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13,070,264 | 13,070,306 | 1 | 3 | 13,069,813 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CoryG89</author><text>The fact that one of the doctors in the article compares the dangers to opioids is misleading or misguided. MDMA has an exceptionally small potential for long term abuse when compared to most other drugs. Despite having studied brain damage in chronic users (not very many of these), I doubt the doctor has ever personally done opiates and MDMA. Anyone who has had any significant experience with both would laugh at the comparison when it comes to potential for abuse.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDA Agrees to New Trials for MDMA as Relief for PTSD Patients</title><url>http://nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/ptsd-mdma-ecstasy.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>patrickaljord</author><text>How about letting consenting adults free of doing what they want to their own body and legalizing all drugs?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FDA Agrees to New Trials for MDMA as Relief for PTSD Patients</title><url>http://nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/ptsd-mdma-ecstasy.html</url></story> |
35,645,108 | 35,644,197 | 1 | 2 | 35,639,370 | 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>phpisthebest</author><text>100% disgree.<p>Consumers do not want a micropayment system built on the same idea of &quot;shopping cart&quot; where you have to click 100 times and enter a bunch of info to may a payment for 30 cents..<p>That is part of the problem, Visa and mastercard nor the banks want to make an easy friction free micropayment system because their systems are soooo terrible they could not stop the fraud, and they love the $0.30 per translation fee that makes them the bulk of their money.<p>The systemic issues finance systems prevents anyway from making a viable micropayment system</text><parent_chain><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>The problem is nobody wants to make a hundred purchasing decisions per day. Which is why micropayments aren&#x27;t a thing despite us having had the infrastructure for decades. There&#x27;s no reason PayPal can&#x27;t support sub-dollar transactions now, or ever before.<p>Nick Szabo and I disagree on probably everything else in this world, but we agree on micropayments. Nick&#x27;s paper is worth a read and does a great job of explaining the issues [1].<p>tl;dr: around micropayments is that in reality users&#x2F;customers don&#x27;t actually want them. They run afoul of our fundamental human behavioral costing model.<p>The reason ad-supported is so prevalent isn&#x27;t because it&#x27;s being forced on us by a shady cabal or anything, it&#x27;s just the least-worst option we&#x27;ve compromised on.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nakamotoinstitute.org&#x2F;static&#x2F;docs&#x2F;micropayments-and-mental-transaction-costs.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nakamotoinstitute.org&#x2F;static&#x2F;docs&#x2F;micropayments-and-...</a></text></item><item><author>phpisthebest</author><text>The biggest injustice or problem with the web is lack of viable micropayments, not the lack of competition in Ads.<p>The falsity of an Ad Support Web is what needs to die.</text></item><item><author>zackmorris</author><text>The fact that there is no recourse or viable competition, strikes me as an injustice. Maybe the biggest injustice on the web currently.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time to not let it stand anymore? I know, we&#x27;re just a bunch of ragtag hackers who just want to be able to have time to tinker and make&#x2F;play video games. But we&#x27;re the ones who could truly disrupt online advertising and get the web back to how it used to work 20 years ago, where the average person could earn residual income online with a few clicks. Get back to building a positive, thriving future together, instead of whatever all this is.<p>Of course I have absolutely no idea how to do that. Or how to protect people from exploitation. There&#x27;s a website that pays you tips for your traffic, it&#x27;s a synonym for gratuity but for the life of me I can&#x27;t remember it at the moment. Google and even DuckDuckGo are so SEO&#x27;d that I can&#x27;t find it. Imagine a nonprofit Adwords that paid out near 100% of proceeds in an egalitarian way, instead of using a winner-take-all algorithm that dumps more money than God on people who are already rich. I guess that&#x27;s just not possible?</text></item><item><author>freedomben</author><text>This is wonderful sage advice:<p>&gt; <i>Google Adsense was profitable on the site for many years, earning me some really nice pay checks here and there. That is, until I got my Adsense account banned by trying out some too good to be true website purchases that turned out to be using fraudulent clicks. Since there there has been next to no profit, and that was years ago.</i><p>Be <i>very</i> cautious about services in that field as there are lots of shady things going on, and the ban hammer falls hard, and there&#x27;s often no remaining options if you lose adsense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years</title><url>https://www.legittorrents.info/</url><text>I ran Legit Torrents for ~17 years and shut it down recently. The homepage is now a nostalgic look back at that time.</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>freedomben</author><text>&gt; <i>The problem is nobody wants to make a hundred purchasing decisions per day.</i><p>Indeed. I wonder if something like Brave&#x27;s idea of just creating a pot of money per month, and then paying that out is workable. As a user I&#x27;d love to throw $10 into my pot and not have to worry about cost exceeding that and not having to see ads. The network effect is a beast though. You need participation before you can get participation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>The problem is nobody wants to make a hundred purchasing decisions per day. Which is why micropayments aren&#x27;t a thing despite us having had the infrastructure for decades. There&#x27;s no reason PayPal can&#x27;t support sub-dollar transactions now, or ever before.<p>Nick Szabo and I disagree on probably everything else in this world, but we agree on micropayments. Nick&#x27;s paper is worth a read and does a great job of explaining the issues [1].<p>tl;dr: around micropayments is that in reality users&#x2F;customers don&#x27;t actually want them. They run afoul of our fundamental human behavioral costing model.<p>The reason ad-supported is so prevalent isn&#x27;t because it&#x27;s being forced on us by a shady cabal or anything, it&#x27;s just the least-worst option we&#x27;ve compromised on.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nakamotoinstitute.org&#x2F;static&#x2F;docs&#x2F;micropayments-and-mental-transaction-costs.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nakamotoinstitute.org&#x2F;static&#x2F;docs&#x2F;micropayments-and-...</a></text></item><item><author>phpisthebest</author><text>The biggest injustice or problem with the web is lack of viable micropayments, not the lack of competition in Ads.<p>The falsity of an Ad Support Web is what needs to die.</text></item><item><author>zackmorris</author><text>The fact that there is no recourse or viable competition, strikes me as an injustice. Maybe the biggest injustice on the web currently.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time to not let it stand anymore? I know, we&#x27;re just a bunch of ragtag hackers who just want to be able to have time to tinker and make&#x2F;play video games. But we&#x27;re the ones who could truly disrupt online advertising and get the web back to how it used to work 20 years ago, where the average person could earn residual income online with a few clicks. Get back to building a positive, thriving future together, instead of whatever all this is.<p>Of course I have absolutely no idea how to do that. Or how to protect people from exploitation. There&#x27;s a website that pays you tips for your traffic, it&#x27;s a synonym for gratuity but for the life of me I can&#x27;t remember it at the moment. Google and even DuckDuckGo are so SEO&#x27;d that I can&#x27;t find it. Imagine a nonprofit Adwords that paid out near 100% of proceeds in an egalitarian way, instead of using a winner-take-all algorithm that dumps more money than God on people who are already rich. I guess that&#x27;s just not possible?</text></item><item><author>freedomben</author><text>This is wonderful sage advice:<p>&gt; <i>Google Adsense was profitable on the site for many years, earning me some really nice pay checks here and there. That is, until I got my Adsense account banned by trying out some too good to be true website purchases that turned out to be using fraudulent clicks. Since there there has been next to no profit, and that was years ago.</i><p>Be <i>very</i> cautious about services in that field as there are lots of shady things going on, and the ban hammer falls hard, and there&#x27;s often no remaining options if you lose adsense.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years</title><url>https://www.legittorrents.info/</url><text>I ran Legit Torrents for ~17 years and shut it down recently. The homepage is now a nostalgic look back at that time.</text></story> |
30,512,652 | 30,510,919 | 1 | 3 | 30,509,893 | 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>Traster</author><text>I guess that&#x27;s an thorough way of saying &quot;The problem with building a library is supporting all the use cases of a library, not solving the simple underlying problem&quot;. Sure, you&#x27;ve got BLAS level performance <i>on this one CPU</i>, but you&#x27;ve literally hard coded stuff according to the exact cache size of each of your caches and the exact low level ISA extensions your CPU has. I think it would have been far more interesting to take this and then put it on a Threadripper to see &quot;Given I&#x27;ve optimized the hell out of this for one CPU, how portable is it&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BLAS-level CPU Performance in 100 Lines of C</title><url>https://cs.stanford.edu/people/shadjis/blas.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>olliej</author><text>The core of their multiplication is in<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HazyResearch&#x2F;blocking-tutorial&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;matrix_kernel_vectorized.cpp#L64" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HazyResearch&#x2F;blocking-tutorial&#x2F;blob&#x2F;maste...</a><p>Where they implement the matrix inner product.<p>And their example implementations using that start at<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HazyResearch&#x2F;blocking-tutorial&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;compare_blas.cpp#L90" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HazyResearch&#x2F;blocking-tutorial&#x2F;blob&#x2F;maste...</a><p>The inner multiply is all AVX2(w&#x2F;FMA extension) so it&#x27;s probably making some degree of LoC win from not needing to handle hardware capabilities or being portable, but still it is impressive.<p>It is also worth noting that the inner product is c++ templates - it could probably be turned into a horrific macro to make it pure C, but I&#x27;d say it isn&#x27;t worth it. But then I prefer C++ to C :D</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BLAS-level CPU Performance in 100 Lines of C</title><url>https://cs.stanford.edu/people/shadjis/blas.html</url></story> |
27,750,805 | 27,750,560 | 1 | 2 | 27,750,040 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>javajosh</author><text>Yes, but centralization is a symptom of something deeper: incumbent business interests with top-down power structures actively <i>disincentivize</i> the holistic, creative, critical thinking required to mount a meaningful distributed cyber-defense, and <i>incentivize</i> CYA approaches which leads to weaker centralized solutions. &quot;Well, we spent $10M on defense - put some appliances in a NOC, paid contractors, gave our CTO a bonus - what more could we do?&quot; Ultimately the legal system will accept this as a valid excuse. Whereas, if you take more holistic steps, embrace distributed responsibility and action, incentivize awareness of threats and threat-modeling, and get sued as liable, a judge could very well say, &quot;But you didn&#x27;t spend a significant chunk of your revenue to build [out the same kind of solutions I&#x27;m used to seeing in cases like this]? Negligence!&quot;<p>When ignorance becomes so widespread that it is enforced by law, and wise action is actively punished, and one cannot really blame rational actors for taking the CYA approach. One can hope that some of them take a principled stand and the risk of punishment to do more; alternatively, we can expect to collapse and be replaced by a smarter, if more brutal regime. One way or another, the bleeding always stops.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Isn&#x27;t one of the main problems with ransomware centralised and locked down IT administration? I mean if the computers were not tied together so tightly the effects would be isolated. Instead there is a admin account encrypting all the machines HDs remotely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/hackers-demand-70-million-liberate-data-held-by-companies-hit-mass-cyberattack-2021-07-05/</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>ok123456</author><text>Yes. It&#x27;s much of the security theater that has led to the state of things. Third-party administration and monitoring agents like Solarwinds are an incredible attack vector.<p>A lot of the &quot;security best practices&quot; just become checklists of what people thought were good ideas 20 years ago and enforced by auditors that only know how to check boxes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Isn&#x27;t one of the main problems with ransomware centralised and locked down IT administration? I mean if the computers were not tied together so tightly the effects would be isolated. Instead there is a admin account encrypting all the machines HDs remotely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/hackers-demand-70-million-liberate-data-held-by-companies-hit-mass-cyberattack-2021-07-05/</url></story> |
32,089,392 | 32,087,945 | 1 | 2 | 32,087,057 | 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>deepspace</author><text>I knew there was going to be a 74HC4046 in there before clicking the link. It is a venerable old workhorse.<p>When I was studying EE, 40 years ago, one of our professors always wore a lab coat with a pocket full of 4046s. He used to roam the labs and offer one to students struggling with designs.<p>It is such a versatile chip, with a VCO and <i>three different</i> phase comparators. If you have to do anything related to modulation and&#x2F;or demodulation of signals below a few 10s of MHz, it may just solve your problem.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A 74xx-Defined Radio (2021)</title><url>https://acidbourbon.wordpress.com/2021/04/11/a-74xx-defined-radio/</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>nynyny7</author><text>When I had my &quot;I want to build my own SDR&quot; phase ;) ca. 15 years ago, I also used analog switches as a switching mixer - with a PLL running at 4x the desired frequency so I could utilize dividers to get nice 0°, 90°, 180°, 270° LO signals for IQ mixing. Brings back memories...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A 74xx-Defined Radio (2021)</title><url>https://acidbourbon.wordpress.com/2021/04/11/a-74xx-defined-radio/</url></story> |
16,870,603 | 16,870,570 | 1 | 3 | 16,869,679 | 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>nordsieck</author><text>In a &quot;real&quot; war, it&#x27;s not a question of which airplane would win in a duel, but which airplaine + crew is more cost effective at destroying the other.<p>Could F-35s take on 10x their number of F-16s? The answer is not obviously yes to me, particularly in light of the Yugoslavian kill against an F-117a.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lajhsdfkl</author><text>&gt;That being said, with all the problems the F-35 has, much like the Eurofighter before it, it might be no match for what another advanced economy could produce.<p>Given that the F-35 was built with the latest tech that no other advanced economy even has I have no idea how anything could be built in the next 10-15 years that will significantly outclass it.</text></item><item><author>philjohn</author><text>Our current adversaries are mostly insurgents - however, if you look forward at dwindling resources and nations doing the unthinkable and waging wars over them, then the F-35 makes more sense. With a complex and lengthy development process you&#x27;re planning for the war after the next, not the current.<p>That being said, with all the problems the F-35 has, much like the Eurofighter before it, it might be no match for what another advanced economy could produce.</text></item><item><author>patcheudor</author><text>The F-35 program is an amazing thing in 2018 when every war in the last two decades has been mostly about ground insurgents. This, taken with the fact that we&#x27;ve had massive technological advances when it comes to drone warfare and the F-35 very much looks like a plane from the past, not the future. It would seem to be much wiser to scrap the program and re-focus on drone based solutions but that&#x27;s going to hurt someone&#x27;s ego so it&#x27;s likely the F-35 will continue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017)</title><url>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-f-35-14-trillion-dollar-national-disaster-19985</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>The Russian development model has been better, with orders to India paying the bills. They started around twenty years ago on the kit they flaunted in Syria. I see no reason why this development model cannot win. We have pork barrel.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lajhsdfkl</author><text>&gt;That being said, with all the problems the F-35 has, much like the Eurofighter before it, it might be no match for what another advanced economy could produce.<p>Given that the F-35 was built with the latest tech that no other advanced economy even has I have no idea how anything could be built in the next 10-15 years that will significantly outclass it.</text></item><item><author>philjohn</author><text>Our current adversaries are mostly insurgents - however, if you look forward at dwindling resources and nations doing the unthinkable and waging wars over them, then the F-35 makes more sense. With a complex and lengthy development process you&#x27;re planning for the war after the next, not the current.<p>That being said, with all the problems the F-35 has, much like the Eurofighter before it, it might be no match for what another advanced economy could produce.</text></item><item><author>patcheudor</author><text>The F-35 program is an amazing thing in 2018 when every war in the last two decades has been mostly about ground insurgents. This, taken with the fact that we&#x27;ve had massive technological advances when it comes to drone warfare and the F-35 very much looks like a plane from the past, not the future. It would seem to be much wiser to scrap the program and re-focus on drone based solutions but that&#x27;s going to hurt someone&#x27;s ego so it&#x27;s likely the F-35 will continue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017)</title><url>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-f-35-14-trillion-dollar-national-disaster-19985</url></story> |
32,864,457 | 32,864,004 | 1 | 2 | 32,862,597 | 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>herbst</author><text>I realize this was a weird time and masks have been a complicated topic. However:<p>I advertised some masks my grandma has sewn on FB. It was ok, expansive clicks like always but ok. This was running for at least a week or two. But when I changed some text it triggered a new ad review and within no hour my account was banned. It didn&#x27;t even took a hour to deny my appeal as well and my account was lost forever (without ever naming any reason)<p>This account had 50+ (harmless) groups with way over 100k followers as well as a few thousand dollars in ad spend just that year. I didn&#x27;t socialize at all on Facebook which I guess made my account fishy to some degree but all data was correct and passport verified.<p>This is the reason I completely ignore Facebook and all its platforms for whatever reason these days. I don&#x27;t care if it could help my business, it&#x27;s not worth the trouble.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bwb</author><text>I was just talking to an author who published an ad on Facebook for their sci fi book. They had the word &quot;beat&quot; in the ad. The FB algo said that words intills people to violence, banned her account for 2 months, and kept all the ad money.<p>Funny enough, her book is about the dangers of an algorithm-based AI supersystem...<p>Facebook is the worst.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy</title><url>https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/facebook-holocaust-film-race-policy-1234592908/</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>cranium</author><text>It&#x27;s fearsome how they filter such words without looking at the context or giving the benefit of the doubt. Now, you have to proactively reword your ideas to make them fit the invisible mold. How has newspeak been going for the public discourse ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>bwb</author><text>I was just talking to an author who published an ad on Facebook for their sci fi book. They had the word &quot;beat&quot; in the ad. The FB algo said that words intills people to violence, banned her account for 2 months, and kept all the ad money.<p>Funny enough, her book is about the dangers of an algorithm-based AI supersystem...<p>Facebook is the worst.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy</title><url>https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/facebook-holocaust-film-race-policy-1234592908/</url></story> |
2,632,379 | 2,632,239 | 1 | 2 | 2,631,964 | 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>rsaarelm</author><text>Especially with Andrei Alexandrescu on board, D is striving for some very interesting stuff with its template metaprogramming system. I think Alexandrescu said in an interview somewhere that the goal is to have a language where you don't ever need to reimplement an algorithm once you've gotten it right once in a library.<p>This gets particularly interesting with mathematical code. If you have a templatized math function like a linear interpolation function, you can swap in integers, reals or complex numbers without writing new code, and also matrices, vectors or quaternions from another library, provided that they have the algebraic properties the function expects. Go is nowhere near allowing this degree of write-the-algorithm-only-once, as it both lacks generic types and has numeric types as privileged constructs you can't substitute with user-defined ones.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andolanra</author><text>Considering only pure language design, I have to say that I'd prefer D to Go. A lot of people who talk about Go use some variation on the phrase "small sets of orthogonal features"—a phrase I feel applies to Go only by comparison with, say, C++—and D doesn't succeed in that regard, but I feel like D really fits a lot of the points on the wish-list much more closely (e.g. template metaprogramming, data structures, objects, &#38;c. D's compile-time constructs are incredibly useful without the nastiness of the C preprocessor or C++'s templates.) One thing which draws me to D is the "you can, but you don't have to" attitude it takes towards certain features—for example, there is GC by default, but you can stop using it and do manual memory management if you feel like it's important.<p>The problem here, and the massive, massive thing keeping me from throwing my full recommendation behind it, is that D fails entirely on #7, because the community is small and so even installing libraries by hand can be tedious. I keep wanting to pull out D for personal projects, but then I come across some obscure, poorly-documented library with few/no alternatives, and after trying to build it for three hours, I give up and switch to something else. Recently, 'something else' has in fact been Go. I still feel like, in an ideal universe, I'd rather program in D than Go, but we do not live in an ideal universe, and of those two, Go is the practical choice. (And, despite my frustrations with Go, it is still better by leaps and bounds than Java and C++.)<p>Also, quick correction: any dynamic language worth its salt does the same short-circut evaluation with <i>and</i> and <i>or</i>, including Python, Ruby, Scheme, and Common Lisp, so they all have the property ascribed in this writeup to only JS and Perl. In Python, you can change whether instances of a class are 'true' or 'false' values by overloading the __nonzero__ method, which means e.g. empty user-defined data structures could be considered 'false' while non-empty ones could be 'true.' On the other hand, Ruby considers only false and nil to be false values, Scheme considers only #f to be a false value, and Common Lisp considers only nil to be a false value. Aside from individual quibbles about which values are true and false, all of these languages implement an <i>or</i> that returns the first true value it finds, and all of them implement an <i>and</i> that returns the first false value it finds.<p>EDIT: Lua also allows the short-circuit boolean operators to return values. The only widely-known dynamic language off the top of my head that doesn't do this is Smalltalk. This would be complicated to add to a type system, for relatively little gain, so as far as I know, no typed language allows it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages except one suck.</title><url>http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/go-review</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>firemanx</author><text>I was thinking along those lines as well, though the first language that came to my head was actually c# (my second thought was D). It may not be listed due to it's precarious position in the world, but it answers the majority of the points on his list, though still runs in a vm environment. Perhaps that's the distinction.<p>An aside - using implicit typing in c# you can have an object perform as a boolean in boolean expressions. You can also use implicit typing for more than just booleans as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andolanra</author><text>Considering only pure language design, I have to say that I'd prefer D to Go. A lot of people who talk about Go use some variation on the phrase "small sets of orthogonal features"—a phrase I feel applies to Go only by comparison with, say, C++—and D doesn't succeed in that regard, but I feel like D really fits a lot of the points on the wish-list much more closely (e.g. template metaprogramming, data structures, objects, &#38;c. D's compile-time constructs are incredibly useful without the nastiness of the C preprocessor or C++'s templates.) One thing which draws me to D is the "you can, but you don't have to" attitude it takes towards certain features—for example, there is GC by default, but you can stop using it and do manual memory management if you feel like it's important.<p>The problem here, and the massive, massive thing keeping me from throwing my full recommendation behind it, is that D fails entirely on #7, because the community is small and so even installing libraries by hand can be tedious. I keep wanting to pull out D for personal projects, but then I come across some obscure, poorly-documented library with few/no alternatives, and after trying to build it for three hours, I give up and switch to something else. Recently, 'something else' has in fact been Go. I still feel like, in an ideal universe, I'd rather program in D than Go, but we do not live in an ideal universe, and of those two, Go is the practical choice. (And, despite my frustrations with Go, it is still better by leaps and bounds than Java and C++.)<p>Also, quick correction: any dynamic language worth its salt does the same short-circut evaluation with <i>and</i> and <i>or</i>, including Python, Ruby, Scheme, and Common Lisp, so they all have the property ascribed in this writeup to only JS and Perl. In Python, you can change whether instances of a class are 'true' or 'false' values by overloading the __nonzero__ method, which means e.g. empty user-defined data structures could be considered 'false' while non-empty ones could be 'true.' On the other hand, Ruby considers only false and nil to be false values, Scheme considers only #f to be a false value, and Common Lisp considers only nil to be a false value. Aside from individual quibbles about which values are true and false, all of these languages implement an <i>or</i> that returns the first true value it finds, and all of them implement an <i>and</i> that returns the first false value it finds.<p>EDIT: Lua also allows the short-circuit boolean operators to return values. The only widely-known dynamic language off the top of my head that doesn't do this is Smalltalk. This would be complicated to add to a type system, for relatively little gain, so as far as I know, no typed language allows it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Go Programming Language, or: Why all C-like languages except one suck.</title><url>http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/go-review</url></story> |
12,998,930 | 12,997,489 | 1 | 3 | 12,997,025 | 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>mikaraento</author><text>Previous discussions <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8275970" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8275970</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12300953" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12300953</a><p>(not because I want to dismiss conversation here - did want to read up on it myself)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Modern Anti-Spam and E2E Crypto (2014)</title><url>https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.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>bascule</author><text>I think this is an area where functional encryption could help:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Functional_encryption" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Functional_encryption</a><p>This would allow a client to combine a server-provided function that calculates a spam score with their private key such that the resulting function calculates a spam score on encrypted email. The client could then hand that function back to the server so it can perform server-side spam detection.<p>There are a number of drawbacks, including performance and general questions about the security of such a system. That said, I think this is probably the biggest problem (from the OP):<p>&quot;The third problem is that spam filters rely quite heavily on security through obscurity, because it works well. Though some features are well known (sending IP, links) there are many others, and those are secret. If calculation was pushed to the client then spammers could see exactly what they had to randomise and the cross-propagation of reputations wouldn&#x27;t work as well.&quot;<p>Using functional encryption to provide server-side spam detection would still require handing a spam scoring function to the client so they can apply that function to their private key and hand the server a result. This would expose the internals of the spam detection routine to all clients, including spammers.<p>A difficult tradeoff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Modern Anti-Spam and E2E Crypto (2014)</title><url>https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html</url></story> |
22,335,053 | 22,333,766 | 1 | 2 | 22,331,238 | 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>robk</author><text>Folks inside say as much when you talk to them. The oracle guy is not cultural fit like nikesh also wasn&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rurban</author><text>So the new boss is from Oracle, who hired new managers from SAP and Microsoft, they are hiring like crazy and cutting some old jobs. Looks like they are trying to get rid of internal critics, resistance. Interesting wars</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-cuts-jobs-at-cloud-computing-group-11581719153</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>stingraycharles</author><text>Do you have a source for this?</text><parent_chain><item><author>rurban</author><text>So the new boss is from Oracle, who hired new managers from SAP and Microsoft, they are hiring like crazy and cutting some old jobs. Looks like they are trying to get rid of internal critics, resistance. Interesting wars</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-cuts-jobs-at-cloud-computing-group-11581719153</url></story> |
7,927,094 | 7,927,133 | 1 | 2 | 7,926,358 | 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>yid</author><text>&gt; Holy shit.. can you imagine someone just plotting all the trips from a single gay bar? Listing off all the connected residential addresses? And not only that, any subsequent trips home from those addresses the next morning? Taking the walk of shame to a whole new level!<p>There are some weird assumptions going on here, in addition to the fact that you grossly overestimate the precision to which GPS data can de-anonymize individuals who are using a shared, public transport mechanism in a city as densely crowded as NYC. The density of people and businesses alone makes individual identification difficult, not to mention weak GPS signals and low accuracy with skyscrapers every hundred yards. Is there any evidence that the logs have enough accuracy to do what you&#x27;re claiming, or are you just wildly speculating?</text><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text>Whoa, whoa.... You&#x27;re telling me there&#x27;s a public data set of <i>all taxi trip geolocation data with GPS precision</i>? That&#x27;s f&#x27;ing insane!<p>I think there&#x27;s a MUCH bigger privacy issue here than what the author focuses on.<p>Couldn&#x27;t you deduce many <i>passenger</i> identities based on addresses? There&#x27;s a lot of scenarios where passenger identities could be effectively de-anonymized, just based on GPS data. You could then use this data set to analyze their comings and goings.<p>1. For people who live alone in a single family home, you can pretty much completely track when and where they went by taxi. From this you can deduce a lot about their interests, lifestyle, workplace and schedule, private life, etc. It&#x27;s profoundly invasive.<p>2. Even if there&#x27;s a few people sharing an address, the other dropoff&#x2F;pickup point can be used to narrow down the likelihood of who it is, especially when combined with other easily obtainable data.<p>For example if you knew an employee (e.g. that cute barista) lived in a certain neighborhood you could track their trips to&#x2F;from work and deduce their home address.<p>Or if you knew there was only one senior citizen (or Muslim, etc.) living in a building, a regular trip to a senior center (or mosque) would reveal when their apartment is vacant.<p>Or if there&#x27;s only one young man in a building, a single trip home from a gay bar could out them.<p>Holy shit.. can you imagine someone just plotting all the trips from a single gay bar? Listing off all the connected residential addresses? And not only that, <i>any subsequent trips home from those addresses the next morning</i>? Taking the walk of shame to a whole new level!<p>Likewise trips could be used to deduce affairs and other deceptions by fellow residents. &quot;You said you were working late, but the only taxi trip to our building that night was from a bar.&quot;<p>This is just off the top of my head.. I feel I could go on for hours listing all the possible ways this data set could be exploited.<p>How is this not front page New York Times???</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs</title><url>https://medium.com/@vijayp/of-taxis-and-rainbows-f6bc289679a1</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>Hominem</author><text>I think the way cabs actually operate in NYC makes this practically impossible unless you already have some details such as the lat&#x2F;Lon of dropoff and pickup and time of the stops.<p>I&#x27;m assuming the data is for yellow cabs and the new lime green &quot;boro cabs&quot; you hail on the street, not &quot;car service&quot; cars where you schedule a pickup and dropoff to specific addresses.<p>Most bars in Manhattan are storefronts in 3-4 story residential buildings. There are apartments above and they are surrounded by other buildings with apartments and businesses. I don&#x27;t think you could identify a bar. Now strip clubs on the other hand are required by law to be tucked away in isolated locations. Might be possible to identify a strip club.<p>When you hail a cab, and many times when you get dropped off, it happens on a corner, perhaps over a block away, where it is easier to find a free cab.<p>Most cabs are in Manhattan, not a lot of single family homes. Single family homes in the outer boroughs will have almost no yellow cab coverage for pickup and finding a cab that will take you out of Manhattan can be dicey, although I guess those lime green cabs are meant to address that. SI, the Bronx and huge swaths of Brooklyn and Queens pickups will be almost non existant, people going from the outer boroughs will most likely use a car service.<p>I will certainly be checking to see if I can identify any of my rides.</text><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text>Whoa, whoa.... You&#x27;re telling me there&#x27;s a public data set of <i>all taxi trip geolocation data with GPS precision</i>? That&#x27;s f&#x27;ing insane!<p>I think there&#x27;s a MUCH bigger privacy issue here than what the author focuses on.<p>Couldn&#x27;t you deduce many <i>passenger</i> identities based on addresses? There&#x27;s a lot of scenarios where passenger identities could be effectively de-anonymized, just based on GPS data. You could then use this data set to analyze their comings and goings.<p>1. For people who live alone in a single family home, you can pretty much completely track when and where they went by taxi. From this you can deduce a lot about their interests, lifestyle, workplace and schedule, private life, etc. It&#x27;s profoundly invasive.<p>2. Even if there&#x27;s a few people sharing an address, the other dropoff&#x2F;pickup point can be used to narrow down the likelihood of who it is, especially when combined with other easily obtainable data.<p>For example if you knew an employee (e.g. that cute barista) lived in a certain neighborhood you could track their trips to&#x2F;from work and deduce their home address.<p>Or if you knew there was only one senior citizen (or Muslim, etc.) living in a building, a regular trip to a senior center (or mosque) would reveal when their apartment is vacant.<p>Or if there&#x27;s only one young man in a building, a single trip home from a gay bar could out them.<p>Holy shit.. can you imagine someone just plotting all the trips from a single gay bar? Listing off all the connected residential addresses? And not only that, <i>any subsequent trips home from those addresses the next morning</i>? Taking the walk of shame to a whole new level!<p>Likewise trips could be used to deduce affairs and other deceptions by fellow residents. &quot;You said you were working late, but the only taxi trip to our building that night was from a bar.&quot;<p>This is just off the top of my head.. I feel I could go on for hours listing all the possible ways this data set could be exploited.<p>How is this not front page New York Times???</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs</title><url>https://medium.com/@vijayp/of-taxis-and-rainbows-f6bc289679a1</url></story> |
8,763,067 | 8,763,153 | 1 | 2 | 8,762,493 | 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>throwawaymsft</author><text>It seems there&#x27;s a pattern in how she sees other people.<p>* Trying to design the Yahoo logo herself in a weekend (how hard can it be?)<p>* Reading a children&#x27;s book to a room full of employees, to stunned silence<p>* Disallowing remote employees but building a nursery for her child + nanny. (Do other people get Yahoo! daycare too?)<p>* Requiring extensive credentials for other people [Gwyneth Paltrow better have a degree!] but not bothering with background reference checks for people she wanted (Henrique de Castro, who cost Yahoo over $100M for a year&#x27;s worth of shoddy work).<p>Believe it or not, Jobs had empathy for what the user truly needed, which gave him a killer sense of taste. I feel that&#x27;s lacking here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>&quot; Every Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, she asked her direct reports to gather for a three-hour meeting. Mayer demanded all of her staff across the world join the call, so executives from New York, where it was 6 p.m., and Europe, where it was 11 p.m. or later, would dial in, too. Invariably, Mayer herself would be at least 45 minutes late; some calls were so delayed that Yahoo executives in Europe couldn’t hang up till after 3 a.m.&quot;<p>This is completely unacceptable behavior from anyone aspiring to be an actual leader.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?_r=0</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>phaus</author><text>Its unacceptable behavior from anyone even expecting to continue being an employee. Those meetings, when couple by her habitual tendency to miss meetings with people that weren&#x27;t even a part of her company are ridiculous. It boggles my mind how someone so irresponsible, self-centered, and inconsiderate has managed to get where she&#x27;s at.</text><parent_chain><item><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>&quot; Every Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, she asked her direct reports to gather for a three-hour meeting. Mayer demanded all of her staff across the world join the call, so executives from New York, where it was 6 p.m., and Europe, where it was 11 p.m. or later, would dial in, too. Invariably, Mayer herself would be at least 45 minutes late; some calls were so delayed that Yahoo executives in Europe couldn’t hang up till after 3 a.m.&quot;<p>This is completely unacceptable behavior from anyone aspiring to be an actual leader.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?_r=0</url></story> |
