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41,219,815 | 41,219,678 | 1 | 2 | 41,217,136 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>worewood</author><text>Number One, Pipe Character, lower case L, upper case I, zero and O, Parentheses and Brackets, are so common pain points on coding and terminal fonts. Those should be painfully distinct.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>So, if you&#x27;re going to demonstrate the box drawing characters — and in a monospaced font, I would — they should line up?<p>E.g., under &quot;lines&quot;, the rows are overlapping; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;KnOP2Wu.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;KnOP2Wu.png</a> ; I would think they&#x27;re only supposed to just touch, with no gap, no overlap.<p>The boxes, similarly, don&#x27;t quite line up right. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;6pVYh9a.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;6pVYh9a.png</a> (Even the 100% box isn&#x27;t lining up right, although somehow what FF screenshotted != what it rendered. <i>sigh.</i>) The point being, you want these to tile seamlessly. Oddly, they tile <i>differently</i> in the pictures-of-font that break up the page. (Which I&#x27;m not sure what they&#x27;re supposed to be? One is called &quot;5af1d7a5-fa60-4827-9b4f-808cdb635d59&quot; and has no alt text. They remind me of Dwarf Fortress though.)<p>As other people hint, this seems like the line height is cramped. I&#x2F;l&#x2F;1 ambiguities is a deal breaker for any terminal font, though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs</title><url>https://servermono.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>LoganDark</author><text>They do line up, if you install and use the OTF version:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;N2tNaiO" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;N2tNaiO</a><p>although some characters still seem to be missing, most of them work as intended.<p>edit: nevermind, looks like it was using Lucida Sans instead! what is going on? does the OTF only include ASCII or something?</text><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>So, if you&#x27;re going to demonstrate the box drawing characters — and in a monospaced font, I would — they should line up?<p>E.g., under &quot;lines&quot;, the rows are overlapping; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;KnOP2Wu.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;KnOP2Wu.png</a> ; I would think they&#x27;re only supposed to just touch, with no gap, no overlap.<p>The boxes, similarly, don&#x27;t quite line up right. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;6pVYh9a.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;6pVYh9a.png</a> (Even the 100% box isn&#x27;t lining up right, although somehow what FF screenshotted != what it rendered. <i>sigh.</i>) The point being, you want these to tile seamlessly. Oddly, they tile <i>differently</i> in the pictures-of-font that break up the page. (Which I&#x27;m not sure what they&#x27;re supposed to be? One is called &quot;5af1d7a5-fa60-4827-9b4f-808cdb635d59&quot; and has no alt text. They remind me of Dwarf Fortress though.)<p>As other people hint, this seems like the line height is cramped. I&#x2F;l&#x2F;1 ambiguities is a deal breaker for any terminal font, though.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs</title><url>https://servermono.com/</url></story> |
2,909,993 | 2,909,929 | 1 | 3 | 2,909,811 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acangiano</author><text>I think his interpretation of the facts is very plausible. Sadly, Larry Ellison was absolutely right when he said, at the time of Hurd's scandal, "the HP Board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple Board fired Steve Jobs many years ago."<p>Good CEOs who can revamp stagnant companies are hard to come by, particularly in the consumer space. Hurd was that CEO, Apotheker is not. And getting out of the consumer space, at a time when there are several paradigm shifts going on, means missing huge opportunities.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/hp_apotheker</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sek</author><text>WebOS was for Hurd just a fig leaf to make a future orientated impression, in reality were all the profits he made short term.<p>What HP needs now is focus and that is what Apotheker is doing. Some people are disappointed that it is not consumer orientated, but when you look at the "smart phone wars" this seems reasonable to me.
HP can't compete with Google, Apple and Microsoft there. Look at Nokia and Blackberry.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/hp_apotheker</url></story> |
27,137,488 | 27,137,268 | 1 | 3 | 27,136,539 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lmm</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen plenty of people make the equal and opposite wasteful mistake: they insist on using a shared state store so that logins can be properly revoked, then they notice that every server looking up the session in this shared store on every request is having a significant performance impact, so instead they have the server cache sessions locally for 5 minutes (or even longer).</text><parent_chain><item><author>rsj_hn</author><text>JWTs are good for API tokens, not end users. If you use JWTs for your cookies&#x2F;session state, then you&#x27;ll still need to maintain a table of valid JWTs and expire them when the user logs out, and thus you will not be able to use JWTs as they were intended to be used, which is as stateless tokens.<p>Most security auditors&#x2F;certifications&#x2F;compliance requirements do not consider even a 5 minute lag acceptable for user driven logout. The definition of logout is that when the user presses the logout button, all the session data is invalidated server-side during roughly the time it takes for a request&#x2F;response roundtrip.<p>Thus there is no benefit to using a non-opaque high entropy string for user sessions, even though there is a good benefit to using JWTs as API tokens for back-end services (esp. microservices) that do not have browser logout requirements.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JWT should not be your default for sessions</title><url>https://evertpot.com/jwt-is-a-bad-default/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Rapzid</author><text>&gt; maintain a table of valid JWTs and expire them when the user logs out<p>Wouldn&#x27;t you just need a list of logged-out JWTs? And maintain entries until the JWT would have expired?.<p>And that&#x27;s if you really cared. Some people would be fine with the client and server participating in the log out and a low-ish JWT expiry.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rsj_hn</author><text>JWTs are good for API tokens, not end users. If you use JWTs for your cookies&#x2F;session state, then you&#x27;ll still need to maintain a table of valid JWTs and expire them when the user logs out, and thus you will not be able to use JWTs as they were intended to be used, which is as stateless tokens.<p>Most security auditors&#x2F;certifications&#x2F;compliance requirements do not consider even a 5 minute lag acceptable for user driven logout. The definition of logout is that when the user presses the logout button, all the session data is invalidated server-side during roughly the time it takes for a request&#x2F;response roundtrip.<p>Thus there is no benefit to using a non-opaque high entropy string for user sessions, even though there is a good benefit to using JWTs as API tokens for back-end services (esp. microservices) that do not have browser logout requirements.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>JWT should not be your default for sessions</title><url>https://evertpot.com/jwt-is-a-bad-default/</url></story> |
33,727,269 | 33,726,770 | 1 | 3 | 33,705,450 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rippercushions</author><text>You can only wonder how many documents like this were lost in China during the Cultural Revolution, when thousands of temples and everything else associated with the Four Olds [1] were willfully destroyed.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Four_Olds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Four_Olds</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lost 8th century Japanese medical text by Buddhist monk has been found</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/lost-8th-century-japanese-medical-text-by-buddhist-monk-has-been-found/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>krunck</author><text>&quot;Lost 8th-century Japanese medical text by Buddhist monk has been found in a book published in 2009.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lost 8th century Japanese medical text by Buddhist monk has been found</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/lost-8th-century-japanese-medical-text-by-buddhist-monk-has-been-found/</url></story> |
6,365,572 | 6,365,586 | 1 | 3 | 6,364,967 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>Fantastic!<p>Let&#x27;s concoct some overly optimistic growth statistics for how this will stimulate the Kenyan economy. Let&#x27;s say 19% for the first 10 years, then 15% for 10 more, then 12% for the next five.<p>Based on those fudged figures, we&#x27;ll convince the government to take on excessive debt to pay for water development, etc. projects. Since the figures are fudged, and since we&#x27;ll do this hand in hand with local elites &#x2F; kleptocrats, they&#x27;ll never be able to repay the debt.<p>We&#x27;ll funnel this money right back to Western consulting and construction firms.<p>When locals who are having their lives destroyed by the development projects start to demonstrate, we&#x27;ll squeeze them until they turn to violence and call them terrorists.<p>When the real international terrorists join in to fight the evil imperialists (us), we&#x27;ll drone-strike, death-squad, and black-site them, citing our earlier failure to act in Sudan.<p>Can you tell I&#x27;ve been reading _Confessions of an Economic Hitman_? I am excited about the new iPhone, though.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Huge water reserve discovered in Kenya</title><url>http://www.itv.com/news/2013-09-10/kenya-water-aquifer-found-in-lotikipi/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JulienSchmidt</author><text>Exclusive rights on this reserve bought by Nestlé in 3.. 2.. 1..?<p><a href="http://www.worldcrunch.com/poisoning-well-nestl-accused-exploiting-water-supplies-bottled-brands/business-finance/poisoning-the-well-nestl-accused-of-exploiting-water-supplies-for-bottled-brands/c2s4503/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldcrunch.com&#x2F;poisoning-well-nestl-accused-expl...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Huge water reserve discovered in Kenya</title><url>http://www.itv.com/news/2013-09-10/kenya-water-aquifer-found-in-lotikipi/</url></story> |
7,620,957 | 7,619,182 | 1 | 2 | 7,618,406 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>randomdata</author><text>Your test is intended to convey to the reader that your function does addition and provide an example of how to access that function. The functional part of the test is to verify that your claim is true, rather than the stories of yore when the documentation often didn&#x27;t match what the code actually did.<p>As a nice side effect, when you refactor your function in the future and you mistakenly turn it into multiplication, the test will give you a sanity check that you meant for it to do addition. Perhaps not a big deal in your contrived example, but is huge in the real world where functions are not quite so simple.<p>Testing is not for verifying a function is mathematically correct.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dkarapetyan</author><text>Suppose I tell you 3 + 2 = 5 and 2 + 3 = 5. Did you learn anything non-trivial about + from those two examples? Did you learn that x + y = y + x for all x and y or that x + (y + z) = (x + y) + z? You can sample as many points as you want and you&#x27;ll still be no wiser as to how + behaves and how it interacts with * or that the implementation of + even respects any of those properties. If you&#x27;re going to put in the effort to generate unit tests then why not go a bit further and formally verify the correct functionality?<p>All this is just a roundabout way of saying I don&#x27;t write unit tests. There is no value in it when I have convinced myself each subcomponent is correct and that composition of those subcomponents preserves correctness. You can write all the unit tests in the world and if you don&#x27;t verify that the composition of your components preserves the correctness properties those tests are meant to verify then you might as well not have written those tests because now you have created a false sense of security.<p>If you can verify the kernel pieces of your code and then the composition mechanisms then you&#x27;re done. You don&#x27;t need to verify the entire thing as long as the entire thing is built with the kernel pieces and verified composition mechanisms that preserve correctness.<p>I also suspect we are still talking about separate classes of software. For your run of the mill twitter clone if it makes the corporate overlords happy then write as many unit tests as you want because it doesn&#x27;t make a difference either way. But if we&#x27;re talking about actual fundamental software like OS kernels and compilers then I don&#x27;t think you can have enough formal verification.</text></item><item><author>stormbrew</author><text>I find it strange to think that TDD and formal verification are at odds with each other. For it to be backwards to write dynamic tests, you seem to be suggesting that it is actually worse than doing neither. I also don&#x27;t see how it can be documentation, glorified or otherwise, and not tell you anything about the properties of the software.<p>Really there are perhaps three practical levels of knowledge about what a piece of code does:
- It does something.
- If I give it X it gives me Y (for some finite set of X).
- It will never do Z (for some finite set of Z).<p>The first is the state most software is in most of the time. The second is achievable with tests and some kinds of static analysis. The last is probably only achievable with formal analysis and code that fits the constraints of that formal analysis.<p>But both levels are at least an improvement on nothing at all. Having functional and documenting tests does bring meaningful knowledge about some subset of what the code does, even if it isn&#x27;t the be-all and end-all of code analysis.<p>So I don&#x27;t see how you can dismiss it so easily, when to me it&#x27;s just a step on that striving you mention in your final sentence. For the moment it is perhaps true that the good is the enemy of the great on this, but that will become less true as the tools get better.<p>After all, even this article talks about only formally verifying part of the code of a web browser. Until and unless formally verifying the entire thing becomes possible, you still probably need the Acid tests to demonstrate its capabilities and help prevent regression.</text></item><item><author>dkarapetyan</author><text>Yes on all counts. I never understood why the TDD culture was happy to write down a complicated function and then only verify that on input 2 the output was 4. It always seemed backwards to me especially when you could have just as easily verified that in the REPL and called it a day. To me TDD on its own is just glorified documentation and tells me nothing about the actual properties of the software. Formal proofs and verification on the other hand is definitely something everyone should be striving towards especially for foundational components of computing, e.g. compilers, virtual machines, kernels, security&#x2F;network protocols, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Case for Formal Verification (2013)</title><url>http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/14818</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stormbrew</author><text>&gt; If you&#x27;re going to put in the effort to generate unit tests then why not go a bit further and formally verify the correct functionality?<p>At the moment this &quot;a bit further&quot; is a bit like saying if you don&#x27;t like the price of milk at your corner store, why don&#x27;t you go to a farm to get a quart? Sure, you might be able to do that, but it&#x27;s not exactly a comparable effort.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dkarapetyan</author><text>Suppose I tell you 3 + 2 = 5 and 2 + 3 = 5. Did you learn anything non-trivial about + from those two examples? Did you learn that x + y = y + x for all x and y or that x + (y + z) = (x + y) + z? You can sample as many points as you want and you&#x27;ll still be no wiser as to how + behaves and how it interacts with * or that the implementation of + even respects any of those properties. If you&#x27;re going to put in the effort to generate unit tests then why not go a bit further and formally verify the correct functionality?<p>All this is just a roundabout way of saying I don&#x27;t write unit tests. There is no value in it when I have convinced myself each subcomponent is correct and that composition of those subcomponents preserves correctness. You can write all the unit tests in the world and if you don&#x27;t verify that the composition of your components preserves the correctness properties those tests are meant to verify then you might as well not have written those tests because now you have created a false sense of security.<p>If you can verify the kernel pieces of your code and then the composition mechanisms then you&#x27;re done. You don&#x27;t need to verify the entire thing as long as the entire thing is built with the kernel pieces and verified composition mechanisms that preserve correctness.<p>I also suspect we are still talking about separate classes of software. For your run of the mill twitter clone if it makes the corporate overlords happy then write as many unit tests as you want because it doesn&#x27;t make a difference either way. But if we&#x27;re talking about actual fundamental software like OS kernels and compilers then I don&#x27;t think you can have enough formal verification.</text></item><item><author>stormbrew</author><text>I find it strange to think that TDD and formal verification are at odds with each other. For it to be backwards to write dynamic tests, you seem to be suggesting that it is actually worse than doing neither. I also don&#x27;t see how it can be documentation, glorified or otherwise, and not tell you anything about the properties of the software.<p>Really there are perhaps three practical levels of knowledge about what a piece of code does:
- It does something.
- If I give it X it gives me Y (for some finite set of X).
- It will never do Z (for some finite set of Z).<p>The first is the state most software is in most of the time. The second is achievable with tests and some kinds of static analysis. The last is probably only achievable with formal analysis and code that fits the constraints of that formal analysis.<p>But both levels are at least an improvement on nothing at all. Having functional and documenting tests does bring meaningful knowledge about some subset of what the code does, even if it isn&#x27;t the be-all and end-all of code analysis.<p>So I don&#x27;t see how you can dismiss it so easily, when to me it&#x27;s just a step on that striving you mention in your final sentence. For the moment it is perhaps true that the good is the enemy of the great on this, but that will become less true as the tools get better.<p>After all, even this article talks about only formally verifying part of the code of a web browser. Until and unless formally verifying the entire thing becomes possible, you still probably need the Acid tests to demonstrate its capabilities and help prevent regression.</text></item><item><author>dkarapetyan</author><text>Yes on all counts. I never understood why the TDD culture was happy to write down a complicated function and then only verify that on input 2 the output was 4. It always seemed backwards to me especially when you could have just as easily verified that in the REPL and called it a day. To me TDD on its own is just glorified documentation and tells me nothing about the actual properties of the software. Formal proofs and verification on the other hand is definitely something everyone should be striving towards especially for foundational components of computing, e.g. compilers, virtual machines, kernels, security&#x2F;network protocols, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Case for Formal Verification (2013)</title><url>http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/14818</url></story> |
39,673,742 | 39,673,340 | 1 | 2 | 39,672,901 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alexburke19</author><text>Signal K is an open source server &#x2F; data format for marine electronics, often paired with OpenPlotter for building custom nav and monitoring systems with web standards (JSON, Websockets and HTTP).<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;signalk.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;signalk.org&#x2F;</a><p>Has an excellent community of developers and hardware components.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenPlotter</title><url>https://openmarine.net/openplotter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tamimio</author><text>My engineering sense says RPi isn’t a good choice here, there’s a lot of potential failures that could happen, from a corrupted sd card, to overheating, harsh environment, among others, an industrial mini PC with proper protection and resources as well would be far better.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenPlotter</title><url>https://openmarine.net/openplotter</url></story> |
9,549,772 | 9,549,649 | 1 | 3 | 9,549,612 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>A reddit commenter compiled a key:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;food&#x2F;comments&#x2F;35qtqy&#x2F;food_cubes&#x2F;cr73ttr" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;food&#x2F;comments&#x2F;35qtqy&#x2F;food_cubes&#x2F;cr73...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unprocessed Foods Cut into Precise 2.5cm Cubes</title><url>http://lernertandsander.com/cubes/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kozak</author><text>And in the lower left part you have two pieces of fish, which are actually the same piece, rotated.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Unprocessed Foods Cut into Precise 2.5cm Cubes</title><url>http://lernertandsander.com/cubes/</url></story> |
33,237,854 | 33,237,861 | 1 | 3 | 33,231,563 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cwkoss</author><text>She&#x27;s a no-talent clown who bought her way into the public view with nepotistic wealth. She heavily uses photoshop on her pictures, and then sells beauty products to insecure young women to profit off the insecurities her digital media team helped manufacture. Her brand is basically just &#x27;stupid and rich&#x27; - not someone I&#x27;d ever want any of the young women I care about to idolize. Her fame is a shame of American society: her rise is emblematic of the shift, away from talent, to wealth being the primary factor in modern cultural prominence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>qq66</author><text>&gt; Mostly I just know of him because he&#x27;s a very public asshole. Much like his wife.<p>By &quot;his wife&quot; do you mean his ex-wife Kim Kardashian? If so, in what ways is she an asshole?</text></item><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>As someone who doesn&#x27;t listen to much rap &#x2F; hip hop, and can only name his cover (adaptation?) of Stronger, I do know who Kanye is. I don&#x27;t know anything about his music. Mostly I just know of him because he&#x27;s a very public asshole. Much like his wife.<p>I find it basically impossible to empathize with him. I just wouldn&#x27;t ever be in that situation. &quot;Rising against adversity&quot; is not the story I&#x27;d be be using here so much as just a typical strongman bravado leading to an absolute disconnect from reality.<p>I would wager greatly that it&#x27;s not that he&#x27;s grown cynical to people saying he can&#x27;t do something, but that he&#x27;s become delusional from people telling him a genius. People who convince themselves that they&#x27;re smart do this thing where they have an idea, and conclude that because they&#x27;ve come up with it and they&#x27;re smart that it must be a well reasoned idea.</text></item><item><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>It&#x27;s sad because to become successful Kanye had to ignore hundreds&#x2F;thousands of important people telling him he wasnt good enough and he would never make it as a rapper. Then he became, arguably, the most popular rapper&#x2F;hip hop artist of all time.<p>Now image you&#x27;ve done what seems impossible despite countless people telling you it wont work out. You are in the top 1% of fame. Now someone tells you your other ideas are wrong. And that you cant actually achieve x goal. And that you don&#x27;t know what you are talking about when you talk about y. And that you are sick and need to take meds to fix yourself.<p>Would you believe them? Or would you believe yourself?<p>I think Kanye is sick and needs help but I can see almost anyone falling into the exact same trap hes fallen into if they lived his life.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is really a story about a celebrity&#x27;s mental illness and public breakdown. If you haven&#x27;t been following the news, West has spent the week saying increasingly unhinged things, not just about politics but about Pete Davidson, his wife, and (if I&#x27;m remembering right) his kids and the fake actor children that have been installed in his former home to corrupt them. He was interviewed for a show on Fox and a big chunk of what he said was edited out and later leaked; the &quot;people at the Gap&quot; knew about Uvalde, Kanye is now a Black Hebrew Israelite, &amp;c. He&#x27;s quite evidently sick, and these Parler people are scamming him.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kanye West is buying Parler</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/17/23408443/kanye-west-ye-parler-free-speech-social-media-platform</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>enragedcacti</author><text>On the flip she has been doing a lot of advocacy for prison reform and is apprenticing to become a lawyer in California, seemingly to that end.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;02&#x2F;arts&#x2F;television&#x2F;kim-kardashian-prison-reform.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;02&#x2F;arts&#x2F;television&#x2F;kim-karda...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>qq66</author><text>&gt; Mostly I just know of him because he&#x27;s a very public asshole. Much like his wife.<p>By &quot;his wife&quot; do you mean his ex-wife Kim Kardashian? If so, in what ways is she an asshole?</text></item><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>As someone who doesn&#x27;t listen to much rap &#x2F; hip hop, and can only name his cover (adaptation?) of Stronger, I do know who Kanye is. I don&#x27;t know anything about his music. Mostly I just know of him because he&#x27;s a very public asshole. Much like his wife.<p>I find it basically impossible to empathize with him. I just wouldn&#x27;t ever be in that situation. &quot;Rising against adversity&quot; is not the story I&#x27;d be be using here so much as just a typical strongman bravado leading to an absolute disconnect from reality.<p>I would wager greatly that it&#x27;s not that he&#x27;s grown cynical to people saying he can&#x27;t do something, but that he&#x27;s become delusional from people telling him a genius. People who convince themselves that they&#x27;re smart do this thing where they have an idea, and conclude that because they&#x27;ve come up with it and they&#x27;re smart that it must be a well reasoned idea.</text></item><item><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>It&#x27;s sad because to become successful Kanye had to ignore hundreds&#x2F;thousands of important people telling him he wasnt good enough and he would never make it as a rapper. Then he became, arguably, the most popular rapper&#x2F;hip hop artist of all time.<p>Now image you&#x27;ve done what seems impossible despite countless people telling you it wont work out. You are in the top 1% of fame. Now someone tells you your other ideas are wrong. And that you cant actually achieve x goal. And that you don&#x27;t know what you are talking about when you talk about y. And that you are sick and need to take meds to fix yourself.<p>Would you believe them? Or would you believe yourself?<p>I think Kanye is sick and needs help but I can see almost anyone falling into the exact same trap hes fallen into if they lived his life.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is really a story about a celebrity&#x27;s mental illness and public breakdown. If you haven&#x27;t been following the news, West has spent the week saying increasingly unhinged things, not just about politics but about Pete Davidson, his wife, and (if I&#x27;m remembering right) his kids and the fake actor children that have been installed in his former home to corrupt them. He was interviewed for a show on Fox and a big chunk of what he said was edited out and later leaked; the &quot;people at the Gap&quot; knew about Uvalde, Kanye is now a Black Hebrew Israelite, &amp;c. He&#x27;s quite evidently sick, and these Parler people are scamming him.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Kanye West is buying Parler</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/17/23408443/kanye-west-ye-parler-free-speech-social-media-platform</url></story> |
10,032,503 | 10,032,499 | 1 | 2 | 10,031,671 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jpatokal</author><text>I&#x27;m not saying I necessarily agree with the prosecution, their tactics or the charges, but this article is sensationalist to the point that you could change the headline to &quot;emptying your trash could land you in prison&quot;.<p>&gt; prosecutors argued that he made a conscious choice to destroy materials he knew could be used in a future investigation.<p>See, that&#x27;s the point here. If he had happened to have (say) VHS tapes or even handwritten notes of those sessions, and he had thrown them out after the bombing, he could have been slapped with the same charges. The primary difference here is that emptying your browser history leaves a telltale sign, while chucking out some physical object does not.<p>Also, this article is conveniently omitting the fact that he also pled guilty to three counts of essentially lying to the FBI: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;26&#x2F;the-fbi-is-trying-to-destroy-my-life.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedailybeast.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;26&#x2F;the-fbi-is-...</a><p>Remember kids, don&#x27;t talk to police. Ever. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deleting your browser history could land you in prison</title><url>http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/staff-editorials/13910/sox-browser-history-obstruction-justice/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blatherard</author><text>This sounds like another &quot;banal-sounding activity that everyone does is suddenly illegal!&quot; misunderstanding. The charge is that someone destroyed potential evidence on their computer with the intent of preventing that evidence from being found by an investigation that they believed was likely. In the non-digital realm, this is like shredding business records when you suspect you&#x27;re being investigated. Shredding isn&#x27;t illegal, but attempting to obstruct an investigation is, and (IMHO) rightfully so.<p>Which is to say: deleting your browser history <i>as part of an effort to thwart a criminal investigation</i> could land you in prison.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Deleting your browser history could land you in prison</title><url>http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/staff-editorials/13910/sox-browser-history-obstruction-justice/</url></story> |
35,771,778 | 35,769,714 | 1 | 3 | 35,769,203 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akwizgran</author><text>Briar developer here. We weren&#x27;t contacted by the Indian government and we haven&#x27;t received a copy of the blocking order.<p>If anyone reading this works at Google or has a contact there, please put us in touch ([email protected]). We&#x27;d love to know whether Google has received a blocking order, and if possible get a copy of the order so we can challenge it in court.<p>In the meantime, the app remains available from our website and F-Droid (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;briarproject.org&#x2F;download" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;briarproject.org&#x2F;download</a>). The app can also create a wi-fi hotspot to share the APK with people nearby.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indian government bans 14 messenger apps including Element, Briar and Threema</title><url>https://news.abplive.com/technology/india-ban-messaging-messenger-apps-mobile-pakistan-terrorism-connection-crypviser-enigma-safeswiss-bchat-1599074</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>&gt; <i>the blocked apps include Crypviser, Enigma, Safeswiss, Wickrme, Mediafire, Briar, BChat, Nandbox, Conion, IMO, Element, Second line, Zangi, Threema, among others.</i><p>That is, anything that&#x27;s easy enough to detect in the traffic, I suppose? Or does it just affect App Store &#x2F; Play Store?<p>&gt; <i>The step was taken after multiple agencies found that these apps were being used by terrorists to communicate with their supporters and on-ground workers</i><p>I wonder if it applies to members of general public, or to trained agents. For the former, the ban may work. For the latter, I suppose, there&#x27;s less chance: they must have other means to install apps, various VPNs set up, and some opsec training.<p>&gt; <i>The government found that these apps did not have representatives in India and they could not be contacted for seeking information as mandated by Indian laws.</i><p>This, of course, should be by design for any really secure communication app. A legal entity representing a secure channel is a people to press on in cases like that, ans such pressure from law enforcement is and will be inevitable. I think Tor network has no legal representative anywhere.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Indian government bans 14 messenger apps including Element, Briar and Threema</title><url>https://news.abplive.com/technology/india-ban-messaging-messenger-apps-mobile-pakistan-terrorism-connection-crypviser-enigma-safeswiss-bchat-1599074</url></story> |
17,889,324 | 17,889,321 | 1 | 3 | 17,889,150 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Looks like it happened here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;RHiVTRSuDJ62" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;RHiVTRSuDJ62</a><p>Pretty short merge lane, more of a surface street than a highway. Probably not atypical for a car to stop to wait for an opening to merge.</text><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>The important part is that it got rear-ended while waiting to merge --- I suspect a strong factor in this was the fact that the car behind it was expecting it to go and merge, but it suddenly stopped instead.<p>Even for a human, merging into flowing traffic is tricky and one of the more difficult maneuvers; combine that with a (not obviously?) self-driving car that doesn&#x27;t behave quite like human drivers expect, and I can see how this could happen.<p>If I saw a clearly-marked &quot;autonomous test vehicle&quot; I&#x27;d probably stay far away from it, but I suspect this one wasn&#x27;t. Imagine the surprise of the human driver who thought the car in front that he hit was just driven by another idiot...</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t seem particularly notable, they got rear ended at 15 miles an hour while essentially stopped.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-autos/apple-self-driving-car-in-accident-california-dmv-filing-idUSKCN1LG2X1</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mizza</author><text>I wonder if it would be more useful if these cars had more lights than normal cars (yellow, green, etc.), so that they could signal their intentions before they act.</text><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>The important part is that it got rear-ended while waiting to merge --- I suspect a strong factor in this was the fact that the car behind it was expecting it to go and merge, but it suddenly stopped instead.<p>Even for a human, merging into flowing traffic is tricky and one of the more difficult maneuvers; combine that with a (not obviously?) self-driving car that doesn&#x27;t behave quite like human drivers expect, and I can see how this could happen.<p>If I saw a clearly-marked &quot;autonomous test vehicle&quot; I&#x27;d probably stay far away from it, but I suspect this one wasn&#x27;t. Imagine the surprise of the human driver who thought the car in front that he hit was just driven by another idiot...</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t seem particularly notable, they got rear ended at 15 miles an hour while essentially stopped.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-autos/apple-self-driving-car-in-accident-california-dmv-filing-idUSKCN1LG2X1</url></story> |
28,585,003 | 28,580,096 | 1 | 2 | 28,579,037 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Mountain_Skies</author><text>Starting with being one of Match&#x27;s first profiles in my area in the mid 90s through a couple of years ago, I&#x27;ve given online dating a try several through various stages of life. The one constant I&#x27;ve found is that paid services, even if it&#x27;s just a small amount, gets rid of the tire kickers and validation seekers. When everyone has something invested into the process, everything is primed for moving forward. Paid services unfortunately have their own incentives to keep you around even after finding mutually attraction and compatibility but the free (and freemium) sites are designed to suck up your time and attention, which are monetized, instead of you paying directly.<p>Two other random observations about the differences between using matching sites versus people I&#x27;ve met more organically: Those I&#x27;ve met online are at least twice as likely taking prescription medicine for social anxiety or other mental health conditions. That difference is quite stark but otherwise personality and lifestyle differences are minimal. The other is that tall women are vastly overrepresented on dating sites. My guess is that if you&#x27;re a 6&#x27; tall woman who wants to not be taller than her significant other but still wants to be able to wear heels, the numbers don&#x27;t work very well with more traditional dating. You have to be able to cast a wide net when 96% of men are already shorter than you are in two inch heels.<p>For myself, my best relationships have been those I&#x27;ve met in person rather than through online dating. In most of those cases, we wouldn&#x27;t have been a match if we had been using an app and running in similar social circles itself was a good filter. The best relationship from someone I met online was a woman I met on LiveJournal in an alumni area, which was somewhat of a pseudo social circle filter itself.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tired of dating apps, Vancouver man launches social experiment to find companion</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dating-social-experiment-dawn-hawkins-1.6180147</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>$7000? Sounds like dating apps are wildly underpriced, or they are not fit for purpose. Likely a bit of both. A girlfriend of mine once used a matchmaking service for profesionals that was priced in the $10k range and the stories she told me about them all seemed to have the similar theme, where if you want a person to represent something in your life (wife, partner, husband, etc.), it&#x27;s a recipe for disappointment.<p>Durable relationships with friends are ones that just work because you don&#x27;t freight it with external meaning. That we use a noun for a &quot;relationship&quot; between people at all is probably the root of a lot of its difficulty. Relationships as things are intractable, whereas relating and choosing how you relate is the simplest thing in the world. It&#x27;s as though we codified relating into a noun so we could trade it, which makes sense when you look at &quot;being in a relationship&quot; as a proxy for being property, and matchmaking services that want to sell you one.<p>Intimacy does require a shared perimeter of safety, trust, and exclusivity relative to that specific personal intimacy, and you need to maintain it, but reducing it to role-playing expectations just turns it into a power struggle in the guise of a game.<p>For a lot of people, marriage is basically a dead institution, but we still go looking for someone to &quot;make&quot; a marriage with, as though it&#x27;s a thing you make that is abstracted from the people involved. The same can be said for family, where we relate to &quot;the family&quot; as our reflection against an ideal of family, instead of each person directly.<p>Maybe I&#x27;ve been into the stoics too much, but the simple mental rephrasing of &quot;my partner,&quot; to &quot;the partner I have&quot; changes how you relate to them, from being an extension or reflection of yourself to being an experience in your life, and it takes a lot of pressure off how you relate to them.<p>That last statement is a destroyer of codependent relationships, which is probably good because someone spending thousands of dollars to find someone to represent their idea of a &quot;relationship,&quot; in which they like their reflection in it is just going to suffer. That is, until they don&#x27;t need to check a reflection to know they&#x27;re good.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tired of dating apps, Vancouver man launches social experiment to find companion</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dating-social-experiment-dawn-hawkins-1.6180147</url></story> |
16,112,944 | 16,112,954 | 1 | 3 | 16,112,163 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>For cyclists, roundabouts aren&#x27;t that much better unless we&#x27;re given separate lanes.<p>Motorists still tend to blow through roundabouts at speed if they can&#x27;t see anything coming. From personal experience you can easily navigate a roundabout at 35+ mph.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajmurmann</author><text>A roundabout is a much better solution than a stop sign. I still believe that the ubiquous stop signs in the US are there due to the oil lobby. Bringing a car to a full stop is incredibly wasteful.</text></item><item><author>temp-dude-87844</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of math in this article about blind spots and car pillars and whatnot, but a Google Maps Street View appears to show the terrain and brush blocking the view on approach [1][2], making all of this math largely moot. That the drivers in question didn&#x27;t even so much as slow down for this approach is beyond reckless, aside from the other lawbreaking that followed.<p>The &#x27;Give Way&#x27; sign is idiotic, put a Stop sign on the other, flatter road, or make it a 4-way stop. The drivers causing accidents were blowing through the intersection, and shame on the wording of the law that they were able to weasel out of harsher punishment.<p>Altering the roadway geometry, either as proposed, or more drastically with a roundabout, is a brute-force solution on this country road when other societal measures don&#x27;t suffice, but it seems that there&#x27;s plenty of room to enact other changes before you dig up the road.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@50.8638239,-1.4511249,3a,75y,269.62h,66.23t&#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgp5ZPCZzLXnphyQnR_xhww!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@50.8638239,-1.4511249,3a,75y,26...</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@50.8634141,-1.452595,3a,75y,269.9h,68.29t&#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZFSqQto6dDxulLvfKmzH6g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@50.8634141,-1.452595,3a,75y,269...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Type of Road Junction that Kills Cyclists</title><url>http://singletrackworld.com/2018/01/collision-course-why-this-type-of-road-junction-will-keep-killing-cyclists/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>larkeith</author><text>Having lived near a very similar intersection, also with frequent accidents (it has a 2-way stop with heavy 50-70 mph cross-traffic and frequent left turns, depending on the time of day), cost may be a significant portion of the reason; a neighborhood campaign to replace the 2-way stop with a traffic light fell through due to a &gt;$1 million price tag for adding a light to a countryside road, and it&#x27;s doubtful a roundabout would cost less.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ajmurmann</author><text>A roundabout is a much better solution than a stop sign. I still believe that the ubiquous stop signs in the US are there due to the oil lobby. Bringing a car to a full stop is incredibly wasteful.</text></item><item><author>temp-dude-87844</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of math in this article about blind spots and car pillars and whatnot, but a Google Maps Street View appears to show the terrain and brush blocking the view on approach [1][2], making all of this math largely moot. That the drivers in question didn&#x27;t even so much as slow down for this approach is beyond reckless, aside from the other lawbreaking that followed.<p>The &#x27;Give Way&#x27; sign is idiotic, put a Stop sign on the other, flatter road, or make it a 4-way stop. The drivers causing accidents were blowing through the intersection, and shame on the wording of the law that they were able to weasel out of harsher punishment.<p>Altering the roadway geometry, either as proposed, or more drastically with a roundabout, is a brute-force solution on this country road when other societal measures don&#x27;t suffice, but it seems that there&#x27;s plenty of room to enact other changes before you dig up the road.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@50.8638239,-1.4511249,3a,75y,269.62h,66.23t&#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgp5ZPCZzLXnphyQnR_xhww!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@50.8638239,-1.4511249,3a,75y,26...</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@50.8634141,-1.452595,3a,75y,269.9h,68.29t&#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZFSqQto6dDxulLvfKmzH6g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@50.8634141,-1.452595,3a,75y,269...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A Type of Road Junction that Kills Cyclists</title><url>http://singletrackworld.com/2018/01/collision-course-why-this-type-of-road-junction-will-keep-killing-cyclists/</url></story> |
