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By the end of the 15th century, there were paper mills in Europe but paper was still not very commonly used.

Instead, people used parchments/vellum (animal skins) as writing material. You cannot have vast libraries with books made from animal skins.
How do you know it was a lie? What evidence do you have?
For me, the main problem with forth is a lack of names -- most languages (functional or imperative or even declarative) assign names to things -- things like function parameters, temporary values and so on.

Even Prolog, which is as far from traditional structural program as one can go, usually has descriptive names for unbound variables.

Compared to this, Forth is very name-terse. You get "function names" at best, and nothing else. This really makes programs much harder to understand, as it requires one to remember much more things while reading the code.
Yes this is exactly the one I was referring to. Thanks!
I have a hard time getting into animated stuff but I'll definitely try to download a decent quality version of it and watch it. Sounds like its right up my alley! Since this was created in 1994 and Stealth was created in 2005, I'm wondering how you arrive at your third sentence! Haha :)
Open Source ML Deployment for Python
ML deployment is kind of a hot topic right now, however mostly expensive enterprise software seem to be on the market. This is a lightweight and cheap approach to it.
I’m curious. Can you explain the problems you were having? And how they would’ve been solved by a static binary.

> Trying to load source files from all over the filesystem at runtime is hell.

This sounds like a mess unrelated to Python. Why are you trying to load source files from "all over the filesystem" at runtime?

> I would love to see a move towards "static" binaries that package everything together into a single, self-contained unit.

Compiling source files from all over the filesystem would be equally annoying.
But here's the issue in Keynesian thinking, all savings is investment, it's investment in money. Like any investment, it has a return (which comes from the increased value of money), and risk (if instead of increase value, the value of money is decreased).
while interesting, i dont quite see how thats related.

public health experts during this whole crisis have been morally and intellectually bankrupt. misinformation on social media is a separate issue
There's a good writeup/discussion of that here too:

https://www.filfre.net/2016/05/kit-williamss-golden-hare-par...
Fanduo – Smart dual PWM fan controller based on Arduino Nano
In Minneapolis, where Floyd died, a duty to intervene policy has been on the books since 2016, according to the city’s website.

The policy reads: “It shall be the duty of every sworn employee present at any scene where physical force is being applied to either stop or attempt to stop another sworn employee when force is being inappropriately applied or is no longer required,” — word for word the same language used by the Dallas Police Department in defining its new order.

Seeing how well that has worked in Minneapolis, what are the chances that this will work in Dallas?
Police in the US often lean on the threat of lethal force as a means to compel citizens.

This is widely considered appropriate here: When used with deescalation tactics, several officers brandishing firearms at a suspect can be an effective way to convince that person to stop whatever they are doing.

Of course, there are a lot of situations where the threat of lethal force is absolutely inappropriate. Protests always fit into this category, for a few reasons:

1. Bullets tend to go through or past people, so firing into a crowd should be avoided if at all possible. Anyone who has had firearms training knows to consider everything in the path of fire instead of hyper-focusing on the intended target.

2. Most protesters are unarmed, and nonviolent. Using lethal force against unarmed civilians is reprehensible.

This is where the desire for non-lethal weapons comes into play. The problem is that non-lethal weapons don't really exist. Instead, police are given "less-lethal" weapons. They are still lethal, but there is a significant chance that when used as-intended these weapons will not cause death. I think you and I can agree that isn't nearly good enough. Here's hoping that real change can come in response to these protests.
I do hope you look more closely at the record. “Experts” are not a uniform monolith. Some are competent. Some aren’t.
Good question that the media seems to be avoiding. I'll be watching our infection rates closely over the next 2 weeks and have some real questions about everything if they don't spike.
Reminds me of the strange aircraft designs of Burt Rutan, the closest thing the 80-90's had to an Elon Musk: https://www.flyingmag.com/photo-gallery/photos/awesome-airpl...
The curious case of the missing bear
The officers were all arrested and the entire MPD is potentially getting dismantled, so Dallas might take the policy a bit more seriously.
One possible reason is for security/abuse?

I assume these extensions require communicating with some central server (owned by Microsoft) to exchange information with peers at some point during its use.

Allowing the extension to run in contexts outside of VS Code could be an issue for them?
I loved working with Cloudflare Stream. I can't wait to see your live streaming solution.
> That falls into an unacceptable trade-off really easily in our current world, where the majority of developers are relatively inexperienced consumers of innumerable dependencies.

aka, this is hard to do, and a difficult mental model to learn. It's the same kind of thing with LISP'y languages and functional languages (not the same model, but the same level of difficulty).
Website usability vomit
Can you describe how that image is what you are describing?
300 million stat is old, I think now it's somewhere around 393 million.
Coronavirus and the riots have also created far more new gun owners among a lot of people (making an observation from my friends and other people I know).
I'm saying you have not a damn clue how terrifying and violent the LA and Miami riots were.

