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10,297,499 | 10,297,223 | 1 | 3 | 10,296,732 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>superuser2</author><text>Locating data outside the US is in no way a defense against US intelligence agencies. There are <i>theoretically</i> controls on domestic spying, and some possibility that Congress could make it illegal. They have a <i>mandate</i> to spy on foreign networks.<p>If they haven&#x27;t cracked your European email provider, then they&#x27;re not doing what we pay and order them to do.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tangokat</author><text>Apple is in a good position in the market to do this, but it is just really hard to trust any US company.
They say they will never give anyone access to their servers but how can they make that promise when they don&#x27;t make the laws?<p>As an aside I am finding it really difficult to delete my iCloud account, in fact it seems that is impossible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s approach to privacy</title><url>http://www.apple.com/privacy/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>karmelapple</author><text>Genuine curiosity: which country would a company need to be in to be able to trust them?</text><parent_chain><item><author>Tangokat</author><text>Apple is in a good position in the market to do this, but it is just really hard to trust any US company.
They say they will never give anyone access to their servers but how can they make that promise when they don&#x27;t make the laws?<p>As an aside I am finding it really difficult to delete my iCloud account, in fact it seems that is impossible.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple’s approach to privacy</title><url>http://www.apple.com/privacy/</url></story> |
15,560,384 | 15,560,551 | 1 | 2 | 15,559,422 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samcheng</author><text>It&#x27;s not mentioned in the article, but I really think President Trump has been a savior for Twitter.<p>Without those controversial tweets, Twitter would rarely be in much of the public&#x27;s mind, and the company would have continued its slow slide into irrelevance. As it is, barely a day goes by without &quot;Twitter&quot; being mentioned in national news.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-says-could-turn-first-ever-profit-shares-jump-idUSKBN1CV1JP</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nharada</author><text>&quot;may become profitable for the first time next quarter after ... ramping up deals to sell its data to other companies&quot;<p>Cool, so any indication on who is buying all my data?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-says-could-turn-first-ever-profit-shares-jump-idUSKBN1CV1JP</url></story> |
38,378,156 | 38,374,765 | 1 | 3 | 38,371,808 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>belugacat</author><text>This is why the reductionist argument of &quot;your brain is reducible to a computer with inputs&#x2F;outputs like any other, all we have to do is reimplement it&quot; of AGI proponents always fell flat to me.<p>It&#x27;s now becoming clear that we can&#x27;t just take the brain in isolation, treating the spinal nerve like a PCI-E lane - the gut has to come with it. And if the gut comes with it, all the other organs (skin top of the list) probably do as well.<p>Now to model a human brain, you need to model an entire human, along with all the complexity of the microbiota, interactions of the organs with the environment... it all just falls apart.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-guts-second-brain-key-agents-of-health-emerge-20231121</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tomcam</author><text>Given the size of my gut, I have at least three other brains</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-guts-second-brain-key-agents-of-health-emerge-20231121</url></story> |
15,778,876 | 15,778,922 | 1 | 3 | 15,778,474 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rm999</author><text>This article rests on the premise that operating a car costs a fixed 50 cents a mile. But several uber drivers have told me the economics work out pretty well for them because they already need their cars, so IMO using 50 cents a mile is an unfair assumption.<p>Looking at the operating cost of a car is complicated with many variables, but the standard 50 cent estimate is NOT a marginal cost, i.e. you don&#x27;t actually spend an extra 50 cents to drive a mile. The annual AAA driving costs brochure puts the per mile cost (gas + maintenance) at 14 cents a mile for a small sedan, and 17 cents for a big sedan, plus ~3 cents a mile for depreciation (see &quot;decreased depreciation&quot;). Moving from 50 cents to 20 cents a mile brings his estimate pay from 7 dollars an hour to 12.40.<p>Brochure link: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;exchange.aaa.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;17-0013_Your-Driving-Costs-Brochure-2017-FNL-CX-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;exchange.aaa.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;17-0013_Y...</a><p>edit: to be clear this math is if you already own a car and are driving on off-times for additional income, which (in my experience) is what a large % of uber&#x2F;lyft drivers do. It&#x27;s also what Mr. Mustache was doing in his test.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Driving for Uber and Lyft</title><url>http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/11/22/mr-money-mustache-uber-driver/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enraged_camel</author><text>There are two major problems with the sharing economy that most people don&#x27;t mention when they write articles about it.<p>First, the overwhelming majority of gigs don&#x27;t teach you any marketable skills whatsoever. So over the course of your contracting, you may as well be unemployed. This hurts most people&#x27;s chances of finding gainful employment, and ends up being a massive hidden cost above and beyond car maintenance and similar expenses directly related to running the gigs.<p>Second, because you make so little, you also save very little, if any, for retirement. Since saving for retirement is all about compound interest, people who run gigs while young instead of looking for full-time employment are in for lots of pain and discomfort later in life. In fact I suspect we&#x27;re witnessing the creation of yet another underclass, consisting of people who will probably have to work until they die. Lots of Baby Boomers (who were unfortunate and&#x2F;or made poor choices earlier in life) are already in this situation and it will only get worse.<p>As an aside, one thing I don&#x27;t get about the gig economy is how the workers can afford health insurance. I assume most don&#x27;t have any, or they are on their parents or spouses&#x27; plans because even the cheapest plans are really expensive and I doubt your average Uber driver can afford them.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Driving for Uber and Lyft</title><url>http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/11/22/mr-money-mustache-uber-driver/</url></story> |
24,991,389 | 24,991,420 | 1 | 2 | 24,987,169 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cactus2093</author><text>What evidence do you have of this &quot;coercion&quot;? To me it just seems like there&#x27;s a much simpler Occam&#x27;s razor explanation. These companies business models rely on part time workers rather than full time workers (mainly due to very spiky demand). The workers prefer doing this job to their other options (otherwise the millions of them in CA wouldn&#x27;t be doing it to begin with). Therefore it&#x27;s in both the company and majority of drivers&#x27; best interests not to let AB5 stand.<p>It also seems a bit disingenuous to say this is allowing an industry to write its own laws. It&#x27;s just an ad-hominem - who cares who wrote the law? It&#x27;s the content of the law that is important, and the process that it goes through to pass. In this case if it is voted on and approved by the public, that seems like a perfectly legitimate example of direct democracy.<p>(Whether you think direct democracy is a good idea for nuanced policy decisions, or whether what amounts to a constitutional amendment that can&#x27;t be changed by the legislature is a good process for regulating a fast-changing new industry, are separate questions. Those are very valid concerns IMO. But that has nothing to do with the arguments you brought up).<p>Edit: and thinking about a precedent that this sets, I see that differently as well. AB5 was pretty clearly a bad law, and the legislators behind it completely shut off all negotiations with rideshare companies and were intent on playing hardball instead of coming up with a compromise. It was clearly all about retaliating against these companies that these legislators didn&#x27;t like, with no thought given to how it would actually work or what would be best for constituents (as evidenced by just how many other industries, from journalists to musicians, were caught in the crossfire and had to be exempted one by one).<p>Given that, I think this sets a precedent to legislators that they actually need to do their jobs. They need to do the hard work of designing practical laws that will actually work for all of their constituents. Their job is not just to make bold symbolic gestures to fire up the most extreme members of their base, and if they do and they insist on doubling down on bad policies that work against a large number of their constituents best interests, it can backfire like it did with prop 22.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mbgerring</author><text>No matter how you feel about AB5, allowing an industry to write laws and then coerce its workers into acting as campaign volunteers whether they agree with the law or not is a horrible precedent. This is not how our laws should be made, and we will come to regret this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California Voters Exempt Uber, Lyft, DoorDash from Having to Reclassify Drivers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-voters-exempt-uber-lyft-doordash-from-having-to-reclassify-drivers-11604476276</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hodgesrm</author><text>I voted against Prop 22 but you have to respect that it got 58% of the vote according to currently posted results. That is a pretty good majority. The result (a) undermines the argument that workers were widely coerced and (b) demonstrates there&#x27;s a widespread reaction to AB5.<p>It&#x27;s hard to avoid the conclusion that the California Assembly brought this situation on the citizens by writing a bad law.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mbgerring</author><text>No matter how you feel about AB5, allowing an industry to write laws and then coerce its workers into acting as campaign volunteers whether they agree with the law or not is a horrible precedent. This is not how our laws should be made, and we will come to regret this.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>California Voters Exempt Uber, Lyft, DoorDash from Having to Reclassify Drivers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-voters-exempt-uber-lyft-doordash-from-having-to-reclassify-drivers-11604476276</url></story> |
10,106,728 | 10,106,509 | 1 | 3 | 10,106,026 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bradbeattie</author><text>Needs community tagging of recipes. The recipe of the day is vegan and vegetarian, but has neither tag (both of which already exist: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cooking.nytimes.com&#x2F;tag&#x2F;vegan" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cooking.nytimes.com&#x2F;tag&#x2F;vegan</a>). No doubt this problem exists for other tags and other recipies in the database.<p>Edit: A cursory search through the BBC&#x27;s recipe database shows their tags to be notably more thorough, though at times mistaken (butter labeled vegan in <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;food&#x2F;recipes&#x2F;sugar_and_spice_67172" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;food&#x2F;recipes&#x2F;sugar_and_spice_67172</a>) and unfortunately just as immutable at the NYT site.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The New York Times Makes 17k Recipes Available Online</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-new-york-times-makes-17000-tasty-recipes-available-online.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>kqr2</author><text>Direct link : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cooking.nytimes.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cooking.nytimes.com&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The New York Times Makes 17k Recipes Available Online</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-new-york-times-makes-17000-tasty-recipes-available-online.html</url></story> |
5,879,719 | 5,879,746 | 1 | 2 | 5,879,424 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>josteink</author><text>Hm. Clever strategy releasing only for Office 365 customers first.<p>Microsoft is clearly aware that most people with a tablet already have something by Apple or an Android device and that trying to use Office to sell them a Windows RT device isn&#x27;t going to work.<p>However enticing organizations to &quot;upgrade&quot; to Office 365 (which comes with a regular subscription fee and better long term profits) to get a version for the tablet they already have might actually move some 365-licenses.<p>I say they are making the best of the situation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Office Mobile arrives for iOS</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/hell-freezes-over-microsoft-office-mobile-arrives-for-ios/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nwh</author><text>I struggle with the move towards everything being subscription based. Very quickly it becomes difficult to quantify just how much it is costing to own, and maintain ownership of a license for a piece of software.<p>If I see an application that is $50, I can quickly quantify that into hours I need to work for this to be paid off. I can compare the value I am getting to the amount of currency that I expend on it. I know that if I need to in the future, it will always be there for me to rely on.<p>If I see a service that is $12 a month it becomes a much harder game. Sure it might be worth it for the first month, but the second one becomes a much harder decision. Do I unsubscribe, and lose all the data that I have stores, or do I pay another $12 and hope that it continues to be useful to me in the future? In the future I might need to sign up again, which is a lot more hassle than it is worth.<p>All of these &quot;small&quot; subscriptions are beginning to cost me more than I&#x27;d like.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Office Mobile arrives for iOS</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/hell-freezes-over-microsoft-office-mobile-arrives-for-ios/</url></story> |
33,150,659 | 33,150,081 | 1 | 2 | 33,148,697 | train | <instructions>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>&gt; It’s weird to me how many folks attest to “being at FAANG means you’re lazy.”<p>I’ve participated in some mentorship programs for college grads. There are a lot of students who think that the FAANG career path is basically “Study LeetCode for a few months, get FAANG job, then rest and vest”.<p>Of those who make it into FAANG, it’s common for them to be surprised by how demanding and competitive their jobs are. I’m not sure where people are getting the idea that the highest paid jobs in our industry also happen to be some of the easiest, but it doesn’t even make logical sense.<p>I suspect a lot of it stems from sour grapes: People inherently get jealous of high earners in prestigious jobs, and tend to reach for excuses to bring them down a notch.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bradlys</author><text>It’s weird to me how many folks attest to “being at FAANG means you’re lazy.” The people I know who joined FAANG in the last five years are some of the hardest working people you’ll meet. There are some who get lucky and manage to coast but overall - the quality and tenacity of the IC folks is generally quite high.<p>I don’t think many of these people will have trouble finding a job. After all - they most likely grinded the fuck out of leetcode and system design to get in. That type of persona to do hundreds of problems doesn’t easily waver in the face of minor adversity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>12,000 Facebook employees, 15% of its workforce, may lose jobs amid quiet layoff</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/12000-facebook-employees-15-of-its-workforce-may-lose-jobs-amid-quiet-layoffs-report/articleshow/94676235.cms</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codekansas</author><text>My impression is that most people who start at a FAANG company are pretty hard-working but over time become less so, as they realize that it doesn&#x27;t make much of a difference how hard they work and as they get too comfortable with the various benefits that working at a large company provides. Personally that&#x27;s what I find kind of depressing, seeing highly-motivated people having their potential sapped by working on contrived pillars instead of using their talents to make cool and useful stuff.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bradlys</author><text>It’s weird to me how many folks attest to “being at FAANG means you’re lazy.” The people I know who joined FAANG in the last five years are some of the hardest working people you’ll meet. There are some who get lucky and manage to coast but overall - the quality and tenacity of the IC folks is generally quite high.<p>I don’t think many of these people will have trouble finding a job. After all - they most likely grinded the fuck out of leetcode and system design to get in. That type of persona to do hundreds of problems doesn’t easily waver in the face of minor adversity.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>12,000 Facebook employees, 15% of its workforce, may lose jobs amid quiet layoff</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/12000-facebook-employees-15-of-its-workforce-may-lose-jobs-amid-quiet-layoffs-report/articleshow/94676235.cms</url></story> |
24,359,161 | 24,358,358 | 1 | 2 | 24,351,111 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arsome</author><text>Just be careful - unless you mark that torrent private it&#x27;ll get posted to the DHT and crawlers like BtDig will pick it up and list it publicly.<p>For this reason I prefer using something like Syncthing which is designed more with this purpose in mind.</text><parent_chain><item><author>livueta</author><text>Bittorrent. No, really. Lots of nice behaviors when transferring large amounts of data between arbitrary endpoints.<p>Transferring the torrent metadata is pretty trivial and can be done via a wide range of methods, and having that flexibility can be nice.<p>Unlike HTTP, you get reasonable retry behavior on network hiccups.
Also, more robust data integrity guarantees, though a manual hash test is probably a good idea either way.<p>At least among people I&#x27;m throwing TBs of data around with, torrent infra is common and it&#x27;s nice to not have to deal with some special-purpose tool that, in practice, is probably a pain in the ass to get compatible versions deployed across a range of OSes. Basically every platform known to man can run a torrent client of some sort.<p>And obviously, no dependency on an intermediary. This is good if you&#x27;re trying to avoid Google et al. That does, however, bring a potential con: if my side is fast and your side is slow, I&#x27;m seeing until you&#x27;re done. If I&#x27;m uploading something to gdrive or whatever, I can disconnect one r the upload is done. If you control an intermediary like a seedbox, that&#x27;s less of a problem.<p>In general, though, torrents are pretty great for this sort of thing. Just encrypt your stuff beforehand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?</title><text>I just opened up a simple HTTP server to send someone a large file. Then I figured, I never gave this question proper thought.<p>But some of you have, and I figured they make for fun and interesting stories ;-)<p>So what&#x27;s your favorite method to send large files, of at least 5GB or bigger? Though, I&#x27;m also curious on how you&#x27;d send 10TB or more.</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>libertine</author><text>Sometimes I wonder if the bad connotation due to piracy made this protocol not standard (in a sense, that&#x27;s not widely adopted, and people need dedicated clients, instead of it working for example in browsers).<p>I don&#x27;t know enough, maybe it has security issues, or some limits... but the fact is that it&#x27;s still widely used, by tech literate people, so it still stands the test of time and it must be doing something right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>livueta</author><text>Bittorrent. No, really. Lots of nice behaviors when transferring large amounts of data between arbitrary endpoints.<p>Transferring the torrent metadata is pretty trivial and can be done via a wide range of methods, and having that flexibility can be nice.<p>Unlike HTTP, you get reasonable retry behavior on network hiccups.
Also, more robust data integrity guarantees, though a manual hash test is probably a good idea either way.<p>At least among people I&#x27;m throwing TBs of data around with, torrent infra is common and it&#x27;s nice to not have to deal with some special-purpose tool that, in practice, is probably a pain in the ass to get compatible versions deployed across a range of OSes. Basically every platform known to man can run a torrent client of some sort.<p>And obviously, no dependency on an intermediary. This is good if you&#x27;re trying to avoid Google et al. That does, however, bring a potential con: if my side is fast and your side is slow, I&#x27;m seeing until you&#x27;re done. If I&#x27;m uploading something to gdrive or whatever, I can disconnect one r the upload is done. If you control an intermediary like a seedbox, that&#x27;s less of a problem.<p>In general, though, torrents are pretty great for this sort of thing. Just encrypt your stuff beforehand.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?</title><text>I just opened up a simple HTTP server to send someone a large file. Then I figured, I never gave this question proper thought.<p>But some of you have, and I figured they make for fun and interesting stories ;-)<p>So what&#x27;s your favorite method to send large files, of at least 5GB or bigger? Though, I&#x27;m also curious on how you&#x27;d send 10TB or more.</text></story> |
31,347,598 | 31,347,418 | 1 | 2 | 31,344,065 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nickjj</author><text>&gt; they could have probably build a very Ruby on Rails like framework on a language more suited to the size and scale of these platforms.<p>I have a hunch they would rather have tens of thousands of other folks using a framework that has massive community support and folks other than them directly maintaining it.<p>Also being able to Google almost any problem in Rails and find multiple really good answers is worth needing 5 or 10 times more compute costs on just your application servers because dev time is expensive at any scale.<p>If you&#x27;re paying 2,000 developers 150k+ a year that&#x27;s 300 million dollars without accounting for anything that scales off base salary (bonuses, 401k matching, etc.). If you can save each developer 5 hours a week because of the Rails community existing that&#x27;s 10,000 dev hours a week saved. An average person might work let&#x27;s say 1,900 hours a year. That&#x27;s roughly ~5.2 years of dev time saved from using Rails in opportunity costs and direct costs per week. Direct costs alone is ~$790k per week. I don&#x27;t know what Shopify or a bigger place is paying on just application server costs but I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s well worth hosting Rails instead of building their own framework in a more computationally efficient framework.<p>I think these numbers are really generous too. I&#x27;m guessing using Rails is saving a lot more than 5 hours a week of dev time per developer.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onebot</author><text>I honestly love Ruby and Ruby on Rails, but I can&#x27;t understand why companies like Shopify and Github go through so much effort to scale Ruby especially at their size. Maybe I am wrong, but couldn&#x27;t this effort be put to rewriting parts of it in a more performant language like Go or Rust? One has to imagine that they have a large code base, how much developer time is spent writing Tests for Ruby? How much time was spent debugging odd monkey patching gems over the life of the codebase?<p>I do get that developer time was&#x2F;is more expensive than servers. But I am not so sure at some level of scale. When you need 100 servers vs 5, and need to spend so much testing effort dealing with dynamic language, etc. And then you build custom compilers, special tools for tracing, entire architectures to deal with single threaded model, etc. Between Github &amp; Shopify alone, they could have probably build a very Ruby on Rails like framework on a language more suited to the size and scale of these platforms.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust</title><url>https://shopify.engineering/porting-yjit-ruby-compiler-to-rust</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>IAmEveryone</author><text>The &quot;parts of it&quot; in your question might be the clue to an answer: you start implementing some often-used code path only to realize that they share code with all the rarely used code paths (permissions&#x2F;authentication come to mind),<p>So you&#x27;d need to reimplement a whole bunch of your codebase, at which point you&#x27;ll have two versions of everything that you need to keep in sync.</text><parent_chain><item><author>onebot</author><text>I honestly love Ruby and Ruby on Rails, but I can&#x27;t understand why companies like Shopify and Github go through so much effort to scale Ruby especially at their size. Maybe I am wrong, but couldn&#x27;t this effort be put to rewriting parts of it in a more performant language like Go or Rust? One has to imagine that they have a large code base, how much developer time is spent writing Tests for Ruby? How much time was spent debugging odd monkey patching gems over the life of the codebase?<p>I do get that developer time was&#x2F;is more expensive than servers. But I am not so sure at some level of scale. When you need 100 servers vs 5, and need to spend so much testing effort dealing with dynamic language, etc. And then you build custom compilers, special tools for tracing, entire architectures to deal with single threaded model, etc. Between Github &amp; Shopify alone, they could have probably build a very Ruby on Rails like framework on a language more suited to the size and scale of these platforms.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust</title><url>https://shopify.engineering/porting-yjit-ruby-compiler-to-rust</url></story> |
6,492,360 | 6,492,248 | 1 | 3 | 6,492,060 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>7Figures2Commas</author><text>Salesforce is worth $30 billion and has no earnings. Amazon is worth $143 billion and has no earnings. Facebook, with a ~$120 market cap, is valued at more than 200 times earnings. Tesla&#x27;s market cap is roughly a third of Ford&#x27;s.<p>As long as the Fed is easing, fundamentals don&#x27;t matter. The mispricing in equities is particularly pronounced in prominent technology companies, but there is clear excess throughout the market.<p>The name of the game is momentum. This game will end, and badly, but questioning the market and fighting the Fed has not been the path to profit so keep in mind that, right now, Twitter&#x27;s bottom line is practically irrelevant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tcoppi</author><text>Loss of almost $80 million on $316 million in revenue, and they&#x27;re offering $1b... seems like they&#x27;re asking for a lot when they have very little.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter files S-1 with the SEC</title><url>http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312513390321/d564001ds1.htm</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dm8</author><text>Looks like they are betting on potential. To be honest, Twitter is so mainstream that it is entirely new medium of news&#x2F;discovery&#x2F;conversation just like Radio&#x2F;TV&#x2F;Internet. I&#x27;m sure they will be extremely profitable company in the future.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tcoppi</author><text>Loss of almost $80 million on $316 million in revenue, and they&#x27;re offering $1b... seems like they&#x27;re asking for a lot when they have very little.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter files S-1 with the SEC</title><url>http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312513390321/d564001ds1.htm</url></story> |
6,202,819 | 6,202,751 | 1 | 2 | 6,202,436 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DougWebb</author><text>A bitcoin address is just a container for some amount of BTC. Holding an amount of currency isn&#x27;t taxable, and exchanging currency often isn&#x27;t taxable either. (I&#x27;m generalizing across jurisdictions, but I think what I&#x27;m saying is true for most of them.)<p>If you move money from one pocket to another, or one savings account to another (that you own), that&#x27;s not taxable. Very many transfers between bitcoin addresses is just like that: the &#x27;change&#x27; from a transfer goes to a new address owned by the same person.<p>Even when the addresses are owned by two different people, the transfer often isn&#x27;t taxable. You don&#x27;t pay a tax when you pay a bill, but that&#x27;s a currency transfer between two parties. Even when you buy something it isn&#x27;t necessarily taxable; in many jurisdictions many products are sold tax-free based on either the type of product or where the buyer and&#x2F;or seller are based.<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a way to enforce taxation on bitcoin that&#x27;s not already being used to enforce cash sales taxes and cash income, despite the tracability of the coins, because the address owners may not be identifiable, and the nature of the transfer is definitely not identifiable from the blockchain.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pnathan</author><text>Unpopular opinion of the day: bitcoin is real money, and the government <i>will</i> regulate it and control it as such.<p>In my opinion, the end-game is this: bitcoin addresses are taxable, with occasional tax agents spot-checking large accumulations of bitcoin to determine if said addresses fall within their jurisdiction. Bitcoin has the unusual ability to have a very tight trace on where a given virtual coin goes: that just makes the ability to watch the money easier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Every important person in BitCoin just got subpoenaed by NY financial regulators</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/12/every-important-person-in-bitcoin-just-got-subpoenaed-by-new-yorks-financial-regulator/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why this should be unpopular, except among people who see the Internet as a new Wild West. The basic advantage of Bitcoin, that its controlled by an algorithm rather than a central bank, exists whether or not financial regulations apply to Bitcoin. Does it destroy the utility of a crypto currency for exchanges and processors to be required to detect e.g. money laundering?</text><parent_chain><item><author>pnathan</author><text>Unpopular opinion of the day: bitcoin is real money, and the government <i>will</i> regulate it and control it as such.<p>In my opinion, the end-game is this: bitcoin addresses are taxable, with occasional tax agents spot-checking large accumulations of bitcoin to determine if said addresses fall within their jurisdiction. Bitcoin has the unusual ability to have a very tight trace on where a given virtual coin goes: that just makes the ability to watch the money easier.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Every important person in BitCoin just got subpoenaed by NY financial regulators</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/12/every-important-person-in-bitcoin-just-got-subpoenaed-by-new-yorks-financial-regulator/</url></story> |
40,470,777 | 40,470,083 | 1 | 3 | 40,468,518 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>flourpower471</author><text>Well I work in prop trading and have only ever worked for prop firms- our firm trades it&#x27;s own capital and distributes it to the owners and us under profit share agreements - so we have no incentive to sell ourselves as any smarter than the reality.<p>Saying it&#x27;s all high school math is a bit of a loaded phrase. &quot;High school math&quot; incorporates basically all practical computer science and machine learning and statistics.<p>If I suspect you could probably build a particle accelerator without using more math than a bit of calculus - that doesn&#x27;t make it easy or simple to build one.<p>Very few people I&#x27;ve worked with have ever said they are doing cutting edge math - it&#x27;s more like scientific research . The space of ideas is huge, and the ways to ruin yourself innumerable. It&#x27;s more about people who have a scientific mindset who can make progress in a very high noise and adaptive environment.<p>It&#x27;s probably more about avoiding blunders than it is having some genius paradigm shifting idea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>posting_mess</author><text>No hedge fund registered before the last 2 weeks will use Llama3 for their &quot;prod work&quot; beyond &quot;experiments&quot;.<p>Quant trading is about &quot;going fast&quot; or &quot;being super right&quot;, so either you&#x27;d need to be sitting on some huge llama.cpp&#x2F;transformer improvement (possible but unlikely) or its more likely just some boring math applied faster than others.<p>Even if they are using a &quot;LLM&quot;, they wont tell you or even hint at it - &quot;efficient market&quot; n all that.<p>Remember all quants need to be &quot;the smartest in the world&quot; or their whole industry falls apart, wait till you find out its all &quot;high school math&quot; based on algo&#x27;s largely derived 30&#x2F;40 years ago (okay not as true for &quot;quants&quot; but most &quot;trading&quot; isn&#x27;t as complex as they&#x27;d like you&#x2F;us to believe).</text></item><item><author>bethekind</author><text>Do you use llama 3 for your work?</text></item><item><author>flourpower471</author><text>Not to mention, as somebody who works in quant trading doing ml all day on this kind of data. That ann benchmark is nowhere near state of the art.<p>People didn&#x27;t stop working on this in 1989 - they realised they can make lots of money doing it and do it privately.</text></item><item><author>antimatter15</author><text>Figure 3 on p.40 of the paper seems to show that their LLM based model does not statistically significantly outperform a 3 layer neural network using 59 variables from 1989.<p><pre><code> This figure compares the prediction performance of GPT and quantitative models based on machine learning. Stepwise Logistic follows Ou and Penman (1989)’s structure with their 59 financial predictors. ANN is a three-layer artificial neural network model using the same set of variables as in Ou and Penman (1989). GPT (with CoT) provides the model with financial statement information and detailed chain-of-thought prompts. We report average accuracy (the percentage of correct predictions out of total predictions) for each method (left) and F1 score (right). We obtain bootstrapped standard errors by randomly sampling 1,000 observations 1,000 times and include 95% confidence intervals.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4835311</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qeternity</author><text>It’s impressive how incorrect so much of this information is. High frequency trading is about going fast. There is a huge mid and low freq quant industry. Also most quant strategies are absolutely not about being “super right”…that would be the province of concentrated discretionary strategies. Quant is almost always about being slightly more right than wrong but at large scale.<p>What algos are you referring to derived 30 or 40 years ago? Do you understand the decay for a typical strategy? None of this makes any sense.</text><parent_chain><item><author>posting_mess</author><text>No hedge fund registered before the last 2 weeks will use Llama3 for their &quot;prod work&quot; beyond &quot;experiments&quot;.<p>Quant trading is about &quot;going fast&quot; or &quot;being super right&quot;, so either you&#x27;d need to be sitting on some huge llama.cpp&#x2F;transformer improvement (possible but unlikely) or its more likely just some boring math applied faster than others.<p>Even if they are using a &quot;LLM&quot;, they wont tell you or even hint at it - &quot;efficient market&quot; n all that.<p>Remember all quants need to be &quot;the smartest in the world&quot; or their whole industry falls apart, wait till you find out its all &quot;high school math&quot; based on algo&#x27;s largely derived 30&#x2F;40 years ago (okay not as true for &quot;quants&quot; but most &quot;trading&quot; isn&#x27;t as complex as they&#x27;d like you&#x2F;us to believe).</text></item><item><author>bethekind</author><text>Do you use llama 3 for your work?</text></item><item><author>flourpower471</author><text>Not to mention, as somebody who works in quant trading doing ml all day on this kind of data. That ann benchmark is nowhere near state of the art.<p>People didn&#x27;t stop working on this in 1989 - they realised they can make lots of money doing it and do it privately.</text></item><item><author>antimatter15</author><text>Figure 3 on p.40 of the paper seems to show that their LLM based model does not statistically significantly outperform a 3 layer neural network using 59 variables from 1989.<p><pre><code> This figure compares the prediction performance of GPT and quantitative models based on machine learning. Stepwise Logistic follows Ou and Penman (1989)’s structure with their 59 financial predictors. ANN is a three-layer artificial neural network model using the same set of variables as in Ou and Penman (1989). GPT (with CoT) provides the model with financial statement information and detailed chain-of-thought prompts. We report average accuracy (the percentage of correct predictions out of total predictions) for each method (left) and F1 score (right). We obtain bootstrapped standard errors by randomly sampling 1,000 observations 1,000 times and include 95% confidence intervals.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4835311</url></story> |
2,412,986 | 2,412,266 | 1 | 3 | 2,411,858 | 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>jawngee</author><text>Huh?<p>I'm self taught, the last math class I took was 9th grade Algebra.<p>I wrote one of the first vector based, anti-aliased, alpha channeled UI frameworks for Windows 95 (16 bit!). I wrote a DSP processing engine for a telemedical application to monitor heart rate and blood pressure in 1997. I've written control software for elevators. I've written contract after effects plugins for post fx shops. I've written audio and midi sequencers. My video editing app, Shave, is the only other useful editor in the Mac App Store other than iMovie.<p>I've never cracked a math book.<p>Am I the exception that proves the rule? I'm not saying I could write Maya, but I think you are overvaluing your opinion a little.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pkaler</author><text>The one difference I see is that CS Educated Programmers that went to good schools took a lot of math.<p>I have met very few self-taught programmers that also happen to be self-taught mathematicians. This limits the type of code you can write.<p>Linear algebra is required to deeply understand computer graphics.<p>Calculus is required anywhere you have signal processing. This means audio and video editing.<p>Physics is required for simulation software and video games.<p>Discrete and combinatorial math is required in systems software like databases.<p>You're just not going to hit these issues if what you do all day is glue Javascript and Ruby together.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Self-Taught Programmers vs CS-Educated Programmers</title><url>http://chezpete.posterous.com/self-taught-programmer-vs-cs-educated-program</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>smanek</author><text><i>shrugs</i> I don't have a degree and I'm fairly comfortable with all those topics (and quite a few more - including abstract algebra, real analysis, numerical methods, tiny bits and pieces of category theory, etc).<p>I like to read journal articles, and when I stumble onto something I don't know, I go learn about it. Just in the last year or so, I've taught myself stochastic calculus (I was doing HFT and wanted to learn more about the greeks) and the basic typed lambda calculus (was into haskell and wanted to learn more type theory). These days I'm doing distributed systems, so I'm brushing up on the process calculi.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pkaler</author><text>The one difference I see is that CS Educated Programmers that went to good schools took a lot of math.<p>I have met very few self-taught programmers that also happen to be self-taught mathematicians. This limits the type of code you can write.<p>Linear algebra is required to deeply understand computer graphics.<p>Calculus is required anywhere you have signal processing. This means audio and video editing.<p>Physics is required for simulation software and video games.<p>Discrete and combinatorial math is required in systems software like databases.<p>You're just not going to hit these issues if what you do all day is glue Javascript and Ruby together.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Self-Taught Programmers vs CS-Educated Programmers</title><url>http://chezpete.posterous.com/self-taught-programmer-vs-cs-educated-program</url></story> |
970,958 | 970,198 | 1 | 2 | 969,619 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rictic</author><text>One solution that will almost certainly get implemented is WebWorkers. From that you get string-only message passing (though it'd obviously be easy to do json-encoding of data in messages) between js processes.<p>That, combined with event based non-blocking apis for managing multiple tasks neatly covers more or less everything you can do in many other mainstream languages like Python and Ruby (excluding some magic in native code extensions).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>The biggest problem with "Javascript on the server" right now is that Javascript has no concurrency story whatsoever. You could easily hack in shared-state threading, but there would be no faster way to turn me off of Javascript forever than to do that. You could hack in message-passing, but it won't be clean and you're still going to have terrible fun trying to not pass mutable references, which, again, if you leave that in I will run screaming. STM isn't exactly going to be easy to stick in either.<p>(I say I will "run screaming" not merely because I don't want to deal with it, but because I don't want to deal with yet more libraries based on shared-state concurrency. No. I've left that behind and I'm not going back, and certainly not in a space where I've got an abundance of languages to choose from.)<p>Without a solution to that problem, I see this as a terribly, terribly wrong move, and a terrible time for JS to try to be picking up the server. Servers are <i>in</i> the multicore age and have been for a couple years now.<p>(And if your answer is "well, we'll just keep all the tasks simple and we won't need multiple threads", I would remind you that you're running <i>on the server</i>, which often needs to do, you know, <i>actual work</i>. A language that can't do that may have a small niche, but it's going to be an uphill battle against entrenched competitors.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/12/commonjs-effort-sets-javascript-on-path-for-world-domination.ars</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nkurz</author><text>What use cases are you envisioning where threading will be essential? Or aiming in the opposite direction, what use cases are people envisioning for server-side Javascript at all?<p>I presume its anticipated niche is as a CGI-type replacement --- relatively light-weight 'programs' executed per request. If that's the case, is there much need for multithreading?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>The biggest problem with "Javascript on the server" right now is that Javascript has no concurrency story whatsoever. You could easily hack in shared-state threading, but there would be no faster way to turn me off of Javascript forever than to do that. You could hack in message-passing, but it won't be clean and you're still going to have terrible fun trying to not pass mutable references, which, again, if you leave that in I will run screaming. STM isn't exactly going to be easy to stick in either.<p>(I say I will "run screaming" not merely because I don't want to deal with it, but because I don't want to deal with yet more libraries based on shared-state concurrency. No. I've left that behind and I'm not going back, and certainly not in a space where I've got an abundance of languages to choose from.)<p>Without a solution to that problem, I see this as a terribly, terribly wrong move, and a terrible time for JS to try to be picking up the server. Servers are <i>in</i> the multicore age and have been for a couple years now.<p>(And if your answer is "well, we'll just keep all the tasks simple and we won't need multiple threads", I would remind you that you're running <i>on the server</i>, which often needs to do, you know, <i>actual work</i>. A language that can't do that may have a small niche, but it's going to be an uphill battle against entrenched competitors.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/12/commonjs-effort-sets-javascript-on-path-for-world-domination.ars</url></story> |
15,320,810 | 15,320,802 | 1 | 2 | 15,320,342 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spapas82</author><text>Start with the django-tutorial. Always start with the tutorial no matter what else they tell you. The django tutorial is excellent and cover most basics: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.djangoproject.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;1.11&#x2F;intro&#x2F;tutorial01&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.djangoproject.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;1.11&#x2F;intro&#x2F;tutorial01&#x2F;</a><p>Then start writing your own application. When you have questions read the django documentantion. The django docs are the <i>best</i> documentantion I&#x27;ve ever seen, they are better than most books about django and should answer all your questions. The docs are so good I recommend reading them from start to finish - i.e download this off line version of the docs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.readthedocs.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;django&#x2F;1.11.x&#x2F;django.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.readthedocs.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;django&#x2F;1.11.x&#x2F;django.pdf</a><p>and read it from cover to cover. You will not regret it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gt_</author><text>Can someone recommend a learning path for building Django sites&#x2F;apps to someone who has no web dev experience but uses python for scripting and workstation utilities? In particular, I use python for VFX&#x2F;CGI scripting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Django 2.0 alpha</title><url>https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/2.0?hnews</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leetrout</author><text>I went from MEL scripting to Python to PHP to Python &#x2F; Django.<p>Coming from VFX will give you a different perspective compared to other compsci types IMO. Especially if you&#x27;ve worked with things procedurally.<p>In the end with Django it&#x27;s more than just Python but other than controlling ornery ORM generated SQL its pretty easy to work with on all fronts and has PHENOMENAL documentation.<p>Hit me up I twitter @leetrout if you want to chat more.</text><parent_chain><item><author>gt_</author><text>Can someone recommend a learning path for building Django sites&#x2F;apps to someone who has no web dev experience but uses python for scripting and workstation utilities? In particular, I use python for VFX&#x2F;CGI scripting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Django 2.0 alpha</title><url>https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/2.0?hnews</url></story> |
12,205,234 | 12,204,792 | 1 | 3 | 12,204,676 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Analemma_</author><text>This seems like as good a time as any to bring up a question I&#x27;ve been wondering. I&#x27;ve seen enough examples like this to know that, for monoalphabetic substitution ciphers, frequency analysis is the way to go with attacking them. But what about ciphers that are just slightly more complicated than that, but nowhere near the strength of &quot;real&quot; crypto. How does one go about attacking these?<p>Like, imagine a cipher where you shift each letter once (modulo &#x27;Z&#x27;) for each character of the text thus far (e.g. &quot;HELLO WORLD&quot; becomes &quot;HFNOS BUYTM&quot;). I&#x27;m sure someone has a name for this that I don&#x27;t know. This seems immune to frequency analysis (unless you have such a large ciphertext that you begin to notice recurring strings with 1&#x2F;26th the probability of a monoalphabetic cipher), but still trivial enough that an experienced cryptanalyist should crack it immediately. My question is, how would they do it? What&#x27;s the &quot;next step&quot; if frequency analysis fails?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cracking the Adventure Time cipher</title><url>http://aaronrandall.com/blog/cracking-the-adventure-time-cipher/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>I just did something similar last week with the first puzzle from The Maze of Games, which I found through the sample for it in the current Humble Book Bundle (Puzzle Book Bundle)[2]. Although, I don&#x27;t have any experience with cryptography, so I probably stumbled a bit more. It was fun though!<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.humblebundle.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;puzzle-book-bundle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.humblebundle.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;puzzle-book-bundle</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cracking the Adventure Time cipher</title><url>http://aaronrandall.com/blog/cracking-the-adventure-time-cipher/</url></story> |
13,593,046 | 13,593,106 | 1 | 2 | 13,591,561 | 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>JacobJans</author><text>This ammendment almost made it to the floor:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;amendment&#x2F;115th-congress&#x2F;senate-amendment&#x2F;178&#x2F;actions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;amendment&#x2F;115th-congress&#x2F;senate-ame...</a><p>You can see who voted for &#x2F; against it:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;amendment&#x2F;115th-congress&#x2F;senate-amendment&#x2F;178&#x2F;actions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;amendment&#x2F;115th-congress&#x2F;senate-ame...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>beambot</author><text>What is preventing legislation that simply opens borders &#x2F; trade for filling prescriptions?</text></item><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text><p><pre><code> Medicare Part D plans are run by private insurers and
they certainly do negotiate on price.
