skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. It does.

Or it is insincere.

Saying "im sorry" or never saying "im sorry" has expansive meanings and "sides"-

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"My favorite mug is broken."

"Im sorry."

"Did you break it?"

"No."

"Then why apologize??!!!"

("I feel bad" is a better response)

I was reared in an "im sorry" said often environment. It was used to placate and move past someone's issue. A phrase that was never meant but effective.

I work now with a man that will always say (after hearing someone say im sorry), "Never say you're sorry. Its a sign of weakness." where i say im sorry to make others feel comfortable and to relate to complainers.

A sibling had and will never say she is sorry. It is like a commandment. Thou shall not ever apologize.

I do an im sorry test when i meet someone. Do they ever say that phrase?

There is no real simple answer "does it mean guilt" but my decades of experience say "Yes" more than "no"
I also prefer the CIL and also the C# language to Java (though I really like Java and its ecosystem), but we have to admit that MS had 5-10 years to learn from the Java design decisions and their effects, and still did not manage to overcome every problematic point :)
I don't see how TPL discourages the use of mutable shared memory any more so than a simple thread pool. Note: I'm not saying that it's not a higher level of abstraction, only that it's abstraction in a different direction (the one that has nothing to do with sharing or mutability).

I'm not surprised that TPL author discourages mutable shared memory and locks - this is the conclusion to which anyone dealing with concurrency a lot arrives sooner rather than later. But that's orthogonal to TPL design.

Now, PLINQ does attack the whole mutable shared memory thing head-on. But it's a much higher level of abstraction on top of TPL.
The point is that you should apologize if your mistake harms someone. Refusing to own up to your errors is unprofessional. That's hardly limited to medicine.
I disagree with your characterization. Physical processes, expressed as "first x, then y, then z" are clearly and indisputably patentable. They can just be a series of steps performed by hand, no machine required. What is this but an algorithm?

And, for anyone who believes that algorithms can't be patented, I have a collection of GIF's and MP3's to sell you.
Ah, I keep forgetting about the Standard. This makes sense (as in, it does make less sense now that it makes sense).
Syntax (and to some extent, expressiveness/conciseness) is superficial. How the code feels under change matters more.
Fair point about the docs, I've been putting reference information in them over time, but it could use more guided tutorials.

Last week I began working to improve that, by writing a series of tutorials. Here's the first: https://postgrest.com/en/v4.1/tutorials/tut0.html

More to come, including tutorials about row-level security and authentication.
I like how they "trick" you to engage with the video, and don't give you an option to get distracted trying to dig around the page. Normally I skip videos if I can and miss out on the high-level guided introduction.

The [video] tag would be a good warning for the sound though.
Intriguingly, I think my Google OnHub devices use spanning tree to find Internet across the mesh. I actually wired up both rather than use mesh networks on their own, though, and a bug in my Cisco wired switch's use of spanning tree was what caused problems -- despite having the cables connected, and ethernet running just fine between them, the spanning tree figured transmitting over wireless from one OnHub to the other would be faster than the ethernet switch between them. (The fix was to disable broken, manual spanning tree settings on the Cisco switch.)

This indicates to me that if you had a dozen Google Wi-Fi devices and a few of them had ethernet connections, the rest would quickly find the shortest path from your device to the AP you're connected to the nearest mesh device with the fastest ethernet to the outside world. I'm not sure how the hops are weighted though, presumably reliability and signal strength plays a role.
Just as an aside how would people build something like this if they were to use say Python and try to scale to these sort of user levels? Has anyone succeeded? I'd say it would be quite a struggle without some seriously clever work!
1.4 is not really "greater than" 4.7, they're just two different parallel tracks.
It's no longer a "note" when it loses the debt provisions.
SAP Security Notes fixes SAP POS flaw potentially affecting 500B installations
How about splitting the difference? One could issue a note that prices at the geometric mean of an agreed-on number (what would have been the "cap", but it's obviously not a cap anymore) and the Series A valuation. So if the agreed number is $6M and the round is priced at $20M, the note would convert at sqrt(6 * 20)M = $10.95M, but if the round prices at $30M, the note would convert at $13.41M. Seems like this would still leave the investor with plenty of incentive to help the business grow, without giving them what can seem an outsized share of that growth.
Integrated QuickAssist tech is an underrated feature here, and should speed up response times for web servers.
Exactly. I remember viewing my website over a mobile connection in the UK and getting an ISP banner at the top of the page! Injected right into my HTML!
Much of the OS was written in an object-oriented assembly language!

This is also what doomed GeoWorks; much of OS was written so low-level is was impossible to port PC/GEOS from 8086 to newer processors.
XNU open source bits from Apple are always a tiny subset of the actual kernel code. Plus, long gone are the people who Apple hired from the FreeBSD world who believed in it enough to push internally for it. So who knows at this point what is filtered out at publish time.

