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18,907,097 | 18,906,313 | 1 | 2 | 18,904,648 | 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>ivanzhao</author><text>Notion&#x27;s founder here. Thank you for the kind words - we are honored :-)<p>To be honest, nothing we are doing is that new. Most of the ideas came from the 70s-80s (Alan Kay, Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson...) We are just applying a fresh coat of paint.<p>Of course, there&#x27;s still a lot more to be done to fully realize these pioneers&#x27; dreams of computing as a medium for everyone – not just programmers like us. If you are interested to learn more or work with us, feel free to message me directly at ivan at makenotion.com, or link below. We are happy to host you for lunch:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notion.so&#x2F;notion&#x2F;Join-Us-e7aeb157238a4603a2964b28c646f07f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notion.so&#x2F;notion&#x2F;Join-Us-e7aeb157238a4603a2964b2...</a><p>Have a good one!
Ivan</text><parent_chain><item><author>louis-paul</author><text>There is something about Notion that makes it feel very well-made and coherent. It’s one of the few apps I use with this inherent feeling of quality (off the top of my head Sublime Text&#x2F;Merge, Beyond Compare, Things fall into this category of intangible greatness). Every interaction is delightful, and the app scales really well from basic note-taking to decently complex databases with grouping, filters, relations, templates and permissions. It comes with really good real-time collaboration.<p>On the flip side the software a bit slow to start and uses a lot of resources—it’s based on Electron, but I encourage everyone to try it (the demo on their website is cool!).<p>This is as close to “painting the back of the fence” as it gets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases</title><url>https://www.notion.so</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abalone</author><text>Say what you will about Electron apps that use excessive resources and lack native touches, but they are definitely not “as close to painting the back of the fence as it gets.”<p>That Jobs-ism was specifically about caring about the internals of a product that nobody looks at, but you know are there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>louis-paul</author><text>There is something about Notion that makes it feel very well-made and coherent. It’s one of the few apps I use with this inherent feeling of quality (off the top of my head Sublime Text&#x2F;Merge, Beyond Compare, Things fall into this category of intangible greatness). Every interaction is delightful, and the app scales really well from basic note-taking to decently complex databases with grouping, filters, relations, templates and permissions. It comes with really good real-time collaboration.<p>On the flip side the software a bit slow to start and uses a lot of resources—it’s based on Electron, but I encourage everyone to try it (the demo on their website is cool!).<p>This is as close to “painting the back of the fence” as it gets.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases</title><url>https://www.notion.so</url></story> |
34,444,948 | 34,443,331 | 1 | 3 | 34,439,883 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>savryn</author><text>I kinda agree with everything except that affirmations DO work, they are like self hypnosis and reach the unconscious in ways that add up.<p>Every time a horrible cringe&#x2F;guilt memory comes up, instead of expletive Fuuuuuuu (mental or out loud) literally reprogram yourself to immediately say &quot;I love me!&quot; or &quot;Different now&quot; or something else that&#x27;s positive.<p>The silly goodness of the thing legit interrupts the pain of the memory.<p>Thoughts and feelings that fire together wire together, so you MUST to break the connection of old shit spiraling into bad mood, paralysis, etc in the moment.<p>This is daily housekeeping for mental health. No one has endless time to meditate or waste money on therapy<p>once you have a few of these solid habits, you feel strong enough to do the heavy murky freudian trauma unraveling that&#x27;s more longterm and releases the tight gordian knots from childhood etc.<p>But daily tools DO work and are just as important.</text><parent_chain><item><author>FailMore</author><text>Affirmations do not work.<p>Mental health is mechanical. Most anxiety and suffering within mental health are second order effects from unconscious fears that we have about behaviours we feel are risky to take. For example, if you grow up in a household where your personal distress causes distress in others, you will hide your own personal distress and attempt to appear good all of the time. You will have high levels of anxiety in situations in which you might have to admit distress&#x2F;dissatisfaction&#x2F;not be a happy person that makes everyone else happy.<p>To improve mental health, more behaviours on the spectrum of all possible behaviours need to become calmly accessible. This allows the brain to be calmer in a wider range of situations; previously a situation that might cause distress might have been avoided&#x2F;cause a spike in anxiety, now the situation can be faced calmly and the newly integrated behaviour allows the individual to say &quot;sorry, I&#x27;m finding this too stressful, I need to stop&quot;.<p>Everyone typically has their own unique combination of behaviours which are not easily accessible. In my personal therapy I found that my dreams were a useful way of diagnosing what behaviours I was not comfortable with. I got very interested in this and ultimately completed a Masters in Psychology to write a paper on the topic based on the underlying neurology that occurs during REM sleep.<p>The paper can be read here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psyarxiv.com&#x2F;k6trz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psyarxiv.com&#x2F;k6trz</a><p>It was discussed on HN here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19143590" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19143590</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Telling your inner critic to chill</title><url>https://www.radiatedaily.com/telling-your-inner-critic-to-chill/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iamsanteri</author><text>Can you explain more about your line of reasoning and thinking? Any good sources you know about discussing exactly such ideas and details? Thank you!</text><parent_chain><item><author>FailMore</author><text>Affirmations do not work.<p>Mental health is mechanical. Most anxiety and suffering within mental health are second order effects from unconscious fears that we have about behaviours we feel are risky to take. For example, if you grow up in a household where your personal distress causes distress in others, you will hide your own personal distress and attempt to appear good all of the time. You will have high levels of anxiety in situations in which you might have to admit distress&#x2F;dissatisfaction&#x2F;not be a happy person that makes everyone else happy.<p>To improve mental health, more behaviours on the spectrum of all possible behaviours need to become calmly accessible. This allows the brain to be calmer in a wider range of situations; previously a situation that might cause distress might have been avoided&#x2F;cause a spike in anxiety, now the situation can be faced calmly and the newly integrated behaviour allows the individual to say &quot;sorry, I&#x27;m finding this too stressful, I need to stop&quot;.<p>Everyone typically has their own unique combination of behaviours which are not easily accessible. In my personal therapy I found that my dreams were a useful way of diagnosing what behaviours I was not comfortable with. I got very interested in this and ultimately completed a Masters in Psychology to write a paper on the topic based on the underlying neurology that occurs during REM sleep.<p>The paper can be read here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psyarxiv.com&#x2F;k6trz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psyarxiv.com&#x2F;k6trz</a><p>It was discussed on HN here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19143590" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19143590</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Telling your inner critic to chill</title><url>https://www.radiatedaily.com/telling-your-inner-critic-to-chill/</url></story> |
23,549,394 | 23,549,378 | 1 | 3 | 23,548,674 | 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>_ph_</author><text><i>&gt; 1: Enable users to set default app preferences.<p>Fine, but really Maps and Email is pretty much the only one I care about. This is the best suggestion of the bunch.</i><p>That is what you care about, others might care about other default apps. That&#x27;s why it should be freely configurable.<p><i>&gt; 3: Allow sideloading of iOS apps.<p>I don&#x27;t think we have a problem with lack of iOS apps. In fact I wish App Store Review was stricter and took more issue with quality and dodgy business practices (i.e. excessive and addictive use of IAP).</i><p>Of course there is a scarcity of iOS apps. Specifically, a scarcity of good quality apps which introduce new capabilities. There is no scarcity of candy crush clones etc. But the way Apple handles the App Store, drives developers into developing me-too clones with in-app purchases.<p><i>&gt; 4: Give third-party developers equal access to APIs.<p>What this is asking for is for Apple to effectively release features later or not at all. Or have some even more draconian App Store rules. I don&#x27;t want every random app having full hardware access to spy on me as it pleases.</i><p>There might be a few APIs, where limiting public access is justified. In most cases, we are talking about access to useful and uncritical APIs. The more Apple limits access to these APIs, the more harm they do to the App eco system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gampleman</author><text>As a consumer of Apple products I am not too keen on any of these suggestions. I agree that developers for Apple&#x27;s platforms would like these and perhaps there is some trickle-down effect for consumers.<p>&gt; 1: Enable users to set default app preferences.<p>Fine, but really Maps and Email is pretty much the only one I care about. This is the best suggestion of the bunch.<p>&gt; 2: Open up alternate payment mechanisms… without the Apple tax.<p>Nah. Last thing I want is to have to fill out my credit card information in every app and worry about what&#x27;s going to happen with it. Apple Pay and IAP work perfectly adequately from the consumer standpoint.<p>&gt; 3: Allow sideloading of iOS apps.<p>I don&#x27;t think we have a problem with lack of iOS apps. In fact I wish App Store Review was stricter and took more issue with quality and dodgy business practices (i.e. excessive and addictive use of IAP).<p>&gt; 4: Give third-party developers equal access to APIs.<p>What this is asking for is for Apple to effectively release features later or not at all. Or have some even more draconian App Store rules. I don&#x27;t want every random app having full hardware access to spy on me as it pleases.<p>&gt; 5: Stop sherlocking third-party developers.<p>Right, so Apple is not supposed to give me free access to nice features so I can continue to pay money to someone else. Right.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations</title><url>https://astropad.com/dear-apple/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ratww</author><text><i>&gt; Fine, but really Maps and Email is pretty much the only one I care about. This is the best suggestion of the bunch.</i><p>I think this is already possible to a certain extent by using URL protocol handlers (like mailto, rss+feed, magnet, etc), however Apple doesn&#x27;t provide a centralised control panel to choose which app. It would be cool to see Apple add that to the operating system. Ironically they would have to Sherlock RCDefaultApp. :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>gampleman</author><text>As a consumer of Apple products I am not too keen on any of these suggestions. I agree that developers for Apple&#x27;s platforms would like these and perhaps there is some trickle-down effect for consumers.<p>&gt; 1: Enable users to set default app preferences.<p>Fine, but really Maps and Email is pretty much the only one I care about. This is the best suggestion of the bunch.<p>&gt; 2: Open up alternate payment mechanisms… without the Apple tax.<p>Nah. Last thing I want is to have to fill out my credit card information in every app and worry about what&#x27;s going to happen with it. Apple Pay and IAP work perfectly adequately from the consumer standpoint.<p>&gt; 3: Allow sideloading of iOS apps.<p>I don&#x27;t think we have a problem with lack of iOS apps. In fact I wish App Store Review was stricter and took more issue with quality and dodgy business practices (i.e. excessive and addictive use of IAP).<p>&gt; 4: Give third-party developers equal access to APIs.<p>What this is asking for is for Apple to effectively release features later or not at all. Or have some even more draconian App Store rules. I don&#x27;t want every random app having full hardware access to spy on me as it pleases.<p>&gt; 5: Stop sherlocking third-party developers.<p>Right, so Apple is not supposed to give me free access to nice features so I can continue to pay money to someone else. Right.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations</title><url>https://astropad.com/dear-apple/</url></story> |
22,535,376 | 22,534,028 | 1 | 2 | 22,533,251 | 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>zentiggr</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d like to live in a world where a virtuous feedback loop would lead to companies treating their employees better and better, but history says that&#x27;s not the world we live in.<p>This sort of comment always reminds me of the quintessential answer: &quot;That&#x27;s funny, I always thought the world is what we make of it.&quot;<p>If the only way we can &#x27;make consumers choose better&#x27; is to continually publish and broadcast the worst corporate behavior in order to spur these kinds of shifts, then so be it.<p>Scream loudly about WalMart subverting local government and historical societies to build a store within sight of Tenochtitlan.<p>Republish over and over about Amazon&#x27;s treatment of their fulfillment workers.<p>Shame them all until the baseline is as much better as we can make it, and keep pushing against the entropy.<p>That&#x27;s how we make the world better.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>Given the source, I interpreted it as referring to how companies treat their employees (i.e. worker bees). The story suggests that, all other things being equal, consumers might gravitate towards companies with a reputation for treating their employees well. Mark, Barry, and Willy produce the same product at the same price, so how they treat their employees becomes how they differentiate themselves and win over consumers.<p>The problem is, all things are rarely equal and, if they are, businesses usually find ways of differentiating themselves that consumers care more about than happy employees. When Mark starts losing business to Barry, he&#x27;s going to cut his prices, spend more on advertising, etc.. Treating his bees poorly may actually help him squeeze more honey out of them at less cost, so Barry might not be able to match him without starting to mistreat his bees a little too. Willy&#x27;s costs are probably the highest of the three, but maybe he can use clever advertising to portray his product as a luxury item that&#x27;s somehow better than Barry&#x27;s or Mark&#x27;s, even if it&#x27;s identical. If that fails he&#x27;ll have to choose between happy bees and not going bankrupt.<p>I&#x27;d like to live in a world where a virtuous feedback loop would lead to companies treating their employees better and better, but history says that&#x27;s not the world we live in. We live in a world that has had to come up with labour unions when spirals of mistreatment and cost-cutting got out of hand. We live in a world where executive pay is going stratospheric while employee benefits are stagnant. Perhaps it would be a better world if people cared more about how companies treat their employees, but I honestly don&#x27;t see how you get people browsing Amazon to choose the honey that&#x27;s $2&#x2F;jar more just because it came from slightly happier bees.</text></item><item><author>D_Alex</author><text>This reads like some kind of allegory, but I really cannot tell for what... But taking it in the somewhat literal spirit: we have a good analogy in the market with free range eggs.<p>Here in Australia, &quot;free range&quot; hens must be kept at no more that 10,000 head&#x2F;hectare (or 1 sqm of land per hen). This is massively better than battery hens, which are kept at as low as... 0.03 sqm of cage&#x2F;hen. The animal welfare benefits are huge, battery hens have a truly horrible existence, to the point where I believe that it is immoral to farm them in this way.<p>But some producers are advertising lower stocking densities, some 6 sqm per hen and others even 10 sqm. They are charging a small premium for their eggs, and some people pay it, because they like the idea of animals being treated well.<p>So yes, many people are prepared to pay a bit extra for ethical treatment of animals. Even people (if that where the original post was pointing at).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What is the unique value proposition of selling honey?</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/09/bzzz/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gridlockd</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d like to live in a world where a virtuous feedback loop would lead to companies treating their employees better and better, but history says that&#x27;s not the world we live in.<p>The world we live in has historically treated workers better and better, with some ups and downs, mostly for economic reasons.<p>The primary factor that determines worker welfare is the price of labor. If labor is cheap due to low demand and lots of people compete for jobs, they will accept being mistreated. If labor is expensive due to high demand and fewer people competing for jobs, they will <i>not</i> accept being mistreated. They will move on to greener pastures.<p>This is different across industries, of course. The plight is upon those who have little to offer to the demands of the economy. If nobody wants to eat honey anymore, having bees work for free wouldn&#x27;t save the company.<p>What we also have learned from history, but tend to forget, is that price fixing doesn&#x27;t solve the problem.<p>&gt; We live in a world where executive pay is going stratospheric while employee benefits are stagnant.<p>This is numerically irrelevant, because there are very few such executives. Cutting into their compensation to pay the many lower-tier workers a tiny bit more would make no difference.</text><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>Given the source, I interpreted it as referring to how companies treat their employees (i.e. worker bees). The story suggests that, all other things being equal, consumers might gravitate towards companies with a reputation for treating their employees well. Mark, Barry, and Willy produce the same product at the same price, so how they treat their employees becomes how they differentiate themselves and win over consumers.<p>The problem is, all things are rarely equal and, if they are, businesses usually find ways of differentiating themselves that consumers care more about than happy employees. When Mark starts losing business to Barry, he&#x27;s going to cut his prices, spend more on advertising, etc.. Treating his bees poorly may actually help him squeeze more honey out of them at less cost, so Barry might not be able to match him without starting to mistreat his bees a little too. Willy&#x27;s costs are probably the highest of the three, but maybe he can use clever advertising to portray his product as a luxury item that&#x27;s somehow better than Barry&#x27;s or Mark&#x27;s, even if it&#x27;s identical. If that fails he&#x27;ll have to choose between happy bees and not going bankrupt.<p>I&#x27;d like to live in a world where a virtuous feedback loop would lead to companies treating their employees better and better, but history says that&#x27;s not the world we live in. We live in a world that has had to come up with labour unions when spirals of mistreatment and cost-cutting got out of hand. We live in a world where executive pay is going stratospheric while employee benefits are stagnant. Perhaps it would be a better world if people cared more about how companies treat their employees, but I honestly don&#x27;t see how you get people browsing Amazon to choose the honey that&#x27;s $2&#x2F;jar more just because it came from slightly happier bees.</text></item><item><author>D_Alex</author><text>This reads like some kind of allegory, but I really cannot tell for what... But taking it in the somewhat literal spirit: we have a good analogy in the market with free range eggs.<p>Here in Australia, &quot;free range&quot; hens must be kept at no more that 10,000 head&#x2F;hectare (or 1 sqm of land per hen). This is massively better than battery hens, which are kept at as low as... 0.03 sqm of cage&#x2F;hen. The animal welfare benefits are huge, battery hens have a truly horrible existence, to the point where I believe that it is immoral to farm them in this way.<p>But some producers are advertising lower stocking densities, some 6 sqm per hen and others even 10 sqm. They are charging a small premium for their eggs, and some people pay it, because they like the idea of animals being treated well.<p>So yes, many people are prepared to pay a bit extra for ethical treatment of animals. Even people (if that where the original post was pointing at).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What is the unique value proposition of selling honey?</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/09/bzzz/</url></story> |
28,564,767 | 28,564,241 | 1 | 2 | 28,550,264 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ftio</author><text>For about two years, our oldest son was <i>obsessed</i> with the Cars movie. Over that period, friends and family have overwhelmed our house with die-cast Cars toys, of which there are thousands. We have hundreds. We have many that have no speaking part, and we have some that are not onscreen for more than a few <i>frames</i>. We have over 25 Lightning McQueens.<p>These Cars cars are junk. They break so easily. The axles are thin, flimsy pieces of metal, the paint jobs are terrible, and they drive smoothly for two weeks before they start stuttering and sliding.<p>For comparison, we have a few hand-me-down Hot Wheels (edit: Matchbox, not HW) cars made in England in the 70s that have been abused on-and-off for 20 years, and they still roll like they were just made. Newer ones aren&#x27;t as sturdy or as heavy as those 50-year-old ones, but they&#x27;re still much more nicely built than the Cars ones.<p>All I can say is: thank goodness the Cars phase is over.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Hot Wheels Design Studio: How a Real Car Gets Turned into a 1:64 Toy</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/42183/inside-the-hot-wheels-design-studio-how-a-real-car-gets-turned-into-a-164-toy</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Hnrobert42</author><text>I am baffled by website design. I am there to read an article about Hot Wheels. They embed a video about the F-117. Distracting and annoying, but fine. Then, as I scroll more, the video follows me! WTF! No I don’t want to watch your stupid video. I want to read your article. Isn’t that why it’s here?!?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Hot Wheels Design Studio: How a Real Car Gets Turned into a 1:64 Toy</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/42183/inside-the-hot-wheels-design-studio-how-a-real-car-gets-turned-into-a-164-toy</url></story> |
29,975,223 | 29,975,374 | 1 | 2 | 29,974,522 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fomine3</author><text>Totally agree. Should consumers get costly highend phones in 2020-2021 with degraded battery life due to 5G is different story, but maybe we should be sacrificed to build futureproof 5G infra by buying phones with unnecessary 5G.<p>3G(HSPA) to 4G(LTE) was huge. I happily upgraded.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>It&#x27;s not just about what exists today, but what we want to be able to do in the future.<p>First, there are situations where it&#x27;s hard to get &quot;awesome LTE&quot; because there&#x27;s a lot of usage. Getting more bandwidth is important to handle situations like that.<p>Beyond that, we don&#x27;t know what the future will offer if we build greater capacity. When Apple launched the iPhone, we didn&#x27;t know that we&#x27;d be changing the way we live our lives. Things like TikTok wouldn&#x27;t exist without the abundant bandwidth offered by LTE. We don&#x27;t always know what greater bandwidth and capacity will offer.<p>We are seeing some things already. We&#x27;re seeing wireless home internet become available to a lot of people. For cell carriers, this is a new stream of revenue. For customers, this can be increase home broadband competition and for many rural customers the first chance at broadband.<p>We&#x27;re seeing things like Nvidia&#x27;s GeForce NOW allow you to play games that are being run on the cloud rather than your local device. Lower latency and greater bandwidth&#x2F;capacity means a better experience. Nvidia recommends 50Mbps which LTE <i>can</i> do, but won&#x27;t have as much capacity to support as many simultaneous users. 5G will also drive down latencies which are important for gaming.<p>It&#x27;s possible that self-driving technology might take advantage of this in the future. I&#x27;m not someone that promotes self-driving tech, but one can see how lower latency and higher bandwidth&#x2F;capacity could mean being able to send more data to the cloud both for computation and also for storage&#x2F;learning.<p>A lot of people are talking about VR and meta-verses. Again, I&#x27;m not necessarily buying into this yet, but it seems like greater bandwidth and lower latency could make things better.<p>Heck, even video-conferencing on mobile can benefit from more bandwidth and lower latency. While LTE can accommodate it, there are times when networks get congested and less congestion is a good thing. Lower latency also offers a better experience.<p>Do you need it? No. But you don&#x27;t need a smartphone. At the same time, it&#x27;s possible that someone will create something that you won&#x27;t know how you lived without that&#x27;s made possible by more bandwidth&#x2F;capacity and lower latency.</text></item><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>Has anyone ever had awesome lte and said “I need more bandwidth” on their phone? Idk I just don’t see the need for 5g but I’m definitely not a phone power user.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. FAA clears 45% of commercial plane fleet after 5G deployed</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-faa-oks-45-commercial-airplane-fleet-operations-after-5g-deployment-2022-01-16/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JCharante</author><text>&gt; Lower latency and greater bandwidth&#x2F;capacity means a better experience.<p>True but isn&#x27;t wifi already lower latency and greater bandwidth? What things can we do on wifi that we can&#x27;t on mobile data?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>It&#x27;s not just about what exists today, but what we want to be able to do in the future.<p>First, there are situations where it&#x27;s hard to get &quot;awesome LTE&quot; because there&#x27;s a lot of usage. Getting more bandwidth is important to handle situations like that.<p>Beyond that, we don&#x27;t know what the future will offer if we build greater capacity. When Apple launched the iPhone, we didn&#x27;t know that we&#x27;d be changing the way we live our lives. Things like TikTok wouldn&#x27;t exist without the abundant bandwidth offered by LTE. We don&#x27;t always know what greater bandwidth and capacity will offer.<p>We are seeing some things already. We&#x27;re seeing wireless home internet become available to a lot of people. For cell carriers, this is a new stream of revenue. For customers, this can be increase home broadband competition and for many rural customers the first chance at broadband.<p>We&#x27;re seeing things like Nvidia&#x27;s GeForce NOW allow you to play games that are being run on the cloud rather than your local device. Lower latency and greater bandwidth&#x2F;capacity means a better experience. Nvidia recommends 50Mbps which LTE <i>can</i> do, but won&#x27;t have as much capacity to support as many simultaneous users. 5G will also drive down latencies which are important for gaming.<p>It&#x27;s possible that self-driving technology might take advantage of this in the future. I&#x27;m not someone that promotes self-driving tech, but one can see how lower latency and higher bandwidth&#x2F;capacity could mean being able to send more data to the cloud both for computation and also for storage&#x2F;learning.<p>A lot of people are talking about VR and meta-verses. Again, I&#x27;m not necessarily buying into this yet, but it seems like greater bandwidth and lower latency could make things better.<p>Heck, even video-conferencing on mobile can benefit from more bandwidth and lower latency. While LTE can accommodate it, there are times when networks get congested and less congestion is a good thing. Lower latency also offers a better experience.<p>Do you need it? No. But you don&#x27;t need a smartphone. At the same time, it&#x27;s possible that someone will create something that you won&#x27;t know how you lived without that&#x27;s made possible by more bandwidth&#x2F;capacity and lower latency.</text></item><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>Has anyone ever had awesome lte and said “I need more bandwidth” on their phone? Idk I just don’t see the need for 5g but I’m definitely not a phone power user.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. FAA clears 45% of commercial plane fleet after 5G deployed</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-faa-oks-45-commercial-airplane-fleet-operations-after-5g-deployment-2022-01-16/</url></story> |
41,791,993 | 41,791,094 | 1 | 3 | 41,787,647 | 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>chromanoid</author><text>I would say &quot;Kati&#x27;s Ecke&quot; (urks) should look modern (and fails at that, looks like cargo cult to me) or is an unintentional error of the owner because they don&#x27;t know better (maybe obligatory English lessons in school compromised the actual rules of German). I am sure it doesn&#x27;t look exotic to most Germans. We actually use the apostrophe in cases where adding the possessive s is problematic. E.g. &quot;Felix&#x27; Ecke&quot;<p>There is a very ugly mix of German and English we call Denglish in German.<p>And there are many &quot;English sounding&quot; things that are not English or also a horrible mix up for marketing purposes.<p>E.g. Handy for smartphone. It doesn&#x27;t look exotic, but English which is usually considered to be something modern.<p>And then there is a similar concept as the Idiotenapostroph which is the Deppenleerzeichen which is a space between combined words that are usually and famously not separated by space in correct German.<p>All those things are usually used in amateurish marketing and look just like that to the average German grammar enthusiast.<p>On the other hand especially in many professional fields English conquers the professional slang with gusto of the participants. A very hilarious take on such Denglish for software developers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=c2V4bOL1jgM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=c2V4bOL1jgM</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t mention it, but am I right in assuming this basically comes from McDonald&#x27;s? There are a lot of places around the world that copy the &quot;&#x27;s&quot; where it doesn&#x27;t exist natively, but <i>only</i> for restaurant names or similar -- like &quot;Bob&#x27;s&quot; is the McDonald&#x27;s clone in Brazil [1].<p>I&#x27;m mostly curious whether &quot;Rosi&#x27;s&quot; and &quot;Kati&#x27;s&quot; in the article are seen by Germans as intentionally <i>trying</i> to look &quot;foreign&quot;, rather than the apostrophe &quot;invading&quot; German.<p>Like, if I go to a Sausage Haus, I&#x27;m not exactly worrying about &quot;Haus&quot; creeping into English to replace &quot;House&quot;. Nor would I ever call it the &quot;idiot&#x27;s house&quot; because that would be crazy insulting and perjorative.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bob%27s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bob%27s</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/germany-influence-of-english-idiots-apostrophe</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>int_19h</author><text>In Russian, the name of the restaurant did include the final &quot;s&quot;, but without the apostrophe, so I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s consistent.<p>Note though that in German, &quot;-s&quot; is also a genitive suffix, it&#x27;s just the spelling that&#x27;s different here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t mention it, but am I right in assuming this basically comes from McDonald&#x27;s? There are a lot of places around the world that copy the &quot;&#x27;s&quot; where it doesn&#x27;t exist natively, but <i>only</i> for restaurant names or similar -- like &quot;Bob&#x27;s&quot; is the McDonald&#x27;s clone in Brazil [1].<p>I&#x27;m mostly curious whether &quot;Rosi&#x27;s&quot; and &quot;Kati&#x27;s&quot; in the article are seen by Germans as intentionally <i>trying</i> to look &quot;foreign&quot;, rather than the apostrophe &quot;invading&quot; German.<p>Like, if I go to a Sausage Haus, I&#x27;m not exactly worrying about &quot;Haus&quot; creeping into English to replace &quot;House&quot;. Nor would I ever call it the &quot;idiot&#x27;s house&quot; because that would be crazy insulting and perjorative.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bob%27s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bob%27s</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/germany-influence-of-english-idiots-apostrophe</url></story> |
991,274 | 991,222 | 1 | 2 | 991,012 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tc</author><text>Another point:<p>There appears to be a growing disconnect between what we consider <i>right</i> and what we consider <i>practical</i>. It seems right that you should be able to peacefully question any non-emergency procedure, expect basic respect even if you're not being the most pleasant person, and retreat a step or two reflexively if you feel threatened.<p>Of course, we know that the <i>practical</i> approach to take is to be docile, passive, sickeningly submissive, and compliant nearly to the point of being patronizing.<p>The border guards train and drill repeatedly on how to behave aggressively and militantly in this situation. Most adults have no corresponding practice at acting completely flaccid and defenseless on command, which is what it seems we've come to expect.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tc</author><text>The bottom-line problem seems to be that law-abiding people don't have much experience with being treated like criminals.<p>In a high-pressure situation they sometimes fall back on their quaint expectations of rights and basic human respect. I would wager that someone who had spent serious time in prison would do much better in these situations.<p>The guy probably had a long day. I bet he just wanted nothing more than to get home and go to sleep. He obviously didn't understand what all the fuss was about, and he ended up stepping on someone's hair trigger. It seems terribly unlikely he did something that you or I would consider physically threatening. After being pepper-sprayed and man-handled, and likely not in the soundest state of mind, maybe he even flailed a bit -- guaranteeing an assault charge (and possible conviction).<p>Perhaps that's how it went down. It'll probably turn out that the border guards "followed procedure." But that's exactly the problem that makes the story frightening to us:<p>The path from "long day + non-violent temporary failure of judgement" to "being physically assaulted and facing a life-altering felony charge" seems terribly short.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sci-fi author and Crysis 2 writer Peter Watts beaten, arrested at US border</title><url>http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hellforge/Sci-fi-author-and-Crysis-2-writer-Peter-Watts-beaten-arrested-at-US-Border</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drinian</author><text><i>quaint expectations of rights and basic human respect. I would wager that someone who had spent serious time in prison would do much better in these situations.</i><p>This is America. We shouldn't be expected to act like guilty slaves when interacting with law enforcement. Your attitude isn't constructive at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tc</author><text>The bottom-line problem seems to be that law-abiding people don't have much experience with being treated like criminals.<p>In a high-pressure situation they sometimes fall back on their quaint expectations of rights and basic human respect. I would wager that someone who had spent serious time in prison would do much better in these situations.<p>The guy probably had a long day. I bet he just wanted nothing more than to get home and go to sleep. He obviously didn't understand what all the fuss was about, and he ended up stepping on someone's hair trigger. It seems terribly unlikely he did something that you or I would consider physically threatening. After being pepper-sprayed and man-handled, and likely not in the soundest state of mind, maybe he even flailed a bit -- guaranteeing an assault charge (and possible conviction).<p>Perhaps that's how it went down. It'll probably turn out that the border guards "followed procedure." But that's exactly the problem that makes the story frightening to us:<p>The path from "long day + non-violent temporary failure of judgement" to "being physically assaulted and facing a life-altering felony charge" seems terribly short.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Sci-fi author and Crysis 2 writer Peter Watts beaten, arrested at US border</title><url>http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hellforge/Sci-fi-author-and-Crysis-2-writer-Peter-Watts-beaten-arrested-at-US-Border</url></story> |
12,180,668 | 12,180,624 | 1 | 2 | 12,180,443 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>&gt; The relationship between Oracle and NetSuite goes back decades. Zach Nelson, NetSuite’s CEO, previously ran Oracle’s marketing operations in the 1990s. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is NetSuite’s largest investor. As of March, Ellison and his family owned about 45.4 percent of NetSuite’s common stock, according to a company filing. Ellison has “control over approval of significant corporate transactions,’’ according to the filing.<p>Hmm, I wonder if the NetSuite board will approve this:)<p>Man, Microsoft has its OS and Office revenue to<p>Google and Facebook have their advertising revenue<p>Oracle has its licensing revenue<p>Amazon has its everything store revenue.<p>Apple has its iPhone revenue.<p>The big tech incumbents all figuratively print money each quarter.<p>If the long reported bubble burst ever gets around to happening, it&#x27;s hard not to see them as the big winners. With piles of cash on hand and cash reserves growing can anyone make the case that they don&#x27;t become the lender of last resort to cash strapped startups?<p>Side note, I&#x27;m surprised that Oracle is still running with Safra Catz and Mark Hurd as co-CEO&#x27;s. I figured that that setup along with a very strong willed founder in Ellison, would cause some spectacular implosion at some point:)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oracle Buys NetSuite for $9.3B</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/oracle-buys-netsuite-in-deal-valued-at-about-9-3-billion</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ryporter</author><text>Did Larry Ellison just transfer billions of dollars from himself to himself in a taxable transaction? I&#x27;m surprised the deal was all cash.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Oracle Buys NetSuite for $9.3B</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/oracle-buys-netsuite-in-deal-valued-at-about-9-3-billion</url></story> |
19,896,834 | 19,896,603 | 1 | 2 | 19,891,471 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>INTPenis</author><text>The author might have had more luck grepping through irc logs from the 90s. If they exist.<p>I was also born a bit too late but I was active on IRC during the last 3 years of the 90s and remember the term script kiddie being so much a part of the fabric of IRC that we had already started to type around it, so to speak.<p>For example instead of saying script kiddies I&#x27;d just call myself a kid and it would be implied. Sort of like self-defamation to humble myself before older irc cats.<p>The beauty of irc to me was in part its whimsical nature. Making up words was something that happened almost every day and no one batted an eye.<p>Also trolling was part of this whole scene and no one cared. Everyone knew how to handle trolls and if you didn&#x27;t you were part of todays entertainment.<p>Today it&#x27;s all bullying and people are going insane over trolling but back then it was just part of the game.<p>IRC was truly where culture existed in my opinion. After newsgroups and such, IRC was live. It happened every day, all day. And night. In that sense it would be a much better source for slang terms than zines.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Origin of ‘Script Kiddie’</title><url>https://liveoverflow.com/the-origin-of-script-kiddie-hacker-etymology/</url></story> | <instructions>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>This is all pure navel gazing, of course, but:<p>It goes at least back to Pluvius (in, amongst other places, BoW) in 1994, but I&#x27;m pretty sure he didn&#x27;t come up with it either --- BoW itself was an ironic commentary on the whole scene, and wrote casually about &quot;scripts&quot; because everyone knew what that word meant.<p>And so what&#x27;s interesting isn&#x27;t &quot;script kiddie&quot; --- &quot;kiddie&quot; has been an all-purpose pejorative since forever --- but &quot;scripts&quot;, which have an interesting etymology that crosses over between IRC scripts and exploits. &quot;Cookbook&quot; used to be another related term which has fallen by the wayside.<p>&quot;Zero day&quot; is another term with interesting roots, originally referring not to vulnerabilities and exploits but to pirated games; there was a whole &quot;days&quot;-denominated scale for freshness of warez.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Origin of ‘Script Kiddie’</title><url>https://liveoverflow.com/the-origin-of-script-kiddie-hacker-etymology/</url></story> |
