skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Orca is just one piece of the world that this guy has been building at https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#home

He's got a suite of tools: Left, Dotgrid, Ronin, Marabu (text, graphics, super-graphics, audio).

Then a logging/personal wiki setup that I think is fascinating: Nataniev, Horaire, Oscean. Which goes all the way down to his own database formats and time format.

The philosophy and aesthetic of his work is awesome in the completeness of associated art and the connection between the build-up of his own software ecosystem. I've been following xxiivv for a while, and it's always changing and always inspiring. I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on his system and would be happy to talk more about it!

For example, Orca, featured here, used to be Pico which was a sort of playground environment like Orca but before it was the audio playground it is now. I'm not sure this is the best commit to pick out, but I just wanted to share how active he is on his software projects, and that environments really are a theme for him.

https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca/tree/8cd3827fb6e01005...

He's built a synthetic human language: Lietal, and his partner has a recipe sharing and cooking exploration site at grimgrains. Which also shares a unique personal aesthetic. They also live on a boat (see Pino).

I am personally most interested in Ronin (under tools). It explains itself as a cross between vim and Photoshop, and though it is in a semi-broken state now, I had a great afternoon hacking on it playing around with pens and magnet mode. I play around a lot with processing and p5, and love to build generative style systems like Casey Reas shows off in his Compendium [1]. I see Ronin as an example next step towards creating an environment in which to mess with these things, rather than my standard of playing around in vim, and running it with each new tweak.

Edit: at a computer now, so links for some of the above:

- https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#tools

- https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#nataniev

- https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#lietal

- https://grimgrains.com/#home

[1]http://reas.com/compendium_text/

[1]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9h469--G5OwOGVfVmUxZUQ5VzA...
That's where the question gets interesting! Your browser definitely (under current laws) has the right to refuse to allow NoScript to run, so if a similar program specifically targeted google ads then chrome would not be obligated to support it and could use the laws around your legal right (and lack thereof) to proprietary modify software to order you to cease & desist running it.

I think that websites do, legally, have the right to refuse you service if you run NoScript and some websites go through crazy hoop to exercise that right. I _suspect_ that using NoScript to alter the page is actually illegal under current intent since that usage could cause the software to misperform and potentially cause damages and it violates the agreed upon usage contract on that site. That said, it's _mostly_ unenforceable on a technical level (usually it's at least not cost effective to do) and I personally think it's unethical to force people to run malware to view your content - it needs a clearer definition in the law though, all this stuff is stupid hazy.
If Spotify won't respect the users rights and take responsibility and assume liability when Spotify distribute malware, why should should the user respect Spotify rights? Society is built on shared respect and the current online advertisement operates on the opposite model.

The reason why every large service on the Internet is ad-supported is that it does not need to follow advertisement laws. They don't even need to follow computer crime laws. If society would start enforce such laws onto online services we would see a major shift away from ad-supported services.
If I have a particulary gnarly function I didn't write that has no comments (it happens more than I like) I'll print it out and use colored pens.

It's a once/twice a week thing but nothing is as effective (I tried using my 2018 ipad/pencil but I just don't really like writing on it, the lack of surface resistance is wrong).
The solutions to a great majority of the issues facing us begin with:

But if humanity as a whole...

As far as I’ve been able to determine, much to my chagrin, in many of the ways that matter most, humanity isn’t a coherent whole.

And I’ve got no idea what to do about it.
For some cities 25k is a big deal. For NYC it’s rounding error.

NYC is big enough to have a healthy relationship with Amazon, and part of that is knowing is that you’re the seller, not the buyer.
Moot is a candy-ass roody-poo cuck.

POOL'S CLOSED, DESU
Uh oh, calling Elsevier's bluff.
> Vice's view of politics is always like a naive high school kid who hasn't ever had a real job or read a single book on economics. Which probably accurately describes their (largely freelance) 'journalists' or more accurately bloggers.

> Makes for good clickbait for their demographic though. In an ideal world they should really have stuck to fashion and culture (which their 'talent' is good at) and left the serious topics to people who have a strong grasp of the subjects. But that's boring and doesn't generate outrage on social media aka clicks -> ad views.

The author of this piece worked at Bloomberg and CBC prior to her position as the Economics & Money editor at Vice.

"But that's boring and doesn't generate outrage".
This is some really great stuff. One of my favorite parts of working in software/computers is "figuring stuff out". My brain always nags "there has to be a reason for this" ... and doesn't let go until I really understand what that reason is. That drive to understand the why (and not "magic") has led me to understand things like JVM garbage collection, ntp (network time protocol), HTTP, vector graphics, and on and on. Great stuff!
This was well-written and I enjoyed reading it. It's always tempting in stories without happy endings to ascribe fault. But to ascribe fault is to ascribe morality, that one person or the other did something wrong.

