skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is patently false, so many example case studies online and in the revised addition showing how someone was able to implement a 4WW lifestyle.

First things first, I am not attacking you, or your lifestyle.

I've read the case studies on his website, and it basically boils down to: get very successful selling stuff. Once you've done that you don't need to spend time or effort innovating. Now, I've done a fair bit of sales, and to get more sales you either need to capture a niche by the balls, or continually innovate. https://www.tropicalmba.com/10-more-four-hour-work-week-case... has a great overview of the strategies. None of those are going to give you a 4 hour work week for a long time, if at all.

Its just another extension of the "always be hustling" mindset that is so toxic to great number of people.

Look, I am very much for people not working long hours. I want workers rights, I want a working hours cap. I want workers to be mobile. However what Ferriss is advocating is mostly just a fantasy. Launching a company is stressful, innovating is stressful, unless its in an area you love. I have some friends who flew to bali to live that lifestyle, they along with many of their cohort failed.

> If I hire a virtual assistant to assist me in my tasks,

Are you paying them a fair wage, or an Uber wage? Hint: if you're paying them ~$10-100 a month, then its not really a fair wage.
How many of those millions goes to the lawyer?
Backup Strategy 2021
Defending domestic terrorist might be a bit outside their wheelhouse.
The said joking is/was good with me. :-)
Covid outbreak at Taiwan factory may worsen chip shortage
We're fine with the ones in china because we get cheap stuff with two day delivery from amazon
> Beast mode intern flirts with the idea of launching a competing startup under the guise of innocent open source project

From the article:

> I’m not a business person. I’m just an open-source dev who likes to build weird things for fun. (If you doubt my track record of building things that don’t make money, just check out the list on my website, and note the conspicuous absence of anything that’s ever made a cent of revenue.)

This doesn't make your interpretation impossible, but it's certainly very unlikely.
What's the catch ?
Well, Repl.it sank from "oh, that's kinda cool" to "avoid at all cost in my book"...
The ACA created a capitated payment system for medicare that providers can opt into. I'm not sure what evidence you're looking for other than the definition of capitation is "fee per patient" as opposed to "fee for service." Some states like California also have capitated plans on from private companies. https://www.cms.gov/Medicare-Medicaid-Coordination/Medicare-...
Unless I’m misunderstanding something, the company’s software is already open source (https://github.com/replit), so cloning it is perfectly reasonable.

If there’s any dispute here, I think it would be over the copyright to the cloned code (if it really is a clone), but the article doesn’t mention anything about that, so I suspect it isn’t actually cloned at all.
Monotremes (and marsupials) have fascinated me since I was a kid. I love these history of science things just because it’s a good reminder of just how young the science of biology is.
I wonder if there will be talk about the AppStore after all the drama or Apple will keep playing the "we deserve all the credit for your apps" card.

Edit:
Thanks for the downvote, the more we let the monopoly take decisions over our software the better the world will be.
But the point is, it's not an open source clone of anything proprietary. Their proprietary stuff is the collaborative capability they have added, accounts, sharing, etc. The stuff the intern replicated is a bunch of non-proprietary open source stuff (that they themselves open sourced), and he went well beyond what replit does by supporting hundreds of languages. They have zero chance legally of going anywhere with this other than scaring a small project out of existence. There is no case.
The real question and a better post than the original post would be: Are people living in the 21st Century too easily offended?

But it's a rhetorical question...
> "They were standing there, all of them in [prisoner] uniforms, only eyes, only eyes, very narrow - that was very terrible, very terrible," he said.

My grandfather helped to liberate Dachau. The only detail he ever told us about that day was how thin the prisoners were. The men were light enough to carry out two at a time, one on each arm; and they felt fragile, like small children.
Have you tried recently? Phone icloud backups are even worse.
How do you set this up? I’d love to get a good backup workflow going for my iCloud.
There are other legitimate ways of protecting trade secrets, such as requiring people to sign an NDA and/or non-compete before they see your secret sauce.