24,063,296 | 24,060,156 | 1 | 2 | 24,057,715 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vinceguidry</author><text>&gt; you&#x27;ll have to rewrite the entire thing.<p>No, you don&#x27;t, because then you&#x27;ll be able to lean on Rails&#x27; biggest strength, Ruby. You don&#x27;t know how many times I&#x27;ve been able to just dig into a gem&#x27;s or even Rails itself, find out what&#x27;s going on, and simply write what I need leveraging all the existing code.<p>On the other hand, when we were replatforming our Rails project into Node for no good reason, we wound up having to rewrite a ton of stuff because, well, Ruby is a great server language, and Javascript is only at best a mediocre scripting language, and ES6 is only a marginal improvement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bzb3</author><text>But those frameworks force you to do things the way they want you to. As soon as you need to deviate a little bit, and very often you&#x27;ll have to, you&#x27;ll have to rewrite the entire thing.</text></item><item><author>vbsteven</author><text>This.<p>There are so many things that are required in a modern web app that these &quot;batteries included&quot; frameworks provide for you that it just makes sense to use these for most standard projects.<p>I personally use Spring Boot as my default stack because just setting up a basic boot starter project gets me:<p>* Routing<p>* Server side templates<p>* i18n translation files<p>* database connection pooling<p>* database migrations<p>* ORM<p>* Logging<p>* Json serialization<p>* unit testing, integration testing, mocks<p>* CSRF<p>* Validation framework<p>* Dependency injection<p>* SMTP email sending<p>and much more, all compatible with each other<p>If I would start with a blank Sinatra&#x2F;Express project I would have to piece together all of these myself from various libraries and my own code.</text></item><item><author>jeff_vader</author><text>Anecdotal random story bits from my current company on why you should stick to Rails:<p>- All of our &quot;lightweight Sinatra(and similar) API&quot; services eventually start to look more and more like Rails apps. Rails does many small developer convenience things well. Which you do not notice until you build this lightweight API yourself. E.g. console, logging, migrations, database connection pooling, rspec integration, i18n.<p>- No one likes to work with your arbitrary personal project structure conventions. Where&#x27;s the code? &#x27;lib&#x27;? &#x27;core&#x27;? &#x27;app&#x27;? &#x27;api&#x27;? Also, no one wants to learn your lightweight &quot;data mapper&quot; pattern written from scratch because you thought ActiveRecord is too bloated and &quot;does not scale&quot;. That being said, there&#x27;s quite a few things you can arbitrarily pick in Rails projects as well which others will find surprising. But the spectrum of those choices is little narrower.<p>- Developers most of the time assume database connection pooling just magically happens. Sysadmins do have no desire to debug your apps. After couple weeks of back and forth you may realise that Rails does database connection pooling for you. And simply requiring &#x27;activerecord&#x27; and establishing connection in your Sinatra app does not.<p>- One day someone doing production maintenance wanted to remind themselves rake task name. And ran &#x27;bundle exec rake&#x27; forgetting to add &#x27;-T&#x27;. Default task was rspec. It dropped production database. That day many learned that Rails has safeguards against things like this, while none of those &quot;lightweight arbitrary structured APIs&quot; had any. Though the lesson was clearly not very good, since we did this again couple years later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When Should You Not Use Rails?</title><url>http://codefol.io/posts/when-should-you-not-use-rails/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dwheeler</author><text>I think that depends on the framework and what deviation you want.<p>I agree that if you use Rails and constantly override its conventions, you will have a bad day. But following conventions is usually a strength, not a weakness. Most websites are not shocking cutting-edge things that have never done before, but relatively boring simple tasks that involve grabbing data from databases and showing them to users via templates. Every decision you have to make is a cost, and if you have a small team, having basic naming convention decisions and directory location decisions already made accelerates development. There&#x27;s a big advantage to following conventions when you want others to work with you, because different Rails applications look quite similar in many ways.<p>I have not had trouble overriding Rails when I needed to override something specific.<p>Btw, I like the original article. There&#x27;s nothing that&#x27;s good for all cases, so it&#x27;s very important to understand what something is good and not good at.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bzb3</author><text>But those frameworks force you to do things the way they want you to. As soon as you need to deviate a little bit, and very often you&#x27;ll have to, you&#x27;ll have to rewrite the entire thing.</text></item><item><author>vbsteven</author><text>This.<p>There are so many things that are required in a modern web app that these &quot;batteries included&quot; frameworks provide for you that it just makes sense to use these for most standard projects.<p>I personally use Spring Boot as my default stack because just setting up a basic boot starter project gets me:<p>* Routing<p>* Server side templates<p>* i18n translation files<p>* database connection pooling<p>* database migrations<p>* ORM<p>* Logging<p>* Json serialization<p>* unit testing, integration testing, mocks<p>* CSRF<p>* Validation framework<p>* Dependency injection<p>* SMTP email sending<p>and much more, all compatible with each other<p>If I would start with a blank Sinatra&#x2F;Express project I would have to piece together all of these myself from various libraries and my own code.</text></item><item><author>jeff_vader</author><text>Anecdotal random story bits from my current company on why you should stick to Rails:<p>- All of our &quot;lightweight Sinatra(and similar) API&quot; services eventually start to look more and more like Rails apps. Rails does many small developer convenience things well. Which you do not notice until you build this lightweight API yourself. E.g. console, logging, migrations, database connection pooling, rspec integration, i18n.<p>- No one likes to work with your arbitrary personal project structure conventions. Where&#x27;s the code? &#x27;lib&#x27;? &#x27;core&#x27;? &#x27;app&#x27;? &#x27;api&#x27;? Also, no one wants to learn your lightweight &quot;data mapper&quot; pattern written from scratch because you thought ActiveRecord is too bloated and &quot;does not scale&quot;. That being said, there&#x27;s quite a few things you can arbitrarily pick in Rails projects as well which others will find surprising. But the spectrum of those choices is little narrower.<p>- Developers most of the time assume database connection pooling just magically happens. Sysadmins do have no desire to debug your apps. After couple weeks of back and forth you may realise that Rails does database connection pooling for you. And simply requiring &#x27;activerecord&#x27; and establishing connection in your Sinatra app does not.<p>- One day someone doing production maintenance wanted to remind themselves rake task name. And ran &#x27;bundle exec rake&#x27; forgetting to add &#x27;-T&#x27;. Default task was rspec. It dropped production database. That day many learned that Rails has safeguards against things like this, while none of those &quot;lightweight arbitrary structured APIs&quot; had any. Though the lesson was clearly not very good, since we did this again couple years later.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When Should You Not Use Rails?</title><url>http://codefol.io/posts/when-should-you-not-use-rails/</url></story> |
5,926,552 | 5,926,567 | 1 | 2 | 5,926,328 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>glesica</author><text>This has most to do with the student. If the student wishes to acquire knowledge, most American universities can provide the student with a great deal of knowledge. If you are not at such a university (unlikely, though some schools are significantly weaker in some disciplines than other schools, so YMMV), then such a university is generally just a transfer application away (protip: admissions standards are different for transfer applicants, it is <i>generally</i>, though not universally, easier to get into a more prestigious school as a transfer, having already shown an aptitude for college work).<p>No student at an American university can honestly claim not to have learned anything and yet be blameless for not having learned anything.<p>I will admit that many students are not ready to attend college at the age of 18. I think we should do more to allow students the freedom to take some time to explore their options and possibly even take a year or two off of school before deciding whether or not to attend college, where to attend college, and what to study once there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>istorical</author><text>I&#x27;m a spring 2013 undergraduate in CS, and this goes on in America just as it does in China. (the entire process is a charade.) I will admit it without hesitation.<p>It&#x27;s incredibly interesting that not a single party in the process sees actual knowledge as the value gained. Everyone sees the piece of paper as the value: the box that&#x27;s checked. How long can such an illusion continue? Your guess is as good as mine. At the end of the day though, you either learn what you need to learn or you don&#x27;t. Industry isn&#x27;t too terrible at calling out those who can&#x27;t produce value, but can only cross their t&#x27;s and dot their i&#x27;s.<p>EDIT: I should definitely draw a distinction between the magnitude of cheating&#x2F;carelessness described in the article and what I encountered at an American university. The article describes a situation that is much worse.</text></item><item><author>spikels</author><text>Cargo Cult Education - Schools are built, students attend, teachers lecture, assignments turned in, tests taken and degrees granted. Everyone gets what they want: politicians, students, staff and parents. Yet nothing needs to be taught and nothing needs to be learned.<p>Doesn&#x27;t this go on a lot more often then we want to admit?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese students and families fight for the right to cheat their exams</title><url>http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-students-and-families-fight-for-the-right-to-cheat-their-exams-20130621-2oo6o.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>eigenvector</author><text>At the engineering school I graduated from in Canada, which is ranked in the top 20 worldwide, cheating was prolific with nearly all unsupervised work being gratuitously plagiarized.<p>Although supervised examinations accounted for at least 50% of each grade, any student who didn&#x27;t cheat and wasn&#x27;t also very, very bright probably lost at least half a letter grade on their CGPA as a result.<p>It was common for me to do well above average on examinations and well below average on assignments, since I was not plagiarizing them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>istorical</author><text>I&#x27;m a spring 2013 undergraduate in CS, and this goes on in America just as it does in China. (the entire process is a charade.) I will admit it without hesitation.<p>It&#x27;s incredibly interesting that not a single party in the process sees actual knowledge as the value gained. Everyone sees the piece of paper as the value: the box that&#x27;s checked. How long can such an illusion continue? Your guess is as good as mine. At the end of the day though, you either learn what you need to learn or you don&#x27;t. Industry isn&#x27;t too terrible at calling out those who can&#x27;t produce value, but can only cross their t&#x27;s and dot their i&#x27;s.<p>EDIT: I should definitely draw a distinction between the magnitude of cheating&#x2F;carelessness described in the article and what I encountered at an American university. The article describes a situation that is much worse.</text></item><item><author>spikels</author><text>Cargo Cult Education - Schools are built, students attend, teachers lecture, assignments turned in, tests taken and degrees granted. Everyone gets what they want: politicians, students, staff and parents. Yet nothing needs to be taught and nothing needs to be learned.<p>Doesn&#x27;t this go on a lot more often then we want to admit?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese students and families fight for the right to cheat their exams</title><url>http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-students-and-families-fight-for-the-right-to-cheat-their-exams-20130621-2oo6o.html</url></story> |
35,203,398 | 35,199,935 | 1 | 2 | 35,197,308 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bartvk</author><text>Wow, you authored bc? It’s incredibly useful. I have to admit that since Spotlight now supports quick calculations, it’s my second step. But it used to be my first. Thanks so much for your work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gavinhoward</author><text>Like the author, I appreciate the Apple OSS Distributions, even though I don&#x27;t use Mac OSX.<p>Four or five weeks ago, I was searching GitHub for every instance of my email for legal reasons. I came across it in an Apple OSS Distribution. And that is when I learned that my best project had been silently shipped with Ventura.<p>I was ecstatic! [1] It&#x27;s always great to see more people adopt your work.<p>Don&#x27;t worry; they followed the license.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gavinhoward.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;02&#x2F;my-code-conquered-another-os&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gavinhoward.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;02&#x2F;my-code-conquered-another-os...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spelunking Apple’s Open Source</title><url>https://bitsplitting.org/2023/03/17/spelunking-apples-open-source/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mackey</author><text>Any idea why they would ship such an old version?</text><parent_chain><item><author>gavinhoward</author><text>Like the author, I appreciate the Apple OSS Distributions, even though I don&#x27;t use Mac OSX.<p>Four or five weeks ago, I was searching GitHub for every instance of my email for legal reasons. I came across it in an Apple OSS Distribution. And that is when I learned that my best project had been silently shipped with Ventura.<p>I was ecstatic! [1] It&#x27;s always great to see more people adopt your work.<p>Don&#x27;t worry; they followed the license.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gavinhoward.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;02&#x2F;my-code-conquered-another-os&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gavinhoward.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;02&#x2F;my-code-conquered-another-os...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spelunking Apple’s Open Source</title><url>https://bitsplitting.org/2023/03/17/spelunking-apples-open-source/</url></story> |
27,154,172 | 27,154,010 | 1 | 2 | 27,133,114 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>creaghpatr</author><text>&gt;From the beginning, it was important to her that the stores were clean, modern and easy to navigate, to defy the stereotype of Asian groceries as grimy and run-down.<p>&gt;To be welcoming to non-Koreans, H Mart puts up signs in English. At the same time, the younger Mr. Kwon said, “We don’t want to be the gentrified store.” So while some non-Asians recoil from the tanks of lobsters, the Kwons are committed to offering live seafood.<p>I grew up in Georgia and H Mart definitely changed the game with this strategy. They make it very accessible for someone who is unfamiliar with international grocery stores to come in and explore without feeling culturally intrusive. I speculate that H Mart and their food courts were the gateway drug to Korean food becoming a huge cuisine in Metro Atlanta as they were the first big brand in the game that I became aware of.<p>Edit: Also shout-out to Chai Pani, definitely hit that place up if you are ever in Decatur.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Lure of H Mart, Where the Shelves Can Seem as Wide as Asia</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/dining/h-mart.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>prepend</author><text>HMart has the most fresh produce and it’s prices are low because it’s not organic. I was trying to eat a lot of greens and found that most stores have “tourist greens” with small servings in big plastic tubs.<p>Even Whole Foods was hard to buy large amounts of spinach. Their green produce is mostly processed and wrapped in plastic and $5 for what’s $.75 per bunch at HMart.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Lure of H Mart, Where the Shelves Can Seem as Wide as Asia</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/dining/h-mart.html</url></story> |
29,514,724 | 29,514,608 | 1 | 3 | 29,512,281 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>huitzitziltzin</author><text>This is an infuriating but not surprising read. The only surprising thing to me is to see the number written down. (And that some part of the system was available to a nurse to see!)<p>I’m a health economist and much of my research is on hospitals. As much as everyone loves to complain about drug companies and insurers as being responsible for high US health care costs, that <i>is not</i> where the money goes. The money goes to doctors and to hospitals. (Specifically: about half of all national health spending to those two groups.)<p>If you want to save money on health care, you need to talk about paying less to doctors and to hospitals. If you don’t want to pay less money to those two sets of entities, you aren’t going to save much money. That’s all there is to it.<p>Yes, we can do better by spending less on drugs, but it’s a small amount compared to the gigantic sums which go to doctors and to hospitals. (Specifically: <i>all</i> drug spending is about ten percent of national health spending.) Yes, we can do better by reducing the administrative burden, but that slice of the pie is less than 10%. (And you will never have 0 admin expenses.) The administrative burden of health insurance is even lower than 10%.<p>So… go ahead and share your ideas for paying doctors and hospitals less, because otherwise you’re talking about stuff which doesn’t amount to much!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Leaked Scripps records reveal automated mark-ups for hospital care</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-10/column-healthcare-billing-markups</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ethbr0</author><text>&gt; <i>I started asking questions,” the nurse said. “I was told that if we didn’t mark things up like this, insurance companies wouldn’t give us what we want.”</i><p>&gt; <i>Healthcare providers routinely ignore the actual cost of treatment when calculating bills and instead cook up nonsensical figures to push reimbursement from insurers higher.</i><p>This is the real story of health care, in a nutshell.<p>Providers say &quot;A procedure costs $100.&quot; Insurers say &quot;Great, we&#x27;ll reimburse you $50 for it, or you won&#x27;t be in network.&quot; Providers say &quot;But it actually costs $100.&quot; Insurers say &quot;Fine, but cut us a deal in exchange for our business, and charge us $50.&quot; They hammer out a contract that specifies $55 for that procedure.<p>On the next procedure, which costs $200, the providers (and their facility) stops to think. &quot;Wait, insurance is going to ask for a substantial haircut on whatever number we give them.&quot; So providers say &quot;This procedure costs $400.&quot; Insurance says &quot;Fine, we&#x27;ll reimburse you $200.&quot; Providers say &quot;Oh no. Fine, we&#x27;ll take it.&quot;<p>Then a few years later insurance analysts get around to noticing relative cost differences, and the entire dance starts over again.<p>The fundamental problems with US health care are (1) the lack of end-user (patient) visibility into costs <i>before</i> undertaking a procedure, (2) opaque insurance-facility contracts, &amp; (3) the bullshit dance between facilities, middle people, and insurance companies that end up adding confusion, delay, and costs to what would otherwise be simpler transactions.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Leaked Scripps records reveal automated mark-ups for hospital care</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-10/column-healthcare-billing-markups</url></story> |
36,343,605 | 36,342,435 | 1 | 2 | 36,341,941 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LordKeren</author><text>I’ll add my personal experience as a long-term lead mod of a subreddit for a specific video game. Broadly, I view subreddits are two camps:<p>1. Popcorn subreddits — r&#x2F;pics, r&#x2F;funny , r&#x2F;twitterScreenshots<p>2. hobby &amp; employment related<p>During my time modding, I viewed the subreddit I ran as being very thoroughly in the second group. All the users shared an interest in a particular game. Myself and all the other mods were people that enjoyed the game first and foremost. We did not accept any moderator applications from users that were the prototypical Reddit mods and no one ever went on to join other mod teams.<p>And I will say, it was honestly extremely fun. I got to build moderator tooling through the API that was interesting and had immediate real world use. Reddit moderation was the catalyst for becoming a developer myself and directly lead to my current career.<p>I met a diverse group of people from across the globe and formed many lasting friendships with people I would have never met otherwise. Beyond that, it also gave me opportunities to learn more about video game production, go on studio tours, meet game developers, and have experiences that few others ever will.<p>The mods on the team were not naive. We understood we were providing an extremely valuable service to both Reddit and the game developer for free— but for us, it was a mostly straight forward hobby that presented interesting logistical challenges. For years now, the status quo has been that Reddit may be making some obnoxious UX choices, but none of them had any actual affect on the moderator experience. Most mods were insulated from the changes because we used third party apps and old.Reddit.<p>I think it is deeply unfortunate that Reddit moderation does attract some of the worst internet users and many people have very negative experiences and opinions when it comes to mods —but for some corners of the site, Reddit moderation was a genuinely enjoyable hobby shared with like minded friends.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cmiles74</author><text>IMHO, Reddit&#x27;s charging such a high price for API access that it&#x27;s as good as unattainable is more of a last straw then anything else. Reddit has been clear that they view the data as their sole property, when you think it through, why be a moderator for a for-profit company if you aren&#x27;t being paid?<p>I don&#x27;t know why it took this long for moderators to quit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/149zmar/reddits_blackout_protest_is_set_to_continue/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>idiotsecant</author><text>I don&#x27;t think many moderators will actually quit as long as the users are there, especially since reddit gave back some moderator API call access. Moderating is already a terrible, thankless job. The people who do it enjoy moderating because (I assume) they&#x27;re &#x27;in charge&#x27; of something big and important. I don&#x27;t think reddit closing off third party access will be enough to convince most of these people to stop giving labor for free.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cmiles74</author><text>IMHO, Reddit&#x27;s charging such a high price for API access that it&#x27;s as good as unattainable is more of a last straw then anything else. Reddit has been clear that they view the data as their sole property, when you think it through, why be a moderator for a for-profit company if you aren&#x27;t being paid?<p>I don&#x27;t know why it took this long for moderators to quit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/149zmar/reddits_blackout_protest_is_set_to_continue/</url></story> |
9,404,487 | 9,403,586 | 1 | 3 | 9,402,744 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bufordsharkley</author><text>The noncommercial band of the FM dial is a godsend-- college and community radio stations exist in nearly every city, and serve a very special niche in allowing human-curated broadcasts to exist. (No commercials, no repetition)<p>I&#x27;m perhaps a bit biased-- I work as a program director for one of the bay area noncommercial stations (KZSU, 90.1 FM), and help with the Soundtap project.[1]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;soundtap.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;soundtap.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bane</author><text>Right, there are basically two things I listen to in my car these days. Music or podcasts coming off of my phone, and FM radio news. But other than that, poor industry choices killed FM years ago as a viable place to find anything worth listening to.<p>In my market, Clearchannel and friends pretty much screwed up the music stations and nobody listens to them by choice. They either played the same tired songs over and over, pumped so many commercials into their broadcast there was effectively nothing to listen to (and coordinated commercial breaks between various stations so there was no reason to switch) or &quot;changed the format&quot; of popular stations without warning or alternative, wiping out decades of legacy.<p>I remember when it happened with one of the most popular and historic stations in the D.C. Baltimore area, WHFS. I was driving to lunch, jamming out to some great music, they cut to a commercial break and the commercials suddenly started talking about the latest Latin American bands. I ignored it, until about 10 minutes later when I realized this was no longer a commercial, but the broadcast!<p>According to WP, the station&#x27;s staff didn&#x27;t even know about the switch until about an hour before it happened.<p>AOL, despite all the bad things you can say about them, was headquartered in the same market, and ran a large-ish (at the time) internet radio system. They ended up launching a streaming radio station with pretty much the same format. But HFS was gone.<p>The local alt&#x2F;prog rock music market has never recovered.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;WHFS_(historic)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;WHFS_(historic)</a><p>I&#x27;ve <i>tried</i> to listen to music radio recently, and I think during my hour long commute, I encountered maybe 4 songs, the entire rest of the drive was absolutely <i>packed</i> with commercials and station filler. I also found that stations try to coordinate their commercial breaks with each other, when one goes on break, good luck finding another station of any genre that&#x27;s not on break. And the breaks go on for 15-20 minutes. It&#x27;s just unlistenable.<p>Supposedly, everybody is broadcasting better things on HD radio, but I&#x27;m not even sure if new cars I&#x27;d by support HD radio, they only advertise XM.</text></item><item><author>rplst8</author><text>Getting rid of these older analog radio technologies is short-sighted unless there is a real compelling and complete replacement already cheap and widely available.<p>FM (and AM) radio are great technologies. Just because they are &quot;old&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean there is something better.<p>In the US, Internet streaming (of existing stations), digital HD radio, and XM satellite rarely achieves a fidelity that equals FM (when the FM reception is clear). All of them suffer from unpleasant distortion. FM is not without it&#x27;s warts, but the &quot;errors&quot; are less distracting IMO. They also all suffer from binary operation. They either work or they don&#x27;t. FM fails somewhat gracefully in that the signal just gets noisier the further from the source you are.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Norway to switch off FM in 2017</title><url>http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zachalexander</author><text>I suspect what&#x27;s actually happening is that they are playing lowest-common-denominator music, which few people are thrilled by, but which more people are interested enough in to stay listening to.<p>Put differently, there are lots of people that might listen to Latin American music, and very few of us who listen to prog rock. Prog is actively repellent to ~90% of people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bane</author><text>Right, there are basically two things I listen to in my car these days. Music or podcasts coming off of my phone, and FM radio news. But other than that, poor industry choices killed FM years ago as a viable place to find anything worth listening to.<p>In my market, Clearchannel and friends pretty much screwed up the music stations and nobody listens to them by choice. They either played the same tired songs over and over, pumped so many commercials into their broadcast there was effectively nothing to listen to (and coordinated commercial breaks between various stations so there was no reason to switch) or &quot;changed the format&quot; of popular stations without warning or alternative, wiping out decades of legacy.<p>I remember when it happened with one of the most popular and historic stations in the D.C. Baltimore area, WHFS. I was driving to lunch, jamming out to some great music, they cut to a commercial break and the commercials suddenly started talking about the latest Latin American bands. I ignored it, until about 10 minutes later when I realized this was no longer a commercial, but the broadcast!<p>According to WP, the station&#x27;s staff didn&#x27;t even know about the switch until about an hour before it happened.<p>AOL, despite all the bad things you can say about them, was headquartered in the same market, and ran a large-ish (at the time) internet radio system. They ended up launching a streaming radio station with pretty much the same format. But HFS was gone.<p>The local alt&#x2F;prog rock music market has never recovered.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;WHFS_(historic)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;WHFS_(historic)</a><p>I&#x27;ve <i>tried</i> to listen to music radio recently, and I think during my hour long commute, I encountered maybe 4 songs, the entire rest of the drive was absolutely <i>packed</i> with commercials and station filler. I also found that stations try to coordinate their commercial breaks with each other, when one goes on break, good luck finding another station of any genre that&#x27;s not on break. And the breaks go on for 15-20 minutes. It&#x27;s just unlistenable.<p>Supposedly, everybody is broadcasting better things on HD radio, but I&#x27;m not even sure if new cars I&#x27;d by support HD radio, they only advertise XM.</text></item><item><author>rplst8</author><text>Getting rid of these older analog radio technologies is short-sighted unless there is a real compelling and complete replacement already cheap and widely available.<p>FM (and AM) radio are great technologies. Just because they are &quot;old&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean there is something better.<p>In the US, Internet streaming (of existing stations), digital HD radio, and XM satellite rarely achieves a fidelity that equals FM (when the FM reception is clear). All of them suffer from unpleasant distortion. FM is not without it&#x27;s warts, but the &quot;errors&quot; are less distracting IMO. They also all suffer from binary operation. They either work or they don&#x27;t. FM fails somewhat gracefully in that the signal just gets noisier the further from the source you are.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Norway to switch off FM in 2017</title><url>http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/</url></story> |
17,466,824 | 17,466,795 | 1 | 2 | 17,465,812 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mistermann</author><text>We are experiencing higher than normal call volume.<p>Every. Single. Day.<p>I would like to give executives the option to stop this or go to prison for this never ending nonsense. I think most would choose to stop.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fishbone</author><text>Please listen closely, our menu options have changed</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>I recently had to cancel an ongoing subscription I had with Equifax, which requires you to call by phone. Unbelievably frustrating. I had to dial the service at least 10 times. Each time, the automated responder would make me go through a very slow menu selection process, only to randomly fail to acknowledge either my correct SSN or zipcode or street number, which I entered using a keypad. As a consumer, I&#x27;ve had to enter info via phone keypad for as long as I can remember, and I&#x27;ve never run into a system (not even small local businesses) that was so randomly buggy.<p>I thought maybe I had the wrong phone number for cancellation. Turns out, when you google &quot;cancel Equifax phone number&quot;, there are several phone numbers listed by Equifax itself, on various sections of its &quot;help&quot; pages.<p>Took me about half an hour to finally reach a human operator. Surprisingly, the cancellation process was quick with her with no haggling. But I imagine the process is so frustrating overall that a good number of people just give up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/thanks-to-california-a-news-site-or-other-business-now-has-to-let-you-cancel-your-subscription-online/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thelastidiot</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; Please listen closely, our menu options have changed.<p>You are missing the &quot;as&quot;. Please listen closely, as our menu options have changed. I know it by heart and can hear the same voice over and over again in my head. Crap!</text><parent_chain><item><author>fishbone</author><text>Please listen closely, our menu options have changed</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>I recently had to cancel an ongoing subscription I had with Equifax, which requires you to call by phone. Unbelievably frustrating. I had to dial the service at least 10 times. Each time, the automated responder would make me go through a very slow menu selection process, only to randomly fail to acknowledge either my correct SSN or zipcode or street number, which I entered using a keypad. As a consumer, I&#x27;ve had to enter info via phone keypad for as long as I can remember, and I&#x27;ve never run into a system (not even small local businesses) that was so randomly buggy.<p>I thought maybe I had the wrong phone number for cancellation. Turns out, when you google &quot;cancel Equifax phone number&quot;, there are several phone numbers listed by Equifax itself, on various sections of its &quot;help&quot; pages.<p>Took me about half an hour to finally reach a human operator. Surprisingly, the cancellation process was quick with her with no haggling. But I imagine the process is so frustrating overall that a good number of people just give up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/thanks-to-california-a-news-site-or-other-business-now-has-to-let-you-cancel-your-subscription-online/</url></story> |
40,082,158 | 40,082,028 | 1 | 2 | 40,081,761 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vector_spaces</author><text>I was surprised after meeting an analytics team (consisting of software engineers, data engineers, analysts) in my local state-run health system that all of them were women -- then I learned that so were most of the engineers throughout the organization and similar organizations in the area -- overwhelmingly women, older too. Not 20 or even 30 somethings, but people who graduated decades ago. I did some more poking around LinkedIn, looking at other state run services, like our local utility companies -- where again, most of the analysts and software engineers were older women.<p>I knew already that there was a huge divide in salary and culture between the highly paid software engineers at coastal startups + FAANG companies and all the folks that run critical infrastructure for state and local governments, health systems, and boring enterprise companies, but I wonder if the people in those roles tend to skew older and female too.<p>As an aside, I&#x27;ve heard coworkers at my previous coastal tech jobs express sentiments to the effect that the people described above who mostly work on Windows stacks aren&#x27;t real engineers, or that there are good reasons for the vast pay disparities between these critical infrastructure folks and people working on Uber-but-for-clowns or whatever, and I think it&#x27;s really silly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmull</author><text>That&#x27;s too bad.<p>I was a minor supporter, in honor of my mother, who got started with coding around 1950.<p>It&#x27;s weird... when I was growing up, the only coders I knew were women -- my mother and a friend of mine whose mother was also some kind of programmer&#x2F;data analyst. Later in life I was a little surprised to find the field was overwhelmingly dominated by men. I guess it&#x27;s not surprising I found this wrong at an intuitive level.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Women Who Code Closing</title><url>https://womenwhocode.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era-women-who-code-closing</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Nifty3929</author><text>&quot;Computer&quot; was a job, not a thing, mostly women. My mom got me into computers at a young age as well. Showed me how to plug DIP chips into a motherboard very carefully, and install an extended memory manager so we could access them. 640k baby, yeah!</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmull</author><text>That&#x27;s too bad.<p>I was a minor supporter, in honor of my mother, who got started with coding around 1950.<p>It&#x27;s weird... when I was growing up, the only coders I knew were women -- my mother and a friend of mine whose mother was also some kind of programmer&#x2F;data analyst. Later in life I was a little surprised to find the field was overwhelmingly dominated by men. I guess it&#x27;s not surprising I found this wrong at an intuitive level.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Women Who Code Closing</title><url>https://womenwhocode.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era-women-who-code-closing</url></story> |
36,888,153 | 36,887,001 | 1 | 2 | 36,885,753 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>12907835202</author><text>Wow TiddlyWiki reminds me of how I got started with web development in all the wrong ways.<p>I told my Dad I wanted to make a website for my favourite computer game so he sat me infront of MS Frontpage and got me started. After I while I got to the point i&#x27;ve made a forum but all the comments where dummy text in static HTML, so my Dad setup PHP on the computer and basically left me to it with a single index.php file and a intro to PHP book. The problem was when I looked things up, I was always asking the wrong questions. So instead of asking, &quot;how can I store comments in a database and then fetch them for displaying?&quot;, I asked &quot;how can I append a new comment to my HTML file?&quot;. I wound up with some crazy (working!) forum where every time a comment was added it would append to a HTML file. Then I wanted a more complex layout I had to figure out how to use a regex to append it in the right place. Then even more crazy regex to handle editing and deleting comments. Then when the file got too big I wanted to add pagination and this took me ages to get right shifting comments between pages when a comment was deleted so there was still 10 per page.<p>Eventually I discovered that databases exist and i&#x27;ve been a web developer for 18 years now.<p>Crazy to think there&#x27;s now a cool use case for an entire app stored in a single .html file. Maybe I wasn&#x27;t as dumb as I thought back then.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids</title><url>https://val.packett.cool/blog/tiddlypwa/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simbolit</author><text>I have to say I don&#x27;t understand this.<p>Tiddlywiki was great because it was a single file, the whole point of tiddlywiki was being a single self-modifying html file. No app needed.<p>And back when it was created it worked fantastically. Then browser vendors closed a number of &#x27;security loopholes&#x27; and TW stopped working as intended.<p>I understand wanting a modern app-style hypertext-note-taking thing.
