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10,665,520 | 10,665,431 | 1 | 2 | 10,664,834 | 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>moxie</author><text>If we were going to rank our priorities, they would be in this order:<p>1) Make mass surveillance impossible.<p>2) Stop targeted attacks against crypto nerds.<p>It&#x27;s not that we don&#x27;t find #2 laudable, but optimizing for #1 takes precedence when we&#x27;re making decisions.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to use your phone number, don&#x27;t use it. You can register with any GV, Twilio, Voicepulse, or other throwaway VoIP number.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to run Chrome, use Chromium instead.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to use Google Play Services, use GcmCore.<p>The world you want this software for is not the world that everyone else lives in. You can certainly make it work in that world with a little effort, but because of how we&#x27;ve prioritized our objectives, that&#x27;s not the default experience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>darklajid</author><text>I&#x27;m feeling dirty, because I don&#x27;t like to be that negative, especially if we&#x27;re talking open-source software. And I feel that I kinda hold this project to higher standards: If I compare this to WhatsApp&#x2F;Telegram&#x2F;Threema&#x2F;Whatever, I inheritently, somewhat subconciously expect more from Signal.<p>And I&#x27;m disappointed. I tend to repeat the &#x27;central server&#x27; and &#x27;a phone number is not an address and not public information, it certainly is no identity&#x27; criticism.<p>When I read the headline&#x2F;title, I thought &#x27;Now maybe that would be enough to be ~good enough~ to ditch Telegram&#x27; in spite of these problems (which Telegram has as well, ofc). But really. A Chrome app. And works only (yeah, I think I said it before: Phone numbers suck) as a secondary client. And only if the first client is Android?<p>I seriously don&#x27;t get it. And it certainly is not for me: I don&#x27;t like that browser (I do have it installed for testing and to follow it at times, but there&#x27;s no &#x27;app&#x27; I&#x27;d run in Chrome). I don&#x27;t want to tie something to my phone and I don&#x27;t think that it should matter what platform my handset runs on - SailfishOS looks nice, FxOS progresses slow but ticks a good number of boxes for me.<p>Full circle to the first line: I don&#x27;t _like_ to be negative and the headline gave me hope for a couple seconds. Unfortunately this release just deepened my belief that Signal wasn&#x27;t meant to be for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Signal Desktop</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop/</url></story> | <instructions>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>The central server in Signal does not have the same role as the Telegram&#x27;s.<p>If you care first and foremost about UX, use Telegram. If you care first and foremost about the security of your communications, use Signal; go out of your way to use Signal.</text><parent_chain><item><author>darklajid</author><text>I&#x27;m feeling dirty, because I don&#x27;t like to be that negative, especially if we&#x27;re talking open-source software. And I feel that I kinda hold this project to higher standards: If I compare this to WhatsApp&#x2F;Telegram&#x2F;Threema&#x2F;Whatever, I inheritently, somewhat subconciously expect more from Signal.<p>And I&#x27;m disappointed. I tend to repeat the &#x27;central server&#x27; and &#x27;a phone number is not an address and not public information, it certainly is no identity&#x27; criticism.<p>When I read the headline&#x2F;title, I thought &#x27;Now maybe that would be enough to be ~good enough~ to ditch Telegram&#x27; in spite of these problems (which Telegram has as well, ofc). But really. A Chrome app. And works only (yeah, I think I said it before: Phone numbers suck) as a secondary client. And only if the first client is Android?<p>I seriously don&#x27;t get it. And it certainly is not for me: I don&#x27;t like that browser (I do have it installed for testing and to follow it at times, but there&#x27;s no &#x27;app&#x27; I&#x27;d run in Chrome). I don&#x27;t want to tie something to my phone and I don&#x27;t think that it should matter what platform my handset runs on - SailfishOS looks nice, FxOS progresses slow but ticks a good number of boxes for me.<p>Full circle to the first line: I don&#x27;t _like_ to be negative and the headline gave me hope for a couple seconds. Unfortunately this release just deepened my belief that Signal wasn&#x27;t meant to be for me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Signal Desktop</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop/</url></story> |
5,243,738 | 5,243,708 | 1 | 2 | 5,239,673 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grey-area</author><text>Don't you have a dev db somewhere that you can replicate the live db to? Time spent setting that up will be more than repaid by the time and stress saved when you have to do a quick fix - you can simply run your changes, check it all works on your replicated site, and <i>then</i> make the changes on your live db (preferably with some sort of migration tool which applies the same sql and backs up first). If you have a regular backup process you could tie into that to populate the dev database.<p>Even if you can't replicate the entire live db, if you can automate backup, deployment of changes and test first elsewhere it makes the entire process far less fraught.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mafro</author><text>This. Back in the day when I was in more of an analyst role, I ended up /having/ to hack on the live DB frequently (reasons for this were myriad).<p>1. Always, always make a backup just before the hack.<p>2. Write a small set queries like 3pt14159's to check uniqueness and other pertinent properties.<p>3. Write a SELECT query to show the data you are going to change.<p>4. Borrow the WHERE clause from 3, and write your UPDATE statement.<p>5. Run 4, and then run 3 again to see that you successfully fixed it.<p>6. When it goes wrong, restore the backup from 1 :0</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>I've never screwed it up on a live database, but I do take about 5 mins, first reviewing the keys, the type, whether or not something can be null, checking to see if critical columns have<p><pre><code> select count(distinct column_name) having count(distinct column_name) &#62; 1;
</code></pre>
To make sure that there isn't an underlying uniqueness assumption.<p>Sure I <i>could</i> do it in 10 seconds and save myself 290 seconds (a 97% savings!) but then one day I'd have to scramble like crazy in the middle of the night trying to figure out what I screwed up for hours on end.<p>I'm not saying don't build an admin tool, obviously those are needed for things like banning users, but just get in there and carefully fix the data if something is wrong.</text></item><item><author>lmm</author><text>Typing sudo won't save you, but using a higher-level interface will. Everyone I've ever known to change something in the database by hand, everyone at all, even on a hobby project that they know like the back of their hand, has screwed it up sooner or later. At some point the pain tells you you should stop doing that, and you create an admin tool that lets you do what you need to repeatably and safely.</text></item><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>There are a number of comments that add up to "what steps will you take to ensure this does not happen again" - akin to a incident review. As speculation that's fine, as advice, I don't think it <i>should</i> be listened to.<p>I am reminded of an long-in-the-tooth sysadmin of my acquaintance who logged in everywhere as root. His theory - "they are my boxes. I screw it up, I fix it."
I eventually realised that typing sudo every time he touched a box was no defence against doing the wrong thing.<p>An awful lot of sites at 1.2m views would have outsourced the running and development of the whole thing - there are entreprenuers who say its not even worth our time to code up the MVP. I find this approach sensible from a business point of view, but still it does not sit right with me.<p>I am supposed to have a nice website with lots of good content to attract inbound marketing - so I tried getting someone on textbroker to write an article for me. It read like a High School essay - no life, no anime. And so I will probably write my own CMS and my own content.<p>And pg sits there and writes his site in his own language, with his own moderation tools. Apart from the hilarious idea he could find a ten person ruby shop to outsource to, its nice to see someone taking the time to play again. Its why I like to see jgc on here too.<p>I am not entirely sure those thoughts are joined up (I am procrasting like crazy) but if they come to mean anything its we are playing in pg's sandbox. If the sand leaks it's his sand, and the only company this is mission critical to is YC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why HN was down</title><text>Hacker News was down all last night. The problem was not due to
the new server. In fact the cause was embarrassingly stupid.<p>On a comment thread, a new user had posted some replies as siblings
instead of children. I posted a comment explaining how HN worked.
But then I decided to just fix it for him by doing some surgery in
the repl. Unfortunately I used the wrong id for one of the comments
and created a loop in the comment tree; I caused an item to be its
own grandchild. After which, when anyone tried to view the thread,
the server would try to generate an infinitely long page. The
story in question was on the frontpage, so this happened a lot.<p>For some reason I didn't check the comments after the surgery to
see if they were in the right place. I must have been distracted
by something. So I didn't notice anything was wrong till a bit
later when the server seemed to be swamped.<p>When I tailed the logs to see what was going on, the pattern looked
a lot like what happens when HN runs short of memory and starts
GCing too much. Whether it was that or something else, such problems
can usually be fixed by restarting HN. So that's what I did. But
first, since I had been writing code that day, I pushed the latest
version to the server. As long as I was going to have to restart
HN, I might as well get a fresh version.<p>After I restarted HN, the problem was still there. So I guessed
the problem must be due to something in the code I'd written that
day, and tried reverting to the previous version, and restarting the
server again. But the problem was still there. Then we (because
by this point I'd managed to get hold of Nick Sivo, YC's hacker in
residence) tried reverting to the version of HN that was on the old
server, and that didn't work either. We knew that code had worked
fine, so we figured the problem must be with the new server. So
we tried to switch back to the old server. I don't know if Nick
succeeded, because in the middle of this I gave up and went to bed.<p>When I woke up this morning, Rtm had HN running on the new server.
The bad thread was still there, but it had been pushed off the
frontpage by newer stuff. So HN as a whole wasn't dying, but there
were still signs something was amiss, e.g. that /threads?id=pg
didn't work, because of the comment I made on the thread with the
loop in it.<p>Eventually Rtm noticed that the problem seemed to be related to a
certain item id. When I looked at the item on disk I realized what
must have happened.<p>So I did some more surgery in the repl, this time more carefully,
and everything seems fine now.<p>Sorry about that.</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>mkubler</author><text>As a tip - Also backup your staging database and have all backups using something like Rsnapshot or maybe even in a version control system, something which does point in time backups.<p>I learnt this after I inherited a project which had been written by some Romanians and it was pretty horrible. There was no MVC framework, it was a hacked together mess.<p>Somehow the live site started using the staging database instead of the production database, both were on the same server.
Every time we (the devs) pushed to staging a script would grab the latest version of the live database and overwrite (drop tables) the staging database. The assumption being that the staging database is a bit like a demo server, changes made to it are temporary and just for testing, but that it should look as similar to the main website (but updated) as possible.
The production database was backed up in about 5 different ways, but the staging database wasn't backed up at all.<p>After about a week of vanishing books, books which authors had uploaded to the self publishing portable with descriptions and other information, we realised what was wrong. Their files stayed but their accounts and book details were wiped.<p>In another epic fail on the same server I later moved the root folders by running the following as root (I'd probably have been stupid and run the same command if not as root but I'd have put sudo in front of it).
&#62; cd /home/&#60;username&#62;/public_html/public_html
&#62; mv /* ../<p>I was meant to mv ./* (files from the current directory into one below cause they'd been copied across into the wrong folder. Needless to say moving the root folders such as /etc and especially /lib and /bin is a BAD idea. Although is fixable, but that's another story.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mafro</author><text>This. Back in the day when I was in more of an analyst role, I ended up /having/ to hack on the live DB frequently (reasons for this were myriad).<p>1. Always, always make a backup just before the hack.<p>2. Write a small set queries like 3pt14159's to check uniqueness and other pertinent properties.<p>3. Write a SELECT query to show the data you are going to change.<p>4. Borrow the WHERE clause from 3, and write your UPDATE statement.<p>5. Run 4, and then run 3 again to see that you successfully fixed it.<p>6. When it goes wrong, restore the backup from 1 :0</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>I've never screwed it up on a live database, but I do take about 5 mins, first reviewing the keys, the type, whether or not something can be null, checking to see if critical columns have<p><pre><code> select count(distinct column_name) having count(distinct column_name) &#62; 1;
</code></pre>
To make sure that there isn't an underlying uniqueness assumption.<p>Sure I <i>could</i> do it in 10 seconds and save myself 290 seconds (a 97% savings!) but then one day I'd have to scramble like crazy in the middle of the night trying to figure out what I screwed up for hours on end.<p>I'm not saying don't build an admin tool, obviously those are needed for things like banning users, but just get in there and carefully fix the data if something is wrong.</text></item><item><author>lmm</author><text>Typing sudo won't save you, but using a higher-level interface will. Everyone I've ever known to change something in the database by hand, everyone at all, even on a hobby project that they know like the back of their hand, has screwed it up sooner or later. At some point the pain tells you you should stop doing that, and you create an admin tool that lets you do what you need to repeatably and safely.</text></item><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>There are a number of comments that add up to "what steps will you take to ensure this does not happen again" - akin to a incident review. As speculation that's fine, as advice, I don't think it <i>should</i> be listened to.<p>I am reminded of an long-in-the-tooth sysadmin of my acquaintance who logged in everywhere as root. His theory - "they are my boxes. I screw it up, I fix it."
I eventually realised that typing sudo every time he touched a box was no defence against doing the wrong thing.<p>An awful lot of sites at 1.2m views would have outsourced the running and development of the whole thing - there are entreprenuers who say its not even worth our time to code up the MVP. I find this approach sensible from a business point of view, but still it does not sit right with me.<p>I am supposed to have a nice website with lots of good content to attract inbound marketing - so I tried getting someone on textbroker to write an article for me. It read like a High School essay - no life, no anime. And so I will probably write my own CMS and my own content.<p>And pg sits there and writes his site in his own language, with his own moderation tools. Apart from the hilarious idea he could find a ten person ruby shop to outsource to, its nice to see someone taking the time to play again. Its why I like to see jgc on here too.<p>I am not entirely sure those thoughts are joined up (I am procrasting like crazy) but if they come to mean anything its we are playing in pg's sandbox. If the sand leaks it's his sand, and the only company this is mission critical to is YC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why HN was down</title><text>Hacker News was down all last night. The problem was not due to
the new server. In fact the cause was embarrassingly stupid.<p>On a comment thread, a new user had posted some replies as siblings
instead of children. I posted a comment explaining how HN worked.
But then I decided to just fix it for him by doing some surgery in
the repl. Unfortunately I used the wrong id for one of the comments
and created a loop in the comment tree; I caused an item to be its
own grandchild. After which, when anyone tried to view the thread,
the server would try to generate an infinitely long page. The
story in question was on the frontpage, so this happened a lot.<p>For some reason I didn't check the comments after the surgery to
see if they were in the right place. I must have been distracted
by something. So I didn't notice anything was wrong till a bit
later when the server seemed to be swamped.<p>When I tailed the logs to see what was going on, the pattern looked
a lot like what happens when HN runs short of memory and starts
GCing too much. Whether it was that or something else, such problems
can usually be fixed by restarting HN. So that's what I did. But
first, since I had been writing code that day, I pushed the latest
version to the server. As long as I was going to have to restart
HN, I might as well get a fresh version.<p>After I restarted HN, the problem was still there. So I guessed
the problem must be due to something in the code I'd written that
day, and tried reverting to the previous version, and restarting the
server again. But the problem was still there. Then we (because
by this point I'd managed to get hold of Nick Sivo, YC's hacker in
residence) tried reverting to the version of HN that was on the old
server, and that didn't work either. We knew that code had worked
fine, so we figured the problem must be with the new server. So
we tried to switch back to the old server. I don't know if Nick
succeeded, because in the middle of this I gave up and went to bed.<p>When I woke up this morning, Rtm had HN running on the new server.
The bad thread was still there, but it had been pushed off the
frontpage by newer stuff. So HN as a whole wasn't dying, but there
were still signs something was amiss, e.g. that /threads?id=pg
didn't work, because of the comment I made on the thread with the
loop in it.<p>Eventually Rtm noticed that the problem seemed to be related to a
certain item id. When I looked at the item on disk I realized what
must have happened.<p>So I did some more surgery in the repl, this time more carefully,
and everything seems fine now.<p>Sorry about that.</text></story> |
32,186,321 | 32,181,264 | 1 | 3 | 32,179,842 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tuetuopay</author><text>I have a T14s Gen 1 for work, and it runs flawlessly Linux without major tinkering using Arch. Everything from sleep, display output, fingerprint reader, wifi, bluetooth, trackpad works out of the box and pretty darn well.<p>And I&#x27;m rocking a Dell XPS 9570 for personal use, still on arch, no real issue there neither. Well except the Nvidia gpu using prime that needed a truckload of work to get to work, but that&#x27;s not Dell&#x27;s fault.<p>So yeah, in my experience, a quick google search for systemic problems (bios related) of the laptop, its wifi chip support, etc, is enough to tell whether a laptop is fit for linux.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oldandboring</author><text>As a Linux laptop user, I used Thinkpads for years. The pinnacle was the T460s&#x2F;T490s models from around 2016, because they:<p>- Ran Linux without much tinkering or major compromises<p>- small (14&quot;)<p>- affordable (around $1300 for my config)<p>- lightweight and thin<p>- powerful (I had a Core i5)<p>- upgrade-able (I had 48gb of RAM)<p>They started going downhill after that, primarily in that I could no longer find a Thinkpad model that was at the intersection of upgrade-able and Linux compatibility.<p>Around 2021 I started looking for an alternative. Looked at made-for-Linux laptops like System76 and the various Linux-certified Dells. Couldn&#x27;t find anything that checked all my boxes and the Dells were particularly crippled: 8GB of soldered on RAM? Only certified to work if you use their custom hacked Ubuntu image? No thanks.<p>The Framework (gen11, DIY edition) was exactly what I was looking for. My configuration at the time was $1032 and I&#x27;ve been running Manjaro Linux on it continuously for the past year on it with zero problems. It&#x27;s just good solid generic hardware at a fair price. It&#x27;s cheap enough that I don&#x27;t worry about it getting lost or stolen. It&#x27;s repairable so I don&#x27;t worry about something physically breaking.<p>I have since bought another one for an employee and over the next few years I plan on deploying them to my whole team.<p>Basically I should be a testimonial on their website.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23270191/framework-laptop-12th-gen-2022-review</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sammorrowdrums</author><text>The Dell XPS Developer Edition ones have always worked well for me with Linux, I never used the stock Ubuntu, and the hardware works really well and they actually do deliver firmware updates through fwupd for many years - I won’t defend the landfill future of the hardware and lack of user upgrade&#x2F; replacement, but I’ve had great success with Elementary OS and Arch on them.<p>Also I have had to use a Mac more recently for work, and I miss my XPS running well with Docker, and I find it hilarious that with MacBooks you need the new M processor models to be able to run Docker workloads without the fans blasting!<p>I’d love to try a Framework too though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>oldandboring</author><text>As a Linux laptop user, I used Thinkpads for years. The pinnacle was the T460s&#x2F;T490s models from around 2016, because they:<p>- Ran Linux without much tinkering or major compromises<p>- small (14&quot;)<p>- affordable (around $1300 for my config)<p>- lightweight and thin<p>- powerful (I had a Core i5)<p>- upgrade-able (I had 48gb of RAM)<p>They started going downhill after that, primarily in that I could no longer find a Thinkpad model that was at the intersection of upgrade-able and Linux compatibility.<p>Around 2021 I started looking for an alternative. Looked at made-for-Linux laptops like System76 and the various Linux-certified Dells. Couldn&#x27;t find anything that checked all my boxes and the Dells were particularly crippled: 8GB of soldered on RAM? Only certified to work if you use their custom hacked Ubuntu image? No thanks.<p>The Framework (gen11, DIY edition) was exactly what I was looking for. My configuration at the time was $1032 and I&#x27;ve been running Manjaro Linux on it continuously for the past year on it with zero problems. It&#x27;s just good solid generic hardware at a fair price. It&#x27;s cheap enough that I don&#x27;t worry about it getting lost or stolen. It&#x27;s repairable so I don&#x27;t worry about something physically breaking.<p>I have since bought another one for an employee and over the next few years I plan on deploying them to my whole team.<p>Basically I should be a testimonial on their website.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23270191/framework-laptop-12th-gen-2022-review</url></story> |
25,509,100 | 25,509,302 | 1 | 2 | 25,494,583 | 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>lqet</author><text>To put that into perspective: the tunnel cost roughly 175M euros, that&#x27;s 3.5k EUR per inhabitant. I don&#x27;t find this excessive. From the maps, it looks like basically <i>every</i> inhabitant benefits from those tunnels. Even if it just saves 100 EUR in gas per year and inhabitant, the tunnel is a societal net gain after about 35 years.<p>Also consider this:<p>&gt; On the Eysturoy side of the tunnel house prices increased by 31% between 2019 and 2020 and have doubled between 2015-2020 [0]<p>Additionally, the tunnels are tolled [0]:<p>&gt; Construction costs for the tunnel are being recouped through toll fees. Tolls start at 75 DKK for small cars (up to 3,500 kilograms (7,700 lb)) between Tórshavn and Eysturoy, and 25 DKK for local traffic between Saltnes (near Runavík) and Strendur. This price is for people who have a subscription (hald). Without subscription the price is 175 DKK between Eysturoy to Streymoy and 125 DKK between the two arms of Skálafjørður.<p>75 DKK are around 10 EUR. With an estimated 6,000 cars per day, thats 60,000 EUR per day. At this rate, the tunnel will have paid for itself (if maintenance cost is excluded) after 8 years.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eysturoyartunnilin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eysturoyartunnilin</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>booi</author><text>That still doesn’t change the fact that this is a huge investment for 50,000 people. Those tunnels will likely never pay for themselves</text></item><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>From what I&#x27;ve gathered from reading other articles before this one, the weather can get pretty choppy at times and when that happens those islands become cut off. So it might not be a case of tunnels being less expensive but rather tunnels being more reliable.</text></item><item><author>Rexxar</author><text>Is there a geological property that makes tunnel less expansive to build in Faroe Islands ? More than 50km of tunnels for 50000 inhabitants seems huge (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_tunnels_of_the_Faroe_Islands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_tunnels_of_the_Faroe_I...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Underwater Roundabout in the Faroe Islands</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55195390</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>That’s quarterly earnings type thinking, if you do the projections on a 50 year basis they almost certainly come out as a net gain, at least for Norwegian money. As they have lots of money looking for returns on investment overseas already.</text><parent_chain><item><author>booi</author><text>That still doesn’t change the fact that this is a huge investment for 50,000 people. Those tunnels will likely never pay for themselves</text></item><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>From what I&#x27;ve gathered from reading other articles before this one, the weather can get pretty choppy at times and when that happens those islands become cut off. So it might not be a case of tunnels being less expensive but rather tunnels being more reliable.</text></item><item><author>Rexxar</author><text>Is there a geological property that makes tunnel less expansive to build in Faroe Islands ? More than 50km of tunnels for 50000 inhabitants seems huge (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_tunnels_of_the_Faroe_Islands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_tunnels_of_the_Faroe_I...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Underwater Roundabout in the Faroe Islands</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55195390</url></story> |
10,751,905 | 10,751,964 | 1 | 2 | 10,751,234 | 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>Udik</author><text>Well, it&#x27;s not for a sore knee. Is there anything more unapproved than an irreversible disease that destroys your mind in the space of a few years? It&#x27;s not like cancer, from which you might be cured, or at least with which you can have a meaningful life until your eventual death. It is a slow motion process of erasure that is well on its way at the moment of the first diagnosis. Taking the wrong medicine could shorten your brain&#x27;s life of how much, a year perhaps? Still worth trying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>carbocation</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing to me that people are willing to experiment with an unapproved chemical that provides no proven benefit in humans, yet aren&#x27;t willing to use human-proven therapies with known benefits such as statins.</text></item><item><author>wrong_internet</author><text>Pretty sure Alzheimer&#x27;s isn&#x27;t good for you, either.<p>I&#x27;d take any health risks over dementia, personally, and I&#x27;m sure most would, too. Looking forward to the FDA blocking this on &quot;safety&quot; grounds.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>Wow, you can buy some EPPS (the chemical in the article) here for £39.20?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sigmaaldrich.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;product&#x2F;sigma&#x2F;54465?lang=en&amp;region=GB" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sigmaaldrich.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;product&#x2F;sigma&#x2F;54465?lang...</a><p>Looks interesting research but I&#x27;m sure this stuff probably can&#x27;t be that good for you!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice</title><url>http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151208/ncomms9997/full/ncomms9997.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>LordKano</author><text>If I was slowly losing my mind, I&#x27;d even try experimental drugs that came with a 20% chance of sudden death.<p>There&#x27;s not much worse than having your mind die while your body is still alive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>carbocation</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing to me that people are willing to experiment with an unapproved chemical that provides no proven benefit in humans, yet aren&#x27;t willing to use human-proven therapies with known benefits such as statins.</text></item><item><author>wrong_internet</author><text>Pretty sure Alzheimer&#x27;s isn&#x27;t good for you, either.<p>I&#x27;d take any health risks over dementia, personally, and I&#x27;m sure most would, too. Looking forward to the FDA blocking this on &quot;safety&quot; grounds.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>Wow, you can buy some EPPS (the chemical in the article) here for £39.20?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sigmaaldrich.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;product&#x2F;sigma&#x2F;54465?lang=en&amp;region=GB" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sigmaaldrich.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;product&#x2F;sigma&#x2F;54465?lang...</a><p>Looks interesting research but I&#x27;m sure this stuff probably can&#x27;t be that good for you!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Chemical clears Alzheimer's protein and restores memory in mice</title><url>http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151208/ncomms9997/full/ncomms9997.html</url></story> |
39,937,832 | 39,937,436 | 1 | 2 | 39,931,228 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; Customers are not in a position to judge how much of a threat this might pose to their actual safety.<p>I&#x27;m not so sure about that. I knew the statistics, and I paid full attention in the pre-jump class. A colleague of mine who went with us did not pay attention and shattered one leg from the ankle to the hip. Fortunately, he made a full recovery.<p>I don&#x27;t know why any intelligent person would regard jumping out of an airplane as &quot;safe&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BHSPitMonkey</author><text>Customers are not in a position to judge how much of a threat this might pose to their actual safety.</text></item><item><author>Phil_Latio</author><text>But you still jumped.</text></item><item><author>chabes</author><text>I have jumped at this facility. My experience was similar to the description: rushed safety video that is playing while you are simultaneously given waivers to sign, forcing you to divert your focus between the two.<p>Not that watching the safety video would have helped in this case, as the instructor was not properly trained and vetted in the first place.<p>Still, it shows the careless attitude of the business, and the skewed priorities of profit over people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/deaths-california-lodi-skydiving-center-19361603.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>ilaksh</author><text>I feel like I have always judged skydiving correctly. It&#x27;s been a consistent &quot;nope&quot; for me my entire life.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BHSPitMonkey</author><text>Customers are not in a position to judge how much of a threat this might pose to their actual safety.</text></item><item><author>Phil_Latio</author><text>But you still jumped.</text></item><item><author>chabes</author><text>I have jumped at this facility. My experience was similar to the description: rushed safety video that is playing while you are simultaneously given waivers to sign, forcing you to divert your focus between the two.<p>Not that watching the safety video would have helped in this case, as the instructor was not properly trained and vetted in the first place.<p>Still, it shows the careless attitude of the business, and the skewed priorities of profit over people.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/deaths-california-lodi-skydiving-center-19361603.php</url></story> |
24,050,145 | 24,050,210 | 1 | 2 | 24,049,595 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>Presumably Google and&#x2F;or Fitbit operating within the European Union depends on compliance with European law. So choosing to disregard the EU&#x27;s decision on the matter could blow apart a large part of an international business.<p>My guess is Google&#x2F;Fitbit could only proceed without the EU&#x27;s approval if Fitbit stopped operating in Europe and deleted all Europeans&#x27; data.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wdabney</author><text>To what degree does the EC actually get a say in this? These are both American companies, so presumably the commission cannot block the acquisition.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t this be more like saying &quot;if you do this, we will make things painful for you&quot;? Am I completely missing something here?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU launches probe into Google-Fitbit takeover</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53647570</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>Anything the size of Google is actually a collection of multiple (probably hundreds) of separate legal entities in each country it has significant operations (e.g. a sales office) - all of these will be ultimately owned by whatever the top level listed company (presumably Alphabet). So Google almost certainly has companies in most of the countries of the EU.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wdabney</author><text>To what degree does the EC actually get a say in this? These are both American companies, so presumably the commission cannot block the acquisition.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t this be more like saying &quot;if you do this, we will make things painful for you&quot;? Am I completely missing something here?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EU launches probe into Google-Fitbit takeover</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53647570</url></story> |
32,309,942 | 32,309,964 | 1 | 2 | 32,308,553 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>&gt; Yes we do, that&#x27;s literally what a marketcap is.<p>I mean in theory. In practice:<p>- You have to use a very specialised definition of &quot;we&quot;. Specifically, it&#x27;s what people think, <i>weighted by how much money they control</i>. So wealthy people have an outsized say in market cap. Controllers of hedge funds, pension funds, etc an even more outsized say.<p>- People&#x27;s pricing can be based on how they expect other people to price the stock in the future rather than how much they think it is truly worth based on the fundamentals of the business. If someone&#x27;s price is based on this, then it is no longer a reflection of how much they think it&#x27;s worth.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mimikatz</author><text>Yes we do, that&#x27;s literally what a marketcap is. People who are sure it isn&#x27;t correct can beat against it and profit in the correction.</text></item><item><author>elromulous</author><text>So I&#x27;m very much in camp AMD. But, market cap has proven over and over again to be kind of bogus. E.g. do we really think Tesla is actually worth more than the rest of the top 10 or so automakers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD passes Intel in market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/amd-passes-intel-in-market-cap.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>The_Colonel</author><text>Shorting is much more risky than buying stocks. Compare:<p>1) I&#x27;m confident that in the long term, company X will grow in value. I invest $1000 and will wait however long it will take, 10 or more years. I risk these $1000 only, but can earn multiple of it.<p>2) I&#x27;m confident that in the long term, company Y will decrease in value. I can short it with $1000, however either I risk much more than $1000 or I can&#x27;t set the timeframe (because of forced liquidation). I also can&#x27;t earn more than $1000. In the long term, I&#x27;m also exposed to inflation. Effectively, it&#x27;s possible to short only in a short timescale, which is super risky.<p>The two betting options are very asymmetric, which IMHO favors overvaluation of certain hyped stocks, since there&#x27;s no reasonable (not extremely risky) way to bet against them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mimikatz</author><text>Yes we do, that&#x27;s literally what a marketcap is. People who are sure it isn&#x27;t correct can beat against it and profit in the correction.</text></item><item><author>elromulous</author><text>So I&#x27;m very much in camp AMD. But, market cap has proven over and over again to be kind of bogus. E.g. do we really think Tesla is actually worth more than the rest of the top 10 or so automakers?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD passes Intel in market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/amd-passes-intel-in-market-cap.html</url></story> |
30,959,478 | 30,959,378 | 1 | 3 | 30,958,919 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>giaour</author><text>There are a few ways to get an IC role that pays more than the GS salary cap, but they are fairly rare. Some jobs have an &quot;ST&quot; level that is classified above GS for senior individual contributors in scientific or technical roles, and some agencies (like the CFPB) have their own pay scales that go beyond what the GS schedule allows.<p>I only worked with one computer scientist in an ST role during my two years at USDS. He was an ACM Fellow and had a PhD from MIT, so it&#x27;s not something anyone should expect to get just because they had &quot;senior&quot; in their title at a FAANG.<p>Contractors don&#x27;t have the same statutory caps on how much an individual role can pay, but salaries are part of contract bids, and a bid can be rejected if an individual salary is too high.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tristor</author><text>I didn&#x27;t think it could be that bad, and then I went looking. Apparently to get a pay level that aligns with typical base salary in tech for senior level IC positions, you&#x27;d have to be an agency director of a large agency or in the Cabinet. And that doesn&#x27;t even take into account losing RSUs and smaller bonus payouts.<p>This actually goes a long way in my mind of explaining why the US government does so much contracting of people for work as well. It&#x27;s probably not possible in the current legal framework to pay high quality tech workers a fair compensation for the market, but they could hire a firm as contractors for a project and that firm could pay fair compensation. I just wish more firms were honest rather than milking the government.</text></item><item><author>xxpor</author><text>Until the GS salary cap is something that doesn&#x27;t look like a bad offer from a decade ago, it&#x27;ll be extremely hard to swallow the pay cut of working for the feds.<p>I get the &quot;public service&quot; discount, but it&#x27;d have to be something like 30%, not 70%.</text></item><item><author>giaour</author><text>Really happy to see this on the front page!<p>One thing to keep in mind if you&#x27;re interested in joining: the Digital Corps is for early career technologists, so if you have much experience in tech, you might want to apply to USDS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usds.gov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usds.gov</a>) or 18F (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;18f.gsa.gov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;18f.gsa.gov</a>) instead.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The United States Digital Corps</title><url>https://digitalcorps.gsa.gov/about/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>killjoywashere</author><text>This is one of the great accomplishments of the &quot;small government&quot; efforts in politics: all the money leaves the system. Imagine a business that losses all it&#x27;s money, every year, by design.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tristor</author><text>I didn&#x27;t think it could be that bad, and then I went looking. Apparently to get a pay level that aligns with typical base salary in tech for senior level IC positions, you&#x27;d have to be an agency director of a large agency or in the Cabinet. And that doesn&#x27;t even take into account losing RSUs and smaller bonus payouts.<p>This actually goes a long way in my mind of explaining why the US government does so much contracting of people for work as well. It&#x27;s probably not possible in the current legal framework to pay high quality tech workers a fair compensation for the market, but they could hire a firm as contractors for a project and that firm could pay fair compensation. I just wish more firms were honest rather than milking the government.</text></item><item><author>xxpor</author><text>Until the GS salary cap is something that doesn&#x27;t look like a bad offer from a decade ago, it&#x27;ll be extremely hard to swallow the pay cut of working for the feds.<p>I get the &quot;public service&quot; discount, but it&#x27;d have to be something like 30%, not 70%.</text></item><item><author>giaour</author><text>Really happy to see this on the front page!<p>One thing to keep in mind if you&#x27;re interested in joining: the Digital Corps is for early career technologists, so if you have much experience in tech, you might want to apply to USDS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usds.gov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usds.gov</a>) or 18F (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;18f.gsa.gov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;18f.gsa.gov</a>) instead.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The United States Digital Corps</title><url>https://digitalcorps.gsa.gov/about/</url></story> |
27,468,824 | 27,460,359 | 1 | 3 | 27,458,227 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Copyright 1991. This was probably making the rounds of homeschooling circles I hung out in.<p>We tend to do a sucky job of teaching math to kids. A lot of elementary school teachers are women who were encouraged to go into early education because they weren&#x27;t doing so well in math and this is very much gender bias.<p>My ex husband wasn&#x27;t good at math. No one told him he should spend his days teaching little kids because of it. He was a career soldier and he just got tutored in college (by me) for his math classes. He was just expected to work at it if it didn&#x27;t come naturally and he did.<p>So we just culturally pass around this idea that math is scary and little kids can&#x27;t learn it rather than going &quot;Well, adults just need to up their game and, by god, explain it better.&quot;<p>My oldest was math phobic by the time I pulled him out of school to homeschool. My one and only goal for math was to get him over his phobia.<p>He loves physics. I hate calculus. Calculus makes sense to him and he has read calculus books for fun.<p>I was good at explaining the math to him and he learned lots of solid math concepts even though he likely has dyscalculia and isn&#x27;t good at crunching the numbers. But I got the concepts through to him and that&#x27;s more important.<p>He&#x27;s what gets called &quot;calculator dependent&quot; in some circles.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Calculus for Seven Year Olds [pdf]</title><url>http://mathman.biz/materials/Calculus%20By%20and%20For%20Young%20People%20Worksheets.pdf</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fatnoah</author><text>I don&#x27;t know how I feel about this. I&#x27;ve always been good at math, and was one of five kids (out of class of 120) that took Calculus as a senior in high school in the early 1990&#x27;s. To even take Calculus as a senior, you had to have taken four years of math in the previous three years. I was even the HS Math Champion&quot; for my state.<p>However, when I took Calculus in High School, it was taught similarly to this. Lots and lots and lots of math foundations, infinite series, areas under curves, and I was able to trudge through it but I didn&#x27;t really grasp what it all meant or why I was doing it. Finally, about 2&#x2F;3 of the way through the year, I was working on a problem and had an &quot;oh, shit, this is just about how things are changing&quot;. It was a Eureka moment, and entirely based on such a simple statement that was never brought up in lectures or our crusty 1960&#x27;s texbook.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Calculus for Seven Year Olds [pdf]</title><url>http://mathman.biz/materials/Calculus%20By%20and%20For%20Young%20People%20Worksheets.pdf</url></story> |
