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15,663,921 | 15,663,918 | 1 | 3 | 15,663,368 | 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>adventured</author><text>It looks very unlikely the anti-drug brigade is going to be able to stop the spread of this nationally at this point. I think NJ will make nine legal states, more will legalize at a faster clip. The Trump Administration appears to be coasting (neither helping nor meaningfully hindering) as far as legalization is concerned, and the Republicans look set to drop the Senate (even despite the up-for-election imbalance).<p>It&#x27;s going to accomplish a ton of things simultaneously.<p>- Substantially reduce arrests, prison sentences, and our general prison &#x2F; jail population over time.<p>- Provide another good option for pain management to millions of people. Something we desperately need right now.<p>- Reduce general crime.<p>- Weaken the cartels.<p>- Increase tax revenue and employment by normalizing an industry worth tens of billions annually. The US should eventually become a major marijuana exporter as many other countries gradually legalize.<p>- Break the back of the war on drugs and change the culture more broadly (this is already well underway, as so many middle class voters are seeing the vast destruction of the opioid crisis, which is educating people on needing to treat addiction as a health problem while simultaneously demonstrating how relatively safe marijuana is by comparison).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Legal pot in 100 days? New Jersey's next governor aims for national first</title><url>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/legal-pot-in-100-days-new-jerseys-next-governor-aims-for-national-first/article/2640125</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>JohnTHaller</author><text>But then we&#x27;ll likely wind up with people using less opioids and 25% fewer deaths due to opioid overdose like we&#x27;ve seen elsewhere and won&#x27;t someone think of the poor pharmaceutical companies? &#x2F;s</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Legal pot in 100 days? New Jersey's next governor aims for national first</title><url>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/legal-pot-in-100-days-new-jerseys-next-governor-aims-for-national-first/article/2640125</url></story> |
27,764,190 | 27,763,614 | 1 | 2 | 27,761,245 | 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>woofie11</author><text>It works brilliantly. It&#x27;s called dumping. It created major businesses like Standard Oil, prior to antitrust laws. Indeed, it&#x27;s #1 on Wikipedia&#x27;s list of anticompetitive strategies:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anti-competitive_practices#Types" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anti-competitive_practices#Typ...</a><p>I have mixed feelings about some of the big money SV strategies. Antitrust concerns aside:<p>- They do allow some types of long-term transformative businesses, which would otherwise be impossible.<p>- They don&#x27;t allow many forms of sustainable businesses to exist. If you and I have the same idea and ability to execute, whichever of us raises more money (and in an ideal free market, this means whichever of us is willing to accept less favorable terms) wins. This drains value from entrepreneurs to capital. Perhaps it speeds things up a little bit, but it&#x27;s a net lose. It also leads to businesses with unsustainable debt and burn rates, and many viable business models crash-and-burn.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DougN7</author><text>Isn’t that what Amazon did early on? If so, looks like it worked.</text></item><item><author>lostcolony</author><text>Debt to scale up is one thing; operating for years operating&#x2F;selling at a loss leading to ever increasing debt to choke out competitors and maintain a monopoly, fueling it with the expectation of a market valuation that will offset those losses, itself fueled by choking out those competitors, and all reliant on either getting out before it comes crashing down, or jacking up prices to profitable levels once there are no competitors left, is something else.</text></item><item><author>barrkel</author><text>This is one of SV&#x27;s main competitive advantages vs not just the rest of the US, but the rest of the world: the amount of available financial capital to pour into scaling up quickly, which of course happens at a loss - sales generally lag costs and especially fixed costs.<p>If you include human capital, it&#x27;s almost all of SV&#x27;s competitive advantage: co-location of the people and the money to scale up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A classic Silicon Valley tactic – losing money to crush rivals – under scrutiny</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/06/facebook-bulletin-antitrust/</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>hoppyhoppy2</author><text>I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re arguing that it doesn&#x27;t work for the company doing it. I think they&#x27;re arguing along the the lines that it&#x27;s unfair or unethical (anticompetitive) and comes with costs for the broader society.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DougN7</author><text>Isn’t that what Amazon did early on? If so, looks like it worked.</text></item><item><author>lostcolony</author><text>Debt to scale up is one thing; operating for years operating&#x2F;selling at a loss leading to ever increasing debt to choke out competitors and maintain a monopoly, fueling it with the expectation of a market valuation that will offset those losses, itself fueled by choking out those competitors, and all reliant on either getting out before it comes crashing down, or jacking up prices to profitable levels once there are no competitors left, is something else.</text></item><item><author>barrkel</author><text>This is one of SV&#x27;s main competitive advantages vs not just the rest of the US, but the rest of the world: the amount of available financial capital to pour into scaling up quickly, which of course happens at a loss - sales generally lag costs and especially fixed costs.<p>If you include human capital, it&#x27;s almost all of SV&#x27;s competitive advantage: co-location of the people and the money to scale up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A classic Silicon Valley tactic – losing money to crush rivals – under scrutiny</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/06/facebook-bulletin-antitrust/</url></story> |
21,463,483 | 21,463,173 | 1 | 2 | 21,461,681 | 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>Someone1234</author><text>&gt; And somehow Windows still doesn&#x27;t ship with a decent text editor out of the box...<p>What would that look like? I mean a decent text editor is contextual. Are we talking about Wordpad upgrades for office usage, a lightweight code editor, or something else?<p>Plus don&#x27;t people constantly criticize Microsoft for bloat&#x2F;adding stuff to the base OS? Now they want Microsoft to ship Windows 10 with e.g. VSCode out of the box?</text><parent_chain><item><author>CivBase</author><text>&gt; I shifted to VSCode from atom (before they purchased github)<p>It just hit me that since GitHub was bought, both VSCode and Atom are owned by Microsoft.<p>And somehow Windows still doesn&#x27;t ship with a decent text editor out of the box...</text></item><item><author>IGotThroughIt</author><text>I&#x27;ll admit this, I was wrong about Satya. I didn&#x27;t think Microsoft was salvageable but he&#x27;s been doing a stellar job. He&#x27;s a great CEO and embracing open source was a really good move.<p>I shifted to VSCode from atom (before they purchased github) due to atom&#x27;s memory hogging issues a while back. Haven&#x27;t regretted the choice. For my private repos, I used to only use the free version of bitbucket but Microsoft introduced free private repos to github so I&#x27;ve been trying that out lately. If I like it, I&#x27;ll stick with it.<p>Also, all my code is hosted on Azure now from AWS since late last year.<p>I tried WSL but didn&#x27;t like it to due problems with paths but at this rate with which they&#x27;re moving, it too might improve and I might find myself using only Microsoft for my work. Would not have predicted that if you asked me a few years back when I couldn&#x27;t run away from Ms&#x2F;Windows environment fast enough.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/you-can-now-try-microsofts-web-based-version-of-visual-studio/</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>cltsang</author><text>Well it&#x27;s getting less awful at least<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows-insider&#x2F;at-home&#x2F;whats-new-wip-at-home-1903#notepad-updates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows-insider&#x2F;at-home&#x2F;wha...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>CivBase</author><text>&gt; I shifted to VSCode from atom (before they purchased github)<p>It just hit me that since GitHub was bought, both VSCode and Atom are owned by Microsoft.<p>And somehow Windows still doesn&#x27;t ship with a decent text editor out of the box...</text></item><item><author>IGotThroughIt</author><text>I&#x27;ll admit this, I was wrong about Satya. I didn&#x27;t think Microsoft was salvageable but he&#x27;s been doing a stellar job. He&#x27;s a great CEO and embracing open source was a really good move.<p>I shifted to VSCode from atom (before they purchased github) due to atom&#x27;s memory hogging issues a while back. Haven&#x27;t regretted the choice. For my private repos, I used to only use the free version of bitbucket but Microsoft introduced free private repos to github so I&#x27;ve been trying that out lately. If I like it, I&#x27;ll stick with it.<p>Also, all my code is hosted on Azure now from AWS since late last year.<p>I tried WSL but didn&#x27;t like it to due problems with paths but at this rate with which they&#x27;re moving, it too might improve and I might find myself using only Microsoft for my work. Would not have predicted that if you asked me a few years back when I couldn&#x27;t run away from Ms&#x2F;Windows environment fast enough.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/you-can-now-try-microsofts-web-based-version-of-visual-studio/</url></story> |
2,814,512 | 2,814,379 | 1 | 2 | 2,813,956 | 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>pdx</author><text>It should be possible. I see this as the exact same situation as <a href="http://www.getaround.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.getaround.com/</a>, who are, according to techcrunch, "The Airbnb For Cars". They have a policy with Berkshire Hathaway that covers any damage to the rented cars.<p>You can write insurance for anything, if you're willing to pay enough premium. I can't imagine this premium would be that exorbitant for Airbnb to pay for it's users, just as Getaround does.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jellicle</author><text>As was pointed out before, it's not possible to get insurance for this - homeowner's insurance specifically disclaims damage from renters, and it's generally not legal to rent your premises like this unless you comply with all the hotel rules, so AirBnb can't take out insurance either. All they can do is self-insure, and if they start paying out, people will realize "Hey, I can get a new TV if I let my friend come and trash my old one".<p>And yet your analysis of this particular case is spot-on. They stand to get CRUSHED by this story.<p>Damned if they do, and damned if they don't.</text></item><item><author>tc</author><text><i>&#62; I spoke to Airbnb about EJ’s situation. They won’t reimburse her for damages</i><p>This is bad news.<p>They're going to backtrack on this. The sooner they do it, the better for them politically.<p>I understand the problems of setting a precedent. And there really is no getting around the fact that the hosts do have the final responsibility for screening travelers (and travelers for screening hosts).<p>But rightly or wrongly, they're going to end up on the wrong side of this story unless they make things right for this gal and can tell Arrington and other journalists, <i>"we've made sure our customer is whole."</i><p>After saying that, they can use this as a learning exercise for their community about how screening hosts and travelers yourself is important.<p>--<p>[Edit]: Is she in San Francisco? It looks like she is. She called SFPD. This is an easy one. Brian, Joe, or Nathan needs to be out there to provide a shoulder to cry on and an open checkbook to fix anything that money can fix. Nothing in that apartment costs more than the value of the ammunition this is going to give to their enemies.<p>The earlier they do this, the more quietly they can do it, which serves their purposes as well.<p>[Edit #2]: Some form of insurance might be a worthwhile addition to their offering, but that's something they can debate and decide on after they put out this fire. [added:] Also, insurance doesn't solve the safety issues involved here, so they're still going to need to emphasize the importance of screening travelers (and hosts) carefully.<p>[Edit #3]: EJ doesn't sound particularly litigious in her post, but consider what happens if she does decide to sue AirBnB and any part of it makes it to a jury. I mean, <i>HackerNews</i> is lining up against them. Consider what 6-12 normal people might decide. The wise move would be to make sure that she's fully satisfied with the way they treated her.<p>[Edit #4]: Arrington updated the article after speaking with Brian Chesky. Brian, Joe, Nathan and company did the right thing here, as you would expect.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-moment-of-truth-for-airbnb-as-users-home-is-utterly-trashed/</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>Cushman</author><text>I don't see what they stand to lose if they take the same stance as homeowner insurers do— if you file a police report, they'll pretty much take your word for it.<p>In fact they have an even better guarantee, since they know (ideally...) exactly who the perpetrator was. They're not <i>giving</i> you the money to replace your stuff, they're lending it to you until they can recover it from the criminal. If the person who you claim did the damage claims they didn't, that's a problem they have with <i>you</i>, not with Airbnb.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jellicle</author><text>As was pointed out before, it's not possible to get insurance for this - homeowner's insurance specifically disclaims damage from renters, and it's generally not legal to rent your premises like this unless you comply with all the hotel rules, so AirBnb can't take out insurance either. All they can do is self-insure, and if they start paying out, people will realize "Hey, I can get a new TV if I let my friend come and trash my old one".<p>And yet your analysis of this particular case is spot-on. They stand to get CRUSHED by this story.<p>Damned if they do, and damned if they don't.</text></item><item><author>tc</author><text><i>&#62; I spoke to Airbnb about EJ’s situation. They won’t reimburse her for damages</i><p>This is bad news.<p>They're going to backtrack on this. The sooner they do it, the better for them politically.<p>I understand the problems of setting a precedent. And there really is no getting around the fact that the hosts do have the final responsibility for screening travelers (and travelers for screening hosts).<p>But rightly or wrongly, they're going to end up on the wrong side of this story unless they make things right for this gal and can tell Arrington and other journalists, <i>"we've made sure our customer is whole."</i><p>After saying that, they can use this as a learning exercise for their community about how screening hosts and travelers yourself is important.<p>--<p>[Edit]: Is she in San Francisco? It looks like she is. She called SFPD. This is an easy one. Brian, Joe, or Nathan needs to be out there to provide a shoulder to cry on and an open checkbook to fix anything that money can fix. Nothing in that apartment costs more than the value of the ammunition this is going to give to their enemies.<p>The earlier they do this, the more quietly they can do it, which serves their purposes as well.<p>[Edit #2]: Some form of insurance might be a worthwhile addition to their offering, but that's something they can debate and decide on after they put out this fire. [added:] Also, insurance doesn't solve the safety issues involved here, so they're still going to need to emphasize the importance of screening travelers (and hosts) carefully.<p>[Edit #3]: EJ doesn't sound particularly litigious in her post, but consider what happens if she does decide to sue AirBnB and any part of it makes it to a jury. I mean, <i>HackerNews</i> is lining up against them. Consider what 6-12 normal people might decide. The wise move would be to make sure that she's fully satisfied with the way they treated her.<p>[Edit #4]: Arrington updated the article after speaking with Brian Chesky. Brian, Joe, Nathan and company did the right thing here, as you would expect.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-moment-of-truth-for-airbnb-as-users-home-is-utterly-trashed/</url></story> |
16,669,343 | 16,669,246 | 1 | 2 | 16,669,043 | 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>torpfactory</author><text>It should be clear to everyone now that Facebook is engaged in building a surveillance system which tracks every one of its users throughout their daily lives. Though others will disagree, this kind of behavior, especially done so without informing the user in full candor, is morally wrong.<p>As I&#x27;ve advocated in other commentary on this site: Engineers at Facebook have a moral obligation either reform from the inside or quit. This kind of surveillance apparatus should not be built, by either government or private entities.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook tracks your private calls</title><url>https://twitter.com/mat_johnson/status/977325434030428160</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>Shywim</author><text>Some replies say that the user should take a second look at what permissions they give, but in the case of Android apps the permission to use the Account Manager (used to register a service account like Facebook, Google, Twitter or any other things that need to synchronize in the background) is displayed as a &quot;Contacts&quot; permission to the user.<p>So some apps like Facebook might synchronize or make other uses of contacts with their service accounts, but many other service don&#x27;t do anything with contacts and doesn&#x27;t EVEN request the actual contacts permission but their permission request is still displayed as &quot;Contacts&quot;.<p>How can the user be able to do responsible choices in giving apps permissions when the permissions layer of the OS make no sense?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook tracks your private calls</title><url>https://twitter.com/mat_johnson/status/977325434030428160</url></story> |
21,922,265 | 21,922,273 | 1 | 2 | 21,921,508 | 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>simonsarris</author><text>Carbon monoxide from the fires very visible right now on Windy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windy.com&#x2F;-CO-concentration-cosc?cosc,-16.636,132.188,4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windy.com&#x2F;-CO-concentration-cosc?cosc,-16.636,13...</a><p>(with China looking like its usual, humdrum Mordor self)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bushfires in Australia so big they generate pyrocumulonimbus starting more fires</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.sg/australia-bushfires-generate-pyrocumulonimbus-thunderstorm-clouds-2019-12/</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>angrygoat</author><text>I&#x27;m starting to think the least realistic part of every disaster movie plot is when the government recognises the crisis and acts. We&#x27;ve literally got people sitting in boats in lakes or the sea while their towns burn around them; this in a country with well developed fire-fighting infrastructure and well trained personnel. Action now won&#x27;t kick in for a decade or two, best case, but that doesn&#x27;t make it any less urgent.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bushfires in Australia so big they generate pyrocumulonimbus starting more fires</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.sg/australia-bushfires-generate-pyrocumulonimbus-thunderstorm-clouds-2019-12/</url></story> |
19,805,324 | 19,804,303 | 1 | 2 | 19,802,482 | 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>lmm</author><text>&gt; So what might happen if California enacted statewide rent control? Capping yearly rent increases at inflation + 3%?<p>No-one would move, ever. People wouldn&#x27;t be able to change jobs even for much higher salaries or better conditions. Children would live with their parents forever. Many people would live precariously in illegal sublets with inadequate fire exits etc. Developers would stop building. Landlords would stop doing maintenance and let their buildings rot. Everyone would be miserable.<p>&gt; Many low income renters are paying 50% or more of their income on rent, that&#x27;s not sustainable for the wider economy that relies on low skill labor to function, and the solution is not to have people commute 4h every day to clean an office, teach a class, or fight a fire.<p>Rent control creates longer commutes. To the extent that the economy actually relies on low skill labour, it can pay the actual cost of having that labour where it needs it. In fact by having rent control you artificially depress wages and encourage companies to employ humans in bad jobs rather than finding ways to make things better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asdff</author><text>So what might happen if California enacted statewide rent control? Capping yearly rent increases at inflation + 3%? There are places where properties have <i>doubled</i> in value in less than a dozen years while wages remain stagnant, leading to rents surging and more %income going to housing. Many low income renters are paying 50% or more of their income on rent, that&#x27;s not sustainable for the wider economy that relies on low skill labor to function, and the solution is not to have people commute 4h every day to clean an office, teach a class, or fight a fire.<p>The housing market moves so much faster than wages ever will, and it seems having only some units rent controlled exacerbates the problem for units that aren&#x27;t, so why not make <i>every</i> unit in the state a rent controlled unit? The landlords are already insulated from the whiplash of the housing market from statewide property tax control in the form of prop 13, why not let renters enjoy that isolation as well?</text></item><item><author>klipt</author><text>Right, the problem is NIMBYs are allowed to rent-seek by preventing construction around them. And in San Francisco, Prop 13 &#x2F; rent control insulates many people from any consequences of rising prices, as long as they don&#x27;t have to move, which means they make decisions that push up prices for everyone <i>else</i>.<p>In the economically ideal case we&#x27;d have a fair Land Value Tax to encourage as much building as necessary.</text></item><item><author>jdavis703</author><text>The idea from the headline should be viewed at a more macro level. A society that views housing as an investment means that we wind up adopting housing policies that lead to people being priced out (i.e. regulatory capture). This eventually means people winding up in subpar situations like moving in with parents, couch surfing or living on the street.<p>Now your argument about housing on a personal financial level is spot-on, at least points #1 and #2. As for the latter points, the first purpose of a house should be to house people. When we view housing as an investment we start making economically rational (but morally questionable) arguments like, &quot;ban new apartments because they&#x27;ll lower my home&#x27;s value.&quot;</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>So much written about housing is just... Wrong. And I don&#x27;t mean factually inaccurate. I mean based on false premises.<p>Owning your own home serves several purposes:<p>1. Security<p>2. Stability<p>3. As a hedge against inflation<p>4. As a hedge against market forces<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean buying is always a good idea. Clearly or isn&#x27;t. Like don&#x27;t but in a town where 70% of the adults are employed by the local coal mine, for example.<p>Here&#x27;s how I like to think about it: you are never out of the housing market. By not owning you have a large short position in real estate. Given that rents eventually track prices, if prices go down you benefit (you&#x27;re rent will eventually go down and you didn&#x27;t lose capital). If prices go up you lose. You missed a gain and your rent will go up.<p>Given that, you buy your house to remove risk of local changes to your detriment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2018/11/housing-cant-both-be-a-good-investment-and-be-affordable/574813/</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>outlace</author><text>The price of housing is only part of it. The rising prices reflect the rising demand and the relatively static supply. Even if prices were capped, it doesn’t mean more people would be able to get housing. There’s still fewer units than there are people who want them, so people would get units based on some other mechanism beside price such as a lottery.<p>The unpredictability this would entail would probably be worse than a functioning price mechanism. Imagine you get a job in San Francisco but there’s only a 20% chance you’ll be able to “win” a housing unit where you want. Versus the current reality of for sure being able to find housing given you’re willing to pay enough.</text><parent_chain><item><author>asdff</author><text>So what might happen if California enacted statewide rent control? Capping yearly rent increases at inflation + 3%? There are places where properties have <i>doubled</i> in value in less than a dozen years while wages remain stagnant, leading to rents surging and more %income going to housing. Many low income renters are paying 50% or more of their income on rent, that&#x27;s not sustainable for the wider economy that relies on low skill labor to function, and the solution is not to have people commute 4h every day to clean an office, teach a class, or fight a fire.<p>The housing market moves so much faster than wages ever will, and it seems having only some units rent controlled exacerbates the problem for units that aren&#x27;t, so why not make <i>every</i> unit in the state a rent controlled unit? The landlords are already insulated from the whiplash of the housing market from statewide property tax control in the form of prop 13, why not let renters enjoy that isolation as well?</text></item><item><author>klipt</author><text>Right, the problem is NIMBYs are allowed to rent-seek by preventing construction around them. And in San Francisco, Prop 13 &#x2F; rent control insulates many people from any consequences of rising prices, as long as they don&#x27;t have to move, which means they make decisions that push up prices for everyone <i>else</i>.<p>In the economically ideal case we&#x27;d have a fair Land Value Tax to encourage as much building as necessary.</text></item><item><author>jdavis703</author><text>The idea from the headline should be viewed at a more macro level. A society that views housing as an investment means that we wind up adopting housing policies that lead to people being priced out (i.e. regulatory capture). This eventually means people winding up in subpar situations like moving in with parents, couch surfing or living on the street.<p>Now your argument about housing on a personal financial level is spot-on, at least points #1 and #2. As for the latter points, the first purpose of a house should be to house people. When we view housing as an investment we start making economically rational (but morally questionable) arguments like, &quot;ban new apartments because they&#x27;ll lower my home&#x27;s value.&quot;</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>So much written about housing is just... Wrong. And I don&#x27;t mean factually inaccurate. I mean based on false premises.<p>Owning your own home serves several purposes:<p>1. Security<p>2. Stability<p>3. As a hedge against inflation<p>4. As a hedge against market forces<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean buying is always a good idea. Clearly or isn&#x27;t. Like don&#x27;t but in a town where 70% of the adults are employed by the local coal mine, for example.<p>Here&#x27;s how I like to think about it: you are never out of the housing market. By not owning you have a large short position in real estate. Given that rents eventually track prices, if prices go down you benefit (you&#x27;re rent will eventually go down and you didn&#x27;t lose capital). If prices go up you lose. You missed a gain and your rent will go up.<p>Given that, you buy your house to remove risk of local changes to your detriment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2018/11/housing-cant-both-be-a-good-investment-and-be-affordable/574813/</url></story> |
23,250,942 | 23,250,967 | 1 | 2 | 23,250,289 | 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>groby_b</author><text>It helps to reframe the issue. &quot;Selling&quot; yourself is distasteful for many, because it smacks not only of loudness &amp; brashness, but of straight up lying.<p>Look at this instead as a problem of knowledge distribution. In the extreme case, you do absolutely brilliant work, but tell nobody - how would people in charge of promotions&#x2F;funding <i>know</i> you did that work?<p>That&#x27;s the first step. You need to let people know your work exists, otherwise they really can&#x27;t reward&#x2F;recognize it. (Or really, in the extreme, you need to let them know <i>you</i> exist as the very first precondition).<p>The next step is the fact that you are the person who has likely spent by far the most time on the problem. You intuitively understand why this is an incredibly important problem, and why the solution is really, really good. I guarantee you that the people around you don&#x27;t. How would they? They&#x27;ve spent much less time on it than you have.<p>And so part 2 becomes educating others on the problem and on the solution.<p>So, no, you don&#x27;t &quot;sell&quot; yourself. You publicize and educate. It&#x27;s still incredibly hard, but it captures the core of what&#x27;s actually necessary much better. There&#x27;s no need to be loud &amp; brash, to paint everything in the brightest possible colors, but there&#x27;s a need to communicate.<p>If Einstein hadn&#x27;t written a paper on special relativity, he would (obviously) not have been recognized for it. And if he hand&#x27;t communicated his insights very clearly and crisply, he wouldn&#x27;t have been recognized, either - several people before him spelled out some of the insights, but in a much less clear manner.<p>So, don&#x27;t &quot;sell&quot;, just let people clearly know what you do,and why you do it. Looking at it from that angle has helped me tremendously getting over the &quot;selling is gauche&quot; issue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>&gt; ... it is not sufficient to do a job, you have to sell it. &quot;Selling&quot; to a scientist is an awkward thing to do. It&#x27;s very ugly; you shouldn&#x27;t have to do it. The world is supposed to be waiting, and when you do something great, they should rush out and welcome it.<p>Took me very long to get this, and, if I&#x27;m being completely honest, I still struggle with it.<p>Being smart and humble is a pretty terrible combination. I met <i>so many</i> brilliant people at UCLA and in my professional career that had this twinge of impostor syndrome. What ended up happening is their less-brilliant but much-louder colleagues always got the promotions and always got the funding.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work</title><url>https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SellYourselfSellYourWork.html?te20hn</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>timClicks</author><text>I took the humble approach to promoting Rust in Action for most of its development. It felt awkward as a writer to also be a marketer. But that meant many days with 0 sales. Now I&#x27;m more active, I regularly hit 10 sales per day and I haven&#x27;t had a no sales day in 2020.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dvt</author><text>&gt; ... it is not sufficient to do a job, you have to sell it. &quot;Selling&quot; to a scientist is an awkward thing to do. It&#x27;s very ugly; you shouldn&#x27;t have to do it. The world is supposed to be waiting, and when you do something great, they should rush out and welcome it.<p>Took me very long to get this, and, if I&#x27;m being completely honest, I still struggle with it.<p>Being smart and humble is a pretty terrible combination. I met <i>so many</i> brilliant people at UCLA and in my professional career that had this twinge of impostor syndrome. What ended up happening is their less-brilliant but much-louder colleagues always got the promotions and always got the funding.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work</title><url>https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SellYourselfSellYourWork.html?te20hn</url></story> |
18,718,328 | 18,718,343 | 1 | 3 | 18,716,961 | 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>ChuckMcM</author><text>It seems nearly everyone always believes that a recession, big disaster slowdown, market crash, Etc is &quot;right around the corner.&quot; And for the last 10 years they have been wrong in the macro sense :-).<p>That said, this was from the article: <i>&quot;Many of the tech companies that listed shares in the U.S. were based in China, including some of the largest IPOs of the year, such as online-entertainment services company iQIYI Inc. and Chinese e-commerce company Pinduoduo Inc.&quot;</i><p>The Chinese economy is reacting in all sorts of ways to its new larger size, pressure from the US in trade wars, and pressure at home to spread some of the prosperity around. If you take all of the Chinese companies out of the list, the IPO statistic is unremarkable.<p>What I find most interesting is the Unicorn do or die issue. Which is that many may find it impossible to go to the private equity trough again, that bubble does seem to have deflated. Valuations aside, when you have <i>raised</i> over a billion dollars that is real money that somebody is going to miss it if you just roll up the carpets and go home.<p>It felt to me that the collapse of Theranos woke up a lot of &#x27;stupid&#x27; money (that is money from people who are investing in a fad but without research). And those folks have said, &quot;Hmm, ok now I&#x27;d like to sell my equity in this company you guys say is worth $X, that means you will pay me $Z for my stake right?&quot; Only to find it doesn&#x27;t work that way, there are no buyers, no liquidity as they say, for those preferred shares. But they can vote and they can tell the CEO, you&#x27;re not getting another penny from us, we&#x27;d like to sell our shares. And that leaves the public markets as the investor of last resort.<p>So it does feel like a Unicorn reckoning is to be had. Where companies will have to prove that a cruel and unemotional market will agree with their lofty valuations. They won&#x27;t all make it over that hump. As the Vikings might say, &quot;There will be songs sung about these days.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>tenpoundhammer</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working for a startup that recently exited it seems to be common knowledge in the startup community( and everywhere else? ) that a recession is just around the corner. I&#x27;m definitely not an expert in economics but these are just the pieces I&#x27;ve put together.<p>From what I&#x27;ve heard&#x2F;read the recession will primarily affect stock pricing and available investment assets. Many startups feel that if they don&#x27;t exit now they will never have the opportunity or will have to exit with much lower numbers. This seems like a strong driver of exits.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-unicorns-are-going-public-at-near-record-pace-11545138000</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>grey-area</author><text>The crash has already begun, a global recession will follow after but that won&#x27;t be till later next year. We&#x27;re in a correction and entering a bear market.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;%5EIXIC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;chart&#x2F;%5EIXIC</a><p>Stocks like Amazon and Apple have lost up to 30% in the last few months, and Nasdaq has seen steep declines since the summer. So yes, earlier this year was a good time to IPO. Talking about exiting now with an IPO is definitely a little late, and I pity companies like Uber which have one scheduled for next year.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tenpoundhammer</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working for a startup that recently exited it seems to be common knowledge in the startup community( and everywhere else? ) that a recession is just around the corner. I&#x27;m definitely not an expert in economics but these are just the pieces I&#x27;ve put together.<p>From what I&#x27;ve heard&#x2F;read the recession will primarily affect stock pricing and available investment assets. Many startups feel that if they don&#x27;t exit now they will never have the opportunity or will have to exit with much lower numbers. This seems like a strong driver of exits.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-unicorns-are-going-public-at-near-record-pace-11545138000</url></story> |
13,189,198 | 13,189,234 | 1 | 2 | 13,188,574 | 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>stock_toaster</author><text>This <i>could</i> be the article the parent was referencing: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;words.steveklabnik.com&#x2F;is-npm-worth-26mm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;words.steveklabnik.com&#x2F;is-npm-worth-26mm</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>Are you saying that VCs are investing because they see companies like GitHub as being public goods? That&#x27;s contrary to normal investing principles, unless there&#x27;s some reason to think that a VC investing will result in their portfolio companies having superior access.</text></item><item><author>drchiu</author><text>I can&#x27;t find the blog post, but some blog wrote a while ago why VCs invest in companies like Github. TL;DR -- basically it provides infrastructure for other startups.<p>The business itself may not be a great business due to the amount of cost it takes to run it -- but it&#x27;s necessary for the running of other ventures.<p>Sort of like highways and non-toll bridges.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/github-is-building-a-coder-s-paradise-it-s-not-coming-cheap</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>jakub_g</author><text>The point is more or less, if VC invests (or plans to) in 20 software companies, investing additionally in something like GitHub or npm makes it more likely that the other 20 companies will succeed. They don&#x27;t invest <i>just</i> in GitHub from the goodness of their hearts.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>Are you saying that VCs are investing because they see companies like GitHub as being public goods? That&#x27;s contrary to normal investing principles, unless there&#x27;s some reason to think that a VC investing will result in their portfolio companies having superior access.</text></item><item><author>drchiu</author><text>I can&#x27;t find the blog post, but some blog wrote a while ago why VCs invest in companies like Github. TL;DR -- basically it provides infrastructure for other startups.<p>The business itself may not be a great business due to the amount of cost it takes to run it -- but it&#x27;s necessary for the running of other ventures.<p>Sort of like highways and non-toll bridges.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/github-is-building-a-coder-s-paradise-it-s-not-coming-cheap</url></story> |
21,608,296 | 21,608,382 | 1 | 2 | 21,607,712 | 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>chalst</author><text>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;liyasthomas&#x2F;i-created-postwoman-an-online-open-source-api-request-builder-41md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;liyasthomas&#x2F;i-created-postwoman-an-online-ope...</a> the author stripped down Chromium for the UI in order to get something much lighter than an Electron app.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ArchReaper</author><text>Anyone know how this compares to Insomnia&#x2F;Postman?<p>Ever since Postman started getting worse I switched to Insomnia and haven&#x27;t looked back.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman</title><url>https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman</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>cmdshiftf4</author><text>&gt;Ever since Postman started getting worse I switched to Insomnia and haven&#x27;t looked back.<p>Curious to know what you feel as been getting worse with Postman?<p>I&#x27;m a long time user of it myself and feel it has consistently done what it says it will do without much cruft.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ArchReaper</author><text>Anyone know how this compares to Insomnia&#x2F;Postman?<p>Ever since Postman started getting worse I switched to Insomnia and haven&#x27;t looked back.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman</title><url>https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman</url></story> |
12,179,453 | 12,178,905 | 1 | 3 | 12,175,861 | 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>mattkevan</author><text>Carpenter Brut will blow your socks off - seriously good stuff:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com&#x2F;album&#x2F;trilogy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com&#x2F;album&#x2F;trilogy</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Perhaps you should become acquainted with the music genre &quot;synthwave&quot;, &quot;new retro wave&quot;, or &quot;outrun&quot;.<p>Some examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DY1s9SmrQRE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DY1s9SmrQRE</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QpDn4-Na5co" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QpDn4-Na5co</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=egAB2qtVWFQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=egAB2qtVWFQ</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1Vsf3zYppP4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1Vsf3zYppP4</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Jv1ZN8c4_Gs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Jv1ZN8c4_Gs</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rSGnNMnvM6M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rSGnNMnvM6M</a></text></item><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I watched the show entirely on the strength of the title song; Netflix was playing promos for the show in the weeks leading up to its release, and I loved the music so much. It references classic 80s themes like <i>Terminator</i>, as well as horror scores from the era, but is still modern and interesting. It isn&#x27;t <i>merely</i> nostalgic, just like the intro video sequence isn&#x27;t merely nostalgic. They use modern techniques to manipulate classic imagery and sounds to come up with a thing that is both nostalgic <i>and</i> novel. It&#x27;s awesome.<p>The show isn&#x27;t bad, either, but the intro really is a perfect thing. It gives me that weird creepy feeling I got from Stephen King movies on VHS when I was a kid. I feel like the composers and the folks behind the intro should be getting higher billing in the credits. It&#x27;s so integral to the success of the show.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Typography of ‘Stranger Things’</title><url>https://blog.nelsoncash.com/the-typography-of-stranger-things-e35771f40d31#.37yms804p</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>ryanlbrown</author><text>Mitch Murder will always be my fav.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0Rk3ksaIl84" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0Rk3ksaIl84</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Perhaps you should become acquainted with the music genre &quot;synthwave&quot;, &quot;new retro wave&quot;, or &quot;outrun&quot;.<p>Some examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DY1s9SmrQRE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DY1s9SmrQRE</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QpDn4-Na5co" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QpDn4-Na5co</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=egAB2qtVWFQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=egAB2qtVWFQ</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1Vsf3zYppP4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1Vsf3zYppP4</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Jv1ZN8c4_Gs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Jv1ZN8c4_Gs</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rSGnNMnvM6M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rSGnNMnvM6M</a></text></item><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I watched the show entirely on the strength of the title song; Netflix was playing promos for the show in the weeks leading up to its release, and I loved the music so much. It references classic 80s themes like <i>Terminator</i>, as well as horror scores from the era, but is still modern and interesting. It isn&#x27;t <i>merely</i> nostalgic, just like the intro video sequence isn&#x27;t merely nostalgic. They use modern techniques to manipulate classic imagery and sounds to come up with a thing that is both nostalgic <i>and</i> novel. It&#x27;s awesome.<p>The show isn&#x27;t bad, either, but the intro really is a perfect thing. It gives me that weird creepy feeling I got from Stephen King movies on VHS when I was a kid. I feel like the composers and the folks behind the intro should be getting higher billing in the credits. It&#x27;s so integral to the success of the show.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Typography of ‘Stranger Things’</title><url>https://blog.nelsoncash.com/the-typography-of-stranger-things-e35771f40d31#.37yms804p</url></story> |
11,564,490 | 11,564,483 | 1 | 2 | 11,564,075 | 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>untog</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Google is really interested in providing that, though. I doubt they make a lot of money on the hardware - it&#x27;s all about the software, mindshare for ChromeOS.<p>I also think you overestimate how popular a machine like that would be. Dell offers Ubuntu laptops and they certainly haven&#x27;t taken over the planet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kris-s</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m overestimating the potential success, but it staggers me that Google only released their Pixel laptops with ChromeOS. I would absolutely buy it if it had Ubuntu pre-installed on it with working drivers (and I think a <i>ton</i> of developers would finally have a legitimate competitor to a MacBook Pro).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/it-looks-like-the-google-play-store-is-headed-to-chrome-os/</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>jstanley</author><text>I think you&#x27;re overestimating the potential success.<p>The vast majority of developers who want to run Ubuntu are more than capable of installing it on their own.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kris-s</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m overestimating the potential success, but it staggers me that Google only released their Pixel laptops with ChromeOS. I would absolutely buy it if it had Ubuntu pre-installed on it with working drivers (and I think a <i>ton</i> of developers would finally have a legitimate competitor to a MacBook Pro).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/it-looks-like-the-google-play-store-is-headed-to-chrome-os/</url></story> |
9,283,372 | 9,282,651 | 1 | 2 | 9,282,218 | 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>snoopybbt</author><text>I don&#x27;t know how many hours the author has spent&#x2F;wasted on this topic (and how many people are now wasting their time coming up with other solutions that in the end do NOT fix the real problem), but...<p>Quite frankly, I find this whole &quot;look i did a horrible hack and let&#x27;s see who can make the best worst horrible hack&quot; thing quite stupid and silly.<p>GNU Make is free software released under a free license, my opinion is that instead of doing that crazy thing, the author could have just written a patch for GNU Make in order to make it export a &quot;JOBS&quot; environment variable to all its child processes.<p>Oh but yes, &quot;I felt this feature was missing so I added it&quot; is way way way less cool than &quot;geez the gnu make folks are insane lollerplex they have no way to know how many jobs they&#x27;re running&quot;.<p>ALSO: <a href="http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#believe2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catb.org&#x2F;esr&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;hacker-howto.html#believe2</a><p>Here it is a patched version of GNU Make, providing a #J variable that holds the number of jobs as passed via -j&#x2F;--jobs:<p><pre><code> http:&#x2F;&#x2F;santoro.tk&#x2F;~manu&#x2F;gnumake.png
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As can be seen in the screenshot, it can be passed as environment variable to programs called by make<p>Source: <a href="https://github.com/esantoro/make" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;esantoro&#x2F;make</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNU make insanity: finding the value of the -j parameter</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2015/03/gnu-make-insanity-finding-value-of-j.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>jwatte</author><text>Those who don&#x27;t learn make are doomed to reimplement it. Poorly.<p>Also: never, ever, build a make system that relies on recursive make invocations.<p>Automake is a particularly egregious violator is this rule (and other sanity rules) and has probably hurt make more than anything else.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GNU make insanity: finding the value of the -j parameter</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2015/03/gnu-make-insanity-finding-value-of-j.html</url></story> |
6,397,945 | 6,397,983 | 1 | 2 | 6,397,723 | 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>tedivm</author><text>I&#x27;m glad I hit refresh and saw that the sensationalist title was edited, but even without that I think this article is a bit over the top. What they&#x27;re doing is simple-<p>* Building more direct connections between themselves and other countries, to reduce the amount of traffic going through the US.<p>* Encouraging companies to host data directly in Brazil, so their privacy laws can be enforced for their citizens.<p>* Developing an encrypted email service to reduce US spying.<p>It&#x27;s not surprising, and it&#x27;s certainly not going to balkanize the internet. What it could do is cost US companies a ton of money in lost revenue as services move out of the country.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet</title><url>http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Brazil-looks-to-break-from-US-centric-Internet-4819946.php</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>cfontes</author><text>My country never fails to embarrass me.<p>Brazil is the world leader in saying that it&#x27;s going to do something awesome and completely forgetting about doing something in order to make that happen.<p>Nothing is going to happen.<p>Example:<p>In order to have a seat in one of the trips to the international space station, Brazil should develop and build some of the windows of it.<p>We didn&#x27;t and not because we don&#x27;t know how, it was because of politics.
