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In my 'biased' view, AI has already revolutionized more fields than most people will 'ever' recognize. However unfounded fears and insecurities around jobs are keeping its real potential at bay.

My bet is the actual impact will first be realized in poorest countries (India included) and then will spread to more advanced countries (US/G7).
So:

1. what was exactly (and please be specific) was the Soviet military's objective after moving 600,000 – 800,000 troops, in 33 divisions with ~5,000 guns, 4,700 tanks, and 3,300 aircraft onto Polish soil on 17 September 1939?

2. were say the USA to land a similar expeditionary force in Russia tomorrow, what would you call it?
Did the author disclose the work on Riju as a prior invention before joining Repl.it? If so that puts him in the clear. I would also check your hiring contract to see what kind of clauses are in there about prior inventions. For larger companies, I don't think this company behavior would surprise anyone.

I think I can understand where Repl.it is coming from. All I know is this behavior (by Riju author) isn't something I would personally want to do. Join a company, leave, and open source something that is directly related to the company's business model, whether it undermines their profits or not. It's standard for companies (other than Apple) to say "work on whatever tech you want, but if it competes with us, we should evaluate it that's OK."

I would at least have gotten their buy-in on the project or idea first. Especially given this commit message:

> repl.it superiority!!

I also wouldn't use intentions or the fact that it currently has less traffic than Repl.it as example of why this is harmless. I would approach this with an empathetic view to how a company would see an engineer leaving and then open sourcing something directly related to the company, based on what they learned while working at the company.
Similar thing for me, was best buy about 4 years ago in NYC. Handed an iPhone for. screen replacement. They wanted a password.

Them: "what's your password"

Me: "I'm not giving that to you"

Them: "We'll have to wipe your phone then"

Me: "Fine by me"

Me: pickup phone next day, screen fixed all data still there
Seems odd but keep in mind we've only heard one side and the truth always sounds obvious when only one side is heard.
This is like a priest saying, don't worry you can trust me not to be tempted by anything "sinful" because I'm a priest.

Or a teacher saying "don't worry, I always wear a condom while teaching" (https://xkcd.com/463/).
If you think that is even an attempt at a solution, then I’m pretty sure you don’t understand how this information is used.
Yeah, I think you are missing that the NHS, as an organization, is not good at designing, delivering, and maintaining large software platforms, which is what Palantir is good at.

This is not an insult to the NHS. How on earth could they become good at something like that given that it is a healthcare system? They are also not good at maintaining cellular towers, water treatment, hospital construction, manufacturing their own uniforms, or their own medical equipment. So they pay other firms to provide these products to them rather than trying to adopt an autarky-based model.

Now you could argue that they should have hired another vendor, but without knowing specifics about the bidding process and which other vendors were competing, you are not really in a position to say that this particular vendor wasn't the best for the job.
Bluntly, they're useless except for a few niche cases.

Anything they're capable of picking up _isn't_ what you're actually concerned about as an interpeter. Sure they're good at picking reflectors in the shallow portion of the volume. No one cares about picking reflectors. That's not what you're doing as interpreter.

A good example is the faults in that video. Sure, it did a great job at picking the tiny-but-well-imaged and mostly irrelevant faults. Those are the sort of things you'd almost always ignore because they don't matter it detail for most applications.

The faults you care about are the ones that those methods more-or-less always fail to recognize. The significant faults are almost never imaged directly. Instead, they're inferred from deformed stratigraphy. It's definitely possible to automatically predict them using basic principles of structural geology, but it's exactly the type of thing that these sort of image-focused "automated interpretation" methods completely miss.

Simply put: These methods miss the point. They produce something that looks good, but isn't relevant to the problems that you're trying to solve. No one cares about the well-imaged portion that these methods do a good job with. They automate the part that took 0 time to begin with.
Congratulations on the launch! What would you say is the main reasons why one should choose you over other open source solutions like Appsmith and Budibase?

