skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My logic for Occam's Razor is that if you see someone dead on the floor it's most likely they died of a heart attack. If you see someone dead on the floor and they are next to an open bottle of poison, they most likely died of a heart attack.

Now maybe statistically it's more likely that someone just happened to have a heart attack next to an open bottle of poison, but Occam's Razor isn't to select the most likely answer, it's to select the simplest answer. The simpler answer is that he ingested poison, rather than he had a heart attack near a bottle of open poison.

If a pandemic involving a bat-virus swapping species starts in a city then it was probably just a virus jumping species. If that city happens to be doing active research on how much bat-viruses can swap species, then I think Occam's Razor can apply.

Obviously there is no objective truth to Occam's Razor, and what I think is the simplest explanation may differ from what you think is the simplest explanation.
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Cydia sues Apple for anticompetitive behaviour
I don’t mean to pile on China, but these things are a product of statistics. If you have a very large number of people culturally treating animals a certain way, the odds become high you’ll occasionally produce a virus like this.

It isn’t a problem only applicable to China, but the scale of the problem there dwarves most of the rest of the planet and ultimately needs to be addressed one way or another.
Maybe because he is a "karma: 62924" troll ;)
Congrats! I have some side projects, and these stories are always very inspirational. Thank you for sharing :)

I'm not a music creator. I use SoundCloud (sometimes) to listen to stuff friends of mine make, or musicians I've heard here or there.

It's not clear to me if there's a way that you want someone like me to use your site; which is fine, there might not be. If there is tho, I'm not seeing it yet.

Design-wise, I think you could do with more whitespace, mostly around things. (Ex: Keep the div the same size, shrink the font size a bit).
Somewhat unrelated, but getting a degree (not necessarily in CS) can help with international mobility since some countries make it a hard requirement.

So if you are from a country where developer salaries are low, or that isn't conducive to start a company if that's your thing, then a degree can have a huge impact on your life regardless of what you actually learnt.
I received first donation on my open-source side project and it felt great
Lots of people historically considered genocide a solution (and lots still do). So it is very very far from "obvious". If you dismiss such arguments out of hand instead of showing why the strongest versions of them are flawed you will never convince anybody who is not on your side already.
That is also why they are currently preventing competition on web browser engines on iOS, by forcing other browsers to use theirs (webkit). That way they can limit the web app capabilities, by not implementing APIs like the Push API, and make the web look very bad by not fixing bugs.

I'm wondering why Mozilla, amongst other companies, hasn't taken action against this anti-competitive behaviour.
I might be biased as an app developer, but if apps are done properly they can provide a much deeper experience for users. I understand your point that most things can be done in a cross platform manner, however in my 10 years of mobile development experience, cross platform is great for 90% of things, sucks at 5%, and simply cannot do the last 5%. If your tech needs fall into any of the 5's then a native app is simply the better solution.

They killed flash because it was a bug riddled, security nightmare, owned by Adobe, (one of the greediest corporations in existence). I will never understand the flash nostalgia, good riddance.
De Correspondent pulls plug on English service as readers don’t renew membership
Great way to drag the conversation into partisan territory of bickering over what can be obviously cut, and away from focusing on our shared problem of inappropriate penny pinching undermining services entirely!
ha thats unfortunate. i'll redesign in the holidays, stay tuned. thanks for feedback
Starship prototype makes first high-altitude flight
Peer review is the specific process of sending your well edited manuscript to a select few reviewers of a journal in order to get that manuscript published in that journal.

It is different from having your results available to your peers, which I'm not sure they did that here, but point being peer review is this specific time consuming process (that can take months, sometimes years).
never underestimate the lengths American Intelligence will go to (for a couple of bottles).
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Not that developers using niche languages are good, but rather it is very easy to figure out if they are good.
Very cool! Congrats on the revenue milestone.

Is there a mobile app? Does it stream or download the songs for offline consumption?

There are a lot of authors looking for an alternative to audible. Bandcamp does not work great either due to pricing and their app UX. Songbox currently seems very focused on music but maybe future avenues to explore are podcasts and audio books.
yeah i hear you. not something i have bandwidth to track right now, but i would accept a PR to add disclaimers (could turn the whole thing into a table form).

i agree your concern is impt, its just not the level at which i operate this list right now
> When my team came into their purview they told us they wanted to spend as little time as possible on my team, and I've deferred to that statement.

