skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prophylaxis (=treatment of healthy patients) antibiotics used to be a routine thing especially in younger animals more prone to infections etc. It was not stimulating growth per se, but as a coincidental effect. It is not very common anymore, and has not been for over a decade now (in the EU, I'm not sure about overseas). But it's still possible for some specific sicknesses (one is sick, you can treat others that are not sick preventively) or productions (ie poultry and pigs iirc).

(Growth is still systematically stimulated through hormones injections in cattle at least in the Canada/US, and this is completely banned in the EU, maybe there's some mix up there ?)

> eventually banned it completely

No, luckily it's not completely banned anywhere I know of, and I hardly see this happening tbh. Even in organic productions and such its a number of treatments (or quantity per animal) limit per year. It is not banned and breeding animals would be hardly sustainable if it were.
Sorry change "left" to "across traffic" (i.e. right in UK, Japan &c. left in mainland Europe and Americas)
I sold part of my online letting agency for a small amount of €€€ and now running another company while being a DN in Asia :)
> but the question is whether someone who has set up certbot at some point in the past will benefit from it without manual intervention (as is the case for Caddy)

This whole thread is responding to the author of Caddy saying specifically that people need to intervene or Caddy won't necessarily renew properly.

I specifically said in the above comment, that doing a renew in dry-run mode (because a --force-renewal re-uses the existing challenge authorisation my certs have against TLS-SNI) correctly falls back to doing the http challenge. The only "manual" part was that I ran the command - if the certs are due for renewal and the regular cron/systemd timer calls it, the TLS-SNI authorisation will either still be valid, and it will renew as expected, or it will need to re-authorise via challenge, and it will fall back to the http challenge as I just demonstrated, and renew as expected.

> and if that challenge type goes away, manual intervention is required

If all the methods you chose (e.g. TLS-SNI,HTTP) went away, sure, intervention would be required. But if they all went away, no client would work.

> If you're following the standard setup, using the instructions on certbot's website

If you follow the standard setup for Caddy you have a 50/50 chance of getting a cert today. Either you accept that people can deviate from the most basic "this is how you can run it as an example" or we stick to the defaults both ways. Claiming "oh but the standard setup.." when this issue requires caddy users to change their freaking init/sevice files is disingenuous.

For reference, I use HAProxy + Certbot and a tiny shell script - and it hasn't been susceptible to any of crazy issues Caddy has had just in the last 12 months, due to weird intentional behaviour of the program.
It’s not helped by cyclists habit of going straight on from a left turn lane.
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"Windows 10 LTSB is only available as part of Windows 10 Enterprise. And Windows 10 Enterprise is only available to an organization with a volume licensing agreement, or through a new $7 per month subscription program."

Seriously? An OS of which you need an obscure, hard-to-get version, special messing around in power tools, and still might break randomly? This role reversal happening in the last 10 years is sad, really.
> no bank provides free APIs to access this for consumers, the only option is to download manually/scrape through their websites.

In Europe they will have to provide the API thanks to PSD2: https://softjourn.com/blog/open-banking-api/

> Ad tracking/browsing data is another. The current model is the people making the trackers own all your data. A model where WE own our web activity data and selectively choose what to expose to websites/advertisers would be much better for consumers.

I don't know how this relates to blockchain at all. Blockchain
by design is public and replicated to anyone. How would you withdraw your data from there?
No, ut was based on the unreal engine, level and data files were compatible, you could copy the unreal files over to ut and play it with all those little enhancements the engine has gotten. No octrees in ut, but good old bsp holes.
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A company should spend a minimum amount on advertising, and to incentivize that, advertising should be expensive. If effective advertising is cheep, then there is less incentive to compete on product, and instead pressure to pour your resources into marketing, structured around a quick buyout and exit.

Advertising needs to be expensive enough that it is always dominated by quality of product and reputation spread by word-of-mouth, as this puts the power in the hands of consumers. This is critical for the healthy functioning of markets, because advertising distorts the natural expression of demand.

The current hype-fueled cryptocurrency craze is the apotheosis of advertising dominating product.
Take a break every 1 hour for 2-5 minutes. Use rehydration drops if you have dry eyes. Avoid low lighting areas and I try to reduce brightness in my laptop if it hurts my eyes. Supplements for Vitamin A,C, B3 etc. are also helpful (use it after a medical advice though).
Aren't board members hired by the owners to do things the owners need done with their business? It seems secondary that they would answer to anyone else.
I agree that a blog post would be more helpful, but the barrier to creating one is higher. This sort of update wouldn't fly there because its an off-the-cuff status report that will be buried in a day or two. The Let's Encrypt blog will be available and readable for all eternity (give or take a few years), so it requires an update that's more in-depth and vetted by all the people involved in solving this issue.

