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41,100,854 | 41,100,519 | 1 | 2 | 41,097,241 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>I&#x27;ve literally added Pandas to some of my projects just so I could use a DataFrame to print a nicely formatted table instead of writing code like this.<p>Surely there&#x27;s a library out there to do this job, it seems like such a common use-case. I&#x27;m surprised it&#x27;s not in the standard library to be honest!</text><parent_chain><item><author>bheadmaster</author><text>&gt; # turns out that the most difficult problem in computer science is aligning things<p>&gt; # this one function looks simple but it took so fucking long<p>Heh. I can&#x27;t count how many times I&#x27;ve written a column-aligning functions in various programming languages, and each time it is a pain. And it sounds simple in my head - just get max-length of each column, and add spaces up to the next multiple of tab-size.<p>But even in Python with f-strings and all the fancy padding stuff it has, it is ends up a convoluted, unreadable mess:<p><pre><code> # randomwordgenerator.com
table = [
[&#x27;agony&#x27;, &#x27;kick&#x27;, &#x27;pump&#x27;],
[&#x27;frown&#x27;, &#x27;lonely&#x27;, &#x27;mutation&#x27;],
[&#x27;sail&#x27;, &#x27;tasty&#x27;, &#x27;want&#x27;],
]
tab_width = 4
n_rows, n_cols = len(table), len(table[0])
max_width = [
max(len(table[r][c]) for r in range(n_rows))
for c in range(n_cols)
]
for r in range(n_rows):
for c in range(n_cols):
item = table[r][c]
if c == n_cols - 1:
# do not print space after last item
print(item)
else:
# only print newline after last item
# EDIT: found a bug here after commenting...
# width = int(((max_width[c] + 1) &#x2F; tab_width) * tab_width)
width = ((max_width[c] &#x2F;&#x2F; tab_width) + 1) * tab_width
print(f&#x27;{item:&lt;{width}}&#x27;, end=&#x27;&#x27;)
</code></pre>
Even while writing this code for the comment for the hundredth time, I&#x27;ve had to fix at least 5 bugs! Truly horrible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ps aux written in bash without forking</title><url>https://github.com/izabera/ps</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>liveoneggs</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perldoc.perl.org&#x2F;perlform" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perldoc.perl.org&#x2F;perlform</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bheadmaster</author><text>&gt; # turns out that the most difficult problem in computer science is aligning things<p>&gt; # this one function looks simple but it took so fucking long<p>Heh. I can&#x27;t count how many times I&#x27;ve written a column-aligning functions in various programming languages, and each time it is a pain. And it sounds simple in my head - just get max-length of each column, and add spaces up to the next multiple of tab-size.<p>But even in Python with f-strings and all the fancy padding stuff it has, it is ends up a convoluted, unreadable mess:<p><pre><code> # randomwordgenerator.com
table = [
[&#x27;agony&#x27;, &#x27;kick&#x27;, &#x27;pump&#x27;],
[&#x27;frown&#x27;, &#x27;lonely&#x27;, &#x27;mutation&#x27;],
[&#x27;sail&#x27;, &#x27;tasty&#x27;, &#x27;want&#x27;],
]
tab_width = 4
n_rows, n_cols = len(table), len(table[0])
max_width = [
max(len(table[r][c]) for r in range(n_rows))
for c in range(n_cols)
]
for r in range(n_rows):
for c in range(n_cols):
item = table[r][c]
if c == n_cols - 1:
# do not print space after last item
print(item)
else:
# only print newline after last item
# EDIT: found a bug here after commenting...
# width = int(((max_width[c] + 1) &#x2F; tab_width) * tab_width)
width = ((max_width[c] &#x2F;&#x2F; tab_width) + 1) * tab_width
print(f&#x27;{item:&lt;{width}}&#x27;, end=&#x27;&#x27;)
</code></pre>
Even while writing this code for the comment for the hundredth time, I&#x27;ve had to fix at least 5 bugs! Truly horrible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ps aux written in bash without forking</title><url>https://github.com/izabera/ps</url></story> |
27,859,100 | 27,858,707 | 1 | 2 | 27,858,013 | train | <instructions>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>Really dumb question while I&#x27;m trying to decide whether to use something like git vs. CRDTs to handle version control for user changes made in an app I&#x27;m working on: why do we even use git anymore for source code version control if we want behavior like this?<p>Nobody likes merge conflicts. We all want versioning. So long as we have versions at all why isn&#x27;t the ideal interface for developing in teams something more like editing in Google docs? Why aren&#x27;t we just doing that? Why are we still using systems that produce merge conflicts?<p>Hoping for insight from folks who have either done this themselves or looked into it.<p>Edit: one particularly nice feature of Google docs over Confluence is that in Google docs I can suggest changes that is somewhat akin to branches with git. I don&#x27;t need to force my change through without review. This isn&#x27;t a natural part of CRDTs, but it sounds like the nicest source control system might be CRDTs plus branches?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: MergeQueue (YC S21) – Automate rebasing and merging for your codebase</title><text>Hi HN, we’re Spriha and Ankit, founders of MergeQueue (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mergequeue.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mergequeue.com&#x2F;</a>). We enable automatic merges for your Github Pull Requests, based on configurable rules you can set for each repo. These automated merges ensure you never have failing builds on master&#x2F;main and save time on rebasing your feature branches.<p>If you have a monorepo where a big engineering team is regularly merging changes, the stability of the main branch degrades considerably. This happens because more engineers working on the same codebase introduce incompatible changes, causing builds to break even though their commits pass independently. Here’s an example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mergequeue.com&#x2F;managing-github-merges-for-high-output-engineering&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mergequeue.com&#x2F;managing-github-merges-for-high-...</a>.<p>Github has a setting to restrict branches to be up to date before merging, but turning on that setting ends up forcing a rebase-athon within the team. This results in wasted time, and all too often, a stressful scramble to figure out what changes broke the build.<p>We had this problem in our previous company where we looked for a solution to automate the process. We found this paper [1] published by Uber to manage monorepos at scale and we built a lightweight version of that internally. It immediately eliminated the overhead of keeping builds healthy. After that, we decided to build a public version to save others from re-inventing the wheel.<p>We spoke to engineers at Airbnb, Stripe, Uber, Shopify, Quora and other large companies who have internally built similar tools, but teams who need such tools the most often don’t have the bandwidth to dedicate developers to building and maintaining them.<p>MergeQueue (MQ) is a FIFO queue of Pull Requests (PRs) that works as a Github app. To use MQ as a developer, instead of merging manually, you just add a Github Label “mergequeue” to the PR. MQ then takes care of the rest: it sequentially updates or rebases the branch, monitors the configured CI checks and eventually merges the changes. If the checks fail, it will dequeue the PR, add comments describing the reason and move to the next one. For high output teams, MQ also offers batch mode to run CI in parallel batches.
If you’d like to learn more, there’s a lot more here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mergequeue.com&#x2F;documentation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mergequeue.com&#x2F;documentation</a>.<p>Currently, we are also piloting a way to manage “flaky” (i.e. unreliable) tests through MQ. This integrates with your CI provider (we currently support CircleCI), analyses test results and flags the tests that fail inconsistently. When flaky tests are identified, MQ reruns the test depending on the configuration set.<p>We charge by usage in an organization, so for instance if your organization has 100 developers but only 20 of them use MQ, only those 20 will be billed. You can sign up for a free 14 day trial without a credit card. We also support single tenant or on-prem deployments, have webhooks to connect to your other apps, offer multi-queue support, and are SOC2 certified!<p>We’d love for you to try MergeQueue and give us any feedback you have. If you&#x27;ve used something similar in the past, we&#x27;re also curious to learn what problems you faced so we&#x27;re better prepared for them ourselves :)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;keeping-master-green-at-scale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;keeping-master-green-at-scale&#x2F;</a> - discussed at the time: <i>Keeping master green at scale</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19692820" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19692820</a> - April 2019 (115 comments)</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>h3mb3</author><text>How does this compare to Bors NG?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bors-ng&#x2F;bors-ng" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bors-ng&#x2F;bors-ng</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Launch HN: MergeQueue (YC S21) – Automate rebasing and merging for your codebase</title><text>Hi HN, we’re Spriha and Ankit, founders of MergeQueue (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mergequeue.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mergequeue.com&#x2F;</a>). We enable automatic merges for your Github Pull Requests, based on configurable rules you can set for each repo. These automated merges ensure you never have failing builds on master&#x2F;main and save time on rebasing your feature branches.<p>If you have a monorepo where a big engineering team is regularly merging changes, the stability of the main branch degrades considerably. This happens because more engineers working on the same codebase introduce incompatible changes, causing builds to break even though their commits pass independently. Here’s an example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mergequeue.com&#x2F;managing-github-merges-for-high-output-engineering&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mergequeue.com&#x2F;managing-github-merges-for-high-...</a>.<p>Github has a setting to restrict branches to be up to date before merging, but turning on that setting ends up forcing a rebase-athon within the team. This results in wasted time, and all too often, a stressful scramble to figure out what changes broke the build.<p>We had this problem in our previous company where we looked for a solution to automate the process. We found this paper [1] published by Uber to manage monorepos at scale and we built a lightweight version of that internally. It immediately eliminated the overhead of keeping builds healthy. After that, we decided to build a public version to save others from re-inventing the wheel.<p>We spoke to engineers at Airbnb, Stripe, Uber, Shopify, Quora and other large companies who have internally built similar tools, but teams who need such tools the most often don’t have the bandwidth to dedicate developers to building and maintaining them.<p>MergeQueue (MQ) is a FIFO queue of Pull Requests (PRs) that works as a Github app. To use MQ as a developer, instead of merging manually, you just add a Github Label “mergequeue” to the PR. MQ then takes care of the rest: it sequentially updates or rebases the branch, monitors the configured CI checks and eventually merges the changes. If the checks fail, it will dequeue the PR, add comments describing the reason and move to the next one. For high output teams, MQ also offers batch mode to run CI in parallel batches.
If you’d like to learn more, there’s a lot more here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mergequeue.com&#x2F;documentation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mergequeue.com&#x2F;documentation</a>.<p>Currently, we are also piloting a way to manage “flaky” (i.e. unreliable) tests through MQ. This integrates with your CI provider (we currently support CircleCI), analyses test results and flags the tests that fail inconsistently. When flaky tests are identified, MQ reruns the test depending on the configuration set.<p>We charge by usage in an organization, so for instance if your organization has 100 developers but only 20 of them use MQ, only those 20 will be billed. You can sign up for a free 14 day trial without a credit card. We also support single tenant or on-prem deployments, have webhooks to connect to your other apps, offer multi-queue support, and are SOC2 certified!<p>We’d love for you to try MergeQueue and give us any feedback you have. If you&#x27;ve used something similar in the past, we&#x27;re also curious to learn what problems you faced so we&#x27;re better prepared for them ourselves :)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;keeping-master-green-at-scale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;keeping-master-green-at-scale&#x2F;</a> - discussed at the time: <i>Keeping master green at scale</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19692820" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19692820</a> - April 2019 (115 comments)</text></story> |
27,105,291 | 27,105,243 | 1 | 3 | 27,104,695 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>segfaultbuserr</author><text>A better link is the research paper:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2105.02124" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2105.02124</a><p>&gt; The universal Turing machine is generally considered to be the simplest, most abstract model of a computer. This paper reports on the discovery of an accidental arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Marvin Minsky&#x27;s 1967 implementation of the universal Turing machine. By submitting crafted data, the machine may be coerced into executing user-provided code. The article presents the discovered vulnerability in detail and discusses its potential implications. To the best of our knowledge, an arbitrary code execution vulnerability has not previously been reported for such a simple system.<p>&gt; A common strategy for understanding a problem is to reduce it to its minimal form. In the field of computer security,we may ask the question: &quot;What is the simplest system exploitable to arbitrary code execution?&quot; In this article, we pro-pose an answer to that question by reporting on the discovery that a well-established implementation of the universal Turing machine is vulnerable to a both unintentional and non-trivial form of arbitrary code execution.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CVE-2021-32471 – Input validation in Marvin Minsky 1967 Turing Machine</title><url>https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32471</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avibhu</author><text>&gt; NOTE: the discoverer states &quot;this vulnerability has no real-world implications.&quot;<p>Not sure if declaring this is standard practice, but I had a good laugh.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CVE-2021-32471 – Input validation in Marvin Minsky 1967 Turing Machine</title><url>https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32471</url></story> |
9,546,263 | 9,546,174 | 1 | 2 | 9,545,647 | train | <instructions>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>Yes, it really is that complicated. It&#x27;s quite elegant in its way. If you start from the proposition that you don&#x27;t want exceptions, you don&#x27;t want Null, everything is strongly typed, error types are not hierarchical, and functional programming with lambdas is reasonable within sequential code, this is where you end up. It&#x27;s logical, but not fun.<p>I wrote an RSS reader in Rust, and all the code required to compose all the error types (I&#x2F;O, HTTP, XML, RSS, date formats) into a custom error type is as bulky as the modest amount of code that does the useful work. That&#x27;s not a good thing. Having to write all that error handling code up front is going to be a big problem for the Agile crowd. This may be a major drag on Rust adoption.<p>All this error machinery is in Rust to avoid exceptions. That may have been a mistake. Exceptions have the good property that they can&#x27;t be ignored - if they&#x27;re not handled, you get a reasonable program termination. If there&#x27;s a reasonable exception hierarchy, you can catch an exception near the root of the tree and get all subsidiary exceptions. (It took three major revisions of exception handling before Python got that right, but it finally did.) Rust doesn&#x27;t have an error hierarchy like that; you can&#x27;t just check for &quot;RuntimeError&quot; or &quot;EnvironmentError&quot; and get all the more detailed errors. You have to combine error types yourself, as the article shows.<p>I really want Rust to succeed, but I think they took a wrong turn with error handling.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Error handling in Rust</title><url>http://blog.burntsushi.net/rust-error-handling/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>One of the reasons I&#x27;m really excited for stability is that people can start to write things like this, knowing that the effort is worth it, as it won&#x27;t suddenly stop working tomorrow.<p>Next week, burntsushi and I are going to talk about rolling this into the official documentation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Error handling in Rust</title><url>http://blog.burntsushi.net/rust-error-handling/</url></story> |
19,747,957 | 19,746,836 | 1 | 2 | 19,741,408 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdeisenberg</author><text>I have never liked the “make a sandwich” task. It sets people up for failure, because the teacher can always take things literally enough to make the student wrong. (For example, when given the instructions: &quot;Take out two slices of bread&quot;, the teacher can rip open the side of the plastic bag rather than use the opening.) Some students end up with the feeling of “If I can’t even explain how to make a sandwich, how will I ever be able to tell a computer to do anything?”<p>Here’s an exercise (not sure where I discovered it) that I use at the community college level: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=meSK1rn2VbA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=meSK1rn2VbA</a> It has the same elements of analyzing a problem, breaking it into steps, and making sure they’re in the right order; but it’s set up for students to succeed.<p>This exercise is very effective when you put the students in groups of two or three to work on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>srirangr</author><text>1. Tell them what to do but do not tell them how to do it. (Just give a few pointers otherwise they&#x27;ll be lost.)<p>2. Give them a playground to fail - Offload any non-business critical tasks and let them make mistakes. No one I know ever learnt programming without making any mistakes. Immediately tell them about best practices and how to avoid such mistakes in future.<p>3. Show them the impact of their work - There&#x27;s nothing more motivating than seeing the impact of one&#x27;s work.<p>4. Build curiosity - Answer as many questions as you can answer. Admit when you don&#x27;t know any answers and start looking it up on the web right in front of them. People pick habits by looking at their superiors.<p>If it&#x27;s absolute beginning to programming, this video is a great way to show how difficult it is to teach a machine to do something and how clear instructions can help get things done: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cDA3_5982h8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cDA3_5982h8</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How to Teach Coding?</title><text>I finally did it and I get my first Trainee.<p>I already teached coding to internships for a few weeks. But this time I have three years to share my knowledge and grow with him.<p>I already checked methods and stuff online like pair programming, visualization of data flows ect.<p>But what I would love to know is, what has worked for you guys on both sides. Sharing knowledge and get trained.<p>I want to be the best mentor I can be and I want to proof that this is a thing I can do good and continue doing it the next years of my career.<p>So, what helped you to train others or receiving knowledge?</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>GlennS</author><text>I actually think step (1) isn&#x27;t a good way to start unless the pupil has some prior knowledge.<p>Many (most?) people don&#x27;t have know how to take a big problem and turn it into something they can make progress on.<p>You give them the lego bricks and say &#x27;make me a windmill&#x27; and they don&#x27;t have the first clue where to start. They may not even understand that programming is lego.<p>So, you either have to teach that first. Or, if you want to teach it later, start with a sequence of problems that have one obvious step each.<p>Some good approaches to attacking a problem too big to be obvious:<p>1. Break it into smaller and smaller pieces, then implement those pieces.<p>2. Bite off a small piece that you think you can do, then grow that.<p>3. Write down everything about it then think very hard about what are the essential characteristics of a solution.</text><parent_chain><item><author>srirangr</author><text>1. Tell them what to do but do not tell them how to do it. (Just give a few pointers otherwise they&#x27;ll be lost.)<p>2. Give them a playground to fail - Offload any non-business critical tasks and let them make mistakes. No one I know ever learnt programming without making any mistakes. Immediately tell them about best practices and how to avoid such mistakes in future.<p>3. Show them the impact of their work - There&#x27;s nothing more motivating than seeing the impact of one&#x27;s work.<p>4. Build curiosity - Answer as many questions as you can answer. Admit when you don&#x27;t know any answers and start looking it up on the web right in front of them. People pick habits by looking at their superiors.<p>If it&#x27;s absolute beginning to programming, this video is a great way to show how difficult it is to teach a machine to do something and how clear instructions can help get things done: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cDA3_5982h8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cDA3_5982h8</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How to Teach Coding?</title><text>I finally did it and I get my first Trainee.<p>I already teached coding to internships for a few weeks. But this time I have three years to share my knowledge and grow with him.<p>I already checked methods and stuff online like pair programming, visualization of data flows ect.<p>But what I would love to know is, what has worked for you guys on both sides. Sharing knowledge and get trained.<p>I want to be the best mentor I can be and I want to proof that this is a thing I can do good and continue doing it the next years of my career.<p>So, what helped you to train others or receiving knowledge?</text></story> |
35,955,662 | 35,955,488 | 1 | 2 | 35,954,208 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>It&#x27;s funny, flu shots can make you feel sick. That&#x27;s your body reacting and your immune system adjusting.<p>But compared to <i>actually getting the flu</i>, you get to skip the part where the disease eats at your organs and rips through your body destroying things.<p>So yes, you may feel sick after a flu shot. But I consider the alternative makes it worthwhile.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>I was hit hard by my first covid booster, and every traditional flu shot I&#x27;ve ever had has made me as sick as I&#x27;ve been from the flu itself (which is why I don&#x27;t get flu shots anymore).<p>I wonder if an mRNA flu shot would be twice as bad, or better, in terms of impact on my health?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins</title><url>https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/clinical-trial-mrna-universal-influenza-vaccine-candidate-begins</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>valianteffort</author><text>I got covid in early 2021, and got the J&amp;J shot at the end of the year. In both cases I had a fever, except the J&amp;J lasted two days vs actual covid that lasted one. I have not been sick with covid since then.<p>I have never had a flu shot, and also never had the flu in over thirty years. I just don&#x27;t see why I should get myself sick to risk not getting sick(er)? Anytime I mention this people call me antivax.<p>I was never skeptical about taking shots until the way the government handled covid. There is no chance I will take something that hasn&#x27;t been thoroughly tested and proven to actually work the way our standard immunization schedule does.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>I was hit hard by my first covid booster, and every traditional flu shot I&#x27;ve ever had has made me as sick as I&#x27;ve been from the flu itself (which is why I don&#x27;t get flu shots anymore).<p>I wonder if an mRNA flu shot would be twice as bad, or better, in terms of impact on my health?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins</title><url>https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/clinical-trial-mrna-universal-influenza-vaccine-candidate-begins</url></story> |
28,758,741 | 28,758,779 | 1 | 2 | 28,757,882 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mc32</author><text>This is a sad state of affairs where one can&#x27;t even have a meta discussion about a topic without having to tip toe around ill-defined lines.<p>In the long run, this has the potential to turn people how want to stay out of politics and draw them in out of necessity, or they may also be cowed into something they disagree with to protect their livelihood.<p>In either case, it&#x27;s not a good thing that one may not seek science in academia. The thing that got us to where we are. Without science and inquisitiveness, even into controversial subjects (many normal things were at one time controversial) we would not be where we are today.<p>This is being undermined by dogmaticism and we can only hope science prevails.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me</title><url>https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>57844743385</author><text>What people haven’t grasped yet is you can’t fight the mob.<p>There’s no recourse, no appeal, no tribunal, no council of wise learned people you can go to when the mob sets out to destroy you.<p>You’re just simply fucked and have to accept you’ve been cancelled, your reputation is ruined and you’re “out”.<p>That’s all there is to it and no-one has come up with a solution.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me</title><url>https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me</url></story> |
17,166,811 | 17,166,585 | 1 | 2 | 17,165,483 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jpatokal</author><text>&quot;Dangling salaries of 10 million yen&quot;, or about $91k. The fact that this is considered unusually high tells you all you need to know about engineering salaries in Japan. (And yes, IT salaries are in the same ballpark.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toshiba’s loss of star engineer tells tale of company's decline</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Toshiba-in-Turmoil/Toshiba-s-loss-of-star-engineer-tells-tale-of-company-s-decline</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lettergram</author><text>It&#x27;s really not much better in the U.S. or elsewhere. I believe it was Nokia which had a patent program where it was a $500 bonus per patent. Meaning, even if you invented something - that was your bonus.<p>In my current role we have a similar program, beyond the relatively small bonus I think the only benefit is bragging rights. Patenting or inventing something means little to superiors. Large companies focus on the short term stategic initiatives, often being unable to capitalize on long term or even short term opportunities. That&#x27;s why more nimble startups are more effective.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toshiba’s loss of star engineer tells tale of company's decline</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Toshiba-in-Turmoil/Toshiba-s-loss-of-star-engineer-tells-tale-of-company-s-decline</url></story> |
39,101,142 | 39,100,245 | 1 | 2 | 39,098,803 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lloeki</author><text>It mostly comes from the intentional design of open classes, thus the namespace organisation is fundamentally decoupled from the filesystem: any Ruby file has to be able to contain any class&#x2F;module, otherwise one can&#x27;t add to an open class&#x2F;module†!<p>There are a bunch of issues about this upstream about this, e.g: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.ruby-lang.org&#x2F;issues&#x2F;14982" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.ruby-lang.org&#x2F;issues&#x2F;14982</a><p>My exploratory take on it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lloeki&#x2F;package-ruby">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lloeki&#x2F;package-ruby</a><p>I&#x27;m currently drafting a proposal and planning to open another one, more focused on a specific aspect and a different angle, and thus with a couple of comparative PoCs that&#x27;ll be a bit different from my above exploratory attempt.<p>† ... via `class` and `module` keywords, as one could always include&#x2F;extend&#x2F;prepend or use `module_eval`&#x2F;`class_eval`&#x2F;`instance_eval`.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; textual requires and module system could’ve been much cleaner<p>This irritated me a lot when I was a ruby programmer. Ruby&#x27;s require is analogous to C&#x27;s #include: modules are just files that get evaluated in order to add stuff to a global interpreter state.<p>It got to the point I went around asking people on IRC what they thought the perfect module system looked like. Studied long forgotten languages to see how they did it. To this day I&#x27;m obsessed with this. I feel like it&#x27;s one of those things you just <i>have</i> to get right since day one because it&#x27;s gonna be impossible to change it later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The end of "Useless Ruby sugar": On intuitions and evolutions</title><url>https://zverok.substack.com/p/the-end-of-useless-ruby-sugar-on</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dexwiz</author><text>JavaScript’s modules only changed because the toolchain rapidly iterated several times over the course of a decade. Most languages don’t see this kind of churn. Even then the migration is at best partial.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; textual requires and module system could’ve been much cleaner<p>This irritated me a lot when I was a ruby programmer. Ruby&#x27;s require is analogous to C&#x27;s #include: modules are just files that get evaluated in order to add stuff to a global interpreter state.<p>It got to the point I went around asking people on IRC what they thought the perfect module system looked like. Studied long forgotten languages to see how they did it. To this day I&#x27;m obsessed with this. I feel like it&#x27;s one of those things you just <i>have</i> to get right since day one because it&#x27;s gonna be impossible to change it later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The end of "Useless Ruby sugar": On intuitions and evolutions</title><url>https://zverok.substack.com/p/the-end-of-useless-ruby-sugar-on</url></story> |
4,284,369 | 4,283,387 | 1 | 2 | 4,280,175 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rimantas</author><text><p><pre><code> &#62; 2 extra frameworks (backbone and underscore),
</code></pre>
Neither backbone nor underscore are frameworks. First is just some skeleton structure, second is just a lib of useful functions. When writing larger applications you are likely to reinvent both. Badly.<p>&#62; in addition to still needing jQuery<p>I swapped jQuery to Zepto in the middle of the development of the project without problems. Sure, they are intended to be compatible, but anyway.<p><pre><code> &#62; Backbone is so needlessly open-ended and directionless that a dev who doesn't
&#62; already know how to write good code will just write worse code.
</code></pre>
And a developer who does know how to write a good code can use backbone instead of writing they own version.<p><pre><code> &#62; The other technique I use for modules to talk to each other is sheerly through event
&#62; signatures. If you have a login module, it can emit events like "loggedin" or
&#62; "loggedout". Any other module can subscribe to those events and do their own thing,
&#62; without interfering with others, etc.
&#62; This pattern works very well and is a hell of a lot more usable than anything I've
&#62; ever been able to do with Backbone.
</code></pre>
Funny, but I am doing the second with Backbone. I have Backbone events in views and global events wherever I need them. And I use Backbone.Events for that too.<p><pre><code> &#62; Coffeescript is not JavaScript. It's another annoying abstraction.
</code></pre>
No, it is another way to write JavaScript. So pleasant that after I wile you sigh when you have to write plain Javascript again.<p><pre><code> &#62; Get back to basics, learn how to structure your code,
</code></pre>
Good advice.<p><pre><code> &#62; and just get some fucking work done.
</code></pre>
And Backbone will help with this a lot.