That sounds like a pretty effective way of hurting morale.
+1 on that. I've learned Clojure in the past and keep wanting to go back to it but Clojure has been the hardest language for me to become fairly comfortable with. I think it may have to do with its dynamic-ness. There's basically no problem Clojure experts can't find a solution for. Its basic constructs are very powerful but all those solutions are not codified in the language itself. So Clojure has this extra layer of "culture" around it and as a beginner that's very hard to learn without a lot of doing and running into a wall quite a few times. Just when I think I have a grasp on the language, I see a new construct or new way of doing something that's completely alien to me and wasn't in the Clojure book I just read. I've not saying one can't become good at it but it takes a bit and might help to have an expert or two guiding you.
App developers want to gain distribution.

> inalienable right to make apps to try to profit off of them.

What do you mean here? Do you have a problem with capitalism? The purpose of work is to earn a living. Outside of hobbyists and open source developers, nobody does this for free. It's work.

Should app developers be poor and unable to earn a living off apps? I'm pretty sure that's not what you mean, but that's how this comes across.

I think what you mean is that you're happy Apple controls distribution. My argument is that this isn't fair - they've built a computer, captured 50% of the US market, and control every economic funnel around these consumers, the likes of which we've never seen before in human history.

They have a mega monopoly. They're distorting the entire market. There are consumers, and then there are Apple consumers. Try to do business with the latter group without going through Apple, jumping through hoops, and getting taxed. And you come out without a direct relationship with your customer.

iMonopoly
Sometimes you need to factory reset your lightbulb which is a simple process

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Yeah they do Fullstory-type stuff, Heap-type stuff, plus they have an SDK in most popular languages (which no other company has.) If I didn't already set my stuff up before I had heard of them, I would have gone with them. They have the best parts of other tools.

Unless their stuff doesn't work well. I only spent a couple of hours so I might not have noticed UX issues that would have been painful to deal with.
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Google does have this feature https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets-program...

Here's the specific example
https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/notify#cap_disa...
You said they "tend go down for maintenance" on "any big price swings" but were only able to muster one example of one exchange going down "for maintenance" on one price swing (Bitfinex).

The others, as the articles point out, were trade volume related (which is also a problem, but much less sinister).

There's no evidence this is some kind of grand conspiracy like you implied. There's plenty to criticise in Crypto, but little evidence for what you actually claimed.
There are some cloud services where it's not quite this simple.

S3 -- you can't just delete customer data because they hit a billing limit

RDS -- not going to drop databases on the 27th of the month

Anything with persistent data is going to have to stay alive and accumulate costs. Admittedly these services aren't where the crazy bills come from, but it does make a simple kill switch a bit more complex.
so they decided to write their most important highly scaled app in a language ecosystem which wax still evolving and no other majir large scale app were built outside Apple for the use. I don't get it why they didn't reach out to Swift team of Apple ? they would have helped
Yes, the former CEO of AccuWeather was appointed but not confirmed to lead NOAA. He was not a scientist and had spent years attempting to undermine the agency from the outside.

He also, in keeping with tradition for Trump appointees, was involved with various scandals.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...
> I certainly haven't seen any proof of that and I haven't seen anything to even remotely suggest that good developers gravitate towards Clojure

What about stackoverflow survey? Clojure is the most paid language (evidence that businesses value Clojure programmers) and Clojure has the most mature user base (evidence that users stay or flock to Clojure after many years in the industry).

Sure, not the best kind of evidence and depending on your biases you can read it in many different ways, but it’s a datapoint.
I think a combination of these is true. Uber certainly deals with more complexity in mapping than almost anyone. Their scale is massive. That being said: their engineering scale is massive as well. And if you have enough people, they will start adding things just for the sake of being busy. There is certainly someone at Uber writing code that is included in the app bundle that never runs. There are certainly assets being shipped that were relevant in 2016 but have since been forgotten. There is an engineer messing with some low-level powerful API for no real reason other than they find it interesting, and hurting the performance of something or the other by an order of magnitude. For political reasons, there is some non-optimal code shipping somewhere. At extremely large team sizes, it can be very difficult to find and fix these issues. But this is a social, not a technical, problem.
This is great work.. congratulations on getting consistent earnings from this.
So in reality Flash is no more for the casual/novice/time-constrained/etc. user, unless Adobe makes a one-click solution for the new intervening steps in the future. But of course by then the web will be a much different place. So the original poster was correct.
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Meanwhile this leaves an opportunity for a different company to provide these services.