I don&#x27;t understand why you&#x27;d use TW as a template.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids</title><url>https://val.packett.cool/blog/tiddlypwa/</url></story> |
36,242,223 | 36,242,131 | 1 | 2 | 36,235,779 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hedora</author><text>I did the force hybrid thing for a while (team showed up on the same days).<p>It was awful for productivity. One in-person day per week would have been OK, but the other time in the office was a waste. The only work that got done that day could have been done via a few scheduled 30 minute 1:1’s.<p>If management must force people into the same spot, I’d suggest considering a “Thursday we grab beers or go hiking, etc at noon” schedule.<p>It would be better for morale and productivity, and also cheaper than maintaining an office. They could even give everyone a free coworking account.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dcow</author><text>I feel like this discussion is missing the hybrid part of the policy. 2 days at home for flow state work and 3 at the office to collaborate doesn&#x27;t seem crazy. Maybe it should be 2-3 instead of 3-2 for some people, but in my experience the biggest productivity disruptor is meetings. And you’re only getting two “no meetings” days a week anyway. And the biggest downside from working at home is the hit to socializing and collaboration. You’ll hear anecdotes for days from both sides. A hybrid policy addresses both perspectives.<p>Now if you just want to work for a fully remote company or in a remote role, why not take a job at a place where that’s the philosophy? And on the flip side, if companies want productive employees over the age of 28, and deliberately don’t want to be remote, maybe they should start providing offices instead of desk clusters…</text></item><item><author>bluefishinit</author><text>One of the many benefits of working from home is that writing great software is heavily dependent on getting into a good &quot;flow&quot;. Commuting alone absolutely destroys that for most people. When you work from home you drop so many stages and so much stress out of your morning routine. I find myself being productive within an hour of waking up. That&#x27;s <i>definitely</i> not the case if I&#x27;m forced into an office. Especially if people start chatting me up once I get there (which always happens). Commuting home after a long day is soul destroying as well. It&#x27;s time stolen from my personal life.</text></item><item><author>t43562</author><text>It&#x27;s a pain when someone in my teams meetings is in the office because of all the noise in the background. This makes me laugh because it&#x27;s clear that there&#x27;s a lot of distraction going on there.<p>&quot;Communication&quot; can also mean getting distracted or drawn into irrelevant discussion or being continuously interrupted by people wanting something.<p>I think it&#x27;s quite ridiculous to claim to value personal presence in an age where I&#x27;m working with people all day who are in other countries and other offices - even down the hall - and that&#x27;s all happening by chat and email and teams meetings. I really think it&#x27;s about the way some people manage lazily by looking to see if you&#x27;re typing or not instead of looking at results and understanding the work.<p>It&#x27;s nice to meet people in person once or twice but I don&#x27;t need to see any of them once a week or once a month.<p>I only manage 3 people but I have to work with a lot of people to get things done and have to understand their personalities and points of view and what they&#x27;re doing up to a point. I can&#x27;t come up with a reason why I would want to be able to look over their shoulder.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23753323/google-doesnt-want-employees-working-remotely-anymore</url></story> | <instructions>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>&gt; Now if you just want to work for a fully remote company or in a remote role, why not take a job at a place where that’s the philosophy?<p>Because during COVID a lot of companies started saying that&#x27;s their new philosophy and are reneging on it now that they feel they can, and a lot of us shuffled around during that time. People hired onto remote teams and are getting rug pulled now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dcow</author><text>I feel like this discussion is missing the hybrid part of the policy. 2 days at home for flow state work and 3 at the office to collaborate doesn&#x27;t seem crazy. Maybe it should be 2-3 instead of 3-2 for some people, but in my experience the biggest productivity disruptor is meetings. And you’re only getting two “no meetings” days a week anyway. And the biggest downside from working at home is the hit to socializing and collaboration. You’ll hear anecdotes for days from both sides. A hybrid policy addresses both perspectives.<p>Now if you just want to work for a fully remote company or in a remote role, why not take a job at a place where that’s the philosophy? And on the flip side, if companies want productive employees over the age of 28, and deliberately don’t want to be remote, maybe they should start providing offices instead of desk clusters…</text></item><item><author>bluefishinit</author><text>One of the many benefits of working from home is that writing great software is heavily dependent on getting into a good &quot;flow&quot;. Commuting alone absolutely destroys that for most people. When you work from home you drop so many stages and so much stress out of your morning routine. I find myself being productive within an hour of waking up. That&#x27;s <i>definitely</i> not the case if I&#x27;m forced into an office. Especially if people start chatting me up once I get there (which always happens). Commuting home after a long day is soul destroying as well. It&#x27;s time stolen from my personal life.</text></item><item><author>t43562</author><text>It&#x27;s a pain when someone in my teams meetings is in the office because of all the noise in the background. This makes me laugh because it&#x27;s clear that there&#x27;s a lot of distraction going on there.<p>&quot;Communication&quot; can also mean getting distracted or drawn into irrelevant discussion or being continuously interrupted by people wanting something.<p>I think it&#x27;s quite ridiculous to claim to value personal presence in an age where I&#x27;m working with people all day who are in other countries and other offices - even down the hall - and that&#x27;s all happening by chat and email and teams meetings. I really think it&#x27;s about the way some people manage lazily by looking to see if you&#x27;re typing or not instead of looking at results and understanding the work.<p>It&#x27;s nice to meet people in person once or twice but I don&#x27;t need to see any of them once a week or once a month.<p>I only manage 3 people but I have to work with a lot of people to get things done and have to understand their personalities and points of view and what they&#x27;re doing up to a point. I can&#x27;t come up with a reason why I would want to be able to look over their shoulder.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23753323/google-doesnt-want-employees-working-remotely-anymore</url></story> |
40,251,682 | 40,250,589 | 1 | 3 | 40,247,604 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adamomada</author><text>To be fair, it’s the application developer who requests the application’s permissions and it is possible to release an app without internet permission.<p>I agree that the OS should have a way to override the permission, but it’s not Android itself just giving out internet access by default. It’s more that it’s almost every developer’s default setting when building the app.<p>The best example of no internet permission in an app off the top of my head is Hacker’s Keyboard – and you can understand why the developer chose to avoid it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cma</author><text>They don&#x27;t even allow disabling internet permissions on a flashlight app, the OS is run by an internet ad company so it makes sense.</text></item><item><author>ignoramous</author><text><i>rethinkdns dev here</i><p>&gt; <i>these issues should be addressed in the OS in order to protect all Android users regardless of which apps they use.</i><p>Android&#x27;s <i>paranoid networking</i> has always had an exception for <i>System</i> and <i>OEM</i> apps (which include Google apps). Most such bugs fixes are unlikely to fix that core assumption. Some code refs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;celzero&#x2F;rethink-app&#x2F;issues&#x2F;224">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;celzero&#x2F;rethink-app&#x2F;issues&#x2F;224</a><p>&gt; <i>The leak during tunnel reconnects is harder for us to mitigate in our app. We are still looking for solutions.</i><p>Android supports <i>seamless handover</i> between two TUN devices (on reconfiguration). It is tricky to get it right, but implementable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/blog/dns-traffic-can-leak-outside-the-vpn-tunnel-on-android</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>infthi</author><text>This depends on the firmware used. I am writing this comment from an Oneplus device which allows blocking internet access on a per-app basis - on a stock firmware.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cma</author><text>They don&#x27;t even allow disabling internet permissions on a flashlight app, the OS is run by an internet ad company so it makes sense.</text></item><item><author>ignoramous</author><text><i>rethinkdns dev here</i><p>&gt; <i>these issues should be addressed in the OS in order to protect all Android users regardless of which apps they use.</i><p>Android&#x27;s <i>paranoid networking</i> has always had an exception for <i>System</i> and <i>OEM</i> apps (which include Google apps). Most such bugs fixes are unlikely to fix that core assumption. Some code refs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;celzero&#x2F;rethink-app&#x2F;issues&#x2F;224">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;celzero&#x2F;rethink-app&#x2F;issues&#x2F;224</a><p>&gt; <i>The leak during tunnel reconnects is harder for us to mitigate in our app. We are still looking for solutions.</i><p>Android supports <i>seamless handover</i> between two TUN devices (on reconfiguration). It is tricky to get it right, but implementable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/blog/dns-traffic-can-leak-outside-the-vpn-tunnel-on-android</url></story> |
11,614,763 | 11,613,193 | 1 | 2 | 11,611,028 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lambda</author><text>I think one problem with this discussion is what is encompassed by &quot;tech&quot;. If you just use &quot;tech&quot; as an abbreviation for &quot;technology&quot;, then sure, tech has been driving human civilization for millennia. Agriculture? Buildings? Roads? Language? Writing? Man, those are some technologies that have paid off big time.<p>If by &quot;tech&quot;, you mean &quot;high tech&quot;, well, that encompasses an awful lot of different things, and of course the goalposts are constantly moving as today&#x27;s high-tech becomes tomorrow&#x27;s tech becomes the next day&#x27;s obsolete.<p>If by &quot;tech&quot; you mean computer hardware, software, networking, and networked services, then sure, that&#x27;s a pretty important driver of some other advances, but likewise advances in other fields help to drive this as well. Globalization, shipping, mining, energy, RF engineering, photonics, aerospace, and so on all play into this, and all both benefit from and contribute to the success of computer hardware, software, networking, and networked services. But just because this form of high tech can help with other fields, doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s driving the economy. It may be increasing productivity to a certain degree, but there is an awful lot of the economy which is only minimally influenced by these kinds of things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rm999</author><text>Technology isn&#x27;t just an industry - it&#x27;s a way of doing things and is becoming ubiquitous. When people think &quot;tech&quot; they may think of sharing status updates or searching for a restaurant. What about driverless trucks (transportation), gene sequencing (healthcare), industrial robotics (manufacturing), automated warehouses (retail), solar research (energy), farm-specific yield optimization (agriculture)?<p>This stuff is all being driven from within the tech industry, even when it will benefit &quot;other&quot; industries.</text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>I&#x27;d have to disagree. It may seem like tech is driving the US economy when you&#x27;re standing in Silicon Valley, but it&#x27;s not even in the top 5.[1]<p>Energy, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and agriculture have seen the most growth lately.<p>Of course tech can play a role in all of those industries, but overall tech is not that big a part of the US economy.<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;investing&#x2F;042915&#x2F;5-industries-driving-us-economy.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;investing&#x2F;042915&#x2F;5-indu...</a></text></item><item><author>andersen1488</author><text>These journalists, along with most people outside the tech industry, fail to see the overall picture. 4 out of 5 of the largest companies on earth are tech firms, and none of them were even close to that position 10 years ago. Software runs the world and tech companies are the single largest driver of the modern American economy, making the overall pool of companies that may go belly up at any given time larger. Public consciousness just hasn&#x27;t caught up to that fact yet since it happened so fast.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Tech Bubble Is Bursting</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/this-tech-bubble-is-bursting-1462161662</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zadig</author><text>I think the point the previous commentator was trying to make is the distinction between the &#x27;tech industry&#x27; a la Silicon Valley versus other industries - and it would be unfair to credit the former with any innovation in the latter. Pretty much every industry since we have invented fire has grown through advances in &#x27;tech&#x27;. So what makes a firm a &#x27;tech&#x27; firm - in this day and age it&#x27;s hard to say, and I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s a useful exercise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rm999</author><text>Technology isn&#x27;t just an industry - it&#x27;s a way of doing things and is becoming ubiquitous. When people think &quot;tech&quot; they may think of sharing status updates or searching for a restaurant. What about driverless trucks (transportation), gene sequencing (healthcare), industrial robotics (manufacturing), automated warehouses (retail), solar research (energy), farm-specific yield optimization (agriculture)?<p>This stuff is all being driven from within the tech industry, even when it will benefit &quot;other&quot; industries.</text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>I&#x27;d have to disagree. It may seem like tech is driving the US economy when you&#x27;re standing in Silicon Valley, but it&#x27;s not even in the top 5.[1]<p>Energy, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and agriculture have seen the most growth lately.<p>Of course tech can play a role in all of those industries, but overall tech is not that big a part of the US economy.<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;investing&#x2F;042915&#x2F;5-industries-driving-us-economy.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;investing&#x2F;042915&#x2F;5-indu...</a></text></item><item><author>andersen1488</author><text>These journalists, along with most people outside the tech industry, fail to see the overall picture. 4 out of 5 of the largest companies on earth are tech firms, and none of them were even close to that position 10 years ago. Software runs the world and tech companies are the single largest driver of the modern American economy, making the overall pool of companies that may go belly up at any given time larger. Public consciousness just hasn&#x27;t caught up to that fact yet since it happened so fast.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>This Tech Bubble Is Bursting</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/this-tech-bubble-is-bursting-1462161662</url></story> |
31,099,538 | 31,094,547 | 1 | 2 | 31,066,656 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>radicality</author><text>If you are on Mac, open up your Messages and go to any thread with some historical messages. Now scroll up to load past messages, and do that a few times. How slow is that for you?<p>For me, when I scroll up to load historical data, it takes always multiple _seconds_. This is on the newest, highest specced m1 macbook. What the hell is it doing in that time? Multiple seconds to do read-only queries a &lt;100MB sqlite DB (and sqlite can be incredibly fast), on an SSD with &gt;5GB&#x2F;s read speeds, with 64GB of ram (where the whole sqlite can&#x2F;should be loaded into memory), to render a blue bubble with some text inside.<p>What is Messages doing, and why is it so bad and inefficient. I&#x27;m certain the local sqlite db has the data I need because the above bothered me so much i wrote some scripts to read my historical chats from the cli. Quality of Apple software is certainly not increasing but going downhill, you see that across many of their apps.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Analyzing iMessage with SQL</title><url>https://arctype.com/blog/search-imessage/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Must be just me or an American thing, but imessage isn&#x27;t used nearly as much here; probably because Android takes up 80% market share, so people stick to cross-OS applications like Whatsapp.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Analyzing iMessage with SQL</title><url>https://arctype.com/blog/search-imessage/</url></story> |
13,417,536 | 13,417,547 | 1 | 2 | 13,417,307 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>antr</author><text>It has been taken down, but there is a mirror in Bitbucket: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;prestocore-fan&#x2F;presto&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;prestocore-fan&#x2F;presto&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Opera 12.15 source code</title><url>https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/issues/1238</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>captainmuon</author><text>While I doubt this could be spun into a usable browser - legal issues aside, a lot has changed on the modern web, and the opera devs probably abandoned the old engine for a reason - I still greatly enjoy this leak. Even just out of defiance. I am a very defiant person ;-). I also long for the days where a browser fit on a floppy, and a small team could implement one from scratch.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Opera 12.15 source code</title><url>https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/issues/1238</url></story> |
12,720,178 | 12,719,739 | 1 | 2 | 12,718,583 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>woah</author><text>You think it&#x27;s downvoted because it mentions Angular? Baseless complaining. JSX is a breath of fresh air after all the templating languages that force you to learn a crippled pseudolang. What&#x27;s next? For loops? Moving every feature that already exists in JavaScript into JSX with some arbitrary additional syntax? What&#x27;s the point? It&#x27;s already very easy to do conditionals with &amp;&amp; or ternaries.</text><parent_chain><item><author>maaaats</author><text>I like how the <i>if</i> proposal is down voted, probably because it&#x27;s mentioning Angular. Conditional rendering in React is not always very clean. Most codebases end up resorting with something similar to this in a container to show a spinner while data is loading and rendering it when done.<p>&lt;ConditionalSpinner renderIf={data}&gt;&lt;PersonRenderer person={data.person} &#x2F;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;ConditionalSpinner&gt;<p>Problem is that the inner component will still be parsed and fail with cannot read property person of undefined. Yes, you can do this with a simple condition in your render function, but then it&#x27;s not declarative any more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What should go into JSX 2.0?</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/jsx/issues/65</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>biscarch</author><text>Loading (and error, etc) state should be the responsibility of the component doing the content rendering, not the parent. So the ConditionalSpinner component:<p><pre><code> &lt;ConditionalSpinner renderIf={data}&gt;&lt;PersonRenderer person={data.person} &#x2F;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;ConditionalSpinner&gt;
</code></pre>
Could be written better as:<p><pre><code> &lt;PersonRenderer person={data.person} &#x2F;&gt;
</code></pre>
Where PersonRenderer would be defined as such:<p><pre><code> class PersonRenderer extends Component {
render() {
if(this.props.person) {
return &lt;div&gt;personcontent&lt;&#x2F;div&gt;
}
return &lt;LoadingIndicator&#x2F;&gt;
}
}
</code></pre>
Given this, I&#x27;m still not sure how an If &quot;component&quot; would be achieved (and further, you&#x27;d need an Else or a Switch component anyway if going down this route). Maybe you could explain the benefits of such a path?</text><parent_chain><item><author>maaaats</author><text>I like how the <i>if</i> proposal is down voted, probably because it&#x27;s mentioning Angular. Conditional rendering in React is not always very clean. Most codebases end up resorting with something similar to this in a container to show a spinner while data is loading and rendering it when done.<p>&lt;ConditionalSpinner renderIf={data}&gt;&lt;PersonRenderer person={data.person} &#x2F;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;ConditionalSpinner&gt;<p>Problem is that the inner component will still be parsed and fail with cannot read property person of undefined. Yes, you can do this with a simple condition in your render function, but then it&#x27;s not declarative any more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What should go into JSX 2.0?</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/jsx/issues/65</url></story> |
16,944,726 | 16,944,656 | 1 | 2 | 16,944,292 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acdha</author><text>Here’s what that sounds like when an innocent person does it: “I’m so sorry, your bag looked just like mine and I didn’t notice it until I heated it up. Can I buy you lunch?”<p>Someone who has to be confronted is just hoping you’ll believe their excuse because that’s worked in the past.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>Mistakes happen. There are all sorts of ways you could accidentally eat someone else&#x27;s lunch, and having a &#x27;zero tolerance&#x27; policy is a good way to end up firing an innocent person.</text></item><item><author>seattle_spring</author><text>Kind of orthogonal to the story, but anyone who steals lunch or food from a co-worker should be fired immediately. There&#x27;s a 0% chance that someone who steals others&#x27; stuff is a good, honest person in other parts of their life.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (2016)</title><url>http://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/a-coworker-stole-my-spicy-food-got-sick-and-is-blaming-me.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>FPGAhacker</author><text>Accidentally take, sure. Accidentally consume? Maybe one bite. Unless there were some odd circumstances, like mental deficiency, or nearly identical meals, beyond one bite is very difficult to believe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>Mistakes happen. There are all sorts of ways you could accidentally eat someone else&#x27;s lunch, and having a &#x27;zero tolerance&#x27; policy is a good way to end up firing an innocent person.</text></item><item><author>seattle_spring</author><text>Kind of orthogonal to the story, but anyone who steals lunch or food from a co-worker should be fired immediately. There&#x27;s a 0% chance that someone who steals others&#x27; stuff is a good, honest person in other parts of their life.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (2016)</title><url>http://www.askamanager.org/2016/07/a-coworker-stole-my-spicy-food-got-sick-and-is-blaming-me.html</url></story> |
11,420,906 | 11,420,717 | 1 | 3 | 11,420,076 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MarkSweep</author><text>I used the .NET wrappers for Dokan to write a read only version of ZFS in C#.[1] It was pretty easy to get things to get started with.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AustinWise&#x2F;ZfsSharp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AustinWise&#x2F;ZfsSharp</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows</title><url>http://dokan-dev.github.io/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hobarrera</author><text>TLDR: FUSE for windows.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows</title><url>http://dokan-dev.github.io/</url></story> |
13,636,678 | 13,633,001 | 1 | 2 | 13,629,344 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mugsie</author><text>Sure, gerrit has a learning curve.<p>When you end up using it for a long time, going back to pull requests is awful.<p>Its basic things:<p>- history of a PR - I cannot see the diff of last version of the patch and latest<p>- dependant changes - I need to do some work that depends on a patch someone else is working on. This can&#x27;t be done in github.<p>- clean history - no &quot;added tests&quot;, &quot;fixed docs typo&quot; etc commits<p>I learnt recently that most people don&#x27;t use git-review[0] - and yeah, if you are manually doing the &quot;git push gerrit ref&#x2F;for&#x2F;master&quot; crap, it&#x27;s really annoying. but git review and repo were written to help that.<p>0 - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.openstack.org&#x2F;infra&#x2F;git-review&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.openstack.org&#x2F;infra&#x2F;git-review&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>ajdlinux</author><text>Everyone I know who has had to use Gerrit has <i>absolutely, utterly despised</i> it.<p>Until I got a job working as a kernel developer I had never had to use emailed patches. It simply isn&#x27;t an &quot;absolutely necessary&quot; skill for a good developer these days.<p>The kernel community is too attached to email patch submission for it to ever move away, and to be fair, email does have the benefit of being scalable and matches our decentralised workflow much better than any of the current alternatives.<p>But it&#x27;s still not <i>good</i>. There are plenty of ways to screw up email threading or forget conventions on labelling patchset versions or whatever (this happens <i>all the time</i>). You have to rely on external tools such as Patchwork to provide a bare minimum of state-tracking. There&#x27;s not much by way of generic CI tooling that&#x27;s designed with email in mind (I&#x27;m working on this!). Doing code review from an email client definitely has its benefits, but it&#x27;s also limiting - web-based code review tools have much more scope for experimenting with better ways of presenting comments.<p>I can&#x27;t see the Linux kernel ever moving away from email, and honestly it&#x27;s not too bad once you&#x27;ve figured out your workflow, but I would like to see kernel <i>hackers</i> thinking about what it is that the kernel community loves so much about email compared to GitHub and other centralised services. It <i>is</i> disappointing to see other large open source projects becoming incredibly dependent on a for-profit proprietary software company that may well not survive the next few years. How can we do proper decentralised version control and development <i>better</i>?</text></item><item><author>ycmbntrthrwaway</author><text>Centralizing around proprietary software is not a good idea generally.<p>Git is distributed, so when GitHub goes down, every developer has a backup of entire history. However, issues are lost forever. Python does not use &quot;issues&quot; feature for good.<p>One way to avoid email without centralization is setting up Gerrit. That is how Ring [1] and LineageOS (former CyanogenMod) [2] manage their &quot;pull requests&quot;.<p>Still, being able to submit patches via email is an absolutely necessary skill for everyone who considers himself a hacker. Lack of it makes you unable to contribute to many great projects, such as all suckless [3] projects and Linux itself.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>laurentdc</author><text>Yes!<p>I quite like the idea of &quot;centralizing&quot; development on GitHub, or similar services. It makes it much easier for everyone to fork, test, make a pull request, merge, etc..<p>For example, one reason why I gave up contributing to OpenWrt was their absolutely legacy contribution system [1], which required devs to submit code diff patches via email (good luck not messing up the formatting with a modern client) on a mailing list. It took me an hour to submit a patch for three lines of code. It seems like Python wasn&#x27;t much different. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingapatch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingap...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python moved to GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rando832</author><text>I used gerrit and did not utterly despised it. Hi.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajdlinux</author><text>Everyone I know who has had to use Gerrit has <i>absolutely, utterly despised</i> it.<p>Until I got a job working as a kernel developer I had never had to use emailed patches. It simply isn&#x27;t an &quot;absolutely necessary&quot; skill for a good developer these days.<p>The kernel community is too attached to email patch submission for it to ever move away, and to be fair, email does have the benefit of being scalable and matches our decentralised workflow much better than any of the current alternatives.<p>But it&#x27;s still not <i>good</i>. There are plenty of ways to screw up email threading or forget conventions on labelling patchset versions or whatever (this happens <i>all the time</i>). You have to rely on external tools such as Patchwork to provide a bare minimum of state-tracking. There&#x27;s not much by way of generic CI tooling that&#x27;s designed with email in mind (I&#x27;m working on this!). Doing code review from an email client definitely has its benefits, but it&#x27;s also limiting - web-based code review tools have much more scope for experimenting with better ways of presenting comments.<p>I can&#x27;t see the Linux kernel ever moving away from email, and honestly it&#x27;s not too bad once you&#x27;ve figured out your workflow, but I would like to see kernel <i>hackers</i> thinking about what it is that the kernel community loves so much about email compared to GitHub and other centralised services. It <i>is</i> disappointing to see other large open source projects becoming incredibly dependent on a for-profit proprietary software company that may well not survive the next few years. How can we do proper decentralised version control and development <i>better</i>?</text></item><item><author>ycmbntrthrwaway</author><text>Centralizing around proprietary software is not a good idea generally.<p>Git is distributed, so when GitHub goes down, every developer has a backup of entire history. However, issues are lost forever. Python does not use &quot;issues&quot; feature for good.<p>One way to avoid email without centralization is setting up Gerrit. That is how Ring [1] and LineageOS (former CyanogenMod) [2] manage their &quot;pull requests&quot;.<p>Still, being able to submit patches via email is an absolutely necessary skill for everyone who considers himself a hacker. Lack of it makes you unable to contribute to many great projects, such as all suckless [3] projects and Linux itself.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>laurentdc</author><text>Yes!<p>I quite like the idea of &quot;centralizing&quot; development on GitHub, or similar services. It makes it much easier for everyone to fork, test, make a pull request, merge, etc..<p>For example, one reason why I gave up contributing to OpenWrt was their absolutely legacy contribution system [1], which required devs to submit code diff patches via email (good luck not messing up the formatting with a modern client) on a mailing list. It took me an hour to submit a patch for three lines of code. It seems like Python wasn&#x27;t much different. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingapatch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingap...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Python moved to GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython</url></story> |
4,081,959 | 4,080,961 | 1 | 2 | 4,079,393 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>javajosh</author><text><i>&#62;So you see this border interrogation as part of a systematic policy to intimidate developers entering the United States with expertise in cryptographic dev? Gotta be honest, that seems like a wild and illogical extrapolation to me based on this anecdotal story.</i><p>This is not the only inference you can make. Something that I've noticed about domestic law-enforcement, which I think successfully extrapolates and pertains to the DHS and TSA, is that <i>outlying behavior is discouraged</i>, especially outlying behavior associated with volatile keywords. How many times have I done something unusual, and stopped when the police come by because I just don't know if it's legal or not, and I don't want to get hassled?!<p>The law is so extensive and arcane that enforcement relies almost entirely on precedent and patterns rather than direct application, especially when dealing with rarer violations.<p>The result is systematic harassment with no end-game required. It's a policy that kind of sneaks up on institutions as big as the US Govt: discourage interesting, dissenting behavior; encourage boring, mainstream behavior. It doesn't require passing a law - it's an emergent behavior that only requires extra scrutiny of behavior that is outside the experience of the enforcer. This will tend to get worse with scale and the application of technology because a) more people are scrutinized and b) more of their life will be scrutinized, increasing the risk of finding outlying behavioral points.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gavinlynch</author><text>"But when the software could be used closer to home, they target developers like they are one step away from terrorists. The hypocrisy is... challenging"<p>So you see this border interrogation as part of a systematic policy to intimidate developers entering the United States with expertise in cryptographic dev? Gotta be honest, that seems like a wild and illogical extrapolation to me based on this anecdotal story. So the end game of the United States government is what exactly, in this effort? To keep people with cryptographic talent outside of the US?<p>1) Why? I presume your point is that the government is attempting in a very, very, very round-about way to stifle free speech? Please inform me if this is not your point, I don't want to put words in your mouth.<p>2) What would that accomplish. We live in an era of instant communication and transportation of software. Developers can work on products from anywhere in the globe. If this man was denied entry to the United States, what is stopping him from simply working for his company from abroad? The answer: nothing.<p>It would serve pretty much zero purpose to run a campaign of intimidation against an incredibly small subset of the developer population... Programmers with cryptographic expertise who frequently travel in and outside of the United States... I don't get it. What about all of those with crypto experience who are already in the US and don't travel. Aren't they a threat? Are they being targeted? Where are their stories?<p>Doesn't the government, when they are looking to either break or make these same crypto software, draw from the same talent pool as private industry here in America? Why would they run that talent out of town?<p>If the US government wanted to suppress cryptographic research or otherwise circumvent it in an effort to subvert Free Speech, don't you think there are more precise and non-haphazard-and-idiotic ways of doing it?<p>This goes against the general sentiment of comments I've seen in this article, but I just have to say it. I think the idea is ridiculous and above all, completely inefficient for the goals everyone is ascribing to the border agents and the government here.<p>Logic doesn't really back this up. I can't imagine the point of this. I am not naive enough to think the government doesn't do some shady stuff, but I simply don't see the point and don't see this as an effective tool in whatever their war on developers is supposed to be.</text></item><item><author>mindstab</author><text>I love the inherent schizophrenia in the US political system. They are so in love with anti censorship technologies when employed against countries they don't like, like in China or Arab Spring, even going so far as to help develop the tech (tor) or ask the maintainers for special considerations (the US gov asked twitter to alter its maintenance schedule for Arab spring). But when the software could be used closer to home, they target developers like they are one step away from terrorists. The hypocrisy is... challenging</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Encrypted Chat Developer Detained, Interrogated at US Border</title><url>http://www.zeropaid.com/news/101174/claim-encrypted-chat-developer-detained-interrogated-at-us-border/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>halvsjur</author><text>From the Wikipedia page on Jacob Appelbaum:<p>&#62; He has worked for Greenpeace and has volunteered for the Ruckus Society and the Rainforest Action Network<p>&#62; Appelbaum is known for representing Wikileaks at the 2010 Hope conference.<p>The US government has a long and well documented history of systematically harassing political dissidents.<p>Edit: my bad, skimmed the article and thought it was Appelbaum who was detained.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gavinlynch</author><text>"But when the software could be used closer to home, they target developers like they are one step away from terrorists. The hypocrisy is... challenging"<p>So you see this border interrogation as part of a systematic policy to intimidate developers entering the United States with expertise in cryptographic dev? Gotta be honest, that seems like a wild and illogical extrapolation to me based on this anecdotal story. So the end game of the United States government is what exactly, in this effort? To keep people with cryptographic talent outside of the US?<p>1) Why? I presume your point is that the government is attempting in a very, very, very round-about way to stifle free speech? Please inform me if this is not your point, I don't want to put words in your mouth.<p>2) What would that accomplish. We live in an era of instant communication and transportation of software. Developers can work on products from anywhere in the globe. If this man was denied entry to the United States, what is stopping him from simply working for his company from abroad? The answer: nothing.<p>It would serve pretty much zero purpose to run a campaign of intimidation against an incredibly small subset of the developer population... Programmers with cryptographic expertise who frequently travel in and outside of the United States... I don't get it. What about all of those with crypto experience who are already in the US and don't travel. Aren't they a threat? Are they being targeted? Where are their stories?<p>Doesn't the government, when they are looking to either break or make these same crypto software, draw from the same talent pool as private industry here in America? Why would they run that talent out of town?<p>If the US government wanted to suppress cryptographic research or otherwise circumvent it in an effort to subvert Free Speech, don't you think there are more precise and non-haphazard-and-idiotic ways of doing it?<p>This goes against the general sentiment of comments I've seen in this article, but I just have to say it. I think the idea is ridiculous and above all, completely inefficient for the goals everyone is ascribing to the border agents and the government here.<p>Logic doesn't really back this up. I can't imagine the point of this. I am not naive enough to think the government doesn't do some shady stuff, but I simply don't see the point and don't see this as an effective tool in whatever their war on developers is supposed to be.</text></item><item><author>mindstab</author><text>I love the inherent schizophrenia in the US political system. They are so in love with anti censorship technologies when employed against countries they don't like, like in China or Arab Spring, even going so far as to help develop the tech (tor) or ask the maintainers for special considerations (the US gov asked twitter to alter its maintenance schedule for Arab spring). But when the software could be used closer to home, they target developers like they are one step away from terrorists. The hypocrisy is... challenging</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Encrypted Chat Developer Detained, Interrogated at US Border</title><url>http://www.zeropaid.com/news/101174/claim-encrypted-chat-developer-detained-interrogated-at-us-border/</url></story> |
11,785,966 | 11,785,382 | 1 | 2 | 11,785,078 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bballer</author><text>Just to add to the others comments, get NoScript and you can control exactly who gets to run Javascript at all times. It makes the internet so much safer and you will be blown away at how many domains some sites are trying to run scripts from.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sdoering</author><text>I know a lot of AdBlocking Tools&#x2F;List that do not block Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics by default.<p>Do you know the ones that do?</text></item><item><author>eknkc</author><text>Surprised they weren&#x27;t doing that already. Facebook has javascript injected on a lot of sites, always assumed that they&#x27;d collect a shit ton of data whether you are a user or not.<p>Also, all ad blockers block google analytics like tracking services but social plugins are generally opt in. I guess they should be blocked by default too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-wants-to-help-sell-every-ad-on-the-web-1464321603</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flavor8</author><text>Ghostery, uBlock Origin. Running both in combination seems to get most bugs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sdoering</author><text>I know a lot of AdBlocking Tools&#x2F;List that do not block Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics by default.<p>Do you know the ones that do?</text></item><item><author>eknkc</author><text>Surprised they weren&#x27;t doing that already. Facebook has javascript injected on a lot of sites, always assumed that they&#x27;d collect a shit ton of data whether you are a user or not.<p>Also, all ad blockers block google analytics like tracking services but social plugins are generally opt in. I guess they should be blocked by default too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-wants-to-help-sell-every-ad-on-the-web-1464321603</url></story> |
30,633,846 | 30,633,549 | 1 | 3 | 30,631,943 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Diggsey</author><text>Nobody&#x27;s mentioned what is IMO the main benefit of an intrusive data-structure: items within the data-structure can belong to multiple containers.<p>This allows you to locate an item using more than one criteria: for example, you could store blocks of free memory in two intrusive lists, one sorted by size and one by location. This would allow you to first locate eg. the largest memory block, and then quickly locate blocks adjacent to that one in memory.<p>With non-intrusive data-structures this is not possible, because while you can go from an iterator -&gt; the item pointed to by the iterator, there is no way to efficiently do the reverse. This is possible in an intrusive data-structure because the iterator and the item itself are the same thing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bee_rider</author><text>This is really part of the intro, but I wonder if someone knows anyway:<p>My very naive first guess at making a generic linked list would be, of course, a struct with a &#x27;next,&#x27; &#x27;prev,&#x27; and the void pointer to the payload (What can I say? At some point my brain was damaged by OO languages). I guess their method of instead defining a struct, embedding the linked list into it, and then using macros would probably interact more nicely with the type system.<p>Are there other benefits, though? I vaguely suspect their system might tend to prod users toward laying out their memory more nicely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toward a better list iterator for the Linux kernel</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/887097/7ca69c6bfa3584c0/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>loeg</author><text>&gt; Are there other benefits, though?<p>Yes; you&#x27;re avoiding an extra pointer indirection between list navigation and element access, which is usually going to be a cache miss. Also if you have a pointer to an element of an intrusive list, you can cheaply navigate to the next element; this wouldn&#x27;t work with your external list scheme (you&#x27;d need to maintain a separate list pointer instead).</text><parent_chain><item><author>bee_rider</author><text>This is really part of the intro, but I wonder if someone knows anyway:<p>My very naive first guess at making a generic linked list would be, of course, a struct with a &#x27;next,&#x27; &#x27;prev,&#x27; and the void pointer to the payload (What can I say? At some point my brain was damaged by OO languages). I guess their method of instead defining a struct, embedding the linked list into it, and then using macros would probably interact more nicely with the type system.<p>Are there other benefits, though? I vaguely suspect their system might tend to prod users toward laying out their memory more nicely.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Toward a better list iterator for the Linux kernel</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/887097/7ca69c6bfa3584c0/</url></story> |
4,037,526 | 4,037,429 | 1 | 2 | 4,037,138 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kisstheblade</author><text>What an amazing amount of money. Apparently they have got $70m+ in total.
Our small/mid sized company with about 20 employees could operate for about 50 years with that amount of cash...<p>An apparently they already pay for themselves:
"“Business is fantastic,” 10gen President Max Schireson told me. “We keep outperforming every goal that we set for ourselves and the market just feels like it’s huge.” In fact, he said, new sales people pay for themselves almost immediately upon joining the company."<p>So I wonder what they are going to do with that huge pile of cash? R&#38;D for a single DB surely can't be that expensive (or at least it would be difficult to get that many people to suddenly work on productive things that would actually improve the product and not just make it bloatware).<p>Apparently the hype works, for a DB that is about scaling but doesn't scale yet? "Just another $100m and we'll get there"?<p>How many people actually need a DB that "scales" better than mysql/postgres which are much easier to use and better supported and understood?<p>" Among other things, it has been criticized for being rather difficult to manage at scale. This is somewhat ironic, as scalability, along with the flexibility that comes with being schemaless, is among the driving factors behind the NoSQL movement. One would expect the most-popular of the bunch to scale with ease."</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>With $42M more, 10gen wants to take MongoDB mainstream</title><url>http://gigaom.com/cloud/with-42m-more-10gen-wants-to-take-mongodb-mainstream/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zzzeek</author><text>Now is the time to buy stock in mug manufacturers, seeing as I'm already awash in MongoDB mugs everywhere think how many more $42M can buy....</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>With $42M more, 10gen wants to take MongoDB mainstream</title><url>http://gigaom.com/cloud/with-42m-more-10gen-wants-to-take-mongodb-mainstream/</url></story> |
20,658,035 | 20,657,673 | 1 | 2 | 20,656,929 | 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>apo</author><text>The title is misleading. The full title is:<p>&gt; Researchers at Rice University developed a method to convert heat into light that could boost solar efficiency from 22% to 80%<p>The conditional tense signals that the researchers didn&#x27;t actually do so, but that the study might enable it. The article re-iterates that this is speculation:<p>&gt; The implications of their discovery are significant. Research from Chloe Doiron, a Rice graduate student, revealed that 20% of industrial energy consumption is wasted through heat. It could also mean an increase in the efficiency of solar cells, which are currently only 22% efficient at their peak. Recycling the thermal energy from solar cells using carbon nanotube technology could increase the efficiency to 80% according to the researchers. ...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rice University researchers propose a way to boost solar efficiency</title><url>https://polyarch.co/rice-university-research-heat-into-light/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amluto</author><text>As far as I can tell, this is functionally just a coating with low emittance in the IR outside a narrow band. A matched PV device that is kept cool can, in principle, approach the Carnot efficiency for the temperature difference between the emitter and the PV junction. If the emitter is the sun, then the source temperature is very high and the Carnot efficiency isn’t a major limit. If the source is a solar panel, I’m having a hard time seeing how this is useful.<p>I can see this being somewhat useful as a no-moving-parts heat engine for something like a solar concentrator, but there’s another relevant thermodynamic limit: even if this magic material has emissivity 1, it won’t radiate at a greater power per unit area than the blackbody spectrum predicts. At non-crazy temperatures, this is not very high, which will limit output for small things like solar concentrator targets.<p>So I can see this being useful to convert waste industrial heat, or maybe as a bottoming engine for a combined cycle plant, but I am having trouble understanding how it could be useful for solar.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rice University researchers propose a way to boost solar efficiency</title><url>https://polyarch.co/rice-university-research-heat-into-light/</url></story> |
16,369,110 | 16,369,204 | 1 | 2 | 16,365,209 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>srmatto</author><text>The US is in dismal shape compared to the UK and now Australia--And its pretty infuriating.<p>Although from what I understand on March 16th, 2018 the US will at least get same-day ACH. However, it will still be batch processed only two times each day--During banking hours no less!
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nacha.org&#x2F;rules&#x2F;same-day-ach-moving-payments-faster-phase-3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nacha.org&#x2F;rules&#x2F;same-day-ach-moving-payments-fas...</a><p>There is a NPR planet money on why the US has such an archaic system:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;229224964&#x2F;episode-489-the-invisible-plumbing-of-our-economy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;229224964&#x2F;epis...</a><p>Their hypothesis? Unsurprisingly, perverse incentives. Wire transfers in the US, which usually carry a high fee ($30) are very lucrative for banks so they don&#x27;t have much interest in eliminating the need for wire transfers at the moment, but it appeared that there was growing interest in moving to real-time eventually.</text><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>Even before this, Australia still had direct person-to-person transfers. They&#x27;d just take a day, and required an account number and name.<p>I&#x27;ve written about this before, but American is terribly far behind on this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;penguindreams.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-american-banking-system-is-still-in-the-1990s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;penguindreams.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-american-banking-system-i...</a><p>The closest thing we have in the US is Zelle, which is not a government mandated standard (like ACH) but a private standard created by banks and which only a fraction of banks in the US currently support.<p>And of course there are services like Venmo&#x2F;Paypal, but these are private opt-in services, where as most other countries have this system mandated and fee-free between banks via their government reserve banks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australia’s new real-time banking payments platform</title><url>https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australias-new-payments-platform-goes-live-485045</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>idonotknowwhy</author><text>Aussie here. I never knew that the U.S lacked this. We&#x27;ve had this feature for decades.
