skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is being framed is as miscarriage of justice, and from a moral perspective it definitely is. The problem is that the legal grounds on which Purdue (and the Sacklers) can be sued are actually kind of weak.

Broadly, the things Purdue is accused of are
1) Aggressively marketing opioids to doctors, and
2) Lobbying the states to change various laws around prescription and marketing of opioids

The problem is that for direct liability, there are two more actors that need to be considered - the doctors, and the patients themselves. Doctors are considered to be experts, and patients are often breaking the law when they misuse opioids. Both of these facts break the chain of liability, and so arguing that Purdue is legally liable for the ultimate addiction of the patient is difficult.

As a result, people have tried to sue Purdue under more general "public nuisance" statutes, rather than regular tort liability. A public nuisance is when someone interferes with a right that the general public shares in common. However, this area of law is not very well developed - a lot of it is carryover from old British law, and winning those cases isn't a slam dunk. So there are certain objectors to the settlement, but I don't know why people think that it would be easy to hold the Sacklers criminally responsible or to get more money than this settlement.
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Worthless in what respect?

Are you indicting the paper or person or other?
Walmart.com has third-party sellers, same as Amazon. Both those things are available.
This sounds an awful lot like a "something is better than nothing" fallacy. With the settlement, there is practically zero benefit to anyone who was harmed. Without such a settlement, there is zero benefit to anyone harmed. "Practically zero" being greater than "zero" is worth not punishing literal evil?
Why are you in a comment thread about adding your ID to your smartphone then?
You can't see starlink satellites with the naked eye once they are in their operational orbit.
I'm sure many people find it useful to be able to attend school: https://www.pcmag.com/news/native-american-tribe-gets-early-...
It depends on your standards -- it's comparable to a Raspberry Pi 3B+/Pi 400.

Note that even the Pi is not OSHW. With (considerable) of effort you could order the PCBs and the components and make one yourself. You'd need to reverse engineer the rasp. It's difficult to convey how amazing that is.
> “I don’t know how we didn’t lose the vehicle and kill three people,” Todd Ericson, a retired Air Force Colonel and Virgin Galactic’s then vice-president of safety and test, told me in a 2020 interview.

I'm pretty impressed by this guy. Not only did he quit his VP job when he saw these safety problems, but he went around giving interviews about them. It strikes me that very few people would have done the same.
A playbook is documentation. The worst thing that can happen is setting up a useful service that you don't know how to, well, service. This is how 20+ year legacy servers start their life.
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My GGGP point was about "clogging" space with satellites, not about habitation. Space is so large that 100K's of satellites is still not clogged. I believe the SpaceX and AWS constellations are planned to get us pretty close to 100k iirc
I can do that too since I was a kid
Sadly, in the US, even the “tenure track” full-time professors are seldom full-time lectures. Their most valued contributions are:

- obtaining research grants

- department administration

- image management

They also sometimes teach courses, but more often than not, that duty can be given to a combination of adjunct professors and “graduate teaching assistants,” ie doctoral students.

Much of it I’m okay with organizationally except for the money/workload balance. It’s a race to the bottom to overwork and underpay for teaching duties.
I respect what you're saying and honestly it is shitty. It is true, I deleted the many technical posts I made because I did not want to leave that value on the site to support what is has become.

I feel bad about it. I hope people are able to find my posts in archived formats somewhere. But I just didn't feel comfortable on there any more. Reading around there is just gross now. I think I will concentrate on posting on my own website now.
On what planet are opioids "safe" outside a hospital in any way? Incredibly easy to OD, highly addictive, and severely exacerbated by alcohol consumption. They _knew_ ahead of time people would die, and approved this garbage anyway. Then looked the other way when the Sacklers bought the doctors to hand the pills out like candy.
I wonder how many young readers are going to think of the color #0000ff when they read that, rather than TV static
It strikes me as weird to address an issue of unrealistic standards by implementing a bunch of productivity systems (pomodoro, etc) and data collection schemes, since these systems are fallible, which feeds right back to the anxiety loop.

