It just takes time for free software to match commercial offering at first, but eventually it surpasses them (too many example to list) for 90% of the uses.

If it let me cancel my Bloomberg subscription, why not?

All I want is reddit + twitter firehose sentiment mining, accurate plot of basic (EURUSD, wood futures) and not so basic (VIX) things.

I do not need to keep track of cargo ships on a map.

evidence required.

You are waiting for death. That is the only thing wrong.

Color me surprised!

Is it some kind of memoization?

Do you have a tutorial and some examples? If not, could you write one?

I sometimes deploy perl code at large scale for financial computing where only performance matters: with XS the overhead is low while gaining language flexibility.

Even in 2021, this is usually faster than alternatives by orders of magnitude.

PDL could be a good addition to our toolset for specific workloads.

Only if you have a paternalistic view

> Some of this information may be urgently needed at a time when the patient is not capable of giving informed consent for its disclosure or does not have it immediately available.

What if I accept the risk I may die due to bad luck/odd circumstances to still refuse the information being handled out by anyone but me?

> Some of the information may be vital to the future healthcare of the patient and would cause serious harm to them if it were lost.

Likewise, what if I accept future risks? I have more skin in the game from losing my records than an hospital losing them anyway.

> And in more of a more morally grey area, some information might be harmful to the patient if they had it.

Then what about I refuse having the information, in exchange of the information also being unavailable to anyone else?

Many people here seem to have the view "more information is good" but not collecting it in the first place seems better to me.

Hence I do no healthcare in the US, only in SE Asia where most services are available in English and Chinese anyway.

She inspired me and other in her boldness

> Maybe she is. I see no grace in her performance though. Maybe I'm too used watching Soviet Bloc gymnastics. Isn't this artistic gymnastics? I see no artisticism in her performance, just routine - it's like a robot doing it, but failing to land properly

Your lack of interest in pushing the boundaries or rejecting pre established rules (Who said gymnastics should only be about art? Why do you think soviet block country must forever be the model?) strikes me as dull and classicist.

You would be very happy in China mainland, where you have one model to obey and follow, coming from the top down, with no room for inspiration or breaking the mold.

I love your take. It makes me happy to find the rare soul on HN who gets it.

It's very American! I like that!!

I wish more people in China mainland could learn from such examples

But if you believe it is reasonable or desirable to engineer social changes to increase the birth rate to be able to create and support economic growth, I think your priorities ordering is not right

Do it like software: if the implementation doesn't match reality, fixing the implementation is easier than trying to fix reality to match the broken assumptions

That I can agree with.

Disgusting. Do all the competitors also get to have a trophy in the end, like in modern day schools?

If you want everyone to have a chance, next move is to give them handicap. Make them wear lead belts. That'll be fun for you maybe?

Me, I want to see the top competitor crush the others after utterly dominating by doing daring moves

Her actions speak louder than her words: she just doesn't care what they think, so she will keep doing it, scores be damned.

I applaud her continuous determination.

> it's not supposed to be elementary school gym class where the goal is having fun

You don't get it. It's about being so above the others that you can have fun again and getting away with it.

Quoting her:

> "they don’t want the field to be too far apart. And that’s just something that’s on them. That’s not on me,”

She's above the competition now. She is not there to win anymore.

It's hard to explain. When I read HN, I see the modern equivalent of corporate paper pushers who want to play nice and dream to excel at society game playing by society rules.

This is not the hacker spirit of the old days, which was about doing daring things. Modern ""hackers"" want to learn the framework of the day to put it on their resume linking to github that show they are teamplayer. This way they get a coveted FANG job then get 2.5 kids and a dog, a 401k, rince and repeat as happy cogs of society until the day they die. Lame.

No wonder why they don't get it!

It's a disease of the modern life ""hackers"": they don't want to bite the hand that feed them. To be fair, I don't expect much from people who need a day job to survive. They just want a ""fair"" competition of people playing by the rules, just like they do now, instead of admiring excellence, like they did before.

Simone is not afraid to stand above. That's a spirit I respect and admire.

I love that spirit :)

He is still needed? Maybe, because you said:

> The last 4 years saw rising nationalism in the US, and it has also been rising in Europe and in China. This is not good.

It is not good. Eventually the future for the mainland is bright, with good material condition and freedom. The situation is not ready yet. You can not "impose" democracy, the population must be ready.

But I believe all is done right and set for the generation being born now ("3 children per family") to be the happiest in the world.

A board with a m2 port costs an extra $300 and only exists since last year: https://antmicro.com/blog/2020/04/updated-jetson-nano-xavier...

It should have been standard and by default from the beginning.