skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opioid prescription has tripled from 1999 to 2015. Meanwhile, deaths only started to skyrocket very recently (starting in 2010-2011), probably mostly due to cheap heroin being adulterated with fentanyl.

Opioid abuse is mostly flat or (among youth) decreasing:

https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-FRR1-2...

http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/pubs/monographs/mtf-overv...

There is no actual link between opioid prescription and subsequent heroin use shown by any research.

https://grokinfullness.blogspot.com/2017/09/debunking-standa...
Yeah, that's kind of weird, at the time when AMD need to invest more effort in their GPUs to get ahead to Nvidia.
I think you nailed it with “government enablement”. Free market folks probably aren’t so different from you. Unless we’re talking about wolves in sheeps clothing, they oughta be vehemently against those actions you allude to.

It’s the folk in the middle (on both the govt and corp sides) that benefit from the foul play. Both sides might call these “defensive actions”, but it’s often just tit-for-tat greed.
Ok, good to know, thanks. The point still stands that the receiver's client probably doesn't bother styling the message. I mean even if GMail, say, was persuaded to do it, Outlook for instance wouldn't.
> To the surprise of no one except apparently Democrats,

Didn't the Democrats have a huge astrotrufing campaign last year?
I can see how people move to something like heroin after being on pain meds and getting addicted, but who really just 'tries' heroin? At this point, the mix danger and addiction danger is well known and publicized. I'm asking, because I cannot mentally put it together, particularly if someone has life going in the right direction.
Nod - I'm coming to the conclusion that the effective store of value is the mining infrastructure. Even if it's not that explicit, they move in lock-step.
Well the original post refers to the Three Body Problem series which is a rather interesting take on the topic. The English translations have now been available for a couple of years.
You guys are fucking awful.
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Looks awesome, thanks for sharing!
If you're doing that, your best bet is to talk to somebody like AutonomouStuff:

https://autonomoustuff.com/

They have a relationship with all the vendors, and can help figure out which sensor and vendor to use.

If you really really want a Velodyne unit, you might be able to get a loaner of the cheaper ones by calling them and talking to somebody, not so sure about the VLP-64 or new 128 as those go for north of $50-70k.

The cheapest lidar Velodyne makes goes for close to $10k, so you're still probably not going to be able click to buy.
> 1. Reddit. Seriously. Pictures of cats get upvoted way beyond their "technical merit".

Not on r/DIY or r/hacking.

> A pair of shoes with storage sounds like a great idea.

Yes, it probably is. Is it hacking? The fact that she put a battery powered router and a set of lockpicks in the storage doesn't make it hacking.

> 3. What's wrong with her wearing a small dress?

Nothing. But is it necessary with several images of it in an album on r/DIY? Is the post upvoted merely because of the 3D printed shoes? Does a post about a 3D printed Raspberry Pi case with makeup and a mirror need 11 pictures of her holding it first? [0]

> 4. Her perspective on the maker movement is fair and diverse. White, balding middle-aged males aren't going to have the same problems or concerns as an attractive, young asian female. What's wrong with bringing her perspective into the milieu?

I never claimed there was anything wrong with her bringing her perspective. I specifically said "I don't have anything against her". My problem isn't with her, it's that people see a skinny young woman with large breasts doing technical stuff and automatically think that because she breaks the mold her work is more interesting that it actually is. It's a little insulting to women that doesn't use the same gimmicks.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/4aAPS?grid
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Intel really doesn't mind "wasting" time on innovation - they make tens of billions of dollars a year and they're on top of the market. They can afford to go down blind avenues, especially when the research spills out so well, as it did in this case.

It definitely wasn't a "saving throw" that Larrabee's architecture got repurposed. There were several teams at Intel working in similar directions - one team worked on a "cloud on a chip", one team worked on high bandwidth chip-to-chip interconnects, one team worked on on-chip networking... they all came together and formed the Knights Ferry research project, which then got turned into the Xeon Phi.

The "core" of Larrabee, its quick little Pentium-derivatives, went on to be repurposed in the Quark product line and its lineage (e.g. the Intel PCH has a "Quark" inside). The 512-bit instruction set got parted out and became AVX512 in is various incarnations. They definitely got their money's worth out of Larrabee.

