skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they? That's far more for production stereotypes than viewer convenience or expectations, or at least seems so. Down to current fashion, and the expectations of the kids in the production team -- or the execs signing off. The most popular aliens in Doctor Who are dustbins with a sink plunger (Daleks). One of Star Trek's most popular the tribble. I get really tired of rubber enhanced blue aliens, with a few forehead bumps, and utterly perfect English. I'd rather have a few of the sillier ones from the 50's B movies or B&W Dr Who make a come back than yet another tedious perfect humanoid with augmentation...

Though I also like to intersperse the fiction with history and anthropological. I can picture the fiction better, and find I enjoy it more with a clearer idea of how people actually lived, struggled, died etc. I also end up judging some of the historical fiction against the actuality too -- some authors are far more accurate than others.

I am sure most productions could go vastly further than they try to, as 95% of all historical and fantasy (e.g. GoT) drama are 21st century views, mores and habits in cute -- and in the case of armies perfectly matched and colour matched -- costume. I think this article does a disservice to what we could show. We could show a much closer representation of actuality without triggering revulsion, or making racism or sexism acceptable again, spoiling the show, or losing viewers. Heck, even half the supposed documentaries get fundamentals wrong! Some accuracy we would indeed struggle with, but I suspect most could handle and enjoy far more than we're ever given!

Being unfilmably dark didn't stop GoT filming the series climax in the dead of night, outside. It was unwatchably dark for pretty much a whole episode, without a poorly lit castle or smoke filled long house in sight.

Overall I think it's more a lack of imagination, or laziness. Adaptation so it becomes the usual formula with new overlay. I appreciate the rare ones that are faithful, or do depart from the usual tedium that much more as a result, and often forgive other glitches or ropy moments. I'm usually much more damning of poor adaptation than costuming or habit. :)
But specifically, why move to Raku for new projects?
I think pg understates the problem. It isn't just fashionable. Think about how the solutions we use today evolved.

Someone had an idea originally and certain decisions were made about that approach.. those that best adapted to the conditions of the time were successful... rinse and repeat over several decades.

Those ideas that preserved the past were more likely to succeed because they preserved the ecosystem that already existed. Ideas that diverged too much from the existing successful tech had a huge obstacle in their way: they had to recreate all of the existing solutions in their new model. So even if they would lead to a better solution over time, they may never get past that initial roadblock. And the longer we stay on the path, the bigger that roadblock becomes.

If we are all thinking of ideas around the existing model and assuming all of the existing assumptions, then we end up with similar solutions (fashionable solutions). We've reduced the solution space, leading to a limited number of solutions.

Perhaps groundbreaking/valuable tech can be found by questioning those existing assumptions; identifying where tech is still built on assumptions that are no longer true; or reexamining past solutions to see if they can be solved in better ways today with what we've learned since then...
I am actually surprised that PG doesn't feel uncomfortable about the 'acclaim' that he is getting for writing many of the things he has said that are not related to anything he has expertise in. Reminds me of celebrities who opine about politics with their thoughts (sometimes not always with PG).

Paul is authoritative on many topics. General thoughts about life and people are great to hear what he thinks. Why not? But he is no more special than 100000 other people who have no audience. Does he know this?

I've often thought he should do some A/B posting with his thoughts. Write something and then randomly decide whether to put it on his blog or some other place and see what the interest level is.
I used to work for a fintech like LendingClub.

First you absolutely need a license. You can’t just go making consumer loans without the proper license to do so. If that wasn’t the case there would be rampant abuse / predatory schemes as there was before.

The problem is not getting a license so to speak, the problem is that it’s not worth it. Not only do you need to get 50 of them and follow a cluster-fuck of 50 different state laws, you need to follow the ongoing compliance procedures of all 50 state to maintain said licenses.

Why would any sane company do that if there is a bank that has already done that, and willing to lend in your name, if they get a little piece of the action? Your whole value prop is in marketing and underwriting, not legal compliance. So outsource that shit and focus your resources on what is going to differentiate you.

