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This is a follow-up to the huge thread from yesterday:

Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195 - June 2021 (1234 comments)

(Edit: I'm adding some text here because people have been linking to this comment.)

This story was at #1 all day yesterday, in contradiction to HN's normal rules. That is, we bent over backwards to allow this story to have much more attention on HN than it would have gotten in a normal case. That's why it got 4000 upvotes and 1300+ comments and was the #1 story the entire day (https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2021-06-07).

Why did we do that? Because we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the story: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That is literally the first principle of HN moderation, and we stick to it strictly.

Less moderation does not mean no moderation, however. It does not serve the community, or the quality of HN, to repeat the same thing all over again the next day. Not having the same story repeat itself two days in a row is standard HN moderation.

Downweighting follow-ups in order to avoid repetition, is a bedrock principle of HN; otherwise the front page would be dominated by the same few stories every day. There are lots of past explanations about that at these links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

We bent the rules considerably to allow the story to keep a prominent position it would not otherwise have had, for an entire day. I don't think it would be proper to do the same thing two days in a row, and indeed many users were emailing us to complain, when they thought that was about to happen.
The issue is that, without the force of HN's public opinion, the OP would have no recourse. Being threatened with legal action is very upsetting, specially if you don't have the money to defend your rights.
I wanted to write posts in Markdown with Latex support and the option of raw HTML but honestly every static site generator I looked at was super complicated and opinionated.

I ended up using Pandoc and a Makefile. It works really well.
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That's honestly the worse possible interpretation. He's obviously focusing on what he feels he did wrong and what he thinks is the reason.

The main point is that he apologized and undid his mistake, what else do you want?

Also he's obviously not saying that people from Jordan can't be kind, he's saying that his upbringing may have had something to do with it which is completely possible.

I really don't know what else do you expect, I find your comment unnecessarily negative for an apology that came with a redeeming action.
I love using grafana however I abhor creating dashboards and trying to pull data, but that’s mostly because of a lack of documentation.
You're missing the point a bit. The focus for this device is on the community: a set of easy to use dev tools, extremely limited input and output in order to keep games focused, a distribution method, and a community built around that all with the same hard- and software, focusing on game dev and each week's new release. I'm pretty excited for it. Yeah it'll be a novelty that will wear off in a few months or maybe a couple years if they're lucky. That's exactly what I'm signing up for.
The goal of medicine is not reducing plaques, the goal is treating Alzheimer's.

If the drug reduces plaques, but doesn't cure Alzheimer's, it's not a 'bad sign'. It simply means the drug doesn't work.

P-value hacking over and over again[1] until we finally get a study that shows us that the drug works is not the solution. [2]

[1] https://xkcd.com/882/

[2] Unless the problem we are solving is "We have too much money that we need to spend on snake oil."
That logic doesn't really apply when you scale up to the ultra-billionaires. Shares of stock are plenty liquid.
One of the things they are accused of is resetting people's passwords and then breaking their password reset mechanism so you can't log in and get tickets.

Unbelievable.
Jamming would address inter-swarm communications, but then they'd revert to solo operations. EMP isn't realistic, but microwave systems have already been tested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmf032NmHU
Sure, but any business can survive indefinitely if they're given unlimited funding with no expectation of returns.

In your opinion, what's the point of being the main funnel to theaters if you're losing money hand over fist to do so? What was the plan for profitability? Was the goal to somehow strong arm movie theaters into discounted pricing? Why would theaters agree to that when there's no benefit for them to do so, they're the ones with the actual product and it's irrelevant to them if MoviePass survives?

The only way their business model can work is if the majority of customers sign up and never use it, which is a very weird thing for a business to depend on, IMO.
Arguably capital gains should be paid earlier so it’s a sunk cost. Being able to put it off is market-distorting. It’s hard to come up with a fair way to do it though.

Maybe a requirement to save money in advance based on market price, like payroll deductions? Then once you actually sell, you might even get a bit of a refund, encouraging turnover. But that would affect people with cash-flow problems the most.

And the biggest problem is that many people don’t want to sell and will resent any attempt to encourage it. Because encouraging turnover is equivalent to penalizing people who stay.

There is no “natural” way to do this, anything can be considered a market distortion depending on your point of view.

For large residential buildings in California, I’ve heard that apartment owners will essentially swap buildings for some kind of tax advantage. (I forgot what it was, though.)
My giving a shit about household capital gains went away when a partisan congress decided to buy redneck votes with punitive SALT rollback.
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You wrote it yourself, Clues taken.

You haven't delivered clues, only anecdotes.

