skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I also hate the idea of giving in to legal threats/bullying, I don't think this is very good advice.

Lawyers may not like losing cases, but they like billable hours even more. So as long as their client is paying, they will follow their wishes as best they can.

Even "meaningless actions" such as "cease and desist" letters or "demand" letters probably need consultation with a lawyer for a proper response. This "admit no wrong" advice can actually be tricky. What may seem like an innocent or innocuous comment could make your situation worse.

By the time you have an actual civil action against you, you may have missed the opportunity to end the matter without getting to this point.
http://archive.is/0tV83
Yeah, the same thing (or worse) could have happened with any big company (and many small ones for that matter).

Google, PayPal, Facebook, do it routinely...
This looks like a company/CEO that loves to benefit from open source as long as it benefits them so strongly.

Further more it looks like a CEO that can't innovate and the only options is to innovate through litigation. Must be something about that VC money burning a hole in their pocket to send lawyers vs adding features, marketing, or capturing new users.
> I have enough savings to live comfortably for several years.

Then the answer is 'no'. The only reason you should take a salary pre-revenue is to extend your personal runway. If you can afford not to then your company will be able to utilize that money to be more likely to succeed.
I find that funny too. I, as I expect many, prefer authentic experiences but I frequently see products marketed as “authentic” with complete bullshit. So now, I pretty much always filter out anything that explicitly uses the word authentic.

I feel like there’s a mental arms race between real signals and marketers who early identify and then misuse them. 4HWW seemed to accelerate that.
Everyone gets cancer eventually, it's inevitable if you live long enough. There's no point in knowing that a small, slow growing tumor will kill you in 10 years if a heart attack is going to kill you in 5 years anyway. Knowing about the tumor just creates more psychological stress and potentially extra unnecessary medical treatments for no benefit.
Ziggurat 3.14 runs the latest Kafka Streams version 2.8
Scientists Predict a Shortage of Drinking Water on Earth
Yep, I've stopped owning Open Source projects. All projects are for me now, and I reap the minuscule rewards from being all the only benefactor of the effort. But at least it's not a net negative burden of time sink, support, server costs, hosting, burnout, etc.
How long would it take an intern to replicate Twitter? Is Twitter worth millions? I think so.

I think it's really easy for tech teams to do things in a sub-optimal way and then get all caught up in fixing problems of their own making and start to think they're doing really great technical work and that it is a competitive advantage for the company. More companies need to face the fact that their software can be easily replicated and that the value lies elsewhere, such as brand, reputation, reliability, good customer service, etc -- other things that an intern can't replicate in a weekend.
This is great, now do iMessage!
A truly analogous situation would be the CEO of Repl.it working on Codeacademy Labs as an employee, a similar product to Repl.it, before leaving and launching Repl.it itself, which is what happened.
AsteroidOS Notes
Mixing vaccines is part of pandemic's 'big human experiment'
Thoughts on vaccine mixing? Can any med guys explain?
Did you mix your jabs?
There's definitely something different about the recent work they highlight:

>We filed an amicus brief

>We advocated

>We sent a public demand letter

>We filed comments

>We sent a letter

>We questioned Twitter and Facebook

Compared to the work they did in the past, this is all incredibly low effort.

If anything, going through this list highlights a lot of actual hard work being done by completely separate organizations.
I have this as well - I only found out a month ago after decades of searching and dozens of doctors, hundreds of tests, across 4 countries, all telling me there is nothing wrong. It should have been super obvious in retrospect. The vast majority of people who have hEDS will never know it. I highly recommend everyone check themselves for it. It could easily be 1% of the population. I only found out when my sister recently came down with CFS/ME in much the same way I did so I searched for genetic causes of CFS/ME. It can affect your whole life in a way you don’t even know isn’t normal, because everyone around you is telling you it is normal.
Isn't that the truth. I recently came across a meme that I suspect will drive this point home for many in this community. https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comments/mj9mim/loz_ww_decide...
But iMessages isn't, ensuring its continued irrelevance in countries that are not the United States of America.
Well, this is a bummer. I was planning to make replit critical to one of my ventures. I've been receiving their emails for a while, and their chirpy nature always struck me as a bit odd.
Hi there, nice site.

I'm really like this combined side scrolling table + graph component you use on the pulse page. Looking at the source I see a mention of echarts in the html but I don't think I've seen anything like that in their examples.

Did you build this yourself as a custom rendered chart or is this something that someone else built?
Full TimeCapsule might not exist, but local (e.g. to your Mac) iOS apps backups had been a thing since forever...