So what you see is that lendingclub tried to get their own licenses, realized it was fucking stupid for above reasons, and then outsourced it. They still have the licenses to either keep servicing some existing loans or perhaps for some other business reason (eg perhaps a particular kind of product is actually easier to license themselves than thru third party for a particular state), but that’s definitely less common than outsourcing.
This comment will get downvoted but, dude, you are a GOD tier programmer. How?
I'm not an oncologist (heh...), more just a data guy who works with the researchers and helps them with genetic typing to build outputs with the tumor sample analysis. Sounds fancy but sometimes I'm just even doing plain old IT support (because I'm there in the labs and having to put in a ticket and wait for hospital IT is a pita).

I do work with a lot of oncologists and while like any industry there are a few big egos and jerks the majority of them are simply amazing people. I've seen patient's families screaming and yelling at our PIs (literally spitting on their faces) and the Drs. stay calm, cool and professional. It's hard to be the ones delivering bad news but they do a great job.

Most of the MDs I work with are both researchers and regular oncologist physicians. They participate in clinical trials and have labs where they investigate new treatments and drugs, but they also provide standard of care treatments for patients who aren't eligible or choose not to participate in trials.
Best question of the entire comment section.

I'm jealous I wrote my huge text block and didn't even realized I forgot to ask that.
Everything past Snow Leopard. Lion was a disaster, and there is literally no feature I use that I prefer in any Mac OS created since then. What's more, the OS has become uglier and buggier.

Edit: actually, I like the addition of Finder > Cut, and Finder > Rename. So, hey, there is something!
The Web can be a dangerous place, much like the rest of the world. Never heard of uMatrix before. It looks interesting. Thanks.
He's praising himself. Those are three areas _he_ explored.
That would not work perfectly as some PDFs do not have the text stored as "text".
Not fundamentally changing the design is a plus for usability and accessibility.

It would be a disappointment if I had to relearn a UI I've been using over a decade just because I upgraded my software. I don't have time for that. Go get your crazy wizbang UI interfaces on Linux. There are plenty there.
Why ban the site but leave this clickbait intact? (Rather than change the URL)
Or you could assume he’s more experienced than you in that field and not be offensive?
> We also intend to build functionality for users to automatically generate accessible PDFs from HTML documents. This would mean that publishers will only need to create and maintain one document, but users will still be able to download a PDF if they need to.

Oh I see you've added that. The problem with PDF to HTML is thst your trying to fit something static back into something dynamic. I also don't see how pdf rendering is any less complicated. There are many browser implementations that can easily render gov.uk without issues.
The file system likely has a POSIX like-or-unlike filesystem interface. Because it is meant to be used directly by unmodified programs on the platforms the file system is supported on as the file system is accessible via the operating system's virtual filesystem interface.

The storage system might not. It might be like those online storage systems from A&G that only support put and get and have to be used via specific access libraries. (Although someone might make a virtual filesystem interface to them.)
My use case is to develop jobs quickly, locally. exec is a PITA because it doesn't replicate the same environment jobs actually run in and it doesn't have the same functionality as a "normal" runner so it ends up causing more problems than the alternative of simply not using it at all.

As I mentioned above, exec is no longer maintained and has missing features.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541045
I’m increasingly frustrated with iOS 13 text selection, copy, and paste semantics.

I had the first iPhone and I remember it was really good at selecting text. A far cry from the painful experience today.

Rearranging icons is also pretty awful, it takes me
multiple tries to move something into a folder and then rearrange said folder.
That's not the fault of PDF. You can have an HTML document with image links as well. The problem is that you have no standard way of exporting and storing this kind of document.
This is my non-business (personal) finance setup.

I have a checking account, vanguard account, and fidelity account. The checking account is used for business to pay me. The vanguard account is 100% VTSAX as is the fidelity has account. I’ve just been keeping a couple thousand I the checking and rolling into VTSAX. Should be enough, if VTSAX tanks we need to be buying ammo if anything.

I also churn credit cards. Chase sapphire/capitol one savor/Amex platinum should all get you $500 or more. But if you are making >100k like it seems most people in here are then this is not such a large concern.
>Normally, you get to reject setting once and then it vanishes meaning you can't update your choice either way.

