skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the minority (I think?) of people who felt that while there was an overreaction from Replit, there was some merit in their original complaint.

I think that the situation has escalated though partly due to the approach of the former intern here, who - while rightly calling out the non-apology aspects of the apology is aggressive themselves now that the power is with them courtesy of the public exposure and general backing of HN.

The blogpost here drilling down into every perceived slight and human failing lacks grace and magnanimity and doesn't seem much better at handling the favourable side of the power balance than Replit did in the original correspondence.

Maybe time to move on.
Yes, for the dollars coming in and out. It's news to me that the same applies to the bitcoin coming in and out!
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This is a straw man. There is no reason they would need ‘literally all’ of Propublica’s data. We don’t know how many data points were verified, but it need not be many.
There is... fraud.
> but it's presented and marketed in a way that makes it interesting.

And I’m not even sure about that. At least the info on the link seems very scarce and the featured video was mostly a bunch of people talking and very little gameplay. I guess I’m not the target audience as this didn’t seem exciting to me at all. Couldn’t finish watching the video.
IANAL, but it seems like the AG is still well within their power to press charges and consumers are still free to pursue class action.
Puget Sound or Seattle-Tacoma is probably more accurate, as Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, BC are also part of the PNW.
So if I were to own 1 share of $AMZN, I’d be criminally liable for anything the corporation does? Would I do 10 minutes in jail or something?
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At least in the US we're already surrounded by people with firearms. The situation isn't really very new IMO. People have already started committing crimes using quadcoptors and everyone knows about them now. You don't hear about them shooting people because that's already illegal and we have social structures in place to deal with it.

TL;DR if anything this is an improvement because it makes the 2A thing make more sense (almost no one is building guided missiles in their backyard except that one youtuber who's trying to make his model rockets land on their own.)
Not a blog but an interesting source for many topics related to AI:

https://thegradient.pub/
The analogy with Netflix's DVD-by-mail throttling is astonishing. Same fraud but "done with computers".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Netflix
Why would they need omniscience?
The parting jab in the closing email is classic:

"you said 'I will not be copying more stuff' "
(OP didn't say that and given their current stance of not copying anything, I doubt they would admit that)

"Arrive at new ways of doing things -- make new mistakes"

Egotistical people always try to get the last word in. Even when apologizing.
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The problem here is the unreasonable reaction off the bat. Look, I’ve faced issues like this before - I’ve even done dumber things in response, in my past.

But, and this is important, just stop. For five minutes. When something upsets you, and you JUST WANT TO SEND THIS EMAIL - don’t. Wait five minutes. Take a walk. Tell someone else about the issue.

Then, and only then, after you’ve not thought about the email for a bit, erase it and write it from scratch.

It helps. It’s therapeutic. You don’t end up with your emails screenshotted and posted to the top of HN for two days in a row.

Assume the best intentions. I find far fewer people are looking to take advantage of you than are simply looking to be liked.
Since he thought he could sue a guy for literally making a tool to help people run shit in containers?
They will not give it up, but neither can the US cancel the sanctions. Both parties must know this, so the sanctions will have to stay until something changes. Or made harsh enough to force Russias hand.
It looks _amazing_. Will it be made open source? Every browser needs to have this.
This. Who does psychedelics and sits at home, or even worse at their job.
There really isn't a pattern. Basically if they have a pro Mac ready to go or something that needs developers to prepare, they'll announce it at WWDC.

2021: nothing

2020: M1 Macs

2019: Mac Pro

2018: nothing

2017: iMac Pro, HomePod

2016: nothing

2015: nothing

2014: nothing

2013: Trashcan Mac Pro

2012: MacBook Pro 15" (first retina Mac)

2011: nothing

2010: iPhone 4
That would be interesting. Can someone who took a Physics class calculate how much energy you could get by cranking (and maybe how many cranks you'd need) to charge this bad boy up?
You personally demonstrate the need to discount actively-misleading data. What's next, Tiobe? If you don't check your own fond biases, who do you expect to perform the service for you? "Strangers on HN, for free", really?

Minds are responsible for their own evolution. Clues are taken or ignored according to personal preference.
I suspect you're downvoted for recommending something you didn't read, but yes, it is very good:

> If you sell $20 worth of movie tickets for $10, people will sign up, you will have rapid user growth and you can probably get someone to think that that’s valuable, even though in fact every user that you add costs you $10.

