skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a more-than-proof-of-concept scale, you have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ, a traditional blacksmith family in Burkina Faso mining a few kilograms of iron with several person-days of work, which is probably about 1000× as productive as the Primitive Technology guy achieved (perhaps a gram of iron after about a person-day of work). But the US steel industry employs 87000 people to produce about 120 million tonnes of iron and steel per year, which works out to about 5000 kg of iron and steel per person-day. (And that's why Burkina Faso imports its iron instead of smelting it in the way demonstrated in that documentary, the way they had done for the previous 2500 years, until some French guys wrecked a Jeep there in the early 20th century.)

So there are something like six or seven orders of magnitude over which "high-tech" machinery can increase your iron productivity, or, to look at it another way, over which the price of iron can vary even once you have the know-how.
> why would anyone make a loan if they didn't stand to gain anything?

Exactly. That's precisely the question.

If you lend money 1) you bear the risk of not seeing you're money back 2) you're not able to spend that money during the loan period.

Even if you don't care about risk and don't want to spend that money 3) you'd still be greedy enough to want something back, right?

So let's imagine all 3 points disappear:

1) There is practically no default risk.
2) You could still purchase something by exchanging your credit with goods (and everybody would accept for its nominal value without any discount).
3) This credit certificate you hold in your hands turns out to be very convenient to use. It's so much easier to trade and everybody accepts it and trusts it, why not to use this as "money"? And why to ask something back when it's already providing me more utility then "money" with no disadvantages?

So in reality you have a lot of "loans" that end up being called quasi-money exactly for the reasons above.

Some countries issue government-bonds with negative interest rates, not only because they are considered very safe investments but also because banks use those type of bonds for their operations making them convenient to hold.

Like I've said, it's a quantitative difference not a qualitative one. Money = loan with negative interest rate.
Prison was put in place as a catch all when we didn't understand all the ways humans could be broken. Now we have a better idea, but we don't use that information. Instead low iq career criminals are incarcerated with high iq crimes of passion like Hans Reiser. Then you add drug addicts and child molesters to the mix.

Hans Reiser would likely never kill another person in his life if he was free. If he could have full access to a computer he would have likely continued to learn and build things. Instead we dump him with the rest of the dregs of society together into a broken system who's main role is retribution, which IMO is a human instinct we should fight against not codify.

It seems a lot like the public school system in it's general lack of differentiation in regards to inputs(prisoners). In terms of a learning system, it's diverged.
Bwip-Js Barcode Writer in Pure JavaScript
Extract from https://thenextsystem.org/learning-from-emilia-romagna:

"The founding principle was based on common economic action as part of a general vision of society not based on individualism and self-interest".
I advise new team members to begin their tenure by improving one or two key existing processes. Ideally, make life easier for a couple teammates. Right an age-old wrong within the system.

This provides an efficient way to learn the team, garner respect, and create a platform to do bigger things down the line.

I have seen far more accomplishment using this formula than the blunderbuss "we have to make changes now" approach.
To me, it's the fact that all this power, all these computing resources, are basically being thrown away. Nothing useful is done with the computational power. If it was doing something like folding proteins or otherwise using that computational power to better humanity, then it'd be different.
TC39 is the standard body for ECMAScript, which JavaScript implements. smoosh was a proposed alternative name (see: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-flatMap/pull/56) for flatten (and smooshMap for flatMap) due to incompatibilities with older libraries (namely, Mootools).
There's an app people can use to take photographs of hotel rooms. You take one photo from the doorway, and one of the bed.

This gets uploaded to a database for law enforcement to use to find locations when they get images of child sexual abuse that happens in hotels.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12058357

And there's also this article about one such takeover of a site that distributed images of child sexual abuse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12084471
This is insane. Sentencing guidelines for his crime was 0-12 months. He didn't even lose his investors any money.
Underrated comment ... education could very well be more punitive than the alternative!
His new investors made $10 million less than they would have if he had not stolen from them. Embezzlement is still a crime even if you are the CEO and the company is profitable. And there was a bunch of lying in securities disclosures of course, which is a crime by itself.
I don't think that's a fair comparison. The internet didn't exist when windows 2000 and XP were done.
I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to insinuate.
I watched one of his finance videos and it was oddly entertaining and very interesting. He was clearly very smart. Sort of sad he wasted his talents.
Sure, he had the spotlight on him after the "pharma bro" stories came out and everyone started to hate him unequivocally without considering how perverse incentives within the pharma/insurance system have allowed countless other drug manufacturers to take advantage of the same loopholes and price gouging techniques.

Unfortunately for him he has a hateable face, fit into the "young rich person flying too close to sun" story arc, and was dumb enough to continue his trolling activities instead of fading from the limelight and allowing the mob to pass on to the next social media pariah.