35,603,321 | 35,602,326 | 1 | 2 | 35,599,884 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>What cost?<p>Competition? That isn&#x27;t definite.<p>Support overhead? I don&#x27;t buy it.<p>&gt; If you are easily able to change the firmware, you are easily able to destroy the hardware, and if that&#x27;s under warranty, companies are going to be concerned.<p>...so void the warrantee when flashing 3rd-party firmware.<p>How often, <i>in reality</i>, are people going to fry their hardware? It&#x27;s not as if 99.99999% of 3rd-party firmware users are <i>writing that firmware themselves</i>! Hardware damage should be expected as an extreme edge case, not a broad looming risk.<p>---<p>If we are going to put this much effort into speculating cost, we should put equal effort into speculating <i>value</i>.<p>Open firmware is significantly likely to reduce the costs of compatibility and edge-case support. It is also likely to increase the value of the product by making it auditable and maintainable. It also factors out the cost of anti-user-maintenance efforts like DRM.<p>Most importantly, open firmware can <i>stabilize</i> the value of a product, increasing its resale price and delaying price decline. Unfortunately, this is the point that many companies consider <i>negative</i>, because they don&#x27;t want to compete with themselves.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimmyswimmy</author><text>As an EE I love the idea of open firmware. I wish more companies would provide it - akin to the old TVs and other equipment that came with [full!] schematics inside. It would let me truly understand and modify the items that I purchased.<p>There is definitely a cost to it to the companies, which I fully expect to be passed down to me, but not in the form of a license agreement - in the form of an increase in base price.<p>The problem for companies is multifold. A big one is that the firmware is the piece that not only interacts with but also protects the hardware. If you are easily able to change the firmware, you are easily able to destroy the hardware, and if that&#x27;s under warranty, companies are going to be concerned. They&#x27;re also going to worry about IP; certainly I build products that lean on the work from previous projects. I would kind of hate handing that over to potential competitors. But some of that &#x27;hate&#x27; depends on the fact that my competitors don&#x27;t give their firmware code out either. Maybe I would love it if I could see how they implement things. Maybe it would push us all to deliver better things. Another impact - open firmware would definitely change sales models for equipment.<p>I imagine that if I had to start delivering open firmware for designs, I&#x27;d need to push some of the software control over product limitations into hardware. That might cost more, but is better anyway. Usually. And I&#x27;d try hard to figure out a way to install a &#x27;unverified firmware&#x27; hardware flag, maybe an efuse blown in a hard-to-replace component, so that we could know who broke things.<p>But I do like the idea. I want the firmware for my ${everything}.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/opinion_column/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>&gt; A big one is that the firmware is the piece that not only interacts with but also protects the hardware. If you are easily able to change the firmware, you are easily able to destroy the hardware, and if that&#x27;s under warranty, companies are going to be concerned.<p>Is that justifiable, though? I bricked a router some time ago messing around with ddwrt. I thought about soldering on a TTL serial adapter, to recover it, but didn&#x27;t end up getting around to it, but never in my wildest dreams did I think of asking Netgear to replace the 8-year-old product I broke through my actions. I do know at least one person who is reckless with &quot;no questions asked&quot; warranties, and would ask for a refund with a straight face after trying to use a router to reduce spaghetti sauce spattering when he microwaved his dinner, but these people can&#x27;t be that common...<p>One area where it does seem slightly more justifiable is FCC-certified radio devices. If the transmitter power level is restricted by law, I&#x27;d prefer that end users&#x2F;modifiers of the firmware be considered legally responsible for the consequences of their own actions, but I understand that pragmatically it&#x27;s a lot easier to ask OEMs to lock down firmware after getting certified in a test lab than to monitor a million end users.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimmyswimmy</author><text>As an EE I love the idea of open firmware. I wish more companies would provide it - akin to the old TVs and other equipment that came with [full!] schematics inside. It would let me truly understand and modify the items that I purchased.<p>There is definitely a cost to it to the companies, which I fully expect to be passed down to me, but not in the form of a license agreement - in the form of an increase in base price.<p>The problem for companies is multifold. A big one is that the firmware is the piece that not only interacts with but also protects the hardware. If you are easily able to change the firmware, you are easily able to destroy the hardware, and if that&#x27;s under warranty, companies are going to be concerned. They&#x27;re also going to worry about IP; certainly I build products that lean on the work from previous projects. I would kind of hate handing that over to potential competitors. But some of that &#x27;hate&#x27; depends on the fact that my competitors don&#x27;t give their firmware code out either. Maybe I would love it if I could see how they implement things. Maybe it would push us all to deliver better things. Another impact - open firmware would definitely change sales models for equipment.<p>I imagine that if I had to start delivering open firmware for designs, I&#x27;d need to push some of the software control over product limitations into hardware. That might cost more, but is better anyway. Usually. And I&#x27;d try hard to figure out a way to install a &#x27;unverified firmware&#x27; hardware flag, maybe an efuse blown in a hard-to-replace component, so that we could know who broke things.<p>But I do like the idea. I want the firmware for my ${everything}.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/opinion_column/</url></story> |
2,542,637 | 2,542,000 | 1 | 2 | 2,541,360 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>huhtenberg</author><text>&#62; <i>Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome -</i><p>Hire a designer :)<p>--<p>I am saying this only half-jokingly. There's always a trade-off. Pre-made themes are great, but<p>(a) they are shared and have a mass-production stigma attached to them<p>(b) they are designed first and spec'd second, which is the opposite of the normal process whereby the design follows from what it is that needs to be achieved with it.<p>The title should really be "great looking designs on a budget" rather than focusing on the lack of the designer skills. Because if there are funds available, then contracting out the design and getting exactly what you want beats the hell out of purchasing a theme.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome</title><url>http://tbbuck.com/how-to-make-your-web-apps-look-awesome/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wvenable</author><text>What are other good sites for this kind of thing besides Themeforest? This looks like a good way to go to get a nice looking website up fast and inexpensively.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome</title><url>http://tbbuck.com/how-to-make-your-web-apps-look-awesome/</url></story> |
22,163,148 | 22,163,012 | 1 | 2 | 22,162,762 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makomk</author><text>Mostly, it seems to be a difference in design philosphy - AMD processors prevent speculative reads of data that shouldn&#x27;t be accessible almost everywhere, whereas Intel ones allow them pretty much everywhere. This particular attack requires TSX which AMD processors don&#x27;t have, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;d work on AMD processors anyway because they&#x27;re not missing the security check that Intel ones are. If I remember rightly, there were other now-mitigated exploits for this line fill buffer leak that didn&#x27;t require TSX.<p>(The one exception is also interesting. AMD processors allow speculative reads past the end of x86 segments and past BOUND instructions, which of course no-one uses these days. This suggests there may have been a deliberate decision to block them in the more important cases.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>kohtatsu</author><text>Did AMD design their processors with these side channel attacks in mind, or is it a matter of where the security research is focused?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions</title><url>https://cacheoutattack.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>Symmetry</author><text>In this case AMD just doesn&#x27;t support TSX instructions. For previous vulnerabilities with Meltdown I&#x27;d guess that AMD just didn&#x27;t feel they had the engineering resources to do after the fact validation of memory access permissions without architecturally leaking data in some weird corner case. But then along comes Meltdown and it turns out that non-architectural leaks are a thing that can happen and if you try to do after the fact validation you can&#x27;t prevent them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kohtatsu</author><text>Did AMD design their processors with these side channel attacks in mind, or is it a matter of where the security research is focused?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions</title><url>https://cacheoutattack.com/</url></story> |
12,447,093 | 12,447,251 | 1 | 2 | 12,445,994 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>heartbreak</author><text>I had an S2, an S3, and an S4. After trying each one for a month, I reverted to the respective iPhone. Trust me I&#x27;ve tried. I&#x27;m sure the S7 is great, and maybe it is the first &quot;reasonable&quot; phone from Samsung, but I have yet to use an iPhone that I didn&#x27;t like. I have used 3 Samsung phones that were laggy and loaded up with garbage apps.</text><parent_chain><item><author>javajosh</author><text><i>Finally decent depth of field on the camera that&#x27;s always in my pocket.</i><p>Recently I upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy S7. It was about $400 and it has an incredible camera; far better than my old iPhone 5s, and it looks substantially better than the iPhone 6&#x2F;6s photos I have seen. Plus, it has a headphone jack, microSD support (so nice to be able to upgrade), and a really beautiful screen. Yes, Samsung installed some bloatware but some of it is actually useful (their UI for toggling radios is quite good) Android Kit-Kat is solid. To me, this was Android&#x27;s first reasonable phone.</text></item><item><author>heartbreak</author><text>I&#x27;m also really excited about this. A lot of people have been distracted by a single issue and are missing some really nice features of this phone.<p>Beyond the secure enclave, if the haptic home button is anything like the new trackpads, it&#x27;ll be an amazing feature. One less moving part to break. And the cameras...wow. Finally decent depth of field on the camera that&#x27;s always in my pocket.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that cameras are nice and so are Retina displays but what we&#x27;d really like to see is a big splashy page about whatever&#x27;s new with the Secure Enclave Processor in the 7.<p>Not because there&#x27;s anything wrong with the 6! Ivan Krstic&#x27;s talk about Apple platform security at Black Hat was probably the best talk of the whole event. Nobody is delivering seamlessly integrated chipset-up-through-application security the way Apple is. Forget about in mobile devices; I mean, in computing, period.<p>I&#x27;m excited to learn what else is coming there!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone 7</title><url>http://www.apple.com/iPhone7</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidiach</author><text>That&#x27;s weird, my work phone is a Samsung S7 Edge and my personal phone is an iPhone 6S. The photos on the iPhone look so much better.
The photos on the S7 look like they have been edited with a filter, like on Instagram. The colors don&#x27;t look like the colors I see when I&#x27;m looking at the thing I try to capture. The iPhone does a better job at that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>javajosh</author><text><i>Finally decent depth of field on the camera that&#x27;s always in my pocket.</i><p>Recently I upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy S7. It was about $400 and it has an incredible camera; far better than my old iPhone 5s, and it looks substantially better than the iPhone 6&#x2F;6s photos I have seen. Plus, it has a headphone jack, microSD support (so nice to be able to upgrade), and a really beautiful screen. Yes, Samsung installed some bloatware but some of it is actually useful (their UI for toggling radios is quite good) Android Kit-Kat is solid. To me, this was Android&#x27;s first reasonable phone.</text></item><item><author>heartbreak</author><text>I&#x27;m also really excited about this. A lot of people have been distracted by a single issue and are missing some really nice features of this phone.<p>Beyond the secure enclave, if the haptic home button is anything like the new trackpads, it&#x27;ll be an amazing feature. One less moving part to break. And the cameras...wow. Finally decent depth of field on the camera that&#x27;s always in my pocket.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that cameras are nice and so are Retina displays but what we&#x27;d really like to see is a big splashy page about whatever&#x27;s new with the Secure Enclave Processor in the 7.<p>Not because there&#x27;s anything wrong with the 6! Ivan Krstic&#x27;s talk about Apple platform security at Black Hat was probably the best talk of the whole event. Nobody is delivering seamlessly integrated chipset-up-through-application security the way Apple is. Forget about in mobile devices; I mean, in computing, period.<p>I&#x27;m excited to learn what else is coming there!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iPhone 7</title><url>http://www.apple.com/iPhone7</url></story> |
12,819,176 | 12,818,989 | 1 | 2 | 12,817,722 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AgentME</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a number of transactions blocked because my bank must&#x27;ve suspected fraud. I can count on zero hands the number of times it wasn&#x27;t actually a transaction I wanted to go through. It&#x27;s pretty awkward when I&#x27;m in the checkout line trying to pay for something or if it means some order gets delayed. I&#x27;m really thankful I have multiple credit cards which don&#x27;t seem to all use the same fraud protection algorithms so I usually can just cycle to the next card, but it makes me a little uncomfortable that my solution is essentially just trusting the next service doesn&#x27;t fuck up.<p>&gt;In the first case, it&#x27;s a service they are providing you<p>I like knowing that I have some money that I control myself, not through some service I have to worry about locking me out at inopportune times, though I admit it&#x27;s mostly an ideological position than an economic one.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dangerlibrary</author><text>As a consumer spending money from a checking account or credit card, the only reasons a bank would stop a payment or freeze a balance are because they suspect fraud or illegal activity. In the first case, it&#x27;s a service they are providing you - peace of mind as a result of extensive fraud protection measures. In the second case - then <i>mostly_harmless</i> is correct. If the only benefit of bitcoin is &quot;no fraud protection and the freedom to use for illegal transactions&quot; how is <i>mostly_harmless</i> wrong?</text></item><item><author>olegkikin</author><text>I love paying with bitcoin, even when other methods are available. It&#x27;s just so easy, and just knowing no stupid bank can stop the payment or freeze your balance feels like freedom.<p>If you see &quot;nothing but scams&quot;, it only tells me you live in a strange bubble. There are tons of legitimate businesses that use bitcoin daily. There are some that use litecoin, and even dogecoin.</text></item><item><author>mostly_harmless</author><text>&gt; Zcash is a technology, and like any technology it has multiple uses. I suspect that many of the best applications of this technology haven&#x27;t been conceived of yet.<p>&gt; 10% pre-mine to founders<p>This smells super fishy. Altogether, I&#x27;ve yet to see anything to do with cryptocurrencies be useful. Nothing but scams, hiding illegal activities, and hopeless optimism so far.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zcash begins</title><url>https://z.cash/blog/zcash-begins.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>aianus</author><text>&gt; peace of mind as a result of extensive fraud protection measures<p>I don&#x27;t want &quot;peace of mind&quot;. I (a Canadian) want to be able to buy something online from a US supplier and have it shipped to me in Thailand. This is just not possible with any kind of chargeback-enabling payment method.<p>Just because you haven&#x27;t been in a situation where the &quot;fraud protection&quot; is impacting your life (or your sales) doesn&#x27;t mean those situations don&#x27;t come up for others.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dangerlibrary</author><text>As a consumer spending money from a checking account or credit card, the only reasons a bank would stop a payment or freeze a balance are because they suspect fraud or illegal activity. In the first case, it&#x27;s a service they are providing you - peace of mind as a result of extensive fraud protection measures. In the second case - then <i>mostly_harmless</i> is correct. If the only benefit of bitcoin is &quot;no fraud protection and the freedom to use for illegal transactions&quot; how is <i>mostly_harmless</i> wrong?</text></item><item><author>olegkikin</author><text>I love paying with bitcoin, even when other methods are available. It&#x27;s just so easy, and just knowing no stupid bank can stop the payment or freeze your balance feels like freedom.<p>If you see &quot;nothing but scams&quot;, it only tells me you live in a strange bubble. There are tons of legitimate businesses that use bitcoin daily. There are some that use litecoin, and even dogecoin.</text></item><item><author>mostly_harmless</author><text>&gt; Zcash is a technology, and like any technology it has multiple uses. I suspect that many of the best applications of this technology haven&#x27;t been conceived of yet.<p>&gt; 10% pre-mine to founders<p>This smells super fishy. Altogether, I&#x27;ve yet to see anything to do with cryptocurrencies be useful. Nothing but scams, hiding illegal activities, and hopeless optimism so far.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Zcash begins</title><url>https://z.cash/blog/zcash-begins.html</url></story> |
28,688,834 | 28,688,812 | 1 | 3 | 28,688,255 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Frost1x</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s not clear why TikTok is singled out here, this could just has easily been posted to Facebook or Instagram or one of the other myriad of social media platforms, or pushed automatically to someone&#x27;s open photo album in the cloud.<p>There&#x27;s an additional layer here that&#x27;s often ignored: that specific piece of information that leaked is the same regardless of what platform it was released on, but if it was released on a foreign government controlled platform, that government might start monitoring aspects of data being collected by TikTok that aren&#x27;t being posted for the user or look at historical data if it&#x27;s being collected. More detailed location data, who their friends are, where they typically go, and so on. Not all of that additional data is probably going to be available to them on Facebook, just the video. The information in the video may be more valuable when it&#x27;s incorporated with a series of other data points that may be attainable from TikTok for that now closely monitored account.<p>Sharing this information to begin with isn&#x27;t good but it&#x27;s even worse if you&#x27;re now potentially leaking additional data unknowingly. Maybe the guy who recorded that begins taking photos at some specific base, maybe their TikTok friends include some coworkers that include some videos in on a boat in the South China Sea... it&#x27;s possible to start linking more information together that could be valuable to an adversary.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text><i>An OPSEC violation has once again made a case for why using TikTok should be a punishable offense in the military,</i><p>It&#x27;s not clear why TikTok is singled out here, this could just has easily been posted to Facebook or Instagram or one of the other myriad of social media platforms, or pushed automatically to someone&#x27;s open photo album in the cloud.<p>If OPSEC is important, don&#x27;t let people bring their personal camera phones (or smart glasses or camera enabled watch or whatever other personal surveillance people choose to carry) near whatever you&#x27;re trying to protect.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok</title><url>https://warisboring.com/secret-military-aircraft-possibly-exposed-on-tiktok/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kindle-dev</author><text>The TikTok app may have camera access and location access. It could capture images and send them to China when it detects its on a military base without the user even knowing. It’s so annoying to see “what about X” comments on every story with almost no thought put into the response.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text><i>An OPSEC violation has once again made a case for why using TikTok should be a punishable offense in the military,</i><p>It&#x27;s not clear why TikTok is singled out here, this could just has easily been posted to Facebook or Instagram or one of the other myriad of social media platforms, or pushed automatically to someone&#x27;s open photo album in the cloud.<p>If OPSEC is important, don&#x27;t let people bring their personal camera phones (or smart glasses or camera enabled watch or whatever other personal surveillance people choose to carry) near whatever you&#x27;re trying to protect.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok</title><url>https://warisboring.com/secret-military-aircraft-possibly-exposed-on-tiktok/</url></story> |
8,712,729 | 8,712,779 | 1 | 3 | 8,710,416 | 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>dalke</author><text>Umm, Intel gave stock options to key employees in 1971. See <a href="http://www.intel.pl/content/dam/doc/report/history-1971-annual-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.intel.pl&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;doc&#x2F;report&#x2F;history-1971-annu...</a> for evidence. Quoting note 5:<p>&gt; (a) Under this plan, officers and key employees have been granted options to purchase shares [of qualified stock] ... (c) [the same for non-qualified stock]<p>See also <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/04/04/149870751/a-rare-mix-created-silicon-valleys-startup-culture" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;04&#x2F;149870751&#x2F;a-rare-mix-created-s...</a> : When Fairchild&#x27;s investors back east took the option to buy the company, its executives didn&#x27;t understand things like giving stock options to employees. &quot;Their attitude was much like everyone else on the East Coast,&quot; Rock says. &quot;Companies could give out a few options, but only to top executives. They were all very staid and white-shoe.&quot; ... Rock says one executive called the idea of stock options creeping socialism. &quot;They did things the way their fathers did them,&quot; Rock says.<p>In turn, National used stock options and higher pay to hire people from Fairchild. See <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=UUbB3d2UnaAC&amp;lpg=PA172&amp;dq=by%20offering%20stock%20options%20and%20higher%20pay%2C%20National&amp;hl=sv&amp;pg=PA172#v=onepage&amp;q=by%20offering%20stock%20options%20and%20higher%20pay,%20National&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=UUbB3d2UnaAC&amp;lpg=PA172&amp;dq=b...</a> . This was in the mid 1960s.<p>Quoting from <a href="http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/07/07/228627/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.fortune.com&#x2F;magazines&#x2F;fortune&#x2F;fortune_archive...</a> : &quot;With Rock&#x27;s backing, they decided to form a company called Intel that wouldn&#x27;t be stingy about granting options to employees. &quot;We didn&#x27;t include everybody, but almost everybody,&quot; says Moore, who retired in May as Intel&#x27;s chairman. (Noyce died in 1989.) Other startups followed Intel&#x27;s example; by 1977 it hardly raised eyebrows when Apple Computer--another startup backed by Arthur Rock--granted options to all its employees.&quot;<p>Followed by &quot;Ironically, outside of Silicon Valley the stock option was becoming an endangered species. Congress, at the urging of Senator Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee, had begun in the 1960s to whittle away at options&#x27; tax-advantaged status, which some denounced as an unfair boon for the rich.&quot;<p>I think that establishes that in Silicon Valley by the time that Apple was founded, employee stock options of the type that Apple did were a popular thing.<p>And the garage &#x27;myth&#x27; starts with Hewlett-Packard in 1939, not Apple. Here&#x27;s a picture of the garage where HP started: <a href="http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www8.hp.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;hp-information&#x2F;about-hp&#x2F;history&#x2F;ove...</a> . It has its own Wikipedia page at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Garage" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HP_Garage</a> and is on the National Register of Historic Places.<p>So before you start calling people dishonest - know some history first, and not just word-of-mouth myths.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MCRed</author><text>In 1977, there wasn&#x27;t such a popular thing as &quot;Stock options&quot; for going to work for a &quot;startup&quot;. This is, quite literally, THE startup that started in a garage and produced the &quot;came from a garage&quot; myth. Further, your dishonest implication that Jobs didn&#x27;t give up ownership is factually false, and the reality is, he simply gave up ownership to different people than Woz did.<p>But your comment shows what type of person you are, that&#x27;s for sure.</text></item><item><author>danmaz74</author><text>Yes. It also shows what kind of guy Jobs was.</text></item><item><author>ddellacosta</author><text>This is how you tell what kind of guy Woz really is:<p><i>Around the time of the Apple IPO in late 1980, Woz decided to give away stock options to the earliest Apple employees who had never gotten options -- including Randy Wigginton, Chris Espinosa, Kottke, and Fernandez. He gave them each a stock grant out of his own chunk of shares. It was a generous move, especially towards Wozniak&#x27;s old neighbor and friend with whom he&#x27;d built his first computer and helped become Apple&#x27;s first employee.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez</title><url>http://www.techrepublic.com/article/apples-first-employee-the-remarkable-odyssey-of-bill-fernandez/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gaadd33</author><text>Actually Hewlett-Packard was &quot;THE startup&quot; that started in a garage and produced that myth. That was in 1939, a few years before Apple was around.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MCRed</author><text>In 1977, there wasn&#x27;t such a popular thing as &quot;Stock options&quot; for going to work for a &quot;startup&quot;. This is, quite literally, THE startup that started in a garage and produced the &quot;came from a garage&quot; myth. Further, your dishonest implication that Jobs didn&#x27;t give up ownership is factually false, and the reality is, he simply gave up ownership to different people than Woz did.<p>But your comment shows what type of person you are, that&#x27;s for sure.</text></item><item><author>danmaz74</author><text>Yes. It also shows what kind of guy Jobs was.</text></item><item><author>ddellacosta</author><text>This is how you tell what kind of guy Woz really is:<p><i>Around the time of the Apple IPO in late 1980, Woz decided to give away stock options to the earliest Apple employees who had never gotten options -- including Randy Wigginton, Chris Espinosa, Kottke, and Fernandez. He gave them each a stock grant out of his own chunk of shares. It was a generous move, especially towards Wozniak&#x27;s old neighbor and friend with whom he&#x27;d built his first computer and helped become Apple&#x27;s first employee.</i></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez</title><url>http://www.techrepublic.com/article/apples-first-employee-the-remarkable-odyssey-of-bill-fernandez/</url></story> |
3,538,077 | 3,538,149 | 1 | 2 | 3,537,888 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>maerek</author><text>It appears that thepiratebay.org points to a server that then handles redirection. Question: Why hasn't the .org URL already been seized at the DNS level? DiG output below:<p><pre><code> ; &#60;&#60;&#62;&#62; DiG 9.3.2 &#60;&#60;&#62;&#62; @localhost thepiratebay.org A
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -&#62;&#62;HEADER&#60;&#60;- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5372
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;thepiratebay.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
thepiratebay.org. 3587 IN A 194.71.107.15
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
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;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 50&#60;/code&#62;</code></pre></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Pirate Bay Moves to .SE Domain To Prevent Domain Seizure</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-moves-to-se-domain-prevent-domain-seizure-120201/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lignuist</author><text>I wonder, why they didn't move to a .is domain, since Iceland claims to be a safe data haven.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Pirate Bay Moves to .SE Domain To Prevent Domain Seizure</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-moves-to-se-domain-prevent-domain-seizure-120201/</url></story> |
13,961,491 | 13,961,472 | 1 | 2 | 13,958,491 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beala</author><text>Monad, like any interface, is useful because we can abstract over it. Let&#x27;s take an example from Java: both ArrayList and LinkedList implement List. This means I can write code that is agnostic to the implementation of List, and later I can drop in any implementation I want. Seen from the other direction: if I write something that resembles a list and I implement the List interface, all of the code that&#x27;s compatible with List will also be compatible with my new implementation.<p>Similarly, if I define a new data type, and realize that it can implement Monad (or more precisely: that it has a monad instance), then I&#x27;ll be rewarded with a giant library of code that&#x27;s already compatible with my new data type [1]. Monad is an especially interesting interface because (1) it turns out many things conform to it [2] and (2) it comes with a set of algebraic laws. There is some controversy over how strict we need to be about the algebraic laws, but in some sense the algebraic laws are part of why such a general interface can be meaningful at all.<p>So yes, it&#x27;s true that Monad allows us to sequence effects in a lazy pure language, and that&#x27;s important, but I think a more down to earth reason to be interested is that it allows for more code reuse [3].<p>[1] Some of the function defined in the standard library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;base-4.9.1.0&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Control-Monad.html#g:4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;base-4.9.1.0&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Contro...</a><p>[2] See the &#x27;instances&#x27; section here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;base-4.9.1.0&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Control-Monad.html#t:Monad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;base-4.9.1.0&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Contro...</a> These are just the instances in the standard library.<p>[3] It&#x27;s also worth mentioning that Monad gets all the attention, but Haskell if flush with other mathematically inspired interfaces that are just as general.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kaoD</author><text>The article is spot on. The problem with monads is not the what, is the why. Tutorials often explain the what, which is easy to understand (except where people get creative with similes... &quot;monads are like tuna sausages, but you can build castles with them&quot;).<p>Not having used them, I&#x27;m still puzzled at _why_ I would need monads at all.<p>At this point, tutorials use examples like &quot;like flatMap and Maybe in other languages!&quot; which is even more confusing. Why do I need a monad then, if there are similar constructs in other languages that don&#x27;t need the understanding of monad? Why the complexity? What do I get from monads?</text></item><item><author>jodooshi</author><text>&gt; monads aren’t actually all that complicated. In fact, most of the experienced functional programmers I’ve met consider them downright simple. It’s just that newcomers often have a really hard time trying to figure out what exactly monads even are... A lot of intermediate-to-advanced functional programmers have taken it upon themselves to write monad tutorials... But for the most part, these tutorials never seem to work.<p>Why is that? Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mkremins.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;doors-headaches-intellectual-need&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mkremins.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;doors-headaches-intellectual...</a> :-)</text></item><item><author>scottmsul</author><text>A monad is any data structure which implements bind. Bind is a higher-order function with two parameters - one is the data structure to be transformed, the other is a function which maps over elements in the data structure. However, unlike a normal map, each result of &quot;bind&quot; sits in its own version of the original data structure, which then have to be combined back into a single data structure. The way in which the data structures are combined is what makes each monad different.<p>For example, List is a monad. Suppose we had a List of Ints, such as [5,3,4]. If we were to run bind over this list, we would need a function that takes an Int and returns a List of something. We could use &quot;show&quot;, the function which converts Ints to Strings (a String is technically a List of Char. Since this is a List, we&#x27;re good). If we call bind using [5,3,4] and show, we get [&quot;5&quot;,&quot;3&quot;,&quot;4&quot;] which are then combined to &quot;534&quot;.<p>We can check with the interpreter (&gt;&gt;= is bind):<p>Prelude&gt; [5,3,4] &gt;&gt;= show<p>&quot;534&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Haskell Concepts in One Sentence</title><url>https://torchhound.github.io/posts/haskellOneSentence.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>eastWestMath</author><text>&gt;At this point, tutorials use examples like &quot;like flatMap and Maybe in other languages!&quot; which is even more confusing. Why do I need a monad then, if there are similar constructs in other languages that don&#x27;t need the understanding of monad? Why the complexity? What do I get from monads?<p>Monads are a mathematical concept, like a ring. &quot;Maybe&quot; is a monad in whatever language you use it in, just like integers are a ring in whatever language you use them in. Pointing out that complex numbers, rational numbers, nxn matrices are all examples of rings and wrapping everything up into a type class doesn&#x27;t add to the complexity of the language.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kaoD</author><text>The article is spot on. The problem with monads is not the what, is the why. Tutorials often explain the what, which is easy to understand (except where people get creative with similes... &quot;monads are like tuna sausages, but you can build castles with them&quot;).<p>Not having used them, I&#x27;m still puzzled at _why_ I would need monads at all.<p>At this point, tutorials use examples like &quot;like flatMap and Maybe in other languages!&quot; which is even more confusing. Why do I need a monad then, if there are similar constructs in other languages that don&#x27;t need the understanding of monad? Why the complexity? What do I get from monads?</text></item><item><author>jodooshi</author><text>&gt; monads aren’t actually all that complicated. In fact, most of the experienced functional programmers I’ve met consider them downright simple. It’s just that newcomers often have a really hard time trying to figure out what exactly monads even are... A lot of intermediate-to-advanced functional programmers have taken it upon themselves to write monad tutorials... But for the most part, these tutorials never seem to work.<p>Why is that? Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mkremins.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;doors-headaches-intellectual-need&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mkremins.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;doors-headaches-intellectual...</a> :-)</text></item><item><author>scottmsul</author><text>A monad is any data structure which implements bind. Bind is a higher-order function with two parameters - one is the data structure to be transformed, the other is a function which maps over elements in the data structure. However, unlike a normal map, each result of &quot;bind&quot; sits in its own version of the original data structure, which then have to be combined back into a single data structure. The way in which the data structures are combined is what makes each monad different.<p>For example, List is a monad. Suppose we had a List of Ints, such as [5,3,4]. If we were to run bind over this list, we would need a function that takes an Int and returns a List of something. We could use &quot;show&quot;, the function which converts Ints to Strings (a String is technically a List of Char. Since this is a List, we&#x27;re good). If we call bind using [5,3,4] and show, we get [&quot;5&quot;,&quot;3&quot;,&quot;4&quot;] which are then combined to &quot;534&quot;.<p>We can check with the interpreter (&gt;&gt;= is bind):<p>Prelude&gt; [5,3,4] &gt;&gt;= show<p>&quot;534&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Haskell Concepts in One Sentence</title><url>https://torchhound.github.io/posts/haskellOneSentence.html</url></story> |
15,136,380 | 15,136,494 | 1 | 2 | 15,135,780 | train | <instructions>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>Yes, this was my first thought as I was reading the article. A better title for it would be &quot;Backporting Modern Linux Kernel Features to Our Really Old Kernels Instead of Doing the Right Thing and Keeping Up To Date&quot;.<p>I do -- I really do -- appreciate that version churn is difficult, and the Linux kernel also doesn&#x27;t make it easy since they don&#x27;t guarantee any stable internal APIs, but they&#x27;re also adding a lot of work on themselves by having to maintain their own kernel trees that diverge significantly from mainline. They&#x27;re also at the mercy (to some extent) of many chipset manufacturers and whatever they&#x27;ve chosen to base their efforts on.<p>A quick look at some kernel release timeframes from the versions they mention in the article:<p><pre><code> 4.3 - 11&#x2F;2015
4.4 - 02&#x2F;2016
4.6 - 05&#x2F;2016
4.8 - 10&#x2F;2016
4.10 - 02&#x2F;2017
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The only kernel out of that list I&#x27;d unquestioningly accept as it being unrealistic to upgrade to for Oreo is 4.10. 4.8 might be a stretch since I&#x27;m guessing they&#x27;d already branched internally for Oreo by then, though they likely had a month or so of RCs that they could have used as a base before that. There&#x27;s certainly risk to basing your work on a newly-released (or soon-to-be-released) kernel, but given the general high quality of kernel releases, I imagine that&#x27;d be pretty far down on their list of risks. Regardless, 4.6 or 4.7 would be entirely reasonable to use as a base, and since they own the conformance test criteria, they could also require that all their vendors use that as a minimum version.<p>And yet, they are backporting some features as far back as 3.18, which was originally released in December of 2014, and, while it was designated a LTS kernel, it, at this point in time, has moved into end-of-life status. And we wonder why Android security is a nightmare.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrhigat4</author><text>Android should really use a modern kernel. All the forking mess involved in Android updates is a terrible problem predicated by the lack of generic drivers on mobile devices.<p>Copperhead[0] has been working to apply security patches to the kernel for some time and PostMarketOS[1] has an eventual goal of using the mainline upstream kernel. Really pulling for PMOS.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copperhead.co&#x2F;android&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copperhead.co&#x2F;android&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postmarketos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postmarketos.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/08/hardening-kernel-in-android-oreo.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>tadfisher</author><text>Agreed, but let&#x27;s point fingers at the whole stack if we want this to happen.<p>Treble [0] will finally add a HAL to the base system, so updates to the kernel and drivers should in theory be easier on devices that ship with 8.0 (of which there are exactly zero so far). So at least Google&#x27;s on the right track.<p>But Google doesn&#x27;t create the drivers and Google doesn&#x27;t ship the board support packages which vendors build upon. And so we come to Qualcomm, Samsung, Mediatek, and whoever else is shipping proprietary drivers for their SoCs and radios, and who don&#x27;t provide binaries for new ABIs.<p>The workaround is libhybris, which Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish, and now PMOS are using to support drivers built against Android kernels and its userspace, but that is so fraught with issues that it can&#x27;t possibly be supported by Google or the vendors.<p>So we have Android 8.0 shipping with a 4.4 minimum to support the lowest common denominator of BSPs, and it kind of has to be that way until some market force changes the landscape. I don&#x27;t have high hopes for either of the projects you mentioned, sadly.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.android.com&#x2F;devices&#x2F;architecture&#x2F;treble" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.android.com&#x2F;devices&#x2F;architecture&#x2F;treble</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mrhigat4</author><text>Android should really use a modern kernel. All the forking mess involved in Android updates is a terrible problem predicated by the lack of generic drivers on mobile devices.<p>Copperhead[0] has been working to apply security patches to the kernel for some time and PostMarketOS[1] has an eventual goal of using the mainline upstream kernel. Really pulling for PMOS.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copperhead.co&#x2F;android&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copperhead.co&#x2F;android&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postmarketos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postmarketos.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/08/hardening-kernel-in-android-oreo.html</url></story> |
26,284,987 | 26,284,896 | 1 | 2 | 26,283,650 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Raidion</author><text>I (and I think a lot of poker players) would disagree.<p>Everything in life involves some sort of risk, but doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s gambling. Gambling is defined exactly by those two properties. You could die driving to the store, but the odds are tiny and the benefits are huge. Driving to the store isn&#x27;t gambling. Are casinos gambling when they let you play blackjack? No, the bets are +EV, even those they are only a few % different than the player odds.<p>You say poker players are gambling and then say gambling is taking a high risk bet. Good poker players make positive expected value bets, and have correct bet sizing (via Kelly Criterion) that means they will be able to survive variance and win.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ab111111111</author><text>&quot;Gambling occurs when you have a poor understanding of risk, resulting in either (1) negative expected value bets, or (2) poor bet sizing that leads to ruin.&quot; Not so. Top poker players are still gambling, but have an excellent understanding of the risks. Their skill doesn&#x27;t turn them into investors. Gambling is taking a high risk bet. Whether the expected pay off is high enough to justify the risk and whether you can afford to lose the bet is a separate issue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are You Trading or Gambling?</title><url>https://investinglessons.substack.com/p/are-you-trading-or-gambling</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Anecdotally, a lot of the new stock and crypto investors on the internet this year hold no illusions that they’re investing. The pop-culture mindset is that the stock market is just gambling, so they might as well bet big with long shot companies and options.<p>The common sentiments are “I’m only investing what I can afford to lose” and “but what if this is the next GameStop&#x2F;Bitcoin?” They’re entering with a mindset that betting it all is fine because they’ve mentally written off the money.<p>I’ve been using this as an opportunity to introduce friends and family to more passive, long-term investment strategies but the skepticism is strong.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ab111111111</author><text>&quot;Gambling occurs when you have a poor understanding of risk, resulting in either (1) negative expected value bets, or (2) poor bet sizing that leads to ruin.&quot; Not so. Top poker players are still gambling, but have an excellent understanding of the risks. Their skill doesn&#x27;t turn them into investors. Gambling is taking a high risk bet. Whether the expected pay off is high enough to justify the risk and whether you can afford to lose the bet is a separate issue.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Are You Trading or Gambling?</title><url>https://investinglessons.substack.com/p/are-you-trading-or-gambling</url></story> |
