skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck running a electric tractor rig moving 120,000lb (modern quad-track are ~60,000lb, plus the drill, plus the fert/seed cart) all day long...
As long as you can't show direct consumer harm, and esp if the products are free, Anti-Trust law in the US isn't about reducing choice (EU) but in raising prices. So if you can't show a price hike, the mergers and monopolies are allowed.

I am firm believer in the EU model of anti-trust and this wouldn't have even be possible if they both agreed.
In many countries such turns are either not dangerous or avoided using roundabouts.

Stroads exist almost only in US.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/1/whats-a-stroad-...
Here's hoping the kernel supports it.

Linux wifi was extra iffy back then iirc. Might need a proprietary blob.
>incredibly unethical to create something similar your previous employer's IP and market it independently.

Can you explain why you think it is unethical? Provided no noncompete clauses or other previous agreements were violated.
PNW?
Pretty cool stuff. But what i find just as interesting as the actual features, is the image Apple is trying to present of their idea of an average users life; Social, business and family. I wonder how representative and "with it" Apple are. But regardless, this sideshow is very interesting.
You're not wrong. But how could this apply to OP's situation? Given a 40 hour work week, three hours every other week is a mere 3.75%.

For the sake of conversation, let's consider the cleaner to be an employee and OP to be the employer. Even then, unless OP has 50 full-time and full-time equivalent employees, there is no requirement for the employer to provide group health insurance, according to the ACA.
What legal fees? It costs you nothing to ignore the posturing of bullies.
Perhaps in another dimension.
Yes, this is the only sane way I found of managing packages on Emacs. Talented guy!
Why are you reading and replying to the comments when you haven't read the article? You've come at this with a terrible take by inventing a non-existent NDA that would exonerate the CEO. Why bother?
FDA Approves Aducanumab
In my opinion this is a case study in regulatory capture. The FDA ignored their own advisory committee and approved it based on flimsy data. Now Biogen will rake in the cash, and other companies will take notice.
I absolutely agree with you which is why I'm considering getting the surgery. I experience a large amount of anxiety around traveling and losing access to my contacts or glasses. Also, what if someone breaks into my house in the middle of the night? "Excuse me Mr Burglar, let me put on my glasses before we wrestle."
It's so incredibly obvious, yet it frequently needs to be spelled out.
If any of the following are true, you can:

- The company's version is not sufficiently original. IANAL but there are many sites that do something similar to replit, as shown in the blog post.

- Your version is sufficiently limited that it falls under fair use, or sufficiently minimal that it falls under the "de minimus" exception*. The guy made his project by himself in 4 days, and explicitly mentions that it does not have, and he has no intention of adding, the features it would need to compete in the marketplace with replit.

* https://www.jgschwartzlawblog.com/the-de-minimis-copyright-e...
Naturally, I took down my project right away...

Did your internship had any no-conflict, no-compete clause for any future assignments? Or are you infringing on any patent?

If not, there is no need to succumb to this bullying.
I need to donate money to the people behind KiKad, FreeCad, GIMP, and Inkscape.
I wouldn't underestimate the potential of that project.

I know of other cases where well funded CEOs have tried bullying away someone who recently worked for them from starting a company in a related space. Glad that they weren't able to shut it down, and the new founder has raised a nice round. I'd love to see Radon succeed with his project.

IANAL but I don't think you can patent "path depencence". It is sunk cost
In fairness, you’re absolutely right. I’ve even see this play out from the other side, where everybody thinks X is pure and noble, but X was doing worrisome things when no one was looking.

But look at this from an “out of body” perspective for a moment. Isn’t it just a little convenient that the first thing you read, right at the top of that blog post, is also the most cartoonishly evil thing? Are you absolutely certain that we’re not missing some crucial context here? How often have we seen this kind of outrage where, later on, it turns out that was a lot more complicated than we’d originally assumed?

All that said, yes, you’re correct. And that’s really all that matters. But I can think of a few other things that might be going on (admittedly, I have to be pretty creative to think of something plausible, but they do exist).

I’ll keep reading and start asking around. Maybe the cartoonishly evil thing is the true thing, but if it’s not, at least I won’t have fallen for it.

(And it it was the true thing, I will be hat in hand with apologies. Heck, I’d be the first to bring a pitchfork if this was true at face value.)
Even if Repl.it rightly felt it was a breach of their IP, the CEO could have assumed good faith, explained his concerns kindly, and politely requested the project be taken down. The interesting thing is that he seemingly panicked, resorted to legal threats almost immediately, and even stooped to warning the kid that they have deep pockets. It’s like something you’d expect from 90s Microsoft, just more scrappy and trashy. And this is Repl.it, a company where you’d imagine OSS community relations would be a big deal.
As cool as it is to use your phone as your key, what happens when you run out of power? The U.S. needs to develop a public phone charging infrastructure like other nations do.
Likely yes.