15,759,223 | 15,759,282 | 1 | 2 | 15,758,641 | 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>lesiva</author><text>Agreed. The whole piece was emotional, but just reading that statement took it to irrational.<p>I think the underlying point of the article is that the experience of using Cortana could be improved, and Microsoft should be providing explicit next steps at every phase so that you aren&#x27;t left wondering what&#x27;s going on. I&#x27;d agree with that. But claiming someone should be fired is ridiculous, especially considering that the author still doesn&#x27;t know what the feature does and it could still pleasantly surprise him. It may just need an additional dialog explaining what to expect next.<p>I assume the feature gives you desktop notifications when the package transitions between tracking stages, and even if that&#x27;s all the functionality it provides it&#x27;d still be more useful than manually checking the tracking website yourself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nerflad</author><text>&gt; <i></i><i>The Product Manager in charge of this feature should be immediately fired.</i><i></i><p>I hate this kind of writing. It undermines the otherwise good point the author has.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cortana is really bad</title><url>https://medium.com/@johndavidback/cortana-is-really-really-bad-6ca96733ef4d</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>mikestew</author><text>I think there are times when a firing is appropriate, as sometimes folks end up in a position for which they are obviously not well-suited. Let’s take as an example the PM that broke party chat on the Xbone when it was released. IMO, assuming the design matched the implementation, it is reasonable to question whether the PM had ever used the previous Xbox 360 or had ever played games on a console at all. I’m not saying Microsoft should boot them out of the company, but they sure as hell shouldn’t be writing specs for games consoles anymore. So “fire” them from the Xbox team, let ‘em go back from whence they sprang, be it another division within MS or some other company.<p>Now whether it is warranted in case, I cannot judge as I don’t use the product.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nerflad</author><text>&gt; <i></i><i>The Product Manager in charge of this feature should be immediately fired.</i><i></i><p>I hate this kind of writing. It undermines the otherwise good point the author has.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cortana is really bad</title><url>https://medium.com/@johndavidback/cortana-is-really-really-bad-6ca96733ef4d</url></story> |
22,020,418 | 22,020,293 | 1 | 3 | 22,019,597 | 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>txcwpalpha</author><text>I’ve been the IT vendor in this scenario. While I’m sure there are plenty of inept vendors not doing their part to ensure the systems they implement are secure, a big part of it is doctors and their work culture.<p>Many doctors see themselves as too important to deal with security. They have an attitude of “I went to school for medicine, not computers! How dare you ask me to use a computer.” They are not only technologically inept, they are proud of it. And I’m not just talking about refusing to use complicated software. I’m talking about doctors that insist that they shouldn’t be forced to use passwords (not even complicated passwords; ANY passwords). And in most of the organizations I have dealt with, doctors are the most important people in the organization and have final say on anything, which often means that the security department’s efforts are all overridden by doctors that can’t be arsed to even type in a password before using their EMR, and don’t even dream of something more complicated like asking them to use multi-factor auth.<p>I once worked at a hospital where a doctor was looking at porn at work, clicked a phishing link, and gave up his network credentials. An attacker then used those credentials to breach the network and siphoned several hundred thousand dollars from the financial system (wiring money to himself). Security detected this and disabled his account. 20 minutes later the doctor had called the CEO, yelled at him (“how dare you lock me out of my account!”) who then called security to yell at us and insist we re-enable his account. The doctor was never reprimanded (for falling for phishing or for the porn) meanwhile the security team got a stern talking to and was instructed to never disable a doctor’s account again.<p>Healthcare is a different world for security. You have to acknowledge that yes, patient safety is more important than security, but oftentimes these doctors take it to an extreme and they are very difficult to work with. I have never met a group of people more elitist and “too important to be bothered” by security than doctors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>prostheticvamp</author><text>An odd line from the article, wherein it states that security researchers don’t blame vendors, but the physicians and hospitals that fail to properly secure the software.<p>I have never, in all my years of working in healthcare, seen a hospital or physicians office directly install and manage PACS. They pay a third-party - usually the vendor - to install, configure, and walk them through it. Maybe a behemoth system like Northwell has the IT bench to do it themselves, but that would be the exception.<p>So allow me to rephrase slightly: “technologically inept organization pays vendor to make machine go vroom. Vendor leaves keys in ignition. Damn that technologically inept organization.”<p>To take a 10,000-foot view of the situation, though:<p>Healthcare-related technologically was largely pushed on the industry via legislation. Said legislation was almost entirely stick, no carrot. The result was healthcare organizations with a gun to their head to buy from a handful of vendors, with no real ROI to be seen from it - aka, the government outsourcing its costs to private industry, and throwing pork to some major health IT firms along the way. When a technology is forced on you at a loss, from a vendor with little incentive to optimize ease of use or utility, you get a terrible piece of shit that no one wants to invest more time and money into than absolutely needed. That’s going to show itself in a myriad of ways.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A billion medical images are exposed online</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/10/medical-images-exposed-pacs/</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>trackofalljades</author><text>This was my immediate thought at the headline, doctors-who-what-now?<p>This feels informed from the technology side, and profoundly ignorant of how health care IT actually works (especially in the United States).</text><parent_chain><item><author>prostheticvamp</author><text>An odd line from the article, wherein it states that security researchers don’t blame vendors, but the physicians and hospitals that fail to properly secure the software.<p>I have never, in all my years of working in healthcare, seen a hospital or physicians office directly install and manage PACS. They pay a third-party - usually the vendor - to install, configure, and walk them through it. Maybe a behemoth system like Northwell has the IT bench to do it themselves, but that would be the exception.<p>So allow me to rephrase slightly: “technologically inept organization pays vendor to make machine go vroom. Vendor leaves keys in ignition. Damn that technologically inept organization.”<p>To take a 10,000-foot view of the situation, though:<p>Healthcare-related technologically was largely pushed on the industry via legislation. Said legislation was almost entirely stick, no carrot. The result was healthcare organizations with a gun to their head to buy from a handful of vendors, with no real ROI to be seen from it - aka, the government outsourcing its costs to private industry, and throwing pork to some major health IT firms along the way. When a technology is forced on you at a loss, from a vendor with little incentive to optimize ease of use or utility, you get a terrible piece of shit that no one wants to invest more time and money into than absolutely needed. That’s going to show itself in a myriad of ways.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A billion medical images are exposed online</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/10/medical-images-exposed-pacs/</url></story> |
40,166,032 | 40,164,394 | 1 | 3 | 40,164,393 | 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>eitally</author><text>When I joined Google in 2015, one of my work buddies &#x2F; teammates was someone who had transferred in from having spent nearly ten years on the Ads side, from a GCAS (Global Clients &amp; Agency Solutions). This org doesn&#x27;t exist in the same form anymore, but at that time it was the pinnacle of Google&#x27;s ad sales, with white glove treatment for the top xx global spenders (advertising agencies, who consumer products firms, a couple of travel aggregators -- you get the idea). We talked a lot, about a lot of things, and one tidbit I crisply remember was her noting that it was common knowledge that Ads had the ability to &quot;turn the dials&quot; on various things, including in Search, to affect business metrics.<p>Reading Ed&#x27;s post reminded me of this, and whether (or to what extent) it&#x27;s true, it certainly was conventional wisdom at the time.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Response to Google</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/in-response-to-google/</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>minimaxir</author><text>Context (&quot;The man who killed Google Search?&quot;): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40133976">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40133976</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Response to Google</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/in-response-to-google/</url></story> |
29,736,683 | 29,735,934 | 1 | 2 | 29,732,090 | 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>neuroma</author><text>Okay how about a new analogy:<p>Your web app malfunctions, and a diagnostic sweep suggests the code is compromised. It&#x27;s cloud hosted and open source. You&#x27;re part of a team and see various recent revisions that could have exposed the app to malicious use. Furthermore your cloud provider is upgrading their hardware. Your app has to come offline whilst it&#x27;s patched. Its a critical service for some clients who are hounding you.<p>You ask for help from a professional to get things back and working.<p>They say, &quot;It is due to an electrical imbalance in the computers.&quot;<p>In psychiatry people are analogously doing just that.<p>We know sure that neurotransmitters have a role in mental health, in the same way as engine oil has a role in a car. Right amount in right place is necessary, but not sufficient, for good operating. If I brough you my faulty car and you jept harking on about engine oil, I&#x27;d be miffed.<p>Incidentally I&#x27;m a staunch monoist materialist and believe brain states and mind are facets of the same phenomena. My gripe is with pharma marketing penetrating our collective psychology. Equating depression to monoamine derangement was a very attractive notion for all but in 30 years remains unproven, and not very helpful in guiding treatment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I understand what you are saying. Just that we shouldn&#x27;t recognize that depression can be a chemical issue because that doesn&#x27;t help us fix the problem? Are you saying that anti-depressants don&#x27;t work?<p>So if depression is more about mental models, life choices, and drive and whatever, why do so many people suffer from depression in cycles? There is little change from one day to the next, and yet, many people with depression can feel great one day and terrible the next. Or pregnant women can feel great before giving birth and then give birth to a perfect baby and suddenly start feeling depressed soon after.<p>How do you use therapy to cure depression if the depressed person has no reason to feel depressed?</text></item><item><author>neuroma</author><text>Great Post, thank you for sharing.<p>I do take issue with the commonly parroted claim that depression can be a chemical imbalance. It&#x27;s a notion arising from pharma marketing psyops, and is largely without utility. It even risks being an antipattern.
The few pros include separating responsibility and thus alleviating some guilt, which often coexists with depression, and annoying spiritualists. Tell me if I missed any.<p>Analogy: if I told you an athlete is different to a couch potato because of chemical imbalance, you&#x27;d think I was obtuse. While technically correct on some level that explanation obfuscates useful relational information about training, motivation, routine, mindset, culture, and circumstance.
Similarly if I told you to become an athlete by only taking supplements that augment the phospho creatinine ATP pathway, you&#x27;d think me a crook.<p>Oversimplifications sell pills and make for memorable catch phrases, but fall short of empowering us to become happy and well.<p>Let&#x27;s try and move our collective understanding beyond chemical imbalance; it&#x27;s a tired mantra with scant utility.<p>Disclosure: neuro psych doctor</text></item><item><author>FailMore</author><text>While depression can certainly be caused by chemical imbalance and not because of how your unconscious mind impacts&#x2F;limits your experience of life, I took the approach that exploring my subconscious through therapy was the way to get out.<p>For me it worked very well and I think the journey is an amazing one to go on. Building from the ground up and understanding all the foundations within. I always wonder about treatments which don&#x27;t have this benefit, although the results in terms of lifestyle change sound extremely positive.<p>One of the hardest parts of therapy is diagnosis of what to work on. Even though an issue will be &quot;presenting&quot; itself clearly, it can often be a bit of a decoy. For example, a lack of self-esteem is often a useful derivative of an unconscious fear of upsetting others. Low self-esteem =&gt; avoid situations&#x2F;behaviours that upset others.<p>During therapy I found dreams, when analysed outside of the &quot;conventional&quot; Freudian&#x2F;Jungian frameworks provided a simple and accurate method of reaching the root diagnosis (the fear of upsetting others vs. the decoy issue of low self-esteem).<p>I got a bit obsessed by the topic and wrote a paper on it which can be downloaded here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psyarxiv.com&#x2F;k6trz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psyarxiv.com&#x2F;k6trz</a><p>And was discussed on HN here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19143590" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19143590</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study</title><url>https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/10/depression-treatment.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>andybak</author><text>Not GP and not even sure I agree with them.<p>However I think there&#x27;s some semantic issues with &quot;chemical imbalance&quot; that are worthy of examination. Depending on your basic philosophical views regarding materialism and the origin of consciousness, you might be of the view that all mental states are the result of brain states. This is a reasonable view. Considering what we know about brain function and the rather broad meaning of the words &quot;chemical&quot; and &quot;imbalance&quot; arguably <i>all</i> brain states are the result of &quot;chemical imbalance&quot; of some kind.<p>(I know the brain is also an electrical system but the electrical pathways are deeply entwined with the chemical ones)</text><parent_chain><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I understand what you are saying. Just that we shouldn&#x27;t recognize that depression can be a chemical issue because that doesn&#x27;t help us fix the problem? Are you saying that anti-depressants don&#x27;t work?<p>So if depression is more about mental models, life choices, and drive and whatever, why do so many people suffer from depression in cycles? There is little change from one day to the next, and yet, many people with depression can feel great one day and terrible the next. Or pregnant women can feel great before giving birth and then give birth to a perfect baby and suddenly start feeling depressed soon after.<p>How do you use therapy to cure depression if the depressed person has no reason to feel depressed?</text></item><item><author>neuroma</author><text>Great Post, thank you for sharing.<p>I do take issue with the commonly parroted claim that depression can be a chemical imbalance. It&#x27;s a notion arising from pharma marketing psyops, and is largely without utility. It even risks being an antipattern.
The few pros include separating responsibility and thus alleviating some guilt, which often coexists with depression, and annoying spiritualists. Tell me if I missed any.<p>Analogy: if I told you an athlete is different to a couch potato because of chemical imbalance, you&#x27;d think I was obtuse. While technically correct on some level that explanation obfuscates useful relational information about training, motivation, routine, mindset, culture, and circumstance.
Similarly if I told you to become an athlete by only taking supplements that augment the phospho creatinine ATP pathway, you&#x27;d think me a crook.<p>Oversimplifications sell pills and make for memorable catch phrases, but fall short of empowering us to become happy and well.<p>Let&#x27;s try and move our collective understanding beyond chemical imbalance; it&#x27;s a tired mantra with scant utility.<p>Disclosure: neuro psych doctor</text></item><item><author>FailMore</author><text>While depression can certainly be caused by chemical imbalance and not because of how your unconscious mind impacts&#x2F;limits your experience of life, I took the approach that exploring my subconscious through therapy was the way to get out.<p>For me it worked very well and I think the journey is an amazing one to go on. Building from the ground up and understanding all the foundations within. I always wonder about treatments which don&#x27;t have this benefit, although the results in terms of lifestyle change sound extremely positive.<p>One of the hardest parts of therapy is diagnosis of what to work on. Even though an issue will be &quot;presenting&quot; itself clearly, it can often be a bit of a decoy. For example, a lack of self-esteem is often a useful derivative of an unconscious fear of upsetting others. Low self-esteem =&gt; avoid situations&#x2F;behaviours that upset others.<p>During therapy I found dreams, when analysed outside of the &quot;conventional&quot; Freudian&#x2F;Jungian frameworks provided a simple and accurate method of reaching the root diagnosis (the fear of upsetting others vs. the decoy issue of low self-esteem).<p>I got a bit obsessed by the topic and wrote a paper on it which can be downloaded here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psyarxiv.com&#x2F;k6trz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psyarxiv.com&#x2F;k6trz</a><p>And was discussed on HN here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19143590" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19143590</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study</title><url>https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/10/depression-treatment.html</url></story> |
6,064,754 | 6,063,578 | 1 | 2 | 6,062,654 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>roc</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;I can&#x27;t conceive of what Obama has in mind with pursuing this law against resistance.&quot;</i><p>I think, logically, we&#x27;re down to only a few options:<p>1. &quot;he&#x27;s lying&quot;: His stated opinions&#x2F;positions don&#x27;t reflect his beliefs at all.<p>2. &quot;he&#x27;s powerless&quot;: despite being President, he has no practical control over what is pursued, so his speeches and signing statements are essentially a plea for people and historians to not blame him for that which he cannot control.<p>3. &quot;he&#x27;s corrupt&quot;: Power has corrupted his ideals, and he truly believes he can fairly wield dangerous powers such as the drone kill list and suspension of citizenship&#x2F;rights, despite their risks, and that having these tools available to him today is more necessary&#x2F;important than denying them for fear of future abuse.<p>And none of those possibilities are particularly encouraging.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>&quot;Congress granted the president the authority to arrest and hold individuals accused of terrorism without due process under the NDAA, but Mr. Obama said in an accompanying signing statement that he will not abuse these privileges to keep American citizens imprisoned indefinitely&quot;<p>If you want to influence someone, it helps to understand their motivations. I can&#x27;t conceive of what Obama has in mind with pursuing this law against resistance.<p>Is it not obvious to everyone the unwanted side-effects of this kind of power? Is it not obvious how much this flies in the face of the intent of the people who wrote the Constitution. Or more relevantly the Declaration of Independence? Obama is a <i>lawyer</i>! He&#x27;s intelligent. What can he be thinking? Did he forget the purpose and spirit of the Bill of Rights as he and advisors schemed to get around its letters?<p>Those revolutionaries would have all been labeled terrorists today. With the King in England, any colonist would have been an enemy combatant, stripped of rights, jailed or worse arbitrarily, and who knows what else.<p>Whether the United States has become what we rebelled against is not the question. If nothing changes, it&#x27;s only a matter of time. This country has gotten rid of slavery and overcome major hurdles of sexual and racial inequality. Let&#x27;s hope we have what it takes to overcome this centralization of power and unaccountability. And that we act on it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA</title><url>http://rt.com/usa/obama-ndaa-appeal-suit-229/</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>jvm</author><text>&gt; Those revolutionaries would have all been labeled terrorists today.<p>This is one of the huge ironies about contemporary conservatives. They practically worship the founding fathers like gods, but they would have hated many of them if they met them today, as many were godless radical liberals.<p>The most extreme example of this for me was when D&#x27;Souza and other republicans accused Barack Obama of being anti-colonialist [1], specifically in the context of British occupation, and they meant that <i>in a bad way</i>(!) Surely if nothing else, our country was founded on the principle of opposition to British colonialism.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/07/AR2010100705485.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;wp-dyn&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;2010&#x2F;10...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>&quot;Congress granted the president the authority to arrest and hold individuals accused of terrorism without due process under the NDAA, but Mr. Obama said in an accompanying signing statement that he will not abuse these privileges to keep American citizens imprisoned indefinitely&quot;<p>If you want to influence someone, it helps to understand their motivations. I can&#x27;t conceive of what Obama has in mind with pursuing this law against resistance.<p>Is it not obvious to everyone the unwanted side-effects of this kind of power? Is it not obvious how much this flies in the face of the intent of the people who wrote the Constitution. Or more relevantly the Declaration of Independence? Obama is a <i>lawyer</i>! He&#x27;s intelligent. What can he be thinking? Did he forget the purpose and spirit of the Bill of Rights as he and advisors schemed to get around its letters?<p>Those revolutionaries would have all been labeled terrorists today. With the King in England, any colonist would have been an enemy combatant, stripped of rights, jailed or worse arbitrarily, and who knows what else.<p>Whether the United States has become what we rebelled against is not the question. If nothing changes, it&#x27;s only a matter of time. This country has gotten rid of slavery and overcome major hurdles of sexual and racial inequality. Let&#x27;s hope we have what it takes to overcome this centralization of power and unaccountability. And that we act on it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA</title><url>http://rt.com/usa/obama-ndaa-appeal-suit-229/</url></story> |
9,811,025 | 9,811,031 | 1 | 2 | 9,810,274 | 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>eatonphil</author><text>Took a look at Locust before and did not find it as useful or generic as ApacheBench or Httperf (by HP). Locust felt a little too cutesy and high-level for most of the work I wanted to do - which was pretty simple.<p>Furthermore there were a lot of timing inaccuracies between the same test runs. It certainly could have been a fault in our code, but ab and Httperf seemed to give a lot more reliable and useful timing information. And they are just simpler to use. For one, not being browserbased can be nice when you are trying to iterate quickly.<p>Not trying to sell anyone against Locust, but at the least, I recommend you take a look at ab and Httperf to make sure you don&#x27;t need something a whole lot simpler.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Locust – A modern load testing framework</title><url>http://locust.io/</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>dalyons</author><text>Used it for some substantial loadtesting, loved it.
It&#x27;s real advantage compared to AB, siege, etc, is how easy it makes it to simulate real user interactions, not just mash on a few endpoints.
Only flaw in my books is the crazy high ulimit you need for simulating high numbers of unique actors. The easy clustering mitigates this though.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Locust – A modern load testing framework</title><url>http://locust.io/</url></story> |
38,728,865 | 38,728,432 | 1 | 2 | 38,723,309 | 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>alephnerd</author><text>We were all 18 year olds, but we (hopefully) never stalked and harassed women, as is noted in TFA.<p>And don&#x27;t use autism as an excuse - my mother teaches autistic teenagers and none of them have committed amoral stuff such as violence and harassment.<p>Also, an 18 year old is an adult.</text><parent_chain><item><author>squigz</author><text>This is an 18 year old kid.</text></item><item><author>LorenPechtel</author><text>Note the violence. This is a person that can&#x27;t control themselves when things don&#x27;t go their way.</text></item><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>Absolutely monumental waste of talent. Reminds me of how I got expelled from high school for &quot;hacking&quot; into their terrible infrastructure (without causing any damage whatsoever, other than to their pride). They threw the book at me. Threatened felonies. Were going on and on about how I will never vote, never be able to work as a postal worker etc.<p>Get this kid into the right environment and he would probably be able to do great things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67663128</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>happytoexplain</author><text>The idea that we should, to some extent, excuse physical violence for 18-year-olds is disturbing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>squigz</author><text>This is an 18 year old kid.</text></item><item><author>LorenPechtel</author><text>Note the violence. This is a person that can&#x27;t control themselves when things don&#x27;t go their way.</text></item><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>Absolutely monumental waste of talent. Reminds me of how I got expelled from high school for &quot;hacking&quot; into their terrible infrastructure (without causing any damage whatsoever, other than to their pride). They threw the book at me. Threatened felonies. Were going on and on about how I will never vote, never be able to work as a postal worker etc.<p>Get this kid into the right environment and he would probably be able to do great things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67663128</url></story> |
17,069,512 | 17,069,319 | 1 | 3 | 17,045,777 | 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>rsynnott</author><text>While vaguely modern European ones generally do, American ones often don’t. I suspect this is down to the 120V power; with normal wiring you can only get about 2kW if not less, vs about 3 on a European system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>distances</author><text>Washing machines use cold water and heat it up themselves, so I don&#x27;t see the connection?</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>An interesting side effect here is that the house water heater has its own temperature control. For years people have been turning down the temperature setting on their water heaters to save energy, as a result the typical house water heater might be set to 60C (130F) and the washing machine was doing the best it could.</text></item><item><author>e12e</author><text>&gt; My sister Christy has an older top loader (not HE). She washed this laundry on hot and added the 1&#x2F;2 cup chlorine bleach directly to the wash water and it was very, very clean. She measured the temperature of her wash water when the tank filled up using her meat thermometer and it was 130 degrees F. She used Sam&#x27;s club detergent. Her laundry was perfectly clean (to the limits of my detection abilities).<p>So, 130F is just under 60C - what&#x27;s usually the minimum considered to kill bacteria. While I haven&#x27;t measured the actual temperature, my aging, second hand washer have three &quot;white&quot; programs: &quot;hot&quot; is 90 C, and there are two rated 60C. I&#x27;d never assume any of the other programs had a sterilising effect.<p>If &quot;hot&quot; is just 60C, and often not that - I can see a need to use bleach for some loads (or other means of killing off bacteria) if the norm is to use warm (not hot) water for washing.<p>Would be interesting to see similar test with just water (no soap, bleach) and a 90C degree program.<p>I&#x27;d guess the results would be &quot;dotted middleground&quot; like many of the test here.<p>Also would be nice to see how hanging in the sun would effect otherwise clean clothes (airborne bacteria vs uv death ray stand-off - might be meaningless without checking for <i>type</i> of bacteria).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Does Clean Laundry Have Germs?</title><url>http://www.stopthestomachflu.com/does-clean-laundry-have-germs-1</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>ChuckMcM</author><text>Clearly not all of them do :-) But curious as to the relative ratio I discover that best buy has a separate listing for machines that include an internal water heater. According to their web site, of the models that Best buy sells the population is about 40% (54 models with internal water heaters over a population of 138 models)</text><parent_chain><item><author>distances</author><text>Washing machines use cold water and heat it up themselves, so I don&#x27;t see the connection?</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>An interesting side effect here is that the house water heater has its own temperature control. For years people have been turning down the temperature setting on their water heaters to save energy, as a result the typical house water heater might be set to 60C (130F) and the washing machine was doing the best it could.</text></item><item><author>e12e</author><text>&gt; My sister Christy has an older top loader (not HE). She washed this laundry on hot and added the 1&#x2F;2 cup chlorine bleach directly to the wash water and it was very, very clean. She measured the temperature of her wash water when the tank filled up using her meat thermometer and it was 130 degrees F. She used Sam&#x27;s club detergent. Her laundry was perfectly clean (to the limits of my detection abilities).<p>So, 130F is just under 60C - what&#x27;s usually the minimum considered to kill bacteria. While I haven&#x27;t measured the actual temperature, my aging, second hand washer have three &quot;white&quot; programs: &quot;hot&quot; is 90 C, and there are two rated 60C. I&#x27;d never assume any of the other programs had a sterilising effect.<p>If &quot;hot&quot; is just 60C, and often not that - I can see a need to use bleach for some loads (or other means of killing off bacteria) if the norm is to use warm (not hot) water for washing.<p>Would be interesting to see similar test with just water (no soap, bleach) and a 90C degree program.<p>I&#x27;d guess the results would be &quot;dotted middleground&quot; like many of the test here.<p>Also would be nice to see how hanging in the sun would effect otherwise clean clothes (airborne bacteria vs uv death ray stand-off - might be meaningless without checking for <i>type</i> of bacteria).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Does Clean Laundry Have Germs?</title><url>http://www.stopthestomachflu.com/does-clean-laundry-have-germs-1</url></story> |
9,204,728 | 9,204,636 | 1 | 2 | 9,204,346 | 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>ma2rten</author><text>Did anyone else think that the MS Robot was more interesting than the actual pull request?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CoreCLR on Linux</title><url>https://github.com/aspnet/DNX/pull/1406</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>bigdubs</author><text>Awesome to see rapid progress on this. Curious what people&#x27;s thoughts are as to milestones to where you would trust CoreCLR (on Linux) for a production app.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CoreCLR on Linux</title><url>https://github.com/aspnet/DNX/pull/1406</url><text></text></story> |
36,383,535 | 36,382,806 | 1 | 2 | 36,380,024 | 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>factorialboy</author><text>The fundamental deficiency with our society is that we value talking about X more than performing&#x2F;implementing X.<p>This is true for most fields, including programming.<p>Most teams have folks to do the heavy lifting, and a small percentage of folks who talk about it.<p>The talkers are considered more valuable than the doers, within the organization or without.<p>These are our thought leaders, influencers, architects, you name it.<p>I am not complaining, this is a game we are all playing. It took me far too long to recognize it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spacemadness</author><text>One devious form of bullshit is always using the simplest of examples to prove out an architecture pattern and call it a day. I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve seen patterns with glaring open questions and pitfalls the author avoids. Then the cacophony of likes follow from folks who’re likely very early in their career or hobby and don’t know any better. This is very prevalent on iOS development blogs as authors rush to write their blog posts after every WWDC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Most tech content is bullshit (2020)</title><url>https://www.aleksandra.codes/tech-content-consumer</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>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I’ve learned to wait a couple of years for dubdub hype to subside, and “lessons learned” to be shared.<p>I get tired of the “write an app in five minutes” demos. As someone that regularly works on <i>ship</i> apps, I can report that there is a <i>world</i> of difference between academic demos, and something that can be shipped.</text><parent_chain><item><author>spacemadness</author><text>One devious form of bullshit is always using the simplest of examples to prove out an architecture pattern and call it a day. I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve seen patterns with glaring open questions and pitfalls the author avoids. Then the cacophony of likes follow from folks who’re likely very early in their career or hobby and don’t know any better. This is very prevalent on iOS development blogs as authors rush to write their blog posts after every WWDC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Most tech content is bullshit (2020)</title><url>https://www.aleksandra.codes/tech-content-consumer</url></story> |
22,732,181 | 22,731,209 | 1 | 2 | 22,730,478 | 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>jedberg</author><text>&gt; Most employees aren’t accustomed to holding meetings with colleagues via videoconference and some have found it difficult to use Apple’s own offerings such as FaceTime, iCloud and iMessage, as they weren’t designed for enterprise users, according to current and former employees.<p>Hopefully this motivates them to make these products better! Although I&#x27;m not super hopeful.<p>I once asked a friend (and Apple employee) why Keynote doesn&#x27;t have any collaboration function. I said, &quot;Don&#x27;t you guys every collaborate on presentations?&quot; He said, &quot;No, not really, and if you do, you&#x27;re all in one room and one person is driving the computer&quot;.<p>So their culture is very much engrained with in person collaboration.<p>Edit: I should clarify that I asked him this a few years ago, before they added the &quot;collaborate through iCloud&quot; functionality.<p>The point still stands though, that while everyone else had collaboration in their presentation apps, Apple didn&#x27;t, because they didn&#x27;t see the need for it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Apple Is Working From Home</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-apple-is-working-from-home?pu=hackernewsusoift&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock</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>castillar76</author><text>Over the years I&#x27;ve had a few conversations with Apple recruiters about job opportunities at Apple. Every time, they&#x27;ve tried to persuade me to move to Cupertino, because Apple doesn&#x27;t do remote work. I&#x27;ve had to start prefacing the conversations with &quot;I&#x27;m not moving to Cupertino. Do you still want to talk?&quot;<p>I get why Jobs wanted it that way: the value of hallway conversations and the ability to bounce things off other engineers is invaluable, and until recently it was difficult to make that viable with people flung off in different locations. Moreover, it&#x27;s really difficult to have most of your team in one location and a few scattered people elsewhere: the people elsewhere just aren&#x27;t part of the loop in the same way, and it makes things really hard for them.<p>That said, I&#x27;d be surprised if Apple continues with a hard-line stance on that after all of this: I think we&#x27;re seeing that an awful lot of work that people insisted had to be local can indeed be done effectively from remote.<p>EDIT: Having read the thread on this one, I apologize for my over-generalization based on anecdote. I work for a company that pushes the ability to remote-work, and the folks I&#x27;ve talked with about working at Apple were all very &quot;yeah, they don&#x27;t do work-from-home&quot;. However, the plural of anecdote is not data. :)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Apple Is Working From Home</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-apple-is-working-from-home?pu=hackernewsusoift&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock</url></story> |