30,343,970 | 30,342,480 | 1 | 2 | 30,336,809 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>veidr</author><text>I hate your font, but upvoted you to celebrate the diversity of human perception. :-D<p>I think it is <i>wild</i> that so many of us have these very strong, yet radically different, opinions.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why anyone would even bother to even go beyond the first item on the list. Such beauty, such elegant geometry, such timeless classic lines. Truly an elegant font for a more civilized time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.programmingfonts.org&#x2F;#font3270" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.programmingfonts.org&#x2F;#font3270</a><p>BTW, I&#x27;m also a huge fan of Luxi Mono, but I edit it and add a dot in the middle of the zero to make it different from the O. I like it because it reminds me a bit of the Sun console font (which I always forget the name). I could also go with Go Mono, which is mostly the same, but has a slashed zero.<p>edit: if you hate my font, just don&#x27;t use it. You don&#x27;t <i>have</i> to downvote this. ;-)</text></item><item><author>kbd</author><text>Unfortunately not available to compare on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.programmingfonts.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.programmingfonts.org&#x2F;</a><p>While I&#x27;m here: Victor Mono has been my programming font of choice for a while now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rubjo.github.io&#x2F;victor-mono&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rubjo.github.io&#x2F;victor-mono&#x2F;</a><p>Oh, look at that, the Victor Mono homepage has a font comparison slider that allows you to compare it to MonoLisa! MonoLisa advertises that it&#x27;s wider than other monospace fonts, and you can really see that in the comparison. One of the things I appreciate about Victor Mono is that it is <i>narrower</i> than many other monospace fonts (while still being very readable), allowing you to fit more code side-by-side.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MonoLisa – A font designed for developers</title><url>https://www.monolisa.dev</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kQq9oHeAz6wLLS</author><text>Your font is cool, ignore the downvotes. It reminds me a bit of the default console font on OpenBSD, Spleen [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambus.net&#x2F;spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambus.net&#x2F;spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why anyone would even bother to even go beyond the first item on the list. Such beauty, such elegant geometry, such timeless classic lines. Truly an elegant font for a more civilized time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.programmingfonts.org&#x2F;#font3270" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.programmingfonts.org&#x2F;#font3270</a><p>BTW, I&#x27;m also a huge fan of Luxi Mono, but I edit it and add a dot in the middle of the zero to make it different from the O. I like it because it reminds me a bit of the Sun console font (which I always forget the name). I could also go with Go Mono, which is mostly the same, but has a slashed zero.<p>edit: if you hate my font, just don&#x27;t use it. You don&#x27;t <i>have</i> to downvote this. ;-)</text></item><item><author>kbd</author><text>Unfortunately not available to compare on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.programmingfonts.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.programmingfonts.org&#x2F;</a><p>While I&#x27;m here: Victor Mono has been my programming font of choice for a while now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rubjo.github.io&#x2F;victor-mono&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rubjo.github.io&#x2F;victor-mono&#x2F;</a><p>Oh, look at that, the Victor Mono homepage has a font comparison slider that allows you to compare it to MonoLisa! MonoLisa advertises that it&#x27;s wider than other monospace fonts, and you can really see that in the comparison. One of the things I appreciate about Victor Mono is that it is <i>narrower</i> than many other monospace fonts (while still being very readable), allowing you to fit more code side-by-side.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>MonoLisa – A font designed for developers</title><url>https://www.monolisa.dev</url></story> |
20,635,827 | 20,635,679 | 1 | 2 | 20,634,753 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Glyptodon</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered if someone could copyright strike most of YouTube by having a channel filled with permutations of various sorts of ambient background noise.</text><parent_chain><item><author>freehunter</author><text>New business model: have an AI generate every chord progression in every tempo, release the &quot;songs&quot; on your own label, and sue everyone who releases a song after you.</text></item><item><author>aaronarduino</author><text>This sort of feels like the start of the music business&#x27;s version of patent trolls. I think this verdict devalues music and hampers creativity.</text></item><item><author>iamben</author><text>I posted this the other day. Absolutely terrible, IMO. A minor artist can take millions from an artist who releases a song with a passing resemblance. You can hear similarities in SO many songs. And SO many songs are inspired by others - great art is full of inspiration.<p>I dread where this ends up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Katy Perry's Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Industry</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/dark-horse-music-industry-1.5235743</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lostphilosopher</author><text>Pattern Trolls</text><parent_chain><item><author>freehunter</author><text>New business model: have an AI generate every chord progression in every tempo, release the &quot;songs&quot; on your own label, and sue everyone who releases a song after you.</text></item><item><author>aaronarduino</author><text>This sort of feels like the start of the music business&#x27;s version of patent trolls. I think this verdict devalues music and hampers creativity.</text></item><item><author>iamben</author><text>I posted this the other day. Absolutely terrible, IMO. A minor artist can take millions from an artist who releases a song with a passing resemblance. You can hear similarities in SO many songs. And SO many songs are inspired by others - great art is full of inspiration.<p>I dread where this ends up.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Katy Perry's Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Industry</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/dark-horse-music-industry-1.5235743</url></story> |
35,162,777 | 35,162,016 | 1 | 3 | 35,155,198 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ern</author><text>I just got into it, and when I ask it about its limitations (like the reason for the 15 message limit) it ends the conversation. Seems to be a lot of censorship.</text><parent_chain><item><author>basch</author><text>Careful jailbreaking.<p>If you search, &quot;Sorry, you are not allowed to access this service.&quot; people are getting banned now.<p>Which is kinda bs without warning, to treat everybody as hardeners and then expel them for their services.<p>I have to think it is a tactical error to disenfranchise your most enthusiastic customers.<p>I also don&#x27;t see anywhere in the terms that says prompt injections are against the terms of use or code of conduct.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;new&#x2F;termsofuse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;new&#x2F;termsofuse</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;new&#x2F;termsofuse#content-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;new&#x2F;termsofuse#content-policy</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4</title><url>https://blogs.bing.com/search/march_2023/Confirmed-the-new-Bing-runs-on-OpenAI%E2%80%99s-GPT-4</url></story> | <instructions>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>There&#x27;s another implication of this. It looks like the next generation of search will require a login.</text><parent_chain><item><author>basch</author><text>Careful jailbreaking.<p>If you search, &quot;Sorry, you are not allowed to access this service.&quot; people are getting banned now.<p>Which is kinda bs without warning, to treat everybody as hardeners and then expel them for their services.<p>I have to think it is a tactical error to disenfranchise your most enthusiastic customers.<p>I also don&#x27;t see anywhere in the terms that says prompt injections are against the terms of use or code of conduct.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;new&#x2F;termsofuse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;new&#x2F;termsofuse</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;new&#x2F;termsofuse#content-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;new&#x2F;termsofuse#content-policy</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4</title><url>https://blogs.bing.com/search/march_2023/Confirmed-the-new-Bing-runs-on-OpenAI%E2%80%99s-GPT-4</url></story> |
17,221,518 | 17,221,164 | 1 | 2 | 17,220,252 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chanks</author><text>And Roda (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jeremyevans&#x2F;roda" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jeremyevans&#x2F;roda</a>) beats Gin, if you include it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=data-r15&amp;hw=ph&amp;test=fortune&amp;l=hr9kov&amp;f=zik073-zik0zj-zik0zj-zijzen-zik0zj-zijunz-zijbpb-cn3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=data-r15&amp;hw=...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jashmatthews</author><text>Sinatra + Sequel is already very competitive in web performance with Go + Gin[1]. It&#x27;s the Rails convenience stuff which slows things down massively. MJIT could probably bring Rails in line with Sinatra though.<p>Between Ruby 1.8 and 2.5, performance has improved around 13x in tight loops[2]. The Rails performance issue has been massively overblown since 1.9 was released.<p>Ruby 1.8 was a tree walking interpreter, so the move to a bytecode VM in 1.9 was a huge leap in performance. Twitter bailed to the JVM before moving to 1.9. A lot of those 10-100x performance differences to the JVM are gone thanks to the bytecode VM and generational GC.<p>Bytecode VMs all have the same fundamental problem of instruction dispatch overhead, they&#x27;re basically executing different C functions depending on input.<p>Doing _anything_ to reduce this improves performance dramatically, even just spitting out the instruction source code into a giant C function, compiling it, and calling that in place of the original method. Another 10x improvement on tight loops should not be a problem.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=data-r15&amp;hw=ph&amp;test=fortune&amp;l=hr9kov&amp;f=zik073-zik0zj-zik0zj-zijzen-zik0zj-zijunz-zik0zj-cn3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=data-r15&amp;hw=...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mame&#x2F;optcarrot&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;doc&#x2F;benchmark.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mame&#x2F;optcarrot&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;doc&#x2F;benchmark....</a></text></item><item><author>sho</author><text>&gt; We’re going to implement method iniling in JIT compiler, which is expected to increase Ruby’s performance in order of magnitude<p>An order of magnitude as in .. 10x? This seems too good to be true. Half the arguments against Rails melt away like butter if that&#x27;s truly the case.<p>Anyone with a better understanding of the details care to comment on the likelihood of these performance gains being actually realised, and if not, what we might realistically expect?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ruby 2.6.0-preview2 released with JIT</title><url>https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/05/31/ruby-2-6-0-preview2-released/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>meesterdude</author><text>I would have never thought a ruby stack would come anywhere close to Go performance. The path to optimization used to mean abstracting the really crazy parts into a Go microservice for things that just needed absurd responsivity; but it&#x27;s clear now that a slim ruby stack could also be very effective - and without needing to learn a new language. Worthwhile to at least explore before going Go.<p>Nor did i know that twitter jumped out of rails before ruby got performant. Which means the argument that twitter outgrew rails isn&#x27;t so correct anymore.<p>still, thanks for this insightful comment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jashmatthews</author><text>Sinatra + Sequel is already very competitive in web performance with Go + Gin[1]. It&#x27;s the Rails convenience stuff which slows things down massively. MJIT could probably bring Rails in line with Sinatra though.<p>Between Ruby 1.8 and 2.5, performance has improved around 13x in tight loops[2]. The Rails performance issue has been massively overblown since 1.9 was released.<p>Ruby 1.8 was a tree walking interpreter, so the move to a bytecode VM in 1.9 was a huge leap in performance. Twitter bailed to the JVM before moving to 1.9. A lot of those 10-100x performance differences to the JVM are gone thanks to the bytecode VM and generational GC.<p>Bytecode VMs all have the same fundamental problem of instruction dispatch overhead, they&#x27;re basically executing different C functions depending on input.<p>Doing _anything_ to reduce this improves performance dramatically, even just spitting out the instruction source code into a giant C function, compiling it, and calling that in place of the original method. Another 10x improvement on tight loops should not be a problem.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=data-r15&amp;hw=ph&amp;test=fortune&amp;l=hr9kov&amp;f=zik073-zik0zj-zik0zj-zijzen-zik0zj-zijunz-zik0zj-cn3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=data-r15&amp;hw=...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mame&#x2F;optcarrot&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;doc&#x2F;benchmark.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mame&#x2F;optcarrot&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;doc&#x2F;benchmark....</a></text></item><item><author>sho</author><text>&gt; We’re going to implement method iniling in JIT compiler, which is expected to increase Ruby’s performance in order of magnitude<p>An order of magnitude as in .. 10x? This seems too good to be true. Half the arguments against Rails melt away like butter if that&#x27;s truly the case.<p>Anyone with a better understanding of the details care to comment on the likelihood of these performance gains being actually realised, and if not, what we might realistically expect?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ruby 2.6.0-preview2 released with JIT</title><url>https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/05/31/ruby-2-6-0-preview2-released/</url></story> |
22,100,208 | 22,099,055 | 1 | 2 | 22,098,399 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pizlonator</author><text>This project is trying to do too many things.<p>It seems like Ruby needs a profile guided optimizer, which means building an IR that is suitable for profile-guided optimization. That’s way different from classic IRs like this since it means having provisions for OSR exit.<p>I recommend looking at these slides to learn how to do it.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.filpizlo.com&#x2F;slides&#x2F;pizlo-speculation-in-jsc-slides.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.filpizlo.com&#x2F;slides&#x2F;pizlo-speculation-in-jsc-slid...</a>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.filpizlo.com&#x2F;slides&#x2F;pizlo-splash2018-jsc-compiler-slides.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.filpizlo.com&#x2F;slides&#x2F;pizlo-splash2018-jsc-compiler...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mir: A lightweight JIT compiler project</title><url>https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/01/20/mir-a-lightweight-jit-compiler-project/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bakery2k</author><text>From GitHub [1]:<p><pre><code> &quot;Plans to try MIR light-weight JIT first for CRuby or&#x2F;and MRuby implementation&quot;
&quot;MIR is strongly typed&quot;
</code></pre>
Is there an explanation of how the project bridges the gap between dynamically-typed Ruby and statically-typed MIR?<p>More generally, I&#x27;d love to see something like MRuby+MIR be successful. It would be great to see an alternative to the aging LuaJIT.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vnmakarov&#x2F;mir" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vnmakarov&#x2F;mir</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mir: A lightweight JIT compiler project</title><url>https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/01/20/mir-a-lightweight-jit-compiler-project/</url></story> |
22,226,966 | 22,227,079 | 1 | 2 | 22,226,066 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zionic</author><text>Abusing children is evil, fullstop. That said the current laws around CP are horrifically ripe for abuse by the sate.<p>FBI agents got a &quot;covert search warrant&quot;, entered his house without him knowing, then magically find unencrypted CP on his drives. This is the same agency that can interview you, <i>not</i> record it, write up their version of your &quot;interview&quot; as a &quot;form 302&quot;, then later charge you for lying to them if anything in their written version of your testimony is later shown to be false (no intent required on your part, if you said it rained last tuesday and it didn&#x27;t you are guilty of lying to federal agents). No one should trust <i>anyone</i> with that kind of power, and you&#x27;d be naive to suggest such power has never been abused.</text><parent_chain><item><author>degenerate</author><text>Full article: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.fo&#x2F;THoPp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.fo&#x2F;THoPp</a><p>&gt; <i>Mr. Schulte wasn&#x27;t charged immediately, and in conversations with authorities he denied leaking classified information. But by early April he faced a different legal peril: while searching Mr. Schulte&#x27;s devices, agents found evidence of child pornography, opening up a new line of investigation. Mr. Schulte was arrested in August 2017 on federal child-pornography charges.</i><p>Yeah, sure they did.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ex-CIA Software Engineer Goes on Trial for Vault 7 Leak</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-cia-engineer-goes-on-trial-for-massive-leak-11580741119</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>markus_zhang</author><text>I just wonder why a lot of those persecutions resulted in some findings related to child pornography...</text><parent_chain><item><author>degenerate</author><text>Full article: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.fo&#x2F;THoPp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.fo&#x2F;THoPp</a><p>&gt; <i>Mr. Schulte wasn&#x27;t charged immediately, and in conversations with authorities he denied leaking classified information. But by early April he faced a different legal peril: while searching Mr. Schulte&#x27;s devices, agents found evidence of child pornography, opening up a new line of investigation. Mr. Schulte was arrested in August 2017 on federal child-pornography charges.</i><p>Yeah, sure they did.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ex-CIA Software Engineer Goes on Trial for Vault 7 Leak</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-cia-engineer-goes-on-trial-for-massive-leak-11580741119</url></story> |
3,694,229 | 3,692,927 | 1 | 3 | 3,691,372 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phillmv</author><text>Personal responsibility is an illusion afforded to those who grew up in certain environments.<p>The social structure of gangs is such that, when you grow up in a tough neighbourhood and you have crappy parents it's safer to join a gang.<p>When everyone around you considers the drug trade to be normative behaviour, you don't really see the downside.<p>It's not that we can't make <i>choices</i> for ourselves. It's that what we consider to be a good choice changes with our environments (and, frankly, our cognitive ability to make good choices also varies given your parent's income at birth - here's another TAL for a source on that last statement <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/364/going-big" rel="nofollow">http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/364/g...</a> )<p>&#62; This article making the USA look like it has the most criminals is a bit misleading.<p>Well… a criminal is an invented category. A criminal is someone who broke a law, and we write new laws every day. The US just has more laws that put you in jail than any other country.</text><parent_chain><item><author>goggles99</author><text>How about that gang members next door neighbor that he grew up with and used to be best friends with until junior high when that next door neighbor who made a choice to stay away from narcotics, went on to city college then on to a university and today is a somebody. Your saying "The gang member's real offense is being born in a crappy part of town lacking in institutions and resources..." does nothing but enable this type of behavior. Why would you not demand that someone no matter what neighborhood they were born in has to accept personal responsibility for their actions and choices. You give them a pass like they have no choice. Well they clearly do. Some of them make the right choice while this fellow you are giving a free pass too clearly did not.<p>Do you think that there would be more prisoners in Africa if all of the rapists and murderers were somehow instantly apprehended tried and convicted? This article making the USA look like it has the most criminals is a bit misleading.</text></item><item><author>phillmv</author><text>Yes.<p>And the interesting thing is, all of that violence is directly related to overly harsh laws relating to narcotics. The problem comes down to economics:<p>There is an immense demand for narcotics. Since narcotics are illegal, they are risky to trade, which pushes up prices. Through a combination of the preceding two points, trading in narcotics is extremely profitable. Since the different trade groups engaging in the trade of narcotics have no legal means through which they can resolve their differences, they will instead turn to violence.<p>The gang member's real offense is being born in a crappy part of town lacking in institutions and resources, and where engaging in the drug trade is a normative experience and one of the few sources of jobs. That at least The Wire really goes on about.<p>By eliminating mandatory sentencing, you will significantly reduce the amount of years people serve in prisons because the mandatory sentence lengths were established capriciously in an attempt to out grandstand political opponents (see <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/143/sentencing" rel="nofollow">http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/143/s...</a> ).<p>The world isn't quite as black and white. Eliminate the War on Drugs and overnight all of these problems will disappear as the underlying incentives vanish.</text></item><item><author>moldbug</author><text>Perhaps someone else can parse this better than me.<p>I can make sense of one of these lines: "Criminals break laws; laws are often injust. The War on Drugs, and mandatory sentencing." I think behind this line is lurking the belief that America's prisons are full of Humboldt County potheads, or something like that.<p>The typical American in jail for drug offenses isn't a system administrator who made the mistake of toking up one night. It's a gang member whose real offense is being a worthless thug. The prosecutors and LEOs who busted him are experts in the technical details of putting worthless thugs in jail, to the extent that this remains possible.<p>Nonetheless, all major American cities retain a very substantial population of worthless thugs. If you're unaware of this reality, I strongly recommend this Chicago cop blog: <a href="http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/</a>. Or you could watch "The Wire" - I hear it's available on DVD.<p>Last month, my wife and daughter were leaving a child's birthday party in the outer Mission, SF, when bullets flew down the street past them, followed by a worthless thug who ran past them gun in hand. You can argue that Bayshore Blvd. is a lousy place to put a space that hosts children's birthday parties, and I'd agree. Still, it's my country - why shouldn't I feel safe in it, anywhere, day or night?</text></item><item><author>phillmv</author><text>This is why you are being downvoted:<p>You ask two unrelated question to which you provide no proof.<p>&#62;But what if our system is actually erring in the other direction?<p>Okay. <i>How</i>? Every other nation on earth has lower incarceration rates, and a fair number of them are safer than the US.<p>So given that that are still criminals on the outside, the answer is that you need to become more efficient at apprehending the right people - not increase incarceration rates.<p>&#62;I think the most basic question is: why are there so many criminals? What about the present-day American system of government is so amazingly criminogenic?<p>Criminals break laws; laws are often injust. The War on Drugs, and mandatory sentencing.<p>&#62;If what we need isn't more social justice, what is it?<p>This is entirely unsubstantiated by anything you wrote preceding this sentence. Frankly, it's kind of confused.</text></item><item><author>moldbug</author><text>But what if our system is actually erring in the <i>other</i> direction?<p>There are undoubtedly quite a few Americans who are in correctional supervision but shouldn't be. There are also quite a few Americans who should be in correctional supervision, but aren't. (For a bare start, suppose we believe the commonly quoted meme that there are 1 million gang members in America.)<p>In either case, I think the most basic question is: why are there so many criminals? What about the present-day American system of government is so amazingly criminogenic?<p>For instance, one commonly quoted "root cause" is our proverbial callousness to important issues of social justice. Is an absence of social justice the problem? Let's consider some evidence.<p>Robbery is a pretty good "index crime." For instance, in 1900, there was about 1 robbery per day in all of England (source: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99...</a>). This is roughly a factor of 35 lower than current reported crime rates (same source) in the ol' Sceptered Island - assuming you trust HMG's statistics. And all crime statistics in all countries everywhere are generally admitted by all informed observers to be utterly buggered to hell. (example: <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-05-04/news/the-nypd-tapes-inside-bed-stuy-s-81st-precinct/" rel="nofollow">http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-05-04/news/the-nypd-tapes-i...</a>)<p>In any case, you may compare the public concern for social justice in England, in 1900 and 2000, and note precisely the reverse of the correlation predicted by the hypothesis.<p>Japan has extremely low crime as well, and is probably the least Americanized of all First World nations today. Clearly, it is physically possible for the State to eradicate crime. Clearly, the American system of government, at home or abroad, seems to carry with it unusually high levels of crime and disorder, at least by historical First World standards.<p>But why? If what we need isn't more social justice, what is it?<p>(edit: I just checked and this parliament.co.uk link isn't the right one for my robbery numbers - I'll have to look. Still, money graf - "The number of indictable offences per thousand population in 1900 was 2.4 and in 1997 the figure was 89.1." Two orders of magnitude any way you slice it.)</text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>Other comments asked how incarceration rates could be reduced in the United States. One way would be for many of the forty-some other states to follow the example of the few states, including Minnesota, which have set up determinate sentencing based on severity of the offense of conviction and the criminal history of the convicted defendant.<p><a href="http://www.northfieldnews.com/content/understanding-minnesotas-determinate-sentencing-guidelines" rel="nofollow">http://www.northfieldnews.com/content/understanding-minnesot...</a><p><a href="http://www.doc.state.mn.us/crimevictim/terms.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.doc.state.mn.us/crimevictim/terms.htm</a><p>I toured a prison in Minnesota in the mid-1980s, as an interpreter for an official visitor from another country. The visitor was amazed to learn that Minnesota then (and now) spends LESS per taxpayer on putting convicted criminals into prison, while spending substantially MORE per prisoner. Only the most serious criminals with long histories of offenses are imprisoned. Most convicted criminals receive sentences that involve community corrections but not imprisonment. Minnesota's maximum-security prison, the one I toured, had a population of inmates 97 percent of whom had killed at least one other human being before being put in that prison. The foreign visitor was a human rights lawyer, and he was actually amazed at how humanely the prisoners were housed and treated in that prison. (He had visited many prisons in his own country, and none were as well funded as the prison in Minnesota.) A prison can be properly staffed and funded, and not too crowded, if a whole state's criminal justice system is geared toward imprisoning only persons who must be kept out of general society, responding to most forms of criminal behavior with sentences that don't include prison time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Caging of America</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>Yes, it's their personal responsibility. No, it's not about absolving it. It's about recognizing trends that condition people (including those who haven't even been born yet) and finding a pragmatical solution that benefits both you and them.<p>Your argument is that of a designer of a nuclear missile control panel who puts the "disarm" and the "launch" buttons both side by side with the same size and color and without labels and then excuses himself that it's the operator's responsibility to learn which is which. And the really stupid part, is that in this case the designer is in the missile's impact zone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>goggles99</author><text>How about that gang members next door neighbor that he grew up with and used to be best friends with until junior high when that next door neighbor who made a choice to stay away from narcotics, went on to city college then on to a university and today is a somebody. Your saying "The gang member's real offense is being born in a crappy part of town lacking in institutions and resources..." does nothing but enable this type of behavior. Why would you not demand that someone no matter what neighborhood they were born in has to accept personal responsibility for their actions and choices. You give them a pass like they have no choice. Well they clearly do. Some of them make the right choice while this fellow you are giving a free pass too clearly did not.<p>Do you think that there would be more prisoners in Africa if all of the rapists and murderers were somehow instantly apprehended tried and convicted? This article making the USA look like it has the most criminals is a bit misleading.</text></item><item><author>phillmv</author><text>Yes.<p>And the interesting thing is, all of that violence is directly related to overly harsh laws relating to narcotics. The problem comes down to economics:<p>There is an immense demand for narcotics. Since narcotics are illegal, they are risky to trade, which pushes up prices. Through a combination of the preceding two points, trading in narcotics is extremely profitable. Since the different trade groups engaging in the trade of narcotics have no legal means through which they can resolve their differences, they will instead turn to violence.<p>The gang member's real offense is being born in a crappy part of town lacking in institutions and resources, and where engaging in the drug trade is a normative experience and one of the few sources of jobs. That at least The Wire really goes on about.<p>By eliminating mandatory sentencing, you will significantly reduce the amount of years people serve in prisons because the mandatory sentence lengths were established capriciously in an attempt to out grandstand political opponents (see <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/143/sentencing" rel="nofollow">http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/143/s...</a> ).<p>The world isn't quite as black and white. Eliminate the War on Drugs and overnight all of these problems will disappear as the underlying incentives vanish.</text></item><item><author>moldbug</author><text>Perhaps someone else can parse this better than me.<p>I can make sense of one of these lines: "Criminals break laws; laws are often injust. The War on Drugs, and mandatory sentencing." I think behind this line is lurking the belief that America's prisons are full of Humboldt County potheads, or something like that.<p>The typical American in jail for drug offenses isn't a system administrator who made the mistake of toking up one night. It's a gang member whose real offense is being a worthless thug. The prosecutors and LEOs who busted him are experts in the technical details of putting worthless thugs in jail, to the extent that this remains possible.<p>Nonetheless, all major American cities retain a very substantial population of worthless thugs. If you're unaware of this reality, I strongly recommend this Chicago cop blog: <a href="http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/</a>. Or you could watch "The Wire" - I hear it's available on DVD.<p>Last month, my wife and daughter were leaving a child's birthday party in the outer Mission, SF, when bullets flew down the street past them, followed by a worthless thug who ran past them gun in hand. You can argue that Bayshore Blvd. is a lousy place to put a space that hosts children's birthday parties, and I'd agree. Still, it's my country - why shouldn't I feel safe in it, anywhere, day or night?</text></item><item><author>phillmv</author><text>This is why you are being downvoted:<p>You ask two unrelated question to which you provide no proof.<p>&#62;But what if our system is actually erring in the other direction?<p>Okay. <i>How</i>? Every other nation on earth has lower incarceration rates, and a fair number of them are safer than the US.<p>So given that that are still criminals on the outside, the answer is that you need to become more efficient at apprehending the right people - not increase incarceration rates.<p>&#62;I think the most basic question is: why are there so many criminals? What about the present-day American system of government is so amazingly criminogenic?<p>Criminals break laws; laws are often injust. The War on Drugs, and mandatory sentencing.<p>&#62;If what we need isn't more social justice, what is it?<p>This is entirely unsubstantiated by anything you wrote preceding this sentence. Frankly, it's kind of confused.</text></item><item><author>moldbug</author><text>But what if our system is actually erring in the <i>other</i> direction?<p>There are undoubtedly quite a few Americans who are in correctional supervision but shouldn't be. There are also quite a few Americans who should be in correctional supervision, but aren't. (For a bare start, suppose we believe the commonly quoted meme that there are 1 million gang members in America.)<p>In either case, I think the most basic question is: why are there so many criminals? What about the present-day American system of government is so amazingly criminogenic?<p>For instance, one commonly quoted "root cause" is our proverbial callousness to important issues of social justice. Is an absence of social justice the problem? Let's consider some evidence.<p>Robbery is a pretty good "index crime." For instance, in 1900, there was about 1 robbery per day in all of England (source: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99...</a>). This is roughly a factor of 35 lower than current reported crime rates (same source) in the ol' Sceptered Island - assuming you trust HMG's statistics. And all crime statistics in all countries everywhere are generally admitted by all informed observers to be utterly buggered to hell. (example: <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-05-04/news/the-nypd-tapes-inside-bed-stuy-s-81st-precinct/" rel="nofollow">http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-05-04/news/the-nypd-tapes-i...</a>)<p>In any case, you may compare the public concern for social justice in England, in 1900 and 2000, and note precisely the reverse of the correlation predicted by the hypothesis.<p>Japan has extremely low crime as well, and is probably the least Americanized of all First World nations today. Clearly, it is physically possible for the State to eradicate crime. Clearly, the American system of government, at home or abroad, seems to carry with it unusually high levels of crime and disorder, at least by historical First World standards.<p>But why? If what we need isn't more social justice, what is it?<p>(edit: I just checked and this parliament.co.uk link isn't the right one for my robbery numbers - I'll have to look. Still, money graf - "The number of indictable offences per thousand population in 1900 was 2.4 and in 1997 the figure was 89.1." Two orders of magnitude any way you slice it.)</text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>Other comments asked how incarceration rates could be reduced in the United States. One way would be for many of the forty-some other states to follow the example of the few states, including Minnesota, which have set up determinate sentencing based on severity of the offense of conviction and the criminal history of the convicted defendant.<p><a href="http://www.northfieldnews.com/content/understanding-minnesotas-determinate-sentencing-guidelines" rel="nofollow">http://www.northfieldnews.com/content/understanding-minnesot...</a><p><a href="http://www.doc.state.mn.us/crimevictim/terms.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.doc.state.mn.us/crimevictim/terms.htm</a><p>I toured a prison in Minnesota in the mid-1980s, as an interpreter for an official visitor from another country. The visitor was amazed to learn that Minnesota then (and now) spends LESS per taxpayer on putting convicted criminals into prison, while spending substantially MORE per prisoner. Only the most serious criminals with long histories of offenses are imprisoned. Most convicted criminals receive sentences that involve community corrections but not imprisonment. Minnesota's maximum-security prison, the one I toured, had a population of inmates 97 percent of whom had killed at least one other human being before being put in that prison. The foreign visitor was a human rights lawyer, and he was actually amazed at how humanely the prisoners were housed and treated in that prison. (He had visited many prisons in his own country, and none were as well funded as the prison in Minnesota.) A prison can be properly staffed and funded, and not too crowded, if a whole state's criminal justice system is geared toward imprisoning only persons who must be kept out of general society, responding to most forms of criminal behavior with sentences that don't include prison time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Caging of America</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all</url></story> |
32,408,334 | 32,408,245 | 1 | 3 | 32,407,873 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>withinboredom</author><text>I worked at a startup (now fairly popular in the US) where we had tables for each thing (users, companies, etc) and a “relationship” table that described each relationship between things. There were no foreign keys, so making changes were pretty cheap. It was actually pretty ingenious (the two guys who came up with the schema went on to get paid to work on k8s).<p>It was super handy to simply query that table to debug things, since by merely looking for a user, you’d discover everything. If Mongo was more mature and scalable back then (2012ish), I wonder if we would have used it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TekMol</author><text>These days, for a new Web2 type startup, I would use SQLite.<p>Because it requires no setup and has been used to scale typcial Web2 applications to millions in revenue on a single cheap VM.<p>Another option worth taking a look at is to use no DB at all. Just writing to files is often the faster way to get going. The filesystem offers so much functionality out of the box. And the ecosystem of tools is marvelous. As far as I know, HN uses no DB and just writes all data to plain text files.<p>It would actually be pretty interesting to have a look at how HN stores the data:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32408322" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32408322</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/</url></story> |
7,479,272 | 7,477,676 | 1 | 2 | 7,475,180 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ubernostrum</author><text><i>I currently have several hundred tabs open in more than a dozen Firefox windows.</i><p>This is not a typical use case. I do periodically see people leaving comments which claim that they usually have the entire World Wide Web open simultaneously, but not often enough for it to be a use case worth optimizing for.</text><parent_chain><item><author>subsection1h</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m a developer and my workflow involves several different tools, Gnome Shell certainly doesn&#x27;t hurt &#x27;productivity&#x27;.<p>I&#x27;m also a developer whose workflow involves several different tools. One of those tools is Firefox, and I currently have several hundred tabs open in more than a dozen Firefox windows. I want to be able to instantaneously switch from Emacs to a specific Firefox window. I don&#x27;t want to switch from Emacs to Firefox and then switch to a specific Firefox window (e.g., using Alt+`) like some desktop environments force their users to do.<p>The best solution I&#x27;ve found is to use a desktop environment or window manager that will display the Alt-Tab window list vertically with full titles displayed for all windows (which is similar to how I display tabs in Firefox using the Tree Style Tab extension). KDE and Openbox support this setup, and the last time I checked, Gnome didn&#x27;t. So using Gnome would hurt my productivity.</text></item><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Gnome is very usable for many of us. I&#x27;m tired of seeing the same &#x27;it sucks as a productivity environment&#x27; comments.<p>If it&#x27;s not your preference, you can say that, but Gnome Shell is perfectly fine when it comes to productivity. Quick app switching, searching, app launching, etc... How do these things hurt productivity?<p>I personally dislike KDE, but that&#x27;s just my taste. Some people love XMonad or XFCE, and some people even like Unity.<p>Dunno, I&#x27;m a developer and my workflow involves several different tools, Gnome Shell certainly doesn&#x27;t hurt &#x27;productivity&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>gtirloni</author><text>Just the fact that people need a ton of shell extensions to make it barely usable is a problem in itself. The fact that they break (and some are let to rotten) after every major release is just to beat a dead body.<p>Just a few weeks ago I tried Gnome 3 again (again!) and it still sucks as a productivity environment. I have better things to do. But as a geek, I&#x27;ll be checking Gnome 3 again maybe in a year or more. No holding my breath for any surprises.</text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>Looks great. I&#x27;ve been extremely happy with Gnome UI after switching from OSX. It&#x27;s fun being able to play with a desktop that is constantly improving on a rolling-release platforms like Arch Linux, where new updates stream in constantly. Instead of having to wait a year or more for big waterfall releases like OSX (Mavericks was also pretty disappointing).<p>My only complaint is how every gnome upgrade the majority of gnome shell extensions break and the dev community is really slow to update them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gnome 3.12 Released</title><url>http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/03/gnome-3-12-released/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>droelf</author><text>I see your (valid) point but I am also positive that you could, if you wanted to, create an simple js plugin for gnome shell that would have the desired effect, as others have created alternative alt+tab switchers: <a href="https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/15/alternatetab/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extensions.gnome.org&#x2F;extension&#x2F;15&#x2F;alternatetab&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>subsection1h</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m a developer and my workflow involves several different tools, Gnome Shell certainly doesn&#x27;t hurt &#x27;productivity&#x27;.<p>I&#x27;m also a developer whose workflow involves several different tools. One of those tools is Firefox, and I currently have several hundred tabs open in more than a dozen Firefox windows. I want to be able to instantaneously switch from Emacs to a specific Firefox window. I don&#x27;t want to switch from Emacs to Firefox and then switch to a specific Firefox window (e.g., using Alt+`) like some desktop environments force their users to do.<p>The best solution I&#x27;ve found is to use a desktop environment or window manager that will display the Alt-Tab window list vertically with full titles displayed for all windows (which is similar to how I display tabs in Firefox using the Tree Style Tab extension). KDE and Openbox support this setup, and the last time I checked, Gnome didn&#x27;t. So using Gnome would hurt my productivity.</text></item><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Gnome is very usable for many of us. I&#x27;m tired of seeing the same &#x27;it sucks as a productivity environment&#x27; comments.<p>If it&#x27;s not your preference, you can say that, but Gnome Shell is perfectly fine when it comes to productivity. Quick app switching, searching, app launching, etc... How do these things hurt productivity?<p>I personally dislike KDE, but that&#x27;s just my taste. Some people love XMonad or XFCE, and some people even like Unity.<p>Dunno, I&#x27;m a developer and my workflow involves several different tools, Gnome Shell certainly doesn&#x27;t hurt &#x27;productivity&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>gtirloni</author><text>Just the fact that people need a ton of shell extensions to make it barely usable is a problem in itself. The fact that they break (and some are let to rotten) after every major release is just to beat a dead body.<p>Just a few weeks ago I tried Gnome 3 again (again!) and it still sucks as a productivity environment. I have better things to do. But as a geek, I&#x27;ll be checking Gnome 3 again maybe in a year or more. No holding my breath for any surprises.</text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>Looks great. I&#x27;ve been extremely happy with Gnome UI after switching from OSX. It&#x27;s fun being able to play with a desktop that is constantly improving on a rolling-release platforms like Arch Linux, where new updates stream in constantly. Instead of having to wait a year or more for big waterfall releases like OSX (Mavericks was also pretty disappointing).<p>My only complaint is how every gnome upgrade the majority of gnome shell extensions break and the dev community is really slow to update them.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gnome 3.12 Released</title><url>http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/03/gnome-3-12-released/</url></story> |