Don't get me wrong, it's great to read how file drivers really work, and read how XNU manages virtual memory, but other than that, it's a pretty crappy drop.
My father encountered a clickbait site a few weeks ago that would spawn pop-unders playing continuous video ads, muted, which closed as soon as they were focused.

It was bizarre. My only guess was that the site was trying to scam advertisers by "showing" lots of ads to users, without the users actually seeing/hearing them and getting annoyed.
Quantum computers compete for “supremacy”
That's a pretty serious claim. Do you have anything other than scepticism behind it?

[Disclaimer: I work at Google. Every team I've interacted with takes this very seriously]
It's rare that I flag stories and rarer that I say that I am, but this isn't the Apache Spark 2.2 announcement; it's posted with a misleading title by a Databricks employee to direct traffic to their blog. I realize they're contributors, but that's not cool.

This is the actual announcement: http://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-2-2-0.html
Although it was "removed due to copyright violations"[1] in 2003, TinyWindowsGames.com was a work of art. If you don't mind downloading random binaries you can still grab them via the Internet Archive. I will see if I can create a new screenshot of the playable, tiny thumbnail near the system tray (probably microscopic at today's resolutions).

https://web.archive.org/web/20030618002602/http://www.tinywi...

[1] Nintendo reported us to some software theft agency over "Tiny Donkey
Kong" (I forget what the agency was called) and that got us threatened
us with scary emails. We tried to protest that we just supplied
emulators, and not ROM images, but it fell on deaf ears and we were
too young and intimidatable to stand our ground. It's a shame, since
it was a popular site in its day.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.comp.freeware/yKQBaHgjGD...
They do plenty to protect what they consider is worthy of protection. which often leaves me out. Protection in their sense includes depriving me of basic rights and freedoms (so long as I'm "Safe").

It's not their official duties that I find dubious but their historical and ongoing ignorance of them. If they simply did their job I wouldn't even need to ask that question.

I'd probably ask the same of SVR/GRU if I lived in Russia.

If the NSA/CIA were doing their job, they wouldn't spy on their own people and they certainly wouldn't make secret deals with security companies and inflitrate their ranks to have a strategic advantage. Letting security companies independently do their job would be "protecting America" backdoors, hoarding exploits, influencing weak crypto,etc... I'm sorry but the russians don't even have the ability to do some of that even if they have the will.

GRU or NSA for both "ends justify means" , if you're on the "ends" side, pick software backdoored by your home country. if you're on the "means" side, pick the other guy.

I suppose it's time to consider what "collateral damage" in the sense of geopolitical computer security is.
Thanks for the kind words. Yep, the guide did take a hell lot of time :) 7k words and there are still a lot of improvements to be done in it.

The keyword difficulty that Keyword Planner shows refers more to Adwords Competition. But yeah. It's definitely an indicator of how competitive the organic positions would be.

And yep.. You are so correct. It takes times for organic traffic to pick up.
The Beauty of Programming (2001) [pdf]
I'm an engineer at an industrial plant simultaneous equations are very common in engineering problems. Just about any "optimization" problem can be represented as a system of simultaneous equations even very complex non-linear dependencies are modeled like this.

i.e a common problem such as calculating the optimal blend of fuel in a reactor is done based on solving a system of linear equations with constraints such as Loss on ignition, maximum allowable ash content, minimum specific energy etc.

Industrial design as well uses simultaneous equations extensively. Do you want to build your aircraft wing out of CFRP or a titanium alloy? One way is to use a constraint based selection method something like strength to weight ratio vs cost.

edit: I should add 99% of the time these are solved programmatically with the aid of a computer. You do not solve these problems "high school math style".
Why would anyone create someone useless and it still enters the coin market
Browser vendors can guarantee privacy the same way that the best (independently audited, opens source) encrypted messaging clients can guarantee privacy. It's not rocket science, but it's never been a goal of browser vendors.
If advertising is done right it will have a positive ROI. Advertising should be treated as an investment, not an expense. Very common mindset error not to do this.
Scale!
ISPs love IPv6 because they lack IPv4 addresses.

Here in Germany, you no longer get IPv4 addresses from Unitymedia.
You know what helps kids (and adults) learn math? The abacus/soroban. Yes, automaticity with math facts/basic math is important but what's really important is being able to represent the base-10 system mentally.

The abacus is an amazing tool that's been successful in creating math savants - here's the world champion adding 10 four-digit numbers in 1.7 seconds using mental math https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numb...

