skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I extremely strongly disagree with your points and conclusion here: why should I, a web author, care because you’re using a slow language that doesn’t have a real HTML parser available? You want to parse my HTML, use an HTML parser.

Parsing an HTML document without a correct HTML parser is just wrong. (I decline to call it an HTML 5 parser, because it’s not strictly that any more, and this stuff is from more than ten years ago: get with the program!) I’d lump it in with using regular expressions to parse HTML: useful in certain situations, but not wise for the general case.

So you have a fast but wrong HTML parser? Find a correct HTML parser. If lxml.html doesn’t parse correctly (I don’t know whether it does or not, I haven’t checked—but suppose it doesn’t), then I maintain that you should never under any circumstances use it in new code. It’s an artefact of twelve years ago, and it’s bad.

So you have a correct but slow HTML parser, and you’re not happy with that? I could say “if you care about performance why are you using Python anyway”, but that would be disingenuous—though some of those sentiments can still reasonably apply. Anyway, your remedy is to find a fast and correct one. I confess myself a tad surprised to find no stable or featureful bindings to html5ever, which is one of the best things along these lines. https://github.com/SimonSapin/html5ever-python and https://pypi.org/project/htmlpyever/ are two things that at least start on this, but it looks like nothing interesting’s happened in this space for about three years. Huh.

But anyway: I decline to adjust my authoring practices because you refuse to use the right tools. Enough other people use the right tools that I don’t need to care. It’s rather like the XHTML/HTML situation if you squint: the only reason to use XHTML, which would reject an invalid document (while HTML would let your nominally invalid document do something useful), would be if something you were interacting with required it.
CS:GO does not belong in that category
Not really, just like a beginner painter using the finest unicorn-hair brushes or whatever would not be able to paint the Mona Lisa, "gaming" hardware gives a very marginal benefit, that is better taken advantage of when you actually have the game skill.

For all but the highest ranks, it does not make much of an actual difference.

Most games have some sort of skill ceiling, or at least narrow bands of clustered players. Hardware will put you slightly above competitors of the same cluster, but will not by itself enable you to climb to the next cluster.

This is evident in cross-platform games, where in casual or non-professional competitive play, a good console player can still beat a slightly less good fully-geared PC player, despite the 30fps and controller "handicaps".
Wasn't Tesla consumed with beamed power? I seem to remember that was what Wardenclyffe was about.

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

I remember reading a Repairman Jack novel about it. I think it was Conspiracies.
>When I sign up for gmail, I can just be myself. I don't have to be myself + something else.

I don't understand this sentence. What is the "something else" here that Gmail uniquely lacks?
hrm, I thought it did, sorry.

I can be more comprehensive though, because there's more to it than the comment I linked.

Back in the time of dedicated servers that you mention, there were a few caveats: 1) No console players, 2) You had directory listings of publicly accessible instances, 3) it was the Wild West, connecting to some servers was at best, confusing with weird rules, or at worst actually dangerous to your computer. (if there's client bugs).

So, that's the first thing, the UX is atrocious and there can be a lot of abuse.

Secondly, when it comes to crafting a "global experience" as in, one with global state which improves over time, you can do the "WoW" style and let people reverse engineer your servers so they can have Private instances. Or you can do the Diablo style where you have shared persistent state, no server package.

Other session based games that have no state are relatively easy to release server packages for, because there's no expectation that you'll build a character for 200hours. You spin up a counter strike server and you're playing as if it was an official server or not.

But with The Division or Destiny, there is "precious loot" and the whole game is built on the idea of a world in which you can encounter other people; it loses all charm if you can control who can come in or grant yourself whatever gun you want to go kill the last boss in the game.
I don't know about any comparative studies, but sexism in medicine (even patients are calling female doctors honey or sweetie) is an ancient problem.

https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/03/12/time-confront-sexism-m...

I can't imagine sexism or work environment (looong hours and exhausting shifts) are substantially worse in engineering.

What is different is, in my opinion, that medicine/law is perceived as higher status than nerd stuff. There are popular tv series idolizing the glamorous life of New York lawyers and the heroism of doctors/nurses. When are techies depicted favorably and not as social autists? The goth chic in Navy:CIS maybe, but not much else.
The point where the beam is aimed would be moving with 250m/s. (or about so) Therefore the hypothetical bird which crosses the beam would only get the energy for a fraction of a second.

I don't know if this reasoning is correct or not, but definitely has nothing to do with the speed of light in air. I'm not even sure why you are bringing it up.
There has got to be some alternative to YouTube. First it was gun videos, then “hate speech”, then medical videos or anything that doesn’t tow their line with the virus, and now they are screwing with people (the Peak Prosperity guy) discussing peer reviewed literature.
N=1, but it loaded just fine for me on a T-Mobile LTE connection in rural Tennessee. Buck the Bunny started streaming immediately on my iPhone when clicked, the kids love it.
When I was doing my PhD there was also SciRate: https://scirate.com/
I think he's referring to the motion of the beam to track the target.
They actually conducted over 190 autopsies, the study is about the first 12 cases.
Pure CSS Nintendo Switch
Thank you for proving my point.