Nobody is disagreeing with the fact that Larrabee didn't turn into a discrete GPU despite their attempts make it so. (It's also not surprising, seeing the carriage turn back into a pumpkin with Cell and other Many Core architectures fail to pan out to be good at graphics workloads). But that's a separate issue from Intel building GPUs, since they have a completely other team that works on building productized and shipped GPUs.
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If you have been in a Target, then it's that but more run down. In Canada Walmart is equivalent to USA's Target quality wise. There is also zellers & kmart.
Titanium was really more of a failing of core technology than a failing of execution whereas Larrabee was much more of a failing of execution than core tech, and the issue with Larrabee was really the fact that software GPU functions were not only slower in speed, but even slower to develop (!).
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This advice does seem to depend on OP having a pre-existing social network which has people in the industry. Depending on OP's background, that might not be the case.
Espetus in San Mateo is far better than Fogo de Chao. :D
There have been a number of technical arguments put forth on the mailing list, and the discussion is much wider than the few developers who work for Blockstream. It is easy to introduce bias when following development through secondary sources. The development mailing list is mostly non technical enough that interested Bitcoiners can follow along, which would perhaps facilitate a more nuanced understanding how protocol extension proposals are being developed.
I'm certainly not advocating paying the debt. I'm saying dodge it. But she still will have difficulty saving up for bankruptcy.

With the little money she does get, she has to pay for transportation, food, communication, and health and auto insurance. Assuming she abandoned the RV she could maybe find one of these cheap Chicago sublets (which I assume are not in a food or transportation desert) and start saving money (assuming creditors can't garnish social security or pension). But she would still get hit with the occasional emergency bill, extending the time it takes to save. Once she finally saves enough she can go through bankruptcy and probably be successful. So then she could in theory just continue living in the sublet, or wherever in the country has the cheapest housing, until she dies.

It's not a very promising life to look forward to, and I don't know how many people would really just stop what they're doing and go full-on monk to recover over this kind of long term process.
To add to that point, most colonisation has been about resource capture.If you have technology for inter galactic travel I imagine resource access of the universe becomes abundant. But who knows, maybe we make good pets.
It isn't clear that AMD's GPU architecture has been really competing with nvidia. We'll have to see how big a deal this is when AMD's APUs come out. I expect them to be quite a bit better than intels integrated product.

This seems to be more of an direct competitive attack on AMDs integrated product than it is competition with nvidia. It feels to me like building discrete GPUs is almost a misdirection.
Australia taxes shareholders instead of companies. Companies pay tax on paper, but it gets refunded to their shareholders when they pay dividends, and those dividends are taxed like any other income.

If other developed countries did the same, these problems might be easier to manage. Investors could still get bigger dividends from these transfer pricing rorts, but they would have to hand them back as income tax at home, and the rorts might stop being worthwhile.
Specifically, as I recall when the event was originally reported,

"As a kid, the neighborhood basketball court had norms for use that developed over generations. If you wanted to play and a game was in progress, you’d call out, “Got next!” (If someone else on the sidelines had already called it, they’d let you know and you’d wait your turn.) When your turn came, the winning team stayed on the court and you went onto it with your team, picking up players from the sideline as needed. In this way, people from the outside still had their chance to play, but they integrated into the system. (They were probably made better players as well since they had to play against a wide-array of competition.) The system was true of any urban court I visited around the US."

describes the situation on the field when the Dropboxers arrived.

"If our neighborhood court suddenly had to be reserved, it would be a major disruption to norms established for generations. Neighborhood kids, who knew nothing about local government and how to work with it, would have suddenly felt pushed out. Worse, assuming they observed the reservation made by the “outsiders”, they would have been left with nothing to do except wander the streets. That’s often the scenario courts were built to prevent."

And that was the community's reported response.
There is DCompute[1] which is able to generate SPIR-V and PTX simultaneously from the same D source. See my comment to the parent.

http://github.com/libmir/dcompute
Of course I meant "... in the growth of top posting...", I think most of you got the gist that I'm not a fan.

100a I must express myself clearly when posting. <return><esc>
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He or she is probably not North American.
I disagree. Republicans are ideologically opposed to welfare, and they should pretty quickly use their effective political advertising to go against this. Just like global warming hurts you later, loss of jobs for the non-rich category of people takes a long time to affect you. Dems more naturally care about helping the poor and downtrodden.
> I didn't really get what the whole fuss is about

Having taken Tramadols and Oxy for pain (back and separate knee surgery), I can't imagine taking it for fun. The pain stops because they put me to sleep and then I feel like an idiot for 12 hours. At least with the Tramadols I can still sort of function, but I fight the doctor if they want to give me Oxy.
https://goo.gl/images/L53u9i

