skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on a job search, and Replit is one of the places I was going to apply, off of their listings on HN Who is Hiring?. So much for that, and I suspect a lot of devs are going to feel the same. (I don't think I'm good enough to get in, but there're a lot of really good devs who read HN who are.) In a seller's market for developers, this could hurt them in the form of less good talent applying.

That said, my gut feeling as an outsider is that they feel genuinely burnt by a former employee making something similar to their product. Not just cynically trying to smash the competition. Not that that justifies anything—everyone thinks they're the good guy (well, almost everyone).
Except nothing in the OP's work or correspondence suggests any competitive aspirations, so unless other information comes to light, this summary is a fantasy.
When will society learn the lesson that people's goodness and "pureness" is based on the actions they take, and not on the opinions they hold or the manner they hold in private company.
Yes, that was tongue in cheek. Honestly though, I don't really think its a job for courts. Courts have a role, but they're there to enforce laws, not enact policies.
It appears there's at least a little nepotism and/or incompetence at play, considering crap like Dreamworld got YC'd

https://www.pcgamer.com/dreamworld-infinite-world-mmo-kickst...
I'm surprised anyone would invest in this technology when Microsoft has made it pretty clear they're going to dominate this space with https://github.com/features/codespaces
Not really and they could opt for Portugal which gives 10 years tax free.

I know the US taxes his citizens on global income though, so they would be taxed like US retirees.
Mammography is one of the most difficult to interpret. You need more data like the age and family history to decide on the next step.

Radiology is huge. I am sure ML can help in some of the specialties (it does not need to be all or none). The reason it is not is because of the medical system refusing to give in.
I've been remote in a distributed company for almost 10 years.

The fact is, if the organization isn't setup to be remote-first, then you're always going to be lagging behind in terms of communication. Even then, it's still a problem that needs to be actively thought about and handled on a regular basis.
"Prior invention" He created Riju AFTER working as an intern at Repl.it. From the article:

> I worked for Replit in Summer 2019

Also from the article, regarding Riju commits:

> 2020-06-05 df9ba38 Initial commit

"I can understand" to a degree. That's what time-limited non-competes are for. I think a lot depends on what he signed as he was hired and/or leaving Repl.it - was there a "you can't work for a competitor for x years" type document? Was there something worse?

And that's not talking about the fact that some states bar non-competes and it was over a year after he left repl.it, what's the odds his non-compete was for that long?

We obviously have one side of the story - and we know how he said/she said stories end up - but from what's being told, it seems like he's been away for long enough that non-compete to be flimsy at best and unenforceable at worst.
Interesting that the method for this interface was imagining writing the word, I guess too many random thoughts would enter your writing if it was just based on mental-verbalizing (saying it in your head).

It would be really cool to have a BCI that runs off mental-verbalizing and have a chopper style rapper use it (eg. Busta Rhymes). Imagine people doing transcription learning chopping as skill to get an edge on their job!
If the punishment for a crime is a fine, then it only applies to the poor.
Hey everyone,

Not sure if I can do over 10 people just now so will cap it at the first ten that messaged here.

If you're interested please email me at cc@buildfaast.com with your HNs username in the body so I can match it with who were the first set of people that messaged under this post.
He blocked me on Twitter for pointing out something (technical) he said was wrong, and then he deleted his tweet. Told me everything I need to know about that guy.
[I am not OP]

You seem to be thinking that removing these jobs is removing choice from these peoples' lives, when in reality it's the opposite: Having to take those jobs removes the choice from their lives--because, as OP said, those jobs "kept their heads above water but gave them little chance of ever progressing."

Where OP suggests "maybe minimum wage destroying jobs ... would be a good thing," this would require the minimum wage to be high enough where people in those jobs would have the ability to exit them if they so desired--they would have the ability to make choices to do something else.

Which returns us to your question: if there exists a number of jobs that people would very happily _leave if they could_, but are unable to (either because they can't accord to take a day off to interview elsewhere, or they don't have a car to widen the range where they can look for other jobs, or because they have to accept the healthcare their current job offers even though the pay is way worse / the job itself horrible), these jobs are in effect exploiting people who are trapped in those positions. Those jobs should not continue to exist simply because they offer some measly payment in exchange for portions of a human lifespan. Our system should instead be structured in such a way where people do not have to be exploited to survive.

This means leveling the playing field by offering a living wage, and healthcare as a human right, and related activities.

Related quote, by Terry Pratchett[0]:

> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

> Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances.

