skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The refusal to use back burning / fuel reduction has been fairly widely reported and also very thoroughly refuted. But if all you read is country newspapers or the Australian (or worse) you may be forgiven for thinking those damn greenies are to blame.

The truth of the matter is back burning (controlled burning in the path of the fire to stop it's spread) is very much still used when it is safe. The issue is the strong hot winds have meant several of these efforts have gotten out of control. Fuel reduction burning has been increased substantially in the last decade but the climate conditions mean the areas needed for fuel reduction are widening at a greater rate and the windows of safe burning are closing down.

Chalking it up to climate change is what most of the volunteers are doing. Saying otherwise is disrespectful, disingenuous and highly political.
Sound familiar?

> Tesla was founded in 2003

https://www.tesla.com/about

> By January 2009, Tesla had raised US$187 million and delivered 147 cars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.
Won't this create an opportunity for someone to enter the market with a TV that uses no ads or telemetry? Surely it is obvious there are millions of people who don't want smart TV's you would think a company offering a dumb TV would thrive. Are we just not at that point yet?
I'd have to go back through my Goodreads list to see exactly which books that I read which fell into this decade versus another. But of the stuff that I've ready pretty recently, the couple that jump to mind immediately are:

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

Thinking: Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful by Michael Ellsberg

I'm almost sure it was slightly over a decade ago, but I'll go ahead and throw in a mention of The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank. I consider it one of the most influential books I've read, period.

Also, in terms of fiction, I'd add

Permutation City by Greg Egan, and the Foundation Trilogy by Asimov (that one's cheating a little as that was a re-read, but they are still very good).
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magic-wormhole solves this problem (while being encrypted and incredibly easy to use). If the two hosts can directly reach each other, it will directly do the transfer, otherwise it uses a public relay server which both hosts can reach.
I connect my smart tv to my internet connection and then explicitly block it at the router. (Easy to do with eero - yes yes amazon gets my Mac addresses etc though)
More like fast forward 10 years. By ‘97 most mobile devices ( the ones I came across at least) had started to use ARM. Even Palm devices eventually used ARM CPUs
I didn't see any real transitions. I think I might have seen a bit of fade-in after page load, but that might just be a browser quirk. If the fade is why you're talking about, that can be easily accomplished with just a few lines of CSS; no framework needed.

If there's some transition I didn't see because of the browsers I used (I tried two different browsers on two different devices), then it might be worth using the framework, but I maintain that I haven't seen the demo site show anything that couldn't be done with vanilla HTML and CSS.
You really think Amazon and Ford would place such large orders for vehicles if Rivian hadn't "proven its chops".

And Rivian is a variation on a proven technology. Magic Leap is a completely new one. Not comparable in the slightest.
Of course it does not invalidate your experiment, but I wanted to suggest maybe looking at save files from the game.
‘I don't want to be at work making someone else rich. I want to spend those remaining 30 years enjoying myself and bringing happiness to those in my life’

How do you expect to live out those 30 years without working consistently? Do you have means of enough passive income ?
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> This may come across as harsh, but driving on highways, pan-american or not, doesn't strike me as much of an adventure in the current era.

No worries, I totally understand where you're coming from. I don't disagree with you either - sticking to the beaten path can be very easy, especially in countries that are more developed and have lots of tourists. It can certainly get very difficult and adventurous if you wish.

From your comment I take it you've never been to West Africa. Driving across Nigeria, Mali, the DRC, Angola most certainly is an adventure, even in 2019. When I went looking for it I was right in it up to my neck, often wondering if I'd bitten off more than I can chew. I crossed a border where the border guard who had been working there for three years had never seen a foreigner in his life. Plenty of times kids ran away from me because they had never seen a white person. Yes, even today you can go and do that, in West Africa, if you go remote enough.

I got malaria twice. I rolled my Jeep. I got stuck in the mud alone. I drove through water that came over the hood many times. It was 100F and 99% humidity for months on end, even at night I was pouring sweat trying to sleep.

It's easily the hardest and most rewarding thing I've ever done in my life, and to be honest I wonder if I'll never find that level of being truly alive ever again.

If you genuinely want to know what I'm talking about, here's a video of me driving across the DRC, easily the 5 biggest days of adventure in my life. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the DRC crossing, or anything else for that matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV8V3GdOcPU
Covered in the links: http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-...

It isn’t crystal clear, but it looks like they went in on someone with a shipping container.
You should check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8vsTxzmorE

https://openteams.com/initiatives/2

> "We will create an embedded domain specific language (DSL) using the Python language itself along with the typing module and specialized objects as necessary to allow nearly all the existing extensions to be written using this DSL. We will then port several key libraries such as NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas to use this DSL. We will also provide a runtime so these extensions can work on PyPy, C-Python, and RustPython."