And in terms of my own biases, I only want a solid study with a decent sample size (~5000 shouldn't be an issue on this topic)
You're not wrong, but neither of those devices come with any games (unless you buy a flashcart, which is piracy).

The Playdate cost includes 20 games by (relatively) well known indie game developers.
Plausible.

One thing that makes China today different to the US of WW2 is that China's export oriented economy would collapse in a war with the West and their industrial production capabilities would be hurt significantly along with that.
> Whose servers would a non-blockchain solution run on and how could all stakeholders trust the design, implementation and operations?

Ah yes, unlike with blockchain where they have to trust the design and implementation of a blockchain by some third-party.

> Blockchain makes this transparent, trustless, and auditable for everyone involved.

Until someone comes along and says "we don't like TransportBlockhain designed and implemented by IBM, we are forming a separate coalition that uses ProcurementBlockchain designed and implemented by Tencent". Then what?

> I mean, technically, the industry got by fine prior to IT as well, relying on pen and paper and telephone. Real problems are being solved, though.

Ah yes. How could I forget: there are only two steps in the evolution of industry: pen-and-paper and blockchain (where blockchain somehow equals all of IT).

> You seem a bit antagonistic/skeptic

I am. Because every single argument for blockchain immediately devolves into heavy handwaving and "this will work because blockchain", while completely ignoring all of reality.

> Yet, in certain organizations and scenarios they are a game-changer and enabler.

Why is it when you ask people how exactly they change the game and enable anything, all descriptions are, at best, "there's no info, but it works because blockchain". And any available info shows that blockchain brings literally nothing to the table and solves none of the listed problems.
Perhaps people should. There's no intrinsic reason why a system must exist where certain kinds of enterprises can be FUNDED by me, I can receive PROFIT from them, but I cannot receive any CONSEQUENCES from them if they commit crimes. One might even say the system encourages the commission of crimes and therefore is clearly in need of reform.
Amjad clearly still believe that Riju is somehow "stolen property" and is just allowing it to be published due to negative public outcry.
Tax is obsolete. You won't fix it with more.
Yikes! I guess I've never seen "segue" in writing before, always spoken. I didn't know!
I don't know much about elixir but I'm interested.

Are there disadvantages to this process?
I owe a debt of gratitude to MoviePass. Their shenanigans led me to learn about virtual credit cards (privacy.com in my case). I'll never be surprise billed by a subscription service again.
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Jordan is a poor country. He's just illustrating how he's used to being the underdog.
8t, but global production is 1000-2000t per annum.
I used to argue for exactly this. The thing is that people would only invest in companies with executives they personally trust. Which may be a good thing overall, but would be a big problem in the short term.

I definitely think board members and Top executives should be held criminally liable for the actions of the company. Unless they can prove it was a specific bad actor, and that their policies didn't encourage illegal behavior, and that they weren't negligent in discovering and stopping said behavior.

That is, if a delivery driver crashes his car because he was drinking on the job then that is on him. If the same delivery driver is speeding because he was given a list of deliveries that were not possible to make on time, that is on the executives. Conspiracy to break the speed limit, maybe even RICO charges. Even for something that simple.
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> Sure, simply writing metadata that says "we promise we did this" into a blockchain doesn't automatically make it proof.
But that's not what anyone talks about when they discuss this.

And then you immediately go and say exactly this:

> If a someone in the supply chain is found to be using unethical practices, and the company using this approach makes a public statement promising they will use a more ethical supplier, this would be verifiable by any member of the public.

What you're basically saying is: "If a company somehow records their PR stunt on the blockchain, they are immediately bound by it because public record, and blockchain, and smart contracts".

> And of course all the actual software backing this would be in smart contracts meaning the source code of the actively running software on the blockchain can also be verified by anyone.

And how would software running inside some other software would actually verify that a company is ethical? Or that it properly labels its products? Or that it adheres to standards? Or...

> combined with other public knowledge such as public audits of factories and mines and increasing regulations enforcing supply chain transparency reports etc.

All this is already being done, and without blockchain. What exactly does blockchain bring into the equation?

I mean, TIR has been around since 1975, to give just one example [1]

> If the entire supply chain and the code managing it is on a public ledger, so is a log of every unit produced.

1. Almost everyone already logs every unit produced. Even now you can probably trace an random individual apple from a supermarket to where it was produced. What does blockchain add to this?

2. As all logs, it doesn't log "every unit produced". It logs whatever is input into the log. If someone inputs "eco bananas", but instead ships radioactive slime, what good is blockchain?