Think about it...his crime was that he lied to a few rich people who gave him money, then ended up making these rich people even more money in the end, ending positively for them. Then ask yourself why prosecutors have failed to go after any of the bankers responsible for the great financial crisis, which affected hundreds of millions of people and their families, causing many people to lose their homes, jobs, etc. Is that really a fair system? Or are people just gloating about this guy going to jail as some type of proxy for justice being served somewhere, in some fashion for white collar financial crime that many have been indirectly victimized by, but have never received due compensation/justice.

Really, nobody on HN should care that he's going to prison, drug price gouging will still continue on unabated, and 20 more snake oil ICOs will pop up tomorrow to steal investors money. This conviction is hardly a sign that the system is working as intended.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/why-are...
At work and play I use only vim to write C++, Python, Javascript, bash and web frontend stuff. Only plugin is rainbow parentheses. Manpages and web for docs. My system is very flexible and I wouldn't have it any other way.
That is the issue though, someone has to decide whether to "throw the book at you" or not. As long as someone is left to decide that, then you risk things like "being offensive" working against you, or "showing remorse" helping you.

The allowance for empathy, compassion and mistakes are what lead to the (to you) unfair punishment that was given.
I'm quite curious. What is more important to you, is it not paying for 6 months while the initial backup is made, or having the initial backup made within 1 month?

Solving the first is definitely within Backblaze's capability if they are prepared to make an exception.
If you're compiling/running random unverified source you have plenty of other problems already. :)
Whom Should You Hire at a Startup? (2011)
Can you link to the US sentencing guidelines please?

Elsehwere in the thread I've linked to the UK version, and it seems he'd have got a similar sentence over here. Although we do have parole, so he'd be out a lot sooner.
But surely the market for Fentanyl "[took] place anyway but on a different market"? It's such a short sighted move in an otherwise well played plan.
The pay range, where the actual job is, and what the duties of the job would be.
Foxconn workers suicide rate has never been demonstrated to be extraordinary.
Shkreli's lawyers sought a 12+ month sentence. Sentencing guidelines allowed for a max of 25+ years

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli/pharma-...
Mind sharing your dx7 port? I'd love to check it out!
$10k/year? Probably not.

A slightly more amount of taxes than I currently pay?
Sure; if it's for the betterment and reformation of the worse-off in our society, I'd gladly pay a bit more money.
No, you're arguing the wrong topic. The linked article is about the outcome of the trial that occurred. Your 5-point "here's what happened" muddled the relationship between this sentencing and other reasons Shkreli is a public figure.

And thus the "here's what happened" attitude is exactly false; what happened was a petulant fraudster got a middle-of-the-road sentence for exactly the crime he was on trial for.
If you intend to kill someone and fail its less of a crime than if you succeeded. So maybe
You should vs human nature. We introduce bugs. Please don't be cynical, and cheer this up.

Kudos to facebook team that they responded shortly, I cannot tell if it was work hours or not, but either way, this is very very short in the context of large corporations.
Check out ThinMatrix. Not Sure id he’ll take you, but if he does, you can be sure he’ll stick to it.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable holiday to me. I'd be more concerned that you worked for over a year without any time off.
Great points. We don't know if he is manufacturing these pavers or licensing his tech to others. We also don't know how much more his are than the regular Komatsu or john deere ones. What if the vendors buy the existing companies because they provide superior service?
And schools, and other places which, by law, were required to have Epi-pens on hand.
If anything I suspect a galactic collision would be a driver of increased star formation, and thus a catalyst for galactic recycling and chemical evolution within that Galaxy. It could even be something that leads to higher rates of biological evolution.

And like you said, the distance between the stars is what prevents this from being a total catastrophe.
Not it doesn’t. Our legal framework doesn’t oblige you to save someone’s life just because you have the means to do so. If it did, we’d all be in big trouble—for the cost of a fully loaded MacBook Pro, you could save someone from malaria in Africa.

The fact that people think a particular unpopular thing shouldn’t be legal doesn’t change that. There are a lot of things people believe should be illegal that aren’t illegal, because that would conflict with higher principles of law. People are easily swayed by emotion; the law at least attempts to be rational.
This is what jail is for, bad people that do bad things to others. Excepting maybe bankers or traders, of course.

You know, as opposed to jailing good people that do "bad" things to themselves.
It looks like handwritten jquery. I beautified the javascript:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/23bff2f5006c675f9cff49f752...
So you feel it's unethical to go into a store and compare prices?

