Adaption is not uniquely human, we are simply the first to accomplish it without speciation
> You've never been sure of something only to find out you weren't correct on it?

A 99.9% confidence statement is still wrong 0.1% of the time. If you make one such a day then you ought to be wrong about it once per three years. I don't see that as a problem, of course I get surprised when it happens since it is rare but there isn't much more to it.

And there are even higher levels than 99.9%, many things you are basically never wrong about so we can't find the error bar.

Edit: I think it is good to compare your confidence in a thing to other things. Are you really as confident in this statement as you are in the layman interpretation of 1 + 1 = 2 (ie if you take 1 apple, add 1 apple now you have 2 apples)? Then you can say 100%. But most things are way below that level.
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I simultaneously enjoyed the perspective the author brought about humility and felt confused at the certainty with which the author seemed to speak about this perspective. Maybe I've come to place too much emphasis on linguistic qualifications, such as maybe, might, possibly, I'm not sure, etc. Perhaps this theory is more along the lines of that saying about having strong beliefs but held weakly. I suppose I just miss an admission in the essay that says that although the author may strongly believe this, it may also not be true.
That proprietary IDE was a piece of crap. Monkey patching was prevalent, exponentially increasing startup time depending on the last time you opened it, and an “online” source tree where one could easily modify the source code in someone else’s ‘private’ workspace.

PyCharm was a move in the right direction, but the way it worked was absurd- it would run the internal IDE in the background and sync to the file system. Given the proprietary IDE took up more resources than PyCharm, you constantly had to shut down apps so the machine had enough memory.

IDEs should not be a requirement- they are tools… but you had no choice but to use it and their totally flawed code completion. Their measure of success was tantamount to having a Jupyter notebook- write code and get back results immediately.
Can you share details on the API / some example city datasets for quality? I have an idea for a 'innovation day' project and that can lead to integration in our product.
118M is the increase in people facing chronic hunger. 5M are deaths. Those aren't the same thing.

Nobody would say that chronic hunger isn't horrible - it is - but it is highly disingenuous to compare it directly with deaths. Chronic hunger is a systemic issue.

There are simply too many confounding factors to arbitrarily place the blame for a given % of hunger increase on COVID mitigation measures. We know it had some significant effect, but can't say much beyond that, and certainly can't draw any conclusions about whether the measures were appropriate or optimal based on that. To do so would be lying with numbers to advance an agenda.

Furthermore, letting the virus run wild and kill millions more could have resulted in tremendous increase in hunger itself - economies and supply chains don't handle mass death well, ever. Now you might say that is speculation, but it's no moreso than the % of 118M argument that you forwarded.

It's far to early to be Monday morning quarterbacking the pandemic - we are still very much in all dimensions of it.
> I feel that Zig is doing a much better job in this regard, they have a tiny well thoughought language with a rigorous semantic description, and a good reference document.

Zig doesn't have a "rigorous semantic description" that I can find. The reference manual is nowhere close. A "rigorous semantic description" would either be something like that of Java or, ideally, the operational semantics of Standard ML.

I glanced through the "undefined behavior" section in the Zig reference and didn't see use-after-free anywhere. If it's that easy to find missing pieces then it isn't even close to complete. Wait until you start trying to define things like pointer provenance; it's not even clear what semantics LLVM is upholding.

> Having a fancy datalog based borrow checker is cool, but I'd much rather have a formal specifiation of the semantics.

There's a formal specification of the semantics of a subset of Rust via the RustBelt project. These things almost always start with a subset of the language; very few languages have full formal specifications, including type safety proofs and so forth. I should note that I'm not aware of any such work being done for Zig.

> The memory model is not propery defined and only kinda sorta borrowed from C++ as the article mentions.

Where's Zig's memory model? I didn't find it. I did find a GitHub issue [1], which has had far less discussion than that surrounding Rust's memory model.

> I'm sure it would be much easier to add a borrow checker to the well-defined-ness and correctness of Zig, than to make Rust well defined and correct.

No. This is just like the "just add a borrow checker to C++" meme that we used to see until it was shown to be infeasible. The problem is simple: if you can have mutable aliasing today in Zig, which you can, then the ecosystem has surely come to depend on it. So by forbidding mutable aliasing, you will break tons of code. It is not a reasonable subset of code to break; in C++ the set of code you break is "all methods" (because "this" has unrestricted aliasing), and I expect Zig to be no different. The borrow checker is not some magic dust that you sprinkle on a language to make it memory safe; the entire language, including all libraries, must be designed around it. Are you really going to break the doubly linked lists everyone has written?

It is impossible to overstate how much memory safety in Rust is balanced on a delicate precipice; if the language has already fallen off the precipice I'm confident in saying it will never go back. (Well, unless you add a GC, which is what I'd do if I were in charge of Zig. There's nothing wrong with GC; it's the tool people have created for the very purpose of ensuring memory safety with unrestricted aliasing.)

[1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/6396
> COVID death toll across the entire world is only around 5M.

Gross underestimate, india itself has an excess mortality of 5M or more.
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