skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Atrocious. I've never used replit, and now I never will.
Why Can’t California Axe Failed Projects Like the Bullet Train and Calbright?
The US healthcare system is slowly migrating from a fee-for-service model to a value-based model where at least some of the financial risk is shifted from employers and insurers to providers. The managers running those provider organizations thus have a direct incentive to adopt new technology if it actually works, even over radiologist objections. So far most radiology automation software hasn't generated a clear cost savings. That may change as technology improves.
If that's your threat model, you should not be using any repair shop. And the attacks you describe are not just "a bit more sophisticated than Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V", they're most likely far beyond the abilities of most repair technicians.
Throwaway for reasons

The future is not native open source applications - it's cloud hosted productivity software with your data locked away, with your productivity a slave to outages, your bandwidth, and whatever features your license bequeaths.

This is what we're being asked to build by customers - I'm on a team doing this, and fought against it, but it's still going to happen. I know it's going to get flamed on Reddit and HN the next time the product makes the rounds, but internet comments aren't subscription dollars.
All Dashboards are bad, but some are useful
Its probably a challenge for any profession where there is a legal monopoly where X service must be performed by Y individual, who also get to choose the quality of X and the number of Y in the market.
No idea why you're being downvoted/flagged on this one. The real answer is that the one who provides basic services is far more easily replaced than the economist.

Economics does have a fair amount of fortune telling. I believe the entire field of technical analysis is bunk and really is "fortune telling" but I think that economists have a lot of value to add outside of fortune telling BS.
While the thought process here is sound, and I agree with you, watching the video will probably reveal that national treasure Nathan Fielder is also a part-time comedian alongside being an exceptional business consultant.
I think it is far from a "nothing-burger" but a strong warning not to depend on Apple for business critical cloud sevices because they don't care strongly about or take any responsibility for customer downtime.

Issues happen, but it is the response that companies give you that tells you how much they value your business amd how much you should trust them with critical infrastructure.
Bless his memory too, and those who saved him. Heroism and tragedy of that era is beyond my comprehension.

My Grandmother (wife of the man I spoke about) was from your area, Wadowice. She was 16 on the eve of invasion, and her family survived by fleeing east.. gambling on Stalin over Hitler. Her father almost turned them back, having fought Russians in WW1. They were refugees for 7 years, most of the time in central asia. They returned for a while, but a couple of murders over property disputes convinced most survivors (very few survived from Wadowice) to leave. I have some family members who married out and converted. We're not in touch, unfortunately. The live in Krakov, last I heard.

She always maintained ties to her old community, even their most famous member. This is her elbowing past a Prime Minister to say hi and try to get him to do some renovation on an old synagogue.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EcC8xKgplBhF3BthO82AbazxkeM...

We might be related.
the ideal CAD operator has a series of personalized single key shortcuts on their left hand.

I challenge you to put your top ten commands on single key or double-same key (e.g. zz) shortcuts on the left side of the keyboard. Your CAD skills will speed up significantly once these become muscle memory.
There really is a lot that we can do to improve how people get eyecare and eyewear. I did want to point out that there's an entire other side of the eyecare industry -- eye health -- that gets overshadowed by the eyewear/optical aspect of eyecare. Obviously all sides of the eyecare industry need fixing, but I do I think part of the puzzle is bringing the eye health portion more front and center. (But ultimately there's no argument that things are broken.)
StarLink has already rolled out.
Wow. I was about to apply for an open position at Replit. Not anymore.
Yes, poor repl.it who's explicitly threatening to use their big bankroll to squash a small developer doing something he is passionate about it. He should just shut up and accept the validity of their effort to silence him.
Yeah that, plus obviously the combination of innovation, natural resources, and trade ties to most of the productive nations.

Despite the detractors, anarchists, and anti-US sentiment. The US was the glue that held together the world from 1945-now -- promoting a generally rules based order and peaceful trade that propelled us to a new level of world wealth.
So... you'd rather it crash and kill everyone onboard?
Once you leave? Don't really think they can do much as long as you aren't using trade secrets.
We definitely need good reviews comparing all the different options. Hard to know the pros and cons of each solution quickly. Appsmith, Saltcorn, Budibase were three others I came across today
Appreciate the support :)
Maybe I was just naïve but when I first started reading HN there was a lot of optimism around startups, maybe it's just the scales falling from our eyes, but it just seems to be one shitty deed after another - maybe the ecosystem was always poisonous ?
Are you so sure that logic is separate from reality? A great deal of logic depends on physics. Reversing the arrow of entropy, for example, pretty much breaks 'if x, therefore y' statements.
Wow, I'll go ahead and move them from the list of companies I was excited to see succeed to companies I will avoid forever.
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Assuming this is what happened.. why would you even worry about your intern doing a project. I don't know how long repl.it has existed (from my memory, a while) but are they that scared of something like this catching up to them and beating them in the marketplace? A product the author seemed to have no intention of releasing for commercial use anyways?

