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Yeah I don't exactly agree with your characterization of this actions but I would be very surprised if he doesnt get legal action taken against him for this post.
As someone who recently found out my birth mothers side is filled with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome relatives this interests me.

I have my dna from 23andme what markers should I be looking for? How does it affect you personally, what is disabling about it for you?

Do you have a french background?
Up close with the Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck
Apple employee:

> the Files app was manually boosted on the top for the query “Dropbox”

Whoops!
Who do you consider to be the victors in this case?
Definitely quite usable for modeling parts and basic assemblies. I use it almost exclusively now when working on community hobby projects, so as to make sure everyone has access to the development tools to make their own modifications.

But it's definitely behind the curve in terms of how friendly and discoverable the user interface is. It's a powerful modeler, but I'm not sure that it's in a good state to be used by a large engineering team on multiple large projects. In particular, a lot of the PDM options for FreeCAD seem sort of questionable; for better or worse, a lot of organizations are going to need it to interface with their current data management software. I haven't seen the effort to do that yet.
Perhaps "intimate images" would work?
Absolutely! I guess the main innovation will be social. Thinking of a way that people feel responsible for shared tools, a non-awkward way of selecting neighbors who you are willing to share with and some kind of emergency-button if you need a tool now and all the shared tools are taken.
Two quotes from the paper that I think will motivate people to read it:

"Rigorous correctness testing via simulation makes FDB extremely reliable. In the past several years, CloudKit [59] has deployed FDB for more than 0.5M disk years without a single data corruption event. Additionally, we constantly perform data consistency checks by comparing replicas of data records and making sure they are the same. To this date, no inconsistent data replicas have ever been found in our production clusters."

"For example, early versions of FDB depended on Apache Zookeeper
for coordination, which was deleted after real-world fault injection found two independent bugs in Zookeeper (circa 2010) and was replaced by a de novo Paxos implementation written in Flow. No production bugs have ever been reported since."
These ratings are intended to serve as a baseline for the severity of the issue at hand. If you expect a base CVSS score to provide the answer to "how does this affect me" then you need to learn more about CVSS.

Namely, you should be taking the base CVSS score and including the temporal and environment metrics to actually determine your organizational risk. A base 9.x could easily be driven to low based on the access, exploitability, and CIA requirements for the system at hand.
Why we're going back to the office
After a long stretch of remote work, we're excited to share why we're transitioning back to the office.
I can't tell if this post is serious, or a sarcastic demonstration of why omitting capitals at the beginning of sentences is a very bad idea if your goal is to communicate clearly.
So this is when we purchase "fuckreplit.com", offer a far superior clone and watch as the free market does its magic?

Every time I read a story like this I just hope the business dies, and for any employees it's time to jump ship, you really do not want to be working for a CEO who makes comments and threats.

Time to release that source code, have 100 clones appear and let this loser sue everyone into misery - I'm sure his investors won't be best pleased.

For now let's spread this story (make a backup! He'll want this taken down as it's terrible PR!).

Hope replit rots.
Cruelty is the point
I would love to know how YC does their DD because it seems like it’s the most shallow and uninformed, meme-driven process.
I agree. This guy shows a consistent streak of poor decision making and lack of situational awareness. His behavior so far reinforces Amjad's claims that he was their most "demanding" intern.
I made a similar comment below. I'm surprised at the anger towards repl.it on this thread.
It would be helpful if you could post the designs side by side so we could all judge if you have copied the design. If you haven't, they are simply in the wrong and you should re-publish you site. If your design is a copy, then most of your arguments are not very relevant.

> Every similarity between my project and Replit can be explained by looking only at GitHub repositories and blog posts that were published online by Replit itself, making them obviously not any kind of secret.

I don't see how this is an argument. You're not allowed to copy their design even if it is public.

Most of the bullets under "In my opinion, the answer to this question is no, for a number of reasons" also seem beside the point. It's not allowed, or ethical, to copy an existing service just because yours is free, or "not intended to compete".
Second-hand source here, but I’m pretty sure Riju postdates the author’s internship.

IANAL but if he signed a non-compete maybe this could be a legal issue.
> If the repair is finished and the tech can get to the login/pin screen then the job is done.

Not entirely https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/17/iphone-calibration-proc...
"...because seismic interpretation isnt effectively a cartel..."

I know some people who would disagree with you on that one!

Seriously, though, you're making an excellent point that I hadn't considered. Healthcare has a lot of "interesting" incentive structures and are baked-in constraints that would prevent even a perfect solution from being widely deployed.