PS: Small typo on the docs - https://docs.tooljet.io/docs/intro/

> but in case you are stuck, please feel to mail us:
> What can Palantir do that an NHS-internal team of data engineers and data scientists couldn'

Earn money for Peter Thiel?
Ideally, dark mode would just be an OS-wide palette switch, which is how it used to work. Probably still would, as I don't think that the guts of Windows have actually changed; you just can't get at them through the Control Panel easily like you used to do.
> I imagine every country had some plans of occupying Europe at some point or another, saying USSR was planning on occupying it based on Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is lie.

Well, Stalin saying this, on record, many times, also told "American lies?"

The giant USSR's military buildup prior to WW2 was for fighting whom? Stalin did not believe his own spies telling him Hitler was planning an attack on him.
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Talented business consultant Nathan Fielder covered your exact concerns in his book "The Movement" (https://www.amazon.com/Movement-This-Never-Going-Life/dp/151...)
Because people like Hinton are outright saying that it already is there.
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Though not every anti-Israeli is anti-Jewish, fact is, most ardent ones are anti-Jewish.
BTW. Anti-Jewish bigotry [ethnic Arab racism and/or religious Islamic intolerance] by Arab Muslim Goliath middle east against the 'other'... is the root cause of "conflict" at least since the Ottomans banned the FALASTIN periofical for racism in 1914. Then the hate mongering by ex Mufti al-Husseini (invertor of the cry 'itbakh al-Yahud' and years later the: 'Kill the J..s wherever they are") in the 1920s pogroms --especially against non-Zionist pious Jews, as in 1921 and 1929-- through his and Ahmad Shukeiri aiding Hitler in WW2. [Yes, that Shukairy who justified the Holocaust in 1946; in 1956 still said Palestine is nothing but southern Syria, first PLO chairman; has invented the apartheid slander in oct. 1961, infamous for his genocidal plans as in "none of them will survive," pre-1967].

____

"Jews Urge Arabs To Shun Bigotry..."
Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
July 18, 1930, Page 7:

'JERUSALEM, July 17.--Deep emotional feeling marked the Jewish representatives' final addresses before the League of Nations Wailing Wall commission today. In stirring terms the Jews appealed to the Moslems not to be influenced by religious bigotry but to seek a settlement of the present dispute as generously as possible.'

____

"Haj Amin el‐Husseini Dies; Ex‐Palestine Grand Mufti," The New York Times, July 5, 1974:

'In 1952 the Mufti explained ... This land, he pointed out, had belonged to the non‐Jewish peoples of Palestine ...'

____

Hamas senior jihadist in his interview to Sky News on May 24, 2021 openly said, the Jews don't "belong" there, as it is all Arab Muslim land:

'“You are not a citizen. We are the owner of this area – Arabic area. This is well known as an Islamic area.”…'
Autodesk is already in the market. They bought CadSoft (EAGLE) in 2016.
IANAL, but as someone who has used both tio.run and repl.it, I have difficulty seeing what sort of “competition” this constitutes (Riju, in my eyes, being very very similar to tio).

Otherwise I would expect tio to have received some threatening emails as well (maybe they have?).
Apple/Google and friends have just as much power. Seeing where people are shopping is the same thing -- I bet they had evidence of the decline of malls before anyone else, for instance.
McDonalds has very strong incentives to reduce labour costs to zero. This started with very clear & limited roles which meant cheap rates, but now means reducing the number of employees. At $5/hour it's cheaper to train and manage people to do the job; @ > $15/hr you can justify an army of machines and a few technicians, even if your ice cream machine seems to be broken a lot of the time.
Yeah this is what I'm unsure of as it steps into the legal side of things.

In general though, doesn't it make sense to not create a free competitor right after leaving your employer? They may have a case regarding stealing trade secrets given that they did give you access to their codebase and daily ops.
It's tricky to organise, but in theory, yes, you can interpret your own results.

