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I miss Mike Quinn and Weird Stuff. I haunted them in my youth and made all kinds of crazy projects.
Doctors will optimize for patient outcomes, usually by doing all they can. Sometimes, this doesn't scale well. For example, the US Preventative Services Task Force stopped recommending routine PSA screening among asymptomatic patients to detect prostate cancer in 2012. They based their decision on a careful review of medical research, noting the screening didn't have much of an effect on mortality but could cause stress or invasive follow-up tests. Urologists generally opposed the decision. The USPSTF has since walked it back to, "Talk about the risks and benefits." I've looked at survey results for my state, and the numbers indicate a good proportion of men are told the benefits of a PSA but not any risks

Patients are even less reasonable. If you tell somebody they have a tumor, they will now have a constant stress. If you say "cancer," they'll likely undergo expensive and potentially harmful treatment, even if "watch and wait" was a totally valid choice (e.g., slow-developing prostate cancer for very old men). Remember how Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy after being told she had a good chance of developing breast cancer? That behavior will lead to a lot of unnecessary pain, debt, and lower-quality lives if it became normal.

It'd be hard if not impossible to ask doctors don't share knowledge about a tumor with patients. But in some cases we intentionally ask them not to go looking for tumors because the expected value of a positive result is a negative impact.
well there are tons of online repl's or online ide's that came way before replit. cloud9/eclipse che and than there is this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_source_co... and this:
https://joel.franusic.com/online-reps-and-repls
https://www.opensafely.org/

I disagree wholeheartedly
Did any of the Replit people work on Lively Kernel? I think what has the Replit guy upset is not that some random person did something similar, but rather that someone who worked at Replit did something similar.

As far as Lively Kernel goes, is there a list of languages it supports? All I got from your links is that it is a JavaScript-based web development environment, seems to have a lot of Smalltalk related stuff, and that it includes something called lively.ide, which provides "Tool support for programming and debugging JavaScript, HTML, CSS, shell" and "Other languages can be plucked in as needed (see cloxp and LivelyR)."
Hello,

I think it is cool that you are doing this. You may get a lot of response due to this offer. I'm probably ok for the moment but I would love to reach out to you with some questions if you are ok with that.

Thanks,
> I think a simple apology and some self reflection would go a long way here.

The CEO is continuing to double down today, more than 2 months after the original conversation, so I'm not sure that's likely: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1401957368510906369
It probably won't. But that does not dismiss that it should :).
We are also not allowed to go into the GP! Because of Covid!
On Thinking Machines, Machine Learning, and How AI Took over Statistics
It’s must easier and faster to buy a machine than train a doctor
If you do it right, everyone will now to go to Tobago (or wherever) for the AI treatment that Just Works, and the luddites will go extinct (or maybe lobby for a fresh war in that region)
Son of Saul is a hungarian dramatic film about a member of the sonderkommando in auschwitz that i appreciated. it is the only production about the holocaust that didn’t feel fetishistic to me somehow. i feel like it gave a small sense of the totality of defeat that must have been overwhelmingly present in that place, and the desperate reality of existence and struggle despite all, though the main character is by no means a fighter.

it’s beautifully made, in a very personally close and intensely emotional style. it’s entirely fictional but based in part on secret diaries and photographs found buried within the camp.

>Dear finder of these notes, I have one request of you, which is, in fact, the practical objective for my writing ... that my days of Hell, that my hopeless tomorrow will find a purpose in the future. I am transmitting only a part of what happened in the Birkenau-Auschwitz Hell. You will realize what reality looked like ... From all this you will have a picture of how our people perished.

i recommend this film, and the book Blessed is the Flame by Serafinski, to anyone interested in the people within the camps.
I understand all that. The author claimed that all of the relevant design elements were part of repl.it's open source projects on GitHub.
What they think in no way influences my opinion.
>That is, for Marx only primary production creates value, all other economic or human activity destroys value. So for example in Marxism making a clock creates value, but transporting that clock from the factory to a shop, giving it shelf space, advertising it and selling it to a customer all destroy value.

This is the most bizarre take on the Marxist labor theory of value I've ever seen.

Do you have a source for this idea that transporting a clock destroys value?
The biggest operators get it on a deal but the small to mid tail of the curve needs to pay full price but they aspire for the better product - which is where the margins are.

Almost a veblen good but not quite by traditional definitions.

FWIW the lock-in for farming in terms of equipment and seed product is so bananas to me. Really feels like the large corpos have got everyone squeezed.
I'm surprised that this case hasn't received more attention: https://www.womensliberationfront.org/aclu-lawsuit-public-re...

