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Should just people with money should be allowed to have access to food?

Where I'm from there are unemployment and welfare systems in place so that people shouldn't be so poor they can't afford a basic lifestyle (which includes being able to participate in the public discourse - i.e. have access to media)
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Not everyone is prepared for higher animal protein prices (I don't think it's a bad thing, and I don't consume them anyways). But the people most prone to ask for radical measures are often the least aware of situations and their consequences.

>our ban on antibiotics for growth

Which were the only approved use of antibiotics in animals in your country without a doubt.

>I certainly don't get antibiotics prescribed for every little thing

Yeah me neither yet the spectacular decrease we should see is not there yet. Maybe there are other, more exigent patients then ?!

>they typically prescribe the same very narrow antibiotics for everyone and use broad spectrum ones more restrictively (which is a good thing). It would be terrible if people could buy broad spectrum antibiotics over the counter.

Well luckily some are only available in hospitals or such. But when I hear war stories from a veterinarian friend who switched to human medicine and sees lastest quinolones used systematically no matter the health status of the person for benign procedures, we just facepalm. They don't want to take the 5% risk that someone will need aftercare I guess. But MRSA and nosocomial infections are the real, growing threat...
Maybe, maybe not on their personal computer. Their families' machines are a different story.
I can download microcode updates for Linux from Intel's website, and IIRC Ubuntu has shipped microcode updates before. I know Windows Update does deliver microcode updates, but thus far I'm unaware of Windows Update distributing any for Spectre.

Intel is being very disingenuous when they say "contact your OEM/vendor for microcode updates". In consumer reality, vendors mostly won't provide updates, and even if they do, consumers won't install them.

The only practical way to deliver microcode updates to Windows users is through Windows Update, so the real question is when these will make their way to Windows Update.
I disagree with the characterization of magical. Ethereum is already having issues with scaling (e.g. low amount of TXs per second and non-trivial fees). Plus, everytime you interact with an ERC-20 coin, you have to pay the fee in ether.

I'm not saying these ideas aren't cool, but implementation of them sucks. If you look at the Kodakcoin, it seems the Kodak name is only being used and the company itself isn't involved in the project.

“This is a WENN digital currency,” Kodak said in a statement. “Eastman Kodak Company will not be an issuer of the ICO, will not receive proceeds on the ICO.”

"Today Kodak and WENN Digital, in a licensing partnership, announced the launch of the KODAKOneimage rights management platform and KODAKCoin,... WENN Digital, in partnership with Kodak, is the creator of the KODAKOne platform and the KODAKCoin cryptocurrency." [2]

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/kodak-boards-the-blockchai...

[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/kodak-and-wenn-digital-par...
I'm not saying "But what if the Marxists said the same thing?". I'm saying that trying to revolutionize how society works based on a theory never worked as expected in history, and cited the Marxists as the biggest example.
note: have been happy with my current job for a while now. But as a contractor for a few years, I have experience with the job search process.

It's not enough to just be the best. You have to be (one of) the first applicants. I wrote a simple scraper for a bunch of job-aggregators (indeed... jobserve...) that would send me a SMS and e-mail when a job matching my keywords was posted.

On the subject of keywords, sometimes jobs are posted with bad spellings. I work in 'telecommunications'. But there would be jobs posted under telecoms... telecomms.. telecomunications...

Sometimes you were a near perfect fit for a role, and sometimes you're a perfect fit. If you're a perfect fit, spend an extra few minutes finding the recruiters direct email and phone number. Then apply both via the website and then communicate directly with them.

Make the recruiter's life as easy as possible. In any e-mail you send, attach your CV again. Make sure you finish your email with your contact details.

Try to get good at understanding what an employer wants. Sometimes it's unwritten (someone hardworking.. someone loyal..) and sometimes it's written between the lines (e.g. 'experienced xyz needed' = 'we currently don't have skilled people or have too little of them'). Sometimes it's these unwritten requirements that are more or just as important as the written ones.

And finally, if you're unsuccessful, do your part in contacting the recruiter to thank them for their time.
Of course they do else they would not avoid things that damage them physically. Even amoebas "feel" pain.

The important thing is not if something feels pain, but where we draw the line in regards if an animal's pain is more important than our pleasure. It does not take much human pleasure to make a few hundred million ameoba suffer, while it had better be pretty large to make a chimp suffer [1].

1. I am using pleasure here as shorthand for anything desired or beneficial for humans.
Google is the bad guy to me.

Apple is not necessarily good, but 1000 times more trustworthy when it comes to user privacy.

