skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of whether you believe in them, I think the longevity of religious organizations points the way towards how the human race can plan and advance with projects that cannot be completed in a single lifetime. Projects that require a vision beyond 10 years, much less 20, are exceedingly rare. Very, very few companies last more than a generation or two. This map in the article might make it seem like there are lots, but for context there are roughly 190 million companies on the planet, so to say these long-lived ones are an extreme outlier is still an understatement.

Enter religious institutions: Ballpark estimates in my head indicate that, sure, some come & go quickly, but many have much more staying power than their pure corporate counterparts. Lasting a handful of generations is common: Many major sects of Christianity are hundreds of years old.

I think this is a problem with human ability to truly plan in timescales longer than a generation, much less an entire human life time or longer. The purpose of a corporation is not to last forever, and changing markets often present hard limits on their lifetime, effectively a Great Filter for corporate enterprise. Contrast with the purpose of any religion, which is inherently devoted to beliefs that are not purported to be limited to a discrete period of time (excepting doomsday cults, which are interesting studies, but not in scope for this topic)

I am not particularly religious, but I think this difference in longevity, stemming from inherent differences in purpose, points the way towards the type of mindset necessary for the human race to begin acting and planning from the truly long term, beyond the horizon of a human life time or two. Which is really necessary when you consider issues like climate change (regardless of what you believe is the cause (a separate debate) the effects must be dealt with over time scales that exceed a human life time) and not just that, but other grand projects than cannot be accomplished in a single lifetime.
The exfiltrated information was from 2007 IIANM. But - you're right, I got the year wrong. So, 9 years after the exfiltration.

Now, as for whether this happened 3 years ago or last year, this depends on what you're counting. The extradition request was filed last year. The secret indictment in itself nefarious; but it "doesn't count", in the sense that no public indictment for 9 years means 9 years of increasing obsolescence.

About the 2012 investigation - that just strengthens my point. An investigation in 2012 did not lead to an indictment. The Trump administration did not suggest, let alone establish, that the investigation was a cover-up or otherwise inappropriately conducted.

> Journalism ethics preclude "encouraging the committing of further crimes" ... in any way shape or form

That's not true. If leaking secret information is a crime, encouraging a source to leak information is perfectly ethical. Not to mention, in many world states, even reporting secret information is a crime. Or even publishing an unauthorized newspaper...

Regardless, the US doesn't have evidence to even prima-facie establish Assange having commited such crimes. I mean, they're shaking down Manning for it, but she's resisting.
They missed me in 1990 and 2000, when I was unconventionally housed (living in the office).
I think you are thinking strictly about an origin for techcrunch.com and excluding all the other services that spring up internally to run any reasonably sized property.

For example, does it run RabbitMQ anywhere? Rabbitmq admin front-end is HTTP. Same goes for Kafka and other applications and we aren't even touching bizops.
I'd find a place interesting that would list the opposite. Commercial or more obscure solutions that don't currently have any open source equivalent because when I'm looking for projects to learn a new language or I'm just bored that'd be a great starting place.
It's a search engine for Congressional Research Service Reports and is easier to copy/paste from into HN than the PDFs themselves:

https://crsreports.congress.gov/search/#/0?termsToSearch=98-...
Well the parent got it right in that r/wsb and r/wallstreetbets are literally two different subreddits. The former has a lot less volume but it nonetheless exists.
> But, the logic behind "many long-shot bets in parallel" is inherently more difficult to explain in the political arena, which is why I think VC may actually be better at some of these kinds of things

This does not mean the VC will actually be better at the task (producing better basic research results), but that it is more realistically going to get the funding in the current climate.

If you look at what's worked for computing in the past -- where the real qualitative changes came from, in terms of basic research -- you have ARPA, PARC, and Bell Labs. They all had the following in common:

- Long-term time horizons of 5-10 years minimum;
- Lots of funding with few strings attached
- Funded people, not projects
- Operated in a given context, but goals were vague (enough freedom to play)

Any funding model that is sensitive to the pressures of quarterly earnings reports is not going to be able to do any of this. Which is precisely why most of the improvements in computing since the early 80s have come as side effects from quantitative improvements like speed, memory, cost, etc.

The current computing culture, and especially the funding model behind it, will not give us the big new inventions we hope for.
What if we limited max amount of property owned by a person (by sq ft or value)?
I actually believe this is a distinction without a difference. If you look at Klein’s RPD model, the implicit memory operation is pattern matching against a prototype. The situation doesn’t have to be exactly the same as an old one, because the prototype provides expectancies that are really what the firemen is matching against.