Ancestry/23andme-type medical results are (in my opinion) almost entirely a nice write-up and display of public databases of research on SNPs, e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/docs/entrez_help/, https://www.snpedia.com/

You could (for example) submit the data you get to Promethease which will do the processing for you. Promethease is now owned by MyHeritage, so I'm not sure how their terms are looking - I'd be a little cautious about using that.
> It shouldn't matter.

It matters in that it gives us a sense of what the norms are.

repl.it's differentiator isn't just being a repl that can run different languages, it hardly competes directly with them.

> When he got a negative response

when he got threatened to be sued* he posted about it, I see no reason why doing so is somehow bad form while threatening to sue is not bad form.
> - scaling (there is no cliff when resources get saturated just a bit of a "back pressure")

If you haven't found the cliffs, you're just not scaling hard enough. Of course, they are hard to find them in 'normal' server patterns, but if you do unconvential things, the cliffs may be closer. I retired, but my last project hit a bottleneck with FreeBSD 12.0 on outgoing tcp connection rate that's much lower than any kernel bottleneck on incomming connection. I don't know the kernel bottleneck on incomming connections because I never hit it; maybe I've hit configured FD limits, but other than that, I've only been application limited other than ocassionally running into a bug that reduces capacity.
> you could have qualified for a public defender

In general, that's only for criminal matters. At least, that's what the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel pertains to.

That said, sometimes public defenders are appointed in certain limited non-criminal proceedings, but a case about intellectual property is not one where you'd qualify for a public defender.
>> grand conspiracy

Umm, I'm asserting like "Medicine is not perfect competition and thus prices are not competitive." If you want to think it is a "conspiracy" you can, but Economics offers great explanations for such setups. I think many of us in technology think all industries are driven by merit, cutting edge technology, margins, and competition.

In reality, not all industries are like this. This shouldnt be surprising. Computers go down in price. So do cloud service costs. So does RAM. But medicine stays expensive. "Conspiracy" is a shallow explanation -- it is just economics, it isnt perfectly competitive. And progress is hindered to maintain scarcity.
The problem is that your 8 year old ThinkPad is less powerful than a $300 smartphone.

Electron will be using GPU rendering.

What kind of GPU performance does your 8 year old laptop have?

Probably a minimum of 5x less performance than a smart phone.
This person's project competes with Repl.it in the same way someone doing Nand2Tetris competes with Intel (a bit exaggerated, but the point is there).
Ah now I understand. He should just go get his own highly paid lawyers and dig down for a lengthy legal battle. His own VC guys will foot the bill!

Or he could get on the top spot of HN for free and get a massive amount of community support, potentially people who actually will foot his legal bill, for the price of a few hours of writing a blog post.
It should still be able to run diagnostics.
Indeed they're very similar (including the name and the documentation layout!) so I was very confused for a bit.
As a question, why haven't any of these techniques made waves outside the US? Other countries don't have the same monopoly/monopsony powers in the medical industries that are prevalent in the US.
> The subtext is that Apple's iCloud is lacking in some very basic principles of operations discipline that pertain to customer experience.

The subtext is if you are of little to no value to the opposing party, you always have the risk of getting screwed. You will experience this a lot if you try to deal with governments.
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Sounds like you got a great opportunity. Would love to help where I can. If not I can always refer to a friend that specialises in your space. Email me at cc@buildfaast.com
John Deere MSRP is well above most competition.
I think the issue was that he was a previous employee. Normally I'd say "yeah, no problem, make a competitor" but he's been exposed to the internal workings of the company.
Since Access exists actually.
What boundary do you think they pushed though? I understand the sentiment in general, but I didn't get it here at all because I can't see anything wrong, bad or questionable that OP did.
Because why not allow users to run completely unsandboxed code on your own servers with no limitations? What could go wrong?

https://github.com/raxod502/python-in-a-box/blob/master/serv...
If they just had said Chrome 91 everyone would have been ok.
iCloud is a thorn in my side. When it comes to downloading my photos on demand, I've found it to be infuriatingly slow. (The high quality versions of photos are stored on iCloud, and only if I want to view, edit, or send one are they then downloaded).