Unless something changed, they still are.
Can we get to macOS already?
It goes both ways. Imagine Replit’s attorney going after OP. If OP didn’t take down the site, then suing them is going to be a huge expense & waste of time. Is Replit really gonna pay some corporate attorney $600-ish per hour to harass someone? You don’t even need a lawyer to show up in court and say “I’m a broke ass new grad, and these guys are trying to take down my website. I don’t even know why, but I’m dragging it out because I don’t like being bullied.” A good attorney would say “it costs nothing to demand we take this site down, but if the kid wants to fight us, do you really think it’ll be worth the effort? I’m expensive and this is not a threat to your business.” A bad attorney will just bleed Replit dry to accomplish very little.

If you sue me, I’ll just say “ok, see you in court, let me know if you need anything for discovery“. You’ll be spending lots of money and I’ll be spending nothing. It’s only expensive for me if I get an attorney, and I don’t need one. What happens if we go to court and lose? I have to take down my website? If there’s one lawyer in town, they drive a Chevrolet. If there’s two lawyers in town, they both drive Cadillacs.
He's implying here that Radon used source code from replit. That's a pretty big claim to make, I'm curious if that's the case.
I'm more invested in the web being a viable platform for feature-rich applications, in competition with walled-garden app stores, than I am in defeating browser engine hegemony. I'm interested in defeating browser engine hegemony, but I have no specific love for Firefox to stump for Mozilla being the David to this Goliath.

With Microsoft, Facebook, and Samsung shipping Chromium-based browsers and being in direct competition with Google across industries, I don't think there is much danger of Google taking over the web. If things get really bad, I can easily see all of the chromium-based browsers forming a consortium together and hard-forking. But I only see them staying in the game if the web grows and continues to be a viable alternative to native applications. So what I do is I make sure that my apps are usable across as many of them as possible, and not just Google Chrome.

I'm sorry for the vent of frustration that is coming up next. But I'm sick of hearing 5% of the market being one of the loudest voices in threads like this. WebRTC is killing the CPU, WebAudio keeps clipping, I can't run graphics ops in a worker thread, so the UI becomes unresponsive during scene transitions. I can't do anything about these things. I've tried. I've gone to great lengths to maintain as much fall-back compat with Firefox as I could. I finally just gave up because it was taking such a large percentage of my time that it couldn't justify it for being able to reach only 5% of the market. A portion of the market that, quite frankly, tends to not be very interested in spending money. Making Firefox better is not my job. My job is to make web apps.

Have you ever talked to any Mozilla employees? The stories they tell of the corporate culture make my blood boil for them. I mean, hell, after the latest purge, one of the projects they kept on (Hubs) has no developers working on the API support in their browser (WebXR, they fired all of the VR developers working on Firefox).

Maybe if we gave up on Firefox, those developers at Mozilla could be put to better use on browser projects that aren't managed poorly. People said Google was stupid for starting a new browser engine. They didn't start from scratch, but eventually they got there. There are other browser engine projects out there. Mozilla even chucked one of the more promising ones out of their umbrella. So yes, let's stop sending good money after bad and give up on Firefox.
That's why you shouldn't cut off the rest of the sentence!

"a good number of features that AutoCAD is missing"

Everyone needs a different bunch of features, and for some of them that would exclude AutoCAD.
The double agent Oleg Gordievsky was at heart a sixtier, and after hearing about the demise of the prague spring, while either drunk, stupid, or unbelievably brave - if I have the story right - actually indicated his desire to defect, while on duty as a KGB officer in Denmark, by phoning his wife and going on a tearful tirade against the Soviet Union.

He knew the line was bugged, likely by both PET and the KGB. His cries were heard, and after a "chance" meeting at a squash game he became a double agent, years later stationed in London where he nearly became the rezident (~CEO) at the Embassy. He was betrayed by Aldrich Ames at some point around 1985, and went on to become the only (as far as I'm aware) person to be exfiltrated from the Soviet Union directly under the nose of the KGB. Not a bad life story.
Cryptocurrency Bear?
How so? It is completely coherent to believe in and defend the right to say things you find deplorable.
Despite the hyperbole in the article characterizing it as the first iPad, this thing is literally a low-budget x86 laptop without a keyboard. I wouldn't exactly call it an orphaned technological branch.
Seems like both Radon and Repl.it are based in California. If that is correct, then non-compete agreements are only enforceable for founders/partners in a business.
> What kind of mega-corporation renders your service unavailable and has nothing to say about it?

The kind we have. This sort of thing happens all the time. Large companies -- especially large companies with monopolies -- screwing (at least some of) their customers is very much the rule, not the exception. In fact, I'd be surprised if there were even a single example of a large company that did not have customer service horror stories like this one.

Apple is particularly bad about this because they almost never acknowledge problems of any kind. They just issue regular updates that, if you're lucky, fix more problems than they introduce. Most of the time most of the features work for most of the people. But if you're among the unlucky minority for which something doesn't work then you are well and truly screwed. This is the reason I never use iCloud.