28,667,773 | 28,667,742 | 1 | 2 | 28,667,359 | 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>jdlshore</author><text>The book that introduced the term, “Domain-Driven Design” by Eric Evans, is thick but excellent.</text><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>&gt; Software for a complex domain requires all designers (engineers, testers, analysts, …) to have a deep, shared understanding of the domain, guided by domain experts ... That understanding is rooted in language: the domain language should be formalised into a Ubiquitous Language (shared, agreed upon, unambiguous) ...<p>&gt; DDD is not prescriptive. It doesn’t have rules of how to do it, and is open to new interpretation. It doesn’t prescribe methods, or practices, and even the patterns in the book1 are meant to be illustrative rather than a final set. ...<p>&gt; That makes DDD notoriously hard to define.<p>I don&#x27;t know anything about DDD, but if you can&#x27;t concretely describe it and how it&#x27;s different to how teams naturally work together, how can it be actionable and what stops it becoming another cargo cult when nobody can agree on what it is?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Domain-Driven Design</title><url>https://verraes.net/2021/09/what-is-domain-driven-design-ddd/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>athrun</author><text>I recently came across this talk from Scott Wlaschin titled &quot;Domain Modeling Made Functional&quot;.<p>I found it a great practical introduction to DDD.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PLFl95c-IiU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PLFl95c-IiU</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>&gt; Software for a complex domain requires all designers (engineers, testers, analysts, …) to have a deep, shared understanding of the domain, guided by domain experts ... That understanding is rooted in language: the domain language should be formalised into a Ubiquitous Language (shared, agreed upon, unambiguous) ...<p>&gt; DDD is not prescriptive. It doesn’t have rules of how to do it, and is open to new interpretation. It doesn’t prescribe methods, or practices, and even the patterns in the book1 are meant to be illustrative rather than a final set. ...<p>&gt; That makes DDD notoriously hard to define.<p>I don&#x27;t know anything about DDD, but if you can&#x27;t concretely describe it and how it&#x27;s different to how teams naturally work together, how can it be actionable and what stops it becoming another cargo cult when nobody can agree on what it is?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Domain-Driven Design</title><url>https://verraes.net/2021/09/what-is-domain-driven-design-ddd/</url></story> |
37,323,750 | 37,324,096 | 1 | 3 | 37,320,037 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wiredfool</author><text>I did this in the Raspberry Pi 1 era.<p>* Pi for timing&#x2F;wifi&#x2F;status&#x2F;webserver.<p>* Opened at 8am, closed at civil twilight. Or whenever I hit the button on the webserver, or the switch board.<p>* Limit switches.<p>* Mechanical swing lock for raccoon protection<p>* Electric drill + rope for the vertical sliding door<p>* Relay for direction, power mosfet for the drive controller.<p>* Intermediate board between the 3.3v controller and the 12V power board.<p>* Lead acid battery + charger for the power.<p>The door was pretty hefty, and was _solid_. 1&#x2F;2 or 3&#x2F;4 ply IIRC. The drill wound up being a mistake, because the power was too high, managed to fry some relays before I got everything worked out. The limit switches were generally pretty good, but they were also pretty well protected by the door design.<p>The best bug was that the wifi worked really well during the day, but not at night. Turns out that the LOS between the wifi dongle and the AP went through the roost, and chickens absorb enough wifi signal to drop it off the net. So one 3m usb cable later, and the dongle was on the other side of the roost. Solid networking from then on.<p>Sadly I left it in the coop when moving out.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app</title><url>https://github.com/ESP32-COOP/ESP32-COOP-DOC</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tengbretson</author><text>I have an automatic chicken coop door from the company Run-Chicken. It is one of the most brilliantly designed products I&#x27;ve ever owned. It has an app for setting up the opening and closing rules, which can be rather sophisticated, based on both time and light conditions.<p>The device itself has <i>no WIFI, bluetooth, or a radio of any kind</i>. To program the device, you push a button to put it into a programming mode, then hold your phone up to its photo sensor, and it will flash the screen in a sequence of black and white to relay the encoded settings.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app</title><url>https://github.com/ESP32-COOP/ESP32-COOP-DOC</url></story> |
6,719,874 | 6,719,894 | 1 | 3 | 6,719,396 | 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>RandallBrown</author><text>I haven&#x27;t seen much backstabbing either, but what I have seen is plenty of people acting way differently than they would if the stack ranking curve doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>People are constantly doing stuff to make them &quot;visible&quot; instead of doing what is best for the project. How many features do people fight nail and tooth for, that should be cut, just because if they aren&#x27;t in the product they won&#x27;t have anything to show for their work when review time comes around?<p>People are terrified of making decisions, because if they make a bad one, it&#x27;s going to look poorly when they&#x27;re ranked. I don&#x27;t know if you&#x27;ve noticed this, but our managers tend to give &quot;guidance&quot; rather than outright telling us what to do. That way when something goes wrong, it isn&#x27;t their fault. They didn&#x27;t say we <i>had</i> to do it the wrong way and it&#x27;s our fault for not bringing up that it was wrong sooner.<p>The first year I was here, I didn&#x27;t think anything of the stack ranking. It was just one of those evils of working at a huge company. Then I started to notice that people were just doing weird stuff. Calling pointless meetings, making big stinks over small things, and just doing weird things just to create more work for themselves. I realized all of that was just so people could have more bullet points on their list of accomplishments at the end of the year.<p>Sure, killing the curve won&#x27;t solve everything and I think there is a lot of truth to what you&#x27;re saying about not valuing teamwork. I just think that killing the stack ranking is a BIG step in the right direction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ethomson</author><text>This was seemingly inevitable whether this is actually useful or not. Microsoft has been getting increasing heat about our stack ranking system, both from employees and from external people.<p>But I don&#x27;t think stack ranking is our problem. I think our problem is that we value this notion of the brilliant and excellent individual contributor instead of valuing employees that value teamwork and team problem solving. I suspect this is an institutional problem, having been started by exactly that sort of person.<p>It&#x27;s <i>this</i> that causes the backstabbing and the mess that people attribute to &quot;stack ranking&quot;. Until we put value in changing this culture, I don&#x27;t see too much changing.<p>(Disclaimer: my team at Microsoft is sort of odd - we&#x27;re not in Redmond, and I don&#x27;t see a lot of this backstabbing that is oft-reported. I <i>do</i> see our managers overvaluing the brilliant IC and I <i>do</i> see my organization undervaluing teamwork, but at least we&#x27;re not doing that stupid game playing like joining weak teams to get great reviews.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft does away with stack ranking</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-does-away-with-stack-ranking-7000023103/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Stack ranking is just one part of the many problems in MS&#x27;s corporate culture. Once it&#x27;s gone it won&#x27;t end the politics, they&#x27;ll just find other outlets (of which there are many). Another big problem is the review system in general, regardless of stack ranking. MS prioritizes highly visible and easy to complete work over more important and more difficult work. This creates perverse incentives to, for example, avoid fixing things that are known to be broken, or even assuming responsibility for them. It&#x27;s far more beneficial to spin up a new project of trivial value than it is to take ownership of some broken or long abandoned system or tool that desperately needs improvement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ethomson</author><text>This was seemingly inevitable whether this is actually useful or not. Microsoft has been getting increasing heat about our stack ranking system, both from employees and from external people.<p>But I don&#x27;t think stack ranking is our problem. I think our problem is that we value this notion of the brilliant and excellent individual contributor instead of valuing employees that value teamwork and team problem solving. I suspect this is an institutional problem, having been started by exactly that sort of person.<p>It&#x27;s <i>this</i> that causes the backstabbing and the mess that people attribute to &quot;stack ranking&quot;. Until we put value in changing this culture, I don&#x27;t see too much changing.<p>(Disclaimer: my team at Microsoft is sort of odd - we&#x27;re not in Redmond, and I don&#x27;t see a lot of this backstabbing that is oft-reported. I <i>do</i> see our managers overvaluing the brilliant IC and I <i>do</i> see my organization undervaluing teamwork, but at least we&#x27;re not doing that stupid game playing like joining weak teams to get great reviews.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft does away with stack ranking</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-does-away-with-stack-ranking-7000023103/</url></story> |
13,274,731 | 13,274,814 | 1 | 2 | 13,274,562 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kiwidrew</author><text>While I can&#x27;t imagine <i>why</i> anyone would want&#x2F;need to do this... it does do a great job at demonstrating the flexibility of modern CSS! The most clever bit (to me) is the underline characters on the &lt;h1&gt; element.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Markdown.css – Make HTML look like plain-text markdown</title><url>http://mrcoles.com/demo/markdown-css/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>I don&#x27;t get all the hate for this. I think it&#x27;s very nifty and actually has a number of easy applications right off the top of my head. You&#x27;ve basically just built an html-to-plaintext conversion utility, using your browser&#x27;s HTML parser&#x2F;render instead of writing your own. You&#x27;ve taken a difficult-to-parse syntax and changed it to plaintext, after which it can be marked up (or down) as needed for whatever application you have in mind.<p>Cool.<p>(immediate &quot;tags&quot; that my brain went to upon seeing this: printer mode, accessibility modes for visually impaired, text-to-kindle, text-to-audio)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Markdown.css – Make HTML look like plain-text markdown</title><url>http://mrcoles.com/demo/markdown-css/</url></story> |
28,800,977 | 28,799,893 | 1 | 2 | 28,797,535 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>benjaminjackman</author><text>I just want to say thanks, I have been experimenting with using xterm.js to connect to terminal API in jupyter notebooks and it has worked really well, plug and play (even editors like vim were working without any extra effort).<p>Before that I was experimenting with using it as a custom shell for running commands inside a web application. In that use case it was a bit more challenging because I had never written to an actual tty before (ansi escape codes for coloring log files has been about the limit of my experience). For that use case I just really needed to send and receive text. I ended up using this library [ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wavesoft&#x2F;local-echo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wavesoft&#x2F;local-echo</a> ] to smooth that process out until I could learn about how to do things properly.<p>Are any suggestions on:<p>1. where to learn about how ttys work to do things the right way, or<p>2. suggested libraries like local-echo that can wrap over some of the trickier bits of just getting text on the screen?<p>Thanks again for maintaining such a great &amp; useful library!</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tyriar</author><text>Hi all, I&#x27;m one of the maintainers of xterm.js, open to answer any questions!<p>Here&#x27;s a little history on the project, some of which is already called out in other comments:<p>- Fabrice Bellard created jslinux[1].<p>- Christopher Jeffrey (@chjj) forked the terminal component into term.js[2], this eventually became unmaintained.<p>- Paris Kasidiaris (@parisk) forked it into xterm.js for use in SourceLair[3].<p>- I showed up around 2016 when investigating options for VS Code&#x27;s integrated terminal and eventually joined as a maintainer, spending a good deal of my time at work on the project since then.<p>We currently have 5 active maintainers in the xterm.js team as well which I&#x27;d like to call out because the project has only come this far as a result of everyone&#x27;s efforts.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chjj&#x2F;term.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chjj&#x2F;term.js</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sourcelair.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sourcelair.com&#x2F;</a><p>EDITS: Formatting</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xterm.js</title><url>http://xtermjs.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>maattdd</author><text>TIL another project started by Fabrice Bellard (well for him it&#x27;s just a <i>side</i> project for the real project JSLinux).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tyriar</author><text>Hi all, I&#x27;m one of the maintainers of xterm.js, open to answer any questions!<p>Here&#x27;s a little history on the project, some of which is already called out in other comments:<p>- Fabrice Bellard created jslinux[1].<p>- Christopher Jeffrey (@chjj) forked the terminal component into term.js[2], this eventually became unmaintained.<p>- Paris Kasidiaris (@parisk) forked it into xterm.js for use in SourceLair[3].<p>- I showed up around 2016 when investigating options for VS Code&#x27;s integrated terminal and eventually joined as a maintainer, spending a good deal of my time at work on the project since then.<p>We currently have 5 active maintainers in the xterm.js team as well which I&#x27;d like to call out because the project has only come this far as a result of everyone&#x27;s efforts.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chjj&#x2F;term.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chjj&#x2F;term.js</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sourcelair.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sourcelair.com&#x2F;</a><p>EDITS: Formatting</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xterm.js</title><url>http://xtermjs.org/</url></story> |
12,477,540 | 12,477,636 | 1 | 2 | 12,477,190 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TheMagicHorsey</author><text>Yes. Exactly what you said. It bothers me when people think solving broken Javascript problems is a valuable way to spend our civilizations scarce skilled manpower.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pixie_</author><text>What&#x27;s sad is the zillions of hours wasted by engineers on an inherently flawed stack. What&#x27;s sad is how ridiculously complicated it is to create and manage relatively simple UIs. What&#x27;s sad is an entire generations of programmers growing up and thinking this is normal.<p>Programming is supposed to be about creating platforms for each other so we can continue solving higher (and higher) level problems. This web crap has us stuck fighting in the mud going nowhere.</text></item><item><author>captainbenises</author><text>This post makes me sad. Javascript, CSS and HTML can all be used powerfully, performantly and in a managed way where anyone can come on board and contribute. Facebook, Google and Microsoft all use the web stack to run huge companies. To broadly paint this web stack that so many people poured countless hours into making, as &#x27;impossible&#x27; to use is doing it a great disservice.<p>But hey man, that&#x27;s just like your opinion.</text></item><item><author>pixie_</author><text>Yes. I feel like we&#x27;re in the dark ages right now.<p>JavaScript - Dynamically typed, does not scale what so ever. Code written in it becomes &#x27;read only&#x27; very quickly. Impossible to refactor.<p>CSS - Also becomes impossible to manage. Who knows if the class you wrote is or isn&#x27;t being used in HTML or JavaScript somewhere. Same problem, read-only, it only gets bigger and more unmanageable.<p>HTML - At the heart of it, the foundation is the layout engine and positioning, and it sucks. Flexbox was supposed to bring sanity, but I feel like we&#x27;re still waiting on it.<p>Put these three stooges together and you get where we are today. Rewriting the same damn app every year in another framework in what can only be described as some sort of high paying purgatory.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?</title><text>Been doing application development, primarily backend development, for a number of years. I&#x27;ve always found it quite easy to move up and down the stack and work anywhere from UI down to the bare metal in a number of environments and languages, and always the &#x27;fast learner&#x27; who quickly knows the system inside-out, even when thrown into some area that I&#x27;ve never seen.<p>Lately I&#x27;ve been doing some web development on a fairly long-lived and large code-base, but I&#x27;m finding it MUCH harder to wrap my head around than application development ever was. I think my difficulty is that the whole environment feels so... HACKISH... everything is a horrible hack on top of a horrible hack. (yes, I&#x27;m familiar with the history, been using the Internet since before the web) I&#x27;m not even talking about the fact that everything has to be stateless, in fact I develop desktop apps as stateless even driven UIs as well, but just the fact that it really feels like there&#x27;s no consistent way to do anything, there are 1000 different frameworks, all with their own way of doing the most basic tasks, and my experience is that they all ... well... suck.<p>Am I missing something? Is it me resisting change? Is web programming really that bad? Is it really just that I need a new mental paradigm?<p>Can you recommend any good resources to help me orient my mind to this new way of thinking?</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>raverbashing</author><text>Complicated to create UIs? Win32 was complicated. MFC was complicated. GTK is hard<p>HTML and CSS aren&#x27;t as complex as those. Not even close</text><parent_chain><item><author>pixie_</author><text>What&#x27;s sad is the zillions of hours wasted by engineers on an inherently flawed stack. What&#x27;s sad is how ridiculously complicated it is to create and manage relatively simple UIs. What&#x27;s sad is an entire generations of programmers growing up and thinking this is normal.<p>Programming is supposed to be about creating platforms for each other so we can continue solving higher (and higher) level problems. This web crap has us stuck fighting in the mud going nowhere.</text></item><item><author>captainbenises</author><text>This post makes me sad. Javascript, CSS and HTML can all be used powerfully, performantly and in a managed way where anyone can come on board and contribute. Facebook, Google and Microsoft all use the web stack to run huge companies. To broadly paint this web stack that so many people poured countless hours into making, as &#x27;impossible&#x27; to use is doing it a great disservice.<p>But hey man, that&#x27;s just like your opinion.</text></item><item><author>pixie_</author><text>Yes. I feel like we&#x27;re in the dark ages right now.<p>JavaScript - Dynamically typed, does not scale what so ever. Code written in it becomes &#x27;read only&#x27; very quickly. Impossible to refactor.<p>CSS - Also becomes impossible to manage. Who knows if the class you wrote is or isn&#x27;t being used in HTML or JavaScript somewhere. Same problem, read-only, it only gets bigger and more unmanageable.<p>HTML - At the heart of it, the foundation is the layout engine and positioning, and it sucks. Flexbox was supposed to bring sanity, but I feel like we&#x27;re still waiting on it.<p>Put these three stooges together and you get where we are today. Rewriting the same damn app every year in another framework in what can only be described as some sort of high paying purgatory.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?</title><text>Been doing application development, primarily backend development, for a number of years. I&#x27;ve always found it quite easy to move up and down the stack and work anywhere from UI down to the bare metal in a number of environments and languages, and always the &#x27;fast learner&#x27; who quickly knows the system inside-out, even when thrown into some area that I&#x27;ve never seen.<p>Lately I&#x27;ve been doing some web development on a fairly long-lived and large code-base, but I&#x27;m finding it MUCH harder to wrap my head around than application development ever was. I think my difficulty is that the whole environment feels so... HACKISH... everything is a horrible hack on top of a horrible hack. (yes, I&#x27;m familiar with the history, been using the Internet since before the web) I&#x27;m not even talking about the fact that everything has to be stateless, in fact I develop desktop apps as stateless even driven UIs as well, but just the fact that it really feels like there&#x27;s no consistent way to do anything, there are 1000 different frameworks, all with their own way of doing the most basic tasks, and my experience is that they all ... well... suck.<p>Am I missing something? Is it me resisting change? Is web programming really that bad? Is it really just that I need a new mental paradigm?<p>Can you recommend any good resources to help me orient my mind to this new way of thinking?</text></story> |
26,610,073 | 26,609,991 | 1 | 3 | 26,609,064 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>&gt; Funny thing to see is that as a country becomes MORE developed, women tend to be LESS inclined to attend STEM studies.<p>Stem jobs are relatively shitty jobs... paid well, but work schedule can be relatively screwed up. If you add enterpreneurship to that, it makes the work-life balance even worse. Women on average prefer better work-life balance, and men prefer careers where they can get higher and earn more.<p>In some countries (less developed), the only way to lead a realatively OK life is to get a stem degree and work something related to that. In more developed countries, the job market (and social support) makes it possible to live OK even with a &quot;worse&quot; degree (ie. the ones where you can&#x27;t get a job with in less developed countries).</text><parent_chain><item><author>adflux</author><text>As long as there aren&#x27;t as much women studying all kinds of engineering, you&#x27;re going to see disparaties in the workforce. Lets stop trying to force equal distribution but rather equal opportunity.<p>Funny thing to see is that as a country becomes MORE developed, women tend to be LESS inclined to attend STEM studies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gender, race, and entrepreneurship: A randomized field experiment on investors</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3301982</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>Source for the above: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem&#x2F;553592&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;the-more...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>adflux</author><text>As long as there aren&#x27;t as much women studying all kinds of engineering, you&#x27;re going to see disparaties in the workforce. Lets stop trying to force equal distribution but rather equal opportunity.<p>Funny thing to see is that as a country becomes MORE developed, women tend to be LESS inclined to attend STEM studies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gender, race, and entrepreneurship: A randomized field experiment on investors</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3301982</url></story> |
30,687,484 | 30,687,128 | 1 | 3 | 30,686,704 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HillRat</author><text>Her videos seem to be fairly long (multiple-hour) art tutorials, so back of the envelope suggests that for most users, monthly delivery costs from a straight CDN (based on 24 months, four hours per video, 1080p quality, per-GB CDN price at $0.05) is going to be somewhere around $300&#x2F;month, or basically dead-on to the $3,500&#x2F;year they&#x27;re asking for.<p>Now, Vimeo&#x27;s own delivery pricing is far below that -- perhaps an order of magnitude less -- but for most people there aren&#x27;t going to be better pricing options for long-form video content of this sort.</text><parent_chain><item><author>h2odragon</author><text>117 subscriber-only videos ... around 150 views on average ... 815 for the most viewed.<p>so &quot;bandwidth usage was within the top 1 percent of Vimeo users&quot; says they have <i>no audience</i> and <i>no traffic</i>, doesn&#x27;t it? The whole platform.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price hikes</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nathanyz</author><text>Can say that we are seeing a lot of these customers reach out to us at Swarmify and many of them are similar size. It doesn&#x27;t seem like they should be anywhere close to &quot;top 1% of users&quot; at Vimeo.</text><parent_chain><item><author>h2odragon</author><text>117 subscriber-only videos ... around 150 views on average ... 815 for the most viewed.<p>so &quot;bandwidth usage was within the top 1 percent of Vimeo users&quot; says they have <i>no audience</i> and <i>no traffic</i>, doesn&#x27;t it? The whole platform.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Popular Patreon creators are being hit with Vimeo price hikes</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase</url></story> |
15,427,352 | 15,427,203 | 1 | 2 | 15,421,704 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>musage</author><text>&gt; The first thing most of us do when we wake up is roll over, grab our phone, and look at some software<p><i>The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.</i><p>-- Konrad Zuse<p>I recall Joseph Weizenbaum mentioning something like that in an interview before his death, too, about the difference between using technology to empower people, or to exploit them.<p>But hey, Wikipedia so what do they know... ask the mediocre for permission to learn from the great at your own peril, that&#x27;s my motto.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apatters</author><text>Well, it&#x27;s not the smartphone that&#x27;s the problem. The smartphone is just the delivery system.<p>It&#x27;s remarkable how well some of Richard Stallman&#x27;s quotes have aged. &quot;With software, either the users control the program, or the program controls the users...&quot;<p>The idea of a program controlling its users must have seemed very esoteric when that quote was first penned in 1985, at a time when home PCs (let alone ones with GUIs) were exotic: the first Mac had launched only a year ago. By the time I first heard of Stallman&#x27;s ideas in the &#x27;90s, I was surrounded by PCs with GUIs, but still didn&#x27;t get it.<p>Now here we are, 30 years later. The first thing most of us do when we wake up is roll over, grab our phone, and look at some software. The existential costs of the non-free software are so high that we read new stories about them in the media every week, and the tech revolution&#x27;s architects are banning the products they built from their own homes.<p>For the less frequently cited ending to Stallman&#x27;s quote is this: &quot;...If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power.&quot;</text></item><item><author>hodgesrm</author><text>I don&#x27;t buy the idea that smartphones are extinguishing the life of the mind.<p>Sure, smartphones provide access to almost unlimited trash. But they also provide access to Wikipedia, perhaps the most successful encyclopedia ever developed by humans. They can show you newspapers from across the planet. They let you read Latin histories of the Norman conquest of Southern Italy in the middle ages. [0] C&#x27;mon folks, this is stuff you might otherwise seek for years in bookstores or never even hear of. Thanks to the Internet and powerful phones you can pop up the link below and read it in bed. The information is within reach of anyone with a decent cell phone.<p>The effects of the Internet on human society have been profound but the ultimate outcome is not foreordained. Humans have survived some pretty nasty stuff over the millennia and we&#x27;ll no doubt get through this as well. It&#x27;s time to stop the hand-wringing and focus on making the Internet help humans in the way many of its original founders conceived. [1]<p>[0] Gaufredus Malaterra, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelatinlibrary.com&#x2F;malaterra.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelatinlibrary.com&#x2F;malaterra.html</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webfoundation.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;recognise-the-internet-as-a-human-right-says-sir-tim-berners-lee-as-he-launches-annual-web-index&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webfoundation.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;recognise-the-internet-as-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrei_says_</author><text>Thank you for this. Putting Stallman’s quote in context helps me see how forward his thinking is and how important the distribution of power and consent can be in software.<p>I see a parallel with food companies spending money on researching and marketing foods that are more addictive and more profitable.<p>Yes, people do “want” addictive foods, but that’s not the type of want we want empowered; rather it is a hook into addiction and transfer of power by inducing an addiction.</text><parent_chain><item><author>apatters</author><text>Well, it&#x27;s not the smartphone that&#x27;s the problem. The smartphone is just the delivery system.<p>It&#x27;s remarkable how well some of Richard Stallman&#x27;s quotes have aged. &quot;With software, either the users control the program, or the program controls the users...&quot;<p>The idea of a program controlling its users must have seemed very esoteric when that quote was first penned in 1985, at a time when home PCs (let alone ones with GUIs) were exotic: the first Mac had launched only a year ago. By the time I first heard of Stallman&#x27;s ideas in the &#x27;90s, I was surrounded by PCs with GUIs, but still didn&#x27;t get it.<p>Now here we are, 30 years later. The first thing most of us do when we wake up is roll over, grab our phone, and look at some software. The existential costs of the non-free software are so high that we read new stories about them in the media every week, and the tech revolution&#x27;s architects are banning the products they built from their own homes.<p>For the less frequently cited ending to Stallman&#x27;s quote is this: &quot;...If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power.&quot;</text></item><item><author>hodgesrm</author><text>I don&#x27;t buy the idea that smartphones are extinguishing the life of the mind.<p>Sure, smartphones provide access to almost unlimited trash. But they also provide access to Wikipedia, perhaps the most successful encyclopedia ever developed by humans. They can show you newspapers from across the planet. They let you read Latin histories of the Norman conquest of Southern Italy in the middle ages. [0] C&#x27;mon folks, this is stuff you might otherwise seek for years in bookstores or never even hear of. Thanks to the Internet and powerful phones you can pop up the link below and read it in bed. The information is within reach of anyone with a decent cell phone.<p>The effects of the Internet on human society have been profound but the ultimate outcome is not foreordained. Humans have survived some pretty nasty stuff over the millennia and we&#x27;ll no doubt get through this as well. It&#x27;s time to stop the hand-wringing and focus on making the Internet help humans in the way many of its original founders conceived. [1]<p>[0] Gaufredus Malaterra, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelatinlibrary.com&#x2F;malaterra.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelatinlibrary.com&#x2F;malaterra.html</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webfoundation.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;recognise-the-internet-as-a-human-right-says-sir-tim-berners-lee-as-he-launches-annual-web-index&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webfoundation.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;recognise-the-internet-as-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Our minds can be hijacked': tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia</url></story> |
30,571,436 | 30,570,314 | 1 | 2 | 30,568,557 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>awb</author><text>Large scale military invasions don’t happen because of 1 person’s will. They happen as a chain of events that offer direct or indirect support that makes it possible. We are all in that chain. From the leader, to their government, to their funding sources, to the citizens.<p>Do you not speak up? Do you pay taxes? Do you support state run businesses? Do you go along with the system as it violently oppressed others and assassinated dissidents? We all have some responsibility to bear.<p>I understand you want a normal, peaceful life, but that is not what the world has chosen for you.<p>You can’t be neutral on a moving train.<p>The question is how badly do you want things to change? What are you willing to do to break your part in the chain?<p>If the answer is nothing, then you’re exactly the kind of citizen a dictator wants. One that will acquiesce as things get worse and worse, while still keeping the trains running on time and willing to look the other way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vlaaad</author><text>Why would I take responsibility for something I have zero influence over?<p>He did just appear when Yeltsin said that he&#x27;s leaving. He blatantly fakes elections: 146% support is a very telling result of one of these elections. It is a meme in Russia because when you can&#x27;t do anything about it you can only laugh or cry.<p>His 20 years on the throne are a constant stream of murders, poisoning and jailing of people who try to do something about it, and their friends, and their families.<p>I&#x27;m just a normal person, I want to live a normal live with my wife and kids, I didn&#x27;t choose any of that. Why do I have to risk going to jail for 15 years for mentioning that war is war, only because I was born on the wrong side of the border?</text></item><item><author>bitcharmer</author><text>Judging by the number of Russians taking the easy way out by just fleeing or complaining about the evil west closing their Ikea stores this nation at the moment has zero capacity to take responsibility for their own government.<p>I&#x27;m afraid it has to get much worse before it gets better. They still don&#x27;t understand that as much as the government is responsible for its people, the people are also responsible for their government.<p>Putin didn&#x27;t magically appear on the political scene with all the power he has now. Russians allowed Putin to happen; now they refuse to take responsibility.</text></item><item><author>optimalonpaper</author><text>No one thinks that a regular Ivan from some russian city (on his own) is responsible for the war and should suffer. And I see how you could (and probably should, at some level) feel sorry for russians fleeing the country.<p>But this is the only way to tell them that they -- collective Ivans, Russian society as a whole -- should stand up and act: they should articulate their content, they should protest against putin&#x27;s policy, and they should stop the war (an alternative would be to accept Ukraine to NATO and finish this war is a day, but that won&#x27;t happen).<p>While they&#x27;re suffering economically, the suffering of Ukrainians is just on another level -- it&#x27;s not about restrictions (e.g. no ikea or facebook or apple products) or money (inflation), it&#x27;s about flattened cities and destroyed lives.<p>I woke up as I heard bombs falling on my city, and I definitely haven&#x27;t felt any sympathy for russians since then.<p>If they feel they don&#x27;t support their country&#x27;s aggression towards Ukraine, they should go protest and stop it -- even at risk of being fined or imprisoned. Otherwise they should just embrace all sanctions and become North Korea imho.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/03/04/russians-are-trying-to-flee-putins-chaos</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pilate</author><text>Your prospects of a “normal life” are over. Whether you decide to do anything to improve it now is up to you.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vlaaad</author><text>Why would I take responsibility for something I have zero influence over?<p>He did just appear when Yeltsin said that he&#x27;s leaving. He blatantly fakes elections: 146% support is a very telling result of one of these elections. It is a meme in Russia because when you can&#x27;t do anything about it you can only laugh or cry.<p>His 20 years on the throne are a constant stream of murders, poisoning and jailing of people who try to do something about it, and their friends, and their families.<p>I&#x27;m just a normal person, I want to live a normal live with my wife and kids, I didn&#x27;t choose any of that. Why do I have to risk going to jail for 15 years for mentioning that war is war, only because I was born on the wrong side of the border?</text></item><item><author>bitcharmer</author><text>Judging by the number of Russians taking the easy way out by just fleeing or complaining about the evil west closing their Ikea stores this nation at the moment has zero capacity to take responsibility for their own government.<p>I&#x27;m afraid it has to get much worse before it gets better. They still don&#x27;t understand that as much as the government is responsible for its people, the people are also responsible for their government.<p>Putin didn&#x27;t magically appear on the political scene with all the power he has now. Russians allowed Putin to happen; now they refuse to take responsibility.</text></item><item><author>optimalonpaper</author><text>No one thinks that a regular Ivan from some russian city (on his own) is responsible for the war and should suffer. And I see how you could (and probably should, at some level) feel sorry for russians fleeing the country.<p>But this is the only way to tell them that they -- collective Ivans, Russian society as a whole -- should stand up and act: they should articulate their content, they should protest against putin&#x27;s policy, and they should stop the war (an alternative would be to accept Ukraine to NATO and finish this war is a day, but that won&#x27;t happen).<p>While they&#x27;re suffering economically, the suffering of Ukrainians is just on another level -- it&#x27;s not about restrictions (e.g. no ikea or facebook or apple products) or money (inflation), it&#x27;s about flattened cities and destroyed lives.<p>I woke up as I heard bombs falling on my city, and I definitely haven&#x27;t felt any sympathy for russians since then.<p>If they feel they don&#x27;t support their country&#x27;s aggression towards Ukraine, they should go protest and stop it -- even at risk of being fined or imprisoned. Otherwise they should just embrace all sanctions and become North Korea imho.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/03/04/russians-are-trying-to-flee-putins-chaos</url></story> |
40,181,685 | 40,181,138 | 1 | 2 | 40,176,738 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>KieranMac</author><text>I&#x27;m a lawyer that works in the web-scraping space, and I always chuckle when I read threads like this. Almost every company that we now consider a monopolist (or their affiliates) in the tech space used scraping a part of their process to build their business, and almost every one of those same monopolists now prohibits startups and competitors from scraping their data (which, invariably, is not actually &quot;their&quot; data in any sort of legally cognizable sense). And so perhaps the ethics of web scraping are not so straightforward. And neither are the legal issues associated with it.<p>I wrote an article about that last fall that got some attention here.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37264676">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37264676</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)</title><url>https://incolumitas.com/2021/11/03/so-you-want-to-scrape-like-the-big-boys/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anyfactor</author><text>I was a professional web scraper. I still keep up to date with the industry.<p>These days, you do not make money by doing web scraping; you make money selling services to web scrapers. There are tons of web scraping SAAS and services out there, as well as dozens of residential proxy providers.<p>Most anti-bot mechanisms evolve so quickly that you can make a decent income just by working in a traditional software engineering role dedicated entirely to engineering anti-anti-bot solutions. As these mechanisms evolve rapidly, working for a web scraping company is more stable than pursuing web scraping as a profession.<p>Web scrapers get paid by projects, making it an unstable job in the long run. High-level web scraping requires operational investments in residential proxies and renting out servers. Additionally, low-end jobs pay very little. Brightdata hosting a conference on web scraping, which should indicate the profitability of selling services in large-scale web scraping.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)</title><url>https://incolumitas.com/2021/11/03/so-you-want-to-scrape-like-the-big-boys/</url></story> |
7,511,653 | 7,511,613 | 1 | 2 | 7,511,273 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pmorici</author><text>The thing I don&#x27;t get about this whole faux controversy is since when is it professionally acceptable to discriminate against someone for their private political views and esp. those that might be informed by religious beliefs so long as they don&#x27;t bring them into the workplace? I mean by the time everyone is done investigating who believes what and donated how much to who there won&#x27;t be anyone left to work anywhere. This whole thing is just really slimy.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OkCupid/IAC Employees Donated Thousands to Anti-Gay Marriage Politicians</title><url>http://pastebin.com/ekaFQXbE</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>patrickxb</author><text>Where are the OkCupid employees on that list?<p>Perhaps you should change the title to IAC Employees... It&#x27;s fine to point out that employees at their parent company made donations to these politicians, but I don&#x27;t see any work done here to link the data with OkCupid employees.<p>The dates of many of those contributions are way before IAC bought OkCupid.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OkCupid/IAC Employees Donated Thousands to Anti-Gay Marriage Politicians</title><url>http://pastebin.com/ekaFQXbE</url></story> |
10,329,301 | 10,329,127 | 1 | 2 | 10,328,428 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Houshalter</author><text>This is relevant:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesswrong.com&#x2F;lw&#x2F;j1&#x2F;stranger_than_history&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesswrong.com&#x2F;lw&#x2F;j1&#x2F;stranger_than_history&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesswrong.com&#x2F;lw&#x2F;j6&#x2F;why_is_the_future_so_absurd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesswrong.com&#x2F;lw&#x2F;j6&#x2F;why_is_the_future_so_absurd&#x2F;</a><p>&gt;When people look at historical changes and think &quot;I could have predicted X&quot; or &quot;You could have predicted X if you looked at factors 1, 2, and 3&quot;; then they forget that people did not, in fact, predict X, perhaps because they were distracted by factors 4 through 117. People read history books, see coherent narratives, and think that&#x27;s how Time works. Underestimating the surprise of the present, they overestimate the predictability of the future.<p>&gt;People seem to imagine futures that are minimally counterintuitive, with one or two interesting changes to make a good story...<p>...<p>&gt;Suppose I told you that I knew for a fact that the following statements were true:<p>&gt;If you paint yourself a certain exact color between blue and green, it will reverse the force of gravity on you and cause you to fall upward.<p>&gt;In the future, the sky will be filled by billions of floating black spheres. Each sphere will be larger than all the zeppelins that have ever existed put together. If you offer a sphere money, it will lower a male prostitute out of the sky on a bungee cord.<p>&gt;Your grandchildren will think it is not just foolish, but evil, to put thieves in jail instead of spanking them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/04/what-people-in-1900-thought-the-year-2000-would-look-like/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbuzbee</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit of a stretch to call these predictions of the year 2000 from 1900. In reality, these were likely just a fun way to put cartoons on cigar boxes in order to get people to buy the next in the set. I don&#x27;t think 1900&#x27;s Parisians really believed in a future of whale-powered busses and people riding super-sized sea-horses.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/04/what-people-in-1900-thought-the-year-2000-would-look-like/</url></story> |
23,399,446 | 23,399,448 | 1 | 2 | 23,399,275 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jbay808</author><text>For a long period of time, these companies would not publicly commit to going ahead without Huawei for 5G, and despite pressure from the US (and warnings from CSIS), the Canadian government still has not made an announcement about whether Huawei would be restricted as a supplier.<p>Many Canadians were frustrated by this, feeling like they didn&#x27;t want Huawei networks but that they weren&#x27;t being heard.<p>It occurs to me now that had any of those steps been taken before reaching a deal with Ericsson, it would have given Ericsson a much stronger bargaining position and they probably could have charged a lot more.<p>This isn&#x27;t the first time where I&#x27;ve felt frustrated, unheard, and kept in the dark, only to later realize that there may have been important considerations that I just wasn&#x27;t aware of.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bce-5g-ericsson-1.5594601</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rrrrrrrrrrrryan</author><text>I&#x27;m as much a proponent of free trade as the next guy, but I do think there&#x27;s a strong argument for trying to build and maintaining one&#x27;s own infrastructure whenever possible, even if it&#x27;s a bit more expensive. Not just for national security concerns, but because they&#x27;re big domestic projects and it&#x27;s nice to have to the talent and knowledge at home.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bce-5g-ericsson-1.5594601</url></story> |
2,136,815 | 2,136,828 | 1 | 3 | 2,136,689 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Confusion</author><text><p><pre><code> What you actually just said: “Hey, why don’t you spend
some time going through your schedule, pick out some times
that work and email them to me. I’ll then sit back and
pick one that I like.”