Gretchen McCulloch has a book called Because Internet which talks about how the internet has changed English. People joined the internet in different waves. Each group of had the challenge of re-inventing writing conventions for the writing that falls outside of the relatively formal academic/business writing taught in highschool.

For the people were using a cellphone with autocorrect was a significant part of their internet usage, uncapitalization became a way to indicate casual tone. Since autocorrect would capitalize for you, it was clear that the lower case letters weren't the result of you being lazy. Instead you were going back to deliberately undo the capitalization of the word.

So yes, it is probably a youth thing and it's done to indicate a casual tone.

[0] - https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/
Bad take. It's not a clone, for the reasons explained in the article. It's more akin to the multitude of "run code online" sites that already existed before Replit was started.
Germany has an extremely healthy attitude towards the Holocaust; it would do most western nations well to model it as regards their own historical atrocities.
The CCP can't build jet engines, while the Germans invented jet aircraft ... so no, I don't believe your claim is correct.
The medical pipeline doesn't have to be sensitive to federal funding either. There is nothing preventing residencies from being privately funded (besides the fact that most are currently publicly funded).

Medicare funds this out of a broad idea of it being a public good if there are more physicians. Note, there is no obligation that physicians work in public service after residency. This is in contrast to if you go to med school on a military scholarship (in which case, there is an obligation to serve).

In other words, if medicine weren't cartel, the government wouldn't need to pay doctors to train new doctors.
Really? I just use the windows icloud app and sync it to my nas.
If the intern was pursuing this project as a business, then I could sympathize with legal threats. But this is clearly a passion project. Why make such a big fuss over a side project?
Pacific Northwest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest
I don't buy this, doctors are not one united body. Doctors with an AI tool will be more efficient than doctors without it. If the tool has a measurable positive impact on patients (outside of cost reduction) then it will become necessary to have the AI in order to get the patients.
It’s pretty admirable how apple has year after year taken steps to actually reduce device usage*

I really like the “focus” features as this year’s example or this.

*I think they’re trying to increase meaningful device usage, so maybe I’m splitting hairs here, but it feels like overall the result is I use my device less and less while still doing more.
The Pacific NorthWet. Er, West. Seattle, etc.
Did they fix the messages history problem?
Where your phone keeps GB of old messages but you have literally no way of accessing them?
Might be related:
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1060238/tokyo-2020-a...

https://www.pasonagroup.co.jp/english/company/outline_g_e.ht... (Check out some of the names)
Pistachio Nut Waffles
"Pacific NorthWest". Basically, near Microsoft's main Redmond campus.
> Also there appers to be a level of trust here.

Amjad, replit's CEO, offered to hire OP, later accused them of copying their "internal designs", then threatened them with lawyers replit's millions can buy, eventually to stonewall and stop replying to their emails. What kind of trust is that?

> Not sure how talented OP is. This can as well be a case study of who not to hire.

That's a valid perspective, alright. One that's minority I sincerely hope.
Indeed, a great deal of current security work is on the problem of not running other people's code.
Pacific Northwest, in the Northwestern US. Where Microsoft/Amazon/others are based...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest
Why? Assuming that there isn't a non-compete signed by the former employee, the (former) employee has the right to use all their skills and knowledge to do whatever they want on the free market.
The repair folks and apple is such a weird relationship. My iphone lasts so much longer than android, the updates keep on coming much much longer (my parents android phone NEVER got an update and shipped 1 version behind at time they bought it). It's pretty dang durable, waterproof, and I've never had a problem getting it fixed (I use AppleCare+).

Seriously, it seems from where I'm sitting if you want a reliable phone, one that holds its value, can be re-used and resold etc, get an iphone. I used to travel internationally and old iphones just had an INCREDIBLY long value retention period.
Yes, but Macromedia greatly improved Flash. Now one can argue Director and Flash were kind of the same market, but Adobe has Illustrator(vs freehand), had Golive (vs Dreamweaver), Photoshop (vs Fireworks) and even had its own Flash knock-off (LiveMotion). So way too much redundancy so that most Macromedia product rapidly went unmaintained, or abandoned when Adobe failed to milk them. But where Adobe completely dropped the ball, and where Macromedia strength was is community. Macromedia's product community was incredible. I also can't believe they had that many developers knowing Action Script to throw it all away, there are millions thing Flash could have done, like focus on game dev or desktop dev. It's just that Adobe wasn't willing to invest much in it at some point.

Adobe is now trying to get into "app prototyping" but I don't believe a second whatever product they have now is going to last longer than all the prototyping products they had before... They could have easily repurposed Fireworks for collaborative app prototyping...