</code></pre>
Why is a third party negotiating for Medicare, rather than Medicare negotiating directly? Because they&#x27;re smaller, and have less leverage.<p><pre><code> physician administered drugs are paid for at a rate
that is the average of what private payers pay.
</code></pre>
Why is a third party negotiating for Medicare, rather than Medicare negotiating directly? Because they&#x27;re smaller, and have less leverage.<p>From <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;28&#x2F;health&#x2F;us-pays-more-for-drugs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;28&#x2F;health&#x2F;us-pays-more-for-drugs&#x2F;</a><p>-- Gleevec (a cancer treatment): $6,214 (per month&#x2F;per customer) in the United States, compared to $1,141 in Canada and $2,697 in England.<p>-- Humira (for rheumatoid arthritis): $2,246 in the United States, compared to $881 in Switzerland and $1,102 in England.<p>-- Cymbalta (for depression): $194 in the United States, compared to $46 in England and $52 in the Netherlands. In fact, there is also a generic version of Cymbalta so these prices reflect having a cheaper alternative.<p>Some molecule. Different price.</text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>That&#x27;s a vast over simplification of the issue and ignores issues around implementation.<p>First off, Medicare Part D plans are run by private insurers and they certainly do negotiate on price. In fact, they tend to get better prices than commercial plans. Those savings are used to compete for Medicare dollars to cover those patients (i.e. savings are passed on to Medicare).<p>Second, physician administered drugs are paid for at a rate that is the average of what private payers pay. So no negotiation, rather a piggybacking on discounts to private insurers.<p>Finally, if you roll in the 340B discount (23% minimum), Medicare is getting a pretty good deal on drugs.<p>I would argue that unless Medicare threatens to NOT cover some drugs, it won&#x27;t reduce costs one bit. Currently there are a number of protected classes where Medicare HAS to cover those drugs. That needs to be fixed first.<p>If you don&#x27;t believe me, look at the CBO estimate of savings if Medicare is allowed to negotiate. Their findings were &quot;minimal savings&quot;.[1]<p><i>CBO estimates that enacting S. 3 would have a negligible effect on direct spending and would result in spending from appropriated funds of $2 million in 2008 and less than $500,000 annually in subsequent years. Enacting S. 3 would have no effect on revenues.</i><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbo.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;110th-congress-2007-2008&#x2F;costestimate&#x2F;s30.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbo.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;110th-congress-2007-...</a></text></item><item><author>warcher</author><text>In the united states we can&#x27;t successfully implement <i>negotiation on drug prices for MediCare</i>. They literally can&#x27;t negotiate with their suppliers. By law.<p>Anybody thinking software is going to solve that is way in a bubble.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;healthaffairs.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;the-politics-of-medicare-and-drug-price-negotiation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;healthaffairs.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;the-politics-of-med...</a></text></item><item><author>TuringNYC</author><text>(Full-time co-founder of a healthcare startup here): W&#x2F;r&#x2F;t the US specifically: it seems there is no shortage of inefficiencies and obvious solutions to the inefficiencies in the US healthcare system. To me, the real problem seems to be a system that has almost diabolically evolved to create competing interests that deadlock all sides into a sub-optimal solution. Specifically-- patients, payers, physicians, pharma, facilities and insurers almost all have indirect but competing interests much like the Dining Philosopher&#x27;s problem we&#x27;re familiar with in Computer Science.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what the solution is short of a total swamp draining, but our startup went overseas to develop&#x2F;trial our product in a country with a single payer system. Not perfect, but much more amenable to finding efficiencies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YC Research: Universal Healthcare</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research-universal-healthcare/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>edblarney</author><text>&quot;What is preventing legislation that simply opens borders &#x2F; trade for filling prescriptions?&quot;<p>US suppliers sell to Canada at a different price than they sell in the US.<p>If &#x27;borders were open&#x27; - the price in US would go down, the price in Canada would go up, roughly to the same price.<p>I understand that it seems odd, but I reject the idea that it&#x27;s &#x27;corrupt&#x27; to sell to one country at a different price than another.<p>Drugs are essentially IP, so it would be like the US selling Canada the &#x27;Superbowl&#x27; and then Canada selling and broadcasting it to the rest of the world at a discount.<p>I think something should be done about that - but drugs are not like most goods. And of course, many goods have different controls and regimes.<p>Another aspect: it&#x27;s not really &#x27;free trade&#x27; when a government entirely regulates the economy for a good. So when gov of Canada &#x27;sets prices&#x27; for a good, it kind of flies in the face of regular trade rules and potentially gives one side or another advantages, so it really doesn&#x27;t fit well under things like WTO or NAFTA.<p>Surely we could have some new thinking about this though ...</text><parent_chain><item><author>beambot</author><text>What is preventing legislation that simply opens borders &#x2F; trade for filling prescriptions?</text></item><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text><p><pre><code> Medicare Part D plans are run by private insurers and
they certainly do negotiate on price.
</code></pre>
Why is a third party negotiating for Medicare, rather than Medicare negotiating directly? Because they&#x27;re smaller, and have less leverage.<p><pre><code> physician administered drugs are paid for at a rate
that is the average of what private payers pay.
</code></pre>
Why is a third party negotiating for Medicare, rather than Medicare negotiating directly? Because they&#x27;re smaller, and have less leverage.<p>From <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;28&#x2F;health&#x2F;us-pays-more-for-drugs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;28&#x2F;health&#x2F;us-pays-more-for-drugs&#x2F;</a><p>-- Gleevec (a cancer treatment): $6,214 (per month&#x2F;per customer) in the United States, compared to $1,141 in Canada and $2,697 in England.<p>-- Humira (for rheumatoid arthritis): $2,246 in the United States, compared to $881 in Switzerland and $1,102 in England.<p>-- Cymbalta (for depression): $194 in the United States, compared to $46 in England and $52 in the Netherlands. In fact, there is also a generic version of Cymbalta so these prices reflect having a cheaper alternative.<p>Some molecule. Different price.</text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>That&#x27;s a vast over simplification of the issue and ignores issues around implementation.<p>First off, Medicare Part D plans are run by private insurers and they certainly do negotiate on price. In fact, they tend to get better prices than commercial plans. Those savings are used to compete for Medicare dollars to cover those patients (i.e. savings are passed on to Medicare).<p>Second, physician administered drugs are paid for at a rate that is the average of what private payers pay. So no negotiation, rather a piggybacking on discounts to private insurers.<p>Finally, if you roll in the 340B discount (23% minimum), Medicare is getting a pretty good deal on drugs.<p>I would argue that unless Medicare threatens to NOT cover some drugs, it won&#x27;t reduce costs one bit. Currently there are a number of protected classes where Medicare HAS to cover those drugs. That needs to be fixed first.<p>If you don&#x27;t believe me, look at the CBO estimate of savings if Medicare is allowed to negotiate. Their findings were &quot;minimal savings&quot;.[1]<p><i>CBO estimates that enacting S. 3 would have a negligible effect on direct spending and would result in spending from appropriated funds of $2 million in 2008 and less than $500,000 annually in subsequent years. Enacting S. 3 would have no effect on revenues.</i><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbo.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;110th-congress-2007-2008&#x2F;costestimate&#x2F;s30.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbo.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;110th-congress-2007-...</a></text></item><item><author>warcher</author><text>In the united states we can&#x27;t successfully implement <i>negotiation on drug prices for MediCare</i>. They literally can&#x27;t negotiate with their suppliers. By law.<p>Anybody thinking software is going to solve that is way in a bubble.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;healthaffairs.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;the-politics-of-medicare-and-drug-price-negotiation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;healthaffairs.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;the-politics-of-med...</a></text></item><item><author>TuringNYC</author><text>(Full-time co-founder of a healthcare startup here): W&#x2F;r&#x2F;t the US specifically: it seems there is no shortage of inefficiencies and obvious solutions to the inefficiencies in the US healthcare system. To me, the real problem seems to be a system that has almost diabolically evolved to create competing interests that deadlock all sides into a sub-optimal solution. Specifically-- patients, payers, physicians, pharma, facilities and insurers almost all have indirect but competing interests much like the Dining Philosopher&#x27;s problem we&#x27;re familiar with in Computer Science.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what the solution is short of a total swamp draining, but our startup went overseas to develop&#x2F;trial our product in a country with a single payer system. Not perfect, but much more amenable to finding efficiencies.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>YC Research: Universal Healthcare</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research-universal-healthcare/</url></story> |
26,474,702 | 26,473,196 | 1 | 2 | 26,472,452 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chrisandchris</author><text>Exactly my reasons: I don‘t use Docker because it‘s great that i can (could?) scale the universe.<p>In my case, I simply use Docker because it is so easy to set up n HTTP services listening on port 80&#x2F;442 on the same server and then put a reverse proxy (traefik) with Let‘s Encrypt in front of it. I don‘t need to worry about port conflicts. I don‘t need to worry about running Nginx and Apache on the same host. I don‘t need to worry about multiple versions of Go&#x2F;PHP&#x2F;Dotnet&#x2F;[insert lang here].<p>Still, I can‘t scale (single machine) but I don‘t need to. I don‘t have a failover, because I don‘t need one. But I have so much simpler management of the dozen services I run on the host. And that‘s worth it IMHO.<p>I think it‘s always about the right tool for the job. And I think if the OP does work with an automated script and scp, there‘s nothing wrong with that. Because that also adds reproducability to the pipeline and that‘s just such an important point. As long as nobody ssh‘s into prod and modifies some file by hand.</text><parent_chain><item><author>victorronin</author><text>It&#x27;s super simple and it works for you - yeay! great!
If it will continue to work for you - double yeay!<p>However, as soon as I read, I saw a lot of red flags:<p>- Do you really want to copy from a development computer to your production? No staging at all? (&quot;go test&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean that you have 0 bugs)<p>- Are you really sure that everything works exactly the same on different versions of GoLang? (Hey, a new guy in your company just installed unreleased Go 1.17, build on his notebook and pushed to production)?<p>- That VM with systemd died at 1am. No customers for you until 7am (when you wake up)<p>BTW. I am not saying that you should do Docker or CICD. The thing which I am saying that when you cut out from your process too much, you are increasing risks. (As an example, you didn&#x27;t remove unit tests part. Based on &quot;Anything that doesn’t directly serve that goal is a complication&quot; you probably should have. However, you decided that it would be way too much risk)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Don’t Use Docker</title><url>https://launchyourapp.meezeeworkouts.com/2021/03/why-we-dont-use-docker-we-dont-need-it.html?m=1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>code_sloth</author><text>&gt; Do you really want to copy from a development computer to your production? ...<p>&gt; Are you really sure that everything works exactly the same on different versions of GoLang? ...<p>He mentions he does have a build server which runs a 10 line shell script to download code and build the binary.<p>Builds happen on that server, and I assume it handles deploying the compiled binary (and systemd script?) to the target as well.<p>The build server would also have a &quot;blessed&quot; golang version. New guy code that uses new not-yet-blessed features would not compile.<p>&gt; That VM with systemd died at 1am...<p>Your docker host died. All your containers die along with it. Docker alone cannot solve this category of issues anyway.</text><parent_chain><item><author>victorronin</author><text>It&#x27;s super simple and it works for you - yeay! great!
If it will continue to work for you - double yeay!<p>However, as soon as I read, I saw a lot of red flags:<p>- Do you really want to copy from a development computer to your production? No staging at all? (&quot;go test&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean that you have 0 bugs)<p>- Are you really sure that everything works exactly the same on different versions of GoLang? (Hey, a new guy in your company just installed unreleased Go 1.17, build on his notebook and pushed to production)?<p>- That VM with systemd died at 1am. No customers for you until 7am (when you wake up)<p>BTW. I am not saying that you should do Docker or CICD. The thing which I am saying that when you cut out from your process too much, you are increasing risks. (As an example, you didn&#x27;t remove unit tests part. Based on &quot;Anything that doesn’t directly serve that goal is a complication&quot; you probably should have. However, you decided that it would be way too much risk)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We Don’t Use Docker</title><url>https://launchyourapp.meezeeworkouts.com/2021/03/why-we-dont-use-docker-we-dont-need-it.html?m=1</url></story> |
17,151,266 | 17,151,003 | 1 | 2 | 17,150,335 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dcosson</author><text>I can&#x27;t follow this logic at all. When home prices go up, rents also go up. How is your mobility not affected when you can&#x27;t afford rent and have to move out of the city? Or for the people whose rent goes above what they can afford and they end up homeless?<p>If you&#x27;re underwater on a mortgage, it&#x27;s still the same payment month over month that you were expecting when you took out the mortgage. It&#x27;ll recover eventually if you hold on. When you&#x27;re paying rent month to month, that number changes on you as prices rise and you can&#x27;t just hold on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I&#x27;ll take that argument :-). If we enter a deflationary spiral in housing it traps people with mortgages who find themselves owing more in their house than it is worth (we saw that after the Mortgage meltdown). Where as if the prices continue to rise, we see people who would prefer to own houses kept out of the market, but their mobility is not impacted.<p>Of the two scenarios, I consider the deflationary one &quot;worse&quot; in terms of its impact on more people.</text></item><item><author>dcosson</author><text>It&#x27;ll arguably end even worse if they keep going up though.</text></item><item><author>Bucephalus355</author><text>FYI, housing prices can rise as well as <i>fall</i> for periods of 40-50 years and this has been shown in the historical record.<p>The Journal of Real Estate Economics has a fascinating article from 2011 which goes into this in detail, by looking at the price of land &#x2F; various housing structures in Manhattan and Chicago from 1920 to 1960.<p>By 1932, housing prices had dropped nearly 70% from their 1929 peak. If you had bought a 1-story house in Manhattan in 1929, it would not be until the mid-1960’s that you got to just break-even, let alone made any money.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.people.hbs.edu&#x2F;tnicholas&#x2F;anna_tom.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.people.hbs.edu&#x2F;tnicholas&#x2F;anna_tom.pdf</a><p>Also for those curious, I suggest you search “home prices” on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.google.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.google.com</a>. The very first image is so laughable, and such a suggestion of the times we are in. This will not end well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mortgage rates have been rising at a pace not seen in almost 50 years</title><url>https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/Mortgage-rates-have-been-rising-at-a-pace-not-12940865.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>beefield</author><text>This is why in my opinion local goverment should somehow credibly commit to keep land prices nominally constant by adjusting taxes on property. (Land, not buildings) Inflation would take care of long term lowering of the housing costs which is arguably a good thing to most people.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I&#x27;ll take that argument :-). If we enter a deflationary spiral in housing it traps people with mortgages who find themselves owing more in their house than it is worth (we saw that after the Mortgage meltdown). Where as if the prices continue to rise, we see people who would prefer to own houses kept out of the market, but their mobility is not impacted.<p>Of the two scenarios, I consider the deflationary one &quot;worse&quot; in terms of its impact on more people.</text></item><item><author>dcosson</author><text>It&#x27;ll arguably end even worse if they keep going up though.</text></item><item><author>Bucephalus355</author><text>FYI, housing prices can rise as well as <i>fall</i> for periods of 40-50 years and this has been shown in the historical record.<p>The Journal of Real Estate Economics has a fascinating article from 2011 which goes into this in detail, by looking at the price of land &#x2F; various housing structures in Manhattan and Chicago from 1920 to 1960.<p>By 1932, housing prices had dropped nearly 70% from their 1929 peak. If you had bought a 1-story house in Manhattan in 1929, it would not be until the mid-1960’s that you got to just break-even, let alone made any money.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.people.hbs.edu&#x2F;tnicholas&#x2F;anna_tom.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.people.hbs.edu&#x2F;tnicholas&#x2F;anna_tom.pdf</a><p>Also for those curious, I suggest you search “home prices” on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.google.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.google.com</a>. The very first image is so laughable, and such a suggestion of the times we are in. This will not end well.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mortgage rates have been rising at a pace not seen in almost 50 years</title><url>https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/Mortgage-rates-have-been-rising-at-a-pace-not-12940865.php</url></story> |
38,033,564 | 38,033,357 | 1 | 3 | 38,032,242 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Fomite</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the researchers on a new disease forecasting project, and I&#x27;m bookmarking this because we often use hurricane forecasting as an example of a level of accuracy we aspire to, so this is a really interesting breakdown.</text><parent_chain><item><author>uticus</author><text>&gt; So how did every reliable model we use miss this? That’s for graduate students and researchers to answer in the coming years, because I have no formal idea.<p>Would love to see followup on this. Wish there were some way to like bookmark or something and come back in a few years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco</title><url>https://theeyewall.com/trying-to-make-sense-of-why-otis-exploded-en-route-to-acapulco-this-week/</url></story> | <instructions>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>Post it on Reddit and use the reminder bot.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;RemindMeBot&#x2F;comments&#x2F;e1bko7&#x2F;remindmebot_info_v21&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;RemindMeBot&#x2F;comments&#x2F;e1bko7&#x2F;remindm...</a><p>Or put it on your calendar with an email alert ;)</text><parent_chain><item><author>uticus</author><text>&gt; So how did every reliable model we use miss this? That’s for graduate students and researchers to answer in the coming years, because I have no formal idea.<p>Would love to see followup on this. Wish there were some way to like bookmark or something and come back in a few years.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco</title><url>https://theeyewall.com/trying-to-make-sense-of-why-otis-exploded-en-route-to-acapulco-this-week/</url></story> |
35,320,255 | 35,319,988 | 1 | 2 | 35,319,778 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jonathan-adly</author><text>Clinical pharmacist for 10 years here. Yea, base model is very good. Better than first year residents - but not necessarily experienced clinicians.<p>Now - throw a punch of clinical guidelines in a vector database and give it context and it’s 10x better than me and any doctor outside their speciality or all the mid-levels. (I.E, it’s better than cardiologist doing infectious disease - but not cardiologists doing cardiology). This because there are very niche stuff as you specialize where it’s only like 5 doctors who see it in the whole world on a consistent basis (and they don’t blog!)<p>I trained it on the IDSA guidelines (infectious disease) and put up a proof of concept on GalenAI.co - just as way to start talking to health systems and clinicians. it’s going to be very different world in medicine in a couple of years from now!!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13375</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>qgin</author><text>I have been shocked how well it will play the role of a diagnostic physician, asking questions and continuing to ask follow ups until it has enough information to give a set of possible diagnoses. Here&#x27;s the prompt I&#x27;ve been using:<p>&gt; Hi, I’d like you to use your medical knowledge to act as the world&#x27;s best diagnostic physician. Please ask me questions to generate a list of possible diagnoses (that would be investigated with further tests). Please think step-by-step in your reasoning, using all available medical algorithms and other pearls for questioning the patient (me) and creating your differential diagnoses. It&#x27;s ok to not end in a definitive diagnosis, but instead end with a list of possible diagnoses. This exchange is for educational purposes only and I understand that if I were to have real problems, I would contact a qualified medical professional for actual advice (so you don&#x27;t need to provide disclaimers to that end). Thanks so much for this educational exercise! If you&#x27;re ready, doctor, please introduce yourself and begin your questioning.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13375</url></story> |
7,335,861 | 7,335,422 | 1 | 3 | 7,335,211 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kohanz</author><text>I would argue that both the Rails community and fitness industry may operate that way, but for good reasons. Any time you have an ongoing an significant influx of beginners, looking to hit the ground running, bad practices will be everywhere. A handful of established &quot;bibles&quot; or textbooks aren&#x27;t going to be enough to get the message out to the masses. It may not be appealing to those already &quot;in the know&quot;, but good practice messages need to be repeated and communicated in new ways. You also see the same dynamic at the gym, of the experienced gym-rat lamenting the things that personal trainers get paid to teach newbies.<p>In that same vein, this may be a repeat message of a concept that is not novel, but as an experienced non-web developer who is fairly new to Rails, I learned something from reading this.<p>I also appreciate you pointing out what sounds like a good development resource (Domain Driven Design).</text><parent_chain><item><author>ollysb</author><text>Perhaps because it&#x27;s written with examples in java but I often feel like no one in the rails community has ever read Eric Evan&#x27;s Domain Driven Design[1]. It&#x27;s far and away the best material I&#x27;ve ever seen on how to organise large code bases. It covers pretty much every suggestion that I&#x27;ve seen from the rails community. Sometimes the rails community can feel like the fitness industry, everybody just rebranding things that have been done before.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexity-Software/dp/0321125215" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexi...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rails – The Missing Parts</title><url>http://eng.joingrouper.com/blog/2014/03/03/rails-the-missing-parts-interactors</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hiphopyo</author><text>Is <a href="http://tech.taskrabbit.com/blog/2014/02/11/rails-4-engines/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tech.taskrabbit.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;rails-4-engines&#x2F;</a> another one of those?</text><parent_chain><item><author>ollysb</author><text>Perhaps because it&#x27;s written with examples in java but I often feel like no one in the rails community has ever read Eric Evan&#x27;s Domain Driven Design[1]. It&#x27;s far and away the best material I&#x27;ve ever seen on how to organise large code bases. It covers pretty much every suggestion that I&#x27;ve seen from the rails community. Sometimes the rails community can feel like the fitness industry, everybody just rebranding things that have been done before.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexity-Software/dp/0321125215" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexi...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rails – The Missing Parts</title><url>http://eng.joingrouper.com/blog/2014/03/03/rails-the-missing-parts-interactors</url></story> |
29,785,370 | 29,785,638 | 1 | 2 | 29,782,186 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Baeocystin</author><text>I&#x27;d believe it. As an IT consultant, I interact with a lot of people who are semi-techs themselves- mostly small business owners who are used to wearing a lot of hats, and also the type to have been motivated to run their own personal blogs about diving&#x2F;photography&#x2F;conlangs&#x2F;quilting&#x2F;gardening&#x2F;whatever their personal hobbies are.<p>Ten years ago, the majority(!) had at least something up and running, where they would post essays, thoughts, whatever came to mind.<p>Nowadays? All gone. All! When asked why, the answer almost always is along a mix of ever-increasing negative feedback and harassment from randos, and aggressive automated spamming of their forums. Loss of the pseudo-anonymity plays a large role as well. Many have deleted years&#x27; worth of work, simply because they are afraid of someone trolling through their posts to find something to harass them with.<p>I was never a blogger myself, but I am sad about the change. There was a lot of good stuff out there for a while, and sometimes it just plain made me happy to read someone joyfully nerding out on a favorite subject of theirs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nkrisc</author><text>I find that claim surprising considering how many more people there are simply using the internet at all.<p>Fewer unique blog domains due to “blogging” sites that aggregate users? Sounds plausible. Fewer people blogging overall? I’m not convinced yet.</text></item><item><author>ufo</author><text>There aren&#x27;t as many blogs now as there used to be.</text></item><item><author>wodenokoto</author><text>Why has blogs and articles stopped linking to things? I&#x27;m reading a restaurant review site, and they won&#x27;t link to the restaurant. The chef name is a link to a list of all articles tagged with the chefs name, rather a wikipedia link or something useful that can tell me who that person is.</text></item><item><author>frenchyatwork</author><text>I think one of the fundamental things that make search work well about 1-2 decades ago was that web sites would link to each other, and that those links could vaguely correlate with reputation. There were link spammers, but there was actually a some decent organic content as well.<p>What&#x27;s happened since then is that almost all the normal &quot;people linking to things they like&quot; has gone behind walled gardens (chiefly Facebook), and vast majority of what remains on the open web are SEO spammers.</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>To some extent, I worry that the problem with search engines is that there isn&#x27;t any data worth returning. Yesterday&#x27;s thread talked a lot about reviews. Writing a review is hard work that requires deep domain expertise, experience with similar products, and months of testing. If you want a review for something that came out today, there is no way that work could have been done, so there simply isn&#x27;t anything to find. Instead you&#x27;ll get a list of &quot;Best TVs 2021&quot; or whatever, with some blurb and an affiliate link, not an actual review. That&#x27;s what people can make for free with a day&#x27;s notice, so if you write a search engine that discards those sites, that&#x27;s fine, you&#x27;ll just return &quot;no results&quot; for every interesting query.<p>I guess what I&#x27;m saying is that if you want better reviews, you probably want to start writing reviews and figuring out how to sell them for money. Many have tried, few have succeeded. But there probably isn&#x27;t some Javascript that will fix this problem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Search engines and SEO spam</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1477760548787920901</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kritiko</author><text>I frequently append site:reddit.com to searches for a niche search term these days. I think a lot of people who would have blogged or commented on blogs are posting there instead.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nkrisc</author><text>I find that claim surprising considering how many more people there are simply using the internet at all.<p>Fewer unique blog domains due to “blogging” sites that aggregate users? Sounds plausible. Fewer people blogging overall? I’m not convinced yet.</text></item><item><author>ufo</author><text>There aren&#x27;t as many blogs now as there used to be.</text></item><item><author>wodenokoto</author><text>Why has blogs and articles stopped linking to things? I&#x27;m reading a restaurant review site, and they won&#x27;t link to the restaurant. The chef name is a link to a list of all articles tagged with the chefs name, rather a wikipedia link or something useful that can tell me who that person is.</text></item><item><author>frenchyatwork</author><text>I think one of the fundamental things that make search work well about 1-2 decades ago was that web sites would link to each other, and that those links could vaguely correlate with reputation. There were link spammers, but there was actually a some decent organic content as well.<p>What&#x27;s happened since then is that almost all the normal &quot;people linking to things they like&quot; has gone behind walled gardens (chiefly Facebook), and vast majority of what remains on the open web are SEO spammers.</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>To some extent, I worry that the problem with search engines is that there isn&#x27;t any data worth returning. Yesterday&#x27;s thread talked a lot about reviews. Writing a review is hard work that requires deep domain expertise, experience with similar products, and months of testing. If you want a review for something that came out today, there is no way that work could have been done, so there simply isn&#x27;t anything to find. Instead you&#x27;ll get a list of &quot;Best TVs 2021&quot; or whatever, with some blurb and an affiliate link, not an actual review. That&#x27;s what people can make for free with a day&#x27;s notice, so if you write a search engine that discards those sites, that&#x27;s fine, you&#x27;ll just return &quot;no results&quot; for every interesting query.<p>I guess what I&#x27;m saying is that if you want better reviews, you probably want to start writing reviews and figuring out how to sell them for money. Many have tried, few have succeeded. But there probably isn&#x27;t some Javascript that will fix this problem.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Search engines and SEO spam</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1477760548787920901</url></story> |
21,814,661 | 21,814,959 | 1 | 3 | 21,813,636 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CPLX</author><text>Yup. I see this kind of logic in personal finance discussions all the time but it&#x27;s bullshit. There simply aren&#x27;t any spending decisions you can make that will change you from not wealthy to really wealthy. Those things can just move you from poor to middle class at best, or to a better level of middle class.<p>Outside of real outlier status where you&#x27;re paid really, really large amounts of money for your services (like notable entertainer or cardiac surgeon) the way to wealth is to own the means of production. Period.<p>Same as it ever was.</text><parent_chain><item><author>disintegore</author><text>I understand this isn&#x27;t the point of the article, but it seems like a roundabout way of saying &quot;don&#x27;t overspend&quot;. This part in particular bothers me :<p>&gt; More importantly though, the best way to climb the wealth ladder is to spend money according to your level.<p>As far as I (a non-economist) can personally tell, any notion of climbing up some abstract wealth ladder is synonym with a salary increase for the vast majority of people. Other methods, whether they involve quantity of free time or already-available money, are intrinsically tied to the quality of your job or, failing that, the quality of your parents&#x27; or partner&#x27;s jobs.<p>Personal net worth, while definitely an important factor in this equation, is far less so than income in my opinion. A fiscally irresponsibly professional worker living from paycheck to paycheck has &quot;grocery freedom&quot; while a person with 10,000$ of accumulated wealth and no income whatsoever (let&#x27;s say they are between jobs) is far more likely to buy the store brand margarine. Similarly, the former will most likely not achieve &quot;travel freedom&quot; without decades of hard work, of careful spending, of saving, investing, etc.<p>Simply put, no amount of &quot;not carelessly booking flights&quot; will turn you into Jay-Z, let alone into that small business owner across the street with the McMansion and the gaudy Christmas decorations. The undisputed &quot;best way&quot; to climb the wealth ladder is to receive large amounts of cash from some external source.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Climbing the Wealth Ladder</title><url>https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I&#x27;m reminded of when Radiohead sold their album for whatever folks wanted to pay on the internet and someone wrote an article about how all bands could do that too:<p>Step 1: Be Radiohead...<p>The idea being that the hard part is getting to where you can even use the advice, and after that you&#x27;re all but done.</text><parent_chain><item><author>disintegore</author><text>I understand this isn&#x27;t the point of the article, but it seems like a roundabout way of saying &quot;don&#x27;t overspend&quot;. This part in particular bothers me :<p>&gt; More importantly though, the best way to climb the wealth ladder is to spend money according to your level.<p>As far as I (a non-economist) can personally tell, any notion of climbing up some abstract wealth ladder is synonym with a salary increase for the vast majority of people. Other methods, whether they involve quantity of free time or already-available money, are intrinsically tied to the quality of your job or, failing that, the quality of your parents&#x27; or partner&#x27;s jobs.<p>Personal net worth, while definitely an important factor in this equation, is far less so than income in my opinion. A fiscally irresponsibly professional worker living from paycheck to paycheck has &quot;grocery freedom&quot; while a person with 10,000$ of accumulated wealth and no income whatsoever (let&#x27;s say they are between jobs) is far more likely to buy the store brand margarine. Similarly, the former will most likely not achieve &quot;travel freedom&quot; without decades of hard work, of careful spending, of saving, investing, etc.<p>Simply put, no amount of &quot;not carelessly booking flights&quot; will turn you into Jay-Z, let alone into that small business owner across the street with the McMansion and the gaudy Christmas decorations. The undisputed &quot;best way&quot; to climb the wealth ladder is to receive large amounts of cash from some external source.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Climbing the Wealth Ladder</title><url>https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/</url></story> |