In order to make it appear that we didn&#x27;t fail to the population, the president bought a X million dollars flight ticket to a random guy that today earns money by giving speeches about how dreams come true with hard work and that you can become an astronaut just like him.<p>The biggest part of the population thinks we earned it by doing something useful for the mission.<p>I can go on and on about this events if you need more.<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/world/americas/08rio.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2006&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;world&#x2F;americas&#x2F;08rio.html?...</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Space_Agency#International_Space_Station" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brazilian_Space_Agency#Internat...</a><p>p.s: look the schedules for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics and you have a second example.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet</title><url>http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Brazil-looks-to-break-from-US-centric-Internet-4819946.php</url></story> |
34,304,654 | 34,303,043 | 1 | 2 | 34,300,893 | 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>vegabook</author><text>An oblique thing I love about the Elixir ecosystem is that there is a strong focus on visual and aesthetic attention to detail. I mean look at those multibars in the asciinema. They&#x27;re gorgeous for a console. In this, I&#x27;m reminded of R vs Python, where the former simply has far better graphics capabilities than the latter. In the Elixir case, I can&#x27;t help but compare the look and feel of Livebooks compared with Jupyter Notebooks. The former are miles ahead in terms of a modern visual experience. It&#x27;s very pleasant especially if you&#x27;re expected to have an audience for your output, which kind of contrasts with python which always feels like it&#x27;s built for engineers (and there&#x27;s nothing wrong with that, but it is a different culture).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Owl: A toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces in Elixir</title><url>https://hexdocs.pm/owl/readme.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>vlad</author><text>Building a cross-platform CLI from a python script in 2009 required unrelated open-source tools to package for each of the three major operating systems. I remember asking Dropbox guys what they were using. Having an official way to do it is much better.<p>Regardless of technology, I think CLI&#x27;s tend to maintain their original size, or get smaller over time. If you choose to use a CLI built with Elixir, I imagine it could gain a web-based GUI without a large increase, if each build already includes a runtime environment and system libraries. Or if a CLI is written in another language and advertised as very compact, I imagine its size will also stay consistent, but might not gain the same fancy features. And in any case, popular compilers or packaging tools tend gain optimization improvements over time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Owl: A toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces in Elixir</title><url>https://hexdocs.pm/owl/readme.html</url></story> |
8,182,696 | 8,182,699 | 1 | 2 | 8,182,106 | 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>drcode</author><text>Yeah, Gavin was a guest on EconTalk podcast back in 2011, when bitcoins were still $1. I listened to him talk a few minutes and said &quot;Whatever that guy is doing I&#x27;m investing in&quot; even though I didn&#x27;t <i>really</i> understand Bitcoin until much later...<p>I still think it&#x27;s no coincidence that Gavin is spearheading Bitcoin- He is impressive because he&#x27;s very down-to-earth but still supernaturally smart. I&#x27;m not sure Bitcoin would have gone anywhere without him.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527051/the-man-who-really-built-bitcoin/</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>exo762</author><text>There is a plan in progress that will fix issue with big blocks being a problem for miners. This is a first step of scaling Bitcoin to the level of thousands transactions per second.<p>And it&#x27;s also a great read.<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/e20c3b5a1d4b97f79ac2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;gavinandresen&#x2F;e20c3b5a1d4b97f79ac2</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527051/the-man-who-really-built-bitcoin/</url></story> |
39,757,793 | 39,757,635 | 1 | 2 | 39,748,546 | 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>vouaobrasil</author><text>Nah, I don&#x27;t think Spolsky is responsible. What is really responsible is that computers themselves influence people to think algorithmically. I know that sounds weird, but I observed after doing a degree in math: after a lot of work in mathematics, I started to think much more analytically and algorithmically. I think the same thing happens at tech companies, and that&#x27;s why Spolsky was so inclined to make the process more efficient: tech companies are themselves reactors to grow the algorithmic way of thinking in people, and that in turn causes people to seek for algorithmic solutions such as the hiring system we have today.<p>Yes, Spolsky might have created some new hiring practice, but if it wasn&#x27;t for him, it would be someone else because it is a natural consequence of a large group of people thinking in an algorithmic way for years and years.<p>If cults can influence poeple to commit mass suicide, surely ten years of math and programming can influence people to become more like machines.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Joel Spolsky on Stack Overflow, Inclusion, and How He Broke IT Recruiting (2018)</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/joel-spolsky-on-stack-overflow-inclusion-and-how-he-broke-it-recruiting/</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>sp3dy5</author><text>&quot;I think you need a better system, and I think it’s probably going to be more like an apprenticeship or an internship, where you bring people on with a much easier filter at the beginning. And you hire them kind of on an experimental basis or on a training basis, and then you have to sort of see what they can do in the first month or two.&quot;<p>How does he expect this to work? Developers quit their job to &quot;try out&quot; and some percentage just get fired immediately?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Joel Spolsky on Stack Overflow, Inclusion, and How He Broke IT Recruiting (2018)</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/joel-spolsky-on-stack-overflow-inclusion-and-how-he-broke-it-recruiting/</url></story> |
18,309,185 | 18,308,682 | 1 | 2 | 18,308,323 | 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>tobr</author><text>Am I understanding this right? The choroid layer behind the retina gets slightly thinner when we look at dark details on a bright background, and slightly thicker when we look at bright details on a dark background, and somehow this causes an opposite effect in the overall eye growth over time. So spending a lot of time looking at dark letters on a bright background would cause the eye to become too long and unable to focus on objects far away.<p>Is there an explanation for why the choroid changes its thickness, and why this change would create an opposite effect in eye growth over a longer period?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why might reading make people myopic?</title><url>http://www.eye-tuebingen.de/the-institute/news-events/news/news-article/60-why-might-reading-make-myopic/</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>nbeleski</author><text>I remember recently reading about the myopia increase in China and it was largely attributed to children staying much more inside, out of the sunlight, causing the eye to under-develop iirc.<p>I wonder how much these are correlated.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why might reading make people myopic?</title><url>http://www.eye-tuebingen.de/the-institute/news-events/news/news-article/60-why-might-reading-make-myopic/</url></story> |
7,588,339 | 7,588,175 | 1 | 2 | 7,587,935 | 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>ender7</author><text>&quot;Accepting each other&#x27;s beliefs&quot; seems like a simple solution, but it has a very problematic result. To LGBT Mozillians, this becomes &quot;you must respect beliefs that say that you are a second-class citizen.&quot;<p>No one should feel like they must respect beliefs that devalue their person.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jvehent</author><text>People who are going to comment on this blog post need to realize how disturbing this episode has been for Mozillians.<p>We are talking about a small group of people, a couple thousands at best, that work with limited resources to keep the web open for everybody.<p>When this tidal wave hit Mozillians, the base contributors and employees who spend most of their days in code and features, we lost focus of our work, and stepped into a world of politics that most of us dislike, and are uncomfortable to navigate.<p>I believe Chris Beard is a true Mozillian, as is Brendan Eich. And I am glad that we can refocus on our mission, and move forward. I just wish people can put their differences aside, accept each other&#x27;s beliefs, and share code!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mozilla Moving Forward</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/14/mozilla-moving-forward/</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>jvehent</author><text>And just to add to this :) <a href="http://people.mozilla.org/~smartell/cbeard/cbeard-illustration.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.mozilla.org&#x2F;~smartell&#x2F;cbeard&#x2F;cbeard-illustrati...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jvehent</author><text>People who are going to comment on this blog post need to realize how disturbing this episode has been for Mozillians.<p>We are talking about a small group of people, a couple thousands at best, that work with limited resources to keep the web open for everybody.<p>When this tidal wave hit Mozillians, the base contributors and employees who spend most of their days in code and features, we lost focus of our work, and stepped into a world of politics that most of us dislike, and are uncomfortable to navigate.<p>I believe Chris Beard is a true Mozillian, as is Brendan Eich. And I am glad that we can refocus on our mission, and move forward. I just wish people can put their differences aside, accept each other&#x27;s beliefs, and share code!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mozilla Moving Forward</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/14/mozilla-moving-forward/</url></story> |
29,074,796 | 29,074,793 | 1 | 3 | 29,074,406 | 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>filoleg</author><text>The argument isn&#x27;t about whether FB is entitled to the name. FB might not be entitled to that name, and I am not saying they are.<p>All I am saying is that the claim of Meta (non-FB one) about their &quot;name and livelihood being stolen&quot; is ridiculous and difficult to take at face value, given they have no product and no name-recognition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnu8</author><text>All I&#x27;m hearing is that Facebook is entitled to a name someone else was already using because they are a wealthy and successful company and I am not convinced.</text></item><item><author>filoleg</author><text>How does it change anything? If I understand it correctly, they are a company with no existing product, and yet Facebook somehow stole their name and livelihood?<p>Stealing name implies that the company previously had some value attached to that name, such as recognition or a product. So far they have neither. I understand that it is unfortunate it happened to them, but given that the company doesn&#x27;t even have a product launched yet, changing the name to something else shouldn&#x27;t cause much trouble.<p>But on the bright side, at least now they have an excuse ready in case their company flops. And a lot of people who could sympathize with them too, because &quot;facebook bad&quot;. Media loves this stuff, because it prints clicks and views like hotcakes.</text></item><item><author>pietrovismara</author><text>Read again:<p>&gt; One more thing: Our new product launch just got delayed because of Facebook. We must deal with these matters. In the coming weeks, we will make an announcement earlier than we expected. We promise it will be good. Stay tuned.</text></item><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>I was hoping to click through to see what they’re talking about, but apparently this letter is the entire company.<p>It reads to me like they were parking on the name and FB got there first (with regards to actually <i>using</i> the name). And we should care why? “Stole our name and livelihood” is ridiculous here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Stole Our Name and Livelihood</title><url>https://meta.company/</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>marcinzm</author><text>Using in what way? Having a domain, no trademark and no product doesn&#x27;t mean you&#x27;re using it in any real way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gnu8</author><text>All I&#x27;m hearing is that Facebook is entitled to a name someone else was already using because they are a wealthy and successful company and I am not convinced.</text></item><item><author>filoleg</author><text>How does it change anything? If I understand it correctly, they are a company with no existing product, and yet Facebook somehow stole their name and livelihood?<p>Stealing name implies that the company previously had some value attached to that name, such as recognition or a product. So far they have neither. I understand that it is unfortunate it happened to them, but given that the company doesn&#x27;t even have a product launched yet, changing the name to something else shouldn&#x27;t cause much trouble.<p>But on the bright side, at least now they have an excuse ready in case their company flops. And a lot of people who could sympathize with them too, because &quot;facebook bad&quot;. Media loves this stuff, because it prints clicks and views like hotcakes.</text></item><item><author>pietrovismara</author><text>Read again:<p>&gt; One more thing: Our new product launch just got delayed because of Facebook. We must deal with these matters. In the coming weeks, we will make an announcement earlier than we expected. We promise it will be good. Stay tuned.</text></item><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>I was hoping to click through to see what they’re talking about, but apparently this letter is the entire company.<p>It reads to me like they were parking on the name and FB got there first (with regards to actually <i>using</i> the name). And we should care why? “Stole our name and livelihood” is ridiculous here.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Stole Our Name and Livelihood</title><url>https://meta.company/</url></story> |
18,770,305 | 18,769,777 | 1 | 2 | 18,769,508 | 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>avar</author><text>The article really doesn&#x27;t do a good job of explaining what&#x27;s going on, in particular:<p>&gt; It means Japan will be able to freely hunt species currently protected by the IWC, like minke whales.<p>Japan has already been hunting Minke whale, in 2016 they killed more than 300[1].<p>What&#x27;s changing here is not the facts on the ground, but a maneuver in international diplomacy. Japan, Iceland and Norway have opposed the IWC&#x27;s total ban on whaling. Japan has, until now, decided to work around this by claiming the whaling is &quot;scientific&quot;, an obvious farce. It&#x27;s been commercial whaling in all but name. Iceland and Norway have made no such claim, but issued commercial quotas in defiance of the moratorium.<p>Now Japan is going to withdraw from the IWC entirely, which e.g. Canada did a long time ago[2] citing similar arguments.<p>They&#x27;re also going to restrict their whaling to their &quot;territorial waters and economic zones&quot;, i.e. stop hunting in the Arctic. This was arguably the most controversial part of what they were doing before, e.g. Iceland and Norway don&#x27;t hunt whales outside of their EEC.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whaling_in_Japan#Antarctica" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whaling_in_Japan#Antarctica</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Whaling_Commission#Allegation_of_politicising_science" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Whaling_Commissi...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46682976</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>temeritatis</author><text>People often defend these kind of acts with the rationale that it is a culture heritage. If so, shouldn&#x27;t they be sailing the ocean with traditional wooden sailboats and relying only on wind and currents to take them where they should go?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46682976</url></story> |
19,714,519 | 19,714,655 | 1 | 3 | 19,713,276 | 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>lefty2</author><text>Cooking rice that way makes it taste worse. Better to use rice that doesn&#x27;t have arsenic in it in the first place. Asian grown rice has the lowest amount of arsenic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nutritionfacts.org&#x2F;video&#x2F;which-brands-and-sources-of-rice-have-the-least-arsenic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nutritionfacts.org&#x2F;video&#x2F;which-brands-and-sources-of...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/news/simple-cooking-methods-flush-arsenic-out-of-rice-1.18034</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>amelius</author><text>Why doesn&#x27;t my rice nutrition facts label indicate the amount of arsenic in my rice?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/news/simple-cooking-methods-flush-arsenic-out-of-rice-1.18034</url></story> |
38,521,065 | 38,520,752 | 1 | 2 | 38,513,782 | 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>mostertoaster</author><text>When I was at UW in the dorms I felt bad for the students who came from southeast US, they’d start school like end of September, and then leave beginning of June and go back home and essentially only get the worst of western Washington weather, and miss out on what is absolutely amazing weather and sunshine in the summer months.<p>If we only experienced western Washington for those months hardly anyone would stay, but those summer months are so incredible it makes it worth enduring the dreary gray for a good amount of people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nojvek</author><text>I relocated to Redmond, WA for a few years to work at MSFT. Let me tell you, every winter there felt like a sadistic game show called &quot;How Miserable Can You Get?&quot; And boy, did I win!<p>Thankfully, the good ol&#x27; USA is a massive country, so I hit the eject button and moved to FL.<p>3154 hours of sun in FL compared to 2170 hours of sun in WA. Huuuuuuge difference in mental and physical aptitude. I feel more energetic. More focus, more workouts, more horny, less self loathing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.currentresults.com&#x2F;Weather&#x2F;US&#x2F;average-annual-sunshine-by-city.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.currentresults.com&#x2F;Weather&#x2F;US&#x2F;average-annual-sun...</a></text></item><item><author>jackschultz</author><text>I live in the upper midwest and, like many other places, don&#x27;t get much light in the winter. I don&#x27;t get much light in the summer turns out since I&#x27;m inside most of the day anyway, but winter feels worse. A couple years ago I was suggested a SAD lamp, and man did it make a difference. What I&#x27;ve learned this year though, is it isn&#x27;t enough. It&#x27;s a small square light that sits in the same place and only comes into your eye at a small angle.<p>Article[0] came up across a feed which was saying the same thing, and I said screw it, and got two 100W LED corn bulbs[1] that the article suggested, and boy did it make a difference. Literally came mid last week, and for the last 4 days, I&#x27;ve had more energy, better sleep, and felt better than I have in months, years even. Incredible difference for $60.<p>The corn bulbs are just like light bulbs so they fit into the same sockets (some are bigger, but get the ones that say E26). You can also get specific lamps to put them around. I also got some construction string lights[2] and hanging those on my wall. Makes it almost seem like I&#x27;m in a museum which is cool too.<p>My goal is to get some more lights and make my living &#x2F; office area legit feel like I&#x27;m outside on a summer day. I have a lux meter coming today to be able to see and judge intensity. If it&#x27;s too intense, I can turn them off like I&#x27;m going into the shade.<p>The importance of letting your body know when it&#x27;s daytime and nighttime, which is talked about in the article, makes all parts of life better. Eat better, more energy to do things, less angry. Part of me disappointed I didn&#x27;t know this before, but another part glad that I&#x27;m catching on now.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meaningness.com&#x2F;sad-light-lumens" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meaningness.com&#x2F;sad-light-lumens</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B09ZHMD5ZL" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B09ZHMD5ZL</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B0C5X7XLRQ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B0C5X7XLRQ</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night</title><url>https://english.elpais.com/health/2023-12-01/chronobiologist-and-nobel-laureate-in-medicine-michael-rosbash-lack-of-sunlight-during-the-day-is-worse-than-electric-lighting-at-night.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>yukinon</author><text>I&#x27;m in the PNW and the gray gloomy weather is a delight for me. I love mushroom foraging, love being surrounded by trees, the beautiful waterfalls, the wet hikes, the moss everywhere, the berry picking, everything! I used to live in a VERY sunny state, I found it depressing. Sun irritates me. I never realized how uncomfortable it made me until I moved to a rainy cloud region and felt at home for the first time. Really shows there&#x27;s something for everyone!</text><parent_chain><item><author>nojvek</author><text>I relocated to Redmond, WA for a few years to work at MSFT. Let me tell you, every winter there felt like a sadistic game show called &quot;How Miserable Can You Get?&quot; And boy, did I win!<p>Thankfully, the good ol&#x27; USA is a massive country, so I hit the eject button and moved to FL.<p>3154 hours of sun in FL compared to 2170 hours of sun in WA. Huuuuuuge difference in mental and physical aptitude. I feel more energetic. More focus, more workouts, more horny, less self loathing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.currentresults.com&#x2F;Weather&#x2F;US&#x2F;average-annual-sunshine-by-city.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.currentresults.com&#x2F;Weather&#x2F;US&#x2F;average-annual-sun...</a></text></item><item><author>jackschultz</author><text>I live in the upper midwest and, like many other places, don&#x27;t get much light in the winter. I don&#x27;t get much light in the summer turns out since I&#x27;m inside most of the day anyway, but winter feels worse. A couple years ago I was suggested a SAD lamp, and man did it make a difference. What I&#x27;ve learned this year though, is it isn&#x27;t enough. It&#x27;s a small square light that sits in the same place and only comes into your eye at a small angle.<p>Article[0] came up across a feed which was saying the same thing, and I said screw it, and got two 100W LED corn bulbs[1] that the article suggested, and boy did it make a difference. Literally came mid last week, and for the last 4 days, I&#x27;ve had more energy, better sleep, and felt better than I have in months, years even. Incredible difference for $60.<p>The corn bulbs are just like light bulbs so they fit into the same sockets (some are bigger, but get the ones that say E26). You can also get specific lamps to put them around. I also got some construction string lights[2] and hanging those on my wall. Makes it almost seem like I&#x27;m in a museum which is cool too.<p>My goal is to get some more lights and make my living &#x2F; office area legit feel like I&#x27;m outside on a summer day. I have a lux meter coming today to be able to see and judge intensity. If it&#x27;s too intense, I can turn them off like I&#x27;m going into the shade.<p>The importance of letting your body know when it&#x27;s daytime and nighttime, which is talked about in the article, makes all parts of life better. Eat better, more energy to do things, less angry. Part of me disappointed I didn&#x27;t know this before, but another part glad that I&#x27;m catching on now.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meaningness.com&#x2F;sad-light-lumens" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meaningness.com&#x2F;sad-light-lumens</a>
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15,633,380 | 15,633,352 | 1 | 3 | 15,632,351 | 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>fny</author><text>Your problem is that big business has conflated free-market capitalism with the right to monopoly and convinced your constituency that anti-trust regulation is destructive to a free market when, in truth, oligopoly leads to corruption of the free-market and a farce of capitalism.<p>You need to work on educating your citizenship gradually until they understand the conditions wherein capitalism actually works. That way they might see why breaking up big busines and preventing M&amp;A is often the Right Thing™️ and conservative to do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>programmingpol</author><text>As a Republican elected official in a southeastern state, I have a front-row seat to what this article points at.<p>The road construction industry used to be a great opportunity for small business people to create for themselves a substantial income. These days, all the companies in our area are owned by conglomerates, backed by billion dollar financial institutions. If you were to risk a million or two or an asphalt plant, they will undercut your prices till you go bankrupt, then inflate their prices once again. The two companies in our area will bid on all of our projects, but it&#x27;s clear they are in cahoots when it comes to their pricing.<p>By our estimates, the taxpayers are overpaying by at least 15% - 20%. In my mind, this robs others of opportunity and transfers wealth from tax-paying citizens to billion dollar companies.<p>No one points this out because the road builders give a lot to politicians. Go against them, and they&#x27;ll spend enough to have the public label you a RINO which, in this neck of the woods, can get you booted from office.<p>I&#x27;ve wished for some time that someone could create a modular asphalt plant that can be packed up on trucks and taken to wherever the job site is. I think companies like this could help regulate prices and make a lot of money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UN Study Warns: Growing Economic Concentration Leads to “Rentier Capitalism”</title><url>https://promarket.org/un-study-warns-growing-economic-concentration-leads-rentier-capitalism/</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>hippich</author><text>So problem, as I understand, is that it requires significant amount of capital to get going for independent company, and they might go under if big company cut them. And the big companies undercut independent ones so later they could raise price.<p>So I had this question - what if state would commit to 10-20 years worth of contracts with some kind of locked in rate (adjusted for inflation or something), not just one off contract? This way independent company would have more motivation to do major capital investment, and big companies will not be able to undercut small players on one off job, only to get all next ones for 20% more..<p>Hopefully this makes sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>programmingpol</author><text>As a Republican elected official in a southeastern state, I have a front-row seat to what this article points at.<p>The road construction industry used to be a great opportunity for small business people to create for themselves a substantial income. These days, all the companies in our area are owned by conglomerates, backed by billion dollar financial institutions. If you were to risk a million or two or an asphalt plant, they will undercut your prices till you go bankrupt, then inflate their prices once again. The two companies in our area will bid on all of our projects, but it&#x27;s clear they are in cahoots when it comes to their pricing.<p>By our estimates, the taxpayers are overpaying by at least 15% - 20%. In my mind, this robs others of opportunity and transfers wealth from tax-paying citizens to billion dollar companies.<p>No one points this out because the road builders give a lot to politicians. Go against them, and they&#x27;ll spend enough to have the public label you a RINO which, in this neck of the woods, can get you booted from office.<p>I&#x27;ve wished for some time that someone could create a modular asphalt plant that can be packed up on trucks and taken to wherever the job site is. I think companies like this could help regulate prices and make a lot of money.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UN Study Warns: Growing Economic Concentration Leads to “Rentier Capitalism”</title><url>https://promarket.org/un-study-warns-growing-economic-concentration-leads-rentier-capitalism/</url></story> |
17,698,777 | 17,698,471 | 1 | 3 | 17,697,366 | 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>drfritznunkie</author><text>&gt; If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc.<p>Please no. The unique AWS product names while occasionally inconvenient mean that you can at least find relevant information about them when searching, and you know that someone isn&#x27;t confusing an AWS product with another platform or another style of deployment.<p>If you really don&#x27;t like the AWS product names, then Azure is for you. Now go try to search for help with &quot;Azure web apps&quot; or &quot;Azure sql database&quot;. Wade through the posts about locally deployed IIS, SQL server and the like.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dkoston</author><text>Truth!<p>Names and Icons on AWS were made by people who don’t realize who helpful names and icons can be.<p>If it’s a database, use the cylinder icon that everyone knows is a database and then add some identifier to show which database it is.<p>If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc.<p>If you want something that the marketing folks can feel proud about wasting time on, add the silly name to the descriptive name: Amazon DNS Potato</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS icon quiz</title><url>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnEEo0o2JgnIt8VOGffhkcYj-C2h9m5_NFzM0Q1AU-P8d0zA/viewform</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>Twirrim</author><text>Glacier and Snowball were both the internal code names for the products pre-launch, and only ever intended to be such.<p>When things came close to launch, AWS Marketing decided to just roll with those code names. I&#x27;ve a suspicion that some teams deliberately used copyrighted names for their internal pre-launch project names, just to force the matter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dkoston</author><text>Truth!<p>Names and Icons on AWS were made by people who don’t realize who helpful names and icons can be.<p>If it’s a database, use the cylinder icon that everyone knows is a database and then add some identifier to show which database it is.<p>If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc.<p>If you want something that the marketing folks can feel proud about wasting time on, add the silly name to the descriptive name: Amazon DNS Potato</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS icon quiz</title><url>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnEEo0o2JgnIt8VOGffhkcYj-C2h9m5_NFzM0Q1AU-P8d0zA/viewform</url></story> |
31,041,168 | 31,040,210 | 1 | 3 | 31,036,328 | 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>ravenstine</author><text>Though technically it wasn&#x27;t banned, r&#x2F;star_trek recently got locked from having new posts, and only just the other day became unlocked because the mod agreed to not allow discussion related to r&#x2F;startrek.<p>Wait, huh???<p>r&#x2F;startrek, without the underscore, is the official Star Trek community. r&#x2F;star_trek is an alternative community created because r&#x2F;startrek is very hostile to anyone who doesn&#x27;t just slobber over anything Star Trek.<p>So people would join the alternative community and bring up why they got banned on the official one, or how people were being ridiculous in general on the official one.<p>But I don&#x27;t buy that there was any meaningful amount of brigading that was happening. I think the official community, being its pious self, didn&#x27;t like that people were exposing the mods for being arbitrary and condescending, or that anyone was exposing the likely possibility that they were highly controlled by ViacomCBS.<p>When it got locked, for all intents and purposes it was banned, if not temporarily.</text><parent_chain><item><author>site-packages1</author><text>I have seen it happen through complaints reaching the all subreddit. However it only seemed to happen to subreddits that were peddling deep hatred against outgroups like people of color, overweight people, or were just vile. Your comment makes it seem like any given subreddit is in danger of quarantining, but anecdotally that doesn&#x27;t seem to be the case. However, I have an open mind: would you give me an example of a subreddit that was otherwise innocuous yet got quarantined?</text></item><item><author>dandellion</author><text>I&#x27;ve also been on reddit for more than 10 years and it&#x27;s also never happened to me, but I know what they&#x27;re talking about. Let&#x27;s not pretend like it doesn&#x27;t happen.</text></item><item><author>nvr219</author><text>Has this happened to you ever? I’ve been on reddit for 10 years, and this never happened to me.</text></item><item><author>honksillet</author><text>And hope it does not get quarantined then disappeared? No thanks.</text></item><item><author>czechdeveloper</author><text>I use Reddit long term and &#x2F;r&#x2F;all was always bad and you should find your subreddits to care for.</text></item><item><author>fareesh</author><text>Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and &#x2F;all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to.<p>The product has gone downhill ever since.<p>Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design</title><url>https://www.redditinc.com/blog/new-on-reddit-comment-search-improved-search-results-relevance-updated-search-design</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>_v7gu</author><text>2balkan4u was nothing but making fun of the <i>ingroup</i> for the atrocities and other bullshit their contries were pulling</text><parent_chain><item><author>site-packages1</author><text>I have seen it happen through complaints reaching the all subreddit. However it only seemed to happen to subreddits that were peddling deep hatred against outgroups like people of color, overweight people, or were just vile. Your comment makes it seem like any given subreddit is in danger of quarantining, but anecdotally that doesn&#x27;t seem to be the case. However, I have an open mind: would you give me an example of a subreddit that was otherwise innocuous yet got quarantined?</text></item><item><author>dandellion</author><text>I&#x27;ve also been on reddit for more than 10 years and it&#x27;s also never happened to me, but I know what they&#x27;re talking about. Let&#x27;s not pretend like it doesn&#x27;t happen.</text></item><item><author>nvr219</author><text>Has this happened to you ever? I’ve been on reddit for 10 years, and this never happened to me.</text></item><item><author>honksillet</author><text>And hope it does not get quarantined then disappeared? No thanks.</text></item><item><author>czechdeveloper</author><text>I use Reddit long term and &#x2F;r&#x2F;all was always bad and you should find your subreddits to care for.</text></item><item><author>fareesh</author><text>Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and &#x2F;all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to.<p>The product has gone downhill ever since.<p>Comment search is nice because it enables users to find interesting content directly in the good niche subreddits.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design</title><url>https://www.redditinc.com/blog/new-on-reddit-comment-search-improved-search-results-relevance-updated-search-design</url></story> |
28,284,957 | 28,284,546 | 1 | 2 | 28,283,890 | 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>anonydsfsfs</author><text>There&#x27;s a great little Easter Egg if you view source:<p>&gt; &lt;!-- Okay, if you really want to see a photo of my cat and have resorted to looking at the source HTML, here is a photo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gail.com&#x2F;boxcat.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gail.com&#x2F;boxcat.jpg</a> --&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gail.com</title><url>https://gail.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>mometsi</author><text>I love the domain squatting complaint--<p>&gt; vii) it is unlikely that the Respondent was unaware of the Complainant’s trademark considering the fame and tradition of the trademark GAIL;<p>Can the respondent really be so ignorant of overseas manufacturers of extruded architectural ceramics, which were available in the respondent&#x27;s home country as recently as 1990?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gail.com</title><url>https://gail.com</url></story> |
31,965,741 | 31,965,458 | 1 | 2 | 31,965,062 | 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>can16358p</author><text>I love how they&#x27;ve said &quot;constrained to C space&quot;.<p>Many people say speed of light is the absolute speed limit of anything or information can travel. Sure it is, which is easily proven by physics. But the physics we know of applies to what we know. There might be something completely different to what we&#x27;re seeing&#x2F;observing&#x2F;theoritising with our smartest people and best equipment.<p>I&#x27;m not saying we can just go faster than C by advancing technology: I know it&#x27;s limited by relativity and is not a matter of advancing tech.<p>What I&#x27;m saying is that there will probably be advancements in physics and technology so that C limit will of course stay the same, but it will be the physics <i>inside the box</i> whereas a complete new understanding of reality <i>outside the box</i> would be discovered, where things can travel &quot;faster&quot; than C using other dimensions or something that we even haven&#x27;t thought of yet &quot;outside the box&quot;, while still being perfectly compatible with the &quot;regular&quot; &quot;inside the box&quot; physics we love and use today, without violating and relativity rules of our classical physics.<p>Then they&#x27;ll probably look back and just laugh at the people who thought C was the absolute limit to everything.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>They're made out of meat (1991)</title><url>https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.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>jonah-archive</author><text>Another of Terry Bisson&#x27;s short stories, &quot;Bears Discover Fire&quot;, is an absolute gem, and free to read online: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lightspeedmagazine.com&#x2F;fiction&#x2F;bears-discover-fire&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lightspeedmagazine.com&#x2F;fiction&#x2F;bears-discover-fi...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>They're made out of meat (1991)</title><url>https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html</url></story> |
21,102,805 | 21,102,961 | 1 | 3 | 21,102,408 | 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>9nGQluzmnq3M</author><text>For context, the 737 NG is previous iteration of the 737 (before the MAX) and among the most popular aircraft ever built, with over 7000 in service. Grounding this would absolutely cripple the airline industry.<p>However, the NG also has an excellent safety record, and 35000 cycles is equivalent to 5 flights (takeoff &amp; landing) every day for 10 years. So while this may lead to extra checks on older aircraft, it&#x27;s highly unlikely to cause a MAX-style global grounding.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unexpected cracking found on critical Boeing 737 Next Generation part</title><url>https://komonews.com/news/local/exclusive-unexpected-cracking-found-on-critical-boeing-737ng-equipment</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>newnewpdro</author><text>If a part&#x27;s made of aluminum and undergoes cyclic stress, even staying within its instantaneous modulus of elasticity, it <i>will</i> eventually crack.<p>Note the aluminum curve in the graph here [0], it <i>never</i> levels off horizontally.<p>My understanding is this effectively means the modulus of elasticity for aluminum parts is forever diminishing. Aluminum is a metal that&#x27;s &quot;work hardened&quot;, it&#x27;s basically becoming increasingly brittle the more cyclic stress it experiences.<p>I&#x27;d been told in the past that commercial planes are regularly X-rayed for cracks as part of their maintenance, because of their extensive use of aluminum.<p>None of this should be a surprise except that it&#x27;s supposedly &quot;unexpected&quot; in the pickle fork. These vehicles have always been high maintenance machines, in order for them to be safe all the structural aluminum must be regularly inspected for cracks, the cracks should be expected and parts replaced as needed.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fatigue_limit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fatigue_limit</a><p>Edit:<p>Out of curiosity I did some digging for photos of this part and more information, this thread delivers some insightful links and citations:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pprune.org&#x2F;rumours-news&#x2F;625886-737ngs-have-cracked-pickle-forks-after-finding-several-jets.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pprune.org&#x2F;rumours-news&#x2F;625886-737ngs-have-crack...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unexpected cracking found on critical Boeing 737 Next Generation part</title><url>https://komonews.com/news/local/exclusive-unexpected-cracking-found-on-critical-boeing-737ng-equipment</url></story> |
12,232,941 | 12,232,854 | 1 | 3 | 12,231,758 | 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>unixhero</author><text>Does anyone know where the Blackhat 2016 videos will be posted? I&#x27;ve always found them incredibly educational.<p>Okay I&#x27;ll leave something behind as well. This is my favorite sec-conference video of all time: [HOPE X] Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rOzrJjdZDRQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rOzrJjdZDRQ</a>