I'm not defending how the CEO behaved here - it looks very unprofessional at best - but the patent system is not the only or the best mechanism to enforce intellectual property rights.
I’m fairly certain it’s the other way around. I agree that when you get to physical goods there’s no way it’s literally infinite. What I’m saying is that after a certain point it doesn’t matter.

If we had a sun sized amount of sugar available to humanity then it would be post scarcity even though it was actually getting used up by a measurable amount
True, but criticizing a lack of originality boils down to "this product isn't useful". I was arguing more for the utility/value of the service, which results in demand and customers.
If I were the CEO in this position, I would make sure the intern had shares/stock options as part of their comp, and my reply would be:

"Hi X,. It looks like a very cool project, but I'm slightly concerned that it's existence could hurt repl.it. And as shareholders, that could hurt both of us.

Let me know if you want a video call to discuss further.

X"
If you want the best of two worlds, you can also give bigbash [1] a try. It generates a bash statement using unix tools from a sql query that can be run on csv files.

[1] http://bigbash.it/
> Maybe I'm missing business 101, why would you want to give up some your large diamond to some other company?

Because you want $3.9B of cash instead of a company worth $3.9B.

Also funny since I would much rather have $3.9B in cash than a large diamond “worth” $3.9B, since diamond prices have been falling for many, many years, compared to alternative stores of wealth. And also, I would get zero utility from a diamond in the first place.
Yeah - I don't really like piling on, but Replit and Roam both give off massive alarms for me regarding the founders.

Both seem to think they're Xerox PARC - or the most ambitious software companies on earth, both products seem pretty underwhelming.

Just seems wildly disproportionate to what they're doing. At least Steve Jobs was actually building stuff that was revolutionary. Elon Musk is building reusable rockets and pulling EVs from the future to modern day. Roam is making another centralized document editor?

In terms of software ambition neither of them come close to Urbit in what they're trying to accomplish, and Galen is not an ass about it.
Can you fix a point in time? Software evolves and I think a point I saw is that it wasn’t well tested then they changed once production workloads told them it needs to change.
"If I were in the same situation as OP, I'd state that my intent was positive,"

My attorney: Never respond ever.
Typical management/leadership. Everybody must go back to the office because some people miss working in person, and nobody's allowed to be fully remote because not everyone likes it. Nobody cares about the people who prefer working remotely and who work worse in person.
Yes! As an Android user with Apple family, this is great news!

> machine learning blocks out ambient noise and prioritizes your voice

Ooo, and they're catching up with Google.

> Video calls will now get grid view.

Ooo, and they're catching up with Zoom.

> Now you can generate a link for a call and share it anywhere.

Ooo, and they're catching up with...basically everyone for the last 10 years. Was that really not a thing before now?
Hi. Thank you for sharing your story. Vision is such a critical part of our daily lives, so receiving a diagnosis like this can be very painful.

Unfortunately, the only way to slow down the damage related to glaucoma is to lower eye pressure (IOP.) This is accomplished via medications, lasers, and surgery. Typically we start with the least invasive option, which is medications (aka eyedrops.) It sounds like you are receiving the standard of care, which is a good thing.

Re: cost of care, I think we can all agree that things need to change.
Relevant book recommendation: https://surveillancevalley.com/
Ya I once went to get my iPhone screen replaced, the technician wanted me to turn off my passcode just to diagnose the problem. I of course said I am not doing that. Instead I backed up my iPhone and reset it. This is ridiculous how can they even dare to ask people to turn off passcode and hand over their phones with so much personal information. This was not even an apple Genius Bar. This was an Apple premium reseller. I am sure many non tech savvy people just handover their iPhones this way.
I'm begging you, do not go to private art school anymore
I agree about the tone, but I think it comes from youthful inexperience and a lack of (legal) knowledge. OP has no idea where the line is, what the lines are, or what professional legal defense would actually require/entail. And so they're stuck trying to rationalize every possibly-defensible point in the court of public opinion.