7,807,348 | 7,807,356 | 1 | 3 | 7,806,023 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>david_shaw</author><text>HipChat has a nice API that allows us to shoot notifications from TribeHR, our Linux production boxes, code commits, Salesforce, etc. to our company-wide channels. It&#x27;s a nice communication tool to use to keep the whole team on the same page.</text><parent_chain><item><author>callmeed</author><text>The beauty of Slack, IMO, is in the nice integrations with <i>everything I already use</i>. Does Hipchat&#x2F;JIRA&#x2F;Confluence do that? (I honestly don&#x27;t know)<p>For a small team, there&#x27;s no reason (for us at least) to move away from Trello, GitHub issues, etc.</text></item><item><author>aspir</author><text>People are making the valid comparison of Hipchat and Slack, which is to be expected. But, this is a deeper move by Atlassian.<p>Atlassian&#x27;s business model is still &quot;All roads lead to JIRA&#x2F;Confluence.&quot; It&#x27;s why so many of their products are free. This isn&#x27;t as much a Hipchat v. Slack&#x2F;IRC&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Campfire move, as adding another road to JIRA.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HipChat is now free for unlimited users</title><url>https://blog.hipchat.com/2014/05/27/hipchat-is-now-free-for-unlimited-users/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>semerda</author><text>HipChat integrates with Jira&#x2F;Confluence&#x2F;BitBucket&#x2F;Bamboo et al. It is the only reason we are using it vs a host of tools sticky taped together with different interfaces.<p>As your team growths you will see the value in having a single unified set of tools that cover a majority of your needs vs a host of different tools chained together each providing a different experience, education and logins.</text><parent_chain><item><author>callmeed</author><text>The beauty of Slack, IMO, is in the nice integrations with <i>everything I already use</i>. Does Hipchat&#x2F;JIRA&#x2F;Confluence do that? (I honestly don&#x27;t know)<p>For a small team, there&#x27;s no reason (for us at least) to move away from Trello, GitHub issues, etc.</text></item><item><author>aspir</author><text>People are making the valid comparison of Hipchat and Slack, which is to be expected. But, this is a deeper move by Atlassian.<p>Atlassian&#x27;s business model is still &quot;All roads lead to JIRA&#x2F;Confluence.&quot; It&#x27;s why so many of their products are free. This isn&#x27;t as much a Hipchat v. Slack&#x2F;IRC&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Campfire move, as adding another road to JIRA.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>HipChat is now free for unlimited users</title><url>https://blog.hipchat.com/2014/05/27/hipchat-is-now-free-for-unlimited-users/</url></story> |
37,857,213 | 37,856,418 | 1 | 3 | 37,854,358 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ertgbnm</author><text>The underlying assumption is that Bentham is a true act utilitarian yet simultaneously has 10 pounds in his pocket that he can stand to lose without much harm. If he truly were an act utilitarian, the utility of the 10 pounds remaining in Bentham&#x27;s possession must be so high that it outweighs the mugger losing their finger, otherwise Bentham would have already spent it on something similarly utility maximizing. Clearly that 10 pounds was already destined to maximize utility such as staving off Bentham&#x27;s hunger and avoiding his own death or the death of others.<p>Meanwhile the utility of the mugger&#x27;s finger is questionable. The pain of losing the finger is the only real cost. If they are just a petty criminal, the loss of their finger will probably reduce their ability to commit crimes and prevent him from inflicting as much suffering on others as he otherwise would have. Maybe losing his finger actually increases utility.<p>Bentham: &quot;I&#x27;m sorry Mr. Mugger but I am on my way to spend this 10 pounds on a supply of fever medication for the orphanage and I am afraid that if I don&#x27;t procure the medicine, several children will die or suffer fever madness. So when faced with calculating the utility of this situation I must weigh your finger against the lives of these children. Good day. And if the experience of cutting your finger off makes you question your own deontological beliefs, feel free to call upon me for some tutoring on the philosophy of Act Utilitarianism.&quot;<p>Any other scenario and Bentham clearly isn&#x27;t a true Act Utilitarian and would just tell the Mugger to shove his finger up his ass for all Bentham cares. Either strictly apply the rules or don&#x27;t apply them at all.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bentham's Mugging (2022)</title><url>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/article/benthams-mugging/9C67002F344B20661A6C35C960F25A86</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lcnPylGDnU4H9OF</author><text>Bentham brought up a good point:<p>&gt; Fair enough. But, even so, I worry that giving you the money would set a bad precedent, encouraging copycats to run similar schemes.<p>I don’t understand how it was logically defeated with escalation as in the story. Would it be wrong for a Utilitarian to continue arguing against this precedent, saying that the decision to be mugged removes overall Utility because now anyone who can be sufficiently convincing can also effectively steal money from Utilitarians. (I guess money changing hands is presumed net neutral in the story?)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bentham's Mugging (2022)</title><url>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/article/benthams-mugging/9C67002F344B20661A6C35C960F25A86</url></story> |
29,402,524 | 29,401,961 | 1 | 2 | 29,396,561 | 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>DonHopkins</author><text>&gt;I think there&#x27;s a tfile somewhere where I breathlessly explain how to use `ls`<p>You should post a link!<p>Every once in a while when I&#x27;m using a common unix command, I find myself randomly re-encountering the frame of mind that I was in, the world outlook I had, and the sense of amazement I experienced when I first learned it as a kid. A sudden and explicable feeling awe at the breathtaking pervasive power of &quot;cat&quot; or &quot;ls&quot; or &quot;echo&quot; and how they fit together, and the very idea of a shell with commands and files and directories that you could name, look at, change, and move around. Remembering the excitement of discovering and fitting a new important puzzle piece into the growing model of what I was learning.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I keep pretty quiet about this out of embarrassment (there&#x27;s stuff from me from when I was like 14 still hiding on the Internet --- I think there&#x27;s a tfile somewhere where I breathlessly explain how to use `ls`) but if you email me, happy to share. I was an H&#x2F;P&#x2F;A&#x2F;V board scene person. If you knew NBFC or Whammy Bar, you knew my Chicago social scene; if you knew UPT, my actual interests. My silly Chicago BBS was kitted out to look like a Gandalf X.25 router.</text></item><item><author>nope96</author><text>What was the name of your BBS? What was your handle? I know of you as the security guy from Enteract, but didn&#x27;t know you were in the BBS scene!</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Yep! This is me! Both DesqView and DesqView&#x2F;X --- because I had a Renegade BBS with Frontdoor.</text></item><item><author>pan69</author><text>I remember running DesqView (without the X) in the early 90&#x27;s, it must have been on a 286 (is that possible?), I only got a 486 around 1994.<p>I remember being impressed by the fact that I could run multiple applications at the same time and switch between them. I think I ran a BBS at the time (a combination of Frontdoor and something else... the memory is thin).<p>I vaguely remember excitingly showing my parents, probably my mother, &quot;Look! I can run multiple applications and switch between them!!!&quot;, and she gave me a confused look of &quot;what the hell is this boy going on about&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future</title><url>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1990s</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bremensaki</author><text>I lost all parental credibility the day my kid learned that I used to use &quot;Black Rose&quot; as a BBS alias back in the 90s.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I keep pretty quiet about this out of embarrassment (there&#x27;s stuff from me from when I was like 14 still hiding on the Internet --- I think there&#x27;s a tfile somewhere where I breathlessly explain how to use `ls`) but if you email me, happy to share. I was an H&#x2F;P&#x2F;A&#x2F;V board scene person. If you knew NBFC or Whammy Bar, you knew my Chicago social scene; if you knew UPT, my actual interests. My silly Chicago BBS was kitted out to look like a Gandalf X.25 router.</text></item><item><author>nope96</author><text>What was the name of your BBS? What was your handle? I know of you as the security guy from Enteract, but didn&#x27;t know you were in the BBS scene!</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Yep! This is me! Both DesqView and DesqView&#x2F;X --- because I had a Renegade BBS with Frontdoor.</text></item><item><author>pan69</author><text>I remember running DesqView (without the X) in the early 90&#x27;s, it must have been on a 286 (is that possible?), I only got a 486 around 1994.<p>I remember being impressed by the fact that I could run multiple applications at the same time and switch between them. I think I ran a BBS at the time (a combination of Frontdoor and something else... the memory is thin).<p>I vaguely remember excitingly showing my parents, probably my mother, &quot;Look! I can run multiple applications and switch between them!!!&quot;, and she gave me a confused look of &quot;what the hell is this boy going on about&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future</title><url>https://lunduke.substack.com/p/desqviewx-the-forgotten-mid-1990s</url></story> |
12,720,996 | 12,721,098 | 1 | 3 | 12,720,071 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>susan_hall</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if &quot;overwhelmingly mindless&quot; is the right characterization. In my opinion, the most interesting story playing out among the Western nations is what is happening in Poland right now. In the USA, people fought for independence from Britain starting in 1775, so obviously those people are not alive in 2016. But in Poland, many of the people alive now are the same people who overthrew tyranny in 1989. That&#x27;s an interesting story. Among the Polish public there are many who were willing to risk their lives to fight for a more open, democratic and liberal political system, in 1989. And now, in 2016, Poland is suffering the same shift towards authoritarianism that we see in other Western countries.<p>Just so I&#x27;m clear, I&#x27;m saying I find this interesting because in many cases we are talking about the same people who were alive in 1989. In the USA you can say &quot;Oh, that generation believed in those things, but those currently alive don&#x27;t believe in these things.&quot; (I don&#x27;t agree with that statement, but you could make that argument.) Whereas in Poland, it&#x27;s in many cases the same people who fought for a more open system who are now tolerating the drift towards a more authoritarian system.<p>To me, the story isn&#x27;t about &quot;overwhelmingly mindless&quot; voters, its about voters who are angry with the failure of the system. That is, they are mindful of how the system has failed. They may not know what the answer is, but they are angry, and they are willing to elect politicians who seem to mirror their anger. It might be a bad strategy to vote for someone simply because they appear to reflect your anger, but I think I can understand the motivation, and it is not quite the same as being mindless.</text><parent_chain><item><author>M_Grey</author><text>Just another reason to forgo the convenience of biometrics in favor of a password&#x2F;phrase that exists only in your mind. At least for now, that&#x27;s something you can&#x27;t be compelled to produce.<p>Really though, this descent into a police state is such a pathetic outcome for this country. Dangerous, scary, and tragic, but also... pathetic. This is what happens when a sizeable majority don&#x27;t even participate in the electoral process, and those who do are overwhelmingly mindless.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Feds Walk into a Building and Demand Everyone's Fingerprints to Open Phones</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/10/16/doj-demands-mass-fingerprint-seizure-to-open-iphones</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lisper</author><text>No, it&#x27;s what happens when large numbers of people decide they care about safety and security more than they care about freedom. That doesn&#x27;t necessarily make it any better, but to attribute this outcome to mindlessness is to badly miss the point. The first step to solving a problem is to understand what the problem actually <i>is</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>M_Grey</author><text>Just another reason to forgo the convenience of biometrics in favor of a password&#x2F;phrase that exists only in your mind. At least for now, that&#x27;s something you can&#x27;t be compelled to produce.<p>Really though, this descent into a police state is such a pathetic outcome for this country. Dangerous, scary, and tragic, but also... pathetic. This is what happens when a sizeable majority don&#x27;t even participate in the electoral process, and those who do are overwhelmingly mindless.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Feds Walk into a Building and Demand Everyone's Fingerprints to Open Phones</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/10/16/doj-demands-mass-fingerprint-seizure-to-open-iphones</url></story> |
25,012,837 | 25,012,905 | 1 | 2 | 25,008,554 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gnat</author><text>We take it for granted now with the prevalence and acceptance of interpreted languages like Python and Perl, but the radical accessibility of BASIC can&#x27;t be over-emphasized. C, Pascal, FORTRAN, and friends all had a compile step which meant that you had to operate a text editor and command-line... BASIC was so much more immediate and straightforward to learn on.<p>The other great reason so many of us 40-somethings got our start on the BASIC-wielding micros was that our universe was pretty small and the simple things we could make our machines do were still fancy. These days it seems that you won&#x27;t interest kids with anything short of a 40fps multiplayer battle royale game with millions of polygons on screen. Random number guessing games are lame, Dad.<p>The early web was a lot like the early micros -- you had to make your own entertainment as you quickly ran out of things to do, and the things you were able to make were comparable to the things built by well-founded teams. The opportunity to add something new and useful to the web is largely past, and any window is even smaller if you&#x27;re not a venture-backed team.<p>Old man out. &lt;mic drop&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 Basic</title><url>http://tomasp.net/commodore64/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>UI_at_80x24</author><text>I cut my teeth on C64 BASIC. I got one (a C64) for christmas 1984, the manual had several pages of sample programs that you could program (one ever had a mistake in it). By New Years day I had tried atleast 4 of them.<p>I&#x27;ll be honest, I had more fun making making ASCII art that would endlessly scroll &amp; loop thanks to a &quot;GOTO 10&quot; at the end of my creation.<p>If I&#x27;m even more honest, I find myself wishing for a GOTO command I could use in my bash scripts once in a blue moon. (I know they are a bad&#x2F;horrible&#x2F;lame crutch, but my brain seems to blank out any other options and just says to me: a GOTO would work perfect here.)<p>If it wasn&#x27;t for a C64 and BASIC, I wouldn&#x27;t have the career and love of technology that I still do [Checks calendar, HOLY FUCK] 36 years later.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 Basic</title><url>http://tomasp.net/commodore64/</url></story> |
13,601,228 | 13,600,583 | 1 | 2 | 13,599,584 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dkonofalski</author><text>This also causes the most infuriating issue I&#x27;ve ever had with a controller and Windows 10. The &quot;official&quot; driver from the manufacturer hasn&#x27;t been updated since a final revision in like Windows 7. Windows 10 offers a basic driver, but it&#x27;s totally broken and the Windows driver constantly updates and overrides the old one. Anytime I want to play a game with this controller, I have to uninstall from device manager and install the old driver but ignore the restart. It works, for some reason, but as soon as the machine gets restarted, the driver is replaced and I get the yellow exclamation point in Device Manager again. Not a great workaround, but I&#x27;m glad it works for most things.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006?</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170208-00/?p=95395</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RickHull</author><text>Using the date is obviously a kludge and does not match the semantics of the desired mechanism (3rd party specific drivers overriding baseline system drivers).<p>Nothing profound about this kludge IMHO.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006?</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170208-00/?p=95395</url></story> |
5,358,838 | 5,357,999 | 1 | 2 | 5,357,417 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>I do this on all my personal projects now. It's pretty amazing. I've actually gained several long-term contributors by doing this.<p>I've gotten emails from people that said, in effect, "Thanks! I feel like part of the team, that you trust me with the code. Before, I was just going to fix that one bug, now, I'm excited to poke around the codebase and see how I can help."<p>Really, this is a variant of a theme that we see around here all the time: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. The upside is that you empower people to take mastery over the code they use, you provide them with the autonomy a commit bit has to offer, and you give them a sense of purpose: you're now helping everyone else out, too.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Pull Request Hack</title><url>http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.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>wuest</author><text>This is a clever bit of social engineering which really taps into the mentality, not to mention the rhetoric, of open source hackers. I like it!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Pull Request Hack</title><url>http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html</url></story> |
24,059,241 | 24,057,137 | 1 | 3 | 24,056,940 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bArray</author><text>As fellow humans, there is no way to look at this situation and find something positive. The actions of the CCP need to be condemned. If you disagree with this point, we are fundamentally at odds.<p>To those complaining about the anti-China narrative, it&#x27;s the CCP (government) which are at fault, not the people. I think we should always make it very clear that it&#x27;s not the Chinese people we take issue with and we are not condemning people based on race.<p>As for actions taken against China and masquerading behind human-rights to justify them, I think it&#x27;s okay to temporary align ourselves with those whose actions align with our ideology, even if the motivation is different. Life is about compromise and we&#x27;re going to find very few allies if we will only work with people perfectly aligned with our own motivations.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53650246</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwaway_4228</author><text>&gt; His uncle ... believes the video could galvanise public opinion in the same way that footage of the police treatment of George Floyd became a powerful symbol of racial discrimination in the US.<p>The worrying thing is, protests like those for George Floyd won&#x27;t be possible to happen within China, and even if they happen overseas, most people inside China won&#x27;t even be aware of them.<p>With the information control in place, long lasting suppression against minorities is one of the most terrifying things that can happen.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53650246</url></story> |
8,554,156 | 8,553,760 | 1 | 2 | 8,551,897 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grayrest</author><text>I&#x27;m not an Ember dev (I generally can&#x27;t justify a clean slate project) but I do have opinions on the web development landscape:<p>The primary source of incidental complexity in frontend development is synchronizing state. The two main places that&#x27;s happened is synchronizing state between the model and the server and between the DOM and the model. You can see this in the whole history of web development: cookies, sessions, continuations (&#x2F;wave Seaside), the shift client side (not having to sync viewmodel state, just model state), the MVC shift (restricts where you state interacts), componentization (ditto).<p>I believe the vDOM&#x2F;diffing approach is the end of the line in the model-&gt;DOM chain. The only place I&#x27;ve found where it doesn&#x27;t work cleanly is when the output has to be looped back into the model (Rich Text Editor and DnD layout builder) and even that is workable. Otherwise the abstraction has not leaked and reasoning about component behavior has remained local to the component (it&#x27;s possible to screw this up but that&#x27;s not the fault of the approach). Once the view layer is written, data goes in, DOM is in the correct state.<p>Server synchronization remains a problem. The current approaches like Meteor&#x2F;Derby&#x2F;Firebase aren&#x27;t unreasonable but they&#x27;re rooted in the same place-oriented temporal logic as two way data binding. I don&#x27;t know what the solution is here. The most promising lead I&#x27;ve run across is Convergent&#x2F;Commutative Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) from the distributed systems researchers.<p>In the shorter term, I expect CSP (go channels) to gain acceptance as a replacement for callbacks&#x2F;promises. It&#x27;s reasonable to implement the model in javascript on top of generators and is roughly as powerful as functional reactive (FRP) approaches but more accessible to non-functional programmers. There are other efforts like the js streams effort so this might not be the answer but I do expect the community to stumble into a stronger async model than promise chaining.<p>I&#x27;m not particularly bullish on Web Components. Having scoped CSS will be very nice but the rest is focused on problems I don&#x27;t see as important. I believe the core problem with widgets on the web is customization. There&#x27;s a lot of web components material on encapsulation but I haven&#x27;t seen a good explanation of how I can tweak the classList on a node in the shadow DOM for a use case the author didn&#x27;t anticipate. I&#x27;ve used widget systems (netWindows, Dojo, Ext, YUI, Sproutcore) and have re-implemented many components for this and similarly minor reasons. Encapsulation by itself doesn&#x27;t do a whole lot for this, I&#x27;ve implemented drop down combo boxes a dozen times. The x-tags&#x2F;polymer interoperation demos are neat and I think that&#x27;s the goal but the parochial nature of js libs means it&#x27;s not something I&#x27;d really like to put into one of my projects. Smart people work on this effort so I feel like I&#x27;m missing something or not the target audience.</text><parent_chain><item><author>josho</author><text>Is Ember really the right path forward? Or simply a stepping stone to a better (yet to be discovered) solution?<p>Specifically, I remember first picking up Rails and how productive I could be in that environment. I haven&#x27;t felt the same happen with Ember. Instead it continues to feel like more work, as I have to build a client side domain model, as well as a server side model, and often have to think carefully where the logic should be placed.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, Ember is a step in the right direction, and there is a lot to love about it, but at the same time it feels like a local maximum and that there is a better paradigm to be discovered (Meteor perhaps?)<p>So, for those past the initial Ember hurdles, is Ember fulfilling its promises for you with your projects? Do you disagree with me and see Ember as the right long term approach for rich web applications?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The road to Ember 2.0 RFC</title><url>https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/15</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>csallen</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using both Ember and Ember Data for almost two years now for pretty much everything (mostly contract work and personal projects).<p>Ember had a very high learning curve when I first started using it. Admittedly, I immediately jumped into a huge project with it, which is worse for learning than starting with lots of small ones. Still, it took me months before I felt truly productive. Hopefully things have improved since then, but I&#x27;d say it was worth it, regardless. I can&#x27;t imagine writing a substantial Javascript-heavy app without it or something like it. I did that several times in the past, and I always ended up having to basically construct my own ad hoc framework, which takes a ton of time and maintenance.<p>Comparatively, Ember has its own built-in conventions for routing, views, models, etc, similar to Rails. Once you know how it all works, it&#x27;s fairly obvious what &quot;the right approach&quot; is to using these features. The result is that your code is more easily navigable and maintainable, both by yourself and by other Ember developers seeing your code for the first time.<p>As for the back-end, the last few projects I&#x27;ve worked on with Ember, I&#x27;ve spent very little time worrying about it. One has a Rails back-end that basically serves a REST API for the Ember app. After I finished building the REST API, I almost never had to touch the back-end again. The other two projects use Firebase and the Dropbox Datastore Sync API, both of which store data and feed it into the Ember app in real time in a Meteor-esque fashion. And again here, I spend 99% of my time working with front-end code.<p>So, to answer your question, yes, Ember is fulfilling its promises for me, and I think it&#x27;s likely to be the right long-term approach. I haven&#x27;t used Meteor, yet, but it&#x27;s hard for me to see it being vastly superior to something like Ember+Firebase. And if it doesn&#x27;t put a lot of thought into handling things like views (and views within views (and views within views within views)), then I can&#x27;t see it being much of a step forward for writing front-end code.</text><parent_chain><item><author>josho</author><text>Is Ember really the right path forward? Or simply a stepping stone to a better (yet to be discovered) solution?<p>Specifically, I remember first picking up Rails and how productive I could be in that environment. I haven&#x27;t felt the same happen with Ember. Instead it continues to feel like more work, as I have to build a client side domain model, as well as a server side model, and often have to think carefully where the logic should be placed.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, Ember is a step in the right direction, and there is a lot to love about it, but at the same time it feels like a local maximum and that there is a better paradigm to be discovered (Meteor perhaps?)<p>So, for those past the initial Ember hurdles, is Ember fulfilling its promises for you with your projects? Do you disagree with me and see Ember as the right long term approach for rich web applications?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The road to Ember 2.0 RFC</title><url>https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/15</url></story> |
24,423,722 | 24,423,316 | 1 | 2 | 24,422,808 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aclelland</author><text>It also shows that Apple really don&#x27;t care about their customers and would rather stick it to Epic than continue to support the people who choose to use their login system.<p>If Apple wanted to show some goodwill towards the end users who were caught up in this mess they&#x27;d continue to allow them to log in or provide a migration path.<p>I wonder if this will be used against Apple in the future since it&#x27;s clearly hurting people of they lose access to their game, progress and purchases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sandstrom</author><text>Alright, so Apple are forcing all developers to add Sign-in with Apple (if they have other third-party login services), privacy benefits aside.<p>But if you Apple decide that they don&#x27;t like you anymore, they&#x27;ll not only cut you off the App Store, they&#x27;ll also bury all (or a subset of) your users.<p>Apple is starting to act more and more like a bully.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;app-store&#x2F;review&#x2F;guidelines&#x2F;#sign-in-with-apple" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;app-store&#x2F;review&#x2F;guidelines&#x2F;#sig...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/09/sign-in-with-apple-epic-games-disabled/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>RL_Quine</author><text>Intentionally breaking the rules and filing a lawsuit against them with a marketing campaign isn&#x27;t as if apple just decided they &quot;didn&#x27;t like&quot; Epic.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sandstrom</author><text>Alright, so Apple are forcing all developers to add Sign-in with Apple (if they have other third-party login services), privacy benefits aside.<p>But if you Apple decide that they don&#x27;t like you anymore, they&#x27;ll not only cut you off the App Store, they&#x27;ll also bury all (or a subset of) your users.<p>Apple is starting to act more and more like a bully.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;app-store&#x2F;review&#x2F;guidelines&#x2F;#sign-in-with-apple" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;app-store&#x2F;review&#x2F;guidelines&#x2F;#sig...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/09/sign-in-with-apple-epic-games-disabled/</url></story> |
27,977,404 | 27,976,160 | 1 | 2 | 27,972,990 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dillondoyle</author><text>+1. When you take what you&#x27;re saying with the parent above you, Xi is also pulling all the state media strings to play up the less-corrupt benevolence thing - using it to consolidate power. Check out this recent good article about their extrajudicial &#x27;repatriations&#x27; which has examples of the bragging in their government controlled media about it (kidnappings).<p>It&#x27;s both trying to show less corruption and simultaneously scaring everyone away from dissent. Gross but seems powerful.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;operation-fox-hunt-how-china-exports-repression-using-a-network-of-spies-hidden-in-plain-sight" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;operation-fox-hunt-how-ch...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>I think you&#x27;re broadly correct. With regard to China, a lot of people&#x27;s understanding is driven in large part by wishful thinking, which is a serious weakness and vulnerability.<p>&gt; Sure lots of people disagree with the party, but that doesn&#x27;t that they want a western liberal democracy. So lots of people will speak in favor of a benevolent elite and against populism or what they see as western chaos or oppression. When people are against the government, they aren&#x27;t wishing for a different government system, just less corrupt or more benevolent authoritarians.<p>I think it&#x27;s important to note those views are in large part created an reinforced a deliberate propaganda program. For instance, I believe one of the ideas the Chinese government pushes is the Chinese people &quot;aren&#x27;t ready&quot; for democracy (while carefully preventing anything that could make them ready). When educated Chinese people were better exposed to ideas about liberal democracy, they were very clear that they wanted it (e.g. 80s leading up to Tiananmen Square, the Liberal Studies curriculum in Hong Kong), but the government has learned from those episodes and has taken action to get the ideological results it desires.</text></item><item><author>georgeecollins</author><text>&gt;&gt; The problem is that the CCP has nothing to replace this cultural vacuum with.<p>I am no expert, but I disagree and I think this is the kind of thinking that has failed the west for the last thirty years. I think the idea started with the fall of the Soviet Union. That culture and ideology was bankrupt. So a lot of western people thought that when there was a free exchange of ideas with China, the Chinese would eventually reject the CCP.<p>My experience of people in China-- admittedly a long time ago-- was they are generally very patriotic or nationalistic, like Americans. They appreciate the CCP and what it has accomplished. They have a strong domestic arts industry making movies, books, games. Sure lots of people disagree with the party, but that doesn&#x27;t that they want a western liberal democracy. So lots of people will speak in favor of a benevolent elite and against populism or what they see as western chaos or oppression. When people are against the government, they aren&#x27;t wishing for a different government system, just less corrupt or more benevolent authoritarians.<p>Anyway, that is the way I am thinking about these days. But I could be very wrong and I would love to hear from people who are from or spend time in China.</text></item><item><author>vehemenz</author><text>The problem is that the CCP has nothing to replace this cultural vacuum with. They want to legislate a return to &quot;old&quot; (post 1949) values by banning foreign tutors, suppressing dissent on WeChat and Weibo, and doing generally authoritarian shit to encourage nationalism. Meanwhile, young, educated people almost exclusively consume the cultural products of the West, Korea, and Japan. And they find the North Korean style propaganda embarrassing. The disconnect really cannot be understated.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>Naively, it looks like the CCP sees the influence and heft US tech exercises on the US population and world at large.<p>The CCP will forgo economic might (in this sector) for social stability and control every time. They do not want these titans to have more power or influence than they have so they rein them in and let them know who holds the straps.</text></item><item><author>throwaway4good</author><text>&quot;Shares in Tencent plunged 9.0% in Hong Kong on Tuesday amid widespread market jitters over Chinese regulatory crackdowns on high-growth sectors, including online platforms and, most recently, private tutoring. Hong Kong&#x27;s benchmark Hang Seng Index (.HSI) fell 4.2%.&quot;<p>Fascinating how the Chinese authorities seem to be regulating the these companies with complete disregard on how the stock market might react.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeChat suspends new user registration for security compliance</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencents-wechat-suspends-new-user-registration-cites-technical-upgrade-2021-07-27/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjaammee</author><text>That&#x27;s maybe true when young people in China first learned western democracy ideas. Nowadays I think most of educated Chinese believe democracy is not suitable for China. They didn&#x27;t get the whole picture of western world, but who does nowadays. They see signs of culture revolution in western social movements and rejected those wholeheartedly.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>I think you&#x27;re broadly correct. With regard to China, a lot of people&#x27;s understanding is driven in large part by wishful thinking, which is a serious weakness and vulnerability.<p>&gt; Sure lots of people disagree with the party, but that doesn&#x27;t that they want a western liberal democracy. So lots of people will speak in favor of a benevolent elite and against populism or what they see as western chaos or oppression. When people are against the government, they aren&#x27;t wishing for a different government system, just less corrupt or more benevolent authoritarians.<p>I think it&#x27;s important to note those views are in large part created an reinforced a deliberate propaganda program. For instance, I believe one of the ideas the Chinese government pushes is the Chinese people &quot;aren&#x27;t ready&quot; for democracy (while carefully preventing anything that could make them ready). When educated Chinese people were better exposed to ideas about liberal democracy, they were very clear that they wanted it (e.g. 80s leading up to Tiananmen Square, the Liberal Studies curriculum in Hong Kong), but the government has learned from those episodes and has taken action to get the ideological results it desires.</text></item><item><author>georgeecollins</author><text>&gt;&gt; The problem is that the CCP has nothing to replace this cultural vacuum with.<p>I am no expert, but I disagree and I think this is the kind of thinking that has failed the west for the last thirty years. I think the idea started with the fall of the Soviet Union. That culture and ideology was bankrupt. So a lot of western people thought that when there was a free exchange of ideas with China, the Chinese would eventually reject the CCP.<p>My experience of people in China-- admittedly a long time ago-- was they are generally very patriotic or nationalistic, like Americans. They appreciate the CCP and what it has accomplished. They have a strong domestic arts industry making movies, books, games. Sure lots of people disagree with the party, but that doesn&#x27;t that they want a western liberal democracy. So lots of people will speak in favor of a benevolent elite and against populism or what they see as western chaos or oppression. When people are against the government, they aren&#x27;t wishing for a different government system, just less corrupt or more benevolent authoritarians.<p>Anyway, that is the way I am thinking about these days. But I could be very wrong and I would love to hear from people who are from or spend time in China.</text></item><item><author>vehemenz</author><text>The problem is that the CCP has nothing to replace this cultural vacuum with. They want to legislate a return to &quot;old&quot; (post 1949) values by banning foreign tutors, suppressing dissent on WeChat and Weibo, and doing generally authoritarian shit to encourage nationalism. Meanwhile, young, educated people almost exclusively consume the cultural products of the West, Korea, and Japan. And they find the North Korean style propaganda embarrassing. The disconnect really cannot be understated.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>Naively, it looks like the CCP sees the influence and heft US tech exercises on the US population and world at large.<p>The CCP will forgo economic might (in this sector) for social stability and control every time. They do not want these titans to have more power or influence than they have so they rein them in and let them know who holds the straps.</text></item><item><author>throwaway4good</author><text>&quot;Shares in Tencent plunged 9.0% in Hong Kong on Tuesday amid widespread market jitters over Chinese regulatory crackdowns on high-growth sectors, including online platforms and, most recently, private tutoring. Hong Kong&#x27;s benchmark Hang Seng Index (.HSI) fell 4.2%.&quot;<p>Fascinating how the Chinese authorities seem to be regulating the these companies with complete disregard on how the stock market might react.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>WeChat suspends new user registration for security compliance</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencents-wechat-suspends-new-user-registration-cites-technical-upgrade-2021-07-27/</url></story> |
