skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh boy.

I don't know you, but I really don't think you're making that up. And that means, as a scientist, I now have to contend with the new evidence of "a longtime personal friend of the author, who seems quite reasonable to me, is saying that the blog post should be taken at face value."

...I'll keep asking around. It's not looking good, but it's also unfair not to listen to the other side.

Welp. Time to dive in to the details of this post. Fwiw, if it's genuine, then I empathize greatly with Radon; I've been in a similar situation, where I wanted to build a business but decided against it due to vague threats. I can only imagine what it'd be like to have the threat of sic'ing YC's extremely well-paid lawyers on your ass to hunt for any small violation of your employment terms that they can leverage legally.

Ugh. It just sounds so frickin' cartoonishly evil that I'm having trouble even forcing myself to admit it's possible. But I do admit it's possible.

Can I ask, have you spoken with Radon about this? Did you get the impression that there might be some details omitted, or ... anything? Something other than the cartoonish evil story that I'm being asked to accept as true.

(I admit I'm reaching pretty far with this line of thinking, but, it's possible that there was some crucial context omitted from the post. If so, a five-year college friend should be able to sense whether something like that might've been the case. I'm hoping maybe you did, and maybe you'd be willing to say so if so.)

EDIT: I’m still a bit in shock, but it turns out that you’re completely correct. Thank you, very much, for vouching here for Radon.

He sounds cool.
I've been curious about what my DNA says, and went so far as to buy a 23andme kit years ago. I never sent it in, because I don't like the idea of some company retaining that kind of deeply personal data about me. It's useless to resist, though; my sister and some cousins submitted theirs, and that's enough to destroy any real sense of anonymity I might have. I don't have any particular concern; it's just one of the myriad ways that privacy no longer exists.
pg has a good article on doing things that don't scale[0] and showed how the AirBnB guys went and setup the first listings manually, but it's actually far more general than just kicking off the network effect. Moats are things that don't scale. Open Source software scales perfectly. Billion dollar companies are billion dollar companies because they can use Open Source software wrapped around some Moat-able structure. The more Open Source Software that exists, the bigger the garden.

When Google spends a billion dollars sending cars all around the world taking pictures, they are doing so in a way that the Open Source world can't centrally compete against, as they don't have the billions to get that done. This means that all Open Source mapping software will be missing a crucial feature that users rely on, and will therefore go unused. But meanwhile the libraries that those Open Source Software use, Google can freely use within their walled garden. On the other hand, Microsoft paid a great deal of money to researchers with Encarta and had this same exact structure and Wikipedia came in and disrupted them. It takes more time for the decentralized approach to come online, but as long as it's possible and the data is kept high quality Google Maps will slowly lose market share to OSM.

So eventually decentralized open source software will catch up and these billion dollar companies will go to 0, but in the interim period, and as innovation never truly ends so there is always a new horizon, we should consider creating a better incentive structure.

The big problem with capitalism today is that we care very deeply about prices. Prices is where supply and demand match, but we no longer have any supplies. We have costs of 0 and values that can differ between people. Price is merely a negotiation between the two, with Open Source Software declaring 0% of the value, and Billion Dollar companies declaring 90% of the value. Price has become a flawed metric. What society truly cares about is the surplus. What we need is a way to do a sort of Incentive Compability system[1](i.e. a Vickrey Auction) so that these Open Source Software can show the value that they produce. If they can show that their development costs were offset by their users values, they should be funded for it. Linux would certainly have a much higher value than Microsoft in this view, and would therefore be able to fund their own data collection systems, and would likely leave those open to the world so that everyone could reuse the Linux Street Map data for themselves.

[0]:http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incentive_compatibility
Whoever is right here aside, this blog represents to me a common challenge IC/engineer/line worker types have understanding how the parts of the world, and related conflict resolution, actually works.

I think it causes a lot of frustration for them and is present in a lot of different industries. In the spirit of pragmatism, this is what I think it looks like if you'd like to avoid this pattern in your own career management:

- event happens driven by an IC-type

- a conflict happens over the event which exists on the narrative plane, where facts are fuzzy and emotions/identities get pulled in.

- the IC-type tries to get out of the conflict by listing a roster of facts, and sort of miss the boat on understanding that narrative conflicts don't really care about those facts.

- IC-types, totally justifiably b/c yeah facts matter when sourcing intent, are some version of befuddled or angry or whatever, usually try more facts, but nonetheless the conflict just stays around

- ultimately, they totally miss "the why" on why the conflict is actually happening, and as a result they are usually on the losing end of it

This blog is chock full of this approach. What it really reminds me of, and why I mention it, is a series of essays posted by a well known, long serving, but non-mgmt reporter who was fired from a famous paper recently. Same issue. Facts themselves and the nuance involved made things look at least understandable, the narrative launched for other reasons, and the reporter was fired. The reporter issued a series of essays staying in facts-land after getting fired, highlighting the facts-driven counter the reporter tried while in-house. Despite overwhelming facts, you could tell the reporter just wasn't aware of what had actually turned against them/what they actually had to address if they wanted to stay. He was speaking Language A and the team he had to work with was speaking Language Z.

