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Saying Oxycontin isn't addictive is false but from talking to doctors they tend to not consider it addiction if you are receiving the medication for an actively treated issue.
> What other "groups" are the Sacklers a member of?

I took it to be a criticism of American culture.
> And why is clock recovery from the data signal necessary in the first place? Can't the clock signal be recovered from the clock signal itself?

In many (if not most) serial communication systems, there's no clock signal. The clock is embedded in the data itself. The data is encoded in a way that always guarantees enough changes (e.g. a long run of '0' or '1' is restricted) , so that the link partner can use the data itself as a reference to recover the clock. This is true for USB, Ethernet, PCI-E, most fiber optics communication systems (installing another cable just for clocking is rather awkward), among others.

Ideally, one data signal is all we need. This is known as a self-clocking signal [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-clocking_signal
I am not convinced it is eli5. I am too lazy to write a blog post w/ illustration, but for audio signals, which I am more familiar with, the intuition behind DCT (and MDCT, used e.g. for mp3) is straightforward.

Assuming you understand that a Fourier transform is an operation to go from from time domain to the frequency domain, the problem solved by DCT, DST, etc. is related to the fact that digital signal processing are finite, and without any care, you introduce 'irregularities' if you use a 'normal' Fourier transform.

So the main idea of DCT/DST/etc. is to implicitly 'copy' and/or mirror the signal, to reduce the artefacts/irregularities introduced by Fourier Transform. Reducing irregularities intuitively leads to more regular signals, and the more regular your signal, the quicker the high frequencies decrease, which is the compression effect of DCT.

More mathematically, but still very informally: DCT/DST is about boundary conditions. Using DFT (the 'normal' Fourier transform for digital signals) will imply discontinuities at the boundaries. For continuous time signals, an intuitive way to define regularities is to measure the decay of successive derivative of a function f(t), by looking at convergence convergence of t^n f(t) as t -> inf for n. That implies that regular functions have bounded Fourier transforms, and the more regular, the faster the Fourier transform decays.

The DST/DCT, by mirroring/copying the signal, reduce irregularities, and hence their coefficients decrease faster.
> "I like to write the technical docs...so I’d be happy to help with that too"

That guy just met an angel.
Once more, I have to ask you, if you do not mean to implicate Cousteau's entire family, all the way up to his great-great grandchildren, for Cousteau's antisemitism, then why are you bringing his antisemitism up in a discussion about his grandson?

Why is what you are doing here any different than reminding everyone of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis everytime someone talks about modern Germany, or Angela Merkel?
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The cost to market and develop the drug could easily outstrip the revenue from legitimate uses, especially if they spent a lot of money marketing the drug towards people that shouldn't be taking it. So yeah, all $10.8B could be blood money.
I think the author's math tracks. Our pipeline looks something like

hosts -> rsyslog collector -> kafka -> custom crunching -> elastic

which is a bit inefficient and we try to go hosts -> kafka when we can but a lot of stuff only supports rsyslog so it's there and simple enough.

The rsyslog collector and our crunchers are teeeny tiny compared to the rest of the pipeline and can chew through up to a week of backlog in a few hours. The bottleneck is the network for us and if we upped the pipe to 10G we could probably get away with a single host.
Depends on the science domain.

I have spent a couple of years doing .NET for life sciences, as many labs are mostly focused on Windows due to their laboratory robots and data readers.

So many researchers end up using a mix of Excel, VBA and MFC (old tech) and Forms/WPF (new tech) based tooling.

If that is your data science domain, I would definitely advise F#.
i hate how kindle doesn't support adobe DRM, which many libraries use for lending out ebooks.
Just to clarify - I (link submitter) didn't make this. Just found it on the web (/r/cyberpunk, actually.)
Integration tests vs. unit tests.
This used to be a standard interview question I'd ask potential junior candidates. I'd see how far down I can get them to go.
I used to play this online hacking game back in high school, I think it's called "Mother"? Very similar interface. Brought good memories :)
Right! Freespace 2 was great and is still being worked on by a dedicated community. Here's a reddit thread with a review and more info on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/9h30rn/why_you_shoul...
It feels quite smooth, that is impressive.
Majority of Scots Wikipedia articles in worse language
I think it’s just a contrast of approaches.

If you look at the portion of funding which is public vs private, I would assume in the US the public funding is the minority, whereas in China the public funding is the majority.

Total public and private investment would probably be a better metric for comparison.
Rich people. They come in all shape and size.
Site is up again: http://newsboard.robdelacruz.com/
>They are supposed to have learned about it in medical school.

