skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, we are just getting one side.

That said, all the possible IP in something like this is in security, reliability, scalability and good UX.

Severely doubt the OP spent much time on that.

The CEO is probably just having trouble dealing with stress and is acting out. It happens.
I haven’t read the article but I find the hyperbolic headline pretty distasteful.

Some countries are experiencing degraded supply chain performance which impacts affordability of goods, and availability as well. The arbitrary, instant gratification SLA that some have come to expect is showing cracks but we certainly haven’t run out of everything.
this is precisely why companies poach employees from their competitors...
I'll believe the ACLU when they defend the January 6th rioters with the same fervor that they defended the BLM rioters.
You can't really make Instagram these days. Well you can, but it won't have any users.
I'm an Apple customer and I'm happy with my pre-2013 era Macbook Pros with 2x2TB SSDs and 16 GB RAM, which is more than the basic configuration of modern offerings. Unfortunately, the last OS they can run is Mojave so I'll have no choice but to upgrade to M2 when M3 comes out.

It really makes me sad Apple gave up this environment-friendly policy and started to aggressively glue everything preventing upgrades.
Nebula offers "Deep Whole Genome Sequencing - We decode 100% of your DNA at 30x"

Is the 30x coverage sufficient for finding all deleterious mutations? Or is the 100x option needed?
> One notable startup I’ve come across is Insight Browser, an iOS browser that allows users to build and share simple extensions.

I've worked with the Insight [1] folks (YC W19, I think?) to port my Chrome extension [2] to their platform. They made it super easy, and I'd recommend others give them a try. Not every extension makes sense on iOS, but for those that do, this can be a slick way to finally reach iOS users.

Hopefully Insight can popularize mobile extensions and generate some competition in the mobile browser space!

1: https://www.insightbrowser.com

2: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifj...
I'm pretty sure you can't leave a compagny and create a similar project copy pasting the same design / idea that you knew while working in the previous compagny.
> Hungry starving sick people make the least effective revolutionaries.

This is true, but their visible presence and the risk of joining them often motivates the people in slightly better circumstances to become the most effective ones; the starving masses usually aren't the effective revolutionaries, but their presence often accompanies revolution for that reason.
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Yes, but supporting remote by offering $0 - 0 salary and 0.00% - 0.00% equity seems legit and completely transparent: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/repl-it/jobs/aihA75TQr...
It sits next to the midpoint between "hard" and "very, very hard"
The lawyer powerplay _and_ also disparaging the OP by calling them a difficult intern.

I could give the legal peacocking a pass. It's a weird flex, a bit too much ego really, but sure, I don't care if your daddy is cooler than my daddy.

Punching down at your intern though, as a CEO? Jeez, talk about poor leadership. I would not work for that man.
I guess we were optimistic in thinking you all would've grown up by now.
> Agreed... but the intern is obviously incredibly naive in thinking that repl.it would be happy to see one of their ex-interns working on a project that does pretty much the same kind of thing they're doing.. whether or not this is a threat to them right now. There's a tiny, but non-zero chance, that this project could become successful and who knows, take marketshare from repl.it...

Too bad, that's business and how a functioning free market works. If it's that important to Replit, then they should patent it. If they can't get a patent then, again, too bad.
If Scheme were like Scheme
There actually is a Python API for doing this: https://pypi.org/project/dataframe-sql/

It doesn't expose a CLI, though.
On the Verge of Extinction, These Whales Are Also Shrinking
"Amjad has been tweeting a ton of stuff along the lines of "oh you can be too popular on HN, hivemind bad""

Oh, so one of those "I'm a contrarian, therefore I'm awesome" type of people?
Are you familiar with "vmstat -z"? It will show you any kernel limit that was hit under the "FAIL" column. When you know what is happening/failing its much easier to tune and scale. dtrace is also invaluable for this.
Of course he's naive. He's just out of college, would you have been more savvy at that age?
"unnecessary pupillary dilations and air puff tests (which by the way are wildly inaccurate,) "

How true is this ? I am not refuting this as I have no credentials in this space but as someone who is very near sighted, I depend on these exams to make me feel safe and I do them once every year as the doctors have suggested over the years. It is scary to know that they are wildly inaccurate.
I'm not convinced this just couldn't be a large personal data set into an algorithm.

Doctors barely have any data as it is. I think personal bio testing and monitoring is going to be a huge market and medical paradigm shift.

would you rather have you heart rate and temp constantly monitored for months , or get it checked once a year by a GP to see if you have hypertension or any negative markers
I...am on the side of the company here? wierd...

