skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have mining in proof-of-stake. (Mining is for proof-of-work.)

My focus is multiple-host, centralised async systems. I think this is the future, and that databases will be marginalised. Comment here elsewhere gives more details.

I may turn out to be wrong. In that case, we will end up in the kind of blockchain world described in my earlier comments. I suspect it will hinge on whether it is possible to create a good-enough high-level language.
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You have some good answers here: https://apnews.com/f7ccc4ea283746f28b261cabeaf8f0c5
While I'm sure the situation isn't improving as fast as the ambitions are, the last regulation in the US which bans the use of subtherapeutic antibiotics in feed, was effective as late as jan 1st 2017. So the regulation at least seems to be catching up, whether realtity is following is another question.
Indeed. Anecdotally, I can really FEEL the sun here compared to other places. I was on holiday on Hydra (one of the Greek islands), and outside for 8 hours on a clear sunny day, and got a light tan... I would've been sunburnt within an hour if I'd done the same at home.
Knowing about the bug != having all of their systems patched.

Also, I shouldn't have to point this out, but not everyone runs the same systems in the same fashion.

Lastly not only has everyone not patched their systems yet, but patches for many people don't even exist at this point:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/intel-ces/

I'm not trying to say it's going to be the worst case scenario, but I am saying it's extremely foolish to pretend that you can predict anything until people actually start patching their systems.

Time will tell, and it's best in every scenario to refrain from making gigantic blanket assumptions based on almost no data points.
I always thought "amateur" had a very objective definition: what you do for a living. If you make your core income from programming, you're a professional, not an amateur. It says nothing about the quality of your work, although there's obviously an implied correlation.
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I feel like some misinformation is spread here since what you are really only paying for is building from source. The whole project is open source and you can even use commercially the source. You just have to build it yourself.

Does it not make sense that these guys would like to earn some money from this effort? That way they are also more incentivised to continue with the effort.

What kind of company finds it too costly to build Caddy themselves AND can't affort paying the license?
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Note that it talks about "the flaw", whereas Intel claims it isn't a "flaw". So could be another instance of overly specific denial. "We didn't exploit this flaw, because it isn't a flaw. We exploited the processor operating as designed".

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People are getting tired of instant messaging
Willy is disrupting the so-called “instant messaging trend”. For the first time the app users will have to WAIT for a message to become available. Isn’t it both great and exciting to get a message and have to wait to open it ?

Take a photo or a video, write or draw on it and set the date and time your messages can be opened and viewed by the people you choose.
The sweet game of expectation begins. The person you like, love or care for just can’t wait to see your message. The more he or she waits, the more both of you will enjoy this special moment and remember it longer.

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I feel they try to turn it into a feature... facepalm
Windows 10 is faster than Windows 7:

>Older versions of Windows have a larger performance impact because Windows 7 and Windows 8 have more user-kernel transitions because of legacy design decisions, such as all font rendering taking place in the kernel.

From: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/01/09/...
Nope, doesn't really matter if he's the richest or not. I think lots of companies could learn a lot from how Amazon innovates. I don't think you can deny that they are categorically better than many others at their size / scale.
By far the cheapest protein comes from plants so I do not see how more expensive meat can affect protein availability. If one wants to insist that poor have right to cheap protein from meat, then the present time animal agriculture is just unsustainable and the poor people in future will surfer from it disproportionally.
They already own large cpu only render farms. Production render scenes commonly require upwards of 64Gb of memory for texture and geometry caching.

It is used in some niches, and there are efforts to leverage both for interactive rendering scenarios.
Badware has existed for *NIX (FOSS or not). The first internet worm, back in 1988, targeted Sendmail [1]. OSes, including FOSS ones (except OpenBSD), used to have all kind of services enabled by default in the '90s. Remotely exploitable vulnerability existed in IPv6 in the Linux kernel around 2005/2006. We had shellshock as well. Just recently in 2018, there was Meltdown and Spectre bug which was remotely exploitable via JavaScript. Also, Android is arguably FOSS. Symbian is as well, nowadays.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
They need to ve very conservative in the statements and err on the side of caution. It's better for people to find out is not as bad as they thought than to find out it's worse than they thought.
I'm sorry, have you seen some of the British roundabouts? Where the "roundabout" is just a tiny circle painted in the middle? I'm sure it's not bigger than your normal intersection by any measurable standard, and at least everyone knows exactly what the priorities are, you literally can't get it wrong.
> At this time, we believe that the issue can be addressed by having certain services providers implement stronger controls for domains hosted on their infrastructure.