Some people just hate anything popular. Things can be popular for various reasons. Being damn good for the task is one of them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>geuis</author><text>This is an excellent tutorial. It's also an excellent lesson in why you should stay away from frameworks like Backbone.<p>(To declare, I have written large apps with Backbone, so I'm not entirely talking from my ass.)<p>You've gone from a simple, succinct, and easily understood set of code to something that now relies on 2 extra frameworks (backbone and underscore), in addition to still needing jQuery. You've had to incorporate several layers of abstraction (views, cloning events) to simply do what was originally done in a few lines.<p>I know what the appeal of something like Backbone is. You think that adding in all this abstraction will make it easier to maintain your product. I will even agree that to an extent, it does.<p>However, a big problem is that the people that already care about organizing their code well, already do so. Backbone is so needlessly open-ended and directionless that a dev who doesn't already know how to write good code will just write worse code.<p>When I first learned Python, it was enlightening. Here was a language that says, "This is the right way to do it". It got rid of the baggage of other languages and got to business. Backbone is definitely not that for JavaScript development.<p>Backbone gives you so much rope to hang yourself with, and with so little sense of how things should properly fit together, that it's like wandering around a desert for days on end with a noose on your neck, until you fall into a deep enough hole and die.<p>I prefer to write my code so that there is an overall architecture, usually with a modular pattern when possible. Anything that needs to happen code-wise for a particular module is all contained within that code block and nothing else. That code is more or less like what was originally posted, where all the things that matter for that module are done in that module.<p>The other technique I use for modules to talk to each other is sheerly through event signatures. If you have a login module, it can emit events like "loggedin" or "loggedout". Any other module can subscribe to those events and do their own thing, without interfering with others, etc.<p>This pattern works very well and is a hell of a lot more usable than anything I've ever been able to do with Backbone.<p>Finally, Coffeescript is not JavaScript. It's another annoying abstraction.<p>JQuery is not JavaScript, but an incredibly useful library.<p>Stop piling one layer on top of another thinking you're making your life easier. Get back to basics, learn how to structure your code, and just get some fucking work done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Step by step from jQuery to Backbone</title><url>http://open.bekk.no/from-jquery-to-backbone/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bherms</author><text>Finally someone who agrees with me. I like Backbone quite a bit and a large part of our application is now using it... However, the added code, layers of abstraction, and lack of any "right" way to do things make maintaining it more of a hassle than anything else. I like that many people are trying to build application frameworks on top of backbone (marionette, etc) but this is just making things worse as now you have 20+ choices on how to write your backbone application, thereby making it harder to maintain across developers (what are the chances the new guy you hired is not only proficient in Backbone, but also backbone using handlebars instead of underscore, and also backbone + chaplin -- or vertebrae, or thorax?)<p>When our js guru started porting our app the backbone, it was intensely difficult at first for the rest of our devs to make trivial changes to our front end code. What used to be a well defined information flow was now spread across dozens of files.</text><parent_chain><item><author>geuis</author><text>This is an excellent tutorial. It's also an excellent lesson in why you should stay away from frameworks like Backbone.<p>(To declare, I have written large apps with Backbone, so I'm not entirely talking from my ass.)<p>You've gone from a simple, succinct, and easily understood set of code to something that now relies on 2 extra frameworks (backbone and underscore), in addition to still needing jQuery. You've had to incorporate several layers of abstraction (views, cloning events) to simply do what was originally done in a few lines.<p>I know what the appeal of something like Backbone is. You think that adding in all this abstraction will make it easier to maintain your product. I will even agree that to an extent, it does.<p>However, a big problem is that the people that already care about organizing their code well, already do so. Backbone is so needlessly open-ended and directionless that a dev who doesn't already know how to write good code will just write worse code.<p>When I first learned Python, it was enlightening. Here was a language that says, "This is the right way to do it". It got rid of the baggage of other languages and got to business. Backbone is definitely not that for JavaScript development.<p>Backbone gives you so much rope to hang yourself with, and with so little sense of how things should properly fit together, that it's like wandering around a desert for days on end with a noose on your neck, until you fall into a deep enough hole and die.<p>I prefer to write my code so that there is an overall architecture, usually with a modular pattern when possible. Anything that needs to happen code-wise for a particular module is all contained within that code block and nothing else. That code is more or less like what was originally posted, where all the things that matter for that module are done in that module.<p>The other technique I use for modules to talk to each other is sheerly through event signatures. If you have a login module, it can emit events like "loggedin" or "loggedout". Any other module can subscribe to those events and do their own thing, without interfering with others, etc.<p>This pattern works very well and is a hell of a lot more usable than anything I've ever been able to do with Backbone.<p>Finally, Coffeescript is not JavaScript. It's another annoying abstraction.<p>JQuery is not JavaScript, but an incredibly useful library.<p>Stop piling one layer on top of another thinking you're making your life easier. Get back to basics, learn how to structure your code, and just get some fucking work done.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Step by step from jQuery to Backbone</title><url>http://open.bekk.no/from-jquery-to-backbone/</url></story> |
24,149,303 | 24,149,082 | 1 | 2 | 24,148,204 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CM30</author><text>For better or worse, many individuals and companies have realised that the court of public opinion can have as much (or even more) of an effect than the legal system can. Hence instead of settling issues in private, now a lot of organisations are trying to set off a negative PR storm aimed at their opponents that paints them as the victim&#x2F;underdog.<p>So that&#x27;s the real goal here. To cause enough of a social media controversy&#x2F;enough drama over this that Apple is pressured to back down&#x2F;reverse their decision without a court case, while the court case itself is a backup in case that doesn&#x27;t work.<p>I think we&#x27;re going to see a lot more of this going forward, especially when it comes to individuals and companies going against opponents with significantly more resources than them. They may not fear your legal team&#x2F;resources, but they might well fear their reputation being torn to shreds.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>The whole strategy here feels pretty unprecedented.<p>Usually these kind of lawsuits happen in the background but Epic seems to be going full force with making it a public campaign.<p>&gt; Apple is blocking your ability to get the latest Fortnite updates! All players should have a choice in payment providers and save up to 20%. Apple wants to limit your payment choices! Join the fight against @AppStore on social with #FreeFortnite<p>Can&#x27;t imagine being in the room of Apple&#x27;s PR team reacting to this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ziddoap</author><text>I&#x27;m not a fan of what Apple is doing, and am happy to see it be tested in court.<p>But, I&#x27;m not a fan of another multi-million dollar company making such a blatant appeal to emotion, as if Fortnite needs to be &quot;freed&quot;, to the common person who has no concept of how nuanced the legalities of this entire thing are.<p>I&#x27;ll be happy when the theatrics are over with, and we can simply view the outcome of the legal precedent that is about to be set. This is a battle for the courts, not Twitter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>The whole strategy here feels pretty unprecedented.<p>Usually these kind of lawsuits happen in the background but Epic seems to be going full force with making it a public campaign.<p>&gt; Apple is blocking your ability to get the latest Fortnite updates! All players should have a choice in payment providers and save up to 20%. Apple wants to limit your payment choices! Join the fight against @AppStore on social with #FreeFortnite<p>Can&#x27;t imagine being in the room of Apple&#x27;s PR team reacting to this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4</url></story> |
27,115,182 | 27,112,509 | 1 | 2 | 27,109,960 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stadeschuldt</author><text>The tooling behind the approach has been built as a set of python package named Mara. It is available at GitHub:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mara&#x2F;mara-pipelines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mara&#x2F;mara-pipelines</a><p>And additional packages can be found at the Mara org:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mara" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mara</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>efxhoy</author><text>Dr. Martin Loetzsch did a great video, ETL Patterns with Postgres. He covers some really good topics:<p>- Instead of updating tables build their replacements under a different name then rename them. This makes updating heavy-to-compute table instant. Works even for schemas: rebuild a schema as schemaname_next rename the current to schemaname_old then rename schemaname_next to schemaname.<p>- Keep all the source data raw and disable WAL, you don&#x27;t need it for ETL.<p>- Set memory limitis high.<p>And lots of other good tips for doing ETL&#x2F;DW in postgres. It&#x27;s here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=whwNi21jAm4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=whwNi21jAm4</a><p>I really appreciate having data in postgres. It&#x27;s often easy to think that a specialised DW tool will solve all your problems, but that often fails to consider things like:<p>- Developer experience. Postgres runs very easily on a local machine, more specialized solutions often don&#x27;t or are tricky to setup.<p>- Learning another tool costs time. A developer can learn postgres really well in the time it takes them to figure out how to use several more specialised tools. And many devs already know postgres because it&#x27;s pretty much the default DB nowadays.<p>- Analytics queries often don&#x27;t need to run at warp speed. Bigquery might give you the answer in a second but if postgres does it in a minute and it&#x27;s a weekly report, who cares?<p>- Postgres is boring and has been around for many years now, it will probably still be here in 10 years so time spent learning it is time well spent. More niche systems will probably be superseded by fancier, faster replacements.<p>I would go so far as to say don&#x27;t necessarily need to split out your DW from your prod DB in every case. As soon as you start splitting out a DW to a separate server you need some way to keep it in sync, so you&#x27;ll probably end up duplicating some business logic for a report, maintaining some ingestion app, shuffling data around S3 or whatever. Keeping your analytics in your prod DB (or just a snapshot of yesterdays DB) is often good enough and means you will be more likely to avoid gnarly business-rules going out of sync between your app and your DW.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse</title><url>https://www.narrator.ai/blog/using-postgresql-as-a-data-warehouse/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Guthur</author><text>And if say that if you are in the position where you can run DW workloads on your prod database you probably don&#x27;t need a data warehouse in the first place.<p>Data warehouse workloads tend to be very IO intensive and could be highly disruptive to a production db. ETL is hard but it&#x27;s a price to pay to isolate these two very different workloads.</text><parent_chain><item><author>efxhoy</author><text>Dr. Martin Loetzsch did a great video, ETL Patterns with Postgres. He covers some really good topics:<p>- Instead of updating tables build their replacements under a different name then rename them. This makes updating heavy-to-compute table instant. Works even for schemas: rebuild a schema as schemaname_next rename the current to schemaname_old then rename schemaname_next to schemaname.<p>- Keep all the source data raw and disable WAL, you don&#x27;t need it for ETL.<p>- Set memory limitis high.<p>And lots of other good tips for doing ETL&#x2F;DW in postgres. It&#x27;s here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=whwNi21jAm4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=whwNi21jAm4</a><p>I really appreciate having data in postgres. It&#x27;s often easy to think that a specialised DW tool will solve all your problems, but that often fails to consider things like:<p>- Developer experience. Postgres runs very easily on a local machine, more specialized solutions often don&#x27;t or are tricky to setup.<p>- Learning another tool costs time. A developer can learn postgres really well in the time it takes them to figure out how to use several more specialised tools. And many devs already know postgres because it&#x27;s pretty much the default DB nowadays.<p>- Analytics queries often don&#x27;t need to run at warp speed. Bigquery might give you the answer in a second but if postgres does it in a minute and it&#x27;s a weekly report, who cares?<p>- Postgres is boring and has been around for many years now, it will probably still be here in 10 years so time spent learning it is time well spent. More niche systems will probably be superseded by fancier, faster replacements.<p>I would go so far as to say don&#x27;t necessarily need to split out your DW from your prod DB in every case. As soon as you start splitting out a DW to a separate server you need some way to keep it in sync, so you&#x27;ll probably end up duplicating some business logic for a report, maintaining some ingestion app, shuffling data around S3 or whatever. Keeping your analytics in your prod DB (or just a snapshot of yesterdays DB) is often good enough and means you will be more likely to avoid gnarly business-rules going out of sync between your app and your DW.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Using PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse</title><url>https://www.narrator.ai/blog/using-postgresql-as-a-data-warehouse/</url></story> |
27,110,017 | 27,108,846 | 1 | 3 | 27,108,109 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>INTPenis</author><text>I&#x27;m a long time exit node operator, I operate X currently and all are in Asia where they&#x27;re most needed imho.<p>I would not be opposed to having some sort of operator validation of exit nodes. Where you can actually validate who runs an operator node, get a person behind them. And perhaps rate those higher than others.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II)</title><url>https://nusenu.medium.com/tracking-one-year-of-malicious-tor-exit-relay-activities-part-ii-85c80875c5df</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geek_at</author><text>These days I mainly use tor for hidden services. It&#x27;s hard to use it for normal surfing anyways</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II)</title><url>https://nusenu.medium.com/tracking-one-year-of-malicious-tor-exit-relay-activities-part-ii-85c80875c5df</url></story> |
26,292,619 | 26,291,537 | 1 | 3 | 26,290,309 | 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>klibertp</author><text>Not a comment about try.haxe, but Haxe in general:<p>There&#x27;s this Window Manager called Awesome, which is scripted with Lua&#x2F;LuaJIT. It features an extensive library of objects for use in user scripts.<p>There&#x27;s a lot to like about Lua, but it&#x27;s designed as an embedded scripting language and it gets harder to use the more code you have. Extremely dynamic nature coupled with lack of good tooling makes it really hard to explore the codebases above a certain level of complexity.<p>Enter Haxe, which has Lua as one of its targets. It gives you static typing (with local type inference), good LSP support for navigating the codebase, some nice libraries and utilities (Tinkerbell) that Lua lacks, macros, exceptions, modules, basically everything you&#x27;d need to work with a large codebase. Everything Lua does is still accessible, so for example coroutines and tail call elimination are still working, but you get a lot of tools on top of that.<p>I think LuaJIT + Haxe is a very powerful combination, which gives you great performance, rapid prototyping, and tools for programming in the large at the same time. The experience of writing a few kloc of Lua scripts for Awesome was not the most pleasant, but when I added Haxe to the mix, it became a real pleasure to work with. It&#x27;s worth considering if you find yourself in a similar situation (a lot of things are scripted with Lua, after all.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Try the new try.haxe</title><url>https://community.haxe.org/t/try-the-new-try-haxe/2921</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>koonsolo</author><text>I ported my <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rpgplayground.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rpgplayground.com</a> from ActionScript3 to Haxe several years ago. (It&#x27;s an RPG Maker for the web).<p>Very happy with it! The main benefit for me is that once I want to go to other platforms, even game consoles, I can do that without much hassle.<p>I used to be an avid Python developer, and thought that language was really undervalued. Now I have the same feeling about Haxe.<p>When people ask me what language I use for RPG Playground, and I say Haxe, they have no idea what I&#x27;m talking about. I always mention that Dead Cells is also built in Haxe, and the it&#x27;s &quot;ah I know that one&quot;.<p>Expect big things for Haxe!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Try the new try.haxe</title><url>https://community.haxe.org/t/try-the-new-try-haxe/2921</url></story> |
35,338,099 | 35,334,158 | 1 | 3 | 35,322,599 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>erie</author><text>Yes, it is also close to versace square pattern fret or Greek pattern :&quot;Greek key, also referred to as meander, is in its most basic form a linear pattern. The design is made up of a long, continuous line that repeatedly folds back on itself, mimicking the ancient Maeander River of Asia Minor with its many twists and turns. Homer mentions the river in “The Iliad,” and it is believed that the meander motif symbolizes infinity or the eternal flow of things. (In fact, the word “meander” is derived from the 250-mile-long snaking Maeander, known today as the Menderes, which flows through southwestern Turkey.) What is most astonishing about the meander motif is that it is found in the architecture, sculpture and decorative arts of many early civilizations — civilizations that could not possibly have known or seen one another’s artifacts. It seems that those cultures, independent of one another, created their own version of the motif.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yunruse</author><text>My favourite script has to be Square Kufic [0]. The pixel-like design is abstract and utterly gorgeous on architecture.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kufic#Square_Kufic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kufic#Square_Kufic</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Diversity of Arabic Scripts</title><url>https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2023/03/the-diversity-of-arabic-scripts.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>muattiyah</author><text>Square kufic is awesome, I used it to design my personal website&#x27;s &quot;logo&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muattiyah.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muattiyah.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>yunruse</author><text>My favourite script has to be Square Kufic [0]. The pixel-like design is abstract and utterly gorgeous on architecture.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kufic#Square_Kufic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kufic#Square_Kufic</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Diversity of Arabic Scripts</title><url>https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2023/03/the-diversity-of-arabic-scripts.html</url></story> |
5,816,952 | 5,817,022 | 1 | 2 | 5,813,776 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>I agree with your feeling. Reading through this thread of answers and seeing so many poorly written comments, all supporting the "official patriotic version of American History of the World" is pretty sad.<p>For those who disagree with the article, why don't you ask Japanese what they think, instead of speculating about these two bombs ending the war? It was clearly obvious that these two bombs were, just like the article said, just another two drops in a long history of bombing on Japan that has destroyed most of the largest cities. Come to Japan and see from yourself how little is left of Old Japan. All cities are built of concrete here, because there was nothing left of what they were before. And check Japanese litterature of the time - there was ample suffering and hardship without even talking about the atomic bombs.<p>There's nothing "revisionist" about these claims.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gruseom</author><text>This comment is contentless. It doesn't address a single specific thing the article says. Instead it offers woolly generalities ("Japan was threatened on many fronts and made the best choice it could. That much is clear") and platitudes ("all of the actions, taken together, were the reason for the war to end. Yes, Stalin played a big role. But it's not an either-or situation"). It sounds like it's saying something; indeed, it sounds like it's saying something wise and avuncular. But I've read it three times and can't find a single part that is saying anything at all, other than where it repeats exactly the bromide about how the Pacific war ended that the OP is critiquing ("dropping the bombs on Japan saved millions of both Japanese and allied lives. It served as a quick end to a long war")—ironically, right after it says "Nobody is finding comfort in simplistic stories". If you're going to respond to a critique, shouldn't you answer what it actually says?<p>It's unfair to put the article in the same bucket as "UFO stories". No one who has read it (and is being fair) would describe it as "speculation". It isn't anything like counterfactual fan fiction. Almost the entire piece does nothing but cite facts, such as: the dropping of the nuclear bombs does not figure significantly in historical records of the Japanese leadership's discussion about surrender; the Japanese war council decided on August 8 not even to discuss the Hiroshima bombing; damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not out of scale with the earlier fire-bombings of other cities; Japanese leaders had expressed a willingness to sacrifice their cities if necessary; Japan's war strategy was predicated on the Soviets staying neutral; and so on. Are these wrong? If so, how? Are there other, more important facts omitted? If so, what are they?<p>The negative responses to this article so far are so insubstantial that they form a defense of it by omission. I'm very curious now to hear a credible counterargument. Surely there is one?</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I love UFO stories, and I love history, and I love pseudo-science. Hell, I even like counter-factuals. What if Lee had won at Gettysburg? What if Patton had actually commanded the Normandy invasion? And so forth.<p>But these things are the province of speculation, not knowledge.<p>Think for a minute about what this essay is asking "What if action X did not end the war in the Pacific?"<p>Well dang, Action X could be just about anything. The fact of the matter is that all of the actions, taken together, were the reason for the war to end. Yes, Stalin played a big role. But it's not an either-or situation; it's an amalgam. The logical structure of trying to support a statement such as "The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan" is flawed. It's like saying the landing on Tarawa didn't beat Japan. Well no, and yes. The assertion itself is flawed.<p>While I love all sorts of semi-non-fictional essays, I have a little warning bell that goes off when I'm mostly through an essay and the essayist starts telling me a story about how I've been misled. Smells of a political agenda and manipulation.<p>Japan was threatened on many fronts and made the best choice it could. That much is clear. Atom bombs did not cause as much building and population damage as the fire-bombing did. That's also clear. But atom bombs represented one thing that Stalin and fire-bombing did not: the end of Japanese culture. A few dozen atom bombs would not only have made huge holes in the landscape, it would have erased the culture of Japan.<p>Nobody is finding comfort in simplistic stories. In fact, the more details people know, the happier I am. But dropping the bombs on Japan saved millions of both Japanese and allied lives. It served as a quick end to a long war, and it saved thousands of allied prisoners whom the Japanese were ready to execute. It also allowed the great Japanese culture to continue.<p>Most serious historians don't get into counter-factuals, except maybe as fiction. It just doesn't work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan</title><url>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/29/the_bomb_didnt_beat_japan_nuclear_world_war_ii?page=0,0</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>supercanuck</author><text>I find it frustrating that someone so prominent in their field to merit an audience at the UN and British Parliament and to be published in Foreign Policy is able to be so easily dismissed on Hacker News as not "a serious historian."</text><parent_chain><item><author>gruseom</author><text>This comment is contentless. It doesn't address a single specific thing the article says. Instead it offers woolly generalities ("Japan was threatened on many fronts and made the best choice it could. That much is clear") and platitudes ("all of the actions, taken together, were the reason for the war to end. Yes, Stalin played a big role. But it's not an either-or situation"). It sounds like it's saying something; indeed, it sounds like it's saying something wise and avuncular. But I've read it three times and can't find a single part that is saying anything at all, other than where it repeats exactly the bromide about how the Pacific war ended that the OP is critiquing ("dropping the bombs on Japan saved millions of both Japanese and allied lives. It served as a quick end to a long war")—ironically, right after it says "Nobody is finding comfort in simplistic stories". If you're going to respond to a critique, shouldn't you answer what it actually says?<p>It's unfair to put the article in the same bucket as "UFO stories". No one who has read it (and is being fair) would describe it as "speculation". It isn't anything like counterfactual fan fiction. Almost the entire piece does nothing but cite facts, such as: the dropping of the nuclear bombs does not figure significantly in historical records of the Japanese leadership's discussion about surrender; the Japanese war council decided on August 8 not even to discuss the Hiroshima bombing; damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not out of scale with the earlier fire-bombings of other cities; Japanese leaders had expressed a willingness to sacrifice their cities if necessary; Japan's war strategy was predicated on the Soviets staying neutral; and so on. Are these wrong? If so, how? Are there other, more important facts omitted? If so, what are they?<p>The negative responses to this article so far are so insubstantial that they form a defense of it by omission. I'm very curious now to hear a credible counterargument. Surely there is one?</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I love UFO stories, and I love history, and I love pseudo-science. Hell, I even like counter-factuals. What if Lee had won at Gettysburg? What if Patton had actually commanded the Normandy invasion? And so forth.<p>But these things are the province of speculation, not knowledge.<p>Think for a minute about what this essay is asking "What if action X did not end the war in the Pacific?"<p>Well dang, Action X could be just about anything. The fact of the matter is that all of the actions, taken together, were the reason for the war to end. Yes, Stalin played a big role. But it's not an either-or situation; it's an amalgam. The logical structure of trying to support a statement such as "The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan" is flawed. It's like saying the landing on Tarawa didn't beat Japan. Well no, and yes. The assertion itself is flawed.<p>While I love all sorts of semi-non-fictional essays, I have a little warning bell that goes off when I'm mostly through an essay and the essayist starts telling me a story about how I've been misled. Smells of a political agenda and manipulation.<p>Japan was threatened on many fronts and made the best choice it could. That much is clear. Atom bombs did not cause as much building and population damage as the fire-bombing did. That's also clear. But atom bombs represented one thing that Stalin and fire-bombing did not: the end of Japanese culture. A few dozen atom bombs would not only have made huge holes in the landscape, it would have erased the culture of Japan.<p>Nobody is finding comfort in simplistic stories. In fact, the more details people know, the happier I am. But dropping the bombs on Japan saved millions of both Japanese and allied lives. It served as a quick end to a long war, and it saved thousands of allied prisoners whom the Japanese were ready to execute. It also allowed the great Japanese culture to continue.<p>Most serious historians don't get into counter-factuals, except maybe as fiction. It just doesn't work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan</title><url>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/29/the_bomb_didnt_beat_japan_nuclear_world_war_ii?page=0,0</url></story> |
29,639,466 | 29,638,969 | 1 | 2 | 29,631,782 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scarecrowbob</author><text>I see this idea a lot, and in the main, I wholly agree with the understanding that it&#x27;s personal work and not drugs which help people develop their understanding of the world.<p>At the same time, this mode of saying &quot;at most&quot; undercuts the actual value of a psychedelic experience: that kind of experience is so profound that I often liken it to discovering sex for the first time. Knowing how to bring yourself and&#x2F; or a partner into some state or other isn&#x27;t in itself useful, it&#x27;s awkward and confusing to become initiated into that practice, and there are a myriad of ways where becoming sexually activated is violent and traumatic.<p>But done well a) these experiences can be fun&#x2F;useful as ends in themselves and b) these experiences are often the ones which open up entire realms of possibility for our minds and bodies.<p>For instance, without a psychedelic context I certainly would not have had a way of parsing the effects of kundalini yoga, and I might not have even been inclined to work in that direction if I didn&#x27;t have a first hand understanding of how dramatically our physiology can so directly impact our perceptions.<p>And I find the people who discount the profound impact of initiation into that realm of experience almost tautologically fall into two camps: people who have moved past psychedelics as a mode (which is a legitimate and good mode, in my epereince) and people who have never had psychedelic experiences (which is also a wholly legitimate way to be in the world).<p>The thing is, the first camp often seems (at least to me) to understate the actual impact of psychedelia in their development and the second camp doesn&#x27;t have the personal experience to make those claims at all.<p>While I am happy at your personal development and ability to enter states of bliss or ecstasy without psychedelic drugs, you may consider that this general bend of argumentation (that the drugs aren&#x27;t valuable and may be unhealthy in general in this movement) is just as much of a shortcut as thinking that the psychedelics in themselves can lead to some sort of enlightenment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mapcars</author><text>Important thing to understand is that psychedelics can be used at most as an easy incentive for people to see if they interested in this direction of experience. There are reasons why most profound mystics don&#x27;t value substances much and rather focus on developing people&#x27;s own perception. Yes it takes time but results come above all expectations.<p>From my experience it&#x27;s much healthier to realize I can go into states of bliss and ecstasy completely by myself without any external help.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When Aldous Huxley opened the doors of perception</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-aldous-huxley-opened-the-doors-of-perception/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mylons</author><text>Maynard Keenan from Tool had a good line about this he’d use in interviews. Something like, “you get a shortcut to transcendence that you spend the rest of your life developing the ability to get their naturally“</text><parent_chain><item><author>mapcars</author><text>Important thing to understand is that psychedelics can be used at most as an easy incentive for people to see if they interested in this direction of experience. There are reasons why most profound mystics don&#x27;t value substances much and rather focus on developing people&#x27;s own perception. Yes it takes time but results come above all expectations.<p>From my experience it&#x27;s much healthier to realize I can go into states of bliss and ecstasy completely by myself without any external help.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When Aldous Huxley opened the doors of perception</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-aldous-huxley-opened-the-doors-of-perception/</url></story> |
15,634,092 | 15,633,979 | 1 | 3 | 15,632,058 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>halhen</author><text>Having worked with data analytics in problem gambling for ten years, your dismissal of the addictiveness of these games is either uninformed or rationalized, most likely both.<p>Recent research in Sweden shows that some 75% of online casino turnover are from what can be loosely described as moderate risk gambling (PGSI3+) and approximately 50% from problem gambling (PGSI8+). Similarly about 25% of regular (monthly) players are problem gamblers. Of those who start playing slots monthly, 10% develop gambling problems within a year.<p>These are bad numbers. Really bad. And they match my experience from million-players-+ databases of actual gambling data.<p>The most significant marker to predict gambling problems is the amount wagered, say per month. The more someone plays, the higher the risk of that person having gambling problems. About 10% of players make up 80% of the turnover; about 0.1% about 10%. The Pareto principle at play, sure, but combined with the former it basically says that you can&#x27;t trust the industry for advice on problem gambling.<p>This is not your safe-little-hobby thing, and the amount players who really enjoy them are much, much, much fewer than you make it sound. The majority of the industry&#x27;s revenue come from people who would like to stop but can&#x27;t. This is by any useful definition neither rational nor voluntary. The main claim of the industry is &quot;informed choice&quot; and the users&#x27; responsibility to take control, despite loss of control being the very definition of the illness.<p>This is another tobacco-industry-like example of society slowly realizing the hidden costs being pushed by a powerful industry to unknowing and often vulnerable third parties.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smallstepforman</author><text>Disclaimer: I design the machines and games for a living.<p>1) regarding near miss, with basic math knowledge you can easily calculate the odds of near miss. Eg. with 2 special symbols per 30 symbol reel, for a 3x5 reel game, you have a 1:5 chance of seeing the special symbol per reel, or once per spin for a 5 reel game. The odds of a 4 symbol near miss is (1:5)^4, which is 1:625, or once every 30 minutes. With a bank of 30 machines, someone will have near miss fanfare every minute. If a bigger win is (1:5)^5, that is 1:3125 spins, or every 150 minutes per machine. That same 30 EGM bank will be paying out a large win every 5 minutes, ie. just short enough for every player on the bank to realise that the machines are “hot”. Its not planned, it just works out that way.<p>2) when it comes to addiction, if the stats the media are stating is correct, every 6th employee in the industry would also be addicted (using the definition of addiction used from chemical substance abuse). Since there is no measurable difference in addiction levels for employees (who spend 40hrs per week interacting with slots) and players who spend less time, the addiction argument looses its basis.<p>3) games adjusting payouts based on the outcome of previous games are illegal. The industry is heavily regulated (independant compliance agencies), and no operator wants to lose their license doing illegal things.<p>4) people have a natural tendency to arrange items, from socks and underwear in drawers, to payout symbols on the screen. There is a natural <i>high</i> people get when they complete a sorting job. I’ve worked with 3 big slot companies, and none of them had paid psychologists on call - there is no need.<p>5) its a voluntery activity. There are lots of people who enjoy the activity, the excitement, the thrill, etc and they’re responsible enough to only wager less than the cost of a theatre ticket. Sometimes they finish the night with more money than they brought in. Its a regulated activity for adults.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How slot machines are designed to be addictive</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2017/sep/28/hooked-how-pokies-are-designed-to-be-addictive</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DonHopkins</author><text>4) people have a natural tendency to arrange cocaine into nice straight lines. There is a natural <i>high</i> people get when they complete a snorting job. I&#x27;ve worked with 3 big coke dealers, and none of them had paid physicians on call - there is no need.</text><parent_chain><item><author>smallstepforman</author><text>Disclaimer: I design the machines and games for a living.<p>1) regarding near miss, with basic math knowledge you can easily calculate the odds of near miss. Eg. with 2 special symbols per 30 symbol reel, for a 3x5 reel game, you have a 1:5 chance of seeing the special symbol per reel, or once per spin for a 5 reel game. The odds of a 4 symbol near miss is (1:5)^4, which is 1:625, or once every 30 minutes. With a bank of 30 machines, someone will have near miss fanfare every minute. If a bigger win is (1:5)^5, that is 1:3125 spins, or every 150 minutes per machine. That same 30 EGM bank will be paying out a large win every 5 minutes, ie. just short enough for every player on the bank to realise that the machines are “hot”. Its not planned, it just works out that way.<p>2) when it comes to addiction, if the stats the media are stating is correct, every 6th employee in the industry would also be addicted (using the definition of addiction used from chemical substance abuse). Since there is no measurable difference in addiction levels for employees (who spend 40hrs per week interacting with slots) and players who spend less time, the addiction argument looses its basis.<p>3) games adjusting payouts based on the outcome of previous games are illegal. The industry is heavily regulated (independant compliance agencies), and no operator wants to lose their license doing illegal things.<p>4) people have a natural tendency to arrange items, from socks and underwear in drawers, to payout symbols on the screen. There is a natural <i>high</i> people get when they complete a sorting job. I’ve worked with 3 big slot companies, and none of them had paid psychologists on call - there is no need.<p>5) its a voluntery activity. There are lots of people who enjoy the activity, the excitement, the thrill, etc and they’re responsible enough to only wager less than the cost of a theatre ticket. Sometimes they finish the night with more money than they brought in. Its a regulated activity for adults.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How slot machines are designed to be addictive</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2017/sep/28/hooked-how-pokies-are-designed-to-be-addictive</url></story> |
20,396,225 | 20,391,689 | 1 | 3 | 20,386,892 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>soheil</author><text>It is creating a new session it&#x27;s just that the server code uses a deterministic session key which is created based on your IP address and user agent. So as long as you use the same browser&#x2F;IP combo you will get assigned the same etag, (at least user-agent is in there otherwise it would be extra trippy to load the page on FF and go to Safari and see the # visits&#x2F;message displayed there too)<p><pre><code> $etag = substr(sha1($secret . sha1($_SERVER[&quot;REMOTE_ADDR&quot;]) . sha1($_SERVER[&quot;HTTP_USER_AGENT&quot;])), 0, 18);</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>i_v</author><text>I was surprised to see that this tracking works across both regular and private browsing in Firefox (67.0.4 on macOS). I can see the number of visits increment and whatever message I&#x27;ve saved on either side is displayed to both.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cookieless cookies (2013)</title><url>http://lucb1e.com/rp/cookielesscookies/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clinta</author><text>I just tested Firefox 67.0.4 and Chromium 75.0.3770.100 on Arch and both have the same behavior. Definitely not something I expected.</text><parent_chain><item><author>i_v</author><text>I was surprised to see that this tracking works across both regular and private browsing in Firefox (67.0.4 on macOS). I can see the number of visits increment and whatever message I&#x27;ve saved on either side is displayed to both.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cookieless cookies (2013)</title><url>http://lucb1e.com/rp/cookielesscookies/</url></story> |
8,323,659 | 8,323,472 | 1 | 2 | 8,322,535 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paganel</author><text>Not the OP, and it&#x27;s not about AT&amp;T, but I once knew a HR person who worked for a big and world-renowned telecom company in my (East-European) country. At some point she started to suspect her then-boyfriend of cheating on her, and to convince herself she &quot;nicely asked&quot; one of her IT colleagues at her job to look through the SMS messages of her boyfriend stored in the company&#x27;s systems (because, presumably, she couldn&#x27;t lay her hands on her boyfriend&#x27;s phone directly). Said IT guy did just that, i.e. informed my former acquaintance of the SMS messages on her boyfriend&#x27;s phone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eru</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t AT&amp;T have any privacy safeguards?<p>(I just started working at Google, and getting at any user data, eg for debugging of a complicated problem, is the single biggest pile of paperwork they make you do. Even anonymized logs.)</text></item><item><author>superuser2</author><text>I was sitting in a cafe in Ogilive Station in Chicago a few months ago, and one of the guys at an adjacent table was telling a story. His girlfriend left, took the kids, and didn&#x27;t tell him where they had gone.<p>But, he says triumphantly, &quot;the bitch forgot I work for AT&amp;T.&quot;<p>He the describes, with pride, the look on her face as he showed up at her new house.<p>Disgusting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smartphones Are Used To Stalk, Control Domestic Abuse Victims</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/09/15/346149979/smartphones-are-used-to-stalk-control-domestic-abuse-victims</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>confluence</author><text>Most companies are poorly run. Security and privacy safeguards are either non-existent or easily overridden.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eru</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t AT&amp;T have any privacy safeguards?<p>(I just started working at Google, and getting at any user data, eg for debugging of a complicated problem, is the single biggest pile of paperwork they make you do. Even anonymized logs.)</text></item><item><author>superuser2</author><text>I was sitting in a cafe in Ogilive Station in Chicago a few months ago, and one of the guys at an adjacent table was telling a story. His girlfriend left, took the kids, and didn&#x27;t tell him where they had gone.<p>But, he says triumphantly, &quot;the bitch forgot I work for AT&amp;T.&quot;<p>He the describes, with pride, the look on her face as he showed up at her new house.<p>Disgusting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smartphones Are Used To Stalk, Control Domestic Abuse Victims</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/09/15/346149979/smartphones-are-used-to-stalk-control-domestic-abuse-victims</url></story> |
19,472,031 | 19,471,818 | 1 | 2 | 19,471,239 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diegolo</author><text>&quot;a general search can be machine learning&quot; I don&#x27;t get this sentence: Machine learning is about building a mathematical model of sample data, known as &quot;training data&quot;.<p>If you want to talk about machine learning and search you should probably talk about learning to rank (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Learning_to_rank" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Learning_to_rank</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Machine Learning: Full-Text Search in JavaScript – Relevance Scoring (2015)</title><url>http://burakkanber.com/blog/machine-learning-full-text-search-in-javascript-relevance-scoring/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>inertiatic</author><text>Search is now machine learning?
