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27,195,888 | 27,195,836 | 1 | 2 | 27,194,279 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dteare</author><text>Yup! In many ways Linux is leading the charge. Not just with these features but also for development as a whole. Here&#x27;s the background story on how 1Password for Linux started and how it was built:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dteare.medium.com&#x2F;behind-the-scenes-of-1password-for-linux-d59b19143a23" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dteare.medium.com&#x2F;behind-the-scenes-of-1password-for...</a><p>++dave;
1Password Founder</text><parent_chain><item><author>tzs</author><text>Interesting:<p>&gt; 1Password for Linux also debuts with several features that are coming soon to 1Password for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android<p>That should be encouraging for Linux users. It suggests that the Linux version is not just a port that will forever at best follow the other platforms. It can get pretty annoying when you have something that is available on multiple platforms, and your platform tends to always lag the others.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>1Password for Linux</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/welcoming-linux-to-the-1password-family/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amarshall</author><text>Since 1Password for Linux appears to be backed by Electron, perhaps it’s a sign that other platforms’ native clients will be replaced by an Electron-based client to get these new features.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tzs</author><text>Interesting:<p>&gt; 1Password for Linux also debuts with several features that are coming soon to 1Password for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android<p>That should be encouraging for Linux users. It suggests that the Linux version is not just a port that will forever at best follow the other platforms. It can get pretty annoying when you have something that is available on multiple platforms, and your platform tends to always lag the others.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>1Password for Linux</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/welcoming-linux-to-the-1password-family/</url></story> |
23,961,348 | 23,960,787 | 1 | 2 | 23,957,278 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thebradbain</author><text>As someone who is part of this generation of young professionals, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s so clear cut. I&#x27;ve got a pretty active social life, my own circle of close friends, a robust professional network, and I live in an urban, walkable neighborhood in a large city. Yet I, and most of my friends, acquaintances, and classmates fresh out of college (&lt; 5 years) have no interest in centering our lives around the workplace, and many (me included) have taken or been searching for fully&#x2F;part-remote jobs (and not just in tech) even pre-covid.<p>I enjoy my colleagues and work environment (and wouldn&#x27;t trade it for the world now that I&#x27;m mostly remote!), love to chat with them and keep in touch, but at the end of the day I already have my own friends with whom I have stronger bonds than the workplace, and I&#x27;d rather spend my free time with them rather than endless happy hours with work colleagues who are, in the grand scheme of things, really only present in my life for the duration of a job. Coincidentally, some of my favorite coworkers have this same outlook.<p>I concede this is all anecdotal, yes, but so is your generalization. I personally believe much of this youngest generation of professionals, of which I am part, already has relatively established social networks due to social media that someone even 10 years ago entering a new job in a new city would not have, hence the less need to rely on the workplace for a social life.<p>If you ask me, the future of the workplace isn&#x27;t fully-remote or fully in-person, it&#x27;s an office where everyone comes in 2-3 days a week, as necessary, and working remote or at-home the rest of the time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>doopy-loopy2</author><text>The truth is nothing has changed for the younger generation.<p>They still want to live and work in downtown cities. They still want to go to the office and mingle&#x2F;network.<p>HN is an echo chamber.</text></item><item><author>DEADBEEFC0FFEE</author><text>I agree. I&#x27;m also in the later stages of my career (30 years of work), but still have a way to go.<p>I like WFH a lot more than I like commuting and working in the office. As a youngster though I loved the cut and thrust of a metropolis. Especially the adventures after work.<p>I hope the current situation creates a permanent inflection in companies attitudes, which enables me to perhaps move out if this big city and find remote work for my last 10-15 years of work.</text></item><item><author>tosser0001</author><text>I’m a lot closer to the end of my career than the beginning and am hoping to ride this WFH thing out as long as possible.<p>But if I were younger I personally would be kind of bummed out for a couple of reasons:<p>1. It’s just a totally different vibe working with close colleagues in person. Work was just a fun place to be when I was young (and single.)<p>2. Getting a feel for what else is going on in the company and who might be good to work with seems a lot more difficult. Just prior to the whole COVID shutdown I had been temporarily shifted to a team to work out some specific issues. That has changed and I’m sort of stuck on this team for a bit.<p>Working on a less interesting thing I feel less connection to my team and much more like a contractor.<p>Finding other opportunities within the same company, where you want to have a feel for the personalities involved just feels tougher.<p>It will be interesting to see how this shakes out if it keeps up for a lot longer. It just feels like some places will suffer from a lack of cross-pollination.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker</title><url>https://www.seanblanda.com/our-remote-work-future-is-going-to-suck/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spydum</author><text>An echo chamber? I find one of the more compelling reasons for being on HN is the strange cross-over and variety of posters (age, industry, geography, etc).</text><parent_chain><item><author>doopy-loopy2</author><text>The truth is nothing has changed for the younger generation.<p>They still want to live and work in downtown cities. They still want to go to the office and mingle&#x2F;network.<p>HN is an echo chamber.</text></item><item><author>DEADBEEFC0FFEE</author><text>I agree. I&#x27;m also in the later stages of my career (30 years of work), but still have a way to go.<p>I like WFH a lot more than I like commuting and working in the office. As a youngster though I loved the cut and thrust of a metropolis. Especially the adventures after work.<p>I hope the current situation creates a permanent inflection in companies attitudes, which enables me to perhaps move out if this big city and find remote work for my last 10-15 years of work.</text></item><item><author>tosser0001</author><text>I’m a lot closer to the end of my career than the beginning and am hoping to ride this WFH thing out as long as possible.<p>But if I were younger I personally would be kind of bummed out for a couple of reasons:<p>1. It’s just a totally different vibe working with close colleagues in person. Work was just a fun place to be when I was young (and single.)<p>2. Getting a feel for what else is going on in the company and who might be good to work with seems a lot more difficult. Just prior to the whole COVID shutdown I had been temporarily shifted to a team to work out some specific issues. That has changed and I’m sort of stuck on this team for a bit.<p>Working on a less interesting thing I feel less connection to my team and much more like a contractor.<p>Finding other opportunities within the same company, where you want to have a feel for the personalities involved just feels tougher.<p>It will be interesting to see how this shakes out if it keeps up for a lot longer. It just feels like some places will suffer from a lack of cross-pollination.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker</title><url>https://www.seanblanda.com/our-remote-work-future-is-going-to-suck/</url></story> |
22,705,837 | 22,705,379 | 1 | 3 | 22,705,122 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>All: it&#x27;s understandable that commenters react with generic indignation about how things shouldn&#x27;t work that way, but please let&#x27;s not pile on a user who&#x27;s trying to help another user. It stacks up into the wrong incentive. After doing this once or twice and running into a buzzsaw of protest, who would want to it again?<p>Also, these comments appear mechanically and interchangeably every time the topic comes up, which means they&#x27;re not the greatest for intellectual curiosity (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>).</text><parent_chain><item><author>BlackJack</author><text>Please email me (email in profile) and I will try to get you support internally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: I'm a small business and Google locked me out</title><text>I&#x27;m the owner of small construction business and I need to get access to an old gmail for recovery purposes that Google has suspended for nonpayment.<p>I can&#x27;t get a hold of anyone at the same time that my email is more important than ever. Google suggests to &quot;contact their support, may take 7 days&quot; even after I successfully entered the phone 2FA and a recovery email code.<p>Every day I&#x27;m locked out things get worse.<p>Does anyone have any tips for contacting Google, maybe talking to a human being?<p>Thank you HN</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>folli</author><text>As respectable as your involvement in the situation is, this is exactly how it&#x27;s not supposed to work.<p>It seems that the only way for a small business to get in contact with someone at Google is to raise hell on social media (or HN) and to wait for someone to take mercy on you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BlackJack</author><text>Please email me (email in profile) and I will try to get you support internally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: I'm a small business and Google locked me out</title><text>I&#x27;m the owner of small construction business and I need to get access to an old gmail for recovery purposes that Google has suspended for nonpayment.<p>I can&#x27;t get a hold of anyone at the same time that my email is more important than ever. Google suggests to &quot;contact their support, may take 7 days&quot; even after I successfully entered the phone 2FA and a recovery email code.<p>Every day I&#x27;m locked out things get worse.<p>Does anyone have any tips for contacting Google, maybe talking to a human being?<p>Thank you HN</text></story> |
36,382,318 | 36,378,453 | 1 | 2 | 36,378,137 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WirelessGigabit</author><text>I remember going through this journey of pirating software.<p>Eventually, as software started to receive updates, keygens were more interesting as those things didn&#x27;t break when an update was applied (or the update failed because a checksum mismatch of some exe &#x2F; dll.<p>For games, keygens and cracks were needed to bypass the original disc requirement. One could try to image the disc with Alcohol 120% which as able to retain the information needed to pass the disc checks. The output images were of the MDX [1] format. But those images were the size of your disc. So you had your installed game (e.g. 8.5GB) and now the image.<p>Eventually some people were able to create a &#x27;fixed&#x27; image of the disc. I don&#x27;t know if it was just an MDX with pointers to nothing, or whether this had to be done on a game-by-game basis. I can&#x27;t link to anything here but searching for &#x27;no-cd fixed image&#x27; explains this better.<p>You&#x27;d then mount those images with Alcohol 120% to play the game.<p>Later on more detections popped up and I remember having to use Daemon Tools as it employed more sophisticated measures to hide it from the games.<p>Also, I foolishly registered on Daemon Tools&#x27; website and to this day I get spam at daemontools@&lt;mydomain&gt;.&lt;tld&gt;...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Media_Descriptor_File" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Media_Descriptor_File</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Keygen Library Player (4504 tracks)</title><url>https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skilled</author><text>Nice site!<p>From add_on.css,<p><pre><code> &#x2F;*
player specific positioning of the displayed &#x27;frequency spectrum&#x27;, etc
NOTE: the reflection and position handling is a fucking nightmare: The Chome idiots
like to change their dumbshit implementation with almost every minor release.. each
time breaking what had to be used before.. bunch of clueless morons!
(Their latest achievement: reflection suddenly disapears (border and all) AS SOON as
JavaScript draws to the contained canvas. Of course they are also too dumb to use
regular font definitions anymore.)</code></pre>
*&#x2F;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Keygen Library Player (4504 tracks)</title><url>https://cable.ayra.ch/webxmp/</url></story> |
29,380,221 | 29,378,724 | 1 | 2 | 29,377,515 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mellosouls</author><text>Agree. I paid for PyCharm on the basis that a) it all just worked in the community edition, and b) it offered remote development in professional (this was a main selling point over community).<p>I quickly discovered that b) was false (or extremely oversold) compared to VSCode and switched back, couldn&#x27;t get PyCharm working remotely and saw the loooong-standing issues on the bug tracker that indicated it wasn&#x27;t a priority despite the marketing.<p>I still admire the plug-in-and-go-ability of PyCharm, but no longer trust it to fork out money for features which are clearly not what they are implied to be.<p>Perhaps the latter has changed; I&#x27;ll await the reviews.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chkhd</author><text>I just hope the remote development features will actually work adequately in this.<p>They tried to get that stuff working with existing IDEs multiple times [0][1][2][3], but they are all broken in their unique ways.<p>Whenever I see them announce something new in the remote development space I always jump in right away and try it out, discover it is broken too, and then go back to using VS Code remote dev features.<p>For local dev I still use JB stuff, but it is simply too broken and awkward for remote.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;pycharm&#x2F;configuring-remote-interpreters-via-ssh.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;pycharm&#x2F;configuring-remote-in...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lp.jetbrains.com&#x2F;projector&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lp.jetbrains.com&#x2F;projector&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;introducing-remote-development-for-jetbrains-ides&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;introducing-remot...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;code-with-me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;code-with-me&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains</title><url>https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/11/29/welcome-to-fleet/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kombine</author><text>This is also the main reason I switched from PyCharm to VS Code at the start of the pandemic, which I think was really a really fortunate circumstance for the latter IDE. Even though PyCharm is a superior IDE, its remote development features were really broken, while VS Code nailed it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chkhd</author><text>I just hope the remote development features will actually work adequately in this.<p>They tried to get that stuff working with existing IDEs multiple times [0][1][2][3], but they are all broken in their unique ways.<p>Whenever I see them announce something new in the remote development space I always jump in right away and try it out, discover it is broken too, and then go back to using VS Code remote dev features.<p>For local dev I still use JB stuff, but it is simply too broken and awkward for remote.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;pycharm&#x2F;configuring-remote-interpreters-via-ssh.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;pycharm&#x2F;configuring-remote-in...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lp.jetbrains.com&#x2F;projector&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lp.jetbrains.com&#x2F;projector&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;introducing-remote-development-for-jetbrains-ides&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;introducing-remot...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;code-with-me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;code-with-me&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains</title><url>https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/11/29/welcome-to-fleet/</url></story> |
38,948,983 | 38,944,611 | 1 | 2 | 38,942,400 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aulin</author><text>Guard clauses, something so simple yet so underrated, you never know how much you love them until you meet people from the single return per function church.<p>It still amazes me how they can believe that putting all the guards in tens of nested ifs can be saner than a few extra returns at the top.<p>And don&#x27;t get me started on those that goto is bad but it&#x27;s ok to put everything inside a do while (0) they can break out of and clean up at the end.<p>Sorry for the off-topic rambling, tidying is like &quot;clean&quot; code, everyone has their own definition and sometimes changing code for the sake of making it tidy is more dangerous than just changing the behaviour, especially if it was already tidy by some other people standard.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tidy First?</title><url>https://henrikwarne.com/2024/01/10/tidy-first/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gregdoesit</author><text>For anyone interested in reading full chapters of the book (all are relatively short!), here are three full ones [1], shared with the permission of the author (Kent Beck) and publisher (O’Reilly).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;dead-code-getting-untangled-and-coupling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;dead-code-getting...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tidy First?</title><url>https://henrikwarne.com/2024/01/10/tidy-first/</url></story> |
16,906,324 | 16,905,609 | 1 | 2 | 16,903,659 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chongli</author><text><i>Nope. When you enter someone else’s place of business, you have no expectation of privacy.</i><p>That&#x27;s not true at all. When I go to the hardware store to buy a box of nails, I don&#x27;t have any expectation for the owner to begin following me around for the rest of the day (and in perpetuity thereafter). I also don&#x27;t expect the hardware store owner to get on the phone with the grocery store owner and ask him what groceries and personal hygiene products I bought.<p>Also, the comment originally pertained to the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper. Are you suggesting that reading the newspaper at home grants the publisher the right to peer in through my window?<p>Expectations of privacy have long been enforced by social norms rather than laws. Since technology has granted corporations the means to do an end-run around social norms then we should expect the law to catch up and fill the gaps.<p>People may not have had a lot of privacy from their neighbours when living in small towns but they could generally count on their community to care about their well being. This is not the case with online businesses of any sort.</text><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text><i>It&#x27;s like saying that because windows are transparent, it is ok to stare into people&#x27;s living rooms. It&#x27;s not - irrespective of transparency or lack of curtains.</i><p>Nope. When you enter someone else’s place of business, you have no expectation of privacy. These websites belong to private entities. So it’s more like saying that because you voluntarily walked into my store, it’s ok for me to observe your behavior while you’re there. Which, of course, is completely logical and acceptable to most people.<p>Don’t want me to track your behavior while you’re in my store? There’s a very simple, 100% effective solution for that: don’t enter my store. Because if you do enter, you have no right to complain that I’m observing you.</text></item><item><author>laythea</author><text>The whole tracking thing should be outlawed in my opinion.<p>It&#x27;s like saying that because windows are transparent, it is ok to stare into people&#x27;s living rooms. It&#x27;s not - irrespective of transparency or lack of curtains.<p>In a world where that is clearly not ok, then why is it that this kind of thing (tracking) is deemed ok?<p>What we need is something that does to our online privacy, what curtains did for peoples real privacy. And, although I fear that this is not technically possible, the absence of the possibility of such protections, still does not make tracking right.</text></item><item><author>Nadya</author><text>44 blocked scripts loading the article - nearly half of which was tracking related. Surely the irony of that isn&#x27;t lost on people? Google&#x27;s ability to track users is 99% entirely due to companies like the WSJ using them for tracking users. These companies are just as much to blame, if not more, than Google itself.<p>E: What I mean by that is Google provides the means, but Google couldn&#x27;t track nearly half of all sites if nearly half of all sites weren&#x27;t complicit in the tracking.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Many Ways Google Harvests Data</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-has-more-of-your-personal-data-than-facebook-try-google-1524398401</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>oldcynic</author><text>You&#x27;re effectively suggesting people take all their business offline again.<p>When I walk into store (a) it&#x27;s reasonable to assume that store (a) might be observing my behaviour, along with perhaps a sub-contracted security company etc. It&#x27;s less reasonable to assume that walking into store (a) gets me observed by stores b-z and subcontractor 1-255 which is more like what happens on the web. They don&#x27;t generally follow around town for the rest of the week either.<p>Go to web site or store and get observed by Google, Facebook, and dozens of assorted analytics companies who will then endeavour to track you wherever you go next, for as long as possible.<p>Now then, ignoring JS and adblocking for a moment, which <i>mainstream</i> ecommerce or news sites can one frequent in order to adopt the &quot;100% effective solution&quot; of not being tracked?</text><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text><i>It&#x27;s like saying that because windows are transparent, it is ok to stare into people&#x27;s living rooms. It&#x27;s not - irrespective of transparency or lack of curtains.</i><p>Nope. When you enter someone else’s place of business, you have no expectation of privacy. These websites belong to private entities. So it’s more like saying that because you voluntarily walked into my store, it’s ok for me to observe your behavior while you’re there. Which, of course, is completely logical and acceptable to most people.<p>Don’t want me to track your behavior while you’re in my store? There’s a very simple, 100% effective solution for that: don’t enter my store. Because if you do enter, you have no right to complain that I’m observing you.</text></item><item><author>laythea</author><text>The whole tracking thing should be outlawed in my opinion.<p>It&#x27;s like saying that because windows are transparent, it is ok to stare into people&#x27;s living rooms. It&#x27;s not - irrespective of transparency or lack of curtains.<p>In a world where that is clearly not ok, then why is it that this kind of thing (tracking) is deemed ok?<p>What we need is something that does to our online privacy, what curtains did for peoples real privacy. And, although I fear that this is not technically possible, the absence of the possibility of such protections, still does not make tracking right.</text></item><item><author>Nadya</author><text>44 blocked scripts loading the article - nearly half of which was tracking related. Surely the irony of that isn&#x27;t lost on people? Google&#x27;s ability to track users is 99% entirely due to companies like the WSJ using them for tracking users. These companies are just as much to blame, if not more, than Google itself.<p>E: What I mean by that is Google provides the means, but Google couldn&#x27;t track nearly half of all sites if nearly half of all sites weren&#x27;t complicit in the tracking.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Many Ways Google Harvests Data</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-has-more-of-your-personal-data-than-facebook-try-google-1524398401</url></story> |
9,745,703 | 9,745,842 | 1 | 3 | 9,745,252 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aaronbrethorst</author><text><p><pre><code> SP: Two-thirds of the way into your novel,
Seveneves – in fact, on page 569 – you do
something kind of crazy. The story suddenly
skips ahead 5,000 years. What’s the idea here?
</code></pre>
It took me maybe a week to read the first 2&#x2F;3&#x27;s of the book, and about three weeks to read the last 1&#x2F;3. In many ways, these two parts feel like completely different books, one of which is significantly better than the other.<p>Also, I was occasionally distracted at the beginning when snippets of dialog from <i>Anathem</i> were reused in the form of exposition in <i>Seveneves</i>.<p>But, that said, I think the book is worth reading, especially the first 2&#x2F;3&#x27;s.<p>My personal, quick, rough ranking of Stephenson&#x27;s bibliography:<p><pre><code> * Anathem
* Snow Crash
* The Diamond Age
* Seveneves
* Cryptonomicon
* The Baroque Cycle
* Zodiac
* Reamde
* The Interface
* The Big U
</code></pre>
Haven&#x27;t Read<p><pre><code> * The Cobweb
* The Mongoliad</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Interview with Neal Stephenson</title><url>http://electricliterature.com/the-people-who-survive-an-interview-with-neal-stephenson-author-of-seveneves/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>basseq</author><text>I&#x27;m just getting into Neal&#x27;s work. I saw <i>Snow Crash</i> on a list of best sci-fi (maybe via HN) and started there. I then read <i>Diamond Age</i> and just finished <i>Cryptonomicon</i> (which I really liked—probably my favorite of the three).<p>I started reading <i>Anathem</i>, which I know is seen as his &quot;seminal work&quot; but it&#x27;s been a slow start for me: all the made-up vocabulary combined with strange names makes it a very disjointed reading experience.<p>I read the first chapter of <i>Seveneves</i> back in May, so that one is on the list, as is <i>The Baroque Cycle</i>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Interview with Neal Stephenson</title><url>http://electricliterature.com/the-people-who-survive-an-interview-with-neal-stephenson-author-of-seveneves/</url></story> |
10,397,110 | 10,397,138 | 1 | 2 | 10,396,472 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kragen</author><text>&gt; &quot;I share my specs today with you, you&#x27;ll share your specs tomorrow with me&quot;<p>This is how Silicon Valley worked, back when the silicon was actually made there. My impression is that Google&#x27;s obsessive culture of secrecy (necessary because it grew up in an environment where loose lips really did sink ships) is the strongest influence in destroying that culture of information-sharing, although of course NDAs, interface copyright lawsuits, DRM, and software patents have also taken their toll.<p>California&#x27;s century-old legal limitations on what rights employees can sign away to employers have also been very helpful.<p>So it&#x27;s not surprising that technological development is happening today in a place where employers&#x27; ability to own their employees&#x27; minds is more limited — the innovation is done by the engineers, after all, not the investors, so shifting the power balance in favor of the investors will damage your region&#x27;s competitiveness.<p>I&#x27;m interested to hear about the abuse and impoverishment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Right this moment I&#x27;m sitting in an office in the place that represents our hope, a capital of continued progress[0] - Shenzhen, China. Everything Facebook, Google and Microsoft designs gets built here (or nearby) anyway. China has a... quite healthy attitude towards copyright and trade secrets. That is, they don&#x27;t give a flying fuck here. There was even a term for that, that eludes me at the moment, which described the idea of &quot;I share my specs today with you, you&#x27;ll share your specs tomorrow with me&quot;. And in the ongoing war on general-purpose computing, for better or worse, this seems to be our only recourse.<p>I&#x27;m gonna ask around if they have any Google Glass knockoffs or components handy.<p>[0] - built on the backs of abused and impoverished people, but that&#x27;s a topic for another day.</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>Forget about the porn for a minute gang... this is, to me, the key insight in the story:<p><pre><code> VR and its cousin, “augmented reality,” are controlled by the big corporations.
Facebook owns the Oculus Rift. Microsoft built the Hololens.
Google does Google Glass. These will treat porn at least like Android
treats porn—or maybe even like Glass treated porn when O’Connell
unveiled his app. In other words, they won’t allow it through official
channels and maybe not at all.
</code></pre>
And it isn&#x27;t even just about VR... the point is, we, collectively, are losing control of our use of computing and technology.<p>Remember the early 80&#x27;s, when anybody could buy a handful of 8086 processors, a Phoenix or Award BIOS, some cases, etc., and start pumping out IBM compatible PCs? That was pretty amazing, and arguably led to amazing things. How about the way you could take your PC and install ANY operating system on it: DOS, Xenix, Solaris x86, Windows, OS&#x2F;2, BeOS, BSD Unix, various flavors of Linux, etc. Great opportunity for invention and creation there...<p>and now? When was the last time you installed a new OS on your smartphone? Your game console? Your VR device? Your smart watch? Etc?<p>Yeah... thought so.<p>Look, I&#x27;m not saying anything terribly new here, and I don&#x27;t claim to be. Cory Doctorow said it all better, and before:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boingboing.net&#x2F;2012&#x2F;01&#x2F;10&#x2F;lockdown.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boingboing.net&#x2F;2012&#x2F;01&#x2F;10&#x2F;lockdown.html</a><p>But we need to take this seriously. I don&#x27;t want to live in a world where Google, Facebook, IBM, HP, Twitter, Microsoft, EMC, Cisco, Snapchat, etc., decide what content I can consume, what programs I can run, etc. And I doubt most of you do either.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The porn industry is in a bind</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/10/the-porn-business-isnt-anything-like-you-think-it-is/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>otoburb</author><text>&gt;&gt;<i>There was even a term for that, that eludes me at the moment, which described the idea of &quot;I share my specs today with you, you&#x27;ll share your specs tomorrow with me&quot;.</i><p>Andrew &quot;bunnie&quot; Huang coined the term <i>gongkai</i> to explain this concept, as differentiated from the Western-originated idea of open source (<i>kaiyuan</i>)[1]. It was based entirely on his observations of the semi-open hacking culture that is hopefully still flourishing in Shenzhen.[2]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bunniestudios.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;?p=3040" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bunniestudios.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;?p=3040</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bunniestudios.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;?tag=gongkai" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bunniestudios.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;?tag=gongkai</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Right this moment I&#x27;m sitting in an office in the place that represents our hope, a capital of continued progress[0] - Shenzhen, China. Everything Facebook, Google and Microsoft designs gets built here (or nearby) anyway. China has a... quite healthy attitude towards copyright and trade secrets. That is, they don&#x27;t give a flying fuck here. There was even a term for that, that eludes me at the moment, which described the idea of &quot;I share my specs today with you, you&#x27;ll share your specs tomorrow with me&quot;. And in the ongoing war on general-purpose computing, for better or worse, this seems to be our only recourse.<p>I&#x27;m gonna ask around if they have any Google Glass knockoffs or components handy.<p>[0] - built on the backs of abused and impoverished people, but that&#x27;s a topic for another day.</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>Forget about the porn for a minute gang... this is, to me, the key insight in the story:<p><pre><code> VR and its cousin, “augmented reality,” are controlled by the big corporations.
Facebook owns the Oculus Rift. Microsoft built the Hololens.
Google does Google Glass. These will treat porn at least like Android
treats porn—or maybe even like Glass treated porn when O’Connell
unveiled his app. In other words, they won’t allow it through official
channels and maybe not at all.
</code></pre>
And it isn&#x27;t even just about VR... the point is, we, collectively, are losing control of our use of computing and technology.<p>Remember the early 80&#x27;s, when anybody could buy a handful of 8086 processors, a Phoenix or Award BIOS, some cases, etc., and start pumping out IBM compatible PCs? That was pretty amazing, and arguably led to amazing things. How about the way you could take your PC and install ANY operating system on it: DOS, Xenix, Solaris x86, Windows, OS&#x2F;2, BeOS, BSD Unix, various flavors of Linux, etc. Great opportunity for invention and creation there...<p>and now? When was the last time you installed a new OS on your smartphone? Your game console? Your VR device? Your smart watch? Etc?<p>Yeah... thought so.<p>Look, I&#x27;m not saying anything terribly new here, and I don&#x27;t claim to be. Cory Doctorow said it all better, and before:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boingboing.net&#x2F;2012&#x2F;01&#x2F;10&#x2F;lockdown.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boingboing.net&#x2F;2012&#x2F;01&#x2F;10&#x2F;lockdown.html</a><p>But we need to take this seriously. I don&#x27;t want to live in a world where Google, Facebook, IBM, HP, Twitter, Microsoft, EMC, Cisco, Snapchat, etc., decide what content I can consume, what programs I can run, etc. And I doubt most of you do either.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The porn industry is in a bind</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/10/the-porn-business-isnt-anything-like-you-think-it-is/</url></story> |
41,385,480 | 41,385,633 | 1 | 3 | 41,382,828 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mjb</author><text>I may have been spending too much time with Lean recently, but the number one thing I’d like to see for the future of TLA+ is an equivalent of Mathlib (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leanprover-community&#x2F;mathlib4">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leanprover-community&#x2F;mathlib4</a>). What’s so great about the experience of using Lean is that I can pull theorems off the shelf from Mathlib, use them if I want to, or learn from the way their proofs work if I want to do something similar.<p>&gt; The reason for using TLA+ is that it isn’t a programming language; it’s mathematics.<p>I love TLA+, I’ve used it for a decade and reach for it often. I have a huge amount of respect for Leslie Lamport and Chris Newcombe. But I think they’re missing something major here. The sematics of TLA+ are, in my mind, a great set of choices for a whole wide range of systems work. The syntax, on the other hand, is fairly obscure and complex, and makes it harder to learn the language (and, in particular, translate other ways of expressing mathematics into TLA+).<p>I would love to see somebody who thinks deeply about PL syntax to make another language with the same semantics as TLA+, the same goals of looking like mathematics, but more familiar syntax. I don’t know what that would look like, but I’d love to see it.<p>It seems like with the right library (see my mathlib point) and syntax, writing a TLA+ program should be no harder than writing a P program for the same behavior, but that’s not where we are right now.<p>&gt; The errors [types] catch are almost always quickly found by model checking.<p>This hasn’t been my experience, and in fact a lot of the TLA+ programs I see contain partial implementations of arbitrary type checkers. I don’t think TLA+ needs a type system like Coq’s or Lean’s or Haskell’s, but I do think that some level of type enforcement would help avoid whole classes of common specification bugs (or even auto-generation of a type checking specification, which may be the way to go).<p>&gt; [A Coq-like type system] would put TLA+ beyond the ability of so many potential users that no proposal to add them should be taken seriously.<p>I do think this is right, though.<p>&gt; This may turn out to be unnecessary if provers become smarter, which should be possible with the use of AI.<p>Almost definitely will. This just seems like a no-brainer to bet on at this stage. See AlphaProof, moogle.ai, and many other similar examples.<p>&gt; A Unicode representation that can be automatically converted to the ascii version is the best alternative for now.<p>Yes, please! Lean has a unicode representation, along with a nice UI for adding the Unicode operators in VSCode, and it’s awesome. The ASCII encoding is still something I trip over in TLA+, even after a decade of using it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Future of TLA+ [pdf]</title><url>https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/future.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>I&#x27;m really not a fan of TLA+&#x27;s tooling, but I do really love the temporal logic. I&#x27;ve always kinda wanted that stuff in other proving languages, but I don&#x27;t know how possible it is.<p>Would it be actually possible to write something like an &quot;a la carte temporal logic library&quot; for other proving languages that could get you some of the confidence you can get from TLA+&#x27;s modeling?<p>(Aside: I have a TLA+ book, but it&#x27;s notably missing really much in terms of exercises or anything. If anyone has any recommendations for a large set of exercises to play around in the space I&#x27;d love to hear about it!)<p>EDIT: turns out just searching for &quot;temporal logic in X language&quot; gets you papers, found this one paper for axiomatizing temporal logic that seems to be a good starting point for anyone looking at this [0]<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lim.univ-reunion.fr&#x2F;staff&#x2F;fred&#x2F;Enseignement&#x2F;Verif-M2&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;An%20Axiomatization%20of%20Linear%20Temporal%20Logic%20in%20the%20Calculus%20of%20Inductive%20Constructions-Coupet-Grimal-2002.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lim.univ-reunion.fr&#x2F;staff&#x2F;fred&#x2F;Enseignement&#x2F;Verif-M2...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Future of TLA+ [pdf]</title><url>https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/future.pdf</url></story> |
855,256 | 854,908 | 1 | 3 | 854,825 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smaher</author><text>I volunteered at the Island School 4 years ago. I can attest that it is a beautiful remote spot. I was there helping out with their summer camp for middle schoolers and also working on some construction projects around the campus. I'd go back if I had the networking experience. Depending on my mood I found it peaceful or lonely as it is very isolated and I saw only 50 people total in the 1 month I was there. Other thoughts on my experience:<p>Pros - Warm tropical weather, great location right on a beach, great food cooked by locals everyday, friendly staff and students, interesting sustainability projects, pretty good library, great sailing, diving, and kayaking<p>Cons - No hot water (we did morning exercise that made this more manageable), lots of mosquitoes (I did get used to them after a week or so), the island (Eleuthera) is fairly small so not too many places to go and explore<p>EDIT: For those more visually inclined, here are my pictures: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/steven_maher/tags/thebahamas" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/steven_maher/tags/thebahamas</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask YC: Any network gurus want a paid holiday?</title><url></url><text>I'm in The Bahamas, at a semester abroad school and research institute. Our campus is largely powered by renewables and we try to practice responsible living. You can see more at http://islandschool.org and http://ceibahamas.org<p>One of my many hats is maintaining our network and data across our 18-acre campus. This is something I do because I can, not because I'm an expert. We recently had a fiber link go bad that took several days to locate (because it propagated as many different things), and the result was a real wake up call.<p>So, here's the pitch:
You're a network guru that needs a break from the looming winter. We're in a beautiful remote spot in The Bahamas with gorgeous beaches, great diving, snorkeling, fishing, you name it.
We'll fly you down (and a guest?), put you up and feed you (we'll even pick you up in a van running biodiesel we made from waste cooking oil). All we ask in return is some sound advice on how to move forward and what tools we should add to our belts.
If this sounds too good to pass up, email me: gsiener at ceibahamas.org<p>Thanks!</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>markjeee</author><text>would be nice specially if internet access there is also super fast, so any network guru can just go there and still be able to administer remotely whatever he/she is administering before. :)<p>but any serious work related to network can probably last more than a few months. perhaps a sabbatical leave will do. :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask YC: Any network gurus want a paid holiday?</title><url></url><text>I'm in The Bahamas, at a semester abroad school and research institute. Our campus is largely powered by renewables and we try to practice responsible living. You can see more at http://islandschool.org and http://ceibahamas.org<p>One of my many hats is maintaining our network and data across our 18-acre campus. This is something I do because I can, not because I'm an expert. We recently had a fiber link go bad that took several days to locate (because it propagated as many different things), and the result was a real wake up call.<p>So, here's the pitch:
You're a network guru that needs a break from the looming winter. We're in a beautiful remote spot in The Bahamas with gorgeous beaches, great diving, snorkeling, fishing, you name it.