See, here you are automatically assuming that I was "telling a maintainer what they can do with their own project" when that wasn't the case at all. As a matter of fact, I wasn't even talking about Material UI when I posted a comment on one of their issues. I was addressing another user about their ads in NPM.

I'm also not calling someone an asshole for disagreeing with me - I'm calling them an asshole for acting like they're better than you and me and that "contributing code to open source is the only way to support open source". (Did you miss the part where I said he acted like not contributing to any large open source projects made me less of person? Because that's exactly what happened. If you don't believe me then that's probably because you have a personal bias. There's absolutely no reason for me to lie and it's not like I go around talking about this all the time - it's precisely on topic and I happened to see Asshole Tassinari's name in the Twitter thread...)

It'a a lie that code-only contributors are better than others and one that is swallowed hook and sinker by many, many open source maintainers. People who believe it are just protecting their fragile egos.

> They can decide what project roadmap is, they can spam your terminal with ads[1] and they can even remove or abandon the project.

Incorrect. I have since blocked all ads in NPM logs (and then NPM subsequently banned them) thank you very much :) I'll never see another one. And you can't take back an open source project once it's been released in the wild. But thanks for all the free work! I'll continue to use it for as long as I wish.
We target a particular subset of retail-customer businesses which all generally have a phone-number.
I'm inclined to agree; it's never a good idea to discuss stuff like this on work comms. this leads to a bigger question though. why does google encourage this kind of discussion on an internal mailing list in the first place? seems like it can only lead to embarrassing PR moments.
I wish there were a checkbox in account settings somewhere by ticking which you would essentially say, "I do not record videos for kids, just stop asking me already".
> He sounds like he may be on the autistic spectrum, which if treated as a form of social disability would (or should, IMO) grant him some leeway.

This attitude leaves me almost speechless. When someone makes an argument that at least tries to be well reasoned, and people attack him based on misunderstandings and how it makes them feel, maybe the problem is not that he's autistic. Maybe it's those who are offended and refuse to engage in a civilized debate that have some form of disability.

It used to be that dispassionate reason was the highest form of discourse (the only one on which it's possible to reach agreements). What happened to that standard, when the responses boil down to "how does it make you feel"?
THERE'S A HUGE SHORTAGE OF MEN IN NURSING! THIS IS OBVIOUSLY DUE TO INHERENT SEXISM AND FEMALE TOXICITY! HOW DO WE SOLVE THIS ISSUE?
Damore was character assassinated via leaks and libel, yes. Pragmatically, he could have prevented his fate if he took the opportunity to back down when challenged by corporate, instead of defending his right to free honest speech at a megacorp. He erroneously thought that because controversial party-line free-speech was job-safe even when intellectually dishonest, that controversial anti-party-line free speech was also job-safe.
I've been cycling into central London for about 20 years now. During that time, community every day I've day 4 accidents.

1 x pedestrian walking off the pavement and into me without looking

2x objects in the road that I hit

1 x Car cutting me up turning left.

As long as you keep your wits about you, I really don't think its that dangerous. However when you start out it can feel very very dangerous. I would suggest aclimatising yourself with regular short rides.
Ask HN: How do you become a committer in an Apache project?
Sure, and that's not an argument I'd make. But, as Damore suggested in his memo, mightn't these innate differences mean that women are less likely, on average, to prefer careers in software engineering? And mightn't these innate differences also explain why women are strongly over-represented in certain other professions like nursing (91%), elementary and middle school teaching (81%) and social work (80%)?
Also, Is it worth the time and the effort?
solar panels in space -> microwave transmission to glass kiln -> glass towers that reach up into the sky ..
That's pretty neat, I didn't know that. I have done it with some other stuff on the main website but never messed around with the chat before abandoning it for just using my IRC client to connect to it (has some advantages too like being able to scroll very far back, saving logs and the like but since they use a heavily hacked IRC server, it has disadvantages like not being able to see status messages (you won't be notified that a message you sent didn't arrive because the channel is in followers-only mode for instance)).
Most people who think that women are inferior (just on average tho!) remain gainfully employed, because instead of writing their views on internal company memos, they post them on news.ycombinator.com.
9/11 changed the risk of dying in a terrorist attack when flying, and no one knew what the change was at the time.
Oh great, someone is down voting me. Another four hours later, and I'm still showing #81 in the queue.
THIS!

Also, if someone asks me for my YT channel, I just say the channel name and they know where to look, youtube.com.