Within the same bank, it&#x27;s instant. Inter-bank it can happen the same day depending on the banks involved and when they run their batch processing.
I always considered this a primitive system for not being instant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>Even before this, Australia still had direct person-to-person transfers. They&#x27;d just take a day, and required an account number and name.<p>I&#x27;ve written about this before, but American is terribly far behind on this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;penguindreams.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-american-banking-system-is-still-in-the-1990s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;penguindreams.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-american-banking-system-i...</a><p>The closest thing we have in the US is Zelle, which is not a government mandated standard (like ACH) but a private standard created by banks and which only a fraction of banks in the US currently support.<p>And of course there are services like Venmo&#x2F;Paypal, but these are private opt-in services, where as most other countries have this system mandated and fee-free between banks via their government reserve banks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australia’s new real-time banking payments platform</title><url>https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australias-new-payments-platform-goes-live-485045</url></story> |
21,470,251 | 21,468,823 | 1 | 3 | 21,465,446 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vannevar</author><text>It&#x27;s not part of the model because, if you&#x27;re studying how wealth gets distributed rather than how it is produced, it doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>I&#x27;m guessing that your disquiet at this notion comes from the possibility that everyone is creating their own wealth, and to some extent that is no doubt true. But if you start with the simplifying assumption that everyone&#x27;s wealth creation ability is equal, and you just look at distribution, and you find that your model pretty accurately reproduces the real-world distribution of wealth, it&#x27;s at least some evidence that wealth-creation ability is not that different from person to person, and what&#x27;s driving inequality is the distribution mechanism.<p>Since virtually all human traits follow a Gaussian distribution, it seems like whatever the wealth-building factor is, it would also follow a Gaussian distribution. But wealth follows more of a power law distribution. You never encounter anyone 1000 times taller than average, but there are many people 1000 times wealthier than average. This casts some doubt that wealth accumulation is down to individual human ability.<p>Couple that with the micro-economic observation that someone with 1 million dollars is astronomically more likely to make another million dollars than someone with 100 dollars, even if the two people are otherwise identical, and it seems pretty unlikely that wealth creation has much to do with the distribution we see.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SiVal</author><text>There is a popular political perspective that rules on campus these days that treats wealth as something that just magically exists and is simply &quot;redistributed&quot; by one means or another like, say, a phase change in physics where no magnetism&#x2F;charge&#x2F;energy&#x2F;etc. is ever created or consumed. I waited for a point in their model where people actually produced wealth and consumed it, made something or ate it, in addition to redistributing it. Not part of the model.<p>And the idea that things have a &quot;true&quot; value, the one put on them by enlightened campus philosophers, so a transaction not controlled by the wise and just will have a winner and a loser. I waited for the idea that I, shoeless but with ten loaves of bread, and you, hungry but with ten pairs of shoes, might reasonably value bread and shoes differently and BOTH win from the &quot;redistribution&quot; of bread and shoes, but it was not part of the model.<p>But their model (which they claim &quot;reproduces inequality with unprecedented accuracy&quot;) could also (they claim) be fitted to a variety of different observed power law distributions when its parameters were adjusted, and the more parameters, the better the fit became. Yes, and they could probably get their model to describe the frequency distribution of English vocabulary (also a power law), with remarkable accuracy which probably does say something about economics but maybe not as much as they seem to think.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Inequality Inevitable?</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chongli</author><text>The Earth has finite resources: finite land, finite minerals, finite water, finite energy. When people accumulate vast amounts of wealth, they place a large portion of these finite resources under their own control.<p>If we allow people and families to accumulate wealth indefinitely, it’s not hard to imagine a future whereby a very small elite control a vast majority of the resources. In this future, people can still create wealth by mixing their labour with raw resources... as long as they can afford to pay the rent to the rentier class.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SiVal</author><text>There is a popular political perspective that rules on campus these days that treats wealth as something that just magically exists and is simply &quot;redistributed&quot; by one means or another like, say, a phase change in physics where no magnetism&#x2F;charge&#x2F;energy&#x2F;etc. is ever created or consumed. I waited for a point in their model where people actually produced wealth and consumed it, made something or ate it, in addition to redistributing it. Not part of the model.<p>And the idea that things have a &quot;true&quot; value, the one put on them by enlightened campus philosophers, so a transaction not controlled by the wise and just will have a winner and a loser. I waited for the idea that I, shoeless but with ten loaves of bread, and you, hungry but with ten pairs of shoes, might reasonably value bread and shoes differently and BOTH win from the &quot;redistribution&quot; of bread and shoes, but it was not part of the model.<p>But their model (which they claim &quot;reproduces inequality with unprecedented accuracy&quot;) could also (they claim) be fitted to a variety of different observed power law distributions when its parameters were adjusted, and the more parameters, the better the fit became. Yes, and they could probably get their model to describe the frequency distribution of English vocabulary (also a power law), with remarkable accuracy which probably does say something about economics but maybe not as much as they seem to think.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is Inequality Inevitable?</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/</url></story> |
4,649,121 | 4,649,191 | 1 | 2 | 4,648,907 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>staticfish</author><text>There seems to have been an influx of these sort of posts on HN recently.<p>To be honest, engineers are just people. A wide sample of folks from different backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, educational-backgrounds, etc etc.<p>This wildcard lumping of people into various categories has got to stop. It's ridiculous to say the least, and really does the profession harm when you separate the engineer from the <i>individual</i> in question.<p>People are different.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asshole Driven Development</title><url>http://scottberkun.com/2007/asshole-driven-development/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wglb</author><text>The article missed CADT: <a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Asshole Driven Development</title><url>http://scottberkun.com/2007/asshole-driven-development/</url></story> |
9,001,794 | 9,001,644 | 1 | 2 | 9,001,416 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cbd1984</author><text>Reminds me of the Klondike Big Inch promotion Quaker Oats ran in the 1950s:<p><a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-07-07/features/8702190736_1_quaker-oats-yukon-territory-cereals" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.chicagotribune.com&#x2F;1987-07-07&#x2F;features&#x2F;87021...</a><p>Here&#x27;s what happened:<p>&gt; Ronald Bottrell, my source at Quaker Oats, said that in the early 1960s, all the land reverted to Canadian-government ownership. The reason: nonpayment of taxes.<p>&gt; ``The individuals who had received the deeds in the cereal boxes had become the owners of the land,`` Bottrell said. ``Obviously, none of them ever paid taxes on it. So the ownership of the land went back to Canada. The promotion was long over, anyway.``<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Big_Inch_Land_Promotion" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Klondike_Big_Inch_Land_Promotio...</a><p>More:<p>&gt; Although the deeds were a campaign promotion, many people took ownership of the land seriously. One man wrote Quaker Oats to announce that he had collected 10,800 deeds and was now the owner of 75 square feet of land. Another man, accused of murdering his wife, used his deeds to secure the services of a defense lawyer. The lawyer asked to be excused from the case when he learned the land consisted of 1,000 inches.<p><a href="http://articles.dailypress.com/2000-04-04/features/0004030133_1_quaker-oats-deeds-yukon-territory" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.dailypress.com&#x2F;2000-04-04&#x2F;features&#x2F;000403013...</a><p><a href="http://articles.mcall.com/2008-04-29/features/4064347_1_yukon-act-quaker-oats-yukon-territory" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.mcall.com&#x2F;2008-04-29&#x2F;features&#x2F;4064347_1_yuko...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cards Against Humanity’s Private Island</title><url>http://cah.tumblr.com/post/110099027175/cards-against-humanitys-private-island-by-jenn</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>Laphroaig does something like this for their fan club. Sign up and you get a plot of land for life on their grounds. For rent they will pay you a dram whisky annually, but you have to go collect it in person. They are located on the Isle of Isley off the coast of Scotland, so unfortunately I haven&#x27;t been able to collect my rent yet. Hopefully someday.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cards Against Humanity’s Private Island</title><url>http://cah.tumblr.com/post/110099027175/cards-against-humanitys-private-island-by-jenn</url></story> |
33,987,464 | 33,987,496 | 1 | 3 | 33,986,406 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>drewg123</author><text>* Use any voice assistant and choose to make it default *<p>I would so love to have Google Assistant rather than Siri on my iPhone. GA is so much better hands-free &#x2F; eyes-free. Being able to say &quot;OK Google ....&quot; when driving, cooking, working out, etc and being able to get a decent answer is something I really miss from my Pixel days. It is so frustrating when Siri just says &quot;here is what I found on the web&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Gareth321</author><text>One by one, the rumours indicate that Apple will be complying with each and every requirement under the EU Digital Markets Act. These include:<p>* Install any software<p>* Install any App Store and choose to make it default<p>* Use third party payment providers and choose to make them default<p>* Use any voice assistant and choose to make it default<p>* Use any browser and browser engine and choose to make it default<p>* Use any messaging app and choose to make it default<p>* Make core messaging functionality interoperable. They lay out concrete examples like file transfer<p>* Use existing hardware and software features without competitive prejudice. E.g. NFC<p>* Not preference their services. This includes CTAs in settings to encourage users to subscribe to Gatekeeper services, and ranking their own services above others in selection and advertising portals</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web browsers to use WebKit</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/14/apple-considering-non-webkit-iphone-browsers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>Note that Apple will likely still:<p>* Require apps to pay their commission similar to the Netherlands dating apps situation.<p>* Only allow apps to be installed that have a valid certificate.<p>* Require apps on their store to go through the approval process.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Gareth321</author><text>One by one, the rumours indicate that Apple will be complying with each and every requirement under the EU Digital Markets Act. These include:<p>* Install any software<p>* Install any App Store and choose to make it default<p>* Use third party payment providers and choose to make them default<p>* Use any voice assistant and choose to make it default<p>* Use any browser and browser engine and choose to make it default<p>* Use any messaging app and choose to make it default<p>* Make core messaging functionality interoperable. They lay out concrete examples like file transfer<p>* Use existing hardware and software features without competitive prejudice. E.g. NFC<p>* Not preference their services. This includes CTAs in settings to encourage users to subscribe to Gatekeeper services, and ranking their own services above others in selection and advertising portals</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web browsers to use WebKit</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/14/apple-considering-non-webkit-iphone-browsers/</url></story> |
26,787,520 | 26,787,393 | 1 | 3 | 26,786,372 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vinceguidry</author><text>I really really really wish the FSF-haters all the luck in the world in their quest to thread the needle between bigcorp-hostile, GPL-style copyleft and user-hostile, bigcorp-friendly open source.<p>I&#x27;m sad they can&#x27;t learn to love GNU projects. I for one do. They just... work. Whenever they don&#x27;t, invariably there&#x27;s some freedom-hostile hardware in the way. This makes me want to move closer to FSF-recommended hardware.<p>I wish them all the luck because the FSF just seems cursed at this point. They do absolutely essential legal and advocacy work and the world wouldn&#x27;t be what it is without them, and virtually nobody has a deep enough sense of history to recognize that. They will still get my donation dollars for the foreseeable future, and I hope they can rehabilitate their image.<p>I do sorta think this whole thing will end up working out well overall for the FSF&#x27;s mission of building a software domain that&#x27;s solidly out of the clutches of proprietary predation. I&#x27;ve never seen the FSF, the distinction between open and free software, in the public mind more than the last year. I can get really snarky about how all these people who never cared before suddenly come out against the FSF. You didn&#x27;t care before, you still don&#x27;t care, good job expressing the total lack of impact you insist on wanting to have.<p>Are more free software foundations a good thing? Probably. It&#x27;ll dilute the impact in the short run, these new projects will have to spend time and effort solving run-of-the-mill nonprofit stuff that the FSF worked out decades ago, but it also means more people will get invested. Eventually the new blood will learn to work with the old guard and we can all build a new order together.<p>Color me optimistic about the future of free software.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Playing the Open Source Game</title><url>https://kristoff.it/blog/the-open-source-game/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paxys</author><text>The Redis example particularly stands out for me. For the longest time Redis was hailed as a shining example of open source success – small group (mostly a single developer) working on lightweight, performant, easy-to-use, free (in terms of both cost and freedom) software which beat out several goliaths in the space.<p>Now the biggest call to action on its official website is to sign up for a trial subscription. New features are hidden behind an enterprise version that you have to contact sales to get the price of.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Playing the Open Source Game</title><url>https://kristoff.it/blog/the-open-source-game/</url></story> |
8,179,069 | 8,179,102 | 1 | 3 | 8,178,536 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maqr</author><text>I think the author is treading a fine line between &quot;nice person&quot; and &quot;confidence man&quot;, maybe without realizing it. He&#x27;s describing social engineering, and I have no doubt that it&#x27;s a very effective strategy.<p>&gt; “I thought you were a terrible ass-kisser when we started working together.”<p>&gt; She paused and frowned. “But it actually helped get things done. It was a strategy.” (That is how an impolite person gives a compliment. Which I gladly accepted.)<p>There is something disappointing about realizing that someone&#x27;s confidence tricks do work. It sounds like this coworker was grappling whether this is a strategy that they should adopt, because they can see the efficacy, but it feels morally painful.<p>I&#x27;ll give the author the benefit of the doubt when using tricks like these for work, especially if you&#x27;re a politician or marketing person, or something else where appearance and illusion dominates the field...<p>&gt; One of those people is my wife<p>But this makes me cringe. I know that if I was this person&#x27;s partner and I read this article, I would start to feel very uneasy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mbech</author><text>I&#x27;m all aboard with being pleasant and respectful of others, but find some aspects of this distasteful. Specifically, the portions of the author&#x27;s &quot;politeness&quot; that involve performance, or adhering to a script I find off-putting. For example:<p>&quot;Just ask the other person what they do, and right after they tell you, say: &#x27;Wow. That sounds hard.&#x27; &quot;<p>While it seems that many aspects of &quot;politeness&quot; are intended to trigger pleasant feelings in the other person (which seems harmless enough), I find it hard to be in favor of something so disingenuous. Even when it comes to small talk, I think one can be both respectful and charming without having to fall back on a script and cheapen the interaction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Be Polite</title><url>https://medium.com/message/9bf1e69e888c</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>true_religion</author><text>I once felt this way as well (and a little part of me still does), but I think its normal.<p>For the past few months, I&#x27;ve talk to possible 12-20 people per day, salesmen, marketers, business owners, the works. On occasion, I&#x27;ll talk to someone and they&#x27;ve completely forgotten who I am, and I find the conversation goes the exact same way as before. Even if I&#x27;m &#x27;off script&#x27;, they&#x27;re still going through the motions they rely on, and probably don&#x27;t realize they ask the same questions in the same way and give the same responses.<p>For my part, there&#x27;s only so many ways I can respond to a given situation. So what if I happen to fall back to well worn neural paths, and spit out &quot;wow, that&#x27;s sounds so hard&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mbech</author><text>I&#x27;m all aboard with being pleasant and respectful of others, but find some aspects of this distasteful. Specifically, the portions of the author&#x27;s &quot;politeness&quot; that involve performance, or adhering to a script I find off-putting. For example:<p>&quot;Just ask the other person what they do, and right after they tell you, say: &#x27;Wow. That sounds hard.&#x27; &quot;<p>While it seems that many aspects of &quot;politeness&quot; are intended to trigger pleasant feelings in the other person (which seems harmless enough), I find it hard to be in favor of something so disingenuous. Even when it comes to small talk, I think one can be both respectful and charming without having to fall back on a script and cheapen the interaction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Be Polite</title><url>https://medium.com/message/9bf1e69e888c</url></story> |
527,748 | 527,543 | 1 | 2 | 527,486 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>azanar</author><text>It would be really cool if shell lines included some sort of hyper-linking to man pages based on the grammar of each shell command and its arguments. Have one line that is the hyperlinked command, and another than has the command in a textfield. So rather than just a site of semi-magical incantations, it can be a catalyst for exploratory learning.<p>It is a little-pie-in-the-sky, I admit. The top command when I visited was `sudo`. What argument `sudo` takes depends upon the shell the user is using to execute `sudo`. Perhaps this could be a preference set somewhere, along with the OS being used. And maybe have a sister site where people contribute shell command grammars in some standardized syntax. I wonder how many people would be willing to provide those, though. Hmm.<p>This wasn't mentioned in the prior submission of this site, and it didn't occur to me until seeing it again. Just thinking out loud.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Command-line Fu </title><url>http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brianto2010</author><text>This site was submitted for review here not too long ago.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467692" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467692</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Command-line Fu </title><url>http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes</url></story> |
13,136,455 | 13,136,478 | 1 | 3 | 13,133,396 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mrb</author><text>Napkin math suggests you are wrong, the grand parent is right.<p>I can&#x27;t find the <i>exact</i> stats but in the US there are 2+ million injuries per year caused by road traffic crashes. We know there are around 300k signalized intersections [1]. If we estimate non-signalized intersections (ie. those with STOP signs) to 20x that number, that&#x27;s 6 million non-signalized intersections. If 20% of injuries happen at intersections and are randomly distributed across intersections, then on average there will be 1 injury at a given intersection every 15 years.<p>So yeah it is likely that &quot;multiple injuries&quot; have occured at mosts intersections in the country.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov&#x2F;knowledge&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq_part4.htm#tcsgq3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov&#x2F;knowledge&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq_part4.htm#tcsgq...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>CamperBob2</author><text>Obviously that&#x27;s not even remotely true, so why are you telling your daughters that?<p>Don&#x27;t lie to your kids. They&#x27;re smarter than you think.</text></item><item><author>markbnj</author><text>I often remarked in the same vein to my daughters as they were growing up and learning to drive. Everywhere you encounter a stop sign, a light, etc., is a place where people were badly injured or killed on multiple occasions. That stuff is there for a reason.</text></item><item><author>THE_PUN_STOPS</author><text>I&#x27;ve often heard it said that FAA regulations are written in blood. Meaning, if a rule exists, it exists for a damn good reason.<p>For anyone interested, NASA&#x27;s ASRS [1] (Aviation Safety Reporting System) is what the parent commenter is referring to regarding reporting near misses. The idea is, anyone can submit an incident report with NASA, a neutral separate party from the FAA, which is placed in an anonymized public database and cannot be used to justify punishment against anyone involved in the incident. This promotes transparency and learning from the mistakes of yourself and others, instead of covering them up. Frequently, the person who caused an incident in the first place will promptly report it to ASRS, as the FAA looks favorably upon those who come forward to ASRS on their own and dimly upon those who do not.<p>I think more industries could use this kind of transparency in reporting sketchy situations.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asrs.arc.nasa.gov&#x2F;overview&#x2F;confidentiality.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asrs.arc.nasa.gov&#x2F;overview&#x2F;confidentiality.html</a></text></item><item><author>NickHoff</author><text>The effect of culture should not be underestimated here.<p>There really is a cooperative spirit among pilots, air traffic controllers, weather briefers, mechanics, the FAA, etc. Controllers are willing to help pilots with special requests if able, pilots file weather reports for other pilots if what they encounter aloft is different from what they expected, mechanics take pride in their work and are highly regarded by pilots. I generally take a dim view of regulators, who generally seem to have less expertise than the people they&#x27;re regulating. That&#x27;s mostly not the case here. I&#x27;m libertarian and a pilot - and I like the FAA. Nobody is out to nail you for a minor technical infraction, but they will yell at you for something that&#x27;s unsafe but technically legal. This encourages people to report near misses, even if casts them in a bad light. The regulations themselves are generally reasonable, and frankly feel like they were written by pilots, controllers, and airport operators.<p>The point is this - regulations matter and budgets matter, but if the culture is toxic, people will find a way around it anyway. When I see a problem elsewhere in society - investment banking in the 2000s for example - people propose heavy regulatory solutions. That may work, but wouldn&#x27;t be so much of a battle if the culture were better.<p>I haven&#x27;t thought deeply about what &quot;better&quot; means in this context, nor about how to intentionally change a culture. I&#x27;d rather just fly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Major Crash</title><url>http://www.askthepilot.com/silent-anniversary/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>markbnj</author><text>Perhaps you should ask your local roads department how they decide where to put traffic control structures before talking about lying :).</text><parent_chain><item><author>CamperBob2</author><text>Obviously that&#x27;s not even remotely true, so why are you telling your daughters that?<p>Don&#x27;t lie to your kids. They&#x27;re smarter than you think.</text></item><item><author>markbnj</author><text>I often remarked in the same vein to my daughters as they were growing up and learning to drive. Everywhere you encounter a stop sign, a light, etc., is a place where people were badly injured or killed on multiple occasions. That stuff is there for a reason.</text></item><item><author>THE_PUN_STOPS</author><text>I&#x27;ve often heard it said that FAA regulations are written in blood. Meaning, if a rule exists, it exists for a damn good reason.<p>For anyone interested, NASA&#x27;s ASRS [1] (Aviation Safety Reporting System) is what the parent commenter is referring to regarding reporting near misses. The idea is, anyone can submit an incident report with NASA, a neutral separate party from the FAA, which is placed in an anonymized public database and cannot be used to justify punishment against anyone involved in the incident. This promotes transparency and learning from the mistakes of yourself and others, instead of covering them up. Frequently, the person who caused an incident in the first place will promptly report it to ASRS, as the FAA looks favorably upon those who come forward to ASRS on their own and dimly upon those who do not.<p>I think more industries could use this kind of transparency in reporting sketchy situations.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asrs.arc.nasa.gov&#x2F;overview&#x2F;confidentiality.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asrs.arc.nasa.gov&#x2F;overview&#x2F;confidentiality.html</a></text></item><item><author>NickHoff</author><text>The effect of culture should not be underestimated here.<p>There really is a cooperative spirit among pilots, air traffic controllers, weather briefers, mechanics, the FAA, etc. Controllers are willing to help pilots with special requests if able, pilots file weather reports for other pilots if what they encounter aloft is different from what they expected, mechanics take pride in their work and are highly regarded by pilots. I generally take a dim view of regulators, who generally seem to have less expertise than the people they&#x27;re regulating. That&#x27;s mostly not the case here. I&#x27;m libertarian and a pilot - and I like the FAA. Nobody is out to nail you for a minor technical infraction, but they will yell at you for something that&#x27;s unsafe but technically legal. This encourages people to report near misses, even if casts them in a bad light. The regulations themselves are generally reasonable, and frankly feel like they were written by pilots, controllers, and airport operators.<p>The point is this - regulations matter and budgets matter, but if the culture is toxic, people will find a way around it anyway. When I see a problem elsewhere in society - investment banking in the 2000s for example - people propose heavy regulatory solutions. That may work, but wouldn&#x27;t be so much of a battle if the culture were better.<p>I haven&#x27;t thought deeply about what &quot;better&quot; means in this context, nor about how to intentionally change a culture. I&#x27;d rather just fly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Major Crash</title><url>http://www.askthepilot.com/silent-anniversary/</url></story> |
16,262,958 | 16,261,528 | 1 | 2 | 16,260,320 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enobrev</author><text>If HN was so perfect of an experience, then I and many others wouldn&#x27;t use an app to consume and interact with it. I come here for the conversation and curation, but the UX on mobile is awful. It&#x27;s far too easy to make mistakes. I can&#x27;t even upvote properly without a very high probability of down-voting instead (at least we can cancel the down votes now). Just because You don&#x27;t care about the design doesn&#x27;t mean the design isn&#x27;t useful or even necessary for an application&#x27;s success.<p>I agree with your point about nagging, popups, and analytics, but I don&#x27;t think the existence of those annoyances are an argument against the OP.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>I&#x27;m disagreeing with your point that users are expecting more of software. Their expectations have changed in some ways, but not really in any that makes software significantly more complex.<p>To shorten my last post, it&#x27;s poor development practices and a lack of foresight from upper management that makes software too complicated. You could make an interface that looks like it&#x27;s from the mid 2000&#x27;s(garbage by today&#x27;s standards) and people would still use it if it works well and is reliable.<p>Look at HN. Do we need more from it than it already provides? If it was up to the average upper management, the backend would need constant retooling for every feature request from different departments, 12 forms of analytics, newsletter signup forms in between posts, job alerts, a mobile app with a nag message on mobile pages, single sign on from Facebook and Google, share buttons, a waffle iron, etc. None of which the actual users and even the developers ever wanted.<p>EDIT: Some people might point to Slack as an exception to my argument. Indeed, Slack looked very nice compared to the competition when it first came out. But what made it a killer app was that it took the best of the IRC experience and made it a universal experience between devices and browsers. Plus it can use a company&#x27;s SSO. When it first came out, it was also not very complicated. I remember when it didn&#x27;t have reactions or threads, but it was a breath of fresh air after having come from using things like HipChat and Gchat, both of which were pretty dreadful.</text></item><item><author>blunte</author><text>I think either you are not understanding me, or I&#x27;m completely misunderstanding you. What you&#x27;re saying seems orthogonal to my arguments...</text></item><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>I disagree. Users, in reality, don&#x27;t care about all the crap that stakeholders and some developers care about. They don&#x27;t care about Material design, fancy animations, beautiful buttons, &quot;elegant&quot; code,a ton of niche features, mobile apps(no I&#x27;m not kidding), your annoying push notifications, your fancy menu bars that you also fix to the top of the screen for whatever reason, your autoplay videos, your little &quot;delightful&quot; asides that interrupt the content, etc. They want something that <i>works</i> without much effort or worry that the software will fail, and that doesn&#x27;t necessarily have to do with how fancy or feature rich an app is.<p>Craigslist and the Quartz app are just a few examples of what I&#x27;m talking about. Nobody except maybe some stakeholders ever asked for those things to be more fancy than they are. They are simple and they work. The end.<p>Unfortunately, we are in an era where everyone wants to be like Google, or at least thinks they need to. I do not believe that the rest of the world would be worse off if they stopped spending time making &quot;production ready&quot; software that visually competes with the Big 5.<p>Software becomes complex because we allow it to become complex. Just because you can add another feature doesn&#x27;t mean that you now have more value for a finite amount of pay for X developer time. Companies seem often blind to continual costs for support that go up every time each time the solution is to add a new feature or software package for a small segment of the customer base or the company itself.<p>Whomever is in charge should acquiesce less often. But everyone wants to be a wizard.</text></item><item><author>blunte</author><text>Blah <i>bullshit</i> blah.<p>The reason software is so complex now is that our expectations as users is orders of magnitude higher than it was &quot;in the good old days&quot;. I&#x27;m old enough to remember the good old days, so I can speak with a little authority here.<p>The Pareto principle may not be exactly accurate, but it describes many situations quite well. And in software, it fits very well. 80% of the requirements take about 20% of the code (and complexity). It&#x27;s the edge and special cases that add the bulk of the work.<p>When a program just did one useful thing, we humans would do our human thing and integrate several different programs with our manual effort. If an edge case appeared, we didn&#x27;t even identify it as an edge case - we&#x27;re built for handling edge cases! We just made the minor _human_ judgement and fixed the data and pushed it into the next program.<p>Software is complex because we&#x27;re trying to make it replace more human activity. And beyond the core functionality, human activity is all about applying human judgement. If anyone is familiar with people training people on a particular task, particularly the quaint concept of apprenticeship, it involves teaching and showing and mentoring until a student has enough knowledge AND wisdom to get the job done.<p>So to boil it down, modern software is primarily complex because it attempts to replicate human judgement and wisdom.<p>That software complexity is not killing us. It may be a pain in the ass, but if anyone can remember what it was like before we had these tools, I would dare to say that it&#x27;s still a whole lot better than before computers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Complexity Is Killing Us</title><url>https://www.simplethread.com/software-complexity-killing-us/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdmichal</author><text>I think users are expecting more, but not necessarily in the ways you are imagining. It&#x27;s about how much of the process users expect to be automated vs how much needs intervention. I&#x27;ll redirect to my other comment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16261510" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16261510</a><p>&quot;Software is really about codifying process -- pun completely intended. What happens is some slick new software comes along that implements that happy 80% path on the process, and does it quickly and efficiently. Then business complains about the 20% falling into the gap, and starts adding features to reduce that, thereby slowing down the processing. This keeps going, until someone has an idea and implements slick new software that implements that happy 80% path on the process, and does it quickly and efficiently...&quot;</text><parent_chain><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>I&#x27;m disagreeing with your point that users are expecting more of software. Their expectations have changed in some ways, but not really in any that makes software significantly more complex.<p>To shorten my last post, it&#x27;s poor development practices and a lack of foresight from upper management that makes software too complicated. You could make an interface that looks like it&#x27;s from the mid 2000&#x27;s(garbage by today&#x27;s standards) and people would still use it if it works well and is reliable.<p>Look at HN. Do we need more from it than it already provides? If it was up to the average upper management, the backend would need constant retooling for every feature request from different departments, 12 forms of analytics, newsletter signup forms in between posts, job alerts, a mobile app with a nag message on mobile pages, single sign on from Facebook and Google, share buttons, a waffle iron, etc. None of which the actual users and even the developers ever wanted.<p>EDIT: Some people might point to Slack as an exception to my argument. Indeed, Slack looked very nice compared to the competition when it first came out. But what made it a killer app was that it took the best of the IRC experience and made it a universal experience between devices and browsers. Plus it can use a company&#x27;s SSO. When it first came out, it was also not very complicated. I remember when it didn&#x27;t have reactions or threads, but it was a breath of fresh air after having come from using things like HipChat and Gchat, both of which were pretty dreadful.</text></item><item><author>blunte</author><text>I think either you are not understanding me, or I&#x27;m completely misunderstanding you. What you&#x27;re saying seems orthogonal to my arguments...</text></item><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>I disagree. Users, in reality, don&#x27;t care about all the crap that stakeholders and some developers care about. They don&#x27;t care about Material design, fancy animations, beautiful buttons, &quot;elegant&quot; code,a ton of niche features, mobile apps(no I&#x27;m not kidding), your annoying push notifications, your fancy menu bars that you also fix to the top of the screen for whatever reason, your autoplay videos, your little &quot;delightful&quot; asides that interrupt the content, etc. They want something that <i>works</i> without much effort or worry that the software will fail, and that doesn&#x27;t necessarily have to do with how fancy or feature rich an app is.<p>Craigslist and the Quartz app are just a few examples of what I&#x27;m talking about. Nobody except maybe some stakeholders ever asked for those things to be more fancy than they are. They are simple and they work. The end.<p>Unfortunately, we are in an era where everyone wants to be like Google, or at least thinks they need to. I do not believe that the rest of the world would be worse off if they stopped spending time making &quot;production ready&quot; software that visually competes with the Big 5.<p>Software becomes complex because we allow it to become complex. Just because you can add another feature doesn&#x27;t mean that you now have more value for a finite amount of pay for X developer time. Companies seem often blind to continual costs for support that go up every time each time the solution is to add a new feature or software package for a small segment of the customer base or the company itself.<p>Whomever is in charge should acquiesce less often. But everyone wants to be a wizard.</text></item><item><author>blunte</author><text>Blah <i>bullshit</i> blah.<p>The reason software is so complex now is that our expectations as users is orders of magnitude higher than it was &quot;in the good old days&quot;. I&#x27;m old enough to remember the good old days, so I can speak with a little authority here.<p>The Pareto principle may not be exactly accurate, but it describes many situations quite well. And in software, it fits very well. 80% of the requirements take about 20% of the code (and complexity). It&#x27;s the edge and special cases that add the bulk of the work.<p>When a program just did one useful thing, we humans would do our human thing and integrate several different programs with our manual effort. If an edge case appeared, we didn&#x27;t even identify it as an edge case - we&#x27;re built for handling edge cases! We just made the minor _human_ judgement and fixed the data and pushed it into the next program.<p>Software is complex because we&#x27;re trying to make it replace more human activity. And beyond the core functionality, human activity is all about applying human judgement. If anyone is familiar with people training people on a particular task, particularly the quaint concept of apprenticeship, it involves teaching and showing and mentoring until a student has enough knowledge AND wisdom to get the job done.<p>So to boil it down, modern software is primarily complex because it attempts to replicate human judgement and wisdom.<p>That software complexity is not killing us. It may be a pain in the ass, but if anyone can remember what it was like before we had these tools, I would dare to say that it&#x27;s still a whole lot better than before computers.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Software Complexity Is Killing Us</title><url>https://www.simplethread.com/software-complexity-killing-us/</url></story> |
5,676,769 | 5,676,522 | 1 | 3 | 5,676,189 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jayp</author><text>The name sounded familiar. This company is a bit spammy anyway.<p>I am part of the Silicon Valley Java User Groups meetup. I got this e-mail from one of their employee in early March:<p>====<p>Hey fellow Dev's,<p>I'm a ux designer who just joined the community and I wanted to share info about a great service that seems super relevant for this crew - FounderDating (no, it's not romantic). FounderDating (FD) is an invite-only, online network for entrepreneurs to connect with cofounders. Why FD?<p>High Quality - members are carefully screened for quality and readiness (no recruiters, etc.) Applications and members’ identities are confidential, but a few of the folks who are part of the network are former founders or early employees from: stackmob, Salesforce, Zynga, Loggly and Gilt just to name a few.<p>Balanced - 50% engineering &#38; 50% non-engineering<p>Reach- FD’s online network allows you to connect with people in your city and beyond to share ideas and begin building something you’re passionate about.<p>No Idea Necessary - FD is about the people, so you don’t need to have an idea, just be ready to work on a serious side project<p>The deadline is April 8th, so apply now. <a href="http://members.founder[redacted].com/application" rel="nofollow">http://members.founder[redacted].com/application</a><p>Cheers and feel free to reach out to me off-list with questions,
Abby<p>===<p>BTW, this is "Abby's" meetup page: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/sv-jug/members/8035133/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/sv-jug/members/8035133/</a>. Not sure if she also goes by another name (Gail) or what. Let's give her the benefit of doubt.<p>Who joins a new meetup and right away sends plugs for their own project? At least, I don't think that's the norm.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Want to Spam Your LinkedIn Contacts and Be Humiliated? Try FounderDating</title><url>http://ilikestuffblog.com/2013/04/26/do-you-want-to-spam-your-linkedin-contacts-and-be-humiliated-try-founderdating/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jmalter</author><text>Actually, I'm the CEO of FOunerDating and what's surprising is that no one has actually asked if this is what really happens. We not only state (in white writing) on black backgroud) that "a message will be sent to your chosen linkedin contact) and let you see the message but it's also completely opt-in - no tricks where you can't find the "x". People can choose to a) not send or choose who they send a message to. There is nothing sneaky about it. If someone doesn't read the line "this will send a message" there isn't much we can do about that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Want to Spam Your LinkedIn Contacts and Be Humiliated? Try FounderDating</title><url>http://ilikestuffblog.com/2013/04/26/do-you-want-to-spam-your-linkedin-contacts-and-be-humiliated-try-founderdating/</url></story> |
4,198,863 | 4,198,619 | 1 | 2 | 4,198,271 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scotty79</author><text>&#62; Hacker News really doesn't like PHP.<p>But Y?<p><pre><code> function Y($F) {
$func = function ($f) { return $f($f); };
return $func(function ($f) use($F) {
return $F(function ($x) use($f) {
$ff = $f($f);
return $ff($x);
});
});
}</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>tomelders</author><text>Hacker News really doesn't like PHP. There's a whole lot of blind prejudice in this thread<p>Arguments against PHP are as futile as arguments in support of PHP. It's a programming language. The only thing that matters is the person using it. I'm sure Ruby, Node and Go are super duper awesome in a lot of academic ways, but unless we're talking about awesome things that have been made with them, it's just blah blah blah boring opinions no one should care about.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PHP is much better than what you think</title><url>http://fabien.potencier.org/article/64/php-is-much-better-than-what-you-think</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hobin</author><text>"The only thing that matters is the person using it."<p>Well, sure, I guess if you're really strange, you can be as efficient with Brainfuck as you can be with Python.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tomelders</author><text>Hacker News really doesn't like PHP. There's a whole lot of blind prejudice in this thread<p>Arguments against PHP are as futile as arguments in support of PHP. It's a programming language. The only thing that matters is the person using it. I'm sure Ruby, Node and Go are super duper awesome in a lot of academic ways, but unless we're talking about awesome things that have been made with them, it's just blah blah blah boring opinions no one should care about.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PHP is much better than what you think</title><url>http://fabien.potencier.org/article/64/php-is-much-better-than-what-you-think</url></story> |
