skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hard part of OSS management is dealing with change requests. Something comes in and now it's on the maintainer to ensure that the new fix doesn't break anything existing, or the new feature doesn't collide with anything else that comes down the pipe later. It's not work that can be done by volunteers, it's something that can only be done by long-term maintainers.

When I worked on an OSS project I hated getting PRs. They usually wouldn't work for one reason or another and I would have to explain why they were problematic. It took a lot of time out of my day—I would rather people just submit bug reports and feature requests.
“...so conscious thought can be allocated elsewhere.”

If at all. If you subscribe to thinking in identity-terms for optimization benefits, don’t you get a whole host of other heuristics and shortcuts to ‘conscious thought’?

For one thing, ‘uncertainty’ can be reduced. It’s this or that. And politically, you can turn uncertainty into us/them.
Yep, that's the first thing I do when I'm running off with my former company's IP to launch a competitor: send an email to my erstwhile CEO with a link and ask him "so what do you think?"
I always thought the Weather Channel was a strange choice versus the National Weather Service in the US. weather.gov is consistently more reliable where I live, and the data is free!
Every year Craig looks more and more like Martin Scorsese
Well that's a poor move on the CEOs side... Everyone who interacts with the company in any form should have some tiny amount of equity if legally possible, and some of it should be unvested, options, or restricted from sale.
> This stream is best experienced on an iPhone 7 or later, iPad (5th generation or later), or iPod touch (7th generation) using Safari on iOS 12 or later; or a Mac using Safari on macOS Mojave 10.14 or later. Streaming to your TV requires an Apple TV (2nd generation or later) or an AirPlay 2–capable device with the latest Apple TV software.

Right.
> They get paid the big bucks to understand when it's inappropriate to rely on them.

An automated system could record and analyze more outcome and biometric data than a group of doctors, over time obtaining more experience about when to apply or not the various medical rules. Human experience doesn't scale like a dataset or a model.

I bet some diagnostics could be correctly predicted by a model that a human can't understand, especially if they require manipulating more information than a human can hold at once.
Disagree. Certain topics are simply not meant to be discussed with the general public.

Regarding those topics, anybody who discusses them publicly is by definition not an expert.

In order to learn about those topics, you'll need to ask some questions in private.
I think there is a tipping point where something becomes so ubiquitous that it needs to become something like a common carrier or an open standard. The government could mandate something like any file format that has 20% or more has to be an open standard.
Not a lawyer, but: Intellectual property rights fall into specific, legally-defined categories, such as copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.

I don't see any hints that patents or trademarks are involved in this dispute in any way. Copyright violation seems unlikely, unless the intern improperly kept a copy of source code that he had access to while he was employed.

I could maybe see an argument for misappropriation of trade secrets, but the company would have to be able to make an argument that whatever specific secret information he used gave them a real competitive advantage, and that they took reasonable steps to protect it. (Having talked about their tech stack in engineering blog posts, as the OP alleges, would provide him with a pretty strong defense.)

If there's no IP infringement, then it doesn't matter whether there's a commercial motive or not.
This. Protecting data is practical for those of us sufficiently technically literate, but I've helped a fair number of people over the years that certainly would not be capable of doing it. (Admittedly, selection bias--the people who are asking for software help aren't the most technically knowledgeable.)
I work in machine learning these days. I'm not biased against it -- it's literally my profession.

I'm biased against a specific category of applications that are being heavily pushed by people who don't actually understand the problem they're purporting to solve.

Put another way, the automated tools produce verifiably non-physical results nearly 100% of the time. The video there is a great example -- none of those faults could actually exist. They're close, but are all require violations of conservation of mass when compared to the horizons also picked by the model. Until "automated interpretation" tools start incorporating basic validation and physical constraints, they're just drawing lines. An interpretation is a _4D_ model. You _have_ to show how it developed through time -- it's part of the definition of "interpretation" and what distinguishes it from picking reflectors.

I have strong opinions because I've spent decades working in this field on both sides. I've been an exploration geologist _and_ I've developed automated interpretation tools. I've also worked outside of the oil industry in the broader tech industry.

I happen to think that structural geology is rather relevant to this problem. The law of conservation of mass still applies. You don't get to ignore it. All of these tools completely ignore it and product results that are physically impossible.
Apple's whole thing is to see what features the market likes for a 3-5 years and putting it into an integrated package.

Nobody cares that a flagship android device can warp spacetime but could also take down an airplane when its battery explodes. People want to be able to share with their friends in the same ecosystem.