I feel like it's appropriate to bring up meditation, and specifically self-awareness. There's something about seeing yourself as a third party that helps put things into a larger context and helps us "let go".
I read an article about this years ago. You can use triangulation or trilateration, or something similar to them, to ascertain the point on the ground from which the laser was shined.
Server driven UI - Fancy name for web browser ?
When I punish myself I find I shrink or cringe away from the subject of concern, rather than motivated to engage with it

Depression is the greatest enemy of doing anything, feeling bad is basically always a net negative on productivity
Student loans explicitly can’t be used for car repairs [0]. You can use it for transportation like buses and trains, rent, gas, and meal plans (but oddly not groceries and restaurants).

So students typically work jobs, use savings, get help from friends and family.

[0] https://www.salliemae.com/blog/what-to-use-student-loans-for...
> What's wrong with being unproductive some of the time, or most of the time? I usually enjoy it a great deal.

"Productive" is a bit of an overloaded word. Myself, when I obsess over my productivity, it's really an obsession over being able to do the things that I set out to do. It's an obsession over being in full control of my own faculties. It has nothing to do with work and business per se.
How about just don't fuck with airplanes? Don't fuck around when you're on the airplane. And don't fuck around when you're on the ground below the airplane.

Get it?
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If the motherboard is replaceable, why not order one now, then upgrade to an AMD motherboard + CPU when they’re available?
Yeah, hashicorp makes good shit but I mean this is a pretty sensitive area - not sure I'd take a stab at using it for anything yet.

Shout HN: Does anyone here that might be watching this space have any experience using Vault...?
Sounds pretty cool! The term is "key/value" FYI.
Humane, a stealthy startup co-founded by ex-Apple veterans raises $100M
Ask HN: How do FAANGs document their infrastructure?
Any methodologies? Public guides?
Note that Google has invested in SpaceX around the time when Starlink was starting out, and that they're putting starlink ground stations at Google data centers.
No one lives in a place where they can see starlink satellites with their naked eye once they are in operational orbit.
Sorry about your loss.

There is no acceptable punishment for a crime of this scale that doesn't adequately deter future criminals. Billions in rewards isn't just inadequate, it's disrespectful to every victim and their families.
Followup on the Dashboard Story
Right, but as has been demonstrated by Apple and Google over and over again, "says" and "does" are entirely different things!
Ok my bad then. Thanks! I will take a look and see if it works for me.
Honest answer - maybe. Amazon is so rampant with fraud parts[1] and shoes it's hard to know there as well. Best to buy "nice" things elsewhere than Amazon.

For me 100% no-go on Amazon is anything that goes in or on your body, like lotion and vitamins. Coin-flip you get a fake since almost anyone has the means to produce fraud.

[1] https://www.bikeforums.net/general-cycling-discussion/120619...
Yes. But are those the minority exceptions?
Anyone know what they are building?
This is pretty dirty from SpaceX. They make this about Amazon by saying Kuiper ("Amazon"). Just because SpaceX calls them "Amazon" in their press release does not make this about Amazon.

Or am I missing something and is this really an Amazon endeavor?
That reminds me of both tonsils and the appendix - two body parts that are often referred to as "useless" even though they probably do some function we're just not aware of.

As for appendix, it seems to be home for bacteria that can cause dementia but are otherwise useful in the gut. I don't know if that's actually its purpose, but if so, it seems pretty important.
You should first ask yourself what you really enjoy. I happen to enjoy reliability, scaling up systems, etc. So I go after those kinds of projects. The things you really enjoy, you'll bring infectious enthusiasm to, and that's the best kung fu you can possess (well, that and learning your craft very well).

I would as a general rule avoid anything involving being perceived as QA (stigma), or extremely speculative projects (Google+) -- because you only get one life, and keeping risk of ruin down is good. But, you may disagree and decide to go for risky things. The ROI on those is hard to calculate anything like precisely so it's more a matter of taste than math.
The FDA greenlit the marketing of many of these opioids on the false pretext that they would be less addictive than traditional painkillers like morphine.
> the doctors, and the patients themselves. Doctors are considered to be experts, and patients are often breaking the law when they misuse opioids.