It's not the same as geology, for sure, even though there are some parallels in terms in of image interpretation.
This is true amd something that I had not strongly considered. While my prescription still seems fine, it us probably worth scheduling an exam to check my eye health now that I am in my 30s.
This is it. I would actually prefer going into the office if it wasn't for the commute (and being away from my dog). I miss the separation between work/living spaces that the office gave me but I value the lack of commute and getting to take my dog along on my problem solving walks more.
This is wild. Absolutely wild. And I think it says a lot about what we might find on Mars. The only thing cooler than reviving an ancient microorganism is reviving an ancient Martian life form.
100% Surprised they were not arrested or no charges were filed. (or at least the article did not mention it)
> creating a copy of what you worked on as an intern

According to him, he didn't:

> "I worked for Replit in Summer 2019, where I was asked to rebuild Replit's package management stack and make it open-source."
I've worked for ten years on the Lively Kernel project [1,2,3], originally created by Dan Ingalls at Sun Microsystems. Running JavaScript, Smalltalk, R, Clojure, Haskell, Python, C++ and a few other languages in it. When I first saw replit, I thought, wow someone copied 1/4 of Lively. Do they really think they had an original idea?

[1] https://lively-kernel.org

[2] https://lively-next.org

[3] https://cloxp.github.io/cloxp-intro.html
“Meta”

How is that meta?
Add face, hand, and pose tracking to your projects in a snap
"only about 11% of radiologists used AI for image interpretation in a clinical practice. Of those not using AI, 72% have no plans to do so"

Highly intelligent people, of which radiologists would fall under, are not going to adopt technology clearly aimed at replacing them.
Tell this to several millions of native Americans who where victim of genocide. Oh, wait, they're not around anymore to protest...
> Naturally, I took down my project right away...

So a CEO bullied you. He threatened to have lawyers look at something, accused you of behaving poorly, and accused you of being difficult. He is being manipulative. He is trying to guilt / scare you into stopping. And it worked.

For all readers... do not be afraid of lawyers. Especially if nobody has even talked to them yet. Lawyers do not like to lose cases, so will not push a losing agenda. Yet they also must do what their client asks, so lawyers looking into a concern, or even sending nastygrams... those are meaningless actions. It only becomes meaningful if and when if their lawyers indicate they believe they really have a case, or if your own lawyer believes they have a case. Everything before that is posturing and bullying.

If I were in the same situation as OP, I'd state that my intent was positive, ask to be informed of the results of discussions with attorneys, and wish them to have a nice day. Admit no wrong, make no apologies, ignore irrelevant statements (in particular personal attacks), and just let it slide until they take a real action of some kind.

Once they do take an action, then it might be appropriate to do what they want. But seriously... stop letting people be bullies.
A friend of mine, one of the larger farmers in the area, purchased a new CaseIH tractor a couple years back. Even before it arrived in his yard, the Deere salesman caught wind of the purchase and arrived with "We can't be having that." Made my friend an offer he couldn't refuse and the CaseIH tractor was sold before even a single hour was put on it.

A high MSRP means a lot of room to play with the numbers.
>With nothing beyond the discredited stage 4 to look forward to, it is mostly no longer possible for humanities majors to develop a rational, systematic self.

As I understand it, the article says that Stage 5'ers are burning the bridge to 4 because stage 4 is perceived as unsophisticated, but Stage 4 is required to grow to Stage 5. If 4 was required to reach 5, why would a 5'er work to discredit 4 - unless these 5'ers saw their Stage-4 self as useless?

Yes the article says that Stage 4 is necessary - but it also says that some Stage 5'ers are dismantling Stage 4 because some 5'ers think it's unsophisticated.

Unrelated - but oh lord I was at the Salvador Dali museum (Dali being an anti-rationalist artist) a few days ago and you could smell the pretense in the air. I didn't know I was going to the museum that day so I was dressed like a slobby, computer nerdy tourist. So many side remarks from the security guards and regular visitors - projecting their sophistication insecurities onto me! The insecure sophisticated anti-rationalists are real!
Agreed. I used to use Repli.it all the time if i just wanted to test some Ruby code real quick. Now when I go to the site its asking me to make an account and set up a project and all kinds of nonsense that I don't care about
open in Safari (or maybe another browser), open the Reader View (SHIFT + CMD + R), reload the page with the Reader View open (CMD + R)
Yes. Everything you said is exactly on point.

I was just trying to make a very simplified example that automation is never done to save human labour.
Nothing here again implies occupation of Europe. More like fear. You can also mention mass executions of its army officers corps. Red army was weak, disorganized and lagging technologically. Does it really signals an army that is about to occupy Europe?

Was Poland a Nazi ally with intention of occupying Europe when it amassed its army in Czechoslovakia?
i'm mostly joking. it's not better, at least not to me.
That falls apart when most of the representatives are lawyers who don't know anything except how to play the system against itself.
Any specific example of a manufacturing or materials breakthrough the CCP has shared with everyone else?

