skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most of those users the affected part of the system is not a key bottleneck: syscalls such as filesystem or hardware access.

For most home/office tasks (web browsing, email, office documents) most of the time is spent waiting for user input or network responses. Even on a really slow old Atom-based netbook I suspect that the difference will be at worst "noticeable" and not significant for these tasks (i.e. it isn't going to make any difference while the app is waiting for your next key-press).

Older games that make many small calls to the graphics hardware will be affected but unless you are running them on really old hardware you'll not notice that either as they won't tax newer hardware even with the extra work. Newer games will be using more efficient techniques anyway.

Startup times are likely to be affected, both OS and individual application, but that is generally a once-per-session matter, and of course there will be some applications (or some workflows using applications otherwise relatively unaffected) that will see a difference, but not the majority.

Older OSs may be more starkly affected because of design changes since. For instance until 10 Windows performed font parsing and rendering in the kernel so text heavy applications might see some extra display lag after these patches. Low-memory situations might be more affected too, as RAM starvation increases the amount of IO happening during normal operation.

Developers are far more likely to notice, I've seen some bad before/after benchmarks for build processes. Long-running tasks, particularly those performing IO such as video encoding, are more likely to make the differences visible too (10% extra on a many-hour encoding task could add up to something pretty inconvenient). It is expected that certain server loads are going to be the worst hit. But none of this paragraph's "things that will be affected" are typical home/business use cases for the majority.
If you don't mind to share, how long are your "golden handcuffs"? I'm quite fearful of those....
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You're talking about the means of blockchain to self-preservation; I'm saying that we don't need blockchain, that it eats way too much for the fun it provides, so we should just kill it off and call it a day.

> The 'end' is the security of the bitcoin blockchain. Defence forces consume a massive amount of energy and human resources. They are still funded because countries don't all trust each other and they want security.

Yes. Wasteful as evil as the concept of a military is, countries need military forces to maintain peace, by keeping each other in check. It's an unfortunate direct consequence of the way humans organize themselves into societies.

But blockchain is not a direct consequence of a fundamental issue in human organization process (if anything, it's just a direct consequence of human greed meeting 2010s tech). It's the least efficient way of doing anything, because it completely eschews the need to trust other actors. Yes, I believe trustless systems are mostly a bad thing, because trust is literally the efficiency hack that allows us to coordinate at scale.

There are probably some theoretical problems where a trustless solution is perfect. But as it is today, the blockchain is trying to turn everything in the society into a Cold War-like military spending problem to avoid having to trust one another, even though trust-based systems work just fine.
Big fan of CryptoKitties too. Adding my notes to the Awesome CryptoKitties (and CryptoCopycats) [1] page @ Open Blockchains. PS: Launching CryptoCopycats soon - lets you play for free (without gas or ether) an (open source) CryptoKitties unchained version, that runs off the blockchain :-) still using a hyper ledger and a peer-to-peer network (but built from scratch) though.
[1] https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-cryptokitties
>> In 10 years it won’t even be necessary because nobody’s going to be driving themselves anyway.

Try 50+ years. Driverless cars aren't happening anytime soon, and certainly not to a level where you literally don't need a licence to drive one.
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Font rendering taking place in the kernel does indeed look quite like a legacy design decision.
Is there a provable way which applies to other humans? We are either generalizing from personal experience or using biological explanations to postulate a connection between behaviour and sentient feelings. So, when a street dog whimpers and runs away as someone bends down to pick a stone, or when it jumps eagerly to eat some food, we deduce pain and pleasure.
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Anecdotally what I typically see is a big chunk of change over 4-5 years and then smaller chunks every year to extend the handcuffs. YMMV
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Sure! I miswrote VGA16, it's actually VGA8. I'm on a retina display, and set the size to 16pt. I do have anti-alias disabled in e.g. iTerm2, but visually it makes no difference.

In iTerm2 I disable "Draw bold text in bold font". For vim I use MacVim sometimes, which hash gfn=PxPlus IBM VGA8:h16.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TBuS4
Cats are amazing as long as you know what to expect and how to be around them. People expecting smaller versions of dogs are in for some disappointment.
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There isn't a provable way to know if other animals even exist, including yourself for anyone else, let alone if they experience pain. Positive proofs are tricky things and we don't have very many of them outside mathematics.
> Once you get to the front of the queue, you wait for the cars on your left and right that are already at the front of the queue, and then you go. This is simple because each direction of traffic alternates, and it is reasonably fast because the queues are very short.

