skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
um, yes, it's happening already in areas where intermittent supplies make up a sufficient percentage of the energy mix (e.g. South Australia). In an ideal world we'd keep the rollout of intermittent sources below the level at which they cause instability until grid scale batteries are invented, however that's not the world we live in.
No great fan of Google, but a large component of the problem is the Library of Babel phenomenon: there’s just too much crap being published.

Let’s face it... the early internet was interesting because the only people who could use it (and publish on it) were smart eccentrics. That was its charm.
The technological hurdle served as the curator: you might have been a crazy white supremacist, anarchist, conspiracy theorist, or ‘expert’ in how to grow radishes or some other bizarrely eclectic field... but all of them were necessarily a bit smarter than the average bear just by virtue of knowing how to host content and access it; not a trivial task in the late 90’s.

Maybe it’s time to think up some convoluted alternate network that is a royal pain-in-the-ass to use. Perhaps there the eclectic and useful content creators will once again arise (and searching their trove will be a snap as most everything there will be fresh, unique, and interesting.) It will exist, I suppose, for a few years before tools are made to enable grandma to easily use it.
Of course it is. The apology is intended for damage control to repl.it and his personal reputation, given he has had an hour to digest the winds of HN on both and is clearly concerned by what he sees. Dollars to donuts he remains baffled why such a defense of his reputation and that of his company is even necessary in the first place. You don’t even need to be as cynical as I am to get there. It’s that transparent.

“I guess it’s just because of how I had to be as a struggling kid in Jordan” is the tell. He obviously has no idea why this feedback is happening if that’s his conclusion, so how can he apologize for any of it? He’s still retweeting sympathetic viewpoints on Twitter as we speak, so you can compute the honesty of this apology based on that fact alone.

Read “do better” as “avoid generating compromising receipts wherein I twice trot out lawyers and my ability to pay for them like I’m dramatically unsheathing Anduril, while privately maintaining my view that I’m being ripped off at every turn because someone had the gall to use Docker to build a REPL and I consider that clearly genius architecture to be sensitive intellectual property.” His takeaway going forward is to threaten people in a smarter way, and I’d bet my next paycheck on that.

Honestly, this whole saga is a hell of an invitation to compete against repl.it, in displaying such a severe decision-making and tactical weakness at the executive level.
I have heard that they have been developing an in-house technical capability and department for this since at least the time period of the Ulbrich arrest and the "first" Silk Road.
California law does not recognize non-compete agreements. Your heardquarters are in San Francisco. Good luck. Unless you have ironclad evidence that he stole intellectual property from your company you don't have a legal case to stand on.

I have offered to pay the student's legal fees in exchange for putting the GitHub repository back up, with the provision of reviewing the contracts he signed with you to ensure there is no terms that he could be violating, after review with my own lawyers.

I was also considering working for your company when considering changing forms, but I never would after hearing about this episode.

Your remarks about "YC shouldn't fund copycats" are especially ironic given that Repl.it is by far not the first company to make programming online easy to do. I was involved in acquisition of Cloud9.io (now AWS Cloud9 IDE – the original site has been taken down from the Wayback Machine but you can see plenty of their work in articles if you search Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=cloud9+io+startup ) – they provided an online IDE, terminal, full Linux environment, and the ability to program in many different programming languages.

Personally, I don't have an enmity against copying. If you copy what another company does and execute better, that's progress. Amazon.com was just the Sears catalog with a website and faster shipping. But it's sadly ironic that you have this negative view against idea-copying while your own company is dense in a space of competitors that offer online code editing and evaluation – some of which have already exited, as I mentioned above.
Swype lets you long-press a suggestion and choose to never suggest that again.
I didn't actually know that. I stand corrected about that. But it's still arguably "morally wrong". Especially if Replit's unique design decisions and/or secrets are incorporated into this, as is claimed.
Maybe they go through their bedsheets looking for the passphrase written on a sticky note? I'm sure US intelligence can be quite persuasive.
https://monkeytype.com is much cleaner IMO if you're not trying to battle anyone.
Or just as likely, an employee in their art department, under typical never-ending gamedev crunch time. just "doing whatever it take to get it done" to get their manager off their back...
The warrant isn't proof that the server was in California. That's simply where the FBI field office that is going to access the bitcoin address is based out of.
>" Dmitry Sklyarov"

I assume he is that famous guy from Elcomsoft who put Adobe and DOJ to shame. Good to know he is still productive.
Among other things, they would object.
An Interview with Sebastián RAMírez of FastAPI
for reference: https://www.rhdtlaw.com/non-compete-california
> the first line is frequently the only line a reader reads.

Never have I done that. Most people will give it at least half a chapter.