Interesting introduction to the topic otherwise.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Machine Learning: Full-Text Search in JavaScript – Relevance Scoring (2015)</title><url>http://burakkanber.com/blog/machine-learning-full-text-search-in-javascript-relevance-scoring/</url></story> |
20,617,171 | 20,616,939 | 1 | 3 | 20,616,055 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DonHopkins</author><text>I&#x27;ve lost good friends to 4chan&#x2F;8chan. They were obsessed. At first it was cat pictures and memes, but it went way downhill from there. I&#x27;ve watched those sites cause the transition from normal, interesting, reasonable, open minded, intelligent, happy human beings, to horrible inexcusable pieces of shit who I never want to have anything to do with ever again.<p>It&#x27;s not just that they inspire a few shooters and mass murders. They inspire a hell of a lot of other once-reasonable people to be deeply and irredeemably terrible in many other ways.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nilkn</author><text>I&#x27;ve generally been on the free speech side of this debate, as some of my previous comments on HN will show.<p>With 8chan, I legitimately don&#x27;t know what my opinion is. I&#x27;ve read it before, and I spent a few hours reading it this weekend, and it&#x27;s beyond clear to me that it absolutely had the potential to radicalize shooters and terrorists. I&#x27;m not referring to the simple use of racial or ethnic slurs -- of course this was extremely common there, but I don&#x27;t think this is the part of the site that encouraged actual violence. Rather, among the many ideological threads that were more or less constantly ongoing on 8chan, one of them just straight-up encouraged mass shootings. &quot;The fire rises&quot; is a common phrase I saw there celebrating the frequency of shootings. For instance, here&#x27;s a quote I saw this weekend (I screenshotted a bunch of stuff like this in anticipation of the site going down):<p>&quot;holy fucking shit, a third mass shooting toda [referencing an incident near Douglas Park in Chicago], white guy shot 7 people, no one dead yet but the meter is still running!!! shooter still active!!!<p>its absolutely fucking happening !!! the FIRE RISES!!!&quot;<p>This was attached to a picture of Trump with the text &quot;it&#x27;s happening&quot; superimposed.<p>While 8chan overall was absolutely all over the place, this thread of support for shootings and terrorism was seemingly always present in the background.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/5/20754943/8chan-epik-offline-voxility-service-cutoff-hate-speech-ban</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jolmg</author><text>I&#x27;m not really that well informed of 8chan, but bringing it down, while practical, doesn&#x27;t seem like the ideal solution. Isn&#x27;t it just like covering your eyes and pretending the problem isn&#x27;t there? The problem doesn&#x27;t sound like it&#x27;s 8chan, but rather these people and their ideologies. If 8chan was brought down, they&#x27;ll just find another hub to congregate, but now we don&#x27;t know where to reach them to talk.<p>I thought the idea expressed by NearlyFreeSpeech.net in the following link was nice:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nearlyfreespeech.net&#x2F;about&#x2F;faq#TheLongGame" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nearlyfreespeech.net&#x2F;about&#x2F;faq#TheLongGame</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nilkn</author><text>I&#x27;ve generally been on the free speech side of this debate, as some of my previous comments on HN will show.<p>With 8chan, I legitimately don&#x27;t know what my opinion is. I&#x27;ve read it before, and I spent a few hours reading it this weekend, and it&#x27;s beyond clear to me that it absolutely had the potential to radicalize shooters and terrorists. I&#x27;m not referring to the simple use of racial or ethnic slurs -- of course this was extremely common there, but I don&#x27;t think this is the part of the site that encouraged actual violence. Rather, among the many ideological threads that were more or less constantly ongoing on 8chan, one of them just straight-up encouraged mass shootings. &quot;The fire rises&quot; is a common phrase I saw there celebrating the frequency of shootings. For instance, here&#x27;s a quote I saw this weekend (I screenshotted a bunch of stuff like this in anticipation of the site going down):<p>&quot;holy fucking shit, a third mass shooting toda [referencing an incident near Douglas Park in Chicago], white guy shot 7 people, no one dead yet but the meter is still running!!! shooter still active!!!<p>its absolutely fucking happening !!! the FIRE RISES!!!&quot;<p>This was attached to a picture of Trump with the text &quot;it&#x27;s happening&quot; superimposed.<p>While 8chan overall was absolutely all over the place, this thread of support for shootings and terrorism was seemingly always present in the background.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/5/20754943/8chan-epik-offline-voxility-service-cutoff-hate-speech-ban</url></story> |
17,878,050 | 17,878,008 | 1 | 2 | 17,877,332 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>I&#x27;ve been fond of [1] and [2] for a more focused argument against JWT for sessions.<p>The JOSE standards (of which JWT is a member) are error-prone and have had numerous critical security-affecting bugs due to how they were designed. [3]<p>To remedy that, I proposed PASETO. [4]<p>I still don&#x27;t recommend PASETO for sessions, because of the arguments laid out in [1] and [2].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryto.net&#x2F;~joepie91&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;13&#x2F;stop-using-jwt-for-sessions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryto.net&#x2F;~joepie91&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;13&#x2F;stop-using-jwt-fo...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryto.net&#x2F;%7Ejoepie91&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;19&#x2F;stop-using-jwt-for-sessions-part-2-why-your-solution-doesnt-work&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryto.net&#x2F;%7Ejoepie91&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;19&#x2F;stop-using-jwt-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paragonie.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;jwt-json-web-tokens-is-bad-standard-that-everyone-should-avoid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paragonie.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;jwt-json-web-tokens-is-ba...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paseto.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paseto.io</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewSChapman</author><text>I&#x27;ve read several articles along these lines now I tend to think the arguments are pretty weak.<p>In this media rich age, the data size argument is a bit silly.<p>The &quot;you&#x27;re going to hit the database anyway&quot; argument whilst probably accurate in most cases, doesn&#x27;t invalidate that JWT allows for one or more fewer database hits on <i>every</i> request.<p>Having built-in integrity checking is definitely a feature. Just because you can do it without JWT doesn&#x27;t mean that it&#x27;s not useful that JWT does it.<p>IMHO the biggest argument against the use of JWT is that you can&#x27;t easily invalidate JWT sessions. Should you need to dump a users session or if the information contained in that session token has become invalid then you might be in trouble. For my use cases so far however this hasn&#x27;t been a problem.<p>JWT is a fine solution for quite a lot of use cases. As with everything tech, just be aware of the limitations and choose wisely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why JWTs Suck as Session Tokens (2017)</title><url>https://developer.okta.com/blog/2017/08/17/why-jwts-suck-as-session-tokens</url></story> | <instructions>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>I concur with the author about session usage of JWT since it has little value (and if you did, just use it for it&#x27;s signing feature and still have it just contain a random session identifier). The reasons for defending it in that use seem to be about what&#x27;s not bad, but rarely about what&#x27;s good.<p>But JWTs have value for API tokens as they can embed an expiration date for the caller in a known format. But the idea of stateless JWTs with a bunch of valid data for use on successive calls by the server is a bit much. You should contact your auth store of record per invocation for various reasons.<p>Like you said, be aware of the issues with chosen sig algorithms and be exact on what you choose and just leverage JWT as the format, not blindly following the generation libraries without investigation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewSChapman</author><text>I&#x27;ve read several articles along these lines now I tend to think the arguments are pretty weak.<p>In this media rich age, the data size argument is a bit silly.<p>The &quot;you&#x27;re going to hit the database anyway&quot; argument whilst probably accurate in most cases, doesn&#x27;t invalidate that JWT allows for one or more fewer database hits on <i>every</i> request.<p>Having built-in integrity checking is definitely a feature. Just because you can do it without JWT doesn&#x27;t mean that it&#x27;s not useful that JWT does it.<p>IMHO the biggest argument against the use of JWT is that you can&#x27;t easily invalidate JWT sessions. Should you need to dump a users session or if the information contained in that session token has become invalid then you might be in trouble. For my use cases so far however this hasn&#x27;t been a problem.<p>JWT is a fine solution for quite a lot of use cases. As with everything tech, just be aware of the limitations and choose wisely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why JWTs Suck as Session Tokens (2017)</title><url>https://developer.okta.com/blog/2017/08/17/why-jwts-suck-as-session-tokens</url></story> |
35,141,018 | 35,141,097 | 1 | 3 | 35,140,309 | 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>Arrath</author><text>Worse as far as the outcome for the Pension, yes.<p>But its a concept otherwise known as Risk.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>I mean, that&#x27;s worse. The depositors at SVB are being made whole, the shareholders are getting wiped out.<p>EDIT: I think a lot of people misunderstood me. Wiping out the shareholders was absolutely the correct thing to do; I just meant worse from the perspective of people whose value is in the equity.</text></item><item><author>tom-thistime</author><text>According to the article, the pension fund&#x27;s exposure is because it owns shares of stock in SVB. That&#x27;s bad, but bank stocks can be tricky. They&#x27;re not saying they lost money as a depositor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish pension giant loses $1.1B from US banks’ collapse</title><url>https://www.thelocal.se/20230313/swedish-pension-giant-loses-12-billion-kronor-from-us-banks-collapse</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>It&#x27;s better in the sense that equity getting wiped out is normal and would be something Alecta planned for the possibility of.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>I mean, that&#x27;s worse. The depositors at SVB are being made whole, the shareholders are getting wiped out.<p>EDIT: I think a lot of people misunderstood me. Wiping out the shareholders was absolutely the correct thing to do; I just meant worse from the perspective of people whose value is in the equity.</text></item><item><author>tom-thistime</author><text>According to the article, the pension fund&#x27;s exposure is because it owns shares of stock in SVB. That&#x27;s bad, but bank stocks can be tricky. They&#x27;re not saying they lost money as a depositor.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swedish pension giant loses $1.1B from US banks’ collapse</title><url>https://www.thelocal.se/20230313/swedish-pension-giant-loses-12-billion-kronor-from-us-banks-collapse</url></story> |
22,952,146 | 22,950,208 | 1 | 3 | 22,948,723 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shadowsun7</author><text>Author here. You&#x27;re right, this was an initial attempt at criticism. Shane Parrish of Farnam Street reached out to me a few weeks after I published this, and then I spent the next year as a member of Farnam Street&#x27;s learning community, executing a research program around this criticism so as to make it more constructive. A crisp version of that series may be found here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commoncog.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-mental-model-faq&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commoncog.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-mental-model-faq&#x2F;</a><p>The core of this series stems from the observation that <i>all expertise is tacit</i>. Polanyi and Papert has the best articulated expression of these ideas, and they match up to my experience in actually pursuing expertise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gloryless</author><text>This is a great example of bad writing. I think you have an inkling of a premise, but spread it weakly across three paragraphs while muddling through your feelings and misunderstandings about models. You never actually define or defend a position. Couple times you&#x27;ve come close to contradicting yourself, but the premise is so weak I can&#x27;t say for sure.<p>I do think you successfully communicate that you struggle with some of the concepts you&#x27;re trying to refute.<p>Just looking at your highlighted statements:<p>&gt; The most valuable mental models do not survive codification. They cannot be expressed through words alone.<p>Close to stating a premise but you&#x27;ve gone and blown away the the subject of models. I think you&#x27;re trying to say farnam street is selling snake oil, but you&#x27;re now arguing experience can&#x27;t be taught, which is tangential and generally uninteresting<p>&gt; When Warren Buffett studies a company, he doesn’t see a checklist of mental models he has to apply.<p>1) You don&#x27;t know that and 2) &quot;warren buffet studies a company by running through a checklist of mental models&quot; is a claim you&#x27;ve just come up with to refute (strawmen seem to make up the majority of this post)<p>&gt; How do you know if a computer program is badly designed? You don’t go through a mental checklist; instead, you feel disgust, coloured by your experience.<p>No. You&#x27;ve indicated you don&#x27;t understand design, and again that a model = mental checklist, which is your own assertion</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mental Model Fallacy (2018)</title><url>https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-fallacy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jturpin</author><text>Yeah this is a fairly weak article - calling something a _fallacy_ is exceptionally bold, as if it&#x27;s logically inconsistent in some kind of provable way, and it&#x27;s only barely backed up by the rest of the content. Sure, I guess taking people&#x27;s word on a subject that they don&#x27;t have personal experience themselves isn&#x27;t the wisest decision. It would be hard to prove that there&#x27;s _nothing_ to offer from listening to them like the article suggests.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gloryless</author><text>This is a great example of bad writing. I think you have an inkling of a premise, but spread it weakly across three paragraphs while muddling through your feelings and misunderstandings about models. You never actually define or defend a position. Couple times you&#x27;ve come close to contradicting yourself, but the premise is so weak I can&#x27;t say for sure.<p>I do think you successfully communicate that you struggle with some of the concepts you&#x27;re trying to refute.<p>Just looking at your highlighted statements:<p>&gt; The most valuable mental models do not survive codification. They cannot be expressed through words alone.<p>Close to stating a premise but you&#x27;ve gone and blown away the the subject of models. I think you&#x27;re trying to say farnam street is selling snake oil, but you&#x27;re now arguing experience can&#x27;t be taught, which is tangential and generally uninteresting<p>&gt; When Warren Buffett studies a company, he doesn’t see a checklist of mental models he has to apply.<p>1) You don&#x27;t know that and 2) &quot;warren buffet studies a company by running through a checklist of mental models&quot; is a claim you&#x27;ve just come up with to refute (strawmen seem to make up the majority of this post)<p>&gt; How do you know if a computer program is badly designed? You don’t go through a mental checklist; instead, you feel disgust, coloured by your experience.<p>No. You&#x27;ve indicated you don&#x27;t understand design, and again that a model = mental checklist, which is your own assertion</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mental Model Fallacy (2018)</title><url>https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-fallacy/</url></story> |
10,838,343 | 10,838,032 | 1 | 2 | 10,837,833 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcoffland</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using emacs for about 20yrs as my main coding editor and vi regularly as a fast command line editor. Can some one explain in clear terms why I would want to learn a new set of key bindings? What are the advantages of spacemacs other than a better configuration system and nifty graphics? Both the Github page and website do a terrible job of explaining this, IMO. Maybe the answer is that it was not made for me.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spacemacs 0.105.0 released</title><url>https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/releases/tag/v0.105.0</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>shadeless</author><text>Also a great addition is the new Spacemacs website which went live today: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacemacs.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacemacs.org&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spacemacs 0.105.0 released</title><url>https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/releases/tag/v0.105.0</url></story> |
25,365,555 | 25,365,146 | 1 | 2 | 25,363,777 | 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>mattkrause</author><text>Here&#x27;s crazy case report of man who &quot;overdosed&quot; on placebos given to him as part of a blinded clinical trial.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;17484949&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;17484949&#x2F;</a><p>His blood pressure crashed (80&#x2F;40 initally, 100&#x2F;62 after several hours of IV fluids) and his heart rate was over 100 bpm. When he found out the pills he had taken were inert, he bounced back almost immediately.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text><i>&quot;Note that the control group in this case doesn&#x27;t have to be a placebo group, because it&#x27;s too obvious if someone has taken a powerful drug.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s not, actually. I&#x27;ve heard interviews with researchers in other MDMA studies saying that there were subjects who were absolutely convinced they got MDMA, and acted like they were on it, but when the double-blind study was over it was revealed that they didn&#x27;t.<p>Never underestimate the power of placebos or of the human mind.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Good to see some progress in this area.<p>As usual, it&#x27;s important to emphasize that this research is about therapy, with MDMA as an additional modulator on top of the therapy. In this case, 15 therapy sessions over a period of 7 weeks. MDMA was only involved in 2 of the 15 sessions. If I&#x27;m reading the paper correctly, patients received 3 therapy sessions before MDMA was introduced and the bulk of reported improvements happened prior to MDMA being added. Looking at the graphs, there aren&#x27;t any obvious score increases around the MDMA sessions. In fact, I couldn&#x27;t tell when the MDMA was introduced without reading the methodology section.<p>The study was also limited to 6 couples, with no control group. Note that the control group in this case doesn&#x27;t have to be a placebo group, because it&#x27;s too obvious if someone has taken a powerful drug. Instead, the control group would simply receive therapy without MDMA and results would be compared. The difference would begin to show the benefit of therapy+MDMA over therapy alone, which is critically important in these trials. You can&#x27;t just give people 15 therapy sessions and then attribute the benefits to 2 doses of MDMA.<p>People tend to see these headlines and assume that the drug is doing all the work, or that they can simply replicate the results by taking the drug and seeing what happens. This is usually backed up by a couple of random positive anecdotes in the comment section while anyone with negative experiences is downvoted or dismissed.<p>Please don&#x27;t assume you can replicate these results with ad-hoc experimentation with street drugs. If you browse Reddit, it&#x27;s not hard to find anecdotes from people who have mistaken the short-term effects of these drugs for long-term healing, which usually results in them reaching out for more drugs the next time they have problems. Once people convince themselves that the drug is the easy solution to their problems, they&#x27;re on their way to low-level addiction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial</title><url>https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/mdma-assisted-couples-therapy-ptsd-cbct-pilot-trial-maps/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Wow, that is bizarre. At first I&#x27;d say it seems unbelievable, but then when you think of people in churches speaking in tongues, etc. -- I guess I could see it.<p>But if you&#x27;ve ever <i>done</i> MDMA you&#x27;d certainly know it was a placebo, so it feels like these are people who never had, but <i>imagined</i> what they thought it <i>ought</i> to be like.<p>I&#x27;d actually be incredibly curious to hear their description of it? Especially since everyone knows what people act like when drunk or on cocaine... but I&#x27;m not quite sure people have as definite an idea of MDMA?</text><parent_chain><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text><i>&quot;Note that the control group in this case doesn&#x27;t have to be a placebo group, because it&#x27;s too obvious if someone has taken a powerful drug.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s not, actually. I&#x27;ve heard interviews with researchers in other MDMA studies saying that there were subjects who were absolutely convinced they got MDMA, and acted like they were on it, but when the double-blind study was over it was revealed that they didn&#x27;t.<p>Never underestimate the power of placebos or of the human mind.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Good to see some progress in this area.<p>As usual, it&#x27;s important to emphasize that this research is about therapy, with MDMA as an additional modulator on top of the therapy. In this case, 15 therapy sessions over a period of 7 weeks. MDMA was only involved in 2 of the 15 sessions. If I&#x27;m reading the paper correctly, patients received 3 therapy sessions before MDMA was introduced and the bulk of reported improvements happened prior to MDMA being added. Looking at the graphs, there aren&#x27;t any obvious score increases around the MDMA sessions. In fact, I couldn&#x27;t tell when the MDMA was introduced without reading the methodology section.<p>The study was also limited to 6 couples, with no control group. Note that the control group in this case doesn&#x27;t have to be a placebo group, because it&#x27;s too obvious if someone has taken a powerful drug. Instead, the control group would simply receive therapy without MDMA and results would be compared. The difference would begin to show the benefit of therapy+MDMA over therapy alone, which is critically important in these trials. You can&#x27;t just give people 15 therapy sessions and then attribute the benefits to 2 doses of MDMA.<p>People tend to see these headlines and assume that the drug is doing all the work, or that they can simply replicate the results by taking the drug and seeing what happens. This is usually backed up by a couple of random positive anecdotes in the comment section while anyone with negative experiences is downvoted or dismissed.<p>Please don&#x27;t assume you can replicate these results with ad-hoc experimentation with street drugs. If you browse Reddit, it&#x27;s not hard to find anecdotes from people who have mistaken the short-term effects of these drugs for long-term healing, which usually results in them reaching out for more drugs the next time they have problems. Once people convince themselves that the drug is the easy solution to their problems, they&#x27;re on their way to low-level addiction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial</title><url>https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/mdma-assisted-couples-therapy-ptsd-cbct-pilot-trial-maps/</url></story> |
16,347,182 | 16,346,661 | 1 | 2 | 16,346,135 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Using something that sounds like bird calls - or something else that&#x27;s pleasant - to transmit data sounds like a pretty neat idea for a smart home. It would expose the otherwise-invisible artificial ecosystem you&#x27;re living in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joshumax</author><text>For those of you interested, there was an app called Chirp by Animal Systems that allowed you to transfer messages and shortcodes of hosted media content over audible frequencies. Despite being rather ear-piercing each time a Chirp was sent, it was still a very interesting principal. I remember reverse engineering the protocol and error correction mechanisms (it was a varient of the Reed-Solomon algorithm iirc) with a friend for a little household &quot;internet of things&quot; that communicated over sound. I still have a few temperature monitoring devices around the house that sing a little tune based on the RE&#x27;d code every few hours to report back to my RasPi on home temperature data.<p>Judging by the fact that this was in my GitHub stars list from about a year ago, it looks like I was considering transitioning to something more open. With the right encryption and error correction mechanisms I think this type of technology could be really useful for short-range home iot communication.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quiet for Android – TCP over sound</title><url>https://github.com/quiet/org.quietmodem.Quiet</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ggerganov</author><text>It&#x27;s definitely an interesting concept. I&#x27;ve been playing around myself recently with implementing a simple data-over-sound protocol (nowhere near as advanced as Quiet). If anyone is interested, here is a quick 1 min showcase: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HrMQjFGD_MU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HrMQjFGD_MU</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>joshumax</author><text>For those of you interested, there was an app called Chirp by Animal Systems that allowed you to transfer messages and shortcodes of hosted media content over audible frequencies. Despite being rather ear-piercing each time a Chirp was sent, it was still a very interesting principal. I remember reverse engineering the protocol and error correction mechanisms (it was a varient of the Reed-Solomon algorithm iirc) with a friend for a little household &quot;internet of things&quot; that communicated over sound. I still have a few temperature monitoring devices around the house that sing a little tune based on the RE&#x27;d code every few hours to report back to my RasPi on home temperature data.<p>Judging by the fact that this was in my GitHub stars list from about a year ago, it looks like I was considering transitioning to something more open. With the right encryption and error correction mechanisms I think this type of technology could be really useful for short-range home iot communication.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Quiet for Android – TCP over sound</title><url>https://github.com/quiet/org.quietmodem.Quiet</url></story> |
14,639,195 | 14,638,651 | 1 | 3 | 14,637,850 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anderskaseorg</author><text>Yes, yes, it’s been three months since the provost triumphantly announced that IPv6 will finally be coming to the campus network, and communication about IPv6 on campus goes back much longer than that, but we have yet to see it in a single building (beyond the buildings where students have set up their own tunnels, and who knows if those will even work with the new network). Meanwhile, the NAT was deployed in twelve buildings with same-day notice and no prior communication, leaving some student groups with unreachable servers. If this had anything to do with pushing innovation, don’t you think the priorities and communication pattern would have been a bit different?</text><parent_chain><item><author>znpy</author><text>A lot of fuss, but if you look at the presentation slide in the middle of the page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;4.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-PyyPpTv1p7g&#x2F;WU7hMEBnm4I&#x2F;AAAAAAAAEZ0&#x2F;IZSBv4d5G1kV2rCkpA-DziMB_4o2ri0RQCLcBGAs&#x2F;s640&#x2F;MITNAT-Slide.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;4.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-PyyPpTv1p7g&#x2F;WU7hMEBnm4I&#x2F;AAAAAAAAE...</a> for reference) it is clear that MIT is not stifling anything or shutting anyone&#x27;s mouth.<p>MIT is just moving to IPv6.<p>Actually... MIT forcing an entire generation of future engineers to deal with IPv6... That will literally push innovation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation</title><url>http://blog.achernya.com/2017/06/by-installing-nat-mit-stifles-innovation.html?view=classic</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dheera</author><text>No. IPv6 is great in concept but the world just isn&#x27;t ready for it yet. Even our Google Wifi access points don&#x27;t support IPv6 in their latest firmware, so I have no way of using IPv6 even though Comcast supports it. AWS IPv6 support has been sketchy until only this year. Many parts of the world are happily dancing with their IPv4 NAT and their sysadmins have no incentives to support IPv6 whatsoever.<p>Forcing people to use anything is <i>never</i> a good way to promote innovation.<p>I went to MIT for my undergrad and doctoral studies. One of the <i>main</i> reasons I chose MIT over other schools was the ease of availability of static IP addresses, unlimited symmetric gigabit bandwidth, no port restrictions, and other things. I even mentioned this in my undergrad application essay. I built a <i>lot</i> of things with it and learned a lot in my time there. I probably learned more outside of classes than in classes, and I think that&#x27;s one of the distinguishing aspects of MIT culture.</text><parent_chain><item><author>znpy</author><text>A lot of fuss, but if you look at the presentation slide in the middle of the page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;4.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-PyyPpTv1p7g&#x2F;WU7hMEBnm4I&#x2F;AAAAAAAAEZ0&#x2F;IZSBv4d5G1kV2rCkpA-DziMB_4o2ri0RQCLcBGAs&#x2F;s640&#x2F;MITNAT-Slide.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;4.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-PyyPpTv1p7g&#x2F;WU7hMEBnm4I&#x2F;AAAAAAAAE...</a> for reference) it is clear that MIT is not stifling anything or shutting anyone&#x27;s mouth.<p>MIT is just moving to IPv6.<p>Actually... MIT forcing an entire generation of future engineers to deal with IPv6... That will literally push innovation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation</title><url>http://blog.achernya.com/2017/06/by-installing-nat-mit-stifles-innovation.html?view=classic</url></story> |
21,565,465 | 21,564,895 | 1 | 2 | 21,564,796 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>programmertote</author><text>The same goes for all UNGOs and NGOs that operate around the world for various humanitarian causes. I have interned at places like World Vision, World Concern, and Save the Children; my sister has worked for almost three years at a well-known French NGO that operates in my home country (in SE Asia). A few other people I know work for various non-profit orgs like UNICEF and UNOCHA etc.<p>We notice one consistent thing: these purpose of organizations&#x2F;institutions isn&#x27;t as simple as &quot;serve the best for the native population that they are supposed to save from natural&#x2F;economic&#x2F;humanitarian disaster&quot;. The need (say, for regional&#x2F;program directors) to find the next funding to keep the project going trumps EVERY OTHER altruistic purpose. Also, these program directors don&#x27;t stay for longer than 2-3 years (let alone getting to know the native population they are trying to help) and most of them are always trying to get in on the next action&#x2F;conflict in another country, and&#x2F;or to simply move to a better pasture (a more developed country). The management in these non-profit orgs--such as save the children, world vision, UNICEF--are always whitewashed (I do not intend this to come out negatively, but have to keep it real here) and they rarely promote native workers to have a say in things that matter (although native workers are the ones who have to do the day-to-day, on-the-field hard work). On Facebook, there has been a growing resentment by native workers toward these &#x27;foreigners of ruling hierarchy&#x27; that work for non-profits (while taking up most of the salary+benefits and wasting donation money). I don&#x27;t know how far it will go and am interested to see it out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FillardMillmore</author><text>This article accentuates the need to always look for the source of the funding when it comes to non-profits, think tanks, and &quot;public interest&quot; groups. Unfortunately, the goals of these groups are not always as transparent as their names would have you believe.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook, Google Fund Nonprofits Shaping Privacy Debate</title><url>https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/facebook-google-donate-heavily-to-privacy-advocacy-groups</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmos62</author><text>Sad truth. I&#x27;d like to see something label itself as a public-interest group and be able to trust it immediately, but it&#x27;s not as simple as that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FillardMillmore</author><text>This article accentuates the need to always look for the source of the funding when it comes to non-profits, think tanks, and &quot;public interest&quot; groups. Unfortunately, the goals of these groups are not always as transparent as their names would have you believe.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook, Google Fund Nonprofits Shaping Privacy Debate</title><url>https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/facebook-google-donate-heavily-to-privacy-advocacy-groups</url></story> |
26,165,050 | 26,164,773 | 1 | 3 | 26,163,691 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noahtallen</author><text>Your concept is predicated on the assumption that there is and always will be a supply of living-wage jobs provided by “the market” equal to the number of people alive. That’s probably a wrong assumption to make.<p>And, what if everyone followed your advice to abandon low wage jobs and just get better ones?<p>- People need a living wage to, well, live.<p>- Therefore, all people should get better jobs so that they have living wages (instead of working 3 jobs or relying on welfare)<p>- As a result, there are no workers for low wage jobs.<p>- But everyone relies on these jobs constantly for the menial tasks we don’t like to do ourselves (like cooking or cleaning or farming or building things)<p>- So we do in fact value these jobs enough for people to work them. Otherwise our lives would be less comfortable.<p>As a result, we should actually be bringing the wages of these jobs up (to make them living-wage jobs) rather having everyone abandon these jobs for other high paying jobs which don’t actually exist.<p>I want to (eventually) eat out at a restaurant, and there aren’t enough teenagers to be waiters everywhere. So do I just say to every waiter that they should “get a better job”, and eventually run out of waiters? Ridiculous. I propose that if someone cannot make a living off of the service they provide, then we should examine whether we would rather do it ourselves all the time. If we do think it’s a valuable service, I’d hope we’d be willing to compensate in a non-exploitative way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>judgemcjudgy</author><text>It&#x27;s not &quot;the system&quot; that is broken in that case, just your personal life. There is no system that provides for you, you have to do that yourself.<p>Edit: I think &quot;get a better job&quot; is a better argument than &quot;I am such a victim, there is nothing I can do, everybody else is at fault&quot;. What else than getting a better job can you do? Seriously? And you don&#x27;t need better education or stuff like that. If you work three jobs, maybe you can replace them with a normal job in a factory line or whatever. Just because you don&#x27;t immediately get bestowed with your ideal job, doesn&#x27;t mean that everything is hopeless and society is exploiting you. Most people don&#x27;t start out with their ideal job.<p>Jobs don&#x27;t fall from the sky. And nobody owes you a job. If there are no jobs in your area, you should move to someplace where there are jobs (maybe because a new Amazon warehouse opens or whatever). Yes, there can be circumstances where you can&#x27;t move, like perhaps having to take care of sick relatives. But those are also temporary.</text></item><item><author>theshrike79</author><text>Needing to work 18 hours a day to live is not normal.<p>The problem is not alarm clocks, the whole system is broken if you need to work 12+ hours a day just to keep a roof over your head and food on the table.</text></item><item><author>gerbler</author><text>I don&#x27;t disagree with the premise, but there is an enormous luxury in having this option.<p>If you work two low-paid jobs, you are time poor. My partner used to work three jobs at one point in her life, getting up at 5am, and finishing at 11pm. An alarm clock is needed due to sleep deprivation.<p>Perhaps a different framing is &quot;kill low-wage jobs&quot;? I&#x27;m being facetious but alarm clocks are not inherently bad, low-wages and long hours are.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)</title><url>https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Kill_the_alarm_clock</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theshrike79</author><text>A single full-time job should pay enough for a person to be able to have a place to live and sufficient food to provide a healthy amount calories for themselves and their dependants.<p>If this it not possible, the system itself is broken, either rent&#x2F;food is too expensive, wages are too low or both.</text><parent_chain><item><author>judgemcjudgy</author><text>It&#x27;s not &quot;the system&quot; that is broken in that case, just your personal life. There is no system that provides for you, you have to do that yourself.<p>Edit: I think &quot;get a better job&quot; is a better argument than &quot;I am such a victim, there is nothing I can do, everybody else is at fault&quot;. What else than getting a better job can you do? Seriously? And you don&#x27;t need better education or stuff like that. If you work three jobs, maybe you can replace them with a normal job in a factory line or whatever. Just because you don&#x27;t immediately get bestowed with your ideal job, doesn&#x27;t mean that everything is hopeless and society is exploiting you. Most people don&#x27;t start out with their ideal job.<p>Jobs don&#x27;t fall from the sky. And nobody owes you a job. If there are no jobs in your area, you should move to someplace where there are jobs (maybe because a new Amazon warehouse opens or whatever). Yes, there can be circumstances where you can&#x27;t move, like perhaps having to take care of sick relatives. But those are also temporary.</text></item><item><author>theshrike79</author><text>Needing to work 18 hours a day to live is not normal.<p>The problem is not alarm clocks, the whole system is broken if you need to work 12+ hours a day just to keep a roof over your head and food on the table.</text></item><item><author>gerbler</author><text>I don&#x27;t disagree with the premise, but there is an enormous luxury in having this option.<p>If you work two low-paid jobs, you are time poor. My partner used to work three jobs at one point in her life, getting up at 5am, and finishing at 11pm. An alarm clock is needed due to sleep deprivation.<p>Perhaps a different framing is &quot;kill low-wage jobs&quot;? I&#x27;m being facetious but alarm clocks are not inherently bad, low-wages and long hours are.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kill the Alarm Clock (2017)</title><url>https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Kill_the_alarm_clock</url></story> |
6,514,326 | 6,514,314 | 1 | 3 | 6,513,860 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leephillips</author><text>What marknutter says (&quot;do not make it impossible to lose weight, just more difficult&quot;) is tautologically true. What you say (&quot;For all you know she&#x27;s already tried everything&quot;) can not possibly be true.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chris_wot</author><text>Dear God man! You don&#x27;t know anything about her. For all you know she&#x27;s already tried everything.<p>For that matter, the article says she is healthy and the doctors have given her the all clear. So she&#x27;s of a somewhat larger build - big fucking deal!<p>This is probably coming off wrong. I&#x27;m sure you mean well. But don&#x27;t be so quick to give healthy living advise to someone with a medical condition (or for that matter, really <i>anyone</i>) you don&#x27;t know. Put yourself in their shoes - the point of this article really - how would <i>you</i> like unsolicited, judgmental advise about something you have little control over?</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>&gt; I don’t generally view my body size as positive or negative — it simply is. I eat right (most of the time) and I exercise (an inordinate amount), but it does little, thanks to a struggle with polycystic ovarian syndrome and a failing thyroid gland. I’m strong, I’m flexible and my doctor assures me my health is good, but the fact remains: I’m larger than someone my height should be.<p>I feel for her and the negative comments are reprehensible, but what I hear in this particular paragraph are excuses. Having issues with POS and the thyroid gland do not make it impossible to lose weight, just more difficult. My advice: ignore the haters and come up with a game plan with your doctor to lose the weight in a steady and health way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My embarrassing picture went viral</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/my_embarrassing_picture_went_viral/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kefka</author><text>And there&#x27;s something rather neat about physics, chemistry, and biology.<p>Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. So, that means garbage in = fat + garbage out. You really are what you eat.<p>I know this by my own diet. When I gobbled up everything in sight, I &lt;gasp&gt; got fat. When I quit packing my face full of food, I lost weight. Interesting how that works.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chris_wot</author><text>Dear God man! You don&#x27;t know anything about her. For all you know she&#x27;s already tried everything.<p>For that matter, the article says she is healthy and the doctors have given her the all clear. So she&#x27;s of a somewhat larger build - big fucking deal!<p>This is probably coming off wrong. I&#x27;m sure you mean well. But don&#x27;t be so quick to give healthy living advise to someone with a medical condition (or for that matter, really <i>anyone</i>) you don&#x27;t know. Put yourself in their shoes - the point of this article really - how would <i>you</i> like unsolicited, judgmental advise about something you have little control over?</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>&gt; I don’t generally view my body size as positive or negative — it simply is. I eat right (most of the time) and I exercise (an inordinate amount), but it does little, thanks to a struggle with polycystic ovarian syndrome and a failing thyroid gland. I’m strong, I’m flexible and my doctor assures me my health is good, but the fact remains: I’m larger than someone my height should be.<p>I feel for her and the negative comments are reprehensible, but what I hear in this particular paragraph are excuses. Having issues with POS and the thyroid gland do not make it impossible to lose weight, just more difficult. My advice: ignore the haters and come up with a game plan with your doctor to lose the weight in a steady and health way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>My embarrassing picture went viral</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/my_embarrassing_picture_went_viral/</url></story> |
30,395,234 | 30,394,940 | 1 | 3 | 30,394,737 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>This is brilliant! Being called a “file system access” api will confuse many people into thinking it’s about traditional file storage for “people” to use, like a file picker&#x2F;save dialog. It’s not, this is about providing a block storage that can be used for other things.<p>The one I am most excited by is for persistent SQLite with proper acid transaction in the browser, not having to load the whole db into memory. Absurd SQL [0] currently does this by creating a VFS on top of IndexedDB. This would let it do it properly, and is likely to be upstreamed to SQL.JS which is the main SQLite WASM project.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jlongster&#x2F;absurd-sql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jlongster&#x2F;absurd-sql</a><p>Many new in browser DB engines are going to get built on top of this. Others that I could see happing are:<p>- Relm from MongoDB being ported to WASM and use this for storage.<p>- If I were Supabase I would be looking to create a “Mini Supabase” for mobile, and make it work in browser too.<p>- Couchbase Mobile as an alternative to PouchDB</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin</title><url>https://webkit.org/blog/12257/the-file-system-access-api-with-origin-private-file-system/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mg</author><text>Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the &quot;local file access&quot; that Chromium offers and that Safari lacks.<p>With better browser support for the File System Access API, web applications that store their data in files might become a common thing.<p>Currently, when building a web application, you usually build some backend system that lets the user log in and then stores the data. Or you use IndexedDB and let the browser handle it. In both cases, the user does not have good access to the data.<p>If instead on the first run, the application asked the user &quot;Where do you want to store the data&quot; and the user selects a file or a directory, that puts the user in full control.<p>Then they later can backup the data however they like, edit it with other tools, version it etc etc.<p>The browser is an awesome platform. I love to write local tools in HTML. It is just so easy to tweak browser based applications to your needs. Open the html file, change a line or two, save - boom! you got what you want.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin</title><url>https://webkit.org/blog/12257/the-file-system-access-api-with-origin-private-file-system/</url></story> |
7,548,554 | 7,547,957 | 1 | 2 | 7,547,704 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kayoone</author><text>They should fix their core business. I loathe skype. Instant messaging on multiple devices is just dreadful as you get all conversations as unread again on any device you log on to skype. The mobile client sucks your battery dry and is super slow...i hate it with passion... Still i need to use it as most of my clients do..</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Skype TX</title><url>https://media.skype.com/skype-tx/</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>rkuykendall-com</author><text>I keep reading Skype Texas.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Skype TX</title><url>https://media.skype.com/skype-tx/</url><text></text></story> |
18,683,994 | 18,683,584 | 1 | 3 | 18,682,580 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>illumin8</author><text>The quickest way to resolve all of these billing shenanigans: file a consumer complaint with the FCC. Magically, you&#x27;ll almost immediately get a phone call from someone fairly high up in the company (typically executive relations or similar) that has the power to fix things and will make it right.<p>The sad truth is that these telcos will systematically screw millions of customers with shady fees and fraudulent billing practices, but when the FCC gets involved, they are facing potential fines of tens of thousands for each infraction, so they&#x27;ll bend over backwards to get you to drop the complaint.<p>Try it sometime, it sucks that it&#x27;s necessary, but you&#x27;d be amazed at the results.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xahrepap</author><text>CenturyLink is totally shady. My wife just yesterday spent a significant amount of time fixing our phone bill. She decided a couple months ago to upgrade to a &quot;fixed&quot; bill plan (apparently they&#x27;ve been raising our prices $10&#x2F;mo every year for the last few years). This plan price won&#x27;t change until we change the plan. It&#x27;s bundled with their internet though, but my wife told them to not send the modem because we weren&#x27;t going to be using it and didn&#x27;t want to be charged for it.<p>Fast forward to yesterday and we had a modem in the mail a $200+ bill for our landline that should be &lt;$60. She called and the guy on the other end was very helpful (surprisingly). He went through the bill line-by-line and almost every time said something to the extent of, &quot;Why is that here?&quot; &quot;I&#x27;m going to have to talk to {previous sales lady who &#x27;upgraded&#x27; us}&quot;. Some of the items he didn&#x27;t even know what they were and couldn&#x27;t remove them, so he instead gave us a permanent $10&#x2F;mo discount or whatever it was billing.<p>About the modem, he said, &quot;You can keep it or mail it back. I can make a note on our software that you didn&#x27;t want it and it shouldn&#x27;t bill you for it. However, I recommend you mail it back because sometimes that note will disappear from our software and start charging you again&quot;.<p>Wait... what!? Did he just acknowledge what some of us has suspected all along? That their software has intentional &quot;bugs&quot; that don&#x27;t remember to stop billing someone for something?<p>The whole thing feels like a scam to me. I don&#x27;t trust them at all. This isn&#x27;t the first time and won&#x27;t be the last either.<p>The reason we haven&#x27;t canceled? No other traditional landline offerings in our area. Everything is VOIP or Cell. My wife wants something independent for emergencies. She&#x27;s starting to question the value of it all though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to</title><url>https://www.richsnapp.com/blog/2018/12-13-centurylink-blocking-internet-in-utah</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>A friend of mine signed up for them on a promo, got charged 3x the price he was supposed to, then was told “We didn’t apply the promo, but that’s only for new customers and you’re a customer now so we won’t fix it.”<p>Thankfully he lives in one of the few places with multiple providers, so he told them to stuff it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>xahrepap</author><text>CenturyLink is totally shady. My wife just yesterday spent a significant amount of time fixing our phone bill. She decided a couple months ago to upgrade to a &quot;fixed&quot; bill plan (apparently they&#x27;ve been raising our prices $10&#x2F;mo every year for the last few years). This plan price won&#x27;t change until we change the plan. It&#x27;s bundled with their internet though, but my wife told them to not send the modem because we weren&#x27;t going to be using it and didn&#x27;t want to be charged for it.<p>Fast forward to yesterday and we had a modem in the mail a $200+ bill for our landline that should be &lt;$60. She called and the guy on the other end was very helpful (surprisingly). He went through the bill line-by-line and almost every time said something to the extent of, &quot;Why is that here?&quot; &quot;I&#x27;m going to have to talk to {previous sales lady who &#x27;upgraded&#x27; us}&quot;. Some of the items he didn&#x27;t even know what they were and couldn&#x27;t remove them, so he instead gave us a permanent $10&#x2F;mo discount or whatever it was billing.<p>About the modem, he said, &quot;You can keep it or mail it back. I can make a note on our software that you didn&#x27;t want it and it shouldn&#x27;t bill you for it. However, I recommend you mail it back because sometimes that note will disappear from our software and start charging you again&quot;.<p>Wait... what!? Did he just acknowledge what some of us has suspected all along? That their software has intentional &quot;bugs&quot; that don&#x27;t remember to stop billing someone for something?<p>The whole thing feels like a scam to me. I don&#x27;t trust them at all. This isn&#x27;t the first time and won&#x27;t be the last either.<p>The reason we haven&#x27;t canceled? No other traditional landline offerings in our area. Everything is VOIP or Cell. My wife wants something independent for emergencies. She&#x27;s starting to question the value of it all though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to</title><url>https://www.richsnapp.com/blog/2018/12-13-centurylink-blocking-internet-in-utah</url></story> |
14,706,662 | 14,706,733 | 1 | 2 | 14,705,666 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>methodin</author><text>I used it for almost two years for a variety of reasons - primarily it forces you to be a better cook and cook a much larger range of recipes than you would select on your own.
