skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to build the Linux kernel on your own (it's easy) and you'll find hundreds of different algorithms for all things networking and TCP. There isn't a global best algorithm or setting. Depending on whether you are a server or a client, whether you are on a connection that offers high banwidth, low latency, both or none, depending on the application (streaming, torrenting, VoIP), some configuration will be better than another.

If I recall correctly, delayed acks and tcp delay are there to provide higher throughput and prevent network congestion —think downloading from an ftp server as fast as possible, without causing trouble to the rest of the channel's tenants.

The solution provided works very well for a specific problem, HAProxy talking to a backend application, but would probably make things worse if you were to use it for your laptop from your shared home connection.
I would pay >$1 for the rights to mine this asteroid for the next 200 years. I would bet the value of this asteroid if sold in the market right now would be significant.
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> "lock-free"

I never liked that term.

Lock-free algorithms will usually boil down to some combination of polling, waiting (sleep(), futex-style), or use what are essentially more fine-grained, hardware-backed locks (CAS, memory barriers, LOCK instructions, hardware-specific transactional instructions, etc). The locks are very much still there.
People will undoubtably pick this submission apart because opinions on licensing are a deeply personal thing but I’d wager Burntsushi has done more for open source than most of the folk who’ll comment. So pseudo-religious arguments aside, I thank you, burntsushi for all the code you have written.

I know for a fact I use your code on a nearly daily basis and I’m sure there’s others who have equally as benefitted from your work.
If you add anything to your coffee you're in fact breaking your fast so you're not really intermittent fasting any more.
I was confused by the title, at first I thought they refused to engrave the word “liberate”.
A slightly different perspective from another religion. I am trying to follow the Hindu Lunar calender. But it’s a 2 week schedule based on full moon and new moon.

Basically on the 11th day after full moon and new moon, one fasts from sunrise to sunset. That’s twice a month. It’s called Ekadasi Fast.

But the real trick is preparing to fast 6-8 hours before and after the day of the fast.

Also the day after the fast, the food has to be grain/gluten free(rice seems to be ok) and has certain ingredients like greens, herbs and spices. It’s very light.

Full moon and new moon days are always food for milk and fruit fasts. And there is a whole bunch of other religious day fasts. Example: no salt on 6th day after full/new moon..a lot of ingredient restrictive fasts etc. I don’t know a lot about that but I have seen my mother observe it. I must find out more.

There seems to be a whole method to the madness and when scheduled properly, one can do staggered and scheduled partial fasts 6-7 days for a lunar fortnight. The calorie restriction mostly comes from the rules against certain ingredients.

Even in the pared down format I follow, I feel like I connect more with my food and am more mindful when I cook. Most of all, I don’t waste as much food because it’s so much work preparing the food! Of course, it’s seasonal. Having said that, I guess annual menu and schedule format has to be reversed for those in the Southern Hemisphere.
They probably have a list of phrases that will be sent for manual review.
MDN has a good coverage on Web Audio API, including an example of how to set up animation frame-based canvas-drawn visualization. The browser does all the heavy lifting, including the FFT, making the whole process really quite trivial especially when compared to doing the same with a native desktop program.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...

https://github.com/mdn/webaudio-examples/
and if no?

Companies need to be held accountable, regardless of who buys their stuff. Stop blaming common people for the crimes of megacorps.
I retired after 9 years, and then became rich
-The ham radio club I was a member of while in university had a long and proud tradition of sending letters to former members, asking if their employer happened to have any items suitable for donation to the club; power tubes (think 3-500Z, 4CX250/350 &c), old measurement gear, etc, etc.

Back in the seventies sometime, they received notice that a shipment of QRO (high power!) tubes were on their way, courtesy of $COMPANY.

Enthusiasm turned to amazement turned to dismay when it turned out the shipment consisted of several big Klystrons - hardly useful for amateur purposes! We still had one on display when I attended in the late nineties, though.
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Didn't Fox news reject it too? (Apart from the twat who's turning himself orange)"
Ah yes, I'll fix it! Thanks
Yes. One asteroid like this will make most other mining irrelevant for centuries.

Just need a few decades or more of dedication to actually capture it
Yep, next week I think!
Similar story: Back in 2001, Jonah Peretti requested the word "sweatshop" engraved on his Nike shoes. They refused the request, and it became a Thing.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/nike-id-sweatshop-e-ma...