With Facetime, it was only 1-1 calls until the last year or two, now they are branching out and taking the features people like from other apps and making it native. People are less likely to choose those apps now. Google and Apple do the same thing in this regard.
That read very tongue in cheek to me. It'd be akin to creating a microblogging platform in a weekend without any production-ready engineering, yet claiming superiority over Twitter on a commit bumping the post limit to 560 characters.

And then having Twitter threatening to sue.
Computational weaving is becoming an exciting field. One big interest is producing 3d woven composites[0]. Rather than gluing layers of 2d fiber as is done commonly, stronger 3d structures can be built by weaving them. This is also being considered for making parts for hypersonic aircraft. Bulk refractory materials are very brittle, but drawn into fibers they are not.

In some cases, old punch card looms converted to computer control have been used to make theses high tech materials[1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_composites
[1]http://www.teamtextiles.com/3d-woven-fabric-and-billets
> ... I finally feel good about having access to my photos.

I only realised how much joy I get from being able to access my photos when I wasn't able to anymore. Back in ~2012, I lost several years worth when the hard-disk on my Acer laptop failed and I didn't keep any backups. Devastating. Backing up is something I learned the hard way.
So, any chance for a link to the open source project so we can accidently spawn a lot of new clones? :)
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec90cd29d1f/... - I've never used it, but it's meant to work for around 5 hours after your battery dies.
A collection of iterated improvements that require the regulation, the local enterprises, and the workers to align in a particular way is not exportable, nor a breakthrough.
Ignoring the posturing of lawyers on the other hand can be plenty expensive.
It looks like Apple maps may actually be surpassing Google maps. Never thought I'd actually say that, but I'd certainly give it a serious shot after seeing that demo, especially once it comes to CarPlay.
As someone who is older, I'd phrase it slightly differently. "I'm old, my time on earth will be gone in less time than you've been alive, this thing you're all excited about seems silly and pointless and doesn't solve any problem I have, so I won't waste any of my precious time on it."

This is part of why I've never used Facebook, Twitter, or any of the rest of it.
That's a fair point, although presumably you could just use an app to expose your photos locally.
I would expect the free consultation to be "Hmm, that depends. Can you give me a copy of any contracts you signed with them? Oh and $$$. Send me $$$ too."
I'd say he is pretty darn talented
> You pay someone a bunch of money only to watch them walk and help your competitor take your market share. It's understandable why that's upsetting.

No, it really isn't because that's how business works. This is like getting upset that my plumber might fix my competitors' pipes, too.
Not OP, but I think this is the source for their claim:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Not sure that's it. Consider the difference in motivation between trying to figure out how: to get people to click on advertisements; vs prevail when people are trying to kill you.

Source: was at BBN while DARPA pushed the Internet and created SIMNET. Did work for DARPA at own company later. Never met a wooly-haired, wild-eyed fellow nerd or VC with half the imagination of buzz-cut DARPA people.
The 10 year span between 2000 and 2010 also had one of the largest relative uplifts in transistor density. Going from 130nm to 28nm was HUGE.

I think people forget how quickly computers (especially in efficiency!) improved from just 2000-2005 and again from 2005-2010.

Everything has leveled out a bit until recently. I think we'll see another 5 year growth spurt once stacked designs become common end of 2022ish. Though TSV vs EMIB is a whole other argument/ball of wax.
Widgets and app library for iOS is basically Android
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That's true, but there is no legal backing behind a laywer-initiated nastygram, so why fold before it even gets to that point?

It's true, the US legal system can be hopelessly expensive, but it is still possible to push back before it gets to that point if you're sure you're in the right.
You don't need glasses again after 10 years.
I used to use magnet on the mac, which does hotkeys, but not sure about mouse driven.

https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/
Coincidentally, Channel 4 in the UK broadcast a series called "The Bank of Dave" in 2012 where a resident of Burnley called David Fishwick tried to launch a bank of the same name.

They subsequently couldn't get a banking license, and dropped the "Dave" name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley_Savings_and_Loans
Also, there is no moat. As far as I know, there are no major protected intellectual properties, technical or business learning curves, regulatory hurdles, intensive capitalization requirements, economies of scale... I suppose there may be some amount of network effect, but not so much that it's hard to imagine a competitor struggling to overcome it.
TV series Fortitude (2015) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3498622 explores this kind of scenario happening on Svalbard, highly recommended. Features blindsight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight as a plot device
Common sense and knowledge of human shortcomings. It's hard to keep a juicy secret.
This article appears to center on germanium, but the first procedures to prepare high-purity silicon were developed by Carl Marcus Olson of DuPont for WW2 radar components.