Closely followed by DEF CON 18 - Joseph McCray - You Spent All That Money and You Still Got Owned... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_SsUeWYoO1Y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_SsUeWYoO1Y</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Demystifying the Secure Enclave Processor [pdf]</title><url>https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Mandt-Demystifying-The-Secure-Enclave-Processor.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>zellyn</author><text>Am I understanding correctly that while they enumerate a list of potentially useful attack vectors, there are no actual attacks (yet)?<p>Of course, since the Year of Snowden, I now assume that any &quot;theoretical&quot; attack vector has a Team, a Project Manager, and a half-completed Kanban board somewhere deep in the NSA…</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Demystifying the Secure Enclave Processor [pdf]</title><url>https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Mandt-Demystifying-The-Secure-Enclave-Processor.pdf</url></story> |
8,462,512 | 8,461,486 | 1 | 3 | 8,461,399 | 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>i_am_ralpht</author><text>I used Google Play Game Services for a turn-based Android game a friend and I made this summer[1]. I like to develop on the PC and have a really fast test cycle, so I made a client implementation for desktop Java using a wrapper around the REST API.<p>It worked pretty well, <i>except</i> I could never figure out how to be notified that the other player took a turn. On Android there are hooks for this, but on the PC I ended up just polling their API for changes (I figured since it was just me I was unlikely to be tagged for abuse...). Maybe &quot;Pushtokens&quot; is the thing to use? The API documentation doesn&#x27;t say what a &quot;Pushtoken&quot; is.<p>[1]: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infinite_imagination.letterplex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.infinite_i...</a> -- it&#x27;s inspired by Letterpress. I wrote up some of our other experiences building the game, too, since I did a custom toolkit and physics engine for it: <a href="https://medium.com/@i_am_ralpht/building-letterplex-1-0-a78cf2b04f26" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@i_am_ralpht&#x2F;building-letterplex-1-0-a78c...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Play Game Services</title><url>https://developers.google.com/games/services/</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>scott_karana</author><text>The Anti-Privacy feature is probably a big deal to legitimizing the Play Store in the eyes of iOS devs who worry about Android&#x27;s large piracy rates.<p><a href="https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/antipiracy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;services&#x2F;android&#x2F;antipir...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Play Game Services</title><url>https://developers.google.com/games/services/</url></story> |
19,234,755 | 19,233,964 | 1 | 2 | 19,233,284 | 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>amelius</author><text>That&#x27;s a nice explanation. But what I don&#x27;t get is: if the chemical is highly inert that means it doesn&#x27;t react easily with other substances, so how then can it be carcinogenic?</text><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text><i>Blood testing has emerged as a sticking point. Specifically, a growing movement of veterans and others, united in advocacy groups with names like Fountain Valley Clean Water Coalition and Need Our Water, are asking the military test their blood for the chemicals, hoping to bring results to their doctors or use them in lawsuits.</i><p>Strange that the article is being so cagey about why this might be the case.<p>Every human blood sample tested since the 1950s has shown detectable perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA aka C8, a member of the PFAS class of chemicals mentioned in the article). The problem was so bad that DuPont had to search high and low for blood samples that <i>weren&#x27;t</i> contaminated with PFOA. They did eventually find clean samples - archived from a group of recruits for the Korean War.<p>A little about the chemistry. Think of most forms of grease as a greasy, long, water-repellant chain of carbon-hydrogen bonds attached to a small water-attractive &quot;polar&quot; head. PFASs replace all of the carbon-hydrogen bonds in the greasy tail with carbon-fluorine bonds. This makes the molecule repel grease (great for non-stick coatings throughout the house). But the carbon-fluroene bond is quite inert, thus the name &quot;forever chemical.&quot; There are few environmental mechanisms that can degrade them - either exposed or inside a body.<p>This article fails to put the problem into proper context - making it sound unique to military bases. That not true. PFOA is a problem at numerous sites. Nobody knows the long-term consequences of releasing this much highly-inert, carcinogenic material into the environment. What is known is that those unfortunate enough to have worked on PFOA production and who received high exposure to it developed horrific problems including cancers.<p>The Intercept did a massive series on this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;series&#x2F;the-teflon-toxin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;series&#x2F;the-teflon-toxin&#x2F;</a><p>The Netflix documentary &quot;The Devil We Know&quot; is also worth watching:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netflix.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;80997719" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netflix.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;80997719</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/military-water-toxic-chemicals.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>whalabi</author><text>&gt; This article fails to put the problem into proper context - making it sound unique to military bases<p>From the article:<p>&gt; While the military has used the chemicals extensively, it is far from the only entity to do so, and in recent years, companies like DuPont have come under fire for leaching PFAS into water systems.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text><i>Blood testing has emerged as a sticking point. Specifically, a growing movement of veterans and others, united in advocacy groups with names like Fountain Valley Clean Water Coalition and Need Our Water, are asking the military test their blood for the chemicals, hoping to bring results to their doctors or use them in lawsuits.</i><p>Strange that the article is being so cagey about why this might be the case.<p>Every human blood sample tested since the 1950s has shown detectable perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA aka C8, a member of the PFAS class of chemicals mentioned in the article). The problem was so bad that DuPont had to search high and low for blood samples that <i>weren&#x27;t</i> contaminated with PFOA. They did eventually find clean samples - archived from a group of recruits for the Korean War.<p>A little about the chemistry. Think of most forms of grease as a greasy, long, water-repellant chain of carbon-hydrogen bonds attached to a small water-attractive &quot;polar&quot; head. PFASs replace all of the carbon-hydrogen bonds in the greasy tail with carbon-fluorine bonds. This makes the molecule repel grease (great for non-stick coatings throughout the house). But the carbon-fluroene bond is quite inert, thus the name &quot;forever chemical.&quot; There are few environmental mechanisms that can degrade them - either exposed or inside a body.<p>This article fails to put the problem into proper context - making it sound unique to military bases. That not true. PFOA is a problem at numerous sites. Nobody knows the long-term consequences of releasing this much highly-inert, carcinogenic material into the environment. What is known is that those unfortunate enough to have worked on PFOA production and who received high exposure to it developed horrific problems including cancers.<p>The Intercept did a massive series on this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;series&#x2F;the-teflon-toxin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;series&#x2F;the-teflon-toxin&#x2F;</a><p>The Netflix documentary &quot;The Devil We Know&quot; is also worth watching:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netflix.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;80997719" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netflix.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;80997719</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/military-water-toxic-chemicals.html</url></story> |
27,228,698 | 27,227,399 | 1 | 2 | 27,223,520 | 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>taneq</author><text>It&#x27;s because the stronger the forces and the higher the velocity in a cell of the simulation, the more iterations the numerical integrator needs to perform to maintain acceptable accuracy. It&#x27;s obvious, really. ;)<p>Also the universe isn&#x27;t actually expanding and the red shift we see in distant stars is just a numerical error due to the enormous number of steps between here and there. :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>infogulch</author><text>Agree! This is my favorite crazy pet theory: spacetime is simulated on a flat 3d substrate with constant compute and memory per volume, which runs at a fixed rate in time (c) [1], and to account for a high density of mass requiring more compute the simulation is slowed down proportionally. Then, black holes are just the extreme end of this slowing down of the simulation.<p>[1]: You always move at a constant speed: the speed of light. But that speed can be broken down into two component directions which you can trade off: time and space. You typically move near the speed of light in the <i>time</i> direction, meaning your speed through the space direction is comparatively low.</text></item><item><author>eloff</author><text>Simulation theory speculation:<p>If the universe is a simulation, when there gets too much matter in an area to simulate all the interactions, a black hole is the way programmers fixed that - it gets turned into a singularity and isn&#x27;t simulated anymore except as one point source of gravity (or in a more complex way if black holes preserve entropy - jury is still out on that one.)<p>Silly and untestable, but fun to think about, like the rest of simulation theory. It would be required to do something like that if you&#x27;re running a simulation with finite resources. You couldn&#x27;t just keep piling matter into a finite area without bound, eventually you&#x27;d overwhelm what you can compute. Same reason one might want a hard speed limit like the speed of light.<p>Interestingly this is a not a discrete function, time slows near large masses, which would allow the computer to keep up as matter in an area increased, much as you&#x27;d expect in a simulation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-identify-the-engine-powering-black-hole-energy-beams-20210520/</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>shaded-enmity</author><text>My crazy pet theory: computational bandwidth is constant for any spacetime coordinate. According to Bekenstein bound the lower the temperature of the system the cheaper it is to flip a bit of information. As time progresses the CMBR gets colder, so it&#x27;s cheaper to flip a bit, but conversely, as time progresses our Hubble volume gets smaller, limiting our total available energy budget to perform a bit flip.</text><parent_chain><item><author>infogulch</author><text>Agree! This is my favorite crazy pet theory: spacetime is simulated on a flat 3d substrate with constant compute and memory per volume, which runs at a fixed rate in time (c) [1], and to account for a high density of mass requiring more compute the simulation is slowed down proportionally. Then, black holes are just the extreme end of this slowing down of the simulation.<p>[1]: You always move at a constant speed: the speed of light. But that speed can be broken down into two component directions which you can trade off: time and space. You typically move near the speed of light in the <i>time</i> direction, meaning your speed through the space direction is comparatively low.</text></item><item><author>eloff</author><text>Simulation theory speculation:<p>If the universe is a simulation, when there gets too much matter in an area to simulate all the interactions, a black hole is the way programmers fixed that - it gets turned into a singularity and isn&#x27;t simulated anymore except as one point source of gravity (or in a more complex way if black holes preserve entropy - jury is still out on that one.)<p>Silly and untestable, but fun to think about, like the rest of simulation theory. It would be required to do something like that if you&#x27;re running a simulation with finite resources. You couldn&#x27;t just keep piling matter into a finite area without bound, eventually you&#x27;d overwhelm what you can compute. Same reason one might want a hard speed limit like the speed of light.<p>Interestingly this is a not a discrete function, time slows near large masses, which would allow the computer to keep up as matter in an area increased, much as you&#x27;d expect in a simulation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-identify-the-engine-powering-black-hole-energy-beams-20210520/</url></story> |
29,054,327 | 29,054,274 | 1 | 2 | 29,053,927 | 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>lkrubner</author><text>In 2019, in a very different situation, I was worried about the hospital bureaucracy that almost killed my mom. My mom was struggling with pneumonia and the antibiotics were not yet having any effect, but they scheduled her for surgery on her eye, and once the surgery had been scheduled, it was very difficult to try to stop it, the momentum to stick with the schedule was incredible, even though it seemed unlikely she would survive the surgery. I kept asking, can&#x27;t we wait a week and do the surgery when she&#x27;s recovered from the pneumonia? But there was a feeling, no, we must operate on her eye now, even though there was nothing to gain from the surgery, as they said they were unable to restore her eyesight. But I was able to stop the surgery and my mom is still alive today. I wrote about this in some detail in Regarding The Death Of My Father:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Regarding-Death-Father-Lawrence-Krubner-ebook&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B08NV1WFXS&#x2F;ref=sr_1_1?crid=3ASY1FNB1TQAC&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=regarding+the+death+of+my+father&amp;qid=1635652173&amp;qsid=133-3563921-1189561&amp;sprefix=regarding+the+death+of+my+father%2Caps%2C204&amp;sr=8-1&amp;sres=B08NV1WFXS%2C1734297719%2C0306921464%2C1614685398%2C1555719856%2C1950948617%2C0393245586%2C178623615X%2C0679762051%2CB00OZ0TM32%2C1501168398%2CB004P5NXVO%2C0717181286%2C1785357646%2CB01GW2FJUA%2CB06X18BPR6&amp;srpt=ABIS_BOOK" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Regarding-Death-Father-Lawrence-Krubn...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Death by Bureaucracy</title><url>https://www.wethecitizens.net/death-by-bureaucracy/</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>programmarchy</author><text>I didn’t know you could be put to death for non-violent crimes. Article says he was only charged with drug possession. This happened in Singapore, but according to Wikipedia “large-scale drug trafficking” is a capital crime in the US, too. Transporting 42g of heroin doesn’t sound even close to large-scale, but I can imagine getting swallowed up by a legal labyrinth anyhow, especially if you’re disadvantaged.<p>I don’t understand why more lawyers aren’t up in arms about the severe sentencing happening in the US. Guess it’s a similar situation to engineers being paid through the nose while pretending Big Tech is working for the greater good.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Death by Bureaucracy</title><url>https://www.wethecitizens.net/death-by-bureaucracy/</url></story> |
10,628,856 | 10,628,579 | 1 | 2 | 10,627,787 | 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>redthrowaway</author><text>I think &quot;vanguardist&quot; is a better term than &quot;elitist&quot;. &quot;Elitist&quot; connotes a passive enjoyment of privilege, whereas these people see themselves much more as the enlightened few bringing the orthodox[1] to the unwashed masses by any means necessary. They share far more in common with Communists who viewed it as their duty to shepherd the proletariat towards social consciousness than with the Oxbridge set who merely take what&#x27;s &quot;rightfully&quot; theirs without a second thought.<p>[1] in the literal, etymological sense</text><parent_chain><item><author>lumberjack</author><text>These people act this way because they are elitist. They think they know what should be better than anyone else and therefore there is no need for debate or for rights like free speech.<p>I find that quite ironic because presumably, these people subscribe to left leaning ideologies. But maybe there isn&#x27;t so much of a contradiction. They are simply more elitist than they are anything else.<p>They don&#x27;t really stand for equality because they do not possess the humbleness to bring themselves to the level of the common person. They believe themselves to be intellectually and morally superior to the common Joe. And yet they want to dupe the common Joe into thinking that they will safeguard his interests while at the same time thinking so poorly of him!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Yale Problem Begins in High School</title><url>http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/11/24/the-yale-problem-begins-in-high-school/</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>Cthulhu_</author><text>&gt; these people subscribe to left leaning ideologies.<p>Might as well call them extreme-left, which is just as bad as extreme-right and the extreme ideologies that come with it. The left &#x2F; right spectrum aren&#x27;t polar opposites either, but it tends to be horseshoe-shaped, so you&#x27;ll find some ideas that are dangerously close to those on the other side (#KillAll(White)Men is literally calling for ethnic &#x2F; gender purging. Somehow it&#x27;s not causing as much as an outrage as #KillAllJews would).</text><parent_chain><item><author>lumberjack</author><text>These people act this way because they are elitist. They think they know what should be better than anyone else and therefore there is no need for debate or for rights like free speech.<p>I find that quite ironic because presumably, these people subscribe to left leaning ideologies. But maybe there isn&#x27;t so much of a contradiction. They are simply more elitist than they are anything else.<p>They don&#x27;t really stand for equality because they do not possess the humbleness to bring themselves to the level of the common person. They believe themselves to be intellectually and morally superior to the common Joe. And yet they want to dupe the common Joe into thinking that they will safeguard his interests while at the same time thinking so poorly of him!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Yale Problem Begins in High School</title><url>http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/11/24/the-yale-problem-begins-in-high-school/</url></story> |
27,319,238 | 27,317,722 | 1 | 2 | 27,303,347 | 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>slg</author><text>&gt;Meaning, you could say something like... &quot;Delete all my tweets that are political&quot;<p>Are you open to sharing how this will be done? Are you doing analysis of the body of the posts, where they were posted, who or what they are replying to, etc? I imagine this is more difficult on some social media sites. Twitter for example is highly time sensitive. A tweet in reaction to some political news event might not have any political language in it and only reveals itself to be political when viewed in the proper context.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ds</author><text>Hey HN- Im one of the team members at redact. Redact is a cross platform electron app which allows you to delete content programmatically from most of the big sites out there (we are adding more every day). Meaning, you could say something like &quot;Delete all posts I made on instagram with less than 15 likes in 2019&quot; or (very soon) &quot;Delete all my tweets that are political&quot;
We have been working on this for a little over a year. As you can imagine, working with some of these legacy services is less than ideal. (looking at you skype)<p>When we launched, we were aware of tons of other free services that let you delete content, but we found that most of them were either unmaintained and broken, not feature rich enough or complicated for grandmas to install. &quot;Ok, so first- download Kali linux to a thumb drive. Then reboot into it and install python and clone this repo....&quot;<p>Our goal with redact is to make privacy as accessible to the general public as possible. There are tons of services that let you delete &#x27;public&#x27; data about you (for instance, deleting your whitepages.com page) but we found very few which took care of content YOU created across more than 1 service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks</title><url>https://redact.dev/?hn</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>3ygun</author><text>Dan congrats!<p>Q: Was a reason you choose a User installed application (Electron or Mobile App) vs SaaS to avoid having to store username&#x2F;password for sites and the ToS issues that result from that? Or am I off base with previous comments in another Discord?<p>Meme Q: Were earlier versions of redact.dev so powerful they redacted the trip to Japan? :(<p>Best wishes and #YeeAlwaysWins</text><parent_chain><item><author>ds</author><text>Hey HN- Im one of the team members at redact. Redact is a cross platform electron app which allows you to delete content programmatically from most of the big sites out there (we are adding more every day). Meaning, you could say something like &quot;Delete all posts I made on instagram with less than 15 likes in 2019&quot; or (very soon) &quot;Delete all my tweets that are political&quot;
We have been working on this for a little over a year. As you can imagine, working with some of these legacy services is less than ideal. (looking at you skype)<p>When we launched, we were aware of tons of other free services that let you delete content, but we found that most of them were either unmaintained and broken, not feature rich enough or complicated for grandmas to install. &quot;Ok, so first- download Kali linux to a thumb drive. Then reboot into it and install python and clone this repo....&quot;<p>Our goal with redact is to make privacy as accessible to the general public as possible. There are tons of services that let you delete &#x27;public&#x27; data about you (for instance, deleting your whitepages.com page) but we found very few which took care of content YOU created across more than 1 service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks</title><url>https://redact.dev/?hn</url></story> |
30,337,855 | 30,337,968 | 1 | 2 | 30,334,094 | 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>blast</author><text>&gt; A group of the protestors locked the doors to a downtown apartment building with handcuffs and then attempted to set that building on fire.<p>What evidence is there that that was real? An allegation was made on Twitter, but only thing I&#x27;ve found that digs into the details looks like a complete debunking (see links at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30336974" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30336974</a>). It&#x27;s from a biased source and I&#x27;m open to any factual refutation, but I&#x27;ve looked for contrary reporting that digs into the details, and haven&#x27;t found any. Only a lot of repetition of the original allegation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ar_turnbull</author><text>&gt; &quot;there is no violence, and no obvious danger.&quot;<p>This is false and I would expect better of HN posters.<p>A group of the protestors locked the doors to a downtown apartment building with handcuffs and then attempted to set that building on fire.<p>Although nobody has been injured yet, there have been plenty of weapons seizures as well as incidents of protestors ramming police vehicles and&#x2F;or attempting to arrest police officers.<p>Residents of Ottawa are scared to leave their homes for simple tasks like buying groceries because the protestors have assaulted vulnerable individuals for wearing masks.<p>The entire thing is a tinderbox just waiting for one unhinged protestor to make a wrong move. And even if we escape this incident peacefully, there are the toxic diesel fumes from idling trucks which have been polluting downtown Ottawa&#x27;s air for the last two weeks and are likely to become trapped in the urban environment.</text></item><item><author>dade_</author><text>It appears this was the result of terrible security at GiveSendGo. I&#x27;d agree it could be state sponsored, but I am certain there are enough people with the skills to do this on their own downtown Ottawa (even if it turned out they work for the gov&#x27;t).<p>That said, I am thoroughly disappointed the Federal gov&#x27;t and much of the media coverage. They have done nothing but make the situation worse. I think it is intentional (I assume some political end game), but their actions are fueling even more outlandish conspiracy theories.<p>The most insane was that all layers of government did nothing to stop the noise (truck horns), but it ended when a 21 year old who simply filed a court injunction and the protesters complied.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;injunction-ottawa-granted-1.6342468" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;injunction-ottawa-granted-1...</a><p>I&#x27;ve watched the Toronto Police Service play their A game through this entire debacle. They shut down the protests hard and were clearly visible throughout the city with heavy trucks and busses to block roads and maintain control of the situation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cp24.com&#x2F;video?clipId=2376560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cp24.com&#x2F;video?clipId=2376560</a><p>The idea that Justin Trudeau needs martial law to deal with parked trucks is outrageous. This isn&#x27;t an insurrection (reference to an MOU was removed from their website and I agree with the assertion that it was a poorly thought out idea, not a threat), there is no violence, and no obvious danger. The last person to use martial law was Trudeau&#x27;s father (Pierre) for an actual terrorist attack and kidnapping (the diplomat was later murdered). Get some proper police on the job and drop mandates for ineffective measures and let&#x27;s move on with our lives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/leak-site-says-it-has-been-given-list-canada-truck-convoy-donors-after-reported-2022-02-14/</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>chucksta</author><text>With a couple rouge agents being your definition of obvious danger, there can never be another protest. Apply that same logic to the protests a year before and see how it goes</text><parent_chain><item><author>ar_turnbull</author><text>&gt; &quot;there is no violence, and no obvious danger.&quot;<p>This is false and I would expect better of HN posters.<p>A group of the protestors locked the doors to a downtown apartment building with handcuffs and then attempted to set that building on fire.<p>Although nobody has been injured yet, there have been plenty of weapons seizures as well as incidents of protestors ramming police vehicles and&#x2F;or attempting to arrest police officers.<p>Residents of Ottawa are scared to leave their homes for simple tasks like buying groceries because the protestors have assaulted vulnerable individuals for wearing masks.<p>The entire thing is a tinderbox just waiting for one unhinged protestor to make a wrong move. And even if we escape this incident peacefully, there are the toxic diesel fumes from idling trucks which have been polluting downtown Ottawa&#x27;s air for the last two weeks and are likely to become trapped in the urban environment.</text></item><item><author>dade_</author><text>It appears this was the result of terrible security at GiveSendGo. I&#x27;d agree it could be state sponsored, but I am certain there are enough people with the skills to do this on their own downtown Ottawa (even if it turned out they work for the gov&#x27;t).<p>That said, I am thoroughly disappointed the Federal gov&#x27;t and much of the media coverage. They have done nothing but make the situation worse. I think it is intentional (I assume some political end game), but their actions are fueling even more outlandish conspiracy theories.<p>The most insane was that all layers of government did nothing to stop the noise (truck horns), but it ended when a 21 year old who simply filed a court injunction and the protesters complied.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;injunction-ottawa-granted-1.6342468" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;injunction-ottawa-granted-1...</a><p>I&#x27;ve watched the Toronto Police Service play their A game through this entire debacle. They shut down the protests hard and were clearly visible throughout the city with heavy trucks and busses to block roads and maintain control of the situation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cp24.com&#x2F;video?clipId=2376560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cp24.com&#x2F;video?clipId=2376560</a><p>The idea that Justin Trudeau needs martial law to deal with parked trucks is outrageous. This isn&#x27;t an insurrection (reference to an MOU was removed from their website and I agree with the assertion that it was a poorly thought out idea, not a threat), there is no violence, and no obvious danger. The last person to use martial law was Trudeau&#x27;s father (Pierre) for an actual terrorist attack and kidnapping (the diplomat was later murdered). Get some proper police on the job and drop mandates for ineffective measures and let&#x27;s move on with our lives.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Names of Canada truck convoy donors leaked after reported hack</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/leak-site-says-it-has-been-given-list-canada-truck-convoy-donors-after-reported-2022-02-14/</url></story> |
25,779,819 | 25,779,598 | 1 | 3 | 25,779,323 | 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>dimator</author><text>I must be in the minority here, but even after trying ddg exclusively, I find myself doing !g all the time, to the point where I just switched back.<p>I do many technical searches throughout the day, and ddg falls short basically every time. Google is always closer to the mark with my search <i>intent</i>, with for example, deep links to stack overflow answers that ddg misses.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guilhermetk</author><text>After a few failed attempts to migrate from Google as my default search engine due to poor results, a couple of months ago, I decided to give DDG another try. Been using daily since, I don&#x27;t even remember what Google is. Not sure if the service did improve that much or what, but I&#x27;m glad I could move on. Youtube, you are next.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries</title><url>https://duckduckgo.com/traffic?lang=en</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>wyck</author><text>I think something improved, I used to switch back and forth probably used 80% Google, but know I now use DDG about 80% of the time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guilhermetk</author><text>After a few failed attempts to migrate from Google as my default search engine due to poor results, a couple of months ago, I decided to give DDG another try. Been using daily since, I don&#x27;t even remember what Google is. Not sure if the service did improve that much or what, but I&#x27;m glad I could move on. Youtube, you are next.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries</title><url>https://duckduckgo.com/traffic?lang=en</url></story> |
39,745,832 | 39,745,775 | 1 | 3 | 39,742,188 | 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>warbled_tongue</author><text>This resonates strongly with me. I don&#x27;t want to describe the painting, I want to paint it. If this is indeed where we end up, I don&#x27;t know that I&#x27;ll change professions (I&#x27;m 30+ years into it), but the joy will be gone. It will truly become &quot;just a job&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; In summary, I believe there would still be a market for Software Developers in the foreseeable future, though the nature of work will change<p>This is precisely what I dread. When it comes to software development specifically, the parts that the AI cheerleaders are excited about AI doing are exactly the parts of the job that I find appealing. If I wanted to be a glorified systems integrator, I would have been doing that job already. The parts that the author is saying will still exist are the parts I put up with in order to do the enjoyable and satisfying work.<p>So this essay, if it&#x27;s correct, explains the way that AI threatens my career. Perhaps there is no role for me in the software development world anymore. I&#x27;m not saying that&#x27;s bad in the big picture, just that it&#x27;s bad for me. It increasingly appears that I&#x27;ve chosen the wrong profession.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thoughts on the Future of Software Development</title><url>https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/thoughts-on-the-future-of-software-development/</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>ActionHank</author><text>Also if there are fewer humans involved in the code production there is a lot of room for producing code that &quot;works&quot;, but is not cohesive or maintainable. Invariably there will be a point at which something is broken and someone will need to wade through the mess to find why it&#x27;s broken and try to fix it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; In summary, I believe there would still be a market for Software Developers in the foreseeable future, though the nature of work will change<p>This is precisely what I dread. When it comes to software development specifically, the parts that the AI cheerleaders are excited about AI doing are exactly the parts of the job that I find appealing. If I wanted to be a glorified systems integrator, I would have been doing that job already. The parts that the author is saying will still exist are the parts I put up with in order to do the enjoyable and satisfying work.<p>So this essay, if it&#x27;s correct, explains the way that AI threatens my career. Perhaps there is no role for me in the software development world anymore. I&#x27;m not saying that&#x27;s bad in the big picture, just that it&#x27;s bad for me. It increasingly appears that I&#x27;ve chosen the wrong profession.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thoughts on the Future of Software Development</title><url>https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/thoughts-on-the-future-of-software-development/</url></story> |
37,510,442 | 37,510,768 | 1 | 2 | 37,509,560 | 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>justin_oaks</author><text>&gt; I owe the internet a write up.<p>I would definitely be interested in reading more about this.<p>I love the idea of being able to prevent an application from writing all over my disk to random places. If I can&#x27;t prevent it, I can at least remedy it by having all those changes go away with a reboot.<p>One of the things I love about Docker containers is that they can be ephemeral or persistent, short or long term, have full network access or no access, allowed to write to the host system or stuck writing to its own file system only.<p>I&#x27;m in control instead of the application.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmwilcox</author><text>Love Tails, but I haven&#x27;t used it in ten years. I have had Tails and Qubes disposable VMs on my mind though.<p>I switched off of Qubes last year to my own Alpine chroot with a hand crafted kernel and initrd that lives only in memory. I find turning off the computer when I&#x27;m finished and having it forget everything to be a very peaceful way to compute. I owe the internet a write up.<p>I feel like ramfs for root filesystems is an underused pattern more broadly. &quot;Want to upgrade? Just reboot. Fallback? Pick a different root squashfs in the grub menu&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship</title><url>https://tails.net/</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>omani</author><text>Same here. Dont understand why not more ppl switched to alpine on the desktop. It is my daily driver. Plus LXD for stuff I must do (typically spawn ubuntu, etc.)<p>my whole PDE (Personal Developer Environment) is within a container. Need python? Shell into (via dmenu) python container. All with complete neovim setup. Need a GUI? No problem. Spawn a container. My lxd profile is set up for this. Use chezmoi for heavy automated stuff.<p>My base alpine system always stays clean.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmwilcox</author><text>Love Tails, but I haven&#x27;t used it in ten years. I have had Tails and Qubes disposable VMs on my mind though.<p>I switched off of Qubes last year to my own Alpine chroot with a hand crafted kernel and initrd that lives only in memory. I find turning off the computer when I&#x27;m finished and having it forget everything to be a very peaceful way to compute. I owe the internet a write up.<p>I feel like ramfs for root filesystems is an underused pattern more broadly. &quot;Want to upgrade? Just reboot. Fallback? Pick a different root squashfs in the grub menu&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship</title><url>https://tails.net/</url></story> |
