skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roughly half a million Americans have died from opioid overdoses since 1998 [1]. I don’t know how many can be directly attributed to OxyContin, but other drugs are pulled from the market over a tiny fraction of that number of deaths or less serious side effects.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/prescription-drug-overdo...
I hope that in the future we will get some insight on how sonos became the company it now is. When they started there were no mandatory accounts, no spying, dedicated remotes (i.e. no analytics). I really wish we could get back to this time.
Don’t think the author would disagree with you on the point that it gave pain relief. It was approved by the FDA.

But the author does raise questions on the steps taken to achieve this:

“The Sacklers have long maintained that they and their company are blameless when it comes to the opioid crisis because OxyContin was fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration. But some of the more shocking passages in the prosecution memo involve previously unreported details about the F.D.A. official in charge of issuing that approval, Dr. Curtis Wright. Prosecutors discovered significant impropriety in the way that Wright shepherded the OxyContin application through the F.D.A., describing his relationship with the company as conspicuously “informal in nature.” Not long after Wright approved the drug for sale, he stepped down from his position. A year later, he took a job at Purdue. According to the prosecution memo, his first-year compensation package was at least three hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars—roughly three times his previous salary. (Wright declined to comment.)”
I'm 45. I got started by books when I was about 8: The little public library near my home had translations of the Usborne BASIC guides and Tim Hartnell's game books and I devoured those without having a computer to try them on. Then my uncle bought an Spectrum 48k and I spent every Saturday morning going to his place, playing some games and typing some code from one of the books, or modifications I had concocted in a notebook during the week.
My parents bought us an MSX, probably by 1986 and I kept doing some BASIC (but mostly playing games).

Then came an hiatus, from 1988 to about 1993 I became the stereotypical teenager, so motorcycles, booze and girls seemed way more interesting. I always regret it a bit, because I feel I could have learned a lot during those years.

In 1993 I started Physics at college and my parents bought me a 386 PC. That thing must have costed like $3000. I did little Physics, but sure gamed an awful lot on that thing. But I also taught myself C.

Then in 1995 I discovered a little room in the Physics department that had two unsupervised old PCs connected to something called the Internet. I was hooked instantly and squatted that room for hours every day with a bunch of similarly inclined students. We downloaded NASA pics, connected to chat rooms and MUDs and hacked into the mail server to steal unused email accounts for ourselves. One day someone from that room handed me a bunch of floppies with Slackware Linux on it.

I switched to CS the next term, and finished it, but on the side: by 1996 I had a web dev job.

Most of the jobs I've held have been pretty full-stack: from sliding the servers into the rack to whipping up a decent logo in Gimp and everything in between. I keep doing the same and I love being self-sufficient, but sometimes envy people that are really really good at something. But I never found anything I would leave all the rest for.
YC idea: Lint for law

Lint doesn't have to be perfect, especially when faced with a "code base" that's chaotic and full of dubious legacy. "Code review" in the form of constitutional cases and legislative attempts at reform are a severe bottleneck. Automation that flags egregious smells and incompatibility seems valuable.

A state that claims a "cleaner" code base could use that to attract business looking for lower legal overhead.
So, in this scenario, you have a pill and a doctor. You have an inanimate object that cannot defend itself against being prescribed to a person unnecessarily... and you have a doctor, who prescribes drugs to patients.

You are choosing to blame the inanimate object, when it is clearly the doctor who has acted unscrupulously.
Treating college as an extension of high school in America seems to come from the post-civil-rights era as a convenient economic weed-out of certain segments of society from even entry-level work :/
I am a libertarian although you're right that that comment wasn't supposed to be an endorsement, just an explanation of the mindset of its more stringent adherents
With as little respect I have for Facebook, and how reluctant I'd even be to defend them, your last sentence, "Dirtbags have rights too." is an attitude I think we all should stand to live up to these days.
These aren't types of query, they are types of server. viovich123 was talking about content DNS servers that cause the scaling problems, and penalizing the people who run them. But it is the proxy DNS servers, and the DNS clients and applications softwares that drive them, that are the cause here.

The terms are correct, and are derived from HTTP. You aren't grasping them correctly.
I spent 3 months cycling all over france back in 2013, and long trips in subsequent years - pretty much every campsite I stayed at used captive portals. A handful handed out password cards to guests only, but those ones were almost always <place name>2013. Back then I didn't have much choice as mobile phone reception in the Alps was non-existent. The campsite owners were aware of the law, they'd often mention that they weren't happy about it.