I'd imagine that once they fix this issue the first thing they'll do is to post a post-mortem on their blog.
That example doesn’t reflect the real world differences in page load time, however. IMO the load time arbitration doesn’t belong in the “search” engine. If your search engine fetches 10 fast loading pages but lacking the depth of information you need it loses utility.

The tricky thing is also the fact that Google does not inform the user that it is prioritising the faster loading pages instead of the pages with the most accurate match. This is a little dishonest too.
Ut99 also had a Linux port, made by another company though. Loki games?
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> Moreover, the notion that fish do not have the cerebral complexity to feel pain is decidedly antiquated. Scientists agree that most, if not all, vertebrates (as well as some invertebrates) are conscious and that a cerebral cortex as swollen as our own is not a prerequisite for a subjective experience of the world

Do scientists (some? most? few?) really agree that all animals are conscious? Or is the writer just interpolating? Would really like the writer to back this one up...
As humans we are evolved to have more compassion the more similar a being is to us, and less compassion the more different it is from ourselves. Human ethics is often selfish (pun not intended) in the sense that it is based on what feels bad for US when doing it. In my opinion, there is nothing objectively "good" or "bad", there is only harmony or disharmony in nature.

Pain indicates critical disharmony with the ideal state of any being. Same applies to plants! Do you think plants feel pain? They certainly do, but "pain" means something entirely different for them. What about planet earth and its ozone levels?

The real question we have to ask ourselves is, how much are we responsible for increasing the harmony in the world around us, vs. focusing on our own expansion in terms of technology, luxury and total population.
>I don't think we've even seen a Father Coughlin of the Internet

Alex Jones?
Driver training should teach you to 'lean and look', to move your head more than just rotating it left and right. This eliminates blind spots and once you pick up the habit you do catch the occasional cyclist or motorcyclist in a blind spot. They will often be stopped (or at least maintaining their position relative to yours) and looking at you, not expecting you to see them, and it's a nice shared moment when you make eye contact and they realise you actually checked.
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The article mostly focuses on commercial fishing, but I wonder what this will mean for people that fish for pleasure?

I do mostly fly fishing where (in the UK at least on stocked reservoirs) the catch is killed and (presumably) eaten. I guess in those circumstances it will be treated similar to hunting mammals.

For coarse/catch and release fishing, I'm less sure of the impact. I doubt if anyone will stop, but maybe it will mean mandatory barbless hooks and stronger lines so the fish can be reeled in faster and don't need to be played for so long to tire them out.
I remember the revelation of realising that unreal used positive “null-space” instead of negative and being blown away... no more damned lighting leaks and placing giant boxes over everywhere I thought might have been the cause.

I think most of my love with editing as a kid was for the Build editor and Duke3D - you could make some impressive levels with a mixture of laying out walls/zones in 2D, and adjusting heights and textures in first-person 3D. Opening the existing levels was also possible and a great way to learn how they had been made. I swear I’ll remember parts of the sector ID tag list until the day I die.

It’s kind of a pity that with the increased complication of engines and design that this is a much harder process to get started on. Though perhaps I’m underestimating the wonder even now of loading up a box room and the feeling of I made this...
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The CSS on this site is not done very well. There's a noticeable white flash while the page loads 73 CSS files. Kind of surprising because the site looks quite professional apart from that.
In all seriousness, what does it take to get a Macarthur grant?
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Unfortunately, the cycling organizations don't really like to admit that most right turn accidents happen because cyclists don't seem to understand that motor vehicles have blind spots, and big motor vehicles have bigger blind spots.

As someone who regularly drives, bikes, walks and uses public transport in Copenhagen, it is blatantly obvious that people just don't know how to handle right turns involving both cars and bicycles correctly. Car drivers will leave space open on their right (between the car and the curb), instead of putting the car as close to the curb as possible (which is taught in driver's ed). Bicyclists will pile into this space, and when the light turns green, it becomes almost impossible for the driver to turn right, because of the bikes already there, as well as the additional bikes coming from behind, completely ignoring the right blinker on the car.

The mitigation of this problem is two-fold. Firstly, the drivers should not leave open space on their right, when turning right. Secondly, cyclists need to grow a sense of self-preservation and not dive into that space, even if it's open. Large vehicles need to have some distance from the curb in order to complete the turn, but that should not be seen as an invitation to cyclists.
You confuse pain (which is a conscious feeling) with the response to potentially damaging stimuli.

If you burn your hand, your body reacts before you become aware of the pain.