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-breakthrough-solar-cell-materi...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2021/05/19...
Not everyone needs more money.

I've been struggling with the question, how do I want to spend all this money?

I decided to diversify, but one of those places is a true to heart non profit charity that doesn't make a profit. I spend time on a business that if it becomes profitable, it's due to physical book sales while the same digital books are free.

And I have for profit projects and investments.

Each is different in my goals.
Situation sounds like to me is:

CEO keeps in touch with beast mode 10x'er intern who both impressed him and needed to be kept at arms length.

Beast mode intern flirts with the idea of launching a competing startup under the guise of innocent open source project and transparency with a passing mention of project in email.

CEO realizes he needs to shut intern down otherwise any communication that looks supportive might be used against him later on.

Intern realizes the jig is up. Writes apology to CEO out of fear and discomfort.

CEO responds that he doesn't want anything further to do with him.

Beast mode intern exercises final option to write a blog post attempting to gain community support.

Something or other like that...
The problem is with the money and power. Doctors will never let go their income for a data scientist.
This type of invention will never start in the US, it will start in a communist country where leaders can move mountains or in Africa where there is a big lack of Doctors.
The messages by the CEO are somewhat unprofessional and very untactful. However, I think that they're well within their right to demand this be taken down. Perhaps, since you explicitly brought it to the attention of the CEO directly, they must demand that you take it down, or risk losing the ability to litigate against other more egregious examples of copycats by ex employees. But I'm no lawyer.
The Replit CEO seems like a pretty fragile person. They could have turned this into an advantage.
The tone here is "uhhh, I did this thing and it turns out it might be bad but I dont think so". Tbh, the tone he kept here is quite well mannered comparing to the situation at hand.

The vibe is more about a person being excited for doing something cool with tech and a company where they interned (not worked, interned!) feeling threatened because it crosses into their domain. If "let’s see what else can I maake with this" is an offense, then to hell I'll throw my lightbulbs away.
> We overestimate the likelihood of unlikely events. And we underestimate the likelihood of likely events.

Perhaps we act this way (worried about plane crashes), but that certainly isn't true. Humans have shown time and again to systematically discount unlikely events.
Hasura Design Patterns: Content Enhancement with Reactive Programming
I think the sentiment is that WE need to do something too, and I don't see how you really diagree with the OP in terms that what is happening is bad, so what are you going to do about it, if FF is not the answer?

Not an attack, really interested in ideas other than just give up.
Cost savings doesn't have to be near term. Imagine a doctor misses something on a reading and doesn't get the care they need... lawsuits are expensive. So you can have software which helps doctors do their job better which results in better patient outcomes. That is something hospitals are buying today for their radiology groups.
that's a much more reasonable question and would be a reasonable response, but OP decided that instead of asking that question, he's rather provoke repl.it. If they had no leverage before, asking what leverage isn't going to increase how much leverage they have. But this? This post seems to me like it's more likely to increase repl.it's leverage against OP than the reverse.
I’d say startup culture has changed quite a bit over the past 25 years. It was always highly competitive, of course, but it has IMO lost some of the honor and unspoken rules that it had. Employees are much more likely to be screwed out of any windfall when a liquidity event or IPO occurs, for example, and in fact even junior investors get pushed around too.

I honestly don’t know what has caused this change.
> Some kids grow up with a Ferrari on their wall, these kids had a John Deere tractor.

John Deere has a significant toy business that has to pay off big time considering how many of these customers they produce (and the toys themselves are quite expensive IIRC).
I look away from the screen while typing especially in bars, when I've got a long chain to get in. This has the side effect of having a few particular old dudes tell me to fuck off every once and a while, stop showings off... As I slam out 90wpm and look blankly past them.
In fact, there's a whole series of great posts in this series: http://www.righto.com/search/label/alto
New Report Module
Completely agree, and I would attribute some of this to excellent marketing. Lately I've been thinking about how so much of our behavior and societal/cultural norms (e.g. bacon and eggs are breakfast food! drink milk to prevent your bones from crumbling into a million pieces!) all come down to brilliant longform marketing efforts.
Computers can now predict our preferences directly from our brain
When I was a university student we had teacher assistants, who were more senior students. In most cases the best teacher assistants were not the brilliant students but rather the more mediocre students. The cause is that these mediocre students had really struggled to understand the material and therefore could really understand our problems in learning it. Many brilliant people are really lousy teachers.
I think there might have been a misunderstanding on your point. From what I read, Riju was wholly created after the intern left Repl.it
The Empowering of the American Mind
I'm okay with companies charging money for tools that are genuinely clever and innovative, but when the world eventually builds enough critical work on top of those tools, we inevitably end up in a hostage situation like this one.