A typical reader will already have an idea of what they're getting themselves into - from being familiar with the author, reviews, or blurb. They're not going to put your book down just because your opening isn't something clever.

You don't want readers to think about how clever you are anyways. You want them to be immersed in your story, if a story is what you're selling.

The first chapter, like any other part of your story, should be interesting, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with starting it as you would chapter five.
It's "wrong"? Laughable. How, exactly, is it "wrong"? It comes off to me as very plausible, and appropriate.
Notably, explorer.exe doesn't deal well with longer paths.

But yeah, WSL may be the driving force.
That might be easier to believe if these ransomware strains didn't do things like automatically disable themselves on computers with Russian language support installed.
This apology reminds me of TripleByte's CEO first comments to the Hacker News thread from a few months ago, you are still placing blame on the blogger and do not show you are genuinely sorry for screwing up.
I'm amazed that there isn't anything like uBlock Origin for search results.
> So, part of your job is to analyze health benefits plans (health insurance plans) that Americans get. You also work daily with actuaries in the life sector, who assign dollar values to people's lives.

Yes, exactly like health insurance actuaries at publicly run health insurance providers. We don't sit around trying to figure out how to make people die, like cartoon villains. We try to figure out how to make healthcare sustainable.

If you read what I had written, it's clear that not only do the private sector insurance providers perform comparable with public sector ones like Original Medicare, they can even out-perform them. So we can't conclude the "privateness" as the root cause of our problems, we have to consider other confounding variables.

> Congratulations on coming up with that point. That is precisely why I left the US, as somebody with a rare disease that requires an orphan drug to survive.

Sorry to hear that, truly. In my opinion, the single most effective thing we can do to help folks like you is to decouple health insurance from employment, and I'm sticking around to try to make that happen. Hopefully you'll come back, and stay healthy.
While Google still has market dominance, I wonder if privacy-centric search engines will be the future. I am considering putting substantial effort towards such a goal, you can sign up to learn about when at puubl.com [1]

[1] https://www.puubl.com/
Fair enough! I over-spoke in my previous comment (I don't seem to able to edit it anymore). Thanks for pointing that out.

Using SHA256 or greater is what should be used for generating new hashes, especially if you can update old entries and files with SHA256's. Many databases still have way more MD5/SHA1 hashes which won't be updated to include the SHA256, which is why you'll see them be used often.
According to the California Business and Professions Code Section 16600, “every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.”

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

This does not make contracts containing such clauses "illegal", but rather unenforceable in court. The student could sign a contract saying "I will not work on a company that competes with Repl.it", and he did, and the company tried to sue him over it with that as the only claim, then the court would quickly grant a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
If you're already able to do input faster than the computer can process your commands, how would a faster input method increase productivity?
I don't agree with @amasad's actions at all, but I think this is a very uncivil comment.
This looks quite amazing. I'd seen services like this, but not at this price point, and not without prescription.
When this book was published in 1996 this sort of model for reference/inspiration was very common in the graphic design world. I had access to a library of books like this. Part of my job was to either work with an art buyer to get the art into production (having all ready done the production from the CD-ROM) or create a suitable replacement if we couldn't get a good price/were feeling cheap.
I don't think there are incentives for a change. The way it is done now is probably more profitable and the competition is doing exactly the same.
I've added lowdefy to GitSense and depending on how big the repository is, indexing can take minutes to hours to complete. Having said that, the public version of GitSense is scrubbed from time to time since it is still in Beta, so I can't guarantee that it will be there after the next scrubbing.

You can install GitSense on your own infrastructure like your laptop if you want, but the license file will time out after 30 days. Once GitSense is out of Beta and I'm properly funded, I want to make GitSense free to use forever for small instances and opensource.
If the key is solely located only in the hacker's brain, yes it is out of their reach. Usually, however, if you gain access to the hacker's comp, they'll have it written down somewhere.
So you kind of have to decide, are just static templates and static assets all you need?

In my particular instance: yup. I’m at the “loop through an array of things in a folder” level, not “deploy at scale” level.
Yep, that and the sudden WFH made me realise just how boiled a frog I was.

Every little step, small in itself, that I'd compromised over the years had led me to a place I don't want to be. I work to live, not the other way around, and slowly but surely I'd been coerced into living to work. Sometimes the best way to fix something is a complete break. I think this is one of those times.
I have been working with Hugo about three years ago. I found Hugo quite nice and easy to learn compared to the other options. But later I discovered Publii (which isn't listed on this article).
Publii finally made editing and publishing a real pleasure by offering a real backend to manage your articles, media, organize your site etc.
Same issue here, fixed it by using the "Privacy Redirect" firefox extension to redirect twitter links to nitter.
Thank you, kind internet stranger :)
ive learned that almost any keyword related to sale-able products has been gamed on Google. all i see are affiliate links and people that keep track of which format to build their website in, that google likes this week.

more importantly, what ive also learned is that Bing search results are less of an affiliate link cesspool because fewer SEO spammers are working at gaming Bing's results.
Do you think Repl.it's investors and board will be happy with the company using its money to pursue this lawsuit that is unlikely to prevail?
Here's the best way I can think to describe this.