18 people died during the Miami riots and 63 people were killed during the LA riots. Friend of mine spent four days being sheltered in a black families house during the Miami riots. In the LA riots looters were driving up into the LA hills to loot wealthy houses.

Meanwhile 2020 'riots' you have people taking their children to protests. And a few Walmarts and other shops got looted.

No comparison at all.
> Seeing how well that has worked in Minneapolis, what are the chances that this will work in Dallas?

I think we can all agree that until there's actually some accountability enforced continuously by civilian oversight, this will not help.
How difficult is it exactly to do what chaturbate does for example?

I have been looking into how I could setup a similar broadcast on demand service for some yoga studios that I help out with (zoom is terrible for online yoga classes... it distorts music... no paywall possible... video/audio quality is all around terrible compared to chaturbate... etc).

Is it really that hard to chunk video as it comes in, and re-distribute it via websocket or something to web browsers?

How does chaturbate do it? Does anybody know?
Why does it matter? The remote extensions for WSL and SSH in Visual Studio Code are extremely useful and actually work. Why should we care if they are closed source or not?
> Respectfully, you're thinking too small. Of course CloudFlare can host your TV station. They carry a significant, double-digit percentage of total internet traffic.

This is almost certainly true. I can expand here that I didn't think of CloudFlare as a "TV" company or backbone infrastructure (in the normal media space) company in that way. I think this is the realization that they're trying to get out there.

> The impressive feat here is having the brand position and cultural currency and strategic foresight to launch and run a 24/7 TV station. That is high on the list of non-trivial, capital intensive things to do.

IMO they don't have the cultural currency, but to be fair, I live half a world away from what is arguably the nexus of the culture in this case (SF), so maybe I just can't see it. CloudFlare is a boring company (which is good), I don't know them for making lots of waves in this particular way. IMO what they're betting on is that doing something this big builds that cultural currency, and then it didn't matter how much you had in the first place.

If I were to dumb down your statement -- this is indeed a wonderful flex.

> No, what this does is introduce CloudFlare as a media distribution channel, in the same way that Masterclass, Netflix, Twitter and Fortnite are media distribution channels.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your statement, but this sounds like what I tried to convey -- CloudFlare is introducing itself as a media distribution channel (for media corporations) and a thought/market leader for the consumer (developers, technical management).

Also, check the other responses to my comment... there's someone lurking in there who is very very close to this whole thing. Interactions like that are why I still come to HN.
The way I've heard it is if you're not ashamed of the code quality of your MVP, then you spent too long on it. Until you see traction with a clear willingness to pay, the MVP is a practically a throwaway.
From a privacy perspective, Safari is pretty good too.
I don't know if it's true or if it works, but the article addresses this by saying that they can go into I guess non-networked mode where no one, not even the operators, can contact it. If it gets certain conditions it will send out a message, but otherwise it's that level of autonomy they're assuming.
... and by quoting Schopenhauer's beautiful prose instead of using your own words you are following his wise advice. Montaigne said something similar when confronted as to why he quoted Plutarch so often, replying that if he believed someone had already said something in a way that he couldn't improve, why on earth would he say it in his own words? I would very much have preferred to quote the great man himself of course, for this very reason, but couldn't locate this particular passage.
>>Seeing how well that has worked in Minneapolis, what are the chances that this will work in Dallas?

We have laws against murder and people still do it. But life in jail crosses their mind or at least should before doing it.

Another thing they should do is make it a bit easier to sue them individually for clearly violating civil rights.
It'd have to know that it's destination was earth, or does it just sit idle after a power on and wait for the command? What happens if the astronauts are asleep? I feel like it needs some persisted data.
Microservices aren't a panacea by any means, but like any tool, they provide certain advantages when dealing with certain use-cases.

One thing the article fails to mention are the boat loads of tooling out there to address the failings of, and complement microservices architecture, of which Kubernetes is only one.

Sure they come with their own levels of complexity, but deploying K8 today is orders of magnitude simpler than it was 4 years ago. The same will hold true for similar tooling in the general microservices/container orchestration domain, such as service mesh (it's a lot simpler to get up and running with Istio or Linkerd than it was 18 months ago), distributed tracing (Jaeger/Opentelemetry) and general observability.