I’m not sure when was the last time you read Klein’s work, but he certainly does not distinguish between ‘pattern recognition’ or ‘pattern matching’ — it’s all the same implicit memory operation in his model.
I have a pet conspiracy theory that WSB is used by insiders to signal trades to each other disguised as sh*tposts and hidden among the rest of the overwhelming noise.

I love WSB, though. It's been a constant source of laughter and entertainment over the past few years. Now that it's hit the mainstream, I hope the wild culture doesn't dilute down too much.
What derefr said about Chrome holding on to memory, and additionally memory leaks are absolutely a concern for related reasons.

(Regarding uptime, it's not at all uncommon for Chrome's memory usage to double or even triple overnight. Partially a function of the websites you have open, sure, but also partially a function of Chrome itself).
We had that in Windows 98, it was Active Desktop. It was bloatish and a lot of people disabled it in order to get far more cycles. Heck, IE and Explorer.exe were the same.
http://toastytech.com/files/throboff.html

KDE3 did the same with KParts, but it was several times better.
I heard a report that soaking them in salt water and allowing it to completely dry can destroy viruses as the salt crystals from. YMMV. Web search for more information.
I make frequent minor grammar and spelling mistakes. Spoken english would rarely pick them up, nor would the listener be genuinely confused, but written english is different and while our Chomsky grammer parser is just one brain, we hear and read things differently. It is and It(possessive)s are not the same in semantic intent, and even sometimes in spoken flow people have to ask "did you mean it is, or it possesses" in some manner.

Spelling checkers which cannot read do not help. here and hear are both legal in the sentence parse in some ways, so cannot be detected as the wrong form without a higher semantic model. Few systems have this. Therefore, many small mistakes can creep through, apart from the ones I mis-type the system may itself be making them, in ways which our own spellchecking brain do not pick up. Here what I say, Hear what I say...
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if you're excercising for health, you don't need a gym. Just go for a vigorous walk, do some gardening, maybe a run, or vacuum the house. All of those count as excellent ways to get exercise.
I am not talking about Caddy, I'm talking about the thought process that leads to needing everything integrated in one process.
…and massive losses.
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Creativity is not just pattern matching.

The amount of creativity required for expertise in various domains varies from "some" to "really quite a lot."
I do believe the best indie games are way better than the best AAA games (gameplay wise). But all of them are commercial. In other words, there is no non-commercial game that I would consider the best at anything.

There are mods that are better than the games themselves, but making the base game is what costs money and nobody does for free.
Realistically, it is exceedingly unlikely for this to happen in our lifetime. Based on the best estimates we have, it’s most likely ten thousand or more years too early in its red giant phase for this to happen.

Most of the possibility of it happening comes from the error bars in our assumptions about its progress through the red giant phase, and the error bars in our understanding of how red giants collapse. Put another way, it’s not that we think it might happen in our lifetimes, it’s that we’re relatively sure it won’t (but we could be wrong).
This is why I've never signed up for the NYT (or others that have similar asymmetry)
It's kinda incredible that you go this far into this thread and still are guilty of what everyone is lamenting.
Perfect way to guarantee shortages. Let the price float and there is an incentive for businesses to figure out how to increase the supply quickly, thus causing the price to drop.

The economic theory on this is rock-solid and yet it seems impossible to educate the general public or government officials regarding the consequences of price controls.
Talk to any bodybuilder and they'll tell you that for every 4kg of fat you lose you'll also drop 1kg of muscle.

So yes it is mainly fat but some muscles will be lost at the same time, especially if you have a high muscle mass.
They already said IoT
Swivel lock by itself is fine on four wheeled objects because you can lock the casters at different angles so no one caster can roll without making the others slide. It's rare to find casters that are swivel lock but not wheel lock since it's easy to make a mechanism that does both.
Why does it have to be payment focused? There's tons of big tech companies that have done this.

Enjoy: https://github.com/plaintextoffenders/plaintextoffenders/blo...

It's not difficult to find them
Weren’t they just a majority shareholder?
We ought to ship all our kids off to some boarding school somewhere, and deliberately infect the lot of them. Once they've recovered and are immune, they can come home again!

Unsurprisingly, I've not actually suggested this to my kids, who I doubt would be too happy, but way back before the measles vaccine, parents did hold measles parties so all the kids got measles while they were young enough for it to be relatively mild. To be clear: not recommended for measles these days - just get the vaccine.
>Job shortage won't be a thing any time soon.