People need to realize that medical school isn't some all-knowing institution where everything knowable about human physiology is imparted unto students.
On my Amazon account, I can download my purchased books as AZW3 from the following page: https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/myx ('Manage Your Content and Devices'). (As I understand it, AZW3 is mostly the same thing as EPUB3.)

(Either that, or the files I download from there aren't actually AZW3 files but just KFX files with an .azw3 extension.)
Me choosing to use hardware x because software y is unavailable does not impact you either. You don't like iPhone or any "i" environment, don't use it.

You have to understand that to many of us it is very much a feature that it's not possible to sideload or allow more control of your device. It's not lack of a feature, it is a feature. Just as much as a feature to you is the ability to sideload or take more control. This is why I should buy an iPhone and you should not. My preferences are different than yours. I do not want you, myself, or others to have some of these abilities; not merely the option not to use them.

I very much like the iPhone because of design architecture differences over Android. It's not perfect but (imo) closer to perfect than Android. We live in a world with many options and not all must subscribe to the same paradigm.
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Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize
Can you cite some examples? I see a couple in this thread, but none of them target the browser environment.
How about Haskell?
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> Specific to the pandemic, no one wants to wear a mask.

This is another one of those situations where the crazies are driving the conversation, because they are much louder than their actual portion of the population. According to Gallup the portion of their panel who “never” wear a mask outside of their home is 10%, while those who “rarely” wear a mask is 2%.

The vast majority of the population wears masks “always” (50%), “very often” (27%), or at least “sometimes” (11%). The vast majority of us are complying with mask regulations; we’re just not making a lot of noise about it.
For bring a yc founder though? And if you read articles back in the day mentioning who YC was founded by?
The trouble is they get presented as laws and then some jobsworth will make damn sure you are following the rules.
Absolutely fantastic. As a previous commented mentioned, it would be awesome to use this to build internal tools & dashboards.

I actually think it would go down well with management as it would appear 'futuristic' to those that are not tech savvy.

The fact it comes with sounds included is the cherry on the cake!
Also, what happened to PWA’s? That would be a great way to open up the ecosystem
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Plus, we Americans embrace or at least excuse this corporate power. Elected government tries to control what we can say online? Censorship! Overreach! Unaccountable Facebook and Twitter try to control what we say online? Yes, please! No problem! If you don't like it, leave! It's not censorship because corporate power is doing it rather than government power!
Why are talking about sugar and diets? Why are you equating smiling with stupidity? This is an equally odd comment.

The commenters reaction was so crass and off-putting that it's hard to believe that type of attitude didn't play a factor. To say we should ignore an extremely negative attitude that's criticizing positive attitudes seems hypocritical.

If OP was trying to make a point against the concept of positive thinking, they utterly failed because of how they chose to word it... to the point that there are multiple other commenters pointing this out.

You can make a reasoned argument against positive thinking without resorting to demeaning other people (and if you can't, then positive thinking might not be the problem).
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I've lost so much time making these arguments with people. Unfortunately the combination of dogma + an industry of sham consultants who have monetized that have created a monster.
If bugs in the lexer never cause the parser to fail for any possible input, does it really have bugs? ;-)

Or, as @VHRanger pointed out, the lexer can be considered a unit and be tested independently.
The clock signal is not sent because it would require another high-bandwidth wire and would introduce problems of clock skew within a lane. In other words, having a separate clock means you need to ensure that the clock and data signals are synchronized at the receiver, which is pretty difficult to achieve.

PCIe has this problem for lane-to-lane skew, but not within a lane. The limit for lane-to-lane skew is 1.6 ns. If each lane might also have similar skew between the data and clock, then the per-lane bandwidth would be limited to a few hundred megabits per second (instead of the achieved gigabits per second).
StarCraft
The scale of fundraising on Kickstarter is not even close to the scale of funding a project like this requires. The largest Kickstarters in history (which this would not be) are in the realm of $20 million.

This project will need $135 million, and it's not clear even that will be enough, but my guess is no. For reference, estimates put the actual ISS cost around 150 000 million (150 billion)
that's all well and good, but some very rich people could be even richer, and that's what is really important to law enforcement.

another substantiating example is here: https://www.gq.com/story/wage-theft
Yep, I did regularly for a number of years. He's getting older now though and the car rides are too stressful, so he's a homebody now.
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Dude I hate the video popup stuff, leave a link if I want to watch a video I want to be able to click on it, I don't like th auto-video stuff.
On some pages I cannot remove the video and I have to watch it, it's insane this approach. Save my time!
I have not been able to test yet because of all of these videos blha blah blah and I gave up for now. No videos please.
Why should we use jumbo jets, instead of sail ships?