8,079,383 | 8,079,433 | 1 | 3 | 8,078,786 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SeanDav</author><text>* &quot;Edit: Not entirely sure why I&#x27;m being downvoted for this&quot; *<p>You are implying something negative about Google. There are a lot of Google employees and Google fanboys active on HN that will happily downvote anything negative on Google whether it has merit or not.<p>That is not to say that everyone who works at Google or who likes Google products cannot accept criticism but a number will downvote you regardless. The same applies to Apple, Microsoft and other cliques. If you make a negative post about them, be prepared for downvotes.<p>In addition you are not presenting any proof and even though your point may be perfectly valid and correct it does smack of a conspiracy theory which tends to attract downvotes as well. Who knows what the real truth is, just don&#x27;t use Google products if you are concerned, there are alternatives out there.</text><parent_chain><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>&quot;It seems&quot;<p>Yes it does. A year ago &quot;it seemed&quot; that the internet wasn&#x27;t 100% insecure, however.<p>Therefore, this was more likely than not a cover.<p>I mean, we already know from Snowden that the bios bit is a lie. They didn&#x27;t fix a vulnerability, they introduced one.<p>Edit: Not entirely sure why I&#x27;m being downvoted for this - see <a href="http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/dell-nsa-ant-deitybounce-snowden,1-1524.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomsitpro.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;dell-nsa-ant-deitybounce-s...</a> and <a href="http://leaksource.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/nsa-ant-deitybounce.jpg?w=1208&amp;h=1562" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;leaksource.files.wordpress.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;nsa-ant-deityb...</a></text></item><item><author>campbellsoup</author><text>The article is dated &quot;May 6, 2014 5:00AM ET&quot;, hardly news...<p>To me it seems more like the NSA wanted to make the Web giants aware of new or unmitigated threats. Here&#x27;s a quote from Gen. Alexander:<p>“About six months ago, we began focusing on the security of mobility devices,” Alexander wrote. “A group (primarily Google, Apple and Microsoft) recently came to agreement on a set of core security principles. When we reach this point in our projects we schedule a classified briefing for the CEOs of key companies to provide them a brief on the specific threats we believe can be mitigated and to seek their commitment for their organization to move ahead … Google’s participation in refinement, engineering and deployment of the solutions will be essential.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA</title><url>http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.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>abritishguy</author><text>&gt;more likely than not a cover.<p>And this is where reasoned debate turns into conspiracy theories.<p>&gt; we already know from Snowden that the bios bit is a lie<p>Do we? So because they discovered a vulnerability in a particular Dell server in 2007 (discovered != introduced) this means that they could not have possibly disclosed details of a different bios vulnerability to tech giants years later?<p>&gt; Not entirely sure why I&#x27;m being downvoted for this<p>Because you are claiming opinion and speculation as fact.</text><parent_chain><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>&quot;It seems&quot;<p>Yes it does. A year ago &quot;it seemed&quot; that the internet wasn&#x27;t 100% insecure, however.<p>Therefore, this was more likely than not a cover.<p>I mean, we already know from Snowden that the bios bit is a lie. They didn&#x27;t fix a vulnerability, they introduced one.<p>Edit: Not entirely sure why I&#x27;m being downvoted for this - see <a href="http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/dell-nsa-ant-deitybounce-snowden,1-1524.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomsitpro.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;dell-nsa-ant-deitybounce-s...</a> and <a href="http://leaksource.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/nsa-ant-deitybounce.jpg?w=1208&amp;h=1562" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;leaksource.files.wordpress.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;nsa-ant-deityb...</a></text></item><item><author>campbellsoup</author><text>The article is dated &quot;May 6, 2014 5:00AM ET&quot;, hardly news...<p>To me it seems more like the NSA wanted to make the Web giants aware of new or unmitigated threats. Here&#x27;s a quote from Gen. Alexander:<p>“About six months ago, we began focusing on the security of mobility devices,” Alexander wrote. “A group (primarily Google, Apple and Microsoft) recently came to agreement on a set of core security principles. When we reach this point in our projects we schedule a classified briefing for the CEOs of key companies to provide them a brief on the specific threats we believe can be mitigated and to seek their commitment for their organization to move ahead … Google’s participation in refinement, engineering and deployment of the solutions will be essential.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA</title><url>http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html</url><text></text></story> |
17,803,752 | 17,802,436 | 1 | 2 | 17,800,058 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>NittLion78</author><text>The apps are touch-and-go. Some are fairly reliable (assuming wherever you are you have decent data connection), others are abyssmal, and none of them seem to be consistent in either regard.<p>I have found, however, if you sign up for SMS updates through most airlines they appear to be quite reliable, and sometimes beat the in-airport departure boards by several minutes, particularly for gate changes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kalleboo</author><text>In my experience, all the apps (airport, airline, travel apps, even Apple Wallet e-tickets) all have unreliable or heavily delayed gate information. Does anyone really rely on them?</text></item><item><author>Reason077</author><text>Presumably it helps that many (most?) travellers will be using the airline&#x27;s apps these days, which provide info such as boarding times and gate updates.</text></item><item><author>BillinghamJ</author><text>Seems like a pretty big success to me. They had a contingency plan and it was implemented successfully. No cancelled flights and minimal delays - good job.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Whiteboards used after Gatwick flight information screens fail</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-45247499</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>abawany</author><text>Going to the airline&#x27;s site and looking up the flight status has often resulted in a better update on delays, gate changes, and etc. for me than even the airport&#x27;s status displays.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kalleboo</author><text>In my experience, all the apps (airport, airline, travel apps, even Apple Wallet e-tickets) all have unreliable or heavily delayed gate information. Does anyone really rely on them?</text></item><item><author>Reason077</author><text>Presumably it helps that many (most?) travellers will be using the airline&#x27;s apps these days, which provide info such as boarding times and gate updates.</text></item><item><author>BillinghamJ</author><text>Seems like a pretty big success to me. They had a contingency plan and it was implemented successfully. No cancelled flights and minimal delays - good job.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Whiteboards used after Gatwick flight information screens fail</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-45247499</url></story> |
8,587,225 | 8,586,574 | 1 | 3 | 8,585,781 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdmichal</author><text>In relation to your comment about the review: If anything less than 5 stars is unsatisfactory in Uber&#x27;s eyes, why do they even have stars? If the rating is boolean anyway (5-stars or not-5-stars), then just put a single choice: Was this ride satisfactory? It shouldn&#x27;t be my responsibility to know that rating a driver who was slightly late or slightly lost 4 stars is a Bad Thing. However, if you ask me whether that same ride was satisfactory or not, I&#x27;d probably say that it was. I don&#x27;t necessarily want to punish people for one mistake, but I shouldn&#x27;t need to rate them perfectly either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jes5199</author><text>GPS routing is awful compared to a person who knows their way around a city.<p>Uber drivers in hilly cities like San Francisco never, ever think to avoid climbing right up and down the steepest hills - the algorithms don&#x27;t tell them not to, there&#x27;s no <i>traffic</i> and it&#x27;s not a low <i>speed limit</i>, it just sucks for other reasons.<p>I had a driver last week who had never heard of Valencia St, and then misunderstood the GPS voice and accidently got on the freeway, getting us stuck in cross-bay traffic for 20 minutes just trying to get to the next exit. Of course I rated that ride 5 stars, because I&#x27;m not actually a psychopath ( <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2014/08/14/what-are-we-actually-rating-when-we-rate-other-people/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jeffbercovici&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;14&#x2F;what-ar...</a> )<p>It&#x27;s going to be a long, long time before we put anything approaching the depth of information that years of experience brings into our algorithmic routing systems. And startups are structurally disincentivized from trying to, anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>London’s Legendary Taxi-Driver Test Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS</title><url>http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com//2014/11/10/london-taxi-test-knowledge/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>custardcream</author><text>Well I drive around London a lot during the day time (inside CC zone) and Google Maps is pretty damn good on Android.<p>I did a few years in taxis but owning a car that is CC exempt is cheaper including parking in NCP holes. Part of the reason its cheaper is after some experience driving around the city, you realise that at least half the taxi drivers are taking the piss.<p>&quot;the knowledge&quot; is imminently replaceable by technology and is merely a party trick IMHO.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jes5199</author><text>GPS routing is awful compared to a person who knows their way around a city.<p>Uber drivers in hilly cities like San Francisco never, ever think to avoid climbing right up and down the steepest hills - the algorithms don&#x27;t tell them not to, there&#x27;s no <i>traffic</i> and it&#x27;s not a low <i>speed limit</i>, it just sucks for other reasons.<p>I had a driver last week who had never heard of Valencia St, and then misunderstood the GPS voice and accidently got on the freeway, getting us stuck in cross-bay traffic for 20 minutes just trying to get to the next exit. Of course I rated that ride 5 stars, because I&#x27;m not actually a psychopath ( <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2014/08/14/what-are-we-actually-rating-when-we-rate-other-people/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jeffbercovici&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;14&#x2F;what-ar...</a> )<p>It&#x27;s going to be a long, long time before we put anything approaching the depth of information that years of experience brings into our algorithmic routing systems. And startups are structurally disincentivized from trying to, anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>London’s Legendary Taxi-Driver Test Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS</title><url>http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com//2014/11/10/london-taxi-test-knowledge/</url></story> |
4,898,802 | 4,898,549 | 1 | 3 | 4,897,962 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>martincmartin</author><text>From the Hacker News Guidelines:<p><i>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.</i><p><a href="http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewfelix</author><text>At the risk of being down-voted into oblivion...Other than the fact that the guy selling the games is a programmer, so what? and why is this on HN?<p>There seems to be a rash viral digg/reddit style articles creeping onto the HN front page as of late.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A collector is selling every Super Nintendo game for $24,999</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/10/3749792/a-collector-is-selling-every-super-nintendo-game-for-24999</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>belorn</author><text>Two reasons: Because his goal/usage of said games, and because complete collections like this is very rare.</text><parent_chain><item><author>andrewfelix</author><text>At the risk of being down-voted into oblivion...Other than the fact that the guy selling the games is a programmer, so what? and why is this on HN?<p>There seems to be a rash viral digg/reddit style articles creeping onto the HN front page as of late.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A collector is selling every Super Nintendo game for $24,999</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/10/3749792/a-collector-is-selling-every-super-nintendo-game-for-24999</url></story> |
36,620,600 | 36,620,273 | 1 | 2 | 36,614,788 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>A lot of people reject political ideas (i.e., regulations) because they have an idealized love for our free markets. Meanwhile small <i>profitable</i> companies are going out of business to larger <i>unprofitable</i> companies.<p>It begs the question, how did the larger unprofitable company become large in the first place? It wasn&#x27;t by delivering goods and services at a fair price, it was by currying favor with those already in power. The romantic view that to succeed in a free market you sell goods and services at a fair price doesn&#x27;t hold.</text><parent_chain><item><author>0xParlay</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to overlook the role of institutional capital in shaping the landscape of nearly everything.<p>As a teen I grinded for a few months building a b2b SaaS. A competitor launched a better version for free. The founder had a Harvard MBA and used VC funds to build this marketing tool.<p>Growing a product organically puts you at a disadvantage to companies that can ignore market fundamentals for years at a time. And if you do manage to grow, acquisitions that amount to life changing generational wealth is hard to ignore - and it&#x27;s not like the future of your product is guaranteed.<p>Wall street needs returns. Tech is just the first to adapt to the loot-box economy but it&#x27;ll spread. Anything that can be turned into a subscription model will be. Air-bags to air conditioning. We will own nothing and like it.</text></item><item><author>vinyl7</author><text>It has really made me pessimistic about tech and products in general. There&#x27;s the free and great stage, then the market is captured, then enshittification, then death.<p>I don&#x27;t get excited about new products or new tech because I know the cycle. Hype then bust. <i>New thing</i> comes out and I&#x27;m just meh about it, because it&#x27;ll bust soon enough so it&#x27;s not worth getting invested in it. Or <i>new version</i> will come out next year and break what I was used to, or it&#x27;ll be an implicit subscription of having to buy new thing every year. But it&#x27;s not really going to fix itself because it seems like everyone else loves the dopamine rush from the hype cycle, and they don&#x27;t really seem to care about how ephemeral everything is.</text></item><item><author>mattbuilds</author><text>I think the VC world&#x27;s obsession with growth has tainted how we (me included) view things, especially stuff like social media. There is a fixation with growing and doing it rapidly that I believe is harmful. I don&#x27;t know when this switch flipped, but I&#x27;ve felt it gradually building up over time.<p>Things can just be what they are, grow naturally and then die naturally. I suspect that injecting cash and attempting to achieve an unnatural growth is probably not good for both the quality of the product and the long term stability of it.<p>I would love to see more niche things grow organically and fill a role for some people, at some time and not try to be everything for everyone. Because when that&#x27;s the case, does anyone really enjoy it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop trying to make social networks succeed</title><url>https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.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>leereeves</author><text>I&#x27;ve come to believe this is just the latest version of a very old (and illegal) tactic: predatory pricing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Predatory_pricing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Predatory_pricing</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>0xParlay</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to overlook the role of institutional capital in shaping the landscape of nearly everything.<p>As a teen I grinded for a few months building a b2b SaaS. A competitor launched a better version for free. The founder had a Harvard MBA and used VC funds to build this marketing tool.<p>Growing a product organically puts you at a disadvantage to companies that can ignore market fundamentals for years at a time. And if you do manage to grow, acquisitions that amount to life changing generational wealth is hard to ignore - and it&#x27;s not like the future of your product is guaranteed.<p>Wall street needs returns. Tech is just the first to adapt to the loot-box economy but it&#x27;ll spread. Anything that can be turned into a subscription model will be. Air-bags to air conditioning. We will own nothing and like it.</text></item><item><author>vinyl7</author><text>It has really made me pessimistic about tech and products in general. There&#x27;s the free and great stage, then the market is captured, then enshittification, then death.<p>I don&#x27;t get excited about new products or new tech because I know the cycle. Hype then bust. <i>New thing</i> comes out and I&#x27;m just meh about it, because it&#x27;ll bust soon enough so it&#x27;s not worth getting invested in it. Or <i>new version</i> will come out next year and break what I was used to, or it&#x27;ll be an implicit subscription of having to buy new thing every year. But it&#x27;s not really going to fix itself because it seems like everyone else loves the dopamine rush from the hype cycle, and they don&#x27;t really seem to care about how ephemeral everything is.</text></item><item><author>mattbuilds</author><text>I think the VC world&#x27;s obsession with growth has tainted how we (me included) view things, especially stuff like social media. There is a fixation with growing and doing it rapidly that I believe is harmful. I don&#x27;t know when this switch flipped, but I&#x27;ve felt it gradually building up over time.<p>Things can just be what they are, grow naturally and then die naturally. I suspect that injecting cash and attempting to achieve an unnatural growth is probably not good for both the quality of the product and the long term stability of it.<p>I would love to see more niche things grow organically and fill a role for some people, at some time and not try to be everything for everyone. Because when that&#x27;s the case, does anyone really enjoy it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop trying to make social networks succeed</title><url>https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.html</url></story> |
20,019,557 | 20,019,250 | 1 | 3 | 20,018,934 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baroffoos</author><text>The article already countered #2 by pointing out that countries who &quot;lost the race&quot; ended up with faster, cheaper and more widespread access to 4g. And despite these countries having much better networks than the US, most companies did not just drop everything and move.</text><parent_chain><item><author>locacorten</author><text>Two points:<p>1. The article&#x27;s point is that the &quot;The Race to 5G is BS&quot; and not &quot;5G is BS&quot;. Please adjust.<p>2. I can try to offer an answer to the author. History has shown that a novel piece of technology often leads to innovation. Dial-up led to BBNs and the Web, broadband led to audio and video content delivery, and so on. Winning the &quot;race to 5G&quot; means the US will be the first to innovate in systems that take advantage of faster wireless broadband networks. That&#x27;s important. IMO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is the ‘race to 5G’ a race?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637213/5g-race-us-leadership-china-fcc-lte</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Despegar</author><text>&gt;Winning the &quot;race to 5G&quot; means the US will be the first to innovate in systems that take advantage of faster wireless broadband networks. That&#x27;s important.<p>Why is being &quot;first to innovate&quot; important? What happens if we aren&#x27;t first?</text><parent_chain><item><author>locacorten</author><text>Two points:<p>1. The article&#x27;s point is that the &quot;The Race to 5G is BS&quot; and not &quot;5G is BS&quot;. Please adjust.<p>2. I can try to offer an answer to the author. History has shown that a novel piece of technology often leads to innovation. Dial-up led to BBNs and the Web, broadband led to audio and video content delivery, and so on. Winning the &quot;race to 5G&quot; means the US will be the first to innovate in systems that take advantage of faster wireless broadband networks. That&#x27;s important. IMO.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why is the ‘race to 5G’ a race?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637213/5g-race-us-leadership-china-fcc-lte</url></story> |
1,659,486 | 1,658,301 | 1 | 2 | 1,658,280 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>agentultra</author><text>I wish they'd done this from the beginning.<p>They talked about Wave being an open protocol and that anyone would be able to write Wave servers and clients. Yet when it came down to it, they released a bare-bones client implementation. All the while they continued to hack on their Wave server and adding proprietary features to their fork of the client. So it never really became as open a project as they had promised.<p>Day after day it became more of "just another Google project."<p>It was no surprise to me that interest waned. Their interface was pretty complicated, hardly anyone had accounts, and all of the data was hosted at Google instead of being spread out amongst various providers as email is (and Wave promised).<p>I still think Wave is a great protocol/server/client. I hope much will be done with it by the open-source community.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Wave open source next steps: "Wave in a Box"</title><url>http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/09/wave-open-source-next-steps-wave-in-box.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleWaveDeveloperBlog+%28Google+Wave+Developer+Blog%29</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>jacquesm</author><text>I was very much hoping for something like this: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575928" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575928</a> and I'm really happy they chose to open source it rather than to let it rust on a shelf somewhere.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Wave open source next steps: "Wave in a Box"</title><url>http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/09/wave-open-source-next-steps-wave-in-box.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GoogleWaveDeveloperBlog+%28Google+Wave+Developer+Blog%29</url><text></text></story> |
41,332,990 | 41,333,081 | 1 | 3 | 41,330,852 | train | <instructions>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_allison</author><text>The Android Native Development Kit (NDK) allows building native code libraries for Android (typically C&#x2F;C++, but this can include Rust). These can then be loaded and accessed by JNI on the Java&#x2F;Kotlin side<p>* Brief overview of the NDK: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;ndk&#x2F;guides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;ndk&#x2F;guides</a><p>* Guide to supporting 16KB page sizes with the NDK <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;practices&#x2F;page-sizes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;practices&#x2F;page-sizes</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>dotancohen</author><text>Yes, but the context here is Java or Kotlin running on Android, not embedded C.<p>Or do some Android applications run embedded C with only a Java UI? I&#x27;m not an Android dev.</text></item><item><author>o11c</author><text>The fundamental problem is that system headers don&#x27;t provide enough information. In particular, many programs need both &quot;min runtime page size&quot; and &quot;max runtime page size&quot; (and by this I mean non-huge pages).<p>If you call `mmap` without constraint, you need to assume the result will be aligned to at least &quot;min runtime page size&quot;. In practice it is <i>probably</i> safe to assume 4K for this for &quot;normal&quot; systems, but I&#x27;ve seen it down to 128 bytes on some embedded systems, and I don&#x27;t have much breadth there (this will break many programs though, since there are more errno values than that). I don&#x27;t know enough about SPARC binary compatibility to know if it&#x27;s safe to push this up to 8K for certain targets.<p>But if you want to call `mmap` (etc.) with full constraint, you must work in terms of &quot;max runtime page size&quot;. This is known to be up to at least 64K in the wild (aarch64), but some architectures have &quot;huge&quot; pages not much beyond that so I&#x27;m not sure (256K, 512K, and 1M; beyond that is almost certainly going to be considered huge pages).<p>Besides a C macro, these values also need to be baked into the object file and the linker needs to prevent incompatible assumptions (just in case a new microarchitecture changes them)</text></item><item><author>a1o</author><text>&gt; The very first 16 KB enabled Android system will be made available on select devices as a developer option. This is so you can use the developer option to test and fix<p>&gt; once an application is fixed to be page size agnostic, the same application binary can run on both 4 KB and 16 KB devices<p>I am curious about this. When could an app NOT be agnostic to this? Like what an app must be doing to cause this to be noticeable?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adding 16 kb page size to Android</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/08/adding-16-kb-page-size-to-android.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>fpoling</author><text>Chrome browser on Android uses the same code base as Chrome on desktop including multi-process architecture. But it’s UI is in Java communicating with C++ using JNI.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dotancohen</author><text>Yes, but the context here is Java or Kotlin running on Android, not embedded C.<p>Or do some Android applications run embedded C with only a Java UI? I&#x27;m not an Android dev.</text></item><item><author>o11c</author><text>The fundamental problem is that system headers don&#x27;t provide enough information. In particular, many programs need both &quot;min runtime page size&quot; and &quot;max runtime page size&quot; (and by this I mean non-huge pages).<p>If you call `mmap` without constraint, you need to assume the result will be aligned to at least &quot;min runtime page size&quot;. In practice it is <i>probably</i> safe to assume 4K for this for &quot;normal&quot; systems, but I&#x27;ve seen it down to 128 bytes on some embedded systems, and I don&#x27;t have much breadth there (this will break many programs though, since there are more errno values than that). I don&#x27;t know enough about SPARC binary compatibility to know if it&#x27;s safe to push this up to 8K for certain targets.<p>But if you want to call `mmap` (etc.) with full constraint, you must work in terms of &quot;max runtime page size&quot;. This is known to be up to at least 64K in the wild (aarch64), but some architectures have &quot;huge&quot; pages not much beyond that so I&#x27;m not sure (256K, 512K, and 1M; beyond that is almost certainly going to be considered huge pages).<p>Besides a C macro, these values also need to be baked into the object file and the linker needs to prevent incompatible assumptions (just in case a new microarchitecture changes them)</text></item><item><author>a1o</author><text>&gt; The very first 16 KB enabled Android system will be made available on select devices as a developer option. This is so you can use the developer option to test and fix<p>&gt; once an application is fixed to be page size agnostic, the same application binary can run on both 4 KB and 16 KB devices<p>I am curious about this. When could an app NOT be agnostic to this? Like what an app must be doing to cause this to be noticeable?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Adding 16 kb page size to Android</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/08/adding-16-kb-page-size-to-android.html</url></story> |
27,082,308 | 27,082,254 | 1 | 2 | 27,081,955 | 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>hahaxdxd123</author><text>Money is definitely digital already, but I think the important aspects of this are the various implications of the central banks adopting modern tech.<p>Take China&#x27;s e-yuan:<p>1) You directly have an account at the central bank and spend from it through an app<p>2) Central bankers can trivially apply stimulus instantly (no fuss about the $1200 like we had)<p>3) You can do crazy shit in times of recession like money that expires unless you spend it on goods in order to increase the velocity of money<p>4) Money laundering would be pretty hard.<p>5) Being able to easily build fintech products on top of it, instead of depending on dumb solutions like Plaid.<p>This sort of thing would be gamechanging IMO.</text><parent_chain><item><author>inshadows</author><text>&gt; This metamorphosis of central banks from the aristocrats of finance to its labourers sounds far-fetched, but it is under way. Over 50 monetary authorities, representing the bulk of global GDP, are exploring digital currencies.<p>The article goes on from the premise that digital currencies are something new, but aren&#x27;t almost all currencies already digital? I mean when a central bank decides to lend to retail banks (last resort) it just updates a column in its system. It doesn&#x27;t actually print and ship physical currency. What am I missing? Is this just new hot buzz?<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m not too familiar with the process of &quot;printing money&quot;, but I assume that Fed&#x2F;central bank just buys some assets, and credits seller&#x27;s account in its system. That all sounds pretty digital to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The digital currencies that matter</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/05/08/the-digital-currencies-that-matter</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rawtxapp</author><text>This brings central bank&#x27;s control to a whole other level. For example, right now, central bank could loan lots of money to retail banks, but there&#x27;s no guarantee that those retail banks will in turn loan it to average consumer. With this, they can bypass them alltogether and put it directly in retail&#x27;s digital wallets.<p>Imagine things like money that self-destroys if you don&#x27;t spend within certain amount of time or money that you can only spend at a certain place or for a certain purpose. The control that central bank will be able to exert is increasing by like 10 fold.</text><parent_chain><item><author>inshadows</author><text>&gt; This metamorphosis of central banks from the aristocrats of finance to its labourers sounds far-fetched, but it is under way. Over 50 monetary authorities, representing the bulk of global GDP, are exploring digital currencies.<p>The article goes on from the premise that digital currencies are something new, but aren&#x27;t almost all currencies already digital? I mean when a central bank decides to lend to retail banks (last resort) it just updates a column in its system. It doesn&#x27;t actually print and ship physical currency. What am I missing? Is this just new hot buzz?<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m not too familiar with the process of &quot;printing money&quot;, but I assume that Fed&#x2F;central bank just buys some assets, and credits seller&#x27;s account in its system. That all sounds pretty digital to me.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The digital currencies that matter</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/05/08/the-digital-currencies-that-matter</url></story> |
18,288,732 | 18,288,505 | 1 | 2 | 18,287,939 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wvenable</author><text>I have two experiences telling with Perl and Python. Way back in the day, I had job doing web development in Perl. I had no say in the matter, it was the only choice available. And I actually used Perl enough to actually like it! I mean I understand why people who like Perl really like Perl.<p>But just a few years after that and I could hardly even read Perl code let alone try and code in it again.<p>Python was is opposite; I never coded in Python but I ported a Python product SDK from Linux to Windows in a few weeks. I could read it. I could write it. I made more mistakes with indenting than anything else. Even to this day, I don&#x27;t <i>know</i> Python but I can muddle my way through and be reasonably productive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>Whenever I need to write a tiny script that tests the bounds of what is easily done with just awk and Bourne shell, the tool that I next reach for nowadays is Python. A few years back it was Perl5.<p>I&#x27;m not exactly sure why I started reaching for Python instead. It&#x27;s so much easier with perl to do things like backticks to call some utility, or to use system() and easily deal with its stdout and stdin, and I never have to do a Google search to figure out how to use a regular expression to process the output (whereas I almost always need to bring up the doc page for Python&#x27;s re).<p>I think what it ultimately comes down to is tooling and the availability of good libraries. I call &quot;python3 -m venv venv&quot;, do an I&#x27;m Feeling Lucky google search for &quot;XXX library inurl:pypi&quot;, and the sky is the limit with how easily I can make a script that does something relatively complicated. Comparing this with perl5 isn&#x27;t even fair. You might find a cpan module that does what you want, and it might still be maintained, and you maybe can be bothered to figure out cpanminus, but anyone who has used perl in the last 5 years will agree, it&#x27;s nowhere near as easy as it is with python.<p>Something that makes me optimistic about newer languages is that tooling is improving a great deal. It also makes me somewhat pessimistic about newer languages, though, if tooling is the primary aspect of a language that makes it popular.<p>I&#x27;ve never seriously tried perl6 but I&#x27;ve seen enough of the language features to know that I was really excited about it, at least at one point. I hope that some derivative of perl can rise from the ashes, because I&#x27;m too stupid to write actual lisp programs, but perl allows me to emulate what I imagine lisp programmers must feel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Perl 11</title><url>http://perl11.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>fouc</author><text>In response to your last sentence.<p>Just wanted to mention that Ruby was highly inspired by Perl, particularly its regular expressions and it has a variety of perlisms. Kind of surprised you went to python and not ruby.<p>Your lisp mention reminds me of this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.randomhacks.net&#x2F;2005&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;why-ruby-is-an-acceptable-lisp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.randomhacks.net&#x2F;2005&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;why-ruby-is-an-accepta...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>Whenever I need to write a tiny script that tests the bounds of what is easily done with just awk and Bourne shell, the tool that I next reach for nowadays is Python. A few years back it was Perl5.<p>I&#x27;m not exactly sure why I started reaching for Python instead. It&#x27;s so much easier with perl to do things like backticks to call some utility, or to use system() and easily deal with its stdout and stdin, and I never have to do a Google search to figure out how to use a regular expression to process the output (whereas I almost always need to bring up the doc page for Python&#x27;s re).<p>I think what it ultimately comes down to is tooling and the availability of good libraries. I call &quot;python3 -m venv venv&quot;, do an I&#x27;m Feeling Lucky google search for &quot;XXX library inurl:pypi&quot;, and the sky is the limit with how easily I can make a script that does something relatively complicated. Comparing this with perl5 isn&#x27;t even fair. You might find a cpan module that does what you want, and it might still be maintained, and you maybe can be bothered to figure out cpanminus, but anyone who has used perl in the last 5 years will agree, it&#x27;s nowhere near as easy as it is with python.<p>Something that makes me optimistic about newer languages is that tooling is improving a great deal. It also makes me somewhat pessimistic about newer languages, though, if tooling is the primary aspect of a language that makes it popular.<p>I&#x27;ve never seriously tried perl6 but I&#x27;ve seen enough of the language features to know that I was really excited about it, at least at one point. I hope that some derivative of perl can rise from the ashes, because I&#x27;m too stupid to write actual lisp programs, but perl allows me to emulate what I imagine lisp programmers must feel.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Perl 11</title><url>http://perl11.org/</url></story> |
20,348,598 | 20,346,804 | 1 | 3 | 20,342,060 | 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>dano</author><text>I moved away from MySQL in 2004 to Postgres and never looked back. Thanks for articulating these things once again for the community.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shanemhansen</author><text>MySQL is a decent nosql option with mature replication. If you care about your data, expect MySQL to be your foe rather than your friend.<p>Do you expect your triggers to fire? You are SOL <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.mysql.com&#x2F;bug.php?id=11472" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.mysql.com&#x2F;bug.php?id=11472</a><p>Do you expect to be able to insert utf8 into utf8 columns? Don&#x27;t be naive. Read the docs and you&#x27;ll discover utf8mb4 or as I like to refer to it: mysql_real_utf8.<p>How about transactions? Surely a real SQL database supports transactions right? Or at the very least if it doesn&#x27;t it would complain loudly when you use a transaction where not supported right? Once again this behavior is helpfully documented <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.mysql.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;refman&#x2F;8.0&#x2F;en&#x2F;commit.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.mysql.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;refman&#x2F;8.0&#x2F;en&#x2F;commit.html</a><p>Do you expect to be able to put a value into MySQL and get that same value back out? You are SOL. But it&#x27;s documented.<p>I can honestly say that the only appropriate time to use MySQL is when you can&#x27;t use postgres and you are willing to move from a RDBMS to something that requires significantly more work to prevent data corruption.<p>I respect the hell out of MySQL engineers in terms of raw performance and the engineering of Innodb. I&#x27;m sure they aren&#x27;t happy there&#x27;s a million broken applications relying on defaults they can&#x27;t change. I&#x27;m sure they aren&#x27;t happy that fundamental limits in how pluggable storage engines work make ACID transactions not possible in the general case.<p>Postgres, for all of it&#x27;s issues, feels like a database that has your back.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why we're ending support for MySQL</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/27/removing-mysql-support/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tracker1</author><text>Changing the defaults across a major release is something they&#x27;ve had several opportunities to do, time and again they have kept a <i>LOT</i> of weird behaviors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>shanemhansen</author><text>MySQL is a decent nosql option with mature replication. If you care about your data, expect MySQL to be your foe rather than your friend.<p>Do you expect your triggers to fire? You are SOL <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.mysql.com&#x2F;bug.php?id=11472" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.mysql.com&#x2F;bug.php?id=11472</a><p>Do you expect to be able to insert utf8 into utf8 columns? Don&#x27;t be naive. Read the docs and you&#x27;ll discover utf8mb4 or as I like to refer to it: mysql_real_utf8.<p>How about transactions? Surely a real SQL database supports transactions right? Or at the very least if it doesn&#x27;t it would complain loudly when you use a transaction where not supported right? Once again this behavior is helpfully documented <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.mysql.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;refman&#x2F;8.0&#x2F;en&#x2F;commit.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.mysql.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;refman&#x2F;8.0&#x2F;en&#x2F;commit.html</a><p>Do you expect to be able to put a value into MySQL and get that same value back out? You are SOL. But it&#x27;s documented.<p>I can honestly say that the only appropriate time to use MySQL is when you can&#x27;t use postgres and you are willing to move from a RDBMS to something that requires significantly more work to prevent data corruption.<p>I respect the hell out of MySQL engineers in terms of raw performance and the engineering of Innodb. I&#x27;m sure they aren&#x27;t happy there&#x27;s a million broken applications relying on defaults they can&#x27;t change. I&#x27;m sure they aren&#x27;t happy that fundamental limits in how pluggable storage engines work make ACID transactions not possible in the general case.<p>Postgres, for all of it&#x27;s issues, feels like a database that has your back.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why we're ending support for MySQL</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/27/removing-mysql-support/</url></story> |
18,671,491 | 18,670,256 | 1 | 2 | 18,669,553 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zimpenfish</author><text>Headline blaming Apple and then, in the 8th paragraph,<p>&gt; At this point, it’s somewhat unclear exactly as to why NVIDIA GPU support isn’t present in Mojave</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2018/12/11/apple-turns-its-back-on-customers-and-nvidia-with-macos-mojave/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rapsey</author><text>Anyone requiring special hardware for their work is a fool to use Apple computers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2018/12/11/apple-turns-its-back-on-customers-and-nvidia-with-macos-mojave/</url></story> |
25,636,041 | 25,630,186 | 1 | 2 | 25,629,058 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adsharma</author><text>Also see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rise4fun.com&#x2F;fstar&#x2F;tutorial" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rise4fun.com&#x2F;fstar&#x2F;tutorial</a><p>Even though this sounds like formal verification gobbledygook, there is some information of practical value there.<p>How many JSON validators have you seen in python and javascript? Why can&#x27;t the static type checkers like mypy and pyright do this for us?<p>The answer is that the type systems of these languages are not sufficiently developed. They can tell you if you&#x27;re assigning a string to an int, but not if you&#x27;re assigning 200 to an int whose type allows only numbers in [10, 100].<p>So one creates a new class with a validate() method, which is completely unnecessary and doesn&#x27;t protect you against integer overflows elsewhere in the code.<p>F* and OCaml derivatives are our best hope in developing a type system which perform these types of common checks in one integrated framework via refinement types and dependent types.<p>Hopefully, one day that work can hit mainstream languages like python, javascript and whatever ends up being the system programming language of choice replacing C in the coming years.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verified Programming in F*: A Tutorial</title><url>http://fstar-lang.org/tutorial/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>keyle</author><text>I&#x27;m confused. Is this either very new or very old? What&#x27;s the context?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Verified Programming in F*: A Tutorial</title><url>http://fstar-lang.org/tutorial/</url></story> |