</code></pre>
1) When you suggest a bunch of possibilities yourself, they will still have to go through their schedule to see if they are free at any of those particular moments.<p>2) Going through your schedule hunting for specific moments takes longer than just finding the first empty spot that they might want to fill with your particular request.<p>3) Since they are in demand and their schedules are full, it is quite unlikely that any of your chosen times will fit them. As a result, they will still have to do the same work to make a 'counteroffer'.<p>Any arguments in favor of the thesis are lacking. It's just someone venting an opinion.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop Saying ‘Let me know when works for you’ </title><url>http://viniciusvacanti.com/2011/01/24/stop-saying-let-me-know-when-works-for-you/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wccrawford</author><text>I disagree. He really IS being flexible. Yes, there's that initial moment of 'Ah, I have to pick!?' but after that comes the realization that he probably just saved you several days worth of emails trying to actually pick a time that really will work for you.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop Saying ‘Let me know when works for you’ </title><url>http://viniciusvacanti.com/2011/01/24/stop-saying-let-me-know-when-works-for-you/</url></story> |
4,778,579 | 4,778,448 | 1 | 2 | 4,777,924 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lawdawg</author><text>I'll take a lighter device + $100 over 16GB + LTE at least until LTE is widely available in my city (which is probably 2-3 years away).<p>But again, <i>ignoring OS</i> which is generally not a good idea when making a phone purchase.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text><i>While it may disappoint many people who just want the best at any price, you can't ignore the fact that the N4 is half the price of other phones in its class. The price really is the killer feature of this phone.</i><p>Ignoring OS, there are other phones that are getting much cheaper. Example is the new Lumia 920 that is $449 on ATT w/o contract. While it is $100 more expensive than the the 16GB Nexus you do get the following in addition:<p>* 32GB (+16GB)<p>* LTE<p>* [Removed]<p>Is this worth $100? I think probably so, but in any case, I think it shows that phones in this class (flagship like devices) are actually more price competitive than people may think.<p>Edit: To remove wireless charging per comment.</text></item><item><author>martythemaniak</author><text>I'm glad to see Anand focus so much on the price in the conclusion. A lot of the other reviews talked at length about lack of LTE etc, but that misses the point of this phone.<p>While it may disappoint many people who just want the best at any price, you can't ignore the fact that the N4 is half the price of other phones in its class. The price really is the killer feature of this phone.<p>I suspect there is lots of demand out there for this phone amongst regular folk. No want likes being chained to a carrier and everybody likes getting a great deal. I told my sister (non techie) about it and her eyes popped. She's very very excited about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Nexus 4 Review</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>esolyt</author><text>Nexus 4 does have wireless charging.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text><i>While it may disappoint many people who just want the best at any price, you can't ignore the fact that the N4 is half the price of other phones in its class. The price really is the killer feature of this phone.</i><p>Ignoring OS, there are other phones that are getting much cheaper. Example is the new Lumia 920 that is $449 on ATT w/o contract. While it is $100 more expensive than the the 16GB Nexus you do get the following in addition:<p>* 32GB (+16GB)<p>* LTE<p>* [Removed]<p>Is this worth $100? I think probably so, but in any case, I think it shows that phones in this class (flagship like devices) are actually more price competitive than people may think.<p>Edit: To remove wireless charging per comment.</text></item><item><author>martythemaniak</author><text>I'm glad to see Anand focus so much on the price in the conclusion. A lot of the other reviews talked at length about lack of LTE etc, but that misses the point of this phone.<p>While it may disappoint many people who just want the best at any price, you can't ignore the fact that the N4 is half the price of other phones in its class. The price really is the killer feature of this phone.<p>I suspect there is lots of demand out there for this phone amongst regular folk. No want likes being chained to a carrier and everybody likes getting a great deal. I told my sister (non techie) about it and her eyes popped. She's very very excited about it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Nexus 4 Review</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review</url></story> |
33,022,858 | 33,022,088 | 1 | 2 | 33,020,747 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simlevesque</author><text>&gt; Ecosystem is still worse, which is IMO all that matters at this point.<p>Matters for what ? Doing every type of app ? Yeah, that&#x27;s blocker.<p>But it doesn&#x27;t really matter. Every language ecosystem that succeeds starts off lacking things.<p>Personally I prefer starting with it early and be part of that ecosystem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lucasyvas</author><text>Ecosystem is still worse, which is IMO all that matters at this point.<p>ts-node is good enough to stick to Node for now if you want TypeScript. I don&#x27;t think the rest of Deno is that compelling, although I would probably switch to Deno once its Node compat is awesome since it is a more compelete package out of the box than Node is.<p>Deno&#x27;s battle is that it is an incremental improvement, and competing JS runtimes is quickly become the new JS web framework meme alternative (Bun, Boa, Node, Deno)</text></item><item><author>k__</author><text>Half-OT:<p>Anyone got experience with switching from Node.js to Deno?<p>What&#x27;s better with Deno? What&#x27;s still worse?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deno 1.26 Release Notes</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/v1.26</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Rapzid</author><text>ts-node is great. Proper ESM support landed over the summer. All my new projects at work are module type now.<p>I use ts-node with the optional SWC compiler which works great with pretty darn fast startup times. SWC can handle TypeScript experimental decorators including emitting metadata, so not losing out on anything with it ATM.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lucasyvas</author><text>Ecosystem is still worse, which is IMO all that matters at this point.<p>ts-node is good enough to stick to Node for now if you want TypeScript. I don&#x27;t think the rest of Deno is that compelling, although I would probably switch to Deno once its Node compat is awesome since it is a more compelete package out of the box than Node is.<p>Deno&#x27;s battle is that it is an incremental improvement, and competing JS runtimes is quickly become the new JS web framework meme alternative (Bun, Boa, Node, Deno)</text></item><item><author>k__</author><text>Half-OT:<p>Anyone got experience with switching from Node.js to Deno?<p>What&#x27;s better with Deno? What&#x27;s still worse?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deno 1.26 Release Notes</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/v1.26</url></story> |
30,634,871 | 30,634,212 | 1 | 2 | 30,632,952 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>no_butterscotch</author><text>&gt; We talk about this with folks we are hiring, and it helps people choose for themselves if the approach we take is something they are excited to get behind.<p>I&#x27;m interested in hearing more, I recently had a Substack recruiter reach out to me and was curious about this because I work at a tech company w&#x2F; some internal &quot;activists&quot; (I don&#x27;t consider them to be activists).<p>How would you talk about it with them while hiring? It seems like you might need to bring up uncomfortable (and potentially risky) things like politics (?) during an interview?<p>What to do if your employees start doing walkouts or what not? At the company I work for this happened. A lot of people don&#x27;t feel comfortable standing up to the ones who are most vocal about cancel-culture (if you disagree with them you may be labeled and considered a &quot;fascist&quot; (ugh) or even worse a &quot;nazi&quot; and your career impacted), I find that most people just stay silent in the face of this and the organizers of these movements seem to rule the roost in the workplace.<p>Great job either way I&#x27;m a Substack supporter! :thumbsup:</text><parent_chain><item><author>cjbest</author><text>2: We do have a strong philosophical stance on this. We think taking a strong stance in favor of freedom of the press is both the right thing to do, and critical to the success of our broader mission. We&#x27;ve written about this a few times, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;substacks-view-of-content-moderation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;substacks-view-of-content-moderati...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;society-has-a-trust-problem-more" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;society-has-a-trust-problem-more</a><p>That is incidentally a big part of the answer for (3). We are very public about how we think about this, and the first of those posts was written before there was any real pressure on this stuff. We talk about this with folks we are hiring, and it helps people choose for themselves if the approach we take is something they are excited to get behind.<p>4. YES!</text></item><item><author>native_samples</author><text>Firstly - love love love Substack. It&#x27;s so simple but it&#x27;s so rapidly become a place where I do so much reading. I have a few questions (mostly not about the app though, I&#x27;ll have to wait for Android support to try that).<p>1. How did you guys manage to attract writers? I know you have been signing fronting agreements. Superficially, Substack is a (fairly basic?) blogging platform + email + payment processing system. That doesn&#x27;t feel <i>particularly</i> hard to put together, though maybe I totally underestimate that. So what&#x27;s powering Substack&#x27;s growth is that you were able to get guys like Greenwald, Taibbi, Scott Alexander etc on board. How much of your growth do you think is product vs business&#x2F;dealmaking?<p>2. You&#x27;ve been strong defenders of free speech, especially in the last two years where there&#x27;s been a ton of censorship. Really, it&#x27;s helped a lot, I&#x27;ve felt like Substack was one of the few places I could find rational and logical takes on things like lockdowns at a time when everyone else was losing their minds. Do you have some sort of strong philosophical take on this, or is it a sort of default because censorship takes specific effort and you&#x27;re busy with growth?<p>3. Related to that, the pattern of tech firms being open access and supporters of free speech for some years and then later losing that as they hire more and more people (especially, new grads) seems to be a recurring one. Given you&#x27;re based in San Francisco, do you have a plan to actually <i>keep</i> Substack the way it is, in the face of hiring employees who might demand you constantly cancel the witch-du-jour?<p>4. There&#x27;s IMO a ton of potential for innovation with group discussions. To me, Slashdot was actually the peak of innovation in large scale anonymous forum discussions with many clever features, crowdsourced moderation, friends&#x2F;foes, meta-mods etc. Do you plan to try new things with discussions, or stick to a conventional approach? Right now it&#x27;s pretty basic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA</title><text>Hi! This is Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi, the founders of Substack, with Sachin Monga, the head of product. Yesterday, we launched an iOS app for Substack, so you can read all your Substack subscriptions in one place, with no distractions.<p>Readers have been tweeting at us for years now to ask when we’d have an app. We’ve long wanted one too, and we suddenly got the manpower to be able to build a good one when we acquired Sachin’s company Cocoon (W19) last year.<p>Soon after starting Substack, we found it easiest to explain what we do as “We make it simple to start a paid newsletter.” Even then, a Substack was more than just an email newsletter: it was also a blog, and it could host embedded video and audio, and people could leave comments and participate in discussion threads. But the term “newsletter” was useful shorthand because everyone kind of got what that meant. All along, though, we’ve been quietly building the tools for what we call “personal media empires,” encompassing different media formats (natively) and community discussion (which we intend to make better and better).<p>By a similar token, right from the start we’ve been intending for the company to do more than just provide subscription publishing tools. We’re excited by the vision of Substack becoming a network, where writers and readers benefit from being part of a larger ecosystem. For writers, it means they can be discovered by readers who might not otherwise have found them. For readers, it means being able to connect directly with writers and other readers and to explore a universe of great work.<p>The app is a key part of the network vision. Nothing changes in terms of writers and readers being in control. The writers still own their mailing lists, content, and IP and can take it all with them anytime they want. Anyone who signs up to a Substack through the app still goes on to that mailing list. And readers still get to choose what appears in their “inbox,” with the power to subscribe and unsubscribe from whatever they want (you can also add any RSS feed into the app via reader.substack.com). But now we’ll have more and better ways to surface recommendations from writers and readers, to show people’s profiles, and to deliver notifications inside and outside of the app.<p>This is just a start for the Substack app. We want to keep improving it, so please give us feedback and ask us the hard questions. What do you think we’re doing wrong? What could be better? What could be great? What might we not have thought of?<p>We’re here for the next couple hours. Ask us anything.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;substackapp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;substackapp</a></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>That philosophical stance is very common at the beginnings of a platform. E.g., Twitter being the &quot;free-speech wing of the free-speech party&quot;. Or Christopher &quot;moot&quot; Poole, who created 4-chan. But over time, tensions develop between the theory and the practice.<p>So what sorts of things do you folks find personally odious but see it as important to support?<p>From your terms of service, obviously porn isn&#x27;t in that category. What about, say, open antisemitism? Will you host and help fund the American Nazi Party or the KKK? How about more borderline actors, like people who promote racist conspiracy theories and ethnic cleansing, but stop short of direct calls for violence?</text><parent_chain><item><author>cjbest</author><text>2: We do have a strong philosophical stance on this. We think taking a strong stance in favor of freedom of the press is both the right thing to do, and critical to the success of our broader mission. We&#x27;ve written about this a few times, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;substacks-view-of-content-moderation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;substacks-view-of-content-moderati...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;society-has-a-trust-problem-more" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;society-has-a-trust-problem-more</a><p>That is incidentally a big part of the answer for (3). We are very public about how we think about this, and the first of those posts was written before there was any real pressure on this stuff. We talk about this with folks we are hiring, and it helps people choose for themselves if the approach we take is something they are excited to get behind.<p>4. YES!</text></item><item><author>native_samples</author><text>Firstly - love love love Substack. It&#x27;s so simple but it&#x27;s so rapidly become a place where I do so much reading. I have a few questions (mostly not about the app though, I&#x27;ll have to wait for Android support to try that).<p>1. How did you guys manage to attract writers? I know you have been signing fronting agreements. Superficially, Substack is a (fairly basic?) blogging platform + email + payment processing system. That doesn&#x27;t feel <i>particularly</i> hard to put together, though maybe I totally underestimate that. So what&#x27;s powering Substack&#x27;s growth is that you were able to get guys like Greenwald, Taibbi, Scott Alexander etc on board. How much of your growth do you think is product vs business&#x2F;dealmaking?<p>2. You&#x27;ve been strong defenders of free speech, especially in the last two years where there&#x27;s been a ton of censorship. Really, it&#x27;s helped a lot, I&#x27;ve felt like Substack was one of the few places I could find rational and logical takes on things like lockdowns at a time when everyone else was losing their minds. Do you have some sort of strong philosophical take on this, or is it a sort of default because censorship takes specific effort and you&#x27;re busy with growth?<p>3. Related to that, the pattern of tech firms being open access and supporters of free speech for some years and then later losing that as they hire more and more people (especially, new grads) seems to be a recurring one. Given you&#x27;re based in San Francisco, do you have a plan to actually <i>keep</i> Substack the way it is, in the face of hiring employees who might demand you constantly cancel the witch-du-jour?<p>4. There&#x27;s IMO a ton of potential for innovation with group discussions. To me, Slashdot was actually the peak of innovation in large scale anonymous forum discussions with many clever features, crowdsourced moderation, friends&#x2F;foes, meta-mods etc. Do you plan to try new things with discussions, or stick to a conventional approach? Right now it&#x27;s pretty basic.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA</title><text>Hi! This is Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi, the founders of Substack, with Sachin Monga, the head of product. Yesterday, we launched an iOS app for Substack, so you can read all your Substack subscriptions in one place, with no distractions.<p>Readers have been tweeting at us for years now to ask when we’d have an app. We’ve long wanted one too, and we suddenly got the manpower to be able to build a good one when we acquired Sachin’s company Cocoon (W19) last year.<p>Soon after starting Substack, we found it easiest to explain what we do as “We make it simple to start a paid newsletter.” Even then, a Substack was more than just an email newsletter: it was also a blog, and it could host embedded video and audio, and people could leave comments and participate in discussion threads. But the term “newsletter” was useful shorthand because everyone kind of got what that meant. All along, though, we’ve been quietly building the tools for what we call “personal media empires,” encompassing different media formats (natively) and community discussion (which we intend to make better and better).<p>By a similar token, right from the start we’ve been intending for the company to do more than just provide subscription publishing tools. We’re excited by the vision of Substack becoming a network, where writers and readers benefit from being part of a larger ecosystem. For writers, it means they can be discovered by readers who might not otherwise have found them. For readers, it means being able to connect directly with writers and other readers and to explore a universe of great work.<p>The app is a key part of the network vision. Nothing changes in terms of writers and readers being in control. The writers still own their mailing lists, content, and IP and can take it all with them anytime they want. Anyone who signs up to a Substack through the app still goes on to that mailing list. And readers still get to choose what appears in their “inbox,” with the power to subscribe and unsubscribe from whatever they want (you can also add any RSS feed into the app via reader.substack.com). But now we’ll have more and better ways to surface recommendations from writers and readers, to show people’s profiles, and to deliver notifications inside and outside of the app.<p>This is just a start for the Substack app. We want to keep improving it, so please give us feedback and ask us the hard questions. What do you think we’re doing wrong? What could be better? What could be great? What might we not have thought of?<p>We’re here for the next couple hours. Ask us anything.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;substackapp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;on.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;substackapp</a></text></story> |
33,564,958 | 33,565,135 | 1 | 3 | 33,562,204 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>labrador</author><text>&gt; Vonnegut is highly over rated<p>This is great because it conjurs up for me an image of you as a world-weary 17 year old smoking his first cigarette after getting a high grade on his French literature test while thinking about whether he should go to Brown or Harvard or maybe just drop out altogether</text><parent_chain><item><author>gsatic</author><text></text></item><item><author>labrador</author><text><i>&quot;True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.&quot;</i><p>- Kurt Vonnegut</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The world is run by people no smarter than you</title><url>https://www.swyx.io/no-smarter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danielmarkbruce</author><text>Despite the downvotes here, there is some truth to this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gsatic</author><text></text></item><item><author>labrador</author><text><i>&quot;True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.&quot;</i><p>- Kurt Vonnegut</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The world is run by people no smarter than you</title><url>https://www.swyx.io/no-smarter</url></story> |
29,334,007 | 29,332,659 | 1 | 2 | 29,330,599 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jkestner</author><text>The going deal is, if there’s a power failure, we’ll let you recoup your costs from the taxpayers even as you profiteer. The governor can be bought for a very affordable $1 million. Certainly the incentives are aligned to solve this problem! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texasobserver.org&#x2F;after-kelcy-warrens-energy-transfer-partners-made-billions-from-the-deadly-texas-blackouts-he-gave-1-million-to-greg-abbott&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texasobserver.org&#x2F;after-kelcy-warrens-energy-tra...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bell-cot</author><text>This...but did Samsung quietly negotiate a &quot;any further energy supply f*ck-ups are 100% on YOUR dime&quot; deal with the State of Texas, or what? By several accounts, the TX grid got darn close to collapse last winter - at which point &quot;ERCOT Op Center is next door, and we get top priority&quot; would not get you a single erg.</text></item><item><author>josaka</author><text>After the TX grid failure last winter, it&#x27;s probably not a coincidence that Samsung&#x27;s new facility will be near ERCOT&#x27;s operation center in Taylor, which manages the TX grid, and will likely be the last load to shed when the grid&#x27;s stressed. Used to work in the Austin fab, and the amount of money lost per minute in a power failure is mind boggling. The tax breaks Taylor offered ($314m) are not that different from what Samsung was reported to have lost due to the grid failure ($270m).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas</title><url>https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/samsung-plans-17-billion-chip-plant-in-taylor-texas/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>&gt; erg<p>For anyone wondering, this is a unit of energy (100 nJ):<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Erg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Erg</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>bell-cot</author><text>This...but did Samsung quietly negotiate a &quot;any further energy supply f*ck-ups are 100% on YOUR dime&quot; deal with the State of Texas, or what? By several accounts, the TX grid got darn close to collapse last winter - at which point &quot;ERCOT Op Center is next door, and we get top priority&quot; would not get you a single erg.</text></item><item><author>josaka</author><text>After the TX grid failure last winter, it&#x27;s probably not a coincidence that Samsung&#x27;s new facility will be near ERCOT&#x27;s operation center in Taylor, which manages the TX grid, and will likely be the last load to shed when the grid&#x27;s stressed. Used to work in the Austin fab, and the amount of money lost per minute in a power failure is mind boggling. The tax breaks Taylor offered ($314m) are not that different from what Samsung was reported to have lost due to the grid failure ($270m).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas</title><url>https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/samsung-plans-17-billion-chip-plant-in-taylor-texas/</url></story> |
35,097,672 | 35,097,694 | 1 | 2 | 35,095,031 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikrl</author><text>&gt;The problem is that smoking is pretty much 100% bad<p>Bad FOR you, yes; bad as an experience, no. It tastes good and facilitates socialization.<p>&gt;social media has some good sides in that it allows you to keep in touch with family and friends who may be far away. It was fun<p>Again, this speaks more to the experience than the health effects. Note that you said ‘it was fun’ in the same way that I can say the cigs I’ve smoked were fun.<p>I don’t think the comparisons are too wrong to be honest. They are both activities that can facilitate ‘fun’ social interactions but with a deleterious effect on one’s health (cardiovascular and mental)</text><parent_chain><item><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>The problem is that smoking is pretty much 100% bad (excluding a brief period of being more alert) - social media has some good sides in that it allows you to keep in touch with family and friends who may be far away. It was fun and exciting to catch up with people I&#x27;d moved away from. And then it became a vile sludge of toxic positivity mixed with outrage.</text></item><item><author>13years</author><text>We might even look at all social media by all participants the same way we now look at smoking. It is isn&#x27;t healthy for the adults either.</text></item><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>I&#x27;ll say it again, and I&#x27;ll take the downvotes: in the future we will look back on allowing children access to social media and smart phones the way that today we look back at smoking ads targeted at children.<p>Maybe even more incredulously.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s mental health</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/0e2f6f8e-bb03-4fa7-8864-f48f576167d2</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>halfnormalform</author><text>Smoking also has a strong social component. Smokers socialize around the ashcan. It&#x27;s fun and exciting to catch up with the other smokers in your building or at your work.<p>It does become a vile sludge, you&#x27;re not wrong about that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>The problem is that smoking is pretty much 100% bad (excluding a brief period of being more alert) - social media has some good sides in that it allows you to keep in touch with family and friends who may be far away. It was fun and exciting to catch up with people I&#x27;d moved away from. And then it became a vile sludge of toxic positivity mixed with outrage.</text></item><item><author>13years</author><text>We might even look at all social media by all participants the same way we now look at smoking. It is isn&#x27;t healthy for the adults either.</text></item><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>I&#x27;ll say it again, and I&#x27;ll take the downvotes: in the future we will look back on allowing children access to social media and smart phones the way that today we look back at smoking ads targeted at children.<p>Maybe even more incredulously.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s mental health</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/0e2f6f8e-bb03-4fa7-8864-f48f576167d2</url></story> |
12,411,850 | 12,411,794 | 1 | 2 | 12,410,692 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peterjlee</author><text>Samsung just announced that they will replace all 2.5 million Note 7 sold so far.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;02&#x2F;reuters-america-brief-samsung-says-will-replace-all-problematic-note-7s-sold-or-shipped.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;02&#x2F;reuters-america-brief-samsung...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung Stops Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone Shipments as Safety Suspicions Spread</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung-stops-smartphone-shipments-as-safety-suspicions-spread-1472726756</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_Codemonkeyism</author><text>Got mine 5min after @Samsung told me they stop delivery.<p>Now unopened package on my desk.<p>Very angry at Samsung, their ecommerce shop (3 tries until ordering worked), delivery notification (10 hours late for every update), delivery (wrong delivery address from their system to DHL) has been very bad already. For an 850 EUR premium device. I will never buy from them again.<p>And now this.<p>Probably returning and getting an iPhone7.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Samsung Stops Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone Shipments as Safety Suspicions Spread</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung-stops-smartphone-shipments-as-safety-suspicions-spread-1472726756</url></story> |
18,859,874 | 18,859,766 | 1 | 2 | 18,855,680 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; Pee, to our American friends<p>&quot;Wee&quot; also means &quot;pee&quot; in the US, as well as meaning &quot;small&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bartread</author><text>&quot;The We Company&quot;: somebody didn&#x27;t check what that <i>sounds</i> like when spoken in British English. Wait, what? A company that manufactures and or sells wee?!?? (Pee, to our American friends.) It&#x27;s not as extreme as powergenitalia or expertsexchange but still something of a facepalm.</text></item><item><author>kgwgk</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-01-08&#x2F;wework-gets-less-money-shorter-name" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-01-08&#x2F;wework...</a><p>&quot;In addition to the corporate finance weirdness: “Going forward, the company will no longer be called WeWork but rather The We Company.” (“The switch is not a legal name change,” okay.) And: “Rather than just renting desks, the company aims to encompass all aspects of people’s lives, in both physical and digital worlds,” which is—and I have spent years writing about the financial and tech industries and do not say this lightly—the very worst corporate slogan I have ever heard.<p>Me: What does your company do?<p>We: We encompass all aspects of your life, in both physical and digital worlds.<p>Me: Wait that’s terrifying.<p>We: We’re like Facebook, only you also live here.<p>Me: Who did you say you are again?<p>We: We are We.<p>The new company will be divided into several main business units: WeWork, WeLive, WeGrow, WeHarvest and WeFeast, wait no only the first three of those are real, but I am looking forward to when they start a line of industrial-chic funeral homes, WeDie. (Free beer at the wake!) Seriously WeGrow (real!) is “a still evolving business that currently includes an elementary school and a coding academy.” And WeWhatever’s founders once (in 2009!) “mapped out plans for everything from WeSleep to WeSail to WeBank.” I can’t keep up with this.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-08/wework-gets-a-visit-from-financial-reality</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>happycube</author><text>Nintendo got away with it...</text><parent_chain><item><author>bartread</author><text>&quot;The We Company&quot;: somebody didn&#x27;t check what that <i>sounds</i> like when spoken in British English. Wait, what? A company that manufactures and or sells wee?!?? (Pee, to our American friends.) It&#x27;s not as extreme as powergenitalia or expertsexchange but still something of a facepalm.</text></item><item><author>kgwgk</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-01-08&#x2F;wework-gets-less-money-shorter-name" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-01-08&#x2F;wework...</a><p>&quot;In addition to the corporate finance weirdness: “Going forward, the company will no longer be called WeWork but rather The We Company.” (“The switch is not a legal name change,” okay.) And: “Rather than just renting desks, the company aims to encompass all aspects of people’s lives, in both physical and digital worlds,” which is—and I have spent years writing about the financial and tech industries and do not say this lightly—the very worst corporate slogan I have ever heard.<p>Me: What does your company do?<p>We: We encompass all aspects of your life, in both physical and digital worlds.<p>Me: Wait that’s terrifying.<p>We: We’re like Facebook, only you also live here.<p>Me: Who did you say you are again?<p>We: We are We.<p>The new company will be divided into several main business units: WeWork, WeLive, WeGrow, WeHarvest and WeFeast, wait no only the first three of those are real, but I am looking forward to when they start a line of industrial-chic funeral homes, WeDie. (Free beer at the wake!) Seriously WeGrow (real!) is “a still evolving business that currently includes an elementary school and a coding academy.” And WeWhatever’s founders once (in 2009!) “mapped out plans for everything from WeSleep to WeSail to WeBank.” I can’t keep up with this.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-08/wework-gets-a-visit-from-financial-reality</url></story> |
31,261,234 | 31,261,438 | 1 | 3 | 31,260,066 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atestu</author><text>I find Hersey chocolate inedible, but I think it&#x27;s one of those products you have to have grown up eating, like how some people prefer canned green beans to fresh ones.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ch4s3</author><text>I’m surprised no one here has mentioned the chocolate. Hershey’s Kisses are terrible. They contain just at or abouve the amount of cocoa in a product that the US allows to be called chocolate, and a lot of butyric acid which gives it a cheesy taste and vomit like odor. Almost any chocolate is better and will cost more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is every consumer startup selling me what I already own for 10x the price?</title><url>https://mleverything.substack.com/p/why-is-every-consumer-startup-trying</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thunderbird120</author><text>The inclusion of butyric acid has been an intentional choice for the majority of Hershey&#x27;s existence at this point. It&#x27;s been shown repeatedly that American consumers prefer it that way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ch4s3</author><text>I’m surprised no one here has mentioned the chocolate. Hershey’s Kisses are terrible. They contain just at or abouve the amount of cocoa in a product that the US allows to be called chocolate, and a lot of butyric acid which gives it a cheesy taste and vomit like odor. Almost any chocolate is better and will cost more.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is every consumer startup selling me what I already own for 10x the price?</title><url>https://mleverything.substack.com/p/why-is-every-consumer-startup-trying</url></story> |
23,385,414 | 23,385,319 | 1 | 2 | 23,375,875 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonhohle</author><text>My wife was a teacher librarian and I used to give her interview questions related to data storage and retrieval. With no interest or background in CS she had no problem describing optimally efficient algorithms based on analog concepts, questions experienced engineers had difficulty answering.</text><parent_chain><item><author>barrkel</author><text>The cards are more interesting to me than the word, which I originally thought was going to be some kind of copyright-protecting deliberate mistake.<p>The cards remind me of Jira tickets, with stamps and names as a kind of audit log of work associated with the ticket. I find myself curious about the information architecture and paper processes that companies built around such tickets going to and fro.<p>Such architectures probably have fairly close analogues in distributed systems, and there may be a thing or two to learn from how more innovative and efficient organizations structured their paper pushing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Dord': A Ghost Word</title><url>https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/dord-a-ghost-word</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ben174</author><text>Copyright protection was my first thought too, similar to how cartographers used to put “bunnies” in their maps to identify copycats.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;article&#x2F;Mapmakers-sleight-of-hand-Cartographers-put-2889584.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;article&#x2F;Mapmakers-sleight-of-han...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>barrkel</author><text>The cards are more interesting to me than the word, which I originally thought was going to be some kind of copyright-protecting deliberate mistake.<p>The cards remind me of Jira tickets, with stamps and names as a kind of audit log of work associated with the ticket. I find myself curious about the information architecture and paper processes that companies built around such tickets going to and fro.<p>Such architectures probably have fairly close analogues in distributed systems, and there may be a thing or two to learn from how more innovative and efficient organizations structured their paper pushing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Dord': A Ghost Word</title><url>https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/dord-a-ghost-word</url></story> |