We'll fly you down (and a guest?), put you up and feed you (we'll even pick you up in a van running biodiesel we made from waste cooking oil). All we ask in return is some sound advice on how to move forward and what tools we should add to our belts.
If this sounds too good to pass up, email me: gsiener at ceibahamas.org<p>Thanks!</text></story> |
12,188,379 | 12,186,858 | 1 | 3 | 12,186,036 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gokhan</author><text>An atheist, lefty dev from Turkey here. Never voted for Erdogan and never will. I&#x27;ll dance when he legitimately GTFO, be it election, sickness, his death, legal trial, anything normal in life.<p>But not via a bloody coup. That night, half of the military elite turned against their own people, ordered opening fire to crowds and National Assembly. Some people died on the street in pajamas, think how impulsive people&#x27;s response was against the coup.<p>Mentally, Turkey is a very separated country. There&#x27;s almost no way to unite Erdogan followers with left wing secularists and Kurds. But we are all united against the coup and there are almost no doubt that Gulenists are behind this bloody adventure. For the last 17-18 years, various layers of Turkey came against Gulen and realized how brutal he is against any idea criticizing him. The last layer left was Erdogan&#x27;s followers and they also saw the truth in the last 3 years in two different occasions.<p>Erdogan is still Erdogan, he was on his way to dictatorship and shows signs of using the situation in that way. His past actions makes us believe that. But we still can hope to overthrow him with an election, as we nearly did in June 2015. But there&#x27;s no way to get rid of any general in power because of a bloody coup. Turkey got 3 successful coups in history and we can see clearly how those times held us back in the world scene. We don&#x27;t want any more of that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all</title><url>http://www.zeit.de/wissen/2016-07/turkish-academics-human-rights-ban-travel-recep-tayyip-erdogan/komplettansicht</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kweks</author><text>This has been going on for years under Tayyip unfortunately. Around the time of the Gezi protests, I had several renouned journalist friends with high-profile jobs (hurriyet etc) that were immediately axed: their publishers were given the &#x27;choice&#x27; of purging or being shut-down.<p>The only silver-lining is that Tayyip is now under the international spotlight; even if he doesn&#x27;t seem to care, at least more people are aware.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all</title><url>http://www.zeit.de/wissen/2016-07/turkish-academics-human-rights-ban-travel-recep-tayyip-erdogan/komplettansicht</url></story> |
21,729,822 | 21,729,801 | 1 | 3 | 21,729,566 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RVuRnvbM2e</author><text>Yeah the current government has been accelerating an authoritarian slide unencumbered by a bill of rights. Neither major party supports such a document and without it you get bullshit like this recent secret trial and imprisonment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2019-11-21&#x2F;canberra-prisoner-prompts-secrecy-debate&#x2F;11726654" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2019-11-21&#x2F;canberra-prisoner-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The CIVICUS Monitor</title><url>https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/2019/12/5/downgrading-of-australias-open-democracy-status-a-stark-reminder-of-the-need-to-create-an-australian-charter-of-human-rights-and-freedoms</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajxs</author><text>I was hoping that this article was going to be more of an in-depth critique of the poor state of regulatory capture and disruption of democratic institutions by bad actors in the private sector. My local state government ( NSW ) has been steadily growing more ostensibly corrupt over the last decade. I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s many people denying the fact that wealthy business stakeholders get a disproportionate say in legislation and the allocation of public resources at the moment.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The CIVICUS Monitor</title><url>https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/2019/12/5/downgrading-of-australias-open-democracy-status-a-stark-reminder-of-the-need-to-create-an-australian-charter-of-human-rights-and-freedoms</url></story> |
28,084,988 | 28,084,941 | 1 | 2 | 28,082,348 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kieranmaine</author><text>A 2019 UK government report found tyre wear, brake wear and road surface wear to be problematic:<p>From &quot;Report: Non-Exhaust Emissions from Road Traffic&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk-air.defra.gov.uk&#x2F;library&#x2F;reports.php?report_id=992" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk-air.defra.gov.uk&#x2F;library&#x2F;reports.php?report_id=99...</a>)<p>&quot;Data from the UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory
indicate that particles from brake wear, tyre wear and road surface wear currently constitute
60% and 73% (by mass), respectively, of primary PM2.5 and PM10 emissions from road
transport, and will become more dominant in the future. Currently they contribute 7.4% and
8.5% of all UK primary PM2.5 and PM10 emissions. Therefore to achieve further gains in PM2.5
and PM10 air quality in relation to road transport sources requires attention to reducing non-
exhaust emissions, not solely a focus on lowering exhaust emissions.<p>The magnitudes of non-exhaust emissions are, however, highly uncertain, particularly when
compared to data for exhaust emissions.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>raxxorrax</author><text>I think air quality is often neglected severely. Best personal solution would probably to move to the countryside.<p>I have no sources at hand, but some said that electric cars don&#x27;t solve the worst pollution because tire wear and breaks causes the worst problems.<p>You find many articles that state it is 1000 times worse, but they aren&#x27;t too credible in my opinion. Still, the pollution is real.<p>Dust can also come from pollen. Aside from allergies, it is probably not as unhealthy as plastic.</text></item><item><author>cenophor</author><text>This reeks like a con-artists rephrasing perfectly normal and mundane observations into scary-sounding situations so that people would buy the air-filter companies that are funding your research.<p>I&#x27;m all for cleaner air and I don&#x27;t doubt that the <i>already well-established</i> negative effects of high CO2 or VOC concentrations on us, but can we at least keep any discussion to non-anecdotal, strong scientific evidence? None the articles linked both here show any rigorous statistics that pinpoint cause and effects, it&#x27;s all handwavy conjectures with &quot;common sense&quot; evidence and statistical dressing to show correlation. Correlation doesn&#x27;t even necessarily mean causality. Some of the articles even have *may&quot; in the title, you can be the judge.<p>Probably an unpopular opinion given the large amount of anecdotal science already posted.<p>Dust on carpet is bad and particularly if you don&#x27;t clean it and let stuff grow - we all know that already and we don&#x27;t need a laser pointer to show kids how scary it is. Just because you can see it doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean it&#x27;s worse, and just because you can&#x27;t see it doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean it&#x27;s better.<p>It&#x27;s just insanity that everyone is suddenly a scientists with a few anecdotes or links to articles that show correlation but not causality.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/scientist-says-cleaning-indoor-air-could-make-us-healthier-and-smarter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elric</author><text>Ah yes, the countryside. Not quite sure how we&#x27;re going to be housing 7+billion in the countryside.<p>Doesn&#x27;t seem like a practical solution. Not in the least because moving the countryside will increase car dependence and pollution. But I guess the view might be nicer in the short term.<p>I agree that air quality is probably neglected. Mechanical ventilation (with or without heat&#x2F;enthalpy recovery) with filters seem like a net win in every dwelling. I haven&#x27;t had to open a window since installing mine. Less pollen, way less mosquitos, and constant fresh air. A lot cheaper in the long term than those gimmicky devices which circulate indoor air and filter out a bit. If it&#x27;s in your house, you&#x27;ve already inhaled it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raxxorrax</author><text>I think air quality is often neglected severely. Best personal solution would probably to move to the countryside.<p>I have no sources at hand, but some said that electric cars don&#x27;t solve the worst pollution because tire wear and breaks causes the worst problems.<p>You find many articles that state it is 1000 times worse, but they aren&#x27;t too credible in my opinion. Still, the pollution is real.<p>Dust can also come from pollen. Aside from allergies, it is probably not as unhealthy as plastic.</text></item><item><author>cenophor</author><text>This reeks like a con-artists rephrasing perfectly normal and mundane observations into scary-sounding situations so that people would buy the air-filter companies that are funding your research.<p>I&#x27;m all for cleaner air and I don&#x27;t doubt that the <i>already well-established</i> negative effects of high CO2 or VOC concentrations on us, but can we at least keep any discussion to non-anecdotal, strong scientific evidence? None the articles linked both here show any rigorous statistics that pinpoint cause and effects, it&#x27;s all handwavy conjectures with &quot;common sense&quot; evidence and statistical dressing to show correlation. Correlation doesn&#x27;t even necessarily mean causality. Some of the articles even have *may&quot; in the title, you can be the judge.<p>Probably an unpopular opinion given the large amount of anecdotal science already posted.<p>Dust on carpet is bad and particularly if you don&#x27;t clean it and let stuff grow - we all know that already and we don&#x27;t need a laser pointer to show kids how scary it is. Just because you can see it doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean it&#x27;s worse, and just because you can&#x27;t see it doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean it&#x27;s better.<p>It&#x27;s just insanity that everyone is suddenly a scientists with a few anecdotes or links to articles that show correlation but not causality.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/scientist-says-cleaning-indoor-air-could-make-us-healthier-and-smarter</url></story> |
4,462,327 | 4,462,238 | 1 | 2 | 4,462,117 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dylanpyle</author><text>I found this solution for a very similar problem, which is roughly the same approach:<p><a href="http://dira.ro/2011/10/17/heroku-s3-canvas-and-the-security-error-of-doom" rel="nofollow">http://dira.ro/2011/10/17/heroku-s3-canvas-and-the-security-...</a><p>Implementation here:
<a href="https://github.com/dira/cross-domain-image-proxy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dira/cross-domain-image-proxy</a><p>And a jQuery plugin here:
<a href="https://github.com/rlmattax/jquery-s3-image-proxy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rlmattax/jquery-s3-image-proxy</a><p>After weighing the pros and cons of proxying versus this, I settled on the postMessage strategy -- but still no fun at all, and I'm so glad that CORS is finally an option.</text><parent_chain><item><author>theli0nheart</author><text>Hah, about time.<p>About 6 months ago I rewrote the Let's Crate (<a href="https://letscrate.com" rel="nofollow">https://letscrate.com</a>) backend to work exclusively with Amazon S3 Direct POST uploads. Getting upload progress to work with that was a royal PITA, but in the end I got it working. If you're interested in how, perhaps that's a good subject for a far more lengthy post on how to write extremely convoluted Javascript. I gave myself a pat on the back (no flash, yay!) and vowed to never do anything like that again.<p>As requested: Basically, the gist is that you accept the upload via a local JS file that acts as a conduit. You then turn the dropped / selected file object into a blob object and transfer that blob JS file that lives on S3 (using postMessage and a hidden iframe). That JS file on S3 is what actually performs the upload and tracks the upload progress. On progress events, I send back postMessage payloads to the local JS file to show updates to the user.<p>Convoluted, but it works. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon S3 - Cross Origin Resource Sharing Support</title><url>http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/08/amazon-s3-cross-origin-resource-sharing.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tectonic</author><text>I'd really like to hear about how you did this. Any chance of open sourcing it?</text><parent_chain><item><author>theli0nheart</author><text>Hah, about time.<p>About 6 months ago I rewrote the Let's Crate (<a href="https://letscrate.com" rel="nofollow">https://letscrate.com</a>) backend to work exclusively with Amazon S3 Direct POST uploads. Getting upload progress to work with that was a royal PITA, but in the end I got it working. If you're interested in how, perhaps that's a good subject for a far more lengthy post on how to write extremely convoluted Javascript. I gave myself a pat on the back (no flash, yay!) and vowed to never do anything like that again.<p>As requested: Basically, the gist is that you accept the upload via a local JS file that acts as a conduit. You then turn the dropped / selected file object into a blob object and transfer that blob JS file that lives on S3 (using postMessage and a hidden iframe). That JS file on S3 is what actually performs the upload and tracks the upload progress. On progress events, I send back postMessage payloads to the local JS file to show updates to the user.<p>Convoluted, but it works. :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon S3 - Cross Origin Resource Sharing Support</title><url>http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/08/amazon-s3-cross-origin-resource-sharing.html</url><text></text></story> |
14,132,205 | 14,132,299 | 1 | 2 | 14,131,206 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Jasper_</author><text>There is a weapon durability system, but it&#x27;s actually a super well-designed thing to keep the pace of the game active and frantic. Basically, it&#x27;s the game&#x27;s way of making sure you experiment and play around with new weapon types, give you more of an interplay during combat by picking up enemy weapons and using it against them, and giving you overpowered weapons without letting you just find &quot;the best weapon&quot; and keep it forever.<p>At this stage in my playthrough, I often have to explicitly toss out weapons because I have too many -- very rarely do I run out of weapons and have to farm.</text><parent_chain><item><author>johnchristopher</author><text>I was ready to throw money at it until a friend of mine told me I had to farm some sticks to get weapons because it wears out. Can you confirm ?</text></item><item><author>PopsiclePete</author><text>The new Zelda is amazing. Not only the best Zelda game ever made, I think it&#x27;s just one of the best 3rd person open-world adventure games ever made, for any system, period. Definitely a system seller.<p>I&#x27;m interested in nothing else right now though - the rest of the available games seem like Indie shovel-ware or re-releases. Shovel Knight. Come on, that&#x27;s like 2 years old by now.<p>I&#x27;ll still buy every Nintendo game they make for this, but highly unlikely I&#x27;ll end up with a sizable 3rd party collection on it. Got a PS4 Pro for that.</text></item><item><author>RubenSandwich</author><text>As the article alludes to this is in large part due to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Which has a higher than 100% attach rate on the Switch, which is simply amazing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History</title><url>http://time.com/4739562/nintendo-switch-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-launch-sales/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PopsiclePete</author><text>He&#x27;s not technically wrong, he&#x27;s just....basically wrong.
Weapons and shields wear out. But I always have at least 5 on my and you can usually pick up the enemy you just killed&#x27;s weapon. I&#x27;ve never been short on weapons.<p>It&#x27;s a little sad to see that awesome sword you kinda got attached to break, but....there&#x27;s always something new to try. Two-handed spears, giant hammers - adds nice variety.<p>I&#x27;m yet to farm anything.</text><parent_chain><item><author>johnchristopher</author><text>I was ready to throw money at it until a friend of mine told me I had to farm some sticks to get weapons because it wears out. Can you confirm ?</text></item><item><author>PopsiclePete</author><text>The new Zelda is amazing. Not only the best Zelda game ever made, I think it&#x27;s just one of the best 3rd person open-world adventure games ever made, for any system, period. Definitely a system seller.<p>I&#x27;m interested in nothing else right now though - the rest of the available games seem like Indie shovel-ware or re-releases. Shovel Knight. Come on, that&#x27;s like 2 years old by now.<p>I&#x27;ll still buy every Nintendo game they make for this, but highly unlikely I&#x27;ll end up with a sizable 3rd party collection on it. Got a PS4 Pro for that.</text></item><item><author>RubenSandwich</author><text>As the article alludes to this is in large part due to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Which has a higher than 100% attach rate on the Switch, which is simply amazing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History</title><url>http://time.com/4739562/nintendo-switch-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-launch-sales/</url></story> |
20,779,223 | 20,777,992 | 1 | 2 | 20,777,206 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sinker</author><text>My living depends on selling small-batch, high quality, independently made woodworking items and I&#x27;ve struggled with this. Selling on Amazon feels like you&#x27;re relinquishing control over your product, much more so than Ebay or Etsy. Just yesterday I&#x27;ve had a third party seller somehow merge my product into their own product listing, taking the small number of 5 star reviews I earned organically with them. They sell a completely unrelated product and in their page you&#x27;ll notice the reviews refer to a bunch of unrelated products. Meanwhile what the customer sees on the search page is a 4.5 star item. After some research it appears this is a common problem. How something so egregious can happen at all is puzzling.<p>Well I&#x27;ve decided Amazon isn&#x27;t for me, for now. I have a dedicated website for my business but I don&#x27;t know what is the right way to drive traffic.<p>Could you mind explaining what your approach has been?</text><parent_chain><item><author>leemcalilly</author><text>As a small niche retailer that makes and sells guitar straps in Nashville I couldn’t agree more. Our experiments selling on Amazon have only hurt us, but Prime is a huge time &amp; shipping $$ saver for re-ordering supplies for our shop and even materials used to make our products. We’ve experimented with selling on a lot of different sites (Amazon, Etsy, Reverb, etc) and have found the best way to control the brand and customer experience is selling solely on our website <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;originalfuzz.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;originalfuzz.com</a>. So we both rely on Amazon to run our business, while feel we’re actively doing harm to our brand when we sell our products there. We’re giving up revenue in the short term by not taking a multi-channel approach to sales, but we think it will pay dividends over the long term because we’re able to provide a consistent customer experience with each order.</text></item><item><author>Darmody</author><text>Amazon overall quality has droped in recent years.<p>I use to buy from Amazon because I knew I was buying original brands and no chinese cheap copies. Well, that changed a lot. There are specific things that I still buy from Amazon but on most things there&#x27;s almost no difference between they and Aliexpress. I can buy the same products from Aliexpress way cheaper and have them delivered in 2-3 days.<p>Thankfully there are a lot of small online shops where quality and customer support are taken very seriously. The bad thing is these stores are very specific so if I need different unrelated products I have to buy from several stores, having to pay sometimes a few euro for the delivery. This also made me buy less stuff. Now I generally wait until I need more things or until my cart has enough stuff for a free delivery.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-ceded-control-of-its-site-the-result-thousands-of-banned-unsafe-or-mislabeled-products-11566564990?mod=rsswn</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>Very nice website and you offer Apple Pay. I’d totally buy direct from you over going to Amazon. I think you’re on the right track.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leemcalilly</author><text>As a small niche retailer that makes and sells guitar straps in Nashville I couldn’t agree more. Our experiments selling on Amazon have only hurt us, but Prime is a huge time &amp; shipping $$ saver for re-ordering supplies for our shop and even materials used to make our products. We’ve experimented with selling on a lot of different sites (Amazon, Etsy, Reverb, etc) and have found the best way to control the brand and customer experience is selling solely on our website <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;originalfuzz.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;originalfuzz.com</a>. So we both rely on Amazon to run our business, while feel we’re actively doing harm to our brand when we sell our products there. We’re giving up revenue in the short term by not taking a multi-channel approach to sales, but we think it will pay dividends over the long term because we’re able to provide a consistent customer experience with each order.</text></item><item><author>Darmody</author><text>Amazon overall quality has droped in recent years.<p>I use to buy from Amazon because I knew I was buying original brands and no chinese cheap copies. Well, that changed a lot. There are specific things that I still buy from Amazon but on most things there&#x27;s almost no difference between they and Aliexpress. I can buy the same products from Aliexpress way cheaper and have them delivered in 2-3 days.<p>Thankfully there are a lot of small online shops where quality and customer support are taken very seriously. The bad thing is these stores are very specific so if I need different unrelated products I have to buy from several stores, having to pay sometimes a few euro for the delivery. This also made me buy less stuff. Now I generally wait until I need more things or until my cart has enough stuff for a free delivery.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-ceded-control-of-its-site-the-result-thousands-of-banned-unsafe-or-mislabeled-products-11566564990?mod=rsswn</url></story> |
1,811,094 | 1,811,067 | 1 | 2 | 1,810,644 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lwhi</author><text>You know you're heading down a rocky road when third parties are creating your app's privacy functionality.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Engineer Builds Facebook Disconnect</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/google-facebook-disconnec/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>uptown</author><text>You can use FacebookBlocker to accomplish the same thing with extensions for Firefox, Safari, and Chrome:<p><a href="http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/" rel="nofollow">http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Engineer Builds Facebook Disconnect</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/google-facebook-disconnec/</url></story> |
3,232,272 | 3,232,231 | 1 | 2 | 3,231,531 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chunkyslink</author><text>&#62;&#62; If you ever believe the possibility of something like happening is &#62; .00001, do something, anything. If you don't know what to do, contact me (see my profile) and I'll help in any way I can.<p>Its a nice thought, but people in this position often don't want help.<p>My best Friend was doing a PHD in a Biochemistry related field at University College London back in 2003. He was an outgoing person, had a hot girlfriend and lots of friends. He had a what seemed like a great life and an even better future.<p>One night we went out together and had a great night. We went our separate ways about 4am and I we arranged to meet at 5pm the next day.<p>At 2pm the next afternoon I got a call from his flat mate saying that he had committed suicide. He had access to all kinds of chemicals and substances at the as part of his PHD and he had been taking little bits for months and months and making a potent cocktail of poison. He drank the poison and died instantly.<p>There was no note, no explanation and no reason anyone knew. I was the last person (friend) to see him alive.<p>I guess I'm saying - even balanced, successful people have their reasons and you will never know or be told what they are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Horrible. This news is so tragic I really can't focus on anything else now. Which is probably the way it should be.<p>Our community stresses the importance of achievement, success, and technology so much that it's easy to forget what's really most important: each other. Sometimes it takes terrible news like this to jerk us back to that reality.<p>I never knew Ilya, but if any of his friends of family visits this forum, please know that many thoughts and prayers are with you.<p>I have no idea what was behind this, so just a few (possibly related) thoughts:<p>- Let's never forget that everything we do is for other people. They outrank all the ones and zeros. Go hug someone important to you.<p>- If you ever believe the possibility of something like happening is &#62; .00001, do something, anything. If you don't know what to do, contact me (see my profile) and I'll help in any way I can. Nothing can be more important.<p>- This was the ultimate failure. I'm so sorry to hear this and hope that Ilya's family and friends somehow find peace.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/13/diaspora-co-founder-ilya-zhitomirskiy-passes-away-at-21/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>robg</author><text>It's not just our community. There are twice as many suicides as homicides in the U.S.[1] Yet, every nightly newscast is sure to cover the murders. How many talk about the suicides? Worse, suicide is the leading cause of death among college students [2]. It's an epidemic that no one talks about. We've already lost two freshman at MIT this year.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/01/suicide-vs-homicide-by-state-per-100000/" rel="nofollow">http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/01/suicide-vs-homicide-b...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2011/nov/07/uva-study-suicide-leading-cause-death-us-college-s-ar-1442361/" rel="nofollow">http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2011/nov/07/uva-study-sui...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Horrible. This news is so tragic I really can't focus on anything else now. Which is probably the way it should be.<p>Our community stresses the importance of achievement, success, and technology so much that it's easy to forget what's really most important: each other. Sometimes it takes terrible news like this to jerk us back to that reality.<p>I never knew Ilya, but if any of his friends of family visits this forum, please know that many thoughts and prayers are with you.<p>I have no idea what was behind this, so just a few (possibly related) thoughts:<p>- Let's never forget that everything we do is for other people. They outrank all the ones and zeros. Go hug someone important to you.<p>- If you ever believe the possibility of something like happening is &#62; .00001, do something, anything. If you don't know what to do, contact me (see my profile) and I'll help in any way I can. Nothing can be more important.<p>- This was the ultimate failure. I'm so sorry to hear this and hope that Ilya's family and friends somehow find peace.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/13/diaspora-co-founder-ilya-zhitomirskiy-passes-away-at-21/</url></story> |
37,504,582 | 37,504,268 | 1 | 3 | 37,503,351 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qiqitori</author><text>Inconvenient opinion in the adware-fueled tech world, but ad income isn&#x27;t a stable or safe source of income, and it&#x27;s likely they&#x27;re feeling that, and therefore jacking up the price for the engine. The big tech companies themselves feel it and spend a lot of money on &quot;Other Bets&quot;.<p>Noob consumers may click ads, but after a while they program their brain to filter them out automatically. Or occasionally filter them out using technological measures. I bet that most ad clicks are by mistake or similar (especially ads in Unity games (which AFAIK are interstitial video ads)), or the user wasn&#x27;t realizing what they were clicking on was an ad (noob users, or e.g. ads at the top of Google results, which used to be much easier to distinguish from actual results).<p>Most of my ad clicks are by mistake (due to bad page layout, or there just happened to be an ad where I happened to click), some (a handful of times per year at best) are to satisfy curiosity. And maybe a single one in my lifetime actually led to a purchase.<p>Google ads started out text-only, now they&#x27;re pretty jarring on average. Guess why. However, there&#x27;s a limit to how jarring you can make ads before consumers say bye-bye. Unity ads are probably way over the limit, Google are sort of tip-toeing along the line (or let&#x27;s say they&#x27;re over the line for a minority, and not quite for the rest).</text><parent_chain><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>This blog post points out something really interesting:<p>&gt; Less than half their revenue comes from game engines. Over half comes from advertising.<p>That is to say, Unity makes most of its money from people PLAYING games made with Unity. The sales to the developers are secondary. Unity had to change their model, and that meant either making the engine cheaper to acquire more games to get more ads, or it meant raising the price of the engine at the likely cost of ads, and for some reason they chose option 2, which seems like a dumb idea.<p>The best explanation for that I can think of is that almost all of the advertising money should be coming from smaller mobile games, and so this is a move to try and make more money from the desktop games and the mobile games that don&#x27;t use Unity&#x27;s ad networks, which probably look like big, untapped sources of income to dumber product managers.<p>But now imagine that they did the opposite: they raise the maximum revenue requirements and &quot;must show splash screen&quot; requirements and generally make Unity more available for less. Engine revenue goes down a bit, but ad revenue goes up, which probably works out even better in the long run, but also solidifies the user base, garners good will, and generally leaves everybody feeling great about Unity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Game Development Post-Unity</title><url>https://www.computerenhance.com/p/game-development-post-unity</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edgyquant</author><text>If their decision was made at the expense of advertisers&#x2F;advertising it’s one we should all wholly support.</text><parent_chain><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>This blog post points out something really interesting:<p>&gt; Less than half their revenue comes from game engines. Over half comes from advertising.<p>That is to say, Unity makes most of its money from people PLAYING games made with Unity. The sales to the developers are secondary. Unity had to change their model, and that meant either making the engine cheaper to acquire more games to get more ads, or it meant raising the price of the engine at the likely cost of ads, and for some reason they chose option 2, which seems like a dumb idea.<p>The best explanation for that I can think of is that almost all of the advertising money should be coming from smaller mobile games, and so this is a move to try and make more money from the desktop games and the mobile games that don&#x27;t use Unity&#x27;s ad networks, which probably look like big, untapped sources of income to dumber product managers.<p>But now imagine that they did the opposite: they raise the maximum revenue requirements and &quot;must show splash screen&quot; requirements and generally make Unity more available for less. Engine revenue goes down a bit, but ad revenue goes up, which probably works out even better in the long run, but also solidifies the user base, garners good will, and generally leaves everybody feeling great about Unity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Game Development Post-Unity</title><url>https://www.computerenhance.com/p/game-development-post-unity</url></story> |
13,504,411 | 13,503,499 | 1 | 2 | 13,503,186 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>insickness</author><text>A few years before he died, I heard Kim Peek speak at an event. He was a savant who retained 98% of everything he read. He would memorize phone books simply by reading them once. When he read, his left eye would read the left page while his right eye would read the right page at the same time. He could tell anyone the sports scores listed in the newspaper on the day they were born. He was also severely socially impaired and couldn&#x27;t carry on a conversation.<p>His father described his condition as being due to having his left and right hemisphere fused together where as most people&#x27;s are separate with communication channels between them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness</title><url>http://neurosciencenews.com/split-brain-consciousness-6011/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>advisedwang</author><text>Interestingly this work contradicts not just previous theory, but also previous experimental result. I would be interested to see if they have a critique for why the previous runs of the experiment provided a different experimental result.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness</title><url>http://neurosciencenews.com/split-brain-consciousness-6011/</url></story> |
22,204,878 | 22,204,994 | 1 | 2 | 22,201,337 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>twic</author><text>&gt; You can easily<p>With the usual caveat, &quot;if you are working for a big tech company in the bay area&quot;.<p>In London, starting on 30k and rising to 80k after ten years, not so easily.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eugenekolo</author><text>How many years of work do you have in the tech industry? It seems in the current market (not even assuming SF salaries), and without kids&#x2F;other dependents, it&#x27;s fairly easy to reach that point. Just curious, because a lot of people have this mentality that they need to work forever and ever, but it often is just a mindset.<p>You can easily amass 500k-1M and just coast on 40k&#x2F;year in expenses for a long time. If it&#x27;s something you want... a lot of people want kids, or to live in high cost areas, or to accumulate wealth to pass on, or have dependents such as elderly parents, or enjoy money a lot.</text></item><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>Looks like this guy is trying to run a lifestyle business, and his investments pay enough interest that he can coast for a long, long time.<p>To be quite honest: He&#x27;s spending all day <i>playing</i>.<p>That&#x27;s a position I envy quite a bit.</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>Two cents offered because this post really strikes a chord with me, and I also spent some time chasing down rabbit holes early in my software business:<p>These products do not appear obviously commercializable and multiple years invested into them without materially improving the businesses does not decrease my confidence in that snap judgment. You could probably talk to business owners with problems, launch an (appropriately priced; hundreds to thousands of dollars per year) product against those problems, build contingent on getting 10 commits to buy, and be at +&#x2F;- $100k in 12 to 18 months. Many people with less technical and writing ability have done this in e.g. the MicroConf community. If you want the best paint-by-numbers approach to it I&#x27;ve seen, c.f. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw&amp;t=2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw&amp;t=2s</a><p>(I&#x27;ll note that What Got Done is probably a viable boutique SaaS business if you somehow figured out distribution for it, at price points between $50 and $200 per month. My confidence on this approaches total. HNers skeptical because it is technically trivial should probably reflect for a moment on how much time is spent on standups at a company with 20 or 200 engineers, what one hour of their time is worth, and how likely that company is to put an engineer on this project specifically.)<p>If you run an API-based business in the future: Usage-based billing is a really tricky business model for a solo developer. Note that you can say &quot;Usage-based billing but we have a minimum commitment&quot;, and probably should prior to doing speculative integration engineering work. Your minimum commitment should be north of $1,000 per month; practically nobody can integrate with your API for cheaper than a thousand dollars of engineering time, right.<p>This also counsels aiming at problems amenable to solutions with APIs which are trivially worth $1,000++ a month to many businesses which can hire engineers. Parsing recipe ingredients seems like a very constrained problem space. Consider e.g. parsing W-2s or bank statements or similar; many more businesses naturally care about intake of those documents, getting accurate data from them, and introducing that data into a lucrative business process that they have.<p>I would encourage you, to the maximum extent compatible with your sanity, to prioritize &quot;Will this get me more customers?&quot; over behind-the-scenes investments like CI&#x2F;CD which are very appropriate to Google but will under no circumstance show up in next year&#x27;s report as One Of The Most Important Things I Did This Year.<p>For similar reasons, I would suggest devoting approximately zero cycles to cost control. You don&#x27;t have a cost problem and no amount of cost control will bend the curve of your current businesses to sustainability. You have a revenue problem. Your desired state in the medium term will make it economically irrational for you to think for more than a minute about a $50 a month SaaS expense; marketing and sales gets you to that desired state, not cost control.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Second Year as a Solo Developer</title><url>https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-2/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yibg</author><text>I wonder if this is a good or bad position to be in to start a life style business.<p>I’m fortunate enough to be in this situation, where if I go somewhere cheap and keep my expenses down I can sustain myself financially for a long time, maybe indefinitely. And I’ve though about leaving my salaried job to do my own thing many times. I do worry though that the lack of financial pressure will just leave me lazy and “playing around” instead of focusing on building a financially viable business.<p>Anyone else have experience with this?</text><parent_chain><item><author>eugenekolo</author><text>How many years of work do you have in the tech industry? It seems in the current market (not even assuming SF salaries), and without kids&#x2F;other dependents, it&#x27;s fairly easy to reach that point. Just curious, because a lot of people have this mentality that they need to work forever and ever, but it often is just a mindset.<p>You can easily amass 500k-1M and just coast on 40k&#x2F;year in expenses for a long time. If it&#x27;s something you want... a lot of people want kids, or to live in high cost areas, or to accumulate wealth to pass on, or have dependents such as elderly parents, or enjoy money a lot.</text></item><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>Looks like this guy is trying to run a lifestyle business, and his investments pay enough interest that he can coast for a long, long time.<p>To be quite honest: He&#x27;s spending all day <i>playing</i>.<p>That&#x27;s a position I envy quite a bit.</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>Two cents offered because this post really strikes a chord with me, and I also spent some time chasing down rabbit holes early in my software business:<p>These products do not appear obviously commercializable and multiple years invested into them without materially improving the businesses does not decrease my confidence in that snap judgment. You could probably talk to business owners with problems, launch an (appropriately priced; hundreds to thousands of dollars per year) product against those problems, build contingent on getting 10 commits to buy, and be at +&#x2F;- $100k in 12 to 18 months. Many people with less technical and writing ability have done this in e.g. the MicroConf community. If you want the best paint-by-numbers approach to it I&#x27;ve seen, c.f. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw&amp;t=2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw&amp;t=2s</a><p>(I&#x27;ll note that What Got Done is probably a viable boutique SaaS business if you somehow figured out distribution for it, at price points between $50 and $200 per month. My confidence on this approaches total. HNers skeptical because it is technically trivial should probably reflect for a moment on how much time is spent on standups at a company with 20 or 200 engineers, what one hour of their time is worth, and how likely that company is to put an engineer on this project specifically.)<p>If you run an API-based business in the future: Usage-based billing is a really tricky business model for a solo developer. Note that you can say &quot;Usage-based billing but we have a minimum commitment&quot;, and probably should prior to doing speculative integration engineering work. Your minimum commitment should be north of $1,000 per month; practically nobody can integrate with your API for cheaper than a thousand dollars of engineering time, right.<p>This also counsels aiming at problems amenable to solutions with APIs which are trivially worth $1,000++ a month to many businesses which can hire engineers. Parsing recipe ingredients seems like a very constrained problem space. Consider e.g. parsing W-2s or bank statements or similar; many more businesses naturally care about intake of those documents, getting accurate data from them, and introducing that data into a lucrative business process that they have.<p>I would encourage you, to the maximum extent compatible with your sanity, to prioritize &quot;Will this get me more customers?&quot; over behind-the-scenes investments like CI&#x2F;CD which are very appropriate to Google but will under no circumstance show up in next year&#x27;s report as One Of The Most Important Things I Did This Year.<p>For similar reasons, I would suggest devoting approximately zero cycles to cost control. You don&#x27;t have a cost problem and no amount of cost control will bend the curve of your current businesses to sustainability. You have a revenue problem. Your desired state in the medium term will make it economically irrational for you to think for more than a minute about a $50 a month SaaS expense; marketing and sales gets you to that desired state, not cost control.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Second Year as a Solo Developer</title><url>https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-2/</url></story> |
34,829,623 | 34,828,846 | 1 | 3 | 34,825,565 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chaosbolt</author><text>Yeah it&#x27;s great as an assistant to a critical thinking human, people who are criticizing it are either doing it for clickbait aka money or expected it go think for them.<p>Like it showed me how to split an audio file into parts with ffmpeg, I&#x27;m sure I knew it at some point but it took me less time than reading the -h or looking for an answer on stackoverflow, especially with google&#x27;s greed that it stopped showing stackoverflow first and sometimes leaves it to the 2nd page and fills the first with garbage, started using yandex as an alternative to google a year ago, now using it by default and google from time to time, it&#x27;s sad that the best product is behind us.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jarjoura</author><text>Just like a human, don&#x27;t use these new AI tools to read your mind.<p>I&#x27;ve found ChatGPT to be impressively helpful at knowing where to continue to look for something. I can write a sentence and explain what I&#x27;m looking for, and maybe even paste in a code snippet, and 10 seconds later I get enough information to go back to Google and continue digging deeper.<p>For me it&#x27;s become a bridge tool. Instead of spending an hour trying to get Google to understand my confusion and endless ads thrown my way, I get a very concise answer with full definitions in case I needed to know. It understands me, which is the most important part.<p>The code examples it spits out are meh, and likely always going to be error prone, but I cannot imagine it won&#x27;t improve over time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Programming AIs worry me</title><url>https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/programming-ais-worry-me/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baby</author><text>This makes me think that what’s really missing from these new AI is a response that asks for more context, instead of directly attempting to give you a correct answer. Often my questions don’t have enough contexts to be answered correctly but the AI never tells me that</text><parent_chain><item><author>jarjoura</author><text>Just like a human, don&#x27;t use these new AI tools to read your mind.<p>I&#x27;ve found ChatGPT to be impressively helpful at knowing where to continue to look for something. I can write a sentence and explain what I&#x27;m looking for, and maybe even paste in a code snippet, and 10 seconds later I get enough information to go back to Google and continue digging deeper.<p>For me it&#x27;s become a bridge tool. Instead of spending an hour trying to get Google to understand my confusion and endless ads thrown my way, I get a very concise answer with full definitions in case I needed to know. It understands me, which is the most important part.<p>The code examples it spits out are meh, and likely always going to be error prone, but I cannot imagine it won&#x27;t improve over time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Programming AIs worry me</title><url>https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/programming-ais-worry-me/</url></story> |
15,231,032 | 15,231,117 | 1 | 2 | 15,230,476 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>intopieces</author><text>Thumbprint is not currently in debate, a Virginia judge ruled it lawful for police to force you to unlock your phone.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;iphone-fingerprint-search-warrant&#x2F;480861&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;iphon...</a><p>iOS 11 has cop mode at least.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DanHulton</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it went far enough. Consider the circumstance where an office or agent wants your phone unlocked. Your passcode is protected, your thumbprint is currently in debate, but holding your phone to your face? If that just always unlocked your phone without any sort of interaction from you? That&#x27;s an uncomfortable level of privacy loss.</text></item><item><author>Tepix</author><text>It was interesting to see how Apple tried to market the fact that you have to look at the phone for FaceID to work. I see that as a hassle, not a feature.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone 8</title><url>https://www.apple.com/iphone-8/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Brendinooo</author><text>iOS beta has a feature that lets you force passcode authentication without a reboot; I&#x27;m assuming this would disable Face ID as well but I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;ll know for sure until the new hardware and software are out in the wild.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;a-hidden-trick-in-the-ios-11-beta-lets-you-disable-touc-1797974234" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;a-hidden-trick-in-the-ios-11-beta-lets-yo...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>DanHulton</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it went far enough. Consider the circumstance where an office or agent wants your phone unlocked. Your passcode is protected, your thumbprint is currently in debate, but holding your phone to your face? If that just always unlocked your phone without any sort of interaction from you? That&#x27;s an uncomfortable level of privacy loss.</text></item><item><author>Tepix</author><text>It was interesting to see how Apple tried to market the fact that you have to look at the phone for FaceID to work. I see that as a hassle, not a feature.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone 8</title><url>https://www.apple.com/iphone-8/</url></story> |
31,427,223 | 31,427,042 | 1 | 2 | 31,426,585 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lucacasonato</author><text>Just to preemptively clear up some confusion: Deno is *not* removing type-checking.<p>The only change is that type checking is now it&#x27;s own subcommand: `deno check`, instead of happening as part of `deno run`.<p>See last releases&#x27; blog post for the rationale: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;v1.21#deno-check-and-the-path-to-not-type-checking-by-default" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;v1.21#deno-check-and-the-path-to-not-t...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deno 1.22</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/v1.22</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>msoad</author><text>Deno getting out of type-checking for the most part is a good thing. Most projects depend on CI for production type checking and editor for local type checking.<p>I also love how Deno is nicely maturing. Can&#x27;t wait to find a problem to solve with Deno!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deno 1.22</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/v1.22</url></story> |
36,834,439 | 36,833,543 | 1 | 2 | 36,833,252 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cj</author><text>The linked post &quot;Showering at the South Pole&quot; is interesting as well. From how they get their water to its rationing.<p>If you arrive on a 90 day journey, you can bank your shower points (not shower) until your last day in the station, and spend your shower credits for a 52 minute shower! (1.3 gallons&#x2F;minute)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brr.fyi&#x2F;posts&#x2F;showering-at-the-south-pole" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brr.fyi&#x2F;posts&#x2F;showering-at-the-south-pole</a><p>&gt; Reasonable options are as follows:<p>&gt; Every 3 days: 102.9 shower-seconds. That’s 1 minute, 42.9 seconds. Bold and daring! Can you rinse off in time?<p>&gt; Every 4 days: 137.2 shower-seconds. That’s 2 minutes, 17.2 seconds. Enjoy the extra time! You’ve earned it.<p>&gt; Every 5 days: 171.5 shower-seconds. That’s 2 minutes, 51.5 seconds. Approaching luxury territory. Enjoy every precious, hard-earned second!<p>&gt; Every 6 days: 205.8 shower-seconds. That’s 3 minutes (!!), 25.8 seconds. High risk, high reward. If you can hold out, you’ll be able to enjoy an indulgent, almost decadent shower.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>South Pole Signage</title><url>https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-signage</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>haunter</author><text>Gravity station <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;southpolestation.com&#x2F;trivia&#x2F;00s&#x2F;gravityvault.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;southpolestation.com&#x2F;trivia&#x2F;00s&#x2F;gravityvault.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>South Pole Signage</title><url>https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-signage</url></story> |
20,041,875 | 20,042,245 | 1 | 2 | 20,041,321 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dhimes</author><text>If TPMS is tire pressure, then you are being unfair. There are cars like Toyota and Audi that have sensors that don&#x27;t work well and even frequent service can&#x27;t keep them off (to the point where some will not-quite-suggest disabling them).<p>So if you are going to downgrade for that, at least have a look at the tires directly and see if one is obviously lower than the others.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matt-attack</author><text>One thing I know riders may do inadvertently which aggravates drivers is slamming the door when you get out. Many are unaware of it, but it&#x27;s quite annoying to the driver.<p>For me, I often rate drivers below 5 for the following common reasons:<p><pre><code> 1. Check engine light is on.