33,178,384 | 33,178,563 | 1 | 2 | 33,177,101 | 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>explorer83</author><text>I think this outlook is completely rational. I think the last bit is painfully true if you&#x27;ve ever been in a similar position and want to shout the injustice from the rooftops and future job interviews.<p>However, I think it&#x27;s near impossible to actively maintain this clear headed detachment in many working arrangements. Unless your job has a lot of independent autonomous work time, you&#x27;re stuck most of your waking day in this environment. The mental capacity to keep this grounded outlook while handling the daily job stress is too much IMO. Plus I believe we are somewhat wired from evolution to work in cooperation with others and have some need to feel valued or at least accepted in our work with others.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewmcwatters</author><text>All bad job stories can be boiled down to someone at a company who was in charge over employees did not want someone at the company anymore.<p>No amount of emotions or rationalization or any other factor really changes this.<p>Employees are professionals who provide services while in employ. When your services are no longer wanted, they are no longer paid for and rendered.<p>You can say someone was a bad person or an asshole or whatever, you might be or they might be and probably will be right or both the employer or employee will both be right, or you will be dealing with a bad employer or employee. It happens. It’s life.<p>But I think the healthiest way to deal with these things is to remember you are providing a service for a fee. That fee might be a salary, it might be a retainer, it might be a flat rate, or a one time fee.<p>But you vend and perform services to those who pay for them.<p>Everything else, every other ceremony and nicety and construct, usually built by employers for employees, though sometimes albeit rarely both ways, is designed to impair this judgement and create a scenario where one party forgets this and their relationship is transformed into something else, usually subservient without a notion of autonomy.<p>It is why employers use “subordinate”—who are you truly subordinate to? You are not a slave. They are dependent on your labor and you on their patronage. It is mutual.<p>Or “terminate”—why is such ceremonious negative language used? To make you feel bad that employment has “ended.” Which is what it is an “end,” “termination” is needless.<p>Or “performance improvement plan,” what improvement needs to be dictated to a professional? A professional knows their limits and places where they can or cannot provide satisfactory service. When a professional fails to deliver, a client or customer simply does not buy. A professional knows they lack because a service or good was not purchased. The ulterior motive here is to punish. That’s why.<p>My advice—don’t do this. While rarely there might be something interesting to learn from bad employment stories, writing them as someone who is not of notoriety just tarnishes one’s image. The benefit is only, and only rarely, for the reader.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love</title><url>https://www.justworktogether.com/blog/this-is-what-it-feels-like</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>sparrish</author><text>I agree with you and feel that younger employees lose sight of this more easily as their entire world revolves around their employment and those they work with.<p>Lack of a &#x27;life&#x27; outside of work makes one myopic to the cold nature of employment and changes the dynamic so losing a job is an enormous emotional hit.<p>Start a family, go to church, cultivate friendships outside of your work. Your life will be better off for it and it will help keep this employee&#x2F;employer relationship in its proper focus.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewmcwatters</author><text>All bad job stories can be boiled down to someone at a company who was in charge over employees did not want someone at the company anymore.<p>No amount of emotions or rationalization or any other factor really changes this.<p>Employees are professionals who provide services while in employ. When your services are no longer wanted, they are no longer paid for and rendered.<p>You can say someone was a bad person or an asshole or whatever, you might be or they might be and probably will be right or both the employer or employee will both be right, or you will be dealing with a bad employer or employee. It happens. It’s life.<p>But I think the healthiest way to deal with these things is to remember you are providing a service for a fee. That fee might be a salary, it might be a retainer, it might be a flat rate, or a one time fee.<p>But you vend and perform services to those who pay for them.<p>Everything else, every other ceremony and nicety and construct, usually built by employers for employees, though sometimes albeit rarely both ways, is designed to impair this judgement and create a scenario where one party forgets this and their relationship is transformed into something else, usually subservient without a notion of autonomy.<p>It is why employers use “subordinate”—who are you truly subordinate to? You are not a slave. They are dependent on your labor and you on their patronage. It is mutual.<p>Or “terminate”—why is such ceremonious negative language used? To make you feel bad that employment has “ended.” Which is what it is an “end,” “termination” is needless.<p>Or “performance improvement plan,” what improvement needs to be dictated to a professional? A professional knows their limits and places where they can or cannot provide satisfactory service. When a professional fails to deliver, a client or customer simply does not buy. A professional knows they lack because a service or good was not purchased. The ulterior motive here is to punish. That’s why.<p>My advice—don’t do this. While rarely there might be something interesting to learn from bad employment stories, writing them as someone who is not of notoriety just tarnishes one’s image. The benefit is only, and only rarely, for the reader.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What it feels like to be bullied out of a job you love</title><url>https://www.justworktogether.com/blog/this-is-what-it-feels-like</url></story> |
28,156,694 | 28,156,509 | 1 | 3 | 28,155,072 | 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>inglor_cz</author><text>&quot;workers now have to be the best in the world to get business and thus earn a good living&quot;<p>This is extra pronounced for singers, actors etc., but not as much for people such as software engineers. A mediocre programmer that implements functionality that <i>you</i> need is much more valuable for you than a star programmer immersed in his UltraFastXMLParserForHaskell library and does not take side jobs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MontyCarloHall</author><text>The downside to broadening the talent pool for design&#x2F;manufacturing is that it means workers now have to be among the best in the world to get business and thus earn a good living. It no longer suffices to be the best in a local region.<p>If each local region needs its own widget factory, then to become a top widgetsmith you only have to compete with the local widgetsmith talent pool. Just as there can be many high school star athletes across the world, there can be many top widgetsmiths within their local widget factories across the world, even if each is likely mediocre relative to the global pool of widgetsmiths.<p>Now the widget market has globalized. To become a top widgetsmith, you now need to be the best in the world. There is no room for locally optimal widgetsmiths when the market can globally optimize, just as there’s no room for most star high school athletes at the NBA.<p>The upside is that the entire world gets much better widgets. The downside is that you can only make a good living as a widgetsmith if you’re the absolute best in the world. Local markets lead to redundancy, which is globally inefficient but locally optimal.</text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>I think he kind of missed the elephant that is modern communication technology has reduced the marginal cost of skilled services enabling pretty much every object designed in an office and manufactured in a factory to benefit from a broader array of engineering and design professionals and methodologies. The average product and service that the average actor in the economy interacts with is designed and optimized to a far greater degree today than they were historically.<p>Look at the bottle of Elmers glue on the table. Today the glue probably works better (barring regulation that forces compromises to product efficacy) and comes in a bottle that uses half as much plastic. Something like a bottle revision that would have formerly required expensive salaried employees to come up with multiple options, send them to the supplier, supplier has to respond to each with details and quotes, etc, can now be accomplished in a fraction of the man hours thanks to email and CAD being ubiquitous in the entire supply chain from marketing, to engineering, to the vendor&#x27;s contractor who will actually design the tooling. Sign off might take days instead of weeks. This sort of efficiency improvement allows more engineering, design work, or other optimization to be done to every good and service in our economy allowing it to penetrate into even the most thin margin use cases. From farming to high finance products and services are substantially more influenced and optimized by specialist professionals than they were in 1990. Increase efficiency like this throughout the national and global economy is how lawnmowers and A&#x2F;C units can be sold on sale for $100 and still make a profit. (yes I know that example isn&#x27;t perfect but you get the point).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Life Improvements Since the 1990s</title><url>https://www.gwern.net/Improvements</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>BurningFrog</author><text>The upside I think of is that this enables more specialization and &quot;division of labor&quot;, which is one of the basic drivers of prosperity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MontyCarloHall</author><text>The downside to broadening the talent pool for design&#x2F;manufacturing is that it means workers now have to be among the best in the world to get business and thus earn a good living. It no longer suffices to be the best in a local region.<p>If each local region needs its own widget factory, then to become a top widgetsmith you only have to compete with the local widgetsmith talent pool. Just as there can be many high school star athletes across the world, there can be many top widgetsmiths within their local widget factories across the world, even if each is likely mediocre relative to the global pool of widgetsmiths.<p>Now the widget market has globalized. To become a top widgetsmith, you now need to be the best in the world. There is no room for locally optimal widgetsmiths when the market can globally optimize, just as there’s no room for most star high school athletes at the NBA.<p>The upside is that the entire world gets much better widgets. The downside is that you can only make a good living as a widgetsmith if you’re the absolute best in the world. Local markets lead to redundancy, which is globally inefficient but locally optimal.</text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>I think he kind of missed the elephant that is modern communication technology has reduced the marginal cost of skilled services enabling pretty much every object designed in an office and manufactured in a factory to benefit from a broader array of engineering and design professionals and methodologies. The average product and service that the average actor in the economy interacts with is designed and optimized to a far greater degree today than they were historically.<p>Look at the bottle of Elmers glue on the table. Today the glue probably works better (barring regulation that forces compromises to product efficacy) and comes in a bottle that uses half as much plastic. Something like a bottle revision that would have formerly required expensive salaried employees to come up with multiple options, send them to the supplier, supplier has to respond to each with details and quotes, etc, can now be accomplished in a fraction of the man hours thanks to email and CAD being ubiquitous in the entire supply chain from marketing, to engineering, to the vendor&#x27;s contractor who will actually design the tooling. Sign off might take days instead of weeks. This sort of efficiency improvement allows more engineering, design work, or other optimization to be done to every good and service in our economy allowing it to penetrate into even the most thin margin use cases. From farming to high finance products and services are substantially more influenced and optimized by specialist professionals than they were in 1990. Increase efficiency like this throughout the national and global economy is how lawnmowers and A&#x2F;C units can be sold on sale for $100 and still make a profit. (yes I know that example isn&#x27;t perfect but you get the point).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Life Improvements Since the 1990s</title><url>https://www.gwern.net/Improvements</url></story> |
4,294,560 | 4,294,569 | 1 | 2 | 4,294,411 | 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>switz</author><text>"<i>I don't think crowdfunding is good for startups. For startups, having large numbers of investors is bad, and having inexperienced investors is bad. So having a very large number of inexperienced investors is the worst scenario possible. The right way to get money from large numbers of people is to sell them your product, like Inpulse did, not to sell them your stock.</i>"
-pg<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3893783" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3893783</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FundersClub (YC S12) Wants To Bypass VC And Let You Invest In Startups</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/25/fundersclub/</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>ChuckMcM</author><text>This scares me way more than sub prime mortgages. The stories of how granny and gramps put the remains of their retirement savings into "startups" because they have like 1000x returns right? And then want their money back and discover that some large fraction of these companies are kids with no clue, no work experience, and have just burned through their 'seed' round buying a server farm that turns out overloads the circuit breakers in the garage.<p>Rational folks will say "Gee, that was a poor choice on their part." but the rest of the world will be screaming "Ponzi!" "Tricksters!" "Scams!" and it will be sad sad sad.<p>I really hope that I am wrong, but I really <i>like</i> the accredited investor rules, it selects from a smaller pool of victims.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FundersClub (YC S12) Wants To Bypass VC And Let You Invest In Startups</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/25/fundersclub/</url></story> |
37,717,905 | 37,715,911 | 1 | 2 | 37,714,579 | 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>guraf</author><text>In any other field, engineers would be held responsible and after so many &quot;mistakes&quot; they would lose their license.<p>Software engineers will fight tooth and nails to keep their privilege is being called engineers whilst having none of the responsibility when it comes to the harm they&#x27;re causing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rkagerer</author><text>Jeez - can&#x27;t dial 911, randomly dials 911.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why these devices can&#x27;t even do the most <i>core</i> feature of a phone properly.<p>This will sound crass but the development teams (right up to CEO&#x27;s) should be dragged out to the gallows and flogged.<p>If it was my product I would have made damn sure the 911 experience was perfect before shipping, and not rested for a minute until any bugs were solidly quashed - up to and including recalling all sold units and overhauling the flakey architecture if needed.<p>This is <i>life safety</i> we&#x27;re talking about, not only for their users but also everyone else impacted by their blatent abuse of the emergency services system. Would we tolerate bridges that collapsed with equally ambivalent consequences for those who engineered them?</text></item><item><author>lopkeny12ko</author><text>Funny, because I have the opposite problem. My Pixel dials 911 out of random and I always have to race to disconnect the call.<p>Just last night my Pixel Watch started ringing out of random while I was eating dinner and it said it was dialing 911. I saw a phone call pop up on my Pixel 6 phone but fortunately canceled it before it connected. My watch didn&#x27;t even tell me <i>why</i> it dialed 911, and once I disconnected the call it just disappeared from my watch. Totally useless!<p>There should really be a hard-to-accidentally-accept confirmation dialog for any kind of automated emergency dial feature. This is ridiculous because this is probably the 3rd time this has happened to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixel-911-emergency-calling-issues-3362990/</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>If it was my product I would have made damn sure the 911 experience was perfect before shipping</i><p>For what it&#x27;s worth, every telco switch upgrade I performed <i>ages ago, early days of GSM</i> the first number I tested was 911. I made sure the dispatcher could hear me. I don&#x27;t know whats going on with the phone development side of things. That seems like a QA and customer feedback review problem. It probably also does not help that wireless vendors are slow&#x2F;hesitant to update phones. There is a fear of bricking phones and customer support nightmares <i>their words, not mine</i>. I could flash update a phone over the air but this was in the 90&#x27;s. No idea what that process looks like now. I assume they stage an update on a CDN after hopefully testing it extensively. Do all cell phones have two boot partitions in the event the upgrade process <i>is sub-optimal(c)?</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>rkagerer</author><text>Jeez - can&#x27;t dial 911, randomly dials 911.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why these devices can&#x27;t even do the most <i>core</i> feature of a phone properly.<p>This will sound crass but the development teams (right up to CEO&#x27;s) should be dragged out to the gallows and flogged.<p>If it was my product I would have made damn sure the 911 experience was perfect before shipping, and not rested for a minute until any bugs were solidly quashed - up to and including recalling all sold units and overhauling the flakey architecture if needed.<p>This is <i>life safety</i> we&#x27;re talking about, not only for their users but also everyone else impacted by their blatent abuse of the emergency services system. Would we tolerate bridges that collapsed with equally ambivalent consequences for those who engineered them?</text></item><item><author>lopkeny12ko</author><text>Funny, because I have the opposite problem. My Pixel dials 911 out of random and I always have to race to disconnect the call.<p>Just last night my Pixel Watch started ringing out of random while I was eating dinner and it said it was dialing 911. I saw a phone call pop up on my Pixel 6 phone but fortunately canceled it before it connected. My watch didn&#x27;t even tell me <i>why</i> it dialed 911, and once I disconnected the call it just disappeared from my watch. Totally useless!<p>There should really be a hard-to-accidentally-accept confirmation dialog for any kind of automated emergency dial feature. This is ridiculous because this is probably the 3rd time this has happened to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixel-911-emergency-calling-issues-3362990/</url></story> |
28,311,872 | 28,311,866 | 1 | 2 | 28,311,722 | 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>vermilingua</author><text>The tech industry in Australia has for some time existed in an impossibly hostile climate, with onerous tasks to betray their own users able to be handed out <i>to individuals</i> at any time, with virtually no oversight. [1]<p>This has all happened under the auspices of the most overtly corrupt and authoritarian government we’ve had in my lifetime, within four years.<p>If I had the option, I’d pack up and move, but having written this and other anti-government sentiment, it’s entirely possible that they stop me at the border. [2]<p>Combining this with the political apathy of nearly everyone here that I know, the current vilification of protestors (not entirely wrongly given the circumstances), and the utter spinelessness and complicity of the “opposition”, I don’t see a future for my country that doesn’t involve violent revolution (we’ve tried it before [3]) or tyranny.<p>But it gets better: the tech industry is not only under attack, they’re complicit. Beyond even the ordinary run-of-the-mill scumbaggery we see from tech companies, a number have recently formed the Tech Council of Australia [4], aiming to make Australia a startup capital of the world. Scroll down that page and you’ll see a list of member corporations, several of which sent opposition to the AABill when consultation was open. Now, apparently, they’ve decided that it’s too hard to beat ‘em, so they’ll join ’em.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;parlinfo.aph.gov.au&#x2F;parlInfo&#x2F;download&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;bills&#x2F;r6195_aspassed&#x2F;toc_pdf&#x2F;18204b01.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;parlinfo.aph.gov.au&#x2F;parlInfo&#x2F;download&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;bi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au&#x2F;leaving-australia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au&#x2F;leaving-australia</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eureka_Rebellion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eureka_Rebellion</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcouncil.com.au" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcouncil.com.au</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament</title><url>https://www.innovationaus.com/extraordinary-new-hacking-powers-pass-parliament/</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>xvector</author><text>Australia is a disaster when it comes to electronic freedoms. It might just be a lost cause at this point.<p>A classic example of why you really shouldn&#x27;t be giving the government too much power, because even so-called &quot;modern democracies&quot; can and will go bad.<p>Backdoors in encryption, free for all to hack citizens, etc. What a mess. Hope some people fight back.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament</title><url>https://www.innovationaus.com/extraordinary-new-hacking-powers-pass-parliament/</url></story> |
25,906,638 | 25,906,790 | 1 | 2 | 25,889,603 | 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>hyper_reality</author><text>What a classic! Phrack stopped publishing some time ago but the world of security ploughs on, who can recommend similar modern resources to Phrack?<p>Here&#x27;s a few I&#x27;m aware of:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alchemistowl.org&#x2F;pocorgtfo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alchemistowl.org&#x2F;pocorgtfo&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secret.club&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secret.club&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (1996)</title><url>http://phrack.org/archives/issues/49/14.txt</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>tekstar</author><text>This article, and then working through the book &quot;Hacking and the Art of Exploitation&quot; taught me the true fundamentals of the C programming language, and Linux. The other key ingredient was working through the classic &quot;digital evolution&quot; wargames where you&#x27;d SSH into a box as level1 and work your way up from there.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (1996)</title><url>http://phrack.org/archives/issues/49/14.txt</url></story> |
23,423,523 | 23,423,447 | 1 | 3 | 23,422,469 | 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>nitwit005</author><text>It&#x27;s a two party system where neither seems to care that the presidency wields too much power, so fixing it is probably in the realm of constitutional amendments at the moment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>LanceH</author><text>Perhaps we can push back against what is effectively legislation by the executive branch. Then, here&#x27;s the tough part, don&#x27;t expand executive power when your own party is in the white house.</text></item><item><author>amcoastal</author><text>This is extremely dangerous. Waiving environmental review and consideration when building roads and bridges is extremely foolish. They greatly effect water quality at crossings and alongside the roads. My guess is this will be held up in courts and not allowed to go further -- it is an extreme deviation from what we currently do (which is held up by supreme court precedent). Entire industries are built on doing environmental impact studies and mitigation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/digest/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-waiving-key-environmental-laws</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>inetknght</author><text>&gt; <i>Perhaps we can push back against what is effectively legislation by the executive branch.</i><p>By doing what? Protest?</text><parent_chain><item><author>LanceH</author><text>Perhaps we can push back against what is effectively legislation by the executive branch. Then, here&#x27;s the tough part, don&#x27;t expand executive power when your own party is in the white house.</text></item><item><author>amcoastal</author><text>This is extremely dangerous. Waiving environmental review and consideration when building roads and bridges is extremely foolish. They greatly effect water quality at crossings and alongside the roads. My guess is this will be held up in courts and not allowed to go further -- it is an extreme deviation from what we currently do (which is held up by supreme court precedent). Entire industries are built on doing environmental impact studies and mitigation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/digest/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-waiving-key-environmental-laws</url></story> |
14,344,168 | 14,342,069 | 1 | 3 | 14,341,972 | 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>Animats</author><text>Levandowski is going to come out of this OK. He was doing self-driving years before Google.<p>As I&#x27;ve pointed out before, the whole LIDAR thing is a side issue. Google&#x27;s LIDAR is another Velodyne-like spinning thing. Google&#x27;s patented innovation is to make each scan beam slightly oval, which is marginally useful but not essential. Spinning 3D LIDAR units are research and prototyping tools. The future is either flash LIDAR or MEMS. Even Velodyne is moving beyond the spinning top thing.[1]<p>Here&#x27;s a video with some images from Continental&#x27;s flash LIDAR.[2] That&#x27;s suitable for production cars. Continental is a big German auto parts company. They make other LIDAR products, vehicle cameras and processors, radars, GPS units, and most of the other parts needed for self-driving. Continental demoed a self-driving car in 2013. They have 1,300 people working on this. Uber makes a lot of noise, but Continental is going to ship product in volume.<p>Quanergy, a Silicon Valley startup, announced a flash LIDAR last year, but they seem to be having problems getting it out the door. A new startup, TetraView, got series A funding to develop a higher resolution flash LIDAR (&quot;2K&quot;, they boast), using standard CMOS technology.[3] That, if it works, will bring the price down further while increasing the resolution, and will have other robotics applications.<p>So nobody really needs the Waymo LIDAR technology. For testing, you can buy a Velodyne, and for production, the flash LIDAR people are almost ready.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;roadshow&#x2F;news&#x2F;velodyne-lidar-enters-the-no-spin-zone&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;roadshow&#x2F;news&#x2F;velodyne-lidar-enters-the...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xxy08YX0C8w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xxy08YX0C8w</a>
[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tetravue.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tetravue.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Judge orders Uber not to use technology taken from Waymo</title><url>http://www.seattletimes.com/business/judge-orders-uber-not-to-use-technology-taken-from-waymo/</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>golfer</author><text>Link to the full injunction text:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;348409551&#x2F;Waymo-Uber-Injunction#from_embed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;348409551&#x2F;Waymo-Uber-Injunct...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Judge orders Uber not to use technology taken from Waymo</title><url>http://www.seattletimes.com/business/judge-orders-uber-not-to-use-technology-taken-from-waymo/</url></story> |
41,337,556 | 41,337,543 | 1 | 3 | 41,336,690 | 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>cherryteastain</author><text>Canon and Nikon are also working on alternatives such as nanoimprint lithography [1]. Chinese universities and companies are working on particle accelerator based EUV sources [2]. Question is, will they be able to actually commercialize it <i>before</i> ASML manages to get improved versions of their current litho machines out the door? Commercialization of a technology like this can easily take 5-10 years, and ASML aren&#x27;t twiddling their thumbs. Once the incumbent has a technology that is, say, 80-90% as good as the challenger, the big players will always choose them to minimize risks.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;semiengineering.com&#x2F;nanoimprint-finds-its-footing-in-photonics&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;semiengineering.com&#x2F;nanoimprint-finds-its-footing-in...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electronicsweekly.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business&#x2F;china-to-build-huge-particle-accelerator-for-litho-2023-09&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electronicsweekly.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business&#x2F;china-to-bui...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan on edge of EUV lithography chip-making revolution</title><url>https://asiatimes.com/2024/08/japan-on-edge-of-euv-lithography-chip-making-revolution/</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>mangecoeur</author><text>They mention validation in software which suggests a hardware implementation is a way off with a lot of practical issues that might crop up on the way. So best of luck to them but i wouldn’t expect to see hit the market for quite a while - saying they are “on the edge of euv chip making” is very optimistic.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Japan on edge of EUV lithography chip-making revolution</title><url>https://asiatimes.com/2024/08/japan-on-edge-of-euv-lithography-chip-making-revolution/</url></story> |
12,687,129 | 12,686,892 | 1 | 2 | 12,686,398 | 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>randyrand</author><text>I remember when this was first posted to HN the top comment was about a serious flaw in this hypothesis. Need to find the comment thread again...<p>Edit: Found it, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10483751" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10483751</a><p>e.g. the other explanation could be that women applicants are just better than men, and that they aren&#x27;t discriminated against.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tobyjsullivan</author><text>This immediately made me think of Paul Graham&#x27;s article &quot;A Way to Detect Bias&quot;. He talks about how a hiring bias (against women in this case) results in those who are hired being above average in skill.<p>Just one hypothesis on this data, but that would help explain why those women who are hired then get promoted faster - because they are actually outperforming their peers.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;bias.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;bias.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men</title><url>http://www.i-cio.com/profession/cio-profiles/item/women-it-professionals-on-a-faster-track-than-men</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>stale2002</author><text>Yeah, women get driven out of tech in droves.<p>In order to even survive, the average woman has to be at the very top of their game, or else theyd be gone because it isn&#x27;t worth it to put up with all the BS that they have to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tobyjsullivan</author><text>This immediately made me think of Paul Graham&#x27;s article &quot;A Way to Detect Bias&quot;. He talks about how a hiring bias (against women in this case) results in those who are hired being above average in skill.<p>Just one hypothesis on this data, but that would help explain why those women who are hired then get promoted faster - because they are actually outperforming their peers.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;bias.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;bias.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men</title><url>http://www.i-cio.com/profession/cio-profiles/item/women-it-professionals-on-a-faster-track-than-men</url></story> |
36,125,644 | 36,125,422 | 1 | 3 | 36,125,048 | 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>adam_arthur</author><text>Price to sales is a more telling comparison here. P&#x2F;E can appear arbitrarily high&#x2F;low depending on what the company is optimizing for. A realistic &quot;terminal margin&quot; is pretty similar between like-kind businesses, so you can somewhat assume what it will be in the long run and apply that to projected revenues.<p>Price to Sales: (TTM revenues)<p>NVDA: 37x<p>AMD: 8x<p>TSLA: 8x<p>TSM: 7x<p>AAPL: 7x<p>GOOG: 6x<p>QCOM: 3x</text><parent_chain><item><author>alberth</author><text>Wow, 213x P&#x2F;E ratio.<p>To put this into context with other large tech companies:<p><pre><code> P&#x2F;E MARKET CAP
Salesforce 1,036x $0.2T
AMD 519x $0.2T
NVIDIA 213x $1.0T
Amazon 293x $1.25T
Microsoft 35x $2.4T
Meta&#x2F;FB 33x $0.7T
Apple 30x $2.7T
Google 27x $1.5T
TSMC 16x $0.4T
Samsung 10x $0.3T
</code></pre>
EDIT: &quot;P&#x2F;E&quot; ratio is the Market Cap &quot;Price&quot; &#x2F; Earnings the company generates. E.g. Samsung is generating $30B in earnings (not revenue, earnings), investors are valuing Samsung to be a $300B company. That means investors see Samsung is worth 10x P&#x2F;E</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia is now a $1T company</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/30/23742123/nvidia-stock-ai-gpu-1-trillion-market-cap-price-value</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>malpanim</author><text>Why TSMC is having such a low PE. Aren&#x27;t they are the one producing all these chips other than Intel?</text><parent_chain><item><author>alberth</author><text>Wow, 213x P&#x2F;E ratio.<p>To put this into context with other large tech companies:<p><pre><code> P&#x2F;E MARKET CAP
Salesforce 1,036x $0.2T
AMD 519x $0.2T
NVIDIA 213x $1.0T
Amazon 293x $1.25T
Microsoft 35x $2.4T
Meta&#x2F;FB 33x $0.7T
Apple 30x $2.7T
Google 27x $1.5T
TSMC 16x $0.4T
Samsung 10x $0.3T
</code></pre>
EDIT: &quot;P&#x2F;E&quot; ratio is the Market Cap &quot;Price&quot; &#x2F; Earnings the company generates. E.g. Samsung is generating $30B in earnings (not revenue, earnings), investors are valuing Samsung to be a $300B company. That means investors see Samsung is worth 10x P&#x2F;E</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nvidia is now a $1T company</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/30/23742123/nvidia-stock-ai-gpu-1-trillion-market-cap-price-value</url></story> |
11,317,117 | 11,316,736 | 1 | 2 | 11,314,597 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dang</author><text>It&#x27;s been a few years since I&#x27;ve reviewed applications, but yes, you should apply. Put it this way: if you simply (a) answer all the questions (b) coherently, you&#x27;re well ahead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>newjersey</author><text>Oh wow. I wish they said that the bar was so low. I would like to apply as well if that&#x27;s the case.<p>Edit: I still think the idea of Dropbox is pretty stupid and I wouldn&#x27;t have given Drew Houston a penny if I was an investor. But I never thought the average application would be so far worse if Dropbox got funded and succeeded.</text></item><item><author>beachstartup</author><text>EDIT: i should emphasize this is only my experience as a startup hiring manager. maybe YC attracts nothing but geniuses, i dunno. i&#x27;m just a guy on the internet.<p>since yc is obviously not going to talk shit on their own applicants, i&#x27;m going to go out on a limb here and guess that it&#x27;s just like every other job application process when six figures (or more) of money is on the line. big paychecks attract plenty of, shall we say, &#x27;aspirational&#x27; applicants.<p>1. apps where spelling and grammar is clearly not a priority (sure, i&#x27;ll give you 5 figures a month to spell shit wrong)
2. the wrong kind of company will apply, i.e. a restaurant
3. bullshit artists gonna bullshit, even when they stink
4. people simply not smart enough to do the job. just plain dumb is a real thing, folks.
5. people with too little real world experience
6. really stupid ideas (who&#x27;s to judge? well, the people with the money get to judge, that&#x27;s sort of how applications work)<p>the fact that you can use the term &#x27;anonymized data&#x27; in a sentence that actually makes sense is going to put you in the top 10% automatically - yes, the bar is <i>that low</i> when you&#x27;re dealing with the general public. the trick is getting into the top 1% though. it&#x27;s a power law distribution of difficulty.<p>every job advertisement attracts applications like these, and yc is basically just a really, really fancy and structured super-duper college&#x2F;job application process combined, but for crazed entrepreneurs (like me). you are going to get a lot, maybe even mostly people on the left hand side of the normal distribution of iq, talent, and work ethic&#x2F;experience. the easy thing is the dipshits and fakers are easy to spot-and-drop almost immediately. i can basically glance at a resume and disqualify it in 10-15 seconds if it&#x27;s not good enough. you just can&#x27;t bullshit someone far smarter, more experienced, and better at bullshitting than you. CAVEAT: there are extremely smart and experienced bullshitters out there though -- that&#x27;s the real danger area. that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re really worried about.<p>basically the only thing you can count on is that they want your money!!</text></item><item><author>gogopuppygogo</author><text>Can you elaborate on what makes a company &quot;not very good&quot;?<p>Would you ever consider releasing anonymized data on companies that apply and are accepted along with those who apply but aren&#x27;t accepted into a batch? That&#x27;d give future applicants much more insight into the process.</text></item><item><author>sama</author><text>We do talk about that every once in awhile, but the average company that applies to YC is not very good and thus the experiment would hurt the network (and be painful for us to work with).<p>What we&#x27;ve more seriously considered is randomly funding some companies just below the threshold.<p>Also, we do look at our ranking to see how companies at the top vs companies near the cutoff do. It&#x27;s rare (but not unheard of) for a company very near the cutoff to be one of our most successful companies.</text></item><item><author>krstck</author><text>Has YC ever considered having a control group by randomly pre-accepting certain applicants into the program automatically? I&#x27;d be curious to see the stats on how successful that group would be versus the group that&#x27;s actually picked by the committee.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA</title><text>Applications for YC for Summer 2016 are due next Thursday 3&#x2F;24.<p>People often have questions about YC, and I&#x27;m happy to answer those (or questions about anything else).<p>EDIT: Ok, I have to run. Thanks for the questions!</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>argonaut</author><text>You&#x27;re making the mistake of judging the idea too much and forgetting that Drew Houston went to MIT, and had worked as a tech lead at a company. That already puts him in the top 10% of applicants, regardless of his idea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>newjersey</author><text>Oh wow. I wish they said that the bar was so low. I would like to apply as well if that&#x27;s the case.<p>Edit: I still think the idea of Dropbox is pretty stupid and I wouldn&#x27;t have given Drew Houston a penny if I was an investor. But I never thought the average application would be so far worse if Dropbox got funded and succeeded.</text></item><item><author>beachstartup</author><text>EDIT: i should emphasize this is only my experience as a startup hiring manager. maybe YC attracts nothing but geniuses, i dunno. i&#x27;m just a guy on the internet.<p>since yc is obviously not going to talk shit on their own applicants, i&#x27;m going to go out on a limb here and guess that it&#x27;s just like every other job application process when six figures (or more) of money is on the line. big paychecks attract plenty of, shall we say, &#x27;aspirational&#x27; applicants.<p>1. apps where spelling and grammar is clearly not a priority (sure, i&#x27;ll give you 5 figures a month to spell shit wrong)
2. the wrong kind of company will apply, i.e. a restaurant
3. bullshit artists gonna bullshit, even when they stink
4. people simply not smart enough to do the job. just plain dumb is a real thing, folks.