Last year I was in Paris, but didn't have to fight the system any more, 4G reception was fine. So, no idea what it was like in cities, but in the countryside they followed the law.
I agree there should be a compute platform somewhere to do this, but having listened to (and owning one) a few Sonos products, I think the technology is the less interesting part of the deal. Their speakers sound really good, and seem to make my sources sound really good in a really easy to use package. I have their AirPlay 2 compatible soundbar, and it works so well when hooked up to my TV as the input, and seamlessly can then receive AirPlay from my devices and fill a room. If there is an open source equivalent, or plans to make one, I would love to see it paired with really amazing sound producing hardware.
Here's the full story for anyone who is curious.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/reddit-edit-post

I don't know what you mean by "the narrative you are pushing". The only narrative is that the CEO of reddit did something that seriously caused me to lose faith in the site and went completely unpunished. You may feel that the event was inconsequential, but not everyone feels the same.
Reminds me a little of Wirth's Project Oberon
To add on to that (sorry, I think it's a very exciting topic): it's hypothesized that virions (a virus-like 'thing' that infects plants) are descendants of such RNA life that evolved to be parasitic.
Google News lol. If this is the current state of the art in AI I'm not worried.
The Digital Imprimitur (2003)
Cheops Discovers a New Alien Planet
Similar experience for me, played all through my teens and early twenties. Something has clicked in the last year, that I want to spend my time more productively

What's worked for me has been using a blocker. For example "cold turkey" I'm using ATM. I normally set blocks of 1 month or so, then end up binging a gaming weekend when it becomes unblocked, then go again

Seems to be working pretty well. Considering just setting it away for 3 month blocks, but I'm still hanging on to there being a nice middle ground :)
Comparing parcel prices when parcel sizes are not specified seems meaningless to me.
being clicky doesn't make it any less of a hellscape
Jaw-droppingly impressive to have gone from nothing to a custom ISA, C compiler toolchain and a whole freaking OS with userland apps in six months!

My favorite detail was that having spent all this time on extra credit, they only managed to complete their primary task an hour before the presentation - an unmistakable mark of a true hacker if there ever was one.
Hey may have defended the rights of people in the rest of the world, but only American citizens have rights protected by the US constitution.
Canary works for immediately broken deploys. If it manifests or is caught a few days later or a week later then you need a new plan
Does anyone know why ffmpeg is a dependency?
It doesn't matter. That's the point being made. I think the sentiment that Biden (or any other Democrat) will not act because of some associated guilt or support of past Democrat decisions, idiotic. He will not get pardoned because the media (and public at large) don't think it's an issue that is more motivating than other hot-button issues. If there's enough public support, I would be more ready to believe the needle will move under a D than an R.
The oligarchs who own the media companies don't want to offend their friends.
Repertoire of concepts and notations in mathematical logic
Not sure you'd want a window that easily dissolves in water...
> Problem is that it was pushed on people...

Pushed by whom? Who was prescribing these drugs and why? How did this become standard care? There’s obviously plenty of blame to go around but it appears to be a general failure of the healthcare system.

edit: I get people want to assign blame on one single malicious actor but its not that simple. this article [0] explores the failings of the system and calls out some of the main actors: "Purdue Pharmaceutical, the Joint Commission, Press-Ganey, and CMS and hospital administrators ."

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140023/
I got a distribution from a computer magazine that was hastily packaged. It was a CDrom of a version of linux that runs under DOS with LOADLIN, had a filesystem called umsdos that s basically FAT (fat32?) with extra files for metadata. Unfortunately it seems the distribution didn't fit in the magazines' CDROM so they left out some directories, crucially /usr/man so most of the man pages were missing. It wasnt a linux magazine so there were absolutely no instructions.I didnt have internet access so it was impossible to figure out what to do. All the commands i could figure out were "cd" and "more" and "dir" (it was aliased to ls as i found out later). I somehow ended up finding some README files and similar and over time learned the basics. The rest is far less exciting to remember.
Sonos is just a speaker. IMO that is it’s main allure. They don’t need to know who I am and they don’t offer me services or expect recurring revenue from me. At least that’s what one would think. Looks like they went into the data harvesting business too. Too bad.
> What environment existed 4 billion years ago that is totally gone today?

One with no complex lifeforms but sufficient resources to support life seems like the obvious answer.

Also, you can't really ignore the transformative effect that life has had on all environments (underwater and on land) in terms of chemical composition. Less water, less oxygen, etc.

Presumably the evolution of cellular life was synergistic with the evolution of the environments on the planet?
> There are more prokaryotes than eucaryotes, more singe celled than multi celled etc. but there is nothing in between the primordial chemical soup and the simplest life forms. I would expect a huge mass of simple RNA based life forms simpler than prokaryotes.

This is an interesting perspective.

Following this line of reasoning, prokaryotes must be close to the simplest unit that can self-replicate and grow to fill the planet. The simpler “proto-life” forms before that built up complex molecules by chance but could never quite achieve a replicative cycle.

Perhaps the closest to a huge mass of simple RNA based life forms that still exist today are viruses.
> Once you figure out how to really effectivity use it you can be productive and build out some huge websites and it's fast as hell.