That is what the discussion about pain. Amoebas don't have the consciousness to experience pain, because they lack the higher brain functions involved
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Move monitor further away, set brightness to match ambient light, adjust contrast, http://www.clickonf5.org/hardware/adjust-brightness-contrast...

If you wear glasses, ask optometrist for computer prescription.

Force yourself to blink when using the computer, https://iristech.co/blink-detection/

Take regular breaks: set 20 min timer, look for 20 seconds at an object at least 20 feet away, https://lifehacker.com/5976390/use-the-20-20-20-rule-to-figh...

Avoid flourescent lighting.

Avoid extended sitting: https://glarminy.com/2016/11/29/sedentary-lifestyle-cause-in...

Install flux or redshift on computer to reduce blue light after sunset.
Thanks to Spivak, who mentions in another comment here [1] that "https://encrypted.google.com doesn't serve AMP results" my phone now has a new default search!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108896
Anyone remember bsp holes? I never found a definitive answer where they came from. Was the algorithm technically flawed? Was the implementation buggy? Was it some shortcuts taken to speed up things, knowingly causing these glitches?

Also There were so many pieces of advice out there on how to prevent them or if they occur, how to get rid of them that I was convinced at some point that half of that must have been cargo cult like.
Haswell and older will see more-significant slowdowns, Skylake and newer will see less-significant slowdowns... what about Broadwell? I have a 6850k.
This always scares me and I think it isn't covered in mainstream media enough. When you say this to people, often they don't believe you.
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I think SIMD programming is a simple way to improve the performance of applications that use the CPU. The real solution for applications that are computation bound and not inherently sequential is to perform the computations on an architecture that allows massive parallelism (a manycore architecure like Xeon Phi, a GPU, or even an FPGA).
Most roads in the UK are perfectly well designed to handle bike traffic. But they are not designed for the massive quantity of vehicle traffic travelling at relatively high speed on roads originally designed for a different age. Danger to cyclists are a symptom of this wider problem which we have no real solution for.

Also, this particular junction is terribly designed for cars and will result in collisions.
There exists an alternative to antibiotics since it's very beginnings. It is the bacteriophages therapy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

It is practiced since the 20ies in Tiblisi Georgia. TED talk about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjH6m5VuR6I

So it is not all doomsday.
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I had several deleted files after the clusterfuck, I am sure I didn't drink so much to delete them
Repairing the unrepairable in the pre-MacBook world.
Should the company spend any money at all telling potential customers about their product?

Ah, but this is not what the discussion is all about, is it? "Telling potential customers about their product" can be done with a static hypertext page, it does not require infesting the entire Internet with tracking parasites to profile every individual. And your "incremental dollar" can be spent on SEO to improve the visibility of your page.
The concept of pain is universal to any life form as it's a very basic survival tool. The ability to detect and sense light is also widespread and doesn't become something else just because an organism handles it slightly differently.
My understanding is there is no grace period. It starts 25th May, and affects any existing data you have. So for example, if I have 1 million users today with a weaker form of consent agreement, I need to ask them all to re-affirm a much clearer consent statement before May 25th in order to carry on similar data processing.
Very few congressional seats actually have just two options. A third party win seems like the only chance that anyone will pass a bill, so I see it as the best chance of ensuring net neutrality.

The official platform of the Democrats last election on net neutrality was roughly "we will not overturn the FCC ruling on net neutrality," while the Republicans ran on overturning that decision. Both platforms have the same result, a lengthy series of court cases deciding how broadband should be classified under the 1934 Communications act.

There's a nugget of truth to the idea that voting for the party pretending to support net neutrality will lead to more favorable judges, but I don't suspect the Democrats would seek out judges based on their view on the issue. And, shockingly, I care about more than one issue. For example, the Democrats record on online privacy is atrocious. A chance at better judges on one issue isn't enough.
The original post offers some more details on this matter:

> For context, on newer CPUs such as on Skylake and beyond, Intel has refined the instructions used to disable branch speculation to be more specific to indirect branches, reducing the overall performance penalty of the Spectre mitigation. 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. We will publish data on benchmark performance in the weeks ahead.

Source: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/01/09/...
Some light wavelengths do kill germs, this is well established (EDIT: And I don't even mean UV light, but other, visible wavelengths). Just google it up, there's lots of papers. And big cos like Neutrogena offer inexpensive devices that effectively kill bacteria responsible for acne - that's no proof, but for me an indicator that this has arrived in the mainstream.

You are right that light might only kill bacteria on tissue surface. But this is exactly where surgeons need it! My grandfather died of complications caused by a resistant strain infection after hip surgery. What happened is that bacteria from the environment entered the wound before it was sealed. Sure, you won't remotely kill all germs, but you might make an otherwise deadly infection manageable.