Meanwhile I can stream a 4k YouTube video just fine.

Either sort it out, or give me more local storage space for a price that isn't exorbitant!
> Doctors (and other regulated professions) are a cabal that need to be broken up.

What do you see as the alternative to self-regulation? Some government office staffed with bureaucrats who have no idea about the realities of the actual work being done?

I got an engineering undergrad degree and had no interest in pursuing professional certification, but I certainly understand the importance of it for those practicing a in way that may harm the public's trust, and it made me appreciate the role that other professional bodies play in regulating who gets to represent themselves to the public as a lawyer, doctor, electrician, etc.
Astonishing. And there it is.
The part that's implying that it was the first and only attempt of someone to postpone the war.

1. Occupation of Czechoslovakia - Poland happily took part in this. Does it count as dividing Europe together with nazis?

2. Munich agreement between nazi Reich and UK and France. Does it count as dividing Europe together with nazis?
One thing I don't understand is: how is that a CEO cannot anticipate the consequences of acting like a bully via email? The blog post will make a huge negative impact on the reputation of Replit... really, CEOs these days don't think before writing?
Well, of course is a rotifer...
I've worked several customer service jobs and helped many people navigate dealing with customers on a frontline. It can be learned and taught. I'm not saying, "the customer is always right", but negotiation - even on the fly negotiation is a skill that anyone can learn.
No, it's a game of labels, where people like to slap labels on things to assume commutative properties of other things they have attached labels to in order to celebrate or condemn the people who identify with those labels.
For the record, it looks like the record for typing on standard keyboards is 212 WPM (on both QWERTY and DVORAK, amusingly), while the record on a stenography keyboard is 375 WPM.
This website is the 101 of what to do to make me leave immediately. We all know the end goal is more spam to generate more sales. Worse, in some instance, those info will be sold.

"Web prompts are one of the most effective ways to easily grow your audience"
> I completely disagree; in my case, probably the most effective way to make me lose interest in what you do, instantly.

"Follow up with visitors who initially dismiss your prompt."
> In case you didn't leave first time, we are giving you a second opportunity to close that tab and never come back again.

Visitors who actually want to get notified from you will find the way to do it without the need of a popup harassing you to provide personal information.
I appreciate your feedback. I phrased poorly. By uneducated I never meant formal education exclusively. There are many ways to learn and I personally find self study to be the most effective.

And I am sorry I came across as elitist, I grew up lower to lower-middle class, and my parents grew up dirt poor. As my mother would say, "you come from a long line of poor farmers."

I judge because those students who actively refused to learn were my peers...sometimes my relatives. Again, I would say it was 50/50. Some of those individuals were very well off, and now struggle to manage the farm they inherited. Others grew up in poverty and now have advanced degrees, or have otherwise educated themselves and run a very successful farm or now own a very successful farm.
I think the point is that it doesn't sound like Apple did anything to this person. This person apparently ran into a bug and it took Apple's engineers a few days to get a fix out. I do agree, though, that I wouldn't suggest hosting critical files on a service with no SLA like iCloud.
> Why did you take it down? And why did you apologize?

I think taking it down (temporary at first) is prudent in that situation, but I agree about the apology. Don’t apologize unless you agree you have done something wrong.
> Something from engineering about if there are too many nested folders in a customer's iCloud Drive account.

/node_modules strikes again :)
It would be interesting to see what percentage of HN posters flip-flop on this topic.
Maximised on my 4k display I see 26 album arts which look high resolution. How much ram would that take decoded?

There's also the song data for what's playing now and next song.