I don't doubt that, but a site that is a) huge, and b) doesn't require interactivity seems rather niche to me. SSG's really shine to me on small sites, and to some degree mid-sized ones. Code documentation is a good example, where I made some new library at work and now I want to dump some nice documentation somewhere. It's only a few pages, all I need is a way to convert Markdown to HTML in a semi-pleasing format, and have the SSG handle creating an index or ToC sidebar so people can navigate.

Hugo sucks for this. The templating language is Go's, which I don't care for much, and doesn't seem to be very widely used outside of Hugo. So now I have to learn a DSL just to use Hugo, which is unlikely to be useful for anything else, ever.

The templating language also seems to change constantly. I feel like every time I update Hugo, I have to go find a new theme, because now I get 10,000 warnings that they're going to redo the whole template API, and like 7 things my theme is doing aren't compatible with their new API. Of course, someone will say that I can build my own theme. And you're right! If I want to go become an expert in this esoteric DSL so I can figure out how to iterate over pages to build my ToC. Plus now that I'm building a theme, part of me starts wondering if it wouldn't be easier to just hand-write the HTML.

These NodeJS site generators are at least an order of magnitude easier to work with. I get code completion, so I don't have to try to remember all the various built-in and custom macros. I get unit tests, so when I change something in my theme, I can test it. I find that it's easier to genericize things from tutorials as well. If I want to add a navigation sidebar to all my pages, I just need a tutorial that shows me where I hook into the base page template (i.e. add a customizePageTemplate() call when you instantiate the renderer or something). From there I can use code completion and docs to figure out what I have access to to do the things I want. Again, that's because it's a familiar domain. If I want to do the same thing in Hugo, I pretty much need a tutorial specifically dedicated to customizing the base page templates. Even if someone tells me where to customize it, I end up having issues because the things you can access inside Hugo depend on where you are in the rendering pipeline, and Hugo's templating language doesn't make it easy to tell what you have access to at the moment.

I do admire their speed, but I have had effectively no situations where I have a site that is both large enough to be worth learning the DSL, and simultaneously doesn't require anything that Hugo makes difficult.
the app store is like a genius innovation in advertising, one that advertisers have no choice but to pay for & where pricing is commission based.

imo the apple has gone bad.
Django Beginners Book – Just $6.99
The price of this excellent book to learn Django Framework has been brought down. I thought it'd be helpful. Enjoy
A world where rules like these can be enforced by law sounds more dystypian than a world with excessive advertising.
I wish this was true. I’ve been looking for a great Windows laptop. The options aren’t good except Dell XPS which has massive quality issues.

I’m shocked how bad the selection is.
The amount of grifting you’d end would put up some really deep pocketed defenders of the current system.
SnapCast is what I've been looking at in that space.

https://github.com/badaix/snapcast
Great read. Inflation has become one of those numbers where we assume the definition is reasonable but it often breaks down when in contact with reality. In this case the basket of goods used to calculate the CPI didn't match the goods the author's business needed.
Deter who from what? I don't think you know what deter means.
> is that the segment of your audience that doesn’t share the diagnosis runs the risk of essentializing your disorder

> I don’t associate mania with creativity, or fun, or clarity; I associate it with an abundance of energy that seems like it needs no fuel but that will end up using me for its fuel.

It's all consuming. It's highly misunderstood. It's trivialized at best.

It's confusing. The lack of stability does wonders to your understanding of the world.

Mania is a weird and strange experience. The energy is overwhelming.

When it comes to programming, it's different.
The nutrition aspect of food seems to overlap with medicine; something that is normally 'just food' might become a medication if somebody were malnourished. For instance, regular foods containing vitamin C could be considered 'medicine' to somebody with scurvy.
Yes but some of the secrets he exposed implicated allies as well, for whom it is often just as illegal to spy on their own citizens.
All ideas die. The best way to respond to ignorant ideas is to ignore them, and give new life to the better ideas. There is a subtle but important difference between attacking ignorance and calmly speaking truth in its presence.
Proprietary is allowed if it is documented, the issue with most of the digital voice modes is they are protected by patents.
> International spying on your allies, including corporate espionage against countries like Germany.

I expect the US to be spying on ALL nations, not just enemy-of-the-week or communist ones.
It’s really not hard to see why all tech companies are going this way. Data collection is the new gold rush and any company not trying to get into it will lose to ones that do. It not really much of a mystery.
Because that scenario is irrelevant to the conversation
Oxycontin has its uses and benefits. No doubt. The problem is that the manufacturers thought that's not enough profit. So they expanded their target market and pushed it on people for whom it was a harmful choice. To do this they lied about the necessary doses perfectly knowing that this was a lie. It's the same playbook the tobacco industry used (still does?). Lie about known problems with your product while at the same going all out on sales.
Tolerance is a separate issue than the one I brought up. The issue of lying about the length of action is not related to tolerance - even patients new to OxyContin complained.