> A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.

> Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

> But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

> This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-r...
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Copyright protection lasts 70 years so in 70 years we'll have VMs running today's software for free. It's going to be exciting times for my great-grandchildren. Imagine how much better the 22nd century will be from that network effect.
I thought they established a few years ago that amaloid-beta plaque removal has no effect and had to go back to the foundational theories on the disease itself. "Slows the clinical decline" ... sounds like a total dud to me.
Oh - I think I missed the humor in the original comment ;) Fair enough!
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> VC funded companies are investments that they want a return on. It shouldn't be surprising when people try very hard to protect that investment to help them get a better return.

Yeah, but if the investment is threatened by a weekend project built in a few days, it means that a serious competitor could destroy it in a couple weeks.

The thought that came to mind about this was a baker stepping on ants outside his store because nobody was coming into the store. If nobody wants to come into the store because of ants crawling in front, your store has larger issues.
I can understand this might be productive for small teams, but for large corporations - I can't relate with any of the points listed.
I don't disagree. I'm sure he believed it wasn't worth the time or effort. I'm sure the CTO didn't either. I was way behind them. They knew what I didn't know at the time: the company was not interested in investing in the project I was working on. They considered it finished.
Babi Yar and the hundreds of similar tragedies show that the Germans had no trouble killing Jews using more conventional means.

It might have helped but it’s far from a certainty.
Hi, this sounds cool. Happy you're offering this. If you have enough time I'd definitely be interested.

I've learned python back at school and want to start contributing more to open source stuff (have made few commits to the AnkiDroid app).
Well, (SF writerly hat ON): We can also, presumably, start to worry about what other organisms -- viruses (viri?) -- are living in the permfrost that is busy thawing due to global warming.

In the other direction, we can contemplate the fact that, if this multicellular organism can withstand such long-term freezing, so can we. Interstellar (much slower than light speed) travel, here we come!
I think "clever" is being applied at one level here and "insightful" is being applied at another.

You can write code at the equivalent of an 8th grade reading level like Hemingway wrote.

Each sentence can can be basic using a small vocabulary. Put together the whole novel can have depth and be insightful.

Its the difference between Hemingway and an actual random 8th grader.
Isn’t this simply a case of over regulation?
It sure screams of malicious intent. It would take a redaction/clarification from the CEO to prove otherwise. But my guess is he will try to ignore it and hope the problem goes away without too much brand impact. Would love to be wrong about that.
The author's excuses about "not intended to compete" or "it's free and open-source" (paraphrasing) aren't relevant when it comes to whether he stole anything or is competing. That said, the CEO is out of line IMO.
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I would play devil's advocate here and say that the situation is probably muddier than it is presented in the blog. Also there appers to be a level of trust here (at least the Replit CEO trusted that OP will not make this go viral on HN and spiral into a PR nightmare I suppose, which though is the most entertaining path it can take)

Not sure how talented OP is. This can as well be a case study of who not to hire.
The miscommunication angle could have been argued after the first emails. But once double downs and legal threats ensue, Hanlon's Razor doesn't apply.
Yeah. I think the issue might be more a psychological one, I gag very easily
There is an option for 5000 snips per month for $5. If you annotate the pdf every time you convert to latex, it should be much cheaper
Well, running postgres doesn't really need to be much more than `docker run --rm -v $PWD:/data -e POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust postgres`. While docker might have its downsides, it is convenient for this sort of ad-hoc stuff.
Lots of CEOs/Owners will definitely be salty about that. And they're not totally wrong to feel that way. You pay someone a bunch of money only to watch them walk and help your competitor take your market share. It's understandable why that's upsetting. But they should have the maturity to understand that's how the world works and not throw a tantrum.
On the other hand what would such a move get Radon? Amjad seemed to sense that maybe he was fishing for a job. Which to me it seems like he was especially being a new grad. The approach backfired and now he airs the interaction which gets Radon publicity.

We only have one side of the story so it's hard to tell what exactly is going on here.
AI Winter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter).