Funny how you phrase it. Normally dark websites lets you accept the setting and never show it to you again, so you wouldn't change your mind. If you reject it - you get a redirect or a nagging screen which lets you change your mind and accept.
Supporting this argument: I remember googling how to switch apps since the new iPhone X's feature didn't explain it. I've had to verbally explain it a few times to others who use my phone.
But hey, fame, right? Just famous people things.

It's not just fame, HN is PG's site. It would be almost rude if his posts didn't show up high here.
For what it's worth, that pairing sounds fine to me.
For me, Panther (10.3) was the last release where every new feature or addition was something I wanted. Spotlight and Dashboard in Tiger (10.4) were dog slow on my G3 back in the day and got disabled immediately.
One of the biggest gripes I have with modern UI (both Apple and Android) is animation times. Try exporting an image from Dropbox app to Photos app on the iPhone. There are so many animations that take up precious time. Do it 10 times and you're tired.

I feel like designers today want "sleekness" more because it sells when people look at it. Ohh...look at that shiny animation, so impressive.

I want instant actions at the expense of not knowing where something poped-up from. This is usually the case made by designers that animations help you understand the "Context" of where something came from. I feel like this needs to be toned down a bit. UI would feel 1000% faster.
> The idea that people have devoted their lives to the wrong thing is inherently offensive to them. That's a point not covered here.

This itself is in need of a lot of conversation. I think a really ugly part of SV startup culture is, in my opinion, "it's okay to offend and hurt people, and it's sometimes demanded of you to..."

And I think we can be so much better than that. Being "disruptive" this way is just a lazy excuse.
Get ready for the contractors as much as you can before on-boarding them. If you are hiring through a recruitment agency, put something in the contract for the right to hire to avoid headaches down the road.
Something like this: [0]?

[0] https://panopticlick.eff.org/
The Disruptors – Jarrett Walker “Buses Are the Future of Transportation” [audio]
Go absolutely does incremental builds by default and has been like that since I can remember. Packages are only rebuilt when their source or their dependencies change.

Same for tests which are cached by default so during typical development only a subset of tests are executed and compilation time can be a big part. Leave full tests for CI.

An anecdote I found from 5 years ago:

On my 1.7GHz processor it takes 10 seconds to build the whole standard library from scratch (300k lines of code).

It's fast AF.
While I don't think these UFOs are anything alien in nature at all, it's worth noting that we make absolutely zero effort to hide our space exploration probes and rovers from potential discovery.
Guerilla Gardening (2015)
This raises the question of how they create these 'HTML documents'. As far as I'm aware, there really isn't an HTML document format. More than likely, these documents will be created by some web-based system (maybe even proprietary and cloud-based, making portability extremely hard) and simply exported as PDF later. That's how every web-based content management system does it today. It's very convenient right now, but when it comes to document maintenance for the next few decades, I'm not sure that's better than something like PDF or ODF.
Actual title: "Robert Moir, 58, Dies; His Research Changed Views on Alzheimer’s"

The altered title makes no sense (beta amyloid helps prevent Alzheimer's?)
Most oncology pts have so many meds they barely remember which ones they're taking when. Generally a spouse, family member or other caretaker organizes the med schedule and keeps track.

Working in the industry, the supplements we get the most questions about and that come up as conmeds for the main treatment is turmeric and biotin. The turmeric is getting popular as an antiinflamatory and biotin has good word of mouth to help prevent hair loss.

Biotin can really throw off lab values and for our infusion treatment patients we need to constantly monitor their labs, so that is really important to ensure they're not taking. Turmeric has some interactions as well, but not as severe as biotin.
> fashionably removed the very affordable home-button for no functional reason

Except making room for the one thing iPhone has always been about: the touch screen.
You could offer content in an ebook format (ePub, mobipocket) which is just HTML and resources with styles and offer it through the web as straight HTML with the option of downloading the container.
I feel like there's quite a lot scope for engineering the levels of intelligence within a given population.
To my knowledge, most languages spoken throughout the world reached their current forms naturally, without any kind of deliberate influence by their speakers. What if, however, a language was actively designed to be as information dense as possible? What effect would it have on the average intelligence of a population in which said language was gradually introduced to the point where children were raised speaking it?
The Apple TV app is a great example of half thought out design.