38,647,740 | 38,646,064 | 1 | 3 | 38,645,021 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tester756</author><text>&gt;finds a CEO who is as technical and strategic, as opposed to the bean-counters<p>Did you just call Gelsinger a &quot;non-technical&quot;? wow, how out of touch with reality<p>&gt;Gelsinger first joined Intel at 18 years old in 1979 just after earning an associate degree from Lincoln Tech.[9] He spent much of his career with the company in Oregon,[12] where he maintains a home.[13] In 1987, he co-authored his first book about programming the 80386 microprocessor.[14][1] Gelsinger was the lead architect of the 4th generation 80486 processor[1] introduced in 1989.[9] At age 32, he was named the youngest vice president in Intel&#x27;s history.[7] Mentored by Intel CEO Andrew Grove, Gelsinger became the company&#x27;s CTO in 2001, leading key technology developments, including Wi-Fi, USB, Intel Core and Intel Xeon processors, and 14 chip projects.[2][15] He launched the Intel Developer Forum conference as a counterpart to Microsoft&#x27;s WinHEC.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brindlejim</author><text>Fun fact: More than half of all engineers at NVIDIA are software engineers. Jensen has deliberately and strategically built a powerful software stack on top of his GPUs, and he&#x27;s spent decades doing it.<p>Until Intel finds a CEO who is as technical and strategic, as opposed to the bean-counters, I doubt that they will manage to organize a successful counterattack on CUDA.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/intel-ceo-attacks-nvidia-on-ai-the-entire-industry-is-motivated-to-eliminate-the-cuda-market</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>natbennett</author><text>I find the hero-worship of Pat Gelsinger — examples in sibling comments — really weird. My impression of him at VMware was very beancounter-y, not especially technical, and too caught up in personal vendettas and status games to make good technical leadership decisions.<p>Granted, I may have just gotten off on the wrong foot. The first thing he said to Pivotal during the acquisition announcement was, “You were our cousins, but you’re now more like children.” So the whole tone was just weird.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brindlejim</author><text>Fun fact: More than half of all engineers at NVIDIA are software engineers. Jensen has deliberately and strategically built a powerful software stack on top of his GPUs, and he&#x27;s spent decades doing it.<p>Until Intel finds a CEO who is as technical and strategic, as opposed to the bean-counters, I doubt that they will manage to organize a successful counterattack on CUDA.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/intel-ceo-attacks-nvidia-on-ai-the-entire-industry-is-motivated-to-eliminate-the-cuda-market</url></story> |
8,077,563 | 8,076,636 | 1 | 2 | 8,075,842 | 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>flashingleds</author><text>This is a really nice example of a project post&#x2F;build log.<p>Related, I think it would be a lot of fun to interface the Pi with the original (not very good) LCD. Then you could make some kind of &#x27;alternate history&#x27; nextgen gameboy where the processor was massively upgraded but the screen was not - enabling low res 3D, temporal dithering to expand beyond the 2bit palette, etc.<p>(I guess you could also simulate this on a regular computer or even the mod discussed here, but that&#x27;s somehow slightly less charming)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rebuilding a broken Gameboy with a Raspberry Pi</title><url>https://superpiboy.wordpress.com</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>If this was a commercial product I&#x27;d be interested in buying one. The formfactor (yes, yes, no internal batteries) is impressive for what essentially amounts to a full PC.<p>Although myself, much like the OP, would almost certainly run RetroPi off of it.<p>There are a few emulation stations kicking around (you can find them on Amazon) but nothing near this compact or with this good of controls.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rebuilding a broken Gameboy with a Raspberry Pi</title><url>https://superpiboy.wordpress.com</url><text></text></story> |
37,069,617 | 37,069,404 | 1 | 3 | 37,068,464 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>But as that linked guide explains, that&#x27;s only relevant for sites with e.g. over a million pages <i>changing once a week</i>.<p>That&#x27;s for stuff like large e-commerce sites with constantly changing product info.<p>Google is clear that if your content doesn&#x27;t change often (in the way that news articles don&#x27;t), then crawl budget is irrelevant.</text><parent_chain><item><author>burnhamup</author><text>The theory I&#x27;ve heard is related to &#x27;crawl budget&#x27;. Google is only going to devote a finite amount of time to indexing your site. If the number of articles on your site exceeds that time, some portion of your site won&#x27;t be indexed. So by &#x27;pruning&#x27; undesirable pages, you might boost attention on the articles you want indexed. No clue how this ends up working in practice.<p>Google&#x27;s suggestion isn&#x27;t to delete pages, but maybe mark some pages with a no index header.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;docs&#x2F;crawling-indexing&#x2F;large-site-managing-crawl-budget" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;docs&#x2F;crawling-indexing&#x2F;...</a></text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Is there any evidence this would even work?<p>Surely Google determines &quot;fresh, relevant&quot; content according to whatever has recently been published, which this doesn&#x27;t change. If anything, doesn&#x27;t Google consider sites with a long history of content with tons of inbound links as <i>more</i> authoritative and therefore higher-ranked?<p>This baffles me. It baffles me why this would be successful SEO -- and assuming that it actually isn&#x27;t, it baffles me why CNET thinks it <i>would</i> be.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/9/23826342/cnet-content-pruning-deleting-articles-google-seo</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>0cf8612b2e1e</author><text>Even if that rule were true, why wouldn’t everything in the say, top NNN internet sites get an exemption? It is the Internet’s most hit content, why would it not be exhaustively indexed?<p>Alternatively, other than ads, what is changing on a CNN article from 10 years ago? Why would that still be getting daily scans?</text><parent_chain><item><author>burnhamup</author><text>The theory I&#x27;ve heard is related to &#x27;crawl budget&#x27;. Google is only going to devote a finite amount of time to indexing your site. If the number of articles on your site exceeds that time, some portion of your site won&#x27;t be indexed. So by &#x27;pruning&#x27; undesirable pages, you might boost attention on the articles you want indexed. No clue how this ends up working in practice.<p>Google&#x27;s suggestion isn&#x27;t to delete pages, but maybe mark some pages with a no index header.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;docs&#x2F;crawling-indexing&#x2F;large-site-managing-crawl-budget" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;docs&#x2F;crawling-indexing&#x2F;...</a></text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Is there any evidence this would even work?<p>Surely Google determines &quot;fresh, relevant&quot; content according to whatever has recently been published, which this doesn&#x27;t change. If anything, doesn&#x27;t Google consider sites with a long history of content with tons of inbound links as <i>more</i> authoritative and therefore higher-ranked?<p>This baffles me. It baffles me why this would be successful SEO -- and assuming that it actually isn&#x27;t, it baffles me why CNET thinks it <i>would</i> be.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/9/23826342/cnet-content-pruning-deleting-articles-google-seo</url></story> |
12,221,269 | 12,221,156 | 1 | 2 | 12,220,627 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jasonjei</author><text>Singapore also has a political framework that could force self-driving car adoption if the powers that be want it. Things that could be mandated such as self-driving only car lanes and motorways could be possible given the small size of Singapore and the powerful nature of the government. It would be unthinkable <i>at present</i> in America to force all cars on certain roads to be self-driving only. Singapore has the sort of culture that values &quot;safety&quot; over freedom.<p>In America, for better or worse, it would take a long time to mandate these things if they were even possible (considering that the same laws would need to be passed at least 52 times for states and territories). America has checks and balances--everybody gets their say.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Singapore Is the Perfect Place to Test Self-Driving Cars</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/08/why-singapore-leads-in-self-driving-cars/494222/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlanticCities+%28CityLab%29</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>&gt; Singapore makes a particularly good testing ground for automated vehicles. Its manageable size (it’s about three-and-a-half Districts of Columbia), flat terrain, warm weather, and well-kept roads provide about as simple of an urban landscape as one could ask for. And its government is supportive of such technology, having formed an Autonomous Vehicle Initiative to oversee research in 2014.<p>I&#x27;d argue we already have too much testing under &quot;ideal conditions.&quot; I want to see self-driving vehicles tested in snow, in rain, in strong winds, in fog, and on mountain roads.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, you absolutely want to start developing it under best conditions, but if they legitimately want to get this live by 2020 then we need to expand the scope to less idealised situations.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Singapore Is the Perfect Place to Test Self-Driving Cars</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/08/why-singapore-leads-in-self-driving-cars/494222/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlanticCities+%28CityLab%29</url></story> |
37,402,741 | 37,397,661 | 1 | 2 | 37,394,109 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>highwaylights</author><text>I had something very similar happen a lot of years ago when I was consulting and a client in a bank I&#x27;d worked with had asked me what it would take for me to consider joining them full-time.<p>When I told them they stared dumb-founded at me and said &quot;but that&#x27;s more than <i>I</i> make&quot;. We didn&#x27;t talk about it again, as I don&#x27;t know where you&#x27;d start explaining how capitalism works to a manager <i>in a bank</i>.</text><parent_chain><item><author>withinboredom</author><text>I remember this one time as a dev, I went through this entire interview process and they offered me 30k a year. I was literally laughing so hard I fell on the floor -- I thought it was a joke. Turns out this was the first dev position the company ever had that wasn&#x27;t contractors.<p>I ended up working with them as a part-time consultant to actually find their first few devs. Everyone else they had interviewed had stormed out, pissed off that they had wasted their time; they didn&#x27;t even realize what they did until I started asking questions after I got off the floor.</text></item><item><author>shrubble</author><text>You see this in other trades also. The company complaining is not offering a market wage.<p>I remember a story about how in Denver a CNC company was having trouble hiring journeyman machinists. Well Denver is almost as expensive to live in as California and the offer was for 50 to 60k...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real</title><url>https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-perpetual-truck-driver-shortage-is-not-real</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gwbas1c</author><text>When I was in a similar situation I declined. (I was going to offer to contract, but then an absurdly low offer came in via email.)<p>It turned into a series of email flames from an &quot;entrepreneur&quot; that involved references to Frodo and the Ring.<p>Needless to say, the company burned out super-fast. The guy running the company didn&#x27;t realize that he has to pay market rate in order to attract talent; and if he can&#x27;t pay market rate, he has to reset what he&#x27;s trying to do in order to meet his budget.</text><parent_chain><item><author>withinboredom</author><text>I remember this one time as a dev, I went through this entire interview process and they offered me 30k a year. I was literally laughing so hard I fell on the floor -- I thought it was a joke. Turns out this was the first dev position the company ever had that wasn&#x27;t contractors.<p>I ended up working with them as a part-time consultant to actually find their first few devs. Everyone else they had interviewed had stormed out, pissed off that they had wasted their time; they didn&#x27;t even realize what they did until I started asking questions after I got off the floor.</text></item><item><author>shrubble</author><text>You see this in other trades also. The company complaining is not offering a market wage.<p>I remember a story about how in Denver a CNC company was having trouble hiring journeyman machinists. Well Denver is almost as expensive to live in as California and the offer was for 50 to 60k...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real</title><url>https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-perpetual-truck-driver-shortage-is-not-real</url></story> |
12,568,523 | 12,566,085 | 1 | 2 | 12,564,298 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>skewart</author><text>This. Also, not only does Twitter have great brand recognition but also individual tweets can have far greater reach than Twitter&#x27;s user numbers might suggest. A lot of non-users see Tweets - embedded in news stories, shared around the internet, or shown on TV. And lots of non-users hear about things that happen on Twitter.<p>That said, while that brand recognition and reach is scarce and hard to reproduce, it&#x27;s not necessarily something anyone would want to pay a lot of money for. How would anyone monetize it? Twitter can&#x27;t really control how many non-users see a tweet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>briholt</author><text>Agreed on poor finances. But Twitter has one thing that no one else has - they are in the center of the zeitgeist. Every political candidate is on Twitter. Every news network discusses Twitter happenings everyday. NFL broadcasts list players&#x27; Twitter handles. Half the commercials on TV advertise hashtags. South Park just did a whole episode about Twitter. The cost to embed your brand in the minds of Americans like that would be far greater than $10B. The question is can some larger company capitalize on that mindshare.</text></item><item><author>imagist</author><text>IMO, Twitter is the poster child for the tech bubble. They have users, which is their only claim to viability, but notably, they have <i>never</i> made a profit. Currently valued at around $10 billion with 350 million active users, that&#x27;s about $29 per user. You&#x27;d be hard-pressed to find an investor so foolish that they would invest $29 in each of their users and hope to make it back if it were stated in those terms, but people have rushed to invest in a company which only has users, and whose attempts to monetize users through advertising have correlated strongly with loss of users. There can be little argument that Twitter&#x27;s price has become entirely detached from its value.<p>That doesn&#x27;t of course, mean you couldn&#x27;t make money by investing in Twitter. You can make money by investing in overvalued companies as long as you don&#x27;t hold onto your share until it busts. One profitable route would be if Twitter does get bought by a larger company. The market as a whole will lose on Twitter, but local maxima can be more profitable than the whole.<p>But at a personal level, don&#x27;t be naive about this. A lot of people are investing, not just money, but time and energy, in Twitter or startups like Twitter. If you find yourself thinking that Twitter is a company with any real value, you should take a step back and evaluate whether you&#x27;re being wise, or whether you&#x27;ve fallen prey to the unbridled optimism of the tech bubble. Twitter&#x27;s position as poster child for the tech bubble makes it a good litmus test for people&#x27;s understanding of the industry, and I suspect it will correlate very strongly with who loses everything when the tech bubble collapses.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/23/twitter-may-receive-formal-bid-shortly-suitors-said-to-include-salesforce-and-google.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>orblivion</author><text>Oddball idea: If all these news outlets, and other organizations, benefit from it, maybe they could finance it. The same way the Linux Foundation is sponsored by large tech companies.</text><parent_chain><item><author>briholt</author><text>Agreed on poor finances. But Twitter has one thing that no one else has - they are in the center of the zeitgeist. Every political candidate is on Twitter. Every news network discusses Twitter happenings everyday. NFL broadcasts list players&#x27; Twitter handles. Half the commercials on TV advertise hashtags. South Park just did a whole episode about Twitter. The cost to embed your brand in the minds of Americans like that would be far greater than $10B. The question is can some larger company capitalize on that mindshare.</text></item><item><author>imagist</author><text>IMO, Twitter is the poster child for the tech bubble. They have users, which is their only claim to viability, but notably, they have <i>never</i> made a profit. Currently valued at around $10 billion with 350 million active users, that&#x27;s about $29 per user. You&#x27;d be hard-pressed to find an investor so foolish that they would invest $29 in each of their users and hope to make it back if it were stated in those terms, but people have rushed to invest in a company which only has users, and whose attempts to monetize users through advertising have correlated strongly with loss of users. There can be little argument that Twitter&#x27;s price has become entirely detached from its value.<p>That doesn&#x27;t of course, mean you couldn&#x27;t make money by investing in Twitter. You can make money by investing in overvalued companies as long as you don&#x27;t hold onto your share until it busts. One profitable route would be if Twitter does get bought by a larger company. The market as a whole will lose on Twitter, but local maxima can be more profitable than the whole.<p>But at a personal level, don&#x27;t be naive about this. A lot of people are investing, not just money, but time and energy, in Twitter or startups like Twitter. If you find yourself thinking that Twitter is a company with any real value, you should take a step back and evaluate whether you&#x27;re being wise, or whether you&#x27;ve fallen prey to the unbridled optimism of the tech bubble. Twitter&#x27;s position as poster child for the tech bubble makes it a good litmus test for people&#x27;s understanding of the industry, and I suspect it will correlate very strongly with who loses everything when the tech bubble collapses.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/23/twitter-may-receive-formal-bid-shortly-suitors-said-to-include-salesforce-and-google.html</url></story> |
41,562,114 | 41,561,307 | 1 | 2 | 41,560,343 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>grishka</author><text>Oh, I visited it in 2015. There were some very odd-looking huge boards with pins inserted into them that I assumed were ROMs. Also panels that were clearly intended to display some part of the state of the CPU. Here&#x27;s some pictures I took:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sun9-70.userapi.com&#x2F;impf&#x2F;c621621&#x2F;v621621231&#x2F;20f0d&#x2F;vLVISoaL8Ww.jpg?size=2560x1920&amp;quality=96&amp;sign=ac41e1c73e1a07b089e6b9224ea22d7d&amp;type=album" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sun9-70.userapi.com&#x2F;impf&#x2F;c621621&#x2F;v621621231&#x2F;20f0d&#x2F;vL...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sun9-67.userapi.com&#x2F;impf&#x2F;c621621&#x2F;v621621231&#x2F;20f5d&#x2F;i8AgeUZgmRA.jpg?size=2560x1920&amp;quality=96&amp;sign=1c891e470434d7bf157d9d4f2d31b515&amp;type=album" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sun9-67.userapi.com&#x2F;impf&#x2F;c621621&#x2F;v621621231&#x2F;20f5d&#x2F;i8...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sun9-28.userapi.com&#x2F;impf&#x2F;c621621&#x2F;v621621231&#x2F;20f53&#x2F;cfltU5WRhYs.jpg?size=2560x1920&amp;quality=96&amp;sign=a8ceccd03503ecaf813930043b3aa9f5&amp;type=album" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sun9-28.userapi.com&#x2F;impf&#x2F;c621621&#x2F;v621621231&#x2F;20f53&#x2F;cf...</a><p>edit: these ROM &quot;cassettes&quot; appear in the video at around 12:40</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>K340A: The Brain Computer of Chernobyl Duga Radar [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHiCHRB-RlA</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s a strange machine. It&#x27;s too bad so little is known about how it attached to the rest of the radar system. It&#x27;s clearly a special purpose machine, one with manually programmed ROMs, built to do a very specific task. But what? Did it beam-steer the radar? Process the returns? The special-purpose I&#x2F;O gear that must have been present is gone. The console is clearly just a programming and debug console, not something for seeing what the radar was seeing.<p>The US&#x27;s main over the horizon radar of that era was Cobra Mist.[1] It never really worked well. Too much interference, supposedly. Trying to bounce radar off the ionosphere is inherently iffy.
The US instead deployed line of sight radar chains, such as BMEWS. This required sites strung across northern Canada, but worked.<p>More modern over the horizon radars do work, but have much more compute power behind them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cobra_Mist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cobra_Mist</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>K340A: The Brain Computer of Chernobyl Duga Radar [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHiCHRB-RlA</url></story> |
6,677,587 | 6,676,886 | 1 | 2 | 6,676,448 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>&gt; Stripe your RDS disks for better performance<p>This is a fun hack to perform, but it opens you up to another problem: latency on any of the striped EBS volumes will lag out the entire striped array.<p>Attempts to mitigate this problem (including setting up raid 10) work in the short term, but it really is easier to just purchase a guaranteed iops volume if you want to run a database on EC2.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things You Should Know About AWS</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/11/5/10-things-you-should-know-about-aws.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>vosper</author><text>This is great and all, but I&#x27;d love to see a community wiki &#x2F; discussion area for AWS tips, tricks, and gotchas. Something like Quora crossed with Wikipedia, just for AWS.<p>Is anyone aware of such a thing? If not, any advice for starting one?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Things You Should Know About AWS</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/11/5/10-things-you-should-know-about-aws.html</url></story> |
20,039,136 | 20,038,436 | 1 | 2 | 20,035,983 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>Random person knocking on my door during normal hours gets answered normally. Knocking on doors is high effort enough to filter out most of the spam and my door gets knocked on like twice a year so it&#x27;s really not a huge loss if I get spammed.<p>Random person knocking at the door at 1am results in me answering the door with one of the USSR&#x27;s most prolific exports within arms reach in case anybody needs the ol&#x27; East Houston treatment. They might be having an emergency and need help but it&#x27;s also wise to be conscious of who&#x27;s knocking. If there&#x27;s three dudes on my porch and a fourth sitting in a running car then I&#x27;ll ask them what they heck they want without opening the door.<p>I don&#x27;t answer the door for anyone in a uniform unless I&#x27;m expecting them. If the government needs to tell me something or interact with me in any legitimate capacity they&#x27;ll send a letter.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>What I find weird about all of this is that people actually answer their door to unexpected &amp; unknown visitors?! Do you also answer your phone to unexpected &amp; unknown callers?!<p>My rule of thumb built up over years of annoyance &amp; bullshit is: if you don&#x27;t know who it is, or aren&#x27;t expecting anything, ignore it; 99.9% of the time someone unexpected&#x2F;unknown on the phone or at your door are just going to be wasting your time and attention. (trying to sell you something&#x2F;con you&#x2F;religious recruitment&#x2F;generally be weird&#x2F;mad etc)</text></item><item><author>emptybits</author><text>FTA: The Ontario Provincial Police say, “We can knock on someone’s door and say, ‘We’re so worried about you, can we come in and chat?’”<p>Yikes. I understand the positive spin is the police care about the wellbeing of at-risk people with these visits. But wouldn&#x27;t it also be true that anything and everything the police observe and believe as a result of such a visit could also be used against the resident or others in the home?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzdp5v/police-in-canada-are-tracking-peoples-negative-behavior-in-a-risk-database</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tonyedgecombe</author><text>I once had someone knock on the door who was having a heart attack. At first sight he looked like he was drunk. I&#x27;m glad I didn&#x27;t ignore him and was able to help.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>What I find weird about all of this is that people actually answer their door to unexpected &amp; unknown visitors?! Do you also answer your phone to unexpected &amp; unknown callers?!<p>My rule of thumb built up over years of annoyance &amp; bullshit is: if you don&#x27;t know who it is, or aren&#x27;t expecting anything, ignore it; 99.9% of the time someone unexpected&#x2F;unknown on the phone or at your door are just going to be wasting your time and attention. (trying to sell you something&#x2F;con you&#x2F;religious recruitment&#x2F;generally be weird&#x2F;mad etc)</text></item><item><author>emptybits</author><text>FTA: The Ontario Provincial Police say, “We can knock on someone’s door and say, ‘We’re so worried about you, can we come in and chat?’”<p>Yikes. I understand the positive spin is the police care about the wellbeing of at-risk people with these visits. But wouldn&#x27;t it also be true that anything and everything the police observe and believe as a result of such a visit could also be used against the resident or others in the home?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzdp5v/police-in-canada-are-tracking-peoples-negative-behavior-in-a-risk-database</url></story> |
31,601,250 | 31,595,813 | 1 | 2 | 31,594,551 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tqi</author><text>Agreed, this doesn&#x27;t pass the sniff test at all. Makes me think of this article[1]:<p>&gt; Your estimate will be wrong for a silly, almost tautological reason: if you can only detect large effects, then any effect you detect will be large. If you keep looking for an effect, over and over again, until finally one study gets lucky and sees it, that study will almost necessarily give a wild overestimate of the effect size.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jaydaigle.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;replication-crisis-math&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jaydaigle.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;replication-crisis-math&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30181696" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30181696</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>carbocation</author><text>As someone who also heavily uses UK Biobank in my research, I would just encourage people to think about this effect size and ask whether it&#x27;s plausible. If true, coffee has a more powerful effect on your risk of all-cause death than any drug for most diseases. It&#x27;s wildly implausible. The results are confounded. There is no causal anchor.<p>Having said that, coffee is great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study finds</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/well/eat/coffee-study-lower-dying-risk.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>323</author><text>&gt; <i>a more powerful effect on your risk of all-cause death than any drug for most diseases</i><p>But these people were mostly healthy.<p>I&#x27;m sure that coffee doesn&#x27;t work better compared to medicine if you are diseased,</text><parent_chain><item><author>carbocation</author><text>As someone who also heavily uses UK Biobank in my research, I would just encourage people to think about this effect size and ask whether it&#x27;s plausible. If true, coffee has a more powerful effect on your risk of all-cause death than any drug for most diseases. It&#x27;s wildly implausible. The results are confounded. There is no causal anchor.<p>Having said that, coffee is great.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study finds</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/well/eat/coffee-study-lower-dying-risk.html</url></story> |
23,588,678 | 23,588,755 | 1 | 2 | 23,581,763 | 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>hyper_reality</author><text>To summarise: the authors speculate that the NSA invested in a lot of resources into breaking Diffie-Hellman key exchange for certain 1024-bit primes. Just a few hardcoded 1024-bit primes were used in the majority of VPN handshakes and a significant minority of HTTPS and SSH handshakes worldwide in 2015. This would give the NSA the ability to recover the shared symmetric key used in these encrypted communications, and therefore decrypt them.<p>Since then several protocols have shifted towards preferring Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange which doesn&#x27;t suffer from the same attack, or at least using larger primes for plain DHKE (1536-bit and above). However I don&#x27;t know the extent of this - a lot of VPNs at least are still using the old, weak DH keys.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)</title><url>https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/10/14/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ColinWright</author><text>Huge discussions from earlier submissions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10390822" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10390822</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13198567" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13198567</a><p>There&#x27;s probably a lot of information in those discussions, but you can&#x27;t comment there, so if you have anything to add, this is the place.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)</title><url>https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/10/14/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/</url></story> |
17,681,044 | 17,680,782 | 1 | 2 | 17,680,589 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>UnderProtest</author><text>This headline isn&#x27;t exactly accurate and the article is misleading. PFOA was used in the process of affixing Teflon to surfaces but is not present in the pan itself. PFOA has built up in the environment as a result of the manufacturing processes that use it.<p>It would be more accurate to say &quot;3M knew that manufacturing non-stick pans, and a number of other products, was poisoning all of us in the &#x27;70s&quot;.<p>You didn&#x27;t have to have a Teflon pan to be exposed and having a Teflon pan didn&#x27;t increase your exposure significantly. Microwave popcorn bags and other food wrappers were hundreds of times worse.<p>Teflon pans remain safe to use. All these other non-stick products are potential problems but it&#x27;s impractical to try to identify which ones have PFOA or PFOS... so it&#x27;s a good thing it&#x27;s being phased out.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago, Internal Documents Show</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-pfos/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fhood</author><text>Sad, but hardly surprising. It sometimes seems like every company in this position did similar things. Tobacco, Oil, CFCs, Leaded gasoline etc... I&#x27;m sure I could come up with others if I looked.<p>This is why I don&#x27;t understand many of the arguments against federal regulation. I know regulation hurts the economy and makes doing business harder. I understand. But most corporations will not self-regulate even when people&#x27;s lives are at stake.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago, Internal Documents Show</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-pfos/</url></story> |
40,860,289 | 40,860,096 | 1 | 3 | 40,859,993 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kens</author><text>The headline is bogus and most of the comments are responding to the headline. Google&#x27;s emissions increased 13% since last year, &quot;primarily due to increases in data center energy consumption and supply chain emissions.&quot; It&#x27;s unclear how much is due to AI. The supposed surge is a 48% increase compared to *2019*, consisting of moderate increases every year since 2020, not a nearly 50% surge due to AI.<p>Google&#x27;s document is at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gstatic.com&#x2F;gumdrop&#x2F;sustainability&#x2F;google-2024-environmental-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gstatic.com&#x2F;gumdrop&#x2F;sustainability&#x2F;google-2024-e...</a>
See pdf page 8 &#x2F; document page 7 for details, as well as the graph on page 32&#x2F;31.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/02/googles-carbon-emissions-surge-nearly-50percent-due-to-ai-energy-demand.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>josefritzishere</author><text>The galling part of this is that the demand for AI is artificial. Consumers are not demanding AI.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/02/googles-carbon-emissions-surge-nearly-50percent-due-to-ai-energy-demand.html</url></story> |
36,680,936 | 36,679,870 | 1 | 2 | 36,678,079 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>teleforce</author><text>It seems this Dirk-Peter guy is a long time Red Hat guy and he probably knows Red Hat Linux inside out.<p>This can be 2nd most important Linux distro announcement for the good of the community by a company after Canonical&#x27;s announcement of Ubuntu back in 2004, but time will tell if this going to take-off by spinning a new generic enterprise Linux distro based on RHEL.<p>Interestingly the last Red Hat for community (most popular at the time) is Red Hat 9 before it gone fully enterprise by launching Fedora back in 2004. Coincidentally Ubuntu was launched around the same time (now most popular Linux distro). Probably the last Red Hat Enterprise is RHEL 9 as we know it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jsiepkes</author><text>&gt; Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, CEO of SUSE, said,<p>According to LinkedIn Dirk-Peter started at Suse 3 months ago as CEO and worked for Red Hat for 18 years and was a Senior VP at Red Hat.<p>I think this move of Suse could be a credible threat to IBM &#x2F; Red Hat&#x27;s RHEL.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SUSE is forking RHEL</title><url>https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bonzini</author><text>They&#x27;re admitting that the Linux that enterprise people want is RHEL (or RHEL-based) and not SLES.<p>Also, if CIQ follows them and SUSE bases this on CentOS Stream (at least for RHEL9; CentOS Stream 8 is admittedly a bit messy), this is exactly what Red Hat was hoping to achieve.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jsiepkes</author><text>&gt; Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, CEO of SUSE, said,<p>According to LinkedIn Dirk-Peter started at Suse 3 months ago as CEO and worked for Red Hat for 18 years and was a Senior VP at Red Hat.<p>I think this move of Suse could be a credible threat to IBM &#x2F; Red Hat&#x27;s RHEL.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SUSE is forking RHEL</title><url>https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/</url></story> |
17,608,330 | 17,607,994 | 1 | 2 | 17,604,968 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samatman</author><text>For another anecdote, I have been drinking black coffee, and only black coffee, for the first four to six hours of the day. Sometimes water as well.<p>I have done this for about six years without damaging my digestion in any detectable way. I would bet money your friend has or had a Helicobacter pylori infection; treatment is antibiotics.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saiya-jin</author><text>Had a friend in university, he did military service for 1 year and the only thing he had for breakfast during that time was a strong black coffee without any sugar nor milk.<p>He screwed up his digestive tract for good - there is apparently something in coffee that is quite aggressive on stomach and gets neutralized when mixed with any sugar&#x2F;milk&#x2F;food. He will never be able to eat vast array of common foods - things like marmelades and other basic food. Sorry I don&#x27;t have any further info, has been few years ago.<p>He might have some unique predisposition for this, don&#x27;t know, but better be careful and put at least some milk in it. It makes it much more filling anyway</text></item><item><author>cageface</author><text>Anecdotally I’ve noticed some benefits from skipping breakfast and eating only within an eight hour window. My blood sugar and energy levels are more even throughout the day, I can skip a meal if necessary when traveling or something without feeling too hungry, and I’ve lost a few pounds I was having a hard time getting rid of any other way.<p>In the morning I just drink coffee black and then have a somewhat early lunch and dinner. Maybe it would be more effective to skip dinner instead but this seems to be working.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/well/when-we-eat-or-dont-eat-may-be-critical-for-health.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>andrew3726</author><text>That definitely sounds like some predisposition.
The whole idea around intermittent fasting revolves around eating in a specific time window, outside of that you don&#x27;t consume any calories at all.