The doctors were fed dodgy studies and information that what they were prescribing was safe. And you can hardly blame a patient who receives pain treatment and gets addicted to opiates when they were also informed they were safe.
When I was an awkward high school student trying to meet girls, I had a friend with more experience. His advice to me was, "When all else fails, lower your standards."

I just find that so amusing in retrospect.
Have your tried breaking up the files into smaller chunks and trying to import?
i still dont really understand what they are accused of. did they lie about something in the trials or something?
But hey, a diplomat killing a kid? Nah the US can't give them to the UK to face justice.
Not US, but I recall at least one story of an ER helicopter pilot in Poland, whose dream of flying was ruined after getting hit by a laser during one flight, and suffering enough eye damage to permanently disqualify him from piloting.
I'm not. I'm in a comment thread about Apple announcing the first states to adopt a digital driver's license. I don't have to be a supporter of that news to comment in a thread about it, do I?
It's a glider, but a glider capable of mach 3 flight. So, approach speeds will be much faster than a typical glider. Probably higher speed than an airliner. That would be dangerous to land off field.

Also, it could mean the vehicle is exposed to aerodynamic conditions it is not designed for, operating outside of the flight envelope.
> Generally speaking, you shouldn't put your money in the market if you need it in the next 5 years.

According to whom? Right now, nothing pays out any yield, it’s stocks or lose to inflation.
The FAA seems to want to educate people to mitigate the problem.

Hopefully they'll be ready with a big campaign when the first major crash is caused by one of these idiots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Systems

"Kuiper Systems LLC is a subsidiary of Amazon that was set up in 2019 to deploy a large broadband satellite internet constellation to provide broadband internet connectivity."
Well, to be honest I don't think there is that much of a difference. Both in business/at work and in your private life you have to accept the "failure" of reducing your objectives. Then proceed to drink your water, slowly :).
>Remember when it was a slippery slope fallacy to suggest that this sort of thing would go beyond banning fatpeoplehate?

It started earlier than that with the ban of r/jailbait. It always comes back to "protect the children"
You are missing one more reason why: there just isn't anything fitting our needs on the market. I just want to keep ownership of my data, but cloud-based everything basically makes this impossible unless you run your own cloud.

I don't want to run my own infrastructure. But the commercial providers will scan your data, "unperson" everything they, the government, or the copyright holders don't like, and charge me a fortune for the privilege or withhold features.
Doesn't need one!
There are plenty of ways opioids are an appropriate tool outside of a hospital setting. You act like the only form available is high dose fentanyl.
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> your whereabouts can be tracked

Already are being tracked and bought and sold by third-parties without your knowledge.
I hope that you’re aware injecting air in your vein may potentially lead to your death in a short amount of time ?
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> from an app that cannot be uninstalled or disabled.

IMHO lack of a reasonably easy way to root the device, install something like LineageOS or some custom mod and get rid of the apps you don't want already is a sufficient reason to avoid buying such a device.
the cost per hour seems way to high at >$10

those free runners have specs that would come in under $0.10 for a cloud VM and Microsoft's cost is well below the sticker price.

I would conservatively divide these by 100
Another +1 for Miéville. Perdido Station and Railsea really reminded me of Gibson's "style".
money talks https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UI/ubiquiti/gross-...
It is a harder question than that. I think we do want limited liability as legal notion.

For any company, not just this example, culpability should stop at the Board, and then any employee of company that willfully commits wrongdoing. The owners should have 100% of their equity at stake, but claimants against actions taken by the company shouldn't pierce the liability curtain of the owners.

Now in this case, at least 8 members of the family did have directorship influence, not just ownership.