5. people with too little real world experience
6. really stupid ideas (who&#x27;s to judge? well, the people with the money get to judge, that&#x27;s sort of how applications work)<p>the fact that you can use the term &#x27;anonymized data&#x27; in a sentence that actually makes sense is going to put you in the top 10% automatically - yes, the bar is <i>that low</i> when you&#x27;re dealing with the general public. the trick is getting into the top 1% though. it&#x27;s a power law distribution of difficulty.<p>every job advertisement attracts applications like these, and yc is basically just a really, really fancy and structured super-duper college&#x2F;job application process combined, but for crazed entrepreneurs (like me). you are going to get a lot, maybe even mostly people on the left hand side of the normal distribution of iq, talent, and work ethic&#x2F;experience. the easy thing is the dipshits and fakers are easy to spot-and-drop almost immediately. i can basically glance at a resume and disqualify it in 10-15 seconds if it&#x27;s not good enough. you just can&#x27;t bullshit someone far smarter, more experienced, and better at bullshitting than you. CAVEAT: there are extremely smart and experienced bullshitters out there though -- that&#x27;s the real danger area. that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re really worried about.<p>basically the only thing you can count on is that they want your money!!</text></item><item><author>gogopuppygogo</author><text>Can you elaborate on what makes a company &quot;not very good&quot;?<p>Would you ever consider releasing anonymized data on companies that apply and are accepted along with those who apply but aren&#x27;t accepted into a batch? That&#x27;d give future applicants much more insight into the process.</text></item><item><author>sama</author><text>We do talk about that every once in awhile, but the average company that applies to YC is not very good and thus the experiment would hurt the network (and be painful for us to work with).<p>What we&#x27;ve more seriously considered is randomly funding some companies just below the threshold.<p>Also, we do look at our ranking to see how companies at the top vs companies near the cutoff do. It&#x27;s rare (but not unheard of) for a company very near the cutoff to be one of our most successful companies.</text></item><item><author>krstck</author><text>Has YC ever considered having a control group by randomly pre-accepting certain applicants into the program automatically? I&#x27;d be curious to see the stats on how successful that group would be versus the group that&#x27;s actually picked by the committee.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA</title><text>Applications for YC for Summer 2016 are due next Thursday 3&#x2F;24.<p>People often have questions about YC, and I&#x27;m happy to answer those (or questions about anything else).<p>EDIT: Ok, I have to run. Thanks for the questions!</text></story> |
15,510,534 | 15,509,534 | 1 | 2 | 15,508,714 | 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>dyarosla</author><text>The link does not compare running versus other forms of exercise. It compares running vs no exercise. &quot;Running increases neurogenesis[1] more than anything else.&quot; is not a finding in the article.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pdog</author><text>Do you know the best exercise for your brain? Actual exercise. Running increases neurogenesis[1] more than anything else.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;well&#x2F;move&#x2F;for-your-brains-sake-keep-moving.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;well&#x2F;move&#x2F;for-your-brains...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Training exercise boosts brain power, Johns Hopkins researchers say</title><url>https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/10/17/brain-training-exercise/</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>taeric</author><text>Amusingly, I would not be surprised to find some people need both. In particular, exercise is boring. Very very boring. Anything that can help with concentration during boring tasks is useful.<p>Obviously, that is my experience. Ymmv</text><parent_chain><item><author>pdog</author><text>Do you know the best exercise for your brain? Actual exercise. Running increases neurogenesis[1] more than anything else.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;well&#x2F;move&#x2F;for-your-brains-sake-keep-moving.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;well&#x2F;move&#x2F;for-your-brains...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Training exercise boosts brain power, Johns Hopkins researchers say</title><url>https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/10/17/brain-training-exercise/</url></story> |
31,378,213 | 31,378,145 | 1 | 2 | 31,377,380 | 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>cyanydeez</author><text>You also mean they were victims of social media propaganda and gaming the system<p>&#x2F;R&#x2F;the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots.<p>If you&#x27;re pro free speech you&#x27;ll need to answer towards the onslaught of bot based content generation and fake users</text><parent_chain><item><author>narrator</author><text>I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit is being funded by a fake company?</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/conspiracytheories/comments/up1cwf/reddit_is_being_funded_by_a_fake_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>fartcannon</author><text>Yeah, and while it can be helpful to get answers to things when google fails (which is nearly always nowadays), there&#x27;s so much astroturfing and shilling that those answers are often worthless.</text><parent_chain><item><author>narrator</author><text>I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit is being funded by a fake company?</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/conspiracytheories/comments/up1cwf/reddit_is_being_funded_by_a_fake_company/</url></story> |
33,643,040 | 33,642,963 | 1 | 2 | 33,642,567 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drcode</author><text>Creator here: I will do what I can to address the &quot;hug of death&quot; today. Meanwhile, here&#x27;s a gif showing the look and feel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lisperati&#x2F;status&#x2F;1593296453534785537" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lisperati&#x2F;status&#x2F;1593296453534785537</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, as I promised on HN</title><url>https://dogbunnypuzzle.com/</url><text>Hi everyone, based on the feedback on my prototype puzzle (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32884467" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32884467</a>) I have now built a daily puzzle site, with lots of animation and interactivity.<p>Hope you enjoy it!</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>tfsh</author><text>I remember playing this 60 days ago when you released the prototype - congratulations on the official release! The game was a lot of fun, simple enough to be intuitively picked up but complex enough to spend a good 20 minutes trying to solve.<p>It also teaches the user quite a bit about prioritisation, and the fact it&#x27;s essentially just a graph problem with multiple constraints which can be solved with a variation topological sort shows how useful algorithmic thinking is in daily life!<p>I can&#x27;t view the site at the moment due to the HN hug of death, but I do have a question.<p>You say these are daily puzzles, are they hand curated by yourself or algorithmically generated - or a bit of both?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, as I promised on HN</title><url>https://dogbunnypuzzle.com/</url><text>Hi everyone, based on the feedback on my prototype puzzle (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32884467" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32884467</a>) I have now built a daily puzzle site, with lots of animation and interactivity.<p>Hope you enjoy it!</text></story> |
24,863,147 | 24,862,269 | 1 | 3 | 24,858,766 | 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>jcims</author><text>Is the fuzzing use case burying the lede here? The ability to translate an aarch64 binary so it can run on a GPU seems like it might be interesting in its own right? Maybe the fact that I&#x27;m not coming up with obvious reasons is a clue that there aren&#x27;t but it&#x27;s just remarkable to me that it&#x27;s possible.<p>Great job folks! Very cool.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/10/22/lets-build-a-high-performance-fuzzer-with-gpus/</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>Karliss</author><text>A few years ago there were some articles on doing vectorized emulation using avx512. Not exactly as much parallelism as GPU but still a step in similar direction.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamozolabs.github.io&#x2F;fuzzing&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;14&#x2F;vectorized_emulation.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamozolabs.github.io&#x2F;fuzzing&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;14&#x2F;vectorized_e...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/10/22/lets-build-a-high-performance-fuzzer-with-gpus/</url></story> |
8,925,653 | 8,925,554 | 1 | 2 | 8,925,019 | 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>Alupis</author><text>Is a company&#x27;s name on their building really considered advertising? I mean, if I owned a nice building for my company, I&#x27;d take pride in having our name on the front.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chriskelley</author><text>In São Paulo they have the &quot;clean city law&quot;[1] which banned outdoor advertising in 2006. Pretty crazy, here&#x27;s a flickr gallery: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonydemarco/sets/72157600075508212/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;tonydemarco&#x2F;sets&#x2F;7215760007550...</a><p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cidade_Limpa</a></text></item><item><author>bhhaskin</author><text>It would be pretty cool if you could replace advertisements altogether. Imagine driving down the road instead of billboards you see art work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An experimental real world adblock</title><url>http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/</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>ToastyMallows</author><text>This is crazy, these pictures look like they&#x27;re from a dystopian future. Can you imagine if this happened in the U.S.?</text><parent_chain><item><author>chriskelley</author><text>In São Paulo they have the &quot;clean city law&quot;[1] which banned outdoor advertising in 2006. Pretty crazy, here&#x27;s a flickr gallery: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonydemarco/sets/72157600075508212/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;tonydemarco&#x2F;sets&#x2F;7215760007550...</a><p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cidade_Limpa</a></text></item><item><author>bhhaskin</author><text>It would be pretty cool if you could replace advertisements altogether. Imagine driving down the road instead of billboards you see art work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An experimental real world adblock</title><url>http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/</url></story> |
10,532,755 | 10,532,793 | 1 | 2 | 10,532,565 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tareqak</author><text>It is mentioned in the article that the Minister for International Trade, Chrystia Freeland, wanted Canadians to send her comments about it.<p>Here is her tweet about it:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;CanadaTrade&#x2F;status&#x2F;662397645722361856" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;CanadaTrade&#x2F;status&#x2F;662397645722361856</a><p>It would be nice if there was a website breaking down what exactly is bad about the TPP, complete with links back to the draft text and if people just replied back with that. I think something like genius.com would be useful for this purpose, but I don&#x27;t have the knowledge to highlight what is bad.<p>Edit: Well, I&#x27;m getting started putting stuff up on Genius.com: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;albums&#x2F;Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negotiating-parties&#x2F;Trans-pacific-partnership" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;albums&#x2F;Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negoti...</a> .<p>Here is where the PDFs are: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mfat.govt.nz&#x2F;Treaties-and-International-Law&#x2F;01-Treaties-for-which-NZ-is-Depositary&#x2F;0-Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Text.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mfat.govt.nz&#x2F;Treaties-and-International-Law&#x2F;01-Tr...</a><p>Another edit: I am just dumping the text for now. Not sure if I will get to formatting it nicely.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Balsillie fears TPP will cost Canada billions</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/balsillie-fears-tpp-will-cost-canada-billions-may-be-worst-ever-policy-move/article27171764/</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>olalonde</author><text>&gt; contains “troubling” rules on intellectual property that threaten to make Canada a “permanent underclass” in the economy of selling ideas<p>Why?<p>&gt; He fears it would give American firms an edge and cost Canadian companies more money because they would have to pay for someone else’s ideas instead their own.<p>What?<p>&gt; On top of that, Balsillie believes the structure could prevent Canadian firms from growing as it would also limit how much money they can make from their own products and services.<p>Again why?<p>I don&#x27;t think this article ever specifically explains why TPP is bad for Canada.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Balsillie fears TPP will cost Canada billions</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/balsillie-fears-tpp-will-cost-canada-billions-may-be-worst-ever-policy-move/article27171764/</url></story> |
33,854,432 | 33,853,823 | 1 | 2 | 33,853,539 | 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>seized</author><text>Just finished installing it on my OpenIndiana NAS to replace Minio.<p>Biggest difference so far is that Minio is just files on disk, Garage chunks all files and has a metadata db.<p>Minios listing operations were horribly slow, still have to see if Garage resolves that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Garage: An open-source distributed object storage service</title><url>https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr</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>ddorian43</author><text>A very good alternative is seaweedfs <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chrislusf&#x2F;seaweedfs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chrislusf&#x2F;seaweedfs&#x2F;</a> based on facebook haystack paper (efficient small files) &amp; more.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Garage: An open-source distributed object storage service</title><url>https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr</url></story> |
1,321,007 | 1,321,048 | 1 | 2 | 1,320,949 | 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>tokenadult</author><text>The best way for people in civilized societies to defeat terrorism is not to live in fear, and to keep on advancing rationality and freedom.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/why_arent_there.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>ja30278</author><text>I've been increasingly wondering about this, and I'm not sure I agree with the article.<p>Schneier asserts that "It's hard to sneak terrorists into the U.S.", which is hard to swallow given the essentially unchecked flow of immigrants coming across the Mexican border every day. Why would a terrorist fly into a major US airport, when he could just as easily fly into Mexico and then walk across the border (carrying as much cargo as he liked). Think of the vast drug shipments that cross this border, and then tell me that sneaking across a small suitcase of biological agents would be difficult.<p>I also disagree that "small attacks aren't enough". If you and 9 of your friends coordinate to roll grenades into 10 elementary schools in 10 different cities, I can assure you that you'd make headlines, and bring daily life to a standstill as parents refused to send their children to school.<p>It's also increasingly bizarre to me that terrorists would target airports or airplanes at all. Airports are the one place where security is most concentrated. Practically speaking, blowing up a plane is probably the most difficult option you could choose if you wanted to kill 300 people. Why not pick one of the other myriad unguarded 'soft' targets where people gather?<p>Either terrorists are incredibly stupid, vanishingly small in number, or both.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/why_arent_there.html</url></story> |
35,312,743 | 35,312,623 | 1 | 2 | 35,312,352 | 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>H8crilA</author><text>All in all the northern part of the country got relatively little damage. The front line in the Donbass looks like this, pretty much nuked down to basements:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ukraine&#x2F;comments&#x2F;10ee9at&#x2F;destroyed_marinka_2023_january_15" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ukraine&#x2F;comments&#x2F;10ee9at&#x2F;destroyed_...</a><p>Areas like Marinka have received kilotons of conventional artillery. Z-channels on Telegram call this process &quot;city-cide&quot; (gradocyd, something like that).<p>I&#x27;ve been to Ukraine recently and what&#x27;s really heartwarming is the amount of reconstruction going on in the Kyiv Oblast. Many of the bridges north of the city are almost rebuilt. They were blown up to slow down the Russian armored assault.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Undeniable Street View</title><url>https://theundeniablestreetview.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>execveat</author><text>I love the project, but the whole premise is broken. People brainwashed into supporting Russia do not deny the scale of devastation and human tragedy. They just attribute it to the Ukrainian military.<p>So, while documenting the terror is a commendable thing to do, it will not change anyone&#x27;s mind. Zombies will simply take it as evidence that their propaganda was right all along. &quot;See for yourself how ruthless these Ukrainians neonazies are, killing their own people just to spite the big Russian brother.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Undeniable Street View</title><url>https://theundeniablestreetview.com/</url></story> |
13,171,929 | 13,172,115 | 1 | 3 | 13,167,156 | 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>jv22222</author><text>Hey Jason,<p>Amy Hoy says the best way for solo founders to start off is with in info product. Just to cut their teeth at marketing and such.<p>One thing, now that you have got that ball rolling I think you might consider another saas product in the future because you have so much learning about that.<p>The one good thing about a saas product with good market fit is that you will get years of recurring revenue from the same customers.<p>With pluggio I had some customers hitting $3.5k over time (and higher).<p>That is the real power of saas and why it&#x27;s worth considering in the long run.<p>Edit: I guess it may be useful to note we have a bunch of articles here - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nugget.one&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nugget.one&#x2F;</a> - about how to avoid the kind of issues you spoke about in your blog.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonswett</author><text>I&#x27;ll add something I wish I had realized several years ago: build a SaaS is not the only path to a product business, and for a solo founder, it&#x27;s (in my opinion) probably not a very good path.<p>I spent 5 years trying to get a micro ISV off the ground which made scheduling software for hair salons. It was a terrible idea for a large number of reasons (described in detail here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jasonswett.net&#x2F;im-shutting-down-snip-heres-why&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jasonswett.net&#x2F;im-shutting-down-snip-heres-why&#x2F;</a>) and I never made more than about $430&#x2F;mo.<p>My opinion now is that info products are a better way for a solo founder to get started with a product business. The reason is that a SaaS product can take a huge amount of effort (perhaps pre-traction effort, which is risky) to get off the ground whereas an info product business can be started with a tiny &quot;guide&quot; and then expanded outwardly from there, keeping effort in proportion with traction the whole time.<p>My current business is AngularOnRails.com, an info product business. In its third month of making money, it made $1580, over 3 times what the SaaS made at its peak. Here&#x27;s a detailed income report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jasonswett.net&#x2F;november-2016-angular-on-rails-income-report&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jasonswett.net&#x2F;november-2016-angular-on-rails-in...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?</title><text>I&#x27;ve started a software company and want to keep it just me and no employees. In this day and age with the popularity of SaaS and uptime needed is it still a realistic goal of starting and keep running a micro ISV?</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>imarg</author><text>Starting with an info product is a common suggestion (Amy Hoy is one advocate as a sibling comment noted). But in order to be able to offer an info product don&#x27;t you need to be really knowledgeable about something? If you hadn&#x27;t your experience with your SaaS would you be in the same position to write (and sell!) your tutorial?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jasonswett</author><text>I&#x27;ll add something I wish I had realized several years ago: build a SaaS is not the only path to a product business, and for a solo founder, it&#x27;s (in my opinion) probably not a very good path.<p>I spent 5 years trying to get a micro ISV off the ground which made scheduling software for hair salons. It was a terrible idea for a large number of reasons (described in detail here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jasonswett.net&#x2F;im-shutting-down-snip-heres-why&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jasonswett.net&#x2F;im-shutting-down-snip-heres-why&#x2F;</a>) and I never made more than about $430&#x2F;mo.<p>My opinion now is that info products are a better way for a solo founder to get started with a product business. The reason is that a SaaS product can take a huge amount of effort (perhaps pre-traction effort, which is risky) to get off the ground whereas an info product business can be started with a tiny &quot;guide&quot; and then expanded outwardly from there, keeping effort in proportion with traction the whole time.<p>My current business is AngularOnRails.com, an info product business. In its third month of making money, it made $1580, over 3 times what the SaaS made at its peak. Here&#x27;s a detailed income report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jasonswett.net&#x2F;november-2016-angular-on-rails-income-report&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jasonswett.net&#x2F;november-2016-angular-on-rails-in...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?</title><text>I&#x27;ve started a software company and want to keep it just me and no employees. In this day and age with the popularity of SaaS and uptime needed is it still a realistic goal of starting and keep running a micro ISV?</text></story> |
25,983,728 | 25,983,702 | 1 | 2 | 25,983,265 | 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>nickysielicki</author><text>The way that WSB has latched onto Melvin as their enemy is to their detriment. It was never about killing Melvin capital, or at least, it shouldn&#x27;t have been. It ought to have been about the ridiculous short interest on the stock, regardless of who was funding it. Whether or not Melvin specifically has covered their shorts is irrelevant to how the short interest as a percentage of float has changed in the past week.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ihors3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ihors3</a> is the source to pay attention to, and he&#x27;s saying (within the past hour) that collectively, the shorts have been largely covered. It&#x27;s going to be bloody tomorrow.<p>... Either that, or magical meme energy is going to defy reason once again. Who knows.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Judgmentality</author><text>The general assumption on WSB is that Melvin Capital is lying and that they haven&#x27;t closed their positions.<p>I haven&#x27;t seen any evidence to suggest they&#x27;ve closed it, and have seen circumstantial evidence suggesting they have not. You don&#x27;t spend money on ads saying &quot;we no longer have a financial stake in this stock&quot; unless you, you know, have a financial stake in this stock.<p>Considering this is a hedge fund, I just assume they&#x27;re lying because, you know, it&#x27;s a fucking hedge fund.<p>EDIT: People are claiming CNBC bought ads, not Melvin Capital. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;8vxraurkcce61.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;8vxraurkcce61.png</a></text></item><item><author>wrkronmiller</author><text>&gt; On Wednesday Melvin said it had exited its bet against GameStop and repositioned its portfolio. The firm moved to reduce risk in its investments following a turbulent start to January when it lost 30 percent in the first three weeks. Melvin’s leverage ratio is at the lowest it has been since the firm’s founding in 2014, said a source familiar with the firm. The news of Melvin’s January performance was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.<p>Which begs the questions: who are the remaining short-sellers and what do their positions look like? Are they other hedge funds with soon-to-expire positions or are they retail investors betting that GME will be back down to $100 or less by next month?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/hedge-fund-melvin-sustains-53-loss-after-reddit-onslaught/</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>ajross</author><text>&gt; You don&#x27;t spend money on ads saying &quot;we no longer have a financial stake in this stock&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t think they did. The source of this meme seems to be a Twitter ad from CNBC that was teasing an interview with a quote to that effect. That&#x27;s a CNBC ad selling their show, they don&#x27;t take paid ads from their guests.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Judgmentality</author><text>The general assumption on WSB is that Melvin Capital is lying and that they haven&#x27;t closed their positions.<p>I haven&#x27;t seen any evidence to suggest they&#x27;ve closed it, and have seen circumstantial evidence suggesting they have not. You don&#x27;t spend money on ads saying &quot;we no longer have a financial stake in this stock&quot; unless you, you know, have a financial stake in this stock.<p>Considering this is a hedge fund, I just assume they&#x27;re lying because, you know, it&#x27;s a fucking hedge fund.<p>EDIT: People are claiming CNBC bought ads, not Melvin Capital. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;8vxraurkcce61.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;8vxraurkcce61.png</a></text></item><item><author>wrkronmiller</author><text>&gt; On Wednesday Melvin said it had exited its bet against GameStop and repositioned its portfolio. The firm moved to reduce risk in its investments following a turbulent start to January when it lost 30 percent in the first three weeks. Melvin’s leverage ratio is at the lowest it has been since the firm’s founding in 2014, said a source familiar with the firm. The news of Melvin’s January performance was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.<p>Which begs the questions: who are the remaining short-sellers and what do their positions look like? Are they other hedge funds with soon-to-expire positions or are they retail investors betting that GME will be back down to $100 or less by next month?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/hedge-fund-melvin-sustains-53-loss-after-reddit-onslaught/</url></story> |
36,317,137 | 36,311,443 | 1 | 3 | 36,308,993 | 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>sarahdellysse</author><text>&gt; Some individuals, particularly those running Linux, follow a standard called XDG Base Directory Specification. While Murex does not adhere to this standard, instead conforming to the de facto standard defined by the past precedents of previous shells, in order to offer flexibility for those who do prefer the XDG specification Murex does support overriding its own default paths via special environmental variables.<p>no no no you&#x27;re missing the point: on POSIX systems, go with XDG by default. cmon guys it&#x27;s 2023 not 2003</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment</title><url>https://github.com/lmorg/murex</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>kytazo</author><text>This is outstanding, personally I would immediately switch to it if it was an addon for zsh instead of a standalone new shell.<p>While I&#x27;m spending quite some time in my shell and the extend that its a core part of my system is quite considerable and makes switching to another shell altogether a huge time investment.<p>Nonetheless, I&#x27;ll always keep an eye on promising alternatives and eventually switch over once the functionality missing gets apparent enough on a constant basis as it happened for me when switching from fish to zsh.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment</title><url>https://github.com/lmorg/murex</url></story> |
20,797,276 | 20,797,339 | 1 | 2 | 20,796,506 | 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>Nasrudith</author><text>I suspect it is 100% intentional and they know exactly what they are doing sadly - property ownership or a fixed address is not a prerequisite to voting and it isn&#x27;t permissible to establish new reasons for ineligibility. There is sadly a rich tradition of screwing people over and ignoring the plain text of the law.</text><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>I hope this happens. Native Americans have unique challenges. A thing I ran across on twitter: Native Americans were being de facto disenfranchised because they couldn&#x27;t use a PO Box as an address for purposes of voter registration and the reservations they were on only had PO Boxes as addresses for the residents.<p>I am guessing that this wasn&#x27;t conscious and intentional. I&#x27;m not suggesting some conspiracy theory to purposely disenfranchise them. But the sorts of issues Indigenous peoples face are not faced by most other Americans and they at least need a voice to begin educating the powers that be about ways in which their reality is overlooked and how this negatively impacts them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Cherokee want a representative in Congress, taking up a 200-year-old promise</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/25/politics/cherokee-nation-congressional-delegate-treaty/</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>rayiner</author><text>This varies by state, but note that, in North Dakota, for example, the 911 coordinator can have an address assigned in a quick process: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vip.sos.nd.gov&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;Portals&#x2F;VotingInformationforTribalMembers.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vip.sos.nd.gov&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;Portals&#x2F;VotingInformationforTrib...</a>. Voting in places that lack infrastructure people tend to take for granted (fixed addresses) definitely poses challenges that state officials must address. I suspect at least with larger reservations, progress could be made by delegating more control over voting and polling places to tribal governments.<p>At the same time (as reflected in the comments below), people unfairly deride any sort of voter identification requirement as a conscious attempt at disenfranchisement, when in reality U.S. states have some of the laxest voter identification requirements in the world: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Voter_Identification_laws" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Voter_Identification_laws</a>. I voted recently in Maryland, and I was actually quite shocked and a little perturbed how little verification was performed at the polling site. (I didn&#x27;t have to show ID, just wrote down my address. Anyone could&#x27;ve pretended to be me.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>I hope this happens. Native Americans have unique challenges. A thing I ran across on twitter: Native Americans were being de facto disenfranchised because they couldn&#x27;t use a PO Box as an address for purposes of voter registration and the reservations they were on only had PO Boxes as addresses for the residents.<p>I am guessing that this wasn&#x27;t conscious and intentional. I&#x27;m not suggesting some conspiracy theory to purposely disenfranchise them. But the sorts of issues Indigenous peoples face are not faced by most other Americans and they at least need a voice to begin educating the powers that be about ways in which their reality is overlooked and how this negatively impacts them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Cherokee want a representative in Congress, taking up a 200-year-old promise</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/25/politics/cherokee-nation-congressional-delegate-treaty/</url></story> |
39,284,292 | 39,284,212 | 1 | 2 | 39,274,455 | 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>nradov</author><text>The lack of KYC enforcement is likely to be a temporary situation. Cryptocurrency exchanges have kind of flown under the radar in some countries. But for better or worse, crackdowns are coming.<p>This use of crypto is fundamentally no different from the old hawala networks, just more automated and slightly cheaper. Authorities let that go for a while but then cracked down when criminal usage grew too serious to ignore.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;h&#x2F;hawala.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;h&#x2F;hawala.asp</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>latchkey</author><text>A friend of mine in Vietnam needed some quick cash to go home for Tet holiday and asked me for help in paying for their travel costs and some spending money. Nothing nefarious, just a few hundred USD. I&#x27;m happy to help them.<p>I went to a popular VN crypto website, put in their name and bank account number and how much I wanted to send them (and on what crypto network and token, as they support a bunch of them). The site spit out an address to send the tokens to with my wallet.<p>The transaction cost me $0.05, the conversion rates were totally fair and actually quite good, it only took a couple hours, and as an added bonus, didn&#x27;t even require any sort of KYC because it was just a small amount of money.<p>For those of you dumping on crypto, I can tell you that it doesn&#x27;t get any easier than that. There is no way that I can do something like that otherwise. We need more of this, not less.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happened with the Web Monetization API?</title><url>https://chriscoyier.net/2024/01/24/what-happened-with-the-web-monetization-api/</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>ggm</author><text>If you amortise the kyc cost then wise or similar does this just as frictionless. Basically, crypto does not solve any real world problems that don&#x27;t have other solutions.<p>Kyc exists for a reason, the same friction free transfer beneath your mental limit can be rerun 10000x by machine and achieve aml outcomes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>latchkey</author><text>A friend of mine in Vietnam needed some quick cash to go home for Tet holiday and asked me for help in paying for their travel costs and some spending money. Nothing nefarious, just a few hundred USD. I&#x27;m happy to help them.<p>I went to a popular VN crypto website, put in their name and bank account number and how much I wanted to send them (and on what crypto network and token, as they support a bunch of them). The site spit out an address to send the tokens to with my wallet.<p>The transaction cost me $0.05, the conversion rates were totally fair and actually quite good, it only took a couple hours, and as an added bonus, didn&#x27;t even require any sort of KYC because it was just a small amount of money.<p>For those of you dumping on crypto, I can tell you that it doesn&#x27;t get any easier than that. There is no way that I can do something like that otherwise. We need more of this, not less.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happened with the Web Monetization API?</title><url>https://chriscoyier.net/2024/01/24/what-happened-with-the-web-monetization-api/</url></story> |
27,392,796 | 27,392,078 | 1 | 2 | 27,392,037 | 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>cerved</author><text>I think you&#x27;re reading far too much into this.<p>You spoke with a support agent who is checking the status of your AdSense campaign. That system has flagged links on your website as &#x27;malicious&#x27;. The agent is simply telling you the links are &#x27;not allowed&#x27; because the system has flagged them. Ie. you&#x27;re not allowed to run AdSense on a site with flagged links.<p>I&#x27;m 99% sure this has nothing do with you using a GA alternative.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My site was disallowed from advertising on Google when using Matomo analytics</title><url>https://twitter.com/Adam_Hosker/status/1400748390355456002</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>arkitaip</author><text>Clearly Google was kind enough to identify the adtracking as a type of privacy-hostile malware. Now, if only they could extend the courtesy to the horror show that is Google Analytics.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My site was disallowed from advertising on Google when using Matomo analytics</title><url>https://twitter.com/Adam_Hosker/status/1400748390355456002</url></story> |
24,297,638 | 24,297,213 | 1 | 2 | 24,291,790 | 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>fooey</author><text>Chargeback ratio&#x27;s are per account, but also have a minimum absolute threshold. So it&#x27;s say, 2% chargeback AND at least 200 chargebacks before penalties kick in.<p>In a past life I worked for a place who had a few hundred processing accounts to load balance it all out because their chargeback rates were way too high. If an account gets close, you just don&#x27;t use it for a month, or you throw a bunch of &quot;safe&quot; recurring charges at it to dilute it, or you hold a batch and send them through right before the rollover. Lots of ways to play number games.<p>Most of the execs did go to prison though, so don&#x27;t take this as advice, but to be fair, the processors are the ones who told them to use those tactics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>techsin101</author><text>loading across multiple providers won&#x27;t alter the chargeback ratio so what is the point?</text></item><item><author>mrdumas</author><text>Since, I know a friend in this industry, let me explain what&#x27;s going on here. Yes, OnlyFans uses Stripe, but that&#x27;s not the entire story.<p>In the adult&#x2F;porn world, there&#x27;s a high amount of chargebacks and fraud relative to low-risk industries like SaaS software. If you pass a certain chargeback threshold in the adult industry, your account is terminated, and no payment processor will do business with you.<p>To reduce the likelihood of passing that chargeback threshold and being banned, OnlyFans uses &quot;cascading payments&quot;, which essentially load balances the payments across multiple payment processors in order to reduce their chargeback ratios across their merchant accounts.<p>The payment is either processed by Stripe, Securion, CCBill(the leading payment processor for adult), or another company.<p>Last time I checked the network requests, I noticed it was storing the card on Stripe, CCBill, and Securion, but using CCBill or Securion to process the payment.<p>I think Stripe is there for models on the site who don&#x27;t sell adult content. OnlyFans probably does a check to see if the page is adult-related and if it is, then routes it to the correct payment processor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?</title><text>For reasons beyond this ask, I&#x27;m needing to use a payment processor that is fine with high-risk transactions (which the porn industry certainly fits in) so started looking around what adult websites are using.<p>Many are using probiller, vendo and similar, since Stripe and others have rules against porn&#x2F;adult industry, citing high risk transactions for this.<p>But then I came across onlyfans.com, which is using Stripe for its payments, although Stripe has a strict &quot;no porn&quot; rule in their terms of service.<p>How does this work? Onlyfans is by now a huge website, with lots of transactions, so it&#x27;s surely not flying under the radar. It&#x27;s the only adult website I could find that is using Stripe.<p>Is it as simple as they have an agreement with Stripe to bypass the rule? Or am I missing something else obvious here?</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>PeterisP</author><text>You can direct most of the payments towards the cheap-but-prudish processors, and the really adult stuff towards a processor that accepts almost anything but is more expensive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>techsin101</author><text>loading across multiple providers won&#x27;t alter the chargeback ratio so what is the point?</text></item><item><author>mrdumas</author><text>Since, I know a friend in this industry, let me explain what&#x27;s going on here. Yes, OnlyFans uses Stripe, but that&#x27;s not the entire story.<p>In the adult&#x2F;porn world, there&#x27;s a high amount of chargebacks and fraud relative to low-risk industries like SaaS software. If you pass a certain chargeback threshold in the adult industry, your account is terminated, and no payment processor will do business with you.<p>To reduce the likelihood of passing that chargeback threshold and being banned, OnlyFans uses &quot;cascading payments&quot;, which essentially load balances the payments across multiple payment processors in order to reduce their chargeback ratios across their merchant accounts.<p>The payment is either processed by Stripe, Securion, CCBill(the leading payment processor for adult), or another company.<p>Last time I checked the network requests, I noticed it was storing the card on Stripe, CCBill, and Securion, but using CCBill or Securion to process the payment.<p>I think Stripe is there for models on the site who don&#x27;t sell adult content. OnlyFans probably does a check to see if the page is adult-related and if it is, then routes it to the correct payment processor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?</title><text>For reasons beyond this ask, I&#x27;m needing to use a payment processor that is fine with high-risk transactions (which the porn industry certainly fits in) so started looking around what adult websites are using.<p>Many are using probiller, vendo and similar, since Stripe and others have rules against porn&#x2F;adult industry, citing high risk transactions for this.<p>But then I came across onlyfans.com, which is using Stripe for its payments, although Stripe has a strict &quot;no porn&quot; rule in their terms of service.<p>How does this work? Onlyfans is by now a huge website, with lots of transactions, so it&#x27;s surely not flying under the radar. It&#x27;s the only adult website I could find that is using Stripe.<p>Is it as simple as they have an agreement with Stripe to bypass the rule? Or am I missing something else obvious here?</text></story> |
25,614,156 | 25,613,478 | 1 | 3 | 25,612,786 | 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>antiterra</author><text>This is inaccurate, ‘integrity’ appears to just be a generalized term for any sort of content policing or support, including recovering passwords and memorializing accounts of the deceased.<p>Teams have absolutely been identified by specific problem areas, so your reasoning doesn’t hold up. For example, “FNRP” stands for Fake, Not Real Person (which distinguishes from celebrity impersonation etc) per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;may&#x2F;21&#x2F;revealed-facebook-internal-rulebook-sex-terrorism-violence" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;may&#x2F;21&#x2F;revealed-facebo...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>objclxt</author><text>Facebook uses “Integrity” as a friendly synonym for abuse &#x2F; spam &#x2F; illegal activity.<p>For example, it avoids them actively having to say they have a “fake accounts team” (which would in turn indicate they have a fake accounts problem). Instead it’s part of the “Community Integrity team”.</text></item><item><author>absolutelyrad</author><text>&quot;Chief of Advertising Integrity&quot; does anyone take that title seriously? Forget advertising, Facebook and it&#x27;s CEO himself has no integrity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-executive-idUSKBN2962M6</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>mlthoughts2018</author><text>Pulled straight out of the Moral Mazes playbook, chapter on “dexterity with symbols.”</text><parent_chain><item><author>objclxt</author><text>Facebook uses “Integrity” as a friendly synonym for abuse &#x2F; spam &#x2F; illegal activity.<p>For example, it avoids them actively having to say they have a “fake accounts team” (which would in turn indicate they have a fake accounts problem). Instead it’s part of the “Community Integrity team”.</text></item><item><author>absolutelyrad</author><text>&quot;Chief of Advertising Integrity&quot; does anyone take that title seriously? Forget advertising, Facebook and it&#x27;s CEO himself has no integrity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-executive-idUSKBN2962M6</url></story> |
35,785,161 | 35,784,857 | 1 | 2 | 35,780,921 | 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>unlikelymordant</author><text>Reminds of some earlier openai work <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;nonlinear-computation-in-deep-linear-networks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;nonlinear-computation-in-deep-li...</a><p>&quot;Neural networks consist of stacks of a linear layer followed by a nonlinearity like tanh or rectified linear unit. Without the nonlinearity, consecutive linear layers would be in theory mathematically equivalent to a single linear layer. So it’s a surprise that floating point arithmetic is nonlinear enough to yield trainable deep networks.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GradIEEEnt half decent</title><url>http://tom7.org/grad/</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>chrisldgk</author><text>Always delighted to see tom7 content.