I guess you didn't see this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22331804
You got it right: VCs are not interested in that 250k investment, and you forgot the time component - they want that 10x over a relatively short period (<5-10 years) that the small business is unlikely to achieve. Plus there is nobody to sell to if it’s not a growth stock, publicly traded, and no incentive to buy back the shares. The company will be pushed harder and to invest in growth strategies that make it not-a-lifestyle-business anymore, i.e. a startup.

You cannot have it both ways, and why would you even need a huge lump of cash for a business that is already sustainable? Traditional loans are a much safer source of funding for that.
The income that is paid to you derives it’s value from the stability of the backing gov’t. I don’t think money is as “yours” as you think it is. Gov’t is already involved whether you like it not.
100% agree. I learned more about CSS in the Tailwind docs than in all the years I copy and pasted before starting with Tailwind.
> Buuut, given CL's features and stability, I will very much consider it for a commercial project in the future instead of, say, Python[...]My point is that CL is general-purpose enough so that it could be more used in the wild

Yeah, I'm not arguing against that at all. I just hate articles which encourage people towards doomed efforts rather than building out existing areas of strengths or address things that are real obstacles towards using them. I'd like CL to be around for at least long enough till all it's important ideas have made it into other programming languages ;)

For example, one core strength of CL is that it's the about the only really interactive/malleable/live language that can generate pretty performant code, and for sbcl you can hook deeply into the machine code generation as well. Luajit is nicer in some ways (e.g. much smaller footprint in every possible way) but CL has a much more sophisticated interactive development experience (restarts, powerful debugging, pretty-printing etc. etc.). So tooling for automation of binary rewriting, refactoring and hardening like GrammarTech seems to be working on (see https://github.com/GrammaTech?utf8=&q=&type=&language=common...) seems like a much more promising area to work on with common lisp to me than e.g. generic web development.
I like GoG. They seem quite decent and not just wanting to capture you in their universe. Mind you, I I'm not a huge customer, but then again, maybe they're not agressively going for Whales... which is another point in their book to me.

I wonder if long tail can beat out whale.
The Vatican is a nation.
Thanks for the answer, it's very likely that it's mostly caused by the more likely extreme weather in the USA

The most similar thing that comes to mind is the last major earthquake, but even then I don't think stocking food would have been useful, the problems were rebuilding infrastructure and buildings, not shortages of stuff
https://www.ycombinator.com/resources/yc-standard-series-a-t... has a wrong link to the term sheet. It links to https://www.ycombinator.com/docs/Standard_Series_A_TS.docx which is a 404. The actual link is https://d1l6icgp8w0hse.cloudfront.net/assets/ycdc/Standard_S...
Thank you for the second link, absolutely astonishing
> I this this is a good move. I stopped buying games on sales long time ago. I only buy something when I want to play it right now, regardless of how much it costs.

Amazing. I came to the exact same conclusion/rule after feeling the familiar pang of guilt looking at my Steam library filled with games I've never played, for the jillionth time. I'm certain I'm saving a great deal of money but I'm concerned with what Valve's next move will be if the returns from sales diminish too much.
Your point? The page you linked to specifically says that Kawa only implements a subset of modern Scheme—by which I mean R5RS or later. Early versions of the Scheme language standard didn't require TCO, but all the recent ones do. This doesn't affect the core point that if TCO is guaranteed by the language standard, as in modern Scheme, then it cannot be selectively disabled because doing so would break perfectly compliant code.
> I also flush twice with my back turned before using a public toilet.. not ideal but better than not I think.

Flushing toilets leads to aerosolized water droplets from the toilet spreading around the room and contaminating nearby surfaces[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_plume
Freakonomics did an excellent episode re e-cigarettes and the significant public-policy differences between the US & UK. Adds to this piece and should be interesting to anyone following this area: Episode 398
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/vaping-nicotine/
I worked at Scale during their first six months (as a contractor).

The parent’s comment is a carefully framed exaggeration. Lucy raised their Series A, hired the first engineers, designers, marketer, and left Scale around their Series B – well after the company was on an exceptional trajectory.
Hi! Are you following me from the other thread? o.o

It's not "It can't possibly happen here!", more like "it hasn't happened in any place in western Europe in recent memory". We've had major earthquakes and stuff, but nothing that "stocking food" would have been useful for, (afaik)
I grew up in the Midwest. There's no version of reality where I want to move back there.
If you're a raging alcoholic, don't forget that. Sudden withdrawal can kill you.
If people start trickling into stores to stock up now, as the Canadian government is urging it's citizens, there will be less of a rush later. Perhaps we can avoid the chaos of empty store shelves.
Remember that light can only sterilize the surfaces it contacts. It can not sterilize beneath the surface.