2. TPMS sensor light is on (major safety risk)
3. Poor routing choices (deviations outside the directed route)
</code></pre>
These are professional drivers so I hold them to professional standards with respect to: maintaining their equipment, maintaining a safety standard, and knowing navigation.<p>Edit: Yes TPMS is <i>super</i> flaky. I own three cars equipped with TPMS and I&#x27;ve invested a great deal of time&#x2F;money in maintaining them. But I keep them all in working condition. I can only assume that some of you poo-poo&#x27;ing TPMS are unaware of the Firestone Ford Debacle that caused close to 300 deaths [1]. Under inflated tires are no-joke. Suggesting that it&#x27;s ok to defeat a critical safety system is laughable. Also I live in CA so it&#x27;s not a snow-tire issue.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Firestone_and_Ford_tire_contro...</a></text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>My Uber passenger rating is 4.57. I have no idea whether that&#x27;s good or bad. I&#x27;m typically at pick-up points before the drivers are, I sometimes chat with drivers, I always wear my seatbelt, I sit in the back, and I don&#x27;t make a mess or cause any problems. It&#x27;s hard to know what I could be doing to get a better rating beyond just bribing drivers with cash tips at the end of the ride. I tend to rate every driver a 5 unless they clearly did something wrong, like insane driving (which happens rarely).<p>I&#x27;d be curious to know what the passenger cut-off ratings are, and what thus what kind of behavior is actually kicking people off the app.<p>Also, if there&#x27;s some inherent racial or other protected class bias in the kinds of ratings that people get, then Uber could be in a world of trouble here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/uber-will-start-deactivating-riders-with-low-ratings/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Bartweiss</author><text>I&#x27;d encourage you not to rate low over the TPMS sensor light - it&#x27;s far from a guarantee of actually low tire pressure.<p>On many cars, TPMS sensor problems cause the light to blink at startup, then stay on steadily just like you had a low tire. That includes &quot;the tire doesn&#x27;t have a sensor&quot;, which can save about $200 on each valve stem. Given how quickly an Uber driver can rack up mileage, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if many of them are just saving money on tires by getting sensor-less ones.<p>(Admittedly you can&#x27;t tell if they&#x27;re checking the pressure manually; I would think so to save on tire lifespan, but it&#x27;s obviously not guaranteed. Of course, not seeing the light isn&#x27;t a guarantee either.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>matt-attack</author><text>One thing I know riders may do inadvertently which aggravates drivers is slamming the door when you get out. Many are unaware of it, but it&#x27;s quite annoying to the driver.<p>For me, I often rate drivers below 5 for the following common reasons:<p><pre><code> 1. Check engine light is on.
2. TPMS sensor light is on (major safety risk)
3. Poor routing choices (deviations outside the directed route)
</code></pre>
These are professional drivers so I hold them to professional standards with respect to: maintaining their equipment, maintaining a safety standard, and knowing navigation.<p>Edit: Yes TPMS is <i>super</i> flaky. I own three cars equipped with TPMS and I&#x27;ve invested a great deal of time&#x2F;money in maintaining them. But I keep them all in working condition. I can only assume that some of you poo-poo&#x27;ing TPMS are unaware of the Firestone Ford Debacle that caused close to 300 deaths [1]. Under inflated tires are no-joke. Suggesting that it&#x27;s ok to defeat a critical safety system is laughable. Also I live in CA so it&#x27;s not a snow-tire issue.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Firestone_and_Ford_tire_contro...</a></text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>My Uber passenger rating is 4.57. I have no idea whether that&#x27;s good or bad. I&#x27;m typically at pick-up points before the drivers are, I sometimes chat with drivers, I always wear my seatbelt, I sit in the back, and I don&#x27;t make a mess or cause any problems. It&#x27;s hard to know what I could be doing to get a better rating beyond just bribing drivers with cash tips at the end of the ride. I tend to rate every driver a 5 unless they clearly did something wrong, like insane driving (which happens rarely).<p>I&#x27;d be curious to know what the passenger cut-off ratings are, and what thus what kind of behavior is actually kicking people off the app.<p>Also, if there&#x27;s some inherent racial or other protected class bias in the kinds of ratings that people get, then Uber could be in a world of trouble here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/uber-will-start-deactivating-riders-with-low-ratings/</url></story> |
18,589,223 | 18,589,248 | 1 | 2 | 18,585,677 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>azangru</author><text>When we were looking for a developer for our team, we created a set of small coding challenges testing the candidate&#x27;s knowledge of the most relevant aspects of the language. We wrote automated tests for these challenges, and the main bulk of our interview was having the candidate solve them.<p>The advantages to that approach, as I see it, are:<p>- the developer is tested for knowledge that is most relevant for their current job (as opposed to writing general-purpose algorithms)<p>- the developer is showing their familiarity with a testing environment<p>- writing working code in a code editor seems to me more practical than writing (pseudo)code on paper or on a whiteboard<p>There are, of course, disadvantages to this approach as well. The developer may have hard time working on an unfamiliar machine and not in their favorite code editor (though what we had was quite standard). This might be a tad stressful (although I don&#x27;t know how this compares with solving a general coding problem on a whiteboard, or with a task asking you to think not just of a way to solve a problem, but of a performant way too). And it made us focus on the candidate&#x27;s coding skills too much (which some hiring managers might find objectionable).</text><parent_chain><item><author>weliketocode</author><text>Many people here will disagree with what I&#x27;m about to say, but
if you&#x27;re going to give a coding challenge...<p>I <i>like</i> hackerrank&#x2F;codility style coding challenges.<p><i>gasp</i><p>They&#x27;re timed. They&#x27;re run against a standardized test suite. And they have support for many languages.<p>It&#x27;s really unfortunate the number of companies that give custom take home coding challenges that run the gamut. The problems with which are manifold:<p>- Inconsistent technology and language choices by candidates<p>- Time spent varies wildly and is easily underestimated by companies - and 4-5 hours for an unpaid coding challenge in an early round with a company is a significant investment<p>- Good candidates will de-prioritize your company against others that move faster<p>I know that I only answered a small subset of the question, but it&#x27;s very difficult to lump all developers together and come up with a single, wholistic, and ideal interview process. From the nature of the role (IC&#x2F;Lead&#x2F;Manager) to the technologies&#x2F;specialty to the company&#x27;s mission, the process will need to be customized to some degree.<p>However, do not think that your custom coding challenge will somehow be the perfect key to assessing developers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What should an ideal developer interview process look like?</title><text>We have always complained about the developer interview process being broken. According to you, what does an ideal process look like?</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcv</author><text>I recently did some codility tests, and they were totally fine.<p>I&#x27;m also fine with take-home challenges, though. But you&#x27;re absolutely right that they&#x27;re often vastly underestimated, and you shouldn&#x27;t give someone a take-home assignment when there&#x27;s only a small change they&#x27;ll get hired. It should only be done once you&#x27;re sure you want to hire this candidate <i>if they&#x27;re as good as they seem to be</i>. A take-home assignment is too big to sift the chaff from the wheat in a large group of candidates. But once you&#x27;re sure you&#x27;ll hire them if they do well on it, a take-home test is totally fine.<p>Though such a take-home programming assignment should also involve presenting the result to a group of developers to explain their choices. If you&#x27;re not willing to commit to that, you can&#x27;t expect them to commit to putting in the time to do the assignment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>weliketocode</author><text>Many people here will disagree with what I&#x27;m about to say, but
if you&#x27;re going to give a coding challenge...<p>I <i>like</i> hackerrank&#x2F;codility style coding challenges.<p><i>gasp</i><p>They&#x27;re timed. They&#x27;re run against a standardized test suite. And they have support for many languages.<p>It&#x27;s really unfortunate the number of companies that give custom take home coding challenges that run the gamut. The problems with which are manifold:<p>- Inconsistent technology and language choices by candidates<p>- Time spent varies wildly and is easily underestimated by companies - and 4-5 hours for an unpaid coding challenge in an early round with a company is a significant investment<p>- Good candidates will de-prioritize your company against others that move faster<p>I know that I only answered a small subset of the question, but it&#x27;s very difficult to lump all developers together and come up with a single, wholistic, and ideal interview process. From the nature of the role (IC&#x2F;Lead&#x2F;Manager) to the technologies&#x2F;specialty to the company&#x27;s mission, the process will need to be customized to some degree.<p>However, do not think that your custom coding challenge will somehow be the perfect key to assessing developers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What should an ideal developer interview process look like?</title><text>We have always complained about the developer interview process being broken. According to you, what does an ideal process look like?</text></story> |
21,860,763 | 21,860,698 | 1 | 2 | 21,859,612 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nineteen999</author><text>&gt; but yelling at people who make syscalls directly is good.<p>Why though? Doesn&#x27;t this mean that all non-C based languages are going to be treated somewhat as second class citizens, having to link the standard C library (eg. as Go is doing on some platforms) in order to call into the kernel?<p>While languages such as Go and Rust are aiming to replace&#x2F;displace C due to it being designed in an age where security was considered less of an issue, it seems counter-intuitive to me that we should insist that they should link in the apparent attack surface of the standard C library. The syscall boundary seems an ideal place to make the delineation between the kernel and userland via an established API, and I would have expected that languages that want to displace C be able to use that interface directly in order to bypass the standard C library. That would seem to allow userlands to be built that include no C code whatsoever. But I&#x27;m very obviously no expert.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gok</author><text>This is a pretty weak security mitigation since any ROP attack will typically achieve return-to-libc anyway, but yelling at people who make syscalls directly is good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenBSD system-call-origin verification</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/806776/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway2048</author><text>You still need an information leak of exact address of a libc function to achieve that, that will be different on every program invocation due to ASLR, and brute forcing is useless on a 64bit memory space. Even information leaks about the location of other less useful libc functions + offset isn&#x27;t enough, because OpenBSD randomly relinks libc every boot, so just having the libc of a release to harvest offset information isn&#x27;t useful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gok</author><text>This is a pretty weak security mitigation since any ROP attack will typically achieve return-to-libc anyway, but yelling at people who make syscalls directly is good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenBSD system-call-origin verification</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/806776/</url></story> |
33,611,899 | 33,611,481 | 1 | 2 | 33,610,147 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lawn</author><text>Indeed.<p>Many of my best ideas have come to me in the shower, on a walk and even in the middle of the night.<p>It&#x27;s ridiculous to say you should have a stopwatch with you at all times, so daily billing it is.<p>If they don&#x27;t want to that, just assign 8 hours as a full day and stop worrying of you reach them or not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pm</author><text>Do yourself a favour, and bill by the day, rather than by the hour. Engineering is creative work, and you&#x27;re paid to think - code is just the end product. Thinking happens consciously and unconsciously, at all times of the day. Billing by the day will allow you to focus on the work rather than the administrivia.<p>Whatever you do, do not drop your rate: you&#x27;ll just be undervalued by your clients.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Hourly billers, do you bill for only focused work?</title><text>I have noticed that trying to bill at higher rates has been becoming more difficult and if I don&#x27;t work a full 8 hours it appears that I am slacking off. The vast majority of software engineers do not do 8 hours of actual work, even including meetings.<p>However, I sometimes notice other contractors billing a full 40-hour work week and clients not batting an eye.<p>Am I being too honest, and should I continue billing for the fifteen minutes I go off reading HN, having lunch, or any other short break?<p>Edit: I guess what I meant to say, is lowering my rate by around 25%, but also being less picky on what I should bill so that I can earn the same amount, acceptable?</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>newbYhrly</author><text>Yes, this. If I think it will take 2 days, I say 3 and hand off on day 3. Numbers are just examples.<p>I get half up front, half on delivery.<p>Trying to juggle a set of rules for when to run the clock is a distraction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pm</author><text>Do yourself a favour, and bill by the day, rather than by the hour. Engineering is creative work, and you&#x27;re paid to think - code is just the end product. Thinking happens consciously and unconsciously, at all times of the day. Billing by the day will allow you to focus on the work rather than the administrivia.<p>Whatever you do, do not drop your rate: you&#x27;ll just be undervalued by your clients.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Hourly billers, do you bill for only focused work?</title><text>I have noticed that trying to bill at higher rates has been becoming more difficult and if I don&#x27;t work a full 8 hours it appears that I am slacking off. The vast majority of software engineers do not do 8 hours of actual work, even including meetings.<p>However, I sometimes notice other contractors billing a full 40-hour work week and clients not batting an eye.<p>Am I being too honest, and should I continue billing for the fifteen minutes I go off reading HN, having lunch, or any other short break?<p>Edit: I guess what I meant to say, is lowering my rate by around 25%, but also being less picky on what I should bill so that I can earn the same amount, acceptable?</text></story> |
10,199,709 | 10,199,417 | 1 | 3 | 10,196,457 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nkurz</author><text><i>And you have to wonder what is going to be invented before then that will make us look at the homes we are living in right now and think, &quot;How did I ever live in such a backwards, primitive building?</i><p>If you didn&#x27;t see it, you might appreciate this article from a bit ago about preserving some of the last remaining turf farm houses in Iceland:<p><pre><code> Until a century ago, and even into the 1940s, the nation’s
skyline was dominated by squat, clustered turf houses. Yet
despite turf’s vital role in Iceland’s history, you won’t
see much of it today. Over a few brief generations,
Icelanders have grown ashamed of and buried this
architectural tradition, which has taken on the connotation
of backwardness.
</code></pre>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;roadsandkingdoms.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;turf-war&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;roadsandkingdoms.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;turf-war&#x2F;</a><p>(Separately, I&#x27;ll mention that I really appreciate the level of effort you put into your comments here. They are great!)</text><parent_chain><item><author>logfromblammo</author><text>The thing that terrifies me is that the law in many industrialized countries would consider the structure that he built to be unfit for human habitation, due to multiple severe building code violations.<p>100 years ago, it would have been an acceptable dwelling, or even desirable. Thanks to the pace of progress, in just 50 years, houses built to <i>today&#x27;s</i> standards might be considered too primitive for human habitation.<p>And you have to wonder what is going to be invented before then that will make us look at the homes we are living in right now and think, &quot;How did I ever live in such a backwards, primitive building?&quot;<p>We might not even realize the importance of it right away. If you think about an indoor flushing toilet, it doesn&#x27;t seem all that remarkable, but now every residence needs to have at least one. Grid power wiring isn&#x27;t all that glamorous, but every home has it. The thing that changes everything might be <i>boring</i> at first glance.<p>And that&#x27;s terrifying. A human can see a device with the power to change the entire world and still say, &quot;<i>meh.</i>&quot;<p>And also aliens would probably need to kidnap at least 10000 in order to maintain a stable breeding population. Otherwise, the humans would have to establish some pretty strict rules against monogamy and inbreeding, <i>and</i> the aliens would have to carefully select a very diverse group to begin with.</text></item><item><author>bane</author><text>This guys&#x27; videos are amazing. If anything should convince you that humans are a uniquely terrifying species it&#x27;s these videos. Walking into the forest with nothing more on that a pair of shorts and a brain, he makes fire, tools, building supplies, ceramics, and entire living structures. The technology he produces by himself is <i>almost</i> on par with many pre-industrial revolution societies where metals (even though they had them) were too expensive to waste on building shelters.<p>For example, if he designed things a little differently, this would pretty much be what the average Korean, now one of the most technologically sophisticated civilizations in the world, lived in up until the late 20th century [1]: tiled roofs, wooden framed houses (they interlocked with notches instead of twine), raised floors with underfloor heating (still copied in modern apartments), earth packed exterior walls. If he had time to pulp wood and make paper he could do interior finishing, and the addition of maybe 1 or 2 precision metal tools he could square off wood work even better and maybe even produce nicer floors.<p>In many civilizations, metal cookware was simply seen as more durable alternatives to ceramic cookware and even followed similar design motifs [2], it can sometimes be difficult to tell from far away if something is a bronze or ceramic pot they often look so similar [3]<p>Pre-industrial revolution, human-scale technology can get pretty impressive, humans managed to settle an entire planet and all of its climates with not much more than the product of their hands, some ideas and a little patience -- basically what this guy has done. If aliens were to kidnap a thousand pre-Industrial Revolution random humans from around Earth and dump them off on a suitable, but empty world. They&#x27;d have it all colonized and populated in probably 10,000-20,000 years. That&#x27;s not even geologic timescale.<p>Terrifying.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hanok" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hanok</a><p>2 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?tbm=isch&amp;q=ancient%20chinese%20ceramic%20bronze&amp;tbs=imgo:1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?tbm=isch&amp;q=ancient%20chinese%2...</a><p>3 - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.users.qwest.net&#x2F;~rjbphx&#x2F;BigPicture&#x2F;PotteryGild.JPG" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.users.qwest.net&#x2F;~rjbphx&#x2F;BigPicture&#x2F;PotteryGild.JP...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and mud and stone walls</title><url>https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xienze</author><text>&gt; 100 years ago, it would have been an acceptable dwelling, or even desirable.<p>I don&#x27;t think a mud hut was ever considered acceptable in any moderately advanced country back in 1915.</text><parent_chain><item><author>logfromblammo</author><text>The thing that terrifies me is that the law in many industrialized countries would consider the structure that he built to be unfit for human habitation, due to multiple severe building code violations.<p>100 years ago, it would have been an acceptable dwelling, or even desirable. Thanks to the pace of progress, in just 50 years, houses built to <i>today&#x27;s</i> standards might be considered too primitive for human habitation.<p>And you have to wonder what is going to be invented before then that will make us look at the homes we are living in right now and think, &quot;How did I ever live in such a backwards, primitive building?&quot;<p>We might not even realize the importance of it right away. If you think about an indoor flushing toilet, it doesn&#x27;t seem all that remarkable, but now every residence needs to have at least one. Grid power wiring isn&#x27;t all that glamorous, but every home has it. The thing that changes everything might be <i>boring</i> at first glance.<p>And that&#x27;s terrifying. A human can see a device with the power to change the entire world and still say, &quot;<i>meh.</i>&quot;<p>And also aliens would probably need to kidnap at least 10000 in order to maintain a stable breeding population. Otherwise, the humans would have to establish some pretty strict rules against monogamy and inbreeding, <i>and</i> the aliens would have to carefully select a very diverse group to begin with.</text></item><item><author>bane</author><text>This guys&#x27; videos are amazing. If anything should convince you that humans are a uniquely terrifying species it&#x27;s these videos. Walking into the forest with nothing more on that a pair of shorts and a brain, he makes fire, tools, building supplies, ceramics, and entire living structures. The technology he produces by himself is <i>almost</i> on par with many pre-industrial revolution societies where metals (even though they had them) were too expensive to waste on building shelters.<p>For example, if he designed things a little differently, this would pretty much be what the average Korean, now one of the most technologically sophisticated civilizations in the world, lived in up until the late 20th century [1]: tiled roofs, wooden framed houses (they interlocked with notches instead of twine), raised floors with underfloor heating (still copied in modern apartments), earth packed exterior walls. If he had time to pulp wood and make paper he could do interior finishing, and the addition of maybe 1 or 2 precision metal tools he could square off wood work even better and maybe even produce nicer floors.<p>In many civilizations, metal cookware was simply seen as more durable alternatives to ceramic cookware and even followed similar design motifs [2], it can sometimes be difficult to tell from far away if something is a bronze or ceramic pot they often look so similar [3]<p>Pre-industrial revolution, human-scale technology can get pretty impressive, humans managed to settle an entire planet and all of its climates with not much more than the product of their hands, some ideas and a little patience -- basically what this guy has done. If aliens were to kidnap a thousand pre-Industrial Revolution random humans from around Earth and dump them off on a suitable, but empty world. They&#x27;d have it all colonized and populated in probably 10,000-20,000 years. That&#x27;s not even geologic timescale.<p>Terrifying.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hanok" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hanok</a><p>2 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?tbm=isch&amp;q=ancient%20chinese%20ceramic%20bronze&amp;tbs=imgo:1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?tbm=isch&amp;q=ancient%20chinese%2...</a><p>3 - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.users.qwest.net&#x2F;~rjbphx&#x2F;BigPicture&#x2F;PotteryGild.JPG" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.users.qwest.net&#x2F;~rjbphx&#x2F;BigPicture&#x2F;PotteryGild.JP...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and mud and stone walls</title><url>https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com</url></story> |
3,181,272 | 3,180,775 | 1 | 3 | 3,180,593 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dirtyaura</author><text>If you are interested in evaluating names, I recommend reading The Igor Naming Guide: <a href="http://www.igorinternational.com/process/igor-naming-guide.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.igorinternational.com/process/igor-naming-guide.p...</a><p>They have quite good categorization of names that helps you think about different names: functional/descriptive, invented, experiential, evocative.