Students are actually taught how to think of numbers in groups of tens, fives, ones in Common Core math -- however, most are not given the abacus as a tool/manipulative.
Looking for leadership mentor/group
Dear HNers:
I am wondering if I could ask the group to make recommendations for in-person, participatory leadership development resources here in the Bay Area, specifically South Bay area.

More specifically: I am looking for either an individual (mentor) or a small group that I can participate in to help me sharpen up my skills in the area of leadership and culture building, two areas which I have learned the hard way over the years are vital. I am not looking for a consultant or to pay high fees—I want to contribute to a group as much as I benefit from it and I don’t think that should involve money changing hands.

I am especially interested in character-based, value-centered leadership, the style that John Wooden has taught. I would like to avoid large, membership-style organizations because it has been my experience that they carry high fees, have mandatory participation that may be beyond my time constraints, do not always focus on personal development, and most importantly: I have sometimes found a great deal of behind-closed-doors narcissism that has caused me to leave such organizations in the past. Books are also helpful.

Context:
In a previous startup it became clear to me after 6 years as CEO and a few key departures that I had an authoritarian leadership style. Upon realizing this I made the difficult but correct decision to bring in a new CEO who mentored me and took the company from $2m to $15m including a successful exit. We recently bought a new business together – roughly $5m annual and 30 employees with tons of growth ahead. I am operating this one and he is operating another. I think my leadership skills from his mentorship are good, but always want to improve. I’m looking for mentors and/or small group in-person situations that you might recommend to help me take on this much bigger endeavor.
What is Discord and Elixir?
3% of routers in Canada and the US have some kind of malware in them, and almost all other countries are worse off. You might not need HTTPS, but I need you to have it so I can trust downloading a PDF when I'm on your site. I need it so I don't get MITM by some shitty black hat tracking company. I need it so while I travel I don't have to worry about shitty governments tracking what I'm reading or watching.

And if your answer is "sure, but there will be other websites that are HTTP" my response is "yeah, but one day soon when enough of the web is secure I'm going to disallow all HTTP connections from my browser". And eventually I'll disallow all connections that aren't on HSTS preload lists. And eventually, hopefully, I'll disallow websites that don't have HPKP with long expires.
"The general idea is to take a document a user has filled out and "fit" it to a blank template" - I agree point to point. However, I am struggling with templatization due to poor quality of the document images. To process those documents (denoise, super resolution, HE - etc. etc.), the OpenCV algorithms are not working good enough, requires a lot of tuning varying with each document.

So, I was wondering if those algorithms work better for natural images (buildings, people, things etc) than document images (text, graphics) and if so, there must exist algorithms to process such documents I am unaware of.
If you don't want to use the internet, then don't. Feel free to use other tools to help yourself not use that tool.
Those should work as well: https://help.github.com/articles/securing-your-github-pages-...
> Also keep in mind that code builds / loading based on browser support isn't realistic in many cases, so if I want to use normalize, everyone pays the network bandwidth usage penalty not just the IE11 users.

Switch to loading it via JS modules and using HTTP2 to keep connection lag low on cellular 3G connections? I agree, more needs to be done to promote these kinds of edge cases. A similar problem occurs with locale-aware date parsing and formatting.
The flaw in your thinking is you are looking at the 0.001% of corporations and think this is why certain rules need to apply to 100% of companies. The 0.001% of companies should always be making more than is fair, even under perfect rules. Do you see why?
Probably trying to compete with the attention span of his students raised on Fred Figglehorn... But I'm getting old I guess :P
Yea personally I'm mostly fascinated with the semi microkernel architecture. I don't really mind that the rest is closed. And yea, I've suspected they lost some good people after seeing all the new security issues in the kernel the past years.

If only wayland was more mature, and the Linux world would have put down X11 once and for all, I would be back on Linux a long time ago :)
Windows does have file versions, I can go in properties and do this but I think you have to set it up. I like your idea and I've been using git for the same (since I have very little binary data I don't feel bad using the free websites with a git commit -a; git push)

But this was another of my motivations behind this question- (which I didn't mention), why buy 1 4TB which will crash anyway but not 4 1TB. As people are getting more pro- I think Microsoft should lead with home RAID solutions. I know there was Windows Server Home but that's no more now. The OS should do integrated backup to various remote storages.
For private individuals that move makes sense. For nation states (with the exception of NK because they're so broke) - a financial incentive isn't enough.

Petya with M.E.DOC is a good example, Russians burned quite a significant attack infrastructure there. They could have sold that access to "someone" but the price (under $1mil in my opinion) isn't worth the sort of chaos it caused in ukraine (majority of companies in ukraine used that software I believe). My point is, if they did backdoor kasperskyOS, it wouldn't be used for a financial end, maybe to "show off" their capability, a retaliation to your government screwing with them,etc... but certainly not a financial end.