10,482,716 | 10,482,444 | 1 | 2 | 10,482,209 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Asbostos</author><text>How is a plea deal not duress? Imagine if a cop pointed a gun at you and said &quot;I&#x27;ll shoot you unless you confess&quot;. We wouldn&#x27;t accept that confession but we do accept a prosecutor saying &quot;you&#x27;ll get the death penalty at trial unless you plead guilty now.&quot; Same goes for lesser sentences vs threats of physical violence.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rikers Drove My Innocent Patient to Plead Guilty</title><url>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/rikers-island-plea-bargains-213223</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blisterpeanuts</author><text>Plea bargaining should not exist. It makes a mockery of justice, turns the legal system into a marketplace where you bid for relative degrees of guilt and are rewarded for &quot;copping a plea&quot;, and occasionally snares the innocent.<p>The war on drugs has clogged the system, but also our somewhat lawless and rudderless population since the early 1960s, when a generally orderly society gave way to a general contempt for authority. And the population has grown far faster than the number of courts to accommodate it.<p>I think the only solution is to legalize drugs and build more courts to address the remaining cases more quickly and efficiently, without throwing due process out the window.<p>Better education would help, too. And instill moral education in our children in the schools and at home. In the end, a more moral society will bring about a more moral justice system.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Rikers Drove My Innocent Patient to Plead Guilty</title><url>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/rikers-island-plea-bargains-213223</url></story> |
2,773,789 | 2,773,737 | 1 | 3 | 2,773,426 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>acabal</author><text>Good article but it'll never be read by those who need to read it most.<p>Unfortunately terror has now been institutionalized. The TSA is a massive bureaucracy that generates jobs and cash flow. It's not something that will ever be dismantled overnight. That's not even mentioning the political convenience it provides: with it politicians can keep us afraid, thus getting our votes when they promise to protect us.<p>It goes deeper than just fear of terrorism though. Having spent the last few years traveling the world and seeing how other people live, it's always shocking to return to the States to see how afraid everybody is of even the smallest things. Fear seems to have become a centerpiece in the American psyche, and long before 9/11. We even raise our kids to be afraid (see some of the vitriolic responses freerangekids.wordpress.com gets in response to advice like, "It's OK to let your kid ride the bus alone"). Fear of mundane things giving you cancer; existential fear about the economy, which many of us don't even understand and as individuals, have no control over; fear of walking the streets alone at night; fear of getting sick if we don't use antibacterial soap after each bathroom trip. Fear of someone spiking your Tylenol. Uncontrollable fear of a country across the ocean maybe having WMD's.<p>No, fear of terrorism is just the latest in a laundry list of things Americans have scared themselves with. Until we learn to control that basic fear response, the TSA will still be around and people will still be scared of sitting next to a dark-skinned man kneeling in prayer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Refuse to be terrorized (2006)</title><url>http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/08/71642</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thyrsus</author><text>Five years latter, the U.S. has institutionalized a terrified attitude, at least with respect to air travel. At this point, the only thing that might compel me to put up with the useless, degrading, indignity of U.S. air travel would be a dire family obligation - like a funeral - which I couldn't meet in any other way. I am appalled that my fellow citizens demand this abasement.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Refuse to be terrorized (2006)</title><url>http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/08/71642</url></story> |
2,967,023 | 2,966,740 | 1 | 3 | 2,966,628 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joshklein</author><text>The question for reddit isn't whether or not people enjoy it and want to spend time on it, but whether or not the owners can make money selling those people's attention. The traffic to reddit - while admirably large - is relatively unattractive to most advertisers.<p>"Reach" (impressions/eyeballs) are only important insofar as you're talking to someone who might buy what you're selling (see "relevancy"). The sub-reddit system could theoretically segment the audience in interesting ways, but other than r/gaming, there aren't many natural industry fits amongst popular sub-reddits.<p>Anecdotally, the audience would also seem to be advertisement-averse. An advertiser should be willing to pay network prices for the audience (i.e. pennies CPM), which makes it a nice living for a small group of folks living off their passion, but pretty useless to a Condé Nast trying to run a media empire.<p>I think the business model in a reddit-like site could be selling curated content in other media, e.g. a meme-series of coffee table books. Think Harry Potter, not Oprah.<p>If you're in the content game, your business's value is in having the attention of a group of people. Your first attempt to monetize that asset needn't be to sell your audience's attention to someone else, in this case undermining your ability to keep their attention. Instead, you should focus on bringing things your audience wants - and would pay for - to them. Sometimes that means you need to make the things they want to buy instead of shilling them for someone else, because no one sells what your people want.<p>Condé Nast isn't built to do this.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit becomes reddit Inc.</title><url>http://blog.reddit.com/2011/09/independence.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>thurn</author><text>Can someone with more business know-how tell me how a company like Condé Nast benefits from making Reddit an incorporated subsidiary? It doesn't sound like all that much is changing, honestly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit becomes reddit Inc.</title><url>http://blog.reddit.com/2011/09/independence.html</url><text></text></story> |
14,091,301 | 14,091,121 | 1 | 2 | 14,087,381 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sha90</author><text>&gt; I stop counting the 5+ years old laptops that have to be upgraded,<p>5+ years ago is that LOOOOOONG time that OP was talking about. It&#x27;s also unfair to compare technical capabilities of old hardware for many reasons. I think the point was that, new hardware, _while its new_, is becoming more and more capable. Any new laptop today, even budget ones, can handle YouTube videos in HD. The problem is that HD today won&#x27;t be the same HD that exists in 5 years (i.e., 4k), and it&#x27;s sensible that a budget laptop today will struggle with the 8k technology that comes out 5 years from now. This is an old problem (pun intended) and should not be surprising.<p>&gt; Because personally, I keep having performance problems on all laptops I have.<p>Selection bias. Programmers who compile code, run VMs or containers, and process tons of data, are not the average consumer laptop use case and have much stricter requirements. Many people are sitting in Facebook, YouTube, Gmail, or Google Docs for most of their day-- and likely inside of Chrome.<p>Where are the &quot;Chrome is Flash for the desktop&quot; posts?<p>The idea that Electron is any different of a user experience for the vast majority of users seems skewed to developer usage, to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>user5994461</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s been a LOOOOOONG time since I worked on a laptop where I experienced noticeable performance problems...<p>Really???<p>Because personally, I keep having performance problems on all laptops I have. Don&#x27;t try running on battery saving mode, seriously.<p>I stop counting the 5+ years old laptops that have to be upgraded, they can&#x27;t watch a youtube full HD video in good conditions.<p>----<p>Fun Anecdote: I had to trial an entreprisey SaaS solution not long ago. A coworker gave me the name and I opened the site on my laptop (on the move outside of work, just taking a quick look).<p>Their site froze my firefox for 30 seconds because these idiots put a high quality full screen video of a surfer in the background of the main page. Looks cool, doesn&#x27;t it? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wavefront.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wavefront.com&#x2F;</a><p>Couldn&#x27;t see the site. Had to be at work to read it, on my top end workstation, the video played smoothly there. Needless to say, didn&#x27;t take the product seriously.</text></item><item><author>brightball</author><text>The real trick is whether or not users care about:<p>A) This works on all of the platforms that we use<p>vs<p>B) Performance could be better on my computer<p>It&#x27;s been a LOOOOOONG time since I worked on a laptop where I experienced noticeable performance problems...which is almost entirely because SSD&#x27;s make them so much less noticeable if you start dipping into swap unless you&#x27;re really working out your machine.<p>For most users, just knowing it will work on their machine is a bigger influence in using the product...and therefore a greater influence on business...than the performance of that system. It&#x27;s especially true with a chat system where the most important feature is that everybody on the team can get access.</text></item><item><author>pdabbadabba</author><text>Well, to the extent that these costs degrade the user experience, I&#x27;m not sure they really are externalizing them. Presumably they pay this cost in the form of decreased user satisfaction. It&#x27;s just that this is a cost they are willing to pay.<p>There may be an interesting economic lesson here: it really is not that easy to externalize costs. It surely can be done (air pollution), but it requires some special circumstances for those costs not to be internalized in a different form. (These special circumstances might include information asymmetries, harm to a public good, enjoyed by people other than a firm&#x27;s own customers, etc.--themselves classic risk factors for market failure.)<p>By the same token, there probably are some truly externalized costs in this example, but I would expect them to be very minor and indirect. For example, most people probably do not pay the &#x27;true&#x27; cost of their electricity. So to the extent electron wastes power, some of the cost will be internalized in the form of user dissatisfaction. But some will also be externalized either because the user doesn&#x27;t know about the extra power consumption, or because the user herself doesn&#x27;t fully internalize the costs of her power consumption and therefore doesn&#x27;t care as much as she might if all costs were properly internalized.</text></item><item><author>Veen</author><text>What you call &quot;trade-offs&quot; appears to me to be developers externalizing their costs onto users. There are costs to developing desktop applications and developers don&#x27;t want to pay them, so they make users pay for them in wasted hardware dollars, bandwidth, RAM, battery life, and poor integration.</text></item><item><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>That&#x27;s <i>nonsense</i>. Desktop apps have been frequently released since forever.<p>The underlying issue here is that Electron <i>reduces the barrier to entry for cross-platform development</i>. That is, it&#x27;s cheaper to build a single cross-platform application in Electron than it is to build two or three native applications, and you can re-use your existing web experience. I can completely understand why companies might choose this approach.<p>The trade-off — and there <i>is</i> a trade-off — is that Electron applications are <i>shite</i> in comparison with proper native applications. They fail to integrate with the host platform, they are slow, they hog memory and drink power. It&#x27;s fine to make those trade-offs – in some ways, it&#x27;s better that you can get an application at all than the alternative of &#x27;no support for your platform&#x27;. But let&#x27;s be honest here – there is nothing preventing e.g. Spotify or Slack from building native clients for each platform they support, and I find it difficult to believe that the costs would be prohibitive.</text></item><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Here&#x27;s the thing. You know what the alternative to all of these Electron apps coming out is? If your answer is &quot;A native Cocoa&#x2F;WPF app&quot;, you are on another planet, the answer is, &quot;It wouldn&#x27;t exist at all&quot;.<p><i>Nobody</i> in the last 5-10 years cared about writing Desktop apps before Electron came along, there&#x27;s basically zero money in it, and it&#x27;s massively expensive, both in terms of actual dev time per feature (easily 10x the cost), and also in finding specialist developers who know these dated technologies. And as for Qt, Qt has existed for <i>over two decades</i> - if its massive &quot;Beatles walking off the plane&quot; moment hasn&#x27;t happened by then, sorry, it&#x27;s not gonna.<p>But now? People are making all kinds of great new apps, and more often than not, they come out on all three platforms. People are <i>excited</i> about the Desktop again - Electron is so good it&#x27;s single-handedly revitalizing the platform that
two of the largest tech companies in the world are behind, yet couldn&#x27;t do.<p>That is a Big Deal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)</title><url>https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baddox</author><text>Different people have vastly different use cases. I haven&#x27;t experienced a performance issue with desktop Slack or any other (non-game) application for many years. Sure, if I look at how much RAM Slack is using I&#x27;d probably conclude that it&#x27;s more than it needs to be, but I haven&#x27;t had an issue with RAM usage for, gee, probably ten years.<p>As for battery, again, my laptop battery has been little more than a UPS for at least five years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>user5994461</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s been a LOOOOOONG time since I worked on a laptop where I experienced noticeable performance problems...<p>Really???<p>Because personally, I keep having performance problems on all laptops I have. Don&#x27;t try running on battery saving mode, seriously.<p>I stop counting the 5+ years old laptops that have to be upgraded, they can&#x27;t watch a youtube full HD video in good conditions.<p>----<p>Fun Anecdote: I had to trial an entreprisey SaaS solution not long ago. A coworker gave me the name and I opened the site on my laptop (on the move outside of work, just taking a quick look).<p>Their site froze my firefox for 30 seconds because these idiots put a high quality full screen video of a surfer in the background of the main page. Looks cool, doesn&#x27;t it? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wavefront.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wavefront.com&#x2F;</a><p>Couldn&#x27;t see the site. Had to be at work to read it, on my top end workstation, the video played smoothly there. Needless to say, didn&#x27;t take the product seriously.</text></item><item><author>brightball</author><text>The real trick is whether or not users care about:<p>A) This works on all of the platforms that we use<p>vs<p>B) Performance could be better on my computer<p>It&#x27;s been a LOOOOOONG time since I worked on a laptop where I experienced noticeable performance problems...which is almost entirely because SSD&#x27;s make them so much less noticeable if you start dipping into swap unless you&#x27;re really working out your machine.<p>For most users, just knowing it will work on their machine is a bigger influence in using the product...and therefore a greater influence on business...than the performance of that system. It&#x27;s especially true with a chat system where the most important feature is that everybody on the team can get access.</text></item><item><author>pdabbadabba</author><text>Well, to the extent that these costs degrade the user experience, I&#x27;m not sure they really are externalizing them. Presumably they pay this cost in the form of decreased user satisfaction. It&#x27;s just that this is a cost they are willing to pay.<p>There may be an interesting economic lesson here: it really is not that easy to externalize costs. It surely can be done (air pollution), but it requires some special circumstances for those costs not to be internalized in a different form. (These special circumstances might include information asymmetries, harm to a public good, enjoyed by people other than a firm&#x27;s own customers, etc.--themselves classic risk factors for market failure.)<p>By the same token, there probably are some truly externalized costs in this example, but I would expect them to be very minor and indirect. For example, most people probably do not pay the &#x27;true&#x27; cost of their electricity. So to the extent electron wastes power, some of the cost will be internalized in the form of user dissatisfaction. But some will also be externalized either because the user doesn&#x27;t know about the extra power consumption, or because the user herself doesn&#x27;t fully internalize the costs of her power consumption and therefore doesn&#x27;t care as much as she might if all costs were properly internalized.</text></item><item><author>Veen</author><text>What you call &quot;trade-offs&quot; appears to me to be developers externalizing their costs onto users. There are costs to developing desktop applications and developers don&#x27;t want to pay them, so they make users pay for them in wasted hardware dollars, bandwidth, RAM, battery life, and poor integration.</text></item><item><author>matthewmacleod</author><text>That&#x27;s <i>nonsense</i>. Desktop apps have been frequently released since forever.<p>The underlying issue here is that Electron <i>reduces the barrier to entry for cross-platform development</i>. That is, it&#x27;s cheaper to build a single cross-platform application in Electron than it is to build two or three native applications, and you can re-use your existing web experience. I can completely understand why companies might choose this approach.<p>The trade-off — and there <i>is</i> a trade-off — is that Electron applications are <i>shite</i> in comparison with proper native applications. They fail to integrate with the host platform, they are slow, they hog memory and drink power. It&#x27;s fine to make those trade-offs – in some ways, it&#x27;s better that you can get an application at all than the alternative of &#x27;no support for your platform&#x27;. But let&#x27;s be honest here – there is nothing preventing e.g. Spotify or Slack from building native clients for each platform they support, and I find it difficult to believe that the costs would be prohibitive.</text></item><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Here&#x27;s the thing. You know what the alternative to all of these Electron apps coming out is? If your answer is &quot;A native Cocoa&#x2F;WPF app&quot;, you are on another planet, the answer is, &quot;It wouldn&#x27;t exist at all&quot;.<p><i>Nobody</i> in the last 5-10 years cared about writing Desktop apps before Electron came along, there&#x27;s basically zero money in it, and it&#x27;s massively expensive, both in terms of actual dev time per feature (easily 10x the cost), and also in finding specialist developers who know these dated technologies. And as for Qt, Qt has existed for <i>over two decades</i> - if its massive &quot;Beatles walking off the plane&quot; moment hasn&#x27;t happened by then, sorry, it&#x27;s not gonna.<p>But now? People are making all kinds of great new apps, and more often than not, they come out on all three platforms. People are <i>excited</i> about the Desktop again - Electron is so good it&#x27;s single-handedly revitalizing the platform that
two of the largest tech companies in the world are behind, yet couldn&#x27;t do.<p>That is a Big Deal.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)</title><url>https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/</url></story> |
28,024,293 | 28,023,992 | 1 | 2 | 28,015,428 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tallies</author><text>For some data, here&#x27;s a rough number of Vaporwave albums released per year (source: RYM[1])<p>2010: 11<p>2011: 63<p>2012: 168<p>2013: 348<p>2014: 572<p>2015: 1193<p>2016: 1144<p>2017: 812<p>2018: 816<p>2019: 798<p>2020: 732<p>2021: 269<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rateyourmusic.com&#x2F;genre&#x2F;vaporwave&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rateyourmusic.com&#x2F;genre&#x2F;vaporwave&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>cols</author><text>I’ll start out by saying I’m an avid fan of vapor&#x2F;synth&#x2F;whatever wave. I’ve heard this argument before and I can’t be the only one to think it’s silly, right? A cursory search of Spotify, Bandcamp, or YouTube will show that ALL the “wave” genres are alive and well some 5 years after this article was written. Some artists have moved on to other aesthetics, some artists have continued to produce the same sound they always did. How is this different from any other genre?<p>Incidentally here’s some sweet tunes! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;playlist&#x2F;1APbMkLxJGgWT88wpKyCIA?si=K91xoquKRkWD2D_ACdaM3A&amp;dl_branch=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;playlist&#x2F;1APbMkLxJGgWT88wpKyCIA?si=...</a><p>As a side note, I just discovered another “wave” offshoot called “corporate businesswave”. What a time to be alive. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;blackscholescat&#x2F;playlist&#x2F;39pqsBTsb9UNYv1dXbZpff?si=YilIVuUgRxmWjLxsAZfq-w&amp;dl_branch=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;blackscholescat&#x2F;playlist&#x2F;39pqs...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)</title><url>https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a47793/what-happened-to-vaporwave/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>JonathanMerklin</author><text>Corporate businesswave is so perfectly my aesthetic, thank you so much for the recommendation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cols</author><text>I’ll start out by saying I’m an avid fan of vapor&#x2F;synth&#x2F;whatever wave. I’ve heard this argument before and I can’t be the only one to think it’s silly, right? A cursory search of Spotify, Bandcamp, or YouTube will show that ALL the “wave” genres are alive and well some 5 years after this article was written. Some artists have moved on to other aesthetics, some artists have continued to produce the same sound they always did. How is this different from any other genre?<p>Incidentally here’s some sweet tunes! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;playlist&#x2F;1APbMkLxJGgWT88wpKyCIA?si=K91xoquKRkWD2D_ACdaM3A&amp;dl_branch=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;playlist&#x2F;1APbMkLxJGgWT88wpKyCIA?si=...</a><p>As a side note, I just discovered another “wave” offshoot called “corporate businesswave”. What a time to be alive. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;blackscholescat&#x2F;playlist&#x2F;39pqsBTsb9UNYv1dXbZpff?si=YilIVuUgRxmWjLxsAZfq-w&amp;dl_branch=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;blackscholescat&#x2F;playlist&#x2F;39pqs...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)</title><url>https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a47793/what-happened-to-vaporwave/</url></story> |
26,843,936 | 26,843,212 | 1 | 2 | 26,842,859 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmos62</author><text>I really wish app developers would throttle their prototypes. They tend to run overpowered machines, but then they&#x27;re oblivious to performance problems their apps have. As a consequence, users have to keep playing catchup with developers&#x27; computers. I feel strongly about this. I can&#x27;t say with a straight face that the growth in apps&#x27; resource consumption over the last ten years reflects in improvements in their feature-set. Feels a bit like how gold fish get big if you put them in big aquariums.</text><parent_chain><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>Hmm... on my mid-2014 13&quot; MBP (which is completely fine otherwise) performance is so bad that this doesn&#x27;t really make me confident that Flutter is &quot;the future&quot;. Even just dragging windows around stutters (it feels like somewhere between 5 and 10 FPS). Is &quot;native performance&quot; comparable to the web version or dramatically better?<p>Flutter... stutter... maybe the Flutter team was trying to tell us something all along ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pangolin UI, a Desktop Shell, Written in Flutter, for Linux and Zircona</title><url>https://web.dahliaos.io/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>My experience with Flutter has been a lot better than what this website demonstrates. I&#x27;m not sure how much of the stutter is to be blamed on Flutter and how much is to be blamed on the code architecture of this website.<p>This website is definitely running at 20-30fps max on my phone, whereas 60fps seems perfectly maintainable on my own Flutter experiments with web apps.<p>Having said all that, I&#x27;m still miffed about the extreme reliance on Javascript modern web applications have. With the ease of use Flutter promises for making web apps, I can only fear the slow, janky mess that websites will become if the platform ever gets taken up as quick as Flutter seems to hope it will.</text><parent_chain><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>Hmm... on my mid-2014 13&quot; MBP (which is completely fine otherwise) performance is so bad that this doesn&#x27;t really make me confident that Flutter is &quot;the future&quot;. Even just dragging windows around stutters (it feels like somewhere between 5 and 10 FPS). Is &quot;native performance&quot; comparable to the web version or dramatically better?<p>Flutter... stutter... maybe the Flutter team was trying to tell us something all along ;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pangolin UI, a Desktop Shell, Written in Flutter, for Linux and Zircona</title><url>https://web.dahliaos.io/</url></story> |
27,026,993 | 27,025,790 | 1 | 2 | 27,013,896 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Danieru</author><text>&gt; those high leverage features that seem almost too easy to do that you can do them anytime... but never get around to because you’re always working on something bigger and more interesting<p>Oh 100% this was a major revelation in my career going from hobbyist to professional gamedev. As a hobbyist I would think &quot;Yeah sure the units are spinning randomly on corners because I messed up the rotation math, but I can fix that anytime. I should be working on this yet-another-feature&quot;.<p>When correct process is to fix the biggest pain point: and surprise! There you go, the next biggest pain point becomes obvious. Repeat ad intinitum and you&#x27;ll have polished yourself a commercial-grade game.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kareemm</author><text>One of the dev failure modes I regularly see when consulting (and have fallen into myself, many times) is believing value is a function of effort spent coding. More of the latter means more of the former.<p>But it turns out customers don’t care how long you took to build the thing. At all.<p>There’s a lot of win in finding and plucking low hanging fruit - those high leverage features that seem almost too easy to do that you can do them anytime... but never get around to because you’re always working on something bigger and more interesting.<p>Related to this if OP is reading, I’d love to be able to drag and drop and upload images into GitHub wikis the way I can into GitHub Images. Between those two changes and uploading to wikis you’d have my vote for employee of the month!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tiny Wins</title><url>https://joelcalifa.com/blog/tiny-wins/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mamcx</author><text>In my niche this is reporting. We agonize for YEARS about what to do.<p>Just thinking in what I need to do for this do &quot;properly&quot;, ie: I plan to make a language as the base!(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tablam.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tablam.org</a>).<p>Eventually I just install <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabase.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabase.com</a> and thanks to sane table + view design the end-users are nearly support-free.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kareemm</author><text>One of the dev failure modes I regularly see when consulting (and have fallen into myself, many times) is believing value is a function of effort spent coding. More of the latter means more of the former.<p>But it turns out customers don’t care how long you took to build the thing. At all.<p>There’s a lot of win in finding and plucking low hanging fruit - those high leverage features that seem almost too easy to do that you can do them anytime... but never get around to because you’re always working on something bigger and more interesting.<p>Related to this if OP is reading, I’d love to be able to drag and drop and upload images into GitHub wikis the way I can into GitHub Images. Between those two changes and uploading to wikis you’d have my vote for employee of the month!</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tiny Wins</title><url>https://joelcalifa.com/blog/tiny-wins/</url></story> |
41,153,535 | 41,152,135 | 1 | 3 | 41,149,974 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>graemep</author><text>Books all some from a much wider range of authors than things like TV. Many authors write about what they know and there are authors from all historical times, and all cultures (current or historical) - as well as imagined ones, of course. I think a strength of books is that they are more likely to require you to adjust to the point of view of the author or the characters, rather adjusting the characters to be easy for you to identify with. That builds more empathy.</text><parent_chain><item><author>snide</author><text>Reading, to me, is the best method to learn empathy. We all read differently, in our own headspace, but then need to distill that view through the godhead of a fictional character. Movies and TV can&#x27;t touch that slow drip of mindcopy a book provides. TV we witness, books we live alongside. Often I&#x27;m stuck in the personality of a book for weeks at a time, and it&#x27;s impossible for the experience not to leave a footprint.<p>Happiness I&#x27;ve found easiest to achieve with that empathy. Understand those around you and know your place in the world and what is and is not possible to change. Being malleable in a group while still retaining a sense of self provides a way to travel and adapt in whatever situation you find. Only books provided me with enough experience to &quot;know&quot; myself and how I&#x27;d react in certain scenarios.<p>I don&#x27;t think it matters much what you read. Whatever challenges you and gets you to see the world slightly askew.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can reading make you happier? (2015)</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MaiaIva</author><text>Reading as a method to learn empathy - 100%.<p>To me, diving into different stories and perspectives basically broadens the way I perceive life in general.<p>Some recent mind-bending gems to me were all books by Hanya Yanagihara and the supreme universe Liu Cixin has built.</text><parent_chain><item><author>snide</author><text>Reading, to me, is the best method to learn empathy. We all read differently, in our own headspace, but then need to distill that view through the godhead of a fictional character. Movies and TV can&#x27;t touch that slow drip of mindcopy a book provides. TV we witness, books we live alongside. Often I&#x27;m stuck in the personality of a book for weeks at a time, and it&#x27;s impossible for the experience not to leave a footprint.<p>Happiness I&#x27;ve found easiest to achieve with that empathy. Understand those around you and know your place in the world and what is and is not possible to change. Being malleable in a group while still retaining a sense of self provides a way to travel and adapt in whatever situation you find. Only books provided me with enough experience to &quot;know&quot; myself and how I&#x27;d react in certain scenarios.<p>I don&#x27;t think it matters much what you read. Whatever challenges you and gets you to see the world slightly askew.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Can reading make you happier? (2015)</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier</url></story> |
35,976,343 | 35,976,099 | 1 | 3 | 35,974,653 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>estebank</author><text>Humans managed to live for most of history without penicillin, or even boiling water, at the cost of most humans dying before making it to adolescence. People managed to have global communications with only steam ships and telegraph, at the cost of slower pace of information dissemination. NASA managed to make it to the moon with less computing power than the cellphone in your pocket, at high resource, monetary, human and time costs. Cars managed to work with more rudimentary design than today&#x27;s, without any computers, at the cost of lower life-spans, lower efficiency and higher pollution.<p>You can make many arguments for and against telemetry in developer tools. Not acknowledging that telemetry helps with visibility into how those tools actually work in the wild, which in turn helps lower the incidence of bugs and speed up development, is disingenuous. You <i>can</i> arrive to the conclusion that even inert, opt-in telemetry is not worth it, but don&#x27;t disregard out of hand the utility of it in helping their development as if it were some crazy idea.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kklisura</author><text>Can someone explain how we managed to have programming languages and toolchain development for half a century without using telemetry, but somehow we need it today in our tools? Their Why Telemetry? blog, just doesn&#x27;t cut it for me [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.swtch.com&#x2F;telemetry-intro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.swtch.com&#x2F;telemetry-intro</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Add opt-in transparent telemetry to Go toolchain</title><url>https://github.com/golang/go/issues/58894</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gjulianm</author><text>You can manage to have things without telemetry, but having telemetry is incredibly useful. I think the example of &quot;how much of our user base actually uses these features&quot; is a very good one, specially in a compiler where maintaining old features could be adding a lot of complexity to the code base. And, as they also explain, a lot of bugs and undesired behaviors are things that the users won&#x27;t know they have to report and just accept as part of the normal behavior. Things like cache misses, slowed down compilation times in certain situations, sporadic crashes... All of those things could be improved if the developers knew about them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kklisura</author><text>Can someone explain how we managed to have programming languages and toolchain development for half a century without using telemetry, but somehow we need it today in our tools? Their Why Telemetry? blog, just doesn&#x27;t cut it for me [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.swtch.com&#x2F;telemetry-intro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.swtch.com&#x2F;telemetry-intro</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Add opt-in transparent telemetry to Go toolchain</title><url>https://github.com/golang/go/issues/58894</url></story> |
14,203,014 | 14,202,187 | 1 | 2 | 14,201,562 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lucaspiller</author><text>I had exactly the same experience. For context I run a SaaS targetting small&#x2F;medium businesses, who usually have in-house email servers with extremely restrictive spam filters. The IP was on a blacklist, so some of my customers just couldn&#x27;t use my service. I contacted SendGrid and their only solution was to upgrade from a $20&#x2F;mo plan to a $80&#x2F;mo plan with a dedicated IP - they wouldn&#x27;t even move me to another IP in the pool.<p>Given this, and my volumes of mail were increasing (once you go over 100k emails&#x2F;mo SendGrid&#x27;s pricing goes up a lot), I setup my own mail server using Cuttlefish [0]. I set it up on an OVH instance that I pay £2.50&#x2F;mo for. I contacted them to enquire about spam policies before opening an account, and they said they take it very seriously and monitor outgoing SMTP for spam.<p>The IP address I ended up with was still on one blacklist, but the process to remove it was pretty easy (fill out a form, and explain the situation) and took about 1 day. I set this up around 6 months ago and have had no problems with deliverability since then, I&#x27;m now up to sending around 300k emails per month.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;basho&#x2F;cuttlefish" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;basho&#x2F;cuttlefish</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>I tried using Sendgrid and was surprised to find out that unless you buy an expensive plan, then:<p>* You get IPs from a shared pool, and the reputation is nowhere near guaranteed. In fact, many of my mails were blackholed or rejected.<p>* The &quot;bad&quot; IPs that were used by someone for spamming are not immediately removed from the pool, so you <i>will</i> encounter them.<p>The net result for me was that Sendgrid is not a solution for my transactional E-mail, because of the high risk of my E-mails getting blackholed&#x2F;rejected. I use it for newsletters&#x2F;marketing only.</text></item><item><author>dan1234</author><text>Isn’t part of the reason for using Mailgun, Sendgrid etc that you get to send via IP addresses with good reputation?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid</title><url>https://github.com/atech/postal</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jimktrains2</author><text>We really need a better solution to fighting spam.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jimktrains&#x2F;email_ng" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jimktrains&#x2F;email_ng</a> is an overly complicated idea I had once, but the basic gist is that the receiver could give the sender a signed receiver email address that is for the sender&#x27;s email address. This way, transactional email (and sure, I guess marketing from your company) would be able to get through and the email given out wouldn&#x27;t be able to be used if sold or stolen, as the receiving mail server would reject it because of a bad signature (bad sender, and coupled with DKIM and SPF, a malicious user wouldn&#x27;t be able&#x2F;allowed to spoof the sender&#x27;s email).</text><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>I tried using Sendgrid and was surprised to find out that unless you buy an expensive plan, then:<p>* You get IPs from a shared pool, and the reputation is nowhere near guaranteed. In fact, many of my mails were blackholed or rejected.<p>* The &quot;bad&quot; IPs that were used by someone for spamming are not immediately removed from the pool, so you <i>will</i> encounter them.<p>The net result for me was that Sendgrid is not a solution for my transactional E-mail, because of the high risk of my E-mails getting blackholed&#x2F;rejected. I use it for newsletters&#x2F;marketing only.</text></item><item><author>dan1234</author><text>Isn’t part of the reason for using Mailgun, Sendgrid etc that you get to send via IP addresses with good reputation?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid</title><url>https://github.com/atech/postal</url></story> |
9,319,157 | 9,319,248 | 1 | 2 | 9,319,050 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>loomio</author><text>Something is going on in Spain. You can track the Indignados movement through Occupy and now Podemos. We&#x27;re seeing a parallel movement in technology there to what&#x27;s going on in politics with the Podemos movement [0] - decentralised, grassroots, bottom-up. It&#x27;s deeply exciting to track these digital and cultural trends together and imagine a new paradigm emerging in society.<p>We make an open source tool for distributed collaboration, and our userbase is now overwhelmingly in Spain. This emerged organically. It seems to be very fertile ground right now for distributed communication and democracy. I would advise anyone making software in this space to get a Spanish version out there and join the wave. I wonder about how it will spread to the rest of the Spanish-speaking world and join up with related tools and movements coming out of South America, like DemocracyOS.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;elements&#x2F;spain-politics-via-reddit" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;elements&#x2F;spain-politics-via-re...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU Social</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/thousands-of-spaniards-leave-twitter-for-gnu-social</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jorge_leria</author><text>I call shenanigans. Spaniard here, the story is completely wrong.<p>Most of the 6k registered users on Quitter Spain are inactive and it has nothing to do with Podemos and the indignados movement (they use Twitter actively along with Facebook). Even the user that started this &quot;false migration&quot; (@barbijaputa) is using Twitter and is inactive on Quitter.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU Social</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/thousands-of-spaniards-leave-twitter-for-gnu-social</url></story> |
40,063,403 | 40,063,339 | 1 | 2 | 40,063,025 | 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>Al-Khwarizmi</author><text>I&#x27;m not anti-EU, on the contrary, but honestly the claim is true in practice. I&#x27;m not going to give you any hard data, but I think it&#x27;s just obvious in plain sight.<p>At least in my country, almost all the debate in news outlets is about national or local issues. EU regulations do come up, but they are always depicted as something that comes &quot;from above&quot; and not tied to specific parties or people. If there is controversy about a national law, the media will blame things on the government or on the opposition (depending on their bias). If there is controversy about an European law, the media will blame an abstract &quot;Brussels&quot;... or directly the government or the opposition anyway, as they&#x27;re the ones who implement it.<p>In the EU elections, most (euphemism for all) people I know just vote to the party they prefer in terms of national or regional politics. Almost no one votes because they want a given European directive to be implemented.<p>Sometimes I have actually made some effort to find out what each of my country&#x27;s parties voted in some EU decision, and most of the times I failed. It&#x27;s not clear what decisions come from the Commission or from Parliament (many come from the Commission which is not even directly elected but elected by local governments, by the way). And even for those from Parliament, it&#x27;s not clear how to find detailed results of Parliament votes. Mind you, I&#x27;m not saying there is no way - probably there is one, if you are very well informed or have a lot of time, but there is definitely no way that I could find in 20 minutes of Googling, and most people won&#x27;t make a greater investment than that.<p>Not sure if it&#x27;s the same in all countries, and not sure how to fix it... but yes, I do have the perception that EU institutions are detached from citizens.<p>That said, this has its pros. If citizens had more of a say, we&#x27;d probably have no low-emmission zones, no or almost no pollution regulations, etc. Many environmental policies that are, IMO, unquestionably good, are pushed to reluctant citizens using the &quot;hey, don&#x27;t blame me, it comes from Brussels&quot; wildcard, and we are better for it (again, IMO). Sad, but true.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>&gt;The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing<p>What is the base of this claim? There are EU elections this year FYI.</text></item><item><author>dantondwa</author><text>Obviously, this is about creating the infrastructure for a continent-wide surveillance program, using children pornography as a troy horse.<p>The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing, at least until said European laws get implemented locally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves</title><url>https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-want-to-exempt-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>elric</author><text>Those two statements are orthogonal. EU elections have little impact on EU institutions. The elections are only for the European Parliament. The European Commission, which controls the institutions and dictates policy, does not get elected by the populace.<p>There is a lot of criticism (warranted, IMO) on this state of affairs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>&gt;The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing<p>What is the base of this claim? There are EU elections this year FYI.</text></item><item><author>dantondwa</author><text>Obviously, this is about creating the infrastructure for a continent-wide surveillance program, using children pornography as a troy horse.<p>The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing, at least until said European laws get implemented locally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves</title><url>https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves/</url></story> |