I do my best to avoid FAANG giants who don't think about me.
$1B seems like a quite a bargain when you look at Tesla $TSLA or Moderna $MRNA valuations with any sort of fundamental analysis. (flame proof suit on)
I didn't claim it didn't exist so your strawman is irrelevant. If there was only a single dinosaur skeleton in existence I certainly wouldn't be claiming they were common animals.

The fact is it was barely used until the OSI introduced it as a term at which point it became popular. You seem to have a personal problem with that.
I was severely ill with upper-respiratory symptoms about a month ago. Knowing if I had covid was critical information. If I had covid, going to a hospital or clinic for help was safer (for me) I can't catch covid twice. If I didn't have covid, I was already sick and getting covid on top of that would be a serious danger to my life.

I got close to needing to go to the hospital but decided not to. Turns out that was a good idea, I didn't have covid (PRC test).
They would surely have an easier time achieving maximum compatibility if they had the source for Flash Player as a reference.
It was just an example. We use these terms because they have specific meanings and terminated does not fit.
There is 5 volumes (!) worth of evidence, collected by the (bipartisan) Senate Intelligence Committee, showing that Russia did actively influence the 2016 election. What hasn’t been proven is collusion between Trump and Russia.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-sele...
Hey Terence Tao, you might be a great mathematician but Ingo Ullisch is the GOAT!
Yeah, if you don't spend your free time sitting in your apartment wringing your hands over statistics on a Silicon Valley startup incubator's message board, you are a terrible person who is totally disconnected from reality.

/s
It is really hard to find a good collaboration tool that doesn't have too many features and an advanced design layout. I am not a tech savvy person myself, but I do communicate with a lot of friends and clients through a third party platform.

That being said, my dream collaboration tool would be something that is super easy to use with a simple design and simple basic features.

I think it is also crucial to have a simplistic collaboration tool that allows you to get all the work you need done without any hassle.
Java, which is why they grew an aversion towards the JVM.
>I find that number dubious.

1 million acre feet is a pretty small amount in comparison to most industrial or agricultural uses.

The common unit of water usage is acrefeet
1 million gallons is ~ 3 acrefeet

California wine production uses 667,000 acre*feet per year. [1]
California total agricultural uses 24,500,000 acre feet per year [2]

3/24.5 million =0.00000012

https://aic.ucdavis.edu/publications/Economic%20wine%20and%2...
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2019/2017C...
Until recently, I would have said Java because it has so many guard rails and good frameworks. But then I've recently encountered bugs caused by code that basically disabled all those guard rails. Had any one of them been left in place, the bug wouldn't have happened. It's kind of amazing how clever some unwise bad engineers can be. There's just no replacement for good, wise engineers.
It's almost like you could make it configurable so users can choose what happens if they go over, and to what extent.
I like coding, I don't like management. I'm not good with people. Other hobbies of mine are cooking, woodworking, rock climbing. I like getting my hands dirty. I value good management and I'm pretty sure I'd be horrible at it, in addition to just not liking it.
There’s a lot of complexity behind making the user experience as simple as it is. One example: it’s my understanding that there is a lot of effort put into correcting for GPS error in areas like cities so the the little pickup location dot is in the right place. I imagine the entire system for that is a fair amount of offline processing, backend and client code.
I thought Clojure also required a JVM! Maybe to both haha
thats a self limiting belief. it is not true that "all you know is IT". all of us have interests beyond tech. if that's not enough, all of us have close relatives or friends with problems we can solve. they are representative of people who are like them, all of whom have problems that need solving.

make sure you're not merely making excuses for not trying when you say "all you know is IT"
I believe that’s being rude for no actual reason.
I hope HP expands their reach in the VR space and provides more alternatives. They have a winner on their hands with the Reverb G2. I'd like to see them dip their toe into the standalone headset market.
Hawaii program will pay your airfare to live and work remotely from the islands
some years ago: here is a bugatti veyron! it is the ultimate pinnacle of incredibly ridiculously expensive fast car, where each tire costs $40,000 and has to be mounted at the factory!

a few years later: here is a bugatti chiron! it's even more ridiculous!

some time after that: here is the ULTRA SPECIAL EDITION version of the chiron
Just a suggestion from my own experience. When you get an idea that is quite grand as you put it, have you tried partnering with couple of others and dive into the implementation of idea in that way? There is an added bonus there of socializing. My two cents
They are. this is on par for most agricultural and industrial water.
It seems to me a fairly reasonable piece of legislation to require devices that are quasi-PCs (i.e. the iPhone today is to many what the laptop was 10 years ago) to be able to run software of the users choosing. The manufacturer isn't obligated to do anything beyond providing a stable ground for others to build from.