Specifically, they use term 'experiential name' for names that hint or evoke an idea what the product does, but reserve term 'evocative' for positioning. Virgin is a prime example of evocative name, while e.g. Infoseek is a experiential name.<p>A quote from the manual:<p><i>One important way that evocative names differ from others is that they evoke the positioning of a company or product, rather than describing a function or a direct
experience</i><p>The guide also highlights how there can be initial resistance for great (evocative) names. For example, consider Virgin Airlines:<p>"But public wants airlines to be experienced, safe and professional!" or<p>"Religious people will be offended"<p>Or Caterpillar:<p>"Tiny, creepy-crawly bug",<p>"Not macho enough – easy to squash",<p>"Why not "bull" or "workhorse" "?<p>It's a great read.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paul Graham's long-lost 2006 Infogami essay, "Startup Names"</title><url>http://messymatters.com/pgnames.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>InfinityX0</author><text>One of the things discussed here that isn't as frankly discussed in detail is the diminishing value of a one-word name. A startup such as "color" has little value in selecting such a name, at least comparative to the value the name has itself. As Graham discusses, a little iteration, many beers and constant thinking could probably create a name that would only be <i>slightly</i> less effective.<p>Wufoo is such an example. Both are short but with both, I literally have no idea what they do at first mention. But they're both memorable and fit generally good brand rules - while Wufoo, undoubtedly, was a much cheaper domain.<p>But the one-word benefit is strong, and tangible, with a domain such as "shirts.com". Here, there is real and significant SEO benefit, as well as potential branding benefit when posited correctly. When not attached to the physical product - or at least without significant "what the hell this does" connotation - the value of a one-word domain is really not that significant comparative to the perceived mass market value of many of these domains.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Paul Graham's long-lost 2006 Infogami essay, "Startup Names"</title><url>http://messymatters.com/pgnames.html</url></story> |
33,498,805 | 33,498,786 | 1 | 2 | 33,498,342 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>One thing about USB-C PD is that you don&#x27;t need the 96W charger or even an Apple charger to charge your MacBook. While you may miss out on &quot;fast charging&quot; at maximum speed, any USB PD compatible charger will charge your MacBook at the fastest speeds available based on compatibility, automatically.<p>Anker chargers work fairly reliably, are more easily available than Apple chargers (on Amazon etc.) and there are several options for 100W+ PD available.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wwweston</author><text>Back in late April&#x2F;early May I was doing some travel and realized I had totally forgotten my 96 W charger for my work Macbook Pro at home. &quot;Well,&quot; I thought, &quot;no fun to spend my own cash on a new charger, but better than the disaster of losing capacity to work while traveling, guess I&#x27;ll just pop into an Apple Store and pick one up.&quot;<p>They didn&#x27;t have one. OK, I asked -- did they know anyone who did? &quot;No clue, you might want to call Apple Support.&quot;<p>Doing so revealed that there were <i>none of these available anywhere</i>, and the schedule on which they were projected to be available was early July.<p>Fortunately, I had two fallbacks:<p>(1) I was traveling in metro LA, which meant that I could check craigslist or FB marketplace or whatever and maybe a handful of 15mm Angelinos would have something up for sale.<p>(2) The MBP charged via USB-C so presumably I could find anything that could deliver 96W or thereabouts and use it.<p>Option #1 panned out, but it was still a flashbulb moment for me indicating that we&#x27;re not exactly in familiar territory economically. It isn&#x27;t just consumption goods that are sometimes scarce, this was a key piece of equipment the lack of which might have interrupted my productive capacity entirely or forced the cost&#x2F;adaptation of entirely new substitutes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/update-on-supply-of-iphone-14-pro-and-iphone-14-pro-max/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hamandcheese</author><text>You don’t need anywhere near the full wattage, you will just charge slower. I frequently get by with a 60W charger, and I’ve even charged with the USB ports in my car which I think are 30W max.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wwweston</author><text>Back in late April&#x2F;early May I was doing some travel and realized I had totally forgotten my 96 W charger for my work Macbook Pro at home. &quot;Well,&quot; I thought, &quot;no fun to spend my own cash on a new charger, but better than the disaster of losing capacity to work while traveling, guess I&#x27;ll just pop into an Apple Store and pick one up.&quot;<p>They didn&#x27;t have one. OK, I asked -- did they know anyone who did? &quot;No clue, you might want to call Apple Support.&quot;<p>Doing so revealed that there were <i>none of these available anywhere</i>, and the schedule on which they were projected to be available was early July.<p>Fortunately, I had two fallbacks:<p>(1) I was traveling in metro LA, which meant that I could check craigslist or FB marketplace or whatever and maybe a handful of 15mm Angelinos would have something up for sale.<p>(2) The MBP charged via USB-C so presumably I could find anything that could deliver 96W or thereabouts and use it.<p>Option #1 panned out, but it was still a flashbulb moment for me indicating that we&#x27;re not exactly in familiar territory economically. It isn&#x27;t just consumption goods that are sometimes scarce, this was a key piece of equipment the lack of which might have interrupted my productive capacity entirely or forced the cost&#x2F;adaptation of entirely new substitutes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/update-on-supply-of-iphone-14-pro-and-iphone-14-pro-max/</url></story> |
13,832,201 | 13,832,361 | 1 | 2 | 13,831,763 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>A second hand iphone would do just fine and would be cheap. &#x27;Iphone&#x27; does not magically translate into $700 piece of hardware, it could easily be $50 or $100 when bought second hand or even free when a gift from a family member or even a stranger. Heck I know of some iPhones that have gone through 4 pairs of hands by now. Just because the first owner moves on to a newer and shinier model whenever they come out (talk about bad decisions...).</text><parent_chain><item><author>wutbrodo</author><text>I obviously think that Chaffetz&#x27;s comment was roughly as idiotic as you&#x27;d expect from Jason Chaffetz (the high end of Healthcare costs are so exorbitant that any common luxury purchase you can think of completely pales in comparison).<p>But your comment conflates &quot;one of the most expensive smartphones&quot; with &quot;having any connection to the digital world&quot;. No disagreement that connectivity is critical and that mobile devices are an efficient way to get there on a low income, but iPhones are definitely not. My mom doesn&#x27;t have a working computer in her house atm, and her phone cost 200 dollars (or free with carrier subsidy). There&#x27;s pretty much no reason to get an iPhone on purely functional grounds, just as there would be no reason to get a $700 Galaxy S7.<p>Though I should note that ios has moved downmarket when they started selling older models, which filled some of this gap.</text></item><item><author>VonGuard</author><text>For years, my father would say &quot;that guy using the food bank has an iPhone! I don&#x27;t have an iPhone, and I&#x27;m not poor. How can these people afford iPhones?&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a generational thing, especially. iPhones are seen as glamorous luxury items, not as an essential tool for living. I always remind my father that the people who have little money but also have iPhones likely don&#x27;t have a home phone number, home computer, or Internet service in their house. Their iPhone is their only connection to the modern digital world: The one asset they have to get themselves a job, assistance, information. It&#x27;s arguably one of the most important items for a person to own, today, right up there with a car. Without a good phone and a car, people in the US are basically beached on a shore of unemployment, or low employment, especially in rural towns.<p>It&#x27;s incredibly hard for people to get back on the horse when they&#x27;ve fallen off, economically. Even harder if they never had a horse to begin with. At the local library, people are constantly coming in to ask for help with digital literacy problems that affect their lives heavily: paying bills, responding to emails, seeing pictures of their grandchildren that were sent to their email. Having a phone with Internet is literally an essential part of modern life, and the generation that thinks poor people shouldn&#x27;t have iPhones are the same ones who generally view all this technology stuff as magical hoo hah. Like my dad...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Laziness isn’t why people are poor. And iPhones aren’t why they lack health care</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/08/laziness-isnt-why-people-are-poor-and-iphones-arent-why-they-lack-health-care/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>resfirestar</author><text>People with little internet access don&#x27;t have the tools to properly comparison shop, they&#x27;re going to walk into an AT&amp;T or Boost store and probably leave with what the salesperson is able to push on them. iPhones have always been available for around $200 with carrier subsidies, if I&#x27;m not forgetting an early period when it cost more.<p>Then there&#x27;s the issue of older people using the term &quot;iPhone&quot; generically. Poor people overwhelmingly have Android phones (as evidenced by the massive disparity between the perceived iPhone market share in the tech bubble and reality), but it&#x27;s all the same to Republicans.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wutbrodo</author><text>I obviously think that Chaffetz&#x27;s comment was roughly as idiotic as you&#x27;d expect from Jason Chaffetz (the high end of Healthcare costs are so exorbitant that any common luxury purchase you can think of completely pales in comparison).<p>But your comment conflates &quot;one of the most expensive smartphones&quot; with &quot;having any connection to the digital world&quot;. No disagreement that connectivity is critical and that mobile devices are an efficient way to get there on a low income, but iPhones are definitely not. My mom doesn&#x27;t have a working computer in her house atm, and her phone cost 200 dollars (or free with carrier subsidy). There&#x27;s pretty much no reason to get an iPhone on purely functional grounds, just as there would be no reason to get a $700 Galaxy S7.<p>Though I should note that ios has moved downmarket when they started selling older models, which filled some of this gap.</text></item><item><author>VonGuard</author><text>For years, my father would say &quot;that guy using the food bank has an iPhone! I don&#x27;t have an iPhone, and I&#x27;m not poor. How can these people afford iPhones?&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a generational thing, especially. iPhones are seen as glamorous luxury items, not as an essential tool for living. I always remind my father that the people who have little money but also have iPhones likely don&#x27;t have a home phone number, home computer, or Internet service in their house. Their iPhone is their only connection to the modern digital world: The one asset they have to get themselves a job, assistance, information. It&#x27;s arguably one of the most important items for a person to own, today, right up there with a car. Without a good phone and a car, people in the US are basically beached on a shore of unemployment, or low employment, especially in rural towns.<p>It&#x27;s incredibly hard for people to get back on the horse when they&#x27;ve fallen off, economically. Even harder if they never had a horse to begin with. At the local library, people are constantly coming in to ask for help with digital literacy problems that affect their lives heavily: paying bills, responding to emails, seeing pictures of their grandchildren that were sent to their email. Having a phone with Internet is literally an essential part of modern life, and the generation that thinks poor people shouldn&#x27;t have iPhones are the same ones who generally view all this technology stuff as magical hoo hah. Like my dad...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Laziness isn’t why people are poor. And iPhones aren’t why they lack health care</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/08/laziness-isnt-why-people-are-poor-and-iphones-arent-why-they-lack-health-care/</url></story> |
24,565,863 | 24,565,724 | 1 | 2 | 24,565,019 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cybiote</author><text>I enjoyed reading the perspective given in this essay and agree Haskell&#x27;s been (and continues to be) an influential language. So take this criticism as maybe my being overly particular about the meaning of descendant.<p>Idris as a descendant of Haskell I have no argument with.<p>Rust however, is more correctly viewed as (primarily) a descendant of ML languages, which all possess the properties the articles lists as derived from Haskell. Perhaps it is more correct to call Haskell and Rust cousins, both deriving from the same lineage of languages.<p>I would also not call Julia a child of Haskell. As it is more correctly viewed as an interpretation of Matlab as a Lisp, I&#x27;d therefore call Julia a descendant of Lisp. That Haskell single handedly popularized the utility of category theory in computing and that a category theory library is written in Julia does not make Julia a child of Haskell any more than it would have made Ocaml a child of Haskell (there used to be a category theory library written in Ocaml).<p>The popularization of functional programming, Domain specific languages as algebras, reactive (not FRP), property based testing, parser combinators, model view update for UIs, design principles secretly based on monads are all but a few of the ways Haskell has influenced programming. Which is the core point of the essay and with which I am in full agreement.<p>This thread somewhat has the air of an eulogy but it goes without saying that just because something is not the most popular in fashion does not mean it is dying.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Haskell's Children</title><url>https://owenlynch.org/posts/2020-09-16-haskells-children/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnord123</author><text>&gt; It manages to be much faster than most dynamic languages ... It would be unfair to compare the performance of Rust and Haskell, because Haskell is optimized for things other than performance.<p>Hmm...<p>&gt; When I first started using Rust, I really missed monads.<p>Option and Result are Monads. Surely he misses do-notation.<p>&gt; This all being said, I think it is worth looking at the features that are prominent in Haskell that ended up going to Rust ...[list of features that Rust got from SML&#x2F;ocaml]<p>Here are the officially stated Rust influences: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;reference&#x2F;influences.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;reference&#x2F;influences.html</a><p>To say that Rust is a child of Haskell is really overstating the case.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Haskell's Children</title><url>https://owenlynch.org/posts/2020-09-16-haskells-children/</url></story> |
33,101,823 | 33,102,018 | 1 | 2 | 33,099,707 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>Nobody believes this: there&#x27;s a reason why DEF CON has had a voting village for years.<p>What people believe is that, <i>in spite</i> of numerous flaws in voting software, the integrity of the vote is not seriously in question. And there are good reasons for believing this: physical backups, consistency with exit polling and, well, the fact that no party in this godforsaken country has been able to hold onto the presidency for more than 2 terms in nearly 30 years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>adamrezich</author><text>I&#x27;m just tired of the rhetoric that 100% of such software is 100% unassailable and 100% utilized by 100% honest actors with 100% honest motives, 100% of the time, and anything else is a &quot;conspiracy theory.&quot;</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; Konnech distributes and sells its proprietary PollChief software, which is an election worker management system that was utilized by the county in the last California election. The software assists with poll worker assignments, communications and payroll. PollChief requires that workers submit personal identifying information, which is retained by the Konnech.<p>I&#x27;m so very tired of proprietary software made by tiny little outfits being critical to elections.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Head of election worker management company arrested for theft of personal data</title><url>https://da.lacounty.gov/media/news/head-election-worker-management-company-arrested-connection-theft-personal-data</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vkou</author><text>Oh, I agree that elections are not 100% unassailable. In fact, I strongly believe that they <i>are</i> being assailed. Mostly through voter suppression and disenfranchisement.<p>A good example of this is when the state tells you that you can vote, and then arrests you and charges you with voter fraud, because you actually can&#x27;t. [1]<p>Or, alternatively, when the state bars you from voting until you pay all outstanding court fees and fines, but also refuses to tell you whether or not you actually owe any outstanding court fees or fines.<p>You can&#x27;t have a free and fair election when you secretly disqualify people from voting, but refuse to tell them that until <i>after</i> they vote.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.clickorlando.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;27&#x2F;2-people-accused-of-voter-fraud-say-they-were-allowed-to-register-to-vote&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.clickorlando.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;27&#x2F;2-people-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>adamrezich</author><text>I&#x27;m just tired of the rhetoric that 100% of such software is 100% unassailable and 100% utilized by 100% honest actors with 100% honest motives, 100% of the time, and anything else is a &quot;conspiracy theory.&quot;</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; Konnech distributes and sells its proprietary PollChief software, which is an election worker management system that was utilized by the county in the last California election. The software assists with poll worker assignments, communications and payroll. PollChief requires that workers submit personal identifying information, which is retained by the Konnech.<p>I&#x27;m so very tired of proprietary software made by tiny little outfits being critical to elections.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Head of election worker management company arrested for theft of personal data</title><url>https://da.lacounty.gov/media/news/head-election-worker-management-company-arrested-connection-theft-personal-data</url></story> |
36,518,368 | 36,517,883 | 1 | 2 | 36,498,632 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rollcat</author><text>I feel AW is underrated as an everyday tool, especially when it comes to being mindful about contemporary attention sinks.<p>You can do almost anything from it that doesn&#x27;t require a larger screen or a keyboard, and the kinds of activities the larger screen enables tend to mostly just waste your time. Take a typical 2007 &quot;dumb&quot; phone - the watch screen is roughly that size.<p>It becomes awkward when you need to find something on the web (you can&#x27;t even access the browser directly, you need to ask Siri and work with a popup), but I was mildly successful following a recipe when cooking. It&#x27;s plain better than a phone at many other common tasks (following directions, checking the weather, paying for stuff, <i>telling time</i>, etc).<p>The biggest impact it had is that I no longer feel compelled to reach for my phone in most situations. It&#x27;s not just that it saves 5-10 seconds here and there: the context switch is brief enough that I can remain focused on whatever I was doing.<p>(inb4 just turn off notifications, yes I am already very picky about what is allowed to distract me.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>profsummergig</author><text>Was talking to an older lady the other day.<p>Very non-tech. Only uses an iPhone and an Apple watch. No laptop or tablet&#x2F;iPad.<p>Gets a surprisingly large quantity of things done via her phone.<p>My phone is an Android. She shared 2 things her iPhone can do that I don&#x27;t think my phone (OnePlus 7 pro) and watch (Amazfit T-Rex 2) combination can do:<p>- she can always find out where she parked her car<p>- her watch buzzes to warn her if she leaves her keys or phone behind in her car. I think she has some airtag type of thing in her keyring.<p>Surprised that Android phone + watch combination doesn&#x27;t already natively offer these features (with easy discoverability).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The quest for a simple smartwatch</title><url>https://www.binarymoon.co.uk/writing/the-quest-for-a-simple-smartwatch/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lopis</author><text>Google (Maps?) has done the car parking location for 10+ years. But like many things Google, Google software is not well integrated with itself, and discoverability is bad. It&#x27;s perfectly possible that this feature has been removed and re-added several times during the last decade, as is the fate of many Google projects.</text><parent_chain><item><author>profsummergig</author><text>Was talking to an older lady the other day.<p>Very non-tech. Only uses an iPhone and an Apple watch. No laptop or tablet&#x2F;iPad.<p>Gets a surprisingly large quantity of things done via her phone.<p>My phone is an Android. She shared 2 things her iPhone can do that I don&#x27;t think my phone (OnePlus 7 pro) and watch (Amazfit T-Rex 2) combination can do:<p>- she can always find out where she parked her car<p>- her watch buzzes to warn her if she leaves her keys or phone behind in her car. I think she has some airtag type of thing in her keyring.<p>Surprised that Android phone + watch combination doesn&#x27;t already natively offer these features (with easy discoverability).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The quest for a simple smartwatch</title><url>https://www.binarymoon.co.uk/writing/the-quest-for-a-simple-smartwatch/</url></story> |
14,309,580 | 14,309,395 | 1 | 2 | 14,308,754 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RajenK</author><text>Hi, Rajen Kishna here, Product Manager on Visual Studio for Mac. Our goal with Visual Studio for Mac is to create a native IDE for Mac users with workloads that make sense on macOS. That means &quot;desktop app&quot; development will target macOS and Visual Studio (on Windows) can be used to target Windows.<p>The core of the IDE definitely has a heritage in Xamarin Studio, but this release has brought in so much more with .NET Core&#x2F;ASP.NET Core development for web apps&#x2F;services, Unity support for game development and cloud integration with directly publishing your web apps&#x2F;services and previews of Docker and Azure Functions coming very soon.<p>Extensions is definitely another area we&#x27;re looking to align more over time. Currently, there is an extensions framework, but you&#x27;re right that it&#x27;s different from the one used on Windows.<p>Definitely keep the feedback coming, we&#x27;re listening and looking to act and prioritize accordingly!</text><parent_chain><item><author>0x0</author><text>I find the naming &quot;Visual Studio for Mac&quot; pretty deceptive, since apparently it is not anything like the win32 VS environment, but instead based on Xamarin Studio. Even the tagline is deceptive: &quot;The IDE you love, now on the Mac&quot;.<p>I would guess this won&#x27;t let you build&#x2F;debug win32 or winforms or wpf applications, or install any .vsix extensions from the visual studio marketplace (of which there are lots of useful ones, such as this one to manage translations - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=TomEnglert.ResXManager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=TomEngle...</a> ) - correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but if I can&#x27;t install my .vsix extensions, this is not &quot;the IDE you love, now on the Mac&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visual Studio for Mac</title><url>https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>criddell</author><text>Microsoft is the worst at naming things.<p><pre><code> * when .Net first come out, everything was suddenly .Net
* for a while, everything was Live
* they had two technologies called Win RT
* they pick names already in use by others (Metro, Skydrive)
* Visual Studio Code? It&#x27;s not Visual Studio
</code></pre>
Sometimes they do a good job:<p><pre><code> * Edge
* Xenix
* Azure
* XBox
</code></pre>
&quot;Surface&quot; started out pretty strong, but I&#x27;m not sure it means much anymore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0x0</author><text>I find the naming &quot;Visual Studio for Mac&quot; pretty deceptive, since apparently it is not anything like the win32 VS environment, but instead based on Xamarin Studio. Even the tagline is deceptive: &quot;The IDE you love, now on the Mac&quot;.<p>I would guess this won&#x27;t let you build&#x2F;debug win32 or winforms or wpf applications, or install any .vsix extensions from the visual studio marketplace (of which there are lots of useful ones, such as this one to manage translations - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=TomEnglert.ResXManager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=TomEngle...</a> ) - correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but if I can&#x27;t install my .vsix extensions, this is not &quot;the IDE you love, now on the Mac&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Visual Studio for Mac</title><url>https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/</url></story> |
11,333,299 | 11,333,212 | 1 | 3 | 11,332,965 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>msbarnett</author><text>&gt; I suspect that the intelligence and law enforcement communities are afraid that if this case goes to the Supreme Court the All Writs Act may be scaled back or ruled unconstitutional.<p>It&#x27;s not that the act is unconstitutional, it&#x27;s that the interpretation of it that the DoJ has been selling to magistrate judges in <i>ex parte</i> hearings is <i>extremely</i> broad and would never survive appeal.<p>The Supreme Court has made it very clear in multiple rulings that A) The AWA is certainly constitutional and B) it is <i>extremely narrow</i> in its powers and it doesn&#x27;t grant courts anything even remotely similar to the powers the FBI has been pressuring magistrate judges into believing it has.<p>So, essentially, by avoiding a highly publicized appeals smackdown, the FBI can still convince magistrates to issue wildly out-of-line AWA writs, and use those writs to pressure companies&#x2F;people into doing things they wouldn&#x27;t be held to if they had the time&#x2F;money to actually appeal.<p>edit:<p>&gt; The All Writs Act goes back to 1789 and is used for all sorts of things, like wire tapping, obtaining call and ISP records, etc<p>Also, I see this mistake a lot (I&#x27;m not saying you&#x27;re making it, but it&#x27;s a pretty common one). The AWA doesn&#x27;t actually give the government the power to wire tap things, etc. There are separate statutes that authorize wiretapping. All the AWA does, per the Supreme Court, is give courts the authority to issue common law writs in the course of carrying out powers <i>conferred by some other statute</i>. The AWA is described as being a source of &quot;residual&quot; (secondary) power that only acts to help carry out some primary source of authority.<p>The DoJ has been pushing an argument that the AWA is a source of primary power in-and-of-itself in any area of law where congress hasn&#x27;t passed a law saying a court <i>can&#x27;t</i> do X thing, and the writs don&#x27;t have to have antecedents in common law. This more-or-less contradicts any number of Supreme Court rulings. They&#x27;ve only been getting away with it because they get a magistrate Judge to issue them by asking for them in &quot;emergency&quot; <i>ex parte</i> hearings, meaning the other side isn&#x27;t present to offer a competing argument, which the FBI excuses by arguing its a time-sensitive matter (even though it generally isn&#x27;t). One of the amicus briefs in this case was submitted by 32 law professors, who pointed out that this violates due process.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I suspect that the intelligence and law enforcement communities are afraid that if this case goes to the Supreme Court the All Writs Act may be scaled back or ruled unconstitutional.<p>The All Writs Act goes back to 1789 and is used for all sorts of things, like wire tapping, obtaining call and ISP records, etc., and now trying to force Apple to make malware for their own phone.<p>It&#x27;s definitely a risk for the FBI to fight this battle and potentially lose a tool they use all the time. Since there is probably no new info on the phone, it may not be worth the risk of making this a big fight with a motivated and well-financed adversary like Apple.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/technology/apple-fbi-hearing-unlock-iphone.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cturner</author><text>I assume they are not particularly interested in the phone itself. Rather, that they have been shopping for a situation with the character of this one so as to try their luck at pushing their capture rights.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I suspect that the intelligence and law enforcement communities are afraid that if this case goes to the Supreme Court the All Writs Act may be scaled back or ruled unconstitutional.<p>The All Writs Act goes back to 1789 and is used for all sorts of things, like wire tapping, obtaining call and ISP records, etc., and now trying to force Apple to make malware for their own phone.<p>It&#x27;s definitely a risk for the FBI to fight this battle and potentially lose a tool they use all the time. Since there is probably no new info on the phone, it may not be worth the risk of making this a big fight with a motivated and well-financed adversary like Apple.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/technology/apple-fbi-hearing-unlock-iphone.html</url></story> |
25,382,682 | 25,382,548 | 1 | 3 | 25,381,397 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Buetol</author><text>Top 10:<p>- Python: salt, core (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;home-assistant&#x2F;core" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;home-assistant&#x2F;core</a>), pandas, scikit-learn, numpy, airflow, erpnext, matplotlib, pytest &amp; pip<p>- Rust: servo, cargo, rust-clippy, tokio, rust-analyzer, tock, tikv, alacritty, libc &amp; substrate<p>- JS: node, react-native, react, gatsby, three.js, bootstrap, material-ui, odoo, next.js &amp; Rocket.Chat<p>- Java: elasticsearch, flink, spring-boot, hadoop, netty, jenkins, beam, bazel, alluxio &amp; pmd<p>- C++: tensorflow, ceph, pytorch, bitcoin, electron, Marlin, Cataclysm-DDA, llvm-project, rocksdb &amp; QGIS<p>- C: git, linux, linux, php-src, openssl, systemd, curl, u-boot, qemu &amp; mbed-os</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finding Critical Open Source Projects</title><url>https://opensource.googleblog.com/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sien</author><text>List of the top 200 is at :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commondatastorage.googleapis.com&#x2F;ossf-criticality-score&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commondatastorage.googleapis.com&#x2F;ossf-criticality-sc...</a><p>(from the repo)<p>So gnucash is #15 . At #75 is gcc .<p>This seems like a great idea, but perhaps some refinements are needed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finding Critical Open Source Projects</title><url>https://opensource.googleblog.com/</url></story> |
39,862,290 | 39,861,874 | 1 | 3 | 39,858,941 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vik0</author><text>&gt;In the case of humans and animals, consciousness is a way to adapt to the environment to protect their lives, fulfill their needs and eventually reproduce. Consciousness is useful for life. But in the case of the sun, what is it adapting to, and what does it have to protect? Nothing.<p>You sound overly confident with your statement about a topic that has eluded thinkers for millennia and (probably) millennia to come</text><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t make sense. In the case of humans and animals, consciousness is a way to adapt to the environment to protect their lives, fulfill their needs and eventually reproduce. Consciousness is useful for life. But in the case of the sun, what is it adapting to, and what does it have to protect? Nothing.<p>The fact that consciousness appears always in populations might be essential. Consciousness was the result of self-replicator evolving to deal with limited resources. In the case of the sun, it is too far away and interacts very little with other celestial bodies, there can be no evolution for suns, they don&#x27;t iterate fast enough and don&#x27;t transmit their data into the future like DNA.</text></item><item><author>barfbagginus</author><text>If the sun is conscious, that could explain why humanity believes in a powerful god that can, eg, send floods.<p>Perhaps the flood was caused by a coronal mass ejection that boiled a section of the ocean, causing extreme rains in a valley region.<p>Let&#x27;s imagine that the consciousness field of the sun encompasses all of our minds.. so thinking about it might let us talk to it. So prayer could be real too. They can probably talk to us too, if they want to. A form of stellar transcranial magnetic simulation.<p>Pov: Sun Cults now have a scientific basis, baby! Let&#x27;s try to make mental contact with the sun!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/Is_the_Sun_Conscious.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pxndx</author><text>It&#x27;s protecting us from advanced alien invasions, and doing a great job. Have you seen any recently?</text><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t make sense. In the case of humans and animals, consciousness is a way to adapt to the environment to protect their lives, fulfill their needs and eventually reproduce. Consciousness is useful for life. But in the case of the sun, what is it adapting to, and what does it have to protect? Nothing.<p>The fact that consciousness appears always in populations might be essential. Consciousness was the result of self-replicator evolving to deal with limited resources. In the case of the sun, it is too far away and interacts very little with other celestial bodies, there can be no evolution for suns, they don&#x27;t iterate fast enough and don&#x27;t transmit their data into the future like DNA.</text></item><item><author>barfbagginus</author><text>If the sun is conscious, that could explain why humanity believes in a powerful god that can, eg, send floods.<p>Perhaps the flood was caused by a coronal mass ejection that boiled a section of the ocean, causing extreme rains in a valley region.<p>Let&#x27;s imagine that the consciousness field of the sun encompasses all of our minds.. so thinking about it might let us talk to it. So prayer could be real too. They can probably talk to us too, if they want to. A form of stellar transcranial magnetic simulation.<p>Pov: Sun Cults now have a scientific basis, baby! Let&#x27;s try to make mental contact with the sun!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.sheldrake.org/files/pdfs/papers/Is_the_Sun_Conscious.pdf</url></story> |
14,348,262 | 14,348,251 | 1 | 3 | 14,347,188 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Loic</author><text>It is coming from the canary birds in the coal mines or in submarines[0]. They have a higher sensibility to CO than humans. This is now part of the common language to say that you sacrifice an animal or &quot;something&quot; to get early warning of something possibly more dangerous.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sentinel_species#Historical_examples" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sentinel_species#Historical_ex...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I presume canary is an established term in this context but since I don&#x27;t know what it is I don&#x27;t understand your service. It sounds good though.</text></item><item><author>graystevens</author><text>This is the exact reason I started building Breach Canary[0], so that businesses can be alerted as soon as their user data is used in a way they wouldn&#x27;t expect it to be. We produce authentic users with real working email addresses and phone numbers, so that as soon as they are contacted, you know someone has a copy of your userbase and is using it for reason x.<p>We have already started seeing a tonne of DocuSign phishing emails as others have mentioned. They were already a popular target for phishing users but now with very realistic documents the users are expecting? Nightmare.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;BreachCanary.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;BreachCanary.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DocuSign email address database breached and used for phishing campaign</title><url>https://trust.docusign.com/en-us/personal-safeguards/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>Canaries were used in mines to signal pockets of unbreathable gas; they would die before the humans giving them an opportunity to escape.<p>Canary has developed into a standard term for warnings which are detecting the danger allowing mitigation as opposed to predicting the danger which would allow avoidance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I presume canary is an established term in this context but since I don&#x27;t know what it is I don&#x27;t understand your service. It sounds good though.</text></item><item><author>graystevens</author><text>This is the exact reason I started building Breach Canary[0], so that businesses can be alerted as soon as their user data is used in a way they wouldn&#x27;t expect it to be. We produce authentic users with real working email addresses and phone numbers, so that as soon as they are contacted, you know someone has a copy of your userbase and is using it for reason x.<p>We have already started seeing a tonne of DocuSign phishing emails as others have mentioned. They were already a popular target for phishing users but now with very realistic documents the users are expecting? Nightmare.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;BreachCanary.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;BreachCanary.com</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DocuSign email address database breached and used for phishing campaign</title><url>https://trust.docusign.com/en-us/personal-safeguards/</url></story> |
20,451,370 | 20,451,402 | 1 | 3 | 20,439,297 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jxcl</author><text>This bug probably existed because some developer thought &quot;this is an internal application, I don&#x27;t need to apply the same rigorous input&#x2F;(edit: and output, as replies point out) sanitation as I do with normal sites because it&#x27;s only accessible by VPN.&quot;<p>As a consultant that gets to see a lot of &quot;internal only&quot; applications, this is one of the misconceptions that me and my coworkers try to fight against. XSS is effective even if the attacker doesn&#x27;t have access to the internal application, because it&#x27;s not the attacker&#x27;s computer making the requests.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program</title><url>https://samcurry.net/cracking-my-windshield-and-earning-10000-on-the-tesla-bug-bounty-program/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gibolt</author><text>What a great response and turnaround. Bug as fixed within 24 hours and paid out within a month.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t expect any other car manufacturer to respond ever, most don&#x27;t even own their software stack.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program</title><url>https://samcurry.net/cracking-my-windshield-and-earning-10000-on-the-tesla-bug-bounty-program/</url></story> |
6,720,226 | 6,720,241 | 1 | 3 | 6,719,217 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pkulak</author><text>This seems like more of a ChromeOS move to me, so that you can run native code on Atom and X86 machines. The knock on ChromeOS is always that it&#x27;s &quot;just a browser&quot;. I seriously doubt anyone is going to write their Etsy storefront in NaCl. The benefit here, of course, is that if someone does write the next Photoshop for ChromeOS machines, it should also run fine in OS X, Windows and Linux. Seems like a win for portability to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>Ugh. Sounds like the next IE6 is here...<p>Can&#x27;t wait to log into a bank that demands I installed Chrome to use their new &#x27;security&#x27; or some web apps that won&#x27;t run in anything but Chrome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Portable Native Client</title><url>http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/portable-native-client-pinnacle-of.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chully</author><text>Web apps that won&#x27;t run in anything but chrome? There are already plenty. Picasa&#x2F;Google+ photo editing for a start.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>Ugh. Sounds like the next IE6 is here...<p>Can&#x27;t wait to log into a bank that demands I installed Chrome to use their new &#x27;security&#x27; or some web apps that won&#x27;t run in anything but Chrome.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Portable Native Client</title><url>http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/portable-native-client-pinnacle-of.html</url><text></text></story> |
17,138,541 | 17,137,965 | 1 | 3 | 17,137,629 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ar7hur</author><text>From the terms:<p><pre><code> By applying to Yellow, you agree to irrevocably waive any legal claim you
may have against us under any theory of law in any territory, including, without
limitation, copyright infringement or breach of implied in fact contract
(idea submission), that your rights were infringed due to any similarity between
your Content and any other content that is or may be developed by Snap</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Snap Inc. presents Yellow – An investment and mentorship program in LA</title><url>https://www.yellowla.com/about</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geoffreyy</author><text>&quot;Investment of $150k for equity on founder friendly terms&quot;<p>Interested to know the actual % they are taking for $150k...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Snap Inc. presents Yellow – An investment and mentorship program in LA</title><url>https://www.yellowla.com/about</url></story> |
15,317,273 | 15,316,863 | 1 | 2 | 15,315,813 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amb23</author><text>&quot;Code is governance&quot; -- the article does support the idea of cryptocurrency as fiat money because the laws, in this case, are the code. The developers and miners, no matter their good intentions, do hold power over the currency that everyday investors do not have. No matter how egalitarian the distributed ledger set up looks on paper, we&#x27;d be remiss to think the power structures behind cryptocurrencies are so radically different from the fiat currencies developed in the past and used at present. With time, especially if the cryptocurrency bubble pops, we&#x27;ll be sure to see those structures made more explicit than they seem now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dnautics</author><text>Interestingly the economist misses the traditional definition of Fiat: a currency whose value is determined by the <i>Fiat</i> of a state. Whether or not Bitcoin exhibits similar trends as currency that isn&#x27;t backed by the state is immaterial to the ethical appeal (to some) of a medium of exchange where participation is voluntary and consensual.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin is fiat money, too</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2017/09/not-so-novel</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Finnucane</author><text>Is Bitcoin actually a medium of exchange? It seems to be functioning more as an investment to be hoarded rather than spent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dnautics</author><text>Interestingly the economist misses the traditional definition of Fiat: a currency whose value is determined by the <i>Fiat</i> of a state. Whether or not Bitcoin exhibits similar trends as currency that isn&#x27;t backed by the state is immaterial to the ethical appeal (to some) of a medium of exchange where participation is voluntary and consensual.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin is fiat money, too</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2017/09/not-so-novel</url></story> |
5,854,849 | 5,854,177 | 1 | 3 | 5,853,536 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>munificent</author><text>&gt; Where are all the street protests?!<p>I&#x27;m going to interpret that question literally. A key thing you have to keep in mind is that in almost all of the US outside of a few very large cities, the &quot;street&quot; is not a useful public place. People don&#x27;t gather and interact on streets in the US. They are merely channels for cars. Protesting on the streets would be as useful in most cities in the US as wandering around next to a shipping lane on the open ocean. The only people &quot;there&quot; are driving vehicles at full speed.<p>That of course raises the question of where Americans <i>do</i> congregate together. Churches are the answer for many, although I believe those are dwindling. Some go to bars. Neither of those is a particularly good venue for dissent.<p>One unfortunate consequence of the US being so car-centric is that we&#x27;ve destroyed public space, and consequently made public assembly much harder.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>So is the 4th amendment, and look how much that one is abused. In the end the Constitution really is &quot;just a piece of paper&quot;, if not the <i>government</i>, not the <i>judges</i>, not the <i>media</i>, and ultimately not even the <i>people</i> respect it, live by it, and try to protect it as soon as it&#x27;s endangered by people trying to accumulate too much power. Where are all the street protests?!<p>I also fail to understand people who so viciously defend the 2nd amendment &quot;because of potential tyranny&quot;, but don&#x27;t try to defend the 1st and 4th amendments with the same aggressiveness, when in fact those amendments are the <i>first line of defense</i> against that encroaching tyranny, and if they fail, it&#x27;s the first clue the country is slipping into tyranny. Would you rather wait until the very last moment, until people can&#x27;t take it anymore but to rise up against the government with violence and starting a massacre, all just to remove the government? Or would you try to fix things while you still can do it peacefully, by protecting the 1st and 4th amendments, so it doesn&#x27;t have to come to &quot;using the 2nd amendment right to defend against the government with guns&quot;?<p>Or maybe it all comes down to who has more money to raise the awareness about it. NRA is a powerful lobby. ACLU and EFF less so.</text></item><item><author>newbie12</author><text>The right to bear arms is also, explicitly, a protection against tyranny BY the government. Thomas Jefferson: &quot;&quot;When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.&quot;</text></item><item><author>_airh</author><text>It is strange that the same country which cherishes its &#x27;right to bear arms&#x27; on the grounds that it gives them a level of protection that the government is unable to provide is &#x27;happy&#x27; to build the infrastructure which allows the same government to peek into their lives.<p>On the one hand, we don&#x27;t trust the government with the basics (physical security). On the other, we trust them with information we don&#x27;t want our parents to see (facebook profiles, etc). ...strange.<p>Edit: When I say &#x27;the country&#x27; I mean the people in aggregate. Obviously, some people are outraged about this issue, just as some people were outraged when a gunman killed 30 children. Techies seem to be particularly concerned about this issue but, on the whole, most people are indifferent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/09/has-the-us-become-the-kind-of-nation-from-which-you-have-to-seek-asylum/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eli_gottlieb</author><text><i>Where are all the street protests?!</i><p>The people who went to the streets protesting in 2011 got arrested. You&#x27;re looking at the maturation of a tyrannical, authoritarian neoliberal regime.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>So is the 4th amendment, and look how much that one is abused. In the end the Constitution really is &quot;just a piece of paper&quot;, if not the <i>government</i>, not the <i>judges</i>, not the <i>media</i>, and ultimately not even the <i>people</i> respect it, live by it, and try to protect it as soon as it&#x27;s endangered by people trying to accumulate too much power. Where are all the street protests?!<p>I also fail to understand people who so viciously defend the 2nd amendment &quot;because of potential tyranny&quot;, but don&#x27;t try to defend the 1st and 4th amendments with the same aggressiveness, when in fact those amendments are the <i>first line of defense</i> against that encroaching tyranny, and if they fail, it&#x27;s the first clue the country is slipping into tyranny. Would you rather wait until the very last moment, until people can&#x27;t take it anymore but to rise up against the government with violence and starting a massacre, all just to remove the government? Or would you try to fix things while you still can do it peacefully, by protecting the 1st and 4th amendments, so it doesn&#x27;t have to come to &quot;using the 2nd amendment right to defend against the government with guns&quot;?<p>Or maybe it all comes down to who has more money to raise the awareness about it. NRA is a powerful lobby. ACLU and EFF less so.</text></item><item><author>newbie12</author><text>The right to bear arms is also, explicitly, a protection against tyranny BY the government. Thomas Jefferson: &quot;&quot;When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.&quot;</text></item><item><author>_airh</author><text>It is strange that the same country which cherishes its &#x27;right to bear arms&#x27; on the grounds that it gives them a level of protection that the government is unable to provide is &#x27;happy&#x27; to build the infrastructure which allows the same government to peek into their lives.<p>On the one hand, we don&#x27;t trust the government with the basics (physical security). On the other, we trust them with information we don&#x27;t want our parents to see (facebook profiles, etc). ...strange.<p>Edit: When I say &#x27;the country&#x27; I mean the people in aggregate. Obviously, some people are outraged about this issue, just as some people were outraged when a gunman killed 30 children. Techies seem to be particularly concerned about this issue but, on the whole, most people are indifferent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/09/has-the-us-become-the-kind-of-nation-from-which-you-have-to-seek-asylum/</url></story> |
36,691,808 | 36,690,312 | 1 | 3 | 36,687,970 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coekie</author><text>Author of the blog here.