Just because it's not yet done, does not mean it's BS.
We are also sentient enough to consciously decide what to kill, and maybe restrict ourselves to plants.
well, now the question is philosophical, isn't it?

what is pain?

if it's a negative reaction to a stimulus, then I'm training a neural network right now that's in a hell of a lot of pain.

pain must be a human term for what the sensation of negative stimulus means to us. when a dog is in pain, we are upset, because the way a dog expresses pain is similar to how we do, too.

we can't say the same for fish, or plants... etc.
Counterpoint: You can already simulate the way bad Internet connections work. You don't want that introducing noise on top of the site's metrics. Measure the site itself, then apply a variety of scenarios for what practical fetches look like.
It's hard to make sense of what Intel are doing in the ucode since communication has been so poor, but "LFENCE terminates all previous instructions" has been variously reported, and there are rumblings that RET or conditional jumps have been changed too. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886367#17

Intel deserves an extra pwnie award just for the way they handle ucode without changelogs.
Do Microsoft etc see this as an opportunity in disguise perhaps? A problem out of their hands, that's not their fault, that might make people think about upgrading their machines. And the best bit is that it also effects your competitors.
I agree with what you are saying here, and there is a deeper philosophical question of how do we know how others animals (as well as other people) experience the world since we can't directly experience someone else's experiences.

However, I'm criticizing the article because it suggests that previously the scientific consensus was that terrestrial vertebrates did feel pain while fish did not. I seriously doubt such a consensus existed...
It doesn't remotely fit the screen on mobile and I cannot zoom out. Was unable to figure out what the site's purpose is and closed it with slight annoyance.
There's a 4-way give way junction here [1]. That's the closest you will get in the UK. It means give way to anything that is in the junction before you are, but the actual effect is for cyclists to frequently be aggressively hooted at and nearly run over by cars.

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.2190575,0.1178374,105m/dat...
Was hoping to see some benchmarks, or at least rough percentages. Sounds like vague marketing-speak.

All I really know is that it won't be faster--thanks.
It's the opposite way around. If you read it closely they say on windows 10, some customers may see a decrease in performance, but for windows 7, most customers will see a decrease.

An article in the verge states "Windows 7 and Windows 8 will be the worst hit simply because these older operating systems have features like kernel-level font rendering that will be impacted by the Spectre and Meltdown mitigations even further than Windows 10."
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I get the sentiment, but I'd just like the point out that with current interest rates it makes sense put 20% down and invest the rest in mutual funds. You get mortgage interest deduction and are paying 4% interest while making 7% market gains. Buying a house all cash is not the way to do it.
New Update, explaining the issue with shared infrastructure and crediting the discovery to Frans Rosén of Detectify: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2018-01-09-issue-with-tl...
This. What got us (is getting us) out of the ozone mess (the climate change of my childhood) was technology and alternatives. No one had to revert to an icebox, or take any steps back in terms of what they consume.

In policy terms, it was (mostly) relatively simple stuff. It was mostly bans, not theoretically sophisticated policy of taxes, subsidies, traceable credits and such. If I was king of the world, I’d think of carbon a similar way. Try to gradually ban carbon fuels, as soon as viable alternatives make this feasible. It seems we are nearing that stage for both electricity grids and cars. Forget about sophisticated economic interventions (I’m dubious of the economics of these anyway). Just change to an apples-to-apples alternative asap, with a focus on the ‘p.’
Bought it back :)
There was an interesting piece on BBC radio 4 a few months ago looking at the problems with the market when it comes to developing new antibiotics and I suspect government intervention will be needed to help the market along.

The usual model of drug development is

Spot opportunity > spend lots on R&D > Go into production > maximise sales > recoup money as soon as possible > Profit!

However, with new antibiotics we, as society absolutely do not want them to maximise sales. Ideally we don't want any production at all. At worst, we'd like it to be used in a handful of cases for 5, 10 or 20 years, keeping it as a treatment of last resource.

In such circumstances you can see the problem for the pharmaceuticals. Personally, I think there needs to be some kind of prize fund that can let the companies recoup (and make a decent profit) from antibiotic discoveries. Either that or public-sector research.
That is both legal and necessary to do
>Amoebas don't have the consciousness to experience pain, because they lack the higher brain functions involved

... this is a belief, not a fact. The reality is: we have no idea.
Not sure where the deceit was. This was always what they were doing.
Why aren't animation houses using GPUs for rendering? It seems like they could get another order of magnitude speedup with CUDA or OpenCL.