> But — unlike most of the “MoviePass economy” — MoviePass was not actually a venture-funded startup, did not raise piles of money, and was somewhat constrained by economic reality. So at some point the company looked for ways to make this insane business model work, and it found one. It’s pretty simple: What if MoviePass collected your $10 each month and then, when you asked it for movie tickets, it ignored you? Then it could keep collecting your $10 a month without spending money on tickets. Eventually you’d get annoyed by not getting what you paid for, and you’d try to cancel your membership and get your money back, but MoviePass could ignore that too and keep collecting the $10. Giving people unlimited movie tickets for $10 a month is a good way to get rapid customer growth; telling people you’ll give them unlimited movie tickets for $10 a month, but not actually doing it, is a way to pivot to profitability.
lol. Terraform cannot do basic things like rollback the deployment in case of failure. Also, I have yet to see CF losing track of its resources.

Here is a challenge for you: Deploy a moderate to complex infra with Terraform and after that try to clean up all the resources it created. 50$ says Terraform cannot do it and you need some sort of manual/script intervention. The future is bright.
One can imagine reasonable policies around things like housing, my original two line reply was not meant to detail all the ways this would for all types of assets.

I don't think anyone would have much of a problem with the simplistic scheme applied to rare art though.
> While technically you don't need to support HTTP/1 to support 2 and 3, the upgrade over TCP happens mostly in that way.

This is not actually true of HTTP/2 (the upgrade doesn’t use HTTP/1), and slightly misleading of HTTP/3 (there’s nothing to upgrade because it sits beside TCP HTTP; but advertising HTTP/3 support is currently done over TCP HTTP).

Now for the details:

HTTP/2 upgrade is done at the TLS level, via ALPN. Essentially the client TLS handshake says “hello there! BTW do you do HTTP/2?” and the server either responds “hi!” and starts talking HTTP/1, or “hi! Let’s talk h2!” and starts talking HTTP/2.

So it’s perfectly possible (though not a good idea) to have a fully-functioning HTTP/2 server that doesn’t speak a lick of HTTP/1.

(HTTP/2 over cleartext, h2c, does use the old HTTP/1 Upgrade header mechanism, but h2c is more or less just not used by anyone.)

HTTP/3 upgrade, well, “upgrade” is the wrong word. It’s operating over UDP rather than TCP, so you’re not upgrading an existing HTTP thing to HTTP/3, you’re starting a new connection because you’ve learned that the server supports HTTP/3. This bootstraping is currently done by advertising h3 support via the Alt-Svc header (HTTP/1+) or by an ALTSVC frame (HTTP/2+), which the client can then remember so it uses the best protocol next time.

For best results, they’re working on allowing you to advertise HTTP/3 support on DNS, so that after a while it should be genuinely possible (though a very bad idea) to have a fully-functioning HTTP/3 server that doesn’t speak any TCP at all, yet works with sufficiently recent browsers in network environments that don’t break HTTP/3. https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-https-and-http-3-neg... is good info on this part.
Love the tool, hate the fact that they still work with a CLA [0]

If anyone at HashiCorp is reading this, could you guys consider changing to a DCO? [1]

[0] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/main/.github/CON...

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/12/DCO.html
Facebook has a similar system, unsurprisingly. An agent runs on every host to sample 1 in N packets, accumulating counts by source/dest host/cluster/service/container/port and so on before sending the aggregate data to Scuba [0] for ad-hoc analysis. This tool was really useful — in a matter of seconds you could see traffic types and volumes broken down by almost any dimension. Did service X see a huge jump in traffic last week? From where? Which container or service? How much bandwidth did your compression changes save? And so on. It also had some really neat stuff to identify whether or not a flow was TLSed or not, which was crucial for working out what still needed to be encrypted in light of the Snowden revelations.

TCP retransmits were also sampled in detail. Being able to see at a glance if e.g. every host in a rack is the source of (or target for) retransmits made troubleshooting much faster.

These systems were really awesome and a good example of what could be built with relatively little effort (the teams involved were small) when you already have great components for reliable log transmission and flexible data analysis.

[0] https://research.fb.com/publications/scuba-diving-into-data-...
> They are referring to enforcing laws on just a certain subset of society.

Or enforcing a certain subset of laws on all society.

And it's not just the "bigbiz-friendly" reds, it's also the blues with their "lets not punish non-violent crime". The fact is laws in the US (and elsewhere) are written, but unevenly enforced, as such what remains is quibbling over priority. I want to see more punishments for white collar crime, but I also want to see less leniency for repeated blue-collar crime too.
That article is talking about local governments, not the federal government.
If you could use wind/solar for the energy source that would be a net improvement and not just net-zero.
I disagree with these kinds of reframing attempts for a couple of reasons but most of all i dislike this trend of constantly convoluting everything with "identity". Being homeless describes the state a person is in, not who they are, even though some people chose to be homeless.
Oh, cool. Something else I can put in the no longer supported pile with my PocketCHIP.
I read somewhere that commercial drones with bombs were used in, I believe, Afghanistan against the US forces.
I really respect that the author wrote this post. He may be just an intern but he was trampled on and exposed the true nature of the “leadership” at Replit. I will never use the service again and thank the author for speaking out and this follow up. I’d hire him in a heartbeat.
IANAL, but if Radon is reading this: in such situations, don't discuss things over the phone like the other guy proposed (you can see it was a mistake, with him "quoting" stuff you may not have said or that were taken out of context), only in writing.
In my experience, evasiveness and “baffling” behavior of this kind can indicate a deeply rooted in personality trait.