Addressing a narrative isn't bending to it, but you need to counter it with something other than/in addition to the facts. These narratives can stay a long and have negative impacts much longer than you can "be right." Find the language of your criticism and make sure you counter in the same language.
Clearly. But it's a complaint along similar lines of laptops being harder to work on.
And yet we should still tax (but possibly not redistribute) wealth. Wealth consolidation leads to power consolidation and I don't want de-facto monarchs/oligarchs in society running shadow operations (and especially (!) interfering with the free market in their favor).

So my rationale to tax the rich has nothing to do with redistribution, and more to do with power decentralization.
How did he catch that iPad. Is it clever editing, or did they smash multiple iPads? Also, why are the subtitles so bad when everything else is so good?
"Fixed" title: "Replit asked former employee with thorough inside knowledge of their operations to take down copycat project which he sent directly to the CEO"

It's like y'all have never heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design. No, building a direct competitor to a business you have previously worked for is generally not ethical, and will almost always end up being infringing, because even if you're not trying to copy their code/design/whatever, you almost certainly will.

By the way, allowing users to run their own code, unsandboxed, on your dime, is generally a bad idea. What happens when someone uses it to distribute $illegal_material? Or send spam? Or starts logging what other people are running?
> Why would they offer him a job right before saying that?

A few people have mentioned that on this thread, but I don't think it's in sync with the reality of how incredibly hard it is to hire technical talent right now, esp talent that knows your systems well.

It's entirely possible for someone to be the most demanding intern a co has ever had and still be a great hire; hell, it might even be _correlated_. Interns usually haven't figured out workplace norms yet, and combining that with being smart and driven could easily yield good-faith behavior that nevertheless is "demanding" (for example, asking lots of questions about tasks he's given, asking for guidance with parts of the system he's not working on, etc etc). In that case, I would absolutely want to hire that intern, with the understanding that he'd need to get better at the cultural aspects of the job once he joined full-time (as all intern conversions do).

That being said, no question that it was a bizarre and immature thing for the CEO to bring up, and I don't disagree with your characterization of it as "emotionally manipulative".
They're implying that the tsunami did little to no damage to the hard drive factory.
They already studied this. It sometimes worked with small animals like mice, but fails as organisms get larger. There was a really interesting video about how microwaves were first used to test this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
It depends on how it's designed. It wouldn't be that expensive to add a second memory chip. Provide some way to boot to the alternate, when the alternate is running the primary isn't even powered up. Zero attack surface.
US is exactly the place where those techniques would make waves because of what the US is paying for radiology; in countries where radiologists don't have the same monopoly/monopsony powers it's not nearly as lucrative to replace them.

For example, I'm distantly involved in a project with non-US-radiologists about ML support for automating radiology note dictation (which is a much simpler and much "politically cleaner" issue than actual radiology automation), and IMHO they and their organization would be happy to integrate some image analyis ML tools in their workflow to automate part of their work. However, the current methods really aren't ready, and the local market isn't sufficiently large to make the jump and make a startup to make them ready, that would have to wait until further improvements, most likely done by someone trying to get the US radiologists' money.
The irony here is delicious.
There are aligned incentives here, something a company that focuses on selling devices can do vs the companies that sell your attention
Huh. So many fixes in there are listed as 'replace head(s)'. I didn't realize that was a common fix for hard drives, thinking it would require near cleanroom conditions to ensure no dust got into the drive as its being worked on, and that it would be much cheaper/faster to maintain backups and swap in a new drive.
This is currently in progress right now.

https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/e7d7b39f12afa8ea2...
You can ignore the stuff from the CEO, yes. But once you get a letter from a lawyer you should at least have a lawyer look it over and possibly draft a response.

It can sometimes hard to tell frivolous vs. serious letters, and ignoring a serious one is not a good idea. Given any sort of emotional attachment to your business, and lack of legal experience, you might not be the best person to judge the situation.
I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of people are hired because of experience they have doing similar things at prior companies.
I don’t think they put on more weight than people in a relationship they don’t enjoy. So the enjoyment factor seems irrelevant at best.
Is Palantir good at this stuff, though? It sounds like they have a mixed track record on delivering value.
I agree. Essentially the same scenario has happened twice in my close circle since my dad.

Sadly it seems treatment here is very much focused on the organ, not the patient.