30,131,746 | 30,131,788 | 1 | 3 | 30,130,315 | train | <instructions>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>On the contrary, I think it&#x27;s fundamentally <i>useful</i> to the ecosystem that there be a winner in the tabs-vs-spaces&#x2F;how-many-spaces debate. Code snippets become portable, developers don&#x27;t need to adapt when joining a new team, etc. Indeed, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.python.org&#x2F;dev&#x2F;peps&#x2F;pep-0008&#x2F;#indentation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.python.org&#x2F;dev&#x2F;peps&#x2F;pep-0008&#x2F;#indentation</a> has enshrined 4 spaces as the official recommendation. And when the best-in-class formatter enforces this, that&#x27;s a good thing.<p>To be sure, I personally would have preferred that 2-spaces win out for compatibility with the Javascript ecosystem (so I am perhaps the furthest from the parent poster on the tabs-spaces spectrum!) but I abandoned my preference in favor of PEP-8 years ago, and doing so has opened far more doors for team productivity than it&#x27;s closed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>Congratulations. I&#x27;m a Python developer of 17+ years and Black is truly a huge blessing in the Python ecosystem.<p>That said, I&#x27;m a little sad to see it&#x27;s gone stable without adding support for tabs, which would be extremely simple to add at this point (cf. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jleclanche&#x2F;tan&#x2F;commit&#x2F;e23c038167528bdacddd6779c6b4234e2634cfa3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jleclanche&#x2F;tan&#x2F;commit&#x2F;e23c038167528bdacdd...</a>). I have a lot of people using this tab-capable fork, that I did not advertise anywhere.<p>Łukasz seems to have a personal grudge against tabs which may be why the issue for tab support was closed early on, but there&#x27;s a plethora of good reasons to support it behind a flag. I don&#x27;t want to rehash those arguments here on HN but you think you could re-think the approach a bit?<p>I&#x27;d be happy to do a PR if it&#x27;s not getting rejected right away with &quot;no discussion allowed&quot; like the last one was (before Black was moved to PSF maintainership).</text></item><item><author>crlees</author><text>I&#x27;m pleased to announce that Black is finally non-beta software! :party:!<p>Change log: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;black.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;change_log.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;black.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;change_log.html</a><p>Going forward we&#x27;ll follow our stability policy (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;black.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;the_black_code_style&#x2F;index.html#stability-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;black.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;the_black_code_style&#x2F;...</a>).<p>Work continues as usual with bugfixes and enhancements, but style changes are now introduced under our new `--preview` CLI switch. This allows us to evolve Black&#x27;s style without too much disruption to users that want consistency. The default style is updated yearly.<p>Thanks to our maintainers for orchestrating the efforts, especially to our most recent reinforcement Batuhan (@isidentical) who was responsible for our match statement support! A hearty thank you to all of our contributors for pushing Black forward, and to our users for being the reason we do it!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable</title><url>https://pypi.org/project/black/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>js2</author><text>On the contrary, I want to thank the authors of black for not adding tab support.<p>I’ve been writing Python code for two decades. I know all the arguments for tabs vs spaces.<p>Down the path of tabs lies madness.<p>If you want them that badly, please see git’s smudge&#x2F;clean filters.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2316677&#x2F;can-git-automatically-switch-between-spaces-and-tabs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2316677&#x2F;can-git-automati...</a><p>There. Now the Python world has a single standard while you are free to use tabs in your checkout. See, you can make all the people happy all the time. :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>Congratulations. I&#x27;m a Python developer of 17+ years and Black is truly a huge blessing in the Python ecosystem.<p>That said, I&#x27;m a little sad to see it&#x27;s gone stable without adding support for tabs, which would be extremely simple to add at this point (cf. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jleclanche&#x2F;tan&#x2F;commit&#x2F;e23c038167528bdacddd6779c6b4234e2634cfa3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jleclanche&#x2F;tan&#x2F;commit&#x2F;e23c038167528bdacdd...</a>). I have a lot of people using this tab-capable fork, that I did not advertise anywhere.<p>Łukasz seems to have a personal grudge against tabs which may be why the issue for tab support was closed early on, but there&#x27;s a plethora of good reasons to support it behind a flag. I don&#x27;t want to rehash those arguments here on HN but you think you could re-think the approach a bit?<p>I&#x27;d be happy to do a PR if it&#x27;s not getting rejected right away with &quot;no discussion allowed&quot; like the last one was (before Black was moved to PSF maintainership).</text></item><item><author>crlees</author><text>I&#x27;m pleased to announce that Black is finally non-beta software! :party:!<p>Change log: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;black.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;change_log.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;black.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;change_log.html</a><p>Going forward we&#x27;ll follow our stability policy (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;black.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;the_black_code_style&#x2F;index.html#stability-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;black.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;the_black_code_style&#x2F;...</a>).<p>Work continues as usual with bugfixes and enhancements, but style changes are now introduced under our new `--preview` CLI switch. This allows us to evolve Black&#x27;s style without too much disruption to users that want consistency. The default style is updated yearly.<p>Thanks to our maintainers for orchestrating the efforts, especially to our most recent reinforcement Batuhan (@isidentical) who was responsible for our match statement support! A hearty thank you to all of our contributors for pushing Black forward, and to our users for being the reason we do it!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable</title><url>https://pypi.org/project/black/</url></story> |
11,808,462 | 11,808,282 | 1 | 2 | 11,807,450 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ygjb-dupe</author><text>I think it becomes even more clear; when children living in poverty are living in a society where their basic needs are sufficiently provided for, you take away a great deal of the social stigma associated with engaging child protective services.<p>If a parent can&#x27;t function when the basics are provided, then teachers, neighbours, and family members will be less inclined to use the excuse &quot;but times are tough, and that person is trying hard to be a good parent&quot;.<p>IDK - I am inclined to think, having come from a broken home and having done community service for shoplifting food for me and my brother, if $parent (father in my case) can&#x27;t get their shit together, the children would have been better off without them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>eanzenberg</author><text>&quot;Tough shit&quot; sucks when parents blow their handout on lottery tickets and drugs, leaving their children in perpetual poverty.</text></item><item><author>colinplamondon</author><text>Personally, I&#x27;d hope the system would absolutely tell them &quot;tough shit&quot;. There&#x27;s got to be a line where the safety net gives out, because someone is too expensive to help.<p>That&#x27;s where family and charity hopefully take over.<p>At the same time, I think your instinct is right, and it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve never heard mentioned before. It&#x27;s almost inevitably that there&#x27;ll then be the &quot;food security&quot; fund, and the &quot;housing guarantee&quot; fund.... and then we&#x27;ve just recreated the existing system.<p>That&#x27;s the best argument against BI I&#x27;ve heard, and one I&#x27;d love to hear rebuttals to.</text></item><item><author>xienze</author><text>So, a question for the BI fans:<p>I&#x27;ve seen it said repeatedly that BI will save us money (or at least, not be so outrageously expensive) in part because we can eliminate existing welfare programs. &quot;Just cut a single check, no more overhead from several agencies&quot;, they say.<p>But riddle me this: what do you do when someone on BI has a financial emergency or, as will happen with some regularity, just flat-out blows all their money and now can&#x27;t afford rent and&#x2F;or food? Do you tell them &quot;tough shit, you&#x27;ve exhausted all your social safety nets&quot; or are there safety nets below BI, essentially recreating the welfare programs previously destroyed? If so, how do you prevent fraud without a department following up on Joe&#x27;s twelfth &quot;my car broke down&quot; case of the year?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving Forward on Basic Income</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; &quot;Tough shit&quot; sucks when parents blow their handout on lottery tickets and drugs, leaving their children in perpetual poverty.<p>Seems to me that with a universal unconditional benefit that is sufficient for adequate support of both parents and children (which, incidentally, I don&#x27;t see as likely in any early-phase UBI, though over time it would hopefully grow to that level), failure to provide adequate support for children is, without exception, culpable neglect; interventions to address such neglect exist and are outside of the scope of the public benefit programs UBI would replace (though, if children are counted as beneficiaries with the benefits flowing to their legal guardian, you&#x27;ve dramatically <i>simplified</i> some aspects of the administration of those programs, as well, with a UBI.)</text><parent_chain><item><author>eanzenberg</author><text>&quot;Tough shit&quot; sucks when parents blow their handout on lottery tickets and drugs, leaving their children in perpetual poverty.</text></item><item><author>colinplamondon</author><text>Personally, I&#x27;d hope the system would absolutely tell them &quot;tough shit&quot;. There&#x27;s got to be a line where the safety net gives out, because someone is too expensive to help.<p>That&#x27;s where family and charity hopefully take over.<p>At the same time, I think your instinct is right, and it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve never heard mentioned before. It&#x27;s almost inevitably that there&#x27;ll then be the &quot;food security&quot; fund, and the &quot;housing guarantee&quot; fund.... and then we&#x27;ve just recreated the existing system.<p>That&#x27;s the best argument against BI I&#x27;ve heard, and one I&#x27;d love to hear rebuttals to.</text></item><item><author>xienze</author><text>So, a question for the BI fans:<p>I&#x27;ve seen it said repeatedly that BI will save us money (or at least, not be so outrageously expensive) in part because we can eliminate existing welfare programs. &quot;Just cut a single check, no more overhead from several agencies&quot;, they say.<p>But riddle me this: what do you do when someone on BI has a financial emergency or, as will happen with some regularity, just flat-out blows all their money and now can&#x27;t afford rent and&#x2F;or food? Do you tell them &quot;tough shit, you&#x27;ve exhausted all your social safety nets&quot; or are there safety nets below BI, essentially recreating the welfare programs previously destroyed? If so, how do you prevent fraud without a department following up on Joe&#x27;s twelfth &quot;my car broke down&quot; case of the year?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Moving Forward on Basic Income</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income</url></story> |
31,491,005 | 31,490,752 | 1 | 2 | 31,489,076 | 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>windexh8er</author><text>You&#x27;re probably right that this is mostly software companies looking for revenue in the form of a forced purchase of a product through legislation.<p>But, keep in mind: the government is actively selling out its constituents and creating an environment that enables a surveillance state, even when that may not be the original goal. Slippery slope and all, first it&#x27;s child pornography - but where does it stop? It won&#x27;t, because that data set is rich to mine - rich to sell into. We can make up entire product lines that can be sold, via FUD, into our ignorant government friends and force people to buy it even when it&#x27;s been shown to provide little to no value to the masses.<p>So, no - not a lizard conspiracy. More like &quot;Dumb and Dumber: Government Edition&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>numerik_meister</author><text>You got it right. Lots of people here think this is some sort of big conspiracy by lizards to build a surveillance state. In truth, it is simply software companies that have surveillance products to sell lobbying the government.<p>Source: at my German uni there are many recruitment drives from these entities</text></item><item><author>2pEXgD0fZ5cF</author><text>I&#x27;m going to slightly modify and repeat comment of mine I wrote here on another post for the same topic:<p>According to the DKSB (Deutscher Kinderschutzbund) [1], encryption barely plays a role when it comes to the distribution of CSAM [2]. In short: DKSB is not in favour of this. You know, the people that probably know what they are talking about when it comes to the protection of children, unlike the politicians who are trying to force this through.<p>The politicians which only really talked to salesmen of surveillance software [3] about this and never really consulted any independent people with expertise in tech, privacy or the protection of children [4].<p>Because this was never, at any moment, about protecting children.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dksb.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;home&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dksb.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;home&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eu-info.de&#x2F;dpa-europaticker&#x2F;316232.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eu-info.de&#x2F;dpa-europaticker&#x2F;316232.html</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;netzpolitik.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-hollywood-star-lobbies-the-eu-for-more-surveillance&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;netzpolitik.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-ho...</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edri.org&#x2F;our-work&#x2F;private-and-secure-communications-put-at-risk-by-european-commissions-latest-proposal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edri.org&#x2F;our-work&#x2F;private-and-secure-communications-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Data shows that the EU's CSAM scanning will not have the intended effect</title><url>https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-csam-scanning/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>taylorius</author><text>So, yes she&#x27;s misrepresenting things to her electorate, in order to bring in a load of surveillance. But please don&#x27;t think she wants to spy on everyone, totalitarian style - no, no she&#x27;s just being bribed (sorry, I meant &quot;lobbied&quot;).<p>Sleep tight, eu.</text><parent_chain><item><author>numerik_meister</author><text>You got it right. Lots of people here think this is some sort of big conspiracy by lizards to build a surveillance state. In truth, it is simply software companies that have surveillance products to sell lobbying the government.<p>Source: at my German uni there are many recruitment drives from these entities</text></item><item><author>2pEXgD0fZ5cF</author><text>I&#x27;m going to slightly modify and repeat comment of mine I wrote here on another post for the same topic:<p>According to the DKSB (Deutscher Kinderschutzbund) [1], encryption barely plays a role when it comes to the distribution of CSAM [2]. In short: DKSB is not in favour of this. You know, the people that probably know what they are talking about when it comes to the protection of children, unlike the politicians who are trying to force this through.<p>The politicians which only really talked to salesmen of surveillance software [3] about this and never really consulted any independent people with expertise in tech, privacy or the protection of children [4].<p>Because this was never, at any moment, about protecting children.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dksb.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;home&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dksb.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;home&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eu-info.de&#x2F;dpa-europaticker&#x2F;316232.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eu-info.de&#x2F;dpa-europaticker&#x2F;316232.html</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;netzpolitik.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-hollywood-star-lobbies-the-eu-for-more-surveillance&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;netzpolitik.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-ho...</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edri.org&#x2F;our-work&#x2F;private-and-secure-communications-put-at-risk-by-european-commissions-latest-proposal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edri.org&#x2F;our-work&#x2F;private-and-secure-communications-...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Data shows that the EU's CSAM scanning will not have the intended effect</title><url>https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-csam-scanning/</url></story> |
35,898,693 | 35,898,484 | 1 | 2 | 35,895,840 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ahachete</author><text>This is an Open Core product. The open source part of it seems to be quite limited (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supertokens.com&#x2F;pricing">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supertokens.com&#x2F;pricing</a>) and therefore I have a hard time believing this version can be &quot;an alternative to [...]&quot;.<p>Actually, the main motto of the frontpage is &quot;Open Source User Authentication&quot;, which I also think is a bit of a mischaracterization of the software, since key features I&#x27;d look for on an authentication software are <i>not</i> open source.<p>I love that this is a Java-based project and the goals and ideas behind it; but I think the so prominent use of the terms &quot;open source&quot; is misleading and I recommend demoting them or using alternative terms to reflect a more precise reality.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Supertokens: Open-Source Alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito</title><url>https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aweheel</author><text>How does this differentiate from other open source identity solutions like KeyCloak or Ory? I wish there was more collaboration in this space, especially singe we’re talking security and these projects need pen testing, bug bounties, and more infrastructure to be considered „production grade“.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Supertokens: Open-Source Alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito</title><url>https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core</url></story> |
26,285,755 | 26,285,452 | 1 | 2 | 26,283,348 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>junon</author><text>There&#x27;s some historical context for this article. 2016 was a year of RAPID growth for Uber. There was a running statistic internally that your employee ID would be at the median point just 6 months after being hired.<p>They were trying to hire (and poach) just about anyone they could around this time. Therefore, these articles are... very shiny, compared to the actual tech applied internally (note that even though Uber is referred to in the third person here, this is on uber.com and written by an Uber employee).<p>I worked at Uber for a year. Schemaless was... meh. Nobody really liked using it, nobody really understood it, and you weren&#x27;t really allowed to host your own instance - you had to have another internal team do it for you, which didn&#x27;t help the &quot;understanding&quot; problem.<p>It smelled distinctly of &quot;not invented here&quot; syndrome. A number of things inside Uber worked that way - the culture was so competitive and brutal, performance reviews were always a massacre, so everyone was trying to outshine their peers (or outright climb on their backs, etc).<p>This resulted in a LOT of &quot;tech&quot; being &quot;invented&quot; that 1:1 did something already prominent in open-source or was already an enterprise solution (probably cheaper than paying engineers to do it) but since actually achieving it and having your name on it meant you would look better for a promotion or a bonus or whatever over a colleague meant it was worth it to the individual to reinvent the wheel. Rinse and repeat over and over again.<p>I&#x27;m not an enemy of reinventing the wheel, mind you. But only if the new wheel works significantly better than the old one. This was rarely the case at Uber.<p>Postgres was still used somewhat commonly at Uber when I was there, but they were really pushing for Schemaless internally. It felt very overkill for just about everything outside the platform teams and was always, without fail, a massive pain to deal with.<p>Don&#x27;t be fooled by these Uber engineering articles. This was PR to bolster up their OSS image to outsiders to help with hiring and poaching at the time. Things internally looked very different.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/postgres-to-mysql-migration/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>petergeoghegan</author><text>I committed a patch that added a mechanism I called &quot;bottom-up index deletion&quot; recently:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;devel&#x2F;btree-implementation.html#BTREE-DELETION" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;devel&#x2F;btree-implementation.h...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.postgresql.org&#x2F;gitweb&#x2F;?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=d168b666823b6e0bcf60ed19ce24fb5fb91b8ccf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.postgresql.org&#x2F;gitweb&#x2F;?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...</a><p>Bottom-up deletion is specifically designed to ameliorate what the blog post refers to as &quot;write amplification&quot;. Testing has shown that it&#x27;s very effective with many workloads.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/postgres-to-mysql-migration/</url></story> |
18,766,611 | 18,766,426 | 1 | 3 | 18,765,868 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>isomorphic</author><text>Aside: Although iTerm2 (on macOS) doesn&#x27;t appear to work with this, iTerm2 actually supports full-color inline images, and has an &quot;imgls&quot; script which does something similar. (There&#x27;s also &quot;imgcat&quot;.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iterm2.com&#x2F;documentation-images.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iterm2.com&#x2F;documentation-images.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>lsix: ls for images</title><url>https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text><i>You can also specify filenames and, of course, use shell wild cards</i><p><i>However, some may be slow to render (like PDF), so lsix doesn&#x27;t show them unless you ask specifically.</i><p>Regardless of the justification, I don&#x27;t think creating such extra exception&#x2F;edge-case behaviours are ever a good idea in a commandline tool like this. The equivalent in regular ls would be something like not showing more than X files &quot;unless you ask specifically&quot; --- which would just create more confusion than anything. As someone who has used the commandline for many years, one property which needs to be present for good usability is <i>consistency</i>. Having a bunch of edge-cases and special behaviours makes a tool hard to use for anything but the most extremely basic of operations.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>lsix: ls for images</title><url>https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix</url></story> |
1,270,627 | 1,270,330 | 1 | 3 | 1,270,181 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>otakucode</author><text>Most people would take this as a simple joke, but I think there's far more to it. Not the idea of 'soul ownership', but the fact that there exist essentially NO consumer protections whatsoever when it comes to these "digital licenses" that the gaming industry is increasingly using. With these licenses, gamers are stripped of nearly every single right they would retain if they had bought the game in retail form. It would be illegal in most countries for the sellers of any retail product to restrict the rights of the consumer in the way that game companies do to gamers. No seller can forbid you from selling the product you buy to someone else. With game licenses, they do. No seller can forbid you from using the product and then giving it to a friend. With game licenses, they do. No seller can forbid you from allowing a friend to borrow the item. With game licenses, they do. The list goes on, and is quite long.<p>As more and more transactions take place involving 'licenses' instead of transfer of traditional goods, we are losing a tremendous amount of freedom with how we interact with and use our purchases. I think it would be a good idea for people to start standing up and talking to their representatives about the need for consumer protection laws in the arena of digital licenses. The way it is going, we'll only end up with such things if the companies end up crossing the line and doing something entirely legal that would infuriate the general public to a great degree, such as Apple locking every iTunes customer out of music they already bought a license for until they paid another $1 per track to re-purchase access to it. That would be completely legal and within their rights, and the consumers would have no legal grounds to comaplin at all. They signed away their rights. In EVERY other area of commerce, there are laws preventing consumers from even being capable of signing away such rights, and preventing sellers from exploiting their customers in such ways. Not digital media, though. There are no protections at all when it comes to 'licenses.'</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls</title><url>http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/15/online-shoppers-unknowingly-sold-souls/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chaosmachine</author><text><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1270058" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1270058</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls</title><url>http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/15/online-shoppers-unknowingly-sold-souls/</url></story> |
1,279,548 | 1,279,598 | 1 | 3 | 1,279,238 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jerf</author><text>There's a presentation that Larry Wall gave at Google that has a lot to do with the internals of Perl 6: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzIWdJVP-wo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzIWdJVP-wo</a> Actually, to be honest, I don't recommend it, I found it surprisingly dull in delivery (sorry, Larry), but the contents were very interesting.<p>I actually think describing Perl 6 as "having macros" is accurate, but gives the wrong impression. It doesn't "have" macros, it's <i>made</i> of macros. The whole language is made of macros and you are nearly begged to extend it with more grammar. Or you can throw theirs away and write your own for something. Or you can throw theirs away, take some of it as a base, and extend it.<p>It's a wild, wacky experiment that needs to be done. Whatever happens, we'll learn a lot. My intuition says "collapses under its own complexity" (especially after trying to add a few grammar-modifying CPAN modules) is the most likely result, but I fully support with no sarcasm someone trying this out in case my intuition is wrong. It's not just Lisp redux, it's something new.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Perl 6 is different</title><url>http://blogs.perl.org/users/leon_timmermans/2010/04/why-perl-6-is-different.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>thyrsus</author><text>My understanding is that Perl 6 is the polar opposite of lisp, in this sense: In lisp, the code is always and everywhere already in a parse tree, and can be manipulated easily by, e.g., macros; Perl 5, on the other hand, is the most unparsable language possible: see <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393" rel="nofollow">http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393</a>. What perl 6 does is own the parsing problem, and respond by incorporating super powerful parsing tools. Unfortunately, I believe that perl 6 retains its dynamic syntax, so parsing of perl 6 itself is still an uncertain adventure, and not something one can incorporate unconstrained into one's metaprogramming. I'd love to be wrong about that; am I? If so, can someone recommend a tutorial on perl 6 metaprogramming?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Perl 6 is different</title><url>http://blogs.perl.org/users/leon_timmermans/2010/04/why-perl-6-is-different.html</url></story> |
34,802,578 | 34,802,264 | 1 | 2 | 34,801,735 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>Does current cash travel very far ?<p>If we’re in to do Orwellian things, I’m not sure what’s technically stoping us from doing it now. All bills are scanned at the banks, we can flag who got which lot from the ATM, major POS systems scan for counterfeit, and retailers will return to the bank any excess from what they need for day to day exchanges (or not bother and return everything to the bank to get new bills in packaged stacks).<p>We’re already trusting our govs for not abusing the situation. The bridge is already crossed in my mind, going pure cashless is a small step in comparison.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>Cashless society is an orwellian horror. I am so endlessly sad Switzerland apparently is the only nation to value their cash.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/swiss-vote-preventing-cashless-society-pressure-group-says-2023-02-06/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pif</author><text>It&#x27;s the obvious choice when a great deal of your wealth comes from helping foreigners bypass their tax laws.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>Cashless society is an orwellian horror. I am so endlessly sad Switzerland apparently is the only nation to value their cash.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Swiss to vote on preventing cashless society, pressure group says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/swiss-vote-preventing-cashless-society-pressure-group-says-2023-02-06/</url></story> |
36,149,785 | 36,149,561 | 1 | 2 | 36,149,375 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RobotToaster</author><text>I feel like some of the comments here are missing the point. Yes it&#x27;s only likely to effect a small number of users, so did the intel fdiv bug, both are defective products.<p>Back then intel were pressured into a recall, today we seem too willing to put up with being sold broken stuff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EPYC 7002 CPUs may hang after 1042 days of uptime</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/13wmowy/psa_epyc_7002_cpus_may_hang_after_1042_days_of/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Neil44</author><text>It seems a C6 state is an individual core sleeping. The intersection of people who don&#x27;t reboot for 3 years and people who have sleep states enabled must be pretty small. It&#x27;s an interesting bug though!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EPYC 7002 CPUs may hang after 1042 days of uptime</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/13wmowy/psa_epyc_7002_cpus_may_hang_after_1042_days_of/</url></story> |
8,105,736 | 8,105,713 | 1 | 2 | 8,105,395 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NamTaf</author><text>Cute that you say that we have one of the strongest separations between courts and the government, given what Queensland&#x27;s government has been doing to the court system here. There&#x27;s been a fair bit of press [1],[2] about the friction between the current government and the court system, due to the state government trying to bend the courts to suit their political desires (examples include the election of an allegedly biased chief justice, the VLAD laws).<p>I&#x27;d agree with you normally, but it seems that the federal government is following the Queensland state government&#x27;s lead in trying to manipulate the courts to their favour. I dearly hope we see some stronger push-back against that though because the separation of courts and government is one of the best things about this country.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-21/queensland-premier-campbell-newman-makes-major-policy-changes/5611970" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014-07-21&#x2F;queensland-premier-cam...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/barrister-quits-over-carmody-appointment-process-20140613-zs7ds.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brisbanetimes.com.au&#x2F;queensland&#x2F;barrister-quits-o...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>fblp</author><text>From the article: - The court made this order to:<p>&quot;- prevent damage to Australia&#x27;s international relations that may be caused by the publication of material that may damage the reputations of specified individuals who are not the subject of charges in these proceedings.
These orders are made on the grounds that they are:<p>- necessary to prevent a real and substantial risk of prejudice to the proper administration of justice that cannot be prevented by other reasonably available means; and<p>- necessary to prevent prejudice to the interests of the Commonwealth in relation to national security. &quot;<p>The court would be very careful about making such orders and Australia has one of the strongest separations between the courts and the government. This means that the decision is likely to be made for fair administration of justice rather than for political reasons.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case</title><url>https://wikileaks.org/aus-suppression-order/?gag</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nl</author><text>It seems likely that the individuals named in the order are likely to be brought up in the case.<p>If - as a totally fictional example - allegations were made that the RBA&#x27;s Note Printing division attempted to bribe the head of some fictional nation, that would almost certainly damage Australia&#x27;s international reputation, especially if people within Australia later attempted to cover that up.<p>Does the public&#x27;s right-to-know outweigh that damage? Clearly the court thinks not.<p>I&#x27;ll just leave these links here:<p><a href="http://www.afr.com/p/national/probe_sought_on_new_rba_bribe_scandal_mVt5dvqtnWuNl8M4i7kmhM" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.afr.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;national&#x2F;probe_sought_on_new_rba_bribe_...</a> (Note that the Saddam&#x2F;Iraqi link is a separate case)<p><a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/senate/economics/asic/final_report/~/media/Committees/Senate/committee/economics_ctte/ASIC/Final_Report/c23.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aph.gov.au&#x2F;parliamentary_business&#x2F;committees&#x2F;sena...</a> - look at page 370</text><parent_chain><item><author>fblp</author><text>From the article: - The court made this order to:<p>&quot;- prevent damage to Australia&#x27;s international relations that may be caused by the publication of material that may damage the reputations of specified individuals who are not the subject of charges in these proceedings.