Sounds like a high frequency traffic light, but less explicit.

Well, admittedly my experience with 4 way stops is nonexistent (never saw one in europe) and it may simply be a case of not being used to them, but I consider give-way intersections, 2 way stops, roundabouts and finally traffic lights as superior solutions - pretty much in that order and depending on how busy the intersection is. The goal should be to reduce breaking and full stops.
This brings back so many sweet memories. I started with QuArK, then I was introduced to UnrealEd. I remember finding UnrealEd to be more clunky than QuArK. It also took some time for me to get used to the 'inverse' editing in UnrealEd (in uED you basically start with a solid block of infinite size, and then cut out the parts you want accessible by the player).

I then went on to make multiplayer maps for half-life (can't remember which editor I used), I still play those maps with friends.

After HL1 I went to college and couldn't afford a PC capable of running the newer games/engines, and that's where my map building hobby stopped, unfortunately. Nowadays the engines and tools are so complex, that it just takes too much time to build maps for a hobby IMO.
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I’m not sure what you mean by “naturally.” I’m not proposing no interventions, just simple ones like bans.

For example, EVs are starting to look like a viable apples-to-apple alternative across vehicle types. This is partially driven by subsidies and consumer action, but mostly it’s just technology.

With the current pro-environment policy approach, we subsidise them (tax exemptions) at a decreasing rate (until it becomes too expensive because there are lots of EVs), along with some other “interventions” from a complex portfolio of policies. I am saying, do the opposite. (1) Pick winners. (2) Subsidise/tax at an increasing rate (or some other transitional plan). (3) Plan for a near term ban.
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A suggestion: if the solution takes too much to develop (long enough that certificates risk expiring before being renewed), could you at least allow renewals of existing LE certificates if they are from the same LE account (perhaps only if they are still at the same IP address)?
No we can’t, because it is wrong.
I think you misunderstood, "loses out" as in "needs to pay for" basically 30% is clearly not not profit it's revenue. And the App Store has plenty of real expenses.
I agree completely with that sentence factually and as an explanation why we have such issues, but still think HTTP and DNS are fundamentally different to this issue with the TLS-SNI challenge.

The domain under attack is not part of the actual challenge process here. As a hosting provider I never see it and it plays no role in the decision of what information I reply with. At no point do I serve content under the "wrong" domain. At no point does the attacker show any control over the domain being validated.
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Though not relevant to the bulk of your comment, could you elaborate or provide some relevant links on why apache compares favorably to nginx when used properly?
> Negative stimulus reaction and pain are different things.

How are they different? Pain is a negative stimulus response that allows us to know whether something is causing damage to our body.

> We know we feel pain. We can guess that organisms with similar brain architectures are feeling pain.

How does feeling pain have anything to do with a brain's architecture? It has more to do with nerves... block a nerve's functioning, and you don't feel pain. Also, pain can be psychosomatic.

> Ants keep doing their job even after fatal damage. If they feel something, it is not anything like our pain.

Have you seen ants writhe around after being crushed or dismembered? They definitely feel pain.

> So it is not obvious that our feeling of pain is universal.

Depends on your definition of pain, doesn't it?
Killing animals isnt new, but what has changed recently is that we have built large scale factories which greatly increase suffering. So, the least that we can do is to ensure that suffering(like dunking birds in hot water) is reduced.
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Carbon tax (as well as the caps, subsidies, tradable credits and such that form parts of the plan) are more complicated, I think. Riskier too.

Also, the economic reasoning is (IMO) flawed because in the absence of a viable alternative, we know fuel consumption decreases very, very little with increased costs (that affect poorer people more). If a viable alternative exists, we know that bans work well (e.g. CFCs) and leave less room for policy corruption. The key is viable alternatives. Without them, either policy will probably fail.
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Almost every such intersection in Germany was replaced with roundabouts, afaik. Perfect use case for them.
I would indeed like to explicitly apologize, because I regret mentioning "cloudflare etc" as an example. That's exactly the kind of bad speculation that leads to harmful rumors based on misunderstandings.

> When you say "Seems like my guess was right, though!" are you saying that there is some way that Cloudflare is involved?

No. It seems like I was right about the general nature of the vulnerability. It remains to be seen what providers are affected.