I doubt the settlement is just, though I'm not sure some other kind of lawsuit would have been able to retrieve the 4.3 Billion the family is giving up in the settlement. But I'm also fairly certain we don't just want dismantle the notional of limited liability in general
Amazing twist. Bankruptcy with all the legal protection and none of the losing all your money.
Life will be grand once all unapproved thoughts are scoured from the public square.
A dozen yummy donuts experience 100% increase. A double so you now have two dozen yummy donuts. Inflation.

A dozen peaches experience 100% deflation. They completely 100% go to zero. There are zero peaches. They are gone.

What would 500% deflation do? Using regular math and experiences with donuts and peaches, what happens at theoretical 101% deflation? And 500% deflation? How can something be reduced more than 100%, the point at which it already disappeared?
> No, as then there is nothing for the settlement and remediation of the harm done.

You're the one that invented that dichotomy, so you'll need to support it with more than speculation as a counterargument or admit it's just that.

The US can afford $4 billion in opioid relief efforts on its own (what's the yearly budget at federal and state level already?) so it's not like we're in a position to beg for scraps here. But really there's no reason why there would be nothing left of their fortune after lawyer fees.

More importantly, this stance makes it ok to make a profit this way. They would come out of this with billions of dollars more than they started with and no threat of ever being legally liable again. They should not have that money.

They set up a pharmaceutical empire with thousands of reps pushing disinformation to doctors and patients, they should absolutely have to deal with thousands of lawsuits come home to roost.
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The worst part of it all is that the Sacklers/Purdue were just one of many predatory actors behind the opioid crisis, the vast majority of whom are escaping public outrage completely by offering up the Sacklers as (somewhat) sacrificial lambs.
> will never purchase another Lenovo product again.

Even a ThinkPad?
It's literally a fully-owned subsidiary of $AMZN. I'm not even a Musk fanboy but clearly this is 100% appropriate.
> take legible notes by hand on everything that goes on the chalkboard

This is very person-specific.

For me, if I'm writing then I'm not actively listening. My brain can only do one or the other well. When I take notes, I'm not processing anything very well and I learn very little.

Instead, I generally only ever took notes on high level things, or on very specific details that mattered.

I also discovered that a surprising number of my professors were literally writing on the whiteboard the exact, word-for-word text that was in the textbook.
"forget that Musk and Tesla are the sole reason we have had the progress and momentum towards actually greener technologies"

There are many things, that come to my mind with this statement, but I will just say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Because yes, he did gave momentum to the conservative car makers to get them to move their asses. But cars are only responsible for a tiny fraction of CO2 - and the whole green technology was kind of a thing before, with lots and lots of research about it all around the world. And implementing that research.
Long before Musk was known outside a small bubble.

It is just, that we are increasingly starting to see the effects of climate change that makes people act.

I respect Musk for what he contributed. But I feel that glorifying him in this way, puts down all the other work in a unbalanced way.

"Bezos is literally the greedy avatar of Edison in this race, who's only advances are only made through parasitic monopolies, tyranny, and his own ego."

And I really hate to defend Bezos, but I do not think the success of Amazon comes out of a parasitic ego. But rather smart and efficient logistics. Incorporating robots and automatisation wherever possible. While exploiting the workforce, yeah, but Musk has not really a great record in that realm either.
It feels like Amazon interest is more because Blue Origin needed the workloads rather than Amazon was really keen by itself.

Although they are now planning to launch the first sats with other providers, they seemed content to wait for BO despite the progress oneWeb and starlink were making.

Google loon , fibre and were really hobby/limited projects without any real serious intent to take it to scale.

Google invested a $ 1 Billion in one of its investment rounds in SpaceX partly to get starlink going . So they are still pooling resources in some sense, just not directly doing it.

Facebook project seemed to get not get anywhere due to the backlash on limited access to only 100 sites etc. They did recently invest in indian teleco Reliance Jio, so perhaps they are doing something still.
I'm guessing that in a civil tort suit, going in front of a jury would not work out well for the Sacklers. Too many prospective jurors know of someone damaged by, or lost to opioids.
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