Yes, this is a bug. While the javadoc doesn&#x27;t state it explicitly, immutable classes in the core library are expected to be thread safe. Java tries to be and mostly succeeds at being a safe language, where (by default) the guarantees of its internals cannot be broken no matter what user code does. The JVM preserves its own integrity.<p>There are some other deliberate holes in that safety, such as using reflection to access private members, and instrumentation, where it is clear you are stepping outside the safety zone, but even that is getting locked down now with the &quot;Integrity and Strong Encapsulation&quot; effort <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.org&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;8305968" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.org&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;8305968</a> .<p>In general, most code we write would not (and should not) try to protect against such abuse, but classes in the core platform play by different rules.<p>Btw, this has been accepted into the bug database now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.java.com&#x2F;bugdatabase&#x2F;view_bug?bug_id=JDK-8311906" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.java.com&#x2F;bugdatabase&#x2F;view_bug?bug_id=JDK-831190...</a> . I expect this to be fixed in a future release.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gizmo686</author><text>Is this actually a bug? The default assumption in Java is that types are not thread-safe unless otherwise specified. Attempting to use types in a way that exceeds their documented thread safety has always been allowed to leave your program in an inconsistent state.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Breaking java.lang.String</title><url>https://wouter.coekaerts.be/2023/breaking-string</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Not really. I&#x27;m sure there are some edge cases where the ability for someone to do silly things like this is harmful but otherwise this goes in category of things where the general advice is &quot;just don&#x27;t do that and you&#x27;re fine&quot;.<p>Basically, if you look at why the standard library would not go out of its way to prevent you from doing stuff like this it boils down to the same reason as why they put the string compression optimization in to begin with: doing so would make things slower rather than faster. And that&#x27;s just not desirable in something as performance critical as string initialization, which is a thing that a lot of Java programs would do a lot.<p>Having string compression helps save some memory but it&#x27;s a weird low level hack. It&#x27;s fine as long as you don&#x27;t actively try to break things in your own program. You&#x27;d have to jump through some hoops to do it accidentally. That is not likely to happen just like that.<p>So, not a bug but a known limitation that you should be aware of if you go down the path of doing lots of concurrent modifications to arrays that may or may not be used to create Strings. Java has lots of nice primitives and frameworks to make writing such code less error prone but it&#x27;s up to you to use those properly and it&#x27;s entirely possible to write all sorts of code that has lots of concurrency issues.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gizmo686</author><text>Is this actually a bug? The default assumption in Java is that types are not thread-safe unless otherwise specified. Attempting to use types in a way that exceeds their documented thread safety has always been allowed to leave your program in an inconsistent state.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Breaking java.lang.String</title><url>https://wouter.coekaerts.be/2023/breaking-string</url></story> |
34,742,958 | 34,741,911 | 1 | 3 | 34,737,376 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>Reddit pushing their app so hard annoys the hell out of me too, but what are they doing that qualifies as &quot;shady&quot;?</text><parent_chain><item><author>boppo1</author><text>Reddit is a shady company. Doing everything they can on the browser experience including interrupting me while I&#x27;m typing to try to shunt me over to the app is shady. I don&#x27;t want the app. I have clicked &#x27;continue in browser&#x27; at least 200 times. My preference ought to be clear and recorded by now.<p>I&#x27;d stop visiting altogether if I didn&#x27;t have a general problem with compulsive browsing.</text></item><item><author>remus</author><text>I think this is overly pessimistic. While there&#x27;s definitely shady companies out there who will say this while having very poor security practices, it&#x27;s tricky demonstrating that something didn&#x27;t happen.<p>Say you had detailed audit logs for example. What happens if there&#x27;s a subtle bug in those systems that allowed the hacker to proceed without logs being recorded?</text></item><item><author>pgrote</author><text>&gt;Ah the classic PR blur. Could mean anything from &quot;all good&quot; to &quot;we don&#x27;t log - ignorance is bliss&quot;.<p>After what lastpass did I cannot trust any self reporting.</text></item><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&gt;Reddit also stated that there was no evidence the systems used to run Reddit itself and store the majority of data, the primary production systems in other words, was breached.<p>Ah the classic PR blur. Could mean anything from &quot;all good&quot; to &quot;we don&#x27;t log - ignorance is bliss&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/02/10/reddit-confirms-it-was-hacked-recommends-users-set-up-2fa/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway2056</author><text>Why use reddit&#x27;s official app? There are several decent opensource apps. (BTW, you can use libredd.it to just read-only reddit)</text><parent_chain><item><author>boppo1</author><text>Reddit is a shady company. Doing everything they can on the browser experience including interrupting me while I&#x27;m typing to try to shunt me over to the app is shady. I don&#x27;t want the app. I have clicked &#x27;continue in browser&#x27; at least 200 times. My preference ought to be clear and recorded by now.<p>I&#x27;d stop visiting altogether if I didn&#x27;t have a general problem with compulsive browsing.</text></item><item><author>remus</author><text>I think this is overly pessimistic. While there&#x27;s definitely shady companies out there who will say this while having very poor security practices, it&#x27;s tricky demonstrating that something didn&#x27;t happen.<p>Say you had detailed audit logs for example. What happens if there&#x27;s a subtle bug in those systems that allowed the hacker to proceed without logs being recorded?</text></item><item><author>pgrote</author><text>&gt;Ah the classic PR blur. Could mean anything from &quot;all good&quot; to &quot;we don&#x27;t log - ignorance is bliss&quot;.<p>After what lastpass did I cannot trust any self reporting.</text></item><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&gt;Reddit also stated that there was no evidence the systems used to run Reddit itself and store the majority of data, the primary production systems in other words, was breached.<p>Ah the classic PR blur. Could mean anything from &quot;all good&quot; to &quot;we don&#x27;t log - ignorance is bliss&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/02/10/reddit-confirms-it-was-hacked-recommends-users-set-up-2fa/</url></story> |
28,822,792 | 28,821,918 | 2 | 3 | 28,820,991 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sitharus</author><text>Anti-androgens and GnRH agonists like Spironolactone, Cyproterone Acetate, Goserelin Acetate, Bicalutamide to name a few. Also to a lesser extent 5α-reductase inhibitors like finasteride (Propecia) which only suppress the more potent dihydrotestosterone.<p>All of these work by suppressing androgen production (mostly testosterone and dihydrotestosterone), this will suppress most of the male libido. While they don&#x27;t remove the ability to get an erection if you try, they will prevent the hormonal lead-up that would normally lead to one. You&#x27;ll likely stop thinking about sex entirely, there won&#x27;t be much of a drive. GnRH agonists like Goserelin Acetate (zolodex) are highly effective, spironolactone is very weak and a potent diuretic.<p>On the downside... an adult human body expects to have a dominant sex hormone, either testosterone or oestrogen, and a lot of things hang off this. For one, initial breast growth is inhibited by testosterone, so you will likely develop gynecomastia (unwanted breast development). Your body hair will reduce, though facial hair is mostly unaffected, and your skin will become softer. Long term you are at increased risk of developing osteoporosis, and your testes and genitals will shrink. Sperm count and viability will reduce, though for some people this is recoverable.<p>It will halt any male pattern baldness though.<p>Most of these drugs are used for treatment of prostate and testicular cancer, so their effects are well known.</text><parent_chain><item><author>faeyanpiraat</author><text>Do you happen to know any drug or supplement which helps Preventing an erection?<p>(Serious question)</text></item><item><author>Traubenfuchs</author><text>Sildenafil (Viagra) is old and busted. Tadalafil (Cyalis) has a longer duration of action and less side effects (17 vs 4 hours half life) due to a lesser reduction of PDEs besides the targeted PDE5.<p>Additionally, studies show that daily tadalafil is much better in managing or even “curing“ ED.<p>Want a little extra boost? Consume 6g of L-Citrullin a day. One of the few proven, freely and cheaply available substances that improve erections. L-Citrulline gets converted to L-Arginin and is better that L-Arginin supplementation.<p>If you want to increase the half life, consume pomegranate juice.<p>Warning, L-Citrullin and PDE5 inhibitors potentiate each other.<p>Need even more arguments? Daily PDE5 inhibitors are cardioprotective and cardioregenerative.<p>Studies used 5mg Tadalafil daily, I am on 20 -why not?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7261690&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7261690&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Suicides among Swedish men decreased after Viagra became more affordable</title><url>https://sapienjournal.org/suicides-among-swedish-men-decreased-after-viagra-became-more-affordable/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AdrianB1</author><text>There is a widely circulated rumor that in the Romanian army they used to put a small quantity of bromide (sodium or potassium? don&#x27;t know) in the evening tea; it is not supposed to prevent an erection, but total lack of sexual desire. This was 30-40 years ago, I was not able to find any official documents related to that, but any men over 50 years old is telling that story.</text><parent_chain><item><author>faeyanpiraat</author><text>Do you happen to know any drug or supplement which helps Preventing an erection?<p>(Serious question)</text></item><item><author>Traubenfuchs</author><text>Sildenafil (Viagra) is old and busted. Tadalafil (Cyalis) has a longer duration of action and less side effects (17 vs 4 hours half life) due to a lesser reduction of PDEs besides the targeted PDE5.<p>Additionally, studies show that daily tadalafil is much better in managing or even “curing“ ED.<p>Want a little extra boost? Consume 6g of L-Citrullin a day. One of the few proven, freely and cheaply available substances that improve erections. L-Citrulline gets converted to L-Arginin and is better that L-Arginin supplementation.<p>If you want to increase the half life, consume pomegranate juice.<p>Warning, L-Citrullin and PDE5 inhibitors potentiate each other.<p>Need even more arguments? Daily PDE5 inhibitors are cardioprotective and cardioregenerative.<p>Studies used 5mg Tadalafil daily, I am on 20 -why not?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7261690&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7261690&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Suicides among Swedish men decreased after Viagra became more affordable</title><url>https://sapienjournal.org/suicides-among-swedish-men-decreased-after-viagra-became-more-affordable/</url></story> |
9,704,054 | 9,703,872 | 1 | 3 | 9,703,663 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rbcgerard</author><text>Agreed, in the summers (in small town america), when i was that age i was kicked out of the house after breakfast and not allowed back (unless it was raining) until lunch, and then kicked out again until dinner. I loved running around outside with my friends, our dogs, horrendously constructed forts, and our bb guns. The &quot;bad&quot; parents were the ones that let their kids stay home and vegetate in front of the TV. What happened?</text><parent_chain><item><author>PebblesHD</author><text>I say this literally every time a story like this pops up but, as ever, I&#x27;ll say it again: Have the (adults) in charge completely lost their minds? Is the government so out of touch with reality that this makes sense to them? I loved going on walks or riding my bike to the shops or sleeping in&#x2F;playing at home when i was 10 or 11, and yet now this seems all but impossible to consider? How the hell did this happen?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony Charge for Parents</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/11/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-yard-cps-t</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dudul</author><text>So true. When people are surprised when 1 boy out of 5 is diagnosed with ADHD. They can&#x27;t do anything! They&#x27;re freaking bored!<p>Millenials are called weak, entitled and useless, but wait for the next cohort of &quot;bright&quot; minds who are gonna lead this country. Will they be able to even feed themselves? Is it even safe to teach a kid how to cook an egg?</text><parent_chain><item><author>PebblesHD</author><text>I say this literally every time a story like this pops up but, as ever, I&#x27;ll say it again: Have the (adults) in charge completely lost their minds? Is the government so out of touch with reality that this makes sense to them? I loved going on walks or riding my bike to the shops or sleeping in&#x2F;playing at home when i was 10 or 11, and yet now this seems all but impossible to consider? How the hell did this happen?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony Charge for Parents</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/11/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-yard-cps-t</url></story> |
36,252,522 | 36,252,402 | 1 | 3 | 36,247,404 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Gigachad</author><text>I think the average person does care about and notice quality, its just a question of if they can afford it. When I look around the coworking space, its almost universally macbooks. And these aren&#x27;t tech people mostly.<p>But the uni student with a budget that only buys half a macbook doesn&#x27;t get to care about trackpad quality.<p>Normal people don&#x27;t say things like &quot;The trackpad is unresponsive and the wifi drivers unreliable&quot; They say &quot;I just don&#x27;t like it&quot; &quot;It feels kinda crap&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>xnyan</author><text>I worked at an electronics retailer in high school for a couple years, my job was to sell laptops. I sold a lot of laptops. Nerds like us who post comments on hacker news can have a hard time understanding the mind of the vast majority of regular people who simply could not care less about trackpad quality. It&#x27;s just not a thing most people even think about.</text></item><item><author>wahahah</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand why nobody else has managed making decent touchpads. Is it not extremely high priority??</text></item><item><author>ctvo</author><text>This sounded weak to me.<p>Apple is making an integrated headset: their own lenses, processor, ..., down to the operating system.<p>The Quest uses an Android based operating system and a lot of off the shelf components.<p>We&#x27;ve seen this story before and it hasn&#x27;t ended well for the folks in Mark&#x27;s position.<p>A personal device like these headsets needs to be <i>delightful</i>. It has to be responsive. It has to have the little touches. It&#x27;s much more difficult to do that when you&#x27;re constrained by off the shelf components.<p>Apple had the best touchpads for a decade because of those integrated properties, for example.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754239/mark-zuckerberg-meta-apple-vision-pro-headset</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dagmx</author><text>If I may, I’d make a slight modification to your statement.<p>The vast majority of people don’t care about trackpad quality when it comes to shopping.<p>They do care when they *use* it but they either take it for granted when it works well, or it’s too small a papercut to trade in their device and buy&#x2F;research a new one.<p>but it all combines together to make a smoother experience when using it, and it can convert people as a part of a whole.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xnyan</author><text>I worked at an electronics retailer in high school for a couple years, my job was to sell laptops. I sold a lot of laptops. Nerds like us who post comments on hacker news can have a hard time understanding the mind of the vast majority of regular people who simply could not care less about trackpad quality. It&#x27;s just not a thing most people even think about.</text></item><item><author>wahahah</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand why nobody else has managed making decent touchpads. Is it not extremely high priority??</text></item><item><author>ctvo</author><text>This sounded weak to me.<p>Apple is making an integrated headset: their own lenses, processor, ..., down to the operating system.<p>The Quest uses an Android based operating system and a lot of off the shelf components.<p>We&#x27;ve seen this story before and it hasn&#x27;t ended well for the folks in Mark&#x27;s position.<p>A personal device like these headsets needs to be <i>delightful</i>. It has to be responsive. It has to have the little touches. It&#x27;s much more difficult to do that when you&#x27;re constrained by off the shelf components.<p>Apple had the best touchpads for a decade because of those integrated properties, for example.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754239/mark-zuckerberg-meta-apple-vision-pro-headset</url></story> |
11,644,958 | 11,644,547 | 1 | 3 | 11,643,410 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drostie</author><text>Furthermore, this idea that nobody&#x27;s studying the number-of-blades problem is bogus too. When I worked abroad as a research assistant in the Wind Energy Project Group at the TU Delft (biggest tech university in the Netherlands), one of the researchers showed me a very interesting wind turbine that had a massive, elegantly curved blade on the one side and a big blob on the other. He explained, &quot;We&#x27;ve been doing some simulations on these one-blade designs, even though they look goofy. This blob is just a counterweight, it is very cheap to produce because you don&#x27;t need any advanced materials to use it. So the question is, if you had three times the budget to spend on just one blade, could you make it so good that it would outclass the three-blade model completely?&quot;<p>In fact I asked why he wasn&#x27;t going with 5 or 7 or 9 blades (he explained that even numbers tend to be Bad News) and he explained that the big problem was, as you increase the number of blades, the proportion of the rotor disk that consists of blade gets higher, which means the force on the tower component gets larger -- it goes something like the third power of wind-speed. Every few years or so, hurricane-force winds batter parts of Europe, and therefore there is a massively important design requirement that the wind turbine not completely be obliterated during these violent storms. An airplane with a funky propeller can of course be stored indoors when this happens; a turbine would require maintenance technicians to disassemble each one the day that the high-wind forecast was received.<p>Googling some of these related issues brings me to the page:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mstudioblackboard.tudelft.nl&#x2F;duwind&#x2F;Wind%20energy%20online%20reader&#x2F;Static_pages&#x2F;blades_number.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mstudioblackboard.tudelft.nl&#x2F;duwind&#x2F;Wind%20energy%20o...</a><p>However I cannot say with great certainty whether this is the same person that I heard these things from, or just a peer in the same field with the same general conclusions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mapt</author><text>* I don&#x27;t understand his explanation of starting torque. You can jump-start that problem by other means in the alternator. Torque and power should be decoupled anyway by blade pitch.<p>* There is such a huge difference between a 12m blade and a 60m blade that I don&#x27;t see how the comparison is at all relevant. We played with smaller turbines for <i>decades</i> before we reached this sort of price efficiency.<p>* Betz&#x27; law explicitly disavows picking a number of blades: &quot;Assumptions: 1. The rotor does not possess a hub and is ideal, with an infinite number of blades which have no drag. Any resulting drag would only lower this idealized value. ...&quot;<p>* Betz&#x27; law is a three-dimensional consequence of convervation laws, not an observation about turbulent blade interactions. &quot;Consider that if all of the energy coming from wind movement through a turbine was extracted as useful energy the wind speed afterwards would drop to zero. If the wind stopped moving at the exit of the turbine, then no more fresh wind could get in - it would be blocked. In order to keep the wind moving through the turbine there has to be some wind movement, however small, on the other side with a wind speed greater than zero. Betz&#x27; law shows that as air flows through a certain area, and when it slows from losing energy to extraction from a turbine, it must spread out to a wider area. As a result geometry limits any turbine efficiency to 59.3%.&quot;<p>* We already have a good idea what a moderate redesign of the fundamentals of a wind turbine looks like; It points downwind, it&#x27;s huge like the existing turbines, and its two blades bend. They just need to solve the tower strike problem. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;401583&#x2F;wind-power-for-pennies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;401583&#x2F;wind-power-for-pen...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;528581&#x2F;two-bladed-wind-turbines-make-a-comeback&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;528581&#x2F;two-bladed-wind-tu...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades</title><url>http://www.cringely.com/2016/05/06/15262/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>&gt; They just need to solve the tower strike problem.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;c2.com&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;wiki?JustIsaDangerousWord" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;c2.com&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;wiki?JustIsaDangerousWord</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mapt</author><text>* I don&#x27;t understand his explanation of starting torque. You can jump-start that problem by other means in the alternator. Torque and power should be decoupled anyway by blade pitch.<p>* There is such a huge difference between a 12m blade and a 60m blade that I don&#x27;t see how the comparison is at all relevant. We played with smaller turbines for <i>decades</i> before we reached this sort of price efficiency.<p>* Betz&#x27; law explicitly disavows picking a number of blades: &quot;Assumptions: 1. The rotor does not possess a hub and is ideal, with an infinite number of blades which have no drag. Any resulting drag would only lower this idealized value. ...&quot;<p>* Betz&#x27; law is a three-dimensional consequence of convervation laws, not an observation about turbulent blade interactions. &quot;Consider that if all of the energy coming from wind movement through a turbine was extracted as useful energy the wind speed afterwards would drop to zero. If the wind stopped moving at the exit of the turbine, then no more fresh wind could get in - it would be blocked. In order to keep the wind moving through the turbine there has to be some wind movement, however small, on the other side with a wind speed greater than zero. Betz&#x27; law shows that as air flows through a certain area, and when it slows from losing energy to extraction from a turbine, it must spread out to a wider area. As a result geometry limits any turbine efficiency to 59.3%.&quot;<p>* We already have a good idea what a moderate redesign of the fundamentals of a wind turbine looks like; It points downwind, it&#x27;s huge like the existing turbines, and its two blades bend. They just need to solve the tower strike problem. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;401583&#x2F;wind-power-for-pennies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;401583&#x2F;wind-power-for-pen...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;528581&#x2F;two-bladed-wind-turbines-make-a-comeback&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;528581&#x2F;two-bladed-wind-tu...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades</title><url>http://www.cringely.com/2016/05/06/15262/</url></story> |
18,497,591 | 18,497,659 | 1 | 2 | 18,496,471 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mxstbr</author><text>This is such a great comment and very true. Looking at the speed and attitude that maintainers handle trivial PRs with can act as an indicator of the project health and will definitely make it more inviting for new contributors!</text><parent_chain><item><author>gowld</author><text>Linus on trivial patches:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2004&#x2F;12&#x2F;20&#x2F;255" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2004&#x2F;12&#x2F;20&#x2F;255</a><p>[ Linux-kernel added back into the cc, because I actually think this is
important. ]<p>On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote:<p>&gt; Should I just stop attemting to make these trivial cleanups&#x2F;fixes&#x2F;whatever
patches? are they more noice than gain? am I being a pain to more skilled
people on lkml or can you all live with my, sometimes quite ignorant,
patches?
I do try to learn from the feedback I get, and I like to think that my
patches are gradually getting a bit better, but if I&#x27;m more of a bother
than a help I might as well stop.<p>To me, the biggest thing with small patches is not necessarily the patch
itself. I think that much more important than the patch is the fact that
people get used to the notion that they can change the kernel - not just
on an intellectual level (&quot;I understand that the GPL means that I have the
right to change my kernel&quot;), but on a more practical level (&quot;Hey, I did
that small change&quot;).<p>And whether it ends up being the right thing or not, that&#x27;s how everybody
starts out. It&#x27;s simply not possible to &quot;get into&quot; the kernel without
starting out small, and making mistakes. So I very much encourage it...<p>So please don&#x27;t stop. Yes, those trivial patches _are_ a bother. Damn,
they are _horrible_. But at the same time, the devil is in the detail, and
they are needed in the long run. Both the patches themselves, and the
people that grew up on them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)</title><url>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=690b0543a813b0ecfc51b0374c0ce6c8275435f0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antirez</author><text>I agree on the general concept of your post, however I cannot observe, at least for the things I maintain, that there is this pattern of &quot;people starting small&quot;. At least not small in the sense of trivial changes. They maybe start submitting a small PR but that is most of the times already at the level of the contribution that they&#x27;ll make in the future. So people that will become core contributors will send a small PR with a core change, showing already that they can understand the core of the system. However the open source movement cannot only optimize for the raw code output. The &quot;I changed this&quot; feeling is also great for users to realize that there is space for everybody.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gowld</author><text>Linus on trivial patches:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2004&#x2F;12&#x2F;20&#x2F;255" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2004&#x2F;12&#x2F;20&#x2F;255</a><p>[ Linux-kernel added back into the cc, because I actually think this is
important. ]<p>On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote:<p>&gt; Should I just stop attemting to make these trivial cleanups&#x2F;fixes&#x2F;whatever
patches? are they more noice than gain? am I being a pain to more skilled
people on lkml or can you all live with my, sometimes quite ignorant,
patches?
I do try to learn from the feedback I get, and I like to think that my
patches are gradually getting a bit better, but if I&#x27;m more of a bother
than a help I might as well stop.<p>To me, the biggest thing with small patches is not necessarily the patch
itself. I think that much more important than the patch is the fact that
people get used to the notion that they can change the kernel - not just
on an intellectual level (&quot;I understand that the GPL means that I have the
right to change my kernel&quot;), but on a more practical level (&quot;Hey, I did
that small change&quot;).<p>And whether it ends up being the right thing or not, that&#x27;s how everybody
starts out. It&#x27;s simply not possible to &quot;get into&quot; the kernel without
starting out small, and making mistakes. So I very much encourage it...<p>So please don&#x27;t stop. Yes, those trivial patches _are_ a bother. Damn,
they are _horrible_. But at the same time, the devil is in the detail, and
they are needed in the long run. Both the patches themselves, and the
people that grew up on them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>“The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)</title><url>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=690b0543a813b0ecfc51b0374c0ce6c8275435f0</url></story> |
12,465,031 | 12,465,175 | 1 | 3 | 12,464,129 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pb</author><text>In ten years, all auto makers will either be tech companies, or they will be out of business. I&#x27;m impressed that GM and Ford have the foresight to understand this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mox1</author><text>I find it very interesting and frankly quite stupid that Ford is attempting to become an Uber &#x2F; Silicon Valley &#x2F; Technology type company[1]. They practically made the auto industry and have been a leading manufacturer for ~100 years. But lets drop and forget all that, technology is cool!<p>I predict that in 5-10 years this will really come back to haunt them. I was planning to buy some Ford stock for a while, but after seeing this shift, not touching it with a 10ft pole.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2016-09-09&#x2F;ford-ceo-on-a-move-to-mobility-services-ride-sharing" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2016-09-09&#x2F;ford-ceo-on-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ford Acquires Chariot (YC W15)</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/09/ford-mobility-solutions-acquires-chariot/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>awad</author><text>Ford did $7.373 billion in net income on $149.5 billion in revenue 2015. If the $30 million number purchase price being thrown around is correct, that&#x27;s ~ 0.4%. Not at all a terrible investment to make for a company of Ford&#x27;s size.<p>Nokia, Motorola, RIM, Palm were leading manufacturers as well, and they all had their lunch eaten.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mox1</author><text>I find it very interesting and frankly quite stupid that Ford is attempting to become an Uber &#x2F; Silicon Valley &#x2F; Technology type company[1]. They practically made the auto industry and have been a leading manufacturer for ~100 years. But lets drop and forget all that, technology is cool!<p>I predict that in 5-10 years this will really come back to haunt them. I was planning to buy some Ford stock for a while, but after seeing this shift, not touching it with a 10ft pole.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2016-09-09&#x2F;ford-ceo-on-a-move-to-mobility-services-ride-sharing" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2016-09-09&#x2F;ford-ceo-on-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ford Acquires Chariot (YC W15)</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/09/ford-mobility-solutions-acquires-chariot/</url></story> |
31,001,760 | 31,001,360 | 1 | 2 | 30,992,322 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bko</author><text>Occupy failed because it didn&#x27;t have any clear asks or metrics to track. They were against the bailouts. Did they vote anyone out of office? Did the re-election rate of 90% budge? Are there &quot;Occupy Democrats&quot; like there were &quot;Tea Party Republicans&quot;?<p>But most importantly, did they stop future bailouts? The original uproar about the 2008 bailouts (TARP) was originally authorized to spend $700 billion, of which they spent $431 billion and they were all paid back.<p>What about with Covid relief? This time the politicians learned not to go through legislature and just use the Federal Reserve directly. This time they were able to disburse 4 trillion in asset purchases, most of which was held by large institutions (banks). $1.3 trillion in mortgage backed securities! Another $3 trillion was spent on liquidity measures, other load purchases, lending facilities, etc. So in total a 10x spend from the proposed 2008 bailout which caused all the uproar. Note this doesn&#x27;t include any money for income support, stimulus, etc. It was just giving money to banks.<p>Occupy just taught the politicians how to do things under the radar.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.covidmoneytracker.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.covidmoneytracker.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>selimnairb</author><text>“He described the nihilism of the many protest movements of 2011 that organized mostly online and that, like Occupy Wall Street, demanded the destruction of existing institutions without offering an alternative vision of the future or an organization that could bring it about.“<p>Calling Occupy nihilistic is strikes me as blinkered, and shows the neoliberal bias of the author. Occupy is where the 99% vs. 1% lens arose, which is a reasonable description of concentration of wealth and power across Western countries and especially the US. Occupy attempted to employ more empowering and less alienating peer-to-peer governance.<p>Occupy didn’t “succeed”, probably due to both internal and external forces, but it wasn’t nihilistic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>I also don’t like the disrespect Occupy often gets. Yes they didn’t have ready made solution but neither does Wall Street. The bailouts in 2008 and generally the rising inequality show that Wall Street is perfectly fine with making the lives of a lot of people worse as long as they can make money for themselves. To me the nihilists are the ruling class that only cares about them self and nothing else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>selimnairb</author><text>“He described the nihilism of the many protest movements of 2011 that organized mostly online and that, like Occupy Wall Street, demanded the destruction of existing institutions without offering an alternative vision of the future or an organization that could bring it about.“<p>Calling Occupy nihilistic is strikes me as blinkered, and shows the neoliberal bias of the author. Occupy is where the 99% vs. 1% lens arose, which is a reasonable description of concentration of wealth and power across Western countries and especially the US. Occupy attempted to employ more empowering and less alienating peer-to-peer governance.<p>Occupy didn’t “succeed”, probably due to both internal and external forces, but it wasn’t nihilistic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/</url></story> |
13,591,130 | 13,587,700 | 1 | 2 | 13,587,273 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zeteo</author><text>&gt; Game-theory software can even help locate a terrorist&#x27;s hideout [... by estimating] on a 100-point scale the importance a wanted man attaches to his likes (fishing, say) and priorities (remaining hidden or [...] recruiting suicide-bombers). Such factors determine where and how terrorists decide to live. Game-theory software played an important role in finding Osama bin Laden&#x27;s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, says Mr Owen<p>After a crescendo of unsubstantiated claims, the article finally reaches a well-known case. The claims here seem laughable. First, by all accounts, bin Laden was pretty stationary in his compound and any hot-air model of his psychology regarding fishing vs. recruiting would have been irrelevant. Second, the US government at the time would have been ecstatic to push a story about game theory finding bin Laden - it would have protected sources on the ground, the guy doing a fake vaccination campaign etc.<p>Regrettably, the article&#x27;s agenda seems to be no more than pushing a gaggle of unsubstantiated claims that would help consultants with their magical game-theory software make money off gullible companies &#x2F; governments.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Game theory in practice (2011)</title><url>http://www.economist.com/node/21527025</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aaron-lebo</author><text>It&#x27;s a little frustrating how this article uses &quot;game theory&quot; as an abstract term that covers pretty much all of de Mesquita&#x27;s analysis without really explaining <i>how</i> it is used.<p>I am guessing much of de Mesquita&#x27;s predictive power is less classic game theory and more of an application of his selectorate theory. [0] To oversimplify leaders stay in power through winning coalitions that are much smaller than the populace as a whole. If you can identify that small group that keeps a leader in power and analyze shifts in support within that group, you can make some interesting &quot;predictions&quot;.<p>That being said BBDM while very smart is also a great marketer and he&#x27;s wrong sometimes, too. [1]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Selectorate_theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Selectorate_theory</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;decision-making.moshe-online.com&#x2F;criticism_of_bueno_de_mesquita.html#successor" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;decision-making.moshe-online.com&#x2F;criticism_of_bueno_d...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Game theory in practice (2011)</title><url>http://www.economist.com/node/21527025</url></story> |
24,278,109 | 24,277,301 | 1 | 3 | 24,276,702 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>squarefoot</author><text>I can confirm this. Years back I had those (now deceased) two cats who liked to get under the blankets while we were sleeping, but apparently they liked me more than my girlfriend, so until they decided to leave I had those furry warmers lying down along my legs, one here and one there. A couple more cats along my arms and I could easily turn off the heater. House is small though, so max 2 cats at a time to avoid hygiene related issues.