But nobody anything wrong here. Just two people with different expectations and learned behaviors that just didn't match up.

One thing I learned recently is that there was zero concept of adolescence before modern times. Until around a few hundred years ago, once you hit around 13, you were considered an adult. Louis XV was crowned king of France at 13 after a regency that began when his father died, he was 5.

We should celebrate the ability to make mistakes in life. We didn't always have it.
Where is that the situation? We (most Western countries, at least) have had almost all political parties competing to be as neo-con, corporatist and vacuous as possible for 40 years (since about 1979) and counting. The main exceptions to that have been even further to the right - nationalists, racists, fascists etc.
That is just a right wing conspiracy /s
Not really, you're using a service, the cost of that service may be incidental but the classic superman/office space bank hack of diverting all the partial cents on interest to a separate account isn't legal just because each action is so small... It is different because it'd probably be silly to enforce that everyone using their wifi has paid for a drink, but there isn't a distinction there ethically or legally... Unless you think that wifi should be a free social benefit for everyone everywhere - but that particular wifi is being provided by starbucks for a cost to them.
Looks great. Super solid palette. I like the raw markdown colored. Keep writing - you're doing good.
Completely agree.

Pin-pricks and injections aren't even on my radar; they're nothing at all next to the problems of needing to maintain at least some level of vigilance at near all times. Additionally, needing to constantly have plans for carrying around carbs, insulin, monitoring equipment, ensuring various prescriptions have refills and there will be pharmacies around, that the event you're attending has things you can eat, etc.—and still having periodic interruptions to whatever you're engaged in from lows or highs, or just needing to stop and check because it feels like you might be dropping low—that's the terrible stuff.

I have a hard time imagining how someone could even compare the small bother of injections to the above. I suppose if you're morbidly fearful of needles or something, but otherwise I'd be very confused at how a mild quick pain could match up to having your life dominated by this constant attention sink.

EDIT: I should also add: I got the FreeStyle Libre a couple months ago (it's effectively a CGM—or at least far far closer to the CGM side on a spectrum from finger-prick monitor to CGM), and it does help significantly with the attention problem.

And, I'm guessing how much the attention problem affects you depends on your personal standards for acceptable BG levels. I don't like how I feel when it's above 140 or so, and it's supposed to negatively effect cognitive performance to be too high, so my standards are very high (I've now had two doctors say I had the best A1c scores they'd seen).

Probably also depends on your inclination for analytical introspection / self-monitoring. I would bet I'd have ranked high on that even before the diabetes diagnosis, off-the charts high for several years after, and now, after spending years working on meditation etc.—moderately high.
I was once part of a 2-vendor software demo/showdown with a DoD client. Both vendors (us and them) each had two hours to present our solution and why it would be a better fit for the DoD base to adopt. It was a totally routine enterprise software demo.

But during the day's introductory remarks, it became clear that the DoD had invented a new acronym for the meeting. I don't remember exactly what it was, but it was something silly along the lines of S.P.E.A.R. - <Some Topic> Project Education And Review.

It was when I witnessed the US military invent a brand new acronym to represent one specific routine meeting I had with them that fully internalized just how out of control acronyms were in the US military.
Then we disagree on making snap judgements of character based on just work history. I don't understand how that is ever a good thing.

However that comment wasn't an "ad hominem attack", but I suspect we disagree on the definition of that as well.
I'd love to have a beer with him someday. I wonder how he's doing now.
Is there any specific recomendations for: "Meanwhile, you can give people a real understanding of basic quantum mechanics with high-school algebra and a bit of simple logic"?
I mean it is achievable. Why would it not be? If you tried to become an astronaut and failed you might write an article titled: “how I failed to become an astronaut”. And why not? Is it not achievable?
First off, some of those jobs will be available to them. Secondly, having high paid people around patronizing the other businesses in the area will help them and their employees and families.

All you need to do is look at communities across America where the big good-paying employer folded up and left town. It's a disaster for those communities, not a boon.
Why bother covering the rendered ads when you can just use a bit of machine learning on the client side to recognize the text, yank it back into a decent layout and then filter it and present it back as HTML. When it comes down to it all web sites still need to present something to the user that their eye and brain can understand, so just intercept before final presentation and treat it like an OCR problem to solve.
The most valuable part of this talk has got to be her attitude (not to diminish the rest of it, which is great too).

After you've been around the block a few times, and tried to learn all the things, and been responsible for trying to un-break a lot of the things, and the things that need to be un-broken start to look like an endless trickle, and then -- as word gets out that you can fix broken things -- starts to look like a Firehose of Infinite Dumping, then your attitude can start to take a hit.