I've found there are largely two kinds of people in the world: those who have experienced something like food insecurity, housing insecurity, poverty or the like and those that haven't. People who have never experienced any of these tend to have a completely different outlook, attitude and relationship to money. People who have often have it in the back of their mind that at any point it can all go away. This is why you'll tend to find a lot of poorer people who will get a windfall and then splurge on a big TV or some other big purchase. It'll just whittled down by bills otherwise. And it never really matters how much you have. For many people that fear never leaves you. People who have never experienced that food insecurity (or the like) can almost never comprehend it.

I see China much the same way. Think about it. China was bossed around by the British Empire (it's literally the origin of the term "gunboat diplomacy"). With Mao's revolution there was a long period of famine. One of China's closest allies, the Soviet Union, collapsed around them.

The point of this is, from an outsider's point of view at least, there seems to be a similar kind of cultural fear, a fear of a return to instability, chaos, famine and being a plaything to the West.

So take Tibet. Many, myself included, see this as an invasion and occupation. That kind of criticism is seen through the Chinese lens as an attack on China itself, a threat to this period of prosperity and stability and a potential return to chaos.

Put another way: any criticism of China or foreign dependence of China is seem as a potential existential threat.

So I understand why China, say, protects its markets. But I also understand that China is "cheating" in an international trade sense and the developed nations don't have to put up with that. Nor should they. But developed nations and corporations are being bewitched the carrot of a market of over a billion people and that will never materialize so there's literally no point in turning a blind eye to China's human rights abuses or supporting the totalitarian regime.
Maybe stuff like Upmem (many small CPUs embedded into memory) can take off then?
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I'm also testing neeva, do you know what they use to get the search results?
a waste of money to have devs test their own code?

interesting.
Just because you only need low res versions, doesn't mean you're exempt from copyright. Juracek without doubt owns copyright on those images. Capcom are going to have to convince a judge they had permission to use the images from the copyright holder. It seems unlikely there was an explicit rights grant on the CD for use in a commercial game, Capcom are going to be trying to lean heavily (too heavily, it seems to me) on that vague wording in the marketing copy to assert they have rights to use them. Juracek could have made their limited rights grant more explicit, but copyright generally works on an "if you do not have explicit permission to use a work in a particular way, you have only very limited rights to make a copy of it" basis.
Yep this! How can you really beat SEO when people can just try new things all day and see if it helps their rankings? I don't feel there's a solution here. Everyone suffers under SEO types just trying to bring scammy things to the top of the results page.
Thanks for clearing that up, I see where you are coming from. I think the place you and I will disagree is this:

> Apple provides that, is my point.

Apple, imo, provides a dog and pony show - just as Google does now with their human reviews of Android apps. The app review systems are security theater. The real security is in the APIs and the OS, and I think Android and iOS are on par with one another there.
There's a liveblog about it now too: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/afp-organised-crime-b...
Apple Silicon (M1) was announced at WWDC '20. It's reasonable to believe there would be another major hardware announcement at WWDC '21.

And as a developer who has used 2 monitors for almost 20 years, actual multidisplay support, and not a DisplayLink hack, is a reasonable demand. Even at a developer conference.
Like the Allies did? lets not forget the German Bombing campaign against the UK in the Battle of Britain. Bombing population centers for years until after the US joined the war. Or the Rape Nanjing by the Japaneses troops, a act so brutal the Nazis found it disturbing and inhumane.
I love pandoc, but it explodes the size of my Arch Linux updates because of the way Haskell is packaged. I'll have to check out whether there's some kind of single AppImage binary or something.