14,200,326 | 14,200,325 | 1 | 2 | 14,200,256 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>themeddler</author><text>This was published November 17, 2016. It&#x27;s been officially published for several months.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NASA's Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Published</title><url>http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-nasa-s-peer-reviewed-em-drive-paper-has-finally-been-published</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MPSimmons</author><text>November of 2016</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NASA's Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Published</title><url>http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-nasa-s-peer-reviewed-em-drive-paper-has-finally-been-published</url></story> |
37,183,315 | 37,183,168 | 1 | 2 | 37,171,553 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danbruc</author><text>Yes, there are non-constructive proofs for the existence of polynomial time algorithms [1]. The Robertson–Seymour theorem [2] is a common example, it shows that certain classes of graphs can be characterized by finite sets of forbidden subgraphs [3] which can be checked for in polynomial time but it does say what those sets of forbidden subgraphs are or how they can be found.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Non-constructive_algorithm_existence_proofs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Non-constructive_algorithm_exi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robertson%E2%80%93Seymour_theorem" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robertson%E2%80%93Seymour_theo...</a><p>[3] More precisely forbidden minors.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wddkcs</author><text>Can you really separate the two? For something like NP-completeness, I&#x27;m having trouble conceptualizing how a proof for existence would not require demonstration.</text></item><item><author>bumbledraven</author><text>&gt; Suppose that P = NP. To prove it, researchers would need to find a fast algorithm for an NP-complete problem, which might be hiding in some obscure corner of that vast landscape.<p>They wouldn&#x27;t need to <i>find</i> such an algorithm. They would just need to prove that such an algorithm <i>exists</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Complexity theory’s 50-year journey to the limits of knowledge</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/complexity-theorys-50-year-journey-to-the-limits-of-knowledge-20230817/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>linkgoron</author><text>An example for such a proof would be using the probabilistic method. However, even if we are ignoring some artificial problems, there are some &quot;natural&quot; problems that are known to be in P that we do not have algorithms for.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Non-constructive_algorithm_existence_proofs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Non-constructive_algorithm_exi...</a><p>Also see:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;92087&#x2F;are-there-any-problems-in-p-which-we-do-not-know-any-p-algorithms" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;92087&#x2F;are-there-any-p...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>wddkcs</author><text>Can you really separate the two? For something like NP-completeness, I&#x27;m having trouble conceptualizing how a proof for existence would not require demonstration.</text></item><item><author>bumbledraven</author><text>&gt; Suppose that P = NP. To prove it, researchers would need to find a fast algorithm for an NP-complete problem, which might be hiding in some obscure corner of that vast landscape.<p>They wouldn&#x27;t need to <i>find</i> such an algorithm. They would just need to prove that such an algorithm <i>exists</i>.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Complexity theory’s 50-year journey to the limits of knowledge</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/complexity-theorys-50-year-journey-to-the-limits-of-knowledge-20230817/</url></story> |
9,764,098 | 9,763,970 | 1 | 3 | 9,763,463 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>braythwayt</author><text>Whenever I see a convention like this, I think to myself, “There is another data model being serialized into text.”</text><parent_chain><item><author>stared</author><text>Dots, periods or starting with caps - it makes no difference (except for aesthetics, perhaps.) What does (or at least: did for me) is Angular-style commit messages: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;angular&#x2F;angular.js&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CONTRIBUTING.md#commit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;angular&#x2F;angular.js&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CONTRIBUTI...</a>.<p>&gt; &lt;type&gt;(&lt;scope&gt;): &lt;subject&gt;<p>&gt; [...]<p>&gt; feat: A new feature<p>&gt; fix: A bug fix<p>&gt; docs: Documentation only changes<p>&gt; style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)<p>&gt; refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug or adds a feature<p>&gt; perf: A code change that improves performance<p>&gt; test: Adding missing tests<p>&gt; chore: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation<p>There is a big difference in knowing if someone added a feature, fixed something, or did some refactoring.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Commit messages are not titles</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/90</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>For some reason the fact that &quot;feature&quot; is abbreviated to &quot;feat&quot; while &quot;refactor&quot; which is actually longer than &quot;feature&quot; is left alone irritates me - which, of course, doesn&#x27;t mean anything other than to demonstrate how silly this kind of argument can be!</text><parent_chain><item><author>stared</author><text>Dots, periods or starting with caps - it makes no difference (except for aesthetics, perhaps.) What does (or at least: did for me) is Angular-style commit messages: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;angular&#x2F;angular.js&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CONTRIBUTING.md#commit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;angular&#x2F;angular.js&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CONTRIBUTI...</a>.<p>&gt; &lt;type&gt;(&lt;scope&gt;): &lt;subject&gt;<p>&gt; [...]<p>&gt; feat: A new feature<p>&gt; fix: A bug fix<p>&gt; docs: Documentation only changes<p>&gt; style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)<p>&gt; refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug or adds a feature<p>&gt; perf: A code change that improves performance<p>&gt; test: Adding missing tests<p>&gt; chore: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation<p>There is a big difference in knowing if someone added a feature, fixed something, or did some refactoring.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Commit messages are not titles</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/90</url></story> |
20,570,998 | 20,570,474 | 1 | 3 | 20,563,581 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cbkeller</author><text>Geologist here -- this has been an active topic lately!<p>Just a few weeks ago there was a paper proposing a 4.336 +&#x2F;- 0.031 Ga age for the Lunar Magma Ocean [1], which is often equated with (esp. in public press [e.g., 2], though not really the same as) the age of the Moon. For comparison, the &quot;40 to 60 Ma after solar system formation&quot; in the new paper [3] discussed here translates into roughly 4.517 +&#x2F;- 0.010 Ga.<p>This new paper agrees almost perfectly with one I was a coauthor on a couple years ago though [4], which also gave an age of 4.51 (+&#x2F;- 0.01) Ga, so maybe we&#x27;re starting to get slightly closer to some consensus.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1016&#x2F;j.epsl.2019.07.008" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1016&#x2F;j.epsl.2019.07.008</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mg21128265-100-moon-may-be-200-million-years-younger-than-thought&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mg21128265-100-moon-may...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41561-019-0398-3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41561-019-0398-3</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;advances.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;3&#x2F;1&#x2F;e1602365" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;advances.sciencemag.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;3&#x2F;1&#x2F;e1602365</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Moon is older than previously believed</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-07-moon-older-previously-believed.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>slg</author><text>This is only tangentially related, but if the subject of these moon rocks interests you I would highly recommend a recent video [1] Destin of Smarter Every Day did on the NASA facility that stores the moon rocks, catalogues them, breaks them apart, and loans them to researchers for studies like this.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QxZ_iPldGtI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QxZ_iPldGtI</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Moon is older than previously believed</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-07-moon-older-previously-believed.html</url></story> |
21,765,694 | 21,765,654 | 1 | 2 | 21,762,640 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>protonimitate</author><text>The way we handle this is by padding our sprints enough so that there&#x27;s always &quot;extra time&quot; at the end.<p>E.g: If we as engs think we can do 12 tickets in a one-week sprint, we commit to 8. This leaves room to pick up any production issue related work, address tech debt, and have some breathing room so we&#x27;re not rushing through jira tickets.<p>It&#x27;s also workplace specific, but imo product people shouldn&#x27;t be engaging in daily standups other than passive observation. If they are drilling through the jira board and asking for status updates, they&#x27;re taking on the role of a micro-manager, not a product owner&#x2F;manager.<p>Standups should be engineers talking to eachother and raising blockers&#x2F;issues that would prevent them from meeting the sprint goal they committed to, not daily check ins with product (again, imo).</text><parent_chain><item><author>paracyst</author><text>This sounds like a good idea that I would really like to try, for my own sanity if for nothing else. For me, the issue—imagined or not—would arise in the Friday morning daily stand-up. I’m not sure it would go over well if I said that I intend to spend part of the day doing PRs (this is fine and expected) and the other part learning&#x2F;researching (likely not).<p>Oh the joys of the JIRA sweatshop. We have JIRA pulled up on the big screen TV and the product guys cycle through the status of each dev team members’ items during each daily standup. This is my first development job, surely it’s not like this everywhere?</text></item><item><author>protonimitate</author><text>I&#x27;ve started using Friday as a &quot;personal development&quot; day at work.<p>I do not write any code on Friday (unless it&#x27;s a severe production level issue). Instead, I spend the mornings reviewing PRs that I wasn&#x27;t included on (to keep up with whats happening, but also to learn more about how other people write and review code) and the afternoons are spent reading&#x2F;researching&#x2F;online classes.<p>This has really helped me avoid burn out. I go into the weekend less exhausted and more motivated to return on Monday and implement new stuff. It has also helped generate some inspiration for weekend&#x2F;personal projects.</text></item><item><author>aczerepinski</author><text>I’ve always learned on the job and have never asked permission. I guess I’m lucky that I haven’t worked in the type of places where somebody’s looking over my shoulder every minute of the day. Somewhere around an hour a day every day and I’ve been doing it for years and nobody has ever said anything about it.<p>I subscribe to those weekly emails for the programming languages we use at work and I read them when they come in. I sometimes watch a conference talk about implementing something similar to whatever I’m scheduled to do next.<p>If I were running a company I’d expect this of all high level employees. It’s your responsibility to be on top of whatever’s going on in your field.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it</title><url>https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/learning-for-a-living/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vorpalhex</author><text>It&#x27;s not like that everywhere<p>&gt; product guys cycle through the status of each dev team members’ items during each daily standup<p>Something has gone horrible off the rails. Standup is supposed to be a quick time for every team member to raise any blockers primarily, with a quick &quot;here&#x27;s what I did, here&#x27;s what I&#x27;m doing&quot; type blurb. The benefit of standup is identifying blockers and if engineers are getting mired in problems (so you can fix those issues outside of standup).</text><parent_chain><item><author>paracyst</author><text>This sounds like a good idea that I would really like to try, for my own sanity if for nothing else. For me, the issue—imagined or not—would arise in the Friday morning daily stand-up. I’m not sure it would go over well if I said that I intend to spend part of the day doing PRs (this is fine and expected) and the other part learning&#x2F;researching (likely not).<p>Oh the joys of the JIRA sweatshop. We have JIRA pulled up on the big screen TV and the product guys cycle through the status of each dev team members’ items during each daily standup. This is my first development job, surely it’s not like this everywhere?</text></item><item><author>protonimitate</author><text>I&#x27;ve started using Friday as a &quot;personal development&quot; day at work.<p>I do not write any code on Friday (unless it&#x27;s a severe production level issue). Instead, I spend the mornings reviewing PRs that I wasn&#x27;t included on (to keep up with whats happening, but also to learn more about how other people write and review code) and the afternoons are spent reading&#x2F;researching&#x2F;online classes.<p>This has really helped me avoid burn out. I go into the weekend less exhausted and more motivated to return on Monday and implement new stuff. It has also helped generate some inspiration for weekend&#x2F;personal projects.</text></item><item><author>aczerepinski</author><text>I’ve always learned on the job and have never asked permission. I guess I’m lucky that I haven’t worked in the type of places where somebody’s looking over my shoulder every minute of the day. Somewhere around an hour a day every day and I’ve been doing it for years and nobody has ever said anything about it.<p>I subscribe to those weekly emails for the programming languages we use at work and I read them when they come in. I sometimes watch a conference talk about implementing something similar to whatever I’m scheduled to do next.<p>If I were running a company I’d expect this of all high level employees. It’s your responsibility to be on top of whatever’s going on in your field.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it</title><url>https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/learning-for-a-living/</url></story> |
17,286,895 | 17,286,872 | 1 | 2 | 17,286,760 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jotto</author><text>Reminds me of how Stephenson describes Los Angeles in Snow Crash<p>&quot;Los Angeles is no longer part of the United States, as the federal government of the United States has ceded most of its power and territory to private organizations and entrepreneurs&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Snow_Crash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Snow_Crash</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Domino's Pizza unveils U.S. infrastructure project filling potholes</title><url>https://www.pavingforpizza.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>padobson</author><text>I like the leadership of Domino&#x27;s here. As logistics focus more on the home as the final destination, companies like Amazon, FedEx, Uber, or even Postmates are going to have to look at infrastructure conditions as a threat to their business.<p>Rather than lobbying to increase gas taxes and funnel more cash into various government bureaucracies, Domino&#x27;s is trying to address the problem directly, by getting the money directly to the local agencies that actually fix the roads.<p>I hope others follow suit.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Domino's Pizza unveils U.S. infrastructure project filling potholes</title><url>https://www.pavingforpizza.com/</url></story> |
18,729,605 | 18,728,447 | 1 | 3 | 18,727,372 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>runako</author><text>Point of order: the last 3 transitions have been layering versus actual shifts.<p>Text-based computing -&gt; GUIs was a shift. Broadly speaking, there is no market today for consumer-facing computers where text is the only input capability.<p>The most profitable company in the PC era also has the most profitable PC unit today. The Internet runs on top of the GUI layer. The smartphone is (in much of the world) an &quot;also&quot; not an &quot;instead.&quot;<p>(One could argue that the original MSFT goal of being on every desktop was centered on work. By that metric, most smartphone usage falls into a separate category of consumer computing that largely is distinct from business computing, where desktops &amp; laptops still rule.)<p>A grandparent(-ish) post compares the iPhone to the Google Home. Much like the iPhone did not replace my laptop (which did not replace the server in the datacenter), voice-driven devices will not replace mobile phones. All Excel (ahem) at different use cases.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rabidrat</author><text>&gt; Shifts in computing paradigms are incredibly rare.<p>They&#x27;ve only happened every decade so far: 1960 (IC), 1970 (DARPA), 1980 (PC), 1990 (GUI), 2000 (Internet), 2010 (smartphone).</text></item><item><author>Despegar</author><text>Shifts in computing paradigms are incredibly rare. The smartphone is unlikely to be replaced for a long time to come. There will be plenty of head fakes along the way no doubt (smart speakers and voice bots come to mind), but the smartphone is simply too good and has too much utility to be easily challenged.<p>And you also have to make a bet that Apple won&#x27;t come to dominate that area as well (even if they aren&#x27;t first to it). AR glasses have some promise to be a new general purpose computing platform, but even then I&#x27;m skeptical that it will be able to mount a serious challenge to the smartphone.</text></item><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>15-20 years? How are you SURE that smartphones will still be a thing in 20 years? Let alone that Apple will still be the hip premium brand? 20 years is a LONG time. The average lifespan for an S&amp;P 500 company is less than that these days.</text></item><item><author>Despegar</author><text>I&#x27;ll take that bet. The iPhone is going to keep printing money for the next 15-20 years at least.<p>Apple is a 40 year old company, and they&#x27;re still raking in the dough from their original product category.</text></item><item><author>m0zg</author><text>It&#x27;s just unbelievable to me that the company sitting on a quarter trillion dollars is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that hoard to hire the best of the best in order to fix the very thing that will kill their cash cow in the next 5 years. I&#x27;m on iOS myself (and have been faithful since the first iPhone), but $30 Google Home puck feels like it&#x27;s from the future. Understands me perfectly, comes up with decent answers, doesn&#x27;t require rigid commands, etc. Whereas Siri is so bad I use it only to set alarms and timers. Not even setting of reminders is reliable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/john-giannandrea-named-to-apples-executive-team/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jen20</author><text>Are you calling out the time these became mainstream? I&#x27;d argue if the PC can be slotted in at 1980 (the IBM PC didn&#x27;t come out until 1981), the GUI should be listed as 1984, not 1990. Alternatively, the PC should be listed a lot later.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rabidrat</author><text>&gt; Shifts in computing paradigms are incredibly rare.<p>They&#x27;ve only happened every decade so far: 1960 (IC), 1970 (DARPA), 1980 (PC), 1990 (GUI), 2000 (Internet), 2010 (smartphone).</text></item><item><author>Despegar</author><text>Shifts in computing paradigms are incredibly rare. The smartphone is unlikely to be replaced for a long time to come. There will be plenty of head fakes along the way no doubt (smart speakers and voice bots come to mind), but the smartphone is simply too good and has too much utility to be easily challenged.<p>And you also have to make a bet that Apple won&#x27;t come to dominate that area as well (even if they aren&#x27;t first to it). AR glasses have some promise to be a new general purpose computing platform, but even then I&#x27;m skeptical that it will be able to mount a serious challenge to the smartphone.</text></item><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>15-20 years? How are you SURE that smartphones will still be a thing in 20 years? Let alone that Apple will still be the hip premium brand? 20 years is a LONG time. The average lifespan for an S&amp;P 500 company is less than that these days.</text></item><item><author>Despegar</author><text>I&#x27;ll take that bet. The iPhone is going to keep printing money for the next 15-20 years at least.<p>Apple is a 40 year old company, and they&#x27;re still raking in the dough from their original product category.</text></item><item><author>m0zg</author><text>It&#x27;s just unbelievable to me that the company sitting on a quarter trillion dollars is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that hoard to hire the best of the best in order to fix the very thing that will kill their cash cow in the next 5 years. I&#x27;m on iOS myself (and have been faithful since the first iPhone), but $30 Google Home puck feels like it&#x27;s from the future. Understands me perfectly, comes up with decent answers, doesn&#x27;t require rigid commands, etc. Whereas Siri is so bad I use it only to set alarms and timers. Not even setting of reminders is reliable.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/john-giannandrea-named-to-apples-executive-team/</url></story> |
9,177,982 | 9,177,481 | 1 | 3 | 9,176,586 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cryoshon</author><text>Why sympathize with them? They either decided in bad faith that working on an interesting problem was more important to them than acting ethically, or they are saying &quot;I&#x27;m just doing my job&quot; also in bad faith. These philosophical decisions are simply malicious relative to the rest of us.<p>There is also the possibility that they have been deluded by nationalism or propaganda in order to believe that a panopticon is acceptable in a democracy, but there isn&#x27;t much we can do to help these people connect the dots between the panopticon they are helping to build and Orwellian thoughtcrime-- we simply don&#x27;t have access to them that we could use to be persuasive, as you mentioned. I think this population of people is actually pretty large among the government contractors.<p>Finally, though you are correct that NSA employees would probably mention this, for the purposes of agencies operating in the public interest in a democracy, the concept of &quot;insider knowledge&quot; is not permissible. I say this not to suggest that we make all the operations of our clandestine groups transparent, but rather to suggest that the complete ignorance the American public has found itself to be in is a byproduct of intentional grooming along the lines of &quot;national security secrets&quot; which really are intentionally crafted backdoors to the process of informed democracy. The citizens not involved in agency day-to-day have a firm need to know the methods and rationales used, and they need to have direct and powerful oversight.<p>We don&#x27;t have any of these things, currently.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chippy</author><text>I have some sympathy for our fellow hackers who work as contractors or in big companies, many of them with security clearance. Database engineers, software developers, data experts - the five eyes intelligence agencies directly and indirectly fund many of you readers of HN.<p>They might be becoming increasingly disillusioned with their chosen life and&#x2F;or unable to change course. Perhaps the money is too good, perhaps their contracts too restrictive. They might have inside knowledge and believe that the NSA is in the right, but they would not be able to voice that belief to us, their friends and colleagues. Unable or unwilling to change course if they believe their country is in the wrong and unable or unwilling to speak up in defence if they think it is in the right. I&#x27;d certainly like to talk (in private) to those I knew who at the start of the Snowden affair openly said that he was a traitor and hear what they now think.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA</title><url>https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>diafygi</author><text>I work in the solar industry, and utilities are increasingly losing talent to the solar industry (my co-founder is one of them). The main reason people are switching is because they see themselves as having a more successful career in the solar industry.<p>How can we make it so security talent has a better career working somewhere else? It could be multi-pronged. A combination of increasing private sector jobs and pay, decreasing public sector funding, and a healthy dose of public shaming might drain spying organizations of some more talent. Other thoughts?</text><parent_chain><item><author>chippy</author><text>I have some sympathy for our fellow hackers who work as contractors or in big companies, many of them with security clearance. Database engineers, software developers, data experts - the five eyes intelligence agencies directly and indirectly fund many of you readers of HN.<p>They might be becoming increasingly disillusioned with their chosen life and&#x2F;or unable to change course. Perhaps the money is too good, perhaps their contracts too restrictive. They might have inside knowledge and believe that the NSA is in the right, but they would not be able to voice that belief to us, their friends and colleagues. Unable or unwilling to change course if they believe their country is in the wrong and unable or unwilling to speak up in defence if they think it is in the right. I&#x27;d certainly like to talk (in private) to those I knew who at the start of the Snowden affair openly said that he was a traitor and hear what they now think.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA</title><url>https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/</url></story> |
35,477,300 | 35,477,128 | 1 | 2 | 35,474,770 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sagaro</author><text>A few days back there was a HN submission on everything moving towards the average. Buildings looking the same. Skylines in many cities looking similar. The cars looking similar. There are also these meme posts on twitter &quot;why we don&#x27;t build such houses&#x2F;buildings today&quot; with some photo of a 13th century castle or cathedral.<p>It all boils down to economics. Average is cost efficient. Standardize the raw materials. Optimize the raw material for easy storage, handling and transporting. When made this way, it is also easier to maintain, find parts (door handles, replacement faucet, switch boards etc.)<p>The chettinad houses are super customized. The pillars are from Burma (Myanmar) teak wood seasoned for months in sea water, the walls are polished with egg white (no paint), the tile work and the intricate carvings on the doors and pillars are all a pain when it comes to economics.<p>It is not just the cost to maintain them. The people with knowhow on how to maintain these are long gone. The new generation engineers only know how to build things the standard&#x2F;average way with the standard materials.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>India's Forgotten Mansions</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230404-indias-10000-forgotten-mansions</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alephnerd</author><text>This trend of building opulent Havelis as a status symbol by the diaspora still exists across South Asia to this day.<p>Documentary about it among the Pakistani Norwegian community - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_fOYJ3_ZppM">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_fOYJ3_ZppM</a><p>Article about it among the Malayali community - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theprint.in&#x2F;features&#x2F;kerala-has-a-ghost-houses-problem-but-the-state-just-doesnt-want-to-get-into-it&#x2F;1455219&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theprint.in&#x2F;features&#x2F;kerala-has-a-ghost-houses-probl...</a><p>And speaking from personal experience, my family has done similar stuff too in our ancestral village, though sadly it&#x27;s increasingly abandoned as people move abroad or to larger cities to work as professionals.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>India's Forgotten Mansions</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230404-indias-10000-forgotten-mansions</url></story> |
21,758,023 | 21,757,716 | 1 | 2 | 21,757,097 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>augstein</author><text>So can we all finally agree, that Huawei stating it has no ties to the Chinese government, was a lie after all?<p>This false claim by Huawei, is one of the most important reasons why Huawei isn‘t already banned here in Germany.[1]<p>And while we are at it, we should also ban US companies from providing critical infrastructure like this in Germany (and Europe). After Snowden, its clear that hardware from US vendors like Cisco should be seen as potentially compromised.[2]<p>1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.de&#x2F;trumps-huawei-verbot-ist-reine-heuchelei-2019-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.de&#x2F;trumps-huawei-verbot-ist-rein...</a>
2) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2608141&#x2F;snowden--the-nsa-planted-backdoors-in-cisco-products.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2608141&#x2F;snowden--the-nsa-p...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China's ambassador threatened Faroese prime minister to sign Huawei 5G deal</title><url>https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/banned-recording-reveals-china-ambassador-threatened-faroese-leader</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>leke</author><text>A peek inside the cutthroat world of politics, only brought to you by an accidental recording of a private conversation.<p>I feel this information really shouldn&#x27;t be hidden from the public as it&#x27;s the public that is supposed to a part of a democratic system. How can we elect our officials and voice our opinions, if we are not informed of hostilities from foreign governments?<p>Do you think China would have even said that if they knew that each conversation is public record.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China's ambassador threatened Faroese prime minister to sign Huawei 5G deal</title><url>https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/banned-recording-reveals-china-ambassador-threatened-faroese-leader</url></story> |
13,810,385 | 13,810,546 | 1 | 2 | 13,809,891 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Itaxpica</author><text>Even just focusing on the pressure cooking aspect, it turns out you can pressure cook all sorts of things you might not expect until you own one. For example, I&#x27;ve made incredible cheesecake in my Instant Pot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>What&#x27;s an example of a task you didn&#x27;t think it was capable of?</text></item><item><author>AlexB138</author><text>This is pretty funny for me to read. As the article mentions many people apparently did, I picked up an Instant Pot on Prime Day last year. I had no idea there was such a following around it until reading this, I just wanted a pressure cooker.<p>I received it, and stuck it in my closet expecting to pull it out when I needed to pressure cook something. My wife discovered it pretty soon after and began using it for several tasks I didn&#x27;t even realize it was capable of. She absolutely loves the thing, to the point I was joking with her about it. It&#x27;s funny to me to see that our experience is far from unique.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39058736</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>swalsh</author><text>Carnitas in 30 minutes. Pulled chicken in 7 minutes (which is actually really good!). Rice in minutes. There&#x27;s always another way to do any of these things, but the instant pot does all of them.<p>My wife has 2 of them, we throw together whole dinners in minutes, the primary one never leaves the counter because it&#x27;s become a daily tool. Our microwave stopped working about 6 months ago, and instead of replacing it, we just gave the microwaves spot on our counter to the instant pot.</text><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>What&#x27;s an example of a task you didn&#x27;t think it was capable of?</text></item><item><author>AlexB138</author><text>This is pretty funny for me to read. As the article mentions many people apparently did, I picked up an Instant Pot on Prime Day last year. I had no idea there was such a following around it until reading this, I just wanted a pressure cooker.<p>I received it, and stuck it in my closet expecting to pull it out when I needed to pressure cook something. My wife discovered it pretty soon after and began using it for several tasks I didn&#x27;t even realize it was capable of. She absolutely loves the thing, to the point I was joking with her about it. It&#x27;s funny to me to see that our experience is far from unique.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39058736</url></story> |
15,309,634 | 15,309,575 | 1 | 2 | 15,309,190 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>This. I lived around Bay Area a long time and I couldn&#x27;t drink the water without running it through a filtration system first. It doesn&#x27;t have the worst tasting water of the many places I&#x27;ve lived (parts of southern California win that award) but it is objectively pretty poor which is why so many people there drink filtered&#x2F;bottled water. Parts of California have real problems with minerality that adversely affect flavor even in the bottled versions.<p>By contrast, the tap water in Seattle and many parts of the Pacific Northwest tastes excellent, about the same as drinking it directly from the springs up in the mountains whence it came. Consequently, people rarely drink bottled water in that region; you can&#x27;t materially improve the flavor of what comes out of the tap.<p>While some of the difference is in the local mineral balance, which can be quite unpleasant in some locales (e.g. in close proximity to active volcanic areas in the mountain West), in most regions the unpleasantness comes down to the chemical treatment required to make the water safe based on the default quality of the watershed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bradlys</author><text>Sure. Safe to drink but most Bay Area water tastes damn awful.<p>I can’t stand drinking tap water in the Bay unless it is ice cold.<p>Some bottled water tastes bad too. Getting the stuff that isn’t bottled anywhere near california always seems to taste better.<p>I use a 6 stage water filtration system and it is a life saver. I didn’t drink water regularly at all in the Bay until I had that. Still don’t drink much water at most restaurants here...<p>I’m not a defender of bottled water but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that all bottled water is equal to tap water. Especially SF tap water. It definitely isn’t. Some actually tastes decent.</text></item><item><author>toephu2</author><text>San Francisco Bay Area tap water is safe to drink and is held to a lot higher safety standard than bottled water. Also the source of most bottled-water is no different than the source for tap. Bottled-water is often priced at a 2000%+ markup.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfwater.org&#x2F;index.aspx?page=447" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfwater.org&#x2F;index.aspx?page=447</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Is-San-Francisco-city-tap-water-safe-to-drink" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Is-San-Francisco-city-tap-water-safe-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for%20%20https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>baddox</author><text>I drink several cups of water per day straight out of the tap in San Francisco, and have done so for about 6 years. It tastes fine to me, which is to say it doesn’t taste like anything. I also have a water filter and pitcher that I keep in my fridge, and while ice cold water is certainly nicer, it’s rarely worth the trouble for me to refill it. I’m curious why you think the water tastes bad straight from the tap, and even more curious if you would be able the distinguish it from your preferred water source in a blind taste test.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bradlys</author><text>Sure. Safe to drink but most Bay Area water tastes damn awful.<p>I can’t stand drinking tap water in the Bay unless it is ice cold.<p>Some bottled water tastes bad too. Getting the stuff that isn’t bottled anywhere near california always seems to taste better.<p>I use a 6 stage water filtration system and it is a life saver. I didn’t drink water regularly at all in the Bay until I had that. Still don’t drink much water at most restaurants here...<p>I’m not a defender of bottled water but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that all bottled water is equal to tap water. Especially SF tap water. It definitely isn’t. Some actually tastes decent.</text></item><item><author>toephu2</author><text>San Francisco Bay Area tap water is safe to drink and is held to a lot higher safety standard than bottled water. Also the source of most bottled-water is no different than the source for tap. Bottled-water is often priced at a 2000%+ markup.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfwater.org&#x2F;index.aspx?page=447" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfwater.org&#x2F;index.aspx?page=447</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Is-San-Francisco-city-tap-water-safe-to-drink" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Is-San-Francisco-city-tap-water-safe-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for%20%20https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for</url></story> |
19,301,902 | 19,301,831 | 1 | 2 | 19,300,800 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jchw</author><text>Nice! A lot of open source debug tools don&#x27;t have terribly great UIs and this one looks pretty good. I can&#x27;t imagine it&#x27;s as versatile or intelligent as IDA, but on the other hand for the low price of FOSS it is hard to be disappointed. Especially since my hopes of affording a copy of IDA for my hobbyist reverse engineering is basically nil.<p>This is definitely going in my toolchain of RE apps, alongside x64dbg.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: REDasm Disassembler 2.0</title><url>https://redasm.io/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tacotime</author><text>Does anyone know why this disassembler might be a good choice over another open source option like Medusa or Radare?<p>I’m very interested in this stuff. I tried getting into IDA before I had a good understanding of programming and it was a struggle. I have been thinking about trying my hand at it again lately.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: REDasm Disassembler 2.0</title><url>https://redasm.io/</url></story> |
35,142,001 | 35,142,119 | 1 | 3 | 35,139,480 | 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>soiler</author><text>&gt; But then who is Signal for? Yes, it has E2EE encryption, but who cares about that other than us orangey types?<p>Although I think people like us (?) were some of the original proponents of Signal, and it could never have spread without us, I believe Signal&#x27;s intention is more about capturing the wider market while simultaneously <i>changing</i> that market to be more privacy-aware. I think that they believe they can make private, encrypted messaging to be a household idea, and I hope they&#x27;re right.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rolisz</author><text>But then who is Signal for? Yes, it has E2EE encryption, but who cares about that other than us orangey types?<p>And Signal makes plenty of user hostile moves: making backups is not supported. If your Android phone dies, you can kiss your previous conversations goodbye. That&#x27;s working as intended according to the team.<p>If I receive a large number of photos via Signal, i have to long tap each of them and save them individually (several taps to do that).<p>So really, who is Signal for then? It&#x27;s not for anonymity fans. It&#x27;s not for people who care about long term discussions.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>People keep writing posts and comments like this that seem premised on the thought that nobody at Signal considered the downsides to centralization, and that they just rejected federation out of spite.<p>If you&#x27;re reading HN, Signal&#x27;s design goals are almost certainly not your design goals. Signal was designed to replace SMS and WhatsApp, the most widely-used messaging systems on the planet, with something end-to-end secure. Signal is not Telegram, Slack, Wire, or Matrix. They make decisions that are certain to upset orangey-types like us (phone numbers, no federation, tethering to phones, and so on) because HN people aren&#x27;t their core user base.<p>If you want to understand why Signal went this way, look at Matrix. Matrix was designed for federation from the beginning; that&#x27;s part of the point. Federation delayed the rollout of default E2EE on Matrix by over a year. It will probably delay the resolution of the Nebuchadnezzar vulnerabilities --- which are very bad --- by some material amount of time as well. You can&#x27;t have Signal&#x27;s use cases and accept those downsides, but you can with Matrix&#x27;s use cases.<p>By all means: use Matrix. But the constant psychologizing and theorizing about Signal&#x27;s federation decision is tiresome. &quot;The Ecosystem Is Moving&quot; post, where Moxie Marlinspike laid out his case, was received approximately as well at Steve Jobs open letter on Adobe Flash. And, like the Flash letter, it has been pretty conclusively vindicated. That doesn&#x27;t mean everything, or even most things, should be centralized. But it does make clear why Signal needed to be.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Losing Signal</title><url>https://ploum.net/2023-03-09-losing-signal.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>oneshtein</author><text>&gt; Yes, it has E2EE encryption, but who cares about that other than us orangey types?<p>Signal is vulnerable to MITM attack. Our government has no problems with reading of my messages in Signal. I forced either to accept new certificate and be OK with wiretaping, or to lost communication channel with a friend.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rolisz</author><text>But then who is Signal for? Yes, it has E2EE encryption, but who cares about that other than us orangey types?<p>And Signal makes plenty of user hostile moves: making backups is not supported. If your Android phone dies, you can kiss your previous conversations goodbye. That&#x27;s working as intended according to the team.<p>If I receive a large number of photos via Signal, i have to long tap each of them and save them individually (several taps to do that).<p>So really, who is Signal for then? It&#x27;s not for anonymity fans. It&#x27;s not for people who care about long term discussions.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>People keep writing posts and comments like this that seem premised on the thought that nobody at Signal considered the downsides to centralization, and that they just rejected federation out of spite.<p>If you&#x27;re reading HN, Signal&#x27;s design goals are almost certainly not your design goals. Signal was designed to replace SMS and WhatsApp, the most widely-used messaging systems on the planet, with something end-to-end secure. Signal is not Telegram, Slack, Wire, or Matrix. They make decisions that are certain to upset orangey-types like us (phone numbers, no federation, tethering to phones, and so on) because HN people aren&#x27;t their core user base.<p>If you want to understand why Signal went this way, look at Matrix. Matrix was designed for federation from the beginning; that&#x27;s part of the point. Federation delayed the rollout of default E2EE on Matrix by over a year. It will probably delay the resolution of the Nebuchadnezzar vulnerabilities --- which are very bad --- by some material amount of time as well. You can&#x27;t have Signal&#x27;s use cases and accept those downsides, but you can with Matrix&#x27;s use cases.<p>By all means: use Matrix. But the constant psychologizing and theorizing about Signal&#x27;s federation decision is tiresome. &quot;The Ecosystem Is Moving&quot; post, where Moxie Marlinspike laid out his case, was received approximately as well at Steve Jobs open letter on Adobe Flash. And, like the Flash letter, it has been pretty conclusively vindicated. That doesn&#x27;t mean everything, or even most things, should be centralized. But it does make clear why Signal needed to be.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Losing Signal</title><url>https://ploum.net/2023-03-09-losing-signal.html</url></story> |
18,862,155 | 18,857,713 | 1 | 3 | 18,856,123 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blunte</author><text>Learning another language, if you&#x27;ve already learned a few, it&#x27;s a very small cost if the other benefits are big. After all, many of use learned some of the languages we learned because of the benefits that came with them.<p>I learned Java because of the promise (long ago) of write one run anywhere.
