skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of feels like a bizarre inverse of the "I could build a better Facebook in a weekend if I wanted to."

A company feeling threatened enough to risk a PR nightmare on a one man open source project, when they know better than anyone that their real value is in scale, account features, UX, etc.
It's kinda funny how their CEO writes on Twitter all the time that they are the best company in the world, with the best product, do most innovations in tech etc and 10 minutes later he is threatened by a small open-source project that wasn't even created to compete.
> The First Amendment to the US Constitution constrains the limits that laws can impose on free expression. That's one definition.

One reason hat this is an unreasonably narrow definition is because it implies that censorship can only be done in places where the United States legislature has jurisdiction.

Does this mean that censorship is impossible in Canada, because they are not subject to the First Amendment?

Nothing done in Canada can technically violate the First Amendment, so I guess that means that we have no right to complain about suppression of people expressing themselves there.

I usually read this argument as either very misinformed, or bad faith sophistry.

> I don't think I need an authoritative source to assert that you can't stand on my lawn with a megaphone and yell at passers by; and if you guest on my blog, I can moderate your posts if I don't like them. If that's censorship, then it's perfectly legitimate, when done by a private individual who is responsible for the channel.

Those examples you gave are complete straw men. Nobody is saying that you should be compelled to allow people to scream at your on your own lawn, or that your small personal blog should be compelled to allow anyone to comment.

Companies like Facebook and YouTube are bigger and more influential than any other media platforms in history. And yet they are far less regulated than any newspaper or cable television network.
I think it's a youth thing from 10-15 years ago, i.e. people who are ~30 now (e.g. me :) )
What a loser, never using replit again and advising my dev network to never touch it.

Definitely will not consider it for my team.

Don’t be scared of them. They are scums.
Perhaps someone can start a computer repair company named "Eunuchs Computers"?
People who care about e.g. right to repair or other issues Apple's behaviour is poor for will be more likely to dislike Apple and comment on those posts, while people who are like Apple are more likely to comment on posts about the new MacBook or iPhone or other device
Funny how some things stay with us.

We live. We grow... to paraphrase Rabbi Hillel.
The Allies also committed war crimes, the bombing of Dresden being the most well-known I would guess.

The Soviets brutally enslaved and worked to death 1000s of German POWs at a minimum also. War is detestable...
“Grand conspiracy” seems a bit uncharitable IMO. He’s just saying that the incentives aren’t aligned, which legitimately seems like an issue in this space.
As a cancer patient that feels like negligance.
Companies rarely contribute back except for very few projects like gcc and LLVM.

FAANG does hire OSS devs, but a lot of them don't really do that much apart from being excellent politicians. To be fair, they don't get any time for OSS development in the first place.

However, they do have time for politics and often ruin the projects. People play along because they want to get hired at GNAAF.

As a result, these projects combine the worst of corporate and OSS development (horrible atmosphere and yet no money for development).
This sounds to me like naivete. Even if ideas were all publicly available on blog posts, there are existing competitors, and your project is open source, creating a copy of what you worked on as an intern is certainly in poor taste.
Yes. Or the right economic setup for societal gain where we can compete on value. Going from pay-for-service to value based care will be great. In the meantime, setups like
https://www.nighthawkradiology.com/ are also great because they drive efficiency, I just wish they were more prevalent.
That's part of why someone is a threat to your moat. You don't assume that a good rival effort will go unnoticed by investors and customers.
This is how it needs to be approached. AI systems and rule based systems that work together with the clinicians to enhance their decision making ability instead of replacing them.
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Software can be shitty garbage in many ways. It can be shitty garbage by having lots of bugs, and it can be shitty garbage by having a maintainer which cares more about bottlenecking all changes than about the future of a project.

But everyone is free to make shitty software, so have at it.
>I feel this is a bit like popping your hood at the car shop, but taking your key with you.

Do you leave all your valuables in the car when you drop it off at the shop? Or do you take them out first?
> They realized you had the potential of taking away some of their traffic.

Understandable... but bullying people via email will take away even more traffic from their site (because of bad reputation) if the conversation goes public (as it usually happens).
The number of patients that are interested in viewing or accessing their own data has to be negligible. Last time I got an Xray they actually gave me a DVD of the imaging itself. I remember looking at it, I thought it was neat, but ultimately there was little use in there for me. I dont know what % of patients have bothered to look at it.
I won't be using Replit any more; I'd like to use this instead though. I'm not supporting OSS suppression of any kind, especially for something so basic, fundamental and useful.
I guess. Though I've never seen HN so invested in someone getting a $1.65 refund. Maybe we can setup a GoFundMe or something.