These orders are made on the grounds that they are:<p>- necessary to prevent a real and substantial risk of prejudice to the proper administration of justice that cannot be prevented by other reasonably available means; and<p>- necessary to prevent prejudice to the interests of the Commonwealth in relation to national security. &quot;<p>The court would be very careful about making such orders and Australia has one of the strongest separations between the courts and the government. This means that the decision is likely to be made for fair administration of justice rather than for political reasons.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case</title><url>https://wikileaks.org/aus-suppression-order/?gag</url></story> |
21,429,750 | 21,429,814 | 1 | 3 | 21,429,266 | 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>reaperducer</author><text>The sort of arrogant self-absorbed people who would fly a drone over a wildfire are the same sort of arrogant self-absorbed people who would flash their drone with hacked firmware to bypass any restrictions.<p>Rules are for other people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bsamuels</author><text>I hope DJI responds with a firmware update preventing flight in temporary no-fly zones. Right now they respect static no fly zones, but when temporary ones get put up you can still fly inside them.<p>It&#x27;s a real shame that large ready-to-fly drones aren&#x27;t required by law to prevent arming in no-fly zones. About half of the DJI pilots I know actively prevent their firmware from being upgraded to the one that will respect static no-fly zones.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Illegal drones ground water-dropping helicopters in Maria fire battle</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-01/maria-fire-drone-hinders-firefighting-efforts-as-blaze-doubles-in-size-overnight</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>georgeburdell</author><text>Why bother pushing this onto hardware makers? Just authorize authorities to shoot the things down.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bsamuels</author><text>I hope DJI responds with a firmware update preventing flight in temporary no-fly zones. Right now they respect static no fly zones, but when temporary ones get put up you can still fly inside them.<p>It&#x27;s a real shame that large ready-to-fly drones aren&#x27;t required by law to prevent arming in no-fly zones. About half of the DJI pilots I know actively prevent their firmware from being upgraded to the one that will respect static no-fly zones.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Illegal drones ground water-dropping helicopters in Maria fire battle</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-01/maria-fire-drone-hinders-firefighting-efforts-as-blaze-doubles-in-size-overnight</url></story> |
28,732,607 | 28,732,274 | 1 | 2 | 28,731,656 | 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>bawolff</author><text>42% of people are obesse in usa. That seems like very obviously the more immediate risk by many orders of magnitude. The risk of pesticides (that are within legal limits) is a bit more nebulous, but seems almost certainly nowhere near as pervasive as obesity. If you have a known risk that&#x27;s significant, probably best to focus there.<p>However is this really the trade off? For the most part you can&#x27;t really buy pesticide free food that&#x27;s unhealthy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mherdeg</author><text>This is an area where I&#x27;m torn. Should I be buying only organic produce or should I be spending the same money and energy on eating less sugar and more of any kind of produce?<p>There is a tradeoff... with young kids and a full-time job the time I can spend buying or preparing meals is pretty limited. I don&#x27;t fully understand the magnitude of the risks of, say, eating too much vs. eating too much pesticide.<p>I&#x27;m also kind of irrationally mad at organizations like the Environmental Working Group; as far as I can tell their &quot;dirty dozen list&quot; comes from taking public domain FDA data about toxins in food, dividing the guideline safe amounts by about 10 arbitrarily, and publishing that the public numbers are higher than their (apparently made up?) lower safety thresholds. I just don&#x27;t understand the science here -- how much extra death are they saying I&#x27;m incurring by eating non organic produce and what are the error bars?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Traces of 122 different pesticides in 12 most polluted fruit and veg products</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/29/cocktail-pesticides-almost-all-oranges-grapes-uk-study</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>clairity</author><text>the (magnitude of) risk isn&#x27;t certain yet, but it&#x27;s unlikely zero, given our history of poorly quantifying the harmfulness of a variety of substances. a reasonable hedge is to buy organic for the dirty dozen and non-organic for other produce. eat less processed sugar regardless, whether you replace it with fruit or not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mherdeg</author><text>This is an area where I&#x27;m torn. Should I be buying only organic produce or should I be spending the same money and energy on eating less sugar and more of any kind of produce?<p>There is a tradeoff... with young kids and a full-time job the time I can spend buying or preparing meals is pretty limited. I don&#x27;t fully understand the magnitude of the risks of, say, eating too much vs. eating too much pesticide.<p>I&#x27;m also kind of irrationally mad at organizations like the Environmental Working Group; as far as I can tell their &quot;dirty dozen list&quot; comes from taking public domain FDA data about toxins in food, dividing the guideline safe amounts by about 10 arbitrarily, and publishing that the public numbers are higher than their (apparently made up?) lower safety thresholds. I just don&#x27;t understand the science here -- how much extra death are they saying I&#x27;m incurring by eating non organic produce and what are the error bars?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Traces of 122 different pesticides in 12 most polluted fruit and veg products</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/29/cocktail-pesticides-almost-all-oranges-grapes-uk-study</url></story> |
31,348,991 | 31,348,759 | 1 | 2 | 31,347,725 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text><i>For instance, consider a simplified model where every family has two kids that live with them until they’re 18.</i><p>The ACA (Obamacare) extended coverage to age 26 for children because about half of young adults up to age 26 were living with their parents<p>Since WW2, we&#x27;ve torn down about a million SROs.* We have also largely zoned out of existence the ability to build new Missing Middle housing.<p>We have a dire shortage of a certain kind of housing: small, inexpensive housing near amenities. This is true nationwide.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Single_room_occupancy#:~:text=Single%20room%20occupancy%20%28more%20commonly%20abbreviated%20to%20SRO%29,a%20bed%2C%20chair%2C%20and%20sometimes%20a%20small%20desk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Single_room_occupancy#:~:tex...</a>.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is there a housing shortage or not?</title><url>https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/is-there-a-housing-shortage-or-not</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TimPC</author><text>Georgists have known for a long time about the tendency for land prices to rise in a way that captures a sizeable percentage of the gains of labour (income). This tax on productivity is best solved through a land value tax.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is there a housing shortage or not?</title><url>https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/is-there-a-housing-shortage-or-not</url></story> |
26,108,488 | 26,108,672 | 1 | 3 | 26,101,608 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>windexh8er</author><text>I could very well be wrong but Podman seems to have missed the time-frame of opportunity. It was always a knife fight between Red Hat and Docker with regard to tooling. Red Hat wanting to own the toolchain for containers so they didn&#x27;t have to deal with, and so they could box out, competitors like (now basically defunct) Docker Enterprise.<p>I&#x27;ve taken a look at podman from time to time over the years but it seems like it&#x27;s just never formalized, never been polished and almost always has been sub-par in execution. On this list the builds and container control are things that I&#x27;ve run across. I guess - what&#x27;s the point? The rootless argument leaned on so heavily is pretty much gone, the quality of Podman hasn&#x27;t (seemingly) improved and now IBM owns Red Hat (subjective, but a viable concern&#x2F;consideration given what&#x27;s recently happened with CentOS).<p>You&#x27;re more than safe leveraging Docker and buildkit (when and where needed). Quite honestly, given the relatively poor execution of Red Hat with these tools over the years, I don&#x27;t see the point. I&#x27;m sure there are some niche use cases for Podman&#x2F;Buildah, but overall it just seems to come up as an agenda more than an exponentially better product at this point. Red Hat could have made things better, instead they just created a distraction and worked against the broader effort in the container ecosystem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yobert</author><text>I&#x27;ve been trying to use podman in production and it is not working very well. I&#x27;m excited for this technology but it is not ready.<p>- podman layer caching during builds do not work. When we switched back to docker-ce, builds went from 45 minutes to 3 minutes with no changes to our Dockerfile<p>- fuse-overlayfs sits at 100% CPU all day, every day on our production servers<p>- podman loses track of containers. Sometimes they are running but don&#x27;t show in podman ps<p>- sometimes podman just gets stuck and can&#x27;t prune or stop a container<p>(edit: formatting)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine</title><url>https://podman.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>paulfurtado</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised it&#x27;s using fuse-overlayfs instead of the overlay2 driver. Is it that you&#x27;re using rootless containers in production? For rootful containers I think you&#x27;d have the same experience as docker here (or at least much closer).</text><parent_chain><item><author>yobert</author><text>I&#x27;ve been trying to use podman in production and it is not working very well. I&#x27;m excited for this technology but it is not ready.<p>- podman layer caching during builds do not work. When we switched back to docker-ce, builds went from 45 minutes to 3 minutes with no changes to our Dockerfile<p>- fuse-overlayfs sits at 100% CPU all day, every day on our production servers<p>- podman loses track of containers. Sometimes they are running but don&#x27;t show in podman ps<p>- sometimes podman just gets stuck and can&#x27;t prune or stop a container<p>(edit: formatting)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine</title><url>https://podman.io/</url></story> |
15,473,667 | 15,473,570 | 1 | 2 | 15,471,943 | 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>erentz</author><text>&gt; For the people located in areas where jobs have entirely vanished you would have to relocate the population but that goes against the dream.<p>Relocate them where? American&#x27;s are incredibly mobile in my experience, from going to college in another state, to having families sprawled across different states. If it were as simple as moving, people would be doing it.<p>&gt; You could cut regulations in order to entice companies to come back...<p>Times have changed and we need to adjust to it. USA Inc makes a huge amount of money. In the past that required a lot of people in the workforce. Today it doesn&#x27;t require nearly as many but we&#x27;re making even more money! So the solution is not to remove regulation to have more people taken advantage of in dangerous factories and so we can pollute our environment. That does not benefit the Americans who live here who do not have jobs.<p>We need to come to an acceptance of the changing times and decide what it means to still have a society. Either we agree that we (USA Inc) make more than enough money for everyone in the country to have a good life (which we do), and work out the redistribution problem (which could take many forms), or we continue as we are with a whole lot of fellow citizens suffering needlessly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>The American Dream has been for many years to own a nice piece of property and work your way up the corporate chain at a single company until you die. Both of which have been radically shifting as technology improves productivity and global competition becomes more of a major factor. We see people stuck in this mindset that a job will last you forever (and in many cases there are still towns where there is only One Company and One Job) and as a result have been put in a lose-lose situation.<p>Meanwhile, other nations have a more flexible workforce that are cheaper to pay for roughly the same productivity in many cases.<p>Unfortunately there is no easy solution for this problem. For the people located in areas where jobs have entirely vanished you would have to relocate the population but that goes against the dream. You could cut regulations in order to entice companies to come back, but then you&#x27;re selling the lives and well-being of the American people for jobs that Americans might not even do (see: labor shortages in the farm industries).<p>America will need to find a way to handle this and fast as automated cars enter the market and cut another huge swathe out of the market. The difference there though is that you can&#x27;t blame other races or countries for taking your jobs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her, Then Her Job Moved to Mexico</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/us/union-jobs-mexico-rexnord.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>pgeorgi</author><text>&gt; other nations have a more flexible workforce<p>That story seems to be told to every nation&#x27;s workforce, and so I&#x27;d be suspicious about that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>The American Dream has been for many years to own a nice piece of property and work your way up the corporate chain at a single company until you die. Both of which have been radically shifting as technology improves productivity and global competition becomes more of a major factor. We see people stuck in this mindset that a job will last you forever (and in many cases there are still towns where there is only One Company and One Job) and as a result have been put in a lose-lose situation.<p>Meanwhile, other nations have a more flexible workforce that are cheaper to pay for roughly the same productivity in many cases.<p>Unfortunately there is no easy solution for this problem. For the people located in areas where jobs have entirely vanished you would have to relocate the population but that goes against the dream. You could cut regulations in order to entice companies to come back, but then you&#x27;re selling the lives and well-being of the American people for jobs that Americans might not even do (see: labor shortages in the farm industries).<p>America will need to find a way to handle this and fast as automated cars enter the market and cut another huge swathe out of the market. The difference there though is that you can&#x27;t blame other races or countries for taking your jobs.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her, Then Her Job Moved to Mexico</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/us/union-jobs-mexico-rexnord.html</url></story> |
11,346,441 | 11,345,147 | 1 | 3 | 11,344,394 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>livus</author><text>I concur with you on not wanting forced upgrades and manufactured obsolescence.<p>But I have found rentalware (specifically Adobe Creative Cloud as I use it) to be a somewhat positive experience. Adobe pushes out updates frequently enough where you see positive increment in productivity without it being an annoying update. Plus it has bought the price within affordable range for people like me who can afford the software if we save up enough for a few years but not the down payment in one go. Having the payment broken down over months makes it more manageable. I have been a convert from a pirate to a legitimate paying user just because of this. Straight out licenses for adobe&#x27;s software cost more than some kidney operations in my country before this SaaS model.<p>Jetbrains has also moved onto a SaaS model. If they continue with legitimate updates every few months, then that subscription is also worth paying for.<p>The only subscription I do not see any benefit in, as a individual developer, is Microsoft Office 365. That&#x27;s more aimed at business&#x27;s whose full life depends on the software.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text><i>Compelling reason why I had to upgrade my iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and original iPad after less than 3 years? Painfully slow and unusable.</i><p>Exactly. Upgrading is a cost; not just money but also time. I upgraded my 1st gen iPad&#x27;s OS exactly once (5 -&gt; 6 I think) and it was a completely horrendous experience, involving PC iTunes.<p>The main driver of PC upgrades, apart from improved games, is bloat and the slow deterioration of Windows installations. It&#x27;s not as bad as it used to be but reinstalling the OS and cleaning the fans can often substantially improve an old PC.<p>I still have my original iPad, but it&#x27;s used for a very limited set of things as the browser is crashy and many apps aren&#x27;t available for its OS.<p>Users want neither forced upgrades, manufactured obsolescence, nor bogus SaaS rentalware like Adobe Creative Cloud.</text></item><item><author>slantyyz</author><text>&gt;&gt; The implication being that in the last 5+ years the PC industry has failed to offer 600 million users a compelling reason to upgrade<p>Compelling reason why I had to upgrade my iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and original iPad after less than 3 years? Painfully slow and unusable.<p>Well if the compelling reason to upgrade is &quot;painfully slow and unusable&quot;, then maybe a &gt;= 5 year old PC that still works isn&#x27;t a bad thing. If I&#x27;m not mistaken, my 2011 MBP&#x27;s quad core i7 can still outperform the CPUs in today&#x27;s Macbook Airs (the most popular Mac notebooks) in terms of pure processing power.</text></item><item><author>mikehearn</author><text>I interpreted that comment as a jab at the PC industry. The implication being that in the last 5+ years the PC industry has failed to offer 600 million users a compelling reason to upgrade. Isn&#x27;t that the correct interpretation, considering the whole point of bringing that up is because they&#x27;re positioning a new device intended to replace the PC? I seriously doubt it&#x27;s intended to mean (to quote the article) &quot;LOL poor people&quot;.<p>Granted, this interpretation would make for a boring thinkpiece and would not get me to #1 on HN.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/opinion/2016/03/21/apple-hypocritical-insensitive-pc-users-old-pc/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>slantyyz</author><text>I still have all three of those iOS devices (and my wife&#x27;s now retired 4S) mentioned in my original post.<p>The saddest thing?<p>The iPhone 4 has only one easy job to do. Play music in my bedroom. It can&#x27;t even do that reliably. My iPhone 3G (now a desk clock) is more stable than the 4.<p>There&#x27;s a reason I left iOS for Android on the phone side and Windows on the tablet side. I&#x27;ve been burned enough that I don&#x27;t care to be burned again. Granted, Apple&#x27;s devices are probably less prone to bloat now that Federighi took over from Forstall, but there&#x27;s nothing compelling for me on the iOS side right now. A Pencil-enabled Mini would be very interesting, but that&#x27;s about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pjc50</author><text><i>Compelling reason why I had to upgrade my iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and original iPad after less than 3 years? Painfully slow and unusable.</i><p>Exactly. Upgrading is a cost; not just money but also time. I upgraded my 1st gen iPad&#x27;s OS exactly once (5 -&gt; 6 I think) and it was a completely horrendous experience, involving PC iTunes.<p>The main driver of PC upgrades, apart from improved games, is bloat and the slow deterioration of Windows installations. It&#x27;s not as bad as it used to be but reinstalling the OS and cleaning the fans can often substantially improve an old PC.<p>I still have my original iPad, but it&#x27;s used for a very limited set of things as the browser is crashy and many apps aren&#x27;t available for its OS.<p>Users want neither forced upgrades, manufactured obsolescence, nor bogus SaaS rentalware like Adobe Creative Cloud.</text></item><item><author>slantyyz</author><text>&gt;&gt; The implication being that in the last 5+ years the PC industry has failed to offer 600 million users a compelling reason to upgrade<p>Compelling reason why I had to upgrade my iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and original iPad after less than 3 years? Painfully slow and unusable.<p>Well if the compelling reason to upgrade is &quot;painfully slow and unusable&quot;, then maybe a &gt;= 5 year old PC that still works isn&#x27;t a bad thing. If I&#x27;m not mistaken, my 2011 MBP&#x27;s quad core i7 can still outperform the CPUs in today&#x27;s Macbook Airs (the most popular Mac notebooks) in terms of pure processing power.</text></item><item><author>mikehearn</author><text>I interpreted that comment as a jab at the PC industry. The implication being that in the last 5+ years the PC industry has failed to offer 600 million users a compelling reason to upgrade. Isn&#x27;t that the correct interpretation, considering the whole point of bringing that up is because they&#x27;re positioning a new device intended to replace the PC? I seriously doubt it&#x27;s intended to mean (to quote the article) &quot;LOL poor people&quot;.<p>Granted, this interpretation would make for a boring thinkpiece and would not get me to #1 on HN.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/opinion/2016/03/21/apple-hypocritical-insensitive-pc-users-old-pc/</url></story> |
15,964,926 | 15,964,818 | 1 | 2 | 15,964,011 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sverige</author><text>Gold is rare in several senses: In addition to being a rare element, it is the most ductile metal, the most malleable metal, and one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. It is very stable and doesn&#x27;t oxidize. It is easy to alloy and easy to refine back to pure state. It is one of three metals that naturally occurs in its elemental state. It is the easiest metal to work for jewelry and other purposes. It is also very dense.<p>All of these properties are what made gold valuable sociologically. Silver is nearly as easy to work and refine, but it is far more abundant and it also tarnishes easily, so it is two orders of magnitude less valuable.<p>Platinum is also far more abundant, but much harder to refine, which is the sole reason for its high price. It is also much harder to work, requiring much higher temperatures to melt. It is a far harder and tougher metal than gold, which is why it is often used for the crowns in which precious stones are set, and as a plating material for gold.<p>Bitcoin is just vapor, good for nothing in a practical sense. It doesn&#x27;t even have attractive designs like paper money. Fiat money is susceptible to going to zero value; gold will never go to zero, even in some total societal collapse scenario.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KaoruAoiShiho</author><text>What do you mean gold is rare on its own kind? Aren&#x27;t there tons of other pretty metals? There doesn&#x27;t seem to be any unique property of gold (other than sociological) that would help it defend against competitors like bitcoin or any other new asset.</text></item><item><author>felipeko</author><text>There&#x27;s a difference about Gold&#x27;s rarity and Bitcoin&#x27;s.<p>Gold is rare on its kind and rare on its abundance. It may be hard to mine more gold, but it&#x27;s way harder to find another gold-like commodity.<p>Bitcoin is only rare in the abundance sense. It is hard to mine more bitcoin, but it&#x27;s pretty easy to find a (arguably better) substitute for what it does.<p>I can agree with it being better (having more utility) than gold, though. So I&#x27;d agree that the sum of all e-coins will surpass gold, but I see no reason for Bitcoin to do it alone.</text></item><item><author>TheBiv</author><text>&gt;&gt; They said they might look at selling when the value of all the Bitcoin in circulation approaches the value of all gold in the world — some $7 trillion or $8 trillion compared with the $310 billion value of all Bitcoin on Tuesday — given that they think Bitcoin is set to replace gold as a rare commodity. But then Tyler Winklevoss questioned even that, pointing out the ways that he believes Bitcoin is better than gold.<p>I found this to be the most fascinating part of the article.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/bitcoin-winklevoss-twins.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>felipeko</author><text>You can&#x27;t find another precious metal that will have the rarity of gold and it&#x27;s &quot;non deterioration&quot; property, both that made gold what it is (it&#x27;s also a really useful commodity).<p>But i agree that&#x27;s not enough to defend against competitors like Bitcoin, but the same cannot be said of Bitcoin. Other than sociological factors (that are arguably much stronger on gold), there&#x27;s nothing that would help it defend against others e-coins.</text><parent_chain><item><author>KaoruAoiShiho</author><text>What do you mean gold is rare on its own kind? Aren&#x27;t there tons of other pretty metals? There doesn&#x27;t seem to be any unique property of gold (other than sociological) that would help it defend against competitors like bitcoin or any other new asset.</text></item><item><author>felipeko</author><text>There&#x27;s a difference about Gold&#x27;s rarity and Bitcoin&#x27;s.<p>Gold is rare on its kind and rare on its abundance. It may be hard to mine more gold, but it&#x27;s way harder to find another gold-like commodity.<p>Bitcoin is only rare in the abundance sense. It is hard to mine more bitcoin, but it&#x27;s pretty easy to find a (arguably better) substitute for what it does.<p>I can agree with it being better (having more utility) than gold, though. So I&#x27;d agree that the sum of all e-coins will surpass gold, but I see no reason for Bitcoin to do it alone.</text></item><item><author>TheBiv</author><text>&gt;&gt; They said they might look at selling when the value of all the Bitcoin in circulation approaches the value of all gold in the world — some $7 trillion or $8 trillion compared with the $310 billion value of all Bitcoin on Tuesday — given that they think Bitcoin is set to replace gold as a rare commodity. But then Tyler Winklevoss questioned even that, pointing out the ways that he believes Bitcoin is better than gold.<p>I found this to be the most fascinating part of the article.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/bitcoin-winklevoss-twins.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</url></story> |
17,530,201 | 17,529,867 | 1 | 2 | 17,525,521 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codesections</author><text>Semicolons can also be extremely helpful for lists with internal punctuation, especially in technical writing. I recently wrote the following sentence in some documentation:<p><pre><code> By default, Gutenberg will look for three templates:
index.html, which is applied to the site homepage;
section.html, which is applied to all sections (any
HTML page generated by creating a directory within
your content directory); and page.html, which is
applied to all pages (any HTML page generated by
creating a .md file within your content directory).
</code></pre>
Omitting semicolons from that sentence would have made it much harder to understand, at least in my view.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing</title><url>https://themillions.com/2018/07/on-semicolons-and-the-rules.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>lloeki</author><text>I quite entertained the same point of view of the author about semicolons. The best use of them is when they&#x27;re used sparingly, hence carrying more precise weight and meaning.<p>Now there is something quite peculiar about that punctuation mark&#x27;s naming, which has some dissonant trait of causality (what colons are used for), and always found the French name &quot;point-virgule&quot; (period-comma) much more apt.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing</title><url>https://themillions.com/2018/07/on-semicolons-and-the-rules.html</url></story> |
36,150,561 | 36,150,049 | 1 | 3 | 36,149,375 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>This depends on the C6 sleep state being enabled and the server not having been restarted for 3 years. It’s extremely unlikely that your cloud provider servers are going to meet this criteria <i>and</i> ignore this errata for a part they’ve bought thousands of.<p>So no, it’s not going to start randomly hitting people.<p>&gt; Seems comparably problematic to me.<p>Not even close. The FDIV bug hit common operations that could be issued millions of times per second. This bug only applies to specific configurations that haven’t been rebooted for 3 years and has a clear workaround.<p>They’re not even close to comparable in impact and ability to work around. Literally many orders of magnitude different.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gchamonlive</author><text>It means anyone launching amd powered virtual machines on cloud providers can experience this now, at any point, and you don&#x27;t know when it will happen, given this type of CPU could have been bought, booted or rebooted anytime in the past three years.<p>Seems comparably problematic to me.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>It feels a little bit different.<p>One creates uncertainty in all floating point results, given you don’t know when it happens. The other requires you to reboot maybe every ~3 years and you know exactly when it happens.<p>I’m not saying we <i>should</i> tolerate a defect, but it doesn’t feel nearly as problematic.</text></item><item><author>RobotToaster</author><text>I feel like some of the comments here are missing the point. Yes it&#x27;s only likely to effect a small number of users, so did the intel fdiv bug, both are defective products.<p>Back then intel were pressured into a recall, today we seem too willing to put up with being sold broken stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EPYC 7002 CPUs may hang after 1042 days of uptime</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/13wmowy/psa_epyc_7002_cpus_may_hang_after_1042_days_of/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I’d prefer a bug that crashes a program than one that quietly inserts wrong data and keeps going.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gchamonlive</author><text>It means anyone launching amd powered virtual machines on cloud providers can experience this now, at any point, and you don&#x27;t know when it will happen, given this type of CPU could have been bought, booted or rebooted anytime in the past three years.<p>Seems comparably problematic to me.</text></item><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>It feels a little bit different.<p>One creates uncertainty in all floating point results, given you don’t know when it happens. The other requires you to reboot maybe every ~3 years and you know exactly when it happens.<p>I’m not saying we <i>should</i> tolerate a defect, but it doesn’t feel nearly as problematic.</text></item><item><author>RobotToaster</author><text>I feel like some of the comments here are missing the point. Yes it&#x27;s only likely to effect a small number of users, so did the intel fdiv bug, both are defective products.<p>Back then intel were pressured into a recall, today we seem too willing to put up with being sold broken stuff.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>EPYC 7002 CPUs may hang after 1042 days of uptime</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/13wmowy/psa_epyc_7002_cpus_may_hang_after_1042_days_of/</url></story> |
28,403,136 | 28,403,065 | 1 | 2 | 28,398,858 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Uberphallus</author><text>I love Python but my personal hate goes for this when used in list comprehensions.<p><pre><code> a = [1,2,3]
# list comprehension with if
[ x for x in a if x &gt; 1]
[2, 3]
# list comprehension with if&#x2F;else
[ x if x &gt; 1 else x*2 for x in a]
[2, 2, 3]
</code></pre>
When it&#x27;s just &quot;if&quot; it goes after the &quot;for&quot;, when it&#x27;s &quot;if&#x2F;else&quot; it goes, all of it, before. I still don&#x27;t understand why it&#x27;s this way, it doesn&#x27;t even make sense even reading it in natural language. I much prefer the mathematical-like syntax present in Scala for this.<p>Edit: Thanks for the responses, they are are insightful, never thought of this that way.<p>Still in my head the lack of &quot;else&quot; clause implies filtering no matter where, while its presence implies transformation no matter where. The first element of the list is always transformed (though in this example it&#x27;s identity).<p>I think it&#x27;s a case of Python trying to do too much with too little. Personally for anything relatively complicated I still prefer to use filter() and map() as list comprehensions can get unwieldly quick.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ohazi</author><text>&gt; Python programmers in general have an irrational aversion to if-expressions, a.k.a. the “ternary” operator.<p>Because the Python ternary operator is fucking backwards! Why on earth would you put the condition in the <i>middle</i>!?<p><pre><code> x = 4 if condition() else 5
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vs.:<p><pre><code> condition() ? 4 : 5
</code></pre>
vs. the author&#x27;s own lisp example:<p><pre><code> (setq x (if (condition) 4 5))
</code></pre>
I love ternary operators, and Lisp&#x2F;ML-style if else blocks that return things, but Python puts the 4 and the 5 so far away from each other that even I hate using it, especially when condition is a chained mess rather than just a function call.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Ways to Be Told That Your Python Code Is Bad</title><url>https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/09/02/new-pylint-checks.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>rcthompson</author><text>I think the Python ternary is best read as &quot;DEFAULT_VALUE if COMMON_CASE else FALLBACK&quot;, and is best used in situations where this is what is meant semantically. If you&#x27;re dealing with two equally plausible code paths, the standard if&#x2F;else branching structure makes that more clear.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ohazi</author><text>&gt; Python programmers in general have an irrational aversion to if-expressions, a.k.a. the “ternary” operator.<p>Because the Python ternary operator is fucking backwards! Why on earth would you put the condition in the <i>middle</i>!?<p><pre><code> x = 4 if condition() else 5
</code></pre>
vs.:<p><pre><code> condition() ? 4 : 5
</code></pre>
vs. the author&#x27;s own lisp example:<p><pre><code> (setq x (if (condition) 4 5))
</code></pre>
I love ternary operators, and Lisp&#x2F;ML-style if else blocks that return things, but Python puts the 4 and the 5 so far away from each other that even I hate using it, especially when condition is a chained mess rather than just a function call.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New Ways to Be Told That Your Python Code Is Bad</title><url>https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/09/02/new-pylint-checks.html</url></story> |
11,265,350 | 11,264,439 | 1 | 3 | 11,264,163 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mambodog</author><text>Hi, I&#x27;m responsible for this. Most credit goes to the PCE emulator, on which this is based: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hampa.ch&#x2F;pce&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hampa.ch&#x2F;pce&#x2F;</a><p>I wrote a blog post about the rationale behind this project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesfriend.com.au&#x2F;why-port-emulators-browser" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesfriend.com.au&#x2F;why-port-emulators-browser</a><p>Also as a bonus, here&#x27;s The Oregon Trail: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesfriend.com.au&#x2F;pce-js&#x2F;mecc&#x2F;oregon-trail.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesfriend.com.au&#x2F;pce-js&#x2F;mecc&#x2F;oregon-trail.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PCE.js Mac Plus Emulator Running Mac OS System 7</title><url>https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acomjean</author><text>this is good. I forgot the old menus on the mac required a click and hold.. plus chooser (that odd thing that let you connect printers).<p>if only it had shuffle puck and strategic conquest<p>edit:
This one has shuffle puck and some other programs, but not the version I remembered.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesfriend.com.au&#x2F;pce-js&#x2F;pce-js-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesfriend.com.au&#x2F;pce-js&#x2F;pce-js-apps&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>PCE.js Mac Plus Emulator Running Mac OS System 7</title><url>https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/</url></story> |
27,266,965 | 27,266,899 | 1 | 3 | 27,265,755 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yangikan</author><text>The ruling party released a fake document, suggesting that the opposition is engaging in subversive activities. It was fact checked by various independent agencies and found to be a fake document. Twitter added a &quot;manipulated media&quot; label to those tweets. Delhi police, which is directly controlled by the Indian government raided the office of Twitter. It is not done with the intention of finding anything. It is to harass and to &quot;send a message&quot; that such acts won&#x27;t be tolerated.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/24/delhi-police-run-by-indias-central-government-raids-twitter-offices-over-manipulated-label/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codegladiator</author><text>&gt; searched two offices of Twitter .... to seek more information about Twitter’s rationale to label one of the tweets<p>What were they expecting in a physical raid ?<p>&gt; An hour into the search process ... vacated both of Twitter’s offices because they were closed and there were no Twitter employees to engage with<p>Again, what were they expecting ?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/24/delhi-police-run-by-indias-central-government-raids-twitter-offices-over-manipulated-label/</url></story> |
18,676,703 | 18,676,768 | 1 | 2 | 18,674,365 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>saidajigumi</author><text>I&#x27;m not familiar with Italy specifically, but note that service expectations differ broadly in the EU. In many countries, customers <i>expect</i> to be left alone until they signal the wait staff for something. The American notion of staff that hovers over and&#x2F;or badgers you constantly is largely absent.<p>In the countries I&#x27;ve travelled to, I&#x27;ve generally had excellent service, bearing the above in mind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robertAngst</author><text>You say this is a good thing, until you go to Europe and get treated terrible service.<p>I was seriously confused why our waters werent getting filled up, despite walking 10+ miles before noon. Or why the waiter wasnt coming to our table to take our order. Or why the waiter didn&#x27;t check on us.<p>After sharing this story with locals, it seems their expectations are far less for restaurants.<p>I don&#x27;t have much of an opinion on how to pay waiters, but Italy did not impress me.</text></item><item><author>saidajigumi</author><text>Tipping is a weirdly American phenomenon. Travel, for example, to the EU or other parts of the world where there&#x27;s no tipping. Workers are paid a living wage and have benefits (esp. in countries that didn&#x27;t go with employer-supplied benefits in the wake of WWII). They want no part of &quot;tipping&quot;. Combine that with VAT-using countries, and it&#x27;s delightful to look at a restaurant menu and realize there&#x27;s <i>zero</i> obfuscation about what the final bill will be. Not to mention tipping as a vehicle for wage theft, and playing into a generally regressive compensation system.</text></item><item><author>lawnchair_larry</author><text>Do you tip pizza delivery, or do you say that you don’t tip fedex so you won’t tip pizza either? Arguably, pizza delivery drivers do even less work than Instacart people who have to shop on your behalf and wait in checkout lines etc.</text></item><item><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>&gt; free delivery from Whole Foods via Prime Now<p>More like &quot;free&quot;. Amazon preselects $5 tip for the delivery. I don&#x27;t have to tip the FedEx driver, why should I tip this delivery driver? It&#x27;s not free if I&#x27;m expected to tip.<p>Pay your workers a living wage and build it into the price.</text></item><item><author>timcederman</author><text>How bizarre that the article mentions Amazon Fresh but completely fails to mention that you can get free delivery from Whole Foods via Prime Now. I routinely order stuff from Whole Foods through Prime Now and get it just a few hours later, it&#x27;s pretty awesome. I used to occasionally order Whole Foods via Instacart but haven&#x27;t once since the acquisition.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/13/instacart-and-amazon-owned-whole-foods-are-parting-ways/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sitharus</author><text>In my country it&#x27;s considered rude to interrupt people while they&#x27;re talking or eating. We wouldn&#x27;t want someone to come to the table without being asked. Unless you&#x27;re at a dinner service often water isn&#x27;t served, you&#x27;re expected to get it yourself from the counter. In the major cities US-style service is more common and most locals find it annoying and just wave the server away.<p>The worst service I&#x27;ve ever had was in Canada where they do tip, and I was rating that by the North American standards rather than my home country&#x27;s. I still tipped the standard amount because I disagree with tipping, but he didn&#x27;t seem incentivised.<p>It&#x27;s important to rate experiences by what the region is expecting, not by what you expect at home.</text><parent_chain><item><author>robertAngst</author><text>You say this is a good thing, until you go to Europe and get treated terrible service.<p>I was seriously confused why our waters werent getting filled up, despite walking 10+ miles before noon. Or why the waiter wasnt coming to our table to take our order. Or why the waiter didn&#x27;t check on us.<p>After sharing this story with locals, it seems their expectations are far less for restaurants.<p>I don&#x27;t have much of an opinion on how to pay waiters, but Italy did not impress me.</text></item><item><author>saidajigumi</author><text>Tipping is a weirdly American phenomenon. Travel, for example, to the EU or other parts of the world where there&#x27;s no tipping. Workers are paid a living wage and have benefits (esp. in countries that didn&#x27;t go with employer-supplied benefits in the wake of WWII). They want no part of &quot;tipping&quot;. Combine that with VAT-using countries, and it&#x27;s delightful to look at a restaurant menu and realize there&#x27;s <i>zero</i> obfuscation about what the final bill will be. Not to mention tipping as a vehicle for wage theft, and playing into a generally regressive compensation system.</text></item><item><author>lawnchair_larry</author><text>Do you tip pizza delivery, or do you say that you don’t tip fedex so you won’t tip pizza either? Arguably, pizza delivery drivers do even less work than Instacart people who have to shop on your behalf and wait in checkout lines etc.</text></item><item><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>&gt; free delivery from Whole Foods via Prime Now<p>More like &quot;free&quot;. Amazon preselects $5 tip for the delivery. I don&#x27;t have to tip the FedEx driver, why should I tip this delivery driver? It&#x27;s not free if I&#x27;m expected to tip.<p>Pay your workers a living wage and build it into the price.</text></item><item><author>timcederman</author><text>How bizarre that the article mentions Amazon Fresh but completely fails to mention that you can get free delivery from Whole Foods via Prime Now. I routinely order stuff from Whole Foods through Prime Now and get it just a few hours later, it&#x27;s pretty awesome. I used to occasionally order Whole Foods via Instacart but haven&#x27;t once since the acquisition.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/13/instacart-and-amazon-owned-whole-foods-are-parting-ways/</url></story> |
22,354,223 | 22,354,275 | 1 | 2 | 22,352,717 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>FWIW, I had the exact same experience, and I lost faith in the &quot;operational VC&quot; model. Hiring the right people is hard for everybody, and the chance that a VC can spin up an &quot;agency&quot; style department that somehow has the best people is really small.<p>The entire model attracts the kind of &quot;consultants who give advice&quot; you describe. After all, people who want to get their hands dirty, i.e. people who are a good fit with startups, are overwhelmingly going to want to work directly for said startups.<p>We also had this super weird mismatch with perceived value. The operational VC &quot;billed&quot; agency-style, so by the hour, at (to us) outrageous hourly rates. It was like 6x what we&#x27;d pay a salaried employee doing the same work. We didn&#x27;t &quot;feel&quot; it as bad because it cost us equity, not money. But we&#x27;d have never hired that agency for that money, if it was cash. The moment we realized that this was the case, we stopped the collaboration. It was a costly distraction and nothing more.<p>I&#x27;m curious if Hoffman found a way around this, but I don&#x27;t see it in this article.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>My experience with investor-provided talent has been very poor.<p>Historically, the problem is that VCs tend to send &quot;subject matter expert&quot; type consultants who give advice. Startups need someone to do the work more than they need someone to give the advice. The VC-provided talent usually generated more work than they solved with questionable returns for the company.<p>Unless Reid Hoffman has cracked the code of sending the right people to get work done, I&#x27;m suspicious.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups</title><url>https://angel.co/today/stories/reid-hoffman-s-30m-bet-send-partners-not-cash-to-startups-10235</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mike_d</author><text>&gt; ...consultants who give advice. Startups need someone to do the work more than they need someone to give the advice.<p>I&#x27;ve been on the other side of this with a few startups, and the right answer is almost never to come in and drop a bunch of code as much as founders would like an extra set of hands.<p>A good SME can come in and have a solid whiteboard session with a team to shave off the first two iterations of development. I&#x27;ve done this before from a security perspective where just making the developers aware of the sharp edges and being available to answer questions was a massive force multiplier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>My experience with investor-provided talent has been very poor.<p>Historically, the problem is that VCs tend to send &quot;subject matter expert&quot; type consultants who give advice. Startups need someone to do the work more than they need someone to give the advice. The VC-provided talent usually generated more work than they solved with questionable returns for the company.<p>Unless Reid Hoffman has cracked the code of sending the right people to get work done, I&#x27;m suspicious.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups</title><url>https://angel.co/today/stories/reid-hoffman-s-30m-bet-send-partners-not-cash-to-startups-10235</url></story> |