An employee of a company left, and then made an open source clone of the company's software. The fact that the software was easy to clone or that others had done it previously doesn't seem really relevant. Several times I have left a company, and I could replicate a good percentage of it in a couple days too, not because it was easy, but because the months/years of experience I had building it the first time.

Whipping out the lawyers and bragging about his funding is idiotic and childish, but I think asking for the project to be taken down is completely reasonable. (on that note- I kind of think at this point that you have to be a megalomaniac to be a funded startup founder)
Expressing an 'or' or having any logic to the condition becomes quickly annoying with usual *nix tools, and most people use SQL much more often than they forget how to use sed and awk.
EU seems to have quite a lot of companies offering AI solutions in radiology:

https://grand-challenge.org/aiforradiology/companies/
Finland is one of the few places I know of that enforces fines that way.[1]

Would be great is everyone did. But as the rich are so good at dodging taxes, already, I imagine it wouldn't be as effective as desired.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
> For example, they put out a press release talking about Facebook / Twitter's unchecked power when they banned President Trump, but they didn't go further than that.

What exactly could they do? The ACLU is an organization that checks government overreach. What government overreach was involved when twitter banned Trump? Twitter banning Trump didn't violate anyone's civil liberties.
>I also would gladly contribute it to a database for development of new tools, or any other research study that asked

This should be a standard question in the medical file like those related to organ donation.
This is insane behavior. OP shared something they were proud of to what seemed to be a mentor and then Amjad threatens OP? Damn! I was about to raise VC funding for legal protection from giants and this petty fool is swinging his schlong at his own ex intern? Wow.
> WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY WANT THEIR WORK AUTOMATED AWAY?

Because any radiologist directly involved in the work of automating it away could capture multiple salaries.

> but mostly dragging their feet and hindering real progress, presumably because of the threat it posed.

It sounds more like they were not offered a stake, or were not sufficiently convinced it would work enough to accept a stake.
Of course, but they're liable to damage their reputation as a VC firm if they continue funding garbage without vetting it at all, just cause someone's techbro buddy asked nicely for YC's backing.
Skin in the game: Video chat apps tout ‘inclusive’ AI features
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html?...

This is an article worth reading, if you're curious about the ACLU's identity crisis.
I love how companies just assume that they own everything you do even remotely similar to something they work on, even after you leave.

Let's assume that this person did just copy the replit design (which I don't believe they did), so what? If it was able to be "cloned" in a weekend or two, clearly it wouldn't really be sufficient to take down replit, so it seems that the CEO of replit just thinks that if you've ever worked for their company, any time you work on any kind of vaguely-similar REPL software, you should be taken down.

It's not like this is unique; corporations just seem to immediately assume that anything you did after seeing their brilliant and elegant code must be the reason for your success.
What if it was a purposeful Streisand effect, if we would assume there is not such thing as bad publicity.

I bully a lone open source dev, everybody get fired up, I go front page HN, maybe as the bad guy, but now people hear about me, and total sign-up increase.

Would be devilish, maybe would work?
Right, I'm referring to the local o being Any, meaning that it must be behind a pointer lookup. I should have clarified because the more common usage is about the function's return value.
> You will run out of jobs far more quickly than you can acquire new ones.

In urban areas, if you're looking for the garden-variety McJob, that's not really true. There are thousands of different employers in retail, food-service, small-scale manufacturing, etc. in a major metro area. Figure that it takes you 2-3 weeks to get fired at each one, you only need 1000 different employers to get through your working life. Maybe a bit more since you have multiple employers going at once, but still < 10,000.

Plus there's turnover in employers as well - the average business fails within 5 years, so they drop out of the pool and are replaced by new businesses that have never heard of you.
From the comments I know that this will not be a popular reply, but I do feel like he crossed a line by reproducing something he worked on commercially even if he had no intent of selling it. While everyone is rightfully astonished by the CEO unprofessional tone (and I really don't condone it), he did see the design documents, technical specs, and whatnot.
I was diagnosed with glaucoma at the age of 17 by a doctor. It was hard for me to comprehend that I'd have to take drops for the rest of my life. I do have pretty bad myopia and astigmatism. This was in the middle east. On doing a recheck back in India, I had a very comprehensive testing with multiple doctors checking for glaucoma and retinal damage and was told that while I'm a suspect, there's no reason for me to take drops. My IOP was calculated taking into account the diameter of the pupil (I think) and Goldman test which wasn't done previously. The doctors proceeded to explain that in the west, doctors are more likely to prescribe treatment for glaucoma because of all things around insurance etc. At minimum, I recommend getting a second opinion, if possible from a country that's not riddled with such insurance schemes.
For those that read this article, I highly recommend you watch the 1998 COMDEX video it references. [1]

It's both sad and amazing that much of what we use today was "coming soon" 23 years ago.