The negative externality of the public losing access to the tools needed to build and modify essentially all of technology eventually exceeds even the tyrannical rents that a monopolist or hedge fund can extract when the public suddenly has no other option.

Maybe proprietary software should be required to go open source after 20 or 30 years.
Why would funding by YC in any way suggest that a startup might not do that?
I actually copied 'Gil O’Tyne' to Google it, then as soon as I pasted it in the search box, realised what a fool I'd been.

.

And yes, I appreciate that I could have just right-clicked the selection to Google it direct, but my brain doesn't work that way.

- ed

And I'd write it "Gil O'Teen' which whilst a bit more obvious, is a bit more Irish-looking, rather than the confusing ScotsIrish-Northumbrian name you came up with! :)

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Assume I am an employee. Assume I take a year or two of these internal decisions during my tenure at an org to my next employer. Would you be equally upset that my work experience was used elsewhere? Where is the line between your trade secret and my hard earned work experience?

Because that’s what work experience is: showing future employers where not to make mistakes that were previously learned in the course of work. That knowledge (that has a half life) is part of my compensation, arguably the most valuable of my total comp.
I enjoy container tabs although I've found that their usefulness is limited in certain circumstances (like when your IP is being tracked).

It's somewhat of a moot point now- the latest Firefox redesign is physically painful for me to use (eye strain), so I just moved back to Chrome.
Putting your foot down and being comfortable delivering aggression and threats does not make you a good CEO or even leader. I often see CEO’s demand unwavering respect and loyalty when they do little to return it and are highly unreasonable. Some people expect this image and demands from a CEO, but often I think it just leads to poor leadership. Steve Jobs is often quoted as being an effective asshole. That doesn’t mean he couldn’t have been better and more cordial. You can often get the reactions, loyalty, and respect you want from other methods. Very juvenile, is my take.
Why does the location of the sticker matter?
But the UI is public. Did Replit copyright or patent the UI design?
So first of all, you’re incorrect about medical costs being the number one reason for bankruptcies: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/28/sanderss-...

I’ll give you a concrete example in the legal field. Big firms might have reasons to avoid labor-saving automation, because they bill by the hour. But a large fraction of legal work isn’t billed by the hour, it’s contingency work (where the firm gets a certain fraction of a recovery) or fixed fee work. If you’re getting paid 1/3 of the amount you recover (a typical contingency fee) you have enormous incentives to do as little work to get a good result as you can. But those firms don’t use a lot of legal technology either, because it’s just not very good and not very useful.

The bulk of legal practice is about dealing with case-specific facts and legal wrinkles. And machine learning tends not to be useful for that, at least in current forms.
VC funded companies aren't some tech billionaire funding a cool new project.

VC funded companies are investments that they want a return on. It shouldn't be surprising when people try very hard to protect that investment to help them get a better return.
Replit is based in SF, and non-competes aren't enforceable in California.
Do you or does anyone else know if FF is better about blocking the "looks like you're using an ad blocker" "ads"?
He should probably stop working with computers altogether going forward as they are a company who uses computers after all.
I understand your perspective.

What do you make of the comment about "hardest intern we've ever worked with."

I understand the CEO is feeling very emotional and is clearly manipulating/exaggerating, but I would imagine he wouldn't say this if it were entirely 100% fabricated.

Do you believe any part of that statement might be true?
It's worth watching the announcement from the Bitcoin conference (the link has been posted several times on this page).

The creator of Strike is a true believer. You can model this in religious terms if that helps.

He believes, intellectually and emotionally, that Bitcoin is better than fiat. That it's sound money, uncensorable, uninflatable, distributed, and that adopting it will make the world a better place.

From that perspective, the collapse of the fiat system is an inevitability. Something like Strike is an onramp; realizing the BTC as fiat on both sides is just a transitional technology, until the market cap of Bitcoin is sufficient to smooth out volatility and allow it to function as a unit of account.

It continues to baffle me that such a substantial fraction of HN users show less understanding of Bitcoin than my average nontechnical friend. I don't mean agreeing with it, to be clear; I'm of at least two minds on the subject myself.

But it doesn't seem to be going away, and at some point understanding how the cult thinks is going to come in handy. I'm not a Mormon but I do know enough about their history and theology to carry on a conversation.
Been thinking about the same for a few years. I don't think the technology is there yet: I need an almost 99.99999999999% assurance that nothing will go wrong.

From https://americanrefractivesurgerycouncil.org/lasik-complicat...

> But LASIK complication rate statistics are extremely low. Less than one percent of LASIK patients experience these surgical complications. That’s one percent, as opposed to 30 percent that report transient side effects. In other words, LASIK complications are very rare events.

Less than 1% is still a lot for me when it comes to "messing around with my eyes".