Google is the cult leader of sucking every little details off its users because it genuinely believes it has the right to do so, nay, it has the moral obligation to do so for the good of all humanity.
This type of "Shared Space" junction in a rural area in the Netherlands is an interesting solution: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.093333,6.2410165,255a,35y,32...

Several bad accidents happened here before this was implemented, none since 2009 when it was. Note that there are distinct paths for bicycles next to the roads, but that's standard.

There are no signs, no rules, but the roads can't be taken in a straight line anymore and it's certainly suggested that the junction is a pedestrian area. Drivers get confused which grabs their attention and makes them slow down.
Take him to the library and let him roam around and pick whatever he likes. I used to do this at the age of 9-10-11: I would go to the library once a week, pick about 5-6 books and read them all by the next week. Wish I had discovered the library when I was 6 :)
The obstruction in the middle also makes the existence of a roundabout more obvious.
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and yet here we are, decades later, and email, www, irc, ftp, DNS, etc, etc. all have a wide choice of clients and servers, of all shades of FOSS licenses, commercial options, hosted options, etc, etc.

IMHO a huge problem with the Internet since the late 90s is that business models have replaced protocol RFCs.
Good on you, thanks for the reply.
> The main type of accident involving cyclists in Denmark are so called 'right turn accidents'

It's the same in London, a city with notoriously poor cycling infrastructure and narrow streets due to long history. Ok, it's the "left turn" mirror image version due to driving on the left not right side of the road, but otherwise the same.
This is exactly my position on this also and the reason that I've moved to DuckDuckGo on my mobile in place of Google even though I much prefer Google as a search engine.
Thanks!

For the data api we plan to stay free for a while and then charge new users with a low per subscrition fee to indie devs and have a plan for big data consumers.

Offtopic: how much would you have payed for the Hooks app? Just from the top of your mind.
Unsupervised learning to recognize patterns?

Seems like a really interesting idea to work on.
They can't? Or they won't?
> Which were the only approved use of antibiotics in animals in your country without a doubt.

You mean countries had (or has) laws that prohibited antibiotics for its proper use (to treat infection) but allowed antibiotics in livestock for growth stimulation? Which countries were that? And what would be the reasoning behind that?

As I understood it, the "bad" countries allow antibiotics for both purposes, whereas the "good" countries started restricting antibiotics for growth, and eventually banned it completely. Have I completely misunderstood you mean?
Could we agree once for all that we are predators in a food pyramid and that this naturally implies that we kill to eat. Now, as a sentient species, we might try to kill in a more acceptable way (for the victim), but that won't change much to the result : we kill.
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You have to flip it so the car is turnin right: across the path of the second car. In Australia the first car would have to wait. You can’t turn in front of a car going straight.
All goes around in circles. The more suffering we cause, the more suffering we feel. I wish people would understand this, when regarding eating animals.
Really liked this post. Although I knew the "correct" definition of linearity I'd never considered that linear regression is not in fact linear (though you can transform it as blt says).
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Alternatively: It could be that Windows 10 has various performance optimisations that Windows 7 does not, and these have had to be undone as part of the fix.

In other words: If the fix would cause Windows 7 to lose X% performance, Windows 10 would lose that same X% plus any Y% advantage it had over Windows 7.

(This is just a guess, of course.)
Isn't still Sales & marketing more important than engineering?

You can build whatever you want but if you don't tell anybody you'll fail.

There are hundreds of successful companies with rubbish products but great business connections and marketing.
Humans are omnivores with a physiology primarily geared towards eating & digesting plants. We can eat animals but we absolutely don't need to to live a long, healthy life. So it's really a matter of how much you value your own pleasure & taste over another creature's suffering.
I work in IT at a major telco, and GDPR is our A number 1 absolute top priority, anyything else (barring natural disasters) will get pushed back if the Four Letter Word is brought into the discussion.

We are somewhat hampered by a large amount of legacy systems (think COBOL on mainframes, in some cases), so we are taking this very seriously, and are fully expecting the EU to wield the full force of their ability to fine, should we be shown to be non-compliant after the deadline. There will probably be a grace period, but we're taking a "better safe than sorry" approach.

As a private citizen, I hope the EU chooses to wield the GDPR Hammer of Doom swiftly and mercilessly against any company found to be noncompliant.
I have thought a bit about what we put some fish species through.before eating them. Sure, they probably don't experience pain the same way animals closer to us do, but dragging them for a very long time with hooks in their mouths/throats and then suffocating them to death just never seemed right to me.
Might for example cause a backslash when people stop updating their systems.