I'd also point out that MS can provide benefits outside of just independent scaling and independent deployment of services, but should in theory also allow for faster velocity in adding new services, all dependent on following effective DDD when scaffolding services, they allow different teams in a large org to design, build and own their own service ecosystem with APIs as contracts between their services and upstream/downstream consumers in their own org and new team members coming onboard should in theory be able to get familiar with a tighter/leaner codebase for a microservice as opposed to wading through thousands of lines of a monoliths code to find/understand the parts relevant to their jobs.
I recently started learning React for a side project I'm working on (in my day job I have more of a machine learning/backend role). There are a ton of coding videos for react. I never understood why people are watching these kind of coding videos, if you can get the same information much more efficiently in text form.

However, I ended up finding a use for them. I've been watching them at the end of the day when I was too tired to do any more coding work. Instead of wasting my time on YouTube, I ended up learning a lot.
Bringing two Presto communities together
Yes, it does. The build cannot use the Microsoft branding.
Bookmarklets always seem like an idea whose time is past, but they never go away.
What does getting dismantled mean? You close and reopen with the same people? Or you close and start from scratch with unexperienced ppl (assuming a large pool of applicants)?
Chokeholds were also banned by the NYPD since 1993, decades before Daniel Pantaleo used one to murder Eric Garner.

Policies to improve the police’s war on us will be wholly ineffective. We need drastic changes, such as what it looks like Minneapolis is poised to do.
I'll be wafflestomping like my life fuckin depends on it.
If doing a PhD will bring no career benefits, it gets harder to submit to all of the limitations on one’s life that come with going back to a degree program.

I took a break after I got my MA in a humanities field. I eventually planned to return for a PhD, but then two things happened in the intervening years: 1) I was already able to write up journal articles and successfully get them published, because in double-blind peer review all that mattered was the strength of my research and my familiarity with the literature, and no one knew or cared that I had only an MA; and 2) I got used to traveling a lot and having a very flexible schedule, because as my day job I established a remote freelancing career.

Now people are interested in my research and inviting me to come back and do a PhD, but I’m not sure I can ever go back to having to wake up early in the morning, sit in a boring seminar, be pressured to take on teaching duties, and not be able to escape to a warm country in the cold winter. (That’s me, others may want e.g. more time to spend with their families.) I talk to my colleagues and get the impression that I have more time for research than they do, because anyone in a formal position is saddled with bullshit administration duties.

I realize that I am lucky to be interested in a humanities field. I know that in hard sciences, you cannot meaningfully contribute to the field without access to a lab and other such infrastructure, and therefore you have to go back to a university position.
They try not to have a political agenda

> In Politics, The Atlantic will be the organ of no party or clique, but will honestly endeavor to be the exponent of what its conductors believe to be the American idea.

But I'd still generally describe them as a respected center-left new source. I wouldn't go as far as saying they have an "agenda."
You're right that Llamas are South American (though they weren't always - the fossil record shows Llama-like animals as far north as the southern states ~20K years ago), but mexico is so much more than just tropical jungles! Some parts see snow every year, and there are piles of mountains all over the country. It's such an incredible place.
Ask HN: College dropouts whose startups failed, what's your story?
> My question is what's preventing few people accumulating trust and credit lines and eventually becoming bankers for this system?

That would be great, it would be more credit for everyone and wouldn't take away anyone else's credit - and if they start misbehaving they can be quickly replaced.
Margins are nearly 100% due to the fact I do all the work myself.

I mention "us" on the website for two reasons:

It's weird to say "I" in this case because to a client it isn't natural to wrap your head around the fact there is one person behind the business.

Secondly, when I built the service, it was my full intention of also building a team behind it (designers, customer care, etc.).

I could change the website copy to reflect it's a one man show, but I look at it like at the end of the day as long as you're getting the service you signed up for, that's all the client really cares about or needs to know.
Openai and Uber AI Proposed a New Approach to Neural Architecture Search
In many non americas, the police police are already not armed, (although they do often carry non-leathal weapons). For example, the famous "bobbies" of the world's oldest operating police force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgdhxLPJBgQ
All disputes in a civil society must be resolved peacefully through elections and courts of law. Nobody can be above the law, for whatever reason. What you call morals is something that nobody voted on, nobody debated, no judge interpreted it, no police to enforce it.

Why should I be bound by your values but you can't be bound by my values? You are free to use your moral compass (and should) when voting, when debating, when campaigning, when serving, etc. But once a final vote has happened, the law is supreme and even those who voted it into practice cannot change their mind and decide to violate it, until the next vote happens.