Eventually I had a stockpile of recipes from them to pull off of and we moved right across the street from a grocery store so was pretty ridiculous to keep using it.
I don&#x27;t regret it at all - I&#x27;m a much better cook and I can cook a much larger variety of stuff now than prior to using the service. These services don&#x27;t seem like they are able to sustain people for long periods of time. If people are like me you&#x27;d use it for a while then eventually find it unnecessary. Seems like the model is short-lived propagation than long-term use but I could be an anomaly.
Also used a few others in that time - Blue Apron was the most consistent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nsnick</author><text>Does anyone actually use Blue Apron? They seem to do promotions all the time and yet, I don&#x27;t know anyone who actually uses their service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/05/blue-apron-falls-9-on-fourth-day-as-a-public-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>sgdread</author><text>We used it a lot when they just started. For a while the quality was very good: chefs did a good job providing variety of choices, packaging was good. But after a year or so they started to cut the cost and shifted to low-quality selection which felt like fast food. We moved to Home Chef: it&#x27;s pricier, but they provide what Blue Apron was when they started.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nsnick</author><text>Does anyone actually use Blue Apron? They seem to do promotions all the time and yet, I don&#x27;t know anyone who actually uses their service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/05/blue-apron-falls-9-on-fourth-day-as-a-public-company</url></story> |
34,904,454 | 34,899,441 | 1 | 2 | 34,896,129 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fleddr</author><text>I&#x27;m from the Netherlands, one of the most light-polluted areas on the planet and had my first proper dark night only in my 30s.<p>It was in South Africa. We were driving with a roofed jeep on some plains in search of nocturnal wildlife. Then, the driver stopped and told us to get out. It was freezing and he prepared hot chocolate from the back of the car.<p>He killed his search light and it got so dark that we could not see our own hands. And then we looked up.<p>Holy shit. I&#x27;m not a melodramatic person but this was the first time in my life that I experienced living on a planet, connected to something far greater. I mean, I knew this to be the case, but I never <i>experienced</i> it. Because I normally live under the clouds and a yellow haze.<p>I experienced it once more in Colombia where I could see the Milky Way with the naked eye.<p>It&#x27;s sad that an experience that should be a given has become so rare. I&#x27;m especially frustrated with all the lights that have no purpose. Nobody goes to admire the architecture of your church at 3AM at night. Nor do you have to decorate your backyard so excessively with obnoxious lights whilst you are sleeping.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is artificial light poisoning the planet?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/darkness-manifesto-book-johan-eklof</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>a1pulley</author><text>HOAs have their downsides, but I do really appreciate one of my CC&amp;Rs: in my ~4 square mile city, we are not allowed to have exterior lights apart from ones to illuminate driveways and patios. Moreover, there are no street lights in the entire city.<p>It&#x27;s an oasis of uncorrupted night in the unlikeliest of places: Los Angeles. You can see city lights from certain vantage points, but in most places it is pitch black. Living here feels like perpetual camping. It is wonderful, and it would be stressful for me to return to living in a place with perpetual illumination.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is artificial light poisoning the planet?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/darkness-manifesto-book-johan-eklof</url></story> |
28,808,750 | 28,807,743 | 1 | 3 | 28,806,500 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sfobiab</author><text>Andrew Wilkinson recently took a company public in Canada through a reverse takeover <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=CVE:+WE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=CVE:+WE</a><p>Very early in the life of the company they have undertaken some pretty dishonest accounting of their revenues, net retention and other key metrics. The CFO resigned after the first reporting quarter.<p>I have a strong feeling there is more to this character than just the recycling of virtue filled business models.<p>Buyer (seller) beware.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet (2017)</title><url>https://awilkinson.medium.com/the-berkshire-hathaway-of-the-internet-391a8ee83db</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>salmonlogs</author><text>If the genius business model relies on trusting people because &quot;we have tons of mutual friends&quot; then its just friends of friends investing in each other. That is not even slightly comparable to Berkshire Hathway and shows a stunning level of naivety.<p>The typical process requires due diligence because there is no trust - there are a huge amount of dodgy businesses, sketchy owners and smooth talkers trying to extract cash from investors.<p>This model might work for a few years but inevitably requires moving further out of the trust network where deeper and further due diligence is required. Or, its not done and every deal will get worse quality and expose them to more risk.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet (2017)</title><url>https://awilkinson.medium.com/the-berkshire-hathaway-of-the-internet-391a8ee83db</url></story> |
10,575,522 | 10,575,317 | 1 | 3 | 10,574,895 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>Probably not formally, but I do tend to find that how much I enjoy a game correlates inversely with how easily I can imagine teaching a computer to play it. Most of the time, if I start thinking &quot;I could write an algorithm for this game&quot;, I very quickly lose interest in playing it.<p>So, I enjoy games where I feel like I can recognize patterns that have some depth and complexity, that make me feel like I can develop some skill, that don&#x27;t seem trivially teachable to a computer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>headcanon</author><text>Interesting - I wonder if NP-hardness can be used as a sufficient indicator of how &quot;enjoyably challenging&quot; a game is. There&#x27;s a reason these games are such classics, and I dont think its entirely because of their timing, polish, and marketing. Miyamoto&#x27;s games always had that special &quot;something&quot; (opinion, I know), maybe this has something to do with it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012)</title><url>http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1895</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>What NES games aren&#x27;t NP-hard? I don&#x27;t think complexity class is useful for games analysis.</text><parent_chain><item><author>headcanon</author><text>Interesting - I wonder if NP-hardness can be used as a sufficient indicator of how &quot;enjoyably challenging&quot; a game is. There&#x27;s a reason these games are such classics, and I dont think its entirely because of their timing, polish, and marketing. Miyamoto&#x27;s games always had that special &quot;something&quot; (opinion, I know), maybe this has something to do with it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012)</title><url>http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1895</url></story> |
21,753,012 | 21,752,233 | 1 | 2 | 21,749,411 | 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>technofiend</author><text>&gt;Like Alexa - people are willing to have a Big Brother-esque speaker inside their homes for the convenience of playing some music? Is that all it takes?<p>Here&#x27;s my workaround: my smart speaker is tied to the lightswitch. It&#x27;s only on when I&#x27;m in that room and if Google can somehow make use of the fact I stream a podcast or the local NPR station while bathing and shaving more power to them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>puranjay</author><text>&gt; This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie<p>This seems to be uniform across all surveillance technology. The purported convenience is so laughably minor that it&#x27;s almost a parody.<p>Like Alexa - people are willing to have a Big Brother-esque speaker inside their homes for the convenience of <i>playing some music</i>? Is that all it takes?</text></item><item><author>oceliker</author><text>&gt; The designers are considering adding facial recognition technology to the design.<p>Um, what<p>&gt; In fitting with the trend towards more personalized, data-driven flying experiences, New Territory is keen to add facial recognition technology to the mix too.<p>&gt; The idea is that as the seat wing recognizes that you&#x27;ve fallen asleep, it&#x27;ll automatically turn off the movie playing on your IFE.<p>This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie? To me this sounds like they wanted to add facial recognition regardless, so they found a problem to their solution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/interspace-new-airplane-seat/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>bamboozled</author><text>Don’t forget safety, were often told it’s to monitor bad guys or people breaking the law.<p>Australia is great at this, see the new “Phone use while driving cameras”, insane.</text><parent_chain><item><author>puranjay</author><text>&gt; This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie<p>This seems to be uniform across all surveillance technology. The purported convenience is so laughably minor that it&#x27;s almost a parody.<p>Like Alexa - people are willing to have a Big Brother-esque speaker inside their homes for the convenience of <i>playing some music</i>? Is that all it takes?</text></item><item><author>oceliker</author><text>&gt; The designers are considering adding facial recognition technology to the design.<p>Um, what<p>&gt; In fitting with the trend towards more personalized, data-driven flying experiences, New Territory is keen to add facial recognition technology to the mix too.<p>&gt; The idea is that as the seat wing recognizes that you&#x27;ve fallen asleep, it&#x27;ll automatically turn off the movie playing on your IFE.<p>This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie? To me this sounds like they wanted to add facial recognition regardless, so they found a problem to their solution.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/interspace-new-airplane-seat/index.html</url></story> |
26,077,634 | 26,077,746 | 1 | 3 | 26,076,391 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tartoran</author><text>Yeah, I wouldn’t touch them with a ten foot pole after this litigation came to surface and reading a bad review wouldn’t have the same effects. It’s the Streisand&#x27;s effect and also the shuddering idea of taking legal actions against your customers. Who&#x27;d want to use a service which could ruin them financially? And as far as bad reviews nearly everything on the internet has some bad reviews, no exceptions. A lot of times it’s to do with the reviewers themselves being unhappy no matter what.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oauea</author><text>So it&#x27;s London law firm Summerfield Browne (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.summerfieldbrowne.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.summerfieldbrowne.com&#x2F;</a>) who attacked someone leaving a review about their business.<p>If you&#x27;re searching for reviews about London law firm Summerfield Browne on Google and are lucky enough to find this post, consider if you want to work with a business that will attack people posting reviews about them. Can you really trust the reviews you might already have read, or are they just suppressing all the negativity?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55981600</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fouc</author><text>Talk about winning the battle but losing the war.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oauea</author><text>So it&#x27;s London law firm Summerfield Browne (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.summerfieldbrowne.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.summerfieldbrowne.com&#x2F;</a>) who attacked someone leaving a review about their business.<p>If you&#x27;re searching for reviews about London law firm Summerfield Browne on Google and are lucky enough to find this post, consider if you want to work with a business that will attack people posting reviews about them. Can you really trust the reviews you might already have read, or are they just suppressing all the negativity?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55981600</url></story> |
20,756,868 | 20,755,952 | 1 | 3 | 20,754,364 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>I have to disagree.<p>If you want to represent a one-dimensional gradient where what is most important is &quot;hot vs cold&quot;, i.e. the extremes, then you shouldn&#x27;t be using a colormap (rainbow) in the first place, you should be using a direct gradient instead, whether grayscale or interpolated between two nearby colors (e.g. red&#x2F;yellow).<p>Colormaps are for where highlighting <i>local variation</i> is important -- more important than indicating whether something is closer to one extreme or another. In the examples, this means being able to distinguish the patterns of the objects. In math plots, it means helping to see the shapes of curves. In weather maps, that means judging variation within your state, even while the map ranges from Alaska to Florida.<p>For this, it&#x27;s most important to be able to maximize contrast in local differences but also have the perceptual rate of change be roughly comparable.<p>Rainbows maximize contrast using hue, because our eyes can simply distinguish so much more than with just brightness. Turbo makes the rate of change more constant than Jet. And Jet&#x2F;Turbo most importantly <i>double</i> the resolution that Inferno has, going from dark-bright-dark rather than just dark-bright.</text><parent_chain><item><author>krick</author><text>While arguments in the blogpost are mostly compelling (perhaps the most important to me is Jet&#x2F;Turbo being far more high-contrast in the &quot;colder&quot; regions), I see Inferno as vastly superior still, mostly for the same reasons it was superior to Jet. All these colormaps are intended to represent one-dimensional gradient, as in &quot;from hot to cold&quot; and it is completely obvious when looking at Inferno. Jet &amp; Turbo give a false impression of non-one-dimensionality. It <i>might</i> be a matter of being used to the colormap in question, but Jet is as old and common as it gets, and it still is not self-evident to me that the dark red is hotter than the very light yellow. I mean, obviously I <i>know</i> that, but I will tell you instantly without thinking what is the hottest and coldest regions on Inferno image, and I am significantly more likely to make a mistake when I&#x27;m tired with the Jet (and, presumably Turbo — for the same reasons).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/turbo-improved-rainbow-colormap-for.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>kuzehanka</author><text>This is all true.<p>Where jet and other non-uniform maps are useful is in highlighting small fluctuations in the value. It&#x27;s less about z1 &gt; z2 and more about z1 != z2 across the image plane.<p>A similar problem happens with datashader in histogram normalisation mode. It&#x27;s great for highlighting small variations in the underlying density and revealing detail that you&#x27;d otherwise never see, but worthless for trying to compare one density to another by eye.<p>Horses for courses.</text><parent_chain><item><author>krick</author><text>While arguments in the blogpost are mostly compelling (perhaps the most important to me is Jet&#x2F;Turbo being far more high-contrast in the &quot;colder&quot; regions), I see Inferno as vastly superior still, mostly for the same reasons it was superior to Jet. All these colormaps are intended to represent one-dimensional gradient, as in &quot;from hot to cold&quot; and it is completely obvious when looking at Inferno. Jet &amp; Turbo give a false impression of non-one-dimensionality. It <i>might</i> be a matter of being used to the colormap in question, but Jet is as old and common as it gets, and it still is not self-evident to me that the dark red is hotter than the very light yellow. I mean, obviously I <i>know</i> that, but I will tell you instantly without thinking what is the hottest and coldest regions on Inferno image, and I am significantly more likely to make a mistake when I&#x27;m tired with the Jet (and, presumably Turbo — for the same reasons).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/turbo-improved-rainbow-colormap-for.html</url></story> |
15,439,651 | 15,439,566 | 1 | 3 | 15,438,850 | train | <instructions>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>Wow, so many people all over the US with basically the same experience. For those interested in the history of this phenomenon, I strongly recommend the book &quot;Sundown Towns&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Sundown-Towns-Hidden-Dimension-American&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0743294483" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Sundown-Towns-Hidden-Dimension-Americ...</a><p>My hazy understanding of American racism, which I now know to be wrong, was that it&#x27;s always been getting better. Sure, slavery, but then the Civil War and an upward climb from there to the Civil Rights era and beyond. Except for the South, I thought.<p>It turns out the US had period after Reconstruction, know as the Nadir [1], when anti-black sentiment and action grew significantly. A wave of ethnic cleansing circa 1890-1920 led to a lot of all-white towns all over the country, ones where non-whites weren&#x27;t allowed after dark. (Thus the title of the book.)<p>Chapter 11, &quot;The Effect of Sundown Towns on Whites&quot;, talks a lot about how growing up in white-only areas leads white people to have enormously distorted perceptions of the dangers of black people. After reading that chapter, the RacistDoor phenomenon made a lot more sense to me.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?client=ubuntu&amp;channel=fs&amp;q=the+nadir&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?client=ubuntu&amp;channel=fs&amp;q=the...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>krinchan</author><text>To be fair, at least in the Southeastern US, NextDoor is more...RacistDoor.<p>I&#x27;ve seen people ask the best way to report black people to the cops so they&#x27;ll be kept from driving through &quot;our safe neighborhood.&quot; It&#x27;s so full of dog whistles my neighbors dogs bark when I open the app.<p>The only reason NextDoor is freaking out is because they know there&#x27;s enough of that sort of material to really cause a mass exodus if it ever escaped the neighborhoods it&#x27;s posted in.<p>That said...it&#x27;s...a weird issue, to be sure. NextDoor tried to encourage an expectation of privacy but like...who actually expects that? Really. Anyone with a credit card matching the address they key in can get in. It&#x27;s not the post card only thing any more.<p>I could easily change my billing address on my credit card, sign up for some neighborhood on the west coast, and then change my CC address back. Done.<p>NextDoor has done nothing to actually secure the neighborhood, so it&#x27;s not like it means anything to say this to the customers. If anything, the neighborhood members could possibly sue NextDoor for overstating the privacy of their posts.<p>I guess the conclusion is: I&#x27;m not just throwing my hands up and saying, &quot;Oh well it&#x27;s online no privacy!&quot; I&#x27;m more saying this is probably the absolute worst hill to choose to fight that battle on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site</title><url>http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/10/08/nextdoor-says-users-who-share-posts-with-reporters-could-be-kicked-off-the-site/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rrauenza</author><text>I live in the heart of silicon valley in a very diverse neighborhood. Indian, Jewish, Persian, Chinese, white, Muslim, ...<p>I wouldn&#x27;t call it racism, but it is other-ism, and it comes from all corners. This person doesn&#x27;t look like he belongs in our neighborhood -- often it&#x27;s more about social economic &#x2F; class -- what vehicle they&#x27;re driving, how they&#x27;re dressed, are they a race that doesn&#x27;t typically live in our mostly diverse neighborhood.<p>We have a lot of burglaries and it just drives up the paranoia.</text><parent_chain><item><author>krinchan</author><text>To be fair, at least in the Southeastern US, NextDoor is more...RacistDoor.<p>I&#x27;ve seen people ask the best way to report black people to the cops so they&#x27;ll be kept from driving through &quot;our safe neighborhood.&quot; It&#x27;s so full of dog whistles my neighbors dogs bark when I open the app.<p>The only reason NextDoor is freaking out is because they know there&#x27;s enough of that sort of material to really cause a mass exodus if it ever escaped the neighborhoods it&#x27;s posted in.<p>That said...it&#x27;s...a weird issue, to be sure. NextDoor tried to encourage an expectation of privacy but like...who actually expects that? Really. Anyone with a credit card matching the address they key in can get in. It&#x27;s not the post card only thing any more.<p>I could easily change my billing address on my credit card, sign up for some neighborhood on the west coast, and then change my CC address back. Done.<p>NextDoor has done nothing to actually secure the neighborhood, so it&#x27;s not like it means anything to say this to the customers. If anything, the neighborhood members could possibly sue NextDoor for overstating the privacy of their posts.<p>I guess the conclusion is: I&#x27;m not just throwing my hands up and saying, &quot;Oh well it&#x27;s online no privacy!&quot; I&#x27;m more saying this is probably the absolute worst hill to choose to fight that battle on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site</title><url>http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/10/08/nextdoor-says-users-who-share-posts-with-reporters-could-be-kicked-off-the-site/</url></story> |
13,561,446 | 13,561,071 | 1 | 2 | 13,559,973 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pavlov</author><text>In another example of America&#x27;s fluidly morphing standard of whiteness, Finns were sometimes considered Asians:<p><i>&quot;Finns faced racial discrimination, with many people using the Finnish language as “proof” that Finns were not European and thus fair game to be subject to unfair treatment. Some argued that Finns were Asian, meaning they should be barred from citizenship under the Asian Exclusion Act of the early 1900s. The word “Finlander” was used as a slur, along with “China Swede” and “roundhead.”&quot;</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;inktank.fi&#x2F;china-swedes-forest-finns-and-the-great-migration-how-finnish-immigrants-helped-build-america&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;inktank.fi&#x2F;china-swedes-forest-finns-and-the-great-mi...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>I like this article because it reminds us that &quot;whiteness&quot; is not actually a strictly racial identity. There are numerous factors that make someone &quot;white&quot; in America, which makes them acceptable to white nationalists. These purity rules can <i>change</i> over time to represent what&#x27;s politically expedient.<p>Many young Americans are shocked to learn that Italian and Irish (who are often a baseline of appearance in modern America)were once not only considered not &quot;white&quot;, but were demonized even as much as other races that Europe has traditionally looked down on.<p>This is one of the primary reasons that fascism is such an uncomfortable situation for its citizens. Fascism thrives in the face of an &quot;enemy&quot; that can be defeated by force and a &quot;strong leader.&quot; These enemies will be selected by convenience, not rationality.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>During WWII, U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security</title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/italian-americans-were-considered-enemy-aliens-world-war-ii-180962021/?no-ist</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krapp</author><text>&gt;Many young Americans are shocked to learn that Italian and Irish (who are often a baseline of appearance in modern America)were once not only considered not &quot;white&quot;, but were demonized even as much as other races that Europe has traditionally looked down on.<p>This was parodied in the movie Blazing Saddles, set in the American wild west, with a quote that I&#x27;d be [edit: apparently not] banned for repeating verbatim.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>I like this article because it reminds us that &quot;whiteness&quot; is not actually a strictly racial identity. There are numerous factors that make someone &quot;white&quot; in America, which makes them acceptable to white nationalists. These purity rules can <i>change</i> over time to represent what&#x27;s politically expedient.<p>Many young Americans are shocked to learn that Italian and Irish (who are often a baseline of appearance in modern America)were once not only considered not &quot;white&quot;, but were demonized even as much as other races that Europe has traditionally looked down on.<p>This is one of the primary reasons that fascism is such an uncomfortable situation for its citizens. Fascism thrives in the face of an &quot;enemy&quot; that can be defeated by force and a &quot;strong leader.&quot; These enemies will be selected by convenience, not rationality.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>During WWII, U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security</title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/italian-americans-were-considered-enemy-aliens-world-war-ii-180962021/?no-ist</url></story> |
19,331,795 | 19,331,826 | 1 | 3 | 19,331,347 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CamelCaseName</author><text>In Google&#x27;s defense:<p>1. This was announced over 3 years ago [0]<p>2. Photos&#x2F;Videos uploaded to Picasa were transferred to Google Photos automatically (comments&#x2F;tags&#x2F;captions will be lost though) [1]<p>3. Picasa was originally built in 2002! (bought by Google in 2004) -- Perhaps Picasa had a time and place?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Picasa#Discontinuation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Picasa#Discontinuation</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picasa.google.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picasa.google.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums</title><url>https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/03/07/less-than-a-month-to-go-before-google-breaks-hundreds-of-thousands-of-links-all-over-the-internet/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pgrote</author><text>Really miss picasa. I know the world is moving away from tagging your photos with descriptive words, but I still do it.<p>As with any Picasa related subject: Does anyone have a viable alternative desktop software that allows tagging of photos, some mild editing and allowing photos to be kept in folders that are the albums.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums</title><url>https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/03/07/less-than-a-month-to-go-before-google-breaks-hundreds-of-thousands-of-links-all-over-the-internet/</url></story> |
38,857,212 | 38,856,973 | 1 | 3 | 38,856,412 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>When you send people secure information through any means, you are accepting that the security of that information is now equivalent to the <i>worst</i> level of security practices of all the people who received that information. When the recipients are a large collection of random strangers on the internet, you should assume the data is as good as public, because the average random stranger on the internet has terrible security practices (not to mention the non-zero probability that they&#x27;re actively malicious).<p>23andMe could have done a better job communicating the risks of sharing your data with random strangers on the internet, but it&#x27;s also not unreasonable for them to put some level of blame on users. If you wanted to treat that information as secure, you shouldn&#x27;t have opted in to sharing it with an arbitrary number of strangers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>JohnMakin</author><text>Where your first argument falls apart is the other several million users who had their data breached didn’t have compromised accounts. It quite literally isn’t their responsibility or problem at all.</text></item><item><author>ziddoap</author><text>On one hand, I have to somewhat agree with 23andMe here. If someone uses the password &quot;password1&quot; for some service, they should not be able to turn around and blame that service when their account is compromised.<p>On the other hand, 23andMe should have definitely done much more to reduce the blast radius of this attack. Mandatory 2FA, disallowing known-compromised passwords, geolocation of login IPs, etc.<p>I guess the question shakes out to: where do we draw the line on personal responsibility vs. service responsibility? Services can&#x27;t be responsible for 100% of user security. But they also can&#x27;t be negligent in their own security and mitigations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/23andme-tells-victims-its-their-fault-that-their-data-was-breached/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ziddoap</author><text>They opted-in to the sharing feature though?</text><parent_chain><item><author>JohnMakin</author><text>Where your first argument falls apart is the other several million users who had their data breached didn’t have compromised accounts. It quite literally isn’t their responsibility or problem at all.</text></item><item><author>ziddoap</author><text>On one hand, I have to somewhat agree with 23andMe here. If someone uses the password &quot;password1&quot; for some service, they should not be able to turn around and blame that service when their account is compromised.<p>On the other hand, 23andMe should have definitely done much more to reduce the blast radius of this attack. Mandatory 2FA, disallowing known-compromised passwords, geolocation of login IPs, etc.<p>I guess the question shakes out to: where do we draw the line on personal responsibility vs. service responsibility? Services can&#x27;t be responsible for 100% of user security. But they also can&#x27;t be negligent in their own security and mitigations.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/23andme-tells-victims-its-their-fault-that-their-data-was-breached/</url></story> |
5,106,430 | 5,105,905 | 1 | 2 | 5,104,071 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ddunkin</author><text>Rob did two great things:
1) He did not trust the source, and questioned the authenticity.