I'm pretty sure we'll see a strict, typed subset of python that is jitted or compiled at some point in the next few years.

Edit: Oh also mypyc https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/master/mypyc
Thanks for mentioning this. I don't go near anything that guy touches. Will be skipping this book.
Python has the unittest module, which is a port of JUnit, in the standard library. (And a mocking library as well.)

The other popular testing library is pytest. So that's more choices than in Java but fewer than in C#.
Your experience mirrors mine, almost exactly.

One other advantage of HipChat was that it‘s native Android client would run without requiring Play Services; Slack purposefully won't run without it.
I disagree. Type inference in statically typed languages (e.g. auto or var) does not weaken static typechecking guarantees. So it is not the same as writing type annotations only as much as you want. It is stronger.
I also reread Foundation recently and realized an underlooked aspect of it: beyond the psychohistory and the mentalics, it is perhaps the best look at how the future of nuclear tech was perceived by the sci-fi mainstream before Hiroshima.
Not to mention all of the regulatory requirements at the state and federal levels across many countries.

Selling a car isn't far off trying to sell a medical device.
The depreciation of digital images is an interesting phenomenon. Like the real paper, the quality of memes on the Internet gets worse and worse over time. We were promised that digital medium would never lose quality yet here we are. Of course, it's not just lossy compression but bit rot too.

I wonder how we will be tackling these problems in the future. Maybe, at some point, the savings of JPEG will be negligible for what we have so we'll have images as PNGs?
Zen mind beginner’s mind: Highly recommended to anyone interested in meditation. Helped me understand the non-goal aspect of the practice.

Gravity’s rainbow: Not the easiest read but immensely rewarding. For better or worse some of Pynchon’s vivid descriptions are burned into my soul.

Crime and punishment: I’m not into literature but this one is worth it. A great dive into human psychology.

Deliverance: intense story, read it in one night. Not sure it taught me much but man it is good.

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Great insights on the way ideology and politics work.

Wasted time on a bunch of self help books. Most tips contained in these require you to accept yourself and the world to be applicable. And that’s the hardest bit...
I run Fedora on a 2011 MacBook Pro. There was a bit of messing around to get graphics working, and sometimes the trackpad driver crashes, but other than that, it works perfectly.
I shipped the Jeep in a shipping container from Panama to Colombia. Full details on how you can do it too, and price breakdown are here: http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-...
There is no distinction. Everybody has an agenda. NYT for example openly(!) supported HRC in the last election. (And that is a good thing.)
Hi, I’m the author =). Glad this hit the top of HN, as any help would be highly appreciated! With your help this could become a really valuable asset. Looking forward to your merge requests ;-) Let me know if you have any questions!
Also no self help book can tell you what your goals should be. The best of them say this outright.
Tried Scribus?
A "Crystal" version of Python would be quite sweet, I don't feel Nim is quite it.
Everything from Nassim Taleb, basically "the incerto", his four books are basically one book (https://www.amazon.com/Incerto-Fooled-Randomness-Procrustes-...)
>Earning money is the worst of all false gods to chase.

Moloch is pretty bad, but Gnon is worse. uwu
> The text tool is horrible, how could you even ship it?

I haven't tried Krita yet, but recently had to do some text compositions in GIMP 2.8.18 (Debian 9.11) and the UX was absolutely awful. I don't remember GIMP's text tool driving me insane when I last did such things a decade or longer ago, but the on-canvas widget in 2.8.18 is quite bad.
They seem like they might be parallel and unconnected etymologies -- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bork#Etymology_2.

It would seem strange that a political etymology had a specific impact on the computing world. But the mistype of broken as "borken", and further mis-grammaring to borked would seem consistent with the humour of computing people IME.

The use in computer circles is also just one of "generally broken" (or utterly broken, perhaps) rather than "politically discreditted". I think they might be just coincidental homonyms.

Here's a [not particularly] interesting prior use: https://archive.org/details/Florida_Flambeau_1959/page/n221?... someone borked the pronounciation in Russian of beetroot soup ("borsht", Russian "s" is with a "c" shaped letter).
Petzold offered the canonical IDE rant => http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.htm...
Company idea (or maybe Consumer Reports is good enough):

Don't hire experts to review products. Do a double blind study with like 100 participants. I pay you $5 to access this years study of 80 different popular/common headphones. But of course do this for all kinds of products that need this kind of review.

I would happily pay for a sample of how the population feels about products and how they on average rank them.

Let me x/y plot things like rating vs. Price/warranty/whatever

Don't ruin your pages with advertising.