These days I have two different cats; one loves sleeping between my torso and the right arm keeping his head on my shoulder, pretty much like a baby, and the other one from time to time climbs on my belly to sleep there after asking permission with a soft meow. Luckily he isn&#x27;t the fatter of the two:)
Cats are incredible.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>I was once desperately poor. Too poor to turn on the heat. But I did have access to friendly cats, so I&#x27;ve been through this experiment in real life.<p>One cat stuffed under the blankets at night is a significant improvement. But as you add more and more cats, the improvement becomes only incremental.<p>I eventually learned that two cats was really the best one could hope for. Best positioning is between the legs, and with the blankets pulled up over my head with a little crack for breathing. After that, adding more cats doesn&#x27;t help much.<p>If I was still cold after two cats, I had to break down and turn on the heat.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cat vs. panel heater: which is better?</title><url>https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/38319</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kaybe</author><text>I can recommend hot-water bottles, plus a kettle for quick assembly. It&#x27;s a lot less cozy though, I suppose.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>I was once desperately poor. Too poor to turn on the heat. But I did have access to friendly cats, so I&#x27;ve been through this experiment in real life.<p>One cat stuffed under the blankets at night is a significant improvement. But as you add more and more cats, the improvement becomes only incremental.<p>I eventually learned that two cats was really the best one could hope for. Best positioning is between the legs, and with the blankets pulled up over my head with a little crack for breathing. After that, adding more cats doesn&#x27;t help much.<p>If I was still cold after two cats, I had to break down and turn on the heat.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cat vs. panel heater: which is better?</title><url>https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/38319</url></story> |
5,425,171 | 5,423,725 | 1 | 3 | 5,421,908 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>.NET licensing is complicated from my perspective. It's not about .NET itself, but I have to deal with Windows licenses and choose an edition (foundation, essentials, standard, datacenter), I have to use per CPU or per server licensing depending, I have to buy client access licenses, do I want to buy the software or pay for a yearly subscription, etc. None of these are insurmountable problems, but it's a different style of doing things than a lot of us like. Specifically, it seems like they're trying to get you to talk to a sales person. In fact, they have a nice section on how-to-buy Windows Server, I'm supposed to get price quotes, etc. There are many in the industry that like sales people. They like thinking, "wow, I just talked to that sales person and I can just ferry the information from the sales person to my organization and my job is done! I'm the people person!" For many of us who just want that nonsense to get out of our way, it's just terrible.<p>Now if a box breaks, I have to order something with the same processor equivalents. If I want to move to the cloud, I can't take my licenses with me unless I'm on a Software Assurance subscription. It limits my options, it takes organizational overhead. If I bought licenses on the processor model for two servers that I want to combine into one larger (more-core'd) server, can I do that? Can I set up VMs running it within the box (even just for testing)? What happens when the next version has a different structure? VMWare made a large licensing change that switched from CPU to RAM (or the other way around) and it hit people that had gamed their old licensing model hard.<p>Again, I'm not saying that the licensing is impossible, but it is a problem. With Ruby, I can launch on a $20 Linode or any number of hosting providers. Heck, with Windows, my cloud providers are limited to Amazon and Rackspace. Microsoft's stack has awesome value. Visual Studio is awesome. I prefer C# to Java and I prefer SQL Server to MySQL (and to an extent PostgreSQL since it supports things like clustered indexing and with 2012 they finally implemented a good LIMIT/OFFSET). But those goodies come with a price that's more than just dollars. There's overhead in purchasing, overhead in pre-planning, and limitations.<p>"Why not Node.js" would be a great post. Without taking anything away from Node, it is different. If you use Django, Pylons, Rails, .NET MVC, Play (at least the Java side), etc. Rails should feel familiar. Some people don't like evented programming. I think a lot of people don't like JavaScript as well. It's ok in my book, but I doubt it would be so popular if it weren't the only language that browsers spoke. Similarly, it wouldn't be faster if companies like Google weren't pouring energy into it. Node.js offers some wonderful benefits. Event-driven programming with non-blocking IO can be wonderful for many things. The V8 JavaScript engine is fast. But "why not Node.js" would really be "why not evented?" The answer might be something lame like, "well, people are comfortable with MVC and process-based concurrency is easy and we're not planning on doing something that an evented model would give us a huge boost." Again, evented programming is very useful, but it's also different. While I think all CS programs should teach concurrency, some don't and even people who went through such a program don't always like it. Processes are simple (even if they waste cycles context switching, even if they flush the TLB). Node.js has done our broader community a great service by bringing up evented programming and creating a good environment for those who want it. But the answer to "Why not node?" could simply be "I didn't feel like evented programming". No matter what their differences, MVC frameworks are more alike to each other.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jongalloway2</author><text>I'm happy you did something different, even though your reasons are of course all wrong. I do wish it had been Node and not Ruby - JavaScript fits most of your reasons for going with an open source stack a lot better than Ruby does. Why not Node was the post I was hoping to read.<p>But back to why you're wrong on the internet:<p>1. .NET licensing isn't complicated, SQL Server is. There's an easy fix for that.<p>2. I don't think StackOverflow really participates in the best that the .NET open source world has to offer. From the information I can read, you (and team) published a lot of the code you wrote under open source licenses, but as far as I know the StackOverflow stack didn't really interact with many (any?) open source .NET projects that weren't run by StackOverflow - e.g. writing MiniProfiler instead of working with Glimpse, working with Mono, etc.<p>3. There's a lot that's changed in the .NET web space in the past year as they've moved from just releasing the code (see 2 above) to accepting pull requests. This has resulted in a good amount of accepted pull requests - community contributed features which ship "in the box" and are officially supported by Microsoft. Sometimes that's lines of code, but more often it's integration of popular community libraries. If anything, that trend is accelerating.<p>(also posted on blog comments, but nobody reads those)<p>Coding Horror Fan,
Jon</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Ruby?</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/03/why-ruby.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phillmv</author><text>Did you read the post at all?<p>&#62;Ruby isn't cool any more. Yeah, you heard me. It's not cool to write Ruby code any more. All the cool people moved on to slinging Scala and Node.js years ago. Our project isn't cool, it's just a bunch of boring old Ruby code. Personally, I'm thrilled that Ruby is now mature enough that the community no longer needs to bother with the pretense of being the coolest kid on the block.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jongalloway2</author><text>I'm happy you did something different, even though your reasons are of course all wrong. I do wish it had been Node and not Ruby - JavaScript fits most of your reasons for going with an open source stack a lot better than Ruby does. Why not Node was the post I was hoping to read.<p>But back to why you're wrong on the internet:<p>1. .NET licensing isn't complicated, SQL Server is. There's an easy fix for that.<p>2. I don't think StackOverflow really participates in the best that the .NET open source world has to offer. From the information I can read, you (and team) published a lot of the code you wrote under open source licenses, but as far as I know the StackOverflow stack didn't really interact with many (any?) open source .NET projects that weren't run by StackOverflow - e.g. writing MiniProfiler instead of working with Glimpse, working with Mono, etc.<p>3. There's a lot that's changed in the .NET web space in the past year as they've moved from just releasing the code (see 2 above) to accepting pull requests. This has resulted in a good amount of accepted pull requests - community contributed features which ship "in the box" and are officially supported by Microsoft. Sometimes that's lines of code, but more often it's integration of popular community libraries. If anything, that trend is accelerating.<p>(also posted on blog comments, but nobody reads those)<p>Coding Horror Fan,
Jon</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Ruby?</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/03/why-ruby.html</url></story> |
35,216,144 | 35,215,790 | 1 | 3 | 35,210,730 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beltsazar</author><text>Yeah, the most surprising thing about Go&#x27;s slice expressions is that you can reslice a slice beyond its length, as long as it&#x27;s still within its capacity.<p>I wonder how many off-by-one bugs have happened undetected because a slice is unintentionally resliced beyond its length. Instead of crashing, so that the issue is known early, the program will still run with inconsistent data.</text><parent_chain><item><author>H4ZB7</author><text>why do people write articles about go features? when PHP was in its prime, almost nobody wrote blogs explaining how they found some philosophy in PHP. there&#x27;s a reason for that.<p>when you see someone open their article explaining a language feature by talking of the implementation details or specific use cases, that&#x27;s a language smell (of course all industrial PLs stink).<p>ironically go is the only post 80s language that uses &quot;memory safe&quot; as a marketing point (even though they all are), yet go has the most memory unsafety of post 80s industrial languages. you can parse something and pass on a slice somewhere. if you mistakenly slice that slice with a bigger size - this incorrect size being the programmer bounds check error - you restore some of the original array that was supposed to be cut off and teh next operation working on that slice will thus modify or leak data:<p><pre><code> package main
import &quot;fmt&quot;
func main(){
a := [3]int{1,2,3}
b := a[0:2]
fmt.Println(b[1])
c := b[0:3]
fmt.Println(c[2])
}
$ go run a.go
2
3
</code></pre>
the other example of memory unsafety in go being that modifying slices between threads can lead to actual memory corruption, not just simulated memory corruption as above<p>the point here is that this footgun doesnt even have a real point outside of some insane performance argument. nobody would ever design something like this without massive cognitive dissonance (aside from industrial PLs, which just copy and modify the previous industrial PL, C in this case). all go&#x27;s primitives are rigged like this with unintuitive behaviors. its amazing how much such a simple language with small scope can get wrong. and i expect nothing less from people who go around saying &quot;zeroeth&quot;. DAY OF THE BOBCAT SOON</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>a[low:high:max] in Golang – A Rare Slice Trick</title><url>https://build-your-own.org/blog/20230316_go_full_slice/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>silisili</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how your snippet above exemplifies memory unsafety.<p>Concurrent access does let you hit some &#x27;fun&#x27; behavior, but you have to be doing pretty dumb things to hit them. And while the implementation may be able to save you from something like that, such things would likely bubble up elsewhere(disk i&#x2F;o, network i&#x2F;o, etc) if doing that kind of thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>H4ZB7</author><text>why do people write articles about go features? when PHP was in its prime, almost nobody wrote blogs explaining how they found some philosophy in PHP. there&#x27;s a reason for that.<p>when you see someone open their article explaining a language feature by talking of the implementation details or specific use cases, that&#x27;s a language smell (of course all industrial PLs stink).<p>ironically go is the only post 80s language that uses &quot;memory safe&quot; as a marketing point (even though they all are), yet go has the most memory unsafety of post 80s industrial languages. you can parse something and pass on a slice somewhere. if you mistakenly slice that slice with a bigger size - this incorrect size being the programmer bounds check error - you restore some of the original array that was supposed to be cut off and teh next operation working on that slice will thus modify or leak data:<p><pre><code> package main
import &quot;fmt&quot;
func main(){
a := [3]int{1,2,3}
b := a[0:2]
fmt.Println(b[1])
c := b[0:3]
fmt.Println(c[2])
}
$ go run a.go
2
3
</code></pre>
the other example of memory unsafety in go being that modifying slices between threads can lead to actual memory corruption, not just simulated memory corruption as above<p>the point here is that this footgun doesnt even have a real point outside of some insane performance argument. nobody would ever design something like this without massive cognitive dissonance (aside from industrial PLs, which just copy and modify the previous industrial PL, C in this case). all go&#x27;s primitives are rigged like this with unintuitive behaviors. its amazing how much such a simple language with small scope can get wrong. and i expect nothing less from people who go around saying &quot;zeroeth&quot;. DAY OF THE BOBCAT SOON</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>a[low:high:max] in Golang – A Rare Slice Trick</title><url>https://build-your-own.org/blog/20230316_go_full_slice/</url></story> |
12,744,203 | 12,744,187 | 1 | 2 | 12,743,654 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Czech Republic a member of European Union: Check!<p>Czech Republic a NATO Ally: Check!<p>Computer Crime Illegal In Czech Republic by Czech Law: Check!<p>Computer Crime Illegal In European Union: Check!<p>Bilateral Extradition Treaty Present Between US and Czech Republic: Check!<p>European Union Recognizes Validity Of Bilateral Extradition Treaties With The US: Check!<p>I am not clear on the basis of Russia&#x27;s expectation that they&#x27;re going to get their hacker back soon.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russian Hacker, Wanted by F.B.I., Is Arrested in Prague, Czechs Say</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/world/europe/prague-russian-hacker.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>No word on who was arrested or who their victims were.<p>All we have to confirm the story is political posturing from two global superpowers over an arrest in a third country. This sounds like the opening act of a cold war era political struggle. War by proxy, etc.<p>Can we please not repeat that chapter in history?<p>Or, if we&#x27;re going to do so, at least not use hackers as the pawns in this sick game? I&#x27;d appreciate at least that much.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russian Hacker, Wanted by F.B.I., Is Arrested in Prague, Czechs Say</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/world/europe/prague-russian-hacker.html</url></story> |
12,800,974 | 12,800,860 | 1 | 2 | 12,799,851 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eightfourteen</author><text>&gt; if there is demand for this kind of short rentals, why wouldn&#x27;t they be allowed?<p>There is demand for a lot of things in a lot of areas, but it isn&#x27;t allowed because it would be for the benefit of a select few at the cost of the many. Casinos, bars, hotels -- any kind of business, really, aren&#x27;t allowed everywhere even though there may be demand for those services from people who don&#x27;t actually have to live in that area.</text><parent_chain><item><author>josu</author><text>&gt;They knew individuals were renting whole apartments 100% of the time, and did nothing.<p>While this certainly goes against the spirit of Airbnb and probably against their terms and conditions, if there is demand for this kind of short rentals, why wouldn&#x27;t they be allowed?<p>(Not directly replying to your comment, just opening up a related discussion)<p>EDIT: linkregister&#x27;s comment addresses the issue <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12800412" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12800412</a></text></item><item><author>keepper</author><text>I love AirBnB, and have used them many times. But in the case of NYC, AirBnB brought this wholly on themselves.<p>They knew landlords were running whole buildings in nyc as pseudo hotels, and they did little until now. [1]<p>They knew individuals were renting whole apartments 100% of the time, and did nothing.[2]<p>They refused to give data to the attorney general, and instead, mounted an AD campaign.[3]<p>Only after they were harshly penalized, did they promise to clamp down on the actual abuses.[4]<p>So they willingly let their customers break the law, because nyc is their biggest market, and well, now want to play the victim.<p>The spirit of AirBnB and the &quot;sharing&quot; economy is to share under utilized housing. Not to create illegal hotels.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gothamist.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;16&#x2F;airbnb_illegal_rapacious.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gothamist.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;16&#x2F;airbnb_illegal_rapacious.php</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-07-07&#x2F;wooing-governor-cuomo-airbnb-boots-2-233-new-york-city-listings" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-07-07&#x2F;wooing-go...</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;airbnb-refuses-to-give-user-data-to-attorney-general-2013-10" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;airbnb-refuses-to-give-user-d...</a>
[4]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;20&#x2F;technology&#x2F;airbnb-proposes-cracking-down-on-new-york-city-hosts.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;20&#x2F;technology&#x2F;airbnb-proposes...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hotel CEO celebrates higher prices in NYC after anti-Airbnb law passes</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/26/hotel-executive-openly-celebrates-higher-prices-after-anti-airbnb-law-passes/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>Reduced rental stock + disruptive transient population introduced in residential areas. No-one wants to live next to a AirBnB. End of discussion. We&#x27;ve been over this a million times here, you&#x27;re not opening up the discussion.</text><parent_chain><item><author>josu</author><text>&gt;They knew individuals were renting whole apartments 100% of the time, and did nothing.<p>While this certainly goes against the spirit of Airbnb and probably against their terms and conditions, if there is demand for this kind of short rentals, why wouldn&#x27;t they be allowed?<p>(Not directly replying to your comment, just opening up a related discussion)<p>EDIT: linkregister&#x27;s comment addresses the issue <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12800412" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12800412</a></text></item><item><author>keepper</author><text>I love AirBnB, and have used them many times. But in the case of NYC, AirBnB brought this wholly on themselves.<p>They knew landlords were running whole buildings in nyc as pseudo hotels, and they did little until now. [1]<p>They knew individuals were renting whole apartments 100% of the time, and did nothing.[2]<p>They refused to give data to the attorney general, and instead, mounted an AD campaign.[3]<p>Only after they were harshly penalized, did they promise to clamp down on the actual abuses.[4]<p>So they willingly let their customers break the law, because nyc is their biggest market, and well, now want to play the victim.<p>The spirit of AirBnB and the &quot;sharing&quot; economy is to share under utilized housing. Not to create illegal hotels.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gothamist.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;16&#x2F;airbnb_illegal_rapacious.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gothamist.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;16&#x2F;airbnb_illegal_rapacious.php</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-07-07&#x2F;wooing-governor-cuomo-airbnb-boots-2-233-new-york-city-listings" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-07-07&#x2F;wooing-go...</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;airbnb-refuses-to-give-user-data-to-attorney-general-2013-10" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;airbnb-refuses-to-give-user-d...</a>
[4]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;20&#x2F;technology&#x2F;airbnb-proposes-cracking-down-on-new-york-city-hosts.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;20&#x2F;technology&#x2F;airbnb-proposes...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hotel CEO celebrates higher prices in NYC after anti-Airbnb law passes</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/26/hotel-executive-openly-celebrates-higher-prices-after-anti-airbnb-law-passes/</url></story> |
6,910,051 | 6,909,696 | 1 | 3 | 6,909,607 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pornel</author><text>Please note that CSS Variables are not like SASS&#x2F;LESS variables. They&#x27;re actually <i>custom properties</i> that obey inheritance.<p>They&#x27;re scoped to document rather than stylesheet, so you can override them in parts of the document just like you can override any CSS property.<p>Example from the spec:<p><pre><code> :root { var-color: blue; }
div { var-color: green; }
#alert { var-color: red; }
* { color: var(color); }
&lt;p&gt;I inherited blue from the root element!&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;I got green set directly on me!&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#x27;alert&#x27;&gt;
While I got red set directly on me!
&lt;p&gt;I’m red too, because of inheritance!&lt;&#x2F;p&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/css-variables-in-firefox-nightly/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bbx</author><text>CSS variables are the only reason I started using Sass and LESS in the first place. But although these preprocessors come with other interesting features, I never managed to truly incorporate them in my workflow.<p>The way I ended up solving the CSS variables issue (i.e. replacing the same property&#x2F;value combination in multiple locations) was to actually regroup <i>selectors</i>.<p>For example, I&#x27;d have:<p><pre><code> #title,
.nav a,
.post-title em {
color: #db4e44;
}
</code></pre>
The only annoying thing is that it can result in a long list of selectors (although I&#x27;d put them on one line anyway). But one thing I truly appreciate with this approach is that you can edit <i>any</i> value with your browser&#x27;s inspector, and see it <i>instantly</i> update all instances at once. It&#x27;s great to test out new colors for example.<p>The other option would be to have a specific class that would apply this style. But then, you&#x27;d move the styling from the CSS to the HTML, and I&#x27;ve always tried to prevent myself from breaking this golden rule.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/css-variables-in-firefox-nightly/</url></story> |
28,943,143 | 28,942,758 | 1 | 3 | 28,895,128 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hobofan</author><text>&gt; There is no feeling of permanence to your knowledge<p>I couldn&#x27;t disagree more. Maybe it&#x27;s my situation as a full-stack web developer that makes it different, but over the past 5 years my understanding of all the layers that a website interaction goes through (from mouse click to database and back) has only deepened, and none of it feels like it went out of date over that timespan.<p>Sure some company may use technology X for the job another company uses Y, but overall it feels more like different paint jobs for the same thing with slightly different trade-offs, than an ever-changing barrage of completely new things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hvasilev</author><text>The thing that burns out web developer is web development. The constant shift of technologies (just for the sake of it) and the nerfed (to oblivion) environment is hell. As a web developer, after you learn the basics (~5 years) there is no feeling of where the &quot;up&quot; direction is. Everything feels like sidesteps. There is no feeling of permanence to your knowledge, unlike a lawyer or a doctor. The knowledge feels like water pouring into a full container - as much of it goes out, as it goes in.<p>Switched to embedded systems 7 years ago to avoid the burnout. It is better, in my opinion. Funny enough, there is a natural barrier to entry that keeps most programmers away - You have to understand how computers work, how operating systems work and you have to be able to code in C&#x2F;assembly. I have a lot of fun and actually picked up electronics as a hobby, which will help me better myself professionally. I think there is enough here to keep me entertained until I retire.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting</title><url>https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/100-things-every-web-developer-should-know/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>seer</author><text>There’s a certain churn to it sure, but I wouldn’t call all the development “sidesteps” I think it’s just the scope of changes that’s staggering. You knew jquery, gulp and express and you were fine, but thats such a low low bar if you take the whole of human achievement in CS. Web developers just re-experience the growth and invention of all the other branches. For example you get virtual dom with react - an idea that’s been in client side’s dev arsenal for quite a while. Webpack&#x2F;esbuild are re-discovering compilers, etc.<p>It’s all just a process of convergence in my eyes. And if I put it in that way I can cope with it. Any new fancy library comes up - I check ok were have the ideas come from, language, environment etc. Go read that and understand the original concepts, and then watch the web dev slowly move in that direction.<p>To be honest it’s pace is sometimes actually frustratingly slow if anything. You can see some Ideas that have been tested and you think they would be great, but takes time to actually permeate into web dev.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hvasilev</author><text>The thing that burns out web developer is web development. The constant shift of technologies (just for the sake of it) and the nerfed (to oblivion) environment is hell. As a web developer, after you learn the basics (~5 years) there is no feeling of where the &quot;up&quot; direction is. Everything feels like sidesteps. There is no feeling of permanence to your knowledge, unlike a lawyer or a doctor. The knowledge feels like water pouring into a full container - as much of it goes out, as it goes in.<p>Switched to embedded systems 7 years ago to avoid the burnout. It is better, in my opinion. Funny enough, there is a natural barrier to entry that keeps most programmers away - You have to understand how computers work, how operating systems work and you have to be able to code in C&#x2F;assembly. I have a lot of fun and actually picked up electronics as a hobby, which will help me better myself professionally. I think there is enough here to keep me entertained until I retire.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting</title><url>https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/100-things-every-web-developer-should-know/</url></story> |
36,890,724 | 36,890,013 | 1 | 2 | 36,880,471 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kahnclusions</author><text>&gt; Fermi’s paradox has two good answers — we don’t see aliens because they don’t exist, or we don’t see them because they are here already.<p>These are not &quot;good&quot; answers to the Fermi paradox, and definitely not the only answers. Much better answers (in my opinion) are things like: their signals haven&#x27;t reached us yet; they haven&#x27;t developed interstellar communications or travel yet; they haven&#x27;t developed intelligent life yet.<p>I would think an alien spacecraft carrying the energy and resources needed for interstellar travel (including the return trip) would be pretty obvious and detectable even by amateur astronomers. Instead what we&#x27;re doing here is chasing at shadows and grasping at straws. Credible reports deserve to be looked into, yes. But what is Grusch alleging here? Existence of a UFO crash retrieval program. Presence of non-human biologics. OK, experimental Soviet or Chinese military technology with dog or cat DNA counts. Of course the US military guards those in secrecy. When we ask, &quot;did you find aliens?&quot; they aren&#x27;t going to reply with &quot;sorry no aliens, and to prove it, here are the details of all the experimental Soviet&#x2F;Chinese&#x2F;US military tech we recovered.&quot;<p>PBS Space Time has a number of great episodes on the subject of aliens, including questions like how do we know whether humans are among the first spacefaring species: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uTrFAY3LUNw">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uTrFAY3LUNw</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>wildermuthn</author><text>I’m a huge skeptic, but I’ve been following this very closely over the past few months.
Fermi’s paradox has two good answers — we don’t see aliens because they don’t exist, or we don’t see them because they are here already. They should be here already. The paradox is about why we don’t see them.
Being skeptical is different than doubt-by-default. A skeptic is curious and slow to judge. So with great curiosity, I’ve dug deep into the rabbit hole.
It appears that the vast majority of those in “ufology” are in it for the money. Many claims about extraterrestrials also veer off into the supernatural. Conspiracy theories have a funny attraction to one another, creating clumps of exuberant irrationality.
But the recent case of David Grusch and the rebranding of UFOs as UAPs and aliens as NHI (non human intelligence), are a sign that clear (but skeptical) thinking is growing on this topic.
Grusch isnt (yet) making money off this. He appears entirely trustworthy in a way that is off-color for this topic. Assuming he isn’t a world class con playing the long-game, his credibility suggests three possibilities:
1. He has bad data, by accident or incompetence 2. He has bad data, by purposeful deceit 3. He has good data.
The cool thing about Grusch is he doesn’t claim to have first-hand knowledge. He claims to have the names of people who do, and the locations associated with the “crash-retrieval” program.
What’s more likely, that there is no other intelligent life in the galaxy, or that an advanced civilization that has been around for eons isn’t all that interested in engaging with the local wildlife? The most credible UAP reports don’t involve the fantastic stories of abduction, crop-circles, ancient pyramids, etc. The credible reports have what appear to be reconnaissance craft with a strong interest in the military and nuclear weapons.
In short, it’s worth supporting Grusch and having his names and places checked out. The answer to Fermi’s paradox is an important one for humanity — as central as whether the sub revolves around the earth or the earth revolves around the sun.
At the very least, we should be curious skeptics.
As the head of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), Sean Kirkpatrick, said recently, “wouldn’t that be fun?” if we discovered evidence we were not alone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-66307705</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwbadubadu</author><text>&gt; we don’t see aliens because they don’t exist, or we don’t see them because they are here already<p>imo most likely is they exist, but space is just so unimaginable huge, and also Aliens can at most go close to lightspeed. They didn&#x27;t beat physics nor invented portals &#x2F; wormholes?<p>&gt; They should be here already.<p>Least likely for me out of the three options.. just our tinfoil hat love :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>wildermuthn</author><text>I’m a huge skeptic, but I’ve been following this very closely over the past few months.
Fermi’s paradox has two good answers — we don’t see aliens because they don’t exist, or we don’t see them because they are here already. They should be here already. The paradox is about why we don’t see them.
Being skeptical is different than doubt-by-default. A skeptic is curious and slow to judge. So with great curiosity, I’ve dug deep into the rabbit hole.
It appears that the vast majority of those in “ufology” are in it for the money. Many claims about extraterrestrials also veer off into the supernatural. Conspiracy theories have a funny attraction to one another, creating clumps of exuberant irrationality.
But the recent case of David Grusch and the rebranding of UFOs as UAPs and aliens as NHI (non human intelligence), are a sign that clear (but skeptical) thinking is growing on this topic.
Grusch isnt (yet) making money off this. He appears entirely trustworthy in a way that is off-color for this topic. Assuming he isn’t a world class con playing the long-game, his credibility suggests three possibilities:
1. He has bad data, by accident or incompetence 2. He has bad data, by purposeful deceit 3. He has good data.
The cool thing about Grusch is he doesn’t claim to have first-hand knowledge. He claims to have the names of people who do, and the locations associated with the “crash-retrieval” program.
What’s more likely, that there is no other intelligent life in the galaxy, or that an advanced civilization that has been around for eons isn’t all that interested in engaging with the local wildlife? The most credible UAP reports don’t involve the fantastic stories of abduction, crop-circles, ancient pyramids, etc. The credible reports have what appear to be reconnaissance craft with a strong interest in the military and nuclear weapons.
In short, it’s worth supporting Grusch and having his names and places checked out. The answer to Fermi’s paradox is an important one for humanity — as central as whether the sub revolves around the earth or the earth revolves around the sun.
At the very least, we should be curious skeptics.