2) He actually called him out on BS when he continued<p>The first false message from Joe is interesting, but once Rob replies, and Joe continues trying to push the lie, that's a little dick'ish. The second Rob replied, with his first, and extremely professional response, I would have apologized/congratulated him, and explained what I was doing.<p>Continuing the charade invites deserved anger. I don't like being lied to either, especially when I know the person was lying and keeps pushing the lie.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikeleeorg</author><text>A response from Rob Crossley:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149670496768002" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149670496768002</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149784678322176" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149784678322176</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149862562353152" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149862562353152</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149937736847363" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149937736847363</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t believe everything you read</title><url>http://x-surface.tumblr.com/post/41282771026/x-surface-dont-believe-everything-you-read</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fastball</author><text>I can't decide who to believe.<p>I guess I should lean in Crossley's favour because he actually posted a conversation, even if that conversation is fake.<p>In addition, the author of this hoax claimed offense at an accusation that he is "18 years old with no job", yet this blog is anonymous, so how do we even know that he isn't 18 and unemployed?<p>I have now decided that the author is merely a petty attention whore, and he became angered when one of his intended puppets decided that he was full of shit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mikeleeorg</author><text>A response from Rob Crossley:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149670496768002" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149670496768002</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149784678322176" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149784678322176</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149862562353152" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149862562353152</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149937736847363" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Rob_Crossley_/status/294149937736847363</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Don’t believe everything you read</title><url>http://x-surface.tumblr.com/post/41282771026/x-surface-dont-believe-everything-you-read</url></story> |
41,080,352 | 41,080,185 | 1 | 3 | 41,079,814 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pizzafeelsright</author><text>Many lessons learned along with great historical knowledge of (distributed) systems.<p>I think you hit every type of interruption and point of failure, except storage space, and it is great to see your resolutions.<p>I wasn&#x27;t aware Redis could do the Lua stuff which makes me very interested in using it as an alternative state.<p>As for the bandwidth - one of my biggest gripes with cloud services as there is no hard limit to avoid billing overages.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks</title><url>https://eieio.games/essays/scaling-one-million-checkboxes/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xnx</author><text>&gt; Building the site in two days with little regard for scale was a good choice.<p>Probably the key takeaway that many early-career engineers need to learn. Scaling&#x27;s not a problem until it&#x27;s a problem. At that point, it&#x27;s a good problem t have, and it&#x27;s not as hard to fix as you might think anyway.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks</title><url>https://eieio.games/essays/scaling-one-million-checkboxes/</url></story> |
13,307,215 | 13,307,216 | 1 | 2 | 13,307,040 | 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>fnordsensei</author><text>Notice that the author doesn&#x27;t say &quot;do what your users tell you to do&quot;, but &quot;find out what they need and what they experience as problematic&quot;.<p>Any user research will involve interacting with users, but it&#x27;s not to gather their opinions, which is almost always irrelevant, but to document their behavior, needs and drives.<p>Users will offer solutions, because that comes naturally, but these need to be turned back into problems before being used. For example,<p>User: &quot;I want a big button in the middle of the screen that says &#x27;print&#x27; and then prints my stuff immediately!&quot;<p>Researcher:&quot;So you print a lot during your day?&quot;<p>User: &quot;Yeah, and each time I have to go down a long list of menus, and then I have to reselect the printer each time.&quot;<p>Apple has apparently been able to get by with user studies done on a target group of one (Jobs). However, he&#x27;s not there any more, and the more time that passes, the more it seems that they haven&#x27;t been able to fill his shoes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>panic</author><text><i>How do they fix this? They need to do more talking — and even more listening — with their users. Engage with the influencers. Sit down and find out what their developers need that the current products don’t offer. Find out what is making their users unhappy.</i><p>Asking people what they want will give you predictable results: complaints about any kind of change and positive feedback about shiny-looking features that demo well. You&#x27;ll end up pulled in a million directions as you try to account for everyone&#x27;s feedback.<p>The traditional Apple solution was to give a single idealized user — Steve Jobs — the power to improve his own experience. Nobody can replace Steve, but I think someone (or some group) inside Apple needs to fill this role before their products can become really great again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s 2016 in review</title><url>https://chuqui.com/2017/01/apples-2016-in-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>loosescrews</author><text>Steve was a notoriously hard person to work with. Realistically, anyone who Steve was likely to name as his successor would be a follower, someone who went along with whatever Steve said and told him what he wanted to hear. What Apple needed was another person like Steve, but unfortunately, by letting Steve select that person, they ended up with someone completely unlike Steve.</text><parent_chain><item><author>panic</author><text><i>How do they fix this? They need to do more talking — and even more listening — with their users. Engage with the influencers. Sit down and find out what their developers need that the current products don’t offer. Find out what is making their users unhappy.</i><p>Asking people what they want will give you predictable results: complaints about any kind of change and positive feedback about shiny-looking features that demo well. You&#x27;ll end up pulled in a million directions as you try to account for everyone&#x27;s feedback.<p>The traditional Apple solution was to give a single idealized user — Steve Jobs — the power to improve his own experience. Nobody can replace Steve, but I think someone (or some group) inside Apple needs to fill this role before their products can become really great again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s 2016 in review</title><url>https://chuqui.com/2017/01/apples-2016-in-review/</url></story> |
17,450,005 | 17,449,081 | 1 | 2 | 17,448,022 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bdelay</author><text>Parents live in a smaller town with two awful ISP selections. They had a bunch of WiFi devices on an ISP router and the connection quality and latency was just terrible when more than one device was in use and any bandwidth intensive services were being used. (Low quality Netflix is intensive on small-town monopoly internet.)<p>I purchased them a Netgear R7800 and installed hnyman&#x27;s LEDE build [1] to enable SQM. Night and day difference in latency response. No more staring at a white screen for 3 seconds per URL click.<p>The build has been stable for several months. I wouldn&#x27;t recommend this for non-technical users or anyone not willing to spend time troubleshooting, but it has been a great improvement. I couldn&#x27;t find any other device capable of doing this without running x86 hardware or something else silly.<p>A few other people mention it, but yes, this is only going to work on slower connections on current SOHO hardware. I think the R7800 can do software SQM at up to 150mbps or so. Plus, if you have a gigabit symmetric connection, hopefully you aren&#x27;t having bufferbloat issues.<p>Just wish a popular manufacturer would release an easy-to-use router with SQM so I could install it for non-technical users and forget. Ubiquiti is somewhat close to that, but I believe their prosumer hardware (USG) is running a slow processor at the moment and doesn&#x27;t even support SQM without installing custom kernels.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.lede-project.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;build-for-netgear-r7800&#x2F;316" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.lede-project.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;build-for-netgear-r7800&#x2F;316</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Arie</author><text>An awful lot of home broadband connections suffer from bufferbloat and even for the ones that don&#x27;t, a single host can easily hog all the bandwidth.
If you&#x27;re used to getting lag in your VoIP or gaming when a house mate starts a stream&#x2F;download&#x2F;torrent, this can be fixed :)<p>The cake traffic shaper in OpenWRT is amazing for fighting bufferbloat in your home network and it can also do almost perfect fairness in dividing the available bandwidth per LAN host with very little configuration. Just get it as part of the SQM tools in OpenWRT and enable it. For the per-host-fairness take a look at the &quot;Make cake sing and dance&quot; from this link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openwrt.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;guide-user&#x2F;network&#x2F;traffic-shaping&#x2F;sqm-details" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openwrt.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;guide-user&#x2F;network&#x2F;traffic-shaping&#x2F;...</a><p>If you use an Edgerouter, you can get the cake traffic shaper but you&#x27;ll have to do without the easy web interface OpenWRT has: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.ubnt.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;EdgeRouter&#x2F;Cake-and-FQ-PIE-compiled-for-the-EdgeRouter-devices&#x2F;td-p&#x2F;1679844" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.ubnt.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;EdgeRouter&#x2F;Cake-and-FQ-PIE-com...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Can I Do About Bufferbloat?</title><url>https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/What_can_I_do_about_Bufferbloat/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>graystevens</author><text>Thanks for the Edgerouter link, saved me doing some Googling - Off to got and apply this now and see what difference this makes to the Bufferbloat tests.<p>As Arie mentions, this is a little more involved on the EdgeOS stuff, but doesn&#x27;t look too complex for those that are used to a CLI or two.<p>Edit: Entirely off-topic, but an equally interesting find – There is a WireGuard client for the EdgeRouter line: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.ubnt.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;EdgeRouter&#x2F;Release-WireGuard-for-EdgeRouter&#x2F;td-p&#x2F;1904764" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.ubnt.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;EdgeRouter&#x2F;Release-WireGuard-f...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Arie</author><text>An awful lot of home broadband connections suffer from bufferbloat and even for the ones that don&#x27;t, a single host can easily hog all the bandwidth.
If you&#x27;re used to getting lag in your VoIP or gaming when a house mate starts a stream&#x2F;download&#x2F;torrent, this can be fixed :)<p>The cake traffic shaper in OpenWRT is amazing for fighting bufferbloat in your home network and it can also do almost perfect fairness in dividing the available bandwidth per LAN host with very little configuration. Just get it as part of the SQM tools in OpenWRT and enable it. For the per-host-fairness take a look at the &quot;Make cake sing and dance&quot; from this link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openwrt.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;guide-user&#x2F;network&#x2F;traffic-shaping&#x2F;sqm-details" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openwrt.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;guide-user&#x2F;network&#x2F;traffic-shaping&#x2F;...</a><p>If you use an Edgerouter, you can get the cake traffic shaper but you&#x27;ll have to do without the easy web interface OpenWRT has: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.ubnt.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;EdgeRouter&#x2F;Cake-and-FQ-PIE-compiled-for-the-EdgeRouter-devices&#x2F;td-p&#x2F;1679844" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.ubnt.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;EdgeRouter&#x2F;Cake-and-FQ-PIE-com...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What Can I Do About Bufferbloat?</title><url>https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/What_can_I_do_about_Bufferbloat/</url></story> |
26,321,610 | 26,321,753 | 1 | 2 | 26,314,489 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>js2</author><text>&quot;test&quot; and its alias &quot;[&quot; are actually builtins:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;bash&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Bourne-Shell-Builtins.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;bash&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Bourne-Sh...</a><p>They also exist as executables for ancient backwards compatibility.<p>&quot;[[&quot; is a so-called &quot;conditional construct&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;bash&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Conditional-Constructs.html#Conditional-Constructs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;bash&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Condition...</a><p>I have a somewhat quirky style and almost always use &quot;if test ...&quot; since I find it clearer than &quot;[&quot; and usually don&#x27;t need the additional functionality that &quot;[[&quot; provides.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lhorie</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve come to internalize over the years is to always try to avoid being clever especially with lingua francas like Bash.<p>There <i>will</i> be people - seasoned professional developers, even - reading these languages that don&#x27;t know the first thing about them!<p>`[` is one of those things that are second nature for seasoned bash people but that are utterly ungoogleable by a bash beginner. Beginners don&#x27;t know `[` is an executable, and it would never occur to them to `man [`. It can become quite the rabbit hole to figure out that there&#x27;s also `[[` (which is NOT an executable), that `[ a &gt; b ]` is <i>very very</i> different from `[[ a &gt; b ]]`, etc.<p>So do these people a favor and put the `if` there so they at least have some hope of stumbling upon a stack overflow post talking about some of this stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elegant Bash Conditionals</title><url>https://timvisee.com/blog/elegant-bash-conditionals/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>l0b0</author><text><p><pre><code> $ type -a [
[ is a shell builtin
[ is &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;[
$ type -a [[
[[ is a shell keyword</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>lhorie</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve come to internalize over the years is to always try to avoid being clever especially with lingua francas like Bash.<p>There <i>will</i> be people - seasoned professional developers, even - reading these languages that don&#x27;t know the first thing about them!<p>`[` is one of those things that are second nature for seasoned bash people but that are utterly ungoogleable by a bash beginner. Beginners don&#x27;t know `[` is an executable, and it would never occur to them to `man [`. It can become quite the rabbit hole to figure out that there&#x27;s also `[[` (which is NOT an executable), that `[ a &gt; b ]` is <i>very very</i> different from `[[ a &gt; b ]]`, etc.<p>So do these people a favor and put the `if` there so they at least have some hope of stumbling upon a stack overflow post talking about some of this stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elegant Bash Conditionals</title><url>https://timvisee.com/blog/elegant-bash-conditionals/</url></story> |
19,893,843 | 19,893,807 | 1 | 2 | 19,893,682 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>inflatableDodo</author><text>My prediction after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke is that it would lead to an explosion in wealthy people who want to play at noopolitics.<p>I suspect they have dozens of CA&#x27;s on their hands currently. At the very least, if not hundreds.<p>The key takeaway that some people will have had from Cambridge Analytica, is not &#x27;they got caught, don&#x27;t do this&#x27;, but rather &#x27;they were largely successful and incredibly cheap&#x27;.<p>The upshot from having lots of players in this space however, is not one of greater control by insidious power addicts, but rather a loss of control as the players compete for attention and influence. So, chaos in the news and the elimination of any kind of consistent narrative from on high. I think we have been experiencing this for a while now. In some ways it is almost an improvement.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/10/facebook-rankwave-lawsuit/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>melling</author><text>Michael Lewis (Moneyball, Big Short) interviewed Alex Kogan:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atrpodcast.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;the-alex-kogan-experience-s1!d20f3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atrpodcast.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;the-alex-kogan-experience-s1...</a><p>After listening to this, it sounds like Cambridge Analytica was overblown, in the sense that the information wasn’t as useful as claimed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/10/facebook-rankwave-lawsuit/</url></story> |
39,699,399 | 39,699,013 | 1 | 3 | 39,697,520 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akoboldfrying</author><text>Good to see this interesting and very fundamental topic getting attention, and looking forward to the next post, where hopefully the algorithm&#x27;s cleverness will be explored.<p>&gt;It does this by being greedy, that is trying to consume as many lines that are the same before making a change (therefore avoiding the “wrong end” problem), and also by preferring deletions over insertions when given a choice, so that deletions appear first.<p>Not really. The algorithm guarantees to find an alignment&#x2F;diff&#x2F;edit script of minimal length, but whether it prefers the &quot;leftmost&quot; such alignment (&quot;wrong-end&quot; here and in many similar cases in source code) or the &quot;rightmost&quot; (&quot;right-end&quot; here) is not a crucial aspect of how it works. The preference can be switched by reversing both inputs before diffing and then reversing the output afterwards -- but that&#x27;s also the case for any other algorithm that solves this problem optimally.<p>Myers&#x27;s algorithm is greedy in another sense, however: It greedily hunts first for a solution in which no edits are necessary, then solutions in which 1 edit (insertion or deletion) is necessary, then 2, etc., terminating as soon as it finds a solution. Clearly this leads to an optimal (smallest-possible) diff. It also means that it takes time proportional to the <i>amount of difference</i> between the two inputs, which is the clever part: This is what makes it much faster than other approaches in the common case where the two inputs are highly similar.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Myers diff algorithm: part 1</title><url>https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/02/12/the-myers-diff-algorithm-part-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>teabee89</author><text>A while ago I discovered the lesser known Tichy diff algorithm that seems to preserve more context and is better suited for big code refactors: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;220439403_The_String-to-String_Correction_Problem_With_Block_Moves" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;220439403_The_Strin...</a> via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bryanpendleton.blogspot.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;more-study-of-diff-walter-tichys-papers.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bryanpendleton.blogspot.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;more-study-of-di...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Myers diff algorithm: part 1</title><url>https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/02/12/the-myers-diff-algorithm-part-1/</url></story> |
13,186,483 | 13,186,163 | 1 | 3 | 13,185,759 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adjkant</author><text>Pyret is inspired from Racket, which starts at step 1 with functional programming. It&#x27;s not about readability or getting people to learn as fast as possible to write basic code, but to try and teach core program design principles easily and build a solid base within a single semester. The syntax is not as clean as Python, but it offers much more clarity in terms of testing, signatures, and offers a very interesting method of writing loops with map&#x2F;filter&#x2F;foldr.<p>I have a bias here, as I help teach an introductory course using DrRacket, and many of my colleagues are very aware of Pyret, some even helping to develop it. In one semester, however, we have students with a full understanding of recursion, linked lists, many other common data structures, anonymous functions, functions as data, and understanding of map&#x2F;filter&#x2F;fold and how to use them. The class is specifically aimed at people who do not have prior programming skills, and works very well in my experience. Yes, it is a lot, but it builds an incredible base, and if taught to build on itself slowly, is actually very minimal conceptually. The optional features in Pyret are probably allowed with that in mind.<p>One of its weaknesses, arguably, is that it doesn&#x27;t look like much else out there in common use, since it&#x27;s a Scheme. This syntax is an attempt to try and make the same ideas translate to other languages easier, such as Python&#x2F;Java.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattangriffel</author><text>As someone who teaches coding to beginners for a living (I founded One Month and I teach Python to business students at Columbia University), this language looks really intimidating to beginners.<p>Maybe Pyret isn&#x27;t for beginners, and it&#x27;s intended to teach people who already have some basic knowledge more advanced concepts like functional programming. That&#x27;s fine.<p>But to a total beginner, the syntax of Pyret is definitely a step back in terms of readability.<p>In what world is:<p><pre><code> fun square(n :: Number) -&gt; Number:
n * n
end
</code></pre>
...easier for a beginner to understand than:<p><pre><code> def square(n):
return n * n
</code></pre>
I get that the intention of this language seems to be to help beginners avoid some of the more common pitfalls that they may run into (ex. unexpected parameters and return values), but it seems like they do it at the expense of the total beginner&#x27;s ability to understand and keep track of lots of new concepts when they&#x27;re just starting out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional programming</title><url>http://www.pyret.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>makmanalp</author><text>Annotations are optional. This is equally valid:<p><pre><code> fun square(n):
n * n
end
</code></pre>
Not that different after all! And I say this as a lover of python and significant whitespace, but not having it at first would be easier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattangriffel</author><text>As someone who teaches coding to beginners for a living (I founded One Month and I teach Python to business students at Columbia University), this language looks really intimidating to beginners.<p>Maybe Pyret isn&#x27;t for beginners, and it&#x27;s intended to teach people who already have some basic knowledge more advanced concepts like functional programming. That&#x27;s fine.<p>But to a total beginner, the syntax of Pyret is definitely a step back in terms of readability.<p>In what world is:<p><pre><code> fun square(n :: Number) -&gt; Number:
n * n
end
</code></pre>
...easier for a beginner to understand than:<p><pre><code> def square(n):
return n * n
</code></pre>
I get that the intention of this language seems to be to help beginners avoid some of the more common pitfalls that they may run into (ex. unexpected parameters and return values), but it seems like they do it at the expense of the total beginner&#x27;s ability to understand and keep track of lots of new concepts when they&#x27;re just starting out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pyret – A language exploring scripting and functional programming</title><url>http://www.pyret.org/</url></story> |
11,598,535 | 11,598,517 | 1 | 2 | 11,598,284 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryan-c</author><text>&gt; Remember that time when you tried to transfer your life savings from one bank account to another for a small fee, but swapped the fee field with the total transfer amount field, and ended up losing all your life savings? Of course you don&#x27;t. There are safeguards to catch and prevent these kinds of errors.
&gt;
&gt; But this is a common occurrence in Bitcoin-land.<p>This mistake is difficult, if not impossible, to make with standard Bitcoin software. The fee field is usually pre-filled and somewhat tricky to change, and newer versions of bitcoin-core will block transactions like this as obviously wrong. It should also be noted the bitcoin fees are implicit in transactions - a transaction will have some amount of funds going in, and some amount going out, and anything left over is the fee. Usually these types of mistakes actually happen when someone manually crafts a transaction and forgets that they need to make a change output for themselves.<p>It is obviously still <i>possible</i> to create transactions like this, but it currently requires using advanced interfaces and deliberately bypassing safety measures.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin's $137k Jackpot</title><url>http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/04/29/bitcoins-137k-jackpot/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hughes</author><text>This reminds me of a similar error from 2005[1] where a trader mistook the &quot;price&quot; and &quot;quantity&quot; fields of the trading software. Instead of selling 1 share for 610,000 yen, 610,000 shares were sold for 1 yen.<p>The mistake cost around $225 million.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foxnews.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;2005&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;typing-error-causes-225m-loss-at-tokyo-stock-exchange.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foxnews.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;2005&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;typing-error-causes-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bitcoin's $137k Jackpot</title><url>http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/04/29/bitcoins-137k-jackpot/</url></story> |
13,864,521 | 13,863,598 | 1 | 3 | 13,861,980 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>legostormtroopr</author><text>I&#x27;ve had this argument with a number of different open-source groups, and they all come back to the fact that open-source communities don&#x27;t like charging for products or services and try to survive on voluntary donations.<p>I tried to explain that companies and governments (especially governments) just cannot donate money for open-source. In IT, everything has a price and is a line item and needs to be justified. If a company doesn&#x27;t have to pay that $100 for a badge on a website, they won&#x27;t.<p>I think the long-term answer for open-source, especially for frameworks and languages, is through open-source IT certifications.<p>Being able to pay for some kind of certification would be a boon for everyone. Developers can show case their skills (and get a tax-deduction on their investment), Employers have a standard they can look for when hiring devs, and open-source communities get money based on the popularity of their projects and can show case who is getting certs or hiring based on them - showing the value of their work.<p>I&#x27;d gladly pay $500-1000 for a cert (even one I know I&#x27;d easily pass), but have trouble justifying $100 for warm-fuzzy-feelings, even when I know its going to a framework I depend on.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Preact: Countering the Perception That Open Source Must Be Free</title><url>https://medium.com/open-collective/why-and-how-to-fund-the-open-source-projects-you-depend-on-da62a582307#.m2l03rvjm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Swizec</author><text>I like to pay for software I use. Especially if it&#x27;s something I use to make money.<p>But if you don&#x27;t ask me, I won&#x27;t pay. Too many people are afraid to ask. I&#x27;m happy Jason is working towards changing that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Preact: Countering the Perception That Open Source Must Be Free</title><url>https://medium.com/open-collective/why-and-how-to-fund-the-open-source-projects-you-depend-on-da62a582307#.m2l03rvjm</url></story> |
29,066,238 | 29,066,260 | 1 | 3 | 29,064,822 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neilalexander</author><text>&gt; If you have awareness of something, you can make decisions based on that awareness without necessarily having a deep understanding. When you have no awareness is when the big issues arise.<p>I think in many cases, it&#x27;s that even just having a vague awareness of something prompts you to double-check more often or to do something about it when you aren&#x27;t really sure.<p>As an example, I find myself reading about the pros and cons of various PostgreSQL index types over and over again. It isn&#x27;t really all that important for me to retain every detail about them for immediate recall but knowing that there&#x27;s enough of a difference motivates me to read the documentation or run a quick web search before shooting myself in the foot.<p>I tend to think that testing people on this kind of deep knowledge isn&#x27;t really helpful nor is it indicative of how developers really operate. What you need to test them on is what steps they would take when they aren&#x27;t really sure and how they learn from it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ZephyrBlu</author><text>The author says, <i>&quot;I wouldn’t be able to explain from the top of my head what the ACID term means&quot;</i>.<p>I think there is a big difference between not knowing something off the top of your head and being completely unaware of it.<p>If you have awareness of something, you can make decisions based on that awareness without necessarily having a deep understanding. When you have no awareness is when the big issues arise.<p>For example, with your MongoDB fuckup if you had even a vague idea about the underlying behaviour you might have been able to consider the failure scenario ahead of time and prevent it from occurring. A deep understanding of how MongoDB works probably wasn&#x27;t required to prevent this incident.<p>Same for indexes. If you&#x27;re aware of them, you can trigger the thought process of &quot;this query is pretty slow, maybe I should look into adding an index because I know that speeds things up&quot;. You don&#x27;t necessarily have to understand how a B-tree works for an index to be effective.</text></item><item><author>ivanhoe</author><text>&gt; It turns out my day to day work doesn’t require deep knowledge about database internals and I can mostly treat them as a black box with an API 2.<p>Because of such attitude of the previous dev team my client ended up with DB integrity ruined. Previous guys somehow didn&#x27;t know they should use transactions when updating&#x2F;deleting stuff in the DB, because hey, it&#x27;s just API you call, who cares of mambo-jumbo happening behind the curtains, right?<p>I myself had a similar fuckup with MongoDB a decade ago, because I used it &quot;because it&#x27;s fast&quot;, but failed to read the small letters, and wasn&#x27;t aware that it achieves that speed by buffering the data for async save, and so has no guarantees it will actually be saved at all. So I lost a lot of data when traffic suddenly jumped, and since those were affiliate clicks lots of people got very pissed about not getting paid, and it almost ruined both my client&#x27;s business as well as my own, as it was our core client.<p>Lack of understanding of (or even caring to know about) DB internals is also why like 90% of projects I&#x27;ve seen has wrong indices, or often no even a single index set at all. Because, hey, it&#x27;s someone else&#x27;s job to think about it, but in reality budgets are limited and team don&#x27;t have a dedicated DBA or even a capable devops person to notice it, and it just ends up in the production like that.<p>So, in summary: no you don&#x27;t need to know every in-and-out of every technology out there, no one can do that, but there&#x27;s a valid requirement that one has to be familiar to those that they actually use - at least those that can seriously bite one&#x27;s ass and cost a lot of money. And all DB related stuff is very much like that, that is probably the most critical part of the whole system, so no, it&#x27;s definitely not a black box.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>They don't even know the fundamentals</title><url>https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/they-dont-even-know-the-fundamentals/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baktubi</author><text>Yeah that’s the difference between a “blank stare” in the interview and a decent response. Anyone applying for a database position should know that relates to transactions and yadda-yadda. They should know why transactions are important, etc.<p>But… I’d like to say this is the kind of problem these quick-boot coding schools fall short on. Sure one can learn programming language X, but that doesn’t mean one has any sort of fundamentals in algorithms, data structures or general database technology.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ZephyrBlu</author><text>The author says, <i>&quot;I wouldn’t be able to explain from the top of my head what the ACID term means&quot;</i>.<p>I think there is a big difference between not knowing something off the top of your head and being completely unaware of it.<p>If you have awareness of something, you can make decisions based on that awareness without necessarily having a deep understanding. When you have no awareness is when the big issues arise.<p>For example, with your MongoDB fuckup if you had even a vague idea about the underlying behaviour you might have been able to consider the failure scenario ahead of time and prevent it from occurring. A deep understanding of how MongoDB works probably wasn&#x27;t required to prevent this incident.<p>Same for indexes. If you&#x27;re aware of them, you can trigger the thought process of &quot;this query is pretty slow, maybe I should look into adding an index because I know that speeds things up&quot;. You don&#x27;t necessarily have to understand how a B-tree works for an index to be effective.</text></item><item><author>ivanhoe</author><text>&gt; It turns out my day to day work doesn’t require deep knowledge about database internals and I can mostly treat them as a black box with an API 2.<p>Because of such attitude of the previous dev team my client ended up with DB integrity ruined. Previous guys somehow didn&#x27;t know they should use transactions when updating&#x2F;deleting stuff in the DB, because hey, it&#x27;s just API you call, who cares of mambo-jumbo happening behind the curtains, right?<p>I myself had a similar fuckup with MongoDB a decade ago, because I used it &quot;because it&#x27;s fast&quot;, but failed to read the small letters, and wasn&#x27;t aware that it achieves that speed by buffering the data for async save, and so has no guarantees it will actually be saved at all. So I lost a lot of data when traffic suddenly jumped, and since those were affiliate clicks lots of people got very pissed about not getting paid, and it almost ruined both my client&#x27;s business as well as my own, as it was our core client.<p>Lack of understanding of (or even caring to know about) DB internals is also why like 90% of projects I&#x27;ve seen has wrong indices, or often no even a single index set at all. Because, hey, it&#x27;s someone else&#x27;s job to think about it, but in reality budgets are limited and team don&#x27;t have a dedicated DBA or even a capable devops person to notice it, and it just ends up in the production like that.<p>So, in summary: no you don&#x27;t need to know every in-and-out of every technology out there, no one can do that, but there&#x27;s a valid requirement that one has to be familiar to those that they actually use - at least those that can seriously bite one&#x27;s ass and cost a lot of money. And all DB related stuff is very much like that, that is probably the most critical part of the whole system, so no, it&#x27;s definitely not a black box.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>They don't even know the fundamentals</title><url>https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/they-dont-even-know-the-fundamentals/</url></story> |
12,351,225 | 12,351,287 | 1 | 2 | 12,350,599 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s anything wrong with assuming people are running a graphical browser.<p>We&#x27;re at the point where, depending on your exact industry&#x2F;usecase, earlier IE versions are less than 1% for a lot of &#x27;mainstream&#x27; sites. The amount of people who aren&#x27;t able to render a custom web font, let alone a non-graphical browser, would be in the extreme minority.<p>IMHO, that is not a use case that&#x27;s not worth worrying about.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wtbob</author><text>Web Fonts for images are a true anti-pattern. It&#x27;s actually almost funny how many pages are full of ſ and so forth, because they assume that folks are using a graphical browser running JavaScript.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A few HTML tips</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/08/a-few-html-tips/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gpvos</author><text>Hear, hear. Web fonts are fine when used as fonts. They are <i>not</i> fine when used as images (unless the image corresponds to an actual Unicode character).</text><parent_chain><item><author>wtbob</author><text>Web Fonts for images are a true anti-pattern. It&#x27;s actually almost funny how many pages are full of ſ and so forth, because they assume that folks are using a graphical browser running JavaScript.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A few HTML tips</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/08/a-few-html-tips/</url></story> |
742,440 | 742,429 | 1 | 2 | 742,268 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hyperbovine</author><text>doesn't load on my iPod so I can't speak to the functionality but I'd just like to commend you on not choosing some idiotic name like Floovr or Meeerrblap or Dooglity or Phlambo or Hogchaw or Speebu for your project. Makes it that much easier to take seriously.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bdr</author><text>An explanation from the author: This isn't a startup, it's just an idea I thought would be cool. I'm announcing it on HN first, hoping to get technical and aesthetic feedback before I throw the URL around.<p>The two browsers in the submission title are the only ones I have on this machine. Right now it doesn't run as smoothly as I'd want in FF3. There are a couple big optimizations ideas I have, but I was comfortable enough to post this without them. Was that a mistake? If you can try it out in some other browsers I'd appreciate that. I have no idea what IE will do.<p>That's all. Hope you have fun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.</title><url>http://www.yourworldoftext.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>davepeck</author><text>This is oddly entertaining. Could you explain how you represent the "world" in the AppEngine data store?<p>(Also, could you use cookies to bring me back where I left?)</text><parent_chain><item><author>bdr</author><text>An explanation from the author: This isn't a startup, it's just an idea I thought would be cool. I'm announcing it on HN first, hoping to get technical and aesthetic feedback before I throw the URL around.<p>The two browsers in the submission title are the only ones I have on this machine. Right now it doesn't run as smoothly as I'd want in FF3. There are a couple big optimizations ideas I have, but I was comfortable enough to post this without them. Was that a mistake? If you can try it out in some other browsers I'd appreciate that. I have no idea what IE will do.<p>That's all. Hope you have fun.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.</title><url>http://www.yourworldoftext.com/</url></story> |
17,026,493 | 17,025,883 | 1 | 3 | 17,022,963 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ZainRiz</author><text>Lol, but if you think about it, what stops businesses from doing this today?<p>It&#x27;s the lack of a universal API.<p>If a barber shop wants to make it possible for a 3rd party app to book appointments then they have to release some API. But that&#x27;s not the end of it. The 3rd party app has to first discover their Api, someone has to understand it and write code to use it, and then deploy that code.<p><i>This is a problem today because there is no universal Api that all services can use</i><p>With Duplex, verbals speech becomes a universal Api that every service can parse and communicate to each other wtih. Also, the discoverability is taken care of by using publicly cataloged phone numbers on services like Google Maps, Yelp, etc</text><parent_chain><item><author>freyir</author><text>&gt; <i>The end game would be for the business to run something like duplex on the other side, and you’d have duplex talking to duplex.</i><p>And looking even further into the future, we can imagine a day when the computers forgo natural speech and use a better-suited form of communication. Some kind of sequence of ones and zeros transmitted directly across the wire.</text></item><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>The people losing their marbles over this being some kind of Turing Test passing distopian stuff are missing the point at how limited this domain is.<p>People who answer phones to take bookings perform an extremely limited set of questions and responses, that’s why they can even be replaced by dumb voice response systems in many cases.<p>In these cases, the human being answering the phone is themselves acting like a bot following a repetitive script.<p>Duplex seems trained against this corpus. The end game would be for the business to run something like duplex on the other side, and you’d have duplex talking to duplex.<p>Most people working in hair salons or restaurants are very busy with customers and don’t want to handle these calls, so I think the reverse of this duplex system, a more natural voice booking system for small businesses would help the immensely free up their workers to focus on customers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.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>stfwn</author><text>A large part of introducing new tech is enabling the transition from existing tech. Maybe if we scrapped all old cars and allowed only autonomously vehicles we’d be be sleeping at 120 km&#x2F;h next week. But some businesses still run on COBOL.</text><parent_chain><item><author>freyir</author><text>&gt; <i>The end game would be for the business to run something like duplex on the other side, and you’d have duplex talking to duplex.</i><p>And looking even further into the future, we can imagine a day when the computers forgo natural speech and use a better-suited form of communication. Some kind of sequence of ones and zeros transmitted directly across the wire.</text></item><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>The people losing their marbles over this being some kind of Turing Test passing distopian stuff are missing the point at how limited this domain is.<p>People who answer phones to take bookings perform an extremely limited set of questions and responses, that’s why they can even be replaced by dumb voice response systems in many cases.<p>In these cases, the human being answering the phone is themselves acting like a bot following a repetitive script.<p>Duplex seems trained against this corpus. The end game would be for the business to run something like duplex on the other side, and you’d have duplex talking to duplex.<p>Most people working in hair salons or restaurants are very busy with customers and don’t want to handle these calls, so I think the reverse of this duplex system, a more natural voice booking system for small businesses would help the immensely free up their workers to focus on customers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html</url></story> |