25,719,461 | 25,719,274 | 1 | 3 | 25,718,098 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chaorace</author><text>I played with NixOS and am willing to admit that it was too difficult. It&#x27;s probably great for devops, but it&#x27;s just <i>slightly</i> too rigid for my own personal use.<p>Let me give an example: let&#x27;s say you want to use xmonad on top of Plasma. NixOS doesn&#x27;t have any simple way to configure that. You have the mutually exclusive options for one or the other, basically.<p>I know Nix <i>is</i> powerful enough to do this, if I wanted to go offroad and create custom packages&#x2F;derivations, but that&#x27;s the point where I am no longer happy with the utility&#x2F;work tradeoff. It&#x27;s what ultimately sent me packing back over to arch.<p>When I came back to arch, I was left hankering for NixOS&#x27;s declarative package management, if that could be somehow reconciled with the baseline arch package system. This led me to using the aconfmgr utility, which checks in packages and system configuration files into a home-based filetree.<p>Once you&#x27;ve got it set up, aconfmgr can regenerate your current configuration from scratch, declaratively! I was able to check the aconfmgr tree into my dotfiles repo, so now it tracks my home state AND my system state. Unlike Nix, this still uses file-based configuration, but it&#x27;s all versioned and fully reproducible, so I no longer particularly care about that caveat.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NixOS Linux</title><url>https://nixos.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>0xCMP</author><text>If you want to get in to Nix I think two important things to note:<p>1. Nix is not a &quot;package manager&quot; and I think it&#x27;s better at first to not think of it as one because you&#x27;ll assume how it works incorrectly. It <i>is</i> a package manager, but it doesn&#x27;t have the same workflow as yarn or etc. That trips a lot of people up.<p>2. You <i>need to read</i> the Nix Pills documentation. It is not long and guides you through every abstraction so you understand from the basics how it works. Nix is actually pretty self descriptive. I setup my home&#x27;s Linux Router entirely by just hacking and searching through the nixpkgs repo without understanding things, but if I&#x27;d read the Nix Pills things would have been so much clearer to me. Especially when debugging or reading through what a derivation was doing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NixOS Linux</title><url>https://nixos.org/</url></story> |
20,578,124 | 20,577,566 | 1 | 2 | 20,577,142 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>picometer</author><text>On the contrary, I think the author addresses this via the &quot;cancer&quot; metaphor:<p>&gt; It&#x27;s a malignant mutation of an idea that efficient markets need a way to connect goods and services with people wanting to buy them.<p>&gt; Over time, it became increasingly manipulative and dishonest. It also became more effective. In the process, it grew to consume a significant amount of resources of every company on the planet.<p>I interpret the loose analogy as: if controlled advertising is like normal cell growth, then out-of-control resource-consuming advertising is like cancerous cell growth.<p>It&#x27;s much easier to control advertising if its deployment has more friction, e.g. in a physical newspaper or billboard. On the internet, it&#x27;s different. We haven&#x27;t figured out how to control advertising on the internet yet, such that it doesn&#x27;t have all the harmful side effects cited by the author.<p>I bet that if we <i>do</i> figure it out, it will be because we&#x27;ve made significant technological advancements in customer&lt;=&gt;product matchmaking* combined with an unrelenting focus on preserving humane values.<p>* This will also probably entail us, as a society, somehow reframing the way that customer&lt;=&gt;product matchmaking happens, putting more control into the customer&#x27;s hands.<p>I think there is room for a bit of optimism here, but it means admitting that there are serious problems with the current system.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blodovnik</author><text>This is a dogmatic viewpoint I think often seen in very technical people who are unwilling to see the interconnectedness of how our society works.<p>I bet there&#x27;s any number of things this person values that simply wouldn&#x27;t exist without advertising.<p>It&#x27;s a childish and immature opinion really.<p>Anyone who hates advertising this much should show their commitment by working at an organization that does not advertise. Loathing advertising and at the same time depending on it for income is deeply hypocritical.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advertising Is a Cancer on Society</title><url>http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.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>kelnos</author><text>There <i>must</i> be a way to do advertising that respects the consumer, and doesn&#x27;t use some form of sketchy manipulation to achieve the desired goal. And yet the vast majority of advertising is (to me) offensive.<p>&gt; Anyone who hates advertising this much should show their commitment by working at an organization that does not advertise.<p><i>That&#x27;s</i> a rather childish and immature rejoinder. The world of employment simply doesn&#x27;t work that way, and people&#x27;s job mobility is not infinite and frictionless.</text><parent_chain><item><author>blodovnik</author><text>This is a dogmatic viewpoint I think often seen in very technical people who are unwilling to see the interconnectedness of how our society works.<p>I bet there&#x27;s any number of things this person values that simply wouldn&#x27;t exist without advertising.<p>It&#x27;s a childish and immature opinion really.<p>Anyone who hates advertising this much should show their commitment by working at an organization that does not advertise. Loathing advertising and at the same time depending on it for income is deeply hypocritical.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advertising Is a Cancer on Society</title><url>http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html</url></story> |
20,713,449 | 20,712,209 | 1 | 3 | 20,711,508 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwamay1241</author><text>I helped my mother reformat her computer remotely. We successfully ported her mail client but managed to lose her gmail password - meaning we had enough access to send&#x2F;receive emails but not create new sessions. The account was created some time in 2006. A week prior to the reformat she had changed jobs, and lost the mobile phone number associated with her account.<p>The second factor email was associated with my account, I could see reset codes come through which were relayed to her but would result in an &#x27;oops, something went wrong&#x27;. My guess is a bug due to account age &#x2F; whatever.<p>I figured we had enough evidence to obtain a password reset, so I googled for gmail support contact details. There are none.<p>I then tried repeatedly to contact Google via twitter, all my tweets were ignored - probably because I only have like 20 followers.<p>In the end, my mother ended up porting her old mobile number to a prepaid sim, as $previouscompany had disconnected the number entirely, and used that as the second factor to reset the account.<p>Pretty damn frustrating that Google doesn&#x27;t have any unpaid inbound support _AT ALL_.<p>Next time I&#x27;ll consider paying a twitter influencer to impersonate me (or my mother), or paying for adspace, or using a mail service that exposes at least some form of support.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aussie ISV buys ads to wake up Google support</title><url>https://www.crn.com.au/news/aussie-isv-buys-ads-to-wake-up-google-support-529698</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>funkidredd</author><text>Wow!! My company made HackerNews! Yeah, what an arseache it&#x27;s been - and just checked and nothing has been actioned still despite the negative coverage. Google truly don&#x27;t give a shit I&#x27;m afraid.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Aussie ISV buys ads to wake up Google support</title><url>https://www.crn.com.au/news/aussie-isv-buys-ads-to-wake-up-google-support-529698</url></story> |
3,080,699 | 3,080,680 | 1 | 3 | 3,080,176 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zeteo</author><text>Yes, he ended up having the surgery, but he wasted a crucial nine months on alternative medicine first. Here's a CNN article from 2008:<p><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.f...</a><p>"to the horror of the tiny circle of intimates in whom he'd confided [...] Jobs decided to employ alternative methods to treat his pancreatic cancer, hoping to avoid the operation through a special diet. [...] For nine months Jobs pursued this approach [...] In the end, Jobs had the surgery, on Saturday, July 31, 2004"</text><parent_chain><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>So how exactly does this article square up with Steve's 2005 Stanford Commencement address?<p><a href="http://www.roj.com.np/life-inspiration/steve-jobs-how-to-live-before-you-die/" rel="nofollow">http://www.roj.com.np/life-inspiration/steve-jobs-how-to-liv...</a><p>"About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes."<p>"I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now."<p>He had the surgery. Successfully, as far as the doctors were concerned. And he lived the median number of years for those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This information was not hard to dig up.<p>Stay classy, exit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Jobs Succumbs to Alternative Medicine</title><url>http://www.skepticblog.org/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-succumbs-to-alternative-medicine/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>As discussed in the comments, he lived a little bit less than the median number of years, but he was expected to live for much longer than the median because he was diagnosed so early.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>So how exactly does this article square up with Steve's 2005 Stanford Commencement address?<p><a href="http://www.roj.com.np/life-inspiration/steve-jobs-how-to-live-before-you-die/" rel="nofollow">http://www.roj.com.np/life-inspiration/steve-jobs-how-to-liv...</a><p>"About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes."<p>"I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now."<p>He had the surgery. Successfully, as far as the doctors were concerned. And he lived the median number of years for those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This information was not hard to dig up.<p>Stay classy, exit.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Steve Jobs Succumbs to Alternative Medicine</title><url>http://www.skepticblog.org/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-succumbs-to-alternative-medicine/</url></story> |
21,064,790 | 21,064,892 | 1 | 2 | 21,061,345 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>markstos</author><text>As an occasional iPad user, I find the interface somewhat bewildering, even as a power user of other devices.<p>I want to search to see if an app is installed. I expect an Overview screen that&#x27;s easily accessible for this like Android, Gnome or Chrome OS, but on iOS I have to swipe left a few times? Weird.<p>I want to switch wireless network I&#x27;m connected to. I correctly guess that I can swipe down to make a wireless icon appear. I expect that from the icon I can get into the settings, but that doesn&#x27;t appear to be the case. It only seems to toggle the wireless networking on or off.<p>Sometimes I have good luck telling Siri what to do, but other times the comprehension of what I&#x27;m asking falls flat compared to Google&#x27;s AI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>&gt; you can swipe from the bottom-right corner of the screen with the Apple Pencil and it&#x27;ll take a screenshot of the webpage and open it for marking up<p>I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists???</text></item><item><author>0x38B</author><text>I highly recommend reading the MacStories review of iOS and iPadOS 13 [1]. Thirty (!) pages.<p>It&#x27;s like the manual that Apple forgot. Case in point: you can swipe from the bottom-right corner of the screen with the Apple Pencil and it&#x27;ll take a screenshot of the webpage and open it for marking up.<p>Extensive coverage of multitasking features, as well. There&#x27;s definitely a learning curve with all these possibilities - split view, side view, copying and pasting, etc - so it makes sense to get comfortable with them now.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macstories.net&#x2F;stories&#x2F;ios-and-ipados-13-the-macstories-review&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macstories.net&#x2F;stories&#x2F;ios-and-ipados-13-the-mac...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPadOS</title><url>https://www.apple.com/ipados/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nessus42</author><text><i>&gt; I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists???</i><p>Apple products have been like this for ages. I.e., they present a &quot;simple&quot; interface for the &quot;typical&quot; user, and then they provide &quot;advanced&quot; features for the &quot;power user&quot; that are only accessible via keyboard shortcuts, or what have you. (E.g., doing a screenshot on MacOS is via Command-$.)<p>Their success in achieving the right balance, however, has been quite mixed IMHO.<p>How do you find out about the &quot;advanced&quot; features? Via Google or Stack Exchange or reading a book or guide, I suppose.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>&gt; you can swipe from the bottom-right corner of the screen with the Apple Pencil and it&#x27;ll take a screenshot of the webpage and open it for marking up<p>I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists???</text></item><item><author>0x38B</author><text>I highly recommend reading the MacStories review of iOS and iPadOS 13 [1]. Thirty (!) pages.<p>It&#x27;s like the manual that Apple forgot. Case in point: you can swipe from the bottom-right corner of the screen with the Apple Pencil and it&#x27;ll take a screenshot of the webpage and open it for marking up.<p>Extensive coverage of multitasking features, as well. There&#x27;s definitely a learning curve with all these possibilities - split view, side view, copying and pasting, etc - so it makes sense to get comfortable with them now.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macstories.net&#x2F;stories&#x2F;ios-and-ipados-13-the-macstories-review&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macstories.net&#x2F;stories&#x2F;ios-and-ipados-13-the-mac...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPadOS</title><url>https://www.apple.com/ipados/</url></story> |
20,082,850 | 20,080,215 | 1 | 2 | 20,078,820 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dfxm12</author><text>There were a lot of &quot;Gen X&quot; stories around 10-20 years ago. Controversy, in this case pitting one tribe against another, creates cash.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jobigoud</author><text>What is up with the Millenials Do X, Millenials do Y? I don&#x27;t remember reading this kind of stories for previous generations. Why are things attributed to a collective like this, it&#x27;s weird.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling Soil Once Meant Shame</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/africa/farming-millennials.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>Sniffnoy</author><text>On the contrary, it&#x27;s not weird at all. It&#x27;s <i>incorrect</i>, but such thinking in collectives is entirely natural. It&#x27;s seeing past such things and recognizing that one should <i>not</i> to attribute things to collectives like this that is unusual.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jobigoud</author><text>What is up with the Millenials Do X, Millenials do Y? I don&#x27;t remember reading this kind of stories for previous generations. Why are things attributed to a collective like this, it&#x27;s weird.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling Soil Once Meant Shame</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/africa/farming-millennials.html</url></story> |
11,605,000 | 11,604,787 | 1 | 3 | 11,604,526 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ktRolster</author><text>Fred Brooks pointed out that with a small team of competent programmers, any organizational methodology will work.<p>If you pay attention, the best Agile systems focus on improving the skills of developers instead of forcing people to follow the &#x27;steps&#x27; or a formula.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving Past the Scaling Myth</title><url>https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/the-myth-of-scaling</url></story> | <instructions>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>This makes a lot of sense to me. At the very least, I think that most American organizations undergo a substantial cultural transition as they scale, so it makes sense we&#x27;d also need a process transition.<p>The problem I see is that people aren&#x27;t really willing to be honest about the cultural transition that happens, so we also can&#x27;t be honest about the process transition.<p>I think Agile-ish approaches work very well in startups, because the structure is pretty flat, and the goals are shared. But as companies grow, they tend to become what I think of business feudalism: hierarchical, control-oriented, territorial. For that, it makes sense you need different processes. And I think large company Agile is in effect Waterfall with a faster cadence, so you get that different process. But nobody will admit it. &quot;We&#x27;re doing Agile,&quot; they say, with too-bright eyes and gritted teeth.<p>What I wonder is: what if instead of killing the peer culture and the human-centered process as we scaled, we kept them?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving Past the Scaling Myth</title><url>https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/the-myth-of-scaling</url></story> |
33,444,476 | 33,444,551 | 1 | 3 | 33,444,266 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>Yes, for a lot of classes of products I simply do not buy from Amazon any more. The counterfeiting and inventory co-mingling (such that you can&#x27;t even filter for trustworthy sellers) has destroyed a lot of Amazon&#x27;s usefulness.<p>IMO Amazon&#x27;s foray into 3P market-making will ultimately be seen as an attempt to grow the product that ends up killing the product.<p>Even besides the counterfeiting, there&#x27;s just <i>so much crappy junk</i>. Want lightbulbs? Wade through page after page of crappy no-name brands who all have fake&#x2F;gamed reviews, so you can&#x27;t tell the good from the bad. Want a name-brand lightbulb? Well, then we&#x27;re back to the counterfeiting problem.<p>Even when I do buy from Amazon there&#x27;s at least a 50% chance what I buy will be some cheap bullshit with faked reviews that will fall apart in under a month of use. Amazon is <i>worse</i> than the Walmart discount bin.<p>Amazon has weirdly given me a newfound appreciation for traditional retailers. There is <i>value</i> in the curation - in filtering bad products so that as a customer I can shop with confidence, and that even if I don&#x27;t do too much research the product I buy will be <i>good enough</i> - or at least authentic and safe.<p>The complete laissez-faire free-for-all model just results in me Googling for product reviews for the most mundane things I buy. It is a massive time-sink.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KerrAvon</author><text>Google and Facebook are not really in the same businesses as Amazon and Apple.<p>That Amazon isn&#x27;t worth more is puzzling. I know I&#x27;ve stopped buying from them unless I absolutely have to because I can&#x27;t trust that the product I get is non-counterfeit and previously unused -- seriously, who sells used shavers as new, totally f&#x27;in gross -- but has everyone else stopped buying too?<p>update: grammar</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple now valued at more than Amazon, Alphabet and Meta combined</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-now-valued-at-more-than-amazon-alphabet-and-meta-combined-11667430617</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>randycupertino</author><text>Stopped buying from Amazon for any household products after getting a fake hummingbird feeder and fake castor oil (was opened and repackaged canola oil). Just can&#x27;t trust them to send you the real name-brand product and not something knockoff or fake.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KerrAvon</author><text>Google and Facebook are not really in the same businesses as Amazon and Apple.<p>That Amazon isn&#x27;t worth more is puzzling. I know I&#x27;ve stopped buying from them unless I absolutely have to because I can&#x27;t trust that the product I get is non-counterfeit and previously unused -- seriously, who sells used shavers as new, totally f&#x27;in gross -- but has everyone else stopped buying too?<p>update: grammar</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple now valued at more than Amazon, Alphabet and Meta combined</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-now-valued-at-more-than-amazon-alphabet-and-meta-combined-11667430617</url></story> |
19,992,072 | 19,992,043 | 1 | 2 | 19,981,794 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skizm</author><text>&gt; SV dress like slobs<p>Fair, but I&#x27;d say most (at least more than other industries) people in tech dress how they want. Businesses everywhere are trending toward more casual wear simply because, given the choice, most people would rather dress down. Tech just jumped right to the logical conclusion faster: dress how you want and how you&#x27;re going to be most productive as long as you&#x27;re not disrupting others.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leroy_masochist</author><text>This essay is trying to take something pretty simple and extrapolate a whole bunch of deep metaphysical meaning.<p>The simple thing is this: up until about 25 years ago, investment banks were overwhelmingly populated by Ivy League grads who went to private high schools in the Northeast -- i.e., preppies. This cohort is still <i>way</i> overrepresented on the Street, but in the 80s it was literally like 70% of the warm bodies in bulge-bracket investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms. Thus, the fact that people on Wall Street still dress super-preppy is largely a function of the basic &quot;dress like your boss&quot; phenomenon. The people running large firms learned sartorial norms from their bosses in the 90s when they were analysts, and analysts today are learning from them.<p>Fashion groupthink pervades pretty much every career field. Military officers are keeping the braided leather belt industry in business through their demand for appropriate civilian attire; engineers in SV dress like slobs; people in the apparel industry wear tight black things. The observations in the essay strike me as a bunch of &quot;so what&quot;.<p>At least he quoted Matt Levine, I&#x27;ll give him that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual”</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/goldman-sachs-patagonia-and-the-mysteries-of-business-casual</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dboshardy</author><text>What you said is true, but why can that not also mean that power is tied to dress&#x2F;appearance? There&#x27;s nothing that deep or metaphysical here, it&#x27;s pretty straightforward.</text><parent_chain><item><author>leroy_masochist</author><text>This essay is trying to take something pretty simple and extrapolate a whole bunch of deep metaphysical meaning.<p>The simple thing is this: up until about 25 years ago, investment banks were overwhelmingly populated by Ivy League grads who went to private high schools in the Northeast -- i.e., preppies. This cohort is still <i>way</i> overrepresented on the Street, but in the 80s it was literally like 70% of the warm bodies in bulge-bracket investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms. Thus, the fact that people on Wall Street still dress super-preppy is largely a function of the basic &quot;dress like your boss&quot; phenomenon. The people running large firms learned sartorial norms from their bosses in the 90s when they were analysts, and analysts today are learning from them.<p>Fashion groupthink pervades pretty much every career field. Military officers are keeping the braided leather belt industry in business through their demand for appropriate civilian attire; engineers in SV dress like slobs; people in the apparel industry wear tight black things. The observations in the essay strike me as a bunch of &quot;so what&quot;.<p>At least he quoted Matt Levine, I&#x27;ll give him that.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual”</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/goldman-sachs-patagonia-and-the-mysteries-of-business-casual</url></story> |
12,916,399 | 12,915,175 | 1 | 3 | 12,914,279 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisdone</author><text>There are many points to respond to here.<p>1. Evan (the Elm author) has pledged to support type-classes, it&#x27;s on the issue tracker, and because he believes that they are useful.<p>2. &quot;The academics&quot; is a mischaracterization. I use Haskell and PureScript professionally and share the same problem of the &quot;Elm is Wrong&quot; author, which is that it&#x27;s impossible to do any generic programming.<p>3. Generic programming is important for something as simple as inserting my own data types as keys into a dictionary. So is being able to write &quot;show x&quot; and just have the thing showed if it has the instance of a showable class. Or to parse a nested data structure of various types from JSON.<p>4. Being able to use my own types as keys in a dictionary is pretty pragmatic, I think. A typical pattern in ML-style languages is to wrap types like Int in a UserId type that just wraps it and protects it from being mistakenly used with other Ints. Now try to make a dictionary of users via the UserId type. Nope.<p>5. &quot;They&quot; in this case aren&#x27;t concerned with elegance or concision for the sake of it, but because the features under discussion help them do their job better, avoid mistakes, reduce maintenance cost, and that&#x27;s good for business.<p>6. Go has non-academic, purely pragmatic problems that are orthogonal to its popularity, as does PHP or nodejs.<p>None of the things under discussion are difficult to implement, novel or exotic. Given that other languages like PureScript exist under the same domain and from the same family of languages, we have the luxury of holding other languages up to the same standard. In this particular point, Elm is a -1.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dkarapetyan</author><text>The academics always miss this part. They assume the most elegant and concise form of expression for an idea or a concept is equivalent to pragmatism. When in reality pragmatism in software engineering is mostly about making things obvious enough at a cheap enough price point. This is why golang is so popular even though all the academics on r&#x2F;programming hate it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elm from a Business Perspective</title><url>http://www.gizra.com/content/elm-business-perspective/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>Yup, and that&#x27;s been one of Evan&#x27;s core principals in Elm, pull out the good stuff from academia but in a way that&#x27;s accessible to the lay-developer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dkarapetyan</author><text>The academics always miss this part. They assume the most elegant and concise form of expression for an idea or a concept is equivalent to pragmatism. When in reality pragmatism in software engineering is mostly about making things obvious enough at a cheap enough price point. This is why golang is so popular even though all the academics on r&#x2F;programming hate it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elm from a Business Perspective</title><url>http://www.gizra.com/content/elm-business-perspective/</url></story> |
25,411,143 | 25,409,465 | 1 | 3 | 25,405,259 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kace91</author><text>The problem is, there&#x27;s a line between &quot;things I don&#x27;t consider because they&#x27;re out of my comfort zone &#x2F; I don&#x27;t even know they exist&quot; and &quot;things I don&#x27;t consider because I consider them to not have quality&quot;.<p>You give me a novel from a niche author from the middle East, I&#x27;m game; you give me a cash grab book signed by a teen youtuber and I&#x27;m probably out.<p>I&#x27;m not sure this site can tell the difference.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lambdatronics</author><text>I think it works: I put in &quot;Zero to One&quot;, &quot;The Idea Factory&quot; and &quot;The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo&quot; -- one of the top results was &quot;We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.&quot; This was reviewed on Amazon as &quot;Not For a White Male Forty-Year-Old Software Engineer.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;customer-reviews&#x2F;R1WB4G83DRI8PV&#x2F;ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1101912197" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;customer-reviews&#x2F;R1WB4G83DRI8PV&#x2F;re...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber</title><url>https://abooklikefoo.com/escape/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Bodell</author><text>I tried various combinations of the books I’ve read over the last couple of years[1]. And either I got stuff already on my bookshelf or sphere of reference[2], or a lot of Calvin and Hobbes (seriously every result had at least one, sometimes several), or children’s books, or adult comic books. Which I guess is by some definition the opposite of adult novels. But a fun and interesting tool to play around with either way.<p>[1] Underworld, Blood Meridian, The Bluest Eye, Milkman, Pale Fire, Borges, etc...<p>[2] Chekhov, Ursula Le Guin, Proust, Umberto Eco, etc.<p>Edit: I scrolled down and read the creators summary of how the search works. And now believe my results really nailed his description: rarest but highly rated by readers of the same books. Which also explains all the Calvin and Hobbes, which I think have a universal appeal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lambdatronics</author><text>I think it works: I put in &quot;Zero to One&quot;, &quot;The Idea Factory&quot; and &quot;The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo&quot; -- one of the top results was &quot;We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.&quot; This was reviewed on Amazon as &quot;Not For a White Male Forty-Year-Old Software Engineer.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;customer-reviews&#x2F;R1WB4G83DRI8PV&#x2F;ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1101912197" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;customer-reviews&#x2F;R1WB4G83DRI8PV&#x2F;re...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber</title><url>https://abooklikefoo.com/escape/</url></story> |
775,153 | 774,894 | 1 | 3 | 774,384 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unalone</author><text>You're going to want to chill the fuck out, Sho. Want to know what's really fucking nonsense? You telling somebody else that they're bullshit because you don't agree with what they decided they liked. Also, you telling a bunch of modern artists who've spent years doing their thing that their work is valueless.<p>I've got news for you. Do you know what makes things valuable? The people who decide to spend their money on things. That's it. It doesn't make things necessarily <i>good</i>, but what <i>is</i> good? Some people genuinely think Damien Hirst's dangling shark is good art. I don't. I think the concept's vague and it's not worth the money it takes to produce. Ditto his diamond-studded skull. But there's a gap from not liking something personally and deciding to devalue other people because they like it.<p>Newsflash: It's a large world. If you don't like people who like lines like that, avoid them. Don't waste your time bitching them out and snarking around. It takes a pretty fucked-up person to decide it's worth making people feel bad about themselves.<p>-<p>I used to feel the same way as you, back when I was the tender age of eighteen. (My birthday was last week and I've decided to excuse any bursts of maturity I've had on it; you and I know that's bullshit but it amuses me so let me continue.) I was totally caught up in the Ayn Rand swing, you know? Where people with worse taste than me were destroying the human race, I had to preserve standards, etc., etc. The idea that everything is objective gives me the moral right to insult other people if it means improving the human race a little bit. Problem is, things <i>aren't</i> all objective. You can monitor some things about art, you can come to a consensus with people on how well-crafted something is or how unique it is, but eventually you're just assigning arbitrary values to complex things, and you're forced to let people decide what they like on their own.<p>My big sticking point was <i>Twilight</i>. Shittiest book ever. I couldn't write that bad if I tried. So I used to tell myself that I disliked people because they were brainwashed by the modern culture that told them it was okay to like Twilight. Kind of like your "sheep mentality" thing. Then I realized two things:<p>A) The sort of person who judges somebody by what they read when that person's not a reader is a douche.<p>B) There's a difference between judging somebody in their face, and making private judgments that don't hurt anybody.<p>If somebody likes something, then let 'em. All power to them. Maybe one day they'll change their mind. Maybe you can show them something you like better, and that'll influence them along a new course. I was a counselor at Princeton for the last month, watching over 13-year-olds who were into stuff like Two and a Half Men, and I brought in Arrested Development for them to watch. Gentle nudges.<p>In the end, society's an illusion. That's the big realization I made. I could spend my life ranting against Twilight fans. Maybe if I'm good I could reach a hundred thousand fans and make them feel bad about themselves, and I could try and tell myself that I've made a difference. Problem is, I don't know those people. I don't care about those people. They aren't a part of my life. So why bother with them? It's a huge world filled with people who I'll like, and if the human race doesn't implode (it won't) there'll be people I'd like in the future, and it doesn't matter if they never take over the world because their existence is enough.<p>Incidentally, I will offer the way my friends and I converse as a model to you, since I think you need it. When we have disagreements about things, we ask the people we disagree with to explain themselves. The awesome thing is that by trying to rationalize the way your mind works, you both discover things about yourself and about the things you liked but take for granted. It's awesome dining conversation and nobody gets hurt.<p>-<p>I need to quote Tao Lin's article about the Virginia Tech killings, which was a huge influence on me. The essay can be found at <a href="http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/2007/04/crippling-loneliness-and-killing.html" rel="nofollow">http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/2007/04/crippling-lone...</a>.<p><i>If you think someone else's writing is 'shitty,' 'terrible,' or 'bad' and you think this seriously, as if the writing were objectively 'shitty' or 'terrible' (which means you believe if anyone likes the writing they themselves are 'shitty' and 'terrible'), your existence is a distortion of the universe that causes more pain and suffering. Many people like Gary Lutz. Many people like Stephen King. If you type, "I dislike Stephen King," that is a fact. If you type, "Stephen King is horrible," that is not a fact, it isn't anything; it's you saying either, "I am the only person who exists and my opinions are actually facts," or "I am the entire universe and the universe is not indifferent but actually makes value judgments on specific things within itself without defining a context and a goal."</i><p><i>A person's writing comes from their brain. It is who they are. Some people have very sad facial expressions and when they talk their voices tremble and maybe they have a deep voice or respond mostly with one-syllable answers or maybe they don't speak and don't make eye contact. That is who they are, most people would say. If you met that person you wouldn't say, "Your facial expression and voice are horrible, you have no talent. You have no talent for the pitch of your voice. You are talentless and horrible and unoriginal. Your voice and facial expression are very bad. You should stop doing those things and releasing your terrible shit onto the world. Maybe you should try something else, instead of existing. Maybe you would be good at something else, like not existing." Most of you would not say that about a person's idiosyncrasies, a person's 'personality,' etc. But most of you would say those things about a person's writing, if you didn't like it.</i><p><i>A person's effect on the world is their 'art,' that is who they are. How they move, release noises, arrange their room, write their sentences, give their poems line breaks, etc.</i><p><i>People laughed at Cho Seung-Hui's voice and other people (and people currently, on the internet) said (are saying) his writing was 'horrible,' 'talentless,' 'embarrassing,' etc.</i><p><i>"You have no talent," means "I am the only perspective that exists and I judge you and you are not good," which is a meaningless statement if a context and a goal is not defined.</i><p>-<p>But now let's throw all that peace and tolerance bullshit aside, right? You don't care about that stuff. You care about being the Voice of Reason, telling that motherfucker Jeremysr just how valueless his decisions are. Well, here I come, experienced practitioner of art, to tell you that <i>your</i> lines were bullshit and that _why's was a gorgeous bit of nonsensical prose.<p>First, we'll establish the existence and artistic defense of nonsense poetry. I submit that Green Eggs &#38; Ham, despite being absurd and rather redundant, is in fact a piece of art, given the context of Seuss's stories. On its own it is still a defensible piece, but in context it is something great by my standards.<p>In order to determine the context here, we have to take a look at _why. Luckily, HN has provided buckets of context for us. He was a brilliant programmer, and at the very least an enjoyable writer, artist, and musician. His stuff is appreciable even for those of us that don't like the absurd - the Chunky Bacon foxes are quite funny, his writing style in the (Poignant) Guide is probably the best I've come across in programming guides, and his music, while bizarre, is nuanced and fun. So we have to assume that <i>if</i> _why wanted to be clever in a less absurd sense, he could have been, and that he is an experienced enough person to be able to decide for himself which styles he prefers.<p>Now look at the context of these other Twitter posts.<p>"trying to reading dhh’s articles on himself, but his website is so drenched in axe body spray that it has more of a tear gas effect."<p>"my lady, this poorly rendered page marks you as the whore of internet explorer. i mean that in a way that is both graceful and degrading."<p>"until programmers stop acting like obfuscation is morally hazardous, they’re not artists, just kids who don’t want their food to touch."<p>So he's proven himself to have a certain command over words. We'll assume, then, that he's not a hack trying to trick people into liking him, that people like him for perfectly good reasons.<p>Therefore, the line in question:<p>"turtles and goats, turtles and goats, turtles and goats are filling up boats"<p>is a piece of nonsense lyricism, no more, no less, but appreciable as such. While I wouldn't put it on my iPod - mainly because I don't like engraving things - Jeremysr's putting it on his is not the downfall of society.<p>Now, let's look at your two attempts at mockery. We'll ignore that you lack the context of being a genius artist and that the only credit to your name is that you like being an asshole online who bullies other people.<p>"bitches and hoes, bitches and hoes, bitches and hoes are tickling my toes"<p>We'll ignore that your entire form is derivative of _why's form, without any innovation whatsoever. Your line is broken and messy, primarily because of your use of the word "bitches", which slows down everything, and "tickling", which is hideously unflowing. (See, these are objective criticisms based on the form of the words themselves. I wouldn't call people fucking nonsense if they liked your line, but I wouldn't be surprised if they preferred _why's.)<p>Your second one:<p>"chickens and frogs, chickens and frogs, chickens and frogs are climbing the logs"<p>Here you have a not-completely-awful flow, but it's not the same as _why's. Whereas his words all sound from the same part of the tongue (tərt, fəll, and the long o of goats), yours come from three different sources (chəck, frãg, clim), breaking up the pacing when sounded aloud.<p>Meanwhile, conceptually _why's got something and you don't. While chickens and frogs are animals I don't have a hard time seeing lumped together, turtles and goats - beyond sounding nice, and triggering something that feels purple in my mind, likely because of the echo in the word "turtle" - are a more bizarre coupling, linked together only because of how they feel sonically. By ending with "filling up boats", he implies something on a grander scale than "climbing <i>the</i> logs". In fact, I can't see instantly how you could correct your own attempt, because while "filling up boats" implies necessarily that there are <i>many</i> goats and turtles <i>completely filling</i> these many boats, yours doesn't have an end in sight. _why's statement is terminated at the completion of the boats' fillings. There is a logical conclusion inherent in his wording. Your statement, meanwhile, has no termination, and no meaning. Where are these logs? We know the boats are on a body of water, and that they will likely sail off. Logs I imagine at once a farm, a mountainous trail, and my next-door neighbor's cleared-out back yard. That's dissonance in my mind. It doesn't work.<p>It takes a lot of work to break down something simple that's created by reflex, but it's possible, and when people look at lines like _why's, their minds go through a similar process trying to create a mental response. Nonsense is harder than you'd think. There are rules to it like there are in anything. Having actually put some thought into _why's line, I like it more than I did before I decided to defend it. There're a few things going on there that I appreciate more now.<p>-<p>tl;dr: Hacker News is not the place for you to be an asshole. No place ought to be the place for you to be an asshole, but if you're going to try and be a cunt on Hacker News, you've got to deal with people who're a lot more experienced than you who have kindness in their best interests.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sho</author><text>Yeah, might as well ruin your iPod with that fucking <i>nonsense</i>.<p>Why the fuck is this bullshit being upvoted. This is how modern art gets popular, you know? People "upvoting" IRL because they're tricked into thinking it's good. Peer pressure. Social "proof". Sheep mentality. When if they saw it in isolation, they'd realise it's just rubbish.<p>You know what? I can toss this shit out all day. Here we go, I feel an epiphany coming on:<p><i>bitches and hoes, bitches and hoes, bitches and hoes are tickling my toes</i><p>WOOOAH! That is, like, SO deep. Am I a genius yet?<p>update: Wait! More is coming! I am channeling the good shit!<p>check it out:<p><i>chickens and frogs, chickens and frogs, chickens and frogs are climbing the logs</i><p>That would look perfect on the back of any iPod IMO.</text></item><item><author>Jeremysr</author><text>I have this one engraved on the back of my iPod touch:<p><i>turtles and goats, turtles and goats, turtles and goats are filling up boats.</i><p>(It was free so might as well.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>_why's best twitter posts</title><url>http://favstar.fm/users/_why</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mechanical_fish</author><text><i>When if they saw it in isolation, they'd realise it's just rubbish.</i><p>Of course. All language is just rubbish. Transient sound waves in the air. Scratches of ink that will fade. Tomorrow's trash.<p>Try traveling to a country where you can't read the language. (China or Japan work, for me.) It reminds one, forcefully, that <i>all</i> words are arbitrary. I can stand in the middle of a Chinese bookstore, surrounded by great literature, yet unable to see anything but well-ordered squiggles. To someone who otherwise tends to forget that he wasn't <i>born</i> knowing how to read, it is a dizzying experience.<p>What matters in language is what it evokes in the listener. A lot of it is about context: Who is speaking, and who is listening. _Why's poems are better than yours because they remind me of _why, a genuinely nice and optimistic guy. Your poems remind me of someone who would crash a party in order to spit on the guest of honor. In other words, it's all in the delivery.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sho</author><text>Yeah, might as well ruin your iPod with that fucking <i>nonsense</i>.<p>Why the fuck is this bullshit being upvoted. This is how modern art gets popular, you know? People "upvoting" IRL because they're tricked into thinking it's good. Peer pressure. Social "proof". Sheep mentality. When if they saw it in isolation, they'd realise it's just rubbish.<p>You know what? I can toss this shit out all day. Here we go, I feel an epiphany coming on:<p><i>bitches and hoes, bitches and hoes, bitches and hoes are tickling my toes</i><p>WOOOAH! That is, like, SO deep. Am I a genius yet?<p>update: Wait! More is coming! I am channeling the good shit!<p>check it out:<p><i>chickens and frogs, chickens and frogs, chickens and frogs are climbing the logs</i><p>That would look perfect on the back of any iPod IMO.</text></item><item><author>Jeremysr</author><text>I have this one engraved on the back of my iPod touch:<p><i>turtles and goats, turtles and goats, turtles and goats are filling up boats.</i><p>(It was free so might as well.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>_why's best twitter posts</title><url>http://favstar.fm/users/_why</url></story> |