Peretti later went on to found BuzzFeed.
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Patents only last 14 years, they are much less problematic than copyright.
isn't...that what happened? at least, that's part of the phrase:

...The customer, alias Mr. Chan, told Apple Daily that he got a call from an Apple employee on Wednesday saying that their “higher-ups didn’t approve” of his proposed inscription, “Liberate HKERS.”
Depends on if you like the letter R or the letter D.
Some people would actually do that.
I’ve always wondered how much human intervention they add to the engraving.

“cunt” can’t even be submitted, but “c u n t” could be last time I tried. Didn’t order it, just had a laugh. One could also go with Scunthorpe and add some Tipex.

(Yes, I’m twelve and think that’s funny)

On a related note: a few months ago I read an article about how Disney(?) tried to sensor “bad words” in one of their Habbo-Hotel like apps for kids. Starting with blacklists, moving to whitelists, then trying a scratch-like building blocks. People would start to arrange sofas to talk to each other. You can’t really stop it.

Can’t find it anymore though.
It is simple: Don't vote for Apple with your money. Especially iPhones. But wait they are tinkering with search engine project. They will support freedom of speech, or not.
Interesting times we live in, very interesting.:)
"They don't have to physically hold every piece of evidence and forensically investigate it in order to report a story."

Do you consider fact-checking a form of censorship?
Where is it trying to mislead to?

That means, it is natural that Apple refused "LIBERATE HKERS" and "Liberate" is not? I can't see the difference.
Extreme poverty has been on a constant decline only as defined by the world bank (by choosing an arbitrary dollar amount of 1.90 international dollars that could barely buy some food, but not medicine or shelter).

In real terms, it has been stagnant or increasing, especially as people who were living well off the land have been forced to participate in the monetary economy or die of starvation.

And even by the world bank standards [0], the only gains have been because of China (a planned economy that has ignored any american or european economic orthodoxy), and to a lesser extent, India, which has mostly advanced by freeing itself from the burdens of colonialism (before colonialism, it was one of the richer areas of the world). In sub-Saharan Africa, extreme poverty has actually been increasing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty#/media/File:To...
The two part PBS documentary[1] is a terrific source of information. From the events leading up to the war until the origin of ISIS skirmishes.

They explicitly cover the aluminum tube and how the government used a news paper article to justify their stance. It also covers the famous 16 words from Bush [1].

I found it fascinating to learn about all the internal politics during this period and the war state shapes the opinion of the masses. How does one go about justifying a war that has left millions dead, maimed, and traumatized for life, that has cost (and continues to) trillions of dollars, and continues to shape the world we live in today? Highly recommended.

[1] https://www.pbssocal.org/programs/frontline/frontline-bushs-...

https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-bushs-war-part-2/

[2] https://www.factcheck.org/2004/07/bushs-16-words-on-iraq-ura...
I don’t think so. If you don’t have any memories that are visual at all, you probably just have aphantasia.
being unbiased is not something you can be, it is something you can strive towards.

Biases are inescapable, but there is no need to be fatalist about it.
This is on point. I would add that successive approximation here is quicker than finding solution on SO.
Intellectual property doesn't rely solely on law, there are technical means to enforce it like DRM, tivoization, SaaSS and, well, monopolization, you can't defeat them by just walking and talking. He literally complains that copyleft doesn't allow corporations enforce their intellectual property. What he opposes?
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Victimhood need not apply here. On balance, your employer decides the benefits of using a Mac outweighs the cons. On balance, you decide the benefits of staying on the job outweighs the cons of using a Mac. The world is not perfect and is not meant to be. You however do get to weigh your choices, make your tradeoffs and act on it.
Why is this news ???.
You sounds like living within extremes in quite a few aspects of life. Feels like some underlying (mental?) condition from description that manifests as anxiety. Ever thought about getting deeper instead of trying to fix the effects of such a behavior?
Do I like this? No. Do I approve of this? No. But does it surprise me? Also no.

Apple has time and time again chosen to take the side of oppressive regimes (by banning apps in HK that help protesters, forcing Telegram to remove chat groups that help protesters in Belarus, etc).

It is to be expected. In all such cases, the protestors are on the right side of history by fighting oppressive/authoritarian regimes.

But Apple (like most corporations) only really cares about money at the end of the day. If they don't do stuff like this, it'll just lead to them being banned from operating in these countries. Then they won't be able to make money. It is what it is.

Long gone are the days in which Google refused to operate in China because it was asked to censor searches.

The only reason Google search doesn't operate in China today is because leads to massive backlash each time they try to go back on that decision. But if Google's current management had been in place back then, they would have never made that stand in the first place.