Because ultimately you want to start making things better, not just dealing with other people's mistakes all the time, and endlessly chasing mistakes prevents you from making things better, and then you start to see common causes behind a lot of the mistakes and you think, if people would just fix those, I'd like my job a lot more.

And that attitude is self-defeating. It leads to unhappiness and unfulfillment and procrastination and mistakes of your own and, finally, resentment.

Fostering an attitude like hers is a great antidote for all that, and the longer you can hold on to a curious and positive attitude, the longer you'll be happy to learn about new things and new ways of fixing things.
If anything it’s intentionally misunderstanding the actual advantages from having connections.

Gates did not directly inherit vast wealth. But, most people’s parents don’t know the CEO of IBM back when it was the computer company.

That bottom 35% is a little doubious. Larry Ellison was put in that category, though he was adopted at a young age. Further, his adopted family had recently been wealthy which is a much better than average background for becoming rich.

Finally, the category they place Trump in vastly underplays the amount of direct family support he received. The initial gift was under 50 million, but was just the first of many. He would have become a billionaire simply putting the money given to him into the S&P 500.
True, but you either become an astronaut or you don't, whereas if you set out to build a billion dollar company and you build a $900m-dollar company, that's not all that bad even if strictly speaking you didn't achieve your goal.
Check out the LoFive RISC-V development board
Aaaaaaaaaaand its gone.
Well, I am saying you are wrong, and quite specifically saying that the authority cited earlier says that the Cost Method (#2) based on comparable uses is used for industrial sites.

The Cost Method entails:
- assessor calculates the cost to replace a structure with a similar one using today's labor and material prices
- subtract depreciation
- add the market value of the land
- used to value industrial, special purpose and utility properties

This is not a rental-based method. #3 (Income-based) is a rental-based method, and is used for residential and commercial non-industrial (i.e., retail or office) sites.

The property mentioned in the NYT article is currently an industrial site and would be governed by method #2: replacing the current factory with a similar facility (i.e., comparable use) based on today's costs.
I just think it would be very hard to legally argue that there is any implied contract that you must buy a coffee to use the WiFi. But then again, IANAL.
In Soviet Russia Smart Card Hacks You
I liked this article a lot. The implication of him asking for consent was that he respected her. Three things reveal that wasn’t true: his non-understanding of what is intimate in sex, his not believing she needed to ask for consent, and his decision to ignore her when he was done.

The conversation around consent is _supposed_ to be about respect. Unfortunately some people don’t actually care about respecting others, and just use consent as a means of covering their ass legally.
* is called "bang"? I thought it was universally agreed that "!" is bang and "*" is splat.
Amazon Reconsidering Plan to Put Campus in New York City
I'm surprised that companies don't create packaging materials that are actually also ads and have them be stuffed in all the packages that say Amazon sends.

I'm resentful of advertising in general, so the comment above is a morbid expression of "how low can they go". There are some kinds of ads that I do like for their entertainment value e.g. the Squatty Potty ads by the Harmon Brothers or the Apple Cookie Monster ad [0][1][2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q
[1] https://harmonbrothers.com/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF6OYq_2Ooc
I pay for an Apple Music Family subscription, my wife still uses Pandora on occasion however. She trialed Pandora Premium and a couple months ago noticed her stations suddenly started playing very different music selections, so she decided to not upgrade.
Random question -- how do you print code? Do you copy the file into a text editor? I've looked a few times and it seems like Sublime and VSCode both don't have a print feature...
Having a goal of “as much money as possible“ is very different from the VC fueled goal of Billion dollars or bust. Trying to draw parallels between everyone who starts a company and the select few who aim specifically to become astronauts is like comparing attempts at moonshot companies with everyone who “wants to do something in stem”
For a Better World, Claim the Blame
Hack font: A typeface designed for source code
Many companies have a public-facing bug bounty system.

It's incredibly rare for a company to have an objective bug bounty system. I would estimate that the number of companies like this is zero. (Source: I have worked triaging reports to public bug bounty systems for large companies that you've heard of. Payouts can differ by thousands of dollars based on factors like your prior history reporting to the program, what the triager chose to put in their report (even if your two reports are identical), or the label you put on the vulnerability you're reporting.)
He says he doesn't want his personal texts and photos published. He says he has retained an investigator to find out how these texts and photos were acquired in the first place. That looks and sounds like a protest of the privacy invasion to me.
You don't necessarily have to be at a medical library to have access to the same online journal content that a medical library has. I'd look for a high-quality general-purpose library at a public university that offers on-site access to electronic subscriptions to the public.

NYU and Columbia are both private universities of course. Does NYC even have a large top-tier public university? Hmm.

NYPL gives you access to more online paywalled journal subscriptions than nearly any other public library in the country though, you're lucky for that.