So if droplets containing viruses penetrate beneath the surface of the mask, sterilization with light will not be able to reach them.
> There is no "only the government can remove the envelope, if they get permission".

Okay, but now the case you're trying to explain is "there are deep technological challenges and a wealth of historical precedent make me skeptical that we can correctly design or implement a solution that allows only the government or the intended recipient to decrypt the message, instead of only the intended recipient".

To people who think "technology is magic".

And on the other side of the PR battle, the government is saying "Nah, we got this. And if you try and stop us, we're powerless against pedophiles and terrorists."

Adding enough nuance to make your position technically accurate, also makes it abstract enough to be politically useless.
> I don't know how you could conclude they did not fuck up

I explained in my comment - the sudden increase in cases in Wuhan in January, was not that much worse that what we're seeing in S Korea, Iran and Italy right now. These latter countries are also less dense than Wuhan, and also had plenty of warning time. Nobody was imprisoned in Italy, yet despite that we still have several hundred cases today. This suggests that this single imprisonment didn't have a huge effect on the epidemic in Wuhan.

> by far the best chance at containment

What does it mean to have a "chance" at containment, and what makes one "chance" "better" than another "chance"??

> the rest of the world has to deal with the fallout

If you acknowledge there's a possibility that no "other countries will fare much better", why maintain such an accusatory tone? No government can control where an epidemic starts.

By your logic, if the epidemic had started in the US, the government would be at fault if it prevented the epidemic from spreading to any other countries? Is that what you're saying? That's an extremely high bar, probably unrealistic.
The best way is to make an electrolyte drink yourself. Here's my recipe:

- 2 Liters of water

- 1/2 teaspoon of pink salt

- 1 teaspoon of potassium chloride

- 1/4 teaspoon of food grade epsom salt

- Lemon and stevia used sparingly to taste

It's not the best tasting thing ever, but you get used to it. Using filtered water will make it much more palatable. I think salts make poor tap water quality more obvious.

You can always drink Powerade Zero or something like that. I don't think there's really anything wrong with that, and I drink those sometimes. It's just more expensive and the artificial sweetener might spike insulin.(I doubt that's a big deal) The recipe I described is pretty dirt cheap.

I used to have a hard time fasting for more than a day or doing a ketogenic diet because I simply wasn't getting my electrolytes. This was accelerated by the fact that I was drinking way too much water and urinating them out. Replacing electrolytes throughout the day keeps me from feeling miserable.
> It’s trivial to limit number of created documents in postgres, couchdb or application server though validation, I’m talking about updating document not creating new. In posgres if I update 1mb document used space will not always grow. In couch db situation is different. In case of relation db you have application server with custom logic and validations, couchdb from other side is accessible from outsize.

It is? It's unclear to me why I'm allowing 10 updates to a (largish, 10MB! Use a file or store it in S3!) document per-minute, but not 10 creates. Maybe I'm building Google Docs? Except I'd want old revisions, so those are creates. Plus 10 Mb is a huge spreadsheet. But sure lets roll with it. Actually Couch does not keep old versions of documents around, only old revision numbers. When a document is updated, the old version becomes eligible for compaction (basically garbage collection). So your attacker has to be fast enough to outrun the compactor, while being slow enough to not get temporarily banned from your service. It seems like less effort to me to use this power to flood your network I/O, which is almost certainly lower than your disk I/O. Or just choke your Postgres server on it's 100Mb/s disk I/O for updates + whatever is required to maintain your indexes.

I'm not actually advocating for Couch over Postgres. In my mind Postgres should be the default choice, and you switch to something else if you have a reason. For Couch, the biggest reason is sync is built in, in such a way that you can leverage it for your own applications with minimal effort. In my experience sync can be devilishly hard for non-trivial cases, so depending on your app, that can be pretty compelling.

But so far you seem to be focused on DOS attacks your not going to find separate advice for Postgres vs Mongo vs Couch, because the backing system doesn't matter. The attacks and mitigations are identical no matter the back-end, namely stop the traffic before it consumes your resources.
Does anyone know if you need special router firmware for this to work ?