Requiring unrelated third-parties to take specific action(s) to prevent Let's Encrypt from incorrectly issuing certificates doesn't sound like a valid solution to this issue.

What about the shared hosting providers that are "affected" that decide to do nothing to "fix" this?
Agreed. What might be useful is a file list comparison across builds to alert someone if new files are present in a container that weren't in previous versions.
Replying to myself, after a bit of research, it seems like "wearing crinoline" is actually a marker for being more concerned with fashion (e.g. hoop skirts). Perhaps a modern day equivalent would be saying that someone looks down on people who "wear lumberjack shirts with their hair high and tight" (e.g. hipsters).

Example: http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/08/death-by-crinoline....
Mind me asking, what does DN mean?
> Is it possible to set up renewal in a way that would cause certbot to fall back to a working challenge? Sure. But it's far from common or even the default.

Is it possible to make Caddy deterministically use the capabilities of the ACME protocol to try the intersection of challenges you want to use, and the ACME server supports? No. It's not.

The rest is fucking moot. My point in every one of these threads is that Caddy is presented as "it just works" until it fucking doesn't and you have the weirdest shit happening.

With regular tools, it's expected that you have a clue what the fuck you're doing and configure it to meet your requirements.

Inexperienced people may use certbot and end up needing to do something. Sure. But I don't expect inexperienced people to be managing production environment servers. Do you?

You claim Caddy's defaults are better - thats an opinion, but the problem is it's not a "default" it's forced fucking behaviour. You simply can't tell it to operate sanely like you can with certbot + haproxy.
You can, if the scene fits into GPU memory. Otherwise the data transfers will quickly dominate your render time.
I played professional poker for 3-4 years after selling my first startup in 2007. In hindsight I should have jumped straight back into tech, but I was seriously burned out and the poker monies was good.
I love Mark Twain, mostly because of how easy it is to rip him off and ascribe quotes to him.

But also because Tom Sawyer was the first book I had read as a child that put the taste of Southern grass in my mouth and the feeling of thick humidity reaching out and strangling me.

I don't always like writers from past times (the older they are, the harder the mental overhead in feeling the story), but he was one from another time that intoxicated me, even as a "millennial" hooked on comics and video games.

This article and other comments have inspired me to dig a bit more into the man.
That reduction is in fact how I was taught linear regression, now I understand why!
6850k has launch date 2016. So you are fine.

Microsoft claims CPUs post 2015 only have unnoticable slowdown.
Any progress in this direction welcome, of course. We have a long way to go.
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I'm guessing Digital Nomad.
>So yep, you're suggesting that tszyn's mom should not access content she can't pay for directly.

You vastly underestimate how much content is created for free. Have you heard of Wikipedia? Do you realize how many people do not choose to monetize their creations?

>You forget that most people isn't as rich as you or most HN readers.

This problem was solved before the internet with libraries. If you can't afford a newspaper article you get it from the library. The same could be accomplished with an online library with daily limited access or subsidized unlimited access for the poor.

Poor people are not good for showing ads to anyway. As ad networks get more and more invasive they will be able to discriminate and refuse to pay the guardian for a view from your mom because there is no expected value there.
It prevented _uninformed_ rumours :D

Almost all the speculation was about the exact scenario that Let's Encrypt have subsequently confirmed - you can trick some bulk hosting or CDN providers into letting you (a customer) answer a challenge for one of their other customers' systems.
It's not that simple. The basic idea behind path tracing maps very well to GPU's, so you can get huge speedups there (10x-100x depending on the scene, geometry, representation, etc). For example path tracing signed distance fields (volume textures, basically) can be done extremely efficiently on GPU's.

Things get a lot more difficult when the scene becomes more complex, if it needs to be animated, etc though. You need much more advanced forms of visibility detection/object culling, track scene changes, need to have an much bigger working set (models, textures, metadata) in memory, etc. The amount of code that needs to run compared to 'just the path tracer' starts to far outweigh what the GPU can efficiently process.