Also, a good way to get employees that aren't testing boundaries is to hire experienced developers rather than interns who are still learning the world.

Overall I don't see what leg repl.it has to stand on here - their product relies on taking numerous free software packages and bundling them into proprietary software, and yet they have the gall to consider button placement some secret sauce?! But it also depends on what OP's employment contract says and when he actually developed this. Altogether, this really just looks like a case of a CEO personally bullying someone else because they can.
WireGuard did not make it into a release now did it? Code was indeed crap and they pulled it at the last minute. Lots of users were disappointed including me but then a better version was released as a package and I'm a happy camper.
Is it broken? Based on historical evidence, signal that implies a strong startup founder does not necessarily imply a gentleman.

Let's iterate some famous startup founders. I could totally see them going off like this. Steve Jobs? Check. Elon Musk? Check.

Not defending bad behavior, but from point of view VC bad behavior is not necessarily a dealbreaker if they can deliver a unicorn.
Every year, the photos app is a bit better.
And they might have gotten him back on the team if they hadn't spectacularly blown it.
If always splitting on ',' is correct for your data, then your solution is probably fine. You probably want '^foo,' though, otherwise yours includes things where 'foo' is just a prefix of the first column value.

But CSV permits quoted fields that contain literal ','. So in that case, splitting on ',' would be incorrect.
Sorry, are you going to pay my legal fees?

If yes, please by all means reach out.
I wonder if you can replace a GP with a decision tree. You could update the tree as new research is done.

If you could collect reliable diagnostic data locally, you could serve this globally and for free.

It would also be a treasure trove of data about how we respond to various treatments.
Here's an alternative window manager in AutoHotKey. I consider it essential as I use a 4k screen at 100% scale. It's entirely keyboard-shortcut driven. NB: it doesn't support multiple monitors, though it'll work fine for the primary monitor.

https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/79338-simple-window-posit...
USDOT says average motorist drives 13,500 miles/year, or roughly 37 miles per day[0]. So divide by another factor of 3 to get a more realistic comparison of death rates between whitewater kayaking and driving.

[0] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
> Im quite discombobulated on why they are doing this instead of offering you a job.

In fairness, they are doing this as well as offering him a job (see the second email screenshot in the article).
Lots of discussion of WPM speed. Prof. Shenoy presented at our weekly seminar (shameless plug - https://twitter.com/RiceNeuro) a couple of weeks ago. I think he considers the goal to be reaching the rate of speech, which is about 150 WPM. Beyond that, I think that there's a strong argument that our brain is not completely generating/processing thought fast enough to substantially increase output rate.
Wonder if it'll work from Firefox.
The images came off a CD with specific instructions on how to license them.

The intent was to use her work without paying her. We may assume she already contacted them and asked them to do the honest thing, and was rebuffed.
That's essentially how Zoom was built. Eric Yuan took everything he learned from supporting WebEx and built a new company and product that does the same thing as WebEx.

https://slidebean.com/blog/startups-zoom-company-story-eric-...
When you have 60 hard drives in a server, and server says "Hard Drive SerialNumber #51233142 has failed", you need a quick-and-easy way to find that hard drive.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/storage-pod.html

A sticker with the Serial Number on the correct location will help you find which of those 60-hard drives are broken. Toshiba didn't have their stickers in a location that worked for Backblaze.
Well, the protection strategy for my valuables is not "leave the car locked in the shop". And then there's that one customer who's "rattle" is something in the glove compartment, to extend the metaphor further.