Personalities like this exist across the social stratum. They are something to take careful note of as quickly as possible and avoid.
This is one of those comments I want to bookmark and come back to in a decade. :)
Well, both the warrant looking for an an0m user’s gmail account and the judge’s warrant for seizing the Bitcoin were from Northern California.
Those countries are not Russias to play with as Putin pleases and, if they can be encouraged to join NATO and the west, that is because of the way they were treated by Russia. If Russia didn't want them to be part of NATO they shouldn't have abused them.

Russia is burthurt on this, that cannot and should not be the concern of the rest of us.
I wonder if a general purpose legal framework of applying the same punishment to different types of entities is possible.

That way most laws could be worded in a way that applies to private individuals and all types of companies the same way, but then the actual punishment would be applied differently.

Specifically, when a company breaks the law, the legal framework would explain the way the responsibility should be shared between the legal entity and the private individuals involved in breaking the law.
I disagree with the characterization that MoviePass’ theft is less egregious than a poor person’s theft, such as of a physical item.

MoviePass’ theft contributes to a weakening of trust amongst everyone in society, which is a much more difficult problem to address than theft of physical goods.

Not that society should be lenient on either.
I'd like to ask if anyone has successfully pulled this off recently but that obviously doesn't have a useful well known answer.
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Nobody is buying this thing because it's cheap.

First, it's coming from Panic. They have enough fans that they can probably sell out the first run just on their reputation.

Secondly, the industrial design looks great or at least novel. For $180 you get a neat looking toy and are supporting the development of new stuff. $180 feels like a sustainable price.

It is a lot of money, but for many people on HN $180 is an easy impulse buy.
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I'm really interested in the Pulp web-based development environment.

I'm planning on picking up some of these to try with some junior-high and high school students in the fall -- if Covid is over by then :-)
> Because it's not their job to moderate this stuff

And I'm not sure it would be better if it were. I don't care if a bunch of people I've never met are talking about what a horrible person I am (well ok, I do, but that's more of a me problem than a them problem). I do care when my employer joins the mob and ignores any evidence I might present of my innocence. What we need are for the people who can mete out the consequences to start thinking longer and harder before they capitulate to the outrage mob. A little less "better him than me" and a little more "I'd hate to be treated this way myself".
Thank you for the work you put into improving SFGate.
there is a saying and it may be relevant to quote here - "first 30 years of your life you make hobbies, the next 30 years of your life your hobbies makes you"
> hitting it with artillery

This?

https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery
The VCs involved are what determine whether any company is a tech company

It is how they can convince others to use a favorably high revenue multiple for selling any portions of the business to other people

There, saved you some time
There is a lot going on in the space right now and there will be certainly a big shift in the next years. But as long as Blender, Cinema 4D, Photoshop, Pixelmator, Affinity are not running in the cloud I rather feel like DCC software packages and tablets will introduce a change first
MoviePass could have survived longer if they had more money, and a different business model. The problem is they were letting you go to movies at AMC and Cinemark for less than they bought the tickets, and both AMC and Cinemark said they wouldn't negotiate lower prices for them.

They could have had a small but cult business contracting with smaller theater chains, but they didn't.

They could have also bought tickets in bulk, and sold them through the app, but they didn't.

They could have reserved tickets at premiers and sold them at a markup, but they didn't.

They could have done a LOT of things to make money, but they didn't.

I say this as a onetime holder of more than 1% of publicly available shares. And I think at the time, one of the largest non-institutional shareholders.

Lost a lot of money on wanting a dumb "title".
to be fair to Terraform, this is hard. It's hard when you are dealing with multiple cloud providers since you have to keep state somewhere. Network failures or underlying cloud failures are gonna impair TF in the head every time.

If there is one thing TF needs to learn to do is handle failure. Right now it has that rosy yolo approach leaving you to pick up the pieces when it fails.
> I don't know if the author is willfully ignorant, or is hoping everyone else is for the sake of ideology.

Or perhaps you're reading it uncharitably and misunderstanding their point. It's not that time doesn't matter. It's that precise universal time as we integrate it into our lives today isn't necessarily the way we have to integrate time into our lives. And that the way we do it now has some downsides that aren't as inevitable as it sometimes seems. Which seems like a no brainer rather than willful ignorance or forced ideology.
> If you say that “basically everyone should never store plaintext passwords” then I will 100% agree with you but there are cases where the trade-off in usability can be worth it for very non-technical users.