Dude just thinks out of the box like no one else.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GradIEEEnt half decent</title><url>http://tom7.org/grad/</url></story> |
22,268,654 | 22,268,507 | 1 | 2 | 22,266,966 | 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>egwor</author><text>I might be one of the few, but I think it does warrant it. People buy devices and expect them to work and keep working. If the battery had an issue then it should have flagged up that the phone was saving battery life and that they should replace the battery. We can&#x27;t keep throwing away devices like this; it isn&#x27;t good for the environment.<p>Why do I think it is important to be told? My old iPad has almost overnight slowed right down and it is unusable - utterly pointless using it. Why do you think that it slowed down? A new update? Maybe. Or maybe it is the battery. Let me go check... yes, the battery has an issue. Only because I know where to check means that I know how to resolve the issue. And I know that the battery replacement cost will be ridiculously expensive. If I didn&#x27;t know this then I would buy something else. That&#x27;s pretty bad.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Apple throttling phones to preserve battery life was the right thing to do.<p>Doing it without telling users their batteries were expired and causing their phone to slow down was the wrong thing to do.<p>Whether that merits a $27m fine is debatable.</text></item><item><author>privateSFacct</author><text>Apple implemented this to help users extend life of older devices.<p>Apple should just have phones in France run full clock at all times to comply with this regulation. These types of things don&#x27;t recognize that phone design is a CONSTANT power management &#x2F; speed tradeoff. If you demand things run 100% speed at all times - poof - your batter life is gone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down older iPhones</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/france-fines-apple-25-million-for-slowing-iphone-software/a-52290154?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf</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>bgorman</author><text>I absolutely disagree.<p>These phones were unusable with the throttling. I switched to Android because my iPhone 6 was unusable less than 3 years after getting it.<p>This is like saying that an appropriate fix for a car manufacture is to limit the maximum speed of a car to 25 miles per hour. It breaks so many use cases that the car becomes worthless.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Apple throttling phones to preserve battery life was the right thing to do.<p>Doing it without telling users their batteries were expired and causing their phone to slow down was the wrong thing to do.<p>Whether that merits a $27m fine is debatable.</text></item><item><author>privateSFacct</author><text>Apple implemented this to help users extend life of older devices.<p>Apple should just have phones in France run full clock at all times to comply with this regulation. These types of things don&#x27;t recognize that phone design is a CONSTANT power management &#x2F; speed tradeoff. If you demand things run 100% speed at all times - poof - your batter life is gone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down older iPhones</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/france-fines-apple-25-million-for-slowing-iphone-software/a-52290154?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf</url></story> |
27,293,017 | 27,291,591 | 1 | 2 | 27,275,931 | 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>flakiness</author><text>I had no idea about Easter when I downloaded and tweaked the mesh model as a collage student. It was too foreign to me as a non-Christian county (Japan) resident. I dreamed to get to see that &quot;special&quot; bunny someday. Now live in U.S. the same-looking bunny is everywhere and I&#x27;ve lost the interest getting one. Still, from time to time I wonder which bunny it exactly was and if I can find one, in the mob.<p>Tangentially related, I bought a teapot from Melitta on e-bay and am still using it. It&#x27;s not &quot;that&quot; one, but it shares some of the taste from the brand. The teapot has a piece of uniqueness, unlike the bunny.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stanford Bunny</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_bunny</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>SavantIdiot</author><text>Hugh Hoppe, from Microsoft, wrote some fundamental progressive-mesh code that he showed at SIGGRAPH &#x27;97 using this model. Instead of the code having to choose from different model resolutions (like the original four bunny models), the algorithm would allow DirectX to reduce the vertex count based on the rendered size of the object (1 pixel only needs 1 vertex!) to save compute cycles.<p>I wonder if geometry compression is still a thing given the performance increases of GPUs. I haven&#x27;t done 3D driver work since DirectX 5....</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stanford Bunny</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_bunny</url></story> |
28,024,207 | 28,023,415 | 1 | 3 | 28,010,217 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thristian</author><text>Annoyingly, the canvas is hard-coded to use only the &quot;Simple Console&quot; font; if your browser doesn&#x27;t load the font for whatever reason, it shows up in a proportional typeface which ruins the effect.<p>Changing `font-family: &quot;Simple Console&quot;` to `font-family: &quot;Simple Console&quot;, monospace` would fix it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ASCII Play</title><url>https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/</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>atulvi</author><text>I thought this was running on a canvas element, but no.. characters are nested inside spans. That&#x27;s amazing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ASCII Play</title><url>https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/</url></story> |
30,586,028 | 30,585,931 | 1 | 3 | 30,583,808 | 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>JonChesterfield</author><text>Finding someone willing to pay for properly efficient code means finding a place where that code runs a lot. Either because it&#x27;s running on your data centers (faster=&gt;lower energy cost) or because it&#x27;s going to run on a lot of computers (browser engine).<p>I like the libraries that ship with toolchains for using this stuff. Anyone shipping silicon will have toolchain(s), either built in house or via consultancies.<p>Cutting cycles off integer divide is a waste of time for one application and a serious win if it&#x27;s the integer divide the compiler injects into all applications.<p>Further from the machine you get language runtimes (e.g. libc, libm) then application libraries (blas, lapack, mpi) where it starts to merge with ML or HPC tooling.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pickledcods</author><text>Say you master this knowledge, how would you go around finding a fitting job?<p>I&#x27;m starting a new chapter in my life and find it impossible to find a position that matches the collection of abilities, and the rare ones available responded with excuses ranging from too old to too mediocre. It is so bad that I&#x27;m now looking into switching to education, specifically gifted youngster where my knowledge and insights might rub off, guide, inspire and motivate. But even that is proving to be difficult.<p>Background: I&#x27;m an 70ies wizz-kid, Europe (NL), have an ATW-800, 9 years computer science education including hardware and software, through bad college advice was dis-advised to take the academic path, OS-design (linux, medical, HPC) in 90ies, small single-board computers in 00ies, fractal logic and calculating with structures in 10ies. My handicap: I&#x27;m too shy to stand in a spotlight or in front of a camera.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms for Modern Hardware</title><url>https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/</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>ammo1662</author><text>Not all knowledge you mastered could help you finding a job. But some of them will help you to become a better engineer.<p>I used to learn clarinet for several years when I was yong. And I learned to code a simple CPU core with VHDL and FPGA when I was in college. And now I’m writing C# in healthcare industry.
I may never write such kind of experience in my resume. But that helps me when I write projects on waveform editing, or to understand what is “parallel”.<p>So I separate my knowledge for two part. One is something I need to get a job, the other is something I interest in. Which may helps you in future or not. But you enjoy the time in it.<p>As for this book, it is useless especially when you are writing some stupid web server in a programming language like Java or C#. But just my interest about optimization.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pickledcods</author><text>Say you master this knowledge, how would you go around finding a fitting job?<p>I&#x27;m starting a new chapter in my life and find it impossible to find a position that matches the collection of abilities, and the rare ones available responded with excuses ranging from too old to too mediocre. It is so bad that I&#x27;m now looking into switching to education, specifically gifted youngster where my knowledge and insights might rub off, guide, inspire and motivate. But even that is proving to be difficult.<p>Background: I&#x27;m an 70ies wizz-kid, Europe (NL), have an ATW-800, 9 years computer science education including hardware and software, through bad college advice was dis-advised to take the academic path, OS-design (linux, medical, HPC) in 90ies, small single-board computers in 00ies, fractal logic and calculating with structures in 10ies. My handicap: I&#x27;m too shy to stand in a spotlight or in front of a camera.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Algorithms for Modern Hardware</title><url>https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/</url></story> |
37,130,486 | 37,130,543 | 1 | 2 | 37,129,768 | 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>kgeist</author><text>&gt;Why did the English intellectuals want to avoid criticizing Stalin<p>The book was published in 1945, perhaps it was to do with the fact that USSR was an ally at the time?<p>UPD. From Wikipedia:<p>&gt;Orwell wrote the book between November 1943 and February 1944, when the United Kingdom was in its wartime alliance with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, and the British intelligentsia held Stalin in high esteem, a phenomenon Orwell hated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RajT88</author><text>This forward hints at a missing puzzle piece for me, regarding history.<p>Why did the English intellectuals want to avoid criticizing Stalin? Was it because it would be by extension criticizing Communism which at the time was a popular idea among intellectuals? Was this the progress being referred to?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm</title><url>https://mindmatters.ai/2023/08/a-warning-from-the-unpublished-preface-to-orwells-animal-farm/</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>wrp</author><text>Admiration for the USSR among English intellectuals predates WW2. So the answer to your question is in the social milieu of the 1920s-30s. Someone else will have to try a detailed explanation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RajT88</author><text>This forward hints at a missing puzzle piece for me, regarding history.<p>Why did the English intellectuals want to avoid criticizing Stalin? Was it because it would be by extension criticizing Communism which at the time was a popular idea among intellectuals? Was this the progress being referred to?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm</title><url>https://mindmatters.ai/2023/08/a-warning-from-the-unpublished-preface-to-orwells-animal-farm/</url></story> |
37,798,223 | 37,797,753 | 1 | 3 | 37,776,079 | 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>kodablah</author><text>&gt; I always thought it was a bit silly that the async mechanism in modern languages is so myopic and single-purpose. These kinds of high level language transformations ought to be extensible and pluggable so that we could write workflows in a proper programming language and have it look like normal code except for the occasional “await” keyword.<p>This is how Temporal works. For example, in Python the async event loop is replaced by a durable event loop [0], the JS promises become durable promises, .NET tasks become durable via a custom scheduler, etc. Granted it doesn&#x27;t serialize the stack, it uses event sourcing almost exactly like the article describes, and therefore requires deterministic code for replaying. From the dev POV, it looks like any code can just be frozen in the middle of a function and magically resumed elsewhere.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;temporal.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;durable-distributed-asyncio-event-loop" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;temporal.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;durable-distributed-asyncio-event-l...</a><p>(disclaimer, I work at Temporal and have written some of these distributed coroutine impls)</text><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>The existence of workflow DSLs seems like a symptom of a systemic weakness in common programming languages.<p>We use languages best suited to writing Windows GUIs or Linux kernels to implement business rules — and then we act surprised when we have to invent an entire language and runtime to solve simple business problems.<p>One missing feature in typical languages is the native ability to have a computation frozen in the middle of a function call and then defrosted and continue as if nothing had happened. The low-level mechanisms are often available already — such as object serialisation — but these primitives never support the serialisation of a call stack or an in-flight computation.<p>We even have compilers that can split up and restructure an async function into a heap object and an associated state machine!<p>What’s the difference between an async function that is <i>awaiting</i> a slow HTTP call and an async function <i>awaiting</i> a long-running workflow step? Only that the state machine of the latter is persisted to storage instead of the heap!<p>I always thought it was a bit silly that the async mechanism in modern languages is so myopic and single-purpose. These kinds of high level language transformations ought to be extensible and pluggable so that we could write workflows in a proper programming language and have it look like normal code except for the occasional “await” keyword.<p>PS: The same philosophy could be applied to Java Loom style async programming where threads could be marked as eligible for hibernation, in which case they would be restricted to using data types that can be safely round-tripped by the serialiser.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Workflow Pattern</title><url>https://blog.bittacklr.be/the-workflow-pattern.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>wavemode</author><text>The missing feature you&#x27;re describing is monads. They can essentially be a first-class abstraction for computation (among other things). They can represent synchronous computations, computations that can be suspended&#x2F;resumed, computations that might fail with a particular type of exception, or anything in between.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>The existence of workflow DSLs seems like a symptom of a systemic weakness in common programming languages.<p>We use languages best suited to writing Windows GUIs or Linux kernels to implement business rules — and then we act surprised when we have to invent an entire language and runtime to solve simple business problems.<p>One missing feature in typical languages is the native ability to have a computation frozen in the middle of a function call and then defrosted and continue as if nothing had happened. The low-level mechanisms are often available already — such as object serialisation — but these primitives never support the serialisation of a call stack or an in-flight computation.<p>We even have compilers that can split up and restructure an async function into a heap object and an associated state machine!<p>What’s the difference between an async function that is <i>awaiting</i> a slow HTTP call and an async function <i>awaiting</i> a long-running workflow step? Only that the state machine of the latter is persisted to storage instead of the heap!<p>I always thought it was a bit silly that the async mechanism in modern languages is so myopic and single-purpose. These kinds of high level language transformations ought to be extensible and pluggable so that we could write workflows in a proper programming language and have it look like normal code except for the occasional “await” keyword.<p>PS: The same philosophy could be applied to Java Loom style async programming where threads could be marked as eligible for hibernation, in which case they would be restricted to using data types that can be safely round-tripped by the serialiser.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Workflow Pattern</title><url>https://blog.bittacklr.be/the-workflow-pattern.html</url></story> |
14,650,934 | 14,647,840 | 1 | 3 | 14,645,452 | 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>reaperducer</author><text>The article says the ransomware affects even patched Windows boxes. Perhaps what you mean to say is, &quot;Great. Maybe we can finally put a price on using Windows.&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>nothrabannosir</author><text>Great. Maybe we can finally put a price on lack of security protocol.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Maersk is down. Their main site says:<p><pre><code> Maersk IT systems are down
We can confirm that Maersk IT systems are down across multiple sites
and business units due to a cyber attack. We continue to assess the
situation. The safety of our employees, our operations and customer&#x27;s
business is our top priority. We will update when we have more information.[1]
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Maersk is the largest shipping company in the world. 600 ships, with ship space for 3.8 million TEU of containers. (The usual 40-foot container counts as two TEUs.) If this outage lasts more than a few hours, port operations worldwide will be disrupted.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maersk.com&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maersk.com&#x2F;en</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/06/27/ransomware-spreads-rapidly-hitting-power-companies-banks-airlines-metro/</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>merrickread</author><text>I dream of seeing a &quot;security first&quot; development process adopted ..</text><parent_chain><item><author>nothrabannosir</author><text>Great. Maybe we can finally put a price on lack of security protocol.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Maersk is down. Their main site says:<p><pre><code> Maersk IT systems are down
We can confirm that Maersk IT systems are down across multiple sites
and business units due to a cyber attack. We continue to assess the
situation. The safety of our employees, our operations and customer&#x27;s
business is our top priority. We will update when we have more information.[1]
</code></pre>
Maersk is the largest shipping company in the world. 600 ships, with ship space for 3.8 million TEU of containers. (The usual 40-foot container counts as two TEUs.) If this outage lasts more than a few hours, port operations worldwide will be disrupted.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maersk.com&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maersk.com&#x2F;en</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/06/27/ransomware-spreads-rapidly-hitting-power-companies-banks-airlines-metro/</url></story> |
41,103,651 | 41,102,752 | 1 | 3 | 41,101,502 | 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>commandlinefan</author><text>I remember a comedian talking about taking his cat to the vet and being told the cat had bad knees. &quot;I didn&#x27;t even know cats _had_ knees, but what do I know? If the vet told me he needs new batteries, I can&#x27;t argue with him.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do Penguins Have Knees? (2019)</title><url>https://www.penguinsinternational.org/do-penguins-have-knees-and-other-frequently-asked-questions/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ordu</author><text>I bet it would be fun to have a knee inside your belly. It becomes possible to stir bowels, so digestion would go faster, or you could scratch your liver when it itches.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do Penguins Have Knees? (2019)</title><url>https://www.penguinsinternational.org/do-penguins-have-knees-and-other-frequently-asked-questions/</url></story> |
11,214,919 | 11,213,976 | 1 | 2 | 11,213,213 | 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>timgilbert</author><text>HTTPie is amazing for working with JSON&#x2F;REST interfaces. It&#x27;s really succinct and generally designed with user-friendliness in mind, versus supporting every nook and cranny of the HTTP RFCs. It&#x27;s installable via homebrew for Mac users.<p>Whenever I go back to curl I feel the same minor aggravation I do when moving from homebrew back to apt (want to install? apt-get. Search? apt-cache search. List? dpkg. Remove? apt-get again, for some reason). It&#x27;s just not a very user-friendly CLI and I&#x27;m constantly pulling up the curl man pages.</text><parent_chain><item><author>geerlingguy</author><text>Also putting this out there—for nicer REST API interaction on the CLI, and a little more user-friendliness, you might also want to add HTTPie[1] to your toolbelt.<p>It&#x27;s not going to replace curl or wget usage, but it is a nicer interface in certain circumstances.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jkbrzt&#x2F;httpie" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jkbrzt&#x2F;httpie</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Curl vs. Wget</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.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>Lazare</author><text>I&#x27;ve been loving HTTPie, and for my somewhat idiosyncratic usage it&#x27;s completely replaced curl and wget. (Of course, most people probably don&#x27;t spend as much time as me fiddling with poorly documented third party REST APIs.)<p>Also amazing: jq.</text><parent_chain><item><author>geerlingguy</author><text>Also putting this out there—for nicer REST API interaction on the CLI, and a little more user-friendliness, you might also want to add HTTPie[1] to your toolbelt.<p>It&#x27;s not going to replace curl or wget usage, but it is a nicer interface in certain circumstances.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jkbrzt&#x2F;httpie" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jkbrzt&#x2F;httpie</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Curl vs. Wget</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html</url></story> |
16,442,728 | 16,442,730 | 1 | 2 | 16,441,968 | 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>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;choosing to live in an area where you&#x27;re geographically separated from other people<p>people aren&#x27;t created out of a vacuum and randomly choose a place to live. What if your 70 year old mother is simply too frail to move to a city? What if you desperately need the monthly paycheck and cannot just go months without pay looking for a job because you care for your child? What if you simply do not want your community to rot away because every abled bodied person runs off to the city?<p>People aren&#x27;t just amoeba in a lab experiment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>VectorLock</author><text>Why shouldn&#x27;t the world focus on cities? If you&#x27;re choosing to live in an area where you&#x27;re geographically separated from other people can you really complain that you&#x27;re not receiving benefits from systems that are more optimal when people are clustered together?</text></item><item><author>nugi</author><text>The world continues to focus on cities, while the rest of the people are left behind. I notice a clear metropolitan bias on HN, often incredulous that 1st world citizens are still living in a unimproved state. Even an 30min from one of the 10 biggest cities on the USA, broadband is still unavailable to a majority, ambulance times are in hours, and school funding is increasingly disappearing. Please keep in your minds and hearts that there are millions people outside the expected social systems generally assumed available to city and suburb dwellers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School Graduates</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/02/15/581895659/whos-missing-from-america-s-colleges-rural-high-school-graduates</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>thomastjeffery</author><text>Why <i>should</i> the world focus on cities?<p>Those who are born and raised in rural areas can&#x27;t just uproot their lives the moment they turn 18 and start to afford, or even enjoy city life.<p>Because the commute is closer? It&#x27;s still at least as <i>slow</i> in many places, because of traffic problems generated by tighter clusters of people.<p>The idea that cities are the most optimal is an idea, not a proven fact. Your experience may support the idea, but mine certainly does not.<p>The point here is that there are more people living in cities than in rural areas, simply because that has been true for a few generations, and people don&#x27;t tend to change lifestyles.<p>People who grow up with one lifestyle realize the advantages it provides, and grow up with a bias toward that lifestyle. That bias coupled with the population difference is the real reason the majority of people don&#x27;t care about rural areas. Personally, I think we should fight that bias.</text><parent_chain><item><author>VectorLock</author><text>Why shouldn&#x27;t the world focus on cities? If you&#x27;re choosing to live in an area where you&#x27;re geographically separated from other people can you really complain that you&#x27;re not receiving benefits from systems that are more optimal when people are clustered together?</text></item><item><author>nugi</author><text>The world continues to focus on cities, while the rest of the people are left behind. I notice a clear metropolitan bias on HN, often incredulous that 1st world citizens are still living in a unimproved state. Even an 30min from one of the 10 biggest cities on the USA, broadband is still unavailable to a majority, ambulance times are in hours, and school funding is increasingly disappearing. Please keep in your minds and hearts that there are millions people outside the expected social systems generally assumed available to city and suburb dwellers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School Graduates</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/02/15/581895659/whos-missing-from-america-s-colleges-rural-high-school-graduates</url></story> |
5,132,774 | 5,132,405 | 1 | 2 | 5,132,343 | 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>graue</author><text>The problem with posts like this, both pro- and anti-Facebook, is that they are just someone's experience and our experiences vary. If your personal use of Facebook had similar results to the author's, you nod your head, perhaps virtually applaud, and share the link. I know I'm tempted to do so here.<p>But I also know that there are people who use Facebook in a way that strengthens, augments and reinforces real-life relationships. I've also read of studies that show a positive, not a negative, correlation between time spent on social media and how engaged people are with others in person. Some will say, "well, duh" to that, and will shake their heads at an article like this, which to them only shows that someone doesn't know how to use Facebook.<p>Both experiences are valid. I follow a sociologist on Twitter who writes a lot of essays from the latter viewpoint. To him, it's a theoretical split. There is the "digital dualist" theory, that basically says online/offline is a zero sum game and social media makes friendships shallow and disposable, and there is the "augmented reality" theory that all is connected, that what we do online <i>is</i> real life and not something different. And he holds the latter theory to be correct while the former, he finds simplistic, sentimental and broken. (I'm thinking of @nathanjurgenson if anyone wants to follow along, have done my best to represent his views but obviously this summary is my own)<p>I disagree with all of the above. It has become ever more clear to me that some people really do use and experience Facebook in a dualistic way while others do not. There is no one, unified, grand theory of Facebook that encompasses all experiences. Both camps would like to say, "This is how it is, period", but they are really saying, "This is how it is <i>for me</i>".</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Isn't Worth It</title><url>http://seersuckermag.com/opinion/read/facebook-isnt-giving-back-what-we-put-in</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>tomasien</author><text>I can't even debate this blog, because if he doesn't get utility from Facebook, socially, then he doesn't get utility form it. That's factual.<p>But I, and most of my close friends, get HUGE social utility from the platform. Some just use it for Events, some for micro-blogging, some for passively keeping in touch, some for messaging, etc. etc. But I know lots of people much better because of Facebook.<p>And that is also factual.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook Isn't Worth It</title><url>http://seersuckermag.com/opinion/read/facebook-isnt-giving-back-what-we-put-in</url></story> |
31,317,162 | 31,317,179 | 1 | 3 | 31,316,107 | 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>robonerd</author><text>&gt; <i>Several news sources have reported that a single TB2 drone can be purchased for a million dollars, but Bayraktar, while not giving a precise figure, told me that it costs more. In any event, single-unit figures are misleading; TB2s are sold as a “platform,” along with portable command stations and communications equipment. In 2019, Ukraine bought a fleet of at least six TB2s for a reported sixty-nine million dollars; a similar fleet of Reaper drones costs about six times that.</i><p>It seems to me there is still a lot of opportunity in the low end with even smaller and cheaper UAVs with a few kilograms of payload. There have already been numerous instances of COTS UAVs being jerry-rigged to drop mortar shells, and it seems to work pretty well in a lot of scenarios. Particularly for smaller governments dealing with relatively unsophisticated insurgencies.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Turkish drone that changed the nature of warfare</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/16/the-turkish-drone-that-changed-the-nature-of-warfare</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>ChuckNorris89</author><text>I wish more people would talk about the Switchblade loitering munitions (kamikaze) drones.<p>We&#x27;ve already had western made drones on the battlefield for decades, this is nothing new, just much cheaper than what the west makes while doing the same job equally good.<p>But the man portable kamikaze drones are the real game changer.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6G9xLyNfPzQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6G9xLyNfPzQ</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xv8Flu533xE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xv8Flu533xE</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Turkish drone that changed the nature of warfare</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/16/the-turkish-drone-that-changed-the-nature-of-warfare</url></story> |
33,256,239 | 33,256,175 | 1 | 2 | 33,255,920 | 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>bawolff</author><text>I think when people ask &quot;why are you doing this&quot; what they are really asking is:<p>Why are you showing this to me?<p>Especially for things that are really common or totally undocumented. E.g. i&#x27;m glad you are having fun making a commandline calculator in python, but im not sure why you posted it to show hn. Or alternatively - im glad you are having fun making whatever you are, but if you cant even write 1 paragraph describing what your program is intended to do, i dont know why you are showing it off.<p>Alternatively, occassionally people are asking &quot;why do you find this fun?&quot;. Everyone gets joy out of different things, but if you show something off and then give no context, its a bit weird. Most people expect an explanation on why whatever you are doing is interesting or meaningful to you.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Just for Fun. No, really.</title><url>https://justforfunnoreally.dev</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>boberoni</author><text>I moved to San Francisco a few months ago. In my second week in the city, I went to a party and someone I had never met before opened a conversation with &quot;What do you care most about in life?&quot;<p>After a second of thinking, I answered &quot;Having fun.&quot;<p>I asked him the same question back and he said &quot;Having an impact on the world.&quot;<p>Although I don&#x27;t think about it that much, I realized that I personally didn&#x27;t care that much about my impact on the world. Any impact that I create would simply be a byproduct of me pursuing whatever activities I find fun.<p>Moreover, a positive impact in my eyes might end up being a negative impact to others. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Just for Fun. No, really.</title><url>https://justforfunnoreally.dev</url></story> |
13,130,087 | 13,130,034 | 1 | 2 | 13,129,076 | 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>asb</author><text>I agree, open source hardware (and especially open source silicon, where there are such huge barriers of entry) is very much different to open source software. It&#x27;s possible that a breakthrough in direct-write lithography or similar would help to reduce these barriers, but it&#x27;s not something we&#x27;re betting the project on. This is one reason why our hope isn&#x27;t to produce just one iteration of the lowRISC SoC, but to have a regular tapeout schedule. This means if you make a contribution, you know you&#x27;ll be able to see it on shipping silicon on a reasonable timeline. Another part of this story is, as with minion cores, in moving more aspects of the design from fixed hardware to being software configurable.<p>As to your second point, I agree - open source hardware is no silver bullet for unearthing malicious backdoors. Being able to audit for unintentional issues is useful, but yes - you need to secure or trust your supply chain to know that the chip you have in your hands matches the open RTL.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lgeek</author><text>&gt; we believe that the benefits of open source we enjoy in the software world can be applied to the hardware world<p>In my opinion open source hardware IP has at least two major limitations compared to software, which make it significantly less useful or important to end users. I guess your preference for open source rather than copyleft already hinted that the benefits are mostly for the ecosystem rather than the users. The first one is that even though you can modify the design, you have no practical way of using your modified design (at least in this context, because FPGAs are slow and expensive and high performance SoCs don&#x27;t fit anyway).<p>The second limitation is that it is impractical to audit the hardware to determine whether you have actually received the unmodified open source design. For software this can be achieved using reproducible builds or just by compiling it for yourself.<p>Open source hardware boards (as opposed to IP) have some of these limitations as well, however both can be overcome by a hobbyist with a modest budget.</text></item><item><author>asb</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the founders of lowRISC, a not-for-profit effort to produce a completely open source, Linux capable, multi-core SoC. Fundamentally, we believe that the benefits of open source we enjoy in the software world can be applied to the hardware world will have a huge positive effect on the hardware industry, academia, and wider society. Much like with Raspberry Pi, our approach is to lead by _doing_ which is why we&#x27;re working to create our own SoC platform and low-cost development boards.<p>I should point out the title has been editorialised slightly inaccurately. Rob Mullins is a fellow co-founder of lowRISC and was also a Raspberry Pi founder, and I took a leading role in Raspberry Pi software work for a number of years, but it&#x27;s not really accurate to say lowRISC is backed by &quot;the makers of Raspberry Pi&quot;.<p>If you have any questions, I&#x27;ll do my best to answer (I&#x27;m on a short holiday right now, so have slightly intermittent internet access).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LowRISC – An open-source, Linux-capable System-on-a-Chip</title><url>http://www.lowrisc.org/</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>cryptarch</author><text>&gt; The second limitation is that it is impractical to audit the hardware to determine whether you have actually received the unmodified open source design. For software this can be achieved using reproducible builds or just by compiling it for yourself.<p>Mostly too expensive AFAIK. I&#x27;m fuzzy on the details, but it should be possible to create high-resolution (e.g. X-ray) scans of the chips (as is done by chip design pirates) and compare them to known-good implementations, or images generated based off the chip&#x27;s open-source design.<p>I&#x27;m looking forward to a future where PC auditing shops are a thing. Take in your machine, and let them verify the contents of every chip and storage unit on your device.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lgeek</author><text>&gt; we believe that the benefits of open source we enjoy in the software world can be applied to the hardware world<p>In my opinion open source hardware IP has at least two major limitations compared to software, which make it significantly less useful or important to end users. I guess your preference for open source rather than copyleft already hinted that the benefits are mostly for the ecosystem rather than the users. The first one is that even though you can modify the design, you have no practical way of using your modified design (at least in this context, because FPGAs are slow and expensive and high performance SoCs don&#x27;t fit anyway).<p>The second limitation is that it is impractical to audit the hardware to determine whether you have actually received the unmodified open source design. For software this can be achieved using reproducible builds or just by compiling it for yourself.<p>Open source hardware boards (as opposed to IP) have some of these limitations as well, however both can be overcome by a hobbyist with a modest budget.</text></item><item><author>asb</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the founders of lowRISC, a not-for-profit effort to produce a completely open source, Linux capable, multi-core SoC. Fundamentally, we believe that the benefits of open source we enjoy in the software world can be applied to the hardware world will have a huge positive effect on the hardware industry, academia, and wider society. Much like with Raspberry Pi, our approach is to lead by _doing_ which is why we&#x27;re working to create our own SoC platform and low-cost development boards.<p>I should point out the title has been editorialised slightly inaccurately. Rob Mullins is a fellow co-founder of lowRISC and was also a Raspberry Pi founder, and I took a leading role in Raspberry Pi software work for a number of years, but it&#x27;s not really accurate to say lowRISC is backed by &quot;the makers of Raspberry Pi&quot;.<p>If you have any questions, I&#x27;ll do my best to answer (I&#x27;m on a short holiday right now, so have slightly intermittent internet access).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>LowRISC – An open-source, Linux-capable System-on-a-Chip</title><url>http://www.lowrisc.org/</url></story> |