So, again, the "where do you want to go today?" company decides "never mind, this is where you are going: we're stopping updates because you might have thought about it."
That happens all the time. But the point is that it's no worse because of the stop signs. Even without 4 stop signs you can have 4 cars stopped. This isn't a "bad" situation or a deadlock, this is a very safe situation and just means cars will have to crawl out in the crossing while making eye contact and taking some kind of turn driving. Now, if this happens regularly then the junction is much too trafficed for being a planar 4 way - with or without stops. Should be a roundabout in this case. But 4 stopsigns does not make an automatic deadlock. You don't need a rule to decide who goes first in that situation.

The same can be seen in any intersection with red lights, as soon as the red lights don't work. You just crawl into the intersection, trying to take turns. It works.
Negative stimulus reaction and pain are different things. We know we feel pain. We can guess that organisms with similar brain architectures are feeling pain. We can guess that chemotaxis don't induce anything like our pleasure and pain in bacteria. Ants keep doing their job even after fatal damage. If they feel something, it is not anything like our pain.

So it is not obvious that our feeling of pain is universal.
In the places where I see four-way stop, there is some constant but not heavy traffic during parts of the day, so if you had a primary / secondary road with only a two-way stop, the secondary road would not flow well. However, the traffic was not high enough to warrant a signal.

This makes sense to me, and I don't see how other systems would be anything but worse. A signal would have a short cycle and only delay people during large parts of the day, a two-way stop would cause problems in one direction, it seems excessive to tear out a bunch of road to put concrete in, etc.

It is of course very natural that the roads in the US are built to completely different standards than Germany, given how incredibly different the layout of US cities are from German ones, broadly speaking.
Please read up on LLLT - inflammation is not just shut down, but rather mediated. Eg blood flow is increased, energy production in cells is improved by various means (cytochrome-c-oxidase, and also pushing out of nitric oxide). I haven’t seen a good explanation of why exactly inflammation is reduced, but a very consistent finding is that wound healing is sped up and pain is reduced, often by factor 2.
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I don't see any rational ground to make the suffering of an amoeba a million times less relevant than the suffering of a single chimp.

Of course there is the irrational ground that chimps look similar to us and therefore we find it unpleasant to think about the fact that they are suffering.
So in the end it is all about our pleasure and nothing else. The tradeoff is between the amount our pleasure we get and for which it is unavoidable that the animal suffers, against the amount of our pleasure it costs because we feel sympathy for this particular animal race.
Hrmmm... 110,000,000 subscriptions x $5 = $550,000,000

Netflix sees that math every single month, and charge more that $5, and can always raise their rates again. They have something better than cash, they have recurring cash payments.

Also, Netflix is running less debt than its hollywood contemporaries who have no such subscriber base, no industry leading tech, no well-oiled IT machine, and no massive pool of user data showing the intensely valuable and intensely detailed interactions between hundreds of millions of people and their content with a decades head start on the competition.
Any insight from HN insiders on how seriously companies big and small are taking this?

In my experience, the buzz around this is much more serious compared to previous efforts, "the cookie law" for example, though I have no idea on the actual impact.

In our company, we've decided to implement the necessary changes, because a lot of them just make sense (be clear with the user on tracking, don't store personal data you don't need...). It could turn out to be a competitive advantage, but only if the rules really are enforced.

Otherwise it will be the same as the cookie law, the companies following it had a shittier user experience, and the ones that didn't were never penalized (the cookie law was absurdly bad legislation in my opinion to be clear).

So any insight from the HN crowd would be much appreciated!
No. "Symbiote," likely; "parasite," perhaps. "Virus," not at all.
An order of magnitudes less important consequence of the end of antibiotics would be the end of professional sports and possibly also amateur sports.

Probably not a big impact on baseball or cricket (but I don't know much about them), but any contact sport, bicycle races, motor sport, climbing, etc has a good chance of generating large scratches and injuries (broken bones, torn tendons, etc) that result in surgical treatment. How many football players (both the American and the rest of the world varieties) would survive a full career, from childhood to mid 30s? And there is some crash at almost every single pro bicycle race, with broken collarbones and/or patches of skin peeled off by sliding on the tarmac. Again, how may of them would make it into the 40s without antibiotics? Amateurs go cycling for fun on Sunday morning. They also crash. A broken collarbone is bad, but risking the life for a scratch is much worse.
With Ryzen, they're pretty much equal on an IPC basis.
Exactly. This is something I've only started to appreciate since I stopped eating meat. We're as much a cog in the machine of the industrial agriculture as the animals we eat are. It's has everything to do with maximizing profits and nothing to do with the health and welfare of any of the animals in the system, including us.
This site is very good and informative.