(If you're looking for print archives of journals, medical libraries are at the forefront of getting rid of historical print journal collections, because the usage of them was so tiny. The vast majority of medical researchers simply don't use historical print journal collections anymore, and there are non-trivial costs associated with keeping tons of bound journals getting almost no use...)

I am not arguing with your basic assertion that in America as a whole public access to paywalled academic research is a problem. I agree. (Apparently not just America, as OP is about Germany, where universities are collectively trying to _do_ something about it in a way we aren't really here).

The shift to electronic instead of print content doesn't help -- it's easier to simply give the public access to the physical environment to access stacks of bound journals (if you want to; or are required to give the public _some_ access as a federal depository library, sometimes easier to give them _all_ access), than it is to give them on-site access to electronic subscriptions (which you gotta get your vendors to agree is allowed, and then provide technological support for).

There are ways that the "digital revolution" has actually _hurt_ access to information, ironically.

It is a problem. But some (not all) university libraries, especially public university libraries, are trying. For instance, specifically insisting on public on-site access being included in their licenses from vendors. It's worth looking around and not assuming it's got to be a _medical_ library to get access to the online content. If you can't find it in NYC, it's probably even worse other places (although NYC's lack of major _public_ university probably doesn't help).

And then there's always sci-hub...

I certainly agree in principle that it ALL ought to just be in the commons, and not something only available through the richest universities (whether or not they then "share" it).

</a librarian software engineer>
It makes enough money to remain.
Same way how Face ID is cheered for and Windows Hello is “creepy”

Same concept. Very similar implementation but company brand goes a hell of a long way.
....it was a snarky movie quote from 1995. One that pops up in every thread about RISC-V

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/
This is also my biggest curiosity related to Poole.

I've read on /g/ that he's been working on Google Plus. In the thread I read that, people were joking that he is going to get fired now that the project is sun-setting, but there was no real evidence to back that up.
I recently discovered that x/10 == (x*103)>>10 for the numbers 0-99. Helped speed up something I was working on. The compiler generated a similar multiply/shift for x/10, but mine was faster since it didn't need to work for all possible values of x.
So what you're telling me is that I didn't read the guidelines. Kind of my point exactly. But anyway.
To WWW or Not WWW
I think "intersting" is often a bad rule too, especially if you've just begun reading. At the beginning, you don't have any kind of benchmark or reference for checking if what you're reading is good or not, and will therefore most likely accept anything as truth or insight.

If you've read enough on the other hand, then sure, it might work. Might in the sense that with some luck and taste, you'll find the good books. But it's still reliant on taste, which is very, very biased. Anything that looks uninteresting, but is awesome will be missed.
This is a weird take. Does it extend to anything? Murder would be here regardless, so it's NBD if any particular individual murders? Fraud is going to be here regardless, so individual instances of fraud are NBD?

Why does it matter who invented something when the conversation is about building an empire around it?

Here's the article summary to ponder:

> If Bezos were the political victim of surveillance state abuses, it would be scandalous and dangerous. It would also be deeply ironic. That’s because Amazon, the company that has made Bezos the planet’s richest human being, is a critical partner for the U.S. Government in building an ever-more invasive, militarized and sprawling surveillance state.

Which of that ruffles you?
Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection Explained
Report em https://github.com/contact/report-abuse?report=haxorlife+%28...
This particular "creative solution" is adding wasted data transmission and slowing down page responsiveness to _everyone_'s use of the site to combat a few people that feel strongly about their privacy or sanity of mind[1]. All of these tactics are terrible.

[1] Skipping over ads takes effort from your brain and it seems to be training us all to be worse readers. In the modern world of sponsored messages and content it pays to skim information for honesty before digesting it and it seems (IMO) to be hurting our general level of reading comprehension and attention.
All rewards need not be financial. Poole will be remembered forever and has used - and can continue to use - his fame for various benefits.
This may be one reason why the BOFH stereotype exists. It definitely helps to have the right attitude.

If you can view the bugs and problems you have to fix as an adventure game puzzle rather than cleaning up other people's messes, you definitely enjoy your job more. Having co-workers who understand your work definitely helps, because working a vacuum sucks.
Any Google employees willing to check his LDAP? :)
Sure, but COBOL:SNOBOL is like Java:Javascript
I think it's coming sooner rather than later. Obviously arm has the upper hand here but windows is still exclusive to qualcomm.

The interesting bit here is that from what I've heard, RISC V could be twice as efficient as ARM. Couple that with the open source model and we could see some real shifts in computing very soon.
You are not the OP (I believe) but if they wanted to really say this (which I can at least be sympathetic about) the title should have been something like "how do you get over the initial fear of NOT KNOWING ENOUGH?" which is a separate thing.