30,134,694 | 30,134,692 | 1 | 3 | 30,130,251 | 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>devoutsalsa</author><text>I had to lookup Intel ME. It&#x27;s the Intel Management Engine.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intel_Management_Engine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intel_Management_Engine</a><p>From the Wikipedia article:<p><i>The Intel Management Engine (ME), also known as the Intel Manageability Engine, is an autonomous subsystem that has been incorporated in virtually all of Intel&#x27;s processor chipsets since 2008. It is located in the Platform Controller Hub of modern Intel motherboards.</i><p><i>The Intel Management Engine always runs as long as the motherboard is receiving power, even when the computer is turned off. This issue can be mitigated with deployment of a hardware device, which is able to disconnect mains power.</i><p><i>The Intel ME is an attractive target for hackers, since it has top level access to all devices and completely bypasses the operating system. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has voiced concern about Intel ME and some security researchers have voiced concern that it is a backdoor.</i></text><parent_chain><item><author>pyuser583</author><text>Because Apple controls the entire stack.<p>From processor, to boards, to OS, to the walled garden of apps.<p>No other tech has that level of control.<p>Think of the controversy surrounding the Intel ME and other “secondary processors”.<p>Not an issue with the IPhone (from Apples perspective).<p>When Google decided they wanted to control all the computing on their servers, from bare metal up, they ran into the ME.<p>Apple is the only key civilian entity with that level of control.</text></item><item><author>spideymans</author><text>Regarding the headline, it is absurdly unrealistic to expect that any consumer-grade software can defend itself from state-funded hackers. Not even the entirety American intelligence apparatus can defend itself against state hackers. Why would we expect lowly iOS (or any other consumer software) to do better?<p>If you have reason to believe you&#x27;re targeted by state-backed intelligence agencies, you really oughta be working under the assumption that they can see <i>everything</i> you&#x27;re doing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021)</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/19/apple-iphone-nso/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>&gt; Apple controls the entire stack<p>Control doesn&#x27;t guarantee security, it just assesses accountability. Also, control doesn&#x27;t mean Apple writes all the software. They outside code like everyone else.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pyuser583</author><text>Because Apple controls the entire stack.<p>From processor, to boards, to OS, to the walled garden of apps.<p>No other tech has that level of control.<p>Think of the controversy surrounding the Intel ME and other “secondary processors”.<p>Not an issue with the IPhone (from Apples perspective).<p>When Google decided they wanted to control all the computing on their servers, from bare metal up, they ran into the ME.<p>Apple is the only key civilian entity with that level of control.</text></item><item><author>spideymans</author><text>Regarding the headline, it is absurdly unrealistic to expect that any consumer-grade software can defend itself from state-funded hackers. Not even the entirety American intelligence apparatus can defend itself against state hackers. Why would we expect lowly iOS (or any other consumer software) to do better?<p>If you have reason to believe you&#x27;re targeted by state-backed intelligence agencies, you really oughta be working under the assumption that they can see <i>everything</i> you&#x27;re doing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021)</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/19/apple-iphone-nso/</url></story> |
4,636,508 | 4,635,949 | 1 | 3 | 4,635,457 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jagira</author><text>Indian Railways has numerous monitoring stations. (mainly at railway stations) These monitoring stations update train's location when trains pass 'em.<p>In between such points, IR may know train's realtime location, but it is not made public.<p><i>Update</i><p>It is mentioned on the site that there are 6000 monitoring stations. Which means that, on average, there is a monitoring station every 11 kms (66k Km/ 6000). Considering an average speed of 80kmph, the location shown on the app can at max be 8.25 minutes old.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yogrish</author><text>Very nice app esp. in context of India where train timings are highly unpredictable.How are they getting real time data - GPS fitted or Indian rail opened APIs?<p>Good that they mentioned why it is not exact real time ..."For security and regulatory reasons, the information published on RailRadar is delayed for 5 or more minutes."<p>edit: Rephrased.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indian Railways, live on Google Maps</title><url>http://railradar.trainenquiry.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>kingsley_20</author><text>Indian railways employs a number of methods. The most primitive fallback is the one where the station master updates the system whenever a train passes the station, whether or not it stops there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yogrish</author><text>Very nice app esp. in context of India where train timings are highly unpredictable.How are they getting real time data - GPS fitted or Indian rail opened APIs?<p>Good that they mentioned why it is not exact real time ..."For security and regulatory reasons, the information published on RailRadar is delayed for 5 or more minutes."<p>edit: Rephrased.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indian Railways, live on Google Maps</title><url>http://railradar.trainenquiry.com/</url></story> |
15,294,419 | 15,294,471 | 1 | 2 | 15,293,706 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>glhaynes</author><text>Add one more to the &quot;Reasons Apple would want to take control of their own destiny by putting their own chips in Macs&quot; tally.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Slartie</author><text>So I guess this means that we&#x27;ll have to wait an additional year for the MacBook Pro that finally smashes through this archaic limit of 16 gigabytes of memory :(<p>Except if Intel wakes up and relieves us from our pains by inserting a Kaby Lake revision of sorts with an updated memory controller capable of driving more low-power RAM. I personally couldn&#x27;t care less about 10-20% more processing power per watt from Cannonlake and 10nm, it&#x27;s the memory limit that&#x27;s really limiting me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel delays Cannonlake 10nm processor for the third time</title><url>https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/intel-delays-cannonlake-10nm-processor-third-time-2017-09/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;So I guess this means that we&#x27;ll have to wait an additional year for the MacBook Pro that finally smashes through this archaic limit of 16 gigabytes of memory.&quot;<p>Can you elaborate? What are the details of the current chips that limits Macbooks to 16 Gigs? Is it power consumption?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Slartie</author><text>So I guess this means that we&#x27;ll have to wait an additional year for the MacBook Pro that finally smashes through this archaic limit of 16 gigabytes of memory :(<p>Except if Intel wakes up and relieves us from our pains by inserting a Kaby Lake revision of sorts with an updated memory controller capable of driving more low-power RAM. I personally couldn&#x27;t care less about 10-20% more processing power per watt from Cannonlake and 10nm, it&#x27;s the memory limit that&#x27;s really limiting me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel delays Cannonlake 10nm processor for the third time</title><url>https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/intel-delays-cannonlake-10nm-processor-third-time-2017-09/</url></story> |
5,141,490 | 5,141,284 | 1 | 2 | 5,139,583 | 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>rmoriz</author><text>You can publish the key on keyservers and get some trust on it.<p>e.g<p><a href="http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=37signals&#38;op=index" rel="nofollow">http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=37signals&#38;op=...</a><p><a href="http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=heroku" rel="nofollow">http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=heroku</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>willyt</author><text>Maybe I dont understand PGP and this is a stupid question, but if the site is compromised, would it not be possible for them to just put a different key up? One which they knew the private key for? How would you know the public key on the compromised site has not been changed unless you could compare it to the PGP key from before the site was compromised?</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The Rubygems team (or even just the person who writes the security page) can just generate a new one, for "[email protected]" or whatever, and it can be shared by the team.<p>The purpose of the key is to allow people to report security vulnerabilities without worrying that by doing so they're giving ammunition to people snooping emails.</text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>What would the PGP key be for?</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>If you want security notices to go to the Rubygems team, you have to set up a security page that tells people how to do that. Like everyone else, I appreciate your volunteer work, but no amount of goodwill creates the ability for people to read your mind.<p>Please post a security page. It literally doesn't need anything more than an email address and a PGP public key.<p>By the way: if Rubygems needs security help, it looks like there's quite a number of people who are willing to pitch in. When I published a FreeBSD crt0 bug back in 1996, I was given commit privs. I thought that was a pretty effective way to co-opt adversarial researchers.</text></item><item><author>qrush</author><text>Hi everyone -<p>A full post-mortem is coming, but here's what happened from my perspective. I got mentioned on twitter about this thread while I was on the bus. I asked @evanphx to put the site into maintenance mode immediately.<p>Once I got on wifi, I downloaded the "exploit" gems and found that they used the Psych hack to post config/initializers/* and config/*.yml to Pastie. Luckily, none of our API keys were actually in those files - our config is a bit different since you can still run RubyGems.org on Heroku, which needs to put secret keys in the ENV.<p>I deleted the exploit gems permanently along with the throwaway account that posted them...that's why this post's URL is a 404.<p>I've reset our S3 keys just to be sure and any other keys we had on our production site. From what we know right now, no other changes on our S3 bucket have taken place, and we're going to check the logs to make sure. Once we get a real fix for this issue out, pushing gems will be enabled again.<p>Just a general PSA -<p>Please, if you find an issue like this, be nice. Tell the maintainers privately. Don't post to Reddit, HN, or a public Gist. RubyGems.org is completely volunteer run. No one gets paid to work on it. Thanks for your patience everyone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rubygems.org compromised</title><url>http://rubygems.org/gems/exploit/versions/22.31.31</url></story> | <instructions>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>Publishing the key is what allows you to detect malicious changes to the key.</text><parent_chain><item><author>willyt</author><text>Maybe I dont understand PGP and this is a stupid question, but if the site is compromised, would it not be possible for them to just put a different key up? One which they knew the private key for? How would you know the public key on the compromised site has not been changed unless you could compare it to the PGP key from before the site was compromised?</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The Rubygems team (or even just the person who writes the security page) can just generate a new one, for "[email protected]" or whatever, and it can be shared by the team.<p>The purpose of the key is to allow people to report security vulnerabilities without worrying that by doing so they're giving ammunition to people snooping emails.</text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>What would the PGP key be for?</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>If you want security notices to go to the Rubygems team, you have to set up a security page that tells people how to do that. Like everyone else, I appreciate your volunteer work, but no amount of goodwill creates the ability for people to read your mind.<p>Please post a security page. It literally doesn't need anything more than an email address and a PGP public key.<p>By the way: if Rubygems needs security help, it looks like there's quite a number of people who are willing to pitch in. When I published a FreeBSD crt0 bug back in 1996, I was given commit privs. I thought that was a pretty effective way to co-opt adversarial researchers.</text></item><item><author>qrush</author><text>Hi everyone -<p>A full post-mortem is coming, but here's what happened from my perspective. I got mentioned on twitter about this thread while I was on the bus. I asked @evanphx to put the site into maintenance mode immediately.<p>Once I got on wifi, I downloaded the "exploit" gems and found that they used the Psych hack to post config/initializers/* and config/*.yml to Pastie. Luckily, none of our API keys were actually in those files - our config is a bit different since you can still run RubyGems.org on Heroku, which needs to put secret keys in the ENV.<p>I deleted the exploit gems permanently along with the throwaway account that posted them...that's why this post's URL is a 404.<p>I've reset our S3 keys just to be sure and any other keys we had on our production site. From what we know right now, no other changes on our S3 bucket have taken place, and we're going to check the logs to make sure. Once we get a real fix for this issue out, pushing gems will be enabled again.<p>Just a general PSA -<p>Please, if you find an issue like this, be nice. Tell the maintainers privately. Don't post to Reddit, HN, or a public Gist. RubyGems.org is completely volunteer run. No one gets paid to work on it. Thanks for your patience everyone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rubygems.org compromised</title><url>http://rubygems.org/gems/exploit/versions/22.31.31</url></story> |
15,260,673 | 15,260,638 | 1 | 3 | 15,260,350 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>One scenario where it would be really useful is being pulled over in a car. Give your phone a quick squeeze before you even stop the car. It&#x27;ll also be a more convenient way to disable the feature before going through customs.<p>The tech community&#x27;s reaction to this stuff seems to boil down to &quot;it does not solve every single problem therefore it is pointless.&quot; Which is silly, although to be fair it seems to be the tech community&#x27;s reaction to a lot of things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wyc</author><text>&gt; So, if you were in a case where the thief was asking to hand over your phone – you can just reach into your pocket, squeeze it, and it will disable Face ID. It will do the same thing on iPhone 8 to disable Touch ID.<p>I imagine that authorities will catch on pretty quickly: &quot;keep your hands up and away from your pockets while we retrieve your device.&quot; It would have to happen before any kind of duress.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Interview: Apple’s Craig Federighi about Face ID</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/interview-apples-craig-federighi-answers-some-burning-questions-about-face-id/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IBM</author><text>No doubt the skeptics will continue to contort themselves into creating even more contrived scenarios.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wyc</author><text>&gt; So, if you were in a case where the thief was asking to hand over your phone – you can just reach into your pocket, squeeze it, and it will disable Face ID. It will do the same thing on iPhone 8 to disable Touch ID.<p>I imagine that authorities will catch on pretty quickly: &quot;keep your hands up and away from your pockets while we retrieve your device.&quot; It would have to happen before any kind of duress.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Interview: Apple’s Craig Federighi about Face ID</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/interview-apples-craig-federighi-answers-some-burning-questions-about-face-id/</url></story> |
8,310,260 | 8,309,315 | 1 | 2 | 8,307,834 | 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>tootie</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how there&#x27;s any network effect to be had. Consider food delivery. I use both seamless and delivery.com. Seamless is a little better and has a wider network of restaurants. But I have 0 lockin and will frequently switch to delivery.com for any exclusive restaurants they have. I have an account on grubhub too although I use it rarely. There&#x27;s nothing tying to me to any of them. No friend list, no thousands of photos. Just my recent orders which are of limited value. Taxi service is the same. The second that Lyft has lower rates or a close car, everyone will switch in a second. Or flock to option 3 the second it has any advantage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>yumraj</author><text>This.<p>Basically while there are network effects in the sense that any provider (Uber, Lyft etc.) will need to have some critical mass before there are enough drivers and enough riders, both can subscribe to multiple providers and there is no long-term stickiness at the moment.<p>In other words, this is not a winner take all market with FB&#x2F;LinkedIn&#x2F;Twitter type network stickiness and the overall market is still fair game. The driver&#x27;s rating is the only sticky data, and it is unclear in this context as to how valuable that is as riders are not going to wait an extra 30mins to get a 5-star driver vs. a 4-star driver.<p>This should not come as a surprise to anyone since right now most metros have multiple competing taxi service providers, so it makes sense that that may be replaced by a similar multiple mobile-app taxi providers.<p>Also, it is difficult to re-paint your taxi when you move from one traditional provider to another, in the Uber&#x2F;Lyft&#x2F;etc. world, that is no longer required, so provider switching or aligning with multiple providers is trivial which will imply that in future the providers&#x27; margins will be squeezed out and riders and drivers will keep the most benefit.</text></item><item><author>jefflinwood</author><text>The really interesting story here is that if drivers are so willing to switch networks for better opportunities, there isn&#x27;t a compelling reason for Uber to have the valuation that they do.<p>The value of Uber isn&#x27;t really in the tech or the app - it&#x27;s in the networks of riders and drivers in each city. If each of those can be aggregated into some other kind of service, where Uber, Lyft, etc. are just providers of payment processing, and possibly some operations expertise, that middleman network will capture all of the value.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber Drivers “Strike” and Switch to Lyft Over Fares and Conditions</title><url>http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-drivers-are-protesting?s=mobile</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>How would you say self-driving vehicles fit into this? Supposedly they&#x27;re rolling out in ~3-5 years, and with self-driving vehicles, you no longer need the middle man managing a fleet of contractors.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m willing to me a Long Bet [1] with anyone regarding fully autonomous self driving vehicles in regular use in 6 years.<p>[1] <a href="http://longbets.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;longbets.org&#x2F;</a> ; <a href="http://longbets.org/rules/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;longbets.org&#x2F;rules&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>yumraj</author><text>This.<p>Basically while there are network effects in the sense that any provider (Uber, Lyft etc.) will need to have some critical mass before there are enough drivers and enough riders, both can subscribe to multiple providers and there is no long-term stickiness at the moment.<p>In other words, this is not a winner take all market with FB&#x2F;LinkedIn&#x2F;Twitter type network stickiness and the overall market is still fair game. The driver&#x27;s rating is the only sticky data, and it is unclear in this context as to how valuable that is as riders are not going to wait an extra 30mins to get a 5-star driver vs. a 4-star driver.<p>This should not come as a surprise to anyone since right now most metros have multiple competing taxi service providers, so it makes sense that that may be replaced by a similar multiple mobile-app taxi providers.<p>Also, it is difficult to re-paint your taxi when you move from one traditional provider to another, in the Uber&#x2F;Lyft&#x2F;etc. world, that is no longer required, so provider switching or aligning with multiple providers is trivial which will imply that in future the providers&#x27; margins will be squeezed out and riders and drivers will keep the most benefit.</text></item><item><author>jefflinwood</author><text>The really interesting story here is that if drivers are so willing to switch networks for better opportunities, there isn&#x27;t a compelling reason for Uber to have the valuation that they do.<p>The value of Uber isn&#x27;t really in the tech or the app - it&#x27;s in the networks of riders and drivers in each city. If each of those can be aggregated into some other kind of service, where Uber, Lyft, etc. are just providers of payment processing, and possibly some operations expertise, that middleman network will capture all of the value.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber Drivers “Strike” and Switch to Lyft Over Fares and Conditions</title><url>http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-drivers-are-protesting?s=mobile</url></story> |
25,014,047 | 25,013,813 | 1 | 3 | 25,012,115 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>willsewell</author><text>I see this sentiment a lot in the Go community. I think it is reasonable in some cases, but there are many use cases (vanilla CRUD web apps) where a web framework is really helpful.<p>The standard library is very low level. Want sessions? DIY. Want user auth? DIY. Want CSRF protection? DIY. The list goes on.<p>It feels like a waste of time implementing these &quot;solved problems&quot; from scratch, but the biggest problem is how easy it is to introduce security vulnerabilities when implementing from scratch, or forgetting to do so.<p>It’s nice to learn concepts from first principals by using the standard library. But once I know how these things work, I’d rather rely on someone else’s battle tested code and best practices.<p>Yes, you can add in separate libraries to solve these specific problems, but they are less likely to compose as well as they would in a framework. On top of this, each time you pull in a new library you have to spend time evaluating it. When I use a framework I don&#x27;t have to think.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ldelossa</author><text>The more you get to know Go&#x27;s stdlib the less and less youll think a web framework is necessary.<p>Youll find that utilizing http Round Tripper along with the Handler interface in the http library will make middleware easy.<p>Youll eventually dig into filepath and path methods for extracting path parameters from url paths.<p>And logging and recovery will be a concept youll need to extend outside of just http and into the rest of your application.<p>I totally advise new comers to use a web framework, but in the long run, you probably wont want too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go in Production – Lessons Learned</title><url>https://tdom.dev/go-in-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>pjmlp</author><text>Here is the thing, I have been doing Web development alongside native for a couple of decades now.<p>This Go enlightment seems to only touch those that don&#x27;t realize that programming to interfaces was already a thing back in Objective-C and WebObject days, or using Smalltalk categories (later formalized as traits in Pharo).<p>Also that languages like Java and .NET also have a similar Http server on their standard library since Java 6 (2006) and .NET 2.0 (2002).<p>The reason we don&#x27;t use them beyond toy examples, is that they don&#x27;t scale when things start getting hard and something like IIS, ngix or similar is called into action.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ldelossa</author><text>The more you get to know Go&#x27;s stdlib the less and less youll think a web framework is necessary.<p>Youll find that utilizing http Round Tripper along with the Handler interface in the http library will make middleware easy.<p>Youll eventually dig into filepath and path methods for extracting path parameters from url paths.<p>And logging and recovery will be a concept youll need to extend outside of just http and into the rest of your application.<p>I totally advise new comers to use a web framework, but in the long run, you probably wont want too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Go in Production – Lessons Learned</title><url>https://tdom.dev/go-in-production</url></story> |
3,676,343 | 3,676,402 | 1 | 2 | 3,675,830 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>astrofinch</author><text>That video is a joke for anyone who has more than a superficial understanding of math. Just because a process has fit an exponential curve does not mean exponential growth is going to continue forever. Past growth patterns are fairly weak evidence of future growth patterns. ("Housing prices always go up!")<p>That's not to say we shouldn't fear a process that is inherently exponential in nature, like the reproduction of bacteria or a nuclear reaction going supercritical. But if the process only appears from the outside to have been growing exponentially, that's only a weak indicator that it will start behaving in an insane fashion.<p>In any case, it seems that as nations become more developed people stop having kids:<p><a href="http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/11/fertility-the-big-problem.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/11/fertility-the-big-prob...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>It's worth bringing up <i>The Most Important Video You'll Ever Watch</i> [1], which the lecturer characterizes as humanity's biggest problem is our inability to understand the exponential function. Watch all 8 parts.<p>I have come to the conclusion that there simply are too many of us. We can probably sustain our current levels for a century, maybe two, but at some point scarce resources (and their subsequent cost) will have a devastating effect.<p>Basically, we need to correct our population before nature does.<p>As much as people point to space being our future, I simply (sadly) do not agree. While there might be plentiful resources in the asteroid belt (and on other bodies) nothing compares to how cheaply we can pull things out of the ground here on Earth. Our society is predicated on cheap, plentiful resources such that it can't survive them being several (or even one?) order of magnitude more expensive.<p>As far as interstellar space goes, even if we solve the reaction mass problem and have perfect (100% efficient) conversion of matter to energy, it will still be prohibitive to go to even the nearest stars.<p>Perhaps the simplest explanation of the Fermi Paradox is that potential growth for a starfaring civilization is geometric (being a sphere ultimately limited by the speed of light) while growth rates are exponential. And exponential will ultimately "win".<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>The world population growth rate is not exponential; in fact it has been declining for decades. It seems increasingly possible that the human population will stabilize or even decline in this century.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>It's worth bringing up <i>The Most Important Video You'll Ever Watch</i> [1], which the lecturer characterizes as humanity's biggest problem is our inability to understand the exponential function. Watch all 8 parts.<p>I have come to the conclusion that there simply are too many of us. We can probably sustain our current levels for a century, maybe two, but at some point scarce resources (and their subsequent cost) will have a devastating effect.<p>Basically, we need to correct our population before nature does.<p>As much as people point to space being our future, I simply (sadly) do not agree. While there might be plentiful resources in the asteroid belt (and on other bodies) nothing compares to how cheaply we can pull things out of the ground here on Earth. Our society is predicated on cheap, plentiful resources such that it can't survive them being several (or even one?) order of magnitude more expensive.<p>As far as interstellar space goes, even if we solve the reaction mass problem and have perfect (100% efficient) conversion of matter to energy, it will still be prohibitive to go to even the nearest stars.<p>Perhaps the simplest explanation of the Fermi Paradox is that potential growth for a starfaring civilization is geometric (being a sphere ultimately limited by the speed of light) while growth rates are exponential. And exponential will ultimately "win".<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821/</url></story> |
32,898,735 | 32,898,297 | 1 | 3 | 32,897,140 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>There&#x27;s also an excellent Exra Klein podcast where he talks to game-philospher C. Thi Nguyen about Twitter&#x27;s Like button&#x27;s effect on journalists. [1]<p>He says that as a journalist on twitter (which almost every journalist is) it&#x27;s nearly impossible to get away from measuring your worth&#x2F;impact by the number of likes you get. It&#x27;s so buit into our minds, we can&#x27;t <i>not</i> use Likes as a proxy for how engaging our story is.<p>The issue is that it subtly, though completely, changes how you write a story. For example (taking as a premise that even plain factual reporting is essentially political at this point) if you are a New York Times journalist and you write an environmental story that appeals to the emotions of the people who <i>already</i> understand the dangers of climate change, you&#x27;ll get thousands of likes. But the story won&#x27;t be impactful because you&#x27;re preaching to the choir. If, instead, you wrote a story framed in a way that might change a few people&#x27;s minds, you won&#x27;t get nearly the number of likes, because the very angles you&#x27;d approach the story at would be ones that would be less comfortable to your core audience, your choir.<p>Preaching to the choir is one of the biggest causes of our echo chambers and widening divides, and it&#x27;s directly caused by counting likes.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;a-philosophy-of-games-that-is-really-a-philosophy-of-life&#x2F;id1548604447?i=1000552204773" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;a-philosophy-of-games-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Bakary</author><text>The part about journalism is particularly troubling because Twitter is like crack for journalists and has thus played a big part in decreasing the credibility of the profession.<p>The platform is a journalist&#x27;s fantasy brought to life. The ability to exist as an individual and have an audience independently of their publication. Blue check-marks. As the article mentions, the capacity to find stories with little effort.<p>Of course, this is fairly illusory and the resulting quality of stories is poorer each year to the point where Twitter threads repackaged as articles are a significant portion of most outlets.<p>It&#x27;s the Mercator projection but for the opinions of people who don&#x27;t touch grass. The significance of Twitter users&#x27; opinions is blown way out of proportion because the medium itself is easily accessible and attractive to journalists.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The tyranny of the supertweeter</title><url>https://omnibudsman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-supertweeter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jqgatsby</author><text>&quot;It&#x27;s the Mercator projection but for the opinions of people who don&#x27;t touch grass.&quot;<p>Well said!<p>Also, the sample bias phenomenon being raised in the article comes up so often, and is so easy to be deeply fooled by. It&#x27;s the same type of issue that makes people think that recidivism rates are much higher than they are:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slate.com&#x2F;news-and-politics&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;why-do-so-many-prisoners-end-up-back-in-prison-a-new-study-says-maybe-they-dont.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slate.com&#x2F;news-and-politics&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;why-do-so-many-p...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>Bakary</author><text>The part about journalism is particularly troubling because Twitter is like crack for journalists and has thus played a big part in decreasing the credibility of the profession.<p>The platform is a journalist&#x27;s fantasy brought to life. The ability to exist as an individual and have an audience independently of their publication. Blue check-marks. As the article mentions, the capacity to find stories with little effort.<p>Of course, this is fairly illusory and the resulting quality of stories is poorer each year to the point where Twitter threads repackaged as articles are a significant portion of most outlets.<p>It&#x27;s the Mercator projection but for the opinions of people who don&#x27;t touch grass. The significance of Twitter users&#x27; opinions is blown way out of proportion because the medium itself is easily accessible and attractive to journalists.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The tyranny of the supertweeter</title><url>https://omnibudsman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-supertweeter</url></story> |
38,178,795 | 38,179,252 | 1 | 2 | 38,178,492 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>latchkey</author><text>My partner bought fake AirPods off ebay. We kind of had a feeling they&#x27;d be fake but felt it was worth the risk. We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them.<p>The pods themselves looked exactly the same. The case was the real sign. It was clearly not the same as an original case. They actually worked, but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones.<p>We ended up listing them on FB Marketplace. Clearly marked them as fake. Person came and picked them up and I said again that they were fake. Got the same amount we paid for them. I don&#x27;t understand this world sometimes.<p>The fake sellers must make enough off of people who don&#x27;t realize that they are fake that they can just write off the few that do.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT</title><url>https://www.lumafield.com/article/real-vs-fake-apple-products-through-industrial-ct-airpods-pro-macbook-magsafe-charger</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stinos</author><text>This is really cool and kinda makes me want to put various things I have under such scanner.<p>However several statements like<p><i>provide optimal power efficiently</i><p>along with other assumptions made this a bit awkward to read. What does it mean to provide &#x27;optimal&#x27; power except making it sound like a commercial? Maybe it&#x27;s just me, after all I was expecting a very technical article (as have been on HN previously, also from CT scans IIRC).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT</title><url>https://www.lumafield.com/article/real-vs-fake-apple-products-through-industrial-ct-airpods-pro-macbook-magsafe-charger</url></story> |
9,795,176 | 9,795,203 | 1 | 3 | 9,794,694 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bobjordan</author><text>Shenzhen China factory owner here.<p>The costs are definitely rising in China for English speaking technical labor such as the engineers we need. We compete with companies like Apple and all the other foreign companies rushing to China these days to keep them employed. But we are still talking much lower salaries overall, for example, $30,000 USD&#x2F;year for a degreed Sr. Electrical design engineer with 20 years experience.<p>Regarding rents, the Shenzhen central business section rents are expensive now and cost&#x2F;sqft comparable to anywhere else. However, good industrial space is still far cheaper, for example, I just leased an additional 12,000 sqft high quality assembly space with low ESD floors in a technical park along with 8 dorm rooms to sleep up to 32 people (4 per room - last owner had 8 per room). Lease on this new space cost me $3500 per month. There is also a kitchen ran by the tech park where they serve 3 hot buffet style meals per day for $2&#x2F;day&#x2F;worker. I&#x27;m not aware of anyplace in USA where you can lease a space like this for $0.29 per square foot nor get a buffet meal for $0.66 cents nor have door rooms for workers. Now, it is competitive to find this space and you need to lease when you find it not wait 1 day, it took us 4 months searching and we lost several spaces waiting 1-2 days, but it exists.<p>But ultimately what is far cheaper here in China and the main reason I must remain here to make money is for the lower cost of the materials required to actually build the products.<p>There is a critical mass of suppliers here where you can find half dozen capable suppliers for nearly anything you&#x27;d need to buy. For example we do a lot of custom molded plastic parts and many times I can make multiple cavity hard (300K shot life) injection mold tools for plastics for $3K-$5K USD and it would cost 5x or even 10x as much to buy them in USA. No less, bolts, nuts, screws, electronics all vastly cheaper here.<p>Lastly, as someone else noted, the cost of shipping is much cheaper when you originate your shipping quotes from a Chinese account, especially for air shipping to USA, rates originating from my China company&#x27;s Fedex account is routinely 50% cheaper than what Fedex quotes in the USA. This really adds up when you need to ship stuff around the world quickly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Manufacturing costs are almost as low as China’s</title><url>http://fortune.com/2015/06/26/fracking-manufacturing-costs/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sien</author><text>This has been predicted for a while. This has been said as early as 2010 and possibly even before that by about 2015 costs would equalize. In 2013 there was an article in The Economist on this:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;special-report&#x2F;21569570-growing-number-american-companies-are-moving-their-manufacturing-back-united" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;special-report&#x2F;21569570-growin...</a><p>Here is a key quote from the article:<p>&quot;BCG used to argue that companies unwilling to send their manufacturing to lower-cost countries were putting their very future in jeopardy. Now it says that companies will bring manufacturing back to America from China. As soon as 2015, says Hal Sirkin, a consultant at the firm, it will cost about the same to manufacture goods for the American market in certain parts of America as in China in many industries, including computers and electronics, machinery, appliances, electrical equipment and furniture. That calculation takes into account a wide variety of direct costs, including labour, property and transport, as well as indirect ones such as supply-chain risk.&quot;<p>Also worth noting is that the US is often a bigger market for some goods.<p>But it&#x27;s also worth noting that German and Japanese manufacturing has been more expensive that US manufacturing for decades and still in some areas Germany and Japan do very well.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to see an article that puts fracking up as the key reason. Energy costs are not irrelevant but are also often not a big part of the cost.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. Manufacturing costs are almost as low as China’s</title><url>http://fortune.com/2015/06/26/fracking-manufacturing-costs/</url></story> |
26,055,201 | 26,054,992 | 1 | 3 | 26,054,545 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rscho</author><text>&gt; This work has greatly increased accuracy in diagnosis, saving lives.<p>As an MD with a special interest in statistics, color me skeptical. I&#x27;d love to be proven wrong though, so please provide references.<p>Edit: yeah, so the way this whole thread is developing really goes to show (yet again) that medical AI hype is relying as strongly as ever on the fantasies of people who&#x27;ve never seen any clinical work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ganstyles</author><text>My company has used ML to create synthetic cancer data to train classifiers to augment doctors&#x2F;specialists who are looking for cancer. This work has greatly increased accuracy in diagnosis, saving lives. To say it&#x27;s only for music generation or generating waifus is a bit unfair.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I&#x27;m increasingly concerned that the impact of ML is going to be limited. This sounds laughable at face value. And it is: ML has impacted my own life in a few ways, from being able to generate endless video game music (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soundcloud.com&#x2F;theshawwn&#x2F;sets&#x2F;ai-generated-videogame-music" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soundcloud.com&#x2F;theshawwn&#x2F;sets&#x2F;ai-generated-videogame...</a>) to... well. Thus my point: I can&#x27;t think of ways it&#x27;s seriously impacted my life, other than being an interesting challenge to pursue.<p>As someone on the forefront of ML, you would expect me to be in a position to reap the benefits. It&#x27;s possible I am incompetent. But I often wonder what we&#x27;re doing, chasing gradients and batchnorms while training classifiers to generate photos of lemurs wearing suits.<p>I try not to dwell on it too much, since I truly love the work for its own sake. But one must wonder what the endgame is. The models of consequence are locked up by companies and held behind an API. The rest are nothing more than interesting diversions.<p>I&#x27;ve been reading some history of math and science, and it seems like many of the big discoveries were made from people pursuing the work for its own sake. Feynman loved physics long before physics became world-changing. But if physics never lead to the creation of the bomb, would it have been so prestigious?<p>We seem to be lauding ML with the same accolades as physics during the postwar period. And I can&#x27;t help but wonder when it will wear off.<p>ML will be a fine tool for massive corporations, though, for endless reasons. But I was hoping for a more personal impact with the work. Something like, being able to enable a blind person to use a computer in a new way, or... something more than memes and amusement.<p>Perhaps doing the work for its own sake is enough.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning</title><url>https://tedunderwood.com/2021/02/02/why-sf-hasnt-prepared-us-to-imagine-machine-learning/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lasagnaphil</author><text>I think ML&#x27;s currently temporarily useful in fields that have been making decisions mostly based on intuition and heuristics. The medical field&#x27;s one example, even with some knowledge on biology and anatomy it&#x27;s hard to diagnose and treat patients only with deductive reasoning, a lot of guesswork and &quot;experience&quot; is involved. In that case ML might be able to perform better than humans, but I think this will have its limits. Above a certain point, I think biological simulation (as in physics simulation) would be a much more useful tool for doctors to understand the human body.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ganstyles</author><text>My company has used ML to create synthetic cancer data to train classifiers to augment doctors&#x2F;specialists who are looking for cancer. This work has greatly increased accuracy in diagnosis, saving lives. To say it&#x27;s only for music generation or generating waifus is a bit unfair.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I&#x27;m increasingly concerned that the impact of ML is going to be limited. This sounds laughable at face value. And it is: ML has impacted my own life in a few ways, from being able to generate endless video game music (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soundcloud.com&#x2F;theshawwn&#x2F;sets&#x2F;ai-generated-videogame-music" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soundcloud.com&#x2F;theshawwn&#x2F;sets&#x2F;ai-generated-videogame...</a>) to... well. Thus my point: I can&#x27;t think of ways it&#x27;s seriously impacted my life, other than being an interesting challenge to pursue.<p>As someone on the forefront of ML, you would expect me to be in a position to reap the benefits. It&#x27;s possible I am incompetent. But I often wonder what we&#x27;re doing, chasing gradients and batchnorms while training classifiers to generate photos of lemurs wearing suits.<p>I try not to dwell on it too much, since I truly love the work for its own sake. But one must wonder what the endgame is. The models of consequence are locked up by companies and held behind an API. The rest are nothing more than interesting diversions.<p>I&#x27;ve been reading some history of math and science, and it seems like many of the big discoveries were made from people pursuing the work for its own sake. Feynman loved physics long before physics became world-changing. But if physics never lead to the creation of the bomb, would it have been so prestigious?<p>We seem to be lauding ML with the same accolades as physics during the postwar period. And I can&#x27;t help but wonder when it will wear off.<p>ML will be a fine tool for massive corporations, though, for endless reasons. But I was hoping for a more personal impact with the work. Something like, being able to enable a blind person to use a computer in a new way, or... something more than memes and amusement.<p>Perhaps doing the work for its own sake is enough.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning</title><url>https://tedunderwood.com/2021/02/02/why-sf-hasnt-prepared-us-to-imagine-machine-learning/</url></story> |