33,684,279 | 33,684,172 | 1 | 2 | 33,683,818 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jmclnx</author><text>Plus the scam Qatar forced upon inBev, originally beer was suppose to be sold in the stadium, which they paid ~75m for, then in the last minute Qatar said &quot;no beer sales in the stadium&quot;.<p>Now I have no issues with restricting alcohol and even banning it, but with that last minute about face after taking money from that company, I think they are at least do a refund plus interest.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hfbff</author><text>Good. This is by far the world cup I&#x27;ve been less excited about, both because it counts as whitewash for the Qatar government and for how corrupt FIFA is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of Qatar criticism</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/20/bbc-ignores-world-cup-opening-ceremony-in-favour-of-qatar-criticism</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Fezzik</author><text>Seconded. I love soccer. I fondly remember waking up at 3:00 a.m. to watch many of the 1998 World Cup games. I think I have watched every single game since then. I know it is a small gesture, but I will not be watching a single match this go-round. The direct support of and kowtowing to such a corrupt government is disgusting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hfbff</author><text>Good. This is by far the world cup I&#x27;ve been less excited about, both because it counts as whitewash for the Qatar government and for how corrupt FIFA is.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of Qatar criticism</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/20/bbc-ignores-world-cup-opening-ceremony-in-favour-of-qatar-criticism</url></story> |
36,242,288 | 36,241,805 | 1 | 3 | 36,236,578 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>psygn89</author><text>Unfortunately its scrolling performance is kinda laggy around 200 items or so in Chrome. Here&#x27;s someone&#x27;s example at 5,000 options which is absurd but you might think it would perform better being that it&#x27;s a native control. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsfiddle.net&#x2F;klesun&#x2F;mfgteptf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsfiddle.net&#x2F;klesun&#x2F;mfgteptf&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>If you don&#x27;t need it to be clever and dynamic, and you&#x27;re not too bothered about styling, then HTML&#x27;s &lt;input&gt; tag has a typeahead option using &lt;datalist&gt;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Element&#x2F;datalist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Element&#x2F;da...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Autocomplete – A JavaScript library for building autocomplete experiences</title><url>https://github.com/algolia/autocomplete</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>airblade</author><text>&quot;Not too bothered about styling&quot; is quite important. Datalists are relatively uncommon and I think many users may not know what they are seeing and how they can interact with it.<p>Also datalists appear quite different across different browsers, which is fine of course for a native form control, but annoying if you&#x27;re aiming for a more consistent look.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>If you don&#x27;t need it to be clever and dynamic, and you&#x27;re not too bothered about styling, then HTML&#x27;s &lt;input&gt; tag has a typeahead option using &lt;datalist&gt;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Element&#x2F;datalist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Element&#x2F;da...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Autocomplete – A JavaScript library for building autocomplete experiences</title><url>https://github.com/algolia/autocomplete</url></story> |
16,210,288 | 16,208,830 | 1 | 3 | 16,207,913 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>btown</author><text>This reminds me of how MIDI files [0] represent time offsets, in integral &quot;delta-time&quot; units which can be set to either an arbitrary unit fraction of a quarter note, or an arbitrary unit fraction of an SMPTE frame (which itself can be specified in frames per second). Combined with an ability to dynamically set tempo (at any delta-time offset) in microseconds per quarter note, this allows practically any (Western) music to be represented with just integer delta-times between notes, including crazy tuples and polyrhythms, in a tempo-independent way; just find the greatest common denominator for your subdivisions. You could have thousands of minute tempo changes over the course of a performance and never lose fidelity due to rounding errors.<p>Apple&#x27;s (formerly emagic&#x27;s) Logic software actually made this visible to the user, using 3840 delta-time units per quarter note and presenting an Event List interface [1] where you could edit integers for offset and length directly. As opposed to other WYSIWIG notation software like Finale and Sibelius, it felt like Logic was hiding nothing from you; you could be sure that everything you saw and heard was rendered declaratively from the same underlying data. Moreover, if you were ever having trouble zooming&#x2F;subdividing the drag-and-drop user interface for whatever crazy triplet sequence you wanted, you could just break out a calculator and specify exactly what you want, knowing that you wouldn&#x27;t be &quot;fuzzing&quot; anything by typing in a rounded decimal number.<p>(It&#x27;s a good lesson for us as developers - while it can be extra work to build an interface that doesn&#x27;t hide complexity, professional users will often figure out how to use this to work around other shortcomings in your interface, buying you time to fix them the right way. It&#x27;s just a matter of finding the right abstractions - representing time as integers is just one example.)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csie.ntu.edu.tw&#x2F;~r92092&#x2F;ref&#x2F;midi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csie.ntu.edu.tw&#x2F;~r92092&#x2F;ref&#x2F;midi&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;kb&#x2F;PH13096?locale=en_US&amp;viewlocale=en_US" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;kb&#x2F;PH13096?locale=en_US&amp;viewlocale...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++</title><url>https://github.com/OculusVR/Flicks</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mshook</author><text><i>While humans can&#x27;t hear higher than 48kHz, the higher sample rates are used for working audio files which might later be resampled or retimed.</i><p>48 kHz? Someone probably got confused between Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem and the human ear...<p>And someone beat me to it hehe<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OculusVR&#x2F;Flicks&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OculusVR&#x2F;Flicks&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++</title><url>https://github.com/OculusVR/Flicks</url></story> |
41,262,151 | 41,262,090 | 1 | 2 | 41,261,986 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>darth_avocado</author><text>Not only are directors and above immune to the RTO directives in most companies, they are also immune to location specific pay ranges in most companies. And for the few times they do require to go to the office, they can expense the entire trip, including airfare, dinners, hotels and more. The class asymmetry is ridiculous, but unfortunately most workers don’t know this fact.<p>Edit: In case it wasn’t clear, this is not just about CEOs and “executives”. A director level can sometimes be just “manager of managers”. I’m talking about upper middle management here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bearjaws</author><text>Anyone surprised by this? I remember my first programming job it was FREQUENT that the execs would fly to other offices ~12+ weeks a year. Of course our office was in Orlando so every exec would also magically have their family flown in as well to go to Disney World.<p>5 jobs later, its been the same at any company that isn&#x27;t a startup. Execs have never been in the office, they have &quot;offsite&quot; meetings.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-15/starbucks-victoria-s-secret-are-part-of-broader-trend-of-remote-ceos</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LiquidSky</author><text>A friend of mine is an attorney and during the pandemic as soon as in-office work was allowed again the entire firm was ordered to return immediately to their Manhattan office only to find that the managing partners were still calling in from their homes in Long Island or Connecticut.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bearjaws</author><text>Anyone surprised by this? I remember my first programming job it was FREQUENT that the execs would fly to other offices ~12+ weeks a year. Of course our office was in Orlando so every exec would also magically have their family flown in as well to go to Disney World.<p>5 jobs later, its been the same at any company that isn&#x27;t a startup. Execs have never been in the office, they have &quot;offsite&quot; meetings.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-15/starbucks-victoria-s-secret-are-part-of-broader-trend-of-remote-ceos</url></story> |
17,950,668 | 17,950,241 | 1 | 3 | 17,949,241 | 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>pjc50</author><text>&quot;16%&quot; does not appear in that paper, and it&#x27;s arguing based on inherited chromosomes: inherently that&#x27;s going to be confounded by deaths in childhood or childbirth, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elchief</author><text>&gt; the idea that some huge percentage of males are simply not desirable enough (as we shall see, the paper requires this percentage to be over 50) to have a chance of reproducing bears no relation to the world as we know it<p>In early humans only the top 16% of males mated<p>Most people mate now, due to religious&#x2F;society-enforced monogamy<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2833377&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2833377&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?</title><url>https://gowers.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/has-an-uncomfortable-truth-been-suppressed/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TomK32</author><text>Looking at my grandfather&#x27;s generation, two of his brothers fell in the war, another two never had children of their own at died of old age in the same (big farm) house they were born and living all their life. math checks out.</text><parent_chain><item><author>elchief</author><text>&gt; the idea that some huge percentage of males are simply not desirable enough (as we shall see, the paper requires this percentage to be over 50) to have a chance of reproducing bears no relation to the world as we know it<p>In early humans only the top 16% of males mated<p>Most people mate now, due to religious&#x2F;society-enforced monogamy<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2833377&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2833377&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?</title><url>https://gowers.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/has-an-uncomfortable-truth-been-suppressed/</url></story> |
21,152,657 | 21,152,839 | 1 | 2 | 21,149,744 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>godelski</author><text>I think your point is very important. Forbidding e2e encryption only enables <i>mass</i> surveillance. It does not affect traditional investigative work. There are other existing tools for the job.<p>Anyone remember the FBI and Apple case a few years back? How quickly the FBI hacked the phone after Apple wouldn&#x27;t cave? Other tools exist to do targeted surveillance and targeted attacks. Only authoritarians want <i>mass</i> surveillance.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kyboren</author><text>Some crimes can also be aided by whispered in-person conversation. Should we require all in-person conversation to be shouted near a government office?<p>The societal default used to be that substantially all conversations were inaccessible to the government except through testimony. Encryption does nothing to change the availability of information through testimony.<p>Previously, remote conspirators could collaborate through the post, and their conversations could only be accessed with a warrant specifically targeting those communicators. End-to-end encryption does little to change the availability of information in a targeted investigation; it just means it&#x27;s a little more difficult to access the information than entering a phone number into XKeyscore. Investigators can install malware on the device, or microphones and video cameras in the suspect&#x27;s home to hear or see what is being communicated.<p>Forbidding end-to-end encryption, in combination with our mass surveillance apparatus, changes the societal default to be that substantially all conversations are trivially and automatically accessible to the government.</text></item><item><author>IfOnlyYouKnew</author><text>I&#x27;m not entirely sure how those four examples are supposedly invalidated by giving them a clever nickname.<p>I&#x27;ll take the privacy side in most any discussion of privacy-vs-security, but categorically denying the possibility that some crimes could be aided by encryption seems a step to far.<p>It&#x27;s also bad PR strategy: anybody not already on your side will be put off by your apparent lack of reasoning skills.<p>Instead, acknowledge the possibility and show them <i>why</i> you consider the benefits outweighing the risks.</text></item><item><author>Kinnard</author><text>The Second Great CryptoWar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-second-great-crypto-war&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-second-great-crypto-war&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; &quot;The proponents of this process use fear tactics to win support, what the four cypherpunks dub &quot;The Four Horsemen of the Info-pocalypse: child pornography, terrorism, money laundering, and the War on Some Drugs.&quot; In other words, laws passed to go after child pornographers, terrorists, money launderers, and drug dealers end up chipping away at everyone&#x27;s privacy. The classic example is the PATRIOT Act, passed to prevent terrorism but soon used to expand wiretapping and National Security Letter powers in other contexts.&quot;</text></item><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>&gt; We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services without ensuring that there is no reduction to user safety.<p>Oh, so you’re asking for more end-to-end encryption?<p>&gt; While the letter acknowledges that Facebook, which owns Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, captures 99% of child exploitation and terrorism-related content through its own systems, it also notes that &quot;mere numbers cannot capture the significance of the harm to children.&quot;<p>This is such a lazy argument :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-facebook-letter-halt-encryption</url></story> | <instructions>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>* Should we require all in-person conversation to be shouted near a government office?*<p>&quot;Why isn&#x27;t your desk in front of the telescreen?&quot; - <i>1984</i><p>The day will come when not having an Amazon Echo or Google Speaker will be considered probably cause for a search.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kyboren</author><text>Some crimes can also be aided by whispered in-person conversation. Should we require all in-person conversation to be shouted near a government office?<p>The societal default used to be that substantially all conversations were inaccessible to the government except through testimony. Encryption does nothing to change the availability of information through testimony.<p>Previously, remote conspirators could collaborate through the post, and their conversations could only be accessed with a warrant specifically targeting those communicators. End-to-end encryption does little to change the availability of information in a targeted investigation; it just means it&#x27;s a little more difficult to access the information than entering a phone number into XKeyscore. Investigators can install malware on the device, or microphones and video cameras in the suspect&#x27;s home to hear or see what is being communicated.<p>Forbidding end-to-end encryption, in combination with our mass surveillance apparatus, changes the societal default to be that substantially all conversations are trivially and automatically accessible to the government.</text></item><item><author>IfOnlyYouKnew</author><text>I&#x27;m not entirely sure how those four examples are supposedly invalidated by giving them a clever nickname.<p>I&#x27;ll take the privacy side in most any discussion of privacy-vs-security, but categorically denying the possibility that some crimes could be aided by encryption seems a step to far.<p>It&#x27;s also bad PR strategy: anybody not already on your side will be put off by your apparent lack of reasoning skills.<p>Instead, acknowledge the possibility and show them <i>why</i> you consider the benefits outweighing the risks.</text></item><item><author>Kinnard</author><text>The Second Great CryptoWar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-second-great-crypto-war&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-second-great-crypto-war&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; &quot;The proponents of this process use fear tactics to win support, what the four cypherpunks dub &quot;The Four Horsemen of the Info-pocalypse: child pornography, terrorism, money laundering, and the War on Some Drugs.&quot; In other words, laws passed to go after child pornographers, terrorists, money launderers, and drug dealers end up chipping away at everyone&#x27;s privacy. The classic example is the PATRIOT Act, passed to prevent terrorism but soon used to expand wiretapping and National Security Letter powers in other contexts.&quot;</text></item><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>&gt; We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services without ensuring that there is no reduction to user safety.<p>Oh, so you’re asking for more end-to-end encryption?<p>&gt; While the letter acknowledges that Facebook, which owns Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, captures 99% of child exploitation and terrorism-related content through its own systems, it also notes that &quot;mere numbers cannot capture the significance of the harm to children.&quot;<p>This is such a lazy argument :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-facebook-letter-halt-encryption</url></story> |
1,726,612 | 1,726,488 | 1 | 3 | 1,726,381 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bradgessler</author><text>Guys, I need to back Jeff up on this.<p>SMS is just a huge pain in the ass. The carriers have a strangle-hold over this and can cut messages off on a whim. We had an experience once with Verizon where they "accidentally" cut-off our short-code to Poll Everywhere on a Friday evening due to some "clerical errors". 72 hours later they finally had somebody "fix" the situation (support doesn't work on weekends there), and in the meantime we were left in a really bad place trying to explain to our customers how Verizon screwed us over.<p>I've dealt with some total dopes at Celltrust (I need to call these guys out, they're atrociously bad. Please don't do business with them unless you absolutely have to) where our service to Canada was entirely out for a week because they changed how their API worked. They failed to communicate that to us and nobody at their company could tell me how it worked so I had to fire up nc -l, point their gateway at that server, find somebody from Canada who could send a text, and see what came in. After the fact, I told them how horrible the experience was and provided recommendations on how they could improve it. They threatened to cut us off as a client because they felt I was being mean to them instead of acting on the feedback that could have made their service better.<p>Twilio thinks this is assine and are trying to change how this all works. We've shared with them the pains we've experienced with SMS aggregators and they share the same thoughts with us that its a totally unnecessary amount of pain that developers face to build SMS applications. They're really trying to make this easier and lower the bar.<p>Anthony, while your experience wasn't that hot, it was far and above what you'd experience elsewhere. At least Jeff acknowledges that Twilio could do better. That is so far above and beyond anything else in the industry. Throw on top of that an amazingly well executed API and the drive to make a difference in this industry and you're in good hands.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeffiel</author><text>Just posted this on Anthony's blog, but thought I would post it here as well:<p>--<p>Hi Anthony,<p>I'm sorry that you feel we were't straight forward, although our goal was to be completely transparent in our communication with you about the status of this feature. Since the time of launch, we thought we had clearly messaged that international SMS has been an unsupported feature, and that the entire product was in beta status. We had published this fact on our SMS product FAQs, as well as in the public GetSatisfaction forums. Our apologies that we weren't clear enough about that fact, which caused you to roll international SMS features into your app.<p>We do pride ourselves on putting developers and their applications first, and in being open in our communications, product capabilities and limitations. Please feel free to email me at [email protected], I'm always open to feedback, questions, comments or concern.<p>Sincerely,<p>Jeff Lawson
Co-Founder &#38; CEO
Twilio.com</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Twilio screwed us over</title><url>http://feint.me/2010/09/how-twilio-screwed-us-over/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>redstripe</author><text>Is there a page that lists all the beta features that may become unsupported without warning in the future?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jeffiel</author><text>Just posted this on Anthony's blog, but thought I would post it here as well:<p>--<p>Hi Anthony,<p>I'm sorry that you feel we were't straight forward, although our goal was to be completely transparent in our communication with you about the status of this feature. Since the time of launch, we thought we had clearly messaged that international SMS has been an unsupported feature, and that the entire product was in beta status. We had published this fact on our SMS product FAQs, as well as in the public GetSatisfaction forums. Our apologies that we weren't clear enough about that fact, which caused you to roll international SMS features into your app.<p>We do pride ourselves on putting developers and their applications first, and in being open in our communications, product capabilities and limitations. Please feel free to email me at [email protected], I'm always open to feedback, questions, comments or concern.<p>Sincerely,<p>Jeff Lawson
Co-Founder &#38; CEO
Twilio.com</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Twilio screwed us over</title><url>http://feint.me/2010/09/how-twilio-screwed-us-over/</url></story> |
27,299,918 | 27,299,597 | 1 | 3 | 27,295,906 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>utopcell</author><text>You can&#x27;t help but be entertained by the amount of plagiarism that exists. A while back I found out that one of my papers [1] was being sold as a final year thesis via ..a video ad on YouTube [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieeexplore.ieee.org&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;document&#x2F;6746236" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ieeexplore.ieee.org&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;document&#x2F;6746236</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=MFNFScqN47o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=MFNFScqN47o</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jll29</author><text>One way forward could be to lower the bar for publications.<p>Once it&#x27;s no longer about being in the esteemed and scarce &quot;10%&quot;, they won&#x27;t bother because they don&#x27;t need to. Imagine a process where the only criteria are technical soundness and novelty, and as long as minimal standards are met, it&#x27;s a &quot;go&quot;. Call it the &quot;ArXiv + quality check&quot; model.<p>Neither formal acceptance to publish nor citation numbers truly mark scientific excellence; perhaps, winning a &quot;test of time award&quot; does, or appearing in a text book 10 years later.<p>I&#x27;ve been reviewing occasionally since ~1995, regularly since ~2004, and I&#x27;ve never heard of collusion rings happening in my sub-area of CS (ML, IR, NLP). I have caught people submitting to multiple conferences without disclosing it. Ignoring past work that is relevant is common, more often our of blissful ignorance, and occasionally likely with full intent. I&#x27;m not saying I doubt the report, but I suspect the bigger problem that CS has is a large percentage of poor-quality work that couldn&#x27;t be replicated.<p>BTW, the most blantant thing I&#x27;ve heard of (from a contact complaining about it on LinkedIn) is someone had their very own core paper from their PhD thesis plagiarised - submitted to another conference (again) but with different author names on it... and they even cited the real author&#x27;s PhD thesis!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research</title><url>https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/6/252840-collusion-rings-threaten-the-integrity-of-computer-science-research/fulltext</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jhrmnn</author><text>That’s how it used to be. The reason behind the shift is the rapid increase in the amount of research output in the past decades. The reason that “arXiv + quality check” won’t work is that the amount of research funding and permanent positions (related) did not increase accordingly. (Think of all the people producing science for low wages as Phds and postdocs and then quitting.) Right now the burden of the (unfair?) selection is mostly on the publishers and their prestigious journals&#x2F;conferences, which then funding agencies&#x2F;institutions take into account when funding research&#x2F;hiring people. If we switch “arXiv + quality check”, that burden will just move to the funding agencies&#x2F;institutions, but it won’t solve the underlying fundamental problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jll29</author><text>One way forward could be to lower the bar for publications.<p>Once it&#x27;s no longer about being in the esteemed and scarce &quot;10%&quot;, they won&#x27;t bother because they don&#x27;t need to. Imagine a process where the only criteria are technical soundness and novelty, and as long as minimal standards are met, it&#x27;s a &quot;go&quot;. Call it the &quot;ArXiv + quality check&quot; model.<p>Neither formal acceptance to publish nor citation numbers truly mark scientific excellence; perhaps, winning a &quot;test of time award&quot; does, or appearing in a text book 10 years later.<p>I&#x27;ve been reviewing occasionally since ~1995, regularly since ~2004, and I&#x27;ve never heard of collusion rings happening in my sub-area of CS (ML, IR, NLP). I have caught people submitting to multiple conferences without disclosing it. Ignoring past work that is relevant is common, more often our of blissful ignorance, and occasionally likely with full intent. I&#x27;m not saying I doubt the report, but I suspect the bigger problem that CS has is a large percentage of poor-quality work that couldn&#x27;t be replicated.<p>BTW, the most blantant thing I&#x27;ve heard of (from a contact complaining about it on LinkedIn) is someone had their very own core paper from their PhD thesis plagiarised - submitted to another conference (again) but with different author names on it... and they even cited the real author&#x27;s PhD thesis!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research</title><url>https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/6/252840-collusion-rings-threaten-the-integrity-of-computer-science-research/fulltext</url></story> |
14,036,550 | 14,036,446 | 1 | 2 | 14,031,452 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gambler</author><text><i>&gt;For example, Google and other search engines would not work without the principle of least power [1], which a lot of people, including Alan Kay [2], somehow don&#x27;t understand. That is, if the web language was a VM rather than HTML, there would be no Google.</i><p>Kay&#x27;s criticism of the Web is very well justified and (like most of his high-level criticisms) typically misunderstood. He doesn&#x27;t criticize it as a repository of hyperlinked documents. He criticizes it as platform for application delivery, which it became. Modern web with all its scripts <i>is</i> a VM -- and badly designed one at that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chubot</author><text>I always felt that Tim Berners-Lee was not respected enough in both the computer science and programming communities. I felt it especially after working for over a decade at Google, which literally built its entire business on TBL&#x27;s architectural concepts.<p>For example, Google and other search engines would not work without the principle of least power [1], which a lot of people, including Alan Kay [2], somehow don&#x27;t understand. That is, if the web language was a VM rather than HTML, there would be no Google.<p>It would also not have been possible for the web to make the jump from desktops to cell phones as the #1 client now. You know the handler in iOS and Android that makes &lt;select&gt; boxes usable? That&#x27;s an example of the principle of least power.<p>I recommend reading his book &quot;Weaving the Web&quot; [2] if you want to learn more about the story behind the web.<p>I&#x27;m very glad that TBL is getting this recognition. He is a genius and also has a very generous personality.<p>People in the programming community seem to talk about Torvalds or Stallman a lot, perhaps because of their loud styles, but I don&#x27;t see that much about TBL.<p>Ditto in the CS community. &quot;HyperText&quot; used to be a big research area but I guess TBL solved it and people don&#x27;t talk about it anymore.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rule_of_least_power" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rule_of_least_power</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drdobbs.com&#x2F;architecture-and-design&#x2F;interview-with-alan-kay&#x2F;240003442" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drdobbs.com&#x2F;architecture-and-design&#x2F;interview-wit...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Weaving-Web-Original-Ultimate-Destiny&#x2F;dp&#x2F;006251587X" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Weaving-Web-Original-Ultimate-Destiny...</a></text></item><item><author>madiathomas</author><text>This goes to show how hard winning Turing award is. One would have expected someone who invented the most useful invention of the 20th century to have won this award long time ago. Maybe I am just overvaluing www because of the impact it had on people&#x27;s lives.<p>EDITED: 20th century, not 19th.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2017/tim-berners-lee-wins-turing-award-0404</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>noblethrasher</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to detract from TBL&#x27;s accomplishments, especially on this occasion but, he didn&#x27;t solve the hypertext problem insomuch as he decided that the really hard things like provenance and bidirectional linkages weren&#x27;t important. Google and Facebook did solve those problems, but only for commercial benefit. Moreover, it&#x27;s clear that TBL regrets that early decision to the degree that he rails against the walled gardens.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chubot</author><text>I always felt that Tim Berners-Lee was not respected enough in both the computer science and programming communities. I felt it especially after working for over a decade at Google, which literally built its entire business on TBL&#x27;s architectural concepts.<p>For example, Google and other search engines would not work without the principle of least power [1], which a lot of people, including Alan Kay [2], somehow don&#x27;t understand. That is, if the web language was a VM rather than HTML, there would be no Google.<p>It would also not have been possible for the web to make the jump from desktops to cell phones as the #1 client now. You know the handler in iOS and Android that makes &lt;select&gt; boxes usable? That&#x27;s an example of the principle of least power.<p>I recommend reading his book &quot;Weaving the Web&quot; [2] if you want to learn more about the story behind the web.<p>I&#x27;m very glad that TBL is getting this recognition. He is a genius and also has a very generous personality.<p>People in the programming community seem to talk about Torvalds or Stallman a lot, perhaps because of their loud styles, but I don&#x27;t see that much about TBL.<p>Ditto in the CS community. &quot;HyperText&quot; used to be a big research area but I guess TBL solved it and people don&#x27;t talk about it anymore.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rule_of_least_power" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rule_of_least_power</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drdobbs.com&#x2F;architecture-and-design&#x2F;interview-with-alan-kay&#x2F;240003442" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drdobbs.com&#x2F;architecture-and-design&#x2F;interview-wit...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Weaving-Web-Original-Ultimate-Destiny&#x2F;dp&#x2F;006251587X" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Weaving-Web-Original-Ultimate-Destiny...</a></text></item><item><author>madiathomas</author><text>This goes to show how hard winning Turing award is. One would have expected someone who invented the most useful invention of the 20th century to have won this award long time ago. Maybe I am just overvaluing www because of the impact it had on people&#x27;s lives.<p>EDITED: 20th century, not 19th.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2017/tim-berners-lee-wins-turing-award-0404</url></story> |
40,642,875 | 40,642,797 | 1 | 3 | 40,642,328 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mirzap</author><text>What eWaste are you talking about? The lifetime, battery life, and software updates are way longer than those of any other tablet on the market. iPads are not a replacement for Macbooks or PCs; let it be the iPad.</text><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>At this point, only the EU can save the iPad from being eWaste World Champion.<p>Mandate support for alternate OSes, like Asahi Linux on Macbook, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apple-Platform-Security-Crash-Course">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apple-Platform-Secur...</a><p><i>&gt; ipadOS not even one layer of Mac virtualization</i><p>iPadOS 17 on M4 has a &quot;Secure Exclave&quot; OS, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@_inside&#x2F;112440596781136013" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@_inside&#x2F;112440596781136013</a></text></item><item><author>whatever1</author><text>And ipadOS not even one layer of Mac virtualization</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>macOS 15.0 supports Nested Virtualization on M3 chips</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzgenericplatformconfiguration/4360553-isnestedvirtualizationsupported</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deletedie</author><text>With the EU now going centre-right (and largely at the expense of Greens) their long-standing stance on eWaste (and similar consumer-oriented regulation) is likely to be casualty.</text><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>At this point, only the EU can save the iPad from being eWaste World Champion.<p>Mandate support for alternate OSes, like Asahi Linux on Macbook, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apple-Platform-Security-Crash-Course">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apple-Platform-Secur...</a><p><i>&gt; ipadOS not even one layer of Mac virtualization</i><p>iPadOS 17 on M4 has a &quot;Secure Exclave&quot; OS, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@_inside&#x2F;112440596781136013" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@_inside&#x2F;112440596781136013</a></text></item><item><author>whatever1</author><text>And ipadOS not even one layer of Mac virtualization</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>macOS 15.0 supports Nested Virtualization on M3 chips</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzgenericplatformconfiguration/4360553-isnestedvirtualizationsupported</url></story> |
7,868,819 | 7,868,592 | 1 | 2 | 7,868,211 | 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>NathanKP</author><text>Very nice concept. You should also add the following CSS to the captcha letters:<p><pre><code> -webkit-touch-callout: none; -webkit-user-select: none; -khtml-user-select: none;
-moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;
</code></pre>
This will make it feel even more like a real captcha by making it impossible to select the text. (Right now you can select it to see the invisible letters)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Tricking the user to access history using CSS and captchas</title><url>http://frantzmiccoli.github.io/visited-captcha-history/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jere</author><text>Quite scarier than the TinSnail demo, but it must have a much lower bandwidth. The source only has three links and you will probably see all three if you have caching turned on. I guess if you&#x27;re looking for one or two specific sites, it doesn&#x27;t matter.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Tricking the user to access history using CSS and captchas</title><url>http://frantzmiccoli.github.io/visited-captcha-history/</url></story> |
20,865,736 | 20,865,846 | 1 | 2 | 20,865,270 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>projektfu</author><text>While short term interest rates are strongly affected by the operation of the Federal Reserve, which can choose to buy or sell to achieve policy goals, long term interest rates are set by the market. If the government offered bonds with a coupon at 3 times the going rate, it would sell at auction at a price that would cause it to yield the going rate. Essentially, the market is not excited about the prospects for equities and has been bidding up the price (reducing yield) of bonds.<p>N.B., inflation (CPI-U) averaged 1.5% per year over the last 5 years, if my calculation is correct.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>I&#x27;m no expert but it seems the &#x27;cause&#x27; of a lot of problems right now - the one mentioned in this article, but also climbing housing prices - are caused by low and negative bond interest rates. Who sets these interest rates? Why are they being kept low? They seem to have such a big influence on the economy right now, driving it towards riskier investments - I mean my bank&#x27;s savings account, which IIRC is tied to government bond interest rates and (also historically low interest) mortgages, is pretty much zero so I&#x27;ve moved some of my funds into (riskier) investments.<p>I mean I don&#x27;t really want to be doing that but right now, putting money in savings and keeping it is basically costing me 2-3% of its value a year due to inflation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pension funds may be wrecked in a future recession</title><url>https://www.cassandracapital.net/post/pension-funds-are-going-to-be-destroyed-in-the-next-recession</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pytester</author><text>The Fed set interest rates low in 2008 in order to provide a stealth bailout to the banks that had lent too much and were sitting on collateral that was less than the money which was owed.<p>The low interest rates raised asset values to the point where they weren&#x27;t sitting on heavy losses any more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>I&#x27;m no expert but it seems the &#x27;cause&#x27; of a lot of problems right now - the one mentioned in this article, but also climbing housing prices - are caused by low and negative bond interest rates. Who sets these interest rates? Why are they being kept low? They seem to have such a big influence on the economy right now, driving it towards riskier investments - I mean my bank&#x27;s savings account, which IIRC is tied to government bond interest rates and (also historically low interest) mortgages, is pretty much zero so I&#x27;ve moved some of my funds into (riskier) investments.<p>I mean I don&#x27;t really want to be doing that but right now, putting money in savings and keeping it is basically costing me 2-3% of its value a year due to inflation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pension funds may be wrecked in a future recession</title><url>https://www.cassandracapital.net/post/pension-funds-are-going-to-be-destroyed-in-the-next-recession</url></story> |
26,498,746 | 26,498,682 | 1 | 2 | 26,498,431 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>titzer</author><text>Did anyone actually look at the machine code generated here? 0.30ns per value? That is basically 1 cycle. Of course, there is no way that a processor can compute so many dependent instructions in one cycle, simply because they generate so many dependent micro-ops, and every micro-op is at least one cycle to go through an execution unit. So this must mean that either the compiler is unrolling the (benchmarking) loop, or the processor is speculating many loop iterations into the future, so that the latencies can be overlapped and it works out to 1 cycle <i>on average</i>. 1 cycle <i>on average</i> for any kind of loop is just flat out suspicious.<p>This requires a lot more digging to understand.<p>Simply put, I don&#x27;t accept the hastily arrived-at conclusion, and wish Daniel would put more effort into investigation in the future. This experiment is a poor example of how to investigate performance on small kernels. You should be looking at the assembly code output by the compiler at this point instead of spitballing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2021/03/17/apples-m1-processor-and-the-full-128-bit-integer-product/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>p1mrx</author><text>RISC-V does this too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;five-embeddev.com&#x2F;riscv-isa-manual&#x2F;latest&#x2F;m.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;five-embeddev.com&#x2F;riscv-isa-manual&#x2F;latest&#x2F;m.html</a><p>&quot;If both the high and low bits of the same product are required, then the recommended code sequence is [...]. Microarchitectures can then fuse these into a single multiply operation instead of performing two separate multiplies.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2021/03/17/apples-m1-processor-and-the-full-128-bit-integer-product/</url></story> |
26,711,303 | 26,710,417 | 1 | 3 | 26,709,053 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iandanforth</author><text>Please please don&#x27;t take away from this that there are &quot;memory cells&quot; that &quot;encode memories.&quot; The article is so badly written it seems to imply that. Memory is a <i>whole brain</i> phenomenon, and memory formation involves connections being formed and lost constantly between all types of neurons everywhere in the brain. One small aspect of memory (episodic memory) relies more heavily on hippocampal neurons during consolidation, and a small portion of that process is what is being discussed here.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neuroscientists discover molecular mechanism that allows memories to form (2020)</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2020/engram-memories-form-1005</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cblconfederate</author><text>I often wonder why universities post these press releases for the general public. Epigenetic modifications and memory is still basic research in early investigation, known to play a role in memory extinction and reconsolidation for example, but this is still too early research to make any concrete announcements that would have actionable information, esp. for the general public.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Neuroscientists discover molecular mechanism that allows memories to form (2020)</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2020/engram-memories-form-1005</url></story> |
5,884,638 | 5,884,496 | 1 | 2 | 5,884,218 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>contingencies</author><text>Attempted background: Cambodia was the historic center of multiple kingdoms that dominated the region from the edge of modern Burma through Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia to south Vietnam. These kingdoms were often ruled via local kings and vacillated between state religions under the successive influence of Indian Hindu brahmins and Buddhist monks. In essence, these were cultural outposts of India. The north-easternmost, Champa, was half-way up modern Vietnam, quite close to the border of modern China.<p>Archaeology around the region was kicked off largely by the French in the colonial period, and has been moving forward in leaps and bounds of late, due to improved archaeological techniques, access to satellite data, and improved understanding of ancient sources. The primary textual sources on the region are Chinese, but the city described here may pre-date most of those sources - the earliest of which mostly described Funan, a city-state by the Mekong river in far southeastern Cambodia near the modern Vietnamese border. Angkor came later, but evidence is scant regarding the nature of its relationship to other kingdoms such as Champa and Zhenla. This find may help in that area.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/14/191727408/archaeologists-discover-lost-city-in-cambodian-jungle</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>obtino</author><text>Original article:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theage.com.au&#x2F;world&#x2F;the-lost-city-20130614-2o9k7.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theage.com.au&#x2F;world&#x2F;the-lost-city-20130614-2o9k7....</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/14/191727408/archaeologists-discover-lost-city-in-cambodian-jungle</url></story> |