* You start downloading a movie. It doesn't show it downloading anywhere that I could see it. The only place I could find it was by going back
* I had to login about 5 times
* The Apple TV app is so new that you can't give Apple Feedback because the app isn't listed.
* Supposedly I get a free year of apple tv with my new mac. I have no idea where to find that option to sign up.
* When in you own library you can't seem to search your own library.

It just isn't thought through. And don't even get me started on the migration assistant. Buggy, and a poorly tested pile of crap.
Developing a decompiler for the Harbour language
64 character password: overkill, much?
Who is going to pay the homeless to do unprofitable work?
'We thought it was a prank': Girl, 6, finds China prisoner plea in charity card
Jq is a great tool, I wish more people knew about it!
The iPhone has become a 2-handed device instead of a 1-handed device.
I remember as a child showing my mother how to do stuff on our family Mac with OS 7.5 and being baffled that she didn't 'get' the UI.

A decade ago I wrote some Cocoa stuff and read the HIG religiously.

Now I'm in my 30s. I can't work out how to do stuff on my iPhone (Android makes perfect sense). mac OS, of which I have used every major version of since 6, is starting to break with the mental model I understand and is becoming slowly less usable to me.

Suddenly I feel old.
Ok, we've de-RSS'd the title above. Thanks!
The over-reliance on gestures and other hidden things like 3D Touch is the exact problem. It's a complete about-face from their classic 90s design policies, which were about ensuring applications were fully discoverable and did not hide any state from the user.
For sure. But notice you need to define another document standard because you probably don't want to just use an ebook format since that won't capture all your use-cases. So why not just use PDF, docx, or ODF?
Shrinkflation: Hundreds of products are getting smaller
Oh I’m so tired! Too tired to find the switch that turns off the animations if they bother you so much.
Sure you didn’t call the hotel directly? Booking has customer service in every major language (70+).
I came here just to say the same thing — Apple really needs to track the statistics on success rate for text selection ...

“User Selected the text they wanted first try”

“User Selected the text they wanted within 30 seconds”

“User Selected the text they wanted within 1 minute”

“User Failed to select the text they wanted”

I hit that last case probably more than 30% of the time nowadays — and very often it’s not because the text representation on screen makes it impossible — but because it’s just fucking horrifically bad ui and I can’t select the text I’m interested it despite trying for frustratingly long amount of time. I hit categories 2 and 3 frequently when I really need to get the data selected — and that makes me want to throw my Apple iPhone into the sun ...
This is a legitimite concern for you? It offends your inner marketing sensibilities?
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> I’m increasingly frustrated with iOS 13 text selection, copy, and paste semantics.

Seconding this. It literally took me months after I updated to iOS13 until I was able to reliably use copy & paste again.

At some point I had given up completely, but then later on I randomly read an article which explained how this core feature has been changed, how it was supposed to work now.

A seriously wtf moment. Definitely not cool, and definitely not good UX.

Is this the butterfly-keyboard equivalent for touch-interfaces?
What papers are you talking about? Can you please link to them? I don't see anything about neural networks in the papers about this experiment.
Not a talk from 2019, but discovered it this year: "1177 BC, the year civilization collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)" https://youtu.be/bRcu-ysocX4

Excellent informative and hilarious talk about his (at-the-time) new scientific hypothesis to explain the end of the Bronze Age ca. 1200 BC.

Multiple civilizations collapsed within a few decades of each other with the ability to read, write and make high buildings being lost all across the Eastern Mediterranean simultaneously. The Bronze Age is magical and interesting of itself, the talk gives a great introduction as to why we know much more about it than we think.. definitely recommended.

Duration ~1 hour (feels like 20 minutes)
I will respond to your both claims separately.

1) Why is using supply / demand the best way to set a price for a house?