Also isn't the entire point of an internship to learn from a company they're working for? Are they worried about their own current internal employees quitting and starting a competing repl.it clone?

A bit shitty, IMO. Wonder if it's worth the hit in reputation.
Then all I can say is that I envy your confidence in your resolve, and I wish I could be as confident about what I would do with a gun to my head(or worse, to my children and my wife heads) as you are.

Like I said above - I hope my moment of trial never comes.
Apple is good at some things and bad at others.
The only question that matters is "Did you sign something saying you agreed not to name something like this when you interned for Repl.it, and is it enforceable in your jurisdiction?"

I think this makes Amjad look a bit like an ass, but I don't know him personally or your relationship with him or repl.it
Is this not what the CEO of repl.it did, moving from codeacademy to repl.it?
There's a US-nationwide chain called "ubreakifix". I brought my Pixel phone there to have a broken screen replaced, and they wanted my passcode. I told them they were insane, and they acted as if I was the first person who ever declined. I can't believe they even ask, especially when there's no need for it whatsoever for a screen replacement.
> we know a little about a topic, it tends to be clean, black and white stereotypes and cliches. Real history is infinitely complicated.

The history is simple, in this case. There were bad people, and there are bad people trying to muddy the boundary of a very clear cut difference of who was bad, and who was good.

One go kills random innocent people — he is bad.
Thanks! I'll have a closer look at these. – Admittedly, I haven't looked deep into Chuck Peddle's history (besides anything related to the PET), yet.
You bring up a good point -- maybe something I should emphasize more in this blog post.

Demos should be inclusive of all he work it takes to build a real, functioning piece of software. That should include the reliability work, the scaling, the testing, and the refactoring necessary to do real software engineering. And it should include APIs and containerization. So I guess I'm intending this as a fairly technical demo, but talked about from a customer and business perspective.

I personally think it's important for your stakeholders to understand the necessity of this work, and this gives the team the chance to talk about it.

Thanks for bringing up the failure mode of this -- I'll consider adding that to the blog post.
Another one: RBQL (https://rbql.org/) - It doesn't use sqlite (or any other database) and provides either SQL/Python syntax or SQL/JavaScript syntax.
No offense, but I found the early replit so cool, I will replicate it as a weekend project soon.
I would be interested in that if I was leading your part of the org. Here's the value I would get out of it:

- I could see what portion of the team's time is spent on tech debt issues, which gives me a sense of how well we're dealing with tech debt, the state of testing, and how good our technical decision making are.

- It also gives me an idea of how well the team is dealing with the real maintenance necessary for a production product. Are we improving response times for customers, how hard is it to make improvements.

- It helps me understand team dynamics. How collaborative is the team's work. Who is working with whom? How much support do team members give each other. How much knowledge silos do we have. How does the team treat each other? Do they cheer on this type of work? How do they feel about maintenance.

That's just a few things that come to mind. I have found these demos to be some of the most information rich activities I engage in, and I find it helps me support my teams.

But I get the sense it doesn't feel great to you. What sucks about it for you?
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Yet, three of the founders wrote the Federalist Papers, which were distributed in newpaper form to people of New York.
Of course, but you could do that with the other formal systems too.

It's like Roman numerals vs. base-10 numerals, eh? "XXIII" and "23" both denote the same number (which may or may not exist depending on your metaphysical outlook) but neither notation can be said to be "the" notation.
They offered to hire him before insinuating he was a bad/demanding intern, as well. This is standard manipulative behavior and has little benefit to anyone besides attempting to make the intern feel bad. This isn't the first time I've seen a founder resort to this exact type of behavior before threatening legal action.
Aside from maybe the "admit you understood your actions" part, nothing in this blog post provides any additional ammo that the opposing lawyers' side wouldn't have had already.

"Private correspondence" and "contact info" are not (in general) legally protected, and the contents of the email thread and the Github repo would be subject to discovery no matter what.
There is a 2019 video where there is some "mixed" success with gamecube on Rpi 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4TyYU9Xhcs

I figured with Rpi improvements (kernel/settings) and dolphin improvements, it was time to ask if it's going better now. Everyone seems negative (without data) here though.
Disappointed but not surprised that Chimera (the original one) wasn't mentioned: https://web.archive.org/web/20110725164212/http://www.chimer...
How did Replit manage to raise $20m for something as trivial as "a webapp you can use to run code online in different programming languages"? I assume that it's something a bit more than that?
I remember using a bunch of Seagate 7200.12 HDDs around 10-15 years ago.