You don't seem to understand what the application is doing.
The nature of the boats is beside the point. Navy vessels can be used, but they will usually carry law enforcement people. It is like using an army to arrest drug dealers. While it is physically possible, nearly every nation would only deploy military assets "in aid of" local police. Very few nations would tolerate their militaries enforcing local laws, especially when that would mean those militaries also spying on citizens. Police are allowed to do that, not soldiers. By that same token, just as a cop can be aided by a navy destroyer they could be supported by a foreign navy vessel too.
I'd go with superstition.
> Simple is so elegant and smart that it looks dumb.

It should look so dumb that when someone reads it they think "well, yeah, this is obviously how it should be done."

Of course, had they not read the finished product it's unlikely that they would have landed on that "obvious" solution on their first try.
Author of the blog post here! If you comment with corrections/milestones I missed, I'll try to incorporate them

I'll also be attempting to update the augmented browsing/browser extension Wikipedia page in the coming weeks
I've long felt that the last 20-30 years have shown a slow reversal from international cooperation back to nationalist protectionism. I've wondered whether this is a consequence of the dying out of the generation that experienced just how badly wrong that can go.
https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1401617251464138754

Unbelievable and shameless.
Poor form by the repl.it CEO here, bullying a junior employee to take their weekend project down.

If your product is threatened by this, it's probably not a very good product.

I've used Repl.it multiplayer to interview candidates in the past, will probably look for an alternative in the future. If anyone knows of one that supports non-web languages (I already use codesandbox for frontend) like python, etc. this is the chance to pitch it.
Even shorter with r and probably a good deal quicker

r -e "data.table::fread(data.csv)[col1 != "foo", .(1,3)]"
The threats seem directly at odds with the CEOs tweet here
https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1401617251464138754

This whole saga is pretty sad really.

While replit isn't doing very much in wrapping these languages in a frontend (and something that is clearly straightforward to replicate), they are doing all the work that comes with scaling that to many users on the web (I guess that includes moderation).

They should have just been happy with that.

It takes more than just being able to run all the languages in sandboxes to compete - if you tried this, people would be mining bitcoin and hosting all sorts of awful stuff.

Really strange / insecure attitude.
Good points. But I genuinely wonder what role algorithm brittleness plays here.

“Fitting only to the test set” (see Andrew Ng quote in original article) is an acute concern in my circles: digital pathology in cancer research

See “Google’s medical AI was super accurate in a lab. Real life was a different story.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/27/1000658/google-m...
Guys, I don’t know what this is about yet, but I know amjad (ceo). And I know that whatever is going on here, his intentions were pure. He’s proven himself to me that he’s pretty much the opposite of a sleezy corporate ceo who crushes intern side projects while twirling his mustache.

I just wanted to encourage everybody to chill on it for a moment and wait to see what’s up, because my spidey senses are screaming “miscommunication / crossed wires” rather than malicious intent, for what it’s worth.

EDIT: Fuck. https://i.imgur.com/cFYq7Nv.png

I'm going offline for awhile to focus on family matters. Evidently, I am not a good judge of character, and I need to stop believing in people without really knowing them.
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That's our bad! The exam is only built for desktop - we don't allow mobile in the usual flow because the vision charts need to be displayed at a certain height (*will add to our post).

I can't seem to replicate the issues you're having on firefox/desktop, it displays normally for me. If you shoot me a screenshot at kristine@quadranteye.com, happy to take a look.
> Unfortunately, this should probably be viewed as a negotiation on price. They certainly don't have the door closed.

very few sane organizations would ever completely refuse. everything is a negotiation.
Thank you very much. I'm disgusted by the fact that I have to find out about this through a comment on HN instead of by getting a letter in the mail. Double-u Tee Eff.

Edit: looks like it's England only, but I'm going to make a wild guess and say they didn't get a letter either. Which should have been an opt in thing, by the way!
meta: I highly recommend including at least one screenshot on the homepage.
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She's pretty clear that the violent thoughts and imagery are her expressing raw emotion and fantasy. Akin to wanting to kill your boss. That being said, I think the rest of her POV is pretty facile and mostly a justification for her to be exclusionary and arrogant by insulting everyone's ability to feel empathy.