There is a cost function associated with time. For most people, there is a threshold after which further gains become insignificant per hour saved, so a Jumbo jet is not much better than a super sonic plane.

But the world has also changed since the Concorde, and maybe now there's a bigger market for people for whom getting something or someone across the Atlantic in a few hours is important: Let's say, for example, that a loved one is severely ill, and you need to get there fast to say your goodbyes.
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I liked the Advanced Scientific Concepts technology when I first saw it in 2003 or 2004 in Santa Barbara, when it was on an optical bench. No rotating machinery. A later version is used by Space-X to dock the Dragon spacecraft with the ISS.

Their device was very expensive because it required custom ICs made using an unusual InGaAs process. But that's the kind of thing that becomes cheap when production gets into millions. Continental is an auto parts manufacturer, where every penny per part is carefully counted. If they thought they could get the cost down in volume, they probably could.

But no market appeared. Continental appears to be able to make the things; they have demoed and offer a prototype. Setting up an assembly line to bang them out has to wait for a big order. Automatic driving isn't far enough along to generate such orders.

Which is the big problem in all this. Nobody needs a million LIDARs yet.
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Love this stuff. I wonder what it's like for someone too young to remember the constraints that the design references.

Like the cyberpunk fast scrolling effect is a reference to 300baud terminals being dog slow, and the idea that text could zip in that fast implied something fast and powerful. The image loading screens are complex and fast, like a kind of arpeggio of the individual steps sped up. As though to say, "It's doing the thing, fast, powerful, and specific." It's like old xterm boot processes where by the time they finished, each step was confidence that things were right in the world. What I love about the whole retro cyberpunk aesthetic is it is essentially heroic, with anti-hero origins, and the symbology bundles up so much of what I hope the older generations of hackers are able to pass on.
This sounds like the worst game of "would you rather?" ever. Explosive cargo ship abandoned by the world or plague cruise ship abandoned by the world.
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I think that's kind of the point of using e-prime.

We are forced to identify explain specific evidence of behavior that John has done that show that he's a racist.

Saying that, "John in frequently unkind to people different from him" or "John commonly uses racial slurs" goes beyond applying a label. This kind of approach to describing the ways people's actions hurt others requires more work. The pay off is that this kind of claim is also harder to credibly dismiss as "grievance culture."

Mind you even when trying to stay close to E-prime I still miss the mark all the time.
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First hands on the new Twitter API
How so? On mobile swiping between pages felt very seamless and a well executed transition. That by itself is something most appy sites barely get right.

Still checking it out, but at first glance it’s obvious this person gets the details right.
It’s entirely possible that a person is riding their electric scooter to advertise their virtuous concern for the environment (ignoring how likely this is to be true for any given scooterist) AND that someone else is being a shitty person for being dismissive. Note that the dismissive person is specifically shitty for doing their own virtue signaling—hollowly criticizing someone else to signal their own virtue. Of course, it’s easy to mistake an earnest scooterist or critic for a virtue signaler (ultimately motive is hard to assess) so we should take care about these accusations as with any accusation of motivation (in the same way that no decent person would loosely sling accusations of racism, sexism, etc).
This isn't done for financial gain (or at least it didn't use to be done for financial gain).

It's basically a game.

In my youth I was drawn to it and tried to be a racer to gain access to top sites.

The rush was basically to be one of the first to have your hands on something, even if it was just to prove that you could. Like just get it to show off that you had it before any tracker had it - kids stuff.

For these guys it used to be about releasing before any other group (that wouldn't be nuked, for example, if a crack didn't work).

Nowadays if they are using bribery for access, or are being paid to dump it on sites, then yeah, I guess it would fit in financial gain, therefore white colar crime.
Sure, there are good applications of opiates. However, from my understanding, the $10.8B number is the amount that the court has ordered, i.e. the "blood money" and punitive amount, not the total profit.
Ahh, I always enjoyed the Starwars and movie theatre designs. I can't seem to find them on the site right now though..

Edit: Here is the movie theatre! [0]

[0] http://www.csszengarden.com/202/
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While I somewhat agree with the sentiment, there is a big difference between our government which has the power to take away our rights and a corporation censoring us.
Yes, you only can specify the TTL in seconds, however and also not the starting time of the record, i.e. no way to bring online a new record at a certain point in time.
That sounds like a No True Scotsman fallacy to me. You’re trying to define “data scientist” as someone who only knows how to use notebooks, fails to put testing as a first class consideration, etc., but that’s a severe minority of people with the job title of Data Scientist.