Hence why I tell people I come across who's diagnosed for the first time: learn where your cancer might spread to, and be very vigilant of changes/pain in those areas.
It's called dark humor. Tragic events can be respected and grasped without some puritanical concept of them being "untouchable" subjects. A joke about 9/11 is almost certainly taking advantage of (and probably directly in opposition to) the exact attitude that lead to it becoming "off-limits" in the first place, and playing with it.
FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
Is there a decent size community for Pixelmator? The difficulty with many of the open source or lesser known commercial products is that even if they're better than the big market leader, the amount of learning materials and community support is so much greater for the market leader.
I use this to search for transactions in my bank transaction history for taxes. Very useful!
The point is that aggressive litigation is a common tactic large companies use to bully smaller players, because they know that the smaller players don't have the resources for extended legal battles.
"get out of the room and run for the hills"

This is a good lesson from history. The Jews who stayed in Europe say that it crept up gradually, an actual slippery slope, and this is one of the reasons they didn't uproot themselves until it was too late.

If you're not a member of the majority group in society and you feel a fomenting hatred towards you, it's probably a good idea to sell your stuff and run away quickly. The downside of a false positive isn't that bad.

Fortunately in modern wealthy countries few have had to do that in a rather long time.
Wow never expected Repl.it to be so rotten in the core. I’ve followed their journey and happily recommend them on several occasions. Looks like after getting YC branding all gloves came off, and the success has gotten in their heads. Such a pity.
> The only sane, healthy, sustainable license is the "wacky" one you describe: individuals (and possibly even (very) small businesses) can use it for free. Everyone else needs to pony up. It's absurd that a ton of the software allowing giant corporations to run day-to-day is not only created but ACTIVELY MAINTAINED by an individual or groups of individuals for free, as if they were running a soup kitchen. Microsoft, Amazon and Google are not homeless. They can, and should, pay the people that make the software that keeps them going.

> "But if it's open source, couldn't they just fork it and keep using that for free?" Yes, but a. not legally, if the terms forbid it and b. They would now have to find a new group of people to maintain the code, after just creating a bunch of ill-will in everyone in that space. In the end nothing is absolute: you can always just pirate closed-source commercial software too. But doing so has serious negative consequences.

This is neither free nor open by either the OSI or the FSF's definitions.

The real problem is that there is a fundamental crisis at the intersection of capitalism and human freedom/autonomy that may be impossible to resolve.
> Doesn't the TypeStable struct just hide the unknown type, not remove it?

No, of you look at the typed IR I posted, it says

259::Union{Nothing, Some{Int64}}

and

(259 = Base.getproperty(o, :o))

So it's inferred properly to be a small union which julia handles efficiently at runtime:

julia> @btime type_stable()
18.988 ns (1 allocation: 32 bytes)
1

> Furthermore, TypeStable itself has to be on the heap, which I think means this causes two pointer lookups rather than just one.

It's on the heap because you wrote

mutable struct

in your example and I was just mimicking you as close as possible. If you don't actually want it to be mutable, then you can just remove the keyword mutable and it'll be even faster and have no heap allocations:

julia> @btime type_stable()
18.426 ns (0 allocations: 0 bytes)
1
There's some truth to that. But I'd also argue that there's a tendency to try to bill every single kind of spinoff technology that the artificial intelligence community has produced as artificial intelligence.

Which a bit like characterizing mixing up a glass of Tang as a kind of space exploration.
I don't know anything about R and I couldn't get this to work. First, I had to install R. Then it told me that 'data.table' was unrecognized. So I searched around and installed that. Then, 'data.csv' is not quoted. So fixed that. So I tried running it on some data I have:

> data.table::fread("version_downloads.csv")[date == "foo", .(1,3)]
Error: character string is not in a standard unambiguous format
Execution halted

Dunno how to fix this now.
This is a big problem, you can have a used JD part but it won’t work because JD needs to squeeze every once of profit from their customers. This service based trend is the worst type of rent seeking I’ve seen in years
"Our software"? It is Apple's software and ecosystem. Of course Apple has a monopoly over their software, it would be absurd to suggest otherwise.

I don't understand why people think they have some special right to tell Apple how to handle their business and demand a direction for their platform. There are plenty of choices in the world, Apple is not a monopoly in the smartphone world, and by far.

75% of the world uses Android [0]. Technology offers a lot of choice. If you don't like the Apple ecosystem, don't develop for iOS or buy an iPhone, pretty simple.