This is still the reality in countries where the social fabric hasn't disintegrated.
I really like the Azure notebooks, and its hard to see what extra Google are bringing here.
Hopefully not, but he could just be talking about the size of his personal computing device that provides access to that.
Google, why we do not talk about censure ?
yes, no hacker news either. Hippocratic!!
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Could this type of scenario happen in the current financial markets? Could someone buy futures on a product/financial instrument that doesn't even exist?
The timing on this is interesting given our current political climate and the power the "frightful five" quietly wield and the amount of data they compile about us. I'm all for a better ID system, but I'm extremely concerned that a public/private partnership would lead to someone like facebook, google, microsoft, apple or amazon issuing said ID or being able to get anywhere near it.
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I've always been annoyed at this "imagine if X was like the DMV" libertarian argument. Anecdotally, I've never really had this mythical terrible experience at DMVs in the states I've lived in, and (further anecdotally) the experience has always been better in states with higher taxes.

The free market is one way of efficiently incorporating user preferences. Responsive democratic government is another. It might be slower to adapt, but it compensates by having less perverse incentives.
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So, $5K tax on $25K income? With the new standard deduction of $12K for individual or $24K for married? Would like to see the math.
Ah! Sorry, I didn't realize that.
What I was trying to get across is that Washington state doesn't have income tax or capital gains, we only have sales tax and home owners taxes. California has all of those, I believe.
Alcohol is the biggest gateway drug and it's not really close.
This is a key observation. Now apply it to the "eco-friendly" and PoS schemes. The same economics apply. For Bram's coin and PoS systems, the costs spent will rise to equal the block reward. So, you are basically doing something more complicated to end up with the same amount of economic waste. In the proof of space version, maybe you will be building millions of hard drives, running them to failure and then throwing them away.
> Sorry to hear. Partaking in heavy drugs to any degree invites those dark unknowns. The number of hands these drugs pass through to reach the end-user is more than a couple. I recall on average it's 8 different turnovers. Each time, likely being cut down. They operate a margin business without concern for where it ends up. It's likely safe to say that a vast majority of drugs are cut these days.

Drugs have always been cut. Historically it was just cut with OTCs or detritus, which was a problem that could be solved in most cases by simply doing more.

The problem as of late has become when they lace it with things like fentanyl, which is a cheap filler that actually improves the high (thus encouraging repeat business) but can be lethal in large doses.
what percentage sugar chocolate?
Scotch is dramatically consolidated. There are only a handful of independents left & most of those use consolidated malters and source materials providers.

The beer industry is taking their queue from the scotch industry in this. Consolidate but keep the small brands.
What? Is there no noncompete clause? Strange
Trying to build a system where nobody will complain about sexism is like trying to build an infrastructure where nobody will compare about security bugs.

In turn, giving up on building a less sexist system because people will always complain is like giving up on building a more secure infrastructure because people will always complain.

Unless you are extraordinarily lucky at both the humans building what you're building and the inputs to your system (constraints about language and tech stack and problem domain on the security side; constraints about hiring sources and existing culture/public reputation and leadership on the employment side), you're always going to have security flaws in your infrastructure, and you're always going to have sexism in your employment processes. And even if you are this lucky, you're not going to eliminate people poking at your system and suggesting places where it seems to fall short. The important question is what you do about it, how severe the problems are now, and how the severity changes over time.

Just like there are plenty of ways to write software that take it as a given that implementors will screw up and attackers will be clever, there are also plenty of ways to design a performance review system that takes it as a given that some fraction of humans in your organization will have biases (conscious and unconscious) and will treat their coworkers according to their biases.

Honestly, some of the mitigations are the same: the first thing I'd reach for is defense-in-depth and auditing. If your system is consistently giving different results (whether it's hiring, or retention, or promotions, or salary) to people in different demographic groups in a way that seems to disprove the null hypothesis that the demographic is irrelevant to job performance, look very hard at it, add additional reviews to make sure the results are consistent even when different people are involved, and keep measuring. There might be good reasons that the disparity is legitimate (just like there might be good reasons that one of your servers is regularly opening outbound TCP connections to random machines in China), just make sure you are actually noticing that something unexpected is going on and try to find an explanation for it.
Multi-device is hard, and not even Apple gets it right
When politicians talk about "the elite" are they talking about these handful of insanely wealthy people?
Proprietary, no. Centralized? Yes, please.

Blockchains are great and all, but if you lose your private key you should not be barred from ever opening another bank account or getting insurance.

The SSA should switch to using asymmetric crypto keys and publish a web service that lets companies grab your public key based on a set of information (name, DOB, etc). Then that public key can be used to verify things signed by the private key.