Oh, and before you start with "audits" and all that. The supply chain isn't "producer -> consumer". It's "producer -> dozens of intermediaries -> consumer". And everything depends on what those intermediaries input. And there are already laws, practices and audits in place that ensure that you get your eco bananas instead of radioactive slime.

Or, lets use a more realistic example: 20% of seafood in restaurants is mislabeled, https://www.rd.com/article/restaurants-serve-fraudulent-fish... Every single item there can already be traced to origin, passes multiple inspections etc. How does blockchain help?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIR_Convention
On the other hand, unless there is evidence of the contrary, it would be rude to not follow the wishes of another person in how you treat them.
> Whenever the key is checked, the software that checks the key creates an entry in the blockchain.

Right. So on top of a blockchain there's some software that inputs something on the blockchain.

What's to stop me from creating software that won't create those events, but will still check the key?

> Any authorised dealer

> so ownership can be transferred in the same way

Curioser and curioser. So now there are centralised dealers that can transfer ownership. So only selected few can create events on the great decentralised blockchain. Tangential question: if I want to give the watch as a gift, do I have to have Rolex's blessed authorised software to do that?

Also, if "authorised dealers" have the power to do this, it means they have the cryptographic keys. This also means that the rest of the world has them.

> So if someone tries to sell you a "Rolex" and you scan it, you'll have the history of the watch right there.

Indeed. So, the counterfeit watch comes up with a real history. Rolex produces almost a million watches a year. It will be ridiculously easy to pick up numbers for the counterfeit watches that are new.

Those that are not "new" can be sold at second hand markets.

> but then if you buy a "Rolex" on eBay from a random seller (not an AD) you kind of know what you're getting already don't you?

Ah. And here it is: "blockchain can help verify authenticity with near 100% certainty" devolves into "you know what you're getting into" in the span of three comments.
I disagree. Past traumas shape us and how we see and respond to the world around us.
> You cannot go around accusing someone trying to start their career (this intern) of IP theft

I'm not saying that I agree with threatening legal action here, but this isn't really a fair classification. You are implying the the CEO put an ex-intern on blast in the community. There is a huge difference between making a statement in a private email (which the other party then releases), and making a public accusation (which is what you're implying).
Not when it is diving down vertically, from high above.
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This is an epistemologically leaky argument. The goal of an Alzheimer’s drug is not to reduce amyloid plaques, it’s to treat Alzheimer’s. There is, as of now, no evidence that it does so. Giving people false hope of treating a horrible disease does actually seem more unethical than not giving them the treatment at all.
I don't think this necessarily precludes formal criminal charges. Even the dissenting opinion was like "this is clearly a crime, but outside of the FTC's authority".
> if you can make a unabomber type of device you can construct a weaponized quadrocopter

It’s trivial, cheap, and simple to do massive harm to massive numbers of people.

Fortunately, humans don’t usually do this unless part of the government/military.

In a country of 300 million, the only non-state mass death events are a handful of terrorist attacks and deranged teenagers determined to shoot up their schools. The annual deaths caused by these non-state actors is, on average, less than the annual fatalities on a given stretch of a run-of-the-mill interstate.
Military drones also remove part of the political calculation otherwise involved in attacking somewhere.

When soldiers are put in situations where they are being killed, in a fairly free society someone is generally going to ask the question of why they are there and whether they should continue to be.

Loss of military drones is only reported in specialised press if at all.
This is why it's the same thing as "what if the red I see isn't the red you see?"

There's no way to prove what you're saying is true in any useful sense.
Thanks for the free tickets! Just curious, what was your motivation for investing so heavily if you knew the business model was dumb?
Well, there's an old saying: "there's no such thing a bad publicity". Every time you enrage one group on Twitter, you potentially engage another.
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Unless the float is much smaller than the cap.
> The blogpost here drilling down into every perceived slight and human failing lacks grace and magnanimity and doesn't seem much better at

You forget that the author is personally offended too. He just has no way to extract a proper apology because he's an unemployed fresh graduate up against a well-connected CEO. It's not even about legality anymore, since there's technically no wrongdoing here. It's just a sincere apology from one human being to another, but Amjad's never going to give it because it's pretty clear from this exchange what kind of person he is.
"better" is subjective. But Pulumi fixes a lot of the pain points of terraform for me.
I assumed since I got involved in computers (about 1982), and for quite a few years thereafter, that the trade of programming would become obsolete. The arrival of the Lisa, mouse, Mac, GUI encouraged me in the view that soon, anyone would be able to program if they wanted.