Here, the ACLU is suing to prevent citizens from getting public records released by the government. From ACLU: "We have filed for an emergency Temporary Restraining Order and a Motion for Preliminary Injunction to prevent the disclosure of documents you have requested from the Department of Corrections."

This really blew my mind–I never thought I'd see the day when the ACLU filed suit to protect government secrecy against FOIA sunshine. This seems to be a clear conflict between progressive causes (in this case: letting trans-identified male people access female prisons) and supporting government transparency. Here the ACLU decided transparency could and should be denied because the information was being requested by bad people, or for bad reasons, or something.

If you only support free speech (or transparency) in cases where you agree with the actors, you don't really support free speech at all.
The problem is this sort of logic can be applied to any position. You can always cherry-pick an example of someone with views that you don't like engaging in violence, and then use that to justify silencing anyone else that holds similar views on the grounds that it "may lead to violence".

Of course, the people who make these types of arguments never apply them consistently. I find it incredibly difficult to believe that someone still talking about a car accident in Charlottesville four years ago, while not mentioning the numerous murders, assaults, arsons, and other crimes committed by BLM activists, is someone that is genuinely concerned about "inciting violence".
That's not at all an analogous situation
For the record, I said the same thing. But it's a management problem because on the one hand you have a known open project with demonstrable flaws, and on the other you have your own in-house developers and you will tend to discount the bugs they haven't written yet.

But, also for the same record, thinking you can implement a reliable, globally-replicated key-value store on top of FoundationDB that is cheaper and better than Cloud Spanner may be evidence of the same cognitive bias.
Why would any developer ever use replit again?
I don't know the truth around that either way, but I think Roam is based in Utah at some ranch (even if they're funded by a16z). I wouldn't generalize his behavior to the rest of silicon valley culture.

I think his brother was also the QAnon shaman horn guy (at least he said as much on Twitter - maybe it was a joke?).
I don't see how that affects my argument. The police still did not make positive contact with the occupants before proceeding with what is effectively a nighttime home invasion. Furthermore after receiving defensive fire, they chose to immediately escalate the situation rather than backing off, setting up a perimeter, and calling for reinforcements. These actions are fundamentally incompatible with armed citizens defending themselves.
An Orinoco card should be a safe bet (I've got a bunch stashed in the closet, if OP needed one...) but you'll also want to set up a separate wifi network so you can run 802.11b without exposing your whole home.
The only way I can imagine this making sense is if you admit that the US is a failed state. If the President of the United States needs assistance from a legal nonprofit to defend his civil liberties, then the US government has failed entirely and we should just start anew.

I don't think this is the case, so I'm led to think there's some other flaw in this line of reasoning. Notably,

> Censure was once only available to the government, since they ostensibly controlled all public spaces and had the forces to make it so.

Is plainly false. You've never had the "right to distribution". A printing press owner didn't have to publish your pamphlet. The church never needed to let you give a sermon. The NYT didn't have to publish your article. CNN has never had an obligation to let you on air. There has always been a "best" method of distribution, and its always been private.

Twitter blocking Trump isn't functionally different than the NYT or WaPo publishing the pentagon papers. It is a private organization exercising their right to push back against government propaganda. It is first amendment protected, and it should unequivocally be defended by those who believe in civil liberties.
Oh, you have the math to cite to back that up?
Amjad comes off as super insecure in this- and it’s not all that surprising considering REPL.it really has little or no competitive moat
There is an IHE-Standard Profile that specifies how data has to be to laid out in portable media(USB,CD). All PACS systems follow it and it's basically a no-problem today.

I don't doubt about your anecdote, but I don't think that it's a very common occurrence.

https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/Cross-enterprise_Document_Med...
For mac BetterTouchTool is a paid option but allows you to define custom snap areas for windows. Have to restart it occasionally but it's relatively stable and has made my super-ultrawide usable on mac.
Elon Musk Shares Meme on Uninstalling Skype and It's All Too Relatable
4B is more than 20x revenue (182m). If I understand the financial report correct, profit is only 12% of that. Genuinely asking, how does this bid make sense? Where do you make your money back? 10+ year timeframes?
In such a case, maybe Wordpress themselves should extend some engineering capacity for maintaining popular OSS plugins for their ecosystem.
as much as tardigrades get great press, I really prefer rotifers, especially bdelloid rotifers. A few months ago I noticed some nice sludge on a deck chair that was wet, it was full of rotifers (probably 10 for every tardigrade). They are actively hunting, in a way that is much more interesting than watching a tardigrade. A few days later the sludge had dried out to a powder. If I add water to that powder, in 5-10 minutes, tehre are rotifers swimming around, hunting.
a few generations ago ThinkPad when to a dual battery setup so unless your ThinkPad is pretty old I bet it has both an internal and removable battery.

as to "What do we gain", they claim they can make them thinner and lighter, but the T14 seems to be the same Thinkness and a T450/T460 so.......
> These things always happen in the weekend don't they?