[0]https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

Edit: I misunderstood what OP meant by ‘our software’. I was talking about iOS, not the software you develop for iOS/iPadOS
Teacher assistants are not recruited from mediocre students. They are all good students and all above average interested.
I'm pretty sure the ACLU took a side when hotels and restaurants weren't serving black people. There wasn't any government overreach there either.
What about option 3) here [1] - this email was initiated by Replit's CEO - so publishing the original email is...bad?
[1] https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/3980/is-it-legal-to-...
There still exists a fork of the Riju project on github which I have cloned locally.

I would be more interested in running all of these languages in wasm and the execution state can be live migrated between the server and the client, that would be something that could surpass other online repls.

https://qvault.io/python/running-python-in-the-browser-with-...

Repl.it has no standing to code written by Radon.
Article 1 is misleading at best. I have less than $1000 in my savings account, but only because the interest rate is terrible. It doesnt mean I have less than $1000 saved. The article's conclusions conflate the two things.
Here's a glimpse of the other side of the story, a reply from the CEO a few min ago: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1401957368510906369?s=19
yeah I'm officially about to stop questioning people's decision making process when I hear they're using Apple Maps

I'll give it a shot again for general navigation, it is the default any way
Your question about replit assumes the CEO behaves logically.
> you're being dishonest by only mentioning the most controversial one.

No. Your argument is "Yeah, we know it's terrible... so you can't hold it against us." Nevermind the fact that coinbase started to support Tether.

I think what's most interesting to me (and should be to you as a pro-crypto advocate) is that underlying backing in tether appears to be highly volatile, yet it's not represented in the price. Also what should be shocking is hodlers don't care about this either.

Nobody cared about Bernie Madoff as long as their accounts and the market kept going up. As soon as people tried to take their money out, however....
This seems like an illegal job listing in Colorado.
peruse the fdb forum. they produce document and record layers now. there are community layers of varying quality for a network block device, a filesystem, and a few other things.
Here's one for you: https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/bundled-payment...
Sigh. Now @pg will stop retweeting random Replit success stories.
This is funny. They literally do nothing but copy existing workflows and jam it into a "webapp", who really is the copycat?

I say you use this exposure to actually build a Lyft to their Uber. Show them who is really boss.
Just how sure are you that the ACLU will defend those cases?
Another Positive Week and Zoom's Boom in Earnings
> the NHS, as an organization, is not good at designing, delivering, and maintaining large software platforms, which is what Palantir is good at.

Has it ever had the opportunity to try?

Many projects to funnel government money into private companies have not delivered results. Has a large, in-house NHS IT project failed?
I'm not 100% sure but I think you can't kill open-source projects even if you wanted to. It seems that after releasing something into the wild its up to other people? A court case [it seems] could at best limit use to IP holders?
What is your legal theory regarding what's illegal here?
The NHS Digital website [1] detailing the opt-out process was last edited on 10th December 2019 suggesting that the accusation they are trying to sneak this in under cover of Covid is probably wide of the mark. It also seems pretty clear to me.

[1] https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/our-work/keeping-pa...
How would an NDA cover corrospondence with an intern from 2 years ago?
Instead of Pledging to Change the World, Pledge to Change Prediction Markets
> they've now broadcast to their potential customer base that they're litigious and petty.

This will indeed the case, and I’ll personally won’t be recommending them anymore. If they’re so petty to threaten to sue some intern, they’re not worth doing business with.
> the oo much time

Was that intentional? Looks like the other two replies may have read right past that without noticing it...
> The name bunglers were usually white colleagues, but in rare cases, they were people of color.

Is this disproportionate to the relative share of employees of each racial group?

Google is 52% white and 42% Asian. [1] Presumably Asian people are less likely to mix up other Asians, and the vast majority of the non-Asian employee base is white. So it makes sense that most of the "name bunglers" are white. They make up 90% of the non-Asian employees in companies like Google.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/311810/google-employee-e...
> Lawyers do not like to lose cases, so will not push a losing agenda.

Most lawyers don't care since they are getting paid anyway.
And something like a website that could be easily transferred into another jurisdiction or throw-away company? Good luck. This is not real estate where you are a sitting duck.
That's a good point I overlooked, though I always saw TikTok as a Twitter-without-text, or non-ephemeral Snapchat, your point stands regardless.
Swift Playgrounds for iPadOS supports building and shipping apps to the App Store.
Introduction to Neural Network Verification (Book)
It’s pretty interesting to look at a lot of these small updates as stepping stones towards making sure that when they launch an AR device in the next few years that it’s as compelling as possible (e.g. identifying text and objects, a huge focus on improving maps, etc…)
That doesn't seem to make replit look any better.

> There is a difference between copying a feature and actually getting intro a contract, and access to the code, copying it and calling it open-source.

> As a matter of principle, when someone goes into your home and steals from you, even if it's not material, you have to respond.

EDIT: Added quote. The implication seems to be that he thinks source code was stolen and this has nothing to do with design.