Autodesk also has many software that do more or less the same thing which they acquired, so for years there was very little room for the competition because Autodesk had all the most famous 3D mesh modelling softwares (and still has all the important CAD software, FreeCAD just can't compete with AutoCAD). Even Blender,while great, is still far behind MAYA as a modeler. I think 2 the only products that are still independent are Cinema4D and Rhino.
HN thread about that article, including archive link of a non-paywalled copy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414920
>In particular I'd be surprised if it outperforms a cup of coffee or a rhapsodical conversation for any type of insight.

Ego death is a hell of a thing to experience. We can talk about it and how some people can reach it through years of meditation, but LSD is a sure ticket to it and the value of it is in the qualia of the experience, not the knowledge of what it is.

Imagine your psyche is a factory you've built over your life and you're standing high above it supervising. Regular introspection is walking through the lines and tuning the machine. Ego death is a tidal wave knocking down everything you've built, adjusting to your new reality, and the rest of the day is watching as it all comes back together. There's a level of forced commitment and intensity of the experience that you can't simulate. I'm not claiming you'll reach enlightenment, but something more akin to the learning from tearing down and rebuilding an engine, except it's ~~you~~.

There are real gains to going through it if you're of sound mind.
Interesting, I've wondered why you've taken it down! Your project was such a great help dealing with monaco-language-server, and I was really sad when it just vanished off of Github one day.
I'm really curious what makes you so confident about this.

If nothing else, your conflation of "design" and "idea" doesn't make much sense, because the two are treated vastly differently by the legal system.
Unfortunately, the issue then is that I'll run out of local storage. Meaning the only option is to spend much more on an iPhone with more storage.
Weir himself has discussed the varying characterisations in the Martian, Artemis and PHM. In an interview at [0], he says:

Well, my previous two books, The Martian and Artemis (which are also available for sale!) feature characters whose personalities are based on aspects of my own real personality, Mark Watney [from The Martian] has a lot of my own personality traits and Jazz Bashara [from Artemis] who is a Saudi woman living on the moon, believe it or not, her personality is based on largely the way I was when I was her age.

I wanted to grow as a writer this time, so I made Rylan Grace’s personality not [be] based on my own. I created a new character out of whole cloth, not just using aspects of my own persona. So one thing I decided is that he’s conflict-averse and likes to stay in a safe environment (or something he considers safe) and being a middle school teacher is a safe environment. He doesn’t get a lot of adversity from the students. They look up to him because they’re not teenagers yet. He’s also a goody-two-shoes, so it makes sense that he would work with children.

In a separate interview (that I can't find now) Weir states that PHM was an attempt to write a character that evolves, unlike Watney, who in effect retains the same character (wise-cracking optimist) throughout the book.

[0] https://www.scifinow.co.uk/books/space-man-an-interview-with...
Because of Amjad Masad's words and actions, I won't be using Repl.it or anything Masad touches at all. I'll recommend the same to friends and colleagues, as well.
I unfollowed him after he tweeted that Repl.it is the most innovative company in the world.

Yeah, not SpaceX or Neuralink or Pfizer. A company that runs docker images is the most innovative company.
Joe Biden Extends Donald Trump's Blacklist of Chinese Companies
Surely this isn't still Apple's policy in 2021? Doesn't seem to fit their privacy-first model.
Replit’s CEO: “I owe my entire career to open-source”

Copy, paste, threaten with lawsuit?

=> new product ready to launch

All big three cloud providers monetize other people's open source projects by renting out hosted versions. Apparently, that's OK and highly profitable. So why look down on a startup CEO attempting to replicate the cloud success story?
Pacific northwest (USA)
There were only 9 years between the 1998 Comdex and the iPhone release in 2007. Of the 23 years we have had iPhones for 14 years... Time perception is sometimes strange.
it is just the cold war propaganda
I can understand now why you would doubt the blog post. Radon and I are friends from college, and in my approximately five years of knowing him I have no reason to believe him ever capable of faking a blog post so he can get back at his former employer. He certainly fights for what he believes in, though.

I suppose we can only wait to hear what Amjad has to say.
Well, it really depends on the context. Take this one:

https://httpstatusdogs.com/304-not-modified

I'd surely crack that joke with close friends, but at work I would absolutely not risk that, especially if I don't know whether the receiving party has a similar humor. Compare that with http.cat:

https://http.cat/304

It's a cute picture of cats. It might get an eyeroll, yes, but nobody is going to accuse me of an inappropriate joke for that. 226 is even worse and I know quite a few female colleagues which would probably not take it well, irrespective of it being a picture of a dog.
>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.

You're saying that because of the lack of transparency in the bidding process when it was shoved through "as a COVID emergency" we're not in a particular position to say that this vendor wasn't best for the job?