1966: failure of machine translation
1970: abandonment of connectionism
Period of overlapping trends:
1971–75: DARPA's frustration with the Speech Understanding Research program at Carnegie Mellon University
1973: large decrease in AI research in the United Kingdom in response to the Lighthill report
1973–74: DARPA's cutbacks to academic AI research in general
1987: collapse of the LISP machine market
1988: cancellation of new spending on AI by the Strategic Computing Initiative
1993: resistance to new expert systems deployment and maintenance
1990s: end of the Fifth Generation computer project's original goals

I got my bachelors in 1990, and took a lot of classes in AI around that time. Have you ever worked with an expert system like Mycin? It is really quite difficult to pull out an expert's knowledge, rules of thumb, and experience-based intuitions. Difficult and expensive. Those that were not tightly focused on a limited domain were also generally not satisfactory, and those that were failed hilariously if any one parameter was outside the system's model.

Yes, doctors have a lot of cultural baggage that reduces their effectiveness. But there's a completely different reason why AI has not replaced them. After many, many attempts.
> So you end up with lots of scenes where one character has to come across as clueless so that the other character can explain things to them (and to the reader). This is not how normal conversations between people at mission control would go. Realistic conversations would be nearly incomprehensible to someone who is not an expert, thanks to all the shorthand. People wouldn’t be explaining things in great detail, instead other people would be cutting them off mid-thought, already seeing where they are going and jumping to the next logical conclusion.

Sounds a little like "everyone at NASA is a genius". Well, probably not. Routine stuff in mission control - ok. But when there's off-nominal stuff, there will definitely be people that have no idea what's going on and need extra explanations. People at mission control are highly specialized, I guess, so why should someone doing X instantly know what's going wrong with Y?

Also, there's administration, and some of those scenes are about convincing administrative people. They surely have technical understanding, but there would still be some explaining going on.

> In reality, upon being stranded, an astronaut would probably sit down and figure out in a few hours and a few pages of calculations what it takes Watney weeks, and lots of trial and error, to sort out.

No. Also astronauts are no all-knowing geniuses. They specifically are not looking for people that are incredibly awesome in certain areas and know everything about that topic, they are looking for people that do not underperform in any field. They don't need geniuses, they need workers who do a job that is pretty much pre-determined. And yes they need to be quick thinkers and stuff, need to be able to draw logical conclusions etc. But they definitely do not need to have all knowledge about any probably relevant topic in their head (as far as I remember Watney didn't have a dump of Wikipedia with him. Why the f ever they wouldn't send a copy with them. That'd be the first thing I'd put on a rocket to Mars).
So it seems that instead of an image recognition algo we need to feed years of univ education into the AI.
I think the general "hope" was to bomb the train tracks so that they couldn't keep bringing trainloads of people to the camps. This could be done without bombing barracks of people.
This guy seems to think he is entitled to nobody competing with him, to the point that he gets mad on Twitter about a random company doing the same thing as another company.
http://archive.is/mYfyK
Ehhhh, doesn't align with my experience. I think FDB is actually really poorly tested. When I was evaluating it for replacement of the metadata key-value store at a major, public web services company we found that injecting faults into virtual NVMe devices on individual replicas would cause corrupt results returned to clients. We also found that it would just crash-loop on Linux systems with huge pages, because although someone from the project had written a huge-page-aware C++ allocator "for performance", evidently nobody had ever actually tried to use it, including the author.

It's also really, really weird that their non-scalable architecture hits a brick wall at 25 machines. Ignoring the correctness flaws, it only works if you can either design around that limit by sharding, and never off cross-shard transactions, or if you can assure yourself that your use case will never outgrow half a rack of equipment.
It doesn't have to be surprising to be entertaining!
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> At the end of the day farming is just a business same as any other

Is your core competency farming or tractor repair? That said, I am sympathetic to farmers who want to repair their equipment. There's a scale where you have enough free time that with simple enough equipment, it does make sense to repair it yourself.
lmao imagine being threatened by some dude's hobby project that he's not monetizing - how weak is your business and especially ego if that is the case.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/miracles-fucking-magnets-how-...
> Beast mode intern flirts with the idea of launching a competing startup under the guise of innocent open source project and transparency with mention in email.

Amjad... is that you?
Just show and play my music and not drag along the entire Chrome web browser to do that.
1. I wouldn't say the problem is well known, but locked out of iCloud is a fairly frequent complain from customers. And of course he didn't find anything on the Apple Support Forum. Apple delete those threads.

2. There were security issues in some cases. But you can tell because Customer Rep would not be showing much empathy, they will tell you they have nothing / update.