So, in keeping with my points above, I would probably move the really valuable stuff out, but for some customers taking everything out will prevent the technician from removing the issue (and they will probably be blamed for it) and if I feel the need to completely get everything saved out of the car beforehand, I would not trust that shop with my car, either.
The UK media is basically as servile to government/establishment interests as the US media these days.
Good lord... that was a tough read.
The entire latter half of the book he is completely isolated and cannot receive communications from Earth. He could send messages via Morse code, but that was it.
Cool, email me via cc@buildfaast.com and I'll be happy to help where I can
It's pretty much understood that your institutional knowledge will go for a walk in this industry. Taking it personally is more unprofessional than what the intern did.

> it is clearly doing the exact same thing... how is that not at least "stealing the idea"?? Just don't do that.

Ideas aren't worth the paper they're written on, and a startup founder should know that better than anyone else. Hell, wasn't Fairchild "the same idea" as Shockley Semi?

I have a lot of respect for what repl.it is and their vision, and the intern did not come close to copying it. But I did lose a bit of respect for the current leadership if this is how they respond to toy reimplementations of certain features.
But getting photos off the phone onto a PC gets worse than I could even imagine.
Is it really? It's what he learned to do at the company, so now he's doing it.

If the product was really unique, maybe. But from the description it seems to be a generic online repl.
For once I think a car analogy is actually useful. But, in this analogy, "taking all your valuables out of the car" would be like removing all the important documents from the computer. Which would be a reasonable thing to do, I guess, if the computer shop really needed access to do the repairs that they need to do.

Another possibility -- maybe the computer is so borked that you can't even log on to remove your important documents. This seems more like calling somebody because your key broke in the lock... which... I guess most people would stick around? It is a little bit of a mismatch, because it is a quick fix and it isn't like you can go anywhere anyway.
> the largest source of bankruptcy in the US is medical costs

That's not what the article says.

"Two-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall."

Those issues can absolutely include direct costs, but they also include things like not being able to work, needing a lot of day to day help, and other things that increase costs and reduce income even if the actual medical costs were largely covered.
Building tools to aid humans seems like the best of both worlds. This is already happening in some radiology subspecialties: The autonomous systems can highlight potential areas of interest but it’s up to humans to make the final call. For some cases it’s a quick and easy call, but for tougher calls the radiologist can bring other factors into consideration.
There are many things in science that didn't have concrete evidence to the contrary before they were researched; where do you think concrete evidence comes from if not starting to research? It's ironic that you criticize propaganda on one hand while suggesting that we just believe whatever we're told is true without question on the other hand. What is that if not propaganda?
Yep. We had maybe 60 of these. I think 2GB, but can’t remember for sure. We were all Compaq desktops and servers (Toshiba laptops for sales) but much smaller so no clout.

We bought some drives to rotate while we waited for RMAs, but the ones we got back failed too, so we just ended up keeping a stack of drives ready to swap.

They sat next to the spare dongles for the PCMCIA Ethernet cards, that the sales folks would inevitably break by tilting the laptop on it to get at a piece of paper on their desk.

That was a fun time being a small IT shop playing with WinNT and early Linux. We did everything from writing internal apps to running Ethernet.

3 guys in a glorified closet using post-its as our ticketing/user story system. Very IT Crowd.
Replit is about everything surrounding the eval() call. The intern's clone, according to them, had nothing of this (scaling, user accounts, saving code snippets, ...). If they'd rebuilt all that too I'd see the point, but really, what great secrets are there in those "design docs" that just refer to the part of the service where you put in your code and click run? These things have been around for at least a decade, this one just seems to have the most languages.
Personally, I'd like to see the ACLU take up the issue of "hostile work environment" legislation. The ambiguity of this term and the various ways different courts have interpreted it seems to be one of the greatest threats to free speech in the current day and age. Whether it's defining it more narrowly or getting rid of it altogether, something should be done about it, and I can't think of a better positioned organization to take on that task.
Interesting how the device in the video looks slightly different from the prototype. I love how the 3 LEDs in the top-right animate like the front of the car in Knight Rider.

Brings back memories to see Stewart Cheifet giving an interview!
> gliders are 60 year old truck drivetrains and engines that get a new cab and body parts, and get recertified for the road.