Ethical public companies simply cannot exist in this world.
It's hard not to be cynical about Apple's supposed commitment to social justice issues in America when they do stuff like this abroad. Apple under Tim Cook may be succeeding financially, but their hypocrisy is becoming too much to ignore. At least Jobs had the decency to try and be apolitical.
Weigh avoiding people exhibiting these behaviors:

1. No sense of humor, thin-skinned, rushes to disproportionately condemn others for minor transgressions

2. Inflexibility: black & white thinking; tribal groupthink; zealous, mechanical adherence to rules

3. Incurious

4. Wallowers in the litany of useless emotions

5. Quick to like/love others

6. Lacking in reciprocity / The Golden Rule, or gamifying pseudo-generosity to take more

7. Lacking in self-awareness and self-examination, especially an inability to admit or recognize fault, or continually self-deceptive

8. Magical thinking, i.e., conspiracy theories or manic hope

9. Constantly needs others for something: approval, attention, advice, decisions, ideas, information, labor, money

Seek these:

I. Better together?

II. Would you kill for them?

III. Would you die for them?

IV. Do you trust them with your life?

Almost everything else is noise.
> Before, when they were dependent on advertising, they needed to be objective and represent all viewpoints because they needed to reach as large an audience as possible.

No, they needed to represent viewpoints that were palatable to their advertisers.

A US-centric, neo-liberal world-view does not really 'represent all viewpoints'.
You can appreciate the engineering and craft of a product while not agreeing with the policy decisions of the company that created it. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

You can symbolically decide to boycott the company and not use it's products, but in the case of apple and their systems, this does a lot more damage to the individual than the company.

(tongue in cheek)
and have you seen the alternatives?!?!?!
Tucker Carlson ... the man who lost the important document in the world ... who claimed in his defense that no one should take his TV show seriously ... that Tucker Carlson?
You can't "feel" if you have cancer or not, until it is too late.
> 14 subjects with metabolic syndrome who fasted (no eating or drinking) from dawn to sunset for more than 14 h daily for four consecutive weeks

it says no drinking as well, so not sure about the water, but I was surprised to read it, maybe they just meant drinks other than water.
underrated response! :-)
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"Liberate" doesn't bother China who Apple is heavily reliant on?
I am not sure if this is sarcasm or not, however their way of doing things certainly is on the winning side. Even the USA is trying to ban apps and articles for national security reasons. You can't start directly by making companies afraid of engraving something questionable on a pencil, you start with baby steps. Some time later everyone becomes a patriot or a traitor, then you can have companies self censoring engravings on pencils so they don't get the traitor label.
Many very wealthy people already donate to charity as a form of tax avoidance, by showing that they are benefitting others therefore they should be allowed to dodge tax.

The main problems with the argument that if wealthy people didn't get taxed then they would donate to charity more are 1) it's not proven to be true 2) where the money goes gets decided by the donor.

For some people letting the donor decide where their money goes sounds like a good idea, as it's there money. However donors do not take a holistic view of the needs of a society and are very influenced by what visible to them, their opinions & prejudices, etc... For example rich people donate billions to Harvard University, which already has an endowment of over $40 billion, which benefits almost nobody. That's arguably not a great use of charity donations where there are other more pressing needs, also in education, which would be much more efficient uses of that money.

The wealthy also often think that they are best placed to solve problems that they have zero experience with, based on being successful in a completely different field. Typically this leads to failure or inefficient and suboptimal results.

Governments are not perfect, nowhere close, but in terms of taking a holistic view of the needs of society and applying funds where needed, they are generally much better than assigning that function to a financial elite, especially if that government is a social democracy.
If I should ever buy an Apple Pencil, I will order a "Liberate HKers" inscription for moral support. But then, I don't live in Chinese jurisdiction.

Corporations won't support us in the development of civil society, that's our own job. They will abide by the rules of whoever is in power in their respective regions of operation. Their purpose is to make money and if that requires that they engage in slavery, torture, or mass murder, they will do just that. Consult the history books for examples.
We, as an international society, have been so focused on improvement in material conditions that we haven't really done a proper attempt at looking for a sustainable way forward. Your Bronze Age analogy is spot on; the ancients had global trade and rapidly improving conditions too, and things were looking extremely bright for them. Until it didn't.

As the grandparent stated, "there will be casualties". Sure, I'm quite certain humanity will recover, and probably end up better off than we are now, but that doesn't mean the chain of events leading up to that that won't be hell.
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But that's not a guarantee that others have. All they would have is my word. Copyleft works because it is, ultimately, backed by law. If I used copyleft but promised not to pursue violations of copyleft, what exactly would that accomplish?
Loops must be bounded, that means, the verifier must be able to see that the loop will eventually terminate based on the condition. The verifier will simulate all iterations of the loop and as such it is limited by the verifier complexity, that is, it'll do analysis of up to 1 million walked insns for the entire program until the verifier rejects it.
Simple languages are great, but simple does not necessarily mean less powerful. C is a simple language (albeit with many footguns) and the ecosystem is simple as possible (make and friends, gcc/clang, etc), but it can be extremely difficult.