7,599,942 | 7,599,815 | 1 | 2 | 7,599,397 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jawns</author><text>When you say &quot;digital edits are seriously banned,&quot; I think that&#x27;s overreaching. I&#x27;m a former newspaper editor, and &quot;digital edits&quot; in the form of adjusting levels, color correction, etc., are performed on every single photo.<p>What&#x27;s not allowed, as you allude to, is retouching a photo.<p>So does introducing blur after the photo was taken count as retouching, or does it fall into the same category as color correction? It&#x27;s an interesting question. On the one hand, it has the potential to obscure elements of the picture, which seems like retouching, but on the other hand, you could just as easily achieve the same effect with a DSLR and there would be no outcry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>We had an interesting discussion about this a few nights ago at a Photojournalism talk.<p>In that field, digital edits are seriously banned, to the point multiple very well known photo journalists have been fired for one little use of the clone tool [1] and other minor edits.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to think I can throw an f&#x2F;1.8 lens on my DSLR and take a very shallow depth of field photo, which is OK, even though it&#x27;s not very representative of what my eyes saw. If I take the photo at f&#x2F;18 then use an app like the one linked, producing extremely similar results, that&#x27;s banned. Fascinating what&#x27;s allowed and what&#x27;s not.<p>I find even more interesting is the allowance of changing color photos to B&#x2F;W, or that almost anything that &quot;came straight off the camera&quot; no matter how far it strays from what your eyes saw.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.toledoblade.com/frontpage/2007/04/15/A-basic-rule-Newspaper-photos-must-tell-the-truth.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.toledoblade.com&#x2F;frontpage&#x2F;2007&#x2F;04&#x2F;15&#x2F;A-basic-rule...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app</title><url>http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/04/lens-blur-in-new-google-camera-app.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>VikingCoder</author><text>Radiologists are the same... You take a Computed Tomography series of images, doing all kinds of back-projection (duh) and volumetric anisotropic edge-preserving smoothing, and then you apply segmentation and false-color, semi-transparent transfer functions and lighting...<p>And then you apply one more post-processing effect to try to highlight something, and they freak out that you&#x27;re no longer showing them the raw data!<p>That does not mean what you think it does.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>We had an interesting discussion about this a few nights ago at a Photojournalism talk.<p>In that field, digital edits are seriously banned, to the point multiple very well known photo journalists have been fired for one little use of the clone tool [1] and other minor edits.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to think I can throw an f&#x2F;1.8 lens on my DSLR and take a very shallow depth of field photo, which is OK, even though it&#x27;s not very representative of what my eyes saw. If I take the photo at f&#x2F;18 then use an app like the one linked, producing extremely similar results, that&#x27;s banned. Fascinating what&#x27;s allowed and what&#x27;s not.<p>I find even more interesting is the allowance of changing color photos to B&#x2F;W, or that almost anything that &quot;came straight off the camera&quot; no matter how far it strays from what your eyes saw.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.toledoblade.com/frontpage/2007/04/15/A-basic-rule-Newspaper-photos-must-tell-the-truth.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.toledoblade.com&#x2F;frontpage&#x2F;2007&#x2F;04&#x2F;15&#x2F;A-basic-rule...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app</title><url>http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/04/lens-blur-in-new-google-camera-app.html</url></story> |
4,767,713 | 4,767,717 | 1 | 3 | 4,767,211 | 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>lbarrow</author><text>We've been playing around with Go where I work. The concurrency model is great, and the type/object/interface approach is pretty flexible. The language designers also succeeded in eliminating many of the pain points they felt with C/C++/Java: dependency bloat and compilation speed. My workflow with Go has more in common with an interpreted language than anything else.<p>However, the lack of generics seems like a pretty bad oversight. It's annoying to rewrite common functional operations (e.g. map, reduce) over and over again with slightly different argument types (or sprinkling type casts all over your code).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go turns three</title><url>http://blog.golang.org/2012/11/go-turns-three.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diminish</author><text>From the upvotes, apparently Go has a lot of support on HN, and/or there are a lot of Googlers here. I am particularly curious about Go and Ceylon, 2 recent languages with strong corporate backing. Is anyone using Go in a startup? Congratulations to Go open source for 3rd year. Go Go!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go turns three</title><url>http://blog.golang.org/2012/11/go-turns-three.html</url><text></text></story> |
20,482,222 | 20,481,047 | 1 | 2 | 20,480,261 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ipython</author><text>One absolutely diabolical mechanism that was used (at least 5 years ago when this scourge of ransomware started to rear its ugly head) goes something like this:<p>1. Gain access to change the code on the front-end web servers (usually PHP)<p>2. Change the database access layer to transparently encrypt data being written to the database, and decrypt data being read from the database. The key would be loaded into memory by curl&#x27;ing an attacker-controlled website at startup.<p>3. Wait 30 days<p>4. Notify the company that they&#x27;re compromised, turn off the attacker-controlled key service, and restart the web front end<p>Now step (3) ensures that most data in the database has been re-written, and if your backups are dumps of the production database, you now have a month of encrypted backups that you can&#x27;t read... If you&#x27;re lucky, you may have a month-old backup to restore from; if you&#x27;re unlucky, you rotate every 30 days.</text><parent_chain><item><author>johngalt</author><text>A generally safe backup process looks like this:<p>Production has no access to backup.<p>Backup has read only access to production.<p>Backup writes are append and not overwrites.<p>Deletes&#x2F;archival are governed by a retention process.</text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>This is a question I&#x27;ve thought alot about, so many some Sys Admins can give a good idea about how to approach it:<p>How do you create a backup server that is reachable by production servers (so that they can back up to it) <i>without</i> then being vulnerable to the same kind of ransomware attacks that infect the production servers? You can&#x27;t exactly make them read-only, or else they can&#x27;t accept the &quot;legitimate&quot; writes that might occur during the normal backup process.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/quickbooks-cloud-hosting-firm-insynq-hit-in-ransomware-attack/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pstuart</author><text>A solid list.<p>It&#x27;s nice to have a restore step in there too, so one has both a validation that the backup is usable, and gives a &quot;playground&quot; where one can have a safe day old environment for testing&#x2F;training&#x2F;whatnot against production data.</text><parent_chain><item><author>johngalt</author><text>A generally safe backup process looks like this:<p>Production has no access to backup.<p>Backup has read only access to production.<p>Backup writes are append and not overwrites.<p>Deletes&#x2F;archival are governed by a retention process.</text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>This is a question I&#x27;ve thought alot about, so many some Sys Admins can give a good idea about how to approach it:<p>How do you create a backup server that is reachable by production servers (so that they can back up to it) <i>without</i> then being vulnerable to the same kind of ransomware attacks that infect the production servers? You can&#x27;t exactly make them read-only, or else they can&#x27;t accept the &quot;legitimate&quot; writes that might occur during the normal backup process.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/quickbooks-cloud-hosting-firm-insynq-hit-in-ransomware-attack/</url></story> |
40,405,363 | 40,404,209 | 1 | 2 | 40,403,768 | 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>teleforce</author><text>Thanks for the list.<p>Interesting to see that the book by the late David MacKay made it to the list, it is available to download in several formats from the book&#x27;s website.<p>Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inference.org.uk&#x2F;mackay&#x2F;itila&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inference.org.uk&#x2F;mackay&#x2F;itila&#x2F;</a><p>The lectures based on the book by David MacKay himself:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;BCiZc0n6COY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;BCiZc0n6COY</a><p>Probably it&#x27;s not a surprise that the father of information theory Claude Shannon is the earliest one to propose stochastic LLM based on Markov chain.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder</title><url>https://thomwolf.io/data/Thom_wolf_reading_list.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>philipov</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered if Hugging Face is meant to evoke the feeling of being attacked by a Facehugger.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder</title><url>https://thomwolf.io/data/Thom_wolf_reading_list.txt</url></story> |
13,973,144 | 13,972,604 | 1 | 2 | 13,971,627 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LVB</author><text>Whenever I watch one of Terry&#x27;s videos, I get highly motivated to program. Not read a blog post comparing frameworks, or a debate about some programming idiom, or even designing some larger project. But literally type stuff into a computer and make things appear on the screen. It is remarkable how watching his TempleOS videos uncovers the fascination I had of computers from my youth, 30 years ago.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mega Man for TempleOS</title><url>https://github.com/tramplersheikhs/megaman</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tsheikhs</author><text>Cool! This project started out as a way to learn Gr library routines in HolyC, and kind of Frankensteined its way into a game engine. In the coming weeks I&#x27;ll be doing lots of refactoring to bring the code in line with proper TOS guidelines naming conventions.<p>(Author here: I cross-posted this comment from a reddit thread, hope it isn&#x27;t against the rules..)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mega Man for TempleOS</title><url>https://github.com/tramplersheikhs/megaman</url></story> |
31,966,870 | 31,962,291 | 1 | 3 | 31,944,555 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rcshubhadeep</author><text>It is named after Prof Satyendra Nath Bose. A physicist and true polyglot from pre-independent India. He was in his twenties when he figured this out. Of course never really received any larger fame, as is customary for Theoretical scientists from South East Asia (well most of the time) but if anyone is interested here is the story - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Satyendra_Nath_Bose" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Satyendra_Nath_Bose</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>lalalandland</author><text>FWIW Bosons are named after a person</text></item><item><author>lokimedes</author><text>After we discovered the particle in June 2012, there was a large summer conference in Stockholm (a good few months before the Nobel announcement). In the spirit of jubilation the Municipality had arranged a classical “Nobel” reception at the Mayor’s Hall and banquet at the Vasa Museum in the evening.<p>As a good friend of the chair of the organizing committee, I was asked to help that evening, collecting invitations as people entered. After greeting the first 100 or so, up came this elderly man who has lost his invitation. He was very sorry, and asked if there was any way for him to prove he in fact was invited. I told the gentleman, that he could have mine in case there was any trouble. As Peter Higgs was allowed to enter the little dress rehearsal for what was to befall him in autumn, there was a warm chuckle around us.<p>I have met him on other occasions and perhaps it is exactly his non-selfish personality that has allowed the particle to carry his name in the first place. The rest of particle physics is luckily void of attributing eternal properties of nature to individuals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-higgs-boson-ruined-peter-higgss-life/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>frutiger</author><text>And while Gell-Mann did not name them after himself, “three quarks for Muster Mark” is a delightful origin of that particle’s name.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lalalandland</author><text>FWIW Bosons are named after a person</text></item><item><author>lokimedes</author><text>After we discovered the particle in June 2012, there was a large summer conference in Stockholm (a good few months before the Nobel announcement). In the spirit of jubilation the Municipality had arranged a classical “Nobel” reception at the Mayor’s Hall and banquet at the Vasa Museum in the evening.<p>As a good friend of the chair of the organizing committee, I was asked to help that evening, collecting invitations as people entered. After greeting the first 100 or so, up came this elderly man who has lost his invitation. He was very sorry, and asked if there was any way for him to prove he in fact was invited. I told the gentleman, that he could have mine in case there was any trouble. As Peter Higgs was allowed to enter the little dress rehearsal for what was to befall him in autumn, there was a warm chuckle around us.<p>I have met him on other occasions and perhaps it is exactly his non-selfish personality that has allowed the particle to carry his name in the first place. The rest of particle physics is luckily void of attributing eternal properties of nature to individuals.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-higgs-boson-ruined-peter-higgss-life/</url></story> |
20,649,780 | 20,649,766 | 1 | 3 | 20,649,470 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheRealSteel</author><text>Isn&#x27;t the idea of a bug bounty at this scale that the monetary reward (especially combined with the lowered legal risk, but also when considered in isolation) is higher from reporting it to the vendor than from selling it on the black market? I.E. presumably Apple has done their research and one million dollars is more than they believe you&#x27;d getting selling a zero day to somebody else.<p>I don&#x27;t work in the security field nor am I a business number cruncher, but that was the gist I had of what these programs achieved.<p>Edit: see Despegar&#x27;s reply, I should have RTFA! However worth pointing out that there would be some incentive for researchers to go to Apple instead of a third party, which might tip the scales in their favour.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Despegar</author><text>&gt;Forbes also revealed on Monday that Apple was to give bug bounty participants &quot;developer devices&quot; - iPhones that let hackers dive further into iOS. They can, for instance, pause the processor to look at what&#x27;s happening with data in memory. Krstić confirmed the iOS Security Research Device program would be by application only. It will arrive next year.<p>I wonder how they&#x27;re going to manage this. I could easily see some less than ethical researchers applying for this program and selling all the 0 days they find to the usual suspects rather than informing Apple.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/08/08/apple-confirms-1-million-reward-for-hackers-who-find-serious-iphone-vulnerabilities/#7b31cc2d3948</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diminoten</author><text>I forget who, but someone made a comment about this a long time ago that stuck with me. We often say, &quot;They&#x27;ll just sell all these 0 days on the black market.&quot; but honestly that&#x27;s not like a literal market, and you have to make a lot of compromises to not only your own integrity, but also to your safety and ability to stay out of jail if you do something like that.<p>I wish I remembered the specifics of the comment, but selling a 0day on the black market is not something a casual person can easily do, and even if someone figures out how, there&#x27;s a <i>lot</i> that can go wrong, with many of those outcomes leading to jailtime.<p>It&#x27;s <i>vastly</i> superior to participate in a bug bounty program legitimately, from a risk standpoint, especially if you&#x27;re standing to make $1M. 0days are (and I&#x27;m not an expert on this) not generally going for enough more to justify all that extra risk.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Despegar</author><text>&gt;Forbes also revealed on Monday that Apple was to give bug bounty participants &quot;developer devices&quot; - iPhones that let hackers dive further into iOS. They can, for instance, pause the processor to look at what&#x27;s happening with data in memory. Krstić confirmed the iOS Security Research Device program would be by application only. It will arrive next year.<p>I wonder how they&#x27;re going to manage this. I could easily see some less than ethical researchers applying for this program and selling all the 0 days they find to the usual suspects rather than informing Apple.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/08/08/apple-confirms-1-million-reward-for-hackers-who-find-serious-iphone-vulnerabilities/#7b31cc2d3948</url></story> |
31,700,435 | 31,699,411 | 1 | 2 | 31,698,077 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kivlad</author><text>My favorite part of Maxthon was the rendering engine switching, where you got to change between Gecko and Trident, and it looks like even Webkit was supported at one point. This was back when you basically needed to use Netscape&#x2F;Mozilla for modern standards and IE for sites that absolutely needed it.
It seems like the only place in the years following you&#x27;d see this would be to get away from IE using forwards compatibility (Chrome Frame) or backwards compatibility (IE Tab in Edge).</text><parent_chain><item><author>tibbydudeza</author><text>IE was so hackable - remember some Chinese firm (Maxthon) built a complete new browser by just embedding Trident and using ActiveX.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: My small program from 2007 that gave Internet Explorer tabs</title><url>http://tabbed.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>Scene_Cast2</author><text>Not just IE - things like MSN Messenger and uxtheme.dll had lots of mods. I also remember greasemonkey (from a bit later of a time) being huge, too.<p>I wonder why it&#x27;s less of a thing now. Is it because of the increased difficulty (frequent updates), or is it because there isn&#x27;t as much need for such mods?</text><parent_chain><item><author>tibbydudeza</author><text>IE was so hackable - remember some Chinese firm (Maxthon) built a complete new browser by just embedding Trident and using ActiveX.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: My small program from 2007 that gave Internet Explorer tabs</title><url>http://tabbed.org/</url></story> |
24,226,195 | 24,223,517 | 1 | 2 | 24,222,164 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ardy42</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s similar in some ways to the concept of block time, in which there is no progression of time. The universe simply exists and the perception of the &#x27;present&#x27; is an illusion. Similarly for Minsky the perception of reality or existence is an illusion.<p>Labeling something an &quot;illusion&quot; like that seems like a massive cop-out, made by a mapmaker to avoid confronting the fact that their maps don&#x27;t fully represent the territory. Fossils weren&#x27;t illusions, and I don&#x27;t think the present or existence are illusions either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simonh</author><text>Well, there&#x27;s the Marvin Minsky answer. He believed that there is no difference between a possible universe and a real universe. Think of the difference between an algorithm that only exists in theory and running the algorithm on a computer. What do we add to the result by running it? We don&#x27;t change the result, or grant it any greater validity in a metaphysical sense. The answer was always going to be the same and always will be the same. Minsky thought that our world is simply a possible world, but to suppose it is &#x27;real&#x27; or not doesn&#x27;t change anything and more than doing a calculation makes the result correct. It simply is.<p>It&#x27;s similar in some ways to the concept of block time, in which there is no progression of time. The universe simply exists and the perception of the &#x27;present&#x27; is an illusion. Similarly for Minsky the perception of reality or existence is an illusion.</text></item><item><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>The metaphysical issues are unavoidable because whatever the theory we come up with or, I think, whatever the reality is, it can only fall within 2 possibilities:<p>- Infinity: There is no beginning and something always precedes the &#x27;current&#x27; step (e.g. the Big Bang occurred out of something)<p>- Discontinuity: There is a beginning. Everything suddenly started out of nothing.<p>While both options are hard to grasp for the human mind, the second one, which is the standard Big Bang also sits very uncomfortably with Physics&#x27; concepts and is the more &#x27;disturbing&#x27; of the two. I think that&#x27;s why people have been looking for alternatives to the standard Big Bang theory.<p>Infinity, is still unfathomable but at least it is easier to fit Maths and Physics around.<p>Even adding God to the mix still leads to these 2 options, because if the Universe was created by &#x27;God&#x27; it implies that the Big Bang is not the beginning and that something (God) pre-existed. The idea that we might be in a simulation is equivalent to a creator God, just more hi-tech.<p>It really seems to me that these alternatives, infinity or discontinuity, are inescapable.</text></item><item><author>Zamicol</author><text>I despise the big bounce because it&#x27;s dogmatic in origin. &quot;It makes sense that the universe just bounces instead of &#x27;coming from nowhere&#x27;!&quot;<p>Every time cosmologists looked, the universe got bigger and suggested growth. The big bounce at no point in history ever looked right. Moreover, the big bounce kicks the bucket down the road. It ultimately has the same metaphysical issues.<p>I find the reasoning poor as well. &quot;I don&#x27;t like inflation&quot; != &quot;The universe ends in contraction&quot;. Yes, it&#x27;s proven difficult to explain CMB smoothness, but this doesn&#x27;t mean the big bounce is a better candidate than other non-empirical ideas.<p>I&#x27;m confident truth will be far stranger than big bounce fiction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/big-bounce-simulations-challenge-the-big-bang-20200804/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hacknat</author><text>It’s a pleasing cognitive answer, but doesn’t really fit well with math or physics. Time is an emergent property of the Universe that we can measure and compare with a more platonic mathematical model of time. Also, you could make the argument that Minsky’s argument is just a form of discontinuity.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simonh</author><text>Well, there&#x27;s the Marvin Minsky answer. He believed that there is no difference between a possible universe and a real universe. Think of the difference between an algorithm that only exists in theory and running the algorithm on a computer. What do we add to the result by running it? We don&#x27;t change the result, or grant it any greater validity in a metaphysical sense. The answer was always going to be the same and always will be the same. Minsky thought that our world is simply a possible world, but to suppose it is &#x27;real&#x27; or not doesn&#x27;t change anything and more than doing a calculation makes the result correct. It simply is.<p>It&#x27;s similar in some ways to the concept of block time, in which there is no progression of time. The universe simply exists and the perception of the &#x27;present&#x27; is an illusion. Similarly for Minsky the perception of reality or existence is an illusion.</text></item><item><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>The metaphysical issues are unavoidable because whatever the theory we come up with or, I think, whatever the reality is, it can only fall within 2 possibilities:<p>- Infinity: There is no beginning and something always precedes the &#x27;current&#x27; step (e.g. the Big Bang occurred out of something)<p>- Discontinuity: There is a beginning. Everything suddenly started out of nothing.<p>While both options are hard to grasp for the human mind, the second one, which is the standard Big Bang also sits very uncomfortably with Physics&#x27; concepts and is the more &#x27;disturbing&#x27; of the two. I think that&#x27;s why people have been looking for alternatives to the standard Big Bang theory.<p>Infinity, is still unfathomable but at least it is easier to fit Maths and Physics around.<p>Even adding God to the mix still leads to these 2 options, because if the Universe was created by &#x27;God&#x27; it implies that the Big Bang is not the beginning and that something (God) pre-existed. The idea that we might be in a simulation is equivalent to a creator God, just more hi-tech.<p>It really seems to me that these alternatives, infinity or discontinuity, are inescapable.</text></item><item><author>Zamicol</author><text>I despise the big bounce because it&#x27;s dogmatic in origin. &quot;It makes sense that the universe just bounces instead of &#x27;coming from nowhere&#x27;!&quot;<p>Every time cosmologists looked, the universe got bigger and suggested growth. The big bounce at no point in history ever looked right. Moreover, the big bounce kicks the bucket down the road. It ultimately has the same metaphysical issues.<p>I find the reasoning poor as well. &quot;I don&#x27;t like inflation&quot; != &quot;The universe ends in contraction&quot;. Yes, it&#x27;s proven difficult to explain CMB smoothness, but this doesn&#x27;t mean the big bounce is a better candidate than other non-empirical ideas.<p>I&#x27;m confident truth will be far stranger than big bounce fiction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/big-bounce-simulations-challenge-the-big-bang-20200804/</url></story> |
16,340,079 | 16,339,934 | 1 | 3 | 16,339,626 | 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>ptero</author><text>I am very glad S9 keeps the headphone jack. If only it would add a user replaceable battery and add-on memory card. I wonder why those three features that appear to be much loved by users are almost never present in modern phones.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/9/16994318/samsung-galaxy-s9-headphone-jack-dex-pad-photo-leak</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fredley</author><text>The presence of a headphone is very, very high up the feature priority list for me. It&#x27;s why for the first time ever the next smartphone I buy will not be a Nexus&#x2F;Pixel device (I&#x27;m still on my 1st gen Pixel). I hope I&#x27;m with the market, and market forces prevail, consigning the jack-less models to a failed experiment.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung’s Galaxy S9 looks set to retain the headphone jack</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/9/16994318/samsung-galaxy-s9-headphone-jack-dex-pad-photo-leak</url></story> |
37,907,421 | 37,906,742 | 1 | 2 | 37,905,251 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimnotgym</author><text>Things are often not black and white.<p>Farmers used to plough fields after harvest. This kills weeds. It also uses a lot of power, so burns a lot of diesel and releases CO2. Ploughing also allows carbon trapped in organic material in the soil to break down and releases yet more CO2 as well as destroying soil structure.<p>Low&#x2F;no till farming seeds directly into last year&#x27;s stubble. This uses much less diesel so releases much less CO2. Organic matter in the soil builds up, trapping more carbon, and improving soil health. But now the weeds grow unchecked and destroy the crop.<p>A common variation of the above low till method it to &#x27;cultivate&#x27; (sort of scuff up) the surface of the soil after harvest. This causes weeds to germinate. Then you spray them with glyphosate (Roundup), and can almost immediately start sowing your crop. This allows you to farm with much less carbon released, lower fertilizer usage (also reducing carbon).<p>Roundup allows farming with lower inputs and better soil health and less carbon released. That is why so many people defend its use.</text><parent_chain><item><author>user3939382</author><text>Remember when Bayer (who now owns Monsanto) intentionally sold HIV infected blood in South America? The people that own these companies would sell their own grandmother for $5. They’re poisoning the world, as science and litigation they couldn’t buy their way out of has evidenced, and we get people on here “hacktually”ing their defense. Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-10-roundup-herbicide-ingredient-epidemic-chronic.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>OfSanguineFire</author><text>&gt; Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto.<p>Farmers love glyphosate because it kills weeds very effectively. It’s hard to exaggerate how much of a neat thing glyphosate was considered in the agricultural world when it appeared. That’s the reason it is used. Now, the reason it is produced and sold is that it is profitable for Monsanto, and regulation hasn’t stopped Monsanto.</text><parent_chain><item><author>user3939382</author><text>Remember when Bayer (who now owns Monsanto) intentionally sold HIV infected blood in South America? The people that own these companies would sell their own grandmother for $5. They’re poisoning the world, as science and litigation they couldn’t buy their way out of has evidenced, and we get people on here “hacktually”ing their defense. Glyphosate is used for only one reason, it’s profitable for Monsanto.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-10-roundup-herbicide-ingredient-epidemic-chronic.html</url></story> |
18,175,337 | 18,175,259 | 1 | 3 | 18,172,665 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jansan</author><text>If I was an art collector I would pay much more for the artwork now, for the simple reasons that<p>1. The girl with a balloon print was not the only one of its kind. There are other variations. It was not so unique before.<p>2. This is the only one, the first one, even the first (prominent?) artwork that &quot;destroyed itself&quot;<p>3. It is still an artwork. It did not destroy itself completely, but stopped in the middle of the destruction process. Doesn&#x27;t it look great now, sticking only half outside the frame? Any museum of contemporary art would die for having this. And only this, not a similar one or the next one that destroys itself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrleiter</author><text>I wonder, like mentioned elsewhere in the art community, if this stunt will have the opposite assumed effect: that the artwork will be more valuable now than it was before. Since now it is a &quot;double-Banksy&quot; in a sense. And if others and I can think of that outcome, most definitely so can Banksy. And maybe that is the real critique of the artworld:<p>That even if you destroy the art, the destroyed art is still worth millions. Simply because the art has detached itself from its meaning and origin, and has tilted towards who made the art.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Myth Busting Banksy</title><url>https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/10/6/myth-busting-banksy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rhplus</author><text>The Banksy art incubator just came up with a novel strategy for maximizing exposure of a startup artwork. MAU metric through the roof before IPO. Early investors very happy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrleiter</author><text>I wonder, like mentioned elsewhere in the art community, if this stunt will have the opposite assumed effect: that the artwork will be more valuable now than it was before. Since now it is a &quot;double-Banksy&quot; in a sense. And if others and I can think of that outcome, most definitely so can Banksy. And maybe that is the real critique of the artworld:<p>That even if you destroy the art, the destroyed art is still worth millions. Simply because the art has detached itself from its meaning and origin, and has tilted towards who made the art.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Myth Busting Banksy</title><url>https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/10/6/myth-busting-banksy</url></story> |
28,830,244 | 28,826,147 | 1 | 3 | 28,825,778 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shmatt</author><text>I did something similar in a big fashion company in the past<p>They had a non-utilized collection of tens of thousands of tagged clothing photos going back to the 80s. I Used DCGAN to generate images of new clothing, then model arithmetic to request specific (&quot;sparkly winter dress&quot;) pieces. It was pretty amazing to see the strength with existing photos<p>The higher ups stared, blinked a few times, and just muttered they don&#x27;t get it<p>I have no doubt this is in the future of fashion design in the next 20 years. I just hope those images don&#x27;t get lost when the company inevitably shuts down</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Sneaker Does Not Exist</title><url>https://thissneakerdoesnotexist.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>StatFallacieSuk</author><text>Shame it&#x27;s dead right now.<p>You can see some of the gen&#x27;d sneaks on: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20211011073927&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thissneakerdoesnotexist.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20211011073927&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thissneak...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Sneaker Does Not Exist</title><url>https://thissneakerdoesnotexist.com/</url></story> |
38,284,006 | 38,283,851 | 1 | 3 | 38,281,079 | 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>jrockway</author><text>Sounds like a similar situation to someone named Mike Rowe starting a software company: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>chankstein38</author><text>What if my voice sounded like Tom Waits or Morgan Freeman and I did commercials? It doesn&#x27;t and I don&#x27;t I&#x27;m just curious how this makes sense. Is it just if the voice is advertised to sound like him?</text></item><item><author>kevinmchugh</author><text>You can&#x27;t use a Tom Waits (or Morgan Freeman) sound-a-like because you&#x27;re profiting off their work and likeness. Unless the celeb sells a licensed sound-a-like.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faroutmagazine.co.uk&#x2F;when-tom-waits-sued-doritos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faroutmagazine.co.uk&#x2F;when-tom-waits-sued-doritos&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>pcthrowaway</author><text>Why would Morgan Freeman be entitled to royalties for a commercial where the voice over sounded similar to his voice... unless he actually sold the rights to represent him with a vocal likeness in the commercial (AKA he didn&#x27;t do the voice over, but the commercial was able to claim the voice over was by Morgan Freemen, or that it represented Morgan Freeman&#x27;s opinions... like when a book by a celebrity is actually written by someone else)</text></item><item><author>woleium</author><text>I expect the existing laws will be extended. I had a colleague tell me about looking into how much Morgan freeman wanted for a 15s commercial ($$$$$$). The alternative he used was a “sound alike” voice actor, for which Morgan Freeman received royalties to the tune of $$$$$.</text></item><item><author>iris2004</author><text>It&#x27;s a neat demo. I don&#x27;t know how I feed about cloning the voice of a living person, even a &#x27;public&#x27; figure like a presenter. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it eventually becomes illegal, although it&#x27;ll likely be as difficult to enforce as normal casual copyright infringement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>David Attenborough is now narrating my life</title><url>https://twitter.com/charliebholtz/status/1724815159590293764</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>golergka</author><text>&gt; The agency came back to Frito-Lay with a parody song inspired by Tom Wait’s ‘Step Right Up’, featuring the same Carni hollerings as the Small Change track<p>If you did straight-up parodies of their songs, yes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chankstein38</author><text>What if my voice sounded like Tom Waits or Morgan Freeman and I did commercials? It doesn&#x27;t and I don&#x27;t I&#x27;m just curious how this makes sense. Is it just if the voice is advertised to sound like him?</text></item><item><author>kevinmchugh</author><text>You can&#x27;t use a Tom Waits (or Morgan Freeman) sound-a-like because you&#x27;re profiting off their work and likeness. Unless the celeb sells a licensed sound-a-like.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faroutmagazine.co.uk&#x2F;when-tom-waits-sued-doritos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faroutmagazine.co.uk&#x2F;when-tom-waits-sued-doritos&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>pcthrowaway</author><text>Why would Morgan Freeman be entitled to royalties for a commercial where the voice over sounded similar to his voice... unless he actually sold the rights to represent him with a vocal likeness in the commercial (AKA he didn&#x27;t do the voice over, but the commercial was able to claim the voice over was by Morgan Freemen, or that it represented Morgan Freeman&#x27;s opinions... like when a book by a celebrity is actually written by someone else)</text></item><item><author>woleium</author><text>I expect the existing laws will be extended. I had a colleague tell me about looking into how much Morgan freeman wanted for a 15s commercial ($$$$$$). The alternative he used was a “sound alike” voice actor, for which Morgan Freeman received royalties to the tune of $$$$$.</text></item><item><author>iris2004</author><text>It&#x27;s a neat demo. I don&#x27;t know how I feed about cloning the voice of a living person, even a &#x27;public&#x27; figure like a presenter. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it eventually becomes illegal, although it&#x27;ll likely be as difficult to enforce as normal casual copyright infringement.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>David Attenborough is now narrating my life</title><url>https://twitter.com/charliebholtz/status/1724815159590293764</url></story> |
24,875,049 | 24,874,931 | 1 | 3 | 24,873,554 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blitblitblit</author><text>&gt; It feels nice knowing that it cannot be taken away from me by anyone.<p>Just make sure this stays science fiction.<p>“It was a pleasure to burn.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451</text><parent_chain><item><author>ve55</author><text>I <i>really</i> enjoy having copies of all of the content I consume locally. It feels nice knowing that it cannot be taken away from me by anyone. It&#x27;s there when I lose Internet, it is there if I stop paying for various subscriptions, and it is there even if companies receive takedown notices, or otherwise just remove content for arbitrary reasons with no transparency or warning.<p>It&#x27;s sad how difficult it is becoming for users to actually own any of their own files. We don&#x27;t own our music, we use spotify. We don&#x27;t own our videos, we use Youtube. We don&#x27;t even own <i>the things we write ourselves</i>, we use Twitter, Medium, Facebook, Discord, and more, and as of more recently, we sometimes do not even own hardware that we purchase ourselves (far too many examples)!<p>youtube-dl being taken down today due to DMCA is a great showcase in how user-hostile the end-game here may actually be: you cannot own anything yourself, and must only access it on the terms of <i>many</i> very large parties (corporations, governments, laws, IP, etc), whose interests are not only not aligned with yours, but often completely inversed.<p>You never know when your favorite content on the Internet may completely disappear. Youtube videos get taken down, github repositories and all of their forks get removed, sometimes personal accounts for services such as Facebook or Google are deleted permanently and with no recourse, and sometimes even entire websites and services go dark, whether they shut down, are deplatformed, or get DMCA&#x27;d.<p>While I won&#x27;t be able to convince most of my friends or family to keep their own files for all of their valued content, since it can be a difficult hassle for nontechnical users, I will continue to do so myself until I&#x27;m not longer able to.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Right to Read (1997)</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.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>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; While I won&#x27;t be able to convince most of my friends or family to keep their own files for all of their valued content, since it can be a difficult hassle for nontechnical users<p>This IMHO is what should be a priority for someone - the FSF or EFF I dont know. The reason people keep handing over their freedom is often convenience. Free tools need to be as easy to setup and use as tools that take away peoples freedom.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ve55</author><text>I <i>really</i> enjoy having copies of all of the content I consume locally. It feels nice knowing that it cannot be taken away from me by anyone. It&#x27;s there when I lose Internet, it is there if I stop paying for various subscriptions, and it is there even if companies receive takedown notices, or otherwise just remove content for arbitrary reasons with no transparency or warning.<p>It&#x27;s sad how difficult it is becoming for users to actually own any of their own files. We don&#x27;t own our music, we use spotify. We don&#x27;t own our videos, we use Youtube. We don&#x27;t even own <i>the things we write ourselves</i>, we use Twitter, Medium, Facebook, Discord, and more, and as of more recently, we sometimes do not even own hardware that we purchase ourselves (far too many examples)!<p>youtube-dl being taken down today due to DMCA is a great showcase in how user-hostile the end-game here may actually be: you cannot own anything yourself, and must only access it on the terms of <i>many</i> very large parties (corporations, governments, laws, IP, etc), whose interests are not only not aligned with yours, but often completely inversed.<p>You never know when your favorite content on the Internet may completely disappear. Youtube videos get taken down, github repositories and all of their forks get removed, sometimes personal accounts for services such as Facebook or Google are deleted permanently and with no recourse, and sometimes even entire websites and services go dark, whether they shut down, are deplatformed, or get DMCA&#x27;d.<p>While I won&#x27;t be able to convince most of my friends or family to keep their own files for all of their valued content, since it can be a difficult hassle for nontechnical users, I will continue to do so myself until I&#x27;m not longer able to.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Right to Read (1997)</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html</url></story> |