Maybe you are correct. Maybe we just need more faith in the vendor selection honesty of a government that recently contracted the services of a ferry company that didn't own any actual ferries.
Well, these are things that most tech people know, we just don't discuss them because we're polite.
Testing Distributed Systems with Deterministic Simulation
q is awesome. Initially I wasn’t sure what the underlying engine was so was amazed at how good the sql support was. Turns out it feeds all the data into sqlite under the covers so you can do some pretty complex queries against arbitrary csv files in a one liner.
It won't, because the limiting factor of what makes a century good is unlikely to be based on the quality of its professional tooling. Tooling is pretty universally in a 'good enough' state.

Also, you could pirate and run 90s software today if you wanted to. Almost nobody does (And it's not because nobody pirates software...)
There are also coverage rules to consider. Payers often require providers to try less expensive treatments first and will only authorize more expensive pills if the patient doesn't respond well.
Rather than centralizing on GitHub, this seems like something that could be well suited as a `.well-known` url websites/companies could use, then anyone/everyone could aggregate or just inspect what is being used.
There weren't any, which is why that particular shop elected to roll their own distributed system on top of rocks.

In general I think people who think they want to do FoundationDB owe themselves a serious contemplation of the cost/benefit of using Cloud Spanner instead. Obviously you cannot do your own fault injection testing of Spanner, but it does have end-to-end checksums.
> litigious and petty

The unfortunate truth is that this doesn't matter. Oracle, as one recent example, is still wildly successful - even in the open source space.
> There is also another interesting observation: the more related to WW2 people die the more Cold War #2 we see.

I might be misinterpreting, but many in Gen Z seem to consider WWII and Nazi history as a kind of meme to joke about. (9/11 too, for that matter.)

I'm worried we might be destined to forget the lessons we learned. The rise of domestic terror, hate, and partisanship doesn't help.
Here's another excellent talk at Strangeloop on FoundationDB's simulation testing by Will Wilson in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc
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That was my first thought.

How 'empty' is Replit as a company if some rando intern is a threat ... and/or how poor is the CEO at deciding how to spend his time if this is how they choose to do it?
Safari is A) only available on two operating systems, both owned by Apple, B) is mandated on one of those OSes (iOS), which C) just happens to be their most popular OS.

I don't think it's very surprising that share of Safari for browsers across all OSes closely matches the share of iOS. Safari on macOS is only about 1/3rd of an OS that has 6 or 7% of the market, so you're only going to get about 2 points there. Firefox on macOS mirrors the rest of the market.

Chrome is #1 on all platforms except iOS, where it just literally does not exist. Safari's relative popularity over Firefox is due to lack of choice on iOS. So no, I don't think you can make that claim that technical merit does not matter.

If Apple were forced to allow other vendors distrubte their browsers on iOS (and they should be forced to), you would not see any uptick in Firefox's numbers, but a relatively big uptick in Chrome's numbers. I'm guessing like 10 points.
You seem extremely biased against AI in general, to the point where I very much doubt anybody would benefit from hearing your opinions on it.
I'm pretty skeptical. I think a rational actor wouldn't have made legal threats. Even if OP's project does somehow use some secret insight from replit, it's certainly not a threat to replit's business in any way. Legal action would be a waste of time, money, and PR.

Which means that the legal threats levelled against OP are presumably coming from a place of emotion and personal resentment, and I'm very much not prepared to extend the benefit of the doubt to replit under those circumstances.
The new Weather app looks nice. But for me, the data source is the real problem. In spring/summer the daily forecast is always 4-10 degrees below the actual temp. I don't want a better looking Weather app. I want one that will actually forecast the weather.
> how is that not at least "stealing the idea"??

Because Replit didn't originate the idea of "web site you can execute code on". There's no idea to be stolen here, or if there was stealing, it's not from Replit.
I once refused to give my MBP password to the technician at the Apple store for some hardware repair, and he said that they just wouldn't be able to verify the repair completely. I'm not sure how true that was, but it did catch me off guard that they would even ask for a password.
OK - that would make a ton more sense and is common in these transactions - the headline should be "Altium enters negotiations on Autodesk bid".
> It is not known whether brain can be brought back at all once all signals stop.

This is incorrect. In a brain-dead patient, the isoelectric EEG serves to demonstrate the absence of brain activity despite adequate perfusion and absence of sedation, i.e, even though the computer is plugged in and you've pressed the start button, nothing happens, and thus, nothing is likely to happen in the future.

Isoelectric EEG can be induced with propofol and barbiturates, either voluntarily (refractory epilepsy) or involuntarily (anesthesia), without any obvious ill effects once the sedation is off.
Word on the street is that the Roam founder Conan is also getting pushed out for dehumanizing women and abusing meth, and being a general jackass. Silicon Valley has the best culture.