2) Why should Americans be able to live and protect a town and prevent it form becoming a big city?

As for 1, because that is human nature. Any other method that goes against human nature doesn't work in large scale. In places that set a price, typically products are given to people with connection (see Soviet butcher getting their kid into a good school by giving the best cut of the meat to the teacher).

With regard to 2, this point comes down to what rights you think someone should have. I believe that a community should be able to form and develop themselves without too much government interference. Let's say that a community builds themselves under a tight bond, like the Amish. Imagine if the government wanted to create a huge homeless shelter in their community and house many previously homeless people there. That would completely disrupt their peaceful way of life. It seams logical to say that in that case it is bad what the government did. Similarly, some people building a town don't want the crime / dirtiness / corruption of big city. If a politician were to campaign that they will turn every town into a big city, I doubt that they would win.
... or payment processing. Look what Stripe is carving out.
Sig Sauer now selling battle-tested M17 handguns to civilians
All of this is exactly what I had in mind when I wrote my comment.
Thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13090604

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9446980

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7895076

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5734683

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985250

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679933

(for the curious)
Here's some logo history: (Win 1.0, 3.1, XP, Vista, Win 8 Metro style)

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2012/02/17/redes...
Uber May Be Banned from London, One of Its Biggest Markets
For the senior citizens viewing this they might relate the term "AngelDust" with the dissociative PCP, let me assure them though, it hasn't been called AngelDust since the 70s. You'd be much more likely to hear it referred to as "wet" or "sherm". IF you went to the ghetto and tried t buy Angel Dust they'd think you were a cop. It's like calling weed "dope". Just a little disambiguation from a drug name etymologist :)
I thought this was a pretty good one

https://youtu.be/jyNqHsN3pEc

Composing music functionally, aka functional composition :)
It's a bit arcane to use, but has proven itself over and over when doing little tasks with AWS CLI returns.
Thus demonstrating that brand identity, advertising and marketing are all part of the problem.
Here's the hello world of technical interviews in ArnoldC:

IT'S SHOWTIME
HEY CHRISTMAS TREE JOHN
YOU SET US UP @NO PROBLEMO
HEY CHRISTMAS TREE SARAH
YOU SET US UP @I LIED
GET TO THE CHOPPER SARAH
HERE IS MY INVITATION JOHN
LET OFF SOME STEAM BENNET 100
ENOUGH TALK
STICK AROUND SARAH
GET TO THE CHOPPER SARAH
HERE IS MY INVITATION JOHN
HE HAD TO SPLIT 15
YOU'RE FIRED 15
GET DOWN JOHN
YOU ARE NOT YOU YOU ARE ME 0
ENOUGH TALK
BECAUSE I'M GOING TO SAY PLEASE SARAH
TALK TO THE HAND "FizzBuzz"
BULLSHIT
GET TO THE CHOPPER SARAH
HERE IS MY INVITATION JOHN
HE HAD TO SPLIT 5
YOU'RE FIRED 5
GET DOWN JOHN
YOU ARE NOT YOU YOU ARE ME 0
ENOUGH TALK
BECAUSE I'M GOING TO SAY PLEASE SARAH
TALK TO THE HAND "Buzz"
BULLSHIT
GET TO THE CHOPPER SARAH
HERE IS MY INVITATION JOHN
HE HAD TO SPLIT 3
YOU'RE FIRED 3
GET DOWN JOHN
YOU ARE NOT YOU YOU ARE ME 0
ENOUGH TALK
BECAUSE I'M GOING TO SAY PLEASE SARAH
TALK TO THE HAND "Fizz"
BULLSHIT
TALK TO THE HAND JOHN
YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LOGIC
YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LOGIC
YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LOGIC
GET TO THE CHOPPER JOHN
HERE IS MY INVITATION 1
GET UP JOHN
ENOUGH TALK
GET TO THE CHOPPER SARAH
HERE IS MY INVITATION JOHN
LET OFF SOME STEAM BENNET 100
ENOUGH TALK
CHILL
YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED
Do you pay for your passwords by the character or something?