[UPDATE]

This is the nub of the problem:

> USE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND ANY SERVICES PERFORMED BY OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY AND EFFORT IS WITH YOU.

This is in the EULA. Everyone who uses iCloud nominally agrees to this. But of course no one really takes it seriously. Everyone thinks, "Ha ha, Apple is including this meaningless legalese in order to cover their asses, but they're not really going to be so unreliable that they're actually going to have to fall back on this to protect them. They couldn't possibly stay in business if they screw their customers, so they won't.

Except that they can, and, manifestly, they do. The reason they can is that there are no viable alternatives, with Apple and Google (and Microsoft before that) having driven them all from the marketplace. As long as they keep the disgruntled customer rate low enough that it doesn't make the evening news, what happens after that really doesn't matter to them at all. It's the opposite actually: the cost of fixing the marginal problems is more than the marginal revenue it would produce, so taking care of things like this is actually bad business.

None of this will change until people push back en masse and refuse to buy products with terms like this in the EULA.
That's ok; my concern was just whether "every existing programming language eventually based on (or at least traceable to) lambda calculus" responding to the fellow which claimed that "a functional programming language is one which is based on lambda calculus".
>There still exists a fork of the Riju project on github

Link?

Edit: NVM, found it: https://github.com/umesh-timalsina/riju
That's fine, except that we've already lived in a world with less regulation, less tax, less capital controls (not necessarily all varying in sync with each other, but broadly so).

People (generally) earn less and have worse lives under these conditions.
Whichever videocall app which isn't from Facebook, Microsoft, or Google, I welcome.
Its only 1 way which means an Apple user can send a link to a non ios user to join in. I as an Android user cant do that.

Cross platform like whatsapp, duo or signal still win here
You can now build apps on the iPad
http://archive.is/5aJVf
FancyZones has keyboard support as well - it overrides the default Windows snap keys (Win-Left and Win-Right) if that option is selected in the FZ options.
in my experience, language-supported MD arrays aren't great. I think what numpy does under the hood (define a pointer to allocated memory, along with a struct that defines the data type and array dimensions) is probably the best approach. This has worked in C since John started programming in it.
Is this the oldest inhabitant of our world now?
It’s a way more accessible way for people to learn how to engineer apps. I feel like Xcode and git can really be too high a bar for people who are starting from nothing. Not to say they’re not intelligent, it just requires pushing through frustrations in a way that this new feature is eliminating.
I wonder what (if anything) the repair techs thought when doing it. If a disgruntled employee wanted to maximize damage to the company (without regard to personal consequences), this surely looks like one of the ways to do it. I think it's still more likely that they just did it because they found it funny, but this is a kind of insider risk for companies that is really hard to defend against.
I think its cool to have more options. But what is the difference between this and the ones that are free online at the moment?
While I appreciate your perspective, I don't think anyone has the moral authority to command that every family raise their children in manner that optimizes for economic outcomes. Some people send their children to Forest School or Yeshiva, where they learn remarkably different things than are taught in public school.

Are these children "disadvantaged" from your perspective? Perhaps, but how would you respond to a parent who suggests publicly-schooled children are far more disadvantaged in metrics important to them? From where do you derive the authority to say that "economic achievement" is the supreme value we should optimize for?
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This is why volatile function parameters are deprecated in C++20. It's basically nonsensical to begin with.

It sounds like the author of the code expected that the argument would get a memory location on the stack somewhere, but this behavior isn't actually mandated by the standard. If a variable is placed in a register, then "reading" it is a no-op.
That they don't do this suggests they don't care about the problem or don't want to risk the diplomatic consequences with China.
Old issue. See [1]

"The first proposal to bomb Auschwitz was made on 16 May 1944 by a Slovak rabbi." That was 3 weeks before D-Day (June 6, 1944).

Eisenhower's policy was to defeat Germany, and not get distracted. He had planned to bypass Paris, which wasn't on the route to Berlin.[2] (De Gaulle went off-script and liberated Paris ahead of schedule, but that's another story.) Eisenhower was trying to hold an alliance with different goals together. All the allies were agreed on "defeat Germany", but there were other national goals. Britain was concerned about preserving its empire, for example. To hold the alliance together, Eisenhower focused on "win the war" above all else.

The person this article is about was in the Red Army. "One of just 69 men in his 12,000-strong division to survive the war, Mr Dushman suffered serious injuries during the conflict". The USSR had about 20 million casualties in WWII. Never forget that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_bombing_debate

[2] https://www.historynet.com/the-generals-who-brought-paris-ba...
> I am aware that this is not the 1950's superman definition of justice.