25,064,969 | 25,064,873 | 1 | 3 | 25,064,674 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>YouTube is the one-stop-shop of internet videos. Any specific niche has a competitor, but none of them seriously competes with the whole of YouTube.<p>I noticed the outage because I wanted to watch a stream, so I might go to Twitch now. Often I use Youtube for music, where Spotify is a solid alternative with many of the same creators. If I want to see that video from reddit of people throwing burning flares at a balcony I can probably find it on LiveLeak. Many of the educational channels I&#x27;ve subscribed are also on Nebula, but I could also watch a documentary on Netflix or Disney+ instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>augusto-moura</author><text>Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc</text></item><item><author>birdyrooster</author><text>Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube Down</title><url>https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sundvor</author><text>YouTube Music user here. Fired up Windows Media Player for the first time in ages, and told it to scan my old folder of ripped CDs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>augusto-moura</author><text>Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc</text></item><item><author>birdyrooster</author><text>Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YouTube Down</title><url>https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/</url></story> |
10,599,575 | 10,599,656 | 1 | 3 | 10,599,513 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_Marak_</author><text>I&#x27;ve been following a lot of this develop over Twitter and Youtube.<p>It&#x27;s both sad and terrifying to see what is transpiring on these college campuses. There was a video filmed ( now taken down from youtube ) where a Yale Silliman College professor was trying to reason with some of these students.<p>The professor vehemently defended the rights to free-speech, while the students screamed at him that offensive speech should not be allowed on campus.<p>When the professor asked, &quot;Who should be responsible for determining what is offensive speech?&quot;, a student replied with, &quot;Anything that offends me!&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An obsession with safe spaces is not just bad for education</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21678223-obsession-safe-spaces-not-just-bad-education-it-also-diminishes-worthwhile-campus</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jagger27</author><text>The last I had heard of the term was in high school where a handful of teachers and administrators had a small rainbow sticker on the windows of their doors indicating that the room was a place where one would feel safe from discrimination. It was an anti-bullying movement that not provided a place to eat lunch, do work, etc. but more importantly gave victims a place to seek help and privately report offences. Bear in mind the system came into existence to fight homophobia.<p>The beast this movement has evolved into, if it has any relationship to the system I knew, has come completely off the rails and seems to me to be turning into the bully.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An obsession with safe spaces is not just bad for education</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21678223-obsession-safe-spaces-not-just-bad-education-it-also-diminishes-worthwhile-campus</url></story> |
38,168,703 | 38,168,451 | 1 | 2 | 38,161,997 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Aurornis</author><text>Weirdly, I&#x27;ve been asked to do the virtual version of this with a remote job.<p>The company&#x27;s business analysts started tracking <i>everything</i> in dashboards, including our Slack messages. Apparently they would pull up charts of things like messages sent by team or by person, and charts showing when people sent Slack messages.<p>They tried to claim it was just for fun, but then someone slipped up in a meeting and said that they didn&#x27;t think a team was working much because their Slack activity was low.<p>After that, managers asked us to move more conversations into Slack channels, send morning and evening updates, break up long messages into smaller messages, and other things to get our numbers up. You could tell the managers hated it as much as everyone else, but I guess they were doing us a favor by telling us how to play the game.</text><parent_chain><item><author>michaelteter</author><text>&gt; easy to confuse physical presence with productivity<p>Early in my career I worked for the US division of a giant Japanese company. On the occasions that executives from Japan would come visit, we were expected to periodically stop working (programming) and carry papers to and from other cubicles and manager offices.<p>This apparently gave the impression that we were working very hard, when of course it was really making us less productive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Video Game That Pays: Lessons Learned from Working Remotely</title><url>https://dtransposed.github.io/blog/2023/11/02/Remote-SWE/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>I&#x27;ve joked in the past (in WFH vs RTO threads) that in order to appease the people who want to see a busy in-person office: companies should just hire actors to run around the office carrying clipboards, sketching on whiteboards, and looking busy, because the visual, performative art of work is all that&#x27;s important at a lot of places. I wasn&#x27;t 100% serious about it, but here we are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>michaelteter</author><text>&gt; easy to confuse physical presence with productivity<p>Early in my career I worked for the US division of a giant Japanese company. On the occasions that executives from Japan would come visit, we were expected to periodically stop working (programming) and carry papers to and from other cubicles and manager offices.<p>This apparently gave the impression that we were working very hard, when of course it was really making us less productive.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Video Game That Pays: Lessons Learned from Working Remotely</title><url>https://dtransposed.github.io/blog/2023/11/02/Remote-SWE/</url></story> |
17,473,681 | 17,473,815 | 1 | 2 | 17,472,296 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>some_account</author><text>I have all kinds of anti tracking installed in Firefox but I&#x27;m going to sign up for this.<p>Why? Because I want Firefox to be the best browser. Mozilla is not Google and not Microsoft. They have a very different view on privacy and how they would like the internet to evolve.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox Pioneer</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-firefox-pioneer</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sevensor</author><text>Isn&#x27;t Shield the same system that pushed a marketing gimmick late last year? I&#x27;m still feeling sore about that fiasco. Not sore enough to stop using Firefox and switch to a worse-for-privacy alternative, but sore enough to be grumpy about signing up for their studies.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firefox Pioneer</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-firefox-pioneer</url></story> |
26,103,888 | 26,103,258 | 1 | 3 | 26,102,030 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raiyu</author><text>Bitcoin is used as a speculative instrument because by definition it is deflationary. Which means it is more expensive to buy something with it today, then tomorrow. Just look at Chamath&#x27;s tweet about how he bought a property for Bitcoin in 2014 for $1.4MM but today that same amount of bitcoin would be $100MM+<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markets.businessinsider.com&#x2F;currencies&#x2F;news&#x2F;chamath-palihapitiya-bitcoin-land-investmet-loss-porn-btc-tesla-2021-2-1030067864" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markets.businessinsider.com&#x2F;currencies&#x2F;news&#x2F;chamath-...</a><p>This creates an environment there is never a reason to use the currency for a purchase, strictly because it&#x27;s supply is completely limited and never increasing over time.<p>Since the world economy continues to grow as GDP, output, and the population grows, it stands to reason that if Bitcoin in any way parallels our real world economic scenario, it would continue to rise in price per unit, because the overall GDP continues to increase.<p>As a result, it in fact never stabilizes, unless overall GDP stops growing.<p>Since it never stops growing, it never makes sense to use it for a purchase, and so you have a flywheel effect of ever increasing upward price pressure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>olalonde</author><text>Bitcoin is used as a speculative investment today only because it is so underpriced. Once its value stabilizes, its use in day to day transactions will grow.<p>&gt; Should also note that MasterCard crypto transactions almost certainly won’t be settled on the blockchain.<p>And neither are USD transactions. In fact, USD doesn&#x27;t even have a blockchain! The great thing with Bitcoin is once you want to cash out your Bitcoin, you can take it with you &quot;on chain&quot; without any intermediary (and it&#x27;s a bit more convenient than carrying bags of cash).</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>These stories usually spur more enthusiasm for buying cryptocurrency, but ironically those buyers aren’t interested in spending cryptocurrency using their MasterCard.<p>They’re hoping other people will buy cryptocurrency from these announcements, driving the price up. Or, more likely, they’re just hoping other people will buy cryptocurrency and <i>not</i> use it in these spending systems.<p>Spending cryptocurrency would result in selling that cryptocurrency, which would drive the price down. That’s not what cryptocurrency investors actually want.<p>Should also note that MasterCard crypto transactions almost certainly won’t be settled on the blockchain. Not with $8 Bitcoin transaction fees. They’ll just be denominated in cryptocurrency and people can deposit&#x2F;withdraw in certain cryptocurrencies. MasterCard only needs to buy and sell on the blockchain as needed to provide an FX window. The actual transactions would be stored in traditional database systems (aside from customer deposits&#x2F;withdrawals, just like Coinbase)<p>Why? Because MasterCard would get to act as an exchange and collect exchange fees. Exchange fees are a great way to charge consumers for spending their own money in 2021, when normal credit cards actually pay people 1-2% to use them. Cryptocurrency’s inefficiency is their financial upside.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-mastercard/mastercard-to-open-up-network-to-select-cryptocurrencies-idUSKBN2AA2WF</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agentdrtran</author><text>&quot;Once its value stabilizes, its use in day to day transactions will grow.&quot; and how will it grow when it&#x27;s a fixed amount of currency with a fixed amount of transactions per second?</text><parent_chain><item><author>olalonde</author><text>Bitcoin is used as a speculative investment today only because it is so underpriced. Once its value stabilizes, its use in day to day transactions will grow.<p>&gt; Should also note that MasterCard crypto transactions almost certainly won’t be settled on the blockchain.<p>And neither are USD transactions. In fact, USD doesn&#x27;t even have a blockchain! The great thing with Bitcoin is once you want to cash out your Bitcoin, you can take it with you &quot;on chain&quot; without any intermediary (and it&#x27;s a bit more convenient than carrying bags of cash).</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>These stories usually spur more enthusiasm for buying cryptocurrency, but ironically those buyers aren’t interested in spending cryptocurrency using their MasterCard.<p>They’re hoping other people will buy cryptocurrency from these announcements, driving the price up. Or, more likely, they’re just hoping other people will buy cryptocurrency and <i>not</i> use it in these spending systems.<p>Spending cryptocurrency would result in selling that cryptocurrency, which would drive the price down. That’s not what cryptocurrency investors actually want.<p>Should also note that MasterCard crypto transactions almost certainly won’t be settled on the blockchain. Not with $8 Bitcoin transaction fees. They’ll just be denominated in cryptocurrency and people can deposit&#x2F;withdraw in certain cryptocurrencies. MasterCard only needs to buy and sell on the blockchain as needed to provide an FX window. The actual transactions would be stored in traditional database systems (aside from customer deposits&#x2F;withdrawals, just like Coinbase)<p>Why? Because MasterCard would get to act as an exchange and collect exchange fees. Exchange fees are a great way to charge consumers for spending their own money in 2021, when normal credit cards actually pay people 1-2% to use them. Cryptocurrency’s inefficiency is their financial upside.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-mastercard/mastercard-to-open-up-network-to-select-cryptocurrencies-idUSKBN2AA2WF</url></story> |
25,497,282 | 25,497,015 | 1 | 2 | 25,494,648 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ThinkBeat</author><text>The Cray Computers felt like magic back in the day.<p>A guy is making a replica.
He had some issues finding the operating system and systems software but he overcame it<p>Persistence pays off.<p>I am sure it would be fun to part doom to it. Easier too since the new versions draws Considerable less power.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigaom.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;the-search-for-the-lost-cray-supercomputer-os&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigaom.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;the-search-for-the-lost-cray-s...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nobody ever ported Doom to run on a Cray 1</title><url>https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1340794861050605568</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dn3500</author><text>I ported parts of a TCP stack to the Cray X-MP in the 1980s. It was so fast that at first I thought it was broken. Hit &lt;return&gt; on the compile command line and the prompt would come right back almost immediately.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nobody ever ported Doom to run on a Cray 1</title><url>https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1340794861050605568</url></story> |
6,328,995 | 6,328,546 | 1 | 3 | 6,326,774 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Daiz</author><text>Dithering can help a lot when it comes to displaying large smooth gradients in lower bit depths. Obviously it has its downsides, though - for one, you need to actually implement it where smooth gradients are used, and at when it comes to video games this basically never happens and you end up with notable banding instead.<p>Dithering in the field of video is pretty common, though. But it has a pretty large problem there as well - since dithering is essentially noise, it requires a lot of bitrate to compress efficiently, and if you don&#x27;t have bitrate to throw at your source, you&#x27;re most likely going to kill it and just end up introducing banding. Blu-ray is pretty much the main avenue where you have enough bitrate to spare for proper dithering in 8-bit video. Anything less than that, though... well, let&#x27;s just say that House of Cards on Netflix was suffering from banding a lot.<p>Banding is actually one of the biggest reasons why anime fansubs these days are generally encoded in 10-bit H.264. Anime tends to have a lot of large and smooth color surfaces and banding was pretty much the hardest thing to avoid with regular 8-bit video - 10-bit on the other hands makes it an almost total non-issue. And for non-10bit displays, it moves the necessary dithering to the playback end, which is obviously a much nicer alternative since you don&#x27;t have to compress any of that in the video itself. And beyond the gradients, 10-bit H.264 actually gives you better compression quality in general, which just makes it even better.<p>Now, it obviously comes with the downside of not being supported by hardware decoders anywhere, so you basically will need a decent CPU to decode 10-bit video. For fansubs and the people who make them this isn&#x27;t that much of an issue though, since the advanced subtitles they use are also generally poorly-supported by hardware players, and this has been the case for a long time.<p>Next-generation video formats may actually bring higher bit depths to hardware decoders as well, though - H.265&#x2F;HEVC has a Main 10 Profile intended for consumer applications.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rootbear</author><text>This race for more pixels is misguided. The change I most want to see is deeper pixels, at least 10bpp, preferably more. I&#x27;m getting really tired of all the banding I see on what should be smooth gradient images. If a landscape aspect image is P pixels wide then to display a gray scale gradient, black to white, you need<p>ceil(log2(P))<p>bits per pixel. So a &quot;2K&quot; display needs 11 bits, &quot;4K&quot; needs 12, etc. Then each column of pixels gets a distinct value and there is no banding.<p>So sure, give me a 4K screen. I&#x27;ve seen them and they are sweet, but you MUST also increase the pixel depth at the same time, or there will be artifacts.<p>And don&#x27;t get me started on the horrid compression artifacts on basic cable. A crime against quality imagery.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HDMI 2.0 officially announced</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/04/hdmi-2-0-official-4k-60fps-32-channel-audio/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mgraczyk</author><text>The banding you see is from image and video compression, not a lack of bpp. Human beings can almost never differentiate 6 bpp from 8 bpp grayscale, and with colors 7 bpp&#x2F;c is almost always sufficient.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rootbear</author><text>This race for more pixels is misguided. The change I most want to see is deeper pixels, at least 10bpp, preferably more. I&#x27;m getting really tired of all the banding I see on what should be smooth gradient images. If a landscape aspect image is P pixels wide then to display a gray scale gradient, black to white, you need<p>ceil(log2(P))<p>bits per pixel. So a &quot;2K&quot; display needs 11 bits, &quot;4K&quot; needs 12, etc. Then each column of pixels gets a distinct value and there is no banding.<p>So sure, give me a 4K screen. I&#x27;ve seen them and they are sweet, but you MUST also increase the pixel depth at the same time, or there will be artifacts.<p>And don&#x27;t get me started on the horrid compression artifacts on basic cable. A crime against quality imagery.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HDMI 2.0 officially announced</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/04/hdmi-2-0-official-4k-60fps-32-channel-audio/</url></story> |
16,552,894 | 16,552,784 | 1 | 3 | 16,551,147 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akgerber</author><text>You can already buy a titanium bike (sourced from China) for a very reasonable place from Bikesdirect.com— mine was cheaper than a steel Surly Straggler for similar specs.<p>Habanero also sells them for low, but not quite as low, prices:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.habcycles.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.habcycles.com&#x2F;</a><p>There seem to be a bunch of low-cost titanium manufacturers in China selling directly on eBay.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baldfat</author><text>Cheap titanium bikes are high on my list but I think the killer application is titanium hinges. Springs will last a lifetime.<p>Looks like this is starting to happen alreadt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alibaba.com&#x2F;showroom&#x2F;titanium-hinges.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alibaba.com&#x2F;showroom&#x2F;titanium-hinges.html</a><p>$0.25 for a hinge<p>Titanium is light, but my favorite thing is it is next to impossible to bend. So anything that shouldn&#x27;t bend will be better with titanium.</text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>I&#x27;m curious, what are some of the places we would start to see titanium if the prices dropped?</text></item><item><author>scythe</author><text>In Napoleon&#x27;s day it was more expensive than gold. By the time the Washington Monument was constructed the price had dropped to roughly the level of silver. Titanium might be poised to follow in its footsteps after the discovery of electrolysis of titanium oxide in molten calcium chloride, analogous to the cryolite process.</text></item><item><author>kbutler</author><text>Aluminum in the 1800s was more expensive than gold, and was used as jewelry, fancy cutlery, the capstone of the Washington monument, etc. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_aluminium" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_aluminium</a><p>Inexpensive mass production moved it from niche prestige uses to unlock its many utilitarian applications.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>As the price of diamond continues dropping, I wonder if people will find more interesting applications of the material and it&#x27;ll eventually become as mundane as things like steel and aluminium. Besides its hardness, it also has very high thermal conductivity. Diamond is still too expensive to be a bulk material, but I look forward to when things like this become cheap and commonplace:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Single-crystal_CVD_diamond_disc.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Single-crystal_CVD_diamon...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of the real gems</title><url>http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2076225/de-beers-fights-fakes-technology-chinas-lab-grown-diamonds</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>at-fates-hands</author><text>&gt; Titanium is light, but my favorite thing is it is next to impossible to bend.<p>This gives an insane amount of tensile strenght since it always wants to retain its shape. TBH I have no idea why we haven&#x27;t seen Titanium in things like golf clubs, hockey sticks, baseball bats, tennis rackets, snowboards etc, where you could really use its springy characteristics to a huge advantage.<p>I&#x27;ve always felt like it has a huge potential for widespread use in sports.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baldfat</author><text>Cheap titanium bikes are high on my list but I think the killer application is titanium hinges. Springs will last a lifetime.<p>Looks like this is starting to happen alreadt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alibaba.com&#x2F;showroom&#x2F;titanium-hinges.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alibaba.com&#x2F;showroom&#x2F;titanium-hinges.html</a><p>$0.25 for a hinge<p>Titanium is light, but my favorite thing is it is next to impossible to bend. So anything that shouldn&#x27;t bend will be better with titanium.</text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>I&#x27;m curious, what are some of the places we would start to see titanium if the prices dropped?</text></item><item><author>scythe</author><text>In Napoleon&#x27;s day it was more expensive than gold. By the time the Washington Monument was constructed the price had dropped to roughly the level of silver. Titanium might be poised to follow in its footsteps after the discovery of electrolysis of titanium oxide in molten calcium chloride, analogous to the cryolite process.</text></item><item><author>kbutler</author><text>Aluminum in the 1800s was more expensive than gold, and was used as jewelry, fancy cutlery, the capstone of the Washington monument, etc. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_aluminium" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_aluminium</a><p>Inexpensive mass production moved it from niche prestige uses to unlock its many utilitarian applications.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>As the price of diamond continues dropping, I wonder if people will find more interesting applications of the material and it&#x27;ll eventually become as mundane as things like steel and aluminium. Besides its hardness, it also has very high thermal conductivity. Diamond is still too expensive to be a bulk material, but I look forward to when things like this become cheap and commonplace:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Single-crystal_CVD_diamond_disc.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Single-crystal_CVD_diamon...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of the real gems</title><url>http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2076225/de-beers-fights-fakes-technology-chinas-lab-grown-diamonds</url></story> |
29,279,477 | 29,279,768 | 1 | 3 | 29,279,146 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>I&#x27;m generally pro-cryptocurrencies, but Uniswap definitly makes it harder to see wash trading, not easier. One wallet !== one person, while the regulated, centralized exchanges normally require you to answer bunch of questions and prove your identity because of KYC&#x2F;AML laws, to guarantee that each participant is just that, one participant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Zamicol</author><text>This is why Uniswap&#x27;s data is much more valuable than centralized exchanges. On-chain trading permits a degree of transparency and trustworthiness not readily feasible with centralized exchanges.<p>Centralized exchanges are incentivized to doctor their data and lie about their volumes. The larger the volumes an exchange publishes, even if fake or gamed, the more relevant an exchange appears. Users must blindly trust whatever data exchanges can manufacture.<p>Uniswap charges a flat fee to every trade for all user. It&#x27;s objective. There&#x27;s no special back room trading rates, there&#x27;s no ability to lie about volumes, there&#x27;s no bonus for having high frequency bots trading. If you want objective data, Uniswap (and other on-chain exchanges) are truthful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crypto Wash Trading</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10984</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>teitoklien</author><text>.... People pay for volume on uniswap daily ...
They just spin up new wallets and keep making them exchange very high amounts of a token (10ETH buy , 10 ETH sell , multiple times) (net expense is just the gas fees, but they get paid wayyy more to do this).<p>This is usually done to get uniswap traded tokens onto various trending lists like cmc , dextools , etc.<p>I’d say there is 10-40x the fraud on uniswap than on centralised exchanges, its just that on uniswap if you know where to look, you can transparently see the fake volume being created in front of you.<p>But for human traders, it can be tricky sometimes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Zamicol</author><text>This is why Uniswap&#x27;s data is much more valuable than centralized exchanges. On-chain trading permits a degree of transparency and trustworthiness not readily feasible with centralized exchanges.<p>Centralized exchanges are incentivized to doctor their data and lie about their volumes. The larger the volumes an exchange publishes, even if fake or gamed, the more relevant an exchange appears. Users must blindly trust whatever data exchanges can manufacture.<p>Uniswap charges a flat fee to every trade for all user. It&#x27;s objective. There&#x27;s no special back room trading rates, there&#x27;s no ability to lie about volumes, there&#x27;s no bonus for having high frequency bots trading. If you want objective data, Uniswap (and other on-chain exchanges) are truthful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Crypto Wash Trading</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10984</url></story> |
38,233,374 | 38,233,069 | 1 | 3 | 38,230,495 | 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>anbende</author><text>Research anecdote here. I’m a psychologist in a different area and a friend who did his PhD in cocaine research with rats told me this.<p>Addiction is highly dependent on the immediacy of the drug’s effect on the brain. For this reason, people who smoke cocaine (directly or as crack) are highly likely to get addicted. It may be the majority. People who snort it are less likely to get addicted. And there are a lot of casual cocaine users (snorting) who do not develop a long term life altering addiction. I believe he (researcher friend) said it was 10-15% who go on to become addicted. Still substantial and dangerous but much less than smoking.<p>His research was looking at delayed onset of cocaine in rats after they pushed their cocaine lever. At longer delays more and more rats showed little interest.<p>This is part of the overall addiction picture. Decoupling drug use behaviors (smoking, snorting, and lever pressing) from noticeable drug onset prevents reinforcement of the behavior and makes addiction less likely, often much less.<p>This would explain why nicotine patches and gum would potentially be much less addictive than cigarettes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>standardUser</author><text>The addictive properties of nicotine aren&#x27;t magic. It requires sustained, repeated consumption, like any physically addicting substances. And research has shown that different people have different propensities for addiction (same with cocaine and alcohol).<p>But if you do become addicted to nicotine, and are one of the people with a high propensity for nicotine addiction, you&#x27;re fucked. It&#x27;s one of the most challenging addictions to quit, as we all know. Is this a risk you want to take for some mild stimulation? As a former smoker, I can only believe that anyone who takes this risk does not fully appreciate the consequences. The exception might be people who have consumed nicotine on and off but have never had addictive tendencies. Those people definitely exist, but it still seems like a risky thing to assume about yourself since being wrong could be life altering.<p>I also take exception to the articles emphasis that moving on to cigarettes is the only real risk. Yes, that&#x27;s where the majority of the health problems come from. But don&#x27;t underestimate the negative consequences of a physical addiction, even one that does not lead to health problems. It is not fun to be addicted to anything that contorts your body and mind outside of your control.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nicotine (2016)</title><url>https://gwern.net/nicotine</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwbadubadu</author><text>As a former smoker I think you didn&#x27;t fully read the article und understood author&#x27;s and other&#x27;s thesis that it is actually not the nicotine that makes for the strong cigarette addiction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>standardUser</author><text>The addictive properties of nicotine aren&#x27;t magic. It requires sustained, repeated consumption, like any physically addicting substances. And research has shown that different people have different propensities for addiction (same with cocaine and alcohol).<p>But if you do become addicted to nicotine, and are one of the people with a high propensity for nicotine addiction, you&#x27;re fucked. It&#x27;s one of the most challenging addictions to quit, as we all know. Is this a risk you want to take for some mild stimulation? As a former smoker, I can only believe that anyone who takes this risk does not fully appreciate the consequences. The exception might be people who have consumed nicotine on and off but have never had addictive tendencies. Those people definitely exist, but it still seems like a risky thing to assume about yourself since being wrong could be life altering.<p>I also take exception to the articles emphasis that moving on to cigarettes is the only real risk. Yes, that&#x27;s where the majority of the health problems come from. But don&#x27;t underestimate the negative consequences of a physical addiction, even one that does not lead to health problems. It is not fun to be addicted to anything that contorts your body and mind outside of your control.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nicotine (2016)</title><url>https://gwern.net/nicotine</url></story> |
36,040,195 | 36,039,119 | 1 | 2 | 36,038,868 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coppsilgold</author><text>The word &quot;attention&quot; has been stretched pretty far to explain what is happening inside a transformer.<p>What&#x27;s actually happening is that every token embedding interacts with every other token embedding before it and as the product of this interaction (dot product + softmax) it takes a fraction of every other token embedding and adds it to itself. Technically, it&#x27;s different transforms&#x2F;functions of the embedding.<p>You can view it as every token embedding mixing information from other embeddings into itself. Done ~100 times in parallel (&quot;attention heads&quot;), ~100 times in sequence (layers). As per GPT-3 model (175B).</text><parent_chain><item><author>andy_xor_andrew</author><text>One thing I&#x27;m keen to understand is: how well does attention hold across huge context sizes, with respect to the usual transformer models, and also these proposed RNN models?<p>All these 2k&#x2F;4k&#x2F;8k context sizes that we&#x27;ve had recently are able to map pretty well to what a human could reasonably remember. What I mean is, you could ask a human to read some text with 8k tokens, and for the most part they could answer questions about the text coherently.<p>But what about 32k contexts, or beyond? At some point, as token size increases, the ability of a human to give a highly precise and detailed answer decreases. They must start to generalize. A human could not read Infinite Jest in one pass and then answer details about every single sentence. But could a transformer, or a RNN? As the context grows, is it harder to keep a high granularity of detail? Or am I wrong in trying to think of these models the way I think about the human mind, and they are actually able to handle this problem just fine?<p>I&#x27;m aware that we can cheat a bit, by adding a lookup step into an embedding database, to provide &quot;infinite&quot; context with &quot;infinite&quot; precision. But to me, that is analogous to a human looking up information in a library in order to answer a question. I&#x27;m interested in the inherent, emergent memory that these models have available to them in just one forward pass.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; But what about 32k contexts, or beyond? At some point, as token size increases, the ability of a human to give a highly precise and detailed answer decreases<p>War and Peace is over 580,000 words long. Chapter one is ~2,020 words which encoded for GPT3 is ~2,956 tokens (lots of longer, older words and proper nouns eg. &quot;scarlet-liveried footman&quot; is six tokens), so we might expect the entire book to be ~750,000 tokens long.<p>Many people could reason about the book in its entirety. They would not have an encyclopedic recall of random dates and side characters or be able to quote any passage, but they could perform deep analysis on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andy_xor_andrew</author><text>One thing I&#x27;m keen to understand is: how well does attention hold across huge context sizes, with respect to the usual transformer models, and also these proposed RNN models?<p>All these 2k&#x2F;4k&#x2F;8k context sizes that we&#x27;ve had recently are able to map pretty well to what a human could reasonably remember. What I mean is, you could ask a human to read some text with 8k tokens, and for the most part they could answer questions about the text coherently.<p>But what about 32k contexts, or beyond? At some point, as token size increases, the ability of a human to give a highly precise and detailed answer decreases. They must start to generalize. A human could not read Infinite Jest in one pass and then answer details about every single sentence. But could a transformer, or a RNN? As the context grows, is it harder to keep a high granularity of detail? Or am I wrong in trying to think of these models the way I think about the human mind, and they are actually able to handle this problem just fine?<p>I&#x27;m aware that we can cheat a bit, by adding a lookup step into an embedding database, to provide &quot;infinite&quot; context with &quot;infinite&quot; precision. But to me, that is analogous to a human looking up information in a library in order to answer a question. I&#x27;m interested in the inherent, emergent memory that these models have available to them in just one forward pass.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048</url></story> |
31,993,306 | 31,987,519 | 1 | 3 | 31,986,441 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zricethezav</author><text>Assuming this unverified version of the story is true, the danger of accidentally leaking credentials in code is enormous and one of the reasons I continue to maintain and develop gitleaks. Those credentials[1] would have been caught by the gitleaks&#x27; generic rule [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;regex101.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;CLg9TK&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;regex101.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;CLg9TK&#x2F;1</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zricethezav&#x2F;gitleaks&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;config&#x2F;gitleaks.toml#L1139-L1147" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zricethezav&#x2F;gitleaks&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;config&#x2F;g...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tpaksoy</author><text>Apparently there was a &quot;blogpost&quot; of a developer showing of their code, where they accidentally leaked access tokens in a piece of commented code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;mP3bh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;mP3bh</a><p>This is completely unverified though, so take it with a grain of salt.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/shanghai_police_database_for_sell/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bilekas</author><text>It&#x27;s incredibly disappointing actually how often this happens.<p>I can&#x27;t count the amount of SO questions I&#x27;ve had to edit from others posting live API Keys for everything from custom services to AWS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tpaksoy</author><text>Apparently there was a &quot;blogpost&quot; of a developer showing of their code, where they accidentally leaked access tokens in a piece of commented code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;mP3bh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;mP3bh</a><p>This is completely unverified though, so take it with a grain of salt.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/shanghai_police_database_for_sell/</url></story> |
3,947,633 | 3,947,574 | 1 | 3 | 3,946,997 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atdt</author><text>So the biggest benefit Hague derived from functional programming, by his own account, is that the headache it gave him crippled his zeal for clever tricks.<p>It's a bit like making friends in a new language: when your tongue is tied, your interactions with others are sometime marked by this naive, disarming honesty that is charming and uncomplicated and utterly impossible to reproduce in your native tongue. It's sometime tempting to ascribe that to language itself, but it's not inherent to the language -- it's circumstantial. As you become fluent, shades of irony and evasion creep back into your speech.<p>Functional programming comes with its own bag of clever-clever tricks, and lack of familiarity will only stay your hand from them for as long as you lack familiarity. Ignorance is ephemeral. Contending with arbitrary handicaps may be formative, but it can't (and shouldn't) drive adoption.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You, Too, Can Be on the Cutting Edge of Functional Programming Research</title><url>http://prog21.dadgum.com/138.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>discreteevent</author><text>One way of reading what he is saying is that if you are thinking of using pure FP for your application and it is not primarily a calculator (e.g. Jane Street) then be careful - nobody has proved that it will be quick to prototype, iterable, maintainable, understandable, flexible etc. Surely the academic community should feel more obliged to test their theories and follow things up further than toy examples or examples that match the paradigm exactly? What are they being paid for? In the meantime if someone does want to be at the cutting edge what would be interesting to see would be a word processor, a CAD program or a photoshop developed using a functional language (not a hybrid like Scala but something like Haskell where state is completely isolated using monads or whatever).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You, Too, Can Be on the Cutting Edge of Functional Programming Research</title><url>http://prog21.dadgum.com/138.html</url><text></text></story> |
8,193,553 | 8,193,086 | 1 | 3 | 8,192,914 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diafygi</author><text>At the end of this road, I foresee a full IDE baked into Firefox. I can&#x27;t wait.<p>It would so great if you could just open the App Manager, click &quot;Create New App&quot;, check the boxes of the libraries you want to include by default (jQuery, Ember, etc.), and it would then generate a Hello World app folder with all those files included.<p>Heck, Firefox Developer Tools is practically already an IDE. All that really remains for it is a &quot;Resources&quot; tab with text editing ability.<p>EDIT: Additionally, being beginner-friendly would be a huge advantage to Firefox OS because its target market is the developing world. Only requiring an installation of Firefox to develop apps would significantly lower the barrier for who could learn to develop apps. Locals could quickly learn to make an app that caters specifically to their local community (what farms are hiring, where the cleanest water is, etc.).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Rec Room</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/08/time-to-get-hacking-introducing-rec-room/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>compedit</author><text><i>I’ve been working on extracting something out of the way I’ve been creating web apps at Mozilla that you can use to write your next web app.</i><p>I didn&#x27;t know Ember was already being used at Mozilla, that&#x27;s pretty neat! It seems to be popping up everywhere these days</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Rec Room</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/08/time-to-get-hacking-introducing-rec-room/</url></story> |