30 seconds after posting the comment, I found this:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pandoc-bin/

I don't know why I never tried to look for it. But I can attest to that fact pandoc + miniserve is a very interesting static site stack for those who want ultra simple.
It is fair to say it is exaggerated somewhat, but none the less the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact did divide Europe into "spheres of influence" which included the redrawing of other countries borders:

To this public pact of nonaggression was appended a secret protocol, also reached on August 23, 1939, which divided the whole of eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. Poland east of the line formed by the Narew, Vistula, and San rivers would fall under the Soviet sphere of influence. The protocol also assigned Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland to the Soviet sphere of influence and, further, broached the subject of the separation of Bessarabia from Romania. A secret supplementary protocol (signed September 28, 1939) clarified the Lithuanian borders. The Polish-German border was also determined, and Bessarabia was assigned to the Soviet sphere of influence. In a third secret protocol (signed January 10, 1941, by Count Friedrich Werner von Schulenberg and Molotov), Germany renounced its claims to portions of Lithuania in return for Soviet payment of a sum agreed upon by the two countries.

https://www.britannica.com/event/German-Soviet-Nonaggression...
Yeah its because its not an app, its the whole device loaded with APK's
I don't have much to add about the behavior of Repl.it's CEO, but I find it amusing that he used "demanding" as a pejorative for the intern. "Entitled" or "unreasonable", sure, those characteristics are bad, but my initial reaction is that a "demanding" intern is one that I'd want to hire. In my experience, the worst characteristics of an intern are complacency and lack of initiative, and between a complacent intern and one who's "demanding", I'd choose the latter 10 times out of 10.
This is such a shitty problem. I tried doing some stuff with ghostscript etc.
> He seem to consider himself a victim.

This isn't surprising given Dale Carnegie's first principle from "How to win friends and influence people"

1. Do not criticize, condemn, or complain

> people do not blame themselves for anything, and therefore they don’t take criticism well
Based on your retweet[1], you still seem to be publicly punching down.

[1]: https://twitter.com/pnegahdar/status/1402018604233732098?s=2...
So, I love Rust immensely, but it's a totally different style of programming than a functional language like Haskell. For example, Rust closures are absolutely not the same as pure functions, and if you try to use them that way you'll have a bad time. Another thing is that Rust's approach to garbage collection is "opt-in" (with Rc, etc), which is great for low-level control, but not so great when you're trying to write high-level or non-performance-critical things. And lastly, recursion is Rust is restricted by the stack, so if you try to recurse too much you'll panic. You can manually increase the stack, of course, but this is again a case of having to explicitly handle your resources.

In some sense, Yatima's trying to be to Rust what Haskell is to C. We reuse a lot of the primitives (like ints, uints, chars, etc), but in a separate runtime layer that lets you just use a lambda like a lambda, and not have to worry if you're recursing too much. Now, that comes with overhead, but in a lot of places (like on the web) that's acceptable.

Another thing to think about is determinism. One goal of Yatima is to have each content-id always run the same way given the same inputs. That means we have to forgo using things like hardware floats (or at least not without some complex wrapping) which can cause UB if you try to read their bits (even in WASM).

I think definitely we're going to want to explore both frontend (along the lines of something like https://seed-rs.org/) and backend use cases for Yatima. I'm looking with great interest at https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic to see if there's a way for us to integrate their lightweight processes. As far as I understand this is along the lines of what https://www.unisonweb.org/ is doing.

The other thing I'm thinking about is smart contracts. Since Yatima is almost `no_std`, we should be able to build it as a pallet for substrate.dev.
What the Ottoman Empire can teach us about the consequences of climate change
The law of the land takes precedence. Contracts can be signed in a situation where there is a power imbalance and courts will often nullify or modify those agreements, despite them being made between two consenting parties.
I guess these are the two projects you are talking about:

https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot
https://github.com/camelot-dev/excalibur
Technical people are expensive (and hard to fire if they don't work out), which really raises the bar for minimum qualifications and skills. There's no room to "take a chance" on anyone anymore.

As a HM, most candidates I see are woefully underqualified. The great ones are beyond my (quite reasonable) budget. And I've seen this on the other side too: recruiters contacting me always want to hire me for mid-sr IC role when I've been managing teams for years.
My statement was that there was a risk of them running afoul of a bunch of these laws.

Not sure why you are trying so hard to straw man me on these statements.

Quite clearly there is a significant risk in running afoul of something, if you work at a company, leave, and build a project that does the same thing, and also looks very similar to it.

That was my original statement. And it seems pretty clear that there would be some risk in this.

Not sure why you have to be an asshole about a pretty obvious statement here.

But since you aren't actually addressing this statement directly, and have to go off on some tangent, that I never brought up, I can only assume you agree with my original statement.
The problem with an algorithm, you can find ways to game the algorithm.
> What stops Twitter, Facebook, et al from silencing a political candidate with whom we agree?

Well, why haven't they banned Sanders or Warren or Klobuchar or Markey or AoC who have all called for various things from anti-trust cases to explicitly breaking up big tech companies?

> What happens, my dear fellow never-trumpers, if the shoe is on our own foot?

Get back to me when facebook updates their acceptable use policy to disallow criticism of facebook.