It’s not any definition of justice, its simply the rule of the powerful over the weak.
Makes sense, though I think the same reasoning is often used to excuse obviously inefficient habits. Spending a week to learn to competently use a computer would likely save most people much more than a week over the following ten or even five years.
Let me start with declaring conflict of interest: I work in one of the aforementioned AI startups, qure.ai. Bear with my long comment.

AI is starting to revolutionise radiology and imaging, just not in the ways we think. You would imagine radiologists getting replaced by some automatic algorithm and we stop training radiologists thereafter. This is not gonna happen anytime soon. Besides, there's not much to gain by doing that. If there are already trained radiologists in a hospital, it's pretty dumb to replace them with AI IMO.

AI instead is revolutionising imaging in a different way. Whenever we imagine AI for radiology, you probably imagine dark room, scanners and films. I appeal you to imagine patient instead. And point of care. Imaging is one of the best diagnostics out there: non invasive and you can actually see what is happening inside the body without opening it up. Are we training enough radiologists to support this diagnostic panacea? In other words, is imaging limited by the growth of radiologists?

Data does suggest lack of radiologists. Especially in the lower and medical income countries.[1] Most of the world's population lives in these countries. In these countries, hospitals can afford CT or X-Ray scanners (at least the pre-owned ones) but can't afford having a radiologist on premise. In India, there are roughly 10 radiologists per million.[2] (For comparison, US has ~ 10x more radiologists.) Are enough imaging exams being ordered by these 10 radiologists? What point is there to 'enhance' or 'replace' these 10 radiologists?

So, coming to my point: AI will create new care pathways and will revolutionize imaging by allowing more scans to be ordered. And this is happening as we speak. In March 2021, WHO released guidelines saying that AI can be used as an alternative to human readers for X-Rays in the tuberculosis (TB) screening [3]. It turns out AI is both more sensitive and specific than human reader (see table 4 in [3]).
Because TB is not a 'rich country disease', nobody noticed this, author included likely. Does this directive hurt radiologists? Nope, because there are none to be hurt: Most of the TB cases are in rural areas and no radiologist will travel to random nowhere village in Vietnam. This means more X-rays can be ordered, more patients treated, all without taking on the burden of training ultra-specialist for 10 years.

References:

1. https://twitter.com/mattlungrenMD/status/1382355232601079811

2. https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/th...

3. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/340255/9789...
The only comment needed in 99% of HN discussions
> I wouldn't generalize his behavior to the rest of silicon valley culture.

I get what you're saying here, but they made an entire TV series lampooning silicon valley culture.
A non sequitur but, I once read on Nextdoor (where I get most of my life hacks) that if you have a problem with crows hanging around in your backyard, just place an upside down bowl out there and problem solved.
Is not too difficult to find a decent employment or IP lawyer to spend an hour with you for a few hundred dollars to go over a document and advise you on how to respond.
Haha no, we need to learn about watchOS first.
Maybe they know it's a prototype and purposefully "accidentally sell it" just to see who ends up buying it. Especially if it's a prototype for an old tech product, the company that made it either doesn't exist anymore, or the device is so old they just don't care.
Germany also decided between China and Japan and chose Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-German_cooperation_(1926%...

Quite strange to see Chinese in German uniforms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-German_cooperation_(1926%...
'Easy access' is scary for hospitals because it means increased possibility of HIPAA violations.
If the entire rest of the world isn’t a big enough market to be worth developing for then maybe we don’t need ml radiology we just need medical reform.
Gemini needs a "Cool pod of the day" or similar.

The stuff in the original post is very much something you'd see on "Cool site of the day" - back in the days ;)
That's not what I understood form the blog. I interpreted this:

> Every similarity between my project and Replit can be explained by looking only at GitHub repositories and blog posts that were published online by Replit itself, making them obviously not any kind of secret.

to mean some similarities are explained by a public blog post, not by a repo. A public blog post does not give you license to copy something.
Vizh: An esoteric visual language that decodes and executes drawings using Open
I always use WhatsApp or Instagram for non-work video chatting. FaceTime is completely irrelevant unless you just happen to have your entire social circle using one company's hardware with no exceptions.
Yatima: A programming language for the decentralized web
As is, or will it be made good? The UX of the current version is poor on iPad / OSX. That was fine in the past - Skype was the only competition and that was horrible - but with Jitsi, Zoom and Discord killing it they've fallen miles behind.
Also Amazon?
How is an app store developer’s software the property of Apple?
So this is a serious claim, did this happen to you? Or is this a situation you have intimate knowledge of? Of is this hearsay?
Interestingly, Apple is attempting to address this issue in today's WWDC. The new iOS/iPadOS 15 will somehow "hide" your ip address when loading remote content.

They didn't go into details about the implementation in keynotes, but from the presentation, I would assume it is some kind of proxy to preload links? I am not sure if I want to let Apple load my emails/messages remotely.