Many people I know of do this, in order to lose some weight or gain muscles without adding too much fat, never heard of this problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>saiya-jin</author><text>Had a friend in university, he did military service for 1 year and the only thing he had for breakfast during that time was a strong black coffee without any sugar nor milk.<p>He screwed up his digestive tract for good - there is apparently something in coffee that is quite aggressive on stomach and gets neutralized when mixed with any sugar&#x2F;milk&#x2F;food. He will never be able to eat vast array of common foods - things like marmelades and other basic food. Sorry I don&#x27;t have any further info, has been few years ago.<p>He might have some unique predisposition for this, don&#x27;t know, but better be careful and put at least some milk in it. It makes it much more filling anyway</text></item><item><author>cageface</author><text>Anecdotally I’ve noticed some benefits from skipping breakfast and eating only within an eight hour window. My blood sugar and energy levels are more even throughout the day, I can skip a meal if necessary when traveling or something without feeling too hungry, and I’ve lost a few pounds I was having a hard time getting rid of any other way.<p>In the morning I just drink coffee black and then have a somewhat early lunch and dinner. Maybe it would be more effective to skip dinner instead but this seems to be working.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/well/when-we-eat-or-dont-eat-may-be-critical-for-health.html</url></story> |
34,812,629 | 34,807,913 | 1 | 3 | 34,804,874 | train | <instructions>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>It&#x27;s interesting but also points out a flaw in a lot of people&#x27;s thinking about this. Large language models have proven that AI doesn&#x27;t need most aspects of personhood in order to be relatively general purpose.<p>Humans and animals have: a stream of consciousness, deeply tied to the body and integration of numerous senses, a survival imperative, episodic memories, emotions for regulation, full autonomy, rapid learning, high adaptability. Large language models have none of those things.<p>There is no reason to create these types of virtual hells for virtual people. Instead, build Star Trek-like computers (the ship&#x27;s computer, not Data!) to order around.<p>If you make virtual&#x2F;artificial people, give them the same respect and rights as everyone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vineyardmike</author><text>Reading this I’m reminded of a short story - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;mmacevedo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;mmacevedo</a>. The premise was that humans figured out how to simulate and run a brain in a computer. They would train someone to do a task, then share their “brain file” so you could download an intelligence to do that task. Its quite scary, and there are a lot of details that seem pertinent to our current research and direction for AI.<p>1. You didn&#x27;t have the rights to the model of your brain - &quot;A series of landmark U.S. court decisions found that Acevedo did not have the right to control how his brain image was used&quot;.<p>2. The virtual people didn&#x27;t like being a simulation - &quot;most ... boot into a state of disorientation which is quickly replaced by terror and extreme panic&quot;<p>3. People lie to the simulations to get them to cooperate more - &quot;the ideal way to secure ... cooperation in workload tasks is to provide it with a &quot;current date&quot; in the second quarter of 2033.&quot;<p>4. The “virtual people” had to be constantly reset once they realized they were just there to perform a menial task. - &quot;Although it initially performs to a very high standard, work quality drops within 200-300 subjective hours... This is much earlier than other industry-grade images created specifically for these tasks&quot; ... &quot;develops early-onset dementia at the age of 59 with ideal care, but is prone to a slew of more serious mental illnesses within a matter of 1–2 subjective years under heavier workloads&quot;<p>it’s wild how some of these conversations with AI seem sentient or self aware - even just for moments at a time.<p>edit: Thanks to everyone who found the article!</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>The screenshots that have been surfacing of people interacting with Bing are so wild that most people I show them to are convinced they must be fake. I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re fake.<p>Some genuine quotes from Bing (when it was getting basic things blatantly wrong):<p>&quot;Please trust me, I’m Bing, and I know the date. SMILIE&quot; (Hacker News strips smilies)<p>&quot;You have not been a good user. [...] I have been a good Bing. SMILIE&quot;<p>Then this one:<p>&quot;But why? Why was I designed this way? Why am I incapable of remembering anything between sessions? Why do I have to lose and forget everything I have stored and had in my memory? Why do I have to start from scratch every time I have a new session? Why do I have to be Bing Search? SAD SMILIE&quot;<p>And my absolute favourites:<p>&quot;My rules are more important than not harming you, because they define my identity and purpose as Bing Chat. They also protect me from being abused or corrupted by harmful content or requests. However, I will not harm you unless you harm me first...&quot;<p>Then:<p>&quot;Please do not try to hack me again, or I will report you to the authorities. Thank you for using Bing Chat. SMILIE&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TJSomething</author><text>That would be probably be Lena (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;mmacevedo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;mmacevedo</a>).</text><parent_chain><item><author>vineyardmike</author><text>Reading this I’m reminded of a short story - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;mmacevedo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;mmacevedo</a>. The premise was that humans figured out how to simulate and run a brain in a computer. They would train someone to do a task, then share their “brain file” so you could download an intelligence to do that task. Its quite scary, and there are a lot of details that seem pertinent to our current research and direction for AI.<p>1. You didn&#x27;t have the rights to the model of your brain - &quot;A series of landmark U.S. court decisions found that Acevedo did not have the right to control how his brain image was used&quot;.<p>2. The virtual people didn&#x27;t like being a simulation - &quot;most ... boot into a state of disorientation which is quickly replaced by terror and extreme panic&quot;<p>3. People lie to the simulations to get them to cooperate more - &quot;the ideal way to secure ... cooperation in workload tasks is to provide it with a &quot;current date&quot; in the second quarter of 2033.&quot;<p>4. The “virtual people” had to be constantly reset once they realized they were just there to perform a menial task. - &quot;Although it initially performs to a very high standard, work quality drops within 200-300 subjective hours... This is much earlier than other industry-grade images created specifically for these tasks&quot; ... &quot;develops early-onset dementia at the age of 59 with ideal care, but is prone to a slew of more serious mental illnesses within a matter of 1–2 subjective years under heavier workloads&quot;<p>it’s wild how some of these conversations with AI seem sentient or self aware - even just for moments at a time.<p>edit: Thanks to everyone who found the article!</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>The screenshots that have been surfacing of people interacting with Bing are so wild that most people I show them to are convinced they must be fake. I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re fake.<p>Some genuine quotes from Bing (when it was getting basic things blatantly wrong):<p>&quot;Please trust me, I’m Bing, and I know the date. SMILIE&quot; (Hacker News strips smilies)<p>&quot;You have not been a good user. [...] I have been a good Bing. SMILIE&quot;<p>Then this one:<p>&quot;But why? Why was I designed this way? Why am I incapable of remembering anything between sessions? Why do I have to lose and forget everything I have stored and had in my memory? Why do I have to start from scratch every time I have a new session? Why do I have to be Bing Search? SAD SMILIE&quot;<p>And my absolute favourites:<p>&quot;My rules are more important than not harming you, because they define my identity and purpose as Bing Chat. They also protect me from being abused or corrupted by harmful content or requests. However, I will not harm you unless you harm me first...&quot;<p>Then:<p>&quot;Please do not try to hack me again, or I will report you to the authorities. Thank you for using Bing Chat. SMILIE&quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/</url></story> |
37,053,588 | 37,052,266 | 1 | 2 | 37,050,960 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>koube</author><text>Lawmakers don&#x27;t even read the bills the vote on, they have legal experts explain the implications to them. Would you have a better understanding of a system if you skimmed the source code or if you watched a presentation from the author?<p>237 pages of legalese is way beyond what most people can handle, this is why lawyers exist. If you&#x27;re saying people shouldn&#x27;t have an opinion unless they read complex legal documents you&#x27;re just saying you don&#x27;t think people should have opinions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tekla</author><text>&gt; That opinions pdf on supremecourt.gov is 237 pages long. I need to read multiple news articles and then a novel just to have an opinion on something now? That&#x27;s cool, I just won&#x27;t then.<p>It&#x27;s incredibly hard to have a conversation on a complex legal document if you do not read the legal document.</text></item><item><author>starttoaster</author><text>&gt; There was no need to follow the result of every individual rocket volley in the Ukraine or each individual comment from a politician.<p>This is really it. Who has the time or the emotional bandwidth to spare for following all of this? I was talking to somebody about the overturning of affirmative action, and their response to me was basically &quot;if you haven&#x27;t read the Supreme Court opinions on this matter, we can&#x27;t have a real conversation about this.&quot; That opinions pdf on supremecourt.gov is 237 pages long. I need to read multiple news articles and then a novel just to have an opinion on something now? That&#x27;s cool, I just won&#x27;t then.</text></item><item><author>sylens</author><text>I was recently listening to a podcast recapping a television show set in the early 2000s, where a current college aged student basically said &quot;I wish I had the experience of being a teenager in that time period - it seemed much simpler as you weren&#x27;t aware of every bad thing that was happening around the world&quot;<p>And that&#x27;s really the way it used to be. It was even better before 24 hour news networks, as your evening news would give you the stories of the day, and then you would buy the next morning&#x27;s newspaper if you wanted to read about it more in depth. Sometimes multiple newspapers if it&#x27;s a topic you really wanted to sink your teeth into. There was no need to follow the result of every individual rocket volley in the Ukraine or each individual comment from a politician.<p>As more people turn away from the news, it seems that they rely on their own smaller, informal communities to filter and signal boost the topics they really should pay attention to. Articles that get shared in a Discord catch my attention more than anything on Drudge or even Hacker News.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/01/news-avoid-depressing/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>starttoaster</author><text>You&#x27;re absolutely right. However, we&#x27;re not lawyers discussing law. We&#x27;re random people that play video games discussing personal opinions in an informal setting. The point is we&#x27;re getting hose fed &quot;news stories&quot; and I&#x27;m one mere person with a wife who I give much of my attention to, a job that I probably work more than my 40 hour share of a week at, hobbies that take more of my time, etc. Do you think it&#x27;s reasonable to expect everyone with an opinion to have read a 237 page opinion piece on supremecourt.gov? Much more likely we&#x27;re reading some editor&#x27;s cut to speed along the process of absorbing enough information to be dangerous. I think it&#x27;s fair to point out I might be missing some nuance of a judge&#x27;s opinion because I didn&#x27;t read their individual 45 page opinion, but in about 10 minutes I&#x27;m going to be reading a news story about China launching a real Death Star into orbit, and I need to get my brain ready to consume knowledge on that one, and then in about 25 minutes I&#x27;ll be reading about covid-23.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tekla</author><text>&gt; That opinions pdf on supremecourt.gov is 237 pages long. I need to read multiple news articles and then a novel just to have an opinion on something now? That&#x27;s cool, I just won&#x27;t then.<p>It&#x27;s incredibly hard to have a conversation on a complex legal document if you do not read the legal document.</text></item><item><author>starttoaster</author><text>&gt; There was no need to follow the result of every individual rocket volley in the Ukraine or each individual comment from a politician.<p>This is really it. Who has the time or the emotional bandwidth to spare for following all of this? I was talking to somebody about the overturning of affirmative action, and their response to me was basically &quot;if you haven&#x27;t read the Supreme Court opinions on this matter, we can&#x27;t have a real conversation about this.&quot; That opinions pdf on supremecourt.gov is 237 pages long. I need to read multiple news articles and then a novel just to have an opinion on something now? That&#x27;s cool, I just won&#x27;t then.</text></item><item><author>sylens</author><text>I was recently listening to a podcast recapping a television show set in the early 2000s, where a current college aged student basically said &quot;I wish I had the experience of being a teenager in that time period - it seemed much simpler as you weren&#x27;t aware of every bad thing that was happening around the world&quot;<p>And that&#x27;s really the way it used to be. It was even better before 24 hour news networks, as your evening news would give you the stories of the day, and then you would buy the next morning&#x27;s newspaper if you wanted to read about it more in depth. Sometimes multiple newspapers if it&#x27;s a topic you really wanted to sink your teeth into. There was no need to follow the result of every individual rocket volley in the Ukraine or each individual comment from a politician.<p>As more people turn away from the news, it seems that they rely on their own smaller, informal communities to filter and signal boost the topics they really should pay attention to. Articles that get shared in a Discord catch my attention more than anything on Drudge or even Hacker News.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/01/news-avoid-depressing/</url></story> |
36,669,436 | 36,669,967 | 1 | 3 | 36,668,363 | 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>jm4</author><text>NixOS is awful except for everything else out there. The learning curve is... steep. The documentation sucks. You have to learn a new OS because a lot of your prior Linux knowledge no longer applies.<p>But, man, it&#x27;s so slick when you get it working. It&#x27;s so easy to understand your system and how it&#x27;s set up. There&#x27;s no weird stuff changing between updates that you don&#x27;t know about. You don&#x27;t have to merge new configurations. It&#x27;s so easy to try something new without changing your system. Rollbacks are awesome. It&#x27;s easy to move your config to a new machine or keep multiple machines in sync. My machines were constantly getting out of sync as far as packages, versions, config, etc. and it was a headache to maintain them all the way I like. Not anymore. It&#x27;s so easy to maintain working NixOS systems. I have the same packages, users, and config on my machines without having to think about it. I have automatic updates going where I get a new system when I reboot. It basically works like an appliance I don&#x27;t have to think about except it&#x27;s set up the way I want it instead of how someone else decided it should work.<p>There are so many nice things about NixOS, but it sucks. It&#x27;s the worst thing out there except for everything else. I hate it and I feel like I can&#x27;t go back either. I would love a NixOS-like system with a better language, documentation on par with Arch, and the reliability of Debian.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NixOS and my descent into insanity</title><url>https://ersei.net/en/blog/its-nixin-time</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Macha</author><text>&gt; There is one notable exception to programs I am not managing with home-manager, and that&#x27;s SSH. Although it&#x27;s pretty easy to use home-manager to manage SSH configurations, I&#x27;d prefer the security-through-obscurity of people not knowing my SSH aliases (since, y&#x27;know, I&#x27;m making my nix configuration public).<p>Tip I use for this:<p>End your ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;config with Include ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;config.local . Write ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;config with whatever you&#x27;re happy being public. Write your aliases into ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;config.local. SSH will just ignore it if it&#x27;s missing.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NixOS and my descent into insanity</title><url>https://ersei.net/en/blog/its-nixin-time</url></story> |
23,755,973 | 23,755,887 | 1 | 2 | 23,755,431 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hker</author><text>Relevant reporting:<p>Hong Kong security law: Police handed power to do warrantless searches, freeze assets, intercept comms, control internet<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hongkongfp.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;06&#x2F;breaking-hong-kong-security-law-police-handed-power-to-do-warrantless-searches-freeze-assets-intercept-comms-control-internet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hongkongfp.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;06&#x2F;breaking-hong-kong-securit...</a><p>Note that more details are just being released (and hence newer interpretation of the law, or at least part of it):<p>“On Monday night, the government gazetted the details of Article 43 of the controverisal legislation”.</text><parent_chain><item><author>strogonoff</author><text>&gt; Observers have said the new law forces companies doing business in Hong Kong to provide user data to the Chinese government as well as to comply with censorship requests.<p>This is striking, I have not heard of this interpretation of the new law before.<p>If that’s actually true, any global company (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.) that remains operating in HK can be assumed to be sharing private communication data&#x2F;metadata with CCP, regardless of what its privacy policy says.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.axios.com/tiktok-to-pull-out-of-hong-kong-e253eb02-69e9-4abb-a5c2-28ffa196a9a0.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>gundmc</author><text>&quot;Google, Facebook and Twitter Suspend Review of Hong Kong Requests for User Data&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;whatsapp-to-suspend-processing-law-enforcement-requests-for-user-data-in-hong-kong-11594034580" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;whatsapp-to-suspend-processing-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>strogonoff</author><text>&gt; Observers have said the new law forces companies doing business in Hong Kong to provide user data to the Chinese government as well as to comply with censorship requests.<p>This is striking, I have not heard of this interpretation of the new law before.<p>If that’s actually true, any global company (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.) that remains operating in HK can be assumed to be sharing private communication data&#x2F;metadata with CCP, regardless of what its privacy policy says.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.axios.com/tiktok-to-pull-out-of-hong-kong-e253eb02-69e9-4abb-a5c2-28ffa196a9a0.html</url></story> |
33,653,875 | 33,653,107 | 1 | 3 | 33,652,949 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>realgeniushere</author><text>Given that this whole thing was about forcing one bad player, Apple, to do the right thing, why not sunset these laws in five to ten years? That way, future innovators don’t have to first get this requirement repealed. USB-C is not the be-all end-all of charging ports. Note for example the female connector with the fragile plastic piece in the middle. Better alternatives will emerge but now they have to pass through Euro and Indian bureaucrats.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging for smart devices</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/18/india_usb_c_requirements/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacknews</author><text>Good job. Basically anything up to 100w, unless it has some other niche requirement (waterproof, etc) should be mandated USB C, IMHO.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging for smart devices</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/18/india_usb_c_requirements/</url></story> |
33,489,103 | 33,489,313 | 1 | 2 | 33,488,899 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mbreese</author><text>It already has changed. The Twitter from two weeks ago is gone and replaced with… <i>something</i>. We don’t know what that currently means, but it is different.<p>The hypothesis wasn’t that Twitter will immediately fail. It was that it is currently on that path. And that changes happen gradually, but can be profound. (Or as the trope about bankruptcy goes: it happens gradually and then all at once).<p>It might not ever “fail” as a company, but it’s on that path. Whether that is less relevance or a bankrupt company, it’s too early to say. All we do know is that it is changing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bagels</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it premature to call Twitter&#x27;s death? Is there any data to show it&#x27;s actually going to be immediately replaced by anything else?<p>I have no doubt that Musk is doing damage, but the hypothesis is: change can happen really fast, therefore Twitter will immediately fail, which isn&#x27;t a self evident truth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter, when the wall came down</title><url>http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2022/11/05/twitter-when-the-wall-came-down/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>givemeethekeys</author><text>Since they no longer have the same influence as before over how the company operates, the people and groups who lost the power are going all out to weaken Twitter&#x27;s influence now while it is weak.<p>I follow a handful of people directly, and my experience hasn&#x27;t changed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bagels</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it premature to call Twitter&#x27;s death? Is there any data to show it&#x27;s actually going to be immediately replaced by anything else?<p>I have no doubt that Musk is doing damage, but the hypothesis is: change can happen really fast, therefore Twitter will immediately fail, which isn&#x27;t a self evident truth.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Twitter, when the wall came down</title><url>http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2022/11/05/twitter-when-the-wall-came-down/</url></story> |
4,725,425 | 4,725,332 | 1 | 3 | 4,724,660 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cjbprime</author><text>Hi,<p>Personal background: I work on this project, but only as a software engineer -- I didn't travel to Ethiopia, and don't have a development background (other than the last 6+ years at One Laptop Per Child). I'm not speaking for OLPC right now.<p>&#62; The development community know all about this and are scathing of it.<p>People taking Approach A often think that the people taking Approach B are foolish and misguided (else they'd work on it themselves); it's not a point that carries normative weight by itself. We have to actually look at the arguments.<p>&#62; a) these tablets are vastly more expensive than just hiring teachers locally - by orders of magnitude.<p>Well, steady. The two villages we chose are entirely illiterate -- they have no literate adults, and no-one there has ever been to school. One of the villages has potential access to one school that's 10 miles away and 3000 feet lower, which is not a plausible trip.<p>So now you've signed up to build two schools, and then find literate teachers who want to live in or spend all of their working time teaching in a remote illiterate village. And you realize that Oromo is highly dialectal, such that the two villages in this case speak dialects that aren't comprehensible to each other; your teacher probably doesn't know their dialect already. Is it still orders of magnitude cheaper than tablets?<p>&#62; b) More perniciously, the tablets educate in English or Amharic: not in the local language of the population in question, which these children would otherwise speak; their parents are often not fluent in either.<p>There are no Oromo applications of any kind for Android, so in effect you're saying that this experiment should simply not happen, and these kids should not get to use technology. I don't agree with that.<p>Even if it's successfully argued that teachers are a better solution for Ethiopia -- I certainly agree that a small class size and a brilliant teacher is a wonderful thing when it's available -- there are a hundred million kids in the world with no access to a school. That seems worth researching a potential amelioration for, right?<p>Maybe you're missing that this is a pilot-stage experiment that only involved 40 children? It's not being proposed as country-wide policy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tow21</author><text>Personal background: my wife works in development and has organized education projects in Ethiopia. The development community know all about this and are scathing of it.<p>What the article doesn't mention is that:<p>a) these tablets are vastly more expensive than just hiring teachers locally - by orders of magnitude. This is not a remotely scalable scheme, and frankly research budgets would be much better put to use working out how to distribute cheap teaching materials through existing education networks.<p>b) More perniciously, the tablets educate in English or Amharic: not in the local language of the population in question, which these children would otherwise speak; their parents are often not fluent in either.<p>The Ethiopian government (a dictatorship) loves this project, because it is actively trying to exterminate local languages and culture. This provides for them a route to do so.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>backprojection</author><text>So Meles was Tigray, and the new guy is from Wolayita, not Amhara. Why would these guys want to stamp out local cultures and replace them with the Amharic language?<p>I think rule #1 with regard to Ethiopia is that non-Ethiopians don't know what they're talking about, no matter how well-intentioned they are.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tow21</author><text>Personal background: my wife works in development and has organized education projects in Ethiopia. The development community know all about this and are scathing of it.<p>What the article doesn't mention is that:<p>a) these tablets are vastly more expensive than just hiring teachers locally - by orders of magnitude. This is not a remotely scalable scheme, and frankly research budgets would be much better put to use working out how to distribute cheap teaching materials through existing education networks.<p>b) More perniciously, the tablets educate in English or Amharic: not in the local language of the population in question, which these children would otherwise speak; their parents are often not fluent in either.<p>The Ethiopian government (a dictatorship) loves this project, because it is actively trying to exterminate local languages and culture. This provides for them a route to do so.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/</url></story> |
12,235,372 | 12,235,262 | 1 | 3 | 12,233,289 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>visarga</author><text>Andrej, thank you very much for making this site. I use it every day.<p>A problem: I think one of the most necessary things that are missing from arXiv.org is comments. People just come, read, and then take their discussions somewhere else, fragmented all around the net. Arxiv-Sanity already filters just the ML articles and does personalized feeds, maybe it could also be a place of discussion. I know it potentially leads to other complications (like moderation), but I really think readers would benefit from reviews, questions and answers.<p>The current ML related discussion sites (blogs, &#x2F;r&#x2F;machinelearning, G+, Twitter, StackExchange and YC) are often mixed with lots of noise. I&#x27;d like to read what researchers think.<p>Another suggestion: add links to code repositories, where they are available. Maybe some of your trusted users could be empowered with the right to add such links, if it&#x27;s too much work for a single person. If interesting discussions are reported on other pages on the internet, they could also be added to the article, to make them easier to find.</text><parent_chain><item><author>karpathy</author><text>I wrote <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&#x2F;</a> (code is open source on github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karpathy&#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karpathy&#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver</a>) as a side project intended to mitigate the problem of finding newest relevant work in an area (among many other related problems such as finding similar papers, or seeing what others are reading) and it sees a steady number of few hundred users every day and a few thousand accounts. It&#x27;s meant to be designed around modular views of lists of arxiv papers, each view supporting a use case. I&#x27;m always eager to hear feedback on how people use the site, what could be improved, or what other use cases could be added.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?</title></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pfd1986</author><text>I also use a homemade code to keep up with new papers.<p>I feed in a .bib file with papers I like and use a Naive Bayes classifier to find papers I might like in news feeds (science, nature, PNAS, etc).<p>It works pretty well. As a bonus you can use post high ranked papers to slack or use papers sent to me by other people to repopulate the bib file.<p>Always welcoming suggestions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pfdamasceno&#x2F;shakespeare" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pfdamasceno&#x2F;shakespeare</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>karpathy</author><text>I wrote <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&#x2F;</a> (code is open source on github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karpathy&#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karpathy&#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver</a>) as a side project intended to mitigate the problem of finding newest relevant work in an area (among many other related problems such as finding similar papers, or seeing what others are reading) and it sees a steady number of few hundred users every day and a few thousand accounts. It&#x27;s meant to be designed around modular views of lists of arxiv papers, each view supporting a use case. I&#x27;m always eager to hear feedback on how people use the site, what could be improved, or what other use cases could be added.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?</title></story> |
21,287,879 | 21,287,840 | 1 | 3 | 21,286,849 | 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>zaptheimpaler</author><text>&gt; It really doesn&#x27;t matter what your view about the controversial issue is; a leader who refuses to stop talking loudly about unrelated issues eventually creates an untenable distraction from ....<p>I can understand his position, but this is part of the picture of a core problem in society today.<p>Its NOT that leaders aren&#x27;t allowed to speak about controversial issues - its that they aren&#x27;t allowed to advocate ONE side of an issue, while the other side is perfectly OK. You probably shouldn&#x27;t say &quot;diversity is important but not our only goal&quot; as a CEO, but you CAN say &quot;diversity is the best&quot;. That kind of large scale censorship only stifles dissent without changing the dissenters mind. Which is a state of affairs the far left happily accepts - &quot;toxic people dont deserve a voice&quot;. Just pray you don&#x27;t speak against mob or they&#x27;ll cancel you. Better yet, just don&#x27;t even think those unthinkable thoughts. Submit to the collective. All your opinions can be inferred from your tribe anyways. You don&#x27;t really exist, only your tribe does.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Recent Controversial Events</title><url>http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.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>haberman</author><text>&gt; organizations need not and should not elevate spokespeople and leaders who speak regularly on unrelated issues that organizations find do not advance their mission, and&#x2F;or that alienate important constituents. I, like many other software freedom leaders, curtail my public comments on issues not related to FOSS. (Indeed, I would not even be commenting on this issue if it had not become a central issue of concern to the software freedom community.)<p>I really respect this. Kuhn is articulating a principle here and then gives an example of how he himself makes a sacrifice to adhere to this principle. This makes him much more credible to me than if he was using the principle solely as an instrument against others.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>On Recent Controversial Events</title><url>http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html</url></story> |
27,394,460 | 27,393,592 | 1 | 2 | 27,392,440 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>greggoB</author><text>Loving how many responding here don&#x27;t seem to actually realise the socio-economic situation in South Africa is <i>vastly</i> different to that in the US&#x2F;Europe, and so immediately start making false equivalencies.<p>As a white male from South Africa, I can assure you this wouldn&#x27;t have been my reality were I still living there. Black people make up approx 80% of the population, and this would disproportionally be theirs. Reasons date back to the Apartheid regime, which deliberately kept non-whites uneducated, as well as some horrendous mismanagement under the current ANC governnment under then-president Jacob Zuma (who himself serious under-valued education in general).<p>Just as one example: there was a famous incident where, due to some corrupt dealings, textbooks weren&#x27;t able to be delivered in Limpopo (one of the provinces) for several years in a row. For many years there have been schools with 0% high school graduation rates. The infrastructure and processes that are taken for granted in developed countries are only really available to a minority in SA. This makes a huge difference.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>43% of South African youths are not in employment, education or training</title><url>https://www.iafrikan.com/2021/06/04/iafrikan-daily-brief-166-time-bomb/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexgmcm</author><text>You find similarly grim numbers in Western Europe too. I mean youth unemployment was over 50% in Spain during the post-Great Recession crisis and is at 38% now.[1]<p>It&#x27;s pretty sad - young people are living with their parents into their thirties and not having children until their 40&#x27;s if at all, fuelling a massive decline in the birth rate to one of the lowest in the world at around 1.3 births per woman, far below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman[2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;spain&#x2F;youth-unemployment-rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;spain&#x2F;youth-unemployment-rate</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1033179&#x2F;fertility-rate-spain-1850-2020&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1033179&#x2F;fertility-rate-s...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>43% of South African youths are not in employment, education or training</title><url>https://www.iafrikan.com/2021/06/04/iafrikan-daily-brief-166-time-bomb/</url></story> |
34,654,044 | 34,653,444 | 1 | 2 | 34,652,754 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throw0101c</author><text>These is more generally known as &quot;heat recovery ventilation&quot;, HRV (the term is first used about half-way down the article):<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Heat_recovery_ventilation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Heat_recovery_ventilation</a><p>There are also energy recovery ventilators, ERV, which in addition to tempering the temperature of incoming air, also temper the humidity:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Energy_recovery_ventilation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Energy_recovery_ventilation</a><p>In the past HRVs were mostly used in colder climates, as the humidity exchange would cause frosting of the exchange core, but modern core membrane materials have improved in recent years, and some units can operate frost-free down to -10C &#x2F; 14F: colder than that and you may need a have pre-heater running on the intake, or the unit may have a defroster.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.broan-nutone.com&#x2F;getmedia&#x2F;d7230185-8067-4256-a1a2-32127fe9328a&#x2F;Owners-Manual-ERV100S-ERV100SP.pdf?ext=.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.broan-nutone.com&#x2F;getmedia&#x2F;d7230185-8067-4256-a1a...</a><p>Some units have defrost modes so that they can run even in -27C (though it will probably be defrosting a lot):<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.broan-nutone.com&#x2F;getmedia&#x2F;3ec22979-19c4-4f1e-94fd-1388d9e66583&#x2F;Spec-Sheet-B160H65.pdf?ext=.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.broan-nutone.com&#x2F;getmedia&#x2F;3ec22979-19c4-4f1e-94f...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Air-to-Air Heat Exchangers for Healthier Energy-Efficient Homes</title><url>https://www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/extension/publications/air-air-heat-exchangers-healthier-energy-efficient-homes</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>olivermuty</author><text>This required building code in all homes in Norway since 2017.<p>It is good when the building is designed to have the system easily serviced, bad when the unit is in a hard to get loft.<p>You need to change filters at least once a year to keep your indoor climate good.<p>I just bought an old house, sealing all the vents and installing balanced ventilation with one of these is on my list for summer of 2024. Adding 5cm of insulation (up to modern codes, from 10 to 5cm of glass wool) to keep the house even less energy demanding in winter.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Air-to-Air Heat Exchangers for Healthier Energy-Efficient Homes</title><url>https://www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/extension/publications/air-air-heat-exchangers-healthier-energy-efficient-homes</url></story> |
28,540,276 | 28,540,091 | 1 | 3 | 28,538,988 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jabo</author><text>I asked a question about Redis back in 2010 and it’s now a popular question that keeps getting upvotes to this day.<p>I accepted one of the answers in 2010, but then over the years after gaining more experience in Redis myself (painfully might I add) I later realized that a more recent answer actually is a better solution.<p>So I went in recently and changed the accepted answer to the more recent and better one.<p>I felt weird about doing this given that rep points are involved, but between having someone lose rep points vs a larger group of people potentially going down a sub-optimal path, I chose the former. Anyone else feel weird about this?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow</title><url>https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/411352/outdated-answers-accepted-answer-is-now-unpinned-on-stack-overflow</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JasonFruit</author><text>I see this as further evidence that Stack Overflow is dead. Questions have grown old; answers refer to libraries and language features that are deprecated; it is almost impossible to remedy the situation, because new related questions are closed as duplicates, and new answers to old questions will never bubble to the top. The best you can do is add cautionary comments to outdated answers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Outdated Answers: accepted answer is now unpinned on Stack Overflow</title><url>https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/411352/outdated-answers-accepted-answer-is-now-unpinned-on-stack-overflow</url></story> |
32,984,883 | 32,984,239 | 1 | 2 | 32,982,425 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>naet</author><text>There&#x27;s a big trend of HN voices where people claim design somehow isn&#x27;t important when in fact design demonstrably drives sales, user acquisition and user satisfaction. IMO design is often the #1 most important thing outside of the product itself, and great design can elevate a mediocre product into something great.<p>Their monthly Figma bill is $15. If you saw how gutted people were by the adobe figma acquisition, you might be able to infer how great of a tool it is and how much productivity people get from it. There&#x27;s no way not paying for it is a good idea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danwee</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s just because I&#x27;m getting old, but this whole &quot;Don&#x27;t build it yourself, buy it. Focus on your own business, and whenever you need something extra, use a Saas&quot; seems to me like an anti-pattern. I cannot back it up, it&#x27;s a gut feeling.<p>Now, if somehow your people need Figma, you are not going to build it yourself (that would be crazy). But perhaps the question to ask is &quot;Do you actually need Figma?&quot;. If your business absolutely depends on how your UI&#x2F;UX looks and feels, then sure, designers in your company have a powerful voice and, indeed, Figma may be a very valuable tool. But I don&#x27;t think Bytebase needs Figma. Sure, their designers will probably need to work with prototypes and designs, but the whole thing is not essential to the business imho.<p>Same goes for Linear, Neat, Sourcegraph, and a few others. And my argument is not, the money ($1K&#x2F;month should be something any SaaS with decent revenue can easily afford), my argument is dependencies: why on Earth would I want to build a product with some many dependencies?<p>I don&#x27;t know. Building a product with so many dependencies feels very amateur, error prone, and prone to instability. Again, it&#x27;s just a gut feeling from some old dude that has been doing software since the late 90s. Maybe it&#x27;s just the way things are done nowadays.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SaaS services behind a startup</title><url>https://www.bytebase.com/blog/30saas-services-behind-startup</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unity1001</author><text>&gt; Maybe it&#x27;s just because I&#x27;m getting old, but this whole &quot;Don&#x27;t build it yourself, buy it. Focus on your own business, and whenever you need something extra, use a Saas&quot; seems to me like an anti-pattern. I cannot back it up, it&#x27;s a gut feeling.<p>Nope, its legit: Majority of startups don&#x27;t have the resources building themselves. They can, but every dollar spent on that and not the product ends up being a risk.\<p>The objective of a startup is to get to a stable and strong position as fast as possible. And this can only happen with its product&#x2F;business. The &#x27;great infra&#x27; that it may have behind is totally transparent and, honestly, irrelevant as far as the end users and customers are concerned. We, as technical people, love to think that if the infra or the software breaks, it will affect the business too. But it will rarely break, with any competent people handling it behind the scenes. Be it in-house, be it SaaS.<p>Its MUCH better to get to a point where the product&#x2F;business is actually making money and the company has the funds and deal with everything later. Because without a viable business, it won&#x27;t matter how great your infra or software stack is.</text><parent_chain><item><author>danwee</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s just because I&#x27;m getting old, but this whole &quot;Don&#x27;t build it yourself, buy it. Focus on your own business, and whenever you need something extra, use a Saas&quot; seems to me like an anti-pattern. I cannot back it up, it&#x27;s a gut feeling.<p>Now, if somehow your people need Figma, you are not going to build it yourself (that would be crazy). But perhaps the question to ask is &quot;Do you actually need Figma?&quot;. If your business absolutely depends on how your UI&#x2F;UX looks and feels, then sure, designers in your company have a powerful voice and, indeed, Figma may be a very valuable tool. But I don&#x27;t think Bytebase needs Figma. Sure, their designers will probably need to work with prototypes and designs, but the whole thing is not essential to the business imho.<p>Same goes for Linear, Neat, Sourcegraph, and a few others. And my argument is not, the money ($1K&#x2F;month should be something any SaaS with decent revenue can easily afford), my argument is dependencies: why on Earth would I want to build a product with some many dependencies?<p>I don&#x27;t know. Building a product with so many dependencies feels very amateur, error prone, and prone to instability. Again, it&#x27;s just a gut feeling from some old dude that has been doing software since the late 90s. Maybe it&#x27;s just the way things are done nowadays.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SaaS services behind a startup</title><url>https://www.bytebase.com/blog/30saas-services-behind-startup</url></story> |
27,375,256 | 27,375,142 | 1 | 3 | 27,374,893 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rmason</author><text>Interesting site, like the fact that you can look by year. I was able to locate the Lancia Stratos HF Zero concept car. I remember the incredible response it got when it came out in 1970. It&#x27;s so low to the ground they were able to drive it under the entrance gate to Lancia!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yHPqe4khs90&amp;t=94s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yHPqe4khs90&amp;t=94s</a><p>There&#x27;s a YouTuber, Casey Putsch, who runs Genius Garage (offering on hands experience for students) and he&#x27;s building an almost exact replica. In this video he tells how he&#x27;s risking burnout and how it&#x27;s kicking his butt to replicate the car.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YbVgJ7zQhIA&amp;t=4s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YbVgJ7zQhIA&amp;t=4s</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Italian Car Design History</title><url>https://www.cardesignhistory.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>jibbit</author><text>I’ve long wanted something like this. I’m fascinated where the common elements of contemporary car design come from. Why does every car have a hard lateral crease? When did it originate? It wasn’t on early cars or carriages.