It was nearly two decades after the end of the war that transistor demand would need this procedure again.

http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/olson/article.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Marcus_Olson
> There weren't any, which is why that particular shop elected to roll their own distributed system on top of rocks.

that's nuts. rocks could've been added as a storage engine to fdb far more easily.
He also graduated from one of Canada's top business schools with really good grades
Dropping a case or settling a case is not the same as losing a case. There is quite a lot of legal pressure and financial cost that can be applied that puts you at no risk of losing a case.
It’s Clear Now Anthony Fauci Isn’t a Fool, He’s a Villain
I finished an MVP for my screensharing iOS yesterday. Shoot. I wonder what usage will look like for screensharing via FaceTime. It is super neat that they're releasing this alongside their FaceTime update.
Looks like the target market is to separate investors from their money.
Counterpoint: be afraid of lawyers. They may not be able to win s judgment against you, but they can easily bankrupt you. Remember the case where a man criticized Proctorio and was hit with a SLAPP lawsuit aimed to silence him. He ended up spending 100k on legal costs and the case is only beginning. He would have been bankrupt despite being 100% legally in the right.

Fortunately for him, EFF decided to support him afterwards. But do not count on EFF paying for your legal defence.

Links:

https://twitter.com/Linkletter/status/1385004344903290883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26900217

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-proctorio-behalf...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898651
I've been living out in the country for the last year and I can say that out here nights do have different qualities depending on the phase of the moon, etc.
I too remember a time in during college when I taunted a Sikh student with an extremely racist joke. I said sorry but even after many decades I have great regret at how callously I said that joke. To this day I don’t say any jokes and many people consider me uptight.
I used it a bit back in college to avoid overdrafts. When living with no income and under 1k in the bank, it was pretty useful.

It would predict automatic payments, and allow you to take out a small loan to cover the payment, avoiding about $35 in overdraft fees. And the best part was the payment back was 0% interest, only you couldn't use the service again until you paid Dave back.

I'm sure they got their money's worth from banking data after I left it signed in for 5 years. Eventually I deleted my account and unlinked my bank.
That's unfortunate to hear. I agree that it's a thankless job, which is probably why companies usually pay for a service to do it instead.

SnapEda charges $60 for schematic, footprint, and a simplistic 3d model. KiCAD could offer the same service but with the added benefit that components are added to the library afterwards.
Wait for them to get to it. "also, we fixed that really annoying bug that should never have been an issue"...
Sometimes it is a bad implementation that scares engineers from a pioneering piece of technology. The windows 3.1 and 95 machines with pen computing for windows were quite impressive and had a long career in the medical field.
That part yes, but what do you do once you get served? What do you do when you need to respond in court?
It somewhat weakens an absolute assertion "X is not justified" when a response 1) lists numerous current or recent instances in which X is argued as justified by a substantial groiup, and the further response 2) boils down to "now is not one of those times in which X is justified".

A chief weapon of both tyrant and bully is to deny their victims and targets the right to self-defence.
A bit off topic, but instead of FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) I much more prefer the MAAAF or FAAAM acronym (Facebook, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft) because their monopolies basically make them a mafia family, and I don't really see Netflix belonging in the group.
shelf: per-app dock for multi tasking
There is a world of prior art before replit, there is absolutely nothing they can patent or bully you about.

Do not apologize, that is an admission of guilt. Also, do not talk to that guy, you are making it worse.

The guy's objective is to kill replit competitors, which is itself a monopolistic practice which is probably illegal.

By the way, the guy sounds like a fucking jerk, I am closing my replit account. Good luck with your open source project.
> 18 WPM for a quadriplegic still seems extremely impressive to me

Honest question: how so? We should expect a direct neural interface to far exceed the speed of any manual input device, especially after 40-50 years of research.
Satirical fiction is probably not a great measuring stick to judge reality by.
This is only partially correct. The brain encodes a lot of information in the actual hardware connections. So it's not obvious that you can't get at least a partial boot of the brain from flatline.
What? Failure to heed a legal threat can result in a lawsuit. Failure to appear can result in a default judgement against you. Appearing in court without adequate representation isn't much safer. Appearing with adequate representation is probably out of OP's budget.
The phone will still work as a key even if it's out of power [0]. Obviously it won't work if your battery has been completely dead for weeks, but as long as your phone can show the "out of battery" screen, it can still do NFC stuff.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/express-cards-with-...
Watching the presentation, i wonder of the addition of ID-cards/driver licenses to the Wallet app...

Not sure how it is in the US, here in .de you're expected to hand over your drivers license if you've been pulled over to the police officer, so they can run checks on it.

Now, this would probably a semi-good idea to hand over your unlocked phone or even have a unlocked phone "visible" or am i overthinking things?
What an odd take.