I doubt any gliders are running 60yo engines unless you meant 60 year old engine technology. Most likely pre EPA 2006 to avoid the DPF and later EPA 2010 SCR systems. I'd guess the popular glider engines would be Cummins big cam's, CAT 3406's, and maybe S60 Detroits.
Provider organizations are understandably reluctant to accept removable media from unknown sources due to the risk of malware. Many of the computers that doctors use don't have DVD drives or they're disabled for security.
The whole startup space is disgusting. There are a bunch of lucky founders 'chosen ones' who get a ton of VC funding; as soon as they accept VC funding, users 'magically' start pouring in (cabal/manipulation?), which attracts more funding... Then some megacorp acquires the startup for millions of dollars. Easy peasy.

Then these lucky, spoiled-rotten assholes think they're entitled to sue anyone who tries to compete with them. Everyone knows this is not a free market. Just a bunch of artificially selected spoiled brats with rich daddies/friends enriching themselves by destroying society.
Quality of care provisions in Medicare/Medicaid/ACA all help to shift shift costs to the practitioner if care is poor or has bad outcomes.
I can't help but feel calling this GPDPR is a sly attempt to associate it with GDPR.

That said, the linked article doesn't give any good reason why our heath data shouldn't be used for research and planning. It's clearly in the public interest.

Of course I have little faith that the UK government won't leave it lying on a train somewhere, whence it will be deanonymised and shared with all the wrong people, alternatively they'll eventually share it with insurers despite their words to the contrary etc. But the Register doesn't try to argue that point, so what is their ground for objection exactly?
Yeah you’d think they’d be first. Super cool though they provided an API though.
It seems trivial from the name and I always get the same answer as it gives; is there a way to confirm my rule?
I have 1 of these still in an array and my second to last one died a few weeks ago. They had high failure rates for sure but some of them held on for a good 5+ years for me. All of these drives came from shucking and a little over a year ago I moved from Seagate externals to WD externals and my pain increased 10-fold. Not only did I have to deal with the 3.3V pin issue but I've had drives die in under a year. Since then I dropped externals for internals (and the warranty that comes with it) and I went back to Seagate (Exos). Of course now buying a hard drive is insane with the prices where they are (easily $100 over what I paid before the price spike).
https://archive.is/hSvYB
Japan investigates subway death, media says involved Olympic official
Likely OP didn't think it was unethical, which is why they shared, but that doesn't change the fact that it was.
The lack of evidence is a clear indication!
I'm not thinking so much about non compete, I'm thinking about copyright violation or trade secrets (even though it's not the most stunning tech here). I specifically see this commit message:

> repl.it superiority!!

It's weird to have that commit message and then to claim Riju is unrelated and not a clone of Repl.it.
> basically spreading some of that knowledge you gave them and making it packaged and accessible not only to future contributors of their project, but to all competitors and genuine copycats out there

With this reasoning anyone at Amazon cannot join another ecommerce, or anyone at Microsoft OS cannot join Apple, or anyone in iPhone team cannot join Android.

If you are worried that your product is at the mercy of people not talking about it, or experimenting with the knowledge in future, then thats the least of your worries. The product, the team and the company is in a deep mess.
Netflix doesn’t support normal AirPlay either. Bummer
Domestic partner aggro.
> One of the issues here is that Apple instructs customers to send in their iPhone with the passcode disabled, which allows anyone in the chain to access any data stored on the device.

This right here is the problem. Apple must not ask people to turn off passcode instead reset iPhone.
> If anyone knows of one that supports non-web languages (I already use codesandbox for frontend) like python, etc. this is the chance to pitch it.

How about a locally hosted lxc container running nothing but sshd, tmux (to share a single tty), nano and whatever compiler/interpreter you need? If you want to get real fancy and edit the same file, kakoune has a collaborative editing feature.

I might not value my time enough but right now I really don't get the value proposition of 70% of saas businesses trending here.