IMO due to less technical users it's even more important that passwords aren't stored in plaintext. Less technical users are more likely to reuse passwords across multiple websites.

When a breach occurs unless passwords are salted and hashed the attackers immediately gain access to every account with the same username/email + password. This isn't as much of a problem for security conscious users, but if you're writing a piece of software it's important to remember that not all your users are security conscious. We can do better as an industry.
It is less likely to crash after you complete the proof than if you couldn't complete the proof, but this does not mean this benefit will be worth much.

In general, all things being equal, software less likely to crash in production is an improvement, but: 1) all things are usually not equal, because verified software is hard to produce and typically much more restrictive and hard to modify 2) how often do standard industry solutions for hypervisor like Xen or KVM crash? Uptime/customer loss due to hypervisor crashes is a negligibly small problem.

The user software should rather work with the assumption that crash can happen. That is much more robust architecture than relying on some proofs that nobody checked.
Ugh, flashbacks. Now that you’ve mentioned that I feel the burning need to change my wording to add the condition “fairly described”. I have also come across very poorly documented binary protocols!
I don't think you're liable for any of Amazon's decisions. Maybe if you voted yes on "Engage in crime" but the decisions of executives are their own.
I've heard this many times and there is definitely some truth there, but for small doses (i.e. 100ug LSD and 1-1.5g mushrooms), I don't think you need to overly-concern yourself with minutiae of the differences.

There is no reason to take more than this as introductory doses, and then you can make up your own mind.
In my rural area, I was one of the rich people in our area (combined dual income from my spouse and I of around 80-90k/year). People used to give me shit for being Richie Rich (all in good fun). The income level around here hovers around 100-150% of the standard federal poverty level. Generally, most people are lower income, with some people making 100k plus. But, everyone sort of lives the same life; we hang out in the same places, our kids go to the same schools, that sort of thing.

Then real wealth started moving in to buy property as investments. Now we have people who have gates and armed guards. They have private police to scare the locals. They harass school board members for access to school vouchers for the private schools they are starting so their kids don't have to attend the public schools.

It's different around here now. It's a lot less 'community' and all it took was about a half dozen really wealthy folks to upset the apple cart.

Nobody jokes about money anymore in any context, and people seem to be a lot less happy than they used to be just in general.
So many questions.

What's your risk profile? How much equity are they offering (not just shares, but % stake)? What round are they at? Are you excited about the startup? Is the work local/onsite or remote? What skills will you learn? Have you interviewed at other places? If so, what salary were they offering?
Kind of surreal that this worked. How come nobody suspected the plot? How come criminals didn't ... ahem ... invest in their own communication platform?
Why would think that the IEEE has been enabled by something else than the military-industrial complex?
Doctors that make too many mistakes resulting in too high of payouts can't get individual malpractice insurance. Doctors that can't get individual malpractice insurance go to hospitals. Hospitals that hire too many doctors that make too many mistakes can't get hospital level policy. Hospital has to fire those doctors. That's how the system adjusts.

We do not have a system that adjusts to "oops"
If you go through the trouble of making your own like Albert Hofmann did, sure. You're not going to though, are you? So you're putting your biggest asset in the hands of criminals of unknown intent. Good luck with that...

But I support your right to smoke, snort, or inject whatever you want. I'm getting older now and my brain is starting to slow down so I really appreciate your opting in to annihilating the advantage of youth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann
I didn't read that comment as "a DIY one is just as good". More like, it's not high spec, it's pretty minimalist and low tech. The execution could still be good and the choice can still be unique.
Glad to see this outcome. However, too little too late for me. I'll look beyond Replit for ways to author and share runnable code in the cloud…non-VC-funded and open source extremely preferred.
> still refused to list any specific part of Replit he thought I had copied, even when I asked him for such details multiple times during the phone call, despite his continuing to claim both privately and publicly that I copied Replit unethically

The CEO Amjad Masad was still doubling down on claims that Radon is a thief on Twitter even after he apologized. And he still refuses to provide details or receipts to his public accusations, despite Radon's willingness to provide receipts.

But you are asking for Radon to be gracious?
Of course, in the USA, outside of California, this is essentially what we do.

We can argue about whether or not it's good, but its not unthinkable. Property taxes in most places (in the USA, the subject of the article) are linked to the current market value of real estate. Sometimes property values rise, taxes follow, and people have to move.
> The blogpost here drilling down into every perceived slight and human failing lacks grace and magnanimity and doesn't seem much better at handling the favourable side of the power balance than Replit did in the original correspondence.

I think it's fair to forgive some lack of grace. Sure, the post could be more generous, but the whole handling could have been, and the poster wasn't the one making the legal threats.
What do interviewers look for during the interview?