30,514,417 | 30,514,509 | 1 | 2 | 30,512,512 | 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>StevenWaterman</author><text>Yeah I agree that the sidebar isn&#x27;t a very useful example given that it&#x27;s not even close to something you&#x27;d implement in production. The same technique can definitely be made to work with mobile, which is how the burger menu at the top right of the page is implemented - ie just using `:focus-within` rather than `:hover` and using media queries to only display that menu on mobile.<p>I&#x27;m glad that you enjoyed 1 and 3 though - it&#x27;s been really interesting seeing each person take something different away</text><parent_chain><item><author>WA</author><text>2 (Sidebar) is not usable on mobile, because there is no good hover event. Since mobile-first is almost a necessity, it won&#x27;t work this way.<p>Accordions make most sense as a table of contents, although they are often used in FAQs. But in FAQs, you can&#x27;t use the browser&#x27;s search on page to find collapsed words. So you trade better scrollability for searching on the page. Not sure how many people use &quot;search on page&quot; on mobile devices though.<p>1 + 3 are great though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things you don't need JavaScript for</title><url>https://lexoral.com/blog/you-dont-need-js/</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>franciscop</author><text>Did you try it on mobile? I was gonna comment the same thing, but I tried it and worked perfectly to my surprise. If you tried and it didn&#x27;t work, mind sharing what mobile&#x2F;browser?</text><parent_chain><item><author>WA</author><text>2 (Sidebar) is not usable on mobile, because there is no good hover event. Since mobile-first is almost a necessity, it won&#x27;t work this way.<p>Accordions make most sense as a table of contents, although they are often used in FAQs. But in FAQs, you can&#x27;t use the browser&#x27;s search on page to find collapsed words. So you trade better scrollability for searching on the page. Not sure how many people use &quot;search on page&quot; on mobile devices though.<p>1 + 3 are great though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things you don't need JavaScript for</title><url>https://lexoral.com/blog/you-dont-need-js/</url></story> |
30,429,673 | 30,428,074 | 1 | 2 | 30,427,381 | 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>zeroxfe</author><text>I sidestepped a whole bunch of user&#x2F;password management&#x2F;verification complexity by restricting my toy app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pitchy.ninja" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pitchy.ninja</a>) to &quot;login via email&quot; where you get sent a code anytime you need to log in.<p>I wasn&#x27;t sure about how well it would work when I first launched it, but now, about a year and a half later, I&#x27;m really happy with it.<p>The biggest advantages are: I&#x27;m not tied to an SSO provider, I don&#x27;t have deal with password management&#x2F;security&#x2F;reset&#x2F;etc., and I have a super simple UX (identical flows for signup and login.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I Built LoginWithHN</title><url>https://vadosware.io/post/how-i-built-lwhn/</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>Aachen</author><text>How it logs me in via HN without having to submit my HN password to a party other than HN (the one thing I was interested in, buried somewhere in the middle of the post) is this good old hack:<p>&gt; Provide[s] a unique code or phrase to put in their HN profile</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How I Built LoginWithHN</title><url>https://vadosware.io/post/how-i-built-lwhn/</url></story> |
31,714,725 | 31,714,152 | 1 | 3 | 31,713,525 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>Anyone who has copyrighted code in the kernel they&#x27;re using can sue or a copyright holder can work with an organization like the EFF or Software Freedom Conservancy to sue them.<p>One of the big things with the Linux kernel is that it&#x27;s GPLv2 and the GPLv2 doesn&#x27;t offer an opportunity to come back into compliance. Any violation leads to an automatic termination to all rights. Most of the big kernel developers have said that they won&#x27;t enforce GPLv2 &quot;death penalty&quot;, but there&#x27;s a lot of Linux developers out there and Linux doesn&#x27;t have authors assign copyright so there&#x27;s a huge number of copyright holders.<p>&gt; You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.<p>There are lots of articles on this like <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fosspatents.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;08&#x2F;most-android-vendors-lost-their-linux.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fosspatents.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;08&#x2F;most-android-vendors-lost...</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samba.org&#x2F;samba&#x2F;samba&#x2F;ftp&#x2F;slides&#x2F;linuxcollab-why-samba-went-gplv3.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samba.org&#x2F;samba&#x2F;samba&#x2F;ftp&#x2F;slides&#x2F;linuxcollab-why...</a><p>Realistically, most of these things get settled or ignored and the world moves on with a bare minimum of enforcement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>noisy_boy</author><text>Genuine question: what happens if they refuse to release? How is it enforced? If the answer is going to court, who sues them? EFF?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oneplus GPL violation for Android 12 Kernel</title><url>https://github.com/OnePlusOSS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8250/issues/24</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>warp</author><text>I think the Software Freedom Conservancy is probably the most active in trying to enforce GPL compliance on free software in general, and for the Linux kernel in particular.<p>Some kernel developers have assigned their copyrights directly to the SFC, and some have signed agreements for SFC to do this enforcement on their behalf. (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfconservancy.org&#x2F;copyleft-compliance&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfconservancy.org&#x2F;copyleft-compliance&#x2F;</a> )<p>Obviously there are many people and organizations who own copyright to parts of the linux kernel, and any of those can attempt to enforce the GPL on the kernel in court.</text><parent_chain><item><author>noisy_boy</author><text>Genuine question: what happens if they refuse to release? How is it enforced? If the answer is going to court, who sues them? EFF?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oneplus GPL violation for Android 12 Kernel</title><url>https://github.com/OnePlusOSS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8250/issues/24</url></story> |
16,204,481 | 16,204,412 | 1 | 2 | 16,200,100 | 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>boffinism</author><text>&gt; They&#x27;re...interested...in security, and... [c]rypto can provide them with precisely that.<p>20% of all bitcoins have been irretrievably lost [0] and 7% have been stolen [1]. If I was the global rich, I&#x27;d rather hide gold bars in my mattress rather than put it in Bitcoin if my goal was just security.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;25&#x2F;lost-bitcoins&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;25&#x2F;lost-bitcoins&#x2F;</a>
[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;how-many-bitcoins-have-been-stolen-2014-3?IR=T" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;how-many-bitcoins-have-been-s...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>vinceguidry</author><text>My whole attitude towards cryptocurrencies changed when I realized that intrinsic value literally didn&#x27;t matter to the global rich, they&#x27;re not interested in growth or value at all, only in security, and they&#x27;d be willing to pay a premium to store their wealth if it only means that they can control the risk.<p>Crypto can provide them with precisely that. The volatility of crypto is immaterial, what matters is that it&#x27;s still around. The <i>resilience</i> of Bitcoin means that rich people can park wealth there. They can trust the protocol more than they can trust their nation&#x27;s banks, their political institutions, and their social order.<p>Techies can make a nice side income arbitraging the scrambling of the global elite for a safe haven. It&#x27;s the new Cayman Islands bank account, only now it&#x27;s math keeping the filthy government&#x27;s hands off your money, not the flimsy sham of sovereignty.</text></item><item><author>ThomPete</author><text>My wife works in the high-end art and auction world.<p>I always joke that artists are the most extreme capitalist you will ever find. This is a world where a dinner table can easily be sold for 1$mio because it&#x27;s owned by some famous person. Pretty fascinating world.<p>On a slightly different note. This is also the reason why I think cryptocurrencies&#x2F;tokens are going to be doing just fine. Humans very rarely exchange and value based on utilitarianism alone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets (2013)</title><url>https://qz.com/103091/high-end-art-is-one-of-the-most-manipulated-markets-in-the-world/</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>reverend_gonzo</author><text>&gt; Crypto can provide them with precisely that. The volatility of crypto is immaterial, what matters is that it&#x27;s still around. The resilience of Bitcoin means that rich people can park wealth there. They can trust the protocol more than they can trust their nation&#x27;s banks, their political institutions, and their social order.<p>What? Nobody sane is putting their long-term savings in crypto. The resilience of bitcoin has absolutely not been proven.<p>For long term assets, you want your money in some stable, solid, not volatile, and preferably backed by a global superpower, hence US Government bonds and Euro bonds are pretty much the safest assets you can buy. They won&#x27;t go up much in value, but they won&#x27;t go down much either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vinceguidry</author><text>My whole attitude towards cryptocurrencies changed when I realized that intrinsic value literally didn&#x27;t matter to the global rich, they&#x27;re not interested in growth or value at all, only in security, and they&#x27;d be willing to pay a premium to store their wealth if it only means that they can control the risk.<p>Crypto can provide them with precisely that. The volatility of crypto is immaterial, what matters is that it&#x27;s still around. The <i>resilience</i> of Bitcoin means that rich people can park wealth there. They can trust the protocol more than they can trust their nation&#x27;s banks, their political institutions, and their social order.<p>Techies can make a nice side income arbitraging the scrambling of the global elite for a safe haven. It&#x27;s the new Cayman Islands bank account, only now it&#x27;s math keeping the filthy government&#x27;s hands off your money, not the flimsy sham of sovereignty.</text></item><item><author>ThomPete</author><text>My wife works in the high-end art and auction world.<p>I always joke that artists are the most extreme capitalist you will ever find. This is a world where a dinner table can easily be sold for 1$mio because it&#x27;s owned by some famous person. Pretty fascinating world.<p>On a slightly different note. This is also the reason why I think cryptocurrencies&#x2F;tokens are going to be doing just fine. Humans very rarely exchange and value based on utilitarianism alone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets (2013)</title><url>https://qz.com/103091/high-end-art-is-one-of-the-most-manipulated-markets-in-the-world/</url></story> |
17,880,626 | 17,880,267 | 1 | 2 | 17,874,626 | 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>lisper</author><text>&gt; A380 promised it.<p>And they delivered it. First class on any of these planes is quite comfy even for extended periods of time. But it ain&#x27;t cheap.<p>The problem is not that the service doesn&#x27;t or can&#x27;t exist. The problem is that it costs more than most people can afford. It&#x27;s an economic problem, not a technical one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arnon</author><text>We&#x27;ve been seeing this since the 60s.<p>DC-10 promised it.<p>L-1011 promised it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psa-history.org&#x2F;about_psa&#x2F;aircraft&#x2F;lockheed-l-1011&#x2F;the-lower-lounge-of-the-l-1011-lockheed-promotional-picture&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psa-history.org&#x2F;about_psa&#x2F;aircraft&#x2F;lockheed-l-10...</a>).<p>747 promised it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vinepair.com&#x2F;wine-blog&#x2F;the-glamorous-airline-lounges-in-the-sky-from-the-1970s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vinepair.com&#x2F;wine-blog&#x2F;the-glamorous-airline-lounges...</a>).<p>A380 promised it.<p>It&#x27;s not going to happen, because airlines want to cram as many seats as possible, even in business class.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and Bunks</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-29/the-20-hour-flight-is-coming-and-it-may-have-a-gym-and-bunks?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbob2000</author><text>It&#x27;s not airlines that want to do this, it&#x27;s the customers who want to fly around the world for as cheap as possible. Nobody values the time they spend travelling, they just want it to be as quick and cheap as possible.<p>It&#x27;d cost you $10,000+ to take a 20 hour flight with a gym and bunk beds. <i>Fuck that</i>, I can stay in Aruba at a 5 star resort for a week at that price.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arnon</author><text>We&#x27;ve been seeing this since the 60s.<p>DC-10 promised it.<p>L-1011 promised it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psa-history.org&#x2F;about_psa&#x2F;aircraft&#x2F;lockheed-l-1011&#x2F;the-lower-lounge-of-the-l-1011-lockheed-promotional-picture&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.psa-history.org&#x2F;about_psa&#x2F;aircraft&#x2F;lockheed-l-10...</a>).<p>747 promised it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vinepair.com&#x2F;wine-blog&#x2F;the-glamorous-airline-lounges-in-the-sky-from-the-1970s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vinepair.com&#x2F;wine-blog&#x2F;the-glamorous-airline-lounges...</a>).<p>A380 promised it.<p>It&#x27;s not going to happen, because airlines want to cram as many seats as possible, even in business class.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and Bunks</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-29/the-20-hour-flight-is-coming-and-it-may-have-a-gym-and-bunks?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business</url></story> |
29,240,077 | 29,240,110 | 1 | 2 | 29,239,594 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>The JavaScript function <i>Media devices.getUserMedia()</i> will do this, and also includes screen sharing possibilities. It will ask the user for permission first but in a test situation, there&#x27;s high pressure to accept those permissions or fail the test.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; Hackerrank also records videos and takes random screenshots of you when you are taking a tests.<p>Isn&#x27;t hacker rank a website? How could it possibly do that?</text></item><item><author>crossroadsguy</author><text>Hackerrank also records videos and takes random screenshots of you when you are taking a tests.<p>Unfortunately recruiters don’t inform about this in advance so that one could know about the privacy policy. When you are taking the test you’ve to give those permissions.<p>I think those images can be seen by literally anyone at recruiting company (and then I guess at Hackerrank as well).<p>edit: Context <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackerrank.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;free-trial-search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackerrank.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;free-trial-search</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hackerrank DMCA Notice</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/11/2021-11-12-hackerrank.md</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>kcarter80</author><text>Such things have been possible via the web for about a decade.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; Hackerrank also records videos and takes random screenshots of you when you are taking a tests.<p>Isn&#x27;t hacker rank a website? How could it possibly do that?</text></item><item><author>crossroadsguy</author><text>Hackerrank also records videos and takes random screenshots of you when you are taking a tests.<p>Unfortunately recruiters don’t inform about this in advance so that one could know about the privacy policy. When you are taking the test you’ve to give those permissions.<p>I think those images can be seen by literally anyone at recruiting company (and then I guess at Hackerrank as well).<p>edit: Context <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackerrank.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;free-trial-search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackerrank.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;free-trial-search</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hackerrank DMCA Notice</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/11/2021-11-12-hackerrank.md</url></story> |
20,464,224 | 20,464,234 | 1 | 2 | 20,463,170 | 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>stakhanov</author><text>It&#x27;s wrong to frame this as resistance to change for no reason. See my other comment. I see some of this stuff as repeating mistakes that were made in the design of Perl. ...but there are quite few people around these days who know Perl well enough to recognize the way in which history is repeating itself, and that has at least something to do with age.</text><parent_chain><item><author>teddyh</author><text>“I&#x27;ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:<p>1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.<p>2. Anything that&#x27;s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.<p>3. Anything invented after you&#x27;re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”<p>― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt</text></item><item><author>voldacar</author><text>Python looks more and more foreign with each release.
I&#x27;m not sure what happened after 3.3 but it seems like the whole philosophy of &quot;pythonic&quot;, emphasizing simplicity, readability and &quot;only one straightforward way to do it&quot; is rapidly disappearing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What's Coming in Python 3.8</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/793818/0c6f9dd271021cd4/</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>bacon_waffle</author><text>The point #1 is expanded on in Feral by George Monbiot. Basically, we have a tendency to see the outside world we grew up with as the way things naturally should be, ignoring that previous generations may have changed it to be that way. That sheep-grazed pastoral landscape is easy to view as a thing worth preserving, but to an ecologist it might be a barren waste where there used to be a beautiful forest.</text><parent_chain><item><author>teddyh</author><text>“I&#x27;ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:<p>1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.<p>2. Anything that&#x27;s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.<p>3. Anything invented after you&#x27;re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”<p>― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt</text></item><item><author>voldacar</author><text>Python looks more and more foreign with each release.
I&#x27;m not sure what happened after 3.3 but it seems like the whole philosophy of &quot;pythonic&quot;, emphasizing simplicity, readability and &quot;only one straightforward way to do it&quot; is rapidly disappearing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What's Coming in Python 3.8</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/793818/0c6f9dd271021cd4/</url></story> |
6,138,538 | 6,138,402 | 1 | 2 | 6,138,011 | 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>I got to talk with Ivan after he gave an earlier version of this talk at Asilomar and the good news was he&#x27;s the real deal, pretty much every question I could think to throw at him he had a solid answer for, the bad news was I felt the same way about the Mill architecture as I did about Intel&#x27;s iapx432 architecture [1], which was elegant to a fault.<p>That said, I got the sense that this was what Intel was going for when they did Larrabee [2] and just missed because of the focus on Graphics. Unlike Larrabee is suspect OOTBC will need to build it themselves like Chip did for the Propeller [3].<p>That said, the challenge of these bespoke architectures are the requirement for software, or first a GCC port :-). I believe Ivan said they had a port that talked to their simulator, but I don&#x27;t know if that was an optimizing thing like SGI&#x27;s compiler for Itanium or a proof of concept thing.<p>The weird thing is of course &quot;Why?&quot;, and one might say &quot;But Chuck, faster and cheaper, why not?&quot; and I look at the explosion of ARM SoC&#x27;s (cheaper, not necessarily faster than x86) and look back at ARM and think 99% of this was getting the ecosystem built, not the computer architecture. So who can afford to invest the billions to build the eco-system? Who would risk that investment? (Google might but that is a different spin on things).<p>So playing around with the Zynq-7020 (same chip that is on the Parallea but not the Epiphany co-processor) I can see a nice dual core ARM9 where you have full speed access to a bespoke DSP if you want for the &#x27;tricky&#x27; bits. Will that be &quot;good enough&quot; for the kinds of things this would also excel at? I don&#x27;t know, so I don&#x27;t know how to handicap OOTBC&#x27;s chances for success. But I really enjoy novel computer architectures, like this one and Chuck Moore&#x27;s &#x27;1000 forth chickens&#x27; chip [4] (it was a reference to the Seymour Cray&#x27;s quote, &quot;Would you have 1,000 chickens pull your plow or an Ox?&quot;<p>A really interesting time will be had when &#x27;paid off&#x27; fab capacity is sitting idle and the cost for a wafer start becomes a function of how badly the fab wants to keep the line busy.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intel_iAPX_432</a><p>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)#Differences_with_CPUs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Larrabee_(microarchitecture)#Di...</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.parallax.com/propeller/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parallax.com&#x2F;propeller&#x2F;</a><p>[4] <a href="http://www.colorforth.com/S40.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.colorforth.com&#x2F;S40.htm</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Belt CPU Architecture</title><url>http://ootbcomp.com/docs/belt/index.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>CoffeeDregs</author><text>First off, I love the post! Super meaty goodness.<p>I read-ish the whole set of slides and it sounds pretty good (the devil is always in the details), but I got a little worried about VLIW-ish issues when [in the slides] he said on slide #57:<p><pre><code> The compiler controls when ops issue
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One of the big issues with VLIW was that the compiler had to be intimately aware of processor architecture. So when you upgraded your &#x27;886 to a &#x27;986 you needed new binaries because the &#x27;986 had more registers or executions units. [I assume Itanium fixed some of this, but it also sunk my interest in VLIW.]<p>Is this architecture going to face the same issue?<p>Edit: I watching the video and heard that &quot;nearly all of what the super scalar is doing is [not calculating]&quot;. One of the other VLIW issues was that chip area was dominated by cache-area, so all the stuff about [not calculating] shrank and shrank relatively as cache area grew (see: <a href="http://techreport.com/review/15818/intel-core-i7-processors" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techreport.com&#x2F;review&#x2F;15818&#x2F;intel-core-i7-processors</a>). This claim concerns me.<p>Edit V2: but damn... Exciting stuff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Belt CPU Architecture</title><url>http://ootbcomp.com/docs/belt/index.html</url></story> |
8,525,599 | 8,524,667 | 1 | 3 | 8,523,527 | 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>Animats</author><text>DuckDuckGo wants you to write their vertical search engines. Those are the things that provide weather, traffic, stock quotes, sports scores, and similar data as specialized search results. Yahoo Search originated that concept, and now all search engines have to have it.<p>The vertical search engines you write go on Github, so someone could take all their verticals and put them into another search engine. It&#x27;s not &quot;send us the code and then we own it&quot;. Might be worth it writing one if you need the exposure as a programmer.<p>DuckDuckGo is still under 1% search market share, though.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DuckDuckHack: Help us make the web a better place</title><url>http://duckduckhack.com/</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>emergentcypher</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I really understand what this is about. What exactly does DuckDuckGo want me to hack? Are people writing plugins to improve the search results of a for-profit company&#x27;s proprietary search engine?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DuckDuckHack: Help us make the web a better place</title><url>http://duckduckhack.com/</url><text></text></story> |
29,388,294 | 29,382,774 | 1 | 2 | 29,382,006 | 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>Eelongate</author><text>&gt; <i>And your mind actually starts filling in the emotional blanks.</i><p>I&#x27;ve listened to numerous books (mostly but not exclusively fiction) using TTS and I&#x27;d like to confirm this experience. It&#x27;s kind of remarkable, once I became accustomed to the sound of the TTS program the weirdness just sort of evaporated and I was left with an experience that feels very similar to reading visually.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JZL003</author><text>For a technical audience, I would look at some TTS (text to speech) programs especially by google and IBM.<p>It&#x27;s definitely robotic and nothing like a nice narrator but audiobooks are amazing regardless. And your mind actually starts filling in the emotional blanks. It can also be really cool to use like internet archive&#x27;s scanned book&#x27;s OCR -&gt; TTS and make an audiobook from a cool old book that would never be professionally narrated<p>And for anyone who listens to a lot of audio, I&#x27;d look into using an audio equalizer. Pulling down the high frequencies (especially for some woman narrators) makes it more comfortable after many hours of listening. On android the &quot;Smart audiobook&quot; app has this and it&#x27;s really nice. Maybe some headphones&#x2F;android phones can do this globally</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Free public domain audiobooks</title><url>https://librivox.org/</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>primaryobjects</author><text>iPhone users can enable Spoken Content.<p>Open an ebook. Swipe down with two fingers. Instant audio book.<p>Also, you can select the Voices option (under Spoken Content) to download high quality Siri voices.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JZL003</author><text>For a technical audience, I would look at some TTS (text to speech) programs especially by google and IBM.<p>It&#x27;s definitely robotic and nothing like a nice narrator but audiobooks are amazing regardless. And your mind actually starts filling in the emotional blanks. It can also be really cool to use like internet archive&#x27;s scanned book&#x27;s OCR -&gt; TTS and make an audiobook from a cool old book that would never be professionally narrated<p>And for anyone who listens to a lot of audio, I&#x27;d look into using an audio equalizer. Pulling down the high frequencies (especially for some woman narrators) makes it more comfortable after many hours of listening. On android the &quot;Smart audiobook&quot; app has this and it&#x27;s really nice. Maybe some headphones&#x2F;android phones can do this globally</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Free public domain audiobooks</title><url>https://librivox.org/</url></story> |
19,693,820 | 19,693,467 | 1 | 2 | 19,692,820 | 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>underrun</author><text>Adrian Colyer dug into this a little further on the morning paper:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.acolyer.org&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;18&#x2F;keeping-master-green-at-scale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.acolyer.org&#x2F;2019&#x2F;04&#x2F;18&#x2F;keeping-master-green-at-...</a><p>His analysis indicates that what uber does as part of its build pipeline is to break up the monorepo into &quot;targets&quot; and for each target create something like a merkle tree (which is basically what git uses to represent commits) and use that information to detect potential conflicts (for multiple commits that would change the same target).<p>what it sounds like to me is that they end up simulating multirepo to enable tests to run on a batch of most likely independent commits in their build system. For multirepo users this is explicit in that this comes for free :-)<p>which is super interesting to me as it seems to indicate that an optimizing CI&#x2F;CD systems requires dealing with all the same issues whether it&#x27;s mono- or multi- repo, and problems solved by your layout result in a different set of problems that need to be resolved in your build system.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Keeping master green at scale</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/research/keeping-master-green-at-scale/</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>huac</author><text>&quot;Based on all possible outcomes of pending changes, SubmitQueue constructs, and continuously updates a speculation graph that uses a probabilistic model, powered by logistic regression. The speculation graph allows SubmitQueue to select builds that are most likely to succeed, and speculatively execute them in parallel&quot;<p>This is either brilliant or just something built for a promotion packet</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Keeping master green at scale</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/research/keeping-master-green-at-scale/</url></story> |
11,500,430 | 11,500,336 | 1 | 2 | 11,500,221 | 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>mjg59</author><text>My first programming job was working in David&#x27;s research group, helping transition Dasher (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;dasher&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;dasher&#x2F;</a>) from a research project into one more generally useful for accessibility purposes. I still feel that that job was perhaps the most useful work I&#x27;ve ever done - I had the opportunity to write code that in some cases literally made it practical for people to communicate, and that (along with David&#x27;s strong views on social responsibility) ended up strongly shaping my perspective on what technology&#x27;s role in society should be.<p>I saw David only rarely after leaving the group to do my PhD, and hadn&#x27;t in years before I saw him at a group reunion last month. I&#x27;m saddened that I passed on so many opportunities to learn more from him.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>David J.C. MacKay, Machine Learning pioneer, dies</title><url>http://itila.blogspot.com/2016/04/appendix-three-correspondence-visitors.html?m=1</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>cannam</author><text>A British scientist and mathematician known for two fine books, both of which are available to read online.<p>&quot;Sustainable Energy - without the hot air&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.withouthotair.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.withouthotair.com&#x2F;</a>) does the sums on sources of sustainable energy, to try to establish whether they present a realistic alternative to fossil fuels. It might make sense to read this as a companion to Bret Victor&#x27;s &quot;What can a technologist do about climate change?&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;ClimateChange&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;ClimateChange&#x2F;</a>), though MacKay&#x27;s book mostly doesn&#x27;t talk about climate change but about fuel exhaustion.<p>&quot;Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;mackay&#x2F;itila&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;mackay&#x2F;itila&#x2F;</a>) is a readable and charming (but mathematical) book that touches on a lot of topics in information theory. A lot of it is over my head, but I most recently referred to it just a couple of weeks ago for its chapters about the mathematics of neural nets, including a chapter given to estimating the information capacity of a single neuron.<p>He was only 48 and had stomach cancer, which he wrote about on his blog (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;itila.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;itila.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;</a>).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>David J.C. MacKay, Machine Learning pioneer, dies</title><url>http://itila.blogspot.com/2016/04/appendix-three-correspondence-visitors.html?m=1</url></story> |
23,784,357 | 23,784,331 | 1 | 3 | 23,781,819 | 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>sratner</author><text>&gt; consider offsets (Z or -0500 etc) required rather than &quot;optional&quot;<p>ISO8601 without an offset is semantically different to one with an offset, it represents a time in local timezone (context-dependent). It isn&#x27;t an &quot;optional&quot; offset in the sense that you can just omit it, it is a fundamentally different data type.<p>Without this distinction, there is no way to specify a local time in ISO8601, which would be highly inconvenient for certain applications. For example, how do you represent an event that occurs at 9am every day <i>regardless of location</i>? After all, dates and times are used for more than just storing absolute timestamps.<p>You are absolutely correct that offsets are also not timezones, which makes the ability to specify local &quot;floating&quot; times even more important (i.e. you can&#x27;t just denormalize the above concept into a list of timestamps with offsets for each timezone you care about, as the offsets will change over time [edit: and tz-&gt;offset conversion is lossy and not reversible]).</text><parent_chain><item><author>WorldMaker</author><text>Almost everything should be capable of parsing and outputting ISO 8601 dates [1] today. About the biggest recommendation that still seems to lacking in documentation is that you should probably consider offsets (Z or -0500 etc) required rather than &quot;optional&quot;, and that you have to remember that offsets are not timezones (and that generally you should store offsets as presented rather than convert between offsets; makes it easier to adjust offsets based on timezones).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ISO_8601" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ISO_8601</a></text></item><item><author>lmkg</author><text>Basically we need Unicode But For Time.<p>These are similar problems: getting a computer-amenable model of something that&#x27;s fundamentally a <i>human</i> phenomenon, and carries multiple centuries and multiple continents of accumulated context, ambiguity, and edge-cases. This is an extremely difficult class of problems, but in the case of text &amp; characters, we managed to finally get a pretty well-functioning and broadly-supported solution after a few decades of gratuitously-incompatible half-solutions. There&#x27;s hope.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see the JavaScript people, the Java people, the PHP people, the Perl people, the Python people, the C people, the C++ people, and the people for every other significant language that supports functions (either directly or as methods on objects) to get together and once and for all agree on how the heck we are supposed to deal with times and dates.<p>Then all of them should implement that in their standard library, so that going forward we&#x27;ve got one sane conceptual time handling system everywhere.<p>I tire of dealing with the quirks of everyone having their own approach.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from TC39</title><url>https://blogs.igalia.com/compilers/2020/06/23/dates-and-times-in-javascript/</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>riquito</author><text>Not every point in time refers to a timezone.