3. Engineering on iCloud has been a bag of hurt since Day 1, that is nearly 10 years ago. ( Remember when Steve said why trust them when they brought us MobileMe? ) iCloud Backup corruption is still a thing even though it is extremely rare. I still dont understand how the backup could be corrupted. On the assumption they have multiple copies stored on different hyperscaler. ( I think it is Azure and AWS, not sure if they are on GCP now )

4. TimeCapsule for iOS. For Pete Sake this needs to be a thing.

5. Things like Project McQueen [1] or iCloud team infighting [2]. You could probably smell a thing or two if you were keeping an eye on turnover and hiring with Cloud infrastructure. Although that is often not a reliable indicator.

6. And in 2020, it seems Apple were finally doing something. [3] At least on paper.

7. Time to Watch WWDC.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2016/03/17/apple-cloud-project-mcque...

[2] https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/04/21/icloud-team-repor...

[3] https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engin...
Talent or not, having the passion to put together a crazy project like this that has no real practical use but is very interesting - I would want to hire that person over someone with a bit more skill.
It's less ridiculous if you take the charitable interpretation of the comment as they are referring to those in support of generic free speech which often devolves into debates about these extreme cases in isolation rather than there is a group campaigning here with the literal text "spreading holocaust denial is a right" as a singular primary/starting issue.

I think this is the thread they were referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414920 or rather at least that's what I found with Google.

Edit: Very relevant follow-up to that post just landed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424421
What do stock options have to do with anything? The engineers (interns or not) working on the code base are more capable of copying the product that a VP who can't write software. A VP would be capable of stealing employees, connections, or clients from the company, which (at least compared to this case) would be much more damaging, sure, but that's just a strawman you created to detract from OP's argument, which is that the ethics of trying to open source a similar project to your old employers product is morally ambiguous at best.
What is the Flow referred to here?
Besides being fired, is the individual facing charges?
This seems like something that would be difficult to do on a mobile device such as an iOS or Android, which trains the user not to think about the filesystem at all. Is there a user-friendly mobile solution for this?
If the CEO didn’t throw a tantrum over the exact things his company claims to support (OSS, creativity, etc.), nobody would know about the intern’s weekend project. But he did, and now we’ll see something of a Streisand effect [0].

To be fair, it is kind of suspect to intern for a company and, at the end of that internship, turn around and create effectively the same thing. And OP’s dismissive tone and propensity to hand wave away things that may be relevant in his blogpost certainly don’t make them seem ideal to employ. But ‘suspect’ only in the sense that (in my personal opinion) it gives credence to the CEO’s comment on the intern being difficult. I still think replit is in the wrong here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Cool. What could possibly go wrong, right. I mean it would be pitty if all our masks and social-distance training go to waste now. So let's unfreeze some very old microorganisms and see what pathogens we can find amongst them.
Playing the "both sides" card is a hell of a take regarding WW2, especially when the article is literally about liberating Auschwitz.

Of course both sides committed atrocities in war. But only one side committed mass genocide on an industrial scale.
This isn't about what Replit can gain. It's about stifling this before it can ever become something more that a legal threat. Replit is banking on legal pressure to win this for them, because there's likely a nasty PR fallout on the other side of actual litigation.
I'm not sure this would be helpful but you can move around the window with keyboard win + arrow across multiple monitors with Fancyzone too.

Focusing the specific window is different story, though alt-tabbing or win + num might helpful for that.

My ergo keyboard layout is getting centered around ctrl and win mostly these days.. just saying.
> I remember back in the day Macromedia made fine authoring software like Flash and Director, the best lightweight vector software Pagemaker and others.

I get your point and I agree, but it's an ironic example considering every single one of those were only Macromedia products through consolidation:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacroMind

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureWave_Software

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altsys (Assuming you meant FreeHand instead of Pagemaker)

At least Fireworks was an actual Macromedia creation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Fireworks
I am a huge fan of all of Radon’s work!
Non-compete's are not (practically) enforceable in California, where repl.it is located.

https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceable-in...
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I assume you mean UFOs as in "alien flying saucers".

I think the rationally correct belief is that we simply have no evidence of aliens at this time, and since we virtually know absolutely nothing about what pilots saw (all we know is that there are these observations), we just fall back to our priors (base assumptions). Sure, it might be aliens. And hence the ancient aliens meme. It might all be secret military stuff. (Or the mix of the two, hence the storm Area 51 meme.)

And in this case I don't see what's wrong with the standard narrative.

If there are truly aliens flying regularly in our atmosphere we should strap a few 4K recorders on regular airline planes, and we just have to wait.

Not to mention the increasing number of space launches and spacecraft up there. And increasing number of downward looking observatories.