Thats because servers know.... oh they know. Tuesday morning when you get into the office? Naw... that's too easy. Let's shit the bed on Christmas morning at 3:49am. That will let those stupid humans know who is boss around here.
Interesting, I went through it, but then it got to this slide:

> look at the image of the circle at the top of the page.

And there is no circle whatsoever on that page, so I didn't know if it was a typo, a browser problem... or my eyes went blind!
That and it's important to counteract people in high office/s around the world using 9/11 and other terrorist attacks to achieve their own ends.
"I'll add that Apple operations engineering appears to function in a way that is more or less divorced from Apple support staff. Support staff appear to have to go begging for a coherent answer from systems engineers, who appear to treat such requests as unimportant. "

This scenario has been my experience for pretty much every hosted solution.

I know Elasticsearch really well. Was working at a company that used the Elastic Cloud (not AWS) version since the demands were not high. There was something very wrong at the host level, which was evident by the cgroups metrics. The support engineers basically used the same endpoints that a customer also has access to to debug problems. No insights at the host at all. Could not ssh to a box. It took a long time to get escalated beyond the support drones. Elastic Cloud was not worth it.
I always found it so fascinating how a new startup/unicorn that has 0 revenue can be valued at 10B when a company like Altium that has a good amount of footing in the PCB/EDA world is only valued at 3.9B
Rushing to get ahead of a change that kills the business model?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ally-bank-kills-overdraft-fee...

"Ally Bank kills hated overdraft fees — a huge money-maker for banks"
This is a serious shortcoming in github's current UI. There's no easy discovery for which forks are active.

It would be useful if there was a checkbox "Actively Publicly Maintained" in forked repos that defaults to Off.

That way, on the forks page of a repo, if someone is offering an alternative, an "actively maintained" check mark (and perhaps a date) can be shown and it can bubble to the top of the "forks" list.
It's a midpoint only on a logarithmic scale.
Yeah wasm is definitely getting interesting as a platform for these. As long as you can build/compile a language VM (such as the Python VM) or a language compiler itself in wasm there shouldn't be much stopping you.

Thinks like that have been done even with plain JS and the results are very cool, see e.g. SqueakJS, a Squeak/Smalltalk VM implemented directly in JS.

[1] https://squeak.js.org/
And it's not even a pioneering idea from Replit
Congress does this as well. They pay out millions in sexual harassment claims to staff and they never name the people involved.

What should happen here is the technician should be named, there should be big billboards put up in whatever town they live in, and they should have to get "I distributed child porn" tattooed on their face. As well as not be allowed to come within 50 yards of a computer or cell phone or transistor. There are harms you can't undo and the punishment should be as permanent as the harm.
I don't find the article anymore, but I read that this is the reason why US farmers were buying Belorussian tractors

http://belarus-tractor.com/en/company/news/2016/rare-soviet-...
Androids usually have some magic buttons to get into a bootloader prompt; you could have a diagnostic in there, perhaps.
Facebook remains free for creators until 2023, to stay cheaper than Apple beyond
Connectionism is back with a vengeance. It still struggles with text but vision problems like 'detect pedestrian with camera and turn on the persistence-of-vision lightstrip at the right time' are solved.

Many expert systems were based on "production rules" and it's a strange story that we have production rules engines that are orders of magnitude more scalable than what we had in the 1980s. Between improved RETE and "look it up in the hashtable" it has been a revolution but production rules have not escaped a few special applications such as banking.

Talk to a veteran of "business rules" project and about 50% of the time they will tell you it was a success, the other 50% of the time they made mistakes up front and went into the weeds.

Machine learners today repeat the same experiments with the same data sets... That doesn't get you into commercially useful terrain.

Cleaning up a data set and defining the problem such that it can be classified accurately is painful in the exact same way extracting rules out of the expert is painful. It's closely related to the concept of "unit test" but it is still a stretch to convince financial messaging experts to publish a set of sample messages for a standard with a high degree of coverage. You can do neat things with text if you can get 1000 to 20,000 labeled samples, but most people give up around 10.
Yes, you are missing something. As stated numerous times in the article:

> Replit’s core value proposition isn’t letting you run code online (you can do this in dozens of places for free), it’s the features they offer on top of running code. Riju categorically lacked all of these features, including: having a user account, saving your work, sharing your work, publishing webapps, persistent workspaces, discussion forums, integration with GitHub, etc. etc.