29,627,323 | 29,627,244 | 1 | 2 | 29,624,502 | 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>mlyle</author><text>Sure! If you&#x27;re dumping a bunch of capital into something, you want to see that capital put to work immediately growing something to scale-- not for founders to be worried about stretching the capital by picking up nickels off the street.<p>That is, being capital efficient is good, but being distracted by other non-core things excessively to try and conserve capital is bad.<p>But that doesn&#x27;t mean that bootstrapping with a consultancy isn&#x27;t a viable path. It&#x27;s only when you do it when you have capital sitting around that&#x27;s not put to good use that it&#x27;s a problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Msw242</author><text>VCs actively dissuade founders from doing professional services.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>This is an underrated path, IMO.<p>Consulting is an excellent way to hone the non-coding skills necessary for bootstrapping a company: Scoping projects, timeline estimation, choosing tradeoffs, <i>finishing</i> things, selling things, presenting products to others.<p>It&#x27;s also helpful to be able to get out and talk to other businesses and people on a regular basis. Bootstrapping can be extremely lonely in a way that is hard to understand if you&#x27;ve only ever worked inside of companies with people to talk to.</text></item><item><author>nhance</author><text>I&#x27;m 16 years in and have followed a similar path. I graduated college in 2004, started my business in 2005 and never took a job.<p>Consulting has gotten me here and I&#x27;ve had up to 4 direct hires with me, but my dream has always been to run a product business. I must have attempted 3 dozen different ideas by this point.<p>But on Friday last week, we reached our 100th subscriber. Combined with other free products, we now have over 130k daily active users which sounds more impressive than it is. The MRR is still tiny and we still rely heavily on consulting projects that have been more and more difficult to line up.<p>It&#x27;s been difficult, sometimes extraordinarily so, but we have such happy customers with huge amounts of positive feedback. It feels like this could really go somewhere. The fire still burns brightly within me though I don&#x27;t know how. I&#x27;m determined not to let opportunities pass me by again.<p>I have never shared this anywhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Failed for the past 12 years as an tech entrepreneur</title><text>Back when I was 24, I pretty much hated my 9-5 job because of lack of control over my destiny, the limit of earnings and growth and the idea of going to the office every single day. I realized I could start something of my own.<p>So I started to look for something easy to do work on that would not consume a lot of my time. Blogs were a rage back then and multi-million dollar exits were quite common. I bought a domain and installed WordPress and started blogging after my working hours. I started a technology blog in the hope to replicate the success of Mashable and Techcrunch. I spent about 4 hours every night covering tech news about companies and social media in general.<p>2 years passed and I burned out myself. Traffic to the blog was flat and I was not making any meaningful money. I shut it down.<p>A few months later, I started a website that pulled information from Amazon and displayed dresses in a fancy and intuitive website. I opened a Facebook page, spent a lot of time marketing it and eventually made a grand total of 2 sales in a span of 3 months.<p>I decided to give up.<p>The very next year, I decided to build a note-taking web app that was a mash of Google calendar and a to-do list app. The idea was that people would see today&#x27;s schedule by default and they would easily add and manage tasks.<p>I hosted it for a few months and lost interest due to a lack of customers.<p>After taking a break for a year or so, I decided to do something ground-breaking. I built my version of Facebook Groups&#x2F;Slack that would allow people to share something interesting with others. You could create groups and add&#x2F;remove people from them. The UI was fancy and a few of my friends and family loved it.<p>A few months after running it, I shut it down. I found it hard to justify its existence since everybody else was using Facebook groups and with the rise of mobile apps that allowed seamless sharing, my application made no sense.<p>Sensing an opportunity in media space again, I then started a news aggregator website that aggregated news titles from hundreds of outlets storing thousands of news articles per day. The website was smart enough to cluster the news articles based on topics which, Google news does well. People loved it and it got great reviews, but it was not growing fast enough.<p>And like earlier, I ran out of patience after 6 months and I shut it down.<p>After multiple failures, I decided to take a longer break. I had pretty much given up my entrepreneurship journey knowing there was no way I could build a reasonably successful business.<p>A year passed and I started to feel uneasy with myself and my day job.<p>So, I built a stupid web app that cleaned new articles by stripping them off of ads and showing only the relevant content. I shared it and got no real feedback from others. Nobody cared.<p>That&#x27;s where it hit me, why not pivot to and a link management platform? I thought it&#x27;s so easy to build and manage it. I could feel the tingling in my body. I built https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blanq.io&#x2F; with the excitement of a toddler.<p>I was so wrong.<p>I spent the next 1 year building the landing page, the entire web app plus some extra features in a hope that it will take off.<p>For the first 18 months, I had no paying customers. I put everything into this. All my previous experiences of failures and learning went into building this platform. &quot;How could I fail?&quot; I thought.<p>I then decided to stick to it and give myself 3 years to decide its fate.<p>On the 19th month, my efforts started to pay off. I landed my first customers then 2nd and then 3rd.... and so on. It&#x27;s been 8 months since then and I now have 10 paying customers using my platform almost every day and growing every month.<p>My learning:<p>1.Don&#x27;t quit too soon and don&#x27;t be too hard on yourself.<p>2.With each failure, you do get better at not failing.<p>3.You improve at everything as time passes - marketing, programming, sales, operations.</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>richardw</author><text>VC’s don’t want you distracted from their one shot at your next 18 months. They’d rather you go for broke and flame out rather than building a 5-year runway that allows you to slowly tune your ideas.<p>Neither is better than the other, but one might be better for a given situation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Msw242</author><text>VCs actively dissuade founders from doing professional services.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>This is an underrated path, IMO.<p>Consulting is an excellent way to hone the non-coding skills necessary for bootstrapping a company: Scoping projects, timeline estimation, choosing tradeoffs, <i>finishing</i> things, selling things, presenting products to others.<p>It&#x27;s also helpful to be able to get out and talk to other businesses and people on a regular basis. Bootstrapping can be extremely lonely in a way that is hard to understand if you&#x27;ve only ever worked inside of companies with people to talk to.</text></item><item><author>nhance</author><text>I&#x27;m 16 years in and have followed a similar path. I graduated college in 2004, started my business in 2005 and never took a job.<p>Consulting has gotten me here and I&#x27;ve had up to 4 direct hires with me, but my dream has always been to run a product business. I must have attempted 3 dozen different ideas by this point.<p>But on Friday last week, we reached our 100th subscriber. Combined with other free products, we now have over 130k daily active users which sounds more impressive than it is. The MRR is still tiny and we still rely heavily on consulting projects that have been more and more difficult to line up.<p>It&#x27;s been difficult, sometimes extraordinarily so, but we have such happy customers with huge amounts of positive feedback. It feels like this could really go somewhere. The fire still burns brightly within me though I don&#x27;t know how. I&#x27;m determined not to let opportunities pass me by again.<p>I have never shared this anywhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Failed for the past 12 years as an tech entrepreneur</title><text>Back when I was 24, I pretty much hated my 9-5 job because of lack of control over my destiny, the limit of earnings and growth and the idea of going to the office every single day. I realized I could start something of my own.<p>So I started to look for something easy to do work on that would not consume a lot of my time. Blogs were a rage back then and multi-million dollar exits were quite common. I bought a domain and installed WordPress and started blogging after my working hours. I started a technology blog in the hope to replicate the success of Mashable and Techcrunch. I spent about 4 hours every night covering tech news about companies and social media in general.<p>2 years passed and I burned out myself. Traffic to the blog was flat and I was not making any meaningful money. I shut it down.<p>A few months later, I started a website that pulled information from Amazon and displayed dresses in a fancy and intuitive website. I opened a Facebook page, spent a lot of time marketing it and eventually made a grand total of 2 sales in a span of 3 months.<p>I decided to give up.<p>The very next year, I decided to build a note-taking web app that was a mash of Google calendar and a to-do list app. The idea was that people would see today&#x27;s schedule by default and they would easily add and manage tasks.<p>I hosted it for a few months and lost interest due to a lack of customers.<p>After taking a break for a year or so, I decided to do something ground-breaking. I built my version of Facebook Groups&#x2F;Slack that would allow people to share something interesting with others. You could create groups and add&#x2F;remove people from them. The UI was fancy and a few of my friends and family loved it.<p>A few months after running it, I shut it down. I found it hard to justify its existence since everybody else was using Facebook groups and with the rise of mobile apps that allowed seamless sharing, my application made no sense.<p>Sensing an opportunity in media space again, I then started a news aggregator website that aggregated news titles from hundreds of outlets storing thousands of news articles per day. The website was smart enough to cluster the news articles based on topics which, Google news does well. People loved it and it got great reviews, but it was not growing fast enough.<p>And like earlier, I ran out of patience after 6 months and I shut it down.<p>After multiple failures, I decided to take a longer break. I had pretty much given up my entrepreneurship journey knowing there was no way I could build a reasonably successful business.<p>A year passed and I started to feel uneasy with myself and my day job.<p>So, I built a stupid web app that cleaned new articles by stripping them off of ads and showing only the relevant content. I shared it and got no real feedback from others. Nobody cared.<p>That&#x27;s where it hit me, why not pivot to and a link management platform? I thought it&#x27;s so easy to build and manage it. I could feel the tingling in my body. I built https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blanq.io&#x2F; with the excitement of a toddler.<p>I was so wrong.<p>I spent the next 1 year building the landing page, the entire web app plus some extra features in a hope that it will take off.<p>For the first 18 months, I had no paying customers. I put everything into this. All my previous experiences of failures and learning went into building this platform. &quot;How could I fail?&quot; I thought.<p>I then decided to stick to it and give myself 3 years to decide its fate.<p>On the 19th month, my efforts started to pay off. I landed my first customers then 2nd and then 3rd.... and so on. It&#x27;s been 8 months since then and I now have 10 paying customers using my platform almost every day and growing every month.<p>My learning:<p>1.Don&#x27;t quit too soon and don&#x27;t be too hard on yourself.<p>2.With each failure, you do get better at not failing.<p>3.You improve at everything as time passes - marketing, programming, sales, operations.</text></story> |
34,918,291 | 34,917,987 | 1 | 3 | 34,916,239 | 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>denkmoon</author><text>This is exactly why DoH is a trojan horse. You can&#x27;t control it as a network administrator, all it takes is a piece of software to simply remove the controls for users to configure their own DoH and bam, end user has little to no control over how their applications perform name resolution.<p>Little pro-tip for anyone who tries to run their own private DoH infrastructure too, Firefox doesn&#x27;t like RFC1918 addresses for the DoH resolver. Set `network.trr.allow-rfc1918=true` if you run DoH on a private IP.</text><parent_chain><item><author>giobox</author><text>While these are all good practices, killing DoH conclusively on your home network is more difficult than you&#x27;ve made it seem, as ultimately all you can really do is use domain blacklists at your firewall. It&#x27;s no longer as straight forward as just control port 53 traffic, not like you can realistically shut down 443... Blocking DoH is largely whack-a-mole and I think is only going to get worse as this and similar techniques spread. There are so many sneaky ways to resolve a hostname an app or device can choose to use now.<p>You can force traditional port 53 DNS protocol traffic to your own resolver with firewall rules, the same doesn&#x27;t work for DoH. a DoH request to a domain your firewall blacklist doesn&#x27;t have looks just like ordinary https&#x2F;443 traffic and will pass unhindered.</text></item><item><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>Here are a few things I do to combat nasty websites:<p>- blacklists entire domains using wildcards (using an &quot;unbound&quot; DNS resolver and forcing all traffic to my DNS resolver, preventing <i>my browser</i> to use DoH -- I can still then use DoH if I want, from unbound)<p>- reject or drop a huge number of known bad actors, regularly updated: they go into gigantic &quot;ip sets&quot; firewall rules<p>- (I came up with this one): use a little firewall rule that prevents <i>any</i> IDN from resolving. That&#x27;s a one line UDP rule and it stops cold dead any IDN homograph attack. Basically searching any UDP packet for the &quot;xn--&quot; string.<p>I do <i>not</i> care about what this breaks. The Web still works totally fine for me, including Google&#x27;s G Suite (yeah, I know).<p>EDIT: just to be clear seen the comments for I realize I wasn&#x27;t very precise... I&#x27;m not saying all IDN domains are bad! What I&#x27;m saying is that in my day to day Web surfing, 99.99% of the websites I&#x27;m using do not use IDN and so, in my case, blocking IDN, up until today, is totally fine as it not only doesn&#x27;t prevent <i>me</i> from surfing the Web (I haven&#x27;t seen a single site I need breaking) but it also protects me from IDN homograph attacks. Your mileage may vary and you live in a country where it&#x27;s normal to go on website with internationalized domain names, then obviously you cannot simply drop all UDP packets attempting to resolve IDNs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web</title><url>https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/fbi-recommends-ad-blocker-online-scams-b1048998.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>LinuxBender</author><text><i>Blocking DoH is largely whack-a-mole</i><p>Maybe this is so but I have yet to see it. AFAIK all the DoT&#x2F;DoH are on known dedicated IP addresses. I know they don&#x27;t have to be. They could be on generic Akamai&#x2F;CF&#x2F;BunnyCDN&#x2F;etc... end points but I have yet to come across one utilized in the wild. Have you found any? What are their IP addresses? I would like to add them to my DNS timing&#x2F;monitoring scripts.<p>I null route about 24 DoT&#x2F;DoH IP addresses and my one smartphone seemed to figure out automagically that my router was serving up DoT on 853. I can tell if something is bypassing Unbound because there are things I know should not resolve correctly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>giobox</author><text>While these are all good practices, killing DoH conclusively on your home network is more difficult than you&#x27;ve made it seem, as ultimately all you can really do is use domain blacklists at your firewall. It&#x27;s no longer as straight forward as just control port 53 traffic, not like you can realistically shut down 443... Blocking DoH is largely whack-a-mole and I think is only going to get worse as this and similar techniques spread. There are so many sneaky ways to resolve a hostname an app or device can choose to use now.<p>You can force traditional port 53 DNS protocol traffic to your own resolver with firewall rules, the same doesn&#x27;t work for DoH. a DoH request to a domain your firewall blacklist doesn&#x27;t have looks just like ordinary https&#x2F;443 traffic and will pass unhindered.</text></item><item><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>Here are a few things I do to combat nasty websites:<p>- blacklists entire domains using wildcards (using an &quot;unbound&quot; DNS resolver and forcing all traffic to my DNS resolver, preventing <i>my browser</i> to use DoH -- I can still then use DoH if I want, from unbound)<p>- reject or drop a huge number of known bad actors, regularly updated: they go into gigantic &quot;ip sets&quot; firewall rules<p>- (I came up with this one): use a little firewall rule that prevents <i>any</i> IDN from resolving. That&#x27;s a one line UDP rule and it stops cold dead any IDN homograph attack. Basically searching any UDP packet for the &quot;xn--&quot; string.<p>I do <i>not</i> care about what this breaks. The Web still works totally fine for me, including Google&#x27;s G Suite (yeah, I know).<p>EDIT: just to be clear seen the comments for I realize I wasn&#x27;t very precise... I&#x27;m not saying all IDN domains are bad! What I&#x27;m saying is that in my day to day Web surfing, 99.99% of the websites I&#x27;m using do not use IDN and so, in my case, blocking IDN, up until today, is totally fine as it not only doesn&#x27;t prevent <i>me</i> from surfing the Web (I haven&#x27;t seen a single site I need breaking) but it also protects me from IDN homograph attacks. Your mileage may vary and you live in a country where it&#x27;s normal to go on website with internationalized domain names, then obviously you cannot simply drop all UDP packets attempting to resolve IDNs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web</title><url>https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/fbi-recommends-ad-blocker-online-scams-b1048998.html</url></story> |
2,292,475 | 2,292,501 | 1 | 3 | 2,292,106 | 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>jakarta</author><text>I thought this was a great quote:<p>“You have got to be willing to be poor [as an entrepreneur],” he says. “There was a time when I was living out of a single suitcase. I had a rule that I wouldn’t stay on one person’s couch for more than two weeks because I didn’t want to become a bother.”<p>You've got to be willing to make sacrifices if you want to chase your dreams. A lot of people don't fully grasp that when they are coming in.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lunch with Sean Parker: on how he's coping with his new reputation</title><url>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8383ab06-45e3-11e0-acd8-00144feab49a.html#axzz1FkqxeoCx</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>gruseom</author><text>Here we have a headline that for once is exquisitely accurate: the article is more about lunch than it is about Sean Parker.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lunch with Sean Parker: on how he's coping with his new reputation</title><url>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8383ab06-45e3-11e0-acd8-00144feab49a.html#axzz1FkqxeoCx</url></story> |
31,085,349 | 31,085,180 | 1 | 3 | 31,083,165 | 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>eterevsky</author><text>Left and right censorship are applied to very different media. In the case of online platforms, the most visible attempts of censorship are coming from the left. At least I haven&#x27;t heard of any opposite examples.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s unpopular with left-leaning mainstream audiences<p>It is truly wild how HN often frames censorship as something coming purely from the left while ignoring the laws coming out of conservative state legislatures across the country. There is a wide spectrum of people both pushing for censorship and pushing against it.</text></item><item><author>nokcha</author><text>&gt; &quot;Anti-censorship&quot; is hugely unpopular with the mainstream intellectual community these days.<p>I&#x27;d disagree. It&#x27;s unpopular with left-leaning mainstream <i>audiences</i>, but among intellectuals who write for a living, I imagine that extra assurances of not getting kicked off the platform are rather attractive.</text></item><item><author>dmurray</author><text>&gt; they say they are &quot;anti-censorship&quot; and won&#x27;t evict writers from their &quot;private platform&quot;<p>&quot;Anti-censorship&quot; is hugely unpopular with the mainstream intellectual community these days. It&#x27;s close to being a dog whistle for the alt-right. I&#x27;m surprised this is a stance that would attract more &quot;excellent writers&quot;.</text></item><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Many writers like them because they seem to have made both costly and cheap signals to show that they are on the side of writers:<p>(1) they say they are &quot;anti-censorship&quot; and won&#x27;t evict writers from their &quot;private platform&quot;<p>(2) they let the writer own their audience &#x2F; mailing list (so they can leave with their audience, if they want to)<p>(3) they advanced money to popular writers<p>These things with the addition of a simple writing&#x2F;reading&#x2F;subscription platform that isn&#x27;t overrun with adverts gives writers confidence that substack is aligned with their interests and will make money while being on their side (this is true at least for now).<p>Additionally, the financial success of many writers on the platform has raised the status of creating a substack. I think this is an important secondary effect -- you can disparage this as &quot;pseudo-intellectual&quot; but there are people that are winning from it and doing well is always cool.<p>---<p>*Edit*: Put another way, Substack&#x27;s success is due to realism. They&#x27;ve made a realistic attempt to incentivize <i>excellent</i> writers to writing on their platform. They incentivize even those that are already very popular, by not locking them in and by giving them control of their audience. They have even gone as far as giving very significant upfront financial incentives to get the most famous writers on the internet onto their platform.<p>Other platforms try to own their writers and treat them like commodities producing SEO content. This was obviously not an attractive offer to talented or independent writers, let alone writers that have already grown huge audiences.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why is Substack so popular?</title><text>So, let me preface this by saying that I think it&#x27;s possible to have a healthy discussion on this topic, and I am not trying to be overly judgmental of Substack.<p>But, I am genuinely curious why is it getting so popular and particularly here on Hacker News. Does it have some kind of a hidden feature that makes it very appealing?<p>My number one assumption would be that it uses a global userbase, so people who write on Substack can collect subscribers&#x2F;readers much faster. Is that all there is to it?<p>I also know that Substack prefetches an email address (once you enter it on any Substack-based site) and then plasters it on all their other customer sites, which I _really_ <i>hate</i> about their platform.<p>But I can see the appeal in that, I guess.</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>edmundsauto</author><text>Not to mention the censorship pressure exerted by family values groups’ complaints to the FCC. Those are generally very conservative groups who want to protect children from seeing a breast.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s unpopular with left-leaning mainstream audiences<p>It is truly wild how HN often frames censorship as something coming purely from the left while ignoring the laws coming out of conservative state legislatures across the country. There is a wide spectrum of people both pushing for censorship and pushing against it.</text></item><item><author>nokcha</author><text>&gt; &quot;Anti-censorship&quot; is hugely unpopular with the mainstream intellectual community these days.<p>I&#x27;d disagree. It&#x27;s unpopular with left-leaning mainstream <i>audiences</i>, but among intellectuals who write for a living, I imagine that extra assurances of not getting kicked off the platform are rather attractive.</text></item><item><author>dmurray</author><text>&gt; they say they are &quot;anti-censorship&quot; and won&#x27;t evict writers from their &quot;private platform&quot;<p>&quot;Anti-censorship&quot; is hugely unpopular with the mainstream intellectual community these days. It&#x27;s close to being a dog whistle for the alt-right. I&#x27;m surprised this is a stance that would attract more &quot;excellent writers&quot;.</text></item><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Many writers like them because they seem to have made both costly and cheap signals to show that they are on the side of writers:<p>(1) they say they are &quot;anti-censorship&quot; and won&#x27;t evict writers from their &quot;private platform&quot;<p>(2) they let the writer own their audience &#x2F; mailing list (so they can leave with their audience, if they want to)<p>(3) they advanced money to popular writers<p>These things with the addition of a simple writing&#x2F;reading&#x2F;subscription platform that isn&#x27;t overrun with adverts gives writers confidence that substack is aligned with their interests and will make money while being on their side (this is true at least for now).<p>Additionally, the financial success of many writers on the platform has raised the status of creating a substack. I think this is an important secondary effect -- you can disparage this as &quot;pseudo-intellectual&quot; but there are people that are winning from it and doing well is always cool.<p>---<p>*Edit*: Put another way, Substack&#x27;s success is due to realism. They&#x27;ve made a realistic attempt to incentivize <i>excellent</i> writers to writing on their platform. They incentivize even those that are already very popular, by not locking them in and by giving them control of their audience. They have even gone as far as giving very significant upfront financial incentives to get the most famous writers on the internet onto their platform.<p>Other platforms try to own their writers and treat them like commodities producing SEO content. This was obviously not an attractive offer to talented or independent writers, let alone writers that have already grown huge audiences.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Why is Substack so popular?</title><text>So, let me preface this by saying that I think it&#x27;s possible to have a healthy discussion on this topic, and I am not trying to be overly judgmental of Substack.<p>But, I am genuinely curious why is it getting so popular and particularly here on Hacker News. Does it have some kind of a hidden feature that makes it very appealing?<p>My number one assumption would be that it uses a global userbase, so people who write on Substack can collect subscribers&#x2F;readers much faster. Is that all there is to it?<p>I also know that Substack prefetches an email address (once you enter it on any Substack-based site) and then plasters it on all their other customer sites, which I _really_ <i>hate</i> about their platform.<p>But I can see the appeal in that, I guess.</text></story> |
39,160,640 | 39,157,746 | 1 | 2 | 39,156,778 | 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>canyon289</author><text>For an additional resource I&#x27;m writing a guide book, though its in various stages of completion<p>The fine tuning guide is the best resource so far
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ravinkumar.com&#x2F;GenAiGuidebook&#x2F;language_models&#x2F;finetuning.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ravinkumar.com&#x2F;GenAiGuidebook&#x2F;language_models&#x2F;finetu...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step</title><url>https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch</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>turnsout</author><text>This looks amazing @rasbt! Out of curiosity, is your primary goal to cultivate understanding and demystify, or to encourage people to build their own small models tailored to their needs?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step</title><url>https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch</url></story> |
24,908,043 | 24,907,159 | 1 | 2 | 24,893,247 | 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>wtetzner</author><text>&gt; These usually end up becoming a custom micro-framework, thereby questioning why you didn&#x27;t use one of the established and tested libraries&#x2F;frameworks in the first place.<p>Often a custom micro-framework better suits the needs of a particular project.<p>I&#x27;ve written micro-frameworks for specific projects intentionally, because they did a few things that the established frameworks either didn&#x27;t do, or it was very difficult to get them to do.<p>An additional benefit was that using the micro frameworks ended up being simpler, and the startup time was much, much faster.<p>Whether or not you use an existing framework depends on how much effort it is to write and test a custom framework vs the amount of effort you&#x27;d need to put in to use an existing framework.<p>The ones I&#x27;ve written have been pretty quick to develop, and were also intended to be used for a few different projects that had similar needs.<p>Edit: Just for clarification, the micro frameworks I&#x27;ve written are server-side, if that makes any difference.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sfrinlan</author><text>I don&#x27;t know who originally said it but &quot;If you&#x27;re not using a framework, you&#x27;re building a framework&quot;. This repo even has the following caveat:
(2) These usually end up becoming a custom micro-framework, thereby questioning why you didn&#x27;t use one of the established and tested libraries&#x2F;frameworks in the first place.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t hate it. For quite some time, I&#x27;ve taken the stance that a web development team needs an opinionated framework, but it&#x27;s fine for it to be a bespoke creation rather than off-the-shelf. The biggest value of choosing React, Vue, Svelte, etc is, in my opinion, less about it doing the heavy lifting for you with the DOM and more about adopting an established valid opinion to guide the team&#x27;s development.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development</title><url>https://github.com/morris/vanilla-todo</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>madoublet</author><text>Framework churn is real. I no longer recommend JS frameworks simply b&#x2F;c the opinion of the framework developer drastically changes over time. So, you are constantly re-writing completely valid and working code to keep up with the latest version of the framework. The JS language itself, on the other hand, seems to be very stable with long deprecation cycles and steady improvements. So, it is much easier to build on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sfrinlan</author><text>I don&#x27;t know who originally said it but &quot;If you&#x27;re not using a framework, you&#x27;re building a framework&quot;. This repo even has the following caveat:
(2) These usually end up becoming a custom micro-framework, thereby questioning why you didn&#x27;t use one of the established and tested libraries&#x2F;frameworks in the first place.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t hate it. For quite some time, I&#x27;ve taken the stance that a web development team needs an opinionated framework, but it&#x27;s fine for it to be a bespoke creation rather than off-the-shelf. The biggest value of choosing React, Vue, Svelte, etc is, in my opinion, less about it doing the heavy lifting for you with the DOM and more about adopting an established valid opinion to guide the team&#x27;s development.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development</title><url>https://github.com/morris/vanilla-todo</url></story> |
29,392,904 | 29,392,809 | 1 | 2 | 29,391,714 | 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>dls2016</author><text>I&#x27;ve always been worried that estimates and predictions in the IPCC reports, for instance, are much too conservative. The reports are averages, in some sense, of thousands of peer-reviewed publications.<p>It&#x27;s hard to get your publication accepted into the scientific mainstream if your predictions make you sound like an alarmist crank.</text><parent_chain><item><author>time_to_smile</author><text>As someone who does statistical modeling for a living (though not climate related), one thing I&#x27;ve found fascinating is that many climate skeptics, particularly on HN, will focus on the difficulty scientific models have in making accurate predictions about the near term impact of climate change.<p>While this is true (modeling a complex system such as the Earth&#x27;s climate and all of it&#x27;s positive and negative feed back loops is incredibly challenging), the implied assumption from people that use this critique is that uncertainty will always fall on the side of &quot;better than expected&quot;.<p>People that have been closely following human ecology for the last decade or so have repeatedly found the opposite to be true. &quot;Faster than expected&quot; is somewhat of a joke in certain communities since it seems that the more we learn the more we realize how large the impact of rapid accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere really is, and how quickly this impact develops.<p>That&#x27;s not to say model uncertainty == doom, but assuming that model uncertainty == &quot;this is fine&quot; is a more dangerous and naive assumption.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than we thought</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/arcticocean</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>tdrdt</author><text>The problem is that since the sixties scientists are predicting doom and this is causing people to become skeptical about new insights.<p>For example, after decades of sea level doom scenario&#x27;s people are saying it is &quot;slower than expected&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>time_to_smile</author><text>As someone who does statistical modeling for a living (though not climate related), one thing I&#x27;ve found fascinating is that many climate skeptics, particularly on HN, will focus on the difficulty scientific models have in making accurate predictions about the near term impact of climate change.<p>While this is true (modeling a complex system such as the Earth&#x27;s climate and all of it&#x27;s positive and negative feed back loops is incredibly challenging), the implied assumption from people that use this critique is that uncertainty will always fall on the side of &quot;better than expected&quot;.<p>People that have been closely following human ecology for the last decade or so have repeatedly found the opposite to be true. &quot;Faster than expected&quot; is somewhat of a joke in certain communities since it seems that the more we learn the more we realize how large the impact of rapid accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere really is, and how quickly this impact develops.<p>That&#x27;s not to say model uncertainty == doom, but assuming that model uncertainty == &quot;this is fine&quot; is a more dangerous and naive assumption.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than we thought</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/arcticocean</url></story> |
14,147,374 | 14,147,279 | 1 | 2 | 14,147,064 | 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>dickbasedregex</author><text>I left FB ~4 years ago. One of the straws that broke the camel for me was that it was obvious FB was &quot;curating&quot; my feed for me. Without notifying or consulting me. Posts from friends wouldn&#x27;t show in my feed and vice versa. The privacy issues were bad enough but when I couldn&#x27;t trust the platform to fulfill the only need I had for it, I walked.<p>I&#x27;m far better for it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ivanbakel</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to see how Facebook is taking increasing control of news and publicity on its service. In a sense, we&#x27;re long past the point of questioning whether it&#x27;s ethical, since they&#x27;ve obviously been influencing content for a long while, but this is one of the strongest arguments for FOSS alternatives like Mastodon.<p>Hopefully, if this continues, big businesses will push the shift to open instances for a more level playing field, and the users will follow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago Tribune’s posts</title><url>https://medium.com/@kurtgessler/facebooks-algorithm-isn-t-surfacing-one-third-of-our-posts-and-it-s-getting-worse-68e37ee025a3</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>jpalomaki</author><text>Facebook is likely trying to maximize the time people spend on browsing their feed. Surface too many &quot;boring&quot; news articles in a row and user might go away. Put a nice mixture of news, goofy stuff, updates from friends, some fake news to provoke action and user remains.<p>Hundreds of millions of people stare the news feed on weekly basis and interact with it. This creates a spectacular opportunity for employing machine learning to optimize things. Facebook has huge amount of data and it is easy to run various tests automatically to see what works in practice.<p>If this is the case, then it may be difficult for the others to compete. Facebook might be doing exactly what customers want - even if they don&#x27;t know it themselves.<p>My thoughts were influenced by this article posted on HN some weeks ago:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.truthhawk.com&#x2F;is-facebook-a-structural-threat-to-free-society&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.truthhawk.com&#x2F;is-facebook-a-structural-threat-to-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ivanbakel</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to see how Facebook is taking increasing control of news and publicity on its service. In a sense, we&#x27;re long past the point of questioning whether it&#x27;s ethical, since they&#x27;ve obviously been influencing content for a long while, but this is one of the strongest arguments for FOSS alternatives like Mastodon.<p>Hopefully, if this continues, big businesses will push the shift to open instances for a more level playing field, and the users will follow.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of Chicago Tribune’s posts</title><url>https://medium.com/@kurtgessler/facebooks-algorithm-isn-t-surfacing-one-third-of-our-posts-and-it-s-getting-worse-68e37ee025a3</url></story> |
8,355,158 | 8,352,276 | 1 | 2 | 8,351,981 | 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>BinaryIdiot</author><text>Seeing these types of experiments are always interesting but just like CoffeeScript it requires learning two languages instead of one [so you an debug] which makes it a hard sale. Why not just write clean JavaScript? I know many want to make JavaScript the assembly language of the web but JavaScript is so much more complex than assembly I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s necessarily a good goal to have.<p>Granted I would love for more languages to be usable on the web; even if I thought JavaScript was the best language it&#x27;s always good to have competition and alternatives. But I think that has to come through browser support. I wonder how feasible it would be to generate some sort of byte code similar to how Java and others work with the JVM.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PureScript: a statically typed language which compiles to JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/purescript/purescript</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>paf31</author><text>PureScript developer here. Happy to see this here, and happy to answer any questions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PureScript: a statically typed language which compiles to JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/purescript/purescript</url></story> |
39,734,221 | 39,729,921 | 1 | 3 | 39,711,725 | 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>vagrantJin</author><text>how exactly do you know this and why come on here and state it as a fact?<p>its a dubious claim at best, and if it were true would require asking the elephant sized question in the room - why collect my data if you arent going to use&#x2F;sell it anyway? is collecting ny data just a fun internal project at Apple?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>Apple’s business model isn’t selling your personal information. In fact they go out of their way to protect your personal info. Requiring an AppleID is significantly less concerning than requiring a Facebook account.</text></item><item><author>ericmcer</author><text>That isn’t really what the parent is talking about at all…<p>If your issue is with the device requiring connection with an external account, Vision Pro requires an AppleID which will tie it to way more of your digital things than a Facebook login.</text></item><item><author>lynndotpy</author><text>For me personally, it&#x27;s definitely the platform. Requiring a Meta &#x2F; Facebook account for already-purchased Oculuses, retroactively bricking devices and deleting software which was bought before that requirement, has put Oculus firmly in the &quot;hardware I will never consider in my life&quot; camp.<p>It&#x27;s an incredible amount of goodwill to burn from a company with so little to spare, and I&#x27;m surprised it hasn&#x27;t come up yet in this thread or in the blogpost. Meta has fundamental trustability issues.</text></item><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>Coming from a senior Oculus lead, the most interesting thing about this write up for me, is what it lacks: it says almost nothing about the software stack &#x2F; operating system. Still 100% talking about hardware at the bottom and end user applications at the other end. But there is no discussion of the platform which to me is actually the highest value proposition Apple is bringing here.<p>In short: Apple has made a fully realized spatial operating system, while Meta has made an app launcher for immersive Unity&#x2F;Unreal apps for vanilla Android. You can get away with an app launcher when all you want to support is fully immersive apps that don&#x27;t talk to each other. But that fails completely if you are trying to build a true operating system.<p>Think about what has to exist, to say, intelligently copy and paste parts of a 3D object made by one application into a 3D object made by another, the same way you would copy a flat image from photoshop into a Word document. The operating system has to truly understand 3D concepts internally. Meta <i>is</i> building these features but it is stuck in a really weird space trying to wedge them in between Android underneath and Unity&#x2F;Unreal at the application layer. Apple has had the advantage of green field engineering it exactly how they want it to be from the ground up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right</title><url>https://hugo.blog/2024/03/11/vision-pro/</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>timschmidt</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digiday.com&#x2F;media-buying&#x2F;apples-expanding-ad-ambitions-a-closer-look-at-its-journey-toward-a-comprehensive-ad-tech-stack&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digiday.com&#x2F;media-buying&#x2F;apples-expanding-ad-ambitio...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>Apple’s business model isn’t selling your personal information. In fact they go out of their way to protect your personal info. Requiring an AppleID is significantly less concerning than requiring a Facebook account.</text></item><item><author>ericmcer</author><text>That isn’t really what the parent is talking about at all…<p>If your issue is with the device requiring connection with an external account, Vision Pro requires an AppleID which will tie it to way more of your digital things than a Facebook login.</text></item><item><author>lynndotpy</author><text>For me personally, it&#x27;s definitely the platform. Requiring a Meta &#x2F; Facebook account for already-purchased Oculuses, retroactively bricking devices and deleting software which was bought before that requirement, has put Oculus firmly in the &quot;hardware I will never consider in my life&quot; camp.<p>It&#x27;s an incredible amount of goodwill to burn from a company with so little to spare, and I&#x27;m surprised it hasn&#x27;t come up yet in this thread or in the blogpost. Meta has fundamental trustability issues.</text></item><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>Coming from a senior Oculus lead, the most interesting thing about this write up for me, is what it lacks: it says almost nothing about the software stack &#x2F; operating system. Still 100% talking about hardware at the bottom and end user applications at the other end. But there is no discussion of the platform which to me is actually the highest value proposition Apple is bringing here.<p>In short: Apple has made a fully realized spatial operating system, while Meta has made an app launcher for immersive Unity&#x2F;Unreal apps for vanilla Android. You can get away with an app launcher when all you want to support is fully immersive apps that don&#x27;t talk to each other. But that fails completely if you are trying to build a true operating system.<p>Think about what has to exist, to say, intelligently copy and paste parts of a 3D object made by one application into a 3D object made by another, the same way you would copy a flat image from photoshop into a Word document. The operating system has to truly understand 3D concepts internally. Meta <i>is</i> building these features but it is stuck in a really weird space trying to wedge them in between Android underneath and Unity&#x2F;Unreal at the application layer. Apple has had the advantage of green field engineering it exactly how they want it to be from the ground up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right</title><url>https://hugo.blog/2024/03/11/vision-pro/</url></story> |
26,163,734 | 26,160,913 | 1 | 2 | 26,159,680 | 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>roenxi</author><text>It is annoying when this sort of event happens and everyone starts deciding what they believe to be truth within 48 hours of the outage. It makes more sense to be talking about the 2011 outages in terms of what went wrong than the 2021 ones - because we have actual information on 2011 instead of &quot;things went wrong!&quot; now.<p>I want to thank you personally for injecting a PDF into the discussion, but also positively assert that it is not obvious what just happened this week. We don&#x27;t yet know how many of the recommendations were ignored, what happened in the last decade regulator-wise or whether this round of failures are for the same or different reasons.<p>Speculation is much less useful than waiting a few months for the actual investigations. Emergencies are urgent, engineering (and political) decisions and assessments are never emergencies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregw2</author><text>What went wrong is that the Texas legislature which owns Texas-specific grid process to avoid interference from the Feds didn&#x27;t figure out how to also ensure Texas generator companies got compensated for weatherizing (and ensuring it was done).<p>How many of the 24+6 recommendations from the NERC&#x2F;FERC review of last time this happened in Texas (hint:2011) were taken up by the legislature or those at ERCOT they delegated responsibility to or the power generation providers?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nerc.com&#x2F;pa&#x2F;rrm&#x2F;ea&#x2F;ColdWeatherTrainingMaterials&#x2F;FERC%20NERC%20Findings%20and%20Recommendations.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nerc.com&#x2F;pa&#x2F;rrm&#x2F;ea&#x2F;ColdWeatherTrainingMaterials&#x2F;...</a><p>The eye opener to me from skimming the 2011 recommendations is that there was no explicit rating&#x2F;SLA for a power plant&#x27;s acceptable temperature operating that could be used by planners for assessing the risks of an upcoming weather event by policy planners. It&#x27;d seem pretty basic to be able to ask &quot;How many plants do we lose when temperature drops below X&quot;?