17,636,440 | 17,636,386 | 1 | 3 | 17,631,763 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tsomctl</author><text>There are a number of areas on vehicles where failure can lead to injury or death. The reality, though, is that these systems are designed to fail gracefully, and most people that work on cars know how to respect them. Take brakes for example. If you fuck it up on one wheel, the remaining wheels have more than enough stopping power to get you home. If you have a leak, there&#x27;s two separate circuits, so you should have at least two wheels that will stop you. In addition, the brake pedal being squishy should alert you to a problem. And the parking brake is normally a steel cable that should always work. And most repair manuals, tutorials, and YouTube videos will tell you about common pitfalls and what to watch out for.<p>And if you think a certified mechanic never makes a mistake, you are sorely mistaken.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dyarosla</author><text>I see this belief (that things people bought should always be repairable by the owner) by many but I always feel it’s extremely self-centered. IMO it’s reckless to think this way about repairing complex systems that can affect others.<p>Repairing something that you own that only affects you is different from repairing something like a car that could affect others. As a completely fictional example: incorrectly repairing a complex brake system could pose a danger to other drivers and lead to an -otherwise avoidable- accident.<p>EDIT: some responses are focusing too closely on the example of brakes- perhaps it’s not the best way to illustrate my point. Say, instead, your engine broke or your self driving car’s software was malfunctioning. Should you still have the right to repair?</text></item><item><author>justicezyx</author><text>Wow first time heard someone capable of repair a Tesla. I always was assuming Tesla cars are designed to be hostile to repair outside their own factory (partially due to inherent complexity, and market strategy as well).<p>Also huge respect to his belief that things people bought should always be repairable by the owner (with some reasonable learned skills).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuAMczraBIM</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>I figure that &quot;repairable by owner&quot; is just a proxy for &quot;repairable by someone who the owner designates which is not necessarily the same company that manufactured the car.&quot;<p>In any case, where would you stop? If we decide that only manufacturers are qualified to service things which could potentially affect other people, then the list grows very large in a hurry.<p>We&#x27;ve had mechanics, including owner-mechanics, working on far more complicated machinery than an electric car for a hundred years. It&#x27;s not nearly as hard as inexperienced people believe.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dyarosla</author><text>I see this belief (that things people bought should always be repairable by the owner) by many but I always feel it’s extremely self-centered. IMO it’s reckless to think this way about repairing complex systems that can affect others.<p>Repairing something that you own that only affects you is different from repairing something like a car that could affect others. As a completely fictional example: incorrectly repairing a complex brake system could pose a danger to other drivers and lead to an -otherwise avoidable- accident.<p>EDIT: some responses are focusing too closely on the example of brakes- perhaps it’s not the best way to illustrate my point. Say, instead, your engine broke or your self driving car’s software was malfunctioning. Should you still have the right to repair?</text></item><item><author>justicezyx</author><text>Wow first time heard someone capable of repair a Tesla. I always was assuming Tesla cars are designed to be hostile to repair outside their own factory (partially due to inherent complexity, and market strategy as well).<p>Also huge respect to his belief that things people bought should always be repairable by the owner (with some reasonable learned skills).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuAMczraBIM</url></story> |
13,719,683 | 13,719,927 | 1 | 3 | 13,718,752 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PuffinBlue</author><text>&gt; The infosec team worked to identify URIs in search engine caches that had leaked memory and get them purged. With the help of Google, Yahoo, Bing and others, we found 770 unique URIs that had been cached and which contained leaked memory. Those 770 unique URIs covered 161 unique domains. The leaked memory has been purged with the help of the search engines.<p>So I tried it too, and there&#x27;s still data cached there.<p>Am I misunderstanding something - that above statement must be wrong, surely?<p>They can&#x27;t have found everything even in the big search engines if it&#x27;s still showing up in Google&#x27;s cache, let alone the infinity other caches around the place.<p>EDIT: If the cloudflare team sees I see leaked credentials for these domains:<p>android-cdn-api.fitbit.com<p>iphone-cdn-client.fitbit.com<p>api-v2launch.trakt.tv</text><parent_chain><item><author>espadrine</author><text>It is far from over, too! Google Cache still has loads of sensitive information, a link away!<p>Look at this, click on the downward arrow, &quot;Cached&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=&quot;CF-Host-Origin-IP:&quot;+&quot;authorization:&quot;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=&quot;CF-Host-Origin-IP:&quot;+&quot;author...</a><p>(And then, in Google Cache, &quot;view source&quot;, search for &quot;authorization&quot;.)<p>(Various combinations of HTTP headers to search for yield more results.)</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Oh, my god.<p>Read the whole event log.<p>If you were behind Cloudflare and it was proxying sensitive data (the contents of HTTP POSTs, &amp;c), they&#x27;ve potentially been spraying it into caches all across the Internet; it was so bad that Tavis found it by accident just looking through Google search results.<p>The crazy thing here is that the Project Zero people were joking last night about a disclosure that was going to keep everyone at work late today. And, this morning, Google announced the SHA-1 collision, which everyone (including the insiders who leaked that the SHA-1 collision was coming) thought was the big announcement.<p>Nope. A SHA-1 collision, it turns out, is the <i>minor</i> security news of the day.<p>This is approximately as bad as it ever gets. A significant number of companies probably need to compose customer notifications; it&#x27;s, at this point, very difficult to rule out unauthorized disclosure of anything that traversed Cloudflare.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toyg</author><text>Lol, Google just purged that search.<p>EDIT: but there&#x27;s still plenty of fish: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:lw4K9G2F1WgJ:lightnetwork.ph&#x2F;ofw-family-day-december-1&#x2F;&amp;num=1&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=uk&amp;strip=0&amp;vwsrc=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:lw4K9G2...</a><p>This will take weeks to clean, and that&#x27;s just for Google.<p>EDIT2: found other oauth tokens, lots of fitbit calls... And this just by searching for typical CF internal headers on Google and Bing. There is no way to know what else is out there. What a mess.</text><parent_chain><item><author>espadrine</author><text>It is far from over, too! Google Cache still has loads of sensitive information, a link away!<p>Look at this, click on the downward arrow, &quot;Cached&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=&quot;CF-Host-Origin-IP:&quot;+&quot;authorization:&quot;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=&quot;CF-Host-Origin-IP:&quot;+&quot;author...</a><p>(And then, in Google Cache, &quot;view source&quot;, search for &quot;authorization&quot;.)<p>(Various combinations of HTTP headers to search for yield more results.)</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Oh, my god.<p>Read the whole event log.<p>If you were behind Cloudflare and it was proxying sensitive data (the contents of HTTP POSTs, &amp;c), they&#x27;ve potentially been spraying it into caches all across the Internet; it was so bad that Tavis found it by accident just looking through Google search results.<p>The crazy thing here is that the Project Zero people were joking last night about a disclosure that was going to keep everyone at work late today. And, this morning, Google announced the SHA-1 collision, which everyone (including the insiders who leaked that the SHA-1 collision was coming) thought was the big announcement.<p>Nope. A SHA-1 collision, it turns out, is the <i>minor</i> security news of the day.<p>This is approximately as bad as it ever gets. A significant number of companies probably need to compose customer notifications; it&#x27;s, at this point, very difficult to rule out unauthorized disclosure of anything that traversed Cloudflare.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139</url></story> |
19,687,839 | 19,685,501 | 1 | 2 | 19,685,008 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pm90</author><text>This is not surprising at all. Friends that work at such firms have shared stories of horrifying incompetence at every level. Most of the engineers with talent leave as soon as they realize leadership is dumb as rocks and got there by conniving politics rather than a meritocratic rise by accomplishing actual engineering tasks.<p>The only reason these kinds of companies continue to exist is the continuing stupidity of American Executives who will go to any lengths to not pay a decent wage for their Software operations. Fuck them, and they deserve exactly this for fucking over good quality talent.<p>Nobody would be surprised if a bridge built by cheapo contractors failed. Its much the same way with Software.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/how-not-to-acknowledge-a-data-breach/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lainga</author><text>Who uses outsourcing firms like Wipro (government agencies)? What do they <i>do</i>? It seems to me, living in the bubble of <i>haute tech</i>, that the only things you ever hear about these firms are (a.) they exist and (b.) they are very large.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/how-not-to-acknowledge-a-data-breach/</url></story> |
20,668,665 | 20,668,684 | 1 | 2 | 20,668,578 | 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>jakear</author><text>This is why I detest touchscreens for most car functions. Specifically AC, with old fashioned knobs I have full control over AC without taking my eyes off the road, but nowadays everyone wants to put it on their infotainment system, hidden beneath 4 other buttons.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>You know, I think touchscreens are not preferable unless you need&#x2F;want to be able to have controls for many different systems in the same space (e.g. a smartphone with multiple apps). If you are needing a dedicated control for a high-stakes system, the fact that it&#x27;s a more modern-looking interface should not matter. Touchscreens are inherently inferior to a mechanical interface, if it&#x27;s a single-system (i.e. doesn&#x27;t need to morph into a different and back again).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800111/us-navy-uss-john-s-mccain-crash-ntsb-report-touchscreen-mechanical-controls</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Iv</author><text>I really think that nowadays touchscreens are becoming the cheap option. To me when I see a machine with custom designed button I know they had to do some mechanical design, whereas a flat touch screen just says &quot;we slapped a tablet there and hacked an interface on android&quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>You know, I think touchscreens are not preferable unless you need&#x2F;want to be able to have controls for many different systems in the same space (e.g. a smartphone with multiple apps). If you are needing a dedicated control for a high-stakes system, the fact that it&#x27;s a more modern-looking interface should not matter. Touchscreens are inherently inferior to a mechanical interface, if it&#x27;s a single-system (i.e. doesn&#x27;t need to morph into a different and back again).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800111/us-navy-uss-john-s-mccain-crash-ntsb-report-touchscreen-mechanical-controls</url></story> |
19,611,651 | 19,609,778 | 1 | 2 | 19,609,239 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lamontcg</author><text>My null hypothesis on reading this article is that the Secret Service did exactly what Mr &quot;NSA Hacker&quot; Williams suggested onto an isolated linux laptop -- and in fact this was sophisticated enough malware to start attacking it when it wasn&#x27;t even mounted. So the agent shut it down and sent it all off to a better equipped lab.<p>Which is actually pretty sane procedure.<p>I think techcrunch here is trying to sell us on the idea that we&#x27;re all smarter than the stupid secret service in order to get clicks through manufactured outrage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rblatz</author><text><i>Williams said the best way to forensically examine a suspect USB drive is by plugging the device into an isolated Linux-based computer that doesn’t automatically mount the drive to the operating system.<p>“We would then create a forensic image of the USB and extract any malware for analysis in the lab,” he said. “While there is still a very small risk that the malware targets Linux, that’s not the normal case.”</i><p>That&#x27;s an ok start, but you not only want to prevent it from auto-mounting the filesystem, you want it to not even auto-configure any USB HIDs presented to the OS. And even then that may not be enough if there are flaws deep in the usb stack that are being exploited. Ideally you&#x27;d have an analyzer in the middle that records everything and allows analysis later, think Wireshark or Fiddler.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/secret-service-mar-a-lago/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlphaWeaver</author><text>For people unfamiliar with this strategy, check out a commercialized version, the USB Rubber Ducky.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.hak5.org&#x2F;products&#x2F;usb-rubber-ducky-deluxe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.hak5.org&#x2F;products&#x2F;usb-rubber-ducky-deluxe</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rblatz</author><text><i>Williams said the best way to forensically examine a suspect USB drive is by plugging the device into an isolated Linux-based computer that doesn’t automatically mount the drive to the operating system.<p>“We would then create a forensic image of the USB and extract any malware for analysis in the lab,” he said. “While there is still a very small risk that the malware targets Linux, that’s not the normal case.”</i><p>That&#x27;s an ok start, but you not only want to prevent it from auto-mounting the filesystem, you want it to not even auto-configure any USB HIDs presented to the OS. And even then that may not be enough if there are flaws deep in the usb stack that are being exploited. Ideally you&#x27;d have an analyzer in the middle that records everything and allows analysis later, think Wireshark or Fiddler.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/secret-service-mar-a-lago/</url></story> |
15,504,569 | 15,504,653 | 1 | 2 | 15,501,248 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pragmatic12</author><text>It seems clear that easy money (anyone can get student loans) is the primary driver of rising tuition costs (driving out less well off families) not reduced government funding. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.mic.com&#x2F;gcnmd1o6fihnkyh0kgimslfoombvuel882tmhohvkeevifezxnbckipfamtbpvvx.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.mic.com&#x2F;gcnmd1o6fihnkyh0kgimslfoombvuel882tmho...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=rising+education+costs&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi_tPTMufvWAhUnllQKHdJCAxgQ_AUICigB&amp;biw=1920&amp;bih=940#imgrc=FXR8HQljRmAnaM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=rising+education+costs&amp;sourc...</a>:</text><parent_chain><item><author>baron816</author><text>Your point about rising tuition driving out less well off families is also a result of reduced government funding.<p>Research should never be funded by tuition anyway. That research is a public good, the burden for funding it should not be placed on the backs of the nations youth, who have to in turn finance that tuition with debt.<p>It&#x27;s a shame that one political party in this country has taken to believing that all of the world&#x27;s problems can be solved with lower taxes (not low taxes, lowER taxes). Externalities and public goods do not exist.</text></item><item><author>mhneu</author><text>Think of this article as describing the canary in the coal mine. The effect it describes is absolutely real. Universities in the US are facing serious issues.<p>The university system in the US is the envy of the world right now. But US universities are degrading on several fronts, some internal (rising tuition which drives out smart students from less well off families, most evident now in law schools) and some external (cuts in government funding, most evident in Wisconsin GOP donor attacks on universities and public education more generally[1].)<p>There are some posts below from students who say they don&#x27;t see much going wrong. Yes, they don&#x27;t see much going wrong <i>yet</i>. But the underpinnings of universities are being eroded.<p>Research funding is harder to get. NIH and NSF budgets are down 20-30% in real dollars in the past two decades. Meanwhile schools are expanding and hiring more faculty and staff that are supposed to obtain their salaries from NIH and NSF. At the same time the long-held commitment to educating the best students is fading [2].<p>[1] &quot;Hacked records show Bradley Foundation taking its conservative Wisconsin model national&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.jsonline.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;5&#x2F;5&#x2F;hacked-records-show-bradley-foundation-taking-wisconsin-model-national.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.jsonline.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;5&#x2F;5&#x2F;hacked-records-s...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;book-review-failing-law-schools-by-brian-z-tamanaha&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;03&#x2F;e7054c9c-c6df-11e1-916d-a4bc61efcad8_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;book-review-failing-...</a>
&quot;If you think those claims sting, consider Tamanaha’s argument that law school effectively transfers money from students to relatively well-to-do professors, via student-loan debt — much of which is ultimately guaranteed by federal taxpayers who are generally not as well-off as the typical law professor.<p>Law school faculties are also bastions of liberal politics, and this irony is not lost on Tamanaha, who accuses the professoriate of not only enriching itself but also erecting de facto barriers to upward social mobility and true public-service law practice, all in the name of “academic freedom” and other abstractions.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Looming Decline of the Public Research University</title><url>https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-the-public-research-university/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Chathamization</author><text>&gt; Research should never be funded by tuition anyway.<p>I don&#x27;t even think research should be coupled to the universities the way it currently is. From what I&#x27;ve seen it ends up being somewhat of a mess. Seeing what goes on there - for example, how grad students are treated - has made me doubt the ability of most universities to effectively manage and oversee research labs.<p>It&#x27;s also adds one more thing to the odd stitched together thing we end up calling a university. It&#x27;s a certification program&#x2F;4-year summer camp&#x2F;undergrad education center&#x2F;research institute&#x2F;cultural center&#x2F;professional training center&#x2F;sports franchise&#x2F;etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>baron816</author><text>Your point about rising tuition driving out less well off families is also a result of reduced government funding.<p>Research should never be funded by tuition anyway. That research is a public good, the burden for funding it should not be placed on the backs of the nations youth, who have to in turn finance that tuition with debt.<p>It&#x27;s a shame that one political party in this country has taken to believing that all of the world&#x27;s problems can be solved with lower taxes (not low taxes, lowER taxes). Externalities and public goods do not exist.</text></item><item><author>mhneu</author><text>Think of this article as describing the canary in the coal mine. The effect it describes is absolutely real. Universities in the US are facing serious issues.<p>The university system in the US is the envy of the world right now. But US universities are degrading on several fronts, some internal (rising tuition which drives out smart students from less well off families, most evident now in law schools) and some external (cuts in government funding, most evident in Wisconsin GOP donor attacks on universities and public education more generally[1].)<p>There are some posts below from students who say they don&#x27;t see much going wrong. Yes, they don&#x27;t see much going wrong <i>yet</i>. But the underpinnings of universities are being eroded.<p>Research funding is harder to get. NIH and NSF budgets are down 20-30% in real dollars in the past two decades. Meanwhile schools are expanding and hiring more faculty and staff that are supposed to obtain their salaries from NIH and NSF. At the same time the long-held commitment to educating the best students is fading [2].<p>[1] &quot;Hacked records show Bradley Foundation taking its conservative Wisconsin model national&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.jsonline.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;5&#x2F;5&#x2F;hacked-records-show-bradley-foundation-taking-wisconsin-model-national.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.jsonline.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;5&#x2F;5&#x2F;hacked-records-s...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;book-review-failing-law-schools-by-brian-z-tamanaha&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;03&#x2F;e7054c9c-c6df-11e1-916d-a4bc61efcad8_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;book-review-failing-...</a>
&quot;If you think those claims sting, consider Tamanaha’s argument that law school effectively transfers money from students to relatively well-to-do professors, via student-loan debt — much of which is ultimately guaranteed by federal taxpayers who are generally not as well-off as the typical law professor.<p>Law school faculties are also bastions of liberal politics, and this irony is not lost on Tamanaha, who accuses the professoriate of not only enriching itself but also erecting de facto barriers to upward social mobility and true public-service law practice, all in the name of “academic freedom” and other abstractions.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Looming Decline of the Public Research University</title><url>https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-the-public-research-university/</url></story> |
9,938,220 | 9,937,013 | 1 | 3 | 9,936,622 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kylehotchkiss</author><text>What makes me most sad is that a really, really great product is being sucked into a company who has no reason to offer services to a person like me. Knowing I could spin up postgres for $18&#x2F;month was pretty much the sweet spot that gave me the confidence to want to do more personal, outside of work projects. Heroku&#x27;s $50&#x2F;month offering is far too much. But I have a feeling that this acquisition, like many others, means the end of the offering of a product to the lone-wolf developer who wants to just build something for fun that won&#x27;t scale nor make money. I have literally no reason whatsoever to believe IBM cares about the little guy but I&#x27;m okay and willing to be proven wrong about that. I want to be proven wrong about that.<p>I don&#x27;t want an email nor an empty promise. I honestly just want you guys to keep the name &quot;compose&quot; and keep that cheap postgres option open for the long run (years and years not weeks and weeks) so us folks who just want to build something for fun have a quality database with a professional operation to support it at the great pricing it is today.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Compose Is Joining IBM</title><url>https://www.compose.io/articles/compose-is-joining-ibm/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bstar77</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a customer for several years, never once had a problem with reliability or performance. I&#x27;ve used several other services and nothing compared to the simplicity of mongohq&#x2F;compose. They&#x27;ve also had pretty great support for some obscure issues I&#x27;ve had to deal with. Overall, I hope this move just means more of the same.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Compose Is Joining IBM</title><url>https://www.compose.io/articles/compose-is-joining-ibm/</url></story> |
15,215,168 | 15,215,267 | 1 | 2 | 15,215,055 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>franciscop</author><text>This feels quite political. I agree that robots are the future, but I think that some structural changes will be needed. Trying to sell it like no jobs are lost is quite naive at best, and purposefully misleading at worst.<p>If I remember correctly (don&#x27;t quote me on that) Amazon used to employ quite a lot of temporary workers and had a high turnover (hire&#x2F;quit) rate. Then they would no need to purposefully fire anyone to reduce their headcount. Just not temp hiring those people would be enough. Or not hiring as many people as befoe as they grow. Or ... My point: there are many ways of making it look good on paper; but when a robot does a human job, that job is not needed anymore.<p>What IMO we need to do is to keep on discussing structural unemployment from all points of view.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Amazon Pushes Forward with Robots, Workers Find New Roles</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/technology/amazon-robots-workers.html?mabReward=ART_CTM1&recid=34cea0ca-c023-4fb8-6ca8-9047ebcd5412&recp=0&moduleDetail=recommendations-0&action=click&contentCollection=Politics&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article&_r=0</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>petra</author><text>This is the historical wage share of gdp of workers:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wage_share" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wage_share</a><p>And i&#x27;m sure the story for the bottom 50% of employees is even worse.<p>The trend is downwards, and the internet accelerated it. Does anyone think that robots and a massive technology boom that may soon happen won&#x27;t accelerate it ? Why ?<p>And from that trend, given minimum wage, it seems that at some point in time, we&#x27;ll have large unemployment.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>As Amazon Pushes Forward with Robots, Workers Find New Roles</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/technology/amazon-robots-workers.html?mabReward=ART_CTM1&recid=34cea0ca-c023-4fb8-6ca8-9047ebcd5412&recp=0&moduleDetail=recommendations-0&action=click&contentCollection=Politics&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article&_r=0</url></story> |
19,690,773 | 19,690,098 | 1 | 2 | 19,688,491 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ZeroCool2u</author><text>I can&#x27;t recommend SpaCy enough. We use their Prodigy[1] app here at work, it&#x27;s outstanding.<p>After experimenting with gensim, nltk, and most everything else under the sun, we primarily rely on SpaCy now with some TensorFlow for specific models.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prodi.gy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prodi.gy&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advanced NLP with SpaCy</title><url>https://course.spacy.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>growlist</author><text>Mordecai uses SpaCy and is worth a look for extracting place names: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openeventdata&#x2F;mordecai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openeventdata&#x2F;mordecai</a><p>I wasn&#x27;t too successful running it against tweets (low hit rate&#x2F;false positives, low spatial resolution) but geolocating tweets is a hard problem and I&#x27;m sure it would work better against more structured text.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Advanced NLP with SpaCy</title><url>https://course.spacy.io/</url></story> |
41,101,307 | 41,101,418 | 1 | 2 | 41,100,820 | 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>ChrisArchitect</author><text>Bunch of discussion previously shared by dev: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34264487">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34264487</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yark: YouTube Archiver with Offline UI</title><url>https://github.com/Owez/yark</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PedroBatista</author><text>Just created something similar 2 weeks ago but for Twitch and way more jank, the only reason being Twitch deletes broadcasts 60(?) days after they have been created. Turns out creating a server that streams video MP4 files ( not HLS ) in a way the user ( me ) doesn&#x27;t have to wait until all the 35GB and 8 hours of video are downloaded into the client to start watching was more complex than expected. And making the HTTP server lib to turn a blind eye on when the browser requests video files with [white spaçes&#x2F; and other character$-in the name] too..<p>( no post download processing, no streaming, just access the &quot;raw file&quot; and make it work no matter what )<p>Does anyone who used Yark knows if the subtitles are also downloaded?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yark: YouTube Archiver with Offline UI</title><url>https://github.com/Owez/yark</url></story> |
19,117,366 | 19,113,981 | 1 | 2 | 19,113,363 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>coding123</author><text>It sounds like you are taking the word &quot;breach&quot; in the title as if it&#x27;s a security thing.<p>They are referring to breach as in breach of rules. These are not security vulnerabilities, these are GDRP complaints that may or may not be real, but have been reported by people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>This is the kind of thing that makes me not want to register anywhere except on sites that use known open source and actively maintained software (so mostly forums). But I guess it&#x27;s too late. The best I can do is generate a bunch of unlinked email addresses, and randomize passwords everywhere with my password manage. I used to use LastPass a lot, but once I lost my vault I havent gone back to fill a new vault, I really do want to use BitWarden as a LastPass alternative, but I&#x27;ve just been putting it off for a while. Maybe it&#x27;s definitely time to take the plunge.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nearly 60,000 Data Breaches Reported Since the Launch of GDPR</title><url>https://amatas.com/news/view/nearly-60-000-data-breaches-reported-since-the-launch-of-gdpr</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>atoav</author><text>If you own a domain you can use a catchall e-mail adress and then just invent the part left of the @ as you go. Then store that adress with a random password generated by keepass.<p>As a nice side effect you see who lost your data to the spammers, based on the email adress and you can block whole email addresses from getting stuff</text><parent_chain><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>This is the kind of thing that makes me not want to register anywhere except on sites that use known open source and actively maintained software (so mostly forums). But I guess it&#x27;s too late. The best I can do is generate a bunch of unlinked email addresses, and randomize passwords everywhere with my password manage. I used to use LastPass a lot, but once I lost my vault I havent gone back to fill a new vault, I really do want to use BitWarden as a LastPass alternative, but I&#x27;ve just been putting it off for a while. Maybe it&#x27;s definitely time to take the plunge.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nearly 60,000 Data Breaches Reported Since the Launch of GDPR</title><url>https://amatas.com/news/view/nearly-60-000-data-breaches-reported-since-the-launch-of-gdpr</url></story> |
5,950,083 | 5,949,965 | 1 | 2 | 5,949,849 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to see Microsoft unashamedly exercising what&#x27;s left of their monopoly power to force market share of unrelated products up. Defaulting storage to SkyDrive, integrating Bing as a default search every time someone does any kind of search, even tying the windows login itself to a microsoft account, integrating Skype as a default installed app and giving <i>no opt out</i> once you accept linking your Windows login. I notice they&#x27;ve made it extremely difficult to set Google as your default search engine in IE (no default search provider for it, can be quite hard to find in the search provider list).<p>It&#x27;s the kind of thing that used to get them in a lot of trouble. I wonder if they are past this or whether they will get rapped on the knuckles for this at some point?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 8.1 Preview</title><url>http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tiles</author><text>&quot;SkyDrive is now the default location for saving documents. So you always have your files wherever you go, even when you’re offline. And with the included SkyDrive app, you can manage both local files and SkyDrive files in one place.&quot;<p>This is a massive play for cloud storage. Will this be replacing &quot;My Documents&quot; for the majority of casual Windows users?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 8.1 Preview</title><url>http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview</url></story> |
27,455,101 | 27,452,759 | 1 | 3 | 27,452,151 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sramsay</author><text>I am 51 years old. I learned my first programming language (C) in the mid nineties, and have been writing software ever since.<p>Back then, there was this enormous revolutionary fervor around free software, and it was intensely idealogical. You used the GPL because you wanted to fuck Microsoft and the entire concept of proprietary code. Linux was <i>punk,</i> not a good “solution.” And every time someone hacked up a free version of something, we all rejoiced, not because it “didn’t cost anything,” but because it was another way to make the point that the entire concept of making money off binary blobs was inherently evil. Install fests! Bring us that old 486, and we’ll make it YOURS! What a party.<p>Were we hopelessly naive? Maybe. Probably. But I find it depressing to read threads like this. It’s like everybody is just doing some kind of cost benefit analysis, but nobody is asking serious questions about whether the world we built is actually the world we want.<p>I’ll say it: If many of you had walked into some scrappy LUG in 1996, you’d have been laughed out of there as some kind of tool.<p>Are you a tool? I don’t know. But the resignation still bums me out. Y’all want to “support OSS devs,” not throw a sledgehammer at the screen.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You use more open source software than you think</title><url>https://github.com/readme/unseen-oss</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>simonw</author><text>I got a bit of a shock when I visited <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;readme&#x2F;unseen-oss" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;readme&#x2F;unseen-oss</a> and it wasn&#x27;t a GitHub repository, it was a custom designed page!<p>Not a lot of URLs on GitHub sit outside of their regular &#x2F;owner&#x2F;repo pattern - the only other section I can think of that does that is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;about</a> - things like documentation tend to live on separate subdomains, like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>You use more open source software than you think</title><url>https://github.com/readme/unseen-oss</url></story> |
40,565,996 | 40,566,010 | 1 | 3 | 40,565,561 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>legitster</author><text>&gt; Cloth masks also outperformed both KN95 and surgical masks. Milton theorizes that cloth variants were the second-most effective masks tested because of greater coverage that wraps around the face and gives a better seal than either KN95 or surgical masks. Flow resistance is also lower, allowing breath to pass through rather than around the filter.<p>I&#x27;m always baffled by the people who went around arguing masks did nothing. They don&#x27;t seem to have any problem accepting that a sneeze guard at a salad bar does something, or that a surgeon should put something on their face to prevent them from coughing into your open body cavity.<p>We can argue all day about specific masks under specific settings, or when it is worth it to bother, but &quot;putting something in front of your face prevents you from breathing out particles&quot; is in the category of &quot;things that are pretty f&amp;%*ing obvious&quot;.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UMD study: N95 masks nearly perfect at blocking Covid</title><url>https://today.umd.edu/n95-masks-nearly-perfect-at-blocking-covid-umd-study-shows</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grumple</author><text>Link to study: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;ebiom&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS2352-3964(24)00192-0&#x2F;fulltext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;ebiom&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS2352-39...</a><p>More surprising is that cloth masks were better than KN95s! That&#x27;s pretty cool. Sample size was quite small though (only 8 cloth mask participants) and the study in general had a pretty small sample size (surely it couldn&#x27;t have been difficult to find covid-positive individuals?).</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UMD study: N95 masks nearly perfect at blocking Covid</title><url>https://today.umd.edu/n95-masks-nearly-perfect-at-blocking-covid-umd-study-shows</url></story> |
11,552,550 | 11,552,447 | 1 | 2 | 11,550,765 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>illumin8</author><text>It&#x27;s extremely expensive. Many banks and companies in the finance industry (hedge funds) do this:<p>Hire at least 2 or 3 people for every job. Have them watch each other whenever touching systems that connect to production or deploying code to production. Never trust any one of them with the private keys or passwords to anything - they can only get half of a secret and their co-worker gets the other half.<p>To do this effectively, you have to build a zero trust environment, and rely on surveillance to ensure that nobody is a bad actor. It really makes CIA&#x2F;NSA level security look somewhat weak.<p>It&#x27;s also very expensive, as you can imagine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danielvf</author><text>This is certainly the worst case scenario - your security officer installing remote access software on developers machines, stealing bitcoins from production, then selling the company source code, access credentials and access to the internal network to a Russian hacker.<p>Building a security system to handle this level of attack is a whole level beyond stopping even determined external attackers. Are there any best practices guides on this?<p>One thing that the article showed is the importance of external security review to deal with the threat of internal incompetence or evil.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Looting of ShapeShift</title><url>https://news.bitcoin.com/looting-fox-sabotage-shapeshift/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>raesene9</author><text>Well the traditional banks have been dealing with exactly this kind of threat for a long time.<p>There&#x27;s a load of practices that are designed to stop this kind of problem in that world.<p>Things like :-<p>- Enforced holidays. Frauds are hard to maintain when you&#x27;re not there to keep cooking the books.
- Audit reviews. an independant function with the ability and authority to review key processes
- split authority. Key actions need multiple people to complete (statistically fraud incidence drops a lot when you need multiple people involved)
- Strong background checking. When I worked at a bank they went back 10 years of employment history and required accounting for any gaps. + credit checking + criminal record checking etc.<p>It&#x27;s all possible, just quite expensive...</text><parent_chain><item><author>danielvf</author><text>This is certainly the worst case scenario - your security officer installing remote access software on developers machines, stealing bitcoins from production, then selling the company source code, access credentials and access to the internal network to a Russian hacker.<p>Building a security system to handle this level of attack is a whole level beyond stopping even determined external attackers. Are there any best practices guides on this?<p>One thing that the article showed is the importance of external security review to deal with the threat of internal incompetence or evil.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Looting of ShapeShift</title><url>https://news.bitcoin.com/looting-fox-sabotage-shapeshift/</url></story> |
33,780,827 | 33,780,619 | 1 | 2 | 33,776,491 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ilyt</author><text>It&#x27;s real shame it&#x27;s <i>kinda</i> bad language for it. Looking at what people did with Rust macros it&#x27;s shame that Go code generation story is either &quot;just run some random binaries to compile stuff&quot; or &quot;put code instructing the compiler to do stuf in <i>fucking comments</i>&quot;<p>And I say it without being sarcastic but Go makes me miss C preprocessor and nothing should make anyone miss C preprocessor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Xeoncross</author><text>Code generation is becoming really important in Go.<p>Why even use an ORM when <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlc.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlc.dev&#x2F;</a> will generate everything from vanilla SQL?<p>Why make the frontend team write a Typescript client when <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goa.design" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goa.design</a> on the backend will produce an OpenAPI schema they can just point a <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openapi-generator.tech" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openapi-generator.tech</a> at?<p>Why write out GraphQL boilerplate when <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;99designs&#x2F;gqlgen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;99designs&#x2F;gqlgen</a> will take your GQL typedef and generate it all for you based on how you want it to look.<p>Why write validation rules when you can just define your input struct and let <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mustafaakin&#x2F;gongular" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mustafaakin&#x2F;gongular</a> generate the rest for you?<p>Honestly, I&#x27;m loving this. I want to focus on the entities and business logic - not writing yet another handler&#x2F;resolver for basic auth + CRUD work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a High Performance Data Integration Framework in Go</title><url>https://www.cloudquery.io/blog/building-cloudquery</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leetbulb</author><text>Check out Ent <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;entgo.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;code-gen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;entgo.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;code-gen</a><p>Pretty easy to generate GraphQL (most fully featured extension), OpenAPI, Protobuf, etc. from your database schema. Ent also makes it easy to implement your own generators (e.g. OAS, glue logic, etc).</text><parent_chain><item><author>Xeoncross</author><text>Code generation is becoming really important in Go.<p>Why even use an ORM when <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlc.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlc.dev&#x2F;</a> will generate everything from vanilla SQL?<p>Why make the frontend team write a Typescript client when <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goa.design" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goa.design</a> on the backend will produce an OpenAPI schema they can just point a <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openapi-generator.tech" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openapi-generator.tech</a> at?<p>Why write out GraphQL boilerplate when <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;99designs&#x2F;gqlgen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;99designs&#x2F;gqlgen</a> will take your GQL typedef and generate it all for you based on how you want it to look.<p>Why write validation rules when you can just define your input struct and let <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mustafaakin&#x2F;gongular" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mustafaakin&#x2F;gongular</a> generate the rest for you?<p>Honestly, I&#x27;m loving this. I want to focus on the entities and business logic - not writing yet another handler&#x2F;resolver for basic auth + CRUD work.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Building a High Performance Data Integration Framework in Go</title><url>https://www.cloudquery.io/blog/building-cloudquery</url></story> |
11,146,487 | 11,145,793 | 1 | 2 | 11,145,511 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crikli</author><text>If you&#x27;ve not listened to Dan Carlin&#x27;s 6-part series on the Great War, take the time to do so. The &quot;whys&quot; and &quot;hows&quot; of World War I are much harder to get your head around than WWII...it&#x27;s just much less linear. Not only does he do an excellent job of making the mechanics of the war understandable, he draws the element of humanity into stark relief by interspersing explanations of troop movements with first hand accounts of the suffering and carnage men sustained.<p>Episode IV focuses on Verdun and can be listened to as a stand alone episode but the rest of the series is very much worth the time.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dancarlin.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;hardcore-history-53-blueprint-for-armageddon-iv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dancarlin.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;hardcore-history-53-bluepri...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Legend of Verdun</title><url>http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/02/legend-verdun</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>achamayou</author><text>An important reason why the fight was so bitter over seemingly small amounts of land that this article (and others) seem to miss is that a relatively limited area of northern France amounted to over half of the country&#x27;s industrial production. Coal and steel in particular, critical to the war effort were overwhelmingly produced there.<p>Any incremental part of this region lost to the Germans wasn&#x27;t just a symbolic loss of ground or a moral defeat, it meant a real long term resource loss which could tilt the balance of the war in Germany&#x27;s favour. In comparison, the allies were largely unable to strike Germany&#x27;s industrial centers. It&#x27;s quite easy to depict all senior commanders of the time as inflexible and stubborn (some of them were, to various extents anyway), but there&#x27;s more to it than that.<p>Defence in depth just wasn&#x27;t an option, and mechanised war was a fiction anyway. With the benefit of hindsight, and ignoring the industrial value of the North, it&#x27;s easy to jump to simple but wrong conclusions about why the war was fought that way.<p>Edit: Link to English source illustrating my point <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net&#x2F;article&#x2F;raw_materials" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net&#x2F;article&#x2F;raw_materia...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Legend of Verdun</title><url>http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/02/legend-verdun</url></story> |
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