> Replit makes a webapp you can use to run code online in different programming languages. This is nothing new (just Google “run python online” for proof), so Replit’s value proposition is extra features like sharing your work, installing third-party packages, and hosting webapps.

The core value proposition of Riju (toy playground for hundres of esoteric languages) != the core value proposition of Replit (feature-rich online IDE environment with lots of integrations and additional support). The only thing they have in common is that you can run code online, and that's not an even close to an original idea by Replit in any way. The CEO making a claim that this project is "copying" Replit has no actual basis given that there are literally dozens of other "copies" out there that are closer to Replit than Riju ever is/was.

I also have no idea how you can argue Riju is "very similar" to Replit, given how generic the technical common ground between them is. I also have no idea how you can argue it's a "tool" and not a toy, the author even explicitly said there was no practical purpose and served as an esoteric quarantine hobby project:

> You might ask: Why did I spend so much time adding obscure programming languages to a webapp nobody was going to use? Well, let me put it this way: Is it the weirdest 2020 hobby you’ve seen?
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Riju is entirely non-commercial. Unlike Replit, I didn’t seek funding from any source—advertising, donations, fundraising, subscriptions, whatever. I have no interest in running a business, and never really wanted Riju to become too popular, since I was the one paying the server bill.
AI-Enhanced Keyless Home Entry from New Ann Arbor Startup
It's more than that.

The ACLU has actively come out AGAINST due process rights for accused in Title IX cases on colleges.

They have come out AGAINST various other free speech that "negatively impacts" folks whose voices are less strong.

Not against any of this, but this was traditionally more in the social justice advocacy group world vs ACLU world.

Actions speak louder than words. I think they are going to carry the free speech brand, but are moving into that speech is violence so I can respond with violence world.
But is that 21 now, or 21 in 2016 when the offense was committed?
US approves first new Alzheimer's drug in 20 years
I’m also gonna add that, if I invested in a company and the CEO used any fraction of that funding to crush a non-competitor with legal might, I would seriously regret my investment. It seems to me this guy doesn’t understand his own value prop more than a former intern.
I hear you, but I'm curious about why the response of legal threats weighs less heavily on your heart than anything else here? That seems like a big deal and probably the biggest deal here.

I mean, can you imagine a world where the email was "Hey that is great work, but I'm worried this is stepping on our toes a little. Can you take that project down?".

And then honestly the more I think about it the "why dont we offer you a job!" -> "most difficult intern we had" (note: quotes not intended to imply literal quote here) is really troubling.
John Carmack on multi dimensional arrays
My first computer repair, (epson 486) I left the drives and extra memory in when I sent in for repair. It must have had something really wrong as I got back a new machine without the hard drive and extra memory I had installed. It took a little bit to discover what was going on. Long hours on the phone trying to get those back (or something back.. that machine was maxed out at 16mb? of ram..)
> I wouldn't want to be perceived as a "problem" customer doing things like that when big Corps control your online existence.

Being a PITA on social media tends to be the only way to reach someone authorized and competent to actually resolve issues.

Sure, try to resolve it through normal support channels first, but if you're given the run-around, you want to be a "problem customer". The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Mentioned in my other comment, but just all the more evidence of a megalomaniac, insecure CEO trying to build a company out of shallow moats and little value creation
A drawn out legal case can bankrupt you not only financially but mentally, too.

The quantity and the length of emails sent by the author, in addition to the writeup, suggest they spent considerable time worrying about the situation.

And it’s only been a few days. Imagine if this becomes a multi-year case.
After reading this I would definitely advise against working with the company behind repl.it. This is really poor behavior that seems to be motivated by fear and/or jealousy. Nothing of humanly high value can be expected of a company with such a shitty CEO
Interesting, can you give an example of a radiologist hindering progress? You make an interesting point about radiologists setting practice standards - what alternative do you propose? You may also want to consider that radiologists don't determine practice standards in a vacuum - they have to serve the needs and expectations of their clinical colleagues.
New CEOs: Don't talk so much. If you have to talk to someone outside your company, and it's not part of a business strategy, public relations, or other normal part of your job, and it seems important, do it through a lawyer. Not only is it scarier, the lawyer can tell you (in a nice way) to shut up.
Good job navaneethpk, this looks really nice!
Nicely thought out set of features!

If I understand it correctly, the main value is the automating of SQLite import and datatype-assignment (vs affinity).

Combined with ability to save the resulting db also makes this tool a useful import wizard. Just one needs to pay attention to csv-headers and backtick-enquote the column names which contain spaces (something which is not very commonly done in csv).

I agree, picking a single-letter name for the utility should be rather left to user's own alias choice, if needed.

A more descriptive name would better integrate within the already populous namespace.