As to the BBB, personally I find it to be a worse-than-useless corrupt joke. But running to them, forcing Apple to respond, is the kind of thing that just doesn't have a lot of pull against large companies.
The area that seemed gray here particularly was the "internal decisions part." As someone who has designed maybe... 40+ interfaces, I know the tremendous amount of effort and thought that goes into the simple placement of a button being on the left or the right, with huge impacts to usability and user experience.

So when he posts a few images of other sites that "look" similar, I don't quite buy the fact that he didn't liberally borrow from the many hours of decisions by Repli. Thats purely a guess though, and I could absolutely be wrong.

I would imagine it would be easy for the author to rationalize it in his head that "well, lots of other sites have a button in the top row I can do it too!" and in effect, ends up copying a lot of Replit features without innovating on them simply because other sites "look similar"

I picture myself as a CEO seeing a previous employee with something that is very clearly using a lot of the decisions we worked out together, and then see a list of 20 bullet points trying to rationalize why it's ok, that would be super irritating to me, but that would be the limit of it. Definitely not worthy of anything more than a polite conversation, that's for sure.
https://archive.is/vO5vt
Lawyers don't really control their own supply the way doctors do, which is why there is a great overabundance of people with law degrees in the country. AI has actually been used in a number of legal contexts, like building normalized contracts, or paralegal work. It's also because a lot of the highly paid legal work is pretty hard to automate in the same way, because it requires much more understanding of precedent or other nebulous ways of interpretation that AI isn't suited for.
>> I say this as someone who isn't a stranger to the courts and judicial system.

I question this is you are saying that welcoming a lawsuit is a good idea for a side project. That could be years of expensive headaches for literately zero gain other than being able to say I get to keep my side project up.
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Publishing an open source project with functionality that is this close to the core functionality of a company you are working for seems to be Ill advised.

It's usually not that difficult to keep work and passion projects clearly separate so that no one could be confused.
I can't defend Replit here, but I think the situation could have been handled better from both sides.

If you have just interned at a company, don't immediately go working on a similar thing and just saying "hey here it is". It will at best sound like sour grapes or looking like a "show off". At best.

I understand, lack of experience and an eagerness to build leads to those situations. The answer from Replit was unnecessary.
Put the OEM RAM back? Hard to do otherwise when it's soldered to the laptop.
What type of program do you have in mind?
Is that better than:

cut -d, -f1,3 data.csv | grep -v '^foo'

I'm sure there are some things where you need sql/q, but this isn't one of them, and there is a lot of utility in productive with bare POSIX tools.
Where is the other two ?
Many unknown unknowns are at play. Here's my heuristic: anything Thiel has his fingers in can only be opposed to the public good.
I think this is cool. I work in .net core at my internship but doing mostly basic winforms, mvc, JS and jQuery stuff. I like where I'm at and what I'm doing but I feel like I'm not learning enough about one that makes me a jack of all trades that has to constantly look stuff up. I know C# to a decent degree so I'd love for the opportunity to make something like using React or Angular. I feel like that's the one thing I need to be exposed to most right now and my lead would love to hear about it if it's worthwhile.
This is exactly why I have syncthing setup to mirror my iCloud Drive folders to my NAS. In the best of times, iCloud is used to seamlessly sync between iDevices. If it fails, I still have a local backup, accessible from iDevices, albeit less convenient.
>“The way they have set this up to suddenly trust a dynamically changing exe is still very concerning. Also, why would you send me a 256 random number generator seed in an exe when the computer has a perfectly valid and tested random number generator built in? You’re sending an exe to me with a key you decide over a non-secure environment. Why the fuck if you’re a top intelligence agency would you do that?”

That's a great question. What is FSB trying to accomplish here? The other interesting thing is that applications using their GOST encryption algo are flagged as malicious here, and vice versa in Russia (and maybe the whole FSU?)
Why do people think BBB matters?

It's a generational thing - BBB tends to be respected by people who reached maturity before the internet became big. There was no easy way to complain or vent about business back then, so the BBB actually had clout... With businesses that actually paid to be a member... So, still not that useful, even then.
Yes, but what would replit gain? Going after such a case would have given them nothing except for some expense.

Dragging random people through court without any meaningful expected outcome sure doesn't seem like something VC's would like to fund. I'm not a VC though. Do they just rubber stamp whatever bullshit behavior from a CEO?
The problem isn't the software but the discussion around it. With discussions, issues, feature requests etc you can be a contributor or you can be a user (beneficiary). There should be a possibility to distinguish between both and require compensation from beneficiaries.

We already do this to an extent but the mechanisms are not strict enough. The stake on the ground needs to be put much earlier on, for much less demand than it typically is.
I don't know if personal guilt or shame is the correct feeling either, but I also don't think OP should feel nothing.