If I write that 1 january 1970 was an eventful date, I can&#x27;t&#x2F;dont want to add a timezone to it. Then you may want to store&#x2F;format times without dates, etc...</text><parent_chain><item><author>WorldMaker</author><text>Almost everything should be capable of parsing and outputting ISO 8601 dates [1] today. About the biggest recommendation that still seems to lacking in documentation is that you should probably consider offsets (Z or -0500 etc) required rather than &quot;optional&quot;, and that you have to remember that offsets are not timezones (and that generally you should store offsets as presented rather than convert between offsets; makes it easier to adjust offsets based on timezones).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ISO_8601" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ISO_8601</a></text></item><item><author>lmkg</author><text>Basically we need Unicode But For Time.<p>These are similar problems: getting a computer-amenable model of something that&#x27;s fundamentally a <i>human</i> phenomenon, and carries multiple centuries and multiple continents of accumulated context, ambiguity, and edge-cases. This is an extremely difficult class of problems, but in the case of text &amp; characters, we managed to finally get a pretty well-functioning and broadly-supported solution after a few decades of gratuitously-incompatible half-solutions. There&#x27;s hope.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see the JavaScript people, the Java people, the PHP people, the Perl people, the Python people, the C people, the C++ people, and the people for every other significant language that supports functions (either directly or as methods on objects) to get together and once and for all agree on how the heck we are supposed to deal with times and dates.<p>Then all of them should implement that in their standard library, so that going forward we&#x27;ve got one sane conceptual time handling system everywhere.<p>I tire of dealing with the quirks of everyone having their own approach.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from TC39</title><url>https://blogs.igalia.com/compilers/2020/06/23/dates-and-times-in-javascript/</url></story> |
35,266,787 | 35,266,641 | 1 | 2 | 35,263,740 | 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>peterbell_nyc</author><text>Presumably the model for sufficiently wealthy countries would be to effectively tax the corporations either based in those countries or that wanted to sell to people in those countries. You then redistribute a subset of that as UBI or some other form of payment for either the subset affected by unemployability or to everyone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>betaby</author><text>Western ideology is mostly about taxing the salaries. While xUSSR was mostly about redistribution of the goods. But then again xUSSR &quot;did&#x27;t work&quot; and capitalism &quot;worked&quot;. How it even possible to reap anything from the automation if tax base is people&#x27;s salaries and VAT?</text></item><item><author>lp4vn</author><text>The scariest thing of all is how the average citizen is in a certain sense not reaping the benefits of automation.<p>You would think that automating your job would make you free to work less. No, of course not, you end up either unemployed or working at least as much as you used to or more.<p>A lot of the comments here on this thread are already pessimistic in relation to the automation because people low key know that in the last decades almost all societal changes have come to the detriment of general population.</text></item><item><author>irrational</author><text>Number 1 is my big concern. I have a son that is on the autism spectrum. He graduated from high school with a modified diploma when he was 20 and they decided to just send him along. He has managed to get a job doing baggage at the airport, which is pretty the limit of his abilities. What if all similar jobs were automated?</text></item><item><author>Hermitian909</author><text>Probably worth calling out the two of the biggest observable negative effects of automation that <i>have</i> occurred over time:<p>1. We&#x27;ve decimated the bottom end of the skills market in developed countries. Something often touted in the psychometrics literature is that the number of jobs for folks with IQ under 85 are quite rare in the US where once they were common. That&#x27;s ~15% of the population who are close to un-employable.<p>2. People who spend years or decades on a skillset see it devalued and their income drops. It is often difficult to get a &quot;second shot&quot; at a new career in your 40s and can be deeply disruptive to you and your family&#x27;s lives. Growing up I watched this happen to the parents of several friends who&#x27;d made careers in things like printing that were obsoleted by digital revolution. None of those people achieved the monetary success they might have in an un-disrupted industry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Robots have been about to take all the jobs for 100 years</title><url>https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/robots-have-been-about-to-take-all</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>bradDonniger</author><text>USSR style communism was really an authoritarian dictatorship.<p>In capitalist west, capitalism was also about distribution of goods but literally being nice about it. Working together.<p>The language is meaningless gibberish. The tone and emotional spin, roleplay are what’s important.<p>In the US we’re enabling iron fisted oligarchs like the USSR once had. Those who refuse to share without extreme deference and idolatry, not because they’re that important to the well being of billions (they’re not) but because they’re important to the political actors that insulate them from taxation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>betaby</author><text>Western ideology is mostly about taxing the salaries. While xUSSR was mostly about redistribution of the goods. But then again xUSSR &quot;did&#x27;t work&quot; and capitalism &quot;worked&quot;. How it even possible to reap anything from the automation if tax base is people&#x27;s salaries and VAT?</text></item><item><author>lp4vn</author><text>The scariest thing of all is how the average citizen is in a certain sense not reaping the benefits of automation.<p>You would think that automating your job would make you free to work less. No, of course not, you end up either unemployed or working at least as much as you used to or more.<p>A lot of the comments here on this thread are already pessimistic in relation to the automation because people low key know that in the last decades almost all societal changes have come to the detriment of general population.</text></item><item><author>irrational</author><text>Number 1 is my big concern. I have a son that is on the autism spectrum. He graduated from high school with a modified diploma when he was 20 and they decided to just send him along. He has managed to get a job doing baggage at the airport, which is pretty the limit of his abilities. What if all similar jobs were automated?</text></item><item><author>Hermitian909</author><text>Probably worth calling out the two of the biggest observable negative effects of automation that <i>have</i> occurred over time:<p>1. We&#x27;ve decimated the bottom end of the skills market in developed countries. Something often touted in the psychometrics literature is that the number of jobs for folks with IQ under 85 are quite rare in the US where once they were common. That&#x27;s ~15% of the population who are close to un-employable.<p>2. People who spend years or decades on a skillset see it devalued and their income drops. It is often difficult to get a &quot;second shot&quot; at a new career in your 40s and can be deeply disruptive to you and your family&#x27;s lives. Growing up I watched this happen to the parents of several friends who&#x27;d made careers in things like printing that were obsoleted by digital revolution. None of those people achieved the monetary success they might have in an un-disrupted industry.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Robots have been about to take all the jobs for 100 years</title><url>https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/robots-have-been-about-to-take-all</url></story> |
19,604,348 | 19,604,303 | 1 | 3 | 19,603,916 | 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>onlydeadheroes</author><text>This is the kind of thinking social media enables. When everyone in your group already agrees with what you say, the standards of thought fall due to lack of challenge.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kingkawn</author><text>I have spent some time studying genetics, and really have no idea what you mean by “Its well known that we humans are genetically more attracted to the negative than the positive for obvious reasons”</text></item><item><author>dagaci</author><text>I&#x27;ve never been much engaged in FB,TW or Instagram or too many Social platforms. But I still have to disagree with Mr Linus, after all where would we be without the Slashdot effect?<p>Social media simply accelerates aspects of what we are as humans. Its well known that we humans are genetically more attracted to the negative than the positive for obvious reasons ... and just to be circular: when was the last time something positive Linus said made the news?<p>So rather than say Social media is an external invading disease i would rather say it is an expression of what makes us human.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Are “A Disease”</title><url>https://futurism.com/the-byte/linux-facebook-instagram-twitter-disease</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>whyever</author><text>This thesis is from psychology, not genetics: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Negativity_bias" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Negativity_bias</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>kingkawn</author><text>I have spent some time studying genetics, and really have no idea what you mean by “Its well known that we humans are genetically more attracted to the negative than the positive for obvious reasons”</text></item><item><author>dagaci</author><text>I&#x27;ve never been much engaged in FB,TW or Instagram or too many Social platforms. But I still have to disagree with Mr Linus, after all where would we be without the Slashdot effect?<p>Social media simply accelerates aspects of what we are as humans. Its well known that we humans are genetically more attracted to the negative than the positive for obvious reasons ... and just to be circular: when was the last time something positive Linus said made the news?<p>So rather than say Social media is an external invading disease i would rather say it is an expression of what makes us human.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Linus: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Are “A Disease”</title><url>https://futurism.com/the-byte/linux-facebook-instagram-twitter-disease</url></story> |
28,505,426 | 28,505,074 | 1 | 2 | 28,503,820 | 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>version_five</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in a few different places, and mostly really only encountered leaf blowers either for some larger scale work like cleaning up leaves on a university campus, or for cleaning debris from parking lots.<p>I&#x27;ve recently moved to an area with single family or attached homes on small lots, and inexplicably, everyone has a leaf blower. Most houses have a driveway and parking area, and about 10 square feet of lawn, but for some reason all the guys are out blowing leaves around... I&#x27;m supposing there must be pockets where culturally that&#x27;s what people do, I certainly don&#x27;t get it</text><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>I’m from europe and i have no idea what a leaf blower is. Our family didn’t have one nor did any family I know of. My family always had a garden with trees, and it was often my chore as a kid to rake the leaves together. Is the leaf blower an alternative to that?<p>Just asking because I want to understand how prevealent this form of polution is where you live.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>There might be better bang for the buck by starting with the more highly polluting things. Other than CO2, things like leaf blowers are _vastly_ worse than cars. Also, excellent electric leaf blowers are widely available and appear (at least at my local Home Depot) to be _less_ expensive than their gas equivalents. I see no reason for a 5-year phaseout — one year ought to be plenty.</text></item><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>I expect pollution to be as much of a driver of the push for electric cars as climate change. It&#x27;s something that affects people directly, immediately and noticeably - it stinks.<p>If I had a vote whether to ban combustion engines from my city (cars, trucks, mopeds, leaf blowers - everything), with a relatively short transition period (say 5 years), I&#x27;d be in favor.<p>It would probably initially drive up prices of goods due to a shortage of electric delivery vehicles or the need to repack everything onto smaller local trucks outside the city, but I think it&#x27;d be worth it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>17B life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards</title><url>https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/09/fossil-fuel-capitalism-is-cutting-our-lives-short</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>kiba</author><text>Yes, it blows leaves. It&#x27;s also quite obnoxiously loud, so there&#x27;s noise pollution as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>I’m from europe and i have no idea what a leaf blower is. Our family didn’t have one nor did any family I know of. My family always had a garden with trees, and it was often my chore as a kid to rake the leaves together. Is the leaf blower an alternative to that?<p>Just asking because I want to understand how prevealent this form of polution is where you live.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>There might be better bang for the buck by starting with the more highly polluting things. Other than CO2, things like leaf blowers are _vastly_ worse than cars. Also, excellent electric leaf blowers are widely available and appear (at least at my local Home Depot) to be _less_ expensive than their gas equivalents. I see no reason for a 5-year phaseout — one year ought to be plenty.</text></item><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>I expect pollution to be as much of a driver of the push for electric cars as climate change. It&#x27;s something that affects people directly, immediately and noticeably - it stinks.<p>If I had a vote whether to ban combustion engines from my city (cars, trucks, mopeds, leaf blowers - everything), with a relatively short transition period (say 5 years), I&#x27;d be in favor.<p>It would probably initially drive up prices of goods due to a shortage of electric delivery vehicles or the need to repack everything onto smaller local trucks outside the city, but I think it&#x27;d be worth it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>17B life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards</title><url>https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/09/fossil-fuel-capitalism-is-cutting-our-lives-short</url></story> |
29,189,991 | 29,186,872 | 1 | 2 | 29,164,495 | 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>cossatot</author><text>When I worked as a bike mechanic in my late teens, we referred to this approach as &#x27;shade tree mechanic work&#x27;. I loved it, because of the creativity involved. However, I grew to have a great respect for the work of other mechanics, who were more interested in taking more pains, ordering the right tool or part if it wasn&#x27;t around, and typically having a somewhat better outcome.<p>I think there is room for both. Definitely during the prototype phase of a project, or on projects where there are very hard time constraints (epoxy is drying, etc.), or when you&#x27;re out in the woods or whatever, working fast and creatively can be most beneficial. However as you transition into the finished product, it&#x27;s often better to do use fresh and appropriate materials, do more QA&#x2F;QC, write a robust test suite, and put a bit of polish on it (especially if it&#x27;s for public consumption).</text><parent_chain><item><author>doctoboggan</author><text>There is something very fulfilling (at least to me) about working this way. Not solving the problem in the best way, but solving it in the way you can _right now_. When I was younger this was how I solved most problems, but in my professional life I can&#x27;t really do that (and for mostly good reasons).<p>I follow someone on YouTube who moved to a small island in Panama, built his house, many boats, and lots of other items by hand using what he has. He is definitely crazy but he personifies this get it done attitude. A few years ago I travelled to Africa to volunteer at a hospital and was tasked with fixing an oxygen machine. I had to channel this YouTuber because there definitely was not the right tools and I definitely needed to get it done. I honestly surprised myself in how I was able to fix it and it was quite fulfilling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How my genius roommate changed my perspective</title><url>https://www.farhadg.com/my-genius-roommate/</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>serg_chernata</author><text>Jamie&#x27;s channel is one of my all time favorites. I love watching him work exactly because of his general attitude toward problem solving and how different it is from mine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>doctoboggan</author><text>There is something very fulfilling (at least to me) about working this way. Not solving the problem in the best way, but solving it in the way you can _right now_. When I was younger this was how I solved most problems, but in my professional life I can&#x27;t really do that (and for mostly good reasons).<p>I follow someone on YouTube who moved to a small island in Panama, built his house, many boats, and lots of other items by hand using what he has. He is definitely crazy but he personifies this get it done attitude. A few years ago I travelled to Africa to volunteer at a hospital and was tasked with fixing an oxygen machine. I had to channel this YouTuber because there definitely was not the right tools and I definitely needed to get it done. I honestly surprised myself in how I was able to fix it and it was quite fulfilling.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How my genius roommate changed my perspective</title><url>https://www.farhadg.com/my-genius-roommate/</url></story> |
25,610,212 | 25,610,216 | 1 | 2 | 25,605,211 | 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>wpietri</author><text>I suspect that abusive behavior is an optimal strategy if you&#x27;re working for abusive people. Organizations tend to be set up such that people like the people in power succeed.<p>Jobs was a notorious jerk [1] [2] [3], so it&#x27;s not surprising that similar behavior is what gets promoted.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.co.uk&#x2F;steve-wozniak-cried-jobs-kept-atari-bonus-267711" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibtimes.co.uk&#x2F;steve-wozniak-cried-jobs-kept-atar...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;memoir-steve-jobs-apos-daughter-133000491.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;memoir-steve-jobs-apos-daughter-1...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;steve-jobs-jerk-2011-10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;steve-jobs-jerk-2011-10</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouse008</author><text>Gosh - I hope that isn’t a prerequisite to greatness?<p>How does someone even get the human and financial capital to run projects like this? I guess your first attempt with the first founding team has to ‘hit.’<p>Otherwise, how can you afford to triple headcount, management, etc?</text></item><item><author>fortran77</author><text>&gt; everyone was merged into another team working on something similar with new management. Meet the new boss same as the old boss<p>I worked for Apple before Jobs died. He&#x27;d frequently have several teams working on the exact same thing, in secret, and then pick the team that met his goals the best. Sometimes the &quot;losers&quot; would be merged into the &quot;winning&quot; team, but never treated well by the winners.</text></item><item><author>GloriousKoji</author><text>I also worked for Apple and I had a very similar experience. Management was brutal and abusive from my immediate manager to all the way up to and including the VP level. For example even though vacation hours were accrued I never got to use them unless I wanted to endure the verbal backlash of abandoning the team and my responsibilities. When the holidays came around the director would email everyone reminding us there&#x27;s a stipend for working through the holidays but in reality it pays less than our normal salary and was a means to justify not taking time off. A variant of Stockholm syndrome made me appreciate the clever design of having a convenient cash out vacation days button.<p>In the end the team was meet with a hostile takeover; everyone was merged into another team working on something similar with new management. Meet the new boss same as the old boss. A good number of people ended up leaving the company shortly after that.<p>One more thing, you can also include me as another data point for getting pay doubled after leaving Apple.</text></item><item><author>exApple-anon</author><text>Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.<p>Unlike others, I actually find this story fairly believable.<p>When I first joined Apple, straight out of college - a good program, top three in the country - I was abused similarly. I joined a team that was on a project behind schedule.<p>Our manager was a brusque, no-nonsense sort of dude. But he clearly had anger problems. On the team were 2 senior engineers, me, and a junior engineer that had just completed his internship and was on a work Visa.<p>As the project got closer to the deadline, and the scope increased, the manager got agitated. In our team meetings, he would start yelling at us. People down the hallways would stare at us with those &quot;looks.&quot; In our 1:1s he told us we might not have a job if our product doesn&#x27;t ship on time (we were competing with another internal team to beat them to the punch.)<p>The two senior engineers decided they&#x27;d had enough and quit the team. The manager told us to work overtime (no overtime pay, but we had to for fear of our job). He promised us that if we did it that we would get a month of vacation on him, and that he could secure it for us.<p>The product released. After countless nights of overtime we did it. Our manager left, our guarantee of a month of vacation evaporated, and for the next three months, us two junior engineers were left on 24&#x2F;7 primary&#x2F;secondary on-call for a critical service. It was a nightmare. Calls at 3 AM, 6 AM, on weekends.<p>Our manager got a promotion and is fairly high up at Apple now.<p>Horrible experience. I left for a new company that pays me nearly double.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Experience at Apple</title><url>https://ex-apple-engineer.medium.com/my-experience-apple-5d8b6205cb56</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>z3t4</author><text>For most larger companies an engineer salary, or any human labour for that matter, is very cheap. FAANG could pay 10x more if they had to, but they don&#x27;t have to because no one else pays more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouse008</author><text>Gosh - I hope that isn’t a prerequisite to greatness?<p>How does someone even get the human and financial capital to run projects like this? I guess your first attempt with the first founding team has to ‘hit.’<p>Otherwise, how can you afford to triple headcount, management, etc?</text></item><item><author>fortran77</author><text>&gt; everyone was merged into another team working on something similar with new management. Meet the new boss same as the old boss<p>I worked for Apple before Jobs died. He&#x27;d frequently have several teams working on the exact same thing, in secret, and then pick the team that met his goals the best. Sometimes the &quot;losers&quot; would be merged into the &quot;winning&quot; team, but never treated well by the winners.</text></item><item><author>GloriousKoji</author><text>I also worked for Apple and I had a very similar experience. Management was brutal and abusive from my immediate manager to all the way up to and including the VP level. For example even though vacation hours were accrued I never got to use them unless I wanted to endure the verbal backlash of abandoning the team and my responsibilities. When the holidays came around the director would email everyone reminding us there&#x27;s a stipend for working through the holidays but in reality it pays less than our normal salary and was a means to justify not taking time off. A variant of Stockholm syndrome made me appreciate the clever design of having a convenient cash out vacation days button.<p>In the end the team was meet with a hostile takeover; everyone was merged into another team working on something similar with new management. Meet the new boss same as the old boss. A good number of people ended up leaving the company shortly after that.<p>One more thing, you can also include me as another data point for getting pay doubled after leaving Apple.</text></item><item><author>exApple-anon</author><text>Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.<p>Unlike others, I actually find this story fairly believable.<p>When I first joined Apple, straight out of college - a good program, top three in the country - I was abused similarly. I joined a team that was on a project behind schedule.<p>Our manager was a brusque, no-nonsense sort of dude. But he clearly had anger problems. On the team were 2 senior engineers, me, and a junior engineer that had just completed his internship and was on a work Visa.<p>As the project got closer to the deadline, and the scope increased, the manager got agitated. In our team meetings, he would start yelling at us. People down the hallways would stare at us with those &quot;looks.&quot; In our 1:1s he told us we might not have a job if our product doesn&#x27;t ship on time (we were competing with another internal team to beat them to the punch.)<p>The two senior engineers decided they&#x27;d had enough and quit the team. The manager told us to work overtime (no overtime pay, but we had to for fear of our job). He promised us that if we did it that we would get a month of vacation on him, and that he could secure it for us.<p>The product released. After countless nights of overtime we did it. Our manager left, our guarantee of a month of vacation evaporated, and for the next three months, us two junior engineers were left on 24&#x2F;7 primary&#x2F;secondary on-call for a critical service. It was a nightmare. Calls at 3 AM, 6 AM, on weekends.<p>Our manager got a promotion and is fairly high up at Apple now.<p>Horrible experience. I left for a new company that pays me nearly double.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My Experience at Apple</title><url>https://ex-apple-engineer.medium.com/my-experience-apple-5d8b6205cb56</url></story> |
14,362,168 | 14,360,652 | 1 | 2 | 14,357,379 | 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>austenallred</author><text>It&#x27;s not just about the signaling, it&#x27;s about very practical realities that come to light when you need to <i>use</i> that equity. If I were an investor and I saw 33% of shares with a former co-founder I&#x27;d walk immediately. If I were an investor that saw 33% of shares with a former co-founder and then 25% gone in an initial $500k raise I would run, not walk.<p>There&#x27;s just not enough equity left to incentivize, create an options pool, hire, raise future rounds, etc. It is a <i>Huge</i> red flag, and the likelihood of success decreases dramatically.<p>I tried to raise once with 28% of the company being gone from our seed round, and it was a major, major concern. If this company ever needed to raise again, they&#x27;d be dead in the water. Therefore, the founder ends up with 33% of nothing instead of, say, 5-10% of something, and it&#x27;s in his or her own best interest to take a smaller piece.<p>Now 5%? Maybe 10%? That stings, but at least it leaves the company something to work with.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anovikov</author><text>If i was an investor, i&#x27;d see it as a red flag indeed. I&#x27;d think: &#x27;so this guy left the boat being a founder, giving up most of his share, so probably he knows that the company is going to tank and don&#x27;t want to waste his time anymore, and he definitely knows a lot more about it than i could potentially know being an outside guy&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>nealbozeman</author><text>Investors will not see his 10% ownership as a red flag any more than they will see a non participating investor owning 25% of the business as a red flag. In this case, he&#x2F;she delivered 18 months of value that led to a 1.5mm pre money val.<p>The most fair option is already mentioned - to maintain your 33% that makes all three of the founders equal as of today, and then allocate a new share allotment to dilute you out over a new specified vesting period.<p>If you want to show future investors good will, ask to maintain a seat on the board.</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>If you had done this the Right Way from the beginning you would have had a vesting agreement that specified what would happen in a case like this. A typical vesting agreement would have vested your stock over a 48-month period, so after 18 months you would have vested 33% x 18&#x2F;48 = 12.375%. So 10% is not unreasonable.<p>However: having 10% of the company owned by a non-particiapting founder is a big red flag for many investors, and would be a significant obstacle to the company&#x27;s success. So you might want to consider settling for significantly less than 10% simply because you may end up making more money in the long run. 10% of zero is still zero. If I were setting up a company today I would have a back-loaded vesting schedule: 10% the first year, 20% the second, 30% the third year and 40% the fourth year. On this schedule, your share at 18 months would have been 4.95%. If I were you, I would offer to take that.<p>If you&#x27;re raising $500k for 25% of the company, that means you think that the company is worth $1.5M now (because the company now plus the $500k would be worth $2M). So your share on a flat vesting schedule is about $180k, on the back-loaded schedule it would be about $74k. If you want to cash out you should offer to sell for significantly less than those numbers because you want everyone to think they&#x27;ve gotten a good deal. You never know when you&#x27;ll want to do business with someone again in the future. A reputation for being reasonable is worth a lot more than $180k.<p>You need to decide what you&#x27;re doing <i>before</i> you approach investors because you need to achieve clarity on what you&#x27;re selling them: is this a company with three founders, or a company with two founders and one ex-founder (and is the ex-founder willing to sell and if so for how much)?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How to leave a startup when you own a third of it?</title><text>I&#x27;m leaving a startup I founded due to disagreements over team&#x2F;strategy. I worked on it for about 16 months.<p>We are 3 co founders and we have 33&#x2F;33&#x2F;33.<p>I want to quit it in 2 months and we are currently in the process to raise 500K for 25% before the end of the year.<p>Is it reasonable for me to keep 10% of it. - They think it&#x27;s way too much.<p>Sell to them 10% right now - How much??<p>Sell 13% of it after the 500k raised - How much??<p>Thanks!</text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>empath75</author><text>Or you might think that he got in over his head and decided to step aside and let the other guys manage the business.</text><parent_chain><item><author>anovikov</author><text>If i was an investor, i&#x27;d see it as a red flag indeed. I&#x27;d think: &#x27;so this guy left the boat being a founder, giving up most of his share, so probably he knows that the company is going to tank and don&#x27;t want to waste his time anymore, and he definitely knows a lot more about it than i could potentially know being an outside guy&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>nealbozeman</author><text>Investors will not see his 10% ownership as a red flag any more than they will see a non participating investor owning 25% of the business as a red flag. In this case, he&#x2F;she delivered 18 months of value that led to a 1.5mm pre money val.<p>The most fair option is already mentioned - to maintain your 33% that makes all three of the founders equal as of today, and then allocate a new share allotment to dilute you out over a new specified vesting period.<p>If you want to show future investors good will, ask to maintain a seat on the board.</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>If you had done this the Right Way from the beginning you would have had a vesting agreement that specified what would happen in a case like this. A typical vesting agreement would have vested your stock over a 48-month period, so after 18 months you would have vested 33% x 18&#x2F;48 = 12.375%. So 10% is not unreasonable.<p>However: having 10% of the company owned by a non-particiapting founder is a big red flag for many investors, and would be a significant obstacle to the company&#x27;s success. So you might want to consider settling for significantly less than 10% simply because you may end up making more money in the long run. 10% of zero is still zero. If I were setting up a company today I would have a back-loaded vesting schedule: 10% the first year, 20% the second, 30% the third year and 40% the fourth year. On this schedule, your share at 18 months would have been 4.95%. If I were you, I would offer to take that.<p>If you&#x27;re raising $500k for 25% of the company, that means you think that the company is worth $1.5M now (because the company now plus the $500k would be worth $2M). So your share on a flat vesting schedule is about $180k, on the back-loaded schedule it would be about $74k. If you want to cash out you should offer to sell for significantly less than those numbers because you want everyone to think they&#x27;ve gotten a good deal. You never know when you&#x27;ll want to do business with someone again in the future. A reputation for being reasonable is worth a lot more than $180k.<p>You need to decide what you&#x27;re doing <i>before</i> you approach investors because you need to achieve clarity on what you&#x27;re selling them: is this a company with three founders, or a company with two founders and one ex-founder (and is the ex-founder willing to sell and if so for how much)?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How to leave a startup when you own a third of it?</title><text>I&#x27;m leaving a startup I founded due to disagreements over team&#x2F;strategy. I worked on it for about 16 months.<p>We are 3 co founders and we have 33&#x2F;33&#x2F;33.<p>I want to quit it in 2 months and we are currently in the process to raise 500K for 25% before the end of the year.<p>Is it reasonable for me to keep 10% of it. - They think it&#x27;s way too much.<p>Sell to them 10% right now - How much??<p>Sell 13% of it after the 500k raised - How much??<p>Thanks!</text></story> |
10,117,232 | 10,116,925 | 1 | 2 | 10,116,604 | 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>randomwalker</author><text>I&#x27;m the instructor of an upcoming Coursera course [1]. A couple of observations from my point of view:<p>* I wish there were a way to fund online education through philanthropy&#x2F;donations. Coursera being for-profit leaves a bit of a bad taste in the mouth. At a practical level, it complicates what images I can use in my lectures and qualify as fair use.<p>* After several years the site is <i>far</i> from being at a point where an instructor can log on and upload content. The interface is constantly changing, confusing, and buggy. My university has a dedicated team who help out instructors with putting their material online and even they are often confused about how to edit this or upload that.<p>Overall I&#x27;m glad that Coursera exists and is finding a revenue stream; my own undergraduate education would have been vastly different if I&#x27;d had access to the material that&#x27;s available today.<p>[1] Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency technologies <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;bitcointech" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;bitcointech</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In</title><url>http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/as-coursera-evolves-colleges-stay-on-and-investors-buy-in/57267</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>tboyd47</author><text>&gt; The company has created a series of courses that add up to mini-degrees that students can earn quickly, and pay a small fee to certify that they successfully completed them. “It’s mostly people in their 20s and 30s who are interested in learning more skills and making themselves prepared for better jobs,” said Mr. Levin.<p>Has anyone else noticed that since this recent pivot, the quality of Coursera&#x27;s classes have declined?<p>I recently tried a course hosted on Coursera from an Ivy League school, as part of a business &quot;specialization&quot; that consists of 4 classes at $90 each. The class was 4 weeks long and was taught by 3 different professors. The only material provided was a series of video lectures (10-20 5-minute lectures per professor) and a smattering of blog posts and news articles for optional reading.<p>There was some discussion in the forums that the lectures seemed to jump around, and didn&#x27;t cover all the material represented in the final exam. Some previous students were guessing that the gaps in instruction were because the course used to be 9 weeks long before they started charging for it.<p>I enjoyed the class but didn&#x27;t feel like I got my money&#x27;s worth. In the end I decided I could get more value by just buying and reading books on business development on my own.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In</title><url>http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/as-coursera-evolves-colleges-stay-on-and-investors-buy-in/57267</url></story> |
30,232,317 | 30,230,349 | 1 | 3 | 30,230,198 | 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>zubspace</author><text>A few days ago I tried 1.1.1 after a long absence on windows. I don&#x27;t want to rain on your parade, but to be honest, it was a miserable experience.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong: Inkscape is huge, it&#x27;s quite an achievement and I&#x27;m glad we got an open source vector app. But everything feels so strange and awkward to use. And when you get further with your project, the input lag gets out of hand. Path effects and filters are cool, but the UI feels... Just strange. And they add even more lag to everything.<p>Oh and there&#x27;s also the random crash now and then...<p>The exporting side could use some love too. You need to fallback to the commandline to export all layers or groups for example. But it&#x27;s really cumbersome. And for some reason you can&#x27;t even disable anti-aliased edges and it cuts of filters. Oh well...<p>Unfortunately I don&#x27;t have enough time to contribute, sorry. Bought Affinity Designer this week and immediately fell in love. Everything just works, the UI is well thought out and it&#x27;s snappy.<p>I don&#x27;t know: I love open source. For example Blender or Gimp are great and improved massively over the years. We need something like Inkscape, but the current state simply doesn&#x27;t cut it for me, sorry.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inkscape 1.1.2</title><url>https://inkscape.org/release/1.1.2/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grenoire</author><text>I am having some serious slowdown issues since 1.* on Win 10, so I&#x27;m stuck on 0.92.<p>I have no qualms with it, but the issue plagues all my Win 10 machines and I just wonder what&#x27;s going on, and if I&#x27;m a select minority with it.<p>Besides that, thanks Inkscape for being such an incredibly useful vector tool!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inkscape 1.1.2</title><url>https://inkscape.org/release/1.1.2/</url></story> |