I was prescribed OxyContin myself for a while, and know very well that it only works around 6 hours for me, just the same as other ER opioids.
I think that from a purely technical point of view there isn't a division here: if the NSA has gained access to basically everything (mobile networks, ISPs, landlines, OSs etc) and they're using the access to hoover up all the private data of citizens then logically our allies and enemies know they are also being targeted don't they? Why would the NSA be using God Mode domestically but restricting itself abroad?

So Snowden even revealed everything or nothing. He couldn't only spill half the beans!
I think you're misinterpreting both the numbers and the argument and then taking away a backwards conclusion from that misinterpretation.

> If you look at municipal budgets infrastructure is usually around 10%.

The article says exactly this.

> There isn't one out there that spends a majority of their budget on infrastructure.

So what you're saying is that the city doesn't spend what it would cost to actually keep up with maintenance. They're saying exactly the same thing. Unless you think that the city is pocketing billions in profits from unspent tax money (they aren't), it's hard to see how they could possibly spend more on infrastructure without majorly cutting other services and/or taxing more than the people can afford, which is the premise of the article.

> The expensive things are cops and schools and fire and other labor intensive services.

These costs scale most directly with population, not land area. You'd have these same expenses if the city were built such that the road infrastructure cost less to maintain, so pointing at them makes no sense.

> Like this one pegs Lafayette's infrastructure replacement at 32 billion. Yet Lafayette's entire budget is only 0.6 billion.

The article is about how Lafayette cannot keep up with maintenance because it would cost too much. Literally exactly the same thing as what you just said, and yet your conclusion is that they have it wrong? Why?
Are starting ? Just take a look at Nestle,Google, Amazon, Aliexpress and such or media conglomerates owned by one person/company.
It's already half way there.

A small manufacturer can't exactly compete when all regulatory decisions are more or less pushed/written by big companies and the government creates regulatory leeches that charge you an arm and a leg for nothing.
Super intelligent AI. IMO there's at least a 30% chance we will create an AI that surpasses the intelligence of humans by 2050. What then?
Basic Concepts in Unity for Software Engineers
The source code for NetNewsWire might be a useful starting point: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire
Doctors, who were taught that "pain is the fifth vital sign" in studies and "direction" lead by research institutes that were funded by pharma companies, hidden via layers of indirection.

Doctors that were assured that OxyContin was not addictive and "low risk" in the educational material supplied to them by the suppliers.
1) Not applicable because I was remote before the pandemic

2) Yes, and I have A LOT. Predicate- I’m the tech lead, so it helps I can set team culture. However, here are some things that help-
a) pick up the phone after the 3rd IM. Instant messaging and Teams/slack channels are great, but they partially eliminate the spontaneity you are talking about. If I’m more than 3 messages into the conversation, I pick up the phone and call (if both parties can talk). And once the immediate problem is over I don’t hang up. I ask how things are going, ask about family, tell them I have this cool new idea, etc. It builds trust and pretty quickly we get to feel comfortable bouncing ideas off each other.

b) I’ve expanded my network via shared interests. I run a “app development” book club. I run a series of meetings where people do a quick presentation on their non work passions and then we chat. I volunteer for side projects and charity work. All this is remote. And, importantly, I follow up with people I find interesting for 1-1s.

C) I consider the time spent in A and B just as much a part of my job as writing code or managing the backlog. It turns out, being on-site generates a lot of unplanned and invisible work- those talks in the kitchen, the pre and post meeting jokes and follow ups, the afterwork drinks. That all is WORK. Fun work, but also unplanned and untracked work. Going remote reduces the amount those activities happen, so you have to become more conscious about making time for it. People new to remote working (myself included) will often feel guilty about doing socialization activities in a deliberate manner (like purposefully making small talk after a call) even if they really think about or measure their time spent the amount they are engaged in those activities are way down. Don’t feel guilty for “slacking” with you coworkers. It’s actually part of the job.

Note- I do work slightly longer hours than I did before going remote, but I feel it’s more than made up for by time spent commuting or at volun-obligatory happy hours and events.

Oh, one last thing- try to keep ad how meetings to 4 or less people. You couldn’t fit that many in your office, but it’s almost impossible to socially engage with more than that on a video call.
400 feet doesnt seem very high (to a bystander like me). I made a 19mm diameter sugar rocket with my kids, tied it to a bamboo stick for stability and electrically started it. The thing went so high that we visually lost sight of it.

Is this because my power to weight ratio is so much lower?
When people exploit the system in order to benefit at the expense of others: yes, it is a failure of the system. But it is also a moral failing on the people exploiting the system, knowing the kind of damage they're causing. One does not preclude the other.