Time and entropy (empires dissolving or population groups migrating) definitely diffuse the responsibility for a horrific act. Of which there are many in history. But this specific thing happened in living memory, was performed by an organization that still exists (a German speaking nation state, with almost the same borders as before), and by people the OP knows personally. In fact, it's a very wealthy nation that OP has gained a lot of advantage from living in. It's subjective and graduated, but I don't think it's been nearly "long" enough that the Holocaust just background noise next to all other events that have happened in human history.

Modern Germany is awesome btw. Really respect how they've reckoned with this awful time in their history.
They were funded by YCombinator. Should we expect other YC companies to go after open source projects?
> Yes this my attempt to at least give a hint with my far from expert knowledge.

No, this isn't a hint, because I already stated why it wouldn't work: thief will just use publicly available data and create deep fake to mimic the owner of the bank account.

If we had technology which could magically determine whether received data is genuine, the only safety check would be "Are you an owner? [y/n]"

> My point is we should spend our effort to solve this instead of trying to make information private.

Again, nobody sane ever have spend any effort on something without even a hint for it being possible. I am asking: what's your argument to even think it's possible?
Or, as they say: ”It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
i am not assuming, the claim is made very clearly multiple times through the article , and the WSJ article , has cherry picked the publication. there is no basis to the claim that 2 arginine codons adjacent to each other is a rare, engineered event, this [codon duplication]is a very common artefect of natural nucleotide repair mechanisms, also the article suffers from a deficiency of understanding, as the duplication of a lesion associated codon is also accompanied with a guide segment of nucleotide so the feature is more than just a duplicated codon. there is also the case of transversion and this has not been addressed, but could be illuminated with radio phosphorous labeling and restriction fragment analysis.
Vote me down,

but Ycombinator: "It's all about the founders blah blah blah" - if their process finds and funds these kind of people, the process is broken.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/repl-it
Not an Disney expect, but my take is it's more like it didn't kill Disney. It was the ~first full-length animated movie and was very expensive to produce.
I have a friend who maintains the gui components of a 25 year old windows application suite continuously developed using delphi. The stories he has told me of the epic battles to achieve multimonitor, high dpi, font scaling, theme and dark mode support on a legacy codebase are both impressive and depressing.

It is software like that which keeps windows entrenched in enterprise, but microsoft seemingly cannot be bothered to care.
I don't think Argentina, Chile, or Bolivia's governments will increase taxes on the people their bribes come from.
A while ago I did this when on Mac - keeps it compact on a single line.

https://gist.github.com/drcharris/0830ff4da063c68b0ceed415d8...
Wild. A better CEO would have made you an acquhire offer to
work at Replit. I would be shocked if you don't get blow back/more threats from the CEO for posting these emails.
The CEO's ego was rejected and now he's dumping on this guy. Seems like a classic NPD response.
What gets me about doctors, and maybe I'm just unlucky/haven't seen enough doctors, is that I never get that "expert" vibe from them.

You know when you're talking to someone who does, say, database management. And they have been at it for 15 years, have a bunch accreditation and are well compensated for their work. You just get the impression that you can pull the most esoteric question about databases out, and they'll go on for 45 minutes about all the nuances of it. No matter how hard you try, you with a mild database understanding, would never be able to pin them.

I just have never gotten that vibe from a doctor. I always felt like I was only a question or two away from them shrugging, me googling, and me finding the answer.
How long until you have to opt in to get an "optional" covid passport to go to the cinema, get on a train, or send your kids to school?

(I booked my covid shot the minute I became eligible, and I'm happy to have a stamp in my passport saying I've had them - I'm no antivaxer, but I can easily see the government using it as a way to acquire more power)
Haven't used replit, our product is still in stealth and we're looking for funding, but tbh I'd love to have you work (part-time remote or whatever) for us. Im quite discombobulated on why they are doing this instead of offering you a job.

I say good job Radon and if you ever want a job doing open things for fun where a company wont't sue you afterwards, ping.

This behaviourk... it is not just unethical from their side, it's also showing their lack of belief in their company or vision. If I was an investor, this would be a bad signal boost for them. And if I was you, I'd open the project again, work on it even more and tell them - sue me. This case would never stand, it's like a McDonalds employee making a burger at home and McD suing them. I just wonder, who the fuck does Amjad think he is? You aren't even innovating, this amount of ego-driven bullshit is a tell-tale sign that they wont do anything note-worthy except remain a glorified wrapper-as-a-SaaS. Reading this, I'm pretty sure I'll never use their product again.
I also recommend Vasily Grossman's books. Life and Fate, Stalingrad, Everything Flows, etc. Life and Fate is one of the most powerful books I've read.

https://www.nyrb.com/products/life-and-fate?_pos=1&_sid=f10e...
> That's reverse causality. Evolutionary fitness is a strong driver of human behavior. There's plenty of incidental behaviour, but in terms of baby making it's clear cut.