With peertube you have to: give your channel name, remember then it's NOT youtube, tall then the correct instance, hope they won't type peertube on google and try to search for you in the first instance that comes up.
Who are the high-profile liberals that got fired from Google; I can't think of any, but the only person I can recall Google firing for political views is Damore. I wouldn't be surprised if they had filed any liberals; but they certainly didn't get equivalent media coverage as Damore.
This may not be popular opinion but I like Cloudflare's free plan analytics. It may not be as extensive as Google analytics but for a low traffic blog, should be good enough.
The result is plausible, I would also feel happier if I was on BI while the rest of society is not.
your making it sound like someone is applying the label to you and forcing you to take actions based on it. It's self identifying ... you can be all those things and your not "trapped".
Because designing a reliable product that's used by millions is so easy compared to duct-taping some research contraption together and cherry-picking to get your PhD.

What's with all the disrespect. I think people are reacting to the link-bait title, and not what was actually written. It's 2020. Realize that the title will be exaggerated and that responding to that is just a straw-man argument.
Sony shows off research on next-gen finger-tracked VR controllers
Better wellbeing is so important. Less health cost, less safety service costs (police for example), better performing people, less sick people at work, and so on.

It is unfortunate most countries today are reigned by short term money while happy people means long term profit.
> non delivery vehicles from zones 1 and 2,

Look out the window in z1 and you will see that it mostly is already.

What will you do regarding the person's who live in those zones? Will they not be allowed to drive?
Instead of a Forum, wouldn't a wiki, blog or other type of CMS make more sense? You still can add a comment and interlink-functionality. With a CMS even better, as you can comment directly to a paragraph or even sentence.

Or do you mean the river of news-style, the frontpage, maybe also with upvotes, so people can better manage attention to papers?
The inverse square law only applies to a point source radiating uniformly in all directions.

Laser and microwave beams, while they do suffer from losses over distance, aren't anywhere near that bad.
Wall Street Titans See Tax Hikes Whether They Like Them or Not
Or... Write whatever you want.

Sick to seeing these authors "Do this, not that! Because I said so!" ... Meh, I'll do as I please.
When someone asks your email, you say 'myemailhandle' and they will already ask if it's gmail. Way easier to speak and remember than if you have your own domain.
I can give that feedback to the R6 team.

I can't promise that anything will change, because we can't easily qualify how much demand there would be for such a feature. But, I can tell the people I know.
How is @gmail.com different than any other @domain.com?
I bet 2000 years from now Doom is belongs to canon like Iliad. It's of the timeless classical epics among the oldest extant works from the early silicon era. Doomguy is mentioned with Gilgamesh and Odysseus.
How would you suggest we improve on this?
Lucid Scientific – Realtime Cell Analysis
This page may be helpful as it describes the process of getting involved with Apache Projects [1].

[1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html
ok fatty. those people (probably you included) have no-one but themselves to blame.
btw you will never be at a healthy weight so just keep trying buddy
> That's when I stumbled on a platform called FastSpring, which acts as a merchant of record. They handle all international sales tax for you and have cool features to show prices in your customers currency, etc...

I don't know about international sales tax, but FastSpring does not handle domestic US sales tax correctly. I noticed this when I ordered an upgrade to BBEdit, and the tax came to 9.24% instead of the correct 9%. I contacted Bare Bones Software (makers of BBEdit) about it.

They referred me to FastSpring, who hosts their store. I contacted FastSpring, and their answer was:

> Thank you for contacting FastSpring. Due to the US Supreme Court ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair, we have had the way we are required to collect state taxes changed. Right now, it is taken as an average across the state.

You are probably safe using them, even though they are not collecting sales tax correctly, because as you note they are the merchant of record.

When I passed FastSpring's answer back to Bare Bones, and suggested that they talk to their own lawyers to make sure that FastSpring indemnifies them from any liability for miss-collected tax, because everything I found when implementing post Wayfair sales tax handling said FastSpring is doing it wrong, they said that they too had asked FastSpring about this, found it strange, but that they and their corporate counsel believes that because FastSpring is the merchant of record that it will be FastSpring that is on the hook if there is any liability here.

This was last October, but I just checked and FastSpring is still doing it wrong. This does not fill me with confidence, because this is easy and cheap to get right for at least half the states (including mine). That's because of the Streamlined Sales Tax agreement [1]. The states that are a party to that have agreed that if online merchants collect sales taxes for sales in all of the member states, the states will cover the costs of using tax services like TaxCloud, Avalara, and a few others I don't recall to lookup rates and file all necessary reports and payments.

[1] https://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/
This article seems to be written very unclearly, but by "reduction", it seems be means a vectorized function that takes a double[4] and sums the 4 values, and fills another double[4] with 4 copies of the result.