Just imagine what it would be like to establish the "morality police". The first problem that arises is what should be considered moral and therefore needs to be enforced, and what should not be considered moral and therefore not enforced. And how do you decide that? Through voting, debate, a free press, separation of powers, etc.
Would they have been arrested were it not for the national uproar?
Because if it breaks, you can't fix it. If it reports on you, you won't know. If it decides to not allow SSHing into a server that it has blacklisted, you can't change it.

I'm having trouble with the question, it sounds like it's equivalent to "why bother open sourcing useful, currently-working software X", and that's just the "why is open source good" question, right?

I can somewhat understand WSL being closed source -- maybe it's got some proprietary MS stuff in there that is legally restricted, or they just don't want people using the interfaces they used? But tools like SSH grow because they're open source, not because they're closed, seems somewhat misplaced there.
There is a difference between attacking someone and being blunt. If you want to ban people and scold them for being blunt then you might as well say that, but to say this is attacking someone is not reasonable. It would be different if there was some sort of uniformity to this, but it seems more like a self righteous crusade to get people to apologize to you personally for not sugar coating what they say.
They still lied, which was the original point. Even if they lied for what they believed to be good reasons.
> Roman Catholic where contraception is frowned upon.

It's completely prohibited.
Why do it through university when you have the internet and can more effectively learn things by yourself?
One obvious option is to build a new police department entirely out of officers poached from the police departments of other counties/states—preferably from cities that manage to have both high racial diversity and low rates of questionable police violence. Other public-servant roles (e.g. postal workers) get relocated between cities this way all the time, being moved to where there’s demand.

Another option is to just have no official city police department (i.e. a group with warranted immunity from criminal prosecution for “exercising one’s duties”), only an informal community watch/militia of regular citizens entirely out of the hands of top-down municipal control. There are functional communities that operate this way, e.g. Cheran in Mexico (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37612083)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/06/07/Minneapolis-City-...
It’s kind of fascinating seeing people create new rules for cops, when the problem is that cops don’t follow rules.

What’s needed is an accountability system for cops. Someone capable of punishing cops when they transgress, someone who is not beholden to cops for their day to day operations like local DAs.
It must be down to accountability. People will break all the rules in the book if consequences are never meted out.
When I was a kid we went hiking in the mountains with my dad and my uncle every fall catching small trouts (50-150g I guess) in the creeks using wooden poles and worms on hooks.

I was a grown up before it dawned to me that if it wasn't for us they could have gone somewhere else and caught real fish.

They never said anything but today I do the same: sometimes we go hiking on Sundays before or after church, "expeditions into the wilderness", tenting in the garden.
This is novel and interesting, and could be used on a micro scale (say a group of friends who regularly split dinner bills) or macro. How would you solve the issue of losing data and nodes (through corruption, hardware failure, etc), or people being offline? I suspect if it grew, people would offer "hosted nodes", where they keep your data and stay online for transactions 24x7, in return for taking that transaction fee... so, like a bank!
An idea I like better is defunding police departments then augmenting the staff with social workers. So much of police training is in dealing with people in crisis situations. Why not bring in experts instead?
That was only after days of national and international protests demanding such actions. The entire system is too far gone and needs to be torn down if anyone inside it legitimately views this as a success story.
The Tomahawk is intended for a single target whereas a drone would be able to have multiple engagements.

Further, the drone may not necessarily used for combat, it could be used as a decoy.
Funny. I am 40, certainly old enough to remember newspapers, but I didn’t get the reference until the last line of your post.

Also, sorry you are getting downvoted. Emotions are running high. I’d guess folks are interpreting your snark against newspapers as snark against the parent.
In Asian countries with low transmission everyone use a "surgical" style mask, not N95. You almost certainly cannot convince a large number of Americans to wear a N95 as it makes breathing quite a bit harder. Especially if you have any underlying health problems or poor general health (again, that's majority of Americans).
Atom is also a property of Microsoft.
Reduction of capacity, narrowing of capability and resources diverted to other services intended for situations where (armed) police aren’t required.
I expect smart glasses to be the next UI paradigm. Very conveniently portable. AR style visual interfaces. Built in speakers for personal audio (bose already do this in sunglasses). The AR interface could be directly manipulated by hand gestures using cameras and other sensors. I know there have been a couple of false starts (Google Glass) and current products with bigger form factors (Hololens), but I expect spectacles size devices with good UI in the not too distant future, and I look forward to the development opportunities.