In the case of a lost/compromised private key, the SSA can generate a new keypair, assuming the person can verify their identity.
Equality of opportunity is one of the hardest things to define. Milton talks about the opportunity to pursue your talents. But your talent could be really expensive, so what does that actually mean? The son of a wealthy man might have the funds to become a rocket engineer, wasn't that an unequal opportunity to develop talents?

And is there a point to prevent that rocket engineer from existing?
Disco will never die.
Yeah, me too.

You can also link to #readme, which is a generic tag at the very top of the README and is guaranteed to exist in every github repo. E.g.:

https://github.com/ibm/type#readme
Burglary victims should be your first consultation, because most people who weren't burgled were probably just lucky, or were burgled but haven't realized it yet.

If there are 10 houses, a burglar tries to get into all 10 but only succeeds on 2, then you should talk to the 8 owners who successfully protected their houses. If there are 1000 houses, a burglar tries to get into 10 but doesn't tell you which 10, and succeeds on 2, you should talk to those 2 owners because they know for a fact what can fail. 990 owners will just say "do what I do" without having any evidence that their strategy is actually safe.
It's important to note that the epidemic that people refer to is the overdose epidemic, often labelled the opiate epidemic for whatever reason.

I haven't seen any evidence that actual rates of heroin abuse increasing year over year. Just wealthier people dying from poorly cut drugs at a more alarming rate.

This was the most recent report I could find:
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-FRR1-2...
Right, but if the role of the mapping is just to make the status of the simulation make sense to you, (after all, that's the only thing you would be able to observe it doing), then the inhabitant wouldn't care if the mapping was ever computed. So, it's fine if the mappings would be ridiculously impossible to compute. (Extra note: it is extremely hard to simulate the chaotic motion of nearly every physical system. Does that mean they are doing lots of hard computation? If so, does that make them "more likely" to be interpretable as simulating universes?)
I set up an OLAP cube for the biggest charity for the homeless in Portland, OR and in my experience no-one locally has good data on the homeless. It is a demographic which is difficult to survey.
While the changes in Jinja are welcome, maybe, just maybe, Ansible should consider not using yaml for absolutely everything. There can be more sensible ways to store data sometimes. Just saying.
As someone posted below on his usage, his misunderstanding was thinking Heroin fell into same category of drugs "ok to try" .. but, it isn't just one trip. It's a shift chemically unless I'm mistaken.
I think this should be less about their massive wealth - rather the relative poverty and insecurity of most people who live paycheck to paycheck..

Is it a zero sum game?
And none of them were born particularly rich or privileged. Nice to see hard work and wise choices can elevate one to such great heights.
Democratic control? You mean that 51% can bar the other 49% from having access to the means of production?
you can "stake" every competing chain simultaneously

This is called the "nothing at stake" problem and people have been proposing solutions for a few years but so far none of the solutions have stuck.
Ok? Their wealth is mostly in stock of companies they founded. When they sell it, they'll pay taxes on the gains. When they receive dividends, they'll pay taxes on that too.

If the implication is that some of that wealth should be redistributed, how would that work? Should the government confiscate shares of stock? Then do what with them?
If people trade based upon information asymmetry, then the fact that Bitcoin Cash actually had miners, didn't crash fatally, and was capable of sending transactions constitutes an enormous change in the information landscape.

Pre fork BTC price + risk premium ~ BTC post fork + BCH

Pretend like the fork actually taking place and working successfully as comparable to a company's earning reports. The second that news comes in, it prices itself in almost immediately.
This is just a specific model of how people act you just conjured up in your head. People in many situations try heroin all the time, whether or not it seems coherent.
Isn't that true of basically any computing task?

Can't generate AI, websites, etc with the computing infrastructure.

No software patents if no computers to create software.
Using your logic, one could argue that LLVM was also developed by Apple. I think Chris Lattner might object to that claim.
The likely reason Segwit was activated when it was is because there was a movement by non-2X supporters to forcibly activate it around that date, and the 2X side blinked first. It's as simple as that. Also, 2X is inherently harder to deploy than Segwit because it's a hard fork, which means that everyone everywhere would have to upgrade their software. Even the proposed timeline for 2X was quite aggressive - more so even the BIP-50 upgrade back in 2013, which unlike 2X was entirely uncontroversial and absolutely necessary because nodes running the old version would end up stuck on different forks from each other.
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The brewpub was not part of the sale - ABI couldn't legally own a brewpub.

There remains a mostly-independent, somewhat expanded brewing operation in Chicago. They've experienced quite a bit of turnover since the buyout, with many of the experienced brewers going on to start their own breweries.