9,749,561 | 9,749,169 | 1 | 3 | 9,749,117 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AriaMinaei</author><text>This could work not just for donating blood, but for pretty much any kind of service.<p>Imagine if you could see, in real time, how your job affects other people&#x27;s lives, even in the most mundane way. It would let you see the value of what you do, and give you a reason to do it better.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blood donors in Sweden get a text message when their blood saves someone's life</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/blood-donors-in-sweden-get-a-text-message-whenever-someone-is-helped-with-their-blood-10310101.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>anigbrowl</author><text>What a genius idea to raise awareness. This seems like a no-brainer for blood banks, hospitals, public health and so on.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blood donors in Sweden get a text message when their blood saves someone's life</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/blood-donors-in-sweden-get-a-text-message-whenever-someone-is-helped-with-their-blood-10310101.html</url></story> |
12,997,715 | 12,997,674 | 1 | 3 | 12,996,835 | 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>lucaspiller</author><text>That&#x27;s not really the point - other manufactures make laptops that are much more powerful than Apple. The ThinkPad P50 can be configured with a Xeon, 4K display and 64GB RAM for nearly the same price as the base 15&quot; MacBook Pro.<p>Ok maybe it doesn&#x27;t have all day battery life - but most people, especially people who want &quot;Pro&quot; hardware, probably only need a few hours max.<p>I&#x27;ve had an Air for two years, and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever been in a situation where I&#x27;ve used the full battery - all international flights and trains I&#x27;ve been on have had power sockets, so I can charge on the go. Plus thanks to USB-C, you can use a power bank to charge your laptop if you need more power:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3028132&#x2F;consumer-electronics&#x2F;best-usb-c-battery-pack-review.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3028132&#x2F;consumer-electronics...</a><p>Apple is no longer giving consumers a choice, before there was the MacBook (old one) if you wanted a more-affordable entry level machine, the Air if you needed ok performance but great portability, and the Pro if you wanted performance in a laptop package.<p>Now everything is lumped together with portability as the #1 priority. If Apple had just launched this as a new version of the Air I don&#x27;t think anyone would be complaining so much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nicky0</author><text>If you need huge power why are you trying to do it in a laptop?</text></item><item><author>coderdude</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what they&#x27;re optimizing for. If they had some bad ass machine that wasn&#x27;t the thinnest machine in existence I&#x27;d still buy it. I own a pro and an air from the last generation and I think they suck. Give me something worth the bucks and tack on a few millimeters to make it happen. I absolutely will not pay for their current trajectory of lackluster stats and a small physical footprint. I need better. If that means bigger, they should get over it and deliver.</text></item><item><author>mantis369</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the imperatives to make the machine thinner and increase battery life.<p>I would have paid for a 32 or even 64 GB model, but instead I&#x27;m going to delay my upgrade for 6-8 months so that I can see if something better than the new MBP comes along.<p>I am of the opinion that a Pro machine does not need to be the thinnest available model.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM</title><url>https://macdaddy.io/macbook-pro-limited-16gb-ram/</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>sadfsdfsadfsd</author><text>Because we have to take our work with us? To meetings, to workspaces, etc. And, we&#x27;re willing to pay a premium for high power, high portability.<p>I could probably go buy a big workstation&#x2F;gaming style pc laptop, but I&#x27;d rather pay more for a lightweight model.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nicky0</author><text>If you need huge power why are you trying to do it in a laptop?</text></item><item><author>coderdude</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what they&#x27;re optimizing for. If they had some bad ass machine that wasn&#x27;t the thinnest machine in existence I&#x27;d still buy it. I own a pro and an air from the last generation and I think they suck. Give me something worth the bucks and tack on a few millimeters to make it happen. I absolutely will not pay for their current trajectory of lackluster stats and a small physical footprint. I need better. If that means bigger, they should get over it and deliver.</text></item><item><author>mantis369</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the imperatives to make the machine thinner and increase battery life.<p>I would have paid for a 32 or even 64 GB model, but instead I&#x27;m going to delay my upgrade for 6-8 months so that I can see if something better than the new MBP comes along.<p>I am of the opinion that a Pro machine does not need to be the thinnest available model.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM</title><url>https://macdaddy.io/macbook-pro-limited-16gb-ram/</url></story> |
1,478,483 | 1,478,207 | 1 | 3 | 1,477,915 | 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>That isn't actually what the author claims. Lots of other animals masturbate, and the author admits that monkeys are certainly prone to it. What he claims makes humans unusual is the we masturbate <i>to orgasm</i>.<p>Incidentally you chose fairly poor examples for animal homosexuality. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals</a> for a list of other examples you could use. For instance I prefer to cite giraffes (9 out of 10 sexual encounters are homosexual) and black swans (1/4 preferentially homosexual).</text><parent_chain><item><author>adbge</author><text>Note that the author doesn't claim that humans are the only species who masturbates, but rather that humans masturbate the most often. The author goes on to speculate that this is because humans have the ability to fantasize, though I think the claims that humans masturbate more than any other animal and that chimps are unable to fantasize dubious.<p>If you found this article interesting (or amusing, as it very well may be), you may want to check out the Wikipedia page on the Bonobo ape, one of the few species that have been observed to participate in oral sex. Primatologist Frans de Waal described the Bonobo as "the erotic champions of the world."[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo</a>]<p>Another fun fact: homosexual behavior has been well documented in both the Bonobo and koalas, an interesting counterpoint to fundamentalists claims that homosexuality isn't natural. :) [<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/strewth-australia-rocked-by-lesbian-koala-revelation-437806.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/strewth-...</a>]<p>Further reading: [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour</a>]<p>And a graphic video of a monkey masturbating with a frog (because, after all, this is the internet): [<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwegzhXAqaQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwegzhXAqaQ</a>]</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=one-reason-why-humans-are-special-a-2010-06-22</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>username3</author><text>&#62; <i>Another fun fact: homosexual behavior has been well documented in both the Bonobo and koalas, an interesting counterpoint to fundamentalists claims that homosexuality isn't natural. :)</i><p>You didn't mention some things from your link like, <i>The furry, eucalyptus-eating creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when they are in captivity. In the wild, they remain heterosexual.</i><p>What's natural about captivity?</text><parent_chain><item><author>adbge</author><text>Note that the author doesn't claim that humans are the only species who masturbates, but rather that humans masturbate the most often. The author goes on to speculate that this is because humans have the ability to fantasize, though I think the claims that humans masturbate more than any other animal and that chimps are unable to fantasize dubious.<p>If you found this article interesting (or amusing, as it very well may be), you may want to check out the Wikipedia page on the Bonobo ape, one of the few species that have been observed to participate in oral sex. Primatologist Frans de Waal described the Bonobo as "the erotic champions of the world."[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo</a>]<p>Another fun fact: homosexual behavior has been well documented in both the Bonobo and koalas, an interesting counterpoint to fundamentalists claims that homosexuality isn't natural. :) [<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/strewth-australia-rocked-by-lesbian-koala-revelation-437806.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/strewth-...</a>]<p>Further reading: [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour</a>]<p>And a graphic video of a monkey masturbating with a frog (because, after all, this is the internet): [<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwegzhXAqaQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwegzhXAqaQ</a>]</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=one-reason-why-humans-are-special-a-2010-06-22</url></story> |
20,220,633 | 20,220,176 | 1 | 2 | 20,204,409 | 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>rossy</author><text>It would be great to have native support in CSS for aligning text and block elements to a baseline grid (without having to fudge it with margins and padding.) I think the latest draft spec for this is CSS Line Grid[1], and it&#x27;s severely underrated. With people these days doing most of their reading on the web, it&#x27;s crazy that the web doesn&#x27;t support what would be a basic layout mode in any desktop publisher.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drafts.csswg.org&#x2F;css-line-grid-1&#x2F;#intro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drafts.csswg.org&#x2F;css-line-grid-1&#x2F;#intro</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Baseline Grid</title><url>https://observablehq.com/@gianordoli/baseline-grid</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>ryanhefner</author><text>Nice! I actually just released a Chrome extension that makes it really easy to render a grid–that includes a baseline grid–over any site. I hope others find this as useful as I have.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;grids-by-color-sets&#x2F;ohmjbldcfanjibdmbfpdlffhagjedobb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;grids-by-color-set...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Baseline Grid</title><url>https://observablehq.com/@gianordoli/baseline-grid</url></story> |
29,566,428 | 29,563,901 | 1 | 2 | 29,562,238 | 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>zionic</author><text>People talk a lot about a lot of things when it comes to energy production, but in terms of what actually happens the largest factor is $&#x2F;MW in terms of new capacity in the expected timeframe. That economic force dominates all.<p>As a provider I (they) want x GW of new capacity, and will chose whatever costs the lowest amount to get that capacity. Solar is getting so cheap now that overbuilding is an entirely viable option. This is why renewables are getting built over new coal plants, the environmental benefits are just a marketing bonus.<p>As Engineers&#x2F;scientists our job is to innovate and get the costs of the &quot;correct&quot; decision low enough that the economic forces take over and steer humanity towards the best outcome.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gibolt</author><text>The follow-up to this article would discuss the effects of falling costs on accelerating the transition.<p>Massive battery installations plus solar are already cheaper than operating an *existing* natural gas peaker plant in California. Batteries that are 50% cheaper will make that true across the U.S. That could happen by 2025 if Tesla&#x27;s new battery process is successful.<p>Battery installations&#x27; faster response to grid demand also means they can quickly undercut remaining operating non-baseline usage, making the most polluting plants even less economically viable.<p>Excess storage in EVs and batteries will allow flattening the duck curve to rely even more on efficient baseload and shift renewable energy production to times of demand.<p>Things are going to go into overdrive faster than nearly all predictions... but still not fast enough for net zero :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why battery costs have plunged since 2010</title><url>https://fullstackeconomics.com/untitled-2/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>There was a recent paper that discussed this and said the transition is now inevitable due to economics and maybe always has been, but lots of forecasts were linear in their assumptions.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inet.ox.ac.uk&#x2F;files&#x2F;energy_transition_paper-INET-working-paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inet.ox.ac.uk&#x2F;files&#x2F;energy_transition_paper-INET...</a><p>&gt; Rapidly decarbonising the global energy system is critical for addressing climate change,
but concerns about costs have been a barrier to implementation. Most energy-economy
models have historically underestimated deployment rates for renewable energy tech-
nologies and overestimated their costs1,2,3,4,5,6. The problems with these models have
stimulated calls for better approaches7,8,9,10,11,12 and recent e↵orts have made progress in
this direction13,14,15,16. Here we take a new approach based on probabilistic cost fore-
casting methods that made reliable predictions when they were empirically tested on
more than 50 technologies17,18. We use these methods to estimate future energy system
costs and find that, compared to continuing with a fossil-fuel-based system, a rapid green
energy transition will likely result in overall net savings of many trillions of dollars -
even without accounting for climate damages or co-benefits of climate policy. We show
that if solar photovoltaics, wind, batteries and hydrogen electrolyzers continue to follow
their current exponentially increasing deployment trends for another decade, we achieve
a near-net-zero emissions energy system within twenty-five years. In contrast, a slower
transition (which involves deployment growth trends that are lower than current rates)
is more expensive and a nuclear driven transition is far more expensive. If non-energy
sources of carbon emissions such as agriculture are brought under control, our analysis
indicates that a rapid green energy transition would likely generate considerable eco-
nomic savings while also meeting the 1.5 degrees Paris Agreement target.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gibolt</author><text>The follow-up to this article would discuss the effects of falling costs on accelerating the transition.<p>Massive battery installations plus solar are already cheaper than operating an *existing* natural gas peaker plant in California. Batteries that are 50% cheaper will make that true across the U.S. That could happen by 2025 if Tesla&#x27;s new battery process is successful.<p>Battery installations&#x27; faster response to grid demand also means they can quickly undercut remaining operating non-baseline usage, making the most polluting plants even less economically viable.<p>Excess storage in EVs and batteries will allow flattening the duck curve to rely even more on efficient baseload and shift renewable energy production to times of demand.<p>Things are going to go into overdrive faster than nearly all predictions... but still not fast enough for net zero :(</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why battery costs have plunged since 2010</title><url>https://fullstackeconomics.com/untitled-2/</url></story> |
8,343,987 | 8,343,777 | 1 | 2 | 8,343,283 | 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>bdonlan</author><text>IANAL either, but as I read it, if you sue facebook the patent license just goes away. It&#x27;s essentially the same at that point as if they hadn&#x27;t mentioned anything at all. So you&#x27;re either getting something (a conditional license for the patents) at no direct cost to you, or you&#x27;re getting nothing and losing nothing - how is that a raw deal?<p>These patent grants are commonly used by companies who gather patent portfolios as a means of patent mutually assured destruction. The goal is to ensure that they will never be sued for patent infringement by making sure they have a broad enough patent portfolio to always be able to countersue.<p>Now, if you want to use this and retain the ability to safely sue facebook, you could always negotiate a separate, irrevocable patent license. This is what you would need to do (that, or ignore any potential patents and hope you&#x27;re not sued) in the absence of such a grant in the first place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>objclxt</author><text>This seems - and I&#x27;m not a lawyer and could be totally misreading it - to be a really raw deal, in the sense that in exchange for using the software you&#x27;re agreeing to not just sue, but even assert in any way that Facebook infringes upon <i>any</i> patent of yours (or anyone else&#x27;s, for that matter).<p>Does &quot;any patent&quot; include design patents? Because that seems like a really terrible thing to agree to. Say I&#x27;m a company looking to use this library: do I really want to be bound by a license which will be revoked if I ever sue, or even claim publicly that any division of Facebook - because that&#x27;s what I take &quot;affiliate&quot; to mean - has infringed upon any patent, be it hardware, software, design...<p>Or am I just misreading this?</text></item><item><author>readerrrr</author><text>PATENTS<p><i>Additional Grant of Patent Rights<p>“Software” means the Rift DK1 Firmware distributed by Oculus VR, Inc.
Oculus hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive,
irrevocable (subject to the termination provision below) license under any rights
in any patent claims owned by Oculus, to make, have made, use, sell, offer to
sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Software. For avoidance of doubt, no
license is granted under Oculus’s rights in any patent claims that are infringed
by (i) modifications to the Software made by you or a third party, or (ii) the
Software in combination with any software or other technology provided by you
or a third party.<p>The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice,
for anyone that makes any claim (including by filing any lawsuit, assertion or other
action) alleging (a) direct, indirect, or contributory infringement or inducement
to infringe any patent: (i) by Oculus or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates,
whether or not such claim is related to the Software, (ii) by any party if such
claim arises in whole or in part from any software, product or service of Oculus
or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, whether or not such claim is related
to the Software, or (iii) by any party relating to the Software; or (b) that
any right in any patent claim of Oculus is invalid or unenforceable.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oculus Rift Development Kit 1</title><url>https://github.com/OculusVR/RiftDK1</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>nknighthb</author><text>You could say it&#x27;s a raw deal if you think patents should exist. If like me, you don&#x27;t, then you could say it doesn&#x27;t go nearly far enough, and should instead terminate all rights to both the patents and the copyrighted work if you attempt to assert any patent against anyone, anywhere.</text><parent_chain><item><author>objclxt</author><text>This seems - and I&#x27;m not a lawyer and could be totally misreading it - to be a really raw deal, in the sense that in exchange for using the software you&#x27;re agreeing to not just sue, but even assert in any way that Facebook infringes upon <i>any</i> patent of yours (or anyone else&#x27;s, for that matter).<p>Does &quot;any patent&quot; include design patents? Because that seems like a really terrible thing to agree to. Say I&#x27;m a company looking to use this library: do I really want to be bound by a license which will be revoked if I ever sue, or even claim publicly that any division of Facebook - because that&#x27;s what I take &quot;affiliate&quot; to mean - has infringed upon any patent, be it hardware, software, design...<p>Or am I just misreading this?</text></item><item><author>readerrrr</author><text>PATENTS<p><i>Additional Grant of Patent Rights<p>“Software” means the Rift DK1 Firmware distributed by Oculus VR, Inc.
Oculus hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive,
irrevocable (subject to the termination provision below) license under any rights
in any patent claims owned by Oculus, to make, have made, use, sell, offer to
sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Software. For avoidance of doubt, no
license is granted under Oculus’s rights in any patent claims that are infringed
by (i) modifications to the Software made by you or a third party, or (ii) the
Software in combination with any software or other technology provided by you
or a third party.<p>The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice,
for anyone that makes any claim (including by filing any lawsuit, assertion or other
action) alleging (a) direct, indirect, or contributory infringement or inducement
to infringe any patent: (i) by Oculus or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates,
whether or not such claim is related to the Software, (ii) by any party if such
claim arises in whole or in part from any software, product or service of Oculus
or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, whether or not such claim is related
to the Software, or (iii) by any party relating to the Software; or (b) that
any right in any patent claim of Oculus is invalid or unenforceable.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oculus Rift Development Kit 1</title><url>https://github.com/OculusVR/RiftDK1</url></story> |
2,534,003 | 2,534,004 | 1 | 2 | 2,533,873 | 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>JacobAldridge</author><text>When eBay sold Skype (the first time), a lot of the commentary was along the lines of 'of course they never integrated it - get two people talking and the first thing they will do is agree to sell at a reduced price to avoid the eBay commission'.<p>So when the OP says "It makes us wonder why the startup didn’t release the feature sooner" my immediate thought is: if I knew a friend of a friend had a spare room available, I'd be communicating through Facebook to arrange it for cheaper (or, if they're good enough friends, free) rather than through Airbnb.<p>Now, the connection for Airbnb isn't as direct as with eBay - I would need to go through the friend, and that adds time and drama. Maybe the Airbnb team are confident that that extra hassle will outweigh any sly users of the system; or maybe they're just super confident that adding social validation to their potentially risky business [1] will drive customers in droves, so a few sly users really don't matter [2].<p>[1] Potentially risky in that paying to sleep in someone's spare room (or even a private apartment) is a riskier travel proposition than paying to stay at the Hilton, or even a reputable Hostel.<p>[2] And, to be fair, they're probably the users you don't want anyway.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends</title><url>http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/airbnb-social-connections/</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>meterplech</author><text>I think this is the killer feature for Airbnb. I have loved the idea of the service, but haven't used it because of the slight creepiness worry (perhaps unfounded, but I think common). I know I'd feel comfortable staying with friends-of-friends though. I bet this is a huge draw for many news users for Airbnb.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends</title><url>http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/airbnb-social-connections/</url></story> |
6,986,159 | 6,986,306 | 1 | 2 | 6,985,717 | 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>pionar</author><text>&gt; Would people flip out if there was a bill proposed to require all guns in the US to have a GPS tracker?<p>As a gun control advocate who also owns guns, yes, I would flip the f<i></i>* out. While I have no problem if the government knows I own a gun (they know I own a car), Putting a GPS tracker on it would result in two things:<p>1. The government would know where I am at all times (I carry my Kahr CM-9 everywhere that allows it).
2. Criminals would just remove the tracker.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dm2</author><text>Moral of the story? Police and federal agents must be more transparent and accountable for their actions and expenditures.<p>The whole concept of &quot;spend money so that our budget doesn&#x27;t shrink next year&quot; has go to be fixed also. I don&#x27;t know a solution other than having more auditors and efficiency experts (GAO, gao.gov).<p>Would people flip out if there was a bill proposed to require all guns in the US to have a GPS tracker? Just an idea, I know it wouldn&#x27;t fix all gun problems, but it might be prevent some gun thefts and murders. Of course, this data shouldn&#x27;t be able to be accessed without a warrant.<p>Stings are slightly unfair and can sometimes catch dumb people who wouldn&#x27;t otherwise commit the crime. On the other hand, if you purchase a gun without a license or attempt to hire a contract killer and it turns out to be a police officer you are in contact with, then that sting just save a life, which is good.<p>Preventing abuses of power is key. There should be adequate training at organizations on how and where to report abuses of power or potentially unethical behavior. Most of this is already in place, obviously more resources and oversight is needed constantly to ensure that the police are protecting citizens and not entrapping them or abusing their power for career advancement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation</title><url>http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/atf-uses-rogue-tactics-in-storefront-stings-across-the-nation-b99146765z1-234916641.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>cschneid</author><text><p><pre><code> Would people flip out if there was a bill proposed to require all guns in the US to have a GPS tracker?
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Ohh god yes, they would. I live in Colorado, and 2 of our state reps got recalled when the democrats limited clip size to 15, and required more background checks on purchase.<p>That restriction got people so angry that they did mid-term recalls. Not even just waiting till next election.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dm2</author><text>Moral of the story? Police and federal agents must be more transparent and accountable for their actions and expenditures.<p>The whole concept of &quot;spend money so that our budget doesn&#x27;t shrink next year&quot; has go to be fixed also. I don&#x27;t know a solution other than having more auditors and efficiency experts (GAO, gao.gov).<p>Would people flip out if there was a bill proposed to require all guns in the US to have a GPS tracker? Just an idea, I know it wouldn&#x27;t fix all gun problems, but it might be prevent some gun thefts and murders. Of course, this data shouldn&#x27;t be able to be accessed without a warrant.<p>Stings are slightly unfair and can sometimes catch dumb people who wouldn&#x27;t otherwise commit the crime. On the other hand, if you purchase a gun without a license or attempt to hire a contract killer and it turns out to be a police officer you are in contact with, then that sting just save a life, which is good.<p>Preventing abuses of power is key. There should be adequate training at organizations on how and where to report abuses of power or potentially unethical behavior. Most of this is already in place, obviously more resources and oversight is needed constantly to ensure that the police are protecting citizens and not entrapping them or abusing their power for career advancement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation</title><url>http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/atf-uses-rogue-tactics-in-storefront-stings-across-the-nation-b99146765z1-234916641.html</url></story> |
1,784,130 | 1,784,094 | 1 | 2 | 1,783,788 | 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>sethg</author><text>If you’re straight, and you’re the sort of man who treats every woman he encounters as little more than a potential sexual conquest, then the thought of another man treating <i>you</i> in that way is a little scary. Reflecting on this emotional reaction, you can either say “gosh, maybe a lot of women get creeped out by the way I treat them, and I should adjust my behavior” or “gosh, I want gay men to be as far away from me as possible”. Alas, many people in this situation take the second option.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>The basis for homophobia being that straight men are scared that gay men might be out to sleep with them has always struck me as odd.<p>Extrapolating from my experience with women (only a tiny minority find me attractive), why would I think that all gay men want to have sex with me?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OkTrends: Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex</title><url>http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/gay-sex-vs-straight-sex/</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>cynicalkane</author><text>Don't extrapolate from your experience with women... extrapolate from your experience with men. Men are far less choosy about who they would sleep with, given the opportunity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>The basis for homophobia being that straight men are scared that gay men might be out to sleep with them has always struck me as odd.<p>Extrapolating from my experience with women (only a tiny minority find me attractive), why would I think that all gay men want to have sex with me?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OkTrends: Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex</title><url>http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/gay-sex-vs-straight-sex/</url></story> |
9,699,644 | 9,698,630 | 1 | 3 | 9,698,404 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gjm11</author><text>While we&#x27;re discussing making Tarsnap more user-friendly:<p>The single reason (other than, er, fecklessness on my part) why I haven&#x27;t tried Tarsnap is that it seems difficult to predict how much using Tarsnap would actually cost me. I would need to know (1) how much space my data will take up after compression and deduplication, and (2) how much bandwidth my incremental backups will need -- again, after compression and deduplication.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t It Be Nice If there were a &quot;predict my Tarsnap costs&quot; tool? You download it and point it at your data. It compresses it and identifies duplicated blocks, and says &quot;You would initially be storing about 25 GB of data on the Tarsnap servers, which will cost you about $6.70 per month.&quot; It records a bunch of hashes. Then, a little later, you run it again. It identifies changed blocks and compresses the differences (or something), and says &quot;If you do an incremental update like this, you will transfer about 2GB of data, which will cost you about $0.54.&quot; With, each time, a disclaimer: &quot;This is only a crude estimate and if you think Tarsnap, Inc., will be in any way bound by it then you&#x27;re out of your mind.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure whether this is a thing that any random third-party person could write, or whether getting the numbers right would require information about exactly what happens on the Tarsnap servers that only Colin has. Perhaps the answer is that doing it <i>right</i> requires secret information, but doing it <i>well enough</i> (e.g., getting within 20%, 95% of the time) is easy with some naive algorithm like &quot;divide everything into 4kB blocks, hash them all, identify duplicates, compress individual unique blocks with gzip; do the same for incremental updates but ignore blocks whose hash hasn&#x27;t changed&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m curious: is this a factor stopping other people signing up with Tarsnap? Is it perhaps only a factor for cheapskate individuals like me, and not for the larger organizations that probably represent most of Tarsnap&#x27;s profits?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tarsnap GUI for the desktop</title><url>http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg01123.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>4lun</author><text>Screenshots here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Tarsnap&#x2F;tarsnap-gui&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tarsnap#screenshots" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Tarsnap&#x2F;tarsnap-gui&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tarsnap#screensh...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tarsnap GUI for the desktop</title><url>http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg01123.html</url></story> |
25,054,431 | 25,051,351 | 1 | 2 | 25,048,455 | 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>refurb</author><text>When I switched jobs a few years back, I intentionally took a 6 week break between roles. My new manager wanted me to start right away, but I pushed back and said &quot;no&quot;. This was after working a job that had me doing 60-80 hr weeks for months on end.<p>I set it up so I had zero obligations at the start - no vacations planned, no &quot;to do&quot; lists. I would get up in the morning and ask myself &quot;what do I need to get done today?&quot; and the answer was &quot;nothing&quot;. It was really glorious.<p>After a couple weeks of doing whatever I wanted - reading, going for a walk, meeting a friend for coffee, I felt my background anxiety level had diminished a lot. Then I started into the phase of &quot;what do I want to get done before I start working again&quot;. None of it was &quot;must do&quot;, but rather cleaning up the garden, fixing the car, taking care of financial paperwork. The next few weeks felt incredibly low pressure and highly productive.<p>It&#x27;s a great way to get into a healthy mindset, at least for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>echelon</author><text>I just want a no-pay sabbatical. Three months, total reset of energy levels.<p>We should all have that option.<p>I would take a lot less money (-$50k or more) if I got to take a quarter off every year.<p>Four day work weeks would be another compelling alternative. Two days a week are not enough time to get chores done. There&#x27;s no time for relaxing.<p>If I ever create a company, I&#x27;d love to offer these options.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle</title><url>https://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/12451_ENG_HTML.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>nprz</author><text>I was laid off near the tail end of a very stressful, deadline driven project and it actually came as a huge relief. Luckily I had money saved and took my time (about 3 months) looking for the next job. Was also given 2 months severance, so I didn&#x27;t even end up losing much income. By end of my time off I was getting bored and happy to be working on something new. Highly recommended.</text><parent_chain><item><author>echelon</author><text>I just want a no-pay sabbatical. Three months, total reset of energy levels.<p>We should all have that option.<p>I would take a lot less money (-$50k or more) if I got to take a quarter off every year.<p>Four day work weeks would be another compelling alternative. Two days a week are not enough time to get chores done. There&#x27;s no time for relaxing.<p>If I ever create a company, I&#x27;d love to offer these options.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle</title><url>https://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/12451_ENG_HTML.php</url></story> |
30,359,062 | 30,359,095 | 1 | 2 | 30,358,179 | 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>modo_mario</author><text>&gt;limited window of opportunity to take action<p>Things like permafrost melting and releasing more methane?</text><parent_chain><item><author>gyulai</author><text>I really don&#x27;t think we should call the &quot;environmental crisis&quot; a &quot;crisis&quot;.<p>For example, smoking probably causes more deaths than Covid. So, while it may be perfectly true that things like smoking and pollution are bigger public health issues than Covid, we never spoke of a &quot;smoking crisis&quot;, and justifiably so.<p>The thing that makes a crisis into a crisis is that it&#x27;s highly discrete in time and there is a temporally very limited window of opportunity to take action. This is true of Covid, but it&#x27;s not true of smoking or pollution.<p>A politican speaking of a climate &quot;crisis&quot; is engaging in the same psychological manipulation tactic as a radio commercial telling you to &quot;act now on this limited-time offer&quot;, or a used-car salesman telling you that you have to buy that car right now, because this other guy definitely just called and is now on his way to the lot, and will likely buy the car you&#x27;re interested in as soon as you leave the lot.</text></item><item><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>Wow 9 million a year die prematurely. The environmental crisis is manifold: we have the destruction of species and habitats, the global warming problem, and now also just trash - overuse of plastics is a huge problem, air pollution is pretty terrible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pollution causing more deaths than Covid, action needed, U.N. expert says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/pollution-causing-more-deaths-than-covid-action-needed-un-expert-says-2022-02-15/</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>palae</author><text>&gt; The thing that makes a crisis into a crisis is that it&#x27;s highly discrete in time and there is a temporally very limited window of opportunity to take action.<p>That is your definition, but not necessarily the one meant by others. From Merriam-Webster (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;dictionary&#x2F;crisis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;dictionary&#x2F;crisis</a>):<p>&quot;Essential Meaning of crisis
: a difficult or dangerous situation that needs serious attention&quot;<p>[...] Definition 3b: &quot;a situation that has reached a critical phase &#x2F;&#x2F; the environmental crisis&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>gyulai</author><text>I really don&#x27;t think we should call the &quot;environmental crisis&quot; a &quot;crisis&quot;.<p>For example, smoking probably causes more deaths than Covid. So, while it may be perfectly true that things like smoking and pollution are bigger public health issues than Covid, we never spoke of a &quot;smoking crisis&quot;, and justifiably so.<p>The thing that makes a crisis into a crisis is that it&#x27;s highly discrete in time and there is a temporally very limited window of opportunity to take action. This is true of Covid, but it&#x27;s not true of smoking or pollution.<p>A politican speaking of a climate &quot;crisis&quot; is engaging in the same psychological manipulation tactic as a radio commercial telling you to &quot;act now on this limited-time offer&quot;, or a used-car salesman telling you that you have to buy that car right now, because this other guy definitely just called and is now on his way to the lot, and will likely buy the car you&#x27;re interested in as soon as you leave the lot.</text></item><item><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>Wow 9 million a year die prematurely. The environmental crisis is manifold: we have the destruction of species and habitats, the global warming problem, and now also just trash - overuse of plastics is a huge problem, air pollution is pretty terrible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pollution causing more deaths than Covid, action needed, U.N. expert says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/pollution-causing-more-deaths-than-covid-action-needed-un-expert-says-2022-02-15/</url></story> |
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