[1] https://archive.org/details/CC1634COMDEX
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There is an interesting book on this grim subject - the book "Yes to Life" of Viktor Frankl. He managed to survive concentration camps and stay mentally sane person. He describes the life of prisoners there and what was helping them to survive. Sad but remarkable book on both history and psychology.

Also, someone in this discussion said that as more and more people pass away there is less and less truth about WW2 and less and less respect to its lessons. There is also another interesting observation: the more related to WW2 people die the more Cold War #2 we see. Cold War hasn't become "hot" because during these times almost everyone except kids knew what is war and how it looks and that it causes. War heroes were not imaginary movie personalities, they were everywhere. And kids could hear real stories from someone who has seen it all with own eyes. And so, everyone knew that war is hell and that nuclear weapon can make war even worse, so that WW2 will look like a picnic.

But what do we have now? Movies about WW2 with expensive SFX and cheap plot, Call of Duty, etc. War isn't scary anymore. People are eager to fight something. This mad mad mad mad mad world.
"...but I would imagine he wouldn't say this if it were entirely 100% fabricated."

How many of the CEO class have you interacted with? This is approximately Step 3 in the psychology: "OMG, I have to convince myself and the rest of the world that this person is not only wrong but also bad." He likely spent several minutes rehearsing the comment before writing. (No, really, I've sat there and watched someone repeat similar comments before a meeting, to make sure they believed it enough to be convincing.)
This sounds similar to Amazon Athena, but without the Amazon part. Interesting!
Contact the FSF for advice, I'm sure they would like your project to join million others with legal backing!. Good luck!
Largely EPA regulations make this impossible.
Gosh, I wish I received 20 million in funding for that idea that needed three days to be technically replicated by an intern.

My wish: Replit should sue intern, intern should get free attorney from EFF, case should be dismissed as "WTF" in court. Future CEOs will know that "an intern would need three days to technically replicate" is not a differentiator. Also, hope is not a strategy. VCs would learn that hearing BS from CEO is not "due diligence".

Intern would eventually be showered in money for speaking to further CEOs about that one mistake they should never do.

The world would move on and be a better place for everyone, except unprepared CEOs.
Copyright doesn’t really apply to UI designs.

Patents can apply, but it’s really only used in novel and unique situations. Even if Replit had a patient on its UI/UX design, if you were able to find evidence of prior art, you could petition to invalidate.
That actually is what Apple (and pretty much all cloud storage) does. iCloud is built largely on Google’s hardware, hence the encryption. Of course, this doesn’t mean it is end-to-end encrypted as most people infer “encrypted” to mean, otherwise we could call Dropbox and Google Drive encrypted services.
Shifting the blame for shortages to JIT is a pretty lazy rhetorical trick. Even if they had 3 months, 6 months, or 12 months inventory, they would still be under fire for not withstanding an 18 month market upheaval. Were businesses not planning conservatively enough? Probably. But risk tolerance is not an on/off switch.

Furthermore, this article completely misses the entire point of Just In Time. Sure, you save time and money on inventory. That's just peanuts. The main purpose is to eliminate manufacturing defects early.

If you are running a 3 month backstock of inventory, it will take 3 months for improvements to show up in the assembly line. Multiply this across several levels of assembly, and it ended up being more cost effective to slap poorly built pieces together with some expensive hand finishing than to improve anything. Or, worse case scenario, you have to toss out the entire inventory and start again. (I've heard a few stories from Tesla where this was a pretty common occurrence).

And it's not like JIT actually slows manufacturing! You are literally making the same amount of products! With less waste! So blaming manufacturers for not making enough in a shortage because they made it all too quickly beforehand is, frankly, a dumb way of looking at the problem.

Just In Time has led to much, much higher quality products that last a lot longer with less waste. Even in a shortage of new cars, affordable cars that regularly exceed 300k miles is worth the tradeoff. Another way to look at it is we are trading the manufacturers' ability to withstand a shortage for the customers'.
The BFBB Decompilation Project
Wow, what a fuck-up. I canceled my Repl.it subscription already, and I intend to migrate off the site entirely as soon as I can.
It would be interesting to compare this to card weaving (tablet weaving outside the US). Very cool to think about all the patterns that are easier to do with something like this.