After a couple years, I had multiple of them failing. Some of them were replaced by the shop I bought them at, some of them were replaced by Seagate directly. Every time, the data was lost.

At some point, when the 5th drive failed, I realized that the failure was due to a firmware issue, that could be fixed by upgrading the firmware using a TTL connection and a serial console. I did exactly that, my data was accessible again, and the drive never failed again (it's still running now).

I was very angry at Seagate and other vendors for sending replacement drives with the old firmware when it was known that the firmware would cause the problem again, while the new firmware was out and working correctly.
I think it's the wording from my first post (all the focus on "lazy" - bad choice of word I know. Completely sidetracks my real point and can't edit the post at this point to word it better.) and sometimes that's just the way these things ebb and flow.

I grew up with help (food stamps, dried milk and government cheese and all that) and think it is needed... to an extent... but I also think that the incentives create a "wall" that's hard to get over where as you make more money, you make little more and lose a LOT of "benefits". You have to go from, say, $20k/year to 50k/year go not "lose" by working more - and that's a HUGE hump that a large number of people look at and say "Why?".

But I digress.

I'll make similar statements in different threads and get up voted or downvoted at seemingly random. The internet gods just aren't happy with me today.
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> where at least some of the financial risk is shifted from employers and insurers to providers

Do you have any evidence to back that up?
I'm a former programmer, now in mid forties, and recently diagnosed with low-tension glaucoma, so I appreciate the value in your service. I have no family history so I wonder if my long years of staring at screens had something to do with it, though I realize the causes are complex and not well understood.

In my case it was caught reasonably early but I feel it could have been caught earlier. Its a bit surprising to me since I did have regular dilated eye exams. If screen time is indeed implicated, I do wonder if there is an epidemic of eye/optic nerve damage brewing, especially since those who don't wear corrective lenses probably aren't getting regular exams and may not realize they have risk factors or even damage.

Perhaps its not the screens themselves, but what's on them. The stress of social media causing everyone's IOP to randomly skyrocket.

I'm still coming to grips with my diagnosis and its repercussions. Not the least of which is the cost of the drops I need to take now for the rest of my life. $110 for a three month supply, and I also have to agree to not make a claim on my insurance to reimburse me, so its all out of pocket. Its pretty shady, but they are what my ophthalmologist wants me to use, and I don't want to mess around with blindness.
From the source Reuters article

> However, a former Apple employee said it was possible the encryption project was dropped for other reasons, such as concern that more customers would find themselves locked out of their data more often.

When I was reading all of this that was the impression I got, before it was mentioned.

How would device upgrades even work if Apple didn't have the decryption key? Not saying it is impossible, but I'm not aware of how it would work. I guess the user could use their password as entropy to decrypt? That's kind of scary.
Try It Online[0] seems to offer a very similar service - if you don't care about the collaboration aspect of it. It claims to be self-hostable[1].

glot.io[2] is another, which seems to fit more in the realm of "pastebin with runnable snippets".

As I understand it, a big sell of repl.it is that they have some kind of collaborative editing support, which none of the alternatives I was able to find in a few minutes of digging have. Google Colab has this, but only support Python (AFAIK) and is not open source.

0 - https://tio.run/#

1 - https://github.com/TryItOnline/tiosetup

2 - https://glot.io/
Capitalist economies don’t pay based on some moral analysis of what people “deserve”, they work on how much utility you provide to people, how much competition there is to provide that utility, and how wealthy the people are to whom you provide that utility.
That's a very cool bit of history! Adding it to my list of references/updates to make to the blog post
There's an old AI joke that all actual problems reduce to the artificial general intelligence problem---everything else, by definition, doesn't require intelligence.
This understanding is also closer to Spanish's "ser" and "estar" - both get translated as "am"/"is", but "ser" is for identity and "estar" is for state.
Yeah, I emailed them too (yesterday).

No response back, at least not so far. :(
Since Amjad has so much to say about ethics, quick pulse-check, lets rank these in terms of their ethical foundations: building a love-letter open-source hobbyist alternative to a large application; shutting down this alternative with potentially unfounded legal threats; making millions of dollars standing on the shoulders of giants by effectively repackaging and selling hosted open source software.
we got to this point building almost entirely on incentivized standards and open protocols. It's only in the past ~20 years that we've started to replay the telephone company cycle that required the intervention and kicked off the greatest innovation anyone alive has ever seen. I'm not confident that the same governments are prepared to do this again with the current crop of "to big to fail" effective monopolies, which could mean a sea change in global competition.
I don't know about what the CEO of repl.it did. It shouldn't matter. I only know what the author has chosen to publish on his blog post.