That being said, at this point, I'd personally be happier seeing a list of providers NOT affected, rather than a list of affected providers... It's probably also in "major public CDN provider's" interest to demonstrate that their user cert validation processes would have prevented this attack, and their customers were not at risk before LE pulled the plug...
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I think the only thing that makes you "old" is you thinking to yourself you feel old.

If you take a look at who's actually working on all the cryptocurrency projects, a lot of the hardcore developers are probably older than you because they came from the "cypherpunks" era, almost around the dot-com times.

I'm not talking about the scammers building ERC20 tokens. I'm talking about legit cryptographers who are building stuff.
What is a "hyper ledger"? (google tells me it is a linux foundation project...)
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It's quite a long time ... I guess many entrepreneurs just want to move on and hate being on the "you are behold to us" part of the acquisition...
Seems like syscalls are a lot more expensive, which may or not affect your daily work.

https://reverse.put.as/2018/01/07/measuring-osx-meltdown-pat...
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me ;) I remember I went nuts when I found out there's this tea time place with loads of cats in London, it's amazing.

Anyway if animals are used in therapy why that wouldn't work in other environment.
If the bike lane must be next to a turn lane on an intersection, the dutch have a very simple hack [1].

All bike lanes get green, and get to sort themselves out, but crucially all car lanes get red.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/VFElf
Is a nervous system explicitly necessary to feel physical sensations? Why should we presume that a nervous system is necessary? They may have pain receptors that we haven't identified yet. Plants have consciousness... but it is quite different to animal consciousness, because their bodies are vastly different to our.

I feel that we should presume consciousness, pain, emotions, etc, in all living beings, until most rigorously proven otherwise, because just because we may not understand non-human, non-mammalian or non-animal living beings as well as ourselves does not mean that they cannot experience whatever equivalents their consciousness, bodies or minds allow them to.
Last year I made a letsencrypt client[1] that only supports DNS mode of validation.

It currently only supports cloudflare and AuroraDNS, but it is very easy to use any other DNS provider[2]

1. https://github.com/komuw/sewer

2. https://github.com/komuw/sewer#how-to-use-a-customunsupporte...
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Hello fellow comrades!

In the middle of tons of team time tracking software out there I'm wondering what's the reason behind it all. Why does your team time track?

Thanks for the honesty! :bow:

transparency disclaimer: I'm part of a team which develops a bot for automated time tracking :) That's why I'm curious about the time tracking industry
> There haven't been that many large scale attempts to revolutionize society in history and some have worked just the way some people expected without hindsight.

Which ones worked "just the way some people expected without hindsight"?
Sorry if my post comes off terse but truthfully there is a narrative in these (hackernews) boards that thinks taxes == bad. I react strongly to this because I live in Australia and we have taxes and they provide a lot of good.

Sure, I pay a bit more in Medicare levy or income tax but I don't ever look at it. I know when I get sick I just go to the doctor and its' sorted, For $70 at that time with a rebate of $35 and then if I'm getting a script filled it's usually under $15 dollars. And if i have no cash i can take a bus a little further out and bulk bill.

The same people who think that taxes are bad in this place are usually (I know I'm generalizing) the same people that bemoan company taxes. Yet if you look at places like Australia and elsewhere it's those same companies that pay no tax in our jurisdictions at all. I appreciate that our laws make this so. But there is the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. And those companies/people make a choice.

Interesting side note: The people who run those companies are usually talking about UBI. Who the f--k is going to pay for that if those companies don't pay tax.

But hey, what do I know I just pay tax and never really worry about it. If I have money I do stuff. If I have less money, I do less stuff.

It's important that peoples mental models of tax do not regress to thinking it's just a cash grab. If you think government wastes money there are plenty of opportunities to get involved to change that or your way of thinking. But reducing the concept of taxes like this a real danger to any form of productive social contract.
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This is great - taking a whole industry out of IP/patent litigation. The patent-revoke clause for members is converse to the idea of virality in GPL.
We sell products/services to regulated sectors (investment arms of banks mainly) for managing compliance, training and competence. That sector for one, both large companies and much smaller ones, are taking the matter very seriously.

I know people in the charities sector, and they seem to have taken or are taking pro-active action too - even people close to being "on the ground" have been given introductory training in some instances.

Initially at least fear of enforcement will drive purchasing decisions, it already is doing: you won't sell as much of your solution if you can't slap a "GDPR compliant" sticker on it. It will affect existing contracts less but if your clients haven't started asking about it yet they may do in a mad panic over the next few months. How things go from 2019 onwards will depend on how sharp the teeth end up being and how often/effectively they are applied, but the general feeling I get is that this is not going to be a damp squib or quietly fade away after for first big bang.
Why shouldn’t cyclists need a license to ride on the road? Others road users must have one.