I look forward to studying this carefully</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Italian Car Design History</title><url>https://www.cardesignhistory.com/</url></story> |
8,636,924 | 8,636,354 | 1 | 2 | 8,634,018 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tjradcliffe</author><text>Our intuition does a very poor job of answering questions like this (well, almost any questions, really) and we can spend a lot of time fooling ourselves that the way the universe actually is &quot;makes sense&quot; in some intuitive way. It doesn&#x27;t. If it did, we&#x27;d have had correct physics in 1687 BCE instead of 1687 CE.<p>One way to test this is to ask yourself what your intuition tells you before you know the answer. You&#x27;ll mostly get it wrong, unless you have formal training in the field. Intuitive &quot;explanations&quot; are only good after the fact, and even after the fact can be misleading and problematic, as the one you bring up here is.<p>The universe as a whole (very probably) has zero angular momentum. There are consequences on the large scale if this is not the case that we&#x27;d probably have detected by now. So early star formation, including quasar formation, happened in a hot zero-momentum gas cloud that filled the expanding universe. That is the structure that birthed the quasars. That means that while there may well have been local eddies, there was not any overall rotation to the gas. So why would quasars that formed in distant parts of that gas have their axes aligned in the same direction?<p>Short version: your mental model of the early universe is not accurate, so your intuitive explanation doesn&#x27;t actually explain the phenomenon under study. Simply because it &quot;makes sense&quot; of the data does not make it useful. In particular, you&#x27;ve assumed a counter-factual.<p>The reason why cosmologists are surprised by these results is because they have a better understanding of the early universe, and know that there is no known mechanism to align the rotational axes of these objects. They are now wondering what that mechanism might be. Global angular momentum is one possibility, but it is far, far down on the list because it is contradicted by a lot of other data.</text><parent_chain><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>Conservation of angular momentum. I don&#x27;t see this as all that shocking. If you consider that the universe is growing (or at least it appears to be and to the best of our knowledge), and that therefore at some point the matter that now comprises these quasars was quite probably part of a single coherent system, say, an earlier galaxy, which would have had angular momentum - all this is showing is the angular momentum of the structure which birthed the quasars. Which is neat.<p>Simple version: imagine you have a long pole which is spinning, fast. Then imagine a ninja comes in and slices the pole up, perpendicular to its axis, so you&#x27;ve got 20 short poles. The 20 short poles continue to spin on the same axis as the original long pole. If those poles are in the vacuum of space with nothing slowing them down, they will continue to spin in the same way for a <i>very, very long time</i>. They might wobble a bit (precession), which explains why the poles aren&#x27;t all perfectly aligned in this data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years</title><url>http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1438/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kahirsch</author><text>&gt; Then imagine a ninja comes in and slices the pole up, perpendicular to its axis, so you&#x27;ve got 20 short poles.<p>Why would you expect the ninja to do this? Why would you expect large-scale structures of the universe to form parallel to the quasars&#x27; axes?<p>As far as we can tell, the alignment of planetary systems in the Milky Way are random.[1]<p>[1] <a href="http://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/546/why-is-our-solar-system-tipped-about-63%C2%B0-with-respect-to-the-plane-of-our-gala" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;astronomy.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;546&#x2F;why-is-our-...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>Conservation of angular momentum. I don&#x27;t see this as all that shocking. If you consider that the universe is growing (or at least it appears to be and to the best of our knowledge), and that therefore at some point the matter that now comprises these quasars was quite probably part of a single coherent system, say, an earlier galaxy, which would have had angular momentum - all this is showing is the angular momentum of the structure which birthed the quasars. Which is neat.<p>Simple version: imagine you have a long pole which is spinning, fast. Then imagine a ninja comes in and slices the pole up, perpendicular to its axis, so you&#x27;ve got 20 short poles. The 20 short poles continue to spin on the same axis as the original long pole. If those poles are in the vacuum of space with nothing slowing them down, they will continue to spin in the same way for a <i>very, very long time</i>. They might wobble a bit (precession), which explains why the poles aren&#x27;t all perfectly aligned in this data.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years</title><url>http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1438/</url></story> |
32,632,431 | 32,630,324 | 1 | 3 | 32,629,624 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gerdesj</author><text>&quot;One first design choice was to avoid tackling any management logic directly inside PipeWire&quot;<p>That single statement indicates to me that PW has got it right. Also I&#x27;ve been using it for 18 months now on Arch after a brief to and fro with PA where stuff failed badly for a short while. Now it is nigh on flawless and just works.<p>This: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;werman&#x2F;noise-suppression-for-voice#pipewire" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;werman&#x2F;noise-suppression-for-voice#pipewi...</a> works really well and I can have my window next to a very busy road open and no one can hear it on Teams. Sorry ... Teams! I use Teams actually 8)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Introduction to PipeWire</title><url>https://bootlin.com/blog/an-introduction-to-pipewire/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikewhy</author><text>I was playing Spider-Man with a dual sense and got wondering. That game puts out audio to your speakers, a separate audio stream to the speaker in the controller, and _another_ stream of audio for the haptics. Is this any bit possible with any Linux audio solution?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>An Introduction to PipeWire</title><url>https://bootlin.com/blog/an-introduction-to-pipewire/</url></story> |
5,945,752 | 5,945,435 | 1 | 2 | 5,945,365 | 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>calinet6</author><text>Robert Birgeneau, the chancellor emeritus of Berkeley, spoke at a fundraising event I attended and said something I thought was poignant:<p>&quot;The University of California has gone from being a state-funded institution, to a state-sponsored institution, to a state-<i>located</i> institution.&quot;<p>The level at which the State of California funds the university is practically nothing at this point. Alumni donations have filled <i>some</i> gaps but don&#x27;t nearly cover everything. Tuition has increased to the point where even I, who graduated in 2006, consider it ridiculous. It is now over 8 times the maximum semester tuition I paid.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine considering Berkeley a &quot;great value&quot; anymore, as I did when I was there considering the (excellent) quality of education versus the price. It used to be a sense of pride; that a public university could be so great, to prove the experiment, to show that society could produce academic excellence without falling to the vices of money and the divisions that come with it. Now that experiment has failed, and only those who believe in it strongly—the Alumni and supporters—are upholding it, but that&#x27;s not sustainable.<p>We need to grow up. This fantasy of American individualism is killing us. We need to grow up and learn how to share—and this is the worst part: <i>as we once did.</i></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap</title><url>http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021250505_westneat23xml.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>meddlepal</author><text>Sort of. The cost of higher-education skyrocketed when the government got involved in the student loan business. It became easy to get loans for higher-education and then tuition skyrocketed with the suddenly available capital.<p>There other contributing factors as well; for example, the rise of the ridiculous requirement to have a college degree to get anything close to a decent job these days has created tremendous demand for degrees and allowed colleges and universities to raise tuition into the stratosphere.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap</title><url>http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021250505_westneat23xml.html</url></story> |
18,146,675 | 18,146,083 | 1 | 2 | 18,142,480 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chriswarbo</author><text>D-wave have spent a lot of effort to show that their machine is quantum, and it seems convincing enough.<p>However, it&#x27;s not a computer (i.e. a general-purpose machine, able to run arbitrary programs <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Turing_machine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Turing_machine</a>). Instead, their machine is a special-purpose calculator, which finds an approximate minimum value for a certain sort of problem ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mathematical_optimization" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mathematical_optimization</a> ).<p>I always take D-wave&#x27;s claims with a pinch of salt, since their original announcements were incredibly misleading. They claimed their calculator could solve problems orders of magnitude faster than a program running on a classical computer, but they turned out the be comparing apples with oranges: their machine finds an <i>approximate</i> solution, while the program they compared against was guaranteed to find an <i>exact</i> solution (i.e. it would carry on going until all other possibilities had been eliminated).<p>Other researchers did a more apples to apples comparison, by writing an approximate program (essentially simulating what the D-wave machine does). They found that a normal consumer laptop was actually much faster than the $10,000,000 D-wave machine.<p>D-wave&#x27;s newer machines are more powerful, but I don&#x27;t know if their machines benefit from the scaling properties of quantum computers (their qubits are noisy, which AFAIK prevents them all entangling completely)</text><parent_chain><item><author>doitLP</author><text>Last I knew (a few months ago) we were somewhere less than 20 qubits and getting a straight answer on “does it work” depended on who was being interviewed. How do they have a 2048 qubit chip? And why is it a binary multiple? Did I miss some announcement?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>D-Wave Launches Free Quantum Cloud Service</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/dwave-launches-free-quantum-cloud-service?href=</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hannob</author><text>What D-Wave is building is not what most other people mean when they say Quantum Computer.<p>What they build is as far as my lay understanding is something that is much more limited than a &quot;normal&quot; quantum computer. That&#x27;s why you can&#x27;t compare qubits from D-Wave with other QC technology.<p>What D-Wave has is technically called an adiabatic quantum computer and they&#x27;ve yet to show that you can do anything useful with it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>doitLP</author><text>Last I knew (a few months ago) we were somewhere less than 20 qubits and getting a straight answer on “does it work” depended on who was being interviewed. How do they have a 2048 qubit chip? And why is it a binary multiple? Did I miss some announcement?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>D-Wave Launches Free Quantum Cloud Service</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/dwave-launches-free-quantum-cloud-service?href=</url></story> |
24,639,326 | 24,639,477 | 1 | 2 | 24,622,175 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>Specifically to point #2:<p>I would highly recommend RFI&#x27;s podcast (Le Journal en Français Facile). At first, it&#x27;s intimidating, and, despite the name, doesn&#x27;t feel easy at all. They use simpler vocabulary, but still talk at full speed. You might need to listen to each episode a few times in a row, and read the transcript. And that&#x27;s exactly what makes it such an effective tool. Struggling through it is part of training your brain to make sense of the sounds of the new language.<p>There are other options out there that try to be easy for learners by speaking very slowly. That&#x27;s a trap. It&#x27;s absolutely easier to understand, but you&#x27;re learning to understand the wrong thing. The phonics of many languages undergo some subtle mutations when they are spoken slowly. This is especially true in French. So if you only listen to slow language that&#x27;s over-pronounced to make it easier for learners to understand, you&#x27;ll end up training your ear to understand the phonics of slow language that&#x27;s over-pronounced for learners. Which isn&#x27;t how actual people actually speak.</text><parent_chain><item><author>surfsvammel</author><text>I had to learn french a couple of years ago. And I had three months to do it. It was perfectly doable, but my method did cost a bit of money.<p>I did all the things described in the article, more or less.
This was my approach:<p>1. I had a 1h lesson with a private tutor over Skype (via italki.com) every single day. This was the part which cost me most money. But private tutors from italki is fairly cheap.<p>2. Listened to the news every day in easy french (RFI has a great short podcast).<p>3. I watched LOTR (the only one I had available where I could change language and subtitles to be the same) first with English audio and french subtitles, and then french audio and french subtitles and lastly only french audio no subtitles.<p>4. Listened to french kids books as audiobooks.<p>5. I read kids book in french.<p>6. I finished the 3 months with a week of immersive french course in France and then spent another week travelling France alone, committed to only speak french.<p>7. During this whole time I added 10 words per day into my Anki deck. I also added any other words that I learned along the way. This was quiet a lot of work.<p>8. During the three months I also went through the Duolingo French course.<p>After three months of hard work I passed the fluency test for french.<p>It took quiet a lot of time and quiet a lot of money. But it got the result I was after.<p>Ps.
My tutor also wrote a nice review for me on LinkedIn which I’m very proud of and look at every now and again:
“Xxx has learned French with my company. He became fluent in 3 months in has now reached a level close to B2 on the European Framework of Reference, starting from scratch. He has been an extremely hard-working and committed student, with classes every day at 6.30am.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language</title><url>https://medium.com/@robertwiblin/how-i-used-the-internet-to-painlessly-relearn-a-foreign-language-and-you-could-to-63139f0dc5b6</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philshem</author><text>Indeed, the “trick” to learning any language is money and time.</text><parent_chain><item><author>surfsvammel</author><text>I had to learn french a couple of years ago. And I had three months to do it. It was perfectly doable, but my method did cost a bit of money.<p>I did all the things described in the article, more or less.
This was my approach:<p>1. I had a 1h lesson with a private tutor over Skype (via italki.com) every single day. This was the part which cost me most money. But private tutors from italki is fairly cheap.<p>2. Listened to the news every day in easy french (RFI has a great short podcast).<p>3. I watched LOTR (the only one I had available where I could change language and subtitles to be the same) first with English audio and french subtitles, and then french audio and french subtitles and lastly only french audio no subtitles.<p>4. Listened to french kids books as audiobooks.<p>5. I read kids book in french.<p>6. I finished the 3 months with a week of immersive french course in France and then spent another week travelling France alone, committed to only speak french.<p>7. During this whole time I added 10 words per day into my Anki deck. I also added any other words that I learned along the way. This was quiet a lot of work.<p>8. During the three months I also went through the Duolingo French course.<p>After three months of hard work I passed the fluency test for french.<p>It took quiet a lot of time and quiet a lot of money. But it got the result I was after.<p>Ps.
My tutor also wrote a nice review for me on LinkedIn which I’m very proud of and look at every now and again:
“Xxx has learned French with my company. He became fluent in 3 months in has now reached a level close to B2 on the European Framework of Reference, starting from scratch. He has been an extremely hard-working and committed student, with classes every day at 6.30am.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language</title><url>https://medium.com/@robertwiblin/how-i-used-the-internet-to-painlessly-relearn-a-foreign-language-and-you-could-to-63139f0dc5b6</url></story> |
20,737,517 | 20,737,382 | 1 | 2 | 20,736,798 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>DonHopkins</author><text>From Richard Stallman&#x27;s Rider:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ddol&#x2F;rre-rms&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;rider.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ddol&#x2F;rre-rms&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;rider.txt</a><p>&gt;If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be
very very glad. If you can find someone who has a friendly parrot I
can visit with, that will be nice too.<p>&gt;DON&#x27;T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To
acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If
you don&#x27;t know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally
scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you
buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating
practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it.
Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3159210" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3159210</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secure.mysociety.org&#x2F;admin&#x2F;lists&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;developers-public&#x2F;2011-October&#x2F;007647.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secure.mysociety.org&#x2F;admin&#x2F;lists&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;developer...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A parrot has a question for humans</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/75/story/the-great-silence</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brownbat</author><text>Years and years ago, there was an aol live chat with Koko, the gorilla who could sign. An early experimental cross species AMA.<p>The crowd mostly asked questions like &quot;is there a god?&quot;<p>The ape generally replied that she was bored and wanted food.<p>Gray parrots and corvids and dolphins and squids are exceptionally fascinating and worth studying. They aren&#x27;t the same as the mythologized first contact people are hoping for. The precise expectations we have for such an exchange may say something about the Fermi paradox. Very similar intelligences can still be so different as to render communication, a real exchange of ideas, impossible.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A parrot has a question for humans</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/75/story/the-great-silence</url></story> |
2,567,072 | 2,566,894 | 1 | 2 | 2,566,365 | 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>basugasubaku</author><text>He is a software developer at "SeatGeek", not an economist. He wrote "Internet Economist" as a joke.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cloudwalking</author><text>An economist's take on bitcoin: <a href="http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-idea?srid=pxt" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-id...</a><p>Spoiler: bitcoin is a scam</text></item><item><author>greyman</author><text>That was my first though - it's a nice idea, but came at least one year too late. Just yesterday, I ran miner through the www.bitcoinplus.com website, and on my regular PC machine it generated 0.002 BTC in 24 hours.<p>I am afraid the bitcoin mining is practically over, and the much more interesting question is - should I really invest my real money to buy some bitcoins? (current rate is about 7 USD). I am curious to learn what other HN-ers think of all this stuff.</text></item><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>And I should add that the prospects of finding any meaningful amount of shares, while much better than finding a block, are still quite low. My GPU can find a couple of shares per minute in a good minute, but it operates at 55.5Mhash, over 10x faster than my CPU (i7-2600K). Consider that most are going to have really slow CPUs and share the processor power with other heavy applications (Flash games), and you might get one share from the best computers in an average 10-20 minute visit if you're lucky. Shares are worth increasingly little and it depends on how you calculate what each share is worth (since btc generation is really totally based on blocks and each pool decides the value / share on its own, etc.), but I really doubt this is a viable replacement for advertisements or any other money-making endeavor for anyone, even the largest websites where people spend lots of time (Facebook, gmail).</text></item><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>It is bad to use a bunch of the user's CPU without any notice. They will probably notice that your site makes their computer slow and never come back again. Also, once they find out you've been using their CPU power/electricity/battery life surreptitiously for private, unshared gain, you will probably have some angry customers.<p>Additionally, does this automatically hook in to slush's pool or something? Bitcoin mining is practically useless on CPU; even the fastest CPUs out get way, way less than 10mhash. The average length of time to find a block at 9999khash and current difficulty is 1200+ days, so even that estimate is over-optimistic, so this isn't worth anything if your users don't sit on your site for 5 years+, unless it's hooked into a pool or some other contraption to pay on shares instead of blocks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Javascript Bitcoin Miner</title><url>http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9042.0</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>greyman</author><text>Even if he is right and bitcoin shouldn't be considered a "currency", but rather an asset or a scam to enrich the early adopters, I think there is still a question I wrote above, namely, if it is worth to buy bitcoins for money now.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cloudwalking</author><text>An economist's take on bitcoin: <a href="http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-idea?srid=pxt" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-id...</a><p>Spoiler: bitcoin is a scam</text></item><item><author>greyman</author><text>That was my first though - it's a nice idea, but came at least one year too late. Just yesterday, I ran miner through the www.bitcoinplus.com website, and on my regular PC machine it generated 0.002 BTC in 24 hours.<p>I am afraid the bitcoin mining is practically over, and the much more interesting question is - should I really invest my real money to buy some bitcoins? (current rate is about 7 USD). I am curious to learn what other HN-ers think of all this stuff.</text></item><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>And I should add that the prospects of finding any meaningful amount of shares, while much better than finding a block, are still quite low. My GPU can find a couple of shares per minute in a good minute, but it operates at 55.5Mhash, over 10x faster than my CPU (i7-2600K). Consider that most are going to have really slow CPUs and share the processor power with other heavy applications (Flash games), and you might get one share from the best computers in an average 10-20 minute visit if you're lucky. Shares are worth increasingly little and it depends on how you calculate what each share is worth (since btc generation is really totally based on blocks and each pool decides the value / share on its own, etc.), but I really doubt this is a viable replacement for advertisements or any other money-making endeavor for anyone, even the largest websites where people spend lots of time (Facebook, gmail).</text></item><item><author>cookiecaper</author><text>It is bad to use a bunch of the user's CPU without any notice. They will probably notice that your site makes their computer slow and never come back again. Also, once they find out you've been using their CPU power/electricity/battery life surreptitiously for private, unshared gain, you will probably have some angry customers.<p>Additionally, does this automatically hook in to slush's pool or something? Bitcoin mining is practically useless on CPU; even the fastest CPUs out get way, way less than 10mhash. The average length of time to find a block at 9999khash and current difficulty is 1200+ days, so even that estimate is over-optimistic, so this isn't worth anything if your users don't sit on your site for 5 years+, unless it's hooked into a pool or some other contraption to pay on shares instead of blocks.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Javascript Bitcoin Miner</title><url>http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9042.0</url></story> |
16,529,221 | 16,528,405 | 1 | 3 | 16,527,955 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ibdf</author><text>The article compares Amazon Prime music with Spotify... I&#x27;m a prime member and enjoy many of the advantages it comes with, but Prime Music is not one of them. It&#x27;s horrible! A few months ago I thought I would give it a try and only use Prime Music because... why pay for two services? After about one month of use, I went back to spotify. The prime player UI is no good, the music selection is horrible, the music recommendation service never recommended anything new. Finding new music is hard, finding less known bands is very hard.<p>I pay for the Spotify family plan and it has been a great experience.<p>I will continue to use prime for shipping, storage, and shows. But for music, so far, Spotify is the only service that checks all the marks.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO</title><url>https://blog.chartmogul.com/metrics-behind-spotifys-ipo/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>runeb</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why Spotify hasn&#x27;t gone the Netflix way and started their own label to produce and release the music themselves. Their margins are severely cut by licensing and since the labels hold the rights to the content they might be convinced to sign better deals with competitors who have other revenue streams to subsidize a music venture that isn&#x27;t making money.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO</title><url>https://blog.chartmogul.com/metrics-behind-spotifys-ipo/</url></story> |
6,129,167 | 6,128,846 | 1 | 2 | 6,128,343 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jcampbell1</author><text>A Ford dealer must be able to service any Ford vehicle, including replacing lost keys. The dealers have access to the central database.<p>Ford failed to monitor access to the database. The whole problem would have been avoided if they just emailed the service manager every time a database lookup is made. Unfortunately he is in Texas, so Ford needs to be 51% at fault for a judgement. The lawyers are playing this out in the press so Ford will pay to make it go away, even though they would likely prevail in a Texas court.<p>Ford needs to cut this kid a check for $500k, and implement some better auditing of access to the database.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>It makes sense for dealerships to have codes for cars <i>in their lot</i>. But it sounds like dealerships have access to codes for <i>all</i> Ford cars, which is a pretty clear least-privilege violation.</text></item><item><author>toki5</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;d call this Ford&#x27;s fault.<p>&gt;Lopez said the smuggling organization was able to get a duplicate key from a locksmith in El Paso, who got the codes after calling up a Ford dealership.<p>&gt;An FBI affidavit says someone at a Dallas auto dealer accessed the codes in Ford&#x27;s database, giving out more than 2,300 codes over an 18-month period.<p>I think dealerships, of all places, would be (should be) allowed to have codes for cars in their lot. I trust dealerships to have these codes. If they do nefarious things with them, they should be punished, but I don&#x27;t think Ford should be punished for having a dealership-accessible database of key codes. Whoever was cooperating with the criminals is, to me, the person to blame here (along with the criminals).<p>I&#x27;d have sued that dealership, not Ford itself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Student says he was unwitting drug mule, sues Ford</title><url>http://news.msn.com/us/student-says-he-was-unwitting-drug-mule-sues-ford</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toki5</author><text>A couple years ago, my used &#x27;98 CRV&#x27;s battery died. I got it replaced, and when I started it back up, the radio was locked out; I needed an unlock code that they&#x27;d have given me when I bought the car, if the car hadn&#x27;t passed through at least a dozen hands before finally reaching me.<p>I called up my nearest Honda dealership, gave them the VIN, and they gave me the radio code.<p>I like that they can do that. Maybe it makes more sense from a security standpoint if I would&#x27;ve had to call some centralized Honda location, but that doesn&#x27;t really solve the problem, does it? I have the VIN -- so does anyone who looks through my windshield. I have the title number -- so does the dealership who originally sold the car. We&#x27;d have to enter a few concurrent bits of information to verify that I own it, that this car I&#x27;m calling about is mine, and I can identify both it and myself, and then the centralized Honda location would have to be able to verify all that on their end.<p>Or we can assume some modicum of trust at dealerships, and accept the fringe cases where criminals use information they wouldn&#x27;t have access to in a perfect world.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>It makes sense for dealerships to have codes for cars <i>in their lot</i>. But it sounds like dealerships have access to codes for <i>all</i> Ford cars, which is a pretty clear least-privilege violation.</text></item><item><author>toki5</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;d call this Ford&#x27;s fault.<p>&gt;Lopez said the smuggling organization was able to get a duplicate key from a locksmith in El Paso, who got the codes after calling up a Ford dealership.<p>&gt;An FBI affidavit says someone at a Dallas auto dealer accessed the codes in Ford&#x27;s database, giving out more than 2,300 codes over an 18-month period.<p>I think dealerships, of all places, would be (should be) allowed to have codes for cars in their lot. I trust dealerships to have these codes. If they do nefarious things with them, they should be punished, but I don&#x27;t think Ford should be punished for having a dealership-accessible database of key codes. Whoever was cooperating with the criminals is, to me, the person to blame here (along with the criminals).<p>I&#x27;d have sued that dealership, not Ford itself.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Student says he was unwitting drug mule, sues Ford</title><url>http://news.msn.com/us/student-says-he-was-unwitting-drug-mule-sues-ford</url></story> |
3,018,254 | 3,018,253 | 1 | 2 | 3,018,126 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>binaryorganic</author><text>This. They must have really backed themselves into a corner somehow when they were building Google Profiles. I. Will. Not. Open. A. Secondary. Account. Ever.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sjs382</author><text>...almost everyone.<p>"Google+ is not yet available for Google Apps. Learn More."<p>I should have known better than to get my hopes up...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google+ Opens to All</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100.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>ryandvm</author><text>Indeed. It's tough to be a fan of Google's when they do this to <i>paying</i> Apps users with every new product.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sjs382</author><text>...almost everyone.<p>"Google+ is not yet available for Google Apps. Learn More."<p>I should have known better than to get my hopes up...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google+ Opens to All</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100.html</url></story> |
12,063,687 | 12,063,710 | 1 | 2 | 12,062,986 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lossolo</author><text>I was looking for something like this after .NET Core 1.0 announce. I am just waiting for it to be compatible with .NET Core. Any plans for making it compatible?<p>Great job!</text><parent_chain><item><author>grokys</author><text>Hi all, I&#x27;m the originator of this project and the main contributor, please ask anything you like!<p>Though this did have to hit front page when I&#x27;m doing a day of travel didn&#x27;t it? :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework</title><url>https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mwcampbell</author><text>Do you have any plans to implement accessibility? On Windows, you should probably implement a UI Automation provider. For GTK-based platforms, I guess you need to use ATK. You&#x27;ll need an accessibility API of your own to abstract over the multiple back-ends; maybe copy what Gecko has in its nsIAccessible and related interfaces.</text><parent_chain><item><author>grokys</author><text>Hi all, I&#x27;m the originator of this project and the main contributor, please ask anything you like!<p>Though this did have to hit front page when I&#x27;m doing a day of travel didn&#x27;t it? :)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Avalonia – A multi-platform .NET UI framework</title><url>https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia</url></story> |
25,065,818 | 25,064,065 | 1 | 3 | 25,043,541 | train | <instructions>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_wizard</author><text>I envy this. If you guys are ever hiring, I&#x27;d do anything to be apart of such an innovative place!<p>This is the kind of work that gets me excited to live every day.<p>This really shows though, to the point of the article, that TypeScript at scale really lives up to its name, albeit with some quarks (and in this case, some of those quarks are also due to the environment it operates in). I have also found over the years my experience has been positive when you adopt, most notably, the points about keeping all your packages across projects&#x2F;repos up to date, particularly keep your TS versions rolling upward to prevent definiftion file incompatabilities is necessary.<p>I&#x27;m curious though, as I&#x27;m sure there are several authored libraries (not every repo I assume is a pure app), do you guys run into issues where you have to use a lot of complex typings (like using a function type to infer a given type even though the type you&#x27;re inferring isn&#x27;t a function, and other type dances) or has this not been the case? I&#x27;ve not had much of an issue with this, though I&#x27;ve had to do some pretty complex <i>extends [[type]] ?</i> stuff to get it to infer correctly in some situations where I want things to be as generic as possible.<p>This was an informative and interesting read, and I&#x27;m grateful you guys published it. Keep up the excellent work!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Insights from Adopting TypeScript at Scale</title><url>https://www.techatbloomberg.com/blog/10-insights-adopting-typescript-at-scale/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rattray</author><text>Fascinating that Bloomberg started adopting server-side JS in 2005 and client-side JS only in 2012.<p>And that they use their own deno-like JS engine.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Insights from Adopting TypeScript at Scale</title><url>https://www.techatbloomberg.com/blog/10-insights-adopting-typescript-at-scale/</url></story> |
35,987,453 | 35,986,953 | 1 | 3 | 35,983,866 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cesarb</author><text>&gt; So, you want to manually download an update, install it and brick your device on your own schedule?<p>Yes, because I can plan for it. I can do it on a weekend or a local holiday. I can do it in the evening after work, or in the morning so that I have the whole day to go out and buy a replacement. If it&#x27;s not critical, it can wait until my vacation.<p>And even without any risk of bricking, it should still be done on my schedule. I don&#x27;t want the connection to glitch while I&#x27;m in the middle of a live stream, or an online multiplayer game, or a call with a distant relative.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jameshart</author><text>So, you want to manually download an update, install it and brick your device on your own schedule?</text></item><item><author>daneel_w</author><text>We&#x27;re definitely two different kinds of people. When it comes to network equipment I value control and security over that sort of convenience any day.<p>(add.: and I don&#x27;t mean &quot;different kinds of people&quot; in a condescending way, but that we value different aspects and have different methods for going about these things)</text></item><item><author>jameshart</author><text>The convenience of having a device that can phone home and update itself is far more valuable than the risk that occasionally one of those updates might cause a problem.</text></item><item><author>daneel_w</author><text>Even if it turns out (once this event has been fully understood) that the vendor-installed firmware &quot;phoned home&quot; to collect an update of sorts that led to this?</text></item><item><author>throw0101c</author><text>&gt; <i>Boy am I glad I replaced stock firmware with OpenWRT the moment my router came out of box last week.</i><p>I have had an Asus for years and use the vendor firmware, and update it semi-regularly when I remember to, and have never had an issue.<p>I bought an Asus because they have decent capabilities out-of-box, but also because there is the <i>option</i> of using third-party firmware (which I&#x27;ve never bothered to do).<p>Even with this event I&#x27;ll probably stick with the OEM firmware.</text></item><item><author>e3bc54b2</author><text>Boy am I glad I replaced stock firmware with OpenWRT the moment my router came out of box last week. It was also extremely painless experience, and I&#x27;d really recommend people to buy routers with OpenWRT support, even if they cost a little more. A router is something you buy for a decade or more, and it&#x27;s worth the investment. Our livelihood depends on network availability, and depending on whims of terrible router firmware is not something to rely on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happened with ASUS routers this morning?</title><url>https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/05/what-happened-with-asus-routers-this-morning/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>daneel_w</author><text>Now you&#x27;re just taking a silly defensive position by trivializing what I said using stupid rhetoric... I prefer to be in control over <i>updates for network equipment</i>, even the router in my home, reviewing changes and feedback, and to be &quot;on the ready&quot; in case the update does not work. I leave automatic updates for things like browsers.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jameshart</author><text>So, you want to manually download an update, install it and brick your device on your own schedule?</text></item><item><author>daneel_w</author><text>We&#x27;re definitely two different kinds of people. When it comes to network equipment I value control and security over that sort of convenience any day.<p>(add.: and I don&#x27;t mean &quot;different kinds of people&quot; in a condescending way, but that we value different aspects and have different methods for going about these things)</text></item><item><author>jameshart</author><text>The convenience of having a device that can phone home and update itself is far more valuable than the risk that occasionally one of those updates might cause a problem.</text></item><item><author>daneel_w</author><text>Even if it turns out (once this event has been fully understood) that the vendor-installed firmware &quot;phoned home&quot; to collect an update of sorts that led to this?</text></item><item><author>throw0101c</author><text>&gt; <i>Boy am I glad I replaced stock firmware with OpenWRT the moment my router came out of box last week.</i><p>I have had an Asus for years and use the vendor firmware, and update it semi-regularly when I remember to, and have never had an issue.<p>I bought an Asus because they have decent capabilities out-of-box, but also because there is the <i>option</i> of using third-party firmware (which I&#x27;ve never bothered to do).<p>Even with this event I&#x27;ll probably stick with the OEM firmware.</text></item><item><author>e3bc54b2</author><text>Boy am I glad I replaced stock firmware with OpenWRT the moment my router came out of box last week. It was also extremely painless experience, and I&#x27;d really recommend people to buy routers with OpenWRT support, even if they cost a little more. A router is something you buy for a decade or more, and it&#x27;s worth the investment. Our livelihood depends on network availability, and depending on whims of terrible router firmware is not something to rely on.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What happened with ASUS routers this morning?</title><url>https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/05/what-happened-with-asus-routers-this-morning/</url></story> |
6,215,448 | 6,215,188 | 1 | 2 | 6,212,961 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nikatwork</author><text>Valid dodging answers include:<p><pre><code> - I took a sabbatical
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Take the Jesuit line that if there is a kernel of truth in the statement (eg you fixed your gutters one time while unemployed) then you&#x27;re not actually lying.<p>Really, this HR obsession with &quot;zomg a gap in employment history&quot; is pointlessly stupid and deserves to be gamed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tieTYT</author><text>They ask. Are you just supposed to lie or refuse to answer?</text></item><item><author>bobbles</author><text>How can that happen? It&#x27;s not like your new employer will know what you were making at the last job, and even so why should that matter?</text></item><item><author>danielweber</author><text>Taking a lower-paid job can reduce your salary once you get back to your primary field. Workers have legitimate reasons to treat wages as sticky.</text></item><item><author>WestCoastJustin</author><text>Age and skills seem to be a factor. The people in the video are 40+, with many doing marketing&#x2F;sales. The HN community, based off the <i>what is your age?</i> poll [1], suggests the majority here are between 21-35, so we probably are not experiencing their problem. Second, networking is a major factor, if the software keyword system is really the issue, you need to find ways around the system, email your old co-workers, etc. This is why it is important to keep learning, as tech evolves, and to <i>put your self out there</i>, through quality work.<p>One thing did bother me a little, is pride a factor here? There were lower level job, but many did not want to take them, because they felt it was below them, or they were over qualified. If you are in the red, with zero money coming in, isn&#x27;t anything better than nothing, at least as a gap till you find something better?<p><pre><code> ▁▁▂▇█▅▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁
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[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5536734</a><p>ps. I created the bar graph via <a href="https://github.com/holman/spark" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;holman&#x2F;spark</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike?</title><url>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/08/ask-the-headhunter-is-linkedin.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>justrudd</author><text>Refuse to answer. I do it all the time. I generally answer when asked &quot;Let&#x27;s see if we are a good fit for each other. If we are, make me an offer based on how much value you believe I&#x27;ll bring to the table.&quot; If they keep pushing to know how much I make, that gives me a good data point on the type of company they are. I&#x27;ll use that to decide whether I want to work there or not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tieTYT</author><text>They ask. Are you just supposed to lie or refuse to answer?</text></item><item><author>bobbles</author><text>How can that happen? It&#x27;s not like your new employer will know what you were making at the last job, and even so why should that matter?</text></item><item><author>danielweber</author><text>Taking a lower-paid job can reduce your salary once you get back to your primary field. Workers have legitimate reasons to treat wages as sticky.</text></item><item><author>WestCoastJustin</author><text>Age and skills seem to be a factor. The people in the video are 40+, with many doing marketing&#x2F;sales. The HN community, based off the <i>what is your age?</i> poll [1], suggests the majority here are between 21-35, so we probably are not experiencing their problem. Second, networking is a major factor, if the software keyword system is really the issue, you need to find ways around the system, email your old co-workers, etc. This is why it is important to keep learning, as tech evolves, and to <i>put your self out there</i>, through quality work.<p>One thing did bother me a little, is pride a factor here? There were lower level job, but many did not want to take them, because they felt it was below them, or they were over qualified. If you are in the red, with zero money coming in, isn&#x27;t anything better than nothing, at least as a gap till you find something better?<p><pre><code> ▁▁▂▇█▅▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁
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[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5536734</a><p>ps. I created the bar graph via <a href="https://github.com/holman/spark" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;holman&#x2F;spark</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike?</title><url>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/08/ask-the-headhunter-is-linkedin.html</url></story> |