I learned Ruby because of the promise of Rails.
I learned Go because of the promise of fast and single-file-executable (maybe not the best reasons, but those were my excuses :) ).
Etc.<p>How hard can it be to learn Pascal? Is that really a frustration or an obstacle?... If I were making desktop apps, I wouldn&#x27;t care what language it was as long as I could quickly make cross platform GUI apps that did what I needed.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>I love the idea of a WYSIWYG IDE that&#x27;s integrated with the language like this, or like VB used to be, but personally I just can&#x27;t stomach the whole &quot;have to learn yet another language to use it&quot; problem. From what little I&#x27;ve played with Lazarus and FPC it seems really nice though, and I might make use of it for some smaller projects at work in the near future. I&#x27;m sick of trying to make web apps and all the ridiculous nonsense with that process.<p>One wonders why we don&#x27;t have a more generic form of this sort of thing. And no, I don&#x27;t mean the various &quot;GUI builders&quot; that are out there that produce code you then have to merge with your program, or an XML descriptor that you have to parse with your program, because those are still specific to having bindings for your chosen language.<p>There really isn&#x27;t a reason I can think of that I shouldn&#x27;t be able to throw together a GUI in a WYSIWYG editor and maybe define some basic behavior, then give it one or more programs it should run in the background and pass messages back and forth. Or even let me just tie events to a command pipeline and dump the result into another widget, basically just letting a GUI be part of the composable toolset following the UNIX philosophy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lazarus 2.0 RC3 – Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE</title><url>http://forum.lazarus-ide.org/index.php/topic,43665.0.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>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; There really isn&#x27;t a reason I can think of that I shouldn&#x27;t be able to throw together a GUI in a WYSIWYG editor and maybe define some basic behavior, then give it one or more programs it should run in the background and pass messages back and forth. Or even let me just tie events to a command pipeline and dump the result into another widget, basically just letting a GUI be part of the composable toolset following the UNIX philosophy.<p>Sure, you can do that, but you need a protocol&#x2F;interface&#x2F;API between the GUI and the program(s) it interacts with, and then you need to either manually consume that in the language those programs are in or have a library that handles the interaction, and the problem ends up being essentially equivalent to language bindings directly to the API.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>I love the idea of a WYSIWYG IDE that&#x27;s integrated with the language like this, or like VB used to be, but personally I just can&#x27;t stomach the whole &quot;have to learn yet another language to use it&quot; problem. From what little I&#x27;ve played with Lazarus and FPC it seems really nice though, and I might make use of it for some smaller projects at work in the near future. I&#x27;m sick of trying to make web apps and all the ridiculous nonsense with that process.<p>One wonders why we don&#x27;t have a more generic form of this sort of thing. And no, I don&#x27;t mean the various &quot;GUI builders&quot; that are out there that produce code you then have to merge with your program, or an XML descriptor that you have to parse with your program, because those are still specific to having bindings for your chosen language.<p>There really isn&#x27;t a reason I can think of that I shouldn&#x27;t be able to throw together a GUI in a WYSIWYG editor and maybe define some basic behavior, then give it one or more programs it should run in the background and pass messages back and forth. Or even let me just tie events to a command pipeline and dump the result into another widget, basically just letting a GUI be part of the composable toolset following the UNIX philosophy.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lazarus 2.0 RC3 – Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE</title><url>http://forum.lazarus-ide.org/index.php/topic,43665.0.html</url></story> |
28,877,209 | 28,876,812 | 1 | 2 | 28,863,210 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ziddoap</author><text>Perhaps I missed it, but I&#x27;m curious to how they know this is a planet which survived the red giant phase vs. a planet which was captured afterwards (or formed from the debris caused from the star -&gt; red giant -&gt; white dwarf transition). Maybe it&#x27;s covered more in actual paper.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We've spotted a planet surviving its dying star</title><url>https://theconversation.com/weve-spotted-a-planet-surviving-its-dying-star-heres-what-it-tells-us-about-end-of-our-solar-system-169514</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eesmith</author><text>Published at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-021-03869-6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-021-03869-6</a> . &quot;Dying&quot; refers to &quot;survive the volatile evolution of their host stars into white dwarfs.&quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We've spotted a planet surviving its dying star</title><url>https://theconversation.com/weve-spotted-a-planet-surviving-its-dying-star-heres-what-it-tells-us-about-end-of-our-solar-system-169514</url></story> |
28,678,923 | 28,679,084 | 1 | 2 | 28,678,053 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jleyank</author><text>In chemistry at least, the PhD is the entry card for non-technician work. Post-docs are seemingly required for the academic path, and are of some use for pharma, but the union card is a must.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wanderingmind</author><text>CS PhD is the outlier and not the norm. Most fields even in STEM its impossible to get a high paying job in the field of your thesis.</text></item><item><author>bertr4nd</author><text>While it may be true that many PhDs are not a financially good decision, I think the answer is not necessarily so clear cut for a computer science PhD.<p>I didn’t have any sort of foot in the door at FAANG level companies before my PhD (ask me about my 3x rejections from Microsoft!), but I was able to parlay my CS PhD into such a job, and the earning potential there is profoundly higher than would be found elsewhere. Enough, even, to offset 6 years of lost earning potential.<p>Obviously this is just my experience, and those talented undergrads who can ace a Google interview are likely better off just taking it, but it’s not like the PhD was a vow of poverty.</text></item><item><author>wanderingmind</author><text>Most of these students have learnt statistics and importance of random stratified sampling. Unfortunately they are not using them in real life to get feedback on an event so important that you might spend a good part of decade of your career on it.<p>That said, personally I think doing a PhD is one of the worst things a person can do them financially long term. I think gambling is one of the few that ranks higher than PhD. They lose the most critical part of life they must be earning and saving to harness the power of compounding to become financially secure. On top, they learn no marketable skills that can get them a job out in industry or corporations.<p>Not teaching economics in school and colleges to all students is partially to blame as many undergrads believe just doing a PhD with minimum wages can make them happy. But when commitments increase and when they realize academic jobs are very few they become disillusioned and desperate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02634-z</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>BeetleB</author><text>Not true. I worked in an engineering company that has a <i>lot</i> of jobs that require a PhD. Pay well, too.<p>Lots of engineering companies have positions where they value PhDs.<p>Will it offset the cost of not earning all those years? Probably not.<p>Will you get those jobs without a PhD? Probably not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>wanderingmind</author><text>CS PhD is the outlier and not the norm. Most fields even in STEM its impossible to get a high paying job in the field of your thesis.</text></item><item><author>bertr4nd</author><text>While it may be true that many PhDs are not a financially good decision, I think the answer is not necessarily so clear cut for a computer science PhD.<p>I didn’t have any sort of foot in the door at FAANG level companies before my PhD (ask me about my 3x rejections from Microsoft!), but I was able to parlay my CS PhD into such a job, and the earning potential there is profoundly higher than would be found elsewhere. Enough, even, to offset 6 years of lost earning potential.<p>Obviously this is just my experience, and those talented undergrads who can ace a Google interview are likely better off just taking it, but it’s not like the PhD was a vow of poverty.</text></item><item><author>wanderingmind</author><text>Most of these students have learnt statistics and importance of random stratified sampling. Unfortunately they are not using them in real life to get feedback on an event so important that you might spend a good part of decade of your career on it.<p>That said, personally I think doing a PhD is one of the worst things a person can do them financially long term. I think gambling is one of the few that ranks higher than PhD. They lose the most critical part of life they must be earning and saving to harness the power of compounding to become financially secure. On top, they learn no marketable skills that can get them a job out in industry or corporations.<p>Not teaching economics in school and colleges to all students is partially to blame as many undergrads believe just doing a PhD with minimum wages can make them happy. But when commitments increase and when they realize academic jobs are very few they become disillusioned and desperate.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02634-z</url></story> |
1,584,044 | 1,584,041 | 1 | 3 | 1,582,130 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevbin</author><text>Gödel, Escher, Bach is a prog rock concept album: 70s, deeply focused on consciousness, indulgent, holistic/synthetic, great displays of technical virtuosity, three-letter acronym, umlaut. Even if you love it, were changed by it, hear selections from it in your head, you keep it a little on the down low because it is so far from the mainstream notion of cool, acceptable. Occasionally, you find a fellow traveller and you share some guilty passion for its awesomeness, like you would for Rush's Hemispheres or Genesis' Lamb Lays Down... Back at the farm you've got to fall in line, claim allegiance to the essentialist raw power of K&#38;R, the baroque symphonies of Don Knuth, and the chart-topping successes on Tim O'Reilly's Top 40. When you're alone, lounging in your earth chair, you slip on your headphones, crank-up your stereo hi-fi, pop in your GEB 8-track, and you're gone...</text><parent_chain><item><author>chanakya</author><text>I have to say I'm very surprised at how few people here seem to have liked the book. Going by my experience, I would have expected that HN readers would have thoroughly enjoyed it.<p>I first read it about 25 years ago, and while I didn't understand much of its philosophical arguments, I remember the experience as a sheer delight. Since then, i've read it at least twice more, and enjoyed it every time ( and understood it better):<p>- It's the best explanation by far (for a non-mathematical reader) of Godel's theorem and its philosophical implications.<p>- It's a theory about what is consciousness and how it arises, but unlike most such discussions, genuinely interesting and even playful.<p>- It's an argument for what is called 'strong AI'. Given the author's view of consciousness, he makes a strong argument for why he believes conscious computer programs are possible.<p>- It's a great introduction (again for the math-challenged) to formal systems, mathematical proofs, and what was called the Entschiedungsproblem (who can resist finding out what a word like that means?) :-)<p>- It's tantalizing glimpses of the world of western classical music and painting and some interesting parallels he draws between them and his theory of consciousness.<p>- It's a set of delightful dialogs (in the style of Lewis Carroll) about all the above.<p>For me, it was one of my formative experiences, and the one thing I got from it at the time was that there was more to computers than writing Pascal programs. It helped that I came to this book as the proverbial tabula rasa, knowing nothing about classical music, painting, formal systems or philosophy for that matter, but I really think most people here, even those who know a lot about these things, will enjoy and learn from it. </text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey</title><url>http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/courses/godel-escher-bach/</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>baddox</author><text>I agree with his argument for strong AI. However, I find his argument for its possibility pretty unsatisfying. He basically just says that since humans are incomplete (like any formal system), we should be able to simulate it in hardware or software. I do believe that, but I don't find it very persuasive. What if our minds are such a tangled hierarchy that our own minds can't ever untangle it? I don't think that's true, but I tend to cringe when he expresses such optimism, optimism which is still largely unrealized after 30 years of AI winter.<p>That said, I absolutely love the book.</text><parent_chain><item><author>chanakya</author><text>I have to say I'm very surprised at how few people here seem to have liked the book. Going by my experience, I would have expected that HN readers would have thoroughly enjoyed it.<p>I first read it about 25 years ago, and while I didn't understand much of its philosophical arguments, I remember the experience as a sheer delight. Since then, i've read it at least twice more, and enjoyed it every time ( and understood it better):<p>- It's the best explanation by far (for a non-mathematical reader) of Godel's theorem and its philosophical implications.<p>- It's a theory about what is consciousness and how it arises, but unlike most such discussions, genuinely interesting and even playful.<p>- It's an argument for what is called 'strong AI'. Given the author's view of consciousness, he makes a strong argument for why he believes conscious computer programs are possible.<p>- It's a great introduction (again for the math-challenged) to formal systems, mathematical proofs, and what was called the Entschiedungsproblem (who can resist finding out what a word like that means?) :-)<p>- It's tantalizing glimpses of the world of western classical music and painting and some interesting parallels he draws between them and his theory of consciousness.<p>- It's a set of delightful dialogs (in the style of Lewis Carroll) about all the above.<p>For me, it was one of my formative experiences, and the one thing I got from it at the time was that there was more to computers than writing Pascal programs. It helped that I came to this book as the proverbial tabula rasa, knowing nothing about classical music, painting, formal systems or philosophy for that matter, but I really think most people here, even those who know a lot about these things, will enjoy and learn from it. </text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey</title><url>http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/courses/godel-escher-bach/</url><text></text></story> |
28,593,033 | 28,593,193 | 1 | 2 | 28,592,520 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>johnklos</author><text>Nobody should use ISP provided equipment for anything security sensitive, ever. ISPs don&#x27;t care about security at all, aside from &quot;security&quot; as a sales term, and aside from when they&#x27;re getting a bad name because of egregious failures.<p>ARRIS shouldn&#x27;t be given a year embargo, either. They&#x27;re the same company who&#x27;ve known since 2016 about hardware issues which cannot be corrected in software in the Intel PUMA chipsets, yet they still to this day sell devices with them. They don&#x27;t care about fixing things - they care about selling things.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VPN users unmasked by zero-day vulnerability in Virgin Media routers</title><url>https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/vpn-users-unmasked-by-zero-day-vulnerability-in-virgin-media-routers</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>For context. This is Virgin Media which demands your passwords (including e-mail passwords) must be no longer than 10 characters, must begin with a letter, not a number and cannot include any special characters.<p>Security is not their priority.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>VPN users unmasked by zero-day vulnerability in Virgin Media routers</title><url>https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/vpn-users-unmasked-by-zero-day-vulnerability-in-virgin-media-routers</url></story> |
26,645,645 | 26,643,354 | 1 | 3 | 26,640,915 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rakoo</author><text>&gt; The difference between signed tags and signed commits is minimal — in the case of commit signing, the signature goes into the commit object itself. It is generally a good practice to PGP-sign commits<p>Note: Linus says otherwise, the two are very different: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.661346.n2.nabble.com&#x2F;GPG-signing-for-git-commit-td2582986.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.661346.n2.nabble.com&#x2F;GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t...</a><p>One of the most important reasons it doesn&#x27;t make sense to sign commits is that keys expire so when you sign something you implicitly say it is valid at most until the key is valid; nothing can be guaranteed after that. It is easy enough to re-sign a tag (even automatically) but you can&#x27;t re-sign a commit without changing its identity and that defeats the whole purpose of git.<p>The only reason you&#x27;d want to sign commits is to defend from malicious maintainers ie if your patch is changed before being merged, or your authorship is removed, or a patch impersonating you is merged. It&#x27;s probably better to sign your patches (ie the temporary moment where you interact) in that case: I see there was some work in that direction (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;813646&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;813646&#x2F;</a>) but apparently it hasn&#x27;t caught up (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;signatures&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;signatures&#x2F;</a> shows last signatures end of 2020)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What does a PGP signature on a Git commit prove?</title><url>https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/what-does-a-pgp-signature-on-a-git-commit-prove</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>&gt; If we cared to, we could walk each commit all the way back to the beginning of Linux git history, but we don&#x27;t need to do that — verifying the checksum of the latest commit is sufficient to provide us all the necessary assurances about the entire history of that tree.<p>Doesn&#x27;t this imply a tremendous amount of trust in the signer? It sounds like it&#x27;s only a guarantee about history if <i>every</i> commit was signed.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What does a PGP signature on a Git commit prove?</title><url>https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/what-does-a-pgp-signature-on-a-git-commit-prove</url></story> |
14,460,785 | 14,457,996 | 1 | 3 | 14,454,796 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jackhack</author><text>The video game has a parallel.<p>Voice actors or visual actors in the ever-increasing hollywood-ized titles get a royalty paycheck every time a box of software is sold at retail or on Steam. They may be paid royalties for a decade or more, with a successful A title.<p>Meanwhile the artists who generate content are paid only while doing their work, and the programmers who bring that content to life are paid a salary only while doing their work. There is typically no lasting financial commitment after the weekly paycheck. The could be laid off the week after release, and when the $$$ rolls into the studio, the team is home sleeping, fixing bugs, or looking for a new job. Starting anew.<p>The difference? Unionization.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spinal Tap vs. Hollywood</title><url>http://www.gq.com/story/spinal-tap-vs-hollywood</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toss1941</author><text>One of my favorite movies, and favorite one of the genre by far. If anyone who loves this movie hasn&#x27;t seen the commentary track on the DVD, get it immediately. The actors present on the commentary are all in character so it sort of feels like a second movie.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Spinal Tap vs. Hollywood</title><url>http://www.gq.com/story/spinal-tap-vs-hollywood</url></story> |
12,528,009 | 12,528,100 | 1 | 2 | 12,527,098 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>striking</author><text>Their reputation stemmed from the days where everything <i>was</i> discoverable. Want to delete a file? There&#x27;s a trash can glued to your dock. Need to perform a function but don&#x27;t know the name? Look it up in the Help menu&#x27;s search box.<p>Now, though, they&#x27;ve done the Windows 8 thing of overloading gestures and hiding behaviors. Want to see your notifications? Two-finger swipe to the left, <i>starting from the edge of the touchpad</i>. If the piece of text hasn&#x27;t been there since OS X first came out, is it clickable or not? Because I damn well can&#x27;t tell, nothing new looks like a button anymore.<p>I could also talk about how the gaussian blur effect is just about the most wasteful effect you can apply to anything, and is a far cry from pioneering the first fast rounded rectangle drawing algorithm, or anything in that vein, but I don&#x27;t need to.<p>Because Apple&#x27;s UI is just no longer good. I&#x27;d rather every button look like a shimmering stupid bubble than an unusable postmodern art piece.<p>Sent from my MacBook Pro</text><parent_chain><item><author>jheriko</author><text>i don&#x27;t understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.<p>the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.<p>they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...<p>... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Razengan</author><text>&gt; all of their stuff is terrible.<p>As a PC-only user since the days of DOS up till Windows 8, and having used Windows 10 after jumping ship to Macs a few hours ago, macOS has demonstrably more discoverability than Windows.<p>One example: Just click on the Help menu, in any app, and type something like &quot;show&quot; or &quot;find&quot; or any other operation, and it will show you all the menu items which have that word in their name.<p>That feature is a part of the Cocoa subsystem and comes for free with every app, and very handy when you know an app <i>has</i> a certain feature but you&#x27;re not sure which menu it&#x27;s buried in (like standard operations and filters in different image editing apps.)<p>Also, all the shortcuts and standard menus are the same in every macOS app, and can be discovered&#x2F;modified from System Preferences -&gt; Keyboard, again for any app.<p>Take &quot;Preferences&quot;, which in Windows is sometimes under Edit, Tools, or the app name menu (which imitates macOS.)<p>I could go on and on, but &quot;zero discoverability&quot; is an undeserved hyperbole.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jheriko</author><text>i don&#x27;t understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.<p>the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.<p>they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...<p>... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story> |
24,839,439 | 24,839,500 | 1 | 3 | 24,838,816 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ClearAndPresent</author><text>Or Wireguard.<p>The absurdity of sitting in front of a frozen keyboard and trackpad for up to a minute before I can unlock the screensaver on a 2k machine has driven me spare. And now has driven away from these astounding lemons.<p>This is the last Apple laptop for me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmd</author><text>If you&#x27;re using Cisco Anyconnect, blame that for that particular keyboard issue.</text></item><item><author>thewebcount</author><text>Oh wow! This probably explains why every now and then when I wake my MacBook Pro from sleep it says no keyboard is connected! I thought I had some hardware problem on a basically brand new machine. Glad to hear it&#x27;s only a stupid software problem!</text></item><item><author>eptcyka</author><text>Apple seems to do all kinds of weird networking _stuff_. For instance, during wakeup, your T2 equipped Macbook will wait for a DNS response and then use said DNS response to synchronize time via NTP before letting the user use the keyboard. Probably checking timestamps on signatures for the keyboard firmware, or something stupid like that. This only happens if it happens to have a default route.<p>Similarly, all macOS machines will test a DHCP supplied default route before applying it by trying to reach something on the internet. So if you happen to have some firewall rules that block internet access, no default route will be applied until the internet check times out.<p>I won&#x27;t share the other sentiments about the above, but is it really that hard to document these behaviors?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur</title><url>https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318465421796782082</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wincy</author><text>Ugh, Cisco AnyConnect, had my MDM policy erroneously install the 32-bit version of it and removing it required finding a shell script in &#x2F;opt&#x2F;cisco and running to deregister it before I could install the updated version. So much fun!</text><parent_chain><item><author>dmd</author><text>If you&#x27;re using Cisco Anyconnect, blame that for that particular keyboard issue.</text></item><item><author>thewebcount</author><text>Oh wow! This probably explains why every now and then when I wake my MacBook Pro from sleep it says no keyboard is connected! I thought I had some hardware problem on a basically brand new machine. Glad to hear it&#x27;s only a stupid software problem!</text></item><item><author>eptcyka</author><text>Apple seems to do all kinds of weird networking _stuff_. For instance, during wakeup, your T2 equipped Macbook will wait for a DNS response and then use said DNS response to synchronize time via NTP before letting the user use the keyboard. Probably checking timestamps on signatures for the keyboard firmware, or something stupid like that. This only happens if it happens to have a default route.<p>Similarly, all macOS machines will test a DHCP supplied default route before applying it by trying to reach something on the internet. So if you happen to have some firewall rules that block internet access, no default route will be applied until the internet check times out.<p>I won&#x27;t share the other sentiments about the above, but is it really that hard to document these behaviors?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur</title><url>https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318465421796782082</url></story> |
36,644,812 | 36,621,557 | 1 | 3 | 36,614,788 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cableshaft</author><text>Even if he didn&#x27;t say it, it&#x27;s implicit in who they are. Do you really think a massive social media corporation is going to launch another social media platform, just for funsies?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mym1990</author><text>The ironic thing is that he lists monetization last, but simply by uttering that sentiment he tells us that they are really thinking about monetization first, aka the end goal of the product.</text></item><item><author>wavemode</author><text>lol it&#x27;s so explicit<p>at this point he&#x27;s the world&#x27;s leading expert on the enshittification cycle</text></item><item><author>lapcat</author><text>&gt; It has really made me pessimistic about tech and products in general. There&#x27;s the free and great stage, then the market is captured, then enshittification, then death.<p>Mark Zuckerberg an hour ago: &quot;Our approach will be the same as all our other products: make the product work well first, then see if we can get it on a clear path to 1 billion people, and only then think about monetization at that point.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;t&#x2F;CuW5-eWL34x" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;t&#x2F;CuW5-eWL34x</a></text></item><item><author>vinyl7</author><text>It has really made me pessimistic about tech and products in general. There&#x27;s the free and great stage, then the market is captured, then enshittification, then death.<p>I don&#x27;t get excited about new products or new tech because I know the cycle. Hype then bust. <i>New thing</i> comes out and I&#x27;m just meh about it, because it&#x27;ll bust soon enough so it&#x27;s not worth getting invested in it. Or <i>new version</i> will come out next year and break what I was used to, or it&#x27;ll be an implicit subscription of having to buy new thing every year. But it&#x27;s not really going to fix itself because it seems like everyone else loves the dopamine rush from the hype cycle, and they don&#x27;t really seem to care about how ephemeral everything is.</text></item><item><author>mattbuilds</author><text>I think the VC world&#x27;s obsession with growth has tainted how we (me included) view things, especially stuff like social media. There is a fixation with growing and doing it rapidly that I believe is harmful. I don&#x27;t know when this switch flipped, but I&#x27;ve felt it gradually building up over time.<p>Things can just be what they are, grow naturally and then die naturally. I suspect that injecting cash and attempting to achieve an unnatural growth is probably not good for both the quality of the product and the long term stability of it.<p>I would love to see more niche things grow organically and fill a role for some people, at some time and not try to be everything for everyone. Because when that&#x27;s the case, does anyone really enjoy it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop trying to make social networks succeed</title><url>https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.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>hobo_in_library</author><text>I mean, did you think he was pouring money into this out of the goodness of his heart?</text><parent_chain><item><author>mym1990</author><text>The ironic thing is that he lists monetization last, but simply by uttering that sentiment he tells us that they are really thinking about monetization first, aka the end goal of the product.</text></item><item><author>wavemode</author><text>lol it&#x27;s so explicit<p>at this point he&#x27;s the world&#x27;s leading expert on the enshittification cycle</text></item><item><author>lapcat</author><text>&gt; It has really made me pessimistic about tech and products in general. There&#x27;s the free and great stage, then the market is captured, then enshittification, then death.<p>Mark Zuckerberg an hour ago: &quot;Our approach will be the same as all our other products: make the product work well first, then see if we can get it on a clear path to 1 billion people, and only then think about monetization at that point.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;t&#x2F;CuW5-eWL34x" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;t&#x2F;CuW5-eWL34x</a></text></item><item><author>vinyl7</author><text>It has really made me pessimistic about tech and products in general. There&#x27;s the free and great stage, then the market is captured, then enshittification, then death.<p>I don&#x27;t get excited about new products or new tech because I know the cycle. Hype then bust. <i>New thing</i> comes out and I&#x27;m just meh about it, because it&#x27;ll bust soon enough so it&#x27;s not worth getting invested in it. Or <i>new version</i> will come out next year and break what I was used to, or it&#x27;ll be an implicit subscription of having to buy new thing every year. But it&#x27;s not really going to fix itself because it seems like everyone else loves the dopamine rush from the hype cycle, and they don&#x27;t really seem to care about how ephemeral everything is.</text></item><item><author>mattbuilds</author><text>I think the VC world&#x27;s obsession with growth has tainted how we (me included) view things, especially stuff like social media. There is a fixation with growing and doing it rapidly that I believe is harmful. I don&#x27;t know when this switch flipped, but I&#x27;ve felt it gradually building up over time.<p>Things can just be what they are, grow naturally and then die naturally. I suspect that injecting cash and attempting to achieve an unnatural growth is probably not good for both the quality of the product and the long term stability of it.<p>I would love to see more niche things grow organically and fill a role for some people, at some time and not try to be everything for everyone. Because when that&#x27;s the case, does anyone really enjoy it?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Stop trying to make social networks succeed</title><url>https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.html</url></story> |
15,406,710 | 15,406,567 | 1 | 2 | 15,406,338 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rl3</author><text>The average surveillance reform article irks me. Most if not all tend to miss the fact that privacy protections take effect <i>when the data is accessed</i>. NSA has intentionally toyed with the definition of the word <i>collect</i> to mean <i>access</i> to data that has already been intercepted and stored.[0]<p>In other words: every U.S. citizen&#x27;s private domestic communications have been rotting in Bluffdale, Utah for the past five years—and likely will remain there indefinitely along with all future communications. If rogue actors (insiders or otherwise) are able to get side-channel access, the fact privacy protections exist will mean precisely nothing.<p>The best thing for domestic surveillance reform—short of every elected official suddenly having the entirety of their intercepted digital communications leaked—would be for the Trump administration to wantonly abuse the NSA&#x27;s domestic capability in a completely untactful manner, and getting caught red-handed doing it.<p>The last Bush administration abused the hell out of it, but they were at least somewhat careful in doing so.[1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;nsa-spying&#x2F;wordgames#collect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;nsa-spying&#x2F;wordgames#collect</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boilingfrogspost.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;BF.0112.Tice_20130617.mp3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boilingfrogspost.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;BF.0112.T...</a> (Skip to 00:48:26)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. lawmakers want to restrict internet surveillance on Americans</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance/u-s-lawmakers-want-to-restrict-internet-surveillance-on-americans-idUSKBN1C92T5</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I have observed an astonishing correlation between leaks of information about the Whitehouse and officials associated with Internet Surveillance, and a bipartisan interest in curbing the various agencies responsible for collecting that information.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>U.S. lawmakers want to restrict internet surveillance on Americans</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance/u-s-lawmakers-want-to-restrict-internet-surveillance-on-americans-idUSKBN1C92T5</url></story> |
8,792,701 | 8,792,302 | 1 | 2 | 8,791,274 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Performance advantage, maybe not, but in terms of reliability (which I think for storage devices is <i>far more important</i> than absolute performance) there&#x27;s definite advantages to having the SSD have its own processor; an SSD is running a realtime control firmware so it can react quickly to events like sudden power loss and act appropriately to flush pending writes and update the BMTs before the power completely dies, whereas the host CPU would basically have no chance at that due to the fact that it&#x27;s probably doing something else at the time and the latency of communicating to the SSD.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pedrocr</author><text>Is there any reason we&#x27;d actually want this firmware at all vs just using a flash filesystem running on the host CPU? Is there really any significant performance advantage to be had?<p>I really wish normal SSDs just implemented a passthrough mode to the real flash with enough metadata about blocks that the OS can just deal with it directly. Having to implement filesystems on top of these abstractions just seems wrong. We&#x27;re setting us up to later find out that we need to join the two layers like ZFS did with RAID.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenSSD – Open firmware for SSDs</title><url>http://www.openssd-project.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>baruch</author><text>It would actually make quite a bit of sense to just have raw flash accessible by the CPU and be managed completely by it. The problem is then that some of the flash trickery is for very specific flash and requires careful calibration, things like programming time which is per-flash chip and sometimes also changes across time.<p>The ONFI standard only specifies the protocol and the wiring but not the soft parameters, these may be added in there if people wanted but the flash companies are evidently only trying to grow up into the market rather than just provide building blocks as that allows them to squeeze out more profits so I can&#x27;t see any incentive by them to expose such an interface and support the ecosystem that will spring up and take all of their extra profits and leave them to build massive foundries for peanuts per unit.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pedrocr</author><text>Is there any reason we&#x27;d actually want this firmware at all vs just using a flash filesystem running on the host CPU? Is there really any significant performance advantage to be had?<p>I really wish normal SSDs just implemented a passthrough mode to the real flash with enough metadata about blocks that the OS can just deal with it directly. Having to implement filesystems on top of these abstractions just seems wrong. We&#x27;re setting us up to later find out that we need to join the two layers like ZFS did with RAID.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenSSD – Open firmware for SSDs</title><url>http://www.openssd-project.org/</url></story> |