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It's a shame I'm getting downvoted, but the current state of affairs is that in cities like London bicycles, cars and trucks will be sharing the road for the near-mid future.

I'd rather not have trucks or cars in the city, and ideally cyclists would have their own road separate from cars and pedestrians, but I think that's a pipe dream.

Until then what else can do we? At least if we require tests for cyclists, like we do for cars, buses and trucks, it might help reduce the number of cyclists doing risky things that perhaps they aren't even aware of?

Sure there are still reckless drivers, but at least they have a license that can be revoked and points that can be fined. How do we ban reckless cyclists from the road?
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I sorta love it when mother nature comes close to or beats man-made things. Birds of Paradise.. super black... the world is truly amazing.
>What German fairy tales about non-conformist things being destroyed were you raised on?

Not fairy tales but media for children in general: Pinocchio and Thomas the Tank Engine.
As a New Zealander I can confirm. I can't spend more than 10 minutes in the direct sun without turning red as a tomato an my skin pealing a few days later.
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To a colour-blind person who cannot perceive a difference between green and red, there is no distinction.

There is no difference between identifying the colour "red" and the qualia of it, because we must directly know the latter to do the former. It cannot be described, understood nor appreciated without first having the direct experience.
The EU has jurisdiction over EU citizens and business you do with them. Don't want GDPR to apply to you? Don't do business with people living in the EU. Simple as that.
If you are not familiar with Olivetti (the company), or the founder's son (Adriano), you should.

In a parallel universe, Olivetti is the market leader in chip manufacturing, and Intel never existed.
This sums up the whole debate debate in a nutshell.
Sadly, can confirm. I've seen or overheard far far far too many conversations where someone was in pain and neglected, or verbally abused by nurses.

If Im lucky enough to feel old one day, I'll take an impersonal robot over real life versions of online trolls.

I haven't seen how it's handled outside of the US, but I would love some examples of nursing care done right, but it's just a tough situation all around. I wish there were some way to align all of our incentives.

Edit: In relation to the comment, I meant that to mean that neglect is happening in both obvious neglect, but also abandoning people at nursing homes, without realizing that this can take a fragile person's mental state from "holding on" to completely broken.
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I wish that the domain summary said 'waypoint.vice.com', since they have a very different style to vanilla Vice.
Yes motor vehicles have blind spots that is why in driving school they teach you checking over shoulder when you turn right. Remember?
And yes you should wait for pedestrians and cyclists first if you want to turn right. That is the traffic law. And maybe you can park your car on the curb so that you don't need to wait for pedestrians either!
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Kind of a simplistic concept, no? Feels almost monosyllabic, like simple English wikipedia.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Maybe some people need this sort of thing?

I feel like the idea for what “badware” is, according to this site, is put forward to assist non-english speakers, in negotiating software choices in a world where the dominant locale option is English.

Beyond a certain level of awareness and computer literacy, this site is only collecting obvious facts and offering a new name for them. I don’t foresee anyone fluent in English, above middle school age, finding a great deal of utility here.
It's also kinda ironic because improved performance was the reason behind that decision.
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Maybe, but that is a different issue.

If as a hosting provider I have accounts for foo.com and bar.com, I certainly need to make sure to never reply to requests for foo.com with data from the account bar.com.

But I might still allow the account bar.com to upload a certificate that includes bar.com www.bar.com bar.io getbar.com or any other domain name even if those are not registered in my platform.

So what if bar.io is actually not owned by the same person as bar.com? The DNS for bar.io does not point to my platform, no real user will connect to me.

If an attacker is also able to change the DNS for bar.io (say by an MITM attack in a public wifi) it is of no real consequence that he uses my platform. He could just as well respond with an IP completely of his own and do everything himself. That is why we have SSL in the first place.
The highway code says that cyclists should stay to the left. Even on a roundabout with multiple lanes, cyclists are supposed to stay to the left and cycle across exits.

I don't ever follow that rule when cycling, it does seem dangerous, but it is the rule, regardless of whether you disagree. You should always check blind spots when turning left, and you should have been coached to do this when learning to drive.
In our analytics product we've moved ourselves out of the scope of GDPR by no longer capturing personal data e.g. removing last octet of IP addresses, storing location less precisely etc.
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