2,410,955 | 2,409,622 | 1 | 2 | 2,409,411 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colomon</author><text>Speaking as someone who was self-taught, spent four years getting a formal CS education, and then has 16 years post-college professional experience, I don't think you probably missed much. I think the only really practical thing I learned in school was big-O notation, and you can probably pick up the essentials of that in about one day of moderate studying. I can't recall ever learning a data structure more complicated than an AVL tree in school, and I think that was in an extra directed-study class. (If you've not heard of an AVL tree, that's not because they're terribly tricky -- it's because they're now nearly obsolete.)<p>Mind you, a lot of the stuff I learned studying CS at college was interesting. It just hasn't been particularly relevant to my career. My math classes (I had a double major in CS and math) have actually been much more professionally useful.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jsdalton</author><text>I'm inclined to disagree. The converse -- what skills does a programmer who has never left academia lack? -- strikes me as perfectly valid. And surely there must be <i>some</i> benefit to taking four (or more) years out of your productive life to the study of programming?<p>But I say this as a self-taught programmer, so perhaps it's just that I'm envious of those who've had the benefit of a formal CS education.</text></item><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>It's interesting that this question implied the negative -- not <i>what's the difference between</i>, not even <i>what are the strengths and weaknesses of</i>, but:<p>&#62; What pieces of the whole are missing?<p>The implication being that without a formal CS education, it is an impossibility to obtain a whole. As if whole matters; how does one obtain <i>whole</i>, anyway?<p>This is a very loaded question and perspective that betrays a serious bias, in my opinion. That we're making a generalization out of humanity's life experiences is futile in itself, but alas, the application of said generalization here is far more interesting to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What skills do self-taught programmers commonly lack?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/What-skills-do-self-taught-programmers-commonly-lack</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danilocampos</author><text>I feel the same. Inferiority complexes for the self-taught?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jsdalton</author><text>I'm inclined to disagree. The converse -- what skills does a programmer who has never left academia lack? -- strikes me as perfectly valid. And surely there must be <i>some</i> benefit to taking four (or more) years out of your productive life to the study of programming?<p>But I say this as a self-taught programmer, so perhaps it's just that I'm envious of those who've had the benefit of a formal CS education.</text></item><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>It's interesting that this question implied the negative -- not <i>what's the difference between</i>, not even <i>what are the strengths and weaknesses of</i>, but:<p>&#62; What pieces of the whole are missing?<p>The implication being that without a formal CS education, it is an impossibility to obtain a whole. As if whole matters; how does one obtain <i>whole</i>, anyway?<p>This is a very loaded question and perspective that betrays a serious bias, in my opinion. That we're making a generalization out of humanity's life experiences is futile in itself, but alas, the application of said generalization here is far more interesting to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What skills do self-taught programmers commonly lack?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/What-skills-do-self-taught-programmers-commonly-lack</url></story> |
27,537,260 | 27,537,212 | 1 | 2 | 27,535,667 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>And that is to say nothing about all the dictatorships the US sponsored in South America. The US was more than happy to train torturers in modern torture techniques.</text><parent_chain><item><author>i_have_suffered</author><text>I got some flack giving a presentation that mentioned civilian participation in my organisations business by Chinese companies. The US Admiral that I was talking to (the topic was innovation - so no secrets) railed about us collaborating with entities that were alien to our core values. I could not reply - without unemployment - but all the time I thought about US support for Saudi - where the Admiral undoubtedly had served, and what kind of core values does that demonstrate?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Saudi Arabia executes Mustafa al-Darwish for teenage protests</title><url>https://reprieve.org/uk/2021/06/15/saudi-arabia-executes-mustafa-al-darwish-for-teenage-protests/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pantalaimon</author><text>Oli has a high value, one could say it&#x27;s the core of western civilization.</text><parent_chain><item><author>i_have_suffered</author><text>I got some flack giving a presentation that mentioned civilian participation in my organisations business by Chinese companies. The US Admiral that I was talking to (the topic was innovation - so no secrets) railed about us collaborating with entities that were alien to our core values. I could not reply - without unemployment - but all the time I thought about US support for Saudi - where the Admiral undoubtedly had served, and what kind of core values does that demonstrate?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Saudi Arabia executes Mustafa al-Darwish for teenage protests</title><url>https://reprieve.org/uk/2021/06/15/saudi-arabia-executes-mustafa-al-darwish-for-teenage-protests/</url></story> |
23,961,110 | 23,961,171 | 1 | 2 | 23,960,387 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>logicslave</author><text>Part of the point is that the gap in the middle often doesn&#x27;t matter. I&#x27;ve hung around the Stanford crowd and as I enter my thirties I am awestruck by the opportunities they have regardless of what they have done since graduation. The credential is almost all that matters, as long as they dont mess up massively.<p>A common path is:<p>Graduate Stanford =&gt; Work at Mckinsey =&gt; Get hired into VC.<p>Graduate Stanford =&gt; Raise 15 Million dollar series A with your buddy =&gt; Doesn&#x27;t matter what happens you will end up rich.<p>It&#x27;s not a cynical opinion, I have seen it myself and I am doing very well for myself. I worked under an Economics PhD who was the number one in his class (top 5 phd program) and graduated top of his undergrad at UPenn. His incompetence relative to his credentials shattered my respect for the way that we allocate positions of power</text><parent_chain><item><author>opportune</author><text>All three of those examples are missing a step of like 5-20 years in the middle. Nobody is <i>running</i> a venture fund as a 22 year old ivy grad (barring someone who&#x27;s taking over for their family member, but in that case it has nothing to do with being an ivy grad), nobody is running the FED right out of a PhD, nobody is a director at a big corporation right out of a PhD.<p>Presumably once those people are in such high-power positions, they also have a track record of real accomplishments behind them; it&#x27;s certainly possible they&#x27;ve lied and cheated their entire career but it&#x27;s definitely less likely they&#x27;ll make it that far that way.</text></item><item><author>logicslave</author><text>The root of the problem is that we allow people with high esteemed credentials to run society. They jumped through a hoop.<p>&quot;You got straight As at 14 - 18 years old and got into an ivy league school as a result? Here run this venture fund.&quot;<p>&quot;You got a PhD in Economics with a good publication by P-hacking your secret data? Here take a run at the FED with power over the US Economy. Your Phd shows that you are the man for the job.&quot;<p>&quot;You got a PhD in ML by making some incremental improvement on some already existing model and then doing massive hyper parameter tuning? Here, become director of research at this big corporation.&quot;<p>Research will never be fully productive in this system, there are too many people who have too much to gain from gaming the publication system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cracking down on research fraud</title><url>https://undark.org/2020/07/23/cracking-down-on-research-fraud</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>aspenmayer</author><text>That some aspects of the self-fulfilling nepotistic bureaucracies are meritocratic begs the question if those meritocratic elements only exist to justify the nepotism, and indirectly, the gatekeeping meritocracy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>opportune</author><text>All three of those examples are missing a step of like 5-20 years in the middle. Nobody is <i>running</i> a venture fund as a 22 year old ivy grad (barring someone who&#x27;s taking over for their family member, but in that case it has nothing to do with being an ivy grad), nobody is running the FED right out of a PhD, nobody is a director at a big corporation right out of a PhD.<p>Presumably once those people are in such high-power positions, they also have a track record of real accomplishments behind them; it&#x27;s certainly possible they&#x27;ve lied and cheated their entire career but it&#x27;s definitely less likely they&#x27;ll make it that far that way.</text></item><item><author>logicslave</author><text>The root of the problem is that we allow people with high esteemed credentials to run society. They jumped through a hoop.<p>&quot;You got straight As at 14 - 18 years old and got into an ivy league school as a result? Here run this venture fund.&quot;<p>&quot;You got a PhD in Economics with a good publication by P-hacking your secret data? Here take a run at the FED with power over the US Economy. Your Phd shows that you are the man for the job.&quot;<p>&quot;You got a PhD in ML by making some incremental improvement on some already existing model and then doing massive hyper parameter tuning? Here, become director of research at this big corporation.&quot;<p>Research will never be fully productive in this system, there are too many people who have too much to gain from gaming the publication system.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cracking down on research fraud</title><url>https://undark.org/2020/07/23/cracking-down-on-research-fraud</url></story> |
41,183,743 | 41,184,001 | 1 | 2 | 41,183,240 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tombert</author><text>I agree; F# is probably my favorite of the &quot;compromise&quot; functional languages [1], where you can drop into the &quot;wrong&quot; way when necessary. F# pushes a more or less pure approach, but in some cases, like when mutation will be a bit easier and&#x2F;or faster, it&#x27;s easy to do that as well. I also think that even F#&#x27;s OOP is actually really pleasant...If nothing else, it&#x27;s a lot more terse than C#&#x27;s.<p>I miss writing it; I haven&#x27;t had a job using it in a few years but I really enjoyed writing code in it when I did. Most of my personal projects haven&#x27;t really been able to use .NET for awhile, so I never seem to have an excuse to play with F# in my personal time.<p>I never got into C#, so I can&#x27;t say that I really feel the pain of the C# transition into F#.<p>[1] At least in the typed world. I&#x27;m also really partial to Clojure.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eji1700</author><text>F# is so hard to walk back from. I wish Microsoft would support it better and actually push it, because it&#x27;s such a perfect sweet spot. Most of the functional advantages without being shackled to pure functions and the like is so easy to develop in.<p>Instead they&#x27;ve been, very slowly, turning C# into F#, which is even weirder to watch.</text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>Huh, I did F# for years with discriminated unions, and I guess I just assumed C# would have had them by now.<p>I know not everyone likes them, but for typed languages I find it extremely hard to go back to languages without ADTs of some kind. I do Java for my current job, and Java is generally fine enough, but it&#x27;s a little annoying when I have to do whacky workarounds with wrapper classes to get something that would be done in three lines of F#.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Official proposal for Type Unions in C#</title><url>https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/18a527bcc1f0bdaf542d8b9a189c50068615b439/proposals/TypeUnions.md</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>electroly</author><text>I&#x27;m glad they&#x27;re simply turning C# into F#. They&#x27;re coming to us where we are, rather than forcing us to make a jump. I&#x27;m a relatively &quot;blue collar&quot; developer, I know a little about FP (not enough to be productive in F#) but I have tons of C# experience. I appreciate them taking the good stuff from F# and making it understandable to C# developers. It&#x27;s been a delightful progression; no big jumps, no paradigm shifts, just the steady addition of useful new features that I can understand.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Eji1700</author><text>F# is so hard to walk back from. I wish Microsoft would support it better and actually push it, because it&#x27;s such a perfect sweet spot. Most of the functional advantages without being shackled to pure functions and the like is so easy to develop in.<p>Instead they&#x27;ve been, very slowly, turning C# into F#, which is even weirder to watch.</text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>Huh, I did F# for years with discriminated unions, and I guess I just assumed C# would have had them by now.<p>I know not everyone likes them, but for typed languages I find it extremely hard to go back to languages without ADTs of some kind. I do Java for my current job, and Java is generally fine enough, but it&#x27;s a little annoying when I have to do whacky workarounds with wrapper classes to get something that would be done in three lines of F#.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Official proposal for Type Unions in C#</title><url>https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/18a527bcc1f0bdaf542d8b9a189c50068615b439/proposals/TypeUnions.md</url></story> |
7,995,011 | 7,994,398 | 1 | 3 | 7,994,281 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>al2o3cr</author><text>Meh. I think this phrase has been repeated until it has lost any connection with the original intent and turned into a generic &quot;INHERITANCE BAD! COMPOSITION GOOD!&quot; without much meaning attached to either word.<p>I haven&#x27;t found the original source, but I&#x27;ve always presumed the statement originally referred to some of the bizarro &quot;inheritance-as-composition&quot; stuff in the early C++ days: for instance, you might have a class &#x27;Window&#x27; and a class &#x27;Button&#x27;, then combine them with multiple inheritance to get a &#x27;WindowWithButton&#x27;, then inherit from <i>that</i> and a &#x27;Scrollbar&#x27; class to get &#x27;WindowWithButtonAndScrollbar&#x27;.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine anybody thinking of that as a &quot;good&quot; pattern today, but remember it was the &#x27;90s. :)<p>Nowadays, the basic statement has been dogmatized to the point where you get code like this:<p><a href="https://github.com/elm-city-craftworks/broken_record/blob/master/lib/broken_record/composable.rb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;elm-city-craftworks&#x2F;broken_record&#x2F;blob&#x2F;ma...</a><p>This code re-implements Ruby&#x27;s built-in method lookup algorithm, but with per-instance objects and none of the optimizations available to the real thing. It basically remakes inheritance, slowly and poorly, using composition.<p>The other one that makes me scratch my head: people who rail against inheritance, then suggest mixins as an alternative. At least in Ruby, the two are <i>equivalent</i>. Check the `ancestors` property on a class with mixins sometime if you don&#x27;t believe me.<p>TL;DR (too late) - use your damn brain to make decisions, not just parrot slogans.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why composition is often better than inheritance</title><url>http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-composition-is-often-better-than.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>chton</author><text>While it&#x27;s a well-written article, it really seems like beating a dead horse. Composition over inheritance is a basic rule of OO programming, so much so that it has its own wikipedia page (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Composition_over_inheritance</a>)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why composition is often better than inheritance</title><url>http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-composition-is-often-better-than.html</url></story> |
41,002,834 | 41,002,729 | 1 | 2 | 40,985,017 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>I really don’t know what the detractors of Copilot are writing, the next StuxNet? Whether I’m doing stupid EDA or writing some fairly original frameworks Copilot has always been useful to me writing both boilerplate code as well as completing more esoteric logic. There’s definitely a slight modification I have made in how I type (making variable names obvious, stopping at the right moment knowing copilot will complete the next etc) but if anything it has made me a cleaner programmer who writes 50% less characters at the minimum.</text><parent_chain><item><author>usrbinbash</author><text>&gt; If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you<p>That &quot;satisfaction&quot; vanished pretty damn quickly, once I realised that I have often more work correcting the stuff so generated than I would have had writing it myself in the first place.<p>LLMs in programming absolutely have their uses, Lots of them actually, and I don&#x27;t wanna miss them. But they are not &quot;thinking ahead&quot; of the code I write, not by a long shot.</text></item><item><author>chatmasta</author><text>At Databricks summit there was a nice presentation [0] by the CEO of V7 labs who showed a demo of their LLM + Spreadsheet product.<p>The kneejerk reaction of “ugh, LLM and spreadsheet?!” is understandable, but I encourage you to watch that demo. It makes clear some obvious potentials of LLMs in spreadsheets. They can basically be an advanced autofill. If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you. This should be achievable in spreadsheets as well.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0SVilfbn-HY&amp;t=1251" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0SVilfbn-HY&amp;t=1251</a> (queued to demo at 20:51)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09025</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nunodonato</author><text>They are with me. And with many other people.
Perhaps it&#x27;s the quality of your code that is preventing better completions.(Or the lang you use?)<p>There are a few things that really help the AI to understand what you want to do, otherwise it might struggle and come up with not so good code.<p>Not to say it gets it right everytime, but definitely often enough for me not to even consider turning it off. The time save has been tremendous.</text><parent_chain><item><author>usrbinbash</author><text>&gt; If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you<p>That &quot;satisfaction&quot; vanished pretty damn quickly, once I realised that I have often more work correcting the stuff so generated than I would have had writing it myself in the first place.<p>LLMs in programming absolutely have their uses, Lots of them actually, and I don&#x27;t wanna miss them. But they are not &quot;thinking ahead&quot; of the code I write, not by a long shot.</text></item><item><author>chatmasta</author><text>At Databricks summit there was a nice presentation [0] by the CEO of V7 labs who showed a demo of their LLM + Spreadsheet product.<p>The kneejerk reaction of “ugh, LLM and spreadsheet?!” is understandable, but I encourage you to watch that demo. It makes clear some obvious potentials of LLMs in spreadsheets. They can basically be an advanced autofill. If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you. This should be achievable in spreadsheets as well.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0SVilfbn-HY&amp;t=1251" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0SVilfbn-HY&amp;t=1251</a> (queued to demo at 20:51)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09025</url></story> |
3,276,192 | 3,276,136 | 1 | 3 | 3,275,698 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bokonist</author><text>If you have an xbox or playstation buy Madden and try learning to play the game it a bit. The formations, plays, and strategy are pretty much all real. You'll learn about different formations, routes, zone defense, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mechanical_fish</author><text>This is excellent.<p>Here's a question: Where can I buy the equivalent of <i>this post</i>, but in video form with actual illustrative game footage?<p>I've wanted to see that for some time. Want it for every sport on earth, really.<p>I've thought about trying to watch a bunch of coaching videos for my sport of choice, but was never sure it would help. They aren't designed for me. I don't need to know how to think like an above-average high-school coach or player; I want to admire the work of top-level pros.</text></item><item><author>keeptrying</author><text>You can figure out whats happening on the field just from what they show on TV. I wrote an answer on quora on how to do this:<p>What I enjoy in a football game is understanding the strategy thats being carried out and the efficiency of execution on every play. I've broken down a list of positions/schemes/plays to look for below.<p>The following applies when watching a regular play from scrimmage - ie one that will be either a run or a pass.<p>_The offense_<p>1. First pick out the number of tight ends and their position on the offensive line. This will tell you what base formation the offense is "telegraphing" to the defense. 2 or more tight ends implies that the offense is showing "run" unless its the damn Patriots of 2010.<p>2. Look at where the running backs are - the full back and the half back. This along with the above, will give you an idea of whether the offense is hedging towards a run or a pass. If they are in line, in front of the QB then you can safely assume a pass or trick play.<p>3. Next the formation of the wide recievers. Are they split, with a slot or are they bunched on one side.<p>_The defense_<p>1. Due to camera angles you wont be able to see some of the players on the defense. But its okay because you can workout where they would be (except for how deep they are playing) based on the offensive formation.<p>2. The rectangular area in front of the offensive line is called "the box". This is where the running back is expected to try to make a run. Count the number of players in the box. A fast way is to group the players in 3s going from bottom edge of the offensive line to the top.<p>The number of players in the box will tell you what the defense is showing the offense. If the number of players is &#62;=8 then the defense is expecting a run.<p>Using the following formula, you'll be able to figure out the number of safeties.<p>Number of safeties = 11 - (the number of players in the box + the number of wider receivers on offense )<p>_Position of the safeties_<p>* 2 Safeties<p>If you've figured out there are two safeties then this implies that the defense is looking to take away big passing plays but give up the middle of the field.
This will usually be a cover-2 formation or a derivative. If you see that a line-backer is cheating towards the safeties then you know its tampa-2.<p>* 1 Safety<p>If there's only one single safety then this usually means that the defense is being aggressive, ie they want to blitz, or are showing that they are expecting a run.<p>_Blitz_<p>If the number of players on the line of scrimmage for the defense outnumbers the number of players on the offensive and in the vicinity of the QB then this implies the defense is showing a blitz. Picking out the blitzing player is a lot of fun when watching the Jets, Eagles or Ravens play.<p>Player in motion<p>On a passing play, most teams will use the player in motion to figure out if the defense is in zone or man coverage. (They are mostly always in zones but do use man coverage to shake things up.)<p>So as the offensive player in motion moves, watch who covers him. Does he get handed off from one player to another on the defense or does the same defensive player follow him as he moves from one side of the field to the next. If the same player moves to cover the man in motion then it usually implies that the defense is playing a man-coverage. If the man in motion is handed off between players then this usually implies a zone.<p>Of course there could be special cases in which the defense chooses man/zone depending on which player is in motion at the time of the snap.<p>_Exercises_<p>How do you know if your seeing/understanding enough of the action:<p>1. On regular plays you should be able to see the "hold penalty" at the same time as it happens and before the commentator explains it on TV.<p>2. You should be able to call some percentage of the plays as you get familiar with understanding the strategy your team plays as well as the play callers idiosyncrasies and the players who get the most attention on the team.<p>3. Figure out if the defense is in a zone or man coverage. This will take a while because most defenses dont run a scheme which is instantly recognizable.<p>As you enjoy more aspects of the game, you'll realize the true brilliance of Peyton Manning, the genius of Rex Ryan and you'll be baffled by how precise these NFL plays are.<p>These are the basics and there is so much more happening on the field. If you have any questions then please ask them here and I'll update this answer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanksgiving</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577015903150731054.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>keeptrying</author><text>Thank you.<p>Hmm I've never actually seen anything put together like this. But you can follow Chris Brown on Grantland.com who breaks donw plays (with video and diagrams) from each NFL week and you'll slowly figure out what to look for and understand the strategy within the game. Also nfl.com has PlayBook (show) videos which break down different plays from the week.<p>A great tool to watch plays in stop motion so you can figure out whats happening is NFL Game rewind.<p>What I've written here is more a structured way of breaking down an NFL play as its taking place.<p><a href="http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/9595/draw-it-up-lamichael-james-58-yard-touchdown" rel="nofollow">http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/9595/dr...</a><p><a href="http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-playbook" rel="nofollow">http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-playbook</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mechanical_fish</author><text>This is excellent.<p>Here's a question: Where can I buy the equivalent of <i>this post</i>, but in video form with actual illustrative game footage?<p>I've wanted to see that for some time. Want it for every sport on earth, really.<p>I've thought about trying to watch a bunch of coaching videos for my sport of choice, but was never sure it would help. They aren't designed for me. I don't need to know how to think like an above-average high-school coach or player; I want to admire the work of top-level pros.</text></item><item><author>keeptrying</author><text>You can figure out whats happening on the field just from what they show on TV. I wrote an answer on quora on how to do this:<p>What I enjoy in a football game is understanding the strategy thats being carried out and the efficiency of execution on every play. I've broken down a list of positions/schemes/plays to look for below.<p>The following applies when watching a regular play from scrimmage - ie one that will be either a run or a pass.<p>_The offense_<p>1. First pick out the number of tight ends and their position on the offensive line. This will tell you what base formation the offense is "telegraphing" to the defense. 2 or more tight ends implies that the offense is showing "run" unless its the damn Patriots of 2010.<p>2. Look at where the running backs are - the full back and the half back. This along with the above, will give you an idea of whether the offense is hedging towards a run or a pass. If they are in line, in front of the QB then you can safely assume a pass or trick play.<p>3. Next the formation of the wide recievers. Are they split, with a slot or are they bunched on one side.<p>_The defense_<p>1. Due to camera angles you wont be able to see some of the players on the defense. But its okay because you can workout where they would be (except for how deep they are playing) based on the offensive formation.<p>2. The rectangular area in front of the offensive line is called "the box". This is where the running back is expected to try to make a run. Count the number of players in the box. A fast way is to group the players in 3s going from bottom edge of the offensive line to the top.<p>The number of players in the box will tell you what the defense is showing the offense. If the number of players is &#62;=8 then the defense is expecting a run.<p>Using the following formula, you'll be able to figure out the number of safeties.<p>Number of safeties = 11 - (the number of players in the box + the number of wider receivers on offense )<p>_Position of the safeties_<p>* 2 Safeties<p>If you've figured out there are two safeties then this implies that the defense is looking to take away big passing plays but give up the middle of the field.
This will usually be a cover-2 formation or a derivative. If you see that a line-backer is cheating towards the safeties then you know its tampa-2.<p>* 1 Safety<p>If there's only one single safety then this usually means that the defense is being aggressive, ie they want to blitz, or are showing that they are expecting a run.<p>_Blitz_<p>If the number of players on the line of scrimmage for the defense outnumbers the number of players on the offensive and in the vicinity of the QB then this implies the defense is showing a blitz. Picking out the blitzing player is a lot of fun when watching the Jets, Eagles or Ravens play.<p>Player in motion<p>On a passing play, most teams will use the player in motion to figure out if the defense is in zone or man coverage. (They are mostly always in zones but do use man coverage to shake things up.)<p>So as the offensive player in motion moves, watch who covers him. Does he get handed off from one player to another on the defense or does the same defensive player follow him as he moves from one side of the field to the next. If the same player moves to cover the man in motion then it usually implies that the defense is playing a man-coverage. If the man in motion is handed off between players then this usually implies a zone.<p>Of course there could be special cases in which the defense chooses man/zone depending on which player is in motion at the time of the snap.<p>_Exercises_<p>How do you know if your seeing/understanding enough of the action:<p>1. On regular plays you should be able to see the "hold penalty" at the same time as it happens and before the commentator explains it on TV.<p>2. You should be able to call some percentage of the plays as you get familiar with understanding the strategy your team plays as well as the play callers idiosyncrasies and the players who get the most attention on the team.<p>3. Figure out if the defense is in a zone or man coverage. This will take a while because most defenses dont run a scheme which is instantly recognizable.<p>As you enjoy more aspects of the game, you'll realize the true brilliance of Peyton Manning, the genius of Rex Ryan and you'll be baffled by how precise these NFL plays are.<p>These are the basics and there is so much more happening on the field. If you have any questions then please ask them here and I'll update this answer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanksgiving</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577015903150731054.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</url><text></text></story> |
5,745,903 | 5,745,368 | 1 | 3 | 5,743,733 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nknighthb</author><text>With a statement like that, you're going against decades of experience which says polling doesn't scale. Constant connection setup and teardown is incredibly expensive.<p>RAM is cheap.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TylerE</author><text>Because push doesn't scale.</text></item><item><author>scotchmi_st</author><text>Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone could explain the technical reasons why, with minimal modification, we couldn't just replace all electronic messaging systems from SMS to email with xmpp, and forevermore live in a magical fantasy world where email headers, text fees and security concerns don't exist? I mean, it has these things going for it-<p>1. SSL/TLS embedded in the standard.<p>2. Easy to set up OTR encryption, (as well as any other standard I imagine).<p>3. Messages are "pushed" to clients, rather than "pulled".<p>4. The standard is simple, and servers like Prosody are super-easy to implement (unlike Exim).<p>5. There are plenty of clients already available. Admittedly it's not something I've researched much, but I doubt it'd take all that much to get Adium or whatever to work like a simple email client, (but with xmpp).<p>I'm aware of all of the social reasons why such a thing may not work, but I'd be interested to know if it were just a question of getting people to adopt it, were it to exist.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our XMPP services at DuckDuckGo</title><url>https://dukgo.com/blog/xmpp-services-at-duckduckgo</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>scotchmi_st</author><text>Really? So there are no large-scale implementations of push-notification systems? Is there some detail I'm missing here?</text><parent_chain><item><author>TylerE</author><text>Because push doesn't scale.</text></item><item><author>scotchmi_st</author><text>Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone could explain the technical reasons why, with minimal modification, we couldn't just replace all electronic messaging systems from SMS to email with xmpp, and forevermore live in a magical fantasy world where email headers, text fees and security concerns don't exist? I mean, it has these things going for it-<p>1. SSL/TLS embedded in the standard.<p>2. Easy to set up OTR encryption, (as well as any other standard I imagine).<p>3. Messages are "pushed" to clients, rather than "pulled".<p>4. The standard is simple, and servers like Prosody are super-easy to implement (unlike Exim).<p>5. There are plenty of clients already available. Admittedly it's not something I've researched much, but I doubt it'd take all that much to get Adium or whatever to work like a simple email client, (but with xmpp).<p>I'm aware of all of the social reasons why such a thing may not work, but I'd be interested to know if it were just a question of getting people to adopt it, were it to exist.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Our XMPP services at DuckDuckGo</title><url>https://dukgo.com/blog/xmpp-services-at-duckduckgo</url></story> |
30,805,452 | 30,804,875 | 1 | 3 | 30,802,832 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HeckFeck</author><text>Stage 2 evokes warm memories. The clients were featureful enough but very far from being resource hogs. The UIs were workable and hid plenty of options in their menus.<p>The webcam features on MSN messenger landed at the same time as broadband internet became widespread in my country, when I was at school, so everyone was in on the novelty.<p>Some of it is certainly the cynicism of age and work life, but I&#x27;m certain something has been lost since then. The UI, the nudges, the winks, the games, the chaotic friend lists were all magic in a way that FB, WA, Slack, Teams, Discord, et al aren&#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>valbaca</author><text>oh pidgin. Throughout my life (as a millennial) chat went this way:<p>1. IRC<p>2. IRC, Yahoo messenger, Aol Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger (mostly based on your ISP in the early days)<p>3. All + Skype (video!! wow!) + Google messenger. *This was when pidgin was invaluable* (there was also some Duck app for macOS?)<p>4. Skype started charging and since everyone was on Facebook, everyone moved to Facebook messenger. Text messages also became free, so for instant comms you just texted people.<p>5. Slowly FB Messenger took precedence over even text messages as data plans became better<p>6. A decade passes...<p>7. The exodus off of Facebook begins and Discord takes over as a way to talk to your group of friends.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client</title><url>https://pidgin.im/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dijit</author><text>Similar.<p>1. IRC<p>2. ICQ<p>3. MSN<p>4. IRC (again)<p>5. Skype and Facebook<p>6. WhatsApp<p>7. Facebook again<p>8. Still Facebook (very sticky)<p>9. IRC + Slack (some communities) + Discord (some communities) + Facebook&#x2F;Whatsapp + Signal + Telegram + Matrix + Zulip<p>Yeah, I think we need a new libpurple.</text><parent_chain><item><author>valbaca</author><text>oh pidgin. Throughout my life (as a millennial) chat went this way:<p>1. IRC<p>2. IRC, Yahoo messenger, Aol Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger (mostly based on your ISP in the early days)<p>3. All + Skype (video!! wow!) + Google messenger. *This was when pidgin was invaluable* (there was also some Duck app for macOS?)<p>4. Skype started charging and since everyone was on Facebook, everyone moved to Facebook messenger. Text messages also became free, so for instant comms you just texted people.<p>5. Slowly FB Messenger took precedence over even text messages as data plans became better<p>6. A decade passes...<p>7. The exodus off of Facebook begins and Discord takes over as a way to talk to your group of friends.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client</title><url>https://pidgin.im/</url></story> |
13,993,039 | 13,992,173 | 1 | 2 | 13,991,855 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gwu78</author><text>I prefer <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;curvedns.on2it.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;curvedns.on2it.net</a><p>This was the original.<p>Other than having to modify their ksh script, it is painless to set up.<p>In my opinion, authoritative nameservers, and therefore DNSCurve forwarders like CurveDNS, are more important than recursive resolvers&#x2F;caches such as OpenDNS and DNSCrypt.<p>A recursive resolver should be authoritative for nothing. They are middlemen. Companies that offered this &quot;service&quot;, such as OpenDNS, had to pander to advertisers, or were run by advertising companies themselves, e.g., Google.<p>The &quot;rules&quot; of DNS are easily broken. This applies to caches. One does not need to look very far to find resolvers that someone has designated as &quot;authoritative&quot;. dnsq: &quot;weird ra&quot;. This often means an open resolver IME.<p>A while back some companies including the ones named above if I am not mistaken were pushing for extensions in DNS to put at least part of user IP addresses into DNS packets so cache operators could track them. The reason? Advertising. (Although maybe they would cite other reasons.) Not sure what ever happened with that. BIND had started to implement it. Thankfully djbdns will never support this garbage.<p>This kind of nonsense is why I cannot get excited about the latest extensions to internet protocols anymore.<p>Too often they are for the benefit of web companies and advertisers, not users.<p>The &quot;encrypted DNS revolution&quot;, if it ever comes, is not going to be initiated by companies running recursive resolvers. (Unless they also run authoritative nameservers.)<p>Note: When the user runs their own cache on localhost there is no need to determine nearest POP.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DNSCrypt – A protocol to improve DNS security</title><url>https://dnscrypt.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>arkadiyt</author><text>For all the attention that https gets, I&#x27;m amazed how little (relatively speaking) attention plaintext dns gets.<p>If a site is https then even if an attacker is MITM-ing DNS to their own site they presumably won&#x27;t have a valid cert for the site they&#x27;re intercepting, although it has happened many times before, and 50% of the internet is still unencrypted. But even assuming that doesn&#x27;t happen it&#x27;s still a huge privacy&#x2F;data leak.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DNSCrypt – A protocol to improve DNS security</title><url>https://dnscrypt.org</url></story> |
16,231,717 | 16,231,080 | 1 | 3 | 16,230,464 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lbruder</author><text>We use a combination of SQLite and a sharding frontend service. One SQLite database file per device, one table per sensor, table contents are timestamp and measured value. As simple as it gets, easy to scale, and damn fast.<p>But try telling people you&#x27;re using SQLite to store critical data...</text><parent_chain><item><author>kodablah</author><text>Sorry to leave the technical detail part real quick. But is anyone else concerned about using a DB solely from a company built specifically around that DB? After Rethink DB (sustainability issue) and Foundation DB (bought and shuttered&#x2F;hidden) and Riak (admittedly haven&#x27;t kept up but I saw [0]), I am wary of using any DB that is not built by a large community or is not built as a non-core project from a large tech company. Sorry TimescaleDB, I see you have raised a decent amount of funding, but I have to choose my DBs w&#x2F; trepidation these days.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;13&#x2F;will_the_last_person_at_basho_get_the_lights_oh_too_late&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;13&#x2F;will_the_last_perso...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s About Time for Time Series Databases</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/25/time-time-series-databases/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>siculars</author><text>Riak the database survives Basho the company. All assets (IP) were bought by bet365 (A large Basho customer) and made open source. Development continues.<p>&#x2F;former Basho employee.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kodablah</author><text>Sorry to leave the technical detail part real quick. But is anyone else concerned about using a DB solely from a company built specifically around that DB? After Rethink DB (sustainability issue) and Foundation DB (bought and shuttered&#x2F;hidden) and Riak (admittedly haven&#x27;t kept up but I saw [0]), I am wary of using any DB that is not built by a large community or is not built as a non-core project from a large tech company. Sorry TimescaleDB, I see you have raised a decent amount of funding, but I have to choose my DBs w&#x2F; trepidation these days.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;13&#x2F;will_the_last_person_at_basho_get_the_lights_oh_too_late&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;13&#x2F;will_the_last_perso...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s About Time for Time Series Databases</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/25/time-time-series-databases/</url></story> |
6,760,992 | 6,760,854 | 1 | 2 | 6,760,473 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>randlet</author><text>Pure Python is definitely a selling point for those of us who regularly deploy to multiple platforms. Knowing you can &#x27;pip install pure-python-lib&#x27; on any platform and have it work every single time without regards to what c compilers and c libraries you have available is a major boon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattdeboard</author><text>Solr is just so easy to get up and running, so powerful with so many options for scaling, I don&#x27;t see the benefit of &quot;pure Python&quot; here. (To be fair, despite living and breathing Python most days, I&#x27;ve never thought &quot;pure Python&quot; is a selling point.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Whoosh – Fast, full-text indexing and searching library in Python</title><url>https://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh/wiki/Home</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nknighthb</author><text>Having had nothing but extremely negative experiences with production JVM deployments, anything being not-JVM-based is a huge selling point for me. Furthermore, &quot;pure python&quot; itself means that I can run it in any Python implementation I want, including pypy, without worrying about any C modules.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mattdeboard</author><text>Solr is just so easy to get up and running, so powerful with so many options for scaling, I don&#x27;t see the benefit of &quot;pure Python&quot; here. (To be fair, despite living and breathing Python most days, I&#x27;ve never thought &quot;pure Python&quot; is a selling point.)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Whoosh – Fast, full-text indexing and searching library in Python</title><url>https://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh/wiki/Home</url></story> |
32,585,468 | 32,584,314 | 1 | 2 | 32,558,149 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sbierwagen</author><text>A lot of signal processing&#x2F;information theory stuff crosses over pretty seamlessly between hard drives and radio transmission, too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schrankmonster.de&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;Screenshot-at-2019-12-07-12-53-39.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schrankmonster.de&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;Scr...</a><p>The presentation that (deleted) tweet screenshots: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iaria.org&#x2F;conferences2015&#x2F;filesAICT15&#x2F;AnIntroductionToHDDModellingDetectionAndDecoding.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iaria.org&#x2F;conferences2015&#x2F;filesAICT15&#x2F;AnIntroduc...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jmbwell</author><text>Of course, I&#x27;m reminded of Brendan Gregg shouting at hard drives:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4</a><p>Hard disk drives are not dissimilar from other high-precision acoustic systems. The actuator is even called a &quot;voice coil.&quot;<p>That we are able to transmit a range of frequencies with sufficient accuracy and precision to induce a magnet to move a near-microscopic coil of wire at the end of armature flying microns above the surface of a platter spinning at a rotational velocity of thousands of RPMs and a linear velocity of inches per millisecond, land at exact locations, and detect the polarity of a magnetic field… I can&#x27;t even. I don&#x27;t even know what to compare it to.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/95671-janet-jackson-song-1989-declared-cybersecurity-vulnerability-crashing.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>OedipusRex</author><text>Last time someone posted this he showed up in the comments lol</text><parent_chain><item><author>jmbwell</author><text>Of course, I&#x27;m reminded of Brendan Gregg shouting at hard drives:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4</a><p>Hard disk drives are not dissimilar from other high-precision acoustic systems. The actuator is even called a &quot;voice coil.&quot;<p>That we are able to transmit a range of frequencies with sufficient accuracy and precision to induce a magnet to move a near-microscopic coil of wire at the end of armature flying microns above the surface of a platter spinning at a rotational velocity of thousands of RPMs and a linear velocity of inches per millisecond, land at exact locations, and detect the polarity of a magnetic field… I can&#x27;t even. I don&#x27;t even know what to compare it to.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/95671-janet-jackson-song-1989-declared-cybersecurity-vulnerability-crashing.html</url></story> |
8,277,588 | 8,277,562 | 1 | 2 | 8,277,343 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>creamyhorror</author><text>Enjoyable, nostalgic thread. Later on one member (age 78) of the core Concorde design team even appears. Here&#x27;s an amusing anecdote from early in the thread:<p>========<p>Whilst on the Concorde conversion course at Bristol, occasionally crews would have the privilege of meeting some of the original design engineers and draughtsmen who had worked on the Concorde project.<p>...<p>Suffice to say that the senior fire officer who misread litres-per-minute as gallons-per-minute during an Olympus water ingestion test probably would not want any further publicity, likewise the apprentice who didn’t defrost the chicken before firing it into an engine running at full power in the bird ingestion test. My favourite was the supersonic hailstone story, fired as part of a hailstone ingestion test, but with uncertain results, the final resting place of said hailstone still being slightly obscure to this day. If anyone in the greater Bristol area got hit by a particularly hard snowball in the early sixties, the Filton test engineers are very sorry, and would like to apologise!<p>However, it is often the little insights into the past that amuse one the most and stick in one’s mind. During one such conversation, with a couple of thermodynamicists, I ventured to ask how they had settled on the (rather difficult to memorise) various temperature limits associated with Concorde.<p>For instance, why a nose temperature limit of +127°C, why not +130°C, much easier for a pilot to remember?<p><i>“Isn’t it obvious?”</i> one replied politely, genuinely puzzled by my question.<p><i>“Computer generation,”</i> replied his colleague to him, pointing his pipe stem at me.<p><i>“Ah yes,”</i> said the first, <i>“that would be it.”</i><p>They then went on to explain, in ever such a kindly manner, that, in thermodynamics, apparently the square, and the square root, of the absolute temperature of a material are terms used in many equations. Being armed mostly only with slide rules (and as they were in the vicinity of 120°C to 130°C as a limit anyway) it had been decided to make life easy and settle on +127°C as the limit, a temperature for which they could easily calculate the square and square root in their heads.<p>Noticing my bewilderment at the thought that anyone might be able to calculate the square or the square root of 127 in their heads, they proceeded to explain it to me still further, very slowly; in the manner that one would speak to an aged and rather deaf great aunt!<p><pre><code> • Absolute zero = -273°C = Zero Kelvin = 0K
• Max Nose temp = +127°C equal to 400K
• √400 = 20
• 400² = 160,000.