As the head of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), Sean Kirkpatrick, said recently, “wouldn’t that be fun?” if we discovered evidence we were not alone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-66307705</url></story> |
38,607,327 | 38,607,143 | 1 | 3 | 38,605,643 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>duped</author><text>Is there a measure for how this compares to places without social programs for drug addicts? This is a legitimate question, I don&#x27;t know if they&#x27;ve done better or worse in the context of the failed war on drugs.<p>Because the country as a whole has been completely ravaged by opiate addiction. It&#x27;s not just Portland and Seattle. West Virginia doesn&#x27;t have anything like this, and it&#x27;s just as badly afflicted. It may be less visible because it doesn&#x27;t have the same population density.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmcphers</author><text>I live in the Seattle area, which is struggling with public drug use just like Portland.<p>Like Portland, we&#x27;ve lived for decades with very progressive politicians who have lead successful decriminalization efforts and spent huge sums of public funds on treatment and harm reduction programs.<p>After several decades and many, many millions of dollars spent, the problem is, by every measure, absolutely the worst it&#x27;s ever been. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kingcounty.gov&#x2F;en&#x2F;dept&#x2F;dph&#x2F;health-safety&#x2F;safety-injury-prevention&#x2F;overdose-prevention-response&#x2F;data-dashboards" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kingcounty.gov&#x2F;en&#x2F;dept&#x2F;dph&#x2F;health-safety&#x2F;safety-inju...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/portland-oregon-drug-laws.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>boopmaster</author><text>I’m reading there that fentanyl appears to be the culprit.<p>I realize it is a drug, but not sure if that’s even supposed to be in the drugs.<p>Is this really a story of drug dealers cutting the drugs that people wanted.. into a lethal concoction?<p>(Sorry I really don’t know, are users looking for fentanyl?)</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmcphers</author><text>I live in the Seattle area, which is struggling with public drug use just like Portland.<p>Like Portland, we&#x27;ve lived for decades with very progressive politicians who have lead successful decriminalization efforts and spent huge sums of public funds on treatment and harm reduction programs.<p>After several decades and many, many millions of dollars spent, the problem is, by every measure, absolutely the worst it&#x27;s ever been. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kingcounty.gov&#x2F;en&#x2F;dept&#x2F;dph&#x2F;health-safety&#x2F;safety-injury-prevention&#x2F;overdose-prevention-response&#x2F;data-dashboards" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kingcounty.gov&#x2F;en&#x2F;dept&#x2F;dph&#x2F;health-safety&#x2F;safety-inju...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/portland-oregon-drug-laws.html</url></story> |
3,500,733 | 3,500,847 | 1 | 2 | 3,500,301 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>plinkplonk</author><text>" Formerly colleagues from the same department, now competitors with very similar education startups"<p>(Without taking sides, and somewhat tangentially) <i>if</i> true, we consumers are in for a good time. Competition,especially with such formidable people leading rival companies, is awesome.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ramanujan</author><text>Part of the backstory here is that ai-class.com is by Udacity (Sebastian Thrun), while ml-class.org and pgm-class.org are by Coursera (Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller). Formerly colleagues from the same department, now competitors with very similar education startups, all the way down to the naming conventions. Lot of fur flying about who copied who.<p>Coursera has been launching a ton of classes[1]. Probably Sebastian feels that to beat Andrew and Daphne, he has to go full time.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.cs101-class.org/hub.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs101-class.org/hub.php</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Udacity and the future of online universities</title><url>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/23/udacity-and-the-future-of-online-universities/</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gallamine</author><text>So, does this explain the unexpected delay of the Spring ML-Class? I haven't heard any news until a few days ago when I got an email saying there were delays in starting the new semester.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ramanujan</author><text>Part of the backstory here is that ai-class.com is by Udacity (Sebastian Thrun), while ml-class.org and pgm-class.org are by Coursera (Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller). Formerly colleagues from the same department, now competitors with very similar education startups, all the way down to the naming conventions. Lot of fur flying about who copied who.<p>Coursera has been launching a ton of classes[1]. Probably Sebastian feels that to beat Andrew and Daphne, he has to go full time.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.cs101-class.org/hub.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs101-class.org/hub.php</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Udacity and the future of online universities</title><url>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/23/udacity-and-the-future-of-online-universities/</url><text></text></story> |
36,454,778 | 36,454,218 | 1 | 2 | 36,452,290 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jareds</author><text>Is he bold and unafraid? My thought is he believes he has a 0% chance of living to this time next year given the current way things are going. If rebelling increases his odds to 0.5% and he doesn&#x27;t care about the lives of anyone else it&#x27;s the logical thing to do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>I&#x27;ll say this, the guy is bold as hell. He&#x27;s an absolute maniac and probably worse than Putin but he sure isn&#x27;t afraid of anything. One can only hope he wrecks enough chaos make the war in Ukraine untenable.<p>I&#x27;ll also say this, Putin played his hand as poorly as humanly possible. He spent decades stockpiling loyalty and political capital with an iron fist and spent it all in less two years and has absolutely nothing to show for it. I think it&#x27;s time to admit that beneath his steely-eyed, stoic demeanor he isn&#x27;t half as smart as he&#x27;s been given credit for.</text></item><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>Wagner leader Prigozhin is gambling and betting everything on red (or black?).<p>The problem for the Russian government is that many ordinary pro-war Russians see Prigozhin as a hero. If they kill him, he&#x27;ll become a martyr.<p>For all I care both sides are war criminals and should answer for their atrocities in Ukraine. If they can kill each other without also killing civilians, don&#x27;t think we should stand in their way too much.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wagner coup in Russia? Wagner declared war on the Russian army</title><url>https://www.worldbulletin.net/asia-pacific/wagner-coup-in-russia-wagner-declared-war-on-the-russian-army-h215840.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>1MachineElf</author><text>I&#x27;ll say one thing - I wish US generals would publicly speak our against our wars and the lies behind them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>I&#x27;ll say this, the guy is bold as hell. He&#x27;s an absolute maniac and probably worse than Putin but he sure isn&#x27;t afraid of anything. One can only hope he wrecks enough chaos make the war in Ukraine untenable.<p>I&#x27;ll also say this, Putin played his hand as poorly as humanly possible. He spent decades stockpiling loyalty and political capital with an iron fist and spent it all in less two years and has absolutely nothing to show for it. I think it&#x27;s time to admit that beneath his steely-eyed, stoic demeanor he isn&#x27;t half as smart as he&#x27;s been given credit for.</text></item><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>Wagner leader Prigozhin is gambling and betting everything on red (or black?).<p>The problem for the Russian government is that many ordinary pro-war Russians see Prigozhin as a hero. If they kill him, he&#x27;ll become a martyr.<p>For all I care both sides are war criminals and should answer for their atrocities in Ukraine. If they can kill each other without also killing civilians, don&#x27;t think we should stand in their way too much.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wagner coup in Russia? Wagner declared war on the Russian army</title><url>https://www.worldbulletin.net/asia-pacific/wagner-coup-in-russia-wagner-declared-war-on-the-russian-army-h215840.html</url></story> |
30,111,782 | 30,111,676 | 1 | 2 | 30,087,222 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HWR_14</author><text>The UK and especially Japan have significantly higher population densities. You would expect them to have less square footage of retail space.<p>Meanwhile, a reason for the mall explosion was because real estate developments, especially commercial malls were heavily subsidized by taxpayers in the 1980s (might have the decade off). Those still exist at a smaller scale, but not enough to justify their levels, even back before 2008.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bobthepanda</author><text>This was inevitable, and not even because of online shopping.<p>America has been over-retailed for a long time. Retail per square foot around the world looks like this, in decreasing order<p>US - 23.5 sq ft of retail per person<p>Canada - 16.8 sq ft<p>Australia - 11.2 sq ft<p>UK - 4.6<p>Japan - 4.4<p>etc.<p>US stores got here by taking on more debt than they could handle, expanding aggressively, and then collapsing under the burden. When the big box stores and department stores went bankrupt, they often took whatever mall they were anchoring down with them. The question has always been not if this would happen, but how quickly.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.insider.com&#x2F;5bb37815ac0a6314735194e8?width=1300&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.insider.com&#x2F;5bb37815ac0a6314735194e8?width=1300&amp;fo...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Malls adding apartments to offset dwindling numbers of shoppers</title><url>https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/25/malls-adding-apartments-to-offset-dwindling-numbers-of-shoppers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>echelon</author><text>Contrarian perspective.<p>The model worked until it apparently didn&#x27;t. If Amazon and online shopping hadn&#x27;t happened, we&#x27;d still be going to the malls.<p>A large number of retailers fell not to online shopping, but instead to lowering quality of service and goods. Sears, Circuit City, JC Penny, and Kmart each have analogous stores and former competitors that remain and are doing well.<p>Outside of disposably fast fashion like Shein, it&#x27;s usually more convenient to try clothes on shotgun fashion. In person.<p>Fragrance, jewelry, luxury goods. All better done in person.<p>Home Depot is peerless and will never be replaced with an online equivalent.<p>Touching and trying things on is an experience that just can&#x27;t be matched online (sans metaverse, if it actually delivers).<p>Amazon is aggressively expanding physical retail presence. They&#x27;re focusing on convenience, which is probably the biggest reason people avoid shopping in person.<p>People love shopping. And if the shopping experience is modern and fun, and interspersed with drinking and dining, they love doing it with friends. It&#x27;s a social activity too.<p>If malls morph into &quot;live-work-play&quot; hubs like this old sears factory [1] or this entirely new construction in that mold [2], they&#x27;ll absolutely flourish.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.poncecitymarket.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.poncecitymarket.com</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;townbrookhaven.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;townbrookhaven.net</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bobthepanda</author><text>This was inevitable, and not even because of online shopping.<p>America has been over-retailed for a long time. Retail per square foot around the world looks like this, in decreasing order<p>US - 23.5 sq ft of retail per person<p>Canada - 16.8 sq ft<p>Australia - 11.2 sq ft<p>UK - 4.6<p>Japan - 4.4<p>etc.<p>US stores got here by taking on more debt than they could handle, expanding aggressively, and then collapsing under the burden. When the big box stores and department stores went bankrupt, they often took whatever mall they were anchoring down with them. The question has always been not if this would happen, but how quickly.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.insider.com&#x2F;5bb37815ac0a6314735194e8?width=1300&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.insider.com&#x2F;5bb37815ac0a6314735194e8?width=1300&amp;fo...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Malls adding apartments to offset dwindling numbers of shoppers</title><url>https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/25/malls-adding-apartments-to-offset-dwindling-numbers-of-shoppers/</url></story> |
29,003,520 | 29,002,575 | 1 | 2 | 29,001,721 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leotaku</author><text>I&#x27;m personally curious how the Next is able to achieve the claim of &quot;zero client-side JavaScript&quot; mentioned here[1] using react server components? It just doesn&#x27;t seem to make sense to me, and the HN clone example and my barebones test project also clearly still load about 74.2 KB of JavaScript. Is the claim supposed to mean that the server components won&#x27;t require additional JS, or maybe that they won&#x27;t need to execute any client-side JS to be fully rendered?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;advanced-features&#x2F;react-18#react-server-components" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;advanced-features&#x2F;react-18#react-ser...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>leerob</author><text>Hey everyone, Lee from Vercel here! Happy to answer any questions about Next.js 12. Personally, I&#x27;m extremely excited for the new Rust compiler.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Next.js 12</title><url>https://nextjs.org/blog/next-12</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vrepsys</author><text>How about on demand page revalidation* ? I can&#x27;t find if it&#x27;s part of Next 12.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vercel&#x2F;next.js&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;11552#discussioncomment-2655" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vercel&#x2F;next.js&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;11552#discussi...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>leerob</author><text>Hey everyone, Lee from Vercel here! Happy to answer any questions about Next.js 12. Personally, I&#x27;m extremely excited for the new Rust compiler.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Next.js 12</title><url>https://nextjs.org/blog/next-12</url></story> |
37,907,048 | 37,905,966 | 1 | 2 | 37,904,518 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>88913527</author><text>You can have a LinkedIn profile but not use the feed-- I don&#x27;t see how that&#x27;s necessarily frustrating. Make a profile, provide the link on job applications. Occasionally edit your profile so it&#x27;s up to date. Then, don&#x27;t use it. Simple enough.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>It&#x27;s extremely frustrating, because in 2023 you&#x27;re sort of expected to have a linkedin (some job applications even require it!), but people have started treating it like the next FaceBook. From 2020-2022 I saw a lot of COVID conspiracy theories and political memes being posted, and I wanted to respond to them, but since LinkedIn is basically a resume, I withheld responding, for the same reason that I don&#x27;t put my voting history directly on my resume.<p>Though honestly the worst part is the &quot;inspiration porn&quot; that people post on there all the time, nearly all of which reduce to &quot;the job market is tough, but don&#x27;t give up because it gets easy!!!&quot;. When you point out that it, in fact, does not ever get &quot;easy&quot; to wake up to 30 rejection emails every morning, they either try and sell you on some meditation routine, tell you that you have a bad attitude, or just block you.<p>Honestly, it really is the absolute worst platform that I am stuck using. There are worse websites, obviously, but no one is forcing me to go to 4chan or The Daily Stormer every day.</text></item><item><author>codeTired</author><text>Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted.<p>I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile.<p>Can someone please develop hacker news type basic site but for jobs? No memes, no dark patterns, no likes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206158638/linkedin-layoffs</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mauliknshah</author><text>Further to that, my feed have been filled with Certification posts. Folks would boast about their 3 hour Certification courses with long cringe posts! And LinkedIn would not stop it, because they need to sell LinkedIn Learning!</text><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>It&#x27;s extremely frustrating, because in 2023 you&#x27;re sort of expected to have a linkedin (some job applications even require it!), but people have started treating it like the next FaceBook. From 2020-2022 I saw a lot of COVID conspiracy theories and political memes being posted, and I wanted to respond to them, but since LinkedIn is basically a resume, I withheld responding, for the same reason that I don&#x27;t put my voting history directly on my resume.<p>Though honestly the worst part is the &quot;inspiration porn&quot; that people post on there all the time, nearly all of which reduce to &quot;the job market is tough, but don&#x27;t give up because it gets easy!!!&quot;. When you point out that it, in fact, does not ever get &quot;easy&quot; to wake up to 30 rejection emails every morning, they either try and sell you on some meditation routine, tell you that you have a bad attitude, or just block you.<p>Honestly, it really is the absolute worst platform that I am stuck using. There are worse websites, obviously, but no one is forcing me to go to 4chan or The Daily Stormer every day.</text></item><item><author>codeTired</author><text>Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted.<p>I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile.<p>Can someone please develop hacker news type basic site but for jobs? No memes, no dark patterns, no likes.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206158638/linkedin-layoffs</url></story> |
31,722,796 | 31,722,804 | 1 | 2 | 31,720,183 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>isitmadeofglass</author><text>What are you expecting this to do exactly? Inflation in norther Europe is rampant too, and the housing market is just as bad. the fact that many people bike to work doesn’t change that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>favflam</author><text>1 short cut to cutting demand is to copy everyone else around the world. Let cities get rid of single family zoning. Let go of pride and commute by bicycle. The energy consumption will drop by a magnitude. People&#x27;s health will improve. We as members of society will see each other face to face more often, closing the polarization. Make the police walk and cycle around town, not sit aloof in their metal tanks.<p>The US would get explosive growth by not forcing such enormously inefficient car-centric cities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finally, no bid on mortgage-backed securities</title><url>https://notoriousrob.com/2022/06/finally-no-bid-on-mbs/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blfr</author><text>Commuting by bike isn&#x27;t going to happen. It&#x27;s not practical for most business and personal purposes. Electric scooters have a better shot than bikes. (Still not going to happen.)<p>The only alternative to cars in cities is working public transit. And working means available, frequent, safe, and clean. You can&#x27;t have homeless people sleeping on buses, you can&#x27;t turn it off at 1 am. Regular people need to be able to rely on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>favflam</author><text>1 short cut to cutting demand is to copy everyone else around the world. Let cities get rid of single family zoning. Let go of pride and commute by bicycle. The energy consumption will drop by a magnitude. People&#x27;s health will improve. We as members of society will see each other face to face more often, closing the polarization. Make the police walk and cycle around town, not sit aloof in their metal tanks.<p>The US would get explosive growth by not forcing such enormously inefficient car-centric cities.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Finally, no bid on mortgage-backed securities</title><url>https://notoriousrob.com/2022/06/finally-no-bid-on-mbs/</url></story> |
18,907,316 | 18,907,006 | 1 | 2 | 18,905,422 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisweekly</author><text>On a guitar in standard tuning (EADGBE), the Em chord can be played by fretting only two strings (the A and D), both on the 2nd fret. It&#x27;s basically the easiest chord to learn to play. And if you start in Em, it pairs with G, Am, C and D -- all of which are also very simple fingerings. Correlation isn&#x27;t causation, but I&#x27;d bet dollars to doughnuts this is a factor, given the absolute dominance of the guitar in popular music songwriting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rumcajz</author><text>OTOH, I was quite surprised that E minor is used more (17%) than E major (10%) in popular music. In classical music the latter is quite common and the former is very rare.</text></item><item><author>SomeHacker44</author><text>I came to say basically the same thing.<p>Seems like a basic statistical analysis of songs. Anyone who has composed or even played music will find no surprises here (unless you solely loved on atonal 20th century stuff).<p>However, the author clearly has knowledge of music theory, so I fully fail to appreciate the purpose of the article.</text></item><item><author>bencollier49</author><text>The feels like it was written by someone who didn&#x27;t understand music theory, but the author does discuss the 4th and 5th chords. And yet the story is written as if he didn&#x27;t expect to find that they show up everywhere.<p>Still, don&#x27;t want to be too negative, it&#x27;s very interesting that he used data from guitar chord websites, that&#x27;s a clever data source.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns</title><url>http://www.hooktheory.com/blog/i-analyzed-the-chords-of-1300-popular-songs-for-patterns-this-is-what-i-found/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bambax</author><text>They transposed all songs in C in order to be able to compare chords by name (which is a weird methodology but whatever).<p>By that measure it&#x27;s only natural that Em (iii) is more common than E (which is non-diatonic to C).</text><parent_chain><item><author>rumcajz</author><text>OTOH, I was quite surprised that E minor is used more (17%) than E major (10%) in popular music. In classical music the latter is quite common and the former is very rare.</text></item><item><author>SomeHacker44</author><text>I came to say basically the same thing.<p>Seems like a basic statistical analysis of songs. Anyone who has composed or even played music will find no surprises here (unless you solely loved on atonal 20th century stuff).<p>However, the author clearly has knowledge of music theory, so I fully fail to appreciate the purpose of the article.</text></item><item><author>bencollier49</author><text>The feels like it was written by someone who didn&#x27;t understand music theory, but the author does discuss the 4th and 5th chords. And yet the story is written as if he didn&#x27;t expect to find that they show up everywhere.<p>Still, don&#x27;t want to be too negative, it&#x27;s very interesting that he used data from guitar chord websites, that&#x27;s a clever data source.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns</title><url>http://www.hooktheory.com/blog/i-analyzed-the-chords-of-1300-popular-songs-for-patterns-this-is-what-i-found/</url></story> |
21,096,527 | 21,096,406 | 1 | 2 | 21,095,438 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m usually launching a barrage of follow-up questions that zoom in and out all the time<p>I would probably fold under this style of questioning even when describing a completely true and even interesting project that stands apart from the random grunt work I usually do. When interviewing other people myself, my style is borderline diffident while asking the candidate, to reduce the chance of nervousness&#x2F;anxiety influencing their answers.<p>That being said, I love Justwatch, so clearly your techniques are throwing up <i>some</i> good candidates. All the best! :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>endymi0n</author><text>I&#x27;d rip you to shreds on that one. It&#x27;s my second favorite question and after an innocent opening of &quot;What project was the most exciting one you recently did?&quot;, I&#x27;m usually launching a barrage of follow-up questions that zoom in and out all the time, like:<p>- Why were you selected for the team and who selected you?
- What were the biggest challenges the team faced?
- How did you measure you were doing the right thing and you did good work?<p>And on and on, always drilling down on their answers. It&#x27;s close to impossible to come up with BS on the fly at that speed and pressure.<p>This really splits the wheat from the chaff and pure talkers and &quot;team players&quot; who didn&#x27;t actually contribute anything to their teams&#x27; success stand there naked.</text></item><item><author>Ancalagon</author><text>Actually, I&#x27;d argue its very easy to dream up entire situations and completely lie about the kind of experiences these questions are asking about. Not saying I&#x27;ve done it in an interview before, but that&#x27;s my honest opinion.</text></item><item><author>baxtr</author><text>I’m interviewing 20+ candidates a month, and I have to say: these questions are really good to understand a person. It’s almost impossible to answer questions like 3 and 4 with fluff or BS, because they are asking for actual cases. This case-based interview technique allows you to go deep into the way people act, how they argue, how they try to influence people, how they view themself.<p>It’s important to understand that these questions are just the starting point of a conversation to understand how a person thinks and acts. It’s impossible to make things up with a good recruiter because there’s no way you know beforehand how deep and where he will go with his follow-up questions</text></item><item><author>HarryHirsch</author><text>How can you even answer any of these questions except with fluff and bullshit if you want to be hired? Google is supposed to be a data-driven company, but it&#x27;s impossible to extract any information out of bullshit, bullshit by definition is orthogonal to observable reality, it is neither truth, nor falsehood, it&#x27;s pure empty words.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Culture Fit Interview Questions</title><url>https://hire.google.com/articles/culture-fit-interview-questions/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ancalagon</author><text>That&#x27;s fair. I&#x27;d just assume that even the good, honest candidates will eventually feel like an interview like that is more of an interrogation, and decide not to come back because their manager doesn&#x27;t trust them.<p>Please note I&#x27;m not trying to make a personal attack here, my interview style has pretty much always been to keep things simple, straight, and to-the-point. Additionally, most of my interviews are technical, so sorting out behaviors is usually secondary, and the technicality is usually enough information to select candidates on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>endymi0n</author><text>I&#x27;d rip you to shreds on that one. It&#x27;s my second favorite question and after an innocent opening of &quot;What project was the most exciting one you recently did?&quot;, I&#x27;m usually launching a barrage of follow-up questions that zoom in and out all the time, like:<p>- Why were you selected for the team and who selected you?
- What were the biggest challenges the team faced?
- How did you measure you were doing the right thing and you did good work?<p>And on and on, always drilling down on their answers. It&#x27;s close to impossible to come up with BS on the fly at that speed and pressure.<p>This really splits the wheat from the chaff and pure talkers and &quot;team players&quot; who didn&#x27;t actually contribute anything to their teams&#x27; success stand there naked.</text></item><item><author>Ancalagon</author><text>Actually, I&#x27;d argue its very easy to dream up entire situations and completely lie about the kind of experiences these questions are asking about. Not saying I&#x27;ve done it in an interview before, but that&#x27;s my honest opinion.</text></item><item><author>baxtr</author><text>I’m interviewing 20+ candidates a month, and I have to say: these questions are really good to understand a person. It’s almost impossible to answer questions like 3 and 4 with fluff or BS, because they are asking for actual cases. This case-based interview technique allows you to go deep into the way people act, how they argue, how they try to influence people, how they view themself.<p>It’s important to understand that these questions are just the starting point of a conversation to understand how a person thinks and acts. It’s impossible to make things up with a good recruiter because there’s no way you know beforehand how deep and where he will go with his follow-up questions</text></item><item><author>HarryHirsch</author><text>How can you even answer any of these questions except with fluff and bullshit if you want to be hired? Google is supposed to be a data-driven company, but it&#x27;s impossible to extract any information out of bullshit, bullshit by definition is orthogonal to observable reality, it is neither truth, nor falsehood, it&#x27;s pure empty words.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Culture Fit Interview Questions</title><url>https://hire.google.com/articles/culture-fit-interview-questions/</url></story> |
34,387,318 | 34,386,298 | 1 | 3 | 34,385,785 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tee_0</author><text>They did an experiment that makes mice appear old and be old by every metric we know of. Frailty, organ degradation, everything. And they did this with a specific mechanism. This is literally the most important step in solving aging that has ever happened. There is a high probability that we have discovered the cause of aging. Nobody gives a shit? Was it even in the news? A post on the front page about teslas crashing has 2000 comments and there’s a few people in here and only to move the goalposts? What the hell is going on?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Two research teams reverse signs of aging in mice</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/two-research-teams-reverse-signs-aging-mice</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jchook</author><text>Dr. David Sinclair (who led this study) has a fascinating book about this topic. He discusses this result and many others from his team, and the theory of epigenetics.<p>Lifespan (2019) by David Sinclair.<p>Also he narrates the audiobook, and he has a very suave and calming voice.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Two research teams reverse signs of aging in mice</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/two-research-teams-reverse-signs-aging-mice</url></story> |
21,761,578 | 21,761,169 | 1 | 3 | 21,759,255 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChrisSD</author><text>Note that `cargo check` is faster than doing a full compile. Also I use the `rust-analyzer` language server for IDE integration to catch errors as I write them. Between the two, my workflow usually avoids the need for actually compiling a binary until I&#x27;m ready to run tests.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Speeding Up the Rust Compiler</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/12/11/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-one-last-time-in-2019/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frenchman99</author><text>One of the things with Rust is that while the compiler could be considered slow, once your Rust code compiles, if you stay away from `unsafe` code and `unwrap()`, the code is usually bug free (apart from logic bugs that no compiler could catch). At least that&#x27;s been my experience with Rust.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Speeding Up the Rust Compiler</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2019/12/11/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-one-last-time-in-2019/</url></story> |
2,428,575 | 2,428,584 | 1 | 2 | 2,428,514 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jpcx01</author><text>These guys produce an entire awesome startup's worth of development every couple months. Definitely need to be paying more attention to the how of what they do. Luckily Tom's quite the excellent speaker and writer. When he talks, I listen.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub launches Issues 2.0</title><url>https://github.com/blog/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcrider</author><text>I like how a reputable company still has screenshots with bug comments like "Ship the fuck out of issues2". I love GitHub.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub launches Issues 2.0</title><url>https://github.com/blog/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation</url></story> |
39,904,842 | 39,904,264 | 1 | 3 | 39,903,742 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tazjin</author><text>Why use submodules when you can properly vendor the upstream git, and export&#x2F;import commits without breaking hashes on either side?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;josh-project&#x2F;josh">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;josh-project&#x2F;josh</a><p>We&#x27;ve been using josh at TVL for years and it&#x27;s just amazing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nolist_policy</author><text>April fool aside, what I <i>really</i> want is a Debian git monorepo of submodules, where each submodule points to the upstream git repository.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Debian Git Monorepo</title><url>https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2024/monorepo/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>daghamm</author><text>What do you think of the openbsd model? It has a mono repo for the os and a ports repo for everything else<p>(I think)</text><parent_chain><item><author>nolist_policy</author><text>April fool aside, what I <i>really</i> want is a Debian git monorepo of submodules, where each submodule points to the upstream git repository.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Debian Git Monorepo</title><url>https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2024/monorepo/</url></story> |
24,522,840 | 24,522,582 | 1 | 2 | 24,520,014 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enclosure_guy</author><text>Big fan of Cadquery! I used it to generate circuit board enclosures in an old project of mine[1]. Once you have it set up it is much nicer to use than Openscad and you have the ability to export STEP files, which is pretty huge. I haven&#x27;t played with it in a while but the new improvements look great. The maintainers are also very welcoming&#x2F;helpful to newcomers. Overall a great open source project.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enclosuregenerator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enclosuregenerator.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT</title><url>https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simongr3dal</author><text>Off-topic: I’ve seen a few posts about CAD programs recently, and it reminded me of a product that I want but haven’t found yet.<p>I often need to draw 2D vector graphics for digital or print. Since I suck a bezier curves (and they feel imprecise anyway) and manually arranging and combining geometric shapes can be tedious I want an interface for drawing that mimics the sketch function of SolidWorks or Fusion360 and the like with the constraint system and so on.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT</title><url>https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery</url></story> |
6,705,788 | 6,705,365 | 1 | 2 | 6,704,661 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MBlume</author><text>As a Californian I am never not ashamed to have Senator Feinstein representing me. Is there a &quot;tech lobby&quot;? If there is, why is its number one priority not fielding a decent primary challenger to oust this authoritarian disgrace to our state?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop the NSA "Fake Fix" Bill</title><url>https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9437</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kunai</author><text>Feinstein.<p>How is she still in office? She&#x27;s the spitting image of Dolores Umbridge; an authoritarian freak who has nothing better to do than make the lives of honest individuals completely arduous.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop the NSA "Fake Fix" Bill</title><url>https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9437</url></story> |
12,783,867 | 12,783,975 | 1 | 3 | 12,783,040 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toyg</author><text><i>&gt; CD players that could play MP3s [...] bridged the &quot;capacity gap&quot; </i><p>But collecting and (forever) burning collections was a royal pain in the ass. Plus, CD readers would struggle and skip&#x2F;stop&#x2F;jump all the time as they bounced in your pocket or in your bag.<p><i>&gt; The big problem was the interface</i><p>Absolutely. A lot of cheap Chinese sticks wouldn&#x27;t even understand filesystem structures deeper than one level. To be fair though, the iPod Shuffle was basically like that and still sold very well; the reality distortion field was in full force at that time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paulmd</author><text>There were also CD players that could play MP3s burned on a data disc. That bridged the &quot;capacity gap&quot; - 640&#x2F;700 MB was a lot of MP3s at the time, especially since people used lower bitrates. Remember, the first iPod was only 5 GB.<p>The big problem was the interface, it really sucked to try and navigate a couple hundred MP3s on a one-line display.</text></item><item><author>oneplane</author><text>That last line about raising the bar... and raise it did! Apple often doesn&#x27;t invent the whole thing, but definitely puts a usable version on the market. I remember the space between CD players and iPods having those rather crappy MP3 players, mini-disc players (which were actually quite good, but still used cartridges) and the really big laptop-HDD music players, and none of them were actually nice to use, or at least, not any &#x27;nicer&#x27; than a portable CD player.<p>This happened over and over again with the other stuff they made. It&#x27;s not like there were no phones with touchscreens, or no tablets, or no smartwatches, TV media players etc. There always are&#x2F;were&#x2F;will be, but it&#x27;s becoming something of a trend that Apple gets it&#x27;s hands on one of those ideas and then puts a version on the market that actually works well for most people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (2001)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/business/technology-apple-introduces-what-it-calls-an-easier-to-use-portable-music-player.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>galago</author><text>My first MP3 player was solid state and cheap, but it only had 32MB of storage. I would put 5 or 6 songs on it in the morning and listen to them on my way to work. I think a lot of my music back then was from Napster, and I intentionally sought out low-bit rate files. The iPod seemed fantastically expensive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paulmd</author><text>There were also CD players that could play MP3s burned on a data disc. That bridged the &quot;capacity gap&quot; - 640&#x2F;700 MB was a lot of MP3s at the time, especially since people used lower bitrates. Remember, the first iPod was only 5 GB.<p>The big problem was the interface, it really sucked to try and navigate a couple hundred MP3s on a one-line display.</text></item><item><author>oneplane</author><text>That last line about raising the bar... and raise it did! Apple often doesn&#x27;t invent the whole thing, but definitely puts a usable version on the market. I remember the space between CD players and iPods having those rather crappy MP3 players, mini-disc players (which were actually quite good, but still used cartridges) and the really big laptop-HDD music players, and none of them were actually nice to use, or at least, not any &#x27;nicer&#x27; than a portable CD player.<p>This happened over and over again with the other stuff they made. It&#x27;s not like there were no phones with touchscreens, or no tablets, or no smartwatches, TV media players etc. There always are&#x2F;were&#x2F;will be, but it&#x27;s becoming something of a trend that Apple gets it&#x27;s hands on one of those ideas and then puts a version on the market that actually works well for most people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (2001)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/business/technology-apple-introduces-what-it-calls-an-easier-to-use-portable-music-player.html</url></story> |
1,072,412 | 1,071,996 | 1 | 3 | 1,071,854 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bobbyi</author><text><i>Your six person, six month, $200,000. budget game is reviewed THE SAME as a three year, three hundred person studio game </i><p>Why wouldn't it be? The point of a review is to tell me how good the game is, not to reward you for effort.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Marine Heavy Gunner dev notes - 'Nobody picked up that it was a parody'</title><url>http://hakstrap.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/marine-heavy-gunner-fna/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ianbishop</author><text>"Another interesting note, we DID have ragdoll physics. But what happened was when you killed a Vietcong their body would shrink down to the size of a child and seizure on the ground flailing and screaming."<p>Hilarious. Despite the overwhelming complexity and pressure of the game industry, I can imagine getting to create something like this with a small team of friends would be absolute bliss.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Marine Heavy Gunner dev notes - 'Nobody picked up that it was a parody'</title><url>http://hakstrap.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/marine-heavy-gunner-fna/</url></story> |
25,751,094 | 25,749,328 | 1 | 2 | 25,747,284 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>troquerre</author><text>Handshake has a number of mechanics built into it that I think give it a stronger chance of succeeding than previous attempts. It&#x27;s similar to how there were numerous failed digital currency attempts before Bitcoin figured out all the mechanics necessary for success. Some of these mechanics are:<p>- There is no centralized party that owns Handshake. This allows for any party to step in and contribute to the protocol. We&#x27;ve already seen this play out in building Namebase (I&#x27;m the CEO) as numerous unrelated parties have come together to further Handshake adoption<p>- It&#x27;s not just about opening up the TLD namespace. Handshake&#x27;s main technical goal is to improve the security and censorship-resistance of DNS by shifting the root of trust from CAs to a distributed ledger. My article on the technical improvements Handshake can provide was previously discussed on HN [1]<p>- TLDs aren&#x27;t sold for a set price. There&#x27;s a vickrey auction which awards the TLD to the highest bidder. This creates a better distribution of names than selling at a set price or to the first buyer<p>- The Handshake coin (HNS) provides an incentive for miners to provide security to the network and for holders to support ongoing adoption of the protocol, similar to how Bitcoin holders have put in massive efforts to evangelize it (I recognize that on HN people may find the Bitcoin evangelists annoying but I believe Bitcoin wouldn&#x27;t be where it is today without them)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20995969" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20995969</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>People have been trying to make alternative DNS name systems and alternative root nameservers a thing for 20+ years now.<p>Has never caught on. On the other hand I 100% endorse sci-hub having a presence as a tor service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/pirated-academic-database-sci-hub-is-now-on-the-uncensorable-web-2021-01-11</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>input_sh</author><text>IMO not enough &quot;useful&quot; content is not reachable via &quot;normal&quot; DNS for anyone to care about the alternative DNS systems.<p>Sure, sites like TPB and Sci-Hub need to switch to a different domain from time to time bringing some annoyance to their users, but that&#x27;s about it. Only if all domain registrars at once started actively removing &quot;shady&quot; domains would an alternative DNS ever come to spotlight.</text><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>People have been trying to make alternative DNS name systems and alternative root nameservers a thing for 20+ years now.<p>Has never caught on. On the other hand I 100% endorse sci-hub having a presence as a tor service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/pirated-academic-database-sci-hub-is-now-on-the-uncensorable-web-2021-01-11</url></story> |