Hybrid solutions are of possible and widespread, but it is not easy to implement those in a way that will not annihilate the speedup you get from the parts running on the GPU because of synchronization, copying memory around between CPU <-> GPU etc. I can imagine that the kinds of rendering pipelines animation studios use likely depend on hundreds of individual tools from different suppliers, so it would be next to impossible to integrate and the full rendering pipeline efficiently if it runs partly on CPU and partly on GPU. But maybe some parts could be?
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AMD Hits a Snag Over Patch for Chip Flaw
That is as weak an argument as the argument that extending copyrights for works by dead authors ‘promotes the progress of science and useful arts’ because it funnels money to people who are involved in creating works.

If you accept that kind of argument you can justify just about anything.
> If I, as a driver, see someone in a left-only lane, it should be absolutely safe for me to assume that they are indeed turning left

The highway code is a bit more nuanced than you on this topic: http://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/road-junctions.html

it is safer for the vehicle driver to not make that assumption, it is safer for the cyclist not to be in that position as you point out; and primarily, it is safer if the road layout does not put these different vehicles in the same space.
Microsoft: AMD security patch for chip flaw makes some computers unusable
11:08 CET - We are investigating reports of elevated error rates.
11:14 CET - We are investigating reports of service unavailability.
11:20 CET - Everything operating normally.

From their status page: https://status.github.com/messages
I've heard this argument before. Think about the people with shitty 2G connections and equally bad backhaul or backbone networks. The fact is these people are not necessarily as interested in your 2MB pages as you'd like. They have their own web pages and apps that they use. They do care about CDNs because some of these networks are just plain bad, and it's not the first hop.

And that's the privileged position. Bloatiness is annoying if you're an American reading American pages, or a Spaniard reading Spanish pages, and we like to complain about it because it means the difference between being able to read an article on the subway and having to wait for the next stop. But I'm never in a position where I have to complain about the backhaul network or the backbone.

In the future, please don't try to police "off-topic" conversation.
So if you were to practice cannibalism, it really would be healthier to eat vegetarians?
Looks like the status reporting isn't accurate either. The update has modified all days previous.

https://i.imgur.com/uIQvb4L.png
You misread my comment. The functionality offered by pragmas must be mandatory and in the core language, whether you call them pragmas or not. Everything else leads to problems.

It's true that if pragmas were all fully specified in the core language and not optional, then they wouldn't pose any problems. In reality, however, some pragmas are regulated by the core language and others are implementation specific additions. The result is a huge mess, it's the #1 source of incompatibility of standardized languages like Ada. Even just having optional pragmas in the core language is problematic, because at one point or another developers will start relying on the optional functionality to do something that one implementation does and another doesn't. Optional optimization and packing directives are typical examples. In theory they shouldn't be able to break programs, in reality they do.
> Dice.com is who acquired SourceForge a handful of years ago.

And you could say their ethics were rather... dicey.

(Forgive me.)
Hang on...

The ozone layer is now recovering decades after a ban on CFCs.

Maybe it would just be simpler to ban man made production of CO2? Technology will find a way round I suppose, and it means we can ditch taxes, subsidies etc... win/win!
> Any insight from HN insiders on how seriously companies big and small are taking this?

CTO of a video service platform that caters to webshops here. We take it very seriously; we had discussions with our lawyers about this about 1.5 years ago, and have been preparing our data warehouse in the meantime to be able to fall under the "analytics exempt". On a weekly basis, there is at least one customer whose legal team is asking for some documentation / proof on how we handle this.

We have had a compliance audit, which effectively tested whether

- we were not doing third-party tracking, but only first-party

- all our customers' data is segregated / separated from each other (which effectively means a different database per customer), so that data cannot be combined

Perhaps this is a bit different in the ecommerce space than industry-wide, so YMMV.
Nothing I want to discuss with someone being openly insulting to me in violation of the guidelines and not apologizing, especially given that two of my comments here have been downvoted to the negatives and your insult has not been flagged to death. I consider that evidence of a hostile atmosphere, which is par for the course and in no way surprising, much to my frustration.

I would like to think 8.5 years of proving I am competent, not the attention monger people assume me to be etc would be worth more than that. But it isn't.
I suppose it's possible in theory but I'm not sure if Cloudflare would perform other checks.

It's certainly the case with the Business and above accounts you can upload custom certificates but I don't have one of those accounts to check if further validation is made regarding domain control.

If they didn't it would seem on the face of it that both the conditions in the article* are met.