Be annoyingly clear and repetitive that you only make money from the fee and everything else is done in a way that reduces bias wherever possible.

And don't screw up the UX (looking at you, graphics cards and CPU sites stuck in 2003)
No. You can do a different manoeuvre but it isn't a tank turn.
It’s also a plot point in how they hunt the protagonist down, iirc. He wasn’t as engaged to the programming as he was supposed to be engaged.
Any particular resources you'd recommend for Elixir/Phoenix? Doing their basic intro guides right now and liking them, but would love anything you did after those that you liked.
What you're looking for is a law. Those strictly dominate technical capabilities, and can set useful baselines that remove the need for a consumer to deeply inspect the policies of every single device or white good they buy.

As Maciej points out, we don't teach people how to perform botulism tests to eat safe food; we regulate it. We desperately need something similar for privacy.
My guess is that there isn’t a very big addressable market for privacy, and hardware requires a lot of up-front investment. It has to be someone who believes that the world will be better if it exists, not simply the highest $/hour ROI on building it.

There is more money in surveillance, as we’ve seen, than privacy.
Indeed. Kahneman actually wrote a comment on the blog post that surfaced this issue:

https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...
> Aren't people who identify as other pronouns (xe, zer, ve, aer...) upset by the use of "they"? Is "they" truly generic and can be used in all situations?

I think that’s the case here. They are upset because they would like to be called by the specific pronoun they pick. Using ”they” erases their identity and contributes to discrimination.

Now in hypothetical situation I don’t see how “they“ could be problematic.

I have seen authors default to “she” but mostly in positive and neutral contexts. Then to “he“ for negative contexts. What I mean is if the hypothetical context is a about an astronaut flying to Mars it might be a “she” but if it is a criminal robbing a bank it would be a “he”.
Missing a URL. I assume it's a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21885399
The audio characteristics of headphones can also be objectively measured using test gear. rtings.com has a very nice database with comprehensive measurements for a large number of headphones.
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> The only computers, in theory, covered by the CFAA are defined as "protected computers".

> In practice, any ordinary computer has come under the jurisdiction of the law, including cellphones, due to the interstate nature of most Internet communication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#P...
Isn't that what layers are for?
The problem is these products lure you in with false promises, in this case "it works fine in the browser, no need to install, just try".

Once they have enough users, this changes.
This isn't the first time I've seen this argument- clearly there are people that it rings true for, but I just have a hard time seeing it. The benefits you get from types start to very quickly diminish as soon as you start adding untyped values into the mix. Sure, there are the odd cases where you might happen to have a typed function and a typed value and the checker can find a bug for you, but my experience writing python tells me these cases in reality are vanishingly rare.

And the cost of this flexibility seems to be quite high. The overall quality of type checking that mypy gives you seems to be pretty abysmal, and it requires quite a bit more handholding and awkward workarounds to deal with the proliferation of any's and uninferable types than a language that just starts with types in the first place.
Didn't see my answer... ?

If you want to go into papers, that should be a different topic IMO.
In some ways Photoshop is losing relevance in the creative space. Adobe’s rent seeking has pissed off a lot of people and upstarts like Krita, DaVinci Resolve and Serif are making waves.

Affinity Photo and Designer offer strong Photoshop and Illustrator alternatives on MacOS, Windows and even iPadOS (no plans for a Linux version however) when Adobe seem to struggle to get a half baked version of Photoshop on iPadOS.

All this competition is great. We’re seeing new performant software run rings around the lumbering giants. I’m a huge fan of blender. It boggles my mind how small a footprint it has compared to other 3D applications.
The community is not happy: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340906/update-an-ag...
Or just a pdf uploaded to wherever. Even google Drive.
Only reason I didn't mention GTD is because I read it more than 10 years ago. It was very influential indeed. Probably the most important book I read in the decade before this one.
Model Y is basically a clone of the Model 3 and it's still not out.

You simply can't rapidly make a new car. Years at minimum.
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

By David Deutsch

In the book he details his theory of everything. Quite ambitious and very thought provoking.
Counterpoint: I feel like static typing is a bandaid for the fundamental problem that the language isn't powerful enough to allow one's code to truly be OAOO.

Back when I wrote C#, static typing was indeed helpful for making large-scale changes and providing an automated check that this wasn't destroying everything. But then, it's only in languages like C# that I have to make these kinds of large-scale changes. There's no macros or syntactic abstraction. When you want to construct the same category of operation in different contexts, and functions and classes don't operate on the right axis, you're SOL. You just end up repeating yourself.