4,482,348 | 4,482,085 | 1 | 2 | 4,481,234 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gnosis</author><text>You might be interested in "zargs" in zsh, which would save you the call to find.<p>Furthermore, instead of the pipe to sed and extra xargs, it might be clearer and simpler to do something like:<p><pre><code> zargs -n 1 **/*.jpg -- make-thumb
</code></pre>
Where "make-thumb" is a short script (or even a zsh function, if you care about saving a fork for each input file) containing:<p><pre><code> convert -geometry 200x $1 ${1%%.jpg}_thumb.jpg
</code></pre>
But, in real life, instead of writing such a script or function, what I'd probably do instead is:<p><pre><code> zargs -n 1 **/*.jpg | vipe &#62; myscript
</code></pre>
and do some quick editing in vim to modify the zargs output by hand to do whatever I need -- and then I'd run the resulting "myscript". Just fyi, "vipe" is part of the "moreutils" package [1] and lets you use your editor in the middle of a pipe.<p>One final trick is for when you need to do in-place image manipulation. Instead of using "convert", you can use another ImageMagick command: "mogrify". It will overwrite the original file with the modified file. Of course, you should be very careful with it.<p>[1] - <a href="http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/" rel="nofollow">http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewvc</author><text>My #1 abuse is xargs -n1.<p>A lot of people like writing bash for loops, I will try and avoid that as much as possible, xargs -n1 is the bash equivalent of a call to 'map' in a functional language.<p>For instance, let's say you want to create thumbnails of a bunch of jpegs:<p>find images -name "*.jpg" | xargs -n1 -IF echo F F | sed -e 's/.jpg$/_thumb.jpg/' | xargs -n2 echo convert -geometry 200x<p>Additionally, it's fully parallelizable as xargs supports something akin to pmap.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day</title><url>http://everythingsysadmin.com/2012/09/unorthodoxunix.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>sonnym</author><text>I use xargs a lot for refactoring work when I cannot simply use sed, e.g.<p>vim $(grep -lr foo | xargs)<p>and doing what I need to do on a file by file basis. Otherwise, for renaming functions and the like, I do a lot of:<p>find . -name foo_fn exec sed -i s/foo_fn/bar_fn/g '{}' \;<p>I generally love abusing bash. Just today I was asked about how to rename a bunch of files, specifically containing spaces, and came up with either of these two options:<p>find -name foo_bar -exec cp "'{}'"{,.bak} \;<p>and<p>for file in $(find -name foo_bar); do cp "$file"{,.bak}; done<p>Ultimately, the great thing is, if you learn CTRL-R, you can always search for these types of commands and modify them as necessary for the particular task at hand and not necessarily remember them. One I use all the time, to push git branches upstream is the following:<p>CTRL-R --set-<p>which gives me:<p>git push -f --set-upstream origin `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`<p>This is entirely unique in my history, a common part of my workflow, and trivially searchable.<p>I also enjoy being able to perform something along the lines of:<p>vim $(bundle show foo-gem)</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewvc</author><text>My #1 abuse is xargs -n1.<p>A lot of people like writing bash for loops, I will try and avoid that as much as possible, xargs -n1 is the bash equivalent of a call to 'map' in a functional language.<p>For instance, let's say you want to create thumbnails of a bunch of jpegs:<p>find images -name "*.jpg" | xargs -n1 -IF echo F F | sed -e 's/.jpg$/_thumb.jpg/' | xargs -n2 echo convert -geometry 200x<p>Additionally, it's fully parallelizable as xargs supports something akin to pmap.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day</title><url>http://everythingsysadmin.com/2012/09/unorthodoxunix.html</url></story> |
8,733,193 | 8,733,070 | 1 | 3 | 8,732,894 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chroma</author><text>I&#x27;ve donated to the Internet Archive and I&#x27;m a big fan of Jason Scott, but the Internet Archive <i>is not an archive</i>. Any site on it can go down without warning, thanks to the fact that they apply current robots.txt rules to past archives. Once a domain squatter or regretful admin forbids archivebot (or crawlers in general), archive.org&#x27;s copy goes down.<p>This has ruined many supposedly permanent links. The infamous &quot;She&#x27;s a Flight Risk&quot; blog from a decade ago is down.[1] My first website is missing. Even public domain stuff like NASA&#x27;s report on nuclear propulsion is gone.[2]<p>With just a small rule change (obey robots.txt at the time of crawling), they could eliminate the risk of a page disappearing. Instead, we&#x27;re stuck with a slower version of the link rot we&#x27;re used to. It doesn&#x27;t stop me from supporting them, but it&#x27;s incredibly frustrating.<p>1. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aflightrisk.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;*&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aflightrisk.blogspo...</a><p>2. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20121029225832/http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770085619_1977085619.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20121029225832&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ntrs.nasa.g...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Donate to the Internet Archive</title><url>https://archive.org/donate/index.php</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>benbreen</author><text>Archive.org has been an absolute godsend for historians and others who use rare books. Case in point: when I was doing PhD research in Lisbon three years ago, I had to search several rare book shops and ended up paying 80 euros for a very rare 19th century Portuguese book I needed for my research. Here it is on archive.org in multiple editions, all text-searchable: <a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=duarte%20ribeiro%20de%20macedo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;search.php?query=duarte%20ribeiro%20de%2...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Donate to the Internet Archive</title><url>https://archive.org/donate/index.php</url></story> |
6,916,179 | 6,916,237 | 1 | 2 | 6,915,154 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simias</author><text>Before we terraform the planet don&#x27;t you think it might be interesting to learn about martian history before it cannot be recovered?<p>If you dig the foundation of a parking lot and you find the vestiges of an ancient civilisation don&#x27;t you take the time to study what you&#x27;ve found before your send the steamrollers in?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jboggan</author><text>Is anyone else tired of hearing about the dangers of interplanetary contamination, particularly from the Earth to Mars? I want to see the whole place terraformed and I can&#x27;t imagine that we&#x27;d be so successful in our lifetimes that we&#x27;d wipe out whatever scientifically interesting traces of extant Martian flora there are. Whether or not there was life on Mars is a fascinating question, but I think the more important one is when will we expand life on Mars?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Water seems to flow freely on Mars</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/water-seems-to-flow-freely-on-mars-1.14343?</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mongol</author><text>Why the hurry? Let&#x27;s explore it for 100 years before terraforming it. I am not tired of it all, it is much more valuable to figure out what is there first before changing it.<p>EDIT. Terraforming it in a hurry feels like building a shopping mall on top of the remains of an ancient civilization before it has been properly researched</text><parent_chain><item><author>jboggan</author><text>Is anyone else tired of hearing about the dangers of interplanetary contamination, particularly from the Earth to Mars? I want to see the whole place terraformed and I can&#x27;t imagine that we&#x27;d be so successful in our lifetimes that we&#x27;d wipe out whatever scientifically interesting traces of extant Martian flora there are. Whether or not there was life on Mars is a fascinating question, but I think the more important one is when will we expand life on Mars?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Water seems to flow freely on Mars</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/water-seems-to-flow-freely-on-mars-1.14343?</url></story> |
12,898,758 | 12,898,804 | 1 | 2 | 12,898,406 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>daurnimator</author><text>IMO the major thing holding back IPv6 on the web is amazon. A huge proportion of services are hosted on AWS, and the lack of IPv6 addressing of instances cannot be forgiven.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IAB Statement on IPv6</title><url>https://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documents/2016-2/iab-statement-on-ipv6/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Arnt</author><text>I noticed the other day that IPv6 growth is slowing down, as Google measures it. Its access share used to double every ten or eleven months, now it doubles more slowly, and seems likely to reach 20% only in 2017 instead of this year, and if it goes on as in the recent months, 30% in 2018 instead of in 2017.<p>At a guess, many of most competent ISPs have done their thing and now we&#x27;re seeing the more sluggish middle. Or? Comments?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IAB Statement on IPv6</title><url>https://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documents/2016-2/iab-statement-on-ipv6/</url></story> |
37,513,949 | 37,509,033 | 1 | 3 | 37,502,665 | 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>PopAlongKid</author><text>The technical term for long-distance power delivery is &quot;transmission&quot;. Distribution refers to getting the power from the local substation to the individual homes and businesses.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>You&#x27;d think so, but it often turns out that distribution is more expensive than inefficient local generation.[1]<p>We still want to do lots of distribution, but it&#x27;ll be for reliability reasons rather than cost.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caseyhandmer.wordpress.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;the-future-of-electricity-is-local&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caseyhandmer.wordpress.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;the-future-of-...</a></text></item><item><author>jandrese</author><text>This seems like a good thing. Export sun power from sunny parts of the US to less sunny parts.</text></item><item><author>kmax12</author><text>&gt; At peak, renewables provide up to ~90% of California&#x27;s electricity<p>In fact, renewable generation regularly hit more than 100% of load in California during April and June of this year. The peak was 132% of load [0]!<p>How can generation be more than 100% of load? California was exporting power to other regions.<p>We track all this data and more across the United States at Grid Status: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridstatus.io&#x2F;home" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridstatus.io&#x2F;home</a><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridstatus.io&#x2F;records&#x2F;caiso?record=Maximum%20Renewables%20To%20Load%20Ratio" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridstatus.io&#x2F;records&#x2F;caiso?record=Maximum%20Ren...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Solar</title><url>https://patrickcollison.com/solar</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pydry</author><text>If you get 1MWh with 50% efficiency from a solar panel that&#x27;s still better than burning 1MWh&#x27;s worth of gas.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>You&#x27;d think so, but it often turns out that distribution is more expensive than inefficient local generation.[1]<p>We still want to do lots of distribution, but it&#x27;ll be for reliability reasons rather than cost.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caseyhandmer.wordpress.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;the-future-of-electricity-is-local&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caseyhandmer.wordpress.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;the-future-of-...</a></text></item><item><author>jandrese</author><text>This seems like a good thing. Export sun power from sunny parts of the US to less sunny parts.</text></item><item><author>kmax12</author><text>&gt; At peak, renewables provide up to ~90% of California&#x27;s electricity<p>In fact, renewable generation regularly hit more than 100% of load in California during April and June of this year. The peak was 132% of load [0]!<p>How can generation be more than 100% of load? California was exporting power to other regions.<p>We track all this data and more across the United States at Grid Status: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridstatus.io&#x2F;home" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridstatus.io&#x2F;home</a><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridstatus.io&#x2F;records&#x2F;caiso?record=Maximum%20Renewables%20To%20Load%20Ratio" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridstatus.io&#x2F;records&#x2F;caiso?record=Maximum%20Ren...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Solar</title><url>https://patrickcollison.com/solar</url></story> |
20,478,869 | 20,478,803 | 1 | 2 | 20,478,571 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johncolanduoni</author><text>The issue looks to be that they thought they had informed all the affected users back in 2015, but underestimated the set of affected users. The breach certainly wasn’t secret until today, they posted it publicly at that time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slackhq.com&#x2F;march-2015-security-incident-and-the-launch-of-two-factor-authentication" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slackhq.com&#x2F;march-2015-security-incident-and-the-lau...</a>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>numair</author><text>The author would have done well by refraining from using this as an opportunity to make a sales pitch for their startup, as it detracts from an otherwise important message.<p>Let me see if I have this right:<p>Slack had a major security breach in 2015. Apparently someone installed malicious code that could even read password inputs in plaintext. They waited 4 years, after growing large and going public, to inform affected users. And in the interim they blamed their users for any related security problems.<p>Do I have this correct? If so, how is anyone going to defend this situation? And how can anyone put any sensitive data on Slack, or tell their company to do so, and feel good about it now?<p>I expected some stupid apology note from the CEO on their website if this turns into a bigger issue, which is sort of an anti-pattern at this point...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Slack Security Incident</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/slack-incident</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mfer</author><text>I think the point was a sales pitch. The post worked well enough to get to the top of the Hacker News front page. I think the effort was rewarded.</text><parent_chain><item><author>numair</author><text>The author would have done well by refraining from using this as an opportunity to make a sales pitch for their startup, as it detracts from an otherwise important message.<p>Let me see if I have this right:<p>Slack had a major security breach in 2015. Apparently someone installed malicious code that could even read password inputs in plaintext. They waited 4 years, after growing large and going public, to inform affected users. And in the interim they blamed their users for any related security problems.<p>Do I have this correct? If so, how is anyone going to defend this situation? And how can anyone put any sensitive data on Slack, or tell their company to do so, and feel good about it now?<p>I expected some stupid apology note from the CEO on their website if this turns into a bigger issue, which is sort of an anti-pattern at this point...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Slack Security Incident</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/slack-incident</url></story> |
14,376,003 | 14,376,221 | 1 | 2 | 14,375,145 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atemerev</author><text>I am not a pentesting expert. My first reaction is to leave everything as is, as it is a very cool to play with root access to docker containers (I managed to reboot one, but a new one immediately appeared on page reload).<p>My worst concern now would be network security. With root access, it is trivial to e.g. install spambots in all your containers (just checked, command execution works, and external network access is enabled). I think it is a good idea to at least disable networking. (Update: and use a minimal Docker image like Alpine Linux).<p>Proof:<p>[__REDACTED__]</text><parent_chain><item><author>masgui</author><text>It does and you are root. You are evaluating inside a docker container. It&#x27;s not a bulletproof method but it will stop a few. The instances evaluating your code is also on a network not accessible from the internet. I&#x27;m not an expert in security, if you have any advice on how we can improve our defence please tell us.</text></item><item><author>atemerev</author><text>(naturally, the very first thing I tried to evaluate is scala.io.Source.fromFile(&quot;&#x2F;etc&#x2F;passwd&quot;).getLines.mkString(&quot;\n&quot;) . Spoiler alert: it works!)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scastie: use any Scala compiler and Scala library in the browser</title><url>http://scala-lang.org/blog/2017/05/19/scastie.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>clhodapp</author><text>The general rule is that you want as many layers of security as you can get away with without making things impractically inconvenient. In this case, the first step is probably <i>not</i> letting the user&#x27;s code run as root in the container. Gaining container-root is going to be the first step in many, many exploits and by letting code just run that way, you are giving a potential attacker that step for free.<p>Disclaimer: Absolutely not a security expert, just someone who is somewhat on the hook for security!</text><parent_chain><item><author>masgui</author><text>It does and you are root. You are evaluating inside a docker container. It&#x27;s not a bulletproof method but it will stop a few. The instances evaluating your code is also on a network not accessible from the internet. I&#x27;m not an expert in security, if you have any advice on how we can improve our defence please tell us.</text></item><item><author>atemerev</author><text>(naturally, the very first thing I tried to evaluate is scala.io.Source.fromFile(&quot;&#x2F;etc&#x2F;passwd&quot;).getLines.mkString(&quot;\n&quot;) . Spoiler alert: it works!)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scastie: use any Scala compiler and Scala library in the browser</title><url>http://scala-lang.org/blog/2017/05/19/scastie.html</url></story> |
4,389,506 | 4,389,177 | 1 | 2 | 4,388,339 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>turar</author><text>&#62; Since 9/11 the USA has shown that it does not follow the civil rules of law for non-citizens.<p>Citizens too.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Derwish" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Derwish</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Aulaqi" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Aulaqi</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul-Rahman_al-Awlaki" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul-Rahman_al-Awlaki</a> (16 y.o. minor US citizen)<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Khan" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Khan</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>guelo</author><text>Since 9/11 the USA has shown that it does not follow the civil rules of law for non-citizens. Obama's DOJ has convened a secret grand jury investigating Assange under the Espionage Act[1]. Joe Biden has called him a terrorist [2]. Others have called for his assassination [3]. Sweden was involved in the CIA's illegal rendition program and sent people to be tortured in Egypt[4]. Assange has every reason to fear for his life.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112905973.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/19/assange-high-tech-terrorist-biden" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/19/assange-high-tec...</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40467957/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in_security/t/assange-lawyer-condemns-calls-assassination-wikileaks-founder/" rel="nofollow">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40467957/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in...</a><p>[4] <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-ban-cia-rendition" rel="nofollow">http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-b...</a></text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>How rapidly people forget their history. Britain has a specific law on the subject because of an incident that occurred in Britain within my memory, a shooting of a police officer from within the grounds of the Libyan embassy.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher</a><p>No, harboring Julian Assange is not just like shooting at police officers outside the embassy, but preventing the host country from continuing to follow the steps of its agreements about accused defendants with another country is also not the normal activity of a diplomatic representative. There is a long tradition of dissidents seeking asylum in foreign embassies, and that tradition seems to be longest in Latin America, but that can also have consequences for the embassy's relationship with the host country.<p>AFTER EDIT:<p>By the way, it has been a very, very long time (since before I was born) since the United States federal government has imposed capital punishment for the crimes of treason or espionage (which, yes, could be a basis for capital punishment under federal law).<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_United_States_federal_government#Earlier_civilian_executions" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_Unite...</a><p><a href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/crm00076.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/tit...</a><p>Nowadays, it is routine for persons who revealed secret information to the harm of the United States to be imprisoned, sometimes for a term of years rather than for life.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_spies#Americans_convicted_of_spying_for_foreign_countries" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_spies#American...</a><p>Simply put, even IF Julian Assange were to have to leave Sweden after going from Britain to Sweden for questioning, and even IF Julian Assange were then charged with espionage by the United States, and even IF he were then convicted of espionage, it is quite doubtful that Assange would be executed. Most likely, he would just (if ALL of the hypothetical events happened) end up spending a lot of time in the Supermax prison in Colorado.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Florence_ADX#Inmate_population" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Flo...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19259623</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>GHFigs</author><text><i>Obama's DOJ has convened a secret grand jury investigating Assange under the Espionage Act.</i><p>All grand jury proceedings are secret. This is a normal part of the US legal system.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_juries_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_juries_in_the_United_Stat...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>guelo</author><text>Since 9/11 the USA has shown that it does not follow the civil rules of law for non-citizens. Obama's DOJ has convened a secret grand jury investigating Assange under the Espionage Act[1]. Joe Biden has called him a terrorist [2]. Others have called for his assassination [3]. Sweden was involved in the CIA's illegal rendition program and sent people to be tortured in Egypt[4]. Assange has every reason to fear for his life.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112905973.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/19/assange-high-tech-terrorist-biden" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/19/assange-high-tec...</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40467957/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in_security/t/assange-lawyer-condemns-calls-assassination-wikileaks-founder/" rel="nofollow">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40467957/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in...</a><p>[4] <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-ban-cia-rendition" rel="nofollow">http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-b...</a></text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>How rapidly people forget their history. Britain has a specific law on the subject because of an incident that occurred in Britain within my memory, a shooting of a police officer from within the grounds of the Libyan embassy.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher</a><p>No, harboring Julian Assange is not just like shooting at police officers outside the embassy, but preventing the host country from continuing to follow the steps of its agreements about accused defendants with another country is also not the normal activity of a diplomatic representative. There is a long tradition of dissidents seeking asylum in foreign embassies, and that tradition seems to be longest in Latin America, but that can also have consequences for the embassy's relationship with the host country.<p>AFTER EDIT:<p>By the way, it has been a very, very long time (since before I was born) since the United States federal government has imposed capital punishment for the crimes of treason or espionage (which, yes, could be a basis for capital punishment under federal law).<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_United_States_federal_government#Earlier_civilian_executions" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_Unite...</a><p><a href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/crm00076.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/tit...</a><p>Nowadays, it is routine for persons who revealed secret information to the harm of the United States to be imprisoned, sometimes for a term of years rather than for life.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_spies#Americans_convicted_of_spying_for_foreign_countries" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_spies#American...</a><p>Simply put, even IF Julian Assange were to have to leave Sweden after going from Britain to Sweden for questioning, and even IF Julian Assange were then charged with espionage by the United States, and even IF he were then convicted of espionage, it is quite doubtful that Assange would be executed. Most likely, he would just (if ALL of the hypothetical events happened) end up spending a lot of time in the Supermax prison in Colorado.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Florence_ADX#Inmate_population" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Flo...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19259623</url><text></text></story> |
8,659,555 | 8,659,508 | 1 | 3 | 8,659,319 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text><i>No money changes hands</i><p>This might be a small detail that matters big if you start driving for Lyft. What does your personal auto insurance policy cover if a <i>paying</i> passenger gets hurt in an accident in your car?</text><parent_chain><item><author>eli</author><text>Shared carpooling (called &quot;slugging&quot; here) has a been a viable commuting option for people in the DC area for decades. No money changes hands; the point is that a car with 3+ people can use the much faster HOV lanes.<p><a href="http://www.slug-lines.com/Slugging/About_slugging.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slug-lines.com&#x2F;Slugging&#x2F;About_slugging.asp</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Driver Destination</title><url>http://blog.lyft.com/posts/2014/11/24/become-a-lyft-driver-on-your-way-to-work-introducing-driver-destination</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>Likewise in SF&#x2F;Oakland - <a href="http://sfcasualcarpool.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfcasualcarpool.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>eli</author><text>Shared carpooling (called &quot;slugging&quot; here) has a been a viable commuting option for people in the DC area for decades. No money changes hands; the point is that a car with 3+ people can use the much faster HOV lanes.<p><a href="http://www.slug-lines.com/Slugging/About_slugging.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slug-lines.com&#x2F;Slugging&#x2F;About_slugging.asp</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Introducing Driver Destination</title><url>http://blog.lyft.com/posts/2014/11/24/become-a-lyft-driver-on-your-way-to-work-introducing-driver-destination</url></story> |
26,954,241 | 26,954,331 | 1 | 3 | 26,953,225 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>Another great piece from Patrick, full of specific advice and grounded in several places with “and here’s the one non-obvious additional tidbit that will drive the point home for you most helpfully”.<p>Only minor addition I’d make is in the section on Fermi estimation of market size is to end that with a warning something like “but resist the temptation to say ‘and even if we only get 1% of that <i>huge</i> market, we’ll still be a success!’” You might be permanently viable and profitable (success for you perhaps), but getting 1% is harder than you think and is not a success case for a VC. But it’s super-tempting and common thought pattern. What you’re pitching and thinking of as an exciting modest success is another failure that the VC has to wind down and exit from.<p>You might be OK with that outcome, but portray that you’re single-mindedly going after 70+% of that market. If the investor wants to calculate what 1% of it is on their own, they can in their head; you don’t need to connect those dots for them and put the fallback&#x2F;safety case in their mind. (It’s not entirely omitted, but I’d make it explicit as I’ve gone down this road myself.)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pitching your early stage startup</title><url>https://stripe.com/en-gb-be/atlas/guides/pitching</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ignoramous</author><text>This content makes for a compelling aside to <i>Pitching Hacks</i> book by Angel List: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20120227074613&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturehacks.wpengine.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2009&#x2F;12&#x2F;Pitching-Hacks.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20120227074613&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ventureha...</a><p>See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupclass.samaltman.com&#x2F;lists&#x2F;readings&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupclass.samaltman.com&#x2F;lists&#x2F;readings&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pitching your early stage startup</title><url>https://stripe.com/en-gb-be/atlas/guides/pitching</url></story> |
8,519,511 | 8,519,433 | 1 | 2 | 8,518,903 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>asadotzler</author><text>365 days a year for several years Google has had a Chrome banner ad on www.google.com showing to Firefox users. That page is the most lucrative property on the web in terms of eyeballs, so take your most outrageous ad rate you can find and do the math. It&#x27;s billions per year worth of advertising.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wodenokoto</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see a source for the billion-dollar-a-year campaign, that sounds crazy. That&#x27;s 3 times Mozilla&#x27;s entire budget, if memory serves me right.</text></item><item><author>bzbarsky</author><text>1) Google never backed Firefox with a billion-dollar-a-year advertising campaign like they have Chrome for several years now.<p>2) It&#x27;s not an accident that Google&#x27;s webservices work best (sometimes only) in Chrome.<p>They&#x27;re way past the &quot;disrupt IE&quot; goal. They&#x27;re into the &quot;tightly couple our web service and Chrome and try to force out other options&quot; goal.</text></item><item><author>taf2</author><text>I don&#x27;t think there is actually any evidence they use Chrome for much more than<p>1. disrupt IE&#x2F;MS - i can say for certain they originally backed Firefox for this effort and only decided to split away to build chrome in the first place because they felt starting fresh they could build a better core and i believe they did.<p>2. enabling more people to build on the web, enables more of their ads to be shown. Firefox achieves this just as well as chrome. IE was dominating not too long ago and you could argue much of google&#x27;s ad revenue growth can be attributed to more people having access to a higher quality web.<p>That said... I don&#x27;t see why you should believe google would need or desire to sell data from what it might collect from Chrome. More likely they see it as a means to ensuring web dominance by ensuring the web is never locked down by one mega corp. It&#x27;s similar in away to what they have done in the mobile space. Android is more of a technology to disrupt Apple and ensure it can&#x27;t be dominate, but really does google have any control over Android?</text></item><item><author>skrowl</author><text>I&#x27;ve been reminding everyone I know who still uses Chrome to try Firefox again. Many have switched back. It&#x27;s simply a better browser. One e10s is in stable, it&#x27;s going to be even better.<p>Google is a for-profit company that makes money selling your data and targeted, personal ads.<p>Mozilla is not-for-profit and just wants to make the web better.</text></item><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>I have been very impressed by Firefox lately. Kudos to the whole team at Mozilla.<p>Just about 5 years ago, it was looking to me like it was the end of Firefox. It was Chrome all the way. New features were coming out one after another. Faster rendering. Safe process isolation for each tab. Looked better.<p>But I just switched back last month. It happened kind of randomly. Saw an announcement of a new release ( 33, I think ), downloaded, re-imported my bookmarks from Chrome and just kind of kept using it instead of Chrome since then.<p>I like how the tabs look also I think it feels lighter and snappier on my (now old-ish) laptop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance</title><url>http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/10/are-we-fast-yet-yes-we-are.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>hyperbovine</author><text>$1 billion is Apple&#x27;s ad budget as of two years ago and a non-trivial fraction of Coke&#x27;s overall annual ad budget. I call bs.<p>(<a href="http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Screen-Shot-2013-11-04-at-11-4-4.55.03-PM.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asymco.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;Screen-Shot...</a>)</text><parent_chain><item><author>wodenokoto</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see a source for the billion-dollar-a-year campaign, that sounds crazy. That&#x27;s 3 times Mozilla&#x27;s entire budget, if memory serves me right.</text></item><item><author>bzbarsky</author><text>1) Google never backed Firefox with a billion-dollar-a-year advertising campaign like they have Chrome for several years now.<p>2) It&#x27;s not an accident that Google&#x27;s webservices work best (sometimes only) in Chrome.<p>They&#x27;re way past the &quot;disrupt IE&quot; goal. They&#x27;re into the &quot;tightly couple our web service and Chrome and try to force out other options&quot; goal.</text></item><item><author>taf2</author><text>I don&#x27;t think there is actually any evidence they use Chrome for much more than<p>1. disrupt IE&#x2F;MS - i can say for certain they originally backed Firefox for this effort and only decided to split away to build chrome in the first place because they felt starting fresh they could build a better core and i believe they did.<p>2. enabling more people to build on the web, enables more of their ads to be shown. Firefox achieves this just as well as chrome. IE was dominating not too long ago and you could argue much of google&#x27;s ad revenue growth can be attributed to more people having access to a higher quality web.<p>That said... I don&#x27;t see why you should believe google would need or desire to sell data from what it might collect from Chrome. More likely they see it as a means to ensuring web dominance by ensuring the web is never locked down by one mega corp. It&#x27;s similar in away to what they have done in the mobile space. Android is more of a technology to disrupt Apple and ensure it can&#x27;t be dominate, but really does google have any control over Android?</text></item><item><author>skrowl</author><text>I&#x27;ve been reminding everyone I know who still uses Chrome to try Firefox again. Many have switched back. It&#x27;s simply a better browser. One e10s is in stable, it&#x27;s going to be even better.<p>Google is a for-profit company that makes money selling your data and targeted, personal ads.<p>Mozilla is not-for-profit and just wants to make the web better.</text></item><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>I have been very impressed by Firefox lately. Kudos to the whole team at Mozilla.<p>Just about 5 years ago, it was looking to me like it was the end of Firefox. It was Chrome all the way. New features were coming out one after another. Faster rendering. Safe process isolation for each tab. Looked better.<p>But I just switched back last month. It happened kind of randomly. Saw an announcement of a new release ( 33, I think ), downloaded, re-imported my bookmarks from Chrome and just kind of kept using it instead of Chrome since then.<p>I like how the tabs look also I think it feels lighter and snappier on my (now old-ish) laptop.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance</title><url>http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/10/are-we-fast-yet-yes-we-are.html</url></story> |
24,161,604 | 24,161,073 | 1 | 3 | 24,160,563 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hwillis</author><text>They are not going to weld castings except maybe for very small cracks and even then it&#x27;s very unlikely. The casting is not in a place that could be repaired if it were steel, though. It&#x27;s the main structural member, located behind the rear seats. If you needed to weld there you&#x27;d need to take the car practically down to its frame.<p>Even if it were in a place that was accessible and subject to repairable damage, you would not see it welded or cut. First off a lot of it isn&#x27;t physically possible to weld; it&#x27;s in very deep (6&quot;) pockets and you&#x27;d have a huge amount of difficulty getting penetration. Second, welding aluminum is not super easy. Anyone can weld steel, aluminum isn&#x27;t the worst but it is much trickier. Third, aluminum welds create a weakness in the aluminum around the weld, because it gets hot but isn&#x27;t properly tempered as it cools. It&#x27;s still strong, but the loss is significant- temper is responsible for ~70% of the strength of common aluminum alloys. Fourth, the weld and the surrounding area are very weak (&lt;40% strength) for several days after the repair. It&#x27;s a huge pain in the ass and you probably can&#x27;t just let somebody drive off on it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Aeolun</author><text>It seems to me that cutting out, and welding or glueing in a new part had a serious effect on the structural integrity of the vehicle.</text></item><item><author>andrewmunsell</author><text>For everyone concerned about repairs-- this isn&#x27;t exactly a new concept.<p>The BMW i3 has a carbon fiber frame that, as far as I know, they do not sell in sections (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;roadshow&#x2F;news&#x2F;crash-your-carbon-fiber-i3-ev-heres-how-bmw-will-fix-it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;roadshow&#x2F;news&#x2F;crash-your-carbon-fiber-i...</a>). This means during an accident, the damaged portion is cut out and a new section is glued in, though the repair would likely involve purchasing an entirely new frame unless the shop has one leftover from a previous repair.<p>With the Y, it&#x27;d be the same thing-- the shop would either have a spare, partial casting from a previous repair or need to order a new one, and it would be cut and welded into place.<p>The repair itself shouldn&#x27;t be any more difficult than any other car, it&#x27;s just purchasing the part that becomes more expensive if you have to purchase a new entire casting for damage in one area of the car. That, however, is entirely fixable through some clever supply chain fixes and may be something Tesla can support through savings on the single casting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Fremont to Soon Activate World’s Largest Unibody Casting Machine</title><url>https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-model-y-from-fremont-will-soon-use-the-biggest-casting-machine-for-mass-production</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>markstos</author><text>From the internet: &quot;assuming your joint is designed properly and you have an experienced welder performing the work, your welded joint will be as strong as the base materials it is joining.&quot;<p>Welds are key to most bicycle frames and they are not known as the part that&#x27;s likely to fail.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Aeolun</author><text>It seems to me that cutting out, and welding or glueing in a new part had a serious effect on the structural integrity of the vehicle.</text></item><item><author>andrewmunsell</author><text>For everyone concerned about repairs-- this isn&#x27;t exactly a new concept.<p>The BMW i3 has a carbon fiber frame that, as far as I know, they do not sell in sections (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;roadshow&#x2F;news&#x2F;crash-your-carbon-fiber-i3-ev-heres-how-bmw-will-fix-it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;roadshow&#x2F;news&#x2F;crash-your-carbon-fiber-i...</a>). This means during an accident, the damaged portion is cut out and a new section is glued in, though the repair would likely involve purchasing an entirely new frame unless the shop has one leftover from a previous repair.<p>With the Y, it&#x27;d be the same thing-- the shop would either have a spare, partial casting from a previous repair or need to order a new one, and it would be cut and welded into place.<p>The repair itself shouldn&#x27;t be any more difficult than any other car, it&#x27;s just purchasing the part that becomes more expensive if you have to purchase a new entire casting for damage in one area of the car. That, however, is entirely fixable through some clever supply chain fixes and may be something Tesla can support through savings on the single casting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tesla Fremont to Soon Activate World’s Largest Unibody Casting Machine</title><url>https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-model-y-from-fremont-will-soon-use-the-biggest-casting-machine-for-mass-production</url></story> |
1,717,471 | 1,717,297 | 1 | 2 | 1,716,939 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trunnell</author><text><i>When the Vent begins, you might confuse this for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don’t problem solve. </i><p>This is one of the most important things about conversations I've ever learned. When someone comes to you with a problem, you need to detect if that person wants
1) your help with problem-solving, or
2) commiseration.<p>#1 tends to be a calm, analytical conversation, while #2 can be emotionally motivated.<p>When someone is looking for commiseration but you offer problem solving, you might actually add to their frustration by your lack of compassion for their situation.<p>If they're looking for problem solving but you commiserate, you might actually add to their frustration as they wonder why you're doing so little to help them.<p>Identification is the first step to being an effective conversation partner.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rands in Repose: How to Run a 1:1</title><url>http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/09/22/the_update_the_vent_and_the_disaster.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>mathogre</author><text>If you want to actually make this happen, read the book, "Parent Effectiveness Training" by Thomas Gordon. Get over the title and understand this is about active participation in a conversation with two people. You listen. You let the other person talk. You don't try to solve their problem, at least until or unless they want it. Let them express, and sometimes that alone is enough. It works whether in business, personal relationships, or even parental relationships.<p>Brilliant Rands blog entry.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rands in Repose: How to Run a 1:1</title><url>http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/09/22/the_update_the_vent_and_the_disaster.html</url></story> |