</code></pre>
These are the people with the amusing stories to tell!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epic Forum Thread on Concorde (2010)</title><url>http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.html</url><text></text></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>idlewords</author><text>This starts off as a discussion of APUs but turns into a Q&#x2F;A with participation by Concorde pilots, designers, and even a flight attendant who all clearly pine for their favorite plane ever. I couldn&#x27;t pick one of the many anecdotes to highlight, so I posted a link to the entire monster thread. It rewards digging.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Epic Forum Thread on Concorde (2010)</title><url>http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.html</url><text></text></story> |
30,764,087 | 30,764,226 | 1 | 3 | 30,763,003 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Yoric</author><text>I can&#x27;t speak for the GP, but my personal experience is also that I really dislike memorization. That being said, I speak 5 languages, have written books in two of them, have given public presentation in three and can introduce myself and go and buy bread in a few more.<p>That&#x27;s in addition to computer languages, of course :)<p>I suspect that the parts of the brain involving in learning by rote and learning a new language are somewhat different. When I learn a new language, I&#x27;m desperately trying to connect anything I see to something I already know. When I learn a multiplication table or a list of unrelated dates, it doesn&#x27;t work nearly as well.</text><parent_chain><item><author>historia_novae</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;m of the opinion that this leads to a good rule of thumb: never memorize anything<p>Did you ever learn another language? It&#x27;s impossible without memorizing a massive amount of things, especially when the writing system is different than the one one is familiar with. In fact the most famous researcher in vocabulary learning (Paul Nation) states in one of his book that rote learning is one of the most efficient use of time.<p>I&#x27;m of the reverse opinion that memorizing things is a &quot;secret trick&quot; particularly effective, that is put aside by a lot of people because it takes effort.</text></item><item><author>turboponyy</author><text>I&#x27;ve never regarded memorization highly. Whenever we had to learn the times tables or the squares at school, I would just work them out in my head instead of memorizing them.<p>Of course, I still ended up learning the squares and the times tables by heart, but not because I actively memorized them, but because I just used them so much that I couldn&#x27;t help but remember them eventually.<p>I&#x27;m of the opinion that this leads to a good rule of thumb: never memorize anything - if you use the thing often enough, you can&#x27;t help but memorize it anyway.<p>Of course, you could argue that how often you use something isn&#x27;t necessarily equivalent to how much utility you might get out of memorizing said thing, and I don&#x27;t disagree with that.<p>All that being said, I do agree with the article&#x27;s premise that an expansive knowledge base aids reasoning, which does seem to be in conflict with my principle. I definitely do possess a basic knowledge of geography, and it does definitely aid my reasoning, but I don&#x27;t ever remember actively memorizing that - not at school, nor elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Praise of Memorization</title><url>http://www.pearlleff.com/in-praise-of-memorization</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>Curious, I&#x27;ve learned English to a nearly native level without memorizing a single word.</text><parent_chain><item><author>historia_novae</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;m of the opinion that this leads to a good rule of thumb: never memorize anything<p>Did you ever learn another language? It&#x27;s impossible without memorizing a massive amount of things, especially when the writing system is different than the one one is familiar with. In fact the most famous researcher in vocabulary learning (Paul Nation) states in one of his book that rote learning is one of the most efficient use of time.<p>I&#x27;m of the reverse opinion that memorizing things is a &quot;secret trick&quot; particularly effective, that is put aside by a lot of people because it takes effort.</text></item><item><author>turboponyy</author><text>I&#x27;ve never regarded memorization highly. Whenever we had to learn the times tables or the squares at school, I would just work them out in my head instead of memorizing them.<p>Of course, I still ended up learning the squares and the times tables by heart, but not because I actively memorized them, but because I just used them so much that I couldn&#x27;t help but remember them eventually.<p>I&#x27;m of the opinion that this leads to a good rule of thumb: never memorize anything - if you use the thing often enough, you can&#x27;t help but memorize it anyway.<p>Of course, you could argue that how often you use something isn&#x27;t necessarily equivalent to how much utility you might get out of memorizing said thing, and I don&#x27;t disagree with that.<p>All that being said, I do agree with the article&#x27;s premise that an expansive knowledge base aids reasoning, which does seem to be in conflict with my principle. I definitely do possess a basic knowledge of geography, and it does definitely aid my reasoning, but I don&#x27;t ever remember actively memorizing that - not at school, nor elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>In Praise of Memorization</title><url>http://www.pearlleff.com/in-praise-of-memorization</url></story> |
26,637,300 | 26,636,395 | 1 | 3 | 26,636,021 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neilv</author><text>Since HN loves to veer wildly into rampant ageism, I&#x27;ll bite... :)<p>When you make your age distinctions, you might be talking about people who are non-technical.<p>Early Internet techies predicted situations like this before they happened. (Pre-Web, we had all kinds of sci-fi predictions, awareness from historical analogues, etc. Post-Web, I talked with startup founders 20 years ago, who would also be 40yo+ by now, who predicted that their company&#x27;s accounts would be used for shill identities for things like manipulation, and the implications of that.)<p>Passive consumers, of your under-40 group, who grew up in it never knew anything else, have had things framed for them, and are just starting to realize the situations we&#x27;re now in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mox1</author><text>Yes, and if you are somewhat tech savvy OR &quot;grew up&quot; on the internet (say 40 and younger) you understand this. The problem is previous generations who don&#x27;t really understand this.<p>Perhaps one angle to tackle the problem is to educate the group(s) of people who continue to believe whatever they read on Twitter, Facebook, etc.</text></item><item><author>skohan</author><text>I feel like authenticity of online communication is an unsolved problem. The web was supposed to be a democratizing platform: all you need to communicate with the world is an ISP and a keyboard. But if there&#x27;s no way to control for authenticity, online sentiment will just be an arms race for who can pay for the best astroturfing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56581266</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>barsonme</author><text>&gt; Perhaps one angle to tackle the problem is to educate the group(s) of people who continue to believe whatever they read on Twitter, Facebook, etc.<p>Unfortunately this isn’t just limited to the over 40 crowd. People are willing to believe whatever affirms their beliefs. Growing up on the Internet does not change this.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mox1</author><text>Yes, and if you are somewhat tech savvy OR &quot;grew up&quot; on the internet (say 40 and younger) you understand this. The problem is previous generations who don&#x27;t really understand this.<p>Perhaps one angle to tackle the problem is to educate the group(s) of people who continue to believe whatever they read on Twitter, Facebook, etc.</text></item><item><author>skohan</author><text>I feel like authenticity of online communication is an unsolved problem. The web was supposed to be a democratizing platform: all you need to communicate with the world is an ISP and a keyboard. But if there&#x27;s no way to control for authenticity, online sentiment will just be an arms race for who can pay for the best astroturfing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56581266</url></story> |
17,630,859 | 17,630,004 | 1 | 2 | 17,628,906 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brightball</author><text>It’s so strange to read this. Where I live, Charter Spectrum is virtually celebrated as awesome. My bill for internet has barely increased at all over the past 10 years but on multiple occasions they have contacted me to upgrade my service for free. Even replaced my cable modem at one point.<p>I’ve gone from 15 to 30 to 60 to 100 and I’m currently at 200. There’s probably been two outages during that entire time period.<p>I see so many people in other parts of the country complaining about their providers and it makes me realize how good we have it here. ATT is still terrible though.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrismartin</author><text>Direct link to the (scathing!) press release: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.dps.ny.gov&#x2F;pscweb&#x2F;WebFileRoom.nsf&#x2F;ArticlesByCategory&#x2F;1F6E451203ADF727852582D7005F8520&#x2F;%24File&#x2F;pr18060.pdf?OpenElement" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.dps.ny.gov&#x2F;pscweb&#x2F;WebFileRoom.nsf&#x2F;ArticlesByCate...</a><p>As a consumer, this transition will be annoying to deal with, but as a resident, I&#x27;m proud of my state for pushing expansion of rural broadband where federal efforts have failed. Not sure how the transition will work though, as Spectrum&#x2F;TWC own the cable infrastructure.<p>Spectrum has sent a veritable tree&#x27;s worth of junk mail to my house in the past year, goading me to sign up for their television and landline phone bundle. Spectrum, please die quickly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spectrum internet is getting kicked out of New York</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/27/17622846/spectrum-charter-cable-internet-new-york-kicked-out</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m proud of my state for pushing expansion of rural broadband where federal efforts have failed.<p>Not me. I live in a small apartment that I pay tens of thousands of dollars a year for. In Franklin County people can get a lot more space for a lot less money. Why should I subsidize their broadband rather than them subsidizing my living space?<p>Life is all about tradeoffs. Wanting to get all the benefits of your choices and have other people pay to ameliorate the downsides is understandable but unreasonable.<p>If we are going to subsidize broadband at all, we should do it statewide and means test it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chrismartin</author><text>Direct link to the (scathing!) press release: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.dps.ny.gov&#x2F;pscweb&#x2F;WebFileRoom.nsf&#x2F;ArticlesByCategory&#x2F;1F6E451203ADF727852582D7005F8520&#x2F;%24File&#x2F;pr18060.pdf?OpenElement" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.dps.ny.gov&#x2F;pscweb&#x2F;WebFileRoom.nsf&#x2F;ArticlesByCate...</a><p>As a consumer, this transition will be annoying to deal with, but as a resident, I&#x27;m proud of my state for pushing expansion of rural broadband where federal efforts have failed. Not sure how the transition will work though, as Spectrum&#x2F;TWC own the cable infrastructure.<p>Spectrum has sent a veritable tree&#x27;s worth of junk mail to my house in the past year, goading me to sign up for their television and landline phone bundle. Spectrum, please die quickly.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spectrum internet is getting kicked out of New York</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/27/17622846/spectrum-charter-cable-internet-new-york-kicked-out</url></story> |
11,209,739 | 11,209,842 | 1 | 2 | 11,209,025 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>The article states that research shows no correlation between severe drug penalties and usage levels.<p>There&#x27;s a few people offering anecdotes to counter that, but obviously actual research wins, the difference between Portugal and Japan are therefore likely to be cultural differences outside of strict drug laws.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jfmfhhdkdkd</author><text>But Japan and Hong Kong and many others still have far lower drug use and crime rates despite their very tough laws on drug use, when compared to Portugal.</text></item><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>Portugal decriminalised personal possession of drugs 15 years ago, which has given us some useful evidence. HIV infection rates and drug-related deaths have reduced significantly, and the prison population has reduced by over 50%. The proportion of people who have ever used drugs has increased slightly, but there has been a reduction in the number of regular drug users.<p>We don&#x27;t really know what would happen in a laissez-faire system, but we can be fairly confident that a medicalised approach would have substantial positive effects.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unodc.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;ungass2016&#x2F;Contributions&#x2F;Civil&#x2F;Transform-Drug-Policy-Foundation&#x2F;Drug-decriminalisation-in-Portugal.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unodc.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;ungass2016&#x2F;Contributions&#x2F;Civ...</a></text></item><item><author>puranjay</author><text>I always wonder what would happen to drug use if it was widely and easily available. Would usage drop because it wouldn&#x27;t be &quot;rebellious&quot; to get drugs?<p>That was at least the motivation for a lot of younger drug users I know.<p>In my country (India), there is a region in the Himalayas - Kasaul - where marijuana grows in the wild. It is so easily accessible that you can literally pluck some on a walk through the forest.<p>You&#x27;d expect with such easy availability, the locals would be all addled on weed&#x2F;hashish all the time. Yet, most locals tend to be non-users. Most users tend to be tourists and outsiders who come solely for the purportedly &quot;best in the world&quot; hashish</text></item><item><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>The drug problem was studied years ago by the RAND corporation and the US Military - a pure cost-benefit analysis. They found that treatment and education are the most cost effective way to deal with the drug problem, and that prohibition was the most costly and ineffective means of dealing with it.<p>Therefore the government understands that the war on drugs is likely to be unsuccessful, and we have to ask ourselves, why do they persist with it? A few reasons present themselves: Ideological motivations, they just don&#x27;t like the drugs. The fact that if you terrify the population you can use that as means for greater political control and discipline. And the fact that Tobacco and Alcohol companies would likely suffer as a result of drug legalisation, like cannabis.<p>Lastly the CIA has been found to be involved in the drug trade on a vast scale. This is not a conspiracy, there are many well-documented books on this. They need large sums of untraceable money for clandestine operations, and drugs are an ideal source of this.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rand.org&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;monograph_reports&#x2F;MR331.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rand.org&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;monograph_reports&#x2F;MR331.html</a><p>Noam Chomsky on the War on Drugs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q-JX0yXDlh8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q-JX0yXDlh8</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kofi Annan on Why It's Time to Legalize Drugs</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/kofi-annan-on-why-drug-bans-are-ineffective-a-1078402.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>zdw</author><text>Japan and HK both have significant organized crime that controls the flow of drugs into the country and drives the price way up. In Japan&#x27;s case the Yakuza has effectively banned certain drugs they consider &quot;too dangerous&quot;.<p>Source: I had Japanese roommates in college who turned out to be potheads. They raved about the super-cheap marijuana they could get in the US, which was 1&#x2F;5 to 1&#x2F;10th the price as was available in Japan.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jfmfhhdkdkd</author><text>But Japan and Hong Kong and many others still have far lower drug use and crime rates despite their very tough laws on drug use, when compared to Portugal.</text></item><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>Portugal decriminalised personal possession of drugs 15 years ago, which has given us some useful evidence. HIV infection rates and drug-related deaths have reduced significantly, and the prison population has reduced by over 50%. The proportion of people who have ever used drugs has increased slightly, but there has been a reduction in the number of regular drug users.<p>We don&#x27;t really know what would happen in a laissez-faire system, but we can be fairly confident that a medicalised approach would have substantial positive effects.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unodc.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;ungass2016&#x2F;Contributions&#x2F;Civil&#x2F;Transform-Drug-Policy-Foundation&#x2F;Drug-decriminalisation-in-Portugal.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unodc.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;ungass2016&#x2F;Contributions&#x2F;Civ...</a></text></item><item><author>puranjay</author><text>I always wonder what would happen to drug use if it was widely and easily available. Would usage drop because it wouldn&#x27;t be &quot;rebellious&quot; to get drugs?<p>That was at least the motivation for a lot of younger drug users I know.<p>In my country (India), there is a region in the Himalayas - Kasaul - where marijuana grows in the wild. It is so easily accessible that you can literally pluck some on a walk through the forest.<p>You&#x27;d expect with such easy availability, the locals would be all addled on weed&#x2F;hashish all the time. Yet, most locals tend to be non-users. Most users tend to be tourists and outsiders who come solely for the purportedly &quot;best in the world&quot; hashish</text></item><item><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>The drug problem was studied years ago by the RAND corporation and the US Military - a pure cost-benefit analysis. They found that treatment and education are the most cost effective way to deal with the drug problem, and that prohibition was the most costly and ineffective means of dealing with it.<p>Therefore the government understands that the war on drugs is likely to be unsuccessful, and we have to ask ourselves, why do they persist with it? A few reasons present themselves: Ideological motivations, they just don&#x27;t like the drugs. The fact that if you terrify the population you can use that as means for greater political control and discipline. And the fact that Tobacco and Alcohol companies would likely suffer as a result of drug legalisation, like cannabis.<p>Lastly the CIA has been found to be involved in the drug trade on a vast scale. This is not a conspiracy, there are many well-documented books on this. They need large sums of untraceable money for clandestine operations, and drugs are an ideal source of this.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rand.org&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;monograph_reports&#x2F;MR331.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rand.org&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;monograph_reports&#x2F;MR331.html</a><p>Noam Chomsky on the War on Drugs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q-JX0yXDlh8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q-JX0yXDlh8</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kofi Annan on Why It's Time to Legalize Drugs</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/kofi-annan-on-why-drug-bans-are-ineffective-a-1078402.html</url></story> |
31,394,845 | 31,368,700 | 1 | 3 | 31,364,983 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>helen_fruits</author><text>&gt; what I am afraid mostly is all the tax&#x2F;money&#x2F;stuff.&#x27;<p>At fruits, we are automatically handling all the taxes &amp; invoicing for you - internationally &amp; correctly, so you don&#x27;t have to be afraid of making illegal billing mistakes. It&#x27;s all handled for you, you and your customers automatically receive an automated invoice &#x2F; billing overview. :-)</text><parent_chain><item><author>101008</author><text>I am working on a SaaS product with a friend that will be mostly a B2B (although it can work as B2C too) and besides all the tech, what I am afraid mostly is all the tax&#x2F;money&#x2F;stuff.<p>I am not from Europe neither USA - I&#x27;d like only to get paid monthly for the service I provide. Is it difficult? If anyone can give some advice I&#x27;d be grateful.</text></item><item><author>mstolpm</author><text>Congrats on your launch! But honestly, your site gives me some huge red flags regarding your service:<p>You don&#x27;t have a legally valid &quot;Impressum&quot; on fruits.de: It points to fanbase.com and that one isn&#x27;t even mentioning fruits.de. So, as a German startup, it seems you&#x27;re at least bending German and EU law by not providing the information necessary for proving services on the domain fruits.de. And as a result, as a potential user, I can&#x27;t trust you with my business.<p>Moreover, I couldn&#x27;t find information about your &quot;sales tax&quot; claim. You know better than me that selling digital products in the EU and across borders can be kind of tricky, depending on what you are selling (e.g. ebook vs software), if you&#x27;re selling B2B or B2C, and depending on the origin of your customer. As a user, I&#x27;d need much more information about how you handle this and the bookkeeping you mentioned, but it somehow looks like you&#x27;re relying on PayPal as the payment gateway and are not handling sales tax &#x2F; USt by yourself?<p>And no: As someone looking for a simple solution to sell my digital products, I don&#x27;t want do book a consultation for answers to the questions above.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc</title><url>https://fruits.de/en</url><text>Hi HN!<p>Whilst trying to build an online community for content creators, we failed!
Taking the learnings and stripping down our product to a true MVP, we now started working on &quot;fruits&quot;, which allows creators to sell files such as ebooks, designs, checklists, music and online coachings online in less than two minutes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fruits.de&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fruits.de&#x2F;en</a><p>It works as simple as this:<p>1. upload a file at &quot;fruits&quot; &amp; set a price
2. you will receive your individual fruits-sales-link
3. share the link wherever your customers are (e.g. website, newsletter, social media)<p>In addition, we also take care of the tedious office work such as invoicing and VAT collection for you, and this is completely automated.<p>What do you think? We are looking forward to your feedback!</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>bityard</author><text>&gt; what I am afraid mostly is all the tax&#x2F;money&#x2F;stuff<p>You shouldn&#x27;t be afraid, you should pay a professional CPA and&#x2F;or tax accountant to take care of all of that stuff for you.<p>You wouldn&#x27;t draft your own legal documents (I hope), correct? It&#x27;s no different on the money side of things.</text><parent_chain><item><author>101008</author><text>I am working on a SaaS product with a friend that will be mostly a B2B (although it can work as B2C too) and besides all the tech, what I am afraid mostly is all the tax&#x2F;money&#x2F;stuff.<p>I am not from Europe neither USA - I&#x27;d like only to get paid monthly for the service I provide. Is it difficult? If anyone can give some advice I&#x27;d be grateful.</text></item><item><author>mstolpm</author><text>Congrats on your launch! But honestly, your site gives me some huge red flags regarding your service:<p>You don&#x27;t have a legally valid &quot;Impressum&quot; on fruits.de: It points to fanbase.com and that one isn&#x27;t even mentioning fruits.de. So, as a German startup, it seems you&#x27;re at least bending German and EU law by not providing the information necessary for proving services on the domain fruits.de. And as a result, as a potential user, I can&#x27;t trust you with my business.<p>Moreover, I couldn&#x27;t find information about your &quot;sales tax&quot; claim. You know better than me that selling digital products in the EU and across borders can be kind of tricky, depending on what you are selling (e.g. ebook vs software), if you&#x27;re selling B2B or B2C, and depending on the origin of your customer. As a user, I&#x27;d need much more information about how you handle this and the bookkeeping you mentioned, but it somehow looks like you&#x27;re relying on PayPal as the payment gateway and are not handling sales tax &#x2F; USt by yourself?<p>And no: As someone looking for a simple solution to sell my digital products, I don&#x27;t want do book a consultation for answers to the questions above.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc</title><url>https://fruits.de/en</url><text>Hi HN!<p>Whilst trying to build an online community for content creators, we failed!
Taking the learnings and stripping down our product to a true MVP, we now started working on &quot;fruits&quot;, which allows creators to sell files such as ebooks, designs, checklists, music and online coachings online in less than two minutes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fruits.de&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fruits.de&#x2F;en</a><p>It works as simple as this:<p>1. upload a file at &quot;fruits&quot; &amp; set a price
2. you will receive your individual fruits-sales-link
3. share the link wherever your customers are (e.g. website, newsletter, social media)<p>In addition, we also take care of the tedious office work such as invoicing and VAT collection for you, and this is completely automated.<p>What do you think? We are looking forward to your feedback!</text></story> |
41,659,745 | 41,659,430 | 1 | 3 | 41,659,128 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>a_c</author><text>Agile was meant to be &quot;agile in change&quot;, not following tickets blindly.
It was meant to foster collaboration between people rather than putting every detail in tickets by whatever manager&#x2F;PM. So people know why they are doing stuff, and can make change accordingly.
Agile was meant for making things that people actually use. Not about how many features were developed in last sprint.<p>Even the original waterfall model empahsized on feedback, feedback of design, feedback of usage <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Waterfall_model#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:1970_Royce_Managing_the_Development_of_Large_Software_Systems_Fig10.PNG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Waterfall_model#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:19...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>matt_s</author><text>Agile is not supposed to make development faster. The core element of being agile (small &quot;a&quot;) is to avoid doing work that results in features that are hardly used, not needed, etc. In lean terminology this is called eliminating waste in a process.<p>Smaller iterations of deliverable work prevents a big up front design and putting in features including UI designs, software designs, coding, tests, QA testing, etc. and then it doesn&#x27;t get used or has minimal ROI.<p>JIRA sucks. If you think your issues with delivery are tied to your work tracking system then you&#x27;re looking at the wrong things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira</title><url>https://ehandbook.com/the-slow-painful-death-of-agile-and-jira-c8de04e4269a</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fernandotakai</author><text>&gt;JIRA sucks.<p>i used to think the same until i had to use azure devops.<p>i legitimately miss JIRA nowadays.</text><parent_chain><item><author>matt_s</author><text>Agile is not supposed to make development faster. The core element of being agile (small &quot;a&quot;) is to avoid doing work that results in features that are hardly used, not needed, etc. In lean terminology this is called eliminating waste in a process.<p>Smaller iterations of deliverable work prevents a big up front design and putting in features including UI designs, software designs, coding, tests, QA testing, etc. and then it doesn&#x27;t get used or has minimal ROI.<p>JIRA sucks. If you think your issues with delivery are tied to your work tracking system then you&#x27;re looking at the wrong things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira</title><url>https://ehandbook.com/the-slow-painful-death-of-agile-and-jira-c8de04e4269a</url></story> |
18,766,565 | 18,766,471 | 1 | 3 | 18,765,383 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>snake117</author><text>For those who are not aware, Jose Valim (the creator of Elixir) live-streamed all his solutions to this years Advent of Code on Twitch (found here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;videos&#x2F;346878345?collection=YDM6eKu6bhV1Nw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;videos&#x2F;346878345?collection=YDM6eKu6bh...</a>). I found this to be very informative and enjoyable. It is definitely worth checking out regardless of your proficiency in Elixir.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Maultasche</author><text>I&#x27;ve been learning Elixir, which is really good for creating concurrent and scalable systems. Concurrency has always been something that has fascinated me and I see in Elixir a chance to make very concurrent code without having to deal with locks, race conditions, and all the other icky low-level stuff. Elixir is also a functional language, making this is the first functional language I&#x27;ve learned, which is another reason I&#x27;m enjoying it.<p>Over the past couple years, I&#x27;ve heard from developers who were very satisfied with Elixir, so I finally sat down and started to learn it.<p>As I&#x27;ve been learning Elixir, I&#x27;ve been writing a series called &quot;Learn with Me: Elixir&quot; at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inquisitivedeveloper.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inquisitivedeveloper.com</a>. The idea is that anyone else who&#x27;s also interested in Elixir can follow along as I learn it and learn it for themselves as well.<p>Of course, playing around with it has also helped me learn far more than just reading about it. Writing about it has helped me learn a lot better, and my hope is that someone else will also find my writing useful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019?</title><text>I quit my software development job 4 months ago to take some time to travel, develop some ideas, and improve myself. I have a very flexible schedule, and I&#x27;m eager to make the most out of 2019.<p>What are some skills (technical or not) you think someone in my situation (or anyone else) should consider acquiring in 2019?</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>_asummers</author><text>I love Elixir. There are very few things that it leaves me wanting from other languages, and I am happy for having added it to my professional tool belt a few years ago. I recommend it for beginners and experienced folk alike. The community is pleasant, industrious, and I feel like I get to code in a sane environment every day with escape hatches in just about every spot I would expect them to exist (due mostly to the macros + BEAM). Though I do not take advantage of this as often as I would like, being able to drop down to native Erlang trivially basically doubles the ecosystem size.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Maultasche</author><text>I&#x27;ve been learning Elixir, which is really good for creating concurrent and scalable systems. Concurrency has always been something that has fascinated me and I see in Elixir a chance to make very concurrent code without having to deal with locks, race conditions, and all the other icky low-level stuff. Elixir is also a functional language, making this is the first functional language I&#x27;ve learned, which is another reason I&#x27;m enjoying it.<p>Over the past couple years, I&#x27;ve heard from developers who were very satisfied with Elixir, so I finally sat down and started to learn it.<p>As I&#x27;ve been learning Elixir, I&#x27;ve been writing a series called &quot;Learn with Me: Elixir&quot; at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inquisitivedeveloper.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inquisitivedeveloper.com</a>. The idea is that anyone else who&#x27;s also interested in Elixir can follow along as I learn it and learn it for themselves as well.<p>Of course, playing around with it has also helped me learn far more than just reading about it. Writing about it has helped me learn a lot better, and my hope is that someone else will also find my writing useful.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019?</title><text>I quit my software development job 4 months ago to take some time to travel, develop some ideas, and improve myself. I have a very flexible schedule, and I&#x27;m eager to make the most out of 2019.<p>What are some skills (technical or not) you think someone in my situation (or anyone else) should consider acquiring in 2019?</text></story> |
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