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>Many users are hosted on the same IP address

>Users have the ability to upload certificates for arbitrary names without proving domain control.
Still, I wonder how it can be proved that a particular animal does not feel pain. Seems about as impossible as proving a particular animal does feel pain.
Well, why did you use all your Ether buying pictures of cats instead of a used car?
The only people who would have solved the captcha faucet to get coins at virtually next to nothing value at that time would be the ones who believed in the project right from the start which to me is a fair distribution scheme. ICO based distribution is usually more greed driven. In this case the developers and team were more motivated in building a new innovative blockchain protocol as opposed to raising money by simply issuing ERC20 tokens. Speaks a lot about the project in itself. And the team has even succeeded in building a beautiful, disruptive scalable protocol and currency with no transaction fee. I've tried RaiBlocks and so far have been impressed.
Do I misunderstand your traffic laws (taken from https://www.retsinformation.dk/forms/r0710.aspx?id=158005) pt. 21 about overtaking, which says "... Cyklist og fører af lille knallert kan overhale køretøjer af andre arter til højre." which seems to translate that it does not apply to cyclists and they can overtake on the right?

And 26.6 "...Ved svingning til højre må den kørende ikke være til ulempe for cyklister og knallertkørere, der kører lige ud. ..." saying that vehicles turning right must yield to cyclists going straight?
I didn't believe it possible, but you actually made instant messaging worse.
> but Android/Windows are a cesspit of apps that have 0 value

Problem is that outside of IT tech circles the marketing of this crapware works really effectively - many simply believe the claims the ads post and buy the snake oil. The only real solution to this problem (other than law enforcement, which doesn't work because crime is international) is a hard app store requirement like on iOS, but that carries its own problems for user freedom and isn't perfect either.
Citation? What you fail to realize is that lower efficiency can induce more spending.

Do you think someone who trades their compact car in for a truck will spend less on gasoline because it's not as efficient?

Advertising was massive before the Internet, it's massive now, and it will be massive even if we prevent them from inferring life threatening secrets like sexual preferences for better targeted ads.
This is the most info I've seen: https://twitter.com/aionescu/status/948609809540046849
For reference: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8632384,-1.4532871,3a,90y,...
> companies that have no presence in the EU

Just because you don't have a business presence (in the form of an office and employees) doesn't mean you don't have a presence: collecting data from, and making a profit on, users and customers in the EU is a presence. The alternative would be to surrender the obligation to regulate business practice and the protection of citizens to other countries, with no political accountability.
Lots of friends at Amazon (US, IN, EU) who would categorically disagree on being slave driven. He is more aggressive and less favorable on "perks" than other companies in the bay area, but no where close to a slave driver (and no, I'm not taking you literally here).

I don't have data and so won't make a factual claim but can personally attest that work cultures can get significantly more aggressive / stressful / unreasonable at well funded + known tech companies in Asia. I don't think you realise how high up the totem pole Amazon is when it comes to work cultures and I also don't think you realise that there are many out there who like working at Amazon just because of it's work culture.

That being said, totally concede to the possibility that Amazon / Bezos _could_ have done questionable things starting up. I'm not aware of any but feel free to point them out.
Life in Unix V7: an attempt at a simple task
You could say that we’re upset when a dog feels pain not because the dog feels pain (though it does) but because we ourselves feel (sympathetic) pain from looking at the dog in pain, or even just from imagining a dog in pain.
Wow, this looks nice.
> Then just simplify the game's 3D scenes?

I'm sure everyone will be happy with that compromise. After all graphical fidelity is very low on the average gamer's list of priorities /s

Also - 50fps is not regarded as acceptable for VR. Oculus sets 90fps as the lowest framerate to avoid VR sickness.
Slightly mitigated by only effecting the domains of people who chose to use such a hosting provider; but I agree this doesn't seem to meet the bar we should expect from a CA.
GitHub investigating reports of service unavailability
We have been hunted on PH :)

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hooks-data

Feel free to comment there too.
The whole point of the article was about humane slaughter methods for fish.

It wasn't about if it's right or wrong to kill fish; it was about studies suggesting that fish feel pain at a level that is more than just reflex and so, where possible, we should slaughter fish more humanely than suffocation.
Why antibiotics are great is that they can be taken orally and they kill bacteria _inside_, but not your body.

FCVO "your body". Antibiotics definitely do kill gut bacteria, which many consider to be part of our bodies.