27,191,751 | 27,191,841 | 1 | 2 | 27,191,364 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cpleppert</author><text>I guess I’m skeptical as to what is being claimed here. There have been various attempts to use the Greek phonetic values and logograms of Linear B to reconstruct Linear A equivalents. The only known sentences partially deciphered are votive formulations. Knowing the sound values doesn’t really help you anyway as we have virtually no information on Linear A at all. It’s pretty hard to understand sign equivalencies if you can’t even understand how a sign is being used.<p>The article is pretty vague; I’m not sure what these sign equivalences are supposed to be.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research</title><url>https://greekreporter.com/2021/05/13/minoan-language-linear-a-linked-to-linear-b-in-groundbreaking-new-research/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Clewza313</author><text>Is there a better source for this? Under all the breathless hype (&quot;astonishingly, the internet itself may be the key that unlocks the link between the languages&quot;) it sounds like all that&#x27;s being claimed -- not even proven -- is stronger evidence that Linear A and Linear B are related.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research</title><url>https://greekreporter.com/2021/05/13/minoan-language-linear-a-linked-to-linear-b-in-groundbreaking-new-research/</url></story> |
35,390,160 | 35,390,448 | 1 | 2 | 35,389,915 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>winkywooster</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;F0HsE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;F0HsE</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US banks have $620B of unrealized losses on their books</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-svb-exposed-risks-banks/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>0xADADA</author><text>Banks also have a <i>MASSIVE</i> amount of CRE Commercial Real Estate (office buildings) that are completely empty, without lease payments flowing in, and since COVID-19 has shifted knowledge work to remote-first in many cities, these office will be empty for a long time.<p>The CRE bubble is going to burst in the next 18 months as the 5-year commercial office leases signed in 2017+ are all going to come to an end, and the banks will be realizing these losses starting now and the next few years. Its going to get ugly soon.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US banks have $620B of unrealized losses on their books</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-svb-exposed-risks-banks/</url></story> |
27,763,529 | 27,760,295 | 1 | 2 | 27,758,547 | train | <instructions>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>I&#x27;m a fan of Margaret Hamilton, but this is fake. This code is not by Margaret Hamilton and it&#x27;s not from 1969.<p>Margaret Hamilton has stated that her first assignment was the abort code FORGETIT in the Apollo 5 program Sunburst, and this exact single-precision sine&#x2F;cosine routine already existed in Aurora [an earlier version of the software] earlier than March 1966 -- FORGETIT wasn&#x27;t added to Sunburst until later that year (maybe October-November).<p>Source: I talked to people who have researched the Apollo code in detail. For more information on the Apollo software releases, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&#x2F;apollo&#x2F;Luminary.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&#x2F;apollo&#x2F;Luminary.html</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (1969)</title><url>https://fermatslibrary.com/s/apollo-11-implementation-of-trigonometric-functions</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>michaelcampbell</author><text>Everything I have read about Margaret Hamilton makes me happy; such a wonderful engineer&#x2F;developer, so seeing her name on this as well (not unexpected though) just enforces that.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (1969)</title><url>https://fermatslibrary.com/s/apollo-11-implementation-of-trigonometric-functions</url></story> |
20,648,426 | 20,644,618 | 1 | 2 | 20,643,052 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hestipod</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting how one or two dissenting views amongst a majority neutral or even supportive results in &quot;This place is &lt;insert bias&gt; now!&quot; I wonder why absolute agreement is required for some people to not feel attacked or marginalized.</text><parent_chain><item><author>astine</author><text>I think that people tend to perceive HN as overwhelmingly believing whatever the opposite of their opinion is any time there is a significant debate on something. Unless there is overwhelming support for our own position, we feel that we are in a hostile environment.</text></item><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>Yes, I agree with what you&#x27;re saying. But I&#x27;m asking why the person posting believes that the HN community overwhelmingly believes X and their evidence for that. I presume they do have evidence and conclusions and I&#x27;d like to know about it.</text></item><item><author>jameshart</author><text>It’s a persistent Misreading of Internet forums as a mode of discourse, both in how people consume them and how people participate in them, that we tend to regard their discussion threads as a mechanism for determining group consensus on a topic. Cloudflare is dropping 8chan? Let’s get together and decide whether we collectively think that is a good thing or a bad thing. Once we’ve established that fact, we can move on and refer back to that decision in future discussions, like a mathematical lemma.<p>If you instead think of a forum thread as an airing of opinions - a chance to find out what is the range of perspectives on the topic that exist in the community, and be exposed to nuances you wouldn’t have thought of on your own, the exercise takes on a different tone. People who came to that thread thinking that it’s obviously a good thing are exposed to arguments that disagree, and vice versa; maybe some people are persuaded to shift their viewpoint, or maybe not, but everybody learns that a topic that they might have assumed was uncontroversial is <i>actually</i> one on which reasonable people might disagree.<p>It can be jarring for the nerd-inclined to accept that just because they have arrived at their opinions through, obviously, clear rational analysis of facts, that does not mean that everybody else, when presented with the same facts, will necessarily reach the same opinion. The illusion that you can read an HN thread and say ‘well, the pro arguments seemed more coherent and got more upvotes than the anti ones, so presumably the community consensus is pro’ ignores the fact that the anti arguments were also made by members of the HN community, and we’re not bound by collective decision making. You are allowed to read the thread and adjust your own priors and come to your own conclusions, having hopefully been exposed to some perspectives you might otherwise have missed.</text></item><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>Could you clarify why you thought this? What evidence do you have that supports this? The big thread shows that the top comment agrees that 8chan should be left alone. [0] and the comment chain shows that there seems to be something like a significant minority against 8chan, but it doesn’t appear to be a prevailing majority.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395</a></text></item><item><author>azangru</author><text>&gt; HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude (e.g. cloudflare-shouldnt-ban-&lt;x&gt;).<p>Funny, I thought HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude in the case of the recent ban of 8chan was, hell yeah, good riddance to those reprehensible twats. (Which, personally, annoyed me, because I believe that even the deplored should have a space for communication.)</text></item><item><author>IfOnlyYouKnew</author><text>This article does seem to get at the essence of HN, appreciative of dang and sctb&#x27;s humanity while not ignoring the problems. Personally, I would actually consider it an excellent demonstration of the fallibility of one of HN&#x27;s favourite tropes, Gell-Mann amnesia.<p>If there&#x27;s one critique that I believe is paramount it&#x27;s that HN has, due to its readership, an ethical obligation that goes beyond making discussions all nice and civil.<p>Political issues are obviously divisive and it&#x27;s perfectly fine to keep stuff like the El Paso massacre of the front page. But when hot-button issues intersect with technology, the HN readership is in a position of power, and shouldn&#x27;t routinely be spared the anguish of being reminded of their responsibility.<p>Yes, articles about, for example, discriminatory ML do often make it to the front page. But in my impression, that topic (as well as employment discrimination, culture-wars-adjacent scandals in tech academia etc) are far more likely to be quickly flagged into oblivion than similarly political takes that just happen to be in line with HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude (e.g. cloudflare-shouldnt-ban-&lt;x&gt;).<p>The article impressively articulates what toll divisiveness takes on the moderators: Even if I read the same ugly comments, I am unlikely to experience the sharpness of emotion that apparently comes with considering the community one&#x27;s baby, and making it&#x27;s failures one&#x27;s own. When such divisiveness is then reflected in the &quot;real world&quot; of mass media, the pressure only increases.<p>But as this article shows, abdicating the responsibility by keeping the topics sterile is similarly suspect, in the sense of fiddling while Rome burns. I believe a willingness to confront the ugly sides of technology with some courage of conviction would eventually be recognised, even if it may occasionally involve a bit of a mess.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>waterhouse</author><text>Cf. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hostile_media_effect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hostile_media_effect</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>astine</author><text>I think that people tend to perceive HN as overwhelmingly believing whatever the opposite of their opinion is any time there is a significant debate on something. Unless there is overwhelming support for our own position, we feel that we are in a hostile environment.</text></item><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>Yes, I agree with what you&#x27;re saying. But I&#x27;m asking why the person posting believes that the HN community overwhelmingly believes X and their evidence for that. I presume they do have evidence and conclusions and I&#x27;d like to know about it.</text></item><item><author>jameshart</author><text>It’s a persistent Misreading of Internet forums as a mode of discourse, both in how people consume them and how people participate in them, that we tend to regard their discussion threads as a mechanism for determining group consensus on a topic. Cloudflare is dropping 8chan? Let’s get together and decide whether we collectively think that is a good thing or a bad thing. Once we’ve established that fact, we can move on and refer back to that decision in future discussions, like a mathematical lemma.<p>If you instead think of a forum thread as an airing of opinions - a chance to find out what is the range of perspectives on the topic that exist in the community, and be exposed to nuances you wouldn’t have thought of on your own, the exercise takes on a different tone. People who came to that thread thinking that it’s obviously a good thing are exposed to arguments that disagree, and vice versa; maybe some people are persuaded to shift their viewpoint, or maybe not, but everybody learns that a topic that they might have assumed was uncontroversial is <i>actually</i> one on which reasonable people might disagree.<p>It can be jarring for the nerd-inclined to accept that just because they have arrived at their opinions through, obviously, clear rational analysis of facts, that does not mean that everybody else, when presented with the same facts, will necessarily reach the same opinion. The illusion that you can read an HN thread and say ‘well, the pro arguments seemed more coherent and got more upvotes than the anti ones, so presumably the community consensus is pro’ ignores the fact that the anti arguments were also made by members of the HN community, and we’re not bound by collective decision making. You are allowed to read the thread and adjust your own priors and come to your own conclusions, having hopefully been exposed to some perspectives you might otherwise have missed.</text></item><item><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text>Could you clarify why you thought this? What evidence do you have that supports this? The big thread shows that the top comment agrees that 8chan should be left alone. [0] and the comment chain shows that there seems to be something like a significant minority against 8chan, but it doesn’t appear to be a prevailing majority.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20610395</a></text></item><item><author>azangru</author><text>&gt; HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude (e.g. cloudflare-shouldnt-ban-&lt;x&gt;).<p>Funny, I thought HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude in the case of the recent ban of 8chan was, hell yeah, good riddance to those reprehensible twats. (Which, personally, annoyed me, because I believe that even the deplored should have a space for communication.)</text></item><item><author>IfOnlyYouKnew</author><text>This article does seem to get at the essence of HN, appreciative of dang and sctb&#x27;s humanity while not ignoring the problems. Personally, I would actually consider it an excellent demonstration of the fallibility of one of HN&#x27;s favourite tropes, Gell-Mann amnesia.<p>If there&#x27;s one critique that I believe is paramount it&#x27;s that HN has, due to its readership, an ethical obligation that goes beyond making discussions all nice and civil.<p>Political issues are obviously divisive and it&#x27;s perfectly fine to keep stuff like the El Paso massacre of the front page. But when hot-button issues intersect with technology, the HN readership is in a position of power, and shouldn&#x27;t routinely be spared the anguish of being reminded of their responsibility.<p>Yes, articles about, for example, discriminatory ML do often make it to the front page. But in my impression, that topic (as well as employment discrimination, culture-wars-adjacent scandals in tech academia etc) are far more likely to be quickly flagged into oblivion than similarly political takes that just happen to be in line with HN&#x27;s prevailing attitude (e.g. cloudflare-shouldnt-ban-&lt;x&gt;).<p>The article impressively articulates what toll divisiveness takes on the moderators: Even if I read the same ugly comments, I am unlikely to experience the sharpness of emotion that apparently comes with considering the community one&#x27;s baby, and making it&#x27;s failures one&#x27;s own. When such divisiveness is then reflected in the &quot;real world&quot; of mass media, the pressure only increases.<p>But as this article shows, abdicating the responsibility by keeping the topics sterile is similarly suspect, in the sense of fiddling while Rome burns. I believe a willingness to confront the ugly sides of technology with some courage of conviction would eventually be recognised, even if it may occasionally involve a bit of a mess.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news</url></story> |
14,594,832 | 14,594,809 | 1 | 2 | 14,594,331 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pilif</author><text>The domain in question (drmlocal.cisco.com) resolves to 127.0.0.1. This is a handy and above all cross-platform&#x2F;cross browser way for a website to talk to a locally installed application (that&#x27;s running a web server, bound to the loopback interface) by using CORS and&#x2F;or jsonp.<p>If the site that wants to make use of this is using SSL, then the locally running web browser also needs to be using SSL and it needs to have a publicly trusted cert.<p>The other alternative (installing a local CA) seems to be worse.<p>An option would be for the locally installed app to ask a server for a cert to use while it&#x27;s running, but that means that the app needs to phone home which it otherwise would not have to.<p>So I guess we&#x27;re back to proprietary browser extensions if this technique is frowned upon.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cisco subdomain private key found in embedded executable</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security.policy/T6emeoE-lCU</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>throwawaysec0xf</author><text>For whatever it&#x27;s worth, the team behind this stupidity has been let go a while back...<p>Throwaway account for obvious reasons.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Cisco subdomain private key found in embedded executable</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security.policy/T6emeoE-lCU</url></story> |
28,992,145 | 28,991,947 | 1 | 2 | 28,991,200 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sfink</author><text>This is the sneaky, flawed premise behind many instances of what we call optimization. I have a Law of Optimization: the closer you get to optimal on your chosen metrics, the more cost is shifted to unmeasured externalities. (I imagine someone has named this.) A stronger version would be to say that the distance to optimal is inversely proportional to the externalized cost, so that the total externalized cost goes to infinity as you squeeze out ever-smaller increments of gain with respect to your chosen metrics.<p>The important corollary is that you can get 80% of the way there with very little externalized cost, and that going too far will eventually reveal the oversimplification in your cost model.<p>You can move an object with near-zero energy, but it&#x27;ll take 1000 years. You can get to net zero carbon emission by shifting it to someone else or dumping it somewhere it isn&#x27;t measured or is a temporary sink that will eventually re-release. In my own area, you can reduce garbage collection overhead to zero by either never freeing anything (so the externalized cost is memory) or shifting the GCs to happen in between the timed portions of a benchmark (and this often happens accidentally, especially with a &quot;no regressions&quot; policy!)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ephemeralization</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gamegoblin</author><text>This article is about technological progress enabling doing more with less. I’ve been having a tangentially related thought about general project planning as it pertains to technological progress.<p>The thesis is: Unless you can create an optimistic project plan that results in the project’s completion within 5 years, the money would be better spent on doing basic research.<p>The thesis is informed by the ITER fusion reactor project, which was started in 2007 and whose current target date is 2025 (but will likely slip, as it has before), but that date is for first plasma formation and not actual deuterium-tritium fusion, which won’t happen until 2035.<p>Meanwhile, during this timeline, advances in materials science, namely higher temperature superconductors, have opened the possibility of significantly smaller and simpler designs, some of which are being plausibly pursued by startups (eg SPARC).<p>So I wonder if a general heuristic to guide science funding would be something like “if the optimistic timeline is &gt; 10 years, invest instead in basic research that could potentially develop technologies that would shorten that timeline”.<p>This thesis is also generally informed by the relative success of New Space (eg SpaceX) companies compared to Old Space (eg Boeing) companies. Elon has famously said “if the plan is long, the plan is wrong”, and I think that philosophy has demonstrably worked out well for SpaceX.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ephemeralization</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization</url></story> |
8,891,445 | 8,891,290 | 1 | 2 | 8,891,058 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>&quot;Exercise more&quot; in reference to weight loss is also often promoted by fast or processed food companies, in an effort to divert blame for either not displaying nutritional information or making it misleading.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ars</author><text>Normal exercise will not cause weight loss - countless studies have shown that.<p>But it will make you healthier, so it&#x27;s worth it anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inactivity 'kills more than obesity'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30812439</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>beachstartup</author><text>while i agree, this concept is easier to sell if you approach it from a different direction - i.e. &quot;you can&#x27;t outrun your fork.&quot;<p>this is much easier for most people to comprehend, since anyone who&#x27;s ever been in a modern gym even once knows you can run an hour on a treadmill and wipe it out with a single donut.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ars</author><text>Normal exercise will not cause weight loss - countless studies have shown that.<p>But it will make you healthier, so it&#x27;s worth it anyway.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Inactivity 'kills more than obesity'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30812439</url></story> |
13,106,398 | 13,106,584 | 1 | 3 | 13,105,689 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dingaling</author><text>&gt; However, the number of employees working at the cash register is still the same<p>Actually the ratio of staff:active-self-checkout machines is planned to reduce in each new deployment as customers become accustomed to the machines. Starts around 1:2 and usually sits around 1:4 with a target of 1:8 or even 1:12 at quiet times.<p>That&#x27;s definitely a reduction in cashiers since the machines displace existing check-out lines &amp; registers.<p>Source: an acquaintance is a manager in a Tesco Superstore.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BjoernKW</author><text>Tesco also has pushed self scanning tills for years now.<p>However, the number of employees working at the cash register is still the same because those scanners sometimes do not work and most importantly their user experience is deplorable. So, you frequently have to ask someone for help (and I&#x27;m in my mid-thirties and very tech-savvy. I can only imagine how someone twice my age would feel when using these scanners).</text></item><item><author>bbrks</author><text>In the UK, Tesco have been running a &#x27;Scan as you Shop&#x27;[0] thing for a couple of years now. Customers pick up a scanner as they enter, scan their items as they go into their cart, and they have special checkouts which read your scanner.<p>There&#x27;s a random chance that your scanner will be audited by a human against the contents of your shopping cart. Usually the first time you use it, then it backs off.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesco.com&#x2F;scan-as-you-shop&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesco.com&#x2F;scan-as-you-shop&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>Companies have been discussing &quot;checkout-less&quot; stores since forever, but nobody has been brave enough to do it due to the perceived threat of shoplifting.<p>And while shoplifting is a legitimate threat, are non-shoplifters going to be turned into shoplifters without a checkout? Are normal shoplifters stopped by checkouts? These are the core questions, and until it is tested nobody will know for sure.<p>Target is getting awfully close to this. With their Cartwheel app you&#x27;re meant to scan all your items as you shop (so it auto-applies coupons and discounts); but they haven&#x27;t taken it to the next logical step and allowed you to provide your Cartwheel output at the checkout for checking out.<p>I will say that the way Target has implemented smartphone barcode scanning makes me think that there might be a future in all this. It is extremely painless, they just need to stop kicking you out of the scan screen when it finds a discount (i.e. it doesn&#x27;t kick you out if no discount is found, but does when a discount IS found, that&#x27;s problematic for efficiency reasons).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Go</title><url>https://amazon.com/go</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lorenzhs</author><text>Don&#x27;t ever use a Chip + Signature credit card at a Tesco self-checkout, they had to reboot the thing when I accidentally used it instead of my regular UK Debit card.<p>Other than that I really like self-checkouts, usually much quicker and they&#x27;re excellent for coin disposal (dump all your coins in it and pay the rest by card).</text><parent_chain><item><author>BjoernKW</author><text>Tesco also has pushed self scanning tills for years now.<p>However, the number of employees working at the cash register is still the same because those scanners sometimes do not work and most importantly their user experience is deplorable. So, you frequently have to ask someone for help (and I&#x27;m in my mid-thirties and very tech-savvy. I can only imagine how someone twice my age would feel when using these scanners).</text></item><item><author>bbrks</author><text>In the UK, Tesco have been running a &#x27;Scan as you Shop&#x27;[0] thing for a couple of years now. Customers pick up a scanner as they enter, scan their items as they go into their cart, and they have special checkouts which read your scanner.<p>There&#x27;s a random chance that your scanner will be audited by a human against the contents of your shopping cart. Usually the first time you use it, then it backs off.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesco.com&#x2F;scan-as-you-shop&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesco.com&#x2F;scan-as-you-shop&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>Companies have been discussing &quot;checkout-less&quot; stores since forever, but nobody has been brave enough to do it due to the perceived threat of shoplifting.<p>And while shoplifting is a legitimate threat, are non-shoplifters going to be turned into shoplifters without a checkout? Are normal shoplifters stopped by checkouts? These are the core questions, and until it is tested nobody will know for sure.<p>Target is getting awfully close to this. With their Cartwheel app you&#x27;re meant to scan all your items as you shop (so it auto-applies coupons and discounts); but they haven&#x27;t taken it to the next logical step and allowed you to provide your Cartwheel output at the checkout for checking out.<p>I will say that the way Target has implemented smartphone barcode scanning makes me think that there might be a future in all this. It is extremely painless, they just need to stop kicking you out of the scan screen when it finds a discount (i.e. it doesn&#x27;t kick you out if no discount is found, but does when a discount IS found, that&#x27;s problematic for efficiency reasons).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon Go</title><url>https://amazon.com/go</url></story> |
30,252,898 | 30,252,803 | 1 | 2 | 30,251,054 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>40four</author><text>This and Grid Garden have been around for a while and seem to come up at least once a year. Great resources no doubt, always fun! The best past threads from both -&gt;<p>Froggy<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10652909" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10652909</a><p>Garden<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18753358" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18753358</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14041367" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14041367</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flexbox Froggy – A game for learning CSS flexbox</title><url>https://flexboxfroggy.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>svat</author><text>Sometime last year, I started doing these 24 exercises in TeX&#x2F;LaTeX -- when I started, my idea was to show how TeX&#x27;s very simple box-glue-penalty model (its &quot;glue&quot; is like springs with specified stretch and shrink) is yet general enough to do all the many things that Flexbox can do. I never got around to finishing it, and in the process I realized that much of what Flexbox focuses on are purely user-conveniences (e.g. allowing the user to specify &quot;boxes&quot; in a different order), and some of it (e.g. vertical typesetting) is actually nontrivial with TeX, though doable (and used by many in practice, wrapped into packages, which I was hoping not to use).<p>So my project is abandoned for now and the existing document is in a very unpolished state, but in the meantime if anyone is interested, take a look -- (it has spoilers for the CSS exercises, and most of it only makes sense if you look at the (La)TeX source code, of which I&#x27;m definitely not an expert): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.overleaf.com&#x2F;read&#x2F;ssmrvhpwrmpn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.overleaf.com&#x2F;read&#x2F;ssmrvhpwrmpn</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Flexbox Froggy – A game for learning CSS flexbox</title><url>https://flexboxfroggy.com/</url></story> |
20,030,337 | 20,030,338 | 1 | 2 | 20,029,781 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>&gt; old school grading was often somewhat capriciously difficult and arbitrary<p>Yes! The people complaining about grade inflation want to use grades to compare students across classrooms, yet the level of achievement indicated by a grade is very much specific to a particular class, peer-group, and professor.<p>Grades should never have been used for cross-classroom comparisons in the first place and if market dynamics have inflated them to the point where it is impossible to continue to abuse them in this manner, I&#x27;d call it a good riddance!</text><parent_chain><item><author>lioning</author><text>As former [tenured] faculty, I&#x27;m not sure what to say about this. Good luck doing it in a reasonable way. It&#x27;s not like [some] universities don&#x27;t try to rein in grade inflation. Instructors do regularly give out Cs and Ds or Fs at many institutions. Our university kind of did audits to just see if there was something glaringly wrong about grade distributions in courses systematically for certain courses.<p>Anyway, grades shouldn&#x27;t be arbitrarily difficult either, or curve just to curve. That&#x27;s misguided as well; there are reasons for grade inflation other than just being nice -- I think old school grading was often somewhat capriciously difficult and arbitrary which has its own downsides.<p>I think in my undergrad courses the average grade was usually about a B, which seemed about right to me. Of course I&#x27;m biased because it&#x27;s my own grading, but these were usually upper-level students, who got to that point because they were reasonably competent, and my sense of things was that they had about a B level grasp of the material on average. That is, they understood most of the important points of the material pretty well, but might have become a little lost in the finer points. Why knock their grades down just to make the grade distributions prettier?<p>My experience was that the trickier part was dealing with new freshman, who didn&#x27;t always seem as prepared as they should be for college, especially with writing. But it&#x27;s hard to know if that&#x27;s actually any different over time; there&#x27;s been a couple of times I&#x27;ve found decades old samples and I was surprised how little things had actually changed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Make School Hard Again</title><url>https://reason.com/2019/05/26/make-school-hard-again/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lordCarbonFiber</author><text>The number of people that will say, without irony, that they expect upper level classes to follow a normal distirbution in grades boggles my mind. College by definition involves a great deal of gatekeeping and self selection.<p>As for the larger trend, I can&#x27;t help but think it&#x27;s as much due to better teaching and exponentially more available resources (both for self study ie internet and provided by universities (got to spend that tuition money on something)). From my limited experience (parents went to the same school I did) on a material level classes are objectively harder (more information, deeper coverage, more advanced topics) so sometimes it feels like the &quot;grade inflation panic&quot; is built on a older generation upset that young people might be outpacing them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lioning</author><text>As former [tenured] faculty, I&#x27;m not sure what to say about this. Good luck doing it in a reasonable way. It&#x27;s not like [some] universities don&#x27;t try to rein in grade inflation. Instructors do regularly give out Cs and Ds or Fs at many institutions. Our university kind of did audits to just see if there was something glaringly wrong about grade distributions in courses systematically for certain courses.<p>Anyway, grades shouldn&#x27;t be arbitrarily difficult either, or curve just to curve. That&#x27;s misguided as well; there are reasons for grade inflation other than just being nice -- I think old school grading was often somewhat capriciously difficult and arbitrary which has its own downsides.<p>I think in my undergrad courses the average grade was usually about a B, which seemed about right to me. Of course I&#x27;m biased because it&#x27;s my own grading, but these were usually upper-level students, who got to that point because they were reasonably competent, and my sense of things was that they had about a B level grasp of the material on average. That is, they understood most of the important points of the material pretty well, but might have become a little lost in the finer points. Why knock their grades down just to make the grade distributions prettier?<p>My experience was that the trickier part was dealing with new freshman, who didn&#x27;t always seem as prepared as they should be for college, especially with writing. But it&#x27;s hard to know if that&#x27;s actually any different over time; there&#x27;s been a couple of times I&#x27;ve found decades old samples and I was surprised how little things had actually changed.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Make School Hard Again</title><url>https://reason.com/2019/05/26/make-school-hard-again/</url></story> |
21,891,335 | 21,891,475 | 1 | 2 | 21,890,867 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dsukhin</author><text>This was a very exciting title but a very dodgy article. It references two independent areas of active research but concludes one doesn&#x27;t work in practice yet and the other (which is buried in this report [0] from Columbia from 2013) works only in rats with stem cells and growth factors. So surely, either the title is misleading about this being viable for humans yet, or there is more progress on the subject beyond what is here and there is a better and more recent source available. Either way, an exciting topic I&#x27;ve also been wondering about for a long time.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techventures.columbia.edu&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;latest-news&#x2F;recruiting-body-help-regrow-new-joints" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techventures.columbia.edu&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;latest-new...</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists Likely Found Way to Grow New Teeth for Patients</title><url>https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/24252/20191111/scientists-likely-found-way-to-grow-new-teeth-for-patients.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>naikrovek</author><text>Pfft that&#x27;s nothing.<p>When I had testicular cancer, they found an entire molar in that tumor.<p>Apparently I had a type of cancer that just spontaneously grows parts of you inside it. I am ashamed to say that I forgot the name of this type of cancer.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Scientists Likely Found Way to Grow New Teeth for Patients</title><url>https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/24252/20191111/scientists-likely-found-way-to-grow-new-teeth-for-patients.htm</url></story> |
18,983,517 | 18,983,603 | 1 | 2 | 18,983,036 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>russley</author><text>I think a lot of it has to do with consumer expectations. We can all sit here and laugh and act unsurprised, but technology has conditioned users that the response isn&#x27;t sent until you press &quot;Send&quot;. Its bad (and I&#x27;d argue harmful) UX.<p>Imagine this scenario: Copying and pasting a debug log, realizing it contains personal or important information (such as password, SSN, or anything else) and it is sent to the agent before you have a chance to redact that info. Or it could be accidentally pasting the wrong thing. I know that I&#x27;ve accidentally pasted Twitter links into my code before.<p>EDIT: Just to clarify my point. If you&#x27;re going to break deeply entrenched user expectations, especially in ways that are often used maliciously: explicitly say you are subverting those expectations.<p>The same reason there are &quot;This call may be recorded&quot; messages when calling in, it shouldn&#x27;t hurt much to add a &quot;For quality assurance purposes, your keypresses may be logged in the chat window&quot;.<p>And if it does hurt, then you should realize your subversion is malicious.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbuttgereit</author><text>I&#x27;m confused why this is news or surprising? At least for the audience here.<p>I remember plugins for various IM clients would do the same thing in a chat window some decades ago. And I remember my days as a sysop in the good old single line dial up BBS days. You could watch users browse and type all the way back in the mid-80&#x27;s and I&#x27;m sure this has existed about as long as multi-user computers have.<p>If you&#x27;re typing into an application which is any part of a networked or multi-user system, assume someone can see what you do while you&#x27;re doing it (and can log same for later review).<p>...maybe I&#x27;m just old and don&#x27;t understand the kids these days... or maybe it&#x27;s a slow news day...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/be-warned-customer-service-agents-can-see-what-youre-t-1830688119</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sixothree</author><text>We all know in the back of our head that it&#x27;s possible. But seeing confirmation that it is happening definitely changes how I feel about textboxes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>sbuttgereit</author><text>I&#x27;m confused why this is news or surprising? At least for the audience here.<p>I remember plugins for various IM clients would do the same thing in a chat window some decades ago. And I remember my days as a sysop in the good old single line dial up BBS days. You could watch users browse and type all the way back in the mid-80&#x27;s and I&#x27;m sure this has existed about as long as multi-user computers have.<p>If you&#x27;re typing into an application which is any part of a networked or multi-user system, assume someone can see what you do while you&#x27;re doing it (and can log same for later review).<p>...maybe I&#x27;m just old and don&#x27;t understand the kids these days... or maybe it&#x27;s a slow news day...</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/be-warned-customer-service-agents-can-see-what-youre-t-1830688119</url></story> |
28,488,308 | 28,487,361 | 1 | 2 | 28,487,284 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>betaby</author><text>Not a popular idea here, but IPv6 folks.