Dunno whether they fixed trying to create such a basic measurement for Texas plants, but it doesn&#x27;t seem like it.<p>If you want to know some of the specifics about what &quot;winterization&quot; means in practice for a power plant including natural gas ones, you can read some of the details in that report. It&#x27;s kinda interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What went wrong with the Texas power grid?</title><url>https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Wholesale-power-prices-spiking-across-Texas-15951684.php</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>gregw2</author><text>Anecdote: All 7 developers in my Houston team (semi-geographically scattered in the city) lost power; half for &gt;24 hrs (it&#x27;s 10-25 degrees F here for the last 2-3 days).<p>Most lost water for some stretch of time and some still don&#x27;t have it.<p>I don&#x27;t think any completely lost heat (most have gas) but at least one person found their gas fireplace they were hoping would heat them up when out of power didn&#x27;t really work that well.<p>(I haven&#x27;t found clear findings on what determines whether your fireplace net-warms or net-cools your house in super-cold weather (by sucking heat out of adjacent rooms and pulling cool air from the outside and sending hot air up your chimney). Pointers welcome.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregw2</author><text>What went wrong is that the Texas legislature which owns Texas-specific grid process to avoid interference from the Feds didn&#x27;t figure out how to also ensure Texas generator companies got compensated for weatherizing (and ensuring it was done).<p>How many of the 24+6 recommendations from the NERC&#x2F;FERC review of last time this happened in Texas (hint:2011) were taken up by the legislature or those at ERCOT they delegated responsibility to or the power generation providers?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nerc.com&#x2F;pa&#x2F;rrm&#x2F;ea&#x2F;ColdWeatherTrainingMaterials&#x2F;FERC%20NERC%20Findings%20and%20Recommendations.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nerc.com&#x2F;pa&#x2F;rrm&#x2F;ea&#x2F;ColdWeatherTrainingMaterials&#x2F;...</a><p>The eye opener to me from skimming the 2011 recommendations is that there was no explicit rating&#x2F;SLA for a power plant&#x27;s acceptable temperature operating that could be used by planners for assessing the risks of an upcoming weather event by policy planners. It&#x27;d seem pretty basic to be able to ask &quot;How many plants do we lose when temperature drops below X&quot;?
Dunno whether they fixed trying to create such a basic measurement for Texas plants, but it doesn&#x27;t seem like it.<p>If you want to know some of the specifics about what &quot;winterization&quot; means in practice for a power plant including natural gas ones, you can read some of the details in that report. It&#x27;s kinda interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What went wrong with the Texas power grid?</title><url>https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Wholesale-power-prices-spiking-across-Texas-15951684.php</url></story> |
40,458,361 | 40,458,369 | 1 | 2 | 40,458,135 | 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>moloch</author><text>Say they introduce a bug, that deletes every file on your machine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vasachi</author><text>Say they introduce a bug, that will try to call that API even when there is no key.</text></item><item><author>atkailash</author><text>Exactly. You have to provide it your own API key. If you don’t want it, don’t put it in and bam, no problem</text></item><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>The whole drama was pretty silly, and the fact that everyone got upset that a feature that is inactive by default, consumes no processing power, memory or anything else and bullied the author of the open-source program should make everyone unhappy.<p>This is why open-source maintainers burn out and we can&#x27;t have nice things. Honestly, people, please consider the human on the other side of the toxic discourse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin</title><url>https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11470#note_1917647951</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>adrianN</author><text>If you&#x27;re afraid that programs on your computer leak your data, run them in a sandbox with limited permissions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vasachi</author><text>Say they introduce a bug, that will try to call that API even when there is no key.</text></item><item><author>atkailash</author><text>Exactly. You have to provide it your own API key. If you don’t want it, don’t put it in and bam, no problem</text></item><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>The whole drama was pretty silly, and the fact that everyone got upset that a feature that is inactive by default, consumes no processing power, memory or anything else and bullied the author of the open-source program should make everyone unhappy.<p>This is why open-source maintainers burn out and we can&#x27;t have nice things. Honestly, people, please consider the human on the other side of the toxic discourse.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin</title><url>https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11470#note_1917647951</url></story> |
12,590,708 | 12,590,165 | 1 | 2 | 12,588,449 | 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>ryandrake</author><text>You could always, I dunno... stop using Facebook and WhatsApp and other software that you find harmful. I know, totally crazy idea. Just throwing it out there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bikamonki</author><text>You can go get an off-contract sim card, use it on a <i>clean</i> Android, create a fake gmail account in order to download and install Whatsapp. Now you make connections (you add family and friends to your contacts) and start communicating. By now both FB and Google know who you are simply b&#x2F;c other people in your network, not concerned with privacy, have you saved on their contacts list, pressumably under your first and last name. Using <i>analytics data</i> that you inadvertedly share through your usage habits, both companies build a detailed online persona that will never be forgotten. B&#x2F;c we are creatures of habit and social bonds, it is quite easy to determine who you are and what you do, by indirect information like your locations (gps), connections (contacts), online presence (IPs), browsing habits, etc.<p>THERE IS NO ESCAPE. Unless you do what they themselves say you should do if you do not agree with the terms: don&#x27;t use their services.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/technology/whatsapp-facebook-germany.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>technofiend</author><text>&gt;THERE IS NO ESCAPE. Unless you do what they themselves say you should do if you do not agree with the terms: don&#x27;t use their services.<p>Or as so many others have called out in the thread - you get legislative relief.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bikamonki</author><text>You can go get an off-contract sim card, use it on a <i>clean</i> Android, create a fake gmail account in order to download and install Whatsapp. Now you make connections (you add family and friends to your contacts) and start communicating. By now both FB and Google know who you are simply b&#x2F;c other people in your network, not concerned with privacy, have you saved on their contacts list, pressumably under your first and last name. Using <i>analytics data</i> that you inadvertedly share through your usage habits, both companies build a detailed online persona that will never be forgotten. B&#x2F;c we are creatures of habit and social bonds, it is quite easy to determine who you are and what you do, by indirect information like your locations (gps), connections (contacts), online presence (IPs), browsing habits, etc.<p>THERE IS NO ESCAPE. Unless you do what they themselves say you should do if you do not agree with the terms: don&#x27;t use their services.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/technology/whatsapp-facebook-germany.html</url></story> |
27,877,846 | 27,877,735 | 1 | 2 | 27,876,366 | 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>Nbox9</author><text>We’ve known about this effect for awhile. Tree growth has increased on volume but decreased in density since the industrial revolution[0]. A small bump in plant growth can not be seen as anything but the smallest of a silver lining.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0378112718310600" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S037811271...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)</title><url>https://www.noaa.gov/news/study-global-plant-growth-surging-alongside-carbon-dioxide</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>bryan0</author><text>How do climate change models currently account for increase in plants? Are these plant growth numbers in line with expectations? Is this a large change or a rounding error in those models?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (2017)</title><url>https://www.noaa.gov/news/study-global-plant-growth-surging-alongside-carbon-dioxide</url></story> |
33,294,884 | 33,271,569 | 1 | 3 | 33,270,535 | 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>kcexn</author><text>&#x27;Middle Management&#x27; is also not a well defined term.<p>For some, managers like you have described could be thought of as front line managers. Or supervisors.<p>And middle management are the layers, usually many, that separate the front line managers from the senior executives.<p>The role of middle management is often to oversee budgets, and be accountable for financial performance in certain geographic regions or business areas.<p>Middle managers don&#x27;t employ workers. They employ other managers. Lots of these kinds of jobs will probably be made so simple that entire layers of management will just be removed.<p>Some examples from chain retail might be:<p>The franchisee of say, a McDonald&#x27;s, is in some sense a middle manager. They hire store managers to run the stores in the area that they&#x27;re responsible for. And they&#x27;re accountable for the financial performance of all the McDonald&#x27;s that they own.<p>The &#x27;Regional Manager&#x27; of some large company. They won&#x27;t be involved in the day to day activity of the business, but they&#x27;re often an important cog in the wheel because they have local visibility on the financial performance of the business in the region, and are best positioned to allocate the budget in ways that maximize financial performance. Again, they don&#x27;t hire workers, they hire other managers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>quirkot</author><text>I think this article fundamentally misunderstands the core function of middle management. You can boil it down to 2 key tasks (on the front lines of a very large organization).<p>a) Interpreting: either top-&gt;down by explaining and enforcing corporate policy on hourly workers or bottom-&gt;up by ensuring workers enter data to be reported on correctly<p>b) &quot;Encouraging&quot;: an employee calls in sick, again. Neither firing them or giving them the day off every time are desirable. The managers role is to &quot;encourage&quot; the performance and attendance (in one way or another)<p>Neither of these are low hanging fruit for automation or even middle hanging fruit for automation.<p>edit: I would also add that the comment &quot;Union formation across the retail landscape will force corporations to reduce management head count&quot; is backwards. From a management perspective, if labor gets rowdy you need more overseers to keep them in line. More union activity = more management headcount</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers</title><url>https://chatterhead.bearblog.dev/ai-will-replace-middle-management-not-hourly-workers/</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>Kiro</author><text>In what dystopian country do you live where you don&#x27;t automatically get the day off when calling in sick?</text><parent_chain><item><author>quirkot</author><text>I think this article fundamentally misunderstands the core function of middle management. You can boil it down to 2 key tasks (on the front lines of a very large organization).<p>a) Interpreting: either top-&gt;down by explaining and enforcing corporate policy on hourly workers or bottom-&gt;up by ensuring workers enter data to be reported on correctly<p>b) &quot;Encouraging&quot;: an employee calls in sick, again. Neither firing them or giving them the day off every time are desirable. The managers role is to &quot;encourage&quot; the performance and attendance (in one way or another)<p>Neither of these are low hanging fruit for automation or even middle hanging fruit for automation.<p>edit: I would also add that the comment &quot;Union formation across the retail landscape will force corporations to reduce management head count&quot; is backwards. From a management perspective, if labor gets rowdy you need more overseers to keep them in line. More union activity = more management headcount</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers</title><url>https://chatterhead.bearblog.dev/ai-will-replace-middle-management-not-hourly-workers/</url></story> |
8,040,831 | 8,040,693 | 1 | 3 | 8,040,540 | 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>IvyMike</author><text>I seem to remember that the original satellites (which were the first highly accurate clocks in orbit) had a hedge--if the effects of general relativity turned out to not be correct the system could drop that part of the correction. But I&#x27;m on janky hotel internet right now so I can&#x27;t find a reference.<p>Edit: The comment from jcr is correct--this was not in GPS, but in an earlier system. <a href="http://www.leapsecond.com/history/Ashby-Relativity.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leapsecond.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;Ashby-Relativity.htm</a><p>&gt; At the time of launch of the first NTS-2 satellite (June 1977), which contained the first Cesium clock to be placed in orbit, there were some who doubted that relativistic effects were real. A frequency synthesizer was built into the satellite clock system so that after launch, if in fact the rate of the clock in its final orbit was that predicted by GR, then the synthesizer could be turned on bringing the clock to the coordinate rate necessary for operation. The atomic clock was first operated for about 20 days to measure its clock rate before turning on the synthesizer. The frequency measured during that interval was +442.5 parts in 1012 faster than clocks on the ground; if left uncorrected this would have resulted in timing errors of about 38,000 nanoseconds per day. The difference between predicted and measured values of the frequency shift was only 3.97 parts in 1012, well within the accuracy capabilities of the orbiting clock. This then gave about a 1% validation of the combined motional and gravitational shifts for a clock at 4.2 earth radii.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPS and Relativity</title><url>http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.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>K2h</author><text>$30 for a GPS that will log 15 hours of telemetry[1] I just cant get over how much cool math, science, engineering and technology can get crammed into a single concept. in some ways GPS is as revolutionary as the CPU.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.adafruit.com/products/790" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adafruit.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;790</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GPS and Relativity</title><url>http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html#</url></story> |
12,066,149 | 12,066,147 | 1 | 2 | 12,065,355 | 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>SoftwarePatent</author><text>&gt; &quot;Coding is easy, marketing is hard&quot;<p>It took me over five years in this business to fully internalize this. Programmers (me included) often complain about clueless entrepreneurs in this business, but even more rare than a good programmer is a good entrepreneur, who can sell&#x2F;market and turn code into money.</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway58182</author><text>Just hit $1 million&#x2F;year in sales :)<p>About 20 years ago wrote a scratch-my-itch B2B desktop software for Windows. Side project for 10 years which is how long it took to reach about $120K to make the switch to full time. Added features and increased price accordingly.<p>Hired a few more people. Growth is slow but steady. Yearly renewable support contracts are the secret.<p>Coding is easy, marketing is hard. Persistence, persistence, persistence. In a very crowded niche. Desktop software is definitely not dead - you can charge a whole lot more for it, and ongoing costs (other than people) is comparable to trendy web apps.<p>Using throwaway so customers don&#x27;t find this comment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?</title><text>Pinboard&#x27;s numbers* were just realeased, and that made me curious. How many of us currently run a single-person company? By company, I mean something that generates (or is intending to generate) revenues. Side projects count.<p>Three thing I&#x27;m most curious about - growth in user base, revenues &amp; profitability over the years.<p>If you can share numbers, that would be fantastic.<p>*https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12059965</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>tjholowaychuk</author><text>Nice congrats!<p>I often hear the same thing, it doesn&#x27;t matter what your product is, it&#x27;s how you market it. I still want to make a nice product of course haha but marketing is new to me.<p>Any generic software marketing tips? I promised myself I wouldn&#x27;t be one of those annoying startups that emails you ever day or two</text><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway58182</author><text>Just hit $1 million&#x2F;year in sales :)<p>About 20 years ago wrote a scratch-my-itch B2B desktop software for Windows. Side project for 10 years which is how long it took to reach about $120K to make the switch to full time. Added features and increased price accordingly.<p>Hired a few more people. Growth is slow but steady. Yearly renewable support contracts are the secret.<p>Coding is easy, marketing is hard. Persistence, persistence, persistence. In a very crowded niche. Desktop software is definitely not dead - you can charge a whole lot more for it, and ongoing costs (other than people) is comparable to trendy web apps.<p>Using throwaway so customers don&#x27;t find this comment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?</title><text>Pinboard&#x27;s numbers* were just realeased, and that made me curious. How many of us currently run a single-person company? By company, I mean something that generates (or is intending to generate) revenues. Side projects count.<p>Three thing I&#x27;m most curious about - growth in user base, revenues &amp; profitability over the years.<p>If you can share numbers, that would be fantastic.<p>*https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12059965</text></story> |
5,058,211 | 5,057,832 | 1 | 2 | 5,057,507 | 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>btilly</author><text>I love #6. <i>(Mar's Law) Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.</i><p>People say lol a lot when they didn't really. But I really did at that one. Because I know exactly why it is true. What's going on is that you have a high order term that dominates the big-O. As long as that is anything of the form x^k it will be linear, and the lower order terms will show up as minor deviations, which the magic marker smoothes out.<p>Since big-O scaling terms of that form arise in a lot of different equations, it is very common that real data DOES show up as a (reasonably) straight line on a log-log graph. And the slope of that approximate line tends to be very useful to know.<p>But if you see data set after data set plotted on log-log with magic marker lines drawn, it is easy to ridicule the phenomena. :-)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design</title><url>http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/academics/akins_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>wlesieutre</author><text>&#62; In nature, the optimum is almost always in the middle somewhere. Distrust assertions that the optimum is at an extreme point.<p>This one caught my eye as being only half right. As you increase something, you may get better performance up to a point but then see it level off and decrease. For instance, you could increase the fuel capacity by a factor of 10, but then you'd need a larger engine, more powerful thrusters to maneuver it, etc.<p>On the other hand, the lower bound of "don't do that at all" is <i>frequently</i> optimal. A lot of these cases are things that you'd intuitively see as stupid ideas (ie "how many lead weights should we bolt on to the fins"), but in other cases they aren't. Like a fish that evolved away its eyes because they were no longer useful. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyopsidae" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyopsidae</a>)<p>If you took the "law" too literally, you'd be distrustful of saying "These eyes aren't doing anything, let's have 0 of them." Don't be afraid to remove wasteful features.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design</title><url>http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/old_site/academics/akins_laws.html</url></story> |
38,334,574 | 38,333,823 | 1 | 3 | 38,333,116 | 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>albert_e</author><text>&gt; India has half-hour timezones<p>Not plural though;<p>The whole of India -- even though it is pretty vast in area -- has a single time-zone country-wide. I am very thankful for this. We already have a lot of other challenges -- including dozens of different languages -- that a single time zone is a relief.<p>But yes -- the +5:30 offset usually makes for a less-than-ideal factor to plan meetings or follow non local event schedules.<p>Did I mention we also hate the Summertime &#x2F; Daylight Saving time adjustments we have to accommodate twice a year when working with western teams -- more adjustment even after most people have already sacrificed on a sane 9-5 schedule to ensure they overlap with EU&#x2F;US teams for daily work meetings. We cant imagine why US that has multiple time-zones already in a single country, and EU whose countries are often smaller than states in India ... need so much adjustment. Why can&#x27;t they, for instance, simply declare that school&#x2F;offices open at 10am instead of 9am for six designated months every year instead of imposing this adjustment on the entire world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vegabook</author><text>I suspect a lot of financial data code is going to break. I&#x27;ve worked on a number of codebases where the explicit instructions were &quot;everything is UTC, all the time&quot;, and enforced at the entry edges of the code. Bringing in timezones was a definite NO for reasons of the unholy mess this would inevitably create:<p>* India has half-hour timezones<p>* Countries change their DST rules all the time.<p>* Conversion between timezones is an utter mess.<p>As Wes McKinney once said about python datetime: &quot;Welcome to Hell&quot;[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;13753918" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;13753918</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated</title><url>https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/it-s-time-for-a-change-datetime-utcnow-is-now-deprecated</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>Hamuko</author><text>I&#x27;d say that wouldn&#x27;t enforcement be rather simple going forwards since you could just enforce that dt.tzinfo == datetime.timezone.utc, but as far as I know, timezone information checking in Python can be a bit of a pain.<p><pre><code> &gt;&gt;&gt; utc1 = datetime.timezone.utc
&gt;&gt;&gt; utc2 = zoneinfo.ZoneInfo(&quot;UTC&quot;)
&gt;&gt;&gt; utc1 == utc2
False
&gt;&gt;&gt; dt1 = datetime.datetime.now(utc1)
&gt;&gt;&gt; dt2 = datetime.datetime.now(utc2)
&gt;&gt;&gt; dt1.tzinfo == dt2.tzinfo
False</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>vegabook</author><text>I suspect a lot of financial data code is going to break. I&#x27;ve worked on a number of codebases where the explicit instructions were &quot;everything is UTC, all the time&quot;, and enforced at the entry edges of the code. Bringing in timezones was a definite NO for reasons of the unholy mess this would inevitably create:<p>* India has half-hour timezones<p>* Countries change their DST rules all the time.<p>* Conversion between timezones is an utter mess.<p>As Wes McKinney once said about python datetime: &quot;Welcome to Hell&quot;[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;13753918" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;13753918</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated</title><url>https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/it-s-time-for-a-change-datetime-utcnow-is-now-deprecated</url></story> |
30,732,240 | 30,732,081 | 1 | 2 | 30,731,682 | 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>gambiting</author><text>Somewhat related anecdote - my dad bought one of the first &quot;proper&quot; digital cameras of its day, the Sony CyberShot F707. Even now, looking back at the quality of the pictures taken with it, it&#x27;s still mighty impressive(well, it was reflected in the price tag too, but I digress).<p>The camera used memory stick format, and my dad shelled out for the ridiculously expensive 128MB card to go with the camera, which was great.....except that even that stupidly expensive memory stick could only hold about 50 pictures. But......we quickly discovered some setting on the camera which made it store something like 500 pictures on the card instead! Brilliant! And they still look the same on the display, so no harm done, right?<p>Well, cue to our first family holiday with it, and coming back only to discover that pictures taken in 640x480 resolution <i>really</i> don&#x27;t cut it. That was a very.....sad lesson to learn about resolutions and digital cameras.<p>I remember much later we bought a 256MB memory stick that was basically two 128MB sticks in one - it had a physical switch between &quot;side&quot; A and B.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Documenting Sony Memory Stick</title><url>https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=31.%20Memory%20Stick</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>boondaburrah</author><text>Okay, but to be fair I immediately recognised the &quot;ready&quot; signal 0xAA or 0x55 as &quot;oh, it just toggles the bit every clock. That sounds oddly useful. You can probably sync a clock or something on that.&quot; I&#x27;ve also run into situations where I&#x27;m counting bits and the flip-flop doesn&#x27;t actually get set until the &#x2F;next&#x2F; clock pulse, so having the phase change bit arrive one cycle early seems like a kludge around that sort of thing.<p>Ya gotta remember that Sony is hardware people so they do inscrutable things in software that probably turn out to make silicon implementation easier.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Documenting Sony Memory Stick</title><url>https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=31.%20Memory%20Stick</url></story> |
18,204,479 | 18,202,010 | 1 | 3 | 18,201,511 | 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>adrianmonk</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; <i>Google might agree to let a random online shopping company scan what I’m typing into Gmail, but I did not agree.</i><p>Google might, in the sense that they could start, but Google doesn&#x27;t do (and never has done) what is described.<p>First of all, Google has never let companies scan what you type. It did let companies target based on content of messages, but that involves advertisers sharing targeting information with Google, not Google sharing email content with advertisers.<p>Second of all, even that stopped last year. From the Google announcement:<p>&gt; <i>G Suite’s Gmail is already not used as input for ads personalization, and Google has decided to follow suit later this year in our free consumer Gmail service. Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change. This decision brings Gmail ads in line with how we personalize ads for other Google products.</i><p>( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;gmail&#x2F;g-suite-gains-traction-in-the-enterprise-g-suites-gmail-and-consumer-gmail-to-more-closely-align&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;gmail&#x2F;g-suite-gains-traction-in...</a> )</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-08/google-privacy-glitch-no-we-did-not-consent-to-this</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>Meekro</author><text>Countless companies every year hire security auditors, and get back a 100-page report in 8 point font filled with vulnerabilities, many of them marked &quot;severe&quot; or &quot;critical.&quot; Forcing companies to then publicize those reports will be burdensome and counterproductive.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-08/google-privacy-glitch-no-we-did-not-consent-to-this</url></story> |
12,151,220 | 12,151,229 | 1 | 3 | 12,149,357 | 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>Scaevolus</author><text>Having per-table random seeds and properly designed hash function prevents remotely forced collisions. This is the typical defense against hashtable DOS.<p>It has to be done properly, of course -- for example, a poorly designed hash function could have characteristic collisions for many different seeds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>justinlardinois</author><text>Hash functions designed for hash tables are generally not hard to find collisions for, so there&#x27;s not much that can be done. You could shoehorn in a secure hash function, but that would hurt performance.</text></item><item><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>Dude, that&#x27;s horrific. I figured some secure coders wouldve at least implemented a better JSON one by now since it&#x27;s relatively simple. Or are they already available but dev&#x27;s often rely on these broken ones?</text></item><item><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>Even JSON isn&#x27;t great. It&#x27;s still a hash-collision DoS attack vector.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paragonie.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;securely-implementing-de-serialization-in-php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paragonie.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;securely-implementing-de-...</a></text></item><item><author>krapp</author><text>The takeway:<p><pre><code> You should never use user input on unserialize. Assuming that
using an up-to-date PHP version is enough to protect
unserialize in such scenarios is a bad idea. Avoid it or use
less complex serialization methods like JSON.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we broke PHP, hacked Pornhub and earned $20k</title><url>https://www.evonide.com/how-we-broke-php-hacked-pornhub-and-earned-20000-dollar/</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>JeremyBanks</author><text>I think that most major languages have fixed this for years.<p>Python in 2012: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.python.org&#x2F;issue13703" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.python.org&#x2F;issue13703</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>justinlardinois</author><text>Hash functions designed for hash tables are generally not hard to find collisions for, so there&#x27;s not much that can be done. You could shoehorn in a secure hash function, but that would hurt performance.</text></item><item><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>Dude, that&#x27;s horrific. I figured some secure coders wouldve at least implemented a better JSON one by now since it&#x27;s relatively simple. Or are they already available but dev&#x27;s often rely on these broken ones?</text></item><item><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>Even JSON isn&#x27;t great. It&#x27;s still a hash-collision DoS attack vector.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paragonie.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;securely-implementing-de-serialization-in-php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paragonie.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;securely-implementing-de-...</a></text></item><item><author>krapp</author><text>The takeway:<p><pre><code> You should never use user input on unserialize. Assuming that
using an up-to-date PHP version is enough to protect
unserialize in such scenarios is a bad idea. Avoid it or use
less complex serialization methods like JSON.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How we broke PHP, hacked Pornhub and earned $20k</title><url>https://www.evonide.com/how-we-broke-php-hacked-pornhub-and-earned-20000-dollar/</url></story> |
29,830,172 | 29,827,672 | 1 | 3 | 29,823,957 | 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>My book <i>Crafting Interpreters</i> has a similar snippet style where it shows you the surrounding context for inserted code so you can see where it goes. It doesn&#x27;t show the deleted code (because that would probably get too noisy in most cases), but I could if I wanted to.<p>I ended up writing a whole little custom build system to automatically generate the snippets and their surrounding context based on comments in the source code [1]. It was a fairly complex program to write, but it makes it completely automatic and error-free. I can&#x27;t imagine trying to maintain it all manually.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;journal.stuffwithstuff.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;05&#x2F;crafting-crafting-interpreters&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;journal.stuffwithstuff.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;05&#x2F;crafting-crafti...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>TStand90</author><text>Author here; the idea came from frustrations with the original Python roguelike tutorial on Roguebasin. Since the entire thing was written in one file, it was difficult sometimes (for me anyway) to tell what was going on.<p>While I&#x27;m happy with the way the diff style turned out, I will say there is one big downside for me: It&#x27;s a <i>huge</i> pain to write. Not only did I do a &quot;git diff&quot; every time I made changes and documented it, but if you end up changing something later down the line, then I basically had to go back to the very beginning of the chapter, follow the tutorial along, and double check <i>everything</i>. Maybe there&#x27;s a more efficient way to do this, but it was a bit tedious and time consuming.<p>Still worth the effort in the end though, I think.</text></item><item><author>throw10920</author><text>I really, really like the &quot;diff&quot; style for code fragments - it makes the tutorial so much nicer to read, and I don&#x27;t see any significant downsides. This should be the standard for all tutorials where you progressively modify a non-trivial body of code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial</title><url>http://rogueliketutorials.com/tutorials/tcod/v2/</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>qart</author><text>Thank you for making the effort to experiment with the diff style. Now that people are seeing this documentation and appreciating the output, maybe someone else will come up with a way to automate it for future authors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TStand90</author><text>Author here; the idea came from frustrations with the original Python roguelike tutorial on Roguebasin. Since the entire thing was written in one file, it was difficult sometimes (for me anyway) to tell what was going on.<p>While I&#x27;m happy with the way the diff style turned out, I will say there is one big downside for me: It&#x27;s a <i>huge</i> pain to write. Not only did I do a &quot;git diff&quot; every time I made changes and documented it, but if you end up changing something later down the line, then I basically had to go back to the very beginning of the chapter, follow the tutorial along, and double check <i>everything</i>. Maybe there&#x27;s a more efficient way to do this, but it was a bit tedious and time consuming.<p>Still worth the effort in the end though, I think.</text></item><item><author>throw10920</author><text>I really, really like the &quot;diff&quot; style for code fragments - it makes the tutorial so much nicer to read, and I don&#x27;t see any significant downsides. This should be the standard for all tutorials where you progressively modify a non-trivial body of code.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial</title><url>http://rogueliketutorials.com/tutorials/tcod/v2/</url></story> |
18,110,918 | 18,109,515 | 1 | 3 | 18,103,720 | 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>mlinsey</author><text>The most interesting speedrun I&#x27;ve ever seen is the Super Mario World credits warp, which requires the player to write + execute arbitrary code in game by carefully positioning koopa shells. At first thought to only be possible with tools in an emulator, this has been done on an actual console!<p>Summoning Salt video about the overall history of SMW speedruns: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=USBboeK7oDA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=USBboeK7oDA</a><p>Detailed explanation of how the credits warp exploit works: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vAHXK2wut_I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vAHXK2wut_I</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmJ_LT8bUj0</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>Theodores</author><text>How does it feel if you are a developer and people devote their lives to your creation?<p>Particularly if you spent weeks making it and people have spent years playing with it?<p>Then how does it feel if millions of people play?<p>Game developers are kind of cut out of the story. It would be nice to have their take on the story, to hear what they have been creating whilst others have merely played.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmJ_LT8bUj0</url></story> |
28,130,128 | 28,127,207 | 1 | 3 | 28,122,950 | 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>aaron-santos</author><text>If you internalize this cursed knowledge, you will see how language[C]-evangelists cherry-pick which dimensions to measure the value&#x2F;success of a programing language. Don&#x27;t proceed. It will make you frustrated, cynical, and disillusioned with the state of PL discourse.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>This is a category of cursed knowledge which causes psychic damage to the reader.<p>When you go down certain rabbit holes you develop a fascination with obscure forms of programming and start to realize it has some powerful benefits of which you can never take advantage because it isn&#x27;t widely adopted.<p>To free yourself from this curse write ten regular for-loops in C and say a prayer to K&amp;R while tighly holding your copy of The C Programming Language.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stages of Denial</title><url>https://beyondloom.com/blog/denial.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>danwills</author><text>I know it&#x27;s a joke but I don&#x27;t really agree that this area is cursed! It just delves way deeper into syntactical terseness than many programmers will tolerate.. even compared to assembler it&#x27;s quite a different beast.<p>I think still potentially very interesting if you&#x27;re keen on expressing the most computation using the smallest number of characters though!</text><parent_chain><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>This is a category of cursed knowledge which causes psychic damage to the reader.<p>When you go down certain rabbit holes you develop a fascination with obscure forms of programming and start to realize it has some powerful benefits of which you can never take advantage because it isn&#x27;t widely adopted.<p>To free yourself from this curse write ten regular for-loops in C and say a prayer to K&amp;R while tighly holding your copy of The C Programming Language.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stages of Denial</title><url>https://beyondloom.com/blog/denial.html</url></story> |
4,544,351 | 4,543,052 | 1 | 2 | 4,542,648 | 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>LutherBlissett</author><text>Thx for the effort, but: I already discovered more than is shown on your map, I think! going left, I followed the first tunnel I found - and found an exit into the open. Could not find that on your version at all. Is xkcd changing tiles?</text><parent_chain><item><author>dividuum</author><text>My fully zoomable (think google maps) version based on <a href="http://leaflet.cloudmade.com" rel="nofollow">http://leaflet.cloudmade.com</a><p><a href="http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xkcd's world - pieced together with AngularJS (warning: big images)</title><url>http://embed.plnkr.co/IfpBH4</url><text>Source here: http://plnkr.co/edit/IfpBH4<p>This was as big as I could get it before my computer started to grind to a halt, but it's more of a demo of how little code it takes to do this sort of thing in AngularJS than anything else.<p>Took me away from building http://goodfil.ms for about 40 minutes all up.</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>mih</author><text>This is pretty awesome and more easily navigable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dividuum</author><text>My fully zoomable (think google maps) version based on <a href="http://leaflet.cloudmade.com" rel="nofollow">http://leaflet.cloudmade.com</a><p><a href="http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xkcd's world - pieced together with AngularJS (warning: big images)</title><url>http://embed.plnkr.co/IfpBH4</url><text>Source here: http://plnkr.co/edit/IfpBH4<p>This was as big as I could get it before my computer started to grind to a halt, but it's more of a demo of how little code it takes to do this sort of thing in AngularJS than anything else.<p>Took me away from building http://goodfil.ms for about 40 minutes all up.</text></story> |
35,424,522 | 35,424,458 | 1 | 3 | 35,420,946 | 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>_gabe_</author><text>&gt; This literally isn&#x27;t Windows where 32GB of RAM is the new minimum.<p>4GB of RAM.[0]<p>It&#x27;s the stupid websites that require GB of RAM to display a couple pieces of written text and the hundreds of MB of JS that tally up to the additional 28GB you may be thinking of. Oh and all the electron apps which add <i>additional</i> browser requirements where there shouldn&#x27;t be any. I guess Mac OS is somehow exempt from this particular fault though, I would be curious to know how they accomplished it.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows&#x2F;whats-new&#x2F;windows-11-requirements#hardware-requirements" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows&#x2F;whats-new&#x2F;windows-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>Speaking as someone who has and uses an M2 Macbook Air with 8GB RAM, I agree it&#x27;s not <i>a lot</i> but it&#x27;s more than sufficient for any use case a Macbook Air would generally see.<p>This literally isn&#x27;t Windows where 32GB of RAM is the new minimum.<p>I will say the Macbook Pro really should start from 16GB RAM and at least 1TB SSD; it&#x27;s for professionals, isn&#x27;t it?</text></item><item><author>KptMarchewa</author><text>&gt;1650EUR for a laptop that won&#x27;t have enough ram to run the browser in two years.<p>That did not have enough ram 3 years ago... the fact they are still trying to sell 8GB as an useful amount outside of extremely budget laptops is insane.</text></item><item><author>izacus</author><text>I was just buying a laptop for my family and the prices of MacBooks here in Europe are utterly crazy.<p>The crappiest 8GB RAM (?!) 256SSD M2 Air model is 1650EUR. 1650EUR for a laptop that won&#x27;t have enough ram to run the browser in two years.<p>The 16GB model is rounded 2000EUR, which was before reserved for a high-end gaming laptops. It&#x27;s bonkers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2023/04/03/apple-stopped-m2-chip-production-1q-2023/</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>lanstin</author><text>I bought a Linux machine a year or so ago, with 64G ram and 2T SSD (for less than Apple wants, obviously). I will say it is pretty much over spec-ced. I have a browser, use it for taxes and like city permit approvals and the odd pdf download&#x2F;print. For a while I ran a bitcoin node. I use it for development of my open source go libraries, with eMacs and the associated ten stack overflow or GitHub tabs, but the only time I get make it use even a faction of its power is when like i test a “find all dup files on the dive” or rebuild gcc.<p>Hopefully it will work for a long time, but I think development could be good on a quarter of the mem&#x2F;storage hardware. More cores would be nice, as always, but even there, go compile will light them all up but for far less than a second.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>Speaking as someone who has and uses an M2 Macbook Air with 8GB RAM, I agree it&#x27;s not <i>a lot</i> but it&#x27;s more than sufficient for any use case a Macbook Air would generally see.<p>This literally isn&#x27;t Windows where 32GB of RAM is the new minimum.<p>I will say the Macbook Pro really should start from 16GB RAM and at least 1TB SSD; it&#x27;s for professionals, isn&#x27;t it?</text></item><item><author>KptMarchewa</author><text>&gt;1650EUR for a laptop that won&#x27;t have enough ram to run the browser in two years.<p>That did not have enough ram 3 years ago... the fact they are still trying to sell 8GB as an useful amount outside of extremely budget laptops is insane.</text></item><item><author>izacus</author><text>I was just buying a laptop for my family and the prices of MacBooks here in Europe are utterly crazy.<p>The crappiest 8GB RAM (?!) 256SSD M2 Air model is 1650EUR. 1650EUR for a laptop that won&#x27;t have enough ram to run the browser in two years.<p>The 16GB model is rounded 2000EUR, which was before reserved for a high-end gaming laptops. It&#x27;s bonkers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2023/04/03/apple-stopped-m2-chip-production-1q-2023/</url></story> |
6,429,644 | 6,429,677 | 1 | 3 | 6,429,564 | 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>ok_craig</author><text>Lesson: don&#x27;t put to much stock into a product that can be replaced by a few lines of code on a search result page.</text><parent_chain><item><author>martin-adams</author><text>Interesting side effect. There&#x27;s this web site:
<a href="http://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1hour/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&#x2F;timer&#x2F;1hour&#x2F;</a><p>which comes up top of the google search results for &quot;timer for 1 hour&quot; for me. Now there is absolutely no way they can compete with Google&#x27;s own offering from an SEO perspective.<p>While this example is trivial to some extent, does it set a precedent that while you can advertise and compete with Google, they can always have the unfair advantage at being top of the list.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google timer</title><url>https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+10+seconds</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>pioul</author><text>A precedent has already been set a while ago with Google&#x27;s calculator [1], Knowledge Graph [2] and whatnot.<p>Search engines&#x27; goal is to deliver information and services to their users as fast as possible. If they can provide those themselves, it&#x27;s a win both for them and their users.<p>I wrote about it here: <a href="http://pioul.fr/dont-trust-search-engines-with-your-traffic" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pioul.fr&#x2F;dont-trust-search-engines-with-your-traffic</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=1%2B1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=1%2B1</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=banana" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=banana</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>martin-adams</author><text>Interesting side effect. There&#x27;s this web site:
<a href="http://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1hour/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&#x2F;timer&#x2F;1hour&#x2F;</a><p>which comes up top of the google search results for &quot;timer for 1 hour&quot; for me. Now there is absolutely no way they can compete with Google&#x27;s own offering from an SEO perspective.<p>While this example is trivial to some extent, does it set a precedent that while you can advertise and compete with Google, they can always have the unfair advantage at being top of the list.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google timer</title><url>https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+10+seconds</url></story> |
28,164,338 | 28,164,474 | 1 | 2 | 28,164,221 | 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>hprotagonist</author><text>&gt; But children also burn out fast.<p>This is well known in emergency medicine. Not only do kids burn out quick, they also burn out completely because they, unlike adults, don&#x27;t keep a reserve. This applies to homeostasis, too.<p>Consequently: young trauma victims that &quot;look OK&quot; need to be <i>very</i> closely attended to, because what you might be seeing is a kid burning the very last of their energy reserves just to maintain homeostasis, and they will NOT degrade gracefully once they&#x27;re out of energy -- they&#x27;ll just go right into the deep end of shock. Happy and talking to unconscious in 90 seconds is nothing you want to see.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/little-kids-burn-so-much-energy-they-re-different-species-study-finds</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>Supersam654</author><text>Personally, I was more surprised by the various groups of people who _don&#x27;t_ have higher metabolic rates:<p>&gt; Children’s metabolic rates stay high until age 5, but the rate slowly begins to glide down until it plateaus around age 20. Interestingly, adult rates are stable until age 60, when they begin to decline. After age 90, humans use about 26% less energy daily, Pontzer says.<p>&gt; The study also found that pregnant women don’t have higher metabolic rates than other adults; their energy use and calorie consumption scales up with body size<p>&gt; The metabolic rate didn’t zoom up in hungry teenagers either</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/little-kids-burn-so-much-energy-they-re-different-species-study-finds</url></story> |
14,513,590 | 14,512,949 | 1 | 3 | 14,511,934 | 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>chicob</author><text>This is happening not only in the US but around the globe.