Swift is a great example of what go could be. It includes a lot of powerful features (e.g. generics, lacking in Go), but the language is designed so that its easy to start without having to learn advanced language features; one can slowly accumulate these more advanced tools as one progresses. Scala is also like this; a lot of Scala code is basically just less verbose Java. This is in stark contrast to languages like Haskell or Rust, which one has to very quickly learn myriad details about things to be productive (e.g. about laziness and the data / typeclass split in Haskell compared to standard OO, or about the borrow checker in Rust). Arguably these "big brain languages for super geniuses" distinguish themselves by these features, but it inherently makes them less simple.

It's certainly a boon to everyone (including "supergeniuses") that Go has its design for the same reason Python has its design: simplicity begets a great ecosystem. I still use Python all the time because despite its mess of packaging, dynamic typing, and painfully slow execution, there are so many great projects. Go also produces great tools that I enjoy every day (e.g. hugo and kubernetes) and I'm thankful that the language enabled folks to write these applications that run super fast and don't crash because some rarely-exercised code path referred to an undefined object attribute.
At this point I would believe many outlets would not have published the Snowden docs because of editorial concerns. Probably because they have friends in Washington.
> I try to limit the amount of sugar and almond milk I add

You're not fasting.
@iba99 If only company founders could be forced to pay for "free forever plan" once they are no longer free. In reality "Free for ever" seems to mean "free untill I sell the company"
Thank you, but that doesn't quantify catastrophe. I mean numbers of dead, cost in dollars, etc. Maybe we can cope with those 35 degree events by staying in air conditioned buildings like people already do in SE Asia. Maybe cities can move. The world's biggest(?) (Shenzhen) didn't really exist at all 80 years ago, or even 40 years ago.
> Maybe .. but (offtopic infodump)

That was not an opportunity to hawk this tired disinformation again (1). Nobody cares. Even this "report the controversy" (2) gambit is lame.

1) https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-...

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy
> Ideologically, it's pretty simple: I don't believe that ideas can be meaningfully owned as property.

Software isn't an idea. It required real work of a scarce-ish resource (software dev time) to create that software. You could make the argument that software, unlike a physical good, can be copied at almost no cost after creation; however, acting as if all forms of IP are "owning an idea" is a weird take.

I'd like to put forward the argument that software _patents_ are the IP that most closely resembles the IP the author seems to hate, and the source of much of the troubles associated with IP in the sofware industry. Additionally, abolishing software patents is a realistic short team goal we can work towards, while abolishing all IP is too extreme to get the average developer on board with.
It was not misleading for me. My immediate thought was: click through to find out what that 'liberate slogan' is. N=1
If you're looking to a giant corporation's products to be a channel for the expression of your moral position, you're looking in the wrong places.

Just the fact you want to buy their products speaks more than any 8 letters you can choose to engrave / "personalize" your dollars with.

Go work to do real things, change real things. Corporations swing with the wind, and just as soon as they would support what movement you have this month, they might abandon the next. Do something that sticks.
IDGAFF. DIY with a laser engraver.

Better yet, buy from a different vendor who isn't in China's pocket.
Fortunately, it's likely that they'll again have a chance to start harping on fiscal recklessness, starting on January 21st, 2021.
I'm available if you want to chat or work through anything in this space. Would be great if you can find a way to create your site that works for you and makes it accessible for everyone.
> with the idea they acted more like a common carrier than a publisher.

This is pure invention.

Information services' closest publishing analogue is letters to the editor. In print, the publisher has a far lower inbound volume of letters, and has to satisfy a less stringent SLA (letters are published daily or weekly). Publishers are able to moderate submissions effectively. Thus they can be held liable for user submissions they publish, even though they didn't write them.

Information services cannot do this. If they adopt the moderation model of a traditional publisher, their usefulness is lost because:

a) you'll need way more manpower to moderate (or the service cannot handle a high volume of submissions)

b) you'll lose the low-latency of an information service (i.e. nobody wants to wait 10 hours for their tweet to be posted).

Given these facts, treating information services as publishers by making them liable for what their users posted would have killed an entire industry in the cradle. Which is why Congress wrote the safe harbor into law. It has nothing to do with them being a "common carrier". You can read the law and it explicitly allows them to perform as much moderation as they wish.