What I missed is that the main work of a developer is to understand the problem (maybe that's what he means by "insight"? - seems a bit grandiose to me).
That's not how you would want to implement the tax law, but it reflects the moral intuition.
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They weren't hacked though, right, just DDoSed? And they paid $6,000 and then said they'd never do it again. I think that's not a deal killer for me.
Based on what we've heard from agencies, it seems it could be driven from either side: sometimes the agency handles the tooling and that's actually some of their value-add (having everything in place already), sometimes it's all BYO tools on the part of the company/client. Anecdotally, the former seems more common, like you say.

We hear you on the math! Our pricing is a work in progress and there's more we'll do on the lower end of the scale for sure. We're hesitant to cut/bundle the product too much but it's a likely option.

If you and your team are interested in trying us out, let's definitely chat though!
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The ‘subscription’ model fit games could create an interest in competitive community if there were a local/regional/global scoreboard for each new game as they are released.

Important to keep it whimsical though. The competitive gaming scene is… intense.
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I live in Boise Idaho. While there are forests, none of them are within walking distance.

Having a forest in walking distance is a rarity.
There is no practical way to use EMP as a defense against small drones. That's something that only works in movies, not real life. Generating enough power to disrupt electronics at a useful range requires a powerful explosion.

The military uses a mix of jammers, small missiles, guns, and (soon) lasers.
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That was so icky and I'm glad Radon didn't let the remark go unanswered. It's hard to take Amjad's apology seriously given the continued verbal gymnastics seeking to paint himself as the victim.
That's the ultimate appeal of a wealth tax. Taxing a hundred millionaire, or billionaire, or even a 10 billionaire a progressive 4% annual tax won't affect someone making good money off of income in nearly every scenario.
Original title was ‘Bullshit’*

Had to change it to reduce the character count.
This is a seriously defamatory comment by Masad if there is no proof. Accusations of IP theft are not something to be taken lightly, especially against someone who is just beginning their career in software development. Such accusations can have real damaging effects on their career.
It is a prediction based on how many times I see SEC/FTC/FCC/FAA/other government agency report on misdeeds, but it never results in any criminal charges against any person. The responsible parties are never even named, effectively making it so all these investigations and reports do not result in the slightest bit of deterrent.

Another even better example was linked in another comment in this thread:

https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/stein-waivers-granted-dis...
Nope. $3000 yearly passive loss exemption.

Let's say you operate a business netting you $1B and then buy a $1B pokemon card, which you sell for $0. You owe tax on $1B - $3000.
It doesn't have to be real, and it's probably impossible to squeeze a real one out of this individual. Getting egoists to not do what they want is a good enough compromise IMO.
"Unless they can prove it was a specific bad actor"

That's the opposite of the entire basis of the US criminal justice system. Innocent until proven guilty.

You need to prove it was them. Not have them prove it was another bad actor.
> The bottom line is that, while there's a lot of joy to be found in working in open source, it gets old after a while. There's a thin line between love and hate. Besides being financially unrewarding, maintaining an open-source project is often stressful and thankless.

There's a gap here, in what "maintaining an open source project" means. I published some code under GPL years ago, then life changed and things happened and I don't maintain those websites or think about that class of problems anymore. The code lived on in FreeBSD ports for years, and various other sources, and it appeared to have occasional users.

I never "managed" that project beyond the bullshit necessary to get my employer to allow me to publish it in the first place, and yet it helped others and thereby satisfied the desire i had in the first place.

More recently it feels as if offering a project on a "this may be of use to you, or not" basis is unacceptable; that anyone daring to share a thought with the world must be offering to dedicate themselves to the unrewarded service of others by doing so.
That's the problem. They cannot because one of the technologies they're using is covered by an existing patent that doesn't allow them to open it up. They would have to re-engineer how the whole system works to make it different enough to not be applicable to that patent.

To be clear, the patent in question is reaaaaaaally generic so there's really nothing they can do to get around it while still keeping a video-calling system that allows people to call with an Apple ID.
> I'd argue that Python has no business on Production systems

Well yes you would argue, you did. That doesn't make your argument true or important.
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> The big takeaway I got from the article missing in your summary is that the wealthy take loans secured by unrealized gains in order to finance their lifestyle.

Which they have to pay back with post tax money. I don't see a problem here. At best this is tax deferral until capital gains are realized, something we allow for good reason - paying real money to cover tax on paper gains (which could vanish) is a problem, and could even force you into giving away an illiquid asset because you can't afford the tax on it.

They're gambling their stock will perform better than the interest rate on the loan. That's a reasonable gamble.

Taxing a loan seems silly.
Indeed, sometimes founders learn "the hard way" who the boss really is.