I struggle with it myself.<p>I find there are 4 main problems associated with erosion where I work (Portugal):<p>1) Herbicides overkill leads to the death of useful grasses that help hold soil structure. Some fungicides may kill mycorrhizae which are fundamental in soil maintenance (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mycorrhizae.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;Effects-of-Fungicides-on-Mycorrhizal-Fungi-PDF.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mycorrhizae.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;Effects-of-Fungici...</a>)<p>2) Tillage avoidance is recommended, and in some cases prohibited. But people do it nevertheless... The consequences are obvious.<p>3) Dams built with irrigation in mind often accumulate mineral salts at a rate larger than what Nature would drain towards the sea. Since water is used in places with lower rain levels, drainage in those places is low as well, which leads to salination (Sometimes it also leads to lower levels of mineral salts in river mouths, thus a decline in phytoplankton and as as consequence fish populations).<p>4) Global warming means tougher draughts and heavier rains, which means more erosion.<p>We&#x27;re headed to some serious problems if we don&#x27;t take these issues seriously.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save Soil, But It's Blowing Away</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/07/531894461/u-s-pays-farmers-billions-to-save-the-soil-but-its-blowing-away</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>projectorlochsa</author><text>Too much subsidies in farming business. No true capitalism. When I see how much of EU money goes to farmers, it&#x27;s ridiculous. It funds the destruction of rainforests all around the world, ecosystems, oceans etc.<p>Yes, the food wouldn&#x27;t be as cheap, but at least there would be a huge incentive for people to find cheaper ways (maybe finally someone will make an effort to improve hydro&#x2F;aeroponics).<p>Of course, capitalism is greedy, not globally optimal, so it is necessary that certain restrictions are made by law. Complex issue I guess, EU is on a good path IMO.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save Soil, But It's Blowing Away</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/07/531894461/u-s-pays-farmers-billions-to-save-the-soil-but-its-blowing-away</url></story> |
18,769,503 | 18,769,582 | 1 | 2 | 18,766,314 | 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>Holybeds</author><text>Where I live you know the cost before you go to the doctor since you will only pay a symbolic sum of 30 USD even if the visit ends up with something like a life long cancer treatment. If you need medicine you will pay at most 120 USD per year regardless of the costs.<p>The idea that your access to healthcare should be linked to your own or your parents financial is crazy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karmelapple</author><text>I was in a hospital in Singapore recently, and the prices for doctor consultation fees, staying in a room, and even certain tests were listed right at the front of the emergency room desk.<p>After the patient I was with was stabilized, the nurse confirmed with us verbally what the rough cost should be for the rest of what the doctor prescribed, and asked if we wished to proceed. We could have said no and gone elsewhere if we wanted, since the patient at least was relatively stable and we knew what was wrong.<p>I want this experience to be the norm in the USA.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.</title><url>https://www.ajc.com/news/national/hospital-prices-are-about-public/2jXYHgoR5CObBj6fSJQQUO/</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>geomark</author><text>That&#x27;s similar to my experience in Thailand. Everyone in my family has had one or more hospital stays for illness, surgery or injury. Prices for common procedures are posted. After initial evaluation there is a discussion about what the estimated total cost will be.<p>I would never again want to have medical treatment in the USA.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karmelapple</author><text>I was in a hospital in Singapore recently, and the prices for doctor consultation fees, staying in a room, and even certain tests were listed right at the front of the emergency room desk.<p>After the patient I was with was stabilized, the nurse confirmed with us verbally what the rough cost should be for the rest of what the doctor prescribed, and asked if we wished to proceed. We could have said no and gone elsewhere if we wanted, since the patient at least was relatively stable and we knew what was wrong.<p>I want this experience to be the norm in the USA.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.</title><url>https://www.ajc.com/news/national/hospital-prices-are-about-public/2jXYHgoR5CObBj6fSJQQUO/</url></story> |
36,433,221 | 36,429,486 | 1 | 2 | 36,419,352 | 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>drblast</author><text>The value prop is the dissolution of your own ego.<p>We experience reality filtered through our senses and our own concept of &quot;self,&quot; which is an incredibly limited view of the world. Imagine being able to see&#x2F;experience a less filtered version of reality, if only for a short period of time.<p>Or imagine expanding the frequencies of visible light you can see. That alone could certainly be a catalyst to change your perspective on many things.<p>It&#x27;s not so much &quot;losing control&quot; as it is &quot;losing unconscious bias.&quot; Loss of control is not the goal.<p>It&#x27;s also one of those things that you have to experience to understand, and even then, sober you won&#x27;t completely understand.<p>But done right, these experiences can be incredibly important to people. If it&#x27;s not for you, fine, but it&#x27;s funny how many people with zero experience with these substances think there can&#x27;t be anything worthwhile there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elvis10ten</author><text>What is the value prop? I usually ask my friends who have tried various drugs about their experiences &#x2F; how they felt.<p>I find out for most things I’m able to do them without drugs: introspection, joy, shamelessness, behavioral changes, appreciative for small things, etc.<p>Yesterday, I just “randomly” texted some of my friends that “I loved them” (they thought I was high). Similarly, when I’m in a club I can dance for 5 hours straight —- almost as if nobody was there. I feel (light) depression sometimes but appreciate that it’s a part of life. Etc.<p>Maybe the thing I’m missing is an out of body experience or completely “losing control”? But what is the value prop for me is something I can’t answer yet.</text></item><item><author>dmje</author><text>I&#x27;ve always personally been of the opinion that people who don&#x27;t entertain any thoughts of poking their consciousness in some way are missing the point of life. If you don&#x27;t ask &quot;why am I here&quot; or &quot;what&#x27;s this all about&quot; then things get pretty bland pretty quickly. And as soon as you do ask these questions then techniques to properly get into the exploration pretty soon lead you to techniques to expand horizons - therapy, meditation - and yeh, drugs.<p>Dependency (on anything) is clearly bad but a gentle dabble in order to explore our world, our brains and the relationship between them seems to me to be necessary, healthy and ...well, fun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin</title><url>https://thebaffler.com/latest/brains-on-drugs-semley</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>nlnn</author><text>I think for many, it&#x27;s that they&#x27;re not able to do those things you do without some form of help. I know many people with major social anxiety that (for better or worse) use alcohol (modest amounts, none are heavy drinkers) to get over that to dance and talk with people.<p>They&#x27;ve expressed that the experience has lessened the fear for them, and they&#x27;re better able to do those things (to a small extent at least) without drinking, but would never have been able to so without the initial nudge.<p>FWIW, I&#x27;ve got a friend that sounds exactly like you - he&#x27;s pretty much always sober, but is super outgoing, dances all the time, and talks to anyone enthusiastically. He&#x27;s sometimes been asked to leave clubs we&#x27;ve been at as bouncers assumed he was high on something, and been refused alcohol as bar staff thought he&#x27;d had too much already.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elvis10ten</author><text>What is the value prop? I usually ask my friends who have tried various drugs about their experiences &#x2F; how they felt.<p>I find out for most things I’m able to do them without drugs: introspection, joy, shamelessness, behavioral changes, appreciative for small things, etc.<p>Yesterday, I just “randomly” texted some of my friends that “I loved them” (they thought I was high). Similarly, when I’m in a club I can dance for 5 hours straight —- almost as if nobody was there. I feel (light) depression sometimes but appreciate that it’s a part of life. Etc.<p>Maybe the thing I’m missing is an out of body experience or completely “losing control”? But what is the value prop for me is something I can’t answer yet.</text></item><item><author>dmje</author><text>I&#x27;ve always personally been of the opinion that people who don&#x27;t entertain any thoughts of poking their consciousness in some way are missing the point of life. If you don&#x27;t ask &quot;why am I here&quot; or &quot;what&#x27;s this all about&quot; then things get pretty bland pretty quickly. And as soon as you do ask these questions then techniques to properly get into the exploration pretty soon lead you to techniques to expand horizons - therapy, meditation - and yeh, drugs.<p>Dependency (on anything) is clearly bad but a gentle dabble in order to explore our world, our brains and the relationship between them seems to me to be necessary, healthy and ...well, fun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin</title><url>https://thebaffler.com/latest/brains-on-drugs-semley</url></story> |
24,341,280 | 24,341,336 | 1 | 2 | 24,339,860 | 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>badRNG</author><text>&gt;Are you saying that CPC gets to ban Google, Facebook, Twitter &amp; a ton of other non-Chinese online companies but the US government does not get to ban Chinese online companies, even in the name of fairness both in terms of trade and information flow?<p>Yes I am.<p>My concerns center the precedent of banning software. If banning software to further the interests of national security is established as a precedent, it is reasonable to assume this will be weaponized against end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Signal. This would erode a strong, hard fought for precedent that code is speech. The <i>Bernstein v. Department of Justice</i> decision ended Export Control of encryption on the basis of <i>software as speech.</i> [1] Courts affirmed this right again in a ruling against a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors, as it infringed on the speech of video game companies. [2]<p>Since you brought up China&#x27;s policies, they also happen to ban end-to-end encrypted apps as there is a strong precedent for doing so in the interests of national security. [3] These simply aren&#x27;t policies worth emulating.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;21-40" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;21-40</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;supct&#x2F;html&#x2F;08-1448.ZS.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;supct&#x2F;html&#x2F;08-1448.ZS.html</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;25&#x2F;business&#x2F;china-whatsapp-blocked.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;25&#x2F;business&#x2F;china-whatsapp-b...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ArchD</author><text>Are you saying that CPC gets to ban Google, Facebook, Twitter &amp; a ton of other non-Chinese online companies but the US government does not get to ban Chinese online companies, even in the name of fairness both in terms of trade and information flow? Chinese companies have to obey the CPC&#x27;s orders that infringe users&#x27; privacy. Whether or not it is right for a country&#x27;s government to spy on its citizens, the current arrangement is assymetric.<p>If TikTok were made in India, then you would have a good point.</text></item><item><author>badRNG</author><text>Regardless of what you think about TikTok, the banning of an app in the interest of &quot;national security&quot; is largely unprecedented.<p>The jump from banning Huawei from building critical public infrastructure to banning an app that hasn&#x27;t even conclusively been proven to behave in any uniquely dangerous ways seems to be an intense, unjustified escalation of this conflict. [1]<p>You may disagree with me on the strict security-related merits of banning TikTok, and I am willing to concede all of them, however this will, either way, establish a precedent of an app&#x27;s coverage by 1st amendment free speech protections, and of what standards the government needs to do to ban an app, whether it be a Chinese social media app or an end-to-end encrypted messaging app. [2]<p>If the standard is simply to claim that it&#x27;s &quot;a national security threat&quot; without requiring any further evidence (besides the fact that it&#x27;s Chinese) then that might be cause for concern.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@fs0c131y&#x2F;tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e8162647a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@fs0c131y&#x2F;tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e81626...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;tiktok-ban-seed-genuine-security-concern-wrapped-thick-layer-censorship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;tiktok-ban-seed-genuin...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why we are suing the Administration</title><url>https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-files-lawsuit</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>dalbasal</author><text>Why does the CPC ban Google, Facebook, Twitter &amp; a ton of other non-Chinese online companies?<p>They want control over media, especially political content. They want to make sure speech, affiliation and such is under their control. Are <i>you</i> saying the US should adopt this approach?<p>Trade fairness is a red herring.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ArchD</author><text>Are you saying that CPC gets to ban Google, Facebook, Twitter &amp; a ton of other non-Chinese online companies but the US government does not get to ban Chinese online companies, even in the name of fairness both in terms of trade and information flow? Chinese companies have to obey the CPC&#x27;s orders that infringe users&#x27; privacy. Whether or not it is right for a country&#x27;s government to spy on its citizens, the current arrangement is assymetric.<p>If TikTok were made in India, then you would have a good point.</text></item><item><author>badRNG</author><text>Regardless of what you think about TikTok, the banning of an app in the interest of &quot;national security&quot; is largely unprecedented.<p>The jump from banning Huawei from building critical public infrastructure to banning an app that hasn&#x27;t even conclusively been proven to behave in any uniquely dangerous ways seems to be an intense, unjustified escalation of this conflict. [1]<p>You may disagree with me on the strict security-related merits of banning TikTok, and I am willing to concede all of them, however this will, either way, establish a precedent of an app&#x27;s coverage by 1st amendment free speech protections, and of what standards the government needs to do to ban an app, whether it be a Chinese social media app or an end-to-end encrypted messaging app. [2]<p>If the standard is simply to claim that it&#x27;s &quot;a national security threat&quot; without requiring any further evidence (besides the fact that it&#x27;s Chinese) then that might be cause for concern.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@fs0c131y&#x2F;tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e8162647a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@fs0c131y&#x2F;tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e81626...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;tiktok-ban-seed-genuine-security-concern-wrapped-thick-layer-censorship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;tiktok-ban-seed-genuin...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why we are suing the Administration</title><url>https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-files-lawsuit</url></story> |
14,493,265 | 14,493,238 | 1 | 2 | 14,490,508 | 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>kcorbitt</author><text>I&#x27;m not convinced that Prop 13 is the best or only solution to the &quot;we don&#x27;t want to kick senior citizens out of their communities&quot; issue. Prop 13 only helps you if your property has appreciated in value anyway. So by definition, all of its beneficiaries are sitting on assets that have appreciated, sometimes enormously.<p>Currently, Prop 13 caps property taxes as a percent of the last sale price. What if instead we allowed property taxes to increase with home value, but deferred collection of the incremental tax increase until the sale of the home? The back taxes owed could even be capped as a percent of appreciation. Given that the property&#x27;s price has by definition increased, even after paying the back taxes the seller still gets much of their money back, the government comes out whole, we don&#x27;t force old people to sell prematurely and the tax burden is shared more equitably between old and new owners.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dv_dt</author><text>I support Prop 13 for primary homes that owners are actually living in, but commercial rent deriving properties should have never been covered by it.<p>I take this position because I&#x27;m really not interested in kicking little old ladies out of their homes of multiple decades just because some property price bubble has driven real estate to crazy levels. Basically without prop 13, every bubble is going to drive the poorest and most vulnerable home owners out of their homes, and that is a pretty ugly side effect. That is the original intended protection of prop 13, but commercial properties were somehow rolled under that same umbrella.</text></item><item><author>jly</author><text>I would look also at the seriously distorted property and land taxation system in California as an additional contributor along with zoning.<p>A few decades of Prop 13 have done an amazing amount of damage to the housing markets all over the state, by disincentivizing the sale of property. This has contributed heavily to reducing the supply of housing and distorting the market, among other problems.<p>If California made some modifications to it&#x27;s taxation policy - perhaps lowering income and sales taxes while leveling the playing field on land taxation - home owners could come out paying a similar total tax bill while adding needed fluidity to the market.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>This is also really a zoning story. L.A. used to be zoned for 10 million people in the late 60s and decreased that tremendously in the early 70s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;la.curbed.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;4&#x2F;8&#x2F;9972362&#x2F;everything-wrong-with-los-angeles-housing-in-one-graph" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;la.curbed.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;4&#x2F;8&#x2F;9972362&#x2F;everything-wrong-with...</a>.<p>Today we have improved technology along almost every dimension yet the city is zoned for less than half as many people.<p>We are paying zoning&#x27;s steep price: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;object.cato.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;cato.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;serials&#x2F;files&#x2F;regulation&#x2F;2002&#x2F;10&#x2F;v25n3-7.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;object.cato.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;cato.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;serials&#x2F;files&#x2F;r...</a> (that&#x27;s a link to a PDF).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>L.A.'s crisis: High rents, low pay, and $2k doesn't buy much</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-renters-struggle-06042017-story.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>skewart</author><text>That&#x27;s a reasonable position to take.<p>That said, one argument for rolling back prop 13 from primary homes too is that as long as it&#x27;s in place those property price bubbles are more likely to occur. As long as their property taxes will remain flat existing residents are still incentivized to oppose constructing new housing, pushing prices ever higher.<p>If existing homeowners felt some discomfort from the housing shortage - in the form of higher property taxes - as opposed to only seeing massive financial upside - in the form of rapidly appreciating home prices (which can be realized when they eventually sell or can be borrowed against for immediate cash), then they would be more incentivized to support building more housing supply, keeping prices down. Right now existing homeowners are highly incentivized to oppose building more housing and that&#x27;s a huge part of the reason why prices are so high.<p>Of course, there are downsides to rolling back prop 13 for primary residences too - it&#x27;s not as if everything would work out perfectly smoothly. But I suspect a rollback could be crafted so that the transition could be pretty comfortable for existing homeowners.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dv_dt</author><text>I support Prop 13 for primary homes that owners are actually living in, but commercial rent deriving properties should have never been covered by it.<p>I take this position because I&#x27;m really not interested in kicking little old ladies out of their homes of multiple decades just because some property price bubble has driven real estate to crazy levels. Basically without prop 13, every bubble is going to drive the poorest and most vulnerable home owners out of their homes, and that is a pretty ugly side effect. That is the original intended protection of prop 13, but commercial properties were somehow rolled under that same umbrella.</text></item><item><author>jly</author><text>I would look also at the seriously distorted property and land taxation system in California as an additional contributor along with zoning.<p>A few decades of Prop 13 have done an amazing amount of damage to the housing markets all over the state, by disincentivizing the sale of property. This has contributed heavily to reducing the supply of housing and distorting the market, among other problems.<p>If California made some modifications to it&#x27;s taxation policy - perhaps lowering income and sales taxes while leveling the playing field on land taxation - home owners could come out paying a similar total tax bill while adding needed fluidity to the market.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>This is also really a zoning story. L.A. used to be zoned for 10 million people in the late 60s and decreased that tremendously in the early 70s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;la.curbed.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;4&#x2F;8&#x2F;9972362&#x2F;everything-wrong-with-los-angeles-housing-in-one-graph" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;la.curbed.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;4&#x2F;8&#x2F;9972362&#x2F;everything-wrong-with...</a>.<p>Today we have improved technology along almost every dimension yet the city is zoned for less than half as many people.<p>We are paying zoning&#x27;s steep price: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;object.cato.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;cato.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;serials&#x2F;files&#x2F;regulation&#x2F;2002&#x2F;10&#x2F;v25n3-7.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;object.cato.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;cato.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;serials&#x2F;files&#x2F;r...</a> (that&#x27;s a link to a PDF).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>L.A.'s crisis: High rents, low pay, and $2k doesn't buy much</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-renters-struggle-06042017-story.html</url></story> |
8,554,597 | 8,554,587 | 1 | 2 | 8,553,645 | 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>themartorana</author><text>Well, they make it seem trivial, while dealing with every watch and every pause, every rating updating complex recommendation engine algorithms. They deal with licensing and region awareness and proxying by ISP and running their own CDNs and...<p>And that&#x27;s the magic.<p>To boot, they do it at <i>enormous</i> scale on a multitude of platforms all while their own destructive code (Chaos Monkey) runs around destroying servers.<p>It&#x27;s true, some things like &quot;stream me this&quot; are maybe not rocket science, but at Netflix scale, everything becomes a bit more difficult.</text><parent_chain><item><author>personZ</author><text>Netflix always makes for an interesting case, but what always strikes me is how incredibly &quot;trivial&quot; their application really is: It&#x27;s a simple application at a very large scale. This doesn&#x27;t dismiss their accomplishments, of course, but often it does seem like Netflix spends an enormous engineering effort on fairly low value aspects of the service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases Distributed</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/11/introducing-dynomite.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>jrallison</author><text>You&#x27;re discounting the &quot;very large scale&quot; portion of your statement.<p>What may seem fairly low value from the outside or consumer perspective is likely of huge value internally to ensure you can always watch Netflix without even thinking about everything that has to happen to deliver as much video as they do to their customer&#x27;s browsers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>personZ</author><text>Netflix always makes for an interesting case, but what always strikes me is how incredibly &quot;trivial&quot; their application really is: It&#x27;s a simple application at a very large scale. This doesn&#x27;t dismiss their accomplishments, of course, but often it does seem like Netflix spends an enormous engineering effort on fairly low value aspects of the service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases Distributed</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/11/introducing-dynomite.html</url><text></text></story> |
38,540,506 | 38,540,193 | 1 | 3 | 38,531,759 | 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>lxgr</author><text>One prominent counterexample to this thesis is DRM circumvention software, which regularly gets taken down via DMCA notices. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if Apple even invokes that particular law.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>What would they demand they cease doing? Publishing software?<p>If the use of this software is against their rights in some way, the end users running it would be the ones in violation. Publishing original software is protected expression.</text></item><item><author>smashah</author><text>Have you ever received C&amp;D for your work? There&#x27;s a big problem of OSS projects being TOS-trolled by billion dollar companies and having to shut down out of fear.</text></item><item><author>wslh</author><text>One of my companies lives from this kind of things so it would last if someone could fund it. More food for thought: &quot;Reflecting on 16 Years of Work on Adversarial Interoperability&quot; (now, more than 20...) [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nektra.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-on-16-years-of-work-on-adversarial-interoperability&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nektra.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-on-16-years-of...</a></text></item><item><author>bogwog</author><text>This seems like it won&#x27;t last, but it&#x27;s AWESOME and I really hope you survive Apple&#x27;s inevitable attempts to kill this. A universal chat application would be amazing, and will maybe help bring attention to the value of standards and interoperability (hopefully by governments&#x2F;regulators).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android</title><url>https://www.beeper.com/</url><text>Hi HN! I’m proud to share that we have built a real 3rd party iMessage client for Android. We did it by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol and encryption system. It&#x27;s available to download today (no waitlist): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.beeper.ima">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.beeper.ima</a> and there&#x27;s a technical writeup here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works</a>.<p>Unlike every other attempt to build an iMessage app for Android (including our first gen app), Beeper Mini does not use a Mac server relay in the cloud. The app connects directly to Apple servers to send and receive end-to-end encrypted messages. Encryption keys never leave your device. No Apple ID is required. Beeper does not have access to your Apple account.<p>With Beeper Mini, your Android phone number is registered on iMessage. You show up as a ‘blue bubble’ when iPhone friends text you, and can join real iMessage group chats. All chat features like typing status, read receipts, full resolution images&#x2F;video, emoji reactions, voice notes, editing&#x2F;unsending, stickers etc are supported.<p>This is all unprecedented, so I imagine you may have a lot of questions. We’ve written a detailed technical blog post about how Beeper Mini works: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works</a>. A team member has published an open source Python iMessage protocol PoC on Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JJTech0130&#x2F;pypush">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JJTech0130&#x2F;pypush</a>. You can try it yourself on any Mac&#x2F;Windows&#x2F;Linux computer and see how iMessage works. My cofounder and I are also here to answer questions in the comments.<p>Our long term vision is to build a universal chat app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;were-building-the-best-chat-app-on">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;were-building-the-best-chat-app-on</a>). Over the next few months, we will be adding support for SMS&#x2F;RCS, WhatsApp, Signal and 12 other chat networks into Beeper Mini. At that point, we’ll drop the `Mini` postfix. We’re also rebuilding our Beeper Desktop and iOS apps to support our new ‘client-side bridge’ architecture that preserves full end-to-end encryption. We’re also renaming our first gen apps to ‘Beeper Cloud’ to more clearly differentiate them from Beeper Mini.<p>Side note: many people always ask ‘what do you think Apple is going to do about this?’ To be honest, I am shocked that everyone is so shocked by the sheer existence of a 3rd party iMessage client. The internet has always had 3rd party clients! It’s almost like people have forgotten that iChat (the app that iMessage grew out of) was itself a multi-protocol chat app! It supported AIM, Jabber and Google talk. Here’s a blast from the past: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;k6rmOgq.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;k6rmOgq.png</a>.</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>p-e-w</author><text>&gt; Publishing original software is protected expression.<p>That means Jack Shit in a world where a lawsuit can ruin a person&#x27;s life regardless of its legal merit, with zero consequences for the corporation that filed it even if it gets tossed out by a judge eventually.<p>LPT: Live as if human&#x2F;constitutional rights didn&#x27;t exist. Because if push ever comes to shove, you will quite possibly find that they indeed don&#x27;t exist in practice.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>What would they demand they cease doing? Publishing software?<p>If the use of this software is against their rights in some way, the end users running it would be the ones in violation. Publishing original software is protected expression.</text></item><item><author>smashah</author><text>Have you ever received C&amp;D for your work? There&#x27;s a big problem of OSS projects being TOS-trolled by billion dollar companies and having to shut down out of fear.</text></item><item><author>wslh</author><text>One of my companies lives from this kind of things so it would last if someone could fund it. More food for thought: &quot;Reflecting on 16 Years of Work on Adversarial Interoperability&quot; (now, more than 20...) [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nektra.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-on-16-years-of-work-on-adversarial-interoperability&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nektra.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;reflecting-on-16-years-of...</a></text></item><item><author>bogwog</author><text>This seems like it won&#x27;t last, but it&#x27;s AWESOME and I really hope you survive Apple&#x27;s inevitable attempts to kill this. A universal chat application would be amazing, and will maybe help bring attention to the value of standards and interoperability (hopefully by governments&#x2F;regulators).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android</title><url>https://www.beeper.com/</url><text>Hi HN! I’m proud to share that we have built a real 3rd party iMessage client for Android. We did it by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol and encryption system. It&#x27;s available to download today (no waitlist): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.beeper.ima">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.beeper.ima</a> and there&#x27;s a technical writeup here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works</a>.<p>Unlike every other attempt to build an iMessage app for Android (including our first gen app), Beeper Mini does not use a Mac server relay in the cloud. The app connects directly to Apple servers to send and receive end-to-end encrypted messages. Encryption keys never leave your device. No Apple ID is required. Beeper does not have access to your Apple account.<p>With Beeper Mini, your Android phone number is registered on iMessage. You show up as a ‘blue bubble’ when iPhone friends text you, and can join real iMessage group chats. All chat features like typing status, read receipts, full resolution images&#x2F;video, emoji reactions, voice notes, editing&#x2F;unsending, stickers etc are supported.<p>This is all unprecedented, so I imagine you may have a lot of questions. We’ve written a detailed technical blog post about how Beeper Mini works: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-beeper-mini-works</a>. A team member has published an open source Python iMessage protocol PoC on Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JJTech0130&#x2F;pypush">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JJTech0130&#x2F;pypush</a>. You can try it yourself on any Mac&#x2F;Windows&#x2F;Linux computer and see how iMessage works. My cofounder and I are also here to answer questions in the comments.<p>Our long term vision is to build a universal chat app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;were-building-the-best-chat-app-on">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.beeper.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;were-building-the-best-chat-app-on</a>). Over the next few months, we will be adding support for SMS&#x2F;RCS, WhatsApp, Signal and 12 other chat networks into Beeper Mini. At that point, we’ll drop the `Mini` postfix. We’re also rebuilding our Beeper Desktop and iOS apps to support our new ‘client-side bridge’ architecture that preserves full end-to-end encryption. We’re also renaming our first gen apps to ‘Beeper Cloud’ to more clearly differentiate them from Beeper Mini.<p>Side note: many people always ask ‘what do you think Apple is going to do about this?’ To be honest, I am shocked that everyone is so shocked by the sheer existence of a 3rd party iMessage client. The internet has always had 3rd party clients! It’s almost like people have forgotten that iChat (the app that iMessage grew out of) was itself a multi-protocol chat app! It supported AIM, Jabber and Google talk. Here’s a blast from the past: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;k6rmOgq.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;k6rmOgq.png</a>.</text></story> |
26,949,904 | 26,947,724 | 1 | 2 | 26,947,392 | 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>TomVDB</author><text>Let&#x27;s not forget impossibly advanced German car user interfaces, such as trackpad to gesture individual characters to spell a word!</text><parent_chain><item><author>ERD0L</author><text>Model 3 is a premium sedan ?
Oh :&#x2F;
Where are my paint color options, ventilated seats ?
What about parts for my local car shop ?
Did they forgot the safety features unique to german cars ?</text></item><item><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>&quot;Model 3 was the best-selling premium sedan in the world, outselling long-time industry leaders such as the 3 Series and E Class. This demonstrates that an electric vehicle can be a category leader and outsell its gas-powered counterparts.&quot;<p>I find this to be a major milestone in the transition to BEV. This is an achievement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Q1 2021 Results</title><url>https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/R3GJMT_TSLA_Q1_2021_Update_5KJWZA.pdf?xseo=&response-content-disposition=inline%3Bfilename%3D%22TSLA-Q1-2021-Update.pdf%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>brianwawok</author><text>Now compare 0-60 and infotainment systems.<p>Is premium how fast the car goes, or how many paint colors it comes in? Different people have different requirements.<p>You are likely paying over 100k to get a car as fast as a model 3.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ERD0L</author><text>Model 3 is a premium sedan ?