Even for k8s, even for your internal stuff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Did AS8003 just disappear?</title><url>https://www.kentik.com/blog/wait-did-as8003-just-disappear/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>themodelplumber</author><text>&gt; Once again as a final note: your corporate network may be using the formerly unused DoD space internally, and if so, there is a risk you could be leaking it out to a party that is actively collecting it. How could you know? Using Kentik’s Data Explorer, you could quickly and easily view the stats of exactly how much data you’re leaking to AS8003 (now AS749). May be worth a check, and if so, start a free trial of Kentik to do so.<p>Not that I don&#x27;t appreciate the free trial offer. But before getting into data characteristics, I&#x27;m curious which addresses should be examined in a cursory internal look-see?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Did AS8003 just disappear?</title><url>https://www.kentik.com/blog/wait-did-as8003-just-disappear/</url></story> |
31,370,615 | 31,370,611 | 1 | 3 | 31,369,091 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>legitster</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure where you are getting those numbers from. Ford had $37b in revenue Q4. Tesla had $16b.<p>Tesla is an impressive company that&#x27;s managed to finally be profitable. But currently their market cap is higher than <i>all other auto manufacturers</i> combined.<p>&gt; Everyone else is losing money on their EVs and can&#x27;t make them in volume production, can&#x27;t find the batteries for them, you do the math.<p>That&#x27;s the thing, this space is getting incredibly crowded this year. Kia&#x2F;Hyundai, Ford, and VW are all putting out very impressive mass-market EVs that are selling like hotcakes.</text><parent_chain><item><author>martindbp</author><text>Tesla made more money last quarter than Ford, GM and Toyota. Toyota made 10x the number of cars as Tesla. Tesla is growing vehicle production 50% YoY, while growing profit even faster (having barely hit economies of scale yet). Tesla has a backlog of orders approaching a year in many regions. Everyone else is losing money on their EVs and can&#x27;t make them in volume production, can&#x27;t find the batteries for them, because they started 10 years too late. That&#x27;s the reason for Tesla&#x27;s valuation, it&#x27;s pretty simple.<p>Whether you believe the competition will catch up, or Tesla will fail for some other reason is besides the point. I&#x27;m just trying to show that the current valuation is not &quot;insane&quot; given current trends, there&#x27;s a very real logic to it and not (completely) FOMO.<p>Correction: Toyota&#x27;s earnings were higher than Tesla, it was operating income that was higher (remembered it wrong).</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>This has been a long time coming.<p>Back in the day, there was an inherent understanding that a stock price is supposed to reflect &quot;the fundamentals&quot; - present value of the company + future earnings. And of course there was some amount of speculation around future earnings, but for the most part companies at least <i>tried</i> to be profitable.<p>But if you look at the share price of like, Tesla - it&#x27;s completely insane. There is no way your slice of the company is worth that much. The stock market has been behaving like a pyramid scheme, where everyone assumed there will be more money entering than leaving any given stock.<p>Tech is a pretty egregious sector because of how many business models basically boil down to &quot;we don&#x27;t actually need to make money if we have a desirable stock&quot;. In the long run, I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;ll be worse off if the next generation of software companies actually focuses on making products people want to buy rather than play games with DAU and user acquisition and etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2022/05/14/tech-bubbles-are-bursting-all-over-the-place</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bink</author><text>All of those things can be true and Tesla&#x27;s stock can also be over-valued. A rapidly growing and popular company doesn&#x27;t justify any arbitrary valuation.</text><parent_chain><item><author>martindbp</author><text>Tesla made more money last quarter than Ford, GM and Toyota. Toyota made 10x the number of cars as Tesla. Tesla is growing vehicle production 50% YoY, while growing profit even faster (having barely hit economies of scale yet). Tesla has a backlog of orders approaching a year in many regions. Everyone else is losing money on their EVs and can&#x27;t make them in volume production, can&#x27;t find the batteries for them, because they started 10 years too late. That&#x27;s the reason for Tesla&#x27;s valuation, it&#x27;s pretty simple.<p>Whether you believe the competition will catch up, or Tesla will fail for some other reason is besides the point. I&#x27;m just trying to show that the current valuation is not &quot;insane&quot; given current trends, there&#x27;s a very real logic to it and not (completely) FOMO.<p>Correction: Toyota&#x27;s earnings were higher than Tesla, it was operating income that was higher (remembered it wrong).</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>This has been a long time coming.<p>Back in the day, there was an inherent understanding that a stock price is supposed to reflect &quot;the fundamentals&quot; - present value of the company + future earnings. And of course there was some amount of speculation around future earnings, but for the most part companies at least <i>tried</i> to be profitable.<p>But if you look at the share price of like, Tesla - it&#x27;s completely insane. There is no way your slice of the company is worth that much. The stock market has been behaving like a pyramid scheme, where everyone assumed there will be more money entering than leaving any given stock.<p>Tech is a pretty egregious sector because of how many business models basically boil down to &quot;we don&#x27;t actually need to make money if we have a desirable stock&quot;. In the long run, I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;ll be worse off if the next generation of software companies actually focuses on making products people want to buy rather than play games with DAU and user acquisition and etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2022/05/14/tech-bubbles-are-bursting-all-over-the-place</url></story> |
15,971,255 | 15,971,181 | 1 | 2 | 15,968,034 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wvenable</author><text>I&#x27;ve got an entire city of people (Vancouver, BC) who are desperately waiting for Uber to come and save us from the ridiculous taxi situation in this city. Five more minutes? You&#x27;re lucky. If you can get an Taxi in 2 hours downtown this month, you&#x27;re lucky. If you can get a cab to drive you to a suburb, good luck. And we have plenty of people interested in driving for Uber when it comes here.<p>I welcome as much regulation as necessary to ensure that Uber is safe for consumers but beyond that I say let the tech industry come.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;And the consumer...<p>Sorry, but as a consumer I welcome this. I will gladly pay a few bucks more or wait five minutes more for a taxi than having every industry taken over by the absentee landlord class that is the tech industry. In the case of Uber spying on their employees, having no obligations any other employer has, paying no taxes and misusing the data of their customers and drivers.<p>From time to time people would do well do understand that everybody is not just consumer but also a worker, or in the end you&#x27;ll end up in a bad spot yourself.<p>One just needs to look at the fact that these businesses have customers and drivers rate each other, which is nothing but undignified and gamified surveillance. Don&#x27;t give up essential freedoms for the sake of convenience.</text></item><item><author>ErikVandeWater</author><text>&gt; competed on unfair terms<p>Albeit the taxi companies created the unfair terms. Obviously it is not necessary to have a medallion to drive someone around. HN is generally anti-lobbying to protect corporate interest, but now that Uber is big there is some regret...<p>&gt; I would love for the taxi industry to be liberalised but just not for the benefit of a few Silicon Valley billionaires<p>And the consumer...</text></item><item><author>flexie</author><text>And how ridiculous is it that it would take half a decade to state the obvious while this company funded by tech billionaires competed on unfair terms with tens of thousands of tiny taxi companies that followed rules and acquired licenses, expensive mandatory equipment etc.<p>I would love for the taxi industry to be liberalised but just not for the benefit of a few Silicon Valley billionaires with complete disregard of legislation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42423627</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pivo</author><text>I feel the same. If only I could hail a taxi with an app instead of having to stand in the street and wave like an idiot at drivers that have riders but who have neglected to turn off their light (as they all do in my city.) And if only when I have to call for a cab I could give them my GPS location so they don&#x27;t get lost and never show up and if I could provide my destination so they don&#x27;t take the long way, either on purpose or accidentally. And if only there was a way to see that the cab was actually en route to my location and see an ETA.<p>If the cab industry could develop an app that works like Uber&#x2F;Lyft I think they&#x27;d be competitive again. I use cabs when they&#x27;re right there and I know the city, otherwise I reluctantly use Lyft or whatever&#x27;s available.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;And the consumer...<p>Sorry, but as a consumer I welcome this. I will gladly pay a few bucks more or wait five minutes more for a taxi than having every industry taken over by the absentee landlord class that is the tech industry. In the case of Uber spying on their employees, having no obligations any other employer has, paying no taxes and misusing the data of their customers and drivers.<p>From time to time people would do well do understand that everybody is not just consumer but also a worker, or in the end you&#x27;ll end up in a bad spot yourself.<p>One just needs to look at the fact that these businesses have customers and drivers rate each other, which is nothing but undignified and gamified surveillance. Don&#x27;t give up essential freedoms for the sake of convenience.</text></item><item><author>ErikVandeWater</author><text>&gt; competed on unfair terms<p>Albeit the taxi companies created the unfair terms. Obviously it is not necessary to have a medallion to drive someone around. HN is generally anti-lobbying to protect corporate interest, but now that Uber is big there is some regret...<p>&gt; I would love for the taxi industry to be liberalised but just not for the benefit of a few Silicon Valley billionaires<p>And the consumer...</text></item><item><author>flexie</author><text>And how ridiculous is it that it would take half a decade to state the obvious while this company funded by tech billionaires competed on unfair terms with tens of thousands of tiny taxi companies that followed rules and acquired licenses, expensive mandatory equipment etc.<p>I would love for the taxi industry to be liberalised but just not for the benefit of a few Silicon Valley billionaires with complete disregard of legislation.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42423627</url></story> |
21,797,238 | 21,797,374 | 1 | 2 | 21,796,753 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>I’m always excited to see people experimenting with different things.<p>I wonder if the author could comment on how the goals of this project might differ from those of Actix?<p>Many people are still new to async&#x2F;await; did you consider add a runtime&#x2F;executor in your readme example? I didn’t see the creation of a Runtime to drive the futures, that might be a nice thing to show.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/await and tokio channels</title><url>https://github.com/LeonHartley/Coerce-rs/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vertexclique</author><text>Worth to mention that Bastion has been developed a lot and it has its own design(in simple terms SMP based executor) to leverage asynchronous programming (with fault-tolerant manner). It isn&#x27;t dependent on any runtime. You can mix and use any runtime with it and supplies hierarchical reduction based concurrency.<p>We proudly take Erlang&#x27;s runtime model and implemented it in Rust. Moreover, we are currently working on distributed carrier protocol to make Bastion form a cluster, exchange data and recover from partial failures in distributed workloads too.<p>Local failures are recovered and we have built-in lifecycle management.<p>Maybe after these words you might want to take a look:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bastion-rs&#x2F;bastion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bastion-rs&#x2F;bastion</a><p>You can write a fully fault-tolerant program with our macro mechanisms too:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bastion-rs&#x2F;fort" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bastion-rs&#x2F;fort</a><p>Here our distributed protocol repository:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bastion-rs&#x2F;artillery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bastion-rs&#x2F;artillery</a><p>And our landing page:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bastion.rs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bastion.rs&#x2F;</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/await and tokio channels</title><url>https://github.com/LeonHartley/Coerce-rs/</url></story> |
3,389,562 | 3,389,006 | 1 | 3 | 3,388,893 | 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>raganwald</author><text>The notion of programming languages being “too powerful” rests on fallacious assumptions.<p>The faulty reasoning is this: If Hacker Hortense does something with powerful language L that Newbie Nathan finds confusing, we assume that language J won’t permit Hortense to do that, and therefore if we standardize on language J, fewer bad things will happen.<p>This reasoning is faulty. First off, if Hortense and Nathan don’t see eye to eye on how to write programs, no language will solve the problem, because you have a disparity of experience and/or education. If what you want is code Nathan will like, and you don’t want to raise Nathan to Hortense’s level, you have to drag Hortense down to Nathan’s level with coding standards. And you could have done that in Language L just as easily as J. If you ban L, what will you do when Hortense implements Parser Combinators and Monads in J?<p>The first flaw is the assumption that language <i>features</i> introduce complexity, when in reality it isn’t the features, it’s the <i>solution to the problem</i> that confuses.<p>This indirectly leads into the second fault with the reasoning. There is a hidden assumption that Hortense is going to write so much code, and there will be so many “problems” Nathan will have with his code, and every problem we eliminate is one fewer problem in the result. This is not how software works.<p>Let’s say Hortense writes some code in L, and Nathan complains that there are seventeen things he doesn’t understand. Ten of them rely on features of L, seven are independent of the language. If we tell Hortense to rewrite things in J, we cannot assume that the result will have seven things Nathan doesn’t understand. It might have even more as Hortsense works around J’s deficiencies.<p>For a demonstration of this, look at any modern Java Dependency Injection Framework. These complex and opaque software machines are made up of of XML, interfaces, and classes. They exist in no little part because Java lacks the reflection and meta-programming of languages like Lisp or even Ruby. Are these thing simple by virtue of being written in Java instead of Lisp?<p>Imagine for a moment that DI frameworks don’t exist, and that Hortense had built something in Lisp with macros for dependency injection. Nathan is nonplussed, so Hortense rewrites it in Java and rolls her own DI infrastructure. Will the result really have fewer things that Nathan doesn’t understand? Or will it be even more inscrutable thanks to the accidental complexity of working around Java's limits??<p>The “problem” is not that some languages are too powerful, it is that people imagine that teams of programmers can work together on complex problems without communicating, and some people assume that when there is a disparity of experience of knowledge, that people can work together without educating or learning from each other.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lisp is Too Powerful</title><url>https://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispIsTooPowerful</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>spacemanaki</author><text>There's some definite trolling down at the bottom half of that page: "Huh? I've seen no objective evidence that BrainFsck is more challenging for business applications and systems software programming than is Lisp. I invite you to provide clear evidence that it is more challenging."<p>Leaving that aside though, other people smarter and more experienced with Lisp than I have suggested that this "problem" is not unique to Lisp, and may not be a much of a real problem. I really think it's just a question of having good documentation and sensible style which explains what you need to know to use the magic even if it doesn't explain what's underneath. It's true that a lot of "lone hackers" aren't going to be writing good (or any!) documentation, but that's not a Lisp problem.<p>Ruby's metamagic is a common example. I already know Ruby and recently I've been learning Rails. I know there's a lot of magic going on behind the scenes, and occasionally I'll read some example or something and know that underneath there's magic that I do not entirely understand. I can continue studying the framework as a user and probably even get away using it for a while without completely understanding the magic underneath. I doubt that every person who has used Rails commercially completely understood every part of the framework that they use, since that would be a huge drag on their ability to ship their thing.<p>Another interesting example: This past week I talked to someone at a nearly pure Scala company and he described this DSL that they wrote (or just use? I can't remember) to interface with SQL databases. It exploited the fact that infix operators are really just methods and that you can define implicit conversions on existing library types that allow you to sort of extend them (I don't actually know Scala, so this may be slightly off base). The snippet of code he showed me, while it looked like Scala, would be turned into an SQL clause. Programmers who use this don't necessarily need to understand all of the gritty details so much as they need to understand what the designer intends and understand the semantics of SQL and of the DSL.<p>In Common Lisp, "lambda" is a macro. I don't really know how it works, but I know that it expands into lower level code defining a function and a closure. It's the same way with standard macros (in some Lisps) like let, letrec, cond, if, and, or etc... Most Lisp programmers who are not experts can use them understanding that they are macros but maybe not knowing their complete implementation because they are very well defined (and because they are pretty simple).<p>More complicated macros like "with-open-file" can be used by programmers who probably have some idea of how the macro works, but not a complete understanding. As long as your own macros and Lispy magic are documented sufficiently and designed sensibly programmers should be able to use code in your "world" without understanding it completely. At least to start.<p>N.B. I haven't used Lisp in a commercial setting, so it's entirely possible all this is bunk and I'm just being naive. Wouldn't be the first time.<p><i>edit</i> Upon re-reading this monster comment I realize it might come across that I'm advocating some kind of "cargo cult" or copy-and-paste style of ignorant programming. I'm really not. My point is that while understanding your tools is important, so is knowing when you don't need to peel back the curtain and instead need to address the problem at hand.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lisp is Too Powerful</title><url>https://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispIsTooPowerful</url><text></text></story> |
23,459,172 | 23,458,894 | 1 | 2 | 23,458,543 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>deeg</author><text>I&#x27;m tangentially involved in the insurance space and I believe Lemonade is trying to use machine learning to process claims because:<p>- Processing claims with humans is expensive; every step that can be accomplished by a computer will probably be cheaper.<p>- A claim processed via ML will probably be handled fast. A fast response = happy customer, which helps with retention. This is a big one.<p>- A claim that is processed and closed quickly is harder to amend. Some customers slowly realize that adding items to a claim is free money. Others (legitimately) forgot items and want to add them. A quick claim is usually cheaper than one that might take a few days (or weeks) to process.<p>- Younger generations are more used to working with a web pages and will likely look at humans (e.g. agents) as old-fashioned.<p>The big carriers are both scared and dubious of Lemonade. If Lemonade can somehow make it work they could do serious damage to the carriers. But it&#x27;s hard to see how they&#x27;ll make the numbers work, as their current losses show. Most of the carriers are trying to implement something similar (which is where I&#x27;m slightly involved).</text><parent_chain><item><author>afwaller</author><text>You only make insurance cheaper by charging risky people more.<p>Right now it is mostly laws that protect categories of people that keep insurance companies from charging people more.<p>What’s the plan here, use machine learning in a “hands off” way with a black box algorithm to apply pricing discrimination in a way that a human could not because of regulation?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lemonade files S1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1691421/000104746920003416/a2241721zs-1.htm#bg40510a_main_toc</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gen220</author><text>At most big old and public insurance companies, claims payable represents a significant chunk of expenses, but not even close to 100% (it&#x27;s closer to 60-70%). The rest is, generally, &quot;administration&quot; (humans processing papers, and managing humans processing papers, in cushy offices).<p>This is where better technology can result in lower costs. It&#x27;s a volume&#x2F;unit-cost game. Their unit cost per person is maybe a few cents or a few dollars cheaper, but at huge volumes it makes a big difference.</text><parent_chain><item><author>afwaller</author><text>You only make insurance cheaper by charging risky people more.<p>Right now it is mostly laws that protect categories of people that keep insurance companies from charging people more.<p>What’s the plan here, use machine learning in a “hands off” way with a black box algorithm to apply pricing discrimination in a way that a human could not because of regulation?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lemonade files S1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1691421/000104746920003416/a2241721zs-1.htm#bg40510a_main_toc</url></story> |
21,739,310 | 21,739,115 | 1 | 3 | 21,738,508 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mattkevan</author><text>It’s not so much hiring people more interested in activism than their jobs, it’s that Google positioned themselves as something better than all the others. A company determined to do the right thing.<p>This naturally attracts people who are interested in making a difference and want to work somewhere that aligns with their values. You don’t go and work for somewhere like Phillip Morris or Oracle if you care about making the world a better place - and neither company would claim they’re trying to do so.<p>But Google said they were different, and it’s disillusioning to discover that somewhere you love and have worked hard for is just as evil as everywhere else - moreso as it wasn’t up-front about it.<p>And then you’re going to want to do something about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kinkrtyavimoodh</author><text>It&#x27;s funny how much public perception is tied to the media pulse of a company. If you read comments on online boards today, you&#x27;d think Google was one of the worst companies out there.<p>And yet, I think it is safe to say that Google basically defined the post-dot-com-bubble era, in a good way. So many things that comprise &#x27;company culture&#x27; today and that have been emulated (whether willingly or out of pressure to stay competitive to other companies in the hiring market) by tech and non-tech companies around the world were pioneered by Google. Anyone who has actually worked in other industries will attest how much a breath of fresh air Google brought to corporate life. It&#x27;s a separate matter how some of it is coming back to bite them now that they have hired too many people who are more interested in activism than doing their job.<p>So many of Larry&#x27;s and Sergey&#x27;s ideas were truly about organizing the world&#x27;s information. That vision statement wasn&#x27;t just words. It affected how Google and Googlers thought of things. My favorite example is Google Books. Is it an obvious ad-funnel? I doubt it. Or Google Street Maps, for that matter. And yet it has provided so much value to the world.<p>It&#x27;s almost never a good idea to make gods out of people. But it is at the same time a terrible idea to make absolute demons out of them. And I think we stray too much into the latter territory just because it has become fashionable to shit on Google for the tiniest of things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Larry and Sergey: A Valediction</title><url>http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8661</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chillacy</author><text>Splitting people into good and evil, or just binary thinking in general, is all around us. &quot;Good&quot; people have done bad things, &quot;bad&quot; people often have good intentions. And Good and Bad can be vastly different in different places in the world or different time periods.</text><parent_chain><item><author>kinkrtyavimoodh</author><text>It&#x27;s funny how much public perception is tied to the media pulse of a company. If you read comments on online boards today, you&#x27;d think Google was one of the worst companies out there.<p>And yet, I think it is safe to say that Google basically defined the post-dot-com-bubble era, in a good way. So many things that comprise &#x27;company culture&#x27; today and that have been emulated (whether willingly or out of pressure to stay competitive to other companies in the hiring market) by tech and non-tech companies around the world were pioneered by Google. Anyone who has actually worked in other industries will attest how much a breath of fresh air Google brought to corporate life. It&#x27;s a separate matter how some of it is coming back to bite them now that they have hired too many people who are more interested in activism than doing their job.<p>So many of Larry&#x27;s and Sergey&#x27;s ideas were truly about organizing the world&#x27;s information. That vision statement wasn&#x27;t just words. It affected how Google and Googlers thought of things. My favorite example is Google Books. Is it an obvious ad-funnel? I doubt it. Or Google Street Maps, for that matter. And yet it has provided so much value to the world.<p>It&#x27;s almost never a good idea to make gods out of people. But it is at the same time a terrible idea to make absolute demons out of them. And I think we stray too much into the latter territory just because it has become fashionable to shit on Google for the tiniest of things.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Larry and Sergey: A Valediction</title><url>http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8661</url></story> |
29,751,428 | 29,750,684 | 1 | 2 | 29,746,046 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;<i>You need permission from the central root certifying authorities[...]</i><p>&gt;<i>You need to remain out of the shitlist of a handful of “spam and anti-evil” authorities</i><p>And the exact same will happen in the world of &#x27;web3&#x27;. Except you won&#x27;t sign your terms and conditions in English but in from of a smart contract. The internet is a distributed computer, blockchains are distributed computers. Whatever people built on top of it will be as permissioned and have as many authorities as anything else.<p>You think you can&#x27;t do encrypted, peer-to-peer communication without authorities on the good old internet? Of course you can, there&#x27;s nothing technically in the way of it at all. It&#x27;s just that nobody runs a business that way and they won&#x27;t do it in the world of &#x27;web3&#x27; either.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimmydorry</author><text>- You need permission from the central root certifying authorities (aka. getting a domain) for people to be able to find your site.<p>- You need to remain out of the shitlist of a handful of “spam and anti-evil” authorities (getting on a list means your site gets blocked by all the big browsers and can be permanent or take a long time to resolve)<p>- You need permission to host your content from the: hardware &#x2F; cloud provider, the datacentre if you self-host, and &#x2F; or intermediary ISPs for peering (if no-one will peer, your site may as well not exists)<p>There are some other parties you need permission or blessing from that don’t come immediately to mind.</text></item><item><author>almost</author><text>People choose to do that because it’s convenient. There’s nothing in any of the nebulous ideas around “web3” that would change that.<p>You can use a federated social network RIGHT NOW. Or you can just make your own website TODAY. No permission needed, you get complete ownership. It’s the amazing decentralised dream that was (and is) the internet. Only thing it won’t do is potentially make you rich (at the expense of others) just for getting in (and out!) at the right time.</text></item><item><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>No. If you read up on how the web works at its base, it’s highly centralized.<p>If you look how people interact with the web, it’s highly centralized to a handful of apps by a handful of companies.</text></item><item><author>qaq</author><text>on top of that decentralized part is already the web itself is pretty much it</text></item><item><author>almost</author><text>It’s weird that this article waffles on about PCs and how the author thinks that’s a good analogy. It’s not very convincing because you could easily pick another technology pair and show it the other way (often worse is just worse).<p>But the thing that really seems weird is that all you need to do make it interesting is 1) define what you mean by web3 (it’s a slippery weasel word that changes meaning whenever the people using it needs it to) 2) define a few uses that are obviously better than the alternatives and justify them without hand waving (including explaining why what would appear to be fundamental show stopping flaws are not in fact that)<p>If you can’t do that (and no one seems to be able to) the maybe, just maybe, it is bullshit?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?</title><url>https://continuations.com/post/671863718643105792/web3crypto-why-bother</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>almost</author><text>Freenet and Tor have existed for a while and are solutions to these problems for those that need them. You’re not interested in that though are you? No coins so no option for speculation.<p>Web3 as it currently stands (as I said before it’s a slippery weasel word so no don’t you’ll change it to suite) also needs all that stuff. Most “web3” apps are served via Cloudflare ffs!</text><parent_chain><item><author>jimmydorry</author><text>- You need permission from the central root certifying authorities (aka. getting a domain) for people to be able to find your site.<p>- You need to remain out of the shitlist of a handful of “spam and anti-evil” authorities (getting on a list means your site gets blocked by all the big browsers and can be permanent or take a long time to resolve)<p>- You need permission to host your content from the: hardware &#x2F; cloud provider, the datacentre if you self-host, and &#x2F; or intermediary ISPs for peering (if no-one will peer, your site may as well not exists)<p>There are some other parties you need permission or blessing from that don’t come immediately to mind.</text></item><item><author>almost</author><text>People choose to do that because it’s convenient. There’s nothing in any of the nebulous ideas around “web3” that would change that.<p>You can use a federated social network RIGHT NOW. Or you can just make your own website TODAY. No permission needed, you get complete ownership. It’s the amazing decentralised dream that was (and is) the internet. Only thing it won’t do is potentially make you rich (at the expense of others) just for getting in (and out!) at the right time.</text></item><item><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>No. If you read up on how the web works at its base, it’s highly centralized.<p>If you look how people interact with the web, it’s highly centralized to a handful of apps by a handful of companies.</text></item><item><author>qaq</author><text>on top of that decentralized part is already the web itself is pretty much it</text></item><item><author>almost</author><text>It’s weird that this article waffles on about PCs and how the author thinks that’s a good analogy. It’s not very convincing because you could easily pick another technology pair and show it the other way (often worse is just worse).<p>But the thing that really seems weird is that all you need to do make it interesting is 1) define what you mean by web3 (it’s a slippery weasel word that changes meaning whenever the people using it needs it to) 2) define a few uses that are obviously better than the alternatives and justify them without hand waving (including explaining why what would appear to be fundamental show stopping flaws are not in fact that)<p>If you can’t do that (and no one seems to be able to) the maybe, just maybe, it is bullshit?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?</title><url>https://continuations.com/post/671863718643105792/web3crypto-why-bother</url></story> |
19,437,851 | 19,437,568 | 1 | 3 | 19,434,966 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MarkMc</author><text>I&#x27;m so glad I was taught Java at Macquarie University back in 1998. For the past 20 years I&#x27;ve had a career built on a solid API that doesn&#x27;t change every 2 years like some flavour-of-the-month Javascript framework.<p>Even on the client where Java has lost to Javascript, I&#x27;m finding it more enjoyable to add features to my 15-year-old SWT app [0] rather than dealing with the multiple layers of abstractions that is Javascript+CSS+DOM (+ maybe Electron).
Personally I think it&#x27;s a shame Sun dropped the ball with client Java - if they had chosen SWT over Swing and provided a minimal JVM then maybe Java Web Start would have beaten Javascript web apps. It&#x27;s also a shame Sun sold Java to Oracle - Google would have been a better steward, and probably would have been willing to pay more for the Java parts of Sun.<p>I&#x27;m now trying Dart to develop a few Flutter apps. It&#x27;s no doubt a better language, but not <i>that much</i> better - I think Flutter would have been more successful if it was built on Java.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.solaraccounts.co.uk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.solaraccounts.co.uk</a></text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java 12</title><url>https://jdk.java.net/12/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hyperpallium</author><text>Switch expressions prepare the way for pattern matching (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;305" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;305</a>), instead of `instanceof` checks and casts.<p>But (in my naive opinion) double dispatch seems a more elegant and java-ry solution, i.e. polymorphism on argument classes, so different methods are invoked for different object <i>runtime</i> classes (instead of using the <i>compiletime</i> type of the variable).<p>The switching could be optimised, as ordinary polymorphism is in the JVM.<p>Sure, you&#x27;d wreck legacy code if you just introduced it, but there&#x27;s surely a backcompatible way to do it that isn&#x27;t too awkward.<p>BONUS: goodbye visitor pattern!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Java 12</title><url>https://jdk.java.net/12/</url></story> |
26,312,724 | 26,312,830 | 1 | 3 | 26,312,652 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>HighlandSpring</author><text>Something tells me that in 2021 a lot more people will identify DDD to mean Domain-Driven Design than the concept that you mentioned</text><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>Maybe update the title to &quot;Domain Driven Design is Overrated&quot;, because this article has nothing to do with the Data Display Debugger.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DDD Is Overrated</title><url>https://tilkov.com/post/2021/03/01/ddd-is-overrated/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andi999</author><text>I thought it meant Data Driven Design.....</text><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>Maybe update the title to &quot;Domain Driven Design is Overrated&quot;, because this article has nothing to do with the Data Display Debugger.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>DDD Is Overrated</title><url>https://tilkov.com/post/2021/03/01/ddd-is-overrated/</url></story> |
3,656,717 | 3,656,628 | 1 | 3 | 3,656,156 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jedc</author><text>Yes, they're copycats.<p>But those of us who live in Europe sometimes get absolutely <i>infuriated</i> by US-based startups who go for years ignoring potential non-US customers. I'm sure Fab.com would have eventually rolled out to Europe, but in the meantime I'm happy that someone else built a product that solves the same problem.<p>Sometimes this is a real regulatory problem, like anything to do with banking/payments/etc. But oftentimes it's just because businesses don't seem to like taking on the extra work/complexity of thinking internationally.<p>So while I don't like their pure copycat methods (down to page layouts), I think they're serving a valuable purpose in the marketplace.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-website-copy-machine#p1</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>itmag</author><text><i>“There are pioneering entrepreneurs and execution entrepreneurs, and maybe we belong more to the execution entrepreneurs,” says Oliver, who speaks at a rapid clip, frequently punctuating thoughts with a rhetorical “ja?”<p>“I think the most admirable entrepreneurs are those with original ideas, ja? It’s a unique gift that you either have or you don’t. Just as we might have a very good gift of execution, others have a unique gift for the purest form of innovation.”</i><p>The constant mantra of HN is "ideas are useless, execution is everything". So why the hate against these guys?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-website-copy-machine#p1</url><text></text></story> |
36,305,220 | 36,300,901 | 1 | 2 | 36,296,882 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>trompetenaccoun</author><text>It&#x27;s actually even worse on some sites. For example Reddit does not necessarily show the real sum of votes to begin with, but a different one created in an intransparent manner since the code isn&#x27;t public. They call this &quot;vote-fuzzing&quot;. Arbitrary changes to the ranking algorithm have over the years completely changed what users see when they look at the vote count¹, and I suspect that&#x27;s just the tip of the iceberg that&#x27;s made public.<p>¹<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;announcements&#x2F;comments&#x2F;28hjga&#x2F;reddit_changes_individual_updown_vote_counts_no&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;announcements&#x2F;comments&#x2F;28hjga&#x2F;reddi...</a></text><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>&gt; You can just ignore things you don&#x27;t like!<p>I do think this is one of the big hidden problems with upvote&#x2F;like systems.<p>Seeing a post you don&#x27;t like or disagree with on Twitter&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Reddit with a lot of likes&#x2F;retweets&#x2F;upvotes&#x2F;etc psychologically puts you on the defensive. 10,000 likes on a post you disagree with means you&#x27;re up against an <i>army</i> of 10,000 people who disagreed with you! So you do what&#x27;s natural: you fight back, you summon your <i>own</i> army of people (hoping to get a respectable counter-army of likes). This creates a toxic environment and you can see it play out on Twitter: every Democrat-leaning tweet will have its top reply be a Republican-leaning tweet with a counter-point, and every Republican with a Democrat.<p>Meanwhile, on 4chan or other old-style message board withouts those systems... yeah, it&#x27;s just some asshole with a stupid opinion. Just ignore them, no need to waste effort engaging.</text></item><item><author>thot_experiment</author><text>It&#x27;s absolutely not for everyone, but I think the anonymous nature makes it so low stakes it&#x27;s trivially easy for me to just not care, not engage. You can just ignore things you don&#x27;t like!</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; Outside of that it&#x27;s egalitarian and openly accessible to a greater degree than anywhere else on the internet<p>Except for all of the hate, vitriol, prejudice, and disregard for the basic humanity of others, it&#x27;s egalitarian and accessible??</text></item><item><author>thot_experiment</author><text>You can make a village in some interesting ways. 4chan is a village, that&#x27;s why it&#x27;s one of the best resources&#x2F;communities on the internet today. I&#x27;ve learned much of what I know about LLMs and generative AI on &#x2F;g&#x2F;. The toxicity&#x2F;chaos of the place is probably the main thing that enables it to continue to be a village for all these years. There&#x27;s more than one way to shear a sheep, and I don&#x27;t think the 4chan method is the best way to make a village, but a village make it does.<p>I just mention it here because it&#x27;s probably something that doesn&#x27;t occur to most people, and maybe it should be something we think about more. I think 4chan has a very interesting property in that the gatekeeping is <i>only</i> your ability to mentally filter every Nth (depending on the board) post being full of slurs. Outside of that it&#x27;s egalitarian and openly accessible to a greater degree than anywhere else on the internet, there&#x27;s value to that that people miss.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Killing Community</title><url>https://www.marginalia.nu/log/82_killing_community</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ddq</author><text>Arguably, the addition of showing links to all the replies to a comment could have contributed towards 4chan&#x27;s drift further into engagement-baiting content. It&#x27;s the closest analogue to the visual, numeric feedback mechanism you describe.<p>Interesting because from a functional user experience perspective, it&#x27;s an objectively useful feature for navigating discussions. An obvious addition in terms of web design, yet with unforeseen repercussions. The medium is the message, after all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>&gt; You can just ignore things you don&#x27;t like!<p>I do think this is one of the big hidden problems with upvote&#x2F;like systems.<p>Seeing a post you don&#x27;t like or disagree with on Twitter&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Reddit with a lot of likes&#x2F;retweets&#x2F;upvotes&#x2F;etc psychologically puts you on the defensive. 10,000 likes on a post you disagree with means you&#x27;re up against an <i>army</i> of 10,000 people who disagreed with you! So you do what&#x27;s natural: you fight back, you summon your <i>own</i> army of people (hoping to get a respectable counter-army of likes). This creates a toxic environment and you can see it play out on Twitter: every Democrat-leaning tweet will have its top reply be a Republican-leaning tweet with a counter-point, and every Republican with a Democrat.<p>Meanwhile, on 4chan or other old-style message board withouts those systems... yeah, it&#x27;s just some asshole with a stupid opinion. Just ignore them, no need to waste effort engaging.</text></item><item><author>thot_experiment</author><text>It&#x27;s absolutely not for everyone, but I think the anonymous nature makes it so low stakes it&#x27;s trivially easy for me to just not care, not engage. You can just ignore things you don&#x27;t like!</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; Outside of that it&#x27;s egalitarian and openly accessible to a greater degree than anywhere else on the internet<p>Except for all of the hate, vitriol, prejudice, and disregard for the basic humanity of others, it&#x27;s egalitarian and accessible??</text></item><item><author>thot_experiment</author><text>You can make a village in some interesting ways. 4chan is a village, that&#x27;s why it&#x27;s one of the best resources&#x2F;communities on the internet today. I&#x27;ve learned much of what I know about LLMs and generative AI on &#x2F;g&#x2F;. The toxicity&#x2F;chaos of the place is probably the main thing that enables it to continue to be a village for all these years. There&#x27;s more than one way to shear a sheep, and I don&#x27;t think the 4chan method is the best way to make a village, but a village make it does.<p>I just mention it here because it&#x27;s probably something that doesn&#x27;t occur to most people, and maybe it should be something we think about more. I think 4chan has a very interesting property in that the gatekeeping is <i>only</i> your ability to mentally filter every Nth (depending on the board) post being full of slurs. Outside of that it&#x27;s egalitarian and openly accessible to a greater degree than anywhere else on the internet, there&#x27;s value to that that people miss.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Killing Community</title><url>https://www.marginalia.nu/log/82_killing_community</url></story> |
37,997,184 | 37,997,366 | 1 | 2 | 37,996,780 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fidotron</author><text>There is a whole database of this stuff:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flyers.arcade-museum.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flyers.arcade-museum.com&#x2F;</a><p>I used to work on what was basically a giant on the wall digital picture frame and this was a major source of test images.<p>Edit: it&#x27;s unfortunate the recent update to the UI of arcade flyer db made it incredibly annoying to use.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Retro Arcade Game Ads</title><url>https://buzzbloq.com/retro-arcade-game-ads-a-nostalgic-look-at-marketing-of-the-past/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>unleaded</author><text>Most these ads are for operators, not gamers, that&#x27;s why they all talk about earnings. (I still don&#x27;t know where you would have seen them though..) I think I did see an ad for an arcade game targeted to gamers encouraging them to annoy their arcade to get one but I forgot what it was..<p>also some of these look like mega drive box art?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Retro Arcade Game Ads</title><url>https://buzzbloq.com/retro-arcade-game-ads-a-nostalgic-look-at-marketing-of-the-past/</url></story> |
32,727,074 | 32,727,017 | 1 | 2 | 32,711,349 | train | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>This is really misreading the whole concept of patterns in both architecture and software. The goal is not to somehow equate or even link the two disciplines. Instead it is to note that when you go about arranging stuff to do stuff (e.g materials to be buildings, or programming languages to be programs), it is likely that there will (over time) emerge ways of doing things (patterns) that you can (and likely should) use over and over again.<p>It&#x27;s not architecture-envy, it&#x27;s finding a parallel from a different discipline that applies to your own.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jackblemming</author><text>There’s a certain class of programmer who seems to derive great pleasure in comparing programming to architecture. Maybe because architects are cool, or sound more grand than “programmer”. The author mentions Patterns of Software as profound, but in my experience it was mostly empty and contained only references to other work, without adding its own voice or perspective. At worst, it was pretentious and boring.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Timeless Way of Programming</title><url>http://tomasp.net/blog/2022/timeless-way/</url></story> | <instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TakeBlaster16</author><text>I feel like people glamorize architecture in general. Sure the Empire State Building was probably fun to design, but 99.9% of architects are just designing bland office buildings or long hallways of apartment boxes. On average it&#x27;s probably just as exciting as a software architect designing their 100th CRUD webapp.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jackblemming</author><text>There’s a certain class of programmer who seems to derive great pleasure in comparing programming to architecture. Maybe because architects are cool, or sound more grand than “programmer”. The author mentions Patterns of Software as profound, but in my experience it was mostly empty and contained only references to other work, without adding its own voice or perspective. At worst, it was pretentious and boring.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Timeless Way of Programming</title><url>http://tomasp.net/blog/2022/timeless-way/</url></story> |
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