38,317,642 | 38,316,674 | 1 | 3 | 38,309,611 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>golol</author><text>LLMs are the first instance of us having created some sort of general AI. I don&#x27;t mean AGI, but general AI as in not specific AI. Before LLMs the problem eith AI was always that it &quot;can only do one thing well&quot;. Now we have something on the other side: AI that can do anything but nothing specific particularly well. This is a fundamental advancement which makes AGI actually imaginable. Before LLMs there was literally no realistic plan how to build general intelligence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>erhaetherth</author><text>Did we ever think LLMs were a path to AGI...? AGI is friggin hard, I don&#x27;t know why folks keep getting fooled whenever a bot writes a coherent sentence.</text></item><item><author>dwd</author><text>Jeremy Howard called ngmi on OpenAI during the Vanishing Gradients podcast yesterday, and Ilya has probably been thinking the same: LLM is a dead-end and not the path to AGI.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;HamelHusain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1725655686913392933" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;HamelHusain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1725655686913392933</a></text></item><item><author>johnwheeler</author><text>Ilya booted him <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;karaswisher&#x2F;status&#x2F;1725702501435941294" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;karaswisher&#x2F;status&#x2F;1725702501435941294</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Closi</author><text>Mainly because LLMs have so far basically passed every formal test of ‘AGI’ including totally smashing the Turing test.<p>Now we are just reliant on ‘I’ll know it when I see it’.<p>LLMs as AGI isn’t about looking at the mechanics and trying to see if we think that could cause AGI - it’s looking at the tremendous results and success.</text><parent_chain><item><author>erhaetherth</author><text>Did we ever think LLMs were a path to AGI...? AGI is friggin hard, I don&#x27;t know why folks keep getting fooled whenever a bot writes a coherent sentence.</text></item><item><author>dwd</author><text>Jeremy Howard called ngmi on OpenAI during the Vanishing Gradients podcast yesterday, and Ilya has probably been thinking the same: LLM is a dead-end and not the path to AGI.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;HamelHusain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1725655686913392933" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;HamelHusain&#x2F;status&#x2F;1725655686913392933</a></text></item><item><author>johnwheeler</author><text>Ilya booted him <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;karaswisher&#x2F;status&#x2F;1725702501435941294" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;karaswisher&#x2F;status&#x2F;1725702501435941294</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition</url></story> |
8,632,373 | 8,632,439 | 1 | 3 | 8,632,220 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>I want to point out that in the thread here on HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8631022" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8631022</a>) about that Netflix article, the top comment debunks the myth that the list-of-handlers was the issue slowing them down.<p>While creating a grammar from the combination of the regular expressions (which is why you can&#x27;t just have a hash) is definitely a solution (quite possibly THE solution), that&#x27;s definitely not an MVP-type of solution, and is pretty non-trivial.<p>The actual problem was them constantly adding handlers by accident.<p>One of the reasons I love and use HN so much (I give almost no other site so much pull on my personal opinion) is that smart (or very careful and well-read dumb people) leave well-thought-out comments like the one I mentioned.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Response to Netflix's “Node.js in Flames” Blog Post</title><url>https://gist.github.com/hueniverse/a3109f716bf25718ba0e</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ericHosick</author><text>&gt; The criticism about allowing routes to repeat in the express array shows that even after doing all this work, the Netflix team still doesn’t understand how express works.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t a better solution, in this context, be to aggregate values under the same key?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Response to Netflix's “Node.js in Flames” Blog Post</title><url>https://gist.github.com/hueniverse/a3109f716bf25718ba0e</url></story> |
13,987,966 | 13,988,101 | 1 | 3 | 13,987,405 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dkhenry</author><text>I think you missed the authors real point. The selling of data isn&#x27;t the policy you need to fight. The monopoly power of ISP&#x27;s is the problem you must push back on. The author has rightly pointed out that regulating your way to your goal is not a solution. He is advocating for a free market solution which is much more robust then one that hinges on the right people being in power for all eternity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mundo</author><text>Well allow me to retort.<p>This article is saying, basically, that the tendency of ISPs to try to monetize user data is a natural consequence of capitalism, and trying to curb that tendency with legislation is ineffectual compared to the <i>real</i> solutions (fight monopolies, and everyone use a VPN).<p>I don&#x27;t buy it. Roughly the same argument could be made about virtually any regulation. &quot;Corporations are incentivized to pollute, so there&#x27;s no point trying to stop them. Buy a water filter.&quot; &quot;People will always try to get heroin, so there&#x27;s no point in restricting it. Get some naloxone.&quot; Damn near <i>every</i> regulation is an attempt to counteract some profit-motivated tendency which is the unfortunate consequence of capitalism. And as regulations go, user data is a lot easier to regulate than drugs or pollution.<p>&quot;Just get a VPN&quot; might be good advice for individuals, but it is emphatically not the society-wide solution to data privacy. We can and should continue to fight for good legislation that protects us.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VPNs Are Absolutely a Solution to a Policy Problem</title><url>https://journal.standardnotes.org/vpns-are-absolutely-a-solution-to-a-policy-problem-3b88af699bcd</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zpallin</author><text>Came here to say exactly this.<p>We are all engineers and can understand the concept of a patch versus a refactor. Yes, a refactor may be harder, but there is never an excuse to rely indefinitely on a patch; that&#x27;s how you get burned with technical debt.<p>The government needs to change to be more responsive to the people and not constantly sell them out at the flick of a pen. Yes, use a VPN! But don&#x27;t buy the message that there isn&#x27;t more that can be done. There is, and many people are working tirelessly to see it through. Don&#x27;t ignore or devalue their efforts to make a better system for people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mundo</author><text>Well allow me to retort.<p>This article is saying, basically, that the tendency of ISPs to try to monetize user data is a natural consequence of capitalism, and trying to curb that tendency with legislation is ineffectual compared to the <i>real</i> solutions (fight monopolies, and everyone use a VPN).<p>I don&#x27;t buy it. Roughly the same argument could be made about virtually any regulation. &quot;Corporations are incentivized to pollute, so there&#x27;s no point trying to stop them. Buy a water filter.&quot; &quot;People will always try to get heroin, so there&#x27;s no point in restricting it. Get some naloxone.&quot; Damn near <i>every</i> regulation is an attempt to counteract some profit-motivated tendency which is the unfortunate consequence of capitalism. And as regulations go, user data is a lot easier to regulate than drugs or pollution.<p>&quot;Just get a VPN&quot; might be good advice for individuals, but it is emphatically not the society-wide solution to data privacy. We can and should continue to fight for good legislation that protects us.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VPNs Are Absolutely a Solution to a Policy Problem</title><url>https://journal.standardnotes.org/vpns-are-absolutely-a-solution-to-a-policy-problem-3b88af699bcd</url></story> |
35,088,137 | 35,084,081 | 1 | 2 | 35,081,277 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zopa</author><text>I’m not yet persuaded this is relevant, at all. This isn’t a case where hierarchy fails us: we have a perfectly good and natural hierarchical model of speciation based on descent from common ancestors. That model doesn’t give us the common-sense notion of a tree, but that’s fine: so much the worse for common sense.<p>If instead we used a D&amp;G rhizome that “connects any point to any other point” — we’d be dropping the notion of time (ie, ancestors precede descendants). Which when we’re talking about evolution, seems bad.<p>If horizontal gene transfer were a big part of the story here, that’d be different. Or if your ecology has time travel, or interstellar exchange ala Butler’s Xenogenesis, then sure, rhizome away.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thanatropism</author><text>Welcome to &quot;A thousand plateaus&quot; by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.<p>ATP is a political book, albeit not a book about politics. But in the process of building their radical political theory, they build a radical general systems theory that&#x27;s u-n-m-a-t-c-h-e-d. We have no choice but to study it.<p>This doesn&#x27;t do it justice, but it&#x27;s a fair beginning. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rhizome_(philosophy)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rhizome_(philosophy)</a><p>This is an illustrated audio reading of the first chapter of ATP (the one dedicated to rhizomes): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0XYc2scuJrI&amp;t=64s">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0XYc2scuJrI&amp;t=64s</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There’s no such thing as a tree phylogenetically (2021)</title><url>https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>feoren</author><text>I&#x27;m confused. Does this word-vomit have anything at all to do with the article you&#x27;re commenting on?</text><parent_chain><item><author>thanatropism</author><text>Welcome to &quot;A thousand plateaus&quot; by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.<p>ATP is a political book, albeit not a book about politics. But in the process of building their radical political theory, they build a radical general systems theory that&#x27;s u-n-m-a-t-c-h-e-d. We have no choice but to study it.<p>This doesn&#x27;t do it justice, but it&#x27;s a fair beginning. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rhizome_(philosophy)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rhizome_(philosophy)</a><p>This is an illustrated audio reading of the first chapter of ATP (the one dedicated to rhizomes): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0XYc2scuJrI&amp;t=64s">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0XYc2scuJrI&amp;t=64s</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>There’s no such thing as a tree phylogenetically (2021)</title><url>https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/</url></story> |
21,350,462 | 21,347,728 | 1 | 2 | 21,334,517 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SL61</author><text>This really shows the power of habit. Now that it&#x27;s been 12 years, a whole generation has grown up with the ribbon UI. At 22, I&#x27;m one of them. Office 2003 and earlier (+ LibreOffice) feels clunky and arcane to me. 2007 was the first Office version that I seriously used, and I remember being confused as to why my parents complained about the ribbon.<p>Sometimes I wonder if UI design matters at all beyond what users are already acclimated to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wiseleo</author><text>Office 2007 ribbon was a terrible release. I am an Office power user and I still have to dig through well hidden “advanced” dialog boxes that were previously exposed in the UI to do things that I remember Office was capable of doing.<p>I still hate that change.</text></item><item><author>DannyB2</author><text>Fifteen years ago, one of the Microsoft fanboy arguments against both Linux and LibreOffice (then OpenOffice.org) was that neither worked exactly like Windows &#x2F; Office.<p>Then Microsoft comes along and changes everything. The Ribbon instead of the pull down menus. Now which office suite works more like what users have used for a couple decades?<p>Windows 8 comes along with a totally different UI. So different that ordinary users don&#x27;t know how to do the most basic tasks like print, or even how to shut down the computer.<p>Windows 8 UI (no matter what you call it) &quot;fixes&quot; things by adding back a start menu, but not calling it start.<p>No search box in the start menu -- you just have to magically know that you can start typing.<p>And magical key combinations to type in commands.<p>IMO, it really is change for the sake of change. And generally change for the worse. The interface we had with classic Mac, and Win 95 was pretty usable. And stable. (Nevermind the underlying tech it ran on top of, no real kernel, etc.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015)</title><url>https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-desktop/where-is-notepad-in-windows-10/7f9e8a8b-a18b-4cfb-9c9c-88103eb1f579</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>com2kid</author><text>&gt; I still have to dig through well hidden “advanced” dialog boxes that were previously exposed in the UI to do things that I remember Office was capable of doing.<p>The search button in Office apps is super useful. Type in a vague suggestion of what you want and it&#x27;ll pop up a button for the appropriate feature!<p>The ribbon is <i>very</i> nice for some things. It is meh for others. In Excel I&#x27;d argue it was a dramatic improvement. I remember spending forever digging through Excel menus trying to find out where some feature had been crammed in 10+ years prior before the concept of good UI even existed. The ribbon was a nice opportunity to reorganize things into more meaningful categories.<p>But yeah, there are still some things I can never remember quite were they are at.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wiseleo</author><text>Office 2007 ribbon was a terrible release. I am an Office power user and I still have to dig through well hidden “advanced” dialog boxes that were previously exposed in the UI to do things that I remember Office was capable of doing.<p>I still hate that change.</text></item><item><author>DannyB2</author><text>Fifteen years ago, one of the Microsoft fanboy arguments against both Linux and LibreOffice (then OpenOffice.org) was that neither worked exactly like Windows &#x2F; Office.<p>Then Microsoft comes along and changes everything. The Ribbon instead of the pull down menus. Now which office suite works more like what users have used for a couple decades?<p>Windows 8 comes along with a totally different UI. So different that ordinary users don&#x27;t know how to do the most basic tasks like print, or even how to shut down the computer.<p>Windows 8 UI (no matter what you call it) &quot;fixes&quot; things by adding back a start menu, but not calling it start.<p>No search box in the start menu -- you just have to magically know that you can start typing.<p>And magical key combinations to type in commands.<p>IMO, it really is change for the sake of change. And generally change for the worse. The interface we had with classic Mac, and Win 95 was pretty usable. And stable. (Nevermind the underlying tech it ran on top of, no real kernel, etc.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015)</title><url>https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-desktop/where-is-notepad-in-windows-10/7f9e8a8b-a18b-4cfb-9c9c-88103eb1f579</url></story> |
37,686,547 | 37,684,339 | 1 | 3 | 37,675,003 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tromp</author><text>&gt; and its mass is estimated to be 650 billion solar masses<p>One could also say this new galaxy&#x27;s mass is estimated to be 0.565 Milky Way masses, but for some reason that unit of mass seems not to have caught on...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JWST discovers massive and compact quiescent galaxy</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-09-jwst-massive-compact-quiescent-galaxy.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>steve_adams_86</author><text>I hadn’t heard of the Einstein Ring before. What a cool feature.<p>It feels very fortunate to be around for all of these discoveries from JWST. It’s a joy to learn so much as a result of articles like these.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JWST discovers massive and compact quiescent galaxy</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-09-jwst-massive-compact-quiescent-galaxy.html</url></story> |
9,851,585 | 9,851,569 | 1 | 2 | 9,851,293 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwawaykf05</author><text>1. Nokia was pretty much the only real manufacturer of Windows Phone. Did they really have a choice? Microsoft does not seem to be the type to give up on their bets easily, and it sometimes pays off. For instance, as I recall, that&#x27;s where they started with Xbox and Bing, and both products are doing well now.<p>2. Even though their relative market share is low, keep in mind the market is huge and so in absolute numbers, they are selling quite a few Lumias. Millions of devices every quarter is a pretty decent number, and something that could be leveraged in various ways. Not a direct comparison, but note that until 2007 Apple ran their entire business on products that had minority market share.<p>3. Not very familiar with the aQuantive deal - how was it doomed to begin with?</text><parent_chain><item><author>exelius</author><text>This is actually amazing. Between Nokia and aQuantive, Microsoft dumped over $14 billion into two failed acquisitions. I can&#x27;t recall another company over the last decade that has had a total write-off of that scale (well, maybe the HP-Autonomy thing, but there was likely some fraud involved there).<p>I have absolutely no idea why they purchased Nokia in the first place -- it was obvious that they were never going to seriously challenge Apple or Google, and Nokia was another obviously sinking ship. It was like if Circuit City had purchased Radio Shack. I have no idea why the board let Ballmer blow billions on an acquisition they knew he wouldn&#x27;t be around to see through and that didn&#x27;t fit with the strategic direction of the company 6 months later.<p>If I were an institutional investor, I would demand a change in board leadership. This kind of stuff is just unacceptable for a public company. I know hindsight is 20&#x2F;20, but blowing $14 billion on acquisitions that were doomed to begin with is simply inexcusable. You can blame Ballmer for being a terrible CEO, but the blame really rests on the board for allowing him to make really big, really bad decisions.</text></item><item><author>tdicola</author><text>&quot;Microsoft will record an impairment charge of about $7.6 billion on its Nokia handset unit&quot;<p>Wow, well there it is--looks like the rumor is true. So the Nokia deal was basically a complete flop?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-08/microsoft-to-cut-7-800-jobs-as-it-restructures-phone-business</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>T-A</author><text>If Nokia had gone under (or switched to Android in a last-ditch attempt to shore itself up) there would have been 0 manufacturers of Windows Phone hardware left. That would have been the end of it. I guess Microsoft looked at how much they had already invested in Phone, compared that to the bill for Nokia, and decided they weren&#x27;t ready to pull the plug yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>exelius</author><text>This is actually amazing. Between Nokia and aQuantive, Microsoft dumped over $14 billion into two failed acquisitions. I can&#x27;t recall another company over the last decade that has had a total write-off of that scale (well, maybe the HP-Autonomy thing, but there was likely some fraud involved there).<p>I have absolutely no idea why they purchased Nokia in the first place -- it was obvious that they were never going to seriously challenge Apple or Google, and Nokia was another obviously sinking ship. It was like if Circuit City had purchased Radio Shack. I have no idea why the board let Ballmer blow billions on an acquisition they knew he wouldn&#x27;t be around to see through and that didn&#x27;t fit with the strategic direction of the company 6 months later.<p>If I were an institutional investor, I would demand a change in board leadership. This kind of stuff is just unacceptable for a public company. I know hindsight is 20&#x2F;20, but blowing $14 billion on acquisitions that were doomed to begin with is simply inexcusable. You can blame Ballmer for being a terrible CEO, but the blame really rests on the board for allowing him to make really big, really bad decisions.</text></item><item><author>tdicola</author><text>&quot;Microsoft will record an impairment charge of about $7.6 billion on its Nokia handset unit&quot;<p>Wow, well there it is--looks like the rumor is true. So the Nokia deal was basically a complete flop?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-08/microsoft-to-cut-7-800-jobs-as-it-restructures-phone-business</url></story> |
30,288,566 | 30,288,887 | 1 | 3 | 30,286,568 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>But what would be the point? Why would you load code over HTTPS if you&#x27;re going to make it static anyway? If the code can&#x27;t change dynamically, then you might as well put it next to the JS file on the filesystem.<p>I think this is a terrible idea that can only end in misery but I can understand why they don&#x27;t add integrity validation by default.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BeefWellington</author><text>My main problem with this is that they punted the integrity check work down the line.<p>If this had been implemented as something akin to the integrity HTML attribute, e.g.:<p><pre><code> express = require(
&#x27;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;my_local_repo.tld&#x2F;express&#x2F;current&#x2F;4.17.1&#x27;,
&#x27;sha384-oqVuAfXRKap7fdgcCY5uykM6+R9GqQ8K&#x2F;uxy9rx7HNQlGYl1kPzQho1wx4JwY8wC&#x27;
)
</code></pre>
It would be vastly superior. I&#x27;d go so far as to <i>require</i> it without an additional --unsafe-import type flag.<p>However, I think they did not do this because the import of dependencies then comes into question. IMO this feature should not have been added until developers could guarantee the expected integrity hash matches.
We&#x27;ve seen time and again what will happen now is hundreds of blog posts talking about this new feature, none of which will mention the integrity hashing functionality (because it&#x27;s not there). When it does eventually get added, those posts will be the most popular anyone can find, and thus new users will end up using those eventually-wrong posts and implementing things in a less-secure way.<p>Huge disservice to the developer community.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Node.js adds support for direct registry-less HTTPS imports</title><url>https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36328</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>__s</author><text>There&#x27;s already syntax to implement it with imports through import assertions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v8.dev&#x2F;features&#x2F;import-assertions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v8.dev&#x2F;features&#x2F;import-assertions</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>BeefWellington</author><text>My main problem with this is that they punted the integrity check work down the line.<p>If this had been implemented as something akin to the integrity HTML attribute, e.g.:<p><pre><code> express = require(
&#x27;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;my_local_repo.tld&#x2F;express&#x2F;current&#x2F;4.17.1&#x27;,
&#x27;sha384-oqVuAfXRKap7fdgcCY5uykM6+R9GqQ8K&#x2F;uxy9rx7HNQlGYl1kPzQho1wx4JwY8wC&#x27;
)
</code></pre>
It would be vastly superior. I&#x27;d go so far as to <i>require</i> it without an additional --unsafe-import type flag.<p>However, I think they did not do this because the import of dependencies then comes into question. IMO this feature should not have been added until developers could guarantee the expected integrity hash matches.
We&#x27;ve seen time and again what will happen now is hundreds of blog posts talking about this new feature, none of which will mention the integrity hashing functionality (because it&#x27;s not there). When it does eventually get added, those posts will be the most popular anyone can find, and thus new users will end up using those eventually-wrong posts and implementing things in a less-secure way.<p>Huge disservice to the developer community.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Node.js adds support for direct registry-less HTTPS imports</title><url>https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36328</url></story> |
4,878,222 | 4,878,220 | 1 | 3 | 4,877,567 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LukeHoersten</author><text>Every time I make an investment in learning and using a new language, core language developers leaving is one thing I worry about. The reason I've stuck with Haskell for almost 6 years is because the more involved and familiar I get with the community, the more I confident I am in the abundance of very clever people ;-P. I have no doubt the Haskell community will be able to fill the (massive) gap left by Simon.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A new era begins for Haskell</title><url>http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-December/105041.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewcooke</author><text>[disclaimer haven't used haskell for a decade, so this is pure speculation and not intended as any kind of informed criticism.]<p>is it possible that now would be a good time (just because it is a time when things seem to be changing) to simplify / clean up haskell? what i am wondering / asking is whether more recent additions to the language (type system) are generalisations of earlier features. in which case, maybe the earlier features could be dropped?<p>is anything like that possible or reasonable? it's a fairly old language, which has evolved a lot, and it stuck me it might be a question worth asking... (something like python 3 i guess, but a bit more meaty)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A new era begins for Haskell</title><url>http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-December/105041.html</url><text></text></story> |
23,787,328 | 23,787,059 | 1 | 2 | 23,781,954 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeffdavis</author><text>Good idea. How about:<p>&quot;The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.&quot;<p>That would keep the pesky federal government out of our personal affairs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beenBoutIT</author><text>The only way to stop our neverending war on drugs is a Constitutional amendment that guarantees every American the right to consume anything they want for any reason. In the next several decades there will be un unprecedented number of elderly Americans living below the poverty line with no pension and medical issues they can&#x27;t afford to fix - euthanasia will become something of a nuclear option that they&#x27;ll want available as a last resort. An amendment that guarantees the right to consume any plant&#x2F;drug&#x2F;chemical&#x2F;etc. will have a chance if it&#x27;s bundled with a &#x27;right to die with dignity&#x27;, allowing elderly individuals a euthanasia option.</text></item><item><author>rudolph9</author><text>I think use of regulated drugs is legal during a religious service <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewforum.org&#x2F;2006&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;supreme-court-rules-that-religious-group-can-use-illegal-drug-in-their-worship-services&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewforum.org&#x2F;2006&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;supreme-court-rules-that...</a><p>And, again I think, reservations are exempt from state laws&#x2F;taxes and to certain extent able to make&#x2F;enforce their own laws&#x2F;taxes but they still need to follow federal laws.</text></item><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>Amen. This isn&#x27;t a nonsequitor, I swear: why can&#x27;t freedom of religion be used to legalize drugs? And, why can&#x27;t Indian reservations, especially, sell what they please?</text></item><item><author>brobdingnagians</author><text>I do applaud that thinking; I hope it sets a precedent that can be used more widely. I hope they apply it more widely to things they don&#x27;t necessarily ideologically agree with. Civil society needs more honesty and dedication to keeping your word, even when that is painful. That might lead to people thinking more carefully about where they stand and what they say as well.</text></item><item><author>ISL</author><text>I found the conclusion compelling. I haven&#x27;t yet had enough time this morning to read the dissent thoughtfully.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;19pdf&#x2F;18-9526_9okb.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;19pdf&#x2F;18-9526_9okb.pdf</a><p>&quot;The federal government promised the Creek a reservation in perpetuity. Over time, Congress has diminished that reservation. It has sometimes restricted and other
times expanded the Tribe’s authority. But Congress has never withdrawn the promised reservation. As a result, many of the arguments before us today follow a sadly familiar pattern. Yes, promises were made, but the price of keeping them has become too great, so now we should just cast a blind eye. We reject that thinking. If Congress wishes to withdraw its promises, it must say so. Unlawful acts, performed long enough and with sufficient vigor, are never enough to amend the law. To hold otherwise would be to elevate the most brazen and longstanding injustices over the law, both rewarding wrong and failing those in the right.<p>The judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma is <i>Reversed</i>.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-court-oklahoma/us-supreme-court-deems-half-of-oklahoma-a-native-american-reservation-idUSKBN24A2BE</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>genericone</author><text>Within reason right? I&#x27;m hoping that &#x27;the right to consume anything they want for any reason&#x27; wouldn&#x27;t include those things that cause sudden violent behavior and inability to feel fear and pain.<p>I forget which particular drug does this, but a search brought me to meth and I found this article which says people feel &#x27;invincible&#x27; and &#x27;paranoid&#x27; and can&#x27;t be stopped with non-lethal means.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;05&#x2F;suspects-on-meth-are-hard-to-take-down-with-tasers-so-many-end-up-dead-in-colorado&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;05&#x2F;suspects-on-meth-are-hard-to-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>beenBoutIT</author><text>The only way to stop our neverending war on drugs is a Constitutional amendment that guarantees every American the right to consume anything they want for any reason. In the next several decades there will be un unprecedented number of elderly Americans living below the poverty line with no pension and medical issues they can&#x27;t afford to fix - euthanasia will become something of a nuclear option that they&#x27;ll want available as a last resort. An amendment that guarantees the right to consume any plant&#x2F;drug&#x2F;chemical&#x2F;etc. will have a chance if it&#x27;s bundled with a &#x27;right to die with dignity&#x27;, allowing elderly individuals a euthanasia option.</text></item><item><author>rudolph9</author><text>I think use of regulated drugs is legal during a religious service <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewforum.org&#x2F;2006&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;supreme-court-rules-that-religious-group-can-use-illegal-drug-in-their-worship-services&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewforum.org&#x2F;2006&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;supreme-court-rules-that...</a><p>And, again I think, reservations are exempt from state laws&#x2F;taxes and to certain extent able to make&#x2F;enforce their own laws&#x2F;taxes but they still need to follow federal laws.</text></item><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>Amen. This isn&#x27;t a nonsequitor, I swear: why can&#x27;t freedom of religion be used to legalize drugs? And, why can&#x27;t Indian reservations, especially, sell what they please?</text></item><item><author>brobdingnagians</author><text>I do applaud that thinking; I hope it sets a precedent that can be used more widely. I hope they apply it more widely to things they don&#x27;t necessarily ideologically agree with. Civil society needs more honesty and dedication to keeping your word, even when that is painful. That might lead to people thinking more carefully about where they stand and what they say as well.</text></item><item><author>ISL</author><text>I found the conclusion compelling. I haven&#x27;t yet had enough time this morning to read the dissent thoughtfully.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;19pdf&#x2F;18-9526_9okb.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;19pdf&#x2F;18-9526_9okb.pdf</a><p>&quot;The federal government promised the Creek a reservation in perpetuity. Over time, Congress has diminished that reservation. It has sometimes restricted and other
times expanded the Tribe’s authority. But Congress has never withdrawn the promised reservation. As a result, many of the arguments before us today follow a sadly familiar pattern. Yes, promises were made, but the price of keeping them has become too great, so now we should just cast a blind eye. We reject that thinking. If Congress wishes to withdraw its promises, it must say so. Unlawful acts, performed long enough and with sufficient vigor, are never enough to amend the law. To hold otherwise would be to elevate the most brazen and longstanding injustices over the law, both rewarding wrong and failing those in the right.<p>The judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma is <i>Reversed</i>.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-court-oklahoma/us-supreme-court-deems-half-of-oklahoma-a-native-american-reservation-idUSKBN24A2BE</url></story> |
6,038,601 | 6,037,774 | 1 | 2 | 6,037,636 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patio11</author><text>I got the first paying customer for Appointment Reminder the first day it was open for business. (DB id #22, after a bunch of test accounts and friends &amp; family demos.) ~2.5 years and ~$1,000 later he still happily pays $29 a month. This was not unknowable prior to launching the site (though I was still on pins and needles): I had already walked the sales pitch for it to enough businesses in downtown Chicago that I was pretty sure some number would buy what I was selling if it were put in front of them.<p>I think people who are pre-business vastly overestimate the difficulty of getting the first sale and probably vastly underestimate the difficulty of reaching scale. Gail Goodman has a presentation on the Long SaaS Ramp of Death. When you say those words in a group of SaaS entrepreneurs you&#x27;ll see pained recognition on everybody&#x27;s faces, even those (of us?) whose businesses are fairly successful. Dear God does figuring out the scalable marketing piece take time. (I&#x27;ve got it figured out for Bingo Card Creator, but have only isolated bits and pieces of the orchestra playing in disjointed fashion for Appointment Reminder.)<p><a href="http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-contact-how-to-negotiate-the-long-slow-saas-ramp-of-death/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;businessofsoftware.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;gail-goodman-constant-...</a><p>I kind of feel like I beat on these drums to death, but organic SEO, AdWords, lifecycle emails, and an optimized first-run experience are sort of my favorite arrows in the quiver for increasing sales. That and a whole lot of just <i>grinding it out</i>.<p>Also, tie a string around your finger for Rob Walling&#x27;s presentation from Microconf 2013 where he takes HitTail, a SaaS he acquired, from ~X to ~30X in recurring revenue over the course of a year. (There are numbers in the presentation but I remember him asking us to be circumspect about them.) He goes into month by month detail of what he was doing, and you&#x27;ll understand the level of sheer frustration involved until hard work and ingenuity starts to reveal &quot;flywheels&quot; (his word for scalable&#x2F;repeatable acquisition channels). As far as I know, this isn&#x27;t on the Internet yet, but I expect it will be late this year.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?</title><text>When did people start paying for your SaaS?<p>How many times did it take before you got it right? I don&#x27;t suspect most people get it right on their first go, so what have you taken from your failures and what have been the biggest factors in your success in terms of gaining traction with your SaaS?<p>In particular, what marketing&#x2F;promo tactics have served you best?</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chaddeshon</author><text>I launched BromBone a few months ago. About 150 people signed up and tried it at least once. Most of them never came back after that. No one ever paid.<p>A few weeks ago, I refocused BromBone into a subset of what it was before. I&#x27;ve already got a handful of paid accounts and I expect a few more soon. I&#x27;m not rich yet, but some people paying is way better than no one paying. There is hope this time.<p>For BromBone, I think there are two main things that have made the difference:<p>1) The first version of the service would make developer&#x27;s lives a little easier but still leaves a lot of development for them to do. The new version completely eliminates a pain for them with very little work on their part.<p>The first version could have been helpful to a lot of different people. I thought a bigger market would be better. Instead it meant:
* I couldn&#x27;t focus on one community
* I had to try to market to communities I didn&#x27;t really understand
* It fix half of a lot of people&#x27;s problems, but didn&#x27;t completely fix anyone&#x27;s<p>2) The new version has a landing page that looks more like a traditional SaaS landing page. I tried to go my own way to much with the previous landing page. I&#x27;m not a designer, and I didn&#x27;t pull it off. I think the new landing page looks more legit to people and makes them more likely to recommend it to their boss.<p>--<p>BromBone v1 was a &quot;Headless Browser as a Service&quot;.
BromBone v2 is &quot;Make your AngularJS, EmberJS, or BackboneJS website Crawlable by Google&quot;.
<a href="http://www.BromBone.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.BromBone.com</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?</title><text>When did people start paying for your SaaS?<p>How many times did it take before you got it right? I don&#x27;t suspect most people get it right on their first go, so what have you taken from your failures and what have been the biggest factors in your success in terms of gaining traction with your SaaS?<p>In particular, what marketing&#x2F;promo tactics have served you best?</text></story> |
31,037,551 | 31,037,477 | 1 | 2 | 31,037,273 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geijoenr</author><text>I believe Rust will benefit from the reality check that kernel development represents.<p>Kernel development is hard, and bullshit doesn&#x27;t go very far in that context. Success for Rust in that environment (with some changes along the way) will be a proof of value.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rustaceans at the border</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/889924/2b330ed9ea4a9e23/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>proto_lambda</author><text>I can sympathize with the need to have all required source code in the repository and not having to fetch a bunch of dependencies at build time. Thankfully, cargo already offers a solution here: `cargo vendor` will download all the specified dependencies once into a local directory, which can then be checked into the source tree.<p>This maintains cargo&#x27;s dependency resolution&#x2F;update checking&#x2F;etc, but also allows for all dependency code to be kept alongside the kernel code and audited accordingly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rustaceans at the border</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/889924/2b330ed9ea4a9e23/</url></story> |
8,912,113 | 8,911,565 | 1 | 2 | 8,910,010 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ay</author><text>Build a custom LiveISO.<p>There are plenty of tutorials, but it is boring to follow them manually, especially if you need to make a couple of tweaks to ISO or update it.<p>So I put together a couple of scripts to automate the process:<p><a href="https://github.com/ayourtch/iso-livecd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ayourtch&#x2F;iso-livecd</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>curiously</author><text>curious to know how you can make a linux distro immutable from any modification.</text></item><item><author>olalonde</author><text>Stories like this is what makes me believe immutable infrastructure is the future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacked. A Short Story</title><url>http://kukuruku.co/hub/infosec/hacked-a-short-story-of-a-hack</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CiaranMcNulty</author><text>By regularly redeploying or re-imaging. Exploits can only live for a certain timescale + you can lock down nearly every entry point (no need for SSH access for instance).</text><parent_chain><item><author>curiously</author><text>curious to know how you can make a linux distro immutable from any modification.</text></item><item><author>olalonde</author><text>Stories like this is what makes me believe immutable infrastructure is the future.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hacked. A Short Story</title><url>http://kukuruku.co/hub/infosec/hacked-a-short-story-of-a-hack</url></story> |
27,986,516 | 27,986,467 | 1 | 3 | 27,986,160 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hereforphone</author><text>I have taken both shots. But I wouldn&#x27;t call them &quot;safe&quot;, as they are young and approved under emergency guidelines. They are probably safe, but nobody knows that right now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Whatarethese</author><text>Good. Its time to stop messing around with this. The vaccines are tested and are safe.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines</title><url>https://www.axios.com/google-office-mandate-vaccines-covid-b29a4993-9bdd-4c15-8b8a-e94fe4240878.html</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neither_color</author><text>I&#x27;m vaccinated and I personally don&#x27;t care if others choose not to do it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Whatarethese</author><text>Good. Its time to stop messing around with this. The vaccines are tested and are safe.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines</title><url>https://www.axios.com/google-office-mandate-vaccines-covid-b29a4993-9bdd-4c15-8b8a-e94fe4240878.html</url></story> |
6,883,419 | 6,882,344 | 1 | 3 | 6,882,080 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdl</author><text>Silicon Valley startups might not think it&#x27;s a big deal, but being able to run entirely on a private network (either &quot;behind a firewall&quot;, or an entirely disconnected network) is pretty huge. Without AeroFS, your choices today kind of suck, especially for 10-500 person companies (or bigger companies where your corporate option sucks or isn&#x27;t available). Dropbox doesn&#x27;t work if you care about security. You&#x27;re left with various forms of SMB crap, more backend-type things like iSCSI, or either blasts from the past (nfs, afs) or science projects (zfs).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The AeroFS Private Cloud</title><url>http://blog.aerofs.com/the-aerofs-private-cloud/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>magic5227</author><text>Has anyone compared the reliability of this to Bittorrent&#x27;s solution? I tried Aero a while ago and found it to be very buggy then. Are there any major differences between the two?
<a href="http://www.bittorrent.com/sync" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bittorrent.com&#x2F;sync</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The AeroFS Private Cloud</title><url>http://blog.aerofs.com/the-aerofs-private-cloud/</url></story> |
24,363,153 | 24,362,296 | 1 | 3 | 24,361,599 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>commonjcb</author><text>It&#x27;s probably by design, iPhones support magnetic-induction hearing aids, see here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT202186" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT202186</a><p>The are 2 standards, the old &quot;telecoil&quot; (direct) and the new FM loop, both operating at low frequencies...<p>Both work at very short ranges (inverse cube of the distance)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone audio detectable with AM radio</title><url>https://twitter.com/doctorcube/status/1300953606221422594</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IndrekR</author><text>Most likely not an FCC (EMC) issue. This sounds like direct inductive coupling from speaker D class amplifier output (or power, which would be worse, but not likely) circuit at &lt;100 kHz. Below 30 MHz only conducted emissions are measured (common mode emission via cable, say, forming a large antenna together with the power grid). The emitting component may be the speaker or (unshielded) output filter (for EMC compliance!) of the amplifier.<p>Why it is not an issue, is that magnetic field decays really rapidly, (inversely proportional to the cube of the distance [1]) and thus is not a general concern. In fact some &quot;secure by physics&quot; nearby communication methods like RuBee [2] relay on this.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Near_and_far_field" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Near_and_far_field</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RuBee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RuBee</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone audio detectable with AM radio</title><url>https://twitter.com/doctorcube/status/1300953606221422594</url></story> |
21,803,776 | 21,803,887 | 1 | 3 | 21,803,639 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gwd</author><text>From TFA:<p>&gt; The 43-year-old’s remaining stake in the ride-hailing company now constitutes about a fifth of his $3 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, down from about 75% before the lockup.<p>To be fair, if I had 75% of my net worth in a single asset, I&#x27;d also try to diversify. My wife and I both have lots of stock in the companies we work for, due to RSUs and employee stock purchase programs; and although we both believe our companies are a good investment <i>overall</i>, we regularly sell shares just so that we don&#x27;t have so many of our eggs in those two baskets. 20% is a perfectly reasonable target I think.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-16/travis-kalanick-is-getting-out-of-his-uber-holdings-uber-quickly</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>duxup</author><text>My questions about the viability of Uber aside, I stick to the story I&#x27;ve heard repeated in many forms &quot;executives sell shares for any number of reasons, but only buy for one reason&quot;.<p>Accordingly I don&#x27;t put much meaning behind stories about an executive selling.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-16/travis-kalanick-is-getting-out-of-his-uber-holdings-uber-quickly</url></story> |
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