6,619,026 | 6,619,103 | 1 | 2 | 6,617,551 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wfn</author><text>The thing that you&#x27;re working on falls within the area of &#x27;truly relevant and important [to our times, etc.] software&#x27;, IMO. Very nice and interesting indeed.<p>I didn&#x27;t notice any mention of an adversary model, do you have one? (cf. e.g. <a href="http://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/27/how-does-tors-threat-model-differ-from-i2ps-threat-model/277#277" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tor.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;27&#x2F;how-does-tors-thre...</a>)<p>How transport-agnostic is the system aiming to be? Could it be used in combination with Tor&#x2F;I2P&#x2F;etc. (as an underlying transport&#x2F;anonymization mechanism)? (cf. <a href="http://syndie.de/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;syndie.de&#x2F;</a>)<p>Overall, this is very interesting indeed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rolleiflex</author><text>I&#x27;m building a distributed network, called Aether, that allows people to create and participate in reddit-like forums anonymously. It&#x27;s fully encrypted. Take a look at <a href="http://www.getaether.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getaether.net</a><p>It&#x27;s cool because:<p>* It&#x27;s anonymous. The posts jump from one node to another with no author information except a nickname. They cannot be traced back to the origin.<p>* It&#x27;s encrypted with TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA cipher suite using 2048bit RSA keys. The connections most likely cannot be eavesdropped.<p>* It gives people an unfiltered, unmodified feed of information directly from the sources, with no intervention or censorship.<p>* It&#x27;s unmoderated, so there is nobody that&#x27;s deciding what you should and should not see. You can block people, however. Every client has a threshold of blocks for each node after which it stops showing that node to the user.<p>* Zero infrastructure.<p>This is a tool that can be used to either experience &#x2F; exercise full free speech here in the west, or can be used for more essential two-way mass communication purposes where other venues are blocked, banned or self-censoring.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?</title></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scottlilly</author><text>I was thinking about doing something similar. One of the things I wanted to incorporate was an reputation ability (beyond just blocking). It would be similar to a referral engine in Netflix or Amazon.<p>So, I&#x27;m user A. I mark user B as a high-value poster. User B marks user C as a high-value poster. When I run across a post by user C, I see they have a good reputation. If many people I ranked as high-value, also ranked user C as high-value, then I see user C as having a very high reputation. The same, in reverse, for low-value posters.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rolleiflex</author><text>I&#x27;m building a distributed network, called Aether, that allows people to create and participate in reddit-like forums anonymously. It&#x27;s fully encrypted. Take a look at <a href="http://www.getaether.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getaether.net</a><p>It&#x27;s cool because:<p>* It&#x27;s anonymous. The posts jump from one node to another with no author information except a nickname. They cannot be traced back to the origin.<p>* It&#x27;s encrypted with TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA cipher suite using 2048bit RSA keys. The connections most likely cannot be eavesdropped.<p>* It gives people an unfiltered, unmodified feed of information directly from the sources, with no intervention or censorship.<p>* It&#x27;s unmoderated, so there is nobody that&#x27;s deciding what you should and should not see. You can block people, however. Every client has a threshold of blocks for each node after which it stops showing that node to the user.<p>* Zero infrastructure.<p>This is a tool that can be used to either experience &#x2F; exercise full free speech here in the west, or can be used for more essential two-way mass communication purposes where other venues are blocked, banned or self-censoring.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?</title></story> |
21,006,123 | 21,006,106 | 1 | 3 | 21,004,326 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wonderwonder</author><text>In reality, the uninsured avoid going to the doctor until its an emergency and then they go the the ER and rack up tens of thousands of dollars worth of medical bills for a problem that if treated proactively by an initial doctor visit could have been resolved with a $15 bottle of antibiotics or something similar.<p>The poor person obviously cannot afford that bill so the provider eats it and the result is increasing costs for everyone else. So unless the solution is just to let the poor and their children die, providing everyone with access to health care would probably be a net benefit. Not to mention universal health care would provide for incredible bargaining power meaning drugs such as insulin would not cost an individual hundreds of dollars a month.<p>Everyone with new health insurance is not going to go all at once, I doubt there will be any significant increase in wait time to see a doctor. Finally, people are not units of exchange, they are people and poor or rich they deserve at least a shot at a decent life for them and their family and universal health care goes a long way towards providing that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>briandear</author><text>As an American voter, I definitely don’t want this. Health services, like any economic good, are scarce. I’d rather have rationing through the market then rationing via government (and yes, there has to be rationing; it’s not an unlimited good.) Maybe some poor don’t get the best care quickly, but under a government system, everyone is equally limited in their access to care (i.e. waiting lists.) Someone who provides significant value to society waits in line behind a person who doesn’t provide much value — that isn’t good for society. It’s unsaid because it’s incendiary, but all people in society aren’t equally important to that society: an electrical engineer is more useful than an unemployed cashier. With price-based rationing, those that generate more value have easier access to scarce care resources than those who generate less value. It’s logical, but politically tough because those that generate little value outnumber those that produce high value — and those low value people vote.</text></item><item><author>magduf</author><text>&gt;but I think we as a nation (US) can do better.<p>No, we can&#x27;t. If we could, we would. Things are like this because we want them to be like this: it&#x27;s reflected in how we vote. We&#x27;ve had candidates pushing for &quot;Medicare for all&quot;, universal healthcare, etc., and who gets elected? The candidates promising to go the other direction. Clearly, American society and its voters do not want this.</text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>I agree. My wife&#x27;s company offers better insurance than mine so I had always been on hers and declined the insurance offered by my company. Her company just implemented a policy stating that if the spouse is eligible for insurance through their own employer there would be a $200 per month surcharge for them electing to use her companies. I understand where her company is coming from but I think we as a nation (US) can do better.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>If you have a family, my rough experience is that a good, medium deductible, decent percentage coverage healthcare plan is about $400-500&#x2F;month if it&#x27;s employer subsidized. But anywhere from $1300 to $2k+&#x2F;month if it isn&#x27;t.<p>It&#x27;s a pretty terrible market out there if you don&#x27;t have an employer subsidizing it and using their size for negotiation leverage.</text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>&#x27;As for the affected employees, they will be provided “with resources to find alternative healthcare coverage options, or to explore full-time, healthcare-eligible positions starting at 30 hours per week,” the representative added&#x27;<p>If those resources are not money, then the employee is really out of luck as they likely will not be able to afford whatever those alternatives are. In addition, there is no way you can take a bunch of people that work 20 hours per week and let them work 30, no need for that many scheduled hours, just fancy corporate communications.<p>Amazon has the right to do whatever they want to increase Shareholder value; however, shareholder value is the root of the modern trend of devaluing people and treating them as line items in an expense report. Many of these people likely have this job primarily for the health insurance it provides.<p>I think it is time for the US to switch to a universal healthcare system. Removing the responsibility of corporations to manage health care would free up a large amount of resources they could invest in expansions, wage increases (likely c-suite bonuses). In addition it would allow individuals, especially working parents to more freely make employment decisions and find careers that are both financially but also emotionally rewarding. I think it would have a major impact on the working structure of this country. Not to mention it would allow people to actually go to the doctor when they need to.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Whole Foods Will Cut Health-Care Benefits for Nearly 2k Employees</title><url>http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/09/whole-foods-cuts-health-care-part-time-employees.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>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>It&#x27;s only logical if the only value you put on people is someone&#x27;s ability to pay for things, and assume that that is somehow linked to their ability to &quot;produce&quot; for the betterment of society. The argument really falls down at the extremes - is Jeff Bezos really worth millions of times more to society than one of his workers? Does being born rich automatically make you more valuable?</text><parent_chain><item><author>briandear</author><text>As an American voter, I definitely don’t want this. Health services, like any economic good, are scarce. I’d rather have rationing through the market then rationing via government (and yes, there has to be rationing; it’s not an unlimited good.) Maybe some poor don’t get the best care quickly, but under a government system, everyone is equally limited in their access to care (i.e. waiting lists.) Someone who provides significant value to society waits in line behind a person who doesn’t provide much value — that isn’t good for society. It’s unsaid because it’s incendiary, but all people in society aren’t equally important to that society: an electrical engineer is more useful than an unemployed cashier. With price-based rationing, those that generate more value have easier access to scarce care resources than those who generate less value. It’s logical, but politically tough because those that generate little value outnumber those that produce high value — and those low value people vote.</text></item><item><author>magduf</author><text>&gt;but I think we as a nation (US) can do better.<p>No, we can&#x27;t. If we could, we would. Things are like this because we want them to be like this: it&#x27;s reflected in how we vote. We&#x27;ve had candidates pushing for &quot;Medicare for all&quot;, universal healthcare, etc., and who gets elected? The candidates promising to go the other direction. Clearly, American society and its voters do not want this.</text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>I agree. My wife&#x27;s company offers better insurance than mine so I had always been on hers and declined the insurance offered by my company. Her company just implemented a policy stating that if the spouse is eligible for insurance through their own employer there would be a $200 per month surcharge for them electing to use her companies. I understand where her company is coming from but I think we as a nation (US) can do better.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>If you have a family, my rough experience is that a good, medium deductible, decent percentage coverage healthcare plan is about $400-500&#x2F;month if it&#x27;s employer subsidized. But anywhere from $1300 to $2k+&#x2F;month if it isn&#x27;t.<p>It&#x27;s a pretty terrible market out there if you don&#x27;t have an employer subsidizing it and using their size for negotiation leverage.</text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>&#x27;As for the affected employees, they will be provided “with resources to find alternative healthcare coverage options, or to explore full-time, healthcare-eligible positions starting at 30 hours per week,” the representative added&#x27;<p>If those resources are not money, then the employee is really out of luck as they likely will not be able to afford whatever those alternatives are. In addition, there is no way you can take a bunch of people that work 20 hours per week and let them work 30, no need for that many scheduled hours, just fancy corporate communications.<p>Amazon has the right to do whatever they want to increase Shareholder value; however, shareholder value is the root of the modern trend of devaluing people and treating them as line items in an expense report. Many of these people likely have this job primarily for the health insurance it provides.<p>I think it is time for the US to switch to a universal healthcare system. Removing the responsibility of corporations to manage health care would free up a large amount of resources they could invest in expansions, wage increases (likely c-suite bonuses). In addition it would allow individuals, especially working parents to more freely make employment decisions and find careers that are both financially but also emotionally rewarding. I think it would have a major impact on the working structure of this country. Not to mention it would allow people to actually go to the doctor when they need to.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Whole Foods Will Cut Health-Care Benefits for Nearly 2k Employees</title><url>http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/09/whole-foods-cuts-health-care-part-time-employees.html</url></story> |
18,157,152 | 18,156,980 | 1 | 2 | 18,156,929 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ssl232</author><text>Of note is the Minecraft website from 2011 [1], where Markus Persson said: &quot;Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. I&#x27;m not very happy with the draconian nature of (L)GPL, nor do I believe the other licenses have much merit other than to boost the egos of the original authors, so I might just possibly release it all as public domain.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20110920065648&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.minecraft.net&#x2F;game" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20110920065648&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.minecra...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft open sources parts of Minecraft: Java Edition</title><url>https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/programmers-play-minecrafts-inner-workings</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Sir_Cmpwn</author><text>Two of the most boring parts of Minecraft, unfortunately. Both are something your average first year CS student could put together in a weekend or two.<p>If I can indulge in some self-promotion, I have written mountains of code which implements many of Minecraft&#x27;s behaviors down to the last detail, which may be a more interesting candidate for study:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sircmpwn&#x2F;truecraft" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sircmpwn&#x2F;truecraft</a><p>Seeing Balze3D open-sourced might end up being pretty cool, though.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft open sources parts of Minecraft: Java Edition</title><url>https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/programmers-play-minecrafts-inner-workings</url></story> |
8,542,054 | 8,542,075 | 1 | 2 | 8,541,674 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnw</author><text>There&#x27;s noway that this is going to be practical within the current laws of physics. You can&#x27;t use a wide beam to cover an area because the amount of energy available drops by orders of magnitude the further you get from the transmitter. If you used a focussed beam (which is what they are suggesting) then you need a separate beam that tracks and follows the location of each device. So to cover a very small area you&#x27;d need multiple transmitters tracking and beaming sound to the exact location of each device. And the transmitters are going to have to be very close by, and then there are all the obstacles between your pocket and the transmitter that will block the beam. You might as well just use an inductive charger. But still, just like solar freaking roadways and perpetual motion machines we want to believe and since most people don&#x27;t understand the science these ridiculous and impossible ideas draw people in again and again.<p>There&#x27;s a more in depth analysis of why this won&#x27;t work here: <a href="http://www.eevblog.com/2014/08/07/ubeam-ultrasonic-wireless-charging-a-familiar-fish-smell/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eevblog.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;07&#x2F;ubeam-ultrasonic-wireless-...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi</title><url>http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/10/30/the-audacious-plan-to-make-electricity-as-easy-as-wifi/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pocketstar</author><text>I am skeptical of the claimed safety of uBeam. The FDA does not advocate the safety of ultrasound.<p>From the article: &quot;Was it safe? Well … for starters it is just an inaudible soundwave being transferred – as in the kind also used for women during pregnancy.&quot;<p>From the FDA: &quot;Even though there are no known risks of ultrasound imaging, it can produce effects on the body. When ultrasound enters the body, it heats the tissues slightly. In some cases, it can also produce small pockets of gas in body fluids or tissues (cavitation). The long-term effects of tissue heating and cavitation are not known. Because of the particular concern for fetal exposures, national and international organizations have advocated prudent use of ultrasound imaging. Furthermore, the use of diagnostic ultrasound for non-medical purposes such as fetal keepsake videos has been discouraged.&quot;[0]<p>[0]<a href="http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmittingProductsandProcedures/MedicalImaging/ucm115357.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;Radiation-EmittingProducts&#x2F;RadiationEmitt...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi</title><url>http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/10/30/the-audacious-plan-to-make-electricity-as-easy-as-wifi/</url></story> |
40,854,925 | 40,854,017 | 1 | 3 | 40,836,594 | 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>naertcxx</author><text>I think the focus on smart pointers is a huge mistake. Code bases using shared_ptr inevitably will have cycles and memory leaks, and no one understands the graphs any more.<p>Tree algorithms that are simple in literature get bloated and slow with shared_ptr.<p>The only issue with pointers in C++, <i>which C does not have</i>, is that so many things are copied around by default if one is using classes. So the way to deal with tree algorithms is to have a hidden tree with pointers and a class that wraps the tree and deletes all dangerous copy methods, implicit and explicit.<p>stdlib++ seems to use that approach as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qalmakka</author><text>While I love this paper and this proposal in general, as a C++ developer every time C++ adds a new major feature I get somewhat worried about two things:<p>1. how immense the language has become, and how hard it got to learn and implement<p>2. how &quot;modernising&quot; C++ gives developers less incentives to convince management to switch to safer languages<p>While I like C++ and how crazy powerful it is, I also must admit decades of using it that teaching it to new developers has become immensely hard in the last few years, and the &quot;easier&quot; inevitably ends up being the unsafe one (what else can you do when the language itself tells you to refrain from using `new`?).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reflection for C++26</title><url>https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P2996R4.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>fragmede</author><text>Yeah that&#x27;s because you&#x27;re not supposed to be using &quot;new&quot; anymore since the introduction of smart pointers in
C++11. Std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr are preferred. Shared pointers ref count and auto-delete, and unique pointers can&#x27;t be copied.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qalmakka</author><text>While I love this paper and this proposal in general, as a C++ developer every time C++ adds a new major feature I get somewhat worried about two things:<p>1. how immense the language has become, and how hard it got to learn and implement<p>2. how &quot;modernising&quot; C++ gives developers less incentives to convince management to switch to safer languages<p>While I like C++ and how crazy powerful it is, I also must admit decades of using it that teaching it to new developers has become immensely hard in the last few years, and the &quot;easier&quot; inevitably ends up being the unsafe one (what else can you do when the language itself tells you to refrain from using `new`?).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reflection for C++26</title><url>https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P2996R4.html</url></story> |
39,634,029 | 39,634,260 | 1 | 3 | 39,633,172 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bnprks</author><text>Sadly even SSE vs. AVX is enough to often give different results, as SSE doesn&#x27;t have support for fused multiply-add instructions which allow calculation of a*b + c with guaranteed correct rounding. Even though this should allow CPUs from 2013 and later to all use FMA, gcc&#x2F;clang don&#x27;t enable AVX by default for the x86-64 targets. And even if they did, results are only guaranteed identical if implementations have chosen the exact same polynomial approximation method and no compiler optimizations alter the instruction sequence.<p>Unfortunately, floating point results will probably continue to differ across platforms for the foreseeable future.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cogman10</author><text>Well, what&#x27;s fun is that (AFAIK) trigonometric functions tend not to be implemented in the newer floating point instructions, such as AVX or SSE.<p>So while what you say is true about the x87 implementation of those functions, for anything targeting a machine built in the last 20 years it&#x27;s likely the code will run consistently regardless the architecture (barring architecture floating point bugs, which aren&#x27;t terribly uncommon in the less significant bits and when overclocking comes into play).<p>x86 compilers won&#x27;t use x87 instructions when SSE2 and later are available. x87 is just a really weird and funky instruction set that&#x27;s best left in the gutter of history.</text></item><item><author>warpech</author><text>This made me realize that trigonometric functions are not deterministic across different CPU architectures, OS, and programming languages (floating point precision aside).<p>E.g. I would assume that Math.sin(x) returns the same thing in NodeJS on Windows and Mac&#x2F;M1, but it turns out it is necessarily so.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;74074312&#x2F;standard-math-functions-reproducibility-on-different-cpus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;74074312&#x2F;standard-math-f...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How do computers calculate sine?</title><url>https://androidcalculator.com/how-do-calculators-compute-sine/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enriquto</author><text>&gt; x87 is just a really weird and funky instruction set that&#x27;s best left in the gutter of history<p>hmmm, can you use the long doubles in sse or avx? They are glorious, and as far as I see from playing with godbolt, they still require dirtying your hands with the x87 stack.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cogman10</author><text>Well, what&#x27;s fun is that (AFAIK) trigonometric functions tend not to be implemented in the newer floating point instructions, such as AVX or SSE.<p>So while what you say is true about the x87 implementation of those functions, for anything targeting a machine built in the last 20 years it&#x27;s likely the code will run consistently regardless the architecture (barring architecture floating point bugs, which aren&#x27;t terribly uncommon in the less significant bits and when overclocking comes into play).<p>x86 compilers won&#x27;t use x87 instructions when SSE2 and later are available. x87 is just a really weird and funky instruction set that&#x27;s best left in the gutter of history.</text></item><item><author>warpech</author><text>This made me realize that trigonometric functions are not deterministic across different CPU architectures, OS, and programming languages (floating point precision aside).<p>E.g. I would assume that Math.sin(x) returns the same thing in NodeJS on Windows and Mac&#x2F;M1, but it turns out it is necessarily so.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;74074312&#x2F;standard-math-functions-reproducibility-on-different-cpus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;74074312&#x2F;standard-math-f...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How do computers calculate sine?</title><url>https://androidcalculator.com/how-do-calculators-compute-sine/</url></story> |
14,242,664 | 14,241,369 | 1 | 2 | 14,240,645 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JulianMorrison</author><text>The major trouble with patents, and the thing that puts them in a special category of nuisance all of their own, is that it&#x27;s <i>fundamentally impossible</i> to know that a thing is unencumbered until each particular claim to the contrary has been hashed out in court, at ruinous expense. And there is no legal proscription against patent owners letting you think you were safe for years, and then popping up to cream off the fruits of your work. We know MP3 <i>was</i> encumbered. We don&#x27;t, and can&#x27;t, know that MP3, Vorbis, and so forth aren&#x27;t encumbered now. All we can know is that nobody has popped up to hold the industry to ransom... yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TD-Linux</author><text>Not believing in software patents is unlikely to change a court&#x27;s mind. Instead, support formats that are royalty free from the start - Vorbis, Opus, and Codec2, for example.</text></item><item><author>notaplumber</author><text>Recognizing this adds legitimacy to software patents. Don&#x27;t. There have been free and open source MP3 decoders for many years now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been terminated</title><url>https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.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>throwaway91111</author><text>How do you &quot;support a format&quot;? AFAIK nothing will convince Apple to release music in a better (patent-free) codec, much less convince others to dump DRM.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TD-Linux</author><text>Not believing in software patents is unlikely to change a court&#x27;s mind. Instead, support formats that are royalty free from the start - Vorbis, Opus, and Codec2, for example.</text></item><item><author>notaplumber</author><text>Recognizing this adds legitimacy to software patents. Don&#x27;t. There have been free and open source MP3 decoders for many years now.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The licensing program for MP3-related patents has been terminated</title><url>https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html</url></story> |
5,606,415 | 5,603,822 | 1 | 2 | 5,603,675 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fredwilson</author><text>Hi Paul<p>i would prefer to eliminate legal fees entirely by using standard docs and not negotiating them on either side. we have done that many many times and it works great. all you need to do is use a standard template. most law firms have them.<p>this is what i propose on every seed and series A we do. most entrepreneurs take us up on it. and then we don't even use a lawyer on our side.<p>however, there are cases, like one you and i have exchanged emails on recently, where a legal issue comes up that is created by the entrepreneur's counsel, that requires a lot of work and sometimes we end up getting stuck with the bill on it.<p>in situations like that, i like to have the discussion of who should pay the bill up front and on a case by case basis</text><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Impressive move by Spark, who have now put other VCs in the awkward position of explaining why they don't do the same.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spark Capital will now pay their own legal bills</title><url>http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/48791551517/picking-up-our-own-tab</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>msandford</author><text>The net effect is that they're being more honest about how much they're actually willing to invest, correct? They don't magically have more money and the lawyers have to be paid anyhow. At least it puts the onus on them to keep their negotiations to a minimum.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Impressive move by Spark, who have now put other VCs in the awkward position of explaining why they don't do the same.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spark Capital will now pay their own legal bills</title><url>http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/48791551517/picking-up-our-own-tab</url></story> |
21,135,439 | 21,135,451 | 1 | 2 | 21,124,900 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lultimouomo</author><text>Everyone in the EU has heard of it, at least for the fact that everyone received a whole bunch of email that mentioned it on May 25th 2018. I&#x27;d say a lot of people know that &quot;it&#x27;s about privacy&quot;; the actual understanding obviously varies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cj</author><text>Just want to say for the sake of others reading that this comment is exaggerating + generalizing a bit.<p>Everyone is not obsessed with turning data into revenue. Most smaller tech companies (ie. Sub billions in revenue) are not in the game of monetizing data. My feeling is the market exists mostly between very well establish and very large companies (such as ISPs, advertising networks), but that same market doesn’t exist between newer &#x2F; smaller companies that haven’t reached massive scale.<p>To anyone in the EU: is GDPR something that your non-technical friend will have heard of and knows what it is? Or is it similar to the US, where 75% of people probably haven’t heard of it or if they have, couldn’t say what the regulation does.</text></item><item><author>mtbcoder</author><text>Wholesale data collection has become normalized in the US. For-profits, non-profits, it doesn&#x27;t matter the industry, everyone is obsessed with capturing as much data as possible and believe it&#x27;s just the standard way of business. No one outside of HN cares about PII or has an understanding of things like GDPR (it&#x27;s just for the Europeans). Consumers are clueless or otherwise feel hopeless.</text></item><item><author>Fnoord</author><text>As a European it baffles me that this is normal in the USA. Why is this even legal? This should be PII.</text></item><item><author>foobiekr</author><text>Netflow data, DNS capture, enrichment of cell tower access data (location), reporting on non-usage (idle time, tracking), Bill and household information, credit account usage, etc. SPs are huge sellers in this market.<p>We still need to encrypt the accessed resource and DNS queries everywhere.<p>Even once that’s done, things like opencaching will be used by SPs to gather tons of data where they participate.</text></item><item><author>z9e</author><text>They definitely are. I know for a fact that they are running massive Hadoop clusters storing information on DNS records involved in their customer traffic. If I recall correctly they mirror a lot of the traffic to analytics environments.</text></item><item><author>kelnos</author><text>While I don&#x27;t particularly trust Google all that much anymore, the fact that ISPs even have an <i>opinion</i> on this is a smoking gun that they&#x27;re doing sketchy things with DNS data. There is no actual technical reason why they should care if you use their DNS servers or something else, even a private, encrypted DNS service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/isps-worry-a-new-chrome-feature-will-stop-them-from-spying-on-you/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iagovar</author><text>No one heard about it, at least in Spain. My father asked me about it because he heard it on the news, but I&#x27;d say that 99% of my non-tech friends have no idea of what it is about. Anyway, I work for a large telco and they are very paranoid liabilities involving data. It&#x27;s a behemoth, so you wouldn&#x27;t expect them to be this careful.<p>As far as I remember, they still sell some anonymized data (they had some demos on how to plan public transport with location data) and I&#x27;d bet they are not doing much with DNS data.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cj</author><text>Just want to say for the sake of others reading that this comment is exaggerating + generalizing a bit.<p>Everyone is not obsessed with turning data into revenue. Most smaller tech companies (ie. Sub billions in revenue) are not in the game of monetizing data. My feeling is the market exists mostly between very well establish and very large companies (such as ISPs, advertising networks), but that same market doesn’t exist between newer &#x2F; smaller companies that haven’t reached massive scale.<p>To anyone in the EU: is GDPR something that your non-technical friend will have heard of and knows what it is? Or is it similar to the US, where 75% of people probably haven’t heard of it or if they have, couldn’t say what the regulation does.</text></item><item><author>mtbcoder</author><text>Wholesale data collection has become normalized in the US. For-profits, non-profits, it doesn&#x27;t matter the industry, everyone is obsessed with capturing as much data as possible and believe it&#x27;s just the standard way of business. No one outside of HN cares about PII or has an understanding of things like GDPR (it&#x27;s just for the Europeans). Consumers are clueless or otherwise feel hopeless.</text></item><item><author>Fnoord</author><text>As a European it baffles me that this is normal in the USA. Why is this even legal? This should be PII.</text></item><item><author>foobiekr</author><text>Netflow data, DNS capture, enrichment of cell tower access data (location), reporting on non-usage (idle time, tracking), Bill and household information, credit account usage, etc. SPs are huge sellers in this market.<p>We still need to encrypt the accessed resource and DNS queries everywhere.<p>Even once that’s done, things like opencaching will be used by SPs to gather tons of data where they participate.</text></item><item><author>z9e</author><text>They definitely are. I know for a fact that they are running massive Hadoop clusters storing information on DNS records involved in their customer traffic. If I recall correctly they mirror a lot of the traffic to analytics environments.</text></item><item><author>kelnos</author><text>While I don&#x27;t particularly trust Google all that much anymore, the fact that ISPs even have an <i>opinion</i> on this is a smoking gun that they&#x27;re doing sketchy things with DNS data. There is no actual technical reason why they should care if you use their DNS servers or something else, even a private, encrypted DNS service.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/isps-worry-a-new-chrome-feature-will-stop-them-from-spying-on-you/</url></story> |
38,742,461 | 38,741,278 | 1 | 2 | 38,734,106 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gleenn</author><text>I recently blew the dust off my GameBoy and Tetris game, put some fresh AA batteries in, and it happily booted up and played like a champ even after decades. I wish any hardware or software written today would preserve so well, everything requires internet connections and the hardware hardly lasts this long.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash</title><url>https://biggieblog.com/celebrating-the-first-nes-tetris-game-crash/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>conradev</author><text>I recently got a Miyoo Mini and I almost exclusively use it to play NES Tetris. I’m hooked and I didn’t know there even was a community!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.us&#x2F;item&#x2F;3256805029072733.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.us&#x2F;item&#x2F;3256805029072733.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash</title><url>https://biggieblog.com/celebrating-the-first-nes-tetris-game-crash/</url></story> |
14,788,561 | 14,787,493 | 1 | 3 | 14,785,479 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chasing</author><text>Imagine this scenario:<p>&quot;My computer stopped working one day so I kicked it hard and it started working again! Maybe kicking computers works.&quot;<p>And you, as a &quot;computer person,&quot; are like: &quot;I can&#x27;t say what happened in your specific case, but generally speaking kicking your computer will probably cause more harm than good. Maybe you caused it to restart or something or got lucky and something that was loose inside the machine got pushed into a tight fit. Or maybe it was a total coincidence. Who knows. But I&#x27;m glad it&#x27;s now working for you.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s probably what someone in the medical community thinks when they hear stuff like the above.<p>(And now here comes GoopTech offering to fix your computer by kicking it for $50&#x2F;kick.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Over the last decade I&#x27;ve been having increasingly bad hay fever. The doctor said &quot;eat these pills&quot;. They worked but they made me fall asleep right at my desk.<p>This year my girlfriend put me on some decent snake oil indeed. Tens of euros worth of food supplements per month. I also went to see an acupuncturist. My problems aren&#x27;t reduced, they&#x27;re <i>gone</i>. I can be outside for an entire day and not notice a thing. My problem is, 0% of what I did is evidence-based medicine.<p>Now, this is the whole issue with snake oil. Anecotes like mine don&#x27;t further science. But the Ars article puts all of Goop&#x27;s stuff on a single big pile of &quot;snake oil&quot;.<p>Isn&#x27;t it possible that there are things that work, even though they have not been scientifically proven yet? Why can&#x27;t there ever be a middle ground? I mean I also think homeopathy is a fraud. But I also know that either dried extract from Indian moringa trees or needles put into appropriate places in my body&#x27;s &quot;energy streams&quot;, or both combined, fixed all my problems. This is pretty major to me. I can live again.<p>In fact, I think there&#x27;s an upside to non-evidence-based things selling more: maybe at some point the sellers will earn enough money to be able to finance decent clinical trials.<p>Many forms of irritable bowel syndrome (a disease defined by a list of symptoms, for which &quot;there is no cure&quot;) can be fixed simply by changing your diet. I know someone who had stomach aches every day for 10 years and went to once a month <i>simply by eating oatmeal every morning</i>. Evidence based? No. I have no idea how you could ever design an affordable clinical trial for that, too many factors involed. The cost would be huge and the oatmeal industry doesn&#x27;t have deep enough pockets.<p>I think that to dismiss everything that&#x27;s not evidence based medicine as snake oil, like this article does, is just as bad as dismissing mainstream medicine like Goop appears to do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/defense-of-gwyneth-paltrows-goop-offers-case-study-on-how-to-sell-snake-oil/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>This year my girlfriend put me on some decent snake oil indeed. Tens of euros worth of food supplements per month. I also went to see an acupuncturist. My problems aren&#x27;t reduced, they&#x27;re gone. I can be outside for an entire day and not notice a thing. My problem is, 0% of what I did is evidence-based medicine.</i><p>For one, your issues could have healed by themselves, even without it, just through time passing. Since there&#x27;s a sample of 1 of you, and you did take those drugs, we don&#x27;t have a control group, and can&#x27;t know.<p>Second, those food supplements make have actually had some good stuff -- like a vitamin you&#x27;re deficient in -- that helped in this case.<p>Lastly, there&#x27;s always the placebo effect.<p>None of the above are an argument against the Goop stuff being snake-oil (and neither is &quot;but it worked for me&quot; for some Goop product).</text><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Over the last decade I&#x27;ve been having increasingly bad hay fever. The doctor said &quot;eat these pills&quot;. They worked but they made me fall asleep right at my desk.<p>This year my girlfriend put me on some decent snake oil indeed. Tens of euros worth of food supplements per month. I also went to see an acupuncturist. My problems aren&#x27;t reduced, they&#x27;re <i>gone</i>. I can be outside for an entire day and not notice a thing. My problem is, 0% of what I did is evidence-based medicine.<p>Now, this is the whole issue with snake oil. Anecotes like mine don&#x27;t further science. But the Ars article puts all of Goop&#x27;s stuff on a single big pile of &quot;snake oil&quot;.<p>Isn&#x27;t it possible that there are things that work, even though they have not been scientifically proven yet? Why can&#x27;t there ever be a middle ground? I mean I also think homeopathy is a fraud. But I also know that either dried extract from Indian moringa trees or needles put into appropriate places in my body&#x27;s &quot;energy streams&quot;, or both combined, fixed all my problems. This is pretty major to me. I can live again.<p>In fact, I think there&#x27;s an upside to non-evidence-based things selling more: maybe at some point the sellers will earn enough money to be able to finance decent clinical trials.<p>Many forms of irritable bowel syndrome (a disease defined by a list of symptoms, for which &quot;there is no cure&quot;) can be fixed simply by changing your diet. I know someone who had stomach aches every day for 10 years and went to once a month <i>simply by eating oatmeal every morning</i>. Evidence based? No. I have no idea how you could ever design an affordable clinical trial for that, too many factors involed. The cost would be huge and the oatmeal industry doesn&#x27;t have deep enough pockets.<p>I think that to dismiss everything that&#x27;s not evidence based medicine as snake oil, like this article does, is just as bad as dismissing mainstream medicine like Goop appears to do.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/defense-of-gwyneth-paltrows-goop-offers-case-study-on-how-to-sell-snake-oil/</url></story> |
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