I manage teams of both ML engineers and Data Scientists and have designed hiring processes for both within large ecommerce companies for years.
We used to have a prophecy that when the IT apocalypse hits, we'll be pushing our shopping carts around like in Cormac McCarthy's The Road; moving from company to company to fix the VLookups in their Excel spreadmarts
what about R?

or Scala if you need bigger scale?
Obfuscating of the URLs is a non-issue and I think that comment is being unnecessarily negative instead of looking at ways to deal with the problem. There is no reason an adblocker should not be able to get at the actual source (i.e. knowing that request A is actually going to be fulfilled with a resource included in web bundle B coming from site C). If ad blocking tools are unable to do this for reasons unrelated to the web bundle spec, that's a separate problem.

It also seems to paper over the fact that randomizing urls requires a server side component to keep rebuilding the bundle which is the same thing you would have to do with the zip file method, and has most of the same drawbacks (i.e. changing the url would invalidate cache).
Or the current president might place them as the head of Health and Human Services.
If it were up to me, I would save money by bringing most of our troups home and keep them safe, and also use the money saved from closing many of the military bases in 180 countries to double down on tech investments.

What makes this almost an impossible situation is that we really need to do two things at the same time:

1. strong laws to stop the surveillance capitalists dead in in their tracks (read Surviving Surveillance Capitalism - a must read book, and basically a work of art in the sense that it is so beautifully written)

2. develop tech in a way that maximizes the benefits to society while mitigating the risks
That's an interesting point - I know I got a huge nostalgia blast looking at this. I also think it's awesome.

Do you think someone who never played video games with menus like this would feel the same? Or would it look outdated and cliché...
As far as I know, it's only in Pakistan and Afghanistan (not India). Where did you get the news about Mumbai?
Sorry, I just can't agree with your take. You're fundamentally trying to use technology to restrict rather than enable use cases, and doing so in ways that aren't actually robust to your use cases and threat models.
This takes me back. This was a big motivation to learn flash and web development as a whole, and spurred a lot of deep interest in programming for me.
Read again, but from the other side of the looking-glass; imagine that you have a bunch of code in E or some other object-capability-safe language, and you want to audit it for Spectre vulnerabilities. As the article makes clear, other concerns are taken care of structurally by E's design; how might E be changed to also help mitigate Spectre?
The song is awesome, but the clip is cringy as can be.

From the awkward dancing, nonsensical acrobating and sunglassing to Rick himself. Even though the song's got a good beat, he can't seem to move to it no matter how hard the editor tries to cut or how cool he tries to look. And I'm always surprised by such a deep voice coming from such a skimpy guy, which contributes to the joke.
There is no motivation for that. White collar criminals, especially the big ones are generally well connected, have powerful acquaintances, often know dirt on other people and mostly steal from either little fish and government (if they steal from corporations, there is often fault on the side of the corp. too and no one wants it to be very public so stocks dont fall even more) and their crimes usually benefit other rich/powerful people (often stockholders), it would be rather inconvenient to air such dirty laundry. On the other hand pirates have no noteworthy connections whatsoever and mostly damage big corporations who have money to lobby for their punishment.
> There's far better ways to do it if you can use online - I submit my card number to them, they pass the card number, their account number, and the amount to my provider, I authorise they payment with my provider.

Visa does support this scheme and I hate it when it happens. I try to use my bank password the less possible. I also believe it's a huge phishing risk as people don't look at the URL.

I personally prefer that the bank assume the current risk. It's not like it's making them bankrupt to do it right now...
All these points are moot as the main Appstore would be made much less valuable because it is assumed many major app players would diverge away. Even quoting the line, it was still largely glossed over:

> ...prefer the consistency of a single, consistent, secure source of Apps.

What is consistent when every app player is part of a different app store? Suddenly Microsoft has their own, Google has their own, Epic Games as their own, etc.

No thank you.
So you don’t disagree with any of the claims against Andy Ngo you just want to go with adhoms. I think that proves the point.
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I love the design! I might end up using it on some of my own projects!
> ...if someone cares to do even the bare minimum of research...

Aye, there's the rub.
Amazing explanation!!
can you post link to your lifestyle business ?
I actually did train this same cat in a lot of the classic dog commands. He'll sit, shake, lay down, and roll over on command. It's certainly harder to train a cat on commands but it ended up being a little easier than I thought it would be going in.

I think it helps to have a cat that's highly food motivated. While following orders comes naturally to a lot of dogs, training a cat feels more like a bartering system. He'll put up with my silly requests in exchange for treats that he likes. If the treats stopped coming I doubt he would keep following instructions for long.