As I said, it's unethical to use a store as a showroom and then buy elsewhere. It's a simple concept, and I believe you're being intentionally obtuse and disingenuous in your reply.
I will point out that learning things and college are not the same thing. I feel that I know how to learn, but I am too 'stupid' to learn in a scholastic environment. It becomes a frustrating experience as you're left scrambling to learn using more effective methods in the off-hours and wasting your time the rest of the time. And I imagine frustration is already high among those in jail before you try to add more on them.
Very nice. It'd be cool to add other scales beyond pentatonic, to.
Thanks. We are just getting started, and an app version is coming later this year.
I guess it's a subjective point but I think implying he's simply dumb or lazy is being uncharitable. I've also gone to a talk by Pinker and came away from it frustrated, but also deeply impressed. "The Language Instinct" is a brilliant example of science popularization and he speaks quite eloquently, I thought.

That said, I do think that the further he strays from neuroscience and psychology, the more overconfident and shaky his claims seem to get. You could call it the Jared Diamond fallacy, a kind of high-brow cousin of the Dunning Kruger effect: scientists trained to be interdisciplinary who think that this training makes them competent historians as well. It doesn't.

I've been thinking about writing a rebuttal to Pinker's main claims in this book and Better Angels but I think the job has already been done by a combo of this review from the humanities realm (David Bell is a superb historian of the French Enlightenment) and the issues raised by people well-versed in statistics, like Taleb, who I personally find deeply unappealing as a thinker but who nevertheless is clearly skilled at this sort of critique.
I vaguely recall that his investors actually made money - he lied to them, but actually made them money....
> since I see no reason to doubt my conclusion.

That's because you clearly haven't worked in a technical role that involves babysitting, ma'am.

If you can't spare the effort of researching somebody before calling bullshit, please continue that trend and spare the effort of spouting off. :)
Fraud and auth are two orthogonal things. The only thing this does is save you from implementing a really basic login system which is really not much code to implement if you use something like devise or some other auth library. if fraud is a goal to prevent use something like paypal or stripe which is better than small shops at detecting it over some generic merchant account. All this does is tie people into one closed system identity which most people have more than one functional identity(e.g. my business identity is different than my personal identity is different than my family identity). If you force me into using facebook to login to a system where I might legitimately want to separate personal, business and family accounts you lose me as a customer. Also, you may be using some service on behalf of someone else and then what? the customer has to give you access to their facebook account? it's just shortsighted and, frankly, dumb to only allow facebook/google to control auth. use it as an additional auth mechanism if you want to but don't solely make that your only method.
Here's a presentation I found to get you started:

https://s.ai/presentations/tcpa.pdf
You should read things before posting.
I don't read at all the cynicism you seem to read.

A: that was fast!

B: that's because it was very serious!

Where is the cynicism? Can it not be summarized as: they fixed a serious issue very quickly?
Isn’t it settled though that banning trolls doesn’t accomplish the intended purpose of stopping bad conversations?

If the intention is to ban wrongthink, wouldn’t society be improved by banning Coke for example since their trolls (ads) lead to increased obesity?
You're claiming that the person who responded to you was distracted by something, but their response didn't indicate that at all.
Yes, you are doing something unethical, and my claims carry exactly as much weight as yours.

But if people continue to behave the way that you're suggesting is okay, we'll end up with very few brick and mortar options and we'll have to rely entirely on sight-unseen information in our purchasing decisions.
This would become very exhausting if working with very large infrastructures. 80 000 virtual and physical servers? Have fun keeping that data consistent, up to date and available with Org-mode and version control.

I'm not saying your example is wrong, but "there is an even better alternative" doesn't always apply. For smaller scales, sure.
Congratulations Sean! beautiful drawings
The typical cause of this problem is not that the program runs out of memory but that it overflows its stack. In this case, of course, 8GiB would wrap right back around to the start — but I would think that would result in failing to generate an executable, not generating a crashing executable, unless the compiler was super slapdash.
so the difference is that super latices are thicker?
Congratulations! You're winning at life!
I'm working on it. But I think you've got the right idea.
Being an introvert, all this introverts need to be alone empowerment bullshit pisses me off, as much as any other extreme. It's not about avoiding people, it's about knowing how much interaction you can handle before needing to recharge.
How you can train AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
https://github.com/Chadsr/NordVPN-NetworkManager or https://github.com/jotyGill/openpyn-nordvpn
If the researcher was more entrepreneurial he could have started a competing road paving business. He may have made a lot of money doing it. I suspect he was too busy researching other stuff though.
I didn't intend to insinuate that. I was more trying to paint a picture of him being a scapegoat for the monopolization of drug prices. His prosecution diverted the public eye from this much larger problem.
Wouldn't a more complete explanation mention constitution or code of laws or some such as well? Maybe some ex post Latin?
Schools waste disgusting amounts of taxpayer money overpaying for things all the time. What’s a couple more dollars to the books?
The funniest comedy routines I have ever seen by the most prominent comedians are almost always disparaging of a person, group, or idea held dear by many people. Simmer on that and ask yourself if mean-spiritedness really matters in this context.
Jail time for JPM, Goldman, Bear Stearns, Lehman execs? Oh I see ...