I don't really see any explanation of why you'd want to do this? Not only is there a instruction for doing exactly this in most vector instruction sets, but you typically don't need to do it inside your hot loop anyway.
Agreed on all accounts, especially the importance of reading historical books from the past (I.e. books on history that were written 50-100-300 years ago). Modern culture, including academia, is permeated by a particular type of thinking, one that is extremely shallow and historically ignorant in terms of the history of thought, or ways of thinking. The past is indeed a foreign country, but we (Western) moderns don’t seem to understand this when discussing previous times and civilizations.
A Walk to Remember in Sagada
Started with sway on FreeBSD recently and I love that combo so far.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

- H. L. Mencken
You shouldn't make extreme claims about what other people supposedly said without showing evidence.
> What is the "something else" here that Gmail uniquely lacks?

The unique domain that I would otherwise have to associate myself with. "gmail" is so ubiquitous that it just doesn't mean anything anymore. It's just... the protocol.

Tell someone that your email is "alice@alice.website" and even _that_ is saying something significant about yourself that you may not want to say.

A big aspect of appearing "cool" is not letting on that you care so much. Social networks and messaging systems should allow people to be "cool" if they want to be.
The study in question -- outcomes for new vs. "refurbished" pacemakers and defibrillators -- sounds like a useful question. Plus, it sounds like he did a bunch of manual work matching each refurbished device use case to similar new device use cases. So kudos to him for sure.

But it's worth noting that "[h]e was aided by his father, MHI [Montreal Heart Institute] cardiologist Dr. Paul Khairy", which helps explain why he could start rotating through groups there when he was 12. That's not to diminish his accomplishment. It's not like the NEJM accepted the paper because it's a cute story. It's more like he had a great opportunity and took advantage of it.
I agree that a senior should know this, but at the same time I've never run into a problem at work that required me to start using web workers because what I was doing was so CPU intensive. Most professional Javascript development is pretty run of the mill.
The government isn't a person. It can't 'urge', even if the BBC says it can.
The quantified majority is already voting for it in the UK: nobody really cares about it that much and are going out in the parks.

There’s quite a few occurrences of politicians going to their second home/visiting extended family and I cannot believe other people don’t do that.

So in reality people are not doing what you think they are doing, and that’s even worse.

On top of this all I don’t remember people actually voting on this matter. This all had been forced on us by the governments.

Nevertheless, I am very much pro-isolation. But I don’t really care about it - my life hasn’t had any drastic changes and I can still do most of the things I was doing from home.

Most of the people can’t afford that.
Minecraft also grew organically over time; was not intended for consoles and has the benefit of a slow churn towards maturity for a very long time.

Minecraft as a project over the years easily cost more than 20x to make than The Division, I'm glad it's successful, but I don't know if it's really apples/apples.
That's one option of course, though I prefer a cap and trade system on permits to operate a vehicle in those zones, reducing the cap as much as possible. People in city centers are less likely to own cars as it is. Often, road infrastructure (especially parking infrastructure) exists to benefit the suburbanites at the expense of the city dweller.
My impression from talking to post-quantum cryptographers is that the answer is "probably" or "it would be pretty surprising, though not radically shocking, if it turns out that any public-key protocol is necessarily quantum-vulnerable".
Well I’m long time D language user and we had unit-tests built-in from 2005+ (if not earlier - I started in 2010).

It all helps but never eliminates the problem completely.
A lang attribute only affects the element it’s applied to, and any descendants. Putting it on the html element is the most robust way of indicating this. I’d rather not write this:

<!doctype html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link lang="en" title="All blog posts feed" rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="feed.xml">
<title lang="en">Blog posts</title>
<body lang="en">
…

I’d rather just do it once:

<!doctype html>
<html lang=en>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<link title="All blog posts feed" rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml href=feed.xml>
<title>Blog posts</title>
…
This has nothing to do with aircraft.

Actually, yes, the article explicitly mentions the possibility of powering unmanned aerial vehicles.
to keep the numbers manageable?
all the hospitals are empty, the field hospitals they built for this have had 80 total patients out of the expected 10 million+
the whole purpose of "flattening the curve" was so that everyone one would get the virus but at different times, if no-one is getting it now, then that just means everyone will get it later
I'll point out that this aphorism concedes that certain categories of interesting discussion are not possible, and it's a little neutral about that prospect for my taste.

It also concedes that "The New York Times" cannot be trusted to value that kind of discourse more than gotcha narrative chasing.
The "appropriate for kids" thing has caused a lot of concern for youtubers due to how relatively heavy-handed it is.
There's some deprecated gubbins in there mostly having to do with styling the box images. You can set "includeScripts" to "false" to omit them. What's left is a list of items and what boxes they go in, as well as the SVGs that show how to pack them. Thanks for trying it out!
Isn't it obvious? Because anti-intellectualism rules supreme.

Murica = Freedumb!