There was respect shown.

Replit is not that innovative or the pioneer of this idea - many have done this so many times before

Wit this silly logic, nobody can ever work for a compeitor.

Was Zoom's CEO unprofessional for starting Zoom after working so long in WebEx? How about Jet.com founder after working at Amazon?
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Being upset about something and acting on it are 2 very different things.

I don't know many people who would not be upset about investing many hours into something only to have someone copy it in 24 hour period and repost it with only slight modifications as theirs.

Acting on that, however, is a very different story. If someone is going to act on such emotions they shouldn't be a CEO to begin with probably.
I worked at a tech support desk at my university, and we asked for passwords. We were supporting software, so there's really no way around that. I always felt a bit uneasy that a dozen college kids had full access to the data on every machine in the shop. We should have at least recommended that folks change their password when they picked the machine up, or set a temporary password while it was in the shop.
Here's one of my favorite articles on FoundationDB, where it (FDB) passes Jepsen first try: https://web.archive.org/web/20150312112556/http://blog.found...

> I ran FoundationDB Key-Value Store through every nemesis in Jepsen - including those that found failures in other databases - and FoundationDB passed all of them with flying colors.

FoundationDB is one of the coolest pieces of technology I've used in the past decade. The tuple keyspace is incredibly useful, so are the multi-key transactions. I've physically killed the power on an FDB node and FDB cluster; multiple times (heh, home servers)... and every time the cluster or node just comes back.
That has been my own experience too. The heroics to fix messes are given more recognition than a properly run projects. One company would actually give quarterly awards be those who did heroics.
Apple keeps trying to make multitasking on iPad work, but it remains as confusing and handicapped as ever.

I wonder if they'll ever just give up and add windows to iPad OS.
If we could somehow give up all of the quality of life improvements of the past 70 years without giving up any of the productivity enhancements from the same timeframe, then sure, maybe everyone could work less.

But, that doesnt make sense. Banking on my smartphone is more efficient than waiting in line for a teller, but it also means I need sufficient income to pay for the device and the network access (neither of which existed in 1950).
You're right, private speech on private platforms is not protected by the constitution.

However, I think we need to realize the physics of censorship have changed. Censure was once only available to the government, since they ostensibly controlled all public spaces and had the forces to make it so. Today, private companies control the largest forums for civic discourse, of which there is only a small handful of companies with wide reaching networks. These private companies therefore can have an undue effect on our civil government simply by exercising their rights to censor speech on their platforms.

So, we could say, that Trump's civil liberties as currently defined were not violated. But it may be in everyone's interest to update our shared obligation to free speech (for what if the shoe was on the other foot?).
There's next to no additional leverage here, and bad PR is the best leverage you can get if you can't afford expensive lawyers.
I think this is a bad a take. How many different positive ways was there to approach this situation? The response from the CEO was incredibly unprofessional and seemed unnecessarily antagonistic to the point of provocation.
Fun Monday
> I've also gone full OBS for zoom meetings. It's nice to be able to draw on the screen, share my screen or a picture during a meeting, without having to share screen.

It sounds awesome. Could you describe it in more details?
Being fit serves many goals other than attracting a mate. I wouldn’t personally even put it in the top 3, although admittedly most people probably would.
Netflix don’t implement the Apple TV features that allow you to see content from multiple sources on one page or “up next” either.
And what fraction of motorised bikes are electric?

Again, your original claim doesn't stand to any evidence I've found.

You've presented none yourself.
"When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths... We've been wrong before, and we're likely going to be wrong again...That the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade and ideas. In light of that knowledge that we may be wrong, the best course of action, the safest course of action, is to go ahead and listen to the ideas on the other side. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. Those are the ideas that we can safely act upon. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based on imperfect knowledge. That, at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment."

- Oliver Wendell Homes on the marketplace of ideas.

Unknown to most people, our modern idea of free speech was not founded by the constitution but by a judge of the name Oliver Wendell Homes. The history and story of how our modern concept of free speech came to be what is today is very relevant to the free speech problems faced by the ACLU.

If you're interested I recommend this podcast episode: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/what-.... Really relevant and really interesting.
What two parts are those?
Or they might secretly be a dog. If someone complains about edits in Wikipedia, a site where all edits are publicly recorded for all time, I want to see links, or some very good reason for not providing any.
I thought the new multitasking features were excellent? What did you feel wasn’t good?
https://twitter.com/pcmaffey/status/1117437322927247360
I must be misunderstanding something, however if you plug an iPhone into a Windows PC, the iPhone will ask if you'd like to share photos and videos with the connected device. Say yes and you get a completely typical DCIM share.