That does not seem to be consistent with declining birthrates in developed countries. By and large, the more freedom and self sufficiency women have, the lower the birth rate (not a scientific conclusion, but what I see so take it with a boulder of salt).

I often wonder if we went back in time and asked all the women who had 3, 4, 5+ children, how many of those were wanted pregnancies versus how many of those were due to “pressure” of some kind from the father or society.

> It's more efficient when you consider humans have a long maturation time. Reproductive success is also greater when grandparents are involved with child rearing, implying that a strong family unit leads to better outcomes.

I would also guess tribes that prioritize monogamous relationships with multiple generations cooperating with each other outlast tribes that do not. But I would also guess that the biological (or “machine” aspect of it) is for males to be promiscuous. The tribes that fight this biological urge by whatever means (even just keeping it hush hush so it allows for peace) would be more successful long term than those that do not?

> There's a lot more to it, and much of what I've learnt is from an old Stanford lecture series by Robert Sapolsky called human behavioural biology. Worth a watch if you're interested

I’ll check it out. Here’s a link for anyone else interested:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL150326949691B199
> [...] this is a wrapper that constructs a sqlite db from CSV/TSV (similar to sqlite's '.import') and then runs SQL on it, right?

It appears so: https://github.com/harelba/q/blob/master/bin/q.py#L267

Regardless, simple utilities that expose SQL interfaces over arbitrary data are still incredibly compelling & useful.
Take a minute and read before posting, because you are really wrong here buddy...
Did you not get the part about him being an intern.

Everything you write would apply for someone on vp level with opportunities and stock option.

Get down from there.
* previously worked for as an intern
Right to repair tractors has become talking point because it is a use case that cannot be easily dismissed as "unimportant to real Americans" since many Americans value individualism, hard work, and their countries reputation for food production - all of which are idealized in the concept of the independent American farmer.
> Yet, three of the founders wrote the Federalist Papers, which were distributed in newpaper form to people of New York.

The existence of a massive political propaganda effort to sell the document to the enfranchised class of a particular state (broader than the elite political class but narrower than regular people) does not prove (indeed, if anything argues against the conclusion) that the document itself was intended to be understandable too and responsive to the interests of even the enfranchised class, much less regular people.
I sent a screenshot to your support chat widget when it happened.
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> Watching a document open and someone seemingly remotely type in the window made me very very uncomfortable.

I remember this and had the same uncomfortable reaction, but because I was uncomfortable I thought it was a great way to alert people to the type of spying Snowden made public.

What you bring up is an old question for companies, should you sell typewriters to Hitler? Or should you be political? Most American companies have leaned towards selling the typewriters without the gov preventing them from doing so.
Well then you also couldn't have upgraded it which was a condition he specified for putting the OEM RAM back.
Restating what someone said in a way which is deliberately far more outrageous and then arguing with the restatement is dishonest.

First off, the article headline:

> Apple shut down my iCloud account for five days

You:

> You would not accept to have a non-functional service for a couple of months from anyone else

Is five days acceptable? Probably not, no. Is five days remotely the same as "a couple of months"? No, and you know it, so knock it off.

And what people are pointing out is that even though "shut down my account" and "had a maintenance issue that made my account unavailable" obviously have the same effect -- you can't get to your account, and that's bad -- the two phrases carry very different semantic meaning. If I say "my Twitter account isn't working", what you take away from it is going to be very different than if I say "Twitter locked me out of my account". In this article's case, the headline says one thing and the article says another.

Nobody is saying it's just fine if you can't get to your iCloud account for five days if Apple screws something up. Nobody is defending Apple's bad communication here. Historically, not even the most enthusiastic Mac fans have ever once said "You know what Apple is great at? Cloud services." What we're saying is criticize them for the right thing.
Viewing their own raw data may be negligible, but sharing between medical professionals is a relatively common and necessary practice. Currently it is extremely difficult to get one doctor to share medical information with another, and it shouldn't be.
Hi, I might be interested in this. I started coding a few months ago (Github link in profile). Currently focused on learning backend/maybe fullstack web dev with the goal of hopefully being able to do this for a living 12-18 months from now.

The main thing I'm looking for mentorship on is:

1. Learning design patterns of well written / maintainable software

2. How to move from creating projects for courses to reading and understanding a real codebase created by someone else, and contributing to that codebase.
Is there any solid evidence that Microsoft Edge, which is based on Chromium, eliminates Google's built-in tracking?