Oh :&#x2F;
Where are my paint color options, ventilated seats ?
What about parts for my local car shop ?
Did they forgot the safety features unique to german cars ?</text></item><item><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>&quot;Model 3 was the best-selling premium sedan in the world, outselling long-time industry leaders such as the 3 Series and E Class. This demonstrates that an electric vehicle can be a category leader and outsell its gas-powered counterparts.&quot;<p>I find this to be a major milestone in the transition to BEV. This is an achievement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Q1 2021 Results</title><url>https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/R3GJMT_TSLA_Q1_2021_Update_5KJWZA.pdf?xseo=&response-content-disposition=inline%3Bfilename%3D%22TSLA-Q1-2021-Update.pdf%22</url></story> |
21,840,865 | 21,840,911 | 1 | 2 | 21,840,019 | 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>zbentley</author><text>This was often a food for kids (&lt;10yo) in Utah, USA, and other rocky mountain states.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aussiegeek</author><text>I&#x27;m curious where this is a thing more specifically, never heard of this living in Victoria and Queensland</text></item><item><author>logicchains</author><text>In Australia at least, peanut butter and honey sandwiches are a thing. The taste is actually not bad, and it is possibly healthier than peanut butter and jam sandwiches.</text></item><item><author>nkozyra</author><text>I like the idea but it&#x27;s producing a lot of ... unappealing combos like peanut butter and honey ... sandwich? on ... rye? With a random side of red pepper hummus?<p>I think what&#x27;s missing is some graph of compatible ingredients per type of food. Things that generally require some companion (what am I eating that hummus with?) You could generate a pizza via compatibility scores. Same with curries, sandwiches, etc.<p>And of course hinting at the type of macros one might want. 60% of my diet as fat is probably not a good regular day.<p>But very compelling. I struggle with meal planning and the state of recipes and meals and the seo gamesmanship makes the whole thing very arduous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eat This Much – Automatic Meal Planner</title><url>https://www.eatthismuch.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>JoBrad</author><text>I&#x27;ve eaten this often, in the Southeast US.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aussiegeek</author><text>I&#x27;m curious where this is a thing more specifically, never heard of this living in Victoria and Queensland</text></item><item><author>logicchains</author><text>In Australia at least, peanut butter and honey sandwiches are a thing. The taste is actually not bad, and it is possibly healthier than peanut butter and jam sandwiches.</text></item><item><author>nkozyra</author><text>I like the idea but it&#x27;s producing a lot of ... unappealing combos like peanut butter and honey ... sandwich? on ... rye? With a random side of red pepper hummus?<p>I think what&#x27;s missing is some graph of compatible ingredients per type of food. Things that generally require some companion (what am I eating that hummus with?) You could generate a pizza via compatibility scores. Same with curries, sandwiches, etc.<p>And of course hinting at the type of macros one might want. 60% of my diet as fat is probably not a good regular day.<p>But very compelling. I struggle with meal planning and the state of recipes and meals and the seo gamesmanship makes the whole thing very arduous.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Eat This Much – Automatic Meal Planner</title><url>https://www.eatthismuch.com/</url></story> |
40,085,049 | 40,084,747 | 1 | 2 | 40,083,036 | 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>madeofpalk</author><text>Ugh. Not this HN trope again. &quot;Web is bad, the old days were good, designers are the worst, developers are the best&quot;<p>Lazy, inaccurate, and offensive.<p>How is this limited to the web? &#x27;The Desktop&#x27; suffers significantly more from not having a single, understandable paradigm. Is this UI modal? If I click this will it &#x27;pop&#x27; me to another view? Or will it open a new window? Is that window represented in task bar&#x2F;switcher&#x2F;dock&#x2F;whatever? How do I get back to where I was before?<p>Not to mention the issue that both macOS and Windows suffers from being in the middle of a UI-kit transition, with a bunch of half-and-half apps across the system, with the new system being of... dubious quality (I&#x27;m staring at you, new macOS Settings)<p>I think overall, I think there is a positive trend for usability of software on both the web and &#x27;desktop&#x27; (whatever that means). But still, just like 20 years ago, people can still make bad software.<p>Edit: lol - just now as I&#x27;m trying to uninstall some AMD drivers, I get a dialogue box asking me to visit a long Microsoft Store URL, and it&#x27;s neither clickable nor copyable. Desktop is perfect!</text><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&gt; “So, how was it to use a WYSIWYG web page editor from over 20 years ago? Quite pleasant, actually.”</i><p>The dirty secret of web apps is that we’ve mostly gone backwards in usability compared to native desktop apps from 25 years ago.<p>Web apps are a mishmash of paradigms. Pieces of desktop UI are reproduced using a woefully limited framework inside a static request-based page navigation model. The user never quite knows whether an action will trigger a multi-second page refresh, whether the back button does anything useful, etc.<p>Desktop UIs had professionally designed human interface guidelines based on decades of actual research. On the web, designers are primarily graphics artists who pick fonts and pride on making buttons look like nobody else’s buttons. Icons are nowadays tiny monochrome line scribbles without labels. Just pray there are tooltips so you can figure out what happens if you press one of these icon buttons in a web app. (Or maybe it’s just an icon and not a button? No way of knowing, since the conventions that made buttons obvious have been thrown away.)<p>The web is the worst application delivery platform of the past 30 years, so of course it’s the one we got stuck with. Worse often wins by its simplicity and ubiquity. Everybody could author a HTML page and some gradually built their skills towards apps. This review of old Netscape Composer reminds of how important that was.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Used Netscape Composer in 2024</title><url>https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-used-netscape-composer-in-2024-en/</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>yashasolutions</author><text>While we have more option when building app for desktop, the reason the web took over is because of the fragmentation of desktop experiences (+ potential complexity required to install desktop app) so overall, it seems it was more important to achieve interoperability and simplicity of deployment than powerful UX. Even in recent history, if you take Figma vs Sketch (which was a serious contender to Figma in terms of features and UX) Figma won because interops + no need to install.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&gt; “So, how was it to use a WYSIWYG web page editor from over 20 years ago? Quite pleasant, actually.”</i><p>The dirty secret of web apps is that we’ve mostly gone backwards in usability compared to native desktop apps from 25 years ago.<p>Web apps are a mishmash of paradigms. Pieces of desktop UI are reproduced using a woefully limited framework inside a static request-based page navigation model. The user never quite knows whether an action will trigger a multi-second page refresh, whether the back button does anything useful, etc.<p>Desktop UIs had professionally designed human interface guidelines based on decades of actual research. On the web, designers are primarily graphics artists who pick fonts and pride on making buttons look like nobody else’s buttons. Icons are nowadays tiny monochrome line scribbles without labels. Just pray there are tooltips so you can figure out what happens if you press one of these icon buttons in a web app. (Or maybe it’s just an icon and not a button? No way of knowing, since the conventions that made buttons obvious have been thrown away.)<p>The web is the worst application delivery platform of the past 30 years, so of course it’s the one we got stuck with. Worse often wins by its simplicity and ubiquity. Everybody could author a HTML page and some gradually built their skills towards apps. This review of old Netscape Composer reminds of how important that was.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Used Netscape Composer in 2024</title><url>https://plbrault.com/blog-posts/i-used-netscape-composer-in-2024-en/</url></story> |
11,813,252 | 11,813,235 | 1 | 2 | 11,812,497 | 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>piquadrat</author><text>I heard numbers of 45 minutes less for Zurich-Milan. Maybe your number already includes the Ceneri Base Tunnel[1], to be opened in 2020?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ceneri_Base_Tunnel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ceneri_Base_Tunnel</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>MagnumOpus</author><text>It cuts the Zürich-Milan journey time for passenger trains by about an hour (from 173 to 111 minutes) accelerating train trips from Germany&#x2F;Switzerland to Italy significantly.</text></item><item><author>harryf</author><text>So how much time approximately will be saved vs the existing routes?</text></item><item><author>vasile</author><text>You can check a small animation[1] of the rail traffic from this upcoming weekend when the first passenger trains will pass through the tunnel<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.vasile.ch&#x2F;transit-sbb&#x2F;?hms=08:40:00&amp;day=2016-06-04&amp;x=8.7744&amp;y=46.61882&amp;time_multiply=100&amp;zoom=10" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.vasile.ch&#x2F;transit-sbb&#x2F;?hms=08:40:00&amp;day=2016-06-...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;cN3HKPp?v=2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;cN3HKPp?v=2</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36423250</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>dalke</author><text>Could you double-check the Zürich-Milan journey time?<p>The article says &quot;... the journey time for travellers between Zurich and Milan will be reduced by an hour to two hours and 40 minutes.&quot;<p>I cross-checked that with <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;switzerland-s-gotthard-train-tunnel-will-be-world-s-longest-n576096" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;switzerland-s-gotthard-tra...</a> (&quot;reducing the journey times between Zurich, Switzerland, and Milan, Italy, from just over four hours to two-and-a-half hours&quot;) and <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;content.time.com&#x2F;time&#x2F;business&#x2F;article&#x2F;0,8599,2026369,00.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;content.time.com&#x2F;time&#x2F;business&#x2F;article&#x2F;0,8599,2026369...</a> (&quot;the journey time of three hours and 40 minutes from Zurich to Milan on the Cisalpino tilting train will be cut by an hour&quot;.)<p>You can see these all give a time of over 150 minutes using the tunnel, not 111 minutes. They all agree it&#x27;s a savings of about an hour.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MagnumOpus</author><text>It cuts the Zürich-Milan journey time for passenger trains by about an hour (from 173 to 111 minutes) accelerating train trips from Germany&#x2F;Switzerland to Italy significantly.</text></item><item><author>harryf</author><text>So how much time approximately will be saved vs the existing routes?</text></item><item><author>vasile</author><text>You can check a small animation[1] of the rail traffic from this upcoming weekend when the first passenger trains will pass through the tunnel<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.vasile.ch&#x2F;transit-sbb&#x2F;?hms=08:40:00&amp;day=2016-06-04&amp;x=8.7744&amp;y=46.61882&amp;time_multiply=100&amp;zoom=10" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.vasile.ch&#x2F;transit-sbb&#x2F;?hms=08:40:00&amp;day=2016-06-...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;cN3HKPp?v=2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;cN3HKPp?v=2</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36423250</url></story> |
33,381,022 | 33,378,437 | 1 | 3 | 33,373,619 | 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>LastTrain</author><text>There was a time, getting to be quite a long time ago now, when you&#x27;d search for something - software to run on your old SGI, pictures of your 1982 ERA Vans, etc. etc. - and you&#x27;d find it. You&#x27;d find it because someone&#x27;s &#x27;thing&#x27; was old shoes, and they&#x27;d built a web shrine to their thing. These were people who had knowledge of things unrelated to HTML&#x2F;HTTP&#x2F;CSS and so the sites were rudimentary.<p>You are right, the engine should focus more on content and less on the complexity or quality of the formatting - but I also kind of get it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>The site&#x27;s definition of &quot;content-first suckless&quot; is more or less synonymous with &quot;created before 2005&quot;. Which is fine if you are into that aesthetic, but it is a terrible way to judge the value of the content itself. A few lines of CSS to set sensible margins, spacing and text contrast isn&#x27;t the end of the world. Heck even Wikipedia is not &quot;content-first&quot; enough to be included in the results. And it doubly sucks for those who are expecting the tiniest bit of accessibility on the internet.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wiby.me: curated search engine for content-first suckless sites</title><url>https://wiby.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>marginalia_nu</author><text>Plain HTML typically has great accessibility. Its when you start adding CSS and scripts it worsens.</text><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>The site&#x27;s definition of &quot;content-first suckless&quot; is more or less synonymous with &quot;created before 2005&quot;. Which is fine if you are into that aesthetic, but it is a terrible way to judge the value of the content itself. A few lines of CSS to set sensible margins, spacing and text contrast isn&#x27;t the end of the world. Heck even Wikipedia is not &quot;content-first&quot; enough to be included in the results. And it doubly sucks for those who are expecting the tiniest bit of accessibility on the internet.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wiby.me: curated search engine for content-first suckless sites</title><url>https://wiby.me/</url></story> |
31,823,121 | 31,823,370 | 1 | 2 | 31,822,549 | 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>Entertainment has entered a tyranny of choice. I see it personally. I can watch nearly every show and movie that was ever created but I still flip through Netflix and RT endlessly, often times choosing not to watch anything. When I was younger I would just watch Seinfeld re-runs, with commercials and all. Am I more &quot;entertained&quot; today than I was when I was growing up? I&#x27;m not convinced.<p>The weirdest thing is I don&#x27;t remember what I used to talk to my friends about when I was in high school. We didn&#x27;t have much shared media to talk about (e.g. periodic TV shows people obsess about today). None of us so much picked up a newspaper at the time so current events were out. None of us had that many specific interests and the interests we had weren&#x27;t shared. But somehow we spent hours talking about something. I wish I could be a fly on the wall of my prom table to just take in what was discussed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>I don&#x27;t think tech or porn is the main culprit. It&#x27;s that people now have way more entertainment options other than sex. Of course, a lot for those entertainment options are being driven by tech.<p>Back in my dad&#x27;s days, they were poor so the only entertainment options in their free time was drinking cheap home made alcohol, dancing and sex, while now we have gaming, Netflix, tic-tok, porn, traveling to the infinite Instagramable places around the world, plus the grind of keeping up with spiraling living and real estate costs, which IMHO, is the real bummer here.<p>Also, adult dating and meeting people for the post-college working professionals, has largely moved from clubs&#x2F;bars&#x2F;the office to online dating apps, or lonely depression in your apartment, eating or drinking your feelings away, for those without success in the WFH, remote-everything, online dating world. Especially with the lockdowns.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sex is going out of fashion?</title><url>https://www.welltechnically.news/p/sex-is-going-out-of-fashion</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>CodeSgt</author><text>I think that all the things you listed are definitely culprits, but I wouldn&#x27;t be so quick to discount porn.<p>Anecdotally, I myself and many otherwise healthy, sociable young men I know have pretty serious porn addictions. I really wish there would be more research done on the negative impacts of pornography, especially on young men and teens&#x2F;pre-teens.<p>I know typically any anti-porn sentiment is met with &quot;Oh you&#x27;re just being a puritan&quot;, but the reality couldn&#x27;t be further from the truth.<p>On social issues, I&#x27;m very liberal. Yet so much porn during my developmental years has done so much damage that as an adult I&#x27;m just now really understanding the full extent of it, and breaking that addiction is incredibly difficult</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>I don&#x27;t think tech or porn is the main culprit. It&#x27;s that people now have way more entertainment options other than sex. Of course, a lot for those entertainment options are being driven by tech.<p>Back in my dad&#x27;s days, they were poor so the only entertainment options in their free time was drinking cheap home made alcohol, dancing and sex, while now we have gaming, Netflix, tic-tok, porn, traveling to the infinite Instagramable places around the world, plus the grind of keeping up with spiraling living and real estate costs, which IMHO, is the real bummer here.<p>Also, adult dating and meeting people for the post-college working professionals, has largely moved from clubs&#x2F;bars&#x2F;the office to online dating apps, or lonely depression in your apartment, eating or drinking your feelings away, for those without success in the WFH, remote-everything, online dating world. Especially with the lockdowns.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sex is going out of fashion?</title><url>https://www.welltechnically.news/p/sex-is-going-out-of-fashion</url></story> |
7,429,869 | 7,428,411 | 1 | 2 | 7,427,542 | 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>beat</author><text>For some perspective... I&#x27;m 49. Last time I looked for a job (six months ago), I had two offers in less than two weeks. In general, I can get a job in no more than three weeks, just by answering the calls. And I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m all that special.<p>What I do have is a <i>relevant</i> resume, both buzzword compliant and impressive to humans who actually know their ass from a hole in the ground. It&#x27;s carefully honed not to present me as a &quot;generalist&quot; (or some other self-perception), but to get me to the top of that pile for interviews.<p>Look at your resume as a piece of software. No matter how aesthetically pleasing and warmfuzzy your resume feels to you, if <i>it isn&#x27;t working</i>, then it&#x27;s buggy and needs fixed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>OldCoder</author><text>The interest is appreciated. However, we have different perspectives.<p>My &#x27;C&#x27; experience dates back to 1976 and is probably still relevant. FWIW I never did much COBOL though my firm did have a COBOL-Lint.<p>I don&#x27;t think that your 20 years of Linux experience, or mine, is &quot;meaningless&quot;. Not if the experience has been continuous. And, in my case, I&#x27;ve not only used Linux almost daily since before Slackware existed, I&#x27;ve developed my own distro, I maintain copies of nearly 2,000 packages, and many of my copies have patches of my own design.<p>Regarding the &quot;masters of&quot; issue, I may not have made the &quot;generalist&quot; point in the post clear enough. I&#x27;m only a &quot;master of&quot; a few things. But I&#x27;m very good at getting back up to speed on the things that I&#x27;ve had &quot;experience with&quot;.<p>This is what a generalist does.<p>I agree with the &quot;Take off your reasons&quot; point. I&#x27;m going to keep most of the rest. The difficulties that I&#x27;m facing are partly due to my own foolish mistakes. But they aren&#x27;t about the fact that I&#x27;ve listed hobbies on my resume or that I have a nick that implies age.<p>I&#x27;m not going to pretend to be a twenty-something specialist. It isn&#x27;t what I am. I&#x27;m a highly experienced generalist. In this context, the decades that you feel that I ought to hide are relevant.</text></item><item><author>300bps</author><text>I don&#x27;t think there is a single thing right with his resume. Let&#x27;s take the first line of his overview:<p><i>Software developer since the 1970s.</i><p>First of all, any development experience from the 70s is at best meaningless and at worst detrimental. Try teaching a Cobol programmer OOP and you&#x27;ll find that they learn it slower than someone without that procedural coding experience. Second of all, the first line of your resume should not be to announce what protected class(es) you are in. Your resume shouldn&#x27;t have &quot;senior citizen&quot; on it anymore than it should have your race, creed, religion or any other irrelevant facts on it.<p><i>Linux work started with the first kernel releases and continued through Slackware</i><p>So what? I used Slackware extensively in 1996 but the experience is meaningless. If I had that on my resume now it would tell anyone reading it that I&#x27;m probably resting on my laurels and probably have for decades.<p><i>Experience includes: Agile, Assembly, Back-End, BSD, C, CSS, Debian, FOSS, GIMP, HTTP, Java, Linux, Mathematics, Mint, MySQL, Octave (similar to Matlab), Open Source, Parser, Perl, PHP5, Python, Recruiting, Regex, Shell, SQLite3, Support, TCP&#x2F;IP, Ubuntu, UNIX, Tcl&#x2F;Tk, Teaching, Training, Transcoding, VPS, Writing, XML, XSLT</i><p>I&#x27;ve seen dozens of resumes that list dozens of technologies like this. Not even so much as a bold font weight to say the things they are masters of as opposed to &quot;experience with&quot;. Early in my management career I hired a developer that had TCP&#x2F;IP programming listed as a skill on her resume. After hiring her, I gave her the IP address of the server to do some TCP&#x2F;IP programming. She asked, &quot;What is IP address?&quot;<p>As someone who is in their 40s, my advice to to someone without a job later in life is to drop all the extraneous things and focus on what you&#x27;ve done lately. Lose the moniker &quot;old coder&quot;. Lose any technologies older than a decade from your resume. Lose any references to &quot;35 years of experience with...&quot;. Take off your hobbies. Take off your reasons for leaving your past employment. There are too many other fixes needed to go into.</text></item><item><author>gexla</author><text>So, if I saw a job description like that I would smell BS and never apply. Maybe handing off a resume like that gives the same smell.<p>You don&#x27;t give resumes like this, you tailor your pitch to the company which is hiring.<p>If you are applying to a PHP job, then remove all the fluff and tell the employer that you are a PHP developer. Generalists dont&#x27; get hired, then don&#x27;t be a generalist. Touching up your PHP skills should take a couple of weeks. ;)</text></item><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>I don&#x27;t get it. This guy&#x27;s resume says he&#x27;s a double major of math&#x2F;CS from Berkeley with high honors -- and apparently he&#x27;s worked on pretty hardcore engineering projects.<p><pre><code> I&#x27;ve created a Linux distro of my own. Original and not a fork.
See articles on website. Geared towards CLI engineers.
Patched and built about 1,800 packages myself. Supported
and customized standard distros as well.
Double Bachelors in Math and Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley.
High Honors and Honors. Worked with Open Source
since the 1980s. Led small teams in startup and similar environments.
Considered to be good at writing and analysis of problems.
Experience includes: Agile, Assembly, Back-End, BSD, C, CSS, Debian,
FOSS, GIMP, HTTP, Java, Linux, Mathematics, Mint,
MySQL, Octave (similar to Matlab), Open Source, Parser, Perl, PHP5,
Python, Recruiting, Regex, Shell, SQLite3, Support,
TCP&#x2F;IP, Ubuntu, UNIX, Tcl&#x2F;Tk, Teaching, Training, Transcoding,
VPS, Writing, XML, XSLT
</code></pre>
What is wrong with Silicon Valley today that a person like him can&#x27;t get a reliable job, and therefore is unable to live with medical healthcare, a reasonable place of residence, etc.?<p>edit: on the bright side, now that this post is on HN frontpage, I hope someone seeks this guy out and gives him a job. From what I can grasp, the quality of his code is pretty damn good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happens to Older Developers?</title><url>http://christfollower.me/D140313ADVICE</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>lostcolony</author><text>If I was a recruiter, this would go in the not interested heap.<p>While some companies want generalists, this isn&#x27;t tailored for that either. You indicate projects you&#x27;ve been on, but not what your specific responsibilities were. Describing the project&#x27;s language, DB, and how the project is pipelined is not useful. What did -you- do? What experience do -you- now have that could translate to other projects? &quot;Core was a Perl server that collected binary data from upstream devices, stored data using SQL, and relayed it to clients as XML over HTTP.&quot; tells me about the project, but not what -you- did, not what experiences -you- now have. Even better if you can highlight keywords for me. The whole &#x27;typical projects&#x27; section is kind of a waste; it&#x27;s project names that have no meaning to me, or which may, but tell me nothing about what technology you know. &#x27;Email client programs&#x27;; does that mean you have familiarity with the various email protocols? TCP&#x2F;IP? GUI development? Nothing anywhere else tells me what it is you know.<p>Most companies want to fill a niche. Highlight what niche you can fill (yes, preferably tailored for the company), and make that -obvious- in your resume.<p>In general, take this approach - assume a recruiter, HR person, etc, will spend 3 seconds looking at your resume before deciding whether to bin it, or continue reading it. They are looking to match a certain set of relevant keywords&#x2F;terms. What message do you want to send to someone in three seconds&#x2F;what words&#x2F;terms do you want to be matched against? That should be what I as a reader get from the first sentence, the first item in your experience, and the first item in your skills.<p>The message you&#x27;re currently sending is &quot;Old coder, part of a large team that did...some stuff that isn&#x27;t spelled out clearly, and generalist with a whole lot of bullet points&quot;. Not interested. But tell me &quot;Perl, C, and Linux expert, extensive application development experience, double CS&#x2F;Math major&quot;, and suddenly if I have a Perl or C codebase I&#x27;m interested. Right now I have to do too much reading and thinking to get that information out, and no recruiter will do that.<p>Also, in general, you are correct that there is a bias against age. You&#x27;re making it so the first thing I notice is your age. Make it so the first thing I notice is your experience; make it clear that you fill the niche I have, that you may well be the ideal candidate for my needs, BEFORE I notice your age.</text><parent_chain><item><author>OldCoder</author><text>The interest is appreciated. However, we have different perspectives.<p>My &#x27;C&#x27; experience dates back to 1976 and is probably still relevant. FWIW I never did much COBOL though my firm did have a COBOL-Lint.<p>I don&#x27;t think that your 20 years of Linux experience, or mine, is &quot;meaningless&quot;. Not if the experience has been continuous. And, in my case, I&#x27;ve not only used Linux almost daily since before Slackware existed, I&#x27;ve developed my own distro, I maintain copies of nearly 2,000 packages, and many of my copies have patches of my own design.<p>Regarding the &quot;masters of&quot; issue, I may not have made the &quot;generalist&quot; point in the post clear enough. I&#x27;m only a &quot;master of&quot; a few things. But I&#x27;m very good at getting back up to speed on the things that I&#x27;ve had &quot;experience with&quot;.<p>This is what a generalist does.<p>I agree with the &quot;Take off your reasons&quot; point. I&#x27;m going to keep most of the rest. The difficulties that I&#x27;m facing are partly due to my own foolish mistakes. But they aren&#x27;t about the fact that I&#x27;ve listed hobbies on my resume or that I have a nick that implies age.<p>I&#x27;m not going to pretend to be a twenty-something specialist. It isn&#x27;t what I am. I&#x27;m a highly experienced generalist. In this context, the decades that you feel that I ought to hide are relevant.</text></item><item><author>300bps</author><text>I don&#x27;t think there is a single thing right with his resume. Let&#x27;s take the first line of his overview:<p><i>Software developer since the 1970s.</i><p>First of all, any development experience from the 70s is at best meaningless and at worst detrimental. Try teaching a Cobol programmer OOP and you&#x27;ll find that they learn it slower than someone without that procedural coding experience. Second of all, the first line of your resume should not be to announce what protected class(es) you are in. Your resume shouldn&#x27;t have &quot;senior citizen&quot; on it anymore than it should have your race, creed, religion or any other irrelevant facts on it.<p><i>Linux work started with the first kernel releases and continued through Slackware</i><p>So what? I used Slackware extensively in 1996 but the experience is meaningless. If I had that on my resume now it would tell anyone reading it that I&#x27;m probably resting on my laurels and probably have for decades.<p><i>Experience includes: Agile, Assembly, Back-End, BSD, C, CSS, Debian, FOSS, GIMP, HTTP, Java, Linux, Mathematics, Mint, MySQL, Octave (similar to Matlab), Open Source, Parser, Perl, PHP5, Python, Recruiting, Regex, Shell, SQLite3, Support, TCP&#x2F;IP, Ubuntu, UNIX, Tcl&#x2F;Tk, Teaching, Training, Transcoding, VPS, Writing, XML, XSLT</i><p>I&#x27;ve seen dozens of resumes that list dozens of technologies like this. Not even so much as a bold font weight to say the things they are masters of as opposed to &quot;experience with&quot;. Early in my management career I hired a developer that had TCP&#x2F;IP programming listed as a skill on her resume. After hiring her, I gave her the IP address of the server to do some TCP&#x2F;IP programming. She asked, &quot;What is IP address?&quot;<p>As someone who is in their 40s, my advice to to someone without a job later in life is to drop all the extraneous things and focus on what you&#x27;ve done lately. Lose the moniker &quot;old coder&quot;. Lose any technologies older than a decade from your resume. Lose any references to &quot;35 years of experience with...&quot;. Take off your hobbies. Take off your reasons for leaving your past employment. There are too many other fixes needed to go into.</text></item><item><author>gexla</author><text>So, if I saw a job description like that I would smell BS and never apply. Maybe handing off a resume like that gives the same smell.<p>You don&#x27;t give resumes like this, you tailor your pitch to the company which is hiring.<p>If you are applying to a PHP job, then remove all the fluff and tell the employer that you are a PHP developer. Generalists dont&#x27; get hired, then don&#x27;t be a generalist. Touching up your PHP skills should take a couple of weeks. ;)</text></item><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>I don&#x27;t get it. This guy&#x27;s resume says he&#x27;s a double major of math&#x2F;CS from Berkeley with high honors -- and apparently he&#x27;s worked on pretty hardcore engineering projects.<p><pre><code> I&#x27;ve created a Linux distro of my own. Original and not a fork.
See articles on website. Geared towards CLI engineers.
Patched and built about 1,800 packages myself. Supported
and customized standard distros as well.
Double Bachelors in Math and Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley.
High Honors and Honors. Worked with Open Source
since the 1980s. Led small teams in startup and similar environments.
Considered to be good at writing and analysis of problems.