But I find it kind of ironic that a site that warns about malware wants JavaScript, just to display static content.

On the positive side, the JS code seems to be used only for loading custom fonts, and the website looks perfectly well without JavaScript using the standard system fonts.
Blue light is not UV. Yes, shining strong UV-B light on tissue causes DNA damage. I’m talking about the visible blue part of light spectrum. Eg 470nm: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23009190/
I interpreted it the opposite. Maybe someone can clarify. The question is why would there be a difference between Win7/8/10 - it's afterall the same WinNT kernel architecture and has the same HAL hardware abstraction layer, it's a matured software code base, so any fix should be possible on all supported versions in the same perfection.
You're right, can't believe I missed that.

Edit: See the archive[0] apparently I'm not going mad and it used to say that the patch was applied to Sierra and El Capitan, but Apple has since changed that.

0: https://web.archive.org/web/20180105102220/https://support.a...
If you acknowledge that people are inherently inattentive or malicious then you can design a system that protects people even when someone is to blame.
I've never heard of a term for them but I would find "speculated instructions" clear enough in context.
It's just one of those convenient things that people choose to believe because it lets them do things they wouldn't otherwise conscionably be able to do.

Much like in the past, we've declared that "animals don't have souls / feel pain" (so it's OK to kill and eat them), "fish don't feel pain" (so fishing for fun is OK despite obviously being horrible for the fish), "black people are inferior" (so it's OK to enslave them), "babies don't feel pain" (so it's OK to operate on them without anesthetic), etc. The thing doesn't have to be true, it just has to sound close enough and people will latch onto it to justify their behaviour.
I'm so sorry for the delay in the response, I'm just now seeing yours.

I want to say thank you for engaging me in this, as to be honest, many hate these conversations or it devolves quickly, but I'm hoping this doesn't :)

I tend to think that the morality we discuss is fairly common even if it's a mix of what we intrinsically feel and what we observe.

One case I can point to is C.S. Lewis' Abolition of Man, in his description and the the Tao.
You can see that for the most part, throughout recorded history there's a common sense of right and wrong.

So I guess all of that to say, I try not to base my morality on emotion, especially in cases where my emotions line up with my morality (those tend to be the blind spots).

I think that morality is a wide spectrum rainbow that we all truly desire to hit, and that most "sin" comes from focusing on the wrong parts or the right parts at the wrong time.

But regarding some of your points, I guess some things in my view, like affirmative action policies don't count directly to morality (though maybe indirectly), at least in my opinion.

I guess I focus morality towards those things we all see over the millennia, and ethics tend to be more temporal, though still critical.

Anyways, this one is always tough to get deep into without establishing first principles :)
Background history that might be helpful here:

The http-01 proof of control as originally defined allowed you to use HTTPS instead for the URL. This was never enabled in production because many bulk web hosts had a configuration where if anyone (say Let's Encrypt) asks for https://not-ssl-enabled.customer1.example/blah the bulk host's server will send over the answer for https://aaaa.ssl-enabled.customer2.example/blah because it just picked the alphabetically first SSL enabled name as default instead of giving an error for no match.

The Ten Blessed Methods don't say not to do this, but Let's Encrypt did not want a service which can be trivially exploited on common bulk hosts so they disabled it as they've now done for tls-sni-01.

I suspect a researcher has found a configuration that similarly causes an attacker to be able to pass tls-sni-01 for names using some shared infrastructure such as the same CDN or same web hosting as the attacker.

[Let's Encrypt posted a follow-up to their Discuss outlining exactly the above scenario but without the historical digression a few minutes after I wrote this]
Are you just conveniently omitting the fact that roundabouts are more expensive and require more land, which may already be used by something else?
It wouldn't matter, if amoebas were microscopic copies of chimps, it would still be fairly easy for us to make millions of them suffer just by stepping on them with boots on, would it not be significantly harder to cause the suffering of a chimp without significant personal injury or forethought, considering your average chimp is a wild animal?
Life is pain, highness. Anyone trying to tell you different is selling something.
I would really like to know exactly what compiler changes they made to mitigate Spectre.
Why do they cram the "View details" part into this tiny box?

Oh wait, I think I know why.
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why is anybody surprised? if any complex organism has nervous system, this can transfer all kinds of information including pain.

it's a clear evolutionary advantage. we have it, so do other living organisms in one way or another. I wouldn't be surprised if ie ants had some very similar highly unpleasant feedback from their injuries to drive them away from cause of it.

are we really that dumb that if we don't hear human voice scream in horror, then we consider that all is good?
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