Shkreli’s real crime was not donating to the appropriate PACs. (Friend of Schumer, etc...)
I used Linux (mostly Ubuntu) for somewhere around 10 years on my personal laptops. After using Macs at work for a few years and being frustrated with the music making and photography apps on Linux I made the switch about 3 years ago. There just wasn't anything on Linux that had the polish and ease-of-use of Photos.app and GarageBand/Logic and when I want to engage in creative hobbies, I want my technology to just work. Has Linux made any progress on alternatives to those?
“About two out of every three inhabitants are co-op members, together producing around 30 percent of the region’s GDP.” - does this mean the 1/3 that isn’t a part of the co-op accounts for 70% of the GDP? Could someone clarify?
In the defense of the potential juror, you cannot disrespect the Wu-Tang Clan. They'll banish you to the 36 chambers.
not according to the Judge who cited Federal Law to determine he did incur 10.4 million in losses for the investors [1], it's complicated even though he did pay the investors back after they became suspicious.
My understanding is this, say you leave your ferrari at the valet and the valet driver took it on a joy ride and returns it undamaged, you didn't lose anything, but the valet driver did break the law.

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli/pharma-...
Dark Web 101. Encrypt client side. Use a trusted browser extension not their arbitrary website.

Law enforcement 101. Don't blow your cover. Ignore 95% of the transactions and focus on the few major racketeering cases that matter. Let the IRS go after them for tax evasion instead so your cover remains as long as possible.
Priceless!

So, a real diamond of fake value is used to engrave fake value of real bitcoin .. or something ..

xkcd material!
The customer can always re-sign the binary if they wante to and replace the existing signature. A time limited inside the program code would be more secure.
I think you are confused, Shkreli's company owned retrophin, the toxoplasmosis drug, not epi-pen's.

And as the parent commenter said, he was charging insurance companies alone, and claimed the drug was only used by a few hundred people.
Personal use is still 'bad', but it's more efficient for police to go after resellers on the streets than all 50 individuals who bought from those resellers.
This could not come fast enough, I cannot fathom how this is not already mandatory as Credit Freeze is the best tool a consumer has to fight against identity theft. I should be able to unfreeze when I know I am going to take out a line of credit and freeze when I know I will not take out a line of credit. The fact that there are private entities out there charging me to do this is insanity.
Yes, it doesn't help that most of the news is incredibly lazy and very easy to manipulate.
A Eurocentric viewpoint to combine South and North America. Its very obviously two continents from a geographical and cultural point of view.
After bouncing off emacs and org-mode, I’m enjoying re-acquainting myself with the Leo editor, an extendable outliner written in Python with some nice literate programming features (the editor itself is written in an outline), and acceptable vim emulation.

http://leoeditor.com/
pip install leo
Cool! I'm using them to store my Time Machine backups from my Synology. The first month I burned through about 3TB of my 1TB with comcast, but that's the only month I went over my 'cap' (they have 2 months' grace period).

The only problem I have is that my Time Machine backups change too much -- for, say, 400MB of data being backed up in time machine, it seems like the deltas (and what is synced to backblaze) is something like 4GB. I'm using the CloudSync functionality from Synology -- I think the issue is with Time Machine, not with CloudSync, though.

What this means is I'd regularly exceed my data cap if I let me CloudSync run all the time. As a workaround, I've scheduled it to only run between midnight and noon on Mondays, which results in syncing less data (apparently the deltas must contain a lot of duplicate data that doesn't have to be synced up to BackBlaze when I only do it a few times a week).

Of course, now my problem is I'm afraid that I'm risking the integrity of my backups because the schedule might cut off my sync in the middle of a run. Since I leave my home computers off during the day, though, there shouldn't be new deltas occuring as I'm syncing to backblaze, so once it catches up (and 12 hours is enough to catch up), there is no more activity.
This Heater Not Only Heats Your Home but Also Mines Ethereum
You send some images to an API endpoint, and we send you back a determination of m/f.

Sexing as a Service, SaaS?
It's more, "don't be an asshole". Which I feel is quite good advice for anyone. People are less willing to help people who are assholes to others.
HF Voyager: an ocean-going drone with a KX3
It's also likely that many others here, like me, only heard of Grab in the first place, because of the Yegge post.
Yes, it is quite some years since it was written.
Okay, so who wants to create an ICO to buy his Wu-Tang album when it goes up for auction, and then publish it to the Internet Archive?
I'm giving spacemacs a try now, thanks
But it turns out that we don't really care

I care - it's annoying to have to check whether there's a typo in te URL every time I want to trust a website using SSL.