Experience includes: Agile, Assembly, Back-End, BSD, C, CSS, Debian,
FOSS, GIMP, HTTP, Java, Linux, Mathematics, Mint,
MySQL, Octave (similar to Matlab), Open Source, Parser, Perl, PHP5,
Python, Recruiting, Regex, Shell, SQLite3, Support,
TCP&#x2F;IP, Ubuntu, UNIX, Tcl&#x2F;Tk, Teaching, Training, Transcoding,
VPS, Writing, XML, XSLT
</code></pre>
What is wrong with Silicon Valley today that a person like him can&#x27;t get a reliable job, and therefore is unable to live with medical healthcare, a reasonable place of residence, etc.?<p>edit: on the bright side, now that this post is on HN frontpage, I hope someone seeks this guy out and gives him a job. From what I can grasp, the quality of his code is pretty damn good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happens to Older Developers?</title><url>http://christfollower.me/D140313ADVICE</url></story> |
2,756,460 | 2,756,601 | 1 | 2 | 2,756,314 | 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>davidw</author><text>Wow, nice move, guys!<p>One of the things I always admired about Linus is that he managed to stay <i>very</i> neutral amongst all the Linux vendors. Back in the dot com days, he could have had pretty much anything he wanted from Redhat, VA Linux, Linuxcare, etc... etc.... but he managed to stay with Transmeta, and then go to the Linux Foundation, which is neutral territory. That's allowed him to focus on Linux without having a Corporate Overlord, benign though it may be.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku</title><url>http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/7/12/matz_joins_heroku/</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>wheels</author><text>Interesting note:<p>With Rasmus Lerdorf working at WePay, this means the creators of the two most presently popular web programming languages, Ruby and PHP, are now working for YC companies.<p>(Which is a teency stretch since Heroku is now SalesForce and hence no longer really a YC company, but we'll count them to keep it interesting.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku</title><url>http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/7/12/matz_joins_heroku/</url></story> |
31,004,702 | 31,002,705 | 1 | 3 | 30,976,293 | 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>xur17</author><text>Just installed this in a dev cluster, and I&#x27;m ecstatic. Does a lot of what I&#x27;ve been looking for, including:<p>* log of all traffic<p>* service graph<p>* automatic swagger doc generation<p>THANK YOU!!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mizu – API traffic viewer for Kubernetes</title><url>https://github.com/up9inc/mizu</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>remram</author><text>How does it work? The docs don&#x27;t seem to mention.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mizu – API traffic viewer for Kubernetes</title><url>https://github.com/up9inc/mizu</url></story> |
8,945,198 | 8,944,674 | 1 | 3 | 8,944,483 | 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>hibikir</author><text>It&#x27;s not just random vs random. Two extremely weak players will take hours to finish a won game, because the player with the major material advantage does not know how to win!<p>When teaching kids, it&#x27;s not uncommon to, after teaching them how to move all the pieces, spend time teaching them how to perform the most basic of mates: KQ vs K, KRR vs K, KR vs K. Only after those three are mastered we have a good opportunity of having beginner games ending in anything other than a stalemate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>acadien</author><text>Because check mate is a very small subset of possible moves at the end game, I&#x27;m guessing the vast majority of games will end(?) with 2 kings moving around randomly for all of time.<p>This assumes most games will make it past the hump of mid game where its possible the king&#x27;s motion will be limited and a checkmate can erroneously happen, I suspect this is a rare case as well.<p>On a side note I wonder what kind of useful information could be mined from a huge set of random-random games. Maybe the relative power of each piece in terms of the number of pieces it captures on average? Also with some heuristic tweeks you could probably start exploring the power of various openings. Of course then its no longer random-random.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?</title><url>http://chessboardjs.com/examples#5002</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>TillE</author><text>I saw one game quickly become a lone white king against six black pieces. The king eventually captured three of them, and then the game gave up after some number of fruitless moves.<p>Even with that advantage, black couldn&#x27;t randomly stumble across checkmate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>acadien</author><text>Because check mate is a very small subset of possible moves at the end game, I&#x27;m guessing the vast majority of games will end(?) with 2 kings moving around randomly for all of time.<p>This assumes most games will make it past the hump of mid game where its possible the king&#x27;s motion will be limited and a checkmate can erroneously happen, I suspect this is a rare case as well.<p>On a side note I wonder what kind of useful information could be mined from a huge set of random-random games. Maybe the relative power of each piece in terms of the number of pieces it captures on average? Also with some heuristic tweeks you could probably start exploring the power of various openings. Of course then its no longer random-random.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?</title><url>http://chessboardjs.com/examples#5002</url></story> |
26,802,517 | 26,801,956 | 1 | 2 | 26,799,961 | 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>dougmwne</author><text>The spike protein &quot;springs&quot; into an elongated configuration to help it latch onto a cell wall. Several of the vaccines have purposefully modified the protein used in the vaccine to keep it in it&#x27;s unsprung form. The idea is that you want the antibody response to be focused on the unsprung protein so that you can prevent it from attaching and springing in the first place. From what I understand, the vaccine researchers have tested several variations of the spike protein in animal models to try to select one that will yield the best antibodies. The immune system is quite complex, but in theory it would be possible to design a protein that resulted in better antibodies than a wild infection. An analogy is it&#x27;s like showing your immune system a lock and asking it to come up with a key that opens the lock. A different lock might produce a universal key that opens many locks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouse008</author><text>My intuitive and 0-observation question is how in the world can a reduced function protein give you a better immune response than the full-featured, infect anywhere there&#x27;s an ACE receptor, c19 infection?<p>(&#x27;A Request for Submissions&#x27; I guess should be the title of this question)</text></item><item><author>glofish</author><text>Notable commentary:<p>&gt; The findings of the authors suggest that infection and the development of an antibody response provides protection similar to or even better than currently used SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;lancet&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS0140-6736(21)00782-0&#x2F;fulltext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;lancet&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS0140-6...</a><p>In case you wanted to know - several hypotheses float around on what provides more protection an actual infection or the vaccine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Previous Covid-19 may cut risk of reinfection 84%</title><url>https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/04/previous-covid-19-may-cut-risk-reinfection-84</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>sparker72678</author><text>Total load, and immune stimulation can be different between infection and vaccine, as unintuitive as that might be.<p>And many viruses, SARS-Cov-2 included, have immune response suppression effects that the vaccine does not.<p>More study is needed, both those are possibilities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouse008</author><text>My intuitive and 0-observation question is how in the world can a reduced function protein give you a better immune response than the full-featured, infect anywhere there&#x27;s an ACE receptor, c19 infection?<p>(&#x27;A Request for Submissions&#x27; I guess should be the title of this question)</text></item><item><author>glofish</author><text>Notable commentary:<p>&gt; The findings of the authors suggest that infection and the development of an antibody response provides protection similar to or even better than currently used SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;lancet&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS0140-6736(21)00782-0&#x2F;fulltext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;lancet&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS0140-6...</a><p>In case you wanted to know - several hypotheses float around on what provides more protection an actual infection or the vaccine.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Previous Covid-19 may cut risk of reinfection 84%</title><url>https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/04/previous-covid-19-may-cut-risk-reinfection-84</url></story> |
32,968,702 | 32,968,787 | 1 | 2 | 32,968,480 | 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>arthurcolle</author><text>Here you go @sithadmin:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;75awHl6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;75awHl6</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>sithadmin</author><text>I&#x27;m not seeing it. Surely you don&#x27;t mean a silhouette of an aircraft with twin booms to the horizontal and rear stabilizers, or a delta wing silhouette is a &#x27;UFO&#x27;?<p>Edit: Apparently I am totally oblivious. Please have no regrets for downvoting this comment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO</title><url>https://www.airdomainintelligence.mil/</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>maxbond</author><text>Upvoted for admitting your mistake without issue. Thanks stranger, HN needs that energy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sithadmin</author><text>I&#x27;m not seeing it. Surely you don&#x27;t mean a silhouette of an aircraft with twin booms to the horizontal and rear stabilizers, or a delta wing silhouette is a &#x27;UFO&#x27;?<p>Edit: Apparently I am totally oblivious. Please have no regrets for downvoting this comment.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO</title><url>https://www.airdomainintelligence.mil/</url></story> |
40,939,233 | 40,937,978 | 1 | 2 | 40,932,948 | 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>piloto_ciego</author><text>There was another post in this thread that basically said, “toughen up buttercup” that I can no longer find. While I agree that this is a dickish thing to say, I can’t help but somewhat agree with the sentiment that tech workers are perhaps a little bit better off than the average person and don’t have a lot of perspective here about how bad it can get. Not saying that it’s ok, rather that when you can easily find another job it’s pretty easy to take a principled stand.<p>I flew for a living for a long time and was verbally harassed at many jobs by a superior. I remember talking on the radio once during a checkride - “do you have shit in your mouth? Because you sound like it.”<p>He was just being an asshole to rile me up, but it remains an asshole thing to say, and you have to deal with it because he literally holds your career in his hands. Personally, in that moment I vowed I’d never do that to anyone - but it doesn’t mean it isn’t widespread and it doesn’t mean quitting was an option.<p>Other times in my career I was expressedly told violate regulations or do legal but wildly unsafe things; because I had massive student loan debt at the time (I paid all that shit off eventually greatest feeling in the world), rent to pay, I had to make a lot of compromises I’m not proud of retrospectively because I did not want to be homeless or laid off looking for a flying job in 2009.<p>To act as though everyone can quit if their ego gets bruised by some jackass is the height of privilege. Many many other careers do not have that option. Not saying it is right in the least, but I feel a lot of people would really benefit from an understanding that how principled a person can be often practically changed by exterior circumstances.<p>That’s the thing I want people to take away from all this - a sort of “dialectical materialism” sort of view - that being able to quit without worse consequences than a bruised ego is unto itself a sort of prosperity many many people do not have.</text><parent_chain><item><author>atum47</author><text>I was working for a big bank, facing moral harassment almost every day from a shitty manager. The thing with moral harassment is it don&#x27;t happen out of nothing, it is gradual. The manager was testing the waters, every day making the insult a bit harder than the day before. One day he actually cursed me in a meeting with 14 other people and I decided I had enough. Reported him to HR and quit. After that I was working on a game, that I was going to try to make a living out of. I was decided not to go back to work for a while. Then, on HN I saw those to topics - who wants to be hired and who is hiring. I selected 6 openings that seems interesting to me and send an email. 4 wrote me back. 3 gave me a coding challenge. 1 Hired me. Been working with them for almost 3 years now. Great company. Really nice people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?</title><text>Please comment here if you&#x27;ve ever gotten hired through HN and what your experience was 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>mylastattempt</author><text>This is my first time hearing of &#x27;moral harassment&#x27;. Is that an actual phrase or is English not your native language? Reading the rest of your comment it seems the manager was just a bully, but please elaborate if that understanding is incorrect!</text><parent_chain><item><author>atum47</author><text>I was working for a big bank, facing moral harassment almost every day from a shitty manager. The thing with moral harassment is it don&#x27;t happen out of nothing, it is gradual. The manager was testing the waters, every day making the insult a bit harder than the day before. One day he actually cursed me in a meeting with 14 other people and I decided I had enough. Reported him to HR and quit. After that I was working on a game, that I was going to try to make a living out of. I was decided not to go back to work for a while. Then, on HN I saw those to topics - who wants to be hired and who is hiring. I selected 6 openings that seems interesting to me and send an email. 4 wrote me back. 3 gave me a coding challenge. 1 Hired me. Been working with them for almost 3 years now. Great company. Really nice people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?</title><text>Please comment here if you&#x27;ve ever gotten hired through HN and what your experience was like.</text></story> |
39,407,670 | 39,407,237 | 1 | 3 | 39,406,617 | 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>duccinator</author><text>Once you have autonomous robots you can use those robots to build more robots leading to an exponential curve. The day they make the first one, we will reach a million in 2-3 years and a billion in 2-4 years after that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>For autonomous robots to replace the millions of tradesmen and workers, it would require vastly more resources than are being put toward this now. I wouldn’t expect human labor to be replaced in this way for a century or two.</text></item><item><author>alumic</author><text>I drove around today listening to the most recent Lex Fridman podcast, in which the founder of Boston Dynamics was describing replacing human labor with machines that were capable of learning by seeing. I have family in the trades. I pursued tech and fell in love with the field. Listening to the interviewee, I began to feel sick to my stomach at the glib description of what amounts to ripping away peoples&#x27; livelihoods with plasticized fingers. Work is equivalent to worth. We are not biologically or sociologically prepared to differentiate the two.<p>How easy it must be for Sam Altman to drag the world kicking and screaming into the future. How pretty his offices.</text></item><item><author>inference-lord</author><text>I became a parent about a year ago, completely unprepared for this future. My Son was born around the time ChatGPT-4 was released and I remember all the Geoffrey Hinton interviews which were really apocalyptic sounding, he is has a kind of kookie mad scientist vibe about him too. I remember thinking, like what the fuck just happened? Like I just woke up in a movie.<p>I&#x27;ve learned to accept the situation, and realize that we can&#x27;t really predict what will happen so I just try be the best, happiest parent I can to my kids that I can. But I never anticipated the &quot;along for the ride&quot; feeling I have now. Financially planning for 3 years ahead seems quite impossible as I have no idea what type of employment will or will not exist then.<p>It <i>seems</i> like our careers could just be snuffed out instantly with little recourse available. I say &quot;seems like&quot; because I have no idea if that&#x27;s real or perceived but it&#x27;s very hard plan ahead.<p>I&#x27;m kind of glad my child didn&#x27;t just finished university and planning a career in something that is ripe for disruption because that must be pretty heart breaking, especially because we bring kids up thinking they need a purpose, having a purpose (in my opinion) is a stupid way to live, but not everyone feels that way.<p>I can&#x27;t help feel a bit cynical too, like I&#x27;m kind of annoyed that realistically, the tech elite of the world are just throwing money at this thing like it&#x27;s no one else&#x27; business and fuck what anyone else thinks about it and fuck how it might impact anyone else because, progress, which at the moment, is code for, &quot;we&#x27;re about to make copious amounts of money using everyone&#x27;s IP, a bunch of open source software, and we might give something back, so fuck off.<p>I&#x27;m trying to put the cynicism down, look forwards and hope for the best.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Raising Children on the Eve of AI</title><url>https://juliawise.net/raising-children-on-the-eve-of-ai/</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>inference-lord</author><text>It&#x27;s kicking the can down the road, will still be a problem in 200 years at the rate which our society is progressing, potentially even going backwards if the orange man wins in 2024.</text><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>For autonomous robots to replace the millions of tradesmen and workers, it would require vastly more resources than are being put toward this now. I wouldn’t expect human labor to be replaced in this way for a century or two.</text></item><item><author>alumic</author><text>I drove around today listening to the most recent Lex Fridman podcast, in which the founder of Boston Dynamics was describing replacing human labor with machines that were capable of learning by seeing. I have family in the trades. I pursued tech and fell in love with the field. Listening to the interviewee, I began to feel sick to my stomach at the glib description of what amounts to ripping away peoples&#x27; livelihoods with plasticized fingers. Work is equivalent to worth. We are not biologically or sociologically prepared to differentiate the two.<p>How easy it must be for Sam Altman to drag the world kicking and screaming into the future. How pretty his offices.</text></item><item><author>inference-lord</author><text>I became a parent about a year ago, completely unprepared for this future. My Son was born around the time ChatGPT-4 was released and I remember all the Geoffrey Hinton interviews which were really apocalyptic sounding, he is has a kind of kookie mad scientist vibe about him too. I remember thinking, like what the fuck just happened? Like I just woke up in a movie.<p>I&#x27;ve learned to accept the situation, and realize that we can&#x27;t really predict what will happen so I just try be the best, happiest parent I can to my kids that I can. But I never anticipated the &quot;along for the ride&quot; feeling I have now. Financially planning for 3 years ahead seems quite impossible as I have no idea what type of employment will or will not exist then.<p>It <i>seems</i> like our careers could just be snuffed out instantly with little recourse available. I say &quot;seems like&quot; because I have no idea if that&#x27;s real or perceived but it&#x27;s very hard plan ahead.<p>I&#x27;m kind of glad my child didn&#x27;t just finished university and planning a career in something that is ripe for disruption because that must be pretty heart breaking, especially because we bring kids up thinking they need a purpose, having a purpose (in my opinion) is a stupid way to live, but not everyone feels that way.<p>I can&#x27;t help feel a bit cynical too, like I&#x27;m kind of annoyed that realistically, the tech elite of the world are just throwing money at this thing like it&#x27;s no one else&#x27; business and fuck what anyone else thinks about it and fuck how it might impact anyone else because, progress, which at the moment, is code for, &quot;we&#x27;re about to make copious amounts of money using everyone&#x27;s IP, a bunch of open source software, and we might give something back, so fuck off.<p>I&#x27;m trying to put the cynicism down, look forwards and hope for the best.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Raising Children on the Eve of AI</title><url>https://juliawise.net/raising-children-on-the-eve-of-ai/</url></story> |
39,967,673 | 39,967,382 | 1 | 3 | 39,966,743 | 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>FireInsight</author><text>This is exactly the reason why my preferred method of music consumption is piracy + Bandcamp. Every Bandcamp Friday (when Bandcamp doesn&#x27;t take a cut) I buy about 2 to 6 albums I&#x27;ve listened to in the past month or a few. If an artist is not on Bandcamp, I&#x27;m less likely to listen to them, but if I do, I eventually pirate their stuff.<p>All the music I buy and pirate is in FLAC and funneled into my local library, where I can enjoy it without any streaming service taking it away from me.<p>And I usually end up contributing more to my favorite artists financials than fans who use streaming service, so that&#x27;s a bonus.</text><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>I am in a small and new band. In 2023 we earned roughly<p><pre><code> 500 Euros via Bandcamp (digital, physical and merch)
300 Euros selling merch on gigs
2000 Euros playing gigs
20 Cents on Spotify
</code></pre>
There is no monetary reason to be on spotify, the only reason we are on there is because fans asked.</text></item><item><author>snailmailman</author><text>I don’t know much about how music licensing works. But would this cause smaller musicians to decide to pull their stuff off Spotify?<p>I listen to a <i>lot</i> of music on Spotify. And some of it is from smaller indie artists. Not a huge amount, but I’ve definitely listened to songs that are in that &lt;1000 plays category, and for some undiscovered artists that’s a good amount of their library.<p>It surprises me how much of my Spotify library is no longer available. There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. A lot of good songs too.<p>As much as I love Spotify and music streaming, it seems like the economics of it fundamentally doesn’t work and can’t work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams</title><url>https://djmag.com/news/spotify-officially-demonetises-all-tracks-under-1000-streams</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>whstl</author><text>Similar experiences (but from a few years ago).<p>Even people who have Spotify end up buying stuff in Bandcamp, anyway. I never had merch but had CDs, and sometimes people would buy two physical copies, one to gift.<p>For me there was never any difference between Spotify and piracy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>I am in a small and new band. In 2023 we earned roughly<p><pre><code> 500 Euros via Bandcamp (digital, physical and merch)
300 Euros selling merch on gigs
2000 Euros playing gigs
20 Cents on Spotify
</code></pre>
There is no monetary reason to be on spotify, the only reason we are on there is because fans asked.</text></item><item><author>snailmailman</author><text>I don’t know much about how music licensing works. But would this cause smaller musicians to decide to pull their stuff off Spotify?<p>I listen to a <i>lot</i> of music on Spotify. And some of it is from smaller indie artists. Not a huge amount, but I’ve definitely listened to songs that are in that &lt;1000 plays category, and for some undiscovered artists that’s a good amount of their library.<p>It surprises me how much of my Spotify library is no longer available. There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. A lot of good songs too.<p>As much as I love Spotify and music streaming, it seems like the economics of it fundamentally doesn’t work and can’t work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams</title><url>https://djmag.com/news/spotify-officially-demonetises-all-tracks-under-1000-streams</url></story> |
33,400,338 | 33,400,115 | 1 | 2 | 33,397,093 | 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>aeternum</author><text>The dynamic range is the reason Tesla know counts photons rather than use traditional camera processing. They basically remove the concept of exposure entirely and simply pass the sensor photon counts to the neural net.<p>This approach not only simpler as it removes photo processing&#x2F;encoding but the result is that the NN can operate with a very high dynamic range similar to the human eye and in many cases can be sensitive on the single-photon level.</text><parent_chain><item><author>petilon</author><text>I didn&#x27;t find his answers particularly convincing. His answer focused on costs mainly, and how &quot;the best part is no part&quot;. We have already seen multiple accidents caused by camera&#x27;s limitations [1] which would not have happened if Tesla used Lidars.<p>Cameras have poor dynamic range and can be easily blinded by bright surfaces. While it is true that humans do fine with only eyes, our eyes are significantly better than cameras.<p>More importantly, expectations are higher when an automated system is driving the car. It is not sufficient if, in aggregate, self-driving cars have fewer accidents. If you lose a loved one in an accident where the accident could have been easily avoided if a human was driving, then you&#x27;re not going to be mollified to hear that in aggregate, fewer people are being killed by self-driving cars! You&#x27;d be outraged to hear such a justification! The expectation therefore is that in each individual injury accident a human clearly could not have handled the situation any better. Self-driving cars have to be significantly better than humans to be accepted by society, and that means it has to have better-than-human levels of vision (which lidars provide).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=X3hrKnv0dPQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=X3hrKnv0dPQ</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Tesla removed radar and ultrasonic sensors [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W1JBAfV4Io</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>lostsock</author><text>That video is from 2020, but Tesla didn&#x27;t remove radar until 2021. Meaning that the crash occurred with radar still active, which I feel just backs up what Karpathy was saying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>petilon</author><text>I didn&#x27;t find his answers particularly convincing. His answer focused on costs mainly, and how &quot;the best part is no part&quot;. We have already seen multiple accidents caused by camera&#x27;s limitations [1] which would not have happened if Tesla used Lidars.<p>Cameras have poor dynamic range and can be easily blinded by bright surfaces. While it is true that humans do fine with only eyes, our eyes are significantly better than cameras.<p>More importantly, expectations are higher when an automated system is driving the car. It is not sufficient if, in aggregate, self-driving cars have fewer accidents. If you lose a loved one in an accident where the accident could have been easily avoided if a human was driving, then you&#x27;re not going to be mollified to hear that in aggregate, fewer people are being killed by self-driving cars! You&#x27;d be outraged to hear such a justification! The expectation therefore is that in each individual injury accident a human clearly could not have handled the situation any better. Self-driving cars have to be significantly better than humans to be accepted by society, and that means it has to have better-than-human levels of vision (which lidars provide).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=X3hrKnv0dPQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=X3hrKnv0dPQ</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Tesla removed radar and ultrasonic sensors [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W1JBAfV4Io</url></story> |
29,450,824 | 29,450,036 | 1 | 3 | 29,449,160 | 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>bjourne</author><text>The Egyptians used the word &quot;Peleset&quot; and the Assyrians &quot;Pilistu&quot;. The term is most certainly related to the Greek word &quot;Palaistine&quot; which can be traced to 5th century BC. But it is not clear what region (&quot;land of the Peleset&quot;) or what people the term referred to. It encompassed the Philistines&#x27; five city states - Philistia - in southern Palestine (this comes from the Bible, I think it is unknown how many Philistine city states existed), but may also have encompassed a region larger than that. Since Palaistine referred to most of Palestine one can speculate that Peleset&#x2F;Pilistu also did.<p>Another theory is that Palestine came to be known as Palaistine after the Philistines via &quot;pars pro toto&quot;, which means that a part becomes the name of the whole. One example is Russia, named after the Rus people who inhabited merely a small fraction of modern-day Russia. In other words, the Philistines may have been the dominant people in Palestine and the Greeks may have referred to the whole region as Palaistine, just as many people (sloppily) refer to the United Kingdom as &quot;England&quot;. Numismatic evidence shows that the Philistine cities were large trading centers and minted coins earlier and in larger quantities than in other Palestinian cities.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The sea people: Alexander the Great trod in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks</title><url>https://nemets.substack.com/p/the-sea-people</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>savant_penguin</author><text>If you are interested in the collapse of the bronze age with some comments about the sea people<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=M4LRHJlijVU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=M4LRHJlijVU</a><p>Eric clines lectures are really cool</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The sea people: Alexander the Great trod in the footsteps of forgotten Greeks</title><url>https://nemets.substack.com/p/the-sea-people</url></story> |
9,402,853 | 9,402,789 | 1 | 2 | 9,402,336 | 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>ghshephard</author><text>It&#x27;s an excellent question if people pay attention - the question, (at least as asked in Singapore), is, &quot;Did you pack your own luggage, are you aware of everything in it, has anyone given you anything to place in your luggage, and has your luggage been under your control&#x2F;observation the entire time.&quot;<p>Every time they ask me that question - I do a quick mental checklist, always mention that my luggage did leave my control when placed in the boot of the cab - which they always understand is an acceptable loss of control.<p>There are a couple alternatives that one could take to further increase security - first, presume that 100% of people are threats, and do a full security scan, and hand check&#x2F;rejection, of 100% of checked luggage. Likewise, enhance the carry-on security check, and further restrict what people can carry-on. In particular, shift the carry-on check to the <i>gate</i> (where it should be).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jhildings</author><text>The baggage questions is so stupid, IF you wanted to do some evil with things packed, WHY would you say something that isn&#x27;t the &quot;right&quot; answer to them?</text></item><item><author>jamesbrownuhh</author><text>This isn&#x27;t exactly a new phenomenon - even before 9&#x2F;11, a careless joke at baggage check-in (&quot;Did you pack your own luggage today, Sir?&quot; - &quot;No, my wife probably put a bomb in there.&quot;) would often result in the joke not being recognised or treated as such. Said jokester gets taken to one side, scrutinised by the boys in blue, and eventually told that they &quot;will not be flying today, sir.&quot;<p>In the age of Twitter, such hijinks are amplified further due to their world-readable nature. The problem with innocent, uncomfortable-but-well-intentioned jokes is that you have to consider how it will play with someone whose job it is to flag up and respond to any and all threats, no matter how credible.<p>Fundamentally it&#x27;s your joke versus a member of staff who is not in a position to deviate from the procedure and brush it aside.<p>Plus, who&#x27;d want to be the guy who gets their face on the news after an incident because they ignored a threat and thought it was a joke? They won&#x27;t, and often CAN&#x27;T, take that risk - they are simply not in a position where they are allowed to do so.<p>As you say, we live in shitty knee-jerk reactionary tines, but whatever the rights and wrongs, in this kind of situation it&#x27;s prudent to moderate one&#x27;s comedy appropriately.</text></item><item><author>csirac2</author><text>We live in shitty knee-jerk reactionary times, but did anyone else see his tweet at the time? At best, it seemed in poor taste. At worst, the outcome seems depressingly predictable.<p>I don&#x27;t know what I&#x27;m trying to contribute here, except that whilst I have no problem with EFF working on this, their article here seems overly shrill and over-reactionary at how shrill and over-reactionary the airline was in their response to what (admittedly, in hindsight) could have easily been interpreted as a threat by an over-zealous corporate drone blind to smily-face emoticons.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>United Airlines Stops Researcher Who Tweeted about Airplane Network Security</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/united-airlines-stops-researcher-who-tweeted-about-airplane-network-security</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>bonaldi</author><text>Because you might not be aware that you&#x27;re being used. I can&#x27;t find the reference right now, but that question started being asked after a man put an explosive in his wife&#x27;s luggage (when she was flying without him, naturally)</text><parent_chain><item><author>jhildings</author><text>The baggage questions is so stupid, IF you wanted to do some evil with things packed, WHY would you say something that isn&#x27;t the &quot;right&quot; answer to them?</text></item><item><author>jamesbrownuhh</author><text>This isn&#x27;t exactly a new phenomenon - even before 9&#x2F;11, a careless joke at baggage check-in (&quot;Did you pack your own luggage today, Sir?&quot; - &quot;No, my wife probably put a bomb in there.&quot;) would often result in the joke not being recognised or treated as such. Said jokester gets taken to one side, scrutinised by the boys in blue, and eventually told that they &quot;will not be flying today, sir.&quot;<p>In the age of Twitter, such hijinks are amplified further due to their world-readable nature. The problem with innocent, uncomfortable-but-well-intentioned jokes is that you have to consider how it will play with someone whose job it is to flag up and respond to any and all threats, no matter how credible.<p>Fundamentally it&#x27;s your joke versus a member of staff who is not in a position to deviate from the procedure and brush it aside.<p>Plus, who&#x27;d want to be the guy who gets their face on the news after an incident because they ignored a threat and thought it was a joke? They won&#x27;t, and often CAN&#x27;T, take that risk - they are simply not in a position where they are allowed to do so.<p>As you say, we live in shitty knee-jerk reactionary tines, but whatever the rights and wrongs, in this kind of situation it&#x27;s prudent to moderate one&#x27;s comedy appropriately.</text></item><item><author>csirac2</author><text>We live in shitty knee-jerk reactionary times, but did anyone else see his tweet at the time? At best, it seemed in poor taste. At worst, the outcome seems depressingly predictable.<p>I don&#x27;t know what I&#x27;m trying to contribute here, except that whilst I have no problem with EFF working on this, their article here seems overly shrill and over-reactionary at how shrill and over-reactionary the airline was in their response to what (admittedly, in hindsight) could have easily been interpreted as a threat by an over-zealous corporate drone blind to smily-face emoticons.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>United Airlines Stops Researcher Who Tweeted about Airplane Network Security</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/united-airlines-stops-researcher-who-tweeted-about-airplane-network-security</url></story> |
32,941,487 | 32,941,799 | 1 | 2 | 32,909,903 | 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>fny</author><text>I do a lot of ML and AI work nowadays... I miss Ruby a lot especially the its culture around ergonomics.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pstore: Ruby Built-In Hash Persistence</title><url>https://github.com/ruby/pstore</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>3pt14159</author><text>Don&#x27;t use this. Marshal has too many issues. If you really need persistence and can&#x27;t use something like Postgres, use the Ox gem instead. It&#x27;s more reliable between versions of Ruby and easier to parse from other languages if you ever have to.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pstore: Ruby Built-In Hash Persistence</title><url>https://github.com/ruby/pstore</url></story> |
29,159,260 | 29,158,165 | 1 | 2 | 29,156,574 | 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>neilwilson</author><text>There&#x27;s no such thing as fractional reserve banking. It&#x27;s an urban myth that has been debunked by QE for over a decade. Lord only knows why people still believe it.<p>Banks create money on demand by discounting collateral. Government creates money on demand by discounting the power to tax.<p>Fiat money disappears by the drain to taxation, to repaying loans and to &#x27;rainy day funds&#x27;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bezalmighty</author><text>In the macro economic sense, fiat money isn&#x27;t &#x27;used up&#x27; or &#x27;locked away&#x27; when you buy something like crypto, it&#x27;s transferred from your account to someone else&#x27;s bank account. Worse, it goes through the process of fractional reserve banking and multiplies about ~10x after changing hands repeatedly.</text></item><item><author>evergrande</author><text>Actually, that&#x27;s a good point. Inflation would be even worse if that cash was going into physical goods and services. The government now has an incentive to leave crypto alone aside from providing clarity.</text></item><item><author>arthurcolle</author><text>Thank god we have crypto &amp; NFTs to help people use all this free cash</text></item><item><author>throwaway2331</author><text>For anyone scratching their head on what &quot;MP3&quot; is: monetary policy 3, i.e. &quot;helicopter money,&quot; i.e. &quot;the government be handin out them stimmies,&quot; i.e. the government injected COVID-19 relief funds into the economy, giving an across-the-board increase in demand for goods &amp; services, but there aren&#x27;t enough &quot;goods &amp; services&quot; to keep up with this demand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere</title><url>https://www.bridgewater.com/its-mostly-a-demand-shock-not-a-supply-shock-and-its-everywhere</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>Dylan16807</author><text>Minus all the fees to the crypto miners, which end up wasting many hours of labor and causing pollution.<p>That money will eventually be used again but it&#x27;s worse than paying someone to dig and fill a hole.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bezalmighty</author><text>In the macro economic sense, fiat money isn&#x27;t &#x27;used up&#x27; or &#x27;locked away&#x27; when you buy something like crypto, it&#x27;s transferred from your account to someone else&#x27;s bank account. Worse, it goes through the process of fractional reserve banking and multiplies about ~10x after changing hands repeatedly.</text></item><item><author>evergrande</author><text>Actually, that&#x27;s a good point. Inflation would be even worse if that cash was going into physical goods and services. The government now has an incentive to leave crypto alone aside from providing clarity.</text></item><item><author>arthurcolle</author><text>Thank god we have crypto &amp; NFTs to help people use all this free cash</text></item><item><author>throwaway2331</author><text>For anyone scratching their head on what &quot;MP3&quot; is: monetary policy 3, i.e. &quot;helicopter money,&quot; i.e. &quot;the government be handin out them stimmies,&quot; i.e. the government injected COVID-19 relief funds into the economy, giving an across-the-board increase in demand for goods &amp; services, but there aren&#x27;t enough &quot;goods &amp; services&quot; to keep up with this demand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere</title><url>https://www.bridgewater.com/its-mostly-a-demand-shock-not-a-supply-shock-and-its-everywhere</url></story> |
14,801,675 | 14,801,496 | 1 | 2 | 14,797,350 | 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>wtallis</author><text>&gt; This paper analyzes a processor with much STRONGER characteristics than the Mill: It dynamically identifies these dependencies and then schedules them.<p>I&#x27;m not really sure what this means, especially &quot;stronger characteristics&quot;. The paper seems to have started with an idealized OoO processor, then subtracted from its capabilities and demonstrated that performance suffered. No surprise there, but that&#x27;s not easy to translate into a comparison against the Mill.<p>The Mill is not expected to ever compete against a full OoO processor of equivalent width; the Mill is expected to always be much wider.<p>I haven&#x27;t fully thought through the implications, but I think there might be a significant difference in the instruction scheduling algorithm between the paper&#x27;s model and a Mill. The paper&#x27;s model will queue an instruction as soon as at least one of its dependencies has been scheduled, or slot it into an empty queue (where it may cause head of line blocking). By contrast, the ahead-of-time scheduling done by a compiler for the Mill won&#x27;t issue an instruction until all of its dependencies are in the pipeline and due to finish in time (or stall for memory fetches), and uses explicit NOPs instead of head of line blocking on an issue queue.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deepnotderp</author><text>Well, I&#x27;d love to get some discussion here.<p>One of the perennial questions that I&#x27;ve never received a satisfactory answer to is: Where&#x27;s the ILP?<p>Everytime I get asked this, I get referred to the &quot;Phasing&quot; talk, but that isn&#x27;t a satisfactory response either.<p>I think quantitative analysis will prove to be far more nuanced and damning than expected. Take this paper (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;1002&#x2F;50a822251d1302c146ab499635af2b3adb45.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;1002&#x2F;50a822251d1302c146ab49...</a>). This paper analyzes a processor with <i>much STRONGER</i> characteristics than the Mill: It dynamically identifies these dependencies and then schedules them.<p>The result? It gets smashed by a classic OoO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Mill CPU Architecture: Switches [video]</title><url>http://millcomputing.com/docs/switches</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>cwzwarich</author><text>It seems to me that the main fundamentally new idea of the Mill is the deferred load mechanism described in the Memory talk. They claim that it can complete with OoO execution with a much simpler implementation. It does require some of the other Mill mechanisms for full efficiency, e.g. it uses the belt to defer loads across calls.<p>If this mechanism doesn&#x27;t work as expected with real software, then there&#x27;s no reason to think that the Mill will fare any better for general-purpose computation than any earlier VLIW&#x2F;EPIC machine, for all the same reasons as before. And in that same talk they make some claims about OoO that seem a bit naive. The state-of-the-art has evolved a lot since the company was founded in 2003.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deepnotderp</author><text>Well, I&#x27;d love to get some discussion here.<p>One of the perennial questions that I&#x27;ve never received a satisfactory answer to is: Where&#x27;s the ILP?<p>Everytime I get asked this, I get referred to the &quot;Phasing&quot; talk, but that isn&#x27;t a satisfactory response either.<p>I think quantitative analysis will prove to be far more nuanced and damning than expected. Take this paper (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;1002&#x2F;50a822251d1302c146ab499635af2b3adb45.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;1002&#x2F;50a822251d1302c146ab49...</a>). This paper analyzes a processor with <i>much STRONGER</i> characteristics than the Mill: It dynamically identifies these dependencies and then schedules them.<p>The result? It gets smashed by a classic OoO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Mill CPU Architecture: Switches [video]</title><url>http://millcomputing.com/docs/switches</url></story> |
11,722,504 | 11,720,661 | 1 | 2 | 11,719,543 | 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>I&#x27;m sure this is as important to computer science as the article claims, but not having even read the paper I can say pretty confidently that it isn&#x27;t going to have much of an impact on computer security. Even if it became far easier to generate true random numbers, it wouldn&#x27;t change (a) how we generate randomness at a systems level or (b) what goes wrong with randomness.<p>Our problem with cryptography is <i>not the quality of random numbers</i>. We are fine at generating unpredictable, decorrelated bits for keys, nonces, and IVs. Soundly designed systems aren&#x27;t attacked through the quality of their entropy inputs†.<p>The problem we have with randomness and entropy is logistical. So long as our CSPRNGs need initial, secret entropy sources of any kind, there will be a distinction between the insecure state of the system before it is initialized and the (permanent) secure state of the system after it&#x27;s been initialized. And so long as we continue building software on general purpose operating systems, there will be events (forking, unsuspending, unpickling, resuming VMs, cloning VMs) that violate our assumptions about which state we&#x27;re in.<p>Secure randomness isn&#x27;t a computational or cryptographic problem (or at least, the cryptographic part of the problem has long been thoroughly solved). It&#x27;s a systems programming problem. It&#x27;s back in the un-fun realm of &quot;all software has bugs and all bugs are potential security problems&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s for that reason that the big problem in cryptography right now isn&#x27;t &quot;generate better random&quot;, but instead &quot;factor out as much as possible our dependence on randomness&quot;. Deterministic DSA and EdDSA are examples of this trend, as are SIV and Nonce-Misuse Resistant AEADs.<p>† <i>(unsound systems frequently are, but that just makes my point for me)</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation</title><url>https://threatpost.com/academics-make-theoretical-breakthrough-in-random-number-generation/118150/</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>hannob</author><text>While this may be an interesting theoretical result it almost certainly has zero practical implications for cryptography.<p>We already know how to build secure random number generators. Pretty much every real world problem with random numbers can be traced back to people not using secure random numbers (or not using random numbers at all due to bugs) or using random number generators before they were properly initialized (early boot time entropy problems).<p>This random number thing is so clouded in mystery and a lot of stuff gets proposed that solves nothing (like quantum RNGs) and stuff that&#x27;s more folklore than anything else (depleting entropy and the whole &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random story). In the end it&#x27;s quite simple: You can build a secure RNG out of any secure hash or symmetric cipher. Once you seeded it with a couple of random bytes it&#x27;s secure forever.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation</title><url>https://threatpost.com/academics-make-theoretical-breakthrough-in-random-number-generation/118150/</url></story> |
6,826,307 | 6,825,731 | 1 | 2 | 6,825,534 | 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>chasing</author><text>Sweet inflammatory title, dude!<p>People really want those tenure spots at prestigious universities. Or those starting slots on NBA teams. Or CEO roles at exploding tech companies. Or the starring role in the summer blockbuster. Or that #1 slot on the NYTimes best-seller list. And such.<p>There will always be plum jobs out there that people are willing to compete and even suffer to get. And in situations where there&#x27;s a ton of demand and not much supply. Well. Things get really unbalanced in favor of the supplier. I&#x27;m not sure what targeting academia in particular proves except that, yes, it also happens there. It&#x27;s yet another situation in life where if you really, really want one of these jobs then you need to learn to realistically assess yourself, the market, and what paths you have to get where you want to go. If there&#x27;s no clear path to the position you want, you either need to switch gears or prepare for some serious struggle that might never bear fruit. Thoughtfulness and being realistic with oneself are key to staying out of exploitative situations. That&#x27;s the thing to avoid.<p>The average person with a college degree has options the drug dealer in Levitt&#x27;s example probably doesn&#x27;t have. As do your average Hacker News readers, I&#x27;m sure.<p>Also: I&#x27;m an adjunct professor at two universities. But it&#x27;s a great side-gig and not at all a core part of my income, which makes it <i>great</i>, to be honest. There&#x27;s a lot of university-related stuff I don&#x27;t have any interest in. But being an adjunct means I&#x27;ve got real-world experiences that are completely fresh that I can use in the classroom. It&#x27;s the kind of information that a full-time professor would have a difficult time keeping on top of, I would think.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang</title><url>http://alexandreafonso.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/</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>unabridged</author><text>Drug lord was chosen so they could plaster Breaking Bad pictures and get links, but it resembles any other tournament-like profession. Its like being a musician or actor, unlimited money at the very top for the few who make it and extremely large number of people at the bottom trying to make it just scraping by.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang</title><url>http://alexandreafonso.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/</url></story> |
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