He corresponded with his previous employer regarding a free project that competes with them. When he got a negative response he then decided to air his dirty laundry on the Internet.
Regarding point 1, essentially yes unless they are writing anonymously, everyone on some level is attempting to leverage a person with name recognition for exposure. They may have altruistic intent but if no one knows who you are then without exposure your message is lost.

Regarding point 2 everyone assumes intent from what they read, it's human nature. People simply disagree with what they assume. You are assuming why people you have never met are downvoting OP. We all do it.
extremely unrelated to repl.it: thank you for straight.el !
Double speaky "pity us, we're just the VC funded, expensive lawyer having, little guy" response post from the founder incoming.
Well you how know even something simple like an app is buggy and has issues the developer didn't anticipate for the first few releases?

Imagine something as serious as a spacecraft.

But this is about as much as a journey into "space" is as a high altitude plane flight.

I still remember the months of watching "go for throttle up" explosion footage in 1986 (it was the 9/11 before 9/11) the few tv stations at the time would not stop playing it. I think we all became numb to it.
The rules around this vary state by state. In states like CA, it's unfortunately illegal to sell glasses/contacts to someone with an expired prescription.

More info on buying glasses/contacts: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/buying-prescription-gl...
Debugging and Observing Your Scala Code
And we will hear only crickets on this one...
Wouldn’t this only hold if you signed a competition clause, and if so then they would have to compensate you for not being able to work on technology X for Y amount of years?
I think the CEO is absolutely nuts here.

With that said, I also think certain employees though have a very slippery mentality of this sort of vibe where they do things that might be sketchy or on the borderline not OK (but JUST on the line), and then rationalize as "but ... reason!". The tone of this whole article is very subtly reminiscent of that... the type of person that when given an inch will take 10 inches (not even a mile, not that severe), and always do it under the guise of many bullet points and being nice, like this article... but the undertones are there that they're really trying to push the boundary.

That's my unsolicited .02
This is a good case study in how to not treat someone, especially a seemingly talented engineer. CEO’s hinting of money raised and legal threat is almost comical.

The CEO should have recognized that this is a guy who is interested in this space and should have made every effort to hire/acquihire him. He may have had to use some of that VC money he was going to pay the lawyers but that would have been the best.

If I were a VC in this company I would be very concerned by the immaturity of the CEO.

EDIT: one more point: Would ReplIt be now the Copycat if they add the support for languages that the OP had added but were missing from Replit?
How much of this is technical versus the constant promotion on Google.com, youtube.com, etc.? It's been a _long_ time since I had significant issues supporting Firefox (and the warts I do find are just as commonly Chrome as Firefox) but using it primarily I see fairly regular upsells across Google properties and near-constant friction from Google developers choosing to implement features in a non-standard manner with user-agent checks or use of Chrome's earlier APIs rather than the standard ones (they blocked U2F/FIDO from Safari users for a long time after release, for example).

The GCP console breaks Firefox every month or two, Meet is the lone service which can't reliably do video chat, etc. That's probably not an explicit goal but it definitely highlights the risks of a single company setting priorities for so many different popular services.
I don't see this as a response to the previous post at all. It was about the technical issues associated with a professional data interpreter, outside the simple image being interpreted. This is just cynicism about money and motivation.

Is Radiology affected by the same external factors as seismology? Does one image area depend deeply on surrounding features? Are there external rules that can override what the image seems to present?
From [1], it seems like cooking doesn't completely destroy DNA, but does make it so you get smaller segments post-PCR. Maybe species identification is okay with small segments?

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18791146/
it feels like you're intentionally missing the point here. If repl.it is acting as if they believe they have legal leverage, why respond by giving them more leverage?
> Litigation is expensive, you could have qualified for a public defender while they burned company assets

> I say this as someone who isn't a stranger to the courts and judicial system.

This wouldn't be a criminal case, how are public defenders relevant?

For not being a stranger, you seem sort of unfamiliar with the potential downsides of being involved in legal action, the existence of damages/remedies, etc.
Well, I guess you could but tongue clicking works and it gives a fairly precise sound.

Maybe try both ways out yourself, and see how it goes? :)
Revisiting: Empire II: Interstellar Sharks
I interpreted the CEO's reactions less as scared and more as angry. The guy interned at their company, refused a bunch of offers, then released an open source project that at first glance mimics their own company.

It seemed more like an emotional reflex by the CEO than a calculating ploy to suppress competition. Still doesn't bode well though.
why does this stylistic choice triggers such clear-cut rejection? the "use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence" is a pretty useless rule from the point of view of having your reader understand what you write.. the goal of the language is completely met by the webpage.