Beyond the user freedom angle, this could also help reduce e-waste as there will be a niche but functional ecosystem of tools to keep the phone or games console (!) running past it's lifecycle
The Cybertruck review that took over a year to make
Calling programmers "Engineers" is a misnomer.

I wish programmers had the prestige it deserved for combining Science, tradition, authority, and art.

Engineers are not allowed to use tradition, authority or art. They are restricted to being modern day calculators.

Nothing is wrong with either.
Installer.app was the first "App Store", before Cydia even existed, I wrote it. I spoke to Steve before they launched their App Store -- we were happy to see them open up the platform and provide an official SDK, which was our goal with Installer.app.

I think Apple should either charge considerably less than they do for distribution via their App Stores (that is, even less than 15%) or allow competition. Even more importantly, they need to allow installation of apps via links without requiring an App Store altogether.

They also need to provide wider access to low level APIs (with user confirmation), instead of dumbing it down for developers while keeping all the powerful APIs to themselves.
Move to SFTP requires you to use authentication and increases load on the backend servers.
Totally agree, I have a number of non-tech related side hustles and quite frankly I prefer these to tech ones because they took maybe 50hrs each to setup and 2 hours max per week to operate. I know for a fact it'd take much more time tech wise to get something of equivalent revenue up and running.

I have to question these "I spent years making $40 a month working 8 hours after hours to built <project> but now <project> makes $60k a month" stories, since at some point you really have to ask yourself how much your time is worth. Thousands of hours for $1M pre-tax, not to mention how much life you gave up for that is kind of idiotic IMO.

My metric generally is, "if someone on etsy selling magic rocks is making more than my tech project after three months, time to move on". I'm not being shitty, this is just a standard I hold myself to when it comes to valuing my personal time. Also, don't worry, I'm not one of these people who thinks my time isn't worth cooking or cleaning (like many YT gurus and even Financial Samurai now claim).
> Do you think it makes sense to put this feature into the platform?

How many times do I have to tell you that it doesn't?

Do you think AOSP should have a framework specifically for uploading photos to a photo sharing service in the background? That is another standard feature for smartphones. Of course not, it just needs the ability to support uploading photos to multiple services, and people can build libraries on top of the platform to make it easier. This is notably another thing that is not possible on iOS.

> You pointed me to an abandoned codebase.

And another one that isn't abandoned.

> Do you still claim it’s already usable? If not, why did you say it is?

No. I assumed it was because they had already announced it. Any developer who would like it can simply finish the library themselves.

We seem to be in agreement except for your wacky ideas of how much should be in the platform vs. how much should be built on top of the platform.
> While that's true, there is consulting market for most things that are complicated. Doesn't mean they are shady.

It does mean it's not simple though.
Yes, most platforms had either no-transaction-fee index mutual funds or free etf trades. This generally didn’t apply to individual stocks but someone just putting away $100/week savings should be avoiding individual stocks anyway.
Done correctly they save a lot of IT time.

Seem companies hire five 6 figure people to try and cut amazon bill by a couple of grand a month.

Never understood spending 50-100k a month to maybe save 5k
I argue that Clojure née the functional programming community writ large capture a peculiar local maximum. I used to subscribe to the “functional = better” camp until going to MIT. I challenge anyone to find a cutting edge CS paper* that is written in their favorite functional language. If it were so effective — wouldn’t one academic have exploited this efficiency to catapult themselves ahead of their imperatively bound brethren?

Maybe there’s something peculiar about academic work that requires an imperative mind. This is why we see the highest paid practitioners programming exclusively in functional languages ... oh wait, the opposite is true.

My theory is that FP hits a nice sweet spot for someone who would like to casually improve their craft. Something akin to breaking out Popular Mechanics after work.

* - excluding, of course, papers about programming languages themselves
“Freeman claims that the risks of jailbreaking are "overblown" and are similar to downloading software from a PC.”

I’m guessing that if the word ‘overblown’ were not present, Apple would wholeheartedly agree with this statement.

A lot of these debates seem to boil down to how serious the threat from malware, social engineering, and other bad actors actually is.
You are correct, I should have said shareholders.
If they are paying to pump their own water and it is sustainable, why should they pay anyone?