Frankly, I'd be happy if governments stay out of securiing civilians when it comes to computers and the internet. Tired of being a meaningless pawn to be discarded whenever convenient to do so.
At least the author used _literally_ correctly? I mean, none of those look like they should have been _figuratively_ instead.
If you have cable, a number of providers have been making customers upgrade to the newest modem. A single old modem that doesn't support docsis 3 will slow down everyone in your neighborhood.
Shut up and take my money! I'm sold. Thank you for this explanation.
Customer feedback system
University tuition is free (well, tax-funded, to be precise) - so students typically take out a student loan of approx. $1k/month to cover living expenses. A lot (most?) work part-time on the side to make ends meet.

Part of this loan (methinks ~30%) is converted into a scholarship once you pass your exams, thus leaving you (very roughly) $50,000 in debt after six years in med school.)
Different tests challenge people differently. It may be that you only needed an accommodation in computationally heavy exams.*

Truthfully, my mention of accommodations isn't for you--I'm assuming you're out of high school already and you've found a professional niche that works for you. I mention test anxiety and the professional workarounds for high schoolers or their parents.

*) This is actually moving well beyond my expertise. I know about the existence of test anxiety, and I've accommodated students with it.

A brief consult with Dr. Google surfaced some clinically recommended accommodations that probably would have helped you. Sorry I don't have a time machine!

http://www.2enewsletter.com/article_2013_05_slow_processing....

This one's my favorite: "Reducing the number of tasks required to demonstrate competence (such as 5 math problems instead of 25)"
almost every distro has that. this is about different 3.x versions. SuSE might have that, but I don't know.
Why not just compile phplib using https://github.com/kripken/emscripten and call the library functions directly?
HPC and scientific computing are quite small niches of the server market though. The database, java etc benchmarks are more important in making or breaking it as a commerical product.
Reddit sways Hawaii to look into basic income
P5 is indeed the official port of Processing for Java (Processing.js being an independent attempt from John Resig).
But like Processing, P5 is more about artistic realisations than applied use, which all of your alternate descriptions tend to lead to.
way I see it, the comment is in writing and at least a bit creative. Its hard to separate language from math and higher learning. Now, psychology is even mor important with regards to learning. In that sense, keep a positive attitude ;)
Yea, I got surprised they didn't have more documentation, at least updated.
I believe the Chrome team has (or at least had) long term plans to mark all HTTP sites as actively dangerous, form fields or not. So, you'll be fine for now, but there will come a point when you will need to implement HTTPS.
If you want support contracts you don't use Fedora, you use RHEL
This is mean-spirited and stupid. This person should not have wasted time writing this.

Edit: Why the downvotes? This is a terrible article. It is a ridiculous attack on HTTP and the open web.
The things we say to ourselves to be able to live with ourselves...
Perhaps you could add software links to your comment. I am always on the lookout for small applications that get the job done.
Sorry about that, the theme will improve. CSS isn't my great side.
BayesLite – BayesDB on SQLite
Tumblr with custom domain doesn't allow cloud flare. No way to enable https.

I understand that's not technically "your problem", but since you mentioned it, just thought I'd let you know :)

It's unfortunate, because tumblr really is a great blog hosting software and service, if you don't use the social aspects of it.
Tech firms unite for 'net neutrality' protest
> First, 16 is still pretty young.

Depends on what we are talking about. The post I was responding to was talking about "the first years of education" and with 16, we are way past that.
Question: How is your approach better than just recursively traversing package.json files? Seems like you're downloading a lot of stuff onto your server when you could keep it all in the client.
This is why I never want to do webdev.

Good god what an excruciating process just to get your foot in the door.
I don't even remember when I would have heard a car horn last time, so what's the problem? It happens so rarely.
"An underappreciated advantage of the single-payer approach is that it sidesteps the mandate objection by paying to cover everyone out of tax revenue.

Of course, having to pay taxes is itself a mandate of a sort, but it’s one the electorate has largely come to terms with. Apart from fringe groups that denounce all taxation as theft, most people understand that our entire system would collapse if tax payments were purely voluntary."

Seriously? This is the argumentation from someone that has absolutely no idea what the other side is thinking.
It's the ugly truth about the relationship with an employer. Some just manage to hide it better.
You're being downvoted because issuing a cert for MITM on an "undermined CA" is, in many cases, a very quick way to get that CA burned. If you have a compromised resource that valuable, you're going to use it very very sparingly.
Disagree! Both ethics and the law make it clear that the (negative) actions of former employees have no bearing on the institution.

For instance, yelling at the average american for Donald Trump colluding with Russia is both pointless, and detrimental to the average person.