20,996,376 | 20,996,201 | 1 | 3 | 20,995,200 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toupeira</author><text>There are some high-profile FOSS projects using GitLab, but they&#x27;re not as visible as they would be on GitHub because they host their own instances:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;salsa.debian.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;salsa.debian.org&#x2F;</a> (AFAIK this is an ongoing migration)<p>Others are considering a migration:<p>- KDE: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;24900" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;24900</a><p>- GNU Emacs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;28152" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;28152</a><p>Maybe someday we&#x27;ll have federation to work around this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;30672" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab&#x2F;issues&#x2F;30672</a> :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>Does anyone know why GitLab hasn&#x27;t taken off so much amongst open source projects?<p>I have no horse in the race (indeed, I&#x27;d love for there to be more variety in this space) but one of my jobs is to link to open source repos and I&#x27;ve just checked.. and the last one I linked to was in December 2018. In the niches I cover, almost no-one seems to actually using GitLab for their open source repos.<p>Lest you think it&#x27;s just me, compare <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=github.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=github.com</a> to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=gitlab.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=gitlab.com</a> .. the first is packed with projects posted here on a daily basis. The latter? 13 project links in about 50 days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/09/17/gitlab-doubles-valuation-to-nearly-3-billion/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>Search friendliness.<p>Quite a few open-source projects rely heavily on being findable, and often use their Github README as a sort of &quot;marketing site&quot; for developers.<p>Finding projects organically on Gitlab is a nightmare.</text><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>Does anyone know why GitLab hasn&#x27;t taken off so much amongst open source projects?<p>I have no horse in the race (indeed, I&#x27;d love for there to be more variety in this space) but one of my jobs is to link to open source repos and I&#x27;ve just checked.. and the last one I linked to was in December 2018. In the niches I cover, almost no-one seems to actually using GitLab for their open source repos.<p>Lest you think it&#x27;s just me, compare <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=github.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=github.com</a> to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=gitlab.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=gitlab.com</a> .. the first is packed with projects posted here on a daily basis. The latter? 13 project links in about 50 days.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/09/17/gitlab-doubles-valuation-to-nearly-3-billion/</url></story> |
23,501,675 | 23,498,668 | 1 | 3 | 23,497,183 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LucidLynx</author><text>For people who think that there is far more CVE on iOS than Android (based on this article): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cvedetails.com&#x2F;top-50-products.php?year=2019" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cvedetails.com&#x2F;top-50-products.php?year=2019</a><p>And it&#x27;s for 2019 <i>only</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A survey of recent iOS kernel exploits</title><url>https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/06/a-survey-of-recent-ios-kernel-exploits.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>AnonC</author><text>Hoping to see such a list for Android too. I don’t see one right now. [1] Some kind of comparison between iOS and Android on the kinds of issues and underlying causes would also be interesting.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=site%3Agoogleprojectzero.blogspot.com+android+kernel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=site%3Agoogleprojectzero.blogspot....</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A survey of recent iOS kernel exploits</title><url>https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/06/a-survey-of-recent-ios-kernel-exploits.html</url></story> |
18,843,805 | 18,843,150 | 1 | 3 | 18,841,359 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>allenleein</author><text>Summary of the tweets of Steven Sinofsky(1):<p>1- Pricing not only says who can afford your product but also establishes a brand, determines channel, &amp; more.<p>2- The first key to having low priced offerings is that you have to have a set of partners who are willing to compete on thin margins in order to bring the product to market.<p>3- When people say Apple needs a cheaper phone there are many questions to answer beyond the get over yourself luxury brand issue.<p>4- What is distribution constraint? What partner absorbs some cost to leave margin? What is the branding?<p>5-Easy question — would a cheap phone be sold and supported in Apple stores side by side? How would the rest of the customers feel about more crowds and tougher appointments competing with people who paid half as much? Sell one phone against another—how?<p>6- Anyone that thinks Apple is unaware of the challenge and has not sketched out ideas, tested them, and thought about them immensely is crazy.<p>7- What does all this mean? Apple may or may not have a “pricing” or “price point” or “structural” &#x2F; secular challenge. For sure just releasing a cheap phone doesn’t make all better.<p>All takes place in context of lots of cheap&#x2F;bad competitive phones.<p>(1): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;stevesi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1081174886901473280" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;stevesi&#x2F;status&#x2F;108117488690147328...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>protomyth</author><text>I cannot help but think that an iPhone XR mini would have been a great seller if it hit the $450 range. I just don&#x27;t understand Apple these days, its like they have reverted to the early 90&#x27;s where they kept jacking the price until even the loyal customers had to exit the ship. I had so believed they would repeat the iPod strategy and start at the top end and slowly squeeze the market by introducing models that filled in the lower price bands.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-phone-thats-failing-apple-iphone-xr-11546779603</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>georgespencer</author><text>&gt; Greg Joswiak, Apple vice president of product marketing, told CNET in an interview Wednesday that the device has “been our most popular iPhone each and every day since the day it became available.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;apples-iphone-xr-has-been-its-top-selling-iphone-since-launch-and-it-will-give-money-to-product-red&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;apples-iphone-xr-has-been-its-top-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>protomyth</author><text>I cannot help but think that an iPhone XR mini would have been a great seller if it hit the $450 range. I just don&#x27;t understand Apple these days, its like they have reverted to the early 90&#x27;s where they kept jacking the price until even the loyal customers had to exit the ship. I had so believed they would repeat the iPod strategy and start at the top end and slowly squeeze the market by introducing models that filled in the lower price bands.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-phone-thats-failing-apple-iphone-xr-11546779603</url></story> |
21,286,272 | 21,282,540 | 1 | 2 | 21,280,205 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>theclaw</author><text>Yeah agreed. It&#x27;s almost certainly some code that needs to change from this:<p><pre><code> testResult = TestFingerprint(fingerprint);
if(testResult)
return UNLOCK_OK;
else
return UNLOCK_FAIL;
</code></pre>
to this:<p><pre><code> testResult = TestFingerprint(fingerprint);
if(testResult == RESULT_OK)
return UNLOCK_OK;
else
return UNLOCK_FAIL;</code></pre></text><parent_chain><item><author>tompccs</author><text>A bit of background on this (I am involved in the ultrasound industry):<p>- The chip Samsung uses is by Qualcomm. Their big claim is that their ultrasound fingerprint scanner is the only US government approved non-optical way of electronically scanning a fingerprint (those sensors they have at airports use basically the same technology)<p>- It&#x27;s supposed to be more secure than the capacitive technology Apple used to use since it grabs a true image of the fingerprint and not just a low-res representation<p>- Given this, it&#x27;s probably a problem with the software on Samsung&#x27;s part, not Qualcomm<p>- However, it&#x27;s interesting that adding the screen protector is what broke it. It suggests that there could be any number of unintentional biometric security holes<p>- It demonstrates that consumer tech companies (with possible exception of Apple) don&#x27;t really have the expertise or motivation to properly implement biometric authentication<p>(edit - newlines)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50080586</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>criddell</author><text>Is Samsung actually storing a hi res copy of a fingerprint, or just a hash?<p>I&#x27;m not sure I want any tech company storing high resolution scans of my biometrics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tompccs</author><text>A bit of background on this (I am involved in the ultrasound industry):<p>- The chip Samsung uses is by Qualcomm. Their big claim is that their ultrasound fingerprint scanner is the only US government approved non-optical way of electronically scanning a fingerprint (those sensors they have at airports use basically the same technology)<p>- It&#x27;s supposed to be more secure than the capacitive technology Apple used to use since it grabs a true image of the fingerprint and not just a low-res representation<p>- Given this, it&#x27;s probably a problem with the software on Samsung&#x27;s part, not Qualcomm<p>- However, it&#x27;s interesting that adding the screen protector is what broke it. It suggests that there could be any number of unintentional biometric security holes<p>- It demonstrates that consumer tech companies (with possible exception of Apple) don&#x27;t really have the expertise or motivation to properly implement biometric authentication<p>(edit - newlines)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50080586</url></story> |
4,365,168 | 4,365,190 | 1 | 2 | 4,364,442 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>10098</author><text>Me too. I mean, look at this. The place looks like a desert on Earth, and yet its millions of miles away in space, on another planet. There's a certain feeling I experience when I look at those photos, like there is a vast, cold void inside of my chest. I felt something similar when I touched a meteorite for the first time. That rock came here from god knows where, probably it was floating around in space for many many years, and now here I am holding it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eta_carinae</author><text>I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this piece of metal traveled 350 million miles through space and then landed on Mars.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mars 360-degree panoramic view from Curiosity</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443991704577579652958963584.html?mod=e2tw</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raldi</author><text>Don't forget the part where it rode on top of a giant rocket to escape a unfathomably deep gravity well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eta_carinae</author><text>I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this piece of metal traveled 350 million miles through space and then landed on Mars.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mars 360-degree panoramic view from Curiosity</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443991704577579652958963584.html?mod=e2tw</url></story> |
3,731,180 | 3,731,161 | 1 | 2 | 3,729,761 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chernevik</author><text>It's a thoughtful book and such its "violence" can't be quantified onto a simple scale. The personal confrontations are calculated and desperate, they serve the dramatic purpose of establishing the seriousness of the stakes. They also show Ender's resourcefulness, attention to the long haul even under pressure, and savagery when cornered. Ender's choices in the space war are entirely rational, which quickly raises the question whether the morality of the xenocide lies with Ender or those who framed the problem.<p>All of which sets up "Speak for the Dead", one of the best sci-fi books I know.<p>Anyone rejecting violence qua violence should probably stay away, but they'll be missing a pretty important reflection on its causes and consequences, and the possibility of redemption.<p>The books after "Speaker" suck.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brudgers</author><text>&#62;<i>"It’s a tiny bit violent"</i><p>A child kills several other children barehanded.<p>Then goes on to stamp out an entire intelligent life form - Card's view on this is pretty apparent in the first two sequals; <i>Speaker for the Dead</i> and <i>Xenocide</i>.<p>It's always surprising how non-analytical we can be when it comes to violence - an entire planet is destroyed and millions of people screams are heard across the galaxy in <i>A New Hope.</i> Yet, the movie so ingrained in children's culture, it was an uphill battle to prevent my son from watching it when he was three [I felt like it was a victory that he didn't see it until he was five].<p>That said, <i>Ender's Game</i> is appropriate reading for 14 year olds, and the idea of it as pornographic is asinine. Same could be said of Bloom's <i>Forever</i> of my youth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Teacher Suspended For Reading 'Ender's Game' To Middle School Students</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/19/south-carolina-teacher-suspended-for-reading-enders-game-to-middle-school-students/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajross</author><text><i>Then goes on to stamp out an entire intelligent life form</i><p>... which happens "off-camera" (sort of: the event is presented as a video game fiction with no visible non-mechanical participants), and is presented quite clearly as a moral lesson in the text. Arguing for censorship on this basis would rule out things like history lessons about <i>real</i> wars too, wouldn't it? You don't want to teach middle schoolers that war exists?</text><parent_chain><item><author>brudgers</author><text>&#62;<i>"It’s a tiny bit violent"</i><p>A child kills several other children barehanded.<p>Then goes on to stamp out an entire intelligent life form - Card's view on this is pretty apparent in the first two sequals; <i>Speaker for the Dead</i> and <i>Xenocide</i>.<p>It's always surprising how non-analytical we can be when it comes to violence - an entire planet is destroyed and millions of people screams are heard across the galaxy in <i>A New Hope.</i> Yet, the movie so ingrained in children's culture, it was an uphill battle to prevent my son from watching it when he was three [I felt like it was a victory that he didn't see it until he was five].<p>That said, <i>Ender's Game</i> is appropriate reading for 14 year olds, and the idea of it as pornographic is asinine. Same could be said of Bloom's <i>Forever</i> of my youth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Teacher Suspended For Reading 'Ender's Game' To Middle School Students</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/19/south-carolina-teacher-suspended-for-reading-enders-game-to-middle-school-students/</url></story> |
23,393,984 | 23,394,180 | 1 | 2 | 23,392,404 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ebg13</author><text>&gt; <i>What can Microsoft do, as an alternative, that doesn&#x27;t result in an identical or worse situation?</i><p>Stop. Reasons for doing it at all are bullshit. If you want to evaluate the software, do that. I&#x27;ll happily hand you the source code from GitHub and the build chain on AppVeyor so you can watch the executables being compiled. If you want to give me a way to mark my applications so that users know that they&#x27;re picking up what I&#x27;m putting down, great. I also care about my users, so I&#x27;ll happily mark my applications.<p>But you don&#x27;t need to take $100&#x2F;year from me for the right to not have thugs block access.<p>&gt; <i>Giving out free code-signing certificates also makes it easier for malware to get legitimate certificates.</i><p>Malware exists to make money. Therefore malware authors can easily pay for certificates as a cost of business. Megacorp software fucks people over all the time. It exfiltrates their browsing history, MITMs their secure connections, installs rootkits and backdoors. Please don&#x27;t pretend that this increases security.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregmac</author><text>I get the sentiment here, it&#x27;s very annoying for developers (including me). Establishing trust is very hard problem, though.<p>Let&#x27;s move this to a productive conversation though. What can Microsoft do, as an alternative, that doesn&#x27;t result in an identical or worse situation?<p>Giving out free code-signing certificates also makes it easier for malware to get legitimate certificates. This is akin to LetsEncrypt for certs -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yourbank.real-secure-website.xy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yourbank.real-secure-website.xy</a> can have a valid cert but it doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s legitimate. What&#x27;s the equivalent to the &quot;URL bar&quot; for software? What&#x27;s the equivalent to the ACME domain validation challenge?<p>The SmartScreen stuff is another attempt at this -- software that&#x27;s not frequently seen is flagged as a potential problem. As a developer, this annoys me greatly. As the de-facto support person for family that don&#x27;t understand computers... I don&#x27;t mind so much. Without this, malware gets executed directly and now you&#x27;re dependent on (very imperfect) anti-virus software.<p>I guess the Store is another way to have &quot;trusted&quot; applications, but you only have to look at the Google Play or iOS store to see how well this ultimately works out (for both malware and legitimate authors).<p>Note this isn&#x27;t even about admin vs non-admin installations. Obviously malware running as admin can do more damage that&#x27;s harder to recover from, but non-admin malware is just as capable of doing bad things (think: stealing credentials, running cryptocurrency miners, ransomware), and after being hit by a randomware attack I doubt your &quot;typical&quot; user is going to really care much about the distinction between their account vs the entire computer being trashed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers</title><url>https://getimageview.net/2020/06/02/microsoft-defender-smartscreen-is-hurting-independent-developers/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acaloiar</author><text>&gt; What can Microsoft do, as an alternative, that doesn&#x27;t result in an identical or worse situation?<p>Microsoft can recognize that pay-to-play certificates are merely assets owned by developers; not developer identities. Microsoft needs to manage identity relationships with developers in a way that is indepdent of certificate aquisition and expiry.<p>The certificates themselves are merely an implementation detail of identity.<p>With that said, I don&#x27;t condone the corporate gate-keeping of software development and recommend developers not contribute to any platform that requires indie developers to pay to become a part of the ecosystem. Long live open source.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gregmac</author><text>I get the sentiment here, it&#x27;s very annoying for developers (including me). Establishing trust is very hard problem, though.<p>Let&#x27;s move this to a productive conversation though. What can Microsoft do, as an alternative, that doesn&#x27;t result in an identical or worse situation?<p>Giving out free code-signing certificates also makes it easier for malware to get legitimate certificates. This is akin to LetsEncrypt for certs -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yourbank.real-secure-website.xy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yourbank.real-secure-website.xy</a> can have a valid cert but it doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s legitimate. What&#x27;s the equivalent to the &quot;URL bar&quot; for software? What&#x27;s the equivalent to the ACME domain validation challenge?<p>The SmartScreen stuff is another attempt at this -- software that&#x27;s not frequently seen is flagged as a potential problem. As a developer, this annoys me greatly. As the de-facto support person for family that don&#x27;t understand computers... I don&#x27;t mind so much. Without this, malware gets executed directly and now you&#x27;re dependent on (very imperfect) anti-virus software.<p>I guess the Store is another way to have &quot;trusted&quot; applications, but you only have to look at the Google Play or iOS store to see how well this ultimately works out (for both malware and legitimate authors).<p>Note this isn&#x27;t even about admin vs non-admin installations. Obviously malware running as admin can do more damage that&#x27;s harder to recover from, but non-admin malware is just as capable of doing bad things (think: stealing credentials, running cryptocurrency miners, ransomware), and after being hit by a randomware attack I doubt your &quot;typical&quot; user is going to really care much about the distinction between their account vs the entire computer being trashed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers</title><url>https://getimageview.net/2020/06/02/microsoft-defender-smartscreen-is-hurting-independent-developers/</url></story> |
19,325,407 | 19,325,439 | 1 | 2 | 19,324,941 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>witcherchaos</author><text>Why is US pretending to be friend with an enemy that is out to steal anything in US that isn’t locked down? Least of which, an enemy that is a dictatorship that has oppressed religion, democracy, free speech, and free will in its domain?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritime Military Secrets</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-hackers-target-universities-in-pursuit-of-maritime-military-secrets-11551781800</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>malshe</author><text>Off topic but relevant: I posted this story today morning at around 9 am EST. It was flagged within 5 minutes and never got any visibility. This is a repost because that submission is effectively dead.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritime Military Secrets</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-hackers-target-universities-in-pursuit-of-maritime-military-secrets-11551781800</url></story> |
26,270,596 | 26,270,600 | 1 | 2 | 26,268,460 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>detaro</author><text>And some power meters have IR-based interfaces. A &quot;blink every X Wh of energy used&quot; LED is quite common, but some also have bidirectional IR interfaces, recognizable by a metal circle with two lenses at the front (read heads are magnetic and simply set on the metal plate). (might be a European thing though)</text><parent_chain><item><author>joezydeco</author><text>Just an FYI that your home may already have a grid-connected meter outside, and it may already have a wireless interface.<p>For example, if you&#x27;re a ComEd customer in the Chicago area, your smart meter is Zigbee-enabled and works with a handful of approved devices:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.comed.com&#x2F;WaysToSave&#x2F;ForYourHome&#x2F;Pages&#x2F;SmartMeterConnectedDevices.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.comed.com&#x2F;WaysToSave&#x2F;ForYourHome&#x2F;Pages&#x2F;SmartMete...</a><p>The information won&#x27;t be as finely detailed since it&#x27;s not sensing every circuit in the home, but for $70 and no tinkering necessary I can read my home&#x27;s consumption in XML format every 10 seconds.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IoTaWatt Open Source WiFi Electric Power Monitor</title><url>https://www.iotawatt.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>ssl-3</author><text>AEP Ohio ended their program last year. But before that, they even went as far as sending out freebie Wifi-connected Zigbee bridges to interface the meter before the program went tits-up.<p>Now that there are zero applications for it, it&#x27;s about as useful as a dumb meter.<p>Progress.</text><parent_chain><item><author>joezydeco</author><text>Just an FYI that your home may already have a grid-connected meter outside, and it may already have a wireless interface.<p>For example, if you&#x27;re a ComEd customer in the Chicago area, your smart meter is Zigbee-enabled and works with a handful of approved devices:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.comed.com&#x2F;WaysToSave&#x2F;ForYourHome&#x2F;Pages&#x2F;SmartMeterConnectedDevices.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.comed.com&#x2F;WaysToSave&#x2F;ForYourHome&#x2F;Pages&#x2F;SmartMete...</a><p>The information won&#x27;t be as finely detailed since it&#x27;s not sensing every circuit in the home, but for $70 and no tinkering necessary I can read my home&#x27;s consumption in XML format every 10 seconds.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>IoTaWatt Open Source WiFi Electric Power Monitor</title><url>https://www.iotawatt.com/</url></story> |
26,477,142 | 26,476,419 | 1 | 2 | 26,468,892 | 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>albrewer</author><text>T-Mobile has such shitty IT, infrastructure, and security practices.<p>My last experience with them caused me to switch away from them permanently. I switched away from them after getting SIM jacked, with real money stolen from me. Happened exactly like in this article[0].<p>Another incident happened where my online account was merged with someone else&#x27;s in California (I&#x27;m in Texas). Our billing information was merged, with the others paying for the whole account. I couldn&#x27;t make changes online- only after sitting on hold and explaining what happened was I able to get the whole situation unfucked, but there&#x27;s no telling what amount of my data still lives in that other account.<p>Come to think of it, my first experience with T-Mobile was as a Radio Shack employee, circa 2010. When a customer came to the store to pay their T-Mobile bill with cash, if I took too long to enter all the data into their awful online portal the money would sometimes go to a completely different person&#x27;s account. Many hours were spent on the phone with the local and regional rep resolving multiple instances of this happening.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;3kx4ej&#x2F;sim-jacking-mobile-phone-fraud" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;3kx4ej&#x2F;sim-jacking-mobile-ph...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>heroprotagonist</author><text>I tried to get T-Mobile to stop giving my location to anyone that hits their APIs with a &#x27;Yes I have permission&#x27; flag set.<p>There&#x27;s no opt-out for it, and no enforcement of the permission requirement. Their support had me snail mail a letter to some PO box. I never got a response.<p>And now they&#x27;re going to start outright selling their customer activity after forcibly un-opt-outing* everyone who opted out in their privacy settings previously..<p>*un-opt-outing -- ??? I don&#x27;t know what to call this. It&#x27;s not &#x27;opting-in&#x27; since nobody has a choice.. &#x27;resetting user selection without notification or consent&#x27; seems too mild and wordy.</text></item><item><author>Mandatum</author><text>In Australia it&#x27;s mandated you&#x27;re sent a message before rerouting or migrating to another provider. Surprised this isn&#x27;t enforced in the other countries, it costs next to nothing to implement and is just an additional step in the account migration process.<p>I&#x27;d love to see companies allow for opt in additional security measures, like banks or telco&#x27;s calling me - having a verbal password to confirm things, that level of security seems to only be available to VIPs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A hacker got all my texts for $16</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-16-dollars-sakari-netnumber</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Sleepytime</author><text>I haven&#x27;t heard anything about a t-mobile api leaking that data and my searches doetsn&#x27;t return anything of value, can you provide more details?</text><parent_chain><item><author>heroprotagonist</author><text>I tried to get T-Mobile to stop giving my location to anyone that hits their APIs with a &#x27;Yes I have permission&#x27; flag set.<p>There&#x27;s no opt-out for it, and no enforcement of the permission requirement. Their support had me snail mail a letter to some PO box. I never got a response.<p>And now they&#x27;re going to start outright selling their customer activity after forcibly un-opt-outing* everyone who opted out in their privacy settings previously..<p>*un-opt-outing -- ??? I don&#x27;t know what to call this. It&#x27;s not &#x27;opting-in&#x27; since nobody has a choice.. &#x27;resetting user selection without notification or consent&#x27; seems too mild and wordy.</text></item><item><author>Mandatum</author><text>In Australia it&#x27;s mandated you&#x27;re sent a message before rerouting or migrating to another provider. Surprised this isn&#x27;t enforced in the other countries, it costs next to nothing to implement and is just an additional step in the account migration process.<p>I&#x27;d love to see companies allow for opt in additional security measures, like banks or telco&#x27;s calling me - having a verbal password to confirm things, that level of security seems to only be available to VIPs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A hacker got all my texts for $16</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-16-dollars-sakari-netnumber</url></story> |
27,427,533 | 27,427,770 | 1 | 3 | 27,421,527 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>endymi0n</author><text>&quot;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.&quot;<p>— George Santayana<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve got news for Mr. Santayana: we&#x27;re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That&#x27;s what it is to be alive.&quot;<p>— Kurt Vonnegut</text><parent_chain><item><author>eaa</author><text>There is an interesting book on this grim subject - the book &quot;Yes to Life&quot; of Viktor Frankl. He managed to survive concentration camps and stay mentally sane person. He describes the life of prisoners there and what was helping them to survive. Sad but remarkable book on both history and psychology.<p>Also, someone in this discussion said that as more and more people pass away there is less and less truth about WW2 and less and less respect to its lessons. There is also another interesting observation: the more related to WW2 people die the more Cold War #2 we see. Cold War hasn&#x27;t become &quot;hot&quot; because during these times almost everyone except kids knew what is war and how it looks and that it causes. War heroes were not imaginary movie personalities, they were everywhere. And kids could hear real stories from someone who has seen it all with own eyes. And so, everyone knew that war is hell and that nuclear weapon can make war even worse, so that WW2 will look like a picnic.<p>But what do we have now? Movies about WW2 with expensive SFX and cheap plot, Call of Duty, etc. War isn&#x27;t scary anymore. People are eager to fight something. This mad mad mad mad mad world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57379704</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>derivagral</author><text>I&#x27;ll second Frankl. I enjoyed his (other) books around love and searching for meaning, drawing from his experience. I&#x27;ll have to check that one out as well. Very humbling stuff.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eaa</author><text>There is an interesting book on this grim subject - the book &quot;Yes to Life&quot; of Viktor Frankl. He managed to survive concentration camps and stay mentally sane person. He describes the life of prisoners there and what was helping them to survive. Sad but remarkable book on both history and psychology.<p>Also, someone in this discussion said that as more and more people pass away there is less and less truth about WW2 and less and less respect to its lessons. There is also another interesting observation: the more related to WW2 people die the more Cold War #2 we see. Cold War hasn&#x27;t become &quot;hot&quot; because during these times almost everyone except kids knew what is war and how it looks and that it causes. War heroes were not imaginary movie personalities, they were everywhere. And kids could hear real stories from someone who has seen it all with own eyes. And so, everyone knew that war is hell and that nuclear weapon can make war even worse, so that WW2 will look like a picnic.<p>But what do we have now? Movies about WW2 with expensive SFX and cheap plot, Call of Duty, etc. War isn&#x27;t scary anymore. People are eager to fight something. This mad mad mad mad mad world.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57379704</url></story> |
25,097,404 | 25,096,985 | 1 | 2 | 25,095,438 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>amelius</author><text>Or stop buying stuff that is broken-by-design in the first place.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cute_boi</author><text>if they keep doing like this I will block their entire ASN .</text></item><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>&gt; I never asked them to do that in the first place, so I&#x27;ll be blocking it from now on.<p>Apple&#x27;s working on making sure you can&#x27;t block it. They already keep you from blocking their own traffic with Little Snitch and similar tools: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24838816" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24838816</a></text></item><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>&gt; macOS does actually send out some opaque information about the developer certificate of those apps, and that’s quite an important difference on a privacy perspective.<p>Yes, and no. If you&#x27;re using software that the state deems to be subversive or &quot;dangerous&quot;, a developer certificate would make the nature of the software you are running pretty clear. They don&#x27;t have to know exactly which program you&#x27;re running, but just enough information to put you on a list.<p>&gt; You shouldn’t probably block ocsp.apple.com with Little Snitch or in your hosts file.<p>I never asked them to do that in the first place, so I&#x27;ll be blocking it from now on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look</title><url>https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sneak</author><text>Apple is old enough that you need only block 17.&#x2F;8: they have a class A(!).</text><parent_chain><item><author>cute_boi</author><text>if they keep doing like this I will block their entire ASN .</text></item><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>&gt; I never asked them to do that in the first place, so I&#x27;ll be blocking it from now on.<p>Apple&#x27;s working on making sure you can&#x27;t block it. They already keep you from blocking their own traffic with Little Snitch and similar tools: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24838816" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24838816</a></text></item><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>&gt; macOS does actually send out some opaque information about the developer certificate of those apps, and that’s quite an important difference on a privacy perspective.<p>Yes, and no. If you&#x27;re using software that the state deems to be subversive or &quot;dangerous&quot;, a developer certificate would make the nature of the software you are running pretty clear. They don&#x27;t have to know exactly which program you&#x27;re running, but just enough information to put you on a list.<p>&gt; You shouldn’t probably block ocsp.apple.com with Little Snitch or in your hosts file.<p>I never asked them to do that in the first place, so I&#x27;ll be blocking it from now on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look</title><url>https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/</url></story> |
28,547,639 | 28,547,584 | 1 | 3 | 28,546,834 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gchamonlive</author><text>&gt; With video games, the online tech communities rallied against any legislation and wrote volumes about how kids were smart enough to manage themselves and not let violent video games influence their thinking.<p>Because there is no evidence for this. In cases where there is, like in lootboxes, we see a push for legislation.<p>We have enough evidence to at least build correlation between social media use and decline of mental health. This doesn&#x27;t call for banning or legislating the business to oblivion, but for talks in the society. We need to talk about social media use, our representatives have to discuss measures with the scientific community and promote research so that they can legislate based on data.<p>One thing is for certain, what we have now is unacceptable. What we will build in the future is up for debate and should be debated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; As others have pointed out, we don&#x27;t need to &#x27;ask&#x27;, we need to legislate.<p>Legislate what, specifically? I always see calls for more legislation around social media, but I rarely see any actionable suggestions.<p>Frankly, I’m kind of shocked at the degree that tech communities are rushing for legislation on this topic. When I was growing up I remember the big issue being violence in video games. Politicians went on crusades to demonize video games and demand that we pass legislation to protect the kids from any exposure to violent video games, lest the video games turn them into school shooters.<p>With video games, the online tech communities rallied against any legislation and wrote volumes about how kids were smart enough to manage themselves and not let violent video games influence their thinking. With social media, tech communities are doing the opposite: Writing volumes about how kids are incapable of managing themselves and will succumb to social media destroying their mental health.<p>The major difference between the two is that tech people (on average) like video games but they don’t like social media. So video games get a pass, but social media must be attacked with everything we’ve got. The secondary subtext buried in most of these articles is that young girls, specifically, are most vulnerable to social media issues, whereas violent video games were largely an issue for young boys. Apparently we’re okay letting young boys handle difficult content but we don’t give the same credit to young girls. The more I watch all of this play out, the more hypocritical it all feels.<p>I also suspect that if anti-social-media politicians see success that we’ll see a revival of the anti-violent-game politicians. After all, we need to regulate what the kids consume, right?</text></item><item><author>c54</author><text>Here in the US we think that freedom from government oversight is the only kind of freedom. We make the mistake thinking this means that the free market is actually the antidote to government, and as long as we have the free market we will be free.<p>In reality, companies operating within a market is perfectly capable of imposing intrusive and arbitrary power on citizens, and collective action &#x2F; government intervention is needed in order to protect our freedoms.<p>As others have pointed out, we don&#x27;t need to &#x27;ask&#x27;, we need to legislate.<p>Congress will have a hard time passing legislation against this not only because of the filibuster (which encourages minority rule), but because of this fundamental confusion. Why would a Senator or Congressperson who believes only in the first type of free market freedom and is blind to the second type of freedom make moves against a corporation?<p>Anyways I just started reading this great book called Freedom From the Market, points are 100% lifted from there: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenewpress.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;freedom-from-market" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenewpress.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;freedom-from-market</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/lawmakers-ask-zuckerberg-to-drop-instagram-for-kids-aft-1847683217</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edbaskerville</author><text>End the business model entirely! Make all microtargeted advertising illegal!<p>(I can dream, can’t I?)</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; As others have pointed out, we don&#x27;t need to &#x27;ask&#x27;, we need to legislate.<p>Legislate what, specifically? I always see calls for more legislation around social media, but I rarely see any actionable suggestions.<p>Frankly, I’m kind of shocked at the degree that tech communities are rushing for legislation on this topic. When I was growing up I remember the big issue being violence in video games. Politicians went on crusades to demonize video games and demand that we pass legislation to protect the kids from any exposure to violent video games, lest the video games turn them into school shooters.<p>With video games, the online tech communities rallied against any legislation and wrote volumes about how kids were smart enough to manage themselves and not let violent video games influence their thinking. With social media, tech communities are doing the opposite: Writing volumes about how kids are incapable of managing themselves and will succumb to social media destroying their mental health.<p>The major difference between the two is that tech people (on average) like video games but they don’t like social media. So video games get a pass, but social media must be attacked with everything we’ve got. The secondary subtext buried in most of these articles is that young girls, specifically, are most vulnerable to social media issues, whereas violent video games were largely an issue for young boys. Apparently we’re okay letting young boys handle difficult content but we don’t give the same credit to young girls. The more I watch all of this play out, the more hypocritical it all feels.<p>I also suspect that if anti-social-media politicians see success that we’ll see a revival of the anti-violent-game politicians. After all, we need to regulate what the kids consume, right?</text></item><item><author>c54</author><text>Here in the US we think that freedom from government oversight is the only kind of freedom. We make the mistake thinking this means that the free market is actually the antidote to government, and as long as we have the free market we will be free.<p>In reality, companies operating within a market is perfectly capable of imposing intrusive and arbitrary power on citizens, and collective action &#x2F; government intervention is needed in order to protect our freedoms.<p>As others have pointed out, we don&#x27;t need to &#x27;ask&#x27;, we need to legislate.<p>Congress will have a hard time passing legislation against this not only because of the filibuster (which encourages minority rule), but because of this fundamental confusion. Why would a Senator or Congressperson who believes only in the first type of free market freedom and is blind to the second type of freedom make moves against a corporation?<p>Anyways I just started reading this great book called Freedom From the Market, points are 100% lifted from there: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenewpress.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;freedom-from-market" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenewpress.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;freedom-from-market</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/lawmakers-ask-zuckerberg-to-drop-instagram-for-kids-aft-1847683217</url></story> |
8,778,158 | 8,778,119 | 1 | 2 | 8,777,899 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The other day my wife and I were at a baby clothing store. We were chatting with the young woman at the counter, and she was complaining about her student loans. I asked her what her major was, and she said it was physics. I said &quot;oh&quot; with a degree of surprise that made me cringe. I mentioned my brother had majored in physics. She asked me where he went to school, and I told her he went to Yale. She said &quot;oh, my parents went to Yale, but I went to MIT.&quot;<p>I felt bad about the encounter, and I couldn&#x27;t figure out why. Statistically, you&#x27;re safe in assuming that any random person working at a clothing store isn&#x27;t an MIT grad making pocket money while working on her PhD. I realized later that I felt bad that it mattered to me. That when she revealed she was smart and educated, in my head I moved her from one class of people into another.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your waitress, your professor</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/opinion/your-waitress-your-professor.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>jetskindo</author><text>We go to school because it is a tradition. Parents wants to see their kid in the funny hat. You are almost shunned when you drop out.<p>Not to say that school is useless, I loved learning. But I knew that the computer science degree I was working towards wouldn&#x27;t make much a difference in the field I was hoping to work in.<p>Going to school should be an investment. It is too bad that most of us are too young to understand the risk we take when taking loans or choosing an education path.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your waitress, your professor</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/opinion/your-waitress-your-professor.html</url></story> |
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