If you have any interest in weaving give card weaving a shot!
Frankly, there is not much to add. Google will continue to develop Chrome, add new features, making the JS engine faster, maybe trying to sneak in some feature that will make adblocking less efficient and so on. In the past, when we heard about good developments, we would happily hooray them. These days the situation is very different. I don't feel like arguing about it though as everybody has their opinion on it and it's unlikely to change.
It helps if you never store unencrypted data on the drive.
> I don't know what social mobility is.

You'll find in the article I provided that it offers the following definition:

Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals either up or down the socioeconomic ladder relative to their current standing, such as a low-income family moving up to become a part of the middle class.

Countries with high levels of social mobility exhibit lower levels of income inequality and provide more equally shared opportunities for its citizens across each of the five pillars.

This is, of course, precisely what we're discussing here.

For example, regarding Denmark, it notes:

Denmark holds the title for the most socially mobile country in the world, boasting an index score of 85.2. If a person is born into a low-income family in Denmark, the WEF estimates it would take two generations to reach a median income. In contrast, someone in Brazil or South Africa would take nine generations at the current pace of growth.

> And in that respect, citizens of the US are far better than the rest of the world.

The opinion piece you've cited makes absolutely no claims about how the US compares to other nations, and therefore does not support your claims.

It's of course a fascinating analysis. But it does not even broach the question of whether "citizens of the US are far better" off than those in other countries.
We increased our use of basecamp and zoom meetings when necessary. Things are quite smooth.

I think the main plus with my team is that individuals know why they are doing what they do and so they can make most of the smaller decisions without oversight.

Clear written communication, organized in a somewhat accessible and easy to review structure, is sufficient.

I never needed a manager to breathe in my neck nor do my reports. When in the office, I’d see someone face to face once a week, now equally easier with zoom.

We don’t work in a physical factory so the factory model (everyone present on the floor) does not make sense.

As for socializing, that happens via phone calls and zoom - we check in with each other and have a few minutes at the beginning where we connect as human beings.

I never in my career participated in socializing with coworkers apart from the weekly corporate lunch and sporadic one on one lunches so I’m not sure what everyone is talking about. Working in cubicles was crippling for my focus and productivity. Commute was crippling for my health and quality of life. Now, I work remotely, happily uncrippled.
Or to sort of pile on to what was said previously, you may be telling the truth as an asexual, but you are also in debt to the Russian mafia, and are looking for quick money so you don't get killed. Could still steal the noodie pics, but the motive is money not tittilation.
It is interesting to see that Netflix hasn't implemented SharePlay.

The keynote lists many other partners (such as Hulu, HBOMax etc.)
Wine on Wayland meets Vulkan, multi-monitor support and more
And we're free to call it for what it is: nepotism
I agree with you but nothing about the comment was discussing whether or not people will pay for repl.it

The context of this HN post is about originality itself.
I realise this is a much longer discussion than this comment allows.

It’s a lot easier to protest and stop a system being built that will be used for X but also allow Y, than allowing the system for X to be built and used and stop the feature switch for Y being turned on.

I would have dismissed the original comment at one point, but when you have situations like this playing out I think it is fair to give it more thought:

“Police stop people for covering their faces from facial recognition camera then fine man £90 after he protested (2019)”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/facial-recogniti...
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nit: please refrain from any ad hominem comments and instead comment on the merits of the content itself
Apps Continuing to Track Users Despite Apple's Privacy Prompt
I'm in WA, and I have to upload a photo of my prescription to buy glasses from a popular online eyeglass vendor whose name rhymes with Warby Parker. My impression is that it's a state-by-state thing. In my opinion it's pretty silly require this for eyeglasses (contacts are a different matter).
> I'm not sure how I'm supposed to have any kind of sympathy for a manufacturer who wants to offer a worse product for more money.

Apple.
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>The CEO is probably just having trouble dealing with stress and is acting out. It happens.

I agree it's not uncommon for first-time founders/CEOs to see phantom ghosts and lash out; however, we should be careful to not normalize that kind of behavior. Founders often hold mentorship or supervisory positions over their current and ex-employees, so it's harmful when they react with aggression and manipulation.

At small companies, that betrayal of trust cuts deeper than it does in more common manager-employee relationships, IMO.
Repl.it should have no fear from this. A: There was no plans to make it commericial. B: It wasn't intended to be a CLONE.
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