When I write Lisp, I never have to make changes that cover more than their one area of responsibility. At worst, I'll rename a function, and a simple textual find-and-replace is more than sufficient -- better than most refactoring browsers, even, since it will hit my comments and documentation. Do fancy refactoring tools update your README and docs/ folder yet?

(In one case, I knew an experienced C# programmer to build and compile an expression at run-time using LambdaExpression [1]. It takes about 10 times as many lines to achieve the same thing, and you have to write in a style that looks nothing at all like a normal function, so in practice nobody ever does this. In contrast, the way to accomplish this in Lisp takes one character, and the code looks identical to a normal function, so it's not unheard of.)

I feel that Python, in many ways, combines the worst aspects of both worlds. It's not strict enough to be a good static language, and not powerful enough to be a good dynamic language. Sadly, the most popular dynamic languages today are Python and JS and PHP, so a lot of failures and limitations of these languages get blamed on dynamic languages in general.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.expr...
A specialist in diseases for the rich might have to come out of retirement to treat himself.
Debian 9.11 is out of date and will soon be unsupported altogether. You should upgrade to Debian 10 (currently at 10.2) which comes with an up-to-date version of GIMP. If you can't do a wholesale upgrade for some reason, use the official backports channel to install an updated version of GIMP.
ES is an eventually consistent data store meaning that it makes no guarantees about data availability when you put stuff in there. That alone should be a deal breaker for you.

If you use ES for what it's designed to be and make it a projection of your underlying durable data store, you can do things like rebuild your index or change your schema without fear of data loss.

Its a document store, not a database. MongoDB is too but they try to hide it by bolting on all the stuff traditional relational DB's have like ACID and transactions so you wont realize what a poor choice it is as a database when compared to say, Postgres.
"Never Split the Difference" is a negotiation book with what I feel are manipulative and dirty tricks. HNer's should definately read it so you can recognize the common techniques negotiators, salesmen, and lawyers use in their jobs. It will help prevent you from being taken advantage of in a situation like that.

But for god sakes, don't employ these techniques yourself.
Few players ?

There are are dozens and dozens of companies delivering EV vehicles including big players like VW, BMW, Porsche, Jaguar, Audi, Volvo etc. Could be even hundreds based on what what little we know from all of the skunkwork projects.
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Even open source programs?
I haven't seriously taken a look at gimp in ages if I'm honest, but iirc it still doesn't have adjustment layers or support for more than 8bpp or color spaces other than RGB. The UI being awful is a major point against too, as is the poor performance. I'm sure there are use-cases where gimp is equivalent to Photoshop. I primarily use Photoshop in 16bit Lab color, so just off that it's a no-go.
> I started using Photoshop when I was in High School and obviously it was a ——- copy.

I can only assume the censored portion read "pirated." Is the author concerned they would be admitting to a crime had they left it in? I'm not sure there are any other interpretations to "obviously it was a [...] copy" either, so I don't see why they bothered. Probably should have left that out entirely if they were worried.
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The problem is that we're often expected to make our career our identity. If you don't, then you get passed over for a promotion/hire while the workaholic gets a promotion.

This problem is especially acute in the U.S. where one of the first questions people ask each other when they meet is "what do you do"
They're using low compression (lower speed, kid friendly) balls, often they're the same colour as your standard adult tennis balls just with a small alternatively coloured circle to indicate.

https://www.tennis.com.au/learn/rules-and-scoring/10-and-und...

Look at the box of balls at 1:30.
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Factfulness and Enlightenment Now utterly transformed my outlook on life and the state of the world. These two books turned me from a cynical complainer into an optimist. Cannot recommend them highly enough.
Fun fact though, photoshop used to be available for solaris http://www.erimez.com/misc/Photoshop_Sun_Brochure.pdf
They provided a way to disable it because it was a debacle.
Not sure what you are talking about.

VW Group has already released a car which is in the hands of customers today i.e. Porsche Taycan. And there are plenty of EV cars today from the big auto manufacturers e.g. Audi, BMW, Mercedes. Some of which even outsell all Tesla cars in a country or two.

And it's hilarious to see you go on about car companies pre-announcing products when Tesla did exactly the same with the Cybertruck, Model Y, Roadster, Semi.
The saving glut and the wave of debt are the exact same phenomenon. Savers can only save if someone else is borrowing.

Collectively low US savings rates show up in the current account deficit -- the US attracts savings from abroad.
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I read this as "we should be content with being well-paid wage slaves because there are lots of underpaid wage slaves". Having to give our best 40+ hours every week to simply exist is soul-crushing and society-weakening. If you "need" to have a job, you are more like those struggling millions of Americans